XV. That it shall be in the power of a quorum of the committee, to call a general meeting of the whole fubferibers at any time that circumftances fhall require. XVI. That all the regulations and rules above mentioned fhall continue in force till the third Monday of January 1774 aforefaid; when they may be altered, if thought necessary.

[Upwards of twenty gentlemens names, merchants, lawyers, bookfellers, and others, åre annexed, with whom papers are lodged for receiving fubfcriptions and contributions.] An account of an extraordinary Mummy brought to England by Cæfar Young, commander of his Majesty's floop the Wefel, is October 1772, depofited in the Museum. Capt. Young having touched at Tene. riff in his return from the coaft of Guinea, had the curiosity to ascend the Pike with a guide; whereon, in a cave, (the burying-place of the ancient Pagan inhabitants), he difcovered feveral dead bodies fewed up in goats fkins; one of which he opened, and difcovered a body perfect, fresh, and the features not in the leaft mutilated. Some were feven feet long, and others five feet three inches. He expreffed a great defire to obtain one of these bodies; but the Romish prieft made many objections. Those, however, a little gold removed, and he procured him a female mummy. The body is perfect in every particular, the bowels are extracted, and the fkin appears of a deep tanned copper colour. The hair is long and black, and retains the curl; and the teeth, and nails of the the toes and fingers, are fresh. According to the tradition of the priest, and the extinction of the ancient inhabitants, it cannot be less than 500 years fince the decease of this body. Indeed it may be as probably 1000; for, according to its appearance, it may as well continue ad infinitum, as remain one year in its prefent condition. It looks like a tanned hide, and confifts of bone and fkin; the nerves, tendons, veins, and arteries, appear diftinctly like strings.

SIR, London, Jan. 4. 1773. Some time ago read a paragraph in the public papers, intimating, that his Majefty was to have an additional augmentation of 200,000l. per annum to the civillift revenue, upon account, I imagine, of a numerous family to bring up, (which, perhaps, thortly will be nine, though King Edward 1. had fixteen children). Therefore the following calculations will VOL. XXXV.

To make a comparison in these times with thofe in King Charles II.'s time, about 100 years ago, would astonish the prefent generation. For the parliament, upon the restoration of the King, fettled a yearly revenue of 1,200,000l. for the wealth and honour of the King and king-. dom; out of which fum the national expences, and his own family, were to be defrayed.

The jointure of Queen Catharine, wife of King Charles II. was only 30,000l. to which the King added 10,000l. per annum, in all 40,0co.- Our prefent Queen Charlotte's annual income is 150,000l.

The magnificence and abundant plenty of the King's table, in those times, was as follows. There were daily in his court 86 tables well furnished, each meal; whereof the King's table had 28 dishes, the Queen's 24, four other tables 16 dishes each, fix other tables had 10 difhes each, twelve other tables had 7 difbes each, feventeen other tables had 5 dishes each, thirty-two other tables had 3 dishes each, and thirteen other tables had 2 dishes each; in all about 500 dishes per week, with bread, beer, and wine neceffary.

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An authentic account of the dispute between the Earl of Bellamont and Lord Viscount Townshend.

From the London papers of Feb. 3. Several paragraphs having appeared in the papers, which have, under the fpecious pretence of giving a true state of the tranfaction between the Lords Bellamont and Townshend, introduced the most falfe conclufions, by a preamble of real, known, and avowed facts, it is become our indifpenfable duty to make public the following true ftate of that proceeding, which we hereby authorife you to do.

On Thursday, the 24th of December Lord Bellamont employed Lord Charlemont to wait on Lord Townshend with the following paper, which he read to Lord Townshend. It will fully explain the nature of the offence given to Lord Bellamont at the caftle of Dublin in February 1770, and was as follows.

"I wait upon your Lordship by defire of Lord Bellamont: Firft, To return your Lordship his thanks for the recommendations to the King, with which you honoured him, and for which it was his intention to have thanked you in perfon, if you had done him the favour to receive him the last time that he attended, by your Lordship's appointment, for private audience. I am further to acquaint your Lordship, that Lord Bellamont thought it his duty not to break in upon your Lordship at an earlier day, left he fhould interrupt you in giving an account of your high commiffion to the King, or in taking an account of your own important affairs. But as your Lordship has now been twelve days in town, he conceives that he may, with propriety, remind your Lordship of the difrefpect thrown upon him by the meflage delivered to him from your Lordship by your aid-de-camp, of which Lord Bellamont makes no doubt that your Lordfhip retains a perfect recollection; it having been of that force as to have obliged him to refign his employment in the army, in order that he might be at liberty to call upon your Lordthip for an adequate apology, without incurring the King's difpleafure. But left your Lordfhip fhould not have a minute recollection of that tranfaction at this distance of time, Lord Bellamont has ftated it as follows.

