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MINIM 110TAL ACADEMY. t 28. The reception of ti. Hofiage Prince: of lff A l'w.:' Ir/ore &ring rpatam, Z:f c.-1-1. W. Da v s.— This pic ture firli (hikes the eye of the obferver on entering the large room at the Royal Academy. It con tain; a great number of pot traits, the likenelfes of which arz all ftid to be extremely faithful. its a c omrofition, its principal merit conlifts in the Judi dons grouping of the figures, over which the maffes of light are ditperfed with a mallerly hand. The manner of this :milt is femething like that of Zof rani, but not fo firm, and his colouring has rather a milly hue. 133. ch-.:.n.—r). \VEST, R. A.—This clallic ftory is will told, and the compolition of the pic ture is in a good (Lyle; the outline cf the figures is however extremely hard, and the colouring in ge• neral chalky and cold. 12). The Angels appearing to the Shepheriir.S. WOODi - ORD, A.—Mr. Woodford is an artill of con fiderahle promifc. The viftonary appearance pf the celellial vifitants in this pieture is managed with great delicacy of pencil, and produces a very bril liant effea. The coletning of the whole is well harmonized. 152. A Lady pitnj .1 7 . e NOITHCOTI. R. A.—This is rat ler a thewy pifture, but, upon examination, it appears to peirefs many defeas whiel: the painter was well able to have removed. The lights are glaring and too diffufive, and the colours introduced are, in many parts, not well cuntraitcd. The mule on which the lady rides is well charafterized, hut the apparent motion given to it is rather too rapid for the fituation. Rf7.,:t5 watching by the bathe, of Saul': lone. — j. Ora, R. A.—Mr. Opic, though a great artifl, ledom difplays much fublimity of dctign: his pic tures are generally more true to fimple nature than poetical; but the figure before us is very grandly conceived, and the tffeEt produced by die diftribu 6i:a of light and Nide is alfo very bold. It is his Lea produftion of the year. ! 53. The Tenth Plague of Env. —j. M. W. TeRNE a, R. A.—This Gentleman continues to rife in his profetfion: the defign and compofition of this pilurc are of the higher order of the art, but we Rill think his colouring might be greatly improved. 147. The illinfirc!.—R. Ws3TALL, R. A.--The poetical char:lBer of Dr. Beattie's Child of Genius is here well conceived, and there is great breath and bcautv in the colouring oldie piCturt throughout. 18 . .elll.:,orical—The Author.—J. F. RtcA , :n, R. A.—Tbcrc is too much of caricature mixed in this defign for an allegory.—The fym. path y intsud‘d to be cxcitcd by th, fubjeCt is w e ak. tined by the ludicrous objefts introduced There is alto too much coniuflon in the diftribution of thnfc csbjeCts. 134. Portrvit of the Hon. T. Er / lire.—T. LAW. 11FNCE, It. A. —Unquctlion:dsly the beft fingle f:i•td in ti-.: Exhibition .—The hicenefs is perfed, a..d the colou:i113 of tile Ado animation itfclf. A ;nn:'erfatinn ei . :..,tne length took place yeller tlay,in the Honfe of I.r.rds as preliminary to the dif tuition of the Definitive Treaty. Lord CRErVILLE fp.ke at great length, and veil% confider-Mi.! nn prellion: obi:rya:ions were principally founded on the publication in a French Newfpaper, of the advantages France will gain by that Treaty. The fpezelt Was very 11—" tr to that of Mr. WIND HAM, in the Houfe of Commons ; but the point ' in debate turned wholly on the precife day on v.hich it fhould be dilculied. Lord GRENVILLE mentioned Friday fe'nnight I and Lord PELHAM moved next Wednelday,loy, way of amendment. Our Readers would fee in the important Mani. Pito from the Afereure de France, in our Paper of yeflerday, the obfervation that " the French and their Allies will not fall into the fnare of a new Treat v of Commerce, and they may one day have •ir;r AO of Navigation." It is extremely proba bL, therefore, that the Frcneh Government will adt pt the moll vigorous meat - tires to fecure their whole Foreign and Colonial Trade to their own Ihipping. This circumtlance Bill further demon fh ates the impolicy of the propofed tax on tonnage. If the French carry their