His Royal Righnefs the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the greatest Number of Peers ever known on fuch an Occafion, attended, moft magnificently dreffed and arrayed in their Robes.

Earl Ferrers being brought to the Bar, after hearing the Charge against him, pleaded Not Guilty; on which the Attorney and Sollicitor General called feveral Witnesses, who attefted the Fact; and then Mr. Serjeant Davy and Counsellor Stow enumerated on his Lordship's Defence, and examined fome Witneffes, which tended to prove that his Lordship was at that Time out of his Mind.

17. This Morning, about Nine O'Clock Earl Ferrers paffed over London-Bridge, with his Guard, to attend his Trial before the House of Peers in Weftminster- Hall, when the Remainder of his Lordship's Witneffes were examined; after which the Lords adjourned to their own Chamber, and came in again, and their Opinions taken by the Lord High Steward, when their Lordships unanimously found him Guilty of the Felony and Murder. And,

18. The unhappy Earl was again brought to Westminster-Hall, when the fatal Sentence of the Law was paffed upon him; according to which he was condemned to be banged and anatomifed on Monday the 21ft; but by Virtue of a Power given by the Act of Parliament to the Judges to respite the Execution, and his Lordship having pray'd the Court for a longer Time to prepare for Death, the Execution of his Lordship was refpited to Monday the 5th of this Inftant May.

During Lord Ferrers's Trial he was not all the Time obliged to ftand at the Bar, but had the Liberty of retiring occafionally into a Room allotted for that Purpofe; but upon every Time of his entering the Bar, he was obliged to kneel down as a Compliment to the Throne, his Majefty being fuppofed to be there in the Perfon of the Lord High Steward.

When his Lordship petitioned, the Court for a longer Time to prepare himself, the Lord High-Steward very tenderly and pa.. thetically remark'd, that notwithstanding the Awefulness of that Court, where he had experienced all poffible Justice and Indulgence, yet he was in Hopes he had, during his long Confinement, ufed every Endeavour to prepare himself for that much more Supreme and Tremendous One, before which he would fhortly appear; but as there was a Claufe in the Act, which invested him with the Power, he would grant him the Indulgence requested.

The Axe being carried before Lord Fer

rers, we understand, is not as an Emblem of the Death he is to die; but the Badge of the Office of the Perfon who carries it.

The Nature of the Office of a Lord Higb Steward, being generally little known, the following foort Account of it may be acceptable to many of our Readers,

The Lord High Steward, according to the Account of our Ancestors, was the first great Officer of the Crown; as having the Authority of what we call Vice-Roy. But the Power of this highest Officer under the King, was found to be so very great, that it was thought unsafe to veft it longer in the Hands of any Subject: For, according to an ancient Record, the Office was no less than to supervise and regulate the whole Kingdom, both in Time of Peace and War, immediately under the King, and after him. The Office was hereditary and permanent, in the Family of the Dukes of Lancaster, till the Time of Henry IV. The laft who poffeffed it was Henry of Bolingbroke, Son and Heir to the great Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, afterwards King of England. Since whom, it has been made, pro hac vice, occafionally only; as to officiate at a Coronation, where a Lord High Steward fits judicially, and keeps his Court at the King's Palace at Weftminfter, and there receives the Bills and Petitions of all fuch Noblemen and others, whe claim to do Services on that Occafion; or to officiate at the Arraignment of a Peer of the Realm for Treafon, Felony, or any other Crime, to judge and give Sentence, as the ancient High Stewards were wont to do. When the Trial is ended, his Grace breaks the White Staff, which, during his Stewardship, he bears in his Hand, and with this Ceremony the Commiffion expires.

20. A Petition was, by the Hon. Capt. Shirley, and the Hon, and Rev. Mr. Shirley, prefented to his Majesty in Favour of

Earl Ferrers.

His Lordship, fome Time before his Trial, made a handsome Provision for the Children of his deceafed Steward, and for the Payment of his Debts.

