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L 0 N DO N, April 20.
£ LITTLE after five yesterday morning, the Rev.
fl Mr- Hackroan got up, dressed himfelf, and was at
private meditation till near (even, when Mr. Boswell and
two other gentlemen waited on him, and accompanied
him to the- Chapel, where prayers were read by the Ordi
nary of Newgate, after which lie received the Sacrament ;
between eight and nine he canie down from the Chapel,
and was haltered ; when the Sheriff's office^ took the cord
from the big to perform his duty, Mr. Hackman laid :
*' Oh ! the fight of this fllocks me more than the thoughts
ofits intended operation;" he then shed a few tears, and
took leave of two gentlemen in a very affeaing manner.
He then was conduced into a mourning coach, attended
by Mr. Villette, the Ordinary, Mr. Boswell, and Mr.
Davenport the Sheriff's officer. On his arrival at Tyburn
he got out of the coach, mounted the cart, and took an af
fedionate leave of Mr. Boswell and the Ordinary. After
some time spent in prayer he was tied up, and about two
minutes paTt eleven he w^s launched into eternity. After
hanging the usual time, his body was b ought to Surgeons
hah for diffcaiou.
When Mr. Hackman got into the cart under the gal
lows, he immediately kneeled down with his face towards
rhe horses, and prayed some time; he then rose, and join
ed in prayer with Mr. Villette and Mr. Boswell about a
quarter of an hour, when he desired to be permitted to
have a few minutes to himfelf; the clergymen then took
leave of him. Eis request being granted, he informed
the executioner when he was prepared, he would drop his
handkerchief as a signal ; accordingly, after praying about
6 or 7 minutes to nimtelf, he dropped his handkerchief,
cud the cart drew from under him.
It is a sass with which every officer ®f the navy ought
to be acquainted, that Capt. Brereton of the Duke, who
was fufpen'ded, and difgract fully dismissed from the fleet
tor mifeondua, after the engagement off Ulhant, was not
only received 011 his return at my Lord Sandwich's levee,
but admitted to his table, because, forfooth, he is a Bon
Proant, and can assist in roaring a catch with Twitcher
and his harlot.
Is it possible for profligacy more groffiy to insult the ho
nor of the British : avy?
The Captains of the navy, (the Captains Hood, Bazely,
and Bully Mulgrave,< always excepted) have certainly
come to a resolution. to prefect a very firong, and point
ed memorial to the King agrinit the Firfl Lord, and the
whole conduct of the Board of Admiralty, which is only
delayed till the conclefion of the trial. Jemmy Twitcher,
in (peaking of this memorial, of which he was apprized, at
the beginning of the trial, treated it with infinite contempt,
impudently comparing the Captains to a rope of jand^ but
the public entertain great hopes that the memorial will
prove a rope of a firmer texture, and, to the bleffiag of,
this country, bring the profligate Gid Satyr to his natural
end.
We are informed, from what we deem good authority,
that the following curious sass has actually come out, on
examining the affairs of a late very eminent fllipbroker:
We submit it as we have it to the comments of the public,
Lord Sandwich stands indebted to the fllipbroker in the
fam offixty thousand pounds, and his strumpet Miss R ,
is in poffeflion of a bond from the fhipbroker tor t^eßue
thousand pounds, to which sum file has formally put in her
claim !!! !
We are assured from good authority, that Sir Hugh
Palkfer travelled from Portsmouth incog, and passed at
the several fiages, where he flopped under the feigned
names of Capt. Smith or Capt. Jones, of the navy. " 'Tis
conscience that makes cowards of us all."
Io the motion for the impeachment of Lord Sandwich,
which is to come on in the beginning of the week in the
House of Lords, the with-holding of Admiral Keppel's
private fofiruaicDs will be a severe point of accufati®n a
gainst him. So unprecedented an attack upon the life of
an honorable Admiral was never known before in this
country. It has been constantly esteemed rhe right of the
accused to call for thef@ documents in his defence, and it
lias asconflantly been granted tohiro, as a matter of right,
and not of faVbur. The trial of Admiral Keppel, unpre
cedented as it is in many other infiances, will also be the
firft precedent on our naval records of this great justice
being denied to an attacked man. Had they contained in
formation ofa dangerous nature, and improper for publi
cation, there might have been some colour of excuse for
the concealment. But we are assured from the requisition
of the Admiral, that there was no such reason existed for
withholding them. We have seen and heard too much of
that gentleman's zeal for the good of his country to per
mit us to harbor an idea that he would make a request for
the fake of his ©wn fafety, that should endanger or effect
the welfare es his country.
