angry man, or whether they were words in confequence of what had happened at Afcot; or whether they were the words of a man who was deliberate upon his purpose. In that cafe they would weigh against him; but if they confidered them as the words of an angry man, they would be in his favour; because then he could not have power to know how he ought to act. On the other hand, they had the declaration against the prifoner, that instead of affifting Rowles when he had fhot him, he faid, he fhould not have fhot him, had he behaved like a gentleman. The jury would confider this fhewed mature deliberation and coolness; if fo, the law would not declare it manflaughter, but murder. If the jury thought he was cool in the duel, the law was ftrict in that cafe, and he fhould be convicted of murder. If the Jury thought they met with particular provocation that deprived them of reafon (although that did not appear), the law would allow the jury, confiftently with their oaths, to bring him in guilty of manflaughter only. He left the whole cafe to the jury,-who withdrew for about half an hour, and returned with a verdict of not guilty as to the murder, but guilty of manslaugh

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ftances as would entitle you to the leaft indulgence from the court. You went into the field to meet your fellow fubject, and the manner in which you conducted yourfelf, fhews that yon were cool and in poffeffion of your faculties. You fled from the laws of your country for twelve years, and you did not return till four of the witneffes were no more, whofe depofitions were taken against you on the coroner's inqueft. By this By this means you deprived your country of that full information which might, and would have been obtained, had you remained upon the spot.

"Under thefe circumftances, it is incumbent on the court to exert the whole extent of its authority, and afford in your perfon a warning to others, that even the crime of manslaughter is not to be committed with impunity. Your fentence is, that you pay a fine of one filling, and be confined in prifon for twelve calendar

months.

Mr. England deported himself with the utmoft fteadiness and com

pofure, was powdered, and dressed in a genteel fuit of black.

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engraving on the subject of Hare-hunting, we forbear to comment; being fully affured that the wonted liberality and difcernment which our numerous fubfcribers have at all times fhewn in favour of our earnest endeavours and unremitting perfeverance to please, totally precludes the neceffity of any further obfervation on our part.

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likely to be the feelings of the Lady, the decorations of whofe head produced fuch fatal coníequences, between two fuch brave and cftimable men as Major Sweetman and Captain Wation: the glaring impropriety of wearing fuch enormous plumes of feathers at public Spectacles, as muft interrupt the view of many others, required not this calamity to induce ladies of fenfe to aban-, don it.

Our fwords, Gentlemen, are always ready at the call of beauty; but, methinks, the ladies would do well, to relerve those proofs of our courage to more worthy occafions, when virtue is traduced, or weakness infulted.

We have long been told that there are claffes of gay and most good-natured fair ones, whofe higheft vanity is indulged when men fhali fight about them. Certainly, it is no fmall proof of fuperior loveliness, when valuable men are ready to rifk and facrifice their lives in hopes to obtain fome favour. But is it juft, or is it generous that our attachment to the fair fhould have no better reward than alienating our hearts by adhering to fuch follies as are always fnares for our lives?

LADIES! All this may be Sport for you, but let me entreat you to confider that it is at the fame time death to us.

A coquette may perhaps exclaim here" What: a foldier and afraid! Yes, I confefs very freely that I fear the torments of my own reflections, if it fhould ever

happen that I took away the life of my friend, because a lady in company with him fhould happen to think herself incommoded by the feather worn by a lady in company with me!

The truth is, gentlemen, that no one gives half-a-guinea at the Opera-houfe to be pofted all night behind a bunch of feathers, which however light and airy in their motions, are not fo delightful to the fight as the no lefs airy motions of the light-heeled Hilligfberg.

A cynical fellow once told me, that feathers in a lady's head were defigned as emblemetical of its levity. The plumage of peacocks and other gaudy birds is moft beautiful on the tail. Nature, I believe, is never guilty of impropriety; and I am fure this rangement would be peculiary proper, if peacocks frequented Operas.

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ertions, that although one of them was endowed with the nimblenefs of a Bird, yet they fecured and caged her. The other by fome mysterious means made her escape. The Bird has been fince taken before a magiftrate, and committed to the house of correction, there to fing till the next quarter feffion.

