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master's permission to leave the 

 countr)', and that from his solici- 

 tations he was induced to pay his 

 passage out. 



The common serjeant, who tried 

 the case, in summing up (he evi- 

 dence, dwelt with peculiar force 

 on the mischievous tendency of the 

 crime of which the prisoner stood 

 charged, which he said, was most 

 materially connected with the ma- 

 nufacturing interests of the coun- 

 try, and well deserved punishment 

 by law in a most exemplary man- 

 ner; the legislature having decreed, 

 that persons convicted of such an 

 offence should be subject to twelve 

 months imprisonment, and to pay 

 a penalty of 5001 — The jury, with- 

 out a moment's hesitation, returned 

 a verdict of Guilt)/. 



Hutchinson, the artificer seduced, 

 was then tried under an act, 

 passed in the 5th of George the 

 first, which enacts, " That any 

 artificer, particularly in the manu- 

 factures of cotton, wool, silk, mo- 

 hair, &c. who should be convicted 

 of, or detected in, preparing to leave 

 the kingdom, for the purpose of 

 devoting his knowledge for the 

 benefit and advantage of foreign 

 countries, not within the British 

 dominions, should be bound to 

 enter into recognizances himself, 

 and two sureties, for remaining in 

 the country." 



The evidence in the former case 

 was again gone through, and the 

 prisoner was found Guilti/. 



OCTOBER. 



4. The following particulars of 

 Lefebvre's expedition against the 

 Tyrol, in August last, were com- 

 municated by a Saxon major, who 



escaped from the destruction of 

 those terrible days : 



" We had penetrated tolnspruck 

 without great resistance; and al- 

 though much was every where 

 talked' of the Tyrolese stationed 

 upon and round the Brenner, we 

 gave little credit to it, thinking the 

 rebels to have been dispersed bj' a 

 short cannonade, and already con- 

 sidering ourselves as conquerors. 

 Our entrance into the passes of the 

 Brenner was only opposed by small 

 corps, which continued faliingback, 

 after an obstinate though short re- 

 sistance. Among others, I perceived 

 a man full eighty years of age, posted 

 against the sideof a rock, and send- 

 ing death amongst our ranks with 

 every shot. Upon the Bavarians 

 descending from behind to make 

 him prisoner, he shouted aloud, 

 Hurrah ! struck the first man to the 

 ground with a ball, seized hold of 

 thesecond,andwiththeejaculatioti, 

 In God's name ! precipitated him- 

 self with him into the abyss below. 

 Marching onwards, we heard re- 

 sound from the summit of a high 

 rock : Stephen ! shall I chop it off" 

 yet ? to which a loud Nay reverber- 

 ated from the opposite side. This 

 was told to the duke of Dantzic, 

 who, notwithstanding, ordered us to 

 advance: at the same time he pru~ 

 dentiy withdrew from the center to 

 the rear. The van, consisting of 

 4,000 Bavarians, had just stormed a 

 deep ravine, when we again heard 

 halloo'd over our heads — Hans! for 

 the most Holy Trinity ! Our terror 

 was completed by the reply that im- 

 mediately followed •.—In the name 

 of the Holy Trinity ! — Cut allloose 

 above ! and ere a minute had elaps« 

 ed, were thousands of my comrades 

 in arms crushed, buried, and over- 

 wiielrned, by an incredible heap of 



broken 



