Account of Periodical Papers. came to the crown of Great Britain, Thus a ministerial fyftem was èf- 367 nifters, that is, as proper inftruments in his own hand, to afflift in their proper departments in the administration of his government. The MONITOR, for July 31, fays, That the first event or effect which can properly be attributed to the prefent minifter alone, without any connection with the measures and plan of his predeceffors, is the lofs of Newfoundland; which, notwithstanding its known importance, he neglected to cover and protect, though it might have been done merely by fending inftructions to the commander of our fquadron in thofe feas, or to the commander of a fingle fhip, if there had been but one, inftead of fix men of war, which were always there in Mr Pitt's administration, to be at hand in the fishing feason to protect the navigation. The BRITON, No. IX, contains an apology for the author, as an ad vocate for the prefent minifter, and a panegyrift of Lord B-te, and a parallel between our prefent continental con Dnections, and thofe in Queen Anne's time, taken from the Confiderations on the German War. (See Vol. xxx. p. 497.) F The people of England being a third order in the ftate, and naturally jealous of the crown, could not but oppofe the miniftry that had ufurped its E power, and without its natural and legal authority, had many more motives than a prince could have, to purfue measures of which the people were not the object; whoever, therefore, happened to be gifted with any turbulent powers of speech, paid court to the mob, and became a kind of tribune of the people. The prefent tribune of the people, having thus made himself their idol by adopting their sentiments, has found means to change the current of their opinions, and incline them to that very fyftem of politics, which but lately they thought ruinous to their country, and thus role another of the factions that is labouring to diftrefs the state, by oppofing the measures of his majefty, who is endeavouring to eradicate the deep fyftem of minifterial power which has too long prevailed, and to H fulfil the executive trufts vefted in him by the laws himself; neither referring his government wholly to his minilters, nor fuffering them to be indrely nominal, but using them as mi G The NORTH BRITON, No. IX, contains an altercation with the Bri ton. The Briton has faid that "the attack of the French in America, was a dopted as a national maxim, felf-evident before Mr Pitt was born. But how comes it then, fays the North Briton, that it was wholly over-looked by the miniftry during the late war, and purfued with a faintnefs almost equal to total difregard during the prefent, till Mr Pitt gave it vigour? He then afferts, that the whole honour of inventing the plan for the conquest of Martinico, and of proportioning the means to the end is due to Mr Pitt; as the transports for embarking troops in America, under Gen. Monckton, failed from Portfmouth the 4th of Auguft, and arrived at New York the 11th of October 1761; and Adm. Rodney, who was to co-operate with the General, failed from St Helen's on the 18th of October, only eight days after Mr Pitt was fucceeded by the prefent minifter. He then reprehends the Briton for mentioning our extraordinary fuccefs, as an eyil confequence of the war; and infinuates, that they who think fuccefs an evil confequence, muft think want of fuccels a good one, and thence in fers, 368 Account of Periodical Papers. fers, that the Briton and his friends must be pleafed with the lofs of Nerofoundland: This author alfo, hopes, that Newfoundland was not confidered among the obitacles to a peace, of which the Briton has told us our conquests is one. A B D The AUDITOR, No. VIII, obferves, that all the differtations on the lofs of Newfoundland, are libels oir the memory of the late Lord Anson, as it is the immediate province of the first Lord Commiffioner of the Admiralty to appoint cruisers and stations to annoy the enemy, and cover our trade: If his lordship was alive, fays he, he would probably affign fome reafons why Newfoundland has been left in the fame defenceless fate as the prefent poffeffors found it, during the whole war; for it is falfe, that during Mr Pitt's C adminiftration, fix or feven fhips were always ftationed there; and it is notorious,that there are officers now in town, who refided years in that island, and have declared, that it was almost the whole time as acceffible as it was lately found. The French have been encour raged to this attempt, by our late evacuation of thofe feas to reduce the enemy's fettlements in the Weft Indies; this was done during Mr Pitt's administration: The tranfports failed to embark troops in America the 4th of August, and Rodney failed to join them the 18th of October, only eight days E after the present miniftry fucceeded Mr Pitt; and now tell me,faction, fays this writer, were any fhips then ftationed at Newfoundland, if so, why were they not ordered to remain ? If not,how came he, who was drawing all our naval strength from that quarter of the world, not to provide for the defence of a fishery, of which he is faid fo well to know the importance? The dilemma is reduced to this, either the descent upon Newfoundland is connected with the plan laid down by that minifter, or he had no share in the reduction of Martinico. In this paper we are alfo told, that the troops landed at Newfoundland, must shortly be prifoners of war, if they do not quit the place be fore our fquadron arrives there. harbour in Old France, where there was the least appearance of a iquadron, and, if two or three hips tole out, a fuperior number was immediately dispatched after them. The BRITON, No, X, conteins a letter from a correfpondent in defence of the word glorification, as the