DUELLING.

A few days fince a duel was fought in a field near Redbridge, Hants, between Lieutenant Thomas Burgess, of the 12th regiment and Lieutenant Kearnes of the 80th.-Mr. B. received a piftol fhot in his hip, and languifhed in the greatest pain for fome days, when he expired.An inqueft was taken on the body before Mr. Corbin, coroner, when a respectable jury at Redbridge, after a very minute and particular investigation of the circumftance, returned a verdict of wilful murder against M. Kearnes.

Feb. 12.

A duel was fought on the race ground, near Exeter, between Capt. Towers, of the Suffex Light Dragons, and Capt. Curling of the fame regiment, when the former was shot through the body.

Vienna, Jan. 20, The Special Commiffion appointed to inquire into the late unfortunate duel of Prince Charles of Lichtenstein, has pronounced a fentence which condemns the Canon Lichtenftein to be confined in a cloister for 12 months, the Canon Weichs, as well as Count Rofenbergh, to be imprifoned in a fortrefs, the former for eight years, and the latter for five years. This fentence has, however, not yet been confirmed by his Imperial Majesty.

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Chatham, Feb. 1. The following fingular occurrence happened on Tuesday laft: as Mr. Shove, Surgeon, and Mr. Chalk, Grazier, of Queensborough, in the Ifle of Sheppey, were returning home in a poftchaife, when they arrived at the King's ferry, the horses were taken out, while they were waiting to be taken into the large boat, the wind blowing very hard, a violent blast, on a fudden, forced the chaise into the ftream, with the two gentlemen in it; they were carried away by the ftrength of the current, and would have been drowned, but for the waterman, who jumped into the fmall boat, went after them, and got to the chaife just time enough to fave their lives; he took them

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out, but the chaife was carried away by the water, and has fince been found drove on fhore.

Feb. 6.

A 'butcher, of the name of Browne, of Tafburgh, his five children, and a fervant, were bitten by a mad dog. No fymptoms of infection have yet appeared: but the feelings and apprehenfion of the poor people are moft melancholy. Several cats, pigs, &c. were worried before the dog was killed.

Feb. 16.

One John Bottomley, a watchmaker, at the Merry Carpenter, in Old ftreet; eat twelve pounds of cod-fifh for his dinner, without any thing to help it down but a pint of vinegar. He was allowed twenty minutes, but finifhed it in feventeen; and the bargain was, that if he did the deed, the company fhould pay for the fish, if not, he should pay for it himfelf It is remarkable his appetite, in general, is very moderate; but his craving for fish (faid to be occcafioned by the longings of his mother when with child with him) is fo great, that foon after he had eat the above, he affirmed he could eat as much

Capt. Snell, aid-de-camp to Prince William of Gloucester, put a period to his existence in the following manner:-This unhappy gentleman, who refided at Kenfington, ordered his fervant to get his horfe in readiness, as he intended to take an airing, which being accomplished, as foon as he was mounted, he rode into Hyde-Park, where he got off his horfe, and told the fervant to lead him towards Kensington; and when the attendant left him, hé fat down against the garden wall, and deliberately took from his pocket a brace of piftols, and fhot himself through the head. This rafh action is attributed to Capt. Snell's lofing a few hundreds at a faro table the night before: others fay, it proceeded from a fecret, though violent, affection for the Princefs Sophia of Gloucefter.

Feb. 21.

As Mr. Wigley, of Wellsftreet, Oxford - ftreet, and Mr. Manton, of Davies-ftreet, Berkeley-fquare, were coming to town in a poft chaife, and having been out an a fhooting party, had their fowling-pieces loaded; they were attacked on Hounslow Heath by five footpads, dreffed like foldiers, who prefented piftols, and demanded their money, when the gentlemen inftantly difcharged their pieces at the robbers, who fired feven piftols in return, but without doing any injury, and then robbed the gentlemen of a watch, fome money, and the two fowling-pieces.

A fparrow hawk lately struck a fparrow in a gentleman's garden, and was beginning to pluck the feathers, but being disturbed, and attempting to escape with his prey, flew into the fummer-house:

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