Saturday 30 September 1780

HICKY's BENGAL GAZETTE; OR, Calcutta General Advertiser. A Weekly Political and Commercial Paper, Open to all Parties, but influenced by None. From Saturday September 23d. to Saturday September 30th 1780. No. [XXXVI] A Correspondent has favoured us with the following Intelligence from Madras. An Answer to Mr. Sadlier's Minutes in Council by the Governor, of Madras, and the Council, if it will be of any service to Mr. Hicky he is at liberty to insert them in his Paper. MR. Sadlier at the last consultation, having assumed to himself a Censorial authority over the Proceedings of the committee, of which he is not a Member, and having without the necessary information not only conveyed an unpointed Censure, but likewise the most general Reflections on the conduct and measures of Government. The President and Commander in Chief, deem it a duty incumbent on them to reply to such parts of his declamatory declaration, as are in any way worthy of their regard, and Summary to draw into one point of View, a state of the real situation of affairs, happily widely disorted as that produced by Mr, Sadlier. It would be an endless, and indeed an unprofitable labour to attend this Gentleman, thro' a labyrinth of disjointed paragraphs and angry envective.—His talent for dissention, is glaringly apparent, in almost every instance since he has been a Member of Administration; he seems grievously hurt at not being of the committee and therefore would wish to clog the wheels of Government, intrusted to the management of others. To say nothing of the strictures, bestowed with such a lavish hand throughout the Minute of Mr. Sadlier, it cannot but be a matter of Admiration, to observe the light in which that Gentlemen appears to have been stricken; every time, breaths, destruction, and desolation. Unhappily, a heated imagination, has carried him beyond the bounds of either prudence or discretion. He has asserted for fact that which never existed. He has drawn conclusions from premises arbitrarily established, without either the appearance or probability of reason. To see the Country, from a sudden incursion of an Enemy or from any other accident, brought to the necessity of acting with firmness and rigour it ill becomes one of the Members of the Administration of that Country, to give way to apprehension and despair, because exertions must be made before the Country is ruined. The hour of danger is the hour of resolution; Political despondency, becomes the greatest bane that can befall a Government, and consequently a people, over whom that Government presides, If, as Mr. Sadlier asserts the committee were inattentive to the steps which Hyder has for some time past been taking with respect to the Carnatic, they would unquestionably would feel themselves deserving the severest displeasure of their Employers but if Mr. Sadlier had been in a situation to have known what the Committee had done, he wou'd have known that they had been by no means inattentive to Hyders Motions. That they had represented both to the Company, and to the Gentlemen of Bengal; the extent of his views; and had most circumstantially informed the latter of every step he had taken previous to his attack upon the Carnatic. As to the categorical demands which Mr. Sadlier seems to think we should have made to Hyder, as to the dismission of his Vakeel when the rumour of his intentions first spread abroad, those are points, which the Committee who are alone the Judges, neither thought it expedient, nor advisable in the then situation of affairs, to carry into execution. Hyder from the moment we marched against Mahe, threatened in return an Invasion of the Carnatic; his inclination was little to be doubted, but the Season of the Year was allowed to pass away, when he could most effectually have injured the Nabob, his usual judgment seems to have failed him in this respect, he deferred the movement of his Troops until the ground lay uncultivated, the Grain was collected in. and the Monsoon was approaching, which would necessarily retard every operation in the World. N. B. A vacancy left in the orginal minute which was filled in Mr. Whitehill's hand marked thus* with the certain circumstances. * Under these circumstances therefore and under the certainty that his main Army and his Artillery had not yet got thro' the Ghauts, and that he himself so far from being in the heart of the carnatic was still in the Neighbourhood of the Passes, under all these circumstances,* the committee deemed themselves vigilent in the trust reposed in them when they resolved to assemble an Army as speedily as possible, then they took Measures for the co-operation of the presidency of Bengal then they got the Nabob to collect Additional provisions in his different Garrisons, and in short when in the last Resort, they came to the determination of exerting every sinew, towards the Punishment of a Wanton, unprovoked infringement of the Peace of 1767. The alarm occasioned by the entrance of Hyder into the Carnatic, was certainly very great, but who in the least acquainted with the fearfull dispositions of the Natives, can wonder at their consternation, and the more especially when that consternation seems to have been cherished and fomented by those, whose province it was to have quelled it as soon as it appeared. Are we to suppose that Individuals without doors are to remain in the belief of safety, when a Member of the Government itself declares. "The Carnatic is lost, and we are a lost colony, that his sentiments shall not be