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itfelf, was burnt as hard as a coal, and was To ftiff that it 
appeared as if it had been bent. About twelve o’clock, 
the {kin on the flank was eaten in holes, and the bowels 
dropped out on the ground. In this ftate they {hot the 
dog. Two other witnefles proved to the fame effeft. At 
the concluflon of the examination of witnefles, the judge 
(baron Macdonald) obferved, that his feelings had been fo 
deeply lacerated by what he had heard, that he could not 
recapitulate the evidence. Such an aft of wanton wick- 
ednefs and cruelty, he faid, he had never before heard of, 
and he hoped that he never fliould again. He regretted 
that the law.would not permit him to punifli fuch a mif- 
creant.as he deferved; but advifed the jury to give the 
molt ample damages that the law would allow. The da¬ 
mages were only laid at five guineas, the value of the dog, 
consequently the jury could give no more. Five guineas 
.were therefore awarded.—We have related this trial at 
full length, in order to iinprefs upon the minds of our 
fellow-citizens in the metropolis, the diftrefs and horror 
we feel every day when we witnefs the cruelties which are 
exercifed upon dumb animals in the itreets of a town, the 
capital of a nation which knows no equal for tendernefs 
of feeling and general humanity. 
The Stock Exchange has often been, and will mod likely 
be in. future times, as it is now, the fcene of iinpofition 
and fraud.—On the 20th of this month, (being fettling- 
day,) a moft atrocious fpecimen of that fort of nefarious 
'■t ran fa ft ion was played off by a foreign Jew, of the name 
of Jofep.li Elkin Daniels, who had for a long time been a 
confpicuous charafter in the alley. Finding that, in con- 
fequence of the great fluctuation of omnium, he was not 
able to pay for all that he had purchafed at an advanced 
price, he hit upon a fcheme to pocket an enormous fum of 
money, and with which he decamped: 3i,oool. omnium 
was tendered to him in the courfe of the day; in payment 
for which he gave drafts on his bankers, amounting to 
16,8161. js. which were paid into the refpeftive bankers of 
thofe who had received them, to clear in the afternoon. 
Having gained pofieflion of the omnium, he fold it through 
the medium of a refpeftable broker, received drafts for it, 
which he cleared immediately, and fet off with the produce. 
On his drafts being prefented, payment was refufed, he 
having no effefts at the bankers’. 
On the 12th of September died lord Thurlow, a pro¬ 
found lawyer, a powerful orator, a dignified judge, and 
an independent ftatefman. See the article Heraldry, 
vol. ix. p. 581, a.—On the following day died Mr. Fox, 
one of thofe worthies who are born for the honour of 
Great Britain and the admiration of Europe. 
Mr. Fox had received from nature an uncommon vigour 
of conflitution ; and, notwithftanding the irregularities of 
his youth, he had enjoyed uninterrupted health till about 
two years before bis death, when the feeds of the diforder, 
to which he fell afterwards a viftim, were probably formed. 
Plaving, in the Cummer of 1804., made too free ufe of the 
waters of Cheltenham, he was foon after feized with a pain 
in his right fide, which from its confequences was proba¬ 
bly occafloned by an affeftion of the liver; and, though 
he foon got apparently well from that attack, lie never 
enjoyed again his former health, but was fuhjeft to fre¬ 
quent invafions of a diforder of his bowels. In the be¬ 
ginning of 1806 he attended tiie funeral of lord Nelfon ; 
and, being then expofed for many hours to the cold, he 
was feized with a return of his complaint, and was never 
entirely free from it afterwards for any length of time. 
