148 Promotions, Civil and Ecclefiaftical Preferments, &c. bufband Samuel Fynney, late of Fynney, in 8. In Conduit-ftr. aged 92, Mrs. Paterfon, 10. In Bloomtbury-fqu. Bardulph Beaumont, efq; aged 68, formerly a Virginia merch. 13. Tho. Warren, efq; formerly a Turkey merchant in Crutched-friars.. 14. At Winchefter, the rev. Wm. Bowles, fen. fellow of that college, and rector of Donhead St. Andrew, co. Wilts. At Quedgley, in Gloucefter, in his 75th year, Tho. Hayward, efq; formerly member for the borough of Luggerfhall in two fucceffive parliaments. Near Maidstone, Kent, aged 102, Jofhua Freeman, efq; formerly a commander in the royal navy. 15. David Morrifon, efq; a W. India merch. At Iflington, aged 74, Benj. Warner, efq; formerly a wholefale laceman in Wood-street. At Edinburgh, Lady Mary Douglas, daugh. of William firft Earl of March. 16. Matth. Wylabore, efq; one of the reprefentatives for the city of Peterborough in the two last parliaments. 17. At Lillinghall, Yorksh. Thomas Plumer, efq; aged 70, formerly many years one of the directors of the bank of England. At Middlewich, Chefh. Mr. Jas. Hayley, farmer and grazier, aged 112. 18. In Clerkenwell, aged 75, Rich. Weftmoreland, efq; At Clapham, Mr. E. Brownfword, aged 73. 19. Hezekiah Norman, efq; aged 72. Mr. Cramer, an eminent musician, belonging to the band of the horse guards. 21. Alex. Dalrymple, efq; aged 72. 22. Horatio Donaldfon, efq; aged 69. 24. John Burton, efq; formerly clerk of the Spicery at St. James's, Danby Pickering, efq; barrister at law, and reader of the law lectures, of Gray's Inn. 25. At Highgate, Jofeph Whitaker, efq; In Bloomsbury, Mr. I. De Lacour, merch. Mr. Mich. Harrington, of Thames-ftr. 26. Edmund Boehm, efq; aged 79. Suddenly, John Morfe, efq; a W. I. merch. At Eaft-Grinstead, John Cranston, efq; At Camberwell, Barnaby Champion, efq; 27. A Clapton, Mr. J.Forreft,of Bishopfg. tr. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Mar. 3. ALPH Heathcote, efq; appoint R ed his Majefty's minifter pleni potentiary at the court of the Elector of Cologne, in the room of Geo. Creffecer, efq; dec. Wm. Browne, efq; appointed to be governor in the room of J. G. Bruere, efq; deceased. tany and anatomy in the univerfity of Glasgow. 24. The dignity of a baronet of the kingdom of Great Britain unto the following gentlemen, and their heirs male, viz. Sir Robt. Barker, Jofeph Banks, efq; of Revefby- Abbey, in the knt. of Bufbridge, in the county of Surrey; co. of Lincoln; John Ingilby, efa; of Ripley, Craufurd, efq; of Kilburney, in N. Britain; in the Weft Riding of the co. of York; Alex. Limerick, in Ireland; Valentine Rich. Quin, efq; of Adair, co. of of Southampton, co. of Southampton; Fra. Sykes, efq; of Bafildon, co. of Berks; John efq; (captain in his Majefty's 26th reg. of foot) Wm. Lewis André, and John Mofley, efq; of Ancoats, co. of Lanc. Coghill, efq; of Richings, co. of Buckingham; H CIVIL PROMOTIONS. his treasurer, in the room of Edw. Le Grand, of Dominica, appointed to the government of John Colquit, efq; town clerk of Liverpool. DR Norwich.-and Robt. Sole, A. M. the united Tho. Scott, B.A. Lenham V. Kent. Ditto 1751, fhut 57 a fhut 582a3 thut 3 per Ct. 1758, I 12 per ct, Short ditto, Exchequer Bills London Gazette Public Ledger Cambridge Bath 2 Birmingham 2 Derby 2 Hereford 2 Chefter 2 Manchefter 2 Canterbury 2 ST. JOHN's Gate. Nottingham 2 Exeter 2 Liverpool 2 Lewes Minutes of the Trial of John Donellan, Efq;156 ib. Hint for a New Inftitution for Relief of indigent Families of Perfons regularly bred to the Law ib. Original Anecdotes relative to Dean Swift 164 165 171 Queries and Remarks on Hudibras by Montagu Bacon, Efq; ib. Genealogical Query relative to the Pedigree of Fynney 172 lib A Plagiarifm in Mag. for February detected :b. ib. 174 Dean Mofs's Epigram on Burnet's Hiftory 175 ib. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS: Barrington's Mifcellanies-Warton's Hiftory of English Poetry-Gibbon's Hiftory of the Roman Empire-Bond's Folly, &c. &c. 176-185) POETRY: Doggrel Letter from Bath-Two Prologues-Epilogue-&c. &c. 186-188 189 Dr.Madan's Doctrine confidered and refuted 167 170 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE 193 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by J. NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of ST. JOHN'S GATE d.fs. d. Prices of Grain.—Meteorological Diary of the Weather.-Bill of Mortality. London Middlefex Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans COUNTIES INLAND. 