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fill the impottant duties which it roust ;avow upon me. " Of the nature and importance of that charge I I cannot but be duly sensible, involvin i , as it does, every thing which is valuable to myself, as well as the highest interests of a people endeared to *e by so many ties and considerations ; but by nothing so strongly as by their steady, loyal, and affectionate at tachment to the best of Kings." • A cartel (i'Adelaide) has arrived at Dartmouth from Morlaix, with a Messenger, Charged with dis patches from the American Minister at Paris to Mr. PINCKNEY. A letter from Oporto, dated the 19th ult. states that 1 a new and more effective organization is about to be given to the Guerrillas in that neighbourhood, and that British Officers have been selected to command them. The same letter informs us, that there in no expecta tion entertained in Portugal of a speedy termination to the present campaign. We IL:we received a large collection of Spanish papers, but which do not add much to the intelligence previously received. From Ayamonte we learn that the daring Patriot, MARTIN, having pushed his advanced posts to Santa Cruz de la Zara, near the centre of the kingdom, the French had deemed it prudent to proceed to the right b Ink of the Trebe. Grain was extremely scarce in the fertile district I of Auez de h Frontera, the farmers not havity , chosen to sow the land, that it might be reaped by the enemy. General D. JUAN PlaNarsul has been acquitted of the charges of abandoning the cities of Valladolid and Avila, in 1808, to the enemy, it appearing that be had no force to make any effectual resistance. JOSEPH has given some disgust at Madrid to his Spanish adherents, by making a Frenchman of the name of FnaypouLT, Minister of Finances. The Casle of Puntal, the ship Norjes, some corvets, and eight English armed long boats, had been em ployed against Puntella, Santa Catalina, Cubezuela, and Trocadero, near Cadiz, from which places the Allies had been seriously annoyed. On the hill of Renda the flame of insurrection has spread so widely and rapidly, chat to extinguish it, the French have been forced to send troops and flying artillery from Sev - ille and Malaga. Tile Dukes of CUMBERLAND, SUSSEX, and KINT, were in the House of Lords last night : Lortl-GitEs %lux was absent. On Wednesday, at the time Lord Jowl TRYNNE Vas at Windsor with the deputation of the House of Gemtions, he obtainfd a private interview of her l'ilalorY, who was pleased to signify that she would not hold a Drawing-room on the 18th instant. And that the Court mourning for her lamented daughter should not cease on the 3d day of February, as ori ginally intended, but that it should be extended to the 11th day of February, which would make it three ca lendar months. Twice, if not three times, since the suspension ofi the Royal Authority, has the life of the Lotto-CHAN muse been in the utmost peril. T . wo days ago, during the severe frost, he fell in crossing a street near Lincoln's Inn, and a waggon had nearly gone over him : he was dragged from imminent danger with the loss of his coat-tail, which was torn off by the wheels. The delay in issuing a writ for the county of Glou cester will probably be attended with some inconve nience to the candidates. The county was completely canvassed six months ago, and six months is a long time for voters to be obliged to keep their promises ! One of the men belonging to the MINOTAUR, who parted from her on the 15th December, at Gotten burgh, and came home in a prize to Plymouth, arri ♦ed in town this day. He says, it is the 3d Lieutenant, a Mr. S: ELL, who is saved. There were only five Midshipmen on board when he left her. and not more than 400 men ; he believes also, that the Surgeon is saved. It is a curious fact, that since the reduction of Sweden to what may be very justly termed a French Province, England is tie only fragment of the Old World which retains a trace of limited Government. All the vines and cotton Within 14 miles of Mount Vesuvius were dsstroyed on the 12th September, by a volcanic eruption. Every thing else within eight or ten miles were also destroyed. The lava in some places was 100 foot deer. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before tte Rht Hon. Edward Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief -Justice, kc. in and after Hilary Term, 1811 : • IN TERNI. MIDDLEALX. LONDOP. Nianday - - Jan. 93. Thttraday - Jan. it. Saturday • - Feb. S. Monday - - Feb. 4. Saturday - Feb. 9. Monday - - Feb. 11. AFTER TIMM. Wednesday Feb. 13. Thursday - Ftlo. 19. Died, on the first instant, at Cheltenham, in the 17th year of his age, JAMES MAXWELL, Esq. of Orange Grove, in the bland of Tobago, who had a few months ago returned to this country on acccuat of ill health : his honc.urable and upright principles as a man of business ' his pleasing and social qualities as a companion and friend, bad long secured him the respect and esteem of a most numerous and respect- able circle of acquaintance, who have to lament his early loss. Mr. MAXWELL was of the family of Mov- EMI, in Scotland ; and first cousin to her Grace the Duchess of GoririoN ; and, what is rather an uncom mon circumstance, was one of nine brothers, the whole of whom, except himself, have been bred up in the' service of their country ; in which service, a fee years ego, he had the misfortune to lose two of his beloved brothers, both Captains in the Army, of considerable reputation. Mr. MAXWELL leaves behind him six brothers, three of whom art Post-Captains in the Navy, who have e ninently distinguished themselves is the service of their wing and Country on several occasions ; two are Captains of Artillery, arid one is in the service of the liouourableEast Julia Coakpanr. NAVAL INTILLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 10. Arrived the CunAcoA frigate, from a (Tillie off Brest ; la SEIN frigate, PLANTAGENIT 74, ind 1414- NET sloop, from Portsmouth; and Ons.vrat sloop, from Liverpool. On Thursday night List she was near foundering in a gale, in which she threw her guns overboard.—L'EsvErou sloop is paid off, and pm out of commission ; and the ROYAL GLOM?, of 100 guns, which has been some time lying up the harbour itt ordinary, was commissioned this day. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY it. Arrived his Majesty's ship ARRTIWRA from Corun na, TARTAR from the Baltic, CoLofts from the Me. diterranean, and the DONEGAL from a cruize. The AFRICA, 64, takes convoy for the West Indies. The FRANCHISE issues instructions for Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean. The CORDE.I.IA takes convoy fur the Do wns.—Wind W. SHEERNESS, JANUARY 10. The fall of snow and severe frost have very much impeded the communication between the Main Land and this place. Since Friday last there has been great difficulty in getting the Mail over, on account of the quantity of ice collected in the Swall. The passage by water toChatham has been stopped the last three days. JAN. 11.—Sailed the FLAMER, QUAIL and CWIZEIt for the River Thames ; and CiLt.vricteert for Yar mouth. Came ont of Harbour the OBERON, who is going convoy to Portsmouth. Came out of Dock, I the RosAnto. CHATH.CII, JANUARY 9. So great is the quantity of ice in the River, that business is almost put to a stand. It was intended to take into dock to-day the Fit EY A ; but the 'rearm- I cuone could sot Ise put out, as it was impossible to get the gates open for that purpose. From the same cause the PRINCESS or ORANGE will be prevented get ting into dock, except the frost should break up, which there is an appearance of this evening. The Deptford lighters are detained here, and the HELDER and URGENT are prevented coming up the Reach se - far as was intended.—The officers and clerks will be paid their quarter's salary to-morrow ; the artificers are, it is expected, to be paid next week. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. GRAVIES, /4 n, lAR.lo.—Arrived the Commerce. Holiday, and William, M'Clowde, from quebec ; and the Minerva, —, from Ilonderas.—Sailed the Jenny, Myers, for Lisbon; Hibernia, Lennon, for St. Thninas's ; and the Adonis, Parker, for Cork. lan. I I.—Sailed the Milford Indianian for India. ARRIVM-At Liverpool, Roxalana, Shilling', from Smyrna ; and the Margaret, Jonas, from Quebec. At Belfast, Eagle, Gilby, from Nova Scotia. The Turk, Captain STF.PREKR, is arrived from Ali cant at Ss lire's, in distress. She is bound for Bristol, laden with wool, and has made a short passage, but the letters by her have not yet reached town. The New Astley, STOKER, from London to Yar mouth, is on More at the latter port. Captain BRADLEY, of the Kangaroo, has delivered into the Custom-house, at Newhaven, seven bales of cotton, marked W. Hampton," and two without any mark, which he picked up at sea, between Dun geness and Beachy Head, and about four leagues from the land,supposed to he part ofthe cargo of some vessel that has foundered in the late gales. The vessel driven on shore in Westgate Bay, sear Margate, on Saturday last, is the Resource, from V alentia bound to London ; the account of the crew having perished, is unfounded, as they were all lan ded without injury, and are, together with many or the Margaret boatmen, who, braving the violence of the storm, went to their assistance, now under qua rantine in a barn in the vicinity. A wreck, however, supposed to have been a foreign vessel, has been washed up in two part's in the Bay adjoining ; the crew of which, it is feared have perished, "p no ac t counts have been received of them. In the storm on Saturday se'nnight, the Hoylake life-boat, in attempting to succour and relieve the people on board the ship Traveller, driven on shore in the Mersey, was over,whzlmed by a dreadful sea, and eight out of ten of her crew were unfortunately drowned. The bodies were all found the same day, and carried to their respective homes, where a scene of piercing misery was• witnessed, which defies all power of expression. The deceased were all near neighbours, and lived in a small village called the Home, near Hoylake, in the most brotherly kindness —these brave fellows were the flower of the Hoylake fishermen, and had always displayed the greatest promptitude and alacrity in assisting vessels in dis tress. They have left large families totally unpro vided for. Tue TuAw.