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in Scotland. And on O&ober 29, 1751, his Majesty granted to him Cranbourn Lodge in Windĵor Forett, in the room of the D. of St Albans, dec.

he was feized, in an inner room, in much the fame manner; on which he faid to the Earl of Albemarle, who was with him, 'Tis all over--and funk down fenfeless in his Lordship's arms. A He was interred privetely, but with military honours, in Weminfler-Abbey, on the 9th of November.

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On the breaking out of the laft war, his R. H. was appointed to the com. mand of an army of observation, intended for the protection of Hanover, for which place he fet out April 9, 1757, attended only by his aid-decamps: For it is well known, and will be long remembered, that not one regiment of English was allowed him, tho', a year or two after, more than 20,000 were fent to Germany.The events of that campaign, the battle of Haftenbeck, July 25, 6, and 7, in which, notwithstanding his great inferiority, his Royal Highnefs withftood for three days Marthal d'Eftrees's numerous army; his fubfequent re- C treat towards Stade, and the convention of neutrality between bis Highnefs and the Marshal Duke de Rich lieu, figned at Clofter feven, September 8, need only to be mentioned, in order to observe, that, whatever odium might attend those measures, none could juftly fall on the Duke of Cumberland, who acted (as he afterwards proved) D in obedience to pofitive orders. No wonder then, that on his return to England, O&ober 12, finding his rew oeption very different from that he expected and had deserved, he refigned all his military employments; and tho' ftrongly urged, could never be prevailed with to refume them. For the remainder of that reign he lived for the most part retired at Windfor, and at the funeral of his Royal' Father, November 11, 1760, affisted as chief mourner.

For fome years before his death, his health had been much impaired ; and in 1764, the wound he received at Dettingen broke out at Newmarket,, and put him in imminent danger. The last public service for which this nation is indebted to his R. H. was his recommending to his Majefty the prefent Ministry, who, it is not doubted, will credit that recommendation.

On the 31st of October, 1765, having appointed to affift that evening at a council, he came to town from Windfor, and went to Court, though he had had fome alarming fymptoms the evening before, while at cards. And about the fame hour, (viz. 8 o'clock) being then at his houfe (the late D. of Beaufort's, in Upper Grosvenor fireet) just as the Duke of Newcastle and the Lord Chancellor came to the council,

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This thort account of his Royal Highness's actions cannot be better clofed, than with the following most juft elogium, lately given him by the Houfe of Lords: The many emi⚫nent public and private virtues, the extent of capacity, and the mag nanimity of mind; the affection for his Majefty's perfon, and the emi'nent fervices performed for this country, which diftinguished this great and excellent Prince, have made an impreffion never to be erafed from the minds of a grateful 'people.'

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A Narrative of the late horrid Murder committed by George Gidley, and Richard St. Quintin, (both Weft of England Men,) Peter M'Kinlie, (an Irijbman,) and Andrees Zekerman, (a Dutchman) late Mariners on board the Brig The Earl of Sandwich, belonging to London, whereof john Cockeran was Captain; tranfmitted by Order of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

the month of June, or July 1765 laden with bale goods, hard-ware, hats, &c. for Santa-Cruz; at which, place they arrived, difcharged their cargo, and thence failed to Orataira, one of the Canary Islands, and took in a cargo of Madeira wine, raw and manufactured filk, cochineal, and a large quantity of Spanish milled dollars, fome ingots of gold, fome jewels, and a small quantity of gold-duft; and about the month of November failed from Orataira for London, and had then on board John Cockeran, Captain; Charles Pinchent. Mate; Peter M'Kinlie, Boatfwain; George Gidley, Cook; Richard St Quintin, Andres Zekerman, and James Pinchent, (brother to the mate) Mariners; and Benjamin Gallipfey, the cabin boy; and they took on board,. as paffengers, one Capt. Glass, his wife, and daughter, with a servant boy be longing to them.

