The Derby Mercury from Derby, Derbyshire, England • 1

JJtrMBER I 0 Sxl ERBT ME Frow FRIDA September tz, lg FRIDA September 1752. Price Small AnvERTtSEMENTs forthis Paper taketi in ar 21. 6d. eadr, and Wcekly 2 j. To tre paicl before ATU T' POST.

Frcm tht Whitehall and Gen esai Evening Stytember 14, M. Ji, Altho' we have more than once, for thc Information of our Readers, publifh'd sme Accounts ff the Alteration of tht Style, which took Place this Day, agreeable to a late Act of. Parlament, in all bis Majefty's Dominions in Eurcpe, Africa and America we hope the following further Account thereof, containing many mors ufeful Particulars, in explaining the seid Act, which have not before beeil made publick, will therefore be agreeable to our Readers. The Payment of Bills, or Notesof Hand, drawri or dated before this Day, will becaine due eleven Days later thun if this Act had Hot passed Bill drawn, or on the pf Seps terhber at one Month after Date, would had not iW Act passed beconie due and payable with the ihre? Days Giace allowed in London on the 4t.l1 Day of October to which add eleven Days in lieu of thg eleven Days omitted in September) and the said Bist will be payable 0 the i zth Day of October. A Bill drawn or Note given, the first of Sepiernder-z payable fix Weeb after Date, would have hecorns due on the i6th of October; to which add eleven Days, and it would be payable oii the 27dl of ths CM Month.

Bill or Nute dated the ift of June last, at tbrepl Moiiths after Da're, would have been due on she 41hl of September, add to that eleven Days, and it wifj be lue To-murrow the" 151h Day of September, New Style, which is the naiusal. Day as it would have tx-en due had not this Act pafted. So that by the above three Iiistances, it will be seen that no Pay ineiits are accelerated, and nothing more is requirtcf but to fopp te that there are this Year 30 Days in S.ptcnilw as in other Years, and calculating your Bills, Notes, Uc. as you would have done It this Ad) had not jpasstrd, and addinjj eleven Days thereto, every will readily find wheri bis Bills, bc corne due. VVitli regard to paying Servants Wages hired at the four Quarter-Days, if it is rnore agreeable to keep ta those Itated Times, eleven Days Wages may bede-ducted at Michaelmas Day out of the prefent (uar ter, and the ReckWmg will the future go regu larly on or elfe pay thern on the 1 1 th Day after the which will be fuund rnarked in thj new Alrnanacks.

Supputation of the Year began on the first Day of Ja nuary last, and for the future the first Day of that Month will befried the first Day of every Ycar in all Accounts what-soever, which Supputation or Reckoji-ing never took Place before this Ycar in or for hiriog Servants fixed 6 certain. nominal. Days the Month, or depending upon, the. Beginnin, or any certain Day of any Month, and all Courts incident or belonging to, or utually held on, or kept, with any Fairs or Marts, fixed to any certain Times as fore-mentioned, are to be holden and kept upon the same natural Days, as the same would have been kept, if this Act had not pafled, which will be Eleven Days later as for Instance, Sttirbitch Fair uscd to be on the 8th Day of September, add thereto Eleven Days, and you will find the same will this and all future Years be held on the 19m of September. Lands and Grounds which by Customs, Prescrip-tions, or Usages, are to be opened on pa'rticular nominal Days and Times of the Year for Common uf Pasture or other Purpoles, and which the thereof have a Right at other Times to enclofe or thut up the farne for their private Use, are to be opened and fhut up again Eleven Days later than the prefent nominal Days in the new Calendar.

The Payment of any Rents, Annuities, or 5 um of Money in Consequence of any Cuftom, Usagc, Lease, Deed, Wriung, Bond, Note, or Contract, or any other Agreement made, stgued or entered before this im Day of September, the Deliyeryoi any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, the, 'Firne ol Commencement, Expiratiotf, or Determination of any Leascs of Lands, Tenements, or Hercdnaments, or of any Contract or Agreement, or of acapttng or surrendering up the Posleffion of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, the cornmcncmg or deter-mining any Annuity or Rent of any Grant, for any Term of Years, in Consequence of any Deed tr Contract, or the Time of attaining the Ageof twenty-one Years, or any other Age requisite by Deed Wills, or Writings for doing any Act, or for any other Purpose, by any Person born before this Day, the Expiration of Apprenticefhips or other Service by Indenture, or simple Contract, fhall not be accelerated kereby, but all the above Particulars be-come due, payable, determined, on the hme natural Days they would have happened if that Act had not been made, which will be Eleven Days later than the nominal Days in the new Calendar. Since the pafling the above Act, there has been an Act pafled to abbreviate Michaelmas Term, and the same for the future will begin on the i6th Day of November. By an Act passed the last Sessions of Parliarnent, Provision is made for all corporate Acts, which are to be done on some fixed Day, between the second and fourteenth nominal Dayof September, and which nominal Days, by the Act passed in the preclig Sessions, are ordered this Year to be orpitted, and the said Acts are to be done for this Year, on the Urne natural Days as they would have been if the said. Act had not passed, That is, any Act enjoined, tu have been done on the third, fourth, or fifth of itpreniber, will this Year now be done on the fuui teern fifteenth, or sixteenth of this Month, aecording to the New Style. The Times for opening, using, inchfmg, and flut-ting up Lands and Grounds by Cuftom, Prefcriptiuri, or Usage, and for paying such Rents, or other Pay-ments, depending on any moveable Feast, are to be computed aecording to the new Calendar.

