lives only in the mouth of fame, after having had the honour of fupplying Westminster-hall, Guildhall, and many other noble buildings in Great Britain with timber, which from its prefent foundness, feems to put time to defiance. Vienna, June 12 The emperor has fuppreffed the chapters of Wigthrengen and Trelergen, in Carinthia; and thofe of Lambrecht, Neuberg, Stanz, Croatman, and Pallau, in Styria. The convents of capuchins, recollets, and dominicans, are alfo abolished. Frankfort, June 12. They write from Schleiden, in the diftrit of Aremberg, that the duke has granted the proteftants the free exercise of their religion, and afligned to their ufe a fpacious hall in his castle, till a church fhall be built for them. Oftend, July 2. We now reckon no fewer than five proteftant churches or chapels in the Austrian Low Countries, and they are likely to increase, on account of the emperor having tolerated the fulleft enjoyment of religious fentiments, provided they are not mixed with political queftions. The church at Bruges was lately the chapel of the convent of St. Antoine, bellowed by the emperor as a free gift. Rome, July 1. The pope continues to give fresh proofs of a true catholic fpirit, and convinces the world of what had been before afferted, that he would pro e another Ganganelli. The English travel lers are much careffed, and visit him conftantly indeed, the pope's levees are made up of men of all perfuafions, fo that the fpirit of toleration will in time become univerfal, much to the benefit of religion, and the happiness of mankind. Birmingham, July 3. A farmer in this neighbourhood, finding his turnips for fome years taken by the fly, was induced to try many expe riments to prevent.it. The following luckily proved a remedy: to 6lb. of turnip feed he put 4 oz. of flour of brimitone, and four oz. of black brimstone, which he fowed together; the brimstone effectually deftroyed, or gave fuch a diftafte to the fly, as to prevent their ufual ravages, and he has produced great crops. 6. Yesterday the fheriffs declared the numbers on the poll for auditors for the ensuing year, which was made in the ufual forin to the court of aldermen, viz. 470 After fome little converfation on the fubject, the court came on the huffings, and declared to the common hall, by the recorder, that although Meff. Tomlins and Loveland were among the majority on the poll, yet it was contrary to the city laws, as appeared on fearching the records for full two hun dred years back, to return the fame perfous that had ferved that office the two preceding years. They were accordingly declared ineligi ble, and Meff. Wilfon, Thorne, Nettleship, and Stock, declared duly elected. (See page 27.) This day came on before the houfe of lords, the hearing of an appeal in the cafe of Edward Aylette, convicted of perjury fome months ago. (See Vol. VI. p. 88.) Mr. Erikine, in behalf of the plaintiff in error, maintained, that the original indictment which was removed, by certiorari, from the court below into the king's bench, was defective and infufficient; for that the names of the jurors by whom the indictment was found, were not stated ftated upon the faid record, fo as to enable the plaintiff in error to enquire into, or object to the competency or incompetency of them to find fuch indictment. To this Mr. Bearcroft answered, that it was unneceffary to specify the names of the grand jury in the record of the caption, it being enough to aver, that the indictment was found by 12 good and lawful men; that the party indicted has an opportunity of reforting to the original caption, where the names do appear; that this objection has been frequently over-ruled in the king's bench for more than 30 years; and if now allowed, would be contrary to the entries and precedents of record for more than 50 years pait. When the pleadings were finifhed, earl Bathurst left the woolfack, and moved, that the following quef tion be put to the judges prefent: "Whether, in a criminal caufe removed from an inferior court into the court of king's bench, by writ of certiorari, it be cause of error, that the names of the grand jurors are not inferted in the record and proceedings?" The question being accordingly put, Mr.juftice Gould, after having confulted his four brethren, (viz. the barons Eyre, Hotham, Perryn, and Mr. juftice Heath) declared the unanimous opinion of the judges prefent, that there was no caufe of error in the particular cafe affigned. Then earl Bathurst moved, that the judgment be affirmed, which was ordered accordingly. fufing to accept the plaintiff's fureties for profecuting an appeal against two of his convictions for not entering horfes, and paying the duty prefcribed by the act, and for not returning his convictions to the quarter feffions of the peace, whereby the plaintiff was deprived of his appeal against the faid convictions. It appeared in the courfe of the trial that two of the plaintiff's horses were stopped at Hyde-park turnpike by the informers, who went about for that purpofe; and in confequence of an information being laid, the plaintiff was convicted by the defendant in the penalty of 20l. on each horse. On the trial it was proved, that the horfes had been entered, and the duty paid. Warrants of diftrefs were granted by the defendant against the plaintiff's goods, and the constable levied 471. 8s. It was alfo proved, that the plaintiff had made frequent applications to the defendant to let him appeal to the feffions, which was refused by the defendant. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with tool. damages. . The fame day came on before lord Loughborough, in the court of common pleas, a caufe of great importance to fuch perfons as may have the misfortune to have their goods diftrained for rent. The action was brought by William Briggs, a basket-maker, against his landlord, for making an unreasonable and exceffive distress for rent, contrary to a very ancient act of parliament, made at Marlborough, in the reign of Henry the Third. It appeared upon the trial, that the -This day was tried in the court of king's bench, before Mr. juftice Buller, a caufe wherein Mr. Prof-plaintiff being indebted to the defer, a ftable-keeper, of Tottenhamcourt-road, was plaintiff, and William Hyde, efq. a justice of the peace, defendant. The action was brought against the justice for res fendant in 141. 19s. 6d. for a quarter's rent, which it did not fuit him to pay, the landlord thought fit to diftrain the plaintiff's goods, of the value of 80l. to put three men men in poffeffion, and at the end of eight days to remove and advertife them to be fold to the trade; that at this iniquitous trade-fale, the plaintiff's wife was not permitted to buy any part of her goods, and together with her husband and five children, were thus turued out of doors, bereaved of their proper ty, without a fingle bed, blanket, or covering to lie on.-The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for the whole value of the goods. Whitehall, July 8. Whereas divers applications have of late been made, by people of different de fcriptions, to the foreign ministers refident in England, to be appoint ed secretaries to fome or other of the faid foreign minifters, in order to avail themselves of the protection due to perfons in that fituation, against the ordinary courfe of legal proceedings in various cafes and whereas fuch indulgence is liable to many abuses; it is his Majefty's pleafure, that henceforth no fubject of his majefty fhall be permitted by the fecretary of state to have his name inferted at the fheriff's of fice, in the list of thofe who are to be deemed under the protection of any foreign minifter, excepting only fuch perfons as may be employed by the faid foreign minifters in the capacity of menial fervants. CARMARTHEN. Newhaven, Connecticut, Feb. 2. Henry Harford, fon of the late lord Baltimore, prefented a memo rial lately to the legislature of Maryland, ftating, that by the operation of the act of confifcation his loffes amounted to 327,4411. and praying relief-but it was rejected." 10. At a common hall for the election of a fheriff, in the room of Edward Watfon, etq. who had paid his fine, Paul Le Mefurier, efq. was declared duly elected. 1786. 12. An action for a trefpafs was lately tried in the court of king's bench, in which the right to purfue foxes was determined; the declaration of the plaintiff stated, that the defendant, with dogs, hounds, and horfes, ran over the grounds of the plaintiff, broke his closes, and destroyed his hedges. In his plea, he faid, he was huntfman to Mr. Sturff, a gentleman who had a right to hunt the faid dogs and hounds; that fome short time previous to that mentioned in the declaration, he found fome noxious. animals called foxes near where the trefpafs was committed, and that he did follow the faid dogs, and in order to kill the faid foxes, he did break the faid clofes of the plaintiff; that he could not kill them without doing as aforefaid, and that by fo doing, he did kill them. After the verdict for the defendant on a demurrer, ford Mansfield, Mr. juftice Willes, and Mr. justice Buller gave their opinions in favour of the defendant, by which the law is confirmed, "That starting a fox or a badger in your own grounds, and running it into your neighbour's, was not a trefpafs." 19. The following fimple and ea fy method for preventing hay, &c. from taking fire in the rick, has been communicated to the public as infallible, viz. Make two channels across the ground of brick or ftone, about a foot wide and a foot deep, of the length and breadth of the ftavel of your intended rick, which will divide it into four quar ters; fill up the quarters with faggots, boughs, or other materials; and put flabs over the tops of the channels, leaving an open space of about two feet in diameter in the center, where the channels meet, to ferve as a chimney, which is ro be continued up through the rick, (C) and and be made in the ufual way by drawing up a basket or fack, stuffed, as the rick rifes in making; by which means the air from without pating freely through the channels below up the chimney, the foul air will be expelled, and the hay ren dered fweet and good, though put together ever fo green. This method was practifed in Cornwall laft year with great fuccefs, during a very bad season; was then tried on a field of grafs, near Salisbury, which had only one day's drying; and has this feafon been practifed with the like fuccefs on a large rick in the fame neighbourhood. 