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Monthly Chronicle.
h av . 2 . After the levee at St . James ' s a council was held in the Grand Council Chamber , at which their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales , the Duke at . Clarence , two archbishops , Lord Chancellor , all the cabinet ministers , and severa ! other members were present ; when the King signed the instrument for permitting the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess Carolina Elizabeth of Brunswick . 6 . The lower parts of Norwich exhibited such scenes of confusion and distress , by the sudden rising of the waters , as have not been witnessed there since the
year 1762 . Most of the inhabitants were obliged to remove their goods and furniture from the ground floor ; and in some places the water flowed in at the chamber windows . The flood has since considerably abated . 4 . Dym Church wall in Kent was destroyed , by fire communicating to some wood which had been prepared for its repairs . 7 . The Admiralty Sessions commenced at the Sessions-house in the Old Baileywhen the trials of John OwensJohn Dixonand Cudgoa negro
, , , , , came on . They were charged with the murder of John Maliegan , mate of the Lovely Lass , on the 3 d of December , 1792 , on the coast of Anamago , by throwing him overboard , and firing at him afterwards . They were acquitted in failure of evidence , the most material witness being dead . Charles Crook , for the murder of the mate of the Warren Hastings , at Bengal , was also acquitted . 9 . The accession of Mr . Skinner to the honours of the City chair , was an event celebrated this day with uncommon marks of satisfaction by his fellow-citizens .
A gentleman who , through the whole of his life devoted to liberal indusiry , has manifested a love of the pure principles of constitutionaljiberty , tl . « most lively real for the independence of the city , and the most active benevolence in tlie succour of the poor , could not fail of receiving the warmest testimonies of affection-and esteem on his advancement to the office of Lord Mayor . The acclamations of the multitude were enthusiastic ; and as the day was favourable to the procession , the spectacle was uncommonly brilliant . The Lord Mayor arranged the business of the day so as to make the whole ceremony an hour earlier than
usual , which contributed to the regularity of the festival ; and in his deportment through the whole day he conducted himself with that fair and handsome address as to exclude all the bitterness of party distinctions . When his Lordship removed after dinner into the council-chamber with his company , he was supported by an equal number of persons on both sides , and the toast was given of ministerial men on one side of the table , and opposition members on the other , with that perfect conviviality that should ever reign at an hospitable board- It is thus that the chief magistrate of the first city in the world should conduct himself I — The ball was opened by Miss Skinner and the Venetian ambassador , and the dancing continued to a late hour . Guildhall has not been so crowded for many years , nor has the city had the honour of so splendid a festival .
14 . Richard Barrow and Robert Wa'son were indicted for a conspiracy to publish certain inflammatory and seditious hand-bills , relative to the London Militia Act , the Crimps , and the Soldiers . The above persons were apprehended by the late Lord Mayor ' s officers , atari eating-house in Smithfield , in consequence of information being given by a French Emigrant Priest . It was contended by the prisoner ' s Counsel , that their apprehension and commitment in the first instance was illegal , but of that ' the Court could take no notice . The offence being proved the prisoners were found ¦
GUILTY . The judgment of the Court was , " That each of them be confined in Newgate " for the term of two years , and find sureties for their good behaviour for the " term of three years , to commence from the expiration of their imprisonment ,, " themselves in iool . each , and two sureties in 50 J . each . " Another respite from his Majesty to David Downie ,. for one month , was re ^ ceived at Edinburgh . It is to be reckoned from the rjtfi instant on which da ' v tlie last respite was to have terminated .
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Monthly Chronicle.
h av . 2 . After the levee at St . James ' s a council was held in the Grand Council Chamber , at which their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales , the Duke at . Clarence , two archbishops , Lord Chancellor , all the cabinet ministers , and severa ! other members were present ; when the King signed the instrument for permitting the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess Carolina Elizabeth of Brunswick . 6 . The lower parts of Norwich exhibited such scenes of confusion and distress , by the sudden rising of the waters , as have not been witnessed there since the
year 1762 . Most of the inhabitants were obliged to remove their goods and furniture from the ground floor ; and in some places the water flowed in at the chamber windows . The flood has since considerably abated . 4 . Dym Church wall in Kent was destroyed , by fire communicating to some wood which had been prepared for its repairs . 7 . The Admiralty Sessions commenced at the Sessions-house in the Old Baileywhen the trials of John OwensJohn Dixonand Cudgoa negro
, , , , , came on . They were charged with the murder of John Maliegan , mate of the Lovely Lass , on the 3 d of December , 1792 , on the coast of Anamago , by throwing him overboard , and firing at him afterwards . They were acquitted in failure of evidence , the most material witness being dead . Charles Crook , for the murder of the mate of the Warren Hastings , at Bengal , was also acquitted . 9 . The accession of Mr . Skinner to the honours of the City chair , was an event celebrated this day with uncommon marks of satisfaction by his fellow-citizens .
A gentleman who , through the whole of his life devoted to liberal indusiry , has manifested a love of the pure principles of constitutionaljiberty , tl . « most lively real for the independence of the city , and the most active benevolence in tlie succour of the poor , could not fail of receiving the warmest testimonies of affection-and esteem on his advancement to the office of Lord Mayor . The acclamations of the multitude were enthusiastic ; and as the day was favourable to the procession , the spectacle was uncommonly brilliant . The Lord Mayor arranged the business of the day so as to make the whole ceremony an hour earlier than
usual , which contributed to the regularity of the festival ; and in his deportment through the whole day he conducted himself with that fair and handsome address as to exclude all the bitterness of party distinctions . When his Lordship removed after dinner into the council-chamber with his company , he was supported by an equal number of persons on both sides , and the toast was given of ministerial men on one side of the table , and opposition members on the other , with that perfect conviviality that should ever reign at an hospitable board- It is thus that the chief magistrate of the first city in the world should conduct himself I — The ball was opened by Miss Skinner and the Venetian ambassador , and the dancing continued to a late hour . Guildhall has not been so crowded for many years , nor has the city had the honour of so splendid a festival .
14 . Richard Barrow and Robert Wa'son were indicted for a conspiracy to publish certain inflammatory and seditious hand-bills , relative to the London Militia Act , the Crimps , and the Soldiers . The above persons were apprehended by the late Lord Mayor ' s officers , atari eating-house in Smithfield , in consequence of information being given by a French Emigrant Priest . It was contended by the prisoner ' s Counsel , that their apprehension and commitment in the first instance was illegal , but of that ' the Court could take no notice . The offence being proved the prisoners were found ¦
GUILTY . The judgment of the Court was , " That each of them be confined in Newgate " for the term of two years , and find sureties for their good behaviour for the " term of three years , to commence from the expiration of their imprisonment ,, " themselves in iool . each , and two sureties in 50 J . each . " Another respite from his Majesty to David Downie ,. for one month , was re ^ ceived at Edinburgh . It is to be reckoned from the rjtfi instant on which da ' v tlie last respite was to have terminated .