Newspaper Transcripts
Some Selected Reports from the St.James's Chronicle
Thursday, October 26, to Saturday, October 28, 1775.
FRIDAY, Oct. 27.
COUNTRY NEWS.
Nottingham, Oct. 21.
YESTERDAY a numerous Meeting of the Corporate Body was held at our Town-Hall, when a loyal and decent Address and Petition to his Majesty, in Behalf of our American Brethren was moved for and carried nemine contradicente, and ordered to be signed by the Town Clerk, and sealed with the Corporation Seal. It was ordered to be sent up to Lord Viscount Howe, to be by him presented to his Majesty.
SHIP NEWS.
Deal, Oct. 25. Wind N.N.W. Came down and sailed with all the Outward-bound, the Dutton, Norman; and Fanny, Sinclair, for Boston; and Margaret and Rebecca, Holland, for Barbadoes, Remain his Majesty's Ship, Arethusa; Euphrates, Anson, for Smyrna; and Swift Pilot, Lante.
Arrived,
A Quebec, Catalina, Black, from Newfoundland; and Pomona, Green, from London.
At Oporto, Mary, Herbert, from London; and Lovely, Betsey, Bachop, from ----
At Exeter, Star and Garter, Hemson, from Maryland.
At Apennade, Hoffnung, Nisseu; and Lady Talk, Iverson, from Liverpool.
LONDON.
Yesterday his Majesty went in State to the House of Peers, attended by the Duke of Ancaster and Lord Bruce, when the House of Commons being sent for and come, his Majesty was pleased to open the Sessions of Parliament with the following most gracious Speech from the Throne to both Houses.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
THE present Situation of America, and my constant Desire to have your Advice, Concurrence, and Assistance on every important Occasion, have determined me to call you thus early together.
Those who have long too successfully laboured to inflame my People in America by gross Misrepresentations, and to infuse into their Minds a System of Opinions repugnant to the true Constitution of the Colonies and to their subordinate relation to Great Britain, now openly avow their Revolt, Hostility, and Rebellion. They have raised troops, and are collecting a Naval Force; they have seized the public Revenue, and assumed to themselves legislative, executive, and judicial Powers, which they already exercise, in the most arbitrary Manner, over the Persons and Properties of their Fellow Subjects: And although many of these unhappy People may still retain their Loyalty, and may be too wise not to see the fatal Consequence of this Usurpation, and wish to resist it; yet the Torrent of Violence has been strong enough to compel their Acquiescence, till a sufficient Force shall appear to support them.
The Authors and. Promoters of this desperate Conspiracy have, in the Conduct of it, derived great Advantage from the Difference of our Intentions and theirs. They meant only to amuse by vague Expressions of Attachments to the Parent State, and the strongest Protestations of Loyalty to me, whilst they were preparing for a general Revolt. On our Part though it was declared in your last Sessions, that a Rebellion existed within the Province of the Massachuset's Bay; yet even that Province we wished rather to reclaim than to subdue. The Resolutions of Parliament breathed a Spirit of Moderation and Forbearance; conciliatory Propositions accompanied the Measures taken to enforce Authority; and the coercive Acts were adapted to Case's of criminal Combinations amongst Subjects not then in Arms. I have acted with the same Temper; anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the Effusion of the Blood of my Subjects, and the Calamities which are inseparable from a State of War; still hoping that my People in America would have discerned the traitorous Views of their Leaders, and have been convinced, that to be a Subject of Great Britain, with all its Consequences, is to be the freest Member of any Civil Society in the known World.
The rebellious War now levied is become more general, and is manifestly carried on for the Purpose of establishing an independent Empire. I need not dwell upon the fatal Effects of the Success of such a Plan. The Object is too important, the Spirit of the British Nation too high, the Resources with which God hath blessed her too numerous, to give up so many Colonies which she has planted with great Industry, nursed with great Tenderness encouraged with many commercial Advantages, and protected and defended at much Expence of Blood and Treasure.
It is now become the Part of Wisdom, and (in its Effects) of Clemency, to put a speedy End to these Disorders by the most decisive Exertions. For this Purpose, I have increased my Naval Establishment, and greatly augmented my Land Forces; but in such a Manner as may be the least burthensome to my Kingdoms.
I have also the Satisfaction to inform you, that [I have] received the most friendly Offers of foreign [assistance]; and if I shall make any Treaties in Consequence thereof, they shall be laid before you. And I have in Testimony of my Affection for my People; who can have no Cause in which I am not equally interested, sent to the Garrisons of Gibraltar and Port Mahon a Part of my Electoral Troops, in order that a larger number of the established Forces of this Kingdom may be applied to the Maintenance of its Authority; and the national Militia, planned and regulated with equal Regard to the Rights, Safety, and Protection of my Crown and People may give a farther Extent and Activity to our Military Operations.
When the unhappy and deluded Multitude, against whom this Force will be directed, shall become sensible of their Error, I shall be ready to receive the Misled with Tenderness and Mercy: And in order to prevent the Inconveniencies which may arise from the great Distance of their Situation, and to remove as soon as possible the Calamities which they suffer, I shall give Authority to certain Persons upon the Spot to grant general or particular Pardons and Indemnities, in such Manner, and to such Persons as they shall think fit, and to receive the Submission of any Province or Colony, which shall be disposed to return to its Allegiance. It may be also proper to authorise the Persons so commissioned to restore such Province or Colony, so returning to its Allegiance, to the free Exercise of its Trade and Commerce, and to the same Protection and Security as if such Province or Colony had never revolted.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have ordered the proper Estimates for the ensuing Year to be laid before you; and I rely on your Affection to me, and your Resolution to maintain the just Rights of this Country, for such Supplies as the present Circumstances of our Affairs require. Among the many unavoidable ill Consequences of this Rebellion, none affects me more sensibly than the extraordinary Burthen which it must create to my faithful Subjects.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have fully opened to you my Views and Intentions. The constant Employment of my Thoughts, and the most earnest Wishes of my Heart, tend wholly to the Safety and Happiness of all my People, and to the Re-establishment of Order and Tranquillity through the several Parts of my Dominions, in a close Connection and Constitutional Dependance. You see the Tendency of the present Disorders, and I have stated to you the Measures which I mean to pursue for suppressing them. Whatever remains to be done that may farther contribute to this End, I commit to your Wisdom. And I am happy to add, that, as well from the Assurances I have received, as from the general Appearance of Affairs in Europe, I see no Probability that the Measures which you may adopt will be interrupted by Disputes with. any Foreign Power.
Yesterday the Sheriffs, Hayley and Newnham, went up to Westminster, and delivered the following Petition, which was agreed on by the Court of Common Council on Wednesday, to a Peer, who presented the same to the House of Lords; after which Mr. Sheriff Newnham presented the Petition agreed on by that Court, to the House of Commons. The Petition delivered to the House of Commons was the same as that presented to the Lords, with only the Variation of the Address.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled,
Sheweth,
"THAT this Court having taken into its most serious Consideration the present distressed Situation of our Fellow-Subjects in America, are exceedingly alarmed for the Consequences of those coercive Measures which are pursuing against them -- Measures that must (notwithstanding the great Uncertainty of their Success) eventually be productive of new and more burthensome Taxes, the Increase of an enormous National Debt; and finally, we fear, the Loss of the most valuable Branch of our Commerce, on which the Existence of an infinite Number of industrious Manufacturers and Mechanics entirely depends.
"That his Majesty having been graciously pleased, in Answer to a late humble and dutiful Address and Petition to the Throne, praying a Cessation of Hostilities with America for the Purpose of obtaining Time, and thereby giving an Opportunity for a happy and lasting Reconciliation with his Majesty's American Colonies, to declare, that he should abide by the Sense of his Parliament, this Court conceive it to be their indispensable Duty, thus early in the Session, in the most respectful Manner to apply to this Right Hon. House, that it will be pleased to adopt such Measures for the Healing to the present unhappy Disputes between the Mother Country and the Colonies, as may be speedy, permanent, and honourable."
Alderman Bull is so well recovered of his late Indisposition, that he sent to the Lord Mayor Yesterday Morning, desiring that if any Thing that required his Attendance should come on before the House of Commons, to send for him, and he would attend accordingly.
At Three o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon the Lord Mayor sent a Messenger to Alderman Bull, requesting his Attendance at the House of Commons, which the latter immediately complied with.
Mr. Sayre's Commitment to the Tower, having raised the Curiosity of the Public to an extravagant Pitch, the Streets of Westminster were crouded by Eleven in the Morning.- On Tuesday a Hand-Bill, signed "A Poor Mechanic," was distributed in great Numbers, which produced an Answer on the following Day, intimating that the Magistrates had provided effectual Means to apprehend, and bring to Justice, Persons attempting to the violate Laws. Fifty thousand of these last Papers were distributed. Sir John Fielding's Advertisement combined with the above Circumstances to make People imagine something very extraordinary was to happen. The Middlesex Justices attended at the House of the Guildhall, Westminster, at an early Hour, and about 50 of their Constables were stationed in the Court-Room. Another large Body of Constables placed themselves at the Door of the Swan Tavern, Westminster-Bridge. At a Quarter past One o'Clock a Body of about forty Constables passed through the Park to the Palace; and by this Time the Number of People in the Park only, could not be less than five-and twenty-thousand; but their Looks spoke Peace and good Humour; nothing like Treason or Misprision of Treason.- His Majesty left the Palace about Two; and the Procession was in the following Order: Two Horse Grenadiers, with Swords drawn to clear the Way; three State Coaches and six, filled with Noblemen and Gentlemen in waiting; a Body of Horse Guards; Trumpets; a Body of the Yeomen of the Guards; fourteen of his Majesty's Footmen, two and two; his Majesty's Coach, drawn by eight Cream-coloured Horses, with Footmen on each Side; a Party of Horse Guards, followed by the Constables, almost under the Heels of the Horses. All was quiet in the Park, save a few faint Hisses, and a few, still fainter, Huzzas. At the Door of the Parliament-House, a little hissing. When the King arrived the Guns at Stangate were fired, and again on his leaving the House; and during the Period of his being there, two of the Horse Guards paraded Parliament-Street, to see that all was quiet. His Majesty was in the House just 20 Minutes, he returned as peaceably as he went. The whole Number of People assembled on this Occasion, were estimated at 60,000.
