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~~ LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE at- . • Sr.B s—. Holiday at the bank and Steeiattkanse. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock t674f Long Ann. 3-16 ape: Cent. Red. 64 II Short Ann . s 3 per-C, ConL ihut Imp. 3 per Cent. sq 4.rm tint- zg i t: - Imp. Ann. tit 9-16 5 per C. Navy ar t Omnium pi * I 5 Per t may Conf. for Act. 66i 6a4 As we fufpefled yellerday, the alarm occafioned by the Eaft-India (hips having been miftaken for enemy's, was very general along die Suffix and Ilampfhire coatis. Every where there was the greaten alacrity among the regular and volunteer corps, and all could have been in motion in a very few mltutes after the alarm. • ----- . A Council of his Majelly's Minitiers was yet. terday 'held at Lord HAWIESDURY'S Office in Powning-lireet. After it broke up, Difpatches .711feie fent off to the Court of Peterfburgh. • ' • . Mr. FORD, the Magittrate, goes to Weymouth s ilering h'ts MAJISTY'S TtfidelleethCre. Majartv has been oleafect to order a kind L of Uniform, which will be worn itlVeymouth, and which, 'at his Majssry's defire, the Princefres will adopt. It is fcarlet with a narrow gold lace, , lthe fame which is to be worn by the Knights of Vs• the Garter. • •:•' --Her Mallere's, GermaA Bind is to 'go round to Weymouth in the drugsifia Yacht. The aquatic efitertatnments there, are to be upon a grander reale than they have hitherto been.' A number of the regiments in the 'neighbour. hood of Exeter, are to be encamped immediately it is Paid item Exmouth, on a very pleacitt fpot ; and it is generally believed that his Ms./I:r* will - !evicw thete troops early in July. Ca ILIST'SHes r S rAL.—At the dote of the'poll for ' aMafter OfHertford Scboolon this admirable foun. • • *don. the numbers - <were : For -Mr. PAASALIII, lo—Por Mr. Gif Le, 17. No fooner was the lift doted, &neje* Governors appeared, in order to !rote for the Tatter. Thefollowing is the return made, under an or der of the Houfe of - Commons, of the increafe and diminution which have taken place in the number and amount of !'glary, emolument, and cinemas of an the Public °Excitor the year 1800 s. d. bands -.0 1,428 19 7t . • Dindnalina -- 24,749 56 74 Daum of Ineraik. 56.579 . 3 =if Pates or Parsa.—Every day furndhes lament able inftances of the extravagant price of that ar ticle. Nothing can exceed the impolicy of what his been called Mr. PITT': loft legacy , flu Tax on Paper. The effeas of it on the literary commerce ' of this country are grievous. Its tendency is " To Sat the gates of isesigatv en Mankind." —Of our individual sufferings we will not now •. We will quote two paffages front the la ft numer of the Britilb Critic, which cannot be 64 to be. hoftile to Adrniniftration id The extrava gantinereafe of the price of pipet will prove, we fiat.; in many inflames, p rejudicial iso to the caufe of learning." A foraltle awe -the Critic indeed produces : 44 Wt learWoullAgt, that the libe-, ran and defiaibk idea of ing the Angfib ?Its is unavoidably•relinquintod, au woke: of the aserwaso.P4SHOPY4". If Miners and.Mealusenwelotonly, as they pre. *tend. Manufaatirers and FaittiM fits-the holders 'of Corn, 'what intereheoold they have to forcing .the poifotious and adulterated Ruff, of which they - • have lately . hes:ll4l"a guilty, upon the, ppm . •- Ba kers ? Their coemitiffio'n would not very with their commodity, or. they wield loft , by telling vile in flead, cif valuable articles. - . • • This Conntry_tivill be ruined and overturned al- ' togetner, u a -ftp is not put to the tyranny end. eombinationsofCapitines. It is not true that ?M -akers are Alva who* and obey the Capitalifts ft long as. Loans are required for the Public service. The-country once deliveredrrom the # to . tilet Ow Comma; the people refcued from the • Ler& of /ferias, and faved from thefelos of evithbol&l ft**, from their own mouths, vs - Mid, • be able Willing, and eager to &mitt: a pro.