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- 7 - `"rM' aftlaßtcA. 42ind. fA - FtEitietkcee- f-',l • . • STATE PAPERS. l ITRACT OF A LETTER FROM WM. PINKNEY, TO TUE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED Loudon, Dtceniber 14, 1010. On the 4th instant I received front Lord Welles ley a Note, of tvl.kh a copy, marked Nb. 1, is incios ed, respecting the repeal of the French decrees. The conference to which it invited me took place on the FALMOUTH, APRIL 15. sth ; and in the course of it I explained to him at Arrived late this evening the. Princess Elizabeth considerable length my view of that subject, and of packet, Captain KIDD, with mails from Lisbon, ten the points immediately connected with it. days' passage—the Doke of lent packet had arrived Lord Wellesley heard me in the usual manner, but out. The whole of the transports have left Lisbon, conti.-,ed himself to such general remarks and proles sions as I need not repeat to you. and may be hourly expected. Also arrived the Ches. He introduced, of his own accord, the subject of a terfield packet, Captain GIBBONS, with mails from Lis- Plenipotent:ary, and the Chesapeake. ben, 16 days' passage. The Princess Elizabeth On the fivst, he prnfessed to entertain the same dis. brought three, and the Chesterfield 11 passengers.— pr:sitinn and intention as heretofore ; and declared • The Chesterfield packet left there his Mqipsty's ships th a the &LI which had taken place arose altogetl er sinne obstacles of a personal nature, to obtain- MILFORD, IMPLACABLE, ALFRED, BULWARK, STAN in z the services of the person whom he particularly DAILD, ST. ALBAN's, STATELY, UNDAUNTED, and Ram w;slied to send to America ; that be hoped these ob- BUFF. Sailed the Favoulars sloop of war for Ply st ides would soon be removed ; that he had another mouth.—Wind West. • person in view, if it shodld be otherwise ; that he had • nut supposed, that delay could be considered as of any j PLYMOUTH, APRIL 16. moment by my Goirernment, after the assurance con- The ROYAL GEORGE, 110 guns, and the BOYNE, taitted in his note to me in July last ; that these to of 98, are ordered to Portsmouth, and will sail to-mor. platy inequalities were common, and, when not meant to be offensive, were never held to be so, &c. row, if the wind permits : they are to join the Baltic On the second, he informed me that he had not fleet.—The GOLDFINCH brig of war has recaptured sent me a paper which he had prepared upon it, be- and sent in here the ship Swan, from St. Kitt's, for cause he thought it would be well that the new Mi. Lon don ; and the Cosa ". has detained and sent in nister should carry out the adjustment ; and, conse. thillanish brig Ceres, from Alicant, laden with salt. tin uttly, that it should be postponed till he was ap- . . MAILS. ilari I r. DM eaat**. 101. O floblin I 0 Matti 0 I Waterton' 1 0 Cuernaey ti 1 Cadiz 0 0 Jersey 0 I Lisbon 0 0 A nholt , 0 O Leetvardlalands 0 0 Heligoland 0 . pointed. He repeated, that we should have no diffi culties upon it.—l give you these verbal explanations as I received them. _ Yesterday arrived, in the fog, the ship Neptune, of London, with a cargo from Lisbon ; and the Spanish brig Go. ona, from Amelia Island, with a cargo of timber for the dock-yard at this port.—Arrived the FAVOURITE sloop of war from a cruize ; on Saturday last, in the Bay of Biscay, she fell in with a large timber ship, water-logged, and not a soul:onboa rd. It blew so hard a gale, that the Favourite could not attempt to tow her into port —Wind S. clear. No.l. Foreign °Mee, December, 4, 1810. Sts—After the most accurate inquiry, I have not been able to obtain any authentic intelligence of the actual repeal of the French decrees to which your Notes of the 25th August and nil of November refer, or of the restoration of the commerce of neutral nations to the condition is which it stood previously to the proaulgation of th-se decrees. If you should be in possessions of any such Information,' should be happy to receive it from you, and fur that purpose I request to have the honour of a conference with you at this Office to morrow, at two o'clock.-1 have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) 1141.1.tbLZ T.. Wm. Pinkney, Esq. Sm. &c. &c. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 17. Arrived the French frigate captured at the Isle of France. Sailed his Majesty's ships CRANE and SIZARN SHOOTER on a cruize.—Wind East. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HAMBURGH, APRIL 1. By letters from the neighbourhood of Antwerp, we are intoimed that 1000 seamen had arrived there, raised in the Netherlands, to man the Scheldt fleet. A few mariners from Sweden, and the crews of some Russian ships in Toulon, will complete the armament for sea. The English Government is preparing a large fleet to act again in the Baltic this year. What attempt is to be made, we do not learn ; b►tt its magnitude, 25 sail of the line, indicates something more than the impotent shew of last season. They cannot keep up trade, as every port will be shut against them. . . Yesterday arrived 300 men from nanover, who arc to remain here during the summer, and to form our garrison. BANKS OF THE MAINE, MARCH 9. According to the Gazette de France, a large de. tachment of the Nassau contingent is dest oed for Spain,.to complete the Nassau troops there. At Frankfort, those merchants who had not paid the tariff on colonial produce have been thrextened with military execution. LOWER ELr.E, MARCH 15. In the three new Departments, the 30th Light In fantry Regiment will Le recruited, and young volun-. teers willl,e permitted to enlist into it. Many young lads of 14 and upwards. enter voluntarily into tie French marine service. A sugar•baker at Hamburgh has had his utensils taken away, as well as his store of sugar, on . which the tariff was in part paid, and partly not, because he had made a false declaration. In two vessels which lately arrived at Cnpenhagen, there oral discovered a great quantity of English cot ton goods, which were wrapped up in cotton wool. STOCKHOLM, MARCH 26. _ _ • The illness and imbecility of the King daily in. crease. The idea that he will ever be able to resume the reins of Government is completely abandoned. — There is a remarkable similarity between the state of this country and England in th tt respect. Their law. Jul monarchs are both, from diLease, unable to per; roan their duties ; and the GOvernment is confided to a Prince in whom the utmost reliance is pla eed. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has hut one object—his people's happiness ; and perhaps the sooner he receives the full powers of royalty. the more advantageous it will be to the subjects of the `iweigish Crown. VIENNA, MARCH 1.'4. The Russian troops in the town of Tcmeswar have made a movement as far as Vorsette, in tile province of Servia, to sAppoit that people against the attacks with which they are threatened y the Turks. The ,: . :ervian army. does nut consist of less than 17,000 men. We are assnred that the long.continned suspension of no.ms will be quickly broke° off and hostilities re zewed. The Turkish fleet, consisting of 19 sail, has possession of the south of the Black Sza, while the .Rtlssiun fleet of only 16. sail rides in the north. The meditates an engagement.. _ _ _ Letters from Constantinople of the 2d inst. state Plat the Grand Seignior has been suddenly taken ill. A rimy - nor is in circulation that poison has been asl. eninistered by some of the Janissaries.. This event Jias at least postponed his journey to Schumla. In the mouth of the Danube a•large convoy has `arrived, baring provisions►. ammunition, and aitil ier7 fc r the Russian army. Also a large sum of money Las been sent to Ismael by land, for their pay. ttount Kai - .nits Silistria. __:raensicy is at Tiro days agO, the Russian hfessepger Kieroff went through_tpurakds Paris, and the exchange for couriers sorneAlniiititst hasheen frequ de ent. Track is the sui , .ct of the:zegociatiou. DEAL, APRIL 17. Sailed the Dorsetshire and Scaleby Castle, for the East Indies ; his Majesty's ships MoNraoria, for Sheerness; and the ARDENT, for the Baltic. Arrived the RILDNILE, from a cruize. Put back the Dorset shire and Scaleby Castle East Indiamen. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Ca.tvcsenn, Arita. IC—Sailed the Trio, Boon, fur Africa Mary and Betsey, Blaber, for Dublin ; and Royal Edward, Wil son, for Amelia Islands. A French ship privau:er has been taken by the EULRALD frigate, and sent into Cork. Two French frigates have been recently met in Lt. 38. long. 16. by an American ship ; they had sailed from Nantes. Extract of a letter received at Nassau, dated Ha. vannah, Jan. 14:-t--" His Britannic Majesty's ship Implacable came off here this morning, on her voyage from Vera Cruz to Cadiz, having on board four mil -li,ms and a halt of dollars, and one thousand serous of cochineal/ and is now standing off to receive on board the Member of the Cones tar this island, Don Andres de Jauregui, Some of the officers who have landed say, that the Revolutionists in Mexico, though beaten in every engagement, were still gain. iitg strength." By a letter from the Amelia frigate, at Plymouth, l of the 13th instant, it appears that the following ves sels, which sailed horn Portsmouth under her convoy, were missing : The General Elliot, Heady ; Rodney, Hodson ; &others, len kinson ; and Mortun, Hardy ; bound to Quebec ;—and the Prin cess Royal, Heath, for New Brunswick. The Fleece, Adoss, of Plymouth, that was on shore in Waterford River, has been got off, and arrived at Waterford. The Linn, —, from Pernambuco, that put into Vtratetford, in distress, sailed from thence the 10th instant. The Elizabeth, —, from New Orleans to Liver pool, lost her rudder and sprung a leak at Belize, and put back to refit. _ _ _ The Crosbie, M , Gua, from Quebec, stated on Mon day to he lost, appears by the Liverpool letter tecei vo.l yesterday, te have put into Gaspee, having sprung a leak. The Viragos gun brig returned to Cork the 10th instant from accompanying the West India fleet, which sailed from thence the 24th January; under convoy of the Rattler sloop, to la► 28N. long. 18W. from which she parted the 14th of February, all well. The fleet consisted of about 30 vessels. A letter from Captain Halliday, of his Majesty's ship Montague, arrived from Gibraltar, dated in the Downs, states that the Whiting and Hope brigs, of London, and the Amphitrite transport brig, bound to Portsmouth, parted company, through negligence, in the chops of the Channel. Tl!