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03 AWRITFET" -1' ' 'f•-, t•-• :` . 1 -4 . ' fl :N- ' .. . _ • . . .... 1:. ~; . - 'F' •" . I‘kr) •, •1 0"' ".1 , . , • 4 , - iit • - 1. 11 1 0 It ALA% 7 . !4.6 ..:,• • - '-.Z.4: 5= 1 :- s •CS.:; 9 I . * I, k • . 6 2) . ..- .., ~... et a , 1 r A l l .'‘kt „ v Fee . '.4- • , - - ((i i...). : • ic) • •••• .4 a•/•, , . • tI ) , % • ! P../:. •;.,.,! ire'. ~,..r . . - 4, • . •• ; I .. - • . . .....:-...-.. ......2e \./ .4 - . iie A rp - '`--._.,....... ~..,•• i,_, '. ` c 4 ~'.-..-.... .1.7. ~ . . MONDAY, MAY so, 1808. 51. m it 6(3371 SIX-PENCF.. WFIITSUN EVE. - • • ..• MESSRS. ASHLEYS' NIGHT. AN SATURDAY NEXT, June 4, 1808, will be Oprefect:led at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, The Sacred Oratorio of THE MESSIAH: -•— • • Composed Irj G. P. lIANDEL. jlCocalP:rfornwrs -Mrs. DI C.K.O N S, Madam DeSSE IC, B0.1."1 ON, Mrs. ELAND, and Mrs. VAUGHAN, Mr. JAAFIAIsI, Mr. VAUGHAN, Mr. GOSS, and Mr. BE,L WSJ. R A st Part 1. will be performed • (first Fiore) Corelli's Fifth Opera Seconda, on Two violoncellos and a Double by Mew's. Lindley, Charles Asliky, and Boyce. zsd °art IL A Concerto on the Violin by Mr. Ashley. i n ks of the Band, Mr. ASHLEY; Organ, Mr. 1. ASHLEY. ass to.he opened at Six, begin at Seven—Half Price at Nine Asa 6? —Fit 9s. 6d—Gal. :N.—Upper Gal. 13. wo° to be had of Messrs. Ashleys ; at Birchalrs Afusie- M, Bood-street ; and of Mr. Brandon, at the Theatre, where l oss for the Boxes may be taken. BREACH OF PAROLE OF JIONOUR. TRANSPORT OFFICE, May t2R. WHEREAS the French . Prisoner of War, named and, describod at • the foot hereof, has absconded front Chesterfield, in violation of his Parole of Honour—The Corn• missloners for conducting His Majesty& Transport service, &c. do hereby. offer a Rewarkof Five Guineas for the recapture of the said Prisoner, to any Person or Persons who shall apprehend him, and deliver him , at this Office, or otherwise cause him to be securely lodged in any of the Public Gaols. PIERRE ASTRUC, Lieutenant-Colonel, SS years of age, five feet six inches high, rather stout, round visage, tr.esh complexions light brown hair, hazle eyes, and has lost one of hi.; fore-teeth. N B. There is reason to believe that the said Astrac is in Lon don, or its vicinity.. This day were published, in 1 vol. royal Bea. price 16s. boards, '1 I nE Principles and Law of Tithing, iaOnJed not . only for the Professors of the Law, but for all P vsoas inte rested in Tithes ; and illustrated by Ref:reuses to the mist leading and resent Tithe Casts. By F. 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The Publish , s4 hive the sitisfict lan to sttte that this Abriige ment, which Will comprise the Original Transactions from their Commencement to the end of 1800, will be completed within a year. This day was published, In foolscap octavo, Emilelli4ed with a Frontispiecerice ns. in extra boards, THE WARRIOR'S RET URN, and other Yuen's, By Mrs..OPIE. iPriated for Longman; Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Patcruorter-row: Of whom may be bad, by the same Author, 1, Poems; the Hills Edition, price -65.-boards. It. The Father and Daughter ; a Tale, in Pres.; Ths.l Edis. Lion, with a Prontapiece, price 4s. 6d. in boards, 3. Adeline de Mowbray; or, the Mother and Daughter; a Tale, in 3 Vols. price 13$ 61. iu boards. 4. Simple Tales, is 4 Volumes, 13md- price 1L ls.boaris. VICTVALLING OFFICE, May 25, 1808. THE COMMISSIONERS fir VICTUALLING London : Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, New Bridge -street. This day were published, in Ilvo. price 7s. 6d. boards, 'THE EPICS of the TON; or, the Glories of the -a• Great World. A Poem, In Two Books. With Notes and Illustrations. Third Edition, enlarged. London : Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, New Bridge-street. '.• AmOngst the illustrious Cdsoracters whose Glories are re corded in this Poem are the following Female. M— ; M— of A—; D-- of G—; D— of D--; D— of S-- A— ;13 — of R— C— of B— ; L— C— C—; M— of S—; Male. D— of P--; L— H— P—; G—; G— C—; R— B— S—; W-- W—; D— of Q—; C— R—,&c. &c ARMY. ANENSIGN in a Regiment of Two Batt:111(ms is a t otous of exchanging to Half Pay on the English F.sta bggunct, without a ditference.