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THE ;S'EE'ING} Si'Alt. LONDON. ,•THREg PRIZES OF X 30.0 00 .— one Ilundtrd Capitals.—Tweloe Pipes of Port. Wednesday, 4th March, Lottery draws. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1818. ruum—llohdar at the Bank, Exchequer, and South• Sea house. ^• • Tux Foons.—Consols for Account, 'nil. Sr. NIA. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning. The judgment in the case of the Sham Dauphin was pronounced on Friday. It finds him guilty of vaga bondage, imposture, swindling, and outrageous con duct to the Judges before whom he has been tried the punishment fur wllich offences is, that he shall pay a fine of three thousand francs to the Govern ment, with three-fourths of the expenses of the pro ceedings—be imprisonal seven years, two of them expressly on account of his disrespect to the Judges —and after the seven years arc over be at the disposal of the Government, for su:h longer time as it may think proper. The sentence is perhaps more than sufficiently severe—the part of it in relation to the Judges especially, the legality of which is, we think, ,more than questionable. The Duke of WE dined on Thursday with the KING and Royal Family. French Five per Cents. Friday-66 fr. 60 c. The accounts froth the Head-garters at Cambray received by the DutCh Mail of this morning, an nounce t h at the news of the attempt to assassinate tte Duke of Wettisotosr has excited throughout the British Army of Occupation, a degree of indig_ station which no language can describe : nor is this surprising, the troops being greatly attached to their General, who has always been sparing of their blood, net :r to expose them, but lead them to victory. Many British Couriers had for some days been passing through Cambray from Paris for the Hague and other Northern Courts, with dispatches relating, as was supposed, to this event. The intelligence had put all the Commanders of the Army of Occupation on the alert, in concert with the Civil Authorities, to adopt the best measure to ensure the maintenance of good order and tranquillity. The Duke of Wett NO.. Tos receives on this occasion numerous proofs of the high esteem which his great qualities inspire. General MAITLAND, and several other British Of ficers, had arrived at Brussels from Cambay. In the Sitting of the Second Chamber, at the Hague, on the 19th instant, the proposed changes to be made in the law of the 3d of October, 1815, re specting the duties upon imports and expprts, after Wing discussed, were put to the vote, and carried by a majority of 54 to 21, and sent to the First Chamber to be confirmed. After which the Cham ber adjourned till the following day. By this isw it is enacted, that no goods can enjoy The advantages of transit unless this is declared •at their landing, and this declaration must be men tioned in tl.e passport. The articles in which a change is made are tin, yarn, wood, hides, lace, copper, earl., linens. sulphat of potash, spices, pewter, stone, too, iron, and salt. STOCKHOLM, FEBURARY 9. ilis Majesty King Charles XIII. died on the sth rebrua.ry, at lm. past 10 at night, after a painful illaess, to the profound affliction of his Majesty our gracious King now reigning, their Majesties the Queen and Queen Dowager, and all the Royal fa mily, all faithful subjects. His Majesty then took the oath, and signed it in presence of the Council of S tat e, which, with the great Officers of State, &c• tot the oath of allegiance to his Majesty, who was •proclaimed next day, the 6th, by the Herald of the Eingdom, in the usual form, by the name of Charles John. Yesterday afternoon, her MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princesses AUGUSTA and ELMABETH, arrived at the Quarles Palace, from Windsor. Her MAJESTY holds a Drawing-Room on Thursday. Th., new Tragedy of The Appeal, which has been brought out with so much success at Edinburgh, is tic production of Mr. GA LT , the ingenious author of the Lives of Cardinal Wolsey and Mr. Benjamin West. Few dramatic pieces, we understand, have appeared for many years which can boast of more genuine poetry, or a more naturally pathetic influence or. the feelings. The only objection which has