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THEATRES. DRURY-LAM The new Play of Deaf and Dumb continues to aura& very crowded houfes. Lail night, after the ray, the following itanzas, added to the loyal Song of Goo Jove the ift.vG, were received with rapturous applaufe by a brilliant and overflowing audience. They were fupplied by a gentleman known in the circles of fathion O GOD, thy Mercy flied On his anointed Head, GOD free the KING! Grant Britain's earnea Prayer, Make him thy fpecial care, And, for his Virtues, (pare Great GEORGL our KING • A proftrate People fee, Who, with one voice, to thee Pray for their KING ! 0 GOD, remove our Fears, Renew his Health and Years, And, to a Nation's Fears, Give back their Kum The Entertainment was The Mufque of Coma, And while the lovers of the Drama were delighted by the Gallic Poetry of MILTON, the amateurs of inufic were regaled by the vocal powers of Mrs. Csoucm, Mt's. MOUNTAIN, Mifs STEPHENS, Mr. KELLY, Mr. DIGNUM, COVINT-GARDEL The Comedy of the Poor Gentleman, and the new Pantomimical Drama of Percale; or, The Defolale jflood, attratted left night as brilliant and numer ous a houfe as we have witneffed fince the com mencement of the Seafon. Independently of the wit and humour with which the former thounds, it poffeffes in an emi nent degree the merit of difplaying with effett the powers of the refpdtive performers. A happier combination of comic talent was perhaps never ex hibited on this or any other Rage than in the cha rafters of Lewis, Mu ens*, and FAWCETr. Several judicious alterations have been made in Peroufe, and the Piece in its prefent Bate ranks very high in the fcale offfitgade and interefting incident. The fplendour of the decorations, the (kill of the machinery, the natural beauty of the fcenery, and, above all, the charms of the mufic, muff render this Entertainment for a long time highly popular. The Performers are entitled to confiderable praife. H. JOHNSTONE fuftainsithe arduous part of Permit with great judgment and fpirit; and Mrs. H. jonesrows and Mrs. Mit 1.8 confer on their characters every poffible intereft. We muff not pats over without a particular encomium the excellent aging of little Msecox, in Charepancer. We are authorifed from moft refpedable autho rity, to contradict the account g iven _ in this Paper of the marriage of RICHARD LIAM, Efq. jun. Banker, to Mifs MARIA Olsson, of Portfmouth ; no fuch event having taken place, or being ever likely to take place. We are extremely lorry to have been led into this error b a letter fi gned " PHILIP NATHAN," dated l'ortfmouth, Fe bruary 19, aot, and poft-paid at that Office, which could have been dillated only by a fpirit of envy or malice ; and for which the author, we hope, will meet with that correliou which every leotard deferves. The fchifm that has taken place between the two parties of the Stock Exchange on opening the " Stock Subfcription Room," does not feem likely to be amicably adjufted. Yefterday a number of Gentlemen, among whom were Meas. STE els and JONI!, BRUCISHAW andCAPRL, ROBIRTS and SUTTON, MT. HAMMOND, Mr. BARNES, MT. GREY, and Mr. Hsu st.T, purchafed force large premifes in Capel-court, Bartholomew-lane, formerly ufcd by a Debating Society, for the purpofe of opening a new " Stock Exchange for tranfading Public Bufinefs." A fubfcription was opened to defray the expence, which in a ihort time amounted to 15,0001. It is propofed to divide the property into (bares of Sol. each. FLIXTOII WOLDS Coutstro.—The extremely bad weather having delayed this meeting for near ly a fortnight, the cup was not run for till 'Fuel . - day fe'imight. Twenty capital greyhounds were ectered for it, which being divided into five chafes of tour dogs each, were (tatted according to bal lot. The five winning dogs, after five molt fevere sondes, were declared tole as follow: Msjor Topham's black dog Snowdrop a fon of Snowball. Mr. liteft's black bitch, young Snowball,' daughter of ditto. Mr. Hart's blue bitch, Dells, (winner of the left Flizton cup: a daughter of ditto. Mr. Dads*, black and white bitch, Eagle. Mr. Darley's brindled and white bull, Dent. On the above five dogs being flatted for the cup, Mr. Darley's bitch was the favourite, both from the extreme (peed (he difcovered, and from her having had a much lefs revere courfe than the others. The hare ran above three miles and a half. The Tryer then declared them as follows : Mr. Dade's Eagle t, (winner of the cup)—Major Topham, 2—Mr. Belt, 3—Mr. Darley, 4—Mr- Hart, s. The numbers on the ground were not fo great as at the Lift meeting, and much more orderly and regulated, In that every courfe was well feen. On the whole it was allowed to have been a day of the. bra (port ever ken in the country. Mr. Waterfworth was the winner of the cnp at 'Market Weighton ; and two or three of the belt (kr of that country were brought to Flizton. tato LUIN Svara-borrsay.