44, 
young men, to the number of near 
2000, aflembled, each armed with 
a bludgeon, from different parts of ° 
the country.—After having heard, 
read, and agreed to certain refolu- 
tions, peremptorily to oppofe being 
drawn as-militia- men, they pro- 
ceeded to the houfe of the perfon 
in whofe poffeffion were the lifts 
of thofe te ballotted, and carried 
them off in triumph. They after- 
‘wards paraded the ftreets, preceded 
by a druin, but offered no violence. 
Other. an of a fimilar kind 
have taken place, and we under- 
ftand, to a ftill greater extent ‘in 
fome neighbouring towns. The 
Duke of Roxburgh, in his way 
home from Jedburgh, was fur- 
rounded in his carriage, but no 
perfonal violence was offered to 
him, by the fame party. He was 
taken ill, it is faid, in confequence 
of the tetror ft occafioned him. 
20th. ‘This morning, about five 
o'clock, twenty police-oflicers came 
to Norwood in three hackney- 
coaches, threw down all the gipfy 
tents, and expofed about thirty 
men, women, and children, in the - 
primitive ftate of man. They car- 
ried’ them to prifon, to be dealt 
with» a¢cording’ to the Vagrant 
Act. 
23d. . The following melancholy 
accident “happéned at Barking 
Creék’s Mouth, near Woolwich: 
Thirteen perfons, returning from 
on board a veffel, ftopped to take 
a child from on board; the tide 
riinning firong, carried ‘the boat a 
Jittlé way from the fhip, when 
fome of the party endeavouring to 
reach the child, unfortunately drop- 
ped it in the water. 
fantly attempting to fave it, ran 
to the fide of the boat, when it in- 
ftantly uptet, and fix of the’ unfor- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
‘but we are not at prefent informed 
Every one in- 
1797° 
tunate perfons perifhed, among 
whom was the infant. + * 
24th: About noon this day; a 
dreadful fire broke out at Honiton, 
‘in Devonthire, which raged with 
‘great fury for four hours, and wds 
with difficulty extinguifhed in the 
evening, after deftroying near forty 
houfes, among which was the Bank; 
of any other particulars. This is 
‘the third calamitous vifitation of 
this nature with which the above 
‘unfortunate town has been afflict-— 
ed in the courfe of a few years. 
“As the flames f{pread with great.ra- 
pidity, owing to the houfes being 
generally covered with thatch, the 
moft valuable of the furniture, and 
‘various articles of trade, were con- 
fumed. Several of the dwellings 
were however mere cottages; the 
lofs altogether is eftimated at be- 
-tween fifteen and 20,000l.; and fe- 
veral families are reduced to extreme 
diftref’. Had the fire broken out in 
the night, or the wind been un- 
favourable, nearly the whole town, 
muft have been deftroyed. 
port, convicted at our laft affizes 
of a highway robbery, this day 
thisty-nine 
of which he 
executed. He 
years of age; eight 
had, according to his own confef, 
fion, been a highway robber. He 
has deferted from different regi- 
ments forty timés, and had fre- 
quently efcaped from gaol. He 
has made fome important difcover- 
ies. He went from the prifon to 
the place of execution in a poft- 
chaife, accompanied by his brother, 
and dreffed in his fhroud, &c. and 
was afterwards buried with his fa- 
mily at Great Wigfton. 
A dreadful ftorm, attended with . 
a whirlwind, happened near Peter+ 
kaner, 
Leicefler. 28th. George Daven- 
