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I LONDON. SATURDAY, A.i'ltlL . 10, 1813. Intier sTocKs THIS DAY !-T ONE O'CLOCK, 'Reduced ,lll—Cons. 54 59—for ac. 581 59-4 per Ct.73ii per Cent. 883.1—Bond• is. 2a. dis.—Lsch. Bills Si. 4s pre. Bank Long Annuities 14 II- itiths I,.ast .fight we received Paris Papers to the 6th instant. They announce several most important, but not unexpected. events. BONAPARTE is about to set out for the army, and has appointed the EMPRESS to preside over the falling destinies of the French Empire - . during h is absence. A new Puppet is thus produced upon the Imperial stage. The Senate address the mawkish upstart with some tawdry commonplaces, and her Imperial Majesty replies in words set down for her by her Consort. She is reminded that she is the daughter of MARIA THIRESA. Alas I that a de scendant of the great and good THERESA—the vir tuous champion of the independence and liberties of her people—should describe the efforts of other na. - - 'ions to shake off their chains as- 4 , civil war, treason, and disobedience!"—that a Grand-daughter of the fieroic TuttanA should be the practised organ of the 'fbulest murderer that ever disgraced the human form! tut she is'the Mother of the King of Roux—the au past .Sconseof NAPOLVAN! r But we turn from this humiliating picture to !soniething more pleasing. The French Journalists cannoronreal the ruinous state of their affairs. The defe.ction of the King of Pnusena has excited a. :";great seasatiou in Paris. It has had a remarkable • - effect upon the fuhds, which even the Duke of BAS SANO'S Report to the Senate cannot counteract. In this curious document there is an insolent affectation of forbearance, on former occasions, when Prussia was prostrate at the feet of the Patifrator of Europe. Threats of venzeance are, of course, implied in the bevent of another overthrow of the Prussian Monne/. Nothing we apt ehend can tend more strongly to ce. ment the affections of the King of Paussta to his ,subjects, anti to encrease their enthusiasm against the ;'Tyrant than this document. . The war waged by the Pruss'ans against the. French must nbw be a war of oxtermination. ~ Death or Victory" must be the motto davery noted Prussian I We have neither time nor room to tornment on the detailed accounts of the positions occupied by the }Trench armies. A reference to the Map will shew that they are every where in the extresuities of ruin. The Prince 'Viceroy is said to have one hundred thou- , sand figh:ing men under bins at Magdeburgii—it is impossible. • We have received Cadit Papers to the 27th March, by a Mail which arrived this morning. The rI.ANTA ,*ENET'rytati of war has arrived at Cadiz from Ports-• mooth, pith the 29th regiment on board. We are glad to fillet that the Decree for abolishing , the luquisition has been carried into full effect. From Alicaiit we learn, that Sucnrr is making de monstrations as if he intended to evacuate Valencia. King Jo.serir L.; uk,on the wing for France. He seems to have adopted this resolution after receiving dispatches 1: cm his Brother at Paris. All his va. I,uables have been previously sent off. The aban.l donment of Spain by the French troops is agairr con firmed by the above papers. A letter from a British Officer, dated Coria, 22a March, says, 4 , The French are leaving Madrid.— Yosvit halted at Valladolid for as long a rest as, lie Pill be permitted to take. Twenty men from each company have marched from Spain for the Im- Guard, which has very much reduced the ace :lye force of the enemy in the Peqinsula." We arc happy .to find, that it is not in the contem plation of Government to fritter away the British .roops in a mililary expedition to the North, at a time When the Peninsula and Canada afford at least a suf icient s cope for its operations. The population of he Nerd: can furnish men : money, arms, ammuni kin, clothing, and warlike appointments, are the find which Great Britain is called upon to furnish to the ;teat and glorious flame now kindled, and rapidly preading over Europe. Of such supplies let not F.ngland be niggardly ; but is the title of men, let ter aid the general cause by the reinforcement of the llustrious WELLINCION : to hit hands Europe confi lently commits the destiny of her southern extremity. Ile troops of the German Legion, now under orders or the Continent, consist of artillerymen, dismounted avalry, and infantry, selected, on account of their :•ied military conduct and fidelity, for distribution mong emir countrymen in arms. About 400 have heady embarked at Sheerness, and a further detach sent is instantly o: delve! from Plymouth. Though mall, yct truly valuable will be such a Sid - to the ising levies. It will give unity of action to an army 50,000.