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IIt4UTIC4L M7TLLICEVCE. TORBAY, JULY 31. This znornittg his Majesty's ships ItoyAt. Czeimis, ST. GEORGE, DREADNOUGHT, ACHILLE, NEPTUNE, TEHERAIRE, and VALIANT, got under weigh, to pro ceed to the Westward, and resume their station off Brest. FOWEY, JULY 20. Tuesday arrived the CORMORANT Revenue cutter, from a cruize, with I'Actif Ffench lugger privateer, captured after a running fight of three hours. She had been but four days from St. Maloes, but had made no captures. L'Actif mounted two swivels, and has 21 men of seven different nations. The Captain of the lugger reports that BONAPARTZ has left Bayonne to inspect the seaports on the coast, and is on his return to Paris. PLYMOUTH, JULY 31. Sailed the Sr. ALBANS, of 61 guns, with 18 sail of transports, containing 4000 troops, under convoy for Cork ; several Merchantmen sailed at the same time. Past by this morning the expedition from Portsmouth for the Tagus. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 1. Arrived his Majesty's ships ALERT, with a fleet of transports and outward-bound vessels, from the Downs ; CHAMPION and PRIMROSE, from Plymouth. Sailed his Majesty's ship GLOMAN, with a convoy, for the Downs.--Wind S. W. DEAL, AUGUST 1. Arrived the Aristides Danish schooner privateer, captured by his Majesty's ship ROYALIST, near the Shaw, in the act of engaging one of the Gcttenburgh packets ; the HUMBER armed ship, with a convoy from Falmouth, which have sailed for the River ; FYLLA sloop from Sheerness ; Busmcn gun-brig and PRosnionus fire-vessel, from a cruize ; Chatham lighter, from the River. The FEARLESS and convoy, which sailed yesterday, have put back this afternoon. —Sailed the CHALLENGER sloop and PHOSPHORUS fire-vessel, on a cruize ; BUSTLER gun-brigs on a cruize off the Flemish Banks. Remain in the Downs—Printess of Orange, Trnity, ClyZe, Tylla, Zcnobta, Fearless, and Humber. Wind S. W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. tRAVESEN,, AUGUST I.—Passed by the Hellen, Chester; George, ♦Vhite; Rose, Horn ; Plymouth, fore ; Eagle, Schaler, and the Sally Ann, Glover, from Malta—Osprey, Casaneaur, from Oporto—Columbus, Gordon ; Vigilant, Hay; Dundoe,Wal- Ils, and Effon, Kay, from Greenland. Sailed the Caledonia, Mil ler, for Cadiz ; Drummond, Butler, for Malta ; and Grape, Terry, for Oporto. HULL, JULY so. A convoy is appointed to sail from the Humber on Monday next, with the ships bound for the Baltic. The Prince William, Captain Mor, r, arrived yester day at Grimsby, from Gottcnburgh, with four ves sels ; one of which, belor ging to New York, is last from Gottenbargh, with hemp for a market. WHALE FISHERY.—The following ships arrived here last night and this morning, viz. From Davis's Straits—Samuels, MARSHAL, 20 fish, 600 butts blub ber, and 10 tons fins ; Trafalgar, ROSE, 17 fish, 550 butts, 10 tons fins ; North Briton, BRIGGS, 124 fish, 380 butts ; Prescott, CLARK, 13 fish, 430 butts, all filll ships. From Greenland—Egginton, TauEmAY, 19 fish, 170 seals, 375 butts, 6 tons fins ; Aurora, &AiDtta, 38 fish, 700 butts ; Richard, WAKE, 17 fish, 300 butts ; and the Sarah and Elizabeth, EWDANK, 21 fish, 81 seals, 270 butts of blubber. Captain WAKE, of the Richard, reports, that the i buncombe, TAYLOR, entered the Huinber along with him ; the Duncombe had 131 - fish. The for lowing is the best account we have been able to ob tain of the success of the other Greenland ships, viz. I - lull—Ellison, HOLBERRY, 34, upwards of 200 tons oil ; Oakhall, BLesxissoPf reported 12 Ash ; Perse verance, full cn 28th June ; Truelove, MILNE'', full, 270 butts ; New Manchester, HUNTIIR, 19 fish, 3+o butts of blubber, on the 26th of June, and fish in plenty ; Elizabeth, Dior, 12 fish, full. the last vessel was passed by Captain Rose in the Straits on the 26th ult. Davis Straits—Gardener and Joseph, 14 fish ; Cato, 9 or more ; Lynx, 8 ; Brothers, 12 ; Thomas, 11 or 12; Symmetry, 9, 3 small; Mary and Elizabeth, 13i ; and Leviathan, 12 ; both full : Fauconberg, of Grimsby, 4 fish. The following is a statement of the