in common hall affembled, to wait upon your majefty, humbly to know your inajefty's royal will and pleafure, when your majefty will be pleased to receive upon the throne their humble address, remonitrance and petition.

To which his majesty answered:

You will please to take notice, that I will receive their addrefs, remonftrance and petition on Friday next at the levee. Mr. Sheriff Plomer replied:

Your majefty will permit us to inform you, that the livery in common hall affembled, have refolved not to prefent their addrefs, remonftrance and petition, unless your majesty shall be pleased to receive it fitting on the throne

To which his majefty answered: I am ever ready to receive addreffes and petitions-but I am the judge where. The lord mayor then declared, that in confequence of the order of the livery, that the addrefs, remonftrance and petition fhould not be prefented to the king, but fitting on his throne, the fheriffs report to him, and lord Hertford's letter, his lordship had not attended his majesty with the faid addrefs.

Ordered, That his majesty's answer now reported be entered in the books of the livery of this city.

Refolved, That the king is bound to hear the petitions of his people, it being the undoubted right of the fubject to be heard, and not a matter of grace and fa

Refolved, That his majesty's answer is a direct denial of the right of this court to have their petition heard.

Refolved, That fuch denial renders the right of petitioning the throne, recognized and established by the revolution, of no effect.

Refolved, That whoever advised his majefty, directly or indirectly, to refufe hearing the humble addrefs, remonftrance and petition of this court on the throne. is equally an enemy to the happiness and fecurity of the king, and to the peace and liberties of the people.

Ordered, That the addrefs, remonfrance and petition, which his majefty refused to hear on the throne, be printed in the public papers, and figned by the town clerk.

Refolved, That the following inftruction be given to our reprefentatives in parliament:

Gentlemen, you are initructed by the livery in common hall affembled, to move immediately on the next meeting of parHament, for an humble address from the houfe of commons to his majefty, request

ing to know who were the advisers of those fatal measures, which have planted popery and arbitrary power in America, and have plunged us into a noft unnatural civil war, to the fubverfion of the fundamental principles of English tiberty, the ruin of our most valuable commerce, and the deftruction of his majesty's fubjects. To know who were the advifers of a measure so dangerous to his majefty's happinefs, and the rights of his people, as refufing to hear the petitions and complaints of his fubjects. You are further inftrusted, gentlemen, to move for an impeachment of the authors and advisers of those measures, that by bringing them to public jutlice, evil counfellors may be removed from before the king, his throne may be etablished, the rights of the people vindicated, and the whole empire restored to the enjoyment of peace, liberty, and safety."

Ordered, That the faid refolution be fairly transcribed and figned by the town clerk, and by him delivered to our reprefentatives in parliament.

Ordered, that the fheriffs do wait upon his majesty, and deliver into his majesty's hand, in the name of the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery in common hall affembled, a fair copy of the refolutions agreed to on Midsummer-day, and this day, figned by the town clerk.

Ordered, that the fheriffs, attended by Mr. Remembrancer, do to-morrow wait on his majesty with the aforefaid refolutions.

Ordered, That the refolutions of this day be printed in the public papers, fign= ed by the town clerk. Signed by order, RIX.

Wednesday the fheriffs waited on his majefly at St. James's, when Mr. Sherift Plomer addreffed the king in the following words: " May it pleafe your majefly, We are ordered by the lord mayor, aldermen, and livery of the city of London in common hall affembled, to wait upon your majefty, humbly to deliver into your majefty's hands in their name, their refolutions agreed to in common-ball on the 24th of June laft, and on the 4th inftat." Mr. Sheriff Plomer then delivered a copy of the refolutions only, but not the address, petition, and remonftrance, into the king's hand, which he received without saying a word.

Character of een Anne. ANNE STUART, Queen of Great

Britain and Ireland, died in the fiftieth year of her age, and thirtieth of her

reign. In her perfon fhe was of a middle ftature, and, before the bore children, well made. Her hair was dark, her complexion fanguine, her features ftrong, but not irregular; her whole countenance more dignified than agreeable. In the accomplifhments of the mind, as a woman, flie was not deficient. She understood mufic; fhe loved painting; he had even fome tafte for works of genius. She was always generous, fometimes liberal, but never profufe. Like the rest of her family, the was good-natured to a degree of weakness: Indolent in her difpolition; timid by nature; devoted to the company of her favourites; eafily led. She poffeffed all the virtues of her father except political courage. She was fubject to all his weakneties except enthufiafu in religion. She was jealous of her authority, and fullenly irreconcileable towards thofe who treated either herfelf or her prerogative with difrefpe&t. But, like him alfo, fhe was better qualified to difcharge the duties of a private life, than to act the part of a Sovereign. As a friend, a mother, or a wife, the deferved every praife. Her conduct, as a daughter, could fcarcely be excufed by a virtue much fuperior to all thefe. Upon the whole, though her reign was crowded with great events, he cannot, with any juftice, be called a great Princefs. Subject to terror beyond the conflitutional timidity of her fex, fhe was altogether incapable of decitive Councils; and nothing but her irrefifible popularity could have fupported her authority, anidit the ferment of thofe difiracted times.