been brought against it by the critics of the North, whose! judgment in matters of taste must certainly he al low.sd to have great weight, is, that the plot is not complex enough, the characters not sufficiently nu n.erous, and the situations few and simple ; but the majority of the Edinburgh public appear to have fel: and judged of the play in these respects as the public of London have just done in the case of Mr. rstlimuitN's of tragedy of Fazio, and as the ge nerality of people deciding from feeling, and not by scholastic rule, will, we believe, always do—that a plot easy to comprehend, and sustained by a few b-t striking characters, when enriched by strength of sentiment, and adorned by high poetic embellish mer.t, is that sort of plot which is ever best calcu lated to inspire a deep and lasting iiiterest. The ap plause which it has received, night after night, is the surest criterion of its merits. The simil4rity in the manner of structure between the Appeal:and Fazio i;, we have been informed, very striking—Mrs. H ENR Y SIDDONS is in the Ariette of the formes, what Mks O'NEIL is in the Bianca of the latter. May we not hope to sec our tragic heroine in this other edition of a character in which she seems to emceed all her former powers of touching the human heart? NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIAMRN. The Company's ships under mentioned arrivesi at Calcutta as follows, viz. The ATLAS and Gisaaat KYD, the 10th July. The MIAQUIS or WEILLICIOX, the Eth July. The MIXIATA and SYSLATIWIL, the such July. Th. Rosa and Pumas* CIIAILLOTTE Or WALTS, 18th August The Vtru.t.taat Ptrr and Caaaroetc, the 28th August. The Thomas GILINTILLS and Loan Carrteara.un, Sept. 1. The WArtaLoo and WINCHELSZA left Penang for Malacca and China, the 25th July. The DUNIRA, outward-bound, put into Plymouth the 21st instant. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 23. Wind S.W.—Arrived the brig Elizabeth, SOPER, from Gibraltar for. Poole, with a cargo of salt, and is put under quarantine. The collier brig mentioned in our last letter as being on shore at Sally Port, has been got off without damage, and has come into harbour. DEAL, FEBRUARY 23. Wind S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Providence, FOY; and Albion, REED, from Leghorn; Elizabeth, ELLis, from Liverpool ; and Joseph, Wit. sox, from Minehead, for Sunderland ; the latter de tained by contrary winds.—Came down from the River and sailed the Zephyr, BROWN, for Gibraltar. Put back again last night the Sarah, HARLAND, for St. Thomas s, and remains in the Downs with the SEVERN frigate ; and Java, TuoMsoN, for Batavia. HARWICH, FEBRUARY 25. The Eliza, —, of and from Shields to London, with coals, was abandoned at two o'clock this morn ing on the Middle Sand, but was afterwards brought into this harbour by three smacks. RAMSGATE, FEBRUARY .23. Wind W.—The Johannes, I.INDBOOM, of Stock holm, from Hamburgh, for Lisbon, with wheat, was lost on the Kentish Knock on the morning of the 216 t instant. The Master .and crew were taken off the wreck by Captain A. SMITH, of the sloop Hoop, and landed here this day. LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY its. Arrived the Neptune, WADE, from Rio Janeiro, in 70 days : on the 18th inst. in lat. 48. 45. long. 14. 30. spoke the Betsey, SMITH, from this port for Rio Janeiro. Arrived also, the Hibernia, Bnowx, from New Orleans—sailed the 4th January, and from Balize llth January : on the 17th instant, off Mizen Head, spoke the Susan, PIIKELIN3, from Li verpool to Charleston. WHITBY, FEBRUARY 22. Yesterday the Providence, of and from Sunder land, coal-laden, got on the rock outside of this harbour, but shortly got off again, avid proceeded. PORT GLASGOW, FEBRUARY 40. Arrived last night the brig Lord Belhaven, MIT- CtieLL, from Auz Cayes, St. Domingo ; sailed thence the 6th of December; left loading the Intrepid, FINDLAY, for Clyde, to sail about the 12th of Ja-i nuary. On the outward passage of the Lord Bel.: haven, when about twenty miles from Aux Cayes, a boat witli apparently only four men on board, hailed her, and inquired whether they wanted a pilot? On being answered in the affirmative, the boat came alongside, and it being