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ANNUAL REGISTETv, 1804. 



M atched, and a gens d'armes is pla- 

 ced in the apartments of some of 

 those who arc of the greatest rank. 

 J^ir J. Crawford has, however, 

 publicly disavowed having, by his 

 ri'turn to England, forfeited his ho- 

 nour. — He observes, that, " ichcn 

 he quilted I'rance, he teas- Iwi/ml by 

 no tie -tihufcfcr to remain there."— 

 lie had remained, till a considerable 

 office, reserved a twelvemonth for 

 his acceptance, was given away to 

 another ; and till the life of his 

 lady was endangered by her afflic- 

 tion. 



A bricklayer and his man were 

 ^•mployed, some d.iys a^o, to repair 

 the villa of captain Duncan, of Lce- 

 soni-row, near Fulliam ; and as 

 they proceeded to strip olf the old 

 tiles, tliey found a large silver cup, 

 containing 700 guineas, the coinage 

 of George the first, a great number 

 of antique rings and valuable trin- 

 kets, of which the honest bricklayer 

 and his servant immediately appriz- 

 ed their employer. 



This morning, at three o'clock, 

 a fire look place in one of the old 

 wooden houses in I nion-street, 

 Westminster, leading to Palace- 

 yard. The house was inhabited by 

 Mrs. Storr, liattcr, and family, 

 which consisted of herself, two sons, 

 , two female servants, and a woman 

 lodger named Freeman, aged near 

 80 years. It originated from a rush- 

 light which had fallen against the 

 ' wainscot in the room of the old 

 woman, and there being no assist- 

 ance at hand, the house was spee- 

 dily in llames. The sons conveyed 

 awav their mother, bat the unfor- 

 tuiiate old womaii and the two girls 

 were left surrounded by tha devour- 

 ing element. The woman wis burnt 

 to death, and the girls dropt from 

 the attic story into the sireet, by 

 whicii they were much iriwrtd. One 



of them died two days afterwards in 

 the hospital. The lire burnt back- 

 wards, and consumed the house of 

 Mr. Godfree, upholsterer, in Pa- 

 lace-yard. The Westminster vo- 

 lunteers attended, and were of great 

 service in preventing depredations. 



5th. iMargery Wood was fully 

 committed to Sliepton-Mallet bride- 

 well for the m.urdcr of her infant. 

 She V, as amost deplorable looking ob- 

 jrri, about 4.o years of age, but her 

 looks bospokc her much older. Her 

 confession was ample, circumstan- 

 tial, and most pitiable, and the ago- 

 nies of her mind, since the perpe- 

 tration of the horrid deed, must 

 have boeu trulv acute and deplora- 

 ble. She carried the little inno- 

 cent, naked, with no other cover, 

 ing for it but her apron, through 

 the streets of Bath, for a month 

 after her delivery, and at last 

 took the diabolical resolution of 

 cutting its throat, and throwing 

 it in the rirer I some minutes before 

 it sunk, it held up one of its little 

 hands, apparently praying for the 

 protection of its unnatural mother; 

 Mho, at that moment, (she says) 

 would have given worlds to preserve 

 it ; it snnk , and left her a prey to the 

 ceaseless tortures of a guilty con- 

 science ; tortures which may be 

 conceived, in her dreadful case, but 

 cannot be expressed. 



At the Surry sessions, in Horse- 

 monger-lane, Robert Howell was 

 found guilty, and sentenced to 

 transportation for seven years, for 

 stealing 71. 14s. and a quantity of 

 wearing apparel, from Francis 

 Cooke, a jioor old blind sailor ! 



William J)avis was indicted for 

 violently assaulting Sarah Sadler, in 

 the parish of Bermondsey. The 

 prisoner was a poor unfortunate 

 barber, whom the counsel compared 

 to a monkey, or one of the miserable 

 2 looking 