Married] Monday, at Barham in Kent, the Rev. Mr. Hudderford, Fellow of Trinity College Oxford, and Vicar of Lydd, to Miss H.C. Nickoll, Daughter of Mr. Henry Nickoll, jun. of Barnham.
STATE LOTTERY,. 1775. The Tickets are sold and divided into Halves, Quarters, Eighths, and Sixteenth Shares, by Hazard and Co. Stock-Brokers, at their State Lottery-Office, No. 93, Royal Exchange, and no where else on their Account.- N.B. All Shares sold at this Office will be stamped with the Crown, and round it Hazard's Lottery-Office. Only two Blanks to a Prize: Begins drawing the 13th of November.
To the Printer of the St J. CHRONICLE.
SIR,
A Pert Writer for Rebellion with much Triumph asserts, that all those who are against America have no Concern in that Trade, and therefore he concludes, have no Business in the Dispute. Yet however this might do at Mile End, it will never go down at large; for a Majority of the People conceive that a landed, and many commercial Interests besides the American, support the British Empire. The Safety and Prosperity of these therefore are, not to be complimented away to the honest John Hancock and his worthy Associates, who are as angry as a Dog with his Teeth drawn, that the Non-importation Agreement does not make the landed, and every other British Interest, crouch at their Feet, and even the British Parliament to receive its Laws from a Continental Congress; such are the Blessings our Patriots would bestow upon us.
Your's, &c.
FOR THE ST.JAMES'S CHRONICLE.
THE CASE STATED.
To the loyal Addressers of Exeter, Taunton, &c.
Gentlemen,
ABOUT ten Years ago a Tax was laid on Cyder, to be collected by the Excise Officers in such Manner, that it was looked upon as unconstitutional and oppressive. The Tax principally affected the Western Counties, which are called the Cyder Counties, and the People in those Parts were greatly disgusted with it. They even assembled in several Places in a riotous Manner, and some Gentlemen were severely handled for having voted in Parliament for the Tax.
Whether Government at that Time concluded that the laying the Tax was an Injustice, or that it would be dangerous to insist upon its being collected by coercive Measures after so much Spirit was shewn by the People, is not well known; but all the disgustful Part of the Act was repealed and the People were satisfied. In the Eastern Counties, and in London, your Troubles gave little Concern; but you must remember, Gentlemen, the great Oppression you reckoned you laboured under at that Time. You also saw the triumphal Demonstrations of Joy when the Act was repealed; the Oxen roasted whole; the Processions of sturdy Swains and rosy Nymphs, with the gilded Fruit at their Bosoms and the Branches in their Hands, testifying that their Apple-Trees were their own, and that Englishmen had not lost their Birth-Rights. Now give me Leave, Gentlemen, to ask you a few Questions.
Was not the Cyder Act a complete and true Act of the Legislature in which you were represented ? And, if only the Legality of an Act is to be considered, ought it not to have been submitted to ?
But did you not deem it unconstitutional, as depriving the People of their Rights and Liberties; and as such did not you cry out against it? Did not Acts of Violence ensue ? Were there not Resolutions formed to root up the Trees sooner than pay the Tax ?
So far you hold the Comparison with the Americans; and would to God our Rulers had not rested more upon Dignity with them than with you ! But, fortunately for you, your Prayer was heard; and, as Dr. Smith says, here I am abandoned by my Text, and must beg Leave to go on by Supposition.
If, therefore, the Legislature, instead of attending to your Petitions, Remonstrances, &c. had insisted upon your implicit Obedience to the Act; and that the executive Power, to enforce that Obedience, and prevent your ill-treating the King's Friends (such as the late Duke of Bedford or Excise Collectors, &c.) by tarring and feathering, or perhaps by hanging them up on your Apple-Trees; had ordered Troops to march, and turn such a Place as Exeter or Taunton into a Military Garrison; from whence the Commanding Officer would have sent his Parties to compell the People to pay the grievous Tax, or else to burn and destroy wherever they met with Opposition: I ask whether in such Case you would not have deemed the Resistance of the People justifiable ? The Question with you, no Doubt, would have been, whether the People were to bow their Heads, and acknowledge an omnipotent Supremacy in the Legislature, binding the Subjects in all Cases whatsoever; however partially and oppressively it might affect one Part of them more than another; or whether they were to tell King, Lords and Commons, that in making Decrees they were limited by certain Constitutional Principles founded in the Natural Rights and Liberties of Mankind, which Rights Englishmen always will claim; and that as the Act in Question contradicted and deprived then of their natural Right and Liberty, they could not but resist the Execution of it as a free People ? And if you had reasoned as Englishmen, we know how you would have determined the Point.
But if such had been the Situation of the Cyder Counties, what would you, Gentlemen, have thought of any Set of Men among your Fellow Subjects, in other Counties, who, not being concerned in Apple Orchards, should have suffered themselves to be persuaded by interested Men, (perhaps rank Tories or Jacobites, who owed you a Grudge for your Kindness to King William) that you, West-Countrymen, were a Parcel of disloyal Rebels; that you only wanted to throw all the Burden on the Beer-Drinkers, and drink your own Cyder free; and to complete the Farce, suppose such a Set of Men had even addressed the King, to beg of him to keep up the Dignity of the Legislature, (meaning that King, Lords, and Commons are as absolute as the King of France) and still farther, had made an Offer of their Persons and Purses, to support the coercive Measures carrying on against the Western Counties, that is, to cut the Throats of all who should dare to refuse an Exciseman Admittance into his private House, alias an Englishman's Castle? I say, Gentlemen of Exeter, Taunton, &c. how would you have stigmatiz'd such a Set of Addresses ? Would you have thought them worthy to breathe the same Air as Englishmen ? Rather (excepting as far as ignorance might plead for excuse) would you not have deemed them more fit for the Regions of Constantinople or St. Petersburgh? Judge not, lest ye be judged; and here I end with Comparison, for I need not particularize the Case of America. Her recent History is but too well known.
But thou, O God, inspire the British Throne!
That we its Wisdom, as its Power, may own,
And Britain by itself be not undone.
SATURDAY, Oct. 28.
COUNTRY NEWS.
Bristol, Oct. 26.
ON Thursday Night a Man was killed on New Chapel Mountain, near Abergavenny, supposed to be by Lightning. Great Damage has been done to the Shipping on the Coasts throughout the Kingdom, of which we have very melancholy Accounts.
Southampton, Oct. 21. Last Wednesday Evening a Robbery was committed in the House of Admiral Jefferys, in this Town; the Villain who committed it, found Means (about Seven or Eight in the Evening) to get into Mrs. Jefferys's Room, and broke open a Bureau with a Chissel, and stole thereout nine Guineas.- The Admiral and his Lady were out on a Visit, but the Servants were in the House at the Time.
Bath, Oct. 24. Arrived here, Dowager Marchioness of Lothian, Earl of Moray, Lady Widdrington, Lady Amelia Kerr, Lady Payne, Lady Barry, Baron de Caliset, Sir Tho. Gooch, Sir Harry Hamilton, Sir John Stepney, Hon. Mr. Neville, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Browne, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev. Dr. Hamilton, Rev. Dr. Kent, Dr. Mrs. and Miss Sanderson, Dr. Woodward, Rev. Mr. Pollen, Rev. Mr. Hyde, Rev. Mr. Donnellan, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Forster, Capt. Cooke, Capt. Haye, Capt. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Goland, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Mordaunt, Mr. and Mrs. Duval, Mr. Skrine, Mr. Seward, &c. &c.
SHIP NEWS.
Deal, Oct. 26. Wind W.N.W. Came down Yesterday and sailed the ---, Bostwick, for Boston; Princess Royal, Duthie; and Prince George, Fryer, for Jamaica; Charles Sharp, Belson, for St. Vincent's; and Pollard, Farquarson, for Bristol. Remain the Euphrates, Anson, for Smyrna; Arethusa Man of War; and Swift Pilot, Lante.
Arrived,
At Lisbon, Camberwell, Forbes; and Industry, Carcaud, from London.
At Liverpoole- Peggy and Ann, Lee; and Hodge, Fazakerley, from Tortola.
Off Dover, Hawke, Tingey, from St. Croix.
LONDON.
The Prince of Wales, the Bishop of Osnaburgh, and the Prince of Hesse, were on Thursday at the House of Peers; the latter went afterwards to the House of Commons, to hear the Debates.
The Militia of the different Counties, we are informed, will be assembled in four different Parts of each County the 18th of next Month.
During our present Contest with America, the Lords of the Admiralty, we are informed, intend keeping two Squadrons of Ships of War completely manned, which are to keep six Months Provisions on board; one Squadron is to lay in Plymouth Sound, and the other at Spithead.
Orders are given for all Coasting Vessels, as well as others, to be searched before they proceed on their Voyage.
