oufnefs. His Royal Highnefs the Prince Vol. IX. of Wales, did alfo, on that Occafion, ask Mr. Stanhope, feveral pertinent Questions about the Imperial Court, and Government of the Emperor's Hereditary Dominions; all which the Secretary anfwer'd with great Solidity of Judgment. Every Body was in Expectation to hear the Succefs of his Negotiation at Vienna, but the Court thought fit to keep a profound Silence about it; Which gave Occation to the Enemies of the prefent Settlement, to give out, that he had mifcarried, at least in Relation to the Barrier in the Netherlands.

Strafford

waits on the

King.

Tho' the Earl of Strafford arrived be- The Earl of fore Mr. Secretary Stanhope, yet, whatever was the Reafon, he did not wait on the King till Monday the Third Inftant, being introduced by the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Townfhend..

The fame Day, the Marquis de + Jan. 3d. Trivié Ambaffador Extraordinary from The Sicilian the King of Sicily, was admitted to a Ambasador private Audience of his Majefty, being has Audience conducted by the Mafter of the Cere- of the King. monies, and introduced by Mr. Secretary Stanhope. His Excellency prefented to his Majefty the Sieur Perrin, Secretary of the Embaffy; after which he was invited to a fplendid Dinner which the Lord Viscount Townshend gave that Day to the Duke of Marlborough, General Stanhope, and fome other Perfons of Diftinction.

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The fame Day, likewife a Meffage from the King was fent to the Lord Jan. 2d. Mayor of London, to acquaint him, that his Majefty would go to Paul's on the 20th, being the Day appointed for a geOrders given neral Thanksgiving for his Majefty's hapin the City for py and peaceable Acceffion to the Throne: the Thanksgi Upon which his Lordship iffued out his Precepts to the refpective Companies of the City to attend his Majesty in their Livery-Gowns; And the Lieutenancy gave their Orders for the Trained-Bands to be, that Day, under Arms.

ving Day.

the South Sea

The Prince of On the Third of January, Sir James Wales chofen Bateman, the Sub-Governor, and the Governor of Court of Directors of the South-Sea Company, waited on his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with the following Refolutions of that Court, viz.

Company.

Friday, December, 31, 1714.

At a Court of Directors of the South-Sea

"TH

Company.

HE Court being informed that
his Royal Highnefs the Prince
of Wales defires that fome Stock in this
Company may be transferred to him:
• Ordered,

That the Accomptant permit any
Perfon or Perfons to transfer Stock to
his Royal Highnefs, but that no other
Transfer be made before the Election.

Refolved Nemine Contradicente,

That the Court of Directors do attend his Royal Highness with their humble Acknowledgment for the Hononr he is pleafed to do this Company in becoming Proprietor.

Refolved

L Refolved Nemine Contradicente,

That this Court do humbly defire of his Royal Highnefs the further Honour of permitting them to nominate his • Royal Highness for their Governor at the next Election, and to affure his Royal Highnefs of the hearty Endeavours of this Court that the fame be • unanimous by all the Proprietors.

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To which his Royal Highnefs was pleafed His R. Highto give the following Anfwer, viz. ness's Answer Have not any thing more at Heart than to the Subthe Promoting and Encouraging the Trade Direitors. of the Nation, and therefore thank the Court of Directors for their Refpect to me, and will be fure to promote upon all Occafions_the_Intereft of the Company.

But not being verfed in Matters of Commerce, I shall always leave the whole Management thereof to the Court of Directors, as well as the Choice of all their Officers to the Proprietors.

The fame Day, it was publickly de- * Jan. 3d. clared, That his Majefty had been pleased to appoint:

in Ireland.

The Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Preferments Anglefey, and Henry Earl of Rochester to be Vice-Treasurer, and Receiver-General, and Paymaster-General of all his Majesty's Revenues in the Kingdom of Ireland, and Treasurer of War there.

Sir Thomas Southwell, Kt. William Strickland, Efq; William Conelly, Efq; Sir Henry Bunbury, Thomas Medlicot, Efq; to be Commiflioners of his Majeftys Revenue of Exçife in the Kingdom of Ireland.

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And the faid Sir Thomas Southwell, Kt. ~ William Strickland, Efq; William Conelly, Efq, Sir Henry Bunbury, Horatio Walpole, Efq; Thomas Medlicot, Efq; and Phillips Gibbon, Efq; to be chief Commiffioners and Governors for all other his Majesty's Revenues in the faid Kingdom. And

Preferments

William Bargh, Efq; to be ComptrollerGeneral and Accomptant-General in Ireland.

As alfo, That his Majefty had been in England. Pleafed to appoint Thomas Archer, Efq; to be Groom-Porter of all his Majesty's Houfes in England, and elsewhere.

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Henry Portman, Efq; to be Keeper of Hyde Park.

Thomas Hall, Efq; to be chief Clerk of his Majefty's Mint.

Thomas Tarburgh, Efq; to be Register to the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Revenue of Excile. And

John Ellis, Efq; to be Sollicitor to the faid Commiffioners.

Two Days after, the King in CounProclamation cil, a Proclamation for Diffolving the prefent for diffolving Parliament, and declaring the Speedy calling the Parliament another, was Signed, as follows:

GEORGE R.

W Hereas we have thought fu by and with

the Advice of our Privy Council, to Diffolve this prefent Parliament which now ftands prorogued to Thursday the Thirteenth Day of this inftant January; We do for that End publifh this our Royal Proclamation and do hereby diffolve the faid Parliament accordingly: And the Lords Spiritual and Tempo

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ral and the Knights Citizens and Burgeffes, Vol. IX.
and Commiffioners for Shires and Burgs of
the House of Commons, are Difcharged from
their Meeting on Thursday the faid Thirteenth
Day of this Inftant January. And we being
refolved to meet our People, and have their
Advice in Parliament, Do hereby make known
to all our Loving Subjects, That we will speedily
Call a New Parliament.

Given at our Court at St. James's the
Fifth Day of January, 1714. In the
First Year of our Reign.

At the fame Time, the King order'd a Pro

clamation to be publish'd, for the Encou- Proclamation ragement of Piety and Virtue, and for the for EncouragPreventing and Punishing of Vice, Pro- ing Piety and Virtue, &c. phaneness and Immorality, as follows:

GEORGE R.

WE

E moft Seriously and Religionfly Confidering, That it is an indifpenfible Duty on us, to be Careful, above all other things to preferve and advance the Honour and Service of Almighty God, and to difcourage and fupprefs all Vice, Prophaneness, Debauchery and Immorality which are fo highly Difpleafing to God, fo great a Reproach to our Religion and Govern •ment, and (by means of the frequent ill Examples of the Practices thereof) have fo Fatal a Tendency to the Corruption of many of our Loving Subjects otherwife Religiously and Virtuously Difpofed, and which (if not timely Remedied) may justly draw down the Divine Vengeance on us and our Kingdoms: We also bumbly Acknowledging, That we cannot expect the Bleffing and Goodness of Almighty God (by whom Kings Reign, and on which we entirely rely) to make our Reign Happy and Profperous