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Saturday, August 22, 1772.




COUNTRY NEWS.

Cambridge, August 13. At the assizes held for the town and county of Cambridge, before the Hon. Baron Perrot and Mr. Serjeant Whitaker, (who sat for the Lord Chief Baron) a remarkable tryal came on, wherein a very amiable young milliner of the town of Whittlesea was plaintiff and a wealthy farmer's son defendant:- The action was brought for the breach of a marriage contract. It appeared by the evidence, of which her own maid was the most sensible and material, that the young lady would not accept of his addresses 'till she knew they had the sanction and approbation of his father; that, at his particular desire, she gave up and discontinued a genteel and advantageous business; that a day was fixed for the wedding, and a bridecake bespoke by the defendant upon the occasion, a part of which, tho' rather stale was produced, and thought a very material proof to found the plaintiff's action upon, and was, in the opinion of the Court, with other corroborating circumstances equal to any written promise whatever; so that it appears that bride-cake is binding, and the jury (which was special) gave her a verdict of �500 and costs, to the satisfaction of the whole court, except that the female part of the audience were of opinion that a thousand would have been more adequate to the injury done to deserving and modest merit.- It was a lucky circumstance for the lady, that the young person, her servant's evidence, was acquired by a very natural female curiosity to listen when the lover visited his mistress, to learn what courtship was, and she made a very pertinent answer to the defendant's council, when asked how she came to listen, and told the gentleman it was because she liked it.




LONDON, August 15.

Lord Clive, it is said, has declared an intention of adding one more public charity to the many in this kingdom, viz. a house of accommodation and reception for the blind of both sexes.- An extensive act of benevolence, let what may be the motives.




Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth

Our most gracious Sovereign, by the [..] of Lord Sandwich, and other Lords of the Admiralty and Privy Council, have ordered the following standing rules should be strictly and duly attended to, viz. That every shipwright who has served a regular apprenticeship to the King's yard, and by any means gets hurt, so as to disable him from working, is to have �20 a year, to be paid to him quarterly; after thirty years labour, if they cannot work any longer; and bear good character, they are intitled to the same annuity; the joiners the same; but the sail-makers and house-carpenters are to have �17 the blacksmiths �11 and the labourers �11.





Thursday last the King's plate of 100gs was run for on Lewes Downs, when three horses started, and came in as follow, viz.

Capt. Stroud's bay horse, Paymaster121
Mr. Gulston's grey horse, Scamander212
Mr. Davison's bay horse, Amicus333


After the first hear, the match between his Grace the Duke of Richmond's chesnut horse, Gay, and the Hon.Mr. Fox's mare, Catharina, was run, and won by the former with ease.
Friday the three following started for the members plate of �50, and came In as follow, viz.

Cecil Bishop, Esqr's br. horse, Daniel11
Mr. Harris's chesnut mare, Butterfly22
Lord Gage's bay gelding, Careless3dif.


And on Saturday last the following started for his Grace the Duke of Richmond's plate of �50 and came in as under, viz.

The D. of Richmond's ch.h. Gay122
Sir Mat. Featherstonhaugh's Prosperine311
Sir Ferd. Poole's bay h. Sharp Shins433
Mr. Rider's ch.mare, Fair Rachael2dif.






A Card from the Corporation of Wilton, to Mr. Orator Awdry

THE Corporation of Wilton beg leave, with their compliments, to make due acknowledgements to Mr. George Awdry, for the honourable mention made of them in his learned speech, delivered lately at the Devizes. They have prevailed upon the Dean and Chapter, their neighbours, to construe the Latin, which they find to be very fine and quite new. They have further acknowledgements to make to Mr.Orator, for bringing them acquainted with that inestimable tract, his little Red Book, which has not only convinced them that Mr. Herbert was a Member for their Borough, but that Mr. Goddard has been a placeman for many years.




Salisbury, Aug. 13, 1772.

THE inhabitants of Salisbury in general take the earliest opportunity of declaring their astonishment at the conduct of Henry Penruddock Wyndham, Esq. towards his native city, by an attempt to abridge them of a right their ancestors have enjoyed time immemorial; and they are greatly obliged to Mr. Herbert that such (Mr Sheriff's) partial intentions have been so happily and equitably frustrated.




WEDNESDAY's POST.
From the LONDON GAZETTE.

