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Some Selected Reports from The Penny London Morning Advertiser
From Friday, August 10, to Monday, August 13, 1744.
Continuation of a Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Fleet under the Command of Commodore ANSON.
IN the 10th, about Ten at Night, we fell in with two small Islands, which about eight o'Clock the next Morning bore W.N.W. This Morning we lost Sight of the Pearl and Severn. By the Compass we imagine ourselves to be in the Lat.54 00. South. Some of the Officers on Board are of Opinion that they are the Islands which lay off Brewer's Streights, Lat.55.50 South. Long 84:56 West.
The 11th and 12th Days a more violent Storm never blew from the Heavens. The Winds was fill West, and such a Swell was never seen. Abundance of the Seamen on Board our Ships were greatly terrified, declaring they never saw a sea rise so high, notwithstanding they had several Times sailed in that Part of the Ocean. The Wind blew so violently on the 12th at Midnight, that not a Soul on Board us ever expected to see Day-Light. Our Ship was very tight, or she must have gone to the Bottom; but our brave Commodore, his well experienced Officers, and brave Seamen, got the better of Wind and Weather, and kept her above Water, tho' her Masts; Rigging, and Sails were greatly damaged.
On the 13th in the Morning we saw nothing of the Pearl or Severn. Being under Reeft Courses, the Commodore bore down under the Wager's Lee Quarter, and spoke with her. His Honour asked Capt. Cheap, If his Carpenter was returned from on Board the Gloucester. The Captain reply'd. ' No Sir, be is not; and I wonder that Capt. Mitchell should detain him, when he knows that I want him on Board my own Ship.' The Commodore told him, he would speak with the Gloucester, and order him on Board.
The Wager's People gave a dismal Relation of the Hardships that they had. undergone in the Storm. About. Six' o'Clock the Morning before, the Gunner of the Wager being on the Watch, and holding on the Topsail-Hallyards to the Windward, there broke a Sea on the Ship, which carried him over the Wheat, bilged the Cutter, and canted her off the Sheet's Bottom up athwart the Barge; it also half filled Long Boat; on this the Boatswain was for heaving the Cutter over board, which , however, was prevented by some of the other Officers, who informing the Captain (who was at this Time sick in his Cabin) of the Boatswain's Design, the Captain ordered his Lieutenant, and some others of his Officers, to use all possible Means to save the Cutter, which was happily executed, the Lieutenant having got the Cutter in her Place, scuttled the Long Boat, and got the Spritsail-Yard and Jib-Boom in.
The 14th the Commodore asked Capt. Cheap of the Wager, why he did not set his Topsail, and make more Sail? He replyed, "My Sails and Rigging are all gone, my Tackling broke fore and aft, and greatest Part of my People sick ; but I will set them as soon as possible." The Commodore said, Pray do, and make the best Sail you can after me.
On 14th the Weather was a little calm, on which the Gloucester hoisted out their boat and sent the Carpenter of the Wager on board her; he immediately waited on the Captain, who ordered him to look on the Chain Plates and Chains, to give his Opinion of the Mast's going away. The Carpenter, after having examined them, as ordered, told the Captain the Chain Plates were all broke, on which he shook his Head.
(To be Continued).
From the LONDON GAZETTE.
Berlin, August 10, N.S.
Translation of the King of Prussia's Manifesto.
THE King thinks himself obliged to inform Europe of the Measures, which the present Conjunctures oblige him to follow. for the Publick Good and Tranquillity.
His Majesty not being able to look with Indifference any longer upon the Troubles that desolate Germany, after having tryed in vain, all Ways of bringing about a Reconciliation, finds himself obliged to make Use of the Forces which God has given him, towards re-establishing Peace and Order, and for restoring the Laws to their Vigour, and the Head of the Empire to his Authority.
Since the Success which the Hungarian Troops had in Bavaria, the Queen of Hungary far from proceeding with the Equity and Moderation which became her, has treated the Emperor's Hereditary Countries with infinite Hardheartedness and Cruelty.