- . teeing Government with more than it required for the public fafety and defence.' Nothing is P more Aire than that no Adminifiration can com-, nand the wealth of the country, like that which commands its affeaions. The gratitude of a na tion is its tuft Exchequer; ana the Stare cannot be poor where the People are happy; nor can that wealth be ufeful to the State which oppitffes the people. On Tuefday morning a fire broke out In the honk of Mr. Games, baker, Crane-greet, Dover, which wasthortly confumed, and the family with difficulty effefted their efcape. The houfe of Meas. Moses, filverfm=oining, received Come da mage, but watt d by the exertions of the inhabitants. • • • - • - A fire broke mit yelkeday 'scorning about !four o'clock, biWood-ftreet, Cheapfide, at the &gar - houfe belonging to Messrs. FAIRER and WARREN, which burned very furioutly for Tome time ; and from.a cooperage adjoining, in Wood-greet, and several old wooden buildings in the back 'courts in Philip-lane, ,the whole neighbourhood was in the pinta danger ; but the engines were fo well Cup _ . plied and worked, that though the whole of that extensive building is entirely contained, the fire . was prevented fpreading any farther; the Afro s:lotions of the Wards of Cripplegate Within and Cheap attended immediately, and preferved the greateft order, and rendered very effential fervice. The Amufentents at the ROYAL Coneys, St. Giorge's•Fields, - aided by the coolnefs of thee - Theatre, form fo ftroog an attraaion as to yield overflowing audiences every evening, who espial the itrongeft approbation of the Grind Pantomime of the Bari& in Egypt, with Sir RALPH Affil•• caostar's horfe being flint under him, dm the fakinating Speeticle of the Northern Fleet. pad the admired preduaion of Rinaldini, which lift, on account of the great demand for plates, will 11&._ be continued until Saturday next, after ',huh 14 will poatively be withdrawn. .• r.. 4 1.., SPORTING INTELLIGINCE. Ascat.ffund RACES; WEDNESDAY, JUNE to. Second day—A Plate of Fifty Pounds for four yr. olds, 6lb. ; five yr:soh:ls, Bft. ilb. ; fix yr. olds, Bft. 81b. and aged, Bft. z tlb. the bell of three 3.mile heats ; Mares to be allowed 31b. The winner of one Plate in the year t Bot, to carry 41b.; of two or more, 71b. extra. Mr. Hyde's Teaboy, y yrs. old - I Mr. Mead 4 ch. h. by Tamerlane, 4 yrs. old s I Mr. C. Day's ch. h. Fugaimass, y yrs. old - dr. The Racing to-day at Afoot was very indiffer ent, and the company vifibly thinner than on Tuefday. • • NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE - • 11.1.111.317131DAY-..Wind N. W. - AILIIIIZO no o Hamburg% • I O Dublin, I Waterford, • Donnailtadee, 0 EAST-INDIA SHIPS. Yellerday Mr. HODSON, purfer of the Ilroura ble Company's chip the LORD Nst.smi, amved at the India-Houfe, with the agreeable intelligence of the homewardbound China Fleet being Cafe off Portfmouth, under convoy of his Majefty's fhip Aaco. The'lleet conlilled of the following India men, viz.— The Lip Canton, Captain Thothas Laihington. Cirenctiter, Captain Thom"; Rohertfon. • Arnillon, Captain Campbell Marjoriltanks. Ceres, Captain George Stevens. Walthamilow, Captain William Taylor Money, Muquis Welk!ley, Captain BereeMi tate& Load Nelfon, Captaba Robert Spottifwood. Earl Saint Vincent, Captain John Brook Sampfon. Bernfatiek, Captain jamea • Ludovic Grant, - and • Came, extra alp. • The above failed from Macao on the soth of Ja nuary, anclieft St. Helena on the 22dday of April. The Leviathan and Mots, whalers, failed with-the fleet from St. Helena. The Mote parted compa ny off the Hand Akention tint& sgth of .April. We learn that the kip LADY &more. Captain, A. F. W. Swieron, has been difpatebed from dras for Bengal, inftead of China; ter originM did tination. • The Gamoss,Captain AterosotaGkais.faile4- 1 from Macao for