St. James's, August 15. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint Soame Jenyns, Edward Eliot, and Bamber Gascoyne, Esqrs. the Hon. Robert Spencer, Esq. commonly called Lord Robert Spencer, the Hon. George Greville, Esq commonly called Lord Grenville, William Joliffe, Esq and the Hon. John Stewart, Esq. commonly called Lord Garlies, to be his Majesty's commissioners for trade and plantations.





BANKRUPTS. Thomas Creaser, of Bath, draper. To appear Aug.25, Sept.5, 28, at Guildhall.- [Attorney Mr. Marryat, in Canon Street,] Rich Houlditch, of Bow, Middlesex, malt-distiller. -- Richard Edgerly, of Bridge Street, Westminster, vintner.- Robert Noble, of Bishopsgate-street, mariner.- William Reame, of Newton, in the Isle of Ely, dealer.- Edward Rock, of Idle in Yorkshire, miller. - Theophilus Morrall, of Muchwenlock, Salop, baker. - Abraham Towers, of Kingston upon Hull, bookseller.- Thomas Comyn, of Exchange Alley, merchant.- Adam Kroll, of Budge-row, merchant.- Richard Tinwell the younger, of Lamb's Conduit Street, merchant.- Henry Bullock and John Priestly, of Thames Street.- John Diston of Liverpool, merchant.- William Black of Huddersfield in Yorkshire linen-draper.- Samuel Bean, of Laurence Poutney-Lane, London.
DIVIDENDS. Aug. 25. William Norris of Gracechurch-street, merchant, at Guildhall, Sep.7. William Wisdom, of Southampton, miller, at the George Inn, in Southampton. 10. John Sinclair, of Bristol, cutler, at the Nag's Head Tavern. 12. Timothy Bennet, of Norwich, dealer, at the Angel in Norwich. 19. W. Kaye, of Bartholemew Lane, merchant, at Guildhall.
CERTIFICATE. Sept.5. Samuel Webster, of Tavistock Street, haberdasher.





SCOTLAND.

Edinburgh, Aug. 12. We hear from Kirrymuir, that on Monday se'nnight, a man went into a public-house, somewhat merry with liquor, and finding some of his acquaintance there, offered to join his bottle, which the others agreeing to, one of them took an opportunity to put in a large quantity of snuff into bicker, which the man drank off; but presently finding himself not well, went home and expired in a few minutes. The perpetrators of this wanton frolick was immediately apprehended, and (upon the Surgeon's declaring that he believed the snuff to be the cause of the man's death) was committed to Forfar gaol.




COUNTRY NEWS.

Gloucester, August 17. Some small quantities of new wheat appeared in our market on Saturday, and were sold at seven shillings a bushel. Old wheat fell price; the best was bought at eight shillings and twopence.

On Thursday evening last about nine o'clock, on the road between Redbrooke and Highmeadow, in this county, one John Thornell, of Leaton in Staffordshire, dealer in stockings, was attacked by two footpads, knocked down and robbed of five guineas, four shillings in silver, a green worsted knit purse, and a pair of plated buckles out of his shoes; and then the villains made off towards Monmouth. Upon the poor man's pursuing them too close, they turned back, and one of them having a large clasp-knife in his hand, swore he would murder him : but the other replied "Let us not commit murder, we'll confine him;" which they did by tying him with cords round his hands and neck, and fastning him to a tree, where he remained till the morning.- Thornell says one of the men was middle aged, broad set, about five feet six inches high, full faced, and had on a cut wig and a blue jacket; the other was a little man.

Chelmsford, Aug. 14. On Monday last as Mr. Moss, a wealthy farmer of Toppesfield, was riding into his harvest fields upon vicious [?] horse, the beast took fright, and after running furiously for a considerable time, at length stumbled, and in falling threw the rider with such violence, that his skull was split in several places, and his brains laid bare, he was taken up speechless, and lived in great agony till night, and then expired. As soon as this melancholy accident reached the ears of unhappy wife, she was taken in labour, and delivered of a dead child the next day.

