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Wine 108 Cheits
Ticks 446
Germany.
Trenchers 412 doz Argol 463 bun.
Dittick Arlenick 40 bun.
Canvas scoo ells Brass and Copper Plates 346 Diaper :,600 yds. bun.
Down 500 lb. Barras and Heffens 215,600 Featbers s bun, ells
Hemp 450 bun. Bacon
40 Ib.
Linnen 49,700 ells Briftles 23 doz.
Por Alhes 4 Soo lb. Brandy 85o gal,
Srockfish 300 hun. Cambricks 340
Weed Alhes 219 bun, Cantharides 156 16.
West Indies. Diaper and Damask 1,156 Bees Wax 65 hun. yds.
Bever Pelos 62 doz, Estrich Wool 17 Bags
Cortex Winteranus 2,450 1b. Flax and Hemp 2,568 hun. Cocao Nars 38 hun. Hops 256 lb.
Cocus Wood 36 bun. Hare Skins 285 doz.
Elephants Teeth 35 han. Hinderlands 312 ells
Ebony 9 tons Linnen 875,486 ells
Ginger 143 buo. Linnen Yarn 126,432 lb.
Gum Guiaci 168 1b; Lattia 154 bun.
Jalap 21 Linseed 276 bush,
Logwood 24 tons Lace 258 yds.
Lime Juice 1,200 gal. Melting Pots 128,500 Mahogany Planks 200 Ozenbrigs 12,656 ells Malagetta 30 bun, Oil 5 tons
Oil 85 cons Pipes si gross
Pitch and Tar 284 Lafts Pipe Staves 20500
Pimento 58,475 lb. Pencils 200 dozi
Rum 9,432 gal. Pill Boxes 255 gross
Rice 4,365 bun. Pearl Alhes 4,568 lb.
Red Wood 45 tons Polonia Wooll 4 bun.
Snuff, Havannab 2000 lb. Quillo 149,000
Sugar 1,543 Casks Rags 118 bun.
Skins of Deer 1,740 16- 43 Saflore 51,430 16. Smalcs 8,600 bun,
Snake Root 1,535 lb. Seeds 267 lb.
Tobacco 2450789 lb. Spinning Wheels 560
Turpentine 864 hun. Spruce Yara 6,543 lb,
Tortoihell 25 ib.
Whalefins is bun. Tinplates 115,260
Ships entered Inwards 159
Goods
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Gelingal 953 16.
Cloths short 54 Hosc 912 doz.
Cloths Spanish 18 Hypocacoana 889 16. Epsom Salt 4 hun. 30 lb. Haberdashery 25
hun. Flonhel 2250 Yardi Indico 556 lb.
Glass and Earthen Ware Iron, Copper and Brass 187 2760 Pieces hun.
Ounces India Stuffs & Calicoes 1269 Ginger 556 hun. Jalap 368 lb.
Holc 36 doz. Leather 637 hun.
Haberdashery 9 hun. Logwood 35 Tons Iron, Copper and Brass 30 Lanthorn Leaves 3600
hun. Lapis Tutia 742 16.
India Stuffs 120 Mohair Yarn
549 lb.
Indico 448 lb. Myrrh 508 lb.
Leather 205 hun, Oil o Tons
Lead 74 hun. Oil Turpentine 8250 lb. Lanthorn Leaves 2000 Plate 168 Ounces
Oil 6 gil. Pewter and Tin 153 hun, Olives 6 gal. Pepper 33293 lb.
Pewter and Tin 289 hun, Rice 2569 hun.
Pipes 6490 grofs Stuffs, Bayı, &c. 4356
Rack 140 gal. Silks 3727 lb.
Rice 640 hun.
Silver Watches 141 Stuffs, Bayı, &c. 853 Skins 18564
Sugar 4 hun. Sugar 532 hun.
Tobacco 5600 lb. Shellack 1880 lb.
Eaft-Indies. Sperma Ceti 49 lb. Apothecary Ware 25 hun, Stoughton's Elixir 54 doz. Colours 4 Tons Turmerick
Felts 14 doz. Tea-Tables 220
Gun Flints 1000 Tobacco 245384 lb.
Holland Duck 1100 ella Valonia 35 hun.
Iron, Brass, &c. 95 hun ,
Baltick.
Linnen 1000 cl)s Anchovies 30 lb .
Leather 5 hun. Cheele 3 Toni, 5 huo. Lead Shop
4
Toni Clockwork 9 hun. Caftors 6 doz.
Africa, Calve Skins 64 doz. Aquavitæ 8 Hhds Corrans 93 huni
Cloths short 4
Corton 2200 Goads Coney Wool 100 lb. Cowrics 5 hun. VOL. XLV,
Glass
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room of Mr. John Casberd deceased, when Mr. Samuel Torin, an eminent Exchange Broker was unanimoully chofen.
On the 15th was held a General Court of the Eat India Company, when it was
By Law proproposed to them by some of the Pro- posed to the East prietors to make a By-Law to the follow- India Company. ing Effect, viz,
First,' That no Alteration be made in the Dividends of this Company, till the State of their Affairs has been first considered, and a Report thereupon made to a General Court, by a Committee of fourteen, to be composed of seven Directors to be chosen by that Court, within one Month afrer their own Election, and seven of the Generality, qualified as Directors, who shall be annually chosen by Ballot, at the General Court of Elections for Directors, to be the Committe for By-Lawa, which Committee shall not be eligible for the future, in 'the Month of June yearly, according to the 26th By. • Law for that purpose, bu so much of that By Law as ? relates to fuch Ele&tions be repealed.
Secondly, " That eight of the said Committee be a Qucrum, not less than four of the Directors, and four of the • Generality.
Thirdly, That if the Court of Directors, at their an(nual Inspection of the Company's Affairs (in pu suance
of the 15th By-Law) fhall think it reasonable to increase
or diminish the Rate of the preceding Dividend, they · shall make a Minute thereof, and acquaint the Prop:ic
tots thetewith, in fome one of the next Daily Papers and Gazette, and appoint the said Committee of fourteen to meet, loon after the Michaelmas Sale, who shall report
their Opinion to a General Court, some time in the ' Months of January or February, what they think the Di• vidend for the Half-year ending at Midsummer follow, (ing, ought to be.
