O ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



APRIL. 



lA. Bury, Suffolk. Th'smorniner 

 werf exccnred, pu>-suant to their 

 eciUeiict, John and Nathan Nichols, 

 fsthpr and son, for the wilful murder 

 of Sarah Nichols, daughter to the 

 one and sister to the cthvr. The fa- 

 tlitr and brother way-laid the help- 

 less girl in the evening of the 14th 

 ot September last ; the former drew 

 a stake out of a hedge, arid, giving 

 it to his son, Urged him with threats 

 to commit the horrid deed ; where- 

 upon the boy, striking liis sister on 

 the head, knocked her down, and 

 repeated his blows till he had de- 

 prived her of life : he afterwards, at 

 his father's desire, went and tied one 

 of her garters round her neck, and 

 dragged her into a ditch, where she 

 was ft)und the nrxt morning. Na- 

 than Nichols was nineteen, and his 

 imfortunate sister seventeen, years of 

 age. On their arrival at the fatal 

 tree, thcyboth persisted in their in- 

 nocence ; and, notwithstanding the 

 very ample confession of the boy, he 

 then said his father was innocent, 

 for all he knew, of thefact for which 

 they were to suffer. The behaviour 

 of the elder Nichols was very un- 

 daunted, declaring his innocence to 

 the last moment. After hanging the 

 usual time, the body of the elder 

 Nichols was conveyed to Faken- 

 ham, to be hung in chains, and the 

 voun'rer our was taken for dissection 

 ut Bury. John Nichols was about 

 sixty years of age, and had been 

 many years employed as hedge car- 

 penter to the Duke of Grafton. 



jtU. At two o'clock, the lo'd 

 mayor, accompanied by a select com- 

 mittee of thccorpoiationof Londont 

 proceeded Irom the Mansion-house 

 to New Burlington-street, t!vt resi- 

 denceof Marquis Coinwaliis, atttiid- 



ed by the city marshal on horseback, 

 music, and colours, to present that 

 nobleman wi^h the freedom of the 

 city, in a gold box of one hundred 

 guineas v^hie. When the gold box 

 was delivered by the chamberlain, 

 thelord mayor addressed hislordsbip 

 in a handsome speech. The mar- 

 quis returned his thank- to the loid 

 mayor for the very flattering manner 

 in which the fieedom had been pre- 

 sented to him. The committee then 

 returned, with the marquis and his 

 friends, to a very elegant entertain- 

 ment that h.Td been prepared for 

 them at the Mansion-house. 



tith. Brussih. On Wednesday, 

 about five o'clock in the afternoon, 

 the emperor our king gratified the 

 wishes of the Helj^nans, by honour- 

 ing this city with his presence. The 

 states, in a body, prt sentcd the keys 

 to his majesty at the gate of Lou- 

 vain, on which the following inscrip- 

 tion was read :— 



" Casar adeSt, tremrnt Gal/i.'' 

 Young men, dressed in white scarfs, 

 representing his people, drew slowly 

 the coach. Some detachments of 

 cavalrv preceded and followed at -a 

 certain distance. The procession re- 

 paired to the church of St. Gudule, 

 where the Te Deum was chaunted. 

 His majesty pnssed afterward* 

 through a part of this city, amidst im- 

 mense cr<)v\ds who thronged on his 

 passage, rending theairwithtbecricS 

 of Vive rEnipcreur ! Vive le Rot ! 



I4tb. At ihe assizcsat Bristol, he- 

 fore Vickcry Gibbs, esq. recorder, 

 commenced the trial of Mr. R- V. 

 Perry, charged wirh having forcibly, 

 and without hercoitsent, taken Miss 

 C. Clarke from a bearding school 

 in thifi city. The prosecution wns 

 opened in a verv ab e speech, by 

 Mr» Bond. EvidmcB was then 

 cxan.incd^ on the part of the pr«- 



lecution, 



