The following address from the Corporation was presented to the King by the Hon. Charles Sloane Cadogan and Soame Jenyns Esq. representatives in parliament for the Town : TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the Mayor Bailiffs and Burgesses of the Most Gracious Sovereign YOUR ever Dutiful and loyal Subjects the Mayor Bailiffs and Burgesses of the Town of Cambridge, beg leave to express their unfeigned sorrow and regret for the loss of his late most Excellent Majesty whose unwearied endeavours to secure the welfare and Happiness of his Subjects and invariable attachment to the laws and Constitution of his Kingdoms throughout a long and glorious Reign justly demand the strongest and most affectionate acknowledgments from every honest Briton. At the same time that a grateful sensibility exacts this small though honourable tribute to his memory permit us Sir likewise to rejoice in the certain prospect which your Majesty's happy accession to the Throne gives us of the continuance of those invaluable Blessings our Civil and Religious Rights and Liberties which were restored and confirmed to these Nations by their Great Deliverer King William and from him transmitted through his faithful Successors unviolated into your Majesty's Hands for Protection. Confident of that and secure of every Public Blessing under it, We most humbly assure your Majesty that our lives and fortunes will be ever cheerfully devoted to the Defence of your Sacred Person and the support of your Government upon the stability of which we found our surest hopes of future happiness. MAY your Majesty long live the dreaded foe and Scourge of Tyranny and the beloved guardian of British Independency and may the grateful returns of a people as affectionate as free, make your Majesty's Reign easy and glorious to yourself and terrible to all your Enemies. GIVEN under our Common Seal, the Eighth Day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty.(1) 1761. This year, the Duke of Newcastle Chancellor of the University again presided at the Commencement.(2) At Leicester House, on the 14th of September, "the following "humble Address of the University of Cambridge, was presented to "His Majesty by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, their Chancel"lor, accompanied by the Reverend Dr. Sandby, Master of Magda"len College, Vice Chancellor, the Right Honourable the Earl of "Hardwicke, High Steward, and the following Noblemen and "Bishops of the said University, viz., the Earls of Exeter, Kin"noul, Gainsborough, Holdernesse, Halifax, Ashburnham, Lord Vis"counts Weymouth, Palmerston, Royston, Lord Montfort, Lord (1) London Gazette 15 to 18 Sept. 1760. (2) Gentleman's Magazine, xxxi. 330. "Grantham, Lord John Cavendish, the Bishops of Rochester, Litch"field, Norwich, Chester, Peterborough, Bristol, Glocester, St. Asaph, "St. David's, Landaffe, the Bishop of Clogher, Mr. Solicitor General, "the Honourable Mr. Townshend, Member for the University, his "Honour the Master of the Rolls, Sir Thomas Salisbury, Judge of "the Admiralty, Dr. Simpson, Dean of the Arches, together with "many of the younger Sons of the Nobility, and Baronets, eleven "Heads of Houses, Dr. Reeve, President of the College of Physi"cians, & a great number of Doctors in that Faculty, many Doc"tors in Divinity & Law, with upwards of an Hundred Masters of "Arts and Bachelors of Civil Law, all in their proper Academical "Habits: TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars, of the Most Gracious Sovereign! WE your Majesty's most dutiful & loyal Subjects, the Chancellor, Masters & Scholars, of your University of Cambridge, feel the warmest sentiments of joy & affection, in offering our Congratulations to your Majesty, on this most happy & auspicious Occasion. We cannot but ascribe it to a principle of the most tender regard for your People, so conspicuous in every part of your Majesty's conduct, that your Majesty should turn your earliest thoughts to a matter so highly interesting to the Happiness of your Kingdoms, & so necessary to make that happiness permanent to posterity. Your choice of a Princess for your Consort, endowed with such Virtues, and distinguished for such personal accomplishments, as will add lustre to a Throne, while they alleviate the cares of it, gives the surest prospect of Domestick happiness to your Majesty, and of universal satisfaction to your loyal & affectionate People. As Her Majesty's Illustrious line has shewn its invariable zeal for the Protestant cause, we have the firmest hopes, under God, that this alliance will perpetuate to us the most valuable blessings, which a race of British Kings, immediately descended from your Majesty, can secure to Britons; the free exercise of their holy religion, and the full enjoyment of their civil rights. THAT wonderful series of Providential Events, which