S8 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



ship-timber, thelading of wluchthe 

 empress has strictly forbidden. 



The prince-bishop of Fassau, in 

 Bavaria, lias ordered the mode of 

 tcachiiiEjusedhy llie ancitiujesuits, 

 to be reintroduced in the schools of 

 the circle. Several professors, ad- 

 verse to this measure, hn^ e been 

 dismissed from their oiTices, and ba- 

 nishtd the principality. 



The papal statf, and other itisignin, 

 have lately been burnt by the popu- 

 lace at Antwerp. All coaches, three 

 excepted, have been sentto Fra ice, 

 and the horses marked with the re- 

 publican signature; and so great has 

 been the want of provisions, that 

 three persoiis, unable to hear their 

 sufferings any longer, killed each 

 otherby mutual consent. Bread is 

 only to be procured in the inns, and 

 at Bois-'e-Duc a' pound of buitcr 

 costs forty stivers. 



The accounts received by tlie 

 American packet are replete with 

 the most distressing intelligence of 

 the renewed havock of the yellow 

 fever at Philadelphia. — At the 

 house of Mr. Cliirord, in WateK 

 street, several persons had died in 

 consequence of it, and in the two 

 adjoining streets 'he mortalit)- had 

 beenalarming. AtEa tinK.re and 

 Newhaven,in Connecticut, it had 

 been fatal to great numbers. It is 

 some consolation to hear, that 5t is 

 not so contagious as the fever that 

 raged on that continent last year ; 

 and the coolness of the weather, it 

 was hoped, wouldchcck its ravages. 



The legislature of Pennsylvania,, 

 with a view to soften the rigour of 

 penal law, have passed an act, de- 

 claring that no crime, exdfcpt mur- 

 der of the first degree, shall be pu- 

 nished with deatli. Murder in the 

 first degree is defined to be killing 

 by n^eans of poiscn,bylyingin wait, 

 or with ether kind of wilful delibe- 



rate, premeditated intrntion, or 

 which shall be' cotrmitted -in the 

 perpetration or attempt to perpe- 

 trate any arson, rape, robbery, or 



burg 



All other kinds of killinjr 



slial! be deemed murder in the se- 

 cond degree.; The kind of murder 

 to be ascertained by a jury. Persons 

 liable to he prosecuted for petit 

 treason shall be proceeded against 

 aiul puniihed as in other cates of 

 murder. High treafon is punished 

 with confinement in the prison and 

 the pe!,itentlary house, not less than 

 §ix nor more than twelve years; rape*^ 

 not less than ten nor more than 

 tv,xrity-one years ; murder of the se- 

 cond degree, not less than five nor 

 morethaneighteen years; forgery not 

 less than four nor more than fifteen 

 years, with payment of a fine not 

 to exceed lQt)0 dollars ; m.anslangh- 

 ter not kss than two nor more than 

 ten years, and giving security for 

 good behaviour during life j maim- 

 ing not less than two nor more tLan 

 ten years, with a fine not exceeding 

 1000 dollars. Persbns being char- 

 ged with invohmtary manslaughter, 

 the attorney-general, with leave of 

 the c<*irti may wave the felony, and 

 proeeed against them as for a mii;- 

 demeanour, jfnd give in evidence ar.y 

 act ught r; or the attorney 



may . .. . ^- both offences m the same 

 indictment, and tlic jury may acquit 

 the person of one or both. The be- 

 nefit of clergy is for ever aholis-hed. 

 •> Died. At Bengal, sir William 

 Jones, one of the judgcsrof the 

 supreme court there. His death is 

 a great lo.ss to the republic of letter.':, 

 for he had made profound researches 

 into the literature of the East, and 

 with great success. He was hirhself 

 a very good poet ; and to his trans- 

 lations v.e are indebted for many 

 beautiful effusions of the Persian 

 muse. Sir William, hov ..v. r, amidst 



his 



