Mary Hodgkin depofed, that fhe had fastened the door for the evening; but on the dog's barking, the other maid going to open it, fhe defired her not, which he did notwithstanding, and then the looked out herfelf and faw a man, against whom attempting to fhut the door, the doctor, fhe believed, forced a ftick between the door, and the other fervant fcreaming out and running into the fore parlour, one of them fell upon her, and then the reft came in. She faw, fhe faid, but one of them, whom he believed to be Levi Weil, being afterwards dragged into the kitchen, her legs and hands tied, and her gown tail muffled over her head. Chriftian Adams, the other fervant-maid, depofed much the fame, but did not fee any of their faces.

Daniel Ifaacs being called, the prifoners were told by the court, that knowing the tribe he was of, they might have him fworn in the manner that was binding to that tribe. Hyam Lazarus replied, that he had turned from a chriftian to a Jew feveral times, as he was informed in the gaol; but Mr. Myers obferving there was no difference in the fwearing of a Jew, as all of them must be fworn on the Decalogue or ten commandments, he [Mr. Myers] was fworn interpreter for Ifaacs, who faid he could not fpeak English.

Ifaacs depofed, that he knew all the prisoners of the bar, but Lazarus Harry; that they were together the 17th of March, when Ather Weil, the captain, propofed that they should go together to Chelfea to a widow's and a Lord's, on a defign of thieving, by breaking into their houses, which he excufed himfelf from doing on account of

fickness, though he had been in their company before on an illicit trade, and they confiding in him, had therefore afked him to be of the party; that, after the feast of the paffover, much about the 7th of April, they again met at a widow woman's, one Mrs. Mofes, where Weil and his wife was also with him on the Saturday night, before information was lodged at Sir John Fielding's; that Levi Weil, that very Saturday night had invited him to go again on fuch business, faying, it would be much better for him to go with them, as they had business to procure them 40,000l. and it would be better to be a gentleman and poffefs money, than be a beggar with his wife and children: to which he answered, that his wife would not let him go any more with them; and Levi Weil replied, 'you need not be afraid, you have heard what we did at Chelfea, how we fhot one man, and if there had been twenty more we fhould not have been afraid.' This converfation having paffed only between his wife, himself, and Levi Weil, he was asked if he had other difcourfe with the prisoners concerning Mrs. Hutchins's affair after it happened; to which he anfwered, not after, as he went abroad directly after, but before he had, when they took together a journey into the country, and lodged together in a poft-house. Three of them, he faid, the Captain, Hyam Lazarus and Abraham Linevil, performed this journey on horfeback, and the rett on foot; and he added a material circumftance, which he had omitted in regard to the meeting in March, that they faid they would cut him [P] 3

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up into thongs if he did not join them. Mr. Myers confirmed this circumftance, as communicated to him by the deponent.

Solomon Lazarus, the perfon that purchased the goods Mrs. Hutchins had been robbed of, depofed, that he knew all the prisoners at the bar; that, on the 12th of June, Afher and Levi Weil came to him about ten in the morning, and produced things they faid they had to fell to him, confifting of a piece of lemon-coloured filk, a half pint filver mug, fome fpoons, fome cafters of cruets, a tea-tongs, a fmall gold watch with a green outfide cafe, and a pair of women's oval pafte fhoe-buckles, for all which he gave 141; that at that time they did not tell him where the things came from, but a day or two after, reading the news-paper, he faw murder had been done, and was fhocked; that meeting afterwards Afher and Doctor Weil in Ayliffe-ftreet, he said the things they had fold him came from Chelfea, and that they had done murder among them; to which the doctor replied, they were opftropilus,' and had not men enough, and were obliged to shoot the man, and then told him who was along with them, and how they got in; that they mentioned to him a purfe of 61 guineas, and another of ten pounds, which they had got; that, in a few days after, coming to his houfe with Abraham Linevil, he [Linevil] difputed with them he had not got his fhare of the money; and the doctor charging him with the murder, Linevil faid he could not do it as he ftood centry; that, Linevil being gone, the two Weils told him, the deponent, they had the money, and that Levi Weil

had declared to him it was himself hot the man. Being afked, if he saw any of the other prifoners at his houfe, he anfwered, he did Hyam Lazarus in a week or ten days after, who complained, Afher Weil being prefent, of his having but five guineas out of the whole. This Hyam Lazarus all of them acknowledged to the deponent to be only a centry, and not in the house,

There was nothing more material to add to the evidence in this affair, but the relation of William Wood, who keeps the Chequers in the King's private road, concerning inquiries made by fome Jews at his houfe, of the fituation, and circumftances of Mrs. Hutchins's family. Levi Weil and Hyam Lazarus were defcribed to be the perfons that made thefe inquiries at Wood's houfe. Afher and Levi Weil, in their defence, endea voured to invalidate the evidence of Solomon Lazarus, by reprefenting him as a man that would fwear to any thing for money; that he was notorious for uttering falfe money in the English army, for which he had been tried and caft to be hanged by the late Marquis of Granby, but received mercy from him on condition of being banished the army; that he had robbed Lord Baltimore, and was in prifon for the fame; and that he had a general bad character for turning evidence. The two Weils endeavoured also to prove an alibi evidence, as did alfo the reft ; but Levi Weil, Ather Weil, Jacob Lazarus, otherwife Hyam Drefden, otherwife Hyam Lazarus, and Solomon Porter, otherwife Mofes, were found guilty Death, and Marcus Hartough, otherwife Afheburgh, and Lazarus Harry,

were acquitted, as having no direct evidence against them.

