Dallas addreffed the Jury on behalf of the heir at law, and inferred the want of found understanding in Lord Chedworth, merely from a variety of eccentricities and fingularities in his behaviour. He called two witneffes, who rather confirmed the evidence of his Lordship's fanity than otherwife.-Lord Ellenborough ftopped the caufe, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, eftablishing his Lordship's Will. The Sheriffs infpected the interior of Newgate, and humanely gave directions, that the long ward on the Debtors' fide fhould be appropriated for the ufe of the unfortunate perfons who might choose to work at their refpective trades for the benefit of themfelves and families. At the Middlefex Setfions, Edward Eggerton, Richard Ciements, and John Whitfield, were tried, and fentenced to three years' imprisonment in the Houfe of Correction, for attempting to break open the fhop of Mr. Priettman, filverfmith and jeweller, in Princes-treet, Soho, on Sunday, the 11th of May lait, at three o'clock in the afternoon! Elizabeth Barnet voluntarily furrendered herself for trial at the Old Bailey, being indicted for robbing a man of the name of Rouvellet of 401., while living with him in the Fleet Prifon, upwards of twelve months fince. Rouvellet had lately been committed to Ilchefter Gaol by the Magistrates of Bath, on a charge of forgery. He wifhed to put off the trial, but was brought to town, by Habeas Corpus, double-ironed, and compelled to proceed. The profecution appearing to be inflituted from motives of revenge, and the charge unfounded, the prifoner was acquitted. 10. In the Court of King's Bench, a black man, named Jackion, obtained a verdict of 500l. damages againft Captain Livelay, commander of the flave fhip Lord Stanley, from Liverpool to Africa,, and thence to the Weft Indies, for the moft inhuman treatment ever heard of, by various punishments and the molt cruel flogging, from the Captain and others, which was repeated for feveral days, tilt at laft the blood burst from the wretched man's breafts. The furgeon, on the trial defcribed the fhocking tate of his back, and faid, that for eighteen inches fquare the flesh floughed off. It is now Scarcely healed. 11. Admiralty Seffion.-A Seffion of the Court of Admiralty was held at the Old Bailey, before Sir W. Scott, a full VOL. L. JULY 1805. Bench of Civilians, Mr. Juftice Le Blanc, &c.-Acow, a Chinese failor, was indict ed for the wilful murder of another Chinefe, of the name of Anguin, on the 24th of May last, on the high feas, viz. on board the Eaft India fhip called the Travers, on her voyage home, rear the Azores. The principal evidence was Robert Oliver, Second Mate of the fhip, who ftated, that on the 24th of May laft, between two and three o'clock in the morning, as he was on watch, he heard a perfon moaning in great diftrefs; he called up two men, who, on going below, cried out, "O God! a man is murdered !" Others came up, who faw the prifoner ftanding with a knife in his hand, which was covered with blood; the deceafed was lying near him. The pri foner made no refiftance; but when they took him into cuftody, he faid "Me kill Anguin-Anguin tell me lie-China fafhion-me kill Anguin, me kill Anguin, -you hang me." The head was nearly fevered from the body. There were two mortal ftabs, one of which had penetrated the heart, the other the loins. There were in all nine wounds. The other witnefs corroborated this account. It did not appear that the prifoner and the deceafed had any quarrel on board, but they had fome difpute on fhore. The pri foner, by his interpreter, faid he must be hanged by the English law, and did not defire to live: he faid he cut the man's head off.-The Jury having found him guilty, Sir W. Scott pronounced sentence of death upon the prifoner, who feemed, to take but little concern in it. He was ordered to be hanged on Monday next, at Execution Dock; but his fentence was afterwards refpited until the Friday fol. lowing, on account of the tide ferving more conveniently for the time of execu tion. Richard Curling, John Forwood, Thomas Mois, John Sanders, and Thomas Reed, were indicted for tealing on the high feas fixty-five fathoms of fmall bower cable, value 581., and an anchor, value 10l., the property of Meffrs. Jofeph Wales and G. Y. Bonner. The pri foners are all pilots, who refided on the coaft of Kent, and three of them went on: board the Traveller brig, Captain Bal lard, to