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I r" -- NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.-WIND N. N. W. ARRIVED DUE i Hamhurgb, AUrldt 7, 0 / Dublin, Au g uft 8, t o Waterford, 2 1 Donfugluideet Auguft 9 , o o . Lifbon, t . YARMOUTH, AUGUST i 2. 1, 2 11 evening arrived the ERE R ESS packet, Cdp ::n DELL, from Cuxhaven, with the Hamburg!! Arid Bremen mails : among the palrengers was Mr. LUCIAN, a Mefrenger, with difp.v.ches from Lord ELGIN, and upwards of 3o pafrengers from Cux haven.—Sailed the DIINA, S rEWART ; and EARL OF LEICESTER, THOMPSON, for Cuxhaven, with t!..e mails for Hamburgh of the 4th ani 7th ina. Mr. DRUMMOND and fuite, who is to go over in the KING GEORGE packet, remains at the Nelfon ji me l, waiting till the wind fhifts to the weftwai.d. Arrived the Trtym. cutter, and JALOUSE and yLsprEoLz, from a cruize this afternoon : the HA. 2 AED cutter, failed for Adrniral PAR A Ek'S fqua dron, crcizing cif Goree : the SQ . pIRRF L has fent ir. here the Vryheid, in ballaft. Wind E. N. E. SHEERNESS, AUGUST rt. Lalt night, about eight o'clock, Lord NEtsow arrived at the Little Nore, where the fhip failed round, but as it was flood tide, got no damage. Phis moment his Lordfhip (after giving Come ne ceffary orders to fuch of his (hips at this port as are ant in a flate of forwardnefs to proceed with him) has embarked, and is now working towards the Dcwns, from whence he will proceed to the coaft of France, where he has already, watching the ene fry's movements, upwards of ninety fail of veffels cf different defcriptions. The AMAZON frigate the 2ay before yetlerday arrived here, and is fitting with all poffible difpaoch for Lord NELSON'S flag; Ile will follow his Lordfhip on Monday next. Yellerday and to day the ./EoLus frigate, Capt. SFRAACAIt; has been attempted to be undocked, bnt cocld not ; unlefs fhe is got out to-morrow's tide, fhe mull be neaped, and remain in dock till 0: next fprings. The WAAICSAM H ETD is in dock. The SUEPRISE frigate is commiffioned by CAptain OSWALD; and the kis is ordered to be paid off. MARGATE, AUGUST n. Arrived the MEDUSA frigatd, (Lord NELSON), with four cutters and a brig. bOVER, AUGUST 12. A PrufEari veffel from Boulogne has jug an• thctred off our harbour's mouth : the brings nothing recut their ma fler re th.re during the late at tack, and (peaks very (lightly of it; two French rah were killed by an explofion on board one of their deffels, and a few were wounded, but none tilled by our Ihot. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST tr. Cattle iri the French ketch, name unknown, of and from Bayonne, laden with brandy, rofin, and tar, taken by the Marquis of Townfend privateer, of Jerfey 4 the ltusszt.t., of 74 gun% Capt. Cu m -114G, from a ernire.—Sailed the ijij,ns, of 38 guns, Capt. Towi v, with to fail of victuallers, under convoy, for the Channel fleet, off Brett; alfo the IMMOIttALITZ, of 38 guns, Capt. Ho team, on a eruize. - - -r- PbRTSMOUTI4, AUGUST is. This day arrived the Soctav, of 32 guns, Capt bous, from the Downs.—Sailed the GUILDER LAND, of 64 guns, Captain Tur.t.lcusa AMP 14 1- TP.ITt i Of 28 guns, Captain Gait N I Ell E and GALA TEA, of 32 guns, Captain Ilvi4c; for Ireland. Orders have bccn tranfmitted from the Admi ralty, to fit out with all porrible difpatch the (hips that arrived from the Baltic on Sunday. They are to take on board five months probilions. Ar rived the Sophia fchooner, with mahogany, de tained by the Sr. FIORENZO frigate. FALMOUTH, AUGUST la SIAM the HARI Plylm packet, Capt. GRxv, for Lilboa, with the Mails of the sth inflant; the only raCengcr was a Mrs. BARRE Pi R.—'l!)e Weft India . nd American packets have nut yet .cceived their ordcrs.—Alfo the OSPREY flap of war, of 1" guns, Capt. few's, with the trade from hence, to 10. a the outward bound Weft India fleet, now r•fr this port, under convoy of the SANTA MAR- P/ARITTA frigatc.—Arrived the American brig Currier, Capt. Wow,' !se, with 900 barrels of Pour for this place, from Norfolk, after a paffage 4 , days: palled this evening to the eaftward, tue homeward bound Leeward Ifland fleet, under - , r,roy of the Pi.ossr, and Arruirairs., ind S. E. HARWICH, AUGUST it. it was rightly conjeaured that Lord NELSON'S tilt to tl6 pcit related, among other things, to the Sea reneibles. Laft night the filliing-fmack .wners here atrembled on the Guildhall, and hal. totted one man from each veffel to fcrve his Ma rctlY on board the guard.fhips. Our owners con themfelres accommodated by Captain SCOP4. bERG having required only a draught of one man, ‘.tlio is not to he abfent more than one voyage of race firma, and then ht is to be relieved by aXICE fh!r. A greater draught would certainly have been mjnrious to the fifhety ; but as it could have been rcquired, the )sreCent is properly confidercd as an ibe /toga r guiz-brig remains PROM LLOYD'S Ltr. DEAL / AUGUST' :2.