H FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1751. 479 AGUE, October 29, N. S. Since the death of his ferene highness the prince of Orange, our stadtholder, her royal highness the prince's dowager has taken the oaths, and been acknowledged by moft of the provinces as governante or regent of the republick, and guardian to her fon, our hereditary ftadtholder, who on the 25th was unanimously elected prefident of the college of nobles, and a deputation immediately fent to the princefs his mother to acquaint her therewith. (See p. 473, 474.) Paris, October 8, N. S. There has been handed about here, a note or memorial delivered lately to the imperial minister at the Pruffian court, of which the following is an extract. "The emprefs feemed to ftand out a long while against fulfilling the engagement entered into by the treaty of Drefden, for procuring his Pruffian majesty the empire's guaranty of Silefia, and called upon the king to fettle definitively the affair of the debts, which makes another article of that peace. The king agreed to this, upon condition that the faid guaranty of the empire fhould be given him, and that, pursuant to the fame treaty of peace, trade should be put on the footing it stood in the year 1739, until a new treaty of commerce could be agreed upon. Since that time, the emprefs offered to get the commifforial decree for the empire's guaranty laid before the dyet; but the article of the debts is yet obftructed and delayed by that relating to commerce."' And a little further his majesty goes on thus: "Not long fince fome overtures were made to his majesty, about electing the archduke Jofeph to the dignity of king of the Romans, but thofe overtures were made after concerting the affair with most of the other electors, and after the youngest member of the electoral college had ufed illicit means, prohibited by the golden bull, and contrary to the oath it requires, in order to fecure great part of the fuffrages to the candidate he proposed; means which too much debafe the majefty of the Germanick body, and fap the very foundations of the moft facred conflitutions of the empire. The king was grieved at the illegality of thofe proceedings, and the answer he made to the court of Vienna was fuch as the ought to expect from a good patriot, who has no other intereft at heart than that of the country. Matters refted there; and it is certain that if any one has caufe to complain, 'tis rather the king than the empress, fince it is a thing unheard of before, to neglect collecting the opinions of the chief princes of the empire, in an important affair, and proceed by prohibited ways, without hav ing any regard to the right of the most an cient houses, and the dignity of the principal and most ancient electors, and fo en deavour to get a king of the Romans elect ed almost without, or, as one may say, against their consent and approbation. To facrifice one's rights, to fee one's dignity debafed, to fuffer the Germanick body to be oppreffed, would be cowardice, and not complaifance. Therefore, all that the king can do on this occafion, as well for the fake of peace as to give her majesty the empress a fincere mark of his friendship, is to open to her the ways of reconciliation, and point out the means whereby all the parties concerned may be re-united for this election. If her majesty the empress thinks fhe has gone too far in this affair to drop it, and is not against its succeeding by legal methods, the king makes her the following propofitions:" Thefe propofitions are, That her imperial majefty fhould fatisfy the elector Palatine's demands, or abide by the manner in which his Pruffian majefty and the king of France should fettle them: That her imperial majesty and her allies fhould guaranty the tranquillity of the North, and that his. Pruffian majefty and his allies fhould become guaranties, that Sweden fhall never establish despotiím: "After these preliminaries, fays he, one may agree about the tutelage of the young king of the Romans, in cafe the emperor fhould die before he comes to age, (which God forbid) and on the capitulation of that prince, in order to fecure the freedom of future elections, and maintain the rights, privileges, and prerogatives of all the members of the Germanick body." And his majefty concludes thus: "That if the laft anfwer concerning the election of the archduke Jofeph, is not fuch as the court of Vienna could have defired, it must be attributed to the meafures fhe has purfued, and to the patriotal fentiments of the king, who thinks it the duty of one of the first electors to maintain the dignity, the liberty, the laws of the empire, and the majefty of the Germanick body." From Stockholm we hear, that on the 11th ult. Mr. Wickman was publickly beheaded there, for holding treasonable correspon. dences with a foreign power whilst he was in Finland. 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Thomas Swift was In the mean time, the mother, who had been left in narrow circumstances, returned to her relations in Leicestershire, having committed the care of her two children to her husband's eldest brother Godwin, who generously undertook the charge, and fent the fon, when fix years old, to fchool at Kilkenny in Ireland, where he continued eight years, and was then entered a student of Trinity college in Dublin. C D At college young Jonathan lived in perfect regularity, and under an entire obedience to the statutes; but the moroseness of E his temper often rendered him very unac. ceptable to his companions, so that he was little regarded, and lefs beloved: Nor were the academical exercises agreeable to his genius. He held logick and metaphyficks in the utmoft contempt, and he fcarce confidered mathematicks and natural philosophy, November, 1751. 1751. unless to turn them into ridicule. The ftudies which he followed were history and poetry: In thefe he made a great progrefs; but to all other branches of fcience he had given fo very little application, that when he appeared as a candidate for the degree of bachelor of arts, he was fet afide on account of infufficiency: However, he at last obtained his admiffion ex jpeciali gratia; a phrafe which in that univerfity carries with it the utmost marks of reproach. Jonathan was full of indignation at this treatment, and therefore refolved to purfue his ftudies at Oxford; but that he might he admitted ad eundem, he was obfrom Dublin college, which his uncle Williged to have a tftimonium of his degree liam Swift, whom he calls the best of his relations, got for him. At Oxford they either were not acquainted with what was meant at Dublin by the phrafe ex speciali gratia, and concluded that it fignified a degree conferred in reward of extraordinary learning, or they judged better of the genius and knowledge of the candidate ; for they immediately admitted him ad eundem, and he entered himself of Hart-hall, now Hartford college, where he refided till he took his degree as master of arts in 1691, during which time he was chiefly fupported by Sir William Temple, to whofe lady his mother was related, which gave birth to the report of his being a natural son of Sir William's, without any ground, because Sir William was employed as a minister abroad from 1665 to 1670. After Jonathan left Oxford, he lived with Sir William Temple at his house at Moore park, where he was thrown into a long and dangerous illness by a furfeit of fruit, to which he always afcribed that giddiness in his head, that with intermiffions purfued him till it feemed to compleat its conqueft, by rendering him the exact image of one of his own Struldbruggs. As foon as he was a little recovered, he went, by the advice of his phyficians, into Ireland, to try the effects of his native air, which foon restored him, and he returned to Sir William Pppa |