duskish, fourteen armed blacks jumped on deck and immediately proceeded to the cabin, and commenced plundering, which they did to a great extent, having taken a considerable part of the cargo (which consisted chiefly of dry goods) and almost every article of wearing apparel which belonged to the crew, together with the brig's jolly. boat, a quantity of provisions, sails, rigging, &c. GRAVESEND, FEBRUARY 23. Arrived the Wyton, Ardler, from Bombay ; the Leda, Smith, from Nantucket; Anna Christina, Christianson, from Norway; Waterloo, Jones, from Dublin ; the Euterpe, Stephenson, from 'Oporto; Jane, Wood, from Hiunburgh ; Maria, Palmer, from St. Michael's ; Porcupine, Scott, from St. Domingo ; the Eliza, Ford, from St. Andero; and Fair Brothers, Hinley, from Wa terford.—Salled the Lady Bankes, Walker, for Madras; Juno, Bishop, for the Cape of (;ood Hope ; the Thomas, Bell, for St. Vincent's; Harriet, Skillet, for Madeira ; Traveller, Lloyd, for Demerara ; Tobago, Westmorland, for ditto ; John, Rennie, for Oporto; Sirene, Preager, for Calais; Vrow Elizabeth, Vander Stein, for Ostend ; Pot ate, ticker, for Antwerp; Susannah, Peterson, for Elsineur ; Perseverance, Islaghan, for liamburgh !skim's, Hutchinson, for ditto ; Elizabeth and Mary, Brown, for ditto; Nottingham, Elliot, for Waterford; Traveller, Howes, for Rotterdam; and Two Brothers, Robson, for ditto. CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEBRUARY 23. Slurs rrszkrn Itrwasins.—The Fortitude, Johnstone, and Se vern, Gibbs, from Seville ; Eliza, Capp, and Jane and Ann, Wilkinson, from Messina; Lenach, Driscol, from Bombay; Fanny, punter, from Hamburgh; Pante, Rickey, and Nassan, Oiler, from Lisbon; Speculation, Corben, from Gravelic:s; Good Intent,—,from Boulogne; Richards and Mary, Brown, from Newfoundland ; Minstrel, —, from Palermo; London, Cuming, from Jersey ; Integrity, Sutherland, and Thais, Gap pleby, from Charante ; Ann and Elizabeth, —, from Santwi der ; Antelope, Brian, from the Cape of Good live; Diana, Anbert, from St. Valery ; Margaret, Saunders, from Oporo; Martha, Thomas, from Limerick ;aril Electra, Todd, from Phi latlelphia.—Ourwaans--The Elizabeth, Castain, for Mon treal; Vrow Antje, Triereman, and Ar.u, Scott, for Amster dam; Waterloo, Munro, for Ostend; Jane, Tian, and Venus, Kilgour, for the Cape of Godd Hope ; Venus, Allison, for Elsi neur and Riga ; Julius Czaae, Luikie, for Madras and D.:me -an, ; I.ord Cathcart, Brown, for Fort William, and Vriends .ll4, Leon, for Ostend, Bruges, and Ghtnt. The amount of the Navy and Victualling Ordinary Estimates for the current year is 2,071,4-751. 17s. 3d. An abatement is expected of about '250,000/. from sic of old Nasal and Victuaning Stores. The Prince George, which was reported to have foundered at sea and all hands perished, it appears by a letter from New York, had arrived at Edgar Town, (district of Main), having sprung a leak 17 days previous. Letters from Copenhagen of 10th February, an nounce the death ~f• the King of Sweden, and that all communication between the two countries is pro hibited on the part of Sweden, till the Crown Prince shall he recognized as King. A Letter from the Hague, dated Feb. £O, says:— , " It is understood, in consequence of the enactments 'of the late new laws on the finances, a negotiation will shortly be opened for realizing twenty millions of bonds of the Syndicate of the Netherlands, created by the law of the 9th of February. Meantime it is said that some of the principal dealers in this branch have engaged for the whole amount, on the same footing as was formerly done iu this country. We have been positively assured. that on the first of.Tuly next a beginning will be made to pay the interest of the actual debt for the first six months of the c: - .rreat year, on the day it is due." LAW INTFILIGZNCE. COURT or KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 2i. !: • CIBEL.-TI►L LINO V. GENERAL GORR. this_ was indictment against the defendant, pre ferred by Dr. Thorpe, and charging the defendant with having, whilst Governor of the province of Upper Canada, published a certain pamphlet in the form of a Letter to Lord Castlereagh, containing a wicked, mali cious, and malignant libel, reflecting on the character of Dr. Thorpe, who had, previously to that time (1809) held the situation of one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench in the province of Upper Canada.