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her in fo cruel a manner, that her life was defpaired of. The wretch then feeing his wife thus weltering in blood, and, in his thoughts paft all hopes of recovery, as if feized with madnefs, threw off his cloaths, and ran naked to a ftone wall, against which be repeatedly ftruck his head with fo much vio. lence as to fracture his skull, where of we hear he died last Tuesday. The deputy-overfeer, or governor of a country parish workhouse, was carried before the right hon. the lord-mayor, charged with the following offence, viz. That he had artfully inveigled a girl, about eighteen years of age, from the parish workhoufe to London, where he had endeavoured to fell her to fome office-keepers, in order to fend her abroad. The office-keeper finding the girl had a particular infirmity upon her, he refufed to take her. The overfeer upon this en deavoured to drop the poor girl in Cornhill; but a gentleman, happening to overhear what was faid, fecured Mr. overfeer and the girl, and carried them before his lord. fhip. The charge appearing pretty plain, the overfeer was committed to the Compter, and the girl was taken care of until the parish of ficers could be informed of the above inhuman particulars. A poor boy, covered with vermin, alfo ap. peared against Mr. overfeer, to thew his lordship what great care was taken of the parish poor in the faid workhouse.

The coroner's jury finish11th ed their enquiry at the Red Cow, in Smithfield, on the body of Mary Clifford, late apprentice to James Brownrigg, painter, in Fetter-lane; when it appeared by the evidence of the

furviving apprentice, that, about
a year and a half ago, the deceaf-
ed was put apprentice, and was
upon trial about a month, during
which the eat and drank as the fa-
mily.did; that foon after, her mif-
trefs, Elizabeth Brownrigg, began
to beat and ill-treat the deceafed,
fometimes with a walking cane, at
other times with a horfe whip, or
a poftillion's whip, ftripping her
quite naked, tying her hands across
with a cord, fometimes fixed to a
water-pipe, and fometimes to a
ftaple in a beam in the kitchen
under ground, ftriking her over all
parts of her body and head, under
pretence that he had not worked
hard enough; that particularly on
the 31st of July laft, her mift refs
obliged the deceafed to ftrip herfelf
naked, and then tied her up to the
ftaple in the beam, and beat her
with a whalebone riding whip on
feveral parts of her body, and with
the butt end, divers times, about
the head, the blood gushing from
her head and other parts of her
body; that the repeated fuch ill-
ufage that day five feveral times
afterwards; and the deceased con-
tinued bleeding from her head and
fhoulders, from that time till the
4th inftant, when he was convey-
ed to the workhouse, no dreffings
having been applied to her wounds.
A late journeyman of Brownrigg's
depofed, that his mafter once whip-
ped one of the girls, he could not
tell when; when the whip being
broken, he mended it again. The
wife of a tradefman in Flower-de.
Luce Court depofed, that the had
often heard lamentable cries and
groans iffuing from the lower part
of Brownrigg's houfe; whereupon,
on Monday the third inftant, the de-
fired her journeyman to look down
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Brownrigg's fky-light (part of which happened that day to be taken off) to fee if he could difcover from whence thofe groans arofe; when, feeing fomething lie on the ground, he threw down a little piece of the wall; and the deceafed lifted up her head, made a fort of noise in her throat, but feemed unable to fpeak. On this difcovery, information was given to the parish officers, on whofe coming to the houfe, and defiring to fee the girl, Brownrigg faid that he was at Stanftead in Hertfordshire, and had been there a fortnight; but being confronted by the man who had feen her lying under the sky-light, and threat ened by the officers, he at length produced the unhappy creature, in a moft fhocking condition, and fpeechlefs. The furgeons gave it as their opinion, that the wounds fhe had received had occafioned her death. The jury brought in their verdict, charging Elizabeth and James Brownrigg, as both guilty of wilful murder; the latter for having aided and abetted the cruelties of his wife. The youngest fon, who was confined in the Poultry Compter, was ordered to be difcharged, no accufation having been laid against him at the above inqueft.

At Mantes, on the river Seine, in France, a moft dreadful ftorm of thunder, hail, and rain, laid thirty parishes under water, carried away many houfes, deftroyed the produce of the earth to a great extent, and did irreparable damage to many farmers in that neighbourhood.

Anne Sowerby was burnt at York, for poifoning her husband. She declared, juft before she was

brought out of the cell, that a man gave her fome nux vomica, in order to poifon her husband, which the burnt; that he gave his own wife fome of the poifon, who died foon after; that, fome days after, he brought her fome arfenic, and affifted her in mixing it with curds, which the gave her husband for breakfast, who died a few hours after eating them.

