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Some Selected Reports from The Leicester and Nottingham Journal
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26th April, 1766
COUNTRY NEWS.
Farnham, April 17. An extraordinary affair happened here yesterday, one Richards, a Cooper, at Alton in Hampshire, about nine miles from hence, took it into his head some time ago that he would kill Mr. Woty, an attorney of this town, and yesterday was determined to put it in execution. Accordingly he hired a horse, took a gun in his hand, and came over to Woty's house, where meeting with his son, enquired after his father, who told him he was in the study, whither he immediately went, and presented the gun to him; which the son perceiving, struck him on the arm, and turned the gun round, which was discharged through the door. Missing his aim here, he drew his knife, and a scuffle ensued between the three, when the old gentleman received four wounds in his body, but it is hoped none of them mortal. He was examined before Thomas Baker, Esq; of this place, who committed him to the New Gaol, Southwark. It appeared on his examination that he has been disordered in his mind at times for several years; but his motive for aiming at Woty in particular is not cleared up.
LONDON, April 19.
Part of a letter from Capt. Collet, to his owners at Bristol, dated Jan. 28.
"After a very bad passage I have arriv'd safe here, with a cargo of 190 Slaves, all in health, from Senegal. The reason I did not stay to the gum-trade is, that the king of Brack finding the slave trade to answer better to him then the gum, has quarrelled with his neighbours, and obstructed the Moors from bringing any down for fear of being sold for slaves. I therefore thought proper to pick up as many slaves as I could get and sail away. If the Government do not take this settlement into their hands, we shall drive the Gum-bringers to carry this valuable commodity to the Mediterranean sea, and then it will fall again into the hands of the French. It is very dangerous to go up or down the river, being shot at from the two opposite shores."
Extract of a letter from a gentlemen at Kingston in Jamaica, to his Friend in London, dated Feb. 22, 1766.
" A Spanish vessel arrived here this week with 30,000 dollars; and as the Spaniards now have encouragement given them from every quarter, we hope they will continue to come in as before. The Collector of the Customs here told me yesterday, that he has just received an order that no public officer in the island should obstruct, by any means, vessels of any nation that come to trade here with money; and in particular to give every possible encouragement to the Spaniards. This you may depend upon as fact. So that (for money only) this is free port."
Letters in town from Spain, being accounts of great commotions at Madrid, which are said to have taken their rise from several oppressive and disagreeable acts of the King's Italian minister, in particular that for prohibiting the use of the cloak and broad beaver : That a young gentleman being stopp'd near the palace by a centinel for not complying with this order, he attempted to stab the centinel for intercepting him, who immediately presented his musket but did not fire. The gentleman thereupon gave a whistle, the signal agreed on, and in a few minutes some hundreds assembled, who were fired upon by the guards, and after several were killed, the rest were dispersed. They soon assembled, however, again in prodigious bodies, and overpowered the guards, after an obstinate engagement, in which it is said 70 or 80 soldiers were killed. They then proceeded to the house of the Marquis de Squilace, who escaped out of it by a back way, having sent his carriage, with the blinds up, a contrary road, in order to deceive the populace; which stratagem taking, they followed the carriage, thinking to have met with the minister, and coming up with it, tore it to pieces. They then pulled down the Marquis's house, and afterwards pursued him to the Dutch Ambassador's, where he had taken refuge, but escaped also from thence on the appearance of the rioters. The populace being then assured by the Dutch Ambassador that the minister was not at his house, they went to the royal palace, and insisted on speaking with his Majesty, which being granted, they said they had three things to propose, which if his Majesty would agree to they would disperse, and continue good subjects : The first was that his Majesty should discharge his Italian ministers, as they were determined to be governed only by their own countrymen, that the several offensive edicts passed should be repealed; and thirdly, that his Majesty should give his royal word never after to call any person to account for what had that day passed : These articles being all complied with, the rioters immediately dispersed : and in a few hours after, the city was as calm as if nothing had happened. On their return from the royal palace, they met the English Ambassador, Lord Rochford, whom they obliged to put on his cloak and beaver, which he readily complied with; and then they suffered his lordship to pass, crying out, "No French fashion; peace with England, and war with all the world beside."
Other letters add, that the populace had made a large fire before the King's palace, in which they consumed the bodies of all the persons killed in the late tumult there : likewise that they hanged up three officers belonging to the Walloon guards, and insisted that his Majesty should break the said corps.
