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Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser — 32.1781

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BENGAL GAZETTE;

OR THE ORIGINAL

Calcutta General Advertiier.

A Weekly Political atid Csmmercid Paper, Open t* all Parties, but influenced by None,

Plunder of the F.nemies of tin ir Country
The DEATH or GLORY Privatee:
a Prime failing Vcficl commanded b}
J^MES 3RACEY mounting 22 fij
pounders, 12 Cohorns an 1 twenty Swi-

84 From Saturday Augu-t the 25th to Saturday September ift, 17S1. [No. XXXII]

To all Gentlemen Seamen, and Lads of £«-} this feemmg heterogenous animal en- thefe uncommon endowments of the

Urprizej and true fpirit. , tcra cave at the fide of aroad, to his mind, mav naturally have a fweet mild,

HO are ambitious of making fan! np^reatforrovv • then he ro,1- on until caf>' difpolkion, at leaft one, who, by

honorable Independence by the he tot home.butdid notrcit atisfied, F^/nd frequent habit, has made

f , , 1 j V- 1 1 • , himlelt io before he is made mine,

as he could fcarcely defenbe this be- ^ as thc niaftcl,perrcction and chief!

i-ng: The night following he and eft draughr< Jet hm be truly virtuou$

iome more or the towns gentlemen and pious, that is to lay, let me be

came to the lame pl-ce where the a- truly bnppy in my choice,

vels and carrying o ;e .hundred and nimal grounded, and -.here they got ANECDOT^ofThTCouNT D'ES^

twenty Men.-- will leave Calcutcai three of the fame kind before de- TAlNG.

in a few days on a fix Months cruifca- icrited, which they brought 10 town, npHE Count D'Efta'm having

two or which proved to be fhe ones, j| been informed that there was

The underarmed do certify the con- a man, by trade a f ;djer, who took

tents of the above to be true. Upon him t'ns na;ne arm arms pf

John Dea E!q;^ D'Eft.dVg, the Count fent (or him,

Denis Ryan, Efq; and aikecFhirnhow he dared to uiurp

Mr, John Carrol, his name and arms, the man anfw-

Mr. Mi had Fitzmaurice, Cred, That he did not ufurp them,

;__iVlr' John Bl ind. but that he derived h s right ;o them

forti\rprayer for a j from his T1'e C°«n* fhen

HUSdAiVD. ! tQ\d him haughtily, that if he dut

FROM a profane iib;-rtine, from one | no* defift from ufing them^ he would
efleciediy pious, from a ppoftjfe ; make him repent it. The fedlcr
almoner, from an uncharitable wretch, ' confuted a Lawyer upon his affair,

gainit the Dutch, French, and Span
iards.

The beft Treatment and Encourage

merit will be given.

EM PLOYMFts T ANTEdT"*"
H j Y a YoUng M in] lately arrived from
_|3 Europe, and would be glad to en-
gage as a writer to any Gentleman in o,
out of Calcutta, he can if rcqui ed keep
priv.t-*e accounts, writes a good hand ,ir.d
can be well recommended.;

N, B. The above perfon would be
defi -ousto engage by the Year. A line
directed to the Printer hereof for F\ M.
mail be duly attended to.

___Augiift, 28th

E'tra£l from a Europe Wiper, dated
farmery \ 1 th 17 81.
Birr, J;r.u;ry 1 1.

ETWEEN the hours
JjJ *j* of fix and feven o'Clock

b ^5 on thcnidit of the jQult
*H H Mr. John Carrol of Tip;

»(. w * > perary was on lus journey
fcr Cafhel from home, on the road
leading thro' Tbomaftown, he
furprifed by the roaring of a
bull which he thoughtftood under the
.covert of the Trees, on one fide of
the road, iufpecting it to be one of
Mr. Mathews Bulls, which was pub-
licly known to be very vicious; he
fcarce}/ advanced go yards further,
when on a fid.len this animal, which
roared ft ■ horihly, appeared to him
\ ift in fize and form of a pig, with

from an injudicious zealot —' deliver me
From one of a ftarched gravity, or of
a riiiiculouj levity, from an ambitious
Statefman, from a reftlcfs projector,
f.'om one that laves any thin 3 befides me,
but what is v«ry juft and honorable,—
deliver me.

F 0n1 a modern wif, from a bafe cow-
ard, and a r.-fli fool--~- deliver me.

From a Venus darling, from a Bac-
chus profelyte, horn a dom<?ftic animal,
from ad mafculine plagues, not yet re-

counte.!,--Deliver me.

But give me one whole love has more
af judgemerirthajrs pailjon, who is mafter
of himieii", or at leait an ' indefatigable
Scholar in fuch a ftudy; who has an
equal i]ame, a paralcl inclination, a
temper and foul fo like mine, that, as
two tallies, we may appear more perfect
by union.

Give me one of as Genteel an Educa-
tion, as a little txpence of time v/ill per-
mit, with an indifferent fortune, rather
independanr of the fervile ftareof places

who aivifed him not t J ufe the nam?
or arms, utile's he could proye hi*
right to them. To which the fadier
anfwered, That he was brought up
at the Eburialing-h-pfpitBl, and that
the direilors of that charity told hitn
when he was fent from hence, that
the name and arms of D'Ediang
belonged to him, Accordinoiy, ths
Lawyer went with him to that hofp»
leal, aud, upon application to thz
principal director, he produced to
them a letter in thc hand-writing of
the Ere Mr, D'Eftaing, Declaring
that the perfon in q .ielli « wis his
foii, by a girl of mean birth, whon»
he had privately married, which
occ tfsbned his f uding the child to the
F'oanaling-bofpital, Some time after
he found means to fatisfy the girl, by
giving her a f"m of money, and
married a lady of rank and fortune,

this difference that it hid. fpreadmg and yet one whole retirement is nor f0 j by whom he had the prefent Count
horns; the fight of this ftrangc cre.i- ! much as into himfelf, one (if poilible) D'Eftaing, The Lawer finding that
tare afioniflied the Gentlema 1, but \ above flattery and affronts, and yet is j thc latter was an illegitimate child,
after a little time recovered himfejf, careful in preventing Injury, as al>le to j being the iffue of thefecond marriage,
•.nd became more rei'olute, thinkiag repair ir, one, the beauty of whofc when the firft was not let sfiJe, told
it could do him no harm, as being , mind exceeds that of his lace, the fadicr to continue the name and

fo fmall in ftaturc, fo he continued ^e me one thathas learned to live ^ ofiyE^ai as he had done

1 ■ n much in a httle time, one that is no - , r « w ^ r\>~^r 1

on his journey tn a very fiow pacej fami!5ar in lhc converfe of the I befcre' Count D ftftaing there-

but this creature fouowed him near Wosld, nor no little one with Wmfelf, «P0fi <?attfed the man to be cued
a mile, until he came to a place called ! one (ir' tw<j fuch t.appineflcK may be before the Chatelet, were both partief
.Thomaujwn pool, and then beheld Jgrar.tsd a; pne iin;c to ourtex) who with being heard, and an authentic, copy
 
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