•e Triton, Scott, from Liverpool, is lost on the coast of America. A few days ago a sailor on bonrd his Majesty's ship MENELAUS, having over-reached himself, fell from the main-top just as the centittel was passing beneath, pitched directly on the point of the bayonet, and was literally empaled. The violence of the shock wrested the piece from the arms of the centinel, and threw it with its-wretched burthen over the gunwale. MOLINEAUX AND RlMmitt TUE LANCASDIRII MAN. —Yesterday being the day to make good a stake of 'lOO guineas a side between the parties, for the much talked of boxing match, a disappointment took place to the astonishment of the circle of pug ilistic ama teurs, Rimmer's money not having been ' made good, under forfeiture of Jew. Molineaux, in the room, challenged to fight any man in the woad the next day, or an three months, for 500 guineas, or any lesser suns, but the challenge was not accepted. not . • • - t • Y Jsterdij a Orin of l.);rectors was held at the East India Home, when the following Commanders took Iraq previous to departing for their respective desti nations, viz. Captain G. SIMPSON, of' the I.4dy Castle ieagh, and Captain C.JoNts, of the Warren I-Listings, for Beogil direct. • . •...'1 , • • Dispatches were yestet ela ,, received at the East In dia House from Bengal. They were brought lay the Ann, a Botany -bay ship, which sailed from Beng,l on the 4th of December, arrived at St. Helena on the 19th ,if February, sailed from thence on the at:d arrived off the Isle of Wight on Tueiday evening. Tl.e French ships of war captured at the Isle of France, viz. I'Astree,. Venus, ildlone, Minerve, and Victor sloop, together with the re-captured English fri i rates Iphigenia and Ceylon, which sailed from Bt. Helena at the same time, have also arrived with the Ann.— The Entreprenante brig captured at the Isle of France, left St. Helena with this fleet, but parted company a fortnight afterwards. "The Ann spoke the Larkins, extra-ship, going up Bengal river, with several other vessels in com pan The Sovereign and Astell were to sail from Bengal in February. The time for the departure of the Georgia na packet was not fixed. The Diana, with General HEWITT on board, had arrived at Ganjam, from England, on the 11th of November.-- PASSENGLIS PROM CALCUTTA, BOTANY BAT title ANN—Lieutenant Martin, Captain Merchesun, Mr. C. Park hurst, Mrs. Hedger and Fzmily, , Lieutenant Duna, his Majesty's 6.5111 Regiment, Since this Paper was put to press, we received the following article from the E•tst•lndia House : " BENGAL EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. " November 25, 1810. " His Majesty's ship BELLTQUEUX, and the China ships under her convoy, with the exception of the OCEAN, arrived at Cittna previous to the departure of the WINDHAM (sth October.) Apprehensions wcte entertained that the OCEAN had suffered in a tiffoon, which took ph.ce the sth of September." POLICE, fSe. GUILDTIALL.—In consequence of an information lodged before Sir WM. Comas, on Tuesday, three persons, a woman and two men, were yesterday taken to the Office, and were examined separately, on a charge of conspiring together to murder a boy about twelve years of age. The person who was instrumental in bringing for ward the matter, was an old woman named Mary Lee, who gave her deposition to the following effect. She lodged in Courley's-court, liiiggio-lane, Cheap side, opposite to the house in which two of the priso ners, George Jaques and his wife, lived. In care of these persons were two boys, the one about foer, and the other about twelve years of age, na med Bidwell, the children of a labouring man, also in custody, re siding in Star-court. On the morning of Monday last, between one and two o'clock, as witness was standing in her own room, she was alarmed by an exclamation of —" bat you've done for him." Whe ther the voice was that of the prisoner Jaques or his son, she could not tell, as they both lodged in the same toom. From that moment the silence of death prevailed, although a considerable altercation had taken place before. Informant was so much alarmed from the apprehension of some dreadful act having been perpetrated, that she did not go to bed. In about half an hour afterwards, she saw two