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by. the grand hantiman and feveral bfaefhah of the .Empire. The Chevalier Ai:Dual:s, who milli have quitted Locdon in confequence of the rupture between Spain and England, is expelled zt the Hague, from whence he will probably return to Madrid through France. FIRROL, Dec. 26, 184.—M. I ILaN4RRt , Lieute siant-General in the Army, has come to take the command of this place. Several regiments are Co their march hither, and will augment the garrifon to to,ooo men. The commandant of the French divi. !ion is going to place at the difpofal of M. FILAR GM, 700 (carnet), who will be commanded by French officers: cannon and ammunition are now car rying into the forts, and workmen are employed with great adivity in fitting out gun-boats--the citizens are organized into a corps, who, in cafe of need, will concur in the defence of the place : in a word, all thole meafures of fafety which circumftances require are purfued. The Englifh fcmadron, confining of ten !hips of the line and two frigates, has quitted the anchorage of Ares, but it i. Rill in fight, and ap proaches the coati when the weather permits. Two of the enemy's frigates are cruizing off the Wands of Bayou.. Mlsasi, Jaw. 3. —We learn from Cagliari, that the Englith fleet, canfiding of t 8 fail, under the coin. *nand of Admiral \lessor, which for Come time had b een i n tli: i t hain,ur, put to lea on the zt ll. VILLA NA, JAN. G.—Letters from Conflantinople of the loth ult. cosifit mcd by others from Odefrt, date, that a dreadful temped which continued feventeen days, bad taken place throughout the whole extent of the Black Sea. Among a great number of veSels which perilhed, there are reckoned to have been twelve RuMan, on.: of which was a frigate, of 40 guns, having on bozrd 6.t0 troop:. No more than a tenth part of the crews of there twelve fhips would be laved. FILANCIMAT. JAN 14.:—letters horn Turkey in Eui•ope announce, that Bekir Pacha has entered Bol si* at the head of a confiderable body of troops, to reduce the infurgents to obedience ; that the gervians lave gone. or pretend to have gone into winter quar ters, and that the commetc:al intercourfe between Hnigary and Servia is again open, fo that large purchafes df cattle are made in the latter country by the inhabitants of the former. HAMMUROR, JAN. I t.—lt is now known that Ba• Yon d'AassrsLDT has quitted Vienna by order of his Court, and that this recal is a eonfequence of that of Count de Lonlow from Stockholm, on =mint of the refufal made by the Krim of Swims to ere knowledge the Imperial Dignity of the Emperor of Aufiria. The Ruffian lips mitt M. Vox Kam. Inmate, arrived at Kamfchatka on the nth July. They had touched in the courfe of their voyage at the Marque fa, and the S.:r dwich Wet., and were to fail for Japan about the end of A uguil. The crews and all on board were in perfea health. Bt RUN, JAII. R.—The Prince, of whom the Q2een was delivered on the 13th December, was baptized yeaerday, in the prefence of his Majefly the King.— Ile was prefented at the baptifinal fcnt by her Ma- jelly the Queen Dowager, and received the name of FREDEILIC JULIUS FLR.DIW AND LEOPOLV. HAMBURGH MAILS. The two Hamburgh Mails due on Sunday arc! Wednefday, arrived la( night. The molt imprtant intelligence they bring is contained in the extra& of a letter from Madrid, dated December t 4, which Hates, that on the fame clay on which the declaration of war again( England was made known, his Ca tholic Majctly fignrsi a treaty with Portugal, in con fequence of which the latter declares itfelf the Ally of Spain and the Encmy of England! VISION*, JAN. t2.—To-day a courier arrived from our Ambaff.rdor at Paris to the Mininer of State, who immediately after difpatched a courier to the Court of Berlin. The fubje& of the difpatches of thefe couriers is faid to be the affairs of Italy. A Trench courier has li!;escife arrived here from Paris. Jaw. 16.—1 t is Paid that Martha' Boosts has left Conflantinople—this as yet requires confirmation. 