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'which he appealed, and the surcharge was affirmed.
Upon this, some altercation took place, and Muria
said, sneeringly. to Hawkins, o I know you came
from Abingdon " On the 27th of the cone month,
the Defendarit, Attwomf, came into the town of
Tewkesbury, leading a hone and cart, and two effi-
gies in the latter, with their becks to the hone, like
criminals leadirre to etneution ; they were both
dressed in black, with wooden heeds ; and a witness
dtecribed one nt them to be a very erring likeness
of Holland ; the neck was slet, and the whole per-
son bore a resemblance to the original. At that
momert, the church bells, which were muffled, toll-
i
ed a solemn knell. as If for a funeral. The proem-
sion moved slow!! on through the town, and col-
leted a very considerable mob. housing and shout.
ing at a great rate ; when they came opposite to
Holland's heuse, they set up a loud shout, stopped
for a time, and then proceeded to the river ; when
arrived there, after some further ceremonies, the
one effigy was thrown in the river ; and, while one
1 . party pelted it with stones. another tore the second
figure in pieces, all crying nut, "There go Hol-
land and Hawkins. the serchergers, we'll make
them ashamed of themselves." Immediately after
Chi% the church bells ring a merry peal, and thus
• the ceremony ended. In the course of the proces-
sion. one of the wooden heads fell off, and was re-
placed by the Defendant, Sa-h. It also appeared,
that Atwood. Sash, and [tickets, took en ;alive
part during the whole of the transatl.on ; the for-
mer sitting at the side of the cart during the pro-
cession.
Hollane, however, atmeared, on his evidence, sn
ignorant of die real business, that Is. stood at his
window while they stopped before his house. and
thought it the celebration of Gunpowder TICASON
and that the effigies were meant fcr Guy Fans.
The affidavits of the Defendants were then put
in, which stated, that they were applied to by a
person a little way fronsTeerkesbury, on the 2Gth, to
carry the effigies through the toss ri on the following
day ; they utiderstoed they were intended to renre-
pent two Volunteers, who had left their Corps, and
were expreed, to make them ashamed of themselves,
and to deter others from a like desertion. The Re-
ferkiritth Atwood sad Rickets, dcscribed them-
selves to be labouring men. with large families;
they had no intention whatever to create a 11.4 ,I
disturbance, aed were both quiet and inoffensive
Men.
Sash appeared to be a private in the North
Gloucester Militia, and had only his pay to support
aim.
The joint affidavits of several ireiebitents of
Tewkesbury. giving evidence of the glee, i eaceebl. ,
and general good condutf of these Defendants, were
also read.
1: Mr. Heti. aft, as Counsel for the Deendents, I
made a very feeling and impressive address in their
Isehalf, in mitigation of punishment ; pleading deer
- . of the tenor and nescleof of such an eel.
Mhs eye of the Legislature. The offeece they
• been guilty of, be prersed, was not of a V inlent
baud
e , re; st was not a felony, a upon the re-
•r
' innate or soy other great crime against morality.
The impotent a Magistrate spoke to them, they de-
aistedl and, as they were poor labouring men, wi'h
large families, he hoped the Court would consider
their situation. and ad towards them with teeny
sod comp-melon.
The Soesciros-Gmanee. on the part of the
trove.. thought that these Defendants had been put
into the best situation they could stand in, by the
prudence of their Advocate (Mr. Hellen), upon the
trial below, in not making any defence there for
t!,ern ; be regretted that they put in tkose affidavits
which had been just read, wherein they steted that
they had committed this outrage at the instigeticn
of a person whom they did not think proper to
name ; but who was well known to be Mann, to
whom they had lent themselves
lard Ir. ere SONOUGN said, that, AS he had been
screened, the Court could not heir any charge of
that nature.
The SOLICITOII.4INeII • L concluded, by ebserv.
hap he did net. by any means, wish or mean to ag-
gravate the ease.
Lord E LLLLL cement/ asked, should their punish-
ment be irritate] at Gloucester, would the Crown
take upon .t to send them down ?
Being answered in the affirmative. his Lordship
ordered that the Defendants should stand committed
foe the present, and be breught up again on Monday,
the 2.5 h instant.

