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IMPORTANT ADVICES from IRELAND.

Since you, as if by instinct, do inherit,
Your father's genius, and your mother's
fpirit;

With lefs regret the lofs of them we bear,
Who left fo rich a treasure in our care;
While with paternal fondness running o'er,
To our protection he refigns his store;
Who but with inward forrow muft repine?
Who could refufe an offer fo divine ?
Thee to admire, encourage and reward,
Let ev'ry gen'rous Briton have regard,
To give that budding merit kindly heat,
Which time with stealing hours fhall make
compleat;

Then the rich produce we may hope to fee,
of Oldfield's excellence reviv'd in thee."
When in the graceful dance thy footsteps

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bune to his coach, and conducted their glorious defender home, amidst repeated acclamations, and the joyful shouts of protected liberty. The found of the trumpet was not wanting to proclaim the glad tidings, which, as in an inftant, reached the most diftant parts of the city; joy fparkled in every honeft countenance, and gladdened every honeft heart: The blaze of more than 1000 bonfires illumined our ftreets, which refounded with the grateful voice of multitudes, whofe rejoicings were only fufpended by the approach of day. Such were the expreffions, by which a people, truly fenfible of the inestimable bleffings of liberty, and the merits of those difnterested champions, who, with a generous difregard of private intereft, fo nobly contended for the publick, testified their gratitude and approbation; and which might have done Honour to the antient Romans, thofe fons of freedom, even when their republick was at its highest pitch of glory and perfection.

Tucfday, 18. The merchants and traders of this city prefented the following addrefs, figned by upwards of 100 of the moft eminent (whofe names, for want of room, we are obliged to omit) to Sir SAMUEL COOKE, Bart. one of our reprefentatives in parliament, which he accepted with great politenefs, teftifying the fignal picafure he received by this publick mark of approbation from fo refpectable a body; and affuring them, that as it has hitherto been his conftant endeavour to acquit himfelf of the facred truft delegated to him with fidelity and honour; fo should be on every future occafion invariably pursue the fame great object, by fupporting, to the utmost of his power, fuch measures, as feem beft calculated to promote and fecure the true intereft and welfare of his conAituents,

To Sir Samuel Cooke, Bart, one of the
Reprefentatives in Parliament for the
City of Dublin..

SIR,

In the prefent crisis of affairs, when the prefervation of every thing truly valuable calls for our utmost vigilance and circumfpection, to maintain the principles of our happy conftitution facred and inviolable; we the fubfcribing merchants and traders of the city of Dublin, cannot omit this opportunity of testifying our entire approbation of your conduct in parliament, as well in promoting the intereft of this city in particular, as in opposing such measures, as might prove fatal to the welfare and liberty of the kingdom.

Our regard for the prefent and future generations, would call upon us to exhort you to perfevere, did not the gene

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rous principles upon which you have hitherto acted make that unneceffary. It is, therefore, our part to affure you, that a faithful discharge of your duty will be the fureft recommendation to a grateful people, who will, upon all occafions, endeavour to shower honours upon those, and upon thofe alone, who adhere ftedfaftly to the true united interest of our moft excellent king, and yet happy country.

Such are the marks of refpect and gratitade, which are at the fame time the juk reward, as well as the infeparable attendant on virtue and publick fpirit; and it is very obfervable, that several of the gentlemen who concurred in the above addrefs, were fuch as efpoufed a contrary intereft on the late election.

Many of the inhabitants, who from the lateness of the hour had not an opportunity of rejoycing on the determination of the preceding night, teftified their approbation of that important decifion by bonfires, illuminations, and other expreffions of the fincereft joy.

Wednesday, 19. Near 100 noblemen and gentlemen, of the first diftinction in the province of Munster, with the lord mayor and fheriffs, dined at the Tholfell of this city; the right hon. Henry Boyle, speaker of the Houfe of Commons, in the chair :' Where all poffible magnificence and elegance were difplayed for their table entertainment, while their ears were delighted with an excellent band of mufick, the ringing of all the bells in town, and by the pleafing acclamations of the populace round a large bonfire, where they poured out their unaffected, cordial praises of their benefactors. In this fcene of mirth and good humour, which were never more eminently distinguishable in any assembly, all toafts, expreffing loyalty and patriotifm, were remembered, amongst which the following were moft remarkable : The king. The prince of Wales. The princefs dowager of Wales, and the rest of the royal family. The duke, and the army. The duke, and battle of Culloden. The glorious and immortal memory of the great king William. May the fucceffion to the crown be perpetuated in the illuftrious houfe of Hanover. The lord Neutenant. Profperity to Ireland. Profpertiy to Mumiter. Profperity to the city of Dublin. All thofe worthy citizens, who joined in thanks to their faithful reprefentative, Sir Samuel Cooke, for his good conduct in parliament. May the commons ever hold the purfe of the nation. May the prefent fpeaker, and all fucceeding fpeakers, maintain their dig. nity in the state. May power ever remain in the friends of Ireland. May there never be wanting an earl of Kildare, of as much

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spirit and fenfe as the prefent, so fupport the liberty of Ireland. May thofe only feel ecclefiaftical tyranny, who would fubmit to it. May the commons of Ireland ever defend themselves from all undue, anticonftitutional influence. The glorious majority on the 23d of Nov. and the 17th of Dec, Religion without priestcraft. The church to the bible. Keep to your tackle, old Harry. The linen manufacture. All the manufactures of Ireland. Lord Tyrone. Lord Kingsborough The patriot reprefentatives of Ulfter. The patriot reprefentatives of Leinster. The patriot reprefentatives of Connaught. May the true lovers of liberty, in GreatBritain and Ireland, be for ever united in affection, as they are in intereft, &c. &c. &c. Many zealous citizens forced into the room, to view the earl of Kildare and the Speaker, their beloved patrons = And after gratifying their curiofity, and expreffing their fatisfaction by a loud Buzza, very orderly retired. The chearfulness and unanimity, that fo power fully prevailed in this affembly, promise the best effects to the province, and to the whole kingdom, as far as the endeavours of one province may contribute thereto And its first endeavour affords, a fair example for the other provinces, in the following refolution of thanks to their worthy reprefentatives in parliament for the province of Munster.

