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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856. 
| Notes. 
INEDITED NOTES FROM NEWSPAPERS. 
Tt seems that the Old Pretender continued the 
practice of his family : 
“ Bologna, April 17.—On Saturday the Princess of 
Piombino paid a visit to the Chevalier de St. George and 
his Lady, who received her very affectionately. Next 
day the Pretender performed the ceremony of Touching 
in his chapel.” — Flying Post, April 23rd, 1728. 
It is amusing to hear George I. holding out 
serious hopes of paying off the National Debt. 
He thus replies to Parliament (April, 1728) : 
“The provision made for gradually discharging the 
National Debt is now become so certain and considerable, 
that nothing but some unforeseen event can alter or di- 
minish it; which gives us the fairest prospect of seeing 
the old debts discharged without any necessity of incur- 
ring new ones.” — Flying Post, April 11, 1728. 
_ Here we have the earliest history of Sir Robert 
Walpole’s famous Houghton: 
“The Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq., has laid the 
foundation of a seat at Houghton in Norfolk, which, as 
*tis said, will cost about 30,0001” — Weekly Journal, 
June 16, 1722. 
It is curious to glance at the mortality of 
London, about half its present weekly average : 
« Casualties. — Drowned in the River of Thames, at 
S. John at Wapping, 1. Executed, 1. Killed by a fall 
from a window at S. James in Westminster, 1. Made 
away herself at S. Mary at Newington, 1. Overlaid, 2. 
Aged, 4. Convulsions, 118. Fever, 61. Small Pox, 38. 
Christened. — Males, 148. Females, 138. In all, 286. 
Buried. — Males, 226. Females, 240. In all, 466. 
Decreased in the burials this week, 20. 
Whereof have died, 
Under two years of age - - - - 149 
Between two and five + - - - 49 
Five andten - = = = =) 2 
Ten and twenty - - ) thr s 
Twenty and thirty - - Py « 34 
Thirty and forty - - - - 62 
» Forty and fifty - - - - - 45 
Fifty and sixty - - - . a ae 
Sixty and seventy - - = = od 
Seventy and eighty - - = 2) 
Eighty and ninety - - < - 12 
Ninety and upwards) - - - +, 2” 
Postboy, April 11, 1728. 
Here is a contribution to the collectors of stage 
coach advertisements : 
“A very good coach and six able horses sets out from 
the Coach and Six Horses in Wood Street, on Thursday 
next the 25th instant, for Bath. Any persons that have 
occasion to go thither, or to any part on that road, shall 
be handsomely accommodated by me, Joun TEA.” 
Daily Courant, April 19, 1728. 
John Tea’s “coach and six able horses,” how- 
ever, had not sufficient attractions for the Princess 
Amelia, who prefers going to Bath in a “ chair 
and eight men :” 
“On Saturday the Princess Amelia set out for the 
e 
Bath, whither her Highness is to be carry’d in a sedan 
chair by eight chairmen, to be relieved in their turns, a 
coach and six horses attending to carry the chairmen 
when not on service. Her Highness dined the same 
evening at Hampton Court, being accompany’d by the 
Princess Royal and the Princess Carolina. Sunday 
morning her Highness set out thence for Windsor, where 
she was to be entertained in the evening; and yesterday 
morning proceeded to Dr. Freind’s house near Reading, 
in Berkshire. A party of the Horse Guards escorted her 
Highness to Hampton Court, relieved next day by a 
a of the Blue Guards, &c.” — Post Boy, April 13, 
1728. 
This whimsical journey, commenced on April 13th, 
terminated on April 19th. 
Mr. Tea was not, it appears, without compe- 
titors : 
“Tf any persons has [sie] occasion to go to Bath, they 
may be carried in a handsome easy coach, which sets out 
on Saturday next, the 27th instant, at a reasonable rate, 
by Richard Maddock, in Bull Yard, near Aldersgate 
Bars.” = Daily Courant, April 25, 1728. 
The following is the advertisement of the poem 
that drove Mrs. Colonel Brett from Bath : 
“ This day is published. 
+t4 The Bastard, a Poem. Inscribed, with all due 
reverence, to Mrs. Bret, once Countess of Macclesfield. 
By Richard Savage, son of the late Earl Rivers. 
*Decet hac dare dona Novercam.’ — Ov. Met. 
Printed for T. Worrall, at the Judge’s Head, over against 
S. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet Street; sold by Mr. Graves 
and Mr. Jackson, near S. Jamés’s House, the Booksellers 
in Westminster Hall, and Mrs. Nutt under the Royal 
Exchange; price 6d.” — Postboy, April 30, 1728. 
The.transfer of the provinces of North and 
South Carolina to the Crown is thus laconically 
announced« 
“We hear for certain that a treaty is concluded be- 
tween the Government and the Lords Proprietors of North 
and South Carolina, touching the purchase of the same by 
his Majesty, and that an order is issued to the Treasury 
for payment of the purchase money.” — Postman, May 2, 
1728. 
Quaint sounds the mention of Guy’s Hospital, 
for “ Mr. Guy ” was only dead four years: 
“Mr. Callaham has resigned his place of apothecary to 
Mr. Guy’s Hospital.” — Zbid. 
Thus the citizens raised the wind for a Mansion 
House: 
“Tt is much talked that the citizens, in their choice of 
sheriffs, will enter this year upon the list of those nomi- 
nated by former lord mayors, in order to bring in fines 
enow to build a Mansion House for the lord mayors of 
this city, a thing so much wanted to complete its glory. 
And we hear that their first essay is likely to fall upon 
Mr. Henry Raper, Painter Stainer, and Mr, Edward 
Strong, Mason.” — Postboy, May 2, 1728. 
“A picket of guards” is generally sent for to 
quell any night brawl or tumult, but here is a 
touch of the mysterious : 
“ The same evening two persons of ai quality having 
quarrelled at a coffee-house in S. James’s Street, the 