Fourtbly, That no one of the seven Person: appointed by the General Court, be admitted to set till (if thereunto required by the Court of Directors) he has first taken such Oath, as by Act of Parliament, and the Company's Charter, the Dire&tors, or any two of them, are X x 2
impowered
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Rifgue, whatever the Britannick Nation has a Right to gain by meanı of this Ship of Permiffion : Wherefore
it appears very plain, that the English ought not to re• fose the Exchange.
• But here is a Reilon thar falls with greater Weight • ftill
. The English Nation, in accepiing the Offer, no longer exposes her Treasures to the Spaniards, who on
the leal Subject of Discontent, stop thrir Alsiento Ship ' in their Porto, by way of Reprisal; liquefter their Efn 'fects in the Magazines; and either imprison or drive
their Factors out of the Country. Wites what happened some Years ago to the Prince William, charged
with ren Millions of Florins: Witness the Order lene ' fome Months ago to Vera Cruz and to the Havanna, ' The South Sea Company, in continuing this Commerce
to America, is liable every Day to the like or worse 'Infules on the part of the Spaniards, who by being Ma
sters of their Effects, can give them Laws in a thousand • Instances; otherwise the Nation must be put to immense
Expences in sending Squadrons abroad, in reclaiming the arrested Ship, recovering fequeftered Merchandizes, and relieving their imprif ned Factors. Thus on all Sides great Inconveniencies artend the Contract, which he English cannot guard against, but by accepting the Equivalent. • To conclude, it seems that these Arguments in favour of this Acceptation, ought to hinder the Spaniards from making the Pr polition; for whilst the English i ave their
rich Snip a: Vera Cruz, or in any other part under the • Dominion of that Crown; whilft their Treasures are under the Jurisdiction of his Catholick Majesty in
America, there is nothing to apprehend on their part, ' since it will be always in their Power to make Re
prizals.
. There are the principal Reasons that may be alledged • for and against this important Proposition; but all things I considered, weighed and balanced, it will appear ad
vantageous both so the English and Spaniards, and also to all other European Nations trading to America by the Way of Cadiz, that the South Sea Company accept of the Equivalent offered by the Court of Spain.
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An Account of the Quantities of Wines Imported into the Port of London from Christmas 1717. to Chrismas 1727 French. Portugal. Rhenish. Spanish.
Total. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons
Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. 17181 1432 3 4 11684 3
28 397 41 5731
6 19246 16 1719 1407
3 54 9304 4 395
40
3 57 16276 3 29 1720 1097
44 8579 62 467 3 34 5169 47 15514
61 1721
1061 3 21 10591
23
15 8118 7 20152
3 17221 1008
9403
24 319 3 9610 3
26
20342 1723 784 1
31 9065 3 28 3 17 6964 54 17214
4 1724 933 3 10992
9 208 3 5766
5 17701 1725 817 5 10598 3 27 359
19
3 30 18418 18 1726 407 5457 53 293
55 7845 3
14003 3 1727 833 37 8407
18 406
3 5216
3 1 4.863 3 53
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Imported into the Out Ports. French. Portugal. Rhenish.
Tota!
Spanish Tons Hog. Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal. Tons Hog. Gal.
6
4625 1718
32 365 38
98 2932
1229 3 13 2866
985
4296 85
3 358 1719
47
3 5 29 268 1720
3 46 2372 3 55
61
2 45
15 4 924
O 62 185
365 3 64
42 1721
44 3 3495
59 5111
N 1722
30 86 2176 412
2452 3. I 57
1585 1723
5200
52 252
13 3271 3
91 40
I
6
1604 3230 1724
123 41
57
43 214
5172 1725
6104 17 3804 270
3 9
1919
37 3
3 31
109 226
1726
283 51
2684
103 2315
3
56 57
5330 6
16 6201
3 1727
1307
I 02 27
4538 252
77 2807
34 31004
16058 13 3
50797 927
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Mary Tracey, who is now in Confinement, and myself, my own vicious Inclinations agreeing with bers. We likewise
proposed to rob Mr. Oaks in Thames street; le came to me 'at my Master's, Mr. Kerrel's Chambers, on the Sunday • before the Murder was commirred; he not being tben ac Home, we talked about robbing Mrs. Duncomb; I told her I could pot pretend to do it by myself, for I thould be found out. No, lays (ne, there are the two Alexanders
[Thomas and James) will belp us. Next Day I had 17 • Pounds sent-me out of the Couorry, wbicb I left in Mr. "Kerrel's Drawers. I mer tbem all in Cheapside the Friday following, and we agreed on the next Night, and so parred.
Next Day being Saturday, I went between 7 and 8 in the Evening to see Mrs. Duncomb's Maid, Elizabeth Har. rifon, lhe was very bad; I stayed a little while with her • and wens down, and Mary Tracy, and ibe two Alexanders
came to me about io o'Clock according to Appointment. She would bave gone about the Robbery just iher, but I said it was too loon. Between 10 and 11 The said, We can do it nom. I cold her I would go and see, and so I
went Uf-stairs and bey followed me; I met the young · Maid on the Stairs with a blue Mug, she was going for • some Milk to make a Sack.Pofler, she asked me who • bose were iþat came after me; I told her they were Peo
ple going to Mr. Knight's below. As soon as he was gone, I laid to Mary Tracy, Now do you and Tom Alexander go down, I know the Door is left a.jar, because the old Maid is ill, and can't get up to let the young Maid in when she
comes back. Upon that they went down, and James • Alexander, by my Order, went in and bid bimselt under
the Bed ; and as I was going down myself, I met the • young Maid coming up again; she ask'd me, if I bad
poke to Mrs. Betty, I cold her no; though I should bave told her otherwise, but only that s was afraid the might lay something to Mr. Betty about me, and Mrs. Betty might tell ber that I had not been there, and so they
might have a Suspicion of me. I passed ber and went down 6 and spoke with Tracey and Alexander, and then went to 'my Master's Chambers, and stirred upibe Fire. ' I stayed
about 2 Quarter of an Hour, and when I came back. I I saw Tracey and Thomas Alexander fitting on Mrs. Duncomb's Stairs, and I sat down witb chem. At 12 a Clock we
• heard
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a Shilling, and called for balfa Quartern of Ram to make bim drink. I afterwards went into my Room, and heard a Voice call me, and perceived something poking behind the Curtain; I was a little surprized, and looking to see
wbat it was, I found a Hole in the Wall, through which • the young Man I had given the Shilling to spoke to me, S and asked me if I bad sent for my Friends; I cold him,
No. He said he'd do wbat he could for me, and so he
went away; and some time after be callid to me again, • and said, Here's a Friend. I looked through and law Wil. • Gibbs come in ; I think it was Wil. Gibbs; says be, Who • is tbere to swear against you ? I cold bim my iwo Masters • would be the chief Witnesses. And what can they charge
you witb? fays be. I told him the Tankard was the only
Thing, for there was norbing else tbat I thought could • burt me.
