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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND N. E. o Hamburgb o Dublin • NV.ncrford. April 36, Doonagliadce, April 27, HARWICH, APRIL 30. . _ This day arrived exprefs frordCulhaven, the Eisc GEORGE Packet, Captain DEANE; With dif patches for Lord HAWEESBURY, which were in- Randy forwarded to London. YARMOUTH, APRIL 30. Arrived this morning from a cruise off Goree, where the left the fleet under Admiral DICKSON, a ll well yellerday morning, the LATONA frigate, Capt. SOTHERON.—SaiIed the HOLSTEIN man of war fat the Nore ; and the MARY cutter, on a cruize.—The PEINcE of WaLas packet, Captain HEARN ; and the DIAN• packet, Captain STUART, are detained by contrary wind. PORTSMOUTH. APRIL Arrived the Vrow Maria, fiorn Itoflock, w ith wheat.—Sailed the Providence, WINTER, forGuernfey, with troops. PROD LIJOYD's LIST. GIAVF SEND, Arow so.—Paft by the Amerietti) Yvan, from Baltimore - and Two Brothers; YERTS, from Amaerdam:—Sailed the Benjamin, Butz, for New York. DOVER, APRYL 29. A paffage-veffel failed this morning fOr Calais I and this afternoon the flag of truce which failed yellerday, returned. Among&the pailingera who arrived laft night, was Mr. CHARLES LOCK, late Conful General at Naples, and Major KEIR, who has been fOr fome time attached to the Aufirian Army. 1141LPOSU), APRIL 26. Arrived the Frienclfhip, REED, from Chepftow for Portfmouth ; Hope, Lowsszw, from Brißol Pr Plymouth ; Eliza, HACKER, from Ilfracomb for Workington • Betfy, SHARP, from Plymouth for Greenock; Hope, Q . HINNEL, from Southamp ton for Liverpool • Nancy, THOMAS, from Liver pool for Carmart hen; Staff of Life, RODWELL, from Yarmouth ; Milford, LACE, from Brißol ; and Qieen, Lovrrr, from London for this port.— SailedEliza,HAClEß, for Workington ; Betfy, SHARP, for Greenock; Hope, Q . 1711/11111111, for Li vtrpool.--Arrived the SPEEDWELL revenue cutter, Hems:, from a cruise—taken nothing. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 27. Arrived—the St. Fronde Dc Affig, P. Hawkey, from W hoa; Braorery, N. Beg, from Oporto; and Two Brothen, J.Srringer, from Malbehokts; the Harriet, Hurry, frosts haw at Honduras; the Batten, Bunker, from hence at Dublin; the Marc, Malley, from hence at ditto; the Perfcrerance. Walker, from hence at ditto; the Catharine, Graham, from hence at ditto; the Britannia, Martin, from Oporto at Hoylake ; the Boadicea, Hoary, fronedltto at ditto; the stEtive, Hitchatgen, from ditto at ditto. The Egyptian, PINCIL, was well at Winnebeck en the old Coati, sd January. NICE, APRIL sy. Two French frigates which appeared afew days ago off Nice, were conceived to be • enemies ; bat one has anchored at Villefranche, after having, it, is fait!, landed boo troops in Corlica, and the other is at Antibes. The following is the Monthly Statement of the British Naval Force, exclutive of the hired armed wails, which are chiefly employed in protelting the coafling trade of Great Britain : 30's Prz. st ! . • 70. In port and Suing - - 16 3 as 65 sio Guardia's - - - 4 t s 0 7 In the Itsgllfh and WI Channels as 0 33 40 98 In thelibwns and North Seas g 1 ss 58 91 Oa the Bahic Service st :1 7 3 1 6a At the Weft India Mandy and us the Paffitge . . • s t 35 27 sit At Jamaica - - - 4 o :8 tx 33 In America and Newfoundland o 0 4 6 SO Cape of Good Hope, Eaft Indies, and en the PafrAge - so 6 9 23 38 Afriea and on Secret Expedition I 1 15 9 34 On the Coaft of Lifban - - 4 0 10 3 17 Gilt of Portugal, Gibraltar, and Matterrarican - 16 s 41 S 4 13 71cdpItal and Prlfen thips • 17 4 0 23 Total in Ceaurt/Mos - 136 sir sog 191 Receiving Mips - * 9 Service:lllk, and repairing for fa - - ti s• s 6 - so o 21 3t zst s S vice - la Onllmary "dal • Total 293 27 249 330 FFATIC OF TOO ORDMAIT Al RAft PILOT. Vsolosal - - 13 o $ Ey Pllamb - - - 19 o 9 11 Clothro - - . - - V• 3 1 I • SanelA _ Rives . - tiiis -- •tst 9 616 .or Am. J 9 '3 Ii Total 40 4 36 36l 11$ The Lion, Howa, from Liverpool to London, is captured and carried into France. The Helen and Mary, Lacav, from London toLimerick, is captured and carried into Boulogne. The Swan brig, of Halifax, bound to Surinam, I. taken by a corvette, and burnt. The Union, MILLaa, from Greenock to Lou 'lon, was captured the sods ult. off Beachy, by the Dcffiix privateer, and carried into Dieppe. 