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From Thursday August 14. to Monday August 18. 1707




Windsor, August 16.

THE humble Address of the Bishop, Dean, Chapter, and Clergy, of the Diocese of Salisbury : Presented to her Majesty by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Most Gracious Sovereign,
IT is the peculiar Glory of Your Majesty's Reign that Your faithful Subjects have every Year new Occasion given to them to appear before You, with Hearts full of Joy, congratulating the great Blessings which God pours down on Your Majesty and on Your Councils, with such singular Characters of His Favour and Protection, that both Your Majesty and Your People, made happy by Your Means, are become the Wonder of the World.
The great Work of the Union of the whole Island, so often attempted with so little Success, is now finished and settled by Your Majesty's tender Care and wise Management : So that, as our Church is with a just Gratitude acknowledg'd by the Representatives of all Your Subjects, both Spiritual and Temporal, to be in a safe and flourishing Condition under Your Majesty's Administration, we may now upon this great Occasion affirm the same of the State, when we see this noble Foundation laid for the Security of the present and future Ages.
We promise to Your Majesty, That we will endeavour all that lies in us, by a Friendly and Brotherly Correspondence with all in this united Kingdom, to cultivate what is now so well begun, and that gives us a Prospect of great Things to follow in the Ages to come; which will celebrate the Memory of our Great Queen as the Original and Foundress of a New Empire.
May God still continue to us these great Blessings which we enjoy under Your Majesty; and may You Reign long and happily over us. We will ever renew these our Prayers to Almighty God, and will live in all Duty and Loyalty towards Your Majesty, in Opposition to all Your Enemies both at Home and Abroad.




The humble Address, of the High Sheriff, Custos Rotulorum, Justices of' the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and other Gentlemen and Freeholders, of the County of Anglesey; and of the Mayor, Recorder, Bailiff's, and Burgesses, of the ancient Borough of Beaumaris in the said County: Presented to Her Majesty. by the Hon. Lieutenant General Cholmondeley, (in the absence of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales) : Introduced by the Rt.Hon the Lord High Treasurer.

To the QUEEN's most Excellent Majesty,
May it please Your Majesty,
THE glorious Successes of Your Majesty's Arms Abroad have hitherto been the customary theme of our Addresses to Your Majesty; nor do we at all doubt, by the Blessing of God, 'ere long to resume the same Subject: Only in this (we hope but) short Interval of those victorious Successes, we humbly beg Leave to entertain Your Majesty with a brief Mention of other Conquests made by Your Subjects, not over their Enemies, but themselves by totally subduing in Obedience to Your Majesty, those violent and hereditary Reluctances which, for so many Ages, effectually had, and, without Your Majesty's irresistible Influence, for ever might have, obstructed the Union of Great Britain. And now the great Work is done, That it may be fruitful of all those happy Effects proposed by it, and that Your Majesty may long love to reap the Glory and Satisfaction of them, is the earnest and incessant Prayer of Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects.




The humble Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Town-Clerk, Brethren, Capital Burgesses, and other Burgesses and Inhabitants, of Her Majesty's ancient Borough of Derby in the County of Derby : Presented to Her Majesty by the Rt.Hon the Lord James Cavendish, one of their Representatives in Parliament.
To the QUEEN's most Excellent Majesty,
May it please Your most Sacred Majesty,
WE Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, presum'd formerly to lay before Your Majesty the grateful Sense we had of Your gracious Design to unite the then divided Parts of Great Britain into One Kingdom; and humbly declar'd our hearty Wishes for perfecting that mighty Work. We have since had the Happiness to see the Accomplishment of our Wishes, and the Pleasure to observe the rest of our fellow Subjects to have the like just Sense of so great a Blessing, in the universal Joy and remarkable Unanimity with which they have offer'd Your Majesty their Thanks on this glorious Occasion.
To have rescu'd Europe, and united Britain; to have made Your Peoples Happiness Your Aim, and to have surely attain'd what You piously design; will give Your Annals a particular Lustre with all Posterity : May it be the Endeavour of all Your Majesty's Subjects, as it shall be ever ours. by a distinguishing Gratitude, and ready Obedience to ease in some measure the Weight of Affairs You support for the common Good. May Your Majesty's Happiness rise proportionately as You have rais'd ours; and may God preserve Your Majesty, the Joy, the Glory, and Security of Great Britain, and the Protection of the Liberty of Mankind.

Which Addresses Her Majesty received very graciously.




Leipsick, Aug. 10. N.S. Since the Arrival of Count Wratislaw, there have been very frequent Conferences between the Ministers employ'd in the Mediation, and those of Sweden, in order to find out Expedients for composing the Differences between the Imperial and Swedish Courts. King Stanislaus interposes in this Affair with as much Application as if his Crown depended on the Success of their Councils. But the Ministers of Sweden, in the last Debate on that Subject, made certain Demands, which the Mediators cannot answer till they receive new Instructions. In the mean time the four Swedish Regiments remain in Silesia, tho' Count Wratislaw insists upon their being immediately recall'd. The Time when the Swedes will march out of this Country is still undetermin'd: But we are assur'd their Field-Marshal Reinschild has receiv'd Orders from the King his Master to be in a readiness the latter end of this Week to march at the Head of a very great Detachment. On Saturday last the University of this City held a publick Act in Honour of the Queen of Great Britain, on Occasion of the happy Union of England and Scotland. All the Foreign Ministers were invited to be of the Audience. The Ceremony open'd with a Consort of Musick: After which the Professor Menhemius, who is a Member of the Royal Society in England, introduc'd the Performances, which were to follow with an elegant Oration. The Exercises were perform'd with much Grace and Order. Mr. Robinson, the British Envoy, made his Compliments to the Society for so remarkable an instance of their Veneration and Respect for Her Majesty; and, after the whole Ceremony was concluded, entertain'd the Foreign Ministers, the chief Members of the University and City, with several other Persons of Distinction, in a very splendid manner.