Neder fear then, says be, we'l do well enough; we will get them that will rap
the Tankard was your Grandmother's, and that you was in Shoreditch that Night the Fact was • committed; and we'll have two Men that sall poot your empo
Masters: Bar says he, one of the Witnesses is a Woman, . and the won't swear under 4 Guineas, bar the Men will
swear for 2 Guineas a piece ; so be weat away, and brought a Woman and three Men ; I gave them 1o Gui
neas, and they promised to wait for me at the Bul-Head • in Bread street; but wben I called for them, as I was go
ing before Sir Richard Brocas, they were pot there. Then
I found I should be sent to Newgate, and I was full of • anxious Tbougbis ; but a young Man told me I had bet
ter go to the Whit (Newgate]tban to the Compter. • When I came to Newgate I bad bút 18 d. in Silver, be. fides the Money in my Hair, and that is d. I paid for my Garnish ; I was ordered to a bigb Place in the Goal. Buck, as I said before, baving seen my Hair loose, cold Fobnion of it, and Johnson ask'd me if I bad got any Coal planted there ; be ieaiched and found the Bag, and there • 'was in it 36 Moidores, 18 Guineas, s Crown-Pieces, 2 • Half Crowns, 2 Broad-Pieces of 25 s, four of 23s. and
One balf Broad-Piece. He told me I must be cunning, and not be seen to be fluch of Money ; I deGired him to
keep it for me till I got clear, and only let me have a • little now and then as I wanted it ; then says be, Do you know any body that will swear for you? No, says I, can you
help
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Boston, Jan. 25. CAptain Atkins going on the Whale Filhery last Sum
mer with a Sloop in Davis's Sireights, on the • Western Coast of Greenland, as far as 66 Degrees North
Latitude, which are the famous Streights dividing Europe from America. returning towards the Month of the said Streighos, in 63 Degrees and 80 Leagues Westward from the Shore of Greenland, being about the Middle Distance there between Greenland and America, passing by indumeiable Cakes of Ice in the month of June last, he
perceived on one a large white Greenland Bear, with her . Cub, suppoled aboue threc Months old; the Captain
hoisted cut his Boar, and with five Hands more, armed, "rowed with a Design to fhoce her, and, if posible, catch the young one.
As soon as the Bear saw the Boat, the made towards it, with the utmost Rage and fierceness, rearing in the most hideous Manner, plunging in
to the Sea, and iwiinming with open Mouth 10 leize • and devour them, her Cub haítening after, and roaring
Three Times they fhot and hit her, which the nothing minded, but a fourth Shot pierced into her
Head, and killed her at once. Upon this the Cub made * up to her, got upon her, and with great Noise and • Fury fought them in their Attempt to take him ; how
ever, throwing Ropes with Noorts at him, they at length entangled him, dragged him to their Sloop, and hoitted him up with Tackles, keeping at a Distance from
him, lowered him into the Hold, and brought him . home. Thry also hoisted in the old one, which they
skinned, dryed and made two Barrels of Grease; her Skin was twelve Fee: long. The young one quickly tore in Pieces the first Cage they made, and though
but nine Months old, is grown four Foor high, and ' five or fix Foot in length: He is naturally as white as
Snow, though now somewhat fullied by the Dirt of the Cage.
These Greenland Bears, Capt. Alkins and o:hers say. * are all white : They generally k ep near the Edges of ' the Cakes of ice on the Greenland Sens, to catch Seils, ' which they chiefly live on: They will swim and dive
like Fish; when they see a Flock of Fowls on the Water, they will dive down at a proper Distance, and when
they
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THE
HE present Situation of the Affairs of French King's
Poland occasion a great deal of SpecuDeclavation. lation in France, and wholly take up the Ar.
tention of the Court. Upon the 15th of March N.S. Monsieur Chauvelin, Keeper of the Seals of France, by the King's O der, delivered to all the Ambafiadors and other Foreign Ministers, residing at Paris, the following Des claration, viz. THE Most Christian King would have fuspended bis
Judgment concerning the March of a confiderable Number of Imperial Troops towards Silesia, bad not the . Declarations or Dicourses of the Emperor's Ministers,
as well a: Vienna, as ac several other Courts, made ic ' apparent beyond Dispure, that it was that Prince's De
Ogn to set Bounds to the unlimited Freedom which the • Polish Nation ought to enjoy in the ensuing Election, puriuant to the Laws of the Republick.
The Dignity of the Most Christian King ; the Rank " he bears among the principal Powers of Europe ; and
the Zeal he has so many times shewn for the Preserva. stion of the General Tranquillity; will not suffer bim to • look on with Indiference, and fee any other Power break ! in upon the sacred Rights of a Republick, which is in Friendlhip and Alliance with France.
Upon these grounds, the King declares, that he will oppose with all his Migbe aoy Enterprize that can poffibly • tend to letlen the Freedom which Poland ought to eojoy • in the El: ction of a future King, in Consequence of the • Declarations which have been, or may be made upon
bat Subject, to thole who represent that Nation,
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as this Place is not to be again filled up, his Moft Christian Majesty will thereby five this 12,000 Livres a Year.
