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Universal Register.
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_A HOLIDAY AT ALL THE PUBLIC OFFICES._
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To CORRESPONDENTS
Though much has been said of LORD GEORGE GORDON’S beard, yet, as the subject increases every day, THE TIMES will not let it pass _unnoticed_. The SHANDEAN _Jeu d’Esprit_ will of course be attended to, though perhaps with a little clipping.
The CRITIC will do, so will other SQUIBS from the same hand.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHERS and PHILOSOPHY are entitled to the Protection of THE TIMES.--With ARTS AND SCIENCES we shall ever be at _peace_.
On account of the great overflow of temporary matter, several articles of intelligence are unavoidably postponed. The favours of several of our Advertising correspondents, which were too long, and came too late for insertion, shall have places to-morrow.
Parisian intelligence shall likewise have insertion without fail.
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_TO THE PUBLIC._
VERBAL _thanks_, however warm in expression, cannot be considered the criterion of GRATITUDE. DEEDS, not _words_, prove _sincerity_, and by future endeavours to entertain and inform, THE TIMES will evince their _zeal_ in the service of THE PUBLIC, and their _feelings_ for the favours bestowed upon the UNIVERSAL REGISTER.
MR. WALTER, _patentee_ of the _Logographic Press_, cannot omit his tribute of thanks for the very great encouragement which his endeavours to improve the art of printing have experienced--notwithstanding the unjust and illiberal measures adopted to impede its progress and injure him. An accurate statement of these mean and invidious practices he is determined to lay before the public in a pamphlet on a future day; at present he will only mention a very recent one. THE DAILY ADVERTISER being generally read by the lower orders of the people, he offered at its office an Advertisement for several apprentices, which MR. JENOUR, the Printer, refused to insert, though he had received payment several days preceding.
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LONDON.
Last night her Majesty had a concert of vocal and instrumental music at the Palace at Windsor.
The 7th of this month is fixed for the celebration of the marriage of the Archduke of Austria and the Princess Elizabeth of Wirtemberg.--The ceremony will be performed at Vienna.
The great heiress, Miss Pulteney, the daughter of William Pulteney, Esq., came of age last Thursday.--The entertainments on the occasion were very splendid, and the celebration kept at Shrewsbury.
The indisposition of Lord Salisbury is a public evil; and to do his Herefordshire neighbours justice they think so, independent of their Christmas disappointment. Other and honourable feelings operate more upon the occasion.
Great expectations are formed of Mr. _Fitzherbert’s_ talents in the important post to which he has lately been appointed; and we are ready to believe that he will amply fulfil them. But of this we are rather certain, that however he may surmount the attacks of the _Hibernian_ politicians, if the jolly fellows once get him amongst them, they will soon make him feel a _want of understanding_.
The MINISTER, among his late acquisitions, his obtained a gift of an _under_ WAISTCOTE, which, however, he has ordered to be _hung up_ in his wardrobe, not wishing to wear near his _heart_ a vestment that has come from the enemy, and which, like the _shirt_ presented by _Dejianira_ to _Hercules_, is probably _poisoned_, and would rather raise a _blister_ than prove of salutary effect.
The _information_ offered by the DESERTER from the _political_ BANDITTI meets with no credit in _Court_; it having been repeatedly determined at the Sessions house in _the Old Bailey_ that an _approver_, vulgarly called a _King’s Evidence_, shall have no _credit_ with _good men_ and _true_, unless his testimony be supported by witnesses of _honest fame_.
A few days since died Dr. Isaac Mann, Bishop of Cork and Ross, in Ireland, and Archdeacon of Dublin. The Marquis of Buckingham by the above event is singularly fortunate, by having it in his power during the first week of his administration to bestow a mitre on one of his chaplains.
The declining state of the King of _Spain_ naturally turns the attention of political observers to that quarter--as a system of measures very hostile to the views of _France_, and subversive of that tyranny which it has so long exercised at the Court of _Madrid_, may possibly be adopted. It is said, and the idea has long met with a current belief, that the Prince of Austria is well acquainted with the true interests of his country, and will when the power is his effectually promote them.
The public events of Holland are known to every one who can and will read the newspapers, but they alone who are able to get a peep into private correspondence can be informed, though they will not all of them _believe_, that _Lord Beauchamp_ is actually giving dinners--aye, and good dinners too--at the _Hague_.
