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EARTII. 4 L'AKE. prtividentiillY in . 'enticre- -. a circumftance which happily prevents the alarm and anxiety VIINNA, Nov. 1 7.—A molt violent earthquake which would otherwife be attached to the fate of was caper fenced at Buchareft on the a6th of Oao I the packets.—From the Daily Marine Lift, we The details of this dreadful phenomenon, quote, the following p art i cu l ars : com municated in a letter from that city, are as ber. • " Friday, Dec. 3, night tide. follow :—" Yesterday, 06tober 26, between twelve " Wind S. S. E. a bl ow i ng ftorm..-Laft night fereral v___efre_s an d one o'clock, tlri city was thrown into the arrived, but, from the violence of the Storm, no boat could greateft contlei nation by an e ar t hquake. The 'hocks put to lea to bail them.—The Providence anti Liffey, from which fucceeded each other for ten minutes and a London, have flipped their cables; the Governor Pidon, ly. half were fo violent, that almoft all the chimnics ing in Foolbeg, flipped hers alfo,and ran up the river for fafety. were thrown down, feveral houfes and fome There is a vac' in great diftrefs at the point of the North WalL“ churches alfo tumbled to pieces: that of St. Ni- Morning tide, Dec. 3. cholas and the famous tower of Goltza, are no. «No arrivals this morning.—Two (loops, arrived yefterday, t hing hut heaps of t uins. The earth burlt open at the St. Michael, Roche, of Wesford, and the Induftry, Doran, feveral times, and a greenifh water, which diffufed of the fame port, laden with malt, arc both funk at the corner a fulphurous odour throughout the whole city, of the North Wall ; the crews have been faved, but the cargoes (pouted up through the fiffures. At five o'clock the arc likely to be loft. The veffels will be got off." After men phenomenon was renewed, but the flrocks were leis . tinning the deftruetion of Ringfend bridge, the lift further violent, and occafioned no damage. Notwith. (testa, that " guns were heard fired In the Lay laft night, u Handing the great number of edifices thrown down from Come veffel in dial-et - a —Nine men from Bullock, fuppoied during the firft commotion, no perfons have perith to be either pilot and crew, or fifhermen, went out to give ed except a Jewefs with her child and two others. afftanee, but, in the dangerous and humane attempt, wc are Prince YSPILANTI, the new Hofpodar of Walla. ferry to Rate that every font perithed !" Chia, had juft arrived : he had gone to church to offer up his prayers, and the molt violent (hocks were felt juft at the moment when he welt about to kits the gofpel." Nov. 20.—We learn that, at the departure of the Courier from Conftantinople, on the 26th of Oftober tall, at noon, that city was alma entirely deftroyed by a molt violent earthquake. This earthquake nccafion.d very great ravages alfo in other countries fubjea to the dominion of the Ot• toman Porte, and particularly in Wallachia and Romelia. A part of Buchareft, Adrianople, &c. bas been deltroyed. Nov. 21.—The courier from Hungary, who ar. rived yefterday, has brought letters from Temef war, Semlin, Belgrade, &c. which announce that Conftantinople has fallen a prey to .an earthquake, on the 26th of Oaober laft. The report generally Spread in thefe •places was, that the capital of Turkey had been entirely deftroyed. We hope this report is exaggerated. A letter from Temerwar announces potitively that the fetaglio and a great part of the city have been fwallowed up. We wait with great anxiety for the confirmation of this intelligence. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH. DECEMBER 5. Arrived the fchooner Two Friends, MIchAEL, from Plymouth, with fruit; the ACTIVE Excife cutter, KINSMAN, from a cruize ; and the brig Mentura, DENNIs, from Briftol, with bale goods, &C. SAILED, The Favorite, Pratt, with butter, acc.; Indu ft ry, Lines, with lead; Witton, Phillips, with timber ; Air Balloon, Martin, with fait; Four Friends, Hockin, with tin, &c.; Marazion, Thomp fon, with provifions; Fairy. Oats, with tin, &c. and the Swedilh brig Phoebe, Claas, with fugar, &c. for London. Mary, Haley, with loos and butter; and Tyrone, Waleh with ditto, for PooL • Zealous, Barnfley, with sour and wheat; and Onflow, Artis, with ditto, for Liverpool. Commerce, Patrick, with ballaft, for Looe. Neptune, Beal, with (tone coal, for Portfmouth. Hawke, Gcmpten, with culm, for Dartmouth. Ceres, Richudfon, with wine, &c. fur Hull. The Mails of the rR inflant for Jamaica, Bar badoes, and America, were received here by the Agent of the Poll Office laft evening, and will be forwarded on receiving orders for the fame ; the Letcssrsit packet, SHARP, will take the latter.