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:. in view more important than the poirefflon of there provinces. WARSAW, JANUARY 29. Marthal Augereau's head quarters are at Malocice, a few leagues from Warfaw. The Emperor reviews the troops almoft everyday. The Grand Duke of Berg lately gave a ball. His I m perial Majelty, whole condefcending manners en gage all hearts, lately took part in a ball, and was pleafed to dance with a Polifh lady. BERLIN, FEBRUARY 7. According to the latett accounts, the Telegraph hoffilities hive already commenced between the Turks and Ruffians. People flatter themfelves at Conflantinople, that the Emperor of the French will fend forme Generals and experienced Officers, to direa their operations, and enable them to aft in •hnceat with the Grand Army. VIENNA, JANUARY Baron Benningfen commands the Ruffian army in Poland, in the place of Count Kamenficoy. Ge neral Buxhovden's place is fupplied by Prince Bagra• thion. The arrival of Couriers to the French and Ruffian Envoys is very frequent. Count Rafu motility has alfo received a Courier from General Michelfon, which announces his complete poffeffion of Moldavia and Wallachia, Gyurger only continu ing to hold nut. The Ayan of Rudfchock attempt ed to impede the progrefs of the Ruffians, but be was defeated, with confiderable lofs. Calar Ber thier, brother to the French Minifter of War, ac companied by two Adjutants from Italy, has paired .his city, on his way to the Grand Army. The d.: I before yeflerday a Courier brought very iinportan difpatches from Baron Vincent, at War. trw, :11 confequence of which the Miniller of State immedia.ely had a private conference with•the So ...le:pi. The army cantonea near the Carpathian mounts ins advances gradually towards Gallicia. The 1.:ng1:111 fquadron near Conflantinople is an obliaae to the arrival of Turkifh troops from Afia. NAPLES, JANUARY 16. The Ruffians raife a number of Greek recruits in Albania, Epirus, and the Seven Hands. Several new corps have alfo been raifed in Sicily by the Prince of Heffe Phillipflhal. FROM THE MAIN, FEB. The Auflrian regiments in Bohemia have orders to march: A third part of the war contribution impofed upon Munfter has been remitted. A private letter, fpeaking of the affairs of the 25th and 26th, lays, " Figure to yourfelf a country nothing but an alternate fcene of woods and moraffes. The affair of the 26th continued till late in the night. The atmofphere was uncommonly cloudy, and during a form of wind and hail, we fought only by the light of the cannon and (mall arms; however a village on fire contributed to diflinguifh the field of battle. The Ruffians, and particularly the Cofficks, increafed the horror of the fcene by the difmal howl which always accompany their attack. The cavalry fought fwoid in hand in:deep moraffes, where theii horfel could neither move backward or forward. Neither friend nor enemy could any longer diffinguiffi each other of courfe there was fome confufion. Near the fpot where I was, the French were upon the point of firing upon each other ; but an Adjutant threw himfelf in the micla of them and cleared up the millake. In the meanwhile, we drove the Ruffians before Us.— The whole country exhibits the appearance of a dreary wafle—provifioni are extremely fcarce, and the roads impaffable ; the people are kind. The no bility live in the country in their (mall canes, which do not contain more than four or five apartments ; thefe nobles (peak French. The reit of the inhabi tants live in cottages and huts, men, women, chil. dren, and cattle, altogether. Some of the peafantry art cloathed with &ins." A Ruffian meffenger, it is Rated, arrived yeflerday to the Ruffian Legation, but, if a meffenger did ar rive, we do not hear that he brings any news. Private accounts from Holland, of as late a dee as Sunday laft, Rate, that there were three Dutch frigates, fully provided for a long voyage, waiting at Helvoetfluys for an opportunity to fail. It is fuppofed that they are deftined for Batavia. An embargo has been 17id upon all veffels at Helvoet fluys and the Biille.