4.— The hope that the peace of the Continent will be maintained, and con:iris:4:d by the endeavours of our Court, in conjunction with thole of St. Peter!: burgh and Berlin, continually appears better founded. The States of Bohemia hare granted 4.00,000 &- sins fur the purchale of corn. The military farce of Militia enntills at prefent of f; regiments of ia6ntry of the line ; 17 regiments if frontier infantry ; eight regiments of cuiraffiers ; rr regiments of dragoons : lix regiments of Light - - iorfe; twelve regiments t f buffers ; three regiments nt Uhlans ; one regiment of cbaffeurs ; four regi ments of Tyrolefe militia ; one corps of bombardiers; •ine corps of pioneers ; one corps of miners ;—one •rps of fappers one corps of pontonners. To this army arc appointed nine Field Martha's, siorty-five Generals of Artillery, and Generals of ; 136 Field M.trllial Lieutenants ; and a;8 M.,jtir Generals. The lateli letters from Paris make no mention of the time when the Pupe may be expefted to return to kome. LINES OF THR Matta, JAN. 351 —.The Chevalier V L Gu CS who has been fct at liberty on the appli the paired through Munich on the hi) WAY from Paris to RUM.. . „ • .. ritAIMOIT, JAW. T7.--ACCOWS from the Lower Rhine Rate the number of troops that are detached from the Army of the Coal!. and drawing towards Italy. at 40,000 men. They write from Paris that the Pope, in cafe of certain changes in Italy,will fix his feat at Compiegne. Letters from Paris Cay, that the projeaed eledoral anion between the Eledur Archchancellor and the rlators of Heffe and Wirt:mburg has been commu nicated likewife to the Envoys from the Elettoral Courts of Saxony, Bavaria, and Baden, for their ac ceffion, but that this union finds great difficulties. GENOA, JAN. 3.- On the 28th of December the French fleet lay Rill at anchor at Toulon ; the report that it had put to fea was premature. On the zift of December, Admiral NELSON, with eighteen Blips of war, failed from Cagliari, in Sardinia, where he had taken in water and provifions, while Admiral lima Bayou, with his froadron, was cruizing off Mi norca. Our Gazette contains the following article, dated Madrid, Dec. 24: " On the fame day on which the Declaration of War againli England appeared here, our Sovereign figned a Treaty of Alliance with Portugal, by which the Court of Lilbon declares kick an Ally of Spain, and an enemy of England." Yeflerday, about three o'clock, his MAJESTY ar rived at the Qt . issm's Houle from Kew. We are happy to fay the QISIN was much better yelie►day. At two o'clock the PRINCE of WALES vifited her MAJESTY. In the Houle of Commons ha night. Mr. PITT give notice. that on an early day be timid fix A time t .r bringing forward the Ways and Means of the Year. By our Repot of the Proceedings of Houfe of Commas', is will be teen that the difcutlion of the tZ2ellion relative to the Sheriffs ltawr.rus and Cox is poftponed till Tueftlay. It teems they have not yet made up their minds whether or not they are to offer any exculpatory evidence. The late Sheriffs and Under Sheriffs were yesterday in the Gallery. Late on Tuefday evening, Mr. WAGSTILIT the Meffenger left town on his way to St. Peteriburgh, with difpatches to Lord G. L. Gowsa, our Minilter at that Court. Admiral STitsuors is appointed to fuperintend the fitting out of the (hips at Deptford and Wool wich, in the room of Admiral DOUGLAS. Difpatxhes were yellerday received at the Admi ralty from Admiral Sir C. Correa. On Thurfday morning, a detachment of the Guard; marched from Knightfbridge barracks on their way to Chatham, to join the Guards there. The following, we undertland, are the numbers of men obtained by Mr. PITT's additional defence bill Ittglantl 263—. Scotland 144—Ireland 1026—Total 2432. The dinner given yetterday by the Duke of YOR I I at Willis's Rooms in King-ltreet, was of the mon fplendid defcription. Upwards of one hundred and fifty fat down at (even o'clock, confining chiefly of oLicers who had ferved with his Highnefa for the Lin 20 years m the Coldtlream Regiment. Among the c..).npatty were— The Duke of CNIMILAND, Lords CAVAN, SAT and St Lt, CIIIAILAS SOMANSET, SOUTKAPIPTON, FORIIIIIq, and STOPVOID; Gtn:rals Loosow, Lannott, BURILARD ; Major Wm, Hon. Capt. UPTON PAGET, &C. Aftcr dinner, IVon obis Domine was rung by Meths. KNYVFTTS, SALE, GONE, LEFT, DIGNUSI, GIBBONS, and Thrt.mt.