vessels belong ing to the other ports : London—Dundee, 28 fish, 140 tons ; Effort, '26 fish, 145 bons; Experiment, 25 fish, If 4) tons ; Inverness, 10 fish, 140 tons; Vigi lant, 22 fish, 120 tons; Ocean, 10 fish. Newcastle — Catharine, 18 fish ; Middleton, nearly full ; John and Margaret, 13 fish, full (arrived). Lynn—Ex periment, 22 fish, 120 tons ; Fountain, 15 ash, 70 tons, on 6th July. On Tuesday last, the Aimwell, AGAR, arrived at Whitby, from Greenland, with 21 whales, which are expected to prodnce nearly 130 tons of oil. The Thomas and Ann, of Leith, Cap tain NEWTON, arrived in Leith Roads on Friday, from Davis' Straits, a full ship, having 18 whales on board. The Lively cutter from Greenland, with 2$ fish and 70 seals, a bumper ship, has also arrived at Berwick. BARBADOES, JUNE 9. On the 2d inst. the Cork and London fleets having formed a junction at sea, an ived in Carlisle Bay ; before the Bth, they all sailed with convoy for their re spective ports, except one or two ships for Trinidad, ice. which are yet here. Jut4e 14.—The first May packet is now standing into the bay—to delay until she anchors would lose me the opportunity. • MAIRA, IUNE s. Since my last, the DE Melpomene e and 'Halifax, for the West Indies • °assays:nos, for Halifax ; LEO - J'ARD, for the C ape of Good Hope ; Turns, for the East Indies; Parstnint:, LIGHTNING, and SERAPIS, for the Brazils; and Mtrrner., all with convoys, have touched at this island.—The UNDAUNTED, on a cruize, and Benz/ANT, for Guernsey, have also been here. The APRIC.AINS arrived this day from a cruize off the Canaries • she has brought in with her $ Spanish brig letter o f marque, of eight 12-pounders, two 6-pounders, and forty-two men. She was bound cn a forty days' cruize, and had only left Larzarotte one day. The Az tmanus will sail again to-morrow on am other cruise. 04L.fICIAIV41. NUMBER XI. -- ------- ---- " Take hint, and cut hint out in tittle STwat." Queen ELIZABETH, in one of her rambles through the neighbourhood of London, observed many beg gars lying in her way. She was at last provoked to say to one of them, Pauper übique facet ! To her in finite surprise the man instantly Teplied, In thalamis, Regina, tuis hie nocte jacerent, Si foret hoc ♦erum, Pauper rbiTate facet 1 King JAMBS the First, hearing a Sermon, of which politics constituted the principal part, asked Bishop ANrumws what was his opinion of it ? " Please your Majesty," said the Prelate, " it may, by a very cha -46 citable construction, be called a Sermon." . 4, Your wine is more sour than your vinegar," said a traveller to an innkeeper. •' No, no," replied the latter, 4 , that cannot be, for both come from the same cask." To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. A merchant insisted on reading a poem of his own composition to room, and began in a pompous tone : 1, Hear me, 0 Phabus, and ye Muses nine !" Pray, Mr. Foote, be attentive 1"..—" I am, Sir; nine and one arc ten. Go on 1" Some Scholars from Cambridge once came to Ox ford, to dispute with the Scholars of that University with expectation of success and conquest. Friar BACON dressed' himself like a thatcher, and came from the roof of a house, where they had stopped on their entrance into the City, and seemed to examine them with a curious eye. Rurtice, quid quariil said one of the Cantabs. Ut mecum versXaris, answered the pretended thatcher. Being asked, Vertifitator to he replied, Non melier slit ab ortu. Finding that the very thatchers were so learned, they did no.t.think it prudent to risk a dispute with the Scholars, and re turned to Cambridge. PARTY CHARITY.