—The requitition, in Brabant, of all young men from 16 to 25 years of age, is en forced in the moil rigid mantles', and has produced fome Tay ferious diituibances. The Coronation of Kin"' Louts is ihortly to take place with great fplen dour. The following Order relating to Neutral Neffels, has been figned by the Privy Council, and is expected to appear in the Gazette this evening : ORM R. _ . . --. Neutral Veffcls laden with cargoes conlifting of the articles her, in after enumerated, cooling for importation to any port of the United Kingdom, are not to he interrupted (provided they are not coming from any port in a ftate of ftrid and rigorous block ade). and in care any filch vale' fo coming with fuck articles Chill be brought (or indication, before the High Court of Admiralty. or :my Court of Vice-Admiralty, the fame are to be forthwith Übe rated, upon a claim being given by or on behalf of the Merchant or Merchants to whom fuch articles zre configocd, wl•huut the necrlkty of producing proof as to the property. FU&D. &NUMERATION OT ARTICLES. Grain, Corn, Meal and Flour (if importable according to the provilions of the Corn Laws), Rice, Spatiffia Wool. Niohair Yarn, Madder and Madder Roots, Smalts. Slwimick, gall., Cream of Tartar. Safflower. Valoon. Brialitone. S1` 2 " 1111 Wine, Indio, Saffron, Verdigreare, Cochineal, ()rehab. Weed, Turpentine. Pitch, Hemp, Timber, Fir OA, Oak ,Plitdr, Mall and Spars, Rags, Oak Bark, Flax Seeds, Oil orTurpcnioe, Calk, tiiive Oil, Frnt, Atha. Juniper Berries, Barilla,Orgatzint thrown d raw tilk (oot Lang of tie production of the Fall Indies or twva), („tnichlilver, Bullion coined and uneoined, Goat, Kid and lamb Skin. Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, an alarin wa , given of a cotton yarn fhop in the High•ilieet, near Bell's fireet, Glafgow, being on fire, which the Siemen locceeded in con Suing to the thop, which it entirely deareyed. SOUTH AMERICA. A confiderable time ago, Government determined to fecure our conquells in South America:. there being no officer there, of higher rank than a Briga dier General, it was determined to fend out an Officer of rank as Commander in Chief there, and we pointed to a popular Officer, who it now ap pears is aslually appointed to the chief command on the Continertt of South America. Within the lalt ten days we have heard the names of feveral Officers mentioned as the Candidates for this command, and the names of Sir ARTHUR WkLLESLEY and Sir GEORGE PREVOST are moll frequently mentioned; but it is now decided, that that very able Officer, Lieutenant General WHITE I.Gc K, gets the command. He will command about 12,000 men, it is hid, and carry with him a confiderable Staff. A company of Horfe Artillery, and his own regiment, the 89th, go out with him immediately, and he will find there the reinforcements fent by Sir DAVID BAIRD from the Cape ; the remains of Brigadier General Bsars- FORD% army ; the army under Sir SAMUEL AUCH. MUTT ; and that under Brigadier General Ceßw- THE ARMY. It is expelled that the 63d regiment, Rationed at Clonmel, will form be fent on fervice. The 69th regiment is Ilationed at Ntw Geneva Barracks. The gallant 76th regiment, lately returned from India, and which, our Military Readers will recoiled, performed fuch feats is Bengal under the Honour able Colonel MowsoN, is now at Guernfey, as are the zd battalions of the 1811), or Royal Ira Regi• ment, 3ift, 44C1, 56th, and Da MEURONIS Swifs Re giment, lately returned from India. We est:tea in a flay or two to be able to prefent a coned lift of the Staff proceeding to South Ame rica. CAP'T'URE OF CURACOA. His Majefly's fchoOner la SUPERIEURE arrived at I Portfrnouth yeflerday from Jamaica, which (he left on the 12th of January ; by which we have the agreeable intelligence of the Capture of Curacoa. This important action was atillieved in the molt gallant manner on the ill of January 1111. His Ma jetty's (hips ARETHUSA ) LATONA D ANSON, and