The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-21 00:00:00

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Ben ton. tat. ; H. Bridges, Esq. ; James Land, Esq. ; H. P. Western, Isq. James Trotter, Esq.; Robert liankey, Esq. ; Edward Peppin. .Keq. ; John Kensington, Esq. ; Wm. Borraidale, Esq.; Jams Newsome, Esq. • Thos. Gaiteskell, Esq.; Thomas Lett, tn i Esq .; F. Young, Esq.; J. Spicer, Esq.; Joseph Bradley, ' . • and Peter Brondley, Esq. file Grand Jury having been sworn, the CHIEF BARON delivered his charge to tbe following effect : Gentlemen of the Grand Jory,—lt has been thought necessary to assemble us here, to inquire into offences of no ordinary mag nitude, of an common nature; and to chew his Royal Highness the Prim* Regent's ans ions care for the salvation of the coun try, it has also been thought necessary to appoint that Special Commission ander which we now men von. The persons into whose ;milt ear innocence you will have to inquire, I am sorry •to my. o htti that illustrious service the Navy and Marines, and it is rnit' painful to us, who are in the habit of see ing the woll-deferved thanks of the country so frequently bestowed span them, through the medium at the Legislature. sad of reading in the public prints daily instances of their Istrepidity sad courage to have reason to inquire into cares Bile the present. leis &circumstance event etsandation, however, when we consider how numerous no-body the class of peers to which the prisonen belnegetiosist of, that those oc -121910136 so seldom ocehr. Acquainted as I are with the Grand Jury of the County of Surrey, I should sot have felt. it neces vary to occupy your attention a minute, had it not been for the coadderatios, that the case is one to which perhaps your Wen thin had never been before directed. The prisoners are all charged with the same offence, therefore you will have but use fact to which to direct your attention, they are all indicted for High Teason. This is the highest *Owe which is known to oar law, became by it a whole people may be injured, a whole na tion reduced to a foreign yoke. Till the reign of Edward the Third this law was hut little defined, but that Prince, in the twenty-fifth of his reign, by an Act of Parliament, declared what acts were to he considered as nigh Treason; and that none but such as were then, or should in future he declared acts of High Treason by Act of Parliament, should hear that con struction. This Act of Parliament, a wise and wholesome NM it is, has continued to he our guide down to the present time. first three acts of Treason enumerated in this Act of Yareits. rnent .ore, first, to imagine or • loupriss the King's death ; the second, levying war against him ; and the third, which is that with which the prisms, is are charged, is adhering to the King's enemies. I crying war againsr the Crown consists of internal out rage and rebellion; but 'he .ffosime with which the prisoners are charged, viz. adhering to the King's enemies, that is, toting to subvert the monarchy by joining foreign enemies, is a still more enormous o ff ence than even levying war against him. For the first, as has been seen in the course of the century before last in this country, did, iu sonic instances, respect privue property, and after a course of years, the Government returned to its muss! farm; bubadhering to the King's enemies, aad aiding to overturn the Government, by the introduction of a foreign enemy, is to introduce a deprivation of all p ro p ert y , accom panied every insult which malice can invent. By the sta bile haw of the land, the offence must be distinctly set forth on the ladimment, and as the act charged against the prisoners is what is called an overt-act of treason it must he proved by at least three witisnees; but it will be snfficient that the collateral acts, such as proving a person to be born in the King's domi nions, &e. are proved h' one. The furnishing arms to the Kings enemies'; sending intelligence, tilthouga it may never reach the enemy; peruading firm to engage in schemes against the safety of the King 's Government, all these were considered as overt-nets. Although your atiention will not he called to that part of the Prisoners' case, it may not be imeirss to state, what will operate as an excuse for such acts as these: if ad hering to the King'- eitonies is done from fear of death, and the party proved that fact, and that he took the earliest opportunity to escape, that will be an excuse; lint he must prove that he did so. Ido not mean that he should prove he was every day, or every hour in danger of losing his life; but he must show he made the attempt to escape, so that the Jury may have room to presume he remained with the enemy againt his will; but ap prehended danger to property is no excuse. Nothing less than compulsion, or a well-founded apprehension of death, will ex cuse the act. It will be well that these circumstances should be known, that persons in the service of their country may know