The duke of York was moft magnificently entertained at Chantilly, by the king and queen of France, to which entertainment the prince of Condé, by the king's order, invited more than 300 of the principal nobility of that kingdom.

The fociety of arts in the Strand came to a refolution to give 100l. to Mr. Philips, for the difcovery of his manner of dying red and yellow leather.

The inhabitants of the town of Sherborne in Dorfetfhire, came to a refolution to profecute, to the utmoft rigour of the law, every ftranger prefuming to come into that town to be inoculated. Quere, By what law?

Early this morning a gang 16th. of villains to the number of twelve, or more, attacked two men in coming over Tower-hill, who crying out, vehemently, feveral watchmen came to their affiftance, one of whom the villains cut in a moft fhocking manner; his. cheek, in particular, was cut from the mouth to the car, and his fkull on the forehead laid bare for fix or feven inches. Two of the rogues, however, were fecured, and the wounded man carried to the hof. pital.

Elizabeth Brownrigg, who, with John Brownrigg her fon, had fled

from

from juftice, being charged on the
coroner's inqueft with the wilful
murder of Mary Clifford, her ap-
prentice, was taken at a chandler's
fhop at Wandsworth, and brought
to the Poultry compter. In order
to fecrete themselves, they paffed for
man and wife, lay together in the
fame bed, and kept themfelves very
retired. The mafter of the fhop,
however, reading the advertife-
ment defcribing their perfons, and
offering a reward for apprehending
them, thought he could perceive
fome fimilitude between the per-
fons defcribed and his lodgers;
and, without taking any notice of
his intentions, fet out for London,
and acquainted Mr. Owen, church-
warden of St. Dunftans, with his
fufpicions, who, with two con-
ftables, immediately fet out for
Wandsworth, where they found
the mother in bed, and the fon
walking about the room. They
were fo difguifed that the conita-
bles, who were well acquainted with
them before, could hardly know
them. Upon entering the prifon,
the mother fell into fits, which
have occafionally attacked her ever

fince.

A tradefman's fon, in St. Martin's, paffing through Duke's court, with a bank-note in his hand, began to play carclefsly with two goats belonging to the Mews, when one of them nibbled the bank-note out of the lad's hand, and fwallowed it.

At the annual meeting of the clergy, and fons of the clergy, at Bristol, the collection, at church and at dinner, amounted to 2011. 38. 9d.

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John Brownrigg, eldeft fon of Brownrigg the pain

ter, was examined before the lord-
mayor, relative to the murder of
Mary Clifford; when the furviving
apprentice, deposed that, about fix
months ago, the faid John beat the
deceafed with the buckle end of a
thick leather belt, till the blood
ran from her head, neck, and fhoul-
ders (feveral wounds fhe had be-
fore received being but just skinned
over) becaufe fhe did not turn up
a bedftead, though (as appeared to
the deponent) fhe had not ftrength
to do it; and that about three
months ago the faid John came in-
to the cellar, juft after his mother
had been horfewhipping the de-
ceafed, who was then naked, when
the former told him, that though
fhe had beaten the girl feverely,
yet fhe could not make her do any
thing, and bid him whip her;
whereupon he gave the deceafed
about twenty cuts with the lath of
the whip; after which the mother
and fon went away, leaving the
poor creature naked. The witnefs
having added, that the fon had not,
to her knowledge, beat the deceaf-
ed after the laft mentioned time,
and it being the opinion of the fur-
geons that the wound, which occa-
fioned her death, were thofe which
the received on the 31ft. ult. and
the whippings given by the fon
being before that time, he was not
judged acceffary to the murder;
but was remanded to the Compter,
till it could be known whether the
parish-officers had any other charge
against him. It appeared, in the
courfe of this examination, that
Elizabeth Brownrigg began to beat
the deceafed at about one month
after her being bound apprentice,
and from that time the wounds of
that unhappy girl were never fuf-
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Some regulations have lately been made for the more amicably carrying on the trade with the Indian tribes, in the fouthern diftrict of America, by which all white people are forbid, on very fevere penalties, from hunting deer, or bears, in any of the woods or hunting grounds of the Indians, and are prohibited from trading with them clandeftinely, or fupplying them with more than a certain quantity of fpirituous liquors at a time; which, it is believed, will prevent much bloodshed.

