A. C. to George Earl of Northampton, and Charles Lord 1711. Bruce, Eldest Son to Thomas Earl of Ailesbury, Her Majefty was pleased, on the laft Day of DeThe Lords cember to fign Patents creating the Ten following Comptonand Perfons Peers of Great Britain, viz.

Bruce called

by Wiit to the House of

George Hay, Efq; one of the four Tellers of the Receipt of Her Majefty's Exchequer, by Lords. the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Hay of Bedcreated, Dec. Warden in the County of Hereford.

Ten new Peers

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Thomas Lord Viscount Windfor, in the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Name, Stile, and Title of Baron Mountjoy of the Ifle of Wight in the County of Southampton.

Henry Paget Efquire, Son and Heir Apparent of William Lord Paget, by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Burton of Burton, in the County of Stafford.

Sir Thomas Manfel of Margam in the County of Glamorgan, Bart. by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Manfell of Margam, in the County of Glamorgan aforefaid.

Sir Thomas Willoughby of Wollaton in the County of Nottingham, Bart. by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Middleton of Middleton, in the County of Warwick.

Sir Thomas Trevor, Knt. Chief Justice of Her Majefty's Court of Common Pleas, by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Trevor of Bromham, in the County of Bedford.

George Granville of Stow, in the County of Cornwall, Efq; by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Lanfdowne of Biddiford, in the County of Devon.

Samuel Maffam of Oates in the County of Effex, Efq; by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Maf fam of Oates, in the County of Effex aforefaid.

Thomas Foley of Witely in the County of Worcefter, Efa, by the Name, Stile and Title of Baron Foley of Kidderminster, in the faid County of Worcester. And,

Allen Bathurst, of Battlefden in the County of Bedford, Efq, by the Name, Stile, and Title of Baron Bathurst of Battlefden, in the County of Bedford aforefaid.

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It had likewife been refolv'd to raife to the Dignity of a Baron of Great Britain, Sir Miles Warton, a very wealthy Gentleman, but, it feems, he declin'd the Offer.

A. C. 1711.

Sir Miles

Warton declines being made aBaron.

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tions for a

On the 13th of December, the Queen being in Council, Edward Earl of Clarendon, Archibald Earl of Ilay, William Lord North and Gray, George Five Nero Earl of Northampton, Thomas Earl of Thanet, Privy Coun and Heneage Lord Guernsey, were Sworn Lords Dec. 13. of Her Majefty's most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective Places at the Board accordingly. The fame Day Henry Duke of Kent, being Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bedford, Bazil Earl of Denbigh, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester, and Nicholas Four New Earl of Scarfdale, Lord Lieutenant of the Coun- tenants ty of Derby, took the Oaths appointed to be sworn.Ditto. taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Su- Dec. 19. premacy; as did on the 19th of December the Proclam Lord North and Gray, as Lord Lieutenant of the Fat, bort in County of Cambridge. The fame Day a Procla. England and mation was order'd to be publish'd, for a General Scotland. Faft to be obferv'd throughout England on the 16th of January next, for Imploring God's Blef fing on the intended Treaty, that thereby might be produced an Honourable, Secure and lafting Peace; and his Affiftance on the Arms of Her Majefty and Her Allies, and Hers and their Forces both by Sea and Land, till their Enemies fhould fubmit to fuch a Peace. At the fame time, another Proclamation was order'd to be publish'd for a General Faft to be obferv'd, for the fame Purposes, in that Part of Great Britain call'd Scotland, on the 25th of January next.

Three Com

The Lord Bishop of Bristol, Lord Privy-Seal, and lately appointed Her Majefty's First Plenipomiffioners of tentiary at the Congrefs of Utrecht, having, the Privyafter fome unavoidable Delays, occafion'd by the Seal Sworn: Difficulties ftarted in Holland about the Pafs- Dec. 23. ports granted by the States General to the French Minifters, receiv'd his laft Inftructions, and Orders forthwith to repair Holland; Her Majefty was pleas'd to deliver the Privy-Seal to Sir George Beaumont, Baronet, Robert Byerley, and

Edward

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The Lord

Edward Nicholas Efquires, as Commiffioners for 1711. the Executing the Office of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, during that Prelate's Abfence; and on Sunday the 23d of December they took the Privy Seal ufual Oaths in Council. The next Day the and Monfieur Buys Em Lord Privy Seal, with a numerous Retinue, and bark for Hol Monfieur Buys Envoy Extrordinary from the land. Dec.States General, embark'd at Deptford, but the contrary Winds kept their Excellencies at Gravefend till Friday the 28th, when, at Six in the Evening they fet Sail for Holland.

