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2 June.
Church Bk., Scotland, 1761–89, pp. 46–7, and drafts in Scotland, v. 25, Nos. 91 and 92. |
923. Earl of Halifay to Lord Cathcart. |
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Acknowledging the addresses from the General Assembly,
&c. His Lordship's conduct is entirely approved by His
Majesty. |
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A letter of similar import to Dr. Robertson, moderator of the
General Assembly. |
2 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 22, p. 74. |
924. Mr. Robert Wood to Mr. Dyson. |
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To inform the Lords of the Treasury that Jaime Arbona,
appointed to attend on Captain Clevland, H.M.'s Ambassador to
the Barbary States, at an allowance of 10s per day, has now
returned, having given entire satisfaction. Captain Clevland's
appointment ceased on 29th Jan. last. |
9 June.
Church Bk., 1760–66, pp. 118–23. |
925. Earl of Halifax to the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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Referring for his opinion the further application from the
ministers of Philippen, in the Turkish Moldavia, for a brief in
favour of their new protestant colony. |
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Their letter and the paper enclosed therein. The colony
was settled about 4½ years ago at St. Philippen, on the river
Dneister, near the confines of Podolia, as appears from the details
given by the Right Rev. Mr. Burg, Inspector at Breslau, at the
ordination of Mr. Scheidemantel, the pastor to the colony, inserted
in the Nova Acta Historico Ecclesiastica, vol. xi., part 15,
published in Germany; and likewise in the volume for 1760 of
another periodical, called The Spiritual Magazine, printed at
Magdeburg. The colony towards the north, borders on Podolia
and Red Russia, east on Bessarabia, and south it is bounded by
Bulgaria. It lies in a mild climate, and a fertile country, about
48 English miles from Caminieck Podolski. It is composed of
persecuted Protestant Poles and Hungarians, fled from the adjacent
countries, and of German families, who, in the late calamitous war,
withdrawing for safety into Poland, incorporated themselves with
the colonists. With the approbation of the Grand Seignor, it has
a charter from the Prince of Moldavia and his Council, and enjoys
perfect freedom and tranquillity both in temporal and spiritual
concerns, being allowed the public exercise of Divine worship,
with churches and schools; and, besides other indulgences, they
may "hold land in property," and, build their churches on their
own consecrated ground. Though the established religion of the
country is ancient Greek, the colony is totally exempted from all
jurisdiction of Greek Bishop, the articles of their faith being
the only standard of their worship and behaviour. Besides the
colonists, a considerable number of Protestants of Podolia, Red
Russia, and the Ukrain, likewise of Yassi, the residence of the
Princes of Moldavia, have joined themselves to the congregation,
communicating with it, and frequenting its places of worship as
distance will permit; not a few—so great is their hunger and
thirst after the things of the kingdom of God—are known to
come above 150 English miles, there being no opportunity of true
worship nearer. Many also even give up their children to the
colony, in order to be educated and instructed in religion. |
13 June.
Law Reports, 1757–86. Nos. 7 and 71. |
926. Warden of the Stannaries. |
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Report of the Attorney General on the warrant signed by the
King, granting to Humphry Morice, Esq., the office of Warden
of the Stannaries, being of the same form as that by which the
said office was granted to the late Earl Waldegrave, dated 27th Feb.
1761, before the birth of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Morice has represented that, since the birth of the Prince, it will be necessary,
unless he vacates his seat in Parliament, that His Majesty shall
grant the same in quality of guardian to His Royal Highness.
The Attorney General thinks that the enclosed will be a sufficient
warrant, because by an Act passed in the first year of his reign
the King is enabled to make grants within the seven years next
ensuing, by letters patent under the great seal, of any office,
parcel of the Duchy, as well as to make leases and to do other acts.
The Dukes of Cornwall are also excepted out of the saving clause;
and therefore His Majesty within the seven years may grant the
wardenship in the same manner after as before the birth of the
Prince. 3½ pp. |
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The warrant referred to. |
15 June.
Admiralty, pcl. 150, No. 35. |
927. Lords of the Admiralty to the Earl of Egremont. |
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With information as to transports to and from Gibraltar and
Minorca. 1 p. |
15 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 22, p. 74. |
928. Earl of Egremont to the Lords of the Treasury. |
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His Majesty has appointed Jaime Arbona to be interpreter of
Oriental languages, vice Mr. Richard Stonehewer. Requests that
he may have the same allowance of 80l. per. annum as the latter had. |
15 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 23, p. 244. |
929. Earl of Halifax to Humphry Morice, Esq. |
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Upon receipt of his letter, desiring that the King's warrant for
appointing him Warden of the Stannaries might be drawn up in a
form different to former precedents, on account of the birth of a
Duke of Cornwall subsequently to the last appointment, his Lordship referred it to the Attorney General. Sends copies of the
reference, the report, and the former warrant. |
15 June.
Militia, pcl. 3, No. 14. |
930. The Same to Sir James Lowther, Bart. |
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His Majesty, in pursuance of the opinion of the Attorney
and Solicitor General, looks upon the Cumberland Militia as disembodied, and not entitled to further pay, notwithstanding any
informality that may have attended the proceeding. 1½ pp. |
15 & 16 June.
