278 The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. ftate of felf examination and prayer? He Dr. William Dodd, you are convicted of the crime of uttering a bond as true, knowing the fame to be forged. You have had a very fair and candid trial, and every opportunity of exculpating yourfelf which the law can give you. You, yourself, have admitted the crime which you have committed; and I am glad to fee the contrition and forrow which you exprefs for the fame, which is the best preparation you can make for the dreadful confequence. It would therefore be -highly improper for me to enlarge upon the heinoufnels of the crime which you fo fully acknowledge. But one thing I could with you to void, that is, every attempt to palliate or extenuate a crime of such magnitude, Your education, abilities, rank in life, and above all, your facred function, are the circumftances that aggravate the matter, and fpread the pernicious effects of the bad example among mankind. By no means, therefore, go about to extenuate your crime, but prepare yourself for the awful event. It remains, therefore, only for me to perform the painful task of paffing the fentence upon you, which the law has prescribed; that is, that you, Dr. Dodd, are to be taken from the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged till you are dead; and fo the Lord have mercy upon your foul !" To which the unfortunate Divine, with uplifted hands and eyes, replied, " amen, for the fake of the Lord Jesus Christ;” then bowed and retired. Dr. Dodd ftill continues in his old apartments, not being put into the cells; but one of the turnkeys is ordered to fit up all night in his room. On Friday Mr. Akerman acquainted Dr. Dodd, he was under the neceffity of feparating him from his wife, during the night time; and accordingly the, who ftill continues very ill, after taking an affectionate leave of her husband, was removed to lodg ings in the neighbourhood. FRIDAY 23. On Friday last arrived in town from Carthagena, Mr. Bell, poffeffed of a confiderable fum of money, which he acquired in the Spanish fervice as a fhipwright. He was taken prifoner in the late war in an English privateer in the Weft-Indies, on board of which he was carpenter, and carried into a port in Spain, where he was employed in the Spanish fervice, in which he continued ever fince. On his arrival in London, with difficulty and after much enquiry he found his May wife (who had not heard from him ánce he left England) with his two daughters, women grown, on Saturday laft, very bufy ironing of linen, they having hitherto taken in washing for a livelihood, at a small house in Oxford Street. They did not at first know him, but on an explanation their joy and furprize were exceffive. On Wednesday fome of Sir John Fielding's people apprehended one cook, a conviet who broke from the ballaft lighters a few weeks ago; he was examined before William Addington, Efq. at the Public-Office in Bow-Street, and committed for re-examination. He faid he would rather be hanged than go back. SATURDAY 24. A letter from Jamaica, April 4, fays, "a Spanish man of war has taken and carried to the Havannah two vellels, a brig and a schooner belonging to this ifland which Admiral Gayton being acquainted with, directly dispatched the armed Snow Pilgrim, Capt. Speering, to the above port, to demand the faid veffels.. On his arrival off the harbour, he was boarded by a Spanish officer, who informed him, he must not enter without leave from the governor; when, after several meflages, the Snow was permitted to go in under the Moro Caftie, but feveral foldiers were put on board, and the Pilgrim was ordered not to proceed to fea again without the governor's permiffion. However, Captain Speering perceiving that it was alfo intended to detain his vessel, confined the Spanish officer and foldiers, flipped his cable, and stood out to fea, notwithstanding he was fired at from the Moro without effect; a frigate of 40 guns, that lay outfide the shipping, on a fignal from the Spanish admiral, flipped her cables alfo, and put to fea after the Pilgrim; and after a purfuit of feveral hours, fhe was run hull down, and night coming on, was feen no more of. Capt. Speering arrived at Port Royal laft Friday, and the officers and foldiers were all put on board the Antelope, Admiral Gayton has fent an account of the whole proceeding to England." MONDAY 26. The following orders are exacly copied from the originals, which were lately fent to the parish clerk in a village in Hertfordshire. His name is Jeremy: "Miftr. Gemery, mi wief is dede an wantes to bee burid. Digg a graiv for hir an fhee fhal com tobee burid termorrer at wunner cloke. You, knwo ware to dige itt bi mi uthre wief le et bee dip. "I pulish the barns of marrage betwne James Soul & Sarah Simmons bouth in this parrick, if any one juft caufe impenement y thes tow porfens fhould not be joined to geather are now to declarit," MAR 1777. M The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. MARRIAGES. ISS Sanderfon, of Nova Scotia, to Mr. Barwell, one of the members of the fupreme council of Bengal.