Newspaper Transcripts
Some Selected Reports from the Northampton Mercury
Saturday, September 16th, 1797.
Sunday and Tuesday's Posts.
LONDON, September 12.
[In the Postscript of our last we mentioned a Report which was prevalent on Friday, on Commotions having taking place at Paris, and that the Barriers had been shut. The French Papers received on Saturday state the following Particulars :]
PARIS, September 5.
AT three o'clock in the morning (the 4th) the Directory ordered the cannon of alarm to be fired, and directed the Halls of the two Councils to be surrounded, in order to arrest the conspirators, whose aim was to assassinate three of the Directors, tor the purpose of creating a new Directory, that should open the gates to the Emigrants and the Pretender.
General Angereau charged with the execution of this arrete, marched to the spot where the sittings were held; and, after having summoned the guard of the Legislative Body, who replied to the summons by shouts of "Live the Republic and Constitution of the third year ! General, you have only to command ; we are ready to obey !" he entered the Thuilleries in perfect order, and arrested 24 of the Royal conspirators.
Ramel was deprived of his Commission, and his rank at the head of his regiment of guards, whom he had endeavoured to corrupt.
Carnot fled yesterday. No blood has been shed.
The two Councils afterwards assembled; that of Five Hundred at the Odeon, (the Theatre in the Faubourg Germain,) and that of the Ancients at the Ecole de Chirurgie, (the Chirurgical School.)
The Members who compose the Administration of the department of the Seine, and of the twelve Municipalities, are provisionally suspended.
Business is now done at the Central Bureau only.
The names of the conspirators who have been committed to the Temple are, Pichegru, Gilbert Desmolieres, Bourdon de l'Oise, Ramel, Dumolard, Boissey d' Anglas, Villau, General Willot, Dumas, Camille Jourdan, Piette, Boisset, Rambault, Cadroy, Desbonieres, Rovere, Philippe Delville, and Masset.
The charge against Pichegru is, that he, bribed by the Prince of Conde, was to place Louis XVIII on the Throne; and, in return, he was to be made Marshal of France, and Governor of Alsace; to have the Signiorship, with its park; a million of livres in ready money, and a pension of 200,000 livres a year, with the estate called the Terre d' Arbois, which was to take his name.
PROCLAIMATION of the DIRECTORY.
Art.I. Every person who shall propose the restoration of Royalty, the establishment of the Constitution of 1793, or to place any of the family of Orleans on the Throne, shall be instantly shot.
II. Persons and property shall be protected.
III. Every person who shall commit any act of pillage Shall be put to death, immediately upon detection.
This Proclamation is preceded by a statement of the measures which were to have been adopted by the conspirators for the destruction of the Republic, and the re-establishment of Royalty.
When the Council of Five Hundred met at the Odeon, they declared their sitting permanent, chose a Committee of five members to consider the measures necessary to be adopted for the public safety, ordered a recall of all members absent on leave, and passed a resolution authorising the Executive Directory to march a sufficient number of troops to Paris, for the protection of the Legislative Body, and the Constitution of the third year.
All the laws passed since the month of Prairial, in the 5th year, in favour of the Emigrants and banished Priests, are repealed.
Yesterday morning early arrived Mr.Shaw, a King's Messenger, from Lisle, with dispatches from Lord Malmesbury.
In consequence of the dispatches received from Lisle by Mr. Shaw yesterday, all the Cabinet Ministers are summoned to town. A Council was held this morning at Lord Grenville's office; and Lord Levison Gower, attended by Mr. Brookes and another Messenger, are expected to leave town in the course of this evening for Lisle.
In the above vessels were brought the Redacteur, and another Republican Journal to the 7th inst. inclusive; all the anti-Directorial Journals to the amount of 32 have been suppressed; their presses broken up, and the Editors sent to the prison of La Force.
The above two Journals furnish no details of the History of the late Revolution. All that is known concerning it is to be collected from the different Messages and Arretes of the Directory, and the Sittings of the two Councils. Carnot fled on the night of the 4th inst. one account says he has been taken. M. Barthelemy, another Director, is detained in Paris under the care of a Guard; 64 of the Members of the two Councils, as well as several Administrators of Departments, are under an order of transportation, together with the above two Directors, whose places are about to be filled up without loss of time. Thus is the whole French Nation once more reduced to the dominion of three usurpers.
The accusation preferred against those arrested is a conspiracy to restore Royalty; and the documents on which the charge is founded are a variety of papers, said to be found in the Portefeuille of M. d'Entraigues.- It is necessary to recollect, that when M. d'Entraigues was seized in Italy, in violation of the laws of Nations (for he was in the Russian service at that time), it was stated that his Papers were of a private nature, and contained nothing of any importance. And, in the next place, the intention of the Directory to charge several Members of the Councils with a conspiracy to restore Royalty, has been for some weeks more than suspected, together with their determination to support such charge by forged Papers, dated from Basil, or some other place, in which they had agents.
All the Editors and Printers of the proscribed Journals have been committed to prison, preparatory to their trial; and the Press is placed under the superintendance of the Police.- By this means, the very proceedings which were condemned, as tyrannical under the ancient Monarchy, and which it was the first care of the Republicans to annul, are now revived.
It is worthy of remark, that the Directory had so well prepared their plan of operations, that they had a new Journal of their own ready as a substitute for the suppressed Journals; the first number of which is arrived. It is entitled the Rapporteur Republican. All the public intelligence from Paris will hereafter come through the contaminated channel of thc Directorial Press.
It does not seem improbable that the Directory will avail themselves of the pretext, of the English Government having been implicated in the imputed intrigues of the proscribed deputies, to renew their favourite project of Revolutionizing Europe, and of course to put an end to the conference for Peace.
This event is a proceeding which in every view either of gigantic interest in its consequences, or of audacious character in its design, has scarcely a parallel since the commencement of the Revolution itself, and it is impossible to speak of it in the language which applies to ordinary events. It may be asserted that there are occasions in the political as well as the physical combinations of life, when all principles must yield to imperious necessity, and when all the rules of moral conduct are set at defiance. The admission of this axiom is all that the most odious tyranny demands for the justification of every excess; and it is certain that it is sufficient to take from the most settled society every assurance that it can frame for its own independence.
Letters from Semlin of the 17th of August, state the Pacha of Belgrade to have been a second time attacked and defeated by the Rebels. The whole of his suite, with the exception of a small number of regular troops, were killed on the field of battle; and the dead are said to have amounted to 2000.
The Earl of Radnor has lately presented �460. to the Governors of the .Salisbury Infirmary, to be appropriated to the fund for providing a permanent salary of �30. a year to the chaplain of that institution, agreeably to the statutes, and which, by this donation, is now completed.
Extract of a Letter from a Foreigner and Merchant of Birmingham, at Frankfort, to a Friend there, dated Aug. 23, 1797 :
"When I passed the French advanced posts on Friday last, I was shocked to see them in such a wretched situation;- the French soldiers of all ranks are miserable spectacles - a set of men destitute of every comfort. This country is, indeed, the best at present to convince any disaffected Englishman of the happiness of his own island. Here we witness the most shocking scenes - villages destroyed - whole streets in principal towns burnt down ; those who were in affluence two or three years ago, now reduced to the lowest state of poverty; and even the few who have till now preserved their property, not sure of it while the French are in possession of their country. Requisitions are still made, and contributions still demanded - the man who has a fortune to day, may probably be a beggar tomorrow. I wish you could send some of your English Jacobins amongst the French here - they have longed for the fraternal hug; but be assured, if they had it in this country, they would soon yearn for the blessings enjoyed in. England. You are, indeed, the happiest nation on the globe."
The London advertisement-makers are altogether outdone by a provincial attorney, who advertises an estate for sale, or to be exchanged for another, stating, that he is appointed Plenipotentiary to treat in this business; that he had ample credentials, and is prepared to ratify his powers; that he will enter into preliminaries either upon the principle of status quo, or uti possidetis; that he is ready to receive the projet of any person desirous to make the purchase or exchange, and to deliver his contre-project and sine qua non, and indeed at once to give his ultimatum ! - Assuring the public, that as soon as a definitive treaty shall be concluded, it will be ratified by his constituent, and duly guaranteed.
Saturday morning a very melancholy and distressing calamity occurred at Mr. Meux's brewhouse in Liquorpond-street; a porter vat having been emptied on Thursday, and kept open above the usual time of six and thirty hours before it was cleansed. one of the men was let down across a stick, fastened to ropes, to perform that service, he unfortunately letting go his hold, fell to the bottom, and the vapour not being evaporated, caused instant suffocation; his companion, seeing his situation, having procured a joint ladder, went down into the vessel, where, on reaching the bottom, he fell lifeless. Mr. Squires, acting Clerk, imagining he could bring the unfortunate persons up, perished also in going down, though intreated to desist, and according being supplied with ropes, he put one round the neck and waist of one of the men, but being desired by the persons above to shift it under his arms, while performing the humane office, the effluvia overpowered him, and he dropped down dead. The bodies of all three, after some time, were drawn up by hooks. His Royal Highness the Duke of York, who happened to be in the neighbourhood when the accident happened, went immediately to the brewhouse and ordered every medical assistance to he procured; several Gentlemen of the faculty attended, and used the means of resuscitation for near three hours, but without effect. The Coroner's Jury' sat at eight o'clock in the evening, and brought in their verdict Accidental Death - Mr. Squires was only twenty-five years of age. They were all of them married, and one has left four children.
Burton Wood and William Harling, the two persons executed a few days ago on Kennington Common, for highway robbery and sheep stealing, made voluntarily confessions of the various depredations in which they had been concerned. Burton Wood positively declared that Clinch and Mackley, who were hanged for the murder of Mr. Fryer in Islington fields, were totally innocent of that crime, it having been committed by himself and two others. Harling made a similar confession respecting the murder of Mrs. Gray of Waltham Abbey, for which two men, of the names of Harold and Upham, were taken up, but who, he avowed, had no connection in that shocking transaction. Burton Wood's confession was sent in a letter to Richard Carpenter Smith, Esq. of the Borough, and that of Harling, to a friend. The robberies mentioned in both were very numerous.
On Sunday morning died in child-bed, Mrs. Godwin, the wife of Mr. William Godwin, of Somers-town. She was well known throughout Europe by her literary works, under her original name of Wollstonecraft, and particularly by her "Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
Wednesday and Thursday's Posts.
LONDON, September 14.
THE last messenger, who arrived with dispatches from Lord Malmesbury, Mr. Shaw, is said to have brought intelligence which occasions no small degree of perplexity in respect of the Negociation, and has been the cause of recalling the whole Cabinet to town. If we are rightly informed, it respects a proposition from the French Directory (since the late events at Paris) that our Court shall, in the most unequivocal manner, declare, that it disannuls and disavows all and every Pretender to the future Government of France. Something was mentioned of the Pretender Louis XVIII. A similar proposition is said to be sent to the Cabinet of Vienna.