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_THE TIMES._
Why change the head?
This question will naturally come from the Public--and _we_ the TIMES, being the PUBLIC’S most humble and most obedient Servants, think ourselves bound to answer.
All things have _heads_--and all _heads_ are liable to _change_--
Every sentence and opinion advanced and supported by Mr. _Shandy_, on the influence and utility of a well-chosen surname, may be properly applied in shewing the recommendations and advantages which result from placing a striking title-page before a book, or an inviting HEAD on the front page of a NEWS-PAPER.
A HEAD so placed, like those _heads_ which once ornamented _Temple Bar_, or those of the _Great Attorney_ or _Great Contractor_ which, not long since, were conspicuously elevated for their _great actions_, and were exhibited in _wooden frames_, at the _East_ and _West_-ends of this metropolis, never fails of attracting the eyes of passengers, though indeed we do not expect to experience the lenity shewn to these _great exhibitors_; for probably THE TIMES will be pelted without mercy.
But then a _head_ with a _good face_ is a harbinger or gentleman usher that often strongly recommends even DULNESS, FOLLY, IMMORALITY, or VICE--The immortal LOCKE gives evidence to the truth of this observation. That great philosopher has declared that, though repeatedly taken in, he never could withstand the solicitations of a well-drawn title-page--authority sufficient to justify _us_ in assuming a _new head_, with a _new set of features_, but not with a design to impose; for we flatter ourselves the HEADS of THE TIMES will not be found deficient in _intellects_, but by putting a _new face_ on affairs, will be admired for the _light_ of its _countenance_ wherever it appears.
To advert to our first position.
THE UNIVERSAL REGISTER has been a name as injurious to the _Logographic News-Paper_ as TRISTRAM was to MR. SHANDY’S SON--but OLD SHANDY forgot he might have rectified by _confirmation_ the mistake of the _parson_ at _baptism_, and with the touch of a _Bishop_ have changed TRISTRAM to TRISMEGESTUS.
THE UNIVERSAL REGISTER, from the day of its first appearance to the day of its _confirmation_ has like TRISTRAM suffered from innumerable casualities, both laughable and serious, arising from its _name_, which on its introduction was immediately curtailed of its fair proportion by all who called for it, the word _Universal_ being _universally_ omitted, and the word _Register_, only, being retained. “Boy, bring me the _Register_.” The waiter answers, “Sir, we have not a library, but you may see it at the _New Exchange Coffee House_.” “Then I’ll see it there,” answers the disappointed politician, and he goes to the _New Exchange_ and calls for the _Register_; upon which the waiter tells him he cannot have it if he is not a subscriber--or presents him with the Court and City Register, the _Old Annual Register_, or the _New Annual Register_; or if the Coffee House be within the Purlieus of Covent Garden, or the Hundreds of Drury--slips into the politician’s hand “_Harris’s Register_ of Ladies.”
For these and other reasons, the parents of the UNIVERSAL REGISTER have added to its original name that of the
_TIMES,_
Which, being a _monosyllable_, bids defiance to _corrupters_ and _mutilaters_ of the language.
THE TIMES! What a monstrous name! Granted--for THE TIMES _is_ a many-headed monster that speaks with a hundred tongues, and displays a thousand characters, and in the course of _its_ transformations in life assumes innumerable shapes and humours.
The critical reader will observe we personify our _new name_, but as we give it no distinction of sex, and though _it_ will be _active_ in _its_ vocations, yet we apply to _it_ the _neuter gender_.
THE TIMES, being formed of materials and possessing qualities of opposite and heterogeneous natures, cannot be classed either in the animal or vegetable _genus_; but like the _Polypus_ is doubtful, and in the discussion, description, dissection, and illustration, will employ the pens of the most celebrated of the _Literati_.
THE HEADS OF THE TIMES, as has been said, are many; they will however not always appear at the same time, but casually, as public or private affairs may call them forth.
The principal or leading heads are--
The LITERARY, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, CRITICAL, THEATRICAL, FASHIONABLE, HUMOUROUS, WITTY, &c., &c.
