Chelmsford, Pec. ij. You may depend on the inclofed as a faithful Copy of the Petition this Day agreed on here; it was this After- noon figned by more than 500 Freeholders, and, had not the Weather prevented, there is no Doubt but it would have been figned by as many more ; howe

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AS Chamber Critic to the Females of Derby, 1 cannot fit down and hear my Crmcilins, fo fap'd and abufed, as they were in your laft Paper, Mr. Printer, without Ihew- ing a decent Refentment. Befides, Sir, your Mercury will have the Advantage, of a little tho' fweet Variety, arifi

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From' the London Gazette, Dee. *lj. Whitehall, December _j. The following petition of the Prefident and Conncil, and of the Aflembly "of the- IflanJ of Antigua, hay n-j been tranfmitt etl to. the Right Hon. the Eafl of Htlisbo-.ough, oneof his Majefty's prm cipal Secretaries of S

Famed VENETIAN C - H I L A D D R E N, From SADLER':! WELLS, Londok, Who. have gained fuch univerlal applaufe in everyplace they have exhibited, fince their arrival in thefe parts. The are allowed the moft furprifing performers in agili- ty of body that ever .came into this kingdo

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0 Dr. Franklin's Obnrvat'toi;; concerning the In. creafe of Met; kind., Petplieg oj Countries, ire. it JGK23jgS§MB-\ND being plenty in Amer.ca, and fo KBSM.TIS cheao sts that a labouring niaa, who »l^^p| uiid<'r..->ids husbandry, can, in a ?? purrhafe 'a p-ece of new land luffici