Ways and Means for raising the fame. Half pay officers widows married in 1716Out penfioners, Chelsea hofpitaleve For 39,773 men from Hanover, Wolfenbuttle, Saxa Gotha, Buckeburg, and employed in Germany Five battalions ferving in Germany, confifting each of for horfe, and 500 foot For hire of 1,464 horfe and 2,330 foot,from Brunswick For hire of 2,120 horse, and 9,900 foot, from the Land grave of Helle Caffel, with artillery, &c. For hire of 1,576 horse, and 8,800 foot, additional troops from Heffe Caffel Towards affifting his majefty to grant reasonable fuccours in money to Landgrave Heffe Caffel Extraordinaries of the land forces to Nov. 29, 1761, 0ver and above one million granted by parliament Forage, bread, &c. and extraordinaries of the combined army in Germany under Prince Ferdinand Extraordinaries there from Nov. 24, 1761, to Dec. 24, following For extraordinaries of the war in 1762, and to affift the King of Portugal To difcarge the Exchequer bill charged on this year's aids To difcharge Exchequer bills iffued in 1761, for navy debt, &c. For civil eftablishment of 359 16,549 52,393. 103,906 112,613 465,638 1,353,662 1,000,000 C To the truftees of the British Mufæum Towards printing journals of the house of commons Total grants Befides which a fum of 2,114 . was granted to make good alpenfion paid to Mr Onflow, and a yearly pension of goool. was granted unto him out of the aggregate fund for his own and his fons life, free from all taxes, fees, and charges whatsoever. The annuities charged 33 Geo. II. on 3d per bufhel malt, were this year transferred to the finking fund. WAYS and MEANS for the Year 1762. D By a land tax of 4 s. 958,384 1,000,000 E 1,000,000 1,500,000 per pound. By a malt duty By Exchequer bills to be current after March 26, 1763 By 12 millions capital annuities at 4 per cent, with an additiod of 1 per cent. per ann. for 98 years Out of the linking fund Surplus repaid out of the civil lift revenues Geo. II. Savings on fums formerly granted for unembodied militia, which was paid for as embodied Surplus of 34 per bushel malt Vote of credit to be charged on the next year's aids 2,000,000 750,000 1,500,000 12,000,000 1,009,217 115,000 170,000 73,678 1,000,000 Total ways and means 18,617,895 The furplus of ways and means is applicable to pay the deficiency of the land tax and malt duty 1761, and a discount allowed to October 20, 1762, on advancing payments on the above mentioned twelve millions in annuities. The fund for those twelve millions, 41,752 H charged collaterally on the finking fund, confifted of certain unappropriated furpluffes of duties upon fpirituous liquors, and alfo of an addi 73,000 tional 360 Exhortatory Speech to an English Regiment in Portugal, tional duty on fpirituous liquors, and on houfes and windows,where the windows do not exceed fifteen in a house. A new duty was granted alfo on certain law admiffions, to anfwer the additional falaries of the judges. An exhortatory and admonitory Speech to in Portugal. mighty, that we should be called hither, from our native land, to share in the honourable and important task of defending, against the arms of Spain, the perfon and crown of his moft Faithful Majefty; a fervice required of us by our most gracious and lawful monarch, GEORGE the Third. established, we were determined not only to perfevere in the fame fentiments which regulated our demeanour ever fince the establishment of that government; but alfo were ardently defirous, to the utmost of our power, A to encrease the public happiness, and to feek for glory in the fervice of our king and country. Thele reprefentations were not made in vain, nor were our tenders of fidelity rejected at the throne. Government relented towards us, and B beheld us with the eye of compassion ! Our gracious monarch, in whom moderation, benignity, and mercy, are hereditary virtues, melted into tenderness for us; and the representatives of the people caught the generous flame that kindled in the royal breaft. He faid (and they joined their voice with his) Let the Roman Catholics of Ireland be unfhackled; let them breathe the pure air of free'dom; let them draw the long un tried, but willing fwords, in the fervice of their king, let them be re'warded as thofe are who plunge them. Dfelves into heroic danger in defence of his perfon, crown, and kingdoms; and let them from hence-forward be reputed not VIRULENT PAPISTS, or DISAFFECTED JACOBITES; but LOYALLY-PRINCIPLED ROMAN E ་ CATHOLICKS.' Such, gentlemen, is the happy condition in which we are now placed! -With the free liberty of exercising the religion of our education and of our confcience, we ftand here arrayed and armed for our king. Let us, my dear countrymen, by our bravery and good conduct, fhew him how deeply this extraordinary, this unparalleled mark of his royal notice and favour is impreffed on our hearts; that we are his liege and faithful fubjects; and that the confidence he hath repofed in us hath not been misplaced: let us not swerve an inch from our duty, from our fidelity, from the dictates of our G holy religion. On this occafion, Gentlemen, fome things prefent themfelves, which are proper to be fubmitted to your most ferious confideration; that you may the more fenfibly perceive, and the more gratefully acknowledge the goodness of providence in our favour. You all know the disadvantageous fituation in which the RomanCatholics of Ireland were placed, by the multiplicity of the PENAL LAWS, paffed against them before the acceffion of the liluftrious house of Hanover to the throne of England; and that the rigour of thofe laws was, in many instances, happily mitigated, through the merciful interpofition of princes, whofe highest glory it was to be con. fidered, and to act as the common fathers of all their people; and through the gentle government of thofe, to F whom the royal power was