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Our readers will recollect the 

 case of the Rev. Francis Stone, who, 

 after many hearings in the consis- 

 tory court, refusing to revoke his 

 opinions, was deemed to have for- 

 feited his living, and was adjudged 

 to be deprived of it. Against this 

 sentence he appealed to the court 

 of arches ; and the case having 

 been argued before Sir John Ni- 

 cholls, he this day took a review of 

 the whole proceedings, and stated, 

 that this appeal had been made by 

 Mr. Stone, on the grounds, as 

 stated by him in his defence, " that 

 he was ignorant of the act of Queen 

 Elizabeth, on which he had been 

 convicted, and supposed he was at 

 liberty to preach agreeably to the 

 conviction of his own conscience ; 

 but that as the act above alluded to, 

 and the consistorial court, adjudged 

 to the contrary, he was ready and 

 willing to declare that he would 

 never offend in the same way."— 

 « This," said Sir John Nicholls, " is 

 no recantation of the doctrines 

 preached, but merely an assertion 

 that he will not offend again in the 

 same way ; by which he may mean 

 that hewill not preach at all, or that 

 he will not preach another visita- 

 tion sermon ; so that he may retain 

 the same errors with his living, if he 

 be allowed to hold it." Sir John saw 

 no grounds for reversing the former 

 judgment ; but declared it to be 

 affirmed, reserving the decision as 

 to the costs, as he understood a pe- 

 tition had been presented to remit 

 them, and as the crown lawyers 

 might not be disposed to urge 

 them. 



A subscription is opened with a 

 view of purchasing an annuity for 

 Mr. Stone, who, it is believed, is 

 left almost destitute, and has a large 

 family depending on him. 

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The daughter of the celebrated 

 Addison by lady Warwick, who 

 died a few years ago, left 500/. for 

 the purpose of raising a monument 

 to his memory. Lord Bradford, who 

 is one of her executors, allotted the 

 task to Mr. Westraacott, adding 

 500/. to the bequest. This ingeni- 

 ous artist has made a fine statue of 

 Addison, which is placed in the 

 Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 

 and which will be opened for public 

 inspection. 



The subjects for the members' 

 prizes for this year are, — For the 

 senior bachelors, " Quaenam prae- 

 cipu^ valeant ad imperium stabili- 

 endum ?" For the middle bache- 

 lors, " Anne historia vera (ex. gr. 

 Sidna;, a Zouch scripta atque nuper 

 edita ) plus valeat quam fabulosa ( ex 

 gr. Grandisoni, a Richardsono con- 

 ficta), ad hominum mores ben^ for- 

 mandos ?" 



The prizes proposed by the Nor- 

 risian professor for the bestdisserta- 

 tionon "The Christian Sabbath," is 

 this year adjudged to Wilh'am 

 Bolland, M. A. of Trinity-college. 



7. Court of Kijigs Bench. — 

 Saturday morning, George Beau- 

 mont, Printer of the Sunday News- 

 paper, entitled the British Guar- 

 dian, was sentenced by Mr. Justice 

 Grose to two years imprisonment in 

 Newgate, to pay a fine of 50/. and 

 at theexpiration of the term to give 

 security to the amount of 500/. for 

 his good behaviour. The prisoner 

 was some time since convicted of 

 a libel upon his majesty, in a letter 

 inserted in the aforesaid paper, 

 signed " Tiberius Gracchus." 



In this letter, after speaking of 

 the battle of Vimeira, and praising 

 the valour of the army and navy, 

 the writer regretted that so much 

 valour should be misapplied and 



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