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The Royal Humane Society (of which the King is Patron) for the recovery of perfons apparently dead by drowning, fuffocation, and other fudden accidents, was established in this kingdom in 1774 ; and fince that period, has been the providential means of restoring no less than 2679 perfons, who otherwife would, in all human probability, have fuffered a premature interment.

It appears from fome late chymical experiments, that a mixture of fix parts of gold and one of platina, forms a metal of a beautiful colour, very malleable and fuiceptible of a fine polith, and which is alto lefs liable than gold to change, when expofed to the action of hydrogen, fulphur, or other chymical agents.

The Barrack department of Ireland is abolished, and the feveral Officers who directed it, retire on penfions.-Lord Tyrawley, as Barrack-Mafter-General, is to receive 2000l. per annum.

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The Special Commiffion for the trial of Col. Despard, and his partizans, for High Treafon, was opened at the New Court-house for Surrey, in Horfemongerlane, before Lord Ellenborough, and Sirs A. Thompson, S. Le Blanc, A. Chambre, and J. V. Rofe. The Commiflion, which is dated the 10th of January, 1803, being read, the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, who compofed the Grand Jury, were called over and fworn: Lord Leflie (foreman), Lords Cranley, and W. Ruffell; the Hon. C. Norton; Sirs M. Parfons, J. Frederick, G. Glynn, T. Turton, and R. Burneit; and R. Hankey, J. Trotter, Jof. Alcock, J. P. Kensington, J. Bradney, H. Thornton, H. Peters, T. Page, J. Whitmore, T. Langley, W. Borrodaile, T. Gaitskell, R. Wyatt, and J. W. Watson, Efqrs. Counsel for the Crown, the Attorney and Solicitor General, and Meflrs. Plomer, Fielding, and Abbot.

Lord Ellenborough, as Prefident of the Commiffion, immediately addreffed the Jury in a charge of the moft eloquent compolition, of which the following is an outline:

"Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, we are affembled on this occafion, under the authority of a Special Commiffion from the Crown, in order for the trial of certain perfons, charged with offences therein specified. Thofe offences, as there stated, fome of them are high trea

fon, and others mifprifion of treafon. There are charges alfo of other offences against an act of Parliament, of the 37th of the King, and against the enactments of another act alfo of the 37th of his prefent Majelly, which laft is an act for the beter punishment of perfons who fhall feduce from their duty and allegiance those who are ferving in the army or navy laftly, there are charges against the provisions of another act of the 37th of the King, which had for its object the more effectual preventing of the adminiftering unlawful oaths. Many of these are of that species of offence which, from their malignant operation on the peace, the happiness, and the fecurity of fociety, from their tendency to fubvert all government, and all legitimate authority, at all times have been placed in the higher order of crimes; that is, the crime of high treafon, which is directed against the royal authority and power. There are alfo feveral other fpecies of offences fubmitted to our cognifance, and which the ftatutes above ftated, have directed to be confidered as crimes inferior only in degree, and fecond in enormity to the crime of High Treason itself. Indeed, they will be found, upon confideration, as parts and members of the fame crime; fuch is the crime of feducing perfons employed in the fea and land fervice from their duty and allegiance. Gentlemen, the law of this land, from the earliest times, has, with the greatest anxiety and care, watched over the prefervation of the Sovereign's Perfon. To preferve and protect him, in whofe fafety the public interest is fo much concerned; it has confidered the evil work. ings of the mind, and the malignant purposes of the heart, when directed against his fatety, evidenced by any act which demonftrates that purpose, to be as highly penal as the actual perpetration of the atrocious deed itself. To inveltigate the tendency and intent of fufpicious acts, to afcertain fuch purpose, and to determine the meaning of any act done in purfuance of fuch defign, is, at all times, a weighty duty for a Jury, and the one which you will have in charge to execute. What shall be deemed an overt act of fuch treafonable intention, or, in other words, what shall be confidered as legal evidence of fuch purpose, has heretofore been the subject of difpute and controverfy. Long, however, before the 26th of his prefent Majelty, thus much at leaft was fettled by all the Judges:-That all measures taken for

