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• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MILAN, JUNE 14. The lall accounts from Janina mention, that a corps of Ruffians, which had been joined by tome &Mots, rebels of the country, had landed near St. Maitre, where they were attacked by boo Arnants encamped in the neighbourhood. ■nd furrounded.— The Ruffians afterwards cffeaed their retreat to their (hipping, with the lois of eighty killed. The lois of the Albanians is very trifling. According to report, the Pacha of Janina is on the march to St. Maure with to.ooo men; our artillerymen, and Co lonel Nicole, of the chant., are with the Pacha.— At Scutari, every one is under arms. The troops nnder this Pacha are pupating to as againll the Montenegt ins. HANOVER, JULY 7. Yeaerday the two Spaniflt Infantry regiments of Zamora and Catalonia, arrived at Luneberg. To morrow the regiment of infantry of Gnadalaxara, and the regiment:of cavalry of Villa Vicinfa, will ar rive. The Commandant of the corps, Don Manuel de Salcedo, is lodged in the Palace. VIENNA, JUNE a 4. The late[ letters from Conflantinople, confirm the accounts of the depofition of Sella), bat corree molt of the details given in the firft reports. Hitherto Muftapha has kept his promife of preferving the life of &Jim. The Prince is Hill alive, refiding in the Old Seraglio. The caufe of this popular inforreEtion originated from the progrefs of the Servians, and that wartt of energy, on the part of Government, of which the Janiffaries had complained. They accufed Mininers of having an undertlanding with the Servians and the Ruffians The new Sultan has declared he will maintain the alliance with France, and will not make peace with the Ruffians, till the ancient fron tiers are re•efiablifhed, and the Crimea reconquered. The ancient privileges of the janiffaries are reflored, and all the new corps formed within ten years pall, are diffolved. Just' 28.—T0 the note given in at Warfaw, on the part of Anfltia, on the 3d April, the anfwer tranfmitted on the part of France, fionified that his Majefty the Emperor Nap..leon willingly a:cceped the friendly intervention of Aufiria for the'rettoration of peace, fo neceffary to all nations. His Majefty, however, expreffed his fears, that that power, which had hitherto founded its greatnif• on the difputes on the Continent, would find new pretexts to promote diffentioos in the Congrefs which it was propofed to eflablifh. France, however, who, it was well known, had been forced into the war againfl her will, would not neglal any means which afforded a hope of pre venting the effufion of human blood, &c. MUNICH, JUNE 15. On the loth intlant the Criffacks of the advanced polls of the Ruffian army were relieved by the Kal muck Tartars. One of them difcharged an arrow over the Narew, lixty fathoms in breadth, which lodged in the (trap of a cartridge box, upon one of the foldierr. The Hereditary Prince of Bavaria is Hill at the head of his troops, and paties feveral hours every day among.them. On every alarm, he is the firft at his poll, and the laft to leave it. His activity and his humanity have gained him the highed degree of cheat and confidence aming the military. His Royal Highnefs has alio vifited the hofpitals at War faw, to fee whether the foldicrs were in want of any accommodation. In the affair of Eylan, on the 4th of February, the firft regiment of Bavarian liaht horfe, under Count Charles of Pnppenheim. were potted with the 14th regiment of Frenei hulTars, under General Latour Maubourg. Four Ruffian battalion', which had formed a fquare, were to be attacked by thefe two regiments; their firft attack was repelled. 'I be Colonel then collating his men, " My lads (raid he) we are Ba- varians ;—there is no remedy, we mull penetrate through the Ruffians. Your honaur and mine rest ders this meafure unavoidable. Brave Comrades ! certainly you will follow me !" He then put himfelf at the head of his regiment, and gave the fignal for the attack. A dreadful fire again compelled his brave men to fall back, and the Colonel fell. Suddenly the whole corps cried, Stop ! we mull revenge the death of our brave Colonel.'