intention into effefl, they cannot with any confiftency adhere to the principles of the Northern Confederacy, about which they have lately vapoured lo much. Every thing proves, we think, very clearly, however, that have been completely over-reached in the negotiation of the treaty of Amiens. The French, indeed, fomewhat too indecently exult in their triumph. A private letter horn a Friend at Paris, men tions, that Bute the palling of the Concordat, re ligion is become quite the rage in France ; and fa lhionable parties are now as regularly made to the church of n etre Dame as to the Theatre ; while wooden images arid crucifixes are fold in every corner of the Ilrel(s. There was to be another grand proceffion sin Sunday lalt to A'are Dame, t.n account of the4e.eflablithment of the Catholic. religion ; and theitaithful have been publicly ex hre ted to render 4cmfelves prepared for the occa fon, by intermediate prayer and confellion. The colours are alto tivreccive a benedielon. The Ftßsr CONSUL has declared his intention of relloring to the Metropolitan Church, all the paintings and decorations which formerly belonged to it. The Royal Marine Cloathing which WRi faced v. i• ii white, is now ordered to be changed to blue ; raft tire rdteration is not to take place till his Ma y's Birth-day. We underaand the llalipay of the Naval Of fiats is to be augmented as follows :—A Senior Poll Captain to receive t 25.; a Junior, res.; Com mander, Es.; and a Lieutenant gs. a day. It has been very erroncoufly fuppofed, that Paff ports are no longer necefrary for Foreigners to enter into this country, as the Alien Alf :s ail' in force, and no alteration in this refped has taken place. REPARTEE.—TIIC fon of a Scots Marquis, who Lac ken mulch fervice on the Continent, was lately accoited by a friend in roma. area, who facetionfly tkircd "that as hollilities were over, his whyk;rs right be pat upon a peace f i ldrilment." To that havc r.o ohjeft;on," was the anfwer, " but I de. that at tic fin:c time your tongue may be put c.,11 the Ly! .' CORN MARKET. MARR-LANE, MAY 5. Wheat had this day a brilk fale at the prices mentioned on Monday 'aft: every other article a Lair, is heavy, at the fame day's prices. As si aas OF BREAD.--Yefierday the Lox!) MAYOR ordered the Btead to be lowered one Mile, or Two-pence in the Peck Loaf, to take place to morrow. The price of the Qlartern Loaf IVheaten will then be gicl. and Hotachold Bd. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY, NAY 3. The King's Plate of wogs. for 5-yr. old mares, carrying loft. R. C. D. of Grafton's b. nt. Hurnby Lafs s Mr. Heatheote's b. :n. Annifeed, 4 yr. old a Mr. Fletchcr's ch. nt Allegranti, 4 yr. old - - 3 Mr. Whaley's br. m. Tuneful, 4 yr. old 4 Sir F. Pook's br. m. Tawny, 4 yr. old Seven to 4 and 2 to t agft. Hornby Lafs--Even betting on Anifecd-5 to I agft. Allegranti. Fifty Pounds by Subfcriptinn for 4-yr. olds, 711. 91b. 5-yr. olds Bft. 31b. 6-yr. olds and aged 811. 71b. R. C. Non-fubferibers to pay .rgs entrance. LA Sackville's Dick Andrews, 4 yr. old ' t Mr. Smith's ch. h. Slaphang, 5 yr. old . I Mr. Moorhoufc's br. h. Luean, 5 yr. old • - 3 Mr. Ladbrokes ch. m. Hipporka, aged - dr Mr. Watfon's ch. h. Canterbury, 5 yr. uld - dr Three to I on Dick Andrews. S'veepflakcs of tons each h. ft. for colts Bfl. 31b. fillies M. Acrofs the Flat. Thole got by untried itallions allowed 31b. Sir F. St.indires e. by Sir Peter, out of Stance - I Ld. Darlington's e. by Star, out of a Woodpecker in. bought *of Mr. Broadhurit - - I Mr. Cuitanis G by Sir Peter, out of Yeoman's dam pd Mr. Dawfon's c. by Mr. '['cask, out of Sincerity - pd Mr. Watfon's f. by Alexander, out of a fitter to Nimble pd Three to t on Sir F. Standifh's c. Mr. Wyndham's Babylon. 711. 1 . 31 . b. beat D. of St. Albans MlttiMus, 711. 61b. R. M. sogs.-7 to 4. on Mittirnus. NifUTIC.IL INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY, MAY 3. SalledtheßAßtLlOß, LONDON, RANILLItII, and hitsts TABLE, men of war; MAOICIINE and Saws frigttcs, for Porttmouth. