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utmo.l precifion fhould be obferved. 
With refpect to the fecond objec- 
tion, namely, that your crime is not 
‘within the intent of the act, it is 
confidered that the aft is made for 
a particular purpofe, that of wan- 
tonly cutting, tearing, &c. for the 
mere fake of mifchiet, and not with 
any previous malicious intention. 
“Now an affault, cutting, &c. mut 
have fuch a premeditated intention, . 
and therefore the indiétment is not 
within the purview of the act. But 
although the Jénity of the law has 
fo far judged favourably of your 
cafe, yet God forbid that the com- 
mon law of the land fhould not 
reach fuch an enormity as you have 
committed, and that you fhould not 
be punifhed for your temerity: you 
are therefore to be remanded, to 
take your trial for the mifdemeanour 
at common law.”’ 
or Renwick Williams was 
a brought from Newgate to the 
feffions houfe on Clerkenwell Green, 
and put on his trial. 
Mr. Pigott opened on behalf of 
the crown, and told the jury that 
the indiétment was for an afau/t and 
battery only. 
‘The evidence of Mifs Ann Por- 
ter and her fifter was then given. 
It was in fubftance the fame as that 
delivered on the former tria!. All the 
other evidence was in the fame flate. 
At half paft one next morning 
she caufe ended ; and the jury, after 
confulting ten minutes, found him 
Guilty. 
He was conviéted on two other in- 
dictments, and has been fentenced 
to fix years imprifonment. 
14th A chapter of the moft noble 
* order of the garter was held 
after the levee broke up, at which 
were prefent the king, prince of 
Wales, dukes of York and Gloucef- 
tes, and marquis of Stafford, when his 
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ferene highnefs the duke of Saxe 
Gotha, his grace the duke of Leeds, 
and the earl of Chatham, were chofen 
to fill up the vacant ftalls. The. 
duke of Leeds and earl Chatham 
were feverally introduced, and, af-. 
ter being knighted, were invetted 
with the blue ribbon, with the ufual 
ceremonies. ; = 
Sunday morning laft. the inhabi- 
tants of Banbury were alarmed by 
the fudden falling in of the princi- 
pal aifle of the church, for the tak- 
ing down and rebuilding of which 
an act had paffed in the laft par- . 
liament. Providentially feveral per- 
‘fons had jult left church; and had 
it not fallen, it was intended thht 
the workmen fhould have begun. 
taking it down on the morrow, in 
which cafe many lives would pro- 
bably have been loft. The crath 
was heard near two miles from the 
fpot. On the following day the 
tower likewife fell. 
The adjourned feffion at 
the Old Bailey ended, when 
35 men and 4 women, ¢apitally 
convitted, received his majeity’s 
pardon on conditios-of being tran{ 
ported during their natural lives; 
three were pardoned on condition of 
being tranfported for 14 years ; and 
twofor7 years. Mary Talbot refnfed 
to accept his majefty’s pardon. She 
faid her return from tranfportation 
18th, 
was on account of three dear infants, - 
and that as fhe could not take 
them with her, fhe had rather die. 
‘The recorder pointed out the dread- 
ful precipice on which the ftood ; as it 
was mott likely, when her refufal was 
reported to his majeity, fhe would 
be ordered for execution. She hil] 
perfilted, and was taken from the 
bar in {trong convulfions, _The be- 
haviour of fome of the convicts upon 
the above occafion was? extren:ely ’ 
riotous, infolent, and noify, 
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