Yesterday Advice was received from Plymouth, that the Dolphin, Capt. Hundle, from Philadelphia, with Despatches, which are as fresh as the 20th of September, was safe arrived at that Place. She sailed from the Capes the 22d. The Port was shut up on the 11th, but several Ships were suffered to lie off the Capes to bring over Despatches.
A Letter from the American Camp, dated Aug 31, concludes thus: "Unless very large Reinforcements soon arrive, there will not be another Engagement this Year, as we have so vastly the Superiority in Point of Numbers. At present they lie tolerably still, except disturbing us at Night with their Bombs."
The Friendship, Mullay, from Dublin to Bourdeaux, was totally lost off Holyhead in the late Storm, and a great Number of the Passengers on board perished: The Captain and three Men were saved.
Yesterday General Harvey kissed his Majesty's Hand, on being appointed Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Dragoons, in the room of the late General Cholmondeley; as did General Keppel, on being appointed Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Horse, on the Irish Establishment, in the room of Gen. Harvey.
On Tuesday Iast the Rev. Bernard Hodgson, Student of Christ Church, Oxford, was appointed by Lord North, as Chancellor of the University, Principal of Hertford College, in the room of the Rev. David Durell, D.D. deceased.
Yesterday a Presentation passed the Great Seal to the Rev. John Wright, of the Vicarage of Colston-Basset, in Nottinghamshire, on the Presentation of the Lord Chancellor.
Extract of a Letter from Leeds, Oct. 24.
"A most terrible Storm of Wind and Rain began in this Neighbourhood on Thursday last in the Afternoon, both which continued for 36 Hours, without the least Intermission, and became in the highest Degree alarming to all the Inhabitants; hundreds of whom durst not lie down in their Beds the first Night, and many deserted their House, expecting nothing less than to find them in Ruins the next Morning. The succeeding Night proved equally alarming [...] with the former, for the prodigious Quantity of Rain which fell being driven down the River [...] covered its Banks; and at Day-light on Sa[turday] Morning, exhibited a most shocking [..] that can be imagined, the whole Neighbourhood being under Water; large Quantities of Grain deposited in Warehouses, were washed away, and others near the River much damaged; Cloth was in some Places torn from off the Tenters, by the Weight of the Water; in others the Cloth and Tenters were carried away together by the Force of the Torrent; several Dwelling Houses and Dye-Houses suffered greatly; from the latter many Pieces of woollen Goods were washed out, and even the Dying-Vats torn out of their Places; the Pavement in the Street was forced up; Walls were-thrown down; several Cows, Horses, Pigs, &c. being surrounded by the Water, were forced into the River and drowned .
"But shocking as the foregoing Accounts are, those from the neighbouring Parts, of the Damage sustained by this Inundation, are much more so. Swillington, Calverly, and Otley Bridges thrown down; a large Stacks of Grain, a large Quantity of Coals at Wakefield, and 1000 Cart Loads of Flockton Coals, swept away from near Ferry-Bridge; one Perkins, a Butcher of Slaighwaite, was drowned in attempting to cross Cooper-Bridge, near Hoddersfield; the Driver and seven Horses belonging to Cave's London Waggon, lost near Wakefield-Bridge; and 'tis feared most of the Loading is so damaged as to be worth little."
Married.] Saturday Iast at St.Mary le Bone Church, Charles Augustus Louis Frederic Baron de Bode, an Officer in the Duc du Pont's Regiment in the French Service, to Miss Mary Kynnersley, Sister to Clement Kynnersley, Esq. of Loxley in Staffordshire.- On Tuesday last, at Prestwould in Leicestershire, William Hanbury, Esq to Miss Charlotte Packe.
Died. ] On Tuesday Morning last, at Hampstead, in the 80th Year of his Age, James Pinnost, Esq. formerly a Coach-Maker, in Great Queen Street,- Yesterday, at his House in Grosvenor-Square, -- Strahan, Esq. late a Turkey Merchant, but had retired.
A Correspondent conversant in Lotteries, observes, that the two Thousand Pounds to which the Iast drawn Ticket is entitled, if signed or indorsed by Mr. Molesworth, is not the only Advantage accruing to the Purchasers of such Tickets or Shares; for as the Money is absolutely deposited at a Banker's, there is no Doubt, but that during the last Week of drawing they will bear a prodigious advanced Price. Adventurers should therefore be careful to observe that their Tickets and Shares have Mr. Molesworth's Name in his own Hand-writing upon them, otherwise they are excluded from their considerable Benefits.
To the Printer of the S.J. CHRONICLE.
SIR,
I was last Night in the Gallery of the House of Commons to attend the Debates upon, American Affairs, and heard something there which particularly demanded my Notice, I should take it as a Favour if you would communicate the following Fact through the Channel of your excellent Paper, to my Friends in the Country, and to the Public at large: As a Neighbour to a certain commercial Town, and a Freeholder within the County of Lancaster, I could not, without great Astonishment, hear the Town of Manchester abused in the most severe and opprobrious Terms; but what added to my Surprise was, that not one Member connected with that Place, ever offered to advance a Syllable in its Defence. Mr. T. L---l said, that amongst the addressing Towns he thought Manchester had been alone consistent; that in some past Eras it was inclined to the same Tenets, to the same Doctrines, which it now professed in its Address to the King, - an Inclination to Popery, to passive Obedience, and to Jacobitism; and that he was well informed there were some in Manchester at this Time, who were so much devoted to the Principles of those Times (I refer to) that they had now in their Cabinets the Heads of those Heroes who died so gloriously in their Cause, and to which they paid their Morn and Evening Adoration, to which they offered up their Midnight Oraisons. Mr. D---g likewise wished to know whether any in Manchester, that had signed the Addresses to his late Majesty for the Suppression of that Rebellion, had signed the present one; he believed none, and though he disapproved of all Addresses at this Juncture, yet he thought that from the infamous Town of Manchester exceeded them all in Impudence and Falsehoods.
In Answer to this Sir, not a Word ! If the Town of Manchester had been sincere in its Address, and honest in its Intentions, where was Virtue fled ? Where was our Representative? Where the Promoter of this Business, Sir T.E .? Speechless and dumb !
A Lancashire Freeholder. Oct. 27.
POSTSCRIPT.
HOUSE of LORDS.
October 26.
THE Arguments in the House of Peers this Day turned entirely on American Affairs. The Lords in Administration candidly owned they had been misinformed last Year, and that their Measures were consequently founded in Error, and had therefore failed of Success. This Confession furnished Matter of severe Remark to the Lords of the Minority; the Bishop of ---- made a most sensible Speech, in which he pointed out the false Policy of continuing the Dispute with the Colonies, and with great Humanity urged Administration to stop the further Ravages of Fire and Sword. The Duke of Richmond followed the reverend Prelate's Argument with much Force of Matter. Lord Shelburne painted the present ill Effects of the Contest, and shewed how much more fatal the Consequences might be if the unnatural War was pursued. His Lordship was extremely severe on Administration for the Impotency and Inexpediency of their Measures; and after proving that the Introduction of foreign Troops, without Leave of Parliament, was High Treason to the Constitution, hoped that the Day would come when those who put that Part of the Speech into his Majesty's Mouth, which mentions their being sent to Gibraltar and Minorca, would be called to a proper Account, and undergo an exemplary Punishment. Lord Grosvenor spoke of the Fallacy of the Addresses, and the unfair Means used to procure them, which he proved by citing an Instance of shameful Partiality and undue Influence, which fell within his own Knowledge. Lord Ferrers opposed the Address.
October 27.
RECEIVED and read several Petitions for bringing in Appeals.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that his Majesty had been waited on pursuant to their Order, to know when he would be attended with their Address of Thanks; and that his Majesty had appointed two o'Clock. The Chancellor and several of the Members accordingly proceeded to St.James's, and presented their Address, which contains little more than the usual Compliments, and a Promise of Compliance with his Majesty's Requests.
DIARY of the PROCEEDINGS of the
HOUSE of COMMONS.
October 26.
TO enter even into a very contracted View of this and the following Day's Debate, would much exceed the Plan we have endeavoured hitherto to adhere to. The Magnitude and Importance of the Subject were accompanied throughout with that Strength of Argument, Ingenuity of Reasoning, Conflict of Talents, and Love of Victory which always manifest themselves in Essays of this Kind, where the Possession or Attainment of Power and Emolument, the Spirit of Party or Faction, and the Pride of defeating or embarrassing our Adversaries, are the prime Motives for Action, and Incentives to uncommon Exertions of the various Modes of Parliamentary Warfare.
As soon as the Speaker and the House returned from their Attendance on his Majesty, in the House of Lords, and his Majesty's Speech had been read. Mr. Ackland moved, in the usual Form, for an Address, in Answer to his Majesty's most gracious Speech from the Throne. There was very little to distinguish this from the usual Stile of Compositions of this Kind of ministerial Performance, but that the Framer was rather a little prolix, and seemed to perform the Task assigned him with rather too rigid and exact an Obedience. He was followed by Mr. William Lyttelton, some Time Governor of Jamaica, and Brother to the late great and good Lord of that Name. He seemed to be infected with the same drawling tedious Disorder; but the Eagerness of the Parties to engage, soon shewed him the Necessity of putting an End to an Harangue, which called forth very little Attention.