what it is their country expects of them, namely, that every thing but death is to he endured in the service, before they con sent in any way to aid or assist an enemy. Gentlemen, 'I have nothing more to state to you. I dismiss you with a hope that the Pnsonen will be enabled to make out such a justification of their conduct as will entitle them to an honourable acquittal from their country. The Jury then retired, and were absent about three hours, when they returned into Court, having found true bills against the following Prisoners, viz. Samuel hiacfariane ; James IFibbs ; Cornelius Parker ; Josiah Teaster ; Win. Coadle l altos Cannel; George Armstrong; Charles Bird; John Quigley ; Philip Lathey ; Noah Francis; John Smith ; aad John Tweedale. The CHIEF B tRON then addressed the Prisoners as follows: Patsossas ' —Bills of Indictment for High Treasoo have bees found against each of you by the Grand Jury g eopiesof which, together with lists of the Jury and witnesses, w il t be deferred to each of yaw. tin Monday, the 9d of Feb ruary, you will he called no to plead. If yon are now pre s sured with Attorney and Counsel, name them to the Court, and they will be ap pointed to you ; if not, they will be appointed at any time in the interval, by applying to the Jedge at chambers. The Prisoners all expressed a wish to consult their friends before they named any person. They then retired from the bar in the custody of Mr. Ives, and the Court adjourned to Monday, the 3d of February. On Thursday eveaing, about half-past seven o'clock, a stout man knocked at the door of Mr. Sydney's house, is Percy greet, Tottenbara-court-road. The servant and Mr. Sydney who th an c e l lo w t a h:l= l , Vhistniatiuwiehat ate ad fttifcd - in, sad losolatly dieting the door, dragged the Lady into the leek parlour, and presented a pistol or large knife to her bead, bat her terror soigrost she could net tell which, sod be, with the most wan_ imprecations and threats, demanded to know where the matey or valuable articles were in the house, The Lady, In great agitation, intreated Mm to spare her life, and take what property be how. On the assurance that be was not be interrupted in his carrying of the property, be ed to pack up what he dewed was the most valu..able. t r : c h e i: d going to the opposite side of the room, to where the Lady was, and stooping down to get at a think whica was uo der astable, the Lady took advantage of his position, ran to the street-door, threw it open, screamed. and gave an alarm of thieves, which brought several persons to her. The robber, of course, knew there was no chance of his escaping by the street, ran op stairs to the front garret, and, forcing down an iron bar from the window, got on the roof of the house. A person was sent to Marlhomugh-street Office, and Cragg and Marsden, two of the Officers, immediately came to the spot, and, with lighted flambeau:, searched the roofs of several houses from the top to the bottom of the street, but were not able to dud' the robber. A curious and hazardous performance took place at Dover, on the 24th ult. for a trifling weer. by 3 entlenian of the neigh- . bourhood, There is a shaft evea% red in !lover. from gnarmate street to the heights, comprising 110 steps, nearly perpendicular, and much resembling those in the Monument of London ; the gentleman's servant first led his master's horse up to the steps of the shaft, and to the astonishment of every person who followed him he then led the animal to the bottom ; after this the gentle man mounted, and arrived safe at the top of the shaft, in nearly a trot, by which he won the wager. Mr. Melton, of Gamshall, aged N. ailed on the Id instant, near Buckdrn, hunts. On his death-bed, he is mid to have expressed a wish that a favourite daughter, about 7 wears of age, should eater eternity with him. Although then apparently well, aw ful to relate, the day after her failer's decease she breathed bee last ! They were both interred at the same time in one grave. On Thumilay last, at Lynn, Mr. Lym Taylor. His death was occasioned by smoking a pipe. Some person in company, for a joke, put some gun-powder in the tobacco he was using; it of course exploded, and caused the fragments of the tobacco-pipe to enter ifs- roof of hi/ mouth. Instant death ensiled ! lie has lett tair.mm children to lament his lose. THE STATESMAN. OLD BAILEY. • --- Robert Leach was capitally indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Elizabeth Brock on the 16th inst. le the day time, no person being therein, and stealing a silk gown. The Prosecutrix, it appeared, kept a small grocer's shop in Cleveland-row, in the parish of St. Pancras,' tnid on the morning of the robbery she had spitted her house, the door of which she left locked, "for the purpose of going to Covent-garden-market. On her return she was informed that her house had been opened s and that the person who had commit ted the offence was in custody. She afterwards saw the Prisoner, who was seen to enter the