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told him there was no necessity 
for giving himself the trouble; and 
immediately found the defendant 
Guilty. The court was crowded 
at avery early hour of the morning; 
‘and soon after nine o’clock the 
Hall was filled even to the outside- 
doors of the passage leading to it. 
When the trial was over, and Mr. 
Erskine had got into his carriage, 
some persons took the horses off, 
and dragged it very quietly to his 
house in Serjeant’s Inn. 
20th. Leicester. At the Agricul- 
tural Society-meeting of this place, 
premiums were given to five poor 
men for bringing up large families 
without parish assistance; and also 
to five servants in husbandry for 
long and faithful services. 
22d. A motion was made in the 
court of Admiralty, Doctor’s Com- 
mons, on behalf of the India Com- 
pany, to be heard by petition and 
council against a decree of the 
High Court of Appeals in the Chin- 
surah prize-cause, whenthe learned 
judge Sir James Marriott, repre- 
hended the mover, and said, he 
could not admit so indecent a pro- 
ceeding. He insisted on an obe- 
dience to the order of the court, 
and said, when an attempt of that 
nature was made to sport with jus- 
tice, it was high time the courts 
should stretch forth the strong arm 
of the law, in justification of indi- 
viduals. He also said, ‘the au- 
thority of the court extended to 
the shutting up the doors of the 
India-House; could reach their 
chairman, their treasure and their 
cash; and ordered the syndic of 
the company to. appear personally 
in court next court-day, to hear 
the order of the court; and would 
insist on the estimates of that cap- 
om ig 
ture being delivered in before 
Christmas, saying, he knew. that, 
all the accounts of the company, 
down to the lowest domestic, are 
always regularly made up to that 
time. Ba 
In the course of the year 1792, 
12114 ships passed the sound, viz. 
4345 British, 1362 Danish, 65 Rus- 
sians, 209 Dantzickers, 142 Papen- 
burghers, 40 Imperialists, 737 Prus- 
sians, 2181 Hollanders, 188. Bre- 
mens, 2132 Swedes, 86 Lubeckers, 
15 Oldenburghers, 83 Hamburgh- 
ers, 388 Rostockers, 21 Courland- 
ers, 11 Portuguese, 25 French, 74 
Americans, and. 40. Spaniards ; 
which is about 1000 ships more 
than have been employed in any 
preceding year in the Baltic trade. 
Upwards of 600 of this additional 
number are British. 
Diep, at his seat the Chateau 
de. Navarre, in Normandy, in his” 
65th year, and after a lingering 
illness, that had confined him ‘se- 
veral years to the house, his Se- 
rene Highness Godefroy dela 
Tour D’ Auvergne, reigning Duke 
of Bouillon, &c. Agreeably to the 
dispositions of the late Duke of 
Bouillon, formally recognized by 
ths King of Great Britain and the 
French nation, Captain d’Au-~ 
vergne, of the British navy, suc- 
ceeds to all the honours and 
possessions of his Serene High- 
ness. 
In his ninety-first year, at his 
villa near Painreuf, in Brittany,, 
M. Bathieux, a very ingenious ar- 
tist, distinguished for some capital 
paintings, particularly the defeat 
of the Turks in Italy in 1665, 
(highly esteemed by the virtuosi) as 
well as some admirable portraits 
in the style of Vandyke. 
D2 ; BIRTHS. 