Each of which are supplied with a competent share of intellects for the pursuit of their several functions; an endowment which is not in _all time_ to be found even in the HEADS of the _State_--The _heads_ of the _Church_--the _heads_ of the _Law_--the _heads_ of the _Navy_--the _heads_ of the _Army_--and though _last_, not _least_, the _great heads_ of the _Universities_.
The _Political Head_ of THE TIMES, like that of _Janus_, the Roman Deity, is double faced; with one countenance it will smile continually on the _friends_ of _Old England_, and with the other will frown incessantly on her _enemies_.
The alteration we have made in our _head_ is not without precedents. The WORLD has parted with half of its CAPUT MORTUUM and a moiety of its brains. The HERALD has cut off half of its head, and has lost its original humour. The POST, it is true, retains its whole head and its old features; and as to the other public prints, they appear as having neither _heads_ nor _tails_.
On the PARLIAMENTARY HEAD every communication that ability and industry can produce may be expected. To this great _National object_ THE TIMES will be most sedulously attentive, most accurately correct, and strictly impartial in its reports.
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THEATRE.
_Drury Lane._
Hamlet--whose doom, at least this season, has unfortunately been “to walk the night and strut to empty benches”--performed yesterday evening its accustomed _penance_ in lieu of Tamerlane.
Were not this excellent tragedy so often used “on the spur of the occasion,” we think such admirable acting as Kemble’s Prince of _Denmark_ would meet with more _attendance_--more of applause it could not have.
Mrs. Ward’s performance of the _Queen_ is the best proof of Mrs. Siddon’s assertion, that “Gertrude had more good points about her than the critics were aware of.” Mrs. Ward’s distracted _look_ in the closet scene aided most powerfully Kemble’s piteous exclamation of, “On _him!_ on _him!_” Indeed, the noble delineation of that difficult character did much credit to this rising actress.
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_Covent Garden._
“Henry the Fourth,” with Ryder’s Falstaff, ended the year _merrily_ at this Theatre. The house was remarkably full, and the lower boxes had most of the fashionable _amateurs_ in town. The Falstaff of Ryder, though not perfection, is yet respectable, and is the more welcome, with “all its imperfections upon its head,” as disappointing the general assertion that Falstaff _died_ with _Henderson_. Among the most pleasing and prominent features were his address to the _gang_ on Gadds Hill--“By the _Lord_, I _knew_ you”--to the Prince, and soliloquy on _honour_. The description of his _company_ was also replete with humour.
Edwin’s kind donation of the _sugar candy_ was particularly welcome to Lewis, who was most villainously hoarse. The scene of Anon! anon! Sir, of course lost much of its effect.
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REHEARSAL OF NEW YEAR’S ODE.
Mr. Cramer led the band at the rehearsal yesterday, in _Hickford’s Rooms, Brewer’s Street_. The Overture consisted of three movements, in the second of which Mr. Parke’s oboe was distinguished in a Solo accompanied by the Violincello. Mr. Sale opened the vocal part in a recitative and air--
“Rude was the Pile, and massy Roof.”
He was followed by Doctor Hayes, who executed an air with great applause. Master Carnaby, one of the King’s Boys, sung a verse sweetly, beginning,
“When to the King.”
In the cantibile at the close, he rather failed in his execution, which was very excusable in a first essay before so many capital masters. A most rich and beautiful symphony preceded Mr. Dyne’s air.
“Proud Castle, to thy banner’d Bowers.”
It was much admired for its simplicity, it being conceived in the captivating manner of the late Doctor Arne, with this addition, that the accompanyments were much richer. The music finished with a very powerful chorus, “Albion, arouse,” but there were not voices sufficient to to do it justice.
The DUKE OF CUMBERLAND and near two hundred ladies and gentlemen were present. Previous to the performance, the minuets for the Queen’s birthday were as usual played over, two of which seemed to have a considerable share of novelty and merit.
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_THE CUCKOO_
_Cuckoo! Cuckoo!_ Repeated the little piece of _machinery_ which LADY WALLIS had conveyed into her _muff_, when she visited the COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON’S chapel. The _preacher_ raised up his eyes with amazement. _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine. “O word unpleasing to a married ear.” Messrs. A., B., and C. rubbed their _foreheads_, and looked upon the _preacher_. The _preacher_ went on with his discourse: “_fornicators and adulterers_ shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine. The _preacher_ proceeded till he came to another quotation: “Saul! Saul! why persecutes thou me?” _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine.
