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privates subscribed 7s. each, rather 
than the corps should be dismissed. 
The officers are determined to en- 
courage so laudable a spirit in the 
men ; and, we trust, their liberal in- 
tentions will be generously seconded 
by the public. 
-19th. At Guildhall, Edward 
Wright, alias My Hearty, between 
70 and 80 years of age, was charged 
with stealing a piece of silk hand- 
kerchiefs, out of a shopin Barbican, 
and fully committed. The excuse he 
made was, that he wanteda shirt. He 
isa very old offender, having been 
tried more than 70 times, at the 
different sessions. Ife has been up- 
wards of 50 times publickly whip- 
ped, and was once capitally con- 
victed. 
A meeting of the Sierra Leone 
Company took place lately at the 
new London tavern, in Cheapside, 
Mr. Thornton in the chair; when. 
the honourable gentleman read a 
report of the state of the company. 
It concluded with observing, that, 
in consequence of one of the objects 
for which the company had been 
formed, viz. the abolition of the 
slave trade, being in a fair train of 
being accomplished, the company 
being considerably in debt, andthe 
_ expences unavoidably increasing, the 
governors recommended the giving 
up the colony togovernment. Mr, 
Thornton has attended a committee 
_ of the privy council, and made an 
offer of the company’s charter. 
received for answer, that the offer 
should be laid before his majesty. 
It is supposed some difficulty will 
arise, on account of the company 
_ wishing to retain some power in the 
colony, although they give up the 
charter. 
Ata village in Norfolk, we are 
told, a person fills the following 
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offices :—Churchwarden, overscer; 
parish-clerk, sexton, constable, sur- 
veyor of the high ways, assessor of 
the land-tax and assessed taxes, and 
of the property-tax, collector of the 
same, and bailiff of the manor.— 
This man has not been selected to 
discharge these important duties 
either for his personal qualifications, 
or for the extent of his property, as 
he unfortunately has but one arms 
and, though the only tradesman in 
the parish, is a pauper, and receives 
relief, 
A Hint.—Those who send game 
to the metropolis, by coaches, &c. 
are recommended in all cases to send 
letters of advice, and likewise to 
put some Alistinguishing mark on 
the game, to prevent its being 
changed. 
Her royal highness the princess 
‘Elizabeth has designed and etched a 
series of 24 plates, representing the 
progress of genius. They display 
great taste and fancy, and are in- 
‘tended as presents for the select and 
particular friends of her royal high- 
ness. 
ExectionRerartee.—Once of the 
orators before the hustings at Covent 
garden lately roared out to Mr. 
Whitbread, ‘+ If your porter were 
_as strong as your assurance, it would 
do astonishingly well.’? — ‘* But,” 
replied Mr. Whitbread, ‘‘if it were 
as strong as your émpudence, I could 
not live by it!” 
Mr. Curwen, in his address to 
the electors of Carlisle, defined a 
whig in these words :—‘* He should 
entertain a constitutional jealousy 
of the executive government; his 
eye should be steadily’ fixed upon 
ministers, and his ear turned to the 
people.” 
24th. A seaman named Wells, 
who was active in the murder of 
the 
