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rallallinteralswelarmeleggvrii bt subseruent conduct leaves no doubt that she would have 'len faithful to her promise, we can never too much deplore the pe glect ro make known this repeal, whether it be attributable to use French Government or our own. if to the former belong the guilt of this 'duplicity and false hood, every motive of interest, and every incitement of duty call oudly upon our Administration, to proclaim this disgraterttl tupohition to the American people ; not only, as it would serve to develope the true character and policy of France, to acquit our ni.,•0l officers of a suppression too serious to be overlooked or forgiven. But whatever may be the true state of this mysterious trans action, the premptness with which Great Britain hastened to repeal her Orders, before the declaration of war by the United States was known to her, and the restoration of an Immense amount of property, then within her power, can leave but little doubt, that the war, on our part, was premature, and still less, that the perseve rence in it, after that repeal was known, was impeeper, impolitic, and unjust. It was imptopse—because it manifested, in this instance, a dis trust in the gond faith and disposition to peace, of a nation, from which we had just received a signal proof of both. It was impolitic—hecause it gave countenance to the charge, of * subservience to the views of France, and of an ulterior design of co opetating with her in the profligate and enormous project of subjugating the rest of Europe. It was unjust—because , the evidence afforded by the prompt repeal of the Orders in Council, ou Ist to have satisfied us that Great Britain was sincerely disposed to maintain and preserve pacific relations with the United States; and all wars ate unjust, the objects of which can be attained by negotiation. It Wel unjust—because the whole history of our diplomatic Intercourse with Great Britain shows, that we never induced her to believe, that we considered the impressment of her own seamen on board our merchant ships as a reasonable ground of war; and we had never induced her to believe, that we consi deredthe impressment of her own seamen on board our mer chant ships, as a reasonable ground of war; and we had never offered her the alterna'ive of war, or a relinquishment of this practice. Is tug: unjust—because the pretensions and claims, on the one side and the other, although attended with difficulties, were not irreeoncileable. Great Britain did not claim the right to impress one nstive seamen ; she disavowed the practice in all cases when the fact was made known to her; she restored, on legal evi dence; and she recently offered to return all who were of that description, of whom a list should he furnished by our Govern ment ; and that she hpd many years before made such offers of fair and amicable arrangement of this whole subject, as to two distinguished Members of our present Cabinet, appeared " both honourable and advantageous." It war unjust—because we had not previously taken all the reasonable steps on our part to remove her complaints of the seduction and employment of her seamen. This is made man:- , fest by the conduct of the same Congress which declared the war, they having admitted thepropriety of obviating those corn. plaints by an Act passed subsequent to the commencement of hostilities. No state in the Union can have a greater interest, or feel a stronger desire to protect commerce, and maiistaio the legiti mate rights of seamen, than this Commonwealth. Owners of one-third of all the navigation, and probably furnishing nearly one half of all the native Seamen of the United States, we are best. • enabled to appreciate the extent of their sufferings ; Reel must also be. presumed to sympathise with them more sincerely, than the citizens of States, destitute of commerce, and whose sons are not engaged in its prosecution, unless it he admitted that the sufferers,their parents, relatives, and friends, are less interested in heir welfare and protection, than those who are united to them, only, by the feeble ties of political con nexion. With all the means of information, furnished by every mo tive of duty, and every inducement of interest, we are con. strained to say, that this evil of impressment has been grossly exaggerated; that we have reason to believe, an honest and fair proposal, as honestly and fairly executed to exclude the reinjects of Great Britain from our service, would have much more effec-' tually relieved our own seamen, and more essentially advanced their Interest than a retort to war; that the trus luterint of the United States ceincile svi>a the policy adopted by all other countries, and env we should be more independent, our seamen would be better protected, and our country eventually more prosperous, by renouncing altogether the pretension of screening , and employing British seamen. The doctrine of natural allegiance is ton well founded, has been too long established, and is too Consonant with .he perma nent interest, the pine end independence