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• THE AltNtY. • R LITTER FROM THE SECRLTARY A a r WAR TO wojE gAL OR OTHER OFFIONICS COMMANDING HIS Mita J OY'S FORCES, RTC. Wat-Orrice, lAN. 10, 1814, Its, p r ime Regent having taken into consideration the ex aspences to which a Regimental Officer is sbbject; ce of succeeding without a regular Staff Appointment tt4/, c ommand of his• blaje sty's troops abro'ad, by the death or • of the Commanding Officer; his Royal Highness is in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to order, 17,twiep a command shall so devolve upon a Held Officer, or s ward inferior tank, the O ffi cer succeeding to the tettipo fe command shall, if possessing the rank of a Field Officer, re an allowance of 20. per diem, and if below that rank, an ~w snc e of 10$. per diem ; the same to be paid for the period ion which he shall actually exercise the Command, and in ad. gd a o to his regimental pay and allowance& you will be pleased to notify this 'communication to the troops oas your command, with special directions that the same be i fdy a w ned as a standing order on the station. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your must obedieut bumble Servant, (Signed) PALIIERSTbN. Lieutenant -General RO*LAND HILT, it is confi aendy reported, is to Lave one of the vacant Red Ribbons. Four hundred of the Guards reached Portsmouth yester d a y, and were immediately embarked for Por tu;aL y ester day morning additional troops of the Hotse Guards (blue) marched from Reading to Notting lin; and orders are issued for the dispatch of two i b r a r y regiments, in consequence of the unfortunate existence of the continued destruction of private pro perty in that nei l .;:iliourhood. That excellent Regiment the Royal Meath Militia, c ommanded by the Marquis of HEADFORD, en.h.trk ed last %vett at Cave, in the transports which con 'eyed the Third West York Militia—they are bound to Pnrtsmouth, under convoy of the ROLLA. Twenty of the Meath that did not volunteer, h :ve I - lurched far It is stateJ, that the next reqiments that will fill , low, are the South Coil:, Galway, Kerry, South Mayo, and Queen's County. The Garrison of Cork consists of a Brigade of Artillery, Brunswick Dragoons, depot of the 2.1 Ger sun Cavalry, Third West York, Northumberland, and Kerry Regiments of Militia The 7th Dragoon Guards, fmm the Sussex Dis trict, are to relieve the 2Sd Light Dragoons in the o at duty of Kent, and the Ist division is expected to w i ve a t Hyrhe, by the route of the coast, on the Ist I of February. The 23d are under orders to proceed to Guildford Barracks. As A testimony of respect from the military officers stationed in Canterbury, a grand entertainment was given on Monday last, at the Fountain Inn, to Lieu tenant-General Nicou.s, on the occasion of his relin quishing the command of the Kent district. Major- General HAY presided at the head of a company of fifty, in which were included the officers of the Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Wins, and the Field Officers of all the different corps. Usenet Stator.—Report states that General Si tio& and the Frenchmen concerned with him, were a:intern consequence of a plot to arm the French risollerS of war in this country, and to facilitate the landing of the French in Cornwall, which the Gene ral had recommended to his Government. How far these rumours are founded, it is hard to ascertain. It is, however, we believe, pretty well known that the escape of French prisoners of war was organised into aregular system ; that they had their regular routes, their regular lodgings appointed ;—and that the smugglers from our coasts were bound, as the price tither re-admission into French ports, to bring such and such prisoners of war as were designated to them. —When we consider this active intercourse of French primers with France, their number in this country, and the facilities afforded to them by the too great number of their countrymen suffered in England, we mast own that there must be serious grounds of ap prehension, especially when we recollect the. threa tenol vv explosion" by which Bonaparte promises to end the war between the two