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MAILS inn DAY—whim g. Urns , D os o Hamburg!' I Dublin • Waterford Dodagbatke . e YARMOUTH, PM! IL Th e Pstwcsor•Waoss, Sorrow, is in the Roads with the Mails for the Continent of the toth intl. and will fail for Cuxhaven as foon as the wind ad snits.—Arrived the BITTiRIi and Soxesar men of war, from a cruifebfrGoree ; and the COUR= c utter.—Admiral Dtcasom's fquadron (till remain in the Roads. • ;•••.11..mip :1 ai tl e; 8 POPSSMOttTH, JtYNE A cutter is kilt arrived with a convoy from the eaftward, fuppofed front the Downs.—The Bwirs gun srelfel a appointed for the Oporto convoy. - SHEERNESS, JUNE 18, Arrived on the 16th inftant his Majefty's hoops Jitouss, the Hon. Captain 'hay, the Selby, C a ptain WILLIAMS, from Yarmouth; and the Giza !loop, Captain Russztt, from the Downs. Sailed his Mar ar ly's blip Itsisvaata, of 74 g ns, Captain LIGH, for Yarmouth ; and the f WI DIII.EII, of 74 guns, Captain VANSITTART, to Chatham, to be paid off; alfo the Timm's, Captain NAG)+, from Blackftakes to the Great. Norei and the Sophia Catharina, Capt. Ic , DanKh brig, having been releafed from the em bargo, being the only Danifh chip lying in the Medway. FROM LLOYD'. LEST. bs*t. jumis rB.—Sailed the HILDIIL frigate, and Etat Svaticta cutter, on a cruise. Wind S. E. GRAVUIVID, Just tile—Paffed by, the Shille lagh, Ottawas, from Baia ; Friendihip, and Fanny, Peourtwo, from Lifbon ; America, Cooiev, and Fame, WADE, from North Carolina ; Vox, HOMO from Dublin; Amiable Adela, from Phi ladelphia; Julius Pringle, MILER, and Clermont, from Savannah.—Sailed the Guts Et wasting, for Hamburgh. 4 WHITEHAVEN, JUNE 16. The Fanny, WATSON, of this port, arrived at Ittschee, from Liverpool, the Bth of May, after a ago of ao days. CaptainWrrson writes that the Ann, Jac c son, and Singleton, Homo, of this port ; the Harmony, Pisa, of Workington; and the Terry, Usu., of Maryport, arrived there the fame day. The Cur wen, FALCON, arrived there on the 9th; the Flet cher, HunoLasrow, of Maryport, on the zoth ; and the Heroine and Shannon, of Workington, on the t It& A WA* from an officer on board the Lot as fri gate align off Havre mentions :...j . Tbat on the tv -e tithe 6th, the enemy fent out of the har bourer iirmedis followisig veffels, viz. ten lug re• re IMMI*IIIIIIIII GOO gun and 35 men; On }pore of 16 guns and +5 men; four et At goo and 50 men each; one. at to pus and about so men, and thefr fappustiol isrliftria of about t 2 guns and thtee uon..u. MO*/ force of the enemy confitted thady of thauklbortars, 96 pieces of cannon, and Of east. ' - . , m Thialusucuptaii New ma it, of the LOIRE at. tacked on dm "MO the 7th. As the L o ut argreach4ll6 the could not get within riabott •IMS west of water. The Wozvaitan a an*. 51 illiWl . 70 then, Rood clofe in with the itbetti mood their whole line for near * hair as bier. Without having a man hurt, or' Alta 61 or a rope . out. • 6 Men is in the heft of 00re a frigate, which goo append a few days ago, with her top math tpl and another getting hersopt over head, and a Ober of artificers on board fitting-her for yea; Afo Several mortar brigs and gun luggers jade of the Pier Head." A difpatch was received at the Admiralty yd terday from Captain NIWKAII, of the Loma fri gate, with an account of a fecond attack having been made by the (mall fqsadron under his com mand, planned by Captain Wa tour, of the Woz 'savor. This fecond attack hilted for an hour, and ended in the French force being obliged to take &cher in the harbour of Havre. Letters from the Reiblution privateer, of t 6 guns, of Plymouth, dated off Cape Ortega!, the inflant, hate, the was all well,and with her boats had gallantly boarded and cut out from the har bour of Cotunna, a Spanifh brig, laden with wheat. Being in company with the Flit rr a few nights liter, it blew a violent gale of wind, and they were eibriged to cot her adrift. The Severn arrived at New York from Canton. the tsth of January, in Molacca Roads, fell in with the &kith (hips Cisme ton of rp guns; SCULLS, of 4o ; Baaavi, of,to $ and Vicroatous, d 74 gunto--The three 6rft-mentioned (hips were from Batavia, having railed the blockade of that place. A letter received over land from Bombay, under date the ad March, informs us that the inhabitants of Monti, called Wewatti; lying on the South of Delhi, within twenty miles of the capital, have !gain commenced holillities againit the Seiks.