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4737 ; and on the 17th of January, 

 1764, she was married to the late 

 Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, 

 by whom she had issue, three sons 

 and three daughters. Her Royal 

 Highness was confined to her bed 

 only two days. The princess of 

 Wales visited her on Tuesday, and 

 remained with her royal mother 

 for a considerable time. 



30. We learn, by letters from 

 Bermuda, that a malignant fever, 

 confessedly the yellow fever of 

 America and the West Indies, had 

 been imported into that island. 

 The ships of war had not expe- 

 rienced any extraordinary sickness; 

 but among the crews of American 

 prizes which had been brought in 

 for adjudication, and with which 

 the harbour was crowded, the 

 mortality had been considerable. 



A very destructive fire occurred 

 in Manchester, which has consumed 

 property to the amount of 50,000/. 

 The fire broke out about twelve 

 o'clock at night, on the premises 

 of Messrs. Green and Co., and 

 spread to those of Messrs. Aspin- 

 wall and Co., which were entirely 

 consumed, as well as several ad- 

 joining warehouses. 



Bury, March 31. — Ann Arnold 

 was capitally convicted of the wilful 

 murder of her bastard child, a boy 

 between four and five years old, 

 about the iOth of February last, by 

 deliberately taking ofiF his clothes, 

 with the exception of his shirt, and 

 throwing him into a pond covered 

 with bushes, in a field in the parish 

 of Spekhall, whereby he was drown- 

 ed. The body was not discovered 

 till near three weeks afterwards, in 

 a putrid state ; and then in a most 

 extraordinary manner, by a boy 

 keeping sheep in the same field, 

 who observed one of hig flock 



looking stedfastly into the water, 

 and making a noise, which attract- 

 ed him to the spot, where he at 

 first thought it was a dead lamb in 

 the water; but soon afterwards he 

 tried to get the supposed lamb out, 

 which was then floating, when he 

 found it was a child, upon which 

 he gave information to his father 

 and others, which led to the in- 

 human mother's apprehension at 

 Hardley, in Norfolk. 



The inducement, to this crime 

 appeared to be, that the father of 

 a second bastard child, of which 

 she was delivered about nine weeks 

 after Michaelmas, at Howe, in 

 Norfolk, had promised her marriage, 

 on condition that she could induce 

 the father of the first child, who 

 allowed her Is. 6d. per week for 

 its maintenance, to take the sole 

 charge thereof — but this he re- 

 fused, and she had the cruelty to 

 destroy it in the manner above re- 

 lated, and although she acknow- 

 ledged the poor infant feelingly 

 exclaimed, on being stripped at the 

 pond, " Mother, what are y^u 

 going to do ?" She was sentenced 

 to death on Friday, and imme- 

 diately conveyed from hence to 

 ipswich gaol in a post chaise, was 

 there executed on Friday last, ap- 

 parently exhibiting a penitent be- 

 haviour, amidst an immense con- 

 course of spectators, and her body 

 delivered to the surgeons, to be 

 dissected. 



31. At an early hour Hanover- 

 square and the avenues leading 

 thereto, were crowded with people 

 who were assembled for the pur- 

 pose of witnessing the commence- 

 ment of the ceremonial of the 

 funeral of her royal highness the 

 duchess of Brunswick. A detach- 

 ment of the foot-guards was on 



