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day, I find that all the mob did not
come merely to fee the fhow. Some
accidents you may fuppofe must have
happened; I myself narrowly escaped

with the lofs only of one eye of my
fpectacles.

I am your's, very fincerely, &c.
JAMES HEMING,

The following Speech was addreffed to their Majesties on Lord Mayor's Day, by the Senior Scholar of the Grammar School of Chrift's Hofpital.

Meft Auguft and Gracious Sovereign,

FRO

ROM the condefcenfion and goodness which your majesty displays towards even the meaneft of your subjects, we are emboldened to hope you will accept the tribute of obedience and duty, which we poor orphans are permitted to prefent you. Educated and fupported by the munificence of a charity, founded, enlarged, and protected by your royal predecessors, with the warmest gratitude we acknowlege our inexpreffible obligation to its bounty, and the diftinguished happiness we have hitherto enjoyed under the constant patronage of former princes. May this ever be our boaft and our glory! Nor can we think we fhall prefer our prayer in vain, whilft with earnest but

humble fupplications we implore the pa

tronage and protection of your majesty.

To our ardent petition for your princely favour, may we prefume, Dread Sovereign, to add our most respectful congratulations on your auspicious marriage with your royal confort. Strangers to the difquietude, which often dwells within the circle of a crown, long may your majefties experience the heart-felt fatisfactions of domestic life in the uninterterrupted poffeffion of every endearment of the most tender union, every blessing of conjugal affection, every comfort of parental felicity; and may a race of princes, your illuftrious iffue and defcendants, formed by the example, and inheriting the virtues, of their great and good progenitors, continue to fway the Briti fceptre to the latest posterity.

Anecdotes concerning Oliver Cromwell's refolute Difpofition.

THE following anecdotes will evince

the propriety of Mr. Pitt's fpirit, and fhow how uniformly men of genius have acted in fimilar circumstances, though in different ages: if Cromwell could talk in the following ftrain, and act in the following manner, at a time when England was almost exhausted by inteftine diftractions, why might not our king use the fame language at a time when not only his fupplies are granted by the most unanimous parliament that ever affembled, but his measures are guided by the ableft minister that ever was employed ?

Cromwell fent an express to Sir Jeremy Smyth, who lay in the downs, telling him, That within a day or two a Dutch ship would pafs the Channel, whom he muft vifit for Spanish money, being contraband goods, we being at war with Spain: the fhip paffed by Dover, and Smyth demanded leave to fearch: the captain answered, That nobody might fearch him but his mafters. Smyth fent him word, "He had fet up an hour-glass, and if before that was run out, he did not fubmit to the fearch, he would force it."

The captain faw it was vain to struggle, and the money was found.

The other anecdote is what the lawyers call A cafe of point; and, indeed, it tallies moft minutely with the heroic proposal of Mr. Pitt, a man who feems to have the honour of this nation at heart, to a degree that nothing but his own ftupendous miniftry could give one any idea.

There was a tumult in Nifmes, in which fome diforders had been committed by the Hugonots, and they apprehended fevere proceedings upon it; one therefore was fent over with great expedition to Cromwell, who fent him back to Paris, in an hour's time, with a very effetual letter to bis ambassador, requiring him either to prevail that the matter might be palled over, or to come away immediately. Mazarine complained of this way of proceeding as too imperious; but the neceffity of their affairs made him yield. These things raised Cromwell's character abroad, and made him much depended on. His ambaffador at that time was Lockhart, and being afterwards fent by Charles II. found he had nothing of that regard paid as in Cromwell's time.

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fore war was declared, is so just, that time that the negotiation of the two France cannot depart from it. crowns is concluded.

11. When the preliminaries are figned, the king of France will give it under his hand, that he never intended to keep Oftend and Nieuport.

13. The two East India Companies fhall finish their negotiation at the fame

14. This article can admit of no difficulty.

France having thus refused to acquiefce in the terms offered by England, Mr. Stanley was ordered to leave Paris.

Tranflation of the Memorial relative to Spain, prefented by M. de Buffy to the Court of London.

IT being effential, as well as agreeable to the defires of France and England, that the treaty of projected peace ferve for the basis of a folid reconciliation between the two crowns, which may not be disturbed by the interefts of a third power, and the engagement which one or the other court may have entered into anteriourly to their reconciliation; the king of Spain shall be invited to guaranty the treaty of future peace, between his most Christian majesty and the king of Great Britain. This guaranty will obviate the inconveniencies both prefent and future, refpecting the folidity of the peace.

The king will not conceal from his Britannic majesty, that the differences of Spain with England, alarm and make him dread, if they should not be adjusted, a new war in Europe and America. The king of Spain has confided to his majefty, the three points of difcuffion which fubfift between his crown and that of Great Britain.

Thefe are, 1. The reftitution of fome prizes made, during the prefent war, under the Spanish flag.