—Sailed th BENnALL,LADY BORGFS3, and LADY JANE. DVNDAS, Eat& India nan, for the River. Wind N. E. KINGSTON, JAMAICA, MAY 9. A felucca pivoteer having been fecn from Fort Charles, at half pail five o'clock on Thurfdav morning, to board a brig on the outride of the Keys, Colonel Ramsey immediately fent infor mation thereof on board his Majefly's (hip YORK, when all the boats in the fleet were initantly armed and manned, and fent in purfuit of them. The brig was loon re-taken, and proved to be the Spanifh brig El Sufannz, th et had failed• the day before, but the felucca got off by a breeze fpring• ing up. On the approach of the boats the priva teer's men quitted the brig, and went on board their own veffel. The force fent: in the boats amounted to 150 men, under the command of nine Lieutenants. MAY 16.-.--Capt. CAKFRAF, of the fchooner Fly ing taken on the zsih of March lalt, and carried into Cuba, arrived at Port Antonio in the General Simcoe. He mentions, that, while at Cuba, he law a Gentleman from Carthagena, who gave an account of the capture of the Galatea, litiLLA it, by the Sheerback, a privateer belong ing to Mr. ()Logy Ea, after a fevers anion, in which Capt. Hu xxx o ti was moft feverely wounded. The tender of his Majerfty's fhip Yore!: arrived on Thurfday evening, having had an anion, which lafted two hours, with a felucca, which outfailed her, and got away. Lieut. SMITH, •who com manded the tender, was wounded in the anion.— The felucca mounted one gun. Thurfday the Spaniard who was found guilty at the lalt Mixes of being concerned in the mur- Jer of Capt. Ty EC K, was executed on the Parade in this town, purfuant to his fentence. The Princefs Augulla brings 223 (laves.—She touched at Martinique, and is eight days from that &incl. During her Ray there, his Majesty's fhip MONTAGUE arrived from Lithan, and, after landing 30.2 men, proceeded to fea again imme diately ; but the place of her deltination was not known. The Robert, and the George, Git.t.v, v, are the (hips mentioned to have been attacked by two Spanilh feluccas off the Weft-end on Monday fc'n night. They began the attack at day light, and continued till half-pall feven, when they made off, and went in chace of a fchooner to windward.— At half-palt eleven they bore down again, with a feeming determination of boarding both Chips; but by a timely fire, and the fuperiotity of the Ro bert's guns, they were again beat off, and at noon ruulain to anchor under Point Negril by South, where, if not intercepted, they will in all probabi lity do a great deat deal of mifchief to the trade on that fide of the Wand. The Aufpicious is feven days from Martinique ; at which place Admiral Ducxwonr H had arrived having previoufly captured all the Danifh Hands : and it was there reported that the Admiral, with his fquaciron, would fail from th e n ce i n a f e w days againfl Guadaloupe. Accounts had alfo reached Martinique from England, that General Nuc EN T had been appointed to fuecced to the Go. vernment of this Wand, in the room of General KNox. Yeflerday a Court of Directors was held at the EA-India Houfe, when Colonel Rostrx rTEN was (worn in Governor of St. Helena. The TM AM Es, of Imo tons, Capt. R. ‘VILLIAMS, was taken up for Bombay and China. The Court adjourned at fix o'clock till to-morrow. Many letters received from India by the (hips lately arrived, agree in (Wing -the probability of our attacking the Mauritius, and fome of them fpeak in confident terms. It is well known that (hips of obfervation have been for finite time off the ifland.