855 Effex Suffolk Norfolk 80 Lincoln 5 7 Surry 0/2 2/2 York 5 94 02 62 33 4 Durham 5 11/3 Northumberland 5 Cambridge Cumberland 31 5 104 Huntingdon 6 30 Weftmorland 01 103 Northampton 6 Lancashire 51 10 Rutland 5 103 62 Chefhire Leicester Monmouth Somerfet 2/2 93 Devon Stafford 02 III 65 Salop 5 83 102 Hereford 5 40 81 72 Dorfet 21 103 II IC2 II 10 Kent 01 103 012 3/2 912 5 4 Gloucester 2 21 103 4 Wilts Berks Oxford Bucks 21 103 5 0,2 01 112 10 0,2 01 102 8 02 212 012 10 WALES, April 9, to April 14, 1781. North Wales 5 713 812 513 5 2/2 May South Wales A Meteorological DIARY of the Weather for May, 1789. 1780. SW 2 N 3 NE S W Ditso Ditto 7 Ditto 8 SSW SW a good deal of rain, fome very heavy showers heavy morn. with fome trifling rain, bright aftern. foggy gloomy morning, bright day, churlish wind cloudy morning, fine bright day, much warmer chiefly cloudy, but bright at intervals, chilly air froft in the night, coarfe churlish day chiefly cloudy, a little fun at times, fome trifling rain ditto, a good deal of rain, cold wind a very heavy, cloudy, wet day Sunthine and cloudy at intery. fome thowers, coldwind 58 ditto, fome exceeding ftrong fhowers, hail and rain 57 a very fine bright day, wet evening 56 clouds and funthine at intervals, fome (mall fhowers 56 ditto, ΤΟ Ditte II Ditto 12 Ditto 13 Ditto £4 SSW fresh 29 15 NE little 29 ditte 29 758 ditte, ditto 29 6 little 30 ditto 29 8 freth 29 3 29 8 59 chiefly cloudy, but fair rainy evening no rain, cold wind finewarm pleafant day 56 fome flying clouds, but a fine day, cold wind 60 a wet morning, fair afternoon, coarse and churlish no rain, hot fun, cold wind 58 heavy cloudy morning, fine bright afternoon 22 Ditta 23/W 24 S W freth 29 ditto 29 29 8 27 S W little 29 8 28 Ditto freth 29 7 65 ditto, little 29 fresh 29 52 Strong 29 very hot 65 extremely bright, and exceffive hot 67 chiefly cloudy, very cool and pleasant Bill of Mortality from March 27, to April 24, 1781. 8321644 Females 8461702 hereof have died under two years old 566 Peck Loaf 29. Sch THE Gentleman's Magazine; For APRIL, 1781. Debates in Parliament, continued from them to deliver in a cafh account; and * to confider what fum it might be proper to leave in the hands of each accountant refpectively, for carrying on the fervices to which the fame is ot might be applicable, and what fums might be taken out of their hands for the public fervice;" we, in obedience to the act, immediately applied ourpfelves to that fubject. The public accountants may be dif tinguished into three claffes. p. 106. Nov. 24. HIS day Sir Guy Carleton, accord- A ing to order, prefented the following paper at the bar of the House: A Report of the Commiflioners appointed to examine, take, and ftate, the Public Accounts of the Kingdom. THE act of parliament that conftitutes us commiffioners for examining, taking, and ftating, the public ac. C counts of the kingdom, being paffed, we entered immediately upon the execution of the powers thereby vetted in us; we took the oath prefcribed, and fettled the neceffary arrangements of Daccountants, fubject to account, and office and forms of proceeding. The legiflature not having left to our difcretion, which of the various fubjects referred to our confideration we should begin our enquiries with, but, on the contrary, having exprefsly directed us," in the firft place, to take an account of the public money in the hands of the feveral accountants; and for that purpofe to call upon ift. Thofe who receive public money from the fubject, to be paid into the exchequer. zdly. Thofe who receive public money out of the exchequer by way of impreft, and upon account. 3dly. Thofe who receive public money from certain of this laft clafs of who may be called fub-accountants. We began our inquiries in the first clafs, and of that clafs with the receivers general of the land tax. To E come at a knowledge of their names, and of the balances of public money in their hands, we procured from the tax office the laft certificate of the remains of the land tax. By that certi ficate it appeared, that of the land tax, It should be remembered, that when Col. Bré propofed a Committee of Accounts to examine into the expenditure of the public money, Ld N-th, inftead of oppofing, changed the nature of the motion, and brought in a bill for a Comm ion of Accounts. Col B-ré's committee was to confift of members of the Houfe, who were to ferve without pay; Ld N-th's commiffion confits of gentlemen, whofe names are fubfcribed, with a falary