Some Selected Reports from Berrow's Worcester Journal
Thursday, November 14th, 1765.
SATURDAY's POST.
SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, November 2.
THIS Morning arrived here his Majesty's further Reprieve for
Lieut. Patrick Ogilvy, for seven Days after Wednesday next.
Notwithstanding the various Reports of sundry Persons having been employed to dive for a Box of Money dropt in the Firth, we are assured no Attempts of that Kind have as yet been made, except by a Journeyman Taylor of this City, that had formerly served on board a Ship of War; who accordingly sailed out to the Road on Tuesday Morning last, with several others in a Boat, on board of which was a kettle of boiling Pitch, with several other Things he judged necessary for equipping himself. He first stripped to the Middle, and having be-dawbed a Piece of Canvas with the Pitch, he wrapped it round his Head and Shoulders; and then put over his Face a Piece of Wax Cloth, in which were two Glass Eyes. Thus equipped, with a Rope round his Middle, and fortified with Half an English Pint of Rum, he slid over the Boat into the Sea: But he had scarce got six Inches under the Water when he began to make a Noise, and begged to be hawled up again, otherwise he would be certainly drowned, as he could neither dive nor swim. The People accordingly pulled him up, and, as he could not be prevailed upon to repeat the Attempt, they proceeded to uncase him; but the Pitch stuck so fast, that they found it absolutely impossible, without flaying him alive, till, they brought him ashore, and laid him before a great Fire, where the poor Taylor was, at Length, with much Difficulty, disengaged.- His Reward, if successful, was to be Thirty Guineas; if he failed, a Guinea for each Dive. We are told that one
Peter Williamson, of this Place, has proposed to furnish a Machine for fishing up the Box of Money abovementioned, that can easily be dragged under Water with a Person in it, who can remain with Safety under Water for Hours together, and pick up any Thing that is visible.
LONDON, THURSDAY, November 7.
It is confidently said that the French have actually fifteen thousand of their best Troops cantoned along their Coasts opposite to England, and that they continue to augment the same, but with what View is not known.
We are told that the Expediency of allowing American Representatives in an august Assembly, has been the Subject of several late important Councils at the West End of the Town.
It is now rumoured that an august Assembly will be summoned to meet some Weeks sooner than was expected, on Affairs of great Importance. -
Lond. Ev. Post.
On Monday se'nnight the Commissioners of the Longitude granted
Mr. Harrison a Certificate, to be delivered to Commissioners of the Navy, relating to his Time-Keeper, purporting, that "Whereas
John Harrison hath fully discovered and explained the Principles upon which his Watch, or Time-Keeper, is constructed, to the six Persons, viz. the
Rev.Mr. Mitchel,
the Rev. Mr. Ludlam,
Mr. Bird,
Mr. Mudge,
Mr. Matthews, and
Mr. Kendall, appointed by the Commissioners to receive the Discovery and Explanation, as has appeared by their Reports made to the major Part of the Commissioners; and whereas the said
John Harrison hath assigned to the Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude, for the Use of the Publick, the Property of the said Watch, and of the three several other Time-Keepers; they certify the same, and desire a Bill may be made out upon the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy, for the Sum of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, to be paid to the said John Harrison, which, with the Sum of £2500. already advanced and paid to him (which is to be deducted) will be a Moiety of the greatest Reward provided by the Act of the 12th of Queen Anne; which said Sum of £7500. is to be paid out of any Money in the said Treasurer's Hands, unapplied to the Use of the Navy. The Commissioners of the Longitude at the same Time desire the Commissioners of the Navy, to make cut two Bills, of £50. each, to be paid to
Mr. Mitchell and
Mr. Ludham, to defray their Expences in coming to London, and staying to attend
Mr. Harrison to receive his Discovery; and they likewise desire that the Sum of £25. each may be paid to
Messrs. Bird,
Mudge,
Matthews, and
Kendall, to compensate for their Loss of Time, while attending
Mr. Harrison for the above Purpose. And lastly, they desire that the Sum of £100. be paid to
Mr. Witchell, to enable him to compute, correct, and print 1000 Copies of General Tables invented by him for finding the Effects of Parallex and Refraction."
Extract of a LETTER from Philadelphia, Sept. 7.
"I am now in daily Dread of the Arrival of
Capt. Friend, not only as it is supposed he will bring over a Part of his Cargo in fatal Stamps, but from the dreadful Consequences they are likely to bring upon our Affairs here, and throughout the Continent. It is much to be feared, that the first Importation will be by Mobs committed to the Flames; if this should be the Case, think what a Situation we shall be in; an entire Stagnation to the necessary Business of the Law, our foreign Trade embargoed, and in short nothing but Anarchy and Confusion; our Debts will be entirely at the Mercy of the Debtors, since they cannot be compelled by Law, if no Stamps can be procured. I pray God these Fears may prove groundless; however, I cannot but be extremely anxious, for our Trade is already reduced to a deplorable Condition; we have little Money left, so that we cannot fell our Goods for Cash; and though we fell at six Months Credit, yet we cannot get our Debts in Twelve or Eighteen, for which we can get no Interest. It would be well if Interest could be made to get the Stamp-Tax on the Colonies repealed immediately. Such appears to be the desperate Disposition of some of the Colonies, that it is to be feared they will rather meet Ruin in any, or all its dreadful Forms, than to submit to what they so generally account a Violation of their Liberties as Englishmen. And though People at a Distance may imagine it will be no hard Task to quell the Disturbance it may occasion; I am, with many more fearful it cannot be done, but at the Expence of much Blood, if then; and even the Attempt must produce abundant Confusion and Disturbance, as well in the Mother-Country as Colonies, and expose both to Danger from their designing Neighbour, who will not fail to make an Advantage of their growing Disaffection to each other."
It is strongly reported, that the Grand Council summoned to meet Yesterday at St.James's, were to take under Consideration some very important Advices from the Continent.
Yesterday the Purser of the Calcutta Indiaman,
Capt. Thompson, came to the India House, with an Account of the above Ship being safe arrived off Beachey from Bombay.
This Day, being the Anniversary of the Birth of Prince Henry - Frederick, his Majesty's Third Brother, who entered into the Twenty-first Year of his Age, his Majesty received the Compliments of the Nobility upon the said Occasion.
It is true that some favourable Symptoms have appeared in the Case of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick.
When a certain Great Personage was asked, very lately, concerning the Disorder he has the Unhappiness to labour under, the Answer was, that he feared it would be impossible for him, in his then Situation, to last many Days, and added,
Had it been my Fate to have been the Son of a poor Man, I should, in all Probability, have long since recovered,
It is said that her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia intends to employ the most indigent of the poor Men, who , by the Death of her Royal Brother have been discharged, in her Gardens at Gunnersbury House.