The Address being now shaped into Form was read by the Speaker, when Lord John Cavendish rose, and after commending such Parts of it as he thought worthy of Support, animadverted, with equal Freedom and Candour on such other Passages and Paragraphs in it, as met with his Disapprobation or Dislike. He was followed by Sir James Lowther, who more warm than his Leader, condemned the Address throughout; attacked the whole System of Colony Government, and the Measures arising from it; and with peculiar Energy, urged the Interest he had in the Event of those Measures, the Stake he had to lose, and the Motives which might consequently be supposed to influence his Conduct.- It should have been observed, that Lord John Cavendish moved the following Amendment, to be inserted immediately after the first Paragraph, and to be continued to the End.
"We behold, with the utmost Concern, the Disorders in the British Colonies rather increased than diminished by the Means which have been used to suppress them; a Circumstance sufficient alone to give your faithful Commons just Reasons to fear, that those Measures were not originally considered, or properly adapted to answer the Ends to which they were directed.- We are satisfied by Experience, that this Misfortune has in a great Measure arisen from the Want of full and proper Information being laid before the Parliament of the true State and Condition of the Colonies, by Reason of which Measures have been carried into Execution, infidious and inefficacious; from which no salutary End was reasonably expected, and which necessarily tended to tarnish the Lustre of the British Arms, to bring Discredit on the Wisdom of your Majesty's Councils, and to nourish, without Hope of End, a most dangerous Civil War.- Deeply impressed with a Sense of this melancholy State of the public Concerns, we shall, on the first Information we can, review the Whole of the late Proceedings, that we may be enabled to discover, as we shall be most willing to apply, the most effectual Means for restoring Order to the distracted Affairs of the British Empire, Confidence to your Majesty's Government, Obedience, by a temperate Use of its Powers, to the Authority of Parliament, and the Happiness of all your People. By these Measures we may avoid having Recourse to the alarming and dangerous Expedient of calling in foreign Forces for the Support of your Majesty's Authority within your own Dominions, and the dreadful Calamity of shedding British Blood by British Hands."
For the Reason before assigned, we shall not attempt to give the particular Sentiments of the several Speakers, but lay before our Readers, the general leading Points controverted on one Side, or defended on the other. Those may be distinguished under the following Heads - The Conduct of Administration in originating the Measures which had reduced this Country to the melancholy, if not fatal Dilemma of either relinquishing all Dominion over, and Connexion with America, or entering into a bloody and horrid Civil War, as well as the ineffectual Means employed by them to carry those Measures into Execution; the Folly and Absurdity of expecting to reduce the Americans by Force; the unfair Means used by the Minister to ensnare Parliament into an Approbation of every Thing hitherto done in the Prosecution of this Business, as well as all the Measures that may be in future taken by the same Men, under the artful and specious Colour of answering the Speech from the Throne in the usual Stile and Form of parliamentary Addresses on such Occasions, whereby all future Discussion, Review, or Consideration of Matters involving in them Consequences fatal perhaps to the Existence of the British Empire, are in a Manner totally precluded: The pernicious Counsels which prevailed on his Majesty to introduce foreign Troops into any Part of his British Dominions, without the previous Consent and Approbation of Parliament, and the Danger of hiring and introducing into this Empire foreign Mercenaries to quiet or suppress Civil Dissensions, arising only from a Difference of Opinion existing between two Parties, involving in it nothing which can be construed to extend or affect in the most remote Degree the fundamental Principles of the Constitution.
To the first Objection it was answered, that it was not the present Administration originated the Measures now so loudly condemned, but their Adversaries; for the whole Line of their present . Conduct respecting the Power, and the Right of exerting it, was chalked out by the Declaratory Laws,. and as to the Execution of them, it arose from a Desire of Conciliation, in the Course of which the Colonies were preparing for Hostility and Rebellion, while they were pretending to negotiate and submit, or at least to concede in many Particulars to the Mother Country.- To the second it was said, that Great Britain was still able, from its own Resources and internal Strength, to crush America and chastise its Insolence ; that the Instant was arrived when such a spirited Exertion of that strength was become absolutely and indispensably necessary, and that the Support of our Honour, Interest, and supreme Authority, were all equally concerned to call forth every Resource, and strain every Nerve in preserving and maintaining them.- To the third it was replied, that the Address now moved for, by no Means precluded any Man or Set of Men, from differing on any particular Measure recommended from the Throne, because such an Argument would involve in it this gross Absurdity, that a King might recommend any Measure with a Certainty of Success. The next Objection was chiefly obviated on the very Terms in which the Address took Notice of that Part of the Speech by which his Majesty informed the House of having sent Part of his Electoral Troops to garrison his Fortresses of Gibraltar and Fort St. Philip, left it still open to future Discussion or Censure on the Adviser of such a Measure, if found� on Enquiry to be illegal or improper. And the last Head, that of taking into British Pay foreign Mercenaries (either Russians or Hessians, or both) was defended on the apparent Necessity of the Case if adopted, the Uncertainty of its being adopted, and the Absurdity of creating Distinctions, and raising Objections about a Mode of carrying into Execution Measures which the House, it might be presumed, would perfectly approve of before they acceded to them.- The Debates were drawn out into an unusual Length on both Sides, and supported with uncommon Ability. It was evident, however, to an impartial Auditor, that the Combatants were too much heated to argue with that Temper and logical Precision which can only carry true Conviction. Within a few Minutes of Four o'Clock Yesterday Morning the Question on the Amendment was put, and the House divided, Ayes 108, Noes 278. The main Question for agreeing to the Address was then put and agreed to without a Division. A Petition was presented early in the Day to the House from the Freeholders of Nova Scotia, which was ordered to be taken into Consideration on Monday the 6th of November. The principal Speakers, besides those who moved and seconded the Amendment, were the Lord Mayor of London, Capt. Luttrell, Mr. Powys, Governor Johnstone, Colonel Barre, Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox, Mr. Dunning, Mr. T. Townshend, General Conway, and Mr. Alderman Sawbridge. Against it, Lord George Germaine, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Wedderburne, Lord North, and Mr. Thurloe.
October 27.
THIS Day no Debate was expected, as the House was in the Beginning remarkably thin; however, Mr. Hartly having rose and pressed Lord North to declare, and that it should be understood, that agreeing to the Report now brought up by Mr. Ackland should not be deemed a full and decisive Approbation of its Contents, nor preclude the House in any Manner from taking the Measures recommended in it, into Consideration on any future Day, his Lordship refused to make any Promise or Concession of that Nature, but informed the Honourable Member in general Terms, that the Navy and Army would be taken into Consideration in the Course of the Week, and told him he believed that either of the Days appointed for that Purpose would be the more proper Time for stating his Objections at large, or framing any Motion, on which he might be desirous to take the Sense of the House. This Answer being directly a Refusal to the Gentleman's Proposition, he was followed by several others, who had hitherto voted with the Minister on American Measures, particularly Sir Matthew White Ridley, and Mr. Fielde. This produced a warm Altercation, till at length Mr. Powys rose, and after apologizing for the Step he was going to take, moved for the Recommitment of the Address, on which a most important and warm Debate ensued. The Arguments were chiefly directed against that Paragraph in the Address which thanks his Majesty for his gracious Consideration in sending Part of his Electoral Troops to garrison the Fortresses of Gibraltar and Minorca. Those who condemned the Paragraph argued against its Illegality, its being expressly repugnant to the Bill of Rights; and, above all, its being a Precedent of a most alarming and dangerous Tendency, as it recognised a Power in the King to introduce Foreigners into his British Dominions, and to raise Armies without the previous Consent of Parliament. It was defended on a Variety of Grounds. It was defended on the Idea, that the Paragraph expressed nor implied no Approbation of the Measure; that the Bill of Rights passed at the Revolution was a declaratory Law, and that Law, to use Mr. Attorney's own Word, embraced no Part of the British Dominions beyond the Limits of this Island; that the Necessity of the Measure justified it, because of the Delay it might occasion, and the consequent Embarrassment it might bring on, in the future Progress of this Business; that it was nothing new for 6000 Dutch had come over, in the Year 1745, to our Assistance, without any such previous Consent; but not all the Sophistry and Subtilty of its Friends could palliate the Measure. The Minister, however quitting his usual Ground, and throwing off his usual Habiliments, left his Supporters by themselves, and fairly owned he was the Adviser of the Paragraph, and that he was at once firmly persuaded of its Legality, Wisdom, and Expediency. This Explanation was called forth on Sir George Yonge pressing him, in case that the Opposition agreed to the Report, that his Lordship would agree to review the Proposition, and give it a full and fair Discussion on some future Day to be appointed for the Purpose.
At Eleven o'Clock the House was going to divide, when Sir George Yonge and several of the Country Gentlemen proposed that the Motion of Re-commitment should be withdrawn, and the following Amendment entered in the Address after the Words "Maintenance of its Authority." "And we will immediately take into our Consideration the Measure of introducing foreign Troops into any Part of the Dominions of Great Britain, without the previous Consent of Parliament." This caused a fresh Debate, which continued till One o'Clock this Morning, when the House divided, for the Amendment 72, against it 176. The Address being thus carried, was ordered to be presented by the whole House this Day.
Ordered, That the King's Speech be taken into Consideration To-morrow.
Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable his Majesty to call out and assemble the Militia in all Cases of Rebellion in any Part of the Dominions belonging to the Crown of Great-Britain.
