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LAN' INTELLIGENCE.
Cfltlft r licisc;•:•BKNcif, WcSTYIN 1411./ 2.

JUDGMENTS.
THE Km° o. ROBERT ►AiIINOIIAM, ESQ. and JOHN

ET) WA IDS.

The Defendants in this case were brought up for
judgment
Mr. JusticeGeose—" You, Robert Passingham '
and John Edwards, stand charged with a most
wicked and malicious conspiracy, against George
Townsend Forester, Esq. in order to compel him to
make a large separate allowance tenon his wife, who
was living separate and apart from him ; of writing
scandalous and malicious letters ; and, combining
with one William Collier, did prefer a malicious
and abominable charge before 1 Magistrate of this
county, against the said G. T. Forester, in order to
ruin his reputation; and you, Robert Pessingham,
stand further charged, with having seduced and
committed adultery, with Anne, the wife of the
said G. T. Forester. Of these charges you have
been found galley, by a jury of lour country ; and
now stand convicted of one of the most vile and di-
abolical crimes which I have ever heard of. Ills
Lordship, and the Learned Counsel have sot me the
example, in not repeating the evide:,c..! upoe your
trial, too shocking for decency to listen to. Howe-
ever, we have each of us read Cie whole of it, to
enable us to coasider what punishment we should
adjudge you. These charges have been fully proved,
by the most unsuspicious of all eeidence, the Ma-
gistrate from Worcester, and the two Magistrates
of Middlesex. In you, Robert Pessinghern, we.
find a sinner of great magnitude ; and, to use your
own language, " the villain who would seduce hie
friend's wife, deceives no better, than to be deli.
vered into the hand, of the executioner." What
must be your case then, who, while admitted under
the roof of your friend, as a mart least likely to be
sitspeCied, seduced the affeetions of his wife; and
then you say, he threw hi, wife into the arms of
an adulterer. His charatter was unblemished in
every respes, till you painted your poisoned arrows
at his head. if one man can be more wicked than
:Mother, it is he who seeks to rob the husband of his
property, in order to sepport the wife in adultery.
You. have added to all this, subornation of perjury ;
and it is a convincing proof, bow easily men are led
from the commission of one crime, to the commis-
sion of another ; from the subornation of one per-
jury, to the subornation of another ; to seduce the
wife of the friend from the arms of her husband, co
violate her marriage vow. 'faking this conspiracy
in all its parts, the itetion has been lust or avarice
by the one, and premeditated malice by the other ;
sad the scene displays floe of the blackest conspira-
cies, which, as an individual, I have ever remem-
bered in those times to have disgrace 1 the records.of
any Court. In mitigation of this offence, you have
filed affidavits, stating you to be a men of the strict-
est honourable principles ; if, to eeduce the wife of
a friend, and then form a conspiracy, that went
nearly to affeet the husband's life—if this is to be
called honourable, what are We to think ? Men
ought to consider well. before they venture to give
such dbstraft ers to the conspirator and at:lnhere, !
Some men may, perhaps, have the idea, that to de-
bauch your friend's wife is no crime; but let those
men look to it. In weighing and comparing the aeterS
in this conspiracy, you, John Edwards, if possible,
are the worst; while the other was aCtuated by mo-
tives of lust or avarice, or both combined, you aged
from motives of the blackest malice, from the mo-
ment a commission of bankruptcy had been taken
out against you. Wizen we are desired to take into
consideration your unhappy family, we cannot hut
ieel for tlie.n ; but you should have considered this,
before you committed those abominable offences.
Your disgrace must fall heavy upon the woman who
has the misfortune to be united to you, ant your
children can never obliterate it ; but it will be a
wholesome exempla to your sons, to avoid such
prteffices. In considering your sentence, the Court
was inclined to pronounce one of the most ignomi-
nious punisemeats upon you (t..e pillory), but
paused, lest the public indignation against you
should he so much excited, as to induce the bye-
standers to more than execute the purposes of the
law; under all the circumstances, therefore, which
pa ,sed in this atrocious case, we do order and ad-
jedge, that you, and each of you, be imprisoned
in is Majesty's gaol of Newgate, for rte space of
three years."
THE KING w. 1/. W. RI. AGDGN and JOHN BUDD.
Mr. Justice Gaon, having admonished these De-
fendants in a most pathetic and feeling address, pro-
nouoced the sentence of the Court : That they
should each be committed to the custody of the
Marshal of the King's Marshalsea, fur the space of
six calendar months ; the Deteadant Biagio:3n to
find security for bis good behaviour tor the term of
three years, himself its 5001. and two sureties in
2501. each.