? This they effcacd ; not more than too Ruffians efeaped from the bloody' facrifice. The Colonel received two mulket balls in his body and his thigh, and died in the arms of his trumpeter, who had never left him in any of the atlions he had been engaged in. His tall words were, " It is all over • take ply fibre." He was brought to the village of Allenfitin where he died without the lead apparent dircompoeure. The Emperor Na. poleon fent him his own phyfician' but it was too 'late. On the 6th, he was buried in the Catholic church of that place, by the parilh priell... A moms. went is prepating to perpetuate his memory. WIDDIN, JUNE 5. The Ruffian column, which was to have formed a junction with the Servians, has at length penetrated into Little Wallachia, and arrived on the Danube. They attempted to pafs that river, and to take pof feffion of the ifle of Oltrow ; but they failed in their attempt. The Ruffian column retreated rapidly, in order to gain Itamnifch, and to follow Michelfon.— The Servians ate Hill blocked up by Hediis Pacha. The pttuman army paired the Danube on the tH of June. Michelfon having learnt there difpolitions, wrote a letter to Multaplia, in Whirh he Paid, that as the Ruffians were net at war with the Porte, they would evacuate Bucharell in ilea days. An anfwer was fent to him in the following terms • 4 ‘ ytni are not.it war with the Sublime Porte, and yet you invade its territories 1 . You are not at war with the Sublithe z Porte, and yet you - befiege its fortretresi —Yon have' taken Ch 'cairn and Bender, and killed the' bluffulmen tat. were in theft places ! We knew that the Ruffians were our enemies, and we knew that they'were brave, but' wd did not know that they were hypocrites to this extent. Ceafe to diffemble ; fly, bin eh not dirgrace Yourfelf by vile falfehuods and Weis fubterruges: If you are not ttorenemy, retire behind the Dniefiei ;' give u s up , due (Wong places, and du not ' endeavour to excite rebellion in our country."—Jlosi t kur, gay 6. PifALIAJIBNTARr PRQCRB4INGS: • HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JULY tL The Sad of EGKONTitook the nabs dad hls feat. In the Appeal Willi* and others v. Alexander and otbrs, tb Lord Advoaite of Scotland and Mr. Nolan were beard (Gabe re. fpoodenta—Further ►wing on Monday. Mr. Hobboufe, Mr. Gooch, Mr. Dugdale. Mr. Graben. Mr. Parker Coke, Mr. Stanley, and kraal other Members of the Honk of Commons, brought up the frith Tax Regulation LB, and revival private Biljs, which were read a firß time. The 3,0cra,0001. and r soo,cool. Exchequer Bills' 811 were read a third time and piled. A great number of private Bills were forwarded in 4seir re fpealve Rages. ?AIM APPRENTICES. The Duke of NORFOLK called the attention of the Fonfe to a Bill on the Table for the better Regulation of Parifh %pyres tices, which be eonlidered as a Bill that might be 'ireful. ilitisangis be °Medal to one part of It, by which the mailers of tide ap prentices were enjoined to cafe them to attend Divint fervlee every Sunday, according to the rites of the Church of England. uole's they were of a different perfuanon; he thought thin might operate as an Inducement to lime of them to fay that they wore of a different perftraGon, in order that they might obtain the day for the purpofes of play. He thought, however, the better murk would be to Si a day for the fecond reading of the Bill, width Noble lords obfervlng in the Order Book, might then be induced to atund, and it might then ►e confidered whether the Bill &add be gone through this Scfßon, or whether it was one of thole Bills of general regulation which might, without inconvadenec,be pelt primal to next Seam. He therefore moved that the Bill bet rra4 a fecood time on Monday the syth fug -OAlered. TRADERS ASSETS BILL. The Dube of NORFOLK alio adverted to this Bill, which he conadered a mrafure of great magnitude and importance. He was inclined to agree in the general principle of the Bill, butte &chip ed whether it was not one of thole Bijl4 which it would be better to poitpone till nest Sedon. Upon the fame principle at with refpedt to the former Bill, he moved that this Bin be read' a fa coed time on Monday the 27th infiant. '1 he LORD CHANCELLOR agreed with time Noble Duke, and thought this a Bill which required much confideration and tome alteration. He inflamed the cafe of estates deviled, fabled to the payment of debts, and where bond`croditors had been part ly paid out of the perfonal ethic, in which cafe Courts of Equity allowed Simple centred creditors to be paid up to a certain et. tent out of the clime. prior to the Specialty creditors; but under the Bill they would lofe this advantage. He remenaberedf that footle time ago Sir Benjamin Hanunct brought a Bill into the Houle of Commons, to render the real titian of Bankers liable for their Emple contrail debts ; but on Lord Ktnyon.then Attor ney General, propo6ng that they ihnuld regißer the incumbrances on their etta-cs, as otberwife the vifible owneribip might only he a trap for their creditors, (the estates being incumberc4 to their full value) the Bill was dropped. A limiter principle might be applied to the prefent The Bill was ordered to be read a fecood time an Monday the 27th initant. The Dube of NORFOLK alto moved, that the BM for preven ting the Granting of °Mee' in Rcverfiun Mould be read a kcond time ea the fame day.