French Affairs.- For some time past Rewbell, Lareveillere Lepaux, & Barras, the three Jacobin French Directors, had differed with Carnot and Barthelemy, the two Moderes, upon every question which had heen proposed. The two latter had with them the majority of both Councils, and certainly kept up a communication with Dumolard, Vaublanc, Boissy D'Anglas, Henri Lariviere, Pichegru, Pastoret, Troncon Du Coudray, &c. while the former equally held conferences with Tallien, Sieyes, Hardi, La Marque, &c.
The different Representations of the Directory to the Councils respecting the distressed state of the Armies of the Republic, were, like every other measure, carried in the Directory against the opinions of Carnot and Barthelemy, who saw evidently that these different Messages had no other object but to persuade the Armies, that their arrears of pay, and their consequent distress and misery, was owing not to the Directory, but to the majority of the Councils. By this manoeuvre, and by representing the Councils as Royalists, most of the Armies were set against the Legislative Body. Having gained this point, the three Directors determined to strike their blow.
The measures which the Triumvirate have taken, of arresting the most active of the Councils - of creating by these means a majority in favour of any question they choose to propose - of suppressing the Newspapers that are against them, and of removing all Public Magistrates supposed to be adverse to them, are among the boldest, and at the same time most tyrannical acts to which France has been subject since the commencement of a Revolution, the pretended object of which was the Abolition of Tyranny and the Establishment of Liberty.
Those who, under such circumstances, strike the first blow, are likely, for a time at least, to succeed; but whether the People of France will patiently permit the Executive Branch of the Government to destroy the Legislative, because the Majority of its Members were not if the same opinion with themselves, a short time will evince.
The most important point to be considered is, in what degree this new Revolution will affect the great question of Peace with this Country. The Commissioners at Lisle, we are told, in mentioning all the circumstances of this extra-ordinary transaction to Lord Malmesbury, expressed their readiness to resume the Negociation, and congratulated him upon the event, as one which, from having removed the obstacles to it, rendered a Peace with Great-Britain almost certain.
It seems by no means improbable that the New Directory may think the universal joy and approbation which would be spread throughout France on concluding Peace with this Country, may be necessary to their security, or at least to their popularity; and if, by such a measure, any great political purpose was answered, whether the terms were a little better or worse, would be a trifling consideration to them. In this view this new Revolution may be instrumental to Peace; and letters which we have received, both from Lisle and Paris, are full of this speculation.
On the other hand, it is certain, that the Members of the Directory who have been displaced, as well as the late Majority of the Councils, have hitherto shown by much the most ardent desire to complete Peace with this Country and Barthelemy in particular has frequently expressed his opinion, that it was an event equally necessary to the interests and happiness of both Nations.
The two expected new Directors are, Merlinof Douay, who has acted a very prominent part in all the bloody scenes of the Revolution, and Francois de Neufchateau [?].
At the head of the victorious party in the late contest is Tallien, the director of the infamous massacres of September, one of the murderers of his Sovereign, and the assassin, in conjunction with Hoche, of the gallant Sombrieul and his brave companions - a wretch stained with blood from head to foot; and the hypocritical apostate Sieyes, who also voted for the murder of his King, and has been the secret instigator of every enormity that has been committed since the year 1789. Most of their followers are being so the same stamp.
At the head of the vanquished are Henri La Riviere, Dumolard, Boissy D' Anglas, Troncon Du Coudray &c. who, according to the common acceptation of the terms honesty and integrity, have been deemed the most honest and upright, as well as the most able men in France.
Of the Members of the Directory, who have driven out their colleagues, and over-awed the Legislative Body, the most distinguished is Barras, who voted for the King's murder; and was, before the Revolution, a professed Gambler, and a man of so abandoned and profligate a character that all young men were especially warned to avoid his company, as alike destructive of morals and reputation. He was the messmate of Marat, and the assassin of the inhabitants of Toulon, where, (as he wrote to the Convention) he found no Patriots but the Galley-Slaves!
Rewbell is a decided Terrorist, and distinguished himself, on various occasions, under the reign of Robespierre. He is an Alsatian by birth; was an Advocate by profession, and became a Sharper by choice, during his mission at Mentz, where he committed innumerable frauds.
Lareveillere-Lepaux is less notorious than his two associates, but he voted for the murder of his Sovereign, and has lent a willing hand to numerous acts of atrocity.
Such are the miscreants to whom Barthelemy, a man deservedly admired for the wisdom and moderation of his conduct, Pichegru, the successful leader of the French Armies, and Carnot, a man of the first rate abilities, have fallen the victims.
Rear-Admiral Nelson, in consequence of the loss of his arm, is to retire from actual service. He will be placed on the superannuated list of Rear-Admirals, with an allowance of 17s. 6d. per day; besides which, it is supposed, a pension will be granted him, for his past services.
It is said to be the intention of Government, that all the Militia Corps shall be stationed in their respective counties during the ensuing winter.
The following is Mr. Burke's description of France, as it appeared to his view in the latter end of 1793. "France, (says he) is out of itself : the moral France is separated from the geographical. The master of the house is expelled, and the robbers are in possession. If we look for the corporate people, existing as corporate in the eye and intention of public law, (that corporate people, I mean, who are free to deliberate and decide, and who have a capacity to treat and conclude) they are in Flanders and in Germany, in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, and England. There are all the Princes of the blood - there are all the orders of the State - there are all the Parliaments of the kingdom."
Mustard Whey for the Rheumatism.- Two ounces and a half of the best Durham mustard seed, boiled half an hour in three pints of water, then add a quarter of a pint of skimm'd milk, boil it till it is a thin whey, drink half a pint, milkwarm, night and morning.
A few days since Mr. Algar, of Much Canvil, Essex, in removing some stacks of Corn and clearing his barns, destroyed 1400 rats; the pay for which, to the rat-catcher, amounted to near �7. They were tied by the tails, and conveyed on two horses through the village.
The following whimsical, but characteristic caution, is said to be an exact copy (correction of spelling only excepted) of the conclusion of a paper, delivered to the gaoler at Chelmsford, by the notorious Wm. Dench, the last evening but one before his execution.
"A caution to salesmen and farmers, that attend markets and fairs; they go into a public room, and flash their notes or cash to cut a swell; if they have only five pounds to pay, they will pull out twenty, or perhaps thirty to look swellish, not knowing who is in the room to ogle them, and that is the way that half of them get pulled up, and get frisk'd of their property; they see some gentlemen in the room; all the while they are blades looking out for there kind of swells, to frisk them in the evening."
In consequence of information having been received by Patrick Colquhoun, Esq. one of the Magistrates of Worship-street, that a person named John Welchman, who kept a pretended hosier's shop, and lived in Great East-Cheap, was in the habit of disposing of great quantities of counterfeit coin of all descriptions, he consulted with Mr. Powell, the Deputy Solicitor to the Mint, as to the best means to be adopted to detect him. A Jew was therefore employed, who having obtained the confidence of Welchman, bought several parcels of counterfeit money of him and his wife. Mr. Powell, finding that the Jew had thus far succeeded, applied and obtained a warrant from the Lord Mayor, for their apprehension, and also to search their house previous to the officers executing it. The Jew went to the house, and on finding him at home, he bargained with him for 30 counterfeit six pences, and two counterfeit dollars, for which he was to give 12s. 6d. and having paid him for them by a 20s. note which had been previously given him by Mr. Powell, and marked by the officers, who were in waiting at a short distance from the house, the Jew received the change and came away. - The officers then went immediately into the house, and on searching Welchman, found the note in his pocket. The house was then searched, and in divers parts of the stairs, and other concealed places, counterfeit money, consisting of guineas, half guineas, dollars, half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, to the amount of near �4000. nominal value, were found, besides an immense quantity of counterfeit halfpence in bags.- Welchman and his wife were both examined before the Lord-Mayor, on Friday last, when Mr. Powell attended on the part of the Mint, and the evidence being thought complete against Welchman, he was committed for trial; but the evidence against his wife being rather slight, and she appearing to be far gone with child, the Lord Mayor consented to her discharge.
Friday and Saturday's Posts.
LONDON, September 16.
LAST night arrived the Paris Gazettes to Tuesday last, the 12th inst. inclusive. They were brought to Dover by a Danish vessel with passengers. It is with much concern we mention the loss of Messr. Brookes and Magistra, King's Messengers, who in attempting to land at Calais on Tuesday night in an open boat from the Diana Packet, were overset by the violence of the surf, and together with a sailor, were drowned. The dispatches for Lord Malmesbury are supposed to be sunk with them; and we fear the delay that must be occasioned by duplicates being sent, will occasion some interruption to the Negotiation. Two other Messengers are to be sent off this day.
The most prominent Article is one contained in the Republican Francois of the 11th: Letourneur and Maret are superseded as Commissioners at Lisle by Treilhard and Bonnier, Ex-conventionalists, the former being recalled. -- This is an event of the utmost moment at the present crisis, but whether favourable or otherwise to the great object of Peace, remains to be seen. If we are to trust to the sincerity of the Address of the two Councils to the Departments and to the Armies, we should draw from this change the most flattering omens, for it is there asserted. that Peace has been procrastinated by the intrigues of the Party that has been recently overthrown.
The above Journals contain some interesting news, as far as regards the fate of the banished Deputies, the election of the two new Directors, and the line of politics which we may presume General Moreau to have taken. We learn that the Deputies sentenced to transportation, including Barthelemy, the Ex-Director, were sent off from Paris on the night of the 9th inst. in covered waggons, under a strong escort, commanded by General Dutestre, who was authorized to call in the armed force in case of need. They took the road towards Orleans, and are to be embarked at Rochefort; some say for the island of Madagascar, but others for Africa.
[One part of the conduct of the victorious party we have not yet seen even attempted to be justified - that is, ordering the transportation of the Conspirators without a trial. The arresting of the Conspirators, perhaps, was a duty which the prevailing party owed to their own safety; but the plot being defeated, why were not the forms of law followed out with regard to the delinquents ?]
In the Redecteur of the 11th is a letter, signed Moreau, addressed to Barthelemy, which the Directory has sent to the two Councils to render it the more public. This letter is dated Strasbourg, Sept.5, and incloses some pretended correspondence found in the trunks of the Austrian General Klinglin many months since, in which General Pichegru's name is mentioned as being in league with the Prince de Conde and other Emigrants. - As this secret had been long in Moreau's possession, we can only account for his having published it at the period he did in order to save himself at the expence of his friend Pichegru, who he might have heard was arrested. We must leave it to future historians to account for a man of Moreau's acknowledged bravery, meanly attempting to save his own life by sacrificing his bosom friend.
