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adequate .propf 4hl- net obtaits,v the verditt.
therefore, Gui/6 of stealing (AY, which did away
the capital part of the tharge.^

Ann Braun was charged with feloniously steel-
ing silver watch, value 404. the property of John
Joshua Morin, in the dwelling-house of John
Williams.

This charge was capitally laid,'and its investiga-
tion occupied the attentionOf the Court a conside.
table time. The evidence was along and elven'.
totes derail of circumstances, trifling in their nature,
anti inefficient as to the Proposed result., The Pri.
saner, it in effeert appeared,' pretended:to be deaf
and-dumb ; htit profoundly skilled in second sight,
and a super-natural foreknowledge of events by
these means, and as the seventh daughter of a se-
venth son, competent, infallibly, to cure certain' dis„
eases.' 'ln consequence of these communiCations;
she gained access to the aPaAments of the parties.
She, used a great deal of chalk in communicating
her advice, &c. and had occasion to' come to and
fro oftener than once. ShOrtly after the property
in question was missed, suspicion fell upon the'Pri-
sorter, and in some time afterwards she `was traced
to her apartments in an obscure court. She of
course denied any knowledge of the watch ; but it
appeared that, in the interval', she had recovered
the use of her oral member, 'spoke fluently, &c.

Upon the whole of the evidenFe in this case, the
Court did riot deem it adequate to bring the charge
home to the Prisoner ; and in''support of this deci.
sion, the Learned RE COR nF tt st.ited some weighty
reasons.---A verdid of Not Guilt) was in conse.
quence pronounced.
No other trial, worthy of remark, subsequently
took place.

ALCIJYMY.

WE have seen the Signor DAI.II and the Marquis
of CONY E NTT GL to at Paris,. who exeraCled a go ►t
deal of gold from several Noblemen, on.prerence
instruaing them in the grand secret ; but the mot
successful trick for the adept in alchymy which has
ever been played off, was by a.,:iperfortncr in,that
abstruse science, named Rose-oresix, who presented
himielf to lit.lswe Duke of Bout t. LoN, of the
House of Turrenne, who was Sirictejati Prince of
Sedan :—" You have nut (said she disciple of
Hermes) a fortune equal ,to. your
_liberality and
princely spirit :, I will render you, nsore.rich and
powerful than the• Emperor ; I can only stay two
ays in your States, as I anion a journey to Venice,
where lam obliged to attend the Grand Assembly
of the Brotherhood of the Golden Dragon ; only
keep the secret inviolably which I shall commpi•
sate to you, as few indeed, are,the chosen who are
worthy to be initiated in. the mysteries of tihe!sil-
ver fountain ; send and buy some lirharge at the
nearest apotheeary's, put it on the fire, and, when
in a state of fusion, throw a single grain of this
precious powder, which I now give you, into the,
crucible, and in less than a quarter of an hour you
will haite some gold produced from it," The Duke
tried the operation, and succeeded ) he 14peated it
three times with equal success, in presence, of the
Virtuptio, and' was fully convinced Of the, transmu.
eating powers of the 'powder. Having made three
ounces of gold with, three grains Of this extraor.
Binary
,composition, he had no doubt but he
could make t million of ounces with the same num-
her of grains, and he calculated, that in a week
he could make thirty.seven thousand • five .hun.
cited ounces. The adept had mo more of the
powder than. the very small quantity he gave
the DuketOr the experiment, and it required three
months' preparation to make it ; but as he was
to stay a considerable time at 'Venice, and was in
haste to joint the Brotherhood of the Golden Dragon
in that City, he would sendlthe Duke a quantity
of it.' The adept h'ad, previous to his visit to this
Nobleman, caused all the litharge in Sedan to be
bought up fin him ; he re-sold a part ()lit, mixed
with a few ounces orgold in powder,, to the apatite.
caries nearest en the Duke's palace. Being on the
point of going away, he recollefltiti he wanted
rent mineyto travel' with, having no powder left
make`moregOld, and being a man moderate in
his cxpcnces, he asked hut for twenty thousand
crowns toe,implete his journey. The Duke's line.
rarity would not permit him to ;offer so small a sum
for so great a benefit : he presented him with forty
thousand. The laboratory was set to work; all
the litharge in Sedan, and. as much as could he pro-
cured in a neighbouring city, was exhausted ; no
more gold could be made. The Professor of the
Hermetic Art was gone to join the Brotherhood,
and it may be easily guessed he never sent, 'nor
even made, the transmutating powder.

MANSTON-HOUSR.—Wrdriesday an, information
was exhibited before the LORD MAYOR and Si;
WILLIAM Let CHUM) upon the Wool Ml,,eharg.
ing a Mr. !frown with removing a bag of wool,
without affixing the word 44 Wool" on the outside
of the bag, according to Aft of. Parliament, This
wool was seized by theOfficera of the Customs, at
the Vine Inn, in Bishoesgate-street. Mr. Brown
stated, that he had received the wool from a stapler
at Wisbeach, and that the word was then on it ;
but upon examining the quality, it would not 141
him, and he had therefore sent it back to the Inn,
in order to its being conveyed to Wisbeach, 11e
said there was not the least intention of defrauding
the Revenue; and the mark must have been rubbed
out in removing by the waggon. The Magistrates
observed, that they were of (opinion no' fraud was
intended, but still Mr. Brown had made himself
amenable to the penalties of the Aft, so far as it re-
garded the fine. They thought he was entitled to
have the wool restored, but ►rust pay a penalty of
6d. per pound, making in the whole tol. which
was paid, the wail restored, and the compldint
dismissed.

According to the statement of Dr. Tins 11RDEtt,
in the Philosophical Transadtions for the year 1796,
the number of deaths in the very wild months of
lannary and February that year, were scarcely