a2] ANNUALGOREGISTER, 
preferred the indiétment, yet he 
_ thought there ought to be fome 
meafure to their vengeance. They 
had firft profecuted the printer, who 
had let judgment go by default ; 
the author was then oifered to them, 
and yet they were not fatisfied : 
’ but the defendant, though totally 
ignorant of the bufinefs, muit be 
dragged forward to be made a fa- 
crifice at the immaculate tomb of 
earl Cowper. The jury, after fome 
confideration, found the defendant 
guilty. y 
The counfel for the defendant 
took two exceptions: 1. That the 
charge could not be a libel, because 
it defamed no one perfon /iwing. 
2. ‘That the defendant, as proprie- 
tor, could not be anfwerable; unlefs 
it was proved that he knew of the 
infertion. 
Diep, at his houfe in Argyle- 
Street, after two hours illnefs, ma- 
jor-general William Roy, deputy 
quarter-maiter-general, colonel of 
the 30th regiment of foot, furveyor- 
general of the coafts, F.R. and 
A.SS, He was traniacting bufinefs 
at the war-office till. eight o’clock 
the preceding evening. While co- 
lonel of artillery, he and his engi- 
neers, under colonel Watfon, in the 
winter of 1746, made an actual 
furvey of Scotland, which goes un- 
der the name of the Duke of Cum- 
berland’s Map,'on a very large 
feale, moft accurately pointing out 
every the fmaflleft fpot, with the 
Roman camps, &c. the original of 
which is in the ordnance-office. He 
reduced it, and engraved a few for 
prefents, under the title of “ Mappa 
Britanniz Septentrionalis facies Ro- 
mana fecundam fidem monumento- 
rum perveterum depicta ex Ricardo 
Corinenfi, monacho Weftmonafterii, 
emendata, & recentioribus geome- 
me 
1790. 
tricis atque aftronomicis obferva- 
tionibus accommodata. J. Chee- 
vers, fc.” a fingle fheet, 18 inches 
by 233; drawn by colonels Watfon 
and Roy, and called the King’s 
Map. It has many camps, a good 
number of Roman names, a few 
modern ones of towns, and all the 
rivers and hills properly laid down. 
His experiments to obtain a rule 
for meafuring heights with baro- 
meters may be feen in the «* Philo- 
fophieal 'Tranfaétions,” vol. Ixvii. ; 
his curious account of the meafure- 
ment of a bafe on Hounflow Heath, 
in vol. Ixxv. for which he was com- 
plimented with the Copley medal; 
his account of the mode propofed to 
be followed in determining the re- 
lative fituations of the royal obfer- 
vatories of Greenwich and Paris, 
in vol. xxviii. By command of his 
majefty, he had lately undertaken, 
and had juft completed, a moft cu- 
rious, accurate, and elaborate fet of 
trigonometrical experiments and ob- 
fervations to determine the true and 
exact latitude and longitude of the 
two royal obfervatories of Green~ 
wich and Paris; an account of 
which, illuitrated by tables com- 
puted from aétual meafurements (to 
take which, his majefty had furnifh- 
ed him with fome very expenfive 
trigonometrical inftruments), he had 
drawn up and prefented to the royal 
fociety, and was {uperintending the 
printing of it in their “ Tranfac- © 
tions” at the time of his death. | 
At Edinburgh, Adam Smith, efq. 
LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and 
Edinburgh, one of the commiffion- 
ers of the cuitoms in Scotland, and 
formerly profeffor of moral philo- 
fophy in the univerfity of Glafgow, 
which he gave up to travel with the 
prefent duke of Buccleugh. In 
1759 he, pyblithed « The as 
