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NEXT MONDAY WEEK THE LOTTERY BEGINS FIRAWING. A T HODGES and Co's. Offices, No. 149, Ox ford-ftreet, and Na 44, St. James's-ftreet, the following Capital Prizes wetc fold, flared, and regifteredlaft year, viz. No. 2%467 a Prize of L. 20,000 140.15,70 S • - - - 10,000 No. 14.7117 - - moo° No. 18,c60 - 5,000 N 0.30,333 - - - 3,00 0 No. 18,898 - - 5,008 In the prefent Lottery are— Prizes of £.25,000 - - so,ooo .5,0c0 i,oco And other Prizes, amounting in the whole to zBB,OOOL The Tickets and Shares are on Sale, in great variety, at the above OtEct-s. N. B. The Firft drawn Ticket will be entitled to is,ocol. FRANCE. PRIVATE LETTER, PARIS, NOVEMBER is. Lord WHITWORTH arrived at Paris yeflerday at three o'clock • he occupies the fame hotel which the Duke of box sir had, Faubourg du Roule.— His fuite confifted of four carriages. An Aid-de-Camp from General LECLERC has arrived in Paris from St. Domingo. I underhand from perfons who have fure opportunities of in formation, that he brings difpatches of the molt difaltrous complexion; but the particulars are not fuffered to tranfpire. It is however underflood, that a frellt infurreEtion has broken out, and that the French, greatly reduced in number by the effeas of the climate, hays fuffered a feiere lofs from the affaults of the Blacks. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEE DINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, NOV. 19. This day the LORD CHANCELLOR came to the Woolfack at three, and fat till four, in which timc the Duke of CLeasect,the Marquis of AIIIIRCORN, the Bifhop of Noawica,the Duke of BRIDGWATER, Earl GOWER, and other Peers, took the Oaths. The Houfe adjourned till three tomorrow. On Monday it will fit at one, and on Tuefday at 12. His MAJESTY is espeded to come on that day, be. tween two and three, to open the Seffion by a Speech from the Throne. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - - The SPIAZIR attended at twelve o'clock, and the Clerk continued to (wear in Members till four o'clock. About 330 have already taken the oaths and their feats. Among thofe fworn in this day, we obferved the LORD idsyct, Lord Wu. Rus ma., Lord CHARLIE SODEIRERT, and the Right Hon. ISAAC CORIY..--AdjOUTlled till to-morrow. LONDON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Cadets 64 --for time 68. lOid 5 per Cent. tool —New ditto 94-omninut sof dif. Long Ann. zgl PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bonk Stock 179 Long Ann . ii-t 6 • 3 per Cent. Red. 6 6j Imp. 3 per Cent. 6sl 3 per C. Conf. 67 Escheq. Bills is. to as. prem. N ew 4 per Cern. I Omnium 140 dif. 5 per C. Ann. tot zoo{ tot English Tickets iBl. 5 per Cent. ty97 toot 99{ too Conf. for Nov. ace. 671 ff Ydterday the eighth instalment on the laft Loan, was made at the Bank In a fnbfequent column our Readers will find fume particulars refpefting Col. Dcfpard and his affociates. The crimes imputed to them are of the molt ferious kind, and various as fancy can invent. If it be true, however, that Defpard is to be tried upon the Al paired four years ago, making it a capital felony to feduce the troops from their allegiance, we may infer that the plot has been deteaed in time, to prevent its ripening into any thing like confiffent treafon. Upon the whole, it teems to us that the public ought to be free from any alarm refpeaing this affair. It appears to be a matter rather calcu lated to teafe, than to injure—more fitted to ren der difaffeaion ridiculous, than to endanger the Rate. Though real guilt ought to be puniflted,and all due precaution for the fafety of the King's per fon obferved (for the government and conflitution can be in no danger), it appears to us that in point of policy it is good to treat fuch low wretches, as Defpard's affociates are faid to be, with a certain degree of contempt. Rebels they may very well be, but not confpirators. They muff always be mere journeymen plot makers, -mere handicraft traitors. They fhould be taught to fee, that they could never rife a flep higher in the new trade of treafon, to which they would afpire, than in the honeft callings they abandon. It is aftonifh ing how fond men are of thinking themfelves im portant, and what fo rnyßerioufly important as to be in a plot? Hence a certain degree of tempta tion, even for the loweß, to engage in fuch in trignes. But if thefe people were to find 'that no body regarded them but as a fet of fools, in all pro bability they would not attempt to be knaves. In all times where much attention is given to plots, ' plots real or pretended have been frequent. Every man dabbles in them, becaufe every man believes himfelf jail as fit for a confpiracy as preceding bunglers. Every man imagines he can make • a plot as well as he can manufaaure a hob-nail— while, in reality, he is meddling with what he no snore underflands, than he does the moll abffrufe fciences. Men in this Ration may be deluded, 9 battle, as Mr. Busxl obferves ; and u Mr. Girl sows fays," they will be overlooked in the divifion of the fpoil."