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103 power, unawed by clamour, and unbiassed by the prejudice of party."

Sir Robert Ladbroke, at the said court, declared his assent to take upon him the office of father of this city, and the aldermanship of Bridge ward without.

A motion was made by the said gentleman, that the thanks of the court of aldermen should be given to Sir John Barnard, which was agreed to, and expressed in the following terms:

'It is unanimously agreed and ordered, that the thanks of this court be given to Sir John Barnard, Knt. late one of the aldermen, and father of this city, for his constant attendance and salutary counsels in this court, his wise, vigilant, and impartial administration of justice, his unwearied zeal for the honour, safety, and prosperity of his fellow-citizens, his inviolable attachment to the laws and liberties of his country, and for the noble example he has set of a long and uninterrupted course of virtue in private as well as public life.'

This day a further respite for Dr. Henfey was brought to Newgate till the 8th of November.

The society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, having proposed three medals for planting acorns for timber; a gold medal was this day adjudged to his grace the Duke of Beaufort, for planting the largest quantity; a silver medal to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; for the next largest quantity; and a silver medal likewise to John Berney, Esq; for planting the third largest quantity.

At a committee of Christ's hospital, Sir John Barnard resigned the presidentship of that house on account of his great age and infirmities.

On the 5th of this month, Cardinal Charles Rezzonico, bishop of Padua, a Venetian, was elected pope. He was born on the 7th of March 1693, and was formerly auditor of the Rota. He was made cardinal by Clement XII. on the 20th of October, 1737, at the nomination of the republic of Venice. He had the title of St. Mara d' Ara Coeli (the principal convent of the Cordeliers) and was protector of the Illyrian nation, the Pandours. He is ill favoured and hunch backed; but of a strong vigorous constitution; a fresh complexion, walks well and firm; the honesteft man in the world; a most exemplary ecclesiastic; of the purest morals; devout, steady, learned, diligent; in short, worthy to succeed the great Benedict XIV. though no body, certainly, ever thought he would be called to succeed him.

The following is a true copy of the manifesto, which his grace the Duke of Marlborough published in Brittany on the 7th of June, the second day after the landing of the troops at Cancalle.

"We the high and mighty Prince Charles Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Privy-counsellor to his Britannic Majesty, Grand Master of the Ordnance, and commander in chief of his forces, &c.

"Make known to all the inhabitants of Brittany, that the descent on their coast with the powerful army under our command, and our formidable armament by sea, is not