'fhe Polly and Ann, WILLIAMS, from Cork to bridon, is taken and carried into Boulogne. The Samuel, Ct./Ars, from Yarmouth to New wile, is taken and carried into Dunkirk. The Year, Lomoon, from Yarmouth to South.' hampton ; And the Swallow, Wisa.oca, from Yar mouth to Liverpool, have been captured off Beachy, retaken br the Helder frigate, and fent into Ramfgate. l.a MISIIIVt, the look-out frigate of Sir Jou% Walaaa's froadton, has captured the hcadmoil (hip, a corvette, of Admiral GAIITMI 4 iUMI'S 'quadron. There is great =fon to lbOpt the two 4 . , :eta will meet. RoriL ACADEMY. 35. ne Bear': Daughter of Bdhsual-Grees.— W. °whs.—A-very pretty defign, executed in a rather particular Rile ; but as the effeß•produced is good, we !hall not quarrel with the means to which the artift has had recourfe.—He has evi dently Rudied Nature, as well as the works of thofe who have contrived to obtain celebrity with out paying much refpeCt to that Goddefs. Cii*isr entering yernialent.—H. SINGLETON. —1 here is a chaftity of defign in this picture, and a general diftribution of light and thade that pleafes the eye, but the colouring is rather of a cold hue.—The principal figure is well conceived, and the expreffion given to the faces of thole in the surrounding groupes is tinted to the fubjea.— Mr. S. improves in his general Kyle of execution, but he does not fufficiently attend to the minutia of hiflory. 125. Portrait of Lord Nellig--S. W. BitCHEY. R. A.—This is a very faithful likenefs of the Hero of Aboukir and Copenhagen—He is reprefented on fhip-board, in the moment of aftion ; but the furrounding fcenery wants fublimity of defign.— The general hue of the piaure is alto rather too grey. 175. Pari Scene.--G. STUBBS, R. A.—The fubjea of this piaure is a Park, accompanied by A Dog-Keeper, taking a wounded Deer.—The ani mals are.finely painted, but the man is a tamely correa portrait, and the landfcape is deficient in freedom of penciling ; the management of the light and ( b ade is, however, good, and the local colouring true to Engli(h nature. 188. The f.oveAk Maid.—J. Opts, R. A.—Per haps, without exception, the bell piaure in the Exhibition. The fickly languidnefs of the pining Damfcl, the earneft folicitude of the attendant Nurfe, and the baffled fagacity of the Doaor, are finely contrafted : the manes of light and (bade are alto admirably difpofecr; and the colouring of the whole is extremely brilliant and effative.— The introduction of " the wanton god that pierces hearts" does violence to the purity of the defisn, which Rands in no need of fuch mythological machinery. 198. F j e ir interview of Mostar aid Teleseatiou with Cal .—B. Wirt-, R. A.—This is an ani matod d gn, and altogether a very claffical and elegant compofition.—The landfcape is the molt objectionable part of the pidure, and the colour ing of the fea and the fky does not at all accord. —The retiring Rom is well depided, but the wa ter is much too green. FEKALE FASHIONS toa Dredks.— t. The milk hat, made of crimped ftraw, wove in a frame with filk ; turned up on one fide, or in front, with a bunch of liraw and wild corn dowers, or a bunch of oats; finifbed at the top with a ftraw rofette.—z. Cap of white muffin, with a deep lace border, ornamented with green plaited ribbon, and green flower in front. -3. Turban of white muffin, ornamented with beads and white oftrich feathers: —4. Hat made of blue filk, and turned up in front. —s. Half-drefs cap made of white muffin, and ornamented with green wreaths.