—Frem the preceding it will be seen, that Jere is no real funudation in the report of a British 'rince Proceeding to the Continent at the head of an ?xpee/iiion; but we have reason to believe, that ere !;ng ihe Duke of Camenince, trusting solely to the attachment cf the lianoverians, will, merely as a felaer of the Horse of BRUN . SIPICK, halt in Hanover ae Standard of his venerable Father. The Foreigner, v..hose arrival at Deal has hem •nri:ntloried in : this Paper, has had a.O inter ' Cs.srLt,e4Autf, but nothing has tran - , J 1 hi. ountruunicatinhs. rAtiviotrni, APRIL 7. igrived the Duke of Kent, with a mail from Lis bon in eleven days; the Montague packet, with a mail from Gibraltar and Malta in the roads wind. bound. The-Ann packet, with a mail from Cadiz in ten days, is this moment arrived. The Walsing ham packet, with-16 passengers, sailed eleven days before her, and is supposed to have gone to the West ward with a more northerly wind.—Wind S. E. ri:ndlined in phi iew ‘. t,4 Lor‘i s .0 u.:ture of • PLYMOUTH, APRIL I. Arrived the LYRA, of 10 guns, from the Downs, ,whence she is returned from convoying a large Ame- rican, prize to her and the ANDROMACHR.—SaiIed the WARSPITE, of 74 guns, for the Brest Station; WASP, of 18 guns, for Portsmouth ; SZALARE, of 12 guns, and FOXHOUND, of 18 guns, on different cruizes.— The SATURN, of 74 guns, now in dock, is to be made into a hulk instead of the CAPTAIN, of 74 gunsdately burnt—Yesterday the RENOWN and TRIUMPH, of 74 guns each, were brought from their moorings, for the purpose of being fitted with apparatus necessary to the raising of the CArrAnt.—Undocked, the SCYLLA sloop of war.—Wind S. by E. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9. Arrived his Majesty's ship SNAP, from a craiae g with a Prussian vessel from Dieppe, her prize. DEAL, APRIL 9. Arrived the Resolution cutter, from a entice.— The outward-bound remain.—Wind N.E. YARMOUTH, APRIL 9. Last e►ening arrived here from Gottenburgh, after a tedious passage of fourteen days, the Lord Duncan packet, Captain DEANE, and landed Mails, two Mes sengers, and Messrs. FORSYTH, CABOT, and KNOB LOCK, passengers. Arrived the STEADY gun-brig from Sheerness.—Sailed the HOLLY schooner on a cruize ; the Lord Duncan for Harwich ; and the REDBREAST, Sir GEORGE KEITH, for Heligoland.— Remain the Solebay, Bravdageren, Dapper, Land rail, Anacreon, and two revenue cutters. THE ARMY. Major PRESCOTT sailed, on Saturday the 3d inst. in the Arabella packet from Falmouth, to resume the command of the sth Dragoon Guards, in the Peninsula. Wednesday se'nnight the ‘2 d Battalion of the 41st Regiment, about 500, arrived in transports at Cork, did not disembark, but proceeded with the 19th Light Dragoons for Quebec, as well u a detachment of about forty of the 89th going out to join the 2d Battalion, which came also from Portsmouth. Sunday an embarkation took place at Cork, on board the transports, of the horse intended to be taken ont to Quebec, by the 19th Light Dragoons. We understand they are confined to those of the Commis sioned and Non-commissioned officers, amounting to 160. This fine Regiment, dismounted, embarked on Monday. His Majesty's ship SYBILLE, Captain UP : ToN ; AIIMWE, Captain Sir T. TROUBIUDGE ; and the CYGNET, Captain RessELL, take charge of this convoy, and intend sailing immediately. Brigadier General DA ROCK and suite go out in theSicasu.s, nearly up to Qu EBEC. We have authority to state, that Government hav4 resolved to erect a Monument to the Memory of the late gallant Major-General Fooßto Bowes, and we !eel gratified to understand it has been expressed as the wish of the army in general. The 6th Dragoons march next week for Ireland, and the Perthshire Militia have got the route for England. The 7th Light Dragoons were inspected yesterday, and it is supposed to be preparatory to their embar• kation for Hanover. Lak week the West Suffolk Militia pasted through Berwick, for the North. The First Norfolk have Ar rived there, and still remain. Thursday the Shropshire Regiment of Militia re lieved the Gloucester Regiment in the duty of the prison ships in Hamoaze. The volunte-ring from the Militia for the line, we are happy to hear, proceeds most prosperously. The Vd'ltoyal 'Power Hamlets regiment furnished their quota in the first two days, and would have given much more if required or permitted. The Bedford Militia, now quartered at Yarmouth, with the alacrity for which that regiment has ever been distinguished, gave, on the day appointed for volunteering (Ist April), its quota. to the Line, and every man for unlimited service, A General Order, issued at Quebec on the Sd of February, containing the particulars of General WlN cHesTEit's defeat by the Britifh troops, Nas been re ceived in