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Major Macdonald, and Captain Gordon, and had left it to them to follow them.

The noble Lord asked, if these gentlemen could fpeak the Perfian language? He said Captain Gordon could, but he believed the others could barely understand it, if it was read to them. Lord Loughborough asked, how he could commit to others the difcharge of a duty impofed upon himself, and for which thofe others were not at all qualified? He could not tell why he had done fo. He was afked, if he had appointed proxies to feize the Begums treasure, or whether in that cafe he had executed in perfon the orders of the Governor-General? He admitted that thefe orders he had carried into execution in person.

He was afterwards very closely examined by Lords Loughborough, Stormont, Stanhope, and Hopetoun, about the mutilated ftate of his books. He faid, he never intended to fay they were perfect copies, he had them taken only for his own private use,

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he had lent them while at Calcutta to Mr. Johnson, who wanted fome letters in it fer his defence against a charge brought against him by the Governor-General. He admitted that it appeared that leaves had been torn out of them; but he declared, that this had not been done by him, or with his confent, or even knowledge.

One very remarkable circumstance in this cafe is, that one of the letters copied in a loofe fheet, is in the hand-writing of two different perfons, and it was admitted by the witness, that one part was copied at Lucknow, the other at Calcutta; and if this letter was copied from the original book left in the Refident's office at Lucknow, it was incomprehenfible how part of it could have been copied at Calcutta.

With this examination the bufsiness of the day terminated, and the Court adjourned, at half paft five o'clock, until Tuesday the 20th of May.

[To be continued.]

ACCOUNT of STOKE POGEIS, in BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
[ With a VIEW of the CHURCH. ]

HE village wherein Mr. Gray refided many years of his life, in which his celebrated Elegy was written, and where his remains now repofe, is likely to become in future times the object of attention with perfons of taste and genius. Thither we can fancy the vagrant traveller will be drawn, with no unpleafing melancholy, to view the fpot which gave rife to a compofition, admitted, even by the opinion of an unfriendly critic, to abound with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with fentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

Stoke Pogeis is fo called from the Pogeis, formerly Lords of it, from whom it defcended by female heirs to the Molins, and from them by the Hungerfords to the Haftings, of which family Edward Haftings, Lord Loughborough, built a chapel and hofpital here. He was in great favour with Queen Mary, and after his death retired hither, where he died, and lics buried in the chapel. From him it came into the poffeffion of Sir Chriftopher Hatton; and in 1747, when Mr. Gray wrote his Long Story, was inhabited by the Viscountess Cobham. Mr. Gray's defcription of this edifice admirably defcribes the ftyle of building now called Queen Elizabeth's, both with regard to its beauties and defects:

In Britain's Ifle, no matter where,
An antient pile of building ftands:
The Huntingdons and Hattons there
Employ'd the power of fairy hands

To raise the cieling's fretted height,
Each pannel in atchievements cloathing,
Rich windows that exclude the light,
And paffages that lead to nothing.

The following lines delineate the fantastic manners of the times with great humour and truth :

Full oft within the fpacious walls,
When he had fifty winters o'er him,
My grave Lord Keeper led the brawls,
The feal and maces danc'd before him.
His bushy beard and fhoe-strings green,
His high-crown'd hat and fattin doublet,
Mov'd the ftout heart of England's Queen,
Though Pope and Spaniard could not
trouble it.

In a vault in the church-yard, near the chancel-door, lie the remains of Mr. Gray and most of his family. Amongst the epitaphs is the following, which is evidently his own composition :→

In the vault beneath are depofited,
In hope of a joyful refurrection,
The remains of
MARY ANTROBUS.
She died, unmarried, Nov. v, 1749,
Aged 66.

In the fame pious confidence,
Befide her friend and fifter,

Here fleep the remains of

DOROTHY GRAY,

Widow, the careful tender mother Of many children, one of whom alone Had the misfortune to survive her. She died March xi, 1753.

Aged 67.