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4. ArriiedtheStuna,of36guns,Cart.KlNG; tta A ; and MAGIC:EVYZ, of 32 guu, Cartain Onit.vv, from Taft) . ; Ccnfor, Starling, and Bold gnn-veffele from the Eaftward,... CUM id harbour to be paid off and Shipped, the CA NAD A, Of 74 guns. A ITlVeti Riffel7l2ll. MONDA ir, and PoIIy,DATMAN, from London.-4ailled the Good Intent, STA rro ta, for Llf _ hon. The trig Apollo, of Gofport, is gone to the Motherbank to receive (Dune kitty men from the John tranfport lying under cituranthe there. A detachment of Marines touched in here fr , m Chatham, and embarked on board icifels for Plymouth. The Iklitsetsstrs was paid off this day. Two or thtee Hoops have arrived full of tlifcharred failors from the Weftwatd. The wind being fomewh at wefterly, feveral 'ads, which were lately tratfports, will fall te-Inorrow foe the Eaftward. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. ORAVESI7IIIS, 4,—SirOrd the Martha, Foasrtai for t'ettriborgh ; William and Mary, THOMPSON, for Bremen; Friends, :bar, for Ci:ir. , ltar ; Trois Amis, —, for Calais; Felicitas, Be Di Havre; Snelbume, —, for Minorca; Clio, Cot/PLAN:), tnr Martiniqee ; Strangcr, PLAICE, for Jamaica; Venus, JA Nutt, for Amßadam; Richard, —, for Calais; lunge }kirk, KRANS, for St. Vallcry; and Vrow Ann., Buss, fur Dit.Tpc. Captain Ova 'from is appointed to the LtANDER, in which fhip Sir ANDLEw MITCHELL intends tak inis his pafrage to Halifax. l'he MoNam floop of war arrived on the 28th of February at Malta from Egypt, brought intel ligence to that Mane!, that hankies between the 1 tirks and Mamelucks were carrying on with great animofity. Much blood had been flied on both fides; and Admiral BICKERTON was preparing to fail for Egypt in the MADRAS, of g 4 guns, in order to effect, if Fable, an accommodation between the parties. The Wi.tzta brig, had jull arrived with dif patches from Plymouth. Her Surgeon, Mr. Et- PHIS sroms, died fuddenly on her arrival at La VAlLtta. Captain BUCHANAN, of the HASILLEI4, of 64 huns, died at Malta, and was buried with military onours near the tomb of the galLantAssacaost BY. A fon of Lord Da la nuasv was loft amidft the crowd on Thurfday night during the illumination, and the family were in great alarm for many hours. Lady GER Tel/UR..VILLIERS, daughter of the late Earl of Goarkinsoo, is about to be led to the Hymeneal Altar by Lord HENRY STUART, fourth fon of the Marquis of BUTE. Madame Mott a au, the lady of the celebrated General, received a ftroke on the breaft from a foldier, in attempting to get into Notre Dame, on the day of the fete. She had lately been brought to bcd, and was nurfing her infant ; her life was• for fume time in danger, hut the is now better. The Opera of Algonah was repeated fait night at Di ury•lane Theatre, with feveral judicious al terations, and went off with great fixed's. • Nltysairn had, as ufual, a crowded and fplendid audience at his benefit 'aft night at Covent Garden. The Nlalquerade given on Monday evening at the Pantheon, in honour of the Peace, was nu meroully attended ; and though the charaders were rather few, the motley Irene was merry and diverting. Nothing can canal the beautiful fcenery and de. coraticns of Cysts's New Pantomime at the Royal Circus, called fle kwhanted Harp—The Millie is alio dclii ; litful, and the Story highly entertaining. —This beautiful Piece, with the grand Spedacle of P.:nal‘h a.:d Rinatini, and the aftonifhing feats et I lorcemanfnip by young SAUNDERS, bring crowded audiatccs every night. Yclierday the five perfons taken up on Thurfday night lafi, for riolnutly affenibling about Mr. Col)- , bett's houfc, in Pall Mall, and breaking the win -1 dows, were brought up for re-examination at Bow- I :lrect, when the offence amounting to nothing more than a mifilemeanor, the defendants were ad mit tcd to bail, to aafwer the complaint at the next Itliddlefex Selllons. LAM INTELLIGENCE. CRIM CON. SHE:Mfrs COURT, LONDON, MAY 4. BS. FORE THE SHERIFF OF MIDDLESEX AND A SFECIAL REV.MR. MANNHAM V. FAWCETT. This was an action for crimiaal converfation with the Plaintiff's wife. The damages were laid at io,ocol. The Defendant had fuffered judgment by default, and the Jury