When Lord Bellamont, after feve

ral repeated attendances by appointment, off without feeing your Lordship, did aon all which occafions he had been put gain wait upon your Lordship by appointment, the aid-de-camp in waiting having gone down to your Lordship, and returned, addreffed Lord Bellamont in an audible voice, and acquainted him, That he need not ftay any longer, for that your Lordship would not be at leisure to fee him that day; and at the fame time turning to feveral other perfons of different ranks and profeffions, he told them, that your Lordship requested they would wait, as your Lordship would fee them, however late it might be before you could finish with them, or words to that effe&. Lord Bellamont replied to the aid-decamp: "His Excellency will be pleased to afcertain at what time he will fee me : I have already waited feveral times by appointment, and have been fent away each time." To which the aid-de-camp brought back the following message to Lord Bellamont: "His Excellency commands me to tell your Lordship, That he ufually does military bufinefs on Wednefdays, and any other business on Thurfdays; that if your Lordship comes on either of thofe days, and that his Excellency fhall be at leifure, he will fee you among others in your turn." To which Lord Bellamont replied, "Sir, you will be fo good as to inform his Excellency, that as a Peer of the realm I have a right to audience; but if his Excellency does not know what he owes to me, I know what I owe to myself, and therefore will not wait upon him here or elsewhere. I will write a letter to his Excellency, ftating my business, to which I expect he will fhew due attention, as it nearly concerns a refpectable corps of officers."

This, my Lord, is, as Lord Bellamont conceives, an exact state of the reciprocal meffages which paffed between your Lordship and Lord Bellamont: but as he did not take them down in writing, he cannot pofitively aver each fyllable. This, however, he can pofitively affirm, that fuch was the matter of the meffage, and the terms in which it was conceived, though manifeftly foftened by the aid-decamp; that the idea which it conveyed to every perfon prefent was that of an intentional indignity wantonly caft on Lord Bellamont by your Lordship. Lord Bellamont conceives, that an aid-de-camp is the authentic meffenger of his fuperior; and therefore that a meffage delivered by

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the one is as the litera fcripta of the other. Lord Bellamont confiders your Lordship alone refponfible to him, and your Lordship the only perfon with whom he is to account. The injury is of public notoriety, and therefore an affront upon record, which does not admit of any negotiation."

Lord Townshend having asked what apology Lord Bellamont required, Lord Charlemont read the following article: "The only apology which the nature of the affront will admit of, is that of afking Lord Bellamont's pardon. Lord Bellamont does not mean to hurry your Lordthip in any thing, but expects your Lordship's anfwer in a reasonable time, at all events one day at least before your Lordship leaves town."

Lord Townshend made anfwer, "I cannot afk pardon, as it would be an acknowledgement of an offence I never intended."

Lord Charlemont replied, "I am not at liberty to take back any other answer to Lord Bellamont, than that your Lordhip afks his pardon, or defires to take time to confider of asking it; I therefore intreat your Lordship will reflect, before you lay me under an abfolute neceffity of delivering another meffage to your Lordfhip, which Lord Bellamont fends with the utmost regret, and which I fhall deliver with equal reluctancy."

Lord Townshend having perfifted in his refufal, Lord Charlemont read to Lord Townshend the following meffage: "I am injoined by Lord Bellamont to tell your Lordship from him, that he confiders you divefted of every principle that conftitutes the character of a man of honour."

Upon Lord Charlemont's delivery of this last message, Lord Townshend begged his permiflion to call in a friend to be witnefs of it. Colonel Frafer having come in, Lord Townshend requested that Lord Charlemont would again read this laft meffage. Lord Charlemont thereupon read the entire paper a fecond time. And being requested by Lord Townfhend to carry back an answer to Lord Bellamont, Lord Charlemont, conformable to his private inftructions from Lord Bellamont, replied, That any meffage Lord Townshend might have to fend, must be fent by a meffenger of his own. On Saturday the 26th, at half an hour after eleven o'clock at night, Lord Bellamont received the following letter from Lord Ligonier,

"My Lord, December 26. 1772. I have a meffage to deliver to your Lordfhip from Lord Townshend, and beg to know when I may be allowed to wait on you. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's moft obedient, moft humble fervant, North Audley Street. LIGONIER.

To the Earl of Bellamont." To which Lord Bellamont fent the fol→ lowing anfwer.

"My Lord,

I this moment received the honour of your Lordship's letter, communicating to me that you have a meffage to deliver to me from Lord Townshend, and defiring to know when I fhall be at home to receive your Lordship. I shall not go abroad to-morrow, but will wait at home to have the honour of receiving your Lordship, and any commands you may have for me. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's very humble and obedient fervant, Curzon-Street. BELLAMONT.