Hiftories of the Tete-a-Tete annexed; or, Memoirs of Lord Chefierfield and Sizni ora Baliuntini.

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HE world had long confidered the late ford Chetterfield, as a nobleman of the firft eminence in literature, talle, and politenefs. Many temporary pieces were afcribed to him, and the republic of letters were in great expecta tion that his pofthumous works would amply reward them for his lordthip's modelty during his life-time. However no production ha fince transpired, afcribed to his lordship, except his letters to his fon, which he certainly never meant the public eye fhould view; for though there is the moti excellent advice from a parent to a child, to form the accomplishta gentlemen, there are many pulages which his lordship intended carefully to b concealed. If thefe inftructive letters had not all the defired effect upon Mr.

Stanhope, his fucceffor feems to have imbibed their just influence, and figures the very man his lordfhip fo ardently wifhed his fon to appear.

Our hero fat out early upon his traveis, after having quitted his fcholaftic ftudies; but being debarred by his predeceffor's will, vifiting Italy *, after paffing a fhort time at the Hague, and vifiting fome parts of Germany, he bent his courfe to Paris; here he remained many months, and entered into all the pleafores of hat gay capital. His rank and fortune-entitled him to keep the belt company; and his good fenfe, learning, and politenefs, recommended him to all the parties he engaged in the ladies particularly attracted his attention, but he followed his god-father's advice fo ftrictly, that he never formed any connexion with opera girls, and he fill more cautiously avoided grizettes and profeffed courtezans. It may easily be concluded that the married ladies were the objects of his affiduities; there was but one obftacle to his fuccefs in this quarter, which arofe from his. diflike to play: this difguft probably originated from another claufe in his godfather's will, which fet forth, that if ever his godfon kept a pack of hounds or running horses, slept a night at Newmarket during the races, or loft at one fitting five hundred pounds, he was to forfeit five thousand for every fuch offence, to the dean and chapter of Weltmintter. Such a heavy penalty was, indeed, fufficient to deter any man of far lefs prudence than our hero, to play for any fum, the lofs of which could affect him.

Finding in Mad. Defbrofe, a lady completely to his mind, who had as great an averfion as himself to cards; whofe time was divided between books and focial conversation, whose head was neither turned with politics, as many French women's are, nor whose time was engrofied by quadrille and piquet; he framed a very clofe and agreeable intimacy with her, arifing chiefly from a congeniality of fentiments and difpofitions. Paris echoed with the flability of the connexion, and they were the fubjets of frequent converfatión even at NOTE.

*The pailage alluded to in his late lordship's will is as follows: "He chu fes, that his godfon and heir, Philip Stauhope, fhould travel through France, Flanders, Holland, and Germany, and be may vifit the northern courts: but by no means Daly, that foul fink of illiberal manners and vices,”

Versailles,

rank, and in a fhort time was married. To fay that Signior Ballantini was not agreeable to me, is ufing, perhaps, too foft an expreffion, and I really could not be hypocrite fufficient to endeavour making him believe I liked him. He perceived my coldness, and imputed it to my affection for a rival. Having once conceived this opinion, he employed emiffaries to watch my actions, in order to discover the happy man for whom I entertained a predilection. The young captain was, I acknowledge; ftill a favourite, and thought he might entertain hopes of fupplanting Signior Ballantini in my affections; nothing but the most innocent correfpondence had paffed between us. It is true, he wrote me very tender billets, and when I was at a relation's houfe he would give the young lady and me a ferenade. As he never approached our houfe, the fervants could not entertain the least fufpicion of his paffion for me, and therefore were incapable of communicating any intelligence upon this head to their mafter. One evening, whilft my admirer was entertaining us with a fong, accompanied with mufic, under my friend's window, my husband passed, and hearing my name mentioned in the fonnet, his jealousy was inftantly roused, and without requiring any explanation, or knowing who the finger was, he inftantly attacked him, the other defended himfelf, and in the conflict my husband fell.

Many injurious reports were spread upon the occafion, and as fcandal is never without its trump, I was reprefented as a montier, who had planned my husband's death; and, notwithstanding my innocence, my ftay at Venice became very difagreeable. As foon as I bad fettled my affairs I quitted it, and vifited most parts of Italy. My curio fity was next excited to fee this famous capital, where wit and gaiety reign. I have not been in the least disappointed in my expectations, and have an additional pleasure that I could not have flattered myself with, that is, having made an acquaintance with one of the most accomplished noblemen in Europe." The lady's politenefs did not go unrequited, and from this hour a very particular acquaintance enfued, which promises a long and faithful duration.

Signiora was very folicitous to perfuade his lordship to vifit Rome; but having informed her of the cause of his declining the journey, she could not help acknowledging the propriety of it, but in

finuated, at the fame time, that his lordthip's predeceffor had been too partial in his cenfure of Italy; and that he was convinced he must have paffed it at a time of life when he had taken a diftafte to the world and its enjoyments. His lordfhip, in return, ftrongly preffed her to vifit England, where he would meet with many things worthy attention. She yielded to his intreaties, and, in a fhort time, they fet out for London, propofing to take Spa in their way.