confined to the Board at which he sits, but they shall be communicated to the Community at large that they may know their danger." Fear in a deliberation, as well as in an executive Officer of a state, is an unhappy depression of that spirit, which is peculiarly wanting in every act of moment, But when that fear bursting thro' every restraint, and arrogating, to itself the Credit of a constitutional opposition. not only strives to infeeble the Councils by which that state is Governed, but likewise endeavours to counteract its Measures, by sewing disaffection among the People, the evil becomes of Magnitude and the welfare of the whole, points it out as necessary to be crushed The extensive knowledge, however of Mr. Sadlier does not confine itself to the condemnation of all the Measures of the committee, the spring of which he is evidently unacquainted with, He even ventures to arrain the conduct of Sir Edward Hughes, his Majesty's Naval Commander in Chief in India, and a little incautiously calls the Plan recommended by the Commander in Chief of the Army, a mad one, altho' it was founded on the coolest deliberation, and altho' the Nabob Positively asserts that neither at the Mount, nor at any place Nearer than Wandewash, can a sufficient quantity of Provisions he collected for the Troops.—Least however the sentiments of the Nabob should be supposed opposite, it will not be improper here to Recite his own words freely given in the presence of the President, the General, Sir Hector Munro, Lord Macleod, Ummur Ull Umrah, and Assim Cawn the Dewan. "It would be impossible for me," said the Nabob, "To supply the Troops at the Mount, or at any place so near to Madras. At Arcot Wandewash, Gingee, Tiagar, and Trichinoply, I have already collected stores, Provisions, Bullocks &c." Hyder being on that side of the Carnatick, and Wandewash being the most centrical place for assembling the Army, there I would wish it to join; as from the parts adjacent I can furnish it with whatsoever shall be wanting and at the same time both my country and the possessions of the Company will be protected. Whether the select Committee proceeding on their own knowledge, and on the Judgement of the Commander in chief of the army and supposed therein by the sentiments of the Nabob, are wrong, or whether Mr. Sadlier is right, the issue of the matter will finally determine. The last resource of intemperate minds is in bold and general scurlity; Fatally indeed the rancour recoils upon themselves, and instead of injuring those they would wish to villify the opprobrium falls upon their own heads and leaves a Stigma, which is not easily eradicated. Thus Mr. Sadlier, when he says "We have stood the stupid Spectators of our own ruin" establishes for a fact what is merely the offspring of his own apprehension, ruin has not fallen upon the Carnatick, nor shall ruin approach it, should

hands and hearts Zealous in the general Welfare, be able to prevent it. To descend so far as to answer that part of the minute which says "The Nabob's person is in danger he is almost deserted by those who ought to have protected him, and that he is sunk in a state of dispondency without hope, and may consider himself a victim devoted to destruction, it would be injurious to his Highness who is sensible of the anxious regard of this Government to his interest and honor, and highly unworthy of our own characters. The Nabob feels the reverse of all this, that he is warm and sanguine, that Hyder will eventually repent his having disturbed the quiet of the Carnatic But Mr. Sadlier goes a step farther. We have already remarked his declaration at the Board, that he would communicate his sentiments to the Community at large, that they might know their danger, a declaration fraught with consequences of the most evil tendency. But not confining himself to this even, he proceeds to say, the committee have acted under the sanction of an usurped authority. If in their wisdom the company have thought fit to establish a select Committee, for the better management of their affairs; if in their discretion they have thought proper to limit the numbers of its members, the daring insult, which is, in such Language shewn to their authority and that too by a member of administration, is worthy of the severest censure than can be past. To encourage a spirit of disaffection, is highly unbecoming in any man, vested with a share of the Government of a Country, but to aim at the subversion of a power fixed and established in all its points, by the most explicite Orders, is a transgression of that unpardonable nature, that Government would be treacherous to their Constituents, and negligent of the publick safety, were they to allow it to pass with indifference or impunity. Therefore as the commands of the Company are clear and decisive with respect to the line which in case of necessity the president and council as well as the committee, are authorised to take and as that necessity now exists in its most alarming form, the president moves, and the general seconds the motion, that Mr. Sadlier be suspended from the service of the Company. until the pleasure of the Court of Directors shall be known. Signed John Whitehill. Hector Munro. 