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pleafc. BeRdes, tho' we vahtjy. biait oiirfekesasJGovttnon? Supreme, is it not but a iSouit. We trie nominal Pov.sr.'Vhey the adlual: And could we divelt we not JC- cept now and then an ill-natured. Injrance to.

the do we not willingly refign'the Jleins to thefe amiable Rulers? Let thefe Confederations, Gentlemen, befufiicier.tto induce you to lay afide your vilionary Schcnjc, and ftiffcr Ladies to wear their Hats, not only as a Convenience to them, but as a Sort of Emblem, or Token of the Superiority they lb manifestly maintain over lis-. And in this vve need not tear the Sneers of malevolent Critics we have the Example of all Ages and Nations to defend us. As a Proof, I could here cite many Inftances from the' bell Authorities: Buc the Ltngth of my Letter reminds me to conclude and as I would not be thought to en- grofs more Ropm than becomes ib unworthy a I fhall feferve what I hnve elfe to fay on this Point 'till another Opportunity; 'till when, I remain, GENTLEMEN, Your moil obedient humble Servant, -Bex, 30. C. V.

THIATRICUS. The RellecYions of Rujticus on a Public Ojf.ce 'cannot be infertc-d for obvious Reafons. We'-cannot comprehend, the intention of Card, though he fays our inferring it would ch good to Thoufands. The Drift of PMlo-Dramaticus's Letter too plainly appears to be to introduce a Commendation of a Performer, which is rather too g'aring. Tbctette 3 JigxeJ An Admirer of ami a Lover of 'ire re- etj ved be duly attended to.

the LONDON GAZETTE. Petersbou-g, ESTERDAY beirg the EmprdsYName- the. fame was'obferved here the uftial Ceremonies. In the Evening there was a Rail and Supper at the'Palace. Lalf Week Often, late Miniftcr from Denmark, out frotn henccfor Copenhagen Before fits Departure, the Eoi pre fs conferred on him the Order of St.

Alexander. St. Jameses, Jan. j.766. It having been humbly represented to the King, that on Thurfday the roth of Day of December early in the Morning, an Incen- diiryLctterWas laid at the Gatejaf the of Mrs.

Mary at Caftle Comb in the County of Wilts, directed as hereunder, and containing the Words aid Letters, viz. fror MlfsScrop in Caftle Comb." Madam Scropif you Sufer the Bels to be ts Soirld by god by god by god you Shall Suffer greatley by feycr by god and be Ruend, So Slop it and be Scavead, for by Damneailon you hi Ruehd by feyer by god and So for vengeans of feyer Shall be your" Ruend by God and Damneaiion and So, no more at prefent (jronv Youre unnown Fyinds." His Majefty, for the better difcovering and bringing tojuftice the Persons concerned in Writing Incendiary Letter, and in at the Gate of the Dwelling-houfe of the faia Mrs. Mary Scrope, at Caftle Comb aforer faid, Is hereby pleafed to piforaife his moft gra- eioits Pardon to any one cf them (except the Perfon who actually wrote the faid Letter) who fhall difcover his or her Accomplice or Accomplices, fo that they may be apprehended and thereof. And," as a further Encouragement, the faid Scrope does hereby a Reward of Twenty Guineas. BANKRUPTS.

William Sandwich, of Barnard Caftle in Durham, Merchant, to furrender ij, a 8 Jam and 15 Feb. at the Houfe of Francis Hutchinion, Innholder, in Barnard Caftle. Cecilia Bertrand, of Briflol, Milliner, to fur. renderr 18, Jan. and 15 Feb.

at Guildhall. John Gill, of Thrift-ftreet, Soho, Holier, to Turrender 7, 35 Jan. and 15 Feb. at William Redmond, jun. of St, Geojge, over-fq 11 are, Chymiil, to furrender 8, si Jan.

and 15 Feb. at Guildhall. DIVIDENDS to be made. Jan. 19.

Jofeph Hinchcliffe, of Sheffield in Yorkshire, Innkeeper, at Guildhall. Feb. 15. William Wallis, of Gracechurch- 'ftreet, London, Stationer, at Guildhall. CERTIFICATES to be granted.

Jan. 45. WiHhm Evans, of St. JamesClerken- wcll, Victualler. Jan.

ij. John Newton, of Thongs Bridge in Yorxfliire. N. Yefterday the Rev. Dr.

Parker preached before their Majelties at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sword of State Was carried to and from Chapel by Lord Buley. Yefterday there was a very grand Court at St. James's.

