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and long as at prefent ; and their correfpondence with their refpedive Courts is proportionably adive. "AYDIN, Fen. 17.—The Batavian Government has publithed the conditions of the voluntary loan cf 3o millions, announced in our laft Gazette. The lenders are to receive obligations, bearings percent. intereft on the amount of the fume advanced ; there will alto be di ftributed amongft them, by way of Lottery, 12 millions of obligations, bearing inte reft at al per cent. The fund appropriated for the payment of the intereft, and the difcharge of the principal in eight years, is an annual tax dur• ' ing that period, of one half per cent. upon capital, and two per cent. upon income. HAGUE, Fir. 16.—The Members neceff.uy to complete the National Chamber of Accounts, have already been nominated at a private fitting of the Legiflative Body. count STAKELBERG, his Ruffian Majefly's Mi. sifter to our Republic, is fhortly expeeted here. It is Paid that orders have already arrived to engage an Hotel for him at this place. STOCKHOLM, Fax. 2.—This day we have ac counts from Malaga, that the Swedilh fquadron which had failed from Gottenbarg under Admiral Czoaasrloss, had arrived there, after a voyage of twentywig'ht days. VIENNA, FAL 3.—Every thing at Belgrade re mains as it was; it is certain, however, that an at tack will Coon be made upon that Fortrefs, as the number of the Turkifh forces is daily increafing. It is reported, from every quarter, that Passwan OoLou maintains a good underflanding with the rebellious Janiffaries. Their MAJESTIES and the Paincasszs came to town yefterday from Wmdfor. Mr. Jonas did not make his prornifed motion yefterday in the Honfe of Commons, on account of the abfence of Mr. ADDI moron from the Honk. Mifs ADDINGTON, the daughter of the CHAN. CELLO' of the EXCH Kyle, though not worfe lag night, is in a very dangerous Rate. The CHAN c ALMA of the Exc nuts; as, we are concerned to in form our Readers, is alfo greatly indifpofed. The total Principal and Intereft of the revenues of the Ducby of Cornwall to the ;ft of Feb. 113oa, is 567,7711. r4s.—lf the account had been taken with Compound Intereft, the amount would be 02,5511 4s. id. The STEWARDS of the ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY refpeafully acquaint the Governors of this !aka lion and the Publick, that the Rev. Dr. %TA', F. A. S. of Reading, will preach the ANNUAL SER MON at Crevener Ciel on the 4th of April.— The ANNIVERSARY iESTIVAL Will be celebrated on the 6th of the fame month at the London re atm.—At the commencement of 1803 the bonerary Prersia and pecuniary batatin will be adjudged to theficafol casatidata who have written elfays, in vented models, &c. for the prevention of thipwreck, and the prefervation of the lives of mariners, &c. The Univerfity 'f Aberdeen have been pleated to confer on ALEXANDER STEWART, Efq of the Hofpital Staff, the Degree of Door of Medicine. Laft Thurfday the Commandant of Lewes bar racks received an official letter, containing an or der for him to flop the contraaor from delivering any more coals for the ufe of - the barracks; and to make an gccurate return of the Rock in hand. The late Earl of CLARE'S houfe in Ely-place, Dublin, has been taken by Lord RENEWALS, the new Irith Chancellor. On Sunday the 14th init. died at Clifton, of a confumption, Mrs. O'Bayii,, Lady of Captain O'ReveN, of his Maielly's fhip EMERALD. The Main of Coe s fought between Capt. Mos, cvi and Joan COMMIT, Efq. againfl Captain Fa si OR and all Leicefferfbire, was won by the for mer four battles in the Main, and (even byes. The match for 2000 guineas, made by a gentle man of Hull with a gentleman of Lincoln, that the latter did not travel from Barton Water fide to London in twelve fucceffive hours, is off—the Lincoln gentleman having accepted a forfeit of ROO guineas. The Coloffal Statue of the Eleufinian Ceres, the work of Phidias, given by Pericles to her Temple at Eleufis, has been removed thence by two gen tlemen of Je(us College, Cambridge, On their tra vels in Greece; and is fent to England, as a pre fent to their univerfity. This immenfe figure was fir II difcovered by Sir Gaoace Wu la inthe tyth century. It is of the mot exquifite fculpture, but has fuffered fome injury. Tut OptaA.