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LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER tt. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Corr. for opg. 71 3 per Cent. Red. 64--Omnlum 71 1 dlf. The MI Nimes Financial liatement, given in our preceding Columns, muff prove highly gra. tifying to every defctiption of his Majefly's lab jcfls. The MINISTER flatters liimfelf, that, for the prefent, he will be able to difpenfe with a Loan, or that it will be but (mall. In confequence of which, the Funds have experienced a conficlera ble rife. The 3 per Cent. Confols, which Tome days ago were at 671, are now at 71/. Omnium bac alto rifen in proportion. This morning we received a Moniteur of the 7th. It contains nothing new. Five per cents. 53 fr. 30 c GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBER 18. Ye ftcrday the RESISTANCE failed to join the fquadron in the Mediterranean : the rendefvous for them is fomewhere on the coati of Sardinia. There feems now to be little doubt, but what we {hall certainly retain Malta for the 'prelim, and the troops from Alexandria will now probably be withdrawn to Malta, as our evacuating Egypt while we keep Malta is of no confequence.—While Malta is in our hands, the French never can make an at tempt on Egypt with any profpe& of fuccefk, be auk we can always anticipate them in gartifoning Alexandria, which, in fait, Is the key to that country. The moment you give up Malta, from that infant, both that Ifland and Egypt may be confidered as at the mercy of France. This is the decided opinion of every perfon of obfervation who has vifited there places. Since the 6th of tail month five French line of battle {hips have pallid here up the Streights, ex• clufive of the {hip which pallid on the 13th, which is now Paid to have been a Spaniih line of battle (hip, as the hoifted Spanifh colours after the had pallid the garrifon. Two Atherican frigates have arrived from the United States within this week path and have pro ceeded up the Streights. We are happy to (late that there is Tome proba bility of the accounts, relies ing the effeas of the earthquake, which was fo feverely felt in Walla chia and Moldavia, having been exaggerated in fo far, at leap, as refpetfts Conftantinople. Letters have been. received in the City from that capital, dated the aSth Oiftober, two days later than the accident. Some are • entirely fdent on the fub jai, and one of them only fitys, ,, We experienced the other da_y, a flight !hock of an earthquake." General Lavin is certainly ordered to return to Liibon. This furely can be confidered only in the light of an infult to that Court.—(Trise Briton.) The Dowager Lady GLYNN had a mot provi- dential cfcape on Tuefday morning . lat. As hea Ladyflup was Banding by the fire in converfation with her fon, ColonerGLyms, her gown and pet twat took fire, and in a few &condi the whole of her clothes were in a blaze. The Colonel, with much pretence of mind, latently laid hold of his 'd rolling her the fortunately DREADFUL FIRE. NM YORK, Nov. 3.—One of the molt alarm ing fires that has ever happened in this city, withal our recollection, broke out laft evening, between eight and nine o'clock, It} a liable in Bride-ftreet, between Whitehall and .Broad-ftieets, almoft fur rounded with wooden buildings. The wind blow ing frefh from the fouth weft, the devouring element made its way through Bridge-theet into Stone-ftreet, with uncontroulable fury ; and in lets than an hour and a half the whole block, confining of about Sfty buildings, moftly dwelling-houfes, were either burnt, pulled down, or gutted. Pieces of thingles, in a light blaze, were carried in every direction by the wind, frequently lodging on the roofs of houfes at the diftatlce of half a mile from the fcene of conflagration, and threatened dertruc don to a great part of the city. We are unable, at prefent, to (fate either the origin of the fire, or the extent of the injury individually or collec tively Curtained. Amongft the fufferers, a lift of whom we were not able to procure laft evening, u ere Mr. A. Carroll, Col. Boyd, Mr. Peter Metier, Mr. James Cheetham, Mr. Raynier Suydam, and Mr. Cammeyer. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 9. Came in the ESCORT, of 14 guns, Lieut. PEAKI, from the Downs; alfo the Betfy fmuggling cutter, of Cawfand, and a urge lugfail boat : the latter is laden with 77 ankers of fpirits, which came out of the cutter from Guernfey, bound to Cawfand, captured yefterday off the Start by his Majefty's chip ATALANTS, of :8 guns, Capt. MASIFIRLD. Sailed the Lion, of London, from Jamaica, for London, laden with fugar and coffee ;. the Alliga. tor, Capt. Ms RITON g from London, for the Weft incites; the Pazlorina, of and for Oporto, Capt. OLIYIRA, from Peterfburgh, laden with hemp and iron.—Came in the Fortune, Captain FALL, from Jerfey ; and the Fortune, Capt. MANACH, from Brehaut, with oyfters. DIAL, Dac. zo.--Arrived and failed for the River, the Friend --, from Cork. Came down the Betfey,Bamp ton, for Bengal, and remains. Wind W. S. W. blows hard. ORAVISZND,Dic. co.—Paffed by the Albino, Phelon, from Waterford; john and Mary, from Dublin; Friends, Jones, and William, Fell, from Cork.—Sailed the Delaford, Young, for St. Vincent.; Stanley, Chtvers, for Nevis ; Friends, Howell, for New York; Two Eliza's, Jones, for Bilbao; Do. rothy, Wills, and Elisabeth, Ohlers, for liamburgh ; Neptune, Le Mefurier, for Jamaica ; Jacobs, Spanderman, for Antwerp; Brilliant, Stewart, for Leghorn; Expedite, Staffells ; Mentor, Guttman, and Vrow Ary, —, for Amfterdam. Yefterday arrived at Portfmouth, the Au I' H lON frigate, Captain HARDY, from Lifbon. Yefterday a Court of Direaors was held at the Eaft India Honfe, when the following arrange ment was made in the Council of Fort St. George, in confequence of the• late appointment of Lord W. CAVENDISH BENTINCI, as Governor :-- LieUtenant-General JAMES STUART, Commander in Chief, and Second in Council. ' WILLIAM PKTIIII, Efg. Third in Council, and Proviiional Governor. JOHN CHAMICH, Efq. Fourth in Council, in the room of Music° Diet, Efq. who names his nation as Infpolor of the Company's Inveitment. , The undermentioned times were fixed for the Emtl. How s, inftead of thole originally propofed : To be afloat the 9th of Jan. 1803; fail to Gravdend the 23d of ditto; Ray there 3o days, and be in the Dawns the alith Feb. We have to announce the arrival of a difpatch overland from Bombay. Letters received by this conveyance are dated as late as the 9th of June laft. Nothing of material confequence has tranfpired from the fubitance of thefe letters. The (hips the Canton, Captain THOMAS 'ow; the Walmer Cattle, Captain Esssz sun ; and the Thames, Captain Rosszr , were at Bombay, delivering their con prior to their departure for China. The (hip Rambler failed from Bombay the , for America. Captain Oolcay, of the Comany's infantry, and Lient, GOODLAD, of cy's 33d regiment, are paffingers in the . "rhe hat 3, Captain Sass s, from the Good Hope, is arrived at Bombay. She Cape the t4th March. The Company's Marquis Cornwallis, Captain Isaac G. sow, has failed from Bombay for Goa, SHAW and Gioia Ts:vista., Efqrs.— pany's (hip the Comet, Captain LARKINS, lore on the ad of May during very tern. weather, on the Mizin Sand: the is to be t Calcutta prior to her coming home. have been recently received in Paris from which failed under Capt. BAUDIN, on a difcovery. On the 19th of May laft the :uraliiie, commanded by Capt. Hsusww, ar- Port Jackfon, in New Holland, having rated from the Geographer, in temper ither. It appears, however, that the latter . after fallen in with, at the fouthern ex- of New Holland, by the Inveftigator man of war. She was then proceeding to confort at the appointed rendezvous,with fuftained any damage. Jr THI WH I 1....F01,11' days of the pre ;ter), to draw I Prize of C. tome) - spec - , 1,000 soo 3 . too Price of a Ticket - ,h. t 9 - Z. to o 0 Eighth -s Is o 5 s o Sixteenth x 6 6 :Co. State LotteryOffice,No. i i, Poultry. ,RYAS ANTISCORIU TIC DROPll.