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13th The Recorder of London 
* made his report of the convicts 
in Newgate, at the two laft feffions, 
when Edward Lowe and William 
Jobbins, the two incendiaries, were 
ordered for execution in Alderfgate- 
ftreet, which has fince taken place, 
over-againft the ruins of Mr. Gild- 
ing’s houfe.’ At the fame time the fol- 
lowing were ordered for execution,- 
at the ufual place, viz. Francis Fon- 
ton, and ‘Thomas Tyler, for forge- 
‘ries; and James Royer, James 
Smith, and Edward Ivory, for coun- 
tefeiting the current coin of the 
kingdom; thefe have likewife been 
executed. But William Slaughter, 
_ James Sullivan, William Burbridge, 
and Thomas Durkin, for burglaries, 
were ordered for tranfportation; as 
was Thomas Brown, for privately 
ftealing. Jane Norton, for fhoplift- 
ing, was ordered to be imprifoned for 
twelve months. And Jofeph Biggs, 
George Storey,and ThomasDunken, 
for breaking a houfe with intent to 
rob, were refpited during pleafure. 
art, . Avery fevere form of thun- 
* der, lightning, and rain, came 
on at London, but nothing like that 
which took place in the fouthern 
parts of Hampfhire and Wilts. The 
Elephant, of 74 guns, was ftruck in 
Portfmouth harbour, in a manner 
fcarcely to be deferibed. The light- 
ning feemed firft to have ftruck the 
heel of the main top-maft, and from 
thence to have defcended down the 
body ofthe maft, which, though a 
ftick of immenfe fize, is fhivered to 
{fplinters. "The iron hoops that fur- 
rounded it, and the woldings, were 
every one broke in {mall pieces, and 
parts thereof driven to the extreme 
parts of the fhip, both fore and aft; 
the fulphurgous fmell, when the fhip 
was firft ftruck, was fo very power- 
ful, that it was difficult the people 
“night. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
below could breathe. This caufed an 
alarm that the fhip was on fire, than 
which nothing can be more dread- 
ful on board a man-of-war. In this 
fearful moment of fufpence, an im- 
menfe fhower of the largeft hail ever 
feen, added to the terrors of the 
But the greateft part of the 
officers and crew being in bed (it 
being year eleven o’clock at night) 
or ufider cover; the direful ettects 
that might have been expected from 
this difafter were hardly felt by 
many on board. 
Was folemnly argued and 
determined, in Bi: Roi of 26th. 
King’s Bench, a queftion of corifi- 
derable importance to the mercan=" 
tile world. It came before the court 
upon a motion for a new trial, ina 
caufe, in which a Mr. Mead was. 
eee: and Meff. Young and Co. 
efendants. The action was brought 
againft the defendants, and the ac- 
ceptors of a bill ofexchange, under the 
following circumftances. ‘The bill was 
drawn by a Mr. Chriftian, whois refi- 
dent at Dunkirk, and dated from that 
place. Itwas fentto the defend- 
ants, who live in London, and made 
payable to a Mr. Henry Davis. 
The defendants, knowing it to be a 
bill of their correfpondent, accord- 
ingly accepted it. The bill after- 
wards furreptitioufly got into the 
hands of another Henry Davis, who 
fraudulently: put his name on the 
back, and carried it to the plaintiff, 
who, finding the acceptors were men 
of refponfibility, gave him the value 
of it, not entertaining the leaft 
doubt but that he was the fame Hen- 
ry Davis to whom it was payable. 
After hearing the counfel on both 
fides, lord Kenyon faid, he was then 
of the fame opinion as he entertain- 
ed when he directed the jury to find 
a verdict for the plaintiff, upon the 
trials 
