There are in the papers between 1757 and 1772 frequent references to the grand doings at this notorious place of assignation; but notwithstanding all her customers and her various ways of making money, Mrs Cornelys’s name appears in a Gazette of November in the latter year among the bankrupts. She is described as “Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St Ann, Soho, dealer.” This, however, says very little as to her success or the want of it, for bankruptcy meant anything but ruin a hundred years ago, if one had only money enough to break properly.
CHAPTER XIX. AMERICAN AND COLONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
It is only fair to Americans in general, to state that the proprietor of this the most American of all American papers is an Englishman. At least, we are informed so by men who remember him in London.
Additional notes
The letter written by the sailor with the artificial hands to the printer of the Caledonian Mercury.
Andrew Smith.
Any one the coat fits.
Hezekiah Goddard, Sheriff’s Deputy.