22 
Mary Brown, the servant of Mrs. 
Phipoe, gave an account. of the 
transa€tion as above, as did the 
other witnesses, 
The jury, without leaving the 
box, pronounced the prisoner— 
Guilty. 
The prisoner’s counsel moved an 
arrest of judgment, upon the ground 
that the offence did not come with- 
in the meaning of the statute, the 
note not being in any legal sense 
the property of the prosecutor, at 
the time it was alleged to have been 
forcibly taken from him by the pri- 
soner. 
James Lyons, who remained on 
commitment for having forged re- 
ceipts in the three per cent. consol. 
to the amount of 14401. with intent 
to defraud the governor and com- 
pany of the bank of England, was 
brought up for judgment. Mr. 
justice Grose informed the prisoner, 
that it was the opinion of the 
judges, that the crime which he 
was guilty of was not that stated 
in the indi&tment, The judges were 
therefore agreed, that judgment 
should be given against the crown. 
Mr. Lyons addressed the court by 
saying that an ation was brought 
against him in the court of King’ 5 
Bench, and a verdi€ of soool., 
given, which happened in conse~ 
quence of his papers being detain~ 
ed; he therefore begged that the 
court would order them to be re- 
turned, 
Mr. justice Grose informed him, 
that his appplication must be to the 
court of King’s Bench,—-Ordered 
back into custody. 
This morning the new- 
ereCted horse-barracks at 
Rumford, in Essex, were burnt 
down to the ground, except a small 
division of the building uncom. 
27th, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1705. 
pleted. ‘The accident was. owing 
to the carelessness of some work- 
men, in letting a fire communicate 
tosome shavings. The loss is com. 
puted at. 10,000. 
Dizp—At his house in Great 
Poland.street, in the ssth’year of 
his age, James Boswell, esq. Of 
this celebrated biographer of John- 
son,- we shall give some anecdotes 
in a subsequent part of this vo. 
lume. 
j U.N Es 
A general court was held at 
the East India house, to deter. 
mine by ballot the following ques. 
tion, carried at thé last court, viz. 
‘© That this court do recommend, 
that the court of directors should 
apply to Warren Hastings, esq. for, 
a statement of the legal expences 
incurred by him in making his de. 
fence; and that after having as. 
certained the same, by a full and 
satistactory investigation, they do 
discharge the amount thereof, not 
exceeding the sum of 71,000l. 
The ballot commenced at eleven 
o’clock, and continued till six in” 
the afternoon, when the glasses 
were closed, and delivered to the 
scrutimers; and about a quarter 
past eight, the deputy chairman, 
attended. by some other directors, 
entered the court-room, and de. 
clared the numbers to be as fol. 
lows: :; 
For the question 544 
Against tt - - 244 
Majority - 300 
And on the 2d a genera] court 
was held for determining by ballot 
the following question : : 
‘© That it is the opinion of this 
court, 
Ist. 
