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it his duty to continue it ftrictly, efpecially as that part which was mandatory on the printers and proprietors of newspapers to swear to certain facts, and regifter the affidavits, to stand in future as records of evidence against themselves, was contradictory to common law, which fays, 'No man fhall be obliged to give evidence to his own crimination.' His lordship, therefore, charged the jury to acquit the proprietors, as no evidence whatever of publication appeared against them. In the cafe of the king again Topham, reported in 4 Durnford and Eaft, and cited by the attorney-general, his lordship obferved, that there it appeared the proprietor had taken a very active part in the publica

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The jury accordingly acquitted the twelve proprietors; but found the printer guilty.

JUNE 5.

Yesterday, being the King's birth-day, there was a drawing-room at St. James' palace, which began at half past two oclock, and was not over till near fix o'clock. The nobility and gentry were exceedingly numerous, and made a moft brilliant appearance.

JUNE 6.

This day, at the Old Bailey, was capitally convicted, John Sifterfon, for feloniously forging, counterfeiting, and publishing as true, a certain order for the payment of money, purporting to be the order of Frederick Tuting upon Thomas White, and Co. for the payment of 30l. to Mr. Webster or bearer, and dated London, Feb. 4, 1794.

JUNE 7.

Yesterday, at night, a fire broke out in a room adjoining the laundry at Oatlands, the feat of the duke of York, which burnt with great fury for nearly an hour and a half, when it communicated to the grand armoury, where arms to the amount of upward of 2000l. were deftroyed, and had it not been for the activity of the neighbouring inhabitants, the whole of the houfe had been levelled with the ground. The whole damage is estimated at about 3000l. The duchefs was at Oatlands at the time, and beheld the dreadful conflagration from her fleeping apartment, which is fituated in the centre of the mantion, and

from which the flames were prevented communicating by inftantly hewing down a gateway, over which the wing joined to the houfe. Her royal highnefs difplayed -the utmost fortitude on the occafion, and

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JUNE 9.

On Saturday, were capitally convicted, at the Old Bailey, James Reene and David Watkins, for feloniously affaulting Francis Buller-Yard, efq. on the highway, and extorting from him the fum of nineteen guineas by threatening to charge him with a certain deteftable crime; but an objection arifing in point of law, their judgment was refpited.

The same day, judgment of death was paffed upon two capital convicts, fix were fentenced to be tranfported for seven years, one for fourteen years, eleven to be imprifoned in Newgate, one in Clerkenwell Bridewell, four to be publicly whipped, and twenty-eight were discharged by proclamation.

Jofeph Kirkham, John Whalley, John Cardin, William Canney, Ann Lockhart, Ann Lloyd, Charles Beazley, and Henry Boxer, capital convicts, whofe execution had been refpited during his majesty's pleasure, were pardoned on condition of their being transported to New South Wales for life; and Thomas Parnel, also a capital convict, refpited as above, was pardoned on condition of transportation to New South Wales for feven years.

William Thomas, another capital convict, refpited as above, having refused his majesty's clemency tendered to him on condition of tranfportation to New South Waies for life, was remanded to the cells in execution of his former judgment. This

is the fecond time he has refufed his ma

jelty's mercy on the above condition.

The feffions being ended, the fame were adjourned till Wednesday, the 16th of July next at the Old Bailey.

JUNE 16.

On Saturday, the exchequer loan of four millions, which happily proved the

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Yesterday, the lord-mayor, aldermen, &c. of London, prefented the following address to his majesty, at St. James'.

To the King's Moft Excellent Majefty. The humble Addrefs of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Common Council affembled.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,' WE, your majefly's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the lord mayor, aldermen and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, humbly beg leave to approach your majesty with our warmeft congratulations on the late glorious fucceffes with which it has pleafed the Divine Providence to bless your majefty's arms in different quarters of the world, and more especially on the fignal victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of admiral earl Howe, over the fleet of the French, on the first of this month.

We have the pleasure of acknowledg ing, with heart-felt fatisfaction, that, by the reduction of the principal fettlements of the French in the East Indies, and by the capture of their Weft India islands, the most valuable commercial acquifitions have been gained by your majesty's fubjects, at the fame time that the commerce of the enemy has been destroyed in those parts. And these advantages are greatly enhanced, in our estimation, by the amazing rapidity and little bloodshed with which they were accomplished.