LADY BRISTOL, more _notoriously_ known by her assumed title, the DUCHESS OF KINGSTON, had lately been _seized_ with a longing to revisit her native country. Her Ladyship declares she has for a considerable time past felt the _amor patria_, and wishes for a _private_ conversation with his Majesty’s Ministers, for the purpose of laying before them the _true state_ of the Empress of Russia’s _private affairs_.
We are rejoiced for the best reason in the world--because it will promote the joy of others--that the report of _Mrs. Hobart_ having retired from the _Richmond Theatre_ is entirely without foundation. Where mirth, good humour, and elegant festivity prevail, especially if they should be heightened by the comic scene, Mrs. _Hobart_ cannot be easily spared.
On Friday evening, there was a private concert at the house of Mr. Billington, in Poland Street, at which there were some of the _first-characters_ in the kingdom. A more particular account of it probably will be given in this paper on a future day.
Though clearing the gallery of the COMMONS of strangers be a _standing order_, which any _member_ may insist upon without being seconded, yet SIR GREGORY would not venture to put it in execution without consulting his _Lady_: who, after examining the premises, has given her opinion that _such things_ ought not to be _sported_ or _trifled_ with.
SIR THOMAS BEAVER and MAJOR MONEY have commenced _Literary hostilities_, through the medium of the _Norwich Mercury_; their ammunition is of inflammable materials--more, however, of _brimstone_ than of _salt_, and _charcoal_ in great abundance.
As this Paper has traced _every incident_ respecting LORD GEORGE GORDON for several months past, it takes the liberty of announcing his Lordship’s return to St. George’s Fields _early_ in the ensuing term.
LORD GEORGE GORDON is preparing to _beard_ Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL on the question of bail; and Mr. _Attorney_ on his part is preparing a _cutting_ argument for _trimming Lord George_, but though his Lordship has been so long in the _suds_, it is not thought that _shaving_ will take place till _the day of Judgement_.
The paragraph which appeared in a certain respectable Morning Print, relative to the discharge of a person from St. James’s, for having paid a grateful attention to Lord George in his distresses is, however, not true; indeed, the report was too _ungracious_ to be so.
O QUACKERY! where wilt thou end? O PHYSIC, when are thy disgraces to terminate? There are at this time a practitioner in town, who says to his patients--“Use my _wegetable_, follow my _regiment_, and never fear it will _radicate_ all your _pectril_ complaints.” Such a character should not escape the animadversion of THE TIMES; but of _this here_ Doctor more anon--when _The Times_ have leisure.
Yesterday the Purser of the Dutton, Captain Hunt, for Bombay and China, received his final dispatches from the India House.
It is really surprising that Bedford Street, one of the great leading avenues to the Strand, should continue to remain in so confined a state towards the bottom; it resembles a great bottle with a small neck; there is not literally at its entrance from the Strand room for two coaches to go abreast, yet forty yards higher it is roomy and spacious. If the houses which form so great a bulk on the right hand, where Cater the Pawnbroker now lives, were thrown down, and an elegant range of new buildings to match the opposite corner, where Mess. Humble and Henderson’s upholstery warehouse is, it would certainly be equally commodious with either Catherine or Southampton Street.
During the late memorable contest between Johnson and Ryan, in the last _set to_ Ryan trod upon Johnstone’s great toe, and by the violence of the struggle lacerated the nail wholly from it. Johnstone was at this instant observed to turn pale. When they were disengaged Johnstone was so much irritated, that making a blow at Ryan, whom he missed, he struck one of the uprights of the stage, which shook it in an incredible manner, the next blow that Johnstone made was aimed at the chest, in which he succeeded, and this terminated the contest. Johnstone then asked Ryan if he had enough; to which he replied, “I’ve had enough these six minutes, but to oblige my friends, I have _stood up_.” Johnson’s hand was much bruised and black for some time after by the blow against the upright, and we hear he has not yet recovered of the hurt which his toe received in the encounter.
The spirit with which the Lord Mayor threatens the pack of _Bullock Drivers_ in amongst the first fruits of his administration, which promise it to be, as we hope it will prove, an administration of effect. As for our part, we cannot be convinced that the power of the magistracy in the metropolis and its suburbs is not equal to the correction of the numerous disgraceful abuses which infect its jurisdiction.