of all nations, to be disturbed, fur the purpose of substituting in its place, certain visionary notions, to which the French Revolution gave birth, and which, though long since exploded there, seem still to have an unhappy influence in our country. Having then found the avowed causes of the war, and especially the motives for a perseverance in it, so wholly inadequate, to justify the adoption of that policy, we have hen obliged to resort to miter, and more concealed motives. We cannot, however, without the most conclusive evidence, believe, although the measures and language of some high public functionaries indicate the fact, that ambition, and not justice, a lust of conquest, and not a defence of endangered rights, are among the real causes of perseverance in our present hostilities. Must we then add another example to the catalogue of Repub lics, which have been ruined by a spirit of foreign conquests ? Have we no regard to the solemn professions we have so often repeated; none to the example, none to the precepts of Wash- , ington ? Is it possible, either to acquire, or to maintain, eaten s:ve foreign conquests without powerful standing armies ? And did such armies ever long permit the people, who were so im prudent as to rise and maintain them, to enjoy their liberties ? Instances of military oppression have already occurred among us; and a w-tchful people, jealous of their rights, must have ob served some attempts to controul their elections, and to prostrate the civil before the military authority. If the language of some then high in office—if the establishment of a chain of military posts in the iiverior of our country—if the extensive preparations which are made in quarters, where invasion cannot he feared, and the total abandonmen: and neglect of that part of our emery, where alone it can be apprehended, have excited our anxiety and alarm, as to the real projects of oar Rulers, these emotions have not been diminished by the recent invasion, seizure, and occupa tion of the territory of a peaceable and unoffending neighbour. If war must have been the portion of these United States; If they were destined ldy Providence to march the downward road to slavery, through foreign conquest and military usurpation, your Remonstrant; regret, that sash a moment, and such an oc • cation should have lic•:n chosen for the experiment; that while the oppres.ed nation, of Europe are making a magnanimous and glorious effort against the common enemy of free States, we alone, the slescendants of the Pilgrims, sworn foes to civil and religious slavery, should voluntarily co-operate with the oppres sor, to bind other nations in his dining; thA while diverting the forces of one of his enemies from the mighty conflict, we should endanger the defenceless territories of another, in whose ports the flag of our independence was first permitted to wave, now struggling for existence beneath his iron grasp. Permit the Legislature of this Commonwealth, whose citizens have been ever zealous in the cause of freedom, and who contri buted their utmost efforts for the adoption of that Constitution, under which, in former times, we enjoyed so much prosperity, most respectfully, but earnestly, to entreat and conjure the Cc n stituted Authorities of the nation, by the regard due to our liber ties, to our union, to our civil compact, already infringed, to pause before it be he too late. Let the sober, considerate, and honourable Representative: of our sister States, in which di& Conncils prevail, ask themselves — Were not the territories of the United States sufficiently ex tensive, befure the annexation of Louisiana, the projected re duction of Canada, and seizure of West Florida? Had we not millions upon millions of acres of uncultivated wilderness, scarcely explored by civilized man ? Could these acquisitiens be I ell as conquered provinces, with out powerful standing armies ? and would they not, like other infant solonies, serve as perpetual - drains of the blood and treo g sure of these United States ? Or is it seriously intended to adopt the dangerous project of Panning them into new States, and ad mitting them into the Union, without the express consent of every member of the original confederacy ? Would not such a measure have a direct tendency to destroy the obligations of that compact, by which alone our union is maintained ? Already have we witnessed the formation and admission of one State beyond the territorial limits of the United States, and this too Iu opposition to the wishes and efforts, as as well as in violatios of the rithWend interests of smile of the parties to that tompatt, and the determination to continue that practice, and thereby to extend our republic to regions hitherto unexplored or peopled by inhabitants whose habits, language, religion and laws are repugnant to the genius of our Government, is openly avow ed ? Against a practice so hostile to the rights, the intertsts,the safe: y of this State, and so destructive to her political power, so subversive of the spirit of the Constitution, and the very princi ples upon which it