One of their lordships remarked, to ftop at the house, and an ill-looking fellow came out of it with a fack, containing, as was fuppofed, a body, which he carried into the houfe, and returned immediately with a large hamper; -- they then drove off to a neighbouring publichoufe, when, after a fhort stay, they took up fome others, and were traced to the Launch at Deptford. In the mean time the parifh-officers were informed of the circumftance. About fix in the evening, the coach again returned with a fimilar lading, which was depofited in the house. Some conftables, accompanied by a number of people, furrounded the house, and, forcing an entrance, they found two men and a woman drinking tea on a bench, at one end of which lay the bodies of two children. They were fecured; and on entering an adjoining room, the bodies of fix adults were difcovered unmutilated; befides which, the floor was strewed with limbs in a state too fhocking for public defcription. that the charge against the defendant, if true, was highly aggravated by the ill-founded charge he had now made upon that refpectable judge; and, if a verdict were found against him by the jury, he would not fay but he might confider fourteen years tranfportation as too fmall a punithment to be inflicted. In the cafe of Mr. Margarot, he hefitated much whether fourteen years ought to be the punishment, or whether one more fevere fhould be impofed; for he confidered the conduct of that perfon, in the courfe of his trial, as highly reprehenfible. The accufation which the defendant now made might originate in malice. Their lordships refumed the confideration of the objection, and were of opinion that it was irrelavent, and ought to be rejected. Upon this, lord chief juftice Clerk was called to the chair. The indictment was then read over, to which the defendant pleaded, not guilty. Mr. Gillies then addressed the court in defence of Mr. Gerald. 13th. The High Court of Jufticiary met, agreeably to adjournment of Monday, on the trial of Jofeph Gerald, for fedition. The pleadings on both fides continued till eleven o'clock at night, when the jury withdrew, and brought in a verdict next morning at eleven o'clock, unanimously finding the pannel guilty, when the lords palled fentence of banishment beyond feas for fourteen years, &c. The diet against Sinclair is deferted pro loco et tempore, on account of the imbecility of his mind. 24th. This evening a fet of refurrectionists were apprehended at a houfe near the turnpike, Mile-End. That morning a coach was observed 26th. The Brown Bear publichoufe, Upper Mourfields, was intirely deftroyed by a dreadful fire, in which the landlord, his wife, and two children, perifhed. Two lodgers efcaped by jumping out of a two pair of stairs window. Bofton, North America. In the affembly of New York, on the 13th of January, Mr. Willocks moved, "That the titles of excellency, honourable, efquire, and every other characteristical defignation not warranted by the conftitution, and which are unneceffary and inconfiftent with the plainnefs and real dignity of republican manners, be abolished,"which motion was negatived the 17th of the fame month. APRIL. 24. Bury, Suffolk. This morning were executed, pursuant to their fentence, John and Nathan Nichols, father and fon, for the wilful murder of Sarah Nichols, daughter to the one and fifter of the other. The far ther and brother way-laid the help lefs girl in the evening of the 14th of September laft; the former drew a fake out of a hedge, and, giving it to his fon, urged him with threats to commit the horrid deed; whereupon the boy, ftriking his fifter on the head, knocked her down, and repeated his blows till he had deprived her of life: he afterwards, at his father's defire, went and tied one of her garters round her neck, and dragged her into a ditch, where the was found the next morning. Nathan Nichols was nineteen, and his unfortunate fifter feventeen, years of age On their arrival at the fatal tree, they both perfifted in their innocence; and, notwithstanding the very ample confeflion of the boy, he then faid his father was innocent, for all he knew, of the fact for which they were to futter. The behaviour of the elder Nichols was very undaunted, declaring his innocence to the laft moment. After hanging the ufual time, the body of the elder Nichols was conveyed to Fakenham, to be hung in chains, and the younger one was taken for diflection at Bury. John Nichols was about fixty years of age, and had been many years employed as hedge car penter to the duke of Grafton. 5th. At two o'clock, the lord mayor, accompanied by a felect committee of the corporation of London, proceded from the Manfion-house to New Burlington-fireet, the refidence of marquis Cornwallis, attend ed by the city marshall on horfeback, mufic, and colours, to prefent that nobleman with the freedom of the city, in a gold box of one hundred guineas value. When the gold box was delivered by the chamberlain, the lord mayor addreffed his lordthip in a handfome fpeech. The mar quis returned his thanks to the lord mayor for the very flattering manner in which the freedom had been prefented to him. The committee then returned, with the marquis and his friends, to a very elegant entertain ment that had been prepared for them at the Manfion-house. 