In the Annales Politiques of the 11th, it is mentioned that news is arrived from General Berthier, of the Treaty of Peace with the Emperor being signed; but as this report is not confirmed in the succeeding Number, we consider it to be premature.
Among the first Petitions presented to the new Council (not of Five Hundred, because one-half the Members are either transported or have fled) is an Address from the Deserters of the Army and other Vagabonds confined in the Prison St. Pelagie, praying to be released, that they may fight the enemies of their country. Their Petition was ordered for the enquiry of the Military Commission.
A Letter received in Town yesterday from Ramsgate, gives a melancholy account of the late dreadful gales: the sea was never known to run so high, the Pier being entirely covered with the surge. Many vessels were seen in great distress, and nineteen wrecks were counted. The letter concludes with saying, that it is feared some of our Packets are lost.
The Population of China, as estimated by Sir George Staunton at 333 millions, is considerably more than twice that of the whole of Europe, and more than three-eighths of that of the whole earth, according to the following statement, which has been deemed tolerably correct :
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| Asia | 450,000,000 |
| Africa | 150,000,000 |
| America | 160,000,000 |
| Europe | 124,600,000 |
| Total | 884,600,000 |
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Thomas Richards has been convicted before the Lord Mayor of York, and paid the penalty of �12. for having in his possession more them five counterfeit dollars, contrary to a late Act of Parliament made for the regulation of that currency.
On Monday se'nnight, Thomas Urquhart late Deputy-postmaster of Orkney, and David Urquhart, his son, a boy of about sixteen years of age, charged with stealing or feloniously abstracting from letters or packets, containing gold, bank notes, promissory notes, &c. were tried before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh. After a trial of 15 hours, both were found guilty, and sentenced to be executed on the 18th of October next.
Anecdote.- A sailor belonging to a man of war, having been for his good behaviour promoted from a fore-mast man to a boatswain, was ordered on shore by his Captain, to receive his commission at the Admiralty-office. Jack went accordingly; and thus described his reception afterwards to his companions- "I bore away large" said he "for the Admiralty-office; and on entering the harbour. I espied a dozen or two quill-drivers; I hailed 'em; - not a word said they. "Hollo !" again, said I. Not a word said they. "Shiver my top-sails, but what can this mean?" said I. "Then I took a guinea from my pocket, and holding it up to my peeper, "Hollo!" again said I. "Oh! Hollo," returned they. "So, so, my boys, cried I, you are like Balaam's ass, are you ? You could not speak until you saw the Angel !"
EPITAPH on a STOCK BROKER.
WHILE I had breath, Transferring was my trade;
Now worms accept the Transfer Death has made.
What future Transfers may be made to me,
Depend along on Fate's unknown decree.
Happy indeed, if on the shutting day;
My Ledgers do a Balance fair display;
That Balance fair will crush each anxious thought,
When my Long - Long Annuity is bought.
POSTSCRIPT.
LONDON, Sept. 16.
A resolution has passed the Admiralty Board to rebuild the Ca Ira, of 80 guns, a French prize taken by Admiral Hotham's fleet in the Mediterranean, and burnt by accident in Fiorenza Bay, Corsica; and the Bombay Castle, of 74 guns, lost off the Coast of Portugal last December, which was one of the three ships built at the East India Company's expence towards the close of the last war.
NORTHAMPTON,
SATURDAY EVENING, Sept. 16.
MARRIED.] On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. Thomas Pardo Brett, A.M. Vicar of Bicester, Oxfordshire, to Miss Clarke, of Oxford.
Same day, at Soulbury, Bucks, Mr. Robt. Cotching an eminent fanner and grazier, to Miss Stevens, of Bragnum, in the same county.
Lately, Mr. Travel Fuller, ironmonger, of Yarmouth, to Miss Phoebe Sharpless, daughter of Mr. Isaac Sharpless, of Hitchin.
Lately, Mr. John Ward, of Hinckley, hosier, to Miss Moore, of Great James - street, Bedford-row, London.
DIED.] On Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Kirkland, an eminent surgeon, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire.
Yesterday se'nnight, at Cambridge, the Rev. Dr. Farmer, Master at Emanuel College.
Lately, at Nacton House of Industry, Cheshire, Thomas Smith, aged 37, who before his Iast illness, which continued upwards of twenty-four weeks, weighed 21st. 9lb. and, although he went stooping, (having broken some of his ribs), he was six feet nine inches high, and at his decease his corpse measured seven feet two inches.
Commissions of Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of
Northampton, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
Sir William Langham, of Cottesbrook, Bart.
Robert Willis Blencowe, of Dallington, Esq.
George William Gunning, of Horton, Esq.
John Christopher Mansel, of Cosgrove, Esq.
Thomas Reeve Thornton, of Brockhall, Esq.
John Harvey Thursby the younger, of Abington, Esq.
Charles Tibbitts, of Barton-Seagrave, Esq.
Commissions in the Northampton Militia, signed by
the Lord Lieutenant.
Ensign Richard James, Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Michael Rogers, resigned.
Justinian Isham, Esq. Captain, vice Captain Robert Willis Blencowe, resigned.
Lieutenant Henry Wills, Captain, vice Captain Wenman Langham Watson, resigned.
Ensign Gustavus Hamilton Lee, Lieutenant.
Hugh Graham, Gent. Ensign.
Ensign William James Bletsoe, Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Lee, superseded for absence from the regiment without leave.
Commission in the Northamptonshire Supplementary Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant.
Robert Willis Blencowe, Esq. Captain.
Tuesday se'nnight the Rev. Tho. Pardo Brett, A.M. Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, to the Vicarage of Bicester, in that county, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Eyre, on the presentation of Sir Gregory Page Turner, Bart.
John Cooke, Esq. is elected Mayor of Bedford; Mr. Edward Chapman, jun. and Mr. George Sharpe, Bailiffs; Mr. Isaac Elger, and Mr. John Whitehouse, jun. Chamberlains, for the year ensuing.- The Rev. Charles Stead Hope is nominated to serve the Office of Mayor of Derby for the year ensuing.
Tuesday last being the Anniversary Meeting of the General Infirmary in this town, for the Relief of the Sick and Lame Poor of all Counties, there was a great appearance of Governors and Subscribers at the Infirmary. The Right Hon .Earl Spencer in the Chair, where the report of its present state, of the Patients admitted and discharged, and of the monies received and paid within the last year, was read and laid before them; when they expressed great satisfaction in the management of this noble charity, by which 32,536 persons have been relieved since the foundation of the Old County Hospital, in 1744; After which the Governors and Subscribers walked in procession to the parish church of All-Saints, where a most excellent sermon was preached on the occasion, by the Rev.Mr. Hunter Rector of Gayton, from the following text, Proverbs, xxii. chap. 2d verse, The rich and poor meet together : the Lord is the maker of them all. And a collection was made at the church-doors as usual, amounting to eighty-six pounds fifteen shillings and five pence halfpenny.
The following melancholy accident happened on Thursday last to the Rev. Mr. Davy, Vicar of Pitchley, in this county, who, with two of his acquaintance, was on a shooting-party at Old :- About one o'clock, Mr. Davy, having taken up a wounded bird, gave it into the hands of one of his companions, who, in order to kill it, struck the head of the bird several times against the breach of his gun, whilst holding it in a horizontal direction; when unfortunately the piece went off, and the whole at the contents were lodged in the body of Mr. Davy, who was standing within less than two yards of the muzzle of it. He was immediately conveyed to Old, where he languished in great agony till about eleven o'clock the same night, when he expired. He has left a widow and six children.
On Monday se'nnight, Mr. Cole, Farmer, of Long-Itchington, Warwickshire, riding a race, was thrown from his horse against a stile, and unfortunately killed.
On Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Reed, Farmer, of Newbottle, in this county, was run over by a waggon, as he was at harvest work in his own grounds, and killed on the spot.
About one o'clock on Wednesday morning a fire broke out in the stack-yard, belonging to Mr Cumberland of Wilford, near Nottingham, which destroyed several corn stacks, a sow, some pigs, and other property. The damage is estimated at one thousand pounds and upwards.
LEICESTER, Sept. 15. On Monday night Iast her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire slept at the Crowns Inn, in this town, on her way to the beautiful mansion at Chatsworrh, Derbyshire. An unfortunate accident occurred on the morning of her Grace's departure, which we hope will prove a caution in future to all servants who may travel with fire-arms : the holsters, containing the pistol belonging to one of her Grace's servants, were hung up in the passage leading to the stable - on removing them in the morning, one fell out and discharged a ball quite through the foot of a post-boy who stood near; the ball afterwards rebounded from the wall against the breast of another person present, but without doing any injury. Her Grace was extremely concerned at the accident, ordered all possible care to be taken of the post-boy, and left him five guineas.
BERKHAMSTEAD, Sept. 13.- This day James M'Coul, who was apprehended by Messrs. Revitt and Fugion on Sunday morning, on suspicion of feloniously receiving a large quantity of plate and wearing apparel, which had been stolen from a shop in this town, underwent an examination before the Magistrates of the county, and was fully committed to take his trial for the offence. Some of the property which was which found in the apartment of the prisoner, in Clifford's Inn Passage, Fleet-street, London, was produced, but could not be sworn to by the prosecutor; the only evidence therefore against him, is the confession of one John Collins, a man now in custody for the burglaries, and who was admitted an evidence for the Crown; he said, that in company with two men, of the names of Seares and Wood, he went down by the waggon to Woburn on the 17th of August last, where they remained till the Saturday following, when they broke open the house of Richard Folkes, Esq. and stole therefrom a quantity of plate and other articles, which they took to London, to the house of the prisoner M'Coul, who agreed to give them 3s. 6d. per ounce for the whole of the plate which weighed 77 ounce's, and which was divided amongst them; that before they left his house he began to break the plate to pieces.-After this they again set off for Berkhamstead, where they broke open the house of one Mr.Baker a linen-draper, and stole from thence a considerable quantity of goods, which they also took to London, and sold to M'Coul for fourteen guineas. M'Coul denied having any knowledge of the witness.Collins and his associate were taken into custody at this place, where they intended to have committed further depredations. M'Coul is a notorious character, and some time ago told the Magistrates of Bow-street, when examined by them, that he was worth �4000.
Northamptonshire GAME-DUTY.