shop by means of t. skeleton key, and in whose possession was found the silk gown in question. The facts of the charges being distinctly proved ) the Prisoner was found Guilty—Death. Mary Smooth was tried on an indictment, charg ing her with stealing sixteen silk handkerchiefs, va lue 51. privately, in the dwelling-house of Messrs. Flint and Kay, in the parish of St. Anne's, Soho. From the testimony of the witnesses examined in support of the prosecution, it appeared that the Pri soner, in company with another woman, went into the shop of the Prosecutors, who keep the haber dasher's shop, well known as Grafton-house, in IGrafton-street, Sobo, on the 30th of Dec. While one was making some trifling purchase, the Prisoner left the shop in so hurried a manner, that suspicions arose in the mind of the shopman, and on the other woman following he had the curiosity to go after them. On their reaching Newport-market, he stopped the Prisoner, and found in her possession several pieces of silk handkerchiefs. The other woman ran off, upon which the Prisone declared that she had re ceived the bundle from the woman who had ran away, and was not aware that she had been guilty of auy impropriety. Several persous bore testimony to the general good character of the Prisoner, who is a married woman of decent appearance, and appeared at the bar with an infant child in her arms. The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty of stealing, but not privately. Thomas Beard was indicted for stealing a five and a ten pound note, in the dwelling-house of John Wilkinson, LL. D. with whom he lived as servant. There were circumstances in the conduct of the Pri soner, which proved his contrition so forcibly, that the Prosecutor was induced not to prosecute him ca pitally, he was therefore only convicted of the simple larceny. John Radley was then tried on an indictment, charging him with burglariously breaking and enter ing the dwelling-house of William Camper, and steal ing therein 24 yards of carpeting. The Prosecutor stated, that he was a carpet manu facturer in Tottenham-court-road. On the evening of the 23d of December he heard his shop door open, and conceiving it to be his servant coming in, he took no notice of the circumstance. On looking to the shop, however, shortly afterwards, he saw the Pri soner walking out with a piece of carpet under his arm. He immediately followed and secured him. The Prosecutor said he could not swear the door was latched ; the capital part of the charge was therefore done away, and the Prisoner was found Guilty of stealing, but acquitted of the burglary. Richard Woodhatch was capitally convicted for being at large within this kingdom before the expire , tion of the term for which he had been ordered to be transported ; as were likewise Edward Jones, for a like offence; Philip Barnard, for stealing a pair of shoes, value 7s. the property of John Fraser, privately in his shop ; John Butler, for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Robert Lloyd, and stealing a quilt, three blankets, and other articles, his property, and several articles of wearing apparel, the property of Eliza Woodage ; Mary Carroll, for stealing three pieces of print, the property of James Lamming ; Thomas Hunt, for assaulting Margaret Raney on the King's highway, and taking from her person a 3s. token, a shawl, and two silk handkerchiefs, her pro perty. Bow-Svaxrr.—At a late hour on Saturday night, thirteen of the men who have uttered the forged cer tificates of their service in the Royal Navy, and de handed the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, in connection with Gawler the clerk, were brought be fore Mr. GRAHAM ) and admitted to hail, themselves in 501. each, and two sureties in 251. each. Some of their certificates stated them to have served longer in the navy than they were years old, others stated them to have served 18, 20, and 21 years, whereas they only served about four, five, and six years. The men appeared extremely penitent for what they had been led into, and hoped mercy wonld be shown 'theta. They prinelpafty reside in ebe neighbourhood of Spitalftelds, where Hopeton, the public-house agent, also iesides, who was connected with Gawler in procuring the wen. Gawler manufactured and got the forged certificates passed in the offices. Mr. Mar ter, the Solicitor to Greenwich Hospital, attended the proceedings. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—YestPrday Mary New bury, a girl, not more than 14 years old, and who had once before been convicted of smash, or, in other words, passing bad money, and suffered six months' imprisonment, was again indicted and found guilty of a similar offence, and sentenced to six more months' imprisonment ; and at the end, of that time, to give security for. her good behaviour for the next half-year.