town. • The prisoners, at the close of the action, amounted to 1 General, 1 Colonel, I Staff, 1 Major, 9 Cap tains, 20 Subalterns, 27 Serjeants, and 443 rank and file; but the Indian warriors were hourly bringing in prisoners, and had taken a strong escort of the enemy, with .500 hogs. Colonel PaocTott reports in strong terms the gal lantry displayed by all description of troops, and the able support received from Colonel Sr. GEompg, and from all the Officers and Men under his com mand, whose spirited valour and steady discipline is above all praise. - it is with regret Colonel PROCTOR reports the Bri tish los.s amounts to 2& killed and 158 wounded. UITACE&i trogtantD. Col , ,nri St. George, four Wounds, tut not severely. Car ain Tallon, i Ira P,xttiluent. Lieutenant Clernion, ditto. Ensign Ker, Royal Newfoundland FenFibles e dangerously. Li,u,enant Ryik4, Marine Departinent. Lieutenant Irvin, ditt. Midshipman RicAirdsoo, ditto. Cap , ains Mills, Essex Militia. ditto. I.i,utenant Gordon, ditto. Ensign Garvin, ditto. :AI Zoos: via s charged with suffocating o.Evans. .her son, four years and a half old, by tying a hand kerchief round his neck, and throwing him into the New River, on the 21st of February. The mass of evidence on this occasion would fill a Newspaper ; and we cannot give it, better than by briefly abstracting the evidence on a case most singu lar in its nature. The deceased was counted a fine lively child. The body was found in the New River, near Cleikenwell, in a putrid state, on the 14th ult. The woman had formerly been 'a prisoner in Cold- Bath-fields; and Arts, the late Governor, was the re puted father of the child. The prisoner, according to the testimony Of a number of witnesses, had expressed loudly her distresses, and her anxiety and solicitude to get the child into the workhouse, she having had another of more tender years, and the embarrassments of Aris had rendered him unable to support herof late. The child, when found, had a Chambrey handkerchief twisted about the neck, with a running knot under the left ear; and another handkerchief, containing half a brick, was tied round the body. It had on.a silk cap, a bed gown, and shoes and stockings. Mrs. Blakely, of No. 16, Northampton-street, Clerkenwell, where the prisoner lodged, proved that she (the Fri. soner) took the youngest child nut at six o'clock on Sunday, the 21st of February, with the deceased, who she said she was going to take to the parish offi cers. The child was then dressed in the manner in which it was found, with the exception of the bed gown, which had been substituted for a red grounded frock, which was afterwards found by an officer in the prisoner's apartments. It appeared by the testimony of this witness, and many others, that the prisoner positively denied that the child was het's, and that none of the clothes belonged to the deceased ; but both these assertions were completely ialsified by many witnesses who knew the child, and also the clothes—one of whom gave the child part of them. The prisoner told different stories about the child to different persons—that it was at Pancras nurse: y. house, and then at her aunt's at Brompron—in a ll o ; which she was detected, and which at length she confessed by acknowledging the child to have been her's ; and aho the clothes, in separate confessions before Magistrates. These confessions were of the prevaricating order. and alledged that Aris, the la ther of the child, had caused a woman, whom he re presented to be about to take the child to his sister, to meet her in Gray's Inn-lane, on the 21st of February, and to whom ske delivered him. She accounted for telling different stories about the child to the interte fence of Aris. Another witness proved that the pri soner called on her on the evening of the 21st of Feb ruary, about 7 o'clock, and told her that she had George to the parish; and another strong circum stance against the prisoner was, that she asked the beadle Who came for her at her service, at Mr. —'s, in Paternoster-row, it he did not come from the ot fice and added, that the child drowned was not her son George—not having seen the body. Mr. Webb, a surgeon, proved it might have been the conjoint efforts of strangulation and water which caused the death of the child; but from the putrid state of the body, he could not state the single cause. The confessions of the prisoner were here read, which stated her to have had five children by Aris.— He had allowed 10s. 64. a week fi..r the deceased but had lately been unable to pay any thing. She stated, that she lent the handkerchief, found about the child's neck, to Aris two years ago; and that the bed-gown found on the child was no part of the dress when delivered to the woman in Gray's Inn-lane. What is very remarkable, every female witness spoke in high terms of the prisoner's kindness and affection for her children. 