CHAPTER X.

_THE EDUCATION COMPLETED._ So far, as has been shown, advertisements have had to struggle against foreign war, internecine disorder, the poverty of the State, and many other drawbacks; but by the commencement of the seventh decade of the eighteenth century, these difficulties have all in turn been surmounted, and the most modern means of obtaining publicity, despite prejudice, and, still worse, taxation, is fixed firmly in the land, and doing much towards the management of its affairs. The country is at peace with the world, so far as Europe is concerned; and even the Canadian campaign is as good as over. Clive has made himself felt and the name of England feared throughout the length and breadth of India, and merchants are beginning to reap the advantages of conquest. George III. has ascended the throne, has been married and crowned, and looks forward to a long and prosperous reign. In fact, everything seems bright and smiling, for never, through many a long year, was the country so free from troubles and anxieties, or with so little to direct her attention from those two great essentials to English existence--profit and pleasure. And so, as marked in the preceding chapter, advertisements of all kinds progressed as the century became older; and when the ordinary style failed, dodges of all kinds were adopted to give a factitious importance to announcements, no matter whether of quacks, of publishers, or of the infinite variety of other trades and professions which just now began to be bitten by the fast-growing mania. Some of the sly puffs were of a most specious order, and attention is called to one of them by the indignation it evoked in the _Monthly Review_ (vol. xxvii. 1762). The object of the puff paragraph had been an insipid panegyric on Lord Halifax, called “The Minister of State,” which sacrificed on the altar of Halifax the characters of all preceding premiers, from Burleigh to Bute, and the attempt to force its sale evoked the wrath of the _Review_, which commences as follows:--“As the practice of puffing is now arrived at the utmost height of assurance, it will not be improper for the Reviewers occasionally to mark some of the grosser instances that may occur of this kind.” Thereupon it notices the “lying paragraph,” to which we have already referred, the words within brackets being the comments of the Reviewer: A noble Peer has absolutely given directions to his Solicitor to commence a Prosecution against the Author of the Poem called, _The Minister of State, a Satire_, as a most licentious and libellous composition.--The writer, no doubt, merits a severer censure of the Law than any of his brethren, because instead of employing those _great talents for poetry and satire for which he is so deservedly celebrated_ [what does he not deserve for his effrontery?] in the service of Virtue and his Country, he has _basely_ [basely enough!] prostituted them to the unworthy purpose of defaming, lampooning and abusing some of the greatest characters in this Kingdom. [All a puff to excite curiosity.] We think this LITERARY LUMINARY, of the age [this illiterate farthing candle!] should pay a greater deference to the words of his predecessor Mr Pope: “Curs’d be the verse, how smooth soe’er it flow,” etc. [We doubt, however, if any of this _honest_ gentleman’s readers will think his verses worth a curse, whatever they may think he deserves for his impudence.] This energetic effort on the part of the _Review_ to prevent undue reputations being made by disguised advertisements, had little effect in checking an evil which flourishes unto this day--which will, in fact, flourish as long as a majority exist ready to believe anything they are told, and to be more than usually prompt with their credulity when what they are told is more than usually wrong. The next notification we select is from the _British Chronicle_ of January 4-6, 1762, and is of a literary character also, though, judging by the motto adopted, the work is more likely to produce melancholy than amusement:-- This day are published, Price 1s., THE Songs of Selma, attempted in English verse, from the original of Ossian, the son of Fingal. . . . . _Quis talia fando Tempenet a lacrymis?_. . . . Printed for R. Griffiths, opposite Somerset House in the Strand; C. Henderson, at the Royal Exchange; and G. Woodfall, Charing Cross. How many books of this kind have been published, thrown aside, and forgotten, or consigned to the pastrycook and trunkmaker, since the “Songs of Selma” saw the light, is a question easier to ask than to solve. One thing is, though, certain--the number of people who will write, whether they have anything to say or not, increases every year, and in due course we may expect an ingenious Chancellor of the Exchequer to impose a tax on authors; which, after all, will hardly, so far as brilliancy is concerned, be so destructive as the window-tax, or so uncalled for as Mr Robert Lowe’s famous “ex luce lucellum” imposition. A couple of weeks later, in the same paper (January 18-20), is the following of a very different character from that which has been already selected:-- READING MACHINE IS removed from the Three Kings, Piccadilly, to the George Inn, Snow Hill, London; sets out from the _Broad Face, Reading_, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at seven o’clock in the morning, and from the _George Inn, Snow Hill_, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at seven o’clock in the morning; carries passengers to and from Reading at 6s. each, children in lap, and outside passengers at 3s. Performed by {THOMAS MOORE and {RICHARD MAPLETON. _N.B._--Takes no charge of Writings, Money, Watches, or Jewels, unless entered and paid for as such. This machine was evidently a nondescript, partly slow coach, partly waggon, and was extremely reasonable in its rates if it journeyed at any pace, seeing that outside passengers paid no more than present Parliamentary rates, while the insides had no occasion to complain of excessive expenditure. But fancy the journey at seven o’clock on a January morning, with the knowledge that no brisk motion would keep the blood in circulation, that the roads were heavy, the weather indifferent, the society worse, the conversation, if any, very heavy, and the purse proportionally light! Such a company as Roderick Random and Strap fell in with in the waggon, must often have been seen on the outside of the Reading Machine. In the same paper of January 20-22, we find the advertisement of a pamphlet issued for the gratification of a morbid taste which has its representative nowadays--though, by the way, there is more excuse for a little excitement over murder and execution now than there was in the days when every week saw its batch of criminals led forth to take their final dance upon nothing:-- This day was published, price 1s., SOME authentic particulars of the life of John Macnaghton, Esq., of Ben ----, who was executed in Ireland, on tuesday the 25th day of December, for the Murder of Miss Mary Anne Knox, the only daughter of Andrew Knox, Esq., of Prehen, representative in the late and present Parliament for the county of Donegal. With a full account of his pretended Connexion with the young Lady; of the measures he took to seize her person previous to the Murder; the circumstances of that fact; the manner of his being apprehended; and his conduct and behaviour from that time till his Death. Compiled from papers communicated by a gentleman in Ireland, to a person of distinction of that Kingdom now residing here. Printed for H. Payne & W. Croply, at Dryden’s Head in Paternoster Row. John Macnaghton, Esq., was a real gentleman criminal, and though food for the halter was plenty in 1762 and thereabouts, gentlemen were “tucked up” still more rarely than within ordinary recollections; for stern as was the law a hundred years ago, it had very merciful consideration for persons of quality, and the hanging of a landed proprietor for a mere paltry murder was a very noticeable event. In the _London Gazette_ of February 23-27, we find a record of the coronation of their illustrious and sacred Majesties, George and Charlotte, which runs thus:-- ALBEMARLE ST., _Feby. 26, 1762_. THE Gold Medals intended for the Peers and Peeresses who in their robes attended at the Coronation of their Majesties (according to a list obtained from the proper officers) will be delivered at the Earl of Powis’s house in Albemarle Street, on Wednesday and Thursday next, from ten to twelve o’clock each day. It is therefore desired that the Peers and Peeresses, as above mentioned, will send for their Medals; and that the persons who shall be sent for them shall bring Cards, signed by such Peers or Peeresses, as the Medals shall be required for, and sealed with their Arms. In the same paper we come upon the advertisement of a book which is even now read with interest, though the price at which a modern issue of it is offered is ludicrously small compared with that of the original edition:-- THIS day is published, in small quarto, Price Thirty Shillings, Printed at Strawberry Hill, Anecdotes of Painting in England, with incidental Notes on other Arts. Collected by the late Mr George Vertue, and now first digested and published from his original Manuscripts. By Mr Horace Walpole. Vol. I. and II. With above forty Copper plates, four of which are taken from antient Paintings; the rest, heads of Artists, engraved by Grignion, Muller, Chambers, and Bannerman. To be had of W. Bathoe, Bookseller, in the Strand, near Exeter Exchange. As we have no wish whatever to paint the lily, we will, although the subject is a kindred one, leave Horace Walpole’s book without a fresh criticism to add to the thousand and odd already passed upon it, and will pass on to the land “where the men are all brave and the women all beautiful,” and where, in _Faulkner’s Dublin Journal_, also of February 1762, we come upon the cry of a young man for his mother. In the advertisement is the nucleus of a story quite equal to “Tom Jones,” provided, of course, that its author possessed the fancy of a Fielding. We are not aware of any literary gentleman who would succeed, though we are acquainted with plenty who would most confidently make the attempt; their only doubt, if doubt possessed them at all, being not in their own powers, but in the discernment of the reading public. To them, therefore, we present the groundwork of a story which would naturally enlist the sympathies of England and Ireland. A little might also be thrown in for the benefit of Scotland, which would hardly like to be left out of so fascinating a romance:-- WHEREAS a lady who called herself a native of Ireland was in England in the year 1740, and resided some time at a certain village near Bath, where she was delivered of a son, whom she left with a sum of money under the care of a person in the same parish, and promised to fetch him at a certain age, but has not since been heard of; now this is to desire the lady, if living, and this should be so fortunate as to be seen by her, to send a letter, directed to T. E. to be left at the Chapter Coffee house, St Paul’s Churchyard, London, wherein she is desired to give an account of herself, and her reasons for concealing this affair: or if the lady should be dead, and any person is privy to the affair, they are likewise desired to direct as above.--_N.B._ This advertisement is published by the person himself, not from motives of necessity, or to court any assistance (he being, by a series of happy circumstances, possessed of an easy and independent fortune) but with a real desire to know his origin.--_P.S._ The strictest secrecy may be depended on. Foundlings seem to have been better off a hundred years ago than now, for in all stories they come out very well, and in this present instance T. E. seems to have been able to help himself. It is not unlikely, however, that some sharp adventurer, knowing how weak is human nature, had hit upon the expedient of attracting maternal sympathies--Bath was a great place at that time for interesting invalids--with a view to a system of extortion. This may, or may not be, and at this distance of time it is useless to speculate. Accordingly we turn once more to the _London Gazette_, and in a number for April 1762 find this:-- THE following persons being fugitives for debt, and beyond the seas, on or before the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, and having surrendered themselves to the Gaolers or Keepers of the respective Prisons or Gaols hereafter mentioned, do hereby give notice, that they intend to take the benefit of an Act of Parliament passed in the first year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled _An Act for relief of Insolvent Debtors_, at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be held in and for the County, Riding, Division, City, Town, Liberty or Place, or any adjournment thereof, which shall happen next after thirty days from the first Publication of the undermentioned names, viz., James Colburn, late of Smith Street, in the parish of St James, in the county of Middlesex, Baker. Fugitive surrendered to the Keeper of Whitechapel Prison, in the County of Middlesex. Second Notice. Charles Watkins, late of the Bankside, in the parish of St Saviour, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, Waterman. Fugitive surrendered to the Keeper of the Poultry Compter, in the City of London. Third Notice. James Buckley, formerly of Cock Alley, late of Star Alley, in the Parish of Aldgate, Lower Precinct, London, Cordwainer. This is one of the first notices given of an intention to take the benefit of an Act that was much wanted. The slowness of people to take advantage of any boon, no matter how priceless, is here once again shown, for there are but three claimants for redemption, two of whom had been published before. By the middle of 1762 the Cock Lane ghost had had its two years’ run and was discovered, and it must have been just about the time of the trial of Parsons and his family--viz., in June--that the following appeared in the _British Chronicle_:-- This day is published, price 6d. A TRUE account of the several conversations between the supposed Apparition in Cock Lane, and the Gentlemen who attended. Together with the Death and Funeral of Mrs K----, and many other circumstances not made known to the World. Published for the conviction of the incredulous. “I would take the ghost’s word for a thousand pounds.” HAMLET. Printed for E. Cabe, at his Circulating library in Ave Marie lane; and to be had of all Pamphlet shops and News carriers. It is hard to tell whether the writer is in favour of the ghost’s existence or not from the advertisement, for while he in one breath speaks of the supposed apparition, he immediately afterwards refers to the incredulous, and quotes no less an authority than Shakespeare in support of the imposition. Doubtless this was a trick to secure the purchase-money, if not the support, of the partisans of both sides. Next, in the same paper, we come upon a notice of the post-office in reference to the foreign mails of that day, which runs thus:-- GENERAL POST OFFICE, _Aug. 8, 1762_. PUBLIC Notice is hereby given to all persons corresponding with His Majesty’s island of Belleisle, that Letters for the future will be regularly forwarded from Plymouth to and from that Island, by two Vessels, lately hired and appointed for that purpose. By Order of the Postmaster-General, HENRY POTTS, _Secretary_. The mail service across the Atlantic was somewhat different in 1762 from what it is now, when a continuous stream of letters is every day poured forth, either by way of Liverpool or by means of the later delivery at Queenstown. Soldiers seem to have been shorter, too, not only in height but in quantity, about this time, if the evidence of an advertisement of January 1, 1763, is to be taken. We are still quoting from the _British Chronicle_, and shall continue to do so until another journal is named:-- THE Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, commanded by the Right Honourable the Marquis of Granby, is willing to entertain any young Man under 23 years of age, having a good Character, strait and well made, in height from five feet ten, to six feet one inch. Apply to Quarter Master _Campbell_, at the Market Coffee House, Mayfair. From the same copy we take another notice, which shows that the executors of Mr Ward not only considered it their duty to get rid of his stock at the best possible advantage, but also to continue a defence of the business which had been instituted by the late proprietor against the attacks of an impostor. The reason they give for the republication is curious, unless they fancied its omission would trouble the spirit of the late compounder of drugs:-- THE late Joshua Ward of Whitehall, Esq., having left very considerable quantities of his principal Medicines ready prepared, such and such only as may be applied for by name, will be delivered at his late dwelling-house in Whitehall. As not the least pretence is made by us, of having any judgment in the application of Medicine, we presume to say no more than that the specified orders shall be delivered with the utmost care and fidelity.--Ralph Ward, Thomas Ward, Executors. As the following was published by the late Mr Ward it is necessary to adjoin the same.--“Having seen in the public papers that a woman servant discharged from my service advertises herself as (late) my housekeeper and assistant in preparing my medicines. It is a justice I owe the public and myself, to declare, that this woman was hired and lived with me as, and at the wages of a common working servant, keeping no other. And as to what knowledge she may have in preparing my medicines, every living servant in my family, with the same propriety, may pretend to it, being all assistants to me by their manual labour. Signed--Joshua Ward.” Soon after this, February 10-12, comes an announcement which must have filled the lady readers of the _Chronicle_--for ladies ever loved bargains--with anxiety and their husbands with terror. The last paragraph shows that the warehouseman knew well how to bait his trap for the unwary:-- A REAL SALE OF SILKS AT the Coventry Cross, Chandos Street, Covent Garden. Consisting of a very great assortment of Rich brocades, Tissues, flowered and plain Sattins, Tabbies, Ducapes, black Armozeens, Rasdumores, Mantuas, &c. Being purchased of the executors of an eminent weaver and factor, deceased, and of another left off trade. Merchants, &c., may be supplied with rich Silks fit for exportation, fresh and fine patterns, greatly under prime cost, for ready money only, the price marked on each piece. It is hoped Ladies will not be offended that they cannot possibly be waited on at their own Houses. Within a very short period, little more than a week, we come across an advertisement which we admit fairly puzzles us. We are certainly far more able to believe that the precious balsam does all that is promised for it, than we are to understand the reason for its having but one title. It runs thus:-- WARHAM’S Apoplectic Balsam, so well known as an excellent remedy against Fits, Convulsions, &c., cures Deafness, bad Humours in the Eyes, inward Bruises, dissolves hard Lumps in the Breast, and has often cured Cancers, as can be proved by Facts; is a sovereign salve for green Wounds, Burns, &c. Is prepared and sold only by W. Strode, at the Golden Ball, Tottenham Court Road, London. Who also prepares and sells Warham’s Cephalick Snuff, of a most grateful smell, and an effectual remedy for giddiness, nervous pains in the Head, &c. Also Warham’s excellent Mouth water, which certainly cures the toothache, strengthens and preserves the Teeth, takes off all smells proceeding from bad Teeth, &c. In a number for February 26 to March 1, 1764, there is an announcement of one of those dinners without which no English charity ever has succeeded, or, so long as English nature remains as it is, ever will succeed without. It is noticeable for various reasons, and especially for the notices of “Mr” Handel and the airing of the hall:-- MAGDALEN HOUSE CHARITY. Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields, Feb. 10, 1764. THE Anniversary Feast of the Governors of this Charity will be held on Thursday the 18th of March next, at Drapers-Hall, in Throgmorton Street, after a sermon to be preached at the Parish Church of St George, Hanover Square, before the Right Honourable the Earl of Hertford, President; the Vice-Presidents; Treasurer and Governor of this Charity; by the Rev. William Dodd, A.M., Chaplain to the Bishop of St David’s. Prayers will begin at eleven o’clock precisely, and Dinner will be on table at Three o’clock. Stewards. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Spencer. The Right Hon. Lord Scarsdale. Joseph Martin, Esq. John Weyland, Esq. John Barker, Esq. John Eddows, Esq. John Smith, Esq. Jacob Wilkinson, Esq. John Lefevre, Esq. Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. _N.B._--A Te Deum, composed by Mr Handel for the late Duke of Chandos’s Chapel, with Jubilate and other Anthems, will be performed by Mr Beard, and a proper Band of the best performers, both vocal and instrumental. The Hall will be properly aired. Tickets for the Feast may be had at the following places, at five shillings each, viz., Mr Winterbottom’s, the Secretary, in Old Broad Street, and at the following Coffee-Houses; Arthur’s, in St James’s Street; Mount’s, Grosvenor Square; Tom’s, in Devereux Court; Richard’s, in Fleet Street; Tom’s, John’s, and Batoon’s, in Cornhill; and Waghorn’s, at the Court of Requests. Two ladies Tickets for the Church will be given with each Feast Ticket. Mr Gibson, whose advertisement appears in the edition for April 5-7, 1764, would have been invaluable to Julia Pastrana and the Bearded Lady, while his aid would have been equally in demand among those anxious to cover themselves with the glory of hirsute appendages. Unfortunately for him, moustaches and beards were not then in demand, nor was baldness so noticeable as now; but the request for his beautifying paste doubtless compensated him for other neglects:-- A CARD TO THE LADIES. MR GIBSON’S Innocent Composition, so greatly admired for its wonderful effects, in removing by the Roots in half a minute, the most strong Hair growing in any part of the Head or Face, without the least hurt to the finest Skin of Ladies or Children; he sells this useful composition at 5s. an ounce, with such full directions that any Person may use it themselves. Also his curious Preparation for coaxing Hair to grow on bald Parts when worn off by illness, it being allowed by many who have tried many approved remedies, to fully answer the desired Purpose. Likewise his Beautifying Paste for the Face, Neck, and Hands, so well known to the Ladies for giving a true Enamel to the Skin; in pots at 10s. 6d. In lesser pots at 5s. each. The above things to be had of him and nowhere else in England, next door to the Golden Star in Lower Cross Street, Hatton Garden, Holborn.--No less a quantity of the composition can be had than one Ounce, nor of the preparation or paste than one Pot. _N.B._--Gibson in gold Letters over the Door. That the practice of inserting “dummy” advertisements for the purpose of drawing others had been adopted before this, is shown by a caution inserted in the _Public Advertiser_ of January 1, 1765, though why theatrical managers should have objected to gratuitous publicity we cannot understand. Misrepresentation of the title of a play to be performed would rarely act detrimentally, while it would often be beneficial. Managers of the present day never object to anything but adverse criticism in a newspaper, and this affects them in various ways. Critics may be as favourable as they like, but let them condemn a piece and they raise a storm not easily allayed. The managerial feeling is then shown at once. Sometimes the advertisement of the theatre is summarily stopped, at others the usual first-night privilege is suspended, and not rarely of late years letters have been written and published showing how utterly biassed the criticism has been. But not one of the whole theatrical fraternity ever objects to a gratuitous advertisement. Even a man who comes on with a message likes it, though he in common with all the outsiders of “the profession” affects to despise criticism, and will, on the slightest provocation, speak about well-known writers for the press in a most contemptuous manner. But here is the advertisement:-- THE Managers of Drury Lane think it proper to give notice that Advertisements of their Plays by their authority are published only in this Paper and the _Daily Courant_, and that the Publishers of all other Papers who presume to insert Advertisements of the same Plays, can do it only by some surreptitious intelligence or hearsay which frequently leads them to commit gross Errors, as mentioning one Play for another, falsely representing the Parts, etc. to the misinformation of the Town and the great detriment of the said Theatre. As different in style as it is distant in date and place of publication is the next item which attracts our attention. It looks suspiciously like a hoax, for though other Newcastle papers of the time have been rigorously searched, no news is discovered of Mrs Bell having shared the fate which is said to overtake all who pry unduly into the secrets of the Craft for the purpose of making capital out of their information. The advertisement appears in the _Newcastle Courant_ of January 4, 1770, and runs as follows:-- THIS is to acquaint the Public, That on Monday the first instant, being the Lodge (or Monthly Meeting) night of the Free and Accepted Masons of the 22d Regiment, held at the Crown, near Newgate (Newcastle) Mrs Bell, the Landlady of the House, broke open a Door (with a Poker) that had not been opened for some Years past, by which means she got into an adjacent Room, made two Holes through the Wall, and by that stratagem discovered the secrets of Masonry; and she, knowing herself to be the first Woman in the World that ever found out the Secret, is willing to make it known to all her Sex. So any Lady who is desirous of learning the Secrets of Free Masonry, by applying to that well-learned Woman (Mrs Bell that lived 15 years in and about Newgate) may be instructed in all the Secrets of Masonry. Coming back to London again, we find the following announcement published in more papers than one. It is well worthy of perusal, as giving a picture of the loneliness of Chelsea and its approaches a hundred years ago, when it was a little outlying village, and when the whole duty of a watchman was to evade by any and every means in his power, contact with footpads, “high tobymen,” or burglars:-- Chelsea, Middlesex, Feb. 20, 1770. THE Inhabitants of the Parish of Chelsea, being desirous to prevent, as far as in them lies, any Robberies or Felonies being committed in the said Parish, do hereby give Notice, that they have entered into a Subscription, for a Reward for the Discovery of Robberies or Felonies, and have therefore paid into the Hands of Mr Edward Anderson, of Chelsea aforesaid, as Treasurer, a Sum of Money to answer the several Purposes hereafter mentioned, to such Person or Persons who shall, during the Space of one whole Year from the Date hereof, apprehend or take any Offender or Offenders, as are herein after described, the several and respective Rewards hereafter mentioned, in fourteen Days after Conviction, over and above what such Person or Persons may be entitled unto by such Apprehending and Conviction by any Law now in Being. For every Robbery that shall be committed by any Highwayman or Highwaymen, Footpad or Footpads, within the said Parish (except that Part of the Parish and Road leading from London to Harrow on the Hill, which belongs to the said Parish), the Sum of Ten Pounds. For any Person or Persons who shall break into the Dwelling House of any Subscriber, or send any Incendiary Letter to any Subscriber, the Sum of Ten Pounds. For any Person or Persons who shall steal any Horse, Mare, Colt, or other Cattle, belonging to a Subscriber, or commit any Thefts or Robberies in any of their Outhouses, the Sum of Five Pounds. For every Theft or Robbery that shall be committed in any Garden, Garden-Grounds, or Fields, Orchard, Court Yard, Backside or Fish-ponds, or any Barge or Craft lying ashore, belonging to any of the Subscribers, or shall steal any of their Fruit, Poultry, Fish, Linen, Lead, Iron-Gates, or Gate-Hinges, Pales, or Fences, the Sum of Forty Shillings. And the Subscribers do hereby promise to pay and discharge the whole, or such Part of the Expence of such Prosecution or Prosecutions of the several Offences above-mentioned, as upon Application to any five or more of the Subscribers, at a Meeting called for that Purpose, shall judge reasonable. And for the farther Encouragement of all and every the Person and Persons who shall apprehend and convict any Offender or Offenders in any of the Offences aforesaid, the said Subscribers do hereby promise to use their Endeavours for procuring the speedy Payment of such Reward as such Person or Persons may be entitled to by any Law now in Being. And the said Subscribers do farther promise and agree, That if any Offenders shall, before his or her own Apprehension for any of the Offences aforesaid, voluntarily discover, or apprehend any of his or her Accomplices, so as he, she, or they, be convicted thereof, such Person so apprehending as aforesaid, shall be entitled to, and have such Reward or Sums of Money as before provided for apprehending and taking the said several Offenders as aforesaid, upon Conviction. The popularity of the _Daily Courant_ and _Public Advertiser_ with the managers of Drury Lane Theatre seems to have come to a sudden end in 1771, probably for the reasons we have noticed as affecting modern managerial bosoms, for in the _Daily Post_ this appears:-- TO prevent any Mistake in future in advertising the Plays and entertainments of Drury Lane Theatre, the Managers think it proper to declare that the Playbills are inserted by their direction in this Paper only. The _St James’s Chronicle_ (a weekly paper which is still alive, and as strong in its Toryism as ever), in July 1772, contains an advertisement which for coolness and audacity is very noticeable, even at a time when requests were put forth in the columns of the public press with most unblushing effrontery:-- WANTED immediately, Fifteen Hundred or Two Thousand Pounds by a person not worth a Groat, who having neither Houses, Lands, Annuities or public Funds, can offer no other Security than that of simple Bond, bearing simple interest and engaging the Repayment of the Sum borrowed in five, six or seven Years, as may be agreed upon by the Parties. Whoever this may suit (for it is hoped it will suit somebody) by directing a line to A. Z. in Rochester, shall be immediately replied to or waited on, as may appear necessary. Benevolence must have been very strongly developed in any one who acceded to the requests of A. Z. But that there was a deal of that commodity afloat at the time of which we are writing, our next specimen, one of disinterestedness and charity, shows. It is from the _Gazetteer_ of November 29, 1773:-- A LADY of strict Honour and Benevolence, who lives in a genteel sphere of Life, influenced by a variety of critical Circumstances, offers her Service as an Advocate to Persons under the most intricate Circumstances, especially to those of her own Sex, whose Troubles she can with a secret Sympathy share, and who will point out certain Means of alleviating their Distress. The Advertiser has a Genteel House to accommodate such Persons, while their Affairs are settled. The greatest Delicacy, Discretion, and most Inviolable Secrecy may be depended on. Therefore to prevent being made the sport of Curiosity, the Advertiser is determined to answer such Letters only that appear explicit and satisfactory, with the Principal’s Name and Place of Abode. Please to address a line (post paid) for Mrs Gladen, at No. 5 Church Row, Aldgate Church, Whitechapel. Especially those of her own sex. It would be hard to discover what any one of an opposite gender could want as resident with this nice old lady, unless indeed he wished to put in practice the advice given to Nicodemus. But, as for money this benevolent beldame would have done anything, there is little doubt she had plenty of visitors of both sexes. It does not do, however, to be too hard on Mrs Gladen, when it is considered that she has many highly successful and extremely respectable representatives of the present day. We therefore pass on to the latter part of 1774, when it is evident, from a perusal of the advertisements alone, that a general election is impending. In September we find this in the _Morning Post_:-- A GENTLEMAN of Character and considerable Fortune is extremely desirous of a HIGH HONOUR at an approaching Period. Any one who can assist him, or point out an eligible means of succeeding, shall be amply recompensed both at present and in future.--In short, name your Terms; secrecy is all required on his part. A Line to Mr Dormer, at No. 24 Ludgate Hill, will be attended to. The _Morning Post_ seems to have been a particular medium for the process by which legislators were made in the “good old days”--good enough for the rich and unscrupulous, of course--for very shortly afterwards many of the same kind appear. The following stipulates the amount, and with true unselfishness recommends the candidate:-- A GENTLEMAN of Honour, Character, and Fortune, who has £1,500 at his Bankers’, has some desire to obtain a Seat. A connection with him will do no discredit to any Man of Rank, or Body of Men. As he is serious, he expects no Application but from such as are so, to Q. at New Lloyd’s Coffee-house, Cornhill. One who follows is much more generous, so far as money is concerned, though he lacks the disinterested recommendation of Q. Still as money and not mind is the desideratum among election agents, there is little fear that the chances were in favour of W. W., though doubtless there was room enough found at St Stephen’s for both. Room for two! room for two hundred who had money with which to pave their way:-- A GENTLEMAN of independent fortune is ready to give three Thousand Guineas to be accommodated with a certain purpose to answer the advertiser’s end at this Crisis. Any one inclined to treat about the above, may be further informed by Line, or otherwise, directed for W. W., at George’s Coffee-house, upper end of the Haymarket. It must not be supposed that the advertisements in reference to the elections emanated only from persons desirous of writing themselves down M.P.’s. There were plenty anxious as well as willing to assist them for a consideration. From many of that time we select one, still taking the _Morning Post_ as our guide:-- ANY Man of Fortune or Family wishing to enjoy an Honourable Station for seven Years, and to accomplish it without the anxiety which generally accompanies the attaining it by Contention, may probably be accommodated to the utmost of his Wishes, by addressing himself to C. C. to be left at the bar of the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster Row, and disclosing his Name, the which he may do without the risk of being divulged, as the advertiser pledges himself that the most inviolable Delicacy and Secrecy will be observed. We commend the foregoing to the notice of the gentlemen who talk of Conservatism as the bulwark of the nation, and rejoice over any so-called political reaction. However, as Conservatism now means “dishing the Whigs” by the most advanced measures, we can put up with it, and so pass on to another specimen from the _Morning Post_, which is published at the same time as the foregoing, and is found snugly ensconced among those of quite a different tendency:-- A YOUNG Gentleman of the most liberal education and a genteel Address, would be happy in having an opportunity of devoting his services to a Lady of real fashion and fortune, who may wish to have some particular deficiencies thoroughly supplied, without subjecting herself to any disagreeable restraint. Any lady to whom such an offer may be suitable, will receive the fullest Explanation, in answer to a letter addressed to A. X. Turk’s head Coffee House, Strand. We will leave this without further comment than the expression of a sad idea that this young gentleman knew what was marketable, as well as a belief that he and others like him may have done much to prevent the titles and fortunes of noblemen and gentlemen who married late in life from passing to remote branches. We have no wish to intrude our opinions, which are strong as our faith in human nature is weak, but the advertisement is only a specimen of many others, and, like its congeners, appears in one of the highest class daily papers of the time. Folk are not so outspoken now as was the fashion a hundred years ago, yet is there any one who will venture to state that we are more virtuous? It will be the natural impulse of many who read the next advertisement, which is also from the now fashionable and severely virtuous _Post_ (date January 21, 1775), to cry out against the unnatural guardian who offers to sell his ward. Perhaps though, if they take time to reflect, they may remember instances of marriage for money, which, if not so public, were quite as iniquitous. Listen to a gentleman of honour of the last century:-- A GENTLEMAN of Honour and Property, having in his disposal at present a young Lady of good Family, with a fortune of Sixty Thousand Pounds, on her Marriage with his approbation, would be very happy to treat with a Man of Fashion and Family, who may think it worth his while to give the Advertiser a Gratuity of Five thousand pounds on the day of Marriage. As this is no common advertisement, it is expected no Gentleman will apply whose Family and Connections will not bear the strictest enquiry. The Advertiser having always lived retired from the World, immersed in business, is unacquainted with those of that Rank of Life that the Lady’s fortune entitles her to be connected with, for which reason he has made this public application. Letters addressed to L. M., at Tom’s Coffee House, Devereux Court, near the Temple, mentioning real Name, and places of Abode, will punctually be attended to. This is not so bad for a poor innocent who has lived retired from the world. And doubtless, though he was unacquainted with those of that rank of life to which a lady with sixty thousand pounds might well aspire, he was not to be deceived by even the most specious of fortune-hunters, Irishmen included. But here is another notice