Guildford, Aug 15. On Thursday last, at the assizes held here, came on before Lord Mansfield, a cause between Mr. Bishop, of Bramley, and Miss Greentree, of Catshall [?], for breach of promise in regard of marriage. The jury, after having been shut up several hours, found �225 damages, and all costs, for the lady, to the general satisfaction of all present, and the whole neighbourhood. The reason of the jury being so long agreeing in their verdict, was Mr. B-----'s brother was one of the number.
On the crown side, the ten following persons received sentence of death, viz. Mary Shearing, for stealing wearing apparel out of the house of Henry Harris, of Epsom; John Eaton and James Hopkins, for stealing sundry goods out of the house of James Martin, of Newington; Thomas Withall and John Overan, for stealing a club box, with a considerable sum of money therein, out of the house of Elizabeth Percival, of Croydon; Thomas Rhodes and Thomas Priest, for robbing John Smallwood of s silver watch on Kennington Common; Eden Fitness, for stealing a bay mare; William Turtle the elder, for stealing two horses, a saddle and bridle, out of the stable of John Knowles the younger, of Farnham; and Peter Robb, for breaking open the house of Manwell Marlton, in the parish of St.John's Southwark, and stealing one silver table spoon. - While Baron Smythe was passing sentence, John Overan was detected in picking a man's pocket who stood near him of a handkerchief - Seven of the above prisoners have been reprieved, and the three following ordered for execution, viz. John Hopkins, Thomas Priest, and Thomas Rhodes.
Mr. Stephens has gained his point over the Marshal Thomas, without calling a single evidence or employing a Counsel.




LONDON, August 18.

Unhappy is that state or nation which cannot cure its own evils without the aid of foreigners; a hundred thousand mediators have ruined Poland - The seeds of their destruction were laid by bigotry, superstition, and intolerant spirit of the priests, and the despotick behaviour of the nobility; the former would allow no toleration, the latter would suffer no liberty.

Extract of a letter from Warsaw, July 29.

"New troubles are arisen between the Clergy and the peasants on account of the holidays, which are to be kept for the future on Sundays only.
That Clergy have made use of the Kantschuen, a sort of instrument to chastise criminals with, as the peasants have shut up the churches, which brought on a bloody engagement; two priests were killed, and several of the peasants mortally wounded."




Extract of a letter from Mequinez, the residence of the Emperor of Morocco, dated June 20.

"A Treaty offensive and defensive has just been concluded here between the Emperor and the Dey of Algiers, by which the latter is to supply the former with three ships of war, of thirty guns each, several row-galleys, and a large quantity of naval stores. The vessels are to rendezvous at Sallee, where a number of ships, zebeques, tartans, poleacres, &c. are now fitting out. Orders have likewise been dispatched to Tunis, Larrache, Mamora, and Tetuan, to send as great a force as possible to Sallee, and there a grand fleet is to be formed, though for what purpose is kept a profound secret, but most people imagine it is intended to make a descent on the Spanish Coast. The Emperor's black troops, which are mostly cavalry, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for marching at a moment's warning; and the command is given to Mehemet Ben Adobia, his Imperial Majesty's nephew. The fortifications on the sea-coasts are ordered to be repaired and strengthened. In short, every preparation is making here for carrying on a war against Spain with the utmost vigour."




On Saturday last a Gentleman, just arrived from Aix-la-Chapelle, declared at a Coffee-house near the Change, that he saw Mr. Fordyce, the Banker, at the above place on the 29th of last month, and that it was his intention, as he said, to set out for England in a few days.
We hear from Perth, in Scotland, that on Tuesday last, the 11th of August instant, on digging away the foundation of an old house there, where the Scottish parliaments were held above three hundred years ago, a copper medal was found, on one side was represented a figure on horseback, supposed to be Mordecai, cloathed in royal apparel, and a crown upon his head (as mentioned in the 6th chapter of Esther) with Haman holding his horse; on the reverse the gallows on which Haman was hanged.

Two old Visionaries have appeared of late at Carickfergus, in Ireland, who say the was will be general in 1773. Constantinople destroyed in 1774. The true God acknowledged by all nations in 1775. A valiant man give his testimony to it in 1776. England overflowed in 1777. An earthquake all over the world in 1778. The fall of the Sun, Moon, and Stars in 1779. The globe of the earth burned in 1780. And the universal judgment in 1781.

This day four horses started at Barnet for �50 plate, which was won easy at two heats by Sir Charles Bunbury's bay horse, Jemmy.
The ship Little Pompey, Capt. George Thomson, from St.Christopher's to London, is taken by a pirate ship off the Madeiras, and carried into a Spanish port.
The Marquis of Granby, Castle, from Jamaica for London, foundered on the banks of Newfoundland, in May last. The crew are brought home by the Sandwich, Captain Curtis, of Bristol.

