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the Opentions of the Campzign are already begun. These twg Fctcts,
combined together, will throw Light on the Defign of our Court m arm
ing : fleet.
There are Letters from Antigua, by the Carrick, Captzin Fentom who
is arrived at Liverpool, which give an Account that some sznish vessels
have lately hovered about there, and have been uking Draughrs of that
and all the adjacent lshods; from which the lnhabitants conjecture that
: War will brczk out very soon in that Part of the World, and therelore
are takmg proper Steps to defend themselves in Case that lflmd should
be :ttz: ked.
Letters from Gibraltar say, that Advice is received there from Malagz
that : Spanish fleet, confining of t'velve Men of War and six Frigates,
thh Bomb Vessels and Transports, lies at Cape Malngn, ready to put
to Sea, but wait for some Troops embarking And the Admirzl to go on
Board.
Many different, but erroneous Accounts, of what passed in the House
of Commons, on Monday last, relative to the French Fleet et Toulon,
having appeared, : Gentleman present has sent the following true and
wfrect State of that Matter. Mr. Dowdeswell having said that Grent
Britain wa- at the Eve of : War, Lord North answered, " ] hoPe our
Situntion is not such as the Honourable Gentleman describes; ! trust
that we me not at the Eve of : War, for Adviee he been received the
the Armamem ac_Toulon, which cmsed the late Murm, is countermand
ed." [( these were not the very Words Lord North made Use of (which
he believes they were) he is sure they contain the precise Mezning of
whlt he said ; but that he neither said France has mede an Apology, nor
ad he use any Exprefl'ion which can poffibly bear that lnterpretation.
Yeflerd-y se'nnight : young Gentlemen, who intended to have Ippclred
at Alnnek'o Mzsquende in the Chmcter of: Turk, was closely followed
by some v impertinent Officm, who wereso .very nudacioue as to
sinp him ju :: he was flepying out of his Coach, and conduct him, in
his Masquende Dress, to ; Spunging House, where he was obliged to
continue : molt ridiculous Figure, till he had Leisure to reflect on the
Extravagance which brought him thither.
The Grznd jury for Middlesex have found ! Bill of Indjctment against
L—c T—r, Esqnire, sor wilful and corrupt Perjury. si
A le lbdlsit fifteen shipped herself lust Week at Liverpool, in Boy's
Clothes, on lond : Ship bound from thence to the Coast of Guinea, but
her Je: war leddentnlly discovered just before they set Sail. She hzd
Pased he : lo) upwards o!" : Year, had been in hard Serviee as such;
lnd It length chose : Sm'lor's Life. Neceffit'y was the Cause, she said, of
her dil'guifing her Sex :nd seeking Employment. _ ct
Some Letter: from Rome mention that Cardlnnl'Yorlt in very in, at his
Palnee os Fuscati. .
Lord Townshend lccidentally met the Ear] of Bellamont yesterday a
21?th ad they both hehnved with the greatest Complaisance to \
of .
ExtraH a a Letter ram Venice, riI L' _
s" The Smta Maria; fine of thefShips of Watfzelongingsito th]: Re
publick, hsiu letely artlved here from the Arehipela o, and brmgs Advlco
thdt the Rctsian Fm ces there daily increafe, and thzt they have taken
entire Possetsion of =;veral of the Egean Met, especially Chios, Tenedps,
and Cnidfn. The same Advice nddn, th'at Hoffilitiet had really com
meneed between the Romans and the 'l'urks, and an Engngement lately
happct'ied off the ]fle of Cypnu between them, in which the.!ortyet
were victorions; and, When the Santa Maria sailed from Chtee, the
Rufliant were preparing for : fresh. Descent on the Morea."
