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The HYPOCRITE'S HOPE.

LEST is the man, who from the womb,
To faintfhip bim betakes;
And when too foon his child fhall come,.
A long confeffion makes.

When next in Broad Church-alley, he
Shall take his former place,

Relates his pal iniquity,

And confequential grace. Declares how long by Satan vex'd,

From truth he did depart;

And tells the time, and tells the text,
That fmote his flinty heart.
He ftands in half-way-cov 'nant fure,
Full five long years or more;
One foot in church's pale fecure,
The other out of door.

·Then riper grown in gifi's and grace,

With ev'ry rite complies,
And deeper lengthens down his face,
And higher rolls his eyes.

He tones like Pharifee fublime,

Two lengthy pray's a-day,
The fame that he from early prime,
Had heard his father lay.

Each Sunday perched on beach of pew,
To paffing priest he bows,
Then loudly 'mid the quav'ring crew,
Attunes his vocal nofe.

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With awful look then rifes flow,
And prayerful vifage four,
More fit to fright the apoftate foe,
Than feek a pardoning power.
Then nodding hears the fermon next,
From prie haranguing loud;"
And doubles down each quoted text,
From Genefis to Jude.

And when the priest holds forth addref,
To old ones born anew;

With holy pride and wrinkled face,
He rifes in his pew.

Good works he careth nought about,
But faith alone will feek;

While Sunday's pieties blot out
The kraveries of the week.

He makes the poor his daily pray'r,

Yet drives them from his board: And though too his own good he iwear, Thro' habit breaks his word.

This man advancing fresh and fair,
Shall all his race complete;
And wave at lalt his hoary hair,

Arrived in Deacon's feat.

There fball he all church honours have,
By joyous breth a given―――
Till prieft in funeral fermon grave,
Shall fend him traight to hea ̈p,
COURTSHIP INVERTED.

H Damon see the hand of fate !

A Damen the hand of f

For how hall Delia find her mate,
Unless the may pursue ?

To my fond heart, not all my charms,
Afford the least delights
My taper-wait, ner inowy arm,

But when in Damon's fight.

Alone, through cuftom's (hackles, I
In dreams oft but my way;
When hole, nor hoop, nor head-drefs high,
Nor ogling, win the day.

Thus late in curtained visions bright,
Thy beauteous image "rofe,"
And ftole enchanting on my fight,
And temper'd iweet repofe.

Thy form entwining in my arms,
I fondly feem'd to kifs;
Keen fancy bright'ning all thy charms,
Thrill'd ev'ry nerve with blifs.

Then mounting on the nimble dream,
We reach'd th' Elysian grove;
There drank the life-infpiring ftream,
That tunes the foul to love.

The conscious bird fufpends the wing,
Or perch'd on blooming sprays,
Refpopfive hymeneals fing,

In tweet Elyfan lays.

There 'mid the spicy round of groves,

Embrac'd by genial skies;

Where fport the graces and the loves,
Unnumbered as the flies.

Unblushing as the new form'd pair,
'Ere fig-leaf drefs began;

I loft my wonted female air';
And grew as bold as man.

O'er meads, and vales, and bills we romp,
All fann'd by od'rous gales;

Yet fear no fnakes, and find no Iwamp
In mountains, groves, or dales.
But ah! too foon a paltry Alea,

Thofe golden flumbers broke;
He fixed his bill below my knee ;
I started, fcratched, and woke.
There all alone in chamber dark,
I found myself in bed?
When feeling round I fonnd no spark,
But all the vifion fled.

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FOREIGN

THE

FOREIGN

Naples, November 30, 1787.

INTELLIGENCE.

HE King, defrous to put his army on a more military footing, has requested the court of France to fpare the Baron de Sallis, camp marshal and inspector. This officer has obtained leave of abfence for three years. He arrived here the 22d inftant, and brought with him Mr. Portail, a brigadier, ten officers of infantry, two engineers, seven of artillery, with nineteen fab officers, a head officer of cavalry, and three Pruffian fubalterns. Mr. Gambi, lieutenant colonel of the royal regiment of Auvergne, vifcount Beys, colonel of artillery, and Mr. Pomeveul, lieutenant-colonel of artillery, are at the head of the French officers, who are all come for two years, and keep their places and appointments. They are advanced to a higher rank than before, and are to be placed at the head of the inftruction. Baron Salis has been made lieutenantgeneral and inspector of the army His plan, which is approved by the king, is began to be executed, and we expect a general change and improvement in our army.