Bombay, on the r tth of Iktmary, in ordered to be docked, having fprung a leak jolt before the made the port of Macao. The HUGH lanus, Captain WIN. FAIRTAX, rived at Macao on the 16th of January. She failed from St. Helena on the 26th of September. We are concerned to Rate that no Feconntshaie been received of the 'hip EARL TALBOT, C.antain OHIE HANILTOW DEMPSTER. She failed.' flora Bombay for China on the 16th of Auguft laft,• had not arrived there when the fleet failed on the aOth January, although the was expeaedin Oiftober. The Honourable Bill-India Coln_p_any's 'hip the CLIMATIC, commanded by. Capt. HOILATIO BEE vox, which failed from England at the commence- . ment of the kafon, with' ftores for "the ifland Of St. Helena, arrived there on the ash of, Aptil Great apprehenfions had been esdietained for the fafety of the CAINATIc in confemdasee of her hav ing encountered ail eve;e_ gals ouvriad in the Bay of Bifcay, in Febtttaly IgL - - • . , • •• • PORTSMOUTH, wipe. Arrived Anew gun brig jealsbaireftward.....6. Safled.the THAIESS frigate em tiellise. • • • • ' SHEERNESS, JUNE to. * Arrived on Monday evening, after Poft;s . his ,Idejelly's thip THUNDERED, of 74 suns, *Terve; from the Jamaica Ration, l aft twtfinoods the came up to Blackftaket yef". l 't morning, and is now taking out her guns, will immediatkly proceed. to Chatham to be paid off; her men be drafted on board the different (hip' in the bartiour,—Sailed his Majefty's brig SPEEDWELL, of guns, Lieutenant REDDY, f 'Yarmouth ; - and the Pitovuttnce cutter, Lieute nant,Conan, kr Dover, to refit. The Shipwaghts, and different Artificers, who re6de in the old Chips in the Dock-yard, have rt ceived orders from the ComMitfioners to quit their refpalive habitations in the courfe of t 8 months. The old (hips are to be broke sp a in order to make , tome • addition* improvements to the Dock-yard. • . - FALMOUTH, JUNE fr. Arrived the American brig Triton, Capt. AIT. 'VIII, with ;too barrels of flour, from - Baltimore, for this port, • Otatiday evening tailed the American thip Eliza; Captain HAMILTON Rea, with rice, fugal', tosacco, coffee, Bto..Trinn Charleftown for Ham burgh ; and this day the DOVER cutter, with' a - fleet of coatters for the wettwant Briflol and Wales, under convoy ; W and the Panics of Wat t s packet, TODD, with Mail of the sd loft. for Liken ; the Fly, BAWDEN, for Oporto; the Roba and Bette'', Iticnaansos for. Barcelona ; and the Portuguefe brig Efpada nte, Captain A. Cerreo,.for Lilbon, to join the outvrard•bound Lifbon and. Oporto fleets under convoy of the NUTLET tchooner, of t 8 guns, Lieutenant jape Ls MEIN, now off this port. Alto failed the American brig Commerce, Capt. Bato• wiry, for Alexandria ; the fchooner Weymouth Lars, with falt, from Cowes for St. John's, New foundland. Paffed by this morning two (event - fours and a frigate, with troops on board, the latter to the weßward ; end this evening a cotter was fiat (lauding to the eaftward, with large halter MP poled a finuggiing vdrei) in tow. fora B.—ThePswatort packet for the Jamie'. and Parsee Eases-riot the American Mali of the prefent month, have received orders to fail, and Should the wind admit, they will take their de• parture to-morrow morning. —The Do a a of Cu 10. BSILLA)11:1 packet Is appointed for the Leeward Iftand Mail of the 57th iaftata..—The LADY FRAN CES REket is ry,leafed fi ont quart) ne.—TheWas.- smanale packet is reAv for S.ta, and will carry ace.die Lava biail of the 9fil DEAL, JUNE to. Arrived and failed for the River the-Highland I Chief, Garnwey, from Bengal ' • and Coroman del, SriaLtria, from the Cape of Good Hope. The following are the Palfengers by the Cato- WAIrDIL, VIZ. Captain , ADAMS, Mr. Howarrow, lieuteslaret Tucmta, Mr. Jimmy, Lieutenant ART aux. Mr. Cht•TIIIIL, Lieutenant 8t.