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Some Days before, the Affiftants of the Writer of the Poft Boy thought fit to give the Remarkable Publick the following Account of Affairs Abroad, Faragraph in an Article dated, Hague, Decemb. 22. N. S. about Prince Prince Eugene arriving here on Thurfday laft, Savoy, in the and having receiv'd and return'd divers Vifits, Poft Boy demanded of the States General, on Saturday laft, a Conference for opening his Commiffion on the part of his Imperial Majefty. About C Noon, therefore he went for that purpose to the Apartment of the Generality. The Earl of Strafford was defired to be there, to hear, "with their High-Mightineffes, what the Prince had to offer. He began with faying, That he was fent by the Emperor, not to make Complaints, That, contrary to the Tenor of Treaties, Great "Britain had enter'd into fome Negotiation with the Enemy; and, That this State had, in Concert with Her, concurrid in the Nomination of a Place of Congress for a General Peace, and this without the leaft Participation of his Imperial Majefty: But alledg'd, That paffing over in filence what he might have faid upon this Article, he contented himself with intreating both thofe Powers not to be too hafty in an Affair of the last Confequence for themselves, as well as for the Tranquility of the rest of Europe: The rather, because we were not yet fo far reduc'd, as to accept of fuch Laws as the Enemy hall please to prescribe, But that on the contrary, after fo many and fo fignal Ad vantages obtained over them, we were in a Condi tion of exacting from them their Ufurpations, and of making, by a due Satisfaction to all the Allies,

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a Glorious Firm and Lafting Peace for all Europe, A. C. It is faid, That thefe Infinuations, together with 17 1 certain Plans and Projects for carrying on a vigorous War, made a Memorial of Twentyfour or Twenty-five Articles. This Conference was refum'd the fame Evening, and lafted above three Hours, viz. from half an Hour after Six till almoft Ten a Clock. During the Conference that was held about Noon, the States of Holland, having just finish'd the Affairs of their Seffion, in order to adjourn themselves till the 5th of January, thought fit to wait for the Refult of the faid Conference, for which they had fent fome of their Deputies to affift therein, who being return'd about Two a Clock, gave them an Account of what had pafsd; and then, between Three and Four, they feparated. Thofe here who delight in War are fanguine enough to flatter themfelves, that did Prince Eugene but go over into England, he would go near to alter the Queen's Intentions for a General Peace, the only Bieffing Her Subjects want to render thent the happieft People in the World. Moreover, it is certain, That Prince Eugene has the Emperor's Commiflion for that Voyage, but ha ving maturely weigh'd the DISGRACES of • Count Gallas, he has thought fit to write to the Queen of Great Britain, to know whether his Prefence would be agreeable for executing his Imperial Majesty's Commiflion; and upon the Anfwer which he fhall receive, depends his Highness's Voyage into England. Mean time, the States of Holland did, the Day before they feparated, name Meffieurs Buys and lenderduffen to aflift in the Congress at Utrecht on their part. They are allow'd no more than Ten Livres per Diem, the fame as the meanest Commiffioners of this State in Foreign Countries. It is faid, this flender Allowance was made, as an Expedient to obviate a Difpute that arose between Two Lords of the Body of Nobles, who made Intereft to be nominated: For 'tis very probable, that thofe Lords would not have undertaken 10 appear at the Congrefs With

A. C. 1711.

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Mistaken Re

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vive from France.

with fo mean an Allowance, by reafon it would have cost them a great deal of Money out of their own Pockets. As for the Plenipoten'tiaries of the Generality, they are not yet • named.

Certain Advice being come from the Hague, that Prince Eugene of Savoy, pursuant to his Orders from the Emperor, had fully resolv'd to embark for England, notwithstanding the Come over to Endeavours ufed by a certain Minifter to perEngland. fwade him to ftay on the other fide the Wapers of bis beter; a Report was fpread in London on Suning arrived, day the 23d of December, in the Evening, that his Highness was arrived in Town; whereupon great Numbers of People began to gather about the Coach, in which that Prince was fuppofed to be, and to express their Joy by loud Huzza's and Acclamations: But, to their great Disappoint nes of Gou- ment, they foon found they were mistaken. The verner, with Perfons in the Coach proved to be the Marchiher-Son and onefs of Gouvernet, a French Lady, with her Son Daughter ar and Daughter, who, with a defign to pay a Vifit to the Dowager of Gouvernet, a rich Proteftant Refugee, had lately obtained a Pass from the Queen to come hither by the way of Oftend; but, whatever was the Reafon, having embark'd at Calais, and landed at Dover, fhe was there put under Confinement by the Mayor, till he receiv'd Inftructions from Above; and after the Marchioness of Gouvernet and her Family had ftaid about three Weeks at Rochefter, they had leave to come up to Town. Upon their arrival, the World was convinc'd of the Falfity of the Reports broach'd in Paris by the Writer of a News-Letter commonly call'd the Paris Gazette-a la- Main, and first propagated in England, by the Scanda lous Scribblers of the Poft Boy and Supplement, viz. That Madame de Gouvernet was to bring False Reports rich Brocadoes, and other fine Prefents from the fonts from French King to our Queen, which Reports were the French entertain'd with Scorn and Contempt, by the Generality, out of a generous Tenderness for the Honour of the Queen, and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain,

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