is founded, your Remotistrants, in the name and behalf of the Commonwealth of Massacludetts, feel it their duty to enter their most deliberate and solemn protest. If an extensive, confederated Republic is to be triaintained,and we most fervently pray that it may, it can enlrbe by a free com munication of the grievances felt, and the evils apprehended, by any of its members; and by a prompt and liberal remedy. The same spirit of concession which dictated the formation and adop tion of the constitution, should be kept in permanent and perpe tual exercise. . The blessings of Government, its vigilance, its protection, its rewards, z•hould be equally and impartially distributed, and its burdens as equally and fairly imposed. No portion of the union ought to be sacrificed to the local interest, passions or aggrandize meet of others. It cannot, however, be denied, that causes have occur' ta disturb the balance, which, when adjusted, was in untied to form the principal security of our present compact.— But the remedy is in the power of Congress, and we look to their wisdom for its efficacious and speedy application. The chief motive which influenced the Eastern States to abo lish the old confederation, and to surrender a great share of their own sovereign power, as appears by the recent history of those times, was the expectation, that their commerce would be better protected by the national Government. The hardy people of the North stood in no need of the aid of the South, to protect them in their liberties. For this they could safely rely, as they always had done, on their own valour. But it was an important object with them, that every aid, facility, and en couragement should be given to that commerce upon which their prosperity almost exclusively depended. To ensure this great object, a very unequal proportion of pa litical power was conceded to the Southern States. The repre sentatiou of slaves, was the price paid by the Northern States for the stipulated protection and encouragement of their trade, and for an agreement of the Southern Members of the union that the public burdens should be apportioned according to representa tion. Experience, however, has proved, that although the con tract, on our part, has been faithfully fulfilled, both these consi derations have utterly failed. indications of a spirit hostile to commerce were early visible among some of those who now controul the destinies of our Re public. But the Father of his country then presided in our Coun cils, and this spirit was vanquished. Under the influence of the wise, and lib' ral, and magnanimous system adopted and pursued by his administration, commerce wag indeed cherished, extended and protected; and the stipulations of the constitution were ful filled, in sincerity and good faith. Since that period, however. the same spirit bas arisen, and has exhibited an unrelenting severity in the exercise of its sway— until, at length, by a series of restrictions, utterly destructive of the calculations of the merchant—by prohibitions and double du ties—by embargoes and non-intercourse—and lastly, by war, the poor remains of that commerce which once covered the ocean with its sails, have been nearly annihilated. Nor has the other part of the consideration been better ful filled.—Taxation has never, except in a single instance, and that to one hundredth part only of the revenue raised under the Con stitution, been apportioned according to representation; and with what reluctance it was then submitted to by the Southern States, and with what tardiness it was even partially collected, public records will determine. Of tile two hundred and fifteen millions of dollars divided by the United States, under the operation of the Federal Govern ment, Massachusetts has paid upwards of forty millions—art amount beyond all proportion to her political weight in the union. If therefore the revenues derived from this Commonwealth, and paid into the National Treasury, had been preserved in her own, she would have been fully competent to her own defence, and would not have bren obliged to m:ieit, nor experiense the injustice of a refusal, of the arms for which she has long since ,paid, and which were her due from the General Government.— What good cause can be assigned for this refusal, your Remon strants are wholly unable to determine. No discretion is, by law, vested in any Officer of the Government, in relation to this sub ject. Its provisions are simple, plain, and peremptory. Your Remonstr. nts, therefore, cannot but express their astonishment that the State of Massachusetts, possessing a sea-coast more ex tensive and populous than that of any other state in the Union, and a defenceless frontier by land, should not be entirely aban doned by the Government whose duty it is to protect her, but should also be refused the arms for her own defence to which she is by law entitled. They cannot, however, permit them selves to doubt that Congress will forthwith adopt such mea sures as will render to this Commonwealth that justice which the Executive Department has refused. If the war, in which