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6 Pagonie, and it was not imagined 
he could outlive the day. His ma- 
jesty, however, lingered till near 
noon the following day, when he 
expired, as sincerely lamented by 
all his subjects as he had constant- 
ly lived beloved and respected by 
them, during a reign of upwards 
of 22 years. This melancholy e- 
vent has plunged all the royal fa- 
mily into the deepest affliction. 
The prince of Piedmont, his son, 
who succeeds him, is 45 years of 
age, being born 1751; and marri- 
ed, 1775, to Maria Adelaide, sis- 
ter of Louis XVI. king of France, 
whose brothers, the count of Pro- 
vence and the count D’ Artois, mar- 
ried his two sisters. 
NOVEMBER. 
h Tuesday last, in Lincoln’s 
€th inn-hall, the lord chancellor, 
after hearing the exceptions to it 
argued, confirmed the master’s re- 
port in the Downing cause. The 
master has reported, that the pre- 
sent annual value of the estates de- 
vised to the college amounts to 
45001. This preliminary point be- 
ing at length obtained, after a con- 
test of many years, an application 
will immediately be made to the 
crown, to grant a charter for the 
incorporation of Downing college, 
in the university of Cambridge. 
When the house of com- 
5th. ; : 
mons was on the point of ri- 
sing to day, a man in the front of 
the gallery held forth a paper to 
the house, and exclaimed in a loud 
voice, ‘‘ treason ! treason! I wish 
to denounce treason to the house, 
whatever may be the consequences 
to myself”? The speaker immedi- 
ately ordered the gallery to be clear- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
ed, and the man, whose name is 
said to be Matthews, was taken 
into custody by the messengers ; 
but upon its evidently appearing 
that he was insane, he was instantly 
discharged. 
An awful and singular hail-storm 
occurred in Norwich. Two very 
vivid flashes of lightning il!umined 
the southern and northern hemis- 
pheres, succeeded by heavy peals 
of thunder, while the hail, which 
fell profusely, appeared impregnated 
with fire. 
Sh Boston. Information being 
"given, upon oath, to the ma- 
gistrates at Boston, that preparati- 
ons were making in some of the 
neighbouring villages to obstruct, 
by force, the deputy-lieutenants, 
in the execution of the militia-laws, 
on the following days, expresses 
were immediately dispatched: to 
Joshua Scrope, esq. captain com- 
mandant of the South Holland squa- 
dron of loyal Lincolnshire gentle- 
men, and yeomen cavalry, and to 
Thomas Wilson, esq. captain of the 
Spalding troop, to ‘request their 
assistance In repelling any unlawful 
force, and in maintaining the public 
peace. Although the commanding 
officers received this message very 
late in the evening, and many of 
the volunteers in their’ respective 
troops live at a great distance from 
each other, yet such was the zeal 
and alertness displayed in collecting 
them, that they arrived at Boston, 
on Wednesday morning about 10 
o’clock. A few minutes afterwards 
the rioters entered the town ina large 
body, blowing horns, and armed 
with staves, having forced into their 
company a great number of servants 
and labourers in husbandry: but, 
seeing the cavalry drawn up in the 
market-place in military order, they 
were 