men enter thO door of the house in which Jaques lived, and in a few minutes some one came out with a bundle on his shoulder, but what it contained she could not tell from the darkness which prevailed. From that time until day-light, she heard some one at work in Jaques's room, as if scouring with a scrubbing-brush, which excited her suspicions more strongly,, and at eight o'clock she left her own room, and went across the court to that of Jaques, on the floor of which she saw stains of blood, which appeared as if an attempt had been made to wash it out ; she also saw the ycungest child of Bidwell, but missing the elder boy, she asked where he was, when Mrs. Jaques said he was ,aciae out. The suspicions of informant were now stronger than ever, and she resolved to tail at Bidwell's lodg ings, in Star.court. The first time she called he was not at home, but she saw him in the afternoon, and asked him, how was his son ? To which he replied with a smile, that he was very well. Upon which informant said, " I am afraid I shall never see him alive again," and left the house. In her way home' she met Mrs. Jaques, whom she again asked what had become of young Bidwell? and Mrs. J. said, that he had met with an accident, and was gone to the hospital, but begged of witness, if any inquiries were made fur him, to say he was gone into the country.— Witness asked what ward he was in ? but not receiv ing a satisfactory answer, and supposing the boy had been " made away with," she gave the information which led to the apprehension of the prisoners. Mr. Richard William Browne, a surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stated, that on Monday mor ning last lie was called up between two and three o'clock to attend a patient in Accident Ward. Oa proceeding to the spot he found a little boy about 12 ' years old, who had a cut on his thigh which seemed to have been occasioned by the stab of a knife, lie . was undressed and was accompanied by a man and a woman, of whom he inquired how bile wound had been given ? 'when they said the child had fallen on a knife. This story, however, Mr. Browne did not credit. On the ensuin g morning he questioned the boy as to the source of his injury, when he told two or three different stories; first, saying, that he had fallen on the knife, next, that as he lay in bed it fell on him, and lastly, that he had done it himself, from which it was evident that he had been tutored in his tale. He seemed much alarmed, and laboured under a dread of punishment, if he should tell the truth.— The wound, although two inches deep, was not likely to prove mortal. George Jaques, who was the only prisoner present darink the examination of these witnesses, being called on for an explanation of the scene which had been described I said he was asleep at the time the occurrence happened, and consequently could ciot . tell by what means it took place. He was awl ened by his son, and law the boy in question, who had been nursed by his wife, lying on the bed Wet - ding. He immediately seat bis sou for the father, and dia. % wads aecOmpaiNd Wits to the gate of the Hospital. e _.~; ..t. to being further questioned, by Sir V/In: Citrtis, it, • 'admitted that his wife had done the deed, hilt bower why he could not say. He also stated, that hi. son and his mother had been-quarreiling on acem.ni or the latter stopping out late. The child was in the same bed with his soi' during the quarrel. Mary Jaques was then put to the bar, and cu the Charge which was made against her being expliinti —she said that the boy had cut himself by accident. When she came home she wanted him to go for a Fit of beer, previous to which she cut him a piece of bread and Meat, and while he was eating it, he f!ll upon the knife and inflicted the wound. M than . this she could not be got to say, except that she did not do it designedly." Sir Ws/. CUItTli said, he did not wish her to make any confession that would criminate herself ; yet if she heel any thing to say is extenuation of the heinousi offence with which she stood charged, which was ho less than attemptilee the life of an iimeceat chid, he was ready to Lear her. • ' She die not, however,' say more, and was ordered into close ccnifinernent, tintil the t.:te or the boy should be ascertained, and until her son, who could not be then found, and who would probably throw additional light upon ale subject, should be brought forwerd. The father of the boy was twit put to the bar, tort as there was no chatge against him, or proof the- he had any knowledge of what had happened, he wax dismissed. George Jaques was also suffered to go at larg e . -- Gay ton, proprietor and driver of an E.finon- • ton stage, was yesterday charged at Guilditell, with attempting to drive through Newgateeitreet, during the Lord Mayor's procession on Monday. Four oifi cers stated, that upon their catching hold of the reins, to prevent his progreSs, he whipped his horses with the