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Rh which the younger Harrison, unlike Cranmer of yore, found no benefit from producing the King's token, they may be induced to favour the enquirer with a communication of their contents. They cannot but be desirous of rescuing their progenitor, or kinsman, from the imputation of participating in so gross a failure of that deference, that homage which all ranks, professions and descriptions in society, are accustomed to show the occupant of the throne; and which especially no dispassionate man would have withheld when the inheritor of that paramount office is seen, as here, actuated by motives which Timon the misanthrope could not have impeached: a difference of opinion was not a likely cause of umbrage, with George 3rd: but it should not have been signified in such authoritative and offensive terms.

List of the Commissioners who sat at a Board of Longitude, November 28th, 1772.

Sir Charles Hardy—Admiral of the Blue. Rev. Nevil Maskelyne—Astronomer Royal. ——Mr. Hornsby—Savilian Professor Astr: Oxon. ——Dr. Smith—Sav: Prof: Geom: Oxon. ——Mr. Shepherd—Plumian Prof: Astr: Cam. ——Dr. Waring—Lucasian Prof: Math: Cam. ——Dr. Smith—Lowndes's Prof: Astr: Cam. Hugh Palkisser, Esq.—Compt: Navy. Philip Stephens, Esq.—Secretary Admiralty.