20] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
circumftances ftated are precifely as 
follows : 
A fervant of fir George, keeping 
a chair at the door of the Edin- 
burgh theatre, was ordered by capt. 
Macrae to remove it; on his ob- 
jecting, fome words enfued, and the 
fracas concluded in captain Macrae’s 
chaftifing the fervant very feverely. 
Meeting the next day with fir 
George Ramfay, he infifted on his 
difmiffing the man from his fervice. 
This was refufed, on the ground, 
that whatever was the mifconduct 
of the fervant, he had already re- 
ceived a fufficient punifhment. 
A challenge was the immediate 
confequence of this refufal. The 
parties met on Muffelborough Links ; 
fir George Ramfay accompanied by 
fir William Maxwell of Moncrief; 
and capt. Macrae by Mr. Hay. 
The former fired firft, but without 
effet. Capt. Macrae returned the 
fire, and lodged his ball fo near the 
heart of his antagonift, that every 
art to extract it was fruitlefs. Sir 
George languifhed in much agony 
until Friday morning, when he ex- 
ired, 
The deceafed was a gentleman of 
the moft amiable charaéter and dif- 
pofition, and had but lately married 
a beautiful young lady, the fifter of 
lord Saltoun. 
The lord chancellor com- 
17th. mitted the rev. Mr. Stevens 
to the fleet prifon, for carrying a 
young lady of the name of Jefferies 
to Gretna-Green, where he was 
married to her, fhe being a ward 
of the court of chancery. ‘The mo- 
ther, aunt, and other relations and 
friends of the lady, all bore honour- 
able teftimony, by their affidavits, 
to the character of Mr. Stevens, and 
depofed that they approved of the 
marriage, although it was contract- 
ed without their privity. The lord 
chancellor faid, there could be no 
excufe for a clergyman of the eftab- 
‘lifhed church carrying a ward of the 
court to Scotland, and there being 
married by ablackfmith. The pro- 
teCtion of the wards of that court 
was of gteatimportance. His lord- 
fhip, however, paid due attention to 
the affidayits, which he faid might 
become a fubject of future confide~ 
ration. 
Stephano Apologi, Antonio th 
Marini, and Jacintha Farari, 2 . 
for the murder of their companion 
near Belfont; and Thomas Hewet 
Matters, for the murder of his mif- 
trefs‘s daughter, Marv Loveden, 
near Whitechapel, were executed 
before the debtor’s door at New~ 
gate, purfuant to their fentence, 
The three former having received 
the Sacrament according to the ce- 
remonies of the Romifh church, 
about fix o’clock they made a full 
confeffion of the horrid deed. An- 
tonio Marini (who profeffed him- 
felf to be the fon of one of the Ve- 
‘“netian noblefle, and fpoke Latin, 
Spanifh, French, and Italian very 
elegantly and fluently) declared to 
the prieft who attended them, that 
they had all agreed to kill their 
comrade as he flept in his bed two 
nights before the murder was com- 
mitted; but that he, Marini, was 
fo fhocked at the idea of it on re- 
fleftion, that he determined to a- 
bandon it, and from that time never 
failed to pray fome hours each day, 
that the deity would ftrengthen him 
in this refolution. That at the time 
the murder was perpetrated, he was 
walking more than a hundred yards 
before them, when he heard the de- 
ceafed cry aloud, « Antonio—Oh 
Antonio!” That he ran back and 
found him lifelefs, with one arm 
broken, 
