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London, England, 1802-03-23 00:00:00

OCCASIONAL PAYMENTS.

Tfr E first additional head that occurs, is that which
relates to the establishment of the office of Secretary
of State for the War Department, which cormneneed
it-lithe year 1795, and. comprizes Contingencies; Sta-
tionary, Messengers, and Land-Tax of that Office.
The payments to Foreign Ministers on the signing
of Treaties and Conventions, which constitute the
next head, amounted to a very considerable sum, to-
tally distina from the item for which an estimate
was formed of " Presents to Foreign Ministers on
their return home." The article of Expel-ices for His
Majesty's Service, above referred to and explained,
is also new, except as far as it may be considered as
making an addition to the estimated charge of Ex-
tra Extraordinaries to Ministers at Foreign Courts.
The Law Charges i which, previous to the cbrn-
mencernent of the War, were on the average with-
in the estimates, have in most of the latter years
exceeded it to a very large amount.
The Messengers' Bills for Foreign Journies have
in most years, and particularly during the War, con-
siderably advanced. They will be found, till the
year ITO, contained under that head. From that
period, when an alteration took place in the estab-
lishment, they appear at first.partly, and at length
wholly, charged under the respective Offices of the
Secretaries of State. Some advance has also taken
in several years a very considerable one,
in the charge of Extra Extraordinaries to Foreign
[ Ministers.

The. Contingencies of the Offices of the Secre-
taries of State, both of the Foreign and • Home
Department (and which are particularly explained
in the Reilorts made by the Committee on Finance
in 1798) but particularly the former, have in-
.teased in a still higher proportion. Those of the
Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and
Plantations have also far exceeded the estimate,
even including in it-the whole sum applicable to the
Council at large.
The result of the whole of these increased 6:-
pences, as compared with the Estimate, which, in
part is obviously inapplicable to them, amounts to
the sum of 995,9081. IS. 4.1 d. ; to which must fur:
tiler be added, that of 51,6791. OS. r Id. being the
amount of warrants issued under this head, but not
yet paid, as stated,in the Account of Debt ; making
the total excess 1,047,5871. is.
Estimated Annual Charge .of His MAjEsTY's
CIVIL LIST, as laid before Parliament in 1786,
and actual Amount in 180 z :

The approved Bills of all
Tradesmen, Artificers and
Labourers, for any Articles Estimated
suppliel, or Work done for Ann. Charge
His Majesty's Service, in 1785.
Bills- Within -the Department k s. d.
- of the Lord Chamberlain 43,000 0 0
Ditto of the Lcird Steward - 50,00-o o o
Ditto of the Master of the Horse 23,000 0
Ditto of the IVlaster of the Robes 2,200 o o
Ditto of the Usher of the Court
of Exchequer - 1,200 0
Ditto of the Usher of the Re-
ceipt of ditto - 7,c00 o o
Ditto fcr Printing, &c. - 7,000 0 0
Ditto for Stationary for the
Ilouses of Lords and Com-
mons - - - - 2,8c0 o o
Ditto of the Tradesmen of the
'Young Princes

AElual
A rnount in

113 oz.

d. s.
78,541 60-._'
33,363 6 6
29,164 16 6
3,483 14 0

1,565 lo 4

19,432 12 9

3)561 3 1

11.000 0 0

147,200 o o
Increase in the above Departments in six-
teen years - - - -

219,112 9 34-

395,960 16 s
Aaual
Amount in
1802-
25,000 O o
10,003 0 0
70,668 13.1

Estimated Annual
Charge.
Foreign Sccret Service - . 25,000 0 0
Home Secret Service - 10,000 o o
Special Service & Royal Bounty 20,000 0 0
Secretary of State, foreign De-
partrnent, for Contingencies 2,600 o o 357000 o
Ditto ditto, Home Department 2,0w0 a o IS,aoo o o
Ditto ditto, War Department 5,000 0 0
To the Marquis of Salisbury, to be paid over to
the Physicians who attended His Majesty,
January 1790, 5,000 0 0
January 1792, 6,190 9 6

'rosy) 9 6
Expellees of the Princess of Wales's Journey
to England, - - -
Messrs. Duval and Co. for the expence of a
Picture for His Majesty, as a present to
General Paoli, - - - -
Ditto for the expence of two Swords, as pre.
sents to Lord Howe and General Mack, -
W. Baldwin, Esq. as a reward for
his advice as Counsel to the Se-
cretarka State, in 'Soo £1624 0
In dor 655 7 6
In xSo2 647 12