quite as interesting, though of a very different kind. It is also from the _Morning Post_, and appears a few days after that we have chosen to precede it:-- To the LADIES on MONEY AFFAIRS. WHEREAS there are Sundry Ladies Who Have Two, Three, Or Four thousand pounds, or even more Money at their command, and who, from not knowing how to dispose of the same to the greatest advantage, but by living on the Small Interests which the stocks produce, afford them but a scanty Maintenance, especially to those who have been accustomed to Affluence, and would wish to live so still; the Advertiser (who is a Gentleman of independent Fortune, strict Honour and Character, and above any other reward than the pleasure of serving the Sex) acquaints such Ladies, that if they will favour him with their Name and Address, so as he may wait on them as opportunity best suits, he will put them into a Method by which they may, without any Trouble, and with an absolute Certainty, place out their Money, so as for it to produce them a clear and lawful interest of Ten or Twelve per cent, and that too on equally as good and safe Securities as if in the Funds, or on Mortgage at the common low interest, etc. Please to direct to R. J. Esq. at the Turks Head Coffee house, opposite Catharine Street, in the Strand, and the same will be duly attended to. There was no Associate Institute then to look after the interests of unprotected females; and perhaps if there had been, so plausible a rogue would not have attracted the attention of its highly paid officials. But the “weaker vessels” seem able to take their own parts at advertising, for the following is by no means a unique specimen of their effusions. Once again we draw from the _Morning Post_, the date being December 15, 1775:-- A LADY wishes to borrow One Hundred Pounds. The Security, though personal, may probably be very agreeable to a single Gentleman of spirit. Every particular will be communicated with Candour and Sincerity, where confidence is so far reposed as to give the real Name and Address of the party willing to oblige the Advertiser. Gentlemen of real Fortune and liberal Sentiments, and those only, are requested to address a line to Y. N. at Mr Dyke’s, Cross Street, Long-Acre. This lady was modest as well as candid and sincere; it is to be hoped she was pretty also, or else she had small chance. But now comes not virtue but honours in distress, and sufficiently hungry to be satisfied with very dirty pudding. In our own times baronets have seen unpleasantnesses; we remember one who used to do casual reporting, fires, accidents, coroners’ inquests, &c., and another who took to the stage, unsuccessfully. But he who advertised in the _Daily Advertiser_ of January 23, 1776, was worse off than any titled successor. Judge for yourselves:-- MATRIMONY. For Fifty Pounds only, may gain One Hundred and Forty Thousand. A BARONET of Great Britain, that has an eligible chance and right in thirteen distinct Claims to speedily recover the above Sum, or to expect part by a Compromise, inforced by a very little Assistance, will marry any Woman, though with Child, or having Children by a former Husband, that will put such a Fifty-pound ticket in such Lottery; the remainder of her Money, if any, will be settled upon her; his person may not be objected to, and her Attorney may liberally inspect Writings, &c. which in form set forth his expectancies perspicuously; and any young Counsel or others may gain an Advantage, even a Fortune, by offering a small benevolent Assistance. Direct for the Baronet, at No. 2, near Blenheim Steps, in Oxford St., opposite Oxford Market, who has also a profession that may be made very advantageous for any new Adventurer in the physical way, that has a little money to join with him as a Partner. A patient hearing will obviate all Objection, and the strictest Secrecy and Honour may be depended on. It is noticeable that “the Baronet,” like those of his rank already referred to, was not above turning his hand to earn an honest penny. A little way back we invited the attention of Conservatives to an edifying extract; may we now dedicate the baronet’s appeal to those who would abolish the laws of primogeniture? Let them be advised in time, unless they should wish to see a duke reduced to despondency, or an earl holding horses for his living. No matter what happens to younger sons. Let them and their younger sons be swallowed up in the middle and lower classes, as they are now, though nobody seems to notice it; but let us preserve, no matter who else suffers, our titled aristocracy in its present exalted position. But what is to become of the scions of nobility who have no claim upon landed estate, when nepotism ceases to exist, sinecures are abolished, and all Government clerkships are matter of open competition! Frankly we do not know, but doubtless Providence will always be tenderly disposed towards persons of good family. Turning once more to the _Morning Post_ (February 15, 1776), we come upon an announcement the merits of which are hard to determine. It promises rather too much:-- FEMALE COMPANION. A LADY of independent Fortune and liberal Sentiments would be glad if, in procuring to herself an agreeable Companion she could at the same time relieve from Distress, and perhaps prevent from utter Ruin, some still deserving although unfortunate fair one; for she can make allowance for the frailty of her own Sex, and knows the base arts of the other; in a word, a _single_ _faux pas_ will be no objection, provided there remain a virtuous Disposition, and that the person wanted be good-natured, affable, and sincere in the account she may give of herself, which for that purpose may at first be anonymous. She must also possess the usual accomplishments required by a good Education; know something of Music, have an agreeable Voice, and a genteel Person, not under twenty nor above the age of twenty-five years. Such as come within this description may apply by letter to B. D. at the York Coffee House, St James’s Street, and the apparently most deserving will be enquired after. No kept Mistress or lady of Pleasure need apply. There seems more of the procuress than the patron about this; still there is no knowing what the taste of an elderly single lady who fancied herself injured by the opposite sex would not lead her to do. So leaving the question open, and trusting the reader will be able to satisfy himself as to the purity or the reverse of the advertiser’s motives, we will pass on to _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, in which, about the same time, we find the following, which is worthy of notice:-- MONEY wanted--when it can be procured--£100. No security can be given for the _Principal_, and possibly the _Interest_ may not be punctually paid. Under the above circumstances should any one be found willing to lend the desired Sum, he will much _surprise_, and particularly _oblige_ the author of this advertisement.--Direct for A. B. C. George’s Coffeehouse, Haymarket. Even the “author” of this, confident and assured as he must be generally, seems to doubt the readiness of people to part with their money without some inducement, no matter how slight. If A. B. C. had offered something impossible of fulfilment in return for the desired loan, he would very likely have had many applications, whereas it would be hard to believe that in the present instance he had even one. Now, if he had adopted a plan similar to that which is advertised in the _Morning Chronicle_ of April 9, 1776, he would have had a much better chance of raising the wind. This must have arrested the attention and diverted the current of pocket-money of many young lovers:-- AFFECTION. ANY Lady or Gentleman who has made an honourable Connection, may be acquainted if the other party has a reciprocal Affection; and so nice is the method, that it gives in a great measure the degree of esteem. No fortune-telling, nor anything trifling in it, but is a serious and sincere Procedure. To divest any apprehension of discovery of parties, the initials of their names is sufficient. That the meaning of the advertiser may be ascertained, it is only asked for A. B. to know if C. D. has a genuine affection; and of C. D. if A. B. has the like. It is requested that honest Initials be sent, else the deposit of two shillings and sixpence is useless. But to convince those that send for the intelligence of the use of this, they need only to send with the real, other Initials indifferent to them, and they will be satisfied. Absence or distance does not abate the certainty of the then present Esteem and Affection. Letters (free) directed to S. J., No. 11, Duke-street, Grosvenor Square, will have honest answers left there, or sent conformable to the address, in a day or two after their Receipt. The next advertisement we find in our collection savours less of affection, for the desire of the inserter seems to be to prevent some one to whom he has an objection inheriting entailed estates. It has its value, in addition to what consideration may be given to it as a specimen of the manners of the last century, as showing the kind of people who then made the laws. Decency must have made a decided advance, look at it from what point we will, since April 16, 1776, when this appeared in the _Public Advertiser_:-- A GENTLEMAN who hath filled two succeeding seats in Parliament, is near sixty years of age, lives in great splendour and hospitality, and from whom a considerable Estate must pass if he dies without issue, hath no objection to marry any Widow or single Lady, provided the party be of genteel birth, polite manners, and five, six, seven, or eight Months gone in her Pregnancy. Letters directed to ---- Brecknock, Esq., at Will’s Coffee House, facing the Admiralty, will be honoured with due attention, secrecy, and every possible mark of respect. In the _Daily Advertiser_ of July, in the same year, we find the following, which, though of a much more legitimate character than that just quoted, and directed to the interests of fair and honest trading, will repay perusal:-- TWO Men beg leave to acquaint the Public in general that they keep the cleanest Barber’s Shop in all London, where the people can have their Hair cut for 2d., dressed for 3d., and be shaved for 1d. One of these Men can bleed and draw teeth very well; he bleeds both in the English and German manner, as well at home as abroad, and is exceeding careful. Bleeding 3d., drawing teeth 4d. There is a parlour made in the shop on purpose for bleeding and drawing teeth. The people may depend on being served immediately and well in every respect. No satisfaction, no pay. The above-mentioned Shop is at No. 7 King Street, Seven Dials. Bleeding nowadays is still done by barbers, though not in the same way, nor so scientifically, as practised by the two clean shopkeepers of King Street. Shaving as a high art is neglected nowadays, a state of affairs traceable to the beard and moustache movement of the last twenty years, which has rendered shaving below the attention of true artists, who now give their attention to “cutting and curling,” &c. Any one who doubts this had better trust himself to the untender mercies of half-a-dozen different barbers, in ordinary thoroughfares, and where the prices are fixed at ordinary rates. Before he has tried the sixth establishment he will not only have conformed to our views, but will be a considerably altered, if not an improved, man. In the _Morning Post_ of October 13, 1778, we come across an appeal to the short-sighted, which is worthy of the tribes of welchers who in our own times have made large fortunes through advertising in the columns of the sporting papers. This must have been something like the “discretionary investment” dodge, which brought in large sums to swindling firms who professed to govern the turf a few years back, and whose advertisements occupied whole columns in the newspapers:-- A SERIOUS though SURPRISING OFFER. FOR the compliment of One Hundred Guineas, any enterprizing Gentleman or Lady may have revealed to them an eligible method of converting hundreds into Thousands, in a few weeks, and of continuing so to do yearly. The requiring so inadequate a consideration, is because the proposer is under misfortunes. Only letters with real names and residencies will be regarded. Direct for W. W., at the King’s Bench Coffee-House. In the early part of 1778 (May 7) the _Morning Post_ contained the following appeal for an article which has been scarce ever since the world began, which is not valued much when possessed, and which is about the last thing one could hope to obtain through the medium of an advertisement, no matter how cunningly contrived, nor how great the circulation of the paper in which it appeared:-- WANTED immediately, the most difficult thing to be met with in the world, A SINCERE FRIEND, by a person, who, though in the meridian of life, has outlived all he had. He wishes to meet with a Person in whom he may repose the most implicit Confidence; a Person who has a good heart, and abilities to second that goodness of heart; who will give his advice cordially, and assistance readily. The advertiser is a person in a genteel situation of life; has a decent income, but is at present so circumstanced as to want a sincere friend.--Any Person willing (from principles of Friendship, not Curiosity) to reply to the above, by directing a line to T. S., at Mr Sharp’s, stationer, facing Somerset House, Strand, will be immediately waited on or properly replied to. Money, the sincerest of all friends, is probably the object of T. S.’s ambition. If he was not suited in the year ’78, an opportunity occurred soon after; for specially directed to the cupidity of persons who desire to get money, and are not at all particular what the means so long as the end is attained, is the following, which appears in the _Morning Post_ of March 1779:-- A GENTLEMAN of Fortune, whom Family reasons oblige to drop a connection which has for some time subsisted between him and an agreeable young Lady, will give a considerable sum of Money with her to any Gentleman, or person in genteel Business, who has good sense and resolution to despise the censures of the World, and will enter with her into the Holy state of Matrimony. Letters addressed to Mr G. H., at the Cecil Street Coffee-House, will be paid due attention to. As this kind of arrangement has not yet fallen into desuetude, although the aid of advertisements is no longer invoked for it, we had better not give an opinion about its morality, though it is but fair to admit that if the system of selling soiled goods, of which the foregoing is an example, had but been out of date, we should have been loud in our objections. For no vice is so bad as one that has exploded, and the weaknesses which we can regard with complacency while they are current, cause strong emotions of disgust when, their day being over, we look back upon them, and wonder how people could have been so extremely wicked. About the same time, and in the same paper, is another application of a peculiar nature, though in this instance the advertiser wishes not to part with, but to obtain a similar commodity to that advertised by G. H. This is it:-- A SINGLE Gentleman of Fortune, who lives in a genteel private style, is desirous of meeting with an agreeable genteel young Lady, of from 20 to 30 years of age, not older, to superintend and take upon her the management of his House and Servants, for which she will be complimented with board, &c. As the situation will be quite genteel, it will not suit any but such who has had a liberal Education, and who has some independance of her own, so as to enable her always to appear very genteel, and as a relation or particular friend, in which character she will always be esteemed, and have every respect paid her, so as to render the situation and every thing else as agreeable as possible. Any lady inclining to the above, will please to direct with name and address, to M. H., Esq., to be left at No. 7, the Bookseller’s, in Great Newport Street, near St Martin’s Lane; she will be waited on, or wrote to, but with the greatest delicacy, and every degree of strict honour and secrecy. Strict honour and secrecy seems to be an essential to the successful completion of the designs of many advertisers of this time, but they are to be all on one side, in company with an amount of blind credulity which would be wonderful if it were not repeatedly exhibited in modern days. Here is an honourable and secret venture which appears in the _Morning Post_ of December 17, 1779, and which was doubtless very successful:-- A GENTLEMAN who knows a Method which reduces it almost to a certainty to obtain a very considerable sum, by insuring of Numbers in the Lottery, is advised by his Friends to offer to communicate it to those who wish to speculate in that Way. The advantage that is procured by proceeding according to his Principles and Directions, will be plainly demonstrated and made perfectly evident to any who chuses to be informed of it. The terms are Ten Guineas each person, and they must engage not to discover the plan for the space of eighteen months. If those who are willing to agree to the above terms will be pleased to address a line to J. R. C. at the Union Coffee-House, Cornhill, or the York Coffee House, St James’s Street, they will be immediately informed where to apply. Those who have lost money already (by laying it out improperly) insuring of Numbers, may soon be convinced how much it will be to their advantage to apply as above. _N.B._--This advertisement will be inserted in this morning’s Paper only. A suspicious person would have fancied that the friends of J. R. C., unless they were dissimilar from other friends, would have used the information for their own benefit--but generous and self-abnegating people do turn up in history in the most unexpected and unaccountable ways. Another specimen of the secret and honourable kind, though in it the secrecy and honour have to be on the side of the advertiser, follows. It is in the _Morning Post_, April 18, 1780, and runs thus:-- ANY Lady whose Situation may require a Temporary Retirement, may be accommodated agreeable to her wishes in the house of a Gentleman of eminence in the Profession, where honour and secrecy may be depended on, and where every vestige of Pregnancy is obliterated; or any Lady who wishes to become Pregnant may have the causes of sterility removed in the safest manner. Letters (Post-paid) addressed to A. B. No. 23, Fleet Street, will be attended to. A. B. offers a double convenience, the second item in which is well worthy of note. The house must have been somewhat similar, except that the accommodation was for human beings, to those establishments advertisements in connection with which frequently appear in the sporting and agricultural papers. Much about the same date as the specimen just quoted appears another of quite a different kind, inserted in several journals. It is rather unique as a way of reminding customers that life is short and debt is long, and is suspiciously sartorial:-- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. RICHARD Guy returns thanks to all his good old Friends for their kind Recommendation, which he will always acknowledge with gratitude, by being ready to oblige them on all occasions, but earnestly desires to settle Accounts, to pay and to be paid; which he hopes will be of satisfaction to both parties; for as it is fully observed, short Reckonings keep long Friends; so to preserve good friendship and prevent disputes in Accompts, he always pays ready Money, that is doing as he would be done unto. N.B.