She was cross-examined by Mr. Sylvefter for the profecution, but nothing could be inferred from her replies to invalidate her pofitive teftimony. George Wilfon, her husband, was the next witnefs called. He faid, he was groom to Mr. Kendal the Banker; that about four o'clock on the 11th of October, he was at Mr. Wood's houfe at Kentish town. He remembered the day because it was the day before Wood's feast, and Mrs. Wood was writing the cards. The fealt was to be on the 12th, and he faw "the 12th" on the cards. He remembered feeing Mrs. Saunders (the apothecary's wife) coming in, but could not tell what paffed. On his further examination, he faid, it was on the day before that be faw Mrs. Wood writing the cards-faid, he did not fee Mrs. Wood on that day at all. She was gone to London to buy fish.

Jane Saunders fworn: the faid, the well remembered the 11th of October. It was on a Monday, and the day before Wood's feaft; that about five, of a quarter after five, in the afternoon, as her husband and he were going to drink tea agd fpend the evening with Mr. Evans in Chapel-row, the called in at Wood's to pay a trifle the owed for rum, and while he was giving change for half a guinea, fhe took the liberty to tell him, that he might as well have employed her husband as Mr. Freke in his late illnels. He had juft before been round to Mr. Saunders for his cuftom. He had just taken the affembly room. She did not come out of any prejudice to Mr. Wood, the faid, but merely to do justice. She was fure of the day and the time, and fure of feeing Mr. Wood, and paying him the trifle the owed him. She was crois-examined till the grew angry. She was queftioned by countel about ftaying fo long in paying the trifle? Her aufwer was, Suppole fhe did? Her husband did not find fault, and fure he, the counfel, had no right to call her to account.

Walter Saunders, her husband, being sworn, confirmed his wife's evidence in every circumstance, and on his cross-examination was perfectly recollected.

Robert Ford, a working gardener, fworn. He recollected doing up the garden on the Monday before the fealt. He had finished about four o'clock, and he met Mr. Wood in the paffage, and told him, now his garden was ready for his company. He went into the kitchen, and while he was there heard a voice at the bar which he thought he knew. Says the boy, It is Mrs. Saunders come to pay my master her husband's fcore. He was cross-examined. Believed Wood had a great coat, but was not sure whether he had or no-Wood had been ill, but he did not know what was the matter with him.

Jofeph Moreton (a day labourer) being fworn, faid, He carried a bottle of ketchup to Mr. Wood's house on the 11th of October, faw and poke to Mr. Wood, and the clock truck five while he was in the tap-room.

Add to the above pofitive witnesses the teftimony of the following refpectable perions to kis character:

Richard Maux, Efq; brewer; Gregory Bate man, Elq; his landlord; Rev. Mr. Whitechurch, Mr. Parker, Mr. Pars, brandy-merchants; Mr.

Murrel, broker and appraiser; Mr. Broughton, fishmonger.

Prifoner Brown's Defence.

He was fo confcious of his innocence, that he would challenge all mankind to charge him with one difhoneft a&t; and he molt folemnly declared, he was not one of the perfons who committed the robbery with which he was charged. He trusted, that by the aid of Divine Providence, that guards the innocent, he should be able to prove to the fatisfaction of the court and jury, that on the day and at the time the profecutors charge the robbery to be committed, he was at his mother's house, and could not be one of the perfons who committed it.

Edward Green, fworn, faid, He had used the prifoner's mother's houfe, the fign ot the King'sArms in Chapel-ftreet, and did not fuppofe he had milled two nights thefe 20 years. He was there on the 11th of October, and well remembered feeing the prifoner at the bar there about five o'clock in the afternoon. He was positive to the hour and day. His conftant hour of going was about a quarter after five, and he well remembered feeing the young man fitting by the kitchen fire. He could not be mistaken in his perion, for he had known him ever fince he was born. Being asked, faid, he was a stay-maker, and lived at No. 40, Theobald's-Row.