Dec. 4. The king of Portugal has fent letters to all the minifters of regular orders, demanding to be informed of the number of monafteries of regular orders, where fituated, their grandeur, the number of the cells they contain, the actual er relative revenues of each, whence arifing, and of the fuperiors that poffefs chapels or other benefices, what are the debts and credits of the faid monafteries, and how contracted; and whether the actual revenue is fufficient for the mainteBance of each individual; what are the numbers of the religious, alfo, what are the numbers of the female monafteries, the religious of each refpective house, the date of their foundation, their actual number, the number of cells, their revesues, debts, and credits, how contracted, and in what manner the religious are fupported throughout the whole kingdom.

Berlin, Dec. 22. His ferene highnefs the duke of Brunswick arrived here yesterday, and met with the most diftinguished reception from the king, who had previously fent all the general and field officers of this garrifon, with the prince of Pruffia at their head, to wait the arrial of his highness, and congratulate him publicly. After being entertained by our fovereign in a moft fplendid manner, he at length fet out for his capital in an equipage prefented and provided by the king. The duke will spend about two or three months in his own dominions, for the purpose of fettling his own concerns. In April he is expected here again. There is a talk that his majesty has agreed to fubfidize the court ot Brunswick, and to hire all his troops for emer. gencies.

Peterburgh, Dec. 23. A courier arrived at court lait Saturday, from Prince Potemkin, com mander in chief of the army of Catharinoflaw, with the following account of the happy fuccefs of the expedition against the Tartars.

General in chief Tokelli, detached by field. marthal prince Potemkin, paffed the river Cu. ban the 24th of October. In less than three weeks he had entirely destroyed the barbarous people he Feb. 1788.

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found there, and freed all the country from the mouth of the river Lab, winding along that of Cuban, as far as the fnowy mountains. The inhabitants and retreats of the Tartars of Cuban, are entirely laid wafte; all their flocks and wealth taken, and a confiderable number of those Tartars fent into the goverment of Caucafus; fo that the limits of the Ruffian empire beyond the river Cuban are rendered perfectly fecure.

The principal force of General Tokelli was directed against the Tartars of Manfurow and other people who live between the Lab and the Cuban, where the Schick Maniour dwelt.

On account of the difficult paffage, the column commanded by lieutenant general Ilowaiko and major general baron Rofen could not reach the place where the river Lab begins till the 3d of November. On their approach the people who inhabited thofe countries fled with precipitation towards the other fide of the river, on which account the column was ordered to march to the left fore of the river Lab, to feek the enemy, and conquer all the cantons through which they pailed,

The Ruffias army is furnished with a confiderable train of artillery, which is ferved in the beft poffible manner. There are at Cherfion 800 pieces of cannon, and a vast number are left at Kiow.

January, 1, 1788. The standing army of the Turk i now 400,000; that of Ruffia, 30,000. The Aga of the Janizaries has been pretented by the grand feignior with a fabre fet with jewels, on account of his difcovery and fuppreffion of many individuals who were rated as Janizaries, to be exempted from taxes, but who did no duty. In a late grand affembly, it was propoled to augment the tax upon Chriftians for allowing the liberty of their religion; but it was over-ruled by a very confiderable majority.

The Turkish vice admiral, who was put under an arreft, in order to be carried to Synope, is faid to have been fangled the fame night, by command of the grand vizur.

Mr. Herbert, the internuncio at Conftantinople, apprehenfive of being lodged with the Ruffian minifter, and being fhut up clofe pritoner in the Seven Towers, if he prefented the declaration of war on the part of the emperor, prevailed on the French charge des affaires to deliver it to the Divan, and fecretly got on board a French veffel, to return with all poffible expedi tion to Vienna.