were impannelled to eels the damages. Mr. ERSKINE,in opening the unfortunate hiftory "f this cafe to the Jury, Rated, that the Plaintiff, the Rev. George Markham, was the third fon of his Grace the Archbilhop of York. In the year 1789 he married his prefent wife, Mifs Sutton, the daughter of Sir Richard Sutton,Bart. of Norwood, in Yorkfhire, a Lady of great beauty and accom plifhments, moD virtuoufly educated; and who, hut for the crime in which the Defendant had in volved her, would have been the happieft, as fhe was the molt beautiful of her fex. '1 he Plaintiff was a man who dedicated himfelf to the duties of his (acted profeffion, and upon retiring to the Living to which he had been prefented, his prin- 1 cipal obje& in the arrangement of his family and domeftic concerns was to lay the foundation of an innocent, peaceful, and happy life. It was a moft affeCting ctrcumftance in the hiftory of this cafe, that the Plaintiff and Defendant had been bred up together from their infancy : they had received their early impreffions at Weltminfter School, where they were companions and play-mates. They were afterwards fellow ftudents at thrift Church, Ox ford, and there cemented the friendfhip formed in their infancy. After they had left College, and the Plainti ff had retired with his wife and family to his living in Yorkthire, the Defendant unhap pily came into the fame neighbourhood to reticle. The Plaintiff looked upon him as a brother, and admitted him into his family as fuch ' • he intro duced him to the Lord Lieutenant of the county, recommended him to every perfon of refpettability, and behaved towards him with that real fi iendfhip and affection which rendered the return the Defen dant had made bare and wicked in the extreme. The whole happinefs of the Plaintiff was centered in the bofom of his family, and as a father, an huf band, and a member of his profe ffi on, he was ir reproachable. No fufpicions were excited by any part of the behaviour of the Defendant, Mr. Faw cett ; and dreadful it was to hate, that the crimi nal intercourfe excited five years antecedent to its difcovery, and that at the period of the difcovery, Mrs. Markham had become the mother of nine children, (even girls and two boys. The Plaintiff was thus not only deprived of his conjugal felicity, but was placed in a fitu3tion with regard to his children, ton horrible to defcribe. The Learned Connfel having proceeded to enlarge upon the in jury fuftained by the Plaintiff, concluded a fpcech, which may be truly defcribed as the moll eloquent he has ever delivered upon a fimilar fubjea, by an appeal to the Jury for damages to the full extent of the fum laid in the declaration. The Adultery having been admitted by the De fendant's fuffering judgment by default, there was no evidence to that point. His Grace the Archbifhop of York, the Bilhop of Norwich, Captain Markham, one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; Sir Wm. Foulis, and feveral other witneffes depofed to the happy and affec• tionate manner in which Mr. and Mrs. Markham lived together before the became the viitim of the Defendant's feduClive arts. They fpoke of her as a Lady whofe mind had been formed on the prin ciples of virtue, whofe demeanour was marked even by an excefs of modeft timidity and referve, and whofe whole time was apparently occupied in fulfilling the duties of a mother and a wife. She vilited but feldom, and delighted to pars her time with her children. The witneffes all expreffed themfelves fatisfied that no conduit on the part of Mr. Markham, with regard to his wife, had merit ed this heavy afilietion the had brought upon him. Mrs. Elizabeth Boys, who had been the houfe keeper and lady's maid in the Plaintiff's family, (aid the always confidered the Plaintiff as a good, kind, and affeCtionate huffiand. She went to retitle in the Plaintiff's family in t 795, and quitted it in 1798, in confequence of fufpicions the entertained of her miarefs's infidelity, but which fhe had no affurance of upon fufficient grounds to ju ft ify her difturbing the peace of the Family by communicat ing them to the Plaintiff. She