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D bufblisd, alltincr r. 14 irtu a , tiolta appeared iteariljngly out Hs s't- Irtr !id,, pi lan with a tnnediateli p learn the n - who bad force time, municating led him in a moll def rot drew a nn to any n, when it m the Mop. igilltates at :nt for, and ant proved aced there. its accord . of privntor to hispin! • ••••., pßirJrz coßizsioND szycz. PARIS, JANUARY s, isos.• • I wrote you Lift from Brads, dated 3oth Dec. on which day I fet out for Paris. The roads f rom the latter city to Valenciennes are very bad, ow. ing to the artillery, &c. for the Duke of York's a r my, when it be6eged Valenciennes, which en. tirely deßroyed the roads. This once beautiful city trill remains a dreadful memento of the havock committed by the befiegers. Mor e than one third of the town was deCoyed, and not a tingle hook is yet rebuilt : nay, not even the ru b. bilk removed ; but now that the bleffings of Peace is rellored to this country, the town is to be re built, and the roads repaired.--From Valenciennes to Paris the road is jioneeall the way ; there is no difficulty whatever about paffports ; at the en trance of every town there is a Bureau tear le /cation tkrjusrporte, where you blew them, and that u all. At Cambray I flopped the night ; this place is very prong, and was fummoned by the Allies in the year 1794, but before they received the anfwer from the Commandant, they b a d It camfreelt.—thie it • fad. On my approach to Paris, which I raw at three leagues off, I was impreffed with fenfations caller felt than defcribed ; the city of Paris, which agi tated men!: minds for the laft twelve years, where there is fo much vice and virtue, folly and wicked nets, and at the !brine time bravery, petriotifm, and philofophy. The barrier of that city I entered by the Fauxbourg St. Martin, eagerly inquiring . for every obje& which rendered it famous or infa mous. At the barrier 1 (hewed my paffport ; and when I arrived at my lodging, I was obliged to give my name, occupation, date of my paffport, and by whom given, and thus ends the hobgob. En " Tales of Paffports." I mention this circum. Rance, as a minifterial paper Rated a few months ago, that when a foreigner arrived at Paris, he ems coinkii&diy a guard offolefter: to the Hotel of the Mittifie? ¶1 Porta. Pans is full of foreigners, but not-many Eng- Elk excepting many officers who return through France from our army in Egypt. Lodgings are very dear here, and I was much di appointed at finding every thing very dear. Every fpecies of extravagance and diffipation is purfued here, and in that refpeti Paris is not altered ; but I confefi that having feen Paris in the asocial railed, I find there is not fo much real fplendour as heretofore ; 1 the (hops, , it is true, are as full as ever ; the theatres, which there are no lefs than thirteen open every evening, befides other aninfementsyare every night filled, although the prices of admiffion are as dear as ours, all but a lhillinP, and the Pa lais Royale as full as ever ; Rill the. • t ft , tee /coil quoi wanting, there arc not to many ipLe.did equi. pages, nor even fo many people in the itreets as formerly ; this may perhaps lie owing to the want of the bugle of trade, but to appearance Paris has declined in population. The nest. Consut has a review tomorrow, and will fet out in three Jays h:nce for Lyons.— The reafon of hi; delay is, al it is Rated on good authority, that he expeas to Ggn the Definitive Treaty negociating at Amiens before he leaves Paris. M. D. HAUTE inn, the celebrated author ofthe " State of the French Republic at the End of the Year Eight," of which you have a very good tranflatlon, has the Porte•feuille of the Minifter for Foreign Affairs during his abfene at Lyons. M. Hauterive was prefented with a very valuable gold, f::t with diamonds, fnuff box, from the late Emperor PAUL, and his miniature, as a token of his raped for that Gentleman's abovementioned publication. The 'lnce celebrated tAlatill lives here in• a very obfcure Ratios of life; he fubfifts by trate lating Englilh works into French for the book fellers. _ _ _ TROIA AS PAINS is alto here, and applies himfelf very &A A)? to mechanics, and is about to prefent the world with a new difcovery. There has been a report in circulation in Hol land, and which, no doubt, has been alto in Eng land, that four Generals, viz. Bauer, Baena born, ANCIERIAU, *Ad LA swat, have been arrell ed ; I can allure you there is not a word of truth in it. The French Government is much inclined to encourage and promote in this country every branch of arts and fciences, commerce, itc. and are extremely jealous of any perfon, foreigner or na tive, attempting to do any thing Which might here a contrary tendency. About fourteen days flue a perfon employed here by the manager of ("era houfe, was arrefted and kept in cuflody near a fortnight for an attempt to engage Will is and a celebratal female dancer