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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



5th. This day the tiial of Mr. 

 Thelwall, before the hi-jh commis- 

 sion court in the Old Bailey, was 

 ended ; and the jury, after retiiing 

 for three quarters of an hour, gave 

 in their verdict " Not Guilty." 



The event of the late important 

 trials, it is lioped, will have the good 

 eifect of conciliating the mind of 

 every Briton to a courlitution, in 

 y. Iiich the lavs are witli such purity 

 administered. Ajid to the inhabi- 

 tnntsof the metropolis, in particular, 

 (t must have been highly gratifying 

 U) behold the pre-eminent di^r.ity 

 and splendour t)f the city of Londonj 

 her magistrates assessors with the 

 greatest number of judges perhaps 

 ever in one commission, in a matter 

 the moi-i critv-al and impertant to 

 the very existence ot religion and 

 law, to government, liberty, and 

 property. 



6th. Lord Abingdon was this day 

 convicted of a libel on Mr. Sermon, 

 a respectable attorney of Gray's inn, 

 being a perliamentary speech of the 

 noble lord, conveyed by him to the 

 public through the channel of a 

 public newspaper. 



7th. A firebrokeoutatthe Crown 

 and Shuttle pubhc-Louse, Shorer 

 ditch ; owipg, it was supposed, to 

 the carelessness of a man who went 

 to bed drunk. The fire raged with 

 great violencefor some time, but \v;is 

 happily got under by the assistance 

 of the engines. The man perished 

 ill the flames ; and, whiit is most 

 surprising, a woman and boy, sup- 

 posed to be his wife and son, left 

 him in bed with an infant, by whose 

 cries the firt- was discovered. 



10th. At Cunby, county of Lin- 

 coln, was shot, b/ Edmund Frost, 

 jut!, game-iiecpcr to sir Pcttr Bui- 

 rel, bart. an e;<glc, wl.ose r^-ings, 

 wvhen extended, measiued nine feet. 



and from the beak to the end of tlie 

 tail, three feet fo\ir inches, and the 

 talons are very thick and Ipng. 



A statement has lately appeared 

 concerning the house of industry at 

 Shrewsbury, for the last ter? years; 

 by which the gentlemen wtio su- 

 perintend this excellent institution 

 prove, that the reduction of the cxv 

 pence of maintaining the poor of 

 that place, in that period, is up- 

 wards of 16,0001. be^iJos a balance 

 of 24-7.31. now in hu;id in favour of 

 the house. Before this new system 

 of mancgement was adopted, the 

 poor's rates of the united pprihhes in 

 Shrcwsburyamounted to 4(j05'.per 

 annum. ()n its establishmen^t th'-y 

 were immediately reduced to 299-!. 

 at which sum they have continued 

 ever since. But another beiefit has 

 arisen, of infinitely greater import- 

 ance than the pecuniary savings ;- 

 which is the wise plan adopted fur 

 improving llie moi.ils of the poor, 

 by training up the children in habits 

 of citanliness, industry, and virtue. 

 The best families are now solicitous 

 to obtain servants from the house of 

 industry ; and as soon as the chil^ 

 dren grow up fit for places, they 

 find a preference to any other ser- 

 vants th.at are to be hired. 



13th. Early this morning afire 

 bvak.' cut at Ccfn, the i^sidence of 

 llogci- Kenyon,esq. which extended 

 so rapidly tlirough theintenor parts 

 of the house, tliat the family, v, ho 

 were all in bed, had scarcely time 

 to escape the dreadful ravages of the 

 llr.m.es. The alarm being given, a 

 gruat numbtr of persons soon col- 

 let fc', by whose exertions, "assisted 

 tj the "Wii'xhrm enpnes, the fire 

 wriG prevented nom communicating 

 to any of the adiactnt bi'.. . L.gs,' 

 which in all probability wcuif. have j, 

 been demoLshed. The inside of the m 



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