This Princess and her Allies formed Designs immeasurably ambitious, the pernicious End whereof was, to put Fetters for ever upon the German Liberty, the doing which has been, for above an Age past, the principal Object of the dangerous Policy of the House of Austria. One need only examine the Facts which have passed there two last Years, in order to judge of the Malignity of the Intentions of the Court of Vienna, and to see clearly, that, in all her Proceedings, she has acted in a Manner entirely contrary to the Laws and Constitutions of the Empire.
Germany has seen itself over-run with Foreign Troops. They have been subsisted to the great Detriment of Neutral Princes of the Empire. They have been marched, without making previously the customary Requisitions.
The Queen of Hungary has concluded Alliances, to indemnify certain Powers for the extraordinary Succours which they have afforded her; and those Indemnifications has consisted as will in the Fiefs of the Empire, as in Hopes given with Relation to certain Bishopricks.
The Generals of that Princess have attempted seizing by Force some Imperial Towns; her Ministers have threatened some Electors, and have endeavoured to seduce others, and to turn, by those Means, this Republick, composed of so many Sovereigns, and whom nothing but their Union enabled hitherto to resist the Shocks which have so often endangered it.
How great a Contempt has been put upon Publick Faith, in the Infraction of the Capitulation Braunau, and in the Attack of the Imperial Troops intrenched under the Neutral Towns, and under the Fortresses of the Empire, and even in forcing them to quit the Borders of the Empire, where their Master is the Head ? Without taking Notice, that is may very well be reckoned a direct Affront and Contempt upon the Imperial Dignity and Majesty, to allow the Officers of the Queen of Hungary's Troops to treat it with Indignity, and there are but too many Examples of their doing.
In a Word, to crown all the Insults offered by the Court of Vienna to the Majesty of the Roman Empire, one need only read the Protests of that Court, delivered in to the Elector of Mentz, whereby the Queen of Hungary declares the Election of the Emperor void to all Intents and Purposes, though made unanimously, and pretends that the present Dyet of Frankfort, is illegal thereby endeavouring to withdraw all the States of the Empire from the Obedience they owe to the Head whom they have elected.
So many Facts, and so many Proceedings openly contrary to the Honour and to the Glory of the German Name, and to the Constitutions of the Germanick Body, clearly enough denote, that the Design of the Court of Vienna, is to usurp, in Favour of a foreign Prince, without any Possessions in Germany, the supreme Dignity devolved, by the unanimous and free Choice of all the German Nation, upon the most serene Elector of Bavaria.
These are Attempts, which it is inconsistent with the Honour and the Dignity of every Elector, and of every Prince of Germany, to tolerate any longer; and it would be a horrid Baseness in the sacred Members of that August College, invested, from Time immemorial, with the Authority of electing their own Head, to suffer the Despotism and the Violence with which the Queen of Hungary would force this Right from them, in so ignominiously oppressing his Imperial Majesty.
It is not to the Emperor that the Queen does the Injury, but to those who have elected him, and whom this Princess despises to such a Degree, as to believe them insensible to their own Honour, and capable of so great a Weakness, as not to support, in the Person of his Imperial Majesty the most noble of their Preogative.
The King has no particular dispute with the Queen of Hungary.
He has no Pretensions upon her : He desires nothing for himself, and enters no otherwise than in Quality of an Auxiliary into a Quarrel which concerns the Liberties of the Empire only; and the open War, which the Queen of Hungary has lately declared against Germany, by the Hostilities which her Troops have committed there, would be a Reason sufficient, if there were no others to justify the Conduct of his Majesty.
If the King thinks himself at present obliged, for these Reasons, to take violent Measures, it is not without Regret, nor without having first tried every Method of Reconciliation.
He made Steps towards obtaining it with the King of England, when that Prince was encamped at Hanau.
The Emperor too declared, at the same Time, that, for the Sake of Peace, he would for ever renounce all the Pretensions which he had upon the House of Austria, upon Condition of the Restitution of his Hereditary Dominions.
