B dents, which joining with his inclina- He went into Ld Darnly's place the fame day, and his wife continued in hers a twelvemonth after they were married, and might have continued there till now, if her mafter had not purthed his design with more importu were, except when his fears anticipated her difcovery of his former marriage. This event, fo much dreaded, and fo carefully guarded againft, in a fhort time put an end to their felicity, and made the wife, who was deferted, yet more wretched than before. Such is the conftant and the known effect of that officious malignity, which is ftill curious to difcover, and zealous to publifh breaches of the matrimonal contract; yet it is ftill fuffered by a common confederacy in the guilt, to escape not only infamy but cenfure, under the mask of integrity and friendfhip. One Hobfon, a coachman in Lord Darnly's family, knew Cannicott when he lived in another place, and knew alfo his first wife. It happened, that the wife of this Hobson had become acquainted with fome perfon in the houfe when Cannicot had taken a lodging for his second wife, and thus difcovered the fecret. His fecond wife, however, she did not know where to find, for the had removed into the country when Cannicott went out of. town with his Lord, and was not yet returned; but word was immediately fent to his first wife, and he took every D opportunity to haunt and reproach her husband with his new connexion. This, he fays, made him extremely wretched, not only because it was irkfome in ittelt, but because it kept him in continual dread and follicitude, left they fhould find out his favourite and interrupt her peace, as they had interrupted his. As his tears increafed, fo did his caution; he took another lodging for his young wife, whom he calls Nanny, at a confiderable distance, and required her never to call, on any pretence, where the had lodged before; with this requeft, he fays, the chearfully compli ity than before, notwithtanding the declaration of her marriage, which up. E on that account, as well as others, the had determined to make as foon as it hould have taken place. As thefe follicitations made her very uneasy the complained of them to her bufband, and he advised her to give warning. She immediately followed his counfel, F but staid five months longer to obligeed, without knowing or enquiring why her lady, who was very defirous the fhould go with her to Bath. When they came back, and her mafter found that he was determined to go, and that another maid had been engaged in her stead, he was fo enraged at his difappointment, that he would fcarce futter her to stay long enough in the houfe to put her cloaths together. When the was come away Cannicott hired a lodging for her as near him as he could, that he might spend every leifure mipute in her company; and he perceived, he fays, with unspeakable pleature, an exceflive fondneis in her which increafed his own; and he believes it is impoffible for any two persons to be more happy in each other than they G it was made; but her old landlady once meeting her by chance dogged her home, and immediately acquainted Hobson and his wife where the lodged, who with great expedition fent Mrs Cannicott to acquaint her with her fituation. Here was an end of all the ftolen felicity at once; Nanny, at the next interview, reproached him, but she reproached him, he lays, with fuch ten-, derneis as thewed leis anger than love. She was overwhelmed with grief, and, as often as the could nnd words, the intreated, that he would never attempt to fee her more, but leave her to itrug gle alone with her misfortunes, and endeavour to get into another place. lie could not confent to leave her, but he 1 He murders bis Wife and is difcovered. A he promised to procure her a place. Hobfen and his wife in the mean time fomented the difference between Cannicott and his first wife, telling her that he had received his wages, and urging her to follicit him for more money. This fhe did, with threats of profecution if he refufed, faying, that he could and D would hang him for having two wives. As he believed this to be in her power, he reftrained his averfion, for fear the fhould execute it, and therefore appointed to meet her on Tuesday evening at the Red-Lion in Berkely-square, to take a little walk. He declares, that in making this appointment he had no E defign upon her life, but that being obliged to put up at a publick houfe near Tottenham Court, by a fudden ftorm of thunder and rain, the asked him for money, which he refusing to give her, the had recourfe first to expoftulation, then reproach, and then threatening, which threw him into a F dreadful rage, in the midit of which he broke away from her, and the followed him. That as they were going down ftairs, he faw a cord hang over the banisters,upon which he conceived a defign to use it as an inftrument to murder her, and therefore thatched it up and put it into his pocket; when they got out of the houfe, they went towards home, tho' the form increafed, and it thundered and lightened very much. Her paffion had probably abated while his was at the height, as it often happens that the mind relents immediately after expreffions of too keen re- H proach, which render a reconciliation on the other fide for a time impoffible. This appears to have been the cafe G 411. here, for the twice defired him to let down his hat, that the lightning might not hurt his eyes; this he refused the first time, but the last time feemed to confent, and bidding her go on, took that opportunity not to flap his hat, but to prepare the cord for the murder; and it