Saturday morning, several of the felons in the New Goal in the Borough made an attempt to escape, but were overheard by the Keeper, when two of the principals were properly secured in the strong room.
This day is Published,
Price 1s. the book, and 8d. the sheet,
Elegantly printed in a size which may be enclosed in a
Pocket Book,
TRUSLER’S CLERICAL and UNIVERSAL ALMANACK for the year 1788. Which contains a greater variety of matter than any other now published; and though in a small size has the lists of Lords and Commons, New Taxes, and is a complete Court Register in a much lesser compass.
London: Printed at the Logographic Press: and sold by all the Booksellers.
GAME OF WHIST.
This day is published,
Price fourpence, or four for a shilling to give away,
BOB SHORT’S RULES of the GAME of WHIST, improved by the addition of the Laws of WHIST, as now played at Brookes’s, Bath, &c.
Printed for John Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate Street, of whom may be had, price One Shilling,
EVERY MAN A GOOD CARD PLAYER,
Or Rules for playing the Game of Whist, Quadrille, Picquet, Lansquenet and Quinze.
By a MEMBER of the JOCKEY CLUB.