% CUSTOM 4. Mr. Boors!, Lieutenant PA M eilL LL, Mrs. Reap Dodos GIANT. " ' Two Milk; DIRS. Mt. Hoursairs, FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GnAvEStnD, juNE 10 —Paffed by the VrewAm. fegina, from Dantzick ; and Ceres, PIITERS, from Oporto.—Sailed the Heart of Oak, Beres, and Stranger, Bazz,for Jamaica; Sufpence,Waay, for Antigua; Zephyr, —, for Madeira; Yriend. flap, Jams; Vrow Fama, 2-=-- • and Jonge Juf frow Anna, —, for Hamburgh. CORR, MAY at Captain Murray, of the fhip Speedwell, arrived this afternoon from Kingllon, Jamaica; brinks advice of that part of the convoy of his Majesty s (hip TOTAZE, are arrived at Jamaica, viz. Ship Mathew, Ship Adriatic, Ca ptain Scot. Brig Cotrimeree, Ship Phaalt, • Ship Equettrian, • Ship Ceres, Capt. Dowling. • Ship Lady St. John, Toge that with two more that Ship Leona, Capt. Blali, wcrcin the olling,names unknown. GREENOCK, JUNE S. Yefterday arrived here, the Taft failing Ameri can Chip Huron, Capt. Hsu., from New York, with a cargo of flour and meal, in 3o days, nine of which the has been in the mouth of die North Channel, with baffling winds. A few days before the failed, the Jenny of Glafgow, Capt. Rose, had arrived from Honduras. Above 30,000 barrels of flour were lying at New York to be !hipped im mediately for this country. LAW INTILLIGENCE. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, JUNE va. Till LIMO V. AIMSTILONG, ISQ : This Gentleman came up to receive the dg ment of the Court for. having written a chal lenge to Major-General Coote. • - Two Affidavits were read: the .firft from the . Defiendant's brother, who is a Clergyman in Ire land, who depofed, that he had come, over here foe the purpofe of inducing his brother to make Jlich an apology to.the .Profecutor as he hoped would have rendered-the judgment of the Court Autneceffary. The Affidavit alto Rated anapology liellidh the Defendant was ready to 4i, and that , bk was alto ready to fign another apolissy which been didated by Mr.,Ea slums, Leading Coon the Profecution,and- to whom Gee. Come, hie mended the Whole of this basnelk. -That .Ip4ep the Defendant formerly declined mistake. . wfir nere-was alto an Affidavit read which wassuide by Mr. Armftrong hitufelf, acknowledging his of-, fence, and expreffing hi sforrossand contrition fork. Mr. EIItRINI made a thort.fpeech on the part of the Profecution, and then Mr. ADAM and Mr• PLOWDEN were heard on the part of the.Defetidant. in mitigation of punilhnient. Mr. Eason's, among other things . r obferved, that the ground of Major Arniftrong s refentment againft General Coote was, that he had aipearedas a witnefs at a Court-Martial before which Major Armfirong was called to anfwer hveral cha and of which he was acquitted. On. that occiro s t: General Coote was not the profecutor—be was not the acctt kr—he had no concern, either direaly or iisdirealy, with the profecution ; but in confe quence of a fnmtnons to appear as a witnefs before the Court-Martial, he delivered his evidence upon his oath. How many evils in private life were owing to challenges randy fent and tightly accept ed I The profecutor of this information was ISL jor-General Coote—the Gentleman who refufed the Defendant's challenge was Major-General Coote, who lime that proceeding had embarked in the Expedition agaiullEgypt, and who was one of the General Officers commanding that brave Army whore enterprife, he fpoke adiifedly when he raid it,was morelike a romance than a military adventure—he was one of the General Officers who landed with that army in open boats, in the face of one of the moll accompldhed and bell dif ciplined armies in the world, and highly furnithed with artillery, cdvalry, and with the aid of other nations who were total bangers to this COuntry, 1 and who were morn likely than the bell difciplined troops in the valid to firike terror into theminds of men who had ndt time to colka themfelves and to form in order of battle. -„ Mr. ADAM fuggeiled every topic of mitigation' on the part of this unfortunate