CHRONICLE. 
be solemnly decided in a court of 
judicature. For this purpose Ze- 
chariah Brown, a tanner at Wy- 
mondham, entered an action against 
Mr. Arnal Cooper Fayerman, of 
London, for having carried on and 
exercised the trade of tanning !ea- 
ther, without being qualified as the 
act directs; when, after hearing 
the evidence of many respectable 
witnesses, the jury gave a verdict 
for the plaintiff, with 5]. damages. 
A mill has been invented in 
Yorkshire, by which the cordage is 
manufactured from so small a size 
as whip-cord up to the heaviest ca- 
ble of a first-rate ship of war (which 
to make in the common way will 
require eighty hands) and which, 
by this new machinery, may be 
completely managed by one man. 
22d. An action was tried in the 
court of Common Pleas, to re- 
cover from the warden of the Fleet 
a debt due from the Count de 
Verteillac, whose ingenious escape 
lately attracted public notice. Se- 
veral actions depended on the 
event of this trial—The jury gave 
a verdict against the defendant, 
though he did not appear to have 
been criminally negligent; but 
Lord Loughborough stated it aslaw, 
that nothing but irresistible force 
{such as the riots in 1780) could be 
pleaded in excuse for a goaler, who 
is bound to keep his prisoners safe. 
The hop-binds, which have hi- 
therto been totally useless, have 
been in one instance, at Newbury 
in Berks, converted into a manu- 
facture. Being dressed in the 
manner of flax, coarse bagging has 
been made of them, well adapted 
to inclose their produce. 
A few days ago, on the Stanley 
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estate of Lord Lonsdale, near 
Whitehaven, the earth began to 
sink into an old coal pit; the width 
of the aperture was at first onl 
six or seven yards, but the land 
continuing gradually to fall in, 
‘whilst immense spouts of water 
issued out, in a few hours one acre, 
one rood, and twenty-four perches 
of ground disappeared. A small ri- 
vulet has since been turned into 
the pit to prevent a further sinking 
of the ground. 
This day the following bills re- 
ceived the royal assent by commis- 
sion, viz. the Exchequer Joan bills, 
the American intercourse bill, the 
Boroughbridge and Northallerton 
road bill; eight other public bills, 
and eight private ones, 
19th. At the Worcester assizes, 
the claimants on the Halfshire and 
Penshore Hundreds in Worcester- 
shire, respecting the Birmingham 
riots, obtained verdicts as follows: 
Damages 
Claimed. — given. 
£ sa #£ 
J. Taylor.... 3889 4 4 2700 
T. Russell .. 285 11 7 160 
W. Pidcock.. 55615 7 300 
J. Harwood... 143 12 6 60 
T. Hawkes... 304 3 84 90 
Buitoxmaug 336 13 74 254 
J. Wakeman 967 14 11 200 
Dollax Chapel 198 9 0 139 
W. Russell .. 2579 & O 1600 
8511 14 3 5503 
30th. Diep, by the hands of an 
assassin, Gustavus III. King of 
Sweden.* The circumstances of his 
murder were as follows: His Ma- 
jesty was at supper in a room ad- 
joining the opera, on the 16th inst. 
®* Fora sketch of this monarch's character, and an account of the revolution he 
effected in the constitution of his country, sce Annual Register for 1778, p.28, et seq. 
when 