There were prefent. their Royal Ilighncfies the Dukes of York amd-Gioiiccller, Prince Henry Frederic, the Prince and Princefs of Brunfwick, and all the foreign Saturday lafl: his Serene Highnefs the Prince of Brunfwick, accompanied by his Mailer of the Horfe Baron Besre, arrived St. James's frooiBarh. This being Twelfth-Day, the fame will be "obferved at Court as an- high Feftival their Ma- iejties will receive the Sacrament, and prefent Fmnkincenfe, and Myrrh, at the AIMT, Imitation of the Eaftern Magi, and afterwards receive the Compliments of the Nobility. Foreign Miniiters, and Gentry, cn the Occasion.

EREMONIA for the pri v.tc Lijerm ct his hte Highiieb Prince Frederic Wil- -tv'-icb bigaa absut Nine lafi ic- tuidaj Knight Marftnls Gentlemen, Servants to his Royal Ilighnels. of Prcience. of the BackaViirs. Pages of Honour. Phv Chlaplains." 'Equtrrfes.

'Secietaiyv Purfuivants or Arms. Heralds of Arms. Comptrollerof his Royal Treafurer of his Royal-Highnefsjs-Hoafehold. An Herald. Lord Chamberlain of his Houfehold.

An Officer of- Arms. Sub Governor to his R.H. Governor to his R.H. The 6 B-irne by a King of Arfns. A Gent.

Uilwr. A Gent. UfLer. l.he BOD Y. Covered with-a black Velvet Pall, adorned with eight "Escutcheons, under a Canopy of black vet, borae by eight Gentlemen of the-Houfehold.

The PalJ-fupportcd by four Barons." Gent. Udi. Girt. of Arms. Gent.Ulh.

The Chief Mourner, a Duke. His Train borne by a Baronet. Supporter, a Duke. Shpporter, a Duke. Ten Earls, Aflillants to the Chief Mourner: A Gentleman Uflier.

Yeomen of the Guards The Procelfion was from the Prince's Chamber, through the Old Palace Yard, -to the Eaft D-ior of WeItminiter Abbey. At the Entrance within the Church, the Dean and es attended by the Choir, received the id' into the Procefiion jull before ficer of Arms, who preceded the Lord Ll a n-' heiliiin and fo proceeded into King Hemy the Sevenths Chapel where the Body was deported on Trellds, the Head the Altar the Coronet and Culhian being laid upon the Coffin, and the Canopy held over it, while Service was read by the Dean of Wcttminller; the Cnief Mourner and his two Supporters letting on Chairs placed for them at the" Head of the Corpfeg the Lords Alfiltants, and the Supporters of the Pall, on Stools on either Side, the Supporters of the Pall neareft the JBody. The Part of the Service before the Interment being read, the Corpfe was depofited in the Vault, the Dean having the on his Right Hand, and Garter on his Left, Handing at the lower End of the of the Vault. The Corpfe being interred, the Dean went on with the Offke of Burial whichended, Garter King of Arms proclaimed his- Royal Higlmefs's Title, which ended the Ceremony. We hear tliat feveral patriotic Gentlemen have laidy given Orders for Mourning Rings, to be worn in Remembrance of His late Royal Highneft the Duke ofrCumberland.

Saturday Morninz a Council was held at the Cockpit, Whitehall ngon Affairs of Importance. An extraordinary Board of Admiralty, are informed, be lield this Week, in fequence of fome recent Advices received fiom a neighbouring Kingdom. Advices from Berlin, of the 24th of December, fay that his Pruflian Majelty, and all the Princes of the Elo.d, in good Health on the aift palt. Letters from Parts advife, that his Highnef the Dauphin requefted the K'ngi during his Illnefs, to raife Mr. de la Breuil, his Phyfician, to the Degree of Gentleman, with aPenlicn ef Ten Thoufand Livres; and to bellow on the Abbe, his Brother, the firll Benefice of Confe- quenee chat frurl become vacant.

The fame that the Dauphinefs, in her Afleclion for the Memory of her Spoule, has intreated the King to make the Dauphin's Tomb, which is to be at Sens, large enough for her to be depofited there, when Ihe dies, along with her Husband. The Court of France Went intoJMcurnirg on lajl. for the Dauphin ot France, for fix Months. We hear from Genoai that the Differences which formerly fubfifted" between the Senate and' the Court of Rome, about the Nomination to Bishopries in the State of Genoa, are again revived. Letters from Hamburgh of the pail mention, that the Pruflian Poll Waggon was lately robbed; in the Neighbourhood of Beltenburg, of a Quantity of Money in Silver.

