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Trial Of Vice-Admiral Cornwallis.

the lugger getting aground , he was attacked by a corvette , and some gun boats , by which he , with Messrs . W . More , R . Kenyon , P . Burrowes , and five other inferior Officers , and 24 privates , the entire of his force , were taken prisoners . Lieutenant ierson , on whom the command of the Diamond devolved , sent a flag truce , which brought information from the Governor of Havre , that Sir Sydney was well , and should experience the respect due to so distinguished an Officer . Sir Sydney , after being examined by the commander of Havre , Was sent to Rouen , under an escort .

14 . This day Henry Weston , the person who stands charged with forgeries on the Bank to the amount of 17 , 000 ) . was brought to town from Liverpool , where he was apprehended on Tuesday night , by two of the Bow-street runners , who found him in bed at Bates ' s hotel . Soon after he was taken into custody , he made an attempt to put an end to his own life with a razor , which induced the officers to take every instrument of offence from him , and watch him as narrowly as possible . At Hounslow , howeverwhere they stopped to change horsesbeing permitted to into the yard

, , go , accompanied by one of the officers , he turned his back upon him , and cut his throat with a knife , which he , afterwards , acknowledged he took from a house Where they had stopt for refreshment . It being dark at the time , and getting into the chaise immediately , without returning into the house , this circumstance was not perceived till they got to Mr . Addington ' s house , in Vine-street , before whom the prisoner was immediately taken , when he appeared all covered with blood : a surgeon being sent for , the wound ( which at present has no very danger rous symptoms ) was sewed up , and he was ordered to remain in custody at the

house of an officer in Bow-street , until sufficiently recovered to undergo an examination . It appeared that he went to Liverpool with an intention of going to the West-Indies , having engaged a passage on board the ship Hector , bound for St . Vincent ' s which put to sea on Tuesday , but was obliged to return , on account of the wind having changed . All the money found on his person was 160 guineas which , with twenty paid by him for his intended passage , was the whole sum he was possessed of , though he had received 15 , 000 ! . out of the 17 , 000 for Which he had the Bank has latel

forged on . He y lost considerable sums at a gaming-house . On Friday , April 15 , he underwent an examination before Mr . Addington , the solicitor of the Bank , and others , at Carpmeal ' s House , in Bow-street . He ingenuously confessed all the various forgeries of which he stood charged , except that of his aunt , Mrs . Harris , which he solemnly denied , declaring , in her presence , that she herself signed both the warrants and assignments for transferring her Stock , which that lady , on her part , as positively contradicted . At the close of the altercation , he burst into a flood of tears , and said , this extraordinary and illfounded charge from one of his own relations , was the only thing that affected him . He is to be re-examined to-morrow .

After being again examined on the 16 th , he was fully committed for trial at the next sessions . REGRATING . —At the Quarter Sessions , held at Aylesbury , Bucks , Thomas Battams was indicted for regrating . The offence alledged against him , was buying , in OIney Market , fourteen quarters and a half of oats , and selling the same again at sixpence per quarter profit ( whereby he gained seven shillings and three pence ) in the same Market . The Marquis of Buckingham in the chair , and a Bench of Justices , mostly clergymen , tried the cause . The prisoner

acknowledged the fact ; but had no intention by such act ( which we understand is too common in most Market Towns in the kingdom ) to raise the price of corn , and ubmitted himself to the mercy of the court . After the Court broke up , each Magistrate was to give in his judgment in writing ; some were for a fine of one thousand pounds , and six months imprisonment , others for less , and some few for a trifling fine only proportioned to the offence . The Noble Marquis urged , in mitigation of punishment , the Prisoner ' s zeal in enrolling his sons in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry , and then pronounced the sentence of the Court , viz . To be confined in the common gaol fourteen . Ways , to pay a fine of two hundred pounds , and to remain a prisoner till paid .