—Ordered. IRISH GLSIII HOUSRI. The Earl of SUFFOLK withed to move the kesed reading of the Bill (or granting so,oool. for the ereeltinu of Glebe Hooks in Ireland, and to make (rime obtervatious up .d the ridded ; bvt on the fuggelthen of the Lord Chancellor, that the. printed copies of the Bill were not, yet on the table, it was agreed to poilpont the ficond sreading till to morrow. Adjourned WI to-ntornsw (this day). g HOUSE OF COMMONS. A new Writ wao ordered for the Borough of Hertford, in the room of the Right Hon. Lord Robert Seymour, w►o has made his det:tion for the County of Carrowthen. A new Writ was alto ordered for the Borough of IVlddherft, in the room of Samuel Smith, Efq. who has made his eledtiun for the Borough of 4.eiesfter. The Equity Courts' Bill was ordered to be read a third time to• morrow. iiePcilkeflone Pier and Harbour Bill was paired, and ordeted to the Lords. The feeond reading of the Tait India Jurifdialoo lteghLition Bill was pufttoned tin this day fc'nnight. The Sierra Leone BUJ was read a fecond time, and ordered to be eosuritted for to-motrow. _ Mr. FOSTER obtained bate to bring in a Bill for regulating and eolledling the Duties on Gold and Silver Plate manufatlured In Ireland The frith DlEUlery Bill, the trial Chancellor of the Exchequer's Bill, and the Mar Cuttoms' Compeofatioo Bill, were feverally committed, and the Reports ordered to be received to-morrow. The Report of the Committee of Ways and Mane was brought up, and agreed to, and Bills ordered to be brought la ther.em '1 he Reports on the frith Spirit Licence Bill, and the kills Pro 'Mon Bill, were feverally brought op and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to morrow. The Report. on the In& Sugar and Tea Duty Bin, and the frills Naval Stores Importation Bills, were feverany brought up sod agreed to, and Bins ordered In thereon refpcdtively. The Lottery Bill and the Id& Stamp Duties Bill were feverany read a fecund time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Eyelre Amendments Bill, the Fenimore Houfe BiU,and the irifb Infirmaries Eatention Bill vizre feverally brought up, read a fiat, and ordered to be read a fecund time to•mortow. BREACH OF FRIVILLGE.-...MR.LOWTANI &X. Mr. JEFFERY (one of the Members for Poole) role, purfuant to the notice he had given, to tom plain of a flagrant breach of the law, and of the pri vileges of the Houle of Commons. He Rated that a writ had been iffued, in the ufual form, on the nth of April Jail, tOr the elation of two Members to ferve for the town and borough of Poole. That writ had been iffued, and left with the clerk of Mr. Lowten, in the Temple. The parties, candidates, &c. went down of coUrfe at the time appointed for the elation: and many oldie eleaors aaually remained at Poole for three weeks or a month, in order to i give their votes. However, a delay, at the time on accountable, took place, till at laft the Sheriff gave notice that the elation fhould take place on the zsth of May. One of the conies of the delay, u it atterwards appeared, was, that one of the voters was nut eligible to vote till the szd of May, when he came of age ; the confequence of which was, that when the eleftion came on, there was a doubl e re turn as to two out of three candidates. Mr. Jef fery farther Rated, that he applied to Mr. Lowten to know what was become of the writ ? Mr. Lowten told him that it had been fent three - hours before.— In anfwer to another inquiry, Mr. Lowten gave him a rude reply, namely, that he would not inform him (Mr. Jeffery) to whom it was fent, but, for his con tolation. he might be allured, it was feat down againft his interell. Sir Richard Bickerton, a Lord • of the Admiralty, who was one of the Candidates, went down, and was kept at Poole for a length of time, in confcquence of this delay, with great Incon venience to the public fervice. He would therefore move, " That Mr. Staniforth, the Meffenger of the Great Seal, be now called in. to fubtlantiate, by evi dence, that flatement which had`now been made." Mr. CREF.VEY wifhed &It to afeertain to what point of evidence Mr. Stanifolth's examination was to go? The SPEAKER Paid, that the fuhjeft, as Rated by the Hon. Member for Poole, deeply Welted the privileges of the Houle. Whoever prefumed to de- tain the doing of a writ, wis Grill, of a high crime and nufdonoanour, as it went to deprive thofe of their feat who ought to be in that Houle. It was by the examination of evidence that the Honfe could after- j twin bow tar the allegation of the' lion. Gentleman ' was tubitantiated: ' ' ' " ' - . - I Kr. Stitt:Worth war then &tiled in, and intarroga ted at the Bar, by the Stamm. as follows: • Whit did rim receive the int writ fort the elation of a Mau -1 per to three for the town and canny of Pools On the 29th of Arrlt Q_ To whom did you deliver k t—A. To jamb= Brindrctt• Q. When ?