we have been rashly plunged, was under taken to appease the resentment, or secure the favour of France, deep and humiliating must be our disappointment. For although the Emperor is lavish in his professions of lova for the Ames:- can people," applauds our ready self-devotion, and declares, that " our commerce and our prosperity are within the scope Of bis policy," yet no reparation has been made or offered, for many outrages, indignities, and intuits ke has initiated on our Govern ment, nor for the unnumbered millions pt which he has plums dered our citizens. And when we consider the course of policy pursued by our Rulers, in their external relations and commercial restricions, front the prohibition of our trade to St. Domingo, to the declara tion of war against Great Britain—that the course often heeived his opeu approbation, and was not *infrequently conformable to the system which he himself had adopted—when we consider also the mysterious secrecy which has veiled the correspondence of the two Governments from our view—and, above all, when we consider, that in many instances, the most important mea sures of our Government have been anticipated, in Pals, long before they were known to the American people, we cannot conceal our anxiety and alarm for the honour and independence of our country. And we most fervently pray, that the sacrifices we have already made, like the early concessions of Spain and Portugal, of Prussia and Sweden, may not be the preludes to new demands and new concessions ; and that we may be preser ved from all political connexion with the common enemy of civil liberty. To the constituted authorities of our country, we have now stated our opinions, and made known our complaints—opinions, the result of deliberate reflection, and complaints " wrung from us by the tortures of that cruel policy" which has brought the good people of this Commonwealth to the verge of ruin. A po licy which has annihilated the commerce so essential to their prosperity—encreased their burdens, whilst it has diminished their means of support—provided for the establishment of an immense standing army, dangerous to their liberties, ani irre concileable with the genius of their constitution—destroyed their just and constitutional weight in the general government— and, by involving them in a disastrous war, has placed in the power of the enemy, the controul of the fisheries; a treasure of more value to the country than all the territories for which we are contending, and which furnished the only means of subsist ence to thousands of our citizens—the great nursery of our sea men—and the right to which can never be abandoned by New England. Under such circumstances, silence towards the government would be treachery to the people. In making this solemn repre sentation of our sufferings and our dangers, we have been influ enced only by the duty which we owe to our constituents and our country, to our consciences, and the memory of our fathers. Anil to the Searcher of all hearts we appeal, for the purity of our motives, and tke sincerity of our declarations. Far front wisWng to embarrass the Administration in any of their negotiations for peace, we cannot but express our regret that they should not have evinced a sincere desire for this great object, by accepting some of the repeated overtures made by the enemy for the suspension of hostilities. And permit us, in conclusion, most earnestly to request, that measures may immediately be adopted, to stay the sword of the destroyer; and to prevent the further effusion of human blood; that our invading armies may be forthwith recalled within our own territories • and that every effort of our rulers may he speedily directe d to the attainment of a just and honourable peace; that mutual confidence and commercial prosperity may be again restored, to our distracted and suffering country ; and that by an upright and faithful administration of our Government, in the true spirit of the constitution, its blessings may be equ ally dif. fused to every portion of the Union. In the Horse of Representltives, June 14, 1813, read and accepted. Sent up for TIMOTHY PICLOW, Speaker. In Senate, June IS, 1813, read and concurred. JOIIN Pignuts, President. SUltlar MUSES. CROYDON, AUGUST.IO. Yesterday, at three o'clock, Lord ELLENDOROUQH and Mr. Justice HEATH opened the Commission for holding the Assizes for this County. They were at tended with a numerous procession of the Gentry of this County. Lord ELLENBOROUGH sat on the Civil Side, and Mr.. Justice HEATH on the Criminal Side, and they went. to Court at nine o'clock this morning. • CIVIL SIDE. DOE AND THE MAYOR OF LONDON 47. FENIVICK. This was an action against the defendant, a gla. zier, who held two houses in St.