--He courts neither Honour nor Riches, his whole and sole motive being to serve his good old Friends; the sin of Ingratitude he utterly abhors. The shameless manner in which sinecures in Government offices were bought and sold even so late as 1781 is shown by the following specimen advertisement, which is taken from the _Morning Herald_ of September 22:-- A GENTLEMAN of Character who wishes for some Employ under Government merely for the sake of Amusement, would be willing to advance any Nobleman or Gentleman the sum of Three Thousand Pounds, upon Mortgage, upon legal Interest, provided the Mortgager will, thro’ his Interest, procure a place in any genteel Department, where the emoluments are not less than two or three hundred Pounds _per annum_. The Advertiser flatters himself this will not be deemed an ineligible Offer, if compared with the present mode of raising Money upon Annuities; as a gentleman must be obliged to grant five hundred _per annum_ out of his income to raise the like Sum. If any Gentleman who may be inclined to answer this Advertisement does not know of any Vacancy, the Advertiser will point out several, which may be easily procured by interest. A line addressed to S. X. to be left at the bar of the Chapter Coffee-house, St Paul’s, will be attended to. Secrecy may be depended on. No Broker will be treated with. Those were happy times, indeed, when no such vulgar thing as merit was allowed to interfere with a man’s upward progress in life, provided he possessed capital, which could always secure him good interest in more ways than one. Money was at full value then, and the following, from the _Morning Post_ of October 18, 1781, is one among many endeavours to obtain it in larger or smaller quantities:-- WANTED immediately, or as soon as can be met with, that invaluable acquisition (when once gained) A SINCERE Friend, by a person who in the early part of his life had many; but who, from the all-powerful hand of Death and other fortuitous incidents, has been deprived of all those whom he could once call by that sacred Name, and to whom he could apply either for Counsel or Assistance. The author of this Advertisement is a Middle-aged man, in a genteel situation of Life, a Housekeeper, has a decent Income, but yet, is so circumstanced as to have a particular occasion for FIFTY OR SIXTY Pounds, for a Year and a half or thereabouts. He wishes therefore to meet with a Person of liberal and generous Sentiments, who would assist him with the above trifling Sum. He flatters himself he can make the mode of payment quite agreeable to any Gentleman, Lady, or Tradesman of credit, who may be induced to answer this advertisement from a motive arising from the secret satisfaction there is in rendering a Service.--A line directed for S. E., and left at the Morning Post Office, will be immediately attended to. In 1785 was established the _Daily Universal Register_, a paper which was, under a new title, adopted in 1788, to develop into the greatest and most powerful organ in the world. On the 1st of January, in the last-named year, the _Register_ appeared with the following heading: _The Times, or Daily Universal Register, printed Logographically_. The price was threepence, and for many years the _Times_ gave no promise of future greatness; but it was always fearless, and very early was fined, while its editor narrowly escaped imprisonment. In 1790 Mr Walter was actually incarcerated in Newgate, where he remained sixteen months, besides being fined £200, for a libel on the Dukes of York and Clarence. He was released eventually at the intercession of the Prince of Wales. The history of the _Times_ has been told so often that particulars are hardly needed here; but as showing how its present eminence is due to nothing but perseverance and integrity, as well as the everpresent desire to be first wherever possible, we quote the following from a short notice of the life of one of its proprietors: “It was under John Walter II., born in 1784, that the _Times_ rose to the place of the first newspaper in the world. Whilst yet a youth, in 1803 he became joint proprietor and sole manager of the _Times_, and very soon his hand became manifest in the vigour and independence of its politics, and the freshness of its news. Free speech, however, had its penalties. The _Times_ denounced the malpractices of Lord Melville, and the Government revenged itself by withdrawing from the Walters the office of printers to the Customs, which had been held by the family for eighteen years. During the war between Napoleon and Austria in 1805, the desire for news was intense. To thwart the _Times_ the packets for Walter were stopped at the outports, while those for the ministerial journals were hurried to London. Complaint was made, and the reply was given that the editor might receive his foreign papers as a _favour_; meaning thereby that if the Government was gracious to the _Times_, the _Times_ should be gracious to the Government; but Walter would accept no favour on such terms. Thrown on his own resources, he contrived, by means of superior activity and stratagem, to surpass the ministry in early intelligence of events. The capitulation of Flushing in August 1809, was announced by the _Times_ two days before the news had arrived through any other channel. In the editorship of the paper he spared neither pains nor expense. The best writers were employed, and wherever a correspondent or a reporter displayed marked ability, he was carefully looked after and his faculty utilised. Correspondents were posted in every great city in the world, and well-qualified reporters were despatched to every scene of public interest. The debates in Parliament, law proceedings, public meetings, and commercial affairs, were all reported with a fulness and accuracy which filled readers with wonder. What a visionary could scarcely dare to ask, the _Times_ gave. To other journals imitation alone was left. They might be more consistent politicians, but in the staple of a newspaper, to be nearly as good as the _Times_ was their highest praise.” [Illustration: THE TIMES [Illustration: OR·DAILY·UNIVERSAL·REGISTER PRINTED LOGOGRAPHICALLY] NUMB. 940. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1788. (Price Three-pence.) ^Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.^ By his MAJESTY’S COMPANY, THIS EVENING, Will be presented the Tragedy of _JULIA,_ OR, THE ITALIAN LOVER. The principal Characters by Mr. KEMBLE and Mrs. SIDDONS. The Prologue to be spoken by Mr. Kemble; And the Epilogue by Mrs. Siddons. With New Dresses, Decorations, &c. To which will be added The DESERTER Henry, Mr. KELLY, Skirmish, Mr. BANNISTER, jun. And Louisa, by Mrs. CROUCH. To-morrow (by Desire) The Wonder, with, the 6th time, Harlequin, Jun. On Thursday, the tragedy of Percy; Elwina, Mrs. Siddons. * * * * * _BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY,_ And under the same DIRECTORS as the CONCERT of ANTIENT MUSIC. THE Oratorios of SOLOMON, ALEXANDER’S FEAST, with the CHOICE OF HERCULES; JOSEPH; ACIS and GALATEA, with DRYDEN’S ODE; ESTHER; and MESSIAH, will be performed on the six FRIDAYS in LENT, at the CONCERT ROOM in TOTTENHAM STREET. Subscriptions taken at Messrs. Longman and Broderip’s Music Shops in the Haymarket and Cheapside, and at Mr. Ashley’s, No. 4, Pimlico, at Three Guineas each, the Tickets NOT transferable. * * * * * _ROYALTY THEATRE,_ WELL STREET, NEAR GOODMAN’S FIELDS THIS EVENING, AN OCCASIONAL ADDRESS. BY MR. PALMER, In the Character of Christmas. A Musical Entertainment called THOMAS and SUSAN; Or, The GENEROUS TAR For the 3rd time, a New Pantomimic Entertainment, called The DESERTER of NAPLES; Or, ROYAL CLEMENCY. Under the Direction of MR. DELPINI. The Airs, Duets, and Choruses composed by Mr. REEVE. The DESERTER by MR. PALMER. The other Characters by Mr. W Palmer, Mr. Cooper, Mr. L’Estrange, Mr. Hudson, and Mr. DELPINI. Mrs. Delpini, Madems. Bitthemer, and Mrs. GIBBS. End of the First Part, a Grand Representation of MOUNT VESUVIUS at the Time of the Eruption, with the Flowing of the Lava. The Dances by Mr. Holland, Mad. Bitthemer, and Mad. Constance; composed by M. MALTER. A SONG by Master BRAHAM. The Whole to conclude with (37th time) a new Pantomimic Entertainment, called HARLEQUIN . MUNGO; OR, A PEEP INTO THE TOWER. Harlequin, Mr. RAYNER, Jun. Mungo Harlequin, Mr. BOURKE, Pantaloon, Mr. FOLLETT, Sen. Keeper of Wild Beasts and Warder of the Tower (with a Chaunt), Mr. GRACE. Captain, Sailor, and first waterman (with Songs), Mr. ARROWSMITH. Clown, Mr. FOLLETT, Jun. Planter’s Wife, Mrs. BURNETT, And, Columbine, Mrs. GIBBS. In Part First a Dance of Slaves by Messrs. Hollands, Bourke, Menage, &c. To Conclude with a grand Ballet, by Mons. Malter, Mr. Holland, Mad. Bitthemer, and Mademoiselle Constance. Boxes, 5s; Pit, 3s; First Gall., 2s; Second Gall., 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Clark, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. The Doors to be opened for the future at half-past Five, and to begin precisely at half-past Six o’clock. °⸸° No Money will be returned after the Curtain is drawn up, nor will any person be admitted behind the scenes. Vivant Rex & Regina. N.B. Nothing under . . . . will be taken. * * * * * TO BE LETT, OR SOLD. EXTENSIVE Premises in the Neighbourhood of Cheapside. Apply at No. 9, Cheapside. * * * * * _A CAUTION to prevent IMPOSITION. SHARP’S CONCAVE RAZORS_ Are made of the very best steel that can be possibly procured in this or any other country, tempered, and finished with the greatest nicety and circumspection. Their superior excellence above all others has made then more esteemed than any Razor now in use; the consequence of which is that some persons have offered, and still do offer, an inferior article under their name. C. SHARP, Perfumer and Razor Maker to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at No. 131, Fleet Street, and No. 57, Cornhill, Most respectfully intreats the public to observe that his Concave Razors are not sold at any other places in London, but at his shops as above, Sharp stamped on the blade of the Razors; all others are counterfeit. Sharp’s Metallic Razor Strops, which keep the Razor to good order, without the use of a Hone or grinding, are not to be equalled; but the above articles are too well esteemed to need anything being said in their behalf. His Alpine Soap, for shaving, is by far the best adapted for that purpose of any yet invented; it never causes the least smarting sensation, but is perfectly soft, sweet, and pleasing. Likewise his curious Cyprian Wash balls, great variety of shaving cases and pouches, that hold all the implements necessary for shaving, dressing, &c. Sharp’s sweet hard and soft pomatums, are remarkable for keeping good in any climate longer than any other. His Lavender Water, drawn from the flowers, his warranted Tooth brushes and the Prince of Wales Tooth Powder, are articles worthy the attention of the public. Combs, Soaps, Wash balls, and every article in the Perfumery branch, wholesale, retail, and for exportation. N.B. Families, &c., who take any of Sharp’s articles by the dozen save considerably. A complete Dressing case fitted up with razor, combs &c., for 10s. 6d. * * * * * ^KING’S THEATRE, Haymarket.^ By PARTICULAR DESIRE, on Thursday next, January 3rd, 1788, WILL BE PRESENTED THE SERIO COMIC OPERA called IL RE THEODORO in VENEZIA. OR, THEODORE KING OF CORSICA AT VENICE. The Principal Characters by Sig. MORELLI, Sig. MORIGI, Sig. BALELI, Sig. CALVESI, And Sig. FINESCHI, Signora SESTINI, and Signora STORACE. The Music composed, in his best style, by the celebrated Mr. PAESIELO. Under the Direction of Sig. MAZZINGHI; And Leader of the Orchestra, Mr. CRAMER. Painter and Mechanist, Sig. GAETANO MARINARI. Inventor & Maker of the Dresses, Sig. LUPINO. The doors to be opened at Six and to begin precisely at Half-past Seven o’clock. Pit, 10s. 6d. First Gallery, 5s. Upper Gallery, 3s. Tickets to be had and Subscriptions paid as usual, at Messrs. Ransome, Moreland, and Hammersley’s, Bankers, No. 57, Pall Mall. End of Act I., A NEW DIVERTISEMENT, composed by Mons. CHEVALIER, and performed by Mons. VESTRIS, Mons. COULON, And Mons. CHEVALIER; The Two Miss SIMONETS, Signora REDINI, And Mad. COULON. End of the Opera, a new BALLET, composed by Mons. NOVERRE, called LES OFFRANDES A L’AMOUR, And Performed by Mons. VESTRIS, Mons. COULON, And Mons. DIDELOT, Miss HELLESBERG, Mad. VEDIE, The other Characters by Messrs. SAUNLIER, COULON, HENRY, SALA, Mademoiselles GRENIERS, &c. &c., And MEZUKES. N.B. For the Better accommodation of the Subscribers, the office is removed back to Union Court, Haymarket. The Nobility and Gentry are requested to take notice that the first Masque Ball will be given at this place on Monday, the 4th of February, 1788. * * * * * _NEW MUSIC._ This day is Published, By LONGMAN and BRODERIP, Musicsellers and Musical Instrument Makers to his Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES No. 26, Cheapside, and No. 13, Haymarket. _Authors._ £. _s. d._ J. Haydn. THREE SYMPHONIES for a grand Orchestra, dedicated to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Op. 5 0 10 6 Ditto. A set of QUARTETTS for two Violins, Tenor and Violoncello, expressive of the Passion of our Saviour. Op. 48 0 8 0 Mozart. Two SYMPHONIES for a Grand Orchestra. Op. 5 and 9, each 0 6 0 Ditto. Six QUARTETTS, dedicated to Mr. Haydn. Op. 1 0 15 0 Ditto. QUARTETT for the Harpsichord 0 3 0 Storace. CARE DONNE CHE BRAMATE, sung by Signora Storace in Il Re Theodore in Venezia 0 2 6 Pleyel. Two SONATAS for the Harpsichord, with an accompaniment for a Violin. Op. 7 0 4 0 Ditto. TRIOS for a Violin, Tenor, and Violoncello. Op. 11 0 6 0 Gìordano. Three GRAND DUETS for the Harpsichord, from the works of Haydn 0 7 6 Chalon. THREE DUETS for the Harpsichord. Op. 7 0 7 6 Barthelemon. COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS for the Pedal Harp, with Airs, Arpegias, and Sonatas, and an easy method for tuning 0 10 6 Percy. Six ITALIAN ARIETTAS in the Venetian style, for the voice and Piano Forte. Op. 5 0 5 0 Starkel. Three SONATAS for the Harpsichord, with Accompaniments. Op. 22 0 7 6 Millico. A Fourth set of Six ITALIAN CANZONETS, dedicated to Lady Louisa Hervey 0 5 0 Bishop. Six MINUETS and Twelve COUNTRY DANCES for the year 1788 0 2 6 Jones. Ditto ditto ditto 0 2 6 Shield. The FARMER. A comic opera, for the Voice and Harpsichord 0 6 0 * * * * * _NEW MUSIC._ This Day are Published, By J. BLAND, No. 45, Holborn, THE SONGS in Robin Hood, of “Charming Clorinda,” and “When generous Wine,” sung by Mr. Bowden, 1s. each. “When ruddy Aurora,” and “The Trump of Fame,” each 6d. “Aurora,” a ballad, 1s. He vowed to love me, Goodwin cantata; O, thou wert born to please me, a duet; Ye woods and ye mountains, an elegy; each 6d. Bland’s 13th and 14th Ladies’ Glees, each, 1s. 6d. Ditto, first vol. of ditto, bound, 18s. Periodical Ital.; song No. 35, 2s. 6d.; ditto, No. 36, 2s. 6d. Pleyel’s Sonatas, composed for the Harpsichord. Op. 7, 4s. C. I. T. L. Sonatinas, dedicated to Dr. Burney, 5s. Mozart’s Terzette, 2s. 6d. Bland’s Harpsichord Collection, Nos. 1 to 6, each, 5s. Hoffmeister’s Duetts, violin and violoncello, Op. 6 & 13, 4s. Ditto, Flute Trios 6s. Ditto, Flute Quartets, 10s. 6d. And a variety of new publications. * * * * * _OIL AND LAMP WAREHOUSE._ No. 5, New Street, Covent Garden. GEORGE DOWNING, Oil Merchant, proprietor of the above Warehouse, begs leave to offer the most proper tender of his grateful acknowledgments to the Nobility, Gentry, and public in general, for the repeated favours conferred upon him. He respectfully informs his friends, that the OIL and LAMP TRADE continues to be transacted upon the same liberal terms that first recommended him to their particular attention. N.B. Orders for Town or Country executed with punctuality. New Street, Covent Garden, Jan. 1, 1788. * * * * * _CALEDONIAN MACABAU SNUFF._ JOHN YOUNG, MANUFACTURER and VENDOR of the Hibernian high dried or Lundy Foot’s Snuff, presents his respects to the Nobility, Gentry, &c., with his Caledonian Macabau Snuff, which upon trial he is convinced will be found deserving the estimation his Irish Snuff has so justly acquired. Orders sent to his Snuff-Manufactory, No. 73 in Drury Lane, near Russell Court, will be attended to with the highest respect and gratitude. N.B. Snuffs and Tobacco in the highest perfection. * * * * * _STATIONARY._ ADAM THOMPSON, at his paper Manufacturers’ Warehouse, Hand Court, Upper Thames Street, begs leave to return to his friends sincere thanks for all past favours, and as he is now well stocked with a general and choice assortment of Writing and Printing, Wrapping, Sugar, and Blue Papers, summer made, shall be happy to receive their further orders, which shall be duly attended to on the most moderate terms. Notes and Bills taken in Payment at one, two, and three months. N.B. Has also about fifty reams French Mezzotinto Bay to be sold 20 per cent. below current price. * * * * * _NEW MUSIC._ This Day is Published, By LONGMAN and BRODERIP, No. 26, Cheapside; No. 13, Haymarket, and at their Manufactory in Tottenham Court Road, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS AND SELLERS TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, The New Comic Opera, now performing at Covent Garden Theatre, with great applause, called The Farmer, composed and compiled by Mr. Shield, 6s. Pleyel’s two Grand Sonatas Op. 7, for the Piano Forte, 4s. Pleyel’s three Trio Concertante, Op. 11, for a Violin Tenor and Violoncello, 6s. Percy’s Italian Arietta Op. 5th, 5s. Mozart’s Harpsichord Quartett, 2s. 6d. Complete Instructions for Pedal Harp, with a Selection of Favourite Songs and Sonatas by Mr. Barthelemon, 10s. 6d. Stocket’s three Sonatas, Op. 22, with accompaniments, 7s. 6d. Thomas and Susan; or, The Fortunate Tar, performed at the Royalty Theatre, 3s. 6d. Chalon’s three Duets for the Pianoforte, Op. 7th, 7s. 6d. Mozart’s Airs, with Variations, for the Pianoforte, each 2s. Breval’s easy Solos for the Violoncello, Op. 28, 7s. 6d. Clementi’s Sonata, Op. 10, 3s. Lately imported from the Continent, great variety of Harp Music, by the most Eminent Masters; together with the most distinguished New Works of the following Authors, consisting of Symphonies, Concertas, Quartetts, Trios, Duetts, Solos, and Harpsichord Sonatas by Haydn, Pleyel, Kozeluch, Mozart, Breval, Trickler, Todor, Devienne, Vanhal, Starkel, Viotti, &c. Also the Overture and Songs of Tarare, and select collections of the most favourite songs from the latest French Operas, for the Harpsichord.