The solitiwing may be depeaded upon it the present State of ent
Negotittiont with the Court of aneet - Upon [maw hung
received of : greet Remittznee of: llpney'to' Toulon, out- Ambefl'hdour ,
at the Court of Versdllez yn- diuasied to Wire whether there '"9 any
Armement intetided to be fitted out It due Po'ct, et in that Cese the
Court of Great Britzin would think it'W-tl'y to send an adequate
sist'adroh te watch the Modern of the shend! fleet in the Mediter—
nuufi. Before m Adswer eodtdpe received from Versatlies, the French
Ambafl'ndour here 'wn directed to 'eequeint our Ministry, that upon the
Requit'ttion of the King of Swede'n; between whom and France there
suhfifts a defennve Alliance, it wn' resolved to sit out : fleet to distreu
the Romans in the Meatterranean, whilft : small Squedron should do the
like so the Bnltick; that, under the Apprehenflon of a Rufliao invasion
of "his Dominions, he found it else neeeflhry to demend the Number ((
TrooPs mpumed by the" Tmty; end um, It present, he'sioodvin Nsieed
of a confideuble Aentity es military Stone. 'The Court of Veffitflee
declared, tho! in so ln- ae'eonoemed the military. Storet' they htd dread]
complied with the Demandt of Sweden, end thnt : considerable Weetity
wu nlreldy shipped off from Dnnkirk for the Ealtick. At the same Time, -
they aye the Mblemn Alsunneet that they !:qu wereeoneemtdio the ,
s _' Lenpt, end that they studied nothing more than to e tbe
ptesem Rmny with Grut Britain. Upon receiving this nation,
ct 'My ;! the Court of Vertaillet wts ordered to aeqneint the
]: ' " 'Minytry that we would not stand filent Speaatore of Hoshlitiet
committed et Sea against our Ally the Bniptest of Rome. When these
Order; were desyatched to France, otheri wae issued fot- equipping I
fleet; but immediately the French Amblfl'edonr received lnfimdiom
ftpm his Court, to ecquint us, that the Rusim having declared they
Who intention to break with Sweden, tbe Sq'nldronjrming at Tou-ct
lsso'n, lti indeed nll Prepa'atiom at theie other Pan, were hid efide.
We are ioionned, trom another Qpener. that the Cwse of braking
up the (longest ]! nucharest proceeded entirely from the exorbitent De—
mand of the Court of Rutj'n. The Tenm were: The ebsolute Free
dom of n'ipting the Black See, and all the Turkilh Part of the Medi
terraneen, With ; free Aecese into on the Portt (or the Rnffim Ships,
even as in at Syria end Egypt; that the ctPorte shall obtain from the
- Barbary Sutet under their Punction the Privilege With tlemselvet for
the Roman Trede and Ship 'ng (du the Lrimen shall remain indepen
dent; that the Provineee the on of the Dannbe, with Belgrade, shall
be ceded to the Butperourz and in Cnse of : Resusa] upon that fiend,
thetmpemur villjeid & Armeto those of Ruflja, tosorce the Pone to .
so qmubh : knee. .' - .. .
Loyd Stonneot; : few Days dye, told the Duke D'Aigullloo, 'the French
Minister, thlt-the Dnty he owed his Master required him.:o depart that
Kingdom in a short Time, since the Court of France, by their Procedings,
which they refused to explain, seemed to confiden the Ambassadour of
Great Britnin a : Petson wbohad no Right to all:, or expect Answer's
to, any Aeffiom. This alarmed the Duke greedy, who immediately re
paired to Verfaiflee end informed Lewit oi what h_ad happened. He des
patehed : Messmger for Lord Stormont the next Day, and gave him a very
satiefnctory Account of the intention: of France by their Preparations;
at the same Time assuring him, that every Proceeding would be with the
greatest Deference to the Court of Grezt Britain. '
We eve assured that the Armament at Toulon il not suspended. On
the contrary. a great Number of Workmen is ordered to that Piece, to
zffist in fitting out the fleet, which consists of the following Ships: The
LGzuedoc, 80 Guns, commanded by Count d'li staing; Le Tonmnt, 80
Gum, by M. de Rochmore, Commodore; Le Zele, by M. de Broves;
Le Bourgogne, by M. de Sadee; 'Le _Cesar, by M. de Tevteres; lnd he
Protecteur, by the Chevalier de Monteil, all of 74 Gum; Le Hltdi, by
M. de Calliatd; Le Vaannt, by the Chevalier Forbin d'Oppede; Le
Fanrasque, by the Chevalier de Fabry; Le Lion, by M. dejTronjoli5
and Le Triton, by M . de Reati, all of 64 Gum; Le Sagittaire, of so
Cuns, by M. de Barrah. The Frigates are the Atalente and the
S Xun.
qLend Sandwich has given such general Sntissaction, by his Conduct for
this Month past, that a great Personage, we are told, made him the fol
lowing Complimtnt a Day or two ago: " Sandwich, it is not in the Power
of so poor a Man as the King of Ingland to reward thee according to thy
Dcseztl."
