Great Britain enjoys sovereignty over both, only the property of the former is vested in the Crown. The government reduces the annual interest payable on Consolidated Annuities (consols) from 3.5% to 3%, where it will remain until 1888. Publications Edmund Burke's treatise A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, the annual directory of London prostitutes, is first published. Births 1 February – John Philip Kemble, actor (died 1823) 20 February – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, philanthropist (died 1834) 9 April – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (died 1833) 30 May – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1844) 22 June – George Vancouver, explorer (died 1798) 9 August – Thomas Telford, engineer (died 1834) 13 August – James Gillray, caricaturist (died 1815) 14 October – Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, barrister, statesman, Speaker of the Houser of Commons (died 1829) 13 November – Archibald Alison, author (died 1839) 28 November – William Blake, English poet (died 1827) date unknown – Sir Thomas Foley, Welsh admiral (died 1833) Deaths 15 January – George Gilmer, Sr., politician (born 1700) 19 January – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (born 1664) 5 February – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (born 1678) 1 March – Edward Moore, writer (born 1712) 8 March – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701) 14 March – John Byng, admiral (executed) (born 1704) 6 May – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, politician (born 1683) 28 August – David Hartley, English philosopher (born 1705) 21 October (bur.) – Rhoda Delaval, portrait painter (born 1725) 11 December Colley Cibber, English poet laureate and actor-manager (born 1671) Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675) References Years in Great Britain