countries, and Ole mys terious escape and residence of Lucien in England. lie, too, sent his child* ens' Governess lately to France, no doubt to acquaint his brother with the Progress he has made itt the poem of Charlemagne, the adopted prototype of Napoleon. Vie believe, how ever, that the more immediate grounds of accusation against General Simon are, as we first stated, to hare caused the death of a French prisoner of war, who, on account of his honourable conduct, had obtained his exchange from this Government. On this subject, we underst:md, from good autho• that a letter was found, addressed by the Gene ra to one an itinerant laceman, desiring him to acquaint friend L---- (the chemist arrested) aa that Imbed taken such measures as would secure the pu nishment of Detaches (the man shot in France) so justly deserved for his infamous conduct." We are even given to understand, that General Simon, according to the present system of French lo gics, not only owns the tact, but even assumes no un common merit from it. In a letter he addressed to a man in high situation,. since his ar restat i on , h e i s said to have stated , that no doubt he would be surprised on hearing that a man' of honour had broken his parole, but this he should attribute to the conduct of the 'Vrinsport Board to wards French Prisoners, compared to which, the con duct of Algiers, Tunis, and Marcie, was mildness itself. He was less intimidated by the idea of a fwilltule (of being shot) than by that of a Ist - ism-- Notwithstanding the fortune of war, which had thrown him into the hands of the English, he still considered himself as a Frenchman, and as authoris ed by the laws of nations, to acquaint his Govern ment with the infamous co iduct of a Frenchman, who had betrayed his own countrymen. The General also doells with great indignation on the attestation of his friends, or supposed friends ; in ' I t ) ; the General's letter, which we hope will be Published, is a curious morceau, well worthy I distin guished place in The Afonitenr. General Simon has lately, we believe four or five months aso, been promoted from the rank of Gene ralof Brigade, to that a General of Division ; we b elieve he has also been created a Baron. Bonaparte u not in the habit of rewarding his weruccesefe/Gene• eels for their mittieny serficea. 8 N4I'AL INTELLIGPYCI. Aimless. sty. 1 New-perk and Halifat - 8 O Dublin - - - . I O Waterford - - - 2 O Cadit . . - - 1 I • ' Gil( rnsey - - - 0 1 Jeisey 4 . .. - 0 FALMOUTH, JANUARY 22. Arrivel the Traveller transport C E, from Lisbon, in 15 days : sailed in company with nine other trans ports, under convoy of a sloop of war, and pasted from then some Jays since ; on the 19th, saw a ship with the head of her mainmast gone, about 10 leagues to the Westward of Scilly. Another ship has arri ved, supposed to be ono of the nine transports.—Also arrived the Lord Collingwood, TnEwanvts, from London ; and the Venus, D AVIS, from Portsmouth. —Wind E.S.E. and very strong, PLYMOUTH, JANUARY £3. Sailed the LYRA, of 10 guns, for Basqtie Roads ; and the ROTA, 38, for a cruize off Brest:—Came up harbour to refit, the PIKEne, 38, Captain HH.LYER. Admiral Sir CHARLES COTTON 11AS shifted his'fl.lg► (White) from the ROTA to the BULWARK, 74. guns, in Hamoaze. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. t. No arrivals.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Zes;ol3l.i and FumtusE, with the Mediterranean convoy ; the AGIN6nIRT, 'rviii,ts, and LIGHTNING, on a cruize ; and the ROVER, for Plymouili.—Orders are arrived• here to get all the line-of-battle ships, at Spithead, ready for sailing immediately. The cotvoy for the Tagus made a move this morning, but as there is some west in the winclit is thought they will not.sail. DEAL, JANUAaY 24. Came down from the River the Earl St. Vincent and Larkins East Indiamen ; the American ship South Carolina, for Rio Janeiro ; and his Istijesty's ship NYMPHEN:, from Chatham, and remain. YARMOUTH, JANUARY 24. Arrived the TIIIIESIIEIt gun-brig, with convoy from Heligoland—one of her convoy, sloop rigged and belonging to London, laden with cotton, was run on board of, and immediately sunk—the crew saved. Also arrived