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Some Selected Reports from the Bath Journal
Monday, March 15th, 1773.
Historical ANECDOTES of the private Lives of his MAJESTY and his Amiable QUEEN.
AS the German Ladies are generally prolific, her Majesty has produced a numerous brood of fondlings. Unlike in most things to our fashionable dames, her Majesty scorns to leave the management of her offspring to an unfeeling nurse, or a prattling giddy waiting woman. The Queen watches over her helpless innocents, and with all the soft solicitude of maternal tenderness, guides their infant steps with a mother's fostering hand. Her Majesty is truly sensible, that as she cannot transfer her feelings, so neither can she her anxiety for her children's welfare to another: and that she abhors the opinion, too universally received amongst the Ladies, that "Attending upon infants is a servile drudgery," will appear from the following genuine anecdote:
In a conversation which passed between the Queen and a certain Dutchess, her Majesty expressed an astonishment, that the Ladies intrusted their children, when they took an airing, to the care of servants, and were so seldom seen with them themselves. The Dutchess inclined to vindicate the practice, her Majesty interrupted her with this sensible admonition: "You are, said she, a mother -- you converse with a mother - and I should be sorry you would force me to suppose you callous, where you ought to be most susceptible."
There is such an admirable uniformity in the dispositions of the royal pair, their minds are formed in such perfect unison to each other, that allowing for the difference arising from the perplexing affairs of government, it is impossible to pourtray the character of the one, without including, at the same time, that of the other.
The Frequency of divorces, and the infidelity of either sex, shocks his Majesty's nature. He hath not been bred in the school of quibbling; he hath not been taught to conceive that libertinism and licentiousness was culpable only in the Females. His Majesty justly concludes, that the Man cannot estrange his affections, without violating in every respect the matrimonial contract. The multiplied infidelities of late years have most sensibly affected our Monarch; whose expanded heart sympathises with every misfortune under which his people labour. His Majesty is known to shudder whenever he signs a warrant for a Felon's execution; and he not long since declared, that "he never assented to a bill praying for a divorce, but with an internal kind of reluctance."
It is not an easy talk to decide, whether his Majesty is most exemplary as a Father or an Husband. Considered in the character of the latter, he is all softness, all affection, all indulgence, and has a heart susceptible of every domestic pleasure. As a father, he is severe without being morose, familiar without at all relaxing his paternal authority, and affectionate without that weakness which makes youth but too presuming.
His Majesty takes a laborious pains in the culture of his children's minds. He is truly sensible of the necessity of bending the twig when young, if we are desirous of its having the proper shape ever after. When the King's other avocations, therefore, will permit him leisure, he employs it usually in giving his progeny such instructions as their infant minds are capable of receiving; for his Majesty has frequently observed, that "it is chiefly owing to the parent, if the children are devoid of proper principles."
It would be needless to recapitulate every minute occurrence, as we mean not to write an history of our Sovereign's life, but only to sketch out his excellencies, for others to copy after so truly an illustrious example. As, however, our readers may be solicitous to attend our Monarch into his most private recesses, we have endeavoured to procure every information which we thought might gratify their curiosity.
In winter his Majesty usually rises betwixt six and seven, and retires to his devotions in a private apartment, where he continues near an hour. In summer his Majesty seldom lies longer than six. After breakfast his Majesty dresses, and attends the public business, if any. Afterwards he has his children brought to him, and then retires to his study to prosecute some new ingenious discovery, or attend to the conversation of some man of science and knowledge.
The Queen generally spends the forenoon with her little ones, and as she is to the last degree ingenious, she is generally employed about drawing, or the most curious kind of needle-work, the latter of which is her favourite amusement.
The King is remarkably temperate, seldom indulging himself in more than four glasses of wine at dinner, and a little wine and water at supper. The afternoon, if no state affairs require his consultation, Majesty spends in reading some favourite author to the Queen; who has given the beat proof that she thoroughly understands our language, by conceiving greatest attachment to Shakespeare's most esteemed plays.