conduct the velle into Ramfgate from the Downs: while on board, a plan was entered into by the pritoners and the Captain to cut away the cable, and that. a rope fhould be taftened to it, by which it could be recovered by two men who L were were in a boat. This was done, and the Captain, according to his own statement, committed this fraud in conjunction with the prifoners, to make the lofs more fevere on the Underwriters, and confequently more profitable to the owners, who, very laudably, inftituted this profecution. The trial excited a great deal of intereft; but our limits only allow us to give this abftra&t. Three of the prifoners were found guilty, and Sanders and Reed, the men who were in the boat, were acquitted, for want of fufficient evi dence to establish their guilt. 12. A meeting of the principal gentlemen of the county of Effex was held at the Angel Inn, Ilford, agreeable to advertisement, for the purpose of confider ing the propriety of applying to Parlia ment for an A&t to make a road from London to Tilbury; when several Refolutions for the above purpose were propofed by Sir Thomas H. Lennard, and carried by a large majority. A subscription was immediately opened, and feveral thousand pounds subscribed.—Should the above patriotic propofal be carried into execution, it will reduce the distance from London to Tilbury, on the Effex fide, eight miles, and thereby afford a very great accommodation to all perfons travelling, or connected with the shipping intereft of this country, particularly benefit the towns through which it will pafs, and facilitate the conveyance of fish to the London markets. 14. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.The King v. Dorant.-This was a profecution for perjury, inftituted by Rouvellet, the man who profecuted Elizabeth Barnett, at the Old Bailey, on Saturday, for an alledged robbery. The profecutor appeared in fetters. His evidence was fe vague and contradi&tory, that Lord Ellenborough ftopped the trial, and the defendant was acquitted. It appeared in the course of the proceedings in this wicked profecution, that it was inflituted for the vile purpose of invalidating the evidence of Mr. Dorant, who is to be an evidence againft Rouvellet at his ap proaching trial for forgery. After the trial, the profecutor was conducted back to Ilchefter Gaol, from whence he had been removed by Habeas Corpus, to give evidence on this iniquitous profecution, and against the woman, Barnett, above mentioned. 17. A very fingular and brilliant METEOR was feen by many of the inhabitants of London in broad day-light, this evening, about eight o'clock, pafl ing in the fouthern and western part of the hemifphere, from about S. E. to N. W. It appeared about one-fourth of the apparent diameter of the moon, but more brilliant than Venus ever appears, and moved with very great fwiftness nearly in an horizontal direction, leaving a conical tail of light and fparks behind it. We entreat our Correfpondents in the country to communicate any obfervations which they can collect on the course of this large and fingular meteor, and of its fall, if fuch fhould take place in Britain. A gentleman who was angling in the Mersey, near the Cheshire fhore, killed two fine congers; one weighed 241lbs., the other 12lbs. 18. Acow, the Chinese failor, convicted at the laft Admiralty Seffion, for the murder of Anguin, another Chinese, was hanged at Execution Dock. He was conveyed from the Old Bailey in a cart, and appeared dreadfully dejected. 19. The Weft India Dock Company opened a new dock at Blackwall, appropriated for ships outward bound, and the Phoenix Weft Indiaman, Capt. Douglas, was warped into the bafon from the Import Dock, amid the applauses of many thousand fpe&tators. 23. In the Houfe of Lords, his Majefty's Commiffion, authorizing the prorogation of Parliament, was read; after which the Lord Chancellor delivered the following speech : "My Lords and Gentlemen, "His Majefty has commanded us to acquaint you, that the state of the public bulinefs enables his Majefty to close this Seffion of Parliament. "We are, at the fame time, directed to exprefs to you the great fatisfaction which his Majefty has derived from your unremitting zeal and diligence, and from that attention to the most important interefts of his Empire, which has been fo confpicuously manifefted in all your proceedings. "The measures which have been adopted for the permanent