It is also said that his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, had formed a Plan, a little before his Death, for building and endowing a Military Hospital, near Windsor, for the Reception and Maintenance of Fifty super-annuated Soldiers, who had served under him in his Campaigns in Germany, and at the Battle of Culloden.
The Regard shewn to the Memory of his late Royal Highness by their Majesties retiring to Richmond, and not appearing at Chapel, is as affectionate, as it is singular. It is said that his late Majesty never absented himself from Chapel on the Death of the Prince of Wales, or any of the Princesses his Daughters.
The last Instance of a Demise in the Royal Family, in the same Degree of Kindred to the Crown as his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, was the Bishop of Osnaburg, Uncle to King George the Second; which was taken as a Precedent for a Court-Mourning
only on the present Occasion. But no sooner were proper Representations made to his Majesty, that the Desire of his Subjects was to express their common Regard to his Royal Highness's Memory by a like Token, and that great Numbers in Trade had already deeply interested themselves on the Occasion, than. Orders were graciously issued out for a General Mourning: A Mark of Condescension and Goodness that will undoubtedly be remembered to his Majesty's lasting Honour !
Tuesday all the Livery Servants, belonging to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, received Notice that they are displaced.
We hear his Royal Highness had constantly upwards of forty Livery Servants at Newmarket, Men and Boys.
The late Countess of Yarmouth is reported to have left by Will, a very considerable Sum of Money to his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
They write from Augustembourg in Holstein, that on the 16th of last Month died there, aged 67 Years, her Serene Highness the Princess Sophia-Louisa of Holstein Sundersbourg, Aunt to the reigning Duke of that Name.
Monday one
Walter Willy, a Brewer's Servant, eat, at a Publick House in Aldersgate-Street, a roasted Goose, that weighed six Pounds, a Quartern Loaf, and drank three Quarts of Porter in an Hour and eighteen Minutes, for a Wager of Two Guineas. He had an Hour and a Half allowed him to eat it in.
On Tuesday last at St.Luke's Fair, at Newcastle, a Person wanting to buy a Draught-Horse, asked the Price of one that appeared for his Purpose; and the Account of him being pretty satisfactory to one Question, "If he would draw well," the Seller, with a very significant Shrug, said, "Ah, Friend ! let HIM ALONE
for that ! which the Buyer taking in the wrong Sense, the Bargain was struck. But on Trial, the Horse would not stretch a Trace. On which he went in a violent Passion to upbraid the Seller, who answered,
Friend, did not I tell thee to let HIM ALONE
for that; which was all the Satisfaction he could get.
The following was sent us as a true Anecdote: A Captain in the Navy, remarkable for his Honour and Presence of Mind, travelling with his Servant on the Road between London and Canterbury, observed a Man tolerably well dressed and mounted, taking a prodigious Liking to his Company, sometimes riding a little ahead, and then sometimes a little a-stern, but always keeping an attentive Eye on him.-.-.- The Captain never imagined he would have the Impudence to board him till he came along-side of him. and very genteelly asked what it was o'Clock? To which the Captain, taking out his Watch, as genteelly answered
This is a Gold Watch, my Servant' s is a Silver one; I have Fifty Guineas in my Pocket, two Brace of Pistols loaded, and it is just Twelve o'Clock. Upon which pertinent Reply, the Gentleman tacked about and immediately sheered off.
DIED.] --
This Afternoon, at his House in Clifford-Street, Baron de Gross, Ambassador from the Empress of Russia.
Sunday's and Monday's POSTS.
AMERICA.
CHARLES TOWN, September 11.
BY the Proceedings of the Assembly of Barbadoes; published in the Barbadoes Mercury, it appears, that Letters had been received by
Governor Pinfold from
Admiral Tyrrel and
Capt. Knowles of the Milford, giving Accounts that the said Captain being sent to observe what the French were doing at Cayenne and the Triangles, he discovered several Ships of War and other Vessels in the River Cayenne, and ashore a great Number of Tents and some Buildings, and imagined the French were laying up a very great Magazine supplied from North America,
Capt. Knowles having seized a Brigantine from Philadelphia cleared out for Barbadoes, with Provisions and Naval Stores, but by the Invoices and Bills of Lading, bound for Cayenne, and had Letters to the French Governor there. The said Brigantine was Condemned in Barbadoes for illicit Trade; and by Papers found on board it appears, that
Mess. John Remson and
Thomas Rich, of Philadelphia, have entered into Contract for supplying the French at Cayenne.
The Assembly of Barbadoes has directed all the Papers relating to the French Enterprizes at Cayenne and the Triangles, as well as those concerning the Philadelphia Contract for supplying the French, to be transmitted Home to the Agent for that Island, with Orders to lay them before his Majesty's Ministers.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN,
Nov. 2. A Committee is appointed to enquire into the Expenditure of the several Sums granted by Parliament during the last Session; and also to enquire into what Progress has been made in the several Works for which the said Money was granted.
Leave is given to bring in the Heads of a Bill for the reducing the Interest of Money in this Kingdom; also for the more effectual Support of the Clergy, and the Vindication of their Rights.
COUNTRY NEWS.
BATH,
Nov. 4. An Express was dispatched here on Friday Night to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who was then in the Ball Room, with the affecting News of the Death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Musick and all Diversions are stopped. The Princess of Brunswick was expected here with his Serene Highness; but it is now feared that this unhappy Circumstance may prevent it, and spoil a most promising Season. The Death of a certain Lady here has been followed by a publick Sale of her Clothes, Jewels, &c. in order to discharge certain Demands; which is looked upon as rather whimsical, at least, in her surviving Husband. - The Uncertainty of the intended Mourning puts the Ladies of Bath into an unspeakable Consternation, who, unwilling to be wrong, and too impatient to wait for Tuesday's Gazette, are ordering their Crapes, Bombazeens, Black Silks, and
Etcetera's, from London by Waggon Loads.
OXFORD,
Nov. 8. On Wednesday the
Rev. William Newcomb, Vice-Principal of Hertford College; and First Chaplain to his Excellency the
Earl of Hertford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was admitted to the Degree of Doctor in Divinity.
On Wednesday Evening a Fire broke out in the Spinning-House and Workshop of
Mr. John Payne; in the Back of St. Helen's in Abingdon, Berks, which was extinguished without any considerable Damage; but for want of a proper Watch, and due Care, about One o'Clock next Morning, the Flames broke out afresh with such Fury, that the whole Building, together with all the Stock and Utensils, were entirely destroyed; as likewise some small Tenements adjoining. The Loss is said to amount to upwards of £1200.
LONDON, SATURDAY, November 9.