the STARLING, Lieut. Narmt, and remains in the Road with the Admiral's flag ship and the Acute gun-brig. Sailed the PitovioEscE, 16 guns, bound to Ireland. Wind N.W. The Vigilant, SrEvExs, from Demerara to Liver pool" was taken the 13th inst. by the Brectois teer. On the 19th she captured the Charlotte, GRIP FIT H, from Lisbon, and gave her up : the Charlotte arrived at Penzance on Wednesday last. The El Dulce Nombre de Jesus, Mace, from Ca diz tp Vera Cruz, put into Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 16th of November, leaky. The Pearl, —, from St. Andrew's, fonndere* off the Banks of Newfoundland, having been run foul of by another vessel. The GreenhaM t SHERIDAN, from Jamaica, parted from the Quebec, HARVEY, and Anna Maria, 15th December, in lat. 29. 43. N. long. 63. 57. W. in a gale, all well. The Elizabeth, AMARA hIS, from Norway to Lon don, put into Heligoland in distress, and is sold. The Juno, of Hull, laden with corn, is on shore near A ldborough. The Margaret, MAY, sailed from Heligoland, for Yarmouth, on the 13th inst. and was towed back on the 16th, in distress. The Lady Gambier, of London, has run on the rocks off Belem, but great part of her cargo and stores having been taken out, it is expected s'oe will be got off. ARRIVF.D—At Limerick, the Conwt, Callum, from Oporto. At the Cape of Good Pope, Haring, Templar, from London. At Li.bon, Two Brothers, I.under, and Mary, Lineohi, from New foundland ; Gratidas, from Pernantbucco ; El;za Blrker, —, front 'Waterford ; Eliza, I.ane, ont Limerick ; Piedade, Alma., and Owar,l.ambert, from Cork ; liercules, Pyn..tor, from Liverpool; and Diana, Lacey, from I.ime&k. At Oporto, Tmn and Mary, Painter, front I.isbon. At Dublin,. New Liberty, I'ritchard, front London. At Gibraltar, Princess Mary, Goodstr, front London. The ship Jason, which was sunk in the King's Channel, in Waterford river, on Friday the 13th ult. was, after extraordinary exertion, and tinabating perseverance, got up on the night of Wednesday se nnight. 1 In the case of the American ship Femele, Cituou master, detained for a breach of the Orders in Coun cil, and brought to adjudication before the Court of Admiralty, on Tuesday last, Dr. Pitiutmon E moved the Court fur permission to introduce evidence to spew that the operation of the Decrees of Milan and Berlin had ceased. He stated; that if this fact could (as he was credibly informed it could) be proved, he should then think he might confidcntly contend be -1 fore the Court, that Americans would be entitled to the restoration .of their property, even though there was no formal revocation of the Orders in Council on the part of our Government. Sir W. &OTT, after inquiring whether the proofs 'suggested could be immediately produced; rejected the appli _cation. He thought the case in question must cid low the course of the other American cases—he could not presume a revocation of the Orders in Coun cil till it had been notified to him by Government ; and he suggested, that even if it could be :hewn that the French Decrees were revoked, there wou'd still be a question of law, whether a repeal of them, as to America alone, would be considered as a repeal by our Government. The following instance of French barbarity is ex tracted from the Gibraltar Chronicle :—" Upon re tiring from Igulitda, in Catalonia, the French, on the 10th of October, in order to save themselves the trouble of removing the sick and wounded, dug ditches, in which they buried alive all those whose cure would, in the opinion of the doctors, have re quired along time! There was among them a Lieut.- Colonel, who s e intreaties could not, any mote than the surplications. of the other wretches, soften the bea►:s or his barbarous companions!" LAI? 12+17ELLIG.EAVX. COCKPIT`, WHITEHALL, JANUARY 19. Before the'Lchis Commissioners of Appeal in Prize Causes. • Littit Mary., Shrouder master.—This American vessel, laden with tobacco, from Baltimore to a per mitted port in the North of Europe, was captured by the Desiree and Britomart. Their Lordsh;ps affirmed the sentence of the Court below, in condemning 514 and cargo. Elizabeth ) ?dowel' master.