improvement of the various branches of our military fyftem, your attention to combine these arrangements with the great object of public economy, and the regulations which you have effablished for the fpeedy and effectual audit of the public accounts, call for his Majesty's particular acknowledg ments." "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "We have it in command from his Majefty to thank you for the provision which you have made for the various exigencies exigencies of the public fervice, particularly by raining within the year fo very large a proportion of the neceffary fup plies; a measure in itself highly advantageous, and which must create, both at home and abroad, the moft favourable impreffion of our national resources, and of the fpirit which animates the British People. You may be affured that the utmost attention fhall be paid to the frugal adminiftration of thofe fupplies which you have fo liberally granted. "His Majefty is particularly fenfible of the fresh proof he has received of your affectionate attachment to him, in the provi fion which you have made for enabling the younger branches of his Royal Family to meet the necessary expenfes of their station. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "His Majefty, being always anxious for the restoration of peace on juft and honourable terms, is engaged in difcuffions with a view to the accomplishment of this moft defirable end. Their fuccefs must depend on a correfponding difpofition on the part of the enemy; and in every event his Majesty looks with the fulleft confidence to the continuance of that union and public fpirit among all ranks of his people, which can alone give energy to war or fecurity to peace." After delivering this Speech, the Lord Chancellor faid: - "My Lords and Gentlemen, "By virtue of his Majeity's Commiffion under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in his Majefty's name, and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to Thursday, the 28th day of Auguft next, to be then there holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thurfday the 28th day of August next." The Lord Chancellor has granted an injunction, prohibiting Mers. Longman and Co. from publishing the Trial of Lord Melville, and thereby given an exclufive privilege to Mr. Gurney to publish the faid Trial under his Lordship's authority. Lord Lauderdale has fucceeded the Duke of Gordon as Keeper of the Great Seal in Scotland, the ftated falary of which is 3000l. a year. The Hon. David Montague Erikine, fon of the Lord Chancellor, is going Ambaffador to the American states, with pow. er to settle all difputes between the two countries. Mr. T. Grenville is appointed to the Prefidency of the Board of India Control, in the room of Lord Minto, who goes out to the Eaft Indies as Governor General. Those immenfe and very expenfive establifhments, the General Hospitals at Deal, Chatham, Gofport, and Plymouth, have just been abolished. Thefe buildings are now turned over to the Barrack Depart ment, or fold; there is to be only one General Hofpital in the kingdom, and that is at the Tale of Wight; the only other re maining one, York Hofpital at Chelsea, is likewife to be done away. At fome of thefe Hofpitals there have been half as many medical men as patients! Parliament, by the ufual forms, have granted 1000l, per Annum to Lord Rodney, the fame as held by his grandfather, the firft Lord, on the Irish establishment. Upon this occafion Lord Grenville remarked in the Upper Houfe, that we should venerate the memory and fervices of great men in their immediate defcendants; for, England expects every man to do bis duty," fo England would be found to do her's. as Valentine Jones, Efq. charged with malverfations in the Weft Indies to the amount of 80,000l. and upwards, has given bail in the Court of King's Bench, himself in 20,000l. and four fureties in the remaining amount, for his appearance on the day of trial. The profecution is at the intance of the Lords of the Treafury. A question was tried in the Court of Exchequer lately, to afcertain whether the child of a Mr. Fisher was born alive, and this fo far back as 1796, when his wife, Mrs. Fisher, died; at which period Mr. Fisher refigned an eftate that came by Mrs. F. to the husband of her next fifter, fuppofing the child to be ftill-born, and that he had no right to it. By the law of the land, when a man marries a woman having a