must be, when He finds that he can no longer go on in the fame Methods, which He hath hitherto purfued; when He hath try'd all his Arts, and publickly declared, that He hath endeavour'd at a RECONCILIATION, and would be glad of any Means to bring it about; even almost to being the SCAPE GOAT himself. Were this our Situation, much might be apprehended; but it is our prefent Happiness, that no Scheme of this Nature, or any that can have the leaft Tendency to it, is likely to meet with any Succefs. I fhall therefore conclude this Paper with the Fa ble of the Fox and the WEAZLE, as it is tranflated from Efop by Sir Roger L'Eftrange, with his Reflection upon it. Aflam, thin-gutted Fox made an hard Shift to wriggle his Body in to an Hen-rooft; and when He had ftuff'd his Guts well, He fqueezed hard to get out again; but the Hole was too little for Him. There was a Weazle a pretty Way off, that flood learing at Him all this while. Brother Reynard, fays when He, your Belly was empty, You went in, and You must e'en itay till your Belly is empty again, before You come out. Reflection. The Fox's Cafe here, is That of many a publick Minifter, who comes empty in; but when He hath cramm'd his Guts well, He is fain to fqueeze hard before He can get out again, and glad to compound with his very Skin for his Carcafs. DR APRIL. R. Butler, Prefident of Magda len College, elected Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford Sir Edmund Iham, Bart. elected Knight of the Shire for the County of Northampton, in the Room of his Brother, Sir Juftinian Ifham, de ceas'd. His Grace the Duke of Dorfet, ap pointed Lord Steward of his Majefty's Houfhold, in the Room of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Capt. Scot, appointed Commander of the Seaforth Man of War. Capt. O Brien, an old experienced Sea Officer, made one of the Admirals of the Ruffian Fleet. Mr. Bofcawen, third Lieutenant of the Britannia, appointed Captain of the Leopard, in the Room of Capt. Chambers, who is to have another Ship. The Lord Elchies, one of the ordinary Lords of Seffion, named one of the Lords of the High Court of Ju fticiary in Scotland, in the Room of the late Lord Newhall. Capt. Clinton, appointed Commander of the Gloucester, à 4th Rate of 60 Guns; Capt. Solgard, to be Commander of the Berwick, a Guardship at Portsmouth; and Capt. Weft, to be Commander of the Griffin Fireship; Mr. Woodrow was also appointed Purfer of the Newcastle Man of War. Mr. Allen made First Lieutenant of the Goucester; Mr. Dovey, Second Lieutenant; and Mr. Braund, lafe Purfer of the Newcastle, Third List tenant, under the Hon. Capt. Clinton. Mr. Dicks and Mr. Parry, made Second Lieutenants of the Berwick in their Rooms. The Earl of Eufton, and Jobr Neale, Efq; elected Members of Parliament for Coventry, in the Room of John Bird, Efq; who was made one of the Commiflioners of the Stamp Office, and the faid John Neale, Efq; whofe late Election was declared void The Lord Viscount Andover, Son and Heir apparent to the Earl of Berkfire Berkshire, elected Member of Parlia ment for Caftle-rifing in the County of Norfolk, in the Room of Thomas Hanmer, Efq; deceas'd. The Earl of Bute, elected one of the Sixteen Peers of Scotland, in the Room of the Earl of Orkney, deceas'd. Dr. Banks elected Physician, and Mr. Holloway Surgeon, of Chrift's Hofpital. Marriages. The Duke of Bedford, marry'd at Lord Gower's Houfe in Brook-ftreet, to the Hon. Mifs Levefon Gower, Daughter to the Lord Gower by his first Lady, Evelyn Pierpoint, youngest Daughter and one of the Coheirs of Evelyn late Duke of Kingston. Velters Cornwall, Efq; Knight of the Shire for the County of Hereford, to Mifs Hanbury of Herefordshire. Col. Pyot, to Mifs Burdet, one of the Sifters of Sir Robert Burdet of Formark in Derbyshire, Bart. a Fortune of 5000 1. At Dublin, William Tighe, Efq; Son of the late Right Hon. Richard Tigbe, Efq; to the Lady Mary Blighe, Sifter to the Earl of Darnley of the Kingdom of Ireland. Henry Courtenay, Efq; Brother to Sir William Courtenay, Bart.,to Mifs Bathurst, Daughter to Lord Bathurst. Mr. Pomroy, Clerk of the Checque at his Majefty's Yard at Deptford, to Mifs Weft of that Place, with 6000 / Fortune. Nicholas Bailey, Efq; Member of Parliament for Anglefea, to Mifs Paget, only Daughter and fale Heirefs of the Hon. Tho. Paget, Efq; one of the Grooms of his Majefty's Bedchamber, and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot; a Fortune of 25,000 /. Henry Hart, Efq; Son of William Hart, Efq: an eminent Merchant in Briftol, to Mifs