-May 2. Sir Edward Williams, bart, to Mifs Rily, of St. James's place, eideft daughter and one of the coheireffes of the late John Rily, Efq. of Bread-freet.-8. Mr. Young, jeweller, in Jermyn-ftreet, to Mrs. Hanby, relict of the late Dr. Hanby, of Dover, in Kent.-12. Sir John Hales, of Lincolnshire, bart. to Mifs Ann Scott, only daughter of John Scott, Efq. of Fulham.-18. William Adam, Efq. member of parliament for Gatton, to the Hon. Mifs Eleonora Elphinstone, fecond daughter of Lord Elphinstone.-26. George Clavering, of Greenchurch, Efq. (brother to Sir Thomas Clavering) to Mifs Peggy Ellifon, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Ellifon, vicar of Bedlington. May M 2. DEATHS. RS. Cornewall, relict of the late Velters Cornewall, Efq; and mother to the lady of Sir George Cornewall, Bart.-4. William Lovegrove, Efq; ferjeant of the veftry of his majesty's chapel royal.7. Sir Thomas Reeves, Bart.-Rofe Fuller, Efq. member of parliament for Rye in Suffex.-12. Richard Harcourt, Efq. of Chefterfield freet, late member for the county of Effex.-18. The Rev. George Wyndham, LL. D. warden of Wadham College, Ox* ford.-22. The right hon. Heneage Finch, earl of Aylesford. The title defcends to his eldeft Son lord Guernsey, member of parlia ment for Maidstone in Kent.-24. The bon. John Bathurst, Efq. brother to the lord chancellor, and patentee of the difpenfations-25. Lady Thomas, relict of the late Sir EdInund Thomas, Bart.-Lady Harriot Needham, filter of the late lord Killmurray. S COUNTRY NEWS. ATURDAY night laft, one Oakly, of Stanton by Dale, in Derbyshire, got his fupper at the fign of the Red Lion at Stanton aforefaid, of the following articles: his first difh was two quarts of milk, thirty eggs, half a pound of butter, half a pound of fugar, three penny loaves, and a quantity of ginger and nutmeg, and an ounce of muftard, all boiled together; his fecond courfe confifted of a piece of cheese, and a pound of bread to it; his third was half a pound of bacon, a penny loaf, a quart of ale, three halfpenny worth of gingerbread, and a pint of ale; his fourth dish was a custard of two pounds, an ounce of mustard, fome black pepper, a piat of milk, and three pints of ale to it. All the above things he ate in an hour, and faid he had not enough. After which he ran about 300 yards, and then went and fat 279 down with the rest of the company, and drank pretty freely. Six perfons have fubfcribed their names as witneffes to the above transaction. IRELAND. HE great question concerning literary fion in the Court of Chancery. The matter in debate was about a favourite opera, called the Duenna, which the managers of CoventGarden alledged they had purchased from Richard Brindley Sheridan, Efq; the author, for a certain ftipulated fum. Under this af fignment the English managers, alledging a fole and exclusive property in the piece entitled the Duenna, complained against John' Byron Vandermere and his partners, adventures in a new theatre in Fifhamble-ftreet, for having exhibited on their stage the said piece, called the Duenna, and prayed that they might be restrained, and enjoined from printing, publishing, or acting faid piece. After hearing the debates on this question by the advocates on both fides, the Lord Chancellor gave his fentiments on the whole, viz. that the injunction fought by the plaintiffs, to reftrain the acting or exhibiting the piece, ought not to be granted. He confined himfelf merely to the matter of acting, as he' imagined that to be the only object relied on in the cafe. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Whiteball. May 10, 1777. Extract of a Letter from the Hon. General Sir William Howe, to Lord George Germain, dated New-York, April 1, 1777. T HERE have not been any occurrences fince my last worthy your Lordship's notice, excepting the fuccefs of a detachment of 500 men that I fent up the North River in transports on the 22d of March, convoyed by the Brune Frigate, to deftroy a confiderable depafit of provifions and ftores, which the enemy had made at Peek's Kill, near fifty miles diftant from New-York. Lieutenant-Colonel Bird of the 15th regiment commanded the party. The Rebels ftationed there, retiring upon his approach, he got eafy poffeffion of the poft. Before their re treat they fet fire to the principal ftorehouses, and thereby rendered ufclefs the only wharf where it was practicable to embark the remaining ftores in convenient time, which made it expedient to destroy the greater part. This was compleatly effected to the amount fpecified