Friday Morning the Lord Mnyof, Mr. Sheriff Oliver, and several other
Gentlemen, went from the Manfion House th Mile End, to be present
at the Meeting of the Frccholders of the County of Mtddlesex, called to
gether by the Sherisss to consider of the violated Rights of Election.
Mr. Wilkes soon after wmtct accomptmed by a great Number of Gentle
men from Wellminittr, &c.
My ]. As neither Great Britain nor France seems to have any De
sire of entering into : War with one another, we should think it better
l'siucy in both not to send Asfiflance to either of the Pzrties at War, but
to act by their l'ower at'Sea merely as Mediators. That active Mediation
at dea would be able to set Bounds to the Powers at War, and such a
Proceedinz wouldnot only be more (or the Interefl but the Honour also
of G'rnt Britain and France. ]! they can place a proper Considence in
each other, they may command : Ham, and prescribe the Term: of it.
All our Ships of War that are now fitting out, at the different Ports,
have received Urdets to take on Board their t'ull Complement of Marines.
it was las} Night curremly rep'. rted, that Orders are sent down to
l'lz'nouth sot floppmp the fitting out some of the Ships there.
'tsihey advise t'rom I'ort Royal, in ]ammca, that a Spanish Schooner,
with {out Chests of Silver, [tom Campeachy, wu arrivtd there to trade
Will] the English. '
ny -.r'vy<'es from Genoa, we learn that that Republiclt is now fitting
out several Ships of War.
Advices received yesterdny from Touion sey that some Ships of the
Sqtmdron :n't' dilhrmed, but th! major Part of them remain ready to put
to Sea at the lhortefl Nolice. si
They write from Stoekholm, that the Repott of it French Fleet com
ing up the Baltick is very prevalent there. _. .
They write from Dublin, that since the Affairs of Dantznk are on so
bad Footing the Linen Manusaflory hat sustained a Los: of upwards of
7c,coo ]. in one Article of Trade, -
it is reported that a challenge has been given, and accepted, between
two patriotick Gentlemen yesterday, at the Assembly Room at Milc
End.
They write from Turin, that a Marriagehnd been declared ",".m
Court between the Princefs Mm'; Theresa, Daughtcr of his Sasdlmln
Majesty, and the Count D'Arwit, second Brother to the Dauphm of
France.
Letter: from Hambvrg fly that they are informed there, from good
Authority, that a Congrefs is soon to be held at Dantzick, to which De
putiet will be sent from the Courts of Vienna, Petershurg, and London,
who are to decide the Disputes between the King of Pmsha and the
Magistrates of that City. -, - _
Extract of a Letter from Birminghlm, [Pril 28. .
" A Difcovery has just been mode of : numerous Gang of Comert,
,several of whom are People of Propqty, and have hitherto lived to this
Town in Credit and good Repute." ,
There wan yesterday ; very respectable M'eeting of the Freeholders of
Middiesex, at the Assembly Room at Mile End, in Confequence of an
Advertisement from the Sheriffs. Mr. Wilkes took the Chair, and, after
many Debates, the Resolution stood at follows: " 'That it is the Opi
nion of the Freeholders of the Coumy of Middlefex, that : Return to the
ancient Mode of Reprefentation, in short Parliaments, and : Bill for the
Exclufion of Placemen lnd Pesinfionm si'om the House of Commons, is
the most likely Method of obtaining : Redress of the various Grievances
under which the Subjects of this Kingdom labour."
May 4. Some Letteri from Berlin mention thnt the King of Pmffia
has given a General's Staff to Prince George of Meeklenburg, youngest"
Brother to the Ass" of Great Britain.
Exlract if a Letter from Consiantinople. March 17.
n".His Sublime Highnefs, and thewhole Diyan, are now certain that
the Emperour of Germany means to affin the Empress of Ruflia in the
renewed War against the Tutkt, and have given Notice to the Ausirian
Ambaffidour at the 'quse to depart the Ottoman Domidom in thirty
Days, on Pain of perpetual lmprisonlnq-t; which is cohseoring a great
Favour en thnt Am? assadour, a it it the hlshost imm'uttole Cufiom of
the Tsiusks to eonfihe the Minuter't of an) Power they mean of etpect to
War with." ' ' ' "
* Letter! from Venieesay. thfit fix Sail of the Ruffil'n Squadron have ss
put in there with some rich 'Emkish Priaet. - _ ,
Some Despatchet were yederday reegived— at St. :mes's, from his
Excelleney'bord V'tfcount Stormontssx _ CM of erfailles.