—Bairri made her appearance lag tight in a new ferious Opera called Atitridak, the mufic by Ne s soi.it 1. biILAUD appeared again in the Divertifemtnt ; he is a powerful aaive dancer, but by no means graceful. The Ballet of /ma fol lowed, and was, as Willa, well received. The nap d'ail of the houfe was brilliant, almoll beyond example this fetfon. There was fcarcely a box without a groupe of fair inhabitants. Tur bans, and head-dreffes in hair, prevailed. Wednefday night lag, during the performance at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, a bottle was thrown from the &Wing gallery on the Rage.— This outrageous as occafioned confiderable con fufion, bu t , by t h e a ai v i ty o f t h e con g a bl es attend ing the Theatre, fix tailors, and a woman in their company, were apprehended, and committed to the tit, guard. Next day they were examined before the httinT Magifirate, when it appeared the bottle was thrown by Henry Moore, a failor. He was retnmizted to prifon till liberated in due courfe of law. The others were difmiffed. Ste.t. Lottery Office, No. 16, Nici.m.sox refpeßfully acquaints his Friends and the that the STATE LOTTERY begins draw next, the la of March. The featell variety of Numbers, are into Halves, Quarters, Eighths, Shares, which are duly Stamps, - Parliament. Schgnies at large racy fur the Prises as loon as the 1 1 ..blic. that the l i rig , 4, n Ntonday e 1. .k..et,, in the r p t , n •id o :n u ti a d t o i e A i de a d:: I 4:td ei leenth SW t ;..rif,, And Moo , t 'Lawn. • • bUBLIN, FRBRUART so. Qirtax's BIRTH Dar.—Thnrfday fan having been appointed for the celebration of her MAJ as- TY'S Birth-day, his Excellency the Loan Lt a urt. HART held a Levee at the Caine, which was moll numeronfly attended, and an Ode was afterwards performed, as has already been Rated in this Paper. In the evening there was a magnificent hall and (upper. The minuets were opened by Lady Amex Yoax, and Sir CHARLES VERNON ; the country dances were alfo commenced by Lady ANNE and the Earl of ORMOND, with the national air of " Patrick's Day i n t h e Nforning," and the dancing continued to a late hour with a freedom and hilarity, which teemed to flow from the heart and triumph over the refrains of fplendid cere• mony and Court forms. The head drefres were generally light and elegant, with a profufion of feathers, and, in many innances, a brilliint dif play of diamonds. The Gentlemen were in gene ral habited en ;flakier. The Counters of HARDWICK z and the females of her family were all dreffed in Irifh Sarfnets, and his Excel -trims., on the occasion, patronized the Irifh loom, by wearing a brown cut velvet, trimmed and ornamented with gold lace and embroidered. At one o'clock the company fat down to topper, and were entertained with all the elegance and fplendnur, which wealth, talk, and hofpitality could impart. The name of the lady who was fo barbaroufiy murdered lately at No. 9, Peter's-row, together with her female tenant, was not Euftace, but Davidfon. The fervant's name was Mary Mooney. A perfon of the name of Thomas Radcliff Craw ley Rands charged with being the murderer, and a reward of sot. has been offered by the Superin tendant Magifirate for apprehending him. Craw ley is an attorney, and ferved for Tome time as an officer in the Rofcommon Militia. NAUTICAL INTCLLIGENCE►. MAILS THIS DAY.—.WIND &W. AIIIVID. DIM o French. I z Duck o • Hamburg's. a x Dublin. o I Waterford. I Yefterday advice was received at the Eaft India Houk of the fafe (Arrival in the Downs of the (hip MrsaavA, Capt. °Roans RICHAIDION, from Bengal, which PrrAdency the left on the 3oth of Aupft : the Mt is one of the kips Ranted by the Court of Dire lon kit year to go to India for a cargo of grain, and has on hoard nearly spoon bags oak& The Mr is the Seventh kip which has arrived of the above de feriptioo. Sbe touched at the Eland of St. Helena, but brings nothing new. ' YARMOUTH, FEL 23. Yefterday arrived the Alonzo Soap of war, Capt. Cathcart, with too men, p art of the crew of the Belliquesz, which were diftributed on board the North Sea fleet; the Alonzo failed this succubi& for the Noreo—Sailed alto the Atkin, Canaan, laden with prize goods, for Rotterdam; and the (Economy, Peter, for.Leghorn.