— The pamphlet imputed to the prosecutor that he had in his speeches from the Bench uttered seditious ha rangues; that he had drawn round him, in conjunc tion with Mr. Wyatt, the Surveyor-General of the Province, and Mr. Wilcox, formerly Sheriff, and given encouragement and support to all the turbu lent and factious spirits in the Province. Mr. ScAttxrer opened the prosecutor's case, and called the following witnesses. Mr.Serjeant Firth was Attorney-General of Upper Canada trom March 1807, to March 1812. Dr. Thorpe had left the Province before witness's arrival, but the defendant, Francis Gore, was Governor of the Province in 1807. Witness had heard General Gore mention Dr. Thorpe at table and in public companies, and in private in his own library : the defendant, in the latter end of the year 1809, shewed witness a letter addressed to Lord Castlereagh, re specting Dr. Thorpe; this was not an official, com munication to witness in his character of Attorney- General. The letter was in the form of a pamphlet. General Gore took it out of a box containing several other similar pamphlets, and gave it to the witness. Witness cannot recollect what General Gore said on that occasion (witness here produced the pamphlet); witness had heard Governor Gore read passages from a manuscript. He thought Governor Gore would not have communicated to him what he did, had he not held the situation of Attorney-General. Witness considered the communication as confidential though not official. Serjeant Cortitv, for the defendant, here sub mitted. that this was such an official communication from the Governor to the Attorney-General as ope rated to bar the witness from answering that question. Witness resumed.--The communication was made to him when alone with the witness. Mr. SCAIILETT contended that communication made by the Attorney-General could not be conside red as confidential or official, unless made to him in 1 his character of Attorney-General: it might be the communication of one Gentleman in friendship to another. Witness resumed.—lle believed the Governor com municated with him on this occasion in confidence, and that he would not have communicated with him had he not been Attorney-General He could not, however, say the communication was o ffi cial. He felt a delicacy in answering, and begged his Lord ship's decision. Mr. Justice Assorr said his opinion was, that official communications could not be made the sub ject of evidence. Communications between friends, however confidential, were so, and ought not to be withheld when justice required they should be given as evidence. Mr. Serjcant FIRTH—Most likely every commu nication made by the Governor was made to me, with a view of having my advice, if necessary. Mr. Justice Armors. held, that these were then pri vileged communications, and not subjects of evidence. The pamphlet was then read, and imputed to the prosecutor the facts stated by Mr. Scarlett in his open ing, and further, that Dr. Thorpe, had, in his address from the Bench, represented the conduct of the Go- vernment, for the last 15 years, as disgraceful and ruinous to the Province ; and that he and his party having found it difficult to induce the regular news papers to insert the seditious writings, they had esta blished a Press of their own for that purpose, and by this means had been enabled to disseminate sedition, and encourage the turbulent and disaffected. Dr. Thorpe was Judge of Upper Canada, from Au gust, 1805, till October, 1807. General Gore was the Lieutenant Governor the greater part of that pe riod. Witness first saw the pamphlet in May, ISIS.' Witness believed he was the person alluded to in that pamphlet. Witness was one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench in upper Canada, and was af terwards appointed Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. Cron-examined.