Betty Langton, Sifter to Langton, Efq; late High Sheriff of Somerfetfhire, a Fortune of 10,000% The Hon. Herbert Windfor, Efq; Member of Parliament for Cardiff, Son and Heir to the Lord Mountjoy, to Mifs Clavering, one of the Daugh ters and Coheireffes of the late Sir James Clavering of the Bishoprick of Durham; a Fortune of 60,000!. William Seymour, Efq; youngest Son of Sir Edward Seymour, to Mifs Hippy, with 30,000%. Lord Vifcotint Dunkeron, Son and Heir to the Earl of Shelburn, to the youngest Mifs Clavering, Daughter of the late Sir Jam. Clavering, Bart. a Fortune of 60,000 1, Births The Lady of the Lord Robert Montagu, Brother to the Duke of Manchefer, deliver'd of a Son and Heir. The Lady of the Lord Gower, of a Daughter. The Lady of Auguftus Schutz, Efq; Mafter of the Robes, and Privy Purse to his Majefty, of a Daughter, at his Houfe in Brook-street. Deaths. Dy'd of a Confumption at Bath, Sir Nathan Wright, Bart. At Farnborough near Bagsbot in Hants, the Right Hon. Arthur Earl of Anglefea, Viscount Valentia, Baron Annesley of Newport Pagnel, Baron Mountnorris, and Baronet, and Lord High Steward of the Univerfity of Cambridge; which Lord, on his Acceffion to the Honour on the Death of his Brother in 1710, was appointed Joint Vice-Treafurer of Ireland, and fworn of the Privy Council. On the Death of Queen Anne, he was one of the Lords Juftices "rill his Majesty arriv'd from Hanover; after which he was again made Joint Vice-Treafurer, and fworn of the Privy Coun cil, and Treasurer at War in Ireland. On the Death of the Duke of Manchefter he was (in February 1721-2) in full Senate, unanimoufly elected High Steward of the University of | Cambridge, where he had his Education, and was one of their Represen tatives in three feveral Parliaments, whilft he was a Commoner. He was efteemed the greatest Orator of the prefent Age. Thomas Hanmer, Efq; Member of Parliament for Caftlerifing in the County of Norfolk. He marry'd the Hon. Mifs Percival, Daughter to the Earl of Egmont of the Kingdom of Ireland, by whom he has left no Iffue. At the Earl of Grantham's in Albemarle-ftreet, Madam Nafau, Sifter to Count Nafau, and a near Relation of Lord Grantham's. In an advanced Age, Mrs. Webb, Relict of the late General Webb. Sir George Beaumont, Bart. defcended from an ancient Family (orignally fprung from the Kings of France and Jerufalem) which has been feated for many Centuries in Leicestershire, and which long enjoy'd the Honour of Peerage. Among others was John Lord Viscount Beaumont, fo created by Henry VI. and the firft to whom the Title of Viscount was ever given in England. Dying a Batchelor, he is fucceeded by his next Brother, now Sir Lewis Beaumont, Bart. Rector of Pycombe in Suffex. At Clonin, (the Seat of the Earl of Weft-Meath) in the 100th Year of her Age, the Right Hon. Mary Lady Dowager Delvin, Mother to the faid prefent Earl. She was Daughter to Col. Richard Butler of Kilcah, and Niece to James the first Duke of Ormond. She was marry'd to Chriftopher Nugent, Lord Delvin, eldest Son to Richard the third Earl of WeftMeath, and by him had three Sons, Richard, Thomas, and John, and two Daughters; which faid Chriftopher Lord Delvin dying before his Father, Richard his eldeft Son, in 1684, fuc ceeded his Grandfather, and was the Benjamin Hall, Efq; Serjeant ar Arms to his Majefty, and Juftice of the Peace for the County of Kent. Brook Bridges, Efq; one of the deputed Searchers of his Majefty's Cuftoms upwards of 20 Years, a Place of 400 l. per Ann. Son of the late Sir Matthew Bridges, Kt. BrigadierGeneral, by his Lady, who is now living, Daughter of the late Sir Richard Rooth, Kt. Admiral. Samuel Dafbrwood, Efq; a Gentleman poffeffed of a plentiful Eftate, and a near Relation to Earl Powlet. At Edinburgh, Sir John Home of Blackader, Bart. a Youth, who is fucceeded in Honour and Eftate by his Brother. At Eltham in Kent, the Lady Fytche, Relict of Sir Comport Fytche of that Place, Bart. At Colchester, in the 17th Year his Age, the Hon. George Paget, Efq; younger Son of the Right Hon. the Lord Paget. At the Bath, the Lady Parker, Relict of the late Sir Gilbert Parker of Doolan in the County of Clare in the Kingdom of Ireland, Kt. Thomas Bacon, Efq; an eminent Brewer in Shoreditch. "He dy'd worth 150,000 1. James Barbon, Efq; Clerk of the Checque to his Majefty's forty Meffengers in Ordinary, aged near 100. Mifs In the 18th Year of her Age, Lyttleton, youngest Daughter to Sir Thomas Lyttleton, Bart. one of the Lords Commiflioners of the Admi ralty. 