In this date of health he was called to take a principal 
part in the direction of his majefty’s councils; and, beiides 
his office of fecretary of ftate for foreign affairs, he was 
prevailed upon to undertake the fatiguing duty of daily 
attendance in the houfe of commons, as leader in that af- 
fembly on the part of government. The labour and 
anxiety of thefe Evocations probably accelerated the pro- 
grefs of his difeafe, and certainly prevented him from 
having recourfe in time .to the meafures necdlary for his 
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recovery. At length, about the middle of June, lie be* 
came fo ferioufly indifpofed, that he was forced to difeon- 
tinue his attendance in parliament. Symptoms of both 
general and local dropfy declared themfelves ; and, fo ra¬ 
pid was the progrefs of his complaint, that, after the mid¬ 
dle of July, though informed of every ftep taken by his 
colleagues in the negotiations w ith France, he could fel- 
dom be confuited by them on that or any other public 
meafures, till they had been carried into effeft. It was at 
length thought neceffary by his phyficians to have recourfe 
to the ufual operation for his relief, which was accord- 
ingly performed for the firft time on the 7th of Auguft, 
and repeated again on the 31ft. After both operations he 
fell into a ftate of languor and depreffion 5 hut his medi¬ 
cal attendants never abfolutely defpaired of his cafe till 
Monday the 7th of September, when he funk into an 
alarming ftate of lownefs, in which he languiflied till the 
evening of Saturday the 13th, when he expired. He re¬ 
tained to the iaft his fenfes and underftanding ; and till a 
very fliort time before his death he continued to have 
confident hopes of his recovery. The caufe of his death was 
afeertained to have been a feirrhous affeftion of the liver. 
Thus died, within a few months after his illuftrious ri¬ 
val, one of the moft eminent ftatefmen and diftinguifhed 
alfertorsof public freedom who has appeared in England* 
The moft prominent feature of this great man’s charafter 
was an ardent love of liberty, and generous deteftation of 
cruelty, hypocrify, and oppreftion. Never was his voice 
raifed in defence of violence or injuftice, nor his aid re¬ 
fufed to any one who implored his afliftan.ee againft op¬ 
preftion or perfecution. But, while bis heart was generous 
and forgiving, his underftanding was of the highelt order. 
To the other qualities of a great ftatefman and political 
leader, he added the rare endowment of a truly philofophi- 
cal genius, which impelled him, in every fubjeft that oc¬ 
cupied his mind, to inveftigate its principles, and trace 
them in their confequences and effedts. It was this turn 
of mind, which gave their peculiar value to his fpeeches 
in parliament. The quicknefs and clearnefs of his ap- 
prehenfion ; the fulnel's and accuracy of his memory ; the 
comprehenfivenefs of his views and reafonings 5 the acute- 
nefs and foundnefs of his logic ; the fprightlinefs and 
pjeafantry of his wit; the warmth and fincerity of bis 
feelings ; the flmplicity, force, and variety, of his lan¬ 
guage ; eminently qualified him for public debate ; but it 
was to the general principles, unfolded and illuftrated in 
his fpeeches, that they owed their diftinguifhing merit of 
being the beft fources of conftitutional knowledge, and 
tbe profoundeft leffons of political and praftical whilom. 
Mr. Fox was of the middle ftature, and for many years 
had been much encumbered with corpulence and obeflty. 
His complexion was very dark, his nofe well formed, and 
his mouth, according to Lavater’s fyllem, exprefiive of 
good-nature and a love of pleafure. His eye-brows were 
not only remarkably thick and black, but were peculiarly 
ftiaped ; not being arched, but rifing upward at a confider- 
able angle from the temples towards the middle of the 
forehead. The whole expreftion of his face and perfon 
has been faid, by one of his panegyrifts, to have formed 
a perfeft fpecimen of the Englith charafter; but his dark 
beard and fallow complexion were by others thought to 
give him much the appearance of a native of a more 
louthern climate. His countenance was manly, bold, 
and open ; and the buft of him by Nollekins is grand and 
impreffive. His temper was kind, and in private equable; 
his manners were the moft affable and engaging; no one 
bad more perfonal friends, and 'there never w r as a man 
whofe friendfliips were more lading, or whofe enmities 
were lefs rooted. 
Mr. Fox’s funeral took place on Friday, Oft. 10. The 
procefllon was grand and limple; it was not a fpeftacle 
ordered by the ftate, condufted according to the etiquette 
of the Heralds’ College; it was- the fpontaneous effufion 
of popular feeling ; every thing that could favour of pa¬ 
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