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afited his Lordfhip the reafon why he did not 
| accept of his offer. Lord Frederick an{wered, 
“¢ That being a member of the Britith partia- 
ment, he fhould, if in England, attend his 
duty in parliament, and yote for the fupplies 
for carrying on the war; which might pof- 
fioly be conftrued a breach of his parole.” 
Poh, poh, faid the Duke, we fhould as foon 
think of reftraining you from getting a child, 
left when it came.to maturity, it fhould con- 
quer France. . Thus, we fee his patriotic 
beart would not fuffer him, when even a pri- 
-foner, to relinguifh his duty to his country, 
He was a gentleman of the moft amiable 
manners; mild, humane, and benevolent 5 
punctual in the difcharge of every engage- 
ment and duty; of ftri& virtue, and pure 
honour, He was one of the fix Englith offi- 
cers, whto, at the beginning of the feven years 
war, mutually pledged themfelves to each 
other not fo marry,” ‘until the war was 
over; that no domeftic affeGions might in- 
fluence their conduét. General Wolfe was 
one of the number, fo was General Monk- 
ton, General Keppel, &c. 
Aged 22, ——— Milwood, bricklayer, Ie 
“appears that fome perfon has wantonly, for 
fome time pait, attempted to frighten the 
inhabitants of Hammerfmith, by affuming 
‘the appearance of a ghoft, accofting feveral 
individuals in a manner highly reprehenfible, 
&c. Several inhabitants, with the peace- 
officers, &c. determined to go out in-fearch 
of him. In this number was aman of the 
nime of Smith. He armed himfelf with ‘a 
nrufket, and took his ftetion in Black Lion 
Lane, one of the places by which the ghott 
ufed to make his efcape, when hard prefled 
by his purfuers. Smith had noc been long 
waiting, when he fancied he faw the ap- 
proach of the fupernatural agent, and, on his 
_ firing, the fuppofed ghof inftantly fell. On 
|} €xamination, however, the body was difco- 
vered to be that of a young man, a brick- 
layer, employed in the new buildings in the 
| neighbourhood, whofe working drefs, a white 
jacket, {potted with mortar and lime, repre- 
fented him, to the difordered fancy of Smith, 
as the object he was in queft of, &c. Atthe 
‘ coroner’s ingueft, the fifter of the deceafed 
faid, that her brother left the houfe between 
ten and eleven o'clock, and that fhe, the 
witnefs, was almoft immediately ftruck with 
a prefentiment. that fome ‘accident would 
befal him. She accordingly went to the 
' door, and ftood on fome bricks, in order to 
look out for him. Her brother had not gone 
above fifty yards, before fhe heard a voice 
_exclaim—-‘¢ D—n you, who are you? and 
| What are you? Speak, or Til fhoot !"—-The 
Words had icarcely paffed the lips of the 
|) Perlon who uttered them, when the heard 
Duaths in and near London 
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afraid her brother was thot. They would 
not attend to her, but faid it was inipofiible. 
She then repaired to the room of a young 
man who flept in the houfe, who alfo re- 
fufed to rife. The witnefs then refolved to 
go alone, and learn what had become of her 
brother. When fhe arrived at Crofs-lane, 
fhe found him lying on his back, his arms 
and legs ftretched quite flraight. . She called 
out, ** Brother! but no anfwer was made, 
She then ftooped down to look at him, and 
perceived his face was bloody, and entirely 
black. She fhrieked, and her cries brought 
her father and mother, who, when they faw 
their fon dead, wete-frantic with grief. The 
witnefs faid her brother indu@rioufly main- 
tained himfelf and his wife. He was in his 
ufual drefs, white jacket and trowfers, when 
he went out. She was pofitive, {peaking oa 
her oath, that her brother had never per- 
fonated the ghoft. — Mr. Lock, wine-mer- 
chant, in Black Lion Lane, Hammerfmich, 
faid, that as he was returning home from 
the Plough and Harrow, about half paft ten 
o'clock in the evening, he was accofted by 
Francis Smith, officer of excife, who afked to 
{peak with him. Upon going afide, Smith 
informed him that he had fhot a man, who 
he believed was the ghoft, &c. The witnefs 
accompanied Smith to the place. The wound 
was under the left jaw, and the bell had 
pafied through at the oppofite fide, and the 
{kin of his face was exceedingly black. Smith 
did not appear fenfible that he had done any 
thing wrong, till the witnefs warned him of 
the fatal confequences that would attend 
fuch a ftep.—W..Girdler, a watchman, faid, 
that he hada flight acquaincance with the 
deceafed, who was a ferious, fober, young 
man. That. the neighbourhood had been 
much alarmed, for two months paft, with 
the rumour of a ghoft walking through Blick 
Lion Lane, What he, the witnefs, went his 
rounds as ufual, on the evening when this 
fatal cataftrophe occurred. ‘That he had ape 
pointed to meet with Francis Smith, in order 
to go in fearch of the ghoft. When the 
witnefs came near Mr. Stow’s houfe, he 
heard the report of a gun, and a few minutes 
afterwards, when going to the White Hart 
public-houfe, he met Smith, and afked him | 
what intelligence. Smith anfwered, very 
bad. They then met Mr. Stow, and went 
to the place where the deceafed lay. Smith 
faid that he would deliver himfelf; and that 
he. had fpoken to the deceafed twice before 
he fired, but he would give no anfwer. On 
the Thurfday preceding, the witnefs, while 
going his rounds, {aw a tall figure, dreffed 
in a fheet or table.cloth:--Y¥vhen the witnefs 
fpoke, the pretended ghoft lifted. up his 
hands, and the witnefs faw under the fheet 
the appearance of a dark coat and metal 
buttons. The coroner having fummed up 
the evidence, the jury, after tome delibera- 
tion, returned a verdiét of Wiiful Murder. 
M t {The 
| the report of a gun, and faw the flath. She 
) then cailed to her brother, who returned no 
anfwer. Dreadfully agitated, the ran to awake 
her father and mother, telling them the was 
_* Montury Mac. No. 111, 
