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Article UNTO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, Page 1 of 1 Article MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Page 1 of 6 →
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Unto The King's Most Excellent Majesty,
UNTO THE KING ' S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ,
THE HUMBLE ADDRESS 01 ? The Ri g ht Honourable aud Most Worshipful WILLIAM EARL OF ANCRUM , GRAND MASTER MASON OF SCOTLAND , FRANCIS , Lord Viscount DOWN , D . G . M . THOMAS HAY , Esq . S . G . M .
Sir JAMES F OULIS , of Collinglon , Bart , and ANDREW HOUSTON , of Jordan-hill , Esq . Grand Wardens ; with the ' Brethren in Grand Lodge assembled , on the Anniversary of St . Andrew . WE your Majesty ' s most dutiful subjects , the Grand Lodge of Scotland , humbly request permission to approach your Majesty , with the most sincere expressions of that attachment and loyalty for which our ancient and respectable Order has ever been distinguished .
Your Majesty's late deliverance from the hands of wicked and sanguinary men , -while it recalls to us the recollection of your Majesty ' s virtues , impresses us with gratitude to that providential care , which , by watching over your Majesty's life , has averted the most alarming calamities from your people . We have , on this occasion , witnessed the interposition of Heaven for the safety of your Boyal Person . That it may never cease to extend its guardian protection to your Majesty , and to your illustrious House , is our united prayer . Signed by our appointment , and in our presence , when in Grand Lodge assembled , this thirtieth day of November , one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five , ANCRUM . G . M .
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . THE King of Spain has not only offered his mediation at Paris , but at Turin too ; but his Sardinian Majesty ' s answer was , " That he would neither enter into separate negociations , nor into a separate treaty of peace , but was determined to make a common cause with Austria and England to the last . " The King of Denmark has offered his mediation for a cessation of hostilities between Austria and France . The French have refused to agree thereto : they
are for a speedy peace ,. and not a tedious congress . On the 251 I 1 of November the King of Poland signed the treaty of the partition of Poland . At the same time he resigned his Sovereignty of that kingdom . He retires on a pension of 200 , 000 ducats . HOME NEWS . The Royal Assent has been- given , by commission , to the following Bills : the Land and Malt ; the Bills to prevent the exportation of Corn and Grain , and to
encourage the importation of the same ; an act for continuing an act of last Session , for permitting the importation oforganzined Thrown Silk ; the Bills " For the better security of his Majesty's Person and Government , " and " For the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings ; " and the Bill for raising the sum of eighteen millions sterling , by way of annuities , for the year 1796 . Nov . 19 . An inquisition was taken at Rochester on a boy aged about thirteen years , who was unfortunately killed by his mother , in the following manner : the mother keeps a bad house , and a young man happening to go in whom the did
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Unto The King's Most Excellent Majesty,
UNTO THE KING ' S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ,
THE HUMBLE ADDRESS 01 ? The Ri g ht Honourable aud Most Worshipful WILLIAM EARL OF ANCRUM , GRAND MASTER MASON OF SCOTLAND , FRANCIS , Lord Viscount DOWN , D . G . M . THOMAS HAY , Esq . S . G . M .
Sir JAMES F OULIS , of Collinglon , Bart , and ANDREW HOUSTON , of Jordan-hill , Esq . Grand Wardens ; with the ' Brethren in Grand Lodge assembled , on the Anniversary of St . Andrew . WE your Majesty ' s most dutiful subjects , the Grand Lodge of Scotland , humbly request permission to approach your Majesty , with the most sincere expressions of that attachment and loyalty for which our ancient and respectable Order has ever been distinguished .
Your Majesty's late deliverance from the hands of wicked and sanguinary men , -while it recalls to us the recollection of your Majesty ' s virtues , impresses us with gratitude to that providential care , which , by watching over your Majesty's life , has averted the most alarming calamities from your people . We have , on this occasion , witnessed the interposition of Heaven for the safety of your Boyal Person . That it may never cease to extend its guardian protection to your Majesty , and to your illustrious House , is our united prayer . Signed by our appointment , and in our presence , when in Grand Lodge assembled , this thirtieth day of November , one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five , ANCRUM . G . M .
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . THE King of Spain has not only offered his mediation at Paris , but at Turin too ; but his Sardinian Majesty ' s answer was , " That he would neither enter into separate negociations , nor into a separate treaty of peace , but was determined to make a common cause with Austria and England to the last . " The King of Denmark has offered his mediation for a cessation of hostilities between Austria and France . The French have refused to agree thereto : they
are for a speedy peace ,. and not a tedious congress . On the 251 I 1 of November the King of Poland signed the treaty of the partition of Poland . At the same time he resigned his Sovereignty of that kingdom . He retires on a pension of 200 , 000 ducats . HOME NEWS . The Royal Assent has been- given , by commission , to the following Bills : the Land and Malt ; the Bills to prevent the exportation of Corn and Grain , and to
encourage the importation of the same ; an act for continuing an act of last Session , for permitting the importation oforganzined Thrown Silk ; the Bills " For the better security of his Majesty's Person and Government , " and " For the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings ; " and the Bill for raising the sum of eighteen millions sterling , by way of annuities , for the year 1796 . Nov . 19 . An inquisition was taken at Rochester on a boy aged about thirteen years , who was unfortunately killed by his mother , in the following manner : the mother keeps a bad house , and a young man happening to go in whom the did