is furely an horrid aggravation of his guilt, that he made the voice of kindness a fignal to filence it for ever. and prepared to perpetrate the greatest injury against his wife, while he feemed to be profiting by her follicitude to do him good. When he had formed the cord to his purpofe, having tied a noofe in one end, and paffed the other end through it, he walked apace after her, and coming behind her, threw it over her head and drew it tight. She immediately feized it with her hands, and struggled fo hard that the cord broke, and he feared the would overpower him. He then tho't of his fciffars, and drawing them from the fheath, he thrust them many times into her throat and body, upon which her grafp relaxed, and the foon expired. As foon as he faw fhe was dead, his paffion fubfided in a moment, and he was fo ftruck with the horror of what he had done, that he fell down in a fwoon, tho' he cannot tell how long he continued in it; when he came to himfelt he began to think how he might conceal the fact; he stripped her, and fcattered her cloaths, which he cut to pieces, in different places as he went along. About ten o'clock he got home extreamly wet, and immediately retiring to the place where he cleaned his glaffes, he washed the blood from the ruffles and fleeves of his fhirt, and putting it into the foul cloaths bag, went to bed. The next morning, his lordship being out of town, he went out and bought a new pair of fciffars, having left the others in the field near the body, and he fold the ring and buckles, which he brought away; he did not return home till night, and was then told by his fellow fervants, that justice Filling had fent for him upon a fufpicion of murder, and advised, if he was guilty, not to come in; but he infifted upon his innocence, and when Mr Welch came foon after, he was denied. Next morning, however, he went with the Butler, to Mr Barnes, the high conitable, in order, as he faid, to clear himfelt. He was examined by the justices, and tho' many circumstances appear. ed * 412* Farther particulars of Byng's Conduct. ed against him, yet the first day he A B Part of a Letter, &c. from Gibraltar, dated June 24.. AS for Byng, he might feveral times have fent letters, and afterwards what he pleased, into Mimorca; but he never attempted it. Private fignals had been appointed, by which the fleet and garrifon might have understood one another; but when the fleet came within fight, all that the C garrifon could do, they could not get one fignal returned. Upon this, an officer went out in a fix-oar'd boat after the fleet, but could not come up with it, as Bing in no inftance fhewed any inclination of coming near the object he was fent to relieve. After being at fea above 30 hours, the boat D F returned unmoletted. This fhews all the boats in the fleet might have done the fame, and brought in what fuccours the admiral had pleafed. Every thing fhews the enemy knew their man. And the beliegers (as appears from circumstances ince, by their being E more remifs in their attacks about that time than before) intended to infult the garrifon, by letting them fee in that manner that they were better acquainted with Byng's plan of operations than they were. He would by no means fuffer the ships in his diví fion, which he had taken care to form of the strongest in the fleet, to affift the wing that was engaged. Even the extreme diftrefs of the Intrepide and the Defiance, could not move him to pity either the brave or his country. But why do I mention either bravery or bis country in the fame fheet with his for ever ignominious name? Common men were never in the world in higher fpirits, or more furious to engage, if they might have been permitted: what the whole fleet was then capable of performing, is plain from the fuccefs of part of it. The poltroon fired fix barrels of powder, but a great deal of it H was in fignals to hinder others from doing their duty, and the balls he directed towards the enemy, perhaps never came fo near them as within 500 yard; fo great a distance he kept at. No, no; there might have been danger in venturing nearer; if his fhot could have reached them, their's might alfo in that cafe, have reached him. Poor general Blakeney faid, The world had no pleasure equal to what he fhould find by dying in action and to the honour of his country. For the laft month they wanted many things in the article of provifion. They fought like English lions, or more like Irish bravadoes, the day they faw the fleet, rejoycing in the certainty of fpeedy fucCours, and the confcioufnefs of having done due fervice to their country in fo holding out till their arrival. Campbell's regiment is gone with Sir Edward Hawke's fleet. The Welch fuzileers were landed, but most of them exceedingly weak and difordered with their r voyage, &c. &c. Mr URBAN, TH Hough the following is only part of a letter written by an honeft tar before the maft, yet it relates a fact that has not yet been taken notice of in any other account of the late action in the Mediterranean, and may be depended upon as truth; of the writer's veracity I have had many teftimonies, and his judgment cannot reafonably be doubted, for an old failor is certainly as good a judge of the condition of an enemy's fhip as the best officer. It must be fuppofed that the admiral was too far off to fee the diftrefs mentioned in this letter, for otherwife it cannot be conceived why he should hinder her being taken. Revenge, Gibraltar, July 3. ON the 20th of May it was in our power to finish the war, and make ourfelves gentlemen, but the lord knows if we Thall ever have