freehold estate, and it is not fettled by any marriage articies, it does not remain with the husband after her death, unless he has had a child by her born alive, in which cafe he keeps it for his life, and is called tenant by the courtesy of England. Having, however, by evidence, established the fact, that the child was born with life (and the least spark of life in such case is fufficient,) the Jury gave a verdict in fa vour of Mr. Fisher, by which he recovers back the estate for his life, faid to be worth 500l. a year. By the new Mutiny Act, if an Apprentice offers himself to a Magiftrate, and enlifts for a foldier, he subjects himself to two years' imprisonment and hard labour; and,at the expiration of his apprenticeship, if he does not enter to ferve as a foldier, he L 2 becomes becomes liable to be apprehended and punished as a deferter. The master to profecute within a month of the apprentice abfconding. A Petition was prefented to the Surrey Magiftrates, at the last quarter feffions held at Guildford, for the fuppreffion of Camberwell Fair. It was figred by between 200 and 300 inhabitants of Camberwell; and stated, that during the last feven years this Fair had exhibited nothing but a fcene of drunkenness and all forts of licentioufnefs, with frequent robberies, &c.-The Court, after fome confideration, came to a refolution, which imported, that the endeavours of the inhabitants, fince the year 1799, to fupprefs the abufes complained of, had been ineffectual, and that it should be recommended to the Magiftrates of the divifion in which the Fair was held, to ufe all legal measures for accomplishing that object. Mr. Brunton Tandy has been killed in a duel by Mr. Dyas, at Kells, in Ireland. The Board of Agriculture hate awarded their premium of fifty guineas, for the greatest quantity and beft quality of fpring wheat, under Mr. Peter Sers, of Gedney, in the county of Rutland, through the medium of Sir John Sinclair, their Prefident. Cowley the poet. fpeaking of agriculture, fays, "We may talk what we pleafe of lilies and lions rampant, and fpread eagles in fields d'or or d'argent; but if heraldry were guided by realon, a plough in a field arable would be the moft noble and ancient arms." 11. The unfortunate effects of the violent storm which took place this day have been dreadful; men and women, dwelling-houfes, barns, ricks, and cattle, having, in feveral inftances, been killed and destroyed. In London, during the ftorm, a ball of fire entered the area of the State-Lottery Office, in Somerfet Place, the heck of which was fo violent, that it forced open the door, and drove Mr. Pearce, the Secretary, who was standing at the window with another perfon, to the oppofite fide of the room, where they remained fenfeleis for a few minutes, but afterwards recovered without any injury. In Eaft fireet, Manchefter-square, the greatest part of the pavement was torn up. On the north fide of Harrow Weald Common, a thatched hovel, where thirteen perfons, of both fexes, had taken fhelter from the form, was fet on fire by a flash of lightning, by which a woman, hav ing a child at her breaft, was killed, whilft the infant most miraculously escaped ; and a boy was fo much fcorched by the flash, that he now lies without hopes of recovery. A man of the name of Davern, living in Lock's Fields, was ftruck to the ground by a flath of lightning. When he recovered fufficiently to get up, being very much stunned by the stroke, he put up his hand to rub his head, when all his hair and eye-brows fell off. At Ipswich, a ball of fire fell, at two o'clock in the afternoon, on the stables of Mr. Penning, at the Barracks, where there were nine horfes, all of which were inftantly knocked down-two killed. At Badwell Ah, in the fame county, a large poplar tree was shivered into numberlets pieces, and icattered to the distance of thirty or forty yards. In Oxfordshire, five horfes were knocked down by lightning, in a field near Tetf worth, two of which were killed, but the others recovered. A horfe belonging to Mr. Crockett, at the Bell Inn, was killed on Shotover Hill. A fine cow, the property of Mr. Walker, of Hodfon, near Swindon, Wilts, was ftruck dead by the lightning. At Deal the lightning ftruck the main top-gallant maft of his Majefty's bomb Profpero, fhivered the topmaft to pieces, and damaged the main mait; a man of the name of Jos. Perkins was killed, feveral others were knocked down, but