Fis• dean, ran into the port, and, carrying the batteries by fkorm, killed and wounded about two hundred of the enemy. On our fide there were none killed, and only about thirty wounded The Keena-Haller, Dutch frigate, the Sul loam Dutch corvette, and the Flying nth national fchoo. neer, were lying at Curacoa at the time, and fell, of courfe, an eafy prey to Britith valour. We have the pleafurc to add, that on Saturday the loth of January, his Majelty's (hip ANSON, of 4.0 guns, Captain LYDIARD, arrived at Jamaica from Curacoa, with about 3oo.prifoners, and the colours captured at that Ifland. This morning an Officer arrived exprefs at the Admiralty, with the above intelligence ; and at one etlock, the Park and Tower guns were fired on the oceafion. Letters from Sr. Helena, dated the beginning of January, were yefterday received. They (late that Governor PATTEN had been ordered to be Infpended, for having weakened the garrifon of that place, by fending a part of the troops to fluenos Ayres. Sir Horan POPHAM attended yefteiday at the Ad miralty, and afterwards at Lord HOWICK% office in Downing.ftreet. A notification of the arra' of Sir HOMI POPHAM was yefierday made to the Houfe of Commons by the Board of Admiralty. The reafun the commu nication not having come from the KING, in this cafe as well as thofe which relate to the army, is this: Majefty is the fovereign head of the Army, and all matters relating to it are of courfe referred to him; but not fo with refped to the Navy, his Ma• jetty's power and authority being delegated to th- Cornmiffioners fur eiecuting the office of Lord High Admiral of England. Rio tSE LA PLATA.--A letter from an Officer at Maldonado, dated the 6th of December, contains the following intelligence: Colonel Backhoufe, who commands Maldohado, received a letter from General Beresford, a few days flame, in which he Pays he is very well; be is about 6o miles diftant. The Spaniards committed the molt /orrid cruelties on °Or men, fuch as cutting off their ears, and wearing them as cockades; [tripping a man naked, and putting hint in a ring of forty or fifty, to that each might have a flab at him. This we learn from thole who have made their *ape. "There ate now shoo Spanith troops encamped :bout tS' mil:. from this place, commanded by Generall'izarro, who arc expeett d to attack this place every day. The troops here arc Hnly 23:e The Spaniards are all mounted oh molt excellent ho f,-s. of wSiclt there arc thou:ands in this country, and the belt of them may he put - chafed for two dollars. They have MA curious ntettioll of fighting, with a long rope and anode at the end, which they throw with the greatett nicety to the Mance of thirty yards, it is fattened to the caddie ' and, as loon as they have caught their ob jet, they gallop off, an d drag him to death in five minutes; femer ral o: our men have been taken in this way. " Admiral Stirling, it is fuppofed, is waiting for a reinforcement from England to attack Buenos Ayres again ; it is expected to be very enfily taken,but the difficulty will be keeping poffcfilon of it. " The foraging parties that are fent out for cattle. generally bring in about two or three hundred at a ;Lae. A cow and calf may be purchafe4 here for two dollars, which is 3-:o per cent. dearer than they ufually are; meat we get at one penny per pound, very c xscllcnt to.der beef—but no mutton, as cheep arc very fearer." HORN'S'r and Co. intreat the Public will accept their refpedtful thanks for the favours they received in the latl Lotto y, And beg leave to atfure the Public it Mall be their conliant (lady to attend to the intercft of all thole who honour them with their commands. No. 19.544, to,oool. in fifteen Shares, 8,716, 5,0v01. in five Shares, 44, god. in sixteen Shares, and 1,350, cool. in nine Shares, were all fold by Hokasav and Co. at their State Lottery Offices, 26, Cornhill, 52, Charing etas, and St. Margaret's Hiil, 13orough. NIILTIC.4L INTELLIGENCE. His•Majefy's (hip CAMILLA was fpoken with on the 13th