- men in poffeffion, and at the end of eight days to remove and advertise them to be fold to the trade; that at this iniquitous trade-fale, the plaintiff's wife was not permitted to buy any part of her goods, and together with her husband and five children, were thus turued out of doors, bereaved of their property, without a fingle bed, blanket, or covering to lie on.-The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for the whole value of the goods. Whitehall, July 8. Whereas divers applications have of late been made, by people of different defcriptions, to the foreign minifters refident in England, to be appoint:ed fecretaries to fome or other of the faid foreign ministers, in order to -avail themselves of the protection - due to perfons in that fituation, against the ordinary courfe of legal proceedings in various cafes and whereas fuch indulgence is liable to many abuses; it is his Majesty's pleafure, that henceforth no fubject of his majefty fhall be permitted by the fecretary of state to have his name inferted at the fheriff's of fice, in the list of those who are to be deemed under the protection of any foreign minister, excepting only fuch perfons as may be employed by the faid foreign minifters in the capacity of menial fervants. CARMARTHEN. Newhaven, Connecticut, Feb. 2. Henry. Harford, fon of the late lord Baltimore, prefented a memorial lately to the legiflature of Maryland, ftating, that by the operation of the act of confifcation his loffes amounted to 327,4411. and praying relief-but it was rejected." 10. At a common hall for the election of a fheriff, in the room of Edward Watson, eq. who had paid his fine, Paul Le Mefurier, efq. was declared duly elected. 1786. 12. An action for a trefpafs was lately tried in the court of king's bench, in which the right to purfue foxes was determined; the declaration of the plaintiff stated, that the defendant, with dogs, hounds, and horfes, ran over the grounds of the plaintiff, broke his clofes, and deftroyed his hedges. In his plea, he faid, he was huntfman to Mr. Sturff, a gentleman who had a right to hunt the faid dogs aud hounds; that fome fhort time previous to that mentioned in the declaration, he found fome noxious animals called foxes near where the trefpafs was committed, and that he did follow the faid dogs, and in order to kill the faid foxes, he did break the faid clofes of the plaintiff; that he could not kill them with out doing as aforefaid, and that by fo doing, he did kill them. After the verdict for the defendant on a demurrer, lord Mansfield, Mr. juftice Willes, and Mr. juttice Buller gave their opinions in favour of the defendant, by which the law is confirmed, "That starting a fox or a badger in your own grounds, and running it into your neighbour's, was not a trefpafs." 19. The following fimple and ea fy method for preventing hay, &c. from taking fire in the rick, has been communicated to the public as infallible, viz. Make two channels across the ground of brick or stone, about a foot wide and a foot deep, of the length and breadth of the ftavel of your intended rick, which will divide it into four quarters; fill up the quarters with faggots, boughs, or other materials; and put flabs over the tops of the channels, leaving an open space of about two feet in diameter in the center, where the channels meet, to ferve as a chimney, which is to be continued up through the rick, and be made in the ufual way by drawing up a basket or fack, stuffed, as the rick rifes in making; by which means the air from without palling freely through the channels below up the chimney, the foul air will be expelled, and the hay rendered fweet and good, though put together ever fo green. This method was practifed in Cornwall laft year with great fuccefs, during a very bad feafon; was then tried on a field of grafs, near Salisbury, which had only one day's drying; and has this feafon been practifed with the like fuccefs on a large rick in the fame neighbourhood. 26. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when twelve convicts received fentence of death, among whom was Samuel Burt, for the forgery of a banker's draught of 100l. who had been recommended to mercy by the jury, his conduct having evinced fome degree of infanity. On being asked the ufual queftion, "Why fentence of death fhould not be paffed upon him," he thus addreffed the recorder: "My lord, "I am too fenfible of the crime which I have committed, and for which I justly deferve to fuffer; my life I have forfeited, and with to refign it into the hands of him who gave it me. To give my reafons for this, would only fatisfy an idle curiofity; no one can feel a more fenfible heart-felt fatisfaction in the hopes of fhortly paffing into eternity, wherein, I truit, I fhall meet with great felicity. I have not the leaft detire to live, and as the jury and the court, on my trial, thought proper to recommend me to mercy if his majefty fhould, in confequence thereof, grant me a refpite, I here vow in the face of Heaven, that I will put an end to my own existence as foon as I can. It is death that I wish for, becaufe nothing but death can extricate me from the troubles in which my follies have involved me." When this prifoner had done fpeaking, the Recorder addressed him to the following purport: "Samuel Burt, as you appear to have still remaining on your mind fome impreffions of confcience, and a fenfe of the fubmiffion that you owe to your Creator, and of a future ftate of existence, I think it my duty