A Rumour prevails, that the Language of a certain Foreign Court is of late strangely altered; for which various shrewd Conjectures are assigned by Politicians at the West End of the Town.
Yesterday Dispatches of Importance were received at
Mr. Secretary Conway's Office in Privy-Garden, Whitehall, from our Commanders in Chief in the West Indies.
Lawn Sleeves for North America go a-begging; and a certain Vicar, with his Code, is said now to be sailing for them here, by Russia and the Isle of Bute.
The Presents which
Hamet Aga Joyday-Effendi; Ambassador from the Bey of Tripoli, hath brought over for his Majesty, consist of the following Particulars, viz. some Arabian Manuscripts, twelve Barbary Horses, a Saddle curiously ornamented according to the Turkish Manner, six Lions, two Tigers, four Ostriches, and one Eagle.
Letters from all the French Ports are filled with melancholy Accounts of the Damages done on their Coasts by excessive high Winds, which continued almost the whole Month of October.
WAR OFFICE,
Nov.6, 1765. His Majesty does not .... that the Officers of the Army (except those of his Life[?] and Foot Guards) should wear any other Mourning on the present melancholy Occasion, than a Black Crape , Scarfe round the Arm, and Black Crape Sword-Knot, with their Uniforms, except when they come to Court.
By his Majesty's Command,
BARRINGTON.
Yesterday, at Noon
Mr. Alderman Nelson, Lord Mayor Elect for the Year ensuing, was sworn at Guildhall, when the Chain and other Ensigns of Mayoralty, were surrendered to him in the accustomed Manner. And this Day the new Lord Mayor, accompanied by the late Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, &c. went in a private Manner to Westminster-Hall; and after the usual Ceremonies were over, returned in the same private Manner back to the Mansion-House.
It is reported that some Removals among the superior Officers in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, of which his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was formerly Colonel, will soon take Place.
We are informed that his Royal Highness Prince Henry-Frederick will be created Duke of Lancaster before the Meeting of an august Assembly, when the Sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds, the same his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland enjoyed before the Rebellion in 1745, will be settled as a Provision for his Royal Highness.
The late Duke of Cumberland's House in Upper Grosvenor-Street is to be fitted up for the Reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.
By the Death of the Countess of Yarmouth the Title becomes extinct; but her Ladyship died possessed of a Pension of £4000. on the Irish Establishment for thirty Years, which has now about twenty-six Years to run.
They write from Hanover, that the Remains of the late Countess of Yarmouth were carried in grand Funeral Pomp, to the Church in the Garden there, and interred in the Vault belonging to her Family. The Church was illuminated with 500 Wax Candles.
A few Days ago a Hussar, one of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland's Dependents, went to his Highness's chief Page, and told him it was not in his Power to put on Mourning for his late Royal Master, but if he would be so good as to give him a Suit of clothes of the Duke's, he would get them made up for him:, The Page granted his Request, and immediately brought him out a Suit of Black, which when he had carried home, in examining the Pockets, he found a small Pocket-Book, containing several Memorandums, and Bank-Notes to the Value of £1987. Sterling, all which he carefully sealed up, and returned to the Gentleman he had the Clothes of, who promised to get him handsomely rewarded for his Honesty.
The vacant Red Garter, late
Sir Charles Howard's, we bear is intended for the gallant
Sir William Johnson, now in America.
A very popular Speaker [
Colonel Baree] in a certain august Assembly is said to have refused a joint Vice Treasureship for Ireland; and it is added, that he generously declared he never would accept of an Employment where nothing was to be done for his Salary.
We are told, that the Contest between the two Candidates for the Borough of Southwark, is very near being compromised.
Yesterday came on the Election for a Minister of Peterstow, in Herefordshire, (in the Gift of the Governors of Guy's Hospital, and worth upwards of Two Hundred, Pounds per Annum) when the
Rev. Mr. William Lucas was chosen by a great Majority. There were 6 Candidates.
The
Rev. William Martin, B.A. was on Monday last presented to the Vicarage of Overton, in the County of Salop, and Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, void by the Cession of the late Incumbent.
A few Days ago the
Rev. Mr. William Daniel, B.C.L. late of Lincoln College, Oxford, was presented to the Living of Stretton upon Dunmore, in the County of Warwick, and Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, void by the Death of the late Incumbent.
The Cargo of the Calcutta East-Indiaman consists, of 31,389 Pieces of Goods of different Sorts, with 1600 lb. of Cotton-Yarn, 374,600 lb. of Pepper, 67,500lb. of Red Wood, 600,400lb. of Salt Petre, and several other Parcels of Goods not yet known.
We hear that all the Guard-Ships are ordered to take on board their middle Complement of Men.
Thursday Morning, soon after Three o'Clock, a most terrible Fire broke out at a Peruke-Maker's, the End of Bishopsgate-Street, next Cornhill, when the Wind being high and westerly, the Flames soon spread to the opposite Side, and set Fire to a Milliner's, and it being some Time before Assistance could be got, the Fire soon communicated itself to all the four Corners at that Place, which were burning at one Time: The Pastry-cooks House, the upper End of Cornhill, is greatly damaged ; the opposite Pastry-cook's, the Corner of Gracechurch-Street, is entirely destroyed; all the Houses from the Corner of Cornhill to the Church of St.Martin's Outwich, the Corner of Threadneedle-Street, excepting the Parsonage-House, are consumed; and the said Church likewise taking Fire, a Part of the Steeple was soon burnt down, whereby the great Bell in it fell with a prodigious Noise; the Inside of the Church was next consumed, and the Flames spread to the Back of Threadneedle-Street, where several Houses are entirely burnt to the Ground. From the Corner of Leadenhall-Street, on both Sides, all along the said Street to the Market-Gate, the Buildings are destroyed, so that on the Whole it is computed, that about a Hundred Houses are consumed, and that more Damage has been sustained by this Fire, than in the late dreadful Fire in Cornhill, on March 25, 1748, which Iikewise began at a Peruke Maker's. A Woman and Child, with six other Persons, are said to be burnt, and two Houses falling down in Bishopsgate-Street, several People were buried under the Ruins, two of whom were, killed on the Spot, the others were carried, maimed to the Hospitals. The Flames were so rapid, that the unhappy Sufferers had scarce Time to save any of their Effects. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor attended in Person, and was very active in affording Assistance; several Parties of the Guards were sent for from the Tower.
Several Houses in White-Lion-court are burnt down. The White-Lion Tavern in that Court was sold on Wednesday Night, about Nine o'Clock, for between Two an Three Thousand Pounds, but it is hoped the Gentleman who bought it will be able to recover his Money, though there was not Time to transfer the Policy before the Accident happened. Merchant-Taylor's Hall is greatly damaged, and one of the Kitchens entirely demolished.