The Robber was foon after taken, and committed to Gaol. He appears to be a very genteel young Man, of a veiy good Family. The lipidemical Sicknefs, which lately n-ged with fuch Violence at Per.ficola, was entirely ceafed when the 1 aft Letters were ret eived from thence, and Trade was beginning to be tolerably Lriik. They write from the Grcnadoes, that Alexander Middleton, Efq; Poft. Maftcr General, has eftiblifhed a bye Packet-boat between Poit Louis and St.

AuguiUne in Ealt Florida. An Account of the Quantities of Tar, pirch, and Turpentine, made in Eaft Florida lirice the Aceflion of that Province to Great Britain, has been received by the laft Packet, in to be cbrnmunicated to the Board of Trad'e. They write from the Sound of the 17th and sril ult. that the Panther, John Anther of Liverpool, from Riga, and the Thomas, John Jackfbn of Londm, from were the cnly two Englifh Ships arrived there from the ijth to the aift ult. and which remained there that Day, Wind bound.

It is added, that they had very fine Weather there with Frolh A French Ship, CaptainRoufTdin, was lately HI coming out of Port Lewis' the lfland of Hip-iniola, bound to Havre-de-grace, having on bo-tid upwards of looooolb. Indigo, and othti v.iiuable A Kueh Ship, dc Graff, from Rotterdam, b-'iind to the Weihvard, is bit Tiear the Port of Oilend. The jpewcll, Thomas, from the Bay of Honduras Leghorn, put into Georgia about the October, to repair foaie Damages in a of Wind. His Ship Pearl is arrived at Cadiz fro in the A per Cent. Confolidated, dam for Bourdcauxi is loft about fixdrfeven Leagues from-Bayonne.

Friday Night the Right Hon. the Conn els of gave a grand Entertainment tofeveral of the Nobility at Northumberland -Houfe. We are informed a Scheme is pnfbot.fowm- proving the Trade arid Settlements- of his Mav jetty on the Bahama They write from Edinburgh, that a.large Number of Iron Cannon are now caiting at new Cannon Water-Manufailory near that City, to be Ihipped on a. Contract with the Government. great Number of.

Commiflion and WaN rant Officers laft entered." into ciation to 'fife." a in order to receive of their Agents certain Sums of Prize-J Money due for the: Capture of Pondicherryin the Eaft Indies. We are. in-formed that, the- Introduction the Britjfti Weed Bufi- mfs, will alone upwards cf Thirty Thoiufand Pounds SterHnjgj per Annum. The two Lotteries for tke prefent Year it is faid, will confilt of'Five-Pound and the Blanks funk, in.order to make more Prizes. An A(it for the Relief of the'Crown Debtors is expefted to conle on this prefent Selfion, whienhasnot happened fince the Death of her late Majerty Queen An ie.

It is laid that an Order ofCcuncil will be if- fucd in a Days for the tree Importation of Irifli Tallow for a limited Time is lioped, will reduee the prefent high Price of Candles. We hear that the Clergy and Gentry of veral'Provinces in this Kingdom, are forming Societies to check the Growth of Popery; and to prevent, especially, the Pcrverfion of the lower Proteltams, to that intolerant Superftition. They write from- Gloucefter, that at this Time the Pin Trade, which is the chief Manufacture of chat City, is in.fo declining 3 Condition as not to half Employment for- its Labourers. A frefh Coinage- of' Quarter Guineas will foon be made at his Mine, thofe Pieces having been found of fuch general Ufs in Trade. Yefterday Morning the beautiful newChapel at the Bottom of Windmill llreet, Tottenham- Court-Road, fuppofed to be the moft elegant in was opened for the nrlt Time.

A new Comedy, callea T)-e Double Miftake, will be performed on Thurfday next at the Theatre Royal in Covcnt Garden. We hear that a few Days fince aterrible Fray happened at Perfiio're, between of the Scots Greys quartered there, and fome of' the To vn's People, in which one of the latter was On Friday Night the Lady of the Hon. Mr. Juftice Bathlirft was- fifely delivered of'a Daughter at hisHoufe in Yefterday was married at St. Bennet's, Grace- church-llreet, Mr William Wanftail, Linnen- Draper, of Fifh-ftreeJ-hill, to Mifs Sarah Down, of Gracechurch-ttreet OnThu.fday died at Ifaac Leg- lize.

fenior, Italian "Merchant in Tower-ftreet: He has left a great Fortune to-an only Son and Daughters. Ifaac trnfield, who laft Seflron was- call for Tranfportation, died in Newgate on Friday. Friuay di-d at the Herald's Office, aged 86 He was Mailer of that College upwards-of thirty Years. Yelterday at Noon the Corpfe of Mrs. derbill, a Widow Gentlewoman of Fortune, was carried from her Houfe in Pall-mall, and interred at Batterfea.