'l'. Aris stated, that he was formerly Governor of Cold bath-field. Prison. He had a residence for the last three months over the water. He knew the psi. stiller, and he recollected the child George, the de ceased, who he und.rstood was sworn to him about 11 months ago. Saw the prisoner about three weeks after this, and asked if she had sworn the child to him, when she answered, she had done so, from ne. ' cessity Witness asked where the child was, and she • infermed him, by her side. She had another child in her arms, which she said she had to nurse, at 7s. per week. Witness never saw the prisoner after that, un til at Hatton-Garden Office, in March, charged with ° murdering the child. He had gone there voluntarily, having heard the fact from the Newspapers. He never appointed to meet her as stated, on the 21st of February. He was at home on that day with a per son of the name of Jones, and seldom went out on al Sunday. The story of a passage in the prisoner's cenfession, that his sister had been pointed out to her at Clerkenwell, was also false, as his sister lived in Bucks, and had not been in London these 45 years. I Witness attended every examination of the prisoner voluntarily, and had not been held in any recogni zance to appear at the trial.—On cross-examination., witness stated the prisoner was his servant, after her imprisonment ; he was once very familiar with her, but he had seen her but seldom since, perhaps once in six months, and for nearly two years only once in i Northampton•street. He had supplied her with mo. ney formerly, but he had lately been distressed him self. He had eight children to keep, besides three of • the prisoner's, but he had no intercourse with her to justify the imputation of his being the tither of the last child. On looking at the handkerchief which was found round the neck of the deceased, witness swore positively against the confessi•>n of the prisoner; that he never saw the handkerchief before, and that he never borrowed one of the prisoner, as stated. J. Jones, formerly turnkey, at Cold Bath-hells prison corroborated Aris, that he was not Out 0:1 the evening of Sunday. Feb. 21. when the prisoner said she met him. Mis. Peachy proved the falsity of another part of the prisoner's confession—that she, Mrs. Peachy, had pointed out Aria's sister to her, who St was repre sented was about to take the deceased child. Witness never having seen the sister. In defence, the prisoner, who till now had rerer sheaved her face, verbally echoed her confessions.— She had told falsities in the first instance by Aries threats. She was alarmed at him, he having threaten. ed to shoot her three different times, besides doing the same nine yeais ago. She delivered the chiid to a woman, by his desire, influenced by his threats, as he said, that if she ever told when die child was taken from her, he would kill her. Mary Sfrorion, who washed for Ails, when a ri. I Ver belief, that the Otulkerchief roundabout the neck 4 the child belonged to Aria. It had changeC. but she was confirmed in her *pinion by a jrin at one end, and she washed no other chambrey handles On cross-examination, it appeared that Mr. Brooks, the prisoner's master, called on witness on S it urday, and informed her, that a handkercltief was in the hands (lithe Officers, which he a isfied her to look at, And that brought her thither. A Police Officer it contradicted a part of de evidence, of Aris not being out on a Sund,+y ;—t had seen him one Sunday * about a mouth since, ten in the morning. Lord Etassnououou, in summing up the esidence s commented, with much furceom the con:radiNory statements of witnesses, and lamented the fr.nutricv of such practices. He particularly remarked on the strong circumstance against the prisoner, of tilt: frock in which the child was taken out, no the eveo ing of the Plat of February, being found in her hox. —Again, the Learned Judge observed, that :t did not flew the affection of a mother, v,lio had h,d her child taken from her, when she saw the s (id child in the state in which it was found, to deny the idea• city of her offspring. It would seem rather, that in stead of denying it in that state of martyrdom, she would have used every effort to bring the guilty offen ders to justice. His Lordship left the case to the Jury, and they retired for. three hours, and then ro. turned a verdict of Not Guilty. After the verdict was given, the Jury informed Lord ELLEMBOROLICII, that, on the grouihis the handkerchief which was found round - the murdered child's neck being last seen in the possession of Tho. mas Aris, they conceived that he was implicated in the murder, and