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1~ GENERAL ELECTION. TO THE INDEPEND!NF ELFCTORS OF THE TOWN OF LIVERPOOL. CZNTLIMIN, ON my return from the country yefleralay evening, I was much fnrprifed at teeing my name announced in the papers as a Candidate at the dote of the Poll for the Reprefenta tion of your Town. This nomination having taken place without my knowledge or content, and poffibly having originated In views not confonant to my own feelings. permit me to fay, that however I may be flat tered by your good opinion, fillies I never bad an intention of in truding mit& upon your notice, I cannot in honour countenance any Reps, under thrte eireumftances, which might operate to the difadvantage of your prefent Member.; tholes differing with them muff widely on political fuhjet r ie Attached, from my earlieft youth. to your opulent and fl urith ing town. by every tie of friendibip, gratitude, and affedion, I can not but foment, that at a era's like the prefent. you mould, from antes of a temporary nature, be deprived of the fervices of my Ho nourable Friend, your late amiable. enlightened, and patriotic fte prefentative, Mr. Roscoe. That this clamour arid detufion, which his Ma}efty's Minitters have too fucccfsfully excited, may fpeedily Cuba* ; that thole Minifters may dire& their attention to the aw ful events which furround us, inftead of inflaming the minds of their Countrymen with Religious Animoflty ; and that your weakby and refpcaable Town may increafe awl profper through every change and in every vicifUtude, is, Gentlemen, the heartfelt with of Your aloft obliged, devoted and faithful fervent, London, Maya'. 1307. W. J. DEMON. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS. MAY z 4. According to letters from Genoa, of the sQ in n:int, intelligence had been teceived there that the Seahorfe frigate of 44 guns, had been taken by a French fquadron from Toulon, and fent into Cot fic... The Revanche and le Rodeur privateers. have taken and brought into Calais the three following Englilh veffels, viz. the Anna, of 96 tins, laden with Oafs ; the Betfey, of too, and the Catherine Alicia, of 130 tons. The Napoleon privateer has alfo fent into Calais the Englith brig Garland, of 130 tone. The three lalt mentioned vellels bare frill cargoes for the lea fervice. The Jofephine corvette, belonging to Granville, has fent into St. Maloes the Englifh brig Jane, of t 17 tons, bound to Greenock, laden with falt, white w:ne, oranges, Btc. Befides the Bulletins of the Grand Army, we have the continuation of the Journal of the liege of Dantzic to the 3oth of April. From this it appears, that at one o'clock in the morning of the 24th, the bombardment began from mortars and howitzers, and was continued in the comic of the day from all the artillery before the place. The fire has been in. (clam ever fince, and the works of the befiegers confiderably advanced, notwithaanding the vigorous fire of the enemy, and fome fort ies. It has only been mow and then, in confequence of there forties, that tl a beficgcre fire has ceafed ; once, for infiance, on the afternoon of the 271 h, from five till fever) o'clock, in confequence of General Kalkreurh's ie quell to bury the dead, who had fallen in the for tie of the preceding night. The principal forties occurred in the night between the 26th and 27th, when the enemy had 140 killed, and we had only t I killed, and 29 wounded; and in the night of the 28th, when the enemy had 7o killed, and a number of wounded, and upwards of aco made prifoners, on which occafion our lots did not exceed eight killed, and 25 wounded. The communication between the fort of Weizel• monde had already hew cut off. and, of courfe, the arrival of reinforcements at Dantzic was impAiblt, in confequence of the batteries we had thrown up. and the number of Armed veffeis vilLich we bad in the river. BRUSSELS, MAY is. Within the lafl two days, feveral corps of troops have paired through this city from the neighlsout hood of Boulogne towards Were', where they are to wait I further orders. Her Welly