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20/05/1785

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Date of Article: 20/05/1785
Printer / Publisher: Rose and Drury 
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May t, 1785. | LINCOLNSHIRE. Wintringham, Toft with Newton, Hackthorne, Theddlethorpe, and Newball, To be Sold as under- mentioned, The Manor of Wintringham, and a Freehold Estate there, CONSISTING of 2422 Acres and 36 Perches of well inclosed Land, in a high State of Culti- vation, with suitable Farm- Houses, and Outbuildings, in good Repair, and several Cottages, let to Seventy- five Tenants from Year to Year, and includes Twenty capital Farms, and well Tenanted. N. B. The above Estate will be Sold in Lots, by Private Contract, at the House of George Bell, in Wintringham, unless previously disposed of Entire, of which timely Notice will be given. The Side to begin on Monday the 27th of June, at Nine o'Clock ia the Morning. Printed Particulars of the Lots will he ready to be delivered on Monday the 13th Day of June next, by Mr. Bassett at Glentworth : Mr. George Tennyson at Raisin or, Matthew Peacock at Wintringham, the latter of whom will shew the Premises. To describe the very desirable Situation of Win- tringham, and the numerous and valuable Rights be- longing to the Manor, would exceed the Bounds of a common Advertisement, therefore they will be attend- ed to in the printed Particulars above- mentioned. The Manor of Toft with Newton, Within Ten Miles of Lincoln, and Four of Raisin j and a Capital Freehold Estate in Toft and Newton; consisting of 1968 Acres 1 Rood 1 Perch of old inclosed Arable, Meadow, and rich Pasture Ground, with suit- able Farm- Houses and Outbuildings, and Six Cottages, let to Sixteen Tenants from Year to Year, and includes Ten convenient Farms, and well Tenanted. This Estate will be Sold in Lots, by Private Con- tract, at the White Hart, in Raisin, unless previously disposed of Entire, of which Notice will be given as aforefaid. The Sale to begin on Monday the nth of July next, at Nine o'Clock in the Morning. Printed Particulars of the Lots will be ready to be delivered on Monday the 20th Day of June next, by the said Mr. Bassett and Mr. Tennyson ; and Mr. William Hodgson, or Mr. James Sawyer of Toft, will shew the Premises. Hackthorne Freehold and Leasehold Estates, Lately advertised to be Sold Entire, Consisting of Two Farm- houses, with convenient Buildings, Two Cottages, and 1080 Acres 2 Roods 25 Perches of Land ; may be now treated for and bought in two or more Lots, by Private Contract. Theddlethorpe Estate, by Private Contract, A House and Outbuildings, and several Closes and Parcels of Pasture and Meadow Ground, in the Occu- pation of Robert Sands, containing by Admeasure- ment 48 Acres, I Rood, and 37 Perches. Robert Sands will shew the Premises. newball, near Lincoln, by Auction, At the Rein- Deer in Lincoln, on Friday the 17th Day of Jane next, between the Hours of Two and Five, a FREEHOLD ESTATE, confiding of 75 Acres 1 Rood and 7 Perches of Woodland. Thomas Emmitt, of Stainton, near the Wood, will shew the Premises. Any Person desirous of treating by Private Con- tract for Wintringham ENTIRE, and Toft with Newton ENTIRE, the Hackthorne Estate ENTIRE or in LOTS, and the Theddlethorpe Estate, mav for Price and other Particulars enquire of Mr. Bassett, or Mr. Tennyson. To be SOLD by Auction By Mr. PRESTON, Oa Monday the 30th Day of May, 1785, and the following Day, At the Dwelling- House of the late Mr. Joseph Tonge, of Stapleford, in the County of Lincoln, All the HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, & c. Consisting of Bedsteads with Harrateen, Cheney, Check and other Furniture ; excellent Goose Feather Beds and Bedding; Mahogany and other Chests of Drawers; Dining, Card, Tea, and other Tables ; Chairs, Look- ing Glasses.& c.— Also a romplets Assortment of good Kitchen Furniture, and other useful Articles, together with Glass, China, and Earthen Ware. The Sale to begin at Eleven o'Clock. May 1, 1785. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, The Manors of Waltham and Barnoldly- le- Beck, in the County of Lincoln, adjoining each other, with A Freehold Estate at WALTHAM; CONSISTING OF ACapital Mansion- House, and suitable Out- buildings ; also Two exceeding good Farm- Houses and convenient Buildings, and 797 Acres, 3 Roods, 15 Perches of well inclosed Land, Tythe free, and which is now occupied in Three Farms, by the Names of Hall- Farm, Middle- Farm, and Peak- Farm. N. B. To suit Purchasers the two following Lots, Part of the above, may be Sold separate. LOT 1. The Middle- Farm, consisting of a good Brick and Tiled House, and 218 Acrtts » 1 Rood,. 12 Perches of Land, in a Ring Fence, 73 Acres whereof are Meadow and Pasture ; the Rest Arable and an ex- cellent Corn Soil. LOT 2. The Peak- Farm, consisting of 3,50 Acres, in a Ring Fence, a good Turnip Soil, and will grow any Kind of Corn and Flax ; and the House bricked, tiled, and sashed, in the Centre of the Ground. Also, in Waltham aforesaid, in the following Lots, LOT 1. A Farm- House, Homestead, and Cottage, with Five Acres of rich old Inclosure, in the Possession of Mr. Raisbeck. LOT 2. Two Closes of old Pasture, called Skeene Closes, adjoining Holton Lordship, containing 12 Acres, 2 Roods, in the Possession of Luke Rayner. LOT 3. A Cottage and Garth, in the possession of John Walker. LOT 4. A Close, used as a Skin- Yard, in the Pos- session of Mr. Healey. LOT ,5. A House, Garth, and Close, in the Pos- session of Robert Farmery. Lot 6. A House and Garden, in the Possession of William Markham. N. B. Waltham is conveniently situated for Mar- ket Towns; Eight Miles from Caistor, Ten from Louth, and Four from the Port of Grimsby : A very good Turnpike Road to the latter, where Corn may be shipped off to any Part of the Kingdom, and Coals and Lime very reasonable. Both the Manors abound with Game, and Fox Hounds and Harriers in the Neighbourhood. The Situation is pleasant, in a hilly Country, com- manding a very extensive Prospect of the Entrance of the River Humber, and the Yorkshire Side of that River for many Miles. For further Particulars enquire at the Hall- Farm in Waltham, where a Person will ' be ready to shew the Premises; of Mr. Marshal of Killinghome ; Mr. Hurneis of Laceby ; Mr. George Tennyson of Market- Raisin, all in the said County of Lincoln ; or of Mr. Dyson of Bawtry in Yorkshire. SKIDBROKE, LINCOLNSHIRE. To be Sold by Auction, AT the House of Mr. John Sewel in Saltfleet, on Friday the 17th Day of June next, between the Hours of Two and Four of the Clock in the After- noon, subject to such Conditions as shall be then pro- duced, if not sooner disposed of by Private Contract, of which timely Notice will be given : A Messuage in Skidbroke, with the Homestead, Garden, and a Close of Padure Ground, containing together by Estimation, about Five Acres, and in the Tenure of Henry Woodford. And one other Messuage in Skidbroke, with the Homestead, Garden, and a Clofe of Pasture Ground, containing together by Edimation, about Eight Acres, in the Tenure of Matthew Parish. The respective Tenants will shew the Premises. N. B. Each House is entitled to Right of Common for Twenty- four Sheep, a Mare, and a yearling Foal, on the extensive commonable Lands of Skidbroke and Saltfleet. For Price and other Particulars apply to Mr. Phillips, Attorney at Law, in Louth. And to be Sold by PRIVATE CONTRACT, Four Assignments for/~ ioo each, of theTolls arising on the Lincoln Turnpike Road, called the North East Di- strict ; and two othar Assignments for each, of the Tolls arising on the Turnpike Road from Donington High Bridge to Langret Ferry, in the County of Lincoln. For Treaty apply to Mr. Chapman. Attorney, in Spilsby; Mr. Lely, Attorney, in Lincoln, or the said Mr. Phillips in Louth. April 12, 1785. A Very elegant SINGLE HORSE CHAISE, almost new, and in good Preservation, with Harness complete ; well worth the Notice of a Purchaser, be- ing very little used. Enquire of T. PRESTON. Lincoln, April 25, 1785. To be Sold by AUCTION, At the House of JOHN DENT, at Martin, near Timberland, in the County of Lincoln, On Saturday the 21st Day of May next, between the Hours of Twelve and Three, Subject to such Conditions as will be then produced, ( if not before disposed of by Private Contract;) AVery desirable FREEHOLD ESTATE, con- sisting of a new Brick and Tiled Messuage or Tenement, with the Barns, Stables, Outbuildings and other Conveniencies, entirely new and adjoining thereto: And also divers Pieces or Parcels of old and new inclosed Land, containing together ( by Estimation) 32 Acres: Also Six Cow Gates on the High Moor and Common Right on the extensive Com- mon Fenn of Martin aforesaid. For further Particulars enquire of Mr. Thomas Fulalove at Martin, who will shew the Premises or of Mess. RUTTER and BELL in Lincoln. Boston, May 9, 1785. tHIRTEEN healthy Children, Seven Boys and A Six Girls, from Thirteen to Seventeen Years of Age, to be put out Apprentices. A Premium will be given. For Particulars enquire of the Overseers of the Poor of Boston, aforesaid. Letters, Post paid, will be duly answered. BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. For READY MONEY only, AWAREHOUSE is opened for the Sale of good and approved Spirituous Liquors, where the Public may be advantageously supplied with any quan- tity not less than two gallons. r. d. Brandy - - - 6 6 per Gallon Gin 4s. 6 d. to 6 6 ditto Wiskey - - - 56 ditto Peppermint - - 56 ditto Anniseed - - - 5 t> ditto And other Compounds; By JOHN LANE, DEALER and IMPORTER. • These Liquors are so capital in their smell and taste, that some nice Judges have not been able to distinguish them from the best Brandy and Gin that are imported : The Brandy and Wiskey also make excellent Punch. N. B. JAMAICA RUM, FRENCH BRANDY and HOLLANDS GENEVA, ne « as imported. LINCOLNSHIRE. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, THREE Clofes of rich Pasture Land, in North Coates, near Saltfleet,— One called Sleights Close, A. R. P. Containing - -- -- -- - 7 2 8 An<! the other Two called Horn and Male Hole, adjoining each other, and con- u. iiing together Total - - 24 o 34 Thomas Jekyll, the Tenant, will shew the Pre- mises; » nd for further Particulars enquire of Mr. Wil- liam Teale, Junior, of Immingham, near Caistor; Mr. William Ludlam, of Fulstow, near Louth; or Mr. William Tennyson, of Market- Raisin. SATURDAY'S POST. LONDON, Thurfday, MAY 12. Berlin, April, 30. Intelligence has been received from Franckfort on the Oder, rhat Prince Leopold of Brunswick having gone upon the water 011 the 27th instant to relieve the inhabitants of a village which was overflowed, the boat overset, and his Highness was unfortunately drowned. This melancholy accident has occasioned very great distress here, and the Court is gone into mourning for four weeks. Notwithstanding the repeated miscarriages of the Spanifh armaments against Algiers, all the accounts lately received from Corunna, Ferrol, and Carthagena; confirm the great relations of the warlike preparations making in most of the Spanish ports for an attack oh that Moorish republic, which is to take place in the month of July next, under the command of Don Cor- dova and Don Barcelo. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, May 10. Read a first time the cotton repeal bill. Also the Tobago importation bill ; and the bill to prevent abuses in the woollen manufacture. In a committee went through and reported the Don- nington inclosure, the Yarmouth bridge, and the Clatford and the Wenborn inclosure bills. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuesday, May 10. Agreed to the report of the resolves of yesterday on ways and means and the supply. Passed the woollen yarn bill. Ordered the Navy Treasurer's regulation bill to be engrossed. Read a second time the bill for laying a Sunday's toll on horses and carriages passing through a turnpike to be erected near Blackfriars- bridge. This day the private business being over, the House went into a committe on Irish affairs, Mr. Gilbert in the chair ; when Mr. Graham appeared as Counsel for the merchants of Bristol and Glascow and argued ia their favour, after which the House adjourned. It is supposed that the tax on female fervants, has been projected by some of the long robe friends of Mr. Pitt, out of mere revenge to Bellamy's maid, for putting them to flight, by scattering her water over the Court of King's- Bench, which had not only sub- jected them to the witticisms of their friends, the ridicule of ludicrous engravers, but to the satire of the stage, the whole scene being most whimsically pour- trayed at Covent- Garden, in the new Prelude of the Lawyer's Panic, or Westminster Hall in an Uproar. We hear that Mr. V , who lately possessed a fortune of 6oo, oool. made a trip to the Continent on Thursday last, on account of the ambaressed situa- tion ef his affairs. More particulars of the late dreadful fire in Tooley- street.— Never were there such a tremendous spectacle, at least in this part of the world, as was exhibited last Saturday morning, by the fire which happened among the warehouses at Dockhead. The prodigious quan- tity of combustibles there deposited, from the extreme potency of the flames, produced a river of liquid fire, which, like the lava of a burning mountain, devoured with inextinguishable rage whatever stood in its way. It luckily burst, with irresistable violence, the adjoin- ing wharf, and made its way to the Thames, where its conflict with the opposite element was terrible beyond description ; but where it, notwithstanding, set fire to the craft which floated on the surface of the stream. Most of the teas purchased by the India Company from Ostend and Holland, to the amount of thirteen thou- sand chests, were deposited here, and are all consumed, except one chest. The poor women in the neighbour- hood were employed all Saturday and Monday in car- rying off the teas in their aprons, which, tho' much damaged by the fire and the rubbish, may be of some fervice to them. The warehouse belonging 10 Mr. Webster, which is also destroyed, seems of all other most deplored. He was in the country when the dreadful accident happened I and the news of it is said to have struck him speechless for some hours. The general opinion is, that he had not less than two hundred thousand pounds on the premises. Extract of a Letter from Newcastle, May 7. " Pursuant to an advertisement there was a respect- able meeting of the ship- owners of this port at the Star and Garter in North Shields, where they were met by a deputation of six sailors, to whom they of- fered 50s. for a London voyage, and 40s. per month when out of the coal trade ; in answer to which, the deputies said, that they had no authority from the body at large to assent to such proposals, but would deliver them at their first meeting, which they per- formed ; but the proposals were rejected, and the navi- gation in consequence still remains stopt. In the year 1671 it is upon record, that no rain fell for the space of two months and 17 days, i. e. from April 27 to July the 14th following, yet the harvest did not fail, though it was four weeks later than usual. The present drought, which commenced also in April ; has held thirty- seven days; and if the wind Continues in the present corner, N. E. it may be several days before showers are to be expected. In the year 1782 it was rainy from April to the latter end of August. From this beginning, we have hopes to see our countrymen as respectable in the fields of literature as our neighbours of North Britain ; and that ignorance will no longer be the reproach of the country. Yesterday morning,-- about ( even o'clock, two por- ters, who were intoxicated, went into the Green Man and Bell, Darkhouse- lane, and out of a joke, as they called it, put a paper, containing about two pounds of gunpowder Into the box amongst the coals ; the servant maid taking a shovel full to put on the kitchen fire, the powder went off, burst all the windows, out, and burnt her so dangerously that she was obliged to be sent to the hospital. MONDAY's POST. LONDON, Saturday, MAY 14. Extract of a ketter from Constantinople, March 26 " Although the Ottoman nation is looked upon as much more backward in arts and sciences than ma- ny others, yet we have not been the last to make aerostic experiments, and to have the first trial crowned with success, notwithstanding three perdons were eliva- ted at once: these were two Bostanges or Guardians of the Seraglio, who, assisted by a Persian physician, without requiring any subscriptions, or making any eclat about the matter, constructed a large balloon, and having prepared every thing, they asked permission of the Grand Signior to take an aerial voyage. His Highness readily granted their request, and was pleased to honour the travellers not only, with his presence upon the occasion, but with that of all the Sultanas, who were richly cloathed and appeared upon a grand terrace, which was elegantly decorated for that pur- pose: the numbers of spectators, both Musselmen and Europeans, formed an immense amphitheatre around the terrace; previous to their ascension, the bold tra- vellers approached the Grand Signior to receive his commands, when his Highness presented each of them with a pelisse, with which they immediately entered their vehicle, and ordering the cords to be cut they ascended most magnificently, and in a short time de- scended at Bursia, 30 leagues from whence they set out. The inhabitants were at first much affrighted, and thought it was their Prophet, who was come to chastise them for their crimes. The travellers, after paying their respects to the Pacha of the place, return- ed to Constantinople, where they were received by the Grand Signior with great marks of satisfaction ; he loaded them with presents, and has ordered that the two Bostanges shall have the two first vacant posts of Bassas of Two Tails, and the Persian Is to be appointed first Physician to the Porte, with an annual salary of 24 purses. His Highness has ordered the balloon to be hung up in the Mosque of St. Sophia, to perpetuate the memory of this glorious enterprize." HOUSE of LORDS. Thursday, May 12. Passed the Yarmouth Haven bill ; the Ramsgate paving bill; and the Surry road bill ; also the Bishops Castle road, the Winborne Minster, and the Don- nington, the Upper Clatford, and the Holbrooke in- closure. bills. Read a second time the woollen- yarn bill, the Rich- mond poor bill, and Dr. Bancroft's bill. Reported the cotton duty bill, and the Tobago im- portation bill. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thursday, May \ 1. Passed the Whitechapel road bill. Read a second time the bill to enable the Chancel- lor of the Dutchy of Lancaster to sell lands. Mr. Stanley presented a petition from the manufac- turers of Manchester, and its vicinity, praying that the Irish propositions may not pass into a law. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Eden entreated the indulgence ef the House to bs exerted in a patent hearing of what he had to pro- pose. It had yesterday been the decision that no other petition against the system in agitation should now be. received : but he now had a petition to present, which came recommended by such peculiar circumstances as demanded an exception. It was a petition from the Iron Manufacturers of Warwickshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Bristol, and London, which had hitherto been kept back by a misconception under which ths petitioners laboured. They had applied to a Gentle-, man in office, and therefore possessed of a proportionate share of authority ; and then received such assurances as determined them to remain passive ; they yielded to what they now deemed a fallacy, and when undeceived they now stepped forward to claim protection of the legislature. They were not men of inconsiderate note ; they, on the contrary, were men who gave employ- ment to upwards of 20o, ooo manufacturers ; the house, therefore, he hoped, would afford that attention which it deserved, and concluded with moving, that the peti- tioners he heard by themselves or counsel, Leave being granted to hear evidence on the subject, Mr. Gibbon, an eminent manufacturer of Bristol, was then called in. , His evidence tended to shew that an application was originally intended from the manufac- turers in his branch. That on application being made to Mr. Rose, the Secretary of the Treasury, they had been given to understand that duties equivalent to those which existed on iron imported into Great- Britain, should be imposed in Ireland. That under this idea they had desisted from any application, but at length entertaining some apprehensions, that by the resolu- tions proposed, their trade could not be protected, thev thought it their duty to come to this House. Mr. Rose assured the Houfe upon his honour,- and in the face of Heaven, that he had never made any such declaration. What he had said might be misun- derstood, but he had never given Mr. Gibbon any such assuranCe. He explained at some length what had passed between him and the gentlemen of the iron trade, and said, that from the nature of the case it was impossible that any such assurance could be given. A conversation of some length occurred on this speech ; after which Mr. Raby, another manufacturer, was called to the bar. He declared that seven or eight weeks ago, a gentleman came to him from the Trea- sury, to ask him some questions respecting. the iron trads, and he informed him that the interests of the trade of Great- Britain were certainly to be maintained and protected by duties on the importation of the arti- cle into Ireland, equal to those paid in Great- Britain. In the persuasion of this story he remained until Tues- day last, and therefore he and many others of the trade had been prevented from coming to the House * of Commons. Another debate arose, in consequence of this testi- mony, and Mr. Fox and others contended, that the House ought to hear the petitioners. Mr. Pitt at last yielded to it, but declared at the same time, that when the petitioners should be heard, he would move the Committee on the grand question. . The house then went into a Committee, and the gen- tlemen on the iron trade were called to the bar suc- cessively, and their examination continued till nine o'clock at night. Final Discussion of the Commercial Arrangement with Ireland. Mr. Pitt, agreeable to the motion. he had given in a former part of the day, to enter at length into the bu- siness, when the examination of evidence should be over, at a quarter past nine arose, and in a speech of upwards of three hours, went diffusely into the effects that would follow, and the objections that had been made to this system of commercial regulation with Ireland, which he had proposed. The measure, he said, went to bind to us more closely a sister and a friend, to remove, with a complete degree of genero- sity, those fetters with which she had been cramped through ages by prejudice. Ireland was now mistress, he observed, of an absolute and unlimited trade to every colony belonging to the British empire : flu could also import the commodities of their respective ports into Ireland, or direfily into Britain ; fhe could re- export those commodities into every part of the globe, England excepted. The only boon, therefore, that was now given was, the liberty of exporting into Great Britain circuitously, what they could before have done directly. If we did not wound our own interests, they received an actual augmentation by every advan- tage which we granted to our sister. Our generality was in that case " like the dew from Heaven, blessing equally the giver and the receiver." the next observation he had to make, was founded on such a principle as he supposed would scarcely be controverted. As Ireland derived equal advantages with Britain, from her intercourse with the British co- lonies, it was certainly proper that Ireland should hold forth the same advantages, by laying similar duties on the produce of foreign colonies. Such a measure would not only be a debt to justice, but a necessary contribution to the general strength of the empire ; he, therefore thought it necessary to propose as a resolution consequent to this opinion : That is further essential to this settlement, that eve- ry article of British or foreign produce imported either from the West- India islands, or from our settlements on the coast of Africa, pay an equal duty on their im- portation into Great Britain and Ireland. To prevent thofe illicit practices, which tended to defraud the revenue, was equally the business, and equally the advantage- of both kingdoms. To pre- clude the admission of any contraband goods into this kingdom, through Ireland, he would propose ano- ther resolution, the necessity of which he hoped would appear self- evident. That all West- India goods imported from Ireland • into this kingdom be attended with the same dockets, certificates, & c. as when imported directly from the island in which they were produced, and that all other goods imported from Ireland be subjected to the regulations on impertation as Irish linens are at present. The apprehensions that the produce of the French West India islands, by being deposited in Ireland, may find theirway into this kingdom, was an objection which had alarmed a numerous and respectable bo. dy of men in this city; but this his next resolution went, he hoped totally to obviate, the purport of which was as follows. That with all West India goods shipped from Ire- land, the original certificate, signed by his Majesty's officers of the Customs in the West- Indies, be trans- mitted ; and that if such goods be not all sent at the same time, a copy of the said certificate, properly au- thenticated, accompany every future parcel. One circumstance of material importance yet re- mained, to which many allusions had been made by those who did not seem to wish to meet the business in detail, led their objections should be removed. He explained himself to allude to our commerce with th* East Indies. It was certain, that by the general words of the reso- lutions, the Irish were actually empowered to import from thence every article of its produce, the act not binding them, which forbad the subjects of Great Bri- tain to trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope. But this he did not mean should be the case. It was not to be permitted them to import these articles for their own, consumption, much less to admit their re- exportation into this kingdom, while the general interests required that the trade should be carried on by an exclusive Company ; we had a right to expect the acquiescence of Ireland in the measure. Some advantage, however he was of opinion should be given, in recompence for .. consumption of the goods imported by the East India Company. For this end he supposed it would be most agreeable to permit their ships in assorting their out- ward- bound cargoes to take a part in the produce of Ireland. This reflection on the one hand, and permissi- on on the other hand, he wished to convey in the fol- lowing resolution : That it is also essential to this settlement, that the produce of no country beyond, the Cape of Good Hope should be imported in Irish vessels, so long as that privilege is continued exclusively to the' East India Company, but that the ships of the said Company may touch ill Ireland, and export from thence ta every part of Asia every article of its produce. He had, he said, on a future day, some remarks to make as to the regulations of patents, and the securing of Copy- right to their respective possessors. At pre- sent, however, he contented himself with apologizing to the Committee for the length to which he had been unavoidably led by a subject so complicated and ex- tended. He concluded with moving the general re- solution, ' Resolved, " That it is the opinion of this Com- mittee, that it is highly important to the interests of the British empire, that the intercourse and com- merce between Great Britain and Ireland be finally regulated on principles of mutual advantage to both kingdoms; and that the subjects of* Ireland shall be secured in a permanent participation of every local ad- vantage, when they , shall determine in a manner equally permanent and secure to contribute in pro- portion to their growing prosperity to the general ex- pences of the empire." Lord North then rose, and, in a speech of very considerable length, observed, that he hoped the House would not be hurried into a final decision OB points, some of them beyond their understanding from the rapidity with which they were delivered, and ma- ny of them totally new to their consideration. Ha- ving, he said, many and strong objections to most of them, he concluded with moving, that the Chairman should report progress. Mr. Fox rose about one o'clock in the morning. He spoke on the subject for upward of three hours, and concluded with supplicating the House to take time to insist upon delay— to deliberate— to enquire before they determined on the immense system, which would make an entire revolution. No confusion was to be dreaded by a measure so moderate. Ireland was not in distemper; or if she was, it was the violent proceedings of the present Ministers that had made them so. He was not disposed to deliver up the English commerce for Irish slavery.