There having been lately a Decision Fandous De. made by the Parliament of Provence, cree in France. which was much taken Notice of in
France, we fhall here give our Readers an Account of it. The Case was thus :
'Joseph Laugier of the City of Arles comes as a Clerk ' to Sebastian Raillon, an Attorney of the Seneschalsea. " This Attorney had a Daughter, who you may be sure he never designed to be his
young Clerk': Wife, because the Father had then a very considerable Estate, and
Laugier sone at all : But though the Clerk had no . Eftate, he had a good Share of Wit and Understand.
ing: He resolved, if possible, to surmouni, by his Ad• dress, the Obstacle. Fortune threw in the Way of his • Marriage with Mademoiselle Raillon : He pursued her ' with his Amorous Strains fix Years succeslively, and ac • last triumphed over the poor Girl's Vertue. The bad • Conduct of the Lovers appearing by the Effects, Laugier
quits his Master's Service : Raillon is obliged to have Re• course to Justice, to force him to a Marriage, which at the • same time he ardently desires. That Marriage was cele• brated the 28th of February 1689, with all the Solemni. * ties prescribed by the Canons and Ordinances.
• The Ceremony being over, Monsieur Raillon, cnraged 6 at the Event, was prevailed with not to turn his Daugh• ter out of Doors, but as for bis Son-in. Law, he was 6 forced io leck his Fortune elsewhere: And he succeed • ed so well, that in three or lour Years he was grown a
great deal richer than his Father-in-Law. Hercupon
Monsieur Raillon would oblige him to take his Wife ' home; but Monsieur Langier, either resenting the il] • Usage he had received from his Wife's Family, or grown • indifferent by Absence, or perhaps captivated by some
Other Fair, refused to take home his Wife. She then • demanded a separate Maintenance : No; he would give
her none : He even denied the Validity of their Mar. riage, ard made so good a Use of the Knowledge he had
acquired in the Attoroey's Service, that all the Deerees • which confirmed the Marriage, and enjoined him to
take home his Wife, and allow her a due Maintenance,
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• Boldness, our entire and perfe&t Submission to all the • Decisions of the Holy Catholick, Apoftolick, and Ro
man Church in general, and to the Confiturion Uni• genitus in particular.
Lastly, we do protest, that we make the present Declaration volontarily, and without being induced thereto • by any Human Views. We declare, that we fhall lock
upon al fuch Persor e as Guilty of the most horrid Pre• varication, and abominable in the Sight of God, who, • after having declared, either by Word of Mouth or by • Writing, that they were of the Sentiments above de
Scribed, should notwithstanding harbour other Senti. ments in their Heart.
These two Letters and the two ForLon Church
mularies were together taken into Con. Arret.
fideration upon the 23d of February last
N.S. by the Parliament of Paris,and were by an Arret then made all suppreff:d ; and farther, the same Arret allo, 'forbids all Professors, Doctors and Members
of Uộiversi:jes, and especially of the Faculties of Divi
nity, Civil and Canon Law, to write, maintain, read • or teach in Publick Schools, or otherwise, any Thefis or • Propofitions, which may tend directly or indire&tly to I weaken or alter the true Principles of the Narure and • Rights of the Royal Power, and its full and absolute • Independence in Temporal Affairs, of any other Power • upon Earth; to diminish the Submiflion and Respect • due to the received Carons in the Kingdom, and to the · Liberties of the Gallican Church; to favour the Opinion
of the Pope's Infallibility, and his Superiority over a • General Council; to Atrike at the Authority of the • OEcumenical Council of Constance, and particularly to ' the Decree contained in the Fourth and Fifth Seslions
of the faid Council, confirmed by that of Bafil; and • all other Propofitions con:rasy to che inviolable Principle, • Thác the Authority of the Pope is to be regulated by
the Holy Canons, and his Decrees are reformable by ! Ways and Means ored in the Kingdom, and parricularly
by that of Appeal to a fusore General Council, 6C.
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• which Title: seems incompatible with his eyrannical De
portment to them: His Britanoick Majesty's Subjects bere
refiding, are unanimouly determined not to come into ! tbe said General's Measures, but to resist them vigoroully to their urmoit Endeavours.
In our Political State for the Month of Warlike Affairs September laft, we gave an Account of the at Oran. landing of the Spaniss Army in Africa, and
of their taking the Town of Oran; we fall now give an Account of what bas Gnce bappeaed most remarkable io cbar Part of the World.
The Landing of the Spaniards, and the bafty and cowardly Retreat of the Bey of Oran, by wbich the Spaniards made so easy a Conquest of it, put the Algerines in such a terrible Confiernasion, that it is thought, if the Spaniards bad pursued sheir Victory, and after taking Oran, bad marched directly
Algiers, the Dey and all the chief Men of that Town would bave followed
the Example of the Bey of Oran, and would have left tbe Town to shift for itself: But after their first Fright was over, upon finding that the Spaniards did not Second the Blow, they resumed tome Courage; and Bigotillo the Bey of Oran, haviog gathered together a Budy of Horse, returned towards Oran, and had several Skirmithes with some of the Outguards of the Spanish Army, but he never durit venture to ftand any regular sort of Baile : And the Spaniards being, it seems, sarisfied with their Conquest of Oran, their Army returned again to Spain about the End of July, baving left 7 or 8000 Men in Oran, and the Forts belonging thereto, for defeading them against the Enemy, and preserving the Conquest they had made,
Aboui the End of August the Dey of Al Dey of Al. giers departed this Life, mucb lamented by giers dies, bis Subjects, on Account of bis good Nature
and other amiable Qualities. The Occasion of his Death was chiefly attributed to the uncommon Pains be bad taken, from the time he received ibe News of tbe Arrival of the Spanish Fleet before Oran, in getring the Forxifications of Algier's repaired, and some new Works added, in order to prevent any Surprize, or at least to prevent irs falling fo ealy a Prey to the Enemy As Oran bad done. The Trealurer, bis Brother-in-Law, was immediately chosen in bis room; and as soon as he had eftablished bis Government,
and
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On the 4th of Osteber, a good half Hour-before Day. break, the Cbevalier Wogan, after baving received his Oro ders from the General, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, marched oui of the Gate de Canestel at the Head of his Derechnent, compoled of leveral Companies of Grenadiers and Piquers, to cover the Convoy of Provisions and Ammunitior, and also a Body of Horse charged with Facines, and all for the aforesaid Castle, which commands not only the Town, but the Forts without, and the Sea likewise.