As his Majesty was taught to speak with all the graces of oratory, by the celebrated Quin, persons who have had access to his royal presence declare, that the King reads and speaks more like a professor of eloquence than a Monarch, who might be supposed somewhat softened with the luxury of a Court.
After supper his Majesty and the Queen join in late devotions, and perusing each some moral or religious author, they retire early to rest.
SATURDAY's POST.
LONDON, March 11.
Yesterday a new Order called the Order of Knights Companions to the Royal Society, was instituted by his Majesty at St. James's, when his Majesty was pleased to create James Burrow, Esq. President of the Royal Society, the first Knight thereof.- The above Order was instituted by his Majesty, who is sovereign and patron thereof, purely to honour the Royal Society, among whom it is to be entirely confined, in order to encourage philosophic and literary merit.
His Majesty has declared, that not one of his younger sons shall receive either an additional title or establishment, until they attain the age of twenty-one, in order to prevent their becoming a heavier charge on the public.
The gentlemen of the faculty yesterday met at Lord Bellamont's, but from the nature of the wound did not attempt to extract the ball, the lips being so swelled from the introduction of the forceps last Thursday, that it was thought adviseable to wait till the inflammation had subsided. His Lordship was in good spirits, and has received great relief from the decoction of the bark add the neutral salts, which have entirely removed the shiverings he was lately attacked with, and which were looked upon as very dangerous indications.
A few days ago a remarkable discovery was made by an old man, aged near seventy years, of a murder committed on the body of one Colville, a Coal Carter, near Durham; in the year 1754, and two persons are now actually in custody to take their trials for the same. One of them proves to be a person who was transported to Maryland for 14 years in 1759.
Yesterday as Mr. Rose, a druggist, in Hog-lane, Soho, was at dinner, he was suddenly taken ill, fell in a fit, and expired immediately.
Letters from Cornwall mention, that the riots of the tinners begin to abate; and that it is supposed they will soon disperse.
Monday night an inhuman murder was committed on the body of Alice Martin, a nurse at the Grey Coat hospital, Tothill-fields, by a young man named Lockington, apprentice to a cabinet maker, who stabbed her in several parts of the body, afterwards cut her throat from ear to ear. Some persons alarmed by the cry of murder, found the door secured, and got in at the window by a ladder, when they almost detected the villain rifling the dead body, who left his hat, and the knife with which he committed the murder behind. The prisoner is not twenty years of age, and confessed that, instigated by covetousness, he alone perpetrated the horrid fact. He was committed to Newgate.
Tuesday a young man, about nineteen years of age; apprentice to Mr. Graves, mercer in the Borough, purchased sixpenny worth of arsenic at an apothecary's shop, which he pretended was to poison rats; and then went to a public-house in the neighbourhood, where he borrowed a pestle and mortar, and pounded it fine; he then called for a glass of liquor, in which he put the arsenic, drank it off, and expired about four hours after in great agony.
On Monday night last, three persons were taken into custody by Sir John Fielding's people, on suspicion of diminishing the King's coin. They are three brothers, and tradesmen, and lived in great reputation near St. Andrew's Church, Holborn. They used to send a �40. bank note almost every week to the Bank, in order to get heavy guineas, which it is supposed they filed and sweated.
A Correspondent desires us to publish the following as a fresh caution to maid servants: On Sunday evening last a woman servant in Old Broad-street lost her life by carelessly hanging a sheet on a chair before the kitchen fire to air; her husband, who lives in the house, fortunately came home, knocked several times at the door, and then looked into the kitchen window, where he saw the room in flames, and his wife laying in the middle of it senseless. He immediately broke open the door, and several of the neighbours, who were alarmed by the knocking and smell of fire, went in with him and extinguished it. The poor woman laid in a state of insensibility till three o'clock next morning, when she died. She was not burnt at all, so that it is thought she was suffocated.
On Saturday evening last was seized, for the use of the poor, the whole batch of bread of a Baker's oven near Brick-lane, Whitechapel, which was all weighed, and almost every loaf found deficient in weight several ounces, especially the quartern loaves; and it is thought had the weighing been deferred till they were cold, the deficiency would have been seven or eight ounces.
