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CHRON T CLE 
Drep, at Bourn, in the county of 
_ Lincoln, aged 102, James Quan- 
borcugh. 
At Battyready, near Rofs, Ire- 
land, aged 107, William Butler. 
At the Hague, in the 84th year 
of his age, and 6oth of his miniftry, 
Henry Fagel, greffier to the States 
General. He is fucceeded in his 
office by his grandfon. 
~ Mr, John Edwin, the Comair 
NOVEMBER. 
Advices have been received at 
Madrid, that the city of Oran, on - 
the coaft of Africa, has béen almoft 
entirely demolifhed by a violent 
‘ earthquake ; that twenty fucceflive 
__fhocks were felt at fhort intervals. 
_ The whole’ city is deftroyed, and a 
_ great part of the inhabitants and of 
the garrifon are buried under the 
ruins, Almoft all the forts which 
cover that place and its diftri€t are 
_ open or deftroyed, fo as not to be in 
a fituation to refift an attack. ‘The 
interior part of the garrifon is in 
+ ruins in many places, and the con- 
fiderable number of people, who 
were wounded and not actually 
killed by this difafter, remained 
Without affiftance. 
Accounts have alfo been received 
from Carthagena, of a fire which hap- 
ed a fhort time ago in that dock- 
yard, and which, besides doing other 
damage, has entirely confumed a 
néw fhip of the line. 
a A violent ftorm blew from 
5% the fouth-weft, Among*the 
many accidents by falls of chimnies 
in the metropolis, the moft remarka- 
bie happened at the houfe of J. An- 
geritein, efq. in Pall-Mall. A ftack 
‘in the center of the houfe broke 
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through the roof, and carried before _ 
it the floors ofall the ftories, leaving 
the hall open to the roof. Mrs. 
Angerftein, who was at breakfaft in 
her drefling-room, was left behind 
on the rgmains of its floor, with her 
maid: the men-fervants had juft be- 
fore quitted the hall. 
At Serjeant’s-inn-hall, ele- 
ven of the Judges confulted 
upon the cafe refervedat the Old-Bai- 
ley feffion, refpecting the indictment 
againit Renwick Williams, the fup- 
pofed Mox/ter. 
The quettions were, fir, Whether 
his having an intention to cut the 
perfon of Mifs Porter, and in carry- 
ing that intention into execution, 
cutting the garments of that lady, 
is an offence, within the ftatute of 
6 Geo. I. c. 23. f. 11, on which he 
was convicted; the jury giving in’ 
their verdict, found, that in cutting 
her perfon he had thereby an in- 
tention to cut her garments? Se- 
condly, Whether the ftatute being 
in the conjunfive, “ That if.any 
perfon fhall affault another with an 
intent to cut the garment of fuch 
perfon, aud thall cut the garment of 
fuch perfon, then the offender fhail 
be guilty of felony;”? and the in- 
diétment, in ftating the intention, 
not having connected it with the act, 
by inferting the words that he “ hex 
and there” did cut her garment, 
could be fupported in point ef 
form ? 
Nine of the eleven judges were 
of opinion, that the’offence, notwith- 
ftanding the finding of the jury, was 
not within the ftatute, and that the 
indictment was bad in point of form. 
This determination declares the 
offenge to be only a mifdemeanor, 
for which, in all probahility, Wil- 
liams will be inditted at the nex® 
feffions at Hicks’s-hall, 
17th, 
18th. The 
