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don, whom he married in 1757, and who died in 1764, he has left iffue a fon, Samuel, gentlemancommoner of Chrift church, Oxford, and reprefentative of the town of Bedford in feveral parliaments after his father gave it up, and two daughters; the eldeft married, in 179, to James Gordon, jun. efq. of More-park, Herts; the younger, Emma, to Henry Beauchamp lord St. John of Bletfo, 1780. Mr. Whitbread, married to his fecond wife, 1769, lady Mary, youngeft daughter of the late earl, and fifter to the prefent marquis Cornwallis, who died in 1770, in childbed of an only daughter, married, in June, 1795, to capt. George Grey, late of the Boyne man of war, of 98 guns, third fon of fir Charles Grey, K.B. and nephew of fir Harry Grey, bart. whofe fifter was married in 1788 to the prefent Mr. Whitbread, and by whom he has feveral children. His extenfive establishments in the brewery were long unrivalled, and perhaps, to a certain point, remain fo ftill, and excited the envy even of a poet (Dr. Walcot) who fpares not royalty, though in this inftance of his fatire, he has perpetuated a compliment to the fovereign and the man of malt by coupling them together. Mr. Whitbread's liberal charity will be witneffed by every parish where he had property, and in the diftribution of his private benevolence, which is faid to have exceeded 3000l. per annum; for no proper application met with a repulfe; and to his honour let it here be recorded, that, feveral years before his death, he fettled on St. Luke's hofpital for lunaticks a perpetual rent-charge of one hundred guineas, payable out of his extenfive premifes in Chifwell-ftreet.

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JULY.

At the Old Bailey, Mary Nott was capitally convicted, for the wilful murder of M. le Mar quis de Gripier de Moncroe de Laval, a French emigrant noblemau, on the 29th of May laft, at his lodg ings in Monmouth-court, Whitcomb-ftreet, of which house the had the care; and received fentence to be executed on Monday.

Richard Ludman, Ann 2d. Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and Mary Baker, were tried for the murder of George Hebner.-This murder was committed in Kingftreet, Eaft Smithfield, in one of thofe obfcure receptacles of debauchery with which this metropolis abounds. The body of the deceafed was found on the morning of Sunday the 22d of May, fufpended by the neck from a bed-poft, in a room on the fecord floor, with his hands tied behind his back. This unfortunate man was a taylor, and had, it feems, been in very diftreffed circumftances, which produced a propenfity to intoxication: when much in liquor, his widow faid, he flept fo found, that it was almoft impoffible to wake him. It was proved that the four prifoners were in the house (which belonged to Eleanor Hughes) on the evening of Saturday the 21ft, and next morning They were feen, and fome of their converfation heard, by two women who lived in an adjoining house; this houfe was feparated from that in which the body was found by only a lath partition, perforated in feveral places, and the holes and crevices affording a diftinct view of almoft all the apartments of the latter. The manner in which the hands of the deceafed were

ply "cunning and craft, which would foon be in difrepute in this country:" "a niggard" to mean, "a king who had defrauded his fubjects of nine millions of money.

expect to go when you die?" and that the guillotine fhould be introduced into this country, as a more merciful mode of punishing kings and queens than by the axe, &c.

were bound with a piece of tape was defcribed in court. The knot that had been used was what feamen call a timber hitch, and it was obviously fuch as could not be done by himself. There was no di-Oh! Mr. Guelph, where do you rect and pofitive proof as to the guilt of the prifoners; but there was a chain of moft fufpicious circumftances pointing against Ludman and Hughes. The lord chief baron of the exchequer fummed up the evidence with great precifion, candour, and humanity. It was on the expreffions ufed by the prifoners that the proof chiefly refted, and his lordthip nicely difcriminated between thofe that feemed to arife from furprife, on the discovery of the fituation of the deceafed, and thofe which could only be fuppofed to proceed from a knowledge of the murder. The jury retired for about an hour and returned with a verdict, finding Richard Ludman and Eleanor Hughes guilty.-Ann Rhodes and Mary Baker not guilty. Sentence of death was immediately pronounced on Ludman and Hughes, by the recorder.

Mary Nott, Richard Lud4th. man, and Eleanor Hughes were executed before Newgate.

This morning Henry Wef6th. ton for forgery, and John Roberts, alias Colin Reculift, alfo for forgery, were executed purfuant to their fentence, oppofite the debtors' door, in the Old Bailey.'

8th.