--Where may be seen their new-improved grand & small Piano Fortes, and Mr. Corri’s new invented Harpsichord Desk, with a Dictionary of Musical Terms, Examples, &c. Also his newly invented Piano Forte Board, with a Dictionary, &c. Each One Guinea. * * * * * _THE OPERA FANS._ To the Subscribers and Frequenters of the KING’S THEATRE. Last Saturday were published, according to Act of Parliament. THE Delivery, however, was put off till the Re-opening of the Opera House next week, for the purpose of presenting them in the best state of improvement. These FANS, calculated to present at one view both the number of boxes, including the additional ones, names of Subscribers, &c., have been carefully compared, with the plan of the House as kept at the Office, and will be sold only by the Proprietor, Mrs. H. M., No. 81, Haymarket, Where she will receive with respectful gratitude any commands from the ladies, and wait on them if required. * * * * * _HANDEL’S SUBSCRIPTION_ Dedicated by Permission to His MAJESTY This day is published, THE ELEVENTH NUMBER OF HANDEL’S WORKS. The four First Numbers comprehending the completest Score of the Oratorio of Athalia, the four following the whole of Theodora, and the remainder a large portion of the Messiah. The elegant Apotheosis of Handel will be delivered to Subscribers only with the Twelfth Number. Subscriptions are received by Dr. Arnold, No 480, Strand; Messrs. Longman and Broderip, No. 13, Haymarket; and Birchall and Co., New Bond Street. * * * * * This day is Published, Price 2s. 6d. separately, or 4s. together, AN ABRIDGMENT of the MEMORIAL Address to the KING OF FRANCE, By M. DE CALONNE, Minister of State. In FRENCH AND ENGLISH. TRANSLATED from the French by W. WALTER Printed at the _Logographic Press_, by J. WALTER, Printing House Square, Blackfriars; and sold by Messrs. Robson and Clarke, and T. Hookham, New Bond Street; P. Elmsley, Strand; Messrs. Egeron, Charing Cross; and W. Richardson, Royal Exchange. * * * * * This day is Published, Price One Shilling, CRAZY KATE A FAVOURITE BALLAD, Taken from Cowper’s Task. Set to Music, with accompaniments, By JOHN MOULDS. THE FEAST OF APOLLO, No. IV., Price One Shilling, Containing a Favourite Overture for the Piano Forte “Sans Vous, Ma Chère,” a Favourite Song “The Sailor he fears not the Roar of the Seas,” ditto London: Printed for G. Goulding, Haydn’s Head, No. 6, James Street, Covent Garden, Where may be had LA FEVRE, Taken from SIERNE. A Favourite SONG, set to Music by HAYDN, Price only Sixpence. “The Sailor he fears not the Roar of the Seas,” A Favourite SONG, set to Music, with Accompaniments, by RELFE, Price One Shilling. SANS VOUS, MA CHERE, A Favourite SONG, sung by Mr. INCLEDON at Bath, Composed by MOULDS, Price Sixpence. * * * * * ^Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.^ THIS EVENING Will be presented the revived Tragedy of The ROMAN FATHER. Horatius, Mr. Farren: Tullius Hostilius, Mr. Aickin; Valerius, Mr. Davis; and Publius, Mr. Pope. Valeria, Mrs. Merton; and Horatia, Miss Bruton. In Act V will be introduced a Roman Oration, To which will be added (6th time) a new Pantomime, called The DUMB CAKE; Or, the REGIONS OF FANCY. With new Music, Scenery, Dresses, Machinery, and Decorations. N.B. Nothing under full price will be taken. To-morrow (not acted this season), The Suspicious Husband. Ranger, Mr. LEWIS; and Clarinda, Mrs. Abingdon. * * * * * _PROPAGATION OF A LIE._ W. DICKINSON, Bond Street, has this day published a Print, from an original Drawing by H. Bunbury, Esq., representing the Propagation of a Lie, being a companion to the much admired prints of the Long Minuet. Likewise just published, An Academy for Grown Horsemen; containing the completest instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling Illustrated with Copperplates, and adorned with a Portrait of the Author, by Geoffry Cambado, Esq., Riding Master, Master of the Horse, Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice. Where likewise is published all Mr Bunbury’s elegant and caricature Prints. * * * * * _FESTIVAL OF ANACREON._ This Day is Published, Price 3s. 6d, A New Edition of THE FESTIVAL OF ANACREON, containing the Songs of Capt. Morris, Mr. Hewerdine, and other Lyric Writers, as sung at the Anacreons Society, the Beefsteak and Humbug Clubs. Published by William Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street, near Berners Street, removed from No. 66, Drury Lane. Of whom may be had, just published, A Portrait of Kitty Cut-a-Dash; a Dilly setting out from King’s Place with a Guard; History of Modern Flagellants, in seven distinct works, each of which may be had separate. Comtesse de Barre’s Whim; The Pretty Nursery Maid; My Aunt; Hal’s Looking Glass; and a large collection of Books, Pamphlets, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints for the Cabinets of the Moralist, the Politician, and the Bon Vivant. ☞ Pæans of Pleasure and Memoirs of Kitty Cut-a-Dash will be speedily published. * * * * * This day published, Price Six Shillings, in Boards, MEDICAL COMMENTARIES for the Year 1787, exhibiting a concise view of the latest and most important Discoveries in Medicine and Medical Philosophy, Collected and Published by ANDREW DUNCAN, M.D.F.R. & A.S. Edin., &c. Decade Second, Volume Second Printed for C. Elliot, T. Kay and Co., opposite Somerset Place, Strand, London; and C. Elliot, Edinburgh. Of whom may be had, Complete SETS of DECADE FIRST, from 1773 to 1785 inclusive. Ten vols. 8vo., price 3l. in boards, and 3l. 10s. bound. Also, Vol. 8, for 1781-2, Vol. 9, for 1783-4; Vol. 10, for 1785; and Vol. 1, Decade II. for 1786, at Six Shillings each, in boards. N.B. As above may be had gratis, C. Elliot, T. Kay and Co.’s Catalogue of Books, in all the different branches of Medicine, for 1788, with the lowest prices affixed. * * * * * This day are Published, Printed in One Volume, octavo, on a superfine medium paper, price 6s., in Boards, I. FAMILIAR and FRIENDLY CORRESPONDENCE of FREDERICK THE SECOND, KING OF PRUSSIA, with U. F. DE SUHM, Counsellor to the Elector of Saxony. II. Handsomely printed, in 2 vols., large octavo, on a superfine medium paper, price 12s. in Boards, A SELECTION from the WORKS of FRANCIS LORD BACON, Viscount St. Alban, consisting of his ESSAYS on Civil, Moral, Literary, and Political Subjects; the Advancement of Learning, System of Moral Philosophy, Theology, &c., and his celebrated History of Life and Death, together with his own Life, by Dr. WILLYMOTT. III. In 2 vols., 8vo, on a Superfine Medium Paper, Price 12s. in Boards, illustrated with Copperplates, A new and elegant Edition of DR. DERHAM’S PHYSICO and ASTRO THEOLOGY; the first contains a Demonstration of the Being and the Attributes of God from his Works of the Creation; the second, a General Survey of the Heavens, with considerable notes and many curious Observations. IV. In Three Volumes, Price 9s. sewed, The MINIATURE PICTURES, OR, PLATONIC MARRIAGE A NEW NOVEL, By MRS. CARTWRIGHT This Lady displays throughout the work a perfect knowledge of the human passions, and the characters are portrayed in the most chaste and elegant language. V. Elegantly printed, in a small pocket volume, on superfine Writing Paper, Price 2s. 6d. sewed in Marble Paper, A New Edition, being the third, of LETTERS which passed between an ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGE and a LADY OF HONOUR at Brighton. London: Printed at the _Logographic Press_, by J. Walters, Printing House Square, Blackfriars, and sold by T. Longman, Paternoster Row; Robson and Clarke, New Bond Street; and W. 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Parisian intelligence shall likewise have insertion without fail. * * * * * _TO THE PUBLIC._ VERBAL _thanks_, however warm in expression, cannot be considered the criterion of GRATITUDE. DEEDS, not _words_, prove _sincerity_, and by future endeavours to entertain and inform, THE TIMES will evince their _zeal_ in the service of THE PUBLIC, and their _feelings_ for the favours bestowed upon the UNIVERSAL REGISTER. MR. WALTER, _patentee_ of the _Logographic Press_, cannot omit his tribute of thanks for the very great encouragement which his endeavours to improve the art of printing have experienced--notwithstanding the unjust and illiberal measures adopted to impede its progress and injure him. An accurate statement of these mean and invidious practices he is determined to lay before the public in a pamphlet on a future day; at present he will only mention a very recent one. THE DAILY ADVERTISER being generally read by the lower orders of the people, he offered at its office an Advertisement for several apprentices, which MR. JENOUR, the Printer, refused to insert, though he had received payment several days preceding. * * * * * LONDON. Last night her Majesty had a concert of vocal and instrumental music at the Palace at Windsor. The 7th of this month is fixed for the celebration of the marriage of the Archduke of Austria and the Princess Elizabeth of Wirtemberg.--The ceremony will be performed at Vienna. The great heiress, Miss Pulteney, the daughter of William Pulteney, Esq., came of age last Thursday.--The entertainments on the occasion were very splendid, and the celebration kept at Shrewsbury. The indisposition of Lord Salisbury is a public evil; and to do his Herefordshire neighbours justice they think so, independent of their Christmas disappointment. Other and honourable feelings operate more upon the occasion. Great expectations are formed of Mr. _Fitzherbert’s_ talents in the important post to which he has lately been appointed; and we are ready to believe that he will amply fulfil them. But of this we are rather certain, that however he may surmount the attacks of the _Hibernian_ politicians, if the jolly fellows once get him amongst them, they will soon make him feel a _want of understanding_. The MINISTER, among his late acquisitions, his obtained a gift of an _under_ WAISTCOTE, which, however, he has ordered to be _hung up_ in his wardrobe, not wishing to wear near his _heart_ a vestment that has come from the enemy, and which, like the _shirt_ presented by _Dejianira_ to _Hercules_, is probably _poisoned_, and would rather raise a _blister_ than prove of salutary effect. The _information_ offered by the DESERTER from the _political_ BANDITTI meets with no credit in _Court_; it having been repeatedly determined at the Sessions house in _the Old Bailey_ that an _approver_, vulgarly called a _King’s Evidence_, shall have no _credit_ with _good men_ and _true_, unless his testimony be supported by witnesses of _honest fame_. A few days since died Dr. Isaac Mann, Bishop of Cork and Ross, in Ireland, and Archdeacon of Dublin. The Marquis of Buckingham by the above event is singularly fortunate, by having it in his power during the first week of his administration to bestow a mitre on one of his chaplains. The declining state of the King of _Spain_ naturally turns the attention of political observers to that quarter--as a system of measures very hostile to the views of _France_, and subversive of that tyranny which it has so long exercised at the Court of _Madrid_, may possibly be adopted. It is said, and the idea has long met with a current belief, that the Prince of Austria is well acquainted with the true interests of his country, and will when the power is his effectually promote them. The public events of Holland are known to every one who can and will read the newspapers, but they alone who are able to get a peep into private correspondence can be informed, though they will not all of them _believe_, that _Lord Beauchamp_ is actually giving dinners--aye, and good dinners too--at the _Hague_. * * * * * _THE TIMES._ Why change the head? This question will naturally come from the Public--and _we_ the TIMES, being the PUBLIC’S most humble and most obedient Servants, think ourselves bound to answer. All things have _heads_--and all _heads_ are liable to _change_-- Every sentence and opinion advanced and supported by Mr. _Shandy_, on the influence and utility of a well-chosen surname, may be properly applied in shewing the recommendations and advantages which result from placing a striking title-page before a book, or an inviting HEAD on the front page of a NEWS-PAPER. A HEAD so placed, like those _heads_ which once ornamented _Temple Bar_, or those of the _Great Attorney_ or _Great Contractor_ which, not long since, were conspicuously elevated for their _great actions_, and were exhibited in _wooden frames_, at the _East_ and _West_-ends of this metropolis, never fails of attracting the eyes of passengers, though indeed we do not expect to experience the lenity shewn to these _great exhibitors_; for probably THE TIMES will be pelted without mercy. But then a _head_ with a _good face_ is a harbinger or gentleman usher that often strongly recommends even DULNESS, FOLLY, IMMORALITY, or VICE--The immortal LOCKE gives evidence to the truth of this observation. That great philosopher has declared that, though repeatedly taken in, he never could withstand the solicitations of a well-drawn title-page--authority sufficient to justify _us_ in assuming a _new head_, with a _new set of features_, but not with a design to impose; for we flatter ourselves the HEADS of THE TIMES will not be found deficient in _intellects_, but by putting a _new face_ on affairs, will be admired for the _light_ of its _countenance_ wherever it appears. To advert to our first position. THE UNIVERSAL REGISTER has been a name as injurious to the _Logographic News-Paper_ as TRISTRAM was to MR. 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THE UNIVERSAL REGISTER, from the day of its first appearance to the day of its _confirmation_ has like TRISTRAM suffered from innumerable casualities, both laughable and serious, arising from its _name_, which on its introduction was immediately curtailed of its fair proportion by all who called for it, the word _Universal_ being _universally_ omitted, and the word _Register_, only, being retained. “Boy, bring me the _Register_.” The waiter answers, “Sir, we have not a library, but you may see it at the _New Exchange Coffee House_.” “Then I’ll see it there,” answers the disappointed politician, and he goes to the _New Exchange_ and calls for the _Register_; upon which the waiter tells him he cannot have it if he is not a subscriber--or presents him with the Court and City Register, the _Old Annual Register_, or the _New Annual Register_; or if the Coffee House be within the Purlieus of Covent Garden, or the Hundreds of Drury--slips into the politician’s hand “_Harris’s Register_ of Ladies.” For these and other reasons, the parents of the UNIVERSAL REGISTER have added to its original name that of the _TIMES,_ Which, being a _monosyllable_, bids defiance to _corrupters_ and _mutilaters_ of the language. THE TIMES! What a monstrous name! Granted--for THE TIMES _is_ a many-headed monster that speaks with a hundred tongues, and displays a thousand characters, and in the course of _its_ transformations in life assumes innumerable shapes and humours. The critical reader will observe we personify our _new name_, but as we give it no distinction of sex, and though _it_ will be _active_ in _its_ vocations, yet we apply to _it_ the _neuter gender_. THE TIMES, being formed of materials and possessing qualities of opposite and heterogeneous natures, cannot be classed either in the animal or vegetable _genus_; but like the _Polypus_ is doubtful, and in the discussion, description, dissection, and illustration, will employ the pens of the most celebrated of the _Literati_. THE HEADS OF THE TIMES, as has been said, are many; they will however not always appear at the same time, but casually, as public or private affairs may call them forth. The principal or leading heads are-- The LITERARY, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, CRITICAL, THEATRICAL, FASHIONABLE, HUMOUROUS, WITTY, &c., &c. Each of which are supplied with a competent share of intellects for the pursuit of their several functions; an endowment which is not in _all time_ to be found even in the HEADS of the _State_--The _heads_ of the _Church_--the _heads_ of the _Law_--the _heads_ of the _Navy_--the _heads_ of the _Army_--and though _last_, not _least_, the _great heads_ of the _Universities_. The _Political Head_ of THE TIMES, like that of _Janus_, the Roman Deity, is double faced; with one countenance it will smile continually on the _friends_ of _Old England_, and with the other will frown incessantly on her _enemies_. The alteration we have made in our _head_ is not without precedents. The WORLD has parted with half of its CAPUT MORTUUM and a moiety of its brains. The HERALD has cut off half of its head, and has lost its original humour. The POST, it is true, retains its whole head and its old features; and as to the other public prints, they appear as having neither _heads_ nor _tails_. On the PARLIAMENTARY HEAD every communication that ability and industry can produce may be expected. To this great _National object_ THE TIMES will be most sedulously attentive, most accurately correct, and strictly impartial in its reports. * * * * * THEATRE. _Drury Lane._ Hamlet--whose doom, at least this season, has unfortunately been “to walk the night and strut to empty benches”--performed yesterday evening its accustomed _penance_ in lieu of Tamerlane. Were not this excellent tragedy so often used “on the spur of the occasion,” we think such admirable acting as Kemble’s Prince of _Denmark_ would meet with more _attendance_--more of applause it could not have. Mrs. Ward’s performance of the _Queen_ is the best proof of Mrs. Siddon’s assertion, that “Gertrude had more good points about her than the critics were aware of.” Mrs. Ward’s distracted _look_ in the closet scene aided most powerfully Kemble’s piteous exclamation of, “On _him!_ on _him!_” Indeed, the noble delineation of that difficult character did much credit to this rising actress. * * * * * _Covent Garden._ “Henry the Fourth,” with Ryder’s Falstaff, ended the year _merrily_ at this Theatre. The house was remarkably full, and the lower boxes had most of the fashionable _amateurs_ in town. The Falstaff of Ryder, though not perfection, is yet respectable, and is the more welcome, with “all its imperfections upon its head,” as disappointing the general assertion that Falstaff _died_ with _Henderson_. Among the most pleasing and prominent features were his address to the _gang_ on Gadds Hill--“By the _Lord_, I _knew_ you”--to the Prince, and soliloquy on _honour_. The description of his _company_ was also replete with humour. Edwin’s kind donation of the _sugar candy_ was particularly welcome to Lewis, who was most villainously hoarse. The scene of Anon! anon! Sir, of course lost much of its effect. * * * * * REHEARSAL OF NEW YEAR’S ODE. Mr. Cramer led the band at the rehearsal yesterday, in _Hickford’s Rooms, Brewer’s Street_. The Overture consisted of three movements, in the second of which Mr. Parke’s oboe was distinguished in a Solo accompanied by the Violincello. Mr. Sale opened the vocal part in a recitative and air-- “Rude was the Pile, and massy Roof.” He was followed by Doctor Hayes, who executed an air with great applause. Master Carnaby, one of the King’s Boys, sung a verse sweetly, beginning, “When to the King.” In the cantibile at the close, he rather failed in his execution, which was very excusable in a first essay before so many capital masters. A most rich and beautiful symphony preceded Mr. Dyne’s air. “Proud Castle, to thy banner’d Bowers.” It was much admired for its simplicity, it being conceived in the captivating manner of the late Doctor Arne, with this addition, that the accompanyments were much richer. The music finished with a very powerful chorus, “Albion, arouse,” but there were not voices sufficient to to do it justice. The DUKE OF CUMBERLAND and near two hundred ladies and gentlemen were present. Previous to the performance, the minuets for the Queen’s birthday were as usual played over, two of which seemed to have a considerable share of novelty and merit. * * * * * _THE CUCKOO_ _Cuckoo! Cuckoo!