— They are charaifterized as the moil ravage and brutal people in Hindoftan, and give no kind of quarter.• _ The la( (hips for Bengal, of this feafon, will be thfpatebed the latter end of next month. The fleet of India (hips which lately arrived with tea from China, occupy collethvely 9273 tons. The following Blips from China are expected to arrive befell the mouth of September, viz.—the Lett. Texuar, LADY Bueoer, HUGH ISOM, 30111111 Y CAITLI, s,TiMttt, COUTTS, Nip. Iva% end E The Etta India Company have it this time in their fervice 76replar (hips ; of Ibis number p are of ink tow and upwards. 'this morning fine EngHl Wheats had a iwifk Pale i for thole of inferior qualities, there was little or no demand. The latter were from 4s. to 55. cheaper than on Monday. Wheat, 761. to loos. Dantzick Wheat, 120 t. 130 k Red Whit, loos. toss. Rye, sos. to 6os. Whith Peafe, 6os. to 751. Grey Wife, 425. to sos. Short Small Oats, 3os. to 425. Fine ditto, 325. to 455. Small Beans, sos. to 565. Tick ditto, 445. to rstsi Malt, sos. to 755. Price of Flour, tool. Laft week the harharveft commenced in the neighbourhood of Lewes. So abundant is the growth of grafs in the rich levels of Pevenfey, that the Graziers complain they cannot procure flock fufficient to confume it. A field of hay, confining of about four acres, belonging to Jou,. Burgle, vintner in Campbleton, was cut down on the t ft of the prefent 'month : the firft inftance of hay being cut in that country, before the latter end of June or beginning of July. Mr. STAMPER, of Wigton, has at this time a fipe field of new potatoes, railed from the hearts and peelings (only) of potatoes planted without eyer.—lt has been doubted whether the hearts and peelings of that nfeful root would vegetate after the go are cut off.—Clarolerlaad Parfet. There was a very plentiful market at Carlifle, lift Saturday; but little or no reduttion of price. A partridge's nett, with the extraordinary num ber of 43 eggs, was o* Saturday difcovered in a plantation near the houfe of J.. CLaaar, Efq. of Welton-lace, Norts. The ages of iBold men and women in the honfe of Huns Sax sr, Efq. at Bruton, amount to 1409 years. Drury-Lane Theatre doted on Wednefday for the feafon ; when Mr. Ks uszx came forward, and, in the name of the Proprietors and Performers, thanked the Public for the encouragement they had experienced. Covent-Garden Theatre doled laft night with The Poor Gentleman. The Deputy Manager thank ed the audience, as ufual, in an appropriate and well-delivered fpeech. The feafon, we believe, has been really fuccefsful. The Summer Theatre opened 'all night for the feafon, with a genteel and refpeftable audience.— Mifs MURRAY, and Mr. H. Jottarros performed in The Point of Honour with much force and feel ing, and repeatedly threw the audience into tears. The additional duty to be impofed upon bricks, is intended to prevent the fraud praftifed by mak ing bricks of a larger fize than the ufual ftandard, for which purpofe it will be propofed to lay a duty of ss. per thoufand on bricks above the fize of 84 inchesin length, 4. inches in width, and 24 in depth. The Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord BISHOP of CwasLa held his vifitation in the Cathedral Church there on Friday laf. After delivering an excellent charge, his Lordfhip confirmed upwards of Ivo young people. A Sermon was preached by the Rev. W. SHISPSHAKILS, one of the Preben daries, from 1 Tim. iv. 16. Tide heed sato 14tfelf, and into the dolfritte ; continue is them, &e. On Wednefday night the liable; of M. Spumy, Efq. in the King's-roall, Gray's-inn-lane, were broke open and robbed of a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to the fervants. A few nights ago the houfe of Jos a /I Bs LDAV/, Efq. at Royilon, Herts. was broke open, and robbed of a quantity of plate. On Tuefday night, the houfe of Captain SARIN, inWelbeclalreet, was broke open in the abfence of the family, and robbed of two beds, and various other articles of houfehold furniture. Early on Tuefday morning, the hook of Jon Is Efq. at Liffon.Grove, near Paddington, was broke open and robbed of feveral articles of plate and other valuables. One night left week the (table of the Rev. Mr. Weirmais, at Ealing, was broke open and robbed of a gig harriers. Yefterday a number of Convids were (hipped off from Blackfriars for Botany-bay. Yefterday morning, at eight o'clock, a perfon leaped off the center arch of Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames to decide a trifling wager of fi ve (billings, and had the good totem to efcape un hurt. Thurfday fe'nnight, a fifhing coble, belonging to Cullcrcoats, Cumberland, coming from lea, deeply laden with Rik was upfet, by carrying too much fail, and an old man and two of his Eons were drowned. A fourth Merman was raved by fwimming until picked up by another coble. On Wednefday fe'nnight, an open boat, e from Limekiln' to Blacknefs, was overfet, and the crew, (even in number, (including a woman and a little girl) periffied. A boat was tent from Limekilus to their affißance, but it was too late ; by the time it got to the unfortunate place, neither the boat nor any of the bodies could be lien. Two of the men have left wives and children. A recent and fatal inftance of Hindoo infatua tion occurred Tome time fince at Calcutta, where Ave convids in the Fouzdarry gaol received the extraordinary idea of rendering themfelves invel =rabic, and free from the painful or mortal effeas of blows from fwords or any weapons whatever ; for this purpofe they rubbed each other with the juice of a certain root which proved to be a dead ly poifon, in confequence of which three of them .almolt immediately died, and the other two were with great difficulty recovered. . On the 3d initant. Comtism Ryas, for the nsur der of William Price, Efq. and Michael ]Celli, for agairpiring the fame, were executed at Ballinree, Is Caffiel, on the fpot where the horrid deed was rated ! Their bodies_were delivered to the ,fi:crgy for dilkaion.. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. JOBB [6. Thi s morning thetwo Grand Juriesfor the County of Middlefex were fworn in before Mr. Juftice Gaols, after which his Lordthip delivered to them a very excellent charge previous to their entering upon their public fervices. He directed their at tention to thofe offences that were moll likely to come under their confideration : and, in enumer ating them, his LorcHhip particularly adverted to libels by caricature—to publications that were in jurious to the morals and religion of the country— to publications of an obfcene, immoral, or blaf phemous tendency—to houfes of ill fame, which were ftequented by the young and the old , by the idle and profligate—by the mid-niglst gambler-- by thieves and pick-pockets. RUSSIAN I MBARGO. The following quellions were dircuffed this morning in the Court of King's Bench ; namely, whether the detention of a !hip in confequence of the late embargo laid on all Ruffian !hips, &c. within the ports of this country was a rick to be infured under the general words of a Common Po licy of Infurance ? and whether a Plaintiff in an anion on a Policy on fuch a chip was enabled to recover ? This queftion had never been direftly decided in cafe of an embargo impofed by our own country. After this cafe had been argued by Mr. RAIN z for the Plaintiff, and by Mr. Glass for the Un derwriters, Lord KEN von ordered it to stand for a fecond argument. His Lordfhip put this queflion to Mr. Gi as s—Suppofe a fhip is infured when two nations are in good peace and friendlhip ; and that afterwards war breaks out between them, and fome of our cruizers take that (hip, during the time the nation to which the fhip belongs remain alien enemies, perhapsan aftion cannot be brought ; but cannot an aftion be brought afterwards ? As this is a cafe of great national importance, we thall flaw it at greater length on fome future day. JUNE 18. George Cunningham was brought up by Ha beas Corpus in cuitody of the Keeper of Newgate. This Gentleman is an American Citizen, and Captain of the Orion, an American (hip, which failed from New York for London about the mid dle of April laft. A few days before the end of the voyage one of the feamen died and was thrown overboard. As loon as the (hip arrived at Grave fend, feveral of the crew went on (bore andcharged the Captain with murder. He was accordingly committed to Newgate to take his trial at the next Admiralty SeQions. As there was great reafon however, to believe that thefe men were aftuated by malice, the American Amballador interfered, and at his initance Mr. Easetws applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus. A great number of affi• davits were now read ; thote of the informants Rated, that the deceafed bad been *glided with a difeafe which rendered it neceffary for him to make ufe of mercury; that he had neverthelefs made him work as hard as the reit of the crew ; that be had once in a very cold day made him mount alok.and tied him to the mizen ; that he had repeatedly beat him with great cruelty; that he had made tire of molt barbarous Language when (peaking of him, and that when dead he Aid he would give any perfon fifty dollars who would pri vately throw him overboard. In the affidavits of Mr. Cunningham, the mate, and feveral others of the crew, many of tbefe fads were denied, and the reit are (tripped of the circumftances which made them before appear fo fufpicious. The deceafed had been treated, it was (worn, with the greaten humanity during the whole voyage, and was fre quently fupplied with foup and wine from the Captain's table. For very improper condud he .had been ordered to mount aloft, but he had ne ver been tied to the mizen, and was loon allowed to come down again. Upon the whole they had not the kali doubt that he had died a natural death. A Surgeon who had been called to villt him when the veirel was off the Ifle of Wight, de poled that he found him ill of a typhus fever, and fo reduced by it that he could not furvive above twenty-four hours. The Allots who had laid this information were (worn to be of very bad charac ter, to have attempted feveral times to fir up a mutiny in the (hip, and to have vowed revenge againft the Captain for taking proper meafures to hreferve fubordination. One of them had been eard to fay, that for a dollar he would take falfe oath at any time. When the evidence on both fides had been gone through, Lord Kenyon ordered the prifoner to be admitted to bail. He accordingly entered into a recognizance to appear at the Admiralty Seffions, if ca lle d for, and was immediately enlarged. towmtos V. lIIISIMAZD. This was an salon brought by the Plaintiff againft the Defendant, as a common Carrier, to, recover 8001. the amount of a quantity of wheat that was 101 l while in his boat. It was tried at StaiDird, before Mr. Jußice Booze, when tree jury found a Verdia for Defendant, on thisground that this wheat was not carried by the Defendant in the common courfe of trade. The circumfiances were (portly thefe :—At Wolverhampton there was a riot, and the Plaintiff being informed that the mob meant to viftt his wareboufe to take his wheat, and an empty.boat belonging to the Defen-1 dant palling at the time, the Plaintiff requefied him to take on board a large quantity of wheat, and carry it to Birmingham in order to keep it out of the hands of the mob. The Defendant's fervant good•naturedly did fo, aad the mob pur. feed the boat and took out the wheat ; and the tuition was, whether, under all the circutnftan. 'ea of this tire, the Defendantwas liable as a corn. I .on Carrier I The Jury under the direaioa of the learned Judge, gave a Verdi& for the Defendant, asd thereby found that he had not taken this grain on board in the charaaer of a Common Carrier. A Rule had been obtained to (hew caufe why there Ibould not be a new Tria) ; and after Counfel ha.) Iwo beard in fapportof and arainft the Rafe. • o -o that the Learned Judge at kie trial put thil quer. tion to the Jury, Whether thii *heat was put 04 board according to the eothritoit 'coutle of dealing with a Common Cerrier?telling thenl, Was if they q ii, thought it had been put on board alit the mitt mon courfe, the liefendvst was enti db i their Verdi& HO Lpfelfltip (did he did not kir hint the Learned Judge could have chofen i foie; rf words that could fall in More exaaly with his poor ideas on the fubjea. .He thoug ht this *y l hue tion of fat to be left to the Ju ry , and Wilt they had drawn the proper conclu ton from ip He had no difficulty in Paying that it was a fraud libligrant. There was no other conflruCtion to be put on it. If the Plaintiff had difclofed o the Defendant's fervant before he took this wheat on bOard what were his apprehenfions—if he had told him . if you take this grain on , boakci you will very proba bly be followed by the mobs. I am , apprehenfive they will vifit my houfe, and therefore I fend it away. I have fentfor an extra boat, and it has not come.