— He reminded the House, that the whole manufacturing interest of the kingdom had united in declaring that the system would be ruinous— Not one body, except one, had suggested a syllable in its support. The voice of the people used to be the watch- word of the present Ministry. When the manufacturers de- clared themselves against his India bill, a measure out of the common road of manufactures, then their voice, was to be considered as holy and commanding; but when they spoke with one language about their own particu- lar concerns, in the study of which they had spent their, lives— then they were declared to know nothing of the matter, and the House was modestly called upon to de- cide on the iron trade, the cotton trade, and the other manufactures, as men infinitely more enlightened than the manufacturers themselves. If they were so, let' them act in God's name, and discharge their confiden- ces, but such a proposition was too ridiculous to be for a moment maintained. Mr. Viner and Mr. Jenkinson both rose at the same" time, the friends of each contending who should be heard. Mr. Jenkinson however, was favoured, and only then went over the same ground with Mr. Pitt re- lative io the regulation of the colonial trade, which he endeavoured to shew would not be prejudicial' to this' country. Lord FrederickCampbell then got up, but was inter- rupted by * 1 Lord Maitland, who insisted, that as the Noble Lord did not rise to speak, on the motion that had been just made, Mr. Viner ought to be heard. Mr. Viner said he had but a few words to trouble the House with ; the Rt. Hon. Gent, had made so many changes and amendments to the original proportions, that they were not now to be known ; he therefore rose to urge the absolute necessity there was for an adjourn- ment, which he conceived to be so reasonable a request, that he could not think it would be seriously opposed. Mr. Scott observed that the attempt of the Hon.," Gentleman who had just sat down, to shorten the debate at this late hour, might with some propriety be called" Viner's Abridgement. He could not consent to an adjournment, and for this reason, that as this was not'- the last stage of the business, he could not see there way any occasion for putting off the confideration of it to another day, particularly as. it had already been so amply discussed. * The Attorney General, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Eden, Sir' Gregory Page, Mr. Stanhope, and Mr. Sheridan, each said a few words, after which the House divided on the motion of adjournment, when there appeared, Ayes 153 Noes 281 The original resolution was then put, when Mr. Fox proposed by way of amendment, that after the words " full participation, " there be inserted the words " as much as is consistent with the essential interest of the commerce, trade, and revenue of this country ; " which produced a conversation between several of the Mem- bers, who at length divided, when there appeared For the amendment 12,5 Againft it — 249 Majority 124 After which the original resolution was put and car ried without a division. The House soon after rose at half past Eight o'clock, and adjourned to Three the same afternoon. Wednesday and thursday's posts, LONDON, Tuesday, MAY 17. A letter from Lisbon says, that the gentleman who went to America to settle a treaty with the United States, had wrote word home, that there is such confu- sion among them, that they have not been able to open to the States the business they came upon. That the- States of Virginia, and some other colonies, had with-, drawn themselves from Philadelphia, and it was uncertain when matters would be made up, that they might be called together again ; so that it was impossi- ble for them to enter upon their Business till there ii a reconcilation amongst the States. The letter further says, that if it is not very soon done, the above gentle- man will be ordered home. According to letters from Holland, the Dutch have recalled their Consul from the island of Malta, where he had resided near twenty years, nor will they send any other person in that capacity thither. The Master and Knights of Malta having lately concluded a treaty of amity and alliance with the Republic of Ve- nice, is the principal reason assigned for the States Gen neral having recalled their Consul from Malta. c . Mr. le Comte de Peyrouse, who is intended for the Captain Cook of France, is daily closeted with the French King, receiving his instructions. He is on the point of departing for Rochfort, in order to hasten the preparations for his voyage. He will set sail soon and after having made a short stay at Buenos Ayres, he Yesterday a girl was committed to Newgate by the Lord- Mayor, for stealing out of Mr. Leeke's shop, a linen- draper, in fleet- street, several pieces of muslin, and other things. There were two women with her, but they escaped ; the girl confessed on her examina- tion that the two women make a practice of hiring girls to theive for them, who take whatever they steal and give the girls a trifle for their trouble; and that they have made a practice of it a long time. Mr. Leeke declared that he had lately lost out of his shop, supposed to be stolen by the same women, a piece of muslin, which cost him 10 guineas. Mr. Blanchard, who ascended on Saturday last from Langhorn's Repository in Barbican, and after, exhibiting various evolutions in the air for two hours amidst a vast concourse of spectators, proceeded on an aerial excursion about 20 minutes after two o'clock, descended the same day between five and six at Ta- menfields, in Essex, about 16 miles from Brentwood, and 54 from London, having passed over the Nore, . and falling within about half a mile of the water. Mr. Blanchard appeared much fatigued, lay at Ta- menfields that night, and next afternoon set out for London in a post- chaise, into which he took the bal- loon inclosed in a sack, the boat and other aparatus be- ing placed on the roof of the carriage. He dined at Brentwood, and the same evening arrived at Mr. Sheldon's, in Great Queen- street. SUNDAY'S POST. LONDON, Friday, MAY 13. extract of a Letter from Vienna, April 19. " An Ordinance has been published by his Maje- sty lately, consisting of u articles by which his Ma- jesty wishes to extend liberty more and more to all his subjects, by the general suppression of the laws of servitude in his dominions, and grants to every person who wishes to pass from one part of his states to ano- ther, as in Bohemia, Austria, Gallicia, even the Austrian Netherlands, Lombardy, Tuscany, & c. the permission to change their habitations without being obliged to pay any sum whatever for the move- ables they take with them, on any pretence soever." Extract of a Letter from Petersburg, March 24. " The British factory here is in a most flourishing state, and London articles of merchandize are Con tinually pouring into this port. The Empress has too much sense ever to enter into any engagement inju- rious to the mutual advantage and grand traffic of both kingdoms.-'' HOUSE OF LORDS. Wednesday, May 11. In a Committee went through and reported the Ramsgate paving bill. Also the Holbroke inclosure bill. Read a second time the cotton repeal bill, the To- bago importation bill, and the Biddeford road bill, and the woollen yarn bill. Deferred the adjourned appeal of Inchiquin and Fitzmaurice till to- morrow. Heard Counsel further in the cause between Wal- ter Campbell, Esq; appellant, and John Walsh and others, creditors of the York Buildings Company, respondents. Reversed the decree. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Wednesday, May 11. passed Richmond Poor bill. - Deferred Ways and Means and the Supply to Fri- day. . Mr; Beaufoy reported from the Committee on the pilchard fishery ; the report was read and ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Ordered Romsey road bill to be engrossed. Received and read a petition from Whitehaven against the corn bill. vAlso from Exeter. Ordered to lie on the table till the bill is read a second time. Ordered Whitechapel road bill to be engrossed. Received and read a petition from Mr. Robinson and others Referred to the Committe on the Irish trade. A motion was made, and the question was put, that the petitioner be heard by their Counsel in support of the petition, which was agreed to. Orbered, that the Rothwell inclosure bill be read a second time this day se'nnight. ' Deferred the Committee on the Scotch Judges sa- laries. The order of the day being then read, that the House be now called over. Mr. Marsham, after some remarks on the inconve- niencies that attended this measure so often deferred, and observing at the same time that it was urged with- out any particular necessity, moved, that the word now" be altered to " this day four months." The question being put on Mr. Marsham's motion, the numbers were, Ayes, 241 Noes, 215 Majority against the Minister tS Adjourned. Dublin, May 5. The Royal Irish Academy, we are informed from very good authority, had their first meeting as a Society, on Tuesday evening, at the house of Lord Charlemont. They intend immedi- ately applying for a charter. Each member to pay five guineas a year— the number of original members is { 5, and are as follows : Lord Charlemont, President. Right Hon. W. Conynham, Treasurer. Dr. Percival, Secretary. Earl of Moira, Earl of Clanbrassil ' the Primate, the Provost, Rt. Hon. Denis Daly, Bishop of Water- ford, Bishop of Clonfert, Bishop of Dromore, Bishop of Killaloe, Colonel Vallency, Rev. Dr. Murray, Rev. Dr. Usher, Rev. Dr. Hales, Rev. Dr. Kearney, Rev. Dr. Leland, Rev. Dr. Waller, Rev. Dr. Young, Rev. Mr. Marsh, Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Rev Mr. Hall, Rev. Mr. Slack, Rich. Malone, esq; Richard Kirwan, Esq; William Deane, Esq; Edgeworth, Ball, Esq; Dr. Cleghorn, Dr. Purcell, Preston, Esq; J. Hamilton, Esq; Parsons, Esq; Dr. Crawford, London. TITLE, IRISH Academy of Sciences, Belles Let- tres, and Antiquities, will take an opportunity of the favourable season to sail for Cape Horn. It is agreed that his voyage shall last at least for the term of five years, and that he shall winter in the Sandwich Islands, for the purposes of refitting, giving time, and visiting, at his leisure, the ports, bays, and coasts, of which Captain Cook has made no mention, or a very slight one. HOUSE OF LORDS. Friday, May 13. The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to 20 public and 14 private bills. Heard counsel further in the cause between Inchi- quin and Fitzmaurice. Reversed the decree in part. Adjourned to Monday se'nnight. HOUSE of COMMONS, n Friday, May 13. Took into consideration the motion . to withdraw the petition for the undue election for Ipswich, and leave was given. Deferred . the Committee on Ways and Means and the Supply to Wednesday. Read a second time Shelley's estate bill. Ordered, that the Sydenham inclosure bill be en- grossed. passed Coxe's estate bill. Adjourned to Wednesday. Yesterday there was a very respectable attendance of. the gentlemen belonging to the Gloucestershire soci- ety, at their annual meeting, Sir William Guise, Bart, in the Chair, — who proposed, as soon as the new Stew- ards were appointed for next year, to drink a bumper to an old friend,— which Lord Surrey observed he did not doubt would, most probably, be the last time that meeting— thanks to our virtuous Minister,— would have an opportunity to drink it free of taxation ! The Sailors at Shields having been for some weeks riotous, parading the streets in large bodies, demand- ing an advance of wages, and their victuals on ship- board in harbour as well as at Tea, which the masters refused to grant, an express arrived in York on Sunday forenoon for the Commanding Officer of the Inniskilling dragoons quartered there, and at two o'clock a detachment of nine men from each troop, properly officered and mounted, marched for the above place, in order to assist in quelling the disturbances. The Myrmadon cutter and Shark- sloop of war ( in conse- rence of an exprefs to the Magiftrates of Edinburgh) sailed from Leith the 1 £ 1 and ad inft. for the same purpose. A Morning Paper observes, that among publick abuses that should be rectified, is the impertinence of the performers in their intrusions among the audience at the Opera- house. On Thursday a groupe of these castratas poSted themselves near the orchestra, and by their noisy folly grated the ears of the nobility and gentry around them, almost as much if they were singing Yesterday, about three o'clock, one of the King's Messengers. arrived at Lord Carmarthen's office, with despatches from the Earl of Torrington, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Brussels ; by which channel there is an account, confirming the matter between the Emperor and the Dutch being now positively in a per- fect train of accomodation. 