A few ays fince feven or eight Boys Hole a Buttock of Beef and fome Tarts from a noted Tavern at Greenwich; the Conductor of the Gang was a Barber's Apprentice, a Lad about thirteen Yeirs of Age, who is both deaf and dumb, who notwithllanding managed the Affair with inimitable. Dexterity. The Neighbourhood of Battle Bridge has, within thefe- few Nights pall been much fertcd with a Foot-pads and lalt Thurfday Evening they knocked down aMilk- man, from whom 5 they took a Quantity of Halfpe tied up in a Handkerchief, and two fraall'Pieces of On Fridjy Night a Fallow, who pradifes the Slight of Hind Arr, wa-- tsken up at a Public- Houfe in Weftminfter, having defrauded Gentleman's Servant of a Silver Watch, by at the Belt, and was on Saturday Morning committed by a Magiftrate to the Gate'noufe. Yefterday Afternoon feven Men, who were Ikairing upon the Canal in St. "fell in and it 1vas with great Difficulty they weie laved from being On Friday Night an Affair happc ned at a Public Houfe in the New Road leading to Mr.Templemati, Dyer in Southvvark, being drinking with an eminent Hat-maker, they quarrelled about paying Sevenpence in the Reckoning, and came to Blows, when the former, a Fall, fractured his Skull, and, being convej cd wic, died on Saturday.

The latter hss a d. On Saturday one Pureley, who goes by the Name'of mg Sain, was-tafcew Iws lied at a Lodging-Houle in. White Friars, being charged on the Oath of an "Accomplice wirn divers Fel.onic* and Rdbberiej, ana Lcuied in Bridewell; in May, 1763. he was an Evidence a gain ft John Jenkins, who was executed at Tyburn. Fnday lift was committed to Newgate from the Public Office in Bow-ltrcet, by Sir John Fielding and John Spinnage, Efq; Jane Eyres, charged with Healing divers Goods out of the Dwelling, houfe of Mrs.

Giffbrd, near Fromc in Somcifetfhire George Jennb to New Prifon, cfiarged with Healing AppareJ, the Pro perty of John Downes; and feveral others to different Prifons, chargeid with Felony and Mifdejoeanoursj for further Examination. acing Isis-'MaJe'ffyV Palace the of who has the Honour of nagef, melt pf the Eughnd and the Kingdom of Ireland, begs Leave thcrti, that he has daily coming honle hew Afioft- raents Drefling -bbxts, fti iking Figures, as natural as Life), and all Sons of other India Triofe who obfeng Praties, rftey depend on bping. fupplied with the greateit as they niayV" hijre thl-ee ojie.Pat-. tern, iri proper Diffics; riiake them. no.other Wa.re^"^ houfe dr Shop Van- lur'nifiV theih Kams.

having fuch-a great Demand for the Goods, encouraged him the iaft Year to Jay out near. 12000I: at. Eaft India iSaiesi beffies' hQpgiiG them-'Aiuch cheaper'ilfa'n aiibftl) forready Money oiilyJ Th.e- aekr.wilhbe.. allowed Al'fo'the greateit Choice'or the fincli Eorcfelain, SK of all Bridge at it Nine in tKe Morning j-. "arid at 55, Min.

after in tKe hie at Night. A The Tide jwilh ferv? tin till. in the Foreiiobn jflowx till Six tJa Evening tleri nk JjiiKa ditto, (hut. South Sea dttto.i— 3, psr Gent. Bank Ann.

re 8 9 wi. Oitto Confoi. ihut. per Cent, ditid- (hut. i jerCent- i7 perCt.

4. per Cent. onrni. iiank Ann. 103 per Cent.

Navy (hut. 4psrCt. 17.61. IOQJ ai- ,3 Cent. Old New ftut.

3.per Ct. I7 mot. per Cent. Artm Ajin. UT.) Ifrrlia llonas, PieW i 4 per Cent.