of roool. a year each. On which Sir Cha. B-nb-y wittily obferted, that we were in the Situation of a ftranger at a Dutch inn. If he complains of an extravagant reckoning, and fends his bill back to be leffened, the Dutch landlord pretends he has forgot fomething, and never fails to return it with an additional charge. A motion was made foon after the opening of the new parliament for the Commiffioners to lay before the Houfe the progrefs they had made in their new office, in confequence of which the above paper was delivered in. window, window, and house tax, to Lady-day last, the arrears in the hands of the receivers general, upon the 14th of July laft, amounted to the fum of three hundred and ninety-eight thoufand feven hundred and forty-eight pounds, nine fhillings, and five-pence half. penny. As this certificate was grounded upon returns not made to us, but to the tax office, we iffued our precepts to every receiver general of the land tax, and to the reprefentatives of thofe who were dead, requiring them forthwith to tranfmit to us an account of the public money in their hands, cuftody, or power, at the time they should each of them receive our precept. We proceeded in the next place, pursuant to the directions of the act, to enquire to what fervices thefe fums were or might be applicable, in the hands of the relpective accountants. except the charges of collecting, receiving, and accounting, we do not find, that, when the militia is embodied, the duties collected by these receivers are liable to any payments, or applicable to any other fervices whatA foever. In the returns made to us by the receivers general, tech tums as e ftated to have been paid for these fervices of the militia, for the year 1779, are different in different counties; but Bas thefe payments cannot from the nàture of them amount in any county to a confiderable fum, we conceive they may be made out of the current receipts of these taxes. As the receiver general is required Returns were accordingly made to by the land tax act, within twenty all our precepts; a lift of which re- days at fartheft after he has received turns, with their feveral dates, is fet money for that duty, and by the acts forth in the Appendix to this report; which grant the duties on houfes, winand from thele it appears, that the dows, fervants, and inhabited houses, balances of the taxes on land, win- within forty days after he has received dows and houses, fervants, and inha-thofe duties, to pay the fame into the bited houses, remaining in their re-exchequer; it became neceffary for us fpective hands upon the days therein to enquire upon what grounds, and mentioned, amounted together to the for what purposes, the receivers genefum of fix hundred and fifty-feven ral retained in their hands fo confide thoufand four hundred pounds, thir- rable a part of thefe duties, fo long teen fhillings, and four-pence. after the fame ought, according to the directions of the feveral acts abovementioned, to have been paid into the exchequer. To this point, amongit others, we examined George Rofe, efq; fecretary to the tax office; John And we find, that by the militia Fordyce, efq; receiver general for aft, of the fecond of his prefent Ma-Scotland; William Mitford, cfq; rejefty, the receiver general of the land ceiver general for the county of Suftax for every county, is required to fex; Thomas Allen, efq; receiver gepay to the commanding officer of eve- neral for part of the county of Somerry company of the milua of that coun- fet; Thomas Walley Partington, efq; ty, being ordered out into, or being receiver general for the counties of out in, actual fervice, one guinea for Northampton and Rutland, and town each private man belonging to his of Northampton; and George Rowcompany, upon the day appointed for ley, efq; receiver general for the counmarching; and that by the act of the ty of Huntingdon. twentieth of his prefent Majefty, for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia, he is ordered to pay to the clerk of the general meet ings five pounds five fhillings for each mecting, and to every of the clerks of the fub-divifion meetings, one pound one fhilling for each meeting: and, F In thefe examinations, two reasons are affigned for this detention of the public money; one is, the difficulty of procuring remittances to London," especially from the dutant counties; the other is, the infufficiency of the falary of two pence in the pound, allowed the receiver by the land tax and other acts, |