The Virginia Gazette

May 23. Yesterday his Majesty went to the House of Peers in his State Coach, drawn by eight Cream-colour'd Horses dressed in Blue Ribands attended by the Earl of Waldegrave and Lord Cathcart. and being seated on the Throne, and Sir Harry Bellendine, Usher of the Black Rod, having by Order of his Majesty commanded the Commons Attendance, his Majesty gave the Royal Assent to the following Bills, viz.

A Bill for providing for the Administration of the Government, in Case it should descend to any of the Children of his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales under the Age of Eighteen, and appointing a Guardianship for the Care of their Persons. — A Bill for regulating of Trials by Juries. — A Bill for reducing the Interest upon the Capital Stock of the South-Sea Company, for the Time and Terms therein mention'd, and providing against Frauds in the Officers and Servants of that Company. — A Bill for the Relief of the Annuitants of the Mercers Company. — A Bill to indemnify Justices of the Peace and Constables in the due Execution of their Office, and preventing any vexatious and litigious Law Suits. — A Bill for the more easy Recovery of small Debts in the City of Lincoln, and the County of that Name. — A Bill for correcting the Style, and regulating the Kalendar now in Use. — A Bill for paving, enlightening, and adorning Golden-Square. — A Bill for the Preservation of the Game in Scotland. — A Bill for enlightening and better watching the open Streets in the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green. A Bill for encouraging the Hempen and Linnen Manufactures in the Kingdom of Scotland. — A Bill for the better regulating the River Avon, running through the Counties of Warwick, Worcester, and Gloucester, and settling the Rates of Water-Carriage. A Bill for amending a Bill pass'd last Year, for the more speedy and easy Recovery of small Debts in the City and Liberty of Westminster. A Bill for vesting, for a certain Term of Years, in Michael Menzies, Esq; and his Heirs, &c. the sole Property of a Machine by him invented, for conveying Coals from whence they are dug to the Keels, &c. — A Bill for the Building a Bridge over the River Ribble, near Preston, in the County of Lancaster. — A Bill for Re-building Islington Church. — A Bill for vesting the Effects left by Will by John Mitchel, Esq; for the Advantages of Queen's-College, Oxford. — A Bill for the Naturalizing Count Stephen Laurentius Neale. — The Wendover, York, Durham, Lancaster, and Manchester Road Bills ; and to seventeen private Bills. His Majesty was 36 Minutes in the House, being the longest Time for some Years. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland came to the House in a Chariot, drawn by six Grey Horses, in which he attended his Majesty from thence to Kensington. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales, and the young Princes, were in the Summer-House belonging to Charlton-House, to see his Majesty to and from the House of Peers. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales kept a separate Court for the first Time, from that belonging to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.