— The DURE OF KENT, from the Leeward Viands; and the WALSINGHAM, packets, with Mails from Lithon, are hourly expeaed ; on the arrival of the latter the KING GEORGE packet will fail with the Mail of the 3ta ult. from thence.—Wind N. STORM AND INUNDATION. Dolma, Die. 4.—The tempeftuous weather ex perienced from Wednefday night till late on Thud day, together with the heavy and unintermitting rain during that period, have produced various difaflrous occurrences near the metropolis, which, we fear, will be multiplied to a fad aggregate *hen intelligence (hall be received from the inte rior of the country. Some mills and other works a few miles from the capital, fituated within the range of the flood, have been materially injured, and in fome inftances altogether deftroyed--all the particulars have not reached us ; but we are con cerned to Hate, among the damage of this kind efferhed in the neighbourhood of the capital, that the Backs, Weirs ) &c. at Old Bawn paper mills, are entirely (wept away ; the works, which were very extenfive, it is feared will be flopped, and the people ruined. Nearly an acre and a half of Mr. Wildridge's meadow, adjacent to the mills, has been fevered from the MI by the violence of the flood, and carried completely off! The Belfaft mail coach was yefterday morning, in coming to town, obliged to flop from five o'clock until nine, upon the road between Turvey and Swords, where a river runs, fo great was the deluge. At Ringlend, the bridge, a fabric apparently of very folid and judicious conftration, has yielded to the impetuous force and accumulated weight of the waters, the center arch and that next the city being detlroyed, excepting fo much on the fide to wards the docks, as to admit of foot paffengers, but as the abutments appear to have been affected in their foundation, the remainder of the bridge is conceived to lie in danger of complete deftruaion. Laft night, fomewhat after ten, the bridge at the Coal quay, which for feveral centuries refilled many tremendous affaults from the Liffey, at length fubmitted to the irrefiftible impetus of that river and her auxiliary waters. Providentially no perfon was in pafrage at the moment. Two of the arches were torn from the centre before eleven o'clock, and by morning the remainder was nearly deftroyed. Watchmen were Rationed at both fides the water to prevent accidents. The bridges of Lucan and Celbridge have been alto deftroyed. This day various articles of honfehold furniture, implements of hufbandry, &c. were feen floating down the river. The parts of the town fituated within the influ ence of the Poddk ftream were yefterday inundated at an early hour, to a confiderable depth, Patrick flreet and its vicinity in particular. In the former firm feveral boats were employed till evening, and though the inhabitants had anticipated the event which took place, they neverthelefs have fuflained ferious injury, from the imprafticability of remov is the entire contents of their hires and cellars.— Tkle flood extended to New-flreet, the Combe, Black Pits, Cork-ftreet, etc. and frightful torrents diverged from Patrick-ftreet into Bride's-Alley, Bull-Alley, and the other lanes lying on a fimilar level. Much diftrefs was alfo experienced, though tot in the fame degree, by the inhabitants of other parts of the city. The lower Cattle yard was rendered impaffable to any but horfemen, and elevated carriages, and to thole with difficulty ; and through Palace firm a torrent railed acrofs Dame-Rreet into Cramptoncourt, which carded cars, gingles, &c. to ply there for hire : in that immediate neigh bourhood, and as far as College-green, the kitchens were inundated to a confiderable depth, and fimi lar inconvenience was experienced in fome degree in every quarter of the city, but to-day the inun dation has entirely fubfided. The damage fuffered at tea, we fear will Ewell the catalogue of calamity toa molt affeeingdegree. Notwithftanding the