—Letters addressed I. D. Post orto,'Ncrwich, tai I he attended to. lIIS ZIAJESTI's NAVY, do limb eve Xotice, That on Monday the Gtb of June neat, they will be ready to re mitre Tenders, in whims( (sealed up) and treat for One Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM; to be delivered, duty free, from the bonded Warehouses, at the Port of London, into His Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, in the space of one month, by N 1 eckly preportions ; and to be paid for by Bills payable with interest ninety days after dare. The Conditions of the Contract, (in which in some new regu talons have been introduced) may be seen at the Seeretary'sOffice. N. B. No Tetl2er will be admitted for a liss quantity than Ten 'Thousand Gallons. This day was published, price :3. 6d. AGRICULTURE THE SOURCE OF THE WEALTH OF BRITAIN; a Rep'y to the Olfaction' urged by Mr. MLR, the Edinburgh Reviewers, a id others, against the Doctrines of the Pamphlet entitl4 " independent of Commerce;' with Remarks on the Criticisms of the Monthly Reviewtra on that Work. By WILLIAM SPENCE, F. L. S. Printed for 'll. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand. Of whom may be had, btely - publiihed, by the saw? Author. 1. Britain Independent of Commerce. Sixth Edition, price Ss. 2. The Radical Cause of the Present Distresses of the West- India Planta. Second Edition, price Ss. • . ----- G ° F.N'ERAL SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY, TABLLifiED at MARGATE, for the BENEFIT of the • DISEASED POUR, • „PATRON, MS ROYAL HIGiINESS GEORGE PRINCE of WALES. PATRONESSYS, Iyettight Hon. the Countess of DARTMOUTH; the Right Hon. the Countess of DARNLEY. PARS toeNT, The R;ght Hon. CHARLES Earl ROMNEY. acct-PRE hid Moo. Lord Henniker , it ht Hon. John Ansley, Lord ur Mayor k Edward Knatebbull, Bert. M. P. re Robert Wigram, Bart. Wilburn Gary, Bart. James Rtnat Gym HE ANNIVERSAR si , rtiTioN will be hel Legate-LIU!, on Wednesday, th sinxwrs. Sir William Leighton, Knt. and Alderman Samuel 'Ehornton, Esq. M.P. William Garrow, Esq. J. C. Lettsom, M.D. Francis Cobb, Esq. Thomas Forsyth, Esq. - is, Esq. Treasurer. LY DINNER of this IN. Id at the London Coffee House, he Ist of June, 1608. 'ARDS. Robert Hase, Esq. Ric Lad Knight, Esq. Newman KnowlYs, Esq. Alexander Ross, Esq. Wlliiam Wigram, Esq. James Woodhouse. EA, had at the Bar of the Coffee the Table at Five o'Dlock pre- Sr EW, Is. Hon. Lard I I-n^il.sr, V. P. ifEism Ylozam, Esq. kha Cleugh, ME Dale, Esq. Job Dixon, Esq. John Carl liaribury, F..q. Tickets, It's. rd. each, to be Niue; and Dinner will Ye on tielp N. B. No Collection after Dinner. JOSEPH RAINBOW, Secretary, 4S, St. Paul's C: urclvya:d. SIX PRIZES OF TWtNTI'THOUSAND POUNDS. TO BEGIN DRAWING 28th JUNE. DICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. Bank Building., Cornhill, and facing the King's Mews, Charing- Cnne, respeetfutly acquaint the Public. that the New State Lot tery Tickets and Shares are now an *L. ba Variety of Numbers. The Scheme contains . 6 Prizes of 120,000. 1 of X 10,000 I 5 of C 1,000 1 '5,000 7 -- :03 3 2 1 000 1 20 -- 100 AA 4030 other Prizes, amounting in the whole to 1.'25,000. NEW ST.kl E LOTTERY. ELI PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, Besides the usual number of • £lO,OOO, .05,000, *2,000, &c. &c. izWIFT and Co. No. 11, Poultr), and No. 12, r% , Charing-Cross, are selling the Tickets and Shares of the ifite Lottery, to begin drawing oil the 28th June. The Scheme eekins the tame number of Tickets u the last Lottery, with table the number of 'lwiorry Tuousztos, a circumstance guer before known in so small a Lottery. The following Prizes were sold in shares at Swirr and Co.'s Cites in the last Lottery, viz. No. 8,824 a Prize of £20,000 I,COO I No. 11,937 1,000 13,63.5 Na f,895 U,417 1;0(10 1,000 , 104..31 - 1 ,0001 21,834 - 500 is in the preceding six months, No. 11,0Y0, Prize of £20,0 00 ; NO. lA, Prize of £10,000; o. 5,590, No. 15,079, and No. 17.624, Prizes of 0.1,000, with others of L. 500, &e. kc. N.B. Lists of the Prizes in the City Freehold Lottery may be holy.. d gratis ai tie above Offict.a, . WORTHY OF PUBLIC NOTICE. THE CELEBRATED VEGETABLE SOAP PASTE. THE Gentry, and Public are respectfully a Informed, that 1 DELCROIX has prepared the above vs, "le Soap Paste from a recipe of Mr. Prof kosky, his friend, an Ica ',cm Chemist at Warsaw who is the sole Inventor and Pro fluor of this precious Con:position, which has universally been Proved of by persons of the first rank, inhabiting that bleak zed frozen country, for softening, nourishing, and whitening the 64 , and allowed to be a certain preventive against the cold air dioppling the