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MARV'S WELLESLL V. Ni. Vl'. SlR—Marquis WILLESLP Y having been Fronght pp in the Treafury under that 'Mations Staid - man, late WILLIAM PITT * it may be credited that, the intricate fubjeBs of finance engaged his particular at tention before he quitted this ungrateful country, for fuch it mull be termed by all dignterefled perfons, as giving credit to the pofitively Elitious tales of a Paull, whnfe eloquence is folely furpalfed by his mndelly. From the plain fiatements of fads already detailed, I am induced to think your Readers %ill admit, that as aeing in conformity to the commercial orders of the Court of Dire&ors, no blame attaches to Marquis W!LLESL!Y I for the increafe of debt in Britifh India, although I have heard it hinted, that the Noble Mar quis is liable, as a Peer of the Realm, to the feverell cenfure of his King and Country, for paying implicit obedience to another commercial order from the India Houfe. The firfl loan, opened under the adminillration of Marquis Wst.t.ascsY, did not take place until every attempt to accrmplilh, by negotiation with the late :Tippoo Sultaun, had completely failed, and fo averfe was theGovernor-General from taking any halite liep, that his patience had alma got the better of his prudence. Such were nearly the words of tha Chair man at the India Houle. At this alas, there was not a Chilling in the Treafutg unappropriated, and' without money, it was imp-ffible for the army to take the field ; the Governor General and Council did, therefore, deem it expedient to open a decennial loan at to per cent. (being two per cent. lower than paid previous to his arrival in India) whereby the firm required was immediately obtained, and 500,0001. in fpecie was forwarded to Madras. Another loan, to a fimilar purport, was fubfcquently opened, to make good the fum allotted to invett mem, which had been appropriated to the inevitable extra expences attendant on the Expedition to Egypt. The premium on the lan loan having gradually rifen to 8 per cent. induced the Native Capitalitts in general, to bring forth their long concealed treafures. (One man in Calcutta, exclufive of oth,r property, keeps too,oool. Iterling in fpecie, at prefent, for what be calls aNO Fig). The next loan opened was for the fubfcribers to pay tool. and to receive 1071. (lock, bearing an intereft of 8 per cent. ; this alto proved advantageouf to the Stock holders, fubfequtntly at 155, 703, toe, lON then at par, until in the middle of the Marhatta war, very large turns were obtained, the fubfcribers paying tool. and receiving 981. flock. Treating or Exchequer Bills, bearing an intereft of it per cent. which, on the arrival of Marquis Wer.• Limy in India, were at a difcount of a per cent. were loon negctiable at 9, and eventually current at (riper cent. interetk, thereby paving the way for the gradual introdu&ion of Bank Notes, which in the courfe of a fhort time, when the Bank charter is ob tained, will become equally current as in this country, an molt alluredly enable the Government to obtain money on loans, on equal,4 not more advantageous terms than in Great Britain. The proportionate reduetion in the rate of intereft on the public debt, may alfo in tome meafure be at- tributed to the falutary introdudtion by Marquis WILLI:Ley of the Sinking Fund, nearly on a fimilar plan as in this country, about twenty thoufand pounds flerling being monthly allotted partly to the parchafe of the government feeurities, and partly to pay off a certain amount, agreeable to priority cf date, on the general regifler of the debts of each ?refidency. Precifely at the very time when the finances began to recover, by the uatemitting attention of Marquis WILLISLEY to this particular fuhjett, and the Britifit charaaer flood exalted beyond any preceding period in the eyes of the natives throughout India, for its moderation, faith, and good gnvernmect, an order was unfortunately fent from hence to di(band imme diately, in Bengal alone, eight thonland regular Miners, the whole corps of native artillery, with a proportion of cavalry, which aftually led to the clm osencement of the late Marhatta war, fo errnneoufly and unjunly attributed to the ambitious views of Marquis WELLESLEY. PLAIN FACTO: The Carl& Grand Mufical Feftival has been mot: 1 nunterbufly attended. The Cathedral was very neatly I and conveniently fitted up, and the