These advantageous and most moderate Terms were flatly rejected by the English Minister; a sufficient Proof that the Intention of the King of England was not to restore Peace to the Empire, but rather to make his Advantage of its Troubles.
The King did afterwards offer his Mediation jointly with that of the Empire, to the Maritime Powers, in order to put an End to this fatal War.
But the Republick of Holland, being sensible to the Obstacles which she should meet with from the Stiffness of the Courts of Vienna and London, declined it in a pretty categorical Manner.
His Majesty always full of the same Zeal, and employing himself with the same Activity in every Thing which might re-establish the Repose of Germany, thought, that making just and equitable Proposals of Peace directly to the Queen of Hungary, would be the shortest Method of manifesting his salutary Designs.
The Proposals that were made at Hanau, were repeated at Vienna. The Emperor, who means nothing but the Good of the Empire, offered his Consent to every Thing; and this magnanimous Prince; like a true Father to his Country, was determined to sacrifice to it his own Interests. A generous Action ! which for ever justifies the Choice that was made of him.
But the more Moderation the Emperor shewed, the more visible was the inflexible Haughtiness of the Queen of Hungary.
Therefore that Princess ought to blame the despotick Maxims of her own Council only, which raises up new Allies to her Enemies.
But is she attacks the German Liberties, she rouses the Defenders of them. And as she undertakes to strip the principal Members of the Empire of their Rights, she ought to think it just for them to make use of the Means which she obliges them to make Choice for their Support. The Race of those ancient Germans, who did for so many Ages defend their Country and Liberties, against all the Majesty of the ancient Roman Empire, still subsists, and will defend them with the same Zeal at this Day, against those who dare to attack them.
This is what appears by the League of Franckfort, wherein the most respected Princes in Germany have united themselves to oppose its Destruction.
The King has joined himself with them, judging, that it is the Duty and Interest of every Member of the Empire, to maintain the System thereof, and to assist the Weak against the Opportunities of the Mighty.
His Majesty thinks that the most noble and the most worthy Use he can make of the Forces which God entrusted him with, is, to employ them in the Support of his Country, which the Queen of Hungary would enslave; to avenge the Honour and the Rights of all the Electors, which the Princess would forcibly deprive them of; to afford a powerful Assistance to the Emperor, to support him in all his Rights, and upon that Throne, from which the Queen of Hungary would pull him down.
In a Word the King demands nothing, and the Question is not about his personal Interest; but his Majesty has Recourse to Arms for no other Reasons but that of restoring Liberty to the Empire, Peace to the Emperor, and Tranquillity to Europe.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Warsaw, July 24. The opening of the General Dyet of Grodno is fix'd for the 24th of next Month. The great Point there will be, procuring an Augmentation of Forces; which, it is foreseen, will be violently opposed. The Court appears to be, of late, in great Agitation; and it is believed, that something of very great Importance is on the Carpet; the rather, because the King has declared he will not dispose of any of the vacant Employments till after the Preliminary Dyets are over. We talk again of an Interview between the King our Sovereign and the Czarina at Kiow[?], but it is very uncertain whether it will take Effect; but however that may be, we are thoroughly sensible that two Courts cannot hold a more perfect Understanding than subsists at present between this and that of Moscow.
Rome July 25. The Pope having resolv'd to raise in the Ecclesiastick State a Regiment of Dragoons, and two Regiments of Foot, one of which is to be all Grenadiers, the Grand Prior Antininovi is appointed Colonel of the Grenadiers, Count Albert Busti Colonel of the Dragoons, and the third is given to the Marquess Vitellier [?] : The other Posts in these Regiments are likewise filled up.
The Militia of Peruga, Arta, Todi and Saffo Ferrato [?], consisting of about 4000 Men, arriv'd here last Monday : They are to be under the Command of the Governor of this City and patrol every Night in the several Quarters of it.
