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Mr. John Child, and Mr. Miles Stedihan, aye appointed Latfd waiters of the Cuftoms, in the room of Mr. White' and Mr. Rves. Mr. Buffi and Mr. Gibfdn, are made Kir.gi Waiceis ; There are three other Landwaiters re-mov d; and we hear, one of thofe Places will be »up-plyd by a Perfon who was imprifcn’d in 'the Baftile at Paris, in the Reign of Lewis XIV. and during the lace Miniftiy, on fufpicion of being a Spy againft the Pre-tender. •Friday 7-Night Charles Stanhope, ELq; lie out for France : It is by fome faid he will go forward cn Madrid. And we hear, Sir Wm. Thompfon Solicitor General, will go to France for fix Weeks You are deiiied by fome of ycur Readers to infert the following Query or two.As the Reverend Debtor lunes did, about 12 Months fi'-ce Publifh two excellent Sermons, intituled the Ah. fo!»re Authority of the Church, See. And in the Margin of Page the 8th in the firft Sermon, the. Doftor hath there declared, that the Vouchers, ±0 prove the uninterrupted Succeflton of the Chriftnan Priefthood, were ready to be produced it required, And whereas there is lately publifhed a Book intituled, a Letter ,0 the Reverend Doftor Siutpe, wherein the afotefaid u— ctffion is Hiftorically fee fcrch by a Curate of Wilts Wherefore, the Friends of Ooftor Jnncs do ueure to know, whether that be not the fame Succeftton that was to be proved Ay the Vouchers which he mentions in his Sermon ? be? They do hereby Congratulate him upon the *1fcoveiy of a Secret lb Orthodox, and fo Necefiary *r eftabliffiing the abfolute Authority of the Church, *c- which muft forever file nee the Carnal Reafonine A that Falfe Brother the B. of 3 whole attempts A a51 h‘s Writings) do vilioly tend to make the proplane Laiety as wife as the Clergy, even in matters that concern their Confidence and ialvation !But ziat it Diana of the Ephefians. -- Acts thej^tpand 28th.c/ R, Shoredicb, Augnft 14,fetjPAMong the Services you ae doing your Country, You would do well to make fome brief Remarks on the following Relation of the repeated InfJJence of the Tories. Jacobites, and Papifts in Shoreditch on rhe jft: of Auguft laft : Is it not tfrange, that whdft His Majefty is every where honour’d and . efpeCed A'oioad, that whilft Heaven, as well as the Princes of the Earth, pay, a Regard and His Arms and Councils p.e. vail, every where, a few of his own Inioient Suhjefts dare openly provoke the whipping-Poft. and Ga’lows, and at their own Expince, Infulc His Royal Majefty, in the Perfon of his Loyal Sul jefis ; Suie the World muft fland amaz’d at this, and think aa Englilh Jaco. bite a Devil, whom Neither Law nor Reafon can keep quiet. Notwithstanding tiie da;]y Examples that are made of fome of them. The Smry is rh s Sir ; One Tho. Lifter having Efrefted at h s own Houfe a rry-imphant Arch, on which were plac’d a great quantity of Candles, with an Imperial Crown, and Cypher, G. R. and rhe Motto, Long Live King GEORGE, 8ec. Some PeTons took upon tnem to hifs at the Name of King GEORGE, whefi Nam’d by Mr Lifter and others, and to pull uo.vn the Lights, fiez’d him, drayg’d. arid wounded him in the middle of the Street, and had certainly murder’d him had not fome Hontft p.- r-lbns refqued him out of rheir Hands; tho’ they ftill continued to throw Stones, and beak his Windows ; ail which time no Peace Officer, cou’d. or wou’d be found, til! one of the Mob was made Prifo-ner in the Houfe, and then that Officer was ready to come, and inftead of taking no Care to meddle with thofe who had broke the Peace, made Mr. Lifter a Prifoner, and cany'd him out cf h:s own Houfe, which that Officer is like to Aifwer, for Complaint has been made above, and a Profecution will Ensue. In the Interim pray Sir, infert this in your Journal as a Service to the Government.Yours. c.We