to addrefs a few words to you in particular, on the melancholy fituation in which you now ftand happy fhould I be, if any thing I could fay to you, in your unhappy ftate, could ripen thofe feeds of confcience and of religion in your mind, into a proper fenfe of your duty to your Creator: you have expreffed a fubmiffion to the laws of your country, which is highly praife-worthy; but you muft not deceive yourself by imagining that a defire to die, ranks equally with that fubmiffion: it is the duty of thofe that have violated the laws, to fubmit with patience to the punishment of thofe laws; but it is a crime againff your country, to wish to throw away your own life; and this unhappy with appears but too plain from what you have now faid, as well as from fome circumftances on your trial, to have actuated you to the commilion of a capital offence. If that was the motive, you greatly deceive yourfelf, in fuppofing that it is no crime to ruth uncalled into the prefence of him that made you, for that is highly criminal in itfelf. Your Creator beit knows when you fhall have fulfilled the purposes of your exiflence, and he best knows when to call you out of this world; and it is therefore the highest de gree of prefumption in you to take that that fecret judgment to yourself, and to wish to throw away your life. It is that difpofition which I would earnestly pray to God to convert in your mind, before you are called hence; but if there are any circumstances in your cafe (which I cannot promife you there are) that fhould induce our gracious fovereign to mitigate your fentence, and prolong your exiftence, it is your duty to receive from God, and from him, the boon of life with gratitude, instead of peevishly throwing it away. It now remains for me to pronounce on you the fentence of the law, which your crimes have merited, and which it is your duty to fubmit to, but not to defire." Oxford, July 29. At our affizes came on to be tried before Mr. Baron Eyre, a caufe of great importance to the public in general, on a question, Whether a farmer who occafionally dealt in horfes was fubject to the bankrupt laws, as a trader? It was an action of trover, brought on the affignees of John Davis, a farmer of Whitchurch, in this county, against Mr. John Sherwood, of Purley, in the county of Berks, to recover back 2491. 18s. which he had received under an execution levied on the bankrupt's effects; when the jury, after an hour's confultation, brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs, whereby they established the trading, and gave the above fum in damages, together with full costs of fuir. Madrid, July 4. The king being defirous that the accounts given by different navigators of the Strait of Magellan fhould be examined and corrected, fome time ago caufed the frigate Santa Maria to be fitted out at Cadiz for that purpofe. The command of the veffel, as well as the care of executing the im portant commiffion, was vefted in Don Antonio Cordova y Lafo. The veflel failed on the 9th of last October, and after a series of bad weather, entered the Strait Jan. 1. Notwithstanding the difficulties and dangers of the expedition, Don Antonio perfectly fucceeded, and has brought home a chart of the Strait, in which all the capes, bays, promontories, and other remarkable objects on both coafts, are laid down, with their longitudes, latitudes, and refpective diftances, from aftronomical obfervations. On Feb. 5, he arrived at Port St. Jofeph, the most fouthern of the continent. They here found two bottles with an infcription, which they copied, containing an account of M. Bouganville's having paffed that Strait. The officers copied the infcription, and added another, containing an account of their own voyage, in fix different languages. D. Antonio then went in his boar, and directed his courfe for the channel of St. Barbe, three leagues from the above port, on the coaft of Tierra del Fuego, where they found the paffage which had long been conjectured to lead into the South Sea. After examining the western part of the Strait to Capes Lunes and Providence, which are eleven leagues diftant from those called the Piliars and Victoria, they returned to Port St. Joseph, whence they fet out on their return on the 11th of March, and arrived fafe at Cadiz on the 11th of laft month, after a voyage of eight months, three of which they paffed. in the Straits. In this long and dangerous voyage they lost only two men." Gottingen, July 25. The three youngest princes of Great Britain were entered of this univerfity on the 6th of this month, each of (C 2) them them accompanied by a governor, a preceptor, and a gentleman; their royal highneffes are lodged in one houfe, and the expences of their table fixed at 600 crowns per week, including two grand inftitution dinners, to which the profeffors and some students are invited. Profeffor Mayer teaches the princes the German language; Mr. Heyne inftructs them in Latin; the ecclefiaftic counfellor Lefs teaches them religion; and the counfellor Feder inftructs them in morality; these masters are rewarded by an extraordinary appointment of 1000 crowns per annum each. Philadelphia, April 15. The laws which our legiflature paffed laft year, laying an additional tonnage on British veffels, and impofing extra duties on merchandize imported in them, are now repealed; and all veffels have now full liberty to trade here on equal terms with thofe of the United States. New York, May 30. Col. Humphreys, lately arrived from France, has brought with him a number of elegant fwords, made agreeable to different refolves of congrefs, to be prefented to a number of gentlemen, who, by acts of heroifm, diftinguifhed themselves in the late revolution. 