March 27 was held at St. James's a Chapter of the Moft Nobie Order of the Garter, when Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Grafion, and Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, were elected Knights Companions, in the room of the late Dukes of Buckinghamshire and Rutland. A. D. field, Duke of Buckinghamshire, happily restored in the North, by 1722. James Craggs, Efq; the other the Conclufion of the Treaty be principal Secretary of State, and tween the Czar and the King of John Manners. Duke of Rutland, Sweden; and that a great Number departed this Life. of British Subjects were deliverd from Slavery by the Treaty lately concluded with the Moors, defred them to improve this favourab Opportunity by extending Commerce of the Nation, part larly with Regard to Naval Store, took Notice of the unípeakin Mifery and Defolation occa by the raging of the Plague in veral Parts of Europe, and rommended to them to take e Measures for fuppreffing the aber nable Practice of running of Ga by which the Contagion might brought into this Nation. April 15 about 7 in the Evening her Royal Highness the Princels of Wales was delivered of a Prince at Leicester Houfe. And in the Beginning of the following Month the young Prince was privately baptized by the Name of William Augufius. Auguft 10 the King went to the House of Peers, and made a Speech, wherein he took Notice of the great Calamity occafioned by the wicked Execution of the South Sea Scheme; and of the Difficulties in providing proper Remedies for it; but at the fame Time hinted, that the Loffes fuftained thereby had been industriously raised and inflamed by malicious and feditious Libels. After which the Parliament was prorogued to the Nineteenth Day of October next. Not long after Dr. Thomas Green, Rector of St. Martin's in the Fields, was made Bishop of Norwich, in the room of Dr. Charles Trimnell, who was tranflated to Winchester, Dr. Benjamin Hoadley was tranflated to the See of Hereford, which was vacant by the Death of Dr. Philip Bife, and Dr. William Talbot, Bithop of Sarum, was tranflated to the Bishoprick of Durham, vacant by the Death of Nathaniel Lord Crew. The Parliament met October 19, and the King in his Speech acqu. .cd them that Peace was December 8, a general Fat w religiously observed throug England and Wales for depreci God's Judgments, and avers the Plague. The fame Ma Richard Lumley, Earl of Scarburogë, and John Cecil, Earl of Exeter, un parted this Life, as did allo Char Lord Cornwallis, Charles DehrManchefter, Robert Earl of Hers nefs, and Charles Duke of Bam the January following. March 7, the King went to Houfe of Peers, and after an bro fome and elegant Speech delivers. by the Speaker on Accoun: their Approaching Diffolution being now the feventh Year their Seffion) gave the Royal fent to feveral Bills, among wh were, An Act to enable bis Kay effectually to prohibit Commerci the Space of one Year) with ex Country that is or shall be infos with the Plague; An A♬ to the South Sea Company to d the Effects in their Hands by a Lottery or Subfcription, &c. in pro to pay the Debts of the jaid Center and another for faxing of the celling one Miluin of han h a gracious Speech of Thanks April 19 died Charles Spencer s. And then difmiffed them tended Divine Service in the Ca- His Majefty made a Progrefs to At his Entrance into Wiltshire A. D. 1722. A. D. the Dock, proceeded into the 1722. Town, and was received by the Mayor and Aldermen in their Formalities, the Garrison of that Place, commanded by Lieutenant General Maccartney, being under Arms, and the Cannons of the Ramparts firing; and paffing through the Streets, which were all thronged with People, alighted at the Houfe of Mr. Rydge, where many Nobility and Gentry had the Honour to kifs his Hand. From Portsmouth he went in the Evening to Stanftead, the Seat of the Earl of Scarborough, the Houses of every Village in his Paffage thither being illuminated, and many Bonfires lighted. Here the Canons, Refidentiaries, and Prebendaries of the Cathedral Church of Chichefer, with many Clergymen of thofe Parts, as alfo the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Chefter, prefented their Addreffes, and his Majefty conferred the Honour of Knighthood on Thomas Peckham Efq; High Sheriff of Suffex. From hence his