Saturday night, half after 11 o'clock.

To Lord Viscount Ligonier? On Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, Lord Ligonier waited on Lord Bellamont; who anticipating Lord Ligonier, faid, "Before I receive the meffage your Lordfhip has to deliver me, I must beg leave to call in Lord Charlemont, in order, that as Col. Frafer was present at the delivery of my meffage to Lord Townfhend, Lord Charlemont may be present at the delivery of Lord Townshend's meffage to me: to which Lord Ligonier immediately confented. Lord Charlemont being called in, Lord Bellamont faid, the tranfaction had, he supposed, been related to Lord Ligonier on the part of Lord Townshend: He wished it fhould be related by Lord Charlemont on the part of him; for he should be concerned to be misconceived by Lord Ligonier, for whom he had a high refpect; and that, from the moment that Lord Ligonier fhould have delivered Lord Townshend's meffage, he did not think it proper for himself or friend to fpeak another word. Of which Lord Ligonier having expreffed his approbation, Lord Charlemont read the paper to Lord Ligonier, which he had by Lord Bellamont's defire read to Lord Townshend. Lord Ligonier then addrefling Lord Bellamont, faid, "What will your Lordfhip fay, when, notwithstanding the force of this meffage, I tell you, I am autho

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rifed by Lord Townshend to affure your Lordship, he never meant to offend you?" Lord Bellamont, after a little paufe, replied, "I confefs, my Lord, this is more than I expected: bat fince, then, Lord Townshend's first care is, to justify his intentions towards me even under his prefent fituation, let him do it in fuch a manner as to justify me in releafing him from that fituation. The apology your Lordship has now delivered to me is not yet entirely fufficient." Lord Ligonier defired leave to go back to Lord Townfhend; and fhortly returned with the following meffage: "Lord Townshend has already affured your Lordship, he never meant to offend you. He further affures you, he is forry for the affair." Lord Bellamont then faid, "Before I proceed any further, I must defire that Lord Ancram be sent for, as he has this morn; ing accepted the office of being my friend in the field if I shall be called upon." Lord Ancram being arrived, and informed by the Lords Charlemont and Ligonier of what had paffed, the Lords Charlemont and Ancram declared, that nothing more could be demanded; and then with Lord Ligonier faid, that Lord Bellamont could not furely require, that Lord Townshend fhould ask his pardon for an offence which he had now in the moft fatisfactory manner declared he had never committed. Lord Bellamont made answer, My Lords, I feel as you do, that every thing is implied in this apology; but it is neceflary that it be fully expreffed:" and having defired leave to retire into another room to confider the matter more clearly, he returned with the following written paper, which he gave to Lord Ligonier; telling him at the fame time, that he did not tie him down to the letter, but that was the purport of the only reparation he could receive, viz." Lord Townshend does admit, that the meffage delivered to Lord Bellamont by his aid-de-camp was highly offenfive: he therefore difavows it as fuch; and declares, that it was not in his intentions to give Lord Bellamont any offence, and that he is very much concerned for the mistake." Lord Ligonier accordingly waited on Lord Townfhend with the faid paper, and brought back to Lord Bellamont an apology confonant to the full and entire purport of it, conceived in the most fatisfactory terms. Lord Bellamont immediately requested Lord Ligonier would affure Lord

Townshend, that as Lord Townshend had, by that laft apology, done away the foundation of the meffage delivered from him to Lord Townshend by Lord Charlemont, he had very great pleasure in declaring it cancelled and annulled.

CHARLEMONT. (L. S.) ANCRAM. (L. S.) "I cannot refufe figning the paper delivered to me this morning, without affigning my reafons for it; and I flatter myfelf the motive of my declining it will juftify me to the world.

I affent to the facts and progreffions as ftated; but I was mifunderstood, if what I faid relative to Lord Townshend was confidered as a meffage from him. It certainly was not Lord Townshend's intentions it should be fo, though I was authorised to fay it from Lord Townfhend to Lord Bellamont, which distinction I did not make to Lord Bellamont.

As I wished, from motives of humani ty, to bring the affair to an honourable conclufion without coming to extremities, I propofed returning to Lord Townfhend: my view in fo doing was that of promoting an accommodation honourable to both.

If I conveyed any other idea to the Lords on my return from Lord Townfhend, than a confirmation that his Lordfhip had intended no affront or injury to Lord Bellamont, and that he difapproved the manner of the aid-de-camp, 1 have to regret that I had not the good fortune to explain myfelf according to my own ideas and thofe of Lord Townshend.