Briton ufed it, and an account of his having tried the fortes virgiliane for his prefent majefty, in which there is nothing either new or interefting. This paper contains alfo another letter from a correfpondent, giving an account of a Demagogue, in Florence, called Luca Pitti, who made himself confiderable by courting the favour of the populace, and afterwards having rendered himfelf odious by the abuse of his power, lived in folitude, and died in obfcurity. pona ton qldadora arw sil The NORTH BRITON, No. X contains a letter figned Prefbyter, propofing the establishment of prefbytery in England, and the repeal of the toleration act; and fome remarks upon it, which confit principally of comma place raillery, and invective against church-men. The AUDITOR, No. IX, contains a letter to the author, in which no meafure, either of the late or prefent minifter is mentioned, nor any thing inferted relative to the characters of either; it is nothing more than an ironical admonition to court popula rity, by abufing the government.det The MONITOR, Ang. 14, tells us, that the French are our most dangerous and implacable enemy; that if we lofe the present opportunity to humble them, we can never hope to fectire out intereft, and that all conceffions to fuch an enemy are daggers fixed in the heart of our country: He fays, therefore, that we ought not to think of a peace till the family-compact be Gi torn afunder, and the House of "Bourbon difabled from ever giving law to Europe. The MONITOR, AugnA 7, admits, that Newfoundland has been no better H provided for defence on the spot during the last forty years, than when lately taken; yet our fleets during the late administration fufficiently fecured it, by blocking up every The BRITON, No. XI, contains only an altercation with the North Briton, whom he charges with having mistaken and mifieprefented his meaning. The NORTH BRITON, No. IX, is nothing more than a perfonal dif pute with the Auditor, in which the public has not the leaft concern, Some Account of the Murder of Anne Nailor. Some Account of Sarah Metyard, widow, and Sarah Morgan Metyard, ber Daughter, who were lately executed for the Murder of Ann Nailor, and a circumflantial and authentic Narrative of the Fact IN the year 1758, Sarah Metyard, A the mother, kept a little haberdafher's fhop in Bruton Areet, HanoverSquare, and her daughter, then about 19 years old, lived with her; their chief bufinefs was making filk nets, purfes, and mittins, and they took parish children apprentice: They had then five, Philadelphia Doauley, about B 10 years old; Sarah Hinchman, about 11 Anne Nailor, about 13; Mary, her fifter, about 8; and Anne Paul, whofe age does not appear; but as Hinchman is faid to have been the biggest girl, fhe was probably not more than ten. Thefe children were kept to work in a fmall flip of a room, fo close that their breath, and the heat of their bodies, made it fuffocating and unwholfome, and they were not only treated with unkindnefs and feverity, but were not allowed fufficient food: As it was natural to fuppofe they would complain, another punishment became neceffary, and they were fuffered to go out of doors but once a fortnight, and then were never alone. Anne Nailor had a whitloe upon her finger, fo bad, that it was obliged to be cut off, and, being befides a weak fickly child, the became particularly obnoxious to the inhumanity and avarice of the petty tyrant, of whom he was condemned to be the flave. 369 called out to have her ftopped, and the milkman, as he was running with what strength fhe had left, caught her in his arms: The poor child expoftulated with the man, and preffed him, with a moving earneftnefs, to let her go; Pray milkman, fays fhe, let me go, for I have had no victuals a long time, and if I fay here, I shall be far-ved to death; by this time the daughter was come up, and the milkman having no power to detain the child, and it being impoffible for her to efcape, fhe fell again into the hands of her mercylefs tyrants; and the daughter having dragged her into the house by the neck, flapped too the door, and then forced her up fairs into the room, where the old woman was ftill in bed, though she had started up,and joined in the cry, upon the first alarm. Here the was thrown upon the bed, and the old woman held her down by the head, while the daughter heat her with the handle of a hearth broom; after this, the was forced into a two pair of stairs back room, and a ftring being tied round her waift, fhe was made falt to the door, with her hands bound beD hind her, fo that the could neither lie nor fit down. In this manner she was kept ftanding without food or drink for three days, being untied only at night that the might go to bed, and the last night he was fo feeble, that the was obliged to crawl up to bed upon her hands and knees; during this time, the other children were ordered to work in the room by her, that they might be deterred from attempting to efcape, by feeing the punishment that was inflicted upon one who had thus offended already. E F Being almoft worn out by a long feries of ill treatment, the girl, at length, ran away, but was foon brought back after this, he was treated with yet greater feverity, and kept fo fhort of food, that finding her ftrength decay, the watched for an opportunity to run away a fecond time; but this was now become very difficult, for the mother and daughter being apprehenfive of fuch an attempt, and dreading the G confequences of a complaint, yet more than the lofs of the girl, were careful to keep the ftreet door faft, and their unhappy victim in the upper part of the houfe! It happened, however, that on the 9th of September, the watched the H r's being opened for the milkman, ping down ftairs, took the op- The first day, the faid little, her