has appeared in the happy progress of your Majesty's Arms, affects us with the greatest joy; & cannot fail to excite our devout acknowledgments unto him, who is the God of Armies. As these successes render your Majesty's reign truly Glorious, & your Kingdoms universally respectable; so the particular impression they must make on your enemies, by their feeling the weight of British Power, & seeing the hand of Heaven in support of your cause, will dispose them, we hope, to concur with your Majesty, in the desirable work of establishing a lasting peace in every quarter of the world; and we, as particularly bound by our Office, & Character, shall not cease to implore the great disposer of all events, that he would graciously assist your Majesty's truly Christian disposition & earnest endeavours for that purpose. WE gratefully acknowledge your Majesty's regard for, & protection of those ancient seats of Learning, which your Royal Progenitors so amply endowed & so generously encouraged; and we most humbly entreat your Majesty's gracious acceptance of these our faithful Assurances of our affectionate & zealous attachment to your Majesty's royal Person & Government; of our constant attention to answer the good ends of our Institution, by instilling into the minds of the youth, placed under our care, & inspection, such principles of Religion and Loyalty, as may make them dutiful subjects to your Majesty, & useful members of the Community: And our most earnest Petitions shall be offered at the Throne of Grace, that God would grant your Majesty a long & glorious Reign over us, as the sum of our wishes for the publick prosperity, and the surest means of Happiness to your People. "To which Address His Majesty was pleased to give this most "Gracious Answer : THE repeated Assurances of your zeal, & Affection, for my person & Government, are extremely acceptable to me; & can never be more so, than upon the present occasion, which, I trust, will be as conducive to the happiness of my People, as it is to my own. 66 You may always depend upon my protection, and favour. "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle Chancellor of the University, accompanied by the Vice Chancellor, & the other Members of the University who before waited on his Majesty, were introduced to "the Queen by his Grace the Duke of Manchester Lord Chamber"lain, when his Grace the Duke of Newcastle made the Compliments "of the University in the following speech: May it please your Majesty, To accept from the University of Cambridge, ever zealous to express their Duty to His Majesty's royal person & family, their most sincere Congratulations on this joyful occasion; which gives them the great satisfaction of seeing the Domestick happiness of their most gracious Sovereign improved by an alliance with a Princess of such distinguished Virtues & Accomplishments, & opens the fairest prospect to all his Majesty's Subjects, that the various blessings which they enjoy under His auspicious reign will be continued, & secured to their posterity. LONG may your Majesty possess the Affections of that People, whom your presence has filled with such uncommon joy; & may Heaven vouchsafe so to bless your Royal Nuptials, that from this happy union, a race of Princes may arise, who, endowed with the same Hereditary Virtues, & educated in the same generous principles, for the support of the Protestant Cause, may transmit the renown of British Monarchs, & the liberties of the British Nation entire, and uninterrupted, to remotest ages. "The Queen's most Gracious Answer" was in these terms: I return you my thanks for this mark of your Duty to the King, & Affection to me, and I feel most sensibly your kind congratulations. "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the Univer"sity, accompanied by the Vice Chancellor and the other members "of the University, who before waited on their Majesties, were "introduced to her Royal Highness [the Princess Dowager of Wales] "by the Right Honourable Lord Boston, Chamberlain to her Royal "Highness; when his Grace the Duke of Newcastle made the com"pliments of the University in the following Speech : May it please your Royal Highness, THE University of Cambridge begs leave to approach your Royal Highness, with their most sincere Congratulations upon the happy Nuptials of their most gracious Sovereign, with a Princess so eminent for her personal Virtues and Endowments; and descended from an Illustrious House, always zealous for the Protestant Religion. May your Royal Highness long live to see a numerous progeny arise from this happy Alliance; who, emulating the Virtues of their Royal Parents, shall also place their chief Glory in the protection of our Holy Religion; the encouragement of useful Learning; and the support of the just rights of a free and Loyal people. "Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager's Answer" was as follows: I thank you for this fresh Mark of your Attention to me: Nothing can give me greater pleasure, than your Congratulations on this happy occasion.