36 Popish Seminaries abroad, that is to fay, a cordial reconcilement, er, on the other, completely answer the true purpofes and ends of parliamentary condefcention. I would yet go ftill further: but I fhould think that thofe confequences cannot escape the collective wisdom and calm reflection of the nation.-The cause of liberty, however irregularly profecuted, has ever had charins to engage the hearts, and fometimes the hands of Englishmen. The claim of the colonifts is certainly that of conftitutional liberty and their prefent oppofition as certainly is founded on no other principle. A happy opportunity this! for turning, by a delicate and generous treatment, even that oppofition to the advantage and entrenchment of the mother-Date: for on what fecurity might the heuceforth fo firmly rely, as on the merited affections of fubjects, who have fo critically fhewn, that when principle infpires them, their attachment and courage are equally admirable and certain.-Permit us and the colonifts to embrace each other as devoted friends, brothers, fellow-fubjects: and let the avenging arms of both be only turned on the enemies of the British empire, even on those who are now lurking for an opportunity to divert them-by playing off thofe focial arms the one against the other. I am, Sir, Your obliged humble fervant, London, Jan. 16, 1766. EQUUS. T Lifhon there are, 1. A colleg A of fecular English priests in num ber about forty. 1. A monaftery of English nuns, of the order of St. Jan, Bridget, their community thirty. 3.A convent of Irish Dominican friars, their number from fixteen increased to thirty-two. 4. A convent of Dominican nuns, of the fame nation. This convent is fituated at Belem, about three miles from Lisbon. 5. A college of fecular Irish priests, formerly under the direction of the jesuits, in number about thirteen. SPAIN. At Valadolid. Twelve fecular priests, under the government of Spanish jefuits. An English jefuit is confeffor, and is next to the rector. At Madrid. 1. An English college under the government of the Spanish jefuits. An Englishman is confeffor, their number eight. 2. A Scots and Irish college. At Seville. An English college under the government of the Spanish je fuits. At St. Lucar. A fmall college of English called St. George's, formerly an hofpital belonging to the Englith factory. At Bilboa. A religious house, the number uncertain. FRANCE. At Paris. 1. In the Fauxbourg, St. Jacques, is a convent of English Benedictine monks, in number twentyfour. 2. A monaftery of vifitation nuns, otherwife Blue nuns, in number twenty. 3. A monaftery of St. Auguftine nuns, in number fixty, with fixty penfioners. 4. A monastery of Benedictine nuns, in number thirty. 5. A college of Irish fecular priests, called Montacute college. 6. A college of Scots fecular priefts. 7. Near Paris a convent of English barelegged Carmelite friars. At Doway. 1. A college of fecular priefts and ftudents, in number an hundred and fifty. 2. A convent of Benedictine monks, in number twenty-five. 3. A college in the convent of English youths, in number about fixty. 4. A convent of Francifcan friars, about the fame number. 5. A Scots college. At Blois. An English nunnery. At Pontois. A monaftery of Benedictine nuns. Thefe nuns call their nunnery Sion-Houfe, and pretend to be originally from the ancient hunnery of bridgeton nuns, at Sion-Houje near Richmond in Surry, to which they fill keep up a club. At 1766. Maintained by English Papifts. At Gravelines. A monaftery of Engglifh poor Clares. At Bruffels. 1. A monaftery of bare legged Carmelite nuns. 2. 3. Two other monafteries of Auguftine nuns. At Burnham, and its neighbourhood. 1.A convent of Dominican friars founded by cardinal Howard. 2. A monaftery of English Dominican nuns. 3. A convent of Carmelite friars. At Arles. A monaftery of poor Clares. At Louvaine. 1. A college of Dominican friars. 2. A college of Irish Capuchins. At Nieuport. A convent of Carthufian monks in number twelve, who pretend a title to the Charter-house in London, and all its endowments. At Cambray. A monaftery of Benedictine nuns, in number thirty. At Liege. 1. A monastery of canoneffes, regulars of the order of St. Auftin. 2. A college of English jefuits, in number an hundred and eighty, At Ghent. A college of jefuits, in number fix. 2. A nunnery. At Bruges. 1. A monaftery of Francifcan nuns, in number thirty. 2. A monaftery of Auguftine nuns. At St. Omer. 1. A college of jefuits, about thirty, upon the establishment of the house, 'with an hundred scholars. 2. A nunnery. 