the Emprefs, according to report, is goinf to Berlin. Great improvements are making in this city. The great Gothic tower fituate between the gates of Namur and Halle, has been taken down; the gate of Lacken is silo to be demolifhed, and the ramparts arc to be embellithed with promenades. MENTZ, MAY 4. This city is fo encumbered with troops, that there are from 8 to 1 a men lodged in each of thole houfes that have been hitherto exempted from billet ing. They let out in large detachments of ;women each, every day, for the Grand Army, and a fimilar number arrives every day from the interior of France. VIENNA, MAY 6. The Preiburgh Tournal contains an important ar ticle from Semlin, dated April 21, from which it appears, that the Ruffians after having three times ftormed Giurgervo, had taken that fortrefs, and con fequently that General Michelfon had paired the Danube: his advanced guard had already reached Rudfchuck. On the zd of April, Czerni Georges, after a very &vac aZtion with thepaired the Morawa with 33, - 000 men, and proceeded beyond Nifia, on his way to Sophia. On the 29th of March, the Servian Synod received an addrefb by a Ruffian .Courier, encouraging them to pats the Morawa. The Prat:ine - . Joutual further obferves, that the junetion of the Ruffians with the Servians was hourly expected. BERLIN, MAY 9. Up to the 4th, nothing had occurred between either of the armies. The enemy's preparations indicate that he will direl his grand attack along the coati, as, in cafe of fucceeding, he will be in a better fitua lion for relieving Dantzic, and alfo for receiving fuppott from the (hipping of England, Ruffia, and Sweden. Betides the thiee Swedifh frigates at Ko. ningfberg, intended for taking troops on board, feveral thoufand Ruffians have been embarked at Palau, in order to be landed upon the Freifch•Nerung, near Dantzic. By land, the advanced pals of the Ruffians and Pi uffians ate extended in the front of Brunlberg and Mehlfac. The French advanced poßs on the left fide are at Frauenberg, Mulhaufen, and Wormditt. The latter place is occupied by 8000 of the Mailhal Prince of Ponte Corvo's corps. Within the circuit of fix leagues, about 30,000 men are encamped; and, in fa4l, the whole army is in Poch a pfition as to be ready for a general anion in a few hours.— About the end of laR month, couriers were dif patched from the head quarters to all the reinforc4 merits on their march, to baba their approach with all poirible I. FRANXPORT ON THE MAINE, MAY 9, A letter from the Turk :!b frontiers contains the following pallige:—" The Muffulmen will certainly as in this war a more honourable part than in all former wars. French Field Office's are attached to all their corps, who glide their movements by the rules of European tactics. Molt of the Tut kith troops have already taken poll on the northern or left bank of the Danube, and the Ruffians have evacuated a great part of Moldavia. Public prints liate the army of the Servians tc• amount to 91,350 men, .8,000 of whom are cavalry. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY is PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confols, for money. 63i—for acc 63H—Omnium Exchequer Bills, t.. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 23t} India Bonds 4s a 6s prem. 3 P. Ct. Red Ann. 62:- 63 621 I New S. S Ann. 6311 3 per C. C014.61*{ I Each. Bills, pat Is. prem. 4 per Cent. 8:411 I Omnium 111 prem. 5 per Cent. Navy, 91-iii frith Ditto 4tl Long. Ann. t 7 13-16 25-16 Lottery Tickets, tql as. India Stock iB7 Confols for ace. 63f1 The Earl of PEMBROKII and Lord Govraa, the former going as Brit& Miniaer to the Court .of Vi emu, dap latter to St. Peterlburgb, arrived at Yar mouth on Wednefday. Yefterday Lord Parsasoaa embanked on board the ASTREA frigate, under a:fa lute, attended by his retinue, and by Meffrs. Ross and Srataow, King's Mdrengers. Lord Govaa was expeaed to embark yetterday evening, on board the SA I. IS BURY. We are happy to Rate that our commercial rela tions with Ruffia, which were likely to have been interrupted, owing to