—This town excellent Medicine, having been ap the public near lo years, hardly needs r recommendation : but as a Gentle refpeEtability, refiding in the neighbour 'Tilly, in the County of Lincoln, and was novel, had the goodnefs to call on metors, at the Difpenfary, No. 15, Soho acquaint them of the cure he had re :xperienced from the ufe of their Medicine, liptcssuity and Co. beg leave to acquaint Uc, that by applying to Mr. Harr, of 'ley will receive every fatisfaeog account II I A r_ LAW INTELLIGENCE. . . DOCTORS' COMMONS, DEC. 7. lETORt THY RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM SCOTT. FOULER! V. VOUL[i!•-OH AN APPEAL FROM THE ... • CONSISTORY COURT OF LONDON. This was a cailfe of divorce or feparation from bed aad board, and mutual cohabitation, inaituted by Philippa FOulkes againit Mr. John Foulkes, of Hari-frieet, Bloornibury, attorney, her hulband, on the ground of his great cruelty and adultery ; when the Judge pronounced in favour of the di. vorce, with Tuil cats, and ordered a liberal allow. ance, by way of alimony. COURT OF KING'. BENCH, DEC. to. • cum. CON.-.-MOORI V. DURNFORD. Mr. Idocaorn Rated, that this was an action brought by John Moore, Efq. ag l ainft Anthony William Durnford, Efq. for criminal converfation with the plaintiff's wife, in which the damages were laid at i 0,0001. The defendant had pleadeci not guilty, and on that Me was joined. Kr. Easeiita faid, he was Counfel for the plain. tiff, who had preferred his complaint againfl the defendant for adultery with his wife. Mr. Moore had been married to this lady as long ago as the year 1788. She was the only daughter of the bro ther of the Earl of Meath, of courfe the was of a noble and honourable family. She was, at the period of her marriage, eighteen years of age, and her butband, the plaintiff, was twentrfonr. He had then recently returned from his travels, and the had jail finifhed her education at the boarding fchool in which her father had placed her. She was not only a Lady of fuperior beauty, but of a fuperior mind. He was not time whether now and then fuch accomplithments as this Lady pof fired, did not lead to the unhappy catattroFhe that formed the fubjea of the prefent adion. Un lefs fuperior accomplithments were mixed with extraordinary virtues, they were- extremely apt to lead the mind affray. If he was to choofe a wife for a ion, or a friend, he thould prefer a Lady of a found underßanding, with thofe feminine vir tues which conftituted womah's chief praife. The plaintiff, loon after he beheld a Lady of fuch un common perfonal endowments and high attain. ments, married her. She was the mother of three children, the eldeft fourteen, the fecond eleven, and the youngeft four or five years of age. She was peculiarly capable of conferring the greaten advantages on her family, by that education which few children could look up to from a mother. It was fit he thould fay, that during the long courfe of the plaintiff and his wife's living together, to the date of this criminal connection, the plaintiff had no reafon to doubt her chaftity or honour; on the contrary, it was impoflible for him to eftablifh the fadt of any adultery having been committed under his roof. For fome months before her elope ment, her hutband obferved a difference in her behaviour, an unufual degree of coolnefs, but without being able to difcover the caufe. Previous to this time, the defendant had frequently vifited at the plaintiff's houfe, but there appeared no par. ticular intimacy between him and the plaintiff's wife, that could juftify the leaft fufpicion. When a hufband was carelefs of the honour of his wife, when he fuffered her to be approached by a man, profeffing that his objedt was fomething beyond common gallantry and.politenefis ; fo far from his being entitled to be received in a Court of Junice, he deferved to be difcarded with contempt, and fhunned by fociety. Nothing was more difgrace , ful or difhonourable, than for a man to negledt his wife, and Puffer her to be reduced under his own eye. Such a man jutlly became the vidim of his own folly. It was impoffible for' any one to in 1. nuate this of the plaintiff; he was, if poffible, too