Was tried, in the court of king's bench, Guildhall, before lord Keynon and a special jury, an information filed by the attorney general against D. Í. Eaton, a book feller in Newgate-street, for a libel in publishing a book, which defined the words "a king" to im

Lord Kenyon concluded his charge to the jury with obferving, that the king was entitled to the fame protection of the laws with other men ; and they would confider whether any part of the king's conduct called for fuch obfervations as thofe which had been read to them from the book published by the defendant. His lordship thought his majefty, like the judge of Ifrael (Samuel), might appeal to the jary and fay, Whofe og have I taken? Whofe afs have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppreffed?" The jury, after 15 minutes confideration, returned a verdict--guilty.

9th.

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A caufe was tried in the court of king's bench, Guildhall, between the proprietors of a newspaper called the Telegraph, plaintiffs, and the proprietors of the Morning Poft, defendants. proved, that in the month of February laft, the defendants had contrived to forward to the office of the Telegraph from Canterbury, a spurious French newspaper, containing a pretended renewal of the armiftice, and preliminaries of peace between the emperor and the French republic. The proprietors of the Telegraph being thus impofed on to give as true a tranflati on of this falfe fabricated intelligence, and thereby fuftaining much

difcredit

difcredit with the public, and a diminution in the fale of their paper, brought the present action againft the defendants as authors of fuch difcredit, lofs, &c. The cafe being made out, the jury gave a verdict with 100l. damages. The forged paper was printed in London.

This day at noon, Mifs 10th. Mackenzie, of Salisbury

ftreet, in the Strand, accompanied by a Mr. Winders, of the exchequer, hired a boat, and proceeded from Blackfriars bridge to Greenwich; on their return to town the lady fell overboard, and was drowned. She was immediately dragged, for, and every means made ufe of to recover the body, without effect. On Monday morning at the dropping of the tide, the body was difcovered lying on Duke's Shore, below Rotherhithe church. A coroner's jury was immediately fummoned; verdict accidental death. Weymouth. We had on 17th. Friday afternoon, the fevereft ftorm of wind, hail, rain, thunder, and lightning, that has been for many years. It latted for a great length of time; and the hail-tones were of an immenfe fize, only a few miles diftance. Earl Digby was in his phaeton, in his park near Sherborne, at the time. The horfes took fright and ran furiously away; overtet the carriage, and his lordship had the misfortune to have one of his legs broke. A caufe of fome importance 18th. to the intereft of the eftablithed church was on Monday decided in the court of Arches, Doctors Commons. The rev. W. Percy, a clergyman of the established church, had been accustomed to read prayers, preach, adminifter the facrament, and occafionally to church women,

and baptize children, according to the rites of the church of England, in the parish of Woolwich, in a building (improperly called a chapel) neither confecrated nor licensed for such purposes, but originally appropriated to diffentors. Mr Percy made no defence; but, being condemned in cofts, perfonally petitioned the court for a mitigation of the cofts, on the plea of not having baptized children privately in houfes, as fet forth in the 6th article, which was accordingly withdrawn ; but, having by his own confeffion, incurred the penalty of the other five articles, the court rejected his petition. He was confequently condemned in the whole cotts, amounting to about 15 guineas, and admonished, by the judge who prefided, to defift in future from fuch irregular and illegal practices as were a grofs abufe of the toleration-act.

20th.

Margate. An erection is just completed here, for the reception of 30 poor perfons from the hofpitals, whofe cafes render fea bathing neceflary The building is conftructed in a very commodious manner; it is fituated near the beach, between Margate and Dandelion, and the expence is defrayed by fubfcription. It will be fit to receive patients in a few days: they will have medical affiftance, and a bathing machine has been built for their fole use.

At the affizes for Devon, 22d. an action of ejectment was tried, between one Baltia, plaintiff, and one Arthur and his wife, defendants, for the recovery of lands in Devonshire, claimed by the plaintiff as heir of one John Noteworthy, an idiot from birth to his death, at the age of fixty-one years..

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of the court, and a crowded audi, ence.

At Bodmin affizes 16 perfons were tried, three of whom were capitally convicted, viz. William Sampfon and John Hofkin, for violently affaulting Samuel Phillips; and William Barnes, for ftealing out of the houfe of David Jones, in Truro, certain pieces of gold and filver, value 40s. and upwards; and they received fentence of death.

At Leicefter affizes, John

24th. Dawes Rois, jun, and Tho. Bankart, tried on a charge of manflaughter, on the body of Mr. Robert Hall, during the late contested election, were both found guilty; the former to fuffer four and the latter ten months imprisonment. (The fentence of Rofs has been fince remitted.)

25th.