-.A Witblo two boon after I rossivedk. • Wks is he?—A. Chid Clerk to Mr. Loots'. attorney. To what periods did you deliver to hiss that writ I—A. To fend it down wkh expedition to the liberal a Poole. • Mr. JEFFERY then moved, 14 That Jonathan Brtindrett do attend this Haute to-morrow ;" but, on the fuggetlion of the &assails. that the motion should be Ara for the attendance of the principal and then of the clerk, Mr. Jeffery altered hir. motion thus : 64 That Mr. Thomas Latium, Attorney at Law. and his clerk, Jonathan Brundrett, do attend this Houk to-morrow ; and that the farther con 6• deratiim of the caufe of the delay or mifratrriage of the writ, be deferred till to•morrow." yoLusyseas, Sir T. TURTON moved for a return of the ac tual Effedive TOW of the Volunteers of Great Bri tain and Ireland. He rejoiced that meafures would be to-morrow propofed to the Houle by the Noble Lord (Catilereggh). who had paid the utmoß atten tion to every part of our Military Defence, and par ticularly to the Volunteers. There were returns on the table up to the tlth of December, 1806. Thofe Turns were, however, known to he yery inaccu rate, and hardly to be depended upon. It would be in vain to conceal that the Volunteer Force hid de• eroded to a Molt alarming degree l and it was no wonder that it had fo happened, when the language, as well as thf condo. of the lea Adminifiration with Yelped to the Volunteers was taken into confiders .tion. He knew, however, that the hearts and fpirit of the great body of them were found ; and he was convinced that, with but little encouragement from Government, their former order might eafily be re vived. He did not fee that any thing fo etredual could be fubllituted in the place of the Volunteer SySern. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER allowed that the lag returns could not be ahtriortely relied upon, as they were made by the Officers in their own way, without any direllions or check from the Government. He thought that the heft returns of the fituation of the Volunteer Force were likely to be got from the reports of the Infpeding Field Officers. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE warmly contended. that the reafon of the idecreafe of the Volunteer Force was by no means from any condo& purfned, or any language held by the late Adminiflration, but merely becaufe there did not appear any immediate necetEty for their fervices, as the enemy was not then on the coati But, thould the enemy return to the coaft, he was convinced it would Coon appear that there was no falling off, either in the numbers or (pink of the Volunteers. If they had continued to be worked in the fame manner as when the enemy was on the coal, then, indeed, he believed there would have been a great decreafe of their numbers, as they knew the value of giving their attention to their private occupations. He felt warmly on the ftljed of Volunteers, as he had belonged to that body fence 1794, and was determined, during the pre fent wa-, to continue a Volunteer while he bad a limb to Rand on. General PHIPPS did not underßand what the Hon. Gentleman meant by working the Volunteers. Their work was pirrely voluntary. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE (poke in explanation. Sir T. TURTON, is reply, recapitulated the ex. prelEons which had been thrown out againft the Vo lunteers at former times, from Members on the other fide of the Honk. They were called a an armed democracy," a depofitary of panic, and many other degrading epithets, which mull have difgulled many of them and induced them to retire. The papers moved for were then granted. FAST INDIA BONDS amt. Mr. GRANT moved the fecond reading of the Bill. Mr. CREEVEY did not with to oppofe the Bill altogether, but at the fame time he did not think it proper that it lhonld be read a fecond time now, when no documents had been produced to fupport it. This was the fiat time that fuch an application had been made to the Houfe, without