fome' mifmanagement which it would be altogether needlefs to [late, are in a fair way of being placed on a folid and permanent font. ing. Matters were lately fo circumflanced, that a paffport could not be obtained for an Eng'liftman without its being fent from St. Peterfburgh, which was attended with much trouble. We now have good authority to announce, that his Excellency the . Ruffian Ambaffador is authorized by his Court, to grant palrports to all Briar fubjeits, who may be defirous of entering the Ruffian territories; provided fuch perfons be properly recommended to his Excel- lency by his Majelly's Government. . . . .. . Same fu ing was heard at Dover yeflerday after• noon at intervals from the French coati, but as ii was trifling to what has been frequently heard from the fame quarter, no importance is attached to the circuttillance. Nothing farther has been heard terpeCting the -le• feat of the French, reported yefterday on the awls() city of private 'setters from Holland.—lt is pollible that the rumour may have owed its origin to the events that we know have recently happened before Dantzie, rather than to any tranfaCtions in Poland. Accounts have been received from Sir T. Duct- WORTH% Fleet, by a vac' which has arrived at Liver. pool, from one of the Seven I flands. The intelligence,' though not of a very pleafing kind, is what might have been expeCled. In obedience to the circular Fir man of the Grand Seignior,all the Barbary Powers had declared againfl us, and the Mediterranean is covered with their corfairs. The Bey of Tunis and the Dey of Algiers are for emoft in this general hofti lity. The mifchief of this vexatious warfare is more than proportionate to the actual ftrcngth of the Powers concerned. The corfairs are invariably (mall veffels, Come of them {loops, and more of thrm a kind of armed wherries. It is alrnoft impoflible, therefore, to bring any force to bear againft them. The merchants' of the Levant Trade will fuffer much from their piracy. It is true, indeed, that the events of late years have reduced this once floutifhing commerce within very narrow limits; but. fomething of it 11111 exits, and its produce confifis in articles of the firQ neceffity. rhe extinction of the Levant Trade, there fore, mutt not be confidered as wholly without im portance. When the above accounts left the Mediterranean, Lord COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet was reported all well. Mr. ARBUTHNOT was momentarily expected in the AMP H lON ; and Sir THOMAS DUCICWORTI4 was hid to have reached Mellina on his way home. It was added, that Sir SIDNEY SMITH was ordered to remain on his Ration at the mouth of the Dardanelles. Sir JOHN CARR effected his late Tour in Holland and along the Rhine, in the charalter of an Ameri. can, and has thus been able to gratify the public with an account of countries which have fo long been in acceffible to Englifhmen. When Lord Chancellor SUTTON waited troDn the late Lord Chancellor Possoasv, of Ireland, in order to receive the feals, the latter, as was his duty, req aeß ed to fee Lord SUTT•N's authority. Lord ►SUTTON then, for the fit It time, difcovered that he had left the King's letter behind him in London : he was accor. dingly obliged to fend for ir, and, of courfe, feveral days elapfed before he could affume his high fituation. Colonel BEDINGFIELD'S elopement with Mrs. RAlL rrow, appears to have been in charater throughoot ; the origin of this illicit amour being at a place called Lover's 80, near Aberyttwith, and the difcovery of the denouement, at the Devil's Bridge, near Welch Pool. Yefterday, being Bow Fair, nearly 300 carts were had in requifition, to convey the belles of the agent part of the metropolis to this celebrated mart of beauty. Catcarr•-.30 Monday, commenced playing in Lord's Ground, the Grand Match, between five Gentlemen of the Mary-la bonne Club and fie players, agaltitt-eleven of the County of Middlefes, for Soo guineas a fide, which was decided on Wednefclay, ili favour of the Cpanty, by 48 runs. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. • PORTSMOUTH, MAY sr. His Majelly's . (hip DiAston° is appointed convoy for Africa. Wind E. - - DOVER, MAY ss. The &WARR (loop has detained and fent in here the hoy Anna Sophia, Capt.Dtctis, of and from Ber gen, with oil, fiat, and deals, bound for a market in France. Paffed by this day, the (hip Concordia, of Portfmouth, in New Hamp(hire, Captain Rows's, thirty days from Bodon; bound to Amfterdam.— Some firing has been heard here this afternoon at in tervals from the French c.!aft.—Wind E. N. E. and blows drong. DEAL, MAY sr . . Sailed the CLYDE frigate, Commod , re Owen ; and the KANGAROO, Capt. BARER, on a cruize. Arrived the BLAZER, from a cruize, and rensatos in the Downs with the ten of the chips as per laft.—Wind N. E. YARMOUTH, MAY 21. Sailed•the DICTATOR, of 64 guns. to relieve the Aarwcouvr, on a cruise off the Holland c9aff.— Sailed ►he LYNX sloop of war. Arrived the Ataow fchooner. Wind E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Ga AVVI FPI D, MAY al.—Pallid by the Crown Prince, °dm I and Lawrence and Mary, Malkr, from Norway. Sailed the Jane, Axton. for Newfoundland ; and the Ruby, Gay, fur Stockholm. ARRIVED. At Liverpool, the Mary, Taylo►, and the Irduftry, Huntley, from Mcffina. At Cork, Eliza, Howell, from Baltimore. At Barbadoes, Rambler, Williams, front London. At Berbice, Henry, Wive:, from ditto. At St. Vincent's, Dart, —, from Caicos• DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Diamond, for the Marie and Sophie, captured id jone, tilos ; the NerthumbeiLuld and the Illuftrious, for the Maria and Pura y I.impia Concepcion, captured 3d and 6th January, iBoe, were paid en Friday left, at Mr. Lockyer's, Plymouth; and will be there recalled on Tuefdays aad Fridays. The Difpatch, for the Pandour, captured tft. May, tBe6, will be paid on hoard, on her arrival, and recalled at No. 30, George. Rivet, Plymouth Dock. The Leda, for the Bodes Left, captured 19th May 1803, will be paid on board, on the 22d Infant, and recalled at No. 2, James. itrect, Adelphi, for three years. Admiral RUSSELL is appointed Commander in Chief of the North Sea fquadron. Captain Masa TIN is appointed to the command of the PILINCI of WALES, of 98 guns, off Rochefort. The packets are, in future, to go to Tonningen, inflead of Hufum, in confequence of its being found to be a much fafer and quicker pelage. One of the King's Meffengers went in the firlt packet to that port, about ten days fince, with difpatches to Kiel. A plan has been laid before the Bombay Govern. ment of a new route for difpatches,from India over tand, in cafe of a rupture with Turkey and Perfia. His Majen y's (hip Taostipeosa, Captain Doistitic. art :ved in the Humber on Saturday, and will fail the tli R fair wind with the trade for Archangel and Oaega. To morrow the MARLBOROUGH, of 74 guns, will be launched from the Dockyard of Meas. WILLS and PERRY, at Blackwall. On Friday fe'nnight, the Charlotte of Trenton, an American veffel, was log near Tonningen, on the fands loaded sith Raw. It was occafioned by a black buoy being millaken for a white one, owing to the fun fhining very bright upon it. The crew were all Paved, and the principal part of the cargo, owing to its being in cafks. Extraa of a letter from Captain DAVIDION of the Ann letter of marcue, belonging to Leith, dated Jama'c t, March 14., 1807.—" In latitude 17. 17. N. longitude, 60. 30. ”..e fell in with a fchonner rigged -pi ivateer, mounting 14 guns, and Lull of men, who engaged us upwards of an hour wi , hin mu(ket (hot, when finding our 18 pound carrorades ton heavy, (he hauled her wind to the fouthward. Having but little wind, we made little way, but even if the attack had b.:en renewed, we entertained no doubt of the refult being honourable to the Briti(h flag." A Britifh armed veffel, difguifed as a me ea .t.nan, lately entered the Villula, and, opened her fire upon a French column. The following are Paid to be the particulars of this gallant enterprize, which was per formed by the Sally hired armed (hip :—.The captain perceiving that the French had got poffeCfion