The defendants claimed thofe lands under this idiot's will In fupport of the plaintiff's cafe upwards of twenty witneffes clearly proved his idiotcy, from his not knowing the value of money, or any other article of life; and many inftances of grofs impofition on him; and among others, that he never received one fhilling of the rent of his lands; that he was exempted from all offices, and particularly from ferving in the militia, on account of his incapacity; and it was proved that he was taken from his fifter, the plaintiff's mother, and married to a woman whom he fcarcely knew, and that a fortnight after his marriage he did not know he was married; that his wife often corrected him, when he would cry, and behave like a child. All the witneffes on the part of the plaintiff gave teftimony of the teftator's idiotcy. On the part of the defendants many witneffes were examined, who all proved, in the fame words, that he was a man of fenfe, without giving a fingle inftance of it, except that he could read, write his name, kept his church, remembered the texts, and other paffages of fcripture. The curate of the parish of Afhcombe, where the idiot lived and died, in support of the will, proved the idiot to be a great divine, philofopher, and historian; that he was timid and shy to ftrangers at first; yet, when he became acquainted, and any perfon had gained his confidence, he was very converfible and all perfons acquainted with him muft court his company. After a hearing of near-ters of captain, furgeon and magily ten hours, the jury, without a moment's hefitation, gave a verdict against the will, in favour of the plaintiff Baftin, to the fatisfaction

Leeds. Laft Thursday, as the workmen at the new church at Halifax were erecting one of the main bindings of the roof, the temporary prop gave way; the balk thereof was broken by the weight of the fcaffolding, and the internal parts of the binding pressed upon it; in confequence of which the men fell down, and some of them were materially bruifed, but no lives were loft.

At the Surrey affizes, Edwards, late of Pleasant-place, and Doctor Gale, were tried for fraudulently figning and counterfeiting certain certificates, atteftations, &c. of recruits. Edwards kept a recruitinghoufe, which was burnt by the mob. The Doctor, being a good actor, occafionally played the charac

ftrate. When a recruit was brought in, he ftripped and examined him as furgeon; approved of him in a nother place and dress as captain

and

and finally figned his atteftation as magiftrate. Of all these ingenious acts of his, and Mr. Edward's employing him, and giving currency to his impofitions, the jury found them both guilty.

At the fame affizes, an indictment was tried, which reflects no fmall degree of difcredit on the perfon indicted. Theophilus Bridges, a button-maker, of Temple-ftreet, St. George's-fields, was indicted for the murder of his apprentice, Elizabeth Monk, in January, 1795. The deceased was one of feven apprentices, all taken from the Afylum; and, by the evidence of three of the furviving apprentices, it appeared that Bridges was a very paffionate and fevere man, and had frequently beat and kicked the decealed; and that the died after an nefs of fome continuance, caufed, as they conceived, by fuch ill usage; together with spare diet and hard work. A furgeon was called; but who having feen the deceafed only a few hours before her death, and being told fhe was ill of a confumption, and merely having felt her pulfe, as he perceived the was very near death, could not speak to any circumftance to criminate Bridges. He was therefore acquitted.

Shrewsbury. Yesterday was 27th. tried at the aflizes here, by a most respectable special jury, before the honourable Mr. juftice Heath, a caufe against the bp. of Bangor; the rev. Dr. Owen; the rev. Mr. Roberts archdeacon of Merioneth; the rev. Mr. Williams; and Mr. Thomas Jones; for unlawfully disturbing Mr. Samuel Grindley, in the registrar's office at Bangor on the 8th of January laft. It appeared that in 1792, Mr.

Grindley, an attorney, had, by means of the bishop being appointed deputy-regiftrar of the confiftorial court of his diocefe, his lordship's nephew being the principal regiftrar; that, on the 6th of January laft whilft the office was shut, the bifhop fent for the key of it; which was refused by order of Mr. Grindley; that on the 7th of January, by his lordship's order, the lock of the office was taken off and a new one put on, the key of which was delivered to the bishop, who the fame day informed Mr. Grindley thereof. That, on the 8th of January, Mr. Grindley with a blackfmith and four other perfons, broke open the office. That the defendants, being alarmed at this, went to the office unarmed (after Mr. Grindley had taken poffeffion of it) and expoftulated with him, and were excited to fhew fome marks of anger at this violent conduct; for he was armed with piftols and had forced one perfon down the steps and threatened to fhoot another. It also appeared that the bishop fent for a magiftrate; and his lordfhip and the other defendants foon afterwards departed, leaving Mr. Grindley in the office. A pamphlet was produced in court to Mr. Grindley, containing fome confidential letters from the bishop to him during the time he had been his lordship's agent; which letters Mr. Grindley owned he had delivered into the hands of a Mr. Williams of Treffos. The defendant's counfel, faid they had many witneffes; but that their cafe ftood fo clear, even on the plaintiff's evidence, they did not think it neceffary to call a fingle witnefs on the part of the defendants; and the jury. immediately, without leaving the

court,

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