jealous of his honour ; he was fo attached to this Lady, that he could not even bear thofe freedoms which women of the molt virtuous inclinations might indulge in, without inducing a fufpicion to their prejudice. He mentioned this becaufe fo many cafes had occurred, and probably would oc cur again, of men who bad been privy to their own dithonour, claiming damages at the hands of a Jury : and becaufe he thought it neceffary for an hufband, profecuting fuch an adion as this, to repel the leaft imputation of his having been ac ceffary to his wife's dithonour and his own dif. grace. Mrs. Moore had firft become acquainted' with the defendant, at a public breakfaft given by the latter. Their means of forming a mutual at tachment were facilitated by the de&ndant's vitit• in g him with her mother, and receiving his vifits. The defendant was confidered as a mat,, of cha radter, and therefore the plaintiff had not the flightelt idea of his attempting any thing improper or dintonourable, but the incenfe he offered at the &rine 'of his wife's beauty and accomplithments won her to his love; and the became too affedion ately attached to him for her future bappinefs.— Her fatal paffion was the caufe of her deferting her houfe, and abandoning her hufband, friends, family, and children. The plaintiff was for fome time unable to difcover the place of her retreat ; but at laft he found her living with the defendait, and was enabled to procure that proof which would now be laid before'the Jury. He immediately put an end to all further communication with his wife, and brought the prefent action. The Learned Counfel (aid, he was perfuaded, that, after the many cafes of this defcription, fubmitted to the confideration of Juries, it could not be neceffary to enlarge upon the confequences of filch a crime as that of adultery. What a hulband's fenfations mutt be on fuck an occafion, the feelings of thofe who heard him better deferibed than any language be could employ. He left the cafe in the hands of the Jury, confident he thould receive that compen. Cation in damages, fuch an injury merited, unlefs the defendant could break in upon his claim, by (hewing mifcondudt or negledt on the part of the laintiff. He thould not be able to lay before the Jury any evidence of the fortune of the defendant, otherwife than that he was an Officer in the Guards; but hi, Lordthip would tell them, that it was unneceffary to do fo,. and that the damages to which the fortune of the defendant might be of May 1788. She knew the Lady betore her marriage, when fhe was Mifs Brabazon. Mr. M'Carthy was acquainted with the plain tiff, who was a Gentleman of fortune, refident at Berkhamilead, in Hertfordthire; he had intimately known him and his wife eight or nine years. Mrs. Moore always appeared to be a woman conclud ing herfelf in a domeftic and virtuous manner.— He had no reafon to believe the was inattentive to any of the duties of a wife. The defendant was received in the family as a vifitor. Mrs. Moore had three children. He never obferved any irre gularities on the pale- of the plaintiff, or any un warrantable liberties taken with his wife. As far as he faw, they appeared to live comfortably and happily together. The Lady was, he believed, a very accomplithed woman ; the was the daughter of the Earl of Meath's brother.—On his crofs-ex amination, he faid, Mr. Durnford vifited the fa mily frequently, but he never remarked any thing in his conduet that could give the leap lufpicioa to the hutband. .:,,;. Mr. John Crane Paid he lived at Aeon ; he knew Mrs. Moore, and remembered her coming to lodge at his houfe on the 3d of July latt. A Mrs. Gill had taken the lodging for her. He knew the de fcndant ; he drank teathree times with Mrs. Moore, while fhe was at Lis houie. She quitted his houfe on the igth of July ; the went away with Captain Durnford. Mr. Raper Rated that he was a neighbour of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, at Great Berkhamtlead. = He was often at their houfe, and had opportuni ties of feeing the company that vifited them. He