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discredit with the public, and a di- 
~minution in the sale of their paper, 
brought the present action against 
the defendants as authors of such 
discredit, loss, &c. The case be- 
ingmade out, the jury gave a ver- 
dict with 100]. damages. The forg- 
ed paper was printed in London. 
1oth This day at noon, Miss 
* Mackenzie, of Salisbury- 
street, in the Strand, accompanied 
bya Mr. Winders, of the exchequer, 
hired a boat, and proceeded trom 
Blackfriars bridge to Greenwich ; 
on their return to town. the lady 
fell overboard, and was drowned. 
She was immediately dragged for, 
and every means made use of to re- 
‘cover the body, without effect. 
On Monday morning at the drop- 
ping of the tide, the body was dis- 
covered lying on Duke’s Shore, be-~ 
low Rotherhithe church. A Coro- 
ner’s jury was immediately sum- 
monded ; verdict accidental death. 
17th Weymouth. We had, on 
* Friday afternoon, the seve- 
rest storm of wind, hail, rain, thun- 
der and lightning, that has been 
‘for many years, It lasted for a 
great length of time; and the 
hail-stones were of an immense size, 
only a few miles distance. Earl 
Digby was’ in his phaeton, in his 
park near Sherborne, at the time. 
The horses took fright and ran fu- 
Tiously away ; overset the carriage, 
and his lordship had the misfortune 
to have one of his legs broke. 
Lath. A cause of some importance 
to the interest of the establish- 
ed church was on Monday decided 
in the court‘of Arches, Doctors 
Commons. ‘The rev, W. Percy, a 
clergyman ofthe established church, 
bad beenaccustomed to read prayers, 
preach, administer the sacrament, 
and occasionally to church women, 
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and baptize children, according to 
the rites of the church of England, 
in the parish of Woolwich, in a 
building (improperly called a cha- 
pel) neither consecrated nor li- 
censed for such purposes, but origi- 
nally appropriated to dissenters. 
Mr, Percy made no defence ; but, 
being condemned in costs, personal 
ly petitioned the court for a miti- 
gation Of the costs, on the plea of 
not having baptized children pri. 
vately in houses, as set forth in the 
6th ariicle, which was accordingly 
withdrawn ; but having, by his own 
confession, incurred the penalty of 
the other five articles, the court 
rejected his petition. He was con- 
sequently condemned in the whole 
costs, amounting to about 15 gui- 
neas, and admonished, by the judge 
who presided, to desist in future 
from such irregular and illegal prac- 
tices as were a gross abuse of the 
toleration-aét. 
‘ Marzate. An erection is 
20th, . ° 
just compleated here, for the 
reception of 30 poor persons from 
the hospitals, whose cases render 
sea bathing necessary. The build- 
ing is Constructed in a very com- 
modious manner; it is situated 
near the beach, between Margate 
and Dandelton, and the expence is. 
defrayed by subscription. It will 
be fit to receive patients ina few 
days: they will have medical as 
sistance, anda bathing machine has 
been build for their sole use. 
204 At the assizes for Devon, 
~"* an aétion of ejectment was 
tried, between one Bastin, plaintiff, | 
and one Arthur and his wife, de- 
fendants, for the recovery of lands 
in Devonshire, claimed by the 
plainuff as heir of one John Nose-~ 
worthy, an idiot from birth tu his 
death, at the age of sixty one her 
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