As soon as the above commotion was appeased, the King set out for Aranjuez; but the people rose again, under pretence that their fidelity was suspected. They desired the King to return to his capital, but he assured them that he had no doubt of their loyalty, though he did not chuse to come back to Madrid till order and tranquillity were restored. This answer was communicated to the people on the 26th ult in the morning by the secretary of the council of Castille. Hereupon they immediately dispersed and every thing is now quiet.
The Marquis and the Marchioness de Squillace are gone to Carthegena, where they intend to embark with their family for Naples. The King has given the administration of the Finances of Don Miguel Mouzquize, and commissioner of that department, and Secretary, to of the Sovereign council of war.
There is a handsome medal struck and distributed, about the size of a crown piece, on which is the head of Mr. Pitt with his name, and for the reverse the following inscription :" The man who, having saved the parent, pleaded with success for her children."
Wednesday next the West India and North American merchants will give a grand entertainment at Drapers-hall, to the chief officers of state, and the rest of the present patriotic administration, who so meritoriously assisted in obtaining the repeal of the late unpopular stamp-act.
Several private men belonging to Gen. Elliot's regiment of light horse, have lately presented a petition to a great personage that it was impossible for them to subsist; since which all their arrears and grass money, and also the two-pence per day extraordinary, which his Majesty allowed them when on duty, has been fully paid, to the satisfaction of the whole regiment.
Thursday morning orders were read to the first regiment of foot guards, then on duty, on the parade in St.James's park, that in case of their deserting or neglecting duty, they should be sent abroad instead of being whipped.
Monday Sir Gervas Clifton, Bart. of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, was married to Miss Lloyd, of Aberbechain, Montgomeryshire.
Early on Friday morning a duel was fought between two gentlemen in Hyde-park, when after each had discharged their pistols, one proposed, it seems ending the affair, by the sword; but the reports of the pistols having brought a gentleman, who was riding out, to the place, it was by his timely interposing happily made up.
THE following LETTERS will undoubtedly be acceptable to the Publick. The gentleman who communicated them, and to whom we think ourselves much obliged, has recommended the Recipe to several persons, who have been surprizingly helped by the use of it.
A Copy of a Letter to the Right Rev. Thomas Lord Bishop of Kildare, from Thomas Butler, Esq, of Warminster in Wilts, concerning a REMEDY for the STONE and GRAVEL.
"THE benefit I received from the Daucus, or Wild Carrot, has been so great, that I thought it my duty to mankind to advertise its virtues, and the relief I received from it, in the Salisbury Journal, about three years ago, which was crowned with such high satisfaction, that I received intelligence, that it had done great cures on several people who took it purely on the recommendation of my advertisement.
"I had laboured under that painful disorder the stone the kidney at least forty-six years, when about four years since, or something more, it became so painful, that I was under an absolute necessity of quitting my annual journeys into Hants, and seek for ease by any means I could find it; but all in vain; it grew upon me so, that I could not sit at table to eat my meat but in the greatest pain; and finding, by experience, I could have no more ease in a recumbent posture, I was obliged to lay down whenever I came, either at home or abroad, and in that posture I conversed with my friends, and in that position eat my dinner daily, and in short, I was still followed by such continual pain, that I expected I had but a short time to live. I had applied to Physicians, Apothecaries, Quacks, and Old Women, and, conformable to directions, I made use of Mrs. Stephen's medicine, and, nauseous as it was, I took about fourscore draughts of it, together with a full dose of the ill tasted powder, that is a part of the recipe; but all in vain : I could find no relief. In this miserable condition I recollected I had an Herbal, in which were prescribed remedies for many disorders : I providentially looked into it, and found the Wild Carrot strongly recommended by Mr. Boyle. I immediately (it being the 1st or 2d of August) sent a person into the fields to get me the Wild Carrot, which was accordingly done; I made it into a tea, sweetening it with Lisbon sugar, and drank about two ordinary tea pots full in a day, each pot containing a full half pint, the one for breakfast, the other for supper, eating with it as with other tea, and in three days time the pain began to grow weak and die away, and in five days it quite left me, my spirits revived, and I was restored (I bless God) to perfect ease. I continued drinking this tea till the 17th of December following, and then idly neglected it; the disorder returned; I had a short fit which held me about six hours : I had again recourse to my Wild Carrot, and in a few days got the better of it; since which I have enjoyed great ease : I cannot say that I never felt pain in the kidneys, but this I can aver for truth, they it is never enough to make me cry Oh ! and that I think I never enjoyed better health more than I have done for these last four years. This is the time of the year (August) when I got it. I will only say, (though I know not how to have done with this subject, where almost a miracle had been wrought in my favour,) that it is to be gathered in August, and dried well in some room in the shade, and then put aside in a close bin for use : You are only to use the heads or seeds of it. I take six or seven heads and put them into the tea pot, and then put boiling water upon them, and, after it has stood as other common tea, drink it, generally dividing it into two draughts. I forbear all sorts of salt-meats, (at least ought to do so,) and strong beer I rigidly refrain from; I drink about two or three glasses of wine after dinner, and as much good table-beer as I have an inclination to; I never drink any thing in a morning before or after tea; I drink nothing after tea in an evening. It is something forcing, but not violently, so it does not hurt in any kind. You will say, perhaps, I am prejudiced in its favour, but of this I am confident, I have enjoyed more ease these last four years than I ever did from the age of fourteen, and I find myself in better health every day. I have not made any bloody, or coffee-ground water, since I took the Carrot Tea, notwithstanding I made such, at times, for more then twenty years before.
