14] 
turned for answer, that sir Sidney 
was well, and that he should be 
treated with the utmost humanity 
and attention. The-French, it ap- 
pears, warped out another lugger of 
superior force against that captured 
by sir Sidney Smith in Havre-de- 
Grace harbour, with which they 
engaged him, for a considerable 
time, with so much heavier metal, 
that rendered all his resistance in- 
effectual, and therefore compelled 
him to strike. 
tt, as Two of the officers belong- 
ing to Bow-street arrived in 
town from Liverpool with Henry 
Weston, who is charged with com- 
mitting divers forgeries on the 
bank of England to the amount of 
17000]. He had got to Liverpool, 
and sent his luggage on board the 
Hector, bound for St. Vincent’s in 
the West Indies, which ship had 
got down to a place called the Gut, 
about seven miles below Liverpool, 
and was to have sailed the next 
morning. The officers found him 
in bed at Bates’s hotel, with a brace 
of loaded pistols by his side. On 
their road to town, Weston found 
means to conceal a case knife in 
his pantaloons, and on changing 
chaises at the King’s Head, Houn- 
slow, he requested to go Lo the privy, 
where he cut his own throat, but 
missing one of the arteries, did not 
effect his purpose. 
25th. et night the counting- 
ouse of Mr Mingay, of 
Smithfield (who in the interim was 
speaking to a friend in the back 
room on the same floor) was broke 
open, and a bag of gold, contain- 
ing 1200 guineas, which had been 
placed in readiness to send to his 
banker’s in the morning, was taken 
clear off. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
Bait In consequence of a pub+ — 
* lication addressed by lord ~ 
Malden to the inhabitants of the 
borough of Leominster, the duke — 
of Norfolk, accompanied by capt. — 
Wombwell, of the first West York 
regiment of militia, and lord Mal- 
den, accompanied by capt. Taylor, 
aid decamp to his royal highness 
the duke of York, met on Saturday 
evening in a field’ beyond Padding- 
ton. The parties having taken 
their ground, and the word being 
given by one of the seconds, they 
fired without effect. The seconds — 
then thought proper to offer their 
interference, and, in consequence 
of a conversation which passed 
while the parties were on the 
ground, a reconciliation was ef- 
fected. 
In an act now before the house 
of commons, for the further sup- 
port and maintenance of curates 
within the church of England, the 
preamble recites the act of the 12th 
of queen Ann, by which’ every 
rector or vicar is enjoined to pay to 
each curate a sum not exceeding 
50]. and not less than 20l. a year. 
It states, that this allowance is now 
become insufficient for the mainte- 
nance of acurate. ‘The bill there_ 
fore enacts, that the bishop or or- 
dinary shall have power to allow 
the curate a sum not exceeding 
seventy five pounds a year, with 
the use of the rectory or vicarage- 
house, where the rector does not re- 
side four months in the year, or 15]. 
in lieu thereof. 
Dirp—19th. In Doctors Com- 
mons, George Harris, D. C.-L. son 
of Dr. John Harris, bishop of Lan- 
daff, chancellor of the dioceses ‘of 
Durham, Hereford, and Landaff, 
and commissary of Essex, Hertss 
and 