The Frenchmmblssadont is said to. ' given our Minisiry the most
satisfat'lory Answers to some WM proposed, telative to the
warlike Pr arptiom of the Court Of -
It is faid'that : great Persomgeit ' pieased with the Alaprity of the
Sea Oflicers, &c. in the present Psisis'Qorau'ons.
Copuin Duke, of the Providence; lm'ved in the Down: from Lifbon,
in :.o Dflyly given an'Amnt than!- Comyn] Plcltet, Webb, being on
her Passage from Tennis forss Cotkfhactvin] two Spnnifh Sailors on Board,
* they murdered the Mate, and thrh-him prerboaxd." The Ca'ptain being
below, andbezri a Noise, wu ;" on Declt, but seeing the Vil!aine_
ready to modes him, retired into pbin, and a little Boy with him,
and with : Mufltet shame of them, and confined the other; . and atllasi
zotsi-to Lilbon, after being many Day: et Sea in this Diflrefs.
' On ]";iday a Draught olsoo Men was made from Greenwich Hospital,
who aressto helm on Board- the'Qtptdflsstips, in the Room of the Men
draughted for im-wdiate Service.
The Members of the Uppel' Am, were-sommoned to attend thi
Dly on'the'xsiill to regulate the Bxportation and lmportation os Com. ss
The'Hou of Commodecthave ordered an Account of all soreign Lineni,
Prinlsd. nimal- or shined, ilCseatBsitain, which have— been expotted, '
diflingnishin; what have been sent to his Majesty": Coloniet, and what to
'other Places, for ten Years pnwding j'anuasy 1772.
lt,ie reported that the Sun: Gdnnl have resolved on an Augmenta
tion of u,ooo Soldien. ,
By the Mulier of a Vefl'd, jnfl orrind from Cediz, wc learn that the
Spaniorde, when be left that Piece, were proceeding withsithe utmost
Diligence in their mcitime Preparniom, and that it wa pudhckly said
there that the Spun'mk, by the first ofnext Month, would have : power
ful Fleetin the Hodite'rranan. , ss ' '
_Great Britain, fay: eConespondent, never waiin : more formidable
Situation thanet present. A Fleetof go Shipl of the Line will be mdy
to sail in a Week; and is the Petuhhee of France, er-the Haupdrtinefs of
Spain, required ib zo more could In it for hente: by the Beginoing of
true. . - . -
Yefla'sidey Morning akin broke out at the House of Mr. Langsord,
Tellowehandler fit beaten street, Goodmu't Filth,, 'which consumed
thesame. w'nhthe F-m'itm and Stock in 'rneosi. From several Cireumsi
flames, it appear: o have bent done wilfully, U some Viilains, who, it
!! supposed, robhed the House first and set Fire to itoftetw-sde. .
Yenordva Meehine topteferve Lives in" me of Fire. on a new Con
shȝtaion, vtu exlibiwd. in the Preshoee ,of : great Number of People,
at Mr. Browning's, in the Old lailey, when it fafely' onveyed 26 People,
orient a Time, from the anry, in lesothan fivi Minutee, into the
We be- fhtn Cerline, thered Tomfe'ennight they had : very
heuy lain for twelve Ham, wln'eh see the River: upon the lordes
etgheeen Inehee higher than h the M'emofy of Man. Mong the River
Bfk, : prodigieut Amtity of new sayn land, to : eonfiderable Value,
was swept away; end at Law Pan aside Abutment of the Bridse
wucaniedawey. ' ' . .ee '
Ezrrua' : Ltmr Pi onth, A "i! 27. _ 9
" The Albdon, ssct' ' flz, Homdowl': outof Humane
into the Sound, and wilful], if the Wind will permit, to-morrow; fot
Spitheod. where tIidGn-Nshipt from this Port ere !,0 rendezvous. An
Order wet this Day man! for fitting the Bienf-is-nt for Servke, end it
is reported then: at! five othm ordered to be commiffloned at this-Pon,
viz. Shewfbury, Pdnceof Wder, Defilnce; Hercules, and Beneifle."