HE fhip failed froin London about

Before the hip left the Canaries, Gidley, St Quintin, Zekerman, and MacKinlie, entered into a confpiracy to murder all the other perfons on board, & to poffefs themselves of the treasure.

Accordingly, on Sunday, Nov. 30, at eleven at night, the four affaffins being ftationed on the night-watch, and the Captain coming to fee every thing properly fettled, on his return to his cabin, M'Kinlie feized him, and held him faft, till Gidley killed him with an iron bar, and then threw him overboard.

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The noise occafioned by this murder, and the Captain's groans, having alarmed the Pinchents and Capt. Glass, they rofe from their beds, and immediately came on deck; and the Pinchents being foremost, they were attacked by the villains, knocked down, and thrown overboard; Captain Glass inftantly returned to the cabin for his Sword, and his retreat being obferved by M Kinlie, who judged of his intent, fecreted himself at the foot of the steps in the dark; and as he was afcending the fteps to get upon the deck, MacKinlie feized him in his arms, and held him fait, and called out to his affociates to aflift him, who immediately rufhed upon Mr Glafs, and with much dificulty wrefted his fword out of his hand, in which fcuffie Zekerman teceived a flight wound in his aim, and in ftabbing Mr Glafs, M Kenlie received a wound thro' his left arm. When they had thus murdered Mr Glafs, they threw him over board. This foon brought Mrs Glass and her child on deck; and he having feen what the villains had perpetrated, implored for E mercy; but Zekerman and M'Kenlie came up to her, and the and her daughrer being locked in one another's arms, they threw them both into the fea.

and knocked him off, and he was im mediately drowned.

Soon after they quitted the ship, the filled with water and overfet, and they faw the other boy washed overboard.

The boat having reached the harbour's mouth, about fix in the evening, they rowed her about three miles up the river, and being afraid to proceed further with fuch a quantity of treasure, they landed within two miles of the fort of Duncannon; and having left out as much as they apprehended they could carry, they buried on the ftrand the rest of the dollars, amounting to 250 bags; they then proceeded up the river with the remainder, the ingots of gold, jewels, and gold duft, and landed at a place called Fiberflown, within four miles of Ros, and refreshed themselves at an alehoufe, where a bag of 1200 dollars, was stolen from them..

On Wednesday, Dec. 4, they proceed. ed to Rofs, and put up at an alehouse, and there exchanged 1200 dollars for their amount in current gold, and bought three cafes of pistols, hired fix horles, and two guides, and on ThurfD day the 5th fet out for Dublin, where they arrived on the 6th, and stopped at the Black Bull inn, Thomas fireet.

Having thus difpatched all the perfons on board, except the two boys, and being then in the Britifb Channel, on their courfe to London, they imme- F diately put the hip about, and steered for the coaft of Ireland; and on Tuef day, Dec. 3, about two in the afternoon, they arrived within ten leagues of the harbour of Waterford and Rofs, and then determined to fink the thip; and, in order to fecute them felves and G the treasure, they boifted out their cock boat, and loaded her with bags of dollars, to the quantity of about two tons, and then, knocking out the ballaft port, quitted the fip, and got into the boat, and left the two boys in the finking veffel to perif.

Having lavifled a confiderable fum in Ross, and an account having arrived there, that a vessel was driven on the coaft, richly laden, without a living foul on board, it caufed a fufpicion that thofe perfons had destroyed and plundered the ship; upoh which the collector fent two gentlemen express to the chief magiftrate of Rofs, then in Dublin, to inform him of their fufpicions, with intent that the faid perfons fhould be taken, and required to give an account of themfelves.

Those Gentlemen arrived on the 8th, and having informed the faid magiftrate of their errand, he, with proper affiftance, apprehended St Quintin and Zekerman, who, being examined feparately, each confefied the murders, and other matters before related, and alfo, that fince they arrived in Dublin, Gidley and M Kinlie had fold to a goldfmith dollars to the amount of jool by which means M`Kinke was apprehended, and intelligence got, that Gidley had fet out in a postchaife for Corke, in order to take flijo.