The Colonel Commandant o dered four Companies to advance balf way up the Hill, between the Castle of San Gregorio and that of Santa Cruz, where he formed ibem in different Colamos, their Head to the Valley, to stop those who should undertake to cut off the Convoy on the Heigbr, He detached two other Companies to the Bottom of the Rock, at the foot of Santa Cruz, towards tbe Head of the Barranco or Valley, to the End, that in Cose the Enemy (hould pass over the laid Rock, they might be expołed to three leveral Fires, that is to say, fiom she Body of the Detachment, from the Garrison of Santa Cruz, and from the said Companies diawn up in Columns. He march'd afterwards in Batralia with the Body of his Detachment, the Front of which filled up the Exient of the Piain, to the Boro der of the Barranco.
As soon as be bad formed three deep on tbe said Border, be made a general Fire in the Barranco, where commonly a Number of Turks and Moors lay concealed every Nighi, as far as the point of rbe Alcazavar, in order to saatch some Opportunity of striking 2 Blow, or to get Intelligence from some ftraggling Moors of the Country. This Fire was at the first Dawn of the Morning, and as the Commandant had made a filene Marcb, the Infidels were brown into the urmost Confternation; they ran on all fides like Men distracted ; never. Flight was more p ecipitate, and the Fire continuing wicbout ceasing, those who duit not gain the Height o! Palmarejo, bid themselves behind Bushes, Briars and Rocks, that they might steal off, and fire upon ibe Spa, niards from under some Cover.
Ai the Rising of the Sun, the Head of the Convoy was advanced as lar as Santa Cruz; and the four Companies that the Commandant bad posted between San Gregorio and that Fortress, baviog joined the Derachment on the VOL. XLV. lee
Top Top of the Rock which commands the Valley, some other Companies of the Garrison of Santa Cruz came out to reinforce us, and posted themselves under the Wall of this C.ftle, at the Spur of the half Baftion, which is of such an Elevation, that it overlooks the Barranco or Valley--The c ntinual Fire which was made from the Angle of the said Bastion to that of the Alcazavar of Oran, caft the Enemy into fach a Pannick, that they abandoned their Standards planted upon the feep Rock behind Santa Cruz, insomuch that could the Commandant but have dispenied with his Orders so positively expressed and repeated to him by his General, who had absolutely forbid him to pass the Border of the Barranco, he might in that momentary Fright not only have seized their Standards, but perhaps thrown their Battery from the Height down the Precipices; but having no other thing in View than to cover the March of the Consoy and the Horse, we were obliged to stop there, and jun no further Hazard.
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3 abundince, that as foor as this Reinforcemen should ar. rive, the Moors made Account to lock up the Place, and attack it vigorously under the Command of Ali Bashaw, and by the Direction of the Renegade Ripperda, who keeps himself yet at Tetuan, where he lies afflicted with the Cout, and given cver to all the fatal Erron, inio which his détestable Ambition has thrown him.
As this Rela ion was conformable to the Advices re: ceived by different Ways, there was little to be doubred of the Trub of it, the Governor therefore judged it proper to assemble a Council of War, camposed of all the principal Officers and other Chicfs of the Troops of the Garsison. The Governor ordered all the Accounts to be read to them, ani proposed the Design which he had already for of making a Calley upon them, before all their Forces had joined them. This Proposition was generally approveu, Don Joseph Vicaria, Major General, who happened to be then at Ceuta, to make a Review of the Gar.
ilon as In[pecor, was also of the fame Opinion. In fhost, i: na resolved in this Council, that the next Morning a: Break of Day a vigorous Salley shou'd be acade upon the Besiegers.
The Attack was to be in five diff rent Places of the Camp, regulated after this in annet ; four of them to be affailed, each with three Companies of Grenadiers and fix Pickeis, supported by thiec Battalions; which made twelve in all. The fifth place to be on the Side towards the Sea
Horse and 100 Grenadiers, under the Direction of the Brigadier Marquis de Valdecagnas. The other Detachments were comma ded by so many Colonels, the Count Mahoni, Son to the famous Licntenant General of tliat Name, an Irish Gentleman, Don Joseph Masones, Don Jean Pingarron, and Don Bafile de Gante, a d all of tbem under the Command of Brigadier Don Joseph Arumbaro, Captain of the Spanilla Guards, an excellent Officer, the King's Lieutenant in the Town.
Orders were given for all those appoioied for this Exp.dision, which trgether made a Body of 5000 Men (xvi:hout coun:ing 500 Pioneers) to be ready on the ESplanade by Four in the Morning, and after forming, each Letachment to post themselves on the side of the Salee Pirt, at which they were to go cur. Each Soldier was to
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Coin rf hat Ki gdom, which was made by an Ediet mentioned in our Political State for the Month of Fanuary laft.
His Portugueze Majesty has created Military Aca- four Academies to teach the Military demies in Por- Art, one at Lisbon, anctter at Viana, a tugal.
third at Elvas, and a fourth at Almeida;
and is speedily to nominate and appoint proper Masters for endowing his Subjects with that useful and necessary Qualification, and for making all the Youth of his Kingdom expert in the Military Exercise and Discipline. And as an Encouragement to young
Gentle. men to apply themselves to the acqurirg a proper Knowledge and Dexterily in all such Exercises, his Majesty has declared, that the posts of Ensigns in the Army are, for the future, to be given to such Youths only as shall excel] and distinguish themselves in those Academies. But this good Project must fail in the Execution, unless it be left to the Youths themselves always to name those who are to be preferred.
Advices from Italy. Ingratitude T He Corpse of the late Pope Benedict of
XIII. being to be removed from the Coscia.
Church of S. Peter of the Vatican, to chat
of the Dominicans of La Minerva, Father Pontio, a Dominican, went about among the Cardinals of that Pope's Creation, to implore their charitable Aflistance in this laft Duty to the Memory of the poor Old Man; and thereupon Cardinal Coscia contributed 400 Torches, Cardinal Fini 200, Cardinal Porzia 500, and the others about the fame Number, except Cardinal Querini, who instead of Torches or Wax Candles, promiles to be at the Expence of 1000 Crowns, to ere&t a Statue to the Memory of the Defunct; and it was ex. pected that Cardinal Coscia would have been at the Ex. pence of raising a Pedestal for the faid Statue, but he has refused it, notwithftanding of the many fat Benefices he received from, and the vast Riches he acquired by the Favour of his deceafed Patron.
