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the Court to eicincle any cireoinftanees of mitiia tion that might appear in the cafe. Lord ELLISBnanu a N. , ••" Mr Goldburne moil be committed, and be brought up to receive the judg ment of the Court on Monday nett" reseuaev 10. THE ZING tl. EDWAID OOLD ■tllNe, 130 This perfon being brought up to receive the Sen tence of the Court, Mr. fullice Game, in pronounc ing judgment, adcheffed the Defendant in the fol. lowing terms — You, Edward Goldburne, have been profecuted upon three indiements, charging you with publifh ing libels againit different perfons, which charges, although they might have been contained in one re. cord, yet the parties have chofen feierally to prole cute upon the libels againft themfelves refpeeitely, and upon Such profecutions you have been found guilty. This is the only one isf the many inconveni ences which mull inevitably refult from writing the malicious libel complained of; a libel againft th-lr e Gentlemen, with whom, from your peculiar fitua urn and connection, we &mild have molt naturally fuppored you would have cultivated friendfhip and etteem. Upon the perufal of the libel, to what can we impute its origin ? lam lorry to fay fo, but it mutt have arifen from deep-rooted malice. ion have vilified Mrs. Bird, by terming her a pupil of Satan, and .a hamelefs bat titan. Mr. Bird is flandered, by your imputing to him that he purchafed unfound bodes, and then fold them to ignorant unwary young men, under a warranty. Betide, this, he is ridiculed for his provincial dialed ; and laaly, both of them are Riled wide-walling pegs, and a demoniac pair. Yon reprefent Lieutenant Colonel Dories as affeCting a mathematical knowledge, to which be had no pretenfi"ns : his drefs, and his mode of dan cing are likewife touched upon, and,in the conclufion, he is Paid to he " too old to learn, too obßinate to mend." The libel for which you have been prof*. euted by John Anßey Abney, terms him " a num. hull, and a rude unpolithed bear:"—Tht tendency of the libel is too obvious to admit of a doubt. In mitigation of your offence, affidavits have been pro duced, which cannot fail to receive the attention erf the Court. At the time you wrote the libel, you had too little forefight to difeover how many enemies fuels a publication might create, and how few friends your fatire would produce, and into what difficulties it might involve you. The libel contains Inch a piettro of inveterate malice, as we could Scarcely have thought even men in advanced years, much leis boys, would have beta able to lay before the world. The Lady had act injured you by felling yon unfound bodes, or had encouraged you at the men-table, by ipplanding the libels upon the eharaeers of others. On examining your affidavits, which Rand uncontradie ed by the Profeentors, and confidering your extreme youth, we cannot but think the Profecutora have bees much to blame. Although it is a neeeffary part of our public diary, in this place, to pima delhetitilso, we cannot at the fame time avoid cenfuring the Its. warrantable and harfh conduct of thole who, convey font with the trays of the world, firfl led you, .bp flattering your flanderous publications, to commit as offence againß the laws of the country, and dam brongbt you before this Court, to render you Moombr Isle to thole laws. Attending to every circumllooml in you cafe, to the condne of the Profecntors, and to the time you have already been confined, we do order and adjudge, that for the libel againft Mr. and Mrs. Bird, you forfeit the film of jol. ; for that again* Lieutenant Colonel Dorien, tot. ; and that you fur ther pay to his Majefty tot. for the libel againa Cap. fain Abney ; and that you be imprifoned till the fet vend fines be paid. The Defendant immediately difcharged the fevetal fine', and retired. BRIT. Sif PRISONERS The following addrefs was tranfrnitted from the Britifh prifcners at Verdun to the Elearefs of Wir temberg, at a period when it was fuppofed the extra ordinary fuccefs of Bonaparte would have rendered him acceflible vs the fofter emotions of humanity,— Her Royal Highoefs, with all the anxiety which fhe mutt naturally have felt for the fituati. , n of her coda trymen, found herfelf under the necellity of returning the following brief anfwer t—" She was furry for them, but could not interfere." " TO MCI ICT4L 1110141111611 TM! ILICTRFS3 Or