The other principal Speakers for the Commitment and Amendment were Colonel Barre, Mr. Fox, Mr. Dunning, Sir George Saville, Mr. Burke, Serjeant Adair and Governor Johnstone; against it, Lord North, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Stanley, Sir Gilbert Elliott, the Attorney and Solicitor General, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Mr. Rigby, Mr. Viner and Sir Walter Blacket.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
Tower of London.-- THERE has been brought in here as an Addition to the Menagerie, a very extraordinary Man-Tiger. Never was there any of the Kind so strongly resembling the human Species. The only Difference which the Ladies find in him is, that he is handsomer than ninetenths of their Husbands and Brothers, and though he is a Native of America, the Ladies call him the handsome Irishman. He was lately taken in the Way they catch Woodcocks, by the slightest Springe imaginable, laid for him by one Richardson, who having caught him, presented him to his Majesty, who sent him to the Tower. Some of his Majesty's Friends conceive he was not obliged to Richardson for his Present, and that this Animal, though received gratis, will cost his Majesty dear. Great Blame is laid on Adjutant Richardson for declaring this Animal was an American, for there is scarce two Persons at the West End of the Town, that do not believe, when he was taken, that the Adjutant caught a Tartar, and it is rumoured, that he will soon be turned loose. There will be no Occasion for any apprehensions, in case he should, for though he ill brooks Confinement, no Creature is more gentle when at Liberty.
LONDON.
This Day Mr. Sayre was carried by Habeas Corpus, before Lord Mansfield, attended by Mr. Serjeant Adair, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Alleyne, Mr. Dayrel, and Mr. Arthur Lee, as his Counsel, and Mr. Reynolds, as Solicitor. Lord Mansfield, as soon as he cast his Eyes on the Warrant of Commitment, declared he had not the least Doubt that Mr. Sayre was entitled to Bail, and that had no Counsel attended on his Behalf, he should not nave hesitated to grant him that Privilege. Mr. Sayre was accordingly admitted to Bail, himself in �500. and two Sureties, viz. Mr. Purdon, his Partner, and Mr. Reynolds, his Solicitor, in �250. each.
Mr. S. on the Bail being taken, bowed low, and thanked his Lordship for the Candour and Attention he had shewn, and hoped he would always exercise the same constitutional Impartiality. To which his Lordship replied, I hope so too, Mr.S. let us both act constitutionally, and we shall fall into no Difficulties or Dangers.
The Lord Mayor was present, and received very politely by Lord Mansfield.
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, Oct. 26.
"Tuesday sailed from hence for America, having on board a Detachment of Marines, consisting of one Lieutenant, one Serjeant, one Corporal, one Drummer, and forty private Men, the Boreas Frigate of 28 Guns, Capt. Thompson ; she has stopt at Blackstakes to take in her Powder and Artillery, after which she is to proceed directly on her Voyage.
Same Day also, the Bristol, a fine new Ship of 50 Guns, was launched from his Majesty's Dock-Yard at Sheerness; she is put into Commission, bound for America, and on board of her Commodore Sir Peter Parker is to hoist his broad Pendant."
A Letter from Pembroke, dated the 25th inst. mentions, that several Pieces of Wrecks and a great many dead Bodies were continually coming on Shore there, some with the Legs off and others without Arms, &c. two more were seen floating without Heads.
By the Accounts already received from different Ports of the Lives lost in the late Storm which happened on the 19th and 20th, it is computed upwards of 460 have been lost.
Wednesday one Mr. Scardale, Clerk to a Gentleman in the Temple, was taken up for High Treason on the Information of a common Soldier; but being brought before a Magistrate, and the Soldier not appearing, Mr. Scardale was dismissed.
Oxford, Oct. 28. On Wednesday last, in full Convocation, pursuant to. an Academical Notice for that Purpose, an affectionate and most loyal Address to his Majesty, on the present unnatural Commotions in America was agreed to, and will be forthwith presented to his Majesty.
TO be LETT, by the Gresham Committee, at Mercers Hall, on Wednesday the 1st of November next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, together or separate,
Three ROOMS in the South Outward PAWNE of the ROYAL EXCHANGE, late in the Occupation of the Marine Society.
The Premises may be seen every Day, between the Hours of Two and Three in the Afternoon, on Application to the Royal Exchange Keepers, at the Gates of the Royal Exchange.
ROBERT CAWNE, Clerk.
A CAPITAL INN.
TO be LETT, All that large, commodious, and well-accustomed Inn, known by the Name of the Red Lion, in WARRINGTON, in the County of Lancaster; with the Stabling, Coach-Houses, Grainary, Garden, a good Pier in the South Gallery of the Parish church, and every other Convenience thereunto belonging, as now occupied by Mrs. Dale; with or without Ten Acres (or more) of rich Meadow Land conveniently situated.
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The Buildings to be entered upon the 1st of May, and the Land at Candlemas next.
The Tenant may have a great Part of the Household Furniture at a fair Appraisement.
Apply to J. Higginbotham of Warrington.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, on Thursday the 16th of November, at the King's Head, the Corner of Gerrard-Street, Soho, at Twelve o'Clock, in several Lots,
NEAT LEASEHOLD GROUND RENTS, issuing out of eighty-six substantial Brick Dwelling Houses, Coach Houses, Work-Shops, &c. situate in Berner's, Charlotte, Goodge, Tottenham, Pitt's, John, Castle, Wells and Cumberland Streets. Also FOUR DWELLING HOUSES in Berner's and Charlotte Streets, amounting yearly to Six Hundred and Four Pounds Six Shillings and Sixpence.
Printed Particulars may be had till the Sale at Garraway's Coffee-House, Change-Alley; at the Place of Sale, and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street.
N.B. Any Person inclined to purchase the Whole, or any Part by private Contract, please to apply to Mr. Skinner.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, Wednesday the 15th of November, on the Premises, at Twelve o'Clock, by Order of the Administratrix,
The valuable Lease and capital Trade of the much distinguished INN, known by the BULL, advantageously situate in BISHOPSGATE-STREET, belonging to the late Mr. Roger Preston, deceased, which is in the highest Reputation, being frequented by the best Companies, and the first Stage Coaches and Waggons in the Kingdom; the premises are exceedingly roomy and very convenient, a Part of which has lately been erected at a great Expence. Term unexpired 28 Years, at a Rent of �160. out of which Land-Tax is allowed. A Part of the Premises now lett at about �300. per Annum.
To be viewed, and Printed Particulars had, six Days preceding the Sale, on the Premises, and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street.
The Purchaser may have immediate Possession.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, on Friday the 3d of November, at Garraways' Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley, at Twelve o'Clock, in three Lots, pursuant to the Will of WILLIAM MYERS, late of Mitcham in the County of Surrey, Esq. deceased,
VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATES situate in and near the Town of Wandsworth, in Surrey.
Lot 1. The Capital Mills in the Possession of Mr. John Shipley, which work six Pair of Stones; and chiefly employed in grinding of Corn, plentifully supplied with a fine Head of Water for upwards of a Quarter of a Mile in Length. The principal Parts of the Buildings and Mill Work have been new erected within the last six Years.
Lot 2. The Bell Alehouse, with sundry other Dwelling-Houses; Yards, &c. situate on Wandsworth Causeway, in the Possession of Mr. Tritton, Mr. Darwell, &c.
Lot 3. A Wharf and Dwellings, in the Possession of Mr. Arnold, and a Malting and Dwelling House, in the Possession of Mr. Muse.
To be viewed ten Days preceding the Sale, when printed Particulars may be had on the Premises, of John Chandler, Esq., Guildford, at the Place of Sale, and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, on Monday the 6th of November, at the King's Head Inn, at Mitcham, at 11 [?] o'Clock, in 17 Lots, pursuant to the Will of William Myers, late of Mitcham in the County of Surry, Esq. deceased,
All his ESTATES, the greatest Part Freehold, and some Copyhold, situate in and near the Towns of Mitcham and Croydon; consisting or one hundred and sixty-Acres of rich Meadow, Arable, and Garden-Ground, the Bucks Head Inn, the thirty one other Dwelling Houses, in the Possession of William Myers, Esq., Mrs. Cooper, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Moore, Mrs. Everingham, Mr. Fly, and others.
The Mitcham Estates to be viewed from Monday the 23d Instant, to the Day of Sale, between the Hours of Ten and Four, by applying at the Place of Sale.
The Croydon Estate is in the Possession of Mr. Fly, Upholder, who will shew the same.
Particulars may be then had of John Chandler, Esq., Guildford; the King's Head, Mitcham; the Greyhound, Croydon; the Horns, Kennington Common; at Garraway's Coffee-House, Change-Alley, and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, on Tuesday the 11th Instant, on the Premisses, at Ten o'Clock, by Order of the Assignees of Mr. Samuel Butler, the Elder, a Bankrupt,
A COMPACT ESTATE, called HAM FARM, held under the Crown, and renewable for ever, at a Ground Rent of only �6.13s. 4d. situate at Baughurst, in Hampshire, near Basingstoke and Newbury; consisting of 65 Acres of inclosed Arable and Meadow Land, a Dwelling House, Barns, and proper Offices, with an extensive Right of Shooting, Hawking and Hunting.
Another Farm adjoining the above, consisting of 75 Acres of Meadow and Arable Land, with an unlimited Right of Commonage.
At the same Time the Household Furniture, with the farming Stock; consisting of Wheat, Barley, Oats, and Beasts, three Stacks of Clover, Horses, Cows, about 200 Loads of Manure, and other Effects.
The Estates may be viewed six Days preceding the Sale, and the Furniture and farming Stock one.
Printed Particulars and Catalogues may be had the 24th Instant on the Premisses; at the Angel Inn, in Basingstoke; the Globe, Newbury; the King's Arms, Reading; the Sun, Maidenhead; the Bell and Castle, Windsor; the Red Lion, Hounslow; and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street, London.
