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During the whole course of the 
American war, he constantly and 
zealously opposed it; and he was 
duly sensible, that to the j inereasing 
influence of the crown we might 
justly impute our too frequent wars. 
He exerted himself, however inef. 
ficaciously, in the cause of pariia- 
mentary reform, as the most likely 
means to correct it. His political 
views were truly patriotic ; and his ° 
speeches in parliament, if they 
possessed not all the brilliancy of a 
complete orator, displayed, which 
is perhaps better, in concise and 
nervous Janguage, the sentiiments 
of a just, unbiassed, and upright, 
member of the cominons-house of 
parliament. In effect, so truly in- 
dependent was his spirit, that he 
disdained to accept, and pledged 
himself that he never would accept, 
any title, place, or pension, which 
government had to bestow. He 
loved his country, because it was a 
land of freedom ; and, on all those 
pret occasions in which Mr. Saw- 
ridge thought the liberties of his 
country were interested, he tock an 
ative and spirited part. Happily 
for him, his faculties gave way 
previously to the present disastrous 
war; otherwise, it ismost probable, 
that he would, with the same ar- 
dour, have opposed it, in all its 
Stages, as he hetetiSte did the on. 
fortunate American war. Heaven 
in its mercy decreed, bie he should 
he a stranger to all its horrors ; this 
valuable man having been, for the 
Jast two years of hts sublunary-ex- 
{stence, Jost to his country, his fa- 
imily, his friends and himself; his 
death, therefore, was a consumma- 
tion devoutly to be wished. His 
Yemains were interred in the parish 
‘church of Wye, in the county of 
Kent, wherein is the family bury- 
ing-place, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
At Philadelphia, Mr. John Penn, 
formerly governor of the province 
of Pennsylvania ; the last surviving 
male issue of the founder of that 
colony. 
MARCH. 
This day a common hall 
was held at Guildhall, for the 
purpose of electing a representa. 
tive in parliament, i in the room of 
the late Mr. alderman Sawbridge. 
Mr. Lushington being proposed, a 
great show of hands appeared in his 
favour. Mr. Harvey Combe had 
likewise a respeQable show ; but a 
poll being demanded, the same im- 
mediately commenced. At the 
close of the poll on the sth, the 
numbers were— 
For Mr. Lushington 2334 
Mr. Combe 1560 
The latter gentleman then: des 
elined the poll. 
4th One Richard Brothers, sites 
“ly a lieutenant in the navy, 
having for some time past promul. 
gated prophecies concerning the 
French Revolution, the destruétion 
of London, &c. twisting the apoca- 
lypse to whatever purposes he pleas. 
ed, did not a little terrify -the good 
people of Loudon. 
‘The most singular circumstance 
attending this man was, the disti- 
ple he gained in.the person of Mr, 
Halhed, a member’ of ° parliament, 
and not unknown in whe Oriental 
world.. This gentleman professed 
himself a sincere and thorough 
convert, and wrote a pamphlet in 
defence of the divinity of Brothers’s 
mission. 
In consequence of the tnischict. 
ous tendencies-of some of his pro- 
phecies, Mr, Brothers was this 
mosning 