had endeavoured to dircover whether her fufpicions were true, by laying ftones in the window by which fhe thought the Defendant entered her millrefs's room, but fhe found them in the fame place. She was well per. fuaded the Plaintiff had no idea of his wife having a criminal attachment to the Defendant. _ Mr. Serjeant Bair addreffed the Jury on the part of the Defendant. The topics he principally urged were, that however the Jury might lament the in- jury the Plaintiff had fullained, they were bound, in eßimating the damages, to confider what would be a fair compenfation to him, and to what extent the Defendant was able to fatisfy them. By giving exceilive damages they would be delivering over the Defendant to the vindidive refentment of the man whom he had made his enemy, and who would doom him to imprifonment to the lag hour of his life. It was not confonant to the Law of England to make a civil anion the medium of in Aiding a criminal punilliment • yet fuch would be the cafe by giving damages w hich the Defendant would be unable to pay. He mug either remain an exile in a foreign land, or return with the pro- fped of perpetual imprifonment. The Learned Serjeant inferred that the Defendant had been corn. pelled by his pecuniary embarraffments to fell his , etlate, and he palliated his offence by afcribing it to the excels of his paffions, heated by his conftant intercourfe with a lovely and beautiful woman.— He admitted be had abed wrong, but he hoped Vie Jury in puniihing him, would temper their juf tice with mercy. Mr. &lac HALL, the Under Sheriff, recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury having retired near an hour, returned with a verdid for the Plaintiff-- Damages Seven Thoufand Pounds! This enquiry commenced about fix in the even ing, and the Jury did not deliver their venlid till twelve at night.. COURT.OFMNG'S TIENCH, MAY z. DISSOLUTION OF RAC FAIR. THE KING V. 81011TH ANDOTHERS.- . _Mr. GI/1111 11,11 ed that this was an indiElmenr ap aiatl the de fendant and eight other perfons for alrembling and railing a nuifance in a place called Sparrow Cor ner, but which, in modern times, had been ho noured with the appellation of Rag Fair. hoar of the defendants had pleaded not guilty, and the remaining five had pleaded that Sparrow Corner was parcel of the King's highway, in which, from time immemorial, there had exi fled a right to hold a daily fair or market. That this place was al null:ince, and a molt intolerable one, no perfon who had everfeen, oreverlicat d of it, could poffibly entertain a doubt. There, from the hours of 12 in the forenoon, till (even in the afternoon, Jews and Chrittians met together in numbers countlefs as leaves on trees, or (warms of bees in bee-hives— their bufinefs was to fell all forts of articles, old cloaths, old hats, old wigs, broken earthenware, rags, Peale pudding, pork pies, faloop, &c. The crowd was fo great, that for feveral hours every day the inhabitants found it utterly impoffible to have accefs to their houfes by their front doors.-- When they made the attempt they were fcoldcd as intruders, and defired to find another way home. This place, in which a prefcription to hold a fair was let up, was jolt within the verge of the City, and was bounded by Rofemary-lane. It was in cumbent on the defendants to thew that a fair had been antiently held on this fpot—he timid pro. duce witneffes who would prove, that about 25 years ago the mob of peripatetic merchants who now reforted to Sparrow Corner, met in Cable. flreet, which was beyond Rofemary-lane, and a quarter of a mile from the place in queltion.