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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



then proposed the health o{ Dr. 

 HaweSj their M'orthy treasurer, by 

 ■whose unremitting exertions and un- 

 wearied assiduity the society had 

 been originally instituted, and whose 

 personal etiorts, for upwards of 

 30 years, had been the means of 

 raising the society to its present state 

 of prosperity and utility. The 

 evening closed, as it commenced, 

 Tvilh the utmost hilarity and good 

 humour ; philanthroj)ic disposition 

 ■prevailed the whole night ; and the 

 chairman having retired about 10, 

 the company separated in the utmost 

 harmony. 



27th. At the Clerkcnwell ses- 

 sions, William Cooper, called the 

 Hackney monster, was tried for va- 

 rious acts of indelicacy to females, 

 and sentenced to two years impri. 

 .<!onment in the house of correc- 

 tion. ' 



28th. This day one of the deep- 

 est falls of snow ever remembered 

 at this time of the year fell in the 

 vicinity of Sheffield ; Avhere, as well 

 as in some parts of Lancashire, it 

 was 6 inches thick. 



29th. At the Middlesex sessions, 

 James Brenby was tried for cruelly 

 throwing hot ashes over the naked 

 body of his infant daughter; and on 

 another occasion cutting her hand, for 

 attempting to take a piece of meat 

 off his plate ; and sentenced to be 

 imprisoned 2 years in the house of 

 correction. 



The same day, Stephen Holds- 

 worth and his wife were sentenced 

 to 6 months imprisonment in the 

 same gaol, for cruelly treating, and 

 almost starving, two girls, children 

 by a former wife of Holdsworth, 



Mr. Brookes, proprietor of a 

 menagarie at the corner of the Hay- 

 market, having appealed from a 

 ponviction of the magistrates of the 



Marlborough-street office, respect- 

 ing the property of a pug dog found 

 in his possession, the same came 

 on to be heard, when the conviction 

 was confirmed, with a further pe-- 

 nalty of 151. to remunerate the pro- 

 secutor for his expences in attending 

 the appeal. 



30tli. In 1791, by the accounts 

 of Messrs. Coutts, set forth in the 

 tenth report,* the whole of the divi- 

 dends on Mr. Trotter's property in 

 the public funds appear to have 

 amounted to 801. per annum ; in 

 1792, to 2001. ; in 1793, to 4571. 

 10s. ; 1794, to 5561. 8s. : in 1796, 

 to have increased to 20061. 3s. ; in 

 1797, to 40621. 17s. ; in 1801, those 

 dividends further increased to CS16I. 

 13s. 3d.; and in 1802, amounted to 

 the Slim of 11,3081. Is. 



Mr. Trotter's funded property, 

 at the close of the account, appears 

 to have consisted of 



d. 



4 Consols. 



India stock. 



2 Bank stock. 



Red. 3 per cents. 



Four per cents. 



per ann. Imp. ann. 

 A letter from a great mercantile 

 house at Cadiz attributes the dread- 

 ful famine which occurred last year 

 in most parts of Spain, principally 

 to the consequences of a general 

 system of monopoly ; and asserts, 

 that, from the 23d of April to the 

 23d of December, 1804, there were 



imported into that port 1,789,232 

 bushels of wheat, and 55,854 

 bushels of flour. But the rapacity 

 of the importers, and their eagerness 

 to obtain a greater price than could 

 be raised for its purchase, induced 

 them to keep it in private store- 

 houses till it heated and became use- 

 less. At length, however, the go^ 



vernment 

 Vide Appendix, 



