to the company in their said charter. The proprietors of the blanks will have two-thirds of the whole stock of the company.

APPENDIX, No. II..

The FLYING-POST, or POSTMASTER;-From Tuesday December 4th, to Thursday December 6th, 1722.

Advertisement.

"His Majesty, as duke and elector of Brunswick and Lunenburg, having granted the Harburg company, besides other considerable privileges, a Lottery to be drawn at Harburg: the scheme of the said Lottery approved by his Majesty, and tickets, will be delivered by the company's agents, Mr. Francis Heilman inerchant, at his house in Mark-lane; Mrs. Elizabeth Bell bookseller, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill; Mrs. Oakes, at her office in Three Kings court, Lombard street; at North's coffee-house in King street; and at Robins's coffee-house in Berry street, St. James.

"Whereas a false, malicious, and villainous Advertisement was yesterday published in the Postman; and the same, as a paragraph of news, in the Postboy; viz. That, the Harburg Lottery having met with unexpected and unreasonable opposition, all persons that have taken out tickets, are desired to come, to the several places where they took them, to receive their money back rgain: This is to certify, That there are so many tickets already taken out, and subscribed for, that the trustees are morally certain of carrying on the Lottery to advantage, and of promoting such a trade, which is the main design of their Lottery, as will convince their enemies, or rather those of his Majesty, and the trade of the nation, that none but his Majesty could ever have laid such a foundation for enlarging the British trade in the empire; and no other company, but that of Harburg, could, under his Majesty's auspices, have contrived a scheme of trade so beneficial to all Britons.

"N. B. Schemes and tickets continued to be

delivered out at the places formerly advertised."

APPENDIX, No. III.

At a Meeting of the Gentlemen, named Directors, September 4th, 1722:

Present, Lord Barrington, Mr. Smith, Mr. Manley, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Hartop, Mr. Nicolai, Mr. Squire, Mr. Stirling, Mr. Harrison: The heads of a British Charter, agreed on by the Committee of August 31st, read and approved: The lord Barrington undertook to deliver a copy of them to lord Townshend: And the secretary was ordered to send a copy, translated into French, to count Bothmere, that he might lay the same before his Majesty.

At a General Meeting of the Harburg Company, 4th September, 1722:

company, if the Committee appointed by the directors to consider how the company may proceed in such a manner as to ask a British Charter that may be for the service of the company; and yet, if possible, free from the objections that have or may be made to the granting a British Charter, on the foot of the present German Charter; can form such a plan: And that they be desired to finish it as soon as possible. This is a true Copy. GEO. RIDPATH, Secretary.

At a Meeting of the Gentlemen, named Direc tors, August 31st, 1722:

Present, Lord Barrington, Mr. Richier, Mr. Alderman Baylis, Mr. London, Mr. Hartop, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Squire, Mr. Nicolai, Mr. Manley, Mr. Smith, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Har-,

rison.

The Minutes being read; Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to consider how the company may proceed in such a manner as to ask a British Charter: And that the lord Barrington, Mr. Bendish, Mr. Manley, Mr. Hartop, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Burroughs, and Mr. Squire, be of the said Committee; and to report to the directors:

The Preamble to be as follows; It having been reported to the directors, That the English ministers think it neither legal nor prudent to grant a British Charter to the company, as the German Charter now runs; the Committee, being very desirous, out of the duty they have for his Majesty, and the due regard they have to the company, and this undertaking, to renisters apprehend to be in the way of granting move all the difficultics, that the English mi

a British Charter, on the foot of the present German Charter, do propose the following plan; which, though it will take from the cornpany one of the most valuable privileges, which they have acquired by their interest, and by a considerable expence of time and money; yet hope it may be accepted by the company, in order to remove the aforesaid difficulties, on the one hand, which the English ministers appre hend might arise to his Majesty's administration, if a British Charter should be granted to the company, whilst they remain possessed of that privilege, in this difficult conjuncture; and to prevent the great discontents and clamours. on the other hand, that may arise, if this undertaking should not proceed, for want of a British Charter, on which they have always depended; and in hopes of which alone, they accepted of his Majesty's German Charter, after it was issued, when others rejected it; appears by their minutes, and by their humble Address on accepting the said churter.

