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of eccentricities and singularities in 
“his behaviour. He called two wit- 
nesses, who rather confirmed the 
evidence of his lordship’s sanity 
dian otherwise.—Lord  Ellenbo- 
rough stopped the cause, and the 
jury found a verdict for the plain- 
“tiff, establishing his Jordship’s will. 
Vhe sheritis inspected the inte- 
vior of Newgate, and humanely 
gave directions that the long ward 
on the debtor’s side should be 
appropriated for the use of the un- 
fortunate persons who might choose 
to work at their respective trades 
for the benefit of themselves and 
families. 
At the Middlesex sessions, Ed- 
ward Eggerton, Richard Clements, 
and John Whitfield, were tried, and 
sentenced to three years’ imprison- 
rent in the house of correction, for 
attempting to break open the shop 
of Mr. Pristman, silyersmith and 
jeweller, in Princes-street, Soho, on 
Sunday, the 11th of May last, at 
three o'clock in the afternoon ! 
Elizabeth Barnet voluntarily sur- 
rendered herself for trial at the Old 
Bailey, being indicted for robbing a 
man of the name of Rouyellet, of 
40). while living with him in the 
Fleet prison, upwards of twelye 
months since. Rouvellet had Jately 
been committed to IIlchester gaol, by 
the magistrates of Bath, on a charge 
of forgery. He wished to put off 
the trial, but was brought to town 
by Habeas Corpus, double-ironed, 
and compelled to . proceed. The 
prosecution appearing to be insti- 
tuted from motives of revenge. and 
the charge unfounded, the prisoner 
was aoniutled: 
vth. During a violent iden of 
thunder ard lightning, four horses 
that were at plough under a tree, at 
Hints, near Lichfield, were all killed 
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by one flash. The driver was stu- 
pified, but is likely torecover. The 
above finishes another convincing 
proof of the danger of standing un- 
der a tree during a storm.—At Ut. 
toxeter, the thunder was accompa- 
nied with an extraordinary hail- 
storm: some hail-stones which fell 
at Boylstone, are said to have mea- 
sured three inches in circumference. 
Mr. Walker, of Brook End, near 
Uttoxeter, had a cow killed by the 
lightning. : 
10th. In the court of king’s 
bench, a black man, named Jack. 
son, obiained a yerdict of 500]. da- 
mages, against captain Livesay, 
commander of the slave ship, Lord 
Stanley, from Liverpool to Africa, 
and thence to the West Indies, for 
the most inhuman treatment ever 
heard of, by various punishments, 
and the most cruel flogging, from 
the captain and others, which was 
repeated for several days, till at last 
the blood burst from. the wretched 
man’s breasts. ‘The surgeon, on the 
trial, described the shocking state 
of his back, and said, that for eigh- 
teen inches square, the flesh sloughed 
off. Itis now scarcely healed. 
11th. Apmiratty Sesston.—A 
session of the court of admiralty 
was held at the Old Bailey, before 
sir W. Scott, a full bench of civi- 
lians, Mr. Justice Le Blanc, &c.— 
Acow, a Chinese sailor, was indicted 
for the wilfal murder of another 
Chinese, of the name of Anguin, on 
the 24th of May last, on the high 
seas, viz. on board the East India 
ship, called the Travers, on her 
voyage home, near the Azores. 
The principal evidence was Robert 
Oliver, second mate of the ship, 
who stated, that on the 24th of May 
last, between two and three o’clock 
in the morning, as he was on watch, 
he 