COUNTRY NEWS.
BIRMINGHAM, March 8. A fresh Petition is ordered into the House of Commons with respect to establishing Assay Offices in Sheffield and this town, before any thing more can be absolutely determined on.- It is very remarkable, that in this town there is neither a Beggar nor a Justice of Peace, Sobriety, joined to Industry, forms the very honourable characteristic of our inhabitants; and in their present Petition to Parliament for an Assay Master of their own, their very ingenuity, which should secure them general favour, is the principal argument urged against them by the Goldsmiths of London. It is likewise objected to our people, that they undersell almost all the other places in England in every article of hardware; here their merit is again made criminal, for the decay of all manufactures arises from the exorbitant price: to which they are raised, and those are most entitled to the public encouragement who send them cheapest either to the domestic market, or to foreign kingdoms. The more children a man has in Holland the richer he is; the more children a man has in England, the poorer he is; the people of Birmingham indeed are a happy exemption to this remark, who make their little ones earn a subsistence at the same age in which little ones are learning vice through the streets of every other large town in the kingdom.
YORK, March 9. Yesterday se'nnight two London riders were going from Lancaster to Manchester, they were attacked by two footpads armed with pistols, who demanded their money. The riders replied they would not be robbed, upon which the villains fired, and killed them both on the spot; they dragged one of them amongst the wins, and the other into a marle-pit. The bodies were found on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the perpetrators were taken up, and committed to Lancaster jail. The villains rode off with the gentlemen's horses and bags, which were challenged by a gentleman who knew the deceased. We hear that one of them has confessed the fact.
BRISTOL, March 15.
No ships came in since our last.
Arrived. At Madeira, the Minerva, Pocock, from Cork; at London, the Levant, Parsons, from Leghorn; and at Newry, the Grace, Young, from New-York.
Entered out.The Les Deux, Jean, for Bayonne, the Polly, Harris, for Jamaica; the Mary, Monday, for New-York; and the London Packet, Parker, for Newfoundland.
Died. Mr. Isaac Watson, in Montague-street.- Mrs. Iliffe [?] sister to the late Mr. Mease, at the Nag's-head in Wine-street.- Mrs. Ford, wife of Mr. Ford, surgeon, in Park-street. - Mrs. Short, Sexton of St. Philip's church.- Mr. Philips, Taylor, in Bull-paunch-lane.-Mrs. Merryfield, wife of Mr. Merryfield, grocer, in the Old-Market.
Yesterday being the anniversary meeting of the society of Antient Britons, they met on the Exchange, and proceeded to St. Nicholas church to hear divine service and a sermon, and from thence to the Merchant-Taylors - Hall, where an elegant dinner was provided, after which a collection was made of �100. 6s. 6d. for the support of poor lying-in women and other charitable use�- James Laroche, Esq. was chosen president for the year ensuing.- Their president, Robert Jones, Esq. of Fonmon-castle, being ill, he was represented by Mr. Henry Morgan, linnen-draper, of this city.
Thursday's Post
London, March, 9.
At Winchester Assizes last Week twelve prisoners received sentence of death, viz. John Hawkins, Joseph Fisher, John Woolfrey, Wm. Warren, and John Bartlett, for sheep-stealing; Due Barns, Richard Mott, and George Vernell, for housebreaking; Rob. Arlett, for highway robbery; Francis Pratt, for stealing a mare; and Mary Bagwell, for stealing 100 yards of linen.- The people concerned in stealing stores from his Majesty's dockyard are all acquitted.
Saturday at Mr. Strange's sale of pictures, Sir Watkin Wm. Wynne purchased an original landscape, by Nic. Poussin, at the extraordinary price of �650.
At Mr. West's sale, on Friday last, at Mr. Landford's, a very curious missal of Henry VIIth's sold for �32 10s. Another copy, sold for �42. A very curious manuscript of Borlase, with a great many fine illuminations and miniatures, sold for �26. 5s.
Patrick Welldon, Esq. a Merchant of Dublin, has invented a composition for bleaching and whitening linen, whereby it is done better, much cheaper, and in less than half the time at present employed therein.
