282 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



• a combination for putting a stop 

 to the coasting boats tlirovving out 

 their nets, at a time when, we are 

 given to understand, our bay 

 swarms with that useful fish; which 

 having come to the knowledge of 

 Anthony Morris, esq. commander 

 of theTownshend, revenue cruizer, 

 he immediately hastened to arm 

 his boats, for the purpose of put- 

 ting a stop to such unlawful pro- 

 ceedings : in despite of his utmost 

 vigilance, those deluded people, to 

 the amount of several hundreds, 

 armed with sticks and stones, put 

 off" from the shore, for the purpose 

 of opposing him by force : he was 

 compelled to fire several shots, in 

 order to disperse them. 



The vault which Mr. Home 

 Tooke has caused to be prepared 

 for his remains, is situated uuder a 

 plot of grass in his garden, near 

 the north wall, on Wimbledon- 

 common ; it is now ready for his 

 reception. A handsome tomb- 

 stone, of finely polished black mar- 

 ble, about eight feet long and two 

 wide, with the following engraven 

 epitaph, was, a few days ago, 

 by his own direction laid down : 



JOHN HORNE TOOKE, 



Late proprietor, and now occupier, 



of tins spot, was born in June, 



] 736, and died in 



Aged years, 



CONTENTED and GRATEFUL. 



15. Sixty pounds was last week 

 paid at Plymouth for a substitute 

 for the Militia, one man went on 

 condition of receiving Is. per day 

 during the war ; and another sold 

 himself for 7^. 3d. per lb. 



16. Mr. Adam of the Transport- 

 office lately received private infor- 

 mation that three French officers, 

 on their parole at Lichfield, were 

 about to make their escape ; and 



were to be assisted by an English- 

 man. The information was so very 

 particular, that it even mentioned 

 the house they were to come to in 

 London, and the time they were 

 expected to arrive, which was last 

 Monday night ; at which time Mr. 

 Adam, attended by Wood the 

 messenger, belonging to the 

 Alien-office, and several police 

 officers, went to a house in Lemon 

 street, Goodman's -fields, the 

 house described in the informa- 

 tion, where Mr. Adam and Wood 

 the messenger, gained admittance, 

 leaving the police officers at the 

 outside, with instructions not to 

 suffer any person to escape who 

 came out of the house. Mr. Adam 

 and the messenger remained in 

 the house some time, conversing 

 with the landlord, under pretence 

 of his procuring them a passage to 

 Ostend. After some time they 

 heard some voices in conversation 

 in an adjoining room, and they 

 had no doubt but they were fo- 

 reigners, but could not distinguish 

 what they said. About this time a 

 man went out of the house, who 

 proved to be the Frenchmen's 

 guide : but as soon as he got out- 

 side the door, observing the police 

 officers waiting about in the front 

 of the house, he suspected they 

 were discovered, and instantly 

 returned into the house, gave the 

 Frenchmen to understand his suspi- 

 cions, and they all instantly rushed 

 out of the house, and were then 

 seized by the police officers at the 

 door. They were taken before 

 Mr. Adam, and interrogated. The 

 Frenchmen proved to be colonel 

 Bouis, lieutenant-colonel W'eikel, 

 and lieutenant Mervin. The Eng- 

 lishman said his name was Henry 

 Proctor ; and acknowledged that 

 he had assisted the officers in their 