This morning about five o'clock a fire broke out at the medicine windmill belonging to Mr. Butt, in Gray's Walk, Lambeth, which entirely consumed it, and the dwelling-house, and damaged several warehouses contiguous. There was no water to be got but from the pump in the yard.
At the Assizes at Shrewsbury, Edward Williams for returning from transportation before the expiration of his time; Mathew Lloyd for stealing two oxen; and Thomas Smith for stealing a mare, were condemned, but afterwards reprieved.

On Monday a man, who brings lace to London out of Buckinghamshire, went into an alehouse near the Mansion-house, called for a dram, and then delivered his boxes, which were in a bag, to the mistress of the house for her care till called for. Some person who was in the house, and saw the transaction, went to St.Michael's Alley, and sent a Porter for the boxes, describing the bag they were in, and that the person who sent him had a dram; the woman without further enquiry delivered the goods. The person who sent the Porter met him in Lombard-street, took him to a public house, and treated him with a pint of beer, gave him sixpence for his trouble, and got clear off with the laces, valued at �300.




We hear from Northampton, that on the 10th instant late at night, a young man was stopped on the highway near Huntingdon by two footpads, when one of them presenting a pistol, demanded his money. The young man told him he was sorry they had lost their labour, he having lately passed through the hands of some of their brethren. The footpads asked him when and where ? He told them three days ago at Scarborough in Yorkshire. Then deliver your bundle, said the footpads. He gave them the bundle, but told them he hoped they would return him a jacket and a pair of trowsers, as they would be useless to such gentlemen. But while they were searching the pocket, before they returned them, the young man gave the armed man the heavier end of a long stick so forcibly that he dropped down. The other seeing another blow aimed at him, jumped aside and run. The young man snatched up the pistol which the vanquished had dropped, and fired after the fugitive, then gave the recovering man two or three bastinadoes to keep him quiet; and tying his hands behind, and his feet across he left him.




The Supreme Council of Douay, on the 11th of last May, passed the following sentence on Joseph Dessanders, who, some time since, robbed and murdered his Mistress with a cleaver; that he should be delivered into the hands of the executioner, and carried in a cart through all the publick streets of the city of Cambray, with a paper on his breast, and back, having this inscription, "A thief and murderer of his Mistress;" that before the principal gate of the parish church of St.Martin, he should perform the amende honorable in his shirt, he head and feet bare, a cord about his neck, and a lighted taper in his hand; that he should be conducted to the scaffold, with a gallows on it : that at the foot of the gallows he should be seated in the very arm-chair in which his mistress sat when he murdered her; that the executioner should cut off his right hand, and throw it into the fire before his face; that after this he should receive four heavy blows on the shoulders with the same cleaver with which he destroyed his mistress; that he should be hung up by the neck till he was dead; that two hours after, his body should be cut down, his head severed from his body, and fixed upon a pole without the city, and that the rest of the body should be put into a sack, and buried underneath the pole.




FRIDAY's POST.
[By Express from London.]
LONDON, August 10.

On Monday will be issued out at the Marines Pay Office in Great Newport-street, six months half-pay to the reduced officers of the said forces, from the 1st of January 1772, to the 20th of June following, both days inclusive.

On Thursday last, and not before, the boy who convicted Capt. Jones was examined before a cabinet council, and answered all interrogatories with the greatest precision and presence of mind, exactly quadrating with his former evidence at the Old-Bailey.
Captain Jones in a few days will receive his Majesty's pardon. He has promised to leave England, and go to America, where his Majesty has given his Royal Word he shall have an appointment equal to what he had here. He is to leave Newgate in the night.





An inscription proposed for General WOLFE's
Monument

Be this inscription
Sacred to the Memory of General Wolfe,
Who,
After leading an Army over impervious mountains,
Through Ways deemed impracticable,
And overcoming the greatest Obstacles,
Engag'd his Country's Foes
With Force inferior,
And, regardless of Wounds,
Persisted in the Duties of a General :
Encouraging his Troops,
Till his gallant Soldiers
Hailed him Victor,
When with joy, he cried,
Tis enough, I come, I come,
At which last act
Applauding Angels,
And the surrounding Spirits of Heroes,
Convey'd his god like Soul.
To the regions of Immortal Bliss.
Thus fell,
By Heaven's command,
the best of Men,
The great, the good, the generous, and the brave
GENERAL WOLFE;
Without repining
At the race of Glory.
Appointed by Mr. Pitt,
Who, under an auspicious Providence,
Elevated the British Empire
From the lowest Contempt,
And most disgraceful Condition,
To the highest pitch of Glory.
Reader, whoever thou art,
Consider,

"That honourable age is not that which standest in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hairs unto Man, and an unspotted life is old age. He pleased god and was beloved of him, so that living amongst sinners he was translated. He being made perfect, in a short time fulfilled a long time. For his soul pleased the Lord, therefore hasted him to take him away from among the wicked, lest he should be corrupted. For his grace and mercy is with his Saints, and he hath respect unto his chosen. Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and Youth, that is soon perfected, the many years of old age of the unrighteous." Wisdom, chap. 4.