In juftice to Lord Townfhend, I muft beg leave to obferve, that whatever expreflions of concern he might make nfé of on this misunderstanding, arofe from the regret every man of honour muft feel under a fuppofition of having given offence. This is what I understood from Lord Townshend, and what I meant to convey.

I cannot but perfevere in declining to fign the paper, as I find, upon confideration, that what I thought an explanation, equally honourable to both, may be conftrued into a fubmiffive apology, which must appear humiliating to Lord Townthend.

What impreffions may have been received from any expreffions of mine in the many private converfations I have had on this painful event, I will not prefume to determine: but I declare, upon my honour, I have had no other view

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than to terminate this affair to the honour of all parties, and shall lament if my endeavours fhould be fruftrated. Jan. 29. 1773. LIGONIER." (L.S.) This is a true copy of the original, in the hands of Lord Bellamont.

CHARLEMONT. ANCRAM.

The fact as it ftands above, with reIpect to Lord Ligonier, is not generally understood; what follows will explain it. When Lord Bellamont thought proper to tell Lord Townfhend, by Lord Charlemont, that he confidered him divefted of every principle that conftitutes the character of a man of honour; it was an affront fo grofs, that Lord Townhend could not pass it by; he determined to tall him to an account for it, and waited only till Lord Ligonier came to town, to carry his challenge, and attend him to the field. He told Lord Ligonier, a mong other things, that it never was his intention to affront Lord Bellamont; that he was at the time he waited on him, ba parliamentary bufinefs, and that, in cantequence of this, he was juftified in refuting to fee him; but that with respect to the manner in which his aid-de-camp delivered the meffage, he did not hold binet refponfible. Lord Ligonier waited on Lord Bellamont to deliver Lord Townshend's challenge; but from motives of humanity, from what had paffed, hoped to reconcile matters, without coming to extremities. He told Lord Bellamont, he was authorised to fay, that Lord Townshend never meant to offend him; but never defigned it fhould be underflood he came purposely with that meffage. He talked of this, as in troductory only to the challenge he was about to deliver. However, on Lord Bellamont's faying, "I confefs, my Lord, this is more than I expected," it gave him fome hopes, matters were in a fair way to be adjufted: he returned, therefore, to Lord Townfhend; and, upon difcuffing the affair a little further with the different parties, it was concluded the matter was amicably ended. However, upon receiving the written meffage from Lord Bellamont, Lord Townshend finding, it was conceived by Lord Bellamont, that what Lord Ligonier had faid, as from himfelf, was fent as a meffage from him (Lord Townfhend), he thought it fo derogatory to his honour, that he difclaimed any intention of making fo fubmiffive an apo

logy, and inftantly refolved to call Lord Bellamont out, and finish it in the field.

P. S. London, Feb. 4. On Tuesday after noon, between four and five o'clock, the long-fubfifting difference between Lord Townshend and the Earl of Bellamont was finally decided in Mary-leBonne Fields. They were armed with fmall fwords and a cafe of piftols, but it was agreed to use the latter first. The feconds were, the Hon. Mr Dillon for Lord Bellamont, and Lord Ligonier for Lord Townshend. When they had taken their ground, Lord Bellamont took off his hat; which was returned by Lord Townfhend. The latter then asked the former, which his Lordship chofe should fire first? Lord Bellamont begged Lord Townshend would. Which being immediately complied with, Lord Bellamont received a ball in the right fide of his belly, near his groin; and discharged his piftol immediately after, without effect. Lord Bellamont was taken up, and put into a chaife; but, from the agony arifing from his wound, he could not bear the motion: a chair was therefore instantly fent for; and he was with great pain put into it, and carried to his lodging; where when he arrived, he defired to be laid on his back. Mr Broomfield, and other furgeons, were immediately called in; who endeavoured for a long time, but in vain, to extract the ball. It fell down between the intestines of the muscles of the thigh, and penetrated the lower part of the belly, near what the anatomifts call the ring of the abdominal muscle, and narrowly efcaped the inguinal artery, which if it had wounded, must have proved inftant death. His Lordfhip is attended by Dr Heberden, Mr Hawkins, Mr Tomkins, Mr Chittick, &c. and it is hoped will recover; but the ball is not yet extracted."

Opinions differ much about this affair. One et applaud Lord Bellamont's cou rage and refolution; declaring, that, as a man of honour, he could confiftently accept no other compenfation for the high offence he received at Dublin caftle, than an abfolute fubmiffion, and a direct intreaty of pardon, or the fatisfaction of a gentleman. Another party fay, Lord Bellamont ought to have been fatisfied with the meffage Lord Townshend fent by Lord Ligonier, which was more than a fufficient palliation of the fuppofed affront. And a third party blame Lord Bellamont exceedingly; roundly affert

ing,