recovered without any injury. One of the boat's crew belonging to the Sheernefs tender, in the Humber, flanding erect to trim the fails, was ftruck dead by a flash of lightning and fell over board. The body was foon after picked up: his hat, handkerchief, trowfers, drawers, and stockings, were burnt to rags; and the outfide cate of his filver watch melted. The brig William, Capt. Denning, from London, bound to Jamaica, coming into St. Helen's, was ftruck by lightning, which perforated the head of the maintopgallant maft, top and main mafts, and pierced the decks into the hold, where it fet the cargo on fire, the rapidity of which was fo great, that the Captain, paffengers and crew, were obliged to abandon her. A ball of fire entered the house off W. Wetton, Efq. near Guildford. Mr.and Mrs. Wefton were both afleep when the explofion took place. On their being awakened, they found themfelves furrounded with foot and duft, and apparently with fire; they were, however, providentially preferved, and efcaped unhurt. In a field not very far diftant, fix out of feven fheep were truck dead. At Horsham, the barracks received fome injury from the lightning, and a child was killed-A poor man near Pulborough, ftanding at the door of a houfe, had his skull split in two, and his brains fell on the ground. In the town of Birmingham, the lightning split the crane at the Canal Office and did fome other inconfiderable damage. A corn mill belonging to Mr. John Croft, of Caiftor, was much damaged, and a boy who fat in the mill was killed by the lightning. Nine fheep, belonging to Mr. Sibley, of Baffingham, near Carleon-le-Moorland, were killed by lightning in a close in the first parish. At Gainsborough there was a very uncommon fail of rain, accompanied with loud claps of thunder, and vivid flashes of lightning. Three pigs were ftruck dead at Morton, and two fine horses in a clofe near Lea were killed. Numerous other accidents happened in different parts of the country, but we have not 100m for their infertion. Several horfes, oxen, and other cattle, were killed during the ftorm on the Monday previous, particularly in the neighbourhood of Waterperry, Oxfordshire: a ball of fire fell on a barn, the property of Henry Curfom, Efq. which was completely confumed in a few minutes; fortunately,no perfons were near. Mr. Hole, of Caunton, in the neighbourhood of Newark, had three beafts Bruck with lightning in his home clofe; two of them died; the third recovered with the lofs of an eye. A crow was also killed which fat in a tree under which the beafts took fhelter. At Tuxford, in Lincolnshire, two fat oxen were killed by the lightning. THE ARMY.-The following Aug mentations are to take place in the pay of the army: Lieutenant-Colonels to be raised from 15s. 11d. to 175. per diem :-Majors, from 14s. 1d. to 16s.-Captains, from 98. 5d. to 10s. 6d; two fhillings more to be allowed to Captains having the Brevet of Major,or any fuperior rank.-Lieutenants, from 5s. 8d. to 6s. 6d. and one fhilling more to be allowed to Lieutenants of above feven years' ftanding.-Enfigns, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 3d.—Adjutants, from 8s. to 8s. 6d.-Quartermasters,from 5s. 8d. to 6s. 6d. Allowance to Commanding Of ficers of battalions, 35.-Serjeant-Majors and Quartermaster-Serjeants, from 28.0 d. to 2s. 6d. Serjeants, from 1s. 6d. to 1S. 10d.-Corporals, after 14 years' fervice, Is. 6d. ; ditto, from 7 to 14, 18. 5d.; ditto, below 7, 1s. 4d.-Privates, after 14 years' fervice, 1s. 2d.; ditto from 7 to 14, 1s. 1d.; ditto, below 7, 15.-Total of the additional expenfe, including the Subalterns of the British and Irish Militia, 322,5171. 75. 8d. The rate of increafe to the Subalterns of the Militia is the fame as to the Subaiterns of the Line, except that there is no additional allowance to Lieutenants of more than seven years' fervice. The increase of the Penfions to Officers' Widows is as follows:-Lieut. Colonel, from 50l. to 6.1.-Major, from 401. to 50l. -Captain and Paymaster, from 30l. to 40.-Lieutenant and Surgeon, from 261. to 30l.-Second Lieutenant, Cornet and Entign, Quartermaster, Adjutant, Afliftant Surgeon, and Veterinary Surgeon, from 20l. to 261.-Chaplain, Deputy Purveyor, and Hofpital Mate, from 161. to 201.-Physician and Purveyor, from 30l. to 40l.-Commiffaries at 20s. per day, from 30l. to 401.-Dito at 155. per day, from 281. to 30l.-Ditto at 10s. per day, from 20l. to 261. |