ing brought up, the judge proceeded to addrefs him in a very pathe tic fpeech, in the courfe of which he was interrupted by Mr. Fitzgerald, who implored him to grant him time to make his peace with heaven. The judge declared that this was not in his power.

The fame day, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Brecknock, and John Fulton, were executed at Cattlebar; but the execution of the four other convicts was poftponed to a future day. The body of George Robert Fitzgerald was, immediately after the execution, carried to the ruins of Turlagh-house, and was waked in a table adjoining, with a few candies placed about it. On the next day it was carried to the churchyard at Turlagh, where it was buried on what is generally termed the wrong fide of the church, in his clothes, without a coffin.

19. This day was tried before lord Loughborough, in the court of common pleas, Weftminster, the action, brought by the right hon. Charles James Fox, against Thomas Corbet, efq. high bailiff of Weft minster, for not having made a return of him as reprefentative of Westminster, when duly elected by a legal majority of votes. The damages were laid at 100,000l.

There were two counts in the declaration. The first was for defendant's malicioufly and illegally poftponing to make a return to the writ directed to him by the fheriffs, to return two reprefentatives to fit in parliament for the city of Westminster, whereby plaintiff was prevented from taking his feat for 10 months, though duly elected-The' fecond was for defendant's malicioufly, &c. granting a ferutiny, which he was not authorised to do. After a trial of nine hours, the ju

ry brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2000l. damages.

21. Six malefactors were executed before Newgate, among whom was Jonathan Harwood, for affaulting Mr. Drummond on the highway, and obtaining money from him by threats of charging him with an odious crime. Phoebe Harris was burnt, about the fame time, for counterfeiting fhillings.

24. A common hall was held for the election of the annual city offi cers; when Charles Higgins, efq. and Edward Watfon, efq. were elected theriffs; and the chamber. lain, bridge-mafters, and aleconers. re-elected. The election of auditors was attended with fome extraordinary circumstances; to understand which it is neceflary to observe, that by immemorial ufage (which in all cities and corporations is LAW, when not altered by act of parliament) the auditors, who are four in number, are elected for the city, two every year; that is, the two feniors are amoved, and two new ones are elected; but in the prefent year Meff. Tomlins and Loveland, who have ferved two years, refused to be amoved; and their friends fupported their re-election. The recorder, from the huftings, explained the law. The livery prefent, who were very few, refused to acquiefce in this explanation, and infifted on the election of Mr. Tom. lins and Mr. Loveland: Mr. Stock and Mr. Nettleship, two new candidates were put up. Refpecting the two gentlemen elected only aft year, viz. Meff. Wilfon and Thorne, there was no hesitation about continuing them. The fheriffs, Mr. Alderman Sanderfon, and Mr. Alderman Watfon, finding the temper of the hall to be against the opinion of the recorder, thought it

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fix. The queftion was deba ed in the court of aldermen above an hour and a half. When the lord mayor and aldermen returned to the huitings, the recorder declared the report of the fheriffs; viz. that Meff. Higgins and Watson were elected fheriffs; that Mr. Wilkes was re-elected chamberlain; that Meil. Dixon and Burbank were reelected bridge-nafters; that Meff. Hardy, Oldaker, Brooks, and Nebitt were re-elected aleconners; that Meff. Tomlins, Loveland, Wilfon, Thorne, Stock, and Nettleship were returned as auditors, and that the fheriffs had declared the majo rity of hands in favour of the first four: but that by the law and ufage of the city, the two firit were ineligible. A poll was, however, demanded for the first two; which was granted. (See Page 31.)

Yetlerday was tried before lord Loughborough, in the court of cominon pleas, Guildhall, a caufe wherein Richard Leake, a master hat-maker of Southwark, was plaintiff, and one Andrew White, a journeyman hat-maker, defendant. The plaintiff had fuftained a very great injury by a combination of journeymen hat-makers, who had formed themfelves into a fociety, which they called "Laudable;" but which, in fact, was to harrafs, opprefs, and govern the capital bat-makers, and hinder leffer maf ters from taking apprentices, and the plaintiff was a master of the laft defcription Some time ago the members of this combination fingl ed out the plaintiff for the purpose of obliging him to part with his ap prentices, and they deputed five of their members to go to the manufactory of Meff. Cox and North of Southwark, who employed the plaintiff in the finishing branch of the faid trade, to inform them that

plaintiff, they fhould not have a man to work for them; the faid Meff. Cox and North were therefore obliged to discharge the plaintiff from their employ, or entirely stop their manufactory, wherein 70 or So men were conftantly employed, and by this means the plaintiff has been deprived of employ for himself and apprentices ever fince, to his almost utter ruin.-The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with 100l. damages, and costs of fuit.

