342 British and Spanish Captures, &c. Ships taken by the Spaniards. Carried into Gallicia, the Bumper, NaiJor, from Cork for Lifbon.-Carried into Bayonne, the Endeavour, Scott, from London for Madeira; the Ant, Pooley, from Figuera for Exeter, and the Succefs, Gibfon, from Lancaster for Lifbon.-Carried into Alguizira, the Pifmire, St. Barbe, and the Gibraltar, Warren. -The Betty, Addes, from the ifle of May for South Carolina. The St. Philip Śnow, Penkethman, was surprised in the river Plata, and all the crew, except seven, murdered. Ships taken by the Britons. Carried into S. Carolina, by the Medway man of war, Capt. Cockburn, a floop and two schooners: and by the Rofe, Capt. Frankland, a large fchooner of 16 fwivel carriage and as many with guns, 140 men, and a floop of 10 carriage and 10 fwivel guns with 80 men, retaken from two Spanish privateers, after a fmart July 1743. engagement, in which the schooner funk, and all the men perished, but the floop run a-ground at the Metanges: another prize (a schooner) which he retook from them, he fent into Providence.Carried into Jamaica, by the York man of war, a Spanish privateer from the Ha vanna. -Carried into Virginia, by the Haftings man of war, Lord Bamff, the French Polacre le St. Jean, Capt. Crevallie, from la Vera Cruz for Cadiz, taken off the Azores, with 130,000 pieces of eight. -The Guernsey man of war has funk a large Spanish privateer off Cape de Gatte, under a battery of 8 guns; and afterwards falling in with feven xebeques laden with provifions &c. he funk three of them, and took two, which he carried into Gibraltar.-Carried into St Chriftopher's, by Capt. Flowers of the St Kitts privateer, and his confort, a French ship with Spanish effects, viz. 300 tons cocoa, 4 bars of money.and 2 chests and Carried into New-York, by Capt Wimble and Capt. Wentworth, in two privateers belonging to that place, two Spanish prizes, taken in the bay of Mexico,with log-wood, money and hides, to a great value -Retaken by Capt Roufe, of the Young Eagle privateer, a fmall English ship, which the Spaniards had taken in her passage from London to Bermudas with ftores. The Angola,-, from Jamaica for Liverpool, taken in the windward paffage by a Spanish privateer, was afterwards retaken by an English privateer, and carried into Rhode island. His Majefty's fhips, the Monmouth, Capt. Windham, and the Medway, Capt. Cockburne, being on a cruize off the Canary iflands, ftood into the road of Santa Cruz in the island Gomera, on the 20th of May, in order to deftroy the forts and batter the town. They were fired at from three forts; but the fhips anchoring within lefs than a quarter of a mile of them, entirely demolished the forts, and beat down the greatest part of the town, and then put to fea on their cruize, having received very little damage.-From the Gazette. MARRIAGES and BIRTHS. He Earl of Stafford, married to Mi Cantillon.-Sir Hew Dalrymple of North-Berwick, to Mifs Sainthill, daugh ter of Mr Sainthill, Surgeon, Garlick-hill. Lord Gower's Lady delivered of a fon. DEATH S. July 7. Joceline Earl of Leicester, the laft heir-male of the family of the Sidneys, in whom the title is extinct.-Dr Jo. Wynne, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Philip Cavendish, Efq; member for Portsmouth, Admiral of the Blue, and one of the Lords of the Admiralty. - Capt. Hardy Swift, of Col. Folliot's regiment.-In Germany, by the accidental firing of a fufil in his hand, Capt. Archibald Macbean, of the British artillery. He invented an expeditious inftrument for levelling great guns. -In Jamaica, the old Greek Francis Purdigo, who appears by a memorandum found in his cheft to have been aged 114 years, 6 months and 4 days; and was there at the conquest of the island in the time of Oliver Cromwel. Mr James Blair Commiffary to the Bishop of London, Prefident of the council in Virginia, and likewife Prefident of William and Mary Col. lege. Mr George Parker, author of the Almanack, aged 92.-Mr Lark, a maltfter at Derby, ftruck dead by a flash of lightning. Hon. Janet Ogilvie, relict of John Leith of Leith-hall, and grandmother to the present John Leith of Leithhall. She was daughter of George Lord Bamff.-Mr James Craig of Dalnair, Writer to the Signet.-Patrick Forbes of Shivas, Efq; See the killed and wounded at Dettingen, p. 335,7. PREFERMENTS. Gen. Honeywood, and Lieut General Campbell, Cope and Ligonier, Knights of the Bath. His R. Highnefs Maj. Gen. William Duke of Cumberland, a Lieutenant-General. Brig Gen. Richard Onflow, Francis Fuller, Henry Pulteney, Charles Howard, Phil. Bragg, John Hufke, Henry Ponsonby, and Charles Frampton, Majors General.