—Goti Sate the King followed, accom panied by the Duke of York's Band. Between each toad many beantii.ilgleesand tingle longs were lung. George and England Serve, by DIGNUM, salted with the chorus, had a wonderful effee. The fublime glee of Dr. CaLcorr's, Peace to the Souls of the Heron, was finely lung by the two KNYVETTS and Las-r. We feel it our duty to Rate, that an article we in. fined yeflerday as a melancholy inliance of the effees of giving way to pallon, is this day contradieed in the Morning Paper from which we copied it. The Hon. PENISTON Latin, M. P. eldefl fon of Lord Vifcount MELSOURNR, was yelerday buried at Hatfield. The troop of cavalry which he command ed, at tira intended to have paid him the military honours to which he was entitled, and his noble fa ther had given orders that preparations lhould be made fititable to the grandeur and folemnity of the occaficti. The will of the Hon. Gentleman, how ever, requetted that his burial lhould be private, and it was fo. We have authority to fay, that the marriage re ported in the STAR on Thurfday let, to have taken place between SAMUEL SHRIGLEY, Paymafter, of the 13th Light Dragoons, and the eldeft daughter of Major DOI' ERTY, of the fame regiment, is the fa brication of fame malignant perfon, no fuch eireum fiance having tal.cn place. The fellow who r .hbed the young man in the em ployment of Mars. GREEN and RICHARDS, Newfmen, who was carrying Tome newfpapers to the Gloucener Cofee-houfe, to be thence forwarded by the mail to Mr. LATHAM, at Bath and Brißol, has !ince becn ex amined, and is fully committed fur trial. On Sunday morning a woman in Knightfbridge hayracks was fafely delivered of a female child, making the fifth generation on the female fide, and all of whom were prefent at the birth ; confining of Lucy WALL, the infant's mother; Maar HAYWOOD, the grandmother ; DotoymY SMITH, the great grand. mother ; and DOROTHY SIMPSON, the great•great grandmother. Boydell's Lottery being decided, and but few rickets in the State Lottery left, the public are re commended to make an early application to the Lot. tery Offices, for the following Capital Prizes : 1 of 25,00c1. 2 of 20,00501. 3 of io,oool. 3 of s°ool. &c. &c. &c. which are now in the wheel. When ARCH I mr nPs difcovered the materials in the Crown of Diobsysius, his joy was fu !peat that he run about the lireets of Syraeure naked, exclaiming, I have found it—l have found it !"—what would have been his joy had he lived in the prefent time, when by walking to a Lcttery•Of!ice he may find TIN, Twti 1 If, or even TWINTY-FITS THOUSAND I'OU NOS. NAUTIC.2I. ETITLLIGENGE. . . MAILS TER'. DAY.-411nd N. W. , . AIR. BUP. • AU. ',UR. Diil.lin • o 3 liamburgh s 0 VL'autrfunl o 5 Gotten , mrgb 0 0 FALMOUTH, JaN. 3o.—Arrived OIL. CHANCE cut ter, from Dublin.—Sa;led the Pe '4 CESS ELIZABCTH packet, Capt. Kiroc, with a Mai:, fur the Leeward Iflands. Wind N. E. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 31.--The Faux fchconer, of to guns, arrived here laft eveni4 from a craze, and brings the melancholy intelligence of the lurk of the Dolt's, of 36 guns, Captain CAMpeeLL, on the coati of France, near Rochefort : the accounts refpeeting the fate of the crew are various; but we hope,and believe that the greater part, if not the whole oft& crew, are Paved. The DORIS had taken a French brig, and was in chace of fiveral others, when the ftrtick on a rock, which proved fatal to her. Cap tain Jsavis, of the 'Forum; of 3,1. guns, we are concerned to Rate, is drowned, as it is reported, in attempting to rave the crew of the Dot's—other ac counts fay, that it was in patting from one [kip to another in his boat, which we ;relieve was the fait. The FELIX, it is reported, brinks an account of the efcape from Rochfort of fix fail of the line, a frigate, and a corvette, all French (hips ; their deflination unknown. The Fame privateer, of 3o guns, belong ing to this port, is 101 l at Guernfey. PORTSMOUTH, Faa. ll.