1 POSTSCRIPt. FRIDAY, May 20. Utrecht, May 9. Since the 6th of this month all the accounts relative to peace or war, have been C. va- rious and contradictory that they were scarce worth publishing ; We can however now mention a piece of news of some real importance, viz. " The Emperor is " most likely at this moment master of Bavaria; an " army of 40,000 Austrians have entered that Electo- " rate, where, so far from finding any opposition, they were joined by 6000 Bavarians ; who are " charmed to march under the colours of Joseph the " IId. and to have augmented the number of subjects " of that great Prince." These were the words of a most respectable person who passed through this city, where he only changed horses, because the arrival of the Imperial troop; in Bavaria obliged him to go there with all possible expedition, having ( though not a . So- vereign) the greatest interest in being an eye witness of the consequences of this unexpected and important event. A translation of the inscription that is to be put on- the column which is to be erected in commemoration! of Mr. Blanchard's Aerial Journey from Calais to Dover. JOHN PETER BLAnCHARD, a Frenchman,, Accompanied by JOHN JEFFRIES, an Englishman, On the 7th day of January, At one o'clock in the afternoon, Set out - from Dover Castle, In an Aerostatic Machine, Mounting in the air. He first crossed the Streight, Between Britain and France, And, after an aerial course Of two hours, Alighted in this place. The citizens of Guisnes, In admiration of his unexampled boldness, Have erected this moument. Extract of a Letter from Carrick- on- Suir, May 2. " A few nights ago a set of robbers attacked the house of. an honest man in this neighbourhood, but the man having heard them, had just time to rise out of bed as the; door was burst open, and with a pitch fork ran one of them through the body, so that the wretch ex- pired immediately, and his companions ran off. The same set of fellows came a few nights after, to revenge the loss of their companion, but the poor man again defended himself with a fork, killed two of the mis- creants, and afterward escaped through a window unhurt." On Monday - the Sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when 11 convicts received judgment of death, and 85 were sentenced to be transported. It has been imputed to Mr. Pitt that he is not much addicted to loose pleasures; and he has been sometimes called in ridicule the Virgin Minister, and sometimes in praise the immaculate youth. It seems by his present budget, however, that he means to do away his cha- racter; or at least he determines, if he is not himself debauched, to he the cause of debauchery in others. He will have it to say, that he has brought more women upon the town in one day, than all the rakes in the kingdom put together. It is a query as the Minister is a batchelor, and a ser- vant to the public, if he does not come under the tax upon maid- servants. By authentic letters from Cadiz, dated April a3, we are assured, that the States of Barbary had in the course of last month received seVeral valuable presents from the United State' of America, in order to pave the way for a treaty of peace with those Free- Booters, who for some time past have done great injury to the American commerce in the Mediteranean. The Mayor of Norwich has made a sad blunder in addressing letters of thanks to the Post- Master Gene ral, for the advantages his city derives from the adop- tion of Mr. Palmer's Post plan, as it is notorious, that if the presevering will of the minister had not over- ru- led their Lordship's determined opposition to the ex- tension of it, the Norwicheans would never have ob- tained the valuable accomodations of which their Ma- gistrate is now so gratefully forward to testify their ap- probation; but perhaps his Lordship is a Wag, and meant this ironically, to rap their Lordship's knuckles, for a want of zeal to promote and countenance so bene- ficial a reform ; and if so, he has succeeded most effec- tually, for it must be felt. To be Sold by AUCTION, By T. PRESTON, On Tuesday the 24th Day of May . inst. and the fol- lowing Days, All the HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, Plate, Linen, China, Glass, Books, and Pictures ; Together with the Stock in Trade of the late Mr. HENRY STANLEY, in Prison- Lane, in the City of LINCOLN; COMPRISING a large and valuable Assortment of oak, Ash, Elm. Walnut, Wainscot, Deal, and other Implements of Trade, with Coffin Furni- ture, & c. The Sale to begin each Day at Eleven o'Ciock. All Psrfons who were indebted to the said Mr. Henry Stanley at the Time of his Decease are desired to pay their respective Debt's immediately to Messrs. Rutter and Bell, or Mr. Parsons, in Lincoln. And all Persons having any Claim or Demand on the Estate and Effects of the said Henry Stanley, are desired immediately to send an Account thereof as above. MAY 17th, 178,5. City of Lincoln Turnpike, SOUTH- EAST DISTRICT. nOTICe, is hereby ven, that the Tolls arising from the Gate erected on the Turnpike Road, called or known bv the name of the South- East Div- trict, in the said City, will be LET by AUCTION, on Lease, for Three Years, from the id Day of July, 1785, the best Bidder, at the House of Mr. Peter Fawcett, the Rein- Deer Inn, in the City aforesaid, on Saturday the t8th of June next, between the Hours of Eleven and Two, in the Manner directed by an Act of Parliament passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third, " for regulating Turnpike Roads and will be put up at •, such Sum as the Commissioners of the said Turnpike Road shall think fit. Whoever is the best Bidder, mud at the same Time give Security to the Commissioners for the Payment of the same, either Monthly or Quarterly, as shall be then agreed on. RICHARD WILLCOCK, Clerk to the Commissioners. LINCOLN, Friday, MAY 23. In consequence of the many daring robberies lately committed in Lincoln, and the frequent attempts which have been made upon houses, a meeting of the inhabitants of the Bail and Close was held on Wed- nesday last, to take into consideration some method of preventing them in future; when it agreed to, eStablish a regular watch in those parts of Lincoln;| the Bail to provide two watchmen, which they are: bound t0 do, when required, and a liberal subscription was entered into, to establish the same in the Close, and the adjacent streets. | ; Last Sunday died at Binnington, near Newark, Wil- lian Nelson, aged 22. This unfortunate young man was robbed upon the highway near Grantham, in the month of January 1aft ; the. robber knocked him down, and left him upon the, road for dead. The surgeons who attended him declare that the wounds he then re- reived, where the cause of his death. One Beck, or Becket, was tried, last March, at our assizes, for this offence, and acquitted, 1 ' On saturday last, was committed to our Castle, William Hales and Mary Groves, for robbing Mr. Cooper, a farmer, of his purse, containing two drafts of 10 pounds each, 13 guineas, and 8s. 6d. in silver, at a house of ill- fame in this town. On Sunday last was committed to the said prison, | Thomas Saunderson, charged with breaking open a shop in Crowland, in this County, and stealing there- out several articles of linen- drapery, hosiery, & c. On Tuesday a young woman going over a lock upon the river. Trent at Newark,, accidently fell in, and though taken out alive, her recovery is very doubtful. A few days ago, Daniel Hutchinson, a poor old man, was found drowned in the water- lock in this city. Being in liquor, and withal bad of sight, it is sup- posed he fell in by accident. Last Saturday morning a very severe battle was | fought in a paddock in this city, between Broughton a labourer, and Newton a waterman, for a guinea. The conflict lasted three quarters of an hour, when victory declared in favour of Broughton, who was very little hurt, but Newton was terribly bruised. It is compu- ted not less than a thousand spectators were present At Newark fairs on Saturday and Tuesday, fat cattle sold well: Horses fell in price. A sharper went into a tradesman's shop, and bargained for goods to the amount of five pounds, for which he gave a false bill in payment; but being suspected, he was followed, and the money recovered. On Wednesday se'nnight, at Leicester fair, two shar- pers seduced an elderly farmer into the King's Arms pub- lic house, by pretending to be his acquaintance and invi- ted him to accept of a treat. One of the sharpers as-. fected to be drunk, and seemed full of money; the other ( in the absence of his companion) proposed to the farmer a contrivance to win it of him, by naming the number of a figure, to be placed under a cover on the table; - the Farmer came into the proposal, and it h,- I M AY 17th, 1785. LINCOLN TURNPIKE, NORTH- WEST DISTRICT. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Tolls an- ting from the Gate erected on the Turnpike Road, called or known by the Name of the North- West District, ( near a certain Place called or known by the Name of Haddo, in the County of Lincoln, on the road leading to Gainsborough,) will be LET by AUCTION, for one Year, from the 1st Day of July, 1785, to the bed Bidder, at the House of Mr. Peter Fawcett, at the Rein- Deer Inn, in the City of Lin- cola, on Saturday the 2,5th Day of June next, between the Hours of Eleven and Two, in the Manner direct- ed by an Act of Parliament passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third, " for regulating Turnpike Roads;" which. Toll's produced last Year, exclusive of collectiug, the Sum of/' 113 is. 1 irf. i; and which will be put up at that sum. Whoever is the best Bidder, must at the same Time give Security to the Commissioners for the Payment of the same, either Monthly or Quarterly, as ( hall b « then agreed on. RICHARD WILLCOCK, Clerk to the Commissioners. LINCOLNSHIRE. WANTED immediately a Youth of creditable Parents; as an Apprentice to a MERCER, LINEN and WOOLEN- DRAPER in good1 Trade. For Particulars enquire of W. H. SiMpSOn, Horn- castle. - A genteelPremium will be expected. Letters, Post paid, duly attended to. \ JOSEPH FLETCHER left his Wife and Children chargeable to the. Parish of Willingham by' Stow, the County of Lincoln,' on the 13th Day of May, 1 1785 . He is about Thirty- eight Years of Age, a | stout well- made Man, with- black curled Hair, and a black Mole upon one Side his Nose. Whoever , will give Information of the Place he is in to the Overseer of the Poor of Willingham aforesaid, so that he may be apprehended, shall receive One guinea fucceeded well enough for a time or two, but in the end proved fatal to the farmer, who lost four guineas, being his whole monied property, and which he had just before received in the fair. On Wednefday se'nnight a woman in Narrow Marsh, Nottingham, went in a pet to fetch her hus- band from the alehouse ; be returned with his wife: but high words arising, he took up a bolder- stone in the street., which he grasp'd in his right hand, and aiming a violent stroke at the poor woman's head, she evaded the blow, hut unfortunately he hit his own child that she had in her arms, so violently, that the skull is fractured; and the poor babe now lies in a convulsed state without the least hope of recovery. — — Such arc the terrible effects of brutish anger! We hear that a Mess. Holland and Grey have con- tracted with Government to bring down the mails from London to Manchester, through Leicester and Derby; and from London to Leeds, through Notting- ham : ' tis; said they will begin for the first time on the 27th of June next ; are to carry four passengers only, with the coachman and guard, both armed. Under this regulation the coach will leave London at 7 each evening, and will arrive at Leicester about nine in the morning. - — The stages are to be performed with two horses, who will run only 6 or 7 miles before they change. ' Some particulars of the HAUNTED OVEN at Ludborough, in this County, in which a very extra- ordinary Ghost has taken residence. The APPARITION we write of, is evidently, better off than the Ghost in Hamlet, which confesses . itself confined to fast in fires !" Now this spectre be- ing imprisoncd in an oven, is not under the necessity of fasting, as a variety of pies, puddings, 8tc. are daily placed before it. Strange however are the accounts re- lated of these dishes; all of which jump out of the oven soon after they are put in. The following detail of a few particulars, which we seriously affirm to be facts, will, we trust, meet public attention. A very fine tansy pudding had scarce been placed in • the Oven, when it returned so terrified, that it was mis- taken for a quaking pudding I A goose stuffed with sage, sagaciously followed on its stumps; which is something more than Vestris ever attempted. A duck pie was observed to waddle close behind. A sucking pig took up its petty toes, which lay by, way of garnish round the dish, and escaped with great . precipitation. A Hare Pie was chased three times round the oven, by a Hunting Pudding, and at length outran its pur- suer . Some half- hatched eggs, which had been heat toge- ther in a custard ,: became so extremely agitated, that they ran- away in the shape of chickens. Eight pigeons which lay snugg together in a pie, lifted up the crust, with one consent; and took a flight without the help of feathers, A leg of pork hopped ' away with as much dexterity, as if had practised under the Learned Pig. A Potatoe Pie, which the owner of a manufactory, in consequence of Mr. Pitt's Irish proportions, was o- bliged to substitute for roast beef. in endeavouring to escape, violently assaulted and overset a butter pud- ding. A batch of French rolls, in consistance with the nati- on after which they were named, scampered away with the utmoft speed ; and to the honor of Old England, a plain brown loaf was the only article which maintained its ground. As the new Cock- lane Ghost at LudborOugh, in this county; has appeared, or been heard from an oven, it is supposed the accomplices in this imposture intend to make their bread by it. Married on Saturday se'nnight, at St. Michael's, Cornhill, Mr. Thomas Froggatt, wholesale haber- dasher, of Queen- street, Cheapside, to Miss L'Oste, of Louth, in this County On Friday last ended the great stag match, at Pon- tefract, in Yorkshire, for ten and a hundred, betwixt the Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, John Oldred feeder, against William Sotheron, Esq. David Smith, feeder ; the main consisted of 31 battles, whereof the latter got 21, the former 10 ; there was 11 bye battles, Smith won 7, Oldred 4 : the odds, were on the winner | before fighting, and continued to the end by letters from Newcastle, dated Friday last, we learn that the sailors were then pretty, quiet, and that fifty sail of colliers. would be dispatched for the port of London in a few days. NEW - MARKET. WEDNESDAY, - May tr. Fifty Pounds for 3 yr. olds, carrying 611.4 vr. olds,. 8d. 2lb. ,5 yr. olds, 8( 1. 81b. 6 yr. olds, and aged 811. . 12lb. from the ditch in the Duke's strand. Duke of Queensbury's b. h. Wisdom, aged. — t Duke of Devonshire's bl, c. Collier, 4 yrs. old, — 2 Mr. Fox's b. HI. Rose, 5 yrs. - - 3. Lord Foley's ch. c. Partizan, 4 yrs. - 4 Mr. Goldings b. f. Shepherdess, by Justice, ran out of the Course. His R. H. the Prince of Wales's Rockingham ( late Camden) 8st. 7st, beat Mr. Dawson's Clayhall, 8( 1. alb. B. C. 500, h. ft. No crossing. Mr. Wyndham's Fortitude, 8 d. gib. beat Ld. Cler- mont's Demirep, 6d. 2lb. the two years old course, 50, h. ft., Mr. Bullock's Buzaglo, 8( 1. ylk' beat H. R. H. the Prince of Wales's Rosaletta, Sd. l. b. a- cross the Sat, 200, h, ft. On Sunday morning a duel was fought in a field near Rochester, by Major G , and an officer in the navy, in which the latter was shot through the cheek, and lost three of his teeth ; but the ball lodging in the bone of the lower jaw, it is thought by the surgeons that the wound will be attended with no fatal conse- quences. BANKRUPTS. Joshua Cox, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, Baker. William Lodge, of Leeds, Yorkshire, Inn keeper.' Robert Cooke, of Lindridge, Worcestershire, Tal- low- chandler. James Lawson, of Liverpool, Lancashire, Grocer. James M'Doitall, late of Charles- town, North- America. Thomas Jones, Wapping, Middlesex, dealer in Wines. James Johnson, of Snaith, Yorkshire, Linen- Dra- per. ; Robert Kingston, of Towcester, Northamptonshire,' Dealer and Chapman. Richard Gardner, of Fore- street, London, Grocer. David Gay, late of Friday- street, London, Gauze Weaver. John Cooper, of Queen- street, Bloomsbury, Mid- dlesex, Cheesemonger. Richard Atkinson, of Leeds York, Haberdasher. George Tucker, late of Reading, Berks, Ironmon- ger. HULL MAY 18. Coasters arrived. Jason, Hopper, and Peggy, Coggin, from Lynn. Oak, Wil- liamson; Sally, Williamson; Ecton, Simms; Leonard and Jane, Thompson; Choice, Pinder; Friends Goodwill, Martinson; En- deavour, Blanch ; Nancy, Luddington ; Nelly, Smith; Adventure, Bullock, and Province, Stephenson, from London. Sally, Simpson, from Whitehaven, Amity's Increase, Staniland, from Poole. Polly, Dewy, from' Whitby. Philip and Rebecca, Wilson, from Yar mouth. Rodney, Barker, from Wisbech. Coasters sailed. Unity, Brown, for Boston. Man- chester, Mowne; Friendship, Gawthorpe; Thomas and Hannah, Cook; Eagle, Wharam ; Lapwing, Tay- lor; Daking, Antonie; Fame, Cobb; Blandinah, Wil- kinson ; Polly, Dunting, and Oak, Gales, for London. Saltfleet- Packet, Avison, for Saltfleet, Hawke, Wyatt, for Rochester. John, Stephenson, for Sunderland. Beaufoy, Cavell, for Scarbro', Peggy, Coggin; for Lynn. John and Ann, Smith, for Spalding. GAINSBOROUGH, May 19. Coaster sailed. Phosphorus, William Crabtree, for London. [ Arrived none.] EPITAPHS. For a ROBIN- RED- BREAST. HERE lies sweet' Robin, gentle bird : Who never sinn'd in deed or word, Nor ever err'd in thought. Happy the man who thus can say, That he hath spent each passing day In doing what he ought. For an OLD MAID. HERE lies a Maid, As it is said, Of three score years and ten. She did no good, Nor ever would, Had she liv'd as long again. For a YOUNG MAID. BENEATH this lifeless stone is laid, The form of a once charming maid. She liv'd a maid, was good and pretty : She dy'd a maid and that's a pity Poets Corner, May 7, 1785. The RURAL PAIR. WHERE confluent torrents join their dreams, that flow, Hoarsely adown yon steepy mountain's brow, Behold a spot ! embrown'd with lofty trees, Whose foliage quivers to the gentle breeze : Near it a cottage stands, mean and obscure, Its turfy sides with shaggy moss grown o'er No dorick frieze adorns the humble roof; ' Tis warmly thatch'd— and ' gainst the tempest proof. The honest Tenant of that lowly shed, Though doom'd to toil from day to day for bread, Is greatly rich :— His Soul feels pure content, His deeds are noble, and his life well fpent; Betime he seeks repose, betime awakes, And plods to labour ere the morning breaks : No cares corroding rankle in his breast, He sips the transport of unenvied rest, And it in humble virtues truly blest. Loving and lov'd— join'd to a tender wife, Chearful he treads the rugged maze of life, Bends with submission to Heaven's awful will. And thanks the pow'r that shelters him from ill. But, lo, the Dame !