r30] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1768.

between the feamen and the Irifh
(ml-beavers (which it is to be hoped
will fttbfxde in a few days) pre-
vents, for the prefent, perfefit peace
zmonglt them: but it will be dif-
ficuIt to find men f0 adapted, from
firength, Sec. to execute this labo-
rious talk of coal heaving, as the
Jriih are; and as they now fee the
danger of even going armed, it is
to‘ be hoped that peace and induf-
try will fupply the place of tumult,
Iefentment. and mifchief.

The court of common pleas
was moved, that as Mr. Will;es’s
outlawry was now reverfed, he
might be at liberty to withdraw
his d5: .urrcr to lord Halifax’s
plea and reply; but the court were
of opinion, that it was proper to
give a term’s notice of this mo-
tion, and Mr. Wilkes’s attorney
has given notice accordingly.
The fame day hair. ferjeant Nares
moved for an attachment againlt
the printer of a daily paper, for
publifhting Mr. Will<e_s’s addrefs to
the gentlemen, clergy, and free-
holders of the county of Middle-
iex, as he apprehended that the
fame tended to inflame the jury of
the county, before whom the caufe
was to be tried. The court alked
him, whether he made that motion
on behalf of the attorney general?
which he averring, the addrefs was
read, but the court refufed the at-
tachment.

The following extraordinary
aaan happened at Dover: A high-
wayman, who had robbed a gen-
tleman near Waldelhare, was ap-
prehended the next day at the Sil-
"ver Lion in that town; he was
{eized on fuddenly by four per-
fons, who pretended to drink and
‘eonverfe with him, and an un-
loaded and one loaded piftol ‘were

found in his coat pockets; he was
immediately firipped, and a po-
niard was found concealed in his
breall, under his fhirt, with which
he intended to have deliroyed fome
of his guards. The money, &c.
that he had taken from Mr. Har.
riotfon, wzis in his waificoat pocket,
with three bank notes ofzol. each,
forty guineas in cafh, and feveral
trinkets; and in a pocket-book was
found a letter directed to a per-
fon in London, on fome affair of
bufinefs.

Being carried before 2 jufiice of
the peace, he made a ready con.-
fellion of feveral robberies which
he had committed from the month
of December lall, acknowledged
his name to be James Frederick
Hellick, a native of Frankfort in
Germany, and appeared to be very
penitent. _

The juftice committed him to
the caftle, till a convenient op-
portunity offered of conveying
him to the county gaol at Maid-
itone; and five conftables were
difpatehed with him: he/converfed
very calmly and fenfibly as they
afccnded the hill, remarked the
irnmenfe height of the cliff, and
begged permifiion to examine the
famphire gatherers a few moments;
thefe men had actually left work,
and their ropes remained firmly
fixed to pofts at the top of the
cliff, and reached the fhore; on a
fudden, he pretended to fee a fur-
prizing appearance at the oppolite
fide of the hill; the conltables
turned their heads at his excla-
mation to the fade pointed at, and
at that inflant he grafped a rope,
and defcended with eafe to the
ihore before they faw him; as
they could not pofiibly return to
town, and commence their purfuit

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