2144] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
ofthe bank of England. The fa& 
being clearly proved, he was fully 
committed to New Prifon, Clerk- 
enwell, for trial, and the parties 
bound over to profecute. He has 
been a clerk in the bank near twenty 
years, and bore the belt of charac- 
ters. 
Same morning, at half paft feven 
‘o'clock, John Dyer, for forgery, was 
brought out of Newgate, and, after 
the ufual folemnities, was executed 
before the debtors gate in the Old 
Bailey, purfuant to his fentence. 
He was only 22 years of age, and 
was brought up at Weitminfter- 
{chool. 
Parliament met, and was 
aot prorogued to the 12th of 
Otober. 
28:h Mr. Powell, the celebrated 
* pedeftrian, arrived in Lon- 
don from York. He fet out on the 
22d from the monument in London 
to walk to York and back again in 
five days and eighteen hours, which 
is the fame time he performed this 
journey in- the year 1773; the 
wager 10 guineas to 13. On Mon- 
day night he, reached Stamford, 
where he flept; on Tuefday night, at 
twelve, he reached Doncafter, and 
arrived in York at 25 minutes after 
one on Wednefday noon; fet out on 
his return a quarter after four in 
‘ the afternoon, reached Ferrybridge 
that evening, paffed through Don- 
cafter at eight o’clock on Thurfday 
morning, and arrived at Grantham 
in the evening, where he flept; at 
five o’clock on Friday morning he 
purfued his journey, and arrived at 
Bigeleiwade that evening, where 
he alfo flept; fet out at half pait 
four o’clock on Saturday morning, 
_and arrived at the monument at ten 
minutes paft four in the afternoon 
(being one hour and fifty minutes 
within the time), amidft the accla- 
mations of a vait concourfe of peo- _ 
a! 
Mr. Spellard, for many years 
quarter -mafter in the 16th (or 
queen’s) regiment of light dragoons, 
known by the name of Burgoyne’s, 
and who was captured with that 
general and lord Cornwallis in 
America, has lately arrived at Bof- 
ton from Gibraltar; and is an in- 
ftance of the: good effects that walk- 
ing has upon the health. ‘This gen- 
tleman is confidered as one of the 
firft walkers in Europe—he has late- 
ly walked through every county 1n 
England and Ireland, through 
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and 
a great part of the Barbary States, 
- particularly from Tangiers to Me- 
quinez and Fez in Morocco, and 
through the Arabs country; he has 
alfo walked about 790 miles fince 
he arrived in America. ‘ 
Diep, in Ruffia, aged 31, James 
Trevenen, efq. a lieutenant in the 
Britifh navy, and a poft-captain in 
the Ruffian fervice. In the action 
with the Swedifh fleet off Wyburg, 
on the 4th of July, he carried a com- 
modore’s pendant, and, after hav- 
ing gallantly diftinguifhed himfelf, 
was mortally wounded by the Jaft 
fhot fired by the enemy, and died 
on the gth, He was a native of 
Cornwall, and of a very refpeétable 
family in that county. He received 
his education at the royal academy 
of Portfmouth; and in the year 
1776 embarked as a midfhipman 
with capt. Cook, on his laf voyage 
to the South Seas. In taking aftro- 
nomical obferyations, and furveying 
the various coafts, he proved an 
able affiftant to that great naviga- 
tor, who juftly confidered him as a 
young gentleman of ample promife 
to do honour to the fervice and ey 
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