—This beneficent change, which com menced on Thursday, has already nearly dissipated the appearance of frost in the neighbourhood of the me tropolis ; and the streets and roads, which only two , days since were covered with ice and drifted snow, now assttme a new appearance, while the mild tem perature of the atmosphere seems, as it were, in sensibly to have born us on easy wings freni the frozen mountains of the Alps to the more genial vales of Italy. The frost which we have rape ' rienced, though of short duration, must be allowed to have been intense 1 and had it continued much longer, undoubtedly would hare greatly inconve- ' nienced the merchant, and distressed the poor, as the navigation of the Thames was nearly impeded. —.--Yesterday morning, in particular, the appear ' ante of it was terrific to the eye of the passenger ; while the immense number of logs of timber, of boats, end of barges, which had been released from their places of sectuity by the ice, and which were seen strewed aver the River, might give some faint idea of the appearance of a sea shore after a destruc t • ttve storm. The River,with the flue and influx of the tides,pre sented a most beautiful picture of a sea interspersed with an endless variety of basin islands. lllNlrlitsirr INTELLlcirwcs. CAmattooz, JAN. 7.—The subject of the Hu!seen prize this year is, " A Dissertation on the nooks of Origen, against Celbur, with a view to illustrate the argument and t• point out the evi deuce they afford of the Truth of Christianity." RecLEstASTICAL PROmoTIOM. The Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, has appointed the Rev. William Wilton, M.A. of that College, to the Mastership of the Grammar School, at St. Btes, in Cumbstlandi vacant by the death of the Rev. John Barnes. NORWICH, JANUAR?' 10. The snow is drifted so deep near this place as to render the roads almost impassable. The Expedition heavy coach ran off die road On Wednesday, and could not prnceed until more horses were procured, the coachman not bei ig able to find tl.. road. -The Norwich mail coach, through Ipswich, which usually comes in before 12 o'clock at night, did not arrive till 11 o'clock last morning. Wednesday the 13th Dragoons embarked at New Passage, Plymouth ; the 11th Dragoons arrived at Plymouth the same day, and were to embark on Thursday ; and the 14th Dragodills were to embark yesterday, all for Portugal. A hot impress took place in Shields harbour on Sun day night. All protections were broken through, ant the ships were literally cleared A their hands. PUGlLl3SL—Silverthorne has been matched to fight Young Belcher for 100 gs. in March next; lOgs. for feit. Dogherty has also challenged Silverthome again for 10Ugs. p.p. It is expected that Crib and Molineux will contend again in May, but no stakes have yet been made. A MESSINGER SnoT —lt has been a custom to fly pigeons as conveyancers of news ; and Tom Belcher,' who is ooe of the first in the fancy, being unable to attend the late fight, one of his pigeons was sent out of the ring, but it fell a prey to a cockney sportsman, in passing over Wimbledon Common. A label, with Silverthorne's name, was tied to the bird's leg. I I The body of a man has been floating about en a sheet of ice, in the vicinity of Woolwich, for the last three tides. The piece of ice is so large, it has been found impracticable to get at the corpse, er to ascer tain what sort of a person he was. The number of individuals 110117 under t onfinement in Newgate, amounts to no fewer than 774, as ap pears by the following statement : Seventy-five under sentence of death; S to be trsasported for life ; f to be transported for fourteen years ; 137 to be transport ed for seven year.; 107 to be imprisoned for various periods.— Total tried 133.-134 for trial at the ereunt old Bailey Sessions, and about 200 debtors.