—This American vessel, on a voyage from Baltimore tl Tonnin i;en, was st iz ed in the river Ems, by the Blazer. Sentence of con demnation affirmed. Caroline, Arnie master.=-This vessel under Danish colours, ladeq with brandy, &c. from Naples to Lon don, was captured by the privateer Atilla, and car ried to Malta, and there condemned. Further proof directed. lohannes t:ovld•not del vet her catgo to any d ports of the Baltic, on her arrival, site was to retutn to England; instead of doing so, she bad been de tained atiCarlsham by the Agent upon a specul diens, • and in expectation of such a change of politics taking: place, as would at some time or other enable du plaintiff to deliver her cargo to advantage. The Cc lift granted a rule to chew cause. ADMIRALTY COURT, JAN. el. Success, Lowther shaster.—This vessel had been run On shore, and a claim of ialvage w.ts set up, in consequence of saving the cargo, amounting to about £1579. The Court decreed '25 guineas to the prin cipal, and £54. to 13 others, and exp.:nces. Jane, Logan master; Industry, Dennis master ; Female, Creagh, master ;—these Ante' ican vessels, being undefended, were condemned. Atalanta, NV illems master.—Ship and cargo were restored, subject to captor's expellees. . . Success, Sinith Mauer.—Judgment suspended till next Court day. Nye l'rove, Johansen master.—This vessel mis sailing in ballast—condemned. __ Experiment, Loft master.—No claim ; caigo con demnvd. Maria llnrnthen, Thorst molten—This vcssA was sailing under Danish colours, wi•li rye, dcs, Sec.— Restored. Ranger, Motley master.—This was a question of salvage, on the ground of recapture. Restitution decreed on payment of the usual salvage. CONSISTORY (MCAT, lAN. 24. POUGET V. TOM KIN S. This was a cau:tof nullity of marriage, brought by J. Pouget, Esq. the father of Wm. Peter Pouget, the 11110)a:id, on the ground of minority, he being only 16 at the time the same was solemnized between him and Lucretia Tornkins, a servant living in •he on the 28th of January, 1810, in the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn, by banns, in the nante of Wm. Potiget only, and this without the knowledge of his father. yn the part of the promoter of the snit it was contended, that the marriage was fraudulent, as the Marriage Act requires the parties to give in their true Clitisttan and surnames, by which twin?, and by that of Wm. Peter, he had , :onctantly gone and was known. On the other side it was contended, that the Marriage Act did not say that a party was to give in all his true Christian names, or that a marriage should be annulled for the want of giving in all ins names.—The Court (Sir Wt.t. *ora) said, it should take time till the next Court day to consider of its sentence. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 24. .CoOKE V. Allltossimitif. - This was an - action to recover damages - for an as sault, leiving the sum to the discretirtt of the Jui y. • Mr. Cooke, the plaintiff, is proprietor of the King's Head Tavern, Blackwell, and the defendant a Gelt• tlernan of respectable 1.1 tune. It appeared, that at the return:of the last East India fleet, Mr. Arrowsmieb• accompanied by two of his friends, returned from dining on board one of the Company's vessels, some what merry with wine. A quarrel had ensu d be. tweet' them and the seatennen, and they arrived at the public-house of the plaintiff pretty well enraged, as well as fitts:ered, with liqu or. Here, when they . entered, one of the defendant's companions swote _ COURT OF ICINOI BENCH, JAW 1% . . ~. roughly he would have a ii—g row, and began. to .- TIIE KING V. WILLIAM lIATTEELL. • strip his coat, putting him sc lt i n h ost il e att i tu d e; • This was an information filed by the ATTOIINNIN I Much disturbance ensued, t he l an dl or d i ntet fe tc d, received a push and a stroke float the defend an t i n Geetatae, ex-cficio, against the defendant, charging; and was gasped so vigorratsly by him with harbnuring, maintaining, conce n a n l d in a g i al , i r t o m w s sm e4l : l 7 ce ' that one 01 the witnesses. at a loss for a Ar secreting three French prisoners of war, LTA. I vigorous comparison, desaibed it to be somewhat and abetting their escape from the limits of their powerful thao the tweeze of a blacksmith's pia. role at Gosport, and conveying them to the coast of i t more , France. ticmen were confined all night in the watch-house.