A tradesman of St Alban’s being asked why the King, after his fatigue on Saturday, quitted the town with so much precipitation, replied with some humour, “because his Majesty had no inclination to dine with _Duke Humphrey_.”
Saturday morning, several of the felons in the New Goal in the Borough made an attempt to escape, but were overheard by the Keeper, when two of the principals were properly secured in the strong room.
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TRUSLER’S CLERICAL and UNIVERSAL ALMANACK for the year 1788. Which contains a greater variety of matter than any other now published; and though in a small size has the lists of Lords and Commons, New Taxes, and is a complete Court Register in a much lesser compass.
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This day is published, Handsomely printed, in one volume, 12mo, Price two shillings and sixpence, sewed,
THE INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF HENRY MASERS DE LATUDE, during a confinement of Thirty-five years in the State Prisons of FRANCE; giving an historical account of those lamentable places of abode for those unhappy persons who fall under their cruel power; of the Means he used to escape once from the Bastille and twice from the dungeons of Vincennes, with the consequences of those attempts; the whole forming a Series of Events and Perseverance (under the most dreadful apprehension) scarcely to be thought possible for the Human Mind to sustain, and which will be found unparalleled in the Annals of History.
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_For the BENEFIT of the PUBLIC._
THE Public are respectfully informed that several Medicines of the best acknowledged infallibility, in the respective parts of the world they are gathered from, are on sale, by appointment, at J. de Boffe’s, importer of Foreign Books and Prints, No. 7, Gerard Street, Soho, and at Mr. Randall’s, under the Royal Exchange. Emolument is not the object of so useful an exertion, as to import from all parts articles of so eminent a virtue: but that of spreading relief, viz.:--Opiate of Life, most sovereign for weak and decayed stomachs, and infallible to all consumptive complaints, 7s. per pot of 18 doses. Golden Pill--the greatest specific ever known against pains in the head and eyes, a great restorer of lost memory, and most wonderful for giving a beautiful complexion; a composition of the wholesomest and scarcest articles, as are even not to be had in Europe, 10s. 6d. per box of 24 pills. Danish Pills, a never-failing remedy against the gravel, 6s. per box of 24 pills.
Interesting Discoveries. A liquid which will render all writings not legible as legible as if they had been instantly written, 10s. 6d. per bottle; and an Ointment which destroys bugs so as never to return, 2s. 6d. per pot.
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To PARENTS and GUARDIANS.
WANTED, A YOUNG GENTLEMAN of respectable parents, as an APPRENTICE to a LINEN DRAPER in a House of very extensive Business, the West end of the Town. A Genteel premium will be expected, as he will be treated as one of the family.
For particulars, enquire of Mr. Holl, Printing House Square, Blackfriars.
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_LODGINGS IN SURREY,_
Within three or four miles of London Bridge, in a dry, well-seasoned House.
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Letters addressed to X., at Lloyd’s Coffeehouse, describing
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And entered upon Immediately,
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_ENGLISH STATE LOTTERY._
Begins Drawing FEBRUARY 11, 1788.
RICHARDSON and GOODLUCK respectfully inform the public that the TICKETS are SOLD and divided into Half, Quarter, Eighth, and Sixteenth SHARES, at their licensed State Lottery Offices, in the Bank Buildings, Cornhill, and opposite the King’s Mews, Charing Cross, where every business of the Lottery is transacted with correctness and fidelity.
_N.B._ In the last and TWO preceding Lotteries the following CAPITAL PRIZES have been sold and shared at the above Office, viz.:--
Sold in Shares No. 48,577 a Prize of £20,000. 23,148 10,000. 27,964 10,000. 41,827 5,000. 33,599 5,000. 22,740 5,000. Whole Tickets No 968 a Prize of £20,000. 4,196 10,000. 5,473 5,000. 18,179 5,000. 3,605 5,000. Besides many of Two Thousand, One Thousand, and Five Hundred Pounds.
Country Correspondents may have Tickets and Shares sent them by remitting good Bills, payable at sight or of a short date. All Shares sold at the above Offices are stamped agreeable to Act of Parliament.
Tickets registered at Six-pence each, and the earliest Intelligence sent of their success.
