

CHRONICLE. 



his attachment to the muses, did not 

 ■wholly disregard the god of riches, 

 and is supposed to have left a very- 

 considerable fortune to his family, 

 or, contrary to the usual turn of 

 poets, he was severely economi- 

 cal. 



17th. At his prebendal house in 

 the college at Ely, at the advanced 

 age of eighty-siv, the rev. James 

 B«-itham, M. A. F. A. S. preben- 

 dary in that cathedral, and rjctor of 

 Bow-Briclihill, in the county of Buc- 

 , kingha;n ; well known in thelearn- 

 '■• ed world as the author of " The, 

 History and A iniquities of the Con- 

 ventual and Cathedral Church of 

 E'y ;" and universally respected in 

 the society of that place, where he 

 constantly resided, for his piety and 

 humility, for the gentleness and 

 amiable simplicity of his manners, 

 and his unv.-earied endeavours to 

 promote the interest and welfare of 

 his native city and isle, through the 

 whole course of his life. 



At Rome, after a long illness, 

 aged 79 years and five months, car- 

 dinal de Bernis. He was one of 

 the most remarkable men in the 

 reign of Louis XV. whether as a 

 >■ courtier, a man of letters, a poet, or 

 a negociator. He has left :j()0,000 

 crowns in effects, money, jewels, 

 &c. particularly 80,000 crowns in 

 plate ; all which he has, by will, put 

 into the hands of the chevalier 

 d'Azara, the Spanish minister, to 

 whom Ik- lias recommended his fa- 

 mily in the order in which they 

 would be entitled as heirs. 



DECEMBER. 



1st. The judges imder the special 

 commission met at the Old Bniley, 

 when John Augustus Bonney, Jere- 



miah Joyo-,Ste>vT-<1 K-, l,andTho- 

 mas Holcroft, ight to the 



bar; and the jury d-j-h;; sworn in, 

 and the prison-.-rs arraigned in due 

 form, the atton.cy-general said, 

 « thrit vvhoa he, o,i the last trials, 

 had the honour to stand tb:;re"in the 

 discharge of hi:; olflcial duty, he had 

 addressed thc'ur^- o,i those occasions 

 in order t. > - grounds of the 



prosecution, a;; a ur.it the juries on 

 those tpals had found a verdict of 

 NotG ■-! '. It then became his 

 duty i^ v...,o.dv>r wliat wa^s proper 

 for him to do in respoct to the pub- 

 lic and the prisoners at the bar. 

 The result of the consideration was 

 that as the evidence adduced on 

 those trials, and that which applied 

 to the prisoners, were the sanie, and 

 as, after the best consideration, the 

 perso-.is had been acquitted, hewould 

 submit to the jury and the' court, 

 whether the prisoners should not be 

 acquitted, andforthatpurpose would 

 not trouble them by goiag into evi- 

 dence." The lord chief-justice then 

 said to the jury — " Gentlemen, as 

 there is no evid.nce, you must of 

 course find the prisoners not gudty." 

 The jury then pronounced a verdict 

 of" Not Guiky ;" and, by direction 

 of the court, the prisoners were dis- 

 charged. 



The mails from Scotland, York- 

 shire, the whole of the North, Lin- 

 colnshire, Cambridgeshire, &c. were 

 nearly lost on Che diuQjt Wash this 

 morning about four o'clock'; they 

 were obliged to lel-virn to Hoddeb- 

 don to get a chaise, and cross the 

 country to Hatfield, and by Barnet. 

 Thay arrived at the General Post- 

 ofiice about nine o'clock, which ii? 

 about four hours after tlicir u.sual 

 time. The exertions of the guards 

 on this -occasion are very commend- 

 able. 

 D 4. 5th. 



