Saturday 13 January 1781

HICKY's BENGAL GAZETTE; OR THE ORIGINAL Calcutta General Advertiser. A Weekly Political and Commercial Paper, Open to all Parties, but influenced by None, From Saturday January 6th to Saturday January 13 th 1781. No. [LI] Extract of a Letter from Madras. I HAD the pleasure to write to you on the 24th past by sea; and sent a Copy by land ten days ago, I had letters from Bombay of the 11th of October a Gazette from the 11th of April, to the 12th of May, received by way of Bussorah, of which I send you EXTRACTS inclos'd. There are packets arrived from the Company, but nothing I believe determined in parliament relative to INDIA affairs, when the dispatches left England. Nor do I hear any thing of succession. Captain Mathews (who was lately on this Coast) is appointed Col. and second in Command at Bombay. The seige of Basseen was to take place about the 10th ult. and would probable be an easy conquest. English News, Via Bussorah, Dec. 1780. LONDON April 7th. In the Committee of the whole house which was held yesterday on the subject of the Petitions of the Counties, and Boroughs, Mr. Hussey Member for Salisbury was Chairman. After the reading of about forty Petitions, Mr. Dunning made a long speech exposing in full, the great illegal influence of the Crown over the other branches of the legislature. On which ground he Justified the complaint of the people, and insisted on the obligation of the legislative body to grant a redress of their national grievance &c. and to that effect, he had formed some propositions, and to serve as preliminaries to introduce other motions the most proper to give satisfaction to the Nation. He then moved first, that the influence of the Crown is become so great, that there was necessity for its suffering a demunition.—Second the house shall examine appoint, and inspect the expences of the public Money, and that which composes the Revenues of the civil list. These two Articles comprehend in his opinion, the two principal points of which the Petitions complain to wit, the excessive influence of the Crown, and the want of Public Oeconomy, these propositions met with great opposition, and the debates were very warm, Lord North was reproached with being the Author of the American war, and of all the evils which sprung from it, whilst he on his part laid the opposition, with being a faction, which was in every respect contrary to the constitution, but after all the debates, and notwithstanding all the efforts of the Ministry and their inherents, the first proposal of Mr. Dunning was carried by a Majority of 233 to 215. This issue of the first question discouraged the Court party. The Second motion of Mr. Dunning was carried without division and passed as if it had been unanimous, and in the same manner, a third motion importing that it was proper for the House to grant a speedy, and efficacious redress to the abuses which were complained of in the memorials which were presented by the different Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, in the Kingdom. Of the forty Counties in England, there are but thirteen, (and in that number the least considerable,) which have not delivered Petitions to the Commons, or formed associations, these are Westmoreland, Durham, Lancaster, Sallap, Stafford Lincoln, Leicester, Monmouth, Warwick, Oxford, Worcester, Cornwall, and Rutland. That of Northampton did not present a Petition, but delivered a representation to Parliament to the same effect with the other associated Counties, that of Hamshire agreed to a Petition, but did not appoint any Committee of association, and correspondence of the Counties, which have associated, and five of the Towns, have sent Deputies to London, which meet regularly, and have chosen for their President, the Reverend Christopher Wywill, Deputy for the Counties of York, This Ecclesiastic is of a distinguished, and rich Family, who first formed the project of the meeting at York, and for that reason he was Elected their President, and he was soon considered as the chief Director of these Meetings, which are every day gathering new strength. The first Fruit of the meeting of the deputies, is a circular letter, accompanied by a Memorial containing the motives and the plan of a general Association, it is dated the 20th March, and address'd to the different Petitioning Counties and Towns. Its object is nearly the same with that formed by the association of the Counties of York, which plan is likewise approved of by the Association at Westminster, which was held yesterday, and in which Mr. Fox presided. London 11th of April. The affairs of the Kingdom continue to take a turn which menace the Ministry in general, and Lord North in particular, with the most serious consequences, the defeat which their party suffered in the sitting of the 6th was followed by a second