The above goods have been seized and legally condemned, and may be viewed on the morning previous to the day of sale. * * * * * ^Shipping Advertisements.^ NEW LLOYD’S Coffee House, over the North West part of the Royal Exchange, On THURSDAY, the 3rd of JANUARY, 1788, at Twelve o’clock precisely, [Illustration] THE Hull of the Ship STORMONT, built for the Honourable the East India Company’s Service, burthen 723 tons or thereabouts, now lying in the Greenland Dock, and there to be delivered. Immediately after the sale of the above Hull, will be sold, in lots, all her anchors, cables, sails, guns, small arms, and all her other stores, as mentioned in the catalogues. The said stores to be viewed three days preceding the sale, at Messrs. Turner’s Wharf, Limehouse. Catalogues will be timely delivered by THOMAS and ALEX HUBBERT, Brokers, No. 11, Mark Lane. * * * * * _FOR PRIVATE SALE._ The Ship HOPE. [Illustration] BRITISH-built, 170 tons measurement or thereabouts, is extremely calculated for the Straits, Carolina, Newfoundland, or Coasting Trade, and would make a complete Collier. Is well found in stores, and requires very little expense to send her to sea. Now lying at Wapping Old Stairs, Charles Blakeney, late Commander. For inventories and particulars apply on Board, to JAMES and EDWARD OGLE, Brokers, No. 7, Billiter Square. * * * * * LONDON: Printed for J. WALTER, at the LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS, PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, near APOTHECARIES’ HALL, BLACKFRIARS, where Advertisements, Essays, Letters, and Articles of Intelligence will be taken in; also at Mr. _Mettenius’s_, Confectioner, Charing Cross; Mr. _Whiteaves_, Watchmaker, No. 30, opposite St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street; Mr. _Axtell’s_, No 1, Finch Lane, Cornhill; at Mr _Bushby’s_, No. 1, Catherine Street, Strand; Mr _Rose’s_, Silk Dyes, Spring Gardens; and Mr. _Grieve’s_, Stationer, No. 103, corner of Fountain Court, Strand. ] So much for the early struggles of the “Thunderer”--a title given to it from the powerful articles contributed to it by Edward Stirling--and as its later efforts in the cause of justice are shown in the _Times_ scholarships at Oxford, as its very appearance betokens its vast importance, and as its history has been given by many much abler pens than ours, we will return to our subject. In 1798, a house in Stanhope Street having been broken open and robbed, the following singular announcement was issued by the proprietor, and appeared in the _Daily Advertiser_:-- MR. R---- of Stanhope Street, presents his most respectful Compliments to the Gentlemen who did him the honour of eating a couple of roasted Chickens, drinking sundry tankards of ale, and three bottles of old Madeira at his house, on Monday night.