-6. Hat of ftraw and ribbon interwoven; turned up in front, and ornamented with a bunch of rofes.-7. Drefs hat of filk, turned up in front, and ornamented with white oftrich feathers.-8. Cap of muffin, orna mented with red rotes, and white oftrich feathers. —9. Large Draw hat, trimmed and tied under the chin with blue ribbons. Walking Drefles.-1. Round drefs of white mut lin. Spencer cloak of worked muffin, trimmed all round with white lace. Bonnet of white muf fin, the crown full, and con fi ned acrois with white ribbon, bows of white ribbon, before and behind. —z. Bltie habit, trimmed with gold cord. Hat trimmed with gold band, and black feather in front. Mifcellaneous Obfervations.—The colours are lilac, pea. yellow, and navy blue. Split fracas,antfine Chips, in the Pi/zrie and (Pk shapes, prevail in hats. A new bw4 girdle and trim ming is beginning to be much worn round the (boulder and arms. Several new bonnets, in crape and Patin, have, as ufual, been invented this fea fon. Spencer cloaks, and fhort peliires, made of white and cBloured main, trimmed with lace, are becoming general. • The neeeffity of making all legal preceptsimdli gible, even so the awful aveseitier, has frequently been urged. The following inflame is another proof olthat neceffity. Two Afrefors under the Imams AB met a few days ago at a public houfe near Whitehaven, to concert meafures for the dif- charge of their duty, properly. After reading in the precept the claufe which fays—u You are alfo required to make out and deliver a like ftatement of the amount of income of any infant, ideot, lu natic, or married woman, Sic."—the following dialogue took place : • A. Lowetk What does that mean 1 D. I ant not fu iT ; but Munk it means A. Not fuck a Wng. lea far more likely to mein harm S. Brno vows what are they • A. Why, 'WO, tam not quite certain, butt think-1 Ibiza ' in my heart it either means women that have never been mar ' riot, or have neva bad children. It is difficult to fay in which confirudion of the term thefe legitimate defcendants of Degherry and Verges might finally have fettled : but with that ' mod* which always accompanies:xi fenA, they appealed to the decifion of a third perlon who' happened to he in the room ; and who, to the fur. prife of Mr. A. Wiest* gave his verdict in favour tfMr. B I WonocncEs.—The breed of this bird in Eng land was clearly afeertained aft Week in the coun ty of Suffolk. A Gentleman (booting in a wood belonging to Mr. Wamaivr. of Bnttenham, in that county, ftufbed a Cad which be (hot at, and miffed ; but the bird wheeled round, and then hovered near the (pot from whence it arofe ; this induced the Gentleman to look upon the ground, when he difcovered a Woodcock's nen, containing three eggs. Mr. Winn' ire being informed of the ‘ircumilance, had the nea carefully watched, and two days after, the eggs were hatched, and the young, which like partridges inftantly leave their ad, were laity taken off 7 the old bird. LAW INTELLICE7(er COURT OF RING's -BENCH, APRIL In a cafe of Pleading, where the Defendant had pleaded a tham plea, Lord KINvoN took occafion to obferve—it was once raid, rather harfhly, by a Learned Judge who had heard a numb er o f ca f es flut e d i ncorre al y at the Bar—" It was the perdition of Wellmintler Hall that cafes were improperly and unfairly Rated under the cottrfe of argument. He could with there was a Rule by which Counfel thould be com pelled to cite their cafes upon oath."