It is said that the person who obtained, under false pretences, the boxes of lace last Monday from the mistress of an alehouse near the Mansion House, to whom they were intrusted to take care of, is a man who has been lately an evidence at the Old Bailey, against several house-breakers, &c. strict search is making after him. The laceman who left them insists on the master of the public-house paying the value of the lace which is �310.

At the assize at Stafford, John Rock, for stealing a mare, was condemned, but afterwards reprieved.




MARLBOROUGH, Aug. 21.

At the close of the poll on Wednesday night at Wilton, for a Knight of the Shire to represent this county in Parliament, the numbers stood,

For Mr. Goddard, 932
For Mr. Herbert, 718
------
Majority for Mr. Goddard214


And, by a gentleman who is just arrived from Wilton, we are informed, that, upon casting up the poll-books last night, Mr. Goddard was 764 a-head.
Doctor Season the famous astronomer at Bromham, in this county, declares, that notwithstanding he lives almost within contact of a malevolent planet, he has taken an aspect of Wiltshire, and finds that the affairs of Mr. Goddard have a most auspicious appearance; but that those of Colonel Herbert are in a retrograde condition.

By the promotion of Lord Garlies to be one of the Lords of Trade and Plantations, his seat as member for Luggershall, in this county, is vacated; but no writ can be issued out for electing a member in his room till next sessions of parliament.
On Wednesday last the Chancellor of this diocese, was pleased to appoint the Rev. Mr. Meyler, of this town, one of his surrogates.

A few days ago was married at Doddington, in Kent, by the Rev.Mr. Lowth, the Rev.Mr. Frederick Dodsworth, vicar of Calne and Fighelden in this county, to Miss Catherine Barrell, youngest daughter and coheiress of the late Francis Barrell, Esq. of Otterden in Kent.
On Monday last, Mr. Clare, one of the Coroners of this county, sat on the body of Thomas Blake, of Purton, who was killed by a fall which fractured his skull. The Jury brought in their verdict accidental death.

On Tuesday last Edward Potter, Elias Clark, and Richard Gollings, were executed at Fisherton gallows pursuant to their sentence at Salisbury assizes, for committing a rape on the body of Mary Way in a field near Milford. They have behaved very well since their condemnation, and at the place of execution they prayed devoutly, confessed the justness of their sentence, and cautioned the populace to be warned of their untimely end.

Last week, one French, of Frome, having had some words with his wife, struck her several times; whereupon she ran and made complaint to her mother, who, interfering in the dispute, he seized her by the throat, and throwing her down, her neck was dislocated by the fall, and she died instantly. - He was committed to Shepton-mallet gaol.

ARRIVED AT BATH.] The Duchess of Chandos, Lady Maud, Gen. Campbell, Dr. Brewer, Dr. Ford, Dr. Barlow and Lady, Rev. Mr. Nicholas and Lady, Mr. and Mrs. Fursdon, Mr. Mrs and Miss Battin, Mr. and Mrs. Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Turton, Mr. and Mrs. Mordaunt, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Stratton, Mr. and Mrs. Walmsley, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Wools, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Jefferys, Mr. Pedden, Mr. Croft, Mr. Isham, Mr. Wodehouse, Mr. Stockpole, Mr. Howard, Mr. Benson, Mr. Boarsley, Mr. Sandford, two Mr. Collins, Mr. Hoare, Mr. Greme, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Stretchby, Mr. Kelsall, Mrs. and Miss Russell, Mrs. Carey, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Smith, Miss Barlow, Miss Aston, two Miss Gould's, Master and two Miss Mordaunt's, Miss Southwell, Miss Webb, Miss Courtly, &c. &c.