—" I hope that HEAVEN will in• tervene in due time, to turtt the savage hearts of all the supporters of the Popish Cause ; that it will in spire all our clergymen with a just sense of the dan gers our Church will incur by the abandonment of her own righteous cause ; that it will give them grace, wisdom, and understanding, to see the faggots prepa ring, and the funeral torch lighted to glut the barba rous bigotry and bloody superstition of a race of am bitious and ignorant heathens, who knew not the GOD of Truth in simplicity, but worship him darkly through the misty and corrupted channels of paganisin. I also pray that we, who remain firm to the true and genuine principles of toleration, who cherish the law - . liberty, and established polity of our country, both it Church and State, and who are not to be discouraged and intimidated by the secession of the unsound mem bers of the blessed Legion, . who are fighting in the sacred cause of Heaven and human nature ;—I pray that we may, on the day of need, have our hearts and hands strengthened to cut the throats cf all those, whe, dissenting from our immaculate principles, put in danger our most pure, excellent, and constitutional Mother Church." • This is taken verbatim from a M.S. letter of one of the vio lent writers against the Catholics. He is doubtless as much in earnest as most of the Right Honourable Gentlemen on the same side. The late WILLIAM BARTON, of Frotte-Selwood,. Somersetshire, Esq. gave, by his will, 50001. Bank stock, together with the accruing dividends thereon, to his fra and Jecond cousins, who should legally prove such relationship within two years from the time of his decease. So many were the applications, foun ded and unfounded, that the executors found them- selves obliged to refer the discrimination of the legal from the surreptitious claims to the Loan CHANCEL boa; under whose decision a satisfactory distribution of the whole (amounting to more than 11,0001. ster ling) was a few days since made, by the executors, to seventeen families, the legality of whose claims was established in the Court of Chancery. A fatal accident occurred on Saturday evening last to Lady ANNE Smiles groom, after setting her La dyship douli at the Duchess of YORK'S, at Oatlands. On his return home to Mr. SMITH'S house, Woburn Lodge, near Virginia Water, a spirited animal on which he rode suddenly took fright, between Wey bridge and Huddlestone, and threw him with great violence upon some timber. The back of his head came with such force against a piece of timber, that it shattered his skull to pieces. General FirzpArsi "Ks groom was close behind the unfortunate man, aria took him up. He expired in his arms without a groan. Last week, as the two Mr. Coons, sons of the late Mr. CoovE, tobacconist, of Stratford, Essex, were i driving a horse in a gig, from London to Stratford, finding thmselves incapable of governing the animal, and being intimidated by the apparent danger of their situation, they took the resolution of jumping out of the vehicle, when one of them received a severe con tusion on his temple, from the effect of which he lan guished a few hours, and then expired. This unfor tunate accident happened very near their home. Satu.day an eminent rope-maker, in Rotherhithe, complained to the Borough Justices that two of his apprentices had left his employ, and entered inns the naval service, taking a bounty, and declaring them selves not to be apprentices. They are on board the tender, and the proper means are taking to bring them to punishment. The last Mutiny Act makes this a transportable offence. Saturday se'nnight, at noon, a fire broke out at ' Melbourne, on the premises of Mr. Hawkes, of Mel dreth, which burnt down the house, and out buildings adjoining : the flames also communicated to some premises opposite, the property of Mr. Jarman, and destroyed some out buildings, as well as three cows and five hogs. Wednesday se'nnight, at three quarters past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the farm yard belonging to Mr. William Hurrell, jun. of Newton, near Cam bridge, which consumed three barns, with a consider able quantity of cora therein, a cart shed, and a threshing ma-thine. Sunday se'nnight, the Carron, from being quite dry in the channel, was in a few minutes roaring from bank to bank, supposed to have been occasioned Iby a water-spout bursting up the country. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH RACES, THURSDAY, JULY MI. Hnntati Parse, SO Guineas. Mr. Bailie's bay korse Mr. Dawson 's ehesnut mare Mr. Hendry's Pensioner Mr. Reid's Toby --- 1 i - - It it - :. I it . . +. s .. 