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tled agreeable to the juftice of the two fovereigns, and the king defires earnestly, that they may be able to find out temperaments, which may content on these two points the Spanish and English nations: but he cannot diffemble from England the danger, which he forefees, and which he will be forced to partake of, if these objects, which may affect fenfibly his catholic majesty, should end in a war. It is for this reason, that his majesty regards as one of the first confiderations for the advantage and folidity of the peace, that at the fame time that this defireable end fhall be fettled between France and England, his Britannic majesty would terminate his differences with Spain, and agree that the Catholic king shall be invited to guaranty the treaty which is to reconcile (would to God it may be for ever) his most Christian majesty and the king of England.

For the reft his majefty does not communicate his fears on this head to the court of London, but with the most upright and open intentions of preventing every thing which may happen to interrupt the union of the French and English.

2. Liberty to the Spanish nation of fish- nations; and the king entreats his Bri

ing on the bank of Newfoundland.

3. The deftruction of the English establishments formed on the Spanish territory in the bay of Honduras.

These three articles may be eafily fet

tannic majesty, whom he supposes animated with the fame defire, to tell him, without difguife, his opinion on an object fo effential.

M. Buffy's Note to Mr. Pitt.

SINCE the memorial of the propofitions parate peace with England, but upon two.

from France was formed, and at the inftant that the courier was ready to fet out for London, the king received the confent of the Emprefs Queen to a fe

conditions.

1. To keep poffeffion of the countries belonging to the king of Pruffia.

2. That it shall be stipulated, that the

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king of Great Britain, neither in his ca-
pacity of king or elector, shall afford any
fuccour, either in troops, or of any kind
whatever, to the king of Pruffia; and
that his Britannic majefty will undertake
that the Hanoverian, Heffian, Brunf-
wickian, and the other auxiliaries in
alliance with Hanover, fhall not join
the forces of the king of Pruffia, in like

manner as France thall engage on her part, not to yield fuccour of any kind to the empress queen, nor her allies.

Both the conditions appear so natural and equitable in themselves, that his majefty could not do otherwife than acquiefce in them; and he hopes that the king of Great Britain will be ready to adopt them.

Mr. Pitt's Letter, in Anfer to the foregoing, 24th July 1761.

SIR,

Having explained myself, in our con

ference yesterday, with refpect to certain engagements of France with Spain,

relative to the difputes of the latter crown with Great-Britain, of which your court never informed us, but at the very inftant of making, as he has done, her first propofitions for the feparate peace of the two crowns, and as you have defired, for the fake of greater punctuality, to take a note of what paffed between us upon fo weighty a fubject, I here repeat, Sir, by his majesty's order, the fame declaration, word for word, which I made to you yesterday, and again anticipate you with respect to the most fincere fenti'ments of friendship, and real regard on the part of his majefty towards the Catholic king, in every particular confiftent with reafon and juftice. It is my duty to declare farther to you in plain terms, in the name of his majefty, That he will not fuffer the difputes with Spain to be blended, in any manner whatever, in the nego

ciation of peace between the two crowns to which I must add, That it will be connity, and as a thing incompatible with the fidered as an affront to his majesty's dig

fincerity of the negotiation, to make farther mention of such a circumftance.

Moreover, it is expected that France will not, at any time, prefume a right of intermeddling in fuch difputes between Great-Britain and Spain.

These confiderations, fo just and indifpenfible, have determined his majesty to order me to return you the memorial which occafions this, as wholly inadmiffible.

I likewife return you, Sir, as totally inadmiffible, the memorial relative to the

king of Pruffia, as implying an attempt upon the honour of Great-Britain, and the fidelity with which his majesty will always fulfil his engagements with his

allies.

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panegyrick upon Trajan is univerfally allowed to be the best oration he ever compofed, yet every judicious critic is of opinion, that it is interior to the leaft elaborate harangue of Cicero's. The great Roman Orator, in his epiftles, has indeed given us a fuccinct history of the most remarkable transactions of the times in which he lived; but that in a familiar manner, rather calculated to fatisfy the persons to whom he wrote, than posterity; and intermixed with words and phrafes from the Greek, a practice which he himself has condemned in his treatise De Officiis. Seneca's epiftles to Lucilius abound with fhining thoughts and happy turns, but he often degenerates into a common-place declaimer, though perhaps no author, antient or modern, was ever poffeffed of Add to this, that a greater fund of wit. his epiftles are wrote in fuch a manner, as puts it out of all doubt that they are not genuine, but jeux d'efprit addressed to a fictitious correspondent, a circumstance which cannot fail to difguft even thofe readers, who are most apt to be truck with the fallies of a glowing imagination. Amongst our neighbours the French, Voiture and Balzac were long poffeffed of a high degree of reputation for epiftolary writing, but the letters of the former, (as Monf. de Voltaire juftly obferves) abound with antithefes and falfe wit, and