either the Re• port of the Committee appointed to examine into the merits of the application, or without a full difclofure of the Company's affairs. The prefent time is un derflood to he one of unparalleled &firth in the Company's affairs, and while two of their Budgets were Rill in arrear, he thought it would be a moll uno precedented thing to give them now an increafed fa. cility of borrowing money, without previoufly mak ing tone inquiry into their afloat fituation, and their means of repaying it. His obje* ion was attempted to be anfwered by Paying, that the Company wanted nothing from the country; that this meafure would be only commuting their power of railing money by' an increafe of their capital to that of railing money by their bonds. It could not be forgotten, however, how arongly it was argued in 1796 by Lord Melville and others, that it was far better to raife money by increafing their capital, than by iffuing bonds.— At prefent the Houfe had nothing to judge of the fitnation of the Company by, except the left eflimates which were laid upon the table. By thefe eflimates it appeared that she expenditure abroad exceeded the revenue by 2,600,0001. and that on the home ac count there was a lofs of 2,300,0001. In addition to this it mull be recolleded that the debt was thirty millions, of which near fevenreen millions *ere due by bond, pay able at the option of the holder. There had been from time to time molt flourithing accounts given in that Houfe, of the future profpeEts - of the Company, but thofe hopes had never been realifth. He was allonithed that. the Hon. Direetor (Mr. Grant) could now calculate on a long peace in India, when le had before given his opinion that all the treaties recently entered into in India with the Peith. wa, with the Nimes, and with the Nabob of Oude, were likely to kindle frefh wars. If all thofe meafisres feparately, were likely to kindle wars, he could not fee the grounds upon which this Bourifiring Gate of the Company's affairs was to be prefitmed, or how the Houfe could be joßified is allowing them to borrow mire money without Come examination of the (late of their affairs. He concluded by moving that the fecond reading of this Bill be poßponed for a fort night. Mr. GRANT (aid he was equally willing and de firous with the Honourable Gentleman, that the affairsl4 the Company fbould undergo a full and fair difcuffion, but not with a view to the unfounded gravation or minatement of their prefent embarraff snents, whatever thole Might really be. His a* radon for oppofing the delay propofed by th e H o . sourable Gentleman, was the opinion intimated sad entertained on all fides of the Houfe, that the peef e i t would be a very (hors &Mon ; and as it was Ido l necelfary to the accommodation of the Companra J *affairs that the prefent Bill Stolid pars in the prefect Sefton, he apprehended that the delay propoc e d would defeat their °bite. As to the prodothas of the documents, (hewing a nate of the Company's 0 affairs for the two tan years.' althangh they wer e Come Ikon time in the poffelfion of the Direflors, the Honourable Gentleman hitsfelf molt know from ec. petience the difficulty attending fuch an arrangement of thole documents as to pat them in a fit fire to lay before the Houle, The fad was, that with all the diligence that could be exert-d, it was found prafticable to lay them on the table in a printed Rate, before the neceffary time for proceeding with the prefent Rage of the Bill. The Papers of the fin' year were allied, and now printing ; and he did hope to have laid them before the Houk to•day ; the others were in a Rate of forwardnefs, and he hop e d would be ready in a very few days. As to the fame, or rather fufpenfion of thole profpefts in the taint. pang's affairs, alluded to by the H o nourable Gee. denim, as formerly held out to this Houfe by a Noble Lord, he begged leave to fay, they were Rated in the contemplation of a permanent peace in India ; and they were defeated only by the (laden and un. expeBed breaking out of two focceffive and =oft eoftly wars, which not only exhaußed the Company's revenges in India, and loaded their credit there wish ' .exorbitant interefls for neceffary loans, but abforbed the money and invellments fent out for commercial Impedes; inßead of (offering them to be appropri ated for the purchafe of large inveilments homeward. Thefe cadet, added to the circumfiance of the Com pany having now in their warehoufes goods to the value of above ft; millions, for which they bud not been able to find 4 fate time enough to anfwer their engagements, they