370° 
Let us hope that the immortal day 
of Trafalgar, though so dearly pur- 
chased by the death of the great and 
heroic character who commanded on 
that occasion, will more than com- 
pensate for all that Britain has suf- 
fered in every other quarter. Un- 
der these circumstances it is that we 
have come into office. We have 
acted upon public grounds, unin- 
fluenced by any motives of ambition 
or personal interest. We have un- 
dertaken an arduous duty in a pe. 
rilous crisis, and without much pros- 
pect of succeeding as we could 
wish. But whatever may be the 
difficulties we have to encounter, 
your support will enable us to meet 
them with confidence, and to over- 
come them witheflect. With regard 
togeneral politics, { feelihatit would 
not be suitable, at my time of life, 
nor to the long connexion that has 
subsisted between us, to make pro- 
fessions. lam now what I always 
have been—a friend to liberty, an 
enemy fo corruption, and a firm and 
decided supporter of that just weight 
which the people ought to have in 
the scale of the constitution.””— 
After tumults of applause and ac- 
clamation, the high bailiif declared 
Mr. Fox duly elected. Mr. Fox 
then got into the chair prepared for 
him, which was crimson damask, 
richly gilt, and covered with laurels, 
and was chaired round Covent-Gar- 
den. The usual practice of pulling 
down the hustings commenced, the 
instant Mr. Fox entered the chair. 
They began to demolish them from 
the foundation, when the roof came 
down with a crash, ard buried near 
twenty under ifs. ruins 5 some of 
them were much hurt, but none dan. 
gerously. 
As James Coleman, bricklayer, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1806. 
of Swardeston, Norfolk, was ringing 
a bell in Swardeston church, whet 
half up, the crown and cannons 
broke from the bell, and it came 
down through both floors, breaking 
the door that covered the well-hole 
in the lower floor, and killed him in- 
stantly on the spot. 
A FEMALE CONJUROR. Jean 
Maxwell was lately tried before the 
steward depute of Kirkcudbright, 
and a jury, for swindling Jeanie 
Davidson, a simple girl, who con- 
sulted her upon a love story, out of 
several sums of money, and other 
articles. She pretended she was 
educated at Oxford, and was ac- 
quainted with the occult sciences, 
and that the devil would appear to 
her in the shape of a sow or a bull, 
aud money must be given to lay 
him. Upon these pretences, she 
nearly turned the poor girl’s head 
(who was before that time far gone 
in love) and extorted her money. 
The jury found her guilty, and the 
steward depute sentenced the pri- 
soner to be imprisoned for twelve 
months, in the jail of the Burgh, 
and to stand in the pillory for an 
hour once every three menths during 
that period. 
14th. A man named John Gow 
thorpe exposed his wife for sale in 
the market, at Hull, about one 
o'clock, but owing to the crowd 
which such an extraordinary occur 
rence had gathered together, he was 
obliged to defer the sale, and take 
her away. About four o’clock, 
however, he again brought her out, 
and she was sold for 20 guineas, and 
delivered in a halter to a person 
named Houseman, who had lodged 
with them four or five years. 
There is aperson, one Lambert, 
now living at Leicester, who is sup- 
posed 