"It is humbly desired, that the Harburg company may have a British Charter of incorporation, except as is below excepted; on condition,

"That they be continued a German company, with these powers following, in their said German Charter: 1. "With a power to draw then Lottery at Harburg, as it is at present

granted: 2." With a power to make the Port, .e. the sluice, canal, and bason; and keep the said sluice, canal, and bason, in repair; and to keep the Colebrand to 16 feet water deep at high-water mark; and to lay such a duty, at Harburg, on goods imported and exported, as shall be necessary to maintain such repairs, not exceeding 2 per cent. to he laid by the general court of the intended company; which will consist of every freeman of the said company, as well as of every proprietor of the stock; the said power of laying the said 2 per cent. to be expressed in the British Charter: 3. "With a power for their sole or exclusive exercising and enjoying all other privileges contained in their said present German Charter; and such farther privileges as his Majesty shall be pleased to grant; except, 1. The freedom from duties of customs granted in the charter, called duties of export and import, and tolls, as in article 14th: 2. Freedom from the duties of excise, as in article 4th: 3. Freedom from the duties of quartering soldiers, as in article Sd: 4. Freedom from the duties of burghership, or town-offices, and contributions, at Harburg, as in article 2d: 5. Freedom from church or parochial taxes, as in article 1st: 6. Freedom from embargos, as in article 16: 7. A right of salvage of ship and goods, as in article 18th: 8. Freedom from arrests, as in article 20th: 9. Freedom of religion, as in article first:

"All which nine privileges, as they are granted to the said company, in their said Gerinan Charter respectively, are to be laid open to every Briton; and the company is to be restrained, by the British Charter, from importing to Harburg up the Elbe, or exporting from Harburg down the Elbe, on condition;

"4th, That every such Briton shall be free of the said intended company, by virtue of the British Charter, upon paying of 30l. for his freedom; and that he, consequently, be intitled to all the nine afore-mentioned privileges, upon such payment; which are all the privileges that the company is intitled to by the German Charter, relating to the trade from Great Britain to Harburg up the Elbe, or from Harburg down the Elbe to Great Britain: Provided always, That if any Briton will trade from Great Britain to his Majesty's German dominions, or from thence to Great Britain, without these nine afore-mentioned privileges, he may be at liberty to trade to his Majesty's German dominions, or from thence, without being free of the said company. This is a true copy.

GEO. RIDPATH, Secretary."
APPENDIX, No. IV.

An Account of the Harburg Lottery, and Stock for Trade; with the deductions for Management, &c.

"The Lottery is divided into 5 parts; the prizes to be first drawn out 5 several times; and the remaining numbers will be blanks, to be drawn afterwards:

"The tickets are charged at 37. each; part whereof is to be paid, or discounted, one month

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Remains, in money, to the blanks Deduct, for managing the Lottery, per cent. ou 1,500,000l.; which is 15 per cent. on the 500,0002. out of which it is taken Remains, net money, to the blanks

The Totals of the Stock for trade; and how the property thereof is to be divided; viz.

To the net value of the present Stock of the company, as may be collected from the Scheme, and their advertisement of the 13th instant

Add the net money belonging to the blanks, or unfortunate adventurers in the Lottery

This sum of 435,000l. is the true value, in money, of the real capital Stock, to be employed in trade, being 29 per cent. as valued in the Scheme on the fictitious capital of 1,500,000l. Deduct part thereof, for the managers, &c.

Remains for the unfortunate adveuturers, as their share of the said Stock; being all that is left them of the 500,000l. they have advanced, in money, besides the privilege of trade, &c, as in the Scheme

£. 1,500,000

1,000,000

500,000

75,000 425,000

10,000

425,000

435,000

145,000

290,000.

145,000

10,000

135,000

Committee thereupon; and he read the Report in his place; and afterwards delivered it in at the clerk's table: where the Report and Resolutions were read; and are as follows:

"That the Committee have taken the matters referred to them into consideration; and examined the several witnesses following;

viz.