*George's Fields, being part of the Bridge House estates, and of which he refused to deliver up possession to the City of London. it was proved that the houses in question were for merly held by Mr. Hedger, as lessee, of the City of London ; that the defendant afterwards, upon pe tition, was allowed to hold them of the City, he un dertaking to quit them at six months notice ; but he afterwards refused either to quit them or pay any rent ; in consequence of which they were compelled to bring the present action of ejectment. These facts being proved, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. [UV lest, %stet •••%•11011•our ••, •••••• ..... ~........., not a defence of endangered rights, are a perseverance hi our present hostilities. Must we then add another example to lics, which have been ruined by a spirit I Have we no regard to the solemn profs repeated; none to the example, none to ington ? Is it possible, either to acquire, s:ve foreign conquests without powerful did such armies ever long permit the p, prot!ent as to raise and maintain them, u Instances of military oppression have ; us; and a w^tchful people, jealous of the served some attempts to eonwoul their et the civil before the military authority. men high in office-4f the establishment . posts in the in'erior of our country—if th 1 which are made in quarters, where inva , and the total abandonment and neglect of 1 where alone it can be apprehended, have I alarm, as to the real projects of oar Rule; not b..en diminished by the recent invasic tion of the territory of a peaceatee and ur If war must have been the portion of I they were destined by Providence to mat to slavery, through foreign conquest ar your Remonstrants regret, that sa - li a nit i • cation should have bc•:a chosen for the e the oppressed nations of Europe are maki glorious effort against the common ener, alone, the descendants of the Pilgrims, Si religious slavery, should voluntarily co-o; stir, to bind other nations in his chains; forces of one of his enemies from the migl I endanger the defenceless territories of ar ; i the flag of our independence was first pet struggling for existence beneath his iron e Permit the Legislature of this Common have been ever zealous in the cause of fre • buted their utmost efforts for the adoptin ußder which, in former times, we enjoy, most respectfully, but earnestly, to entre: ;glutted Authorities of the nation, by the ; tics, to our union, to our civil compact pause before it be he too late. Let the honourable Representative: of our sister Councils prevail, ask themselves— ; • Were not the territories of the United itensive, before the annexation of Louisi; duction of Canada, and seizure of West r Had we not millions upon millions of wilderness, scarcely explored by civilized Could these sicquisitians be / eld as con( out powerful standing armies ? and woo infant ..olonies, serve as perpeoial drains 1 sure of the-se United States ? (Jr is it eerie I the dangerous project of forming them ire ! i stinting item into the Union, without I I every member of the original confederacy ? me.oure have a direct tendency to destroy k compact, by which alone our union is ma Already have we witnessed the forma - . one State beyond the territorial limits of 1 ; this too in %paid= to the wishes and e A 1; THE KING et. LITTLUIELD AND OTHERS. This was as indictment against the defendants for an assault. The prosecution was instituted by Mr. Masters, an eminent ship-builder at Blackwall, and was for an as sault committed by some of his workmen against ano ther of the name of Davis. It was stated that the ship-builders, like other mechanics, had formed clubs, by which they excluded certain persons from workhlg in the dock-yards, unless they submitted to certain re gulations of these clubs, and those who did nOt com ply they stigmatised as duds. Davis stated, that on the 24th of September he was walking, when he met Littlefield and the others. Littlefield said—" here comes a b-- duck," and immediately jostled him ; he turned round and save him a push on the nape of the neck, upon which Lit tlefield gave a stick, or something which he had in his hand, to a companion, and came up to him, and without any more provocation gave him several blows in the face ; the effect of which was to close up one eye, and he remained blind with it for several days. The Jury found the defendants Guilty. RUSEEL V. POULTON. This was an action upon the warrantry of a horse. The plaintiff alledged that he bought a horse of the defendant, which he warranted sound, a good worker, and'one that would go quiet in harness. The breach of the contract alladged was, that he would not work in harness ; but it was admitted he was quiet enough, for he would not stir, for - the mo; ment he felt the collar he stopped short and would not proceed one inch. The witness produced to prove the warrantry, however, failed in the most material circumstance, for he only proved that the defendant warranted him sound, and. a good worker. On this evidence the plaintiff was nonsuited. CROWN SIDE. Willoughby was indicted for wilful and cor rupt perjury, in swearing, in a cause in the Marshalsea Court, that he had not received the sum of Je2 7s. for the costs in an action in that Court, when it was al ledged that, in truth and fact, he had received that sum. This prosecution originated, as was proved, out of the discussions which have lately agitated the Marshalsea Court, and