in that of Yesterday, they did not dare to oppose the first motion made by Mr. Dunning and it passed without putting it to the vote. It imported that it is the opinion of the Committee that to insure the independency of Parliament, and to prevent all suspicion of its purity, there shall be laid before the House, within seven days after the opening of every session, the accounts certified by the Signature of the respective Officers, belonging to each department, of all the sums of money which have been paid in the course of the preceeding year, out of the produce of the Civil list and every other branch of the Public Revenue, according to the Custom of each department or Office under the head of Pensions, salaries or of whatever other denomination or expended on whatever consideration or occasion. The second motion made by Mr. Dunning met with a strong opposition, it was to this purpose to declare a disqualification for a seat in the House of the Treasurer of the Chamber, the Treasurers, the Cofferer, the controller, the Master, and the several other Officers of the Household: On collecting the votes, the Ministerial party yielded to a Majority of two, to wit, 215 to 213. As commodore Walsingham was preparing to fail from St. Helens with 4 ships of the Line and a frigate, and Admiral Graves was preparing to leave Portsmouth, to join him the Crew of the Admirals Ship the London of 98 Guns, refused to work before they received all the wages that were due to them: The Commissary of the Mariens went ashore to satisfy them and in the Morning, Admiral Grave's was in condition to put to sea, with his squadron of 6 ships of the line, and a frigate. But 2 other ships, the resolution and the invinsibles, each of 74 Guns destined to accompany them, could not proceed their Crews also persisting in a refusal to work, until they received not only what wages was due to them, but also their prize Money for the Man of War Protic, and as the accounts were not ready it was impossible to satisfy them before the departure of the squadron. This is an accident that seldom happens in an English Navy, but it was felt by Capt. Boteler when he was leaving Portsmouth with the Ardent, a part of his Cerw not having received their pay for three or four years. The Malbro' was also to have gone with Admiral Graves, but was prevented by a contagious distemper and the Bedford went in her place, the two squadrons are to be joined in the Channel by some other ships and frigates from Plymouth, and they are to convoy about a hundred Merchantmen destined for the West Indies to a certain Latitude. And it is supposed that Admiral Graves will then proceed to North America, which is believed to be threatened, with the Armament fitting out at Breast, under the order of the Count Rochambeau, and the Chavelier de Tirnay. And that Commodore Walsingham with the other Ships of War with the Convoys will proceed to the West India Islands to join Admiral Rodney. Bank stock 115,—India 155,—3 per Cent consolidated 60. Hague April 15th. The Council of War which sat on Rear Admiral Byland, (who had an engagement with Commodore Fielding,) Yesterday pronounced his sentence of Dismission. London April 11th. At a meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, it was proposed by Col. Miles to instruct the representatives of the County, to use

their Efforts for bringing to examplary punishment, the Authors of the ruin of the BRITISH EMPIRE. THAT assembly have unanimously adopted the form of the Association which was agreed to by the Free-holders of Westminster after the example of the County of York. London April 14th. Mr. Stuart Member for Malden, proposed the bringing in a bill, for the better preserving the Independance of the Members, by Augmenting from 600, to 1000,—And the Value of the Estate to qualify them for the County from 300, to 600l. to qualify them for a BOROUGH. The Breeches Maker's Daughter. THERE are so many, ways for a woman to be undone, without the imputation either of vice or wantoness—such accidents, incidents and contingencies, may happen in her way through Life, that unless every circumstance can be fairly stated, and candidly weighed, it is morally impossible for any man, hors d'elle, to determine whether the fair delinquent may have been most deserving of infamy or compassion. I have known several of these equivocal cases one of which I think proper to indulge the curiosity of my reader, with by way of specifying my argument. The first instance was a very pretty modest young woman, that was, only daughter to the clerk of the parish I lived in. She had been most carefully brought up, went constantly to church with her father, morning and evening; sat upon a little stool in the aile just under the desk; and having a most tuneable voice, used generally to help him to raise the psalm. There had never appeared the least turn of lightness, forwardness, or flirtation in any part of this good girls behaviour, as she grew up. There are usually certain patterns pointed out in every country village; and Miss Amen was the paragon of our parish till about the age of seventeen, she happened suddenly to disappear.