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the purpofe of depofing the King from by one witnefs within the limits of the his royal ftate and dignity; that all county, in which the offence is propofed measures of force or restraint against the to be tried. For example, fome one Royal Perfon, fhould be impreffed with meeting held, or fome one act done, muft this defcription of treafon. It was alfo be proved, by one witnefs, to be held, or fettied, that all confultations to effect done, within this county. This is that purpose, bore the fame ftamp of neceffary, in order to invest you with enormity. And although the whole legal competency to try the offence. fcheme proved abortive, yet the guilt When this is once in proof, any other remained, and involved in it all thofe overt act, either within or without this who confpired for fuch purpose, or who county, may be received, without obgave their affent to overtures of that jection, as to locality. The law alfo rekind. That the law had been fo fettled, quires, as well by the Grand Jury as by was beyond all pretence of doubt. But the Traverse Jury, that the treafon should if any doubts had exifted on a subject, be proved by two witneffes; that is, by which, from its importance, ought to be two witneffes to one overt aft, or by one cleared from every shade of doubt, they witness to another overt act-both of have been removed by the prudent pre- them to the fame fpecies of treafon. If, cautions of the act of the 36th of the however, the charge on the indictment King, which enacts, That if any perfon, contains an allegation of a dire attempt during the life-time of his prefent Ma- against the perfon of the King, the perfon jefty, fhould attempt, or feek, the death charged with fuch dire& attempt will be or deftruction of his Majefty, or to maim, tried in the fame manner as if he had tood or wound him, or to violate his perfon, indicted for murder. I am not aware, or reftrain it, all fuch offenders should however, that any fuch direct attempt be deemed traitors, and guilty of high will be given in evidence before you, treafon. To compa's, therefore, the and, therefore, it is unneceffary to add imprisonment, or perfonal reftraint, of more upon this fubject. Neither is it the King, by that ftatute, is made fub- neceffary that I should ftate more of the ftantially treafon, in the fame manner as frame of the indictment, or of the evithofe treafons which are enacted by dence by which it must be fupported. the ftatute of the 25th of Edward III. I will trefpafs but a few moments longer The fame, on inquiry, may be faid, of on your time to remark upon the nature all the other cafes provided for by the and quality and legal effects of those acts Statute of 26 George III. I only felect which will appear before you. It is the the one above, because it is of that de- natural effect of guilt to blind the eyes of fcription of treafon to which your attention thofe who contemplate the commiffion of will be called by the evidence hereafter. crimes fo much as to induce them to beI have already stated, that any acts of in- lieve that the feelings and inclinations of tended violence against the King's perfon others are congenial to their own. This are overt acts of high treafon, and all induces them to make fuch communicaovert acts are, by itatute of William tions to others; expecting that their own III. directed to be laid in the indi@ment malignant machinations will be heard against the prifoner, in order that he may with favour, as frequently leads to dif Specifically know what charge he is to coveries by which the public fafety is defend himself againft. But the nume often refcued from the most imminent rous branches of thofe acts need not be peril. But the greatest fource, of inftated. It is enough if the nature of the formation refpecting the hidden fprings overt act be stated, the different circum- of action, and the concealed motives, ftances need not, they may be considered can he had only from thofe who have as appendages and refults arifing from been participators in the confpiracy, and it. I have faid this, in order to your . to whem all the hidden and concealed affiance, that you may better under. counfels have been revealed. It is from ftand the legal form of the indiment accomplices only that the whole can be which will be laid before you, and that fully learned. Moft true it is, that you may better judge of the competent though the evidence of accomplices may degree of proof neceffary to fupport it. be legally received, yet it ought to be J will tate what the law requires on acted upon with a juft and fober degree of this head :—firit, the prifoner must be caution. It ought not to be believed, tried by a Jury of the county where the unless it be fuch as carries its own truth overt act is alleged to have been com- with it, or is corroborated by others; mitted. Some overt act must be proved more particularly when the lives, for.

