General Advertiser (Newspaper) - November 17, 1747, London, Middlesex JL t u e s 1747 November 15* in the Downs his Ma. Ship Severn the Swan and Swift are t failed on a Wind N. W. The from and is arrived at from the Memorials of the Able de la the French King's accompanying and of the States-General to all with the Declaration of the States-General thereupon at THE Abbe de la Ville having upon the 13th of April and on the 21 It of September la canfed to be Memorials to the States-General of the United both which Memorials were introductory to Declarations of the King his with to the of their High by the Their High upon the 7th of this entered a Resolution in their in which they the and in As of the French Pieces have already in the we not recite them but the Contents of the is in brief to the following ' That the committed the Dominions * of their High very Day the rial and Declaration were hft no Room for other but an Exertion of their High nefies Strength That his have fince * more fully in than in the Words of the * faid Memorial and the Particulars i f * with their High Engagements to the Houfe of and the Crown of are * Means ufed by the French fince the * Death of the Emperor Charles to draw them from 4 die latter That his had the which were to be a Banier to their * and even Towns which were fet and ceded to their High as the Security of their faid and by the * rity cf his Arms them in an * That his mod had alfo undertook to * and foment a Rebellion in under the Direction of the and had * broke has Treaty of Commerce with their High * fending a Succour of Troops to his conformable to during that ' and to exchange the Troops that were of * that their High had been * regard to their in fending two ry to his moil and they and Allies in the Proportions for holding * a while on their Side Peace was de- * That they were much after all to * hear his his Defire of a and yet attack their High in their own * That all the for th s of their High which had been fet forth * in the were and * which they prove at in referring to the * That they had gone thus far in to the * and its annexed when the * fecond in which they found no new ' but a Denunciation no lefs than the ' viz. 44 That there is a to goon with ting of and Violences the upon the fame Foot as States General conclude in this * Their High defire nothing more ar- 4 than to receive Proofs of the Sincerity of His ' Intentions in favour of a General and * to be convinced by that his is truly ' more affected with the Public under which 4 fo many Nations than intent upon his own * High are * that their Allies have fame Sentiments and that ' they are very far from being inflexible on this 4 it is advanced in the laft But it is not ficient to make in general thing but Actions and conducted by can enable to form a Judgment of inward * cerity and of their High and their Allies have had no Experience Neither is fo ' an End to be attained by the * dients of a General Pacification according to private * and Caprice 2 Much Methods of 4 lence nocent who the of Troubles to this has nothing a jaft 4 and and who given 4 as the Shadow of a lawful for in ' fuch a can naturally produce no- ' thing but Violence and Enmity muft certainly * Enmity j fo that during theic being 4 treated as they have been they muft of follow In Juncture their High ' forced by On the one and on the ' by the Duty of employing Means ' which God and Nature have put in their in the ' Defence of their and for the of * their Liberty and and every thing elfe that is ' valuable to them and putting their in the of their in the Succour and of * Almighty who has fo often delivered ' them out of the of their are firmly to venture their their and every ' Thing without even to the laft ' in their lawful Defence and to make Ufe of the Right ' which his own Conduct gives of acting ' by Way of as he acts towards and ' of cutting and ' it be in their all the ' which may to his Means of continuing ' his of the with - ' As to the their High that in ' acting it is no more their Intention to break with ' his than his Intention to break ' with them but what they is meerly to the ' which is done to them and their Subjects in fo ' flagrant and affecting a High however always be ready and willing ' to contribute to the Re of the publick and of a General as what they have at all Times upon and nable 4 And it is farther that a Copy of this fwer be fent to all the of the at 4 Foreign with Orders to the fame 4 to Courts where they respectively praying 4 the faid Courts to take into the