Vienna, Jan. 20. Accounts from Yaffi, one of the principal towns in Moldavia, are very ddmal. The garrifon, which was compofed of 2500 Janizaries, and 2000 Spahi, were seinforced on the 19th by 8000 Turks. Between thele troops a diffention broke out, which has occafioned the mott terrible outrages and diforders. On the night of the 23d at December, they fell upon each other, and then fet fire to the town, atter having plundered all the Greek merchants houses, violated their wives, and carried off their children. Fortunately the hie cortuined no more than forty houses, but the treets are filled with dead bodies. In this fatal castrophe. the greatest pat of the Chriflians took figli

have escaped: fome to Buckowine, and others to Gallacia. The confuls alfo thought it necesary to make their efcape from the violence of these affallin.

The progress of the fire was stopped by the ex. ertions of a corps of 5000 Tu ki, who had just entered the town. The quarrel was between the Spahis and the Jandles, The Hofpodar has fent an exprefs to the emperor, entreating that he would direct his army to march into that province.

Jan. 23. The laft authentic advices from Vienua, confirm a circumftance which was before difputed, namely, that the French ambasador, Monfieur de Choifeul Gouffier, had prefent d to the fublime porte a memorial, in which it was propofed, that a ceffation of hoftilities fhould take place between the Turks and Ruffians, for three months.

On this occafion, many arguments were used to convince the grand vizir of the expediency of a fufpenfion, under the prefent circumstances; but the overtures were rejected by the Ottomans, unless they should be accompanied by a guaran tee of the French king, for the ceffion of the Crimea, or at least putting it on the footing of the treaty of Kainardgy, independent, during the winter both of the Turks and Ruffians.

The remonstrances of the ambassador, against the injustice of a demand fo repugnant both to reason, and the treaty laft concluded, were only anfwered by a declaration, that the ceffion of the Crimea by the porte, was contrary to the Alcoran, and was therefore admitted merely pro forma.

The negociation not wearing much the ap pearance of proving effectual, the grand vizir demanded a categorical explanation, whether it was the intention of the French court, to oppofe, on the Mediterranean, the paffage of the Ruffians to the Baltic ?

Choiseul replied, that the late convention with Great Britain would not fuffer his court to encrease their armaments.

The vizir then fuggefted with fome warmth, the neceffity of an oppofition being made, at leaft by the Spaniards, to the paffage of the Ruffians, through the Streights.

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BRIT ISH

LONDON, January 2.

The reply to this was, that to prevail on Spai to arm for the purposes of France, would be con sidered by Great Britain, as an evasion of the ftrid meaning of the treaty, and would be quite fo reign to the difpofition of the most Christia: King.

In the new American fettlement on the Ohio these are the appointments :

Mr. St. Clair, governor, Iooo dollars per an num; Mr. Winthorpe, fecretary, 750 dollar per annum; General Parfons, General Varnum General Armstrong, judges, each 800 dollars per

annum.

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, are the fubfcribing parties, in the treaty of the American States, with Mo

rocco.

WEST IN DIE S.

Kingston, O&. 6. On Friday last week, a negro man, named George, the property of one Ned Welch, a free Mullatto man, who lives on Lyffon's eftate, was tried at Morant Bay, before James Donaldfon and Jofeph Orr, Efqrs. and a jury of three freeholders, on the Obeah act, on a charge for laying obeah, and procuring a phial of ftrong poifon to destroy the white people on Stanton eftate, in the parish of St. Thomas's in the Eaft. The prifoner confeffed that he gave the poison to the negroes belonging to Stanton, a majority of whom, knowing his reputation among the flaves as an adept in the occult icienes, applied to him, and asked his affiftance to finish their overfeer, and others to whom they had taken a dislike, although no fusficient caule appeared to cherish or excite their diabolical enmity. After a fair and impartial hearing, the prifoner was found guilty by the jury, and the following fentence was pronounced upon him by the fenior magiftrate: "You, George, are to be taken from hence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, after which your head is to be fevered from your body, and fuck upon a pole on the roof of Stanton mill-houle; and the Lord have mercy upon your foul!

INTELLIGENCE.

