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DOMESTIC NEW. 
_ London and Middlefex. 
"THE Admiralty have lately made trials 
cf their telegraphs, and with the bef 
fuccefs. Their chief trial has been to 
communicate an order to Admiral Pey- 
ton, in the Downs, dire€ting him to 
tranfmit certain inftructions, then fpeci- 
fied, to Adm. Duncan. The time for com- 
munications palling from London to Deal, 
and from Deal to London, was 13 minutes 
and 37 feconds.—The telegraph at the 
Admiralty, fince its being finithed, has 
worked two or three times, in order to 
familiarize the men to the bufinefs of 
celerity, in cafe. of neceffity: it can, 
however, only be worked in very fine 
and clear weather with any utility.— 
‘The Englith telegraph is an improve- 
ment upon the French. Inftead of the 
upright pole, with arms _ horizontally 
elevated on each fide, we have adopted 
‘the following’ plan: upon a fquare 
frame, like the Venetian blinds to our 
windows, a numbers of fhutters are either 
opened or fhut, to denote particular 
things. The number of the combina- 
tions are near feventy, of which the firft 
twenty-four are the letters of the al- 
phabet—the others ftand for notices— 
fuch, for inftance, as a fog between the 
fiations—a fleet going out or coming in ; 
and fo on, as is fettled in the table. The 
fignal given for their beginning to write 
is—all the fhutters clofed; and there are 
four petions at every ftation, who are 
provided with proper glaffies for obierva- 
tion. The experiments-that, for amufe- 
ment, have hitherto been made, anfwer 
admirably. Intelligence is conveyed 74 
miles in the fhort fpace of 34 minutes. 
On Monday night, Feb. 1, after ele- 
ven o'clock, as the royal family were 
returning from the theatre to Bucking- 
ham-houte, about half way up Pall-Mall, 
a fione was flung at the coach, in which 
were their majefties and the lady in 
waiting, which, after breaking the win- 
dow glafs, and entering the carriage, 
ftruck the queen on the cheek, and fell 
down into lady Harrington’s lap. The 
king afterwards carried it with him to 
the queen’s-houfe. An inyeftigation 
refpecting this aét of violence, took 
place the next day at the fecretary of 
- ftate’s office, Whitehall, before the duke 
of Portland and the magiftrates from 
Bow-itreet, but without difcovery. 
Feb. 19. Richard England was this 
day tried for the wilful murder of Peter 
Lee Rolles, in a duel on the a8th- of 
June 1784, at Crayford Bridge. He 
was found guilty of Maxflaughter, and 
fined 1s. and to be imprifoned twelve 
months. 
Kydd Wake was tried on Saturday, 
the zoth, in the Court of King’s Bench, 
for throwing a ftone at his Majefty’s 
ftate coach, as his Majefty was returning 
from the Houle of Peers on the firft day 
of the feffion. The offence was charged 
as a mifdemeanor. The Jury brought 
in a verdict of Guilty, and the fentence 
is to be paffed next term. 
Feb. 22d. This day Mr. T.S. Gillett 
was tried at the Seffions Houfe, on 
Clerkenwell-Green, on an indictment fer 
going to France without a licence from 
his majefty, order of council, or procla- 
mation, firft obtained. He was found 
guilty, and fentenced to two months’ 
imprifonment. 
‘On the fame day, at the Old Bailey, 
George Crofsly was tried upon the capi- 
tal charge of forging the will of the late 
Rev. H. Lewis. Mr. Crofsly met the 
charge, by proving three clear alidis. 
The trial began at nine on Monday 
morning ; at three on Tuefday morning 
the jury gave in the fatisfactory verdict 
of Not Guilty. 
Tuefday Lord Kenyon delivered the 
unanimous opinion of the Court of King’s 
Bench, on the cefe of the King ver/us 
Sampfon Perry, retpeéting the three ob- 
jeétions which had been taken againft 
the proceeding in outlawry againft Mr. 
Perry. The Court were of opinion, 
that there was no error in the proceed- 
ings, and of courfe rhe outlawry WAS Chit- 
firmed.——( Particulars in our next.) 
It has lately been decided in Doétors 
Commons, that if a vicar performs his 
duty in a chapel of eafe, in places where 
the church is fmall and inconvenient, 
and at fo great a diftance from the major 
part of the inhabitants, that but a tew 
perfons attend it, no action will lie 
againft the incumbent fer not performing 
duty in the church, the clergyman not 
being obliged to do duty at both places. 
Laft month the Commifiioners of 
Bankrupts at Guildhall determined the - 
important point, after a long hearing, 
that indorfers of bills, who take up bills 
after a bankruptcy, cannot be admitted 
to prove upon the eftate of the bankrupt, 
and of courfe are not entitled to recover 
a dividend of the bankrupt’s effeéts. 
On Sunday evening, Feb. 14, a young 
woman, 
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