⁂ Money for the Prizes will be paid at the above Offices as soon as drawn.
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_LOMBARD STREET._
January 1st, 1788
MESSRS. SHERGOLD and CO. most respectfully offer their sincere Thanks and grateful acknowledgements to a liberal and discerning Public for the very great Measure of Confidence and Favours recently added to the obligations they owe their Friends during a series of many Years and upon repeated Occasions.
Without adopting the Parade and Nonsense which renders some of their contemporaries ridiculous, they can make the best possible Appeal for the Integrity and Honor of their actions--an Appeal to the Voice and to the Judgment of the Public. They will not vaunt the Encouragement and Preference they have received from all Ranks, but leave the World to judge by Enquiry and the general Opinion how far they have distanced all Competitors in extent of Business and of universal Esteem.
THE success of their House to Adventurers has kept Pace with the stability of its engagements. A great Number of CAPITAL PRIZES have been added to their former numerous catalogue, and in particular a 5,000l., paid to a respectable Shopkeeper in the _Borough_, who will readily bear Testimony to the Alacrity and Promptitude he experienced.
MESSRS. SHERGOLD and CO. acquaint the Subscribers to the IRISH LOTTERY that the Tickets to be given _Gratis_, agreeable to their Terms, will be ready to deliver on Thursday, the 17th of January inst., and they earnestly request their friends will call for and receive them before the 12th of February.
THEY hope their conduct will warrant them to expect a continuance of the Friendship and Recommendation of their Patrons in the ENGLISH LOTTERY, who may be assured that the same line of Rectitude will be strictly adhered to which has uniformly distinguished all their Proceedings.
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_A PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC._
For the better Security of those who purchase SHARES of LOTTERY TICKETS,
HORNSBY and CO., Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, at their old-established office, No. 26, Cornhill, ever anxious to merit the favours they so extensively receive from their friends in town and country, propose the following amendment of the Act for regulating the Sharing of Tickets.
The Act, as it now stands, enables every Office Keeper to take away the Ticket (which is deposited at the time of sharing in the hands of the Commissioners) three days after the said Ticket is drawn; in which case the security is every way incomplete, because those purchasers of Shares who live at a distance from the Metropolis may not receive intelligence of the fate of the Ticket in time to make the demand before the said Ticket is received back from the Commissioners, and possibly disposed of. Whereas, if the Act extended the time for a certain number of weeks, there would be an opportunity for application to be made for each respective share before the ticket could be withdrawn.
To give, however, the friends of Hornsby and Co. every possible confidence in the fairness and integrity of their transactions, and in order to obviate the most distant suspicion of insecurity, they hereby publicly declare and engage that every ticket which is shared by them and deposited in the hands of the Commissioners, shall remain so deposited for one whole calendar Month after the drawing of the Lottery is finished, and that notwithstanding they will continue, as they always have done, to pay upon demand every share of a prize that may be drawn in the ensuing English Lottery, from a 20l. prize to a 20,000l.
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VICTUALLING OFFICE.
29th December, 1787.
_THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That there is money in the hands of the Treasurer of His Majesty’s Navy to pay the Principal and Interest of the Bills registered in the course of the Victualling for three months ending the 31st of January, 1787, in order that the Persons possessed of such Bills may bring them to this Office to be assigned for payment._
_And all persons who hold the said Bills are desired to subscribe their names and places of abode at the bottom of each Bill._
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VICTUALLING OFFICE.
24th December, 1787.
_THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That, on Tuesday the 8th of January next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat with such persons as will undertake to supply Fresh Beef and Sea Provisions to his Majesty’s Ships and Vessels at Liverpool, which will be paid for by Bills in Course._
_The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the Secretary’s Office, at this Office, or by applying to the Collector of His Majesty’s Customs, at Liverpool._
_And all persons who may think proper to make Tenders upon the said occasion are desired to take Notice, That, no Regard will be had to any Tender that shall not be delivered before 1 o’clock on the said 8th January next, nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer for him when called for. And that none that contain extravagant prices upon some articles, and prices much inferior to the real value on others, will be considered as proper to be attended to._
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_CHELSEA HOSPITAL._
Dec 28th, 1787.