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JOURNAL of the PROCEEDINGS of the FIFTH SESSION of the SIXTEENTH PARLIAMENT of GREAT BRITAIN.

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HOUSE

MAY 23.

OF LORD S.

ments at other places of public refort: th's was a monopoly by no means, in his opinion, reconcileable to reafon and equity. It was true, the evidence had proved the expenditure of 55 000l. in twenty-four years, but this was nothing more than the wear and tear of a theatre; fcenes would decay, and

HE order of the day having been read for the fecond reading of the infolvent debtors bill, the Lord Chancellor left the woolfack, and in a speech replete with found argument, gave his reafons for oppofing the commitment of the bill. Lord Rawdon anfwered the Lord Chan- dreffes grow old. If, faid his Lordship, I cellor.

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The order of the day being read, the Houfe refolved itself into a Committee, Lord Scarfdale in the chair.

The Earl of Sandwich moved that evidence be called to the bar to prove the expenditure of Sadler's Wells. His Lordship remarked, that in the former stage of the bufinefs, when evidence had been adduced relative to the fums laid out on other places of public entertainment, the proprietors of the Wells not knowing that fush proofs were neceffary, had attended unprepared in this particular.

The Lord Chancellor was against hearing further evidence. This brought on a converfation between the two noble Lords. The Lord Chancellor at length waving his objection, Mr. Arnold was called to the bar, who proved that since the year 1764, the proprie. tors had expended 55,000l. exclufive of the falaries paid to performers. This evidence being withdrawn, the clerk proceeded to read the bill claufe by claufe, till he came to that which limits the performance of certain fpecies of entertainments only to Sadler's Wells, when

The Lord Chancellor faid, that even from the flight attention he had paid to the bill, its operations appeared in fo oppreffive a point of view, that he should, from pure principles of justice, move fome amendments. The bill as it now ftood, would entirely prevent the performance of fimilar entertainVOL. XIII.

am wrong, I am certain I fhall be corrected by two noble Peers in my eye (Duke of Richmond and Lord Derby) who have had fome little reafon to be better informed on thefe fubjects than I can pretend to be. [A loud laugh.]

His Lordship professed himself a friend to the rights and property of the Royal Theatres, but could by no means think that the patentees would receive a greater injury from the Royalty, Aftley's, or the Circus, under proper restrictions, than from Sadler's Wells, whofe proprietors now came forward with the modeft plea of being the oldeft offenders against the law, in order to induce their Lordships to punish the junior criminals, and reward them for their veteran contumacy. His Lordship hinted, that the proper mode would have been to bring in a bill to enable his Majefty to exercife his authority out of tire royal refidence; but perhaps it was going rather too far to circumfcribe places of entertainment, which this bill did within the very diftrict of the Palace. His Lordfhip then moved, that the indulgencies contained in the bill fhould extend to all thofe places of public entertainment licensed by the Magiftrates under the 25th of George the Second.

Lord Hopetoun (aid a few words in favour of the amendment.

Lord Sandwich wifhed the bill to go through the Committee in its prefent form, and then the other places would have an opportunity of bringing forward their pretenfions. His Lordship declared he did not wish to preís this propofition, if the fenfe of the Houfe was against it.

The Chancellor then made feveral motions and amendments.

The Marquis of Carmarthen moved, that after the Magiftrates, the words "of the County and liberties," be added, in order to include the Royalty Theatre.

The Duke of Richmond introduced a claufe to prevent the fale of wines or fpirituous liquors, &c. in any of the places to which the bill extended.

All which was agreed to without a divifion, and the bill ordered to be reported.

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HOUSE OF COMMON S,

MAY 9.

THE principal fpeakers on Sir Gilbert Elliot's motion," That the first charge exhibited against Sir Elijah Impey contains matter of impeachment against him," and which we mentioned in page 360 to have been negatived by a majority of 18, were, first,

Sir Richard Sutton, who defended Sir Elijah's conduct by referring to fome of the notes on the trial which he said were in an unmutilated ftate, and not torn. Eleven years had paffed, and no notice had been ta ken of his criminality, and that of the other Judges, who were equally guilty in figning Nundcomar's death-warrant.