5 4 - - 6 dr - 7 dr - Mr. Brown's broom mare - Mr. King's bay mare Mr. Smith's brown gelding - A very fine Race. FRlDAY—Ladies Purse, SO Guineas. Mr. Brown's chesnut horse Streamer 2 1 Mr. Henderson's grey mare Patera - - 1 2 2 Three excellent heats, and wen with difficulty. Some dispute has arisen about this race, which will be settlid this day. KNUTSFORD RACES, JULY 28. Sixty POllll6l for all ages. Four mile heat. Mr. Clifton's b. m. Josephina, aged, 9st. lib. - Mr. Hutchinson 's ch. h. Harmlesi, 5 yrs old, Bst. 91b. (received 101.) Sir I'. Stanley's DI. c. 4 yrs old, Bst. 31b. Mr. Smith's Miss Blanchard, 4 yrs. Bst. 31b. 4 1 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 -3 3 4 ORMSKIRK RACES; JULY t 2. Sweepstakes of logs. each, with 20gs. added, for all ages: miles. (Six Subscribers.) Mr. W. Walker's ch. It. Batcuct, 5 yrs old, Sst.llb. Mr. Benson's br. f. Dimplr, 3 yrs old, Gs:. 81b. • 2 and Stol on Dimple. Won by a neck. Fifty Pounds for all ages. Heats, twice round. Mr. Harris's br. g. Viper, by Serpent, 4 yrs old, Bst. 1111 f Mr. W. Hutchinson's ch. h. Harmless, .5 yrs old, (received 101.) Mr. Walker's Baronet, 5 yrkold, Bst. 71b. Mr. Bensun's gr. b. Atlas, 5 yrs old, Bst. 71b. 'lwo to 1 on Viper. Four .. I 1 1 4 2 2 dr 3 dr At Ludlow Races, I.ord STAMFORD'S St. Domingo walked over the course for the sweepstakes ; and the 501. plate was won by Mr. GOULDOURN'S Romeo, beat ing three others. On Friday the Hunter's Stakes was won by Mr. BENSON'S Fisherman, beating Mr. ADAMS'S bl. h. ; and the 501. plate was won by Mr. BENSON'S beatin g Mr. GO:.I.BOORN'S. Whitmore, which was very well contested. Salisbury Races ended oh Thursday last. There was very little sport. The ball, hoivever, was at tended by all the fashion of the county. The match of single-stick, from want of previous proper arrange ment, by persons skilled in the game, did not at all answer public expectation. The Wiltshire men uni formly play with the atin naked—the Somersetshire men generally play with the arin padded ; hence each keep a different guard, and either can conquer in their own mode of play. It had been advertised that the play should be on Wednesday, with the arm naked—the Wiltshire men contended that they were of course to play as usual, for two blood:, by which they hoped not only to gain the prize of the day, but to have time and opportunity so to disable their ad versaries, playing out cf their usual mode, as to have an equal chance of victory on the followitz day. The Somersetshire men insisted on playing the first day, one blood, that they might the less expose their unpad ded arms. On this point the day was wrangled away, with very little play, and without any contest between the crack men of the two counties. The So merse:shire men thus reserved their arms, and, in consequence, on Thursday, they gained every head of the Wiltshire men, and played off the tyes fot the prizes in a fi-iendly way, among themselves. NORTHAMPTON, JULY 30. At our Assizes, which ended en Thotsday last, Henry Buckland,for stealing a bay mare, Was capitally convicted, and received sentence of death. James Butler, convicted of grand larceny, was ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for two years, and fined Is. Daniel Smith, for stealing a sow and four pigs, and Wm. Collier, for stealing a quantity of hay, were severally ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months, and pay a fine of Is. Richard Lovell and John Basford were acquitted ; and Thomai "filen was delivered by proclamation. In the charge against Basford, a flaw was discovered in the simaing of the indictment, which was a bar to its going b efore the Jury, it being generally expressed " for stealing a 101. note of the Northampton Bark." The Learned Judge observed, that the Bank of England existed by pliblic charter, and was acknowledged by the law of the land; but the law knew nothing of " The Northampton Bank ;" there might be two, or there might be twenty Northampton Banks. TUNBRIDGE WELLS, JUL?" ;1. This