Extract of a Letter from the Hague, April 22.

"The British Minifter has as yet delivered no formal Invitation for the Swedish and Saxon Courts to fend Plenipotentiaries to a Congrefs But fuppofing a Congrefs fhould meet in the Course of next Month; when we confider the great Distance between each Court and Breda, it will, in all Probability, be many Months before the various Pretentions of each Court can pof.

efcap'd in their Boats, being but 4 Leagues from Berry-head.

The Polling, Keele, from London, and the Ann, Hatton, from Madeira, were taken and ransomed.

The True Briton, Cotterel, from Gibraltar for London, carried into St. Malo's.

The Industry, from Colchester, taken and ranfomed.

The Keelham, Cooper, from London to Oporto, taken and carried into Vigo.

A Ship with go Blocks of Tin, fent inte Havre de Grace.

BIRTHS.

April 5. The Duchefs of Hamilton, Lady of the Hon. John Campbell, a Daughter. 7. The Lady of Frank Schutz, Efq; a Daughter.

10. The Right Hon. the Countess of Harrington, a Daughter.

The Lady of James Digges Latouche, Efq; a Daughter.

13. The Countefs of Offory, Lady to Richard Vernon, Efq; a Daughter.

MARRIAGES.

April 3. Richard Lloyd, Efq; to Mifs Wheate, of Glymton, in Oxfordshire.

7. Sir Matthew Blackifton, Knt. and Alderman of London, to Mifs Annabella Bay. ly, of Derby.

12. The Rev. Mr. Prior, to Mifs Regis, of Windfor.

13. Sir George Armytage, Bart. to Mifs Wentworth, of Cavendish fquare.

15. Sir Charles Smith, of Thoydon Boys, Effex, to Mifs Burgefs, of St. John's Square. William Whitaker, Efq; to Mifs Burkin, of Burlingham, Norfolk.

DEATHS.

Mar. 25. Dr. William Cox, Physician, in Piccadilly.

The celebrated Mrs. Margaret Woffington, in Queen-fquare, Weftminster. She had quitted the Stage a confiderable Time, 30. Mrs. Hayter, Mother to the Lord Bishop of Norwich.

April 1. The Right Hon. Lady Dowager Viscountefs Cobham.

3. The Right Hon. the Lady Amelia Butler, Sifter to the late Duke of Ormond, aged

near 100.

5. The Right Hon. Lady Petre, Daughter to the late Earl of Derwentwater.

7. John Clifford, Efq; at Hammersmith. William Leman, Efq; at Truro in Cornwall; faid to be worth 200,000 1.

10. Alderman John Forbes (who lately ferved the Office of Lord Mayor of Dublin,) while on the Bench at the Tholfel,

Lady Harcourt, Mother of the present Earl.

William Bennet, Efq; at Lewisham.

13. Mr. Pearson, an Apothecary in Durham, who had acquired a Fortune of 2000 l. by his Business with a fair Character. Notwithstanding which, his whole Stock and Library have fince been fold for 21. 19s.

15. Sir Afhwell Lake, Chairman of the Hudfon's Bay Company.

Mifs Trevor Hamden, Daughter of Trevor Hamden, Efq; one of the Postmasters General.

16. Mr. Billinghurst, Mafter of Sunning Mill; faid to die woth 30,000 1.

Ja. Scott, Efq; at Alnwick. B-KRS. March 29. Edward Wilmot, of Manchefter, Lancashire, Dealer and Chapman. John Bevan, of St. George, Hanoverfquare, victualler.

April 5. John Young, of Cornhill, London, woolendraper.

Samuel Tucker, of Exchange-ally, London, broker, dealer and chapman.

Jofeph Richards, of the Hill, St. Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire, bucklemaker, dealer and chapman.