—" Upon my word (faid Lord Kenyon) I could with that parties thould be obliged to tile their Pleadings upon oath ; for it is the bane of the profellion anu its pradice, that fo much fham Pleading is continued." The Learned Gentleman, who figned the plea, faid he was very forty for it ; that he had done it inadvertently, and without knowing it was not true. He only looked to the legal effea of it, .fuppofing the fait it Rated to be correct. Lord KIN Y 011." The Court dues not expett that Gentlemen at the Bar thould he anfwerable ' for the truth of the Pleadings they fign,becaufe they cannot know whether they be true or not. All that they are to look to is the legal effeet of Pleadings— fuppofing them to be true ; but it is othcrwife with ' thofe who inftrua them." The Pleadings in this cafe were then allowed to be amended. CHURCH V. THE EARL OS LONSDALE AND OTHERS. Mr. HOLROYD raid, that fome time ago be was under the neceffity of applying to increafe Iffues againft the Earl of Lonfdale, and the Court or dered him to take a levy of tool. When that came to be inforced, a tool. Bank Note was given to the party on behalf of the Noble Earl; this was enough, he believed, to fatisfy the coils hitlaerto incurred on the part of the Plaintiff, but t ha t did not ob tain his objet, which was to compel an appear ance on the part of the Noble Earl; he was there fore under the neceffity of moving the,Court to in creafe Iffues nil' further, and the Court, after hear ing this llatement of the cafe, allowed moot.; but when the Party came to inforce the Order of the Court, the Cattle at Whitehaven was (hut up, fo that no levy could be made at all there, on any thing belonging to the Noble Earl : they were therefore Ander the neceffity of going to the har bour and taking a (hip which was the property of the Noble Earl, which (hip has fince remained in the hands of the Sheriff, the expenee of looking after which was enormous as well as the trouble ; the Motion therefore now was, that the Sheriff might be at liberty to fell the chip for the purpofe of producing this 10001. ordered by the Court to be levied, and refloring to my Lord Low suet% the furplus of the produce of the Gk.--Aule to (hew Caufe granted. APRIL 29.... THE RING O. STEVENS. Mr. ATTORNEY Grasasi. prayed the judgment of the Court on the Defendant. The circumflances of his offence were there : A perfon of the name of James Halfey was indiCted at the Maidftone Allizes, and convifted of unlaw fully having in his poffeffion Naval Stores ; to wit, a quantity of Copper Sheathing, with the broad Arrow upon it. He was fentenctd to three months imprifonment in the Houfe of CorreCtion, and to be publicly whipped, for fifty yards, in his Ma jelly's Dock-yard at Woolwich. The information which had been filed by his Majelly's Attorney General againft the Defendant Rated, among other things, that the execution of the fentence of whip ping—Halfey was committed to the Defendant, who was Under Turnkey to Mr. Watfon, the Keeper of the Jail at Maidlione, and that he had wilfully and contemptuoufly negleCted to execute that part of the fentence. It appeared that the Defendant did whip Halley, but not in his Majefty's Dockyard at Woolwich, purfuant to the fentence. And it was doubted whether Halley had been whipped as the law required, inafmuch as after the whip; Om, there was no appearance of blood on the Prifoner's back. Mr. Emma appeared as Counfel for the De fendant, and Paid, it was impoflible to look at this cafe without teeing how important it was that the judgments of Criminal Courts fhould not be com promifed, but carried into arid execution. This man had been i• his office upwards of 34 years, with the bell charaaer. It did not appear that he had aced in this cafe from any corrupt motive, and no inconvenience had arifen from this aft. Mr. AT-roamer GINIRAL raid, he entirely con: curred with Mr. ERSICIIIII in every, thing he had raid. This man had certainly an extremely good cbara&er. Lord KEN row.