—Fourth day—The following capital Prizes were drawn :—Numbers 9403,51444,4444 y, and 11,890, Prizes of tool. each.—Nos. 5,750, 59,060, to,ooo, and 2,954, Prizes of sol. each. The Ticket No. 18,060, drawn this day a prize of ;cool. was fold at Mein. HAZ•11.1), aad Co's. Office, Royal-Exchange. The Ticket No. p 7,346, drawn on the third day of drawing, a prize of wool. alfo the Ticket 4 1 ,709, on the firft day of drawing, a prize of Sod. the only Two Prizes drawn this Lottery above tool. were fold, (hared, and rlgiftered at bacesuoiso's Fortunate Office, 6s, Fleet-ilreet where Prizes to a large amount hare been fold and paid in former Lotteries. Ticketsand Shares e'n lac during the drawing, warranted undrawn. 6IERIt4 LEONE HOUSE,, MARCH 5, aor. By accounts received from Sierra Leone, dated the Bth January, it appears that the refraftory dif pofition which in a former inftance had nearly overturned the Colony, and had for Tome time in creafed among many of the Colonifts from Nova Scotia, and for the reftraining of which a Charter of Juake for the Government of that Settlement has lately been granted by the King inCouncil, had broken out in open inforreEtion. The infurgents were at firft oppofed by the Company's fervants and by Tome of the belt difpofed part of the Nova Scotian, and were compe ll ed to leave the fettle ment. They were afterwards taken or difperfed through the able and fpirited exertions of Lieut. SMITH of his Majetty's 24th regiment, who ar rived at Sierra Leone at the periodfin queltion with a body of Maroons, and with a (mall corps of Britifh troops, and who was ably feconded by Lieut. TOLLY of the fame regiment, and Lieut. SHEIIIIFF of the Royal Navy. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING% BENCI4, FEB. st The irifiirreetion unhappily was not quelled with out bloodthed, two of the infurgents having been killed, and three principal fomenters of the rebel lion, after being tried and capitally convieted, hav ing fuffered punifhment. The peace of the Colony had been completely reftored, when the accounts came away, and a body of troops from Goree were expefted to ar rive in a few days, which were to be permanently Rationed at Sierra Leone. Mr. DAWES, the late Governor, who went out to take upon him again the Government of the Colony, arrived a few days before the difpatches came away. A letter has been received from Madras, dated the tft of October, which contains the following intelligence The fhip Prize has lately arrived here from the ifland of Ceylon, which place the left in the middle of Auguft. By this conveyance we are informed, that an infurredion broke out among the natives, between Columbo and Ne gombo, which was happily fuppreffed by the vi. gilance and activity of Capt. WILLIAM VINCENT, who was at that period in command of Negombo, a fea-port on the Weft coati of the IRe of Ceylon, and with a detachment of Malays, attacked the in. furgents, and completely drove them into the wildeft part of the Candian country ; fine which all fymptoms of revolt have fubfided, and tran quillity has beta effected without lots. Two com panies belonging to his Maiefty's loth regiment arrived in time, to affift in caperfing the fugitives. The Northern part of the ifland remains tranquil. The diftrit of Matura has alfo experienced a fpirit of revolt ; but that part is now peaceable. Major Folio, Commandant of Manaar, on the Eaftern nail of the ifland of Ceylon, has raifed fome new fortifications there, and put the place in a ftrong Rate of defence. It is reported, that the principal reafon of difcontent in the above Provinces arofe from a certain tax, which the wifdom of Govern ment had thought proper to levy, and which was by no means injurious in its operation to thofe on whom it was intended to be impofed." As it is generally apprehended that the Court of Liffion will foon be compelled by the threats of France and Spain to declare againft us, the prin cipal merchants engaged in die Portugal wine trade on Wednefday waited upon Mr. PITT, in order to confult him upon the occafion. We un dertland he admitted the exiftence of the danger, though he expreffed his hopes that it would not be immediate, and obferved, that if the merchants withed to have their effects fccured, he had no ob jection to their bonding their wines for two years. By accounts from Rome we learn that the Pore has received affurances from Paris, that the States of the Church, with the exception of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna, which were already given up by his predeceffor, fhall labour under no ref tridions in confequence of the impending Peace. The POF a's Nuncio, Monfignor Sr I la a, is conflantly at Paris, and is fupported - by the Spaniffi Court in his Treaty for an Ecclefiaftical Eftablifhment. DREADFUL ACCIDENT iv FIRS !