Nelly Owen fworn. She lived with the prifoner's mother. She remembered the prifoner's being at home on the 11th of October, and that he went to bed early that night. He was rather a little toxicated, and went to bed before the club met. She was certain of the day, because they had a Lottery club which met that night, and the remembered his coming in about three in the afternoon that day when they had all dined, and having a red herring for his dinner. And his mother faid, He need not have a red herring to make him dry, he had had drink enough.

William Weft fworn: Knows the prifoner Brown well, and remembers drinking with him at his mother's houfe on the 11th of October in the afternoon. The witnefs came through the paflage in his way to the kitchen with a halfpenny worth of apples in his hand. He asked the prifoner, if he would eat an apple, and he knocked the apple out of his hand under the grate: this was about four o'clock. He was fure as to the time, because he went to fee what it was o'clock, to water his horfes; faid, he was hoftier to Mr. Farren, who rents ftables on the premises, and keeps horfes to let out. He did not know whether the prifoner hired horfes of Mr. Farren. He knew he did not hire one of him that day.

Mr. Baggeley, Mr. Duke, Mr. Lunn, were fworn to his character; and Mr. Garrow, counfel for the prifoners, faid, many more were ready if neceffary.

Judge Ashurst just observed, that as the jury had been attentive to every thing that had been fworn, he should not take up their time with recapitulating the evidence. He would only remark on the great fallibility there was in fwearing to the appearance of perions. Sir Thomas Davenport, who is a person of character and refpectability, was no doubt convinced in his own

mind that the prifoners were the perfons who robbed him; yet it must be owned there has been fufficient evidence to the contrary. The jury with one voice gave their verdict, Nor GUILTY.

At Stockport in Cheshire, about 7 o'clock in the morning of the 2d of December, one of the large refervoirs of water belonging to Mr. Davis's cotton-mills (near two acres in extent, and about four yards deep) burst its bank, and threw the whole neighbourhood into the utmoft confternation. Fortunately the water made its way through the doors and windows of the manufactory (two floors of which only gave way) or the whole pile of building must have been levelled with the ground. The water flowed in the ftreet with irresistible impetuofity. The cellars of many houses were inftantly filled, and the lower chambers of fome damaged to a very great degree. The burry and confufion of men, women, and children, endeavouring to fave themselves from the rapidity of the current, can hardly be deferibed. No lives were loft; and the whole damage is faid not to amount to more than 1000l.

Letters from the Isle of Man, where the last remains of old British honefly are ftill fuppofed to refide, take notice, as a rare inftance, that a house at the North end of the island had lately been robbed of 981. but that on the inhabitants of the neighbourhood being fummoned to appear, in a certain day, before a Jury of Enquiry, to clear themielves upon oath from the theft, the robbers, dreading to add perjury to the robbery, had fecretly restored the money, before the day appointed, to the place whence it was taken.

Jan 11. The Bishop of Ofnabruck's Patent of Creation, as Duke of York, in England, and Earl of Ulfter, in Ireland, with the Coronet, and other inûgnia of the Dukedom, has been fent to his Royal Highnels in Germany by an Hanoverian meffenger, who arrived at Hanover the 20th of Jaft month; and on the next day the Prince was complimented by the Nobility, Officers, &c. at his palace in the city of Hanover, on account of his new Creation.

15.] A new contrivance is executing at Leghorn, for fetting fix corn mills in motion at one time, by means of a very simple machine, with a balance fixed to it, which raifes the fea water, to 27 feet in height, and is charged for as many hours as they think proper. The inventor of this machine, which promifes the greatest advantages, is a foreiga Prieft, who is gene there to see one made after his own model.

25] The Lords of the Treafury have sent orders to the Commiffioners of the Customs, dated the 7th curt. to enquire into the particulars of the ilheit conveyance of live sheep and wool to the coaft of France; in confequence of which the Commiffioners have iflued orders on the above subject to the Officers of the wool department at the Cultom-Houfe, London, as well as at the feveral out ports. This is preparatory to bring ing a bill into Parliament early this feffion, for the more effectual prevention of smuggling sheep and woel out of the kingdom.