257 THE HISTORICAL REGISTER, CONTAINING An Impartial Relation of all Tranfactions, Foreign and Domeftick; as alfo, the most curious Weekly Eflays, &c. HEN we changed our Quarterly Regifter into a Monthly one, we gave our Reasons to the Publick for fo doing: But as it has been fince fignified to us, that the Majority of our Readers have kept compleat Sets of our Works, and therefore defire us to go on in the former Method, in order to make their Collection the more Uniform, we shall not hesitate to comply with what the Encouragement we have received from them has given them a Right to demand and expect from us. Nevertheless, to give as general Satisfaction as poffible, at the fame Time that we go back to a Quarterly Regifter, we fhall keep to the fame Letter and Page which we have made Ufe of in the Monthly one; by which Means, this and each fucceeding Number, will contain juft half as much more as any of the former did before the Change, without augmenting the Price: And this we do by Way of Acknowledgement, for the favoura ble Reception our Regifter has fo many Years met with from the Publick. GREAT BRITAIN. Continuation of the Proceedings and Debates in the fecond Seffion of the prefent I Parliament. N our Register for April laft, we concluded Parliamentary Affairs with a Copy of the Tithe-Bill, which Bill was read in he House of Lords a first Time, and ordered to be read a fecond Time on the 12th of May, and many Peti Accordingly, on the 12th, the Bill was read a fecond Time, and the Counfel for and against the Bill were in Part heard; on which Occafion a Question arose about the Proofs to be laid before. the Houfe by the Counsel for the Bill, in Relation to the Hardfhips and Perfecutions the Quakers had fuffered by tedious and expenfive Suits for Tithes in the Ecclefiaftical and other Courts; for the Counsel for the Bill having acquainted the Houfe, that with Refpect to Profecutions in the Exchequer, they could bring proper and legal Proofs, to wit, Copies of the Records which had been duly examined, and would be proved at their Lordships Bar to be true Copies; but with Refpect to the Profecutions in the Ecclefiaftical Courts, they had, indeed, Proofs, but they were fuch as they could not call legal Proofs, because it was only the Parol Evidence of Perfons who had been concerned in the Suits; and therefore they must fubinit it to their Lordships whether they would allow any fuch Proofs to be laid before them; upon which there was fome Debate in the Houfe, and the Queftion being at laft put, it was carry'd in the Negative. Next Day, the Counsel for and against the Bill having finished, and being withdrawn, a Motion was made for committing the Bill, whereupon a very long Debate enfued, in which the Arguments for the Motion were to the Effect as follows: which a Man is fubjected to, for not doing that which in his Conscience he thinks unlawful for him to do, is a Sort of Perfecution. We know it was once established as a fundamental and neceffary Article of the Chriftian Faith, that Tithes were due of Divine Right to the Church, that it was a moft damnable Sin to convert them to any other Ufe; and that, as they were inter Spiritualia, every Dispute in Relation to them, was to be heard and determined by the Spiritual Courts, and by them only. Thefe Doctrines, 'tis true, are now pretty much exploded, at least in this Kingdom; but ridiculous as they are, they were for many Years ftrenuously infifted on, and most industriously spread; which gave Occafion to that Sect of Men called Quakers, to establish it as one of the Articles of their Faith, That Tithes were abolished by the Christian Doctrine, and that lo far from being of Divine Right, it was inconfiftent with Chriftianity either to exact them or pay them: From hence it is, that every Man who is truly and fincerely a Quaker, is in his Confcience convinced, that it is unlawful for him to pay Tithe. But unluckily for the Quakers, those who were the Patrons and chief Promoters of the Reformation in thefe Kingdoms, though they abolisb ed the Doctrine, that Tithes were due of Divine Right to the Church; yet as the Tithe brought in a great Revenue, and as it was a Tax the People had been long accustomed to, they thought it very proper and mighty convenient for them to continue the Tax, therefore they made them due by the Laws of the Land, tho' they admitted they were not due by the Laws of the Gofpel. This, however, was no Salve for the tender Confciences of the Quakers; for as thofe Laws made the Tax ftill payable as Tithe, they thought they could |