S Mr. Dawes, the king's meffenger, was going with an expref, he stopped at this fide of the bridge of Penmanmure in Wales, as he heard the mail coach at the other fide; after a few minutes ftay, he got out of the poft chaife, and oblerved the coach paffing over in a very diforderly and zg zag manner; he bailed the coachman, but in an inftant the carriage overfet, and lodged fait on the parapet wall of that well known, dreadful precipice, down which the unfortunate driver fell and was loft: providenially the four paffengers (through the affistance of Mr. Dawes and his poft-chaite boys, were faved from impending destruction, but cut and bruifed in a fhucking manner. The accident proceeded from the drunkenness of the untortus

nate being who left his life, as he was observed by the gentleman to be much intoxicated at their laft ftage. The body was found next morning, about two miles from the bridge, where it was carried by the tide.

3. The following alterations in the prefent fyltem of the horfe and horfe grenadier guards, are said to be finally fettled.

Inftead of two gold ticks in waiting, there are to be tour." The two colonels of the horse grenadiere, his grace the duke of Northumberland and lord Howard, to be called to their turn of that duty. All the men of the four troops are to be reduced. The troops to be recruited again, and on the establishment of dragoons. The pay to be fomewhat better than the prefent pay of the horfe grenadier guards. The cloathing to be tripped of its pretens weight, and the laving to

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government to arife from that article. The difcipline to be entirely the fame with that of the dragoon regiments. The officer of the horse grenadier guards to rank and do duty with the officer of the hole gua ds. No diminution whatever of the pay the officers, in confideration of the expences they are obliged to support, and the large fums they have paid for their commifLions.

5. His majefty has received intelligence from Capt. Phillips, on his paffage to Botany Bay, dased from the Brazils, which states, that he has had a profperous voyage, and has only loft feven of the convicts. He ftates his plan at large, which is founded in good fente and obfervation. He does not mean that any of the convics shall be fent on fhore, till a strong fortress is erected, in order to keep them in proper fubjection, which the more effectually to confirm, the provifions are to be adminiftered to them daily, in proportion to their industry, in the cultivation of the island.

7. A duel was fought at Staines by Major Browne and Capt. Sothby. The diftance marked out was five paces. Their firft fhots were exchanged nearly together, and without effect. Their fecond piftols being then prefented, Major Browne fiued his; on which Mr. Hedges turned afide, and discharged his in the air. Their friends then immediately interfered, and the gentlemen parted."

13. The following fact affords a ftriking inftance of the dangerous nature and dreadful effects of jealoufy. Mr. S, of Stamford Hill, had often joked with a young lady, his visitor, in that strain of easy jocularity, which marks real efleem when unmixed with any ill intention. Mrs. S had fecretly felt much jealousy on this account, and last Saturday fe'nnight, under pretence of retiring for fome purpofe of trivial importance, went to the top of the house, and threw herself headlong to the ground. She lived in pain till night, and then expired.

Plymouth, Jan. 12. "Lalt night an unfortunate difpute happened at a tavern in this town, between lieutenant Cl}, and enfign. Ho, both of the 38th regiment, which terminated fatally to the latter, who was killed on the fpot, and lieutenant Cll dangerouf. ly wounded. Ealign H- -n is faid to have been the aggreffor. The coroner's inqueft is now fitting."

The following is a calculation of the number of cattle, &c. killed in the city of London during the last year, viz, 722,112 sheep and lambs; 100,264 bull, oxen, and cows; 199.790 calves; 151,932 hogs for pork; 5100 dito for bacon; 72,640 pigs.

Hertford, Jan. 19. "The circumstances relating to the commitment of the rich farmer, Mr. J, to our county gaol, have not, perhaps, bad a parallel in this part of the country. The following will, in fome measure, elucidate this bufinef-Mr. J held a tarm belonging to Mr. Calvert, the leafe of which expiring fome time ago, that gentleman would not renew it to him without an advance of rent. Rather than comply with this, he gave it up, and it was let to a Mr. Sworder, a very worthy young man. With a heart fraught with malice againft hin

nocent fucceffor, he engaged a number of villains to do him every poffible injury. Mr. Sworder's cafe has been truly pitiable for many months paft: it will scarcely be credited, though a well known fact to all the neighbourhood of Stocking Pelham, (where Mr. Sworder live) that his house had been béfet in the dead of the night, upwards of thirty times, and his barn and stacks have been fired three different times. The day after the commitment of the culprit, the barns of M, Rayment, of King, near to Petmor Wood, a cover well known to the fox hunt, were fred and entirely confumed.

