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ANNUAL REGISTER, 18l6. 



keeper and his friend to two 

 trees, about a rod apart. After 

 considei'able efforts, the keeper 

 succeeded in obtaining a knife 

 from his pocket, with whicli he 

 effected the liberation of himself 

 and his companion. One of the 

 men, who recently kept a })ublic 

 house in Ipswich, has been taken 

 up, and committed, on susi)icion 

 of being a party concerned, a re- 

 markalile dog, which the poach- 

 ers had with them, having been 

 recognised as belonging to him. 

 On tlie Friday morning (Decem- 

 ber 29), a party of ten or twelve 

 poachers, supposed to be of the 

 same gang, conunitted a violent 

 assault upon the keepers in the 

 grounds of Sir Philip Broke, at 

 Nacton. 



21. Plymouth Duck. — This 

 morning arrived at Sole's Foun- 

 tain Motel, the Austrian Arch- 

 dukes John and Lewis, with their 

 several suites. A salute was fired 

 on the occasion, and every pos- 

 sible honour shewn to them. 

 Orders were issued in the dock- 

 yard on the 23d, directing the 

 officers to be ready to gi\e all 

 possible facility to the royal visi- 

 tants in tiieir inspection of the 

 arsenal. Great part of the Bri- 

 tish navy lie there, in three divi- 

 sions, extended about five miles in 

 length. Thirteen of these ships 

 are first rates, and the names of 

 nearly the whole of them are as- 

 sociated with some of the proud- 

 est recollections of England. In 

 the afternoon their Royal High- 

 nessess crossed the water to Mount 

 Edgecumbe, to pay their respects 

 to its noble owner. 



This morning, al3out seven 

 o'clock, seven Custom-house oih- 

 cers, at Worthing, proceeded to 



sea in a boat, for the purpose of 

 looking out for a smuggling ves- 

 sel. The violence of the breakers 

 unfortunately upset the boat, and 

 five of the party were diowned ; 

 the remaining two saved them- 

 selves with great difficulty by 

 clinging to the boat. 



22. The first trial by Jury in 

 Civil Causes, in Scotland, took 

 place at Edinburgh. The Right 

 Hon. William Adam presided as 

 Chief Commissioner, and Lord 

 Meadowbank and Lord Pitmilly 

 as assistant Judges. The Lord 

 Chief Commissioner, befoie pro- 

 ceeding in the business before the 

 court, made a suitable address, 

 in which he expatiated on the ad- 

 vantages of the trial by jury. 

 The first cause related to a steam 

 engine erected for grinding flour 

 at Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, 

 which the neighbours complained 

 of as a nuisance. The jury re- 

 turned a verdict, however, "That 

 the engine was useful, and not 

 offensive." 



Windsor. — Thismorningagrand 

 mifitary spectacle was exhibited 

 in this town. It being known 

 that a part of the victors from the 

 battle of W^aterloo were expected 

 at the foot barracks, great num- 

 bers of the inhabitants left the 

 town to meet them on the road ; 

 on foot, on horseback, and in 

 carriages ; the Guards amoimting 

 to upwards of five hundred, with 

 laurels in their caps, and with 

 their band, were then headed by 

 his Royal Highness the Duke of 

 York, on horseback, as Colonel 

 of the First Regiment of Foot 

 Guards. The Queen, and Prin- 

 cesse.s Augusta, Elizabeth and 

 Mary, took their stations at the 

 windows of her Majesty's house 



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