dangerous ' Situation into which the is now 4 and the pernicious in of which 4 is by the King of France with Slavery and ' total Ruin arid of what unhappy it 4 be to every Power in if fuffer fuch ' Maxims to be by the reft they have in their and ' and in that of all to their High ' and the Declaration it as 4 forced from them by the extreme to which they 4 are reduced for their own of their 4 Subjects and entreating them to join and their ' High in the Calamines with 4 which is fo and the ' which all other Powers muft apprehend 1 ' And a Copy of this alfo be fent to the ' Council of to the Colleges of ' to the Directors of the Ealt and ' and farther where it be to 4 them at the that their 4 have upon the Grounds contained in the faid ' and to their Intention therein to make upon the King of France and his 4 and to do them all Sorts of Damage ever it be in and that the faid leges therefore take their of from 13. 4 The 11 th. at Night the Hon. Admiral 4 from arid Morning was off this 4 and the to S.E. he made the beft 4 of his Way out of the Channel he paft the Start at 10 4 Morning and 'tis he will be able to 4 get out of the Channel the Wind has been all Day at 4 and very moderate The from Jamaica for was taken the 16th, by the Lyon Privateer of The William and from Barbadoes to in the late and only one Man was The Mercury Man of Ships under her Convoy from arrived at on The fame Day failed from thence the on a A few Days ago Mr. Edward a very eminent Mercer of was chofen Mayor of that ancient for the I his Royal the Duke land v will go to Houfe of and take Oaths of Allegiance and * On Sunday laft the Right 1 Brother to his Grace the Duke of arrived in Town from at his Lodgings in St. And attended the Houfe of and took the We heaf from Sunday in the Afternoon their Smack a Anchor under and coming near hail from whence and whether bound a on board in broken that they came from and was bound to London and what they had on Noting which gave the Captain of the Smack a they were there on no good and immediately mann d and his and boarded her without and found her to be a French Privateer belonging to having twelve Fellows with only who came on the Coaft to pick up fome of our We are informed that Capt. Smith of his Ship the a Gentleman of known Reputation in the having been for not taking a of War called the of more than Double hie own and which is the Ship that lately fought the - whole Royal Family and the Dartmouth Man ' of and was tne next Day taken after an Action of by the Ruffel of 80 has wrote to the Lords of the infilling on a Court Laft Week at his Seat at Hams near in Bowyear He was Son of Charles of the fame Place died in by his who was one of the of Sir William Bowyear of the County of He married to his Wife a Sifter of of Catton in the County of and to his fecond Wife a Daughter of Ralph of Cotton in the fame by whom he has left The fame Day died the Sifter of Bowyear She married to her Thomas of the Low in and afterwards of f Langley in the County of by whom fke has left one On Monday laft Week died at Mr. Daniel a wealthy Virginia Merchant of that one of the People called And On after a few Days of a Nervous f an eminent Surgeon of that and one of the St. Peter's Laft Friday died at Mr. Nathaniel Bailiff Laft Night the of Mr. Tinman to his was carried from his late Dwelling facing the and in great Funeral Pomp and Solemnity in a Family Vault in St. The laft new Comedy the is now getting up at the in and will be acted there fome Day next with new and On next the 1 8th will be Curious Pieces of never before exhibited at the Mulberry at the lower End of Mary Anne Matthews was committed to Newgate by Thomas for and taking out of the Shop of Mr. Taylor a in the three Pieces his the two far forging a Seaman's and the for the Murder of Capt. were The latter was afterward in Chains on Nov. 9. Great Numbers of Claims have been given in to the Lords of Days as the Value of the in taken away by a late Act of the faid Act appointing their to fix upon the and lay the fame before his and the Privy We hear the Price of Grain begins to rife at an Embargo being laid on all Corns in France and Skelton's Regiment is arrived at Perth from Fort where they are replaced by and march for Dundee and to who are gone to Aberdeen and Friday laft came over four or five of the wounded Men of Lord John Murray's Regiment one of who has loft one of his Eye by the Wind of a Cannon Ball at that the fame after three dead on the and off an Arm from a ADVERTISEMENTS are taken in for this at Lloyd's in