15. Gerard Vanhorn, of St. Saviour's, Southwark, glass-bottle-maker.

22. John Waud, of York, miller. Robert Stephenson, of St. James Clerkenwell, falefman.

John Gregory, of Feverfham, Kent, linendraper.

BILL of Mortality from March 25,10 April 22.

I.

An Effay on Bilious Fevers; or, the Hif. tory of a Bilious Epidemic Fever at Laufanne, in 1755, By S. A. D. Tiffot, M. D. Tranflated into English. D. Wilfon, 3s. 6d. This Work is printed in 8vo. and contains 228 Pages. The Author fays, in the Preface to this Book, I here offer to the candid Reader a faithful History of a fevere and tedious Disease of the putrid Kind, which was epidemical at Lausanne in Switzerland, particularly in the Year 1755 : Which he ftiles a Defign of great Utility, and points out the Method in which he had profecuted it; concluding with the following Paragraph.

I have inferted no Forms of Prescriptions; I made Ufe of few, and thofe very fimple and every Physician, who is acquainted with the Caufe of a Diftemper and Virtues of the Remedies, will very readily prefcribe the best in each particular Cafe; nor are we deftitute of fuch already compofed by Men remarkable in the Art, Boerbaave, Gorter, and Gaubius.

The Language will be found void of rhetorical Flowers, and affected Ornaments, which would have served no Purpose. Ï ftudied Eafe, avoided pompous Words, and have endeavoured to fhun Improprieties; perhaps feveral have crept in, for which I crave Indulgence. Ifubmit the whole Treatife not to the Multitude of those, who pre. tend to be Judges, but to the fmall Number, who deferve that Name; if they approve it I fhall perhaps be encouraged to attempt fomething more confiderable on Nature confidered in a Medical View, and the Smallpox.

Then follows the Table of Contents, wherein the Whole is divided into 18 Sections.

As a proper Specimen of this Work, we fhall give an Extract from Page 96.

Of the Food fuited to a Bilious Fever.

With regard to Food there are two Rules, from which a Physician muß not recede,

first that the Quantity be not too great for the digeftive Powers; and fecondly that the Quality of it be oppofed to the Caufe of thể Difeafe. In our Cafe the thinnest Diet was pointed out both by the Stomach, which loathed every Thing, and by Reafon too for when the Stomach was diftended by putrid Sordes, all the digeftive Powers were perverted; what Benefit then from Food? It is prefently thrown up again by vomiting, which happens oftner than once; or what was far worfe, it was retained, and furnished fresh Matter of Oppreffion to the Stomach; a new Stimulus and fresh Fuel to the Fever. Whatever does not nourish the Patient, feeds the Disease. Impure Bodies the more you nourish them the more you burt them. I do not know a better Aphorifm in Hippocrates, nor one more frequently tranfgreffed to the Deftruction of Mankind.

The Strength of the Stomach was not equal to the Concoction of Solids; I there fore gave only Liquids of very easy digefa tion, always obferving Hippocrates's Rule the more violent the Fever, the thinner muft be the Diet.

It was our next Business to chufe a Nu triment, which being oppofed to the Caufe of the Diftemper, would not putrify: The great Mafter of our Profeffion ufed his two Kinds of Patifan, which were nothing else but Decoctions of Barley: The best in our Disease was unboubtedly Oat Grits, for no farinaceous Species is found by Experience fo powerful as Oats, to fubdue an Alcali quickly.

An Introduction to Botany. Containing an Explanation of the Theory of that Science, and an Interpretation of its Technical Terms Extracted from the Works of Dr. Linnæus, and calculated to affi fuch as may be defirous of fudying that Author's Method and Im provements.

With twelve Cooper Plates, and two explanatory Tables. To which is added an Appendix containing upwards of two Thousand English Names of P ants, réferred to their proper Titles the Linnæan Syftem. By James Lee, Nursery Man, at the Vineyard, at Hammersmith, Tenfor, 496 Bee

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