infiant, in Lat. 41. to. Long. 12. with Forty Sail under convoy from Lifbon. • Though the wind has of late been very favourable, the 'cry large fleets for India and the Cape of Good Hope, with troops, the large fleet for the Well In dies, and likewife that for . the Mediterranean, with troops, are Hill detained , at Portfmouth. The ANTELIIPE, so gtm Chip, with Lord CALE. DON, when on the eve of failing, was detained fr( m filling to the Cape by order of Government ; this and the detention of the other fleets gives rife to various conjeCures. , • PENZANCE. FEBRUARY 17. Yellerday put in here wind•bound, the Ilabbaktik, from Plymouth ; the John, from Truro, in ballad ; Succefs,•of and from London, with groceries, for, Cork ; Pettercll, from Towey, with fall for Padflow; Ranter, from Plymouth, in ballail, and the Ceres, Gamut's, from London, with bale goods, for this place. The 'rowan left Falmouth in company with the Ceres on Sunday, but coming on to blow a gale at S.W. the was unable to weather the Lizard : !up pored the is returned to Falmouth. FALMOUTH, FEB. zg. Sailed this day his Moiety's fbili PLANTACENET, on a crnize ; Duke of . Marlborough BULL, with mails of the 4th intl. for Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Crooked Ifland ; the Prince Erncti, PErRE, with mails of the 4th init. for New York and Halifax ; the Princefs Elizabeth, K IDD, with mails of the. z7th ult. and loth intl. for Lifbon ; the Prince of Wales, TODD, with mails of the id intl. for Lifbon ; and the Prince's Elizabeth, FOR RFSDAL E, with mails of the 4th intl. for Gibraltar, Malta, and Melina. Wind N. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY w. Arrived tais Majefty's (hips INDEFATIGABLE, frcm Plymouth ; la 87:PERIEURE 1. om Jamaica—the failed on a 211) January; PEspsici.s from Cort ; CRACKER, from a cruize, difmafled ; Explann, and feveral others, with the Lord Duncan, Baring, and Me:• calfe ; Wanflead, WiLsos, for Madeira; Tranfitt, for Malta ; Duenna, AY LES, far Antigua ; Preflon, EDWARDS, forSurinarn; Aimwell, R IC et MON D, and the Viciffitude, —, for Jamaica ; and a fleet .f other outwaid_bound veffels, blown from the Downs in the gate of wind on the ISth ult. with the lots of anchors and cables.—Wind S.W. DOVER, FEBRUARY 20. Arrived this day the following veffels :—Brig Maneheifer, Captain Wit EA rscaorr, from Hull, with oats, potatoes, &c. bound to London, loft two anchors and cables ; brig Liberty, of Scarborough, Captain Horcutrisoa, laden with coal:, both malls and•bow fprits carried away whilft the was tiding at anchor under Dungenefs ; brig William, of Scarborough, Captain WARD, bound to London, with wheat, with lofs of fails ; brig Goede Kinfyt, Captain BENTSEN, of and from Schyne, in Norway, with timber, for Topfham, wind bound. Sailed the (hip Acorn, Cap• taro CRIrcH E n, for London, with wine, from Oporto; alfo the brig Cora, Captain OLLEY, for Yarmouth, with wine, alfo from Oporto. Several veffels have gone pall here this day, for the Downs, with the lofs of topmalls, fails, &c. and a large American is off here, coming in next tide, with the lofs of her mizen matt, anchors and cables, and hull much damaged. The funkcn (hip (till remains to the Weftward of the town, in the fame petition as flue did yefterday. jolt arrived off here the (hip Walker, Captain CLARKE, of New Bedford, from New York, with wheat and bound to London, loft two anchors and cables.— Wind S. W. and blows thong. A. FEBRUARY 20. Arried his MajeQy's !Lips SOLEBAY and DEvAs tavtora, and feveral others, with damage : they were blown out of the Downs in the gale of the ifith intl. Came down from the Riser the Worcefler, twund to the Ealt Indies ; and Fame, BRAND, for Demerara, and remain in the Downs with the rea of the !hips as per lilt.