parent, she made repeated inquiries after them; and was delighted with receiving the minute accounts of their health, amusements, and education. Having obtained their portraits from Copenhagen, she placed them in her most retired apartment, after apostrophizing them as if they were present, and addressing them in the tenderest manner.

The short but woeful life of this young Queen will be long and deeply remembered; and, even in distant ages, the sorrows of Matilda will draw tears from the sympathizing reader.

Of the monument of this unfortunate Queen a late traveller writes thus: "My first excursion to Zell near Hanover, led me to an expectancy of seeing an exquisite piece of sculpture, and I was not disappointed. It stands in the palace-garden, at the end of an alley of limes, on a turf mound, planted with Weymouth pines and weeping willows. Truth, who may be recognized by the mirror at her side, crowns an urn with palm wreaths. Before her stands Patriotism, in the form of a beautiful woman, with a child in her arms, whose eyes are fixed on the bust of the Queen. On her side a Genius holds a rose up to her with his right hand, but she appears insensible to every thing, and wholly absorbed in contemplating the object before her."

In answer to an Address presented to his Majesty by the Citizens of London, on this union, he assured them that the marriage of his sister to his good ally, the King of Denmark, was very acceptable to him.

On the 27th of October, her Royal Highness the Princess-Royal was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the name of Charlotta Augusta Matilda. The sponsors were the King of Denmark (represented by the Duke of Portland, Lord-Chamberlain), the Queen of Denmark (represented by the Countess of Effingham, one of the Ladies of the Bed-chamber), and her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa in person.

On this occasion, the wet-nurse had a whité satin dress given to her, with lace and every thing correspondent; and, on the cutting of the first tooth, she had

her choice of a silver urn, or 2001.: the former was generally chosen. Hence it appears that maternal affection, and not parsimony, induced her Majesty to nurse her royal children-at home.

Though her Majesty's accouchements were attended with inconsiderable pains, yet she so felt for the sufferings of indigent females who were not properly provided for, on those occasions, that she founded at this time the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, Bridge-road, for the reception of pregnant women. She was also the patroness of several charitable institutions; particularly the Asylum, for orphan girls, in Westminster-road, and the Magdalen Hospital, Blackfriars-road. She likewise patronized the Westminster Hospital, James-street, Westminster, and assisted in forming an establishment for the daughters of decayed gentlewomen or orphans. A house and grounds were purchased in Bedfordshire, where a lady of high attainments was placed, at a salary of 500l. a-year, to instruct the pupils in embroidery. They were taken in at fifteen years of age. The produce of their labour was converted into ornaments for window-curtains, chairs, sofas, and bed-furniture, for Windsor-castle and her own palace.

1767.-On the evening when the funeral of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick-William took place, about a quarter before ten, a signal was given from Westminster-bridge by the firing of a sky-rocket; which signal being answered by another from the centre arch of London-bridge, minute guns were immediately fired at the Tower, which were continued till it was known by a second signal that the whole ceremony at Westminster was ended. The great bells in several of the churches in London and Westminster also continued tolling till the funeral was over.

On the 14th of January his Majesty came to the House of Peers, and in his speech assured both Lords. and Commons, that no time had been lost since the first advice of the disturbances in America, in issuing orders to the Governors and Commanders of forces for the

exertion of all the powers of government in the suppression of riots and tumults, and the effectual support of lawful authority.

On the morning of February 8, her Royal Highness the Princess of Brunswick was happily delivered of a Prince at St. James's.

It having been determined early in the month of February, to bring in a bill for the repeal of the American Stamp Act, an universal joy seemed to spread through every countenance in the city. The bells in most churches rang from morning till night, and particularly those of St. Michael's, Cornhill, which continued till near twelve. A number of private houses, and all the foreign coffee-houses, were illuminated.

