May 19. Militia pay and clothing bill. Act to repeal the duty on fhops. Act to fufpend, for a limited time, an act of latt feflions, for the better fecuring of the rights of freeholders at county elections, and for indemnifying the perfons appointed to carry it into execution. Act for repealing the faid act of laft feffion. Act for the importation of bread, flour, corn, &c. from the United States of America into the province of Quebec. Act to continue an act for the en couraging of the arts of defigning and printing linens, &c. June 24. Act to amend the hawkers and pedlars act. A&t to incorporate certain perfons under the name of the Northumberland fishery. July 13: the enrollment of the deeds and wills of papifts, &c. Act to prevent the wilful burning and destroying fhips, or destroying any woollen, linen, filk, or other goods in Scotland. Act for granting additional duties on horfes and carriages. Ditto on probates of wills, letters of administration, receipts for legacies, &c. Ditto on newspapers, advertisements, cards, and dice. A&t for the more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton. Act refpecting the importation and exportation of corn, ftarch, rapefeed, &c. Act to explain the American intercourse bill. Auguft 11. Act refpecting piece goods wove in this kingdom, perfons licensed to retail fpirituous liquors, &c. Act for allowing a drawback on the exportation of tea to Guernsey, &c. Act for appointing commiflioners to enquire into the emoluments of the officers of the customs in Scotland. Act for continuing for a time the Two acts for raising money by flave trade regulating bill. exchequer bills. The lottery bill. Act for appointing commiffioners to enquire further into the loffes of Act for raising money by fhort the American loyalists. annuities. Ditto by a tontine. A&t for repealing the duties on fpirits, &c. in Scotland Act to indemnify perfons who have omitted to qualify themfelves for public offic, &c. Act for allowing further time for Act for the more effectual executing the laws refpecting gaols. A&t to enable the Eaft India company to raise money by further increafing their capital ftock. Ad for repealing the duties on tobacco and fnuffs, and granting new duties in lieu thereof. Stock c.red. conf. conf. Ann. Ann. Stock An. PRICES of STOCK for the Year 1789. N. B. The highest and loweft Prices of each STOCK in the Course of any Month are put down in that Month. S. Seal Old | New Navy Excheq. Lottery India bonds Bills. Mar. { 173 74 73 957113224613165 697 { 77278 4∞ 30∞0/00 74 72 17 25 15 18 0 178231 2494 113 22613168 69 1763753 176 75 75 74 73 85 962 114222713169 69 80 173 74 179 76 941142213168169178 7797 ་ 11622137170701 June 175125 794 95 15 22 1346946978 July { Aug. Sept. 180477 17876 77971164 222 13174. 70 85 73 73 1 86 73 742 1 30 δι 85 76 76{| 1} 30 15 16 6 872 79 78 1 33 15 18 o 97 8678 7736 107 883 791 784 60 15 16 o 16 16 99 884 79 78 58 109 901 8080 60 16 8 o 18 16 BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS. The LIFE of LORD CHANCELLOR COWPER. [Extracted from the IVth Vol. of Dr. KIPPIS's Edition of the BIOGRAPHIA BRITTANNICA.] ILLIAM Cowper, earl Cowper, lord high Chaneellor of Great Britain, was de. fcended from an ancient family, and fon to fir William Cowper, baronet, who was member of parliament for the town of Hertford, in the reigns of Charles II. and William III. He is fuppofed to have been born in the caftle of Hertford, of which his family had been a confiderable time in poffeffion; but of the place, or time of his birth, or where he was educated, we have not been able to obtain any certain information. It appears, however, that being brought up to the study of the law, he made fo great a proficiency in it, that, foon after he was call. ed to the bar, he was chofen recorder of Colchester. His eloquence, and skill in his profeffion, rendered him very confpicuous in it; and in the reign of king William, he was appointed one of his majesty's council learned in the law. In 1695, he was chofen one of the reprefentatives in parliament for the town of Hertford; his father, at the fame time, being elected the other member for that borough. The following year, he appeared as Council for the crown on the trials of fir William Perkins, brigadier Rookwood, major Lowick, and Charles Cranburne, who were convicted of high treafon, for being concerned in the plot to affaffinate king William. The fame year, he was alfo council for the crown on the trial of captain Thomas Vaughan, for high treafon on the high feas: and he likewife fupported, in parliament, the bill of attainder against fir John Fenwick. In 1704, he made a speech in the house of commons, in the famous cafe of Afhby and White, in which he maintained, that an action did lie at common law, for an elector, who had been denied his vote for members of Parliament. His practice and reputation continued greatly to increafe; on the acceffion of queen Anne, he was again appointed one of the council to the crown; and on the 11th of October, 1705, he was conftituted lord keeper of the great feal of England." "The following year, commiffioners having been appointed for England and Scotland, to treat con cerning an union of the two kingdoms, they met, for the first time, at the Cockpit, Whitehall, on the 16th of April; when the lord keeper Cowper |