Law Officers Entry Bk., v. 1, pp. 55–60. |
931. The Same to Mr. Attorney General. |
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Relative to John Painter. [See No. 880.] A letter was written
to the senior bailiff of Ipswich, and an answer received, copies of
both of which are enclosed, with a copy of another from the
same officer, giving an account of the steps taken by him and
his partner, in concert with the relatives of Painter, who was a
lunatic, towards his confinement; by which it will be seen that
the further proceedings of those magistrates having been obstructed
by another justice of the peace, they have had recourse to his
Lordship's under secretary for immediate directions. The case
being in a legal course, desires him to consider the matter as it
now stands.—Dated 15 June. |
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Entry of the letter enclosed, signed J. Gravenor. |
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The Attorney General's report, dated 16 June. The proper
method of proceeding is, upon affidavits of physicians and the
friends and acquaintances of the unfortunate person, for the
relations to apply to the Lord Chancellor, by petition, for a
commission of lunacy. The authority given to justices of the
peace by Act of Parliament in the case of poor lunatic vagrants
does not seem competent to this case. |
17 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 23, p. 245. |
932. The Same to the Lord Chamberlain. |
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His Majesty has consented that the present to be given to
Baron de Knyphausen, late Minister Plenipotentiary from the King
of Prussia, shall be 500l. sterling; and this sum, for the future,
is to be given to all Envoys or Ministers Plenipotentiary from
Crowned Heads on their recall. |
20 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 22, p. 75. |
933. Mr. Robert Wood to Edmund Barham, Esq. |
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Requesting that the Count de Sayn (under which name the
Margrave of Anspach has been some time in London), who intends
to return through France, and will set out from Dover next Friday,
may have every convenience on the packet-boat, and, if necessary,
have a special boat. |
21 June.
Dom. Misc., pcl. 136. |
934. British Magazines arrested in Germany. |
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Copy of the "Specification of British magazines arrested in Germany by the Powers herein expressed, for securing debts alleged
to be due on the part of the British Commissariat to their respective
subjects." |
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At the bottom are particulars of the proceedings at each place.
The document is signed "Dan Wier," and dated at Drackenburg,
21 June 1763. |
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Endorsed: "In Mr. Dyson's of the 29th July 1763;" and "Returned by Mr. Mitchell the 2nd Augt., and a copy of a fresh specification sent the same day instead of the former." One large sheet. |
18 & 23 June.
Criml. Papers, v. 10, 1760–66, pp. 198–200. |
935. Earl of Pembroke to the Earl of Halifax. |
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Soliciting a pardon for William Vaughan, who, having been
connected when almost a boy with a gang of thieves, was sent on
board ship for transportation, but escaped by swimming, and
enlisted. Speaks very highly of his trustworthiness. On the
peace he was afraid to venture home, and deserted. He remains
at Amsterdam, hoping for a pardon. |
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Reply thereto. The King grants the pardon. In order thereto,
the crime, and the name of the judge, must be supplied. |
23 June.
Ordn. Entry Bk., 1760–76, p. 197. |
936. Earl of Egremont to the Master General of the
Ordnance. |
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Directing him to examine into the complaint of the French that
all the ordnance and stores taken at Belleisle were not given up
when the island was given up, according to treaty. |
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List of papers referring to the same, received from Major Gen.
Hodgson and Col. Forrester, late Governor of Belleisle. |
24 June.
Admiralty, pcl. 150, No. 36. |
937. Lords of the Admiralty to the Earl of Egremont. |
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At the first forming of the marine companies in the late war,
and during the course of it, several out-pensioners to Chelsea
Hospital, and invalids doing duty in garrison, were received into
the marine corps as serjeants and corporals, with a view of instructing the new raised men and recruits in the manual exercise, &c.
The war being at an end, and the corps, therefore, very considerably
reduced, the out-pensioners and invalids above mentioned have
applied to the Governors of Chelsea Hospital to be restored, or
admitted to the list of out-pensioners; but the Governors do not
conceive themselves authorized, without His Majesty's particular
instruction under the Royal sign manual, to receive them again. |
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Their Lordships desire that the case may be laid before the
King in order to their restoration. It will not bring any new
charge upon the hospital, and the saving of the out-pension (which
would otherwise have been paid to them) while they served in the
marine corps will probably be more than adequate to the pension.