feldlion, the Re 1 einetption, the Creation, and Milfiah, from the celebrated i works of Hawnsi. and HAYDEN, were executed with : the molt grand and tublinne died. The Concerts at the AiTembly Room were well Attended, as was alto the Ball. Information was received by Watfon, a con liable I at the watch houfe in Mount.ftreet, on Tuefday even iag, from Sir John Anftruther, that a child, appa : rently about three months old, had been left at the door of his houfe in Albemarle ftreet, which was dlr covered in the following manner :—A young woman who reticles in South Molton-(}reef, in palling along ' Albemarle ftreer, perceived a bundle at Sir John's door, which the ditcovered to be a child ; fhe rang the belt, when Sir John opened the door, and on being informed by the young woman the cattle of ' tier ringing, he took the child in, with a bundle of clothes which was left with her. The infant was conveyed to the wot k houfe, but the unnatural mo Cher has not been found. The child has been bap tired Mary Albemarle. The young woman was at fird detained, but on her undergoing an examination before the patilh lurgeon, it was afcertained that the h not the mother. , ' An inquifition was taken on Wednefday, at a public houfe, at Knightthridge, before G. Honcson, Eli'. Coroner for Mi.:dieter, on the body of a young man of the name of Alexandria, who met his death 4 the preceding day. It appeared in evidence, that die defeated was the fervant of a Gentleman at Ken. falton, and had been with his matter in a tingle tank chaife to a coach inn in London, from whence he returned with the chaife. He called in York- ITecti Weßminfier, en his return with the chaife, and took up a young woman, to whom be paid his addreffes, in order to give her a ride. On palling along Pimlico, near the ' , Age, Tome labourers were removing a quantity of dung in the road, and the defeated, on going over part of it, overturned the chaife, by which hiat And his female companion were thrown out with great violence. The deceafed was pitched agai n ft a po ll, b y which he had fine of his . broken, and after 'inset ing forty-eight hours, he died of his brnifes. '.ll feria:: ' d l'- e :.cape un_ urt.— v rt t: et i --- Accidectal Lath. RAMSGATE, SEPT. i 3. This morning. at eight o'clock, a larze bimriit of men left the hat boor for the Downs, in ord-r to pro teed to Copenhagen, for the purpofe of affifling in bringing the Danifh fleet to this country. A great crowd had affembled to fee them fet off. Three cheers were given from the boar, which were returned from the Tier-head. _ _ weather has, during the week, been exceMaely ineonftant and unpleafanr, and thefe equinnetial gales have driven many to the lets keen atmnfphere of London. There are, however, finite arrivals every day, and frefh names daily appear on the fubfcrip lion !rink, at our friend BUSGESSIS. The molt remarkable do montirations of joy, on account of the furrender of Copenhagen, were ma nifetled from Sir W. Corns's pleafure yacht, which tired 24 round% on the arrival of the news. FE VERSHA if POWDER MILLS. At about ten minutes before eight o'clock in the morning of F: iday laft, the corning mill, No. 3, form. ing part of the royal powder works, near Fevertham, and !hosted at the north call angle of the Matflr, in the parith t f Ore, blew op with a violent explofion, and fix men and three horfes fell Viaims in c .nfe• quence. But before we proceed in our narration. it is necelTary to defcribe, to fuch of our Readers as may be unacquainted with' there work•, the nature of their form and prncefs. The corning mill. are din. ber buildings, of an oblong quadrangular figute, fomewhat fimilar toy ba.n, with four entrances, one on each fide ; the internal (pace divided by two par titions into three compartments, the one containing a prefs with levers and captian for prefling what is called in the language of the workmen the green charge, into cakes, which cakes, after being coarfely broken with wooden maners, in alto a wooden mar tar, are then conve) ed into fieves of copper of different degrees of finenefs, for the purple of being granu• lated, the machinery for which forms the middle compartment. In the third is the horfe walk and wheel, the cogs of which give motion to the whole apparatus, and thefe form the fecond principal flage of the formation of the powder. Thefe mills are each fury ounded at tome dirtance wi,h a Itockade or