—" Mr. Eas curl has treated this offence juft in the manner in which it ought to be treated. It-is abiblutely and indifpenfably necef. Cary that the fentences of Criminal Conrts &meld be firialy executed by the officers of junice. But there are circumftances in this cafe to induce the Court to take the Defendant's recognizance to ap pear when required to receive the judgment of the Court. We cannot let a flight judgment appear on the Records of the Court for fuc k an offence." Mr. jusTici Gaoss. — " It muff be an heavy judgment, if any. At the fame time, the age and former good conduit of the Defendant, ate circuits• fiances that weigh ftrongly in his favour. I hope it will in future be underllood, that the fentence of the law mutt be executed wherejt is ordered by the law to be executed, and that we are not to be told by any Commiffioners that the officers of juf tice are not to enter into his Majefty's Dock-yard at Woolwich, for the purpofe of executing the fen ' tence of the law." The Defendant was difcharged, on undertaking to come up when required, to receive the judgment of the Court. Doves v. Novas. Mr. RAINI, on the part of Mr. Bowes, obtained a Rulc to thew canfe why a Prohibition fhould not be direited to the Prerogative Court of the Arch hilltop of Canterbury, to Bay proceedings on the Will of Lady Strathmore ? • It was allcdged, among other things, that her Ladyfhip had dif pofed of fome property in her IA Will, which Ile had no power to do, &c. And that there were fome points which muil be previoully decided in the... Temporal Courts. .• *vl'-'. 4 ftetttttlittPraffio Sr•INNOUPer'r• - ""1 This•mrits, an information filed : by leave of the Court stgainft . theitiv. AuguttusßeiVer, for cot.- refpondence• brletters, and dircourfe in public, amounting to a challenge to fight a duel, on elle part of the Defendant, with Major Pain, .at Nor wich. The mitunderttanding arofe out of fame conVerfation refpeding the. Defendant's father. The Caufe Rood for trial at the IA Affizes for Thetford, when it was propofed, on the part of the Profecution, that. if the Defendant withJrew his plea of Not Guilty, and fuffered Judgment to go by default, or allowed a tingle Wieners to be ex amined for the mere purpofe of recording a verdift againft him, heihmQ hear no more of the matter, but this the Defendant declined, and initead of it he defended the cafe as tirenuoutly as he was able, and Mr. Minas delivered a vehement Philippic againft the Profecutor, which it was alledged by Counfel for the Profecution, mull have been done in purfuance"of the inftrudions of the Defendant; becaufe if that Learned Gentleman had been left' to the free exercife of his difcretion, he poirefii:d too much of it to purfue a courft fo ir: itat:,)g to the feelings of the Profecutor, who was a Man of Honour, and which mutt ultimately prove fo ins jurious to his own Client; and this was, to-day, affigned as the reafon why,the Profecutor could not now accept of an apology from the Defendant, and why he appealed to the Juffice of the-Court for the protedion of his honour. ' Mr. Easciits this day addreffed the Court hr behalf of the Defendant,. and walled very:much • [ that this fubjed might be put into fame ,train of amicable adjuftment. . • Mr. Mgr/ rosH, on the fame fide, de fi red to sett the cafe on the eloquent addreA of hillearnedleader. Mr. MINGAY, Mr. GARII.OI% Mr. DARISL, Mr. WILSON and Mr. Btsr,• addrelled the Court in fupport of the Profectuion; and effigned the rea. Eons already hated chiefly as the caufe of Major Pain's calling for the judgment of the Court i The Affidavits being all read, The Defendant allcdged that it was not his ob. jed to fight a duel with the Profecutor, nor had he any, with to infult him, or to treat him uncivil ly, 8:c: but the finding of the Jury who pronounced him guilty, difpofed of that matter,as was fairly ad mitted by Mr. ERSKINE in his addrefs to the Court. Lord Kamvom faid, that the objed of itll Profe melon and of Puniflnent, was 'to . .tut aft end to offences, but too often that objet fin - k&—tHe look ed forward with fear and trembling as to sihat mAy be the confequence of indulging this fpirit of dtieT : ing ; he read with pain and forro*, various ac ? counts in Newfpapers of thefe things, and fothe. times of a dreadful catattroPhe by which whole families were overwhelmed with calamity.