Thursday died at Lynn Regis in Norfolk, Mr. Harrison, master of the Crown Inn, he had just before eat a very hearty dinner and took a nap in his chair as usual, from which he never awoke again.
A few days ago Mr. Christopher Morley, of Winthorpe, near Newark upon Trent, farmer, had the honour of receiving the gold medal adjudged to him, at a late meeting of the Agriculture Society at Doncaster, for the cleanest sand fallaw. The success of this intelligent farmer has raised such a spirit of emulation in in the neighbourhood, that it is thought the number of candidates for the premiums to be given this year will not be inconsiderable.
Yesterday Foote's Primative Puppet-Shew was repeated again at the usual hour, but the public seemed to have enough from the preceding day, as there were not above �40 in the house; Punch likewise fell off in several of him imitations, and the repetition of the same kind of wit, fell upon the ears like a tale told by an idiot.
Sunday morning early four villains broke into the shop of Mr. Siddal, saddler, in Oxford-street, and carried off saddlery goods, silver-handled whips &c. to the amount of �30. The apprentice lay in the shop but was soon awakened by the thieves, who tied him to a post, and swore they would murder him if he made the least noise; and he remained for several hours in the above situation, till relieved by the family when they got up in the morning.
A person lately arrived from Portugal, says that a fabric of baize is now carrying on there with great success, as they sell all they make, and are much superior to what comes from England. Upwards of forty manufacturers are arrived there from Ireland, and more expected.
Monday's Post.
London, March 13.
Extract of a letter from Glasgow, in Scotland, Sunday Six o'clock at night..
THERE is just now a Riot at Greenock among the Sailors, who insist that their wages should commence immediately on their going aboard the tail of the Bank instead of when they set sail, as was the practice formerly. They are assembled to the number of 500, headed by some Irishmen. They have not only prevented the ships from sailing, but put a stop to all business at the port, and will not even allow Tobacco to be weighed at the King's scales.- What military we have here, which is only about 100 men, are gone down in the morning."
Another letter received since mentions, that the mob continued to behave in a riotous manner, the magistrate read the riot act; the mob still continuing, the soldiers fired their pieces over the people's heads, when unfortunately two women were killed, and a man and woman dangerously wounded. The military then seized some of the ring-leaders, and the mob dispersed. They, however, assembled again at midnight, and the magistrates thought it prudent to deliver up the persons they had taken; but this morning letters were received by General Oughton, desiring the assistance of more of the military, which are to be immediately sent."
Last night the servant of an Apothecary in Westminster was stopped by two fellows, on his way to Marylebone with medicines, who robbed him of two-pence, and made him drink a bottle of the medicines in his possession.
It is rumoured that a young noble Earl is absolutely married to his beautiful Italian mistress, whom he brought over with him a few months since when he came home from his travels. The circumstance is, we are told, she informed him that she was determined to return home, and finding nothing else would retains her, he offered her marriage, and the ceremony was performed within 24 hours after.
Yesterday one Pittman, a shorer, near sixty years of age, gathering coals, &c. that had been thrown up by the tide on the Surry side of London-bridge, he found a small deal box; on opening it, he found two laced waistcoats, and near �200 in cash.
In consequence of a petition lately presented to his Majesty, Mr. Malony, the popish priest who was sentenced in King's Bench prison for life, has received a free pardon, and is discharged.
Tuesday as Charles Hayman, a man upwards of 100 years of ago, and formerly a soldier under King William, was taking his usual walk on Blackheath, he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and instantly expired.
Tuesday the wife of one Braner, a carpenter in Fetter-land, gave a child some of that poisonous roots (bear's foot) in the pulp of an apple, in order to kill the worms : It has such an unhappy effect on the poor child, that it died yesterday morning in great agonies.
