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fice, viz. Mary Hale, a girl aged 
fourteen. 
11th. The steeple of Petworth 
church, Sussex, about eighty feet 
high, and measures, in circumfer- 
ence, about thirty feet, entirely co- 
yered with lead, with one yane, is 
going to be taken down, and the 
present tower heightened, and four 
pinnacles, with four vanes, added in 
lieu of the steeple, by order of the 
vestry. 
Lately, as two young men were 
enjoying the amusement of shooting, 
in the moss of Auchlee, parish of 
Longside, one of them killed a duck 
in the Idoch-loch, and desired the 
other to go in for her: he went ina 
little way, but beginning to sink, he 
meant to return, when the other bid 
him go forward quickly ; he made a 
second attempt, when, in an instant, 
he sunk in deep water, but arose up 
again ; the other run in, and reached 
the gun te him, which he took hold 
of, and drew his companion along, 
and they both sunk and perished. 
Notwithstanding two men were on 
the bank, they could give them no 
assistance. 
Martha Chapel, of Ackworth, 
near Pontefract, in Yorkshire, a 
young girl, only 19 years old, was, 
last week, executed at York, pursu- 
ant to her sentence, for the murder 
of her female bastard child. She 
acknowledged the justice of her sen- 
tence, and died a sincere penitent. 
Rebecca Beaumont, tried for a 
similar offence, at the same assizes, 
was found not guilty ; but, by vir- 
tue of an act of parliament lately 
passed, at the instance of lord El- 
Jenborough, she was, for having 
concealed the birth of her child, and 
burying it, sentenced to be confined 
in the house of correction, at Wake- 
field, for two years, 
12th. About a quarter before 
twelve, his majesty arrived fram 
Windsor to St. James’s, and thence 
proceeded, in the usual state, to the 
house of peers, to prorogue the par- 
liament: which was accordingly pro- 
rogued to the 6th of October next. 
liis majesty appeared in excellent 
health and spirits, and was received 
with the most ardent acclamations 
by the populace, who crowded the 
park and the streets leading to the 
parliament house. 
15th. This day, advices were re- 
ceived of the surrender of Tobago 
to general Grinfield and commodore 
Hood. (Vide Appendix.) 
This day (Monday) the notorious 
Hattield was tried, on a charge of 
forgery, and convicted, at the Car- 
lisle assizes. On being called on-for 
his defence, the prisoner addressed 
himself to the jury. He said, he 
felt some degree of satisfaction: in 
being able to have his sufferings ter- 
minated, as they, of course, must 
be by their verdict. For the space 
of nine months he had been dragged 
from prison to prison, and torn 
from place to place, subject to all 
the misrepresentations of calumny 
‘¢ Whatever be my fate,” said he, 
‘* Tam content; it is the award of 
justice, impartially administered ; 
but I solemnly declare, that, in» all 
my transactions, I never intended to 
defraud or injure the persons whose 
names have appeared in the prose- 
cutions. This 1 will mainiain to 
the last of my life.” The jury, not. 
withstanding this plausible defence 
of the prisoner, found him guilty on 
two indictments. At eight on 'Tues- 
day morning, the prisoner was 
brought up to receive judgment; 
when baron Thompson, after be- 
seeching him to employ the remain- 
ing part of his time for eternity, 
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