to leave the coun try._ Dancers, &c. Etc. are con fi dered here as ufdol artifts, and are not allowed to be indeed out of the country. He was however liberated, through' *fry great intereft; but was obliged to leave Pans. The Mailer of a Genoefe vac' arrived at Tunis, reports, that the French Government has caufed in he intimated to the Regencies of Africa, that if in the cootie of forty days they do not fet free all their eaves, and declare themfelves in peace - .ill , all nations, they will be compelled to do fo 161 f , ,tce of arms. A Letter from Lautanne, dated. Dee. t, falrt . " - 1 " At the brainflant of our Revolution, our fc Funds were exhasilled. The ruin of private fo , cones nearly followed. Bounded as we are by .l nations, we bare no refources but what our rnimntains afford. Our .fmall manufaitories are. ailiihilatcd. We are deßitnte of every thing, but vie vanity and luxury of our neighbours, that in-. reftion renders our inifery Rill more miferable. The primitive Swifs, it is true, were poor ; but, they bad, not our artificial wants, and honeßy give comforts, and fupported their virtuous in digence. As for vs we art filial into penury ;we puffed with pride and cowards. Even now We are on the eve of falling into the moll cruel loarchy, which nothing - can prevent but the in -, trodu6tion of foreign forces; and undoubtedly' y will complete the urcafore of our atirfor :::,!s." •l• larnamoisci. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. , Yeftetday s an appeal and petition was heard againft the accounts of Mr. Pettier, Surveyor of the bighwa.ys, for the para. of Helton, an this County. Mr. Serjeant Barr and Mr; Knowuts, far the appellants, contended that the above accounts had been illegally figned by one of the Magi ft rates, and that, inftead of their being prefented to the Petty Sefflons, as the Ad directs, in cafe of an ob lation being takcn to the accounts, they had, in dired violation or, tile . rights of the inhabitants complaining of thl ipandalous charges which they contained, and which It was alledged.wai a fraud upon the parilli, the EgOature of the Magiftrate furreptitioully obtained: A great number of the inhabitants were called to prove this fad ; they fteted that a veftry bad been held, when the accounts of the funis expend ed in the repairs of the highwits in the pariih, was fubmitted to their infpedion. The meeting con liftectof fourteen, nine of whom had objeded and infittedupon their being carried before the Bench of Jullices. Mr. Pettier wlibed theM to be fubmit ted to a M.agiftrate ; this was objected to, and much dilpute *role, during which moll of the in . - habitants objedin retired. Five of them hofve ver fi gned the boo k, as approving of the accounts; they were accordingly fubmitted to the - Magiftrite in queftion, who readily figned them as being agreed to. It appeared, however, that on the 57th October, the day on which the Bench was expea ed to fit, feveral of th habitants attended at Brentford, in order to ap againit the accounts ; ' they waited Come time in expedation of the Court being opened, which however did not take place. In the mean time the accounts were put into the Solicitor's hands, who attended for the appellants, and the Vefiry Clerk informed him the; bad been Ofigned at the Magiltrate ' s houfe on the 26th of ctober. Mr. SYLVESTER and Mr. Co-aor attended on the other fide. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion what the Ma gißrate had done was a mere nullity, as the AFt particularly enjoined that no accounts were to be pafed nnlefs with the approbation of the majority of the inhabitants. He, therefore, thought k would be needlefs to enter into the merits of di...cafe. Mr. Serjeant Bur (aid, he was fully prepared to go into the cafe at length, which would difclofe, perhaps, what might not be agreeable to Mr. Perner. The CH* it aux obferved, that it would redound to Mr. Perner's credit if he fuffered the matter to be thoroughly inveftigated. Mr. Pettier raid, it was what he withed, efpecial ly after the hard words which had been ufed by the Learned Gentleman appearing for the ippellants. Several of the Magiftrates on the Bench withed much that thefe difputes in the pad& were amica bly fettled. Judgment was then given in favour of the Ap pellants. SESSIONS-HOUSE, CLERKENWEI RIOT IN BOND-STREIT. JAN. rs. • flkun Meads was indifted for affaulting Tho mas Tricker on the night of the 7th of Orlober tall. It appeared, that on that evening, a report was fpread through town that the Preliminaries of Peace had been figned ; and on that account feveral houfes at the Weft End of the Town were illuminated. Mr. Tricker, the Profecutor, Paid, that at this time he was at the houfe of an ac quaintance in Bond-ftreet, oppolite to that of Meffrs. Bennet and Tolfon, where Lord Camel ford lodged. Moft of the houfes except this were illuminated ; a great snob came up, and called out for lights; none appeared in this