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hends all unmarried men between #7 and 
30 3 the fecond ali unmarried men between 
30 and 50; the third all married men be- 
tween 17 and 30, who havenot more than 
two children under ten years of age ; the 
fourth, all und* 55, who are not com- 
prehended in the other claffes. The dif- 
ferent claffes are liable to be called out in 
the order fpecified in cafe of actual inva- 
fion, and ordered to march to any part of 
the kingdom, to Ce; Peate with the regu- 
Jar army. 
This meafure, though a ftrong, 1s ftill 
a conftitutional meafure ; and. it corre- 
{ponds well with the liberal conduét of the 
Minifter, who is not afraid to truft the 
People of England with arms for their 
own defence. The bill makes no faétious 
diftinctions ; and the Minifter has difce- 
vered that thofe who have been ftigmatized 
as Jacobins, will be as ready to meet the 
invaders of their country, as the Loyal 
Affociation at the Crown and Anchor. 
When we obferve this meafure, and re- 
Incidents, Marriages, and Deaths, in and near London, { Aug. ¥, - 
colle&t, that though the country is threat= 
ened with immediate invafion, the Habeas 
Corpus Aét is not fufpended, nor any of 
the violent and obnoxious meafures of the 
late Adminiftration revived, we cannot 
but rejoice in the confidence which the Go- 
vernment feems dilpofed to place in the 
people. That confidence, we muft allow, 
on the other hand, is amply repaid by the 
vigour ard loyalty which is evinced by the 
country. Since the latter end of the fevens 
years war, under Lord Chatham’s Admi- 
niftration, we never remember to have 
feen fuch unanimity as at preient. Patri- 
otic Affociations are every were formed ; 
moft liberal contributions are entered in- 
to; and the fubfcription which is com- 
menced at Lloyd’s, for the relief of the_ 
widows and orphans of thofe who fall in 
the defence of their country, affords a 
moft fplendid. proof of the vigour, opu- 
lence, liberality, and humanity of this 
nation. 
INCIDENTS, 
MARRIAGES anp DEATHS in ant neEaR LONDON. 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifhed Charafers recently deceafed. 
A fpeciai Court of Aldermen was held 
Jely 11, at GuildhaH, for the purpofe of re- 
commending to the citizens ‘of London’ at 
large, the forming themfelves into volunteer 
and armed affociations, for the particular de- 
fence of the metropolis: thefe affociations to 
confift of men to be raifed in every ward, be- 
tween the agés of 18 and 45. ‘The, recom- 
mendation further purports that ail houfe- 
holders and inhabitants above the age of 45 
be enrolled in a corps to ferve as conftables, 
to co-operate with the volunteer corps. All 
the volunteer infantry to be comprifed in four 
divifions, each embracing the adjacent wards, 
and te be named, The Royal Exchange divi- 
fion, the Saint Paul’s divifion, the North-eaft 
divifion, and the South-eaft divifion. <A 
corps of cavalry is alfo to be formed to act 
conjointly with the city infantry. 
At avery numerous meeting, held at the 
Royal Exchange, on Tuefday, July 26, of 
the merchants, bankers, fhip-owners, traders, 
&<. of the city of London and its neigh- 
bourhood, a very fpirited declaration, pro- 
pofed by Mr. Forfter, after a fpeech by Mr. 
Bofanquet, chairman, was unanimoufly 
agreed to, and refolved upon, purporting, 
among other expreflions of the fentiments of 
the meeting, their unanimous determination 
to employ all their exertions, with fervices 
of every fort, to roufe the national {pirit, and 
to affift the refources of the kingdom—in 
brief, ‘to ftand or fall with their King and 
Country.” ) 
A military affociation ‘has been lately 
formed in London, to be entitled The Corps 
of Loyal North Britons, (Lord Reay has ac- 
cepted the command) ;- they are to have two 
places for affembly and exercife, one in 
the city, and one in the weft-end of the 
town. 
All the principal officers, and the whole 
body of clerks, belonging to the Cuftom-houfe 
in London, from the age of 18 to 45 (the 
number amounts te above qo) h&e yaiels 
volunteered their fervices to Government, to 
ferve in any part of the metropolis, and their 
offer has been accepted, 
The inhabitants of the parifh of St. George 
Hanover-fquare, have lately come to the re~ 
foiution of forming-themfelves into a volun 
teer'corps, -to be commanded by Vifcount 
Chetwynd; Mr. Bootle to be lieutenant- -COe 
lonel. 
A fubfcription has been lately opened at 
Licyd’s Coffee Houfe, on an enlarged fcale, 
for the encouragement of exertions in defence 
of the country in general, which already 
amounts to the fum of 36,0001 befides the 
fum of 20,0001. in ftock. 
The gentlemen of the Somerfet Houfe 
Affociation amount to about 300. Similar 
afiociations are forming with great zeal and 
public fpirit by moft of the public bodies, 
and by the inbabitants of the different wards 
and moit confiderable parifhes, (as St. Giles’s, 
St! George’s, Bloomibury, and others) for the 
defence of this extenlive metropolis, 
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