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. And the Russian Ministers at Warsaw having declared openly against Stanislaus, some of the Grindees of Poland
took Occasion to remonfirate to those Ministers, that fuch "a Proceeding was contrary to the Liberty of the Nation, 6 and the incontestable Right they have to elect for King
any person they think fit; but the said Ministers an& swered, that the Measures in Question were founded
upon the Treaty of Peace concluded November 3. 1716, between the Confederates, and the Saxon Troops, and particularly upon the Eighth Article, where Mention is
made of the Amnesty, and of those who were excluded " the fame; which Treaty being ratified by the whole « Republick at the Extraordinary Dyet held a: Warsaw,
February 1. 1717, and unanimously confirmed in toro .by that held the fame Year at Grodno ; and seeing the
Emperor Peter I. was Mediator and Guarantee of that « Treaty, her Czarian Majesty has not only a Right, but ' is under an indispensable Obligation to hinder and op
pose all that can be atiempred against the Tenour of • that Treaty ; which the will do in case of Need, with
all her Forces, her Czarian Majefty not being able nor
willing to suffer any thing to be done in Prejudice to • she Laws of the Kingdom.
In the mean time, the famous Prince Lubomirski, Palatine of Cracovia, commonly known in Poland by the Name of the Lame Prince, gathered together a great Army of his Friends and Followers, and seized upon both the City and Castle of Cracow; and what by his Authority, and by his Dexterity, he soon drew the Nobles, not only of that Palatinate, but also those of the Principalities of Szator and Oswiecini into the Confederacy, which was ligned and confirmed by an Oath the 23d of February last, and is to che Effe&t following, viz,
E the Counsellors, Dignitaries, Officers, and Mem
bers of the Nobility, as well of the Palatina e of Cracow, as the Principalities of Szator and Oswiecini, here assembled, make' known, Oc. That although
the Petty Dycts are to assemble instantly, as well ' in Poland as Lithuania, in Obedience to the Universalia
published by the Primate of the Kingdom to delibesale upon divers Matters that will be proposed there ;
wo
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From Muscovy, Sweden, or Denmark, there is nothing very remarkable lince our last Accounts from thence.
Continuation of the Pamphlet published in Germany, entitled,
An Examination of the Reflections of an Impartial German Parrior upon the Demand of a Guaranty of the Imperial
Pragmatick Sanction; begun in our Pulitical State for the
Month of January, O4
ur Auchnr, in order to establish bis second Poior, supposes that before such
Pamphlet for
a Dispofi.ion as wbat we are treating of, the Pragmatick
can be looked on as good, it is necessary, Sanction. itt, Tbar it be not contrary to any ex- press Law. 20, That it be made by and with the Consent of all those who are any way interested iberein, 3d, Tbac all tbe Subjects and Provincial Assemblies confirm ic by an Qaib. And lastly, That it be likewise confirmed by the chief Head of the Empire. After having laid down these Principles, be maintains, that the Pragmatick Sanction fails in the very firit. Let us see if there be any thing in wbat be says, and with bim let us examine the different Estates por- felfed by bis Imperial Majesty.
Our Author'speaks not of Austria pro-, perly so called; be agrees that the Empe- Austria ror may dispose of it as be thinks fit. But, says he, From the Arguments I have mentioned on Occasion of the Constitution of 1156, the same Fudgment is not to be formed with respect 10 Carinibía, Tyrol, and that part of Suabia polessed by the Emperor, which came not to the Pollefor of Austria but upon different Conditions, and by Virtue of different Titles, as may be easily proved from the History of each of those Estates. Ic appears from wbat we bave before laid in relation to this Privilege granted to Fredrick 1. thar though ir thould be entirely given up, yet Our Argument is not lett without a Support.
The Privileges granted by Fredrick II. and Charles V. bave sufficiently lopplied that Defect. These are the Worcs of the First of the iwo last mentioned.
Volumus etiam, ut si Districtus ☺ Ditiones didi Ducatus (Auftriæ) ampliati fuerint ex bæreditatibus, donationibus, vel quibuscunque aliis devolutionum successibus, præfata juru, prie vilegia, & indulta ad augmentun didi duminii Auitriæ plenarie referantur,
Tbe
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cording to the Laws
and eller
to make good the
The anticipated Fears which our Author pretends to be seized with, in relation to his Imperial Majet:y's future Son-in.Law, sufficiently thew the Spirit with which he is animated, and the Design he drives ar. Being reduced to such Extremities, he at laft makes use of any Shift, and takes hold of the Answer which Maximilian made to Lewis XII. Right of his Wife .
, of the never go to Fe. males. At the Time when Maximilian made use of this Argument, the Order of Succeflion was not established in this Duchy, and we agree with Goldaftus and other learned Civilians, that while there is any Doubt as to the Order of Succession, we ought to determine in favour of Heirs Male; bu: is it poflible that any Doubt can remain after the formal Declaration of Charles V.?
In these Eftates the Femile Heirs have Naples and always been admitted to the Succession. Sicily. The Reigns of Constantia, of Joan I. and
Joan II, Queens of Naples, and Mary Queen of Sicily are Testimonies thereof. What is more in this Case, the Possespors of the two Sicilies, have alwaye freely disposed of the Succ flion to their Kingdom, as appears by the Teftament of Robert in favour of his his Grandaughter ; by the Adoption made by Joan, in
favour of Lewis Duke of Anjou ; and many other such Disposition made by the Kings of Naples and Sicily, nemi-r ne contradicente. For these Reasons the Emperor is well enti:led to the Exercise of a Righr, which the Kings his Predeceffors have always enjoyed: And supposing that these Kingdoms were really Dependencies upon the Holy Sec, which however is very doubiful, the Pope has no Reason to complain of any Irregularity or Innovazion made by the Pragmatick Sanction. The Digreflion here made by our Author as to the Guaranty against the Sce of Rome, is very improp:rly brouglit in, as well as the Reflection 'he throws upon the Government of his Imperial Majesty in Italy.
