For the readier dispatch of Affairs, there are three Committees sit this day _December_, the 22th. at _Whitehall_, one about _Jamaica_, Another concerning Trade and the Forreign Plantations, and a Third about _Tangier_, to which place we hear there is order for sending more Forces and Provisions, for the reinforcing that Garrison, and preventing any danger that may arise from the _Moors_. We hear further from thence that there are several persons who were formerly _Roman_ Catholicks, and amongst the rest Captain St. _Johns_, _Captain Talbut_, and one Mr. _White_ since made a Captain, with divers _others_ who have freely and voluntarily renounced the said Religion, and are become _Protestants_, having received the Sacrament according to the usage of the Church of _England_, the chief motive of their conversion proceeding from their conviction of the Horrid Principles and the bloody Trayterous; and damnable practises of the _Popish_ Faction, and especially since the discovery of the Hellish _Popish_ Plot against His Majesties Person, the Protestant Religion, and for enslaving the Kingdom. There is a Report that three Suns were lately seen about _Richmond_ in _Surrey_, by divers credible persons, of which different observations are made according to the fancy of the People. This day, Decemb. 22. Captain _William Bedlow_ one of the Kings Evidence, who has been so instrumental in discovering the _Hellish Popish_ Plot, and thereby (under God) for preserving his Majesties Person and the whole Nation, was married to a Lady of a very considerable Fortune. There being Intimation given, that _Mrs._ Celier the _Popish_ Midwife now a Prisoner in _Newgate_, would make some Discovery of the Plot, and the Counter Plot; _She_ was brought before the Councill last week, but would confess nothing; whereupon Justice _Warcup_ produced some information against her taken before him; Upon which she acknowledged the greatest part of what was charged against her, and thereby gave very strong Confirmation to the Truth of Mr. _Thomas Dangerfields_ Depositions, concerning that cursed Conspiracy managed by the Lady _Powis_, herself, and several others, for the destruction of many Hundreds of his Majesties Loyal _Protestant_ Subjects. It is reported, that a Quaker fell in love with a Lady of very great Quality, and hath extraordinarily petitioned to obtain her for his Wife. Upon the 17th. instant in the evening Mr. _Dryden_ the great Poet, was set upon in _Rose-street_ in _Covent Garden_, by three persons, who calling him rogue, and Son of a whore, knockt him down and dangerously wounded him, but upon his crying out murther, they made their escape; it is conceived that they had their pay beforehand, and designed not to rob him but to execute on him some _Feminine_, if not _Popish_ vengeance.