BIRTHS for the Year 1775.

the accounts of these particulars, published in the London Bills of Mortality, have been long given

best judges.

The births at Paris for 1775, were 19,650, of which there were

10,247 boys, and 9103 girls; the deaths, 18,490; and the marriages, 5016; 6505 children were broughtinto the Foundling Hospital. The deaths of 1775 exceeded those of 1774 by 2601; the births of 1775 those of 1774, by 299; the marriages of 1775 were fewer than those of 1774, by 98; and 178 foundlings were received more this year than the last.

Feb.

Sicilies, of a prince, at Caserta, in Italy. Lady Charlemont, of a son and heir, at Castle-Caulfield, in Ireland.

9. The Hon. Mrs. Fielding, Lady of Captain Fielding, of a daughter.

28. The Duchess of Argyle and Hamilton, of a daughter in Argyle-buildings.

1. The Lady of Sir Richard Wolsely, Bart. of a son, in Dublin.

Lady Townshend, of a daughter, in Portman

square.

1. The Lady of Thomas Pitt, Esq; Member for Old Sarum, of a son and heir, at Mr. Pitt's seat in Cornwall.

28. The Lady of Major-General Scott, of a daughter, at Bellveu, near Edinburgh.

of the distress of great numbers of the surviving inhabitants, are truly shocking; to remedy these evils, especially by engaging persons in good circumstances to settle in her provinces, that unhappy republic has made a law, in the course of the present year, to allow her native subjects of the middle rank, except Jews, peasants, and those subject to particular lords, to pur chase estates for ready money. The same inducement has been held out to foreigners; but, though they are promised every kind of security, they are not to expect the right of noblesse.

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of a daughter, in Sack ville-street.

The Countess of Galloway,

of a son, in Duke-street, St. James's.

20. The Countess of Donegall, of a son, in St. James's

square. 25. Her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Asturias, of a prin cess, at Aranjuez. The infanta was immediately christened by twenty-four names, the first of which was Charlotte.

29. The Countess of Essex, of a son, in Stanhope-street, May-fair.

May

Wielburg, of a prince, at
Kircheim, Poland.

13. The Archduchess of Austria, Consort to the Archduke Ferdinand, Governor-general of Austrian Lombardy, of a prince, at Vienna.

22. The Lady of Sir Sampson Gideon, Bart. of a son.

Comtesse d'Artois, of a prince, the Duc d'An gouleme.

11. The Lady of his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, of a daughter, in South-Audley-street.

25. Lady Mary Hogg, of a son, at Hatton, the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale.

heir.

June 3. The Lady of Sir Rowland

Wynn, Bart. of a son and heir, in St. James's

square.

5. Mrs. Montgomery, Lady of the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, of a son.

July 1. The Lady of the Hon. Henry Erskine, Esq; of a daughter, at Edin burgh.

3. The Duchess of Chartres,
of a prince, at Paris.
6. The Countess Dowager of
Rothes, Lady of the Hon.
Patrick Maitland, of a
daughter, at Hatton, in
Scotland.

9. The Duchess of Beaufort,
of a daughter, in Gros-
venor-square.

16. The Lady of Sir William Wake, Bast. of a son, in Chesterfield-street.

19. The Marchioness of Lothian, of a son, in Park-lane. Lady Mountstewart, of a son, in Hill-street, Berkley-square.

Delme, of a son, in Grosvenor-square.

13. The Lady of Sir John Whiteford, Bart. of a son, at Edinburgh.

26. Viscountess Grimston, of a son and heir, in Grosvenor-square.

27.

Oct. 3.

The Landgravine of HesseHomburg, of a prince. The Duchess of Portland, of a daughter in Picca dilly.

9. The Lady of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart. of a son, at Winstay, in Denbighshire.

13. The Lady of Sir Alexander M'Donnald, of a son, at Edinburgh.

19. The Duchess of Grafton, of a daughter, in Albcmarle-street.

20. The Lady of the Honourable Archibald Douglas, of Douglas, of a son, at London.

26. The Lady of Sir Stanier Porter, of a

James's Place.

son, St.

marthen, of a son in Grosvenor-square.

26. The Lady of Sir Beaumont

Hotham, of a daughter,

in Norfolk-street, Strand.

a son, in Upper Brook

the Court of King's Bench; at Westminster Abbey, by a special li

cence.

The Right Hon. Sit John Shelley, Bart. treasurer of his majesty's houshold to Miss Woodcock, only daughter of Edw. Wood cock, Esq; of Lincoln's Inn; at Stoke Newing

ton.

15. Nash, Esq. son to the late Nash, Esq; lord mayor of the city of London, to Miss Darker, daughter of John Darker, Esq; treasurer of St. Bartholomew's、 hospital.

18. Stephen Sayer, Esq; banker in Oxford-street, to Miss Noel, daughter of the hon. William Noel, Esq. 20. The hon. Clotworthy Row ley, Esq. of the fifth regiment of dragoons, to Miss Major Crosbie, of Kildare-street.

27. Sir Philip Hales, Bart. member of parliament for Downton, in Wilts, to Miss Smith, of Shrews bury; at St. George's Hanover-square. 23. Joseph Vander Meulen, Esq. St Alban's, in the county of Hertford, to Miss Susanna Hitch, daughter of John Hitch, Esq. sheriff of the county of Cambridge; at Melborhe. John Grey, Esq. brother to Sir Henry Grey, Bart. of Howick, in Northumberland, to Miss Wiket, of Dorset-court, Westminster.

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The Rev. John Cayley, rector of Terrington, in Yorkshire, to Miss Fanney Cayley, youngest daughter of Sir George Cayley, of Brompton, in the same county, Bart. -Esdaile, Esq. son to Sir James Esdaile, alderman, . to Miss Hadfield, of Manchester.

March 1. Alexander Leith, Esq. member for Tregony, in Cornwall, to Miss Cope, of Grafton-street,, only daughter of the late lieutenant-general Sir John Cope, Knt. of the Bath; at St. George's, Hanover-square.

lation of Lord Fife; at Berwick.

14. Isaac Guedes, Esq. son of Baron Guedes, to Miss. Moore, of Bethnal-green, daughter of the Reverend Doctor Moore.

16. The Hon. George Grenville, Esq. nephew to Earl Temple, to the Hon. Miss Nugent, daughter to Lord Clare.

18. Sir John Gordon, of Earlstown, in Scotland, Bart. to Miss Anne Mylne, youngest daughter to the deceased Mr. Thomas Mylne, of Powder-hall. 26. Sir John Eykin, of Eckle-, ton, Shropshire, to Miss Browning, of Smithfield

street.

7. Thomas Frankland, Esq. member for Thirsk, to Miss Smelt, niece to Leonard Smelt, Esq. sub-governor to his royal highness the Prince of Wales.

24. Colin Wallace, Esq. to Miss Briggs, daughter of Sir Joseph Briggs, of Wooborn in Bedfordshire; in Portman-square. April 11. Sir Stair Agnew, of Lochnaw, Bart. to Miss Peggy

bars.

30. Hon. Geo. Sempill, brother to Ld. Sempill, to Mrs. Jodrell, of Yeardesley, Cheshire.

f

. Charles Baldwyn, Esq. knight of the shire for the county of Salop, to Mrs. Palmer, relict of the late Benjamin Paliner Esq. of Alton, in the county of Warwick. 6. Governor Bouchier, to Miss Foley, daughter to Tho. Foley, Esq. member for Herefordshire.

7. William Gooch, Esq. second son of Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart. of Benacre Park in Suffolk, to Miss Villa Real, only daugh

teh