Face and hands, and also a most pleasing and efficient fur Shaving. Nothing can be offered to the admirer of ex guisire and fairness equalzo this incomparable Paste, when anal of two days will convince of its superior virtues, as well as s4 P ert°r i t T aver any discovery of the kind ever presented to the • „ Ketalle 4 by the principal Perfumers in Town and Country, and soM w halesale by the Proprietor, at his Martinique Liquor Ware "we, No. 56, Poland -street, whore a large asaortinsast of them is lobe fcand, at reduced prices. This day was publiilletis Halt letelety printed Wow Volume, Soo. price-in botirds, Ss. THE ROMISH' CHIACH ; or; 'An Historical and Critical Vieiv of some of the Doctrines of that Church ;. and a Reply to Mr. Des Metris's "Truth Of the Catholic Religion road from feripture." With Notts. By the Rev. G. STEVENSON, M. A. Vor of &Hoe, Durham, and formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Printed for the Author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard; and by the Booksellers of Oxford, •Cam tralre, Newcastle, & c . & c . Ars " Mr. ;o ay cortgeatulate himself on the tendency of laudable efforts romote tbe accomplishment of his object, vita Defence of S.scred Truth, a Refutation of unscriptural Doe- Ir ian, Ste. &c. He has compressed into a comparatively Small C ZMPaSS all the. main arguments -which have been employed in D.E'lice of the Reformation, an 4 1,0 opposition to the Church, of — "tee ; 10 that those who want either leisure or inclination to clank thq various books which have been written on the subject, till be able, by an attentive perusal of this volume, to acquire a rtheteat knowl e d ge , not mere l y o f the ossitroverNial parrs, but e substantive merits of the case.. This publication is peen lady sesronabk, and as such we recommend it to the Public in I t- era's am:to the bletubers of the Parliament in particular". Anti-Jacobin Review, 1808. ire Oeord Review, September, 18%. try the ton• of No regard will 6. had to any Tender in which the trice shall not be inserted i. i nvords at len;th, or that shall not be delivered to the Beare, be fire am o'clod on the :Jid Monday the 6th of June next, nor sinless the Palen -who makes the Todzi , or acme Person an his B.d.aY, attends to answer nrhen ealtdf:r. ORDWAIftE MICE, May 16,1808. THE PRINCIPAL. OFFICERS of HIS MA JESTrs ORDNANCE, 1. 1 ., hereby give Notice, That Proposals will be received at thoit Office in Pall-Mall, on or before Thursday the fi.d of June next, from such Persona as may be wiping to undertake the Performanke of the Plumbers, Work within the Tower Division, comprehending the Tower, Lewisham, Woolwich, Purflect, and Gravesend; and aho at Portsmouth, for a period of three years. Proposals will be received Jointly for the whole, or separately, for the said 'Tower Division, and Portsmouth ; and further par •iculars, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, may be known, upon application at the Secretary's Office, in Pall-Mall aforesaid, any day, between the hours of ten 'and fbur o'clock, where the Proposals are to be delivered, sealed up, and endorsed " Proposals for the Performance of the Plantbers• Work at " (as the ease may be); but no Proposal can be admitted after the said Si of June neat, at twelve o'clock at noon of the same day ; neither will any Tender be noticed, unless the Party malting it, or an Agent in his behalf, shall attend. Ry Osder of the Board, R. H. CREW, Secretary. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, May 18, 1808. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MA JESTY', ORDNANCE, do hersbygeoc That Proposals will be received at their °face in Pall Mall, on or before Thursday the ed day of June next, for such Persons as may be willing to undertake the Performance of the Painters' Work for the Ordnance Service at Portsmouth, for a period of three years. Further particulars, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, may be known, upon application at the Secre tary's Office in Pall Mall aforesaid, any c'.ay between the hours of ten and four o'clock, where the Proposals are to be delivered,' . sealed up, and endc;rsed " Proposals for Painters' Work at Ports mouth," but no Proposal can be admitted after the said 2d day of tune newt, at twelve o'clock at noon of the same day, neither will any Tender be noticed, unless the party making it, or an Agent in his behalf, shall attend.