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tunes, and fair fame of the accufed are at ftake. In weighing, therefore, this fort of evidence, and confidering the refults from it, you will expect fuch a degree of conformation from others as to the nature, ends, and objects of the confpiracy. You will expect a corroboration of concomitant circumftances, and a conformity to the main rules of probabilities, fo as to make the fum and fubftance of the evidence credible. If they are fo confirmed, Juries will act on fuch evidence, always bearing it in mind that they are to act with caution. But you are always to bear in mind, Gentlemen, that by another Jury the matter will be ultimately decided; you are, in the firft infance, to fay, whether there be reafonable ground of probability to put the accufed on their deferce before that Jury, from whom they mult receive a final verdict, either of acquittal or condemnation. If fuch a cate be made out, fo confirmed, and falling within probability, it will be your duty to tubmit it to an ulterior decifion. All I fhall at prefent add, on this fubject, is, that to refufe credit to fuch evidence would be to render the crime of confpiracy the protection of itfelf, and would equally militate against the rules of law and against the dictates of common fenfe. I forbear to detail the circumstances, even limited as they have come to my knowJedge; by forbearing to do it, every prejudice, and every suspicion of prejudice, will be obviated and excluded, and the ends of juftice, I truft, obtained with equal force and equal certainty. If, however, you should find the fame defperate attempts contemplated, which have attended other confp,racies of this fort, you will not reject a belief of them, on account of their wild and extravagant plans; you will only require a greater degree of proof of a confpiracy, nurtured

by fuch defperate and inadequate hopes. If they be proved, you will fay fo, however much it may excite your furprise and your horror: furprife at the boldness of the intended attempt, and horror at the confequences which it might have occafioned.

"Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, I fear, confidering to whom I have been addreffing myfelf, that I have occupied too much of your time. I have endea voured to explain the heads of the law of treafon. I have attempted to explain the nature, frame, and circumftances of the indicament, and the proof it will require to fupport it. I have made fuch obfervations on the nature of the evidence, as will enable you to judge upon it, and do that which the intereft of justice requires. Gentlemen, you will now withdraw, and, weighing in your own minds how deeply affecting the charge is to the acculed, you will hear the evidence in fupport of the indictment, which will be fubmitted to you; and I doubt not but that the refult will be fuch as it ought to be."

When the Jury retired, twenty-one witnefles were fworn, one of which, named "Connelly," was admitted King's evidence. In the evening the Grand Jury returned a true Bill for High Treaton, against E. M. Despard, W. Lauder, A. Graham, F. Brough ton, T. Phillips, D. Tindall, J. Doyle, G. S. Wratton, J. Wood, J. Francis, T. Newman, S. Smith, and J. Macnamara.- No Bill was found against Winterbottom, and C. Pendrill, being ill, was left in Newgate. At the requeft of the prifoners, Serjeant Beft and Mr. Gurney were appointed as their Counfel.-The Court then adjourned till the 5th of February, when it will meet pro forma, and, on Monday the 7th, will proceed to the trial of the prifoners.

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MONTHLY OBITUARY.

NOVEMBER 11, 1802.

AT Longworth, Berks, in his 90th year, the Rev. James Williams, D. D. reater of that place.

13. The Rev. Pell Akehurst, M. A. many years fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and rector of Buckland, Herts, B. A. 1768, M. A. 1771.

DEC. 15. Mrs. Pennant, relict of Thomas Pennant, efq.

18. At Uller, near Rotherham, Robert Poynton, eiq.

At Northbrook, near Exeter, Chamberlain Goodwin, efq. of Mitcham, Surry.

