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pastry, reducing the consumption of 

 bread in their respective families, at 

 least one-third, and, upon no ac- 

 count, to allow it " to exceed one 

 quarternloaf for each person in each 

 week;" and also all persons keeping 

 horses, especially those for pleasure, 

 to restrict their consumption of grain 

 as far as circumstances will admit. 



4th. This day, came on the elec- 

 tion, in the prince's chamber, house 

 of lords, of a RadclifFe travelling 

 physician ; when Dr. Vaughan, of 

 All Souls College, in Oxford, was 

 elected. Dr. Ashe, of Holies- 

 street, made the present vacancy. 

 There are two only of these medical 

 travellers belonging to the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford ; who hold the ap- 

 pointment for ten years, the first 

 five of which they are required to 

 spend in medical pursuits abroad. 

 No one can be a candidate, who is 

 not a graduate of the University of 

 Oxford. There are two spacious 

 suites of apartments in University- 

 college, belonging to the Radclifie 

 physicians, who become, by the 

 appointment, fellows for the time 

 being. Dr. Turton and sir Francis 

 Millman, formerly travelled under 

 this appointment, which is reckoned 

 the most honourable situation that 

 can be held by a physician, in tliis 

 or any other country. It often re- 

 quires more interest to obtain this, 

 than to become a member of par- 

 liament. The following great per- 

 sonages are the electors, by virtue of 

 their office; viz. the archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the lord chancellor, 

 the chancellor of the University of 

 Oxford, the two lord-cliiei- justices 

 of the King's Bench and Common 

 Pleas, the two principal secretaries 

 of state, tlie master of tlie rolls, 

 and the bishops of London and 

 Winchester. 



9th. The recorder passed sentence 



of death, at the Old Bailey, on J. 

 Coward, for stealing three heifers ; 

 Elizabeth Deering and J. Mills, 

 for stealing in a dwelling-house; 

 John and Mary Oakes, and Mar- 

 garet Miller, for highway rob- 

 beries; J. Reynolds, W. Barnes, 

 and D. Lawley (a boy) for bur- 

 glaries; J. Fisher, forstealingsugar 

 off a wharf ; and G. Thomas for 

 forgery. D. Grant, for receiving 

 stolen sugar, was sentenced to be 

 transported for 14 years. Twenty- 

 eight persons were ordered to be 

 transported for 7 years; 27 to im- 

 prisonment, whipping, and fines ; 

 and Mary Ann Bellows, a girl 1 1 

 years old, was ordered to the Phi- 

 lanthropic Society. B. Pooley a 

 letter-carrier, found guilty, at Sep- 

 tember sessions, of having taken a 

 bill for 200Z. out of a letter, and 

 whose case, in consequence of his 

 counsel having objected to the in- 

 dictment, on the ground that the 

 note not having been duly stamped, 

 hehadnot stolen any thing of value, 

 had been referred to the twelve 

 judges, was pardoned : but he w&s 

 ordered to be detained, to answer 

 other charges. 



1 0th. The admiralty session was 

 held, at the Old-Bailey, when T. 

 Potter, one of the ci-ew of a smug- 

 gling vessel, was sentenced to be 

 hanged, and to be afterwards ana- 

 tomized, for the wilful murder of 

 H. Glynn, late a boatswain be- 

 longing to his majesty's customs 

 at Plymouth, and who was shot 

 whilst rowing towards the smug- 

 gler, for the purpose of boarding 

 her, in the execution of his 

 duty. He was executed on the 

 18 th. 



1,'Jth. Between nine and ten 

 o'clock three footpads stopped a 

 post-chaise, in which were three 

 gentlemen, on the road between 