violence of the weather on Thutfday and yefterday, fo diftreffing in its general 444 lilt Holyhead Mails due on thole day s ••T --1 L ~ 7M7 , •V1 ~. • , i;f111 INTELLIGENCE. • • COURT OF kING's BENCH, DEC. 7. CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE EARL OP PORTSMOUTH. THII KING V. 111114 Z. This was an Indictment, at the profecution of Lord Portfmonth, againft the Defendant (who had been a lyng time his fervant) for endeavour. ing to extort and gain money from the Paid profe cutor, by writibg and fending a letter to his Lord (hip, threatening him with an accufation of having attempted upon the defendant a molt deteftable crime, at the bare mention of which the mind of• every man muff revolt. _ _ Mr. ERSKINL faid he was Counfel for the Earl of Portfmouth, who, in performance of that duty he owed himfelf and the public, had intlituted the prefent profecution againft the defendant, for en deavouring ,to extort money from him, by infa moufly threatening to charge him with an attempt to commit the moft deteftable of crimes. It was difficult for men to bring themfelves to the per formance of the duty his Lordfhip had impoled upon himfelf, for it had pleated GOD to generate in the human breaft fuch an abhorrence of the crime to which the defendant's threat referred, that few had fufficient refolutiun even to have it known fuch a deep offence had been imputed to them. The Noble Earl, therefore, in bringing the defendant to juftice, had, in his opinion, en. titled himfelf to the thanks and gratitude of fo ciety, the individuals of which were at all times liable to be made the vidims of fimilar charges by wicked confpirarors againft thtir fame and for tune. It was incumbent on the Noble Earl to ad as he had done ; he was a married man ; filled an elevated rank in life, and flood high in his re lations to many diftinguifhed charaders in this country. Lord Portfmouth had had the defen dant in his fervicea confiderable number of years; he had formerly engaged him in Switzerland while on his tour through the Continent. The dcfen. dant, up to the period of the confpiracy again ft his Lordfhip, had by his conduit given the utmoft fa tisfadion. In the middle of the fummer of 1799, Lord Portfmouth fuddenly left his houfe, in Hampfhire, without the knowledge of his friends, who, ignorant of the motives of his difappearance, were extremely alarmed. They traced him to an Hotel in London, and from thence to Yarmouth. The friends of his Lordfhip got notice of a con fpiracy, of which the defendant was the principal Agent, to defraud his Lordfhip of his patrimony, get the command and rule of his eftate, and dif place the aged parent and filter from his family manfion. if it should be neceffary, by the courfe of his defence, he would enter more at large into this confpiracy. The defendant was apprehended, and among the papers belonging to him, was found a bond, fettling an annuity of tool. for his fervices, and a fecurity for 3501. for money Rated to have been advanced. Thefe fecurities had been depofited in Court, with the content ofLordPortf mouth's Counfel, who had done every thing in their power the better to enable the defendant to make his defence. Lord P ortfmouth was de fi rous, for the fake of his own honour and charader, that the defendant should have every means of proted ing himfelf upon his trial. The defendant being a perfon of whom the Government thought this country would reap no advantage by his refidence, ordered him out of the kingdom, under the Alien Ad ; perhaps it might be faid, that he had been guilty of no political ad againft the Government, that rendered him refponfible to the provifions of that ftatute ' • but he apprehended, that if perfons, who were Aliens, (hewed themfelves, by their conduft, unfit to be inhabitants of the country, Government had a right to order them out of it, even though their offence fhould be unconneded with any political delinquency. Perhaps there never was a cafe in which the Ratement of it was more difficult than in the prefent inttance.