h ave by Letters from his Majefty’s Colony cf Virginia, the following Account, viz. On the 28th of May lafir, being the Anniverfary of the Birth ofour mc'f Glorious King GEORGE, the Afiembly of Virginia then fitting at Wiiliamsburgh, the Lieutenant Gover-ficur, with a feieft Number, of his Friends, celebrated the Day with the ufual S’okmnities at the Palace.We hear, his Majefty hath been pleated to order the L-fe-Guards to be cioathed out of rhe Royal Wardrobe, as in the Reign of Kirg Cha les II. and no Deduftion to be made Out of their Pay for the fame.On 1ubfday laft and'Ei A® „Stairs, with the agreeable-N^f.kllftiffflfe of our Fleet under Admiral r*l cut the Cables of h s Mm of War ^g.., abandon’d all his Tranfport-Ships, and Amiriurtlt that Sir George Byng, having landed General A with the Imperial Troops, which are enter’d into Mel-fina, was gone in purfuic of the Spaniards; ^There arriv’d at the fame time, and by the fafife Courier, Letters from the Earl Stanhope, dared from Madrid Auguft 3. Which bring Advice, that hi* Excellency has been received there with great Honours, and that he believes he ftiall fircceed in his NegociatioiV On FHday the 29th Inftant wi 11 happen a very great Eclypfe of the Mcon, rcmaikable not only for its being totally Dark, but fcr its long Continuance fo, which will be an Hour, 43 Minutes, and will be little Inferior to that of the Sun in April 1715. It will be remarkably vifible in England, but will likewife be fcen in many other Parts of the World. For the Curious we have infertcd the ft llowing Scheme of the faid Eciipfe ; of whom it is deiir’d to be particularly curious In ob-ferving the exaft Time , the Beginning or Ending of the Total Dakneis, or-the End of the Eclipfe ; by which a true Obfervaticn may be made of rhe true Sciruarion or Longitude ; bv winch Means tiie Geographical Majfs of che City of London may be very much corrected.On Thurfday Morning, two Houfes fell down irt Holborn ; but the People that were in them, having Warning by a great Crack which preceded it, had jult Time enough to get our.On Wednefday His Majefty was ftiootirm ?ga:n In Buffiy-Park near Hampton-Court; and on Thurfday wal hunting in Windfor-Forcft.SIR, Deal, Auguft y.URon Advice That Normandy and Picardy are af-ftitled with a Contagious Diftemper, whereof thefe Parcs hare great Caufe to be under Uneafy Ap-prehenfions. We are fo infatuated chat Nothing will go down with us, but what comes from France. 10 the great Prejudice of our Trade in particular, and CO the Nation in General. Our Men and Women are clad v th French Stripes and Ofiend Calicu5 (and even Pori is bought out of their Pickle) nor is it lefs Notorious what vaft Sums go out of our Town, and all along the Sea Coaft, for their Brandy which occafions a Daily Intercourfc and Communication with thofe Provinces which 41 c faid to be infefted. In Short, as to ouc Trade, thofe who deal in Lir.nens ftrip’d Holland, Calli-coos, c, have very little Vent, for every Smugiefs I Houfe is a private Warehouie for uncoftom’d Goods. Your inferring this in your Paper will very much in* courage, as well as oblige, your Conftant Readers, who have not troubled you before. We Remain, c.We underftand like wife by Perfons, w ho came front??--France ; that the Cities of Abeville, and Bohgine are ihu up, and a Black-Fhg hung out as in Cafes of Sicknefof lb that Paftengcrs are oblig’d to go a League aboutJA and Provilions are Convey’d into the Town, by Perfon* plac’d at the Gates to prevent thelnfeftlon fromSfifeail* : ■ ing. . • Yours,j^,2'!2At a Court held on Thurfday was feveaught in •;wark, it was debated whether Southwark Fat* «pKf^ be tollerated as ufual; and after fome time mroC .
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Tue, Aug 23, 1718
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