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74]  ANNUAL REGISTER 
This day the royal assent was given by commission to the following bills, viz.

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The bill to continue and amend an act passed in the last session, to prohibit the exporation of corn, &c.
The bill to continue for a further time, the act for the importantion of falted provisions, &c. from Ireland and the colonies.
And to four private bills.
Soame Jenyns, Edward Elliot, John Roberts, and Bamber [[Gascoyne?]], Esqrs. the Hon. Robert Spencer, Esq; commonly called Lord Robert Spencer, the Hon. George Greville, Esq; commonly called Lord Greville, and William Jolsffe, Esq; were by his majesty appointed commissioners of trade and plantations. — This appointment, which is only a form of repetition when any new comissioner is appointed, occasioned a motion in the house, to vacate the feats of those members whose names appeared in the Gazette. It was at first treated with ridicule, but afterwards produced a serious debate.

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The interment of her late 
Royal Highness Augusta Princess of Wales, was preformed with the usual ceremony. The procession was exactly in the same order as for the prince her consort. Our readers will see the particulars in the Appendix to the Chronicle.
The society in the Strand, have given Mr. St. Pierre, a French gentleman from South-Carolina, their gold medal for producing wines in that part of the British dominions ; but the banks of the Missisippi are said to be so uncommonly favourable to the culture of vines, that a quarter-cask of delicious wine has been produced from a single slip of the Burgundy grape.
The same gentleman has also brought over some silk with him raised in Carolina, which seems superior in quality to any hitherto imported from Italy.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, February 6.
"By the last letters from Denmark we hear that the queen, who is confined at Cronenburgh, keeps her health, but cannot sleep, and eats but little. The queen-dowager carries every thing with a very high hand. Counts Struensee and Brandt are allowed but half a dollar a day for their sustenane, and they are so settered that they cannot feed themselves."
The following requisition having been signed by 1+3 liverymen, was presented to the lord-mayor by Mr. Sommers, of Walbrook, on the 12th [[instant?]].
"We the underwritten liverymen, on behalf of ourselves and brethren the livery of London, do most earnestly request your lordship will summon a common-hall on any convient day previous to the instant, for the purposes of giving public instructions to our reprensentatives in parliament, relative to the very important motion intended to be made by Mr. Alderman Sawbridge in the House of Commons, for shortening the duration of parliaments."
When the above was presented, Mr. Sommers received for answer, That his lordship would consider of it ; and on Wednesday, Feb. 12, the following answer was received :
"The lord-mayor desires the favour of Mr Sommers, to present his compliments to the gentleman
who
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who yesterday made an application to him in writing, and to acquaint them, that he is very desirous of embracing every opprotunity of testifying the most respectful attention to the wishes of his fellow-citizens ; but that, as the right of the mayor to summon extraordinary common-halls has been brought into question, and is now in litigation in a court of justice, he thinks it proper to suspend the exercise of that right till the question has recived a legal determination ; and the rather, as all motions of consequence, relative to matters arising within the city, or in which the corporation are supposed to be interested, may be submitted to the consideration of the Court of Common-Council, which he will be ready to call together on all necessary occasions."
When the above message was read to the livery assembled to recieve it, twenty memebers of the Common-Counil were deputed to desire his lordship to call a Court of Common-Council on Tuesday the 18th ; to which his lordship returned, That he would call a Court of Common-Council on some convenient day in the next week. The livery recieved this message with great marks of disapprobation.

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This evening, between six and seven, her Royal and Serene Highness the Hereditary Princess of Brunswick set out for Dover, in order to embark for Carlais, on her return to Brunswick.

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The great Norfolk cause  was finally determined in the House of Peers, and the decree of the late Lord Chancellor Camden reversed. The appellant was Edmond Rolfe, Esq; the respondents John Paterson and son, farmers. The original cause of action was the breach of covenant in a lease granted by the appellant to the respondents, whereby they agreed to pay 5 [[l.?]] for every acre of meadow, or other land which they should break up, that had not been in tillage for twenty years before their lease commended. Paterson stubbed up ten acres of furze or whin ground, with a view to increase its value. Rolfe used for breach of covenant, and recieved 73 [[l.?]] damages, with costs and suit. Four years afterwards Rolfe used again, and Paterson let judgment pass against him by default, which, together with the former suit amounted to 548 [[l.?]] As the landlord's claim was not to rest here, but to be renewed occasionally, Paterson applied to Chancery to be relieved, and Lord Cambden granted an injunction, and ordered issue to be tried by a jury, to estimate the real claimers, as he was of opinion, that the penalties were excessive, and not at all proportionable to the injury ; the cheif one complained of being, that the furze was intended as a cover for hares. On this enquiry it appeared, that the appellant's estate had recieved no injury ; on the contrary, that the part complained of had been improved six times more than its native value, and that the appellant had insisted on three times the value of the fee simple of the inheritance. On this ground it was that Lord Camden ordered the cause to come before a jury, of the benefit of which the respondent had suffered himself to be deprived, when he ignorantly let judgment pass against him by default. The lords were, however, unanimously of opinion, that