D&.1776. 2. At his feat in the island of Benbecula, Ranald Macdonald of Clanranald, Efq; 3. At London, the Hon. Col. Thomas Molineux, member for Haflemare, and major in the third regiment of foot-guards. 4. At Hereford, James Dunne, Efq; late lieutenant colonel in the first troop or horfe guards. 4. At her house in Canongate, Edinburgh, Lady Catharine Cochran, daughter of Thomas late Earl of Dundonald, and fpoufe of William Wood, Efq; s. At Edinburgh, George Clerk, Efq; Ad Vocate. 5. At his houfe in Hampstead, John Ellis, F. R. S. agent for the province of Weft Florida, and the island of Dominica. 7. At Cambridge, near Hackney, on his way to the fouth of France, for the recovery of his health, John Leith, Efq; of Leith hall. 9. At Clanden-place, near Guildford in Surry, Richard Lord Onflow, lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Surry, high fteward of Guildford, LL. D. and K. B. His eftate. (of near 13,000l. ayear) and title, devolve to his coufig Lord Cranley. 10. At Leith, Mr Walter Scott, merchant. 12. At Perth, Mifs Mary Rollo, daughter to the late Hon. Clement. Rollo. 13. At Shotts, Mr John Scott, Seceding minifter there. At Dumfries, Mrs Kennedy, in the 110th year of her age. 13. At Dumfries, John Goldie of Craigmuie, Efq; many years commiffary and the riff-fubftitute of Dumfries. 14. At Dartford in Kent, in his 89th year, Mr Carey, who loft both his legs and one arm in an engagement in the rebellion 1745. 18. At Dundee, Mrs Agnes Duncan, fpoufe of James Milne of Woodhill, Efq; . 5 18. At Tealing, Mr John Scrymfoure younger of Tealing, late a captain in the 19th regiment of foot, 19. Lady Calder, relict of Sir James Calder. 20. At Forres, Mrs Helen Douglas, aged 74, relic of Charles Urquhart of Burdfyards, Efq; 23. At Treefbank, James Campbell of Treefbank, Efq; 25 At Edinburgh, Mifs Alice Fleming, daughter of the deceafed Mr John Fleming of Polcalk, Advocate. 25. At Edinburgh, Mrs Elifabeth Nafmyth, daughter of the deceased James Nafmyth, Efq; of Earlfhaugh. 29. At London, James Sayer, Efq; ViceAdmiral of the White 30 Ar Liberton, Mrs Arabella Campbell, relict of Capt, Robert Thomson of the Pem broke. PREFERMENTS. From the London Gazette. The King has been pleased, Of. 11. to inveft the Marquis of Lothian with the enfigns of the Most Ancient and Moft Noble Order of the Thistle. -15. to confer the honour of the Moft Honourable Order of the Bath on the Hon. William Howe, Major-General of his Maje, fty's forces, and General in North America. 18. to grant unto William Lord Manf field, and to his heirs-male, the dignity of an Earl of Great Britain, by the title of Earl of Mansfield in the county of Nottingham, with remainder to the heirs-male of the body of his father. -to appoint James Harris, jun. Efq; to be his Majesty's 'Envoy-Extraordinary to the court of Berlin. to appoint George Cooke, Efq; to be his Majesty's Agent and Conful-General at Tripoli. 19. to appoint John Wyndham Bowyer, David Papillon, George Lewis Scott, Anthony Lucas, William Lowndes, William Burrell, Stamp Brooksbank, and John Pow nall, Efqs, together with Heneage Legge, Efq; to be his Majefty's Commiffioners for the management of his Majefty's revenue of Excife, &c. in England. [341.] 23. to appoint Horace St Paul, Efq; Envoy-Extraordinary to the court of Swe den. to appoint Morton Eden, Efq; to be Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Elector of Bavaria, and Minifter to the Diet of Ratifbon. -26. to nominate and appoint James Earl of March to be First Commiflioner of Police in Scotland, in the room of Charles Lord Cathcart, deceated. -to appoint John Earl of Breadalbane to be Vice-Admiral of Scotland, in the room of James Earl of March. to constitute and appoint George Lord Onflow to be his Majefty's Lieutenant of the county of Surry, and alfo to be Cuftos Rotu lorum for the faid county, in the room of Richard Lord Onflow, deceased. -to confirm the election of George-Edward-Henry-Arthur Earl Powis to be Recordes of the town or borough of Ludlow in the county of Salop. -to grant unto Heary Bunbury and Tho mas Bowlby, Efqs, the office of Comptroller of the accounts of his Majesty's Army. -29 to conftitute and appoint James Wallace, Efq; Sir Roger Burgoyne, Bt, Jos Das Hanway, Alexander Chorley, Thomas Colby, Joah Bates, and Henry Pelham, Elqs, to be Commiffioners for Victualling the Na War. 3d reg. of dragoon-guards: Jofeph Kirkman, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Thomas Tiddeman. 4th reg. of foot: Enf. John Arbuthnot, of the 27th reg. to be Lieutenant, vice Benjamin Fish; and Henry Prowfe, Gent. to be Quartermaster, vice Benjamin Fish. 7th reg. of foot: Lieut. Thomas Lloyd to bé Adjutant, vice Francis Le Maitre. roth reg. of foot: James Haverkam, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Charles Stevenson. 