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O-aThutfdsy Night about Eleven o’Clock, Mrs. Wade, M ftrefs of the Chop Houfe in the-Butcher Row, 1 ear Teinple-Bar, attempted to drown herfeii at Eflex S - irs in the Strand, but. was happily prevented by her, Coal-Merchant, who happened to be at the Waterfide, and fee her turow herfelf in, got her outlaid I roug, t her H6me ; but Fri-day Morning /he got up and cut her Throat, though happily mi fled her Windpipe, before her Servants * as fh’rring, but notwithstanding all poffible Care wasnken of her, it is thought jhe ca. not recover-We hear from Maochefter, that a certain Nottingham (hire Lord, being ;n great Wrath at his Coachman and Poftilion, for driving him down a Lane contraty to his Directions, gotoutofffiis Coach, went to the Poftilion and drawing his Sword, run him through the Body, of wliich Wound the poor Man died jnftantly. 'By a Letter from Chefter, Jan.' 24, they write, ‘hit on Sunday a Sloop from Ireland, la* den with lr:/h Yarn, foundered by Diftrefs of Weather, and funk in the River Merfey, about two Leagues below Liverpool ; feveral ■Bales of Yarn and other Goods were wafhed alhore op that Day and Monday, but none o'f the Hands were faved.,t We are inform’d from Brenfet in Kent, that ] the Houfe of Mr. W right, a Farmer of that Place,; was befet a few Days ago, by three Fellows with Crapes ever their Faces, who fobb’d him* and his Wife, and threatened that ifany Alarm* was madej after their Departure, they would : come back and fre the Houfe ; but l.otwirh-ftanding this Threat, Mr. Wright irnme-, diately got fome of his Neighbours .together,! and pur/ued them,' and had the good Fortune to take the Principal of them, and carried him I before Jufthce Brochma'n, before whom he | made great Di'fcoveries, and ’tis faid has im*.r peached five others', who have been concerned 1 with him in other Robberies. It is believed I that thefe are the Fellows who lately robbed I the Rev. Mr. Wentworth. tI By a Letter from Dover of the 21ft Inftant, |we are informed, that one Jcfhys, an outlawed fSmuggler, was taken at Hythe the Day before, land was conveyed from thence in his Way to iChicheder Goal. He had been at the, Inn two -fPayf, in company with three others, who were jftippofed ro be his Accomplices, but they got bff. and he denied it, and faid, that if he was . •favourably treked he could make great D.fto-li'eries. He had 01.ly a Hanger, with wh ch he defended him/elf feme. Time; and in the llcufrle both he and his Antagonifts received feveral Wounds. He xs faid to have been a publican m the Town of Brambef in the County ifSuffex.i From, a Letter from Chefler is this remarkable particular Account of the late Lojs of the \ Neptune.‘ Amongft many Loffes at Sea in the late Storm, on the Wellh and Irish Coaits, we have i uffc row the following Account from the C'hef-; er Merchants. On Thurfday the 19th Inftant,; he Neptune, a Dublin Trader, Chefler bui.t, Jurrhen 150 Tons, Capt. Berdamin Whittle, Waller, failed from Palkgate tor Dublin, hut ifter five had got over the Ear of Chefler, the Wind was found fa variable, and the W’eather To very boiflerous, that fhe tacked about, as lid two other Ships in Company, the fame Fide, to try to get back to their Port.- The wo others did return, ho’ with the utmofl Dif-. pioulty, and much fhattered, but the Neptune , was io unfortunate as ro flrike upon fome if the Banks off the }Vcft End of Hylake, and letween the Welfh and Che/hire Coafls, where lie beat to pieces part of her Quarter Deck, Kith a Gun lalhed upon it; the Captain’s Jortman^au, and fome laced Hats, have been mrown up at Whirfall. She had a very rich lading of Money, Plate, and valuable Ef-ids. There were on board above an hundredPaflengers, among whom were two of three * Clergymen, feme Gentlewomen, feveraTQD fleers of the Army, Andmany Peopjb of good \ Condition, befides disbahdedSoldiersYnd Sai- , lors, but they, with Gapfairiimd Crew, every ] one perifhedl Mahy of the' poor Creatures -could be difcerned to have fcrdmbled up to,the J Top of the Mails, and amongft the Yards and Surowd«, after the fclull was under Water, but none of the Csrpfes have been as yet thrown on Shore.’ . , - ,They write from Paris, that Wednefdfiy next was fix’d for the proclaiming the Gene- - ,fal Peace at that City, aud feveral other JTowns in France. ,By the Mails arrived on Friday from France there are Letters from Paris, dated fhe 2d of February, which fay, that the Hercules was 1 arrived from the Eaft Indies, who brought 1, Advice, that the 12th of Odtober laft, the ■Aimable, Nation, was fent from the Ifland of Bourbon for France, with Difparches, but was wrecked on the Coaft of Poitou, the Goods and ! Pafiengers faved. The Contents of his Dif patches were, on the 25 h of July, Admiral Bofcawen appeared before the North Part of Bofcrbbn, and bombarded the chief Town and Forts for four Days and Nights together, with- lt;our doing any confider^ble Damage; and that 1 the faid Admiral failed immediately to join . Admiral Griffin. That two Engli/h Men of War, one of fifty and one of fixty Gurts, fell iff with a French Eaft India Ship, homeward- j bound, but/he got clear. That the outward-bound Eaft-lndxa Flet was fafe arrived in India.*** Any'Gdnfleman, Shopkeeper, Tradef-man, or other PerfOn, who has Occifion for any Advertisements, fmall Hand Bills, or lt;Shop Bills, of any Kind whatfoever, to be s printed, are hereby acquainted rhar the fame j! will' be neatly and expeditioufly performed, £ much cheaper than by any other Perfon in ii England. Pleafe to enquire at the Printer’s t y of this-Paper oppofire the Queen's Head irs j tho Great Old Sally) for Mr. Ward, who c gives conftant Atter.dfiSr.ee from N xne in the h Morning to Six in the'Evening. , - 'ftThe Way to M.r. Keith’s Chapel is thro* ' Piccadilly by the End of St. James * Street and down Clarges Street, and turn on the Left Hand. The Marriages (Together with ^ r a Licence on a Five Shilling Stamp, and-Certificate) are carried on for a Guinea, as nfual, any Time till Four in the Afternoon . by another regular Clergyman, at Mr. Keith’s Little Chapel in May Fair near Hyde-Park-Corner, oppolite the Great Chapel, and within Ten Yards of it. There is a Porch at the . Door like a Country Church Porch. ^ jSailors, Soldiers, and others who want to be 1 cleared of their Debts by Virtue of the Aft j of Infolvency, may haVe Advice (without any j Expence) at the Weft CountryBarge, in Bride- t well Precindl, by Fleet-ftreet. 771/ HERE AS great Numbers of Tradef- \ men, Mariners, and other {Perfdns being unable to fatisfy their Creditors, and dreading the Mifertes of a fail, have fed from their native Country and Families : Any fuch FPerfon not indebted in the S,m of Five Hundred Founds to any one Ferfon, and \ who was beyond the Seas the Firjl tDay of , January, 1747, and being 'willing to take the Senefit of The prefent Adi of Infolvency, , may, upon applying to Mr. WILLIAM ! GOOD ALL, Attorney at Law, and Clerk \ of the Fapers for the County Jail of Surry, at his Houfe in Sennet Street, near Cbrifl ' Church, Southwark, oppofite to. the Temple, be \ infiruffed how to obtain a Legal FDi[charge from his, her or their Debts with Safety, and without the leaft Confinement in a Frifon, and be out of the Fower of any Sailiff whatm fievtr-N. S. All Ferfons under Misfortunes for Debtor other wife, may have Advice gr a-Us.
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Penny London Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Jan 27, 1749
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