an hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, for the repair of the houfes on Bethnal-green and in Worship-street, 6251. and fpecial, in the words of the Act, for furniture destroyed by perfons affembled, 700l. alfo for damage done to the garden by the rioters, 301. 7th. Thomas Dill was tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of Robert Curfon, a young furgeon, pupil to Dr. Ford. The deceafed was vifiting an old gentleman, who laboured under a violent paralytic complaint. The prifoner was charged with having affaulted the deceafed while he was in the apartment of the old gentleman, in whofe prefence he was charged with having beat the deceafed in a very cruel manner; and with having afterwards pushed him out of the window, three ftories high into the street, by which the deceafed had his fkull fractured to pieces, and was killed on the spot. There was only one witnefs who could fpeak pofitively to the fact; and this was the old gentleman, whom the deceafed was vifiting as a patient, when he was aflaulted by the prifoner. He was 90 years of age, and fo deaf, that it was with difficulty he could hear, and at the fame time he was fo afflicted with the palfy, that he could barely anfwer by the monofyllables Yes and No. As therefore it was impoffible for him to give the court a narrative of the melancholy bufinefs, the counfel for the profecution were going to put what they called leading questions, by which they would have told the particulars themfelves, and would have required only the monofylla ble Yes from the witnefs to confirm the fuggeftions contained in their queflions: but the court would not fuffer this, as it was totally inconfiftent with the practice of the courts of juftice: however, this was an occafion on which this practice might perhaps have been difpenfed with, without the leaft violation of juftice: particularly as there was fome ground, from what dropped from feveral perfons examined on the trial, that this was the fecond murther with which the prifoner had been charged. The court, however, was determined; and as the old gentleman was dif abled by infirmities from giving fuch teftimony as the court would receive, the prifoner efcaped from the hands of juftice, to the vifible mortification of every one in court. The mother of the deceased was in one of the galleries; and when the underflood that the prifoner was difcharged, fhe broke out into the moft frantick rage, and prayed that the blood of her child might fall upon the heads of both court and jury for fuffering his murtherer to efcape with impunity. When fhe had spent her rage in bitter imprecations, fhe fainted away; and the court feeling no fpark of refentment, for what they knew to be extremely natural in an afflicted parent, called out to the people near her, and requested that they would kindly take care of her, and fee that he did not hurt herfelf while out of her fenfes. Hundred of Offulton, defendants. The action was brought for the recovery of 9031. for repairing his houfes and fhops, and 11591. for furniture, ftock in trade and utenfils, deftroyed in the late riots. The court, after examining feveral refpectable witneffes, was fully fatisfied with the juftnefs of the claims, and the jury gave their verdict accordingly, making it fpecial for furniture and ftock in trade.. in Lincoln's-Inn-hall, to fet afide a late order against Mr. Morris, for contempt of court, in not obeying an order to bring the body of Mifs Harford, with whom he had eloped in her infancy. Mr. Erfkine, as council for Mr. Morris, contended, that feveral mal-practices had been ufed in the courfe of the late proceedings; that the affidavits were at leaft irregular, if not falfe; that the bills filed were antedated; and that though he could not undertake to invalidate the accuracy of the Regifter Offices, yet the plaintiffs fhould be obliged on oath to prove the authenticity of the dates; his client having left England previous to any procefs being inftituted against him in Chancery, and confequently the late order fhould be fet afide. These were the principal facts on which the motion was founded. The Lord Chancellor obferved, that he could not fet afide a motion of his predeceffor, or fuppofe it improvidently grant The fame day the feflion ended at the Old Bailey, when the following convicts received fentence of death, viz Patrick