— They were routed from that place by the inhabi tants, after which they were dilperfed and Ratter ed upon the face of the world like their Jewish fore. fathers—fome journied call, fome well, and others remained as near the former emporium of their commerce as they poffibly could. They firlt ob tained a footing in Rofemary-lane, where they formed themfelves into diflir u tribes or branches, denominated the Itofemary-branch, Pyeman's. branch, &c. In time they got to Sparrow Corner, and now the nuifance had increafed in inch a de grce,that the inhabitants could no longer endure it. Lord ELLENBOROUGH obferved, that upon the fiatement of the Learned Counfel, it was clear the four defendants who had pleaded not guilty, were entitled to an acquittal ; for if this fair had trifled twenty years, and the defendants had reforted to it in common with others, they could not be made amenable upon a criminal profecution, for doing that which for any thing that appeared to them to the contrary they had a right to do. No man could be indided for doing what had been openly pradifed for twenty years ; at the fame time if it fhould appear that there was no grant of a mar ket, or no prefcriptive right to hold one, it was a nuifance which ought to be abated. He law no reafon why the profecittors, inficad of proceeding upon indidment, might not have ref o rted to the anticnt Writ of quo!! pi-milled pr,:firrnart. The witneffes for the profecution were then call. ed. They confided of old men who had known the (pot for near fixty years. They proved that formerly there was no fair at Sparrow Corner, but that it was kept in Cable-ftreet. One of the witneffcs gave a very facetious account of the eh-- cutnflance which occalioned the difperfion of the merchants. He Paid there was a _lattice Pell, whole houfe was oppofite the place where the mar ket was held, and the crowds who affcmbled there ufed to obftrud tee entrance to his honfe. It hap pened he erpeded a visit one day from his tilterand another lady, and obferving they found fome dif ficulty in getting through the crowd, he very gallantly went out to hand them along. Unfor tunately for him, he was dreffed in the pink of the fathion of the day, with long hanging fleeces. The I frael itestook the unwarrantable 1 iberty of qui z zing him, and before he returned to his own door, the Neves and the fkirts of his coat had been' atm n completely off. Exafperated at this, he went pell mell to work—itfued warrants, apprehended the ringleaders, and obliged all who reforted to the fair to eflablifh their head-quarters tome where elfe. They proceeded by flow gradations, till at laa they got poffeffion of their prefent anion at Sparrow Corner. It was proved that Rag Fair had none of thole eftablifhments incident to a regu lar fair or market, fuch as a Clerk, Tolls, and a Court of Pied Poudre. Mr. Easxma laid, that the profecutor had ad ted with extreme rigour towards the defendants an taking them up under Bench Warrants, and keep ing them confined for want of bail. If this was hard with refpetl to the defendants in general, it was peculiarly fo as to one of them, a little taylor, whom he knew, and who was one of the moft plea rant good naturzd fellows breathing. In proof of this he would relate a (bort anecdote concerning him. He was once at a public dinner, and happen. ed to fit dole by a General Officer, to whom he behaved with all that civility which was natural to him—the officer, who was highly pleafed with his demeanor, drank his health in a glafs of wine: and after Tome converfation faid, " May I, Sir, requeft the honour of your name ?" " Made your hreeebee, Sir," replied the little taylor. " Major Brydges ! (exclaimed the Officer) I really did not know there was a Major in the army of that name. Pray what regiment may you belong to ?" I beg your pardon, Sir, I did not fay I was Major Btydges, I only faid, I made your breeches, and I fincerely hope they fit you." The Offi cer laughed heartily at this explanation, and immediately gave him an order for a fuit of regi mentals. Mr. Erikine coffered it was impoffible to contend that this was an antient fair; all he: hoped was, that if the nuifance was abated there would be no further proceedings againft the De fendants. Lord FAL swnoitot,c H very highly cenfured the rigorous proceedings again It the defendants. He milled, if the verdict negatived the right of hold ing the m.aket, there would be no punillnn. nt prayed againfl the defendants.—The four defen dants who had pleaded the general due were ac quitted, and the others were tOund Guilt . This vtrdia terminates the exiftence of Rag Fair.