liam Beauchamp Proctor, bart. late knight of the thire for Middlefex. Sir John Gibbons, bart. late member for Stockbridge. Francis Blake Delaval, Efq; late member for Andover. Charles Frederick, Efq; Surveyor-general of the Ordnance. And, George Warren, Efq; late member for Lancaster. This day lord Pulteney, and general Cornwallis were elected members, to reprefent the city of Westminster in parliament, without oppofition. This morning about eight o'clock, Darkin, alias Dumas, the famous highwayman, was executed at Oxford, for robbing Mr. Gammon, an apothecary in WeftSmithfield, upon the king's highway, near Nettlebed, in that county. He prayed a few minutes at the foot of the ladder, whilft the executioner was tying the cord, and then went up very briskly, took off his neckcloth, unbuttoned his collar as well as his waistcoat, put the rope about his neck, begged feveral times that the spectators would hang upon him immediately, and telling the executioner that he would give a fignal for turning the ladder, instantly dropped a white handkerchief; but without waiting a moment, threw himfelf off. He hung upwards of an hour, when a large body of bargmen attended, and, the inftant he was cut down, triumphantly carried him off to St. Thomas's parish, dug a grave, and, after cutting his body open, filled it with quick-lime, and then buried it; as they faid, they were determined he should not be diffected. Bute, to be one of his principal fecretaries of ftate; his lordfhip was this day fworn, and took his place at the board accordingly. A Frenchman, who calls himfelf Monf. Courcel, having had the address to obtain letters of recommendation from Prince Ferdinand, was received in London, as a perfon very proper to be employed in our fervice; but his conduct being narrowly watched, he was found to be a spy of the French court, entrusted with a very large fum of money, to purchase shipping for the ufe of our enemies. THURSDAY, March 26. Orders were given out at the Cockpit, Whitehall, for the removal of the fecretary's office from Whitehall, to the apartments late the duke of Cumberland's, at St. James's. This day came on at Guildhall, the election of representatives, to ferve the city of London in parliament, when Sir Robert' Ladbroke, knt. Sir Richard Glyn, bart. William Beckford, Efq; and the hon. Thomas Harley, Efq; were declared by the fheriffs to have the majority of hands, but a poll was demanded by the friends of Sir Samuel Fludyer, bart. which began immediately. SATURDAY, March 28. Advice was this day received from Plymouth, that the Vengeance frigate, capt. Nightingale, arrived there laft Tuesday, and brought in the Entreprenant, from Bourdeaux, richly laden, for Domingo; has ports for 44 guns, but mounts only 26 twelve and fix pounders, and 203 men, befides paffengers: fhe engaged the Vengeance a confiderable time, and had 15 men killed, and 24 wounded; and the Vengeance had fix killed, and 27 wounded: both fhips are much damaged. The Vengeance alfo brought in with her the Tyger privateer of St. Malo's, of four guns, and 45 men, which fhe took on the 23d inft. off the Lizard. The Comette frigate, of 32 guns, and 250 men, prize to the Bedford man of war, capt. Dean, is alfo arrived at Plymouth. The Bedford faw her fafe into the Sound,. and went to fea again. ERRAT A. In our last, p. 89, 2d col. after expected in the last line, add, if not more, not only with refpect to the. And p. 90, after Cato, Arike out the laft line of the 2d col. being the words abovementioned, which were tranfpofed in that manner. The Marriages, Births, Deaths, Preferments, &c. will be inferted in our next. THE BRITISH MAGAZINE, For APRIL, 1761. The LIFE of LUCIUS CARY, Lord Viscount Falkland, Secretary of State to King CHARLES I. T HIS worthy perfon was the eldest fon of Henry, the first viscount Falkland, by Elizabeth his wife, fole daughter and heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield, lord chief baron of the Exchequer, and was born, as is fuppofed, at Burford in Oxfordshire, about the year 1610, His education for fome years was in Ireland; for his father being appointed lord deputy of that kingdom in 1622, carried him with him thither. He received part of his academical learning in TrinityCollege, Dublin, and the remainder, on his return from Ireland, in St. John's College, Cambridge. He had fo well profecuted his ftudies that when he came into England, being then only eighteen years of age; he was not only mafter of the Latin-tongue, and had read all the poets and others of the best authors with great judgment; but he understood, spoke, and