houfe; and when the mob became very clamorous, and be gan to throw hones at the windows, Lord Camel. ford came out, and attacked the- . people in the ftreet. The Ptofecutor and two friends of his mixed among the crowd, for the purpofe of Pee ing what was going forward, when his Lordship (truck his two friends with his flick ; and then the Profeeutor went and took hold of Lord Camel ford's arms, which - he held fall, in order to pre vent him from ftriking any other perfon. At this time the Prifoner, who was porter to Mars. Tolfon and Bennet, came up with his bludgeon, and (truck the Profecntor. This fat was proved by feveral witneffes, and they all Paid, that no lights were put up in the honk at the time when Lord Camelford iffued forth into the ftreet. Mr. KNAPP made a very able fpeech on the 1 part of the Defendant. He reprobated the con dua of thofe mobs who went about breaking windows, throwing fquibs and crackers, and com pelling people to illuminate their bodes. Every maa's - houfe was his cattle, which no perfon had a right to intrude upon ; and, if perfons came, and made an attack againft it, in a violent man ner, the owner was juftified in going out and de- . fending himfelf in the heft manner he could. On the fame principle, Lord Camelford was juftified in going out , and attacking the riotous mob that had fo violently and outrageoufly made an attack againft his houfe. Although the bode went by the name of that of Tislfon and Bennet, yet it was his Lordihip's houfe, as he occupied the upper pan of it. He then railed feveral wit neffes, who flitted, that on the night in queftion, a large , mob, compofed of boys and men. came along Bond-ftreet, defiring the people to light up their houfes. When they came to the houfe where 'Lord Camelford lodged, they threw Hones at the windows, and broke feveral panes In the firit floor. Ir was then that Lord Camelford came out, in ordcr to difperfe the mob, and while he attempted to take up the ringleaders, they hiffed, hooted, and threw liones at him. They alfo ftruck him with flicks, but when he made a violent at tack againft them, they all ran away. His Lord (hip called out to his affiance all the fltopmen of Melfrs. Tolfon and Bennet, and fornithed each 'of them with a bludgeon. The mob returned, and made a fecond attack againft his Lordthip, which )psreftfted: in the mean time, the profecutor, who hi the thick of the mob, wok bola of his Lordfinp's mins, and pinioned Mm down for Come mines, during which time feveral perfons were beating Lord Came!ford with bludgeons. It was then that the defendant ftruck the profecntor with a flick. The mob refafed fevers' times to difperfe, after his Lortlfhip had defired them. He never came out until the people had broke his drawing room windows, by throwing (tones,. , &e. at them. The defendant had, in fequence of his Lordfhip's requeft, come to. , lis aftlftance. The riot lafted two or three houit. There was an apartment tin the fecond floor which did not belong to Lord Camelford, and which was illumi nated at the time. Mr. SYLVESTER, the Counfel for the profecu tion' obferved in reply, that it would have been well if Lord Came Word's name had not been men. tinned at all in this bufinefs ; that if a snob called out for lights, and attacked his houfe, he might endeavour to have the offenders taken up, and btought to punittment ; but it was not his bufi nefa to take the law into his own hands. He and his bludgeon-men,. intlead of fearching after, and apprehending rioters, ruched out indifcriminatcly, and [truck every orron they met; they (truck thofe who formed no part of the rioters—men who paired along merely from iurio fi ty; and therefore, to firilce any perfon who. prevented Lord Camelford from continuing this violence, mutt be an affault. The CHAIRMAN obferved, that though Lord Camelford was no party in this indiament, yet . it was not only proper, but neceffiry, that his name Ihould have been mentioned, as well as the circumflance which gave tire to this Wank. It was not to be endured, that a violent and riotous mob Mottld go about, calling on people to light their hoofes, and break their windows if they did not do fo. Every Iran, whole houfe was fo at tacked, had aright to go out, and refill the at tack by open force. He had, under fucl► circum• fiances, a right to take the law in his own hands. Lord Camelford was exatlly in this fituation.