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prisoner was seized by J. Stack, 
a corporal of the above regiment, 
who heard him call on the pike- 
men to advance and charge the mi- 
litary. 
The prisoner’s counsel represented 
his client as a poor industrious man, 
who had been surrounded by the 
insurgents, and forced to act against 
his will: he appealed to the boasted 
lenity of government in behalf of his 
client. 
Several witnesses gave him a good 
character, but admitted that he was 
addicted to intoxication. 
Lord Norbury summed up the 
evidence, having previously laid 
down the principles and practice 
in England, respecting the statute 
of 25 Edw. III. on high treason, 
from certain law reports of cele- 
brity. 
The jury, having retired ata 
15 minutes, returned a verdi¢ét— 
Guilty—at which the prisoner shew- 
ed a species of levity bordering on 
usanity. 
A corps of yeomanry cavalry, in 
Leicestershire, having solicited earl 
Moira to command them, his lord- 
ship declined the honour, in a very 
ee speech, the following passage 
f Which is too remarkable to be 
sai over :—** You will have seen 
it mentioned, that the prince of 
Wales, with that glowing interest 
which he takes in all that may affect 
the fame or the welfare of Britain, 
had offered his services in a manner 
that might best evince his devotion 
to his father and sovereign. As co- 
Jonel of a regiment of cavalry, his 
royal highness probably feared that 
he might find himself stationed in a 
district remote from the descent of 
the enemy; he was, therefore, soli- 
citous for such eventual employ- 
ment as would give him the chance 
of furnishing the example to his fel- 
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low-subjects, how every considera- 
tion of condition, of ease, and of 
personal safety, ought to be spurned, 
when the security of the country is 
at stake. We are given to under- 
stand that the offer has not been ac- 
cepted; yet it is possible that his 
royal highness may still entertain the 
hope of being permitted to oppose 
himself to the enemy, as a volunteer, 
with the first corps of that descrip- 
tion that may be marched against 
the invader. [| infer some such view, 
not merely from the generous en- 
thusiasm which swells his heart upon 
this occasion, but from the call with 
which he has honoured me. He 
has deigned to claim, from my hum- 
ble attachment, that, upon the first 
notice of an enemy’s landing, I shall 
hasten to place myself by his side, 
unless I should, in the interval, be 
ordered upon service by the king.” 
Diep.—At Balnacraig, in the pa- 
rish of Aboyne, aged 103, Harry 
Troup, a shoemaker. He had ex- 
perienced no bodily complaint, and 
retained his senses to the last; was 
sober and industrious, and never 
above thirty miles from his own 
house, in which he had lived up- 
wards of 70 years. 
In Kevin-street, Dublin, aged 
112, Mrs. Lindsay, formerly in a 
respectable situation, but, having 
outlived an annuity, she was latterly 
indebted to a subscription of the no- 
bility for those comforts which she 
had been accustomed to, and which, 
at her great age, were become more 
necessary. 
By a fall from his horse, Mr. 
Isaac Troup, of Asbover, in Ireland. 
One of his sons, some time ago, was 
accidentally shot dead; ancther, 
shooting rooks, a short time since, 
the gun burst, and shattered his 
hand, which was immediately am- 
putated, and he is in a fair way of 
recovery ; 