—The Dutch gave this place the name of Mauritius, in honour of Prince MAURICE, their Stadtholder; but they abandoned it, on their ac quifition of the Cape of Good Hope. It then re mained uninhabited till the French landed there in 1720. The i nh abit an cs cfWeymouth were rather alarm ed on Monday, by a heavy firing at fea, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock. Two frigates got under weigh and went to fea. The firing was between the Kan% cutter and an Engliih collier. The Kwox firft got fight of the collier, and taking her for an enemy's tranfport fired to bring her to, which the collier repeattd ; a running fire com menced and continued for above an hour, when the KNOX came along fide to board her; being re futed, they fired a broad-fide from the cutter. — The collier is fo much damaged as to be obliged to put in there for repair. A Court Martial has been held on board the C•si RIDGE, of 84 guns, Admiral PA Y, on the boatfwain of the MUM I I of +4 guns, on a charge of drunkennefs, which being fully proved, he was reduced from his fanatical, and turned before the The Public have never witneffed a produaion on the Stage, where the coftume and manners of a Country are more happily preferved, than in the New Splendid, Comic Pantomine of the Et-Spit, or ,Harlepin in China, at the Royal Circus, St.Gcorgc's Fields. This is embelilhed with ,the richeft and moll beautiful Scenery. Dreffes, &c. and accom panied by Mulle t which is by Mr. WARE, and is of the great& excellence : this and the admirable piece, The Fire King, or ifilert end Refalie, form together fo powerful an attraCtion, as to fill that Theatre each evening with a moll overflowing and brilliant affemblage. - - - - Nineteenth Exprefs.—No. 15,705, the firft drawn Ticket, entitled to 20,0001. WAS Cold and regiftered by Homes and Co. Ozford.ttreet, and St fames's ftreet.—No. 22,.467, drawn a Prize of zopool. on the 9rh Day; No. 30,333, drawn a Prize of goool. on the loth Day ; and the Ticket No. 28,898, the hrft drawn on the t 3th Day, entitled to { `cool. were alfo fold, fluted, and resiftered by HODGLS and Co. SPORTING MTELLIGENCP. BRIGHTHELMSTON RACES. TfE3DAY, AtIGIIST 11. __ _ _ A Match for 2)gs. each. Laft half Mile of the Courfe. Mr. Morland's Pet, 811. was beat by Mr. ArnoWs Wifkerandoes, 6h. iolb. The odds were a tot in favour of Pet. An excellent race. Wifiterandoes won by a head. A Match for fogs. Laft three quarters of a Mr. Panton's Trombone. 911. 21b. was beat by Mr. Laclbroke's Amazon, by Driver, out of FraFtioui, 711.. t tlb. Seven to 4 agairat Amazon, wlan won very eafy. A Handicap Plate for Horfes of all ages. One heat. The New Courfe. Mr. Ladbrokes Myftery, 4 yrs. old, 81k. toro. - His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales's Velvet Horn, . - 5 yrs. okl, 80. 71b. - - - 1 2 Mr. Whalev's Vivaldi, 5 yrs. old, Bft. 71b. - dr. Mr. Harris's Gig, 4 yrs. old, Bft. • - dr. Mr. Howard's Cocoatreg, 4 St's. old, 7ft. 121 b. - ' dr. Mr. Panton's Trombone, 3 yrs. old, 611, 121 b. - dr. . „ Two to t the field againft . the Prince. -4 to t the field againft Gig.-2 to t the field again(' My ftery:—lhe fame againft The tirft a dead heat between Velvet Horn and Myftery; the remainder drawn after tlae dead heat. A very good race. The bets were gene rally even which won the plate. _ _ A Match for sogs. between Capt. Darley and Mr. Fourdrinier was run. two and three to one were betted againa Capt. Darley, who was beat hollow. Mr. Fourthinier's horse was rode by Buckle, and, to all appearance, a much interior both. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCLRY,SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. bANKRUPT PCTITIONS. • A petition was prefented to fuperfede a Commit - - lion Wilted againft a Bankrupt of the name of Lei cefter, of Liverpool, on the ground, that the dock et (truck by the petitioning creditor, under the iirfl Commiffion, had not been followed up within the time prefcribed by the praftiee of the Court. It was fuggeßed in anfwer, that the witneffes who were to have proved the Al of Bankruptcy, had been tutored by the parties wifhing to fue out the fecond Commiffion, and that the delay had arifen front the neceflity of fecking Tome other means of proof ; and that notice of this had been given to the adverfe party. The lubjeet matter of the pe tition was not particularly important, but a variety of extraneous matters were introduced refpefling the praftice of the Court, relative to bankruptcies. Lord ELDON, in a very long fpeech, adverted to the different topics which had been mentioned.