The Fire stopt in Bishopsgate-Street at
Mr. Nesbitt's; and at the Black Bull in Leadenhall-Street.
The following is the List of the principal Part of the unhappy Sufferers' Houses burnt down by the late Fire.- In Bishopsgate-Street,
Mr. Rutland, the Barber, where the Fire broke out;
Mr. Marjerum, Tinman;
Mr. Jarvis, at the Black-Lion, Black-Lion-court; and two other Houses in the said Court.
Mr. Merry, the Stationer, who has lost almost his whole Effects, as have several others.
Mr. Clements, Tallow-chandler:
Mr. Deputy Long;
Mr. John Long, Broker;
Mr. Cam, Thread-Maker;
Mr. Nesbit's House much damaged;
Mr. Higenbotham's, China Shop;
Messrs. Coxeter and Co. Milleners;
Mr. Kingsley, Attorney; the House much damaged: On the opposite Side the Way,
Mr. Fenn, Hosier,
Miss Thomson, Haberdasher; the White-Lion Tavern;
Mr. John Burden, Tobacconist; some Houses in a Court behind
Mr. Burden's;
Messrs. Le Cras and
Le Gross, Merchants;
Miss Huddleston, Milliner;
Mr. Reeves, at the Academy ;
Mr. Guy, Gun-Maker;
Mrs. Holt, Haberdasher;
Messrs. Cooper and
Ward, Packers;
Mrs. Moterhead's Beer-Warehouse, and some others. In Threadneedle-Street,
Mr. Liddal and
Mr. Metcalf, Attornies, burnt down;
Mr. Spence and Son, others damaged. In White-Lion-court, Cornhill,
Dr. Sylvester;
Mr. Neal, Taylor, and some others. In Cornhill,
Mr. Clever, Woollen-Draper;
Mr. Shapley, Upholder;
Messrs. Button and Co. Upholders;
Mr. Lamb, Stationer;
Mr. Vaux, Haberdasher;
Mr. Pyefinch, Optical Instrument-Maker. In Leadenhall-Street,
Mr. Wareham, Cook;
Mrs. Coates, Millener;
Mr. Hardy, Hardware Shop;
Mr. Merriman, Box-Maker;
Mr. Farnham, Cook;
Messrs. Treadway and Co. Glovers;
Mr. Thornton, the Nag's Head Tavern;
Mr. Ware, Woollen-Draper;
Mr. Hynge, at the Bull-Inn, partly burnt down, and some others. In Gracechurch-Street, the Back-Part of
Messrs. Gillman and
Allen's burnt down.
A young Gentlewoman in her Shift jumped out of a Two-pair-of-Stairs' Window, of a House on Fire in Leadenhall-Street, to which she was encouraged by the Crowd below, who received her in their Arms, and she had the good Fortune to escape with very little Hurt.
The Steeple of St. Martin Outwich Church, is so much damaged, that it is said it must be wholely rebuilt.
A Gentleman standing in the Porch of St. Michael's Church, in Cornhill, to see the Fire, had his Watch pickt out of his Pocket, worth 25 Guineas.
Some Persons were detected in stealing the Effects of the unhappy Sufferers, who were sent to the Compters by the Sitting Magistrates. One of them narrowly escaped being burnt to Death, the Populace having seized him, and threw him into the Flames; but by the Interposition of a Peace Officer, they dragged him to the Poultry Compter.
An eminent Taylor of White-Lion-court, burnt out by the Fire, lost one hundred and forty Suits of Cloaths.
Yesterday Morning early a Fire broke out at the Back of
Mrs. Weeler's, a Chandler's Shop in the Cross-Street, Islington, supposed to be set on Fire by a Man who was seen lurking about the Place; which consumed the House where it began, and damaged two others adjoining. Had it not been for a strong Party-Wall, a great deal of Mischief must have been done.
We are informed, that a Collection is already begun in several Parishes in the City, for the Benefit of the unhappy Sufferers by the late dreadful Fire in Cornhill.
Yesterday Morning, the Judgment obtained by
Mr. Dryden Leach in the Court of Common Pleas, in Consequence. of his Verdict found at Guildhall, in December, 1763, against
Mess. Money,
Watson, and
Blackmore, three of his Majesty's Messengers (who entered his House, and arrested. and imprisoned him, under a General Warrant issued by the Right Hon. the
Earl of Halifax, late one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, as the Printer of the original
North Briton, Number 45) was affirmed by the unanimous Opinion of the Court of King's Bench, upon the Writ of Error and Bill of Exceptions brought by the Defendant. By this important Decision
Mr. Leach now recovers his Four Hundred Pounds Damages, with all Costs of Suit. This is the first final Determination of the numerous Actions which have been commenced against the Secretaries of State and Messengers, &c.
The Cause between
Mr. Wilkes and
Mr. Wood, it is apprehended, will be ended this Term.
Thursday was committed to New Prison,
Edward Bonson,charged with committing (in Company with one
Evan Parry, not yet taken), most of the Burglaries that have been committed round Town for some Months past.
On Wednesday a Woman of Cold-Bath-Fields, aged 74, who had acquired upwards of Eight Thousand Pounds by letting out Figures for Hackney Coaches, Chairs, &c. was married to a Post-Chaise Driver, not yet 27 Years old.: The Bride was so feeble that she was carried in a Chair to Church.
Thursday Morning an antient Man, well dressed in a Suit of Grey Cloaths, and Blue-Grey Great Coat, was found drowned in the Horse Pond of a Stable Yard in Gray's Inn Lane -: It's said he's a Countryman. He had a Watch and some Money in his Pockets.
An ANECDOTE.
THE King of
Prussia, by Means of Mr.
Pitt, obtained the Pardon of
George Keith, Lord
Marishal of Scotland, from the late King
George. Mr
Pitt improved on this, and as Lord
Marishal was well known to the Grandees of
Spain, and they believed him to be in their Interest, as at that Time he was the
Prussian Minister at that Court, they communicated the Family-compact to him, and he, as in Duty bound to his new Sovereign, communicated the same to Mr.
Pitt.
This alludes to Mr.
Pitt's being certainly apprised of the Secret. When Mr.
Pitt proposed the seising of the Galleons, he was opposed, and questioned concerning his Information, when, with Reluctance, he shewed the Letter from Lord
Marishal. On this the late Lord
Hardwicke observed,
that a Halter was once round that Nobleman's Neck, but now more sure; alluding to his returning to Spain, where they would have finished him. Lord
Marishal was then on Ship-board, at
Portsmouth on his Way to
Spain; Lord
Egremont wrote to him; upon which he returned, and went by the Way of
Holland, to his Government of
New Chattel, without going to
Spain, where he has never been since. The End proved the Information true, and that Mr.