—Of whatever mifchiefs they are made the tools, and with whatever hopes they may be milled, they find at laft that they are but the humble inftruments of crimes by which other men profit. There is not a fingle exception to this remark in the hiftory of mankind, while modern times furnith fome ftriking illuftrations of its truth. The lower claffes are not excluded from (haring the fpirit of liberty, as well as its praCtical bleffings ; let them cherilh that fpirit, and they will find its belt nourifhment in the independence which is the fruit of honeff induftry. Let them be high fpirited, proud of their rights, and brave, to defend them ; but when they find men who would entangle them in barbarous attempts or in criminal defigns, they may be Pure that they are miferably deluded. As to the army, we are con fident that they muff be indignant at any attempts to feduce them into crimes difgraceful to their chargter as men, and their honour as foldiers ; and we have no doubt they would have the fpirit, did they know the culprits, to chase from their ranks all who could be guilty of treachery either to the fervice or to the country. DUTCH MAIL. This day a Mail arrived from Holland. It brings but little news from the _Continent. The fubjoined letter from Surinam is however of tome importance, in as far as it thews that, fo late as the zd of September laft, no preparations had been made by our troops for abandoning it. We may therefore conclude that we flan not have the trouble of making a fecond capture of it, thould the points in difpute between this country and France lead to an aftual rupture with her and her Allies. The troops defined to take poffeffion of Loui fiana under General Vicvoa, have not yet failed. A letter from Vienna Rates, that the Span& Conful there remonftrated, but without effeft, againft the French taking poffeffion of Parma. thous, Nov. i4.—General VICTOR, whore ap pointment as Captain-General of Louifiana, will, it is faid, be foon publicly announced,' is expefted here in the courfe of a short time. The French troops which have hitherto been in the Dutch pay, and are defined for that Colony, will foon embark under his infpeftion. Several French (hips, it is faid, have already arrived for that purpofe in the Maas. • SURINAM, SEPT. 2.—As yet we have heard no thing of the fleet, which is expefted from Holland, to take poffeffion of this colony, which is to be delived - up to them by the Englifh: the latter feem to have made no preparations for the evacuation of it. Several Dutch ships have arrived here in the courfe of a few weeks, but they will not be lighted to leave this place, till the colony is again placed ander the proteftion of the Batavian Go vernment, which, to many, is an unpleafant cir cumfance. Only three ships have been excepted, under the command of Captains eakt.outs au, SKIT, and de LANCE, which arrived here with fpecial orders from England. An uncommon mortality prevails among the foldiers and failors ; it feems, however, to have confiderably abated among the natives : we have lately loft our able Phyfician, Dr. Marla: his death is a great lots to the Colony. The heat here is exceedingly intenfe, and fcarcely a breath of air is flirting. The thermometer, from eleven in the morning till four in the afternoon, Rands generally at 90 degrees. We are much afraid alto of the confequences of the drought. Several fkirmithes have taken place lately be tween the Indians and the Buffs Negroes; of the former feveral have been killed, but the Govern hunt has taken meafures to effeft a reconciliation between them, and it is probable that their dif pute will occafion no more bad confequences. The Colony is in great want of phyficians, fur geons, advocates, bricklayers, carpenters, fmiths, and other workmen, as well as of young men for the counting houfes and plantations. We had here great inundations, which have occafioned confi derable damage in the cultivated fields, and to the whole Colony in general. VIENNA, OCTOBER 3 t.