CHRON] Ci. E. 
court, that in consideration of the 
long, faithful, and important ser- 
vices of Warren Hastings, esq. and 
to mark the grateful sense enter- 
tained by this company of the ex- 
tensive benefits which they have 
réceived from those services, a 
grant of an annuity of scool. from 
the ist of January 1795, to issue 
from the territorial revenues, during 
the term of the company’s pre- 
sent exclusive trade, to Warren 
Hastings, esq. his executors, ad- 
ministrators, and assigns, be pre- 
pared by the court of dire¢tors, 
and submitted to the board of 
commissioners for the affairs of In- 
dia, for their approval and con- 
firmation, pursuant to the att of 
parliament.’’ 
On casting up the votes the num. 
bers were, 
For the question - 508 
Against it - - - 220 
Majority - 288 
Bath. Yesterday a dread- 
act of desperation was 
committed in this city by John 
White, a young man about nine- 
teen, who got up in the morning, 
procured a brace of pistols, which 
he loaded, and with coolness and 
deliberation walked into the school. 
room of Maria Bally, inCorn-street, 
an amiable young woman, to whom 
- he was affectionately attached, and 
after a short conversation, present- 
ed one of the pistols to her head, 
and shot her instantly dead, The 
noise of the pistol, and the smoke, 
greatly terrified the children in the 
school, and their cries alarming the 
neighbours, he was taken into cus- 
tody coming out at the door. The 
mayor shortly after summoned his 
jury, and a verdict of wilful mur- 
der was brought in against him. 
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When before the magistrate. he 
behaved with much decency; and 
on being asked the cause of his 
committing so horrid’a deed, said 
it was for contemned love; and 
whether he was not terrified at 
the idéa of the punishment that 
awaited him both here and here- 
after? He replied, that David hav- 
ing caused the death of Uriah to 
obtain Bathsheba, and been for. 
given, he also hoped forgiveness, 
When the mistress of the house 
where he lodged came in, and in 
bitter tears lamented his fate, and 
that she should never see him 
more, his agony was very piercing, 
and deeply affected all present, 
He is committed to Ilchester gaol 
for trial. 9 
Brighton. The Oxfordshire 
regiment marched on Friday 
night last, at eleven o’clock, from 
Seaford, in order to attend the exe. 
cution of the two men who were 
condemned py. a general court mar. 
tial for riotous and disorderly con: 
du@. The hour of four was the 
time appointed to assemble. On 
the march the regiment halted ;- 
and twelve men who had takena 
part in the riot were called out ;— 
when the commanding officer or- 
dered them to fix their flints, and 
prepare to execute the sentence, 
This was done to demonstrate to 
the men that state of obedience in 
which the officers were determined 
to hold them; and by this measure 
they felt more pointedly the folly | 
of their former conduct, when those 
persons, whom they had _ before 
made their leaders, were now to 
suffer death at their hands. 
The regiment was then conduét. 
ed to a spacious valley, and divided 
into two wings, which were sta- 
tioned on each side of the place® 
C4 ab 
14th. 