Expence of fitting up Westminster for the Im-
peAchment of Mr. HAsrtmos, extrAdeci from the
JournAls of the House nt Commons.

For Erecting the Cnart in Weitniinst-t Hall L 3044 11 7
Fur Furuisning and Apparatiug the said Court 714 9 61

Whitehall, Treasury Chamber, May 2, 1794. L 3758 15 11
The Hun. WILLIAM MADLE, of Paninure, i, re-
turned Member of Parliament for the Shire of For-
far, in the room of Sir Dario CA aurora, Bart.
deceased.
The Argo, Mitts, from Jamaica, is arrived at
Liverpool. She parted from the fleet two days
after leaving Kingston, and has not since heard of
them.
the Amelia, HILL ; and the Norpk, PARKER.
from Jamaica, for London (two of the fleet),
have put back to Port Antonio; the Captain of
the former having jumped over board, the latter
leaked.
On Thursday the I Ith inst. the St. James's Vo-
lunteers muster in Piccadilly, and proceed from
thence in cars to Blackheath, for field exercise, and
afterwards dine at the Bull, Shooter's-hi 1.
The LORD MAYOR ordered the price of bread,
yesterday, to be continued the ‘Allle as last week,
viz. Is. 2d, the quartern loaf, wheaten, and Is. Old.

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household.
The Prisoners in the several gaols in the City of
London and county of Middlesex, charged on sus-
picion of felonies, will be removed to Newgate, in
order to take their trials at the ensuing Old Bailey
Session, which commences the Ithh itatent•

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Yesterday the Right ;Hoe. the LB.) MA •:oit
went down to Greenwich in the City State Barge.
attended by the Recorder, Siieliffs, several Alder-
men and Gentlemen, with the usual City Officers,
to review the Corps of liarbeur Marine V( luateery
under the nommaud of Capt. Jose .it A y masa
Ssow. The men Assembled at an early hour, ttrlst,
with their respective officers, went on hoard L%
large boats, aimed with 18 pound cavatinades. Ti ...is;
London schooner, of If; guns, led the.cua of iitis ,
small scoadron, each boat havin2; ,a rlistingtliaOrift: ,
flag. On his Lordship's ember itasikat aßlackwall,,thei .
flotilla cheered and saluted him with IS guns, Alit : .' 1
kept in the wake of the city barge in very excellent. "
order, until its arrival at Greenv, ieh. The oft ers
and men, having again cheered, his Lordship. dis-
embayked, and marched with their pikes into G.eene
Rich Park, wi,ere, after performing a varitty.of
marteavres iviiii the pike and ',road sword, his tend;
ship was ple..sed to express the high ‘atistaction be
felt at the excellent appearance of the Carps. 14,
Lordship at the same time ob,erved. thAt from ;Oh
services they had already rendered their countrj,aht
affording protef.tion to the port of band* in se,
many imtancec, he had not the Imalleit douln bpi.,
that they would continue to merit the thank.sof,tht,
nation, and the city of London irA particular.