We rejoice in seeing your majefty's arms victorious in the reduction of Baftia,

whereby not only the Corficans are like. rated from the tyranny of French anarchifts, but our fleets have acquired com. modious harbours in the Mediterranean.

We have viewed, with a peculiar tatisfaction, the glorious exertions of our brave countrymen, encouraged by the example of their illuftrious commander, and other branches of the royal family on the continent; in which your majesty's paternal feelings must have participated in an extraordinary degree.

Deeply impreffed with the importance of these advantages, we should think ourfelves wanting in the duty we owe to your majefty, ander whofe mild government we deem it our greatest happiness to live, were we to delay taking the earlieft opportunity of teftifying, at the foot of your throne, our most ardent joy at the late fignal victory gained by your majesty's fleet over that of the enemy; a victory, perhaps, unexampled in the annals of the British navy and which has materially reduced the power of the French at fea, adding fecurity to our wide-extended commerce, and tranfmitting a most brilliant example of British valour to the lateft pofterity.

And while we thus rejoice in the fucceffes of your majesty's arms abroad, we defire to exprefs our warmest approbation of the vigilance and zeal of your majesty's minifters at home, in repreffing the attempts of the feditious, and those who wickedly aim at the fubversion of your majesty's government; and affure your majefty, that your faithful fubjects, the citizens of London, will continue to exert their most constant and earnest endeavours to preserve to themselves and their potte rity the fecure and permanent enjoyment of the invaluable bleffings of the glorious conftitution as established by law,

· May thefe brilliant events convince your majesty's enemies of the juftice of your majefty's caufe, and thereby the blef lings of peace be reftored to thefe king. dons, and to Europe, on a safe and per.

manent foundation.

Signed, by order of Court,

WILLIAM RIX.'

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tisfactory to me, and peculiarly on the prefent conjuncture. Their cordial con. gratulations on the late glorious victory, obtained by my fleet under earl Howe, and on the fignal fucceffes which have attended my arms in different quarters, and the feasonable affurances of their uni

Viscountess Dillon, mother of the pre-
fent viscount.

Sir Robert Boyd, K. B. governor of
Gibraltar.

PROMOTIONS.

out penfioners at Chelsea hofform attachment to our invaluable confti-eph Smith, efq. agent and paymafter Henry duke of Buccleugh-Knight of the garter.

tution, prove how fenfible they are of the importance of the contest in which we are engaged, and of the numerous bleffings for the prefervation of which we have to contend.

The city of London may at all times rely on the continuance of my favour and protection.

They were all received very graciously, and had the honour to kifs his majefty's

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Hon. rear admiral fir Keith Elphinston,
and captain fir John Borlase Warren, bart.
-Knights of the Bath.

BANKRUPTS. From the GAZETTE.
MAY 27.

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Ouis Jees, of Charles-ftreet, Westminfter, money-fcrivener. Richard Bedford, of the Kent-road, in Surry, victualler.

Samuel Lufcombe, of Exeter, dealer. Thomas Evans Gray, of Hanley, in Staffordshire, woollen-draper.

John Simplon, Manchester, hat-manufacturer.

Thomas Broadhurft, of Macclesfield,

REV. George Talbot, brother of the joiner.

late earl Talbot, to the hon. mifs

Anno Beauclerk.

Hon. Mr. Bingham, to lady Elifabeth Bellafyfe, the divorced wife of Mr. Howard.

Charles Edmonstone, efq. fecond fon of fir Archibald Edmonstone, bart. to mifs Emma Wilbraham Bootle, daughter of R. W. Bootle, efq. of Sathom Houfe, Lancashire.

Hon. Mr. Stewart, eldeft fon of lord Londonderry, to lady Amelia Hobart.

DEATH S.

LADY of lord Carleton, lord chief justice of the common-pleas in Ire

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Countess of Egremont, lady of count Bruhl, the Saxon envoy.

William viscount Newhaven.
Reigning duke of Mecklenburgh Stre-
litz, brother to the Queen of Great Bri-
tain.

Duchefs of Portland.
Viscountess Mayo, widow of the late
John viscount Mayo.
Anne lady Ravensworth.

Countess of Deloraine.

Francis marquis of Hertford.

John Henshaw, of Nottingham, tanner. William Green, of Crooked-lane, warehoufeman.