—Wind S. W. HARWICH, FEBRUARY ►9. Ye(lerday we had a very heavy gale at N.E. The . Apollo, of Yarmouth, BAxrsit matter, blew on fhore on the }lye Sand, near this place, and funk; the crew came on fhore here this morning. The Mailer reports that upwards 'f twenty fail of (hips are on (bore between here and Yarmouth, of which three are gun brigs. Should the weather prove moderate, it is expelled part of the carg i of the Apollo (which is coals) may be laved, as likewife the greater part of her ftores. The (hip Evcretta, Dot:a Lusus, of South Shields, in !Alan, from Lon. dou, has pot in here, with lots of anchors and cables. YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY 20. We are lorry to add to the calamities already known, by hating the total Infs, io the late norm, of his Majeil y'. revenue cutter HUNTER, THOMAS JAI, C“nintiander, with all her crew, coofilling of the Captain, Mate, and thirty men, off Haihrough : fe veral of the crew have been wafhed on Hafbrough beach, and part of her wreck and limes. Put into this port the Four Brothers, RICHARD PEARSON ; and /Wive, JOSEPH MAR its, from London, in ballet, with the lufs of all their mans; the Derfley,NlCNOl.s, with the tors of anchors and cables.—Arrived the ALBRT {loop of war. Remain in the Roads the Majeilie, Roebuck, Di6lator, Agincourt, Stately, Ariel, Alert, and Croizer {loops of war; and Vixen gun brig. Wind S. W, FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAlfailaNn, FEll.2o—..Palled by the Santa Maria, Gunfalves, from Buenos Ayres; and the George, Hall, from Plymnuth— Sailed the Etty, lienderfon, for Berbice - Neva, Simphin, for Antigua; Trelawney Planter, Curry; an d the Clio, --, for Tobago ; Nelfon, Herbert, fur St. Vincent's ; Harmony, Wilfon ; and Favourite, Homan, for Demerara ; Lively, Flynn, for New ; Atlas, Hill, for Gibraltar •, Corn Planter, Gillis, for Philadelphia ; Albion, Then:fon; and the Levant, Raddon, for Jamaica. • OLD BAILEr. Yetlerday being appointed for the trill of Itor,Tvly pnd Haggerty, for the murder of Mr. Steele, tne Court•houle was crowded at an early hour in the morning. • Precifely at nine o'clock, the RECORDER having taken his feat, the various nit; n:rs againfl whom True Bills had been found by the Grand Jury, were brought into Court. John Holloway and Owen H: g. the two men acculed - of the above murder, were among the number ;—they were both heavily ironed, particularly Holloway, who is a (hong hle•ic and brPadfhouldercd man: and when called upon to plead to their Indidment, both of them, in a fit m and refolute manner, repeated the words, "Not Guilty." Precifely at ten o'clock, the Judges, Mr. Jufticc HEATH, Sir , SIMON La BLANC, and Sir THOMAS MANNERS Surrrow, took their feats on the Bench, which had been previoutly crowded with Ferrous of Diainftion, among them we obferved the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of Aberdeen, and feveral Mid dletex Magitirates. The trial of Holloway and Haggerty did not pro ceed 6141; the following cafes being tried before it : Mary Prince was indited for uttering a two pound Bank of England Note, knowing it to be forged ; but acquitted in confequence of the Counfel for the profccution dtclinirg to go into the evidence, from fame allevilting circumstances in her cAle. Michael Ralf was capitally convkled of ftealing a great-coat in a dwelling houfe, the property of Warner, Efq. TRIALS FOR MURDER. Elizabeth Godfrey, a woman of the town, was capi. tally indifted for the wilful murder of Richard Prince, in Mary-la-Bonne Parilh, on the 2sth December lafl, by giving him a mortal wound with a pocket knife in the left eye, of which wound he languifhed and died. It appeared from the tetlimonv of Emily Biffet,who cohabited with the deceafed, that the Prifoner had come to lodge, tour days before the unfortunate event, in the fame houfe, and in a back apartment of the lame floor. That two nights before the tranfation, itf confequence of fame altercation between the prifoner and a man the had brought to her apartment, and who complained of being t obbed of 18s. the deceafed had called in the watch, and lent the p:ifoner to the watch houfe, where the was detained all night ; that on Chtifimas day, about five in the afternoon, as the witnefs and the deceafed lat