—Yefterday a Courier arrived here with Official intelligence, that the Duchy of Parma, Placentia, and Guaftalla have been taken poffeffion of by the French. According to other accounts, two half brigades of the troops of the Italian Republic have entered the Parmefan territories. The Spanifh Conful here endeavoured to remonftrate again( this meafure but without effea. . 41•11.11•=1.11. %. • THEATRES. At one o'clock on Wednefday, an exprefs ar rived at Plymouth from the Admiralty, in 36 hours, with a large packet of fealed orders for Rear Admiral Deceits. They were immediately put on board the NETLEY fchooner, which has been viaualled and stored for four months ; the was expeaed to fail the fame afternoon. Mr. BING, the American Minifter here, it is faid, has refigned that office, and will return to Ame rica next fpring. It is not yet known who will be his fucceffor. Yefterday Sir RICHARD FOR!) dined with the Duke of CUMBERLAND. Lord WILLIAM CAVENDISH BINTINCK, the new Governor of Fort St. George, is fecond fon to his Grace the Duke of Poznan% and has juft attained his twenty-eighth year. His Lordihip is Member for Nottinghamfhire, Colonel in the Army, and Lieutenant Colonel in the z4th Regiment of Dra goons ; the falary attached to the Government of Madras is fixteen thoufand pounds per annum. Yefterday morning at twelve o'clock William Harris was brought from the Houfe of Correction, and placed in the Pillory at Charing-crofs, agree ably to his fentence, for felling obfcene prin,ts. He had on yellow ftockings and blue trowlers, which is part of the prifon drefs. The populace let him trudge round the Rand very quietly till within ten minutes of the expiration of the' hour, when they fent him showers of mud; and it rained the whole time, fo that he had not the moft agreeable ap pearance when he was taken out.—About three years fince he received a fimilar punifhment for the like offence, and others of a worfe kind. . Late on Saturday , evening a fire broke out in the Cotton Faaory belonging to Mr. Appleton, fituate in Hert-ftreet, Manchefter, which in a very fhort time confumed the interior of the building, leaving only the walls (landing. On Tuefday fe'nnight,about feven o'clock in the evening,the barnand outhoufing belonging to Mrs. Jaggar, at Hagg, near Holmfirth,were difcovered to be on fire. The flames were fo rapid and vio lent, that they immediately communicated to two adjoining kitchens and the dwelling houfe. The barn, full of corn and hay, and the kitchens were entirely confumed; but by the aEtive exertions of benevolent neihbours, we are happy to (late, that the valuable furniture in the houfe was fared. — From particular circumftances there does not ap pear a doubt upon any rational mind,but the pre mifes were wilfully and malicioufly fet on fire. MR. STEELE'S MURDER.—The following letter has been circulated on this melancholy occafion, by the Mayor of Henley-upon-Thames : Henley-upon-Thames, Nov. xB, 3802. Sir—A man and woman exactly snfwering the defcription of the perfons advertifed by Sir Richard Ford in the London Newf papers, as bag fufpeded of the murder of Mr. S te ele, on Hounflow Heath, were ken on Wednefday laft, on the road between heeding and Henley ; and on the fame afternoon about half loft four o'clock near Gangfden Hill, about two miles be yond Nettlebed, on the Oxford road. It bfuppofed they went that way to elude the fearch made for them at Saiiibury and the Weft of England—. Should any Each perfonsbe fern in or about your town, you will, of murk, think an examination of them highly proper. I am, Sir, &c. &c. Joist ALLAN. • A very ill-looking fellow, dreffed in a ragged foldier's )acket, wearing a long black hufhy beard was on Wednefday night committed to gaol, at Deal, on fufpicion of being the murderer of Mr Steele. The man had about him a leg bone of an ox pointed at one end, which, with lus fufpicious nppearance, induced the Mayor of Deal to emu .invicato the matter to Sir Richard Ford, and the man is in cuftody till an anfwer is received from Bow-ft:vet. He-underwent a public e;aniination at theOuildhall oriThurfday morning,When it ap red that he will i¢ the neighbourhood of Houn- PARIS JOURNALS. We have received the French lefoxiteur of the 16th: its contents, however, are entirely void of interdi. It is filled with Addreifet to the Flaw Comm. and his Lady, during their late tour, and with extraas from books.