Majefty proceeded to Guilford, where he ordered 50%. to be given to the Poor Prifoners for Debt, and arrived in perfect Health at his Palace at Kensington. October 9, the new Parliament met at Weminfier, and rechofe Spencer Compton Efq; for their Speaker. The King in his Speech, informed them of new Defigns againft his Government, and that the Confpirators had made, by their Emiliaries, the ftrongeft Inftances for Affittance from Foreign Powers, but were disappointed in their Expectations; that however, confiding in their Numbers, and not difcouraged by their former ill Succefs, they refolved once more, upon their own Strength, to attempt the Subverfion of the Government; and that fome of the Confpirators had been taken up and fecured, and Endeavours were used for the ap prehending others. Upon this is was moved that the Habeas Corpur fhould be fufpended for a The, which after fome Struggles was carried in the Affirmative. The Earl of Orrery, Bishop of Rockets, and the Lord North and Grey wee committed to the Tover for He Treafon, and the Duke of North, who had been feized by his Me jefty's Order, was wish the Cen fent of the Houfe of Peers com mitted to the fame Place. November 21, Chrißother in Efq; was tryed at the King's Besch Westminster, on Account of the faid Confpiracy, and after a vev long hearing the jury brought him in guilty of High Treason, and to was executed at Tyburn on the Se venteenth of May, by virtue of a Rule of Court. He was charged with having kept a Corsefpondence with the Pretender, and other Enemies of the Government beyond its Seas, and a Scheme was produce. in Court of the Method agreed upo for feizing the Tower of London, ih: they were to proceed from there to the Exchange, the Gates of th City to be fhut up, and Pieces Cannon brought down against them to place a Guard at the lever: Gates and Inlets, and then to marc back to Tower Hill, which was b be the Place of general Rendezvo And afterwards to feize the King Perfon, &c. The Watch Word to be This Morning. About this Time great Number of diforderly and ill defigning Pe fons affociated themfeives under the Name of Blacks, and being armet with Swords, Fire Arms, and ore cffenfive Weapons, entred, in di guifed Habits, with their Fact blacked, into feveral Forests and Parks in the Counties of Berk 2 Southampton, and killed and carried away many Deer; and trequency : menacing Letters to the Own and Keepers of Parks, demandVenison and Money to be fent them in certain Places mentioned the Letters, threatned, in Cafe Failure of Performance of their gal Demands, to murder the Pers to whom they fent fuch Letters, to burn their Houses, Barns, or y Stacks. And to fuch a Pitch Audacioufnefs were feveral of fe Perfons grown, that they af bled in large Bodies, fhot at maPerfons in their Houfes, maimed ir Horfes and Cattle, broke down ir Gates and Fences, and cut vn Avenues, Plantations, and ads of Fish Ponds, and robbed m of their Fish. To prevent fe outrageous Practices, a Promation was published by the ng and Council, dated February offering one Hundred Pounds ward for every Perfon apprehendand convicted of the Offences refaid. March 13, the Chancellor of the <chequer acquainted the Houfe of ommons, that his Majefty having d just Reason to apprehend Dr. ind, one of their Members, for High Treafon, had caufed him to be cured, and defired their Concurnce, on which the Houfe, after me Debate, addreffed his Majefty O confine him. Both Houses apointed Committees to examine the apers and other Evidences relating the Confpiracy; who having feerally made their Reports, the Prioners were permitted to defend emfelves in Regard to the Bills then epending against them. Which, with the Time fpent in examining to the Management of the Harurgh Lottery, imployed a good Part of this Seffion. This Confpiracy was fo artfully arried on under fictitious Names, hat it required much Application to come at the true Knowledge of A. D. fome of the Perfons concerned there- 1725. in. Among others the Name of Digby often occurring in the Papers feized by the Government on this Occafion, and appearing to have had a confiderable Hand in the Contrivance, Orders were fent to Mr. Crawford, his Majefty's Refident at Paris, to difcover, if poffible, the Perfon meant by that Name; which was found out by this Artifice: Mr. Crawford folded up a Paper in the Form of a Letter, fealed it, and directed it to Mr. Digby at Paris ; then wrapped it up in a Piece of wafte Paper, with a Memorandum in it, to be informed at Mr. Waters's, Banker in Chriftrine Street, in what Part of Paris Mr. Digby lived. A fmart young Fellow, who could fpeak both French and Englife, was ordered to go booted and a little dirted to Mr. Waters's, and to open before him this Sham Letter, read the Memorandum, fhew him the Direction of the Letter, and to defire him at the fame Time to fend fome body with him to conduct him to the Place it was to be delivered; that as foon as he should come to the Door where it was to be delivered, he should pretend to have left a Packet at Home, and fhould flip away from his Conductor with the Excufe of fetching it. Waters was not at Home when the Meffenger came, but his chief Bookkeeper, without giving himself the Trouble of going, wrote under the Name of Digby. A Monfieur Dillon, Rue Colombier a l'Hotel d'Holande; which was the ordinary Refidence of Lieutenant General Dillon. Philip Neynne, Clerk, who was to have been principal Evidence, was drowned in attempting to make his Efcape from the Meffengers. A. D. The Report made by the Com1723. mittee of the Houfe of Commons having been printed, from whence the curious Reader may inform himself as to Particulars, I fhall only obferve in general, that the Committee delivered it as their Opinion, That a Defign had been long carrying on by Perfons of Figure and Distinction at Home, in Conjunction with Traitors abroad, for placing the Pretender on the Throne of thefe Kingdoms. That various Methods had been attempted, and different Times fixed for putting this Defign in Execution. That the firit Intention was to have procured a regular Body of foreign Forces to invade thefe Kingdoms at the Time of the jate Elections; but that the Confpirators, being difappointed in this Expectation, refolved next to make an Attempt at the Time that it was generally believed his Majefty intended to go to Hanover, by the Help of fuch Officers and Soldiers as could pass into England unobferved from abroad, under the Command of the late Duke of Ormond, who was to have landed in the River with a great Quantity of Arms, provided in Spain for that Purpose, at which Time the Tower was likewife to have been feized, and the City of London to have been made a Place for Arms; but this Defign being alfo ditappointed by the Discoveries made in England, and his Majesty's putting off his Journey, by the Incampment of his Forces at Home, as well as the fending for thofe from Ireland, and by the Readiness of his Majesty's good Allies the States General, to affift him in cafe of Need, by the Orders given in Spain, that the late Duke of Or mend fhould not be fuffered to em- fered to pafs through that Kdom, the Confpirators found themfelves under a Neceffity of deter ring their Enterprize till the Breaking up of the Camp: During which Interval, they were labouring by their Agents and Emiffaries to corrupt and feduce the Officers and Soldiers of his Majesty's Army, and depended fo much on this Derti on, as to entertain Hopes of pa cing the Pretender on the Thr though they fhould obtain to ance from abroad, which nevettelefs they ftill continued to ut for. After a mature Confideration the whole Matter, three feveral 465 to inflict Pains and Penalties en Francis Lord Bishop of Red' John Plunket, and George Kelly 27 Jobnfon, paffed both Houses, n received the Royal Affent, Me2", at which Time the Parliament was prorogued. Feb. 22, the Princess of Wal was delivered of a Princefs at L cefter House, who was baptized the Name of Mary. In the fame Month Sir Ch pher Wren, the famous Archi departed this Life in the Nire firit Year of his Age. In the Feg ning of April, died Edward H Earl of Clarendon, and not lors, after Dr. John Robinson, Bior London, in the Ninety-third Ye of his Age; upon whote De Dr. Edmund Gibson was tranfes to London, and Dr. Richard R molds to Lincoln; Dr. Samuel Bra ford to Rochefter, vacant by Deprivation of Dr. Francis bury; Dr. William Baker, Red of St. Giles in the Fields was pro moted to the See of Bangor, ar Dr. John Waugh, Dean of Gin fler, to Carlifle. In the latter End of Mar. T mas Howard, Duke of N William North, Lord Narts 2nd |