1st. August, 1780. Continued from our Last. AND having consulted with the Commodore on the mode of attack, it was resolved that the Pomona should be towed close in, the heavier ships co-operating. The attack being determined on, the Europeans were formed into four columns, in line, four men advanced with guides at the head of each column, in each column followed eight men carrying the ladders, who were followed by a few hand grenade men. Two columns consisted of seamen and two of Marines with a few loyal Irish. At three in the morning, this disposition being made, and our force consisting of 150, we moved down the hill, and there lay waiting for the signal of the Charon, which was to denote, she had got under way, and would attack in 20 minutes. The signal being made a little after 4 o'clock in the morning, of the 20th, we advanced under the fire of our own batteries, and were encouraged, by observing that the Spaniards did not perceive our march by the direction of their shot over us, pointed at our batteries on the hills. The Pomona and fleet also attracted their notice by the fire from the sea side; by this fortunate co-operation, in profound silence, arms trailed, and in order to animate the troops, the paroel was changed to bayonet, and the counter-sign Britons strike home. We advanced undiscovered under the Spanish sentries, who were every two or three minutes passing the word 'alerto.' At the entrance into the ditch were 2 guns pointed from the flank of the bastion to scour it. We were perceived by their sentries and their drum beat to the alarm posts. Our columns were staggered and stept back; but instantly recovering themselves, they advanced to the wall, in height, 28 feet, on which was a battery of five guns; they reared one ladder, a second, and a third; the first ladder was broke by the flank guns of another bastion, killing a midshipman, and badly wounding five men the other ladders were also wounded, but not broke; two seamen got up first by one ladder, and obeyed their orders in not firing, they presented at 60 Spaniards drawn up, but retained their fire until others ascended; and so great was the confternation of the enemy, that it seemed as if they had lost the power of their Arms, although their Officers were at their head encouraging them. The seamen scrambling up the ladders, down off the parapets they went, and being reinforced by marines and seamen, the Spaniards fled to the casements, but they could not recover their panic, notwithstanding every exertion of their officers: about 100 Spaniards escaped over the walls on the opposite side, and out of a sally port. The Governor and principal officers then came and delivered up to me their swords, the garrison and register ships, with the Keys of the fort, and asked their lives. Inclosed is a list of the spanish officers, with the troops of the garrison, also a list of our killed and wounded, which is very inconsiderable. We found 11 spaniards wounded some of whom are since dead; they will not acknowledge the number they have lost, but 'tis thought it exceeds thirty. As to the behaviour of the officers and soldiers under my command, the British displayed that valour which is their kown characteristic. The baymen and Indians were also of the utmost service in all duties of fatigue in skirmishing and dragging up the Cannon. Your lordship will pardon my mentioning an instance of an elevated mind in a British tar, which amazed the Spaniards and gave them a very high idea of English valour: not content with one cutlass, he had scrambled up the walls with two; and meeting a Spanish officer without Arms, who had been rous'd out of his sleep, had the generosity not to take any advantage; but presenting him one of his cutlasses, told him, "You are now on a footing, with me."—The orders were, not to spare while they resisted, but to grant quarters to all who requested it. Only two spaniards were wounded by the bayonet in resisting, nor was any person pillaged or plundered. I have the pleasure to inform your lordship, that the greatest harmony has subsisted between the sea and land forces during the whole of this expedition; and that Commodore Luttrell and the Captains of the navy have, on every occasion made the greatest exertions to forward the service on shore; and all underwent the most severe fatigue, in this hot climate, with uncommon alacrity. The outworks are not finished, notwithstanding they have constantly employed 1000 men at work for twenty years. It is the key to the bay of Honduras, and where the register ships and treasure are sent to from Gautimala in the time of war. The morning of our arrival the treasure was conveyed into the country, so that what we have found in the military chest, and what belonged to the public does not exceed 8000 piastres, but the register ships must be very valuable, if they arrive in safety in England. I send these dispatches, with the colours of Omoa, and also plans of the fortification, by Lieut. Carden of the 60th regiment, who I appointed to act as Captain of Artillery and engineer of this expedition, and humbly beg he may be permitted to lay them at his Majesty's feet. His merit and activity in forwarding the works during the expedition, contributed to the reduction of this important fortress; and I solicit your Lordship will recommend him to his Majesty's protection. Your Lordship will find him intelligent relative to the Musquito shore, and the state of this country. I also take the liberty of mentioning Lieutenant Wightman of the Marines who acted as my aid de camp, to be recommended to Lord Sandwich. This Gentleman was wounded in reconnoitering the ditch the evening before it was stormed. The prisoners taken amount in all to 365, exclusive of officers as by the inclosed list. Your lordship will observe, that an agreement has been made to exchange them for the baymen, who were