A droll circumstance happened during the late carnival at Paris. At one of the masquerades, which are always permitted there in lent time, a mask appeared in a dress representing a wind-mill. A Prince of the Blood, struck with the novelty of the character, put some trying questions to the mask. The latter replied in a manner that piqued his Highness greatly. The Prince, chagrined at his answers, stept up to one of the sentinels, and bid him take care not to lose sight of the mask, but to arrest him when all was over, with as little noise as possible. The mask retired to a corner of the room, where he seemingly sate down and went to sleep. After nodding there several hours, in the morning when the sentinel came to execute his orders, finding the mask, as he thought still asleep, he gave him several shake in order to awake him. These proving ineffectual, he examined the mask more closely, when to his surprise he found that the bird was flown, and nothing but the carcase of the Windmill left behind.
DUBLIN, March 6. William Grignion, late a letter-carrier of the post office, was convicted last Wednesday at the court of oyer and terminer, of breaking open letters and forging indorsements to different bills, and received sentence of death.
BANKRUPTS. William Williams, of Bristol, Inn-holder. To appear March 15, 16. and April 20, at the Lamb Inn, in Broad Mead, Bristol. - John Hopson, of Halesworth, in Suffolk, Grocer. - Thomas Wyatt, of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, Grocer and Shopkeeper. - John Hall, Silver-Street, Westminster, Victualler. - William Deacon, of Salisbury-Court, Fleet-Street, Tay[l]or.- William Handcock, of Bush-Lane, Cannon-Street, and of the King's Bench Walks in the Temple, Wine-Merchant.- Alexander Solomon, of French-Alley, Spitalfields, Salesman. - John Moresby, of Sheffield, Mercer.- William Dodson of Fenchurch-Street, Hardwareman. - James Spilsbury, of St.Paul Covent Garden, Haberdasher and Warehouseman.- John Jordan, of the Strand, Haberdasher.- Edward Griffith and John Griffith, of Kidderminster, in Worcestershire, Mercers, and Grocers.- John Williams, of St.George Hanover-square, Vintner.
BATH, March 15.
Arrived here, Lord Glasgow, Lord and Lady Wandesford, Sir James Douglas, Sir Thomas Gunstone, Sir Richard Bampfylde and 2 Misses, Hon. Mr. Roper and Lady, Hon. Miss Crichton, Admiral Amherst, Capt. Rollinson, Mr. Recorder Glyn, Dr. Le Mount, Rev. Mr. Tryon, Mr. and Mrs. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Tyndale, Mr.and Mrs. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Cornish, Mr.and Mrs. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Brotherton, Mr. and Mrs. Vansommer, Mr. and Mrs. Allabrande, Mr. Bolt, Mr. Stratel, Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Beggar, Mr. Burnet, Mr. Miller, Mr. White, Mr. Rosse, Mrs. Troughton, Mrs. Portman, Mrs. and Miss Tryon, Mrs Reynolds, Mrs. Marwood, Mrs. Elton, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Labatier, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Green, Mrs. and Miss Tadlock, Master and Miss Roper, Miss Rebonier, Miss Ward, Miss Elton, Miss Pointz, Miss Gordon, 2 Miss Longs, &c. &c.
Yesterday was married at the Abbey Church, Mr. Butler, Draper and Mercer, in Union-Passage, to Miss Molly Woolcombe, of this city.
Saturday Morning died suddenly, Mr. Nathaniel Clement, of Claverton.
Friday morning died at his house in Winterbourn, Glocestershire, in the small-pox, Mr. Isaac Payne, attorney at law.
We hear, at the Theatre-Royal To-morrow will be perform'd Jane Shore, with Cross Purposes.- Thursday, The English Merchant, with The Citizen - And on Saturday, The Earl of Essex, with The Irish Widow.- Tight Rope Dancing each night by Signior Ferci.
At Salisbury assizes last week eight prisoners received sentence of death, among whom was Wm. Amor, of Pewsey, Wilts, for the murder of Mr. John Dyke, at Manningford Bruce, in November last; he is to be hung in chains on Pewsey-Common, To-morrow.- The others were Robert Long and George Ridgley, for burglary, Simon Draper and Joseph Cook, for Felony; Wm. Moss Pitt, for horse stealing; Tho. Jordan, for sheep-stealing; and John White, for a burglary; but the five latter were reprieved before the Judge left the City.- Charles Grist, Tho. Draper, and Moses Morgan, alias Slade, were sentenced to be transported for 7 years; Wm. Sheppard was branded; and 14 were acquitted.
