fog] ANNUAL. REGISTER, 1790. 
known. They are all ordered to 
be hung in chains. 
The bankrupts in 1788 were 709 ; 
in 1752 were 116. Thefe were the 
moft and leaft numerous fince 1740 ; 
in 178g there were 584. 
The Severn flooded a few 
16th. at 
ays ago higher than has 
been known for thefe twenty years. 
At Shrewfbury and its environs, 
particularly at the Abbey Forgate, 
Frankwell, and cotton-mill, there 
was no pafling without a boat. 
On the lakes and high moun- 
tainous land of Cumberland and 
Weltmoreland, there has been 
.{carcely any fnow, and not any ice 
two inches thick. The wind and 
rain have exceeded, as much as the 
fnow and ice fall fhort of, the ufual 
proportions. Both are unexampled 
in the memory of man., 
The feffions ended at the 
Old Bailey, when fentence 
of death was paffed upon 13 con- 
victs ; one was fentenced to be tranf- 
ported for 14 years, 29 to be tranf- 
* ported for feven years, feven to be 
imprifoned in Newgate, 18 in 
’ Clerkenwell Bridewell, 21 to be 
igth. 
publickly whipped, and 16 were 
_ delivered by proclamation. 
As his majefty was going 
"in ftate to the houfe of peers, 
- on pafling the corner oppofite Carle- 
ton Honfe, in St. James’s Park, a 
ftone was thrown at the coach by a 
tall man drefled in a {carlet coat, 
black breeches, a ftriped wailtcoat, 
a cocked hat, with an orange-co- 
‘loured cockade; he was imme- 
- diately apprehended and taken to 
Mr. Grenville’s office, in the trea- 
fury, Whitehall, where he under- 
~ went an examination by the attorney 
general and fir Sampfon Wright, 
before Mr. Pitt, Mr. Grenville, the 
@uke of Leeds, Earl of Chatham, 
2it 
&c. which lafted four hours, when 
he was committed to prifon for fur- __ 
ther examination. He proves to 
be the fame perfon who wrote a 
libel againft his majefty, and ftuck ~ 
it on the whalebone in the court- 
yard, St. James’s, about a fortnight ) 
fince, and figned his name John © 
Frith, lieutenant ef the fecond bate | 
talion of royals. After undergoing — 
feveral other examinations, he was — 
committed to Newgate for trial om — 
a charge of high treafon. i 
The accounts relative to be 4 
the earl earance of gift. 
ape 
fpring this year are too numerous 
to be particularized. Almoft every — 
preduétion that the month of April” 
ufually exhibits in the garden, and 
in the field, were to be feen at the” 
clofe of this month in various parts — 
of the kingdom. wy 
Diep, at Horteley, county of Der- 
by, at the age of 107, Mrs, Frances 
Barton. It is faid fhe well remem=_ 
bered the revojution in 1688, and | 
that fhe danced at a merry-making y 
on that glorious occafion. Her hut- 
band had been fexton of the parifh 
church 70 years; and this antient 
pair frequently boafted that fhe hz d 
brought into the world, and he hag 
buried, the parifh twice over. v 
At Miles-court, Bath, aged 79, 
Mrs. Burr, grand-niece of fir aac 
Newton, by a daughter of his mo- | 
ther, who married, for her fecond 
hufband, the Rev. Mr. Smith. She- 
had a perfect recollection of thagy) 
great philofopher, and remembered - 
pafling much time at his houfe in 
St Martin’s-lane ; and that, when a 
child, fhe had fpent whole evenings” 
in his ftudy, as he was remarkably 
fond of children. She remembered, 
alfo, the ftrength of his fight, his 
examining old coins, and ccading | 
the fmalleit print witheut {pectas 
cles 3. 
