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Monthly Chronicle.
about five o ' clock , with some signs of life remaining , but he expired soon after without uttering a syllable . —From a handkerchief and a knife belonging to Mr . Norton , being exposed to sale the next day at Brighton Camp , and some words that fell from the drummer , he was taken into custody , and confessed the fact . —' The private was apprehended at Arundel , whither he was pursued , having previously marched from Camp with the first division of his regiment . —The Coroner ' s Inquest sat on the body , and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the two prisoners , who , on the Coroner ' s warrant , were committed to Horsham gaol . They are both under the age of twenty , and appear to feel no remorse for what they have done . —Mr . Norton has left a widow pregnant and eight children to lament his loss .
26 . A vast number of people assembled in a field on the north side of Copenhagen house , in the center of which they erected , at equal distances , three tribunes . At one o ' clock their attention was summoned by a Mr . Jones , who proposed , in a short speech , a Mr . Binns , as a proper person to be called to the chair . The question was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Binns ascended the tribune , and read to them , for their approbation , the intended Address to the Nation , Remonstrance to the King , and certain Resolutions , which had been passed at a late meeting ; and that these might be generally heard , they were repeated by
two of the members in the other tribunes . About two o ' clock Mr . Thclwall harangued the multitude , which had much increased , in which he proposed an amendment to the address , which was also agreed to , and the whole containing " an Address to the Nation on the dearness . of the necessaries of life , " and also the Remonstrance to the King , not having obtained his Majesty ' s attention on a former occasion , presented through the Duke of Portland , and several resolutions for a Parliamentary Reform , by universal suffrage , and annual Parliaments , were unanimously carried . A subscription was proposedand eleven of the
, members appointed in various parts of the town to receive contributions , for defraying the expence of delivering , gratis , the printed proceedings of the day . When the evening approached , the whole peaceably dispersed . 29 . A tier of boats laden with coals passed for the first time on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Selly Oak , attended by two bands of music , and ac- , companicd by the Committee and others of the Proprietors . An ox roasted wholewith strong beer & cwereas usualiven to the workmen .
, , , , , g The tide in . the Severn rose to that extraordinary height , that it overflowed the seawalls , * and laid the country near Arlirigham , Saul , and Slimbridge , under water . —Great have been the losses sustained in the number of sheep and catlle that were at pasture on the low grounds . It is supposed that upwards of IOCO sheep were drowned .
PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS . 1 His Majesty , soon after two o ' clock , went in State from St . James ' s to the House of Peers , and there delivered the following most gracious Speech : ' My Lords and Gentlemen , " It is a great satisfaction to me to . reflect , that notwithstanding the manyevents unfavourable to the common cause , the prospect resulting from the general situation of affairs has , in many important respects , been materially improved
in the course of the present year . " In Italy , the threatened invasion of the French has been prevented ; and they have been driven back from a considerable part of ihe line of coast which they had occupied . There is also reason to hope , that the recent operations ofthe Austrian army have checked the progress which they had made on the side of Germany , and frustrated the offensive projects which they were pursuing in that quarter . ' - " The successes which have attended their military operations in other parts
of the campaign , and the advantages which they have derived from the conclusion of separate treaties with some of the powers who were engaged in the war , are far from compensating the evils which they experience from its continuance . The destruction of their commerce , the diminution of their maritime power , and the unparalleled eir , barr ; . _ sme ; it and distr . b . of their internal situation , have
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Monthly Chronicle.
about five o ' clock , with some signs of life remaining , but he expired soon after without uttering a syllable . —From a handkerchief and a knife belonging to Mr . Norton , being exposed to sale the next day at Brighton Camp , and some words that fell from the drummer , he was taken into custody , and confessed the fact . —' The private was apprehended at Arundel , whither he was pursued , having previously marched from Camp with the first division of his regiment . —The Coroner ' s Inquest sat on the body , and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the two prisoners , who , on the Coroner ' s warrant , were committed to Horsham gaol . They are both under the age of twenty , and appear to feel no remorse for what they have done . —Mr . Norton has left a widow pregnant and eight children to lament his loss .
26 . A vast number of people assembled in a field on the north side of Copenhagen house , in the center of which they erected , at equal distances , three tribunes . At one o ' clock their attention was summoned by a Mr . Jones , who proposed , in a short speech , a Mr . Binns , as a proper person to be called to the chair . The question was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Binns ascended the tribune , and read to them , for their approbation , the intended Address to the Nation , Remonstrance to the King , and certain Resolutions , which had been passed at a late meeting ; and that these might be generally heard , they were repeated by
two of the members in the other tribunes . About two o ' clock Mr . Thclwall harangued the multitude , which had much increased , in which he proposed an amendment to the address , which was also agreed to , and the whole containing " an Address to the Nation on the dearness . of the necessaries of life , " and also the Remonstrance to the King , not having obtained his Majesty ' s attention on a former occasion , presented through the Duke of Portland , and several resolutions for a Parliamentary Reform , by universal suffrage , and annual Parliaments , were unanimously carried . A subscription was proposedand eleven of the
, members appointed in various parts of the town to receive contributions , for defraying the expence of delivering , gratis , the printed proceedings of the day . When the evening approached , the whole peaceably dispersed . 29 . A tier of boats laden with coals passed for the first time on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Selly Oak , attended by two bands of music , and ac- , companicd by the Committee and others of the Proprietors . An ox roasted wholewith strong beer & cwereas usualiven to the workmen .
, , , , , g The tide in . the Severn rose to that extraordinary height , that it overflowed the seawalls , * and laid the country near Arlirigham , Saul , and Slimbridge , under water . —Great have been the losses sustained in the number of sheep and catlle that were at pasture on the low grounds . It is supposed that upwards of IOCO sheep were drowned .
PROCESSION TO THE HOUSE OF PEERS . 1 His Majesty , soon after two o ' clock , went in State from St . James ' s to the House of Peers , and there delivered the following most gracious Speech : ' My Lords and Gentlemen , " It is a great satisfaction to me to . reflect , that notwithstanding the manyevents unfavourable to the common cause , the prospect resulting from the general situation of affairs has , in many important respects , been materially improved
in the course of the present year . " In Italy , the threatened invasion of the French has been prevented ; and they have been driven back from a considerable part of ihe line of coast which they had occupied . There is also reason to hope , that the recent operations ofthe Austrian army have checked the progress which they had made on the side of Germany , and frustrated the offensive projects which they were pursuing in that quarter . ' - " The successes which have attended their military operations in other parts
of the campaign , and the advantages which they have derived from the conclusion of separate treaties with some of the powers who were engaged in the war , are far from compensating the evils which they experience from its continuance . The destruction of their commerce , the diminution of their maritime power , and the unparalleled eir , barr ; . _ sme ; it and distr . b . of their internal situation , have