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cuted at Cardigan in Wales for 

 borfe-ftealing. She was a very 

 old offender. 



On the 28th of March, at the 

 B'.:ry affizes, a Mr Moreland 

 \va6 found guilty of bigamy,' in 

 marrying Mrs Hardcaftle, of 

 Ipfwich, and Mifs Lambeth, 

 near Ric'nmond, in Yorkfhire. 

 He was ("entenced to be burnt 

 in the hand, which was done 

 before he left the court, and to 

 be imprifoned twelve months in 

 the Ipfwich jail ; during which 

 time his head is to be {liaved, 

 he is to wear the habit of the 

 frifon, which is a very difagree- 

 ab'e one, confifting of wooden 

 clogs, &c. and is to be allowed 

 only two hours each day from 

 clofe corfinement. This man 

 •vjcas not long (ince acquitted on 

 a liiie charge at the Old Baiiey. 



Some time ago, a phyfician 

 of hi^-h repute died in Ireland. 

 From hisgrcat income, and par- 

 fimonious expenditures, it was 

 highly fufpeded by his relatives, 

 that he mufl have fomewhere 

 in his houfeavtry conliderab?e 

 fura of money concealed. They 

 fearched, but to no purpofe, the 

 money could not be difcovered. 

 At length, they recollected an 

 old waiftcoat which he always 

 wore, and even flept in, and in 

 the back of it they found, few- 

 ed up in bank-notes of thirty 

 pounds each, to the amount of 

 a7,oool. What v.as very ex- 

 traordinary, he had made a will 

 fome few days before he died, 

 and left his fon what was in the 

 will fpecificd to be the whole 

 of his pcfleffior.r, 8col. He 



was never known,in the courfe 

 of thirty years pradice, to in- 

 vite friend or acquaintance to 

 his houfe, or to refufe an in- 

 vitation from a cottager. 



An extraordinary characier. 

 On the 3.1 April died, in a 

 pafs cart upon theDeptford road, 

 as he was conveying to his pa- 

 riili, near Enfield Chace,James 

 Heaton, aged 76. This perfon, 

 commonly diftinguifhed by the 

 appellation of the Wild-one, and 

 well known for many years as 

 one of the roofl, formidable 

 poachers in the kingdom, was 

 in his youth a running foot- 

 man ; His difmiflion for a mif- 

 demeanour from the family of 

 a nobleman firft occafioned him 

 to exert his uncommon abili- 

 ties; and fuch was his agility 

 and the hardinefs of his confti- 

 tution, that from that period to 

 a fhort time preceding his death, 

 he had never lain in a bed, but 

 often flept by choice in the 

 fields, in all weathers. Almoft 

 his whole body was covered 

 with hair of a conliderable 

 length ; and though he never 

 wore his cloaths buttoned in 

 the coldeft weather, he never 

 experienced a day's illnefs in 

 the courfe of his life. 



Captain Crawford of the 

 Royal George cutter, has feiz- 

 ed and brought into Port Glaf- 

 gow the cutter Speedwell, 

 Purdy mafter, from Oftend, 

 with tobacco, tea, and fpirits, 

 valued, with the veffel herfelf, 

 at j!50ol. which veflel belongs 

 to the Troon fmuggiers upoii 

 the ccaft of Ayr. 