I am, &c.
THOMAS BUTLER."
A Letter from the Rev. the Dean of Kildare.
"SIR,
"ON reading Mr. Butler's letter, I, who had been much afflicted with the stone, betook myself to the drinking the Wild Carrot Tea, this was in the month of October last, and since I drank it I have not felt any severe pain; I have sometimes, indeed, uneasy feelings, but they are the feelings rather of weight than pain and generally terminate in my parting with a great deal of loose gravel, much more than I formerly used to part with. Whether this medicine tends to the dissolution of a Stone, already concreted, or serves only to prevent a further concretion, I cannot say, but it is no small happiness, that whatever its manner of operation may be, I have, ever since I drank it, been free from any violent pain : how long I shall continue, God only knows.
I am, &c. PHILIP FLETCHER.
Bath, Dec. 24, 1763.
To make DANCUS or DANCUS ALE.
TAKE of the Dancus feeds nine ounces, raisins of the sun eighteen ounces; put them into a bag, and hang a vessel of six gallons of good ale; after it is worked, and when fine, after eight days drink three pints a day.
THE General Meeting of the Commissioners, for putting the Land-Tax Act in Execution for the Year 1766, will be at the Three Cranes Inn in Leicester, on Wednesday the 30th of April 1766.
SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh, April 16. From Paisley we have an account of the following phenomenon, which is now making its appearance in the north west part of the hemisphere. It was first seen in that place on Monday the 7th instant, 20 minutes before nine at night, about ten degrees N.W. from the Pleiades; its tail about three degrees long, pointing directly from the sun. On the 8th, it was so cloudy that it could not be seen. On the ninth it became visible to the naked eye, 30 minutes after 8, and set 15 minutes after ten, the tail extending to about five degrees. From the two observations compared, its motion appears to be extremely rapid towards the sun, and must soon totally disappear.
We hear from Aberdeen, that last Tuesday se'nnight the body of a new born male infant much bruised about the head, was found in a whin-bush near the Kirk town of Mony-musk. A young woman, Mary Lawson, whom the neighbours had for some time judged to be pregnant was apprehended on suspicion; and on being examined before the justices, confessed her having borne it, and said it was dead born. A surgeon gave it, as we hear as his opinion, that the child was alive when born. She is expected in town soon, in order to take her trial. The father, one Reid, a married man, is committed to gaol. He is accused by the said Mary Lawson, of having committed a rape upon her, and of attempting to commit the like crime on her sister, Jean Lawson. She also charges him with advising her to conceal her pregnancy, and threatening her with death, if she gave out he was the father.
IRELAND.
Clonmell, April 12. Yesterday came on the trial of Buck Sheehy, for the murder of Bridge, in the county of Tipperary, who was found guilty; and this day John Buxton was tried for the same fact, and found guilty. Upon these trials it was fully proved that Sheehy the Priest was present at the murder, and that immediately after the said murder he swore all the persons present thereat to secresy, though he denied it at the gallows.
Cambridge, April 17. It is reported, his grace the duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University, intends to honour the university with his presence at the ensuing commencement. An elegant statue of his late Majesty is shortly expected here, a present to the University by his grace the Chancellor, which it is now reported will be fixed in the Senate-house.
LONDON, April 24.
Extract of a Letter from Bengal, Sept. 28, 1765.
"Lord Clive being arrived at Bengal, directly joined the army at Eliabad, and in two months returned to Bengal, having completed his wishes without a single blow. He has established peace throughout the province, and reduced the whole country under the jurisdiction of the East India Company, so that they are now the sole masters of that immense territory. They are to collect all the revenues of the kingdom, and to appoint all the publick officers, &c. His Lordship is busy in fixing barracks in every part, where it is necessary, to keep the natives in proper subjection : He has settled an annual salary of fifty lacks, upon the Nabob, and near that sum (as is reported) upon the King or Mogul; the company receives the remainder of the revenues, amounting to between two and three million yearly.