Thomas Holmes Allcock, of Newport, Salop, tanner.

Philip Turner, of Jewry-ftreet, Aldgate, wine-merchant.

George Mayors, of Stockport, Cheshire innkeeper.

William Rooke, of Thornhill, York. fhire, maitfter.

Benjamin Pearkes, of St. Nicholas, in
Worcester, tea-dealer.
MAY 31.

James Shaw, of Wakefield, in Yorkfhire, grocer.

Richard Oates, of Penryn, in Cornwall, dealer in porter.

Robert Robinson the elder, of Lincoln, innholder.

Robert Railton, and John Fildes, of Manchester, ironmongers.

James Fortescue, of the Curtain-road, Shoreditch, wheelwright.

Abel Cock, and Henry Cock, of Gloucefter, drapers.

Marchant Ruffell, of Doynton, in Gloucestershire, dealer.

Samuel Green, of Kingston-upon-Hull,

Rev. fir Henry Vane, prebendary of linen-draper.
Durham.

John lord Kilmaine.

Hon. general James Murray, colonel of the royal North British fufileers.

Richard Dransfield, of Riverhead, in Kent, victualler.

Richard Johnfon the younger, of Doncafter, in Yorkshire, butcher.

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Patrick Daly O'Shangneffy, of Whitcomb-ftreet, Westminster, bootmaker. Thomas Midford, of Shadwell, victualler. JUNE 21.

Charles Edwards, of Eyre-ftreet-hill, Holborn, fhoemaker.

John Finch, of Cannon-ftreet, pinmanufacturer.

John Jenkins, of Rathbone-place, gro

cer.

Robert Stealing, of the Strand, auctioneer.

Thomas Gill, of Cricklade, Wiltshire, money-fcrivener.

William Hall, of the Stones End in the Borough of Southwark, dealer in Staffordfhire-ware.

Jacob Ifaac, of Cox's-fquare, Spitalfields, filverfmith.

John Pitman, of Milborne-Port, in Somerfetfhire, linen-manufacturer. Chriftopher Hewaitfon, of Newbiggen, in Cumberland, dealer.

Robert Tripp, of Bristol, falefman. Edward Mitchell, of Horfham, in Suffex, higler.

James Partington, of Bafinghall-ftreet, warehouseman.

Charles Day, of Alderfgate-ftrect, ribbon-manufacturer.

Thomas Gubbins, otherwife Thomas Edmunds, of Newgate-street, haberdasher. William Hay, of Perfhore, in Worcesterfhire, fhopkeeper.

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Victim of Paffion, 3 vol. 12mo. 10s. 6d. Leigh's Inquiry into Revealed Religion, 2s. 6d.

AVERAGE PRICES or CORN.

June 14, 1794.

M'Phail's Treatife on the Culture of By the Standard Winchester Quarter of

the Cucumber, 8vo. gs.

Things as they are, 3 vol. 12mo. 12s. Nichols' Methods for decreafing the Confumption of Timber in the Navy, 28. Caroline de Montmorenci, 12mo. 3s.

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Anderfon's Treatife on Peat Mofs, 8vo. 5s.

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Hurdis' Tears of Affection, and other

Poems, 2s. 6d.

Henry Stukely, or Effects of Diffipation, 3 vol. 12mo. 10s. 6d.

British India analyzed, 3 vol. 8vo. il. Is.

Muffolini's Friendly Advice, 8vo. 35.

fewed.

Price's Effay on the Picturefque, as compared with the Sublime and Beautiful, 8vo. 6s.

Memoirs of General Demourier, 8vo. 8s. and 12mo. 35. 6d. Richler's Medical and Surgical Obfervations, 8vo. 6s.

Siege of Meaux, a Tragedy, 1s. 6d. Stoever's Life of Linnæus, by Trapp, 4to. l. 5s.

History of all the real and intended Invafions of England, 8vo. 4s. boards. Moor's Narrative of the Operations of the Mahrattas, &c. against Tippoo Sultan, 4to. l. 55.

Life and Adventures of J. M. Hobart, alias Lord Matley, &c. 2 vol. 12mo. 75. Monk's Agricultural Dictionary, 3 vol. 8vo. 11. 4s.

Lord Fitzhenry, 3 vol. 12mo. 125.
Perplexities, or Fortunate Elopement,

Watfon's Treatife of the Law of Part

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