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After ten minutes conversation , the Jury gave their verdict , that all the defendants were—Not Guilty . LANCASHIRE . —ORMSKIRK , August 7 . A few days since , as two men in the habit of travelling with a bear , and three dancing dogs , were on their way betwixt this place and Wigan , they called at an inn in Newbro' for refreshment ; they secured the bear in a brew-house , and gave him some bread to eat , but unfortunately left the door open ; soon after , a neighbour ' s wife passing by it , the animal having too much chainrushed upon herand tore her so much before she received as .
, , sistance , that she expired an hour afterwards . She was four months gone with child , and has left a husband and four small children to regret her loss . The men are in custody . KINGSWORTII ,- August 18 . A man at this place was on Monday last arrested for debt , but found means to escape from the Sheriff ' s officer . 'Two bailiffs armed , and assisted by three light dragoons , went in quest of him , and found him mowing in a field adjoining his house ; on entering the meadow they took opposite
directions , and called upon him to surrender , which he refused , and taking up a gun and several pistols which he had provided , threatened to shoot the first who should approach him , and kept his word , for they advancing , he wounded three of them , at length being wounded , and weak with the loss of blood , befell ; and he was properly secured , and conveyed to Maidstone gaol . SALOP . —SHREWSBURY , August 19 . There is now in Sir Richard Hill ' s Hot-house , at Hawkstonea Syrian Vinewhich though onlsix oldhas produced
, , y years , several hundred weight of grapes ; the berries are very large , and of a most delicious flavour , and the bunches run from seven or eight to near twenty pounds a piece . —With some of these grapes the Prince and Princess of Orange were lately entertained at Hawkstones ; and one day last week Sir Richard presented Lord Kenyon with a single bunch , which , without leaf or stalk weighed sixteen pounds and a half . ' YORKSHIRE— -SiiErriELn , August 16 . We have this morning received from
our correspondent at Nottingham , an account of a distressing circumstance which happened on Saturday last , near that place , the particulars of which are as follows : —A number of persons have for some time been employed in pulling down a toi arched bridge by the side of the Hood road near Nottingham , in order to erect a new one ; after having taken down the first arch , the others immediately gave way , which unfortunately fell into the water , together with eight persons ( supposed ? 0 be navigators ) who were all drowned . Three of the bodies of the unfortunate men have been taken out of the ruins , and the greatest exertions are making in order to find the remainder .
CORONER ' S INQUEST UPON ' MR . THOMAS YATES . Anlnquisilionwascn Wednesday , Aug . 24 II 1 , taken before Anthony Gele , Esq . coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster , upon view of the body of Thomas Yates , ( who was killed by a pistol ball ) , at the Gun Tavern , Pimli ' co . Previous to the Coroner ' s examining the evidence , Mr . Beard an Attorney , attended by a Gentleman of the Barrequested leave to remain in the roomin
, , order to cross-examine the witnesses ; but the Jury unanimously set their faces against it , and insisted on ( heir being ordered to withdraw ; which they did with some reluctance . Mary Thompson , a young girl who lived servant . with the deceased and his ¦ wife , deposed , that they had removed from their late residence in Panton Street , and came to reside wholly at No . 9 . Stafford-place , in which house a Miss Elizabeth Jones , who had some pretensions , to the house , as having been left her by ¦ the late Mr . Yatesuncle to the deceasedresided . The Witness
de-, , posed that Mr . Yates did not dare to venture , at any time out of his house to the street , for fear of being locked out by Miss Jones ; and that he , therefore , occasionally used lo amuse himself with his children in the garden . That about . a week ago , Mr , Beard the Attorney , scut a person of the name of John Sellers ,
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After ten minutes conversation , the Jury gave their verdict , that all the defendants were—Not Guilty . LANCASHIRE . —ORMSKIRK , August 7 . A few days since , as two men in the habit of travelling with a bear , and three dancing dogs , were on their way betwixt this place and Wigan , they called at an inn in Newbro' for refreshment ; they secured the bear in a brew-house , and gave him some bread to eat , but unfortunately left the door open ; soon after , a neighbour ' s wife passing by it , the animal having too much chainrushed upon herand tore her so much before she received as .
, , sistance , that she expired an hour afterwards . She was four months gone with child , and has left a husband and four small children to regret her loss . The men are in custody . KINGSWORTII ,- August 18 . A man at this place was on Monday last arrested for debt , but found means to escape from the Sheriff ' s officer . 'Two bailiffs armed , and assisted by three light dragoons , went in quest of him , and found him mowing in a field adjoining his house ; on entering the meadow they took opposite
directions , and called upon him to surrender , which he refused , and taking up a gun and several pistols which he had provided , threatened to shoot the first who should approach him , and kept his word , for they advancing , he wounded three of them , at length being wounded , and weak with the loss of blood , befell ; and he was properly secured , and conveyed to Maidstone gaol . SALOP . —SHREWSBURY , August 19 . There is now in Sir Richard Hill ' s Hot-house , at Hawkstonea Syrian Vinewhich though onlsix oldhas produced
, , y years , several hundred weight of grapes ; the berries are very large , and of a most delicious flavour , and the bunches run from seven or eight to near twenty pounds a piece . —With some of these grapes the Prince and Princess of Orange were lately entertained at Hawkstones ; and one day last week Sir Richard presented Lord Kenyon with a single bunch , which , without leaf or stalk weighed sixteen pounds and a half . ' YORKSHIRE— -SiiErriELn , August 16 . We have this morning received from
our correspondent at Nottingham , an account of a distressing circumstance which happened on Saturday last , near that place , the particulars of which are as follows : —A number of persons have for some time been employed in pulling down a toi arched bridge by the side of the Hood road near Nottingham , in order to erect a new one ; after having taken down the first arch , the others immediately gave way , which unfortunately fell into the water , together with eight persons ( supposed ? 0 be navigators ) who were all drowned . Three of the bodies of the unfortunate men have been taken out of the ruins , and the greatest exertions are making in order to find the remainder .
CORONER ' S INQUEST UPON ' MR . THOMAS YATES . Anlnquisilionwascn Wednesday , Aug . 24 II 1 , taken before Anthony Gele , Esq . coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster , upon view of the body of Thomas Yates , ( who was killed by a pistol ball ) , at the Gun Tavern , Pimli ' co . Previous to the Coroner ' s examining the evidence , Mr . Beard an Attorney , attended by a Gentleman of the Barrequested leave to remain in the roomin
, , order to cross-examine the witnesses ; but the Jury unanimously set their faces against it , and insisted on ( heir being ordered to withdraw ; which they did with some reluctance . Mary Thompson , a young girl who lived servant . with the deceased and his ¦ wife , deposed , that they had removed from their late residence in Panton Street , and came to reside wholly at No . 9 . Stafford-place , in which house a Miss Elizabeth Jones , who had some pretensions , to the house , as having been left her by ¦ the late Mr . Yatesuncle to the deceasedresided . The Witness
de-, , posed that Mr . Yates did not dare to venture , at any time out of his house to the street , for fear of being locked out by Miss Jones ; and that he , therefore , occasionally used lo amuse himself with his children in the garden . That about . a week ago , Mr , Beard the Attorney , scut a person of the name of John Sellers ,