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Itif:LAN CH01.7 ACC! DENT.
A melancholy and most distressing circumstance.
occurred at Newhaven, near Lewes, on Wednesday.,
last. About f rur in the afternoon, as 'sir. T. wy;
mai k, son of Mr. Wymark, brewer ; M. evipla.
cooper ; Messrs. Ric:lay.' and Thomas
theis; two boys named Balkham, also 'ars.t.4tsf.
and a soldier of the Welch Fusileers. their essis:an:s
were in a small boat off the harbour of the ahn-:e
plac-, and about to amuse themselves by casting for
mullets, the cork that stopped the aper:ure or hole-
the bottom of the boat, flew out,an I let in a consider-
able quantity of water; this caused great confusimit
amongst them, and the management of ta.,eir Krim %.46
in consequence left to chance, which unforrisatelf
reeled her broadskle to a coming wave. that me, wal
terri6e swell. and in an instant overwhelmed Ler;
Mr. T. Howell, to escape the danger. which he p,
ceived before the boat went down, jumped item her
gunwhale, eight or nine feet on a hsr of beach. bet
it gave way. and consigned him to the deep. Mr.
Wymark and ‘lr.Cripps sunk to list no mote. The
soldier, front his ability so sviaild have saved
himself without much difflcuity, but for his humane
efforts to save the two boys, whosn he wired, ime
tinier each arm, and thus encumbered. corn'a:ed
the waves for some time, but was at length aa:ed
to abandon the elder boy to his fate, Mat he might
redouble his exertions to preserve his brother. and
this he did by stemming the tide. and in .kit g cane
siderable advances towards the shore, al, oar be.-
yond credibility, but in vain, for his etre:grit • eiog
now quite exhausted, he was compelled to yield him
up a YlCilin to the mereil.es element, and must hiaar.
self inevitably have perished, had not • b
which a lad named Waters. who wisnessed.the ac-
cident, put off to his assistance, arrived just in time
to save his life; as it did that of Mr. it. Hemel!,
who had all this time sustained himself upon an oar.
When taken into the boat, he was to all apFearance
dead; but, on being placed across one of the secs,
he vomited up a considerable portion of water, and
:hewed syinpasms of life. He was towed to shore
as fist as possible, and put to bed, where he Ity in
a doubtfql state till the nest morning, but is now
perfealy recovered. The r‘ ungest boy was only
nine years of age. Ili: body has been since picked
up, but ncitUel oithe other lour has been yet /quad.
Th- Derbyshire Militia were last week encam ed
alQna the Sussex coast, to work on the Mart it,
T ower.., which are there meting.
An English Gentleman, who has been .detained
in France since the breaking nett of the war, d_
his escape from Parisi in the month of Ma
arrived in London a few days since. He his drawn
up a Giallol account of the Fresent rate of the
French People, strid.of France, under the despot-
ism of 13,14•PAILTE. which :le is about to pehlish ;
and which cannot tail to be read with interest from
one end of Great Britain to the other.
For two years has Boulogne proved the great
town foe concentrating the em my's force, wherewith
to invade this count: v ; to such a scene the public
attention cannot but be anxi usly direttesi, and to
see it exhibited in all its points and hearings by a
full, accurate, and clear delineation of its scity, port.
harbour, forts, encampments, flotilla, acc. must me-
rit the special information of every British filiieLei ;
for a very satisfaCtory attainment of this interesting
knowledge, the magnificent Panorama of Itoolo,;ne.
now exhibiting at the Great Room, Spring Gardens.
will be found a most highly finished and faithful ex-
hibition of a spot that is making so much noise in
the world.
Encreasing attraiftion, if we may judge from the
very crowded audiences of each evening, attends
imegen, Prince., of Rritoin, a; the ROYAL Circus,
aid the boxes which are filled with the first classes,
are unanimous in applause ; indeed,a produZtion
hat seldom appeared at any of oar Summer I' he.
atres with so happy an union of splendour. cxcelleot
music, and scenes full of spirit, and impressive si-
tuations. This produSion, and other entertain-
meats of real merit complete an evening of much
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gratification. Amc ne
quinade of A 'ft gid
manship ; amidst a him.
abilities : and the natant .._
Comattia sat chit H.upsicord,
tree.

;tur these, the pleasing Her It.
d Tale ;—very esceaMmt Horses
hich M A KLIN SLeW I sJpersue
oferit Miss sir.ging aid
aipsicord, deserve pastissales