—S:i!ed the WEYMOUTH frigate, %rich the Royal George, Henry Addington, Earl of Abergavenny, Bombay Cattle, and the Wex ford, unJer convoy for the Eall Indies ; alfo the Fitt, NEWCOMBE, for New Providence.—Wind E. S. E. DIAL, FRB. I.—Sailed the ARAB !loop of war and a gun-brig on a cruife off the French coati. Remain in the Dawns the reit of the nips as per 14.—Wind E. N. E. blows hard. Cac SPIT, WH !TINA Li.—Ycllerday, Wore the Mo►t Noble and Rigiit Honourable the Lords Corn rs of App-.us in Prize Caufes. De Goode Henfight, Gocken, Mafter.—This Ship, laden with, a cargo of indigo, fugar candy, cotton, pepper, gum, cloves, and other colonial prinluce, alfo a quantity of ebony wend, on a voy age From the Idle of France to Corr havol, was captured in April deo, by hls Majelly's Blip of war Jui,o,r, George Lofack, Efq. Commander, and carried firft to the if.•.nd of Madagafcar, and afterw - trds to the Cape of Good liopL, where the tfuJi proceed logs were inftituted. Their Lord(Lips • in this cafe, condemned the Ihip, and that part of the cargo claimed on behalf of Meffr4. Blacks, Widow, and Company, of Copenhagen, and reftored the other parts of the cargo as claimed. The Northika Wanikapen, Sko3ftrom, Mager.—•This Swedifh hound on a voyage from New York to Nantes, lade', with a cargo of fugar, tobacco, coffee, and other goods, WAS captured on the 24th of May t 8 o, by hit, Majesty's trip Pluto, Henry Folke% Efq. Commander, and carried into St. John's, in the ifland of Newfoundland. in this cafe their Lordthips reams:id the Slip, and directed t umber proof to he produced of the cargo within the ufual time. The Friendibip, Butler, Mafter.—Rertitution of fhlp and cargo is this cafe were slesectd by confeLt.—Adjounied. CnPANOR COUNCIL.—A Court of Common Coun cil was held yeflerday at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor prefided, and feveral Aldermen, at tended with the City Officers, and u p war d s o f 160 Commoners. The Clerk of the Court read the pro. ceedings of the laft Court, which were approved.— The Committee for Improving the Port of London, laid before the Court the plan of their Bye Laws, Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the better Go vernment of the Harbour Mailers of the faid Port, &c. which being read, and the intended Bye Laws, paragraph by paragraph, were in part agreed to, and the remaining part were adjourned to the confider anion of the next Court. The Court unanimoufly defied EDWARD Davis, by thew of hands innead of ballot, junior Clerk of the Court of Requefls, Mr. ALDRIDGE having declined the contell, and there being no other Candidate. We cannot help calling the attention of the bene volent to a moil useful inilitution which has been for Tome time eitablifhed in the Boronigh Road, for the education of poor children. At this feminary, a thou fend poor children are inflrueled by a Mr. Laricas• Tait, a worthy (taker, without any charge to the parents. . _ The !chop] has nn fund whatever, except the unfo licited donation: of the friends of unprotected childhood, which, we are happy to find, have not been withheld. Indeed, the good effeCts of this inflitution have al ready become fn oriking, that it is not unfrequently vitited by the tuft charaCters in the kingdom in point of worth and rank. Lail week the benevolent LAW • C•STER was vilited by the Honourable JOHN Fos- TEE, Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland ; by Lord SOMERVILLE, RICHARD Islavit.t.s, Efq. and many other Gentlemen ; and a few days ago by his Grace the Duke of Somtassx, by Earl Lorrus, the Earl of SL:octsa, Lord BOYLE, the Portuguefe Ambaffador, and GEORCE SANDFORD, Efq. Mr. LANCASTER had lately