inhumanly carried away, with their families to Merida, and we have brought off two priests and the lieutenant-governor, as hostages for the performance of this agreement. I have also obliged them to exchange two Musquito Indians one of whom has been forced to dive at Carthagena, for many years, with irons on his limbs, and is confined in a dungeon every evening; and we have also released some unfortunate Englishmen, who were here, and made to work as slaves. I have to mention to your lordship Mr. Concannon, a young gentleman, midshipman, was the third that mounted the ladder, and Lieut. Dundass, who commanded the fourth, agreeable to my Orders forming the men before he advanced on the Spanish lines. I have also to take notice, that Captains Walker and Dundass, who commanded the seamen, preserved that discipline and good order in obeying orders which would do honour to veteran troops; and recommend that their services may be mentioned to Lord Sandwich, that his Majesty may know such officers as have gallantly distinguished themselves. Copy of the Convention between the Hon. John Luttrell, and William Dalrymple, Esq; on the part of his Britannic Majesty, and Don Simon Defnaux and Don Juan Dastiex, on the part of his Catholic Majesty, for the officers and garrison of Porto Omoa, October 24, 1779. Don Simon Defnaux, Lieut. Col. of infantry, engineer in second to his Catholic Majesty, and heretofore commandant of the fort of Omoa. and Don John Dastiex, engineer, commandant and captain of infantry, having earnestly solicited the commanders of his Britannic Majesty's forces by land and sea, the Hon. John Luttrell, and William Dalrymple, Esq; to treat for the exchange of the Spanish Garrison at Omoa, on the part of his Britannic Majesty, have signified that they are ready to treat on the part of his Catholic Majesty for the same, The said request is complied with upon the following terms and conditions: First, All the Spanish Officers, who bear his Catholic Majesty's commission

[Column 1] shall be prisoners of war, and admitted upon their Parole, that they shall not serve directly nor indirectly, against the King of Great Britain, his subjects or allies, during the present war, unless they are before exchanged. Secondly, That all the said officers shall be permitted to chuse their place of residence, provided that they are not found beyond the distance of 60 leagues from Omoa, nor nearer to Omoa, than 40 leagues, until, they be exchanged in the manner hereafter set forth. Thirdly, That all the Mulattoes and people of mixed colour, whether men, women, or children; as well as the artificers; shall have liberty to return home, provided none of them take up arms against the King of Great Britain, his subjects or allies, or be found within thirty leagues of Omoa, until this agreement is fully accomplished. Fourthly, that the said Don Simon Desnaux and Don Juan Dastiex, doth engage for the Governor of Merida, in case the English prisoners captured in the Bay of Honduras are within his district; and if not for the Governor of whatever Spanish district they may be in, that he shall return an equal number of Mulattoes, or people of mixed colour, to those that have been liberated at Omoa, and of this number such as were taken in the Bay of Honduras by the Spaniards shall have the preference. And it is further understood and agreed between the parties to this agreement, that all the subjects of the King of Great Britain, taken in the Bay of Honduras, and now in the custody of the said Governor of Merida, shall be exchanged, by giving Mulattoes for Mulattoes, men for men, women for women, children for children; and this exchange to be made the moment the said Governor of Merida can be made acquainted with this convention, but at all events not to exceed the space of three Months. Fifthly; The serjeants and soldiers of the regulars shall be exchanged for an equal number of serjeants and soldiers of the British army; and if the King of Spain shall not have such in his possession; them to be exchanged for the principal merchants and traders, taken at George's Key in the bay of Honduras; provided a sufficient number of White people cannot be sent from Omoa to exchange them, and a receipt to be given by the English Commissary for such number of Men as may have been captured by the Spaniards in the bay of Honduras, as shall exceed the number delivered from the garrison of Omoa; such receipt of the surplus to be given by the Spanish Commissary. if the ballance is in favour of England. The Spanish seamen to be exchanged in like manner for English seamen, as is specified by the parties respecting the serjeants and soldiers. To be continued. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALCUTTA. BY common reports we hear that matters are not so well at Madrass as we could wish, various are the reports of the loss we have sustained on that Coast, but as those reports seem to want confirmation we beg leave to decline troubling our Readers with the perusal of such vague, and unauthenticated matter, and hope in the course of eight days to be able to give a more satisfactory account. Several Old Houses have fallen down, within these few days, by the constant and heavy rains that fell. The Roads are so very bad between Balleah Gaut, and Calcutta, that they are scarcely passable. The Jhon Baazar is in the same situation and for want of proper Channells cut on each side of the road sufficiently wide and deep to contain, and carry off the Water that falls during the Rains, it settles on the Road and