—About two o'clock on Wednefday morning, happened, at No. io,Charlotte-ffireet, Portland-place, another dread ful inftance of the extreme danger with which the fafhionable articles of female drefs are worn in any carelefs fituation by a fire. A Gentleman who had been on a vitit to Mifs SARAH Rion', (upped with her, and had been gone but a very thort time, when fire was by fome accident communicated to her head-drefs. No perfon was with her in the room, and ere the was aware of her danger, the reft of her clothes were in flames. In her firft furprife, the had run to Rifle them with the win dow-curtains, but without effect- Her fcrvant was at laft alarmed, and called the afliftance of Mr. Wit I.:APIs, Surgeon, from the bottle oppofite. When he came in, Mifs Ricios flood at the door of her apartment, holding the door with one hand, with the other the corner of a theft of 4rawers near it. She had feizcel both with a convulfive grafp, and was in the agonies of death. They could not relax her hold to remove her, but her ftrength was exhaufted by the effort, and the almolt immediately funk down and expired. Her limbs were contracted, and her whole frame molt frightfully fcorched. The flames had fpread over the room, and it was with difficulty that the houfe could be Caved. On Taefday fe'nnight, between one and two o'olock in the morning, the inhabitants of Hull were again alarmed by fire. Mr. Meggitt's brew houfe m Storey•Clofe was difcovered to be on fire, and from its fituation, being amidft a number of other houfes, great apprehenfions were entertain. ed for their fafety ; providentially after the arrival of the engines an immediate flop was put to its deflrudive prolgrefs, but we are forty to fay not before the roof - had fallen in, and part of the uten fils in an upper chamber deftroyed ; but from the exertions of all ranks of people, the property in the orewhoufe and the adjacent premifes were all fe cund. As no fire had been in the building for lonic time previous to this affair, there is every reafon to believe that it had been the work of fome wicked and malicious palm, the conierfation which preceded k. He fa* Mr. Duncan ftrike Mr. Brickwood, the confequenee of which was a black eye ; but Mr. Brickwood did not 1411, for be laid hold of the Rand in the BRICICWOOD V. DUNCAN. (vane. Mr. Duncan had the charaCter of being The Arroaxty GENItAL Rated that this was a very generous good-natured man. an action for an affault. The Plaintiff and Defen. Mr. Jones, a furgeon, who attended Mr. Brick dant were merchants in this City. This was a wood, (aid he found him very much disfigured : fpecies of injury feldom complained of by perfons one of his eyes almoft doled up. He was exceed of this rank and Ration in life ; for, whatever might ingly affected by this injury. He thought he never be the defea of the prefent generation, its manners law a . greater impreffion made by a fill in a man's were con fi derably improved in comliarifon of thole face in his life, than he law in the face of Mr. of former ages, and it was now but feldom that a Brickwood in this inflame. He continued in this Gentleman ]had to complain of a grofs and brutal (late with the marks of violence on his face for eight affault being committed nn him ; but this was an or nine days : he was in great pain, and obliged to exception to the general good manners of Gen- keep his houfe. tlemen. The infult here complained of was at- Mr. East INS addreffed the Jury in an ingenious tended with a confiderable injury, for the Plaintiff fpcech for the Defendant, in which he infitted that was fo disfigured by the violence, that he was it was not probable the Defendant (hoald have obliged to withdraw himfelf from the public view ftruck the Plaintiff without great provocation, but for a while, it being unpleafant to exhibit marks of which there could be no evidence, luxe the wit of difgraceful violence on his face, which were the nets who law the lcuflic did not hear the whole of effea of the Defendant's mifbehaviour. The infult the converfation. The truth was, he faid, that the here was of an aggravated kind, for it was offered Plaintiff had provoked the Defendant by railing in the public Corn Exchange, in the pretence of all the price of the market unfairly ; the Defendant the molt intimate connations and acquaintance of was to purchafe theft articles for Government, the parties. They were perfonsef large property, and had the belt willies fur the public (who GOD and favors and dealers in corn. Some overtures knows pay enough already for every thing) and were made by the Plaintiff to a Mr. Sawyer, for the walled the price of things to be kept down at the purchafe of tome peafe, and Mr. Brickwood hay- market, and it was out of this the converfation ing made an offer to him of 51. Bs. per quarter, arofe, in which the Plaintiff gave the Defendant for forty quarters of that article, the Defendant the lie. The Defendant alledged that the Plaintiff chofed to make fome obfervations on that fubjea, had railed the price of this article ; ti,e Plaintiff and to alledge that the Plaintiff had offered to pur- laid he had not ; but why did he refute to go with chafe a hundred and fixty quarters, fo as to en- the Defendant to Mellis Sawyers and Williams, hance the price of the article at the market. The kill by, to clear the matter up ?