It is granted that the Hungarians enjoy Hungary the Privilege of a Fice Election, upon the Failure of Heira Male of the Royal
Family,
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Imperial Majesty upon this Head, would tend to nothing less than the culing the Ruin of the Empire, a d over-
Turning the System of Europe, the States of Germany would
not they be obliged to become Parties in the Quarrel, even though thoy were no way obliged thereto on Account of this Guaranty ? Would a War 10 jaft and fo neceffary be contrary to the Imperial Capiculation? In thi, View of the Affair, the Emperor seems to have good Reason to en- deavour by bis Representations to perluade the Membersof the Germanick Body, not to inferi in the Resolu'ion of
the Empire upon the accepting of the Guaranty in Quef. tion, any threatnirg Clause, fuch as that just mentioned, because fuch a Chuse, being entirely yfelels, would serve for nothing but for giving cne day a Handle for Chicane and for finiftrovs Interpretations, which is against the Spi, sit of such an Engsgement.
Our Author is much in the Right to explain himself more
clearly as to the Rights of a third Parıy. By mbar Right, laya
be, can the Enpire determine against the Privileges of States,
which though they now belong to a German Prince, and to the
Head of tbe Empire, may one Day, by an Effect of ebeir natural
Liberty, bave no longer any Conneētion with Germany? And
she fame States, have not they good Reafon to complain, where
they see the German ck Body arrogate to itself a Chimerical
Right, and let itself up as a Fudge in Matters which are not
within its Jurisdiction. Buc we bave norbing to do with this Explanation. We bave sufficiently refured the false Principles which muß be here supposed; and whatever is built by our Author upon such a Foundation, must of itself fall to the Ground. Can ir be said, that the Empire fets it felf up as a judge of the Rigbus of a third Party, when is exprely engages to maintain and defend them against who ever fhall dare to violate them, or to inpede the Effect of
tbem? Does France decide as to the Righis wbich the Duke
of Brunswick has to the Territories he has in Germany, when
ir guaranties them to him by the Treaty of Hanover.
Tbe Pragmatick Sanction is altogether conform in every respect, as well to be in th as to the ad Article of the Caron, line Capitulation. The Emperor does not establish any new Laws, nor does be grant the lovestilure of any vacans Fiess. liiz
This
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April 12:h, Mr. Rogers, an eminent Grocer in Leadenball Street, was married to Miss Cullen of Birchin-lane, an agreeable young Lady, and a Fortune of 3000 1.“
14th, Thomas Hanmer Erg; was married to Miss Percival, eldest Danghter of the Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Percival, of the Kingdom of Ireland.
-18th, Gower Éra; a Relation to the Lord Gower, was married to Miss Pearson, a beautiful young Lady of good Fortune.
15h, Mr Coales of Kenfington, was married to Miss Jenkins, Daughter offenkins of Chiswick Efq; a beautiful young Lady, and a considerable Fortune,
21st, William Lethieullier Erg; was married to Mifs Kitty Tash, third Daughter of Sir John Tall Knt, and Alderman of Walbrook Ward, a beautiful Lady with a Fortune of 6000 1.
- 24th, Foseph Hudson of Roehampion in Surry Esq; was married to Miss Saunders of Little Ormond-ftreet, an agreeable young Lady of great Merit and Fortune.
-3d, The Hon. Sir Alexander Mackdonald of Slate in Scotland Bart, was married to the Right Hon. Anne, Counters Dowager of Airley.
-22d, John Richardson of Soubwark Esq; was married to Mifs Banks, Daughter of George Banks of ifington Esq;
25th, Sir Theodore Cockbourn of Chelsea, was married to Miss Dickens, Daughter of Mr. Dickens, of that, Place.
--211, Mr. George Thornbill, an eminent Attorney at Law, was married to Miss Barnes, Niece to Mr. Barnes, one of the Directors of the East-India Company, a beautiful young Lady with a Fortune of 6000 l.
26:h, fames Newberry of Kingston Esq; was married to Miss Langdale, a rich Heiress of Chiswick.
28th, William Conolly of the Kingdom of Ireland Efq; was married to the Lady Anne Wentworth, Daughter to she Right Honourable the Earl of Strafford.
PREFERMENTS. THE Rev. Ms. Andrew Rockford, prefented to the
Rectory of Othington in the County of Hereford. Mr. Baker, Gentleman to the Countess of Delgraine, appoin'cd Page of the Back-Stairs to the Princelics Mary and Lorija.
The
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-4th, Died Captain Flower of Limehouse, an old Commander in the West India Trade.
- 6h, Died Captain Wallis, Sub-Brigadier to the Second Troop of Guards.
-4th, Died Mr. Maylin, formerly an eminent Brewer in Southwark.
Died Mrs. Edwards, Wife of Vigerus Edwards, of Sheer-Lane Elų; Secretary to the Commissioners of Bank.
-7th, Died he Lady of William Aifabie Esq; Member of Parliament for Rippon in Yorkshire.
-7th, Died Mrs. Rous, a Widow Lady of Queen'sSquare, near Great Ormond-street.
5th, Died the Rev. Mr. Salmon, Rector of HighOngar in Effex.
-5th, Died Mr. Brownlow of Fulham, formerly an eminent West India Merchant.
7th, Mr. Conger of Newington, formerly a noted Corn-factor.
-6th, Died by a Fall from his Horse Gabriel Tabour -8th, Died Thomas Walton of Pall-Mall Esq;
-9th, Died Mr. Coleman of Stratford in Elex, formerly an eminent Hambourgh Merchane.
-2d, Died at Dublin Mr. Farquharson, who was mar. ried to the Right Hon. the Lady Mounijoy.
-10th, Died the Rev. Mr. Robert D'Oyly, Rector of Frierning in Effex.
-9th, Died Mr. Thomas Calvering of Hummerton, formerly an eminent Hamborough Merchant.
-9th, Died Henry Moor of Walthamitomo Efq;
12th Died the Rev. Mr. Wilcox, an emincot Dirsenting Minifter.