never obferved any thing improper or immodeft in Mrs. Moore's behaviour : the was a woman of more than ordinary accomplifhments ; fhe was very capable of educating her own children ; (he had no governefs in the houfe to fuperintend them. The behaviour of Mr. Moore towards his wife was uniformly that of an affeetionate hufband. He never knew any improper company admitted to Mrs. Moore's fociety, or any gentleman vifiting her who profeffed more than the ordinary gallan try due to the moil virtuous of her fex. Mrs. Taylor Aid, the lived fervant with Capt. Durnford, of Brockhill, on the loth of July laft ; the had before lived in his fervice at Great Berk- • hamftead ; (he remembered Captain Durnford giving a public breakfaft to the Gentlemen and Ladies in the neighbourhood. The people of con dition and fafhion were there. Among the reft Mr. and Mrs. Moore. The witnefs was certain (he knew her, for (he came into the kitchen with Mr. Durnford's brother's wife ; the had fcen the fame lady rime at Brockhill ; fhe was there before the witnefs came from Berkhamftead. There were two men fervants and a woman fervant in the fa mily, at Brockhill, before the witnefs went to live there. The woman fervant left the houfe on her arrival. There was no one in the houfe but Mr. Durnford, Mrs. Moore, the two men fervants and herfelf. There were two beft beds befides the fer vants, but only one that was made. That bed the witnefs always made herfelf ; the was certain the other was not made. When the made the bed, it always appeared as if it had been flept in by two perfons. The defendant and Mrs. Moore break rafted, dined, and lived together. On her crofs examination, the raid her mailer was a very young gentleman. Mr. Gaaaow obferved, that he hardly knew any part of his profs tonal fituation which was lefs pleafant than the duty he had now to perform.— He had the talk impofed on him of defending a very young man, whore paffions, inflamed and fe duced by the accomplifhments of this Lady. had placed him in the unfortunate predicament in which he (toed. He was in no condition to deny the fad of a criminal intercourfe : he had no evi dence to offer by which he could impute any mif contluift to the plaintiff, or which could juftify him in defiring the Jury not to find a verdict againft the defendant. The only remaining queftion therefore was, what damages ought to be given ? Damages, in cafes of this kind, muff always de ' pend upon the circumftances adduced in evidence. There were no anions which differed more in their various fhades than thofe for criminal converfation. There had been cafes in which Juries were jufti ' fled in giving large damages. Others in which the fmalle ft were too large, and there were others, of a middle clafs, in which Juries were bound to ob ferve a courfe between the two extremes. The prefent cafe, he admitted, had been molt fairly and candidly opened by his Learned friend, who had refrained from preffing it beyond what the fads would bear. Imitating his candour, he would ab (lain from any obfervations that might add to the fufferings of the injured hufband. He 11.:d only to prefent to the Jury a very young and unfortu nate perfon, who was called Captain only from that courtefy which applied fuch a title to e. fubaltern officer in the army. He was mere' Lieutenant in the Guards, and had no other mi of fupport than what his pay as fuch afforde , This young officer unhappily found himfelf ph by accident in the neighbourhood of a lo and accomplifhed Lady, whore beauty he Waf able to refill. He was not the intimate frier), the hufband : he had not broken through the of hofpitality—he had not feduced the wife of friend: He v..as a very young man, of an agret and prepoffeiEng manner, who had been in th: bit of occafionally vifiting the family of the p tiff ; he was not domellicated in his houfe even on any occafion did it appear that he taken a bed at it ; but, by one of thofe fata _ • too often feen in the world, he had become ati ed to a Lady whofe charms he ought to hay, rifted. " All I have to fay (obferved the LI ed