CHRONICLE. 
of a traitor, Edward Marcus Des- 
pard.” The same ceremony was 
performed at the parapet on the left 
hand. ‘There was some hooting and 
hissing when the colonel’s head was 
exhibited. His body was now put 
into the shell that had been made for 
it. The other prisoners were then 
cut down, their heads severed from 
their bodies, and exhibited to the 
populace. ‘The bodies were then 
put into their different shells. The 
execution was over shortly after 
ten, and the “populace soon after 
dispersed. 
Macnamara, was 50 years of age, 
he was born in Ireland; by trade a 
carpenter. 
Wood, 26 years of age, born in 
Derbyshire: a soldier. 
Francis, 23 years of age, born 
in Shropshire: a soldier and shoe- 
maker. 
Broughton, 26 years of age, born 
in London; a carpenter. 
Graham, 53 years of age, born in 
London; a slater. 
Wratten, 35 years of age, place 
of birth not known. 
At the sittings before Jord El- 
lenborough, and a special jury, 
at Westminster Hall, Jean Peltier, 
the celebrated journalist, and zealous 
adyocate of the Bourbons, was found 
guilty of a libel, at the suit of the 
king, upon the prosecution of Na- 
poleone Bonaparte, first consul of 
France.* 
97th. The remains of Graham, 
Francis, Wood, Wratten, Macna- 
mara, and Bronghton, were in- 
terred in one grave, in the yault un- 
der -the rev. Mr. Horners chapel, 
in the London Road, St. George’s 
Fields ; and on Tuesday , the Ist of 
March, the body of col. Despard 
was moyed from Mount-street, Lam- 
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beth, in a hearse drawn, by four 
horses, followed by three mourning 
coaches, with four gentlemen in 
each; and interred in the cemetery 
belonging to the parish of St. Faith, 
on the south side of St. Paul’s Ca 
thedral. A great crowd collected, 
but their demeanour was remarkably 
peaceable. 
28th. Accounts received at Cal- 
cutta, from Assam, report exten- 
sive injury to have been sustained at 
Ghuyon, the capital of the country, 
in consequence of an earthquake, 
which had demolished a considerable 
part of the city. In the confusion 
incident to this awful visitation, a 
fire obtained such irresistible vio- 
lence as nearly to complete the de- 
struction of the place. It extended, 
likewise, to some extensive powder- 
works, which exploding, have done 
incredible damage. Seyeral thousand 
persons are stated to have perished 
on this occasion. 
A letter from Lisbon has the fol- 
lowing singular article : 
‘¢ General Lasnes is arrived. 
Scarcely had he entered his former 
hotel, when he wrote to his royal 
highness the prince regent, that he 
came to resume his deplomatic func- 
tions; but that he could not appear 
at any leyee, before all the minis- 
ters who were in power when he 
left Portugal were dismissed.” 
The state of North Carolina has 
passed an act, by which all persons, 
who shall fight duels after its date, 
are, by that very fact, to become 
incapable of any public office, civil 
or military, within the said state ; 
and all persons, by whose hand an- 
other shall fall in a duel, are made 
liable to conviction for felony, with- 
out benefit of clergy. 
Dr. Bairi, a physician of Fojano, 
Bb2 in 
* Tor the particulars of this interesting and extraordinary trial, vide appendix. 
