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him so dreadfully, that he is since 
dead. 
25th. Mr.justiceGrosepronounced 
the judgment of the court of king’s- 
bench upon Robert. Redhead, a 
brandy-merchant, of Mark-lane, for 
a conspiracy to defraud government 
of the draw-back on the exporting 
that article ; and on Neale M‘Bride, 
a revenue officer, for assisting him. 
The learned judge, having, in suit- 
able terms, expatiated upon the 
enormity of the offence, sentenced 
the former to be imprisoned two 
years in Newgate, and to stand in 
the pillory twice near the royal ex- 
change ; the latter to be imprisoned 
cighteen months. 
The rev. John Greaves appeared 
before the court, to receive judg- 
ment, having been convicted of an 
assault, with an intent to commit a 
crime too detestable to be mentioned. 
His counsel entreated the court to 
let his punishment be in London, 
and that he might not be sent to the 
gaol of the county in which the of- 
fence was committed—as the pri- 
soner had an aged father of ninety, 
whose sudden or peaceful descent 
into the grave might depend upon 
the clemency of the court in this 
particular. 
Mr. Dallas, as counsel for the 
prosecution, said, ‘* When, my 
lords, the prisoner was detected in 
this nefarious transaction, he applied 
to a friend, to advise him the part 
he should act, after the painful dis- 
closure. The advice he received 
was, that he should abandon his na- 
tive home for ever; that he should 
withdraw toaremote country, where 
his name and character would be un- 
known, and that he might there ex- 
ercise the duties of his sacred pro- 
fession, if his conscience would per- 
mit him to’ resume them. At first 
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this gentleman complied with this 
prudent admonition ; but, when two 
years were passed over, he abandon- 
ed all decency, and obtruded him- 
self into the parish. He would again 
have taken possession of the church, 
have entered on the solemn service, 
and have officiated at the holy altar, 
if the public-indignation had not dri- 
ven him from the neighbourhood, 
and placed him on the floor of this 
court, where he now stands to re- 
ceive the sentence of the law.” 
He was adjudged to be imprisons 
ed in Newgate, for the term of two 
years; to give security for seven 
years for his good behaviour—him- 
self in 500]. and two sureties in 
1501. each. 
Lord Ellenborough said, the re+ 
cord of the conviction of this beni- 
ficed clergyman shall be laid before 
the bishop of his diocese. 
During a gale, in the middle of 
last weck, seven pilots, belonging to 
the Island of St. Agnes, perished 
near the Land’s End. A Guernsey 
cutter-privateer, with a Dutch East- 
India ship, her prize, approached 
the islands; but, having lost her 
-rudder, it was not practicable, the 
day the pilots got on board, from the 
wind and tide not being sufficiently 
favourable, to bring her into either 
of the harbours at these isles; she 
was, therefore, brought to anchor 
as near as possible on the outside. 
During the night, the wind became 
more adverse, so that they were 
constrained to slip or cut; but, as 
each vessel had a pilot on board, the 
boat with the other five men kept 
them company ; but the gale increas- 
ing, and shifting to a different point, 
they were all driven off the har- 
bour of St. Ive’s; where both ship 
and cutter arrived in safety.—The 
men then all took the boat, with 
hopes 