_ Repeated the little piece of _machinery_ which LADY WALLIS had conveyed into her _muff_, when she visited the COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON’S chapel. The _preacher_ raised up his eyes with amazement. _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine. “O word unpleasing to a married ear.” Messrs. A., B., and C. rubbed their _foreheads_, and looked upon the _preacher_. The _preacher_ went on with his discourse: “_fornicators and adulterers_ shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine. The _preacher_ proceeded till he came to another quotation: “Saul! Saul! why persecutes thou me?” _Cuckoo!_ repeated the machine. LADY BRISTOL, more _notoriously_ known by her assumed title, the DUCHESS OF KINGSTON, had lately been _seized_ with a longing to revisit her native country. Her Ladyship declares she has for a considerable time past felt the _amor patria_, and wishes for a _private_ conversation with his Majesty’s Ministers, for the purpose of laying before them the _true state_ of the Empress of Russia’s _private affairs_. We are rejoiced for the best reason in the world--because it will promote the joy of others--that the report of _Mrs. Hobart_ having retired from the _Richmond Theatre_ is entirely without foundation. Where mirth, good humour, and elegant festivity prevail, especially if they should be heightened by the comic scene, Mrs. _Hobart_ cannot be easily spared. On Friday evening, there was a private concert at the house of Mr. Billington, in Poland Street, at which there were some of the _first-characters_ in the kingdom. A more particular account of it probably will be given in this paper on a future day. Though clearing the gallery of the COMMONS of strangers be a _standing order_, which any _member_ may insist upon without being seconded, yet SIR GREGORY would not venture to put it in execution without consulting his _Lady_: who, after examining the premises, has given her opinion that _such things_ ought not to be _sported_ or _trifled_ with. SIR THOMAS BEAVER and MAJOR MONEY have commenced _Literary hostilities_, through the medium of the _Norwich Mercury_; their ammunition is of inflammable materials--more, however, of _brimstone_ than of _salt_, and _charcoal_ in great abundance. As this Paper has traced _every incident_ respecting LORD GEORGE GORDON for several months past, it takes the liberty of announcing his Lordship’s return to St. George’s Fields _early_ in the ensuing term. LORD GEORGE GORDON is preparing to _beard_ Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL on the question of bail; and Mr. _Attorney_ on his part is preparing a _cutting_ argument for _trimming Lord George_, but though his Lordship has been so long in the _suds_, it is not thought that _shaving_ will take place till _the day of Judgement_. The paragraph which appeared in a certain respectable Morning Print, relative to the discharge of a person from St. James’s, for having paid a grateful attention to Lord George in his distresses is, however, not true; indeed, the report was too _ungracious_ to be so. O QUACKERY! where wilt thou end? O PHYSIC, when are thy disgraces to terminate? There are at this time a practitioner in town, who says to his patients--“Use my _wegetable_, follow my _regiment_, and never fear it will _radicate_ all your _pectril_ complaints.” Such a character should not escape the animadversion of THE TIMES; but of _this here_ Doctor more anon--when _The Times_ have leisure. Yesterday the Purser of the Dutton, Captain Hunt, for Bombay and China, received his final dispatches from the India House. It is really surprising that Bedford Street, one of the great leading avenues to the Strand, should continue to remain in so confined a state towards the bottom; it resembles a great bottle with a small neck; there is not literally at its entrance from the Strand room for two coaches to go abreast, yet forty yards higher it is roomy and spacious. If the houses which form so great a bulk on the right hand, where Cater the Pawnbroker now lives, were thrown down, and an elegant range of new buildings to match the opposite corner, where Mess. Humble and Henderson’s upholstery warehouse is, it would certainly be equally commodious with either Catherine or Southampton Street. During the late memorable contest between Johnson and Ryan, in the last _set to_ Ryan trod upon Johnstone’s great toe, and by the violence of the struggle lacerated the nail wholly from it. Johnstone was at this instant observed to turn pale. When they were disengaged Johnstone was so much irritated, that making a blow at Ryan, whom he missed, he struck one of the uprights of the stage, which shook it in an incredible manner, the next blow that Johnstone made was aimed at the chest, in which he succeeded, and this terminated the contest. Johnstone then asked Ryan if he had enough; to which he replied, “I’ve had enough these six minutes, but to oblige my friends, I have _stood up_.” Johnson’s hand was much bruised and black for some time after by the blow against the upright, and we hear he has not yet recovered of the hurt which his toe received in the encounter. The spirit with which the Lord Mayor threatens the pack of _Bullock Drivers_ in amongst the first fruits of his administration, which promise it to be, as we hope it will prove, an administration of effect. As for our part, we cannot be convinced that the power of the magistracy in the metropolis and its suburbs is not equal to the correction of the numerous disgraceful abuses which infect its jurisdiction. A tradesman of St Alban’s being asked why the King, after his fatigue on Saturday, quitted the town with so much precipitation, replied with some humour, “because his Majesty had no inclination to dine with _Duke Humphrey_.” Saturday morning, several of the felons in the New Goal in the Borough made an attempt to escape, but were overheard by the Keeper, when two of the principals were properly secured in the strong room. * * * * * This day is Published, Price 1s. the book, and 8d. the sheet, Elegantly printed in a size which may be enclosed in a Pocket Book, TRUSLER’S CLERICAL and UNIVERSAL ALMANACK for the year 1788. Which contains a greater variety of matter than any other now published; and though in a small size has the lists of Lords and Commons, New Taxes, and is a complete Court Register in a much lesser compass. London: Printed at the _Logographic Press_: and sold by all the Booksellers. * * * * * _GAME OF WHIST._ This day is published, Price fourpence, or four for a shilling to give away, BOB SHORT’S RULES of the GAME of WHIST, _improved_ by the addition of the Laws of WHIST, as now played at Brookes’s, Bath, &c. Printed for John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, of whom may be had, price One Shilling, EVERY MAN A GOOD CARD PLAYER, Or Rules for playing the Game of Whist, Quadrille, Picquet, Lansquenet and Quinze. By a MEMBER of the JOCKEY CLUB. * * * * * _VALUABLE NEW YEAR’S GIFTS._ This day was published, Price Two Shillings, sewed, Or Three shillings neatly bound and gilt, A NEW and Beautiful Edition of TOMKINS’ SELECTION OF POEMS, to enforce the practice of Virtue. Printed for John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, of whom may be had, the same size and price, THE BEAUTIES OF BLAIR’S SERMONS, Selected with a view to refine the taste, Rectify the judgment, and mould the heart to Virtue. * * * * * This day is published, Handsomely printed, in one volume, 12mo, Price two shillings and sixpence, sewed, THE INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF HENRY MASERS DE LATUDE, during a confinement of Thirty-five years in the State Prisons of FRANCE; giving an historical account of those lamentable places of abode for those unhappy persons who fall under their cruel power; of the Means he used to escape once from the Bastille and twice from the dungeons of Vincennes, with the consequences of those attempts; the whole forming a Series of Events and Perseverance (under the most dreadful apprehension) scarcely to be thought possible for the Human Mind to sustain, and which will be found unparalleled in the Annals of History. Written by HIMSELF. Together with REMARKS of the TRANSLATOR on the utility and necessity of the LETTRES DE CACHET, with respect to the manners and constitution of France. The above work was privately printed and circulated at Paris; the public sale being suppressed, as it contained many circumstances the French Military wished to conceal from the Public Eye. Printed for the Editor, at the Logographic Press, and sold by Robson and Clarke, New Bond Street; T. Longman, Paternoster Row; and W. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange. * * * * * This day is published, The THIRD EDITION of HISTORIES OF CURES performed by Mr. RUSPINI’S STYPTIC SOLUTION. Amongst others of the greatest importance, is a cure lately communicated to Mr. Ruspini by the Surgeon of the Royal Hospital of Haslar, Portsmouth, of a Sailor whose arm was so shattered to pieces by the explosion of a cannon, that amputating the limb near the shoulder became absolutely necessary. The usual means by legature for restraining the hamorrhage proving abortive, by its proceeding from within the bone, induced the Surgeon, as the only remaining chance, to use the Styptic Liquor. It was applied, and the bleeding soon stopped. It proceeds to inform Mr. Ruspini that had not the Styptic answered this great purpose, the last and only remedy appeared to be a second amputation in the shoulder joint. London: Printed for J. Johnston, Bookseller, St. Paul’s Church Yard: and to be had also of Mr. Ruspini, Surgeon Dentist to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; and at Mr. Ruspini’s, Jun., Bath. * * * * * THIS DAY is published. Beautifully printed in Quarto, upon a Superfine Medium Paper, DEDICATED by permission to the Right Hon. W. PITT, NUMBER I. 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WANTED, A YOUNG GENTLEMAN of respectable parents, as an APPRENTICE to a LINEN DRAPER in a House of very extensive Business, the West end of the Town. A Genteel premium will be expected, as he will be treated as one of the family. For particulars, enquire of Mr. Holl, Printing House Square, Blackfriars. * * * * * _LODGINGS IN SURREY,_ Within three or four miles of London Bridge, in a dry, well-seasoned House. TWO Bed-Chambers and a Dining-Room, large, handsome, airy, and well furnished, will be wanted on Monday, the 7th of January, for a month’s trial. Letters addressed to X., at Lloyd’s Coffeehouse, describing particulars and terms, will be attended to on Friday or Saturday next. * * * * * _TO BE LETT,_ And entered upon Immediately, TWO good Dwelling Houses, situated in Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, late in the possession of Mr. Gregory and Mr. Southwell. 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Sold in Boxes, One Shilling each; small ditto, 6d. * * * * * _ENGLISH STATE LOTTERY._ Begins Drawing FEBRUARY 11, 1788. RICHARDSON and GOODLUCK respectfully inform the public that the TICKETS are SOLD and divided into Half, Quarter, Eighth, and Sixteenth SHARES, at their licensed State Lottery Offices, in the Bank Buildings, Cornhill, and opposite the King’s Mews, Charing Cross, where every business of the Lottery is transacted with correctness and fidelity. _N.B._ In the last and TWO preceding Lotteries the following CAPITAL PRIZES have been sold and shared at the above Office, viz.:-- Sold in Shares No. 48,577 a Prize of £20,000. 23,148 10,000. 27,964 10,000. 41,827 5,000. 33,599 5,000. 22,740 5,000. Whole Tickets No 968 a Prize of £20,000. 4,196 10,000. 5,473 5,000. 18,179 5,000. 3,605 5,000. Besides many of Two Thousand, One Thousand, and Five Hundred Pounds. Country Correspondents may have Tickets and Shares sent them by remitting good Bills, payable at sight or of a short date. All Shares sold at the above Offices are stamped agreeable to Act of Parliament. Tickets registered at Six-pence each, and the earliest Intelligence sent of their success. ⁂ Money for the Prizes will be paid at the above Offices as soon as drawn. * * * * * (No. 50) _LOMBARD STREET._ January 1st, 1788 MESSRS. SHERGOLD and CO. most respectfully offer their sincere Thanks and grateful acknowledgements to a liberal and discerning Public for the very great Measure of Confidence and Favours recently added to the obligations they owe their Friends during a series of many Years and upon repeated Occasions. Without adopting the Parade and Nonsense which renders some of their contemporaries ridiculous, they can make the best possible Appeal for the Integrity and Honor of their actions--an Appeal to the Voice and to the Judgment of the Public. They will not vaunt the Encouragement and Preference they have received from all Ranks, but leave the World to judge by Enquiry and the general Opinion how far they have distanced all Competitors in extent of Business and of universal Esteem. THE success of their House to Adventurers has kept Pace with the stability of its engagements. A great Number of CAPITAL PRIZES have been added to their former numerous catalogue, and in particular a 5,000l., paid to a respectable Shopkeeper in the _Borough_, who will readily bear Testimony to the Alacrity and Promptitude he experienced. MESSRS. SHERGOLD and CO. acquaint the Subscribers to the IRISH LOTTERY that the Tickets to be given _Gratis_, agreeable to their Terms, will be ready to deliver on Thursday, the 17th of January inst., and they earnestly request their friends will call for and receive them before the 12th of February. THEY hope their conduct will warrant them to expect a continuance of the Friendship and Recommendation of their Patrons in the ENGLISH LOTTERY, who may be assured that the same line of Rectitude will be strictly adhered to which has uniformly distinguished all their Proceedings. * * * * * _A PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC._ For the better Security of those who purchase SHARES of LOTTERY TICKETS, HORNSBY and CO., Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, at their old-established office, No. 26, Cornhill, ever anxious to merit the favours they so extensively receive from their friends in town and country, propose the following amendment of the Act for regulating the Sharing of Tickets. The Act, as it now stands, enables every Office Keeper to take away the Ticket (which is deposited at the time of sharing in the hands of the Commissioners) three days after the said Ticket is drawn; in which case the security is every way incomplete, because those purchasers of Shares who live at a distance from the Metropolis may not receive intelligence of the fate of the Ticket in time to make the demand before the said Ticket is received back from the Commissioners, and possibly disposed of. Whereas, if the Act extended the time for a certain number of weeks, there would be an opportunity for application to be made for each respective share before the ticket could be withdrawn. To give, however, the friends of Hornsby and Co. every possible confidence in the fairness and integrity of their transactions, and in order to obviate the most distant suspicion of insecurity, they hereby publicly declare and engage that every ticket which is shared by them and deposited in the hands of the Commissioners, shall remain so deposited for one whole calendar Month after the drawing of the Lottery is finished, and that notwithstanding they will continue, as they always have done, to pay upon demand every share of a prize that may be drawn in the ensuing English Lottery, from a 20l. prize to a 20,000l. * * * * * VICTUALLING OFFICE. 29th December, 1787. _THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That there is money in the hands of the Treasurer of His Majesty’s Navy to pay the Principal and Interest of the Bills registered in the course of the Victualling for three months ending the 31st of January, 1787, in order that the Persons possessed of such Bills may bring them to this Office to be assigned for payment._ _And all persons who hold the said Bills are desired to subscribe their names and places of abode at the bottom of each Bill._ * * * * * VICTUALLING OFFICE. 