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This Day was published, in 2 Vols. 4t0., price 3s. 3s.
LIFE of the RIGHT !lON. WILLIAN
. - :. PITT, to Febiunry 1793.
13y GEORGE TpNt LINE, D. D., Bishop of Winchester.
Ps iiiYed for JOnN M titnutr;' Albemarle Street.

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SELECT BRITISH DIVINES-PART II
completing Bishop Beveridge's Private Thoughts
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THE DUKE OF ATHOL.-At the Circuit Court
of Justiciary at Perth, on Saturday, the 14th in-
stant, James Murry was brought to the bar, ac-
cused of writing . threatening lettert. to the Duke
of Athol. By the indictment it appeared that
in the month of July, 1820, the prisoner had
written to his Grace, offering to make known, in
a private conversation, a conspiracy, in which the
Duke, as
,Lord-lieutenant of the county, was ma-
terially interested. His Grace accordingly met
him in the porter's lodge at Dunkeld, when the
prisoner presented him with a letter, in which he
stated that he had claims upon the estate of Soil.;
nary, now the property of the Duke; and that
unless his Grace would instantly, give• Mtn the
sum of 5,0001., or a check upon his banker for
that amount, his life should pay the forfeit. In
the letter he stated that he would allow five
minutes for consideration ; and that if the Duke
did not within that space Comply with his de-
mand, the prisoner had two pistols in his posses-
sion, with the one of which he would blow his
Grace's brains out,. and kith the othei his own,
hein4 determined not to survive the want of his
property, By the manly and decisive conduct
of his Grace, it appeared that the prisoner's at-
tempt was frustrated, and his person .secured;
The prisoner, who is a tall elderly looking
Mad, pleaded. guilty... Mr. Urquhart, couns'l
for the panel, urged,: in alleviation of the
crime, the obvious defect of intellect which
it implied, and endeavoured to show that there,
was no serious intention "ou the part of the prisoner
to commit murder, who never doubted that he ;
would accompl'sh his object by threats aione.---
The jury fotad the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to seven years transportation.

Above forty skeltons have within the laSt fort-
night been drfg up on. the Sussex Downs, by flint
diggers ; no doubt, part of the slain in the battle
'that was fon tit het'Ween King Cltxßy tht
ThirU atill his Bterbit's in ht. •yvht 1464.

PAHLIAMENTARY PAI%RS.

THE LONGITUDE.

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Ist and 24 Geo. W. cap. H. An Act to amend an Act of
the Fifty-eighth Year of his late Majesty, for, more efilec-
tuAlly.discovering the Longitude at -Sea, and encouraging
Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlan-,
tic: and Pacifie Oceans, and to approach the Northern
Pole. [23tl February; 141.]
Whereas' by an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of his
late Majesty, intituled an Act for more efrzctually discovering
the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging AtteMpts to find a
Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
and to approach the Northern Pole, it was enacted, that if any
ship or ships, vessel or vessels, belonging to any Of his Majesty's
subjects, or to his Majesty, shall first find out and sail through
any.passAge by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
in any direction.rr parallel of the Northern' Pz.lernispheze, Vie
owner or owners of such shiP or Ships, vessel or vessels,-if -be-
longing to any of his, Majesty's, subjects, or the Commander or
Commanders,officers, Seamen, and Marines of such ships or
vessels, if belonging- to his Majesty, so first finding out and

sailing through such:, passage, shall receive a reward for -such
discovery of twenty thousand pounds : And whereas it was fur-
ther enacted; that if any ship or ships, vessel or vessels, should
approach ,within one degree of the Northern Pole, the owner of
such ship or vessels, if belonging to any of his Majesty's sub-

jects, or the Commander or Commanders, Officer;, Seamen.
and Marines of any ship or ships, vessel or vessels, if belonging
to his Majesty, so first approaching within one degree of the
Northern Pole, should be entitled to receive a reward of five
thousand pounds : And whereas it was further enacted, for
the encouragement of persons who may attempt the said pas,
sage, or approach to the Northern Pole, but not wholly accom-
plish the same, the Commissioners for discovering the Longi-
tude at sea, might by, their memorial propose to his Majesty'in
Council to direct and establish proportionate rewards to be paid
.to such person as aforesaid, who shall first have accomplished'

certain proportions of the said passage or approach ; and if his
Majesty' in' Council should be pleased to sanction and approve
the said proposal, then that the same should be published in the
London Gazette, and any person or persons accomplishing such
passages, or the specified proportions of them, should be entitled
on the award of the said Commissioners to receive such total or
proportionate sums as may have been offered for the object which
he or they may have then accomplished-: And whereas doubts'
have arisen whether such proportionate rewards be over and
above the said sums of twenty thousand and five thousand
pounds respectively; or only parts and proportions of the said
sums : for the removal of all such doubts, be it enacted by the
King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice anti
consent of the Ldras.spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that from and after the passing of this Act, such propor-
tionate rewards . shall be held and taken to be proportions and
parts only of the said sums'of twenty thousand and, five thou-
sand pounds respectively, and that stich propoitionate rewards
as his Majesty may be pleased hereafter to direct and establish
by his Order in Council under the said Act, shall be parts and
proportions only of the said sums, so that no more than the
said respeetiVe sums of twenty' thousand arid five thousand
pounds shall -be paid or payable undei such Order in Council,
for the accomplishment of the whole of the said passage or ap-
proach respectively, whether the same shall- be attempted or
accomplished by proportions or parts, or by one voyage only.
11. And be it further enacted and declared, that it shall and
may be hi-fill for his Majesty in Council to revoke, annul,
alter or amend, as from tirne'to' time may seem necessary and
proper, any Order or Orders in Council already made, or here-
after to be made, under the authority of the said recited Act or
of this Act.