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1761, married to the Right Hon. William Ponfanby, Vifc. Duncannon in Ireland; and Lady Charlotte, born Aug. 25, 1765. His lordship was created Vife. Spenfer and Baron of Althorpe, Apr 3, 1761, and advanced to the dignities of Vife. Althorpe and Earl Spenfer, Oct. 5, 1765. -Nov. 2. Mrs. Britain, late house-keeper to the Princess Dowager of Wales.--3. The Rev. Stephen Whiffon, B. D. one of the fenior fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, University Kibrarian, and vicar of Orwall in Cambridgeshire.

4. Rev. Wm. Jeffs, B. D. chaplain to St. John's College, Oxford, reader to the two hon. focieties of the Temple, and librarian of the Janer Temple.-5. At Bristol Hot-Wells, the Right Hon. Alexander Lord Blantyre.-6. Mr. James Sharp, ironmonger, one of the commoncouncil for Lime-treet ward.-In the tenth year of his age, the Hon. Mafter Willoughby, fon of Lord Willoughby de Broke.-7. At Exeter, Auguftus Seabright, Efq.-Mr. P. A. Pyberg, limner, defcended from the famous Elifabeth Pyberg, of the Hague, who, in paper, formed the faces of King William and Queen Mary with fuch exquifite ingenuity, that 1000 guilders were offered for them, which the refufed.-9. Thomas Humphries, Efq. of North Tidworth, Wile.-In Scotland, Mrs. Elizabeth Carmichael, fifter to the prefent Earl of Hyndford. -In Ireland, the Kight Rev. Dr. James Trail, Lord Bifhop of Down and Connor.-The Rev. Evan Evans, rector of Whiton, vicar of Llangunio, and chaplain to the honourable fociety of Ancient Britons.-10. At Mile-End, Mr. Michael Kett, a Quaker: a lineal defcendant from the famous tanner and political reformer in the reign of King Edward the Sixth.

11. The Rev. Richard King, rector of Kingfton, in Berkshire, lecturer of St. George's in the Eaft, and chaplain to the cloth-workers company. James Wallace, Efq. his Majefty's Attorney-general, King's ferjeant in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, ferjeant of the County Pa

latine of Durham, and one of the reprefentatives in parliament for Horsham, in Suffex. 12. In Harpur-ftreet, Red-Lion-fquare, Charles Hanbury, Efq. conful for Saxony.-14. At Lewisham in Kent, Mrs. Boyd, relict of the late Augustus Boyd, Efq. and mother of the prefent Sir John Boyd.-15. Aged 93, John Grey, Elq. of Morwick, near Warkworth, in Yorkshire, uncle to the prefent Sir Henry Grey, Bart. of Howick.--18. Mrs. Rowe, relict of the late Nathaniel Rowe, Efq.-The Hon. Mrs. Tracy, wife of the Hon. Henry Tracy.-19. At Prince Esterhafy's, in Hungary, the lady of General Jenningham, eldest daughter of Edward Dicconian, of Wrighlington, Efq. Dame de la Croix Etoille.-20. Mr. Ede, verger and facrift at the Cathedral, Weftminster-Abbey.-21. In Frederick-treet, Liverpool, in her 114th year, Mrs. Sarah Holmes, widow of the late Mr. James Holmes, farmer. She was married at 48, and had fix children.-22. In the 81st year of his age, the Rev. Robert Wright, A. M. minifter of St. Botolph, Aldgate, rector of Otten Belchimp, and vicar of the united parishes of Bulmer and Walter Belchamp, in Effex, and many years librarian of St. Martin's in the Fields. 24. The Rev. Edward Betham, B. D. late fenior tellow of King's College, fellow of Eton, and rector of Greenford, in Middlefex.-25. In Scotiand, Sir George Suttie, of Baigowan, Bart. -26. The Rev. Dr. Philip Furneaux, late an eminent diffenting minitter, and pattor of the congregation at Clapham.-30. At PutneyHeath, on a vifit at her brother's, Mrs. Lubbock, wife of Wm. Lubbock, Efq. of Lamas, in Norfolk. Lately, in Sackville-street, Dublin, the Right Hon. Sir William Ofborn, Bart. one of his Majesty's mott honourable Privy Cooncil.-In Ireland, in child bed, the lady of the Right Hon. Luke Gardiner.-Charles Cratle,Elq. coroner for the county of York.-At NewYork, Lieut. Col. James Gordon of the 80th or Edinburgh regiment.

Poltlczipt.

HE following addition to the ingenious paper on the Principle of the Aerostatical Experiments has been communicated to us from our philofophical correfpondent N. but arrived too late to be inferted at the conclufion of his account in page 502.