The bill brought into the Commons for the repeal of the Stamp Act, on account of the irritation it had caused in America after a very vehement opposition, passed both Houses with considerable majorities, and received the Royal Assent; accompanied at the same time with a DECLARATORY ACT, asserting the power and right of Great Britain to bind the Colonies in all cases whatever. The joy of America was extreme at the intelligence of this repeal. The Declaratory Act they only looked upon as a salvo for the honour of Par liament; and it was not till after an interval of several years, when the Colonies had again been agitated by what they deemed a series of encroachments on their privileges, that the Assembly of Massachusetts, by a formal resolution, voted the Declaratory Act to be a grievance.

A very considerable improvement began to be visible in his Majesty's good cities of London and Westminster this year (1767), in consequence of the Act passed for the better paving, cleansing, and lighting the City of London and its liberties, and for removing obstructions, &c. The first of the large streets paved and lighted, were the great ones from Temple-bar to Whitechapel; and the Commissioners had power to cause all or any of the streets, lanes, squares, yards, courts, alleys, passages, and places to be new paved; and also to remove posts, signs, spouts, and gutters. The names

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of streets, &c. were also ordered to be put up, painted, engraved, or otherwise described, at or near their entrances, so that, by the removal of numerous large signs swinging from different projections on each side of the streets, much air and light was introduced, whilst the smoothness of the pavement, contrasted with the rough pebbles used before, with the freedom from annoyance by spouts in rainy weather, &c. &c. formed a contrast not very easily to be conceived.

Another bill was also passed in May this year, for paving the Borough of Southwark.

On the 12th of May a large body of weavers, with their wives and children, and draw-boys, went through the city to St. James's park, with colours flying, and particularly a fine silk flag embroidered with silver. They attended his Majesty's coach from the Park to the Parliament House with repeated acclamations, on account of the bill being signed for prohibiting foreign silk, the clandestine importation of which, for some time past, had reduced many families to the greatest distress.

When his Majesty met the Parliament in June, he expressed his satisfaction that the general disposition of all the powers of Europe seemed to indicate a continuance of peace; adding his earnest desire to preserve the general tranquillity, by fulfilling all the engagements to which he was bound by treaties, &c.

About this time it was resolved to erect a temporary wooden bridge from Blackfriars across the Thames, to the first stone arch on the Surrey side, for the convenience of foot-passengers, which being completed in the month of November, proved a very great convenience to the public.

Besides these domestic improvements, various useful regulations were made in the West India, and American commerce, the latter of which did away all the mischievous consequences of Mr. Grenville's Hovering Act, as it was called. A new and beneficial Treaty of Commerce was also concluded with Russia, and the longcontested affair of the Canada Bills, settled to the content of the holders.

Early in this year 1767, it was observed, that since the time that great financier, the Right Honourable Bilson Legge, was discharged from the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer in May 1761, and Lord Temple and Mr. Pitt resigned on the 18th of September that year, there had been no less than 523 changes of place among the Ins and Outs; a circumstance then not to be paralleled in the annals of the country.

In the summer of 1767 the Dutch compelled the King of Candy to abandon to them the sovereignty of the island of Ceylon; and the Jesuits were expelled from Bohemia and Denmark.

On the retirement of the Rockingham party, Mr. Pitt resumed the administration. In July 1767, the Duke of Grafton was appointed First Lord of the Treasury; Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Lord Shelburne, Secretary of State for the southern department; Lord Camden was appointed Lord Chancellor, and the Marquis of Granby placed at the head of the army. Mr. Pitt, though in reality the leader of the administration, took only the office of Lord Privy Seal, and he was created a Peer by the title of Earl of Chatham but the people no longer reposed that confidence in him which he had till that moment enjoyed.

The rapid changes that had recently taken place in the Company's affairs, occasioned the recal of Lord Clive to India. Upon his arrival he was nominated Governor-General and Commander of the Forces, at Bengal, and at the particular request of the Proprietors, having been previously honoured with the Order of the Bath, he sailed in 1765 without delay for Cal

cutta.

That Sujah Dowla, who had afforded an asylum to Cossim, was making hostile preparations against the English, was soon discovered: the battle of Buxar took place on the river Camnassary, more than a hundred miles above Patna, where the enemy were defeated with the loss of four thousand killed, after making their attack on Major Monro, whose loss on this occasion was trivial.