—No:Packet yet arrived from Curisaliab•• Yellerday a large bark, name unknown, got on the Scrobt,l but by the affiftance of the bore boats the was got cilwith very little damage, and proceeded far the River. FROM LLOYD's LIST. De AL. Fes. sp—Arrived and Mod for the River the Hinde, Gibfoo, from Bengal..—Wind S. S. W. GIAVISIND ' Fes. $3.--Paffed by the Hope. Dunbar, from Bengal; Vrow Conan% Bloom, from Lear. Twe Gefulten, Helder; and Jorge Corsellas,Sununen, from Lear; Twe the Fanny, Rowe, for Demerara; Epreftrius, Ann Tayt, for Ja mica ; Henrietta, far Havre; and , I , for Bremen. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEE. 23. ADMIII•LTY OFFICE FEE. 23. Copy of a Letter from Vice-Admiral Sir Roan Corns, Dart. Commander in Chief of his A Ma lefty's Ships and Vef kb at the Cape a Good Hor, to EVAN ?INMN, Efq. dated at the Cape, Dee. to, t. Sta—The private Ihlp of war the Chance, belonging to Mr. HOGAN. of this place, and commanded by Mr. WILLAM Worm having been an a anise on the cos* of Peru, returned on the nth in& The Commander Of the Chance addreffed a letter to me, couninlog an imam of his proceedings during his cruise. He app mto have uniformly aped with great propriety ; but his condi" and that of his dicers and men, was, on two occaaces, fo highly creditabk to than, that I fend Ms account of the* occurrenees for their Lordatipe informa tion. I am, &c. (Signed) ItOOZA CURTIS. Enna of a Letter front M;.*11.1:111111WIIITE, Commander of the Chance Private Ship of War, Wed oat at the Cape of Good Hope, to Vice Admiral Sir Roos* Cuarn, Ban. At four P. M. on the itith of Ana*, the Nand of St. Lau rence bearing N. E. two leagues, faw a large thip bearing down towards us; at nine brought her to elate sake, and engaged her within half pittol-ffiet for an hour and a half, but finding her metal much heavier th n ours, and fidi of men, boarded her on the !larboard quarter, lathing the Chances howfprit to her milen-man, and after a detpaute reaftanee of three quarters of an hour, beat them off the upper deck, but they Mil defend ed from the cabin and lower deck with long pikes in a moft pliant manner,till they had twenty-five men killed and twenty eight wounded, of whom the Captain was one; getting final poffeffion. the war to liofeto the Maid that with much difficulty we got her off bore, all her besets and rigging being cut to pieces by our grape that. She proved to be the new Spud& &fp Amiable Maria, of about az hundred tons, mounting fourteen guns, eighteen, twelve, and nine-pounders, brats, and carrying one ha deal and twenty men, from Conception bound to Lima, laden with corn, wise, bale goods, ffic. On this m ention lam muck concerned to Site Mr. Bennet, a very valu able and brave Officer, was to dangeroufly wounded that he died three days after the anion ; the (mind and fourth Mates, Marine Meer, and two Semen badly wounded by pikes, but Once recovered. On the aoth, both dips being mach ditabled, and having inure Prifoncrs than Crew, I flood dote in and tent eighty-fix on More in the large thip's hunch to Lima ;we after wards learned that feventeen of the wounded had died. At four A. M. on the 24th September, bunting in to cut out from the Reads of Puna, in Gulaquill-bay, a alp that I had in formation of, mounting as guns, fell in with a brig, with a broad-pendant at main-top-maft-bead ; at live the commenced her fire on us, but the being at a diftance to wind ward, and deGrous to bring her elute to salon, we received three broadbda before a that was returned ; at half-paft five, being yard-arm and yard-arm, commenced our Ere with great effeth, and at er a very fevere aaloo of two hours and three quarters, during the tatter part the made every effort to get Away, I had the Latour to fee the Spasthh flag itruel to the Chance. She proved to be the Spank& man of war brig Liftleoo, mounting r 8 long 6-pound guns, commanded by Commodore Don Philip de Martinez, the Senior Meer of the Spanith Ma rine on that coat, and manned with too men, fent from Gobi quill, for the e refs purpefe of taking the Chance, and then to proceed to the Northward to take three Englilh Whalen ly ing in one of their Porta. She had 14 men killed and 7 wound ; the Captain mortally wounded, who died two days after the adios: the Chance bads men killed and t wounded ; and had only, jo men at the commencement of thesetiors ; mount.. ing to pas, as and 6-pounders. CORN MARKET. MARR-LAMB, fiR. 24. There is no alteration this day either in the price of Wheat or any other fort of Grain, fence Mon day laft. Basan.