‘\soa] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
for Franklin to inveftigate its pro- 
perties; andof that branch of{cience 
he may be confidered as the father. 
Theory was advanced to practiceand. 
utility by the invention of the cpn- 
duétor. Nor were his obfervations 
confined to this fcience. ‘There 
were few:fubje&ts of common utility 
upon which he did not comment, 
none were touched by him which 
he did not improve and illuftrate ; 
of this, his Advice to Servants—to 
Tradefmen—to Settlers in America 
—on the Cure of Smoky Chimnies 
—Rules for Clubs and for Converfa- 
tion—Maxims to convert a great 
into a {mall Empire, written with 
the cauftic {pirit of Swift, are abund- 
ant proofs. 
MA Y. 
7 The Marfhal of the King’s 
Bench Prifon having com- 
plained to the court of certain ir- 
regularities, which he had not pow- 
er to reprefs, that court, in order 
to prevent .thefe irregularities, has 
made the following orders: 
Firft—That no prifoner, after the 
firft day of next Trinity term, fhall 
have any rule for being abfent from 
his confinement, for a longer {pace 
than three days during each term. 
Secondly—That the New Prifon 
fhall be within the rules of the 
King’s Bench. 
Thirdly—That the rules fhall be 
circumfcribed according to the li- 
mits mentioned in the order; and 
particularly, that every public houfe 
locally fituated within the rules, 
fhall be confidered as without the 
rules; fo that every prifoner-who is 
feen at any public houfe within the 
rules, will render the marfhal liable 
to an adtion for an efcape—The 
Dog and Duck, the Circus, and the 
other places of public entertainment 
in that neighbourhood, will in con- 
fequence be without the rules. 
George Franklin, a licutenant in 
the marines, received judgment of 
the court of king’s bench, for fend- 
ing achallenge to his fuperior offi- 
cer.—He was fentenced to a twelve- 
month’s imprifonment in the king’s 
bench prifon, and to find fecurity 
for keeping the peace for two years, 
himfelfin 1ool. and two fecuritiés 
in sol. each. 
James Chapman was brought dh 
from Newgate to the court of 2" ~ 
King’s Bench, to receive judgment 
for the confpiracy in carrying-off 
the countefs of Strathmore. He 
was fentenced to be imprifoned in 
Newgate for the term of two years, 
and duiing that time to ftand once 
in the pillory at Charing-crofs, 
The recorder made his re- / ‘ 
port to the king in council of : 
the. prifoners’ under fentence of 
death in Newgate, convicted at the 
laft fefiions, when the following were 
ordered for execution on the rgth, 
viz. Thomas Parker and Sophia 
Girton, for coining and counterfeit- 
ing the filver coin of this realm call- 
eda fhilling ; Edward Humphreys, 
for robbing James Cumberland 
Bentley, in the Strand, of a cam- 
brick handkerchief; and Guinard 
Villoni, for ftealing, in the honfe of 
James Daubigny, an iron cheft con- 
taining about zoool..in cafh and 
notes.—The three men were exe- 
cuted accordingly; but the woman 
has been refpited, 
Frith was this morning | 4 
tried at the Old Bailey for 7*"* 
high treafon, in throwing a ftone at 
the king, when in his coach, going 
to the parliament houfe.—The jury 
acquitted him, being fatisfied, a 
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