—Per-1 fons of the defcription of the defendant, generally went to work with fo much art, that it required argument and evidence to bring them to jullice ; but this man at once expofed himfelf to convidion by the letter he had written, and on which this indidment was founded. Lord Portfmouth re ceived the letter in queflion on the tBth of April, ator, at his houfe in Lincoln's-inn-fields. It ap peared to have been written from Hamburgh, and was to this effect : "My Lord, when an Englith Nobleman condefcends to deny his own words, he puts himfelf on a level with the loweft fub jeetin his Majefty's dominions : that you have done this I have proof; and now, in confequence of your filencc to my juft de mand, contained in my laft letter, I am come to a refolution, which I will keep, fo help me GOD; that refolution is limply this, if I have not an anfwer from you, by return of pod, and have not reftitution made me of every bond, fecurity, and monies due to me, I will expofe to the World the repeated at tempts you have made upon me; you know the penalty of an attetriA to commit is Death; and your confcioufnefs of guilt will paint out the way you ought to acct. My loffes by your Lordfhip's family, amount to near 2 0001. confult ytr own Intereft, and Pave yourfelf and family from indelible dif grace. Having reafon to be diffatisfied with my prefent Attor ney, I have been recommended to a Gentleman in Lincoln's- Inn, and have written to him by this night's port, an account of the tranfadtion. I Ihall return to England under the protec don of two Minifters of Powers in amity with Great Britain. I muff eapedt your immediate anfwcr, as my meafures will de pend upon your conduct." This letter was fir( fent to his Lordfltip's feat in Hampfhire, and from thence tranfmitted to his houfe in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Some time after wards, the defendant fufpeded he had gone too far, and wrote another Letter to his Lordfhip, in a different (train. This letter began as follows— a My Lord, •" Sep: ember 29, 180 t " The high refilled which I have ever been accuttomed to bear to thc charader of the Farl of Portfmouth, his high ho nour and candour, induce me ---" Mr. bulging then commented with the greatefl indignation on the terms of this letter. - What ! (faid the Lcarned Counsel), the mxn, who a few months before threatened to, wore the Earl of Pertfmouth, at the end of a * few months profeffes the highea refpc for the honour and charaaer of the perfon he was pleafed to accufe. He could not plead poverty or hard aeeeffity, as obliging him to fupprefs his outraged feelings, and his fenfe of public duty ; no! he pretends that he was in a fitnetion afterwards to lend large fums of money to Lord Portfmonth ; he thereby confeired himfelf guilty of condus degrading to the name _of man, and which deferTeel &mast the Wade of juice. Mr. ERSICIMIR (after having confuk with Mr. GARRow, who was alt . () Ci Portfmouth) laid he fhoul4 thei point which was certainly extrem, handle, and which he had almol The Jury might poffibly be alto' letter, directed to a Peer, and thin, be fomething more in it than met t This doubt it was neceffary to rel letter could not have been fent Garrow, or to any of his Learned Bar : No perfon dares to fend fuch firft fpeculating on their chance arifing from the character of the they addrefs them. It has plead to blefs with different gifts differei conititute their minds alfo fomewl To fome HEAVEN has given talent weight of Empire, and to balance Nations ; to others, difcernment to (although the were concealed in a adminifter juttice in all its purl but all are not gifted with thofe hil Some, and of that clafs he confide Portfmouth, are endowed with gri mind, with a franknefs and good makes them efteemed and loved but whofefimplicity of charader in lations of villainy, and who are ft have fufficent energy and decifint Handy a wretch of the defcriptia dant. In addition to thisjimpficity con flitutional weahnefr of nerve, ai midity of difpofition in his Lordfhij feridant believe that he would inl any propofal that was accompa, menace. Mr. ERSKINE faid, that he Thou enter more into the collateral circ! cafe, unlefs the defence ihould obli that cafe he was confident that he every fhadow _of imputation again] of his client. Lord PORTSMOUTH The di lived with me as fervant for foul, well acquainted with th e charaer writing. He attended me on my Continent. I have not the leak letter is his hand-writing. I have him write. I received it at my coin's Inn Fields."