WIITgMBISO. Verdun, rth of CiAober, r Bct. Madam—We, the underfigtied, in our own names, and in that of all your Royal Father's fob. jeels detained as prifoiters by order of the French Government, beg leave to addrefs your Royal High nets, fatisfied, that you will deign to interelt youtfelf in obtaining onr relesfe from a fituation, which has been the caufe of much domeftic diftrefs to many of us, and of perfonal inconvenience to all. el We have been detained in France nearly two years and a half, at a diflance from our affairs, oar families and our homes. We have, without fuccefs, made every exertion, that depended upon us, for our liberation; and it is with extreme mortification we find, that we are not only Coffering in our own per. fons, but that our detention is the obflacle to the ge neral exchange of the prifoners of war, and that we are thus, though innocently, the caufe, that the brave of each nation are languifhing in confinement. •' We are perfeetly aware, Madam, while thus Qating ur fltuation to your Royal Highnefs, that it isnot the firtt time your feelings havebeen into trail fur us. Your concern for the welfare, the happine's and the rights of Bridal fubjefts, while we were fo fortunate as to prefervc you in England, and the general beneficence of your character, are known to as all. r , We take the liberty of fuggefling to your Royal Higllnef., that we conceive an application, on your par., to the Emperor of the French, for our libera tion, murk prove fuecthful, and we are particularly fi phP --Re& hat the Er i• were in a few days titer fent here on our parole." into both the American and Brings Cabinets refpeaing ligation under its review. The conchal of the Dutch Government towards commerc i a l and that thetwo Governments ME for the Pr f •could t led to that opinion from the reffeaion that the Em. affairs, are r. estime, o ecution. no the Britifh troops who were wrecked on their coalt is mutually diffatistitd. Mittrefs of the leas En g l a nd avoid regretting, that a young man, who had (hewn peror has fu lately edited the Court of Stotgard, and hihl honourable. Every kindnefs and accommo- would have ever flafubmit and ' have perverted it „ whore parlor affability and aura . iona peculiar .. to °`• elation w e t (hews towards them, and flag of truce (hip fubjeeted to her will. If power fhould have It too often happene d , that apologies were only the in wetc yclir fe z, are blended with the dignity of a Britt& 1/' was fent to Admiral Russitt, informing him that the dominion of the fear, that power is England • but offered at the moment the perfons offendin they &mid be fent home, on condition of their being b eca uf e a t e padre s a naval fisperiorhy, her fleets be• about to be punilhed, and that unfortunately hap - Pringefi. exchanged. The Orpheus has already arrived with l o g t he molt powe t ful on the globe, is, use therefore to pitied in the cAfe under their Lordliips' confider. vre are. Madan!, with the molt !erne/Kul at- ' .3go of them, as has the Commerce cartel with toe. diaate to all other maritime p owers , An d b o w i t over Att .„,. i t w „ ruinous t o the difcipline necetrarY to taohmout to Your tine Royal Highnefes very fir() other cantle, with the remainder, 44c hourly the world ?We hope not—WC hope Mr. Is FE tiRS9N he kept op in the army, that Bich offences Mould g o devoted and obedient fertaints." • exeacil- will fay it fhall not bc."—Duri, iNveriVir. , 11 , 1 ,, tti M c .), b ut thc Learned Count - el did net im (EkaeW the MUM' of the 000 traria d war a Voress.) p 6 • . , 4DDRRSS RJR ti LORD ERSiINE. iprzumfmci •••••••••••.... IkaItIOROUON, Fos. 8.--Paled by the Bower?* !loop of war, with a fleet of tranfporto under convoy from the Elbe, which River they left on Wednefday W.N.W. TORIAT, Fss. 9.—Arrived his bfajeltes VILLA DI Plata and the HISSIIIIA, loft from Ply- Month; the COLPOTS armed fchooner, with the lofs of her boom ; and the London packet, from Tortola, having experienced a heavy gale of wind, in which Capt. Ptrt, with the fall of the guns, had his leg and foot crulked to atoms.—Wind W.N.W. Fatal our's, Fat. IL—Arrived the bark Wakefield, Captain Joni Bauer, from Briaol, bound to Oporto. laden with iron, Ste. leaky, one of the fleet under convoy of his Majefty's (hip CANADA; the Hadaray, Jonas, from London, for Surinam ; and the Hawke, Ostav, from Greenock, for Lilbon. Sailed the Kingf ware,Btacesta, fbr Dover; and the Edward, Pow sa. for London, and the French (hip privateer Prince Murat, for Plymouth.