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for stealing a gelding, the property 

 of George Arnold ; John Price, 

 and John Robinson, for a burglary 

 in the dwelling-house of Mr. John 

 LambeandCo. and stealing a quan- 

 tity of silk ; and William Hatton, 

 for maliciously firing at J. Doonah 

 (a watchman) with a loaded pistol. 



19th. The king held a levee at 

 St.S James's, when the Algerine 

 ambassador, who went to court in 

 one of the royal carriages, had his 

 first audience, and presented to his 

 majesty two beautiful horses, the 

 skins of several tigers, &c. a sword, 

 and other valuables. 



Early this morning the guard of 

 one of the coaches from Dover to 

 London was shot at by two high- 

 waymen, who stopped the coach 

 near Shooter's HUl. The poor man 

 has, it is feared, received a mortal 

 wound in his back. The highway- 

 men fired slugs. There were five 

 inside passengers, all of whom these 

 ruffians robbed of their money. — 

 We have since learnt that the 

 above unfortunate man is dead. 



Recent letters from the Rev. Mr. 

 Jackson, chaplain to the colony in 

 New South V^^ales, states its 

 condition to be most promising. 

 Grain, of all kinds, but more espe- 

 cially barley, was abundant ; and 

 some hop-seeds, which about three 

 years since were sent from England 

 to this-'gentleman, had thrived in 

 such a manner, that several plan- 

 tations had been formed, and por- 

 ter of tlie best quality produced 

 f rt)m it. 



J)iKU. .'iOth. In his 88th year, 

 after a long and painful illness, at 



his seat at Monk's Horton, near 

 Hythe, Kent, Matthew Robinson 

 Morris*, lord Rokeby of Armagh, 

 in Ireland, and an English baronet, 

 and on Monday, December 8, he 

 was buried in the family vault of 

 that parish, where his father, Mat- 

 thew Robinson, of West Layton, 

 in Yorkshire, esq. was buried, in 

 1778, aged 84. His loss will be 

 sincerely regretted by all his ac- 

 quaintance, and still more by his 

 poor neighbours, whose wants he 

 was always ready to relieve with 

 the greatest liberality. He, many 

 years ago, twice represented Can- 

 terbury in parliament; during 

 which time he executed the trust, 

 delegated to him by his constitu- 

 ents, with singular integrity and in- 

 dependence, in the practice of 

 which he persevered through the 

 course of a long life. In his last 

 pamphlet, " An Address to the 

 County of Kent, 1797," he speaks 

 most truly of himself as " one who 

 did from his early years adopt the 

 principles of an old and true whig, 

 the principles of Mr. Sydney, Mr. 

 Locke, lord Molesworth, Mr. 

 Trenchard, and such men ; from 

 which he has to the best of his 

 knowledge, throughout a long life, 

 in no single action or circumstance 

 ever once varied or swerved, and 

 which he will certainly now relin- 

 quish only at his grave." He was 

 elected for Canterbury in 1747 and 

 1754; and succeeded his cousin. 

 Dr. Richard Robinson, primate of 

 Ireland, as an Irish peer, &c. in 

 October, 179*^ in consequence of 

 the collateral remainder inserted in 



• He took tlie additional name of Morris, incompliance with tlie will of a relation, 

 but was Ko attaciieii to his first name, that in the title of a pamphlet he published in 

 1777, on a political subject, he gave only the initial of hissecoitd name, writing him* 

 •elf " Matthew Itobiuttbu M." 



