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to walk to St. George’s church, 
Southwark, and back again, which 
he had engaged to perform in 24 
hours, for a wager of 60 euineas. 
At ten o’clock this morning he 
teached Canterbury within two 
miles, and confequently loft his 
wager. His failure was occafioned 
by miftaking the road throxgh 
the darknefs of the night, and go- 
ing round by Greenwich, where he 
fell down feveral times. Hé was 
brought the remainder of the way 
in a carriage, very much exhaufted. 
th, _O2 Monday laft, two troops 
39M oF the Oxford blues, from Pe- 
terborough, marched into Notting- . 
ham, intimation having been given 
of an intended riot among the frame- 
work knitters there. 
On Tuefday an outrageous mob 
colleéted,-and proceeded to fuch atts 
of violence, that the military were 
under the neceffity of firing upon 
them; by which many were wound- 
ed, and upwards of forty of the riot- 
€rs were feized and fent to prifon. 
The difturbance had not fubfided 
on Wednefday, on which day one 
of the officers was much hurt by 
fome glafs bottles thrown at him. 
Intelligence is arrived that Mr. 
M‘Kendrie, who undertook, between 
two and three years ago, to pene- 
trate from Montreal to the ocean, 
has performed his enterprize. He 
took a courfe north-weftward from 
Montreal, and he reached the ocean, 
according to his obfervation, about 
the 69th degree of northern latitude. 
In his track he found the country 
very unpromifing for trade, and very 
uninviting otherways. 
u This day is made memora- 
30% blein the annals of London, by 
the tral of two incendiaries (the moft 
dangerous fet of villains that ever 
entered into combination for the de- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
vaftation of a great and populous 
city), namely Edward Lowe, and 
William Jobbins; the firft in the 23d 
year of his age; the other only in 
his rgth year. Thefe mifcreants, 
in concert with James Flindall, an 
old offender, and Catherine the wife 
of Lowe, conceived the horrid de- 
fign of fetting fire to the houfes of 
their opulent neighbours, not from _ 
malice to their perfons, or any diflike 
of their characters, but merely for 
the fake of plunder. 
Fortunately, they were detected 
while they were yet but young in 
this villainy. Had they lived to 
become proficients, it is not eafy to 
fay to what an extent of devaftation 
they might have carried their mif- 
chievous machinations. At their 
outfet, it appeared upon this trial, 
that they had deftroyed property to 
the value of forty thoufand pounds, 
though all the plunder they had been 
able to realize, at the rifque of their 
lives, did not exceed half fo many 
pence. 
Flindall, being afked by the pri- 
foners’ counfel how he had main- 
tained himfelf before this affair hap- 
pened, made aniwer, with aftonifh- 
ing affurance in the face of the 
whole court, by robbery and thieving. 
This fellow being further afked, by 
the fame counfel, Did you not fear 
that the plan of burning houfes 
might be fatal to the lives of many 
people? plainly fhewed by his an- 
{wer, that it was the very principle 
he went upon, that, when men were 
waked from their fleep with their 
houfes on fire, they would have lit- 
tle concern about their property, 
while under the terror of perifhing 
in the flames; fo that the incendia- 
ries might enrich themfelves with 
the plunder before the owners had 
recovered their confternation. 
Diep, 