—Total 774. Yererday J. Turner was charged, at Bow-street, with bigamy. C. Hayley stated,' that he was present —then the prisoner was married at Kensington to his first wife, about eight years since. Mary Ann Pickle stated, that she was married to him at St. John's, Hampstead, in September last. The prisoner did not deny the fact, but said he parted with his first wife in consequence of being informed by the witness, Hayley, that she had another husband. This the first wife did not deny, though she had not heard of him for nine years, when he went to the Cape of Good Hope with the 21st Dragoons, to the band of which he belonged ; but said, that on repeated enquiries at the War Office, he was reported missing : she was. therefore justified in the idea that he was dead. The prisoner was, however, fully committed. Yesterday J. Salmon was charged at the Mansion. House with stealing a parcel from the Norwich coach, containing £ll6O, the property of M. Bryant, ban ker, of Newmarket. Mr. Bryant stated, that the parcel was put into the Norwich coach, as a common parcel, and although he was in the coach himself, thinking the contents were not known, he took no particular notice of it ; but when the coach arrived at the White Horse, Fetter-lane, it was discovered that his parcel had been cut open, and the notes and bilis taken out, and common paper substituted in their stead. Mr. B. said there was a male passenger in the coach, who was muffled up, and would not go out when the coach stopped at the different places, pre tending he was unwell, but from circumstances thinks the prisoner is the man, and begged that the further examination might be put off for a week, when he would bring further proof from the country. The prisoner was detected in offering one of the notes for change at Stevenson's and Co. bankers, in Lombard street, and three others were found in his possession. The prisoner said he was a bricklayer, and begged the Gentleman would have mercy on him for the sake of his family. A solicitor attended for the prisoner, who desired him to say nothing..--He was committed for further examination. T. Ash was again put to the bat, when an addi, tional charge was preferred against him by a Gentle. man, for defrauding him of a ship load of fish at Curunna, for which he gave bilk upon the banking house of Hammersley and Co. at which place he had no property. The prisoner's Counsel contended, that this and the first charge being out of the kingdom, could not be tried here. Mr. Reed, the Consul from St. Michael's, was desired to attend the Grand Jury, to see if they would prefer an indictment, and the pri. sonet was again remanded. Wednesday last hichard Poinity, the Younger, mid the driver of a tart belonging to his father, was charged by Mr. Roberts (much 'to his praise), before J. S. Grantee, Esq. the acting Magistrate at Ham mersmith, with wilfully, wantonly and cruelly beating a mare (drawing a cart) with the but end of a large whip, upon the head, whereby the said mare took fright, and ran away, thereby endangering the lives of his Majesty's subjects passing along the public high way at Hammersmith. The said Richard Toovey was held to bail for the above offence. An laquest was held on Thurday afternoon at the White Horse, Knightsbridge, before ANTHONY GELL, Esq. Coroner for Westminster, on the body of George Banks, a carman in the employ of Mr. Cromwell, at Hammersmith. It appeared in evidence that on the preceding day, whilst riding on the shafts of a cart laden with dung, near the L+ell and Horses, Bramp ton, he fell off, and the wheels passing aver him he was killed. After a long consultation, the Jury brought in their verdict—Accidestal Death, with a &semi of 11. am the cut. OLD 341 LE r. Yesterday J.h Bowie: was indicted for the w;lfnl murder of his wife, Anne Bowles, on the evening Of the 26th of December. The tirst witnes4 examined in support of the charge was Elizabeth Bland. She deposed that she lodged in the same house with the deceased, and the prisoner. on the evening specified in the indictment, at No. 17i Earl -street, Seven Dials. The prisoner came home about six o'clock, rather intoxicated, and sat ih the room for some time, his wife being out, be then k et a candle, and went to his own apartment. Wittiest did not see him again until eight o'clock, when she SAW him bringing home his wife from a wine vault in the neighbourhood, k:pt by a person named Baldwin, where he had found her, in company with a woman named Smith, to whom he had • great dislike, and whose society he had desired his v.ifa to shun. On arriving at the feat of the stairs leading. to his foom, lie bade his wile go up, but she refused, and sat down on the steps. The prisoner immediately struck her a violent blow on the left side of the head with his double fist, and renewed his commands that she should go to her room, but she still persisted in her refusal. Finding she would not comply ss ith his wishes, he took her in his arms, and carried her up, and on at. riving in his apartment he suck her anothe r blow : she tell, and he kicked her a bout the body. Witnees and the landlady, and another woman, who were present during this violence, begged him to desist fn et his cruelty, which he at length promised, and they, witness and the other women, left the roote— r In about a quarter of an hour afterwards they went up ag:tin, and on entering the Apartment of the psis soner, they perceived the deceased lying on the sack. ing of the bed, dead. Witness cri-11 out, "Oh I Bowles, you have killed your wife !" Upon which I he brat