—Elizabeth Harmon was convicted under a late Act of Parliament, of uttering a flask note, with the word one engraved on a black ground, and the word 'peony in small letters following, knowing the same, with intent to defraud a baker, named Ri chards, of Red Lion-street, Spital-fields, of 20s. The Court sentenced her to six mouths' imprisonment in the House of Correction. HODRID BARDARITY.—On the night of Friday the 3d instant, between the hours of six and ten, _some wicked and malicious person or persons , of rather monsters inhuman shape, entered the stable r of Mr. Charles Storey, of Cross-tyke-head, parish of Stapleton, and savagely cut out the tongues of two valuable animals,—one of Abele a mare with foal. The wretched animals were: rendered totally incapable of chewing and semitones food.isasient for their sustenance. INTERESTING 'ACCOUNT OP WC FALL OF PART OF A HUGE MOUNTAIN; Burying Three Villages and Fifteen Hundred Persons . About five o'clock its the evening of the Sd of Septeraper, 1806, a large projection of the mountain of Romberg, Geneva, on the noel-east, gave way, and precipitated itself into this valley t and in less than four minutes completely overwhelmed three villages. The torrent of earth and stones was far more rapid than that of lava,and its effects as resistless and as terrible. The mountain in its descent carried trees, rocks, houses, every thing before it. The mass spread in every direction, so as to bury completely a space of charming country, more than three miles square. The force of the earth must have been prodigi ous, since it not only spread over the hollow of the valley, but even ascended far up the opposite side of the Rigi. The quan tity of earth, too, was enormous, since it left a considerable hill in what was before the centre of the vale. A portion of the falling mass was rolled into the lake of Lowertz, and it was calculated that a fifth part was filled up. Two little islands marked in this lake, were admired for their picturesqueness. — One of them was famous for the residence of two hermits, and the other for the remains of an ancient chateau, once belonging to the house of Hapsburgh. So large a body of water was raised and posited forward by the falling of such a mass into the lake, that the two islands, and the whole village of Seven, at the south ern extremity, were, fur a time, completely submerged by the pas sing of the swell. A large house in this village was lifted off its foundations and carried half a mile beyond its place. The hermits were absent.on a pilgrimage to the abbey of Einsidelu. The disastrous consequences of this event extend further than the loss of such a number of inhabitants in a canton of little popula tion. A fertile plain was at once converted into a barren tract of rocks and calcareous earth, and the former marks and boun daries of property obliterated. The main road from Art to Schweitz was completelytfilled up,lthe former channel of a large stream choked, and its course altered. The number of inhabi tants buried alive ender the ruins of this mountain was scarcely less than fifteen hundred. Some even estimated it as high as two thousand. Of these; a woman and two children were found alive, after having been several days under ground. They af firmed, that while they were thus entombed, they heard the cries of poor creatures who were perishing around them, for want of that succour which they were so happy as to receive.— ' It was about a week after the fall of the mountain,' says a per son who visited the spot, • that our route through Switzerland led us to visit this scene of desolation : and never can I forget the succession of melancholy views which presented themselves to our curiosity. In our way to it, w e landed at Art, a town si tuated at the southern extremity of the lake of Zug ; and we skirted along the western boundary of the ruins, by the side of Mount Rigi, toward the lake of Lowertz. From various points on our pamage,we had complete views of siich a scene of destrnct ion, as no words can adequately describe. Picture to yourself a rude mingled macs of earth mid stones, bristled with the shattered paws of wooden cottages, and with thousands of heavy trees, torn up by the roots, and projecting in every direction. In one part you might see a range of peasants' huts, which the torrent of earth had reached with just force enough to overthrow and tear in pieces, but without bringiag soil enough to cover them. In another wese mills broken to pieces by huge rocks, trans ported from tbe'top of the mountain, wh ch fell and were carried high up the opposite side of the ltigi. Large pools of water had formed themselves in different parts of the ruins, and many little streams, whose usual channels had been filled up, were bursting out in various places. Birds of prey, attracted by the smell of dead bodies, were hovering all about the valley. But the general impression made upon us by the sight of such au extent of dreo:a lion, connected, too, with the idea that hundreds of wretched crea tures were at that moment alive, burled under a mass of earth, and inaccessible to the cries and labours of their friends, was too horrible to be described or understood. As we travelled along the borders of the c r ess of ruined buildings, a poor peasant, wearing a countenance ghastly with woe, came op to as to beg a piece of money. He had three children buried in the ruins of a cottage, which he was endeavouring to clear away.