Madan, J. Bailey and William Chetham, for ftealing in the fhop of Charles Storer, in Sidney's- alley, Leicefter fquare, four gold watch chains and thirty-eight gold rings; Elizabeth Hylett, for ftealing four guineas and a half privately from the perfon of James Winfhip; and Tho. Brown, for ftealing a mare, the property of Barnard Donally; Michael Daniel, for robbing Mr. Lane on the highway near Shep-ed, upon bare affertions only; and herd's-bush of two guineas; Willim Thompfon, alias Bennett, for robbing Mr. William Johnfon of fome money near Kilburn Wells; Jofeph Cook, for tobbing Anne Marfano, in Palgrave-place, of 75. or 8s. and using her very cruelly and indecently; Jofeph Caddie, for breaking open the dwelling houfe of Mary Newftead, with intent to steal her goods, &c. nine were fentenced to hard labour on the river Thames; 19 to hard labour in the House of Correction; fix to be privately whipped, and one publickly; and fix delivered on proclamation. A motion was made be13th. fore the Lord Chancellor, that Mr. Morris fhould have come The caufe between Mr. and Langdale plaintiff, and the 15th. Sun-fire office defendant, came on to be tried before Lord Mansfield, when a verdict was given againft the plaintiff, there being an exception in the policy of affurance against fires occafioned by civil or military commotions, &c. Two Jew ladies of emi17th. nence were baptized at the King's-chapel, St. James's, by the Rev. Dr. Bailey. Mr. Morris's adjourned 18th. motion in the Court of Chancery, to be released from the order of the late Chancellor for his commitment for a contempt, came to a final decifion, after many in genious arguments and eloquent fpeeches, as well by Mr. Morris's council, Meff. Macdonald, Selwyn, and Erskine, as by the coun fel against him, who were the Solicitor-gene. ral, Mr. Kenyon, and Mr. Jackfon. The bufinefs lafted four hours, and at the end of it, the Chancellor was pleafed to determine that he would neither fet afide the order nor enforce it: fo Mr. Morris went out of court, and the whole affair is juft as it was before it began. A Society of Antiquaries was inftituted this day at Edinburgh. An affociation of this nature has long been a favourite object of the Earl of Buchan. His lordfhip communicated the plan he had formed to fome of the moft accomplished and respectable gentlemen in this country, and was happy to find that it not only received their approbation, but excited the ftrongeft wishes to fee an infiitution, which promifed fo much utility to the nation, established on a firm and permanent bafis. Emboldened by this encouragement, his lordship ventured at laft to invite a number of perfons, whom he thought qualified to be members of fuch an affociation, to meet at his hoofe on the 14th of November laft. To thefe gentlemen he rea 1 a difcourfe, containing a view of the principal objects in the Hiftory and Antiquities of Scotland, which required elucidation, and of the regulations to be obferved in the propofed fociety; both of which received the unanimous approbation of the members prefent. At a fubf quent meeting, his lordfhip was prevailed on to permit the difcourfe to be printed, that the public might have proper ideas concerning an inftitution fo interefting to the nation. It was then agreed, that a meeting fhould be held on Monday the 14th curt. for the purpofe of electing office bearers. The members accordingly met, and the bufinefs of election being finished, a paper was read, giving an account of various Roman weapons difcovered in dragging the Marle from the bottom of Doddington Loch; and we learn that the worthy proprietor, Sir Alexander Dick, is to give fpecimens of them, to be preferved in the fociety's museum. The following is a lift of the Office Bearers. "Prefident, the Right Hon. the Earl of Bute; 1ft vice prefident, the Right Hon. the Earl of Buchan; 2d vice prefident, the Hon. Sir John Dalrymple Hamilton Macgill, Bart. 3d vice prefident, Jon Swinton, of Swinton, Efq; 4th vice president, Alexander Wright, Efq; advocate; 5th vice prefidert, Wm. Tyler, of Woodhoufice, Efq; treafurer; Sir Wm. Forbes, of Pitiligo, Bart. fecretary; Jame: Cummyng, Efq; keeper of the Lyon Records." DIED, At Carrickfergus, in Ireland, Mr. James O'Brien, aged 114. He ferved as a paymatter ferjeant in the wars in Ireland, in the reign of James II. Near Buxton, Derbyshire, Sam. Fidler, aged 