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96th. Stockholm. The punishment 
of John Joseph Ankerstroem ter- 
minated yesterday. It began the 
19th, in virtue of the sentence pro- 
nounced the night before, which 
‘declared him deprived of his rights 
of nobility and of a citizen, with 
infamy. He was conducted, on 
Thursday noon, under the escort 
of a large detachment of the garri- 
son, to the market of L’Ordre 
Equestre (Rittenhaus-market) and 
fastened by an iron collar upon a 
scaffold during two hours, and af- 
terwards whipped with a rod of 
five lashes, at a stake, where, under 
his name, with the title of Regicide 
added, was tied the pistol and the 
knife, the instruments of his crime. 
The same punishment was _repeat- 
ed onthe 20th, at the Hay-mar- 
ket, and the 2lst, at the mar- 
ket of Adolphus Frederic. Yes- 
terday terminated his existence on 
a scaffold, erected in the great 
Square. His right hand was first 
chopped off by the executioner, 
who immediately afterwards be- 
headed him, and then divided his 
body into four quarters, which are 
stuck up in different parts of the 
city. At the commencement of his 
punishment he shewed much con- 
stancy and firmness; but at length 
his strength became exhausted 
from his sufferings; and he was 
obliged to be dragged, being in- 
capable of walking to the places 
of punishment, and executed amidst 
the hisses and hootings of the sur- 
rounding multitudes, which seemed 
considerably to affect him. 
30th. Came on in the Court of 
King’s Bench, the trial of the ac- 
tion brought by Mr. Fox against 
Mr. Horne Tooke, for the sum of 
2001. the costs on presenting to 
Parliament a petition against the 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
late Westminster election(in which 
Mr. Tooke was a candidate) which 
was voted frivolous and vexatious 
by the House of Commons; the 
truth of the facts stated, in which 
however, none of the members ven- 
tured to deny, though by virtue 
of the frivolous and vexatious act of 
Parliament they threw the costs on 
the petitioner. Mr. Tooke de- 
fended his own cause in person, 
in a speech of two hours long, 
characterised by his usual flow of 
argumentative and persuasive elo- 
quence, in which he animadverted 
with just and impartial severity 
on the equally blameable corrupt 
practices of the two factions in their 
electioneering proceedings, on the 
improper interruption he met with 
in the course of his defence from 
the judge who presided at his trial, 
and the still more improper inter- 
ference of Mr, Garrow.—The jury 
retired for four hours and twenty 
minutes, and then gave a verdict 
against Mr. Tooke. 
Diep, At Glasgow, aged 101, 
Mrs. Janet Towns, sister of Sir 
Archibald Primrose. 
Lately at Savanna-la-mar, Ja- 
maica, Flora Gale, a free black 
woman, aged about 120 years. 
This woman retained her faculties 
till within a few months, and could 
walk within three days of her 
death. ‘There was not a house in 
the town when she came to that 
parish ; and she had a perfect re- 
collection of the earthquake in 
1692, which proved fatal to Port 
Royal. She had a numerous pro- 
geny of children, grand-children, 
and great-grand-children. It is 
remarkable that she would never 
be baptized ; and the reason always 
assigned was, that there might be 
a play at her burial. 
MAY. 
