and he foon had the parties concerned in his power, who were all brought before him, without any knowledge of each other's being taken up, till they all met together in the greatest confu. flon and difmay, which evidenced their guilt.

They were committed to the gatehouse, and were brought the next feffions to the Old-Bailey, tried, and con demned on the evidence of the child, to the entire fatisfaction of the court and country, and all prefent. The

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Captain was condemned to the gib. bet; Mrs. Myltyftre was hanged, and thrown into the gully-hole that ran next the house in Wapping, where the had lived; the apothecary was anatomifed; and the wife was ftrangled and burnt, according to cuftom in fuch like cafes. They were attended at Tyburn by an Irish priest of the Romish church, called Mac Arthy, who gave them abfolution, and they a died negative.

7. AGENTEEL dreffed young man hot himself through the heart in a field at Halfden, near Harrow on the Hill; the reafon afcribed for this rafh action is poverty, as he had not a halfpenny in his pockets.

9. Robin Gray, alias the Guinea Pig, a notorious pickpocket, aged upwards of fixty, threw himself out of a two pair of fairs window, at his lodgings in Dean-ftreet, Soho, in a fit of delirium, and was killed on the spot. He was twice transported, fince which he has feveral times been tried for life.

10. This day died in Rochefter, John Baynard, Efq. aged 88, who has left by his will, to the Prefident and Treasurer of Bethlehem Hofpital, Moorfields, for the fupport of infane incurable patients, 1000l. to the Treafurer of the Society for the difcharge and relief of perfons imprisoned for fmall debts, 1oooì. He alfo left other charities and legacies to his relations and friends, amounting together to 20,000l. befides very confiderable eltates.

14. This morning the body of a man was taken up by fome fishermen near Westminster bridge. He feemed to be about forty years of age, and had the appearance of a labourer. It is

fuppofed he had laid in the water fome time.

On Tuelday, the 15th, John Marplay, a ftock-broker, who abfconded with 10,000l, the property of a perfon who intrufted him with it to purchafe stock, and for which rool, was offer ed as a reward, was apprehended by Mr. Mocket, a Serjeant at Mace, in Bifhopfgate-street, and confined in the New Counter.

16. This day came on to be heard the fuit inftituted by Mr. Duberley, against his wife, to obtain a sentence of divorce, a menfa et thoro for adultery with General Gunning.

After the counfel were heard on both fides, the Judge pronounced a fentence of divorce from bed and board,

16. This morning was married by a fpecial licence, at Lord Camelford's houfe in Oxford Street, the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, to the Hon. Mifs Anne Pitt, only daughter to Lord Camelford. After the ceremo ny, the bride and bridegroom fet off for Mr. Pitt's feat at' Holwood-house, Kent, where they will spend the ho ney-moon.

Mr. Philips, a gentleman of the Star Brew-houfe, Wapping, who was del perately wounded by footpads on the

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Ilford road on Wednesday night, ftill lies with little hopes of recovery. Two flugs were lodged beneath Mr. Phillips's ear,both of which are extract ed. The Oftler at the Three Rabbits, near which houfe Mr. P. was wounded, on receiving information of the robbery, immediately went in purfuit of the defperadoes, and in a cornfield, at a fhort diftance, found one of them, whom he very fpiritedly fecu. red, and took him before Mr. Juftice Spurrel, at Barking. This fellow's name appears to be Jones, and both Mr. Phillip's coachman, and a gentleman who was paffing by at the moment of the robbery, fwore that he was one of the men concerned in it. Mr. Spurrel therefore fully committed him to Chelmsford gaol, to take his trial.

The Grand Jury of Westminster have found the following true Bills; one against Thomas Phoeby, the Duke of Gloucester's fecond coachman, and William Baker, a groom, charged with injuring the watch-houfe, in the late riots in Mount-ftreet, a fecond against David Hummel, a watchman, at the fuit of a refpectable young woman, Frances Ellis, charged with having received twenty-fix fhillings, promifing to releafe her, but he notwithstanding conveyed her to the watch-house with the others.

A third Bill against the mafter of the Pitt's Head, where the dance was held, was preferred by Tapp, the High Conftable, and thrown out.

A young lady of the most brilliant perfonal attractions, confiderable fortune, and fome fafhion, has inftituted a procefs against her husband, to whom fhe has been married two months, for impotence; and a divorce is according ly claimed, She has made her first depofition.

The following melancholy accident more and more fhews the danger of keeping articles loofe in a houfe, of a poisonous quality. Mr. Sporgin, of Chadwell, inclined, from an indifpof,

tion, to take a dofe of brimftone, fent his wife to get it from his clofet: un. fortunately he brought him a yellow powder, which she found in the closet, and which afterwards turned out to be yellow arfenic. Having mixed it in water, the unfortunate gentleman drank it, and expired, notwithstanding every affiftance, in great agonies.

The baker for the colony at Botany Bay is the notorious Robert Sidoway, who was feveral times tried for house. breaking, highway robberies, &c. when in this country; he has now one of the best fituations in the new Scttlement, being allowed a toll out of every quantity of flour he makes into bread for the officers and convicts.

A perfon, who paffed- under the name of Whiteman, was lately committed to Launceston jail, charged with robbing the mail, and with the murder of the boy, near Warrington, in September laft. He had been fome time near Exeter, amufing himself in fining, &c. and always avoiding public places. He was taken in bed, at Bodmin; and on his irons being put on, he burft into tears, faying, he had always been an unfortunate man, and that the public would know in the courfe of the week, who was the mail robber.

Major Houghton, now upon his tra vels in the interior parts of Africa, has lately tranfmitted an account of his progrefs to Mr. Beaufoy. He fays he has penetrated to a city unknown of in history, and unheard of by the medium of tradition. He represents it as infinitely larger, and as containing more inhabitants than any city in the world, but the people, even there, as well as in every other part of the country, he defcribes to be in a state of grofs barbarifm, and trading chiefly in flaves, of which it is the great mart?

A Lioness in the Tower has lately brought forth two young ones, which are likely to do well; a circumftance that has not happened for a long feries of years.