Exmtct of : Laai- m Portsmoonth, May 3. '
" Arrived nLSpith-dfffiom Iylnouth, thefollowing Men of War,
viz. Aibion, Torhay, Dublin, Kent, md Boyne, of 74 Gan: esch, :nd
theSotnerset of64 Gum, which mites 16 Slil of the [Line, and 6 Frig-tes.
And lafl Night Coloncl Boyd, Lioutenmt amour of Gibraltnr, cume
dm here; he in going out to hil Gowernment in the Thamet Frign,
'Capbin Loeker, which is expected to sail to-rnonow."
Some say, that the Writ Fleet is des only a : fleet of Observa
tion. it is certain, ever, thn it has _ ! seven lissed upon our
thds, though we bdieve it has not been prejudicial to any Son of Mer-si
chlndisc. ' '
Colonel Bme, we hear, intendshringinz in : Bill for augmenting the
Pny of the Army in-genenl, which at [made in so very inadequate, con
sidering the high Priee of Proviflelu.
GLASGOW, Ma 6. On Wednesday se'nnight, as : Gentleman
in Town was going ome, he wu_knocked down, rubbed of his Gold
Watch, and heat and cut in I very cruel Manner, by some daring Villains;
who it is' hoped will be discovered, and brought to cendign Punish
ment. ,
The Monklmd Canal it now navigable about five Miles, and Bones to
: considernhle Burthen, loaded with Coals, Minute, &c. passing upon
it daily.
Yeflerday was held here : General Meeting of the Merchaitt Banking
Company when the Affzin of that Concem gave entire Satisfaction to
the whole,."roprietors. The Compnny u'nanimoufiy returned Thanks to
the Directms for their prudent and study Conduct, and adjourned their
general Meetinz to the sirsi Wednefday of Noveinber next.
We hear from Ayr, that on the 3d lffiant the Proprietors of the
Banking Society of Mess. Doughs, Heron, (and Conpany, met thetectjn
Terms of their Contract, where were present his Grace the Duke of
Buccleugh,sslhe Ear] of Dumfiies, Sir Adlm Ferguson, and about eighty
other Gentlemen, al] Partners; they were unanimouiin continuing to
carry on—thcir Business, and doing every Thing in their Power for the
Ects: and Support of the Country.
His Majefly'a Ship Cerberus, Capbin Dalrymple, lying in Leith Rozd,
is taking on Bozrd Volunteen for the Fleet, and giving them Bounty.
Lzst Week two M A t: A non us in Edinburgh, having some difference
with Regard to the drefling of their Hair, notwithstanding the Avession
which that Species of Animz]: have to Bloodished, agreed to decide their
Bone] by the slshiqnnhle Method of Duelling; One of them having
flred his Piflol, which did no Execution, the Seconds interposed while his
Anugonin siwu preparing to fire, nnd made up the Difference.
The Peggy, Thomfon, from Ciyde sor Frmce, with Tobacco. is led,
end lll the Crew perished.
PARLIAMENTARY P ROCEEDIINGS,
Aprsizl 27. ss '
EST ER DA Y Afternoon Mr. Wilku, in Person, went into
the Rooms belonging to the Citrk of the House of Common: ad.
]oining to the House, and demanded to be sworn besorea Commifliew_
He likewise sent to a Commissmner, by another Member, to d'mlnd
the Commissmner to admzmster the Oeths to him :: one of the Member;
for Middlesex. The Commiflioncr reiused to swink him in'. Me. Wilke.
then desired a Member to state the sad to the House, and sent the (oi
lowing Paper to Mr. Glynn:
" Mr. Wilkes complains' against Mr. Frewen, Deputy Clerk of th.
Crown, for resufing him the proper Certiticate as one of the Knight; of
the Shire for the County of Middlesex, and againfl Mr. Stracey, one of
the Clerkt of the Office where the Membeis ate usually sworn, who in—
formed Mr. Wilkes, that, in Couise ot' Office, no Member can befwom
who is elected since the general Election from the Clerk of the Crown.
Rcom bclnngiug lo the Clerk es lb! House
of Common, Monday flflnnosin, 3 JOHN WlLKES,
o'Cz'r/ck, Apri126, !773.