hoped that judicial notice would be taken of it. Lord ELLENBOROUGLI observed, that he could taker no judicial notice of any person except those who were before the Court for trial, but his Lordship thought the Jury had' done their duty in making this representation. The Prisoner retired from the Bar amidst 0)t greet. ings of a most crowded Court. She appeared 4..l)Jut Si yeat s of age, of respectable appe.ii3nce, and con ducted herself throughout with great ueadiuess and propriety. This trial excited the greatest degree of interest imaginable, and lasted from ten in the morning unta nine at night. Thirteen other prisoners were tried. driven et whom were convicted of felony, viz. Elia. Jones, Jane Smith, E. Abell, S. Hillary, R. Bagg, J. Chave, H. Ad cock, and J. Olive, for having in their poises:ion cer. twin forged Bank-notes; %'m. Smith, for stealing a piece of Irish linen, the property of G. Smetb ; Wm. Clarke, for stealing 7lbs. of cheese, the property a J. Stapp ; and J. Tuft, for embezzling divers sums of money, the property of his emplo)er, f. Rankin. It is reported that Ministers hare received notice that the negociation with Denmark has been uwtuc• cessful, and that no hope cat be indulged of her f bearance as to our trade. Our private adsices by the Gnttenburgh Mail of yesterday annnunce the re-conat. mencement of a maritime war with th 4 power, of will appeir by the following extract s _ _ NOM MARCH rt. " Admiral Molten boa elriady capturifd ab;iitt twenty prise, oh the renewal of houilitlas; and on the other band, the Dana gensboots have received orders taco oat ag Anst :he British trade, As soca as the answer ecitiregoent on Ado oral Hove's missioe shall be reeeived bore, 'Acre is nos doubt of our d. ciaritg war against Denmark, and landingabort 10,000 men In Jutland." AU the accounts admit, that 13eitinark must be come the sacrifice of her mistaken policy. - - Thursday . Eatl MOIRA took his initiate farewell of the PRINCE /brow; and yesterday, about haltpast eleven o'clock, the . Noble Earl set off from his house in St. James's-place, for Portsmouth, accompanied by Mr. Tuost , sox, his Secretary, and Mr. Eaernz, his valet. The Noble Earl's children set off 'Q f )Ilow in the afternoon: the three eldest proceed wit} the Earl and Countess to India, the two youngest remain. in England. The Countess left town this titOrtfins for Portsmouth. COVENT Gst RUES; THEATRE.--The Orator i Season Was terminated list night at this Theatre, to the high credit of the management of its conductor, Mr ASH LEY. The performances were of the same high cha racter with those of last Wednesday. The Theatre was crowded ere the performances were commenced, and this popular solicitude was folly justified and re paid by the great merit that was diplayed by all the performers, both vocal and instrumental. DRURY-LANE.—This Theatre also had to boast of a very numerous audience, who expressed their high approbation of the petformances by repeated plaudit, A dashing Nubbman threw in 18 Mains at Hazard, last Monday night, at a Suliscription House in St. James's—the odds are prodigious • yet Philosophers deny Luck. What is it then ? Most of us have Lucky moments iu the course of our lives. How often, when we go to buy a Tick-t or Share at a Lottery Office, hare we hid the identical Numh^r of a £20,000 Prize put before us ? and although it might not have been our Lack then to chose the for tunate Number, it miy be new; and one such lucky choice settles all our cares for lute. No Lottery was ever so well devised to confer Luck on Adventurers, as the present State Lottery, containing S Grand Prizes of £20,000, 3 ditto of ill 0,090, &e. &c. and so arranged by Government, that all the Tickets drawn on 6th of May, will be Prizes. Among the many vainaoie discoveries of this ;in proving age, none deserves m •re notice and public patronage than the nev.iy-dis.mveied, aid much ad mired Japan illicking, made only by DAY and MAR TIN ; who have, atter mud: solkitation, opened a warehouse, No. 7, Wet ts.steet, Jermyti-street, St. James's, for i:s Sale ;. where we are Informal, any person desirous of a trial, or willing to add to its most respectable patronage, viz. lei laity, the fiist Nobility, and his Majzst)•s Army, part of the latter considerable Orders, of a portable quality, are now prepared for the Life Guards Ong Lu Lisboa—nisy he supplied with a Siattle MARRIED. ----- Wednesday last, at Tie, non, by t r Rev. John Clarke, R.thart . Chapman, Lsq. r.f the Cultioy of fierhici, I I im e o ecund ter or thr Kay. T. h. Chtrkr, rot i ivertoo, th von MIA). Sunday, at sytlenharn, In laic 71st ytar, Mr. A truly honest man. LONUtittl nwAd by I.t.vea. Kr , Lleke! eiace ; ant! I , lksbeti there, aria at the !i;ar-Otree Terrptc-:%:r.