At an affembly of the gentlemen of the province of Munster, held at the Tholfell of the city of Dublin, on Wednesday the 19th of December, 1753.

Refolved, That the thanks of this affembly be given to the Speaker, and to' their faithful reprefentatives in parlia ment; for having, in this critical feafon, zealoufly and fuccefsfully defended the cause of liberty against all anticonftitutional invafions; for having exhibited for pofterity the moft illuftrious ex-. amples of loyalty and patriotism; and for having, with the afftance of the generous reprefentatives of other parts of this kingdom, hitherto preferved their country from the mifchievous effects of corruption and other male-practices, by which they have entitled themselves to the most grateful acknowledgments and fervices of all who have a due fenfe of the intereft of this kingdom, and rightly, conceive how greatly fociety is concerned. in giving virtue ample rewards.

The difcovery of William Price, a native and joiner of Crickhewel in Breconshire, who was the barbarous murderer of the Jew, (fee p. 578.) was occasioned chiefly by his audacicully carrying in his pockets

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614 Other ADDITIONS to DECEMBER, 1753.

feveral watches, and wearing at his knees
and in his fhoes genteel filver buckles,
ornaments unfuitable to him; and, in
fome measure, to his great generosity
towards his female acquaintance in Bre-
con, in bestowing on them gold rings,
fone girdle-buckles, fnuff-boxes, &c.
in too liberal a manner; and fince his
commitment to Monmouth goal, he has
made the following voluntary confeffion.

"Nov. 20, I was going from my mo-
ther's house to Brecon, I met Jonas Levi
a Jew within two fields of Crickhowel,
there I turned back and followed him to
the place where I took a fake and laid
it down; I was then before him, and then
Turn'd back, and met him, and with that
ftake I knock'd him down and haul'd
him to the wood where he was found; I
threw the first stake away, and was in fuch
confufion that I could not find it again, but
took another stake and ftruck him again,
and no other blows, neither was there any
body else with me; nobody knows any
thing of it but myself till this moment,
and there I robbed the box of all that
was therein of any value; after I killed
him, I robbed him of a guinea in gold
and two fhillings and fix-pence in filver
as witness my hand, William Price."
THURSDAY, Dec. 27.

The Rt. Hon. the lord Onflow, Sir
Charles Poulet, Sir Richard Lyttleton,
Sir Edward Huffey Montagu, Sir Ed-
ward Walpole, and Sir William Rowley,
were installed in a private manner knights
of the Bath in Henry VIIth's chapel in
Westminster-abbey.

FRIDAY, 28.

The drawing of the ftate lottery endea
at Guildhall.

B-KR-TS.

W Bermondley, hipwright.-George

WILLIAM Tobin, of St. Mary

Hutton, of Cornhill, linendraper.-Ifaac
Mendez and Jacob Mendez, of London,
merchants. William Farey, of Bow
Brickhill in Bucks, glover. - Michael
Greenhow of Laurence Pountney-Lane,
London, merchant. William Wool-
combe, of St. Mary Rotherhithe, and
William Tobin, of St. Mary Bermondsey,
fhipwrights and partners.

Alterations in the Lift of Parliament.
ARWICH, John Roberts Coke, in
the room of lord vifc. Coke, de-

fed.

Flint town, Sir John Glynne, bart.
-Kyffin Williams, Efq; deceased.

Higham Ferrers, John Yorke, Efq;
-John Hill, Efq; deceafed.

Bedford hire, earl of Upper Offory-
Sir Danvers Ofborne made governor of
New York, fince dead.

Litchfield, Sir Thomas Grefley, bart.
fince dead-Hon. Richard Levefon Gower,
deceased.

Selkirk, Gilbert Elliot, Efq;- John
Murray, Efq; deceased..

Worcestershire, Edmund Pytts, Efq;-
his father, deceased.

In the city of Norwich, from Dec. 25,
1752, to Dec. 25, 1753, there were
born 604 males and 541 females, in all
1145, and 1075 buried; being 6 christen-
ings and 47 burials fewer than in the
preceding year.

At Ipfwich the chriftenings amounted
to 240, of which 117 were males, and
123 females; and the burials to 198,
being 97 males, and 101 females.

The number of burials at Amsterdam
this year amounted to 8382; which is
1613 more than in 1752, and 2048 more
than in 1751.

At the Hague the burials amounted
to 1600, which is 306 more than in the
the preceding year.

An yearly bill of mortality for the city'
and fuburbs of Dublin; ending Dec. 23,
1753.

Males buried 959
Females buried 866

870

Males chr.
Females chr. 967

Total 1825

Total

1837

Decreased in burials 19, Chriftenings
increased 104.

A General BILL of all the Clriftenings and
Burial in London, from Dec. 12, 1752, 10

Males

Dec. 11, 1753.

Chrifined

Females

7584

Females

9786

INDEX to the DEBATES in the POLITICAL CLU 3,
to the ESSAYS, POLITICKS, Domeftick and Foreign
OCCURRENCES, &c. 1753.