—By Order of the Board, R. H. CREW, Secretary. ORDNANCE OFFICE, May 25, 1 SOL THE PRINCIP.,IL OFFICERS of HIS. MA JZS'Trs ORDNANCE,dekerrAy give Notice, That they will sell by Public Auction, 'at the Tower, on 'Thursday the 9th day of lune next, between the hours of eleven and tour o'Clock, Sundry Lots of Old and Unserviceable Ord nance Stores, consisting . of Haines Collar, Bit Halters, Rope Traces, and various other Articles of Sadiffy and Harness, Beds, Blankets, Coverkts, Hammocks and sundry other Articles of Bedding, Ptiwder Horns, Tents and Sandbags, Copper, Steel, and mixed Metal, Tools of sorts, Oak and Fir Scantling, together with Building Materials and various other Articles, the whole of Which may be viewed upon application at the Honourable Princi pal Storekeeper's Office, at the Tower, until the day of Sale, Where printed Lists of the Lots will be delivered to those pp-sons who may ant , for the same.:—By Order of the Board, R. H. CREW, Seeretaiy. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, nade In a Cause, 'Ebben against Hibbert, the Creditors of THOMAS HUMERI% formerly of Agualta Vale, is the Island Of Jamaica, in the West Indies, but Ire of Upper %Vim pole-street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-la-bonne, in the County Of Middlesex, Esq. deceased (who died in, or about the•month of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven) are forthwith to come in and prove their Debts before JOHN Otto, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Coitrt, at his_ Chambers in Southampton- Buildings, thanierplane, London, or in default thereof, they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.—May 27, 1808. - - 'TO be SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, bearing date the 11th day of March, 1806, made in a CXuse, wherein Edward Hodder and Mary his wife and others are Piaineiffs, and William Lovell Ruffin, Stephen Simpson, and others are-Defendants, SEVERAL FREEHOLD ESTATES, consisting of two Farms and Lands, situate at Hoo, near Rochester, and at Gillingham, near Chatham, in the Count' , of Kent ; anti of several Frcehuld Hauser; Wharfs, and Ground, ' in the High-street of Chatham, and at Brompton, Gillingham, and Troy Town, In the said County of Kent; and also of a Lease hold House and Premises, in the High-street. at Chatham afore ' said;held of the Dean and Chapter of • Roclie'ster : all which Es , 'tates*ere the property of Jacob Caienini4Troy,late of Chatham, Wine Merchant, deceased. The said %Estates will he sold in 59 separate and distinct Lots, with the approbation of Samuel Comp ton Cox, Esq. one of the. Masters of the said Court at the Sun Tavern, at Chatham , on Thursday the 9th, Friday the 10th, and Saturday the 11th day> of June, 1608, each day's sale beginning at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Particulars whereof may be had gratis, at the said Master's Chamber% in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; at the Office of J. Simmons , Rochester; of Mr. Jefferys, Attor ney at Law, Chatham; of Me--o - z , . Clarkson, Essex-street, in the Straid; and of Mr. Isielt•ou in Palsgravc-Place, Temple-Bar, London. This day were published, in two. price in boards, LETTERS written during a TOUR. through SOUTH WALES, containing Views of the History, Anti quities, and Custcms of that Part of the Principality, and inter spersed with Observations on its Scenery, Agriculture, Botany, Mineralogy, Trade, and Manufactures. By the Rev. J. EVANS, B. A. 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'; and sold A POETICAL I.lBRAlti. This day was published, in Six elegant Volume, post octavo, embellished with Portraits by CAROLINE WA reON trice Three Pounds in boards, or Three Pounds Ten Shilli ngs ele gantly bound, for a Literary Present, I 'HE CABINET OF POETRY ; containing the bit ENTIRE PIECES which are to be found In the Wo les of the BRITISH POETS, from MILTON to BEAT l'iP printed in Chronological Series, and the Works of each Poet pre! faced by an Account of his Life and Character. Selected by S. J. PRATT, Esq. " if the grain were separated front the chaff which rills the Works of our National Poets, what Is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain." SVRKE. The Poets at large, like the Statutes at large, are proverbial for the quantity of worthless lumber which they contain, and have long been a heavy tax on the purse and patience of tho Pu- . lif.."-PRCFACE. 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