— We proceeded, on our descent, eking the side of the Rigi, towards the half-buried village of Lowertz. Here we saw the poor curate, who is said to have been I spectator of the fall of the mountain. He saw the torrent of earth rushing towards his village, overwhelming half his people, and stopping just before his door ! What a situation ! He appeared, as we paned, to be superintending the labours of some of tke survivors, who were exploring the ruins of the place. A number of new-made graves, marked with a plain pine cross, showed where a few of the wretched victims of this catastrophe had beets just interred. Our coarse lay along the borders of the enchanting lake of Lowertz. The appearance of the slopes, on the eastern and southern sides, told us is bat the valley of Goldau was a few days since, smiling with varied vegetation, gay with villages and cottages, and bright with promises of autumnal plenty. 'file shores of this lake were covered with runts of huts, with hay, with furniture and clothes, which the vast swell of its waters had lodged on the banks. As we were walking mournfully along towards Schweitz, we met with the dead body of a wo man, which had been just found. It was stretched out on a board, and barely covered with a white cloth. Two mess pre ceded by a priest, were carrying it to a more decent burial. — We hoped that this sight would have concluded the horrors of this day's scenery, and that we should soon escape from every painful vestige of the calamity of Sehweitz. But we continued to find relics of ruined buildings for a league along the whole extent of the lake; and a little beyobd the two islands, men tioned above, wesaw, ing on the shore, the stiff body of a peasant, which had been washed up by the waves, and which two men were examining, to ascertain where he belonged.— Our guide instantly knew it to be one of the inhabitants of Gol den. But I will mention no more particulars. Some perhaps that have been related to me are not credible, and others which re credible are too painful." On Saturday night Nottingham Castle was at tempted to.be robbed; three viilians were seen at— tempting to enter the plate room of Mrs. Plumb, but on the alarm-bell being rung they fled. And on Tuesday night, a musket or pistol ball was fired through the window of Edward Watson, a labour ing man at Basford, but without doing any material mischief, than that of alarming the family. Tits Point CommtrrEc.—This Committee met yesterday, at one o'clock, according to appointment, and most of the Members were present. They did no material business, however, farther than making some preliminary arrangements. Sir M. Woon was nominated to the Chair, and directions were given for the attendanCe of several Churchwardens, from diferent parishes in the metropolis. They meet again to-morrow, at the same hour, when, we under stand, the state of the City Watch is to be inquired into, in corder to compare it with that of West minster. To prevent chimneys smoking, a Correspondent annanmeannia that the following hints be attended to in erecting them :—The height of the mantle ms 4 .1104 exceed one-third the height of the room— =and breast to be carried perfectly upright, at to the ceiling, and then the tarn to be as easy mad •gradaal as possible--lot the jambs , from the hearth to the mantle describe a curve ;. and the lower patter the mode to bee broad horizontal plane—tbe distaste frees the inside of the breast to the back on each aided the thmst to be from 10 to 14 or 16 according to the size of the chimney. It t - beau , Mloplhhieds that 'reducing smokey above,, will seldom fail of haring the desired THEATRICAL ROBBERT.—The money-taker at the gallery-door of the Sans Pareil Theatre, was robteq on Friday night of the first price receipts in the fol. lowing manner :—A man, dressed in the habit of a sailor, with a woman, came early to inquire for half.' price and remained waiting ; and while the money taker turned his back in the box on some trifling siness, the drawer was opened, and the bowl, con. tanning fourteen or fifteen pounds iu silver, stolen. The thieves escaped, and have not yet been disco. vered. This should act as a caution to other places of public amusement. A numerous gang of notorious pickpockets we re busily engaged on Saturday, in the neighbourhood of the Strand and Cockepur-street. On Friday evening last, about a quarter before twelve o'clock, as a female servant at Mrs. Thorpe s i 18, Foley-place, was going into the garden behind the house, she perceived a man who made up to her as quick as possible, she ran into the house, flung to the door, and by her screams alarmed the family, wh o threw up the windows, and called for assistance ; the watchmen