37 Thomas late Bishop of Derry, to Archdeacon S-r. Dear fir, Dublin, March 22,1742-3 Abe alive when this comes to your DIEU, for ever! Perhaps I may hands; more probably not: but in From the LONDON GAZETTE. the house of peers, and being HIS day his majesty came to in his royal robes, feated on the throne with the ufual folemnity, Sir Francis Molineux, knt. gentleman usher of the black rod, was fent with a meflage from his majefty to the house of commons, commanding their attendance in the house of peers. The commons being come thither accordingly, his majefty was pleafed to make the following most gracious fpeech: My Lords and Gentlemen, When I met you last I acquainted you, that matters of importance had happened in America, which would demand the moft ferious attention of parliament. That no information, which could ferve to direct your deliberations in fo interesting a concern, might be want, ing, I have ordered all the papers, that might give any light into the origin, the progrefs, or the tendency of the disturbances which of late prevailed in fome of the northern colonies, to be immediately laid before you. No time has been loft, on the firft Dr. Rundle, whom the late chancellor Talbot endeavoured to get preferred to an English bifboprick, but was prevented by the bishop of London. advice advice of these disturbances, to iffue orders to the governors of my provinces, and to the commanders of my forces in America, for the exertion of all the powers of government in the fuppreffion of riots and tumults, and in the effectual fupport of lawful authority. Whatever remains to be done on this occafion, I commit to your wif dom; not doubting, but your zeal for the honour of my crown, your attention to the just rights and authority of the British legislature, and your affection and concern for the welfare and profperity of all my people, will guide you to fuch found and prudent refolutions, as may tend at once to preferve those constitutional rights over the colonies, and to restore to them the harmony and tranquility, which have lately been interrupted by riots and diforders of the most dangerous nature. If any alteration fhould be wanting, in the commercial economy of the plantations, which may tend to enlarge fecure the mutual and beneficial intercourfe of my kingdoms and colonies, they will deferve your most serious confideration. In effectuating purposes fo worthy of your wisdom and public fpirit, you may depend upon my moft hearty concurrence and fupport. The prefent happy tranquillity, now fubfifting in Europe, will enable you to purfue fuch objects of our interior policy with a more uninterrupted attention. SPEECH. Gentlemen of the houfe of Commons, I have ordered the proper eftimate for the current fervice of the year to be laid before you; fuch fupplies as you may grant fhall be duly applied with the utmoft fidelity, and fhall be difpenfed with the ftricteft economy. My lords and gentlemen, I earnefily recommend to you, to proceed in your deliberations with temper and unanimity. The time requires, and I doubt not but your own inclination will lead you to thofe falutary dif pofitions. I have nothing at heart but the affertion of legal authority, the prefervation of the liberties of all my fubjects, the equity and good order of my government, and the concord and profperity of all parts of my doninions. Ta numerous meeting of the Jan. inhabitants of the borough of Southwark, at their town-hall, it was unanimously agreed to give the following inftructions to their members. To Sir Jofeph Mawbey, Bart, and Henry Thrale, Efq; Reprefentatives in Parliament for the Town and Borough of Southwark. "Gentlemen, WE the grand jury for the town and borough of Southwark, and others the inhabitants thereof, this day af fembled in the town-hall, fenfibly touched with the juft complaints of the poor of this borough, as well as of thofe of the nation in general, oc cafioned by the prefent enormous price of every neceffary of life, and the almoft total stagnation of many valuable branches of our manufactures in confequence thereof, think we should be fellow inhabitants, did we not emwanting in the duty we owe to our ploy every means in our power to procure a removal of this national evil. Actuated by thefe motives, gentlemen, we take this early opportunity to inftruct you, our reprefentatives in the great council of the land, to ufe your utmost efforts, and influence to attain this falutary purpose; and as we ap prehend nothing will fo readily effect this as an immediate prohibition of the exportation of all forts of grain, that of bread-corn efpecially (to the current price of which indifpenfable neticle of provifion bears fo great a proceflary of life, that of every other