1802.] 
the whole of the paper ufed, though pro- 
bably the edition did not fell for five or 
fix years ; that, in order to enable them 
to fell their publications at a moderate 
price, they were obliged to print off a 
much more confiderable number of co 
pies than they couldimmediately difpofe of, 
which, added to the expence of printing, 
and the purchafe of copy-right, rendered 
their profits extremely precarious. Thus 
far the petition ftated the inconveniences of 
the aét,as relating to the home-trade. With 
re{peé to the exports, it ftated, that within 
thefe few months; editions of the moft ce- 
lebrated Britifh authors had been printed 
on the Continent, and fold at lefs than half 
price. Upon the whole, the petitioners 
felt their trade muft ceafe, if the Houle did 
not interfere. He concluded by moving 
for leave to bring’ ‘up the. petition, which 
was granted, 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, 
he by no means wifhed to object to the 
petition lying on the table; on the con- 
trary, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would 
give notice of his intention of moving, 
that it fhould be referred to a committee, 
Mr. Lefevre gave notice, that in confe- 
quence of what had been faid by the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, he fhould 
move to refer the petition to a committee 
on Monday. | 
On the fame day, his Majefty fént a 
mrffage to the Houfe of Commons, ac- 
quainting the Houfe, « that he felt the 
greateft concern at being under the necef- 
fity of informing them, that the provifion 
appointed out of the civil lift for defray- 
ing the expences of his houfehold had been 
_found inadequate to fupport the fame ; 
im confequénce of which, certain debts 
had been unavoidably incurred, an account 
of which his Majelty had ordered to be 
laid before the Houle of G@ommons. His 
Majefty relicd on the zeal and affeQion of 
1is Commons to take the fame into confi- 
deration, and to adopt fuch meafures as 
circumitanees may require.”’ 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, 
he thould move that the meffage fhould be » 
referred to the Committee of Supply. He 
fhould the next day prefent an account of the 
expences of the civil lift, and on Wednef- 
day move to refer the account to a Seleét 
Committee. a 
JOSEPH WALL. 
The-public attention having, during the 
laft month, been much excited towards the 
remarkable cafe of Jofeph Wall, late Gover- 
nor ef Goree, we have collected the follow - 
ing authentic-particulars relative to his life, 
character, and execution fora murder com- 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1802. 
167 
mitted by him about twenty years fince cm. 
Jofeph Wall was the eldett, and, previous to 
his final cataftrophe, the only furviving fon of 
Mr. Gerald Wall, a refpectable farmer at 
Abbeyleix, in Queen’s County, Ireland, on 
the eftate of Lord Kwapton, now Earl Devi- 
fey. Of his two younger brothers, Augu{- 
tine died in Ireland, abcut twenty-one years 
fince, and Patrick, much about the fame 
time, while under the Governor’s com- 
mand, as a fubaltern-officer at Goree. Ail 
three were meh of uncommon ftature, athle- 
tic ferm, and perfonal comelineis. - About 
the beginning of the year 1760, towards the 
clofe of the war tlien exifting, Jofeph and 
Auguftine entered as cadets in the army, and 
volunteered for foreign fervice. Both diftine . 
guifhed themfelves by the greateft perfonal 
bravery at the taking of the Havyannah, and 
many other eminent expeditions; when on 
the conclufion of the peace Jofeph returned 
home with the rank of captain. fofeph af- 
terwards obtained a command in the fervice 
of the Eaft India Company, and went out in 
that capacity to Bombay, from whence, in a 
few years, he returned to Ireland. With a 
comely and rather elegant perfon, the advan- 
tage of travel, and that polifh which the man- 
hers of young men were wont to derive 
‘from the old military {chool, Captain Walt 
turned his prajeéts towards the acquifition of 
a tich heirefs; and having occafionally feen 
a wealthy fpinfter, of che name of Mifs Gre- 
gory, at aninn in the village, where the prin- 
cipal part of his father’s property lay, on her 
way to and from the metropolis, he toolx ec 
cafion to introduce himfelf to the lady, fans 
ceremonie, in fo gallant a way, and preffed h's 
fuit in a ftyle fo coercive, that the lady in- 
ftituted a profecution againft him for affault 
and defamation. Seeing no likelihood of ob- 
taining his object in Ireland, he transferred 
his {peculations to England, where for fome 
years he divided his time between the me- ~ 
tropolis and the moft eminent watering- 
placese~alternately a zealous votary to for- 
tune-hunting, intrigue and the gaming-table. 
Unfuccefsful in his main purfuit of a wealthy 
wife, and much embarraffed in his circum. 
fiances, he found intereft to procure the go- 
vernment of Goree, with the rank of colone] 
toa regiment on that ftatica. The appoint- 
ment of Governor of Goree was never efti- 
mated by military men as a mark of very 
diftinguifhed favour from a war-minifter, 
A& the troops deftined to garrifon that fogtrefs 
were generally regiments in difgrace for mu- 
tiny, deferting their colours, riot, or fome 
fuch caufe, and theit ranks ufually recruited 
by defperadoes, picked from the convi&ts in 
goals, or incorrigibles in military prifons—it 
is not to be prefumed that an officer would 
be felected for the government of fuch'a gar- 
tifon, who was diftingwiihed either for benc- 
volence of heart, or gentlenefs of manners. 
Weaknefies of this kind formed none of the 
blemithes of Wall’s adminiftyration, The ine 
ftance 