— The place where he lived was his honk—that houfe was his cattle; and he vets juflified in re lifting the attack that had been made upon it. The quellion then was, Firft, Whether the profe cutor, by mixing in a riotous mob . , did not form one of them ? and next, Whether the defendant was or was not endeavouring to fupprefs that riot ? The Jury found the defendant Guihy, and the CHAIRMAN fentenced him to ?ay a fine of 6s. Bd. and be difchargett. OLD BAILEY. ' Wednefday the Sefton commenced at thiplace before the LORD MAYOR RECORDER, City Officers, &c. and alfo the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Mr. Mice LAWRENCE. A Special Commiffion was opened for the trial of Governor Wall, (landing charged with murder out of this Realm, &c. purfuant to the provifion of the ftatute of the 33d of Henry VIII. The Comrniffion being read, a charge was de livered to the Grand jury by the RECORDEi I who addrefred them as follows : Gentlethen of the Grand Jnry, you have been fummoned, by the authority of a Special Commif firm, to try, in more inftances than one, the crime of murder. If any perfon is murdered, and dies out of the realm, filch a killing cannot be tried at common law. But fuch a faft, when examined by the Privy Council, may, by the 33d of Henry VIII. be tried by virtue of a Commiffion appointed by the King, in any county in England. So is the prefent Commiffion appointed to try one prifoner for murder, charged to be committed beyond the teas. To a Jury fo intelligent as thofe of the Grand Inqueft in this city, - I !ball not go at large into the law laid down in fuch a cafe relpefling that molt heinous offence of murder. I thin content myfelf with one •bfervation only, which is, that the lawof murder, all circuniliances confidered on that crime, will be precifely, I repeat the word, precifely, the fame as if it had been charged to have been committed within the ordinary jurifdic tion of thiszealm. D truft, therefore, that no dif ficulty will arife ; "'mold it however turn out, that any difficulty does occur, you will have the Aft ' ante of this Court. I have now only to requefi, that you will give to the bounds before you, fuch reafonable dirpatch, as that jnftice, which is cer tainly due to all parties, will permit." Twelve prifoners were tried, four of whom were capitally conviBed, viz. Cowie Brewer and Mkhad Doyle, for a capital of fence, in felonioufly nikulting Jeremiah Hagan on the King's highway, putting him in fear, and taking by force and violence from his perfon, and againft his will, a River watch and a cotton hand kerchief; his property. It appeared that the profecutor, Jeremiah Hagan, fltopman to Mr. Miller, in Ironmonger-lane, - had been drinking for fome time on the evening of Sun day, the a7th of December, and between fix and (even o'clock he went to fee one of his companions home. whom he admitted had been very much in toxicated : they were met, he faid, near the bot tom of Leman-trees, inthe vicinity of Goodman's Fields, by fix or (even perfons, who hußled and Bruck him ; one of thofe molt forward in theft proceedings, he was pofitive was the prifoner ,Brewer: the other prifoner, Doyle, came up in front, 'truck him violently in the face, and fnatched his watch from him, laying, at the fame time, " Damn your eyes, what do you want ?" When they withdrew, he went to a neighbouring publihoufe, where he could get no affillance, there being only an old woman and a boy in the houfe. However fome of the party pearl by; Doyle was one; he ran out and attempted to fecure him, on which be Bruck him another blow, and by the *Mance of his fellows got off. The prOfecu tor was clofely eras :examined as to the point of his being intoxicated, but be uniformly and came ft. ly denied that he was. and pofitively fwore to the identity of the two Prifoners. The woman belonging to the public houfe above alluded to, defcribed the fituation which - the Pro fecutor was in when he came to the houfe; his eyes black, his face covered with blood, &c. ' • the Rated, he did not appear to be intoxicat e d. The prifo sere, it appeared, were taken in the courk of the following day by the Bkadvell Officers. tn his defence the prifoner, Brer:er, entered int a minute detail of eitcumflances which feet e 4 to have but little reference to the Cafe. Doyle's de. fence was an encleavotir to ellablifh an a fiti, and in this view, he brought forward one Welch, who appeared to be an unfortunate creature of the town, who for fume months pall had cohabited with the Prifoncr ; the Elated poritively, that trim Inc till nine o'clock he was within in their apart ment, and had not once ttirred out during tbutiu. tervAl : and a perfon of the.name of Sarah Baynes, an occafional chairwoman to the parties, deporea nearly to the fame effe:t ; the Ilated - that the had' drank tea with them that evening. The Lord CHIEF BARON, who tried the Cafe, obferved in his charge to the Jury,t Int much would lie on the queftion of identity : fir It, whether th.: Profecutor,defcribing himfelf to have been feveral hours in company, might not pot - 1114y have been ii) mach affected by liquor, as not to have been- in, complete poffeflion of his faculties, ar.d afterward,, whether theconfulion and fright naturally refult ini from fuch an attack might not have fo far prevail ed as fo put it oat of his power accurately to dif tinguifh the perfons of the Prifoners. After reca= pitulating with great clearnefs and ability, the de• tails of the evidence—the Jury, aster a Ilion con ference, found both tie Prifoners Guikr—Dtaih. Doyle exclaimed, on hearing the verdie, that he was is innocent of the charge as a child un• born, and that if he died to•morrow, he !honld be a murdered man. gobs M 4 /veil, an elderly man of a very re• fpeElable appearance, for burglarioufly breaking and entering the dwelling-houfe of William Ridgeway, and dealing therein fcvcral arti. des of men's clothes, and of plate. Ridgev.