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Monthly Chronicle.
Kir-by urged him to declare what that opinion was ; Ward reluctantly said , the counsel ' s opinion was , that he ( Ward ) was " a blockheadjor putting the board up , and the M s of Queen-square were blockheads for interfering topull it down . " . An extraordinary malady is found among our soldiers in Canada ; they lose their eyesight at sun-set , and recover it in the morning . This periodical blindness continues with some of them for many months . The late Dr . Guthrie describes a similar malady in Russia . It is called by the peasants there the Hen Blindto roost
ness , probably because it attacks the patient when the fowls go . Mr . Brown , one of the superintendants of the gardens of the Lady Heathcote , at North-End , near Hammersmith , amusing himself with flying an electrical kite near a thunder cloud , by some unfortunate mismanagement of the apparatus , had neglected the proper precautions requisite for conveying electrical fluid to the earth , when on a sudden the cloud burst with a most ttemendous shock , and Mr . Brown , with the horse he rode on , were struck with instant death . Mr . Brown has left a wife and five children to lament his untimely loss . The _ jury have already sat . on the body of Mr . Brown , and brought in a verdict of Accidental Death .
The Prince of Orange has applied to his Majesty ' s ministers for protection from the consequence of the militia laws ; his Serene Highness and his snite having all been baliotted for to serve in the Middlesex Militia , in common with all other men in the county , agreeably to the statute . The Agricultural Societies have the following improvements under consideration : A grand lan of effectual drainageto prevent swampy lands , and the rot
p , fsheep . A plan to maintain the roads with half the materials , without a rut , in anypublic or cross roads throughout the kingdom . A plan of carriage improvements , to execute the same work with one half the horses . A plan to reform all the rivers , rivulets , and rills in the kingdom , to prevent tlie possibility of an inundation .
Mendoza vanquished by a -. oasher-vjoman . —We have had frequent occasions to chronicle the honourable exploits of this gentleman of the fist , in which he always ( except at the battle of Odiham ) came off victorious ; but fortune , fickle goddess , has laid his honours low , and given the palm of victory to a washerwoman . —Our heroine had a demand on this gentleman of is . 6 d . for washing and mending , which her wants compelled her to solicit too importunately either for his pocket or his feelings , and he took the liberty which great folks will ' sometimes take with their inferiorsof kicking the woman of suds down stairs ;
, this insult brought on a challenge , and the affair was decided in Guildhall , before as learned and brilliant an assemblage of warriors in words as ever met on any similar occasion . —The set-to was , as usual , scientifically correct , and the par- ' ryings and shiftings displayed great skill and ingenuity ; notwithstanding the Jew was obliged to give it in , after a most severe dressing , which the judges ; have pronounced will confine him to his room for the space of three months .
AN IMPORTANT DECISION . —In the course of the late Stafford Assizes a cause was tried , in which the general right of a master to give corporeal punishment to his servant was so fully explained by the Lord Chief Justice , that , by the desire of a particular correspondent , we lay the report before our readers . —The plaintiff was father of an infant about thirteen years old , whom he had engaged in the service of the defendant , on condition ' that the defendant should find him in , clothes and victuals , but not as an apprentice . The boy was proved to be obstinateand in the habit of running away from his master's service whenever he
, was rebuked or punished for his misbehaviour . It was also proved that , upon the occasion in consequence of which the action was brought , the master sent other of his servants to bring the boy home by force ; and the defendant admitted that he then punished him with a stick somewhat severely . On the degree vi Zz 3
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Monthly Chronicle.
Kir-by urged him to declare what that opinion was ; Ward reluctantly said , the counsel ' s opinion was , that he ( Ward ) was " a blockheadjor putting the board up , and the M s of Queen-square were blockheads for interfering topull it down . " . An extraordinary malady is found among our soldiers in Canada ; they lose their eyesight at sun-set , and recover it in the morning . This periodical blindness continues with some of them for many months . The late Dr . Guthrie describes a similar malady in Russia . It is called by the peasants there the Hen Blindto roost
ness , probably because it attacks the patient when the fowls go . Mr . Brown , one of the superintendants of the gardens of the Lady Heathcote , at North-End , near Hammersmith , amusing himself with flying an electrical kite near a thunder cloud , by some unfortunate mismanagement of the apparatus , had neglected the proper precautions requisite for conveying electrical fluid to the earth , when on a sudden the cloud burst with a most ttemendous shock , and Mr . Brown , with the horse he rode on , were struck with instant death . Mr . Brown has left a wife and five children to lament his untimely loss . The _ jury have already sat . on the body of Mr . Brown , and brought in a verdict of Accidental Death .
The Prince of Orange has applied to his Majesty ' s ministers for protection from the consequence of the militia laws ; his Serene Highness and his snite having all been baliotted for to serve in the Middlesex Militia , in common with all other men in the county , agreeably to the statute . The Agricultural Societies have the following improvements under consideration : A grand lan of effectual drainageto prevent swampy lands , and the rot
p , fsheep . A plan to maintain the roads with half the materials , without a rut , in anypublic or cross roads throughout the kingdom . A plan of carriage improvements , to execute the same work with one half the horses . A plan to reform all the rivers , rivulets , and rills in the kingdom , to prevent tlie possibility of an inundation .
Mendoza vanquished by a -. oasher-vjoman . —We have had frequent occasions to chronicle the honourable exploits of this gentleman of the fist , in which he always ( except at the battle of Odiham ) came off victorious ; but fortune , fickle goddess , has laid his honours low , and given the palm of victory to a washerwoman . —Our heroine had a demand on this gentleman of is . 6 d . for washing and mending , which her wants compelled her to solicit too importunately either for his pocket or his feelings , and he took the liberty which great folks will ' sometimes take with their inferiorsof kicking the woman of suds down stairs ;
, this insult brought on a challenge , and the affair was decided in Guildhall , before as learned and brilliant an assemblage of warriors in words as ever met on any similar occasion . —The set-to was , as usual , scientifically correct , and the par- ' ryings and shiftings displayed great skill and ingenuity ; notwithstanding the Jew was obliged to give it in , after a most severe dressing , which the judges ; have pronounced will confine him to his room for the space of three months .
AN IMPORTANT DECISION . —In the course of the late Stafford Assizes a cause was tried , in which the general right of a master to give corporeal punishment to his servant was so fully explained by the Lord Chief Justice , that , by the desire of a particular correspondent , we lay the report before our readers . —The plaintiff was father of an infant about thirteen years old , whom he had engaged in the service of the defendant , on condition ' that the defendant should find him in , clothes and victuals , but not as an apprentice . The boy was proved to be obstinateand in the habit of running away from his master's service whenever he
, was rebuked or punished for his misbehaviour . It was also proved that , upon the occasion in consequence of which the action was brought , the master sent other of his servants to bring the boy home by force ; and the defendant admitted that he then punished him with a stick somewhat severely . On the degree vi Zz 3