Lately, Rear-Admira¡ Samuel Graves. 19. At Mount Panther, in the county of Down, the Right Hon. Francis Charles Annelley, Earl Annefley, Vif count Glerawley, and Baron Annesley.

At Greenwich, Lieutenant-General Ayie, of the reyal artillery.

20. Viscounteis Bateman, in her 77th year. Lately, at Hampton court, John D'A¡gremont, late of the Adeiphi.

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At Headington, near Oxford, Richard Finch, efq.

23. John Robinfon, efq. member of parliament for Harwich, in his 76th year. He was born at Appleby; and at an early period of his life was elected, through the influence of Lord Lonidale, then Sir James Lowther, member for his native county, Wetmorland, which he reprefented in two fucceflive parliaments. In 1774, he was elected for the borough of Harwich, for which he has been fix times re-elected; and which he continued to reprefent till his death, when he was nearly the oldest member of the Heufe of Commons. His active talents, indefatigable induftry, skill in bufinets, knowledge of mankind, and eafy addrefs, recommended him to Lord North, as a proper perfon to fill the arduous and important office of fcretary to the treafury, which he continued to hold till the termination of that noble Lord's adminiftration, when Mr. Robinfon retired with a penfion of 1000l. per annum. In 1788, he was appointed by the late Minilter, Mr. Pitt, to the lucrative office of furveyor-general of his Majefty's woods and forefts, which he held till his death. When a young man, he married Mils Crowe, of Barbadoes, by whom he had one child, a daughter, who was married to the Earl of Aberga,

venny, and died fix years before her father, leaving fix children, to whom and their noble father Mr. Robinfon has bequeathed the bulk of his property.

The Rev. Benjamin Rogers, vicar of Seagry, Wilts, aged 83.

Mr. William Burgels, of Great Portland-freet.

At Exeter, Sebaftian Emmett, efq. formerly of the North Devon regiment of militia, but lately of the royal waggon corps.

24. In Gower-ftreet, Major Charles Stewart, of the fecond battalion and third regiment of native infantry in the East India Company's fervice at Bombay.

At New Church, in Roffendale, aged 61, the Rev. John Shorrock, minifter of the perpetual curacies of New Church and Walton-le-Dale.

25. At Cheltenham, Thomas Crowder, efq. late of the Enniskillen dragoons. Lady Bowyer, relict of Sir William Bowyer, bart.

26. At Sutton Courtney, Berks, aged 71, Thomas Juftice, efq. formerly a captain in the Berkshire militia, late deputy-lieutenant for that county.

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27. Henry Stanley, efq. of Portlandplace, late lieutenant-colonel of the King's own regiment of dragoons.

28. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Monro, reli& of Dr. George Monro.

Mr. Thomas Charles Shairp, of Great St. Helens.

29. Mis. Corri, mother of Mrs. Duf fek, a lady of eminence in the mufical world.

At Clapham, aged 63, Abraham Wilkinfon, eiq. of Dawion-treet, Dublin, one of the directors of the Bank of Ireland.

30. Sir William Parker, bart. viceadmiral of the red.

William Henry Campbell,'efq. of Lifton Hall, in the county of Ellex.

JAN. 1, 1803. At Bath, Philip Champion Crefpigny, efq. of Aldeburgh, in the county of Suffolk, formerly King's proctor, and member for Sudbury. He refigned the office in De&tors Commons to Mr. Hefeltine, and his interest in Sudbury to his eldeft lon, the late Thomas Crefpigny, eiq. Mr. Crefpigny, the father, was a man of extenfive knowledge; he poffeffed a taite for literature, and was in habits of intercourfe with the higher ranks in this country. He wrote two numbers in the periodical paper

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entitled "The World," which was conducted by Mr. Moore, the Author of the Gamefter, though at that time Mr. Crefpigny must have been very young ; a proof that his tafte and talents were, however, mature, as "The World" was enriched by contributions from the most diftinguished wits of that period. Mr. Crefpigny was married four times. His third wife was particularly esteemed for her underftanding and domeftic virtues. Mr. Crefpigny has left feveral children by his different marriages.