Mr. Crutchley was stated to furnish the money' for this prosecution. The defendant was the son of the senior attorney of that Court, and it became a question whether he had received the costs of a certain action pending in that Court ? ,He swore that he had not; upon which the defendant in that action indicted him for the per jury ; but before the witnesses for the prosecution had closed, the Learned Judge said there was such con tradiction in the case, that he directed the Jury to acquit the defendant. Verdict—Not Guilty. At Worcester Assizes,D.Jackson, for stealing plate from Malvein Hotel ; P. Gittins, for sheep-stealing; W. and J. Cope, for house-breaking at Yardley Ann Williams, for house-breaking at Bordesley -- Sarah Cot bet, for house-breaking at Cotheridge • H. White, J. Smith, and J. Taylor, for house-brealcing at Franklcy ; and J. Eaton, for horse-stealing, were condemned ' • W. and J. Cope are expected to suffer. John Mitchell, for aiding the escape of a French offi cer on parole, was sentenced to seven years transpor tation. This man's case is singular. He is a native of Russia, but resided at Guernsey, and trading from that island, was taken by the French ; but escaped from France, through the assistance of a Frenchman, I who afterwards became himself a prisoner in this country. Mitchell, to requite' the obligation he owed to the Frenchman, assisted his attempt to escape ; but both were apprehended. ELOPEMENT.—About a fortnight since the wife of a farmer, near Tenterden, Kent, absented herself from her husband and six children ; and after much inquiry it was discovered she had gone off with a corporal of the waggon train, who had obtained leave of absence for 14 days. She had taken with her £35 in Bank notes, and most of her daubing. The culprits were traced to a lodging at Kensington, and on Monday I the husband forced an entrance, and got about half the money back ; but his faithless rib refused to return home. Two young men, natives of France, lately made their escape from that country to avoid the Conscript laws. They found means to :;et off in boat, and were taken up by vessel bound ' to Ireland. They state, that there are scarcely any young or middle aged men to be seen in Paris, all being drained away to serve in the armies; that the tyrannical system of BONAPARTZ excites the greatest discontent and aver- sion ; and that the generality of the people would re joice to embrace any opportunity of a change of Go vernment ; but the system of espionage is kept up with so mush rigour * that every man is afraid to trust his neighbour with his thoughts. Notthing is more common, they say, than for a man, who is imprudent enough to express his disapprobation of the Govern ment, to disappear at once, and be'no more heard of ; probably immured in some dungeon, or privately put to death. It is said, that victims of this description are incomparably more numerous now than under any former Government of France. POLICE. 130*-S?REET.-.-Last evening the neighbourhood East of Covent-garden was kept in a state of riot and contusion, arising , from a false report being raised, -waiter the following circumstances :—A • woma ' med Carrol, was brought to the Office, cl.arge t '[ll interrupting a broker, who was employed to Amin her goods, in a home in Swan-yard, of whit, l l ihe had improperly got possession. The house be. 'longs to a Mts. Solamons, who resides in White-hart. yard, and who employed Carrol to clean it, it being unoccupied ; instead of.which she removed het goods and children in, and took possession of it. Mrs. & refused to acknowledge her as a tenant, and Mrs. C. refused to quit the premises. After a full investiga. tion before Mr. BAKER, the sitting Magistrate, it watt agreed to give up all claim for rent, providing Mrs. Carrol would leave the home. This she ~greed to; but afterwards abused her foully, and said, when the lived with Mrs. S. four months ago, she ( Mrs. S.) knocked a man down, who frequented her house, and had murdered him with a quart bottle, and that the body was either buried in her cellar or the privy. She continued to .circulate this report in the neighbour. hood, which drew a considerable crowd of people about the house, who were about to demolish it, and threatened vengeance on the person of Mrs. Clark, the parish constable, soon arrived, but was on. able to disperse them. He then procured the assist ance of a party of the.patrole belonging to the Office, who had no better success; on the contrary, the mob continued to increase, and insisted on Mrs. Solomon", being brought to punishment ; until, under ill the circumstances, it was thought right that she should surrender herself, which she accordingly did. In the evening she underwent an examination before Mr. BARER, and Mrs. Carrol was, brought forw e ltd to sub. stantiate her charge, but in which she totally The Magistrate, in consequence, ordered her into tits. tody for raising the riot; and she was committed for want of sureties.