Salisbury, June 24. A remarkable inftance of the terrors of a guil ty confcience occurred here lately. On the 16th inft. Jarvis Matchem, a failor, went before our mayor, attended by a companion, and voluntarily confeffed himself to be guilty of the murder of a drummer, in Huntingtonshire, about feven years ago. He declared that he had lived in various fituations fince; that, excepting this murder, he had at no time of his life done any injury to fociety; that until the moment of committing it, he had not the leaft idea thereof, and that he had no provocation from the deceafed, excepting that he gave him ill-language; that from the fatal hour he had been a ftranger to all enjoyment of life or peace of mind, the recollection thereof perpetually haunting his imagination, and oft en rendering his life a burthen almost infupportable; that in travelling with Sheppard his companion, on Thursday the 15th inftant, upon the road to this city, they' were overtaken near Woodyate's inn by a thunder storm, in which he faw feveral ftrange fpectres. Sheppard corroborated this part of the story, fo far as relates to the horror of the unhappy man, who was often running about like one dilracted, then falling on his

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knees imploring mercy, and, as appeared to him, was quite infane; he questioned him when he was more compofed, as to the reafon of fuch extraordinary conduct, when be told him of this murder, and begged that he would deliver him into the hands of justice at the next place they should arrive at, for that his life was hateful, his nights without fleep, and full of woe. The inan perfifting in his conf. ffion (though he declined signing it), and fhewing no appearance of infanity, was committed to the gaol.

26. Yesterday morning early, fome thieves broke into the public office belonging to the malers in chancery, in Symond's-inn, Chancery.lane; but not meeting with their expected booty, they let fire to the chambers in feveral places, which are entirely destroyed, toge ther with the papers thereof. Fortunately the fire was timely discovered, and the lives and properties of many individuals faved, by the immediate affistance of engines and plenty of water.

30. A very interefting caufe was determined in the cockpit by an appeal to the lords of the council from the court of admiralty. The queftion related to the prize or capture made by commodore Johnstone, laft war. it was whether the capture was prize or booty, and then confequently whether the property then taken by the fleet and land forces under his command came within the prize act. As the deftination of the armament was against the Cape of Good Hope, and as a confiderable land force under the command of general Meadows, was aboard and shared in the action; their lordships determined that the cafe in question did not come within the prize act. The confequence is, that the whole property is claim

ed by the crown, and the captors muft relinquith their hopes of prizemoney, and depend on the royal bounty for whatever com, enfation his majefty may think proper.

Paris, June. Yetlerday the parliament publifhed an arret, relative to the famous affair of the necklace. (See Vol VI. page 63.) Of this arret the following is the fubstance, viz. the word approuvé, and the fignature "Marie Antoniette de France," were fraudulently used in the bargain which took place relative to the diamonds, and those words are falfely attributed to the queen. The comte de la Motte is fully convicted of contempt of court, and condemned when taken to be whipped and marked with the letters G A L, and to be fent to the galleys for life. Madame Jeanne Valois de la Motte to be whipped, marked with the letter V upon the two fhoulders, with a halter round the neck, and confined for life in the Salpetrierre. Villette is condemned to perpetual banishment from the kingdom. The cardinal de Rohan and M. de Cagliostro are discharged from all accufation, and Mademoifelle Oliva put out of court.

All Paris applauds the above arret. The cardinal returned to his hotel the fame evening. The memoirs of Madame de la Motte are fuppreffed as false.

Paris, June 22. Yesterday at a quarter after fix in the morning, one of the turnkeys of the prifon went up to Madame de la Motte's fleeping apartment, and told her in terrible accents, to "rife and follow him." The affrighted female refufed to obey; but when he was informed that a royal mandate was fent to require her compliance, fhe, though reluctantly, followed the turnkey, and was by him conducted to the inner gate.

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Se was only allowed time to put on one petticoat, fo great was the hur ry of the magiftrates to execute the arret of the 31st of May. She no fooner defcended the last step of the ftairs than he was feized by two fatellites of the law, by them handcuffed, and inexorably embraced. When the countefs appeared before the greffier, and her fentence was read to her, fhe hurried into the most unheard of imprecations against the court, the parliament, and the cardinal; but this fame great fpirit deferted her, when he felt the hangman putting the rope about her neck: fhe was at that inftant seen in tears. The inftruments for her farther punishment, the brand, fome other tools, and an ardent fire, called up all her former courage, for the then cursed and swore in the most unwoman like manner, and uttered alternate cries of grief and defpair. It was with difficulty that the hot iron could be applied to her fhoulder; the executioner must have been an adept to have fucceeded in that part of his profeffion. She rolled herfelf on the ground, and kicked at him with fuch violence, that fome ftrength was required to perform the ignominious operation. The very in flant the execution was over, fhe was drefled in the utmost hurry, and put into a hackney coach, in which were two tipftaves that conducted her to the Salpetrierre, where fhe is destined to spend the remainder of her days. She had the rope about her neck all the time. On her arrival at the place of her de ftination, the threw herself on the floor, and motionlefs feemed to be deprived of every vital fentiment. When the came to herself fhe appeared quite calm, and without teftifying any vifible anxiety, patiently let herielf be unrobed, and with

the greatest ease put on the coarse ftuff that is to be her future clothing; her hair was cut off. Mr. de la Motte, her husband, was on the fame day burnt in effigy on the Place de Greve, from one to three in the afternoon.