A correspondent exclaims, how consummate a villain
must that man be, who, conscious of having facrificed his
country to personal entity, and party intrigues, firfl seeks
slitter from justice of the man he hates— begs a certificate
from the Commander he betrayed—disappointed of that,
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he recriminates and accuses ; but failing in every article of
accusation, grows defeefate with guilt and infamy, bullies,
before a Court of Justice, the venerable Commander, who
Icorned equally his treachery, his meanness, and his ma
lice, and thus finifh-s a character which would stain any
annals but those of George the Third, and any friendship,
but that of a Sandwich or a Mulgrave ! I
On Tuelday, at Drury-lane Theatre, in the entertain
ment of the Camp, when Mr. Gage, the excifeman, was
relating his having sent lime for the soldiers hair, instead
or flour, for which he narrowly efc^ped being tied to the
halberts, he added, “ but as I knew I was in the wrong,
I demanded a Court-martial on the ferjeant." The stroke
was fe't, and the audience marked their approbation by
three loud plaudits.
We hear by a gentlerfan just come up from Portsmouth,
that there is such confufion and general diffatisfadion in
the naval department, nothing goes on well; that the
sailors are also deferring by fc®res from the little fliip ,
and by fifties from the great ones, and no real seamen to
be obtained ; so that thejhips will be obliged to fail most
miserably manned ; and there seems to be but one opinion
among the officers of the men of war, which is, that un
ltfs we have a new Admiralty, or new raeafures, the na
vy will certainly be ruined, and that very foen.
It is now well known that Lord Saniwich mufl go out
of office; his friends, the clerks, begin to acknowledge
it ; “ his Lordfllip is in so weak a state—his infirmity—•
be cannot attend to the business." Very true, very true;
and better confefs the truth late than never: But the wri
ter would be glad to know when his Lordship was other
wise ? Was it when he bombafted, in the House of Lords,
against " the vagrant Congress ?" when he sent out his
Comroiffioner Secretary, with his penal principles, to
chafiife " the vagrant Congress ?" or when he idolized his
Indian friends, White eyes, Bloodv-ltys, &c. as the " in
struments of Nature and of God ? or was it when, smart
ing under Lord Chatham's correction, he cried out, in re
?e„g,, “ that his Lordkip fliould never have access to the
King ?" Lord $ -k, we pity your gout; but, alas!
what would avail even the " fanum corpus," where the
" mens fana" is so miserably wanting ?
It is a sass, that previous to the failing of the Brest fleet,
jemmy Twitcher sent out a man to France to watch their
motions. Soon after his arrival, he collected an account
of the force in the harbour of Brest, to fend to his em
ployer, but was detected, and committed to the Baflile at
Paris, where the poor wretch expended daily to be exe
cuted, but from a seeming contrition, at lad was released,
and came to London' in great distress, when he applied for
relief to Jemmy, but he finding the poor man could be of
no farther service, dismissed him without a Milling.
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rH E Miniiter Plenipotentiary of France
intending thortly to let cut for France, all those
who hav? any demands upon him are detired to fend in
their bills to the House keeper in the ccurfe of next week
that they may be immediately fettled and paid off.
Philadelphia, Augufi 28, 1779.
To be SOLD at Public Vendue,
On the premies, on Tuesday the seventh of September
, next, at Ten oNlock in the forenoon, by the sub
scriber,
A LEASE of a frame House adjoining the Harp
and Crown Tavern, in Third-street, Philadelphia,
during the natural life of a Lady now upwards of fifty
years of age, fubj^a to a yearly rent of Twenty Pounds
Pennsylvania currenc ; a 1 rge front room of laid house
has been lately fitted up for a store, and has a good cellar
under the whole. Alto to be fold, some trifling remains
of Shop Good,, among which are several thouland
Needles of the bed quality.
ANDREW CARSON.
TO BE SOLD B Y
JACOB MANWARIN G,
Next door below the Indian King, in Market-street,
Philadelphia,
AQJIANTITY of German Steel and Corks ;
also a good assortment of Whitechapel and com
mon Needles.