—The mob did not disperse till near nine o'clock. Harrort-Gattbm—Yesterday a decently dressed woman was fully committed, shargeawith going into the shop of Mr. Gresn..shoemaker, ire Ray -street, Clerkenwell, on Monday, under pretence of purchasing a' pair of child's shoes, when she stole three pair of men's, and one pair of women's shoes. . UNION-HALL. -1l! Swift, a manufacturer of fire works in Falcon -court, was summoned before the sitting Magistrate, and fineti .165 and costs, under the Act, for selling fireworks of different sorts, such traffic being illegal. At the time the information was laid, Goff, the officer; also seized.ktonsiderible quantity of •firevarsks.(exceeding .Bcwt.), .which he found in the defendant's house. Conceising the pro. fesSicrn in which the defendant was engaged, and, his keeping.sa large a quantity of inflammable materials • in his house, to be illegal; and a Matter of serious portince to the ptiblie.itiasmitch is the safety of the whole of that . populiiits neighbourhood was. endan gered by it, Goff very laudably, and at his own risk and expense, preferred . a bill of indictment _against Swift, at the Sessions,' for a nuisance. The Grand Jury found a true hill, declaring at the same time, that it was not only a nuirance, but-a moat dangerous one. The matter, therefore, stands for trial at the ensuing Sessions, Thursday, Mary Chamberlain, .convicted at the late Portsmouth Sessions of f4tune-telling, which pretended art she made subseryieo to the more bass crime of betraying a, servant girl to the arms of a miscreant seducer, stood in the pillory, for one hour, at the Unicorn-gate, Portsea, opposite to the place which has been defiled by her residence. The popu lace were numerous, and they liberally skewed their indignation at the wretch, by throwing Mud, rotten eggs, filth, &c. at her. She was aftervards re-con. ducted to the gaol, for the remainder of her punish. ment. The poor ignorant girl has been admitted into a Female Penitentiary near London. An Inquest was held at the Marlborough Head, Great Marlborough-street, on Saturday, on the body of a working man, who fell down in an apoplectic fit. Monday, an Inquest was also held at the Noah's Ark, George's-court, Oxford -street, on the body of —\ Lingham, a higler, who was found dead in the street by a watchman.—Verdict, in both instances—Died by the visitation of GOD. BIRTH. On the Ist instant, at his house in lames's-court, Edinburgh. the wife of Mr. James Crawford, of a daughter. It is 20 Team since Mrs. Crawford was delivered of her List child. MARRIED. July 213, Rev. J. Warneford, Fellow of Jesus College, Cam. bridge, to Charlotte Ann, second daughter of Colapel Sweetmg. of Woodlands, Somersetshire. DIED. At the Naval Hospital, Halifax, of his wounds, Mr. John Sam• well, Midshipman, late of the Shannon frigate. HIGH WATER AT LANDON BRIDGE TA-MORROW: ..... . ...... 1 minutes after 3 Afternoon .. 1.8 m'nates after 3 TO THOMAS TAYLOR, ESQ. - IBEnleave to inform you, that ever since the year 1790, I had been of acted with the Lues Venerea ; which from its obstinately resisting every course of Medicine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and undergoing several sever* courses of salivation and twice discharged from the Hospital,witk - little relief, would appear to be of the most itriteterate nature. In the spring of last yearnsy disorder had got to such a head, in nearly to put a period to my existence. In this state, I was re; commended by 'Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so great a cure by them here,) to take your Leake's Patent Pills, which I began to do on the 26th May ; in the course of a fortnigir I began to receive benefit. In little more than a month I became, by your liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from m y for mer complaint's, have recovered my former spirits and strength. and am become jolly and fat, In which state having continued many months to the astonishment of . all who knew me, I an* at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but beg you for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my case at public as possible, as I shall on every occasion—in so doing yO will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful -obedient vt ry humble ser vant, ALEX. MURKER., Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh. • Prepared and sold by rte sole Pmopr iemr i Thomas Taylor, Member of the Royal College of Surgeonsin Edon, at his house No. 9, New Bridge-street; They are also sold by Ms appointment, at the Perfumer's, No. 33, St. Alban's-street, Pall Mall ; the Toy-shop, No. 103, Ox ford-street ; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill, nearlyep posite the Monument; and by one person in every considerable town in England, &c. in boxes only its. 9d. racis t sealed up with full and plain directions, whereby psi sons 'father sex may cure hemselves yells ease and secrecy. N. B. Every Box sold in Grist Britain it rede3 up with a gam in which,by favour or the Commissioners, is printed at the Stamp Office " F. Taylor, Ni.n, New Bridge-itrtet." LONDON: PuOlMed Pencesl by Lavas. KINT. Plebe: Place • anal there, and at the Star-Otice, Tempbe•bar.