CHRONICLE.

lie rooms at Bath, on the evening
of the general confufion in April
lafi; when a verdict was given for
the plaintiE, of 501. damages, and
full colts of fuit, A verdict of 5 l.
damages and full cofis was alfo
given in two feparate actions.
brought by Wroughton, efq;
againlt two other gentlemen.

At the afiizes at Exeter, an at-
torney was tried for perjury, fined
201. and to be irnprifoned twelve
months.

A late candidate for a borough in
Sufiiex recovered 5001. at the lalt af-
fizes, on the fiatute of bribery and
corruption.

A letter from Bodmin, in Corn-
wall, lays, “ No lefs than {even
caufes have been tried thefe aflizes
for bribery at the lali: election for
the borough of To have
heard the evidence relative to the
bribery, and the infamous practices
ufed at the election, would make
you fhudder. The plaintifFs in all
the caufes obtained verdifls, fome in
10001. others in 15001. and fo onto
30001. penalties, on the bribery
at‘. .”

A woman was lately arrefied at
Vienna, charged with having kill-
ed above 100 children. Her em-
ployment was to nurfe, at her own
houfe, the children of women who
were themfelves nurfes in great fa-
milies, and alfo the infants ofluzh
as did not chufe to own them. lt
was her cultom to get fome months
board paid her in advance, and in a
fhort time after fhe came to tt-ll the
mother of the death of her child. It
is certain that, during 17 months,
near 9o children have been carried
from her houfe to the grave. Such
a number of fuccellive deaths muft
naturally render her, ifnot altoge-
ther culpable, at leall: tery much

 

 

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fufpefiied. It is {aid that {he hath
already ccmfelTed her crime, and
difcovered ieveral accomplices.

The French ambaffador hath late-
ly prefented a memorial to the States
General, in which he acquaint: them
that the illand of Corfica is united
to the dominions of France; and
hopes that in cafe any {hips for the
future {hall appear under Corfican
colours, their H. M. will look up-
on them as pirates, and treat them
accordingly.

Married, at St. Luke’s, Cld.
llreet, James Gray, a dealerin hard-
ware, aged 78, to Penelope Brooks,
aged 69, whofe mother, aged 102,
was at the wedding.

At Tamworth, in Oxfordthirc,
john Workhoufe, efq; aged 30, to
Mifs Bonfier, aged 7o.

Died, aged 97, jolhua Bain-
bridge, efq;

In the park, Southwark, aged
near 107, Mr. john Daniel, former-
ly a confiderable ironmcnger; he
had been blind upwards 0H7 years,
and bed-ridden near 22 years.

Monday lehtnight, at Uilc in
Monmouthihire, Richard jones,
efq; generally known by the name
of Happy Dick, under which title
he was the (object of a much-ad-
mired Old Yong.

In Berwick-lireet, Soho, aged
9g. John Vickers, eFq; tvho dilii-
goifhed himiislf at the battle of the
Boyne, in lrcland.

SEPTEMBER.

Yellerday morning, about
five o'clock, three houfes fell
(lown near Rcd-liomlirect, GOOCl-
man's-fields, and the inhabitants,
to the amount of twenty perfons,
(unfortunately being in bed) were
buried in the ruins; {ome were tittg-

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