—because, it seems, she found herself as we were soon after informed, too big to be seen. The place of her concealment was kept a profound secret from us all for some months, till after the fair eloper had become the sorrowful Mather, of a child; when I received a private billet from her intreating me to grant her an interview the next day at a little cottage about five miles from the town I lived in, and begging, that I would come alone. My Humanity, with a little mixture of femality, namely curiosity. induced me to obey the summons most punctually.—I went.—She threw herself on her knees before me, covered her face with her hand, and wept bitterly—but not alone. After I had spoken comfort to her, and calmed her mind, by promising to mediate a reconciliation between her and her unhappy parents, the second part of my errand operated so strongly on me, that I began to question her, in the stile of a confessor, about the whole process, the commencement, progress, and arts which had led to, or were laid for, her undoing. She answered me with a frankness and a candour that fully persuaded me of her truth and ingenuousness. She declared to me, that her failure had not proceeded in the least either from passion or from vice; that she had never in her life been sensible of any warm desire prompting her from within, nor had even sustained any strong solicitation urging her from without. No, exclaimed the fair penitent, with an heavy sigh, it was nothing of all this, that I am to be cruelly reproached with upon this sad occasion.——It was——It was, alas! my fathers trade alone that thus hath wrought my overthrow. Your father's trade! his trade! I replied, with surprize the cause of your ruin; but so indeed the fact was, without preadventure. Besides the vocation of Parish Clerk, old Amen had it seems, followed the Occupation of Breeches Making also.——He had bred up his Daughter to the mysteries of the same manufacture from the time that she had begun to enter into her teens.——and as ill luck would have it, they happen'd to be leathern breeches too, that he dealt in. The unfortunate girl now a woman assured me, that this kind of employment used, by degrees, to occasion certain involuntary wanderings to stray in her mind, which without ever tainting her chastity in the least, had insensibly, however, sullied the purity of her thoughts;---that she had done every thing in her power to restrain her reflections from running into such reveries; and had sung psalms for whole evenings together, to divert her attention to fitter subjects of contemplation.——In vain, alas! for while she sung, Breeches were still the burthen of her Song. This unlucky image haunted poor madmoiselle Culote continually.——When she lay down to rest, she imagned. She saw them taking off, and laid under the pillow; and when she arose, she fancied still she saw them taken up, and put on again before her eyes. The Familiarity of such ideas, though it had not in the least staggered her virtue.—and I believe it—yet had pretty nearly produced the same effect, by discomfiting her modesty so far, as to prevent a proper alarm, resentment, and resistance from taking place, and coming quick enough to her aid, when she was assailed by the young squire of the manor, for whom she had just finished a neat Leathern pair of Breeches, which he happened to call on her for, one evening about twilight, when the rest of the Family were attending a funeral in the Parish. The poor Girl! Happy had it been for her, if men had never worn any breeches at all, or that they had even worn them as the Chiriguanes are reported to wear theirs.——as fops wear their Hats,---under their arms. ——We are not yet informed how the Women wear their petticoats in that country; but we may suppose, at least, that the retort courteous is properly returned among those People, as well as in all the other Nations of the earth. The world, 'tis thought, would soon be at an end, if it was not for such exchange of courtesies. CALCUTTA. A FACT. ON Sunday Evening last, the Jailor of Calcutta, attended by three Bailiffs, waited on the Governor of SIRAMPOKE and delivered him a letter from the G——r G——l Warren H——gs Esq; Requesting that He wou'd suffer them to apprehend W. Wright Captain Sutions late steward.