hat were used
in the house of commons. They met with the same success in both.
Resolutions equivalent to those of the lower house were taken; an
address was presented; and his majesty assured them he would repeat, in
the most pressing manner, his instances at the court of Spain, in order
to obtain satisfaction and security for his subjects trading to America.
This assurance was renewed in his speech at the close of the session, on
the twentieth of May, when the parliament was prorogued.

BIRTH OF PRINCE GEORGE.

At this period the princess of Wales was delivered of a son, who was
baptised by the name of George, now king of Great Britain. His birth was
celebrated with uncommon rejoicings: addresses of congratulation were
presented to the king by the two universities, and by almost all the
cities and communities of the kingdom. But the prince of Wales still
laboured under the displeasure of his majesty, who had ordered the
lord-chamberlain to signify in the gazette, that no person who visited
the prince should be admitted to the court of St. James'. His royal
highness was divested of all the external marks of royalty, and lived
like a private gentleman, cultivating the virtues of a social life, and
enjoying the best fruits of conjugal felicity. In the latter end of
this month, rear-admiral Haddock set sail with a strong squadron for the
Mediterranean, which it was hoped would give weight to the negotiation
of the British minister at the court of Madrid. The act to discourage
the retail of spirituous liquors had incensed the populace to such a
degree, as occasioned numberless tumults in the cities of London
and Westminster. They were so addicted to the use of that pernicious
compound, known by the appellation of gin or geneva, that they ran all
risks rather than forego it entirely; and so little regard was paid to
the law by which it was prohibited, that in less than two years twelve
thousand persons within the bills of mortality were convicted of having
sold it illegally. Nearly one half of that number were cast in the
penalty of one hundred pounds; and three thousand persons paid ten
pounds each, for an exemption from the disgrace of being committed to
the house of correction.

PROGRESS of the WAR AGAINST the TURKS.

The war maintained by the emperor and the czarina against the Ottoman
Porte, had not yet produced any decisive event. Count Seckendorf
was disgraced and confined on account of his ill success