17102 19. o

72.6 s 0

Right Hon. T. Grenville, as a compensation
for the loss sustained by the loss of the Pro-

sefpine Frigate
Congress at Amiens, and Minister at Paris
To make up deficiency of Fees to-
wards the Salaries of ditierent Of-
ficesin x 737
in 1788
in 1789
in 1790
in 1791
in 179 s
in (193
in 1794
in 1795
in 1796
in 1797
in 1198
in 1799
in 1800
in 1801
in iBoz

1,73 t 10 6

4.403 4 p
3,403 4 0
5,119 8 8
4,411370
14 13 3
- 8
5,356 xt
4,579 18 3
2,653 8 3
7,195
8,455 17J0
10,142 16 5
7,692 6 4
4,263 11
25,9z6 14 0
1°,294 IS 3
2,957 8 7

335,611
7014

2826 12 0

1086 o 0
7 000 0 0

Expences of Windsor Great Park
Presents to Foreign Ministers :
in 1792 - 2,233 o 6
in 1793 - 6,559 3 6
in 1794 - 15,194 16 6
in 1795 - -8,570 5 0
in 1796 - 2,475 o 8
in 1797 - 9,730 15 0
in 099 - 5,354 lo 6
in 1800 - 23,733 14 5
in Igor - 13,621 19 e
in 18.2 • - 10,691 to 0

3
4

£01,765 £5 10
Demands on the Civil List on the sth of January
1 Soz, but not included in Charges for 1 891 :

SPECIAL SERVICE.

s. d.
Sir W. Hamilton, Ccmpensation for Losses 8,423 to, 0
Lord Whitworth, - ditto - - - 2,111 14 o
- [4 5 0
Mr. Wyndliain, - ditto -
Lord Minto, - ditto 3,658 t 23 o
Mr. Lock, - ditto - r,060 9 o
Mr. 1 o
.;abts s 0.1110 647 12 6

k.zo,lit 8 6

kE\T ASSIZES.-MAIDSTONE.

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TURNER V. UMFERRII.,

THE Counsel who opened this Cause stated, thAt
it was an 1-Vaion brought by the Plaintiff, a young
and tespeaable Attorney, against the Defendant, a
stout athletic Farmer, to recover damages fcr a mast
violent assault, committed in violation of the rights
of hospitality, and without the slightest cause or
pt-ovocation.

The Defendant had invited the Plaiotiff to his

house, in the neighbouthood of Blackheath, and upon
some sudden trivial dispute, he struck lure, present-
ed a loaded pistol to his breast, to terrify- him ; turn-
ed him out of doors at a very late hour of the night,
beat him unmercifully, threw hint down. ,ifid wan-

tonly rubbed him in the wet. The consequence of
this treatment was, the. Plaintiff caught 'a severe
cold and fever, which confined him. for several
months, and he had to pay his apothecary upwards
of aol. He hoped, in a case of !,o aggravated a
nature, the Jury would think it necessary to give
every exemplary damages.
Miss James, a young lady about eighteen years
of age, and sister-in-law to the Defendant, was
called to prove these faets on the part of the Plain-
tiff; and from her evidence, after she had been
cross-examined, the case, which had baen stated as
of so serious a nature, resolved itself into this—She
had been upon a visit to the Plaintiff's father, in
London, and 'was so pleased with her treatment,
and the attention of the Plaintiff, who was about
the age of twenty-one, that she in return invited
him down -to her brother's. .The young Lady
shoved an extreme partiality for the young Lawyer,
and they were never happy but in each other's com-
pany. They were accustomed to amuse themselves
by walking in the groves of Greenwich Park; and
upon a certain evening, after having been a long
time missed, they were found enjoying a itle.a-tete
in one of the vaults of Sir GRFGORY PAGE-TUR.
WEB'S decayed mansion.—Another source of amuse.
ment was reading Novels to each other ; and upon
the evening the supposed assault was committed,
the Defendant was preparing to go round his
grounds with a pistol in his hand, ag was his cus-
tom, when he heard the Plaintiff in his silter's bed-
chamber, reading a Novel. He immediately ex-
claimed to his wife—" What's that girl and boy
about in, the bed-room—they shan't he there."