(1) The following address from the Corporation to the King on his marriage was presented to his Majesty by the Earl of Kinnoul Recorder and the Hon. Charles Sloane Cadogan, and Soame Jenyns Esq. representatives in parliament for the Town : TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. THE HUMBLE ADDRESS of the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Most Gracious Sovereign, WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of your Ancient & Loyal Corporation of Cambridge, warmly affected with every circumstance in which either the Honour & Dignity of your Crown, or your Majesty's personal & domestick Happiness is concerned, beg leave most humbly to offer our sincere & fervent congratulations upon the celebration of your Royal Nuptials, with a Princess possessed of every amiable & virtuous Accomplishment that can entitle Her to your Majesty's affection, and to the esteem & confidence of your faithful Subjects. This event is of the highest importance to these Kingdoms, as it affords the most reasonable expectation of our posterity's enjoying, under a race of Kings descended from your Majesty, those many invaluable blessings, the full possession of which constitutes the present, and peculiar happiness of Britons. IT is with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction, Sir, that we take this joyful Occasion of renewing our strongest assurances of unalterable attachment to your Majesty's person & Government, & our most ardent wishes for the lasting glory & prosperity of your Reign. GIVEN under our Common Seal this Twenty first Day of September, one thousand seven hundred and sixty one.(2) In celebration of the King's marriage the University published a collection of poems entitled "Gratulatio Academiæ Cantabrigiensis (1) London Gazette, 12 to 15 Sept. 1761; Gentleman's Magazine, xxxi. 408, 427. (2) London Gazette 22 to 26 Sept. 1761. auspicatissimas Georgii III. Magnæ Britanniæ Regis, et Serenissimæ Charlottæ Principis de Mecklenburgh-Strelitz nuptias celebrantis."(1) Amongst the contributors were George Sandby D.D. Vicechancellor, Henry Earl of Gainsborough M.A. of King's College, Hon. John Grey of Queens' College third son of the Earl of Stamford, John Green D.D. Master of Corpus Christi College afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, Kenrick Prescott D.D. Master of Catharine Hall, Edmund Law D.D. Master of Peterhouse afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, Lynford Caryl D.D. Master of Jesus College, Samuel Ogden D.D. senior fellow of St. John's College, Robert Plumptre D.D. President of Queens' College, James Marriott LL.D. fellow of Trinity Hall afterwards Judge of the Admiralty, William Bell M.A. fellow of Magdalene College, Thomas Zouch B.A. scholar of Trinity College, John Langhorne scholar of Clare Hall, and Joah Bates of King's College. 1762. A clause in the militia act of this year,(2) giving liberty to set up trades, provided that such liberty should be subject to the like exception in respect to the two Universities as was contained in the 22 Geo. II. c. 44.(3) Richard Walker D.D.(4) Vicemaster of Trinity College, by indentures of lease and release dated respectively the 24th and 25th of August, (after setting forth the advantages resulting from the study of botany, and reciting that with a view to the reviving so useful as well as curious a branch of knowledge, and as nothing could be more conducive thereto than having a public Botanic Garden, with proper persons to take care of, govern, and conduct the same,(5) he had purchased the freehold and leasehold messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments hereinafter mentioned, and had appropriated a certain part of the said lands for such garden, into which many plants had been introduced, and a greenhouse had been begun to be erected therein, and had also appropriated a freehold messuage adjoining thereto for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and for or towards (1) "Excudebat Cantabrigiæ Josephus Bentham Academia Typographus mense Octobri, "M.DCC.LXI." Fo. (2) Stat. 2 Geo. III. c. 20, s. 79. (3) Vide ante p. 268. (4) As to Dr. Walker, see Monk's Life of Bentley, ii. 26 & post; Pope's Dunciad, b. iv. 206, 273; Cumberland's Memoirs, i. 96. Dr. Walker was a munificent benefactor to his College as well as the University. It is said that being once told of a brother florist's death by suicide in the spring, he exclaimed, "Is it possible? Now at the beginning of tulip time." (5) The design of a Botanic Garden had been entertained as far back as 1696, and the project was renewed in 1724 and 1731.-Cambridge Portfolio, i. 81. |