Dates of Certificates
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| Dates of Certificates | Names, Residence, and Titles of the Persons. |
| July 29th. | Annesley, Rev. Francis, Eydon-Lodge, Clerk |
| Aug, 15th | Adkins, John, Helmdon, Gent. |
| 24th | Arnold, George, Ledgers Ashby, Esq. |
| Sept. 7th | Ashby, George, Haselbeech, Esq. |
| 13th | Andrew, Robert, Harleston, Esq. |
| Adams, Charles Clarke, Welton, Gent. |
| July 25th | Browne, Herbert Gwynne, Imley Park, Esq. |
| Aug. 11th | Bramston, John William, Oundle, Esq. |
| 21st | Bouverie, Edward, Delapre Abbey, Esq. |
| 22d | Blencowe, Robert Willis, Dallington, Esq. |
| 26th | Bull, Joseph, Daventry, Gent |
| Sept. 2d | Beet, Rev. George, Harpole, Clerk |
| Booth, Richard, Glendon, Esq. |
| 4th | Butterfield, John, Brackley, Gent. |
| Bartlett, Robert, the elder, Brackley, Gent. |
| 9th | Burton, Leonard, Ringstead, Esq. |
| Burton, Charles, Ringstead, Esq. |
| Bland, Joseph, Grafton-Underwood, Gent. |
| Barrett, Thomas, Staverton, Gent. |
| 11th | Bonney, Rev. Henry Ney, King's-Cliffe, Clerk |
| Bliss, Thomas, Stow-nine-Churches, Gent. |
| Beauclerk, Hon. and Rev. Henry, Whittlebury, Clerk |
| 12th | Bright, Rev. John, Graffon-Regis, Clerk |
| Bright, Rev. Thomas Stonhewer, Oundle, Clerk |
| 13th | Buckby, Richard, Wellingborough, Esq |
| Boulton, Rev. George, Great-Oxendon, Clerk |
| 14th | Boulton, Henry, Cottingham, Esq. |
| Benton, John, Northampton, Esq. |
| Benton, George Sollers, Northampton, Esq. |
| Barber, Clark Page, Moulton, Gent.
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| Aug. 25th | Chew, John, Woodford Lodge, Gent. |
| Sept. 2d | Cave, George, Desborough, Gent. |
| 6th | Clark, John, Bulwick, Esq. |
| 11th | Cook, John, Foxley, in the Parish of Pattishall, Gent.
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| 12th | Corbett, Andrew, Pitsford, Esq. |
| Clark, John, Denshanger, in the Parish of Passenham, Gent. |
| Cleaver, William, Greensnorton, Gent. |
| Clark, John, East-Haddon, Gent. |
| 13th | Clarke, John Plomer, Welton-Place, Esq. |
| Clarke, Richard, Welton-Place, Esq. |
| Curtis, John, Wootton, Gent. |
| Aug. 26th | Dunkley, William, Staverton, Gent. |
| Sept 2. | Deacle, Rev. John, Astrop, Clerk |
| Dickens Stephen, Holcot, Gent. |
| 9th | Davy, Rev. John, Pitchley, Clerk |
| 12th | Dowbiggin, Rev. John, Wappenham, Clerk |
| Deacon, Rev. John Rawlins, Daventry, Clerk |
| 13th | Deacle, Rev. William, Thorpe-Mandeville, D.D. |
| De Rippe, Jacob, Wakerly, Gent. |
| Denny, William Sargeant, Long-Buckby, Gent. |
| Sept. 7th | Errington, Thomas, Old, Gent. |
| 9th | Eastwick, Rev. John, Achurch, Clerk |
| Edmonds, Robert, Boughton-House, Gent |
| Eyre, Charles, Warkworth, Esq. |
| 12th | Elliott, William, Greensnorton. Gent. |
| Aug. 9th | Fairbrother, Giles, Wappenham, Gent. |
| 12th | Fawcett, Rev. Thomas, Gayton, Clerk |
| 31st | Flesher, Rev. John Thos. Tiffield, Clerk |
| Sept. 12th | Fletcher, Thomas, Rushden, Gent. |
| Freeman, George, Long-Buckby, Esq. |
| Fletcher, John, Rushden, Gent. |
| 13th | Fairbrother, Luke, Helmdon, Gent. |
| Farrer Richard, Ashley, Gent. |
| Flavell, Thomas, Kingsthorpe, Gent. |
| Aug. 26th | Garlick, John, Moulton, Gent . |
| Sept 2. | Goode, Thomas, Brixworth, Gent. |
| 5th. | Gibson, William, Northampton, Esq. |
| 8th. | Gladwell, Henry, Drayton, Gent. |
| Grant, Thomas, Towcester, Esq. |
| Grant, William, Litchborough, Esq. |
| 12th. | Griffin, Rev. Edward, Dingley, Clerk |
| 13th. | Gardner, John, jun. Middleton-Cheney, Gent. |
| Goodday, Rev. William, Northampton, Clerk |
| Gunning, George, Horton, Esq. |
| 14th. | Goodman, Joseph, Staverton, Gent. |
| Aug. 26th. | Houghton, Robert Dawkes, Holcot, Gent. |
| Houghton, Thomas, Whitmale-Park, Gent. |
| Hitchcock, William, Chipping-Warden, Gent. |
| Hewitt, Richard, Dodford, Gent. |
| 30th | Harrison, Rev. Thomas, Woodford, Clerk |
| 31st | Hanbury, William, Kelmarsh, Esq. |
| Sept 1st. | Holmes, William, Desborough, Gent. |
| 2d | Harding, Rev. William, Eydon, Clerk |
| 4th | Hopcraft, William, Evenly, Gent. |
| 6th | Hewett, Rev. John, Pilton, Clerk. |
| 8th | Haggitt, William, Rushton, Esq. |
| 9th | Harris William, Wootton, Gent |
| Haycock, William, Bugbrook, Gent. |
| 12th. | Hungerford, John Peach, Dingley Hall, Esq. |
| Hitchcock, George, Hinton, in the Parish of Woodford, Gent. |
| Hensman, Henry, Pitchley, Gent. |
| Hickman, Henry, Newnham, Gent. |
| 13th. | Hoare, William, sen. Towcester, Gent. |
| Harbert, Richard, Grimsbury, in the Parish of Warkworth, Gent. |
| Hicks, John, Fotheringhay, Gent. |
| Hillyard, Clark, jun., Northampton, Gent |
| Hall, John, Northampton, Gent |
| 14th. | Hughes, Samuel, Northampton, Gent |
| Aug. 14th | Jones, Rev. Humphrey, Little-Houghton, Clerk |
| Sept. 9th | Jackson, George, the younger, Winwick, Gent. |
| Isted, Samuel, E.ton[?], Esq. |
| Jephcott, Rev. Henry, Nether-Heyford, Clerk |
| 12th | Jones, Matthew Easton, Wellingborough, Gent. |
| 13th | Isham, Charles, Lamport, Esq. |
| Sept. 9th | Kipling, John, Overston, Esq. |
| Aug. 26th | Lamb, Rev. Matthew, Chipping-Warden, Clerk |
| Lucas, Martin, Northampton, Esq. |
| Sept. 2d | Langton, Richard Henry, Barby, Gent. |
| 4th | Lockwood, Rev. William, Geddington, Clerk |
| 9th | Lovell, Randal, Claycoton, Gent. |
| Lovell, Thomas, Winwick-Warren, Gent. |
| 11th | Lambert, John, Middleton, Gent. |
| 14th | Langton, John, Teeton |
| Aug. 23d | Monckton the Hon. John, Fineshade |
| 26th. | Marsh, John, Holcot, Gent. |
| Manton, Jonathan, Isham, Gent |
| 28th. | Maunsell, Thomas Cecil, Thorpe-Malsor [?], Esq. |
| 30th. | Manning, John, Orlingbury, Gent. |
| Sept. 2d. | Marsh, John, Moulton, Gent. |
| 5th. | Mercer, Thomas, Hackleton, Esq. |
| Marriott, Robert, Badby, Gent. |
| Marriott, Thomas, Everdon, Gent. |
| 11th. | Mawby, Joseph, Long Buckby, Gent. |
| Milnes, Rev. Thomas, Tansor[?], Clerk |
| 12th. | Midgley, John, Rushden, Esq. |
| Mapletott[?], Rev. Nathaniel, Rushton, Clerk |
| Northampton, the Right Hon. Charles Earl of, Ashby- Castle |
| July 19th. | Peach, Thomas, Northampton�, Gent
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| July 25th. | Powys, Rev. Lyttleton, Titchmarsh, Clerk |
| Aug 30th | Pell, Samuel, Mears-Ashby, Gent. |
| 9th | Payne, John, Welford, Esq. |
| 12th | Pywell, Elmer, Oundle, Gent. |
| Pearce, Nathaniel, Chapel-Brampton, Esq. |
| Palmer, John Henry, Carlton, Esq. |
| 13th | Padbury, John, Towcester, Gent. |
| Pell, Samuel, Sywell-Hall, Gent. |
| Sept 13th | Quin, Charles, Great-Billing, Gent. |
| Aug 26th | Rawbone, Richard, Daventry, Gent. |
| Rodick, Arch, Wellingborough, Gent. |
| Sept. 8th | Reeve, William, Watford [?], Gent. |
| Russell, John, Litchborough, Gent |
| 14th. | Robinson, Rev. William, Irchester, Clerk |
| Robinson, James, Thrapston, Gent. |
| July 22d. | Supple, Richard Brooke, Great-Oakley, Esq. |
| 26th | Smith, William, Collyweston, Gent |
| Aug 7th. | Samwell, Thomas Samwell Watson, Upton, Esq. |
| Aug. 28th | Sherrard, Rev. Philip Castel, Stanwick, Clerk |
| 31st | Sibley, Joseph, Northampton, Esq |
| Smith, Charles, Weedon-Beck, Gent |
| Sept. 2d. | Sharman, Samuel, Wellingborough, Gent. |
| Sheldon John, Walgrave, Gent. |
| 6th. | Sanderson, Rev. William, Little Addington, Clerk |
| 9th. | Smith, Rev. Thomas, Claycoton, Clerk |
| Sheppard, Richard, Stoke-Bruern, Gent |
| Smith, William, Duston, Gent. |
| 11th. | Stanley, Robert, the younger, Geddington, Gent. |
| 12th. | Sparke, Thomas, Higham-Ferrers, Esq. |
| Slater, Rev. Thomas, Wilby, Clerk |
| Spier, John Erasmus, Crick, Esq. |
| Stockdale, Rev. William, Walgrave, Clerk |
| Spencer, Right Hon. George John Earl, Althorpe |
| 13th. | Satterthwaite[?], Rev. William, Wellingborough, Clerk. |
| Smyth, Christopher, Northampton, Gent. |
| 14th. | Smyth, Rev. James, Raunds, Clerk. |
| July 26th. | Thomas, George, Brackley, Gent. |
| Aug. 26th. | Tibbits, Charles, Barton-Seagrave, Esq. |
| Sept. 2d. | Tomlinson, Francis, Tenant of Pitchley-Grange, Gent. |
| 13th. | Thursby, John Harvey, jun. Pitsford, Esq. |
| July 26th. | Williamson, Jas., Wellingborough, Gent. |
| 29th. | Walker, Wm., Yardley-Hastings, Gent. |
| Aug. 9th | Walcot, William, the elder, Oundle, Esq. |
| 11th. | Westmorland, the Right Hon. John Earl of, Apethorpe |
| 12th. | Whitworth, William, Earl's-Barton, Esq. |
| 19th. | Wake, Sir William, Courteen-Hall, Bart. |
| Whalley, Rev. Palmer, Ecton, Clerk |
| Whalley, Thomas, Ecton, Esq |
| 23d | Walcot, William, the Younger, Oundle, Esq. |
| 26th | Whitton, John, Sulgrave, Gent. |
| 29th | Welch, Rev. Thomas, Pattishall, Clerk |
| Sept. 1st | Willes, John Freke, Astrop, Esq. |
| Wilkinson, Rev. Thos. Great-Houghton, Clerk |
| 2d. | Wright, Thomas, Holdenby, Gent. |
| 5th. | Wade, Thomas, Clipston, Esq. |
| 6th. | Whitlark, George, Kettering, Gent |
| 9th. | Weston, John, Brackley, Gent. |
| Worley, George, Mear's-Ashby, Gent. |
| 11th. | Woolston, Samuel, Rushden, Gent. |
| Walker, Joseph, Moulton-Park, Gent. |
| Webster, Daniel, Deene, Gent. |
| 12th. | Whitelock [?], Rev. Richard Hutchins, Farthinghoe, Clerk |
| 13th. | Williams, Rev. Richard, Northampton, Clerk |
| Watkins, Rev. George, Northampton, Clerk |
| Sept.12th | Young, Allen Edward, Orlingbury, Esq. |
CHR. SMYTH, Clerk of the Peace.