——Mr. Bie not knowing of any such person residing in the Danish settlement, permitted them to depart peaceably, but instead of so doing they thought themselves priviledged by the credentials they brought, to enter the Houses of Gentlemen in that settlement, in a most abrupt and insolent manner, on which they were brought before Governor BIE, who greatly to his Honour, as well as that of the Danish Flag, severely repremanded them. How derogatory to English Law, and English Liberty to Issue such an order on such a Day, and in a Foreign Settlement, for the Imprisonment of a Man who in the last Gazette has publickly offered to surrender himself into the Hands of Justice, and submit to the Laws of his Country,—In Vindication of any charge that C. Sutten has made against, him fully concious of his Innocence C——l P——e waits only the finishing of his PORTRAIT by Mr. Seaton to March the Detachment. The Picture is a very Masterly Performance and one of Mr. Seatons CHIEF D'OEUVRE'S.—The C——l is painted at full length and ERECT, surrounded by a whole Seraglio of Oriental VIRGINS, carolling what Gay says, “ Thus! stand I like a Turk,” “ with my Doxies all round me.” The Ladies are in weeping attitude, moaning the melancholly event of C——l's departure to the War's. The parting of Hector and Andromache (described by Homer) is a fool to it, in point of EXPRESSION. Mr. Seaton has made a very pretty scene of it indeed,—nothing is wanting to introduce, if possible, the Couple from the Beggars Opera. “ How can I leave thee Pretty without one Tear, or tender sigh.” THE MONITOR is allowed in all polite circles in Calcutta to be a very horrible Monster. Mr. P——n and several other Gentlemen of known wit and abilities have been intreated by the Printers of the India Gazette to try their hand at a MONITOR but they and all treated the application in the same manner as the CALAIS BARBER treated the WIGG, TRISTRAM SHANDY, by absolutely refusing to have any thing to do with so miserable, and sturid performance. The following Promotions has passed the Council. Captains prom. to the Rank of Major. ALLEN Mac'Pherson, John Erksine, Rob. Stewart, Edw. Ellefker, John Showers, Gabriel Johnson, John Pherson, Francis Robertson, E'd Raymond, John Wedderburn, John Landeg, Cha. Ware, Tho. Naylor, William Cook, Geo. Grant, Tho. Adderly, Henry Wray, John Cockrell, James Brown, John Byrn, John Eaton, Moses Crawford, John Mackgilvery, Alexander Hardy, William Roberts, James Kilpatrick, John Lumsdaine, William Duncan, William Clode, John Henderson, William Mac'Lary, Arthur Belfour, Justin Gilpin, Richard Luccas, Thom. Scott, Silvester Ramsey. The prom. of the Lieutenants we are obliged to defer for want of room till next week. A copy of a Letter actually sent to Mynheer Hans Koopman at Chinsura, The Original in excellent Preservation. S I R, HIS Honour the L——d Ch——f J——ce of these Realms is passing by.——Please therefore on Receipt of this to send per bearer, two large peices of the Finest Fat Roasting BEEF (viz. a Baron, and a Rump) with a Handsome and proper Assortment of VEGETABLES, hereof fail not. Yours. (Sign'd) S——p——n B——f——w. Cl——k of the P——y. To Mynhere Hans Koopman, at Chinsura. “ Mynhere not being able to Read English concluded it to be either a Warrant or a SUBPENA, but on its being explaned, only express'd his surprize at a Merchant of high Rank being taken for a BUTCHER. News Extraordinary from the Gutling club. A FEW days since some Gentlemen met to eat OYSTERS at the New Tavern for a Wager of a 100 Gold Mohurs, One of the Gentlemen after swallowing 27 (and not of the smallest) became speechless thro' a totall stoppage of the circulation—a Surgeon was sent for, who endeavoured to Bleed him but in vain, Blisters were applied behind the unfortunate Gentleman's

very excitement to STERNUTATION fail'd, but nothing succeeded, till a clyster of strong chilli Vinegar made moderately warm was happily introduced by Doctor Macleany, this speedily revived the Patient. And he is so well recover'd as to be likely very soon to repeat the EXPERIMENT. We insert the above account as a usefull warning for those who are afflicted in the same manner by over GORG'ING at this convivial Season. QUERE.---To the Learned in the Law. Is it Lawfull for the Post-Master General of Calcutta to open the Let's of any private Gentlemen in the Settlement, upon a presumption of their enclosing Mr. HICKY's Gazette ? This violation has not only been lately committed here, but the Post-Office, Officers have had the imper- audacity to return them to the writers.---At this rate no Man's secrets, or property are safe, For under this pretence they may open any Letters, and plead the aforesaid argument and ***************** A specific cure for the Dysentery or Bloody Flux which put a stop to the Havock made by that disorder in the English Army last War. It is no more than to take New Fresh Churned Butter, without any Salt.