" John Lade, esq. one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Surrey, being examined, said, That notwithstanding the statute of the 8th and 9th of king William the 3d, intituled,An act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors, in cases of Escapes; and for preventing Abuses in Prisons, and pretended Privileged Places; great disorders, and illegal practices, continue in the pretended privileged place in the borough of Southwark, commonly called the Mint :

"That one Orchard, who had been barbarously treated by the Minters upon suspicion of his being a bailiff, though he was not one, having complained to the justices, at the last quarter session for the county of Surrey, they appointed a committee to inquire into the Abuses of the Mint; upon which the Minters sent them a Letter, a Copy of which is hereunto annexed, No. I. acquainting them what warrants only they would obey; and setting forth,

"Formerly one of the greatest obstructions to public justice, both of the civil and criminal kind, was the multitude of pretended privileged places, where indigent persons assembled together to shelter themselves from justice, (especially in London and Southwark) under the pretext of their having been ancient palaces of the crown, or the like: [such as White-Friers, and its environs; the Savoy and the Mint in Southwark,] all of which sanctuaries for iniquity are now demolished, and the opposing of any process therein is made highly penal, by the statutes 8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 27. 9 Geo. 1. c. 28. and 11 Geo. 1. c. 22. which enact, That persons opposing the execution of any process in such pretended privileged places within the bills of mortality, or abusing any officer in his endeavours to execute his duty therein, so that he receives bodily hurt, shall be guilty of felony, and transported for seven years: and persons in disguise, joining in or abetting any riot or tumult on such account, or opposing any process, or assaulting and abusing any officer executing, or for having executed the same,shall be felons without benefit of clergy." 4 Blackst. Comm. 129.

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They hoped they should be excused, if any accident should happen in their defending themselves: and that the warrants issued out against those Orchard complained of should be discharged :

"That about three years ago, the examinant having, at the quarter-sessions, opposed the discharging of debtors, who sheltered themselves in the Mint, as not being within the act, reannexed, No. II. full of curses and menaces; ceived a letter, a copy of which is hereunto though, at that time, he was a member of Par liament, and chairman to the bench of justices; and that he has often received letters of the

same nature:

"That complaints are made to the examiMinters go into the city to buy goods, and into nant three or four times a month, That the the markets to buy cattle, of 20 or 30%. value; and paying, only, 4 or 57. down, order the sellers to bring them near the Mint, and then carry them thither by force :

"That, at the latter end of the last parlia and others, proclaim, That four streets in the meut, the examinant saw one William Harman, park, in Southwark, which are above half a mile round, should, for the future, be deemed to be within the privileges of the Mint; and that no person should presume to arrest any body there :

"That several persons within the Mint have set up a jurisdiction of their own; and take upon them to regulate and determine matters there :

"That one Monk is called their general; Gilding, their Recorder; Saunders and Martin, their Judges; Steed, Townslrend, and Wright, their Beadles and Messengers.

"Mr.David Spencer, Lighterman, said, That one David Corbet who owed the examinant 2381. odd money, went into the Mint in January last, in order to shelter himself: That the whole debt was contracted in six months, and 241, 3s. thereof in less than 14 days before he went into theMint: That he was informed, That if he made his address to a club in the Mint, they would make Corbet pay hin the 241. Ss.; because, by their rules, no persons were to be protected from paying a debt contracted in so short a time before their coming there; That in January last, he sent in his name to them, and paid eighteen-pence fee, to be admitted to tell his case: That there were 20 that sat about a table; and that one of them particularly sat at the upper end, and had a cap on his head, in imitation of laurel; and the examinant was told, he was one of the stewards of the court: That, when he had told them his case, they promised to make Corbet pay him the money, or deliver him up; and immediately sent for him, by their messenger, who had on a red coat, a laced hat, and a staffin his hand; but he could not be found: That he went again to the same club, the Thursday following; when Corbet was again sent for, but could not be found they said they had seen him; and that he had agreed

to pay the 241. 38. to the examinant, at three several payments; viz. 3. Ss. down, 81. in a month, and 87. more in 3 months: that the examinant said, He would not accept of those terms; but would take some other course : That the next day, the two stewards, and ano. ther person, came to the examinant's house, at the Bank-side, which is half a mile from the Mint: and said, That they had been talking with Mr. Corbet, who had agreed to pay the examinant 121. 3s. down and 124. three months after, provided he, the examinant, would not be concerned in taking out a statute against him; but, the examinant not accepting that offer, they said, Mr. Corbet must then take an alehouse in the Mint, and spend the money there; and the examinant has not been able to get any part of the 2381.