Serjeant Giynn immediately made a Motion, " that Mr. Wilkes then
attending should be called in tor Examination, and that it the Complaint
appeared well grounded the Clerk of the Crown shohld be proceedgd
against." This Qeflion being seconded by Mr. Sawbridge, a short De
bute arose, and the House divided. The Number: on the Division were
as follows: Against the (Lueflion 224, for it 117. .
Whilsi the Members who divided in Favour of Serjeant Glynn'u Mss
tion were in the Lobby, encouraged by the Fulness of the House, and
the Numbess who rather unexpetsstedly joined tiLem, they, after a shnn
Consuitation, determined'to take Advantage of the-favourable Circum.
siance. Accortfingly Sir George Saville was applied to, The readu
agreed that then was the proper Time to rtnew' his Motion relative lo
the Right: of Election. Sir George then gave Notice in the Lobby, that
after the Division upon Seijeant Glynn's Motion was finished be thou]
make another,. for " Leave to bring in I Bfllwlseertab, amend, lnd
regulate the Rights of Electionlf .
As soon as the Serjeant's Motion was determmed as above, Sir G
Saville made his Motion, and spoke to it with that energetick Ptopriab
Sterling Sense, and manly Feeling, for which Sir George is so eminent],
conspicuous, when any Osiuesiion which tonccml the Welsm of N.
Country is under Consideration. .
Sir George had no soooer sat down than Mr. Dowdeswell arofe to se.
cond the Motion, and gave such cagent Reasom in Fame: of it that little
seemed left sor even his Party to advance. ' -
sin
Mr. Edmund Burlte, however, who treatuhe most heeknied Subject;
- in a novel Manner. urged the Neeeffl'ty of Sir Georgeh Motion. He ap
plied the Case of Mr. Wilkes at an Eveht in the Womb of Futurity, which
might poffibly happen to evei-y Member of the House of Common"
he stated the inconvenxendee which had aristn, and these which would
hereafter arise, unless the 'violated Right: of Blefflon yore restored to'
their prifline State of Purity. Mr. Rome arraigned, in the most pois
nant Terms, the Conduct of the Mimltry, and soretold, that, whatever
might be the Event of the Division on the Motion then befon the House,
there would come a Time when that! now in Office would be reduced to
their Penitentialt, for having turned a dear Earssto'theVoiee of the People; -_
they .would, he said, yet have Reason to exectat'e themselve. for har- '
ing ever dared to iniringe upon the Libertiee-and, sport with the Lawa,
the Franchises and Constitnu'on of their Country. , _ ' -
Mr. Freeman, and seven] other Members, spoke in Favour of Sig
George Saville's Motion. Sir ]oseph Mawbey warmlyctdishgdished him- '
self, as a Friend to the Right of Eleflion/
The (sinestion being called for, the House divided, when Maypmed
against Sir George smite: Motion 20], for it is:. -
Mr. Wedderbume, the present Solieitor General, waa- second
Member who left the House in'Order to divide with the M' ctty. ' '
A Bill is ordered to be brought in, " to explain and amend the AQ ctsisi
_ the 4.th of George m. relative to the PaperCnneney in Ametieam' .
A Gentleman has proposed to raise' aoo,obo ]. per Annum, by a final
Tax, which every honest Man in the Kingdom will vote for, when it la
known to the Publick. , ,
The Bill to prevent the murdering or desh-oying of BM Children,
having passed the bower Assembly, was read the lufl Time it the Upper.
The Bill to reduce the Rate of interest, without Prejndiee w'Padia.
ment Secmitiea, was presented to the Lower Aikmbly, when'a Mon'on
was made, and the Aeflion put, that the said Bill he read . first Time. ss
It passed in the negative, 70 against 30, and ordered to he read again in si
fousir Months.