---Melt it over a clear fire, skimming off the drossy part, as it rises;----Give two spoons full of the Clarified remainder, twice or three times a day, at least. It has never failed to make an immediate cure in many hundred cases of Persons at the point of Death and given over. To answer objections that may be formed. It is a known process in Fermentations, that the throwing in a little Melted Grease, or Sweet Oil will allay and curbe the highest ferment; thus in the human Body, the sharp Salts arising from the vitiated hot ferment in the Intestines are SHEATHED, and made inactive, by this opposite Oleagenous matter. Blunting the two Stimulating Acrimony; It is not merely a Temporary Palliative but a compleat eradication of the Morbific Principle. If those in the Army could not get Butter,---they made use of clarified Tallow, so sure and efficacious was the Remedy. ***************** S I R, A matter of so much importance (as certainly that of entertaining servants, is) it is surprising that no attention has yet been paid, or any regular form been laid down for that purport.---The glaring impositions that every day occur and the many robberies that are committed by servants, is owing entirely to the want of a proper register-office; how easy it wou'd be, and what advantages might arise from it if servants of different denominations who are reputably characters were registered.----- I shou'd imagine it wou'd be worth many persons, while that has not employment, to establish an Office of that kind in Calcutta, and to affix a certain price (in proportion to the wages of the servant) for procuring for people domestics whose integrity can be vouched for.---so irregular are Gentlemen in procuring servants, and so exceedingly impudent are they got to now, that a fellow who has been a Messaulgee in one house, offers himself to another for a Kismudar, and fellows who set up for Consumers, without knowing how to set a table off, can scarce bring a dish without throwing the gravy over your Shoulders.---not only these inconveniencies but in fact, you dont know who you take into your service, perhaps a Scoundrel who hires himself to you merely with an intention of walking off the first opportunity with a little of your side Board. It is much to be lamented that Gentlemen in Calcutta, will encourage such a set of Vagabonds by giving them such an enormous Wages, it only makes them more careless about pleasing their Masters, as they know if they are turn'd away they have saved as much, in a Month or two, as will keep them a twelve Month to come.---How Gentlemen on their first arrival in Bengal are pluck'd of their cash, by a set of Rum Johnny's who know they are not acquainted with the prices of things, and if perhaps they are discovered in their Villiany they set off, and leave you to repent of your misplaced confidence in them. Such is the disagreeable situation, we labour under in respect to servants, how easy it might be avoided, if an Office was established for regulating them. What an acquisition it would be, to have people about you, that You cou'd trust too.---It would not only afford satisfaction, but be the means of preventing impositions for the future, besides employing those who are worthy of it. If this shou'd be the means of affecting what is so much to be wish'd for by every person it will deeply compensate for the trouble of. CANDIDUS. To Mr. HICKY. S I R, IN a Melancholy mood, ruminating on the deplorable state of the Hon'ble Company's affairs, and of the consequent dangerous situation of british Subjects in India, from the effects of the present ruinous War. My mind was thrown into the following very serious reflections, give them a place in your Paper and oblige your subscriber. HONESTUS. WE now plainly see with what reason the Americans dreaded the direly Effects of Ministerial corruption. The Grounds of their suspicion were indeed numerous and too glaring to escape notice; but, what would have been their astonishment, had any of their Patriots lived in this quarter of the Globe, and told his countrymen, that he had seen an unfeeling Chief, plunder the province of B---h---r, return to England with a fortune of four hundred thousand pounds, to purchase the patent to plunder the C-rn-t-c; stay a few Months in India, and return again to England with a Million, to purchase the plunder of Beng---l! leaving the Country he governed, drained of its Treasure, and destitute of resources, to fall a prey to the most despicable of it's neighbours! --- Had an Honest American seen such a monster, whose multipplied crimes deserved ten thousand deaths, rewarded with one of the highest Offices in the sale of Ministerial Corruption, he would have instantly forewarned his countrymen, of what might soon be their fate. A twitcher might be found, who would for one hundred thousand pounds, sell the plunder of Pensilvenia; and for an hundred more that of new England; and so on from the river St. Lawrence to the Mississipi. To such a pitch of depravity are we arrived by the venal