—Tllt Court therefore mull do all they 'deflate deter all defcriptions of Perfons from committieg this of fence :—it highly imported• the Public that thei I &could do fo. At prefent the Defendant molt Rand committed to the Prifon of that Court, the King's Bench, and be brought up this day fe'n. night to receive the judgment of the. Coert..4 ' Bow-STREET.—Yefterday Benjamin 8ir..4. was. brought before the fitting Magi orate, charged vita violently affaulting, with intent to rob and courtier, Margaret Smith, a refpeflable widow, whO keeps a chandler's thop, in Chapel-ftreet, Paddington. It appeared from the evidence of a number of witneffes, that between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday night, jult as the protecutrix was about tolliut up her Ihop, a man came into it, and alked for a rather of bacon, whith the ferved him with, when he atked for another, and when the had fervcd him with it, defired to have a thirdl'and, by this extraordinary condua of ordering a rather at a time, the fufpetited he was come for the pur pole of ealin,g fomething in the limp, which cauf. ed her to fix her eyes upon him, and not lofe tight of him, which be perceiving, ruched upon her, and with horrid imprecations, ttruck her throe violent blows on her head wish a hammer which he topk from his pocket, and the blows brought her to the ground, but her fcreams were extremely violent ; that he made off without robbing hes, and though . her fcreams were extremely loud, her neighbour‘ did not difcover from whence they proceeded, and the contrived to get to the door of the next lioufe to her, and when the door was opened the fell in: to the paffage apparently' lifelefs, when affillance was procured, and the witscouveyed to St. George's Hofpital. • . The prifoner is a journeyman thoemaker, and Eves with his mailer in the fame neighbourhood, ' and about the time her fcreams were heard, the prifoner was knOcking at his matter's door, and* on his gaining admittance, he appeared much' agitated, and after he bad been in forne time, hi inquired of his matter if a furgeon had been feat for the woman, and a variety of other tilt - pianos' circumflances came out, which canted the prifoner to be flifpated ; and on Tuefday he was taken in to cufiody, but through the imprudence of thofe who had him in cuttody, in fuffering him to go from his matter's fhop up ftairs, under a pretence of changing his clothes, he jumped out of a back one.p:ur of (Lairs window, and made his efcape ; and the circumflances being made known to end.; land, one of the captains of the patrole belonging to the above office, and he learning that the pn foner had a brother who kept a public-honfe not far from the neighbourhood, he Rationed his men within fight of it on Wednefday night, mid at a late houi the prifoner came to the door, when they took him into cultody.and early yetterday morning the officer brought the pricorer, and his men, and feveral Itrangers, to the bod of the protecutrir, and alked her if the man was among them who had 'wounded her ? when the, without hefitation, pointed out the prifoner. The furgeon belonging tg the boipital, who has attended the profefutrix, was of opmioq that her tkull was fraftured; and that it bad been dofle br a round inftrument timilar to the hammer which was found in the priibner's room, and he had 'Alt little hopes of her recovery. At the time the pry. recutrix was attacked, the had el& and notes to the amount of soh upon her. The prifoner denied the charge, but admitted having been to the loop on Mrmday night.' He was committed fen further examination. ■ T l as be Il i A