Gentleman, who had been upwards of twenty years in the Army, and' had a wife and fix children. , Mr. jnilice Gaoss, previous to his pronouncing ,the judgment of the C.ourt, delivered a moll fo lemn addtefs to this Gentleman, and as it is of great importance to the Public, and particularly to the Army, it is Ikea at length. " 'farm Arayfreac...This Court is called upon to pars fentence on aodgment (offered by default. on an information e xhibited againft. yon, charging you with having written a challenge to Major-Ge l neral Eyre Coote to provoke him to fight a duel I I Sitting here, it is my duty, and it is irkfome to difcharge that duty—irkfome in the extreme—but being my duty, I shall not retire from it. It is my duty to make Tome comments on the enormity of i your offence. From the information, we find you were Major in the i ith Regiment of Foot, and that Major-General Eyre Coote was your fisperior Officer, employed in the fame Expedition as you were againft his Majefty's enemies; that you were, in the month of June, 1799, tried before a Court- Martial on certain charges of milliehavionr, on whichMaiii• " eraltoote was produced and era in• of the mined as a witnefa fupport profecution. It appears ou affidavit that he was not on that oc caficm theProfecutor, but merely a Witnefa, bound terobey the call sof judice on behalf of his country. If on the fubjea thofe charges your condua was corn& an acquittal has done ample juaice to your charider. Whether k was fo or sot did ' • not ;tripod Major-General Coate to confider ; be was bound to obey the procefs of the Law, and to give his evidence before that Court - Marti al. In every way of confidering the cafe, your challenge to him who had been your fuperior Officer, bound by his duty to the Public to Rate when called on everyl thing he knew, was molt - criminal. Every man who for a moment contemplates this novel mode of affeCting the juftice due either to the country or individuals, mull fhudder at the idea that a witnefs fhould, on the one hand, de cline to fay what he knows at the peril of fine and imprifonment, or, on the other hand, give his evi. deuce at the point of a fword—at the peril of his life. In every country governed by 11w this is a behaviour not to be endured. In that refpedyour crime is great. It is aggravated when reading your letter, written, as your Cooled who (poke lad has thought proper to remind us, at the diitatice of twelve months. I fay that letter we find contains not only a challenge to the Pro fecutor, but a libel on his charader—a libel im. puting to him malice and evafion in his evi dence, and concluding with a call upon him to fatisfy your wounded honour. Howoue is a cap tivating term. It is a pity that the abufe and per. verfion of that term did not caufe it fometimes to fignify elthracr. 'lt is much to be wiffied, for the fake of fociety, that Gentlemen in certain lines of life, ufing that word, would weigh well its import, and would recoiled that true legitimate honour confifts in obedience to the laws—in wilfully in uring no man, and doing to others that which we have a right to exped from them. This is not a Rule blended and interfeded with difficulties and doubts, as the Counfel has Rated, but it is a plain hone& rule, Which every man may follow. There are principles, indeed, among fume men—morbid sies of fancied honour, which every good man Bladders at, and which, in every well-regulated fociety, mull be held in utter abhorrence—rules by which the Gsmataa, (killed in the doftrine of chances may, with perfect honour, pick the ;Wicket of hii companion, and fend him a beggar to his injured wife and children, to lament his own folly and his friend's fraud. In the fame de. tellable code of morality it is written that the man who treacheroufly violates his friend's bed may, with perk& honour, accept his challenge, and take away his life : And fo murder becomes the