"N. B. Ten thousand pounds were offered for bail, but refused."

Newport, Jan. 24. A melancholy accident happened on Sunday night, at fea, off this land, to Capt, Ozman, of Bembridge (Ifle of Wight): as he was out in his veffei, by fome accident he fell over unperceived, till difcovered in the water by lifting up his hands for help; all means were used to fave him, but in vain, he funk down before the veffel reached him.

A reward of an hundred pounds has lately been advertifed, for apprehending one Rebecca Jackfon, who has fled from Ireland to this kingdom; fhe is faid to have perpetrated the horrid crime with which he is charged, by going into the houfe of Alexander Witherspoon, at Saintfield, in the county of Down, Ireland, on the 2d of November laft, difguited as a beggat-woman, where the perfuaded Mary Witherspoon, and two children of William Trimble, to eat of fome bar-ley bread and cheese. Four other persons. also eat of the fame. Shortly after, they were all taken ill; and on examination, it was discovered that the bread had been mixed with arfenic. It is alio fuppofed that he had thrown a quantity of the fame poifonous powder into a crock of flummery, of which Alexander and Mary Witherspoon, three others who had eaten of the bread, and another man, allo cat, and were feized with the fame fymptoms of poifon. The latt was on the 6th of November. Notwithstanding every ef fort of medicine, Mary Witherspoon died on the 8th, a child is fince dead, and the reft of the unfortunate people were languishing under its baneful effects, on the 10th inftant and three of them without any hopes of recovery. On a warrant being illued by Francis Price, Efq; for apprehending the faid Rebecca Jackson, the fred from juftice, and it is feared, is not yet apprehended. From various accounts, it is certain the had been feen at Workington, and in other parts of that neighbourhood.

Oxford, Jan 19. Two inquifitions have been taken by Mr. Elliot the filt on Monday, at Kiddington, on view of the body of a woman of a good character, but difordered in her fenfes for the last three years past, occafioned, as it is fuppoled, by the fofs of her children; and notwithftanding great care has been taken of her, the efcaped the vigilance of her friends on Sunday morning, and got in o the river, where the was found dead foon after. Verd et, infane. The other, yesterday, at Horton, on view of the body of a youth fcarcely 16 years old, who, on Wednefday, had offered fome indecency to his maf ter's daughter, and perhaps fearing punishment, eloped from his fervice, and next day hanged

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MARRIAGE S.

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Verdict, dowager of Fife, mother to the Earl of Fife.
17. Mr. Pilon, author of "He wou'd be a Sol-
dier," and many other dramatic pieces.-Hi:
remains were interred in Lambeth church-yaro
on the 26th inftant, at two o'clock in the after-
noon.-23. At his houfe in King Street, Soho,
much and very deservedly refpected, L'eut. Col.
Hardy, late Quarter- mafter-general at Gibraltar,
and Governor at Dartmouth.-24. At Hammer-
fmith, Parkyns Mac Mahon, Eiq. nephew of
Lord Macklethwaite, Earl of Portarlington of
the kingdom of Ireland, by the mother's fide.
The title is now extinet, by the failure of male
iffue. He was a gentieman well known in the
literary world He had ferved from his child-
hood in the Irifh brigade in the service of the
King of France, till about twenty years ago;
fince which time he had refided in this kingdom.
PROMOTIONS.

Jan. 1. EV. John Nichol, rector of Re-
1788. menham, co. Berks, to the Hon.
Mils Mary Flower, 2d daughter of the late Ld.
Viscount Afhbrook of the kingdom of Ireland.
14. By fpecial licence, at Kuklington, co Not-
ngam, Edward Miller Mundy, Efq; of Ship.
ley, M. P. for Nottinghamshire, to the Right
Hon. Lady dowager Middleton.-16. By special
Jicence, Right Hon. Lord Petre to Mifs Juliana
Howard, youngest daughter of Henry Howard,
Elq, of Gloffop.-17. At St. Giles's church, Sir
John Hatton, of Long Stanton, co. Cambridge,
Bart. to Mifs Bridgham, daughter of Mr. Bridg
ham, an American refugee. They came from
Bologne together for that purpofe. The lady is
about 17 years of age.23. By ipecial li-

cence, at Dunborough-house, R

the Hon. Sir Francis Drake, Bart. Admiral of the Blue, to Miis Onflow, only daughter of Geo. Onflow, Elq.. many years Member of Parliament, for Guildford, Surrey.