24th December, 1787. _THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That, on Tuesday the 8th of January next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat with such persons as will undertake to supply Fresh Beef and Sea Provisions to his Majesty’s Ships and Vessels at Liverpool, which will be paid for by Bills in Course._ _The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the Secretary’s Office, at this Office, or by applying to the Collector of His Majesty’s Customs, at Liverpool._ _And all persons who may think proper to make Tenders upon the said occasion are desired to take Notice, That, no Regard will be had to any Tender that shall not be delivered before 1 o’clock on the said 8th January next, nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer for him when called for. And that none that contain extravagant prices upon some articles, and prices much inferior to the real value on others, will be considered as proper to be attended to._ * * * * * _CHELSEA HOSPITAL._ Dec 28th, 1787. THESE are by Order of the Right Hon. my Lords and others, Commissioners for the Affairs of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, to give Notice that all Out-Pensions (as well Lettermen as others) belonging to the said Hospital, residing in London or within twenty-five miles thereof, are required to appear personally at the Secretary’s Office in the said Hospital; and are required also, to appear regimentally on the respective days appointed for them as are hereafter mentioned, when attendance will be given from nine o’clock in the morning till three in the afternoon, in order to register their appearances, viz.:-- Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 1788. The Pensioners from the 1st, 2nd, and late 3rd and 4th Troops of Horse Guards--Royal Horse Guards Blues; 3rd, 4th, and 7th Regiments of Horse; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments of Dragoon Guards; and all the Dragoons within the British Legion. Friday, Jan. 4th. The First and Second Regiments of Foot Guards. Saturday, Jan. 5th. Those from the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, and the Pensioners from the First to the Thirteenth Regiments of Foot inclusive. Monday, Jan. 7th. Those from the Fourteenth to the Forty-fifth Regiments of Foot inclusive. Tuesday, Jan. 8th. Those from the Forty-sixth to the Ninetieth Regiments of Foot inclusive. Wednesday, Jan. 9th. Those from the Ninety-first to the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiments of Foot inclusive, the Pensioners from Lord Strathaven’s, Major Waller’s, Olford’s, and Triik’s Corps, the Royal Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Quick’s Rangers, Fencibles in North Britain, Cinque Ports and Lancashire Volunteers, with all the American and other corps. Those from the Militia, as also the Pensioners from the ten reduced Regiments of Marine, those from the broken Regiments of Foot, those discharged from the Scotch castles, the Independent Companies abroad, and those who have been In-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, Lettermen and men at Ninepence per day. And that all Out-pensioners (as well Lettermen as others) belonging to the said Hospital, who live at a greater distance than 25 miles from London, and those in Scotland and Ireland, are hereby required and commanded that after the 25th of December, and after every succeeding 25th of June and December, till further orders, they forthwith apply themselves to one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the neighbourhood where they reside, and make the following affidavit, which the said magistrate for the county, city, borough, or riding, before whom the Pensioners appear shall sign and date, viz.:--                                    came before me, one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of            and made oath that he was admitted an Out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital on the   day of          17   from the         Regiment of commanded by            was then aged about    years, served in the army    year, was discharged for            and that he is no otherwise provided for by the Government but as a Pensioner of the said College; and now lives in the Parish of            in the County of           . Sworn before me this      day of          17  . The Affidavits, drawn according to the above form, sworn before, dated and attested by a magistrate, is to be put up in a cover, and sent by the General Post (directed thus): To the Right Honourable the Paymaster General, at the Horse Guards, London; and that counterparts or duplicates of the said affidavits are to be reserved by the Out-pensioners respectively, to be exhibited to such persons as shall be directed to pay them; that they may be satisfied that all such as may claim Out-pensions are the real persons entitled to receive the same. To the end that the said Commissioners for the affairs of the Hospital may be satisfied that they are the same persons who have passed their examinations, the Pensioners are hereby further directed that such of them as have served, and have been discharged from any of the Regiments, or Independent Companies of Invalids, are not to mention in their affidavits such Regiment or Company in which they served, but the Regiment, Troop, or Corps of the Army from which they were first discharged, and recommended and received to Chelsea Hospital. And as the general payments in Great Britain and Ireland at the end of the ensuing six months are chiefly regulated by the places of residence mentioned by the Pensioners, who are mustered at Chelsea in person, or in the body of the affidavits of such as live at a distance, it is hereby ordered and directed that no Pensioner who shall change the place of his abode given at his muster, or specified in his Affidavit aforesaid, and who may apply for his pension, except to the offices of Excise nearest such places of abode, shall receive the same unless it appear by the Certificates of respectable persons that such removal was through some unavoidable necessity, which he nor they could not foresee or prevent. Lastly, it is notified that none will be entered upon the Pay List of the said Hospital, or be thought entitled to receive any benefit therefrom, who shall not act agreeable to these orders and direction. SAMUEL ESTWICK, Secretary and Register. * * * * * NAVY OFFICE. Dec. 10, 1787. _THE Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give notice that, on Thursday, the 3rd of Jan. next, at one o’clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying the Slop Office here with Deal Cases for packing Slops._ _The Particulars may be seen in the lobby here. No letter will be received as a tender unless the writer, or an agent for him, attends; nor will any be received after twelve o’clock._ * * * * * NAVY OFFICE. December 29, 1787. _THE Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give notice that all Bills registered in the Course of the Navy for the Months of November and December, 1786, and January, 1787, are ordered to be paid in money, that all persons who are possessed of the same may bring them to this office to be assigned to the Treasurer of the Navy for payment._ _All persons who hold the said Bills are to subscribe their names and place of abode at the bottom of each Bill._ * * * * * VICTUALLING OFFICE. 27th November, 1787. _THE Commissioners for Victualling his Majesty’s Navy do hereby give Notice, That, on Tuesday, the 29th of January next, they will be to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat with such persons as will undertake to furnish their Agent at Gibraltar with whatever sums of money the service of His Majesty’s Victualling that Place may thereafter require._ _The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at the Secretary’s Office. And all persons who may think proper to make tenders upon the said Occasion are desired to take notice that no regard will be had to any Tender that shall not be delivered to the Board before one o’clock on the said 29th January next; nor unless the person who makes the Tender, or some person on his behalf, attends to answer for him when called for._ * * * * * FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, _Yesterday arrived with the Mails from Holland and Flanders._ _Warsaw, Dec. 5._ THE Waywodes of Volchinia and Podolia have sent three deputies here to make representations to the King and the permanent Council, with respect to the delivery of the corn that has been demanded by the Russian Army encamped in Poland. These Deputies have had an audience at the last meeting of the Supreme Council, at which they solicited, “That the King and Supreme Council would be pleased to devise means, which by preventing famine, terminating the grievances of the inhabitants, and quieting dissensions, might strengthen and give efficacy to the resolutions of the nobility, the more so as these resolutions are consonant to the principles of justice and equity.” These Waywodes had a meeting in pursuance of these resolutions: “For chusing an appointed place to establish a general magazine, to which every person might bring whatever he possesses superfluous, and deliver it to the Directors of the Stores. The Troops of the Republic shall be provided for out of this general deposit of the country, after which what remains will be sold to the Russians at the market price, agreeable to the declaration of Count Romanzow, upon the entry into Poland.” Count Romanzow has taken possession of Talzyn, nine miles from the frontiers of Turkey, and the army encamped in Poland under his command will winter in the neighbourhood of that place. The Waywode of Russian Lithuania, Count Petocki, has established his general quarters at Mohibow. This patriotic vigilant General visits all the advance posts in person. By accounts from our frontiers we learn that eleven commanders who served in the last unsuccessful attack upon Kinburn, and to whose imprudence the failure of this enterprise was attributed, have been executed; their heads were cut off and exhibited at the gate of the seraglio, upon spears. _Frankfort, Dec. 14._--On the 11th of this month the reformers established in this city have got permission to follow the duties of their religion in private houses, until their churches shall be finished. The Elector of Mentz has ordained for the future that Lutherans shall be capable of civil employments, and he has nominated as Counsellor of the present Regency Graberg, a Lutheran Doctor. This is the first example of this kind since 1709. _Constantinople, Nov. 10._--On the 30th of October there was a grand meeting of the principal ministers for examining the Dispatches that were brought by two couriers, the one from Vienna and the other from Paris; the result of which is that the Porte answers, “That the restoration of a durable peace must be impossible as long as Russia keeps possession of the Crimea, and the chief article of the preliminaries must be that Russia do consent to the re-establishment of the new Chan in all the rights of sovereignty which that prince may claim upon Little Tartary by virtue of his Highness’s proclamation.” _Paris, Dec. 25._--The Commissioners appointed for the Edict of the Protestants have not as yet concluded their business, although they are very assiduous. Mr. de Calonne during his administration created sixty offices of stockbrokers for transacting financial business, at the rate of 100,000 livres each, who had individually a salary of 5000 livres. It is in agitation to augment these offices to 100 by adding 40 more. _Rotterdam, Dec. 25._--Friday morning the Commissioners of his Highness the Stadtholder arrived here, for changing the regency: they landed with discharge of cannon and a great concourse of people; they were complimented by the burgomasters. * * * * * This morning the following ODE for the NEW YEAR, written by Mr. WHARTON and set to Music by Mr. PARSONS, will be performed at ST JAMES’s. I. RUDE was the pile, and massy proof, That first uprear’d its haughty roof On Windsor’s brow sublime, in warlike state; The Norman tyrant’s jealous hand The giant fabric proudly plann’d; With recent victory elate, “On this majestic steep,” he cried, “A regal fortress, threatening wide, Shall spread my terrors to the distant hills, Its formidable shade shall throw Far o’er the broad expanse below, Where winds yon mighty flood, and amply fills With flow’ry verdure, or with golden grain, The fairest fields that deck my new domain, And London’s Towers that reach the watchman’s eye Shall see with conscious awe my bulwarks climb the sky.” II. Unchang’d through many a hardy race Stood the rough dome in fallen grace; Still on its angry front defiance frown’d, Though monarchs kept their state within, Still murmur’d with the martial din The gloomy gateway arch profound, And armed forms in airy rows, Bent o’er the battlements their bows, And blood-stained banners crown’d its hostile head. And oft its hoary ramparts wore The rugged scars of conflict sore, What time, pavillion’d on the neighb’ring mead The indignant Barons rang’d in bright array Their feudal bands to curb despotic sway, And, leagued a Briton’s birthright to restore, From JOHN’s reluctant grasp the roll of freedom bore. III. When lo, the King that wreathed his shield With lilies pluck’d on Cressy’s field Heav’d from its base the mouldering Norman frame. New glory cloath’d the exulting steep, The portals tower’d with ampler sweep, And Valour’s softened Genius came, Here held his pomp and trained the pall Of triumph through the trophied hall; And War was clad awhile in gorgeous weeds, Amid the martial pageantries; While Beauty’s glance adjudged the prize, And beamed sweet influence an heroic deeds. Nor long ere HENRY’s holy zeal to breath A milder charm upon the scenes beneath, Rear’d in the watery glade his classic shrine, And called his stripling squire to woo the willing Nine. IV. To this imperial seat to lend Its pride supreme, and nobly blend British Magnificence with Attic Art. Proud Castle, to thy banner’d bowers, Lo! Picture bids her glowing powers Their bold historic groups impart; She bids the illuminated pane, Along thy lofty vaulted Fane, Shed the dim blaze of radiance richly clear.-- Still may such arts of peace engage Their patron’s care; but should the rage Of War to Battle rouse the new-born year, Britain, arise, and wake the slumbering fire, Vindictive dart thy quick rekindling ire, Or armed to strike in mercy, spare the foe, And lift thy thundering hand, and then withhold the blow. [Illustration] OPTICAL EXHIBITION.--No. 331, facing Somerset House, Strand, by his Majesty’s Special Appointment, the various beautiful and almost incredible effects of Mr. Jones’ new invented Optical Instrument, for copying drawings, paintings, natural flowers, insects, &c., it giving the true likeness on paper, to any size, either as large as life, or as small as miniature, in one minute, with all their proper colours, either by day or candle light. Price Two Guineas each, with proper directions. Likewise the Reflecting Mirror, at One Guinea, for taking perfect Likenesses, Landscapes, &c., and several other curious Optical and Mathematical Instruments of New Construction. Admittance One Shilling each, to the Exhibition, which will be returned on purchasing either of the above instruments, or sitting for an impression Plate Likeness.--N.B.--Likenesses taken in miniature, &c. Please to observe--facing Somerset House. [Illustration] VICKERY respectfully informs the ladies that he has new for sale an extensive and admirable assortment of Transparent Tetes, as may be seen by visiting either his Western or Eastern Magazines. The taste, fancy, elegance, convenience, and accommodation of these articles have already rendered them the greatest favourites of every Court of Europe, and of numbers in Asia, Africa, and America. Nothing can prove their utility more than their being so secured to the head that the rudest wind will not in the least derange them. Ladies who order these beautiful articles are requested to describe whether for young, middle aged, or elderly ladies. _No. 6, Tavistock Street_, and _No. 19, Bishopsgate Street_, near the London Tavern. N.B.--He has also the greatest assortment of braids ready made at all prices. * * * * * The cheapness, elegance, end durability of the FASHIONABLE FURS sold at MELANSCHEG’S MANUFACTORY, No. 333 in the _Strand_, accounts for the number of nobility and gentry that daily honor him with their preference, and as he makes it his chief study to ensure the most distinguished encouragement by the superiority of his goods, we hesitate not to declare that we should have been surprised had he fail’d of receiving the most flattering encouragement. In patronizing works or articles of merit, the public most eminently display their taste, spirit, and liberality. [Illustration] LOVE, Perfumer to HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF CUMBERLAND, and the principal Nobility, respectfully informs his customers and the Public that he is removed from No. 10, in the Haymarket, to next door, which is numbered 12, where every article is prepared in the above line superior in a degree to any ever vended before in this kingdom, which he sells on such low terms as will make it well worth the attention of every economist to give his articles a trial. The great encouragement he has met with for several years enables him to deduct the stamps, notwithstanding his reduced prices, without the least diminution of quality, and he returns the money for any articles that do not recommend themselves. East and West India orders speedily executed, with the most saleable articles, and properly manufactured for the climate. [Illustration] _MARRIED._ Yesterday, at Walthamstone, by special licence, Samuel Long, Esq., of London, to Lady Jane Maitland, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale. * * * * * _DIED._ Yesterday morning, Mr. John Berens, merchant, in Broad Street. [Illustration] SHIP NEWS. The Hope, Walsh, from Waterford to London, was driven on shore in a heavy gale, the 22d instant, in Youghall harbour. It is feared the ship will go to pieces, but the cargo will be saved. _Deal, Dec. 30._ Wind E. Remain, the Wasp sloop, Cockatrice and Nimble cutters, and India pilot. _Gravesend, Dec. 29._ Passed by, the Young Aaron, Fine, and Two Brothers, from Embden; Tado, Skapon, from Stettin; Four Brothers, Gillingham, from Boulogne; Dogandraught Dados and Watchful Eye, Omarter, from Dantzick; Gibraltar’s Durno, from Alicant; and Duchess Devere, Ofree, from Facom. Sailed, the Frederick, Condron, for Caen. _Gravesend, Dec. 30._ Passed by, the Vrow Tyche, Levice, from Groningen; Young Eyder, Swartz, from Embden; and Vrow Helena, Hearse, from Settin. _Portsmouth, Dec. 30._ Arrived, the Lou, Losseter, from Havre de Grace; Hopewell, Howard, from Dover; London, Johnson, from London; and Brothers, Price, from Boston. * * * * * _Mails._ _Arrived._ Two Holland, one French, one Flanders, one Irish. _Due._ One Irish. * * * * * SHIPS ARRIVED. At Liverpool: Commerce, Manchester, from Memel; William Joy, from Riga; Mary Anne Priestman, from Virginia; and Ally, Dodson, from Dominica. At Georgia: William and Mary, Hannah, from London. At Bilboa: Liberty, Wilkins, from Boston, and Swallow, Huelin, from Jersey. At Bonny: Golden Age, Jackson and Brothers, Abram, from Liverpool. At Pool: Industry, Wooley; Fame, Bishop; Hebe, Salmon; and Emulation, Dempsted, from Newfoundland. Success, Adams, and Swiftstreet, from Trepani; and Friends. Kitcat, from Alicant. * * * * * PRICES Of STOCKS. Bank Stock. 3 per cent. red., 76⅛. 3 per cent. con., 77¼ ⅜ 3 per cent., 1726. 4 per cent., 95⅛ ¼. 5 per cent. Long Ann. 227--16ths. Consolidated Ann. 13¾-13-16ths. South Sea Stock. Old Annuities, 75¼. New Annuities. 