examples of our corrupted rulers, virtue hath scarce a single advocate, an honest servant in the state is a wonder; and in India he would be an object of redicule, he would be ashamed to avoid or speak his sentiments, and I am afraid Mr. Printer, you could not be so unfashionable as to publish them? yet such a Governor as I have been describing will find the pen of your correspondent the atricus, ready to be prostituted in adulation of his Turpitude. At Luckypore 20th Dec. 1780. Mr. HICKY, By inserting this advertisement in your Gazette you will oblige your very Humble servant. RESOLUTION. To be published by subscription. A New discovery in the Art of Navigation shewing how a ship of 800 Tons or lesser Burthen, may Sail from the East Indias to Europe, and consequently to any part of the World, without Anchors, Cables, shrouds or sail, whereby those expences and unnecessary articles will be saved, if the Author meets with encouragement in this, He will publish a sure Method of preventing our ships becoming prizes to our enemys. Dedicated to the Bengal Insurance company. Subscriptions are taken in by the Author at the sign of the Admiral. Married.] A few days ago Henry Cottrell Esq; Chief of Dacca, to Miss Spilsbury, a very accomplished young Lady. Died.] On Monday last Major Lewis Grant, in his Budgerow near Budge budge. 11th Instant, arrived the Ketch Dispatch Blyth from the Malay Coast.---Also the Snow charlotta, Arquit from Pegu. W H E R E A S. ONE Rada Churn Doss of John Baazar a Sircar of Mr. Oldham in Calcutta for many years, did on Tuesday the second Instant, carry a Bill for S. Rs. 1048, unto Lieutenant Golding, at his Quarters in the New Fort, and received the above sum, of him before eleven o'Clock the same Morning, but has not since been heard of. If any Person or Persons can give any account of him, and where he may be found, or will bring him to Mr. Motts Office, or to Mr. Oldham, he or they shall Receive a Reward of 150 S. Rupees. N. B. He was a thin spare Man about 5 Foot 6 Inches Black Face and Pock Marked 32 years Old, and is the Son of Taukoor Doss who was a Weighman to the Hon'ble Company, and has lived at the West end of the John Baazar for many years. L O S T. ON Sunday last the 7th. Instant, near the Court House, a Brown and white spotted spaniel, with a Brass collar about its Neck, secured by a small Padlock, and Answers to the Name of Gipsey. Any Person on delivering the same at the Printing Office shall be entitled to a Reward of one Gold Mohur. To be S O L D, A Handsome neat Charriot compleatly fitted up for further particulars enquire of Messrs. Simpson and Mitchell Coach Makers near Mr. Dacre's House. Acknowledgements to our Correspondents. AN Enemy to mean shifts, Yorrick, and the Extract of a Letter from Canton, came too late for insertion this week.---the Letter sign'd plain Truth, and one sign'd an Enemy to oppression. are also received and under consideration.

POETS CORNER. To the LADIES. DRESS up a man that's tall and fair, Like any pretty Miss, Which of your sex would first declare, She long'd that man to kiss? Just so, when women dress like boys, Th' attractive power is gone; Their sex forgot, and all its joys, When once our cloths are on. Those who wou'd take the marriage vow, This lesson sure it teaches, That Girls in coats and waistcoats now, Will one day wear the breeches. From nature's and from Beauty's line, Your sex has strangely err'd; That dress which is not feminine, Must always be absurd. A Matrimonial Thought. IN the Blythe days of Honey Moon, With Nancy's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon And called her dearest Kitten, But now my Kitten's grown a Cat, And crests like other wives, O by my soul, my honest Mate, I fear she has nine lives. HELLYAR, BURRELL, and GOULD. BEG Leave to acquaint the Public that their Contract of partnership was disolved by mutual Consent this day, and that a new agreement has taken place, by which Mr. Hellyar continues to make up all kind of Cordage as usual, but that the business of the Marine Ware-House, at Calcutta will be conducted by the present Proprietors Burrell and Gould. They also embrace this opportunity of expressing their thanks to their Customers and the Public in general for the favors and countenance they have met with, and to assure them that it will be their principal study to give satisfaction to those who may be pleased to continue their favors, having a very complete assortment of Marine Stores, and Iron-mongery, where ships of any size, or Budgerows, can be supplied with whatever they may require, on the shortest notice, and most rasonable terms. Calcutta 22d. December 780. Mr. SOUBISE, BEGS Leave to acquaint the Gentlemen of the settlement that he continues Teaching the Science of Fencing as usual, at the Harmonic Tavern on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from