[During Sir Richard Sutton's fpeech, Sir James Johnstone and Sir Michael le Fleming coming in rather inflamed with liquor, the former complained that a gentleman had taken his place, in which he had left his hat and card, and which place he claimed agreeable to the order of the Houfe, having been prefent at prayers that day. This trifling matter was carried to a very unpleasant height, and language rather offenfive paffed from Sir James to Mr. Sumner and Lord Mornington. Mr. Pitt, on this diforderly and indecent behaviour, particularly towards his friend Lord Mornington, moved for the House to be refumed, when Sir James Johnstone was recommended to make a fubmiffion to the Houfe, and to the noble Lord offended.-Sir James faid, he would make any apology to the Houfe for any word dropt in heat. He vonerated the Houfe;-he was down upon his knees, he faid, ready to apologize for his in. advertency.-Mr. Grenville faid, that fome fubmiffion fhould be made to the noble Lord. Sir James exclaimed, Submiffion to him! he'd be d-d if he did; he'd meet him if he liked to-morrow morning.- -In this unpleasant dilemma the Speaker, by a pacifying fpeech, quieted the Hon. Baronet. Lord Mornington said something conciliatory, when the parties fhook hands, and the affair ended.]

Elijah guilty of the charge alledged against him, as he certainly did his duty, and was justified in putting in force the verdict of the Jury. He faid delays were dangerous: it had been reported that Nundcomar's refcue was meditated on. This was very important, and a speedy execution of the sentence would have a tendency to give a greater ter for to the natives from perpetrating the crime again. In this he was fupported by the other Judges on the bench who figned the deathwarrant; and although Sir Robert Chambers had at first doubted whether the laws of England, in this cafe, extended to forgery, yet he had retracted that opinion by his fignature, which he would not have given to the warrant for his execution, had he any doubts on the propriety of it. His principal arguments in Sir Elijah's favour were, Mr. Farrer's ap plication to Mr. Francis, Gen. Clavering, and Col. Monfon, to petition for a refpite in Nundcomar's fentence; that the two latter had declined having any thing to do with it; further, he did not believe Sir Robert Cnambers would have confented to his execution, had he thought the proceedings illegal.

The Solicitor General then rofe, and adverted to the good character of Sir Elijah Impey when he went from this country; as fuch the House he thought should be very cautious how it accused him of a contrary difpofition. The crime of which he was acenfed, had been allowed to exift eleven years, without any notice being taken of it. If it was a crime, the Houfe had been very deficient in not punishing it fooner. He went nto a long difquifition of the laws of this Country in regard to forgery; that it was a crime which had been found expedient to pu̟pilh with death. He could not confider S.

Mr. Macdonald faid, it was impossible to know how people might be actuated on different occafions; had he been in his fituation, he might have allowed a respite till his Majefty's pleasure should be known, but in fay ing this, it was not accufing Sir Elijah of being wrong.

Mr. Fox controverted every law argument the Solicitor General had laid down. He contended that Sir Elijah Impey must have been well aware that the laws of forgery were not applicable to India: that had it been the intention of the legislature that thofe laws fhould have extended out of this country, they would have likewife gone to the West India islands and North America, which were commercial countries; but fa far from that being the cafe, they did not even go to the northern parts of this island. Could Sir Elijah then have conftrued them, if he had meant fairly, to have effect in the East Indies? Would any man tell him that he thought fo?—No-he availed himself of the opportunity of being out of his Majesty'ą reach, and of not allowing his gracious mercy to extend to the prifoner.

Mr. Fox complained, that Sir Elijah had concealed much of the evidence in fumming up the verdict, and in his charge to the Jury had concealed Sir Robert Chambers's opinion, that he thought the aft did not extend to India, and that the prisoner should be refpited till the King's pleasure was known. He had pretended as a reason why Nundcompar

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