On Thursday last an experiment was tried at Mr. Jelly's Timber-yard in this city, in the presence of several gentlemen and builders, to prevent houses from being consumed by Fire, which was attended with the utmost success.
Last Saturday morning, about four o'clock, as William Webb, a Baker at Cold Ashton, in Glocestershire, was going to Marlborough Market, he was attacked by two Footpads near North-Wraxall, Wilts, who after using him very ill dragged him into a quar, and cut off and carried away his breeches pocket, in which was upwards of �50.- They appeared to be shortish thickset fellows, with small round jockey hats.- One of them seized the horse's bridle, and the other knocked Webb off his horse, by which his is dangerously wounded in the head and otherwise much bruised, and in cutting off his pocket they cut his thigh in several places.
The General Gaol Delivery for Bristol is appointed to be held on the 5th of April.
Tuesday morning at six o'clock, a fire broke out at a house at Marshfield, in Glocestershire, at the west entrance of the town, and in a few minutes communicated itself to an adjoining house, which were both burnt down before it could be extinguished.
The Following Person, being a Fugitive for Debt beyond the Seas on the first Day of January, 1772, and having within 14 Days from the Time of his landing in England, surrendered himself into the Custody of the Keeper of the Goal or Prison of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Do hereby give Notice, that at the next General Quarter Sessions to be held for the said City, or any Adjournment thereof, which shall first happen after 30 Days from Publication, he intends taking the Benefit of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 12th Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Third, Entitled, "An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and for indemnifying the Marshal of the King's-Bench Prison from Prosecution at Law for certain Escapes from the said Prison."
THIRD NOTICE.
JAMES MORLEY, formerly of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, but late of Curraghmore [?] in the County of Waterford, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Tyler and Plasterer.
BATH.
ALL Persons who stand indebted to the Estate of HENRY BIRCH, late of this City, Vintner, a Bankrupt, are hereby required to pay their Debts to Mr. THOMAS WALFORD, in Bradley's-Buildings, who is properly authorized by the Assignees to receive the same, or they will be sued without further Notice.
GEO. ADDERLY, Solicitor.
HOT-WELLS, BRISTOL.
THIS is to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, that the TAVERN and COFFEE-HOUSE, adjoining the New Long Room, are open'd for the Reception of Company, by JOSEPH NORMAN, late Butler to Sir Wm. Draper, who has laid in a good Stock of all Sorts of WINES, neat as imported. -- A good Cook and Larder, Dinners drest on the shortest Notice, good Beds well air'd may be depended on, with the most diligent Attendance, and grateful Thanks for the Favours to all that shall please to honor me with their Company, where the best of all Kinds and reasonable Charges may be depended on, from their most Obedient, and very humble Servant,
JOSEPH NORMAN
The Public Breakfasts, with Cotillions, will be continued every Thursday during the Season, also private Breakfasts as bespoke.
N.B. The Ball Room and Balls will be continued with the most grateful Thanks and Respects to the Company and Order by THOMAS LOGGAN, as usual.
Good Stabling for 60 Horses with good Hay and Corn; Carriages with able Horses and careful Drivers.
SOMERSETSHIRE.
To be LETT,
And Enter'd upon at LADY-DAY next,
At WRITHINGTON, near the Church, about Seven Miles from BATH,
A HOUSE, late in the Possession of JAMES SALMON, Esq. deceased; consisting of two Parlours, Hall and Kitchen on the Ground Floor, with very good Bedchambers and Offices, fine Spring Water comes into the Kitchen by turning a Cock; with a Garden, and a Stable with Lodging Rooms for Servants over it; with the liberty of Hunting and Fishing over the Manor; with or without a Piece of good Meadow Ground about seven Acres, and an Orchard about three Acres, now in its Prime, adjoining.- For further particulars apply to William Lansdown, at Writhlington aforesaid, who will shew the Premises.