utmost violence, in consequence of Which they took him into custody. Mr. Gayton stated that he drove the Edmonton coach from Snow hill, at four o'clock, and was obliged to be at Bishopegate-street in half an hour, for the ac commodation of his customers. Observing that there was sufficient room for him to pass without interiering with the procession, he drovelorward, when his accts.; sers stopped his eregress, and on his whipping one vi his horses, to make him keep up to the kirb, four con stables jumped on the box, and after using the most abusive language, dragged him therefriar, and con veyed him to the Compter, where he remained till thW evening, when,by application totlie Lord Mayor, Ireole. tained his discharge. He further stated, that 8;r William Plomeriacoachman witnessed the whol‘ scene, and was ready to bear testimony to the tie* of his story. Sir 'Vat. Cutters observed, that from the statemeet of the Officers theinseives, they had acted witleim proeer precipitation ; ;led even had the defendaet be haved improperlyeit became them to set a good ex ample, by the propriety of their own conduct. be was ready to admit the procession of the Fiist Mahe. smite should be treated with due respe. t, yet, where there was the means of eccoMmodating his lklejrste's subjects, they should not be prevented tram pursuing their law! ul occupations. The defend Int was the driver of a public stage, and time was ot the utmost importance to him. Ac Sir WnsaPronter's weed:thin e however, was not present, he should defer drawing eny conclusion till he heard further on the subject.— His object Was to administer justice, and %shoe . se:rhea's to blame, should meet with a proper. puniahniene..h.e Ile then deferred the matter till Ihieley; when all p.m , ties are to attend. Yesterday a complaint was made agaiust a Jeer dea. let io pencils, who had defrauded a your; letnale shop keeper of £B, for two gross of pencils not' worth forty. shillings, and sold them' under a different name. The complainant was desired to sue him tor the fraud. . A youth, who was some time since in the service of a Gentleman in the neighbourhood of Chettsey, having been guilty of robbery, was taken into custch dy, but his offence was commuted on his going is sea. On his •rettien, to use his own expression, he could not rest until he had discovered his accomplice in various depredations, which had been committed on the Gentleman's property, and who was a female servant, yet remaining in the family. In consequence of this information she was apprehended, and brought to Marlborough-street Office. At the examination the • youth stated, that a conspiracy to rob their master had been entered into betwixt them, and to share the booty ; which h'd been carried on to a considerable extent. He also charged the prisoner with having threatened revenge to a helpless babe, which after wards died in a way not satisfactory to the parents, but the particulars of which we shall at present re• frain from detailing. The pu usoner was remanded. HATTON GARDlM—Tuesday, Bevan, a private in the East London Militia, was charged with steal , ing and driving away a bullock, the property of a Mr. Ely, a drover horn Leicestershire, on Monday morning, from a lair at Islington, where the cattle had been kept the preceding night, preparatory to Smithfield market. A boy, named Ellis, deposed, that he saw the pri soner step over the ;sailing to drive it out, and then, in vo-operation with ten re three more, pursue it to Highgate, and round buck to the city by Hiensey. The prisoner admitted the fact of driving off the bullock ; but alledged that it was intended merely for spout. The Magistrate, after a suitable admoni, tion, hued him in a sum of 2es. which was [mid 'by his Serjeant, and the prisoner was discharged. Sunday afternoon, a seamen e narn rd Francis Esca, belonging to the vessel Prince, of London, Captain Smith, bound to Quebec, and now ly ino in Catwater, Plymouth, had obtained leave from the Captain, in the morning, to pi oceed on shore in the afternoon ; the Teeter, shortly after giving permission, left the ship, and accordingly Esce told the Kate that lie had obtained leave, and was geing ashore in a watermae's boat, then lying alongside the ship ; on which the Mete immediately replied, that he was determined he slat:edit not leave the vessel ; but Esca persisted, and was proceeding on shore, and when about 'AO yards from the ship, the Mate seized a musket, which he loaded with ball, and fired at him, when he fell, .being daogerously wounded, the hall passing through both his thighs ; he bled profusely, and was instantly conveyed on shore, where be was attended by severel eminent surgeons, who were in hopes the wounds leaf not prove mortal. The officers of Ju'sece weet then sent on board the Prince, to epprthend the de linquent, but he had escaped from her a few minutes before, and has •as yet eluded the vii . itance ssf Lie pursuers. .IJ. :.