SINCE the above communication was received, the French philofophers have been indefatigable in applying this apparatus to ufe. A very confiderable number of adventurers have, at different times, afcended into the air by the afliftance of balloons, whofe defcent is produced by letting out a portion of the inflammable air, and regulated by ballait, which may be detached if the velocity fhould appear too precipitate. One of thefe courageous experimenters is faid to have afcended till the barometer fell ten inches, which on a rough calculation gives upwards of two English miles perpendicular height. Two others travelled Over the city of Paris, puffing through an extent of about feven miles horizontally. This last acrial voyage was not made like the former, by the affiftance of inflammable air, but merely by the help of that expanfion which common air iş fufceptiole of by being heated an improvement of M. Montgolfer's, which

is more confiderable in favour of the practice than any other fince the original invention. For the inflammable air, though compofed out of materials which are very cheap, comparatively with other chemical articles, is very expenfive, on account of the large quantity required to be produced. But in this faft mentioned excurfion, a long column clofed above, and open below, was fubftituted instead of the balloon. Beneath the column was fufpended a brazier, and a ftage for the operators. Straw being burned in the brazier, the heated air afcended into the column, which at length became buoyant, and carried up the fire together with the managers. It will be readily conceived that a continuance of the fire would affift the afcending motion, by increasing the quantity of rarefied air; and, on the contrary, that the gradual condenfation by cooling of the internal air, and by the admixture of the exterior air at the mouth of the column, would cause it to defcend whenever the fire was remitted or put out.

To the philofophical account of thefe curious experiments, by our ingenious correfpondent, we may add, that the basket in which Meff. Charles and Roberts mounted, on the firft of December, was in the fhape of a triumphal car. It was covered with blue filk, and appended to an air-balloon. They rofe to a height which the fpectators fuppofed to be double that of St. Paul's, and then paffed along horizontally, over the Fauxbourg St. Honoré, and defcended about twenty miles diftance from the Thuilleries, whence they fet out. The Duke de Chartres, and feveral noblemen both of England and France, followed the track of the balloon by land, came in at the death, and were prefent when the aerial travellers reached the earth. Mr. Roberts alighted, but Mr. Charles only removed fome of the ballaft in order to lighten the machine, and afcended perpendicularly, in about twelve minutes, to the amazing height of 15026 toifes or 3052 yards.

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Mr. Charles, when he had reached this height, could not perceive the earth, and faw only the ether round him. The barometer fell from twenty-eight to eighteen, and the thermometer from feven above the freezing point to five below it. He came down above five miles from the place whence the balloon afcended. He did not feel any great inconvenience from the thinnefs of the air. but could breathe eafily when he was at the greatest height, and did not find the cold very intenfe or difagreeable.

WE live in the age of wonders-befides the aeroftatical experiments in Paris and England, an artift has for fome time been employed in making WINGS. What Horace faid of the fea may now be applied to the air,

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"Non langenda rates tranfiliunt vado!”

Bishop Wilkins, in an age which was not fo indefatigable in philofophical purfuits as the prefent, faid, that he fhould not be furprifed, if, in the courfe of a few years, men were to call for their wings, as frequently as they then called for their boots. We may now fee this prophetic fpeech realized.

The wings, we have been informed, are made on the model of those of the Weft-India crow, and the tail is faid to refemble that of a peacock, though it is not fo long. The ingenious artist who is employed on this aerial conveyance will make the firft experiment himfelf, as foon as he has finished a fecond pair, which he will carty with him into the regions of the clouds, in cafe any accident fhould happen to the others.

The fun which thefe wings will coft has been reported to be not under five hundred pounds. The truth of this affertion we cannot pretend to vouch; but antil, they are reduced in their value a little nearer to the price of terreftrial vehicles, the paffengers through the air will be in no danger of being overturned, on account of the number of travellers.

PRICES of STOCKS, &c. in DECEMBER, 1783.

Compiled by C. DOMVILLE, Stock-Broker, No. 95, Cornhill.

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TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE

LONDON MAGAZINE,

ENLARGED AND IMPROVED,

FOR 1783.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE HISTORY OF THE LAST SESSION OF
PARLIAMENT.

AY 7th. In the debate on par-
liamentary reform, Mr. Powys,
previous to reading the Duke of Rich-
mond's letter to the York Committee
(p. 465) obferved that a fpirit of fpe-
culation had gone forth, and had given
birth to various fyftems of reformation;
and each was fupported with warmth
and with zeal. Therefore, until it was
known which of them was moft agree-
able to the people at large, it would
not be proper to agitate the bufinefs
in parliament. Miffionaries of no in-
confiderable rank had ventured to
fpread very ftrange doctrines, which,
being plaufible, and addrefied to the
paffions of men, had gained many pro-
felytes, who would be fatisfied with
nothing less than extending the right
of election to all the men in England.
On the other hand, he could prove
from authority no lefs refpectable than
that of the Quintuple Alliance, and
Conftitutional Society, that this mea-
fure alone would not be fufficient. To
the fenfe of the people, whenever he
could difcover it, he would bow as
low as any man: but ftill without fa-
crificing his own opinion, if he thought
they looked for fomething unreafona-
ble, or what fhould appear to him to
tend more to their prejudice than ad-
vantage. The grievances of the peo-
ple were held out to the public, as the
idea under which this fcheme of re-
formation was hatched. The petitions
LOND. MAG. App. 1783.