Mr. Mae applied, in the matter of Robert
Prior, a bankrupt, for a writ of liokat Corpus, to
bring up the body of the Defendant. lie had
bits committed to Neweate on the certificate of the
Cennmissioners, direfied to a Magistrate, for not
surrendering himself in proper time, and not ren-
derieg an account of his eft-ea% under the statute of
the sth of Geo. 11. The Learned Counsel made
.several technical objettions to the certificate of the
Commissioners, on which the,Magistrate had granted
kis warrants the C..tunmissioners had merely signed
,their names to the certificate ; whereas, by the wit,
'Sink seals should have been also *Sled thereto, and
a !At description of by what authority, as Corn-
misiiniters of Bankrupts, or how otherwise, they
iasued,such certificate.—ltole granted.
We have mama to expect a very cla.sical trans-
lation of all Cicero's works, bona the sort eft pen of
CuselltllL•P.D.
Oh Tuesday, the Rev. Somaau H*lllWsi (011
the presentation or the Bis`.op) was induced to the
?Prebend of NetherbuTy EcclesiA, in Salisbury Ca-
thedral, vacant by the death of Dr. Dukllessour, of
Salisbury.
be races between the horses of the Stratford
Hunt. attralted a large company of sportsmen at
Warwick, on Wednesday se'nnight. The sweep-
stakes were wog, after a race of three most excel-
fent heats, by Mr. Lock Lev •s cheroot horse. beating
seven others. Mr Gi L 1.108 a r4D paid forfeit fur a
match of fifty guineas.
The sward which the gallant Nersost used when
he Lin Ilio !ilea arm, wai the same which Admiral
W I.ro L a bequeathed to him an hs death bed, scat-
ing. as a reason for the befiw st, that it was the sword
be carried when Ft- lost his arm its vanquishing the
enemies of his c,inntry.
General ENGLAND, who commands at Plymelath,
on Thursday, in General Orders, direeled that all
the Officers of the G: •in should wear black crape
jnund their arms and swords, in car-aphasia to the
itatnnory ef the late Lord Nsi.so • .

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH. NOT. it
Tlie information conVeyeal by a London print,
that the Eirroalst had passed Plymmith; on Friday,
for this port, with the body of Lord Nelson on
board, has kept a number of persons on the alert all
day. in expenation of her arrival, but she has not
yet appeared, notwithstanding the wind would
enable her El lay up channel these three Jays ; and
this morning it so shifted, that it would give two
points free
Sailed the Meteor and Wetly on a cruise. The
Illustrious, Eagle, and Setter, of 74 guns, will sail
in a few days for the station off Cadiz.
P. S. There is now a frigate in sight, supposed
to be the Eurualos, from Admiral Collingwood.
PLYMOUTH, NOV 11.
Came in the Des Alder, Redet, from Leghorn ;
Areirvir min of war, and the Sonia Alapritta frigate,
from a cruise. Sailed, the Melainpur frigate, on a
cruise. Wind S. E.
sutramess, NOV. 12.

A cnn•my for the Baltic is appointed to sail from
the Note, on the 18th inst.; and tine for the Elbe.
Weser, River Jande, and Tonningen, on the 21st
instant.

YAIIIMOUTIO, NOV. 11.

Yesterday, arrived the squadron un ler Rear-
Admiral Russel, and remain, with the Roebuck and
Center gun-brigs. Rear-Admirals Russel And
Douglas Ise:ng promoted to the rank of Vice-Ad-
mirals, im their flags this morning, under a sa-
lute fri
DEAL, NOV. 12.
Sa-I.•d the Di! prier sloop of war no a cruise.
Arrived in the Downs, Rear-Admirsl Sir Sidney
Smith, with the squadron under his command from
Dover Roads, and saluted the Right Km. Ad•
miral Lord Keith's flag, which was immediately re-
turned. Wind Southerly, blows hard.