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BECAUSE we cannot agree to commit ourselves with the careless facility of a common address of compliment, in expreffions, which may lead to measures in the event fatal to the lives, properties, and liberties of a very great part of our fellow fubjects.

We conceive that an address upon fuch objects as are before us, and at fuch a time as this, muft neceffarily have a confiderable influence upon our future proceedings; and must impress the public with an idea of the general spirit of the measures which we mean to support.

Whatever methods we shall think it adviseable to pursue, either in fupport of the mere authority of parliament, which feems to be the fole confideration with fome, or for reconciling that authority with the peace and fatisfaction of the whole empire, which has ever been our conflant and invariable object, it will certainly add to the weight and efficacy of our proceedings, if they appear the refult of full information, mature deliberation, and temperate enquiry.

No materials for fuch an enquiry have been laid before us; nor have any fuch been fo much as promised in the speech from the throne, or even in any verbal affurance from Minifters.

In this fituation we are called upon to make an addrefs, arbitrarily impofing qualities and descriptions upon acts done in the colonies, of the true nature and just extent of which we are as yet in a great measure unapprized; a procedure which appears to us by no means confonant to that purity which we ought ever to preserve in our judicial, and to that caution which ought to guide us in our deliberate capacity.

Because this address does, in effect, imply an approbation of the system adopt

ed with regard to the colonies in the last parliament. This unfortunate fystem, conceived with fo little prudence, and purfued with fo little temper, confiftency or forefight, we were in hopes, would be at length abandoned, from an experience of the mifchiefs which it has produced, in proportion to the time in which it was continued, and the diligence with which it has been purfued, a fyftem which has created the utmost confufion in the colonies, without any rational hope of advantage to the revenue, and with certain detrimen: to the commerce of the mother country. And it affords us a melancholy profpect of the difpofition of Lords in the prefent parliament, when we fee the House, under the pressure of so fevere and uniform an experience, again ready, without any enquiry, to countenance, if not to adopt, the Spirit of the former fatal proceedings.

But whatever may be the mischievous defign, or the inconfiderate temerity, which leads others to this defperate course, we wish to be known as perfons who have ever disapproved of meafures fo pernicious in their past effects, and their future tendency, and who are not in hafte, without enquiry or information, to commit ourselves in declarations which may precipitate our country into all the calami ties of a civil war.

RICHMOND,
PORTLAND,
ROCKINGHAM,
STAMFORD,
STANHOPE,
TORRINGTON,
PONSONBY,
WYCOMBE,

CAMDEN,

Dec. 8.] A bill of indictment was prefented to the grand jury for the county of Middlefex, at Hicks's-hall, against the dutchess of Kingston, for felony, in marrying the late duke of Kingston, at the time the was actually the wife of the hon. Augufius Hervey, when the jury found the bill to be a true bill, in con-sequence of which the must appear take her trial at the Old Baily as a felon, or an outlawry will iffue againit her.

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November,✈ THE Duchefs of Manchef-
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MARRIAGES. APT. George Bernard, of the Innifkilling regiment of dragoons, to Mifs Beaumont, daughter of the late Rich. Beamont, Efq; of Whitley hall. -Nov. 1. Sir Thomas Mills, of Portland-ftreet, nephew to Lord Mansfield, to Mifs Moffat, of Cranburne, in Effex. DEATH S.

ARDINAL Datary Mulvezzi, Arch

Lord Murray, and one of the fixteen peers of Scotland. His Grace was the eldeft fon of Lord Geo. Murray, fourth fon of John first Duke of Athol, whe was attainted in 1746, for his concern in the rebellion of the preceding year; but that attainder only operating againft himself, upon the death of his uncle, the late Duke James, on Jan. 8, 1764, he fucceeded to his honours, and having

C his coufin, Charlotte,

upon the decease of her father the late Duke, became Baronefs Strange, and Lady of the Isle of Man, by that marriage, the heirs male and of line of this illuftrious family are conjoined. They have iffue, John Marquis of Tullibardin, born June 30, 1755; Lords James, George, and William; Ladies Charlotte, Emilia,and Rachael.-21. The Rev. Dr. John Tottie, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and archdeacon of Worcester.

22 At his houfe in Berkeley fquare, the Right Hon. Robert Lord Clive, of Plaffey, in the kingdom of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant and Cultos Rotulorum of the counties of Salop and Montgomery, Knight of the Bath, and Major General in the East-Indies, Reprefentative in Parliament for the town of Shrewsbury, LLD, and F RS. His Lp. had been twice Governor of Bengal, and Commander in Chief of the King's and Compa

Earl of Morton. His lordfhip has left two fons by his Lady, who is coufin to the Earl of Haddington.-Count de Rab bion, Viceroy of Sardinia,-At New York, Major-General John Bradstreet. -On the frontiers of Ruffia, where he had been prifoner fix months, Profeffor Gmelin; one of the learned men chofen by the Emprefs of Ruffia, in 1767, to travel to different parts, in order to perfect fcience.-Rt. Hon. Cha. Cadogan, Ld. Cadogan, Baron of Oakley, Col. of the 2d tr. of horse guards, gov. of Gravefend and Tilbury-fort, a general of his Majefty's forces, FR S, and a truítee of the British Mufeum. His lordfhip fucceeded his brother, William, the late Earl Cadogan, July 17, 1726. He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheirefs of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. and by her, who died May 20, 1768, he hath iffue, one fon, the Hon. Chas. Sloane Cadogan, born Oct. 29, 1728, Member for Company's forces in that province, where his bridge, and Mafter Worker of the Mint.-At Bath, Sir James Hodges, Knight, Town-clerk of the city of London. At Hanover, the fon of Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.-O. 24. At Bothwell Caitle, in Scotland, her Grace the Duchefs of Douglas.-28. At his feat near Worcester, the Right Rev. Dr. John Ewer, Lord Bishop of Bangor. -31. Rt. Hon. Ed. Noel, Vifc. Wentworth, of Wellfborough, in Leicestershire, (fo created May 4, 1762.) Baron Wentworth, of Nettlefted and Baronet, and LLD. His lordship fucceeded Martha, Baronefs Wentworth, in 1745, and married Judith, daughter of William Lamb, of Farndifh, in Northamptonshire, Efq; by whom he has iffue, Thomas, born Nov. 18, 1745, and three daughters, Judith, Elizabeth, and Sophia Sufannah. Of the iffue of Sir Cloberry Noel, father of the Viscount, there is living another fon, the Rev. and Hon. Clobery Noel.-5. At Dunkeld, in Scotland, his Grace John Murray, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Athol, Marquis and Earl Tullibardin, Viscount Glenaldmond.

eminent services to his country, and the East India Company, are well knownD. His Lordfhip was born on Michaelmasday, 1725, and married Margaret, the daughter of Edmund Mafkelyne, Efq, of Purton in the county of Wilts, by whom he had iffue, now furviving, Edward (now Lord) Clive, Member for Ludlow; Robert, an infant; and three daughters, Rebecca, Charlotte, (to whom her prefent Majefty stood godmother) and Margaret.-26. At his feat at Redrice, near Andover, the Right Hon, Stephen Lord Holland, Baron of Boxley, in the county of Wilts, and Clerk of the Pells in Ireland. His Lordship married Lady Fitzpatrick, fifter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Upper Offory, by whom he had one daughter, and a fon, now an infant, to whom the title descends.

PROMOTION S.

HE Hon. Lieut. General James Murray, late Governor of Quebec, to be Lieutenant Governor of Minorca.

Lieut. Col. Beauclerc, to be governor of Pendennis Caftle.-Col. James Grant to be Lt. gov. of Fort St. George.

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