divides it in sundry places, by which means, no Carriage can pass; and the Inhabitants are obliged to lay Planks over for the foot passengers. This week two passage Boats were over set by the Boar, near Bootha-tollah, but happily no lives were lost. [Column 2] DEATHS. The 20th. Inst. Charles Pipon Esq;—— And in the Hospital, this Month, sixteen Soldiers: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– HIGH WATER at Calcutta from Saturday September the 30th to Saturday October the 7th, H. M. 30 Saturday, at 3 00 1 Sunday, 3 48 2 Monday, 4 36 3 Tuesday, 5 24 4 Wednesday, 6 12 5 Thursday, 7 00 6 Friday, 7 48 7 Saturday, 8 36 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– FOR Sale by Private Contract by Mr. WILLIAMSON Vendu Master to the Hon'ble Company. Diamonds, Rubies; and other Precious Stones, set and unset. Pearls of various Sorts, just imported, from Bufforah. Country and Town Houses, An Organ of 12 Barrels which performs several of Handel's Concertoes with accompanyments. Elegant useful and Ornamental Plate, French Wax Candles, Sconce Candles and Tapers; Old Madeira in Pipes and in Bottles French Brandy, and French Fruits, West-India Sweetmeats in 6lb Jars, A Superb Crane Necked Europe Charriot. A most elegant and Superb Assortment of Glass Ware, Lately Imported consisting of Lustres, Candelabors, Epergne, Vases, &c. compleat for a Sideboard and dessert, which are open for public view at Mr. Williamson's Auction Room Old Play House. A Strong Bay Buggy Horse. A Handsome stout bay Toorkay. A two Feet Brass Tube Refracting and Reflecting Telescope. And a quantity of Malabar Poonspars; for Masts and Yards; which lay in Mr. WILLIAMSON's Nullah: Calcutta 2d. September 1780. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– For Sale By private Contract. A Garden situate to the Estward of the Bytah Connah, belonging to Mr. Bonefacio, Rodregues, measuring nearly three Biggahs. Any Person desirous of Purchasing the same will be pleased to apply to Mr. Williamson at his Office in the Old Play-House. where the Title Deeds are lodged for inspection. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Mrs. MANN. BEGS leave to acquaint the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Settlement, that on Monday the 2d. of October next; She will open a Shop, for the sale of Millinary, and other Europe Goods, lately Imported, The House near Edward Wheelers Esq; ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ALL PERSONS. HAving any Claims or Demands on the Estate of the late Mr. Isaac Reynous deceased Commissary of Stores at Chunargur are desired to send in their respective demands; and all Persons indebted to the said Estate are desired to pay their respective Debts before the 1st. of November next to Mr. David Killican, Attorney for Captain Thomas Gardiner Executor of the Estate of the said Isaac Reynous deceased. Calcutta, 14th Sept. 1780. [Column 3] ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To be SOLD. BY Private contract, a convenient upper-roomed House consisting of three bed Rooms a Hall, and Verando, with Godowns, Cook-Room, Horse Stables &c. &c. The whole consisting of thirteen Cottahs of Ground and situate in the Radda baazar opposite Messrs. Guthrie and Wordie, shop. For further particulars please to enquire of Mrs. HELESS. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To be SOLD. AT Public sale by the Sheriff of Calcutta, at the Court-House; on Tuesday the 3d. day of October next. The Dwelling House and Premises, situated and being in the Post Office street, lately occupied and possesed by Thomas Motte Esq;—And also that Dwelling House and Premises situated to the South West of the house aforesaid on the same side of the Post Office street, now or lately in the Tenure or Occupation of Mr. Chalmers, in or toward satisfaction of the Mortgage thereon made and executed to Henry Grant Esq; for C. R. 40,000. The Title Deeds will be produced and shown by Mr. Grant at the time of sale. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To be Sold by Private Contract. UPON very reasonable Terms a Quantity of very fine Chunam. Also a Budgerow of Eighteen Oars; Likewise a Quantity of fine old Madeira in Pipes, French Brandy in Casks very fine Perry and Orange Shrub, Just imported For Particulars enquire of Mr. Duncan in the China Baazar. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A Garden House at Russapuglah. On Tuesday the 10th, of October. WILL be sold by Public Auction by Mr. DONALD, at his Auction Room near the Court House, by order of the Attorney of Mr. John Carmichael. His lately erected Garden House, situate on a high spot of Ground at Russapuglah, containing two spacious Halls, and four Bed Rooms, the Demensions of which, as also the Measurement of the Ground, shall be mentioned at the time of sale. Conditions. For Sicca Rupees the amount of the Purchase Money to be paid within 15 days of the time of sale, when Title Deeds and proper conveyances will be delivered to the Purchaser, on failure of Payment at the time above stipulated. the Premises will be resold at the Risk and expence of the first Purchaser.—A Rupee earnest to be paid down to bind the Bargain. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– To be SOLD or LETT, A Commodious Garden House handsomely furnished consisting of a Hall and four Rooms with a large sleeping Room, over the Hall, the Garden contains Seven Begahs well planted and in very neat order. There is stabling for ten Horses and all convenient Out-Houses. Enquire of Mr. B. Messink.