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One of the boys having entreated toping for England. be taken on board, but refuted, leaped into the fea, and by fwimming laid hold of the gunnel of the boat, when one of the fellows gay him a stroke,

of Rofs, and the commanding officer of the fort of Duncannon, to make fearch for the bags of dollars: In returning, they apprehended Gidley in his way to Corke, and had him committed to Carlow goal, where they found upon him 53 guineas, a moidore, and fome filver.

On the 13th they found 250 bags of dollars fealed up, and brought them to Ross under a guard, & lodged them in the custom-house.

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There were found in the poffeffion of M'Kinlie, Zekerman, and St Quintin, B fome toys, a few guineas, an ingot of gold, and a fmall parcel of gold-duft, which, with the money arifing by the fale of the dollars in Dublin, are in the hands of the Lord Mayor.

It is remarkable, that, previous to the apprehenfion of the above Villains, the following particulars were discovered:

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Capt. Honeywell, from Newfoundland, in making Waterford harbour, Dec. 6, had like to have ran foul of a large three maft veffel, with top-gallant yard's up, and fo deep in the water that he could only fee her rails. She had no boat on board, nor could a living creature be feen. Upon this report, at his arrival, eight boats went out, who returned without being able to difcover any thing. The day after, fome pipes of wine were driven on thore; they faved fifty of them; and many perfons imagined they came out of the above & veffel. Mr Graham, the land waiter, and a party of foldiers, went to fecure what was driven on fhore. They found part of her stern, & other particulars, and got feveral more pipes of Madeira wine, capuchins, and womens apparel, fo that it was conjectured the had paf. fengers on board. She was tho't to have F been a very rich fhip; and, from various circumstances, it was believed fome villains had murdered the reft of the crew, and afterwards skuttled her, and fuppofed the would have gone to the bottom foon after they quitted her.

Some of the Caufes that occafion the Morsality of Children under Two Years of Age. In anfer to Queries in the pubhe papers, concerning the cause of the great Mortality of infants in this metropolis under that age.

ONE of the causes, I appretting,

which increases this mortality, is owing to the diabolical method of the nurfes binding their tender bodies, as foon as born, with bandages fo tight, that the bowels nor the limbs have any liberty to act and exert themfelves

in that free eafy way nature 'defigned they should.

Another caufe is, that deftructive custom of feeding them with waterpap, &c. and, from the firft, fome will cram down their throats fome butter and fugar, oil, panada, caudle, or fome fuch unwholesome mess.

To point out an evil without applying a remedy, is not altogether fo ferviceable; therefore I fhall trouble you with the happy method I have had practifed in my own family, which, if duly followed, I am certain, that one third more children would be preferved to the age of two years; and after that time there will be little to fear but from the small-pox, &c.

Instead of bandages, and all those loads of fwaddling cloaths, let the infant have only a little flannel wait. coat, without fleeves, to fit the body, and tie looftly behind, to which there fhould be a petticoat fewed, and over this a kind of gown of the fame material, or any other that is light, thin and fimfy. The petticoat fhould not be fo long as the child, the gown a few the head which may be made double, inches longer, with one cap only on if it be thought not warm enough. What I mean is, that the whole dress fhould be fo contrived, that it might be put on at once, and neither bind nor press the head at all; the linnen as ufual.

This would be fufficient for the days laying afide all thofe fwathes, bandages, itays, and contrivances, that are molt ridiculously used, to clofe and keep the head in its place, and support the body; as if nature, exact nature, had produced her chief work, a human creature, so carelessly unfinished, as to want thofe idle aids to make it perfect.