John Bagnell, efq. of Earley Court, Berks, in his 8oth year.

2. At Twickenham, in his 81ft year, Sir Richard Perryn, knt. late one of the barons of the exchequer.

3. James Waitle, efq. of Enfham, Oxfordshire.

Thomas Curry, efq. a juftice of peace for the county of Southampton.

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7. James Lacy, fen. efq. at Chichef

James Hawkefworth, efq. of Great James-ftreet, Bedford-row.

8. Jaines Lellie, efq. of BuckinghamAreet.

At Bath, James Champnefs, efq. of Twickenham.

9. At Greenwich, Mrs. Maule, wife of Stephen John Maule, eiq.

Lately, at Newcastle, William Fearon, efq. barrister-at-law, and recorder of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

10. Mr. Jofeph Waffell, of Parlia ment-street.

11. Mrs. Stainforth, houfekeeper of Buckingham-houfe.

Mr. Thomas Wilfon, permit-writer in the Exchequer.

12. At Edinburgh, Lady R. Bruce, daughter of the late Earl of Kincarden, and aunt to the Earl of Elgin.

The Rev. John Erskine, D. D. one of the ministers of the Old Grey Friars Church, Edinburgh.

13. Mr. William Canner, one of the city marthals.

At Woolwich, in his 72d year, Thomas Butler, efq. of the ordnance office.

15. At Vauxhall-walk, Mr. Henry Thomas.

Lately, Baron Durler, lieutenantcolonel of De Rolle's regiment at Alexandria

Lately, Richard Broome, efq. of Alborough, Eflex.

Printed by 1. GOLD, late Bunney and Gold, Shee-lane, London.

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16. The Rev. Henry Heathcote, rector of Walton, near Liverpool.

At Smyth's Hall, Effex, Charles Alexander Crickett, efq. M. P. for Ipfwich.

17. Henry Cornelifon, efq. of Edwardftreet, Portman fquare, in his 78th year. 18. Lady Parker, wife of Admiral Sir Peter Parker.

At Mrs. Damer's, Strawberry-hill, Caroline Countefs-dowager of Aylesbury, widow of General Conway.

19. Mrs. Greville, wife of Colonel Henry Greville, of Hanover-fquare.

At Clifton, Thomas Vernon Dolphin, efq. of Eyeford, in the county of Glou

celter.

20. Mr. David Steel, of Little Tower

hill. Mr. C. J. De Broeck, a native oi Bruffels.

21. In Manchester-fquare, Sir Henry Lambert, bart.

23. Mr. Edward Vaux, of Austinfriars, in his 61st year.

DEATHS ABROAD.

At Grenada, the Hon. George Vere Hobart, governor of that ifland, and fecond fon of the Earl of Buckinghamshire.

At Altona, the Right Hon. Dowager Lady Clifford, youngest filter of the late Earl of Litchfield.

JULY 16, 1802. At Bombay, James Rivett Carnac, efq. fecond member of the council of that presidency.

At Oporto, John Whitehead, efq. in his 76th year, and forty-leven years his Majesty's conful at that place.

Nov. 16. On his voyage to Leghorn, Robert Cappe, M. D. of York.

At Trinidad, Gabriel Quarrington Barnes, efq. late of Conduit-freet, Hanover-fquare.

JAN. 2, 1803. At Paris, the Hon. Mrs. Cecil, mother to the Marquis of Exeter.

JAN. 14, 1803. At Paris, the Hon. Temple Lutterel, efq. next brother to the Earl of Carhampton.

OCT. 11, 1802. At Colonel's Inland, Georgia, Robert Lithgow, elg.

JULY 1802. At Calcutta, Elias Fergufon, efq.

On his paffage from the West Indies, Brigadier-General Romer.

Dr. Blair, physician to the fleet at Jamaica, drowned going on fhore at Port Royal.

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