—Having difclofed all thefe things to you, you will take the rifk on yourfelf. The price of the wheat is 8001. and your demand for car rying it is i is. will you be refponfible to me, un der fuch circumftances, as a Common Carrier; that is, will you be liable to every rifk that may happen to this property, except that arifing from the at of GOD or the King's Enemies, from which only you are exempted by the general Law of the Land r All this it was the bounden duty of the Plaintiff to have communicated to him, and he did not difclofe it. His Lordfhip tholight it a rank, impudent, (linking fraud. On that lhort ground his opinion proceeded. His Lotdfhip thought the direction given by the Learned Judge to the Jury was moll correct, and the concluflon of every enlightened and upright mind mull have leaned to the opinion that thisgrain was not taken on board in the common courfe of trade. It was a ma unrighteous, a mot' unconfcientious demand. The other Learned Judges concurred ivillt hi! Lordfhip in opinion that the dtreetion of the Learn ed Judge to the Jury was perfectly correct, and that the verdii was according to law, juffice, and confcience, and that, therefore, there ought not to be a new trial.-4 Lark rfilebarged WOBURN SHEEP-SHZAAINt. Titter: Dzr.—After the public breakfalt at the Abbey his Grace and his friends proceeded to exa• mine the four prizesteathers after they were dead : when tbe report of Lord Somerville, Mr. Cr oak, and Mr. Bennett, the Committee appointed to decide on the bell, was publicly made known :—it (toted that the four price weathers did great credit to the: breeders; but the Committee taking into confider ation the injury which refults to the Public from the practice of fatting animals on corn, were com pelled to withhold the firll prize, of a cup value ten guineas, from Mr. Mooi e, and to give it to Mr. Bitbry. The fecond, or Bedfotdiltire prize of five guineas, for the fecend belt two (beer fat wea ther, is adjudged to Mr. Moored carcafe and wool confidered. Mr. Moore and Mr. Butfield fed theirs upon corn,Mr. Bithry and Mr. Cowley gave theirs none. The company thtn went to the Park Farm-yardo when ten South down ?ups were !hewn in the Ten fcore of South Down Eyes were fold by Au&ion in the lurk, and they fetched from 38z. to 655. a head. The fociety for encouraging the produdion of fat cattle at Smith-field market at Chriftmas, fent the account of their prizes for the enfiiing mas to be publickly made known at this meeting ; oxen above 120 (lone, a plate value thirty guineas to the belt, and a plate of fifteen guineas to the fecond bell :—Oxen under 120 flOne, a plate value twenty guineas to the bell ; and a plate, value ten guineas, to the fecond belt :—Cows or Heifers, a plate, value twenty guineas, to the belt ; an d to the fecond belt, a plate, value ten guineas :—ble ther Cheep, abort or carding wool, a plate, valid twelve guineas, to the bell; and a plate,value eight guineas, to the fecond belt :—Wether (beep, long or combing wool, a plate, value twelve pintas ; and a plate to the fecond bell, value eight gui neas:—A pig . not exceeding ten months old,a plate value ten guineas, to the bell. Between one and two o'clock the company, cols filling of feveral hundreds on horfe and foot, pro. ' ceeded to a Fallow field in Crawley Farm, headed by the Duke,' when a great number of improved implements of agriculture were tried. The infiruments which attm&ed the moll no, Lice, • and received the approbation of the belt Judges, were a Drilling Machine by Mr. Salmon, of Woburn, which was drawn by one horfe, to drill feven rows of mg kind of feed, and if the horfe went crooked, the man guidng the machine could keep ft &alight and on the contrary, if the horfe went araight, the machine could be made to go crook. ed if required : Mr. Ceoch's Plough, from North amptonfltire, to plough deep or fhallow, according to the foil, by the fimple movement of a fcrev6 and a drill from Scotland, attngted the particular attention of well-informed mets, which is particu- Lady adapted to the drilling of turnips. This ladled till near four o'clock, when, as nfual, near Sao retired to the Abbey, to partake of the Duke's hofpitality. About feven o'clock they left the Abbey for the Park Farm again, when ten Down cups were put up to be let for the feafon in the Exhibition-roots. The lettings were much brifker than for the Lei eellerfhire. The conditions were, that.they were to be con rayed twenty miles free of expence, and after that diftance a Milling a mile was to be charged, and none of them are to have more than too ewes put to them. A number of Gentlemen from Ireland and Scot land were prefent.—Lord WILLIAM Rtissat t Sir T 14011•1 CARA,' from Suffez Mr. WYSUIM, frOnt Kent, and Mr. N M. P. and a other perfoiu of diftintlion, are arrived. I . ,!. . j. ; 3 1,1 .1111DCT Ot left ;. a.