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rable concourse of people . The tunnel was passed in forty minutes by the heaviest sailing vessel , and the company proceeded to the first lock , where a very elegant cold collation was prepared for them , and from thence to Burnley , attended " by an encreasing and applauding multitude . At some distance from this place , the company in the first boat were surprized with the instantaneous and unexpected appearance of fifteen youths , the sons of the most respectable tradesmen in and about Burnley , smartly and uniformly dressed , who seizing the haling line , drew that boat to the bason there : pleasant as that circumstance wasits effects
, were much encreased by the presence of a number of ladies who came on board the vessel . — - 'The landing of the company was announced by the discharge . of the cannon . —From the bason , the procession to the Bull Inn , was in the same order as from Coin to the tunnel . —At this Inn , and the'Thorns Jnn , dinners were prepared for the committee and the gentlemen attending . —On Tuesday evening there was a most splendid and numerous ball at Coin : and on Thursday evening the like at Burnley , to celebrate so beneficial an event . — -This great tunnel , which Colneand ends at about six
is 1630 yards in length , begins about one mile from , miles from Burnley , has been upwards of five years in completing , and some idea of the expence in the making thereof may be formed from the circumstance of one guinea an inch having been offered to any company that would have undertaken it . It is universally allowed to be the most complete work of the kind in England , if not in Europe . . ' Halt 14 The lamentable effects ' of terror have been frequently recorded .
, May . . We are sorry to add another instance of its fatal power : —On Friday morning a g irl living at a public-house in Mill-street in this town , was seized with an illness which threatened the most alarming consequences : to remove which , means were used without effect , for which she died early on Saturday morning . —Thursday evening , being what is called St . Mark ' s eve , the above girl , in company with two others , sat up to observe a custom of the most dangerous and ridiculous nature , which they called watching their suppers ; in doing which it is supposed fancied she which had such ter
¦ this girl heard some noise , or saw some object , a .-rible effect on her mind , as to produce the fatal consequences above-mentioned . We hope her awful example will be a warning to the thoughtless observers of such superstitious and impious practices . On Monday last a servant girl , living with a respectable family in this town , on hearing that a soldier , her sweetheart , had been taken back and flogged as a deserter , when coming to this place to marry her , was afflicted with the most violent madness , ancl solicited a boy to cut her throat . She was secured ; but remains still in a most deplorable state . —She is only nineteen years of age .
COURT OF KING ' S BENCH , MAY 7 . Kydd Wake , tried and convicted last term , for hissing his Majesty on the 29 th of October , on his return from the Parliament , and crying , " No war , down with George , " & c . was brought up to the Court of King ' s Bench , on Saturday , for judgment—his sentence , five years imprisonment , and kept to hard labour m Gloucester house of correction—within the first three months to stand in the pillory in Gloucester , and at the expiration of five years , to give 1000 I . security
for his good behaviour for ten years . Judge Ashurst , in passing sentence upon him : — " If there had been any wish to stretch the laws to their utmost rigour , it may be doubted , whether the crime of which you have been found guilty might not have amounted to a crime of a much deeper die ; for it has a manifest tendency to withdraw the affections of his Majesty ' s subjects from their lawful Sovereign , to excite the mob to disaffection and rebellion . This is the return you have made for the protection have enjoyed under the auspicious Government of the best
you of Kings , and under the mildest and most excellent system of laws . I would have you remember , thatthere is perhaps no other kingdom in the world where for such an offence the offender ' s life would not have paid the forfeit . " OLD BAILEY , MAY 11 . Wednesday , at the Old Bailey , came on the trial of R . T . Crossfield , charged . with conspiring , with others , to assasinate the King , by shooting at him a poi-
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rable concourse of people . The tunnel was passed in forty minutes by the heaviest sailing vessel , and the company proceeded to the first lock , where a very elegant cold collation was prepared for them , and from thence to Burnley , attended " by an encreasing and applauding multitude . At some distance from this place , the company in the first boat were surprized with the instantaneous and unexpected appearance of fifteen youths , the sons of the most respectable tradesmen in and about Burnley , smartly and uniformly dressed , who seizing the haling line , drew that boat to the bason there : pleasant as that circumstance wasits effects
, were much encreased by the presence of a number of ladies who came on board the vessel . — - 'The landing of the company was announced by the discharge . of the cannon . —From the bason , the procession to the Bull Inn , was in the same order as from Coin to the tunnel . —At this Inn , and the'Thorns Jnn , dinners were prepared for the committee and the gentlemen attending . —On Tuesday evening there was a most splendid and numerous ball at Coin : and on Thursday evening the like at Burnley , to celebrate so beneficial an event . — -This great tunnel , which Colneand ends at about six
is 1630 yards in length , begins about one mile from , miles from Burnley , has been upwards of five years in completing , and some idea of the expence in the making thereof may be formed from the circumstance of one guinea an inch having been offered to any company that would have undertaken it . It is universally allowed to be the most complete work of the kind in England , if not in Europe . . ' Halt 14 The lamentable effects ' of terror have been frequently recorded .
, May . . We are sorry to add another instance of its fatal power : —On Friday morning a g irl living at a public-house in Mill-street in this town , was seized with an illness which threatened the most alarming consequences : to remove which , means were used without effect , for which she died early on Saturday morning . —Thursday evening , being what is called St . Mark ' s eve , the above girl , in company with two others , sat up to observe a custom of the most dangerous and ridiculous nature , which they called watching their suppers ; in doing which it is supposed fancied she which had such ter
¦ this girl heard some noise , or saw some object , a .-rible effect on her mind , as to produce the fatal consequences above-mentioned . We hope her awful example will be a warning to the thoughtless observers of such superstitious and impious practices . On Monday last a servant girl , living with a respectable family in this town , on hearing that a soldier , her sweetheart , had been taken back and flogged as a deserter , when coming to this place to marry her , was afflicted with the most violent madness , ancl solicited a boy to cut her throat . She was secured ; but remains still in a most deplorable state . —She is only nineteen years of age .
COURT OF KING ' S BENCH , MAY 7 . Kydd Wake , tried and convicted last term , for hissing his Majesty on the 29 th of October , on his return from the Parliament , and crying , " No war , down with George , " & c . was brought up to the Court of King ' s Bench , on Saturday , for judgment—his sentence , five years imprisonment , and kept to hard labour m Gloucester house of correction—within the first three months to stand in the pillory in Gloucester , and at the expiration of five years , to give 1000 I . security
for his good behaviour for ten years . Judge Ashurst , in passing sentence upon him : — " If there had been any wish to stretch the laws to their utmost rigour , it may be doubted , whether the crime of which you have been found guilty might not have amounted to a crime of a much deeper die ; for it has a manifest tendency to withdraw the affections of his Majesty ' s subjects from their lawful Sovereign , to excite the mob to disaffection and rebellion . This is the return you have made for the protection have enjoyed under the auspicious Government of the best
you of Kings , and under the mildest and most excellent system of laws . I would have you remember , thatthere is perhaps no other kingdom in the world where for such an offence the offender ' s life would not have paid the forfeit . " OLD BAILEY , MAY 11 . Wednesday , at the Old Bailey , came on the trial of R . T . Crossfield , charged . with conspiring , with others , to assasinate the King , by shooting at him a poi-