ftrength failing her apace, the next day, the faid nothing, but the pains of death coming on, the groaned piteoufly; on the third day, foon after the was tied up, her ftrength wholly failed her, and the funk down, hanging double in the ftring which bound her by the waift: The children being then frighted, ran to the top of the stairs, and called out, Mifs Sally! Mifs Sally! Nanny does not move; the daughter came up stairs, and found her without any appearance of fenfe or motion, hanging by the ftring with her head and her feet together; but the was fofar from being touched with pity, that the cried out, If he does not move, I'll warrant I'll make her move, and immediately began to beat her with the heel of her thoe finding, however, notwithstanding 370 g Account of the Murder of Anne Nailorban gatama) withstanding the blows, which were very wrench very hard, that the poor wretch thewed no figns of fenfibility, fear took the alarm, and the Haftily called up her mother. When the old woman came up, the fat down upon the garret ftairs, at the door where the child was ftill hanging, and the ftring being at length cat, the laid her acrofs her lap, and Tent Sally Hinchman down ftairs for fome drops when the drops were brought, the girls were all fent down ftairs, and the mother and daughter were foon convinced that their victim was dead. Having confulted together, they carried the body up ftairs into the fore garret, next to that where the child uTed to lie, and locked the door that the other children might not fee it. They pretended the liad had a fit, from which the foon recovered, and for two or three days they infinuated, that he was confined in the garret to prevent her running away, having made a third attempt to efcape; and the mother herfelf, in fight of the children, took victuals and carried it up into the garret, pretending it was Nanny's dinner. On the fourt day, the body being Itripped, was locked up in a box; and, in confequence of a plan concerted between the mother and daughter,the garret door was left open when the Children were fent down to dinner, had that if he had run away, the away without her thoes, of which the was known to have but one pair, and they were found in the garret foon after the fuppofed efcape; another remarked, that they had all her fhifts in the wafh, and that it was not likely the fhould efcape without either fhift or hoes: The old woman hearing this whispered, fald, That She went without her foes for fear of being beard to go down fairs, and that if he could but get into the fircet, he would not mind being barefoot; the fifts the could not fo readily account for and a perfon who lodged in the houfe, ha ving afked what was become of Nanny, was answered by her fifter, that he was dead; the lodger was fatisfied with the anfwer, having no fufpicion that her death was not natural; but the mother hearing of it, afked Molly Nailor, who told her that her fifter was dead, the re plied, Philly Dowley, one of her fellowprentices; Philly, therefore, was tharply reproved, Molly was foon after destroyed as her fifter had been, and the horrid fecret flept with the mother and D daughter. It became neceffary, however, to keep the children out of the garret, for the body was become very offenfive they were therefore ordered not to wath their hands there as ufual, butto wath them in the kitchen, and the garend of two months, the putrefaction ret door was kept locked. But, at the was fo great, that the whole boule was affected, and it became abfolutely neceffary to remove the body. The old woman, therefore, took the body out of the box and cut it fo pieces, thinking it more easy to dif pofe of it in parts than whole. She endeavoured to cut off the head, but could not; he therefore tied up the head and body in a piece of brown cloth, which was part of the bed furniture, and the limbs in another piece of the fame, except the hand which had loft a finger, that being to reGmarkable, as to make particular cau tion neceffary. fuming, paffion fubfided, were thought of no Rooker obferved, that the daughter was very ill treated by the mother, who ftill continued to beat her, and, after lodging with them about three months, he took a house at the upper end of Hill-Areet, Berkeley-fquare; and, when he went away he took the daughter in mere compaffion as a fer The old woman, upon the daughter's leaving her, became quite outragious; he went almoft every day to Rooker's, and abufed both him and the girl in the most opprobious terms, and with fuch clamour and vehemence as frequently to breed a riot about the door; this, however, in compaffion to the girl, he endured patiently at first, hoping time would put an end to it. It was not long before a little place fell to him at Ealing, and he immediately quitted his houfe in town, and went to live there, taking the girl with him; but the mother, neither foftened by time, nor difcouraged by diftance, followed her thither, and continued her abufe with yet more malice and vociferation. When orders were given to refufe her admittance, the forced her way in, and, at other times, behaved in fuch a manner before the houfe, that to let her in was thought the leaft evil of the two. Rooker was loaded with reproaches, and the girl was often cruelly beatFen. It is probable that he would have been killed if affiftance had not been at hand, for he was once found forced up into a corner by the mother, who, having torn off her cap and handkerchief, and greatly bruifed and fcratched her face, had laid hold of a pointed knife, which he was aiming at her breaft. This continued till the 9th of June laft, and, it had been obferved that in the height of their quar. rels many doubtful and myfterious expreffions were uted that intimated fome lecret of importance between them. |