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5. Came on before the lords commiffioners of appeals, two caufes against lord Rodney, general Vaughan, and the other captors of Euftatia- Mr. Lindo and Mr. Ingram, appellants-the first to the amount of about 12,000l. the latter 1000l. Upon both these appeals the captors were caft in damages, and full cofts. The lords who attended were Camden, Grantley, and Mulgrave

Berlin, June 8. The king has paffed fentence upon a counsellor of the regency, which makes a great ftir here. Mr. Glave, counfellor at Konigsberg, being accufed of corruption, his majesty charged the prefident of the chamber of that place to make the neceffary judicial enquiries into the affair, and the delinquent was condemned to two years imprifonment in a fortress; the counfellor, not fatisfied with the decifion, made another appeal; the king, after a mature examination, not only confirmed the above fentence, but ordered that the delinquent fhould work at the barrow during the two years of his imprifonment.

Vienna, June 18. On the 13th, fentence was paffed upon count Podtalky and his accomplices, for forging bank notes; he is deprived of his nobility, and rendered incapable to inherit any legacy whatever; befides which, he is condemn. ed publicly to fweep the streets, and to draw barges up the Danube for ten years; his accomplices, as

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principals in the above crime, are to ftand three days in the pillory, to receive 50 laflies, to fweep the streets, and draw barges up the Danube, 20 years. The informer is to receive only the intereft, for his life, of the 10,000 florins, with liberty to leave them to whom he pleases.

New-York, April 8. We hear from the infant colony of New. Brunswick, that cultivation and population are carried to the greatest perfection, and that large tracts of the unfettled country are fertile to a degree, and likely to be equally flourishing from the almoft incredible exertions and industry of the loyalifts, who deferve every encouragment from government. Of the old fettlements, the most flourish ing and populous are the townfhips of Windfor, Norton, and Cornwallis, on the Bay of Mines, between Hallifax and Annapolis. Of the new fettlements, the most remarkable are Shelburne, Parr-town, Digby, and New Edinburgh, and the great number of houfes that have been erected in each, the immenfe labour that has been employed in digging foundations, forming ftreets, and collecting materials, exhibit the moit pleating profpect of the magic of human industry The natural advantages of this colony are very great, not only in point of foil, but by the number of navigable rivers, bafons, and inlets of the fea.

Lemberg, in Poland, May 25. Baron Wollkohl has invented a gun, which being once loaded, may be difcharged thirty-fix times without interruption. his piece is neither larger nor heavier than a common musket.

Verfailles, June 27. An arret of the council of ftate has been iffued Here, revoking the regulations of

the arret of the 13th of November laft, by which perfons importing foreign carriages into France were obliged to depofit a fum of money as a fecurity for fuch carriages not being fold in the kingdom; in lieu of which they are now to fign engagements to convey fuch carriag es out of France in the space of one year, unless they obtain a prolon gation of that term. [See Vol. VI. page 95.]

Dijon, June 15. Dr. Methenie, of this city, in a memoir publifh ed on the fubject of wax, fays, "I mixed a portion of weak nitrous acid with olive oil in a veffel expofed to a gentle fand heat; an effervefcence fucceeded, and a confiderable quantity of fixed air was dif engaged; the oil thickened, and foon after aflumed a beautiful yellow colour, nothing but pure air feeming to remain in the compofition, which appeared like wax. I fet a part of it on fire, which yielded no fmoke, but emitted a pleating aromatic odour, refembling that of fine wax." This difcovery may in time become a matter of very great importance.

Cadiz, June 14. M. Sequira, furgeon of the garrifon at Port Mahon, has lately raised the tea plant from feed, near Ciutadella, in Minorca. The fhrub was in great perfection, and the leaf equal to the finest Souchong imported from China.

Dublin, June 30. Last week, 67 oak trees of immenfe bulk, and upwards of 150 years growth, were fold on the lands of Shillelah, at an extraordinary price, amounting on an average, to 451. each. These are the last remnant of that once celebrated wood, which extended from Carnew to Enniscorthy, near 30 miles in length. The wood of Shillelah is now totally extinct, and