Pitt's Plan was what ought to have been adopted.-
Such is ministerial Intelligence; and this is mentioned as a Key to that Part of the History of the Times.
Intelligence Extraordinary.
THE Word Expected, in the
Earl Marshal's Order for a General Mourning, seems that it does not much signify whether we mourn or not for his late Royal Highness; and if we do, it must be Decent Mourning: Which Words are of a vague and undetermined Signification.--QUERY,
Whether a Person who has at present a Green Coat and Waistcoat, with Buttons of the same Colour, and should change those Buttons for Black, may not wear that without being called indecent.
Wednesday's and Thursday's POSTS.
LONDON, TUESDAY, November 12.
IT is said that nothing but a categorical Answer from the Court of Versailles now prevents the Ministry from taking up all the Canada Bills at Par, and that his Grace the
Duke of Richmond has, in last Friday Night's Dispatches, received final Instructions in Regard to this long procrastinated Affair.
The Canada Bills have lately fallen at Paris 1 1/2 per Cent. from 34 1/4 to 33 per Cent. This Fall is attributed to the French Court having demanded Satisfaction for their Ships taken by the English Men of War at Newfoundland, which has been refused, and, in Course, a Stop put to the final Liquidation of their Bills.
Count Guerchy, the French Embassador at our Court, it is said, will finally leave this Kingdom about March next.
It is reported, that fresh Instructions were last Week dispatched to the Governors of our Garrisons abroad, in Consequence of some late Advices received.
They write from Rochfort, that the Bricole Frigate sailed the 30th ult. with Dispatches for the French Commandant at St.Peter's, near Newfoundland.
By Letters from Bristol we are advised, that the whole crew of a French Ship, slaving at Buisso, on the Coast of Africa, was poisoned by the Natives on Shore, in Bowls of Palm Wine and Cocoa Milk, on Account of some Liberties taken with their Women.
On Friday the 1st Inst. there was a very numerous Meeting of Gentlemen at the Castle of Exeter, in order to draw up a Petition to Parliament for a total Repeal of the Cyder Act.
They write from Dublin, that the Art of brewing Porter is brought to such Perfection there, that they in a little Time will have no Occasion to import it from London, which they have for many Years been accustomed to do, to the Value of many Thousand Pounds per Annum. They add, that the Dublin Society lately adjudged a Premium of £60. and upwards, to be paid to
Mr. Thomas Andrews, Brewer, on the Poddle, being. at the Rate of One Penny per Gallon, for 19,958 Gallons of Porter brewed by him since June 1, 1764.
Private Letters from Dublin advise, that the Heads of a Bill for registering the Number of Roman Catholicks in Ireland, were actually preparing to be brought into Parliament.
The Bishop of London has sent Letters to the Clergy of his Diocese, requiring that they will cause diligent Search to be made after private Mass-Houses; and to transmit to his Lordship an exact Account of the Number of Catholicks in their several Parishes.
Last Night his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William rested but very indifferently.
Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Gloucester set out for Bath.
We are informed that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will be elected Chancellor of the University of Dublin, in the Room of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
It is whispered that certain Papers, of the Iast Importance, have been found in the Cabinet of a deceased Personage; being a complete Key to many secret Transactions during the last ten Years.
It is said Seven Thousand Pounds have been offered by a Noble Sportsman for the Running Horses of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland .
It is said, that Yesterday £500. were collected in Cornhill Ward only, for the Sufferers by the late Fire.- The Number of Houses burnt down by the said Fire, it is now said, amount but to fifty-one.
The Ironmongers Company have ordered £100. to be given towards the Relief of the Sufferers by the before-mentioned Fire: And it is said that the Managers of both Theatres have generously resolved to give a Benefit Play for their Relief.
The following extraordinary Circumstance happened on Thursday Morning at a Grocer's, in Gracechurch-Street: - Upon the first Alarm of Fire the Porter ran up into his Master's Warehouse to procure some Fire-Bags, and in his Hurry, instead of returning down Stairs, stepped out of the Warehouse-Door, and fell upon his Feet two Stories high in to the paved Yard; and, notwithstanding he fell from so considerable a Height, he did not receive any Injury.
We hear, that the Child of a Tradesman in Bishopsgate-Street, during the Time of the Fire, was removed by its Parents to the House of a Friend in Threadneedle-Street, for Security; but the Flames spreading to the last-mentioned Street, the Master and Mistress of the House removed their Effects; but, having no Children of their own, unluckily forgot the Child of their Friend, who is supposed to have perished, having been missing ever since.
We are informed that some of the Firemen are missing, who were on Thursday at Work in extinguishing the Fire in Bishopsgate-Street, and that one of them had the Misfortune to fall from the Top of a House three Stories high, by which Accident he broke both his Legs, and was directly carried to the Hospital to be taken Care of: But the Accounts that six Men were buried in the Ruins of the Sugar-Loaf Alehouse; and that a Woman was killed by the Fall of a stack of Chimnies are both groundless.
Yesterday a threatening Letter was found, sealed up, laid under the Door of a Tradesman near St.Paul's, written in a very bad Hand, containing,
These Houses shall be burnt, October 11, 1765.
On Wednesday se'nnight a very melancholy Affair happened at Tid St. Mary, hear Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: A young Lady, who had been married but a few Months, on Account of some trifling insignificant Affronts from her Husband, who had indulged her in several Articles of a very expensive Nature, took it into her Head to shoot herself. The Preparations for doing it were very extraordinary : She had declared in Publick that her Life would not be long; and in her own Family, that she was determined to put an End to it some Way or other. She wrote a Couple of Letters to her Brothers the Day before; was remarkably chearful in the Evening over a Game of Cards; took a solemn Leave of some Acquaintance, who were in the Family, at Night; and afterwards, it is supposed, convey'd, unobserved, the Gun into her Chamber. Early the next Morning, as soon as her Husband was risen, she tied on her lower Garments, planted the Muzzle of the Piece to her Ear, and with the Help of a Poker drew the Trigger, and blew her Skull and Brains against the Ceiling, and all about the Room. The Coroner's Jury brought in their Verdict,
Lunacy.
Funeral Procession of the late Duke of CUMBERLAND.
ON Saturday Evening the Remains of his late Royal Highness, which had been removed the Night before from Grosevenor-Square to the Painted Chamber, were convey'd from thence across Old Palace Yard to Westminster Abbey, and privately interred in the Royal Vault in King Henry the Seventh's Chapel. About Ten o'Clock the Procession began to move, upon a Floor railed in, covered with black Cloth, and lined on each Side with a Party of the Foot Guards, in the following Order:
Drums and Trumpets
Sounding a solemn March, with Banners attached to the Trumpets and Drums, and adorned with proper Military Trophies; the Drums covered with Black.