2½ pp. |
24 June.
Post Office, pcl. 6, No. |
938.The Postmasters General (Earl of Egmont and Robt.
Hampden) to the Earl of Egremont. |
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Upon the subject of the memorial delivered by Mons. D'Eon,
Resident of France, relating to the discontinued packet-boats
between Falmouth and Corunna. With regard to the overture
said to have been made on the part of England, to open the
correspondence by letters between the two nations on the former
footing, as no positive objection seemed to have been intended by
Mr. Wall's answer, they, the Postmasters, thought, upon the ratification of the Definitive Treaty, that the most friendly proceeding
would be to despatch a packet-boat to Corunna, with their agent
on board to accompany the first mail. But, to their great surprise,
he was given to understand by Mr. Wall that his Catholic Majesty, having been informed of the many inconveniences attending
that correspondence, was not inclined to the re-establishment of it.
Accordingly the usual passage of the letters for Oporto, by way of
Corunna, was refused. They, Therefore, despatched a packet-boat
directly to Oporto, with the letters of many weeks, thus unexpectedly delayed; and they have since sent all the letters for
Oporto by way of Lisbon, which, from information of the merchants, will effectually answer every purpose, especially as a fifth
boat has been added, by which a weekly correspondence with
Portugal may be kept up. The Corunna packets never carried
above two or three letters in a week for any part of Spain, all
letters for that kingdom going through France. A considerable
sum has been always paid to the Spanish post office for their
passage, which is saved, and a postage instead paid to England,
on delivery of the letters at Lisbon. They, therefore, do not think
it necessary to revive the correspondence by Corunna. 4 pp. |
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For the letter referring this memorial, see Dom. Entry Bk.
v. 22, p. 76. |
28 June.
Dom. Geo. III., pcl. 75, No. 37 a,b. |
939. Mons. Vander Hoop to "the Pensionary of Holland." |
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At last the desired conference has been obtained with the Commissaries of the English East India Company. It was held on
Friday last. Sends a memorial, containing a report of what
passed, which will show that they are powerless to settle anything
with the English Commissaries. It even seemed to them that they
would not dare to conclude anything without the intervention of
superior powers, lest any concessions to the Dutch Company should
tend to their private prejudice. Did not omit attempting to
further matters in a private conversation, but learnt that, from
the temper of the times, things could not be managed as people
wished. The interposition of the respective ministers is therefore
inevitable. Count Welderen, having no instructions to intermeddle
in that business, and not knowing what might have been done at the
Hague, refused to make any formal application to the ministers
about it, but said he would inform them by way of conversation
of what they, the Dutch Commissaries, had told him. Asks whether
they had not better depart from hence to make a verbal report.
Nothing passed in the last conference with regard to Ceylon,
although he, in a manner, furnished an occasion for it. Will transmit the memorial of the English Commissaries concerning what
passed at the last conference, as soon as it is received. Does not
expect that it will make any alteration, the English Commissaries
having declared pretty plainly that they could not come to any
arrangements, because the point relating to treaties with the
inland princes, and to the making of exclusive contracts, depended
entirely upon the interpretation of the treaties of 1674 and 1685,
which they must leave to the respective Sovereigns. How warm
soever people are here, they comprehend in general that the two
Companies ought to live in peace. Doubts whether anybody
would think of maintaining that it is possible to keep peace if
either may make such treaties with the inlanders as they please;
more especially since the execution of those treaties depends for
the greatest part upon the notions and efforts of private interest
in the servants.— London. (A translation.) |
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A translation of the memorial enclosed. The points touched
upon in the conference were the engagements of the English
Company with the Nabob of Bengal, and their pretension to the
exclusive right of gathering saltpetre in Bengal. 18½ pp. |
21 & 29 June.
Criml. Papers, Scotch, v. 1, 1762–86, pp.29, 30. |
940. Earl of Halifax to the
Lord Justice Clerk. |
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Directing him to transmit a copy of the minutes of the trial or
John McIan Bain Kennedy for theft at Inverness, together with
the opinion of the judges (Lords Strichen and Ailmore) before
whom he was tried, how far he may be an object of mercy. Dated
21 June. |
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Reply of the Lord Justice Clerk, dated 29 June. |
29 June.
Dom. Entry Bk., v. 22, p.77. |
941. Earl of Egremont to the Commissioners of Chelsea
Hospital. |
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It is the King's pleasure that the several out pensioners to
Chelsea Hospital, and invalids doing duty in garrison, who were
received into the marine corps as serjeants and corporals for the
speedy instruction of new raised men, shall be received back on
the pension list, the war being at an end, and the corps considerably reduced. |