By Order of his Majesty's Commissioners for managing the Stamp Duties,
JOHN BRETTELL, Secretary.
The List of Gamekeepers will be inserted in next Week's Paper.
NORTHAMPTON, Sept. 16, 1797.
JOHN STOCKBURN,
WORKING-CUTLER AND GUN-MAKER,
BEGS Leave to inform the Public that he has fitted up a Shop in the DRAPERY, where he proposes manufacturing every Article in the above Branches.- Razors made to any Pattern at the shortest Notice, which, by a peculiar method of temporing, are warranted to stand good, or will be exchanged without any expence to the Buyer.
J. STOCKBURN having worked in the Manufactory of Knives, Scissors, Surgeons Instruments, Fleams, Lancets, &c. &c. for the first Cutlers in London, has it in his Power to say that Orders for any of the above Articles will be executed with all possible Neatness.
*** A neat Assortment of BIRMINGHAM and SHEFFIELD GOODS.
NEWPORT-PAGNELL, Sept. 11, 1797.
THE Proprietors of LANDS in the Open Fields, commonly called Tickford Fields, in the Parish of Newport- Pagnell, are requested to meet at the Swan Inn, at Newport-Pagnell, on Wednesday Afternoon the 20th instant, at Three o'Clock, to consider of the Propriety of an Application to Parliament in the next Session, for Leave to bring in a Bill for Inclosing the said Fields.
To the Debtors and Creditors of CHARLES BALAAM, of the Town of Northampton, Sadler.
SUCH of the Creditors of the said CHARLES BALAAM, who have not already executed the Deed of Trust, are requested to apply at the Office of Messrs. Cole and Howes, in Northampton, and execute the same, on or before the 29th instant, or they will be excluded the Benefit of the Dividend intended to be made immediately afterwards. And all Persons who still stand indebted to the said Charles Balaam's Estate, are desired to take Notice, that unless their respective Debts are paid either to the Trustees, Mr. Alderman Gibson, Mr. Alderman Marshall, or Mr. Charles Dodd, all of Northampton; or to Messrs. Cole and Howes, on or before the said 29th instant, Actions will be forthwith commenced against the Defaulters.
Northampton, Sept. 9th, 1797.
Northampton Navigation.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the next General Quarterly Meeting of the Commissioners, acting for the Western Division of the Navigation of the River Nine or Nen, will be held at the Town-Hall, in Northampton, on Thursday the 5th Day of October next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon; at which time the Proprietors may receive their Interest due at Michaelmas.
J. GARDINER, Treasurer.
Sept. 15, 1797.
At a Meeting of tbe General Committee of the Grand Junction Canal Company, held the 13th Day of September, 1797,
The following Order (amongst others) was then made, viz.
ORDERED,
THAT the Clerks do, in every Case, without Exception or Distinction, where the Party not paying his Share is in Arrear for more than one Call, and is not a Land-owner, or Claimant on the Company for any Sum of Money equal to the Sum for which he is in Arrear, proceed to the Sale of his or their Shares or Half Shares, or such Part as is necessary to discharge the said Arrear; such Shares or Half Shares to be advertised, with the Name of the Proprietor.
Turnpike Meeting.
THE next Meeting of the Trustees of the Turnpike- Road leading from the Town of Northampton, to Newport Pagnell, in the County of Bucks, will be held at the New Inn, in Hackleton, in the County of Northampton, on Monday the 25th Day of September instant, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon.
By Order of the Trustees,
ROBERT ABBEY, Clerk.
Northampton, Sept. 15, 1797.
For SALE by AUCTION,
By B. MASON,
On Wednesday next the 20th of September instant, on the Premises of the late WILLIAM WATTS, situate at GREAT-BRINGTON, in the County of Northampton.
SEVENTY LOTS of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, a BARREL CHURN, Quantity of FAGGOTS, BUSHES, FIRE-WOOD, and PIT COAL; also Five FLITCHES of BACON, and sundry other Articles.
The Sale to begin at Ten o'Clock.
All Persons who still stand indebted to the Estate of the said William Watts, are requested to pay their respective Debts within one Month from the Date hereof, to Mr. Buswell, Attorney, Northampton, (who is authorized to receive the same,) or they will be sued for the Recovery thereof immediately after that Time. And all Persons who have any Claim or Demands on the said Estate, are desired to send an Account thereof to the said Mr. Buswell, in Order that the same may be discharged.
September 16th, 1797.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
On Wednesday the 27th Day of this instant September, and two following Days.
ABOUT THREE HUNDRED LOTS of TIMBER, BRICKS, several GINNS complete, WHEEL-BARROWS, MACHINES for raising WATER, with strong Iron-bound CASKS, a good GRAVEL SCREEN, and other MATERIALS, belonging to the Union Canal Company, lying upon the Tunnel, near SADDINGTON, in the County of Leicester, well worth the Attention of Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Farmers, &c. as well as of Gentlemen engaged in any Buildings or Companies making Canals; the Ginns are well worth the Attention of Gentlemen concerned in Coal Works, Tunnelling, &c. The Timber, Bricks, Planks, & Scantlings of different Dimensions, are divided into Lots for the Accommodation of Purchasers.
The above may be viewed, by applying to the Agents of the Union Canal Company upon the above mentioned Tunnel, at Saddington, lying between Leicester and Market-Harborough, about ten Miles from the former, and about five Miles from the latter.
The Sale to begin at the said Tunnel each Morning at Ten o'Clock.
Linen Drapery, and Haberdashery,
(Wholesale and Retail)
T. ALMFIELD takes the earliest Opportunity of informing his Friends and customers that he has just laid in a general Assortment of Goods in the above Businesses, which he is determined to sell on very low Terms.
T. ARMFIELD embraces this Opportunity of returning his most grateful Thanks to the Nobility and Public in general, for their very liberal Support; and at the same Time assures them, that no Exertion shall be wanting to enable him to furnish his Friends with the most choice and fashionable Articles, and upon the most moderate Terms.
SHEEP-STREET, NORTHAMPTON,
15th Sept. 1797.
N.B. An Apprentice is wanted.
[My Note : The advertisement above refers to surnames Almfield, and Armfield ! But which is right !]
G. EDMONDS
PERFUMER AND HAIR-DRESSER,
TAKES the Liberty to inform his Friends and the Public, that he has a fresh Assortment of the best FOREIGN and ENGLISH PERFUMERY, Elegant and Fashionable JEWELLERY GOODS, with a choice Assortment of fine SILK and COTTON HOSIERY; fine CUTLERY; JAPANNED, PAPER, and other TRAYS, WAITERS, &c; TUNBRIDGE WARE, with a Variety of DUTCH and ENGLISH TOYS.
G. EDMONDS respectfully returns Thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and his numerous Friends, for liberal Favours conferred; and assures them he shall be ever careful to attend to their Commands, which he hopes will merit their Favours in future, which will be ever acknowledged by their humble Servant.
Northampton, Sept. 8, 1797.
A Statute Sessions,
For HIRING of SERVANTS,
WILL be held at the Fox-and-Hounds, at EARL's-BARTON, in the County of Northampton, on Friday next the 22d Day of September.
Hogstye-End Statute
WILL be held at the OLD COACH and HORSES, on the 27th of September.
Dinner on the Table at One o'Clock.
West-Haddon Statute
FOR HIRING SERVANTS, will be held at the CROWN INN, on Friday the 29th Day of September, 1797.
Dinner on the Table precisely at One o'Clock.
Irchester Statute Sessions
FOR HIRING SERVANTS will be held at the House of NATHANIEL TURLAND, known by the Sign of the Red Lion, on Friday the 22d Day of this instant, September.
JOHN HARRIS,
Chief Constable,
Irchester, 13th Sept. 1797.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By ARTHUR BROWNSGRAVE,
On Thursday the 21st Day of September instant, at the House of Henry Bendall, the Sign of the Magpie in Wood-End, in the Parish of Blakesley, in the County of Northampton, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon.
A CLOSE of very good LAND, lying very near the Village of WOOD-END aforesaid; containing- about Fourteen Acres, and in the Occupation of Mr. RICHARD PITTAM, Tenant at Will, who will shew the same.
For further Particulars, apply to Mr. Abbey, Attorney, or Messrs. Cole and Howes, Attornies, in Northampton.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. Tite,
On Tuesday the 24th Day of September instant, on the Premises at the late Mrs. CHAMBERLIN, of WELFORD, in the County of Northampton, Shopkeeper,
ALL the neat HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE and EFFECTS :- Comprizing Feather and Flock Beds; Four-post and other Bedsteads, with various Hangings; Pier and Swing Glasses; Oak Bureaus and Drawers; Dining, and other Tables; Bed and Table Linen; Thirty-hour Clock by Currall; a Quantity of good seasoned Casks, Half-hogshead Copper, Grate, and Brick- Work ; Copper, Pewter, Brass, and Kitchen Furniture in general; three good Looms, and several Pair of Combs; Bings, Washing Tubs and Rings, Warping Mills, Wiskets, &c.; all the Shop Furniture, two good Counters, several Nests of Drawers, a large assortment of Earthen Ware, &c,
The Sale to begin at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, as the Whole is intended to be sold in one Day, if possible.
To CABINET MAKERS.
