CHRONICLE. Ay 
sent. A considerable number of 
cows, sheep, horses, &c. are carried 
away by the-violence of the water, 
apdlost. A great deal of goods in 
the cellars near the river will be 
greatly damaged, if not entirely 
useless: indeed the amount of the 
loss sustained, though it cannot as 
yet be ascertained, must be very 
great. ‘he height of the water 
in the Salt-market at present, (sc- 
ven o’clock), is within 16 inches of 
_the inundation in March 1782. * 
24th Mr. Redhead Yorke was 
‘brought before the court 
of King’s-Bench at Westminster- 
hall, to receive judgment for a se- 
ditious libel, of which he was con- 
victed at the last York assizes, 
when Mr.’ justice Ashhurst pro- 
nounced, that he should pay a fine 
of rool. be imprisoned two years 
in the common jail of the county 
of Dorset, and at the expiration of 
that term should give security for 
his good behavicur for seven years, 
himself in 1000]. and two sureties 
in sool. each. 
DECEMBER. 
a The loan was agreed for 
* by Messrs. Boyd, Robarts, 
Solomons, &c.—The terms are, for 
every rool. subscribed, 1201. 3 per 
cent. consolidated annuities, 25]. 
. 3 per cent. reduced ditto, and 
6s. 6d. long annuity. The loan 
was only intended to have been 
for 16 millions, but two millions 
more have been borrowed in order 
t0 pay the bounties on corn. 
gth On Monday the London 
’~* Corresponding Sogiety, toge- 
ther with an immense concourse of 
spectators, assembled in Mary-le- 
bone fields, About one o’clock 
rostra were erected, and Mr. Browne 
was called to the chair. After an 
explanatory speech, an address to 
the people, and a petition to the 
king, were read and unanimously 
approved of, tegether with a num. 
ber of resolutions. Mr. Jones and 
Mr. Thelwall were the speakers. 
The petition to the king and the 
resolutions are in strong, firm, and 
respectful Janguage. The conduét 
of the multitude was temperate and 
orderly. hey signed the papers in 
great numbers, and separated ‘in 
good order, and without’ the least 
tumult. 
16th Dublin. On Saturday 
*~ evening last a most shocking 
murder was committed on the bo. 
dies of two men, labourers, by a 
man, supposed to be a companion 
of theirs, near Clogheen, in the 
county, ef Tipperary. It seems 
the deceased were brothers, and 
had, during, this season, acquired 
by jtheir industry four or five 
guineas, and were about proceed- 
ing to the county of Kerry, their 
native place; when, as is the cus. 
tom with the lower orders of 
people at parting to testify their 
friendship in drink, they were at 
a public house, and at paying the. 
reckoning discovered to their com. 
panion the fruits of their industry, 
which is believed to be the cause 
of their untimely death, as, at leav. 
ing the house, he insisted on ace 
companying them afew miles on 
their journcy, and even took from 
one of them his spade, saying, he 
would ease him of the weight of it 
while he continued with them, and. 
which is the weapon with which 
he perpetrated the horrid deed, 
Shortly after, they were. found 
about a mile from the house they 
had left, with their skulls almost 
cloven 