The Title tosuch Land is not altered by the said Act. The Lord-Mayor of London is to be admi'tted and fworn into bis Office at Guildhall, for the future, on the 8th Day of November, and presented to the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminstef-Hall, on the 9th Day of November. By the above, it is plainly to be scen, that all Rents upon Leafes of Houses, Annuities, signed before this Day, and payable at the four sta.cd Festivals of Christmas, Lady-Day, Midsummer, and Michaelmas, will, aecording to this Act, be payable Eleven Days after thosc Feasts; and the said Days of Payment will be mark'd in the new Alrnanacks thus, against January 5, Qld April 5, Lady-Day, July 5, Old MidsummtrDay Uctober jo, Oid Micbaclmas-Day. When any Lease expires, the Landlord ntay allow his Tenant for eleven Days, and sign a new Lease commencing at one of the usual four Feast. any Courts of Law until the 251h Day of March, This Day, had not this Act paikd, would have been the zd of September, but is now reckoncd the 14.1h, eleven nominal Days being omitted.

All Writings, dated on or siuee the first of Janu- ary last, bear Date accurding to the new Method of Supputation. Hilary and Michaelmas Terms in England, and the Courts of Great Sessions in the Counties Palatine, and in Wales and all other Courts of General Seslions or Quarter Seslions and Meetings, and Assemblies of poliue or corporate, Bodiesfor Electionbfany or Members tfiereof, or for Persons entering upon Execution of their respective Offices, which are by any Law, Statute, Charter, Cuttom or Usage, to be kept on any certain Day of any certain Month, or any other Day depending upon the Be-ginningor any certain Day of any Month, (except such Courts as are held with any Marts.or Fairs) sliall be held and kept on the respective nominal Daysand Times as they were kept befoie this Act pafled. As for Instance, Hilary Term began before this Act passed, 011 the of Jartuary, and it will constailtly begin on the Hirne nominal Day of the Month. Every tourth Year will be bissextile or Leap-Year, untilhhe Year 1800, which will be a common Ycar of 365 Days; and the Years frum 1796, to the Year 1804, will be common Years of 365 Days each, but the Year 1804 will be a Leap-Year. Easter, and the moveable Feasts thereon depending, such as Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quadragesima, and Rogation Sunday, Ascension Day, Whitfunday and Trinity Sunday, are to be reckoned aecording tonew Tables prefixed to the Act of Parlament; and the new Editions of the Comrnon-Prayer of the Churchof England, and the Alrnanacks for the next and future Years are to be c.Iculated agreeable thereto.

All the fixed Feast Days, Holydays and Fast Days, and Daysof Thanksgiviiig and Days of Fasting, ap-pointed by any former Act of Parliarnent, are to be kept in all the King's Dominions where the Liturgy of.the Churchof England is ufed, on the respective Days rnarked in the said. new Calendar, which are on the same nominal Days on which they were kept before this Act pafled. Easter and Trinity Terrns, and all Courts, Meet ings, and Assemblies. of Bodies Politic or Corporate, appointed to be held or kept at any Time depending upon the Time of Eastf or any other moveable Feast, are to be holden and kept aecording to the hap-pening of Easter, or such other moveable Feast, aecording to the new Calendar. The Meetings of the Court of Session, and Terms fixed for the Court of Exchequer in Scothnd, the April Meeting of the Company of Confervators df the Great Level of the Ftns, and the holding of all Ma-ktts, Fairs, and Marts, for Sale of Goods and Cattle, Cracour; 21.

Aecording to the last Letteri srorn Constantinople, they take the late Revolution thereto be only a Prelude toa rnore terrihle one; which seerns to threaten (he. Grand Signior himselfi Depolitions, Banistiments, and the most tragjc Exe cutiuns, have not appeased the, Janiilaries. 'Tis aet the Disgrace of the they demand 'tis the they, fain fix to their own Lilcing. His Sublime Highnefs's turned to Peace, and they have him pluck Up a martial Spirtt In sine, the outrageous and irppe-rious Clamour of that insolent Soldiery amounts ttf nothing lels than this, either a War or a new Sultam In a Situation critical the Grand Signior knows noC what to refolve upon He is it Peace with the Eu ropeau Powers, and 'tis against thero, as thesc Lettersi pretend, that the Janissaiies demand to be Jed. If his Highness, following the Dictates of his peaceabl t-tjuitable I'cmper, refuses to comply with their un-jtit and impeiuous Desires, he thfc Rifue of billig tumbled out of the Throne, which i warlike and enterprizing Pri'nce, may then fttp Fhe Treasures found in the HouTe of the llar Aga, of which he himfelf feut the Keys to the Granci Signier, are immense and almost incredilile.

They eompute thern at 80,000 Piirsei of 500 Crowns eacl that is, forty Millions of Crowns a Fun3 sufficient aas the Janrsi'aries pretend tocarry on the most vigroiyj War. it is hardly poflible to conecive how a Subject, an Ottoman Slave, could eprfie to be Maske of so vast a Treafure i But if one considers that the Kislar Agi by the Aicendant he had gained over the Grand Signior, was in a Manner fole Master of the Empire and iis Riches, and that he loadedthe People with extra-ordinary irnjosts, for which he aecounted with no we eafily epneeive the Means Whereb'y he grevf so prodigiousty rieh. Paris Sept. 8. They rite from Montpellier, that upon the Dauphins Recovery, IM.

de' Palmy gave a grand Entertainment to tste Soldierz of the Garrifon, scc. in Number above 1000 aftef Lupper they cried oxl Iht'Hhe and dranft to the Health of his Majcsty, and of Mrde alrnyj and at the same Time threw the Lottle GIMs, M' Dislies over their Headi.