at tea, they heard a tap t their room door ; the deceafed opened it, and tie ing nobody, doled it again. Immediately another •ap was heard; he went a fecond time, when the wit. nets Aced him why he did not take the candle ? It was the prifoner who rapped, and faid the wanted to fpeak to the deceafed, who went out to the landing place. The prifoner afked him why he troubled his head about fetching the watch to take her up fome evenings fince ? and the witnefs immediately heard her exclaim " tale that !" The deceafed inflantly came hack into the room, Paid he was a dead man, and pulled out of hi, left eye a knife which had been (luck into is by the pi hinter, which he threw upon the flor , r. It appeared bent and bloody:-., Mr. Scott, the mailer of the houfe, ran up (lairs, and afked how the prifo ner could be fu wicked as to do fuch an a& towards a fellow creature ? She anfwered, ,‘ It fervcd him right." Witnefs scent for a furgeon, and the deceafed was conveyed to the Middlefex Hofpital, where he languifhed until the 18th-of January, and then died. The deceafed was a Gentleman's coachman. Witnefs knew of no previous acquaintance between them : they had fome altercation the day before, at a o'clock, but witnefs never Paw her afterwards, until the deed was perpetrated. _ William Scott. the landlord of the lodgings, fuf taincd the evidence aa tar as related to him, and faid, when he (poke its the prifoner, immedi a t e ly after wards, the had. cafe knife in her hand. After the prifoner had beeteliberated, on the previous day, from the watch houfe, the witnefs advifed her to think- no more of it ; but the faid, though the had no man to take her part, the would not put up with it, nor let it drop in that manner. On his crofs examination, he faid the prifoner corn• plained that the deceafed had cut her hand, and heard fomething in the houfe about her getting a warrant for him at Bori•firect. Mr. Barry, Surgeon of the Middlefer Hofpital, who attended the deceafed, proved that the wound in his eye was the caufe of his death. The prifoner (poke at fome length in her defence ; Paid the had been beaten and ill treated by the de ceded, who fnatelted her patten from her hand, aimed two blows at her'head, and wounded her with it in the arm, and that at tl.c time of giving the wound, he had tiruck at her; when the ran into her room, caught up the knife in the dark, not knowing what it was, and (truck the deceafed, without any intention to kill him. Mr. JWIICC HbATH (rimmed up the evidence, and the Jai y found the prifoner—Guilty. I'he RrCORDSR immediately pronounced fentence of death upon her, to be executed on Monday. Im mediately all her fit mnefs and recolleaion feemed to fail her, an,i the appeared bordering upon a (fate of phreray. THE MURDERERS OF MR. STEEL. After the former criminal had been removed, Owen Haggerty and jobn Hz away were brought into Court. 70/in Holloway, alias Oliver, alias Long Will, aril Owen Haggerty, alias IVigerty, were indifted tor the wilful murder of John Cole Steel, on the 6.h of No vember, 1802. The indiEtment charged the rt t., nert in one•count with murdering the deceafeJ by 4 blow on the head with a flick, and in another count with flrangling him with a leather belt pallid round his neck. They advanced boldly to the Bar, and liffeced to their indiament with much apparent apathy. The countenances of both difplayed, that they had arrived at that climax of villainy, at which every moral feel ing is completely obliterated. Theirs was the bort id look of hardened depravity alone ; far diflant from the efforts ufually made to conceal the confcioufnefs of guilt, and equally different from that comFofure which is the fuggeflion of innocence. Mr. GURNEY flitted the circumftances of the cafe to the Jury in a very clear manner. Mr. ALLEY and Mr. GLEAD were alfo Counfel for the profecuticn.-- Mr. Antrim. was Counfel for the prifone'rs. The , following was the evidence adduced on the part of the profecution: Mr. Mayer, the brother in law of Mr. Steel, Rated