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Monthly Chronicle.
Enation to renew the petition to Parliament on that subject , Mr . Alderman Skinner observed , that this was not the time to petition Parliament for any tax to be taken off ; he therefore should not move for a petition to the Hon . House of Commons , as was done last year , but content himself with moving , " That the representatives of this " city in parliament be desired to state in their places , that : the corporation do not " intend , during the present session , to renew their petition for the repeal of the local " duty on coals , under a just consideration of the existing circumstances of the but that it is the intention of the to embrace the first favour
" country ; corporation - " able opportunity of calling the attention of the Hon . House to their reasonable claim " for relief : " which was unanimously agreed to . This being the 123 d day , and in the 7 th year of the trial , Mr . Hastings addressed the High Court on the delays of the prosecution against him . He had relied much , he said , on the testimony of Marquis Cornwallis , but as the health of the noble Marquis did not permit his attendance in his place , he had relinquished his intention of calling upon his Lordship ; and for this sacrifice he hoped the High Court would in requital sutfer no further delay in the trial .
March 1 . The Grand Tribunal sat again at Westminster-Hall , when Mr . Hastings again implored the High Court to proceed on his trial without further loss of time ; the Managers expressed their readiness to proceed de die in diem , but the Lords put off the further proceedings till Monday the 7 th day of April . This day the royal assent was giyen , by commission , to the Mutiny act , the act to preserve French property , the acts to repeal the Glove-tax act , and the duties on Births , & c . and the act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify for , officers and employments .
The drafts from the Guards , intended as a reinforcement to ^ our army in Flanders ( consisting of about Soo men ) , marched in high spirits , for Greenwich , to embark for Ostend . ) After the Guards were embarked , a riot broke out , which was occasioned by ' a party of the nth regiment of Dragoon guards having enlisted a baker belonging to the Victualling-Office , which being made known to the rest of the bakers , butchers ,- & c . of the Office , who conceived that he was trepanned , a skirmish ensued to rescue him , in which several men were wounded , when , a party of the Horse Guards were sent for , which made all quiet .
2 . The Duke of York left town and arrived at Deal at half past eight next morning . Flis -Royal Highness sailed in the Vestal frigate , and arrived at Ostend at half past one o ' clock on Wednesday afternoon . Twenty-six fine chargers were embarked at Deal , pn the 3 d , for the Duke of York and his Aides du Camp . Some of these were a present from his Majesty . The following is a copy of the certificate granted on the marriage of Prince Augustus Frederick to Lady Augusta Murray , by the curate of St . George's ,
Hanoversquare . " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK and AUGUSTA MURRAY , ' both of this parish , were « married in this church , by banns , this 5 th day of December , 1793 . " By me , T . DOVVNES , Curate . " " This marriage was solemnized between us " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK , , ( AUGUSTA MURRAY . "
12 th . Souiden Lawrence , Esq . had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand on being appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas , in the room of the late Sir H . Gould , deceased . - He at the same time received the honour of knighthood . Mr . Butler , who has just recovered the title of Earl of Ormond , in Ireland , claimed it upon a principle which has now been clearly ascertained , that an English attainder does not include Irish honours . The Earldom of Ormond is of the date of 1327 . The Princess Royal outward-bound East lndiaman has been captured bthree
y French frigates near the Sunda Islands . A Dutch ship of great value has likewise fallen into the hands of the French in the same quarter . The Princess Royal did not tamely submit , but engaged the French frigates for upwards of an hour ; during which timt the m : i : e ur » d carpenter were filled , and several sea , m <; n woyndeei . ' ' ' C 5
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Monthly Chronicle.
Enation to renew the petition to Parliament on that subject , Mr . Alderman Skinner observed , that this was not the time to petition Parliament for any tax to be taken off ; he therefore should not move for a petition to the Hon . House of Commons , as was done last year , but content himself with moving , " That the representatives of this " city in parliament be desired to state in their places , that : the corporation do not " intend , during the present session , to renew their petition for the repeal of the local " duty on coals , under a just consideration of the existing circumstances of the but that it is the intention of the to embrace the first favour
" country ; corporation - " able opportunity of calling the attention of the Hon . House to their reasonable claim " for relief : " which was unanimously agreed to . This being the 123 d day , and in the 7 th year of the trial , Mr . Hastings addressed the High Court on the delays of the prosecution against him . He had relied much , he said , on the testimony of Marquis Cornwallis , but as the health of the noble Marquis did not permit his attendance in his place , he had relinquished his intention of calling upon his Lordship ; and for this sacrifice he hoped the High Court would in requital sutfer no further delay in the trial .
March 1 . The Grand Tribunal sat again at Westminster-Hall , when Mr . Hastings again implored the High Court to proceed on his trial without further loss of time ; the Managers expressed their readiness to proceed de die in diem , but the Lords put off the further proceedings till Monday the 7 th day of April . This day the royal assent was giyen , by commission , to the Mutiny act , the act to preserve French property , the acts to repeal the Glove-tax act , and the duties on Births , & c . and the act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify for , officers and employments .
The drafts from the Guards , intended as a reinforcement to ^ our army in Flanders ( consisting of about Soo men ) , marched in high spirits , for Greenwich , to embark for Ostend . ) After the Guards were embarked , a riot broke out , which was occasioned by ' a party of the nth regiment of Dragoon guards having enlisted a baker belonging to the Victualling-Office , which being made known to the rest of the bakers , butchers ,- & c . of the Office , who conceived that he was trepanned , a skirmish ensued to rescue him , in which several men were wounded , when , a party of the Horse Guards were sent for , which made all quiet .
2 . The Duke of York left town and arrived at Deal at half past eight next morning . Flis -Royal Highness sailed in the Vestal frigate , and arrived at Ostend at half past one o ' clock on Wednesday afternoon . Twenty-six fine chargers were embarked at Deal , pn the 3 d , for the Duke of York and his Aides du Camp . Some of these were a present from his Majesty . The following is a copy of the certificate granted on the marriage of Prince Augustus Frederick to Lady Augusta Murray , by the curate of St . George's ,
Hanoversquare . " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK and AUGUSTA MURRAY , ' both of this parish , were « married in this church , by banns , this 5 th day of December , 1793 . " By me , T . DOVVNES , Curate . " " This marriage was solemnized between us " AUGUSTUS FREDERICK , , ( AUGUSTA MURRAY . "
12 th . Souiden Lawrence , Esq . had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand on being appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas , in the room of the late Sir H . Gould , deceased . - He at the same time received the honour of knighthood . Mr . Butler , who has just recovered the title of Earl of Ormond , in Ireland , claimed it upon a principle which has now been clearly ascertained , that an English attainder does not include Irish honours . The Earldom of Ormond is of the date of 1327 . The Princess Royal outward-bound East lndiaman has been captured bthree
y French frigates near the Sunda Islands . A Dutch ship of great value has likewise fallen into the hands of the French in the same quarter . The Princess Royal did not tamely submit , but engaged the French frigates for upwards of an hour ; during which timt the m : i : e ur » d carpenter were filled , and several sea , m <; n woyndeei . ' ' ' C 5