"This is a glorious acquisition, and will still be more so, when his Lordship has completed his plan in settling the trade of the country, which he has much at heart."
Extract of a Letter from Calcutta, Bengal, dated October 1, 1765.
"Lord Clive has, at last, established peace and quietness in Bengal, on very advantageous terms for the company, and if the Directors follow his plan, it will certainly keep these people in subjection."
Extract of another Letter from Calcutta, dated September 30, 1765.
"Lord Clive has got a million for the company from Sujah Dowlah. The fortunes of his followers are made, and consequently his own once more affluent. We have peace at present, though it is imagined the army will not long be unemployed."
Extract of another Letter from Calcutta, dated September 30, 1765.
"Of the peace Lord Clive has just made here, I cannot say any thing with certainty, as very little is, or will be known about it till the packet is sailed, more than that it is much to the honour of his Lordship, and to the advantage of the company."
Yesterday the hon. James Oswald, Esq; and the right hon. lord George Sackville, took the oaths in the court of Chancery to qualify themselves as Joint Treasurers of Ireland.
We hear the gentlemen of Derbyshire have complimented the ingenious Mr. Rousseau, by appointing him one of the Commissioners of the turnpikes.
The friends of a late celebrated partizan now begin to give out, that the bill of outlawry will soon be reversed, in favour of that gentleman's return to his native country.
Yesterday lord Rockingham's bay Malton beat Mr. Vernon's Otho, ten to one for 1000 guineas.
Last Sunday a tradesman not far from Little Trinity-lane, having conceived some suspicion of his wife, pretended a journey from town : But returning at dinner time, he discovered his lady and the suspected gentleman dining together in a very sociable manner. The latter he dismist his house and following him into the street, rolled him into the channel : The former he conducted up to pair of stairs, and very affectionately obliged her with the discipline of the horsewhip.
Sunday public prayers, were put up at St.Sepulchre's church, and many other churches within this city and suburbs, imploring the Almighty God, in his great goodness and mercy, to have an ear to the cries of the poor, in regard to the high price of provisions, &c.
Saturday se'nnight Stuart, Hunt, and Mac Donagh, were executed at Stafford, pursuant to their sentence. Bould was respited for ten days. The above criminals had formed a scheme for their escape, which (as they had procured files and other instruments for taking off their irons) was to be effected by knocking down the turnkey when he came in to let them out, and lock him up in their place, then to enter the gaoler's apartment where the arms lay, and murder any who should offer to interrupt them; but Bould discovered the plot.
Married.] Sunday, the Hon. Stephen Fox, Esq; eldest son of Lord Holland, a Bedford house, to Lady Mary Fitzpatrick, daughter to the late Earl of Ossory, and niece to the present Dutchess of Bedford.
Died.] The 17th inst suddenly, at his house in the country, Sir George Elliot, of Minto, Bart. Lord Justice Clerk for Scotland, and is now succeeded in his title and estate by his son, the Right Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Treasurer of his Majesty's Chamber.- Tuesday, at Edinburgh, Dr. Robert Whytt, President of the College of Physicians in that city, Professor of the Theory of Physick in that College, F.R.S. and one of the Physicians in Ordinary to his Majesty.
To the PRINTER,
SIR,
IT is said that the intended alteration in the Window Tax is to be as follows :
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| s. | d. |
| Seven windows each | 0 | 2 |
| Eight | 0 | 6 |
| Nine | 0 | 8 |
| Ten | 0 | 10 |
| Eleven | 1 | 0 |
| Twelve | 1 | 2 |
| Thirteen | 1 | 4 |
| Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, or Nineteen | 1 | 6 |
| Twenty | 1 | 7 |
| Twenty-one | 1 | 8 |
| Twenty-two | 1 | 9 |
| Twenty-three | 1 | 10 |
| Twenty-four | 1 | 11 |
| Twenty-five | 2 | 0 |
And 3s on each House, as before.
The late Window Duties to be repealed.
IN Ireland the country people are contented to live in cabbins, without windows, or any of those luxuries which our English cottagers have been indulged in; and if it may be done in one part of the King's dominions, it is practicable in another. By these means, the poor labourer will think himself exempt from paying the proposed Window Tax, and will imagine that it falls solely upon the rich. But here is a stroke of policy - this very circumstance will improve the revenue - It will increase the use of candles.
WILLIAM APPLE-TREE.
