The Virginia Gazette

From the Public Advertiser.

I FIND that your paper is distinguished by a particular kind of humour, which some of your correspondents have been very happy in; I mean such articles, as you are used to put under the title of Intelligence Extraordinary. The following are therefore at your service, if you think they have merit sufficient for insertion.

I am your humble servant,
FUNDUNP-KIGGHDOS

In the present dearness of all kinds of provisions, it must undoubtedly give great satisfaction to the poor, as well as private families, to be informed, that the price of Turtle is fallen from 4s. 6d. and 4s. to 3s. and 2s. 9d. per pound, which is certainly very reasonable, considering that the shell and other indigestible parts do not weigh above two thirds of the whole.

Last Saturday night was broke open a barber's shop: when the villains had the audacity to steal from thence the Rector of the parish's wig; by which means the parishioners were deprived of hearing an excellent sermon from it the next morning.

At a church in North Wales the whole sum collected by a brief for a terrible fire, amounted to one farthing, which was given by the Curate, who declared it was the most he could afford to give, out of 40l. per annum, considering he had a wife and six small children.

Yesterday morning Mr. Gorge, an eminent oilman, and one of the Common-Council, was found dead in his bed. He had ate a very hearty dinner the day before of turtle and venison.

The same day a large sow, belonging to an eminent distiller, was found dead drunk in her sty. She had ate a great quantity of cherries used in making cherry brandy.

Late last night a gentlewoman was taken up in a Burying-ground. She was afterwards removed by Habeas Corpus to a surgeon's, where she is to undergo a close examination.

On Wednesday last as some fellows were making merry at the sign of the Golden Ball in Warwick lane, several licentious persons, with a blacksmith at their head, suddenly presented their poles at the door, and insisted on taking a pipe and tankard along with them, alleging that there was room enough for more company; whereupon one of the fellows within presented a large squirt at the rioters, which happily operated as was intended, by giving the whole corps an immediate motion.

Tis thought that a late arrangement will certainly give permanence to administration; and therefore no changes are expected for some minutes to come.

Yesterday morning, the weather being favourable, Lord Chatham took an airing on Hampstead Heath.-- An example worthy to be imitated, by such of us as are friends to our constitution!

The following shocking murders were lately committed in a nobleman's kitchen by a French cook. A sucking pig was whipped to death, and a lobster roasted alive.

Last Thursday, at the mustering of the city train bands, a quarrel happened between two of the officers, a cheesemonger and a haberdasher; in consequence of which a duel was to have been fought the next morning; but both the parties having got drunk over night, they happily overslept themselves, and no bloodshed ensued.

To morrow the noted Filch will set out upon his travels into foreign parts.

The same day Bob Booty alias Bloody Bob. will pay a visit to John Ketch, Esq; near Paddington, where he will make but a short stay, and afterwards proceed to his country seat on Hounslow Heath, where he will reside as long as the weather will permit.

Last Sunday the clerk of St. --e--'s parish was seized with a singing in his head, a little before sermon. He afterwards raved to some tune, and belaboured the congregation about the ears with two staves, which he had selected from a great number for that purpose, pretending it was to the praise and glory of G-d.

We hear the commissioners of a certain turnpike have made away with the money which they had collected.