-Colonels: Of the dragoons late Alex. Rofs's, Samuel Warter Whitshed, Efq; of the foot late Warter Whithed's, Edward Richbell, Efq; of the foot late Richbell's, John Folliot, Efq; of the foot late Lt-Gen. Clayton's, deceas'd, John Price, Efq; and of the foot late Price's, Thomas Murray, Efq; -Greenwood, Efq; Lieutenant-Colonel, and Arnoldus Tulleken, Efq; Major, of Sowle's foot.—John Earl of Lou doun, Ld George Sackville, Ld John Murray, Roger Townfhend, Efq; and Robert Douglas, Efq; Aids de Camp to his Majefty. John Campbell and John Lafaufile, Eiqs, Majors of Brigade.-William E. of Home, a Captain, and John Waldegrave, Efq; Captain-Lieutenant, in the third regiment of foot-guards.-George Grant, Efq; Governor of Inverness. - John Pine, Efq; Chief Engraver of his Majefty's Signets, Seals, Stamps and Arms, in the room of John Rollos, dec. [The above taken from the Gazette.] Capt. Robert Waller, Major in Gen. Dalzell's regiment.-Mr Jones, fon to Gen. Jones, Captain of grenadeers in the first regiment of foot-guards, in the room of Capt. Waller. Capt. Gordon, Major to Lord Harry Beauclerk's.-Mr Alton, fon of Sir Rowland Alfton, a Captain in the first regiment of foot guards, in the room of Capt. Gordon.- Lieut. Shaw, of the Welch fuzileers, a Lieutenant Colonel of marines, for his bravery at the battle of Dettingen. Died within the city of Edinburgh, and in the Weft-kirk parish, July 1743. Within the city, Men 11, Women 14. Children in all 60. 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If from selfish motives they fhould difapprove, or oppofe fuch measures, the oppofing members would be fure of being turned out at the next election and as the King has it in his power to bring on a new election whenever he pleases, his minifters may eafily get rid of fuch selfish, mean-fpirited members; and may, confequently, if they defire it, always have a parliament generally compofed of Gentlemen of true honour and publick spirit. But the contrary is what most ministers defire, as has of late been manifeft from the characters of thofe who were generally fet up as candidates upon the court-intereft. The debate upon the place-bill continued. The fpeech of C. Popillius Lænas concluded. Hat the Hon. Gent. may mean, Sir, by governing fuch a numerous affembly, I do not know; but, according to the common acceptation of the word, I fhould be forry to fee it in the power of minifters to govern either house of parliament, by any other method, than that of convincing the majority, that nothing is propofed or intended but what is for the publick good: for, if either house were to be governed by the hopes of reward, I am fure, it could be of no fervice to the people, and of very little even to the crown itself; because the defign and use of parliaments is, that they may be a check up. on the conduct of minifters, and no man whofe behaviour in this house is governed by his hopes of reward, will ever fet himfelf up as a check upon the conduct of those who alone can bestow the reward he expects. We must therefore fuppofe, that minifters may prevail with a majority of this affembly to approve or agree to what appears to be for the publick fervice, without having it in their power to give a title, poft or penfion, to every one that approves of their measures; or otherwife we muft conclude, that no fuch affembly ought to exift, and confequently, that the very form of a limited government ought to be abolifhed in this felfish and corrupt nation. What effect fome late corrupt practices may have had upon the genius and morals of the lower fort of people, I do not know; but I hope it has as yet had little ar no effect upon the generality of those that have any chance of being members of this house; and unless they are become very much degenerated, we muft from experience conclude, that, when our minifters purfue popular and right measures, VOL. V. We can never therefore be in danger of anarchy or confufion, from its not being in the power of a minifter to bribe a majority of this house into his measures nor can we fuppofe that the people will rechufe a majority of those who have, in a former feffion, oppofed what was agreeable to the greatest part of their conftituents: but when bribery and corrupt motives prevail within doors, they will certainly prevail without; and then we may fee a member burnt in effigy one year in the publick