31. This month has been diftinguifhed by a very extraordinary circumftance in the conduct of his royal highnefs the prince of Wales, of which the following appear to be authentic particulars: the prince, finding his affairs embarraffed by the fmalinefs of his income, applied to his majesty for affiftance; affuring his majefty, that, if any part of his conduct was thought improper, he would, upon its being made known to him, alter the fame, and conform to his majesty's withes in every thing that was becoming a gentleman. The king ordered a fate of the prince's affairs to be laid before him. A ftate of the prince's debts was made out, amounting in the whole to about 230,000l. to which was added 24,00 1. for completing Carlton-houfe, making in the whole 250,000l which account was laid before his majefty. On the 4th inftant, in the evening lord Southampton received his majefty's anfwer, which was a direct and pofitive refufal. His royal highnefs, upon being informed of this anfwer, took his refolution to retire to a private ftation. In confequence of this determination in his highness, letters were on the 7th written to the gentlemen of his houfehold, ftating, that their fervices would for the prefent be difpenfed with. The conduct of lord Southampton, during the whole of the negociation, has been exceedingly hònourable and correct. The melfages which paffed between his majefty and the prince were all in writing, and the noble lord conducted the bufinefs in the most impartial manner. The four gentlemen whom his highnefs has chofen to retain in his household, and to whom the management of the funds to be fet apart for the payment of his debts is intrufted, are col. Hotham, col. Hulfe, col. Lake, and Henry Lyte, efq. Tutterfal received orders to go to Newmarket, and take inventories of the horfes which make up his royal highnefs's ftud, together with his carriages, &c. and to bring the whole to the hammer with all convenient fpeed; which was accordingly done on the 24th and 25th inftant, when the whole ftud, confifting of brood mares, horfes in training, yearling colts, yearling fillies, hunters and hacks, and coach coach horfes, fold for the fum of feven thoufand two hundred and twenty-five guineas. The grand rooms, the furniture, &c. of Carleton-houfe, are to be cafed, and the whole locked up, except two or three fmall apartments for his highnefs's ufe when he may occafionally come to town. . The expence of his royal highnefs has been chiefly confined to his building and to his ftud; the latter of which coft him 30,000l. per an num. The houfchold of the prince is now to be reduced from 25 to 5,000l. per annum; and it will a mount to this fum in confequence of his highness having fettled finall penfions on a number of old do. meftics, who depended upon him for fubfiftence. His ftables, inftead of 30,000l. will not now cost him more than 2,000l. per annum. His table, which was always managed with great economy, and which, notwithstanding his fuperb entertainments, never coft more than between 9 and 10,000l. per annum, will be now confined within 2 or 3,0col. The conduct of the royal father on the prefent occafion has been governed by the emergency of the times; that of the fon proves the felicity of a ready fubmiffion to the dictates of his fuperior. The former, being convinced that his fubjects were already fufficiently burthened by an unavoidable impofition of numerous taxes, was very naturally induced to advise his fon to adopt the most eligible plans of oeconomy relating to his expenditure. The latter, feeling the propriety of the admonition, has very readily acquiefced; and, in confequence, the various retrenchments in his household ellablishment have taken place. AUGUST. Huntingdon, Aug. 2. At our affizes on Monday, Jarvis Matcham was capitally convicted for the wilful murder of Benjamin Jones, drummer in the 49th regiment, on the 19th day of August 1780. He was executed this day. [See page 27.}' 2. This evening the following article appeared in a London Gazette Extraordinary. "St. James's, Auguft 2. "This morning, as his Majefty was alighting from his carriage, at the gate of the palace, a woman who was waiting there, under pre tence of prefenting a petition, ftruck at his majefty with a knife, but providentially his majesty received no injury. The woman was immedi ately taken into cuftody, and upon examination, appears to be infane.' The circumstances attending this alarming event are thus related; As the king was alighting from his poft-chariot, at the garden entrance of St. James's, the woman, who appeared very decently dreffed, in the act of prefenting a paper to his majefty, which he was receiving with great condefcenfion, ftruck a concealed knife at his breat, which his majesty happily avoided by drawing back. As the was making a fecond thrust, one of the yeomen caught her arm, and, at the fame inftant, one of the king's footmen wrenched the knife from her hand, The king, with great temper and fortitude exclaimed, "I am not hurt-take care of the poor woman do not hurt her," The fame day fhe underwent an examination before the privy council, when it appeared that her name was Margaret Nicholfon, daughter of George Nicholfon of Stockonupon-Tees; and that fhe had lived in feveral creditable services, P |