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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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LONDON : Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS , &c. Article 3
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PRICES OF BINDING PER VOLUME. Article 3
THE MAN OF PLEASURE. Article 4
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY BEADING A TREATISE ON THE "ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE." Article 6
TO THE EDITOR. Article 8
ON SEDUCTION. Article 9
MASONIC EXTRACT FROM A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. Article 10
TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 11
FUNERAL ORATION Article 11
ANECDOTE Article 14
TO THE EDITOR. Article 16
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE GRAND MASTERS OF THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS Article 17
UNCOMMON SENTENCE: Article 19
OLD LAWS. Article 20
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE EARL MOUNT EDGECUMBE. Article 20
DETACHED SENTIMENTS.No. III. Article 21
ANECDOTES OF THE VERY ANCIENT LODGE OF KILWINNING. Article 22
INSCRIPTIONS Article 23
SLAVE COUNTRIES. Article 24
A CURE FOR A SORE THROAT. Article 28
CEREMONY OF A GENTOO WOMAN Article 29
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS. Article 31
THE STAGE. Article 36
A LEAP YEAR LOST. Article 37
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
RELIEVING THE POOR. Article 39
CHARACTER OF A GENTLEMAN. Article 40
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 42
TO THE EDITOR. Article 43
REAL PHILOSOPHER, Article 44
A CHINESE TALE. Article 46
TO THE EDITOR. Article 48
Untitled Article 48
AN EASY METHOD OF DESTROYING BUGS. Article 48
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 49
INSTANCE OF DELICACY AND PRESENCE OF MIND. Article 49
Untitled Article 49
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 50
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 51
POETRY. Article 54
MASONIC ODE. Article 54
ON THE EPICUREAN, STOIC, AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY. Article 55
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IRREGULAR ODE TO EVENING. Article 56
ELEGIAC STANZAS. Article 56
SONNET TO DELIA. Article 57
PETER PINDAR TO DR. SAYERS, Article 58
ON FORTITUDE. Article 60
SONG. Article 60
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 61
PROMOTIONS. Article 71
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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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