—This was th, which we have given the fubffance, proved the fecond, which we ha , like manner. His Lord(hip, on his crofs-ex;. " During all the time the Defenda 1 had reafon to be fatisfied with If believed him to be, and I found fervant. His wages were 26 or 3o lam not fure which. He is a Swi He left my fervice in t 799. He 1790. He returned with me from to this country. I always had a him. On quitting my fervice he burgh. It was in the month of Ai I was at Yarmouth when he parts am not fure that he went immedi burgh, for he might have returner cuftody. When I parted with the Yarmouth, I believe there was du( 2001. I owed him alfo an arrear of 901. or tool. I had granted him ( payment of an annuity, previous to left behind him fome of his goods Hampfhire, but I cannot tell wi them. After he left me, he was time in prifon." Another witnefs proved the lett( defendant's hand writing. Mr. Gaittow then fubmitted to tice, whether he was at liberty to Portfpiouth, upon his folemn oath, was the lealt foundation in truth in which the defendant had by his lett to fallen upon. hii charaaer Mr. ADAM faid, that, in his condua of the de fence, he fhould entirely abflain from throwing any imputations of this nature upon the charaacr of the profecutor. Lord ELLENBOROUGH obferved, that Mr. Adams's charaCter fufficiently allured him that he would conduCt his cafe with the utmoft propriety. The Rev. Mr. Garnet alfo proved the hand writing of the Defendant to the different letters. The letters were then produced and read. Mr. ERSK IN s then faid, that many Noble Lords and perfons of high rank attended to give evi dence (if they were allowed) of the purity and correltnefs of Lord Portfmouth's life and manners. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH faid, it was highly na tural for a perfon who felt himfelf injured in this manner, to with to produce the molt refpec. table teflimony of his charaCter ; but for the rea fon, he could not permit Mr. ERSKIN a to examine his Lordfhip on the fubjeCt of the charge, for the fame reafor. ht could not now admit any evidence which did not bearon the iffue between the parties. Mr. ADAM, Counfel for the Defendant, fub mitted that there Iwas not evidence to go to the Jury ; this was an indiament under the act of 3o Geo. 11. enaaing that any perfon fending a threaten ing letter, with intent to extort or gain money or goods, fhould be deemed guilty of felony, and punifhable with death, tranfportation, or imprifon? ment: In the prefent cafe it appeared, from the anfwer of the Noble Lord, that he was indebted to the Defendant in the fum of 2001. confequently the letter could not be fuppofed to have been writ ten with any other view than to the payment of that fum, the objedt of the flatute was only to pro f& the fending of threatenin g letters, to extort or gain money, to which the party fending it had no legal claim. Mr. ERSKINE contended, that the offence of the Defendant was both within the letter and Ipirit of the act of Parliament. It was clearly within the mifchief, becaufe the object uf the Ilattlte was to render it penal for any man to obtain that by a threatening letter which other wife the perfon to whom it was fent, would be difpofed to withhold. Should the Court confider it other wife, a man ta 100 claimed a clf to forcc _ ----• •• 111411 Nro Limed a debt of another`, would lu ve no oecafion wait for the tedious-4 =pr ilickwAtt rcg his debtor to n~i • Ilted Come time Counfel for Lori en proceed to a iolv deur Are to. Da lhrunk from : lnifhe.l at loch a. nk g 4 there might the rye or ear." emove. Such a to hiinfelf, Mr. d Friends at the h letters, without of impunity, as man to whom fed PROVIDENCE ent men, and to what differently : nts to fuilain the ' e the intereft of e difcnver truth, a labyrinth) and ity to mankind ; igh endowments. lered the Earl of reat innocence of )d nature, which in private life, tvites the fpecu- fuppofed not to nt to filence in. on of the defen- y of charaner, a ind a natural ti- ip, made the de- Itantly agree to ailed by fuch a uld not with to . umflances of the dige him, and in e could remove nft the charadlet lefendant Seilaz me years—l am ter of his hand- r travels on the doubt that this • e very often lien r houfe in Lin- he letter, of .e. His Lordfhip mve defcribed in amination, faid, ant was with me, ris character. I I him, a faithful ) guineas a year; wits by birth.