of a fort behind a narrow neck of land at the mouth of the Villula, where they appeared in cusfiderable numbers, difguifed the Sally as a merchant thin, flood into the river, but unfortunately got aground—lhe, however, was foon got off again, but not before the Frenchmen had difcovered her to be a (hip of force, and had time to prepare for her recepti:n. She failed boldly up to the fort and opened Inch a volley of grape from her earronades, affilled with mufketry, that (be foon fwept the fort, and killed from three to four hundred Frenchmen. Our lots in this daring enter prize did not exceed 14 or 15 men. Saturday fe'nnight the EA Stiffolk Regiment of Militia was reviewed at Aberdeen by Major General M.Dorraso, and went through their evolutions and fit ings with great accuracy. Tranfports are daily ex petted at Aberdeen to take on board this fine regi ment, who have been quartered there for almoft two years, and whole orderly conchs& and Aria difcipline has, during the whole of that time, been molt exem plary. On the morning of the 9th inflant, a deferter was brought to Newcaßle, from Durham, by a cot poral and two privates. After fafely delivering their charge, the party repaired to a public houfe is Newgate-Rreet, where, in the evening, one of the privates turned re fraQory, and proceeded out of his quarters, in oppo fition to the will of his corporal. The two continued altercating nearly half way up GallOwgate, where the private drew the bayonet from the corporal's fide, and (tabbed him in the breaß. The man (who was trench intoxicated) was immediately fecured, and the corporal carried to the Infirmary. Sittings appointed in Middlefez and London, be. fore the Right Honourable Sir Jamas MANSFIELD, Knight, Lord Chief Juice of his Majefty's Court of Common Pleas, at Weßminfter, in and after Trinity Term, 1807: )171IDLINIZ IN TERM. LONDON Saturday - May 3o Monday - Friday - June 3 Saturday Thorfday n t t Friday AFT ER TERM. Tburfday Junt iE Friday - 1•81 , . . •11 Joe ;9 MAK LANE. • CORN EXCHANGE, MAY n. Wkoat is in tolerable quantities to day ; expeCting a further redu6ion, fine famples do not bring la prices, and middling are almoft without buyers, Barley inclines lower, and Malt is cheaper.—Bean s of both forts have heavy lisle, at rather Ids price.— There is a tolerable fupply of Oats, which are nearly at unvaried prices.—Flour remains very dull Ale. OtINISAL evidence AS UNDER: Whcst, 43$ dos 75. Per qr. Grey Pests 40 6 sssod Fine Ditto. ;Ss Sos od Beans, (uld) 421 47s od Rye, 311 s 4ss od Tiek Ditto (old) 34s 4cs . Bosky. 30s 36sod Oats.sto ads sits Malt, 6os 66s Poland ditto 3os 31s dd White Peale, (Boilers) jils 86s Rape Seed, !‘.71 3:1 nate Floor 55.60 s to 65s—sileconds los to 4:4 RorAL ACADEur EXHIBITION 1837. 348. Conway Caflk.—J. Ds Fi.suar.—lt gist. s pleafure to trace the progrefs of riling genius. author of this view has given Time novelty of effelt to a fubjeft which has been much backnied. 4.4 C on . way's Old Caine" is here very faithfully delineated, and the neighbouring fcenery is flcerched in with much freedom. This is a tinted drawing of the old fchool, though by a young praftitioner. 405. Venal carrying .near from the Field, Egc.—W. HILTON.—A meritorious attempt in the higher de. partment of the art. Thefe figures have all the dillin• guithing charaderillics of the Epic Mufe, ideal gran deur, and ideal grace, at the expence here and there of anatomical eorreitnefs and natural effeft. There ir, however, a difplay of fcholaftic knowledge viable in moft parts of the pidture, which augurs favourably of the artift's future reputation. As a coloutifl, he has much to learn. 331. Yiew of the Golden lane Brewery.—D. Mt. svannoLme.—A poor imitation of a very popular piaure, painted feveral years fince by Garrard, of Whitbread's brewhoufe. In that before us the horfes and.carts are very well drawn, and the view of the buildings is probably correa—but the tone of co• louring which prevails through the work is hardly equal to the dignity of the fabjelt. 323. Littkdas Tower, on the Tweed; :ec.