his head ; said that she had been in a fit, and that he had placed her un the bed. Witness imme diately asked, if any of the faculty had been sent for when the prisoner, in great agitation, replied in the negative, and rushed out of the house without hit hat, in search of a medical gentleman. In about 10 minutes he returned with a Mr. Stewart, a surgeon. who, on examining the body, and holding a looking glass to the mouth, pronounced her dead. Fromm that time until two o'clock in the morning, the pri." sonar did not leave the house ; he was then takete s iato custody by Limberick, the officer. The cause of the quarrel witness understood to have originated in the deceased having spent ss. in liquor, which her husk band gave her in the morning to purchase a mattress for his eldest daughter, together with her being in company with Mrs. Smith. A woman, who was going by the house at the time the prisoner brought his wife home, bore testimony to his having struck her most violently at the foot of the stairs. The street-door being then shut, she was pro. chided from making further observation. Mary Tegwell, the landlady of the house in which the prisoner and the deceased lived, stated that she heere the prisoner and his wife scuffling, and that she went to ascertain the cause of the Torre!, when she , saw the prisoner strike his wife on the head. He asked the deceased to go up stairs ; but she refused. He repeated his request several times ; but she still ' refused. lie then struck her a violent blow on the head, and carried her up stairs in his arms ; when 11 I got her into the room he struck her again; she fell and he stamped upon her body. Daring this vie lence, the prisoner frequently asked his wife " wher the five shillings were ?" and appeared greatly ears ged at her being with Mrs. Smith. Witness fr quently entreated the prisoner to desist from his ei. lence, which he at length promised, and she wen down stairs. In about a quarter of an hour she we up into the prisoner's room again, and saw the d , ceased lying in the bed. The prisoner said his wi had had a tit, and that he had lifted het; on the be Witness said his trite was dead, which he discredit ed, and seemed much agitated. The prisuser th went For a surgeon, and returned with a gentleina. named Stewart, who pronounced Mrs. Bowles dead hut could not say whether she died from the violent with which she had been treated, or from fits. 'lll prisoner was apprehended at two o'clock the ensuia morning.-0* her cross-examination, the witness. d-e dared that she had attended Mrs. Bowles on one oc casioa in a fir. Mary Tooley lodged in the next room with the pre soner and his wife. On the night un which the . fence described was committed, she heard a noise it Bowles' room, and on going to the door she saw th prisoner kick his wife, who was lying on the floor, i the body. She begged the prisoner to desist, and I promised ; and she, Mrs. Bland, and Mrs. Togw who were present, went away. airing the forego ing scene, the child of the prisoner was in the room crying violently. Witness, while in her own room afterwards heard the prisoner ask his wife what II had done with the, things lie had told het to bay i tif which she replied, that she had pawned theme. Wit' ' mess did not know to what this que s ti on re f erre d. Sh then heard the prisoner strike he r a g a i n , an d h er cr i were repeated ; she altoheard thechild i n t rea th er f at h not to beat her mother then, but to b eat h er aga i n the ensuing day. Witness after war d s went i nto t h room with Mrs. Togwell ay e : Mr s . Bl an d, an d sa Mrs. Bowles dead on the bed. Mrs. Blend suggee ed the propriety of sending f or a D octor , an d B ow l immediately ran out witho u t hi s h at , an d b roug h t i Mr. Stewart. The prisone r did not attempt to L ear the house after, until he w as a pp re h en d e d. H e wa much is liquor at the time this violence was goin forwards Witness, from her living in the next room had frequent opportunities of hearieg the decease cry out, " Pray don't beat me !" She understoo that the five shillings, to which the prisoner alluded " had been given to the deceased by him to purchase i mattress for their eldest daughter, who was out a service. She believed the prisoner to be an isidustr . ous man, and believed th.tt the deceased was son times in liquor. Mr. Charles Bell, a surgeon, deposed, that he called in by three medical gentlemen, to view dissection cf the body of the deceased. When h went tato the room, the three principle cavities of th body were laid open, but nothing touched • he mean; the abdomen, the chest, and the head. His grit ai tention nets directed to the a bd omen , w h ere h e sew slight blush or inflammation. and within the stoned he saw a considerable quantity of fluid, which, frorl its smell, he conceived to be gin. Nbthing pretern. tural was observable in the chest. On the head wer narks of blows, but under tho stale war the sca