The Serjeant Trumpeter.
Knight Marshals Men.
Gentlemen, Servants to his Royal Highness.
Page of the Presence.
Page of the Back Stairs.
Pages of Honour.
Physicians.
Chaplains.
Equerries.
Secretary.
Pursuivants of Arms.
Heralds of Arms.
Comptroller of his R.H. Houshold. Treasurer of his R.H. Houshold.
An Herald.
Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Houshold.
An Officer of Arms.
The Gentleman of the Horse to his Royal Highness.
A Gentleman Usher, The Coronet borne by a King of Arms, A Gentleman Usher.
The BODY.
Covered with a Holland Sheet and black Velvet Pall, adorned with Eight Escutcheons of his Royal Highness's Arms, under a Canopy of black Velvet, borne by the following General Officers, viz. Generals Sir John Mordaunt, Cholmondeley, Lord George Beauclerk, Conway, Cornwallis, Howard, Rich, Honeywood, Durand, Webb, and Sir Jeffery Amherst, being in their Uniforms, and having Sallies covered with Crape, and Crape in their Hats, and on their Arms.-- The Pall supported by the Lords Abergavenny, Cadogan, Sonds, and Grantham.
A Gentleman Usher . Garter Principal King of Arms . A Gent. Usher.
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Assistants to the Chief Mourner, viz. Earl of Peterborough, Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Harrington, Earl Cornwallis, Earl Talbot, (Lord Steward of his Majesty's Houshold), Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Pomfret; Earl Harcourt.
A Gentleman Usher.
The three Lords of his Royal Highness's Bedchamber, viz.
Lord Frederick Cavendish -- Earl of Albemarle -- Earl of Ancram.
The Grooms of his Royal Highness's Bedchamber, viz.
Major Gen. Fitzwilliam -- Major Gen. Boscawen -- Col. Sandys.
N.B. Lords, Lords Sons, and Privy Councillors, were likewise called over, and some attended.
The Procession began a few Minutes before Ten, at which Time a Rocket was played off from a Barge, covered with Black, which lay off the Parliament House, as a Signal for a second to be thrown up at London Bridge, which was immediately answered by the Artillery at the Tower, which continued firing once a Minute till the Ceremony was ended, during which the great Bell at St. Paul's and the Bells at many other Churches, tolled.
At the Entrance within the Church the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the Choir, received the Body; and fell into Procession just before the Officer of Arms, who preceded the Lord Chamberlain; and so proceeded into King Henry the VIIth's Chapel; where the Body was deposited on Tressels, the Head towards the Altar; the Coronet and Cushion being laid upon the Coffin, and the Canopy held over it, while the Service was read by the Dean of Westminster; the Chief Mourner, and his two Supporters, sitting on Chairs, placed for them at the Head of the Corpse; the Lords Assistants and Supporters of the Pall on Stools on either Side, the Supporters of the Pall being nearest the Body.
The Part of the Service before the Interment being read, the Corpse was deposited in the Vault, the Dean having the Sub-dean on his Right Hand, and Garter on the Left, standing at the lower End of the Opening of the Vault.
The Corpse being interred, the Dean went on with the Office of Burial; which ended, Garter King of Arms proclaimed his Royal Highness' s Title, which ended the Ceremony.
Twenty-one Pieces of Artillery were drawn into the Park to fire Minute Guns during the Procession and Ceremony.
Three Battalions, viz. one of each Regiment of Guards, were drawn up in St. Margaret's Church-Yard, to fire Volleys as soon as the Body was deposited.
[The outward Coffin of his late Royal Highness was made of the finest Mahogany, covered with Crimson Velvet, the Inscription-Plate and Handles were all solid Silver; it was exactly seven Feet in Length, three Feet six Inches over, and two Feet six Inches deep.]
BANKRUPTS required to surrender.
Benjamin Blower, of Worcester, Butcher; to appear Nov. 26, Dec.9, 21, at the Hop-Pole in Worcester.- William Killingsworth, of Wapping-Street, Middlesex, Sailmaker; to appear Nov. 13, 28, Dec.21, at Guildhall.- George Dighton, of Ludgate-hill, Vintner; to appear Nov.15, 26, Dec.21, at Guildhall. - John Howson, of St.Bride's, London, Jeweller; to appear Nov.15, 22, Dec.21, at Guildhall. - James Wrench, of Camomile-Street, London, Coachmaker; to appear Nov.16, 20, Dec.21, at Guildhall. - Joseph Thomlinson, of Virginia-Street, Middlesex, Merchant; to appear Nov.16, 25, Dec. 24, at Guildhall.
GENTLEMEN nominated to serve the Office of SHERIFF
for the ensuing Year.
Cheshire,
Sir Lister Holt, Bart.
Sir Bryan Broughton Delves, Bart.
Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart. -
Gloucestershire,
Nigel Kingscote, of Kingscote, Esq;
Thomas Edwards Freeman, of Batsford, Esq;
Powell Snell, of Guiting Power, Esq; --
Herefordshire,
Richard Gorges, of Eye, Esq;
Harcourt Aubrey, of Clehonger, Esq;
John Peploe Birch of Garnstone, Esq; --
Monmouthshire,
Thomas John Medlicot, of Monmouth, Esq;
William Winsmore, of Pant y Goitre, Esq;
William Barnes, of Penterry, Esq; -
Oxfordshire,
Edmund Blewitt, of Salford, Esq;
William Humphrey Wykham, of Swacliff, Esq;
Thomas Rollinson, of Chadlington East, Esq; --
Shropshire,
John Smith, of Stoke, Esq;
Humphrey Sandford, of The Isle, Esq;
Charles Pigott, of Peplow; Esq; ----
Somersetshire,
Charles Tudway, of the City of Wells, Esq;
James Tooker, of Chilcompton, Esq;
Joseph Combes, of Shepton. Mallet, Esq; --
Staffordshire,
William Inge, of Thorp Constantine, Esq;
Thomas Hoo, of Barr, Esq;
Edward Mainwaring, of Whitmore, Esq; --
Warwickshire,
John Bree, of Bewshall, Esq;
John Shuckburgh, of Bourton, Esq;
Egerton Bagot, of Pipehall, Esq; -
Worcestershire,
John Baker, of Hartlebury, Esq;
Thomas Cookes, of Harvington, Esq;
Plukenet Woodroff, of Wychenford, Esq;
BIRMINGHAM,
Nov. 15. Saturday Fortnight, about Ten o'Clock at Night, one
Green, alias
Falkin, a Collier, and another Collier, commonly known by the Name of Shropshire Jack, having some Difference at Bilston concerning a Woman who was in Company with them,
Green stabbed the other with a Knife in the Left-Breast; and the poor Man languished in a miserable Way till last Wednesday Night, and then expired: The Coroner's Inquest sat on the Body last Saturday, and brought in their Verdict, Wilful Murder. On the Surgeon's opening the Body, it appeared that the Knife had pierced the lower Part of his Heart.