Here we must leave them for the prefent, in expectation of their speedy arrival in this metropolis.

A Short Account of Mrs. Rudd, previous to her Connection with the Two Infatuated Brothers.

MA

ARGARET CAROLINE YOUNGSON, daughter of Patrick Youngfon, of Lurgan, furgeon and apothecary, and Margery Stewart, a love child of Major W. Stewart, of the Dragoons, by a low creature, whilft in quarters at Ballyfhannon, in the North of Ireland. The Major was fomething related to the late Lord Galloway, from whom he claims her illuftrious descent. She married Lieut. Valentine Rudd, of the 62d regiment of foot, when quartered at Athlone, who is now living in Dublin, and upon half-pay on the Irish ef tabliment. The faid Lieutenant's father is alfo now living, and keeps a fhop at St. Alban's, in Hertfordshire. She elop ed from her husband when he lodged at Mrs. Cranston's, in Park-street, having just removed there from the Fleet-Prifon, where he had been long confined for her debts, and was then obliged to fell a fmall patrimony he had in Hertfordshire to pay them. He advertised her in the Papers, with a reward for apprehending her (Vide Daily Advertiser about Michaelmas, 1770) She then lodged at a Mr. Temple's, in Parliament-street, and paffed for the widow of a younger-brother of the Marquis of Lord Annandale, and faid the came to lodge in the neighbourhood of Westminster Hall, on purpose to be near the Lawyers in Term-time, as fhe was at law for a confiderable property, respecting her husband's will, claimed by his relations; that the was visited by many, who fhe always faid were the molt eminent of the profeffion. She has fince paffed under the names of Lady Caroline Gower, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Gore's fifter, the Countess of Moriencourt, a German Princefs, Mrs. Dani I Perreau, Mrs. Roberts, and many other names, which an unfortunate dupe, lately a bank

rupt,

IF

we adopt this mode; if we mean to conciliate and concede; let us fee of what nature the conceffion ought to be. To ascertain the nature of our conceffion, we must look at their complaint. The Colonies complain, that they have not the characteristick Mark and Seal of Britifh Freedom. They complain, that they are taxed in a Parliament, in which they are not represented. If you mean to fatisfy them at all, you must fatisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you mean to please any people, you must give them the boon which they afk; not what you may think better for them, but of a kind totally different. Such an act may be a wife regulation, but it is no conceffion: wh reas our present theme is the mode of giving fatisfaction.

Sir, I think you must perceive, that I am refolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the queftion of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen ftartle-but it is true: I put it totally out of the queftion. It is lefs than nothing in my confideration. I do not indeed wonder, nor will you, Sir, that gentlemen of profound learning are fond of difplaying it on this profound fubject. But my confideration is narrow, confined, and wholly limited to the Policy of the question. I do not examine, whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and referved out of the general truft of Government; and how far all mankind, in all forms of Polity, are entitled to an exercise of that Right by the Charter of Nature. Or whether, on the contrary, a Right of Taxation is neceffarily involved in the general principle of Legislation, and infeparable from the ordinary Supreme Power? Thefe are deep queftions, where great namies militate against each other: where reafon is perplexed; and an appeal to authorities only thicken the confufion, For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both fides; and there is no fure footing in the middle. This point is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Cafius old, where armies whole have funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy? It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, July, 1779.

and juftice, tells me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one? Is no conceffion proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it leffen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercife of an odious claim, because you have your evidence-room full of Titles, and your magazines ftuffed with arms to enforce them? What fignify all thofe titles, and all thofe arms? Of what avail are they, when the reafon of the thing tells me, that the affertion of my title is the lofs of my fuit; and that I could do nothing but wound my felf by the use of my own weapons?

Such is ftedfaftly my opinion of the abfolute neceffity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a Unity of Spirit, though in a diverfity of operations, that, if I were fure the Colonists had, at their leaving this country, fealed a regular compact of fervitude; that they had folemnly abjured all the rights of citizens; that they had made a vow to renounce all Ideas of Liberty for them and their pofterity, to all generations; yet I should hold myself obliged to comform to the temper I found univerfally prevalent in my own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of Servitude, on the principles of Freedom. I am not determining a point of law; I am restoring tranquillity; and the general character and fituation of a people muft determine what fort of government is fitted for them. That point nothing elfe can or ought to determine.

My idea therefore, without confidering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of our Colonies into an intereft in the conflitution; and, by recording that admiffion in the Journals of Parliament, to give them as ftrong an affurance as the nature of the thing will admit, that we mean for ever to adhere to that folemn declaration of fyftematick indulgence.

Some years ago, the repeal of a revenue act, upon its understood principle, might have ferved to fhow, that we intended

an unconditional abatement of the exercife of a Taxing Power. Such a meafure was then fufficient to remove all fuspicion; and to give perfect content. But unfortunate events, fince that time, may make fomething further neceffary; and not more neceffary for the fatisfaction of the Colonies, than for the dignity and confiftency of our own future proceedings.

I have taken a very incorrect measure of the difpofition of the House, if this Есе propofal