POET's CORNER On a Fribble who mimick'd the Ladies. MISS Billy shines in low grimace; Each feature of the female face, The rompish squall, the hoyden dress; Belinda's smile; Flirtilla's air; The freaks and foibles of the fair, His mimic powers express. He court'sies low, or bridles in, With formal pride the dimpled chin; Th' affected prude in all her shapes, The scornful toss, the mincing trip; The look demure, or pouting lip; Th' amphibious creature apes. But hark, he pours his liquid throat, And thrills Mingotti's treble note To the soft tinklings of the wire, Whilst the rapt eye is taught to roll, As the sweet air enchants his soul. That tremble on his lyre With critic eye the pug can trace The Dresden stitch; if Mechlin lace; Or Brussel's bobbin-work excell; Knows the true bloom of Hyson Tea; But nauseates filthy ratafia, And citron's horrid smell. In gentle rills his waters fall; He never spouts against the wall, Like low-bred porters, filthy bears; He shudders at the indecent joke, When Ladies frown or Parsons smoke Or the rude Colonel swears. The toilette's labours now he tries; The patch adjusts; with languid eyes The mirror's magic power surveys; Now heaves the sigh, the head reclines; Smiles, simpers, hums an air, or whines, As Betty clasps his stays. Dear Billy, where's the mighty art To play the ape's, or mincing's part, To screw the face, or flirt the fan, Disdain such monkey, fribble tricks, Nor mimic thus thy sister sex, But try to act the Man. E X T E M P O R E. MONSIEUR declares the English fled; The English say the Frenchmen run; The Politician shakes his head, And swears that both have nothing done. Two dunghill cocks, in farmer's yard, Parading round a stack of hay, Will lour---but ere they strike too hard, Will both agree to---run away. Bon Ton Anecdote.---At the time that the black-legged gentry of the turf were most importunate in their demands on a certain Baronet, he recollected that he might find a temporary resource in his Lady's jewels; and therefore getting the key of her cabinet, sent for a jeweller unknown to her, and told him he had a job for him, which he must execute with the utmost expedition; and producing the bawbles, ordered him to go immediately and take out all the jewels, and reset them with paste;---the man hesitated to comply with his commands; Sir C---- d---- ned him for a fool, and asked him why he did not go about it?---"for a very good reason, (replied the jeweller) if your honour must know it,---because I've done the very same job for her Ladyship already!" ALL PERSONS. HAVING any claim or Demand on the Estate of Capt. W. Barry deceased late of the 2d. Regiment are desired to send in their respective claims: And all Persons, indebted to the Estate, are desired to pay their respective debts to Mr. Claud Alexander Attorney for Lieut. Col. Tottingham, Administrator of the Estate and Effects of the said Capt. Barry deceased. To Be SOLD. BY private Contract By Mr. Duncan in the China Baazar, two Chariots lately imported, also a Quantity of Superfine long Cloth, Course, and fine Chintz, and Marchoys, Izzaries Madras Cambricks Muslins and Pallampores and sundry other Articles. Calcutta 15th July 1780 To be SOLD BY Private contract at Mr. Dunnca's Auction Room in the China Baazar A large Quantity of Taffaties of Different colours, Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Cossimbuzar Raw Silk, A Quantity of Pearls, large and small, fit for the Europe Market, and many other Articles.