— How lovely is her mein; There Virtue speaks, there Piety is seen ; There rural innocence and artless ease , Live to delight, to animate, and please. Around her steps attend a smiling train of beauteous babes, some favour to obtain : With all the prudence of maternal love She forms their manners, early as they move, Listens with kind indulgence to each moan, And feeds their lips while she neglects her own; From their young minds disperses error's gloom, And tends their infant virtues till they bloom. . So the fair oak that overhangs the vale, Guards the young sapling from the blasting gale; With outspread arms affords a friendly shade, And gives to rising Nature Nature's aid. ANECDOTE of ORIENTAL JUSTICe. The late Mr. Wheeler, of the Supreme Council of Bengal, was not less scrupulously attentive to the in- terests of the revenue, than eminently just in every transaCtion of his distinguished office. Most of the goods of this gentleman, upon his arrival at Bengal, had been deposited in his house, without payment of the usual custom duties, through the connivance of his servants, to whom the care of this matter had been committed. They had, doubtless, supposed that such a service could not be unacceptable to their master, whose power would baffle all enquiry, beside that it was not without many precedents. Mr. Wheeler did not discover this circumstance till about a fortnight afterwards, when arraigning the injustice of the act with the indignation which became an honest man, And severely rebuking the servant who had charged his character with such a burden, he removed every article, even the most trivial, to the Custom- house, and paid the full duties, in spite of the derision of fraud, and in contempt of the security of power. The Emperor has bestowed a very distinguishing mark of his favour on the Prince de Kaunitz. Some days ago that Prince entered into his 74th year ; the Emperor having heard that he was to be at the Mena- gerie that day, came himself before seven in the morn- ing, and gave orders that he should be told when the prince made his appearance. This order being exe- cuted, the Emperor met him at the gates, and re- ceived him in these words, so unlike the language of Kings : " Happy be the day on which the Prince of Kaunitz was born." The Prince surprised, and sen- sibly affeCted with the kindness of his Sovereign, - was not able to utter a word, but tears of joy flowed from his eyes. The Emperor added, " I know, my dear Kaunitz, you entertain your friends to day. I reckon myself one of the number, and I shall be punctual in waiting upon you." Since the Turks have erected a line of forts on the frontiers of their dominions, next to the Russians, they speak in very loud terms, and have ordered a very large body of troops to march towards the Crimea. For this great purpose they have made a concession to France, which all the negociating address of the cabinet of Versailles could never procure before— they have yielded to them the free passage of the Darda- nelles, and navigation of the Black Seas— a thing we shall have occasion to lament in any future contest with the French. , A Copy of the instruction, and plan proposed by the National Assembly of Ireland for promoting a Parliamentary Reform : PEOPLE of IRELAND. Your Delegates present you with the outlines of a Parliamentary Reform. They trust that it will receive your approbation, and rely upon your virtues for its execution. It remains for them respectfully and finally to say, that if the abuses of former parliaments do not inspire a distrust of those which are to come : If the venera- ble opinions of those illustrious men who are now no more, and the assistance of those whose present labours co- operate with you in the same pursuit, have no in- fluence to awaken your fears, to animate your efforts, and to invigorate your hopes: This, and every other endeavour must sink into oblivion, and you will shortly repose an indolent acquiescence under such a represen- tation as will gall yourselves and your posterity with encreasing taxation and oppression. That all cities, towns, boroughs, and manors, not containing, in the province of Ulster, 300 electors; in the province of Munster, Leinster, and Connaught 150, should cease to return members to parliament ; the deficienry to be supplied by adding representatives to counties, and by restoring the elective franchise, and adding members to great cities, and populous towns. That no elector should have more than two votes in any one place, as at present. That votes should be collected by ballot, in all such places as desire it. That the duration of parliaments ought not to ex- ceed three years. That any member of the House of Commons accept- ing either pension or place of profit under the Crown, should vacate his seat. That residence and registry should be established. That where franchises are to be surrendered, com- pensation should be made. That an oath against bribery and corruption should be administered to each member of the House of Com- mons, before he takes his seat. The reigning toast now in Dublin, Corke, Water- ford, Derry, and other parts of Ireland, is—" May Pitt's Proposition— meet no Opposition." Lettars lately received from America mention, that the Congress is sinking into total neglect. The Ameri- can States pay no regard to its decrees, and seem in- clined to consider it as a part of the machine of Go- vernment become new wholly useless. The leading men in America perceive that the inhabitants of a coun- try where the soil is to be procured on easy terms, will few of them attend to handicraft trades, which renders labour exorbitantly dear. One person mentions, as a fact, that the hewing a stone, for a step before his door, cost him 30s. The heavy taxes laid upon the re- volted States have driven multitudes from the sea- coasts to explore new regions beyond the Western Mountains, and they are now settling in great num- bers on the Banks of the Ohio. It is computed that 19,000 souls emigrated to that country in the course of the year 1784. At Philadelphia the scarcity of money has raised the intered to five per cent, a month. A broker has already realized 80,000!. by the advantage he has taken of the necessities of the Americans. Those shopkeepers in Philadelphia who have furnish- ed their warehouses with French cloths, are obliged to forge the marks of the English clothiers to obtain a sale for their goods. The trade between France and America is declining daily. The French will not give credit. It is asserted upon good authority, the since the peaee has been concluded with America, our trade with the States on the American continent has been uncom- monly encreased.— The consequence his been, that more English shipping and larger ships ( English, not American) have been employed in that service than were ever engaged in the same space of time before. The expedition with which the Balloon was filled, which ascended on Thursday se'nnight, from Mr. Dodswell's at Moulsey- Hurst, redounds highly to the credit of Mr. Sadler, who had the sole management of the business. The process, was begun at thirty- three minutes after five in the morning, and was completely finished before eight. It took up about an hour more to attach the boat, which suspended by fifty- three strings, 10 make a convenient disposition for a portable barometer of a new construction, a thermometer, an hygrometer, a compass, a small achromatic, and a speaking trumpet. About two or three minutes be- fore nine the balloon attended with Mr. Sadler and his companion, and above 300 weight of ballast, be- sides the instruments; its first course was directly against the wind, which set from S. W. or S. W. by W. It continued in this direction, proceeding slowly, and at a moderate height, and turning very gently on an axis about half an hour, when it changed its course to the South, and began to descend so rapidly, that the two voyagers were not without apprehension, that their machine was burden at the top ; but being pre- sently lightened of much of its ballad, which was thrown out in great quantities to lessen the force of the expeCted fall, it mounted again perpendicularly with great velocity, to a very considerable height, turning in the former part of its ascent, much more quickly than before upon its axis. To stop its ascent, it was judged necessary to open the bottom of the Bal- loon by cutting off the silken tube, by which it had been filled, above the ligature. At a great elevation in the atmosphere, it resumed its Southerly course, which it soon changed, however, for the Eastward direction. Between one aud two, the aerial voyagers having passed over Southwark, Dulwich, and some part of Blackheath, found themselves nearly over the town of Dartford, and apprehending that they could not proceed much farther without danger of being car- risd out to sea, they attempted to descend, and sunk their vessel low enough to converse with the people in the fields. Finding their motion of descent too quick, they had recourse to tbe former expedient of throwing out ballast. In this they went too far, and were carried up again with rapidity to a greater height than they had yet attained. A machine which had been provided to serve the purpose of a valve, without its inconveniences, failing in the application, they had no means of procuring a defcent, but by making from time to time rents in the silk of the Balloon, from the edge at bottom, made by the amputation of the tube a good way up the side, by which free regress might be given to the gaz, and a freer admission to the air of the atmosphere. They found themselves crossing the river to the Essex side a little above Gravesend; ap- prehending that the course which they were now up on, which was marked out to them by the shadow of the Balloon on the surface of the water, would soon carry them beyond the Essex coast, and having little hopes that their vessel could hold out to cross the