In order to be sure of it, he ordered that Miss

should sleep in the same room with her sister
that night ; and he would take care to keep the
Lawyer from her. This determina►ion so affront_

ed the Plaintiff, that he resolved upon leaving
the house that instant. He went out, and Miss
James followed him, and insisted upon seeing him
safe over the Heath to some other house. She clung
round, and resisted every attempt of the Fanner to
get her away. The assault consisted in nothing
more than the struggle which was the consecloence of
her laying tight hold of the Plaintiff; no blow was
struck whatever ; on the contrary, the Defendant
wished the Plaintiff to come back, and sleep at his
house that night. •
The Surgeon was called to prove that the- De-
fendant had been seized with a cold and • fever, and
had paid him 201. He, however, admitted, that
passing an hour or two, in a damp vault, was as
likely as any, other cause to produce such a disorder.
The Counsel insisted the attempt to pull the young
Lady from the Plaintiif by force, was an ass:lult
which entitled.him to a verdict.

She Judge thought the contrary ; and that the. D-
efendant had aaed, like a prudent man. 1k even in-
timated, that hewould not have perhaps far exceeded
his authority, if he lAd given the Plaintiff a gentle
horse-whipping, and had locked the young Lady up
for a week, upon an allowance of bread and water.
Under his Lordship's direction, the Jury found a
verdid for the Defendant.

On Friday evening last a very extraordinary case
was brought before I:lief-toeAs BOND, Esq. and Sir
WILLIAM PARSONS, at the Public Office, Bow-
street, at the instigation of the Westminster Fire-
Office. Mr. BROWN, one of the Clerks belonging
to that Office, attended, and stared the parricu•ars,
which were nearly these :—That a house in Great
Pulteney-streer„ the building of which was insured
in that Office, had been on fire,in different parts se-
ven times in the course of three weeks. There was
every reason to believe-it had been wilfully done.
The landlord of the house in question was examin-
ed. He stated, that the first fire happened in the front
garret of his house ; it stirs first discovered by a man
who lodged in it, when he came home late at night,
and found the bed and furniture in flames, in conse-
quence of which he removed the next day ; the
damage done to the bed, &c. amounted to upwards of
three-pounds, which he, the landlord, recovered of the
British Fire-Office, where his goods were insured;
that the next fire happened in the same room, and
the third in the back-garret, both of which did
more damage than the first ; but that he did not
make any further application to the Office for these
• losses, alledging for a reason, that he was ashamed
to own that so many fires had taken place at his
house. He, however, admitted he had applied to
them for the damage done by the three last fires.
• All the fires, he said, seemed to have been com-
municated to the beds by a chemical preparation, as
on taking some of the ashes to a chemist, he declared
phosphorus had been used, and direded him to open
the windows, when soon after, the fire broke out
in three separate roon at the same time. In the
course of his whole evidence, he 'endeavoured to
fix the guilt on a woman who lodged in his house,
but had gone away after the two first fires : he and
his present lodgers and servants were interrogated,
but without saying any thing satisfadory towards
eluci&3ating this strange business. There cannot be
a doubt but it must have been done on purpose, as
Mr. Brown declared that men had been sent to sit
up in the house for several nights, and during their
stay nothing happened.
The Magistrates direded all the parties should
attend on a future day for a further investigation.
Last night a fire broke out in the cellar of Mr.
Harrison, Ludgate-hill, which burnt several pack.
ages, and threatened, for some time, to involve
the whole premises in flames, but fortunately it was
prevented from extending further by the exertions
Qf thc .setvanti and fic:rat..n.

A BILL

To require the Overseers of the Poor, to keep a
Register of the, several Children' who shall be
bound by them as Apprentices.

WILER EAS by an Mt, passed in the Forty-third
Year of the Reign of Queen ELTZASETH, intituted,
" An Aft for the Relief of the Poor,". the Over-
-seers of the Poor of every Parish, are enabled to.
bind out any poor Children as Apprentices, until
every such poor Male Child shall attain the age of
twenty-four years, and until every such Female
Child shall attain the age of twenty-one years, or
the time of her marriage :
And whereas it would tend to the benefit of the
Children so bound as Apprentices, if the Overseers
of the Popr were required to keep a Register of all
Children who shall be so bound ;
N. May it therefore please your MAJESTY, That it
may be enaaed ; and be it enaded by the KING'S
Most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and- Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, That the-Over-
seers of the Poor of • every Parish, Township, or
.Place, appointed by virtue of the said 'recited Al,
passed in - the Forty-third Year of the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth, shall, from and after the
day.of and they are hereby required to
provide and -keep a Book or Books, at the expence
of the said Parish, Township, or Place, and to enter
or cause to be entered therein, the Name of every
Child who shall be bound out by them respe&ively
as an Apprentice, together with the several other
particulars, in manner 'and form required by this
Al, according to the Schedule hereunto annexed ;
and every such entry, when made in tl►e said Regis-
ter, shall be produced and laid before the two Jus-
tices 'of the Peace who shall signify their assent to
the'lndenture of Apprenticeship of every such Child,
at the time when such Indenture shall be laid before
such Justices fur their assent, as required -by the
said recited AEI; and each entry in the said Regis-
ter shall, if approved of biy, such Justices, be signed
by them according to the form marked in the Sche-
dule hereunto annexed.