—Yefterday the Mailer and Wardens of the Bakers' Company attended the LORD MAYOR at the Manfion Houfe refpeding the affize of bread, and the reports of the Mealweighers being minute ly inveftigated, his Lordfhip ordered the bread to he reduced a whole affize, or twopence in the peck loaf, to take place to morrow ; the quartern loaf wheaten will then be fold for told. and houfe hold Od. LAW INTELLIGENCE. NGRTH WALES SPRING CIRCUIT. T. M. SUTTON, Efq.—R STEIL!, Efq. Anglefey—Tnefday, April 6, at Beaumaris. Carnarronildre"-Menday, April t 2, at Carew/on. Merioneththire—Saturday, April t 7, at Bala. CARMARTHEN SPRING CIRCUIT. Cardiganadro—Monday, April 3, at Cardigan. Pembrolualre—Saturday, April to, at Hmerfardw4 Carmarthaditiro...Friday, April a 6, at Carmarthen. COURT OF KING'. BENCH, FEB. 23. FOISTS& V. M 111.1.1111.. To the greatciffappca --; ntmentcia crowded Court the trial of this cafe was again put off. The a&ion is brought for the breath of a promy; oe marriage, and the Plaintiff is not, as is ofual, an unfortunate fe male, deferted by her fickle lover, but a gentle man, by profeffion a furgeon, w ho fues a rich heirefs for having drawn back from an engage ment to put him in poffeffion of her hand and for tune. The trial would have occupied the ,whole day, abd as fe'reral other cares flood in the paper, it was thought right to pollpone it. WATIRROUSSR. SIR RICHARD RING, BART. Mr. Easel N s Paid this was an anion brought by Capt. Waterhoufe, of his Majefty's armed flu') Re. liance, nominally againft the Defendant, Sir Ri chard King; and the objea of it was to afcertain whether the Plaintiff was entitled to a !hare of ' prize money for certain (hips from Holland, which at the breaking out of the Dutch Revolution were detained at Plymouth, and afterwards condemned and fold as lawful prize. The parties brought the caufeforward without the ilighteft hoftility towards each other; on the contrary, their only with was, to obtain fuch fees, partly upon admiflions, and partly upon evidence, as would enable Counfel to fettle a cafe for the ultimate determination of the Court. That the Reliance was one of the (hips concerned in the capture was admitted • and had the Plaintiff been the only Captain on b oard, there would have been no doubt but that, under his Majefty's Proclamation for feizing the veffels of Holland, he would have been entitled to a diftri butive lhare of the prize money. It was to be con tended he had no right to lhare,becaufe he wasonly appointed Captain under Capt. Hunter, who was fent out as Governor of Botany Bay. It had hap pened in the year 1786, that Capt. Phillips of the Satins was appointed Governor of Botany Bay, and ordered to proceed to New South Wales to affume the Government of that Settlement; but it had been thought neceffary by the Admiralty to fend out a DeputyGovernor,and with that view Capt. Hunter was made fecond in command of the Sirius till his arrival at Botany Bay, when he was to exercife the office of Deputy Governor. It was neccifary to dbferve, that his Majefty, as King of England, was the fupreme Head of the Military and Naval Eftabliihments of the Country, and as fuch had the power, whenever he pleated to exercife it, of altering the ordinary rules of the law, as appli cable to either of thofe departments. With regard to the Navy, it was formerly cuftomary for his Majefly to delegate the whole of his authority to an high Officer of State,callectthe Lord High Ad mirer of England, who of courfe was inverted with all the prerogatives and powers inherent in his Majefty himfelf. In more modern times the du ties of that important nation had been exercifed by certaintommiffioners appointed to execute the office of Lord