streets of his borough, and rechofen the year following as their reprefentative in a new parliament; we may fee the most notorious fraudulent practices carried on by the underlings in power, Y y and and those underlings encouraged by the minifter, and protected by a majority in parliament; we may fee the most unpopular and deftructive measures purfued by our minifters, and all approved, nay applauded by parliament. Thefe things we may fee, Sir; these things we have feen within thefe last twenty years; and this has brought our affairs both at home and abroad into the melancholy fituation which is now acknowledged by all, and will foon, I fear, be feverely felt by the whole nation. : If the prefent diftrefs of our domeftick affairs were a fecret, I fhould avoid mentioning it as much as any Gentleman whatever but, alas! it is no fecret either to our enemies or friends; and this makes the former defpife us, and the latter fhy of entering into any engagements with us. the French, and the Queen of Hungary; and that between the Swedes and Mufcovites; and I fhall fhew, that every one of them proceeded from the ridiculous conduct of our minifters. With regard to the Spanish war, if our minifters had, at the time of the treaty of Seville, infift ed upon an explanation of former treaties which had before that time been mifin terpreted by Spain; if they had infifted upon Spain's giving up her pretence of vifiting, fearching, or feizing, in time of peace, any fhips in the high feas of Ame rica, on account of what they called con traband goods, I am convinced the court of Spain would have agreed to give up that pretence, in the most explicite terms, rather than lofe the advantages ftipulated for them by that treaty. Even after this falfe ftep, if our ministers had properly refented the treatment our commillaries met with at the court of Spain, and had peremptorily infifted upon immediate fatisfaction for the first infult our merchantfhips met with in the feas of America, the Spanish court would have complied, rather than enter into a war with this nation, at the very time they were engaged in a war with the Emperor in Italy. But, inftead of this, our minifters, ever fince the year 1720, appeared fo complaifant in every negotiation with that court, fubmitted fo tamely to every infult, that the court of Spain began to imagine, that we would give up the point in difpute, rather than come to an open rupture with them. And this, I am perfuaded, would have been the confequence of the late convention, if the indignation of our peo ple had not at last got the better of the fubmiffion of our minifters. Our prefent war with Spain is therefore evidently ow ing to the ill-timed complaifance and pu fillanimity of our minifters; and yet this complaifance and pufillanimity was in every ftep approved by our parliaments, and has not even yet been cenfured, notwithstanding the fatal confequence it has produced, and the difappointment of all thofe hopes, with which our minifters fo confidently flattered us, that their tedious negotiations would at last end in an honourable and advantageous peace. Then, Sir, with regard to the war in We may threaten, but our enemies know, we are unable to carry our threats into execution; we may promife, but our friends know, we are unable to perform our engagements. This knowledge has made those who are the profeffed enemies of publick liberty more daring in their attempts, and, I am afraid, it will render it impoffible to form any confederacy fufficient for defeating their prefent ambitious projects; and it is fo evident that this misfortune has been brought upon us and Europe by our bad economy at home, and our wicked, wrong-headed, or pufillanimous conduct abroad, that I am furprifed to hear the contrary afferted now, when the fatal confequences of our conduct are become fo glaring. I fhall grant, Sir, that the nation has been of late years involved in many broils; but I will affirm, and it has been fully proved at the refpective times those broils happened, that every broil we have been engaged in fince his late Majefty's acceffion to the throne, has proceeded from some scheme of our own contriving, or from fome wrong ftep in our own adminiftration. I fhall not trouble you with taking notice of every particular, because it would be tedious, and I think unneceffary; therefore I fhall confine myfelf to the three wars now carrying on in Europe, I mean that between Spain and us, that between the Duke of Bavaria, affifted by and Ger |