arportion) we do hereby require and intruft you to exert your best endeaprohibition, or fuch other whole fome vours in parliament to obtain fuch law as the body of the legislature fhall in its wifdom judge most expedient to put a stop to this crying grievance. In giving you thefe inftructions, peak your own fentiments, who, as gentlemen, we firmly believe that we perfons of generofity and humanity, cannot but feel for the diftrefles of the poor." Town-Hall, Southwark, Jan. 13. Privileges of Ambaffaders and their Servants, as to their debts, by the Laws of England. IN N refpect to civil fuits, all the foreign jurifts agree, that neither an ambaffador, nor any of his train, co A grand jury, and other principal miters can be prosecuted for any debt or 1766. Privileges of Ambassadors, &c. of contract in the courts of that kingdom wherein he is fent to refide: Yet Sir Edward Coke maintains, that, if an ambassador make a contract which is good jure gentium, he thall aufwer for it bere. And the truth is, we find no traces in our law books of allowing any privileges to ambaffadors or their domeftics, even in civil fuits, previous to the reign of Queen Ann: when an ambaffador from Peter the great, Czar of Mufcovy, was actually arrefted and taken out of his coach, in London, in 1708, for debts which he had there contracted. This the Czar refented very highly, and demanded (we are told) that the officers who made the arreft should be punished with death: But the queen (to the amazement of that defpotic court) directed her miniftry to inform him, that the law of England had not yet protected ambaffadors from the payment of their lawfel debts; and that therefore the arrest was no offence by the laws; and that fhe could inflict no punishment upon any, the meanest of her subjects, unless warranted by the laws of the land. To fatisfy however the clamours of the foreign minifters (who made it a common caufe) as well as to appeafe the wrath of Peter, a new ftatute, viz. 7 Ann, chap. 12, (a copy of which, very elegantly engroffed and illuminated, was fent to Moscow as a prefent) was enacted by parliament, reciting the arreft which had been made, "in contempt of the protection granted by her majefty, contrary to the law of nations, and in prejudice of the rights and priviliges which ambassadors and other public minifters have at all times been thereby poffeffed of, and ought to be kept facred and inviolable." Wherefore it enacts, that for the future all procefs whereby the perfon of any ambaffador, or his domeftic or domeftic feant, may be arrested, or his goods difrined or feized, fhall be utterly null and void; and the perfons profecuting fuch procefs, fhall be deemed violators of the law of nations, and difurbers of the public repofe; and 39. vice of any ambaffador, fhall be priv ileged or protected by this act; nor shall any one be punished for arrefting an ambaffador's fervant, unless his name be regiftered with the fecretary of ftate, and by him tranfmitted to the fheriffs of London and Middlefex; exceptions, that are strictly conformable to the rights of ambafadors, as observed in the most civilized countries; and, in confequence of this ftatute, thus enforcing the law of nations, thefe privileges are now ufually allowed in the court of common law. Black. Com. 247. The courts of common law have come to the following refolutions, upon application, on the faid act. That it is not neceflary that the party fhould live in the ambaffador's houfe, 2 Stra. 2 R. Raym. 1524. Fitzgib. 200. pl. 12. When party comes for benefit of the act, it is not enough that he be regiftered in the fecretary's office as a fervant; but muft fhew the nature of his fervice, that the court may judge whether he be a domeftick fervant within meaning of the act of parliament. Fitzgib. 200, pl. 12. 2 Stra. 797 A trader, an annuitant, a juftice of peace, a menial fervant, an hired clerk, a perfon who receives no wages, a courier, a meffenger, a land-waiter at the custom-houfe, denied the benefit of the act, Fitzgib, 200. pl. 12, 2. Stra. 797, Prac. Reg. C. P. 14, Barnes's Notes. C. P. 264, 271 Rep. & Caf. Pra. C. P. 65, 134. 