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Sir William Caftleton, Bart. The
titie defcend to his fon, a merchant at Lynn.
At Glasgow, Capt. Addison of the 56th regiment.
--At Rothienfay, in Scotland, the Countess

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EV. Dr. Douglas, Bishop of Carlisle, appointed regirar of the mott noble order of the Garter, and Dean of Windfør, wire Rev. Dr. Harley, deceafed.-Rev. James Jones, D.D. appointed Archdeacon of Hereford, vice Rev. Dr. Harley, deceased. James Ford, M. D. appointed Phyfician-extraordinary to the Queen.Mr. Thomas Keate, appointed Surgeon-extraor dinary to the Queen.-His Grace the Duke of Beaufort elected recorder of Scarborough, vice Duke of Rutland, deceated.

INTEL LICENCE.

Killarney, January 25, 1788. ARLY on Tuesday morning laft, this town wa unexpectedly vifited by Mr. Wm. B. Swan, infpector of excife, who arrived at Rols Caftie Barrack, within a mile of this place, about three o'clock in the morning, after a journey of at leaft forty miles, which he performed in about fix hours. From the barrack he took a party of the 62d reg ment quartered here, and having fift placed centinel on the houses of the mott fufpe&ted perfons, began a general fearch, and in a fhort time difcovered not less than ten tobacco manufactories, feized several tons of leaf and ftalk tobacco, together with the different utenfils ufed in the manufacturing the above commodity.- It is estimated that the loffes of the revenue, exclufive of those of the fair trader, have not been lefs than three thousand pounds per ann. for feveral years paft, in confequence of an illicit trade carrid on by the above manufacture.

Enniskillen, Feb. 6. The Enniskillen Club, after having run a fox upwards of feven miles lat Tuesday, enlarged another on the top of Callehume hill, at eleven o'clock-hall an hour afterwards the Hon. Mr. Cole's hound were lard on, and the fox, after traverfing the avenue and improvements of Cattlehume for fome time, gave a fair entapis, which he quickly broke, and took ftrait an head to Church-hill, cruffed the bridge of Belleek, from thence ftrait to Park-hill, be tween which and Ballyshannon, being fo clofely

d by the dogs, be rocked-of a very large

field of horsemen, not more than ten were fairly in with the hounds.

Mr. Lawton, an eminent merchant in Ennifkillen, Sir John Tinklewon, Sir Walter Huffey, and Dr. Achefon, rode the fairest, and confequently the most defperate-the former, in the course of the chace, leaped a drain 25 feet wide, and the latter leaped a coped and dashed wall between 5 and 6 feet high-Sir John and Sir Walter, owing to their knowledge of the country, judicious horfermanship, and capital hunters, were the first in with the dogs.

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Mr. Lawton rode his high bred grey mare, Belvidera-Sir John Tinkleton his bay mare, Lady Bective-Sir Walter his brown horfe, Clerk of the Market-and Dr. Achefon his black horfe, Litigation-not one of whom escaped unhurt. Belvidera took convulfions at the rock, and died -Lady Bective was hurt in the head-Clerk of the Market fell blind-and Litigation was lamed, fo as bereafter not to be ferviceable. Cap tain Debbeig, 9th regt. and Mungo Noble, Efq; were the only two whofe horfes escaped unhurt,

DUBLIN, Jan. 6, 1788.

As the bangs of marriage were publishing, on Sunday fe'nnight, at a parish church not many miles from this city, a woman ftepped forward to forbid them.- --- -The clergyman demanding what canfe fhe affigned, received in anfwer, that the man and the had wedded each other about fix months before, by reading the matrimonial fervice together, putting on a ring, and going af terwards to bed. This declaration fo difcompof

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