—No, he refuted, Plaintifffaid, lie was mifinformed on the fubjcn; and perfifted in giving the lie to the Defendant. that the price he had offered was 51. Bs. and that The Attorney-General had laid, that the prefent was only for forty quarters"—which the Defendant generation was improved in manners, and he ad contradiaed, and, with an oath, alledged " that he mined it ; but there was a tpirit among us, that had offered to purchafe ifioquarters of Mr. Sawyer, was not diminifhed fence the days of Alfred, and in order to raife the price of the Market." This that was to maintain promptly our veracity when the Plaintiff pofitively denied, and he bell knew attacked. A man's veracity in England was like what he was doing, nor was there any authority the chaßity of a virtuous woman, nut to be fuf veiled in the Defendant to examine the Plaintiff pefted ; this fudden gull arofe from that fpirit, anti upon interrogatories, as to what he was doing, ought not to be vilited with any ferious penalty. although he chofe to exculpate himfelf from the Lord Kenyon Laid, the Jury were in poffeflion charge of having bought, or offered to buy this of the whole Cafe, but he could not help obferv quantity, in order to enhance the price of the ar- ing, that there was a difpofttion to make the molt tide at the market ; but the Defendant was not of this in the firft witnefs, for he faid the Defendant fatisfied, he did not chufe to be fatisfied in a knocked the Plaintiff down, whereas it appeared gentlemanly way, but laid with unbecoming afterwards that this happened not to be fo. The harfhncfs, "Do you mean to give me thelie, Sir?" Jury would confider of the Cafe without any ob• A lie—the Plaintiff was maintaining his own ye- (creation from his Lordthip. racity, and fupporting the conliftency and pro- Verdia for the Plaintiff, damages tool. prim of his condua, and the Defendant had no INGLIS U. ISHSRWOOO. right to difpute it; and when a man tendered to This was an anion of trover brought to recover another an iffue to enter into a quarrel, which he the value of a quantity of hemp, iron, and deals. does by alking, "Do yon mean to give me the It appeared that the goods had been purchafed in lie ?" he ought to meet tome legitimate rebuke. Ruffs and !hipped on board a veffel called the The Defendant's mikonduet did not end here, for William, chartered for tile purple, and bound ' immediately on this, he (truck the Plaintiff (eve- for England. They had been configned to a mer ral fevere blows, fome over the nofe. which occa- chant of the name of Crane; but Crane becoming finned an effufion of blood—others over his eyes, bankrupt, the configner wifhed to have nothing to which doled one of them up fur feveral days, and do with him on that account, and re-configned disfigured him fo that he was not able to (hew them to another perfon of property and credit. I himfelf in public. This was the fort of intuit which Upon their arrival they were demanded by the was offered to the Plaintiff, and this the injury he Plaintiff, who is allignee to the bankrupt, and, fuffered before his countrymen in the public Corn as the perfon in whole cuflody they were refitted Exchange of London : and the Jury would have to furrender them, he brought this anion to reco to fay, what attic' of themithes would have ex- ver their value. peaed by way of reparation, if the complaint was The cafe was extremely perplexed, and involved exhibited by one of them.—He did not mean to feveral points of the mercantile law of Ruffin. a& for vindiaive damages, nor for any thing that Lord KENrow at length interfered and raid, that went beyond the due proportion which one thing as the queftion was one upon which the Jury would ought to bear to another; but they were to reprefs find great difficulty in deciding, it had much bet this fpirit of brutal violence, and to affire the pub. ter be referred to arbitration. His Lordfhip's re lic that the places of public refort (!hall not he commendation was adopted, and a reference was turned into boxing fchools, and that a man is not immediately agreed to. to be beat becaufe he does not chufe to retraa the MARCH 2,—.TUEBS v. GILSON. truth in compliance with the outrageous temper Mr. GAMY opened the Pleadings, from which of any one who chutes to infill upon a falfehood in- it appeared, that this was an aftion on a Policy jurious to his character, but that on the contrary, of Infurance on the (hip Franklin, warranted men (hall be protected in the vindication of their American, at and from Liverpool to Naples, &c. own veracity, and the decorum of Public places The Leading Counfel for the Plaintiff obferved, (hall be preferred. that this anion was brought again( the Defendant William Hales, clerk to Mr. Brickwood, the to recover tsol. the amount of his filbfcription to Plaintiff, (wore, That the Plaintiff was in the a Policy of Infurance on the (hip Franklin, on a habit of attending the Corn Exchange daily.