CHRONICLE. 
pite of thirty days allowed them by 
law, to put in an arrest of judg- 
ment, or petition their sovereign 
for pardon. 
Dublin. A lady of fortune, in 
Denmark-street, having conceived 
a strong affection for a gentleman 
at the Irish bar, and not meeting 
with a reciprocal return, has been 
unhappily deranged in her intel- 
lJects, from the excess of her love 
and disappointment. Some cu- 
rious circumstances relative to this 
affair have recently transpired.— 
The lady, unable to make any im- 
pression by the ordinary efforts of 
female practice, sent a confiden- 
tial maid-servant with bank-note 
after bank-note to the gentleman, 
till 11001. had been expended in 
this species of nowvelle love-letters. 
It may be easily conceived that the 
gentleman, whose name, on a de- 
licate affair of this nature, it 
would be injustice to make public, 
possessed too nice a sense of ho- 
nour to be concerned in so base a 
communication. The fact is, that 
the fille de chambre deceived her 
mistress, and had gone so far as 
to deliver forged letters, thanking 
her for her favours, and express- 
ing an ardent wish to make a re- 
turn, &c. The servant is de- 
camped, and was traced to have 
taken shipping at Dover for Hol- 
land ; there, it is supposed, to en- 
joy her ill-acquired property.. The 
unfortunate young lady since that 
period has been confined in Swift’s 
ospital. She is, however, now 
nearly recovered. A jury lately 
sat to determine on her sanity or 
insanity ; and the verdict that they 
have returned is, “ that she is not 
incapable of managing her own 
affairs ;”’ so that there is a prospect 
‘of her being restored to her friends 
“and the world. 
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Lanerk. Mr. David Dale, of 
this place, in the course of six 
years has reared a village on the 
banks of the Clyde, containing 
2000 persons; and erected five 
cotton-mills, each of which con- 
tains 6000 spindles. The various 
provisions which this extraordinary 
man has made for the health of the 
children employed by him, is 
highly praiseworthy. They have 
every day some hours allotted to 
them for exercise in the fields; 
and their looks bespeak health and 
vigour. These hours of relaxation 
the boys enjoy in succession, Their 
apartments are likewise clean and 
well-aired, and ten school-masters 
are daily employed in their tuition. 
Within these forty years past, 
the population of Scotland has con- 
siderably increased. It appears 
from Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical 
Account of that country, that in 
fifty parishes, taken | indiscrimi- 
nately from one end of the king- 
dom to the other, there is an in-. 
crease since 1755 (at which the 
late Rev. Dr, Webster calculated 
the whole inhabitants at 1,265,380) 
of 10,517 souls; which is at the 
rate of 210 to a parish, or 189,000 
in the 900 country parishes of 
North Britain; and as the great 
towns (Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c.) 
have probably increased to the 
amount of 210,000, the total in- 
crease in Scotland, in less than 
forty years, will be about 400,000, 
and the total population about 
1,700,000 souls. 
The following clause in the act, 
passed Inst session, respecting ser- 
vants’ characters, may be of much 
benefit, the more generally it is 
made known, viz. ** That if, after 
the Ist of June, 1792, any person 
shall falsely personate any master 
or mistress, to give any false, 
- forged, 
