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MARCH. 
A bill of indi€tment was 
und by the grand jury againit 
John Frith, for high treafon, in 
af. fo 
_ compafling the life of the king, by 
throwing a ftone againit his coach, 
ashe went to the parliament houfe. 
The following convicts re- 
2¢- ceived fentence of death at the 
Ojd Bailey, viz. James Eaft, Wil- 
liam Willon, James Betts, Samuel 
Dring, Jofeph Phillips, Thomas 
Alexander, and Henry Jones, alias 
Denton. © Three were fentenced to 
be tranfported for 14 years, 21 for 
feven years, feven fined and impri- 
foned, {even publickly whipped, 
and 24 difcharged by proclama- 
tion. 
This afternoon another ma- 
* niac went to St. James’s, where 
he feized the colofrs belonging to 
the firi regiment, who were on 
guard, which were placed in the 
court yard as ufual. The fentry 
_who guarded the colours not ob- 
ferving him, he made his efcape to 
the whalebone, where he was feized 
by another feniry, who fecured 
him till he got other affiftance; the 
maniac immediately threw down the 
ftandard, when he was taken into 
cuftody by two of the marfhalmen, 
who conveyed him in a hackney 
coach to the public office, Bow 
Street, where he underwentan exa- 
mination oefore fir Sampfon Wright. 
On fir Sampfon’s afking him his 
reafon for taking away the colours, 
he faid he was a native of the Ifle 
-of Man; that his name was Tho- 
mas Cannon; that he went yefter- 
day morning to Kenfington Palace 
in expectation of feging his majetty 
oo? to Windfor, and on his return 
he had completed his point, which 
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he had in view for fome time back, 
by throwing down the royal ftand- 
ard of England. His reafon, he 
faid; he would not give, unlefs he 
was introduced *to the king, the 
prince of Wales, and Mr. Pitt. He 
was committed to Covent Garden 
watch-houfe. 
The difagreeable intelligence “fe 
was received of the lofs of the 4°" 
company’s fhip Vanfittart, in the 
ftreights of Billoton, in November 
laft. No lives were loft either a- 
mong the officers or fhip’s company 
the affiftance they received from 
two country fhips enabled them to 
fave great part of the filver on 
board, and fome other part of the 
cargo. 
The two gold medals, value fi 
teen guineas each, given annually 
by his grace the duke of Grafton, — 
chancellor of the univeriity of Cam- 
bridge, for the encouragement of 
claffical learning, are this year ad- 
judged to Mr. Francis Wrancham, 
B.A. of Trinity Hall, and Mr. John 
Tweddell, B.A. of Trinity Col- 
lege. e 
Somerfet Houfz—The cRimates, as 
delivered to the houfe of commons, 
are as follow: Expended 334,703 /.5 
to be expended; 33,500/. 
A grant to earl Stanhope, for 
his new-invented method of con- 
dutting veflels without fails againit 
wind, waves, current, and tide, has 
paficd the great feal. 
On Sunday the 14th infant, four ° 
men were*feen on the oiler fide 
Staines, walking towards that town. 
They had the appearance of fo- 
reigners, were drefied as failors, and 
one rather better than the reft. In 
the evening of the fame day, they 
went to the fhop of a barber. at 
Staines, and were fhaved, and the 
man who was befl drefied paid for 
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