—P ve per cent. 53f. 85c. • Private letters Rate, that Lord WHITWORTH ;reached Paris on Sunday lan ; -and alfo That fume unpleafant accounts haie beta'received from the SUPPOSED HIGH T REASON. CHANCELLOR, Chief tsri Yefterday, at ten mee ting of the Privy ..,..ii ii . 0 --- ,ciocike,Laords ' w as p rinci pa ll.e held iialr-Laix.—Lalt night, during the perfor- I Council, confuting f the LORD lialince of Thi Winter's Tale, at this Theatre, an Abp. of CANTsiau o RY, Ll S O a r IC i • a LO dH I O L B H A A I N T : LO Ea rd rI C of H w AT I H s A i M m , O I.:I I H LA A N W D, RE as... SE e U C A th E E T Se : opportunity was afforded the audience of manifeft- r ing the ardour of their attachment to his MAJES• ' TY, and their abhorrence of any confpiracy form- Lo r d in ed againft the fafety of his perfon, or the fecurity , r ; . M ST% STAFFORD , WHITE, ..r 'OLNEY GENERAL, the SOLICITOR GENERAL, M r. . i th S e i T r R re l ar c u H r A y tt , D a F n o d ß M D of his Government. In the firft aa, KING, Mr. EVANCE , one of the Borough M g where Camillo difclofes to Former:a the plot againft his life, Po tratort:: Clerk of the Police Office, Union Hall fizenes very naturally expreffes his aftonifhment that any one fhould attempt to deftroy the exiftence of a Sovereign, who had never in thought injured at Lord PELHAM'S Office, to examine Halls any one individual. The prevailing report of a fu rt h er m t . the charges exhibited againft Colon e l D moil infamous and abominable plot a t ainft the and the party apprehen ed with him RSPAICD d. , life of our gracious Sovereign, inftantly fuggefted About ten o'clock a Serjeant's Guard a • to the audience a peculiar application of the fen- HA RVEY,rrived at the Office, commanded by Serjeant timent. Loud applaufes were heard from all with fix privates belonging to the arlt and I parts of the houfe, and continued to an unufual regiments of Guards ; three of them were a e"nd' length. This was not, however, adequate to the?pre hended in the Tower early yefterday mo rn ing, an d etpreflion of the general feeling of affeetionAte . three in the Tilt-yard in St. James's Park. loyalty. Four or five diftind peals of applaufe HARVEY has been particularly active in difen ' v rjt. fucceeded, and never did we witnefs, in any pub- i ng the men who are fuppofed to have b een cr. lic a ff embly, a more unequivocal teftimony dif. cerned with the meeting. Sanders and W con. played of the indignation which all preent felte ramina. ruter bottom, two of the men, underwent an againft thofe monfters, whoever they might be, lion, the particulars of which did not tram . ); who would attempt the deftration of a Sovereign I re. About the fame time Colonel D Co juftly dear to his people. ESPARD was brought to the Office, without any irons on, in th Cow ENT Gains v..—Laft-night the. entertaining cultodr of one of the keepers ; and remained b; Farce of the lryb Widow was performed at this L: r i : , e; p asiMaeat A1 r .,4? . r ..ICHARD FORD'S room a lour ' • houfe for the firft time thefe feveral years. Mrs.l„r tune, but underwent a very (port examination lATCHFIELi took . the part of the Widow Brady, a Council. He was fully committed to . ore the and did k fuch juftice as to convey to thofe who take his trial, but not for High Tre r ev.,gate;to raw her a very favourable opinion of the verfatility a on, as it has been reported, in plotting againft the life of his of her talents. She rattled and romped. and (wag- MA] ESTY—no evidence to that effect was adduced. gered away in the molt famous ftyle, without ever The crime he was accufed of is, feduciug fome of being coarfe, vulgar, or unfeminine. When fhe aP - the Guards from their duty and allegiance. It has peared as the fort and tender lover, as the giddy, been idly rumoured that more than 200 of them extravagant dealer' in hufbands, and as the hot. were feduced ; but we can affert, from unqueitton. headed, bloody minded Irifh Lieutenant, fhe Rill able authority, that the number does not exceed to fulfilled the intentions of the author, and exceeded Mrs. DESPARD attended in the morning, to all the expetitations of the audience. She imitated permiffion to fee the Colonel, to give him a change the brogue to admiration. EMERY fcarcely looked of linen, &c. In 'the afternoon Sir RICHARD Foan fufficiently feeble for Whittle : but his corifternation granted her requeft. It is ahnoft unneceifary to upon the fudden change in the dear creature of add, that this is the Colonel Defpard who was fb his affeetions was highly