—' His Lordfhip obferved, that there were more frauds committed by Solicitors fraudulently condufting Commiffions of Bankruptcy, th.,r. by traders who fraudulently became bankrupts ; was lorry to fay there were many Solicitors deemed refpeftable men who would think nothing of fraudulently keep ing back evidence to prove a amkrupter, under a Commiffion taken out by another, in older that they might be able to fuperfede it, and obtain to themfelves the profits of conduCting it. He feared that with regard to the Bankrupt Laws, the doors were opened fo wide that nothing but the power of the Legiflature could ever be able to lhot them. After taking a review of the whole cafe, he was of opinion the application fhould be rejected. The Solicitor role, and addrefGng his Dirdfhip, Paid, his chief °Nett in bringing this matter for ward, was to inform his Lordlhip of the illegal de mand of certain fees paid at the Bankrupts Office, upon obtaining writs-of fuperfedeas. Lord &Dols laid, that fuch an obfervation, fo irregularly made, was highly unjuft, and little Ids than a flander on the peofons who had the ma nagement of the bufincfs of the Bankrupts Office. He looked with a furpicions eye upon the motives of the man who made fuch an application the me dium of introducing a complaint, with which it had no connexion. His Lorelfhip added, that if there was any ground of complaint, and it t was brought before him in proper form, he fhould how to treat it. TUESDAY, A IIdUST I t. • The LORD CHANCPLLOR this d.ty difpofed of a number of petitions, many of which were of a very intricate nature. An application was made to fat afide a commit:Eon of bankruptcyunder the follow ing circumflances :—Of the Firm of Marfden and Tongue, thefe merchants in England having a houk in London, there were two other partners, Mr. Brafchi of Leghorn, and Mr. Marcolini of Naples. The houfe in London having committed an aft of bankruptcy, one of the creditors ftruck a docket againft the two former, and proceeded to open a commiulinn, but took no further Reps till a fecond commit - lion was iffued out by another cre ditor, and the parties advertifed as bankrupts in the Gazette. In fupport of this lei commillion, it was Rated, the objeft of the former creditors was to remove the adminißration of the commif fion to Manchefter, and that it could not hold good in point of law, as neither Meffrs. Brafchi nor Marcolini had been included in it, though partners. A creditor, it was argued, may, it neceffary, ftrike a docket againft each of the partmrs Ivarately, but was not authorized to make their demand the joint debt of any two of them. Mr. Picorr cited fume precedents in fupport of this pofition, and ar gued that therefore the commitlicn ought to be I uperfedtd. To this it was replied, that there was no impro priety in removing the commiffiop to Manchetler, as the claims of the creditors there and in Liver pool were 80,0001. whereas mot more than five or fix thoufand pounds were due to merchants in London. With regard to the two names omitted in the commiflion, the anfwer was that it was un avoidable, as it did not appear that either of thefe Foreign Gentlemen had committed an aa of bank ruptcy in England. The LORD CHANC&LLOIL faid, there might b e cafes of partnerfhip in which all the parties could not be immediately included in an Aft of Bank ruptcy ; but it was not yet clearly flew n wheth er Mr. Layton, the prcfcut petitioner, was or was not the. creditor of Brafchi and Marcolini, as well as of Madden and Tongue. It vas impoilible for him to let two commiffions of this kind exift at the fame time; and before he expreffed any opi., nion upon the fubjeCt, he willed to have a petition againft the other petition before him., that he may have an opportunity of heat ing the cafes of both parties argued together. One obiervation, how ever, he had to make at prefent, was, that it was time, by fome means or other, to put an end to that increafing fcramble from different parts of the country for the advantage of what was called wading the Commidion. The cafe was then or dered to (land ovtr to another day. In the cafe of Well, Mr. PIGGOT Rated, that the Petitioner had made a fettlement on hit wife of 12c..-.1. in the funds, and with an intereft to their children. The wife having once died, Mr. W. obtained the money in the funds from the Truf tees, and fold it out for Scol. giving them a bond for the debt. After this he became a bankrupt, and his Aflignees received dividends to the amount of two 'billing, and ten pence in the pound. The prayer of the Petition was, that out of the pro duce of the cflate a like dividend of two fhillings and ten-pence in the pound fhould be made for the benefit of the children, who would thus be entitled to about one hundred pounds. The Loin CHANC ELIOR ordered the Turn of two shillings and ten-pence in the pound dividend on the 8001. should be paid into the hands of the Re ceiver General for the ufe of the children, and the interest appropriated to replace their capital. AUGUST I2.