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Oreff-d feveral letters, all franked with the 
name of A. Hope. After fome time, Mr, 
Hardinge, then on a tour tothe Lakes. and 
who was perfonaliy acqueinted with Colonel 
Hope, thoughr proper to folicit an interview 
witn the prifoner. “Mr. Hardinge afked the 
prifoner to dine with him: this the latter 
thought fit to decline, but he called upon 
Mr. Hardinge after dinner, where he fupport- 
ed the deceit with great plaufibility. Mr. 
Hardmge, however, defired Mr Wood, the 
inn-keeper, to fecure the prifoner’s carriage. 
The prifoner then planned and effefied his 
efcape. He landed in a boat at the head of 
the Lake, infesd of zoing to Buttermere, as 
he had pretesided, and maue his efcape over 
the hills of Borrowdale. Previovfly to his 
departure, Hatfield had ordered dinner at the 
Queen’s Head, in Kefwick, when he gave 
Mr. Nicholfon, whom be had made a fort of 
confidential friend, a guinea and defired him 
to pay for the dinner, which he did. _—Colo- 
nel Parke depofed that he was well. ac- 
quainted with Col. Hope, who is brother to 
the Earl of Hopetown, a general inthe army, 
and Colonel of the 17th regiment of dragoons 
—fad, the priioner was not Colonel Hope. 
When the evidence for the profecution had 
clofed, the prifoner addreff-d himfelf to the 
jury. ‘ie faid he felt fome fatisfagtion at 
the idea of having his fufferings terminated, 
as they mut of courfe b , by their verdié. 
For the fpace of nine months, he faid, he had 
been draggea from prifon to prifon, and torn 
from place to place. fuvje& to all the mifre- 
prefentations of calumny, adding ** Whats 
ever may be my fate, I am content—it is tne 
award of juftice, ivpartially and virtuoufly 
adminitered. But I moft folemnly deciare 
that in all iny tranfa@tions I never intended 
to defraud or injure the perfons whofe names 
have appeared in this profecution, This I 
will maintain to the lat moment of my life.” 
The prifoner called, in his defence, Mr. 
Newton, an attorney, at Stockport, in Che- 
fhire, who, it appears, was employed by the 
prifoner in the fummer afiizes, 1300, in re- 
coveriig an eftate-in the county of Kent. He 
unserftood the prifoner’s father to be a re- 
fpetable man—fome of the family were very - 
opulent——depofed that the prifoser was mar- 
ried to a lady whofe maiden name was Na- 
tion. He had never known the prifoner by 
any other name than that of John Hatfield. 
His allignees have fold the eftate above-men- 
tioned, which was rented at 1ozl. per ann. 
The prifoner had formerly kept a carriage, 
and the deponent knew nothing of the rea- 
fons which had induced the prifoner to quit 
Devonfhire, &c && The jury, after confult- 
ing about ten minutes, returned a verdi@ of 
guilty of forgery. The trial commenced 
about eleven o’clock in the forenoon and 
ended about feven in the evening. Hatfield 
is reprefented as a genteel perfon, with a 
handfome face, blue eyes, and fair com- 
plexion 5 his age about forty-five. During 
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the greateft part of the trial he employed 
himfelf in writing notes’on the.evidence gi- 
ven, and in converting with his counfel, 
Mefits, Topping and Holroyd. After the 
verdict of the jury was given, he difcovered 
no relaxation of his accuftomed demeanour 3 
from firft to laft he fupport-d his fituation 
with unthaken fortitude, ano the whole of 
his behaviour was, proper and diznified. At 
eight o’clock next morning the judze pro- 
nounced the fenterce of death upon him, ad- 
vifing the prifoner to lay afide his delufions 
and impofitions, and employ properly the 
fhort {pace he had to live, &c. &&c. 
Married | At Carlifle, Mr. Campbell, ftay- 
maker, to Mifs E. Campbell.—Mr. j. Rufhby, 
joiner, to Mrs. Sutton, widow of the late Mr. 
J. Sutton, taliow-chandler. , 
At Whitehaven, Lieutenant Sprowle, of 
the navy, to Mifs Grayion.——Mr Hewitt, 
jun. of Harrington mill, to Mifs Bouth, 
daughter of the late Capt. Booth.—Mr. Wil- 
fon, flax-dreffer, to Mifs M. Marfhal, man- 
tua-maker.—Mr. Jopfon, druggiit, to Mifs 
Kead, of Parton. : 
At Caldbeck, T. Ellwood, efq. of Hefket 
Newmarket, to Mifs M. A fhbridge. 
At Cockermouth, Mr. W. Robinfon, te 
Milfs M. Kirkbride, mantua-maker.—Mr. T. 
Prieftman, of Morland, in Weftmoreland, to 
Mifs M. Wilifon, of Timperton-hall. 
Died.| At Carlifle, in the prime of life, 
Mr. W. Shepherd, late clerk to Mr. Moun- 
fey, attorney. 
At Kendal, aged 42, Mr. R. Mofer.—-The 
Rev, R. H. Lambeth, M. A. vicar of Forf 
fiela, Suff-x.—Mr, A, Gough. : 
At Whitehaven, -in an advanced age, Mr. 
R. Crolbie, formerly mafer of # trading vef- 
fel.—In an advanced age, Mrs. J]. Gwynne, 
widow. , 
At Workington, aged 8%, Mr. T. Collins. 
In ‘his 46th year, Mr. H, Thompfon, mafon. 
His death was occafioned by an unfortunate 
fall from a horfe a few days before. 
At St. Bees, Mifs Fletcher, a maiden lady, - 
of Whitehaven. 
At Crofs, in Wabberthwayte, aged 26, 
Mifs A. Sinith. 
Act Blackhall, near Carlifle, in the prime 
of life, of a confumptive diforder, brought on 
by fleeping in a damp bed, Mils M. Farrer, 
niece of the Rev. Mr. Farrer, vicar of Siane 
wix. 
At Lowes, near Whitchaven, in the prime 
of life, Mr. A, Richardfon. 
At Drig, near Ravenglafs,in her 79th year, 
Mrs. R, Singleton. 
YORKSHIRE. 
Tt is intended to hold a thew of tups, for 
fale and letiing, on the firft Tucfday in Sep- 
tember, in this and every fucceeding year, at 
Wykeham, in the centre of the diitrifis of 
Whitby Strand, and Pickering Lyth, ia che 
North Riding. In thefe diftriéts there is an 
Agricultural Society, of which Sir R. B, 
Johnitone, bart. is a€tual Prefident, and 
which 
