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94] ANNUAL REGISTER

the murder.  He was executed in his shroud.
At Bristol assizes, five were capitally convicted, among whom was the notorious Jonathan Britain, for forgery.
At Hereford assizes, one was capitally convicted.
At Monmouth assizes, none were capitally convicted.
At Shrewsbury assizes, three were capitally convicted.
At Warwick assizes, five were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved.
At Stafford assizes, six were capitally convicted, five of whom were reprieved, and Thomas Daws for the murder of his apprentice executed.
At the assizes at Coventry, four were capitally convicted, three of whom were reprieved.
At the assizes at Northampton, two were capitally convicted; but were both reprieved.
At the assizes for the county of Nottingham, two were capitally convicted.
At the assizes for Huntingdon-shire, one was capitally convicted.
At the assizes at Derby, one was capitally convicted; but reprieved.
At York assizes, four were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved.
At this assizes a cause came on to be tried, before Sir Henry Gould, Knight, wherein James Walker, was plaintiff, and William Dawson, Esq; late mayor of Leeds, defendant.  The action was brought to tty whether the plaintiff, who keeps and uses a single horse cart, and does not occupy lands, tenenments, or hereditaments of yearly value of 50 l. was liable to send such cart and horse to work in amendments of the highways, when the court was clearly of opinion he was not, and directed the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff in 4l. 2s. 6d. damages, and costs.
At Lancaster assizes, Mary Hilton, for wilfuly poisoning husband, John Hilton, late of Middle Hulton, blacksmith, was found guilty, and ordered to be strangled, and afterwards to be burnt.  Robert Wharton was found guilty of horse stealing, and received sentence of death, but was afterwards reprieved.
At the assizes for the county of Norfolk, at Thetford, two were capitally convicted.
The assizes, at Bury St. Edmund's, for Suffolk, was a maiden one.
It was remarkable on the Norfolk circuit, that not one prisoner was left for execution in six counties.

Extract of a Letter from Bury St. Edmund's, April 16.
"Yesterday Sir Charles Davers and some other gentlemen marched in here at the head of above 800 horsemen, gathered together in a very few hours.  They consisted of farmers and their servants, who came to assist if necessary, and have received orders to be ready on the first notice of a disturbance.
"We have now in our gaol sixteen rioters from Sudbury, and it is an alarming circumstance that the whole country seem in motion."
20th.  The lord mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs, with the governors of the city hospitals, attended by the children educated in Christ's Hospital, went in procession
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to S. Bride's Church, and heard a sermon preached by Dr. Hinchcliff, Bishop of Peterborough; after which the late of the city hospitals were read, when it appeared that 3950 patients had been cured and discharged from the St. Bartholomew's' 7465 from St. Thomas's; 165 from Bethlem; 355 vagrants relieved and discharged out of Bridewell; and 129 youths put apprentices out of Christ's Hospital, in the course of the year.
It is worth remarking, that about the 8th of the present month, coals were sold at London for four guineas a chaldron; but before the 16th, they fell to thirty-one shillings.
The board of general officers who sat by royal mandate, at the Horseguards, last Tuesday, on the reference, "Whether the rank of major in the army should be totally abolished, or not?" Decided, "That the rank should remain as at present."

22d. The Spital sermon at St. Bride's was preached by the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Archdeacon of London, and son-in-law to the bishop thereof.
The lord mayor in his return from church, was roughly used by the populace, for not lowering the price of bread. The front glass of his coach was broken, and it was with difficulty that the person of his lordship was preserved from violence.

Extract of a Letter from Gibraltar.
"Our Barbary consul, Mr. Sampson, arrived here some weeks ago, having narrowly escaped the pursuit of some Moors, who were supposed to have had an intention to detain him, upon account of some misunderstanding between him and the emperor. The story is long;—but, upon the whole, it appears to us, that he has been shamefully and ignominiously used there."

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At the sessions of the peace for the city of London, the journeymen-taylors preferred a petition to the magistrates, praying an augmentation of their wages, on account of the dearness of provisions, which petition was taken into consideration, and the prayer of it granted; and, at the same time, they received the applause of the court, for the propriety of their behaviour, in seeking redress in a legal manner, without having recourse to violent methods, by which they could only hope to bring ruin upon themselves, and distress upon their employers. Their wages were ordered to be advanced six-pence a day at ordinary times, and one shilling a day in time of general mourning.

Hague, April 17. According to the last advices from Copenhagen, the attorney general having drawn up the charge against the Queen Carolina Matilda, and delivered it to the committee of enquiry; and the queen's defence being likewise produced, commissioners were sent with both of them to Cronenburgh to shew them to the queen; her majesty received them very amicably, but without waiting to know their business she told them, "that if they came to pay their duty to her as their queen they were welcome; but if they wanted to ask her any further questions they might return from whence they came; for having already signed her deposition with her own hand, she determined not to hear any thing they had to say."

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