Green has absconded.
This Morning, about Three o'Clock, a Fire broke out in a Casting-Shop belonging to
Mr. Sawyer, Spoon-Maker, in Edmund-Street, which burnt down the same and all the Shopping over it.
WORCESTER, November 14.
Yesterday
Major General John Parslow reviewed here the Regiment of Scots Greys, who made a most grand Appearance, and gave great Satisfaction in their Exercise and Evolutions.-- After the Review, the General entertained all the Officers of the Regiment with a very elegant Dinner at the Bell Inn.
At our Market, last Saturday, 373 Pockets of Hops were sold; the Prices from £5. 12s. to £6. 10s. per Hundred.
On Saturday last
John Tolley, of the Parish of Claines, was committed to our County Goal, for stealing a Fat Hog, the Property of
Mr. Samuel Brooks, of the said Parish. And Yesterday was committed to the said Goal, one
Mary Honeybourn, charged, by the Coroner's Inquisition, on a View of the· Body of a new-born Female Bastard Child. lying dead at Hob Lench, in the Parish of Fladbury, with the Wilful Murder of the said Child.
On Monday last one
John Williams, a Breeches-Maker, was committed to our City Goal, being charged with feloniously breaking into the Warehouse of
Mr. Thomas Wickins, Glover, and stealing thereout 11 Wash Lamb-Skins, in the Rough; 20 White Lamb-Skins; 12 strong Wash Sheep-Skins; and four Tan Lamb-Skins; the Property of the said
Mr. Wickins. - Part of the Leather had been hid in a Dunghill, and there accidentally found but a little Time before
Williams came to fetch it away, by some People who happen'd to have Occasion to remove some of the Dung. Upon its being gone, he had the Imprudence as well as Assurance to make Enquiry after it, and it being in the mean Time discover'd whose Property it was, he was secured.
One Day, last Week, as pleasant a Scene of Modern Luxury was exhibited in the Neighbourhood of this City as, perhaps, even the Capital can boast of. A Gipsy Man and his Trull and Daughters were regaling themselves with Tea, under a Hedge of Sheerlench Pasture. The
Lady was reclined on a Bundle which contained the Wardrobe, the Furniture and travelling Equipage of the whole Family. They were placed round a Fire, with which the adjoining Hedge had supplied them, and had all the Implements of the Tea-Table, Cups, Saucers, Sugar, Cream, Bread and Butter, &c : And, not to be wanting in any Decorum of their Betters, the Footman in Waiting was personated by their Son, a tall, ragged, swarthy Boy, who did not partake of the Entertainment till the Company had breakfasted.
On Saturday last as
Mr. Shipman, a Baker, of Upton-upon-Severn, was returning Home from our Market, he was struck with an Apoplexy, and died on his Horse's Back.
Tuesday the 12th Instant was married at the Chapel of Preston Wynn, in the County of Hereford, the
Rev. Mr. Probert, to
Miss Rebecca Carwardine, of the same Place : An amiable young Lady, possessed of every Qualification essential to the Happiness of the Marriage-State.
A Scheme is on Foot for erecting a General Hospital, near Birmingham, for the Relief of the Sick and Lame.
We hear from Awre, in the County of Gloucester, that on Friday Evening the 1st Instant, two Male Infants, about two Months old, were left, by their unnatural Mother, in a Stone Trough, where Dogs are generally fed, in an Out-House belonging to one of the Officers of the said Parish, but were providentially discovered alive the same Night.
WORCESTER, November 13.
WHEREAS a Collection has been generously encouraged thro' this City, for the Relief of the unhappy Sufferers by the Fire here; it is thought proper to acquaint the Publick, That
Charles Trubshaw Withers, Esq; and
Mr. John Craig, of this City, are willing to receive the Contributions of any that are disposed to send in further Relief.-- There can be no Occasion to say much to recommend a Charity of this Sort. It is easy for every Man to suppose himself in the miserable Situation of the Sufferers; and a Distress, to which everyone is so liable calls for the Attention and Compassion of All. -- It may be proper further to observe, that the Clergy of this City have greatly forwarded the Collection, by a personal Application to their respective Parishioners; and it is hoped, That the Clergy of every Parish where this Paper shall circulate, will afford it the same Assistance. --- The Damage sustained (as appears by the Estimates given in by the several Sufferers) amounts to Three Thousand Pounds and upwards. -- It is proposed, That a Committee shall be formed out of the principal Contributors to dispose of what may be collected, according to the respective Losses or Necessities of the Sufferers.
Intelligence Extraordinary.
SOME Stir of late has been observed about Bouillion; and the
losing Game, which has been playing in - these five Years, is whispered to be now almost won.
BY private Advices we are assured that the ineffable
Dr. Grief of Griefs, who, in various Capacities, has been exercising his Genius at Paris, finding it extremely difficult to subsist merely upon the
Air of France, purposes very speedily to face the Sons of Detraction, by a bold Return to his native Country. After the Example, however, of his old Friend and Seducer, Mr.
Jemmy Twitcher, he determines to relinquish all Share in the present Government, and (despairing to mend the State) once again to retire to his
Cure of Souls.
IT is said that, by particular Orders of the
Favourite, and Cannon taken from the
Rebel Scotch at Culloden, were to have been fired on Saturday Evening, at his Royal Highness's Funeral.
Be this
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION
SACRED to the MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM, Duke of CUMBERLAND, &c.
Of Britain a native Prince,
Defender of his Father's Throne against the Attacks of Rebellion,
Who with equal Valour stood fair
To have repelled with equal Success the French Invasion of his Family's
Electoral Dominions.
IF
That Support, with some Reason requested,
Had not been refused
To him a British Prince,
Which soon after to a German one, so lavishly was granted,
Not only without any Reason at all,
But palpably
Against the Interest, against the Honour of Great Britain :
He made however of that bad Situation into which he had been betrayed
The best Use.
Ever attentive, ever zealous for the Welfare of his beloved Country
He treated, he concluded
The Convention of Closter-Seven,
Which all advantageous as it was to Britain,
If it was not kept inviolate, it was not, at least, HIS Fault,
But when he found
Other Councils, other Measures than British ones,
Fatally, fatally, for this Island prevail,
What did he do ? --
With most transcendent filial Piety and purest Loyalty
He obeyed, without a Murmur, his Father and his King.
