Prices of STOCKS for 1809.

N.B. The highest and lowest Prices of each Srock in the course of each Month are set down in that Month.

DECEMBER, 1808.

31. On Friday a great crowd of people gathered round the house of a Mr. Hunt, a tinman, in Chandosstreet, Covent-Garden, on the supposition that a girl, who had been his servant, had lost her life through beating and starvation, as was very universally circulated through the crowd. In the evening the popular indignation rose to such a height, that several panes of glass were broken in the house by the mob. Police officers were called in, and the crowd were dispersed. An inquest was then held at the Crown and Thistle, in the same street, be. fore Anthony Gell, esq. coroner for Westminster. The substance of the evidence was, that Aun Fane, the deceased, was a girl about fif teen years of age, and had been a pauper in the workhouse at Lynn, in Norfolk, in consequence of her having been the orphan child of poor parents. She was taken a short time back into the service of Mr. H. as an apprentice. She was thought by her mistress to be an untoward girl, and at different times received correction. From what cause it did not appear, but she fell into a dangerous state of illhealth. Dr. Merriman, of the Western Dispensary, prescribed for her at different times; but she was always in the company of Mrs. H.

A relation frequently visited her, but always in the presence of Mrs. H. and nothing particular came out. A neighbour had frequently heard the girl cry out, and there were the marks of blows upon different parts of her person. But Dr. Merriman was of opinion that there was not any appearance whatever of injury, such as was sufficient to have occasioned the death of the patient, either internally or externally; and the deceased having been for some time ill, the verdict was-Died a natural death.

The suit commenced by Francis Newbery, esq. of Heathfield Park, in Sussex, against the inhabitants of his parish, for the damage he sustained by his woods having been twice set on fire, in the month of March last, by some person or persons unknown, has been determined by the payment to him of the sum awarded, in conformity with the opinions of two eminent counsel, who both agreed, that Mr. Newbery was entitled to recover, under the acts of the 18th of Edward I. and the 6th of George I. This case is of importance to the community, as it will show, that in such atrocious attempts upon ma gistrates, and others who are active in the discharge of their duty, malice will miss of its aim, and the injury fall upon the neighbourhood, instead of the individual. (A 2)

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