272. Barnard. K. B. 401. MSS. Rep. K. B. Mich. 31 G. II. 1757. Mafters and Manby. The party muft ferve in the capacity he was hired, Barnard. K. B. 401. Where a perfon does not execute the office, which he has his testimonial for, but only gets himfelf entered in the lift to have the benefit of a protection the court will not fuffer it. Barnard. K. B. 79. To the AUTAOR of the LONDON MAGAZINE. SIR, S you have favoured me with fhal, fuffer fuch penalties and corporal A inferting a reprefentation and punishment as the lord chancellor and the two chief juftices, or any two of them, fhall think fit, But it is exprefsly provided that no trader, within the defeription of the bankrupt laws, who fall be in the fer 3 40 Defcription of with a reprefentation and description of a coal-ftaith, which I hope cannot fail of being acceptable to your curious readers. DESCRIPTION.] A. B. a coal-ftaith, above an hundred yards in length and fifty yards broad, built of wood, which is of univerfal ufe to the coal-owners; for this is the great ftore-house for coals, where they lay up the coals, as their golden treasure, against winter; for as foon as the weather makes the waggon-way not paffable, the owners lay by the waggons till the way become paffable again; fo that this grand fore-house, or coffer, fupplies the fhips with coals in time of winter, whilft the waggons cannot fupply the trade, and, at the fame time, the pits lay up heaps of coals for the waggons, against they can travel to the pits again. At Ca coal-waggon, where the horfe is taken off, and goes down the precipice D; at E the horse stands till the waggon-man return with the waggon from emptying on the ftaith; for the waggon being agitable, the waggon-man conducts the waggon along the ongait F to G. At G is called the trunk, where the waggon goes into the concavity to K, where there is fixed a frame upon an axle, which by the waggon-man taking hold of the waggon, turns the waggon about, fo then the waggon, by letting down the bottom-board, empties herself into the main-fpout R Q into the keel (the main spout QR is plated with iron) but if there be no keels at the faith to load, they empty the waggons into the concavity K L, which fall to the concavity MN, and lie till they have occafion for them; the waggon-man then conducts the waggon off the faith by what the waggonmen call an off-gate, which comes from the concavity KL, near to F, where the horfe is yoaked; but as I obferved before, the waggon being turned about, the horse is yoaked to the contrary end that he came down yoaked to, and fo proceeds to the pits, for it would be difficult to turn the waggon about at the pits if it was not for this contrivance at the ftaith; fo at the pits the horfe is yoaked to the other end, and fo proceeds to the faith again alternately; H. the off-putters houfe, or office, where he keeps his accounts; I. a fhore, geer, or fay, upon which is erected the gavel of the * But our engraver, deviating from his a Coal Staith. Jan. houfe H. as are alfo the ongait Fall fhores, geers, or stays, upon which the waggons come on to the staith; between L and K are thirteen windows or doors, as are reprefented in a very exact manner; M. N. the concavity where the coals are carried by the loaders in wheelbarrows to the spouts aaaaa to load the keels in the manner as reprefented; but it faves a great expence, when the waggons load the keels, to the owners, for when the waggons are at work there is no occafion for loaders. O. P. the key built of hewn stones; bbbbbb ladders to go up into the ftaith; nnn fire lamps to let the loaders fee in the night time when loading: R. S. the river Wear and keels prefented in a very exact manner as to loading, &c. There is what the keel-men call a jaumb with the keels, which will fometimes ftop the keels for two or three days (that is to fay) the keels run foul of one another, and fo by the narrowness of the river, and being fuch a great number of keels, it is very difficult to get them clear of each other. From the ftaith to Sunderland is about ten miles to where the keels carry the coals to the thips to load them. I am your, &c. EDW. BARRASS. Chester-le-Street, Sept. 7, 1765. A Propofal for the Eftablishment of a Female Adminiftration. Tears paft been daily ftunHE of the public have for ed with loud and violent complaints of male-administration. I would therefore humbly propofe (if it was but for the fake of variety) that a female adminiftration fhould for once take its turn, and be allowed a fair and candid trial on the flippery pinnacle of power. The worthipful company of Barbers have familiarly approached the throne, and offered advice in matters of capi tal concern. The ftill more worshipful the C-m-n C-r-l have likewife, on feveral occafions, conveyed their difinterested counfels to the royal ear I lay difinterested, because frequently relating to matters, in which they had no earthly concern; but in the prefent cafe, as fo near, so dear, and fo confiderable a part of them, (viz. their wives) are very deeply interefted, I make no doubt but that reffpectable body will ufe its utmost influ copy, has increased the number. ence |