11th. Bruffels. On Wednesday, about five o'clock in the afternoon, the emperor our king gratified the wifhes of the Belgians, by honouring this city with his prefence. The ftates, in a body, prefented the keys to his majefty at the gate of Lou vain, on which the following infcrip tion was read :— « Cæfar adeft, trement Galli.” Young men, dreffed in white scarfs, reprefenting his people, drew flowly the coach. Some detachments of cavalry preceded and followed at a certain diftance. The proceffion repaired to the church of St. Gudule, where the Te Deum was chaunted. His majefty paffed afterwards through a part of this city, amidst immenfe crowds, who thronged on his paf fage, rending the air with the cries of Vive l'Empereur ! Vive le Roi ! 14th. At the affizes at Bristol, before Vickery Gibbs, efq. recorder, commenced the trial of Mr. R. V. Perry, charged with having-forcibly, and without her confent, taken Mifs C. Clarke from a boarding-school in this city. The profecution was opened in a very able speech, by Mr. Bond. Evidence was then examined, on the part of the profecution, fecution, but interrupted by Mr. Erikine, who with his ufual force and ability contended that Mrs. Perry was a legal evidence, and that by precluding her the court would be deprived of the only proper witnefs. This was warmly objected to by the counsel for the profecution, and referred to the decifion of the recorder, who admitted the evidence of Mrs. Perry. After a trial of more than eight hours, Mr. Perry was acquitted, the jury finding him "Not guilty," without going out of court. At the Edinburgh theatre the tragedy of Charles the First was performed. The houfe was much filled on the occafion. When the play began, feveral hiffes were heard at any fentiment of loyalty uttered by the characters, and applauses attempted when-contrary doctrines were inculcated; but this being still perfifted in, the orchestra was defired, by fome officers in the boxes, to play " God fave the King," which was accord. ingly performed. It has been ufual of late, when this tune is played, for the whole audience to rife, and the gentlemen to stand uncovered; upon this being done, about eight or ten were discovered, fitting in the pit, who neither rofe nor took off their hats: it was immediately concluded that these were the perfons who had disturbed the entertainment, and there was a loud cry of " off hats," to which the others paying no regard, it was foon changed into "out, out with them." This ftill producing no effect, a general uproar took place; a few gentlemen, and feveral officers of the Argylefhire fencibles, who were in the boxes, rushed into the pit, and a fcuffle enfued: at laft, fome refractory perfons were turned out, and the reft compelled to take off their hats. The play afterwards went on without any interruption; and, upon a fecond call for "God fave the King," many respectable people, of their own accord, imme. diately retired from the pit. On Wednefday, the tragedy was per formed again, when a renewal of the difturbance took place, which was, however, quieted without any bad confequences. 18th. The tumult has by no means fubfided; the magiftrates, last night, and their friends, nearly filled the houfe, ipfified on the audience being uncovered at the playing of " God fave the King: " they fucceeded in their demands, for the oppofite party, on the fuppofition that the tranfaction was at an end, had neglected to attend. 30th. New Drury theatre contains in the pit 800 perfons, whole range of boxes 1828, two fhilling gallery 675, one fhilling gallery 308, total 3,611, amounting to 8261. 6s. There are eight private boxes on each fide of the pit, twenty-nine all round the first tier, and eleven back front boxes; twenty-nine all round the fecond tier, of which eleven are fix feats deep; ten on each fide the gallery, three tier; boxes in the cove, nine each fide. The diame ter of the pit is 55 feet, opening of the curtain 43 feet wide, height of the curtain 38 feet, height of the houfe from the pit floor to the cieling is 56 feet 6 inches. DIED. 14th. At Mr. Welling's engraver, Tavistock-street, of a mortification in his bowels, aged 60, that ingenious artist, Samuel Hieronimo Grimm; the exertions of whofe pencil were not confined to his more immediate patrons, Mr. Rhodes, fir William Burrell, bart. and the rev. fir Richard Kaye, bart. dean of Lincoln, but will be remembered with regret regret by all the lovers of our national antiquities. Mr. Grimm was a native of Switzerland; and to a niece, ftill refident there, he has bequeathed the little fortune which he had vefted in the British funds, amounting to about 2001. or 3001. and whatever may arise from the fale of his drawings and other perfonals, by private contract, in which he has given, by will, a preference to Mr. Rhodes and fir William Burrell, with an apology to fir Richard Kaye, for whom (fays he) I have made fo many drawings which I fhall never have it in my power to finish.' His remains were interred in the churchyard of St. Paul, Covent-garden, the dean of Lincoln paying the laft office to his departed friend. Thofe who have feen the almost innumerable fubjects of Mr. Grimm's pencil, in Suffex, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire, will earneftly with that they may be perpetuated by good engravings, at the expence of the respective proprietors under whofe patronage they were taken, as the Maundy