31.] Duparches were brought to Lord Sidney's office, from Lord Torrington at Bruffels, which mention that preliminaries of peace had

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OHN Holmes, efq; of the 66th regiment, to Mifs Margaret Dickfon, youngest daughter to the Dean of Down, and fifter to the Bishop of Down and Connor.-Dec. 22. Edward Philips, jun. efq; M. P. for the county of Somerlet, to Mifs Lockyer, eldest daughter of Thomas Lockyer, efq.-Jan. 2. By special licence, Sir Gregory Page Turner, Bart. to Mifs Howell.-6. Francis Henry Tyler, efq; to the hon. Mifs Roger, eldest daughter of Lord Teynham.-John Ellis, elq; to Mifs Parker, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Parker,-At Edy-Wefton, co. Rutland, Rev. Thomas Wintour, R. of Weftwell, co. Oxford, to Mrs. Hall, relict of the late Rev. Dr. Charles H. Dean of Bocking.

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ATELY, at Bath, aged near 50, Langhorne Burton, of Enderby, co. Linc. efq.-Ac Culworth, co. Northampton, in her 75th year, Lady D'Anvers.-William Pym, efq; of Little Wymondley, co. Herts, a lineal defcendant from the celebrated patriot.-At Beachworth, Surry, in his 63d year, the Rev. John Allen, M. Ä. vice-principal of Magdalen-hall, Oxford.-At Reading, Mr. Dancy, mafter of the Blue Pofts, Ruffell-treet, Covent-Garden. He was walking in Reading church-yard with his fon, a child of four years old, and fuddenly dropped down dead. His father and mother died within three days of each other, about a year ago, at his house in Ruffell-street.-Near Maidstone, in his 74th year, Mr. Geo. Turner. He had buried four wives, by all of whom he had issue, and was the reputed father of 47 children.-At Peterborough, Mrs. Amey Forfter, youngest daughter of John Forster, efq; formerly of that place, and brother of John Forster, D.D. rector of Elton, co. Huntingdon. Notwithstanding the had the misfortune to be deaf from her cradle, fhe had learned to read, to write perfectly well, and to converfe familiarly with her acquaintance.In the beginning of Oc tober laft, at Rome, the Marchioness of Accorambani, fifter to Sir William Murray, of Polmaife in Scotland.-At Annapolis, Maryland, after a long indifpofition, Sir Robert Eden, Bart. governor of that ftate previous to the late revolution.-Nov. 7. This morning the body of Capt. Richards, commander of the British packet Roebuck, was difcovered in the water, at New York, oppofite to where his fhip was moored. No marks of violence whatever appearing upon him, it was concluded by the coroner's inqueft that he had met an accidental death. His numerous focial and moral virtues had fo endeared him to the inhabitants of that city, that each individual appeared emulous to fhew every mark of

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retpe to his memory. The different British, Irish, and American fhips paid him due nautical honours, and his remains were followed by a very great concourfe of citizens.-Dec. 10. At Eaft Malling, Kent, aged 78, Thomas Hartley, M.A. R. of Winwick, Northamptonshire, author of many excellent difcourfes, a treatife on the Millennium, &c. 27. At Hackney, Mr. David de Caftro, forty-one years head reader to the Portuguefe Jew fynagogue in Bevis-Marks.-At Chelsea, much regretted, of a cancer in his mouth, Edward Wynne, Efq; Barrister at Law, eldest fon of the late Serjeant Wynne. This gentleman's knowledge and proficiency in polite literature could only be exceeded by his charity and benevolence. He printed (without his name), but did not publish, 66 A mifcellany, containing feveral law tracts," 8vo. 1765; Mr. W. published (anonymously allo), "Eunomus, or dialogues concerning the law and conftitution of England. With an effay on dialogue,” 4 vols. 8vo. 1774. In this elegant and truly Ciceronian work, Mr. W. with great learning and ingenuity, fupported the immenfe and complicated fabrick of the laws of this country. Dying a bachelor, his eftates, together with his houfe at Chelsea, and his very valuable library, collected chiefly by his father and himself, devolve to his brother, the Rev. Luttrell Wynne, of All Souls college, Oxford. -29. In his 89th year, at South Weald, Effex, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Parker. He was admitted of the Middle Temple, May 3, 1718, and called to the bar, in that fociety, June 19, 1724; on May 17, 1736, he received his Majetty's writ, commanding him to take upon him the degree of Serjeant at Law, and was fworn at the Chancery Bar, June 4, and the fame day a patent was fealed, and he was fworn King's Serjeant before Lord Chancellor Talbot. On July 7, 1738, a patent was fealed, conftituting hem one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, into which office he was worn before his great patron and friend Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. On April 21, 1740, a patent was fealed, conftituting him one of the Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas. On November 27, 1742, he received the honour of Knighthood, and on the 29th of the fame month a patent was fealed conftituting him Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. On the 21st of January, 1761,