TO be Sold by Auction, by Mr. SKINNER, on Friday the 17th of November, at Garraways' Coffee-House in 'Change-Alley, at 12 o'Clock, in 15 Lots,
The large and valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES belonging to Sir WILLIAM YOUNG, Bart. delightfully situate at DELAFORD, in the Parish of Iver, in the County of Bucks. Consisting of nine eligible Farms, with Dwelling-Houses and proper Offices, containing 540 Acres of Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land, the Verduie of which is remarkably fine, extremely well wooded and watered, with Views extensive and beautiful in the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Berks, and. Hertfordshire, and esteemed one of the finest Spots in the Kingdom.
The Farms are so divided that several of them will make desirable Seats, being within Ring Fences, also of a fine gravelly Soil, and good Brick Earth, and situated on elevated Prospects scarcely to be equalled. The yearly Value about �700.
Delaford is 17 Miles from London, two from Uxbridge, seven from Windsor, and six from Salt-Hill.
To be viewed till the Sale, by applying to Mr. Woodcock, on the Premises, of whom printed Particulars may be had: also at the Crown, Uxbridge; the Castle, Salt-Hill; the Bell and Castle, Windsor; the Red Lion, Hounslow of Thomas Francis, Esq. Chancery-Lane; at the Place of Sale; and of Mr. Skinner, Aldersgate-Street; where a Plan of the Estate may be seen.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION, together or in separate Lots, at the Bear Inn, in Cowbridge, on Tuesday the 31st Day of October inst. between Twelve and Four o'Clock in the Afternoon,
The adjoining MANORS of MICHELSTONE-LE-PIT and WRINSTONE, in Glamorganshire. Containing several Messuages, and 1400 Acres of good Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, all inclosed, well watered, and conveniently divided into Tenements; Lime-Stone in each Field, and Coal at a moderate Distance; within three Miles of Cardiff, nine of Cowbridge, and three of the Bristol Channel; now lett at �665 per Annum; with a considerable Quantity of Timber and Under-Wood growing thereon, and wherein has been lately discovered several Veins or Courses of Lead Ore.
Also the Advowson of the Rectory of Michaelstone-le-Pit worth. about �50. per Ann. The Incumbent being above Sixty.
This Estate is very improveable, abounds with beautiful Sea and Land Prospects, and is in the Midst of a very fertile, populous, and healthy Country, within 164 Miles of London, 55 of Bath, and 43 of Bristol.
Also several Houses in Cardiff, and Tenements of Lands in the Parishes of Whitchurch, Roach; Lantrissent, Lantwit Vairdre, Saint George's, Lanilterne, St. Bride's, Major and Wick, in the said County, containing about 1440 Acres, now lett at �388. per Ann. and capable of great Improvement.
A Particular of the above Estates may be had of Joseph Kaye, Esq. North Audley-Street, Grosvenor-Square; Mr. Frankland, near Cowbridge; Mr. Thomas Thomas, Cardiff; and Mr. Thomas Williams, Cowbridge.
ANNUITIES well secured, and payable half-yearly in London, are now granting for the Lives of Purchasers or their Nominees.
For further Particulars direct or apply to Mr. Lee, at No. 4, Hatton-Court, Threadneedle-Street.
IF any Gentleman possessed of a Government Employment that requires Attendance and Knowledge, of �200. to �500. annual Salary or Income; is desirous. to resign upon an adequate Consideration to a Person who has Interest to procure a Nomination to a reasonable Demission upon Terms, and who will personally wait upon the Resigner on Notice; addressed to B.C. at Mr. Harrache's, Jeweller, in Pall-Mall.
To Country Shopkeepers.
THE STOCK in TRADE of Mary Fallett, Bankrupt, and late John Thomas Drake, of Olney, Bucks, consisting of various Articles in the Linen, Woollen, Mercery, and Haberdashery Branches, may be looked over and valued any Time between this and the 1st of November next.
Such Persons as chuse to become Purchasers of the same will please to send their Proposals to Thomas Divert, West-Smithfield, and M.L. Merac, of Snow-Hill, London, Assignees to the aforesaid Estate.
N.B. The Assignees will attend on the Premises the 1st of November, when all Persons indebted to the Estate are desired to settle their Accounts to prevent further Trouble.
Quilted Coat Warehouse, Tavistock-Street.
W. TAYLOR begs Leave to inform the Ladies, he is removed from his Warehouse in Henrietta-Street, to No.33 Tavistock-Street, where he continues to sell all Sorts of Quilted Coats cheaper than any Advertiser hath yet offered them to the Public, supplied from his Warehouse, No.22, Bishopsgate-Street, viz.
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| Three Breadths and a Half Tammy Coats | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Four Breadths ditto | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Three Breadths and a Half Prunella Coats | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| Four Breadths ditto | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| Three Breaths and a Half Durant Coats | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| Four Breadths ditto | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| Seven Breadths Callimanco | 0 | 10 | 6 |
| Eight Breadths ditto | 0 | 11 | 6 |
| Five Breadths Russels | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Six Breadths ditto | 0 | 18 | 0 |
Persian, Sarsnett, and Sattin Coats, proportionably cheap.
N.B. A Variety of Dresden Sarsnett Coats, which are entirely new, and can be had at no other Warehouse in London.
LIFE ANNUITIES,
With Benefit of Survivorship.
Proposed by the Corporation of the CITY of DUBLIN, for raising a Sum not exceeding �70,000. to be applied in Discharge of all the Debts and Demands for Money, of what Nature soever, for which the Revenues of the Corporation stand at present engaged.
THAT Books of Subscription be immediately opened at the House of Alderman Benjamin Geale, City Treasurer, on Ormond Quay, where a regular Attendance will be given from Ten in the Morning till Three in the Afternoon, to enter the Names and receives the Deposits of such Persons as shall chuse to subscribe to either, or both, of the following Schemes, approved of and agreed upon by the last Assembly for the Purposes aforesaid.
FIRST SCHEME of ANNUITIES,
With Benefit of Survivorship for two Lives.
Any Person or Persons, his Majesty's natural-born Subjects or Foreigners, subscribing and paying in the Sum of One or more Hundreds of Pounds, by the Days and Times, and in the Manner, herein after mentioned, shall receive, in the Cities of London or Dublin, at the Option of the Subscriber, an Annuity of Five Pounds by the Hundred for every Hundred Pounds so subscribed and paid in, during the Lives (or the Survivor of such Lives) of any two Persons to be named by the Subscriber, or by the Executor, Administrator, or Assigns of such Subscriber, with additional Interest from Time to Time arising by Benefit of Survivorship, until the Annuity payable to each Subscriber, his Executor, Administrators, or Assigns, shall amount to a Sum equal to, but never to exceed, the principal Sum originally advanced.
SECOND SCHEME of ANNUITIES,
With Benefit of Survivorship for one Life, to be divided into Classes of �10,000. each.
Any Person or Persons, his Majesty's natural born Subjects, or Foreigners, subscribing and paying in the Sum of One or more Hundreds of Pounds, by the Days and Times, and in the Manner herein after mentioned, shall receive (in the Cities of London or Dublin, at the Option of the Subscriber,) an Annuity of Five Pounds by the Hundred for every Hundred Pounds so subscribed and paid in, during the Lives to be nominated, a Life by each Subscriber of One Hundred Pounds, with additional Interest from Time to Time arising by Benefit of Survivorship, until the Annuity annually payable upon the last Surviving Life in each Class shall amount to �500. being the Whole of the Interest payable to the Subscribers in each Class of �10,000.
The Sums subscribed to be paid at three different Periods, 20 per Cent. at the Time of subscribing, 40 per Cent. on or before the 29th Day of September next, and 40 per Cent. to complete the Payment of every �100. so subscribed, on or before the 25th Day of December next; but the Annuities to commence and be made payable from the 24th Day of June last; so that every Subscriber will be entitled to receive Half a Year's Annuity at the Time he makes his last Payment to complete his Subscription, and that in the first and every other Payment of said Subscriptions, City Bonds shall be received at Par.
The Subscribers are under no Necessity of naming their Lives or Nominees until the 25lh Day of December next, the Time for making good the last Payment of their Subscriptions, by which Means every Subscriber, his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns will have the intermediate Time to consider upon what Life or Lives he shall chuse to put his Subscription to, or to sell the same in the mean Time if he shall like best.
Subscribers may name distinct Lives for each 100, or one Life for several �100.
When the Subscriptions are completed, and the Lives named and ascertained by the Oath of the Subscriber, the several Nominees or Lives so named in the first Scheme shall be divided or classed into three Divisions; one Division of Persons under 20, a second of Persons of 20 and upwards, but under 40, and a third of Persons of 40 and upwards; and the Subscribers being classed accordingly, will have the Benefit of Survivorship in their respective Classes with Lives or the same Value, so that Lives of 40 and upwards may not run against younger Lives.
In the Books of Subscription shall be entered the Names of the Subscribers, the Sums by them advanced, and the respective Times of Payment, and also the Names, Ages, and Additions of the several Nominees.
That upon completing the several Subscriptions, Bonds with Warrants of Attorney for confessing Judgement, under the Seal of the Corporation, conditioned for the Performance on the Part of the City, of the several Particulars contained in and proposed to the Public by said Schemes, or either of them shall be delivered to the several Subscribers, upon which Judgements may be entered to bind a rising Estate of the yearly Value of �6700. and upwards, which in eight Years will be of the Value of �8000. and upwards, being the real Estate of the Corporation, against which no Judgement or other Incumbrance appears upon Record in any of his Majesty's Courts whatsoever, in which said Bonds will be expressed the Christian and Surnames, Additions, Places of Abode, Ages, and other Descriptions of the Nominees. and said Bonds and Warrants may be assigned or devised.