felt it expedient to apply to Par. liament, not for any grant of money, as had been milconceived by the Honourable Member, but fir the liberty of railing two millions on their credit , by bonds, as a mode more convenient and lets injurious to themfeives, and lets likely to be detrimental to the public than that of retorting to the privilege already veiled in them by Parliament, of extending their ea. pital to three million, more, if they thought fit., The prefent embatraffment was but temporary ; and now that peace was reamed in India, there was every profpen that the Company would fpeedily be in a way to realize their promife of paying off two mil. lions a year, if the peace continued. What might be the difpofition of the native powers in that coun try, now in our alliance, to break with us. or how loon circumfiances might giv: rife to a new war, it was impoffible to forefee. Lord FOLKSTONE fupported Mr. Crteoey's amendment, and faid, nothing could be more reafon able than the (hors delay propofed, until the Ijoufe Illould have an opportunity of duly examirdig the Company's affairs, which he Paid were univetfalty confidered to be in a (late of bankruptcy. The ob. vious reafon why they did not raife the money is thi wa7 they were already authorized, by increafing their capital, inßead of applying to Parliament for penniffion to raife it in the mode now proporea t ou, that the public. fufpicious of their affairs, and appto herifive of their infolvency, would isive nothing for their flock ; and because they conceived that if Par liament gave this fanitiou to their bonds, ii would be confidered as a proof th tt . the Houfe had fully exa mined into their circomaances, and had found 46re folvent. The Houfe therefore was bound, before it gave this fanftion (which the public would confider' as a Parliamentary goat antee to the loan fo ritifed t fhould the Company prove infolvent) to examine fully into the Rate of their affairs, uh.ch the Hon. Dice for had Paid were neatly ready to be laid beft we the Houfe, and that the thorn delay propofed would produce no impediment liable to fair objenion. Lord HOWICK fpoke at length, in leppott of the arguments of the left Speaker, and urged the indifpenfahle neceffity of a full and minute enmina lion into the affairs of India, a country fo materially connefted with the prolperitt and greatnefs of the Btitiffi Empire, and fo much the favourite and avows ed objell of our Formidable enemy. Mr. GRANT explained, and apologized for the word' ignorance,' which he bad applied to a pan of the fpeech of Mr. Creevey. Mr. R. DUNDAS laid, the Ample queßion in this cafe lay in the narrowed compost. It was nseiely, whether the Houfe would allow the Company to raife two millions for their temporary accost= ala lion by bond. inßead of railing it in the nutiner they were already authorifed to raife it. by increaft their capital t and this question, he contended, haft nothing on earth to do with the 'ate of the Callt pany's affairs now coming forward, nor w a s it in do! ffighteß degree neceffary that any fuch investigation, as that propofed, thould precede the pang of this Doflor LAWRENCE, at tome length, fupportc4 the neceffity of the enquiry, and Lid that the Houfe fitould . not !hew too mach readinefs to grant fuch aids to uadiag Companies upon their own mere affertions ; for, if this Were granted, the next claim would probably be from the Welt India merchants and although the Houfe would not, perhaps, be le gally bound to guarantee the loan thus contraaed, in cafe of infolvency, the public would confider them. (elves entitled in equity to relief from Parliament, upon the guarantee of whole [andiron they would flay they had lent their money. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEUE.R fupported the Pimple quellion, as Rated by M. R. Dundas, and Aid it never entered into the concep tion, or, he believed, into the hearing of any man, before this night's debate. that Parliament, in Psi . ' Ping a Bill aurhorifing a great Corporation or 'I ra• ding Company to raife money on their own fecuritiss t or to adopt any commercial or other pr jea or fpecti lation, thereby bound themfelTes to guarantee the folvency 4 fuch company, or the fucceis of fuch fpe.. culation._'• As well might it be l a id, t h a t the com pany of the Grand Junaion Canal, or 'or the Welt India Docki, or the Proprietors of any Cqal Mine ti Manufaaory; were guaranteed in thei! solvency and fuccefs by Parliament, the moment it palffd All AR for their incorporation. He utterly denied that any fuch intention over wm formed or implied, or that