While of his own Honour
(Dearer to him than the Life he from that Parent has received)
Virtuously tender, and impatient
Of its being brought into Question in the Face of all Europe,
For the Breach of that Convention
(Whoever broke it)
Which he so happily had made;
Of this Usage, not for himself afflicted, he retired, and resigned those
Employs he judged he could not with Honour longer hold thenceforward.
He, amidst the Shades of private Life,
Shone with a Lustre most placid, most benign, most amiable;
Himself averse from meddling with Publick Affairs;
Till, by his Royal Nephew commanded,
He to that Country
For which he gallantly had fought and bled,
Gave one more Proof how much he valued it’s domestick Peace and
Satisfaction above any Causes of Complaint personal to himself,
And in the truly well-intentioned Patriot sunk
The much injured Prince.
Reader !
Whoe'er thou art,
In Honour to thy Sensibility, humanely drop a Tear on his cold Grave :
Nor fear to injure Truth, when thou shalt sighing say,
Beneath this Tomb reposes
A Prince,
Whose social Virtues were to his Rank, high as it was superior;
A constant Friend, a pious Son,
A tender Brother, an affectionate Uncle,
A loyal Subject, a Benefactor to Mankind,
And most undoubtedly
A LOVER of his COUNTRY.
VERSES from the LONDON PAPERS.
EPITAPH on the Death of his Royal Highness the Duke of
CUMBERLAND.
THAT Death spares none the tomb-pil'd Abbies show,
But now he's grown ingenious in our Woe :
No more on Numbers he employs his Dart,
But strikes the noble and the virtuous Heart :
One single Victim of the Good and Just
Outweighs a Hecatomb of common Dust;
And thus the Fall of Thousands is imply'd,
When this Memento tells that WILLIAM dy'd.
On the Same
JOY shone in every Traitor's Eye,
In Death when WILLIAM slept;
But Freedom, Justice, Charity,
With real Sorrow wept.
On the Same
BOLD Faction rear'd her guilty Head,
Rebellion by her Side,
At length our Enemy is dead,
Exultingly she cry'd.
To whom thus Freedom, full of Grief,
Yet full of Wrath reply'd,
Though you a Foe, and I a Chief,
Lost when great WILLIAM dy'd;
Yet think not Traitors to this Realm,
Think nor you e'er shall rise,
While GEORGE with Prudence guides the Helm,
Your Threat'nings I despise.
Worcestershire.
THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, FREE-HOLDERS, and other Inhabitants of this County, are desired to meet at the
Town - Hall, in
Worcester, on
Thursday next, the 21st Instant, by Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, in order to consider of and to sign a Petition to Parliament, for a Repeal of so much of the late Act as lays an additional Duty on CYDER AND PERRY.
By Order of the COMMITTEE.
This is to Give NOTICE.
THAT
there will be a Meeting of the Trustees for putting into Execution the Act of Parliament for repairing the Reads leading from the Borough of Stratford upon-Avon
to Alcester,
in the County of Warwick,
and from Alcester
to Bromsgrove,
in the County of Worcester,
and other the Roads in the said Act mentioned; to be held at the Angel Inn,
in Alcester,
on Wednesday
the 27th Day of this Instant November,
at Twelve o'Clock.
By Order of the TRUSTEES,
Saulsy. Goode, Clerk.
WORCESTER, Nov. 6, 1765.
To all who in any wise stand indebted to the Estate of the late Mr. WARD, of this City.
AS
the Business I am in, and the Distance I am at, from most of you, makes a personal Application almost impossible; on that Account am obliged to take this publick Method to request the Favour of you to pay Mr. Parker,
Attorney at Law, of to Mr. Wellings,
at the Bell Inn, in this City; or to me at Birmingham; which, when Opportunity offers, will be gratefully acknowledged, by
Your then most obliged humble Servant.
THOMAS WARD.
[On Monday the 25th, instead of the 18th.]
THE
several Creditors of FRANCIS WEBB, the Younger, late of Droitwich, in the County of Worcester, Tallow Chandler, deceased, are desired to meet the Executrix of the said Deceased, at the House of
John Portman,
at the Sign of the Saracen's Head, in Worcester, on Monday the 25th Instant (instead of the 18th, as before advertised, the Meeting on that Day not being convenient) by Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, in order to inspect the Accounts of the Debts and Credits of the said Deceased, and consult on some special Affairs relating to the said Executorship. - N.B.
There would have been a Dividend made before, but it was postpon'd on Account of a Bond Debt, which is now paid in.
THE
several Creditors of THOMAS HARRIS,
late of Kidderminster, in the County of Worcester, Soap-Boiler, deceased, are desired to send an Account of their respective Demands to Mr. Wheeler,
Attorney at Law, at Winterford, near Kidderminster : And all Persons that stand any Ways indebted to the Estate of the said THOMAS HARRIS,
are desired to pay their respective Debts to the said Mr. Wheeler, on or before the 25th of December next.
Several SUMS of MONEY to be put out on good Securities :- Apply to the said Mr. Wheeler.
NOVEMBER 12, 1765.
ALL
Persons who have any Demand on JOHN BRIAN,
of the Parish of Abberley, in the County of Worcester, Farmer, are desired to send in an Account of the Debts to them respectively owing, and on what Security, to Mr. George Norris,
of Droitwich, Attorney at Law, in order that the same may be discharged :- And all Persons indebted to the said JOHN BRIAN,
are desired to pay the same to the said Mr. Norris
(who is legally authorised to receive such Debts) or they will be sued without further Notice.
N.B.
A net and substantial FOUR-WHEEL CHAISE
to be Sold, enquire of Mr. William Evans,
at the Rose and Crown Inn, Worcester.
ALL
Persons who have any Demands on the Estate and Effects of the late Mr. THOMAS POWELL,
of the City of Worcester, Wherry-Man, deceased, are desired immediately to send in an Account of their respective Demands to Mr. Francis Mullings,
and Mr. Joseph Mann,
of the same Place, Executors, or Mr. Watkins,
of the same, Attorney, in order to their being discharged.- And all Persons indebted to the said Estate are desired to pay their respective Debts to Mr. Mullings and Mr. Mann,
or Mr. Watkins,
who is duly authorized to receive the same, or they will be sued without further Notice.
NOVEMBER 14, 1765.
Whereas
John Lewis sent to the
Widow Davis's, at the Raven Inn, in Wribbenhall, a BAY GELDING, the latter End of August last, and has not lately been to enquire after him,
This is to give Notice, That if the said
John Lewis does not come and pay the Charges for the said Gelding, within the Space of nine Days from this publick Notice, he will be sold, in order to defray the Charges.
SARAH DAVIS.