His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, &c. Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. is pleas'd to direct That all the Men belonging to Her Majesty's Ship the Burford, at Plimouth, do forthwith repair to their Duty a-board her at that Place, otherwise they will be taken up and try'd as Deserters.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, &c. Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. is pleas'd to direct That all the Men belonging to Her Majesty's Ship the Oxford, at Chatham, do forthwith repair to their Duty a-board her at that Place, otherwise they will be taken up and try'd as Deserters; Orders having been given for paying the Wages due to them before the said Ship sails from the Buoy of the Nore.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, &c. Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. is pleas'd to order That all the Men belonging to Her Majesty's late Ship the Resolution, and are returned from Italy, do forthwith repair on board Her Majesty's Ship Oxford, now in the River Medway, and suddenly expected at the Buoy of the Nore, to serve in her; where they will be paid the Wages due to them in the Resolution before the said Ship Oxford sails from the Nore.
The Commissioners for Victualling Her Majesty's Navy do hereby give Notice, they will be ready, at their Office on Tower-hill, to receive Proposals, and treat with such Persons as are inclinable to furnish Oxen and Hogs at the Port of Portsmouth, for the Service of Her Majesty's Navy.




Advertisements.

WENT from his Lodgings, at Greenwich, the 10th Instant, being somewhat melancholy, a Gentleman ages about 24, middle Siz'd, well Shap'd, has a long Visage, and clear Complexion, wearing a fair Wig, a light brown Coat with Black Buttons, black Breeches and Stockings. Whoever shall give Notice of this Person to Mr. Gray, Apothecary, at Greenwich, or to Mr. Lloyd at his Coffee-house in Lombard-street, London, so that he may be met with, shall have his Charges born, and Ten Guinea's Reward, and is desired to take Care of the Gentleman in the mean time.

The Earl of Bridgewater's House over against the Princes Meuse, near St.James's Palace, (formerly call'd Cleveland House) with the Stables, Garden, &c. thereto belonging, is to be Lett.

Whereas a second Letter, dated the 9th Instant, hath been sent to Mr. Rand, Goldsmith, relating to the late Sir Ralph Delavall's[?] Affairs, this is to give Notice to the Party, That a Letter in Answer to it was sent last Post, to be left at Feversham in Kent, where he desired it should be left.

ALL Persons who have any Demand out of the Estate of Mr. Benjamin Dajenne[?], late of Hackney, deceased, are desired to make their Application to Mr. Gerald Vanheythuysen, Merchant, in Austin-Fryers, London, on or before the 22d Instant, and make out their Demands, in order for their Satisfaction, in regard the Executors do then intend to pass their Accounts, and deliver up what Estate is remaining into the Hands of the residuary Legatees.

THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt against Richard Distor, late of London, Woollendraper, intend to meet on the 10th of September next, at 4 after Noon, at Guildhall, London, to make a Dividend of his Estate, where all Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts, and pay their Contribution Money, or they'l be excluded, the Deeds being then to be sealed.

Whereas Martha Short, of Burnsall in Yorkshire, Widow and Grocer, hath surrendered her self, and been twice examined, the Commissioners intend to meet on the 5th of September next, at Two after Noon, at the House of Isabel Roberts, Widow, at East Martin in the said County, to finish her Examination, where all Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts, pay their Contribution Money, and assent to, or dissent from, the Allowance of her Certificate.

THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt against John Hodgson, of Halifax, in the County of York, Butcher, intend to meet on the 24th of September next, at 10 before Noon, at the Angel Inn in Halifax aforesaid; where all Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts, and pay their Contribution Money, or they'l be excluded the Benefit of the said Commission.

THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt against David Gerrard, late of Stepney, Weaver, intend to meet on the 12th of September next, at 10 before Noon, at the Irish Chamber in Guildhall, London, to make a Dividend of his Estate, where his Creditors are to prove their Debts, and pay their Contribution Money, or they'l be excluded.

Whereas Thomas Miller, of Dartford in Kent, Innholder, hath surrendered himself, and been examined, the Commissioners intend to meet on the 12th of September next, at 3 after Noon, at the Irish Chamber in Guildhall, London, to finish his Examination, where his Creditors may attend to prove their Debts, and assent to, or dissent from, his Certificate.

A Commission of Bankrupt being awarded against John Otway, late of Newcastle upon Tyne, Mercer, and he having surrendered himself, and being twice examined, the Commissioners intend to meet at the Chambers of William Atwood, Esq; in the Inner Temple, London, on the 29th Instant, at 3 after Noon, to finish his Examination, where his Creditors are to come prepared to prove their Debts, pay their Contribution Money, and assent to, or dissent from, his Certificate.

Whereas the acting Commissioners against Nelson Bigsby, late of Mendlesham, in the County of Suffolk, and now of the City of Norwich, Grocer, have certified to the Rt.Hon the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, That he hath in all things conform'd to the late Act : This is to give Notice, That his Certificate will be confirmed at the Act directs, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary by the 8th of September next.

Whereas the acting Commissioners against John Scholefeild, of Rochdale in the County of Lancaster, Chapman, have certified to the Rt.Hon the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, That he hath in all things conform'd to the late Act : This is to give Notice, That his Certificate will be confirmed at the Act directs, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary by the 8th of September next.