48, 
may retire, should they fail in ob- 
taining what they now seem to con- 
sider as essential to the being of 
freemen, the elective franchise. 
The second object is, that they may 
be a source of profit, should their 
Situation in their native country be 
made such as to induce them to re- 
main in it. This measure of the 
Catholics, should it be carried into 
execution, must very deeply interest 
the national welfare. Nothing has 
occurred in Irish polities, within the 
present century, more worthy the 
attention of the politician and the 
statesman. 
“15th. Thursday evening a car, 
with some cotton wefts, woollen 
and linen yarn, which Mr. Grey, of 
Francis-street, was sending to his 
factory at Balbriggan, was stopped 
by an armed body of weavers on 
the road between Drumcondra and 
Santry. The driver, after being 
struck with a broad-sword, was ob- 
liged to suffer his horse, car, and the 
goods in his charge, to be taken 
away by this lawless mob, who tri- 
umphantly conveyed it to Marrow- 
bone-lane, where they burnt the 
wool, the yarn, and the car. 
“Yesterday one of the persons 
guilty of the abuve offence, was 
taken by a party of the police ; and, 
on the information of the carman, 
was committed by Alderman Flem- 
ing for trial. 
~ 17th. A court-martial commenc- 
ed on board the Duke, in Ports- 
mouth harbour, on Wednesday the 
12th instant, on acharge of mutiny 
on the28th of April, 1787, on board 
his M ajesty’s armed vessel Bounty, 
for running away with the ship, and 
deserting his Majesty’s service, 
against Joseph Coleman, Charles 
Norman, Thomas Mackintosh, Pe- 
ter Haywood, Isaac Morris, John 
Milward, William Muspratt, Tho- 
ANNUAL, REGISTER, 1792. 
mas Birkett, Thomas Ellison,and 
Michael Byrn, ‘The evidence for 
the prosecution closed on Friday 
night, the 14th instant, and t 
court indulged the prisoners. ti 
Monday to give in their defence, 
and on Tuesday took the whole in- 
to their consideration; when they | 
were pleased to pass sentence of 
death on Haywood, Morris, Mill- 
ward, Muspratt, Birkett, and Elli- 
son, the two first of whom the court 
recommended tomercy. Coleman, 
Norman, Mackintosh, and Byrn, 
were acquitted and discharged. _ 
19th. The sessions ended at the 
Old Bailey, when the folowing ca- 
pital convicts received sentence of 
death, viz. Thomas Crumps, John 
Dean, William Wane, Thomas Kirk, 
Robert Wallace, Thomas Sticks, 
alias Wood, Thomas Cook, John 
Cook, Richard Stanniforth, James 
Aulkin, alias Allkin, Mary Burgess, 
and John Smith, alias Ireson. 
The judgment upon Isaac Moore, 
a letter carrier, convicted this ses- 
sion, is respited for the opinion of 
the judges, Whether stealing half a 
bank-note is felony ? ' 
21st. The Royal party lately rede 
out from Weymouth to Dorchester, 
and surveyed the new county-gaol ; 
when a farmer, who had been, con- 
fined for seven years for a debt in- 
curred by a lawyer's bill, on his - 
knees presented a petition, stating 
the particulars to his Majesty. His 
Majesty was most graciously pleased 
to pay the money (2201.) and the 
man was immediately liberated.— 
His name is Pitfield, iv 
Accounts from the north are of 
the most lamentable kind, concern- 
ing the immense loss of sheep by 
the floods, and the miserable state 
of their corn, laid flat by the rains, 
. 
and the little hopes of its ri 
fit for the sickle. Sn i 
Lan- 