seven until ten in the Forenoons. NOTICE, IS hereby given to the Gentlemen of the settlement and the Public in general that Mr. Robert Harvey's Godown in the Radda baazar opposite Mr Guthries formerly Mr. Thomas Smiths, Europe Shop, is now open for the sale of the following Articles viz. The best Country Rum wholesale and retail, in Puncheons, Pipes, and Hogsheads, at the rate of one Rupee eight Ans per Gallon wholesale, and one Rupee ten Ans. retail, Course piece Goods, Cossimbaazar Bandanas, raw Silks &. All Gentlemen favouring Mr. Harvey with their Commands, may depend upon his exerting every endeavor to give them satisfaction. A. BERNARD. BEGS leave to inform the Gentlemen of the Settlement, that having purchased a large Quantity of fine Wheat, continues the baking business as Usual, hopes for the continuance of his customers favors. ALL PERSONS. WHO have any demands on the Estate of the late Lt. Colonel Upton, are desired to send in their demands, and all persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay their respective debts, to John Murray Esq; Executor of the said Estate, on or before the first of April next. To be SOLD, BY Mr. J. Andrews at the Library some exceeding good Claret Imported by the last Dutch Ship, at a very reasonable Price or by a Bernard, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Dr. Hamilton, next to G. Livius's esq. WANTED. A COFFRE Slave Boy any person desirous of disposing of such a Boy, and can warrant him a faithful and honest Servant, will please to apply to the Printer. TO LETT. A House in the Loll Baazar belonging to Mr. Henry Grant, for further particulars please to apply to the proprietor, Mr. OLDHAM. BEGS leave to acquaint the Ladies, and Gentlemen of the settlement. that He continues as usual to bake Bread and all sorts of Sweet-cakes for breakfast, Also the rest sort of Biscuit, fit for the use of Ladies, and Gentlemen who travel, by Land, or Sea And sells Butter after the manner Mr. Le Gallais did, who shortly intends to quit business. He hopes they will favour him with their commands, which will be thankfully rec'd. To be LETT. THAT large and commodious Garden-House, at present occupied by John Bristow Esq; and situated near the John baazar, on a pleasant spot of Ground. For particulars please to enquire of Mr. Edward Tiretta. THE Inhabitants of Calcutta, are Requested to meet at Nichols, and Creightons Tavern, on Tuesday next the sixteenth Inst. at ten of the o'Clock in the forenoon, on Business regarding the Petition and Appeal, to His Majesty in Council against the Bye-Law. STEPHEN BAGSHAW. Secretary. Calcutta 11 Jan. 1781. ALL Persons having claims upon the Estate of Capt. John Griffith or being, indebted thereto are to send accounts of the same to Peter Auriol Administrator, absence to Mr. John Lew so that they may be adjusted end of March next. ALL PERSONS WHO have any legal claims mands on the Estate of M Hierny'e deceased formerly inte of the Danish settlement, at Fred in Bengal and his surviving W hereby requested to send in thei tive claims and all Persons indeb said Estate, are desired to pay thei Debts to Mr. J. Borgen Jud inferior Court of Judicature at bar, and Administrator of the Effects of the said Mr. Andrew deceased, on or before the Expir Year and a Day from this Date August 1780. TO MERCHANTS ABout the middle of Janu sail for Madras the Ship NY. (late the Bazile) Any Pers ing to send Bale or light Goo be accommodated with Freigh usual terms by applying to Mr Clark at his House opposite t Office in the China-baazar, said Ship. SIRAMPORE TAVERN CHARLES MATON havi the House near the Water occupied by Major Briton, and the same as a Tavern, and Hotel, fully acquaints the Gentlemen of that they may depend on every commodation, good Provisions, best of Liquors, Beds also may be Boarding, on Reasonable terms. N. B. A very good Billiard skittle Ground. Mrs. Maton makes up all sorts inary in the neatest manner. WANTED. A White Smith, and a Cop each, must be a perfect Business. Inquire at the print ALL PERSONS. WHO have any legal clai mands on the Estate Capt. Ant'y. Belshes, are desi in their respective demands, and indebted to the said Estate are desi their respective Debts on or befo Day of February next to Mr. J or Mr. Philip Delisle Executors. Mrs. MANN. BEGS Leave to acquaint the L Gentlemen of the Settlement has moved to a house at the ba bord of Trade and have got the Goods for Sale viz. Millinary, China and Glass W Thread Sattins, plain Striped and fine Doosutties and Doosutties towe ras and pultah Chintz, Izaries Gorgets, Ink Stands, Europe Tongues, europe Groats in Jars Cheese, and Kismases. N. B. A pair of large Mahoga ing tables a Mahogany Beaureau, Cotts of all Size and sundry ot ces. CALCUTTA, Printed by J. A. HICKY, First and late PRINTER, to the Hon. COMPANY.