pali fade, and a platform leads from that part where the prels is placed, to a fhed at the exterior of the pali fade, in order that a communication may be had to the mill for the tumbrils, without the neceffity of their approaching near to it. In the procefs of the corning, the fieves above mentioned are agitated by the machinery, and hence arifes a conflant cloud of dull, which cove►s the ground, and impregnates, as it were, every beam and rafter with inflammable matter, fir much fo, that after the deftruEtion of the building, the burning timbers continued for Come time to explode. At the time of the explofion the prefs was charged, and the fieves were at work ; but how, or from whence the cattle of the ignition. mutt remain unknown, as in this, as in almott all fimilar cafes, no one remained to tell the tale. 'the report feemed rather a protrafted rumbling than an inllantaneous blaft, and hence it is fuppofed that it mull have been communicated from fome one part to the other. The ruins, and fcene of devailation it occafioned, are fcarcely to be defcribed ; the mill, the flied abovementioned and the flockade levelled with the ground, the timbers of the building fplintered and difperfed in every direction for Come rods diflance. and the mallive pref.; And mill wheels difplaced and thrown many feet diaant from their'original pofitior.; the trees and plantations in the vicinity were alto much torn and disfigured, and a building called the Receiving-honfe, only feparated front this mill by a flight plantation, was alto much injured ; fortunately at the moment it was empty, or the confequences would have been more dreadful. The qtrantitrof campotition contained in the mill was S4olbr. the aural charge received twice a day from the grinding-houfe, and the Mailer Worker had left the mill not a quarter of an hour prier to the expiation. A labourer, named Thomas Delo, vas mending the gravelled walk leading to the mill, about to yards diflant from the fhed, was twice thrown down (as he himfelf defcribes), from the effeff of the Brock, before he heard the noire, but attempting to rife a third time, was firuckly apiece of timber on the fmall part of the back, and render ed infenfible ; he was conveyed to the watch-houfe, and medical affitiance procured, and is, we under- hand, now in a fair way of recovery. Of the unfortunate fufferers, one alone evinced fome fign of life, but that only in a faint refpiration and heave of the break, one was thrown to fome rods difiaat, and fell among the willows ; another, (Scott, the foreman) was cut afunder through the middle, had one of his thighs broken, and the back part of his atoll blown off; the others were all more nr lefs di-figured, their clothes torn off, their bodies fcorched black and lacerated. Their names were John Scott, Wm. Elliot, Daniel Tappenden, Geo. Blunn, John Sampfon, and Andrew Shilling ; of there, Scott, Elliott, and Samplon, have each left a wife, and Tap penden and Blunn alfo each a wife and two children; Shilling was unmarried, and has left confiderable property in the funds. Of the three honks employed at the Mill, two were d►eadfully fluttered, and the third was fa much bruited as to make it necelfary to kill it imme diateiy. The explolion was heard in the direiliou of the wind, which blew from the N. E. to a confiderable diflance, and much alarmed and agitated the inha bitants. _ _ The lan accident of this nature, and a fimilar one to the above, took place on the 7 th of September, 1802 ; this was the Corning Mill No. t, and then, alto, fix men and three !tortes (offered ; this has fince been rebuilt with the prefs feparated'from the mill by a high mound of earth. A report bas been circulated that this calamitous event was occalioned by the men carrying force kettles jull taken from i ff the fire at the watch-houfe, into the mill, in order to prepare their breakfafis, but we have authority to Rate that no fuch circumaanees appeared in evidence before the Coroner's Inque9. A reprefentation of the cafe has been made to the Ordnance Board, and there is no doubt but that the wives and families of the unfortunate men will be fufficiently provided fur, as has locen the cafe in all former indances. L4W ATELLIGENCL ADWRALT'V COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. Ydlerday the Right Eon. NVILLIAM Scrrri proceeded to the adjoclicatirm of the following cafes. Maria Therefa. Bo:titer. ntafter. This ',etre', laden with fait, on an aftertcd voyage to Tmmirgen, was (kering, when captured, towards nothing The exeufe the matter let up was, that the veffri had fprung a leak, cud the crew, exitsitfted by labouring at the pumps, were compelled to make for the firft port. The Court was clearly of opinion, from the evidence produced, that no loch need:l4y exiited and accordingly condemned the fhip and cargo. Twe Gebroeders, Bunkg matter This cafe being exadly hmi lar to the ahuve, the fame sentence was pronounced. Orozentbo,Brewfter matter. This Tail was under American colours, on a voyage front Hilton to China It appeared there were fcvcral Dutch °Meets of high rank, and other perfuns in civil itations on hoard, as p.:(f;nger• got s to Batavia ; and it was con tended, on the part of the captors; (hat this vet Tel was to be mai deresi as a tranfport hired by the Dutch Government. The Court determined the reiti liable to confifeation, and accordingly con demned th,- fame. Concor.lia, Beer miner. This was a Pappenburgh vtfi'd laden with falt —Ship diredrd to further proof and cargo rehired. Hoop, Nefafzon matter. Ti A was a Ming veffel, laden with Gal and odic!. artidct, going to Rottcrdam.—Property condemned. OLD BAILEY. Wednefday 26 prifoners were tried, 17 of whom were conviEted of (dotty, viz.— J. Du -4n, for Dealing a pair of trowfers. value Ss. 6d. the property of J. Richardfon ; W. Oakfbaft, for Dealing fundry embolled clefts. and other things, the property of W. Leader ; J. Jnpfon, for Dealing a fa& faw, and other articles, the propeay of J. Cowles ; T. Walter, for Dealing a deal plank, the property of Ideas. Letts ; Ann Bird, for Healing a quantity of chintz cotton, a fofa cafe, &c. the pro perty of I'. Wilmott ; J. Young and W. Meek, for Healing a pair of nankeen trowfers, and other arti cles, the goods of T. Whitaker ; W. Bonfield, for Healing a pair r f bi ots, the property of S. Monk ; W. White, for Itedling three feet of lead pipe, with a brafs cock, affixed to the dwelling houfe t,l tt. Har. ris ; W. Wall, for Dealing a faw, the property of J. Cole; Sarah Punier, for Dealing a watch and a ring, the goods of E. Archer • Sarah Kettle, for Dealing an apron and petticoat,the property of Eliza Frtberry ; Ann Beaumont (the child-Healer), for Healing a frock, the property of E. Powell ; Mary Mahoney, for (haling a quantity of vegetables and fruit,the property of P. Cunningham ; Mary Hickey, for Dealing out lf her ready-furnifhed lodging a pair of fheets, a pair of curtains, and other articles, the goods of J. G.Olby ; and T. Fifher, for Healing a teafpoon. the property of R. Looker. %. William:, a boy 13 years old, was indiaed for Dealing a cheek, in the parifh of St. Leonard, Shore. ditch, the property of W. Moore. Mrs. Moore, the wife of the profecutor, Rated, that on the evening of the 24th of Augna. the was fitting behind the counter, when her attention was called to a cuanmer. The cheek, defcribed in the indiament, was lying in the window, which was polled np. While Mrs. Moore was thus employed, the fuddenly turned towards the window, and ollfetv• el that the cheefe had vanifhed. She immediately ran round the counter, in order to difcover the thief, but in vain. In about a quarter of an hour, the was fent for by an officer from Worfhip Oreet, and on repairing to that office, the faw the prifoner and the cheele. Bernard Green, a patrole belonging to Bow flreet, at that time employed at Worfhip fireet Office, flared, that as he was paffing through Shoreditch, on his way to the Office, he law the prifoner and a bigger boy, facing Mr. Moose's (hop.— They did nut obferve the officer, who, conceiving they were about no gond, watched their motions. He heard the bigger bqy, when he obferved Mrs. Moore engaged, lay to the ;tanner Snow's your time:" when the prifoner went to the open window and carried off the cheefe. The officer remained on the opprifite fide of the lireet, and the prifoneucrnffed the way to where he flood. He immediately to - 4c him into cnflody, but his companion made his efcape. Mrs. Moore was again examined as to the identity of the cheefe, to which the fwnre to the WI of her be.. lief ; and alto depofed that it was worth TOS. The partner, as his defence, gave in a Written paper, Hating, that the prefent was his fiat offence, into the commiffion of which he had been reduced by the bad advice of the boy whom the officer