the honour of being introduced to his Majesry, whom he addrelied as follows : 0 Permit, 0 King, one of thy faithful fubjecls to offer his fincere willies for thy bea welfare and pre fetvations May that Thetas Haan sthich bath been with thee from thy youth up till now, and fupported thee through many deep trials and agliaions, be (till about thy howle, thy path, thy bed, and all thy ways, and may peace and tighteoufnefs be multiplied to thee, and thy family :" The Kind' was much affetted, and gave a difplay of that charaaer which ha: endeared him to his faith ful fubjefts, in the expreffions of kinduefs he made ufe of to the good Q2aker. • On the prefent occafion, we cannot avoid nrticing another worthy charaatr, to whom the public owe many obligations : We mean Mr. Coi.gl: nous, the Magiarate. Some time aga he paid a with in Mr. LANCASTER'S fchool, with the views. pion, and con dating of which he was fo much delighted, that he instantly opened ()tic on the fame plan in P.mlico, at hip own exptnce—Mr. LANCASTER giving him every alliitance in his power to enable him to accomplith the objea he had in view. Reader, have you the meant. ?..." Go, and do I• ACCUSATION OF 11121:1/411.1.LIGHTER. \i The following motion, which was made in tee Court of King's Bench yenerday, is of lo feriqus a complexion, and it is fo particularly necefrary we fhould be correct in our report, if we prefume to give it at all, that we (hall Rate it as nearly in the words of the Learned Counfel as we poflibly can. Mr. Gatitow.—" I am 'Angled to move your Lordfhips fora Writ of Habeas Corpus, to bring into Court the body of a Mr. Peacock, who has been com mitted to prifon upon a charge of manflaughter. The perfon on whore behalf I move is a mon refperftable Gentleman, and refides in the borou g h S. mth war k. He Rates in his affidavit, that he and his family having retired to bed ; after he had been fume time in his chamber, he heard a violent ringing at his gate. He called out at his window, but no anfwer being given, he came down Itairs in a batty manner, nod went to the gate, where he found a per►on Dill ring ing at the bell. Upon applying to Ilion and Acing him who he was, he found him incapable of return ing any anfwer. In fail, he found him in a Date of complete anil brutal intoxication. Mr. Peacock then fwears that he went in doors, for the purpofe of pro curing more cloaths, and on his return he found this man in a fenfelefs Rate. He dilcovered, upon en quiry, that he had been drinking at a public-houfe in Pepper alley, till the lan.ilord toured to let him remain any longer, and your Lot dihips kn.iw ; ►.,, t rh. matters of publicimufes are not ye: r rem r'.:'. turning their cultomers out too Mon. I.:v. affid av i t go es on to Rate, ihat h..: had di reared him be taken to a public hook ; that he had -t 1.!•-gc:m for; and that he was afterwards removed to G, Hofpital, where he died. He further Dates, that wife of the deceafed came to him, and ioformed hi that when her hufband was in a hate of iotoxicati he afterwards remained ftupid and is for feve days. Mr. Peacock adds, that he is mat conlciou , having tiled any violence toward, the deceafed, cept removing him, and pacin g hint lg tin:l the fb; of a waggon that flood near him. Hz a!fi fwears, a teafon I will Date prefently, that he had not bayonet about him. It appears tha . , upon the quifi:ion before the Coroner, a wi:nels lic-Nr e that 1 Peacock appeared with a drawn bayonet to his ril hand ; that he did not the his right ha• d. hot that gave thedeceafed two orthrteLlows widt his :eft —lt appears from the examinations of the Surge( taken before the Coroner, that on the external p, of the body of the deccaled ther e wer: no mark violence, except a fmall mark or kratch nn the h: part of the head, which did not penetrate to the !kJ The opinions of the Surgeons were, that the deceai died of an apoplexy. However, the Coroner, his great caution, and there cannot be a more into gent man than he is, left it to the Jury t:•l:ether