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Independent power, by the imposing 

 situation of France, in 1798, the 

 Cantons of Berne and Zurich had 

 the prudence to invest a considera- 

 ble portion of the funds of their 

 respet^tive states in the public secu- 

 rities of this country. Pursuant to 

 this design, 85,4491. 10s. 2d. was 

 placed in the 3 per cent, consoli- 

 dated annuities ; 158,3831. 6s. 8d. 

 in South Sea stock ; and about 

 34,0001. in Bank stock. The 

 agents of this country, for the ap- 

 propriation of these monies, were 

 lord iluntingfield, and the hon. Ro- 

 bert Walpole, who were diretled to 

 apply them in this manner, by the 

 constituted authorities of the two 

 cantons named. The dividends re- 

 sulting from these investments, to 

 the time when this bill was filed in 

 chancery, amounted to the sum of 

 57,0091. 13s. lOd. and the present 

 application was to procure from the 

 defendants the payment of this sum 

 into court. — Mr. Romilly for the 

 plaintiiT, contended, that he had a 

 Tight to receive those dividends. 

 Messrs. Richards and Hollis, on the 

 other hand, objeftcd to the charac- 

 ter assumed by the plaintiff. This 

 country did not acknowledge any 

 Helvetian rcpuWic ; and no munici- 

 pal court here, could, therefore, 

 suppose such a power to exist. 

 From the established forms, founded 

 on the royal rights, this court could 

 not even agitate a question of this 

 nature, excepting in the presence of 

 his majesty's attorney-general. The 

 lord chaticellor said, that the money 

 could not be taken out of the hands 

 of the defendants, till all the parties 

 interested in the cause, as well as 

 the atfornpy-general, should appear 

 before him in the proceedings. It 

 was a subject of very large enquiry, 

 "whether a raunici^jal court cau aft 



■with the government of a country 

 not yet acknowledged by its own, 



17th. At a grand chapter of the 

 order of the garter, held at St. . 

 James's this day, Charles, duke of 

 Beaufort, John James, marquis of 

 Abercorn, George, earl of Pem- 

 broke and Montgomery ; George, 

 earl of Winchelsea and jVotting- 

 ham, and Philip, earl of Ches- 

 terfield, were invested by his ma- 

 jesty with the insignia of that noble 

 order. 



19th. This morning, about three 

 o'clock, the cotton fadtory, be- 

 longing to Messrs. Rowley and Co. 

 in Oldfield-lane, Salfprd, was to- 

 tally consumed by fire, together 

 with all the machinery contained 

 therein. The same building caught 

 fire on the 8th inst. but being timely 

 discovered, the flames Avere then 

 suppressed. 



Two beautiful monuments, by 

 Flaxman, for Dr. Wharton, head- 

 master of the college, and Mrs. 

 North, the bishop'a lady, have been 

 opened in Winchester cathedral. 



It has been res'olved to pull down 

 the parish church of Chertscy, and 

 rebuild it in such a manner as to 

 afford additional accommodation to 

 the inhabitants. The floor is to be 

 raised a foot above the cliancel, 

 which belongs to sir Joseph Maw- 

 bey. 



21st. At the Surrey sessions this 

 day, an extraordinary degree of de- 

 pravity M as exhibited by a boy of 14, 

 apprentice to a man of the name of 

 Bates, a master chimney-sweeper at 

 Wandsworth : the boy swore, in 

 the most positive manner, that his 

 master had stolen four sacks of 

 flour out of a cart in the above vil- 

 lage. The boy's evidence Mas given 

 so circumstantially, and with so 

 much seeming truth, that the man 



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