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Or the 27th ult, the company pafling to 
_and from the levee at St. James’s on 
much. intereited by the appearance of five Se- 
hate ; of 
_ poys.and two Lafcars, who came over in one 
the rice fhips, from India. They delivered a 
petition in behalf of themfelves and their other 
difvefled countrymen now in England, praying 
; to be fent home by the earlieft flip. 
i Mr. Dun- 
das promifed that their requeft fhould be com~ 
‘ : £. 
At the Surrey aflizes, a monfter, of the name 
of: Theophilus Bridges, a).Button-maker, of © 
St. George’s Fields, was. tried. for the wilful 
murder of Elizabeth Monk, his apprentice. It 
appeared, that this man had had feyen appren- 
tices from the guardians.of.the Afylum; that 
thefe unfortunate creaturés.-were kcept to work, 
in aconfined apartment; from 4 in the morning 
to 8 and fometimes 10 0’clock in the evening ; 
that their meals were altogether infufficient; and 
that. inability,’ or neglect, was punithed with 
beating, or deprivation even of their fcanty 
meals. A repetition of. thefe punifoments was 
fuppofed to have .caufed the death of the de- 
ceafed; but the evidence of a furgeon rendering 
the. cafe doubtful, the jury brought in a ver-~ 
dict of Not euilty —A true bill was afterwards 
found againf this wretch, for 4° rape ; and he 
remains in cuftody to take his trial at the next 
affizes. 
On the 29th, one of the powder-mills on 
Hounflow-heath blew up. Four perfons un. 
fortunately perifhed. a 
The quantity of victualling ftores {hipped 
off from the Red Honfe, Beptford, in the 
‘month of June, amounted 'to 90,000 tons | 
Aug. 3d. This morning were executed in the 
‘Old Bailey, John Henry Gade, for forgery, and 
William Greaves, for burglary, the latter had 
been tried ig times at the Old Bailey. 
4th. This day the plan of Mr. G. Dance 
for improving the legal oo} and making others 
at St. Catherine’s, and the Bridge-yard, for the 
accommodation of the part of London were 
read, and agreed to by the court of common 
council. 
4th. This day a young woman was brought 
' before alderman Plomer, at Guildhall, charged 
by, her own father with having {tripped his 
lodgings of various articles. The magiftrate 
ordered her to the houfe of correction for one 
month, :. 
sth. Another powder-mill blew up, at 
atton, near Hounflow. No lives. were loft. 
. 9th. A curious cricket-match was played at 
Walworth, between eleven Greenwich penfion- 
ers with one leg, and eleven others with one 
arm. Thofe with one leg had the firft innings, 
and got 93 runs; the one arms, in their firg 
Innings got but 42. On thef-Howing morning, 
the-match was played out, and the men with 
one'leg finally beat thofe with one arm, by 103 
Fungings, 
i378 0) | 
DOMESTIC INCIDENTS. 
j : Linsan, Southwark, See 
16th. About two o’clock this morningy'a fre 
broke out at Mr. Broadwood’s; a mufical inftrua 
ment maker; near Golden-fquare, which cons 
fumed the whole premifes, &c. Deny 
18th. A youth of £3 was this day  refcued 
from drowning in the New River, by the hus 
mane and honourable exertions of Mr. Rider, 
printer, of Little Britain, who was accidentally 
pafing. The boy had funk to the bottom, and 
Mr. R. ‘was obliged to dive after him with his 
clothes on. 
A furvey of the Thames from Deptford ta 
. Grayefend is {hortly to take place; the found- 
ings in many places having altered within thefe 
few months. 
22nd. This afternoon an unfortunate affair 
‘took place in the houfe of the late Mr.- Yates, 
the comedian, at Pimlico, A Mr. John Yates, 
his nephew, and a Mifs Jones, had had adifa 
pute about the right of poffeffion of the houfe, 
and Mr. Yates having taken a walk into the 
garden, on Monday afternoon, he was bolted 
out by Mifs Jones. On his return, he endes= 
voured to force his way through a window into 
the houfe, but being refifted by a friend of Mifs 
Jones’s, of the narne of Sellers, who tried to 
intimidate him with a piftol, a fcuftle enfued, 
and the p {tol going off, mortally wounded Mr. - 
Yates. Mr. Yodied on Tuefday, and on Wed- 
1eiday night the coroner’s jury brought in a 
verdict of wilful murd r againtt Mifs Jones and. 
het. two friends, John Sellers and Rich rd 
‘Footner ; a confederacy being fuppofed to exit 
: between them. 
25th. An inquifition was held on the body 
of W.F. Carpenter, efq. an American gentle- 
man, who was killed in a duel, in Hyde Park, 
on Sunday morning, with a. Mr. Pride, another 
American, The jury, very judicioufly found a 
verdict of wiljal murder againft the parties con- 
cerned. 
Four thoufand one hundred and twenty-n ne 
veflels laden with grain have entered the port or 
London fince O€tober laft. In the third week 
of Auguft alone, there have been imported 
20,552. quarters of wheat. : 
Marriages in and near London. 
Jehn Winfloe, efq. fon of T. W. ef of 
Twickenham, to Miis Hodges, 
r- Peete, furgeon, of Dartford, to Mifs 
Campbell, daughter of D. C. efy. of the 
Adelphi. 
_ T. Bainbridge, efg. of Warwick-lane, to. Mrs. 
Rowlandfon, of Bedford-row. 1 
At the Earl of Clanbraffil’s, Stanhope-freet, 
May-fair, C. Codrington, efg. of 
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braffil. 
Col. S. Poyntz, of the 1 regiment of life 
guards, to Mrs. Whitfield, reli@ of J. W. efq. 
of Watford. 
F. Keppel, eiq. only fon of the hon. Mrs. Ks 
to Mifs Clive. = - > 
AF 2 Oy 
Gloucefter, 
to Mils Foley, daughter of the Countels Cian-._ 
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