THESE are by Order of the Right Hon. my Lords and others, Commissioners for the Affairs of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, to give Notice that all Out-Pensions (as well Lettermen as others) belonging to the said Hospital, residing in London or within twenty-five miles thereof, are required to appear personally at the Secretary’s Office in the said Hospital; and are required also, to appear regimentally on the respective days appointed for them as are hereafter mentioned, when attendance will be given from nine o’clock in the morning till three in the afternoon, in order to register their appearances, viz.:--
Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 1788.
The Pensioners from the 1st, 2nd, and late 3rd and 4th Troops of Horse Guards--Royal Horse Guards Blues; 3rd, 4th, and 7th Regiments of Horse; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments of Dragoon Guards; and all the Dragoons within the British Legion.
Friday, Jan. 4th.
The First and Second Regiments of Foot Guards.
Saturday, Jan. 5th.
Those from the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, and the Pensioners from the First to the Thirteenth Regiments of Foot inclusive.
Monday, Jan. 7th.
Those from the Fourteenth to the Forty-fifth Regiments of Foot inclusive.
Tuesday, Jan. 8th.
Those from the Forty-sixth to the Ninetieth Regiments of Foot inclusive.
Wednesday, Jan. 9th.
Those from the Ninety-first to the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiments of Foot inclusive, the Pensioners from Lord Strathaven’s, Major Waller’s, Olford’s, and Triik’s Corps, the Royal Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Quick’s Rangers, Fencibles in North Britain, Cinque Ports and Lancashire Volunteers, with all the American and other corps. Those from the Militia, as also the Pensioners from the ten reduced Regiments of Marine, those from the broken Regiments of Foot, those discharged from the Scotch castles, the Independent Companies abroad, and those who have been In-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, Lettermen and men at Ninepence per day.
And that all Out-pensioners (as well Lettermen as others) belonging to the said Hospital, who live at a greater distance than 25 miles from London, and those in Scotland and Ireland, are hereby required and commanded that after the 25th of December, and after every succeeding 25th of June and December, till further orders, they forthwith apply themselves to one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the neighbourhood where they reside, and make the following affidavit, which the said magistrate for the county, city, borough, or riding, before whom the Pensioners appear shall sign and date, viz.:--
came before me, one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of and made oath that he was admitted an Out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital on the day of 17 from the Regiment of commanded by was then aged about years, served in the army year, was discharged for and that he is no otherwise provided for by the Government but as a Pensioner of the said College; and now lives in the Parish of in the County of . Sworn before me this day of 17 .
The Affidavits, drawn according to the above form, sworn before, dated and attested by a magistrate, is to be put up in a cover, and sent by the General Post (directed thus): To the Right Honourable the Paymaster General, at the Horse Guards, London; and that counterparts or duplicates of the said affidavits are to be reserved by the Out-pensioners respectively, to be exhibited to such persons as shall be directed to pay them; that they may be satisfied that all such as may claim Out-pensions are the real persons entitled to receive the same.
To the end that the said Commissioners for the affairs of the Hospital may be satisfied that they are the same persons who have passed their examinations, the Pensioners are hereby further directed that such of them as have served, and have been discharged from any of the Regiments, or Independent Companies of Invalids, are not to mention in their affidavits such Regiment or Company in which they served, but the Regiment, Troop, or Corps of the Army from which they were first discharged, and recommended and received to Chelsea Hospital.
And as the general payments in Great Britain and Ireland at the end of the ensuing six months are chiefly regulated by the places of residence mentioned by the Pensioners, who are mustered at Chelsea in person, or in the body of the affidavits of such as live at a distance, it is hereby ordered and directed that no Pensioner who shall change the place of his abode given at his muster, or specified in his Affidavit aforesaid, and who may apply for his pension, except to the offices of Excise nearest such places of abode, shall receive the same unless it appear by the Certificates of respectable persons that such removal was through some unavoidable necessity, which he nor they could not foresee or prevent.
Lastly, it is notified that none will be entered upon the Pay List of the said Hospital, or be thought entitled to receive any benefit therefrom, who shall not act agreeable to these orders and direction.
SAMUEL ESTWICK, Secretary and Register.
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NAVY OFFICE.
Dec. 10, 1787.
