Domestic Neius. 193 and he foon had the parties concerned Captain was condemned to the gib. in his power, who were all brought bet ; Mrs. Mylıystre was hanged, and before him, without any knowledge of thrown into the gully-hole that ran each other's being taken up, till they next the house in Wapping, where she all met together in the greatest confu. had lived, the apothecary was anatofion and dismay, which evidenced their mised; and the wife was strangled and guilt. burnt, according to custom in such They were committed to the gate. like cases. They were attended at house, and were brought the next fef- Tyburn by an Irish prieit of the Ro. fions to the Old-Bailey, tried, and con mish church, called Mac Arthy, who demned on the evidence of the child, gave them absolution, and they al to the entire fatisfaction of the court died negative. and country, and all present. The DOMESTIC NEWS. JULY, 1792 7. A GENTEEL dressed young man supposed he had laid in the water thot himself through the heart in a field some time, at Halsden, near Harrow on the Hill ; On Tuesday, the 15th, John Marthe reason afcribed for this rash action play, a stock-broker, who absconded is poverty, as he had not a halfpenny with 10,000l, the property of a person in his pockets. who intrusted him with it to purchase 9. Robin Gray, alias the Guinea stock, and for which rool, was offer. Pig, a notorious pickpocket, aged up- ed as a reward, was apprehended by wards of fixty, threw himself out of Mr. Mocket, a Serjeant at Mace, in a two pair of fairs window, at his Bishopsgate-street, and confined in the lodgings in Dean-street, Soho, in a fit New Counter. of delirium, and was killed on the spot. 16. This day came on to be heard He was twice transported, since which the suit instituted by Mr. Duberley, he has several times been tried for against his wife, to obtain a sentence life. of divorce, a mensa et thoro for adultery 10. This day died in Rochester, with General Gunning. John Baynard, Érq. aged 88, who has After the counsel were heard on left by his will, to the President and both sides, the Judge pronounced a Treasurer of Bethlehem Hospital, sentence of divorce from bed and Moorfields, for the support of infane board, incurable patients, 1000l. to the Trea. 16. This morning was married by furer of the Society for the discharge a special licence, at Lord Camelford's and relief of persons imprisoned for house in Oxford Street, the Right small debts, 1000i. He also left other Hon. Lord Grenville, to the Hon. charities and legacies to his relations Miss Anne Pitt, only daughter to and friends, amounting together to Lord Camelford. After the ceremo. 20,000l. besides very confiderable ny, the bride and bridegroom set off elțates. for Mr. Pitt's seat at' Holwood-house, 14. This morning the body of a Kent, where they will spend the hoa "man was taken up by some filhermen ney-moon. near Westminiter bridge. . He seemed Mr. Philips, a gentleman of the Star to be about forty ycars of age, and had Brew-house, Wapping, who was dei. the appearance of a labourer. It is perately wounded by footpads on the Ilford Ilford road on Wednesday night, ftill tion, to take a dose of brimstone, fent lies with little hopes of recovery, his wife to get it from his closet: un. Two flugs were lodged beneath Mr. fortunately the brought him a yellow Phillips's ear,both of which are extract powder, which she found in the closet, ed. The Oftler at the Three Rab- and which afterwards turned out to bits,' near which house Mr. P. was be yellow arsenic. Having mixed it wounded, on receiving information of in water, the unfortunate gentleman the robbery, immediately went in pur- drank it, and expired, notwithstandluit of the desperadoes, and in a corn. ing every asistance, in great agonies. field, at a short distance, found one of The baker for the colony at Botany them, whom he very spiritedly secu. Bay is the notorious Robert Sidoway, red, and took him before Mr. Justice who was several times tried for house: Spurrel, at Barking. This fellow's breaking, highway robberies, &c. name appears to be Jones, and both when in this country ; he has now onc Mr. Phillip's coachman, and a gen- of the best fituations in the new Scttleman who was pasing by at the mo- tlement, being allowed a toll out of ment of the robbery, swore that lie was every quantity of flour he makes into one of the men concerned in it. Mr. bread for the officers and convicts. Spurrel therefore fully committed A person, who pafled- under the him to Chelmsford gaol, to take his name of Whiteman, was lately comtrial. mitted to Launcelton jail, charged The Grand Jury of Westminster withi robbing the mail, and with the have found the following true Bills; murder of the boy, near Warrington, one againit Thomas Phochy, the Duke in September lalt.' He had been some of Gloucelter's second coachman, and time near Exeter, amusing himself in William Baker, a groom, charged with fishing, &c. and always avoiding pub. injuring the watch-house, in the late lic place. He