Hague, August 13. Count Wassenaer, Lord of Twickel, has given the States General an Account of what passed in the Conferences he had with the King of France's Ministers, and, in particular, of the Answer he received to the Proposals he made them concerning the Means to bring about a general Pacification. M. de Calkoen, late Ambassador at Constantinople, has likewise informed their High Mightinesses of the good Dispositions the Porte was in when he came away.
Extract from a Private Letter, dated from the Austrian Head Quarters at Hochselden, August 7, 1744.
In all probability we shall continue for some time in this Camp, where we are in the most advantageous Situation that is possible to conceive. The Right Wing is covered by the Body under the Command of General Nadastri; which is so posted, as entirely to command the narrow Passes of Psaltzbourg. General Berenclau, with the Forces under his Command cover the Left Wing; and extend their Posts from the Forests of Brumst quite to the Rhine. General Ghilani, with his Corps, is advanced three Leagues beyond the Centre of the Army.
At the Foot of our Camp runs the River Sore, and behind us we have the Mottor. These two Rivers throw themselves into the Rhine at Drusenheim, where we have fixed our Communication with the Empire; whence we draw, with the utmost Safety and Ease, whatever Kind of Subsistence we should be at a Loss to find at Alsace. I must also observe that so long as our Army continue in this happy Position, Fort Louis is effectually block'd up, and altogether useless to the Enemy; is also Landau. We sent away Yesterday 80 French Deserters, in order to clear the Camp of them; but we have already as many more, to whom we have given Passports. It is observed, that most of them chose to go to Italy.
It was not as has been reported, the Marquis de Chamilli, but the Marquis de Charalet [?], who commanded at Saverne. M. Coigni and Field Marshal Seokendorff continue with their Army, behind the Canal of Molsheim; where they are endeavouring to strengthen themselves, by drawing all the old Troops out of Strasbourg and other strong Places in Alsace. It is certain, that these Generals have hitherto agreed very well together; but in all humane Probability, there will not be any great Harmony in their Councils, when they are grounded by the Marshals Noailles and Belleisse, who are both to share in Command.'
LONDON.
On Friday last Harvey Acton, Esq; Coroner for the County of Surrey, summon'd a Jury to meet at Camberwell, to enquire into the Death of a Female Infant that was found in a Bog house in that Town; when, after examining several Witnesses, it appear'd that the murder'd Infant was the Bastard Daughter of one Ann Woolley, a Gardener's Servant in the Neighbourhood, and that she has confess'd the Fact when she was first apprehended; on which the Jury brought her in guilty of Wilful Murder, and the Coroner sent his Warrant to the New Gaol in Southwark, charging her with the said Murder.
Last Saturday Morning two Fellows, who were convicted at Guilford Sessions, for counterfeiting the Hands of several Justices of the Peace, and travelling in Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, with a false Pas, pretending they were Farmers of Norfolk, and had sustained great Losses, were carried from Southwark Bridewell to Guilford, and whipp'd from the Town's End to the Gallows. On Saturday next they are to he whipp'd twice round the Market-Place at Kingston; The Saturday following they are to undergo the same Discipline at Croydon: And on the Saturday Fortnight afterwards, they are to be whipp'd from Bridewell to the Bear at the Bridge-Foot, and back again to Goal, where they are to continue six Months to hard Labour; and are afterwards to be sent for Soldiers to some of the Plantations in America.
They write from Lisbon, that a French licens'd Ship for the South Seas, called the Marchioness d' Antin, was wreak'd on New Years Day in the Mouth of Rie Grand, on the Coast of Brazil; all the Ship's Company, consisting of 400 Men, together with 40 Jesuits and 13 Missionaries, were lost; her Cargo is valued at a Million of Pieces of Eight.
They write from Arras, that when the French King received. the Dispatches which the Prussian Courier had Orders to deliver into his own Hand, he said, after he had read them, 'My Brother of Prussia will keep his Word and give a solid Peace to Europe.
Letters from Frankfort say, the French King has proposed restoring the Frontier Towns to the Dutch, and renouncing all Claims to the Low Countries, on Condition that the States General observe a strict Neutrality.