writ French, as if he had lived many years in France. Yet he proved at first but a wild youth, and for fome indifcretion was thrown into the April, 1761, Fleet; but being fent to travel under the care of a difcreet tutor, he foon fhook off all levity and extravagance, and became wife, fober, and prudent. When he was about nineteen he came to a very great fortune bequeathed to him by his grandfather the lord chief baron, without paffing through either his father or mother. (who were then both alive) and which was left entirely to his own difpofal. Very fhortly after he had poffeffion of this eftate, and before he was of age, he committed a fault against his father, in marrying a young lady, whom he paffionately loved, without any confiderable portion; and at this, his father was very much offended, as it disappointed all his hopes and expectations of redeeming and repairing his own broken fortune and defperate hopes at court, by fome advantageous marriage of his fon, about which he then had fome probable treaty. The fon was very confcious to himself of his offence and tranfgreffion, and the confequence of it. And though he could not repent, having married a lady of a moft extraordinary wit and judgment, and of the moft fignal vir Y tue of eminent parts and faculties in Oxford, beside those who resorted thither from London; who all found their. lodgings there as ready as in the colleges; nor did the lord of the house know of their coming or going, nor who were in his houfe till he came to dinner or supper, where all still met; there was no troublesome ceremony or constraint to forbid men to come to the houfe, or to make them weary of staying there; fo that many came thither to study, finding all the books they could defire in his library, and all the persons together, whofe company they could wish, and not find in any other fociety. tue and exemplary life, yet he confeffed Being a man of a fine genius, he foon entered upon a strict course of study, applying himself at first to polite literature and to poetry, in which he made fuch fuccessful attempts, that he gained the esteem and admiration of the most eminent poets of his time. But afterwards giving himfelf up to more folid parts of learning, he frequently retired, for the fake of books and converfation, to Oxford, and to his feat at Great Tew, near that university. There he contracted a familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men; who found fuch immenfenfity of wit, and fuch a folidity of judgment in him, fo infinite a fancy restrained by most exact reafon. ing, fuch a vaft fund of knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thing, yet fuch an exceffive humility, as if he had known nothing; that they frequently reforted, and dwelt with him, as in a college fituated in a purer air. There were Dr. Sheldon, Dr. Morley, Dr. Hammond, Dr. Earles, Mr. Chilingworth, and indeed all men In this happy and delightful conversa tion and restraint he remained in the country fome years; and until he had made a prodigious progrefs in learning. Among other things, he made himself in a very short time a perfect master of the Greek tongue, When he undertook to learn it, he refolved not to fee London, which he loved above all places, till he had perfectly learned it; and accordingly he pursued the study of that language with fuch industry, that he foon obtained a thorough knowledge of it, and accurately read all the Greek hiftorians. Before he was 23 years of age he perused all the Greek and Latin fathers, and was indefatigable in looking over all books, which with great expence he caused to be transmitted to him from all parts. He likewife read all the most allowed and authentic ecclefiaftical writers, and all the councils with wonderful care and obfervation. With this great industry he had a memory retentive of all he had ever read, and an understanding and judgment to apply it feasonably and appofitely, with the mot dexterity and addrefs, and the leaft pedantry and affectation, that ever man, who knew fo much was poffeffed with, of what quality foever. In 1633, about which time his father died, he was made one of the gentlemen of his majesty's privy chamber. Notwithstanding which, he continued frequently to retire to Great Tew and Oxford, as before, for the fake of the company of learned and ingenious men. He was likewife a member of the most polite focieties. In 1639 he was in the expedition against the Scots; and though he received fome repulfe in the command of a troop of horfe of which he had the promife, he went a volunteer with the eart of Effex. Upon |