"Randolph Greenway, esq. under sheriff for the county of Surry, said, That he cannot execute process against any person in the Mint, without the Posse Comitatus; and even then must take the opportunity of the assizes, when he can have the Javelin-men to assist him, or go in by surprise; for if he was to raise the Posse in the usual form, the Minters would certainly be prepared against it: That the expence of raising the Posse is 20 or 30l. and that it cannot be very much depended upon; for, even out of the Mint, when a person stands in the pillory, the Posse leave the examinant, and mix with the mob.

"William Devon, marshal's-court officer, said, That the Thursday before Christmas, as he was carrying away a prisoner, who was no Minter, 20 or 30 Minters, who were planted, for that purpose, a quarter of a mile from the Mint, knocked down the examinant, and took his prisoner from him: That they have come several times to his house, which is a quarter of a mile from the Mint, and insulted him and broke his windows, and threatened to take prisoners from him; That he never goes near the Mint, that he is not in danger of his life.

"John Lemon,sheriff's officer, William Spicer, David Thomas and William Varnham, constables, being severally examined, said, That they had often been obstructed, by the Minters, in executing warrants; and have had their prisoners taken from them; and durst not go over St. George's Fields, since the rules of the King's-bench were inlarged: That the Minters would suffer warrants for felony to be served, but not escape warrants: that the examinants had often been pursued, when they had no writs to execute, by a hundred, or more, of the Minters; some of which, called spirits, and dressed in long black gowns, which go over their heads, with holes made to see out at, go

often out of the Mint in search of bailiffs.

"Richard Poole, one of the badge-porters of Lincoln's-Inn, said, That, on Friday the 22d of December 1721, he served one Daniel Davis and his wife and Sarah Morgan, at the house of the said Daniel Davis, in the Mint, with a subpoena: That, as soon as the examinant had served the said subpœna. as

aforesaid, the said Davis and his wife fastened the doors, and declared they would have the examinant punished, according to the laws of the Mint: and called in several persons, and then sent out three or more of them, directing them to get the club together with all possible speed: that, soon afterwards, word was brought, That the club was ready; whereupon Davis opened the doors and bid the examinant get out of his house about his business; that, as soon as the examinant was got without Davis's door he was surrounded by a mob, who laid violent hands on him, and carried him to an alehouse near to Davis's house, where were divers persons, unknown to the examinant, one of which they called Judge: That they searched the examinant's pockets, and took an order from thence: and then cut a piece of parchment into small pieces, and put the same into a glass of water and salt, and forced the examinant to eat the said pieces of parchment, and to drink the water and salt: That then there came into the room several other persons, in disguise, whom they call the Spirits, who by violence, took the examinant to seven or eight pumps, and pumped him at each pump a considerable time: that, afterwards, they forced the examinant (beating and punching him with short sticks and truncheons) into a ditch, into which the common-sewers, and filth of the necessary-houses, runs; and one of them forced the examinant's head three times under the surface thereof: that as soon as the examinant came out of the ditch, they led him to a place, at some distance, which, as the examinant has been informed, was the extent of their bounds; and there they produced a brickbat, having on it human excrements; and obliged the examinant to kiss the same, and to express himself in the following words; viz.

I am a rogue, and a rogue in grain, 'And damn me, if ever I come into the Mint again.'

"That the persons that had so treated the examinant declared, they had lately made a law against serving of subpoenas in the Mint: That the examinant was very much bruised and hurt, in his face, and several parts of the body, by the usage aforesaid.

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Joseph Twells, an officer in the boroughcourt, said, That about two years ago, he was treated in the same manner as Richard Pool, for arresting a cheesemonger's servant; and had 5s. taken from him in money.

"Anne Lefoe, a working woman, said, That she, having given evidence, at the assizes, against one of the Minters, who was indicted by the above-mentioned Joseph Twells, was seized, near St. George's church in Southwark, by two Minters, and carried, by force, into the Mint; where she was also treated in the same manner: That they took all her cloaths from her, except one petticoat, and. her bodice and made her curse her father and mother.

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"John Smith, sheriff's officer, said, That, about two years and a half ago, as he was