3 per cent., 1751. Indian Stock. Annuities. Bonds. Navy and Victualling Bills, 2⅛. Lot. Tickets, 16l., 13s. 6d. & 13. Exchequer Bills. * * * * * TO be lett, at the East End of Bermondsey Church-yard, Southwark, a House and Garden, with Stabling for two horses. For Particulars, enquire of Mr. Hill on the Premises. * * * * * WANTED, for a School in the Country, an Assistant capable of teaching writing and arithmetic in all their branches. He must be a perfect master of English Grammar, and bring an undeniable character from his last place in a school. Letters, post paid, with specimens and terms, directed to C. H., No. 81, Cornhill, will be duly noticed. * * * * * _SMOAKED SALMON and DUTCH HERRINGS, FINE NEW FRENCH OLIVES, and NEW REIN DEER TONGUES._ VERY Fine Smoaked Salmon, Welsh Oysters, Newfoundland Cods’ Sound, Red Herrings, Dutch Herrings, Dutch Beef, Hambro’ Beef in ribs and rolls for grating, Rein Deer Tongues, Westphalia Hams, Portugal Hams, and Westmoreland Hams. Westphalia Tongues, Bologna Tongues, with spices and garlic; Bologna Sausages, with and without garlic; exceeding fine-flavoured Gorgona Anchovies, fine Capers, superfine Sallard Oil. Very curious new French Olives, Lemon Pickle, Camp Vinegar, Elder Vinegar, Devonshire Sauce, Zoobdity Match, with a great variety of rich Sauces for Fish, Beefsteaks, &c. At Burgess’s Warehouse, No. 107, the corner of the Savoy Steps, in the Strand. N.B. Hambro’ Sour Crout in any quantity. * * * * * _NEXT PRESENTATIONS TO LIVINGS._ TO be sold, the next Presentation to a Rectory in the county of Derby, of the annual value of Four Hundred Pounds, the Incumbent eighty years of age and upwards. And also the next Presentation to a Rectory of the annual value of Two Hundred and Eighty Pounds, in the county of Somerset, within twenty miles of Bath and Bristol; the Incumbent seventy years of age. For particulars and farther information, apply to Messrs. Graham, Lincoln’s Inn. * * * * * _MIDWIFERY_ DR. KROHN will commence a New COURSE of LECTURES on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery and the Diseases incident to Women and Children, on Wednesday, the 9th of January, at a Quarter past Ten o’clock in the Morning, at No. 17, Bartholomew Close; and at his house at Four o’clock in the Afternoon. Proposals may be had of the Apothecary’s Shop of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, at the Middlesex Hospital, and at the Doctor’s, in Southampton Street, Strand. * * * * * _ANATOMICAL LECTURES._ MR. JOHN ABERNETHY, Assistant-Surgeon to Bartholomew’s Hospital, will begin a COURSE of ANATOMICAL LECTURES, at One o’clock on Saturday, the 19th of January, at No. 17, Bartholomew Close. Whose proposals may be had. * * * * * _FREEHOLD IN ESSEX._ TO be Sold by Private Contract, a substantial new built brick Dwelling House, consisting of seven Rooms and a Dressing Closet, two Cellars, a Wash-house, with sink and lead pump, well supplied with soft water; large Kitchen Garden, Chaise House, and two-stall Stable, and large Yard; pleasantly situated, eight miles from town, one from Ilford, and four from Romford. For further particulars, enquire of Mr. Wood, at the Red Lion, Ilford; and at No. 59, Houndsditch. * * * * * _To FAMILIES FURNISHING KITCHENS._ STONE and Co., No. 134, Oxford Street, and No. 125, Leadenhall Street, Manufactors of Double Block Tin and Iron Kitchen Furniture, beg leave to inform the public that they have greatly improved their Sets of Tin Ware, which renders it the most wholesome and cheapest furniture in use, and preferable to others offered to the public, the whole being made of Block Tin. The following forms a complete Set, which will be replaced with new for 2l. 1s. per ann. l. s. d. Tea Kettle 0 5 0 Coffee and Chocolate pots and mill 0 6 0 Set of Saucepans 1 1 0 Set of Stewpans 1 5 0 Set of Soup pots 1 3 0 Carp or Fish Kettle 0 14 0 Turbot ditto, BT. 0 14 0 Boiling Pot, BT. 0 12 0 Dutch oven, BT. 0 4 6 Cheese Toaster, BT. 0 3 6 Cullender and Beer pot 0 2 6 Frying pan and Gridiron 0 6 6 Spice box and grater 0 3 6 Bread grater 0 1 0 Flour and pepper box 0 1 6 Dripping pan and baster 0 5 0 Slice and gravy spoon 0 3 0 Skimmer and ladle 0 3 0 Set of skewers 0 2 0 Two Tart and 12 patty pans 0 5 6 Six table one egg spoon 0 4 6 Two scollops and tinder box 0 2 0 --------- 8 8 0 N.B. The sets of Iron Furniture consists of the same number of articles, and such as are not made of iron are filled up with Block Tin. Families in the country wishing to be served with any of the above will have their orders punctually executed, and the Tin Ware will be sent free of carriage. Warm and cold baths to sell or let. * * * * * London, 26 December, 1787. IRISH LIFE ANNUITIES. With Benefit of Survivorship. THE subscribers to the Life Annuities established in Ireland in the year 1773, who are to be paid in London, may receive six months’ annuity due at Christmas last at Messrs. Bolderos, Adey, Lushington, and Bolderos, Bankers, No. 30, Cornhill. And also the subscribers to the Life Annuities established in Ireland 1775, who are to be paid in London, may receive six months’ annuity due at Christmas last at the same place, in the following manner, viz.:-- The first class in each (consisting of nominees of the age of forty years and upwards), from the 15th January to the 18th ditto, both days inclusive, from ten in the forenoon until two in the afternoon. The second class in each (consisting of nominees of the age of twenty years and upwards, but under forty), from the 22nd of January to the 25th ditto, both days inclusive. The third class in each (consisting of nominees under the age of twenty years) from the 29th January to the 1st February, both days inclusive; and from the 5th ditto to the 8th ditto, both days inclusive. Those of each class remaining unpaid will be paid every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday following, during the same hours. The debentures to be produced, and a certificate of the life of the nominee, otherwise a personal appearance will be required; and it is particularly requested, upon the demise of the nominee, that the debentures may be delivered in as above, to be transmitted to Ireland, to render the list of Deaths complete for the future benefit and regulation of each class, and as the earliest information should be obtained of the occurrences which affect a reversionary property wherein so many individuals are concerned. It is further requested of any person who may discover any fraud or imposition on these annuities, to give notice thereof, with all convenient speed, to the Deputy Vice-Treasurer, Treasury Chamber, Dublin, or to Messrs. Bolderos, Adey, Lushington, and Bolderos. The Public are requested to attend on the days allotted for the payment of the different classes, and to take notice that, in case any person who by the intent of the Act of Parliament providing for the payment of these annuities shall neglect to demand the same for the space of three years from the receipt of their last dividend, he or she shall for ever lose and forfeit the same, as if his or her respective nominee had been dead at the commencement of the said three years. * * * * * MARQUOIS’ PARALLEL SCALES for Drawing Plans with uncommon accuracy, in half the usual time. Sold, warranted correct, only by the Inventor, opposite Northumberland House, Charing Cross. Mr. MARQUOIS continues as usual to instruct Gentlemen in the Military branches of Fortification, Artillery, Gunnery, Mathematics, Drawing, &c., &c. * * * * * _DIAMONDS AND WATCHES._ TO be SOLD CHEAP, being second-hand. Two pair of deep earrings; three pair of Tops; three large Star Pins; some small ditto and cluster Rings; a capital gold horizontal repeater by J. Targent; a ditto by Daniel St. Lien; a ditto by Graham; a ditto by Higgs; about thirty others, in gold, silver, and metal, by different makers; a pair of gold horizontal repeaters with seconds; a watch that strikes the hours and quarters as it goes, and repeats at pleasure; an assortment of gold horizontal watches by G. Graham, Ellicott, Allam, Perigalt, and others; a great number of gold, silver, and metal watches, enamelled, plain or engraved, a small Watch fit for a Ring; some Gold Charm and Snuff boxes. Enquire of Mr. Mason, removed to the Corner of Craven Street, Strand. * * * * * _TO COWKEEPERS AND FARMERS._ By Mr. HUTCHINS, By Order of the Proprietor, On the Premises, THIS DAY, at Half-Past eleven o’clock, TWENTY young Milch Cows, five Draught Horses, three Carts with tail ladders and copses, part of a Rick of Hay, a Young Breeding Sow and two store pigs, a fine Peacock and Hen, a yard Dog and chain, a single horse Chaise and Harness, a large quantify of unsifted Dust, Cart Harness, and other effects of A COW-KEEPER AND FARMER. The end of Five Fields Row, Chelsea. May be viewed and Catalogues had on the premises, and of Mr. Hutchins, King Street, Covent Garden. * * * * * ^Sale by Auction.^ By Mr. HUTCHINS, At his Rooms, in King Street, and Hart Street, Covent Garden, To-morrow at Twelve o’clock. A Small House of very genteel Furniture of a GENTLEMAN, Brought from his House near Vauxhall in Surrey, comprising an elegant white Dimity Bed Furniture; excellent Down and Swan Feather Beds; a handsome suit of Drawing room chairs; Sofa and Window curtains; inlaid Mahogany Pier Tables; Mahogany Wardrobes; double and single Chests of Drawers; Wilton and Turkey Carpets; a superb Register Stove with inlaid front; Patent range and ovens; and other valuable effects, the whole of which was new within a few months. May be viewed and Catalogues had at the Rooms. * * * * * ^Sale by Candle.^ At Garraway’s Coffee House, Exchange Alley, Cornhill On FRIDAY, the 28th of JANUARY, at Five o’clock in the afternoon, THE following GOODS, viz., 113 Bags St. Domingo Cotton, just landed 107 packets ditto. 4 bags Grenada ditto. 2 ditto Monterrat ditto. 50 ditto Brazil ditto. 1 Matt Smyrna ditto, damaged. 3 casks Sago. 3 ditto Short long pepper. 15 sacks Aleppo Galls. 2 casks Gentian. 12 ditto Gum Arabic. 6 ditto Verdigrease. 10 Bags Smyrna Cotton. 30 Casks Naples Argot, damaged. Catalogues of which will be timely delivered by RICHARD KYMER and Co. * * * * * At Mr. CROFT’S WAREHOUSE, No. 46, BREAD STREET, CHEAPSIDE (Without reserve), On FRIDAY, the 4th instant, at 4 o’clock, A Very Large and Valuable assortment of HABERDASHERY, MANCHESTER WOOLLEN DRAPERY and HOSIERY GOODS, Particulars of which will be published in due time, By JOHN CROFT, Sworn Broker, Bread Street, Cheapside. N.B.--Two Months’ Prompt. * * * * * _At the CUSTOMS HOUSE, COLCHESTER._ BY ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY’S CUSTOMS. On WEDNESDAY, the 2nd of JANUARY, 1788, at Eleven o’clock in the Forenoon, WILL be exposed to Public Sale, for Home use, clear of all duties, Brandy, 247 Gallons, Rum, 61 ditto, of the strength of one in six under, and not exceeding one in ten over hydrometer proof. Geneva, 1560 Gallons, of inferior strength, in small lots, for the accommodation and use of private families. 14 Gallons of Red Wine. The above goods have been seized and legally condemned, and may be viewed on the morning previous to the day of sale. * * * * * ^Shipping Advertisements.^ NEW LLOYD’S Coffee House, over the North West part of the Royal Exchange, On THURSDAY, the 3rd of JANUARY, 1788, at Twelve o’clock precisely, [Illustration] THE Hull of the Ship STORMONT, built for the Honourable the East India Company’s Service, burthen 723 tons or thereabouts, now lying in the Greenland Dock, and there to be delivered. Immediately after the sale of the above Hull, will be sold, in lots, all her anchors, cables, sails, guns, small arms, and all her other stores, as mentioned in the catalogues. The said stores to be viewed three days preceding the sale, at Messrs. Turner’s Wharf, Limehouse. Catalogues will be timely delivered by THOMAS and ALEX HUBBERT, Brokers, No. 11, Mark Lane. * * * * * _FOR PRIVATE SALE._ The Ship HOPE. [Illustration] BRITISH-built, 170 tons measurement or thereabouts, is extremely calculated for the Straits, Carolina, Newfoundland, or Coasting Trade, and would make a complete Collier. Is well found in stores, and requires very little expense to send her to sea. Now lying at Wapping Old Stairs, Charles Blakeney, late Commander. For inventories and particulars apply on Board, to JAMES and EDWARD OGLE, Brokers, No. 7, Billiter Square. * * * * * LONDON: Printed for J. WALTER, at the LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS, PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, near APOTHECARIES’ HALL, BLACKFRIARS, where Advertisements, Essays, Letters, and Articles of Intelligence will be taken in; also at Mr. _Mettenius’s_, Confectioner, Charing Cross; Mr. _Whiteaves_, Watchmaker, No. 30, opposite St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street; Mr. _Axtell’s_, No 1, Finch Lane, Cornhill; at Mr _Bushby’s_, No. 1, Catherine Street, Strand; Mr _Rose’s_, Silk Dyes, Spring Gardens; and Mr. _Grieve’s_, Stationer, No. 103, corner of Fountain Court, Strand. ] So much for the early struggles of the “Thunderer”--a title given to it from the powerful articles contributed to it by Edward Stirling--and as its later efforts in the cause of justice are shown in the _Times_ scholarships at Oxford, as its very appearance betokens its vast importance, and as its history has been given by many much abler pens than ours, we will return to our subject. In 1798, a house in Stanhope Street having been broken open and robbed, the following singular announcement was issued by the proprietor, and appeared in the _Daily Advertiser_:-- MR. R---- of Stanhope Street, presents his most respectful Compliments to the Gentlemen who did him the honour of eating a couple of roasted Chickens, drinking sundry tankards of ale, and three bottles of old Madeira at his house, on Monday night. In their haste they took away the Tankard, to which they are heartily welcome; to the Tablespoons and the light Guineas which were in an old red morocco pocket-book, they are also heartily welcome; but in the said Pocket-book there were several loose Papers, which consisted of private Memorandums, Receipts, etc. can be of no use to his kind and friendly Visitors, but are important to him: he therefore hopes and trusts they will be so polite as to take some opportunity of returning them. For an old family Watch, which was in the same Drawer, he cannot ask on the same terms; but if any could be pointed out by which he could replace it with twice as many heavy Guineas as they can get for it, he would gladly be the Purchaser. W. R. A few nights after, a packet, with the following letter enclosed, was dropped into the area of the house: “Sir,--You are quite a gemman. Not being used to your Madeira, it got into our upper works, or we should never have cribbed your papers; they be all marched back again with the red book. Your ale was mortal good; the tankard and spoons were made into a white soup, in Duke’s Place, two hours afore daylite. The old family watch cases were at the same time made into a brown gravy, and the guts, new christened, are on their voyage to Holland. If they had not been transported, you should have them again, for you are quite the gemman; but you know, as they have been christened, and got a new name, they would no longer be of your _old_ family. And soe, sir, we have nothing more to say, but that we are much obligated to you, and shall be glad to sarve and visit you, by nite or by day, and are your humble sarvants to command.” Honour had then, it would appear, not quite departed from among thieves. At the end of last century a provincial attorney advertised an estate for sale, or to be exchanged for another, stating that he was appointed _Plenipotentiary_ to _treat_ in the business; that he had ample _credentials_, and was prepared to _ratify his powers_; that he would enter into _preliminaries_ either upon the principle of the _statu quo_ or _uti possidetis_; that he was ready to receive the _project_ of any person desirous to make the purchase or exchange, and to deliver his _contre projet_ and _sine quâ non_, and, indeed, at once give his _ultimatum_, assuring the public that as soon as a _definitive treaty_ should be _concluded_, it would be _ratified_ by his constituent and duly _guaranteed_. He was evidently astonished at his own unexpected importance. Some curious and amusing statistics of advertising in the second year of this century are given by Mr Daniel Stuart, at one time co-proprietor of the _Morning Post_ with Coleridge, when it was in the meridian of its fame. He says: “The _Morning Herald_ and the _Times_, then leading papers, were neglected, and the _Morning Post_, by vigilance and activity, rose rapidly. Advertisements flowed in beyond bounds. I encouraged the small miscellaneous advertisements in the front page, preferring them to any others, upon the rule that the more numerous the customers, the more independent and permanent the custom. Besides numerous and various advertisements, I interest numerous and various readers looking out for employment, servants, sales, and purchasers, etc. etc. Advertisements act and react. They attract readers, promote circulation, and circulation attracts advertisements. The _Daily Advertiser_, which sold to the public for twopence halfpenny, after paying a stamp-duty of three-halfpence, never had more than half a column of news; it never noticed Parliament, but it had the best foreign intelligence before the French Revolution. The _Daily Advertiser_ lost by its publication, but it gained largely by its advertisements, with which it was crammed full. Shares in it sold by auction at twenty years’ purchase. I recollect my brother Peter saying, that on proposing to a tradesman to take shares in a new paper, he was answered with a sneer and a shake of the head--‘Ah! none of you can touch the _Daily_!’ It was the paper of business, filled with miscellaneous advertisements, conducted at little expense, very profitable, and taken in by all public-houses, coffee-houses, etc., but by scarcely any private families. It fell in a day by the scheme of Grant, a printer, which made all publicans proprietors of a rival, the _Morning Advertiser_, the profits going to a publicans’ benefit society; and they, of course, took in their own paper;--an example of the danger of depending on any class. Soon after I joined the _Morning Post_, in the autumn of 1795, Christie, the auctioneer, left it, on account of its low sale, and left a blank, a ruinous proclamation of decline. But in 1802 he came to me again, praying for readmission. At that time particular newspapers were known to possess particular classes of advertisements: the _Morning Post_, horses and carriages; the _Public Ledger_, shipping and sales of wholesale foreign merchandise; the _Morning Herald_ and _Times_, auctioneers; the _Morning Chronicle_, books. All papers had all sorts of advertisements, it is true, but some were more remarkable than others for a particular class, and Mr Perry, who aimed at making the _Morning Chronicle_ a very literary paper, took pains to produce a striking display of book advertisements. This display had something more solid for its object than vanity. Sixty or seventy short advertisements, filling three columns, by Longman, one day, by Cadell, etc., another--‘Bless me, what an extensive business they must have!’ The auctioneers to this day stipulate to have all their advertisements inserted at once, that they may impress the public with great ideas of their extensive business. They will not have them dribbled out, a few at a time, as the days of sale approach. The journals have of late years adopted the same rule with the same design. They keep back advertisements, fill up with pamphlets, and other stuff unnecessary to a newspaper, and then come out with a swarm of advertisements in a double sheet to astonish their readers, and strike them with high ideas of the extent of their circulation, which attracts so many advertisers. The meagre days are forgotten, the days of swarm are remembered.” In the same gossiping manner Stuart speaks again of this rage for swarming advertisements: “The booksellers and others crowded to the _Morning Post_, when its circulation and character raised it above all competitors. Each was desirous of having his cloud of advertisements inserted at once in the front page. I would not drive away the short, miscellaneous advertisements by allowing space to be monopolised by any class. When a very long advertisement of a column or two came, I charged enormously high, that it might be taken away without the parties being able to say it was refused admission. I accommodated the booksellers as well as I could with a few new and pressing advertisements at a time. That would not do: they would have the cloud; then, said I, there is no place for the cloud but the last page, where the auctioneers already enjoy that privilege. The booksellers were affronted, indignant. The last page! To obtain the accommodation refused by the _Morning Post_, they set up a morning paper, the _British Press_; and to oppose the _Courier_, an evening one--the _Globe_. Possessed of general influence among literary men, could there be a doubt of success?” The _Globe_ has stood the test of time, and though it has seen vicissitudes, and has changed its politics within recent years, it now seems as firmly established as any of its contemporaries that is independent of connection with a morning paper. * * * * * We have now reached the end of our journey so far as the education of advertisers and the development of advertisements are concerned. By the commencement of the present century matters were very nearly as we find them now; and so in the following chapters only those examples which have peculiar claims to attention will be submitted.