Private Letters from Berlin suggest, that his Prussian Majesty has taken Offence at the new Alliance negotiating at Moscow, which has determined him to march such Bodies of Troops as may awe Poland and Saxony, and thereby prevent the Conclusion of any such Alliance.
According to some private Letters from the Army in Flanders, M. de Saxe has been again outwitted; instead of Lisle, the Allies intend to besiege Doway, in which, all the heavy Train of French Artillery is laid up. Count de Saxe attempted to reinforce the Garrison without Effect.
Friday the Lords of the Admiralty appointed Capt. Jacob Archer to be Capt. of the Winchester, a 60 Gun Ship.
Last Wednesday the Lords of the Admiralty appointed Mr. Steward to be Pay Master of Chatham Yard in the room of Mr. Leddington, deceas'd.
On Thursday Edward Strangeways, Esq; was appointed Purveyor to the British Forces at Ostend Bruges and Ghent in the room of Christopher Medlicote, Esq who has resign'd.
Thursday came Advice that the Nassau Man of War had taken two Spanish Privateers of 20 Guns each, and sent them into Gibraltar.
Friday came Advice, that the under-mentioned French Ships have been lately taken by an English Man of War and carried into St.John's in Newfoundland; the Crews of which are arrived at Nantz; as appears by a Letter from thence, dated the 11th of August, N.S. viz.
The St. Philip, of Dunkirk,
The Concord, of Vannes,
The St.Peter, of Nantz,
The Venus, of Rochelle, and
The Peace, of Bourdeaux.
Two of the above Ships were homeward-bound from Martinico, and the other three from St.Domingo.
It was on Friday reported that the Kinsale Man of War, in his Passage to Newfoundland took eleven more French Ships than what are above-mentioned: And one of the Bristol Privateers fell in with and took two other Martinico Ships. They came out in one Fleet from Martinico and St.Domingo. The Lading consists of Indigo, Cacao, some Money, &c.
Three rich Martinico Ships are taken by the King George Privateer, Capt. Craston, the Prince Frederick, Capt. Dennis, and the Prince William, Captain Allen, all of Rhode-Island.
The Pretty Betsey, Cole, (late Hawkins) bound from Falmouth to Maryland, was taken the 25th of May last, by a Spanish Ship from the Havannah; who sunk the Ship and carried the People into Cadiz.
On Tuesday last sailed from P1vmouth his Majesty's Ships the Eltham and Saphire, with the outward-bound Ships under their Convoy.
On the 7th Instant sailed from Cowes for Mountsbay, an armed Sloop, which has been particularly appointed to protect the Fishery at that Place.
Letters from Harwich advise, that last Saturday two French Privateers appear'd off that Coast and sunk several Fishing Boats; a Cruelty hardly to be parallell'd and if not prevented, the Fishing Trade, so beneficial to England, must be totally lost.
On Friday last it was currently reported, by the Gentlemen in Exchange-Alley, that the French King was dead; but such invented Stories will not always pass upon the World for Truth.
On Thursday Morning a Wardmote was held at Leathersellers-Hall, by Samuel Pennant, Esq; Alderman of Bishopsgate Ward, for the Election of three Council Men in the room of Francis Cokayne, Esq; chosen Alderman of Cornhill Ward, and of Mr. William, Poole and Mr. Robert Fawdery, deceas'd, when the following Gentlemen were chosen without Opposition, viz. Mr. John Tuff, Grocer; Mr. Henry Hall, Cyder Merchant; and Mr. William Hussey, one of the City Attornies.
On Thursday Sir Thomas Snell, the present High Sheriff for Gloucestershire, was elected Master of the Drapers Company for the Year ensuing.
Last Monday the Rev. Mr. Alexander Newton, one of the Prebendaries of Worcester was married at Guildford in Surrey to Miss Maria Gonson, of Brook Street, Grosvenor Square; a celebrated Beauty with a Fortune of �7000.