Two English fchooners, laden with beef, pork, flour, cured fifh, and live ftock, from the continent, have been feized by order of the governor of Martinico; although the poor inhabitants are in the greateft diftrefs for want of provi

fions.

At Philadelphia, Stephen Porter was apprehended and committed to gaol for the murder of captain Weftcoat, of Bristol. Porter had been guilty of fome offence on fhip board, for which the captain beat him. Porter, in revenge, on the night following, with three others of the crew, fplit the captain's fkull with an axe, as he lay afleep, and afterwards difpatched

the mate.

At the affizes at Croydon, John Baptift Malony was tried for unlawfully exercifing the function of a popish prieft, and adminiftering the facrament of the Lord's fupper to divers perfons, after the manner of the church of Rome, when he was found guilty, and received fentence of perpetual imprisonment.

Twenty live bullocks and cows,

the property of Mr. John Haw. thorne, of Drogheda in Ireland, were maffacred by the mob, on pretence of their being defigned for exportation in England.

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The following particulars are given by a gentleman, who is now at Erfurt in Germany. In the church of the Petersburg Benedictines here, is fhewn the tomb of Louis, Count Gleichen, of the illuftrious houfe of Scharzbourg, which hath given an Emperor to Germany. The count was made prifoner in an engagement against the Saracens, and fuffered a long and fevere captivity. As he was at work one day in the gardens of the Sultan, he was accofted and alked fome queftions by his maf ter's daughter, who was walking there. The agreeable perfon of the Count, and his address in working, fo greatly pleafed the princefs, that the promifed to fet him free, and to go off with him, provided he would marry her. have a wife and children, anfwered he- That fignifies nothing,' fays the, the cuftom of my country allows a man to have feveral wives." The count was not obftinate, he acquiefced to this reafon, and gave her his promife. The princefs made ufe of fuch speed and addrefs to relieve him from his captivity, that they were foon ready to embark on board a fhip. They arrived fafely at Venice. The count there found one of his domeftics, who had been travelling about to gain intelligence of him, and was informed by this fervant, that his wife and children were well. He haftened immediately to Rome, and after having ingenuoufly related what had happened, he obtained of the pope a folemn permiffion to

keep

keep both his wives. This happened in the year 1240, and in the pontificate of Gregory IX. If the holy father fhewed himfelf indulgent, the count's wife was not lefs complaifant; for the greatly careffed the Saracen lady, who had been the cause of her recovering her dear husband, and conceived for her rival a particular tenderness. The Saracen princefs made a fuitable return to all her civilities; and being herself fterile, fhe tenderly loved the great number of children which the countess bore. At Gleichen is ftill fhewn the bed whereon the count and his two wives lay. After their death they were all three buried in the fame tomb, as appears by the following epitaph.

'Here lie the bodies of to rival wives, who with unparalleled affection loved each other as fifters, and me extremely. The one fled from Mahomet to follow her hufband; the other was willing to embrace the fpoufe fhe had recovered. United by the ties of matrimonial love, we had when living but one nuptial bed, and in our death only one marble covers us.'. 24th. John Brownrigg was again carried before the lord mayor, charged with a mifdemeanor in beating the furviving girl, apprentice to his father; when it appeared, on the oath of the girl, that he had whipped her naked three fucceffive days with a horfewhip, twice by order of his mother, and the third time of his own accord; because the had eaten two or three chefnuts which lay in her way, and afterwards he drove her up ftairs naked and bleeding, to fhew his mother what he had done. He was re-committed to the Poul

try Compter; upon hearing of which his mother again fell into fits (having been free from them two days before) and continues ill.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

At Abingdon afflizes, two brothers were capitally convicted for a robbery.

At Appleby affizes, none were capitally convicted.

At Bedford affizes, two were capitally convicted, one of whom was reprieved.

At Bodmin affizes, fix were capitally convicted, of whom four were reprieved.

At Buckingham affizes, none were capitally convicted.

At Bury affizes, none were capitally convicted.

At Cambridge affizes, none were capitally convicted.

At Carlifle affizes, one was capitally convicted,

At Carmarthen afsizes, three were capitally convicted.

At Chelmsford affizes, five were capitally convicted, two of whom were reprieved.

At Croydon affizes, fix were capitally convicted, of whom four were reprieved.

At Derby affizes, two were ca. pitally convicted, but were re. prieved.

At Dorchefter affizes, one was capitally convicted.

At Durham affizcs, none were capitally convicted.

At Exeter affizes, two were capitally convicted.

At Gloucefter affizes, three were capitally convicted, of whom one was reprieved.

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