-ay faid, he was a falefman, living near the Minories. On Sunday, :he 3d inft. he locked up lii. hook and went out ; he returned after nightfall, and could not open his (hop door ; immediately after • he faw the prifoner go out of his houfe : he pur -1 fued and feized him, and after a great ftruggle he was fecured. A dark lanthorn was found upon him, with a candle in it, appearing to h‘o%e been recently extinguilhed, as well as the property laid in the indietment. It being doubtful whether the offence was committed in the day time or at night, the Jury found the Prifoner guilty of dealing in a the dwelling-houfe to the value of4os. which makes it Death. 1- John Cbcfler, for a capital offence, in felonioully dealing, on the loth day of December, a snare, value 141. the property of N. Humphry, Efq. The Jury found the Prifoner Guilty-I;..atb, but recommended him (in which proceeding Mr. Humphry joined), on account of the good cha railer he had received, to the Royal Clemency. Seven were convided of felony, viz. Rob. .eirmjirong, for dealing ten breeches rubbers, &c. the property of W. Billingham. "Jere. Neal', for dealing 28 yards of printed cot ton, the property of Melfr. Milne and CO. J. lajon, for healing is gallons of brandy, the property of Mdfrs. Faffet and Co. 7. Loue, for dealing a cambric handkerchief,. the property of P. Hay, Efq. And Diana Crow, for dealing a pair of ftockings, &c. the property of W. Robertfon. Wm. BeVier and Patrick Merriman, two porters belonging to a furniture-broker in Moor-fields, for dealing in a dwelling-houfe a quantity of Bank -notes, amounting to t 701. ; together with a fmall printed book, entitled , g Fair Rofamond," the property of Robert Harivood.—lt was proved by the Clerk of Hankey and Co. Bankers, that a check for 2661. was paid at their houfe in Bank of England uotes,of which he took down the numbers. The Profecutor (wore to his having received the money for that check, and when he came home he gave the notes to his wife, who Jepotited them in a drawer. Shortly after this he had occafion to remove froze/ his lodgings in Moorfields. The pri loners were employed to carry away the cheft of drawers, at that time the notes were in the drawers, and when he got into his new lodgings, they were all gone, except-three 201. notes. They had been • in one of the (mall top drawers ; and the other drawer had been taken out previous to the remo val, for the purpofe of 'convenience, fo that the notes or other papers might have fallen out of the drawer which remained. Sapwell the Officer went and apprehended the pritbners, who confeffed that the notes were in their pnifeffion, and took him to two different places where the greateft part of the notes were found,and they correfponded with thole (worn to have been paid at the Banker's. Mr. Juaice LAURENCE told the Jury that the capital part of the charge mull be done away, be caufe it did not appear that the Prifoners had Bolen in a dwelling-houfe; but if in conveyiet the theft of drawers, the notes hacpened to is out, and they fecretcd them, it was a larceny, as much as if they had broken open the drawer and taken the notes out. Guilty of larceny. One was acquitted, viz. William Pearce, otherwife Brews, was tried upon an indidment, for that he, with a certain pitted, loaded with gun-powder and a leaden bullet, wil fully and malicioufiy did (hoot a t A nn H oug h ton on the 6th of Ordober lad, with intent to kill or maim her. Ann Houghton (wore, that (he lived at No. 39, in Eagleßreet, Red Lion-fquare, and kept a cellar there : that the prifoner was a perfon (he had known for Come months, teeing him coming to the next door frequently, tisavifin a yourg woman he kept there ; the had never had any quarrel with the prifoner, and did not know that the ever ex changed a word with him ; but as the was landing on the upper Re p of her cellar, the prifoner came out of No. 38, gle•fireet, next door to her, and (hot her. He had a light great e•sat on, or a brown one, another on his arm, of the fame cclour ; a ftriped waiftcoat ; a piaol in his hand. She faw him by the light in the paffage; could not miflake him; was fore he was the man; hoped not to fee the. Kingdom of Heaven, nor to breath any more, if he was not the man : (he was perfally fober ; had been much dihreffed that day becaufe her land lord had taken her goods for rent, &c. &c. The prifoner, (he faid, having gone a few yards into the ftreet, fired at her, (hot her on the head; the loft her (cafes, and found herfelf afterwards in the Hof-