the Moneys provided for encouraging the fame; and that by yourselves or by Committees of Your Number, you devife and propofe the particular Methods, Rules and Regulations which to you fhall feem the most proper, for the Application of the faid Sums, towards the encouraging and promoting of Fisheries, and fuch other Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland, as fhall moft conduce to the General Good of the United Kingdom; and that you return to Us the Propofitions in which you fhall have agreed, to the End that upon due Confideration thereof, a certain Method may be fettled for the Application and Management of those Sums for the future. The Welfare of cur Loving People of Scotland, and the Profperity of the Royal Burrows, is fo much concerned in what we now recommend to you, that We doubt not but you will go on in the Execution of what is expected from you; with the utmoft Diligence, Unanimity, and Impartiality; and on our part, We affure you of Our Countenance and Encouragement, in what you shall propose for the real Good of your Country, confiftent with the General Intereft of Our United Kingdom. And fo we bid you heartily farewel. Given at our Court at Kensington the 7th Day of June 1726, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command. HOLLES NEWCASTLE. This This Letter having been received with all poffible Expreffions of Loyalty and Gratitude, the Convention returned the following most dutiful Anfwer. May it pleafe your Majesty, W ITH the greateft Joy and Gratitude, we received your Majefty's most gracious Letter,commanding us to devife and propose a Plan or Method for applying the feveral Sums of Money that have by the Treaty of Union, and different A&s of Parliament, been provided for the Encouragement of Trade and Manufactures in this Part of your United Kingdom, to the Purposes for which they were intended: The Concern expreffed by your Majefty, for the Welfare of your People, and this particular Inftance of your great Goodnels and Tenderness towards them, muft fill the Hearts of all your loyal Subjects, in this Part of Britain, with the utmost Duty and Thankfulness, and defeat the Attempts of those who vainly imagine they may find their Account in creating and fomenting National Discontents. The Commands which your Maj: has been pleafed to lay upon us, we cheerfully undertake; and as our low State, in refpect to Trade and Manufactures, demands a speedy Remedy, we think ourfelves bound in Duty to your Majefty, and in Regard to our Country, to contribute our utmost Endeavours to carry on your Majefty's moft gracious Purpose, that your Majefty may speedily reap the Fruits of your Goodnefs and Bounty, in the Profperity of your People. We fhall therefore, without any Lofs of Time, by ourfelves, and by Committees of our Number, fet about what your Majefty has recommended to us, and fhall most humbly lay our Propofitions before your Majefty, fo foon as we fhall be agreed in them. That the Crown may long flourish on your Sacred Head, and be continued in your Royal Family to latest Pofterity, are the earneft Prayers of, Edinb. July 6, 1726. May it pleafe your Majesty, The GENERAL CONVENTIONS Signed in their Prefence, and by their Appointment, by G. DRUMMOND, Prases. This Letter from the Convention of the Royal Burrows of Scotland, having been tranfmitted to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, was by him laid before His Maj. who was pleased to receive it very graciously; And, a few Days after, by fresher Letters from Edinburgh, we were inform'd, That the Sub-Committee of the Convention of Royal Burrows had begun their Attendance in the BurrowRoom, on the Days appointed; and to M take take into Confideration several Proposals that had been laid before them, for the Promoting of the Fisheries and Manufactories of Scotland. Sir John Jennings fails from St. Hellens. British Par On the 23d of this Month, the Lords of the Admiralty receiv'd Advices from Portsmouth, That Sir John Jennings, with a Squadron of Nine of His Majefty's large Men of War under his Command, failed from St. Hellen's on Wednesday, the 20th, to the Weftward, and was almoft out of Sight at half an Hour paft Two that Afternoon. The Wind was then at N. by E, but proving afterwards contrary, Sir John Jennings put into Torbay, and anchored there on the 23d. The next Morning the Wind coming Eafterly he put to Sea again, and, about Six a Clock that Evening, weather'd the Start. On the 5th of July, at the Court at liament further prorogued, Kensington, His Majefty in Council, it Honours and was order'd, That the Parliament of Preferments. Great Britain, which food prorogued to Thursday, the 21ft of this Inftant July, fhould be further prorogued to Thursday the 8th Day of September next. His Highness A few Days after, it was declared Duke of the Kingdom of Great Britain, narvon, the the County of Kent, Marquess of the Ifle of Wight, and Duke of Edinburgh. William D. And to create his Highness Prince And Prince William, a Baron, Vifcount, Earl, Mar- of Cumberquefs, and Duke of the Kingdom of land. Great Britain, by the Names, Stiles, and Titles of Baron of the Ifle of Aldernay, Viscount of Trematon in the County of Cornwall, Earl of Kinnington in the County of Surrey, Marquefs of Berkhamstead in the County of Hertford, and Duke of Cumberland. About this Time, it was declared, The Earl of That his Majefty had been pleafed to Seaforth grant his moft gracious Pardon to the pardon'd. Earl of Seaforth, who was concern'd in the Rebellion in Scotland in the Year 1715. On Tuesday, the 5th of July Ten tors and a Hundred Mafters of were created at Cambridge. The Names of the Doctors are these: Dr. Rymer of Queen's College, Dr. Osbaldifton of St. Peter's, Dr. Chetwode, of Trinity-Hall, Dr. Monfon, Dr. Tenifon, Doctors Snity. Doctors >of Civil Dr. Fleetwood of King's College, Law. Dr. Martin of Clare-Hall, Doctor of Phy fick. His |