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D.D. F.R.S. and F. A. S. well 
known to the literati. of this and 
other countries, as a man of learn- 
ing, and a colleétor of curious and 
valuable books. 
At Vagg farm (near Veuvt, in 
the county of Somerfet), which he’ 
had rented 60 years, Thomas slabs 
aged fol. 
“Hannah Wilkinfon, aged 108, 
In Jamaica,*aged 100, Mrs. E. 
Gibbon, a native of Port Royal. 
i Maryport, Cumberland, aged 
7, Jofeph Peale. 
i Aberdeen, aged 105; Ann 
Bannerman. 
At Crumlin, Ireland, anedia 100, 
Mrs. Mary Tench. 
At Athely, Lancafhire, aged 102: 
years 15 months, Ifaac Hyde. 
Mr. Kendal, the celebrated con- 
ftructor of time-keepers. 
DECEMBER. 
The wrecked veffels on the 
French and Flemifh coatts ex- 
hibit at this time too many melan- 
choly effects of the late hurricane. 
No lefs than twenty-five fail of 
vefiels were loft between Holland 
and Cherbourg; and more than 
400 bodies have been picked up on 
the fands between Oftend and Bou- 
logne. 
rf. 
d On Friday laft lord vifcount 
3° Falkland attended: the court 
of king’s bench, to receive his fen- 
tence, for an aflault on Mr. Henry 
Seymour, an ironmonger at Maiden- 
head, Mr. juftice Afhhurit obferved 
to his lord{hip, that the law, ‘much 
to its honour, regarded the meaneft 
fubjects as much as thofe of the 
higheit rank, and that no elevation 
gould place a man beyond the reach 
of juftice, He then fentenced the 
* 
ANN UAL?TR BGI STE Ry1790. 
right hon, lord to pay a fine 
of 20/. 
Francis Fonton and Thomas 
Tyler, .for forgery ; James 
Royer, James Smith, and Edward 
Ivory, for coining ; were executed 
in the Old Bailey, purfuant to their 
fentences, 
At ten o’clock this morning the 
feffion at the Old Bailey was open- 
ed by the lord mayor, judges Buller 
‘and Atbhurft, and the aldermen 
Newnham and Newman. 
Renwick Williams was put to the 
bar. 
Judge Afhhurft fpoke nearly to 
the following purport: 
Prifoner, You have been capitally 
indicted upon the flatute of the 6th - 
of Geo. I. for that you did on the 
‘18th of January lait, in the parifh «— 
of St. James’s, wilfully and mali-— 
cioufly aflault Ann Porter, and that 
you did, with foree and arms, tear, 
fpoil, cut, and deface her garment, 
namely, a filk gown, and other ap- 
parel ; and the jury have found you 
guilty ; but your counfel have ar- © 
refted the judgment upon two 
‘grounds ; fr/?, to the form of the in- 
dictment; /econdly, to the applica- 
bility fe the act of parliament to 
your particular offence. A majo- 
rity of the judges have, after fo- 
lemn confideration, determined that ° 
both the objections in arreft of 
judgment are well founded. The 
objection to the words of the in- 
dictment, . that you did then and 
there make an affau!lt, and cut and 
tear Ann Porter’s garment, being 
{tated to be done both at one and the 
fame time, is bad in law, for the 
aflault might be made at one time 
and place, and the cutting and tear- ° 
ing at another. In framing indict- , 
ents upon z as of parliament which 
ae life, the law requires that the . 
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