Dometic News and he soon had the parties concerned Captain was condemned to the gibin his power, who were all brought bet; Mrs. Mylıyttre 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 the all met together in the greatest confu. had lived , the apothecary was anatofion and dismay, which evidenced their mised; and the wife was itrangled 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 ses- 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 all to the entire fatisfaction of the court died negative. and country, and all present. The *DOMESTIC NEW $. JULY, 1792. 7. A GENTEEL dressed young man supposed he had laid in the water fhot 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 rafh action play, a ftock-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 stairs window, at his Bishopsgate-itreet, and confined in the lodgings in Dean-ftreet, 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 fuit inftituted 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, Esq. 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, 100cl. to the Trea 6. This morning was married by Lurer 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 ceremo20,000l. besides very considerable ny, the bride and bridegroom set off elțates. for Mr. Pitt's feat at' Holwood-house, 14. This morning the body of a Kent, where they will spend the hea "man was taken up by some fishermen ney-moon. near Westminiter bridge. . He seemed Mr. Philips, a gentleman of the Star to be about forty years of age, and had Brew-house, Wapping, who was del. the appearance of a labourer. It is perately wounded by footpads on the Ilford 424 Domestic News 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. Tiro flugs were lodged beneath Mr. fortunately the brought him a yellow Phillips's ear, both of which are extracts 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 anfortunate gentleman the robbery, immediately went in pur- drank it, and expired, notwithstandfuit 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 houses 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 situations in the new Scitleman who was pafling by at the mo- tlement, being allowed a toll out of ment of the robbery, swore that he was every quantity of four 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 Launceston jail, charged The Grand Jury of Westminster with robhing the mail, and with the have found the following true Bills; murder of the bay, near Warrington, one againit Thomas Phochy, the Duke in September last. He had been fome of Glouceter's second coachman, and time near Exeter, amusing himself in William Baker, a groom, charged with fishing, &c. and always avoiding pubinjuring the watch-house, in the late lic places. He was taken in bed, at riots in Mount-ftreet; a second againit Bodmin; and on his irons being put David Hummel, a watchman, at the on, he burit 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-lix Thillings, promiling course of the week, who was the mail to releafé her, but he notwithstanding robber. conveyed her to the watch-house with Major Houghton, now upon his trathe others. vels in the interior parts of Africa, has A third Bill against the master of lately transnitted an account of his prothe Pitt'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 process againit her husband, to whom world, but the people, even there, as the 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 fate of ly claimed, She has made her first grofs barbarism, and trading chiefly deposition. in slaves, of which it is the great mart? 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 indispofi. of years. INDEX TO VOLUME I. PAGE PAGE 197 A. Body found, entirely converted into hair, buried 487 380, 402, 412, 473 Boehmen, Jacob, the myfiic divine, ac- count of 425 364 229 Bland, the English Penman, his life 97 116 Officer of the King's wardrobe, at 231 395 Buthnel, the Humourist Statuary, his 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, 233 how 230 Caddies, tricks with Tea 21, 57 147 129 401, 433,465 Cards, curious Questions upon 50, 84, 212 Cards, various new Deceptions upon 355 Cards, surprifing Deceptions upon 15 Card nailed to a wall by a piftol hot 385 ISI - to find out a Thief 389 481 to drive away quil spirits 389 124 Expectation upon any particular 214 392 upon Cock, a droll trick performed with one 145 104 415 33 nage Con 216 388 436 III PAGE tor 348 358 156 363 482 D. 162 100 PAGZ 164 from the moment of imbrication 413 17 198 Fortune-teller, the English, 53, 87, 120, 1575 189,218, 361,414 362 67 25, 59; 192 Geiture, a curious 466 Geometrical proportiods of the Hand Glass and Cryftal to cut without a Dia- mond 421 Glass, how to melt cahily Gordon's Paradoxes folved Greatrakes, Valentine, the Stroker, ac. 392 Gua dian, the false, returns troubled 364 25 27 H. 385 Hands, Meaning of the Signs in the 177, 355, 375 Harrison, the Time-keeper maker, ac- 147 61 Hevelius, a celebrated Astronomer, ača 163 Hints, useful ones 152 Head, Golden one, which answers differ- 164 421 117, 212 Helmont, John Baptift Van, his life 192, 453 395 404 164. Holland, Philemon, the Translator, bis life 151 4+4 Humourist, an Afcetic one, who lived 44 years unseen in Grub-ftrect 193 Anather 30, 455, 463 1. nativity of Mr. Charles Dryden 372 James the IVth, of Scotland, fees an 18 Apparition 103 the force of 480 , Impofitions of Psalmanazar 25 348, 385, 449 52 Incidents, very wonderful ones 365 391 Iron Chef which opened of itself 67 count of 161 195 416 426 387 46 K. F. 175 Kelly, Edward, Dr. Dee's partner, his woeful end 87 INDE X. PAGE 173 486 156 L. PAGE Notices astrological 451 Numbers, various combinations of of 223 226 Number 666, mysterious explanation of 220 0. 136 Occult Philosophy, the first principles of, explained 478 59 95 Ominous Dreams Impulses 199 Omeos of Matrimony 359 Ozanam, the Mathematician, his life 96 20 36 69, 131 213 146 20 tic 21 121 13, Tos Magic:ans, Lives of eminent 25, 59, 94; 1 Pack of Cards changed into Pictures 421 408, 445 99, 177, 355, 375, 439 42.3 348 Pigeon, killed by stabbing its thadow 82, 154 Pinetti's Physical Amusements 18, 50, 81, 113, 211 Nativity confidered astrologically 466 Philosophical Amusements, Paper .. 14,49 145, 154. Piftol, how to put a Candle out with one 351 402 105, 131 470 92 Poiret, Peter, some account of that mys. 454 Poisons, Nature and Effet of, confidered 443 compared 109 140 63 192 Pledget to wear about the Neck, to pre- 182 129 Philosophical Society, B.'s proposal for 205 141 387 24 Pringle, Miss, her Apparition at two 28 places at the same time Probabilities of 214 172 Property of Talismans 224 Proposals for an astrological Society 39 43, 75, 172 Powder, Receipt to make the true Sym-' pathetic Psalmanazar, George, his extraordinary life and performances Piolewy time ore 220 222 1 22 362 76 4.98 |