comic. SIMMONS, on long confined in Coldhath fields prifou, and who the contrary, feemed too old and worn out even for made fo many complaints of the treatment he ex- Kecifey. The caricature, however, had the decided perienced there. approbation of the Gods. BLANCHARD fhewed About half pall ten o'clock, Taunton, an Of drollery in Thomas, and WADDY contrafted ficer, arrived at the Office with Charles Pendle with good emphafis the high Mood of . the O'Neal' in his cuftody, whom he had apprehended by vit. with the dirty red puddle of the Whittles. tue of a warrant, figned by Sir RICHARD FORD, Charging him with treafonable practices: He is now 'A journeyman fhoemaker, and the Pfficer found him athis work at a houfe in Toolerlireet. He was fore -time fince a meter fhoemaker in the neigkbonileoff of Red Lion.fquare. He . was con fined akouttw.o years ago in Gloncefter gaol with Binns. Tte Officer, When he apprehended him, fearched him and found upon him a card,engraved with a neat device, and round it , LondonCorref ponding Society, United for Parliamentary Reform? He underwent an examination, in the courfe of which he was afked if he had not affociated with ibldiers lately, particularly at Windfor, to which he moil firmly anfwered in the negative, and af. Cured the Cabinet 'Council, that fince hii enlarge ment from prifon he had attended clofely to his bufinefs, and had not affociated above twice wits any of his Uolitical friends. He is about twenty-three years of age, ac ii enjoys but a bad flare of health, in confederation 1 of which he was affured that he fhould be treated extremely well, and be committedto Tothill-fields Bridewell, where he would be provided with a good bed, and have every thing comfortable. lie was accordingly fent there, handcuffed, with DI?. mas Wood, a private in the Guards, who was apprehended on Tuefday night at the meeting, and be underwent a fecond examination yefterday. John Frarcis and Thomas Broughton, who were . apprehended at the meeting on Tnefday night, were brought from the New Piifon, Cler. kenwell, heavily ironed. ' They underwent an examination. The printed forms of oaths which were found upon Broughton by the Officer when he fearched him were produced againft him. The, were both remanded back to New Prif o n. Whatever may have been the object of the per- Cons apprehended; and of thofe connected with them, it is certain that no pofitive proof has y_.:t appeared of their entertaining any defign to al ; finate the KING on his way to the Houle of Peers. Their affemblies have been held with much fecrecy, and their numbers are very confiderable. We learn, that in the Borough of Southwark alone, there were feven divifions and eight fub-divifions of them, all regularly organifed. Each fub-divifion had four Delegates, all of them qualified to vote at any General Meeting, the time and place of which were always kept fecret, until within a f e w . hotlrs the chief its a ff embling. The perfon s who have been chief inftruments of difcovering the tra nfaa,onsot the Meeting, yefterday gave i n the names cf the foldiers who took an active part in the proceeding s .. They were brought by different efcorts to L 0 . r , 0 , d PELHAM'S Office, and examined before the Pro Council. Several were ordere d into confinemcnt., The great allurements held out to the f o ldiers b r y_ the Delegates, was, that large fums of moneY c 'Ne on expelled to be remitted from Fra nce, and that . e . ac complifhing their object they w ould be allowe d d for life three &Wings and fix-pence per day. Colonel WlNveanof the ift Re g iment of Guard,,: attended the Council during the examivation t the • ildiers. Ilion of th : Among the papers found in the poffe . ~ prifoners, were feditious tufts and fangs, butt a " . .` molt material was, one Declaratory of cc! ,3 ut . Rights, with a copy of the oath taken on I) , =c , r , ing a member. It begins with—" Coq/fit:awn. 7 1 , 6. , of Ireland and Great Britain, E li —q ua__ , z,attu t . l : l. a / Civic ights."—Then follows an alint oce s l c . the members will unite to maintain the lama fa:. all thofe Heroes who may fall in contending their rights. ti I The words of the oath ru n nearly thus : - in A. B. do hereby fwear to endeavour, to the utate7, of my power, to obtain the °kit:as aho . i t e l i nicilt s, and that neither fears, rewards, ~or punt . p ~. than compel me to re fi gn thole rights anudn .:,. -.1 " - h the SuPREME BEING in his b( , 3,, the Pe ri foils fibo Peg The, er, aff lob ob et Oa