place is crowded beyond all former precedent. Every house and lodging in the vicinity is taken. The Earl and Countess of Hitniv7me and the Ladies YORKE are at Mount Pleasant • Lord and Lady HENLEY and family occupy one of the principal man sions on Mount Ephraim ; the Hon. Mrs. CORNWAL us and. the Misses TOWNSHEND are well accommo dated on the Parade ; the Duchess of Donser and Lord Wurrwolunt are at Stone Lands; Mr. and Mrs. MAlNwarallo•take the lead on Mount Sion ; Colonel _ROBERTS, M. P. and his Lady, are sojourning on Mount Ephraim • so are Lord and Lady BoYNE, Mr. CCMBERLAND (the Author), Mr. and Mrs. WEDDER BURNE, and Sir GEORGE and Lady BUGGIN. The Countess of ROSEBERRY, and Lady MARY PRI/IROSE, Sir GEORGE and Lady SHEE, Mrs. „COKE, &c. are hourly expected. The Assemblies have commenced in regular routine, on Tuesdays and Fridays ; Mr. AMSINCK, the new Master of the Ceremonies, gives universal satisfaction. A band of excellent musicians plays three times a-day in the fanciful Gothic Orches tra, erected in front of the Parade. At the early hour of seven . o'clock, groupes of Ladies, in sixes and se vens, are to be seen walking under the pantiles, amu sing one another with harmless chit-chat on the usual topics of the place. The Jerusalem ponies have af forded a fund of merriment on two or three ludicrous occasions. The Sussex Tavern is crowded ; the at tention of the owner deserves encouragement. Mr. ROBINSON'S Tunbridge ware-rooms are the morning lounge. Sunday as a Gentleman (an officer in the Guards) was riding in St. James's-street, opposite the Thatched House Tavern, the spirited animal on a sudden be came very restive, and at -length succeeded in throw ing the Gentleman off, who. having had just time to disengage himself from the stirrups, received no ma terial irk;ury from the fall. hVBLI7O; JuLr 27 ! . . On Friday last, being Quarter Assembly, the fl-eedom of the elty of Dublin was unanimously con ferred on Lieutenant Colonel TORRENS, Military Se cretary to Sir .Annstra WELLESLEY on the present expedition. On Monday their Graces the Duke and Duchess of RICHMOND, the Duchess of MAxcnrsren, Marquis of HUNTLY, and several of the most distinguished of our Nobility and Gentry, were elegantly entertained by Mr. DAVID and Lady CECILIALATOUCHE, at their demesne at Marley. Yesterday there was a Privy Council held at the Castle, at which his Grace the Lord Lieutenant and several Members sat for half an hour. Yesterday the appointments of the Police Magis trates, under the new Act, were finally arranged by his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, and which, together with those selected by the Corporation of the city, stand thus : Counsellors Guinness, Hare, Slack, Lysaeht, Turner, and King —Aldermen Darley, King, Hone, Starner, Archer, and Pember ton—Wm. Long, D. C. Sir!, Wm. Lindsay, James Blacker, Jo .hua Dixon, Mark Magrath, Esqrs. MARGATE, JUL?' 30. The gay scenes of amusements are again com menced in this place and its vicinity. Carriages cf every description now roll through our streets, in humble imitation of your great city. Donkey airing is by far more prevalent than last summer. As the desolation of a part of this place has been truly la mentable, equally astonishing has been the in crease and rapid improvement of the other parts of it. Our worthy townsman, Mr. GARNER, is nume rously attended by his friends. BerrisoN's fills in like manner. Dandelion was thronged on Wednes day last. KIDMAN'S Sunday Promenade has been unusually attended. The two boys (packets we should have said) brought us yesterday about three hundred visitors. We expect an abundant cargo by every vessel. A Masquerade is announced at our Theatre for Wed nesday next, and if the weather should not be oo hot, there will be no want of people, whatever may I be their characters. BRIGHTON JuLr 29. The drives this morning were crowded with splen did equipages ; and equestrians, male and female, were beyond all calculation. The Duke of MARL. ECIROUGH, accompanied by Lord F. SPE'CER, pro ceeded for Church hill in his chariot, where