_THE Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give notice that, on Thursday, the 3rd of Jan. next, at one o’clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying the Slop Office here with Deal Cases for packing Slops._
_The Particulars may be seen in the lobby here. No letter will be received as a tender unless the writer, or an agent for him, attends; nor will any be received after twelve o’clock._
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NAVY OFFICE.
December 29, 1787.
_THE Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give notice that all Bills registered in the Course of the Navy for the Months of November and December, 1786, and January, 1787, are ordered to be paid in money, that all persons who are possessed of the same may bring them to this office to be assigned to the Treasurer of the Navy for payment._
_All persons who hold the said Bills are to subscribe their names and place of abode at the bottom of each Bill._
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VICTUALLING OFFICE.
27th November, 1787.
_THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That, on Tuesday, the 29th of January next, they will be to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat with such persons as will undertake to furnish their Agent at Gibraltar with whatever sums of money the service of His Majesty’s Victualling that Place may thereafter require._
_The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the Secretary’s Office. And all persons who may think proper to make tenders upon the said Occasion are desired to take notice that no regard will be had to any Tender that shall not be delivered to the Board before one o’clock on the said 29th January next; nor unless the person who makes the Tender, or some person on his behalf, attends to answer for him when called for._
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
_Yesterday arrived with the Mails from Holland and Flanders._
_Warsaw, Dec. 5._
THE Waywodes of Volchinia and Podolia have sent three deputies here to make representations to the King and the permanent Council, with respect to the delivery of the corn that has been demanded by the Russian Army encamped in Poland. These Deputies have had an audience at the last meeting of the Supreme Council, at which they solicited, “That the King and Supreme Council would be pleased to devise means, which by preventing famine, terminating the grievances of the inhabitants, and quieting dissensions, might strengthen and give efficacy to the resolutions of the nobility, the more so as these resolutions are consonant to the principles of justice and equity.”
These Waywodes had a meeting in pursuance of these resolutions: “For chusing an appointed place to establish a general magazine, to which every person might bring whatever he possesses superfluous, and deliver it to the Directors of the Stores. The Troops of the Republic shall be provided for out of this general deposit of the country, after which what remains will be sold to the Russians at the market price, agreeable to the declaration of Count Romanzow, upon the entry into Poland.”
Count Romanzow has taken possession of Talzyn, nine miles from the frontiers of Turkey, and the army encamped in Poland under his command will winter in the neighbourhood of that place. The Waywode of Russian Lithuania, Count Petocki, has established his general quarters at Mohibow. This patriotic vigilant General visits all the advance posts in person.
By accounts from our frontiers we learn that eleven commanders who served in the last unsuccessful attack upon Kinburn, and to whose imprudence the failure of this enterprise was attributed, have been executed; their heads were cut off and exhibited at the gate of the seraglio, upon spears.
_Frankfort, Dec. 14._--On the 11th of this month the reformers established in this city have got permission to follow the duties of their religion in private houses, until their churches shall be finished.
The Elector of Mentz has ordained for the future that Lutherans shall be capable of civil employments, and he has nominated as Counsellor of the present Regency Graberg, a Lutheran Doctor. This is the first example of this kind since 1709.
_Constantinople, Nov. 10._--On the 30th of October there was a grand meeting of the principal ministers for examining the Dispatches that were brought by two couriers, the one from Vienna and the other from Paris; the result of which is that the Porte answers, “That the restoration of a durable peace must be impossible as long as Russia keeps possession of the Crimea, and the chief article of the preliminaries must be that Russia do consent to the re-establishment of the new Chan in all the rights of sovereignty which that prince may claim upon Little Tartary by virtue of his Highness’s proclamation.”
_Paris, Dec. 25._--The Commissioners appointed for the Edict of the Protestants have not as yet concluded their business, although they are very assiduous.
Mr. de Calonne during his administration created sixty offices of stockbrokers for transacting financial business, at the rate of 100,000 livres each, who had individually a salary of 5000 livres. It is in agitation to augment these offices to 100 by adding 40 more.
_Rotterdam, Dec. 25._--Friday morning the Commissioners of his Highness the Stadtholder arrived here, for changing the regency: they landed with discharge of cannon and a great concourse of people; they were complimented by the burgomasters.
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This morning the following ODE for the NEW YEAR, written by Mr. WHARTON and set to Music by Mr. PARSONS, will be performed at ST JAMES’s.