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE. Article 5
MOON-LIGHT. Article 12
AN ADDRESS TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JOHN'S LODGE, NO. 534, LAHCASTER. Article 14
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. Article 17
SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH-AMERICAN INDIANS. Article 22
CHARACTERS OF CHILLINGWORTH AND BAYLE. Article 26
SCENE IN THE ALPS. Article 28
A TOUR THROUGH LONDON, Article 29
THE STAGE. Article 35
ON THE RETURN OF SPRING. Article 39
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 41
THE VANITY OF FAME. Article 42
ANECDOTES. Article 44
SINGULAR INSTANCES OF PUSILLANIMITY Article 46
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF GENEROSITY. Article 47
BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 48
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REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 54
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PROLOGUE TO VORTIGERN. Article 64
EPILOGUE TO THE SAME. Article 65
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 66
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 69
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Article 70
STATE PAPERS. Article 75
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 77
HOME NEWS. Article 78
TRIAL OF VICE-ADMIRAL CORNWALLIS. Article 79
PROMOTIONS. Article 82
Untitled Article 82
OBITUARY. Article 83
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 85
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Trial Of Vice-Admiral Cornwallis.

the lugger getting aground , he was attacked by a corvette , and some gun boats , by which he , with Messrs . W . More , R . Kenyon , P . Burrowes , and five other inferior Officers , and 24 privates , the entire of his force , were taken prisoners . Lieutenant ierson , on whom the command of the Diamond devolved , sent a flag truce , which brought information from the Governor of Havre , that Sir Sydney was well , and should experience the respect due to so distinguished an Officer . Sir Sydney , after being examined by the commander of Havre , Was sent to Rouen , under an escort .

14 . This day Henry Weston , the person who stands charged with forgeries on the Bank to the amount of 17 , 000 ) . was brought to town from Liverpool , where he was apprehended on Tuesday night , by two of the Bow-street runners , who found him in bed at Bates ' s hotel . Soon after he was taken into custody , he made an attempt to put an end to his own life with a razor , which induced the officers to take every instrument of offence from him , and watch him as narrowly as possible . At Hounslow , howeverwhere they stopped to change horsesbeing permitted to into the yard

, , go , accompanied by one of the officers , he turned his back upon him , and cut his throat with a knife , which he , afterwards , acknowledged he took from a house Where they had stopt for refreshment . It being dark at the time , and getting into the chaise immediately , without returning into the house , this circumstance was not perceived till they got to Mr . Addington ' s house , in Vine-street , before whom the prisoner was immediately taken , when he appeared all covered with blood : a surgeon being sent for , the wound ( which at present has no very danger rous symptoms ) was sewed up , and he was ordered to remain in custody at the

house of an officer in Bow-street , until sufficiently recovered to undergo an examination . It appeared that he went to Liverpool with an intention of going to the West-Indies , having engaged a passage on board the ship Hector , bound for St . Vincent ' s which put to sea on Tuesday , but was obliged to return , on account of the wind having changed . All the money found on his person was 160 guineas which , with twenty paid by him for his intended passage , was the whole sum he was possessed of , though he had received 15 , 000 ! . out of the 17 , 000 for Which he had the Bank has latel

forged on . He y lost considerable sums at a gaming-house . On Friday , April 15 , he underwent an examination before Mr . Addington , the solicitor of the Bank , and others , at Carpmeal ' s House , in Bow-street . He ingenuously confessed all the various forgeries of which he stood charged , except that of his aunt , Mrs . Harris , which he solemnly denied , declaring , in her presence , that she herself signed both the warrants and assignments for transferring her Stock , which that lady , on her part , as positively contradicted . At the close of the altercation , he burst into a flood of tears , and said , this extraordinary and illfounded charge from one of his own relations , was the only thing that affected him . He is to be re-examined to-morrow .

After being again examined on the 16 th , he was fully committed for trial at the next sessions . REGRATING . —At the Quarter Sessions , held at Aylesbury , Bucks , Thomas Battams was indicted for regrating . The offence alledged against him , was buying , in OIney Market , fourteen quarters and a half of oats , and selling the same again at sixpence per quarter profit ( whereby he gained seven shillings and three pence ) in the same Market . The Marquis of Buckingham in the chair , and a Bench of Justices , mostly clergymen , tried the cause . The prisoner

acknowledged the fact ; but had no intention by such act ( which we understand is too common in most Market Towns in the kingdom ) to raise the price of corn , and ubmitted himself to the mercy of the court . After the Court broke up , each Magistrate was to give in his judgment in writing ; some were for a fine of one thousand pounds , and six months imprisonment , others for less , and some few for a trifling fine only proportioned to the offence . The Noble Marquis urged , in mitigation of punishment , the Prisoner ' s zeal in enrolling his sons in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry , and then pronounced the sentence of the Court , viz . To be confined in the common gaol fourteen . Ways , to pay a fine of two hundred pounds , and to remain a prisoner till paid .

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