— : came home in. m the Continent good opinion of- e went to Ham- luguil, I believe. ed from , Me. I diately to Ham- :d to London in he Defendant at ) ue to him about & wages of about. a a bond for the to this time. He • at my houfe in • became. of, as a confiderable • tters to be the CI the Chief Juf- • alk my Lord !1, whether there n the imputation tter endeavoured adua of the de- from throwing PLYMOUTH, DEC. 6. Arrived the Fricnd(hip, of Teignmouth, Capt. M. HARVEY, from St. John's, Newfoundland, laden with 01 and oil, for this port ; the Anna, of Teignmouth, Capt. CATER, from ditto, laden with fiih and oil for a market ; the HUNTER, of t 8 guns, Capt. NG LE rtELD, from a cruize ; and the RANGER cutter, of 14 guns, from ditto. Sailed the Rebecca, Capt. NESTLING, from Ql2ebec, for Leith ; the Frtendthip, Capt. SEALY, from St. John's, for Exeter; the Portfea, Capt. Haanttio, from Cette, for London ; the Fanny, Capt. TUCKER, from St. John's, for Poole ; the Nep tune, Capt. GRIFFITHS, from Belfaa, for London; and the Olive Branch, Capt. WATSON, from Ma laga, for Hull. Came in the Om ega , C a pt. R. MELLAMBY, from Quebec, bound tc Lynn, laden with timber, out 44 days : the received confidera ble damage during the late gale, and mull refit before the proceeds on her voyage. The Mailer (fates, that the brig Sally, Capt. ROBERT SUTER, which failed from Qt_tebec, bound to Belfak laden with wheat, on the 18th October laft, met with a very violent florm from the eaftward on the 27th, during which the cargo ihifted, and both pumps became choaked, which obliged her to bear away for Qrbec, for which purpofe Capt. MELLAMBY put his pilot on board the 3oth following, off the ifland of Beeck. At fame time fpoke the brig Argo, of Exeter, bound from Liverpool to (te bec ; out eight weeks, with the lots of mzintop ma About a week ago fpoke the Kingflon Whaler, Capt. BUNKER, from South Seas, in lat. 48. long. 12. bound to London, a quite full fhip, with the lots of her mixen-malt. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. MAL, Dan. 7.—Arrived and failed for the River the Duke of Rent, Porter, from the South Seas.—Sailed the outward bound.—Wind S. S. E. GaAY&SZND, Dcc. —Paired by the Union, Metcalfe, from Madeira ; Ann, Lees, from Mogadore ; William, Clay, from Belfaft; and the Vrow Margaretta, —, from Rouen.— Saikd the Henry Addington, Lacey, and Olive Branch, Butler, for puska ; Britannia, —, for Lifbon ; Thomas and Sally, ----, for Alderney; Ceres, Riehardfon, for Amfterdam ; Triton, —, for Hamhurgh; Gratis, , for Norway; Calypro,Sehotman. Handels Bcurdcrer, 'Two Geode Vreiuden, ...--, for Dort. SWANSEA, NOV.2s. I am very forty to inform you, that on Sunday night, a Hoop from Padltuw, ftranded between the Seenveather and Oxa ich Bay, and all purillied except one man ; the Captain and one man is found, and buried in St. Mary's Church, Swanks. GREENOCK, DEC. 3. A very unfortunate accident happened here on Tuefday even ing. Captain PRICE (a itranger) of the Barbara, who arrived on Sunday from Halifax, going along the brealt, after it was dark, fell into the old graving dock, in which there happened to be about two feet water. The itruggling be made in the water attracted the attention of a girl who was patting. She gave the alarm, and a gentleman and tome tailors immediately took him out, and inftantly carried kim to the Difpenfary, where be expired in a few minutes. A than time after Capt. Pima was taken out, a tailor fell into the fame dock, and was coo fiderably bruifed. Accounts were received in town yefteniay, that s brig is adhere an the point of Towart, and the yea making afalrbreach over bar. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The &op Pylades will be paid for the Purfuit at No. 14, Clanent's Inn, on the tsth init. The Unicorn, for the following recaptures and captures, via. k Petit Batien; and l'Hirondeile, will be paid in Plymouth, ou Friday, the 24th init. The hoop of war the Daher. for the detention of the (hip Commerce, will be paid at the fame time and place. The Atalantc, for the following capture and recapture, viz. el Intrepid° ad, and /Jelin Senora de Luz y Boa Ventura, will be paid at the fame time and place. Ths Sirius. for ditiesaure and deftrualen of the Spaniel privateer el Isi u ad, al the bme time and place. •