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29th. A meeting of the livery of 
London was held at Guildhall, to 
consider the propriety of instructing 
the city members to oppose, with all 
their influence in parliament, the tax 
en income. A number of resolu- 
tions were read, declaratory of the 
impolicy, injustice, and inexpedien- 
cy of the tax, which were all carried 
in the affirmative. At the close of 
the business, a resolution was pro- 
posed and unanimously passed :— 
“+ That the livery of London felt the 
importance of supporting govern- 
ment at this important juncture, and 
were uniformly ready to contribute, 
im all just and equal imposts, to the 
vigorous prosecution of the contest 
in which the country was engaged.” 
Being the last day of Trinity 
term, captain Brisac, late of the 
Isis, convicted of a fraud upon go. 
yernment, in the purchase of stores, 
was brought up to receive judg- 
ment; when Mr. justice Grose ut- 
tered the sentence of the court, viz. 
‘¢ that he should pay a fine of 300l. 
be imprisoned eighteen months in 
the king’s bench, and once, during 
that time, standin and upon the pil- 
lory, opposite the Admiralty.” (‘The 
latter part of this sentence, the king 
has been graciously pleased to re- 
mit). 
30th. The court of common 
council resolved, that 800 men be 
voluntarily raised for the public ser- 
vice, and referred it to the militia 
committee, to determine on the best 
mode to put the same into execu- 
tion. 
A man being discovered, about 
3 o’clock in the morning, stealing 
lead from the top of a house in Rus- 
sel-square, he was pursued by a 
number of persons frome one house 
to another; at length, an inhabitant 
of Hunter-street, fired a blunderbuss 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
at the poor wretch, the contents of 
which entering his body, he expired 
in a few minutes. 
The wife of Daniel Taylor, of 
Chalfont, St. Peters, labourer, was 
delivered of ¢ghree male infants, all 
of whom, with the mother, are now 
living, and likely to do well ! 
Diep.—At Florence, after a short 
and feverish reign, the king of Etru- 
ria, a monarch of Bonaparte’s ma- 
nufacture ! Tle was buried with ex- 
traordinary pomp and magnificence ; 
the expences of his burial being cal- 
culated to have cost 300,000 livres! 
They put im his coffin two gold me- 
dals of great value; the corpse wore 
shoes, with a pair of buckles richly 
set in brilliants, and, on the king’s 
finger, remains a diamond of great 
value. ‘The queen has been declar- 
ed regent for her son, an iniant of 
three years old. 
In her 92d year, Mrs. Harrison, 
relict of John Harrison, esq. the 
oldest inhabitant of Islington. 
JULY. 
5th. The following action for 
crim. con. was tried in the court of 
king’s bench—Smith vy. Smith—the 
damages were laid at 60001. Mr. 
Erskine, in addressing the jury, 
said, the plaintiff and defendant 
were brothers’ children, living at 
Birmingham, the former about forty 
years of age, and the latter only 
twenty-four. The defendant was left 
an orphan, in his early infancy, and 
consigned to the guardian care of, 
the plaintiff. He executed that trust - 
with the greatest tenderness—He 
superintended his education, and 
brought him to his own home, in 
all the vacancies from school. When 
he became of mature age, he ween 
an 