had Peen in his company. He proteffed hi, furrow and repentance for the crime, and implored the mercy of the Court and Jury. To his charafter he called Mr. James Thomas, a (ilk dreffer. He laid the prifoner had been in his employment nearly five years. During that period his cnndull had been uniformly regular and good. On the very evening of the robbery he did not leave work till pall fix o'clock. His father was a fober and moll ;Hof trions man, and had alto worked for the wither.. Two old ladies, who had known the boy for tome years, gave him an excellent charalter for fobriety and indufiry, and for an early attendance every morning at his work. The COMM .N SEIJIMIT obferved to the Jury, there was no doubt as to the Itealing of the checfe, as the prifoner had been taken in the fact ; the only difficulty that occurred to him, was, how to deal with the lad in the event of his conviction, fn a s to prevent him effedually from purfuing fuel a wicked coutfe of life. Mr. Thomas Paid, he had no ohjedion again to employ the lad. The COMMON SEAJSANT fAid, the jufiice of the country would be fatisfied by his con viftion ; but he willed much, for the fake of the boy's future profperity, that he (hould be under the immediate eye of his matter. The Jury found him Guilty ; but particularly recommended him to mercy, on account of Ms youth. The COMMON SIR /RANT ordered him to be fined a fhilling and difcharged ; obferving he was of too tender an age to undergo the difcipline of the law. He advifed Mr. Thomas, therefore, when the boy was turned over to him, to adminiller to him a found correftion for the offence he had committed ;—but not to do fo but in the prefenee of his father. And nine were acquitted, among whom was. Eons E vanr who WAS inditfied fir teloniouily healiag hoax Mr. Rodgers, jeweller, in the Suand, two gold foals. The cirenmllances have been frequently before the public in the course of detailing the prifoner's ex.- minations at Bow fireet. It appeared that he pro cured the feels from the profeentor, on the pretence, that he had been fent to order them for Mr. Nepean, fon to Sir Evan Nepean. The profecutor' ,l hrpm an atcumpanied him with the articles t o the A.moiralty, where the prifnner tai .1: them From him. on pteente of carrying them to Mr. Neptan. After waiting for fame timt, the ynnng man was induced to leave the articles. on the idea that Mr. N. Was then en gaged. The prifoner, two days afterwards, returned to the profecutor's Chop, and allured them that they needed not he ;mealy about the propetty, a.: Mt. N. had beer, cut of town ever fince the articles had been prefented to him for his approbation. It uas.not till the partner was in cuflody on another charge, that the real Rate of the tranfattion was difcove.ed. Mr. KNAPP, Collar' for the piifoner, infilled that the crime proved againii him did not amount to a fe lony. It appeared that on the reprefentation of the Partner, evol fupplfing it to be a talk one, the pmfecutor had carolled his propel ty to the a iioner, add on an.,ther occation, when the prifoner again called at his fh , p, had confented to its continuing in his power. It could not therefore be laid, that the prifoner had feloniontly applied it to his own ufe.— His offerce, at the very moll, could amount only to a mifdemeannur. The Cora mom SE itjtatir agreed in the d ine fatd down by the Counfel, and direard the Jury to ae. quit the prifoner of the feluny. He ordered. hlw cver, that he firrold be detained in cullody to take his trial for a mifdetneam ur, as being guilty of ob taining the goods under falfe pretences. Yederdai . twenty.three palters were triedoi s i of whom were convided of felonies, viz J. Cox, for Reeling a leg of mutton, the property of J. Mucklow ; R. Latham, for healing a compof ing flick, the property of J. Davi: ; A. Tiffio,,for healing a pair of boots, the property of J. %Vattern- J. Allen, for healing leveret arrides of apparel, the property of Thomas Rain ;—Thornas Smith, for healing two table fpncns. the property of N. Scott ; Robert Smith, for healing two planks, the pro perty of Meffrs. Rhodes ;—John Jackfon, for heal ing fix Brazil fkins, the goods of John Smith ; T. Seaman, for healing fix pair of (hoes, the property of R. Pearce : Mary Bryan, for healing a bottler, the property of W. Cater : Wm. Reece, 14 lkaling 'kneel tools, the property of J Dooling ; J. Blum field, for healing fever al cep's, the property of E. Bafham and W. Wright. Hannah Taylor was indided for felling lixteen pieces of bale metal, refembling the current coin of. this kingdom, called a Wiling, for a leffer fum than their denomination imported, namely, for the funs of eight 'billings. Mr. KNAPP opened the cafe for the profecution.