—PRIESTLEY AND LAMB. Mr. ALEXANDER oblerved, that his Lordlhip would be very glad to hear that Mr, Prieftley had made a propofal of a Settlement which had been approved of by the Mailer. He therefore moved that the Maßer's Report might be affirmed. Mr. RICHARDs,CounfeI for the Lady'sTruilees, laid, he underilood that three or four events migl4 happen in which Mr. Prieftley would become mat ter of this lady's prrperty. Mr. A LE XAN DER hoped that Mr. Priefiley would now get out,of gaol. The LORD CHANCELLOR laid, Ile would look at the Matter's Report, and return it to the proper officer tomorrow. As to the other part of the application, that of letting this gentleman out of cultody, thatfwould depend on the Attorney-Ge neral, and with that he did not wilh to interfere. Mr. Prieftley had not only been guilty of a con tempt of that Court, by marrying a Ward of the Court in the manner he had done, but he had been engaged in obtaining , a marriage 'without due pm - liratiffs of Law. That was an offence for which he might and muft be indicted. Air. ALEXANDER laid, he had an affidavit, from which it appeared that Mr. Prieftley was in a wretched Rate, of health. He did not mean that he Ihould be liberated immediately, but only after the conveyances were. executed. He laid, the two Mifs Priettleys, who keep the Ladies' Boarding fchool, had made an affidavit in jollification of their own condutl relative to this bufiuefs, and which he begged might be read. The LORD CHANCFLLOR ordered it to be read. The fuldiance of it was, that they had no know ledge that their brother, Mr. T. Pt icßley, was pay ing his addleires to Mil; Lamb, and that they were totally unacquainted with every part of the butinefs till leveral days after the marriage had taken place. They alfo &poled, that if they had entertained the fmallea idea that fuch a marriage was going forward, they lhould have thought it tbeit duty to have done every thing in their power to have prevcnted it. And as to the manner in which the publication olhanns were obtained, they potitively fwore they had no knowledge of it, and that they were neither direaly nor indireftly con cerned in it. The LORD CHANCELLOR faid, to be fure there was a great difference between pofitive connivance and negligent inattention, which feemed to be the cafe of thefe two Ladies. But this only fwelled the condlia of Mr. Prieftley and the other Lady. He faid, he was very glad •_hefe two Ladies had made this affidavit. Nothing was done upon this application to the Court. PERJURY. In the courfe of difcufling feveral of the Bank rupt Petitions, his Lordlhip extremely lamented the grofs perjury and wickednefs that appeared in the proceeding. He laid, that Court itfelf would be acceffary to fuch mordtrous iniquity, if it did not take fome Reps to fupprcfs it, by fome exem plary profecutions. He Ihould therefore give di. reCtions to his Majetly's Attorney-General to pro ceed again( certain perfons, for he was determin ed that fuch (wearing Ihould not go on in that Court with impunity. His Lordfhip alto obfcrved, that the praCtice of the Suitors of that Court, in writing letfeis to him containing matter which, if it ought to be communicated to him at all, ought to be Rated by Conrail, had become fo prevalent, that he was afraid he mutt commit fomebody. 11•••••••.• SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. INSOLVENT DIETORS. An Attorney of the name of Keys was brought up to be difcharged ; but was objefted to, under a claufe in the aft, which fpecifies that any at:orney or agent, who (hall have been entrutted to receive any fum of money for the ufe of any perfon, and Mall have converted the Paid money to his owa ufe, fliould be excluded the benefit of the aft. It appeared that a perfon of the name of Hyde had employed this attorney to recover a debt of +oh which he did recover. Hyde made feveral appli cations to his clerk for the money, not being able to meet Keys at home. The clerk always return ed evolve anfwers, and at length Keys quitted the chambers in which he refided. This circtirollance took place at the dillance of (even years. About three years fence Hyde difcovered that he was re fiding at Baniet, and praftifing as an attorney.— He accordingly went down to that place, and law the Defendant, who acknowledged that be had received the money ; but laid he had been fo dif 'relied at that time, that he had applied it to dlr . - charge his own debts. Hyde then told him that he did not with to be too fevers with him, and agreed to take his own notes for the (urn, payable at flatted periods of fix, twelve au eighteen months; at tl.s -vim ~' A