'si'An Account is ordered to be laid before the Lower" Aflmhly of the
Name: and Place; of Abode of all Persons keeping publid Honia i
England. . -
()n Monday, upon the House resolvingitsdf into a Committu of th
whole House, to take into Cnnfideration the State of the tun ]ndh
Company's Assain, Lord North tose, and observed, that thwnghdntthe—ss
whole Enmioation which the House had made as the Ball India 8
nohody could he more attentive to it than himsdf : That it was evident
the Pubfick would suffer (tom the very faulty Way in which the Com
pany had concluded their Affajn, even to the Los: ctffioool. 'a Year;
and now, instead of that Receipt, beobliged, in Poliey, to lead th
Company nearfour Timea that Sumr _That indeed, in future, there wn} .
a Prospect m' a large Adnntage on the Side of the Pobliek; and so thersse'ct'
ought to be, on every Considerationz That he had now, in Pursh ss ,
of these favourable ldeas of the Company, a hoposal to make, si
would be wholly to their Advantage; it was to allow the Compadj to'f
export such Part of the Tea at present in their Warehoufl't ll they Mild
think , Dnty free. This would be greatly t the Me : the.
Compaprrrtyfcta: 'they had at present above 17 Mi ton ["God-nisi;
This, converting a Part of it into Money, would great! ease them, M
be attended with those good Consequences which are'nosizv soneceflhry to
re-esiablish their Aflairs; that this Measure would be lessening the Rem
of the Custome, yet he had propofeth merely with a View Io giveth.
Company all possible Aflifianee. , . ' , o
-On the Mo'rxon to prevent S T 0 (! K—J 0 3 I ! N 0. ss'
N the House of Common: yeflerday, Mr- Prescot,' who had in
- given Noti'ce that he designed bringing in a Bill to prevem thectseeolll
louoPractice of Stoek-jobbjng, did so accordingly; He observed, thlc
every Body was clear in the Propriety of preventing, or at lean cheelclog.
this Species of Gambl'mg; but that as there might be Memhen who dis—
fered as to the Mode ol doing it, he' thought it right to explain the Prd
eiples upon which the Bill was framed:
By Stock-johhing,' he said, he understood the telling of Shock
Time, which was not the Pe'rson's actual Property, a 'PraGice which
been for ever sound of the most pernicious Confequenee. Hj remarked.
that the Fall of the htocks lasi Week, of save or six per Cent. was toull]
owing to this Species of Gambling; for had it not been for that Practice
they would not have fallen one per Cent. the real Transactiom having
been very few. \ , ' '
He farther added (turning ,to Lord North) that there was another Cir
cumstance which he wished uisszsiht he aMed by the King's Servants, which
was a I'revention os soreign Ambassadours from dealing in the same ini
quitous Way in our Stock. Here, said he. is a soreiqn Minifler, who.
from his Station, knows fooner than any Manjn the Kingdom those As
sairs which are likely to affect the Face ct' Stoclt; and, from his pofl'effing
this Knowledge, he is able, as we have very often found, to do grell
Mischies in Gambling, and from this Advantagt to carry off perhap}
siloo,oool. which has been done more than once, to the entire Los: of th!
Country, by which Means perhaps some Milhons have gone to Foreigneslv,
He then informed the House, that the Bill lppointed a Court of
Record for the registering every Sale an Possession of Stock, from which
Circumstance it would be found easy , and in which the Bill had provided
that no 'sramsers should be made but of that Property which we: sell,
and had been a certain Time in Possefflon. The Bill was read the firm
Time, and ordered to be printed.
A D R E A DLsi
c on F E 53 to you, Mr. Editor, arm ] always dream whsl ! sfl
drunk, and that ] got very dtunk lasl'Night in the old Cause. Ah!
ma they all stand out like me, we could do what we pleased in the! rasczur
House of Commom. Hearing, Sir, that ou'r immortal and everlashn!
Patriot was to go to the House on Monday next, I was exceedingly oves
joyed, and thought ] could not do less than go and drink Porter for th'
Good of the Nation. ,
'l'he Scoundrel Doorkeeper, however, had the unconseionable ImPu'
dence to [top him. Sirrah (says he to our Patriot) who are yr-u? Knofl
Sirrah, that ] ama Patriot, greater than Russel, Hampden, Marvellss Of
Sidney; and that ] have bled for my Country at every Fore, ny lad ""
ready to bleed again if they would pay me for it. In short, Sir, to ("m
up all in a Word, and to petrisy you with Fell", Tesrour, and Aflonl '
ment at once, know, Varlet, my Name it ]ohn Wilkes! Hear that,
tremble. And ] am come to this insamout House because ] want to !"
into it. I love injurious l'laces, and ! always loved infamous Placeil