CHRONICLE. 



Yorh, Fridaij, Jan. 3. — This 

 morning, Jolin Eadon, aged 34, was 

 tried for administering an unlaw- 

 ful oath to Richard Howells, at 

 Barnsley, in the county of York, 

 in the month of May last. The 

 prisoner, as proved in evidence, 

 had some conversation with How- 

 ells about the Luddites, and told 

 Howells he could make any man 

 one ; and in the course of two or 

 three days after, the prisoner re- 

 newed the conversation by asking 

 Howells what he thought of what 

 they had been talking about (How- 

 ells lodged in this house of, and 

 worked with, the prisoner as a 

 weaver at the time). Howells did 

 not immediately recollect, and pri- 

 soner said it was about the Lud- 

 dites, and asked Howells if he 

 would be one? He said he would. 

 Prisoner then put a Cohimon Prayer 

 Book into his right hand, and de- 

 sired Howells to repeat after him. 

 Prisoner gave him a paper, and 

 told him to commit it to memory 

 as soon as he could, and he did so 

 accordingly. It purported to be 

 the oath he had repeated to him, 

 which was, that he was not to re- 

 veal any secrets of any brother or 

 brothers, and that if any traitors 

 were amongst them, they were to 

 be punished with death. Howells 

 kissed the book. The paper given 

 by prisoner to Howells was signed 

 by prisoner in his own hand- 

 writing. This was supported by 

 another prisoner called Thomas 

 Broughton, who had received the 

 paper from Howells, and not un- 

 derstanding its import, asked pri- 

 tbnfer what the paper meant, and 

 was informed by him that it was 

 to form a regular organization in 

 the county "ta overturn the tyran- 

 .nical system of government. 



Broughton was a weaver at Barns- 

 ley, and acquainted with Howells. 



The jury, after consulting in the 

 box, almost immediately returned 

 ■ a verdict of Guilty. 



4. A female, in man's apparel, 

 was enlisted as a recruit in the 53rd 

 regiment, quartered in Shrewsbury. 

 She shortly afterwards confessed 

 her sex, and said, that her object 

 was, to have been enlisted into the 

 43rd regiment, as in that corps she 

 had a lover, who was now on fo- 

 reign duty, and that she adopted 

 this expedient from a wish to fol- 

 low him. She was dressed in a 

 blue jacket and trowsers ; her fa- 

 ther is a respectable farmer in the 

 neighbourhood of St. Asaph, Den- 

 bighshire. 



A novel species of amusement 

 took place in the Hundred House 

 meadow, Witley, on the 5th. Five 

 wild rabbits were singly turned off 

 at an assigned distance before a 

 dog-fox trained by Mr. Tearne, of 

 Stockton, Worcestershire, and af- 

 ter an excellent course of about 

 400 yards, were severally killed by 

 Reynard. 



On the night of the 5th of Jan. 

 about 11 o'clock, the brig Charles, 

 capt. Graham, bound to the coast 

 of Africa, struck on a reef of the 

 Tongui Rocks, about five miles 

 from the shore, and 20 miles south 

 of the river Gambia. The natives, 

 a tribe of Mandingoes, attacked 

 the wreck in great numbers, con- 

 sidering her as lawful prize. The 

 captain and one of the passengers 

 were killed. The rev. Leopold 

 Butscher, missionary of the Church 

 Missionary Society for Africa and 

 the East, was on board with his 

 wife, and seven other persons at- 

 tached to the mission. Notwith- 

 standing every exertion of the crew 



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