those of the latter are too stiff, laboured, and pedantic. There is not a thought in Voiture, that seems to come from the heart, nor a period in Balzac, that does not smell of the lamp. Madame Sevigné greatly furpaffes them both, as her file is altogether eafy and natural, and ber thoughts feem to flow from her, without premeditation. This branch of literature has not been much cultivated by our countrymen, who, according to Mr. Dryden's remark, are not of so oftentatious a temper, as to think their private letters worthy of the notice of the public; yet we can boast one excellent collection The literary correfponof this kind. dence of Mr. Pope affords as complete models in this way, as are to be met with amongst the antients or moderns. We muft, however, except the epiftles of Pliny the younger, of whom it is but juftice to fay, that he has furpassed all others in this eafy and familiar species of eloquence. I fay nothing of the Greek epiftles of Phalaris, as the best criticks are now of opinion, that they are fpurious, notwithstanding the ipfe dixit of the celebrated Sir William Temple, who has ranked him among the first-rate authors of antiquity.

I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c.

T. W.

His Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Friday be fixth Day of November, 1761.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Α T the opening of the first parliament, fummoned and elected under my authority, I with pleasure take notice of an event, which has made me compleatly happy, and given univerfal joy to my loving fubjects. My marriage with a Princefs, eminently diftinguished by every virtue, and amiable endowment, whilft it affords me all poffible domestic comfort, cannot but highly contribute to the happiness of my kingdoms; which has been, and always fhall be, my first object in every action of my life.

It has been my earnest wish that this first period of my reign might be marked with another felicity; the restoring of the bleffings of peace to my people, and putting an end to the calamities of war,

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fufion of Christian blood, to which it was the defire of my heart to put a stop, cannot with justice be imputed to me.

Our military operations have been in no degree fufpended or delayed; and it has pleafed God to grant us farther important fucceffes, by the conquests of the inlands of Belleifle and Dominica; and by the reduction of Pondicherry, which hath in a manner annihilated the French power in the Eaft-Indies. In other

parts, where the enemy's numbers were greatly fuperior, their principal defigns and projects have been generally difappointed, by a conduct which does the highest honour to the diftinguished capacity of my general prince Ferdinand of Brunswic, and by the valour of my troops. The magnanimity and ability of the king of Pruffia have eminently appeared in refifting fuch numerous armies, and furmounting fo great difficulties.

In this fituation, I am glad to have an Opportunity of receiving the trueft information of the fenfe of my people, by a new choice of their reprefentatives. I am fully perfuaded you will agree with me in opinion, that the fteady exertion of our moft vigorous efforts, in every part where the enemy may ftill be attacked with advantage, is the only means that can be productive of fuch a peace, as may with reafon be expected from our fucceffes. It is therefore my fixed refolution, with your concurrence and fupport, to carry on the war, in the most effectual manner, for the intereft and advantage of my kingdoms; and to maintain, to the utmost of my power, the good faith and honour of my crown, by adhering firmly to the engagements entered into with my allies. In this I will perfevere, until my enemies, moved by their own loffes and diftreffes, and touched with the mi

series of fo many nations, shall yield to the equitable conditions of an honourable peace; in which cafe, as well as in the prosecution of the war, I do affure you, no confideration whatever shall make me depart from the true interests of thefe my kingdoms, and the honour and dignity of my crown.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I am heartily forry, that the neceffity of large fupplies appears fo clearly from what has already been mentioned. The proper estimates for the fervices of the enfuing year shall be laid before you; and I defire you to grant me fuch fupplies, as may enable me to profecute the war with vigour, and as your own welfare and security, in the present critical conjuncture, require, that we may happily put the laft hand to this great work. Whatsoever you give shall be duly and faithfully applied.

I dare fay your affectionate regard for me and the queen makes you go before me in what I am next to mention; the making an adequate and honourable provifion for her fupport, in cafe she should furvive me. This is what not only her royal dignity, but her own merit calls for; and I earnestly recommend it to your confideration.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

I have fuch a confidence in the real and good affections of this parliament, that I think it quite fuperfluous to use any exhortations to excite you to a right conduct. I will only add, that there never was a fituation in which unanimity, finnnefs, and dispatch were more neceffary for the fafety, honcur, and true intertit of Great Britain.

The Humble Addrefs of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, Prefented to his Majefly on Saturday the venth Day of November, 1761. With his Majefty's Moft Gracious Anfier.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WE. your majesty's most dutiful and loyal

fubjects, the lords fpiritual and temporal in parliament affembled, begleave to return your majesty our humble thanks for your!most gracious speech from the throne. It is impoffible to approach your royal November, 1761.

prefence at this time, without making our first offering to your majesty, of our moft joyful congratulations on the aufpicious occafion of your royal nuptials. We want words to defcribe how warmly we are affected with an event, fo highly ine terefting to your majesty, and to all your 4 E

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