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COUNTRY NEWS.Portfmouth, Aug. 28. This day went out_ of the dock the Britannia, of 100 guns, after having been upwards of two years repairing, i ne uei-liqueux, a French third rate, comes into thefame dock to-morrow, in order to be broke up,being deemed unfit for fervice . , ..The Leviathan, Berkley, from Greenland, isarrived in the river with four firti.- Gloucejlcr, Aug. 29. At our affizes twelve per-fons were capitally convicted, viz. William Hemming, and Jeremiah Workman, for horfe-ftealinsr Samuel Beard, for fheepftea mg; Iho-Swiiliams, for a rape; RichardI Btdnug, aent. Edward Taylor, and Mary Wilkins (fer-?ant to Bidmead), for robbing the houfe of John Witts, of Bifley, or 300I. Thomas Greenwood and Thomas Townfend, for a burglary and robbery; William Kelly, lor the murder of Rd •Over; and William Daw and Rd. Rooke, for the murder of 'a baftard child. James Warner, charged by Kelly, with aiding m the murder or Rd Dyer, was acquitted. Before the Judges left this city, eight of the criminals were repnev-: butieUy, Birdmead, Workman, and Daw,:were left for execution. . M R;chard
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Middlesex Journal

Middlesex, Middlesex, GB

Sat, Aug 29, 1772

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