came immediately to the spot, hut re fused to go into the house, saying, that as the roh. hers were no doubt armed, they did not choose to risk their lives, though by the screams of the servant (who was then in hysterics) it was thought she wa s being murdered. After a quarter of an hour had elapsed, five watchmen and others entered the house, and on searching the premises, it was ascertained the villain or villains had escaped over the wall, at the bottom of the garden, to the adjoining ones., A few days ago, the passengers in a Yarmouth coach going from the metropolis, were stopped at the toll-gate, near Colchester, and on inquiring the cause of delay, were informed that they had travelled the last stage, nine miles (through Kelvedon), without coachman or guard. PUGILISM.—On Saturday morning last, a pitched battle was fought in an inclosed ground, at Mile Ead Old 'fowl', between two powerful strong young men, the one a gunsmith, of the name of David Jones ; and Dirk Edwards, a dyer, for 51. a-sith. The comhatants met sit h their seconds, at the place appointed, at seven o'clock, when, after a ring bell; formed, they set too nit!' great spirit and resolu. tion. The gunsmith came of victor, the latter not being able to see or stand. They were both very shockingly bruised, anti were conveyed to their r• spective habitations by their friends, in two hackney. coaches. An eminent manufacturer of Leghorn plait f*,. hats has applied to Government to grant him 3orAi acres of laud, lying waste . ou Bagshot Beath, fors few years, without any fine, and afterwards at an in• creasing rent, according to the improvement of tin soil. Ile proposes raising on the land, in straw alone, what would occasion '20,0001. to be expentleil annually, for the employment of poor children, some thousands of whom might be thus employed from seven years old till they were old enough top out as servants. In confirmation of the extraenli. nary profit derived from this manufacture, he stat..., that the straw plait nets upwards of t3l. sterlingper pound weight. The Mayor of Vivey, in France, who is 78 year, of age, in walking last month through his woods, cru attacked by a wolf, which, after a severe couteit, during which he was dragged on the ground, be kill. ed. The carcase of the animal weighed IVA. Three Russian Tombs have bee►► discovered at tla •illage of Crems, upon the borders of the Rhine, which, from the arms and from more than 200 rneda s found in them, were supposed to have contained the ashes of some warriors. . Superstition appears to be rapidly extending empire in Germany. The wife of a citizen at Pre , . burg, who belonged to one of the new sects, having been twice delivered of a still-born child, conceived, says a foreign journal, that she was an object of Ifi• 'vine displeasure, and determined to destroy bersid She spent three days and three nights in confirm' prayer and great anguish, and having, at the expira• tion of that time, made a large fire in the oven, tri• der pretence of dry lug some new wood, she ow., and threw herself into it. Nest morning, when her husband sought her, he found her remains in even, her augers still grasping the wire with she had fastened the mouth of it. ATTEMPT AT ROCBERY.—Yesterday morain; Colonel Christie, of St. James's-street, near Bea• Ingham-gate, was alarMed by a noise in the rear of his house. He jumped out of bed, and, on opening the window-shutters, he perceived a man standing is the garden. He went back to his room for some itr , arms, and, on his return to the window, the Dial he had seen was making his escape over the *A when he fired at him, but n ithout effect, ac he sp parently made his escape unhurt. MYSTERIOUS CIRGUIasTANCE.--A few days ago, l as Mr. Joseph Sanderson, of Moss-side, Abbey• holine, was pulling down part of a wall, in makig some alterations in his house, —to his utter astonist• meat he discovered, built up in the wall, the shelN ton of a full-grown child ; which must have raw' ed there for 30 years at least. SOOTCII Mlt.t.r.res Wharf. Pilot (Sanderson), Leith Trusty (liallangall), Leith Dow'e'r Wharf. Swift (Stark). Montrose Matchless (Baldwin), Leith Omahurgh (Wiiilart), Dundee Alert (M. 1)onald), Inverness LEITH and BERWICK Wharf. London and Berwick ming), Leith Caledonia (Nisbett), do. HIGH WATER AT LOUD Morning, SO minutes after 6 SMACK: 16 Jan. 19 Sails. 23 Jan. -- 4,1 A. M. - S. A - 34 1. N, A. M. - R. A. St% - M - 44, LI AA iON BRI Evening. TUTS DAY 66 minutes after RI RTIIS. OnTia y last, at Knightsbridge. the Lady of J. WeLb daughter. On the Sd inst. in Portland-place, Mrs. Henry Wortley. daughter. MARRIED. 11 Lately, William Chalmers, Esq. of Newington, to,Jatte, daughter of A, Smith, Faq. DIED. Oa the 17th ind. at Stoke Newington, Mn. M. Netbringw On Saturday latt, Mr. Joha Purkig. Chancery-lane, i 4 69th year of his age. At Branford, os the 19th wit. Mrs. Mary Sherwa ll, Weetoo-greeth Surrey. tv LONDON Prieted and Published by co. Lo,ux, STATIMAX Orrscr, 87, Fleet-street. :