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At the laſt quarter-feſſions for Norwich, John Gallant, an cHd ofeñdér, was tried for ſtealing a- pair of ſhoes, SC but the Monts beiñg 2 Qua Ker, his affirmation could not, legally, be adnutted as evidence; the priſoner therefore eſcaped juſtité.

Out of 1023, perſons who were Killed or w E in the action of Oéto=- ber 11, 1797, under Admiral Lord: Duncan, there are about 70, or their families and relatives, that have not yet been N out, ſo as to receive gratuities,&c. fram the committee appointed for conduéting the ſub. icription raiſed for the relief of the: ſufterers..

Some JEw's of Stockholm, having been lately ſuſpetted as culpable in ftock-Jobbing on the Bank money, the coMMUNITY OF Jews of that city received an order to make a due inquißtion, 1, 1n order to diſcover.the guilty. This community has lately repre Seed to the 1 king. that. there was only one fingle family, on w hich the reproach on this he 1d could juſtly fall; a member of which had been de ORCS ever lince the year 702 E We hey intreat his majeſty to cauſe. the guilty tobe puniſhed, that ſuſpicion may not again fall on the whole community; they moreover allege that Tinte the Jews have: bee N permitted to ſettle in Sw ede, very few examples have been found of any of them having been brought to the bar of a tribunal,

A petition is now preparing by the DeEzrToRs in the couxrTYy and TOWN GAOLS-of Leiceſter, with.the ſa bers, and a concurrence of intentionreceived from their fellow fuf various other gaols, to be offered to botk houſes, at the enſuir of parliament, praying that, in ſome. meaſure, by. their wiſdom, they may ALLEVIATE the DISÉRESSE OLVENT DEBTORS. The gentlemen, freemen, and inhabit 1t5 aL e, of thi V county, will, no doubt, feel themſel: eriouſly called upon Gi n A CAUSE Which, it requires no eloquence to plead) to p romote Ss intereſt pic effort; and to! attempt, at leaf, to mitigate, by means in-their Power, E miſeries of the wretched, by readily lteppin 12 forward with their ſignatures ín ſtrengthening a necedity ſo generally eſſential.

To an anonymous charge, dated from Denb nf the Methodiſts in Wales(which appeared in the Gentlem zine for Septeinber laſt) repreſenting them as“danger ¿ Terting that“{he preachers are, in generaî, inſtruments of JF: acob iniÍm;?? and are ſent into that country to“diſſeminate its dectrines,&c. fee, the Rev. Mr. CHARLES, 0f Bala, ſupported by Mers. T JoxN PE ÉEIS; And G FouLK=zs, of Cheſter; have late! ly pu bliſked; i in TE fer Chroni icle, an anſwer and ſatisfactory refatation, wherein theſe gentlemen-prove the & unimpeachable loyalty of the N Methodiſts to their king and the conſtitu- tion for theſe 60 years paſt;’ abſolutely deny that‘‘ any fing e tract of Mr.T. Paine has been anftted into the Welch languags as ſtated in the charge; and by apPe: alingto convincing evidence, produced from ſtrong facts, vindicate the character of both preachers and people from fuch ‘“ unſubſtantiated aſſertions,’ deſigned e criminate people; and. from the who malice or ignorance.??

How far does a government influence the diſtinctive charadter of a peo- ple??— An entire revolution has Appare ently taken place in the manners of the French; and the republican LS f eguality, in regenerating a great nation, 1f 1 has not corrupted their morals has Sal leaſt, LS

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