WE near that E. Lambert, Esq. is appointed perpetual Champion of the Deptford Club, with a handsome Salary for having so nobly asserted the honour of that society in a late eloquent advertisement, which, notwithstanding all insinuations to the contrary, we are well informed was written by himself, without any assistance from the rest of that learned body.
On Friday the 7th inst a meeting was held at the Devizes of the Gentlemen Clergy, and other Freeholders of the county of Wilts, in order for gentlemen to offer themselves as candidates for the county, either by themselves or friends, in the room of Mr. Popham, deceased.
The meeting was so numerous that the Sheriff opened it at the market cross, and with a speech declared the purpose of the meeting. After which Mr. Grove, of Zeals, read a set speech, in which, in proposing Mr. Goddard, his propriety and eloquence share equally. He was seconded by Lord Folkestone. Mr. Bathurst, of Clarendon-Park, then proposed Mr. Herbert of Salisbury. Counsellor Awdry then objected to Mr. Herbert with that temper and politeness of manner of language so common to foiled lawyers; and gave Mr. Herbert an opportunity of refuting very fully, and without any difficulty, what he had said, in spite of the assistance of Mr. Awdry's scientific little red book. Mr. Goddard is then supposed, for no one could hear him, to have proposed himself as a candidate. Mr. Lyddiard and Mr. Montagu, of Lacken, were for Mr. Goddard; the last endeavouring to urge some objections against Mr. Herbert, Mr. Herbert replied, and was supported by Mr. Harris and Mr. Hussey.
The end of the meeting being thus satisfied by all the candidates that appeared having been respectively proposed, both by themselves and their friends, Mr. Herbert and his friends withdrew, alledging that nothing further could be done 'till the day of election; notwithstanding which, the Sheriff, with an impartiality and openness of heart peculiar to his character, and for reasons best known to himself, declared a majority for Mr. Goddard.
It is imagined that four or five hundred people may have been present at the market cross, but a continued rain falling, during the whole of the transaction, it is supposed that the number was less than it would have been in fair weather.
The company dined afterwards at the principal public houses, and the day passed off with great tranquillity and decency. The Sheriff during the dinner, offered considerable bets concerning the event of the election, probably as legal proof of his impartiality. The Earls of Pembroke, Radnor, and Castlehaven; the Lords Weymouth and Bruce, were all present in the town, but none of them appeared at the cross.




To TRISTRAM HUDDLESTONE JERVOIS, Esq.

SIR,
HAD you formed any connexions but those of the Deptford club, whose brightest gem is the son of an Oxford bed-maker, your family and property would have given you a right to represent the county. Why then are you biased by such a set ? As an old friend of your father, and a well-wisher to you, I conjure to throw them from you for ever, and to be yourself. If I mistake not the club is composed of

Mr. Lambert, of Boyton.
Mr. Buckler, of Boreham.
Mr. Flower, of Devizes.
Mr. H. Windham, of Sarum.
Mr. Penruddock, of Compton.
Lord Castlehaven, of Grovely.
Mr. Wyndham, of Dinton.
Mr. Duke, of Lake.
Mr. Southby, of ----. And
Mr. Bowles, of Heel.

Read them over, blush, and part.
Your sincere, humble servant,
OXONIENSIS.





The BELL, in KINGSBURY-STREET,
MARLBOROUGH.

JOHN BAILEY, late Groom to Lord Cleremont, begs Leave to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and Others, that he breaks Horses; either for Ladies or Gentlemen's Riding, and also trains for the Turf : Those who shall please to honour him with their Commands may depend on his constant Care and Assiduity to merit their Favours.

N.B. Horse taken to stand at Livery on moderate Terms.




To all Persons afflicted with CANCERS.

WHEREAS I MARY DAVIS, Wife of the Rev. Mr. Charles Davis, Vicar of Pentirch, near Cardiff, Glamorganshire, South-Wales, had been afflicted six Years with a Cancer in my Left Breast, which was of a dangerous Nature, and had all the Advice usual in such Cases, but to no Purpose, until I happily heard of Miss PLUNKETT, Daughter of the late Dr. PLUNKETT. I applied to her, who, under God, in the Space of seven Weeks, made a perfect Cure for me, without Incision. I am now in the 56th Year of my Age, and since I have been cured I enjoy a better State of Health than I ever expected. For further Satisfaction I am willing to shew myself to any Person who will apply to me, together with the Cancer, which I have preserved in Spirits.
MARY DAVIS, Pentirch, Aug.9, 1772.

Miss PLUNKETT lives at the Corner of Chandois Building, near the Cross-Bath, in BATH.




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