105. He walked from his own houfe to Buxton, within three days of his death, which is upwards of five miles. He has been for three years paft a conftant attendant at St. Anne's Well in Buxton, and was fupported chiefly by the company who reforted there to drink the waters. Clarke, Efq; of Sandford, in Somerfetfhire, by whom he had feveral children, three of whom are ftill living, viz. Sir James Harris, K. B. his Majefty's Minifter Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of St. Petersburg. Katharine Gertrude, and Louifa Margaret Harris. The world is indebted to him for feveral very ingenious and learned publications, particularly three treatifes, published in 1745, on Art, Mufic, Painting and Poetry, and Happineis. In 1751, he published a feMr. Francis Vivares, the cele- cond volume, called Hermes, or brated landscape engraver. a Philofophical Enquiry concerning Univerfal Grammar. In 1775, his Philofophical Arrangements made their appearance. It is with great pleafure that we learn this gentleman had finished, juft before his death, another ingenious work, entitled Philological Inquiries. His good qualities as a man are well known to a large circle of his friends and acquaintance in this country; and his great abilities as an author acknowledged and efteemed by the literati throughout Europe. At his houfe in the Clofe, Salifbury, in the 72d year of his age, James Harris, Efq; F. R. S. Trustee of the British Mufeum, and member for Christchurch, Hants, which he reprefented in feveral fucceffive parliaments.In the year 1763 he was appointed one of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, and was foon after removed to the Board of Treafury. In 1774 made Secretary and Comptroller to the Queen, which post he enjoyed till his death. He was the fon of James Harris, Efq; and the Lady Eliza. beth Athley his wife, third daughter of Anthony, zd Earl of Shafiefbury, and fifter to Anthony, 3d earl, the celebrated author of the Characteristics, whofe elegance and refinement of taste and manners Mr. Harris inherited. In the theory and practice of mufic he had few equals. He was a native of the Clofe, and educated there under the Rev. Mr. Hele, in the grammar-fchool now kept by the Rev. Mr. Skinner, from whence, in the year 1726, he went to Wadham College, in Oxford. He mar-, ried Elizabeth, daughter of John In Harpur-ftreet, Dr. John Fothergill, one of the people called Quakers, aged 69. He was born near Richmond, in the county of York, ftudied at Edinburgh, and came to London about the year 1740, without any other patron than his own merit, which brought him rapidly into a moft extenfive practice. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh, of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies in London, and a member of other learned as well as medical inftitutions, in this and foreign nations, in which his great reputation as a phyfician is univer fally fally established. The exertion of his great abilities was not confined to the practice of medicine and the fludy of nature, but was unremittingly employed to the promotion of the general good and happinefs of mankind and as his extenfive knowledge, public fpirit, and many virtues, were not lefs eminent than his medical skill, he will be defervedly ranked among the illuftrious characters of the prefent age. Near Canterbury, Sir A. Manwaring, age 96. Near Ellesmere, Shropshire, Mrs. Eliz. Dallafs, aged 103. In Lincoln's-Inn-fields, Dr. Gilbert Kennedy, F. R. S. many years phyfician to the factory at Lisbon, aged 100. At Barnes, Mr. Maycock, market-gardener at that place. His death was occafioned by the fhock his fpirits received from the form in October laft, during which he went to the stables to look after his horfes, attended by his man, who was ftruck down and killed clofe to him by a flash of lightning, and the ftable itfelf forced to a confiderable diftance from its original fituation: and, to complete his alarm, part of the room in which his wife was lying-in (having been delivered but a few days) was torn away by the violence of the ftorm. General Bill of all the Chriftenings and Burials, from December 14, 1779, to December 12, 1780. Criftened. Males 8581 In all 16634 Buried. Males 10206 a fon. Females 10311 In all 20517 Lady of Hon. Charles Finch, a fon and heir. The Princefs of Afturias of a [2] prince |