Shoes and flockings are needlefs incumbrances, 'till they are able to go out in the dirt. There fhould be a thin flannel shirt for the night, which Qught to be every way loofe. ChilGdren in this fimple, pleafant drefs, which may be readily put on and off without teazing them, would find themselves perfectly easy and happy, enjoying the free ufe of their limbs This fhould be continued till they are three years old. Great care fhould be taken in feeding them-nothing is fo H good as cow's milk, but not to be boiled, with fome of the bikets called tops and bottoms, or rus, by which we are fure to avoid that pernicious thing called allum. Half their diet should be thin, light broths, a little with

bread or rice boiled in them, and not to be fed above four times in twentyfour hours, and not to be fed in the night, only a little milk and water given them in cafe they awake. They fhould not be laid on their backs to be fed, but held in a fitting posture, that fwallowing may be easier to them.

As to any little fournelles they may fometimes have, nothing is fo good to give them as a little of that fine powder, called Magnetia Alba, in their food; which will remove all complaints of that kind.

I have been the means of having the above method practised in many families, and I never knew one child that ever failed; fo far from it, that they all cut their teeth with little or no pain, and efcaped thofe diforders fo incident to children nurfed in the common wayIt would be happy, indeed, if all mothers would fuckle their children, as fo many more would be preferved, fince no other woman's milk can be so good: But as this is a thing more to be wished than to be expected, we ought therefore to follow that method that has been found by experience to be the best.

Mr URBAN,

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marks relating to the curious article in your laft, containing 12 letters, of the great Henry the IVth, of France.

Who can be meant by the King of Navarre, in the second letter? Henry's-father was killed in the year 1562, and I know of no king of Navarre afterwards, but Henry himself; he was, indeed, called only prince of Navarre during his mother's life, but he died just before the maffacre of St Bartholomew, and this letter was written near feven months after it.

afterwards; he immediately abjured Popery, and commanded the proteftant forces with much renown on many occafions, and was greatly in the favour and confidence of Hen. the IVth, from the time of his escape till A his death.

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He was poifoned by his own fervants, on the 5th of March 1588,which fixes the date of the tenth letter, which was probably written the fame night, as the next letter is dated March the 8th, which is but three days afterwards.

Mezerai gives him a very great character, and De Thou, fays, "In this prince, humanity was blended with courage; fteadiness of mind, with gentleness and courtefy; prudence with liberty, and, an elocution equalcly graceful and commanding.

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The Monf. le Prynce mentioned in the tenth letter, and in the note to the twelfth, was Henry de Bourbon Prince of Conde, coufin german to Henry the IVth, heing fon of that fa- G mous leader of the proteftants, Louis prince of Conde, brother to Anthony king of Navarre, who was brother to Henry the IVth's father.

This Henry, prince of Conde, was with Henry the IVth, in Paris, at the maffacre of St Bartholomew; and his H life, as well as that of his coufin, was fpared upon condition that he should embrace the Catholic religion. was kept, however, in a confinement more or lefs close, till he escaped into Germany, which was about two years

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In the twelfth letter, mention is made of one Brylant; this man's name was John Anthony Brillant; he had been an advocate in the parlament of Bourdeaux, but at the time of the prince of Conde's death, was a perfon of great authority in his family; he was executed for furnishing two domeltics, who were fuppofe to have poifoned the prince, with horses and other neceffaries, for flight. These circumftances exactly agree with those related in the letter.

The wife of this unfortunate prince whom Henry, in his letter fuppofes to have been his murderer, was Charlottex Catharine de la Tremouille; the was feized and profecuted for the fact, before the judges of the place where her husband died, and being convicted, would have fuffered death, but that fortunately for her, the proved to be pregnant. She continued in confinement till Henry the IVth be-. came peaceable poffeffor of the crown, when the affair was re-examined by. the parliament of Paris, which declared her innocent, and ordered all the proceedings againft her to be burnt.