— Witness had heard of the Pam phl2t prior to 1816, but knew nothing particular of its contents till then. Lord CASTLERRAGIL—Witness could not recollect whether he received a copy of the Pamphlet from Mr. Gore. Ile was not aware whether he had such a Pamphlet now in his possession. Witness cannot recollect whether he was in office in ISIO, but a re ference to the red-book would shew that fact. Marquis CAmDES.-11is Lordship did not recollect receiving from General Gore any Pamphlet address ed to Lord Castlereagh, nor did he recollect ever having seen the Pamphlet in question. Mr. Serjeant COPI EY addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant. At the period this Pamphlet was published, a pamphlet containing strong party spirit, the Colony was in daily expectation of a war With America, and the Governor was therefore bound to notice what he considered as dangerous; and he did notice it, by consulting with the King's Attorney General, the first Law Officer of the Crown, upon it. With this view it was, that he communicated the pamphkt to the Attorney-General, and not with any intention of giving publication to, or lending the sanction of his name, to a malignant libel. lie was convinced the Jury would feel with him, that this was a communication made by General Gore to the King,s Attorney-Genzral in th e di sc h arge o f h i s duty, and not with any intention of injuring the character of a respectable individual, the malignant intention imputed to him. Mr. Justice Assorr summed up to the Jury, who returned a verdict of—Guilty. COURT OF COMMON ri.F.As. SMITH 0. BARTLSMAN. The action was brought to recover a compensation in damages for an injury sustained by the plaintiff, in having been by violence turned out of the seat he had taken at a public concert in the Hanover-square Rooms. The plaintiff went into the box en the left of the King's box, from whence he was dez,ired Ly Z.fr. Knyrett (who acted for Mr. 3artleir.ani to with draw. Oa his refusing, Townsend, the cuter, was -- called in, *nil the plaintiff Bating ask e l o i, Townsend WAS acting odicially i• so whi c h he received an ansleer in the attirmative, im me , withdrew. Fur the defendant, it was p roved the box in question had been uniformly co ns id et , appropriated to the Di: ectors of the Comm and their families, and it was therefcre tamp , that the pla intiff had no right to b e th em. was an other count in the duciaraticn, for ‘3 , 1 accommodation. Dlr. Justice Pisan in addressing the Jary, down, that as the box from which Mr. Sm it h plained of having been turned out, was clea r ', T to be the exclusive property al' the Directors, he had gone there without th eir permissio n , L jetted himself to the indignity which he corn, of. Unless it could have been proved that had been dedicated to the public, he certainly, right to be there. if the Jury were satisfe there was no such dedication, the plaintiff 1 4 t ground of action. With of the declaration, by will:Tee to the otL er , the plaintiff sou l recover damages for the want of comfortable a u modation, he was by no means of opinion th z ticket implied that every person should be p zt .,i with a convenient seat. Every person cert4 2 l ; , a right to expect that he should hear the pe r k r i at , but it was well known that in all places d i amusement, where seats could not be procurtd from choice, preferred standing the whole being totally excluded. lie could not, hu swe, what the law was upon this topic ; but sim p l y * serve, that as the plaintiff had thought Fop , stop the whole of the performance, after he h a d b e , removed from the box, he was not entitled to sec;, back his 10s. (id. The Jury then retired, and when they bat' c,36 suited about an hour, they sent into Court lob : " what damages would carry costs. Tice Le ar * Judge informed them the lowest denominaiie coin would be sufficient for that purpose. Thel-u s tinued in deliberation, and the Judge lei: .I, e „ date to take the verdict. After an absence a hours, they returned with a verdict for the dzfzahr. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday Mathis; :filaier ' alias Perry Gr am , a Matra, was brought to the bar, for the pu T ,.... e being arraigned upon an indictment, charliir.g with having forged a certain Deed, purpor..ng e. it a Power of Attorney, with intent to defraud J Kennell and John Pratt Kennel!. There are tLi t other charges against him. The prisoner was L a i, cuffed, and conducted himself most incnhere a dy obstreperously—so much so, that it was found nects sary for him to be held by Mr. Hardy, and Da- one of the keepers. He endeavoured to leap fn dock, and stared wildly at all present. Previous to the ►ndictment being read, Mr Au. stated that he was instructed to say, that - .ha priute had been insane for several months, and thatk. Box, the Surgeon of Newgite, and other Me.ht.l Men, were prepared to prove his insanity ; and ma a Jury ought to be impannelled to try whether 'a was sane or not.—After some conversation bevies Mr. Attar and Mr. RZYNOLD'S, the latter Gentle= consented t. the trial being put off until the nest bes. sions, by which time the state of his mind mak Le ascertained. G. Matthews was indicted for stealing It ele boo of E. O'Hara a ring value 51. a brood , and thnt 10/. notes, the property of Colonel IV. Ullah7.— Guilty—Death. T. Cope was indicted for a burglary in the boss of J. Brook, and stealing two reams of paper, 14 fire bottles of India tubber.--Guilty—Deatit. E. Skertairs was indicted for violating the penes si Susannah Tubb. The prosecutrix, a married wane, who had a child at her breast, detailed thefacts sea great minuteness, and swore most positively, tha: the 10th of January, as she accompanied the prime, he took liberties with her, threw her down, a/L.lsra* accomplished his purpose.—She underwent a sense cross-examination by Mr. ADOLPHUS, in the core of which she ads-bias:l that the did not cry oat sits he first took liberties with her.—On the part of tle prisoner, two watchmen, who were on duty on tie spot, stated most decidedly that they heard no act t on the night in question, and one of them stated C.: he was so situated, that if a child had cried he is: t have heard it.—The Jury acquitted the Privets, without putting Mr. Baron Gams.tse to the tron:_e of summing up the evidence. The demur to the union of the Duke :ICI-tr.:NI With the PRINCESS ROYAL Of DENMARK, OriginZe4l. it seems, in the refusal of her Serene ili jh s. nes consequence of which, the preparations fcr the Princess to England are discontinued. The circumstance of the Duke of C.A , ts,tcr dinedwith Miss WYKSWIIASI, the ricL heiress, at Brighton, a few days since, 11._s . c. ivert to a report that a matrimonial treaty is I. i •rn the ti• pis between his Royal Highness and that We lament to hear that the Duke of CEA received an account from India of the death of ant eldest son, Captain Frra-CLARENcr, aid-de-Cimp to the Marquis of H sal INC:S. The Report of the Secret Committee of lads was last night presented to the House, after slva the Earl of LIVERPOOL gave notice that to-nmaya a Bill would be brought in, founded on that ite: Pert—that is a Bill of Indemnity to for their proceedings under the Suspension Ac:.—For L.e Report see the prmeedings in the House of Peers. , MIDDLLSLI SEISIONS. -- YiZielday Gitirge Slialo fraudulently obtaining the sum of Ins. fad. the r.sceu. of Nos Shaw Lefevre, of New-street, Spring-gardens, by n.l.reseunr: himself to be a Box-keeper at Drury-taae The-fre. He I ';' found guilty, and sentent:d to seven years' triosi4. Muainta.—Last week, ou the evening of 11: ~stay TUelar. a most inhuman murder was cotrunittzd on the 1 cr.,0 of nu ., bet h Low, a widow about 75 years of ate, retidroginrhece'"" if :he populous village of Dunning, in l'erth,hire. It • pear by the marks of vioktice which appeared on her the monster by whom this diabolical teed effected his bloody purpose by a ti.g.lc Wow witk :I', fracture completely the skull. The murderer SCCItli :0 I terwards proceeded very deliberately to rob the moveable article which lt cuatained was carries: BIRTHS. Thursday, at Dumfries, the Lady of William Grier"; 17-. C• of liattfurd, of a son. ?s n andrr : bei 4 11 1 1:k n en it. z a te i . of and ir Avcidt son 4uuse' os t, the Lady of E' Alk DIED. Tuesday, at SJlishory.hall, Captain F. J. Snell, R. N. not". On the 9th inst. .ifter Mix's of cooly four dap. e't few' , caught durtug Lu attsndAnue tut :he hospitals, the f°“..6" est sou of tht Rev. R. Cirtur,, of Niistou, Chishiee. 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