in the inclofed return; and the detachment, re-imbarking without interruption, returned here the 26th. Return f The MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. a 280 Destroyed and burnt by the Rebels: 100 Total: 410 hogfheads of rum, 150 hogheads of molafies, 1300 barrels of flour, 150 barrels of bifcuit, 170 barrels of pork, 30 barrels of beef, 17 barrels of pitch and tar, 500 bundles of straw,one magazine of hay, 800 bushels of oats, 4500 bushels of wheat, Soo bushels of buck wheat, 12 cafks of coffee, nine cafes of chocolate, 50 cafks of tallow, 30 chefts of candles, 15 barrels of falt, 200 iron pots and camp kettles, 400 canteens of wood and bowls, &c. 300 intrenching tools, 40 casks, of nails, 150 waggons and carts with harnefs, one iron twelve pounder on field carriage, one ammunition waggon loaded. N. B. Two piles of barracks for 1200 men, and feven store houfes containing the above ftores, and many other articles that cannot be justly afcertained, were burnt; alfo feveral floops and pettiaugers deftroyed, loaded with provifions. Signed JOHN BIRD. Lieutenant-colonel 15th regiment foot. Admiralty Office, May 10, 1977. Extract of a Letter from Lord Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Veffels in North America, to Mr. Sie phens, dated at New York, the 31st of March, 3777: Commodore Hotham anchored the 19th THE Το May of January in Chesapeak bay, where by his unexpected appearance, an opportunity offered for feizing a fhip laden with about 550 hogfheads of tobacco intended for Nantz. He failed from Chefapeak bay on the 11th of February, and arriving off the Delaware on the 17th was forced away from that station by trong northerly winds, which prevented his return until the 11th inftant; and an opportunity was thereby afforded for an armed frigate fitted by the rebels, with feveral trading veffels, to put to fea from that river. The commodore had the good fortune to take an American ship laden with ammunition and military ftores from Nantz, foon after his return, and fent her under convoy of the Daphne to this port. Several other captures have been made by the fhips of this fouthern fquadron, in number from 25 to 30, which have been moftly funk or otherwife deftroyed. I have reason, from different relations to believe, that the fmali fquadrons under Capt. Hammond and Capt. Davis have made as many more. The general meditating an attempt by furprize to take or deftroy a confiderable magazine which the rebels had formed at Peek's Kill, about 50 miles up the north river, a corps of troops, commanded by Colonel Bird, embarked in four transports; and proceeding up the north river the 22d inftant, under the conduct of Capt. Ferguson in the Brune, with the Dependance and another galley fitted for the occafion; the enemy, upon the fudden difcovery and approach of the armament next day, fet fire to a part of their magazines and barracks before they retreated. The troops after they landed did the fame to the ref, whereby this plentiful deposit of provifions, ftores, and other neceffaries of various kinds, was totally deftroyed, with no other lofs than two feamen, who were mising when the troops re-embarked the fucceeding day. The above gazette contains a lift of vessels feized as prizes, and of recaptures made by the American fquadron, between the roth of March, and the 31st of December, 1776, of which the following are the totals: Captures our CORRESPONDENTS. 140 166 HE Influence of Tafte upon Manners-Philanthropos on the American War-Anwer to Canonico Recupero's Calculation-Select Anecdotes→→ Remarks on Hume's Death-And on the Antiquity of News-Papers, ball appear in our next. ་ The Character of William I. Prince of Orange-and anecdotes of Henry IV. of France, were obliged to be deferred till next month. The Monody from Salop-and the Lines Signed Juvenis, are tro imperfelt for the public Vieno. The Bankrupts in our next. An Accurate Likeness of the illuftrious WILLIAM OF NASSAU, Prince of Orange, and Founder of the Dutch Commonwealth; And two curious ANTIQUE MEDALS, neatly engraved. LONDON, printed for R. BALDWIN, at No. 47, in Pater-nofter-Row. Of whom may be had complete Sets, from the Year 1732 to the prefent Time, ready bound and fitched, or any fingle Volume to complete Sets. 78 79 79 1 Sunday 78 79 333 73 79 79 133 78 79 79 133 77 79 133 77 79 Bank PRICES of STOCKS, &c. in JUNE, 1777. India Sou. Sea. Old S. S. New S. S. 3 per C., 3 per C., 3 per C. 3 per C. 3 per C.B. 4. P. C 3 B. Lo. An In. B. NavyB. Lottery Ann. reduced confols In Ann. B. 1726. 1751 Conf. 1758 Stock Stock Ann. Wind Weath. 79 79 81 79 79 81 79 81 79 79 81 19 78 중 AVERAGE PRICES of GRAIN, by the Standard WINCHESTER Bufhel. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. s. d. s. d. 1. d. s. d. d. 3 11 Scotland 4 0 3 6 2 3 3 6 333333 13 16 6 S W SW 81 |