-- It appeared in evidence, that, in confeytence of fot picion that the prifoner carried on a trade of paffing off, by way of fate, a great deal of bad flyer, Rogets, the officer of the Shadwcll police office, determined to lay a trap for her, and accomplifhed his object thus :—A perfon appointed by him, of the name of - Richardfun, went to the prifoner's houfe, which had a bill at the window of it Rating it was to lett—afked her the particulars ; and in converfation introduced the fubjed of bad filver, and agreed with her for the purchale of hewn of thefe pieces which were called Millings, well executed for counterfeits, for eight Millings, which he paid her in three half crowns (previoufly marked by his employer, the officer of the police) ; and then aticed her if the would take a glafs of gin with him ? to which the moll readily affented. He went nut under pretence of fetching it, but intlead of doing fo, he gave his employer the t. agreed upon fignal ; on which the •police officer willed into the haute with his agent, and raid to him, " Let me fee what you have in your hand." He (hewed the fixteen counterfeit (billings. 'fake care what you lay—where did you get them ?" " Of that woman," Paid he. " Now, (laid the officer to her), did you give thefe (killing s to that man ?'"4 Yes, (laid the) the villain, I d." He then took three half crowns nut of her band, and afked her, " Where did you get this money ?" She anfwered, " I got k of that villain" (meaning the man who had thus been ading the [cane). So that the proof was corn. plete. The KECORDYR Paid, perhaps the Jury might think it a little irregular, to.entrap the prifoner into the commiffion of a crime and then to profecute her for it ; but the truth was, that if it were not for this fpecies of artifice, this dangerous traffic conld never he nipped in the bud, in the way it was deferable it (hould he. The Jury found the prifoner—Guilty. Aged 68. The RECORDER laid, this woman was well known in that Court, and was one of the ()idea offenders its the metropolis : the had many years gone by the name of Mother Connolly. Catharine Davis and Catharine Bent were indited for Reality, on the 18th of June lilt, a quantity of wearing apparel, confil4ing of a fhay.l and other ar ticles, a pound note, and half a guinea, the property of Sarah Lawrence, a fervent girl, who had the misfortune to be with child, and to be obliged to go to Hornfey Wotkhonfe.to be delivered. She left her box in the care of Catharine Davis, who promifed.to fend it to her, with its contents, at the Workh ou f e : the did fend it, hut flripped of the above part of its contents. When Catharine Davis was charged with the theft, (lie admitted the had done it, but laid the was perfuaded to it by the prifoner Dent, of which the produced no proof ; and as what one perfon, charged sith a felony, lays, is no evidence again& another, the declaration went for nothing. Catharine Davis was therefore found tzullty, and Catharine Dent acquittedl The Profecuttix had her infant, who is at the break, in her arms in Court, and excited the corn paffion of the Court fo much that a collation was made for her : the LORD MAYOR commenced it—the example was followed by the Recorder, the Gentle men of the Jury, and others—to that the amount became confokrable. The fervent of a Mr. Fothergill (as we underßood the name), a pawnbroker in Aldergate Itreet, was rebuked by the Recorder for not appearing to give evidence when called upon, it having become sect!". fary to feud an Officer of the Court to fetch him. He was told, that if he had not been foe thcoming, his recognizance lhould have been etireated, and no affidavit he c .uld have made thould afterwards have excufed him. The Recorder added,—l (hall always hold a tight rein upon pawnbrokers who come be fore this Court. The honourable perfons of that trade are interehed in that courfeheing taken which will thew more clearly the difference between th e m and the wort ; fome of whom go fo very near the • wind, that it is probable I (hail loon be under Ike neceffity of recommending their being profccased as