To be SOLD by AUCTlON,
On Wednesday the 27th Day of September instant, and following Day, on the Premises, in MARKET HARBOROUGH,
THE STOCK in TRADE, belonging to Mr. ROBERT BOSWORTH, who intends declining the Furniture Business :-Consisting of upwards of Two Thousand Feet of Mahogany, Norway Oak, &c. which will be divided into small Lots for the Accommodation of the Trade. The manufactured Goods consist of Mahogany, Double and Single Chests of Drawers; Sideboard, Dining, Pembroke, Card, and Dressing Tables; Mahogany, and Oak Chairs; Bason Stands; elegant Pier and Dressing Glasses, &c.
The Mahogany, &c. will be sold on Wednesday, and the manufactured Goods on Thursday, to begin at Ten o'Clock.
To TANNERS.
In the Course of this Month, of which timely Notice will be given, (unless disposed of by Private Contract,)
Will be SOLD by AUCTION,
(ON THE PREMISES)
By Mr. JAMES,
THE UNEXPIRED TERM of about Forty-five Years, at a low Ground Rent, of that valuable LEASEHOLD TAN YARD, DWELLING HOUSE, and OFFICES, situate near the GRANGE-ROAD, Surry, in the Occupation of Mr. Marshall.
The Tan-Yard, which is extensive and much improved at great Expence, contains upwards of 200 Vatts, besides excellent Limes and Grainers, with every Necessary Convenience for carrying on the Tanning Trade on an extensive Line; such as Bark- Mills, drying Shed, Bark Cams, &c.-The Dwelling House with its Offices in excellent Condition, and at much Expence rendered commodious and agreeable. -The valuable modern Household-furniture will also be sold.
Further Particulars may be had, by applying to the Auctioneer, No. 63, Shoreditch.
N.B. All Letters, (Post-paid) will be duly answered.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. HAWTYN
On Saturday the 7th Day of October next, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the King's Arms Inn, in Deddington, in the County of Oxford,
THE UNDIVIDED MOIETY of a MESSUAGE or TENEMENT, FOUR CLOSES of PASTURE, and TWO YARD LANDS of ARABLE, MEADOW, and PASTURE GROUND, with the Appurtenances, situate, lying, and being in BARFORD-OLIVE, (otherwise GREAT-BARFORD), in the said County of Oxford, held under Brasen Nose College, in Oxford, by Lease for twenty one Years, renewable every seven.
And the UNDIVIDED MOIETY of SIX RIDGES of ARABLE LAND and several PIECES and PARCELS of MEADOW and GREENSWEARD GROUND, Ten Sheep Commons, and Three Quarters of One Horse Common thereto belonging, (being Freehold,) and also the UNDIVIDED MOIETY of several other PIECES and PARCELS of ARABLE LAND and LEY GROUND, (being also Freehold) lying in the Fields and Liberties of GREAT-BARFORD aforesaid, and HEMPTON, in the said County of Oxford.
For further Particulars, enquire of Messrs. John and Lyne Councer, Attornies at Law Bloxham, Oxon.
To be LETT,
And may be Entered on immediately,
THE DOG and DUCK PUBLIC-HOUSE, situate near the Coal Wharf adjoining Wellingborough Bridge.
For Particulars, apply to Andrew Wilson, of Wellingborough aforesaid.
Harborough and Welford Turnpike-Roads from
NORTHAMPTON,
NOTICE is hereby Given, That a Meeting of the Trustees of the Turnpike-Roads, leading from the Town of Northampton to Chain-Bridge, near Market-Harborough, and from the Direction-post in Kingsthorpe, in the County of Northampton, to Welford-Bridge, in the said County, will be held at the House of Widow Bosworth, known by the Name or Sign of Highgate House, in the Parish of Spratton, in the said County of Northampton, on Wednesday the 27th Day of September instant, at the Hour of Eleven in the forenoon of the same Day.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the said Trustees will, on Wednesday the 18th Day of October next; between the Hours of Eleven in the Forenoon and Two in the Afternoon, at Highgate-House aforesaid; hold another Meeting for the Purpose of LETTING to FARM by AUCTION, to the BEST BIDDER, in the Manner as directed by the Act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for regulating Turnpike- Roads, the TOLLS of the Gate or Turnpike, erected upon the Road, at or near Little-Bowden, for a Term of one, two, or three Years, as shall be then agreed on, commencing the first Day of November next: Which Tolls were lett the last Year for �282. and will be put up at that Sum.- The best Bidder must forthwith pay in Advance towards the Rent of the said Tolls the Sum of �50. and give Security for Payment of the Residue either Monthly or Quarterly, as shall be required by the Trustees.
N.B. The Trustees are requested to Notice, that the first Meeting is intended to be held for the sole Purpose of adjourning to the 18th of October.
l
J. MARKHAM,
Clerk to the Trustees.
Northampton, Sept. 16th, 1797.
To COOPERS.
WANTED for constant Employ in a BREWERY, A COOPER that understands his Business, but who must be willing to do any other Work when not wanted at the Cooperage. Wages 12s. per Week, to board and lodge himself, if single, but if married, a House, Rent free, adjoining the Brewing-Office, will be provided. He must produce a good Character.
Apply to John Cooch and Co. Brewers, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
No Letters answered unless Post-paid.
Sept. 11th, 1797.
Eloped from his Master's Service,
JOHN COX, a hired Servant to Benjamin Bryan, of Church-Brampton, in the County of Northampton.
He is about five Feet eight or nine Inches high, dark Complexion, and generally wears a drab coloured Fustian Frock.
Whoever will apprehend the said John Cox, and deliver him to the said Benjamin Bryan, shall receive TWO GUINEAS Reward.
To be LETT,
And Entered upon immediately,
(Furnished or unfurnished)
A Convenient DWELLING-HOUSE, in NEWPORT - PAGNELL, Bucks, pleasantly situated near the Church: Comprizing a Hall and Parlour in Front; a good Kitchen and Cellar; four sleeping Rooms & a powdering Closet ; three Servants Rooms on the Attic; a� Brewhouse, and Stabling for four Horses, and other Out-Offices; a pleasant Garden, well stocked with Fruit Trees, and a Summer House commanding an agreeable Prospect.
The Whole is a complete and genteel Residence for a small Family.
For more Particulars, apply to Mr. Knibb, Auctioneer, in Newport.
N.B. Stage Coaches to and from London pass the Door every Hour in the Day.
MARKET - HARBOROUGH.
To be SOLD,
A Quantity of OLD LEAD.
Enquire of JOHN PLATT; by whom Two Journeymen Slaters and Plaisterers are wanted.
Sept. 13th, 1797.
BOUGHTON.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By E. COX,
On Thursday the 21st of September�, and four following days, (Saturday and Sunday excepted.)
Pursuant to a Decree of the Court of Chancery,
ALL the entire HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, a full-sized BILLIARD TABLE, BED & TABLE LINEN, LIBRARY TABLE, and BOOK-CASES, BREWING UTENSILS and CASKS, and other EFFECTS of the late EARL of STRAFFORD, at his Seat at BOUGHTON, near NORTHAMPTON.
The Furniture consists of Bedsteads with Silk, Damask, and various other Furnitures; fine and Common Feather Beds, Blankets, Quilts, and Counterpanes; Pier and Dressing Glasses ; a thirty Day Clock, and two Spring Ditto; a huge Assortment of Kitchen-Furniture, &c. &c.
May be viewed on Monday and Tuesday the 18th and 19th, and on no other Day; and Catalogues may now be had at the George, Peacock, and Angel Inns, Northampton; Red Lion, Brixworth; Angel, Harborough; Hind, Wellingborough; George, Kettering; Swan, Newport; Cock, Stratford; Saracen's - Head, Towcester; Sheaf, Daventry; at the Place of Sale; and of the Auctioneer, Northampton.
Sale for the Benefit of the Creditors.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By E. COX,
The first Week in October. on the Premises, on the
PARADE, NORTHAMPTON,
ALL the neat, genteel, and useful HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE, PLATE and PLATED ARTICLES, BED and TABLE LINEN, CHINA, a COLLECTION of valuable PRINTS, &c. &c. of
Mr. SAMUEL TRESLOVE.
Particulars will more fully appear in a future Paper.
Hunters, &c.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. ROBINSON,
Upon the Premises of Mr. SMITH, of TITCHMARSH, near THRAPSTON, Northamptonshire, on Wednesday the 4th of October next,
THE following STOCK of Young HORSES, together with Five well-bred HUNTERS; comprizing the whole Stock of Riding HORSES belonging to the said Mr. SMITH, viz.
LOT.
1. A Grey Gelding, rising four Years old.
2. A Chesnut Gelding, Ditto.
3. A Chesnut Gelding, Ditto, stands a good Size, and is likely to be Master of 16 Stone.
4. Sweetlips, a Bay Filly, rising five Years old.
5. Snip, a Bay Gelding, rising six Years old.
6. Fanny, a Bay Mare, Ditto.
7. Cowslip, a Bay Mare, six Years old.
The above seven Lots are all got by Fox, out of Hunting Mares.
8. Puritan, a Grey Gelding, eight Years old, got by Greyling, and has been accustomed to carry 16 Stone.
The last five Lots have been regularly physic'd and are fit for immediate Work; and Lots 6, 7, and 8, have been regularly hunted with Lord Fitzwilliam's Hounds, and are well known in that Hunt as steady good Hunters, and fast, and capable of carrying Weight.
Fox was the Property of Mr. HOLT, a Gentleman well known in the Leicestershire Hunts: The following is the Pedigree given by him, viz.
Fox was got by Herod, his Dam by Eclipse, Grand Dam by Brilliant. Great Grand Dam by Shepherd's Crab, &c. &c.
At the same Time and Place will be Sold by Auction, near Twenty Lots of Coaching COLTS and FILLIES, rising three and four Years old, the Property of a Gentleman in the same Neighbourhood.
The Whole to be viewed three Days preceding the Sale, which will begin at Ten o'Clock.
Six Months Credit will be given for the above Coaching Colts and Fillies on approved Security.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
On Thursday the 5th Day of October, 1797, at the Bell Inn, in Winslow, in the County of Bucks, between the Hours of Two and Four in the Afternoon, unless previously disposed of by Private Contract.
A Very desirable Copyhold ESTATE of INHERITANCE, lately inclosed, situate at GRANDBOROUGH, within the Manor of WINSLOW, in the County of Bucks; consisting of a Farm House and convenient Out-Buildings thereunto belonging, with two old Inclosed Closes of rich Pasture Ground, containing together, by Estimation, five Acres or thereabouts; also with one other Messuage or Tenement, situate in GRANDBOROUGH aforesaid, some time since occupied as a Farm-House, now in the Tenure or Occupation of Richard Smith and John Clarke. Also several Pieces and Parcels of New-inclosed ARABLE, MEADOW, & PASTURE-GROUND, remarkably well fenced, and properly divided into several Grounds, containing together by Admeasurement One Hundred and Ten Acres, now let to John Dancer, the present Tenant from Year to Year, at the yearly Rent of �126. per Ann.