Counfcl to the Jury), is this, in your jultic4 merciful. The defendant has been guilty of offence which I cannot juilify ; 'and if I had powers of my Learned Friend, to make an quer.t addrefs on his behalf, the queilion mull to this, what damages ought .to be given ? queftion mull be determined iiy:the fads. RI lea, it is not the cafe. Of utilibuy *item, le, t• '• • ing every woman) the cafe of a man' R-1 ' ------ ---- -- -- - -- ------ ------ much pretence of mind, inftantly laid hold of his J une lalt. N ired mother, and rolling her in the carpet, fortunately tranfp fucceeded in extinguifliing the flame ; and though Company fro 's t T USHINOTON 4.. her clothes were completely burned, we are happy HENRY Boss to hear the efcaped without any perfonal injury. 4.: W ..n ittLa .. ns ....z oi Webber, who was (hot by Bignall near Stone Pound, in the night of Tuefday night , as men- `e i t wri- vmerican ig tinned in the STAR of Monday la, expired on aad May, for Wednefday morning laa- L H :_ on xi . C ... 0_n5 ..., a!: Yefterday Mr. Gibbs, a dyer, who worked with Mr. Doyley, in Maiden-lane,Covent- Garden , car. L' ln T i l_`_`:',', rying home a pint of porter, flipped down in the pape liz - Goc . — greet, and falling on the pewter pot, againft which ' left the Cap he (ruck his temple, was killed on the _fpot. friate Mar COT awl. GARDEN . — Last night their MAJISTIES R icHARDSON and five PRINCISSES honoured this Theatre with with roHN si : their pretence, to hear Mr. BRAMAN. 'They ar- The aompan. rived about half pall fix, anti were received with got on chore the warmeß teftimonies of affeQion. His MAJESTY bowed thrice to the audience, and the Q2eita and peftuous weal repaired at C Ptiacrssiis made two refpeQful curt fi es each, be- Letters hay fore taking their feats. ' God Save the K in g' was th e veffels wh performed in grand Rile, by allthe vocal and inure- voyage of dit mental mullcians belonging to the theatre. Some Naturalifte, i confufion arofe from an attempt made to omit the rived at Pm Overture. Shouts and hiffes compelled the aaors been feparate to leave the firft Scene unfinithed ; but the willies w tu as ou r s po w n ea af th te ei of the audience being complied with, tranquillity was reflored. The performances were the Cabinet• vanity of I and the Review ; with which, the Royal Vifitors Britith man 43 feemed highly delighted. join her coati DRURY-LANE.—Lag night Ben Johnfon's plea. out having fu fant comedy of Every Mau is his Humour was re- vived, after lying upon.the Shelf for a number of STATE OF years. It is rather flrongly call, and went off with feat Lottery eclat, though the audience that attended at theri fi ng I I of the curtain was not numerous. Witouo 14 TOM'S 3 Kitely it a hong, but rather coarfely outlined por- s tr.lit of the charaaer ; he was, in the principal 6 tccie with Cafh, very animated and natural, but 13 p his performance altogether fell thnrt of that of the H s u _ other houfe. In the Bolvdil of BANNISTER there Quarter is fufficient bluffer, but he wants the Solemn fop- S - wirrEce eery of the part which fo diftinguithed ther s 'admir- Sni.ssual able performance of the late Mr. WOODWARD....- well known a CHIRRY and COLLINS were both fuccefsful in proved by thi S46CI and Matthew; but the a& would be im- any further proved if they changed fituations, COLLINS being man of ref? the more natural, and CHIRRY the more artificial hood of Spill aftnr. DWYIR in Edward Kimball, and HOLLAND whore cafe w in Wdlhred, were refpeaable; as was RAYMOND in the Proprietc Downright, and Powsta. in Old Kamm& PALM II (Tare, to ac in Brahmanw was too boilterous, and SUITT was cently experi Avg/wide/A io Nfiteamati. Mrs. Powsta.,'s Dame Malls. Sem kir:fr was very interefling, and would be much the public, I more fo was the to iiiptift her bofom with lets art. S . WI? y, they Tilt Noma AEstfafflt 241 *4 . etbet new' an, la - , 6 I ) every cly a neans ed.— laced ovely Is un- nd of : laws )f his !cable lc ha- plain- ; not t had alities ttach- , e re- .earn- ce be of an d the n elo- come That tecol- educ- iN not fa •