And be it further enatied, That if any Overseer
or Overseers of the Poor shall refuse -or neglea to
provide and
_keep ,such Book or -Books, or to make
such entry therein as before direaed, or shall de-
stroy, or permit, suffer, or- cause to be destroyed,
any such Book or Books, or shall wilfully and
knowingly obliterate, deface, or alter any such
entry, so that the same shall not-be a true entry of
the several particulars hereby required, or shall
wilfully and knowingly make a false entry therein,
or shall so permit, suffer or cause the same to •be
done, or shall not produce or lay such Book or
Books before such justices as aforesaid for their sig-
natures, or shall not deliver, or tender, or cause to,
be delivered or tendered, such Book or Books to
his, her, or their successor or successors in office,
within days after the appointment of such
successor or successors, or if any such successor or
successors shall refuse or neglea to receive the same
when offered or tendered to him or them by his or
their predecessor or predecessors in office, then and
in every such case, every such person so offending
shall for every such offence, on being conviEted
thereof before any two Justices of the Peace for the
County, City, or Place where the offence shall be
committed, on the oath of any credible witness
(which oatl, such Justices are hereby empowered
and required to administer), or on the voluntary
confession of-the party or parties, forfeit and pay
a sum not exceeding to be recovered by
distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the of-
fender or offenders, by warrant under the hands and
seals of the Justices before whom the offender or
offenders shall be convifted, and the overplus (if
any) of the money arising by such distress and sale,
shall be returned upon demand to the owner or ow-
ners of such goods and chattels, after deduaing the
costs and charges of making, keeping, and selling
such distress ; and such penalties and forfeitures
shall be applied for the use of the Poor of the Parish,
' Township, or Place, for which- such offender or of-
fenders shall be Overseer or Overseers ; and in case
sufficient distress cannot be found, or such penalties
and forfeitores shall not be paid forthwith, it shall
and may be lawful to and for such Justices, by
warrant ender their hands and seals, and they are
hereby required to every such offender to
the of the County, City, or Place where
the offence shall be committed, there to remain
with Out bail or Mainprize for any time not exceed-
ing pnless such penalties and forfeitures
shall be sooner paid and satisfied.
. And be it further enaaed, That it shall and may
be lawful for any Person.or Persons,. at all season.
able hours, to insped such Book or Books in the
hands of the said Overseer or Overseers, upon pay_.
ment of the sum of except in case of any of
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace acing iii.and for
the said. County, who shall be entitled at all such
times to inspea such Book gratis ; and every such
Book shall be -and be deemed to be sufficient evi-
dence in all Courts of Law whatsoever, in prOof of
the existence of such indentures, and also of the
several particulars specified in the said Register,
reipeding such Indentures, in case it shall be proved
to -the satisfaction of such Court that the said inden-
tures are lost; or have been destroyed.

.yoi
T 1 AND.

111Mat7RGlib MAR CH IS.

Tuesday there were zBo bolls of Oatmeal in
Edinburgh market, which sold from , t6s. 61 to
175..3d. per boll.—Retail prices per peck of best
Oatmeal, ts. ; second, is. id. There were
also 4 bolls of Pease and Barley Meal,- which sold
from x zs. to 135. 6d. pei boll; retail price -per
peck, tod. to is.
The prices of Oats- yesterday in Edinburgh mar-
ket were from- ifs. to t Bs.' per boll.
The Brilliant, a new brig belonging to Aber.
deen, loaded with potatoes, from Berwick for Booth
Ferry, in going pp the Humber on Friday last,
struck upon Whitton Sand, and alnlost instantly up-
set ; fortunately the people were all saved, and the
vessel arrived at Hull on Monday with loss of masts
and every thing upon deck. This Sand has of late
been found disastrous to shipping ; it is very steep,
and frequently shifts with strong tides.
On Friday last, and early on Saturday morning,
there were some very loud peals of thunder at Dum-
fries, preceded by vivid,flashes of lightning. Heavy
showers of hail fell at the same time.

On Thursday last, an alarming fire broke out in
the premises of Mr. George Hogarth, farmer at Sun-
laws Hill, in the neighbourhood of Kelso : Owing
to the violence of the wind, the barn-yard, barn,
byres, cottages, &c. were entirely consumed before
assistance could be procured.