The Tenant will shew the Estate; and for further Particulars and to treat for the same, apply to Mr. Burnham, Attorney at Law, in Winslow aforesaid.
Ram Inn, Northampton
GEORGE HARRISON embraces this Opportunity of making his most grateful Acknowledgments to his numerous Friends for the very liberal Support he has experienced since he entered upon the above Inn; and begs Leave to assure all who please to honour him with their future Favours, that it will be his constant Study and greatest Pleasure to accommodate them with every Article to meet their Approbation, which to obtain is the ultimate Wish of
Their most obedient, humble Servant;
GEORGE HARRISON.
N.B. Wanted immediately, Two active young Men, as HOSTLERS to the above Inn. Such applying as come recommended for their Honesty and Sobriety will meet with good Encouragement.
Notice to Creditors
THE Creditors of Mr. SLINN, Sadler, late of NEWPORT-PAGNELL, Bucks, are desired to meet at the Anchor Inn, in Newport aforesaid, on Wednesday the 27th of September instant, in the Forenoon, to receive their respective Dividends arising from the Sale of the Effects, &c.
Newport, Sept. 14, 1797.
Horton Inn Statute
FOR HIRING SERVANTS, will be on
TUESDAY the 26th of September instant.
Dinner at Half-pan One.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next Half-yearly Meeting of the Trustees of the Turnpike-Road leading from Wendover to Buckingham, in the County of Bucks, will be held at the Bell Inn, in Winslow, in the said County, on Friday the 6th Day of October next. Dated this 9th Day of September, 1797.
JAMES BURNHAM;
Clerk to the Trustees of the said Turnpike-Road.
To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
Either together or in small Lots,
A FREEHOLD ESTATE; Comprizing about Sixty-four Acres of excellent Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, in the Parish of NETHER-HEYFORD. It is intersected by the Grand Junction Canal; within less than Half a Mile of the London Road, and a very desirable Situation for a Wharf.
Enquire of Mr. Cole, Coventry.
To be SOLD,
A FREEHOLD MESSUAGE or TENEMENT, with the Garden, Out-Building, and Appurtenances, situate and being in the SOUTH QUARTER, in the Town of NORTHAMPTON, now in the Occupation of Richard Coulson.
Also another Freehold MESSUAGE or TENEMENT, with the Garden, Out-Building, and Appurtenances, adjoining the above, now in the Occupation of John Marriott.
Also, together or separately, SIX several Freehold MESSUAGES or TENEMENTS, with their Appurtenances, situate and being in the South-Quarter aforesaid, in or near a Place there called Pike's Yard, or Peach's Yard, now in the several Occupations of William Hall, Widow Warren, and others.
Enquire of Mr. Abbey, Attorney at Law, in Northampton.
Valuable Live Stock.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. SMITH,
On Thursday the 28th of September, 1797. at Ten o'Clock, on the Premises late of Mr. GEORGE GOFFE, at KNUSTON- LODGE, in the Parish of IRCHESTER, near Wellingborough, in the County of Northampton, deceased,
ALL the capital WELL-BRED SHEEP; consisting of ONE HUNDRED EWES, ONE HUNDRED SHEERLINGS and THEAVES, ONE HUNDRED and TEN LAMBS, NINE capital DRAUGHT MARES, and ONE HORSE; SIX FAT HOGS; Harness for Ten Horses, three good Waggons, and Two Dung Carts.
*** Peculiar Attention has been paid for a Series of Years part to the Breed of those Sheep, which are descended from Mr. Bakewell's, and other capital Breeders.
The Mares are equal to any of the Draught kind to breed from, being remarkably stout, full sized bone, and most excellent Workers.
Four Months Credit will be given on approved Joint Security on all Purchases above Ten Pounds, or Five per Cent. Discount for Ready Money.
Valuable Live Stock, &c.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. SMITH,
On Tuesday the 3d and Wednesday the 4th of October, 1797, at Ten o'Clock, on the Premises of Mr. THOMAS BLOTT, at BLETSOE, in the County of Bedford, (who is leaving his Farm,)
ALL the CAPITAL WELL-BRED, LIVE-STOCK, IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY, DAIRY and BREWING UTENSILS, and PART of the GENTEEL and USEFUL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE: Consisting of One Hundred and Twenty Ewes, One Hundred Shearlings and Theaves, Sixty Two-shear Weathers, One Hundred and Thirty-three Lamb Hogs; Twenty-four capital In-calved, New-milched, and Barren Cows; three useful Draught Horses, two fine Draught Mares, with Foals at foot, (by Mr. Higgins's Horse,) one In-foal Ditto, two Yearling Colts, (by Mr. Higgins's Horse,) one Two-year-old Cart filly; two spay'd Yelts, a Lot of fine Store-Hogs; one Narrow-wheel Waggon, (almost new) two Six-inch-wheel Carts, two Narrow Ditto; Ploughs, Harrows, Rolls, Cow and Sheep Cribs, Troughs, Ladders, Dressing-Tackle, &c. &c.
The HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE, DAIRY and BREWING REQUISITES, consist of 15 large good Milk Leads, two Barrel Churns, &c. &c. three sweet Iron-bound Pipes, Hogshead and Half-Hogshead Casks; 16 Bushel Mash-Vat, Cooler, Tubs, &c. Hogshead Copper, Vessel Copper, Caldrons, wind up Jack; Bath Grate; Servants Beds and Bedding; Chairs, Tables, &c. and a Variety of other useful Articles.
* * * Three Months Credit will be given on approved joint security, on all Purchases above Ten Pounds.
The Neat Cattle, Sheep, and Horses, will be sold on Tuesday the First Day's Sale.
Catalogues may be had seven Days preceding the Sale, at the Falcon Inn, Bletsoe; principal Inns at Bedford, Northampton, Wellingborough, Higham Ferrer's, St. Neots, and of the Auctioneer, at� Kimbolton.
The Sheep are well-bred, and many of them almost fat; the Neat Cattle are large, in full Condition and Profit; the Horses are remarkable useful, full of Bone, and in high Condition.
Valuable Live Stock, &c.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. SMITH,
On Friday the 6th of October, 1797, at Ten o'Clock, on the Premises late of Mr. BENJAMIN LORD, at BLETSOE, in the County of Bedford, deceased,
ALL the CAPITAL LIVE STOCK, IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY, DAIRY and BREWING-UTENSILS, HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE, &c. Consisting of Sixty Ewes, Sixty Shearlings and Theaves, Thirty Two-shear Wethers, Sixty Lamb-Hogs; Twenty capital In-calved and New-milch'd Cows; one Bull; six useful Draught Horses and Mares, two Two-year-old Colts, two Yearling Ditto; two Sows and Pigs, and three fat Hogs; one Waggon, Carts, Ploughs, Harrows, Roll, Horse Harness, Barn Tackle, Fire Wood, &c. &c.
The HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE, BREWING and DAIRY UTENSILS consist of Beds & Bedding, Chairs, Tables, &c. Milk Leads, Churns, &c. Brewing and Washing Coppers; Hogshead and Half-Hogshead Iron-bound Casks, Mash Vat, Tubs, Trays, Wood and Earthen Ware, Brass, Pewter, &c. &c.
Four months Credit will! be given on approved joint Security on all Purchases above Ten Pounds.
Catalogues may be had seven Days preceding the Sale, at the Falcon Inn, Bletsoe; principal Inns at Bedford, Northampton, Wellingborough, Higham Ferrer's, St. Neots, and of the Auctioneer, at� Kimbolton.
The Sheep are well-bred : the Neat Cattle in full Profit, and good Milkers; and the Horses very useful.
To the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of NORTHAMPTON.
THE Death of my late Father having occasioned a Vacancy in the Office of Coroner for the Eastern Division of this Country, I take the Liberty of offering myself as a Candidate to succeed him. Should I be so fortunate as to meet with your Approbation on the Day of Election, it shall be my Study to discharge the Duties of the Office with the strictest Attention and Assiduity.
I have the Honour to be,
With the greatest Respect,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
R. E. DEXTER.
Kettering, Sept. 1st, 1797.
To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of NORTHAMPTON.
GENTLEMEN,
THE Death of Mr. DEXTER having occasioned a Vacancy in the Office of one of the Coroners for this County, I should be extremely anxious to offer myself as a Candidate to succeed him., was I not informed that his Son intended to solicit the Appointment.- As there are many Circumstances which would make me extremely unwilling to interfere with him, I shall think it improper for me to make any personal Application until it shall be further known whether the County will or will not approve of his succeeding his Father. Should the County not assent to Mr. Dexter's Nomination, I humbly hope I shall be permitted to offer my Services for that weighty and important Office.
I have the Honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your most devoted humble Servant,
JOHN HODSON.
Wellingborough, Sept. 2, 1797.
To the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of NORTHAMPTON.
PERMIT me to assure you that I should not have presumed to have offered my Service to succeed the late Mr. Dexter, as one of the Coroners for this County, had not heard that some Objection would be made to his Son, and also that Interest had been for some Time making in another Quarter to obtain the Appointment: There two Considerations determined me to solicit your Countenance, At the same Time it was my Intention, if the County were pleased to honour me with the Appointment, to give the Profits arising therefrom to the Widow of the late Mr. Dexter, for Life. Having acquainted Mr. Dexter, the Son, with my Intention, and that I would with Pleasure resign if he felt secure, or render him any Assistance; and he being perfectly satisfied no serious Objection could arise to him; and hoping that the County will appoint him thereto, I beg Leave to withdraw my Pretentions; at the same Time to return my most sincere Thanks to those Gentlemen who were so kind as to promise me the Honour of their Support. I am, Gentlemen, with all possible Respect,
Your most obedient and very humble Servant,
JOHN NEWTON GOODHALL.
Wellingborough Sept. 9, 1797.
OUNDLE. 4th September, 1797.
DANIEL SOUTHWELL begs Leave to return his grateful Acknowledgments to the Nobility, Gentry, and his Friends in general, for their liberal Support during his Continuance at the ANGEL INN; and informs them, that House is how shut up, and he has Entered upon
The TALBOT INN;
Where he humbly solicits a Continuance of their Favours, and of those who have hitherto been pleased to make Use of the said Inn; assuring them he will use his utmost Exertions in providing good POSTCHAISES, careful DRIVERS, and able HORSES, that Travellers may depend on being forwarded with the greatest Expedition and Safety,
The Bed-Chambers are commodiously fitted up, and every Attention will be paid to keep them properly aired.
Gentlemen Travellers may depend on meeting with due Respect and Attention.
A good Cook wanted at the above Inn.
From the above Inn the LONDON EXPEDITION POST COACH sets out every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday Morning, at Five o'Clock, and returns every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evening, at Five o'Clock.
Performed by SMITH & Co..
SEPTEMBER 1st, 1797.