13th, Died Philip Middleton Efq; late a Supercargoc in the Service of the Eaft- India Company.
-131h, Did John Gould of Edmonton Esq;
16. Died Captain Broxley, lately come over from Gibraltar
16th, Died Samuel Turner of Little Chelsea Esq; Joseph Tayler of Wisbech E'q;
-8ch, Diçd at Ipswich, John Frohock of that Place Esq;
Kkk 2
- 17th Died
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Bill of Mortality from Tuesday March thę 27th,
to Tuesday the 24th of April 1733. Bortive
4
Lunatick A
2 Aged 150 Malignant Fever
3 Apoplexy and suddenly 19 Meafles
125 Asthma and Tiflick 43 Mortification
II. Bleeding
Palfie
3 Cancer 4 Pleurisie
4 Chicken Pox i Purples
5 Childbed 22 Quinfy
2 Cholick 1 Rheumatism
3 Consumption Convallions 726 Rising of the Lights
5 Cough & Hooping Cough 4 Rupture Droply
97 Small Pox Fever & Spotted Fever 271 Sores and Ulcers Fiftula
Still-born
38 French Poz
7 Gout
6 Stoppage in the Stomach 15 Grief
I Strangury Griping in the Guts 14 Swelling
I Headmouldshot
Teeth
158 Horseshoehead I Thrush
4 Jaundice
Tympany Impofthume
4 Vapours Inflammation
3 Water in thee Head
5 Lethargy
2 Livergrown ż Casualties
27 Loosness
3
In all Males
Males 1158 Christned Females 708 Buried Females 1140 In all 1390
In all 2298 Whereof have died Under 2 Years of Age 1003 "Fifty and Sixty 161 Between two and five 215 Sixty and Seventy 117
256 Seventy and Eighty Five and Ten
77 Ten and Twenty 60 Eighty and Ninety 54 Twenty and Thirty 129 Ninety and a Hundred 16 Thirty and Forty 199
A Hundred And Six I Forty and Fifty 186
In all 2298
Goods
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Rice 19i hun.
Tobacco 585 16, Shoes 12 pair:
Wine 61 gal. Silk 128 ib.
West-Indies! Spanish Cloths 12
Apothecary Wares 16 hun Stuffs 1023.
6 lb. Tin 19 hun.
Apparel 21 suits: Tobacco 16000 16.
Barley 8 quarters Wine 78 gal.
Beans and Pease 15 quartet
98 buch. Africa.
Bodice 18 pair Bayle 214 lb.
Bricks 40 m. Battery 6 buo.
- Bellows 15
doz, Beans 15 quarters.
Blankets 102 pair Bacon 10 bun.
Bisket 18 bun. Butter 9 firkins:
Books 26 bun. 34 lb. Blankers 40 pair.
Beer 18 and balf tons. Cowries 38 kun.
Brimstone 1235 lb Cheese 8 bun.
Bacon jo bun. Caftors 60
Butter 9 firk. Diaper 36 yds:
Copperas 27 hun. | Felts 15 doz.
Clochs long and thort 49. Gunpowder 26 buo.
Dicco Spanih 20. Glars and Barthen Wares, Cambricks and LAWAS 166 300 pcs.
China Wares 667 pcs. Iron 90 bun.
Gaffia Lignea 217 lb. India and Guinea Stuffs and Cheese 20 huo. Calicoes 6197
Cotton 404 yds 3272 gouds. Lead 5 hun.
Cordage si toas 32 bun. Long Cloths 20
Coals 27 chaldr. Linnen 4500 ells.
Canvas and Duck 2054 ells Merral prepared 84 16. Marble Table 1.
Clock work I hun, Old Sbeets 390
Clock Cases 2 Pewier 25 hun.
Corks 1o bun. 20 gross. Pictures i hun.
Clover Seed 9. Ib. Rice 26 bun,
Diaper 183 yds. Rack 30 gal.
Dimity 1 10 yds 2 pcs. Sealiog Wax 80 lbi
Felis and Castors 252 doz Silk 36 lb.
Fastigos 17 cods. Sugar 8 bun.
Freeze 300 yds,
Mannel 1700 yds: Tallow 10 hun
Glafo 3 chefts. Tea 20 lb.
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fure of the Excise Laws now in Force, by the comfortable and reasonable Expect tion, that Laws which nothing but publick Nec flity could be a Motive to enact, would be Iepealed in favour of the Trade of the Nation, and of the Liberty of the Subject, whenever that Motive should be remo ed, as your Petitioners presume it effectually is, by an und sturbed Tranquillity at Home, and a general Peace so firmly establith d Alroad.
That if this Expectation be enti ely taken away ; if the Excise Lawa, instead of being repealed, are extended to other Species of Merchandize not yet Excised, ad a Door opened for ex ending them to all, your Petitioners cannot, in Juftice to them elves to the Merchants, Tradesmen and mai ufacturers of the whole Kingdom, and to the general Interest of their Country, conceal their Apprehenfion, that the most fual Blow, which ever was givell, will be giv. n, on this Occasion, to the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain: Thar great Spring from which the Wealth and Profperity of the Publick it us, will be o: structed, the Me:cantile Part of the Nation will become n t only le's able to trade to Advan'age, but unwilling 10 trade at all; for no person who can enjoy all the trivileges of a British Subje&t cut of Trade, even with a small Foiiune, will volun:sily renounce some of the most valuable of th-ife Privilegts, by subjecting himself to the Laws of Excile.
Tht your Petitioners are able to thew, that these their Apprehensions are founded both in Experience, and in keason ; and ih refore your Peritioners mos humbly pray, Tha: this Honourable House will be pleased to hear them by their Counlel against the said Pill.
Next day ab u: Noon, the Sheriffs weit accordingly to W?ft minster, and present d the said fetition, and in about an hour afts them the Aldermen, Common Council Men, and a very great Numer of eminenc Merchan's and Tradiis fche City of London went in their Coaches to the Cout-of Requells in Wistminster, 10 solicite their Fri nd, and Aiqua parce is the tiouse of Cummins in favouri f the said l'eiition. The Cavalcade of Coaches on this Occasio', was so very extraordinary, that it was computed here were upwaida of 200 Gen lemens Coaches,