delegated: -But as fome prejudices and miftrufts (refulting, it is hoped, rather from a mifconceived opinion of our principles, than from a hatred to our perfons) ftill had found a place in the minds of our Proteftant fellow-fabjects; fome gentlemen, of great learning and abilities rofe up among us, and, with that kind of eloquence which truth alone infpires, reprefented, That our political principles are favourable to monarchy; that our religious ones are not of that gloomy, hell-born afpect, which, by murder, maffacre, and poifon, fpreads defola tion around; and that, fo far from being enemies to a Proteftant king, fo far from having any thoughts of dif turbing a government legally and long H War is making hafty ftrides hither to shake the throne of a prince whofe interefts should be dear to us as the friend and confederate of our royal mafter: We will contribute, to the utmolt of our ability, towards the dé fence of his majefty's perfon, crown, and kingdom. This, gentlemen, is our indifpenfible duty, and trust we will perform it. Let us not, gentlemen, ever lofe fight of thofe ftrong obligations that and erlain efiaf.. This les of more Peter Texecu n his rivate lergy what irre Nd at idees Account of the late Revolution in Ruffia. bind us to perform strictly that service which our monarch requires of us, and which we have fworn to perform. Further, let us remember that we are natives of Ireland. Let us not, by diffaffection, defertion, or cowardice, bafely throw a ftain on that kingdom, A the mother of heroes; on those relations and friends we have left behind us, or on our dear posterity. Let not crimes fo atrocious fully the pages of our hiftory. It would, furely, be a new thing under the fun, that Irishmen fhould ceafe to be loyal and brave! Need I fay more to men in whofe countenances I behold the glowing dye of courage? Yet, gentlemen, with your leave, I fhall recommend to your most serious thoughts a matter of great importance, ftill untouched. B D You are now in a country and amongit a people who are strange to you, c and to whom you are equally strange; a people, whofe cuftoms and manners you are yet to learn: Be it, I beseech you, my dear friends, your unceafing care, to behave in fuch a manner, as to deserve their approbation and efteem. Let no rancour or animofity towards them find room in your breafts, give them no caufe to harbour any towards you. Avoid all improper liberties Live among them as fellowchristians and neighbours; as perfons embarked in the fame caufe: Live among those other battalions, whether British or Irish, with the affection of E brothers, and the fincerity of friends. Let us all adhere to each other in one folid mafs, as a Grecian Phalanx, irrefiftible to private treachery or open force. Fly intemperance of all kinds. Drunkenness, my friends, is a vice not known here; let us not, to our shame, be the first importers of it: befide the enormous fin and fcandal of it; in this country it is, in its confequences, the most dangerous of all exceffes. From the great plenty and cheapness of wine, and through the focial difpofition of your nature, you may perhaps be induced to indulge with the bottle: But let me affure you, gentlemen, that, through the exceffive heat of this climate, you may as well, almoft, fwallow fo much poifon, as exceed that quantity, which, mixed with water, may be abfolutely necessary. ake not a facrifice of your lives, to our king, dear to our country, th to to not a facrifice thereof to the inting juice of the grape. tlemen Officers, y I need not mention the graT. MAG. AUGUST 1761.] 361 titude you owe to that excellent nobleman, who commands this battalion. His partiality in your favour must have made deep impreffions on your generous minds; and it will, doubtless, be your ftudy, on all occafions, to convince his lordship that he hath made a proper choice; that he hath selected for this fervice a fet of gentlemen who will do honour to their king, to their country, to their colonel, and to themfelves. In fine, gentlemen, let the regularity of our demeanour fhew, that we all are under the influence of religious, moral, and humane principles, fo fhall we do good service to that cause we are called to defend, and demonftrate to the whole world that we are a loyal a religious, a brave, and a virtuous corps. And, when battle fhall afcertain the rights of fovereigns, when war fhall hide its bloody head behind the olive tree, when that happy_time fhall come, let George and Jofeph contend, whether the ONE hath most reafon to boast, or the OTHER to praifefuch animated and determined fpirits as ftand here before their leader. God fave King George and King Jofeph. An Account of the chief Circumftances of the Revolution that has happened in Ruffia. T HE Hetman, the chamberlain Teplow, the attorney-general Glebow, and the Baron Orlow, Major of the guards, were the perfons more immediately concerned in the execution of the project that removed Peter III. from the imperial throne. This obftinate prince obferved no rules of prudence or moderation either in his public proceedings or in his private conduct. He had offended the clergy who are a numerous, powerful, and popular body, by attacking their beards, (which Peter the Great had attempted to demolish in vain) and what was still worse by diminishing their revenues, and changing their ecclefiafGtical difcipline, and religious rites. F He had offended the Rufian grandees by his warm attachment to the Prince of Holflein and the Germans. He had fhocked all orders of the nation by his fudden and precipitate change of the political fyftem which had been purfued by his predeceffor, and by his H for the King of Prufia, whom he took blind zeal, and unbounded affection for his infallible guide in Religion, po liticks, mufick, war, &c. Besides all this, his private intrigues with one of the |