Dr. Newton, of Hertford College, Oxon, was lately married to Miss Hickman, Sister to Sir Willoughby Hickman, Bart. of Derbyshire a very agreeable Lady with �6000 Fortune.
Last Monday, Mr. Keeling, an eminent Brewer at Clerkenwell, was married to Mrs. Plummer, Relict of Cornet Plummer, of Hodsdon in Hertfordshire, an agreeable Lady with a Fortune of �25,000.
On Thursday Morning died at his Seat at Canons, after an Illness of three Weeks, the most noble James Duke of Chandos, so fairly distinguished by the Sweetness of his Temper, the Fame of his Beneficence, and above all, the Brotherly love which entitles him to the Notus in Fratres Animi Paterni, and to the Reputation which in Consequence of it, must last for Ages. His Grace's Character is too extensive for the Compass of this Paper, and too well known to want a Place in it. The good Man, and the fine Gentleman, will be now as universally lamented, as he was always loved and honoured for his many amiable Qualities: And as for his Failings, (if he had any ) there is Reason to believe that he has scarcely left behind him so much as a single Enemy to discover them.
We hear that Henry Moore, Esq.; will be a Candidate for Bishops Castle in Shropshire, in the room of the Right Honourable the Marquis of Carnavon, now Duke of Chandos, and a Peer of Great Britain.
By Letters from Jamaica we have Advice, that Hon. Daniel Sherrard, Third son to the Earl of Harborough, and Lieutenant of his Majesty's Ship the Falmouth, died lately at that Island.
Last Tuesday died at Bath, after a few Hours Illness, Henry Vaughan, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset.
On Wednesday about One o'Clock died at Bath of a lingering Illness, Sir Henry Hoo Keate, Bart. As he died unmarried, the Title descends to his only Brother, the Rev. William Keate, L.L.D.
Last Week died, at his Seat in Northumberland, Edward Delaval, Esq; a Person of an undoubted Character, and great Estate in that County.
Last Wednesday Night died, after a short Illness at his House in Salisbury-Court, Fleet Street, Mr. Hughes, one of the most considerable Master Taylors of this City; reckon'd worth �10,000.
On Thursday Morning died of an Apop'ectick Fit at his House in Oxendon-Street, near the Hay-market, Mr. Hull, a Surgeon of considerable Practice, and esteemed by his Acquaintance.
Friday Morning died at his House at Newington in Surrey, Mr. Cornwallis, his Majesty's Purveyor for the Ports of Chatham, Dover, and Deal.
Thursday was enter'd at the Custom House, for Importation from the West Indies, upwards of 800,000 lb. of Sugar and 100,000 lb. of Cocoa; the greatest Quantity that has been imported in one Day for many Years.
On Wednesday Night a Woman, who had liv'd for some Years in St.John's Court, Cow Cross, hang'd herself in her Room.
They write from Kettering, that in the late unhappy Fire there, the Clerk of the Parish, who had been in that Office upwards of 40 Years, was unfortunately burnt to Death.
On Wednesday Night a young Gentleman, whose Name was Hemmit was found drowned in a Pond near Mary le bone; his Cloaths were lying at the Side of the Pond, and therefore it was conjectured he was taken with the Cramp whilst he was washing himself.
Thursday Morning a young Woman well dress'd, was found suffocated in a Ditch, between Battersea and Wandsworth; as there were several Marks of Violence on different Parts of her Body 'tis suppos'd she was murder'd.
Extract of a Letter from Carteret-County (or Course-Snow) in North Carolina, March 27, 1744.
