4.32, 
inches, and betwixt them, in adirec- 
tion perpendicular to its axis, 28 
inches ; weight, 1lolbs.0}0z. Itis 
thought to be the largest ever grown 
in this part, or perhaps in Eng- 
land. 
6th. A party of boats at Wey- 
mouth went ona sailing match, when 
one, the May-Flower, with five 
hands, upset, and immediately went 
down; the men were all saved except 
one of the name of Strictland, a 
shoemaker, who sunk with the 
boat. 
7th. A grand conference of the 
methodists closed at York on Satur- 
day last. The increase of the society 
this year amounts to near SOOO. 
Seventeen preachers have been ad- 
mitted into full connection, and near 
forty more ontrial. Fifty additional 
chapels have been erected in the 
course of the year. At the above 
conference the rev. Adam Clarke 
sat as president, and Dr. Thomas 
Coke as secretary. Upwards of 
20,000 members were present on the 
occasion. 
About one o’clock this morning 
the sugar-house of Mrs. A. Moles. 
worth, in Union-street, Shadwell, 
was discovered to be on fire. In 
two hours the interier of the sugar- 
house was entirely consumed: the 
dwelling-house escaped with little 
damage. ‘The premises, we hear, 
were insured for 7500/. 
This day, at 12 o’clock, the ope- 
ration of tapping was performed by 
Mr. Cline on Mr. Secretary Fox, 
and upwards of 16 quarts of water 
were removed. The operation was 
performed in the presence of Dr. 
Pitcairn, Dr. Vaughan, Dr. Moseley, 
Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Tegart, and Mr. 
Cline junior. 
The same day, James Branscomb, 
esq. was chosen sheriff of London ; 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1806. 
and has accepted the office, together 
with Jonathan Miles, esq. 
A dreadful fire broke ont this 
evening, in the extensive warehouse 
and stores belonging to Mr., Bennet, 
sugar-baker, at the corner of Con- 
duit-strect, Shadwell, by which the 
whole of those valuable premises 
were destroyed, together with 
sugar, molasses, &c. to an immense 
amount, 
An effort, by two motions, in the 
court of chancery, was made to re- 
vive the question of the sanity or in- 
sanity of the late lord Chedworth ; 
and the main spriag by which the 
point of insanity was to be insisted 
on, was an affidavit of the rev. Dr. 
Parr, of Hatton, in Warwickshire, 
The doctor, in his affidavit, states, 
that he very reluctantly came for- 
ward, at the instance of the heir at 
law, lieutenant-colonel Alexander 
Wright, of the 77th regiment ; he 
nevertheless states, that notwith- 
standing lord Chedworth’s highly 
cultivated mind, his brilliant fancy, 
and his superior talents, yet he be- 
lieved him at times to be deranged, 
and of so unsound a judgment, that 
it would have been proper at those 
times to have placed him under per- 
sonal restraint. This affidavit was 
repelled by the counsel on the op- 
posite side, by the production of 
several letters from Dr. 
the life time of the latter, all of 
which conveyed the most exalted 
idea of his lordship’s understanding. 
—The lord Chancellor (after advert- 
ing to the strong and powerful evi- 
dence produced on the trial, in the 
‘court of King’s bench, of lord Ched- 
worth’s sanity) particularised the 
case of the attorney general v. Pan- 
ther, in which Jord Thurlow laid 
down a maxim, from which he said” 
no 
Parr hime - 
self to lord Chedworth, written in - 
