Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser (36.1781)

HICK r s ■

BENGAL GAZETTE;

OR THE ORIGINAL

Calcutta General Advertifer.

A Weekly Political and Cammercisl Paper, Open tt all Parties, hut influenced by None,

88 From Saturday September the 221. to Saturday September 2)th 1781. [No. XXXVI

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Mr. H1CKY, I men walk'd out to their no fmall difap-' the afliftance of a Man-Mid-wife.

I R, pointment.—How it the Man midwitc And tho'my Skin is not fo white as

N patting thro' the-----——to ' fhould be ferv'd ? -Wc may ob your fine Ladies, it is as plump, and as

Church on Sunday lafb, I obl'crvcd ■ fervr feveral figns, which tho' they can- fleck as-the belt of them.

not be read by the vulgar,may be perfect- OLD NELL, the Green Woman at
ly underltood, for inftanee lately in the Jemmy's Stiff Curl's late corner ; and

■ large Golden Letters-Surgeon

and ^Man-Mip-vife. after a little rcficc

ticn, 1 could not help thinking that the Radda Baazar, Guthrie, WatchMaker oppofite to the Original P. O, Well«
owner mull be an incire ftranger both to 1 and the very next door to him.——Old cant's Whole crooked Barrell'd Fow-

the Inhabitants of India, and the fitua-! John Europe Liquors •, The formers ling piece-fir'd round the faid

rner.

Patn a,

Mr. MICKY,

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the Table and rhe Jo;.-, Jailors regaling■■ r , . , . ,

themlelves wirh-Str ,.,•»• i aS and roar- A S triK1.'s not ro be cxPe&«* or e5,

ation of his abode, for the gcnerallity J profeflion is kown, by the number of Come
of People, who pals that way, are either j Watches appearing thro' the Clement;
good Cathclicks going to IgSaOIA* of j.and the latter cannot .be mdtaken. rhe
' Moors and Genr.003 ( cheifly Cooleys, Bottles and Glafles being conftan'tiy on
?nd poor people) going, or coming
from the great Baazar--Now the for-
mer of thofe, I w.ill be bold to fay, that
not two in an Hundred of my own fex
knows a B. from a Eulls foot, much
Icfs u-ndcrftand the Englifh and meaning
of Man—Midwife, and their only prayer
Book is a fine Fan, roll'd round with a
Puilicat Hmdkercheif, Nor fhould 1
have had lo much knowledge myfelf had
But my father (been an Irifhrnan, and an
Officer at Goi) educated me, both in
Englifh and Portaguele hirrifclf. The
lactcr it is well known ( if they could
read Englilh) have no fuch imnodeft

• profeflion among them, fo that he could it took up a pen from the Standi(h, and j l^^Z^l^l r" " f?

fliope for no employers, in that feci: of wrote on a Siicet of paper in fair Charac
people; and European Ladies (from > tcrs. Fransilco Saviere ; On which it was

ing,'fhe Death, orGfcry forever (brave ven iniertc.l in any Mother Paper
l3QyS j than yours, lo any pcrfon free from re-
Now for the Dolors Insignia; I ftnurit, and prejudices will take a pica-
would advife the purchafing a delicate lure to t.urndh you wuh any materials in
Hand, from one 01 thole Statues at Mr . .I,c,r Power whenever ^ey arc to be
Williamfons Auction Room and hang it \()"n« "v°nhY °f a pUce'in your Gazette,
up, at the end of his fign poll, with 1 ft"U not comment upon the falfity in-
a new fafliion Crochet. " For without ierfed in the India Gazette, refpectmg
that, our good Chriftikns, would luppofc rie Pilturbances at uenares. wheiein one
it, the Marvellous Hand of Francisco Paragraph mentions that tranquility, wat