A wonderful Discovery has lately been made here of three boiling Springs lying very near each other, in the back Woods between the S.W. and N.W. Branch of New-River; they boil very much, yet the Water is so clear that you may see a Pin in the Bottom of each, although the Water is near four Foot deep; and are (as is reported) about the Bigness of a Barrel: The Water cureth all Manner of Sickness, Diseases and other Ailments, and when all Remedie's fail'd, many have been recover'd by it; it has cur'd some that have been salivated two or three Times and could not be cur'd; it also cures scald Heads, Ague, Fever, Pains, Ulcers, crippled Limbs, and even the Tooth Ach; so that People flock to it from all Parts where they have knowledge of it, and near 160 have been there at one Time, some 'tis said, come near 200 Miles; none ever, as I have heard of, went away without being cur'd (except the Petticoat Distemper) it wants no Confirmation among us, for many of our Neighbours have been there; and two Days ago ten People went from this Place in a Whale Boat. If it is carried away from the Wells in wooden Vessels it looseth its Virtue; for it works so strongly that it will lose all its Strength and Taste. It smells and tastes very strong of Oil, and makes Peoples Lips and Mouth very greasy as they drink it. The Way that it's us'd; they drink out of one Well and bath themselves in the other."
On Sunday Night as one Mr. West, a Shop-keeper in Holborn, was going home from the Five Canns in Little Turn-stile, he was attack'd by a single Fellow, who put his Hand into his Pocket, and robb'd him of some Money; but Mr. West laid hold of him, and dragg'd him to the said House, and sent for a Constable, in order to secure him for the Night, 'till he could be carried before a Magistrate : but in a few Minutes a Gang of Villains rush'd into the House, beat every body that seem'd to oppose them, and carried off their Fellow Rogue in Triumph.
BANKRUPTS.
Henry Williams, of the Parish of St.Giles in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Wollendraper.
John Gibbs, of Curzon street, near Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, Dealer and Chapman.
JOHN EASTMAN, STAY-MAKER,
and CHILD'S COAT-MAKER,
At No.9, Red-Cross-Court, Great Tower-street, Servant to the late Mr. HUGH ANDREW, of Leicester-fields, LONDON, deceased.
To all Encouragers of FAIR TRADE.
WHEREAS several Pretenders have advertised to make STAYS with the best of Materials, and covered all over with Tabby at very inconsiderable Prices; nay, some have proposed the like for a Guinea a Pair, which are Offers not only detrimental to the Fair Trade, but extreamely prejudicial to the well meaning Customer, as Hundreds can, by their own sad Experience too well testify. Such Persons, therefore, who are willing to avoid the above Snares, and will please to encourage my Endeavours, may depend on being faithfully served by me with the best of Work at a moderate Price : And I am determined to be always provided with the very best of Materials and Assistances, to perform what I propose in the most compleat Manner. And that those who shall please to favour me with their Commands, may not be deceived in their Expectations, if they dislike my Proposals when I measure them, or my Work when I try it on, they are welcome to refuse it as if their first Order had not been given : Therefore I hope that none will take it the worse of me for taking this Method of making my self known to the Publick, the Reason is I have a very large Family to maintain, and bit few Friends to recommend me : And further to oblige those, who would rather have the Beauty of New Stays often, than to go to a reasonable Price for a real good Pair at first, they shall be as well serv'd by me, at any of these aforementioned Pretenders Prices; but with this Difference, I will not make any Person believe they are the very best Work, when 'tis impossible, because they may look fair to the Eye, yet they shall be made as good as any Man can make for the Price; so that no Person need fear the least Imposition from me, for I will always stand to the Proof of my Work, and make it good gratis, if it proves not according to the Price and Expectations of every one that shall please to employ me. But to suppose that these Pretenders can make the very best of Work so much cheaper than other men, is impossible; the very best of Bone, Tabby, Silk, Trimmings, and Journeymen's Wages, being at sett Prices, and not to be had cheaper by one than another, as any Person may inform themselves, by asking any Dealer in the aforemention'd Commodities; and as I propose nothing but what is just and honourable, I shall leave those that try me, to judge with how much Honour I act, who am
Gentlewomen, Your most humble
and obedient Servant to command,
JOHN EASTMAN.
Note, I will wait on any one on Notice give by Letter or otherwise, at any Distance, not exceeding twelve Miles from London, without further Trouble Charge, or any Abatement in the Goodness of their Work whatever. Nor shall any Man deal fairer or work cheaper; which I can do by reason I buy and sell and for ready Money only.