The paffage in the 11th letter which is untranflated, and for which a chaẩm is left, I think I have found the meaning of. The French is "nen tou"jours efclave, mais quy byen forcere." I have found that forfaire in the old French fignified a galley-flave; the difference between forfaire and forcere is trifling, not more than between the true orthography, and the manner in which Henry writes other words in thefe letters, the meaning then, is "not your flave only, but your gal"ley dave." I am, &c. T.W

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gainst in verfe and in profe, for A 2000 years paft, and it has been always cherished.

What has not been said of the first Romans, when those robbers ravaged and pillaged the harvests of their neighbour; when, in order to augment their poor villages, they destroyed the poor villages of the Volfcians, B and the Samnites; thofe men were difinterested and virtuous ! They could not then steal gold, filver, or diamonds, because there were none in the towns which they facked. Their woods and their marfhes produced no partridges nor pheafants, C and we applaud their temperance.

When by degrees they had plundered and robbed from the bottom of the Adriatic gulph to the Euphrates, and had fenfe enough to enjoy the fruit of their rapines for 7 or 800 years; when they cultivated every art, tafted every pleasure, and made D even the vanquished alfo tafte them, they then ceased, it is said, to be wife and good men.

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All these declaimers are reduced to prove that a robber ought never to eat the dinner he has taken, nor to wear the cloaths, nor to adorn himfelf with the ring, he has ftolen.They must throw all these ('tis faid) into the river, if they would be deemed honeft men; rather fay, that they ought not to fteal. Condemn rob bers when they plunder, but do not treat them like fools when they enjoy their good luck. When a great num- F ber of English failors had enriched themfelves at the taking of Pondicher ry, and the Havannab, were they to blame for entering into the pleasures of London, as a reward for the hardfhips they had under undergone at the extremities of Afia and America.

Would thefe declaimers have all the G wealth buried that has been amaffed by the chance of war, by agriculture, by commerce, and by induftry? They quote Lacedæmon; why do they not alfo quote the republic of St Marino? Of what fervice was Sparta to Greece? Did he ever produce a Demofthenes, a Sophocles, an Apelles, a Phidias? The luxury of Athens gave rise to men who excelled in every way; Sparta had fome generals, but much fewer than (Gent. Mag. DEC. 1765.)

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the other cities. But it was lucky, that a republic fo fmall as Lacedæmon continued poor; we die if we want every thing, as well as if we enjoy all that renders life agreeable. The Canadian favage fubfifts and arrives at old age like the English citizen who has 5,000 guineas a year. But who compares the country of the Iroquois to England?

Let the republic of Ragufa and the canton of Zug make fumptuary laws; they are in the right; the poor muft not spend more than they are able; but I have somewhere read,

Know, above all, that Luxury enriches Large nations, tho' a small one it deftroys. If by Luxury you mean excess, that indeed is pernicious in every way, in abftinence as well as in gluttony, in oenot how it happens, but in my villages, conomy as well as in generofity. I know where the foil is barren, the taxes heavy, the prohibition to export the corn that they fow intolerable, there is, notwithstanding, scarce a husbandman who has not a good cloth fuit, and who is not well fhod and well fed. If this husbandman fhould work in a fine coat, white linen, and with his hair curled and powdered, this certainly would be the height of Luxu ry, and impertinence; but should a citizen of Paris, or London, appear at the play dreffed like this peafant, he would be thought ridiculously fordid and unpolished.

Eft modus in rebus, funt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque, nequit confiftere rectum. When fciffars were invented, which are certainly not of the greateft antiquity, how much was faid against thofe who clipped their nails, and who cut off part of their hair which fell over their nofes? They were treated, no doubt, as fops and fpendthrifts, who bought at a high price an inftrument of vanity, in order to spoil the work of the creator. What an enormous fin to clip off the horn that God ordained to grow at the end of our fingers! This was an outrage to the deity. It was much worfe when fhirts and pumps were invented. 'Tis well known with what fury the old councellors, who had never worn them, exclaimed against the young magiftrates, who came into that fatal Luxury.

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