JOHN HARRIS,
BOOT, SHOE, and CLOG-MAKER,
At the Sign of the BOOT, between the White-Hart
Inn and Union-Passage, Stall-Street, BATH,
RETURNS his most grateful Thanks for the many past Favours of those Gentlemen, Ladies and Others, whom he has had the Honour to serve, and humbly solicits a Continuance of the same.
Those who please to favour him with their Orders may depend on having them executed with Dispatch; as well cut and neat made as at any Shop in England, and at the most reasonable Prices,
By their humble Servant,
JOHN HARRIS.
N.B. To be LETT, a well-accustomed Gunsmith's Shop, lately occupied by Isaac Brookman, deceased. - An Anvil, Bellows and Vices, all fixed for that purpose, to be Sold.- Please to enquire as above.
BRISTOL, March 2, 1773.
For SALE by AUCTION,
On Monday the 22d Day of March Instant, at the Bear Inn in the City of Bath, between the Hours of One and Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, (unless disposed of in the mean Time by private Contract)
FREEHOLD ESTATE in the Parish of FRESHFORD, in the County of Somerset, five Miles from Bath; consisting of, as under,
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| LOT I. Two Closes of fine Meadow Ground, adjoining together, containing about 18 Acres, with the Fishery thereto belonging, an Orchard, and several small Tenements in the Tenure of Mr. Cooper, as under Tenant; and also an old, large Mansion-House, all now lett to Mr. Whittington, tho' much under Valne, at the yearly Rent of - | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| LOT II.- One Close of Pasture Ground, containing, by Estimation, two Acres and a half, in the Tenure of Mr. Tugwell. at the yearly Rent of - | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| LOT III. - An Orchard and Paddock of Ground, containing, by Estimation, one Acre and a half, now lett to Mr. Hoddinott, at the yearly Rent of - | 2 | 16 | 0 |
| LOT IV.- One Messuage, in the Tenure of John Williams, at the yearly Rent of | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| And one ruinous Messuage, in the Possession of John and Judith Coombes, at the yearly Rent of - | 2 | 14 | 0 |
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For further Particulars, and Conditions of Sale, apply to Messrs. Osborne and Seager, Attornies, in Bristol; or Mr. Bennett, Cabinet-Maker, in Freshford, who will shew the Premises.
JAMES BONBONOUS, Broker.
WALCOT, BATH, March 8, 1773.
To be SOLD,
A CAPITAL MESSUAGE or DWELLING -HOUSE, No.6, Paragon-Buildings, most elegantly Finish'd in the modern Taste, with Marble and Ornamental Chimney Pieces, bracketed Stair Case, with Mahogany Hand-Rail. The said Premises are held for a Term of 99 Years, commencing, from Michaelmas 1768, subject to a Ground Rent of Eight Pounds Four Shillings per Annum.
For further Particulars enquire at the Full Moon, Opposite Walcot Church, or Christopher Tomlinson, at the Windmill and Crown, Broad Place, Upper Ground, near Black-Friars Bridge, London.
To be LETT at Lady-Day next,
HAZELL-PARK FARM, in the Pariah of Chewton-Mendip, near Compton-Martin; containing about 200 Acres of Pasture and Arable Land, lying altogether (having no other Land betwixt it) chiefly bounded with a good Stone Wall, with an unlimited Right of Common upon Mendip, with a new-built convenient Dwelling-House, Dairy-house, Barn, Stables, Out-houses, &c. having two Lime Kilns and Stone on the Premises, distant about four Miles from the Coal Pits, eleven from Bristol, six from Wells, and six from Axbridge.-For further Particulars enquire of Edward Whatley, Esq. in Bristol; Mr. Edward Mitchell, in Corsham, Wilts; Mr. Tho. Webb, in Keynsham ; or of Mr. Thomas Cox, at Compton-Martin, who will shew the Premises.
N.B. A good Tenant will meet with proper Encouragement.
To the PUBLIC.
THE following LETTER is a further Testimony of the great Utility of ROWLEY's HERB SNUFF and TOBACCO, the Sale of which is Removed to the London Coffee-House, Ludgate-street.