Notice is hereby Given,
THAT the next Meeting of the Trustees for repairing and widening the Road from the Great Bridge, in the Borough of Warwick, through Southam and Daventry, to the Town of Northampton, will be held at the Griffin, in SOUTHAM, in Thursday the twenty-eighth Day of September instant.
JOHN TOMES.
Clerk to the said Trustees.
To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
Either together or in separate Lots, as may be most
convenient to Purchasers,
A Most desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, (Tythe-free,) containing about 44 Acres of very rich Arable and Pasture Land, properly subdivided, situate in the new Inclosure of NAPTON-ON-THE-HILL, in the County of Warwick, adjoining the Turnpike-Road from Warwick to Daventry, now in the Occupation of a responsible Tenant, who holds from Year to Year.
For further Particulars, or to treat for the Purchase thereof, apply to Messrs. Harrison and Burton, Attornies, in Daventry.
WANTED immediately, A COACH-SMITH. A steady Man, who is good Workman, may meet with Constant Employment, and Wages according to his Merit, by applying to John Clark, Coachmaker, Northampton.
I, JOHN BAMFORD, late of Middleton, in the Parish of Cottingham, in the County of Northampton, Collar-maker, now confined in the County Gaol at Northampton, and not being charged in Custody, on the 1st Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-seven, with any Debt or Debts, Sum or Sums of Money, exceeding in the Whole the Sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Pounds, do hereby give this SECOND PUBLIC NOTICE, that I intend to take the Benefit of an Act, passed in the Thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors." Dated this seventh Day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-seven.
JOHN BAMFORD.
Attested by JOHN SCOFIELD, Keeper of the County Gaol, Northampton.
I, THOMAS MORTIMER, late of the Parish of Newton-Longville, in the County of Buckingham, Farmer, now confined in the County Gaol at Northampton, and not being charged in Custody, on the First Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-seven, with any Debt or Debts, Sum or Sums of Money, exceeding in the Whole the Sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Pounds, do hereby give this SECOND PUBLIC NOTICE, that I intend to take the Benefit of an Act, passed in the Thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors." And I do hereby give Notice that a true and perfect Schedule, containing a Discovery of all my real and personal Estate, hereafter to be sworn to, is now ready to be delivered to any Creditor applying for the same to the Keeper or Gaoler, or his Deputy, of the said Prison. - Dated this seventh Day of September, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-seven.
THOMAS MORTIMER.
Attested by JOHN SCOFIELD, Keeper of the County Gaol, Northampton.
Coals, Cokes, and Welsh Slates, sold by
WILLIAM CASTELL,
At Hillmorton, Braunston, & Buckby Wharfs,
WHO beg Leave to inform his Friends and the Public in General, That he can accommodate them with any Quantity on as moderate Terms as any Person that deals in the above Articles.
WILLIAM CASTELL takes this Opportunity of returning his most grateful Thanks to his numerous Friends for their very liberal Support, and hopes by a due Attention to merit a Continuance of those Favours he has already experienced.
N.B. WINES, BRANDIES, RUM, GINS, and rich CORDIALS of the finest Flavour, at the Peacock, DAVENTRY, by
The Public's most obedient humble Servant,
WM. CASTELL.
Drapery, Hosiery, &c.
Selling off considerably under Prime Cost.
J. COOPER returns Thanks to his numerous Friends and the Public for the many Favours conferred on him, and takes this Method of informing them, that as he is going to decline the above Branches, he is now disposing of his Stock considerably under Prime Cost.
All Persons who have any Demands on J. Cooper, are requested to transmit the same to him directly, that they may he discharged; and all persons who stand indebted to him, are desired to pay the same without Delay.
Drapery, NORTHAMPTON,
August, 26, 1797.
WANTED immediately, in a Boarding-School, a single Man who writes a good Hand, understands the English Tongue grammaticality, Geometry, &c. Land Surveying, Geography, &c.
N.B. The strictest Piety will be expected.
Apply to Mr. Wright, Killingbury, Northamptonshire.
Turnpike Tolls to be Lett.
NOTICE. is hereby. Given, That the TOLLS arising at the Toll-Gates upon the Rugby Turnpike Road, known by the Names of the RUGBY GATE, the RUGBY CATCH GATE, and the BROWNSOVER GATE, with the Weighing Machine, will be LETT by AUCTION to the BEST BIDDER, at the House of John Lambley, at Rugby, being the Sign of the Spread Eagle, on Saturday the 23d of September instant, between the Hours of Three and Five in the Afternoon, in the Manner directed by the Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third, for regulating the Turnpike Roads. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder, must at the same Time give Security to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Road, for Payment of the Rents agreed for, and at such Times as they shall direct.
By Order of the Trustees,
JOHN CALDECOTT, their Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given, That Application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next Sessions, for an Act for enlarging the Terms and altering, and enlarging the Powers of several Acts of Parliament made and passed for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Toll-Gate, in the Parish of Kettering, through the Town of Wellingborough, in the County of Northampton; and through Olney, over Sherrington Bridge, to Newport-Pagnell, in the County of Bucks; and for repairing and widening, or rebuilding, the said Sherrington Bridge:- Which said Road passes through the several Parishes or Places of Kettering, Pitchley, Isham, Little-Harrowden, Great-Harrowden, Wellingborough, Irchester, Wollaston, Strixton, Bozeat, in the County of Northampton; Warrington, Olney, Emberton, Sherrington, and Lathbury, in the County of Bucks.
By Order of the Trustees,
JOHN HODSON.
Wellingborough, 8th September, 1797.
Valuable Leicestershire Sheep.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. BOOTT,
(WITHOUT RESERVE)
On the Premises, on Tuesday and Wednesday the 26th and 27th Days of September, 1797, at Eleven o'Clock.
ALL the capital STOCK of EWES and THEAVES the Property of
Mr. SAMUEL CHANDLER,
Of KINGTON, in the County of Warwick,
(who is leaving his Farm,)
Consisting of about Two Hundred and Fifty.
Mr. CHANDLER has bestowed the strictest Attention to the Improvement of his Flock, and the Pedigrees of his Sheep may be traced in the Catalogue of Mr. Moore's Flock of Charlecote; with whom he shared in the Purchase of Ewes and Hire of Rams upwards of Thirteen Years; having used Mr. Buckley's Short Tail and a Son of the Dishley G. two Seasons each; . and several others of his first Rate Sheep. Further he was the Purchaser of several of the prime Lots of Ewes and Theaves at Mr. Moore's Sales.
N.B. At the same Time and Place will he sold, upwards of ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY EWES and THEAVES, the Property of Mr. EDWARD CHANDLER, which are bred from the above flock.
Kington is centrally situate to the Towns of Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Shipston-on-Stour, Banbury and Southam.
*** The Sheep may be viewed the Day preceeding the Sale, when Catalogues may be had on the Premises, and of Mr. Boott, in Loughborough.
VALUABLE SHEEP
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By Mr. BOOTT,
On the Premises, on Thursday the 28th Day of September, 1797, at Eleven o'Clock,
THE REMAINING PART of the capital STOCK of SHEEP, belonging to
Mr. BENNETT,
Of WATFORD-HALL., near DAVENTRY, in the County of Northampton:
Consisting of TWENTY ONE-YEAR-OLD RAMS,
and FORTY ONE-YEAR-OLD EWES,
mostly by the Dishley Q; which was the Sire of the youngest Sheep sold at Warford last Year. Q. was Iast Season used in Part by Mr. Honeyborn, at Dishley, and Mr. Robinson, of Wellingborough-Lodge; and he is this Year engaged by the most eminent Breeders of the New Leicestershire Sheep.
Catalogues may be had six Days before the Sale, on the Premises, and of Mr. Boott, in Loughborough.
OAK BARK.
To be SOLD,
Upwards of 40 Score of Oak Bark.
Of the last Season
Enquire of Mr. BERKELEY, at Biggin, near Oundle.
August 24th, 1797.
TOWN of BEDFORD,
To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
And immediate Possession given,
A Desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, pleasantly situated in the Centre of the Town of BEDFORD, fifty Miles from London, and adjoining the Duke of Bedford's Hunt, late the Residence of
WM. THEED, Esq. deceased :
Consisting of a genteel, modern and roomy Brick and sashed House, with attached and detached Offices; Kitchen Garden and Pleasure Ground, which contain a fine Piece of Water, a Pinery and Succession House, a Green House, Temples, Seats, &c. and a Melon Pit, containing in the Whole about two Acres of Ground, planned and executed with Taste, and at a great Expence.
Also, Five genteel and new-erected Houses, adjoining the above Pleasure Ground, now occupied by several Tenants at Will.
Note- A FAMILY PEW in the Gallery of St.Paul's Church belongs to the principal House.
The above Estate will be Sold by Public Auction, if not disposed of by Private Contract in the Space of a few Weeks.
For a View of the Premises, and further Particulars, apply to Mr. WATKINS, of Bedford, Merchant.
VALUABLE SHEEP.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,By Messrs. CARTER & THACKER,
Upon the Premises, on Wednesday the 20th Day of
September, 1797,
UPWARDS of TWENTY well-bred RAMS, and FORTY EWES, the Property of
Mr. JOHN WESTON,
Of BRACKLEY, in the County of Northampton.
The Sale to begin at Ten O' Clock.
N.B. The above Sheep are well worth the Attention of Gentlemen who wish to improve their Stock, especially some of the Ewes.
RAMS.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
On Wednesday the 27th of September inst.
UPWARDS of FIFTY RAMS of the Leicestershire Breed, belonging to William Bagshaw, of Thurlaston, near Dunchurch, Warwickshire.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
At the Talbot Inn, in Oundle, on Saturday the 7th Day of October next, between the Hours of Four and Five in the Afternoon,
A MESSUAGE or FARM-HOUSE, with a HOMESTEAD, containing about three Acres and ninety-six Acres or thereabouts of ARABLE and MEADOW LAND, in SAWTRY, in the County of Huntingdon, in the Occupation of Thomas Johnson. There are twenty Cow Commons in Sawtry Great Fen, appertaining to this Farm.
Particulars may be had of Mr. Bramston, in Oundle.
The Tenant will shew the Premises.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
On Monday the 16th of October next, at the BEAR INN, LONG-BUCKBY, Northamptonshire.
A Very desirable FAMILY-HOUSE, with numerous OUT-BUILDINGS, ORCHARD, GARDENS, and about TEN ACRES of INCLOSED RICH LAND adjoining, situated about the Centre of the pleasant and healthy Village of LONG BUCKBY, now on Lease, which expires on the 5th of July 1799, to Mr. Joseph Mawbey, (who repairs) at �41 per Annum; well worth the Attention of any Person wanting extensive Premises or a good Situation.
Particulars may be had, and the Premises seen, by applying to Mr. Mawbey, or Mr. Samuel Marriott, as above.