---Also a Quanity of Bombay Black wood Cotts large and small, and Shades stands, imported by the Ship Freemason Capt Williams. Calcutta 21st september 1780. A WRITER wants Employment. HE Is a Young Man of great sobriety and unexceptunable Character, as he has a Family, he will be glad to engage for a Continuance, at a Salary of 100 Rup. per Month. Direct to Mr. Vallent to the care of the Printer. To be SOLD, Wholesale or Retail. AT the Red Godown in the Radda Baazar, the following Articles, viz. SALT PORK, in Tierces containing 50 Pieces of 6lb each. Mess PORK in half Tierces, containing 37 Pieces of 4lb each. HOGS FACES, containing 25 and half Heads. SUGAR CANDY, best sort in Tubs of half Picul each. SOFT SUGAR in Bales of 2 Maunds. RUM, in Casks. Ditto in Bottles. MADEIRA WINE of 4 Years Old, in Pipes. TEA, best sort, in a Box containing two Canisters. WAX CANDLES, SILK CARPETS, of all sizes. The list of Prices may be seen at the Godown, or further particulars had from Mr. GODEFROY, at Mr. TOUCHET'S. March 11, 1780. SCHEME for a LOTTERY. MR. BAKER, takes the Liberty to Submit the following plan to the Public not from any wish of deriving more then the fair and equitable value of his Estate, but in Order that a property which acquired in India may not by reason temporary Exigency be sold to loss. Mr. Baker is further impelled to this step from more powerful enducements having an only Daughter to send to Europe Education, and wishing also to pay off Mortgage amounting to about Sixteen Thousand Rupees. These are his true and only motives, and he will esteem himself infinitely obliged to every Subscriber who does him the favour to Countenance the Plan. LOTTERY of ESTATE Wherein are five valuable Prizes Number of Tickets 224. each Ticket Rupees and to be divided into Half Quarters at the request of the subscribers The Particulars of the Prizes are as follows. 1st. Prize an upper Roomed House a Large compound and every other veniency situated near the Loll opposite Mr. LEBLANE'S Valued at. : S. R. [ILL] 2d. Prize a piece of Ground consisting of two Biggahs more or less wherein are two Brick buildings a large Tank with Fish, fruit Trees and various kinds of Vegetables situated behind Mr. Carmichaels Houses in the Loll Bazar Valued at. - - - - [ILL] 3d. Prize a piece of Ground of about two Cottahs more or Less Valued at. - - - - - [ILL] 4th Prize a Piece of Ground of about teen Cottahs more or less valued at [ILL] 5th Prize a large Garden on the other side of the River consisting of near forty Biggahs with two Brick buildings a Bungalow Terrased andraised, about two or three hundred of good large Mangoe, Jack, Coco-a-nut, and other fruit Trees a Tank with Fish. Pleasantly situated on the Banks of the River where the Tide has no Effect, almost opposite the Armenian Church Valued at - - [ILL] S. R. [ILL] Notice will be given in the Bengal Gazette of the time and place where the Lottery will be drawn. Tickets may be had at Mr. Schults's Mr. Andrews's at the Library, and Mr. Nicolas at the Harmonic. ALL PERSONS WHO have any legal claims or Demands on the Estate of Mr. Andrew Hieny'e deceased former intearims [ILL] to the Danish settlement, at Fredericksnagore in Bengal and his surviving Widow [ILL] here by requested to send in their respective claims and all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are desired to pay their respective Debts to Mr. J. Borgen Judge of the inferior Court of Judicature at The said bar, and Administrator of the Estate and Effects of the said Mr. Andrew Hieny'e deceased, on or before the Expiration of a Year and a Day from this Date the 1st August 1780. ALL PERSONS WHO have any claim upon the Estate of Captain William [ILL] late of the 34th Battalion of Sepoys and Commandant at Chandernagore deceased are earnestly desired to send in their accounts immediately to Mr. Geo. Allen at Calcutta and all persons indebted to the said Estate are requested to pay their respective Debts to the said Mr. George Allen, Administrator to his Will, before November next when he returns to England, with the ships which are to sail the begining of that Month. CALCUTTA Printed by J. A. HICKY First and late PRINTER, to the Hon. COMPANY.