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the principal officers of state were 

 present. Two vessels from Oporto, 

 decorated with colours, entered the 

 dock from the bason, amid the 

 shouts of an immense number of 

 spectators, who had been attracted 

 to the spot by a report that his ma- 

 jesty was to have been present. A 

 number of persons partook of a 

 cold collation, which had been pre- 

 pared in two of the warehouses pur- 

 posely fitted up for the occasion. A 

 grand dinner was afterwards given 

 at the London tavern, by the dock 

 directors, at which were present, 

 earl Camden, lords Ilawkesbury, 

 Ellenborough, and Harrowby; the 

 lord mayor and corporation of Lon- 

 don, the chancellor of the ex- 

 chequer, the speaker of the house 

 of commons, the attorney-general 

 and solicitor-general, sir A. S. Ham- 

 mond, the directors of the West 

 India docks, and about 100 mer- 

 chants of the city of London. 



27th. Was executed at the new 

 drop, York, Benjamin Oldroyd, 

 convicted at the last assizes for the 

 murder of his father. The conduct 

 of the unhappy sufferer since his 

 conviction has been of the most 

 hardened nature; he persisted in his 

 innocence to the last, and behaved 

 in the most indecent and unbecom- 

 ing manner to the moment of his 

 execution. 



A man named Gim.blet, said 

 to possess property to the amount 

 of 15,0001. was lately found guil- 

 ty, at Lauiiceston scs^ions, of 

 stealing mutton, beef, and pork, 

 out of an inn in that town, and sen- 

 tenced to be whipped. 



30th. At the public office, Bow- 

 street, the butler, two footmen, the 

 coachman, and helper, in the em- 

 ploy of the duke of St. Alban's 



were brought before the sitting ma- 

 gistrates, charged with rescuing a 

 deserter (coachman to his grace,) 

 from the custody of two corporals 

 belonging to the Old Bull's. The 

 magistrates convicted the footmen 

 in the penalty of 201. each, which, 

 if not paid, they were to be com- 

 mitted for 6 months to the house of 

 correction. Colonel Robinson, who 

 attended on behalf of the soldiers, 

 desired the servants, if they knew 

 where the man v/as, to inform him 

 that if he would return to the regi- 

 ment he should be pardoned ; but 

 if he did not, he shonld be sent to 

 a regiment abroad for life. The 

 colonel said, if he could prove here- 

 after that the duke harboured iiie 

 man in his house, after he had no- 

 tice that he was a deserter, he should 

 prosecute his grace. 



Died. — 21st. AtSunderland, Ed- 

 ward Law son J aged 106 years. 



JUNE. 



1st. In the court of king's bench, 

 John Budd, for publishing a libel 

 on earl St. ^ incent ; and William 

 Blagdcn, for the like oflcnce 

 against his lordship, were both 

 found guilty. 



2d. As two youths, one 14 an'J 

 the other 8 years of age, sons of a 

 poor man named Ellis, of Bran- 

 bridges, near East Peckham, were- 

 playing on the banks of the river, 

 the youngest fell in, when the other 

 immediately leaped in to save him, 

 and they were both drowned. 



3d, A gunsmith, of the name of 

 Fisher, residing at Mount-pleasant, 

 Cold -bath-fields, shot his wife's 

 brains out with a pistol, in revenge 

 for her having prevented his obtain- 



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