That a Committee of the City will meet half-yearly on two certain Days to be appointed, for the Purpose of receiving the Attestations and Certificates of the several Annuitants who shall happen to be living on those Days, and after having adjusted the half-yearly Dividends, to make and sign immediate Orders upon the City Treasurer for the Payment of each Dividend.
Each Annuitant or his Agent, a Week before the Days appointed for the Committee to meet, to be required to lodge with the Town Clerks, a Certificate properly attested of his being then alive, with an Account of the Place of his Abode, &c. to enable the Committee to ascertain the half-yearly Dividends. Lists of the surviving Annuitants in each Class, the Place of their Abode, and the Quantum of their Dividends, to be printed and delivered to each Annuitant, half-yearly, as by this Means the Annuitants in each Class will soon obtain a Knowledge of each other, and will be thereby enabled to detect any Fraud which may be attempted, and which can only affect themselves, as the Corporation cannot suffer so long as any of the Subscribers survive in each Class, and that for this Purpose, such Annuitants or their Agents as may find it convenient, shall be at Liberty to attend and assist the Committee on the Days of their Meeting, to examine the Certificates and ascertain the Dividends.
Any Annuitant neglecting to demand his or her Annuity for three Years, shall be considered as dead, and for ever after forfeit the same.
Any Persons desirous of receiving further Information, may obtain the same by applying at the Town Clerk's Office, where the Committee's Report at large, and also the Rental of the City Estate may be seen. Dated this 25th Day of July, 1775.
BENJAMIN TAYLOR, Town Clerk.
To accommodate Foreigners, or Persons resident in London, Subscriptions to either or both of the above Schemes will be received under the Authority and Appointment of the Corporation of the City of Dublin, by Allen Marlar and Co. Esqrs, Ironmonger-Lane; and Henry Evans, Esq. Charter-House-Square, London.
STATE LOTTERY, 1775.
MR. SHEE requests a continuance of the Favours of such Friend's as may have Business of any Kind whatever in the ensuing Lottery to transact.
For their better Accommodation, Offices are and will be opened in the following several Parts of Town, during the Time of drawing the Lottery, so that their Orders may be immediately conveyed to any one.
* His own Dwelling-House, Charing-Cross.
*The old-accustomed Office, No. 1, 'Change-Alley.
No.3. North Piazza, Royal Exchange.
Mr. Waters's, Silversmith, Cornhill, opposite Princes-Street.
Mr. Furley's, Carver, No. 35, New Bond-Street. And,
Mr. Gardener's, Shoemaker, under Tom's Coffee-House, Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden.
N.B. The Offices marked thus *, are now opened for the Sale of Tickets and Shares on the same extensive Plan and Principle that has for many Years distinguished them from those various surprising new Schemes and Profession daily thrown out to blindfold the incautious and insult the whole of the Public.
STATE LOTTERY, 1775.
WENHAM and Co. Stock-Brokers, At their State Lottery-Office, No.11, in the Poultry, London.
The following are capital Prizes sold and registered at their Office, viz.
In the last Lottery, No.44,090, a Prize of �10,000, shared and registered; No. 37,259, a Prize of �10,000; and No. 44,064, a Prize of �2000 sold to a Society of 20 Members.
In the Lottery 1772, No. 1821, �10,000, sold in Shares; No. 23,035, �2000.; No. 27,878, in Shares, �1000 as first drawn Ticket.
In the Lottery 1771, No. 19,309, �20,000.
In the Lottery 1770, No. 40,532, �1000; No. 31,241, �1000; No. 26,443, �500; No. 43,375, �500; No. 1192, in Shares, �1000.
In the Lottery 1769, No. 42,903, �20,000.; No. 8473, �5000; No. 7407, �2000.; No.29,269, in Shares, �1000; No. 26,878, in Shares, �500.; No. 19,567, �500.; No. 15,113, �500.
In the Lottery 1768, No. 44,177, �5000.; No. 3192., in Shares, �500.; No. 49,567, �1000. and as last-drawn Ticket, �1000.
In the Lottery 1767, No. 52,035, in Shares, �2000.; No. 29,047, in Shares, �1000.; No. 16,209, �1000.
In the Lottery 1766, No. 9861, �10000; No. 46,889, �2000.; No. 5710, �1000.; No. 5714, �1000.
In the Lottery 1765, No. 37,596, �10000.; No. 56,350, �10000.
Schemes gratis, and all Letters, Post paid, duly answered.
Our Correspondents, likewise all Merchants, Members of Societies, &c. may depend on having their Tickets and Shares on the most reasonable Terms; and all Business relating to the Lottery and Government Securities transacted with the greatest Care and Fidelity.
Lottery begins drawing on Monday the 13th of November.
The most Money will be given for Prizes.
The most exact Numerical and Register Books kept at this Office.
Christ's Hospital, Oct. 26.
WHEREAS the Rev. Mr. Wm. Hetherington hath transferred a Sum of Money in one of the public Funds to several Gentlemen, as Trustees, to enable the Governors of Christs Hospital, London, to pay Annuities of Ten Pounds to each of Fifty Blind Persons, the said Governors give Notice, that a Committee of Almoners will meet in the Compting-House of the said Hospital on Wednesday the 29th Day of November, 1775, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning, to elect several Persons to enjoy the vacant Annuities; and to prevent fruitless Applications, the said Governors think proper to declare, that no Person can receive the Benefit of the said Charity who has not been wholly destitute of Sight for the Space of the last three Years, or who was born out of that Part of Great-Britain called England, exclusive of the Dominion of Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed; or who has any Income for Life of the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds; or who has at any Time during his or her Life received Alms from any Parish or Place as a Pauper; or who is or ever was a common Beggar; or who is not of the Age or sixty-one Years, at the least, and of sober Life and Conversation ; or who shall not have lived, during the whole three Years last past, in the Place or Parish wherein they shall reside at the Time of their Application for this Charity.
Proper Petitions will be filled up and delivered at the 'Compting-House in the said Hospital, every Day, from Wednesday the 1st, to Wednesday the 15th Day of November, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning to Four in the Afternoon; and the unfortunate Persons need not have the Trouble of a personal Application if they can procure a Friend to come for their Petitions, such Friend being acquainted with the following Particulars viz. the Name and Age of the blind Person; how long he or she hath been blind; Place or Parish where he or she was born; his or her present Place of Residence, and how long the Party has lived there; whether the Party is married; if married, what Family he or she hath; whether he or she hath any Estate, Annuity, Salary, Pension, or Income for Life, or otherwise, and the Amount thereof; if he, or she ever did receive Alms from any Parish or Place as a Pauper; if the Party is or ever has been a common Beggar; whether the blind Person's Parents are living or dead, and. if living, their Names, Residence, and Condition or Circumstances, as also what Family they have.
N.B. No Attention can be paid to Letters.
JOS. EYRE, Clerk.
ESSEX.
Coffee-House in Chelmsford, Sept. 29
.AT a Meeting this Day held as above, in Pursuance of an Advertisement for that Purpose, it was resolved as follows:
First, That a voluntary Subscription be immediately opened for the Purpose of apprehending and prosecuting Murderers, Housebreakers, Highwaymen, Footpads, and Stealers or Maimers of Horses, Sheep, and other Cattle, within this County.
Secondly, That every Person subscribing any Sum, not less than 10s. 6d. be entitled to the Benefit of the said Subscription.
Thirdly, That Thomas Berney Bramston, of Skreens, in this County, Esq. be the Treasurer of the Money to be raised as above, with Power to appoint a Clerk to collect the said Subscriptions, and to keep an Account of the Receipts and Payments.
Fourthly, That these Resolutions be published in the Chelmsford Paper every Week, and in the St.James's Chronicle once in every Week, till the next Meeting.
Lastly, That this Meeting be adjourned to Friday the 10th of November next, to be held at this Place at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon of that Day, as it then intended to take into Consideration the Mode of proceeding for the Apprehension of Felons, &c. by offering Rewards or otherwise, as well as all other Matters necessary for carrying this Plan into Execution. It is hoped that all Persons who are inclined to encourage it will give their Attendance.
Present at this Meeting, and Subscribers :
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| The Rt.Hon. Lord Petre | Thomas Fytche | } | |
| Rt.Hon.Ld. Stourton, by Mr.Stourton | Gen. Desauguliers [?] | } | by Mr. Lewis |
| Hon. Mr. Stourton | J.M. De L'Angle | } | |
| Humphrey Sidney | John Lewis | | |
| Nicolas Griffinhoose | Thomas Brand Hollis | | |
| Ed. Codd, by Mr. Griffinhoose | William Prior Johnson | | |
| Richard Birch | Daniel Scratton | | |
| James Wright | Lady Mildmay | } | |
| Thomas Cooch | Adm. Forbes | } | |
| Edward Benson | Jacob Hoblon | } | by Mr. Bramston |
| Rev.Mr. Salter, by Mr. Benson | Rd. Baker | } | |
| John Strutt | Wm. Mills | } | |
| Charles Phillips | Thomas Berney Bramston | | |
| John Richard Comyns | J.O. Parker | | |
| Mrs.Holden, by Mr.Comyns | Nicholas Toke | | |
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By Order of the Meeting
EDWARD GEPP, Clerk.
N.B. All Persons who are disposed to enter into the above Association, are desired to pay their Subscriptions to the said Edward Gepp, Attorney at Law, at Chelmsford, or to the several Persons following, who are authorised to receive the same.
Mr. Francis Smythies, Attorney at Law, at Colchester.