WANTS A PLAC E,
A YOUNG MAN as a Bar-keeper or Clerk, or
to wait on a single gentleman. Any gentleman in
want of such a person, by enquiring at the bar of the
Black Horie in Market street, may meet with one of an
unexceptionable character.
WANTE D,
An I R ON CHE S T.
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GERMAN ALMANACKS,
For the YEAR 1780,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN DU NL A P.
The HIGHEST PRICK
IS GIVEN FOk
CLEAN LINEN RAGS;
BY
JOHN DUNL A P.
WHEREAS the elates of James Ran
kin and John Rankin, late of the county of
\ ork, having been in due couple of law forfe ted and
seized to the ule ol thir State, We, the fubferibers.
Agents tor the said county, do hereby give notice, Th?t
the estates of the said James Rankin and Jdhn Rankin,
confiding of the following trails or parcels of land, viz.
James Rankin's, No. 1, Three hundred and feventy
feven acres, finite on the east fide of Codorus Creek,
one mile from York, in Yoik townihip, whereon is a
grist-mill, and mill house Lu It wi>h done, a dwelling
houfe part wood and part stone, a la<ge barn, one hun
dred acres cleared and upwards of thirty acres or mea
dow. No, 2, Two hundred and seventy-seven acres,
fame township, adjoining No. 1, with one dwelling
houfe of logs, twenty-five acres clear. No. 3, One hun
dred and fily one acres at the mouth of Big Conewago
Creek, on Susquehanna River, in Newberry township,
whereon is a dwelling house and ban, about thirty acres
clear, and an accustomed ferry. No. 4., One hundred
and seventy-seven acres, lame townflrip, with a good
dwelling -house and burn of logs, fifteen acres of mea
dow rt nd fiftv acres of clear land and orchard. No. 5,
One hundred and forty-five and a half acres, fame town
ship, adjoining No. 4, with a good log house and barn,
ten acies of meadow, about fifty acres clear, and an or
chard. No. 6, Three hundred and fifty acres adjoining
William Cheiney and others, in fame township, where
on are some cabins and sundry fields cleared.' No. 7,
T^o hundred and eighty-seven acres and three quarters,
to be equally divided between William Rankin and
James Rankin, wood land, in Newberry township. No.
8, Two hundred and twenty-two acres and one hundred
and twelve perthes, adjoining Ann Noblit and others,
in the fame township, wood land. No. 9, About ninety
two and a half acres adjoining John Rankin, in the feme
township. John Rankin's, No. 1, Sixty three acres and
three quarters, adjoining Abraham Noblit and others,
in two pieces, bought of Richard Peters at different
times under a patent. No 2, One hundred acres, the
place known by the name of John Rankin's place, in
Newberry township. No. 10, Two hundred acres, part
of which James Rankin bought of Richard Peters, in
Newberry township. No. 11, One hundred acres in
Newberry, bought of James Smith of York Town. No.
12, One hundred acres, fame township, near No. 3.
All which will be fold by Public Vendue, at the Court
house at York, on the thirteenth day of O&ober next.
The sales will continue from day to day, till the whole
be difeufed of.
The terms of sale will be according to law, as follows,
to quit, One fourth part of the purcbafe money to be paid
in ten days after sale, or the premises again to revert to
the State, and the bidder liable to forfeit the laid one
fourth of the purchase money. The remainder thereof
to be paid in one month ; and on a certificate being
produced from the Agents, or either of them, of full
payment of the purchase money, a deed will be given,
as by law directed.
And we the Agents, do also pursuant to law, hereby
notify all the claimants of the said premises, or any of
them, and creditors of the said James Rankin and John
Rankin, to exhibit their claims and demands to the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court, within the time limited by
law, or they will be for ever barred from the recovery
thereof. WILLIAM CHESNEY, 7
JAMES NAILOR, , Agents,
August 23. WILLIAM MITCHELL,J
Philadelphia, August 23.
BY virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me directed,
will be fold by public vendue, in Race-street, be
tween Second and Third -street,, in this city, at the
house lately occupied by James Talbot, on Friday the
3d day of September next, at Three o'clock in'the af
ternoon, sundry Houfhold and other Goods, among
which are some Windsor chairs, a drift, press, bedheads,
tin ware, Queen's ware, decanters, a large scale beara,
dishes and weights, smaller scales and weights, some
tea, salt, &c. seized and taken in execution as the pro
perty of said James Talbot, at the suit of Andrew and
James Caldwell, b,
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriffs
AUGUST 28, „^.
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