Exch -qoeib- hills, New-Haft y' Bills, CCTC'. if 1 S. 1 the Guildhall, Thurfday tb'e Day a ji: at Ten in ike Morning or Stolen, a bitdc Kcefi of! the P.ynerania'Preedjha3a'yj;bjte Vhite Feet, and awhhe'Eip at the End hecTaU Ihcan'wers to thefNams; svtr will bKng her to -Mia. Stretr, Carnaby ftall receive a Crown.Re\v-ar*" for their Trouble. No oreiriV Be be M'oLli the lhttanr fized Id a Slwgr.ea 1 with Gold, and Part of worJ oft" rheltinry.

with a Ribbon, a Key, two the one Ccmelian, a Head fee, in-1Sold, the other a of JSgr.ad Eagle five and a Horfe-. Vi'hocvsr. will.bring, it to Mr. William Mafon's, 1- the-Blue Ancho in Great Ptte't-ftreet, Weftminftir; fluli receive two Guineas Reward or if offered' pawned or fold, pray ftop it and the Party, and give Notice as above, for it will be the utter of a poac- Woman, in whofe Care it left in. The Name and.

Nqmt er fofgpt. UN D. a Fdimejr 1 Any Perfon proving him to be their may have 01 again, paying I'Or this and Keeping, and Gratuity to the Finder. Enqpire at Sibley's, in the Poultry. ANTED aii Apartment ua- fnrniffied, in a genteel- Family near White-hall, or St.

JamesVfireet. Enquire of Woodfall, th: Cornet of Craig's- i Court, aring Cri fs. ANTED in a private family, a Servantcapa'ble of vti' iking tic Place ofi" a Cook and Houfelteepcr. None apply whofeCha- racler will not bear the Enquiry as to Sobriety, and good Temper. Enquire at iVr.

Smyth's, Linendraper, at the CotJin Lion, King fireet, arnaby Market. ATC Second- hand, irt Gold, Silver, Metal, and Shagreei, cheap, the loweft Price affix i to each, at JPHW" STAMPER 'S, the Sur, at Corner of Hind CouK, and facing WaW-lane, j-alfo all Sorts ot new snd (econd-hand and Jewellers Work, Mourning Rings made neat, ch ap, andexpedrti- 'Jlly. R. WARFORD, Dancing. Mafler, -(remjveu from Hatiort-Garden to tbt lift Hoale upon Snow-htIl, on the Lelt-Hau'd facing the End of teachesi grown l'efons or Cnild cn to dance the Ait- nu and Country Dances cosplefe, fj as to bie of apix-arinj in the moil poJkc Conjpanie- 1 hy Mn- thod mors caly and than any as ye; pi on the moll r.ialonab'e Terms.

Ladies and Gerv- tlemen to dance Country DancM in (ix the whols (-f being made compUat at One- Guineaand a halt each peifi'n, at any ricur from'', ent in the Morning Nin; at thirs beinga in thi Houfe, and a Mufician always ready for that Purpofc. Fuither Particulars may be known by applying to. JOtitl WARFORET. A Paffage up the George Inn, the 51b Dour the Left-Hand trr.mHolbou n. Fencing taught at the above Place-.

fold bjr JAMES PETO, at his Warehoufe, at th: Poft Boy, Shcri-orne-lane, -oppofite to the Back Gate of the General Poft Offk-tv Whereas I have m.iny Years ferved the Nubility, Gentry, hers, in all Pans ot tdis Kingdom, with Oyilers, and have had the great Pler.fure vir.g Sitis action nndsr Name OVSTER1CUJ but as another ufes that Name, whichoccafions great Miftakts andpomplaints, I now beg tiie avour of n.y Cuftomers to direct their Orders to me, by. my real Jaipes Peto, at the Poft-Boy, in-Sue-borne Lane, and'anybyflers fcnt the NJOI: of Oyllerieus, will not come frorn me. Gentlemen and Ladies, fending a Line direQ.d as above, may depend upon beir.g ferved with the belt Green Njt.ve Colhe Oyfters, at 39. 3d. per Barrel ajiid ex-ceding fine Pyfteet Oyfters, at 4s.

j.l. per Bauel, A Bill wilt b- delivered as ufual, ImpoTiti-jns. By their moft obedient humble Servant, JAMES PETO. N.B. Frefti Mondays, Wednefdays, and Fiidays, nea: from the Beds.

I f.11 00 Oyfters packed at Siiiingf- a.

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