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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



primanded, with an admonition 

 from the president, and restored to 

 his rank. 



5th. At the Surrey quarter ses- 

 sions, bs'tore Serjeant OnSlow and 

 a full bench of magistrates, William 

 Peckover, Elias Rollins, and Robert 

 Bates, a master, chimney-sweeper, 

 were put to the bar, to answer a bill 

 of indictment, charging the two first 

 ■with stealing a number of sacks, and 

 a quantity of barley-meal and malt, 

 the property of Messrs. Langdale, 

 Leader, and Attlee, at Wands- 

 •worth, to whom they were servants ; 

 and Robert Bates for receiving the 

 same, knowing them to be stolen. 

 It is to be remarked, that the priso- 

 ner Bates had a most fortunate and 

 astonishing escape last sessions, 

 when he was indicted and found 

 guilty for a similiar offence, owing 

 to the boy's testimony being falsi- 

 fied from his own mouth. The 

 only evidence now adduced to sub- 

 stantiate this charge was Knight, 

 who was himself tried and acquitted 

 on a similar charge : he most dis- 

 tinctly proved, that he was engaged 

 by the prisoners, Peckover and 

 IloUins, to remove the articles; that 

 they were lodged at Bates's house, 

 and were there found, under a search 

 "warrant, by Callender and Wood, 

 constables ; which articles were 

 sworn to by Mr. Leader, one of the 

 partners. 'J'he case was fully prov. 

 cd, and after an appropriate charge 

 from the chairman, the jury found 

 them all three guilty. Peckover 

 and Hollins received sentence of 

 transportation for seven years, and 

 Robert Bates, the sweep, for four- 

 teen years, as the receiver. 



6th. D. Campbell, a seaman of 

 the Tribune, was tried by a court 

 martial at Spithead, for desertion, 

 and sentenced to receive 150 lashes. 



As the crime which he stood charged 

 with upon the books of the ship pre- 

 cluded h m from the benefit of prize- 

 money, the ship's company, on receiv- 

 ing a share arising from their late suc- 

 cess, on Friday, gave him, each man, 

 a dollar, and the midshipmen five dol- 

 lars each. This act is characteris- 

 tic of British seamen, and evinces 

 the general good conduct of the 

 man 



7th. Davis, a stationer, convicted 

 at a late session for a fraud on the 

 stamp-office, stood in the pillory, 

 opposite Somerset-house, pursuant 

 to his sentence. 



This morning, about four o'clock, 

 in a tremendous gale from the W. 

 N W. the wind mill of his grace the 

 duke of Northumberland, situate 

 near Tynemouth barracks, was 

 driven into motion by the force of 

 the wind, and from the rapidity of 

 the movement, the friction of the 

 axle-tree set fire to the adjoining 

 timber. The whole roof was soon 

 in a blaze, and went off in large N 

 flakes of fire. The metal wheels be- 

 longing to the machinery, in a count- 

 less motion, red hot, presented to 

 the eye one of the grandest and 

 most awful sights which the human 

 fancy can conceive. The wands at 

 length fell in with a mighty crash, 

 bringing with them the rim of the 

 building, stones, wheels, and axle- 

 tree ; nothing is left but the bare 

 stone trunk ; no lives were lost. 

 The same high wind broke adrift 

 ten sail of ships in Shields har- 

 bour. 



9th. It was determined in the 

 palace yard, that a tenant holding 

 by the court premises of a greater 

 value than 101. per annum, must 

 give 6 months notice of his intention 

 to quit, or pay half a year's rent, 

 although no such agreement should 



be 