Mr. Fiske, Attorney at Law, at Saffron Walden.
Mr. Clubbe, Attorney at Law, at Dunmow.
Mr. Walkley, Attorney at Law, at Epping.
Mr. Wall, Attorney at Law, at Brentwood.
Mr. Cope, at Rochford.
Mr. William Waltham, at Southminster
Mr. Rice Manning, at Braintree.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy was awarded and issued forth against Benjamin Stables, of Tadcaster, in the County of York, Grocer, Dealer and Chapman, on the 26th Day of July last, and he was by the major Part of the Commissioners named and authorised in and by the said Commission duly declared a Bankrupt; and whereas the said Benjamin Stables appeared at Guildhall, London, on the 12th Day of September last, in order to finish his Examination, and make a full Disclosure and Discovery of all his Estate and Effects, which he did not do to the Satisfaction of his Assignees and Creditors then present, and his Assignees have great Reason to believe that a considerable Part of the Effects of the said Benjamin Stables have been secreted and concealed from their Knowledge, they therefore give this Notice, and hereby offer a Reward of Twenty per Cent upon what shall be recovered to any Person or Persons who shall discover and make known to the undermentioned Persons any Part of the Effects of the said Benjamin Stables, that have been so secreted and concealed. And all Persons indebted to the Estate of the said Benjamin Stables, are hereby forthwith required to pay the same to Mr. Thomas Soundy, at the White Horse Inn, in Tadcaster aforesaid; or of Mr. Robert Jackson, of Mark-Lane, London, Solicitor to the said Commission, or such Persons will be sued for the same without farther Notice.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
TO be SOLD, A FREEHOLD ESTATE, in the Parish of Newton Blassomville, within two Miles of Olney, in Buckinghamshire : consisting of a good Farm House, and a Cottage or Tenement, with Barns, Stables, and other Out-buildings, a Garden, walled round, about 107 Acres, and one Rood, by Estimation, of Meadow, Pasture and Common Field Land; a Fishery in an ancient Mill Stream, and Advantages of Commonage in the Meadows and Fields belonging to the said Parish.
The above Premises are in good Repair, conveniently situated, well watered, with some Timber thereon, not lett on Lease, moderately rated to the Land Tax, only subject to a Quit Rent of 4s. 5d a Year, and capable of improvements.
For further Particulars apply to Mr. Hurst, Attorney at Law, at Newport Pagnall, Bucks; or, Mr. Richards, at Rushden, near Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire; or Mr. Jortin, in Chancery Lane, London, opposite Lincoln's Inn. The Tenant will shew the Premises.
TO be SOLD, A valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, in the County of Berks; consisting of an excellent commodious MANSION-HOUSE, or VILLA. suitable for a large and genteel Family, with- numerous and convenient Offices of every Kind, Pleasure Grounds, Pinery, and Succession House, and a good Kitchen Garden, walled on all Sides, and well planted. The House is situated on a very pleasant rising Ground, and commands extensive and agreeable Prospects. The Land consists of 18, Acres, lying compact, and well timbered. All the Premisses are in perfect Order and Repair, and the House and Offices, together with 37 Acres of Meadow, and 18 Acres of Arable Land adjoining, may be entered upon immediately, and the Household Furniture, farming- Utensils, and Stock, may be had at a fair Appraisement.
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The Distance from London is about 10 Miles, Four from Maidenhead, and two Miles South of the Bath Road. There are several genteel Families in the Neighbourhood, and the Roads are perfectly good.
For Particulars apply to Mr. Ludbey, Jermyn-Street, St.James's.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION., on Wednesday the 8th Day of November next, between the Hours of Two and Six in the Afternoon, at the Falcon Tavern. in Gravesend (if not sooner disposed of by private Contract, of which Notice will be given)
A LEASEHOLD ESTATE, for the Remainder of a Term, of which there were 90 Years unexpired at Lady Day, last, in the following Lots, or together, (being under one Roof) as shall be approved of on the Day of Sale:
Lot 1. A new-built Brick Messuage, or Tenement, Shop, Warehouse, Garden, and Premises, situate and being on Northfleet-Hill, in the County of Kent, in the Occupation of Thomas Hooker, Shopkeeper, as Tenant at Will, at and under the yearly Rent of �12.
Lot 2. A new built Brick Messuage or Tenement, Garden, and Premises, in the Occupation of Cha. Badger, jun. as Tenant at Will, at and under the yearly Rent of �3.
The Premises are subject to a Ground-Rent of �8. a Year, out of which the Land-Tax and Quit-Rent are deducted, and if the Premises are not sold together, the Ground-Rent to be apportioned between the two Lots.
For Particulars enquire of Mr. Pattison, Attorney at Law, Gravesend.
TO be SOLD, The MANSION-HOUSE and TOWNSHIP of LONGWITTON, in the County of Northumberland, and the several Messuages, Lands, and Tenements within the same Township, containing about 2700 Acres of rich, Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Ground, and lett to substantial Tenants, at moderate Rents, amounting to �1000 per Ann. and upwards.
Also Whitridge Farm (adjoining the Lands of Longwitton) and lett at �90 per Ann. together with the current-going Colliery, at Whitridge, let at the certain yearly Rent of �60 besides eventual Rents.
The above Estates are Freehold, and lie 20 Miles distant from the Town of Newcastle upon Tyne, seven Miles from the Town of Morpeth, and adjoin the Turnpike Roads that lead to all the principal Towns in the County of Northumberland. Small Moduses are payable in lieu of Hay-tithe. The Mansion-House, Offices, Gardens, and Plantations, have been made and laid out at a considerable Expence, are in good Order and Condition, and possess the Advantages of Situation to a very eminent Degree.
Mr. Thomas Goddard, at Longwitton, will shew the Premises, and Particulars may be had of William Swinburn, Esq at Longwitton aforesaid; Ralph Lodge, Esq. at his Chambers, Grey's-Inn, London; or at Mr. Gibson's Office in Westgate-Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Admiralty-Office, Oct. 3, 1775,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Session of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, for the Trial of Offences committed on the High Seas, within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be holden, on Wednesday the 8th Day of November next, at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, at Eight o'Clock in the Morning.
PH. STEPHENS.
To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of
the COUNTY of ESSEX.
Gentlemen,
I Take the earliest Opportunity, on my Arrival in England, to express my most grateful Acknowledgements for the high Honour of being unanimously nominated at the General Meeting, as a Candidate to represent this County on the next Election.
Be assured, Gentlemen, that if I should be so happy as to be elected one of your Representatives, I will make it my Study to prove myself worthy of your Choice, by a diligent and faithful Discharge of my Duty in Parliament. I am.
with the greatest Gratitude and Respect,
Gentlemen, your most obedient,
and most humble Servant,
WILLIAM HARVEY.
Chigwell, Oct. 17, 1775.
To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of
the COUNTY of GLOUCESTER.
Gentlemen,
AMBITIOUS as I am of the Honour of being one of your Representatives in Parliament, and as much as my Wishes have been raised by the Report of our present worthy Member, Mr. Southwell's being likely to succeed to a Peerage, out of Regard to the Peace of the County, as well as Delicacy to him, it was not my intention to have made any Application to you till a Vacancy had been made, and a County Meeting called, as usual on such an Occasion; but the Steps that have been taken by Mr. Berkeley and his Friends, and his Advertisement in the Glocester Journal of this Day, make it necessary for me now publicly to offer you my Services, and to solicit the Favour of your Votes and Interest in Case of such a Vacancy. Give me Leave to assure you, Gentlemen, that as it is my highest Object of my Wishes to serve you, so it will be my constant Endeavour to merit your Confidence and good Opinion, being,
With the greatest Respect, Gentlemen,
Your most faithful, and most devoted humble Servant,
WM. BROMLEY CHESTER.
Cleve-Hill, Sept. 25, 1775.
To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of
the COUNTY of GLOUCESTER.
Gentlemen,
PERMIT me to return my warmest Thanks for the great Success my Friends and myself have already met with on our short Canvas. As I had more regard for the Peace of the County than to take any Steps towards a Canvas before a Vacancy happened, unless my Opponent has made it necessary, so I shall now endeavour to merit the Support and Assistance of my Friends, and the County in general, by all the Activity in my Power upon this Occasion.
I am, Gentlemen,
With the greatest Respect, Gentlemen,
Your most faithful, and most devoted humble Servant,
WM. BROMLEY CHESTER.
Gloucester, Sept. 20, 1775.
THE Creditors of DAVID HUMPHREYS, late of Fishguard, in the County of Pembroke, Mariner, deceased, are desired to send an Account of their respective Demands, together with the Nature thereof, to his Widow and Administratrix, Mrs. Elizabeth Humphreys, at Fishguard aforesaid, on or before the 22d Day of December next.
BAPTISM and BURIAL.
IF any Person will give Information where JOHN HYDE, late of Sundrish Place, in the County of Kent, Esq. the eldest Son of Humphrey Hyde, formerly of Boreplace, in the said County of Kent, and of Gerrard-Street, in the Parish of St.Ann's, within the Liberty of Westminster, Esq. was baptised. And also where Major Hills, and Annuitant, named in the Will of the said Humphry Hyde was buried, will be thankfully rewarded, and Expences paid, for a true Account where the Register of such Baptism and Burial is to be found, or either of them, on applying or sending such Information, to Mr. Robert Gale, Solicitor, at his Chambers, in Clifford's Inn, London.
The said John Hyde was born in or about the Year 1663, and buried at Sundrish, in the Year 1729. And the said Major Hills is supposed to have died about 40 Years ago.