Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

The following paragraph is from a late London paper:

ACCESSION OF HIS MAJESTY.

On the 25th ultimo, our venerable and afflicted Sovereign entered into the 60th year of his reign, a period longer than any of his majesty's predecessors in England and Scotland occupied the throne. Henry III. reigned in England fifty-six years, and James VI. in Scotland fifty-eight years: but the former was only nine years of age when he succeeded to the monarchy, and the latter was an infant when in consequence of the extorted resignation of his mother he became King: while George the III. was of a legitimate age, on his accession to the sovereignty of G. Britain and Ireland. Of the Peers of Scotland at his Majesty's accession, only the Duke of Gordon, born 1743, who inherited the title in 1752, is alive. The Twenty Judges of the Court of Session and Exchequer in Scotland have been exactly three times renewed during this reign; the appointments to the bench being sixty in number, exclusive of two promotions of Puisne Judges to the President's Chair. Of the Society of Writers to the Signet at the accession, only one, Cornelius Eliott of Woolee, is in existence. Of the Peers of England and Ireland at the commencement of his reign, five are alive, viz: the Earl now Marquis Drogheda, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscount Nerotville, and Viscount Buckley, all of whom were under age at the accession, with the exception of the Marquis of Drogheda, now in his 90th year, and at the head of the Generals of the army.