LONDON, July 7.
Last Saturday ….
The same Day Mr. George Ardent, Clerk to Mr. Shewell, a Brandy Merchant in Ratcliff Highway, was robbed and murdered by two Footpads on Brunsdon Common in Hampshire. They stopped him as he was opening a Gate, in order to go to Petersfield; and he refusing to deliver his Money, one of the Villains shot him in the left Breast, of which he languish’d some Hours.