— Mr. Jarvis moved, that the defendant might be . Soch was the case far which the action was brought, surrendered in discharge of his bail. The informa. concluded the Counsel on the part of the prosecution. tion bring read, and the defendant having pleaded 44 " Not Guilty, he was sue rendered, and ordered to bel And an infamous one it is, said Mr. Serjeant ilits'r, who appeared fur the defendant. Here were committed to Winchester jail, to take Ifs" trial at the nest A iris for Somerset. thrd young men, my Lord, alto entered a house of sa Mr. Dametert moved, for an inf rmation in the n3_ general w accomtnod tin, a little tipsey, and I admit, . s.. ere quarrelsome, and I admit, a s sa u lted the land name of a Quo Warnwio, against .three persons if the lord, and I admit, deserved to b e fi n ed. B u t, Oh name of Pulley, fur improperly exiacising the officelord, look! thete sits the Attorney, M r . f in chett, who of ficernen of the Corporation of 'psi% ich. One i f thought this was a noble sto o ks for Ifm, and•gent •ktke qualifications for the freedom of this Cot poration, rotisly divided one ca-e into th e e : act ions, •which 'is termed Freedom of Patrimony ; that is, is here the miedit and shoold have h•en iirodAht all under one father is a freeman at the birth of his son, the Litter - head. He would i 'fin m .1 e J ur y th a t the defend a n t 's isostitled to his freedom. In this the registration of eianpanioas had already p a i d a fi ne f or t h e sa m e die births of the three Polleys appeared to be subse tasauit ; Mr. Arrowsmith was celled upon for his quent to the father's obtaining his freedom. The Court therefore wanted a Rule to strew cause. quota el fjne for the same as the otter, And a third BART v. TAYLOR. action awaited the other .young Gentleman, when the Mr. JARVIS, in this case, applied fo ra Rule to chew present was disposed of. cause why the verdict for the plaintiff should not be The Jury taturacd a vcr.fict of Damages—One set aside, and anon-suit entered. The action was on 11 ' 14111 ' 4 , Now," said Serjeant BEAT, turning round to the a bill ref exchange ; and the question was, whether Attorney, Mr. Find:ea, 4 , let us hear no more of the the alteration of the date on the bill did not require 4 third action." new stamp The plaintiff was the indorser, and the 4 , I thuk," said the venerable Judge, " the Jury defendant the acceptor, of the bill in question, which was drawn by a merchant named Ledger. It ap- have done extremely well." ....IF•mrilmwr peered from the evidence, that the date on the WU • • We are happy to state, th it the Countess of ABINO had been altered from the Ist to the 21st of Decem- • Dna, and her lovely daughter, Lady CAROLINE Bie ber ; but it was done with the knowledge and con• TIE, are ,fast recovering, :it their Seat n e a r Oxf o rd, sent of the acceptor, and had been lying from the from the effects of the atsident they'lately met with, time of its original drawing to the time the alteration was made in the drawer's desk, without ever ha by the oversetting of !heir carriage in the High-street haw by Oxford. a s lately mentioned in this Paper. seen the light.—The Court granted a Rule to s h e w cause. I Tuesday sennight, in the Consistorial Court, s SNIIFORD v. BIRD. Dublin, the Right Hon. Parnica DLlGiteaat sat for Mr. Scant:err applied to the Court to have th e diseatch of bteouess, and heard the cause, instituted ' by Joffe Bcacturotten Esq. for the dissolution of his verdict in this case, which was for the plaintiff, set aside, and a new trial granted. It was an action on marriage with his hue wile, for adultery with Wm a policy of insurance on the ship Johannes, a t and LIAM thooes ;,Laroecuit, Esq. when the Learned Judge pronouncsd the usual sentence of divorce. from this country to Pillar, and any other port or ports in the Baltic, with liberty to proceed up and ' Yesterday the Recommit of Loni ost w a s admitted to *the Council made his report of the followin's down backwards and forwards, and to any Russi a n convicts, tinder sentence of deal in Neog tte, viz. port, to unload ; and if not able to deliver her c a r g o, to return to England. The yes el arrived in Pillow- i •N. rtuTipr, for arson; T. Carter, for burglary; 1. Frazer, fee roads on the 20th of November, when she was, on i burglary; W. Hallterhel.l and Paul Whitehead, for forgeries; R. account of the state of Konigsberg at that time; war- ,Beacir.l, suss Buller, and Edward Han, alias Campbell, for bur nede otf by the Agent of the Owners, and ordered to 1 earl: proceed t.