At the MUSIC-HALL,
In St.Mary's-Gate, NOTTINGHAM,
WILL be perform'd on Wednesday the 21s of MAY,
ACIS and GALATEA :
Set to MUSIC by Mr. HANDEL.
AND
On Thursday the Twenty-second
All the best SONGS
IN
The OPERAS Of;
The SUMMER's TALE,
AND
DAPHNE and AMINTOR :
WITH
CONCERTOS between the Acts on various Instruments.
The principal Vocal Parts are to be perform'd by Mr. Cowper, and Mr. Sale, of Lincoln; Master Sharp, of Stamford, and Mr. Houghton.
The Doors will be open'd at Five o'Clock, and the Music begin exactly at Six.
N.B. Tickets to be had of Mr. Wise, at the Blackmoor's-Head, White-Lion, and of Mr. Creswell, Printer, at 5s for the first Evening, and 2s. 6d the second. Upper Gal. the first Night, 2s and 1s the Second.
Tickets will be given each Evening, at the Door, to those who go into the lowest part of the House, for a BALL, at the Assembly-Room, on the Low-Pavement : To begin as soon as the Music is over.
April 25, 1766.
WHEREAS a Servant belonging to an eminent Woolstapler, had the misfortune this Morning to lose the Sum of Ninety-Nine Pounds Nineteen Shillings, consisting of Portugal Gold and a few Shillings of Silver, lapt up in a brown Paper, and tied with Packthread, out of his Coat Pocket, on the Road between the Three Mile Stone, near Nottingham, and the top of Bunney-Hill, in the County of Nottingham. Any Person having found the above Cash and will bring it to the Printer hereof, shall receive Ten Guineas Reward.
It is hoped that the Person who had found it will not detain it but return it to the rightful Owner, as it will be the ruin of the Servant who lost the Money, and who had a large Family to support, and an undoubted good Character.
WHEREAS on Tuesday Night last the 22d of April, some Villain or Villains enter'd a close in the Lordship of Belgrave, and having shorn several Sheep carried away their Fleeces. This is therefore to give Notice, that whoever will discover the Person or Persons concern'd in the said Offence, so that he or they may be thereof legally convicted, shall receive Two Guineas from John Walker, of Beaumont-Leys, (by way of reward.)
JOHN WALKER.
To be SOLD,
At Woodthorp in the Parish of Hansworth, about 2 Miles from Sheffield, in Yorkshire.
TWO Dwelling-Houses, together with four Closes of Land adjoining thereto, with right of Common, in the Tenure of William Clarke the Owner.
For particulars Enquire of the said W. Clarke at Leicester, or Mr. Webster at the King's Head in Sheffield.
To be SOLD,
A Wind-Mill, situate at Grimston in the County of Leicester; also one Messuage with a Barn and Homestead, situate at Mountsorrel in the County of Leicester, in the Tenures of Robert Lawrence and William Harris; also a Messuage, situate in the High-street, near the Peacock, in the Tenure of William Almey, and two other Tenements thereto belonging, in the Red-cross street, in Leicester.
For particulars enquire of Mr. Heyrick, Attorney in Leicester.
To be SOLD,
And Enter'd upon Immediately :
A good accustom'd Public-House, situated in the Parish of St.Nicholas, in the Borough of Leicester, known by the name of Vauxhall, pleasantly situated upon the river Soar, which runs all the way along the Garden side : together with a large Garden fitted up for a Pleasure Garden, the walks all planted and in full perfection, a Bowling-Green in the middle, Boxes, Musick Gallery, Baths for Gentlemen and Ladies, and all other Conveniences for Pleasure and Amusement; with sufficient room for still greater Improvements, lately occupied by Mr. Michael Cooke, deceas'd.
Enquire of Mr. W. Cooke, near St. Margaret's Church, Leicester.
N.B. All the Houshold Goods, Brewing Vessels, and other Utensils, will be Sold standing at a fair Appraisement.
To be LETT,
And enter'd upon immediately :
A Messuage or Tenement in Belgrave-Gate, Leicester, late in the Tenure of Mr. James Davie, together with all proper Conveniences for carrying on the Business of a Woolcomber and Hosier, and a good Garden well planted with Fruit Trees.
For particulars enquire of Mr. Edward Davie, Hosier in Leicester.
To be LETT,
And Enter'd upon Immediately :
A Dwelling-House, with a good accustom'd Shop, situate in the Market-Place, in Leicester, late in the Occupation of Mr. Thomas Maddocks, Grocer. For Particulars enquire of John Miles, in Leicester.