width of the sea, which on that side separates our island from the Continent, they thought it prudent to have recourse to their cork jackets, for with such they were provided. Fortunately a cross current of the atmos- phere rendered the precaution unnecessary, returning them towards the Kentish main, where they finally de- sended near the confluence of the Thames and the Medway, scarce a mile from the water's edge. The country people, to whom they had committed the care of the Balloon, while their own attention was employ- ed about the instruments, either through inadvertance, or in some alarm occasioned by the cracking of the tackle in the wind, suddenly quitted their hold. The Balloon, with the boat attached to it was in an instant out of sight, at least to the naked eye. Accounts have been received, that some observing with a telescope, saw it drop into the sea about four miles below- the Nore. During the whole flight frequent observations were made of the barometer and thermometer, and an accurate journal was kept of all remarkable oc- currences. Our correspondent, who has sfeen it, as- sures us that in many particulars it is highly curi- ous. The greatest perpendicular height which the tra- vellers attained, appears to have been one mile, seven furlongs, sixty- one yards, which is only 150 yards short of two miles. Most of the letters from Jamaica, by the last packet, agree in giving a very melancholy account of the de- clining date of the commerce of that once flourishing island, from the heavy restrictions lately laid upon the sugars and rum. The above letters further say, that an additional stroke to the present unfortunate state of the planters will be indicted by the emancipation of Ireland, which being no longer bound to submit to the English mono- polies of sugar, rum, & c. will be at liberty to resort to any market whatever for the purchase of those com- modities, instead of being confined to the British planta- tions— the dearest on the face of the globe. An ESSAY on the JEWS. By M. de VoLTAIRE. YOU desire me to give you a faithful reprefentation of the genius and history of the Jews : Without entering into the inessable ways of Providence you endeavour to find, in the manners of that people, the fource of those events which Providence hath brought to pass. It is certain the Jews are the most singular nation that ever existed. And tho' it be the most con- temptible in the eyes of a statesman, it is in many re- spects the just object of a philosopher's attention. The Guebri, the Banians, and the Jews are the only nations who have not been extinguished by disper- sion. and who have perpetuated themselves in the midst of foreign nations, without contracting any alliance with them, and always remain a distinct people from the rest of the world. The Guebri, was formerly much more confiderable than the Jews, being the remains of the ancient Persians, to whom the Jews were subject. But they are only to be found now scattered in a small part of the east. The Banians, who are desended from those antient nations from whom Pithagoras drew his philosophy, are to be met with only in India and Persia : But the Jews are dispersed all over the face of the earth ; and were they all to assemble, would be found more numerous than they ever were during their short posses- sion of the sovereignty of Palestine. Almost all who have wrote the history of their origin, have endeavour- ed to heighten it by prodigies. Every thing relating to them is miraculous. Their oracles predicted to them nothing but conquests : And those who aCtually became conquerors easily believe those antient oracles that were justifyed by tha event. What distinguishes tbe Jews from other nations is, that, in their oracles alone, is truth to be found : Of this we are not per- mitted to doubt. These oracles, which they under- stand only in the literal sense, foretold an hundred times that they should be masters of the world: Never- theless they had never possessed but a small corner of land, and that only for a few years : At present they have not the property of a single village. They ought therefore to believe, and in faCt they do believe, that their predictions are still to be one day fulfilled, and that they shall have the empire of the world. They are considered as the last of all people, both among Mussulmen and Chridians, and yet they think themselves the first. This pride in the midst of their abasement is justified by an unanswerable reason, namely, that they are the fathers both of the Christians and Mussulmen. The Christian and Mahometan reli- gions acknowledge the Jewish religion for their mo- ther ; and by a very odd contradiction, she is the objeCt both of their respeCt and abhorrence. I shall pass over that continued series of prodigies which astonishes the imagination and exercises faith. I shall only mention events purely historical, stript of the celestial concurrence and of those miracles which the Almighty so long vouchsafed to operate in favour of this people. We find in Egypt a family, at first consisting only of seventy persons, producing at the end of 215 years a nation that counted 600,000 fighting men ; which with the old men, women and children, make upwards of two millions of souls. There is no other example of such prodigious increase. This multitude, leaving Egypt, sojourned forty years in the desarts of Arabia Petrsa, in which miserable country their number greatly diminished. What remained of them advanced a little to the north of these desarts. It should seem that they had the same principles with the modern inhabitants ot Arabia Petrae, and Arabia Deserta, massacring, without pity, the inhabitants of the villages, which they could overpower, reserving only the young women. Increase of their numbers have ever been the principle objeCt of both those nations. We find that when the Arabs conquered Spain the tax they imposed was to be paid in marriageable young women : And, at this day, the Arabs never make a treaty without stipulating for some young women and presents. The Jews came into a sandy country, interspersed with hills, where there were some villages inhabited by a small nation called Midianites. They took ia one camp of the Midianites, 675,000 sheep, 72,000 oxen, 61,000 asses, and 32,000 maids that had not known man. All the men, women, and male children were put to the sword ; the young women and the booty were divided among the people and the priests. They afterwards made themselves masters of Jericho in the same country ; but having devoted all its inha- bitants to destruCtion, they did not spare even the maids, saving alive only a courtezan named Rahab, who assisted them in surprising the city. It had been a question among the learned, whether the Jews, like so many other nations, offered human sacrifices ? This is a dispute above words: Those whom they devoted to death were not slain upon an altar with religious rites, but they were nevertheless immolated and not one spared. The 29th verse of the xxviiith chapter of Leviticus, expresly forbids the re- deeming of any person devoted: It fays, they shall surely be put to death. It was by virtue of this law that Jeptha devoted to death, and cut the throat of his daughter; that Saul wanted to kill his son, and that the prophet Samuel cut in pieces king Agag, Saul's prisoner. It is very certain, that God is master of the lives of all men ; and that it doth not belong to us to to examine his laws: We ought to confine ourselves to the belief of these faCts, and respeCt in silence the designs of God who hath permitted them. It is also asked, what right strangers as the Jews were, had to the land of Canaan ? To which it is answerd, that they had the right which God gave them. No sooner had they taken Jericho and Ai, than a civil war broke out among them, in which the tribe of Benjamin was almost exterminated, man, woman, and child ; there remained only 600 males: But the peo- ple being unwilling that one of the tribes should be ex- tinguished, destroyed with fire and sword, a city of the Manasseh, and slew all the inhabitants, old men and children, married women, and widows, spar- ing only 600 virgins, whom they gave to the 600 sur- viving Benjamites, to recruit their tribe, that the number of the twelve tribes might be kept up. However the Phenicians, a powersul people, settled, from time immemorial, on the coasts, alarmed at the depredations and cruelties of these new- comers, often chastised them ; The neighbouring princes also leagued against them, and they were seven times reduced to slavery in the space of about 200 years. At last they set up a king, whom they chose by lot : This king could not be very powerful, for the first battle the Jews fought under him, against the Phili- stines, their masters, they had not, in the whole army, but one sword and lance, and not one instru- ment of iron. However David, their second king, made war with advantage. He took the city of Salem, so famous since under the name of Jerusalem ; and then the Jews began to make some figure in the neighbour- hood of Syria. Their government and their religion assumed a more venerable form : Hitherto they had not been able to build temples like the neighbouring nations. Solomon built a very magnificent one, and ruled over the people 40 years. Solomon's reign was the best days of the Jews ; all the kings of the earth together could not shew a trea- sure equal to that of this prince. King David, whose predecessor had not even iron, left, in ready money to his son Solomon 25648,000,000 livres of the present money. His fleets, which went to Ophir, brought back yearly seventy millions in pure gold, besides silver and precious stones. He had forty thousand stalls for horses of his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines. Nevertheless he had no wood or workmen to build his palace and his temple. He bor- rowed them from Hiram king of Tyre, who furnished even the gold, and Solomon gave him in return twen- ty towns. Commentators have acknowledged that these facts want explanation, and suspect that the copy- ists, who alone could err, have made some mistake in a figure. Messrs. Rose and Drury, Lincoln. 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