honourable atonement for adultery. Sub jell to there obfervations, and on the principles time moral reditude, you will do well, in your elofet, to weigh under what denomination your honour comes, which alfumes to be wounded fer . an officer•of fuperior rank obeying the calls a Office to his country, and under that tom puifion -giving his evidence in a Couit./Kartials and reeking (for that your challenge does) how to sillee away the life of him who has molt honourably ineittued - in the sa of obeying the law, and has bid defiance to thole laws of laarbarifo, which tome men, forgetful of morals and their obligations to Society; have deemed laws of honour. But the line of condu& purfued by each of yon cannot be dskrlbed info appropriate terms as we find it has. bileiths the-letter written by his Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chid. In this letter your con, *ft is mod properly confidered as militating no ids againft every principle of public juftice than spina the efircipline of the army; and in thii latter, Major-General Coote having had recourfe to the laws of his country on this occafion, is wateditad as being highly pleefing to his Ma. as being truly commendably in a foldier, std peadiarly becoming the Ration -he held in his Majefty's fervice, to which it is Rated he has rendered a material benefit by furnifhing an ex ample which his Majelly has ordered to be point ed out as worthy the imitation of every officer un der fimilar sircum fiances. That his Majefty's molt gracious approbation of the condud of Major- General Coote may be the more known to man kind, and particularly to officers who !hall hereaf ter be in'the fame fituation in which he has been, who, by imitating his example, will purfue the line of legitimate honour, I have read the exprefs words of his Royal Highnefs. And that all the world may know in what view a Court of Juftice will confider the confequence of purfuing a line of con dud like your's, equally militating againft the principles of public plaice and the difcipline of the army—this Court doth order and adjudge,' hat you pay a fine to the King of thirty marks, and that you be imprifoned in the prilon of this Court for twelve calendar months, and at the expiration of that time, that you give fecurity for your behaviour for the fpace of five years, yourfe l fr wool. and two fufficient fureues in :fol. each; and that you be farther imprifoned until that fine be paid, and that fecurity given." In the courfe of the morning,-a cafe from tome quarter feffions was argued, in which the tweaks was, whether a Lime Quarry was rateable ? By hoth parties it was agreed that int was to be eon- Sawed as a wine that it could not be rated, but that it was to be confidered as a mine, while one partyaffirmed, the other as (tautly denied. After leveret had been heard in fupport of the negative of this propofition, a Learned Gentleman gravely undertook to make it out by the followingfyllifms A mine is a bore in the earth made feinnijfe ;to bore a lime quarry requires no feience at all; ergo, $ guarry is not a wen. Kr. AaToaser Gsasaas, ,in riling to reply, Oblervy4, that it would be very unfortunate for bisi, if ha wag Obliged to maintain that may Mrige Tao a main of Aron, fur after what had fallen , from the learned Gentleman behind him, that (a don was certainly untenable—(4 huff I He proceeded in this Rile to enterer the arguments 4 his opponents, but could not fucceed in perfnad est the Bench. Ltn-d Kan roe was of opinion that the quarry was not a mine, and ordered it to be rated. N. gaitilfiaarrog • it war certaia6 Feed to paws a rick laithr• ;27iDoN : pilot ed tar elei tvpelesan by JOHN DAME! , earsaby-ftitet) et the PTAS PIIIIITIWO-01P/ICS, NO. i s Matt and pubbfhed by LgVEL ItILIIT, ;at Cam . Latobet.% ). at Na I. CareyArret. Mad at die 9=en, Tetnede-Bat t to wbbb (Areal eawarsoi• • adios se do Romeo we imagist so be olesitd.