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Jearned Chairman (Serjeant Onslow) 
replied, that he could not think of 
disgracing the king’s service so much 
as to send so cowardly a fellow into 
it; and then passed sentence of two 
years’ imprisonment, and to find 
sureties.—No less than three pri- 
soners were in the list of commit- 
ments, charged with ill-treating fe- 
male children; one, M’Manus by 
name, was convicted, and received 
sentence to suffer one year’s impri- 
sonment ; the others escaped through 
defeét of evidence. 
After agreat number of gentle- 
men had been previously excused 
serving the office of sheriff, on pay- 
ing their fines of four hundred 
pounds and twenty marks, James 
Branscombe, esq. has been elected 
by the livery, sheriff of London and 
Middlesex, to serve with Mr. Miles; 
since which Mr. Branscombe has 
given bond to serve the office. 
Richard Phillips, esq. citizen and 
stationer (of Bridge-street, Black« 
friars,) was nominated with Mr. 
Branscombe ; but the show of hands 
was decided to be in favour of the 
latter gentleman. — 
Mr. Joseph Edge, aged 62, a na- 
tive of Macclesfield, in Cheshire, 
lately undertook, on several bets 
amoanting to upwards of 2000 gui- 
neas, to perform a journey of 172 
miles in 50 successive hours, which 
he completed in 49 hours and 20 
minutes! This aged pedestrian 
started from the Angel inn, in Mac- 
clesfield, exactly at 12 o’clock at 
night of the 6th instant, and arrived, 
accompanied by two gentlemen i ina 
gig, at the Swan with two Necks, 
Lad- -lane, at 20 minutes past one 
o'clock in the morning of the 9th. 
At the Somersetshire assizes, held 
at Wells. J.D. R. Rouvellet was 
found guilty of forging the accep- 
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tance of Messrs, Child and Co. toa 
bill of exchange for 4201. by which 
he defrauded Madame Simson, lace 
dealer, of Bath. He was convicted 
principally on the evidence of Ki. 
zabeth Barnett, who at that time 
lived with him as his wife, and saw 
him commit the forgery. The trial 
lasted twelve hours. Elizabeth Bar- 
nett being the chief witness against 
the prisoner, that circumstance ac- 
counts for his haying instituted both 
a criminal and civil prosecution 
against her, if possible to get her out 
of the way ; in arder to prevent her 
giving evidence against him upon the 
trial. 
Eleanor Whitford was tried at 
the Surrey assizes ; she standing in- 
dicted for having intermarried with 
John Whitford, on the 26th of 
November, 1801, at Gretna Green 5 
and afterwards, at the parish of St. 
Mary, Lambeth, in the county of 
Surrey, on the 19th of May, 1806, 
feloniously intermarried with Ro- 
bert Jacques James, her former hus- 
band being still alive —Not having 
room for a detailed account of this 
trial, we can only state, that Mrs. 
Whitford appears to have forsaken 
her husband in consequence of his 
having been unfortunate in business. 
Mr. James, a pretended wealthy old 
gentleman, whom she afterwards 
married at Lambeth church, had 
previously taken apartments af 
Whitford’s house; and hence Mrs. 
Whitford’s desertion of her hus- 
band, and subsequent mercenary 
union with James, on the presump- 
tion that her Gretna Green mar- 
riage was not legally binding. The 
man who married the parties at 
Gretna Green, David Lang, a to- 
bacconist, was calléd to establish the 
first marriage. He stated, that he 
performed the ceremony over the 
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