CONYERS HARRISON, Esq; having with great Care and Pains, wrote a new History of the Life and Reign of Queen Anne, wherein all the memorable Transactions in her Time are faithfully compiled from the best Authorities and impartially related, has been prevailed on by several of his Friends to print the same, that so valuable a Work may not be buried in Oblivion in M.S. in a Study. The said Work will be printed in One Neat Octavo Volume, and will be adorned with many beautiful Heads of the greatest Personages, and Copper Plates of the most remarkable Battles in her Reign; also Maps of Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, the present Seats of War, and which were the Seats of War at that Time; that Persons of all Ranks and Condition may have it in their Power to purchase it, it will be published Weekly in Three Penny Numbers, and be compriz'd in Twenty two the first of which will be published on Monday the 20th Instant.
To the PUBLICK.
THE Reason of my deferring publishing of the above Work, was on Account that many of the Cooper Plates of Battle Pieces, and other curious Prints were not forward enough; but the same being now neatly finished by the very best Hands, I shall certainly publish No.1 on Monday the 20th Instant. All Persons may have Proposals at large of my Printer, R. Walker, in Fleet-lane, with a List of all the Battle-pieces, &c. Also of any of the New Carriers in Town and Country. I flatter myself that I have executed this Work in a Manner that will be agreeable to my Subscribers, having related every Thing in a true and impartial Light, without Favour to either Party.
C. HARRISON.
Aug. 10, 1744.
Now on SALE,
(For READY MONEY only)
AT the BRANDY and SHRUB Warehouse, the bottom of Bartholomew-Lane, near the Royal Exchange, several Thousand Gallons of
English GRAPE BRANDY,
At Four Shillings per Gallon. And a large Parcel of curious well Flavour'd
ORANGE SHRUB,
At Six Shillings per Gallon made with the same Brandy.
This Day was published, No. III. of
WORK, entitled,
A Voyage to the SOUTH SEA, and to many other Parts of the WORLD, performed from the Months of September in the Year 1740, to June 1744, by Commodore ANSON, in his Majesty's Ship Centurion, having under his Command the Gloucester, Pearl, Severn, Wager, Trial, and two Store Ships.
By an OFFICER of the SQUADRON.
This Work contains a very faithful and exact Relation of the many Difficulties and Dangers the Fleet met with in the Voyage. An Account of the Loss of their Ships, and what dreadful Miseries and Hardships the poor Sailors met with being forced on desolate Islands, where many of them perish'd for Want. Also an Account of the Manner of their Living in the Voyage, on Seals, wilds Horses, Dogs, &c. the incredible Hardships they frequently met with for want of Food of any Kind. The Loss of the Wager, and the Behaviour of the Captain, (who shot one of his Mates) the Officers and the Crew, fully and faithfully related. Their plundering and destroying of the City of Payta, where the Commodore got immense Riches, and his sailing afterwards into the West Indies, where he was well received by the Vice King of China, who furnished him with Provisions and other Necessaries to enable him to pursue his Voyage to England, with a particular Account of his taking the rich Aquapuico-Ship.
This Book will give a compleat Description of the several Places where the Fleet touch'd; how they plundered and distressed the Spaniards; the Manners, Customs, Religion, Trade, and Manufactures of the People who inhabit this large, tho' almost unknown Part of the World, &c. &c.
The whole will be certainly concluded in 15 Numbers, at the Price of Two-pence each, and will be neatly printed in Octav, containing 24 Pages, and a Number will be deliver'd every Saturday Morning stitch'd in blue Paper ' till finish'd; and with Number I. will be given gratis a Print of Commodore Anson.
Such as please to encourage this Work shall be carefully supply'd by sending to R. Walker, Printer, in Fleet-Lane; or by speaking to any of the News Carriers, or to the Person who serves this Paper.
Of whom may be had any or all of the former Numbers.
LONDON : Printed for J. NICHOLSON, near Black-and-white-Court in the Old-Bailey