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and hoping that he would find mer- 
cy at the hour of death, and day of 
judgment, pronounced sentence of 
death in the usual form. ‘The pri- 
soner heard it with firmness, bowed 
respectfully, and was taken away 
from the dock, and thence to the 
gaol. From the evidence which 
transpired on the trial, it appears 
that Hatfield is of a respectable fa- 
mily. He is a man of much address, 
and formerly himself kept his carri- 
age in Devonshire: his motives for 
the extraordinary career he has 
lately run, are rather veiled in mys- 
tery, and will, most likely, remain 
so, as no hopes of pardon were held 
out to him on his condemnation ; 
and he has been ordered for exe- 
cution on Saturday the 3d of Sep- 
tember. 
The duke of Clarence has enrol- 
Jed himself as a private in the Ted- 
dington volunteers. 
17th. A fire broke out atChum- 
leigh, a market town in Devonshire, 
twenty-two miles from Exeter, on 
the road to Barnstaple, Biddeford, 
and Torrington. It began at Mr. 
Ford’s, soap-boiler, and extended to 
the whole neighbourhood, the pre- 
mises being mostly thatched. It 
raged for about seven hours, and 
destroyed one hundred houses ; near 
three-fourths of the town. No lives 
were lost ; but little property was 
saved. he damage is estimated at 
upwards of 25,0001.; and a sub- 
scription is opened for the relief of 
the sufferers. 
19th. A fire broke out at the 
house of Mr. Henville, at Bradford, 
near Dorchester, which consumed 
that house, and that of Mr. Deve- 
nish adjoining, with three cottages 
and a hay rick. Peter Barret, a 
blacksmith, and Daw, ashoe-maker, 
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1803. 
were much burnt by the roof of one 
of the houses falling in. Most of 
the property was insured ; and the 
military at Dorchester prevented the 
progress of the flames. 
20th. A whimsical exhibition 
took place on the race-ground at 
Brighton. Capt. Otto, of the Sussex 
militia, booted, and mounted by a 
grenadier of 18 stone weight, was 
matched to run 50 yards, against a 
poney, carrying a feather, to run 
150 ; but capt. Otto’s rider tumbled 
over his neck, which he was very 
near cracking, and consequently he 
lost the bet. The next match was, 
the same gentleman, mounted by 
the same grenadier, to run 50 yards, 
against a noble lord, carrying a fea- 
ther, who was to run 100. He was 
considerably distanced by the latter. 
The brass ordnance belonging to 
Norwich were lately tried, in a deep 
chalk-pit, by some of the artillery- 
men quartered there, when four of 
them burst. A fragment of one, 
weighing 30I6. was carried, by the 
explosion, over Katon hill, a distance 
of three quarters of a mile. The 
gun was that used by Kett, of infa- 
mous memory, and its remains are 
preserved as antiquities ;—the iron 
nine-pounders stood the test. At 
the bottom of an account, presented 
to the corporation, as the result of 
the trial, was the following nota 
bene: ** It is custemary for the cor- 
poral to have the old metal, when 
any of the pieces burst.” To which 
the corporation facetiously answer- 
ed, ‘* That the corporal appeared to 
have a sufficiency of brass already.” 
Mr. Orme, the India company’s 
late histeriographer, in addition to a 
very valuable collection of manuscript 
maps, plans, &c. has bequeathed to 
the court of directors 231 volumes of 
manuscript 
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