56th reg. of foot: Maj. John Caulfield to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Alexander Monypenny; Capt. Bulleine Fancourt to be Major, vice John Caulfield; Capt-Liet Rice Price to be Captain, vice Bulleine Fancourt; Lieut: Charles Vollaton to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Rice Price; Enf. S muel Pole to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Vollaton; and George Bambrick, Gent. to be Enfign, vice James Hackett. 63d reg. of foot: Capt.-Lieut. Francis Jones to be Captain, vice Duncan M'Pherfon; and Lieut. John M'Kinnon, of the 47th reg. to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Francis Jones. 64th reg. of foot: Peter Murdoch, Gent 15th reg. of foot: Lieut. James Douglas to be Enfign, vice William Gratton. to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice John Lock- 65th reg. of foot: Breynton, Gem. hart; Enf. George Thomas to be Lieute- to be Enfign, vice Robert Baynes. nant, vice James Douglas; Capt.-Lieut. 71ft reg of foot: Capt. Daniel Disney, of James Douglas to be Captain, vice Robert, the 44th reg. to be Major, vice Robert MenButterwick; Lieut. Edward Madden to be zies. Captain-Lieutenant, vice James Douglas; and Enf. Gage Barbutt, of the 5th reg. to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Madden. 16th reg. of foot: William Allan, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Thomas Mewburn. 17th reg. of foot: Andrew Hertzog, Gent. to be Quartermafter, vice Richard Norris: Enf. Ifaac Carey to be Lieutenant, vice John Lord Berriedale; Robert Ludlow, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Ifaac Carey; and Enf. WilJiam Ahe to be Lieutenant, vice Sir James Baird. 21ft reg. of foot: Capt. George Montgomeiy Metham, of the 65th reg. to be Captain: Lieut Samuel Ellis, of the 65th reg. to be First Lieutenant; and Enf. Benjamin Lewis, of the 65th reg. to be Second Lieute pant. azd reg. of foot: Enf. Alexander Ha milton to be Lieutenant, vice Boyd Porterfield, 31ft reg of foot: Capt. Edward Parker, of the 65th reg. to be Captain; Lieut. Robert Arbuthnot, of the 65th reg. to be Lieutenant; and Enf. James Wemyfs, of the 65th reg. to be Enfign." 33d reg. of foot: Capt. John York to be Major, vice Henry Creed; Lieut. Hildebrand Oakes to be Captain, vice John York; and Enf. Henry Broderick to be Lieutenant, vice Hildebrand Oakes. 43d reg. of foot: William Worsfold, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Archibald Kennedy. 44th reg. of foot: Capt.-Lieut. Alexander Graydon to be Captain, vice Daniel Disney. 46th reg. of foot: Emanuel Hutchinson, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Thomas Reeves. 48th reg. of foot: Enf. William Atkinson to be Lieutenant, vice William Scott; and Edmund Pytts Middleton, Gent. to be Enfign, vice William Atkinson. 55th, reg. of foot: James Gordon, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Peter Marland. [To be continued] SCOTS THE MAGAZINE. N OVEMBER, 1776. CONTEN PARLIAMENT. Lords on their addrefs: The address moved for and feconded 569. Ld Rockingham's amendment 570. Speech es of the Lords Manchester, Mount-Stuart, and Richmond 571. Sandwich and Graf Shelburne, Weymouth, Rich mond, and Bristol $73. Divifion ib. Pro-tefters ib. ton 572. Commons on their addrefs: The address moved for and feconded 573. Ld J. Cavendish propofes an amendment 574Speeches of Gov Johnstone, Meff Womb well, Wilkes, and T Townsend ib. Ld North 575. and Col. Barré 576. Of the PROVENÇAL poetry 577. Remarks on a character of Mr HUME 578. Of fecuring SHIPS from FIRE 579. Danger from NEW PAINTED ROOMS 580, Caufe and confequences of the difagreement -between Louis XVI. and his QUEEN 581. A ftate of the ENGLISH PEERAGE 601. HISTORY for 1775. Importance of the fugar-colonies 602. On the fisheries, and - Ireland 603. T S. AMERICA. Letters from New York 581. to HAY-TEA when Fodder is fcarce 603. PARLIAMENT. [564.] T HE parliament met on the 31ft of October: the fpeech, the addreffes, &c. are already inferted. [561, 2, 3, 4.] After the King had left the Houfe of Lords, Lord Carlile moved for an ad drefs in answer to his Majefty's speech, introducing his motion by various obfervations on the prefent ftate of the unhappy war with America. He principally remarked, that the ground of oppofition to the juft meafures of governinent in the last feffion, was a difbelief of the Americans having a defign to become independent; but now, added his Lordhip, their independency being openly avowed, I hope for an unanimous