High Admiral, who were deno minated the Lords Commiffioners of the Admi- rally, and he fhould maintain that fuch Commif• Goners were competent to make any regulation deviating from the ordinary cuftoms of the Navy, without any fpecial authority from the King for that purpofc. It had, however, happened, that when Governor Phillips was appointed Governor of Botany Bay, and Commander of the Sirius, the appointment of Governor Hunter to the fecond command was in confequence of a memorial prefented by the Lords Commiffioners to his Ma jefty, and an Order of the Privy Council, by his Majefty's command, antborifing fuch appointment. In the prefent inftance there was no memorial to his Idajefty, but the Commiffioners had appointed Captain Waterhoufe to the fecond command of the Reliance by their own authority merely. The queftion, therefore, for the opinion of the Court would be, Whether the Plaintiff could be confi dered as aaing in the capacity of Captain of the Reliance under the appointment of the Admiralty, and upon that would depend whether he was en titled to the prize money in queftion ? He meant to infif, that the Commiffioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of England had a right to abrogate the cuftoms of the Navy, which admitted only of one Captain to each fhip. The admillions were read in evidence ; they Rated nothing more than the fads mentioned by the learned Connie'. The Commiffion to the plaintiff, appointing him Second Captain of the Reliance,, was alio produced. It authorized him to command the fhip in the abfcnce of his fuperior Captain. Mr. ATTORNRY•GINRRAL maintained, that the plaintiff's appointment did not entitle him to a 'hare of prize money. He obferved, that the rules of the naiy admitted of only one Captain to each Ihip ; that m the tingle inftance in which they had been departed from, the deviation had been fanaioned by his hiajefty's Sign Manual, upon a memorial prefented to him by the Commiftioners of the Admiralty, and that the orniffion of inch a form in the prefent cafe, defeated the plaintiff 's title to receive the produce of a capture as a Captain. Evan Nepean, Seel etary to tile Admiralty, ' was examined ; he produced the printed naval in flrudions to the Lords of the Admir..ity, tile 9th article of which, for the regulation of fca wages and the number of Officers, exprefily declared there fhould only be one Captain for each fhip. The witnefs Paid, that when any alteration took place with refpeet to the ordinary rules of the navy, it was always done by an application to the King. Upon his crofs-examination by Mr. ERSKINE, he laid, there had been a memorial s hen Go.. vernor Hunter went to Botany Bay in the S;rias; he was appointed fecond in command. In the prefent cafe, Governor Hunter went out as firi.ltin command, and Captain Waterhoufe as fecund.— The witnefs was not Secretary to the Admiralty when tht plaintiff was appointed, b.it he had fearched the books, and had not found any entry of a memorial having been prefented, and he son. eluded there had been none; the plaintiff had the pay of a PA Captain, but was not allowed the ufual Captain's compliment fur fervants—he was allowed for two fervants only. Mr. EasitimE obferved, that if, when Captain Hunter was on board, the plaintiff had given an order to a Lieutenant, who had refuted to obey him, fuch Lieutenant would have been guilty of mutiny; the inference from the obfervation was, that the plaintiff could be confidered in no other point of view than as Captain. Mr. Jullice LAWRENCE Paid, he could not per fatly comprehend the diflinetion attempted to be made.—Either the Plaintiff was Captain, or he was limply a paffenger. Was it to be underflood that when Governor Hunter went athore the plain iff aflumed the charaCter of Captain, and 101 l it again when he came on board. His Lordliiir how ever refrained from givir.g any opinion upon the fubje&, as it Was to be referred to the decision of the judes. Thejury were dir•ztqed to find a VerdiCt for the plaintiff for4Bol. lobje& to the opinion of the Court upon a cafe to be fettled by Couniel. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEBRUARY 23. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This bufinefs was, according to appointment, this day refumed, and it is with much pleafure we Rate that the propofed arrangement has met with the approbation of the Lord Chancellor, and will, in the courfe of a few days, be brought to a fatisfadory conclufion. His Lordfhip, after enumerating the provifions made in the firft part of the arrangement fur the payment of the ground•rent, the falary of the Per formers, the ordinary expences of the Theatre, and the gradual, liquidation of the various out• (landing, claims, took occafion to notice a faving claufe to favour of the truftees of 1793, declaring that none of the fpecified provifions were to be to their prejudice. This claufe he thought inadmiffi ble, for a very Pimple reafon, that if admitted, it would have the effect of rendering the whole ar rangement ineffectual. For what was the real force and operation of fuch a claufe ? It, in fad, would veil the truftees on the very firft night that the Theatre was open with a power to demand the payment of the fum fccured to them previous to any other payment whatever, and thus totally• to defeat the whole ()fied which the arrangement had in view. The Court, however, could not con fent to a claufe of this kind, nor were the renters of 1793 to expel a fort of convenience which could not be combined with the convenience of others equally, or perhaps more powerfully interefted in the Theatre. He was convinced that Meffrs. Ford andHaminerfley were not Mficiently aware of the fituation in which they were placed, by affirming the character of truftees. When he laid this, he begged to have it underftood, that he meant to fay nothing harfh of thefe Gentlemen, or to in finuate that they had not ailed as well as moil people would have done under fftnilar circum fiances, yet not having ailed alp to their charaders as truftees, they were not now entitled to come into Court to claim the advantages of that cha racter. It gave him much pleafure to find, that lance the propofals were firff handed to him, a ►ery confiderable number of additional creditors had figned the agreement, and as the paper would Rill remain open to the fignature of others, he hoped the remainder would avail themfelves of the arrangement, as the belt fecnrity fur their claims. Of the interefts of thole who were in competent to be parties in the agreement, the Court would take all the care which could poffi bly be employed, but no degree of caution being fufficient to guard againft error in a concern of fuch magnitude and complic.tted perplexity, a ii. betty would Rill be left to apply for a variation of the order. He thought it proper, however, now clearly to Rate, that fuch applications would not be rafhly liftened to, and the Court would, in no inflance, content to interfere, except when very firong grounds were laid for the neceffity of fuch interference. In order to have every Alliance in a mattsr of fo much difficulty and importance, his L2td (hip, though pretty clear in his own view of the case, requefted the Gentlemen of the Law retaintd on both tides, to draw up an order conformable to the propofals, which he approved of, except only in one or two (mall articles : this order fo drawn up, he would amend with his own hand, wherever he found it neceifary, and then offer it to the parties, who, if they did not think proper to accept it, might take the caufe out of Court, and make the beft they could of their individual intereits. After Tome conversation between hleffis. Mani field, Fonblanque, Pigot, Sheridan, and the Soli citor General, the Court was informed, that it was agreed that Mars. Ford and Hammerfley atonic! I retain any other fecurity of which they were now in poffeffion, together with that provided by the propofal. Another verbal amendment, f_curing the right of the Duke of Bedford, was adopted on the fuggeflion of his Grace's Connie'. No day was fixed for the final fettlement, but the LORD CHANCELLOR undertook to complete the arrange ment in Court in two days after the order should be tent in to him ; he had the higheft opinion of the Gentlemen by whom it was to .be drawn up. but r he hoped they would l e a ve hi m a w id e marg i n to ' make his amendments.