>Carlsham, thete to wait further orders.— I Meade, C. 3. streery, Saab brio, AL.ry Malmey, f or s t ea b ng She arrived at Carlsham on the list of November, ' inn dwelling.butt,e; R. Payne anJ I Mahar, f,,r hi g hw a y rob where she : Wry; J. Hughes, for a rape; Mary Crawley, inr returning from e continued until the 7th of December, when she was taken possession of by the Swedi s h ! trinerwraticn; W. Tebbett and W. Dune, for burglary; J. loam, Officers, her papers seized, and her hatchways sealed W. Mune, rice; T. Long, J. alias Fowler, for a like off , doe n. In this state she continued till the 4th of • parades; Sarah Cohn, , ,ns2Cohn, , ,and Cathem April following, when her ca r g o was tak e n t and gonds condemned. Mr. caries' now contended, that the f ur h ogsg .h ees ki rg ;W. Whi m , f r- - retern i r.g trantreas • • • ,Harvey, for stealing trot I.n: bane; privately ins ,bop ; T. L. Roger, , Rogers for stealing in a &M r , J. I. W. Duplex and J. Strange, for boise-stcaling ; J. plaintiff, by staying at Carlsham from the 21 st of No- ! aacay and J. Holtham, for burglary ;and J. Williams, for veniber to the 7th of December, had so far violated i way robbery—when E. Phillips * , J. Fraser, W. Habberfiell,' I , ' the terms of the policy, that he was nut entitled to re- Whitehead, E. Hall, alias Campbell, and Vs'. HiuinVa!iiis Fow. 4 sown'. By the policy it was regulatial, that it the Lc were *Nat d tor tz. - ..eintou usi %Yids:today twzt, t h e 22th but. • AAI•P t. ALNUTT► This was also an application to the Cnurt by l‘fr. -Sommer'. for a new trial. The qttestion was the same as in the last case. The Learned Counsel also took another point, namely, the illegality of the stamp on which the policy was drawn. By tht 35th .of the King, ch. 03. it was providtch that evety policy for £lOO, should be on a stamp value Vs. 6d. and every ft attioaal ran of £lOO should alsu recviie'at 6d. stamp; and the I fth section of the tame chap ter of the Act above alluded to, &dared that no pt,. licy of insurance, not su sz.lmped, should be receivvd as evidence in any cause. by the 41ith of the King, ch. 14J. it was provided, that %%here diffetent inarest. were put in the came licy, they should be consi. dered as different policies, and stamped accordingly. And the 17th section of the same Act imposes a pe nalty of 4500, on any underwriter pa) i tig a losi on a policy not legally stamped. The rolicy in question was for the sum of £95tY.), and t!.e stamp was for that sum but by the ind rsement it appeared the interest was in six different persons. the tractional parts of whose•separate shares would. according to the Act in question, have made a stamp for si 9800 necessary ;" and; therefore, in addition to the point reserved-in the last case, he contended this nail, be added as a reasan why the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. Lord ELLKNwntnycli observed, the person effecting the policy did it for the sum of 49.11 X), and, as trus tee fur the , owners, that sum wa, Caen unappropristted. It was afterwards appropri ted to different persons,but there teas no-room to suvect fraud. If the law was construed in the ntantur now contended Ur, it would cut up all insurance upon interests hereafter to be declared, by. rendering it hecessary tltat the per. son effecting the policy for the entire sum should pos sess the whit of prophecy, by which he should hese abled to foretel into haw many fractional pasts of £lOO the interests nfght afterwards b: divided, that he might have a stamp large enough to cover ail these sums. The Court refused the rule nn this part ef the ease. but gr.tnted it on the same ground as in the last case.