— voyage from Liverpool to Naples. This (hip bad That he was with him on the ill of December been purchafed by Mr. Tubbs, the Plaintiff, who la, there; he law the Defendant, Mr. Duncan, is a native of America, of two perfons, alto citi there often alto ; he came up to the Plaintiff that zens of America. She commenced her vo) age day; the Witnefs heard them (peaking together about the beginning of the prefent ycir, and ',m ahout fome Peale, he did not hear the precife fecuted it with all due diligence, till the was cap words they had, but they talked together for Lured , by two privateers, under Spanish anti about five minutes, and he thought they were French colours, who turned out in fad to be Bri. joking, and fo took no particular notice.—But tifh fubjens, being Jerfeymen. and who brought loon afterwards Mr. Duncan Aced Mr. Brick- the Franklin into that ifland. This !hip being wood what he meant by bidding for fome famples thus piratically feized, they thought proper to which belonged to Meas. Sawyer and Williams ? libel her in the Court of Admiralty. She being Mr. Brickwood faid, " he only bid for three or thus detained under thefe circumflances, thole four of the heft famples, and that he had bid who were interefted in the property abandoned sl. Bs. but he did not fay what quantity." Mr. her to the Underwriters. The Counfel laid, h e Duncan faid, "he had railed the price of the mar- was not aware there was any ground of defence. ket by fo doing ;" that was, by bidding, as he They had paid money into Court generally. It called it, for the whole of the article there. Mr. was fuggefted to him they meant to co: cad the Duncan wanted Mr. Brickwood to go with him Plaintiff was not the proprietor of this thy, anti to Meffrs. Sawyer and Williams, but which Mr. that he was not an American. Brickwood refufed. Mr. Duncan repeated over After this caufe had proceeded a certain lergth, again, " That he had railed the price of the Lord Kawyou faid, he was clearly of opiaion, Whole market."—Mr. Brickwood anfwered to as the Franklin was at prefent libelled in the Court the contrary, by laying, " That he only bid for of Admiralty, that the Plaintiff had a r i g h t to three or four of the belt famples."—On this, Mr. abandon her to the Underwriters. Duncan laid to Mr. Brickwood, "Do you mean There was another queflion in this cafe—whe to give me the lie?" To which Mr. Brickwood ther the Franklin was, in eitimation of law, an laid, " That he only bid for three or four of the American (hip? belt famples, and not for the whole." Mr. On the part of the Defendant, it was contended, Duncan (aid a fecond time, " Do you mean to that Mr. Tubbs bad lived for years at Liverpool, give me the lie 1" Mr. Brickwood again gave had married a lady, the daughter of a gentleman the fame anfwer, " that he had only bid for three of high confederation there, and that he was there or four of the belt famples, and that he did not fore, to all intents and purpofes, a Britifis fubjea. want the whole." Mr. Duncan faid a third time, On the part of the Plaintiff, they clearly proved "Do you mean to give me the lie ?" and before Mr. Tubbs an American fubjea fo lace as the Mr. Brickwood could make any anfwer to th at , year 1796, refiding in the State of Mafachufett's, Mr. Duncan knocked him down ; he !truck him and that his father refided there at prefent. down; he (truck him five or fix blows on the Lord KENYON obferved, that in the Eullatia nofe, and three or four in the face, and one on Cafes, which were decided when he was Attorney the head. Mr. Duncan is a very Rout man, and General, it was held that, when a man was do. may be about the age of forty; Mr. Brickwood miciled in a State, carried on trade there, and appeared to be much hurt, and his face was all added to the power and Rrength of that State, covered with blood, and he was confined for that for the purpofes of capture, he WEALD be con. eleven days. fidered as of that State. Jofeph Brantley. another Clerk to a Corn-Fac- The counfcl for the Plaintiff faid, if he had bees tor, taw this kale, but did not hear a fynable of aware that this was to hart boa madc a queltion, II; rd •