Saveire--which bein-cutoff, and : reftorod throughout the Diftncts under

fent to the Pope at Rome ; was Interoga- Che>'t SlnS a tcw hours afccr thc mufficre

ted by him-Who art thou ? when i Ehac was perpetrated by his Order. The

v/hon he could only expect cutom) I
may venture to affirm three doth not pafs
that way in a year —— Therefore I fay
'Mr. Hicky, the Man muft be miflakcn
] and might as well have wrote up Man-
\&tonfttr to the Ignorant crowd that pafs.
* I have heard my father recount a Story
which happeu'd at a large trading town
fin Yorkfhirc, where one Anthony Rhcn-
nick a Surgeon liv'd ; who had over his
Door in Golden Letters A. RHEN-
'MCK CHIRURGEON, when two
Country Farmers coming tothe Fair, (af-
ter gazing fome time at the Sign) ecod
fays one this mud be fome wild Beyeaft or
/Monlter, what think'rt thou Neighbour
j) )hn? Why I think wc had heft away in
and fee it, for I's never heard of fuch a
a Beyeaft in my life; fo knocking at the
Door the Doctor came himfelf, when
the Countryman afking' if A. Rennrck
Cirugeon was to be feen ? I am he reply'd

the Doctor what is your Will-! Thou

*rt he cxclaim'd the Countryman ?
Why thou lookeft 1 ke a mon, but may

Cannoniz'd, and fent to be depolitcd in a
fine Marble Tom1.', in one of oar grand
Churches at Goa, and the grand Duke
of Tus-cany made a prefent. of fome e-
legant black Marble for the purpofe.

But now 1 think on'r, 'twould be bet-
ter to advife our Man-Mid-wife, to re-
move to the Court end of the Town,
where the Englilh L«dres refide.—-yet il
they would conoefcend to take the exer-
cife, and live as I do, thev would have
no occafion for a Man Mid-wife, and

but little,for their own Sex---Nature

will always act her part, if not prevent-
ed by luxury and Indolence.

You mutt know Mr. HICKY, my
Hufband is a Gardner, I am therefore
up at Day break plucking my Roota,
and warning them for Market, from
whence I return generally by Nine, but
fome times fooner, Eat a hearty break-
fa ft ( not ofSlip .Slop Tea ) but good
Congee, after which 1 attend to the do-
meftic affairs of our little Cottage,
whilft my Hufband is Ploughing, and

hap thou mayeft have a tail; -[working in the Grounds. Our Dinnei

When taking the Doctor by the moulder! is gcmr-dly made of whoiefome

to turn him about he received a fevere
box on the Ear which was immediately
rcturn'd with with the Countrymans

Thus wc enjoy found and perfect health.
Whip, and the Wild Beaft, was glad to; and I will venture to affirm, that I can

Cum 1, (,r the Poultry of our Yard, and
Congee again ferves us for fupper.

well known, that it cannot impofc even
upon the minds of the moft credulous.—•
But my intention it to acquaint you with
an Anecdote ridiculous indeed, but
God knows by what Confequences it may
be followed, that wc have hecn furnifhed
with at Patna, and which will both con-
round the author of the faid affe.tion in
the India Gazette, and fhew the gradual
progrefs of wifdom in our prefent G—t

To come to the point.--On the 12th

Sept. between one and two o'Clock in
the morning we were furprifed with an
alarm thatcaufed every body to flock in-
to Patna, or rather the Keilah (a place
of remarkable Itrength, well Garrilbned,
and very able to hold againft whoever
Joes notchufe to take it^ with Cooley's
loadea with Baggage. The boats and
Budgcrows were alio haftening down the
river. A fudden report was propogated
that an Army of Chyte Sing's was near
Patna, and that a fcheme was laid in that
City to deftroy at one blow every Euro-
pean Individual.—What will aftonifh
you is, that not one pcrfon can boaft of
having entertained any doubt about the
matter, that it was as practicable as it was
probable. All the Boats of. whatever
denomination were therefore ready to de-
part upon the fii ft appearance of the e-

nernyv--Two hours had fcarceelap-

lcd when we were informed that all this

run" into his Houfc.-The Country-' turn out, fix as fine Chopirig Boy s :lnti ' great and honorable Scene was occafioned

* Ptrtugucft fer Church. j Girls, as any in the Parifii, and without. by » Village having accidently taken