was taken in bed, at riots in Mount-street; a second against Bodmin; and on his irons being put David Hummel, a watchman, at the on, he burst into tears, saying, he had fuit of a respectable young woman, always been an unfortunate man, and Frances Ellis, charged with having re- that the public would know. in the ceived twenty-fix thillings, promising course of the week, who was the mail to release her, but he notwithstanding robber, conveyed her to the watch-house with Major Houghton, now upon the others. vels in the interior parts of Africa, has A third Bill against the master of lately transniitted an account of his prothe Pite's Head, where the dance was gress to Mr. Beaufoy. He says lie held, was preferred by Tapp, the has penetrated to a city unknown of High Constable, and thrown out. in history, and unheard of by the me A young lady of the most brilliant dium of tradition. He represents it personal attractions, considerable for- as infinitely larger, and as containing tune, and some fashion, has instituted more inhabitants than any city in the a procefs against her husband, to whom world, but the people, even there, as He has been married two months, for well as in every other part of the counimpotence ; and a divorce is according- try, he describes to be in a state of ly claimed. She has made her first grofs barbarism, and trading chiefly deposition. in slaves, of which it is the great marr: The following melancholy accident A Lioness in the Tower has lately more and more shews the danger of brought forth two young ones, which keeping articles loose in a houle, of are likely to do well ; a circumstance a poisonous quality, Mr. Sporgin, of that has not happened for a long series Chadwell, inclined, from an indispo&. of years. his traa INDEX TO TŪ VOLUME 1. PAGE PAGE 226 197 A. Body found, entirely converted into hair, buried 437 380, 402, 412, 473 Boehmen, Jacob, the myftic divine, ac- count of 425 364 229 Bland, the English Peaman, his life 97 116 Officer of the King's wardrobe, at 231 395 life 195 113, 145, 211, 348, 385, 420, 449 421 C. 422 194 Captain Barnaby and old Bootey, or the Brewer going to Hell 194 Card, to call any one out of the Pack, 33 how Castle, the Conjuror's 147 Campanella, Thomas, an Italian Aftro- 129 401, 433,465 Cards, curious Questions upon 50, 84, 252 355 435 Card nailed to a wall by a pistol hot 385 191 388 - to find out a Thief 389 481 to drive away quil spirits 389 Expectation upon any particular 214 391 upon Cock, a droll trick performed with one 145 104 415 33 nage Con 216 2II 21, 57 124 436 III PAGE PAGL ton tor 67 466 acco 358 348 156 433 392 D. 27 1009 Confi& brtwen two Devils, at Taun- Foetus, Influence of the Planets upon, 164 from the moment of imbrication 413 17 198 Fortune teller, the English, 53, 87, 120, 157, 16 189,218, 361,414 108 362 G. 192 Geiture, a curious Geometrical proportions of the Hand Glass and Crystal to cut without a Dia- mond 421 363 Glass, how to melt easily Gordon's Paradoxes solved Greatrakes, Valentine, the Stroker, ac- count of him Grandier, Urban, a French Magician 162 Guardian, the false, returns troubled- 364 353 Gyles, Henry, the Glass-paiuter, his life 226 25 H. Hands, Meaning of the Signs in the 177, 355, 375 147 61 434 163 154 152 421 117, 212 Helmont, John Baptift Van, his life 192, 453 395 404 164 Holland, Philemon, the Translator, bis life 161 4+4 Humouritt, an Afcetic one, who lived 44 years unseen in Grub-street Another 195 30, 455, 463 1.. nativity of Mr. Charles Dryden 37 James the IVth, of Scotland, fees an Apparition 103 the force of 489 25 348, 385, 449 52 Incidents, very wonderful ones 365 387 Iron Chef which opened of itself 67 193 416 426 F. 175 Kelly, Edward, Dr. Dec's partner, his woeful end 87 JII L. PAGE 173 486 of 223 226 Number 666, mysterious explanation of 220 156 0. Occult Philosophy, the first principles of, explained 59 95 Ominous Dreams 18 199 Omeos of Matrimony 359 Ozanam, the Mathematician, his life 20 478 36 69,131 213 96 408, 445 • 20 21 I21 63 Magic:ans, Lives of eminent 25, 59, 94, Pack of Cards changed into Pi&tures 421 Divination, introcuction to 99, 177, 355, 375, 439 42.3 348 Pigeon, killed by stabbing its thadow 146 82,154 Pinetti's Physical Amusements 18, 50, 81, 113, 211 Nativity confidered astrologically 466 Philofophical Amusements, Paper 1. 14,49 145, 154 Pistol, how to put a Candle our with one 351 402 105, 131 470 92 Poiret, Peter, some account of that mys. 87 454 Poisons, Nature and Exet of, confidered 443 compared 109 140 of 192 Pledget to wear about the Neck, to pre- vent Bugs biting in the night time 182 129 Philosophical Society, B.'s proposal for 205 141 387 Priestly, Dr. not a true Saint 24 Pringle, Miss, her Apparition at two 28 places at the same time Probabilities of 214 224 480 Proposals for an astrological Society 399 43, 75, 172 Powder, Receipt to make the true Sym-' 362 pathetic Psalmanazar, George, his extraordinary life and performances * Ptolemy ore 220 . 222 122 |
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