To Mr. ROWLEY.
"My Name is LOWLE, a Painter in imitation of Marble, Mahogany, &c. in Wardour-street, Soho. You may remember when I first applied to you, I complained of a continual Headache, with a Sickness at the Stomach, a Swimming and Giddiness in the Head, and the most alarming Decay of Sight, that obliged me in a great measure to decline Business. In all these Respects your Herb Snuff has perfectly relieved me and I think that I should do an Injustice, if I withheld the Knowledge of it from the Public,- One Thing is very remarkable: After taking it some time, I could not see with my common Spectacles; I tried older ones in vain; but trying others, I found that my Sight was returned to those which suited me twenty years ago, and I now frequently pencil and write without any.
I am, Sir, Your's, &c.
WILLOUGHBY LOWLE."
This Herb Snuff and Tobacco are sold by J. Rowley, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-street; at the Three Tuns Taverns, Bath; by Miss Anderson, Taunton ; and in most Market Towns in England; - just be sure to ask for ROWLEY's.
BATH KNOTT.
THE Friendly BROTHERS of St. PATRICK meet at the White-Hart on Wednesday the 17th of March Instant.
R.F. BOLTON, Secretary.
ALL Persons who have any Demand upon the Estate and Effects of Mr. JAMES BIGGS, late of the City of Bath, Butcher, deceased, are desired to deliver an Account thereof to Mrs. BIGGS, of the said City, the Widow and Executrix of the said JAMES BIGGS. And all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are desired immediately to pay such Debts to the said Mrs. BIGGS.
To be SOLD by HAND,
By ARTHUR TRIMNELL,
On Tuesday the 16th of March Instant,
ALL the HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, CHINA, &c. of Dr. FRANCES, deceas'd, at his late Dwelling-House in Harlequin-Row, Bath: Consisting of Bedsteads, with Cotton, Work and other Furniture ; Damask and other Window Curtains; Feather Beds, Mattrasses, Quilts, and Blankets; Mahogany Bureaus, Tables, Chairs, &c. a handsome Marble Table on a carv'd Frame; Pier Glasses, in gilt and other Frames; a handsome Silver Tea Urn, and other Plate.- Also a Wind-up Jack, and good and useful Kitchen Furniture, in Copper, Brass, Iron, &c. &c.
*** The Sale to begin at Eleven o'Clock.
BATH, March 15, 1773.
Now SELLING by HAND,
By HILL and BIRCHALL,
At their Warehouse in Queen-Square,
SEVERAL NEW VALUABLE ARTICLES, consisting of genteel Cases of Silver-capp'd Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons; a curious Spring Table-Clock, Musical Clock, and a common 30 Hour ditto; Plated and Tutenague Candlesticks; a Pair of elegant Silver Foxhead Gilt Cups; Silver Sugar Tankard; Setts of Cups, Castors, &c. a Sett of rich fashionable Stone Buckles; a Diamond and curious Onyx-stone Rings; Four large Frames of fine Impressions from real Antiques, with Book of Description; also a Pair of Cut Glass Lustes, and several Pair of neat Cut Glass Vases, Drinking Glasses, &c.
The above are the property of a Gentleman, whose Illness obliging him to Retire, has no use for them, and will be sold exceeding Cheap.
From the London Gazette from Saturday Feb. 20,
to Tuesday Feb. 13, 1773.
THE CREDITORS who have proved their Debts Under a Commission of Bankrupt, awarded and issued forth against WILLIAM SOMERTON, of the city of Bristol, Cheesmonger, Dealer and Chapman, are desired to meet the Assignees of the said Bankrupt's Estate and Effects on the 18th Day of March next, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Bush Tavern, situate in Corn-Street, Bristol aforesaid, in order to Assent to or Dissent from the said Assignees commencing, prosecuting or defending one or more Suit or Suits at Law or in Equity, concerning the said Bankrupt's Estate and Effects; or to their compounding, submitting to Arbitration, or otherwise agreeing any Matter or Thing relating thereto, and on other special Affairs.