his patent being renewed, he was again fworm into the Lord Chief Baron's Office, where he prefided longer than any of his predeceffors has ever done. He refigned his high office in November, 1772, full of years, integrity, and honour. And, as the laft diftinguishing mark of his fovereign's approbation and favour, for his long and faithful fervices, he was, on the 20th of the fame month, fworn one of his Majelty's moft honourable Privy Council. His remains were depofited in the family vault at Parkhall. Jas. 1. Aged 71, Mr. Richard Hillis, who, after forty years induftriously pursuing business, retired from it with honour and an excellent character. It would feem vain and oftentatious to relate the many benevolent and generous actions of the deceased; it will be only necessary to pay due attention to an authentic anecdote trans❤ mitted to us by a correfpondent of character :--At one period of his life, a contemporary, for whom he had contracted an intimate friendship, became diftreffed in his affairs; and at a meeting of the creditors, and investigating the cause, evidently appeared not to have originated from any fault of his own, but from his unavoidable. connections with others in bufiaefs. The deceafed acquainted them, that he had left his friend 1000l. in his will; but as 1000l. at that' moment would be of much more ufe than ten times the fum at his death, he begged leave to prefent him with two bank notes of 500l. each, an action rarely to be met with in the prefent day.-15. At Tendring-hall, Suffolk, Edward, fon of Adam Rowley. His death was occafioned by the following circumstance: he went to see a lady in Jermyn-ftreet, London, in whofe family was kept a little dog, which being interrupted by the child while it was feeding, flew at him, and bit his lip. His friends, having fome fufpicion that the dog was mad, went to Dr. Hunter, who recommended them to an eminent furgeon, who put a cauftic to the lip, and applied fuch medical treatment as was thought neceffary. A few days after, the child went on a vifit to fome friends at Boxford, in Suffolk, where he complained of illness and pain; a physician in the neighbourhood was fent for, but to no effect; he was feized with the hydrophobia, and died in 24 hours.-21. At his houfe in Bishopfgate-street, in his 75th year, Beeston Long, Efq.

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WEDNESDAY arrived the Friendship, Captain M'Adam, in 28 days from Philadelphia; by which veffel we have the American prints down to the 18th Dec. laft, from which the following extracts are made. Capt. M'Adam, relived a Liverpool vessel on his paffage, which had fuffered severely by feas breaking over her, and the people were aimoft famished, being five days without bread or water.

New York, Dec. 9. One of the first objects of the deliberation of congrefs, it is conjectured, will be the diflodgment of the British troops, which ftill, contrary to the treaty, infolently keep poffeffion of our frontier polts. And it is

expected that fome fpirited refolutions will be entered into for that purpose.

Extract of a Letter from Dr. Franklin, to the Prefident of Congrefs, dated Pally, Jan. 25, 1784.

"With refpect to the British court, we should, I think, be conftantly on our guard, and imprefs trongly on our minds, that though it has made peace with us, it is not in trath reconciled to us, but ftill flatters itself with hopes, that some change in the affairs of Europe, or fome difunion amongst ourselves, may afford them an opportunity of recovering their dominion, punishing those who have moft offended, and fecuring our future dependence. It is eafy to fee by the general terms of the ministerial newspapers (light things, in

deed,