fr appearances might not have been the effet blows? Certainly they might ; but the opinions the Surgeons, on the whole, were, that the decet had died of an apoplexy. It appears further, by affidavit of Mr. Peacock, and of a maid fervant, he had not in his hand any bayonet whatever. verdift on the Coronet's Innuifition was fur mai flanghter." Lord Et.t.swaototrott defired the Learned Cot fd to take the writ of Habeas Corpus. On her MAJESTY'S birth day, G a me Gentle. amateurs performed the tragedy of Dougtat, and Farce of The Poor Solther, at the Durntiies The; for the benefit of the Poor. The new comedy of the Nov; Moon was a; performed lall night, and was received with the : decided approbation by an overflowing lioufe A pitched battle was fought at Hare-hatch, a night fince, for thirty guineas, between a yoi farmer of the name of BAYMF, and Sruttsm butcher at Oakley, when the combatants were fo haufted and beaten, that their friends inte:fered, it was agreed on, that the fight Ihould be rene. within a month. On Thursday the pogiNils again, with their feconds, and they fat-to in the refolnte manner. Many hard blows exchai during the first four rounds; ar.4 in the one cceding, Bayne received a blow which deprived of many of his teeth ; but he returned the hit, wi his opponent was rallying, which broke the nnf Stubble in a (hocking manner. As tie fi,thCci nued, the feelings of the fpeetatirs Mint much relied: irrefirtible blows were exchani,c.l, and battle was vigaroufly maintained, the round, when the combatants both fell, and wert a time unable to rife. It was thoogla that the ba, in this inftance could not be determined ; but the r batants rnfe again, and fought ar..i . ber round redoubled fury, in which Stubble beat his oppot down in a rally, which decided the cnntett. pogilills were both dreadfully inclined ; and it foam time before they could be removed off ground. The (lakes were given to the visor, the addition of a fpoufe, on whole account the tell originated. Fates.—On Saturday night, the tgith u!t. a broke out in the town of Siqingburne, wind blew very high from the calf, threatener fome time the total denritaion of th.• gan at a newly ereded carpenter's (bop, belongii Mr. Cleave, fimated at the eat end of the town, the Plough public houfe, which being built of weal board, and lately pitched, was in the (pace of hal hour reduced to the ground. From thence it I municated to three cottages immediately adjoit is another diredion, to a wheclwright's (bop fheds, belonging to Mr. Harris ; at the fame tit fpread to the oppofite fide of the greet, and ca the roof of a thatched c , ttage belonging to Mr. lener. At this moment the attest. , a of the iril tants, who had 11 eked to the fcene. became dill ed in their endeavours to extinguifh the engines, which had been brought to the fpot, fully employed on the fide of the fireet where tin began. Mr. Milltner's houle, in cordequence, prey to the flames, and was wholly confirmed. length, after the unwearied exertions of the inl tants, Aided by their neighbours front Nikon the adjoining enuntry, it was happily gut under, having confirmed, betides the above-memion .d, back parts of the three c. ttagi.s, the flied!, and o f the (bop and fume timber or Mr. Harris, and damaged and burnt the frame of the window meeting houte near at hand. your into :om- The table t Par k. time sting king to of !. then i; pro- this I en. penile him • m to t rhe e m lion, him, i veral us of x • hafts . ,for ` any e in- : Mr. right at he .and. eons, ' part cs of hack kill. :aced r, in Itelli- fuch 1 of as of eared y the t. ' that The h man- .ollll- - ' Ld the t • eatre, 'I • again molt I fort- .oung LE, a Co ex- , and sewed ; met • molt inged fuc- I him • tvhilß ;fe of conti- inte- d the 39th re for battle !um- with onent The t was If the with : con- a fire as the ed for It be- ing to 11-at" ather- tall an Corn- fining, S p and ime it !aught r. Mil- , L •I •; Two were he fire ' ,fella • At nhabi d - , after the part id alfo v of a