An authentic and particular Account of the Overflowing of Solway Mofs.

Carlisle, December 15, 1771. YOU have feen in the papers feveral accounts of a travelling mofs amongst us, and will naturally expect fome account of fo extraordinary a phænomenon. This you fhould have had, if I could either have relied upon the ftories I heard of it, which I foon found I could not do, or had had an opportunity of feeing it fooner myfelf. The mifchief it has done in Mr. Graham's eftate is very confiderable: It has laid waste not lefs, I fuppofe, than a thousand acres of the fineft land in the country; but, confidered only as a natural appearance, it is neither without example, nor difficult to account for.

Solway-mofs is fituated upon the top of a pretty high hill, what might pafs, I fuppofe, for one, at leaft in Surry, though not in Cumberland. It lies about a mile N. W. of Long-town, is between two and three miles in length, and half as much in breadth. The inferior part of the hill feems to have been nothing but a vaft collection of mud, fo much diluted with the water of the Springs difperfed in feveral parts of it, as to have a confiderable degree of fluidity. It had always, even in the drieft fummers, fo much of a quagmire, that it was hardly fafe for any thing heavier than a fportfman and his gun. In the time of Henry VIII. a confiderable part of a

Scotch army, under the command of Oliver Sinclair, perished in it; and I have heard that the skeleton of a trooper and his horfe, in complete armour, were found in. it by fome peat-diggers, not many

years ago.

Hitherto the fhell of more folid earth, in which this fluid mafs was inclosed, had been fufficient to refift the preffure; but its force, with its fluidity, having been confiderably augmented by the late exceffive rains, it forced a paffage at the eastern extremity, on which fide it had probably been weakened by digging peats.

Having once made a Breach, it foon enlarged it, and poured a deluge of mud into, a valley, which runs along the bottom of the hill. This valley is near 200 yards broad, and near 40 deep. At the bottom' of it runs a brook, which, being now choaked, has formed a lake. The torrent of mud, having filled the valley, was now at liberty to fpread over a fine plain, which extends near a mile to the banks of the Esk.

As the calamity happened at midnight, the people of the villages on the plain, as you may imagine, were thrown into great conflernation; nor could they, till day-light, conjecture what had happened. Some were alarmed by the uncommon noife the torrent made in its. progrefs: others, not till it had entered their houses; nay fome, I was affured, not till they felt it in their beds. No lives, however, were loft: I mean human lives;. for a great many cattle, that were houfed, were fuffocated. The cafe of a cow belonging to Mr. Graham, of the Lake, deferves mention: fhe was the only one of eight, in [P] 4

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the fame cow-house, that was faved, after having flood fixty hours up to the neck in mud and water. When she was taken out, fhe had an appetite for food; but water she would not tafte, nor could even look at it without horror: fhe had almost the symptoms of the real hydrophobia. I hear fhe is now reconciled to water, and is likely

to recover.

The villages, which I have men. tioned upon the plain, are not fo large as villages commonly are. They confift, in general, of one farm houfe, and a few cottages annexed to it. Of these villages. one or two have intirely difappeared; of others the thatch is only visible; and all of them, to the number of thirteen or fourteen, are uninhabitable. The greate.t part of the plain on which they ftood was laid out in fine inclofures; the hedges of which, though eight or nine feet high, are now totally invifible, except in thofe parts where the inundation has but just reached.

In the mean time, the mofs itfelf, which was before a level plain, on the top of a hill, is now a valley; almost at the bottom of which runs, with confiderable rapidity, a ftream of black liquid peat-earth. The furface of the hill gradually subfides, as the mud, which fupported it, is difcharged; and appears all over broken into fragments, which are in fome places fo irregularly thrown together, as to resemble a heap of ruins. Some of thefe fragments falling into the stream, and floating down with it, are difperfed over the plain, which appears fpotted with them, like the fkin of a leopard, only that the ground is black, and the fpots

are brown; the heath and other vegetables they produce still remaining upon them.

The inundation is ftill proceeding further and further, without any figns of being exhaufted; and is now advanced almoft to the banks of the Esk. As this river runs with a rapid current, it is to be hoped that it may carry off a great quantity of the mud, especially if the winter rains fhould raise it so much, as to overflow its banks; but, after all, an immenfe quantity must remain, which it will require ages

to remove.

Ceremonies obferved at the Inftallations of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal High-, nefs the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, His Serene Highness the Duke of Mecklenburgh, His erené Highness the Prince of Brunfwick, the Earl of Albemarle, the Duke of Malborough, the Due of Graf ton, and Earl Gower, in Prefence of the Sovereign, at Windjer, on Thursday the 25th of July, 771.

THE Knights companions in the

full habit of the order, the officers of the order, in their mantles, the Knights elect in the under-habits of their order, having their caps and feathers in their hands, and the Proxies in their ordinary habit, attended the Sovereign in the Royal apartment: the Officers of Arms in the Prefence Chamber, the Prebends and poor Knights in the Guard Chamber.

The Proxies not going the proceffion, retired before it began to their chairs at the back of the altar,

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