conVOL. XXXVIH. currence in this addrefs. He enlarged The Marquis of Rockingham then got up, and arraigning in the grofs the meafures of administration, moved for a long amendment, or rather a counter address, by leaving out the whole except the firft paragraph [562.], and inferting what follows. "Animated with the most earnest and fincere zeal for the true intereft and real glory of his Majesty's reign, we behold, with inexpreffible concern, the minds of a very large, and lately very loyal and affectionate, part of his people, entirely alienated from his government; nor can we conceive, that fuch an event as the difaffection and revolt of a whole people, could have taken place, without fome confideral error in the conduct obferved towards them. The erroneous meafures, we conceive, are to be imputed to a want of fufficient information being laid before parliament, and to too large a degree of confidence being repofed in thofe minifters, who from their duty were obliged, and from their official fituations were beft enabled, to know the temper and difpofition of his Majefty's American fubjects, and were therefore moft capable of pointing out fuch meafures as might produce the most falutary effects. Hence the fchemes which were formed for the reduction and chastisement of a fuppofed inconfiderable party of factious men, have driven thirteen large provinces to defpair. Every act which has been propofed as a means of procuring peace and fubmiffion, has become a new caufe of war and revolt; and we now find ourselves almoft inextricably involved in a bloody and expenfive civil war, which, befides exhaufting at prefent the firength of all his Majesty's dominions, expofing our allies to the defigns of their and our enemies, and lea ving this kingdom in a moft perilous fituation, threatens, in its iffue, the most deplorable calamities to the whole British race. We cannot avoid lamenting, that in confequence of the credit given to the reprefentations of minifters, no hearing has been given to the reiterated complaints and petitions of the colonies: neither has any ground been laid for removing the original cause of thofe unhappy differences, which took their rife from questions relative to parliamentary proceedings, and which only can be fetiled by parliamentary authority. By that fatal omiffion, the commiffioners nominated for the apparent purpose of ma king peace, were furnished with no legal powers, but that of giving or with. holding pardons at their pleasure, and for relaxing the severities of a fingle act of parliament, leaving the whole foundation of this unhappy controversy juft as it ftood in the beginning. To reprefent to his Majefty, that in addition to this neglect, though, in the beginning of the laft feffion, his Majefty, in his gracious fpeech, declared his refolution of sending out commiffioners, for the purpose therein expreffed, " fpeedily as poffible," no fuch commiffioners were fent till near seven months afterwards, and until the nation was alarmed by the evacuation of the only town then held for his Majesty in the thirteen united colonies. By this delay, acts of the most critical nature, the efects of which muft as much depend on the power of immediately releafing them on fubmiffion, as in enforcing them on difobedience, had only an operation to enflame and exafperate. But if any colony, town, or place, had been induced to fubmit by the operation of the terrors of these acts, there were none on the place of power to restore the people fo fubmitting, to the common rights of subjection. The inhabitants of the colonies, apprifed that they were put out of the protection of government, and feeing no means provided for their entering into it, were furnished with reafons but too colourable, for breaking off their dependency on the crown of this kingdom. To affure his Majefty, that by removing our confidence from thofe who, in fo many inftances, have grossly abused it, we should endeavour to reftore to parliament the confidence of all his people. To this end it may be adviseable to make a more minute inquiry into the grievances of the colonies, as well as into the conduct of minifters. With regard to them, we may think it proper particularly to inquire, how it has happened, that the commerce of this kingdom has been left exposed to the reprifals of the colonies, when their feamen and fishermen being indifcriminately pro hibited from the peaceable exercise of their occupations, and declared open enemies, must be expected, with a certain affurance, to betake themselves to plunder, and to wreak their revenge on the commerce of Great Britain.That we understand, that amidst the many difafters and and