the chance again; we engaged and difabled the French admiral, a brave 80 gun fhip, which fell to our lot in the line; and we should cer tainly have made her our prize, if we had been permitted fo to do. We broke our line to run thro' the French and pick her up, but were immediately ordered to keep it; we fet her on fire twice on the quarter, likewife drove 2 ports abaft into one, beides carrying away her main topfail yard, and her topfail theets fore and aft, and her fails alfo; fo that the could not escape at any rate if we had only had the liberty to have gone after her. And if the had truck, being the chief, no doubt but shat the reit would have followed her example; for if 7 fail beat of 12,what muft our 13 have done if they had all play'd their part? Precepts to determine the Precepts for determining, from one fingle Obfervation, the hole apparent courje of the expelled Comet, with directions in what part of the Heavens to look for it every Math in the Year. ON Na large fheet of pateboard defcribe a circle ten inches radius, to reprefent the earth's orbit round the fun, as in Fig. 1. which divide into 360 degrecs, and diftinguish the figns by their proper characters. Then, with the fun, or center, as a focus, and the true perihelion place and distance, draw a parabola like that deduced from the obfervations of the comet of 1682, and thereon mark every 4th days motion from the perihelion, on either fide, and draw the line of the nodes; thefe elements, as alfo the inclination of the orbit, may be found in Dr Halley's table or lift of comets. Set off the cofine of the inclination on perpendiculars to the line of the nodes, towards the feveral fourth days marks or points in the parabola; these will form the projection of the parabola, or comet's trajectory, on the plane of the ecliptic, over which the comet is at any time perpendicular. To find the comet's place at any time, count how long it is before or after its perihelion, and mark the place in the projection of the parabola: lay one edge of a parallel ruler through that point, and alfo through the point of the earth's place in its orbit at that time, and the other edge paffing thro' the fun, will cut the earth's orbit at the comet's geocentric place. The tangent of the inclination, taking the perpendicular from the comet's place to the line of the nodes as radius, is the tangent of its apparent latitude, making the curtate distance of the comct from the earth, the radius. For expedition thus: draw two lines, making an angle of 17d. 56m. equal to the inclination. On one of them fet off the perpendicular from the comet's projected place, and raile a perpendicular to the other; or, which is the fame, from the comet's real place in the parabola, and let fall a perpendicular, which wil be the tangent of its geocentric latitude. One obfervation of a known comet will, by the help of fuch a fcheme, determine, in a good meafure, its whole courfe: for, from the earth's place in its orbit draw the obferved longitude of the comet, and where that cuts the projection of the parabola, there is the comet's place; to which if the obferved latitude agrees, it confirms it. Then, the other data being already known, and one place given, its whole courfe may be traced. A TABLE fhewing where the Comet may be expected to begin to appear any Month. 414* Scarroyada's Memoirs.-Petrified Echinus.—Met. Jour. The two lines of fingle ftrokes at A denote the number of engagements he had been in. The crofs firokes at B, linked together by a crooked undulating line, with a short dafh over each cross, reprefent the number of Indian warriors he had killed with hisown hands., The cross ftrokes at C, linked together in like manner, with the addition of a head to each, fhew the number of warriors he had taken prisoners with his own hands. All thefe he drew with red ink, or blood. D, is the reprefentation of the bow and arrow, which he had cut on each cheek. E, is the reprefentation of his tomobock, which he wore at his breaft. Both thefe were expreffed in black ink, but the spots dotted from a were red, as dipt in blood. The above account is, to the best of my memory, what he told me when I received the original from him. Yours, &c. ther kinds of matter, these would be moul dered and destroyed before the petrification could commence and it is very fingular, that almost all thofe in chalk are filled with flint, or partly chalk and partly flint, and fometimes with chryftal. Now as all flints and agates are nothing lefs than crystal debafed by earth; and as it is in beds of chalk that thefe, as well as multitudes of large ftones, are found, one would be almoft induced to believe, that chalk degenerated into flint; or in other words, that flint was produced by chalk originally. And indeed, I have many fpecimens myfelf, that seem to prove it; in fome of which they fhew the gradual change from the one to the other, not at all like a fudden appofition of chalk and flint. Other kinds of echinites, fuch as the echini cordati, or heart-shaped echinite; the pileati, or conic; the galeati, er helmet-shaped, with feveral other kinds, are often formed of other fpecies of strong particles. The foffil reprefented at Fig. 3 and 4, with large papille, is the echinometra digiteta fecunda rotunda, vil cidaris mauri of Rumpbius; which, with the other oval echinites, are very rarely found but in chalk: and it is remarkable, that whether they are filled with chalk, flint, or chryftal, their fhells break with a felenitical appearance, juft as the lapides judaici, and all other fpecies of echinites found in chalk pits, do. |