but they were not mentioned by the were the documents of thefe grievances, right honourable gentleman as the ground-work of his motions. Why were they not read and compared, fo follicited? And why were not the as to afcertain what the fubfcribers fignatures counted, fo as to make comparifon, with the great body of known how they flood, in point of electors throughout the whole kingdom? To the miffionaries whofe ze and activity he had already mentioned, character, of high rank and great tahe fhould add a noble and refpectable lents, who was one of the main pillars of this bafclefs fabric of equal reprefentation; one who overlooked the narrow bounds of practice, and dealt in the more ample field of theory.

oppofed going into a committee on the Mr. T. Pitt faid he had formerly ftate of the reprefentation, because, the Houfe, fuch a ftep would have as no specific remedy was fubmitted to tended to alarm the minds of sober rifts, and to excite expectations, that men, to enflame the madnefs of theoneither could nor ought to be gratified. He had not, however, declared fuch as might tend to meliorate the rehimfelf an enemy to all reform, or prefentation on moderate and contitutional principles. It was his belief augmentation of the county members; that this might be effected by fome 4 D

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nor did he fee any inconvenience likely to arife from fuch a measure, if confined within certain bounds. The number of knights of the fhire, as well as of the burgefies, had actually varied, at different times, in the hiftory of parliament; it was, therefore, no innovation; but in the prefent ftate of things, it was certainly an alteration, an experiment, that ought to be applied with caution. So large an augmentation of county members as had been fuggefted by his right honourable friend, with a fuitable addition to the metropolis, as well as to Scotland, added to the prefent total of the Houfe of Commons, would render that af- fembly too unwieldy for the difpatch of bufinefs. But if that objection could be obviated, who would answer for the effect fo great an alteration might produce on their deliberations? However plaufible the expectations from fuch an increase of independent influence might be, they ought not to forget that almoft within their own memory, the religion and liberties of the country had been rescued, against the influence of the county members, by that very branch of the reprefentation which was now reprobated as rotten and corrupt. If, therefore, the order of the day fhould be negatived, be would offer an amendment, by inferting the words "an augmentation of one member to each county in England and Wales," and he would take the fenfe of the Houfe upon it. He really believed the people at large did not, at that moment, call for any alteration whatever; at the fame time, it could not be denied that a fpirit of difcontent and innovation was abroad, which deferved to be taken into consideration on the prefent queftion. He had been bred up in a veneration for the principles of a well regulated and limited monarchy, which he had always conceived to be the principle of the British conftitution. And as, on the one hand, he fhould dread a minifter who should dare to own an intention of throwing all potible power into the fcale of the crown, fo he fhould carefully feparate himfelf from one, who avowed his defign of throwing all

power into the fcale of the people. The external forms of a government, it was well known, might remain, and yet the virtue and effence of that government might be totally changed, from cafual or permanent caufes. For example, though the forms of parliament might remain among us, yet, if an artful minifter fhould deceive the ear, and abuse the confidence of the prince upon the throne, and find means by faction and corruption to ftrengthen his authority againft the fense of all mankind, and the experience of the calamities which his mifgovernment might draw, year after year, upon the country-if fuch a bad minifter could maintain his power, in defiance of the independent part of parliament, and of the nation, he should not hesitate to pronounce that fuch a government, whilst it lafted, was fo far forth an abfolute monarchy; perhaps the more abfolute, as wearing the mask of liberty. If, on the other hand, in fuch a conftitution as our's, the force of cabal and faction could feize the executive power, against the fenfe of the prince and of the people; if the titular monarch should be fo reduced, as to have no choice in the appointment of his minifters; no voice as to the meafures they were to purfue; no freewill as to granting or withholding the graces and favours of the crown; in fhort, fhould there remain nothing to him, but the painful pre-eminence of fuffering daily infults upon the throne, he fhould not fcruple to call fuch a government a republic, and a republic of the worst fort. If the caufes of fuch extremes were temporary, the mifchiefs would be temporary also; but the conftitution once altered, the causes might become permanent, and we fhould then, indeed, become hopeless of a remedy, unless by other revolu tions, which might perpetually vary the nature and effence of our government. He was ready to acknowledge that he faw no new evils that induced the neceffity of any change, yet fill it was his opinion, that the addition of one knight of the fhire to each county would improve the reprefenta tion. He forefaw, while he recom

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