difgraces which have attended his Majefty's arms in many parts of America, an advantage has been gained by his Majefty's British and foreign mercenary forces in the province of New York; that if a wife, moderate, and provident ufe, be made of this advantage, it is not improbable that happy effects may refult from that ufe; and we affure his Majefy, that nothing fhall be wanting on our part to enable his Majefty to take full advantage of any difpofition to reconciliation, which may be the confequence of the miseries of war, by laying down on *our part real permanent grounds of conciliation between Great Britain and the colonies, on principles of liberty, and terms of mutual advantage. That whilft we lament the effufion of English blood, (which we hope has not been greater or other than neceflity required or honour juftified), we should humbly congratulate his Majefty on any event leading to the next defirable end, of fettling a peace which might promife to Haft, by the reftitution of the ancient affection which has happily fubfifted in former times between this kingdom and its colonies. Any other would neceffa=rily require, even in cafe of a total conqueft, an army to maintain, ruinous to the finances, and incompatible with the freedom, of his Majefty's people. We fhould look with the utmost fhame and horror on any event, of what nature foever, that should tend to break the fpirit of any part of the British nation; to bow them to an abject unconditional fubmiffion to any power whatsoever; to annihilate their liberties; and to subdue them to fervile principles and paffive habits, by the mere force of foreign arms; becaufe, admitting the exceffes and abufes which have happened, we must respect the fpirit and principles operating in thofe com motions. Our with is to regulate, not to deftroy, for the differing in fome circumstances: those very principles evidently bear fo exact an analogy with those which fupport the most valuable part of our conftitution, that it is impoffible, with any appearance of juftice, to think of wholly extirpating them by the fword in any part of his Majefty's dominions, without admitting confequences from eftablished precedents, the most dangerous to the liberties of this kingdom." mentions the pacific affurances of all the European powers, and yet of putting this country into fo inftantaneous a ftate of defence. With refpect to the affurances of the court of France and Spain, he said they were but little to be depended on; that the former had actually furnifhed the provincials with arms and ammunition, which were embarked openly on board an American veffel the other day at Havre-de-Grace, in the fight of one of his particular friends;-that a feet of ten fail of the line with 11,000 forces had lately failed from Cadiz, the deftination of which he called upon administration to explain; that we were bound by treaty to defend Portugal, who had made no fmall facrifices to us ;-that Portugal had at our request forbidden American veffels from entering any of her ports; - but had France or Spain done fo, notwithstanding our repeated requifitions? No.-What then was the natural confequence to be apprehended? That a war with the houfe of Bourbon was inevitable, and that the distracted ftate in which the affairs of this country appeared at prefent, threatened no lefs than its total ruin. Lord Mount - Stuart contended for the propriety of the addrefs; painted the ingratitude of the Americans in the Arongeft colours, for whom he faid this country had laft war facrificed the blood of her firft families; nay, he feared, had fo far exhaufted her wealth, that he doubted whether she would ever recover herfelf.-He faid, the right of taxation was no longer the queftion: the mafk was thrown off; and independency, their fecret and fole view, was now impudently avowed and published: he conceived, however, that this libel on all government was not declared with the free confent of the people, but by the artful infinuations of Hancock and Adams, thofe Oliverian relics, who had tainted the minds of these his Majesty's loyal fubjects, and led them, as it were, involuntarily, into all the horrors of the prefent unnatural rebellion. The Duke of Richmond entered into the debate with great calmness of temper. After a furvey of the melancholy profpect arifing from the fatal feparation, between this country and America, which he deemed now for ever fevered from The Duke of Manchester took a review the British empire, he attributed the of every part of the King's speech, but whole fcene of American calamities to dwelt particularly on the paffage which the fatal conduct of an administration, 4C2 who, |