26. The feffions ended at the Old Bailey, when twelve convicts received fentence of death, among whom was Samuel Burt, for the forgery of a banker's draught of 100l. who had been recommended to mercy by the jury, his conduct having evinced fome degree of infanity. On being asked the ufual question, "Why fentence of death fhould not be paffed upon him,' he thus addreffed the recorder: "My lord, 22 "I am too fenfible of the crime which I have committed, and for which I justly deferve to fuffer; my life I have forfeited, and with to refign it into the hands of him who gave it me. To give my reafons for this, would only fatisfy an idle curiofity; no one can feel a more fenfible heart-felt fatisfaction in the hopes of fhortly pathing into eternity, wherein, I truft, I thall meet with great felicity. I have not the leaft defire to live, and as the jury and the court, on my trial, thought proper to recommend ne to mercy if his majetty fhould, in confequence thereof, grant me a refpite, I here vow in the face of Heaven, that I will put an end to my own exiftence as foon as I - can. It is death that I wish for, becaufe nothing but death can extri cate me from the troubles in which my follies have involved me." When this prifoner had done fpeaking, the Recorder addrefied him to the following purport: “Samuel Buit,—as you appear to have fill remaining on your mind fome impreffions of confcience, and a fenfe of the fubmiffion that you owe to your Creator, and of a future ftate of existence, I think it my duty to address a few words to you in particular, on the melancholy fituation in which you now stand: : happy fhould I be, if any thing I could fay to you, in your unhappy itate, could ripen thofe feeds of confcience and of religion in your mind, into a proper fense of your duty to your Creator :you have expreffed a fubmiffion to the laws of your country, which is highly praife-worthy; but you muft not deceive yourself by ima gining that a defire to die, ranks equally with that fubmiffion: it is the duty of those that have violated the laws, to fubmit with patience to the punishment of thofe laws; but it is a crime against your country, to wish to throw away your own life; and this unhappy with appears but too plain from what you have now faid, as well as from fome circumstances on your trial, to have actuated you to the com. miffion of a capital offence. If that was the motive, you greatly deceive yourfelf, in fuppofing that it is no crime to rufh uncalled into the prefence of him that made you, for that is highly criminal in itself. Your Creator best knows when you fhall have fulfilled the purposes of your existence, and he best knows when to call you out of this world; and it is therefore the highest degree of prefumption in you to take that fecret judgment to yourfel, and to wish to throw away your life. It is that difpofition which I would earnestly pray to God to convert in your mind, before you are called hence; but if there are any circumstances in your cafe (which I cannot promise you there are) that should induce our gracious fovereign to mitigate your fentence, and prolong your exiftence, it is your duty to receive from God, and from him, the boon of life with gratitude, instead of peevishly throwing it away. It now remains for me to pronounce on you the fentence of the law, which your crimes have merited, and which it is your duty to fubmit to, but not to defire." Oxford, July 29. At our affizes came on to be tried before Mr. Baron Eyre, a caufe of great importance to the public in general, on a question, Whether a farmer who occafionally dealt in horfes was fubject to the bankrupt laws, as a trader? It was an action of trover, brought on the affignees of John Davis, a farmer of Whitchurch, in this county, against Mr. John Sherwood, of Purley, in the county of Berks, to recover back 2491. 18s. which he had received under an execution levied on the bankrupt's effects; when the jury, after an hour's confultation, brought in a verdict for the plaintiffs, whereby they established the trading, and gave the above fum in damages, together with full cofts of fuir. Madrid, July 4. The king being defirous that the accounts given by different navigators of the Strait of Magellan fhould be examined and corrected, fome time ago caused the frigate Santa Maria to be fitted out at Cadiz for that purpofe. The command of the veffel, as well as the care of executing the im portant commiffion, was vefted in Don Antonio Cordova y Lafo. The veffel failed on the 9th of last October, and after a feries of bad weather, entered the Strait Jan. 1. Notwithstanding the difficulties and dangers of the expedition, Don Antonio perfectly fucceeded, and has brought home a chart of the Strait, in which all the capes, bays, promontories, and other remarkable objects on both coafts, are laid down, with their longitudes, latitudes, and refpective diftances, from aftronomical obfervations. On Feb. 5, he arrived at Port St. Jofeph, the most fouthern of the continent. They here found two bottles with an infcription, which they copied, containing an account of M. Bouganville's having paffed that Strait. The officers copied the infcription, and added another, containing an account of their own voyage, in fix different languages. D. Antonio then went in his boat, and directed his courfe for the channel of St. Barbe, three leagues from the above port, on the coaft of Tierra del Fuego, where they found the paffage which had long been conjectured to lead into the South Sea. After examining the weftern part of the Strait to Capes Lunes and Providence, which are eleven leagues diftant from those called the Pillars and Visoria, they returned to Port St. Jofeph, whence they let out on their return on the 11th of March, and arrived fafe at Cadiz on the 11th of lat month, after a voyage of eight months, three of which they pified in the Straits. In this long and dangerous voyage they loft only two men.' Gottingen, July 25. The three youngest princes of Great Britain were entered of this univerfity on the 6th of this month, each of (C 2) them |