such a sum as two justices of
peace within the precinct should adjudge to be a reasonable equivalent
for the original purchase money, and the remaining time such servant
might have to serve.

QUIET OF IRELAND RESTORED.

The intestine broils of Ireland were happily composed this year, by the
prudent management of the marquis of Hartington, lord lieutenant of
that kingdom. By his steady and disinterested conduct, his candour and
humanity, the Irish were not only brought to a much better temper, even
among themselves, than they were before their late outrageous riots and
dangerous dissensions happened; but also prevailed upon to acquiesce in
the measures of England, without this last being obliged to give up
any one point of her superiority. The leading men in the parliament of
Ireland were the first that conformed; and though the ferment continued
very high for some time after, among the middling and lower ranks of
people, it was at length entirely allayed by the wisdom of the lord
lieutenant, and the excellent law which he encouraged and passed for the
benefit of that nation.* The primate of Ireland, who had been very
busy in fomenting many of the late disturbances, was, by his majesty's
command, struck off the list of privy-counsellors; and the greatest
part of those patriots, whom faction had turned out of their employments
there, were reinstated with honour.

* Among other objects of the attention of the legislature of
that country, ten thousand pounds were granted for making
the river Nore navigable from the city of Kilkenny to the
town of Innestalge; twenty thousand pounds towards carrying
on an inland navigation from the city of Dublin to the river
Shannon; four thousand pounds for making the river Newry
navigable; a thousand pounds a year for two years, for the
encouragement of English protestant schools; several sums,
to be distributed in premiums, for the encouragement of the
cambric, hempen, and flaxen manufactures; and three hundred
thousand pounds to his majesty, towards supporting the
several branches of the establishment, and for defraying the
expenses of the government for two years.

{1756}

TREATY CONCLUDED WITH PRUSSIA.

The parliament of England, which had adjourned on the twenty-third
day of December, met again: the house of commons on the thirteenth of
January, and the lords on the nineteenth. On the sixteenth of the