—j. Wasp. —Vail labour has been bellowed on this pietnre, and the more pains the artiß has taken to conceal it, the more apparent it is. This is particularly obfervable in the dißant objets. The Tower itfelf is a petted portrait of this building. greatly enriched by a fpi• riled reprefentation of the localities of the frit on which it Hands. This upon the whole, we confider as Mr. Ward's bell piaure. 308. Cow boy.i.--A. W. Cm.t.corT is One of Mr. Callcott's belt pictures, becaufe in it he has trulted more to his own vbfervances of Englifh Na.. tore, than to Foreign Work* of Art. There is great fimplicity in the defigo—the gradations of light and (Lade are well obferved, and the figures, &c. in the fore ground are touched in with much force. We can only with there had been a little more variety cf tint. y. Waggon Rorie: frightened at Lightning.—J. WARD. —This is an elabotate production, but abounding in faults of moll obtrufive magnitude. The horfes and waggon are entreaty drawn, though with a very hard outline, and the Ajaro ofeuro of the picture is well Bodied, in regard to breadth of light and depth of thadow, but the illumination of the figures is that of bright day, though the greater part of the thy is wrapt in tempefthous gloom, and the horizon exhibits the faint rays of a fcarcely rifen moon. The broad glare, therefore, mull be fuppofed to proceed from the lightning ; but unfortunately this is made to iffue from a cloud on the oppafite fide of the objects on the fore. ground to that on which the light fans, nor is the flafh ufelf to vivid as the reflection produced on the figures. The anatomical espreffion given to thefe isvery good, and the fubjea in general is well conceived, but the effects produced are not thole which a more minute attention to natural phenomena would have fuggelled —The fky, in particular, is not charaderillic of a , thunder-ftorm. 16. Juliet. —T. Csaexa, A.—This is not the Juliet of Shakefpear, lamenting the banifhment of AWN but fome Abigail, grieved to the heart on account of the fhabbinefs of the family mourning, in which the is obliged to appear among the cell of the fervants 102. 7be guinntair Musjed, at Murata, Le loin. — T. Daatat.i., R. A.—The chief merit of thefe Eaft India views of Mr. Daniell, we will take it for grant. ed, confifts in their correanefs.—The colouring, we prefume, is that of Oriental Nature, othervile we fitould objet to the yellow hue which prevails fo generally in all of them. They exhibit a noble breadth -of light, and great fprightlinefs of touch. 103. Portrait of the late Lord Thurlow.—T. LIPS, A.—A fine likenefs of the great original, at the moil advanced period of his tile, painted with a firm pencil, and coloured in the very belt title of the artilt. 220. 4 Moortlight.—W. ANDEASOII:Thii is a well painted picture in all its parts :—a beautiful fedate• nefs of tint prevails throughout, and the objects we defined with juft fufficient precifion to afcertain that identity, without violating the peculiar charaaeriltis of nocturnal landfcape. 225. Portrait of Mr. Dingwall.—J. Orli, R. A.- , The bell painted portrait which this lamented arta has left behind him in the preterit Exhibition. la regard to etpreffion, difiribution of light and thadov, and truth of colouring, it is a petted fchool. 226. " The Scheel Boa, with his Satchel and frig norning Face."—H. Those sow, R. A --This is prettily painted picture, but Mr. Tuom sox does rot appear to have exactly caught the charaBer fo LIP pity defcribed by Shakefpear—" The fhining morn' ing face" is loft in gloom, and the colouring of die surrounding objeas is rather cold. 230. I'ortrait of the had of Northo.—l. Pm ILLIM A.—A firmly painted portrait, boldly projedicg from a well harmonifed back ground, but we cannot think the likenefs of the gallant officer perfect. 253. &CM 00 the OM Brent Aiver —Cat& wateting.--' C. CI ANPAIgiJUM.—This is a very improving yong wilt. In this Picture he appears to have ttudied , with confiderable fuccefs, the manner of the late Goinfborough. The effeas of Englifh Nature we well °barred.