Celebration has been by the then fub-almoner. The laft legacy to the public was the views of Cowdry-houfe, in its perfect ftate, purchafed by the Society of Antiquaries for their "Vetufta Monumenta."For them, Mr. Grimm, by anticipation, preferved the hiftorical paintings on the walls of that noble manfion; for them, he copied the funeral of John Ilip, abbot of Weftminfter, from a roll afcribed to Holbein, in the poffeffion of the dean and chapter of that church. Lately, the celebrated traveller, Major Houghton, who, fome years fince, left England on a journey of difcovery in the interior parts of Africa, and had proceeded a confiderable way in the object of his journey. He was difcovered dead in his bed, and although without any vifible figns of violence, there is much reafon to fear he was murdered by thofe who attended him for the fake of the little property he had about him. Aged 65, at his refidence at Kinnaird, near Falkirk, in Scotland, James Bruce, efq. the well-known Abyflinian traveller; of whom fome biographical notice will be taken in a fubfequent part of this volume. MAY. 1ft. Hamilton Rowan made his efcape from the prifon in Dublin in which he was confined; and William Jackton, a divine of fome notoriety in England, with fome others, was apprehended for high treason. 31. Dublin. Some circumftances of a moft alarming tendency and treasonable nature, which have tranfpired relative to Mr. Rowan fince the apprehenfion of Jackson, are fuppofed to have been the motives that urged the former to attempt a precipitate efcape, in which he effectually fucceeded. Matters, it is faid, were fo well preconcerted in this business, that Mr. Rowan had a horfe in waiting, upon which he fet off immediately for Ruth, from whence he was directly conveyed on board an American veffel, which waited for him off that place, and failed the inftant he came on board. The charge made against Jackson we understand to be, that he has held a correfpondence of a criminal nature with feveral perfons who now belong to the exifting government of France, in which treafonable information was given to the enemy respecting the force in Great Britain Britain and this country, with the pretended opinions of the people as to the profecution of the war. 4th. A mob of poor people met on Streatham common, and fet the heath furze on fire; the conflagration was tremendous, but the neighbours rather promoted than lent any affiftance for extinguishing it. It feems that the duke of Bedford ufed formerly to let the poor have the furze, but this year he fold it for near 801. On Saturday Mr. M'Namara, his agent, by his grace's order, took in fome ground from the common which was formerly ufed for the poor people's cattle, and in the evening a hackney-coach drove to the fpot, when fix men, dreffed in black, and crapes over their faces, got out of the carriage, and with carpenter's implements cut down the paled inclofure, returned into the coach, and drove off. A horrid murder has lately been committed on the body of Mr. Reed, of Swanley, in Gloucefterfhire. Having been lately ill in health, his wife perfuaded him to make his will in her favour of the whole of his property, amounting to 60001. Soon atter the execution of his will, there was reafon to believe he had infufed a dofe of poifon in fome broth, as it was obferved, after he had taken it, he began to be very fick, and vomited in a moft violent manner. Mrs. Reed then perfuaded him to go to bed, where he had not long been before one James Watkins came into the house, when fhe told him the job was not completed. No fooner had fhe fpoken the words than he took a broom-ftick in his hand, and faid he would finish it; and, going up ftairs, ftruck the unfortunate man feveral blows upon the head, one of which cut the flesh down three inches over the forehead, and he repeated the blows till he was dead. Hearing, foon after the deed, that it had gone abroad, and that the coroner was determined to have an inquest, Watkins abfconded, but the woman has been taken, and admitted to bail by the Gloucefterfhire magiftrates. The voluntary narrative of Robert Edgar, a ftripling of the Dorsetshire corps, led to the difcovery of this murder, and the apprehenfion of Mrs. Reed, the furviving widow, by the vigilance of the Bow-street magistrates. Since her admiffion to bail, fhe has written to the brother of her murdered husband in London, that the perpetrator of the horrid deed was her own brother-Watkins; and that the remorfe and contrition impreffed on his own mind "had led to the destruction of himfelf by a piftol." The inveftigation of this circumftance remains to be unfolded; and the measures of the Bow-ftreet magiftrates are well arranged to develope this extraordinary myftery. Mrs. Red, when at Poole, was enamoured with Edgar, who was bred a furgeon, and is yet a mere boy, to appearance not more than 15 years old; and, according to his own narrative, was led to promife her marriage in cafe of her hufband's death, and Watkins undertook to rid them of him on a promile of 2001. An inqueft has been taken, at Bifhop-frome, Herefordshire, on the body of Watkins, who had fhot himfelf at his father's houfe in that parith, where he had been concealed fince the murder of Mr. Reed. The jury brought in their verdict, Felo de je. 14th. London. Mr. Stone, a coalmerchant of Rutland-street, Thames freef, |