he alighted from the carriage, and again took gentle exercise on horseback. ThP Duchess, and Lady A. SPENCER, in her Grace's barouche, paid a visit to the slope of the Downs to the North. Lady BERXELEY was in her phaeton, and, in truth, all the world of fashion at Brighton, at present, were to be seen abroad. The Hon. BERKELEY CRAVEN, and num berless others of distinction, are in the last list of ar rivals. The PRINCE will certainly be here on or befule Monday next. His Highness's House Steward ; and the whole of theTavilion establishment, are now here. The bugles of the PRINCE'S Dragoons were sounded this morning, at five o'clock. All is preparation among the military for the review on the 12th. The drums of the South Gloucester Militia this morning were heard soon after the bugles of the tenth. Up wards of 10,000 men, it is understood, will be re viewed here on the 12th, when the interesting pro ceedings in the field will terminate with a sham fight. EASTBOURNE, JULY 30. This fashionable place of resort for sea-bathing fills very fast. Fish is here plentiful and cheap, and the inhabitants seem emulous to provide for the necessi ties and comforts of their Summer visitors, on mod, , - rate terms. The natural advantages and beauties of the place offer much to recommend it. Surrounded` with hill, dale, and sylvan shade on one side, with a fine hard sandy beach for bathing on the other, while the proud promontory of Beachy Head, withn 20 minutes walk, raises its majestic summit, and affords ' a most extensive prospect by sea and land. The last arrivals here arc as follow : Lady Clifton, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Irby, Sir Arthur and Lady Piga, Sir William and Lady Johnson, Colonel and Mrs. Vansittart, the Hon. and ttv. Mr. Lumley Saville and Lady. the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilberforce, Doctor Buchanan, the Rev. Mr. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Senna, Mr. and Mrs. Idle, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Kemp, the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, Mr. and Mrs. Co.- Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Bonsanquet, Mr. Blanchard, Mrs. Jenkins. Captain and Mrs. Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Wigstun, Mr. Blackman. Mr. and Mrs. Newberry, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. Put ! man, with a long &c. &c. WErMOUIH, JULY so. On Thursday afternoon, came into our Roads, Lord CRAVEN'S beautiful yacht, having on board his Lordship and Lady CRAVEN, accompanied by a fa shionable water party. Possessing the advantage of a pleasant breeze, she brought up in fine stile. The DAR/NG gun brig was at anchor in the Bay, and hoisted the private signal, which not being answered, all hands were immed►ately called to quarters, and as the yacht bore a very warlike appearance, it causel not a little bustle on board the DARING, till the yacht came alongside, and was hailed by the Commanding Office:. _ . In the evening, the 'whole party came ashore in his Lordship's barge, and repaired to Russell's Hotel, where they intend remaining during his Lordship's stay here, which at present will be but short, as his Lordship intends taking several trips hither this sum mer, on account of the safe anchorage to be found in Weymouth Bay, above all other watering places in the kingdom. Our Theatre, under the management of Mr. HUGHES, has undergone several adGittonal embellish ments, and was opened on Monday last, for the sea eon. Mr..H. has engaged a very respectable com pany of performers from the Theatres Royal, Bath, Birmingham, Liverpool, etc. His exertions to gra tify our•visitants, it is to be hoped, will be amply se paid, by a continuance of their liberal patronage. New arrivals are daily and rapidly pouring in, and many farmlies are prudently engaging lodgings pre vious to the commencement of Blandford Races in August, much difficulty frequently occurring in pro curing accommodations fronting the sea, from the great influx of company that arrive after these sports of the upi have taken place.