having made ten new Cardinals; and that this
is more extraordinary there now; because that
in this Promotion, his Holiness has not had the
usual regard to the recommendation of foreign
Courts, but has acted by his own private sen
timents, and that in consequence the new ele-
cted Cardinal are almost att Italians.

A REBUKE from one of the Lord's People,
called Quakers. to [..] the reputed
Author of a vain Pamphlet call'd the Town-
Talk, which he publish'd the sixth Day of
the last Week, or according to prophane
Stile, Friday Jan. 13. 1715-6.

Friend Richard,

THOU hast realty rais'd the Spit it
of the Old Man in me against thee:
Art not thou a'said of thy Ears to
print the Pretender's Declaration
at large? Ha't thou the Vanity to
imagine that thy Remarks will
have thee? Dust thou think that we are all
Children of Darkness, that none of us has Light
enough to see thy clovent hoot? Verily, Rich-
ard, for my pat, I cannon but think by thy
way of writing, but that thou art a disguis'd
Jesuit, or jesuitically given, and that they Re-
ste is s are only a piece of Craft of thine, the
better to save thy own Bacon, and to divulge
the Declartion and that thou hadst Intent
that any one should believe thee: For, Friend
Richard.

First, thou markett thy self a Lyar (and con-
sequently a Child of Wrath) at the very be-
ginning, by telling the Lady thou art averse to
Politick News, and thou that scarce said so, but
thou ownest by self to be the Author of the
[..]
for which thou wait scewed out of the Senate
House, and banish'd from the Company of
the Rulers, and so betrayest thy self to be R.
S. naturaliz'd from an Irishman to an English-
man, by Sir Nestor Ironside< no role > , as thou ownest in
another of thy political Papers.

Secondly, Thou makest thy self what the
World calis a Rake, by keeping Company
with, Harlot, and frequenting so much that
prophane place the Play house, which thou callest
thy Town-house; and from hence l suppose thou
gavest the Title of thy Pamphlet the Town-calk.

Thirdly, thou makest thy self a Slanderen
by calling in question the Pretender's Birth, as
if so many Protestant Lords and Ladies would
perjure themselves upon his account? And by
the way, what then must thou be, who can't
pretend to any such Proofs?

Fourthly, Calling the late King James by the
Name of bare Gentleman; Will this found mo-
dest in the Ears of any of the Church? or,
rather impudent?

Fifthly, Thou makest thy self a Backbiter,
in disclosing the Weakness of a Man absent,
in writing upon a Harlot's Breast.

And Sixthly, To shew that thou hast no re-
spect or regard to Religion or Government. tho'
thou pretendest to much to both, thou callest the
late Ministry Betrayers of the People, who with
the subservency of impudent and apostate Clergy
men laid the Seeds of the present Confusion
and Rebellion: Pray Friend, cost thou not
mean Sacheveral for one, whom the late Queen
honoured with the Place of High Priest of An-
drews in Holbourn? Art not thou then a very
dutiful u ject? And cost not thou thow thy
felt a pious of the Church of England, when
thou call it her Ministers Popish Ministers, and
that they bid others to do what ther wont do
themselves. And now Friend.

Since thou hast proved thy self a lying, rakish
slanderous, impudent, backbiting, irreligious
Man how can I think but thou did it this on
purpose, that whilst thou dispers'd the Preten-
dens Declaration, no one should value thy
Remarks, or be shock'd at them. I would not
have thee think my censure severe, since thou
ownest that thy friend conversed with the
Pretender's Confessor, and that there were Pro-
posals of a Cardinal's Cap for thee, by the
Provincial of the Jesuits, I cannot but think this
is a foolish Confession; but I am sure it is a
foolish Expression, when thou callest the Pope
a gracelets Wretch; and it these flight remarks
should save thy hare for publishing the Decla-
ration, I will not say, thou wouldst have a
miraculous, because that Word of ends thee, but
I will say thou would have a very wonderful
Escape for I cannot but think, that thy pub-
lishing the Declaration must do more Harm
than thy Remarks, Good, which I will now
take is consideration, and weigh them in the
balance of Truth, and if I find them to have
weight I will return thee Thanks, notwithstan-
ding thy folly in proclaiming alone to the
People the Enchanment [..] of the
[..] in the mean Time take patiently
this Rebuke.

London, Jan. 21.

Tuesday last, four Men in a Bravado bound
themselves not to leave one another whatever
should happen, and to travel upon the Ice, up
the middle of the Thames, as far as they could
for four Days together, and to avoid all the
Tracks that any had gone in before them. On
this Adventure, they went from the Old Swan
near the Bridge, over all the roughest of the
Ice, with long Poles in their Hands, till they
came over against Somerset-house where one
of them found it for his present occasion to
fall in but by the help of his Pole recover'd,
having only cool'd his Posteriors; so they went
on, and right against Lambeth, another had al-
so an occasion to slip in up to his Arm-pits, but
was helped out, and they still boldy went on,
but have none of them been since heard of.

Edinburgh, Jan 12. This day we receiv'd Ad-
vice from Perth, that the Pretender arrived at
Scoon, two Miles from thence, on Saturday last,
where he continued publickly, shewing himself
to all Spectators, till Monday Morning, when
he set out for Perth, where, about Noon, he
made his Publick Entry, as he had done into
Dundee, on Horse back, as were two or three
hundred of his Attendants, and a Great Mobon
Foot: The same Night he return'd back to scoon