—Wind Wefterly. POITIIIOOII, Fit. to.—Dropped down to St. Helen's, his Majefty's flips Pocre Hawai i Caguas'. and l'Asous.—Wind S. W. DIAL, Pas. to—Sailed the Kira Hoop of war, and VALOROUS praam, on a cruize ; and Outwit Coop of war, with a convoy to the northward...-. Comedown from the River his Majelly's Sups Doasav and Folio ; Lord Cafllereagh and Wilmer Caflle Lae Indiamen; Ottis, —, for New York; and London Packet, M , Doortat.i., for Philadelphia.— Arrived the Orris. floop of war, and the Dtsrs fAra gun brig, from a cruise, and remain in the Downs with the reit of the Chips as per loft. Arrived and failed for the River the William, Aczwocro,' from Lillian ; Iris, Ramat, ROM Demarara ; Lucy, Mots, from St. Kitt's ; Apollo, Baown, from Sari tam ; Hind, Daitir, from Grenada; Sovereign, Muzzy, from Tobago ; and feveral other homeward bound veffels, under convoy of his Majelly's (hip Biauziou, which remains. Arrived in the Downs the brig Cicero, —, laden with timber, bound to Deptford Dock Yard ;--lbe was taken by a French privateer, and retaken by the ?doylies gun brig off Fairliegh, after a chafe of three hours t alto arrived the Pomona, Captain Leastou, from St. Kitt's, laden with wine, roger, ecc. bound to London : the swat, early this morning, captured off the South Foreland by the Braave Dutch priva teer. and retaken by the jacitaLL gin brig, Lieut. Bre WALT commander. NAVAL. PROMOTIONS. An extcnfive promotion of Poll Captains and Cont. =anders hare taken place. Amon ft the former, are Captains Rarnfasy. Vaughan, T. Camobeß, Darrowes, Klttoe, Carteret. two Hancock,. Sulam, hPLood. Dar, Crofton, Curtis, Often, Sykes, Carden, Jaws, Owznaney, Worth, Duncan, Na,., and twenty others The Lieutenants who have been made Cowman- den, amount, we underhand, to nearly feventy. Captain H is appointed to the Thttoderer. Captain ISLACIWOOD to the Ajax. and to Votantnent of Dominica, retaining his alp. Captain MARIVALL to the Tourterelle. -e r. Captain LAILMOOI to the Clyde. Captain Louts, to the Pauline. Captain BAUR to the Kangaroo. Captain St•PDAIIT is made CoenMander of the Cru lia. The Hon. Captain DONDA a has been removed from the Qytasc to the EURYALUS: Captain MiKiimay. from The Rol BUCK to the Q2Eacc ; and Captain R. Coeur. to the Rosauca. A letter from an officer of the s:h regiment of foot, dated Enkhuifen, January to, tBo6, lays— " No doubt long before this you have heard of the unfortunate accident that makes me a prifoner. We failed f►om the Downs on the 22d ult. in the Helder armed tranfport, with Soo of the sth regimen► on board, befides a detachment of the Buffs end 28 officers. Our first efcape was getting under way in the Downs, when we nearly ran on a fend bank, which happened to be the fame the Ariadne got faft on, in the firft expedition that failed from Eng land, having General Dow on board. Our fecond efcape was that our good pilot nearly ran us on the Galloper Sands, off Hararge ; our next and miracu lous efcape was on the night of the 23d ult. our fhip (truck on a fandbank called the Hakes, off the Texel, about half pall ten o'clock, P. M. it being the Di vine will that the night was calm (otherwife the flap would have fplit in the courfe of half an hour); we remained in that flotation firing guns of diftrefs un til morning, but to no purpofe, as our convoy, which was the Reouaus, had parted from the Beet the day of that night, in purfuit of a flrange fail which (he decried to the foitthward of us, and of courfe was too far allern to atifwer our guns; and as we plainly heard them anfwered in the beginning of the night, it mutt have been from one of the gun brigs which accompanied us: day-light at length appearing, with the difmal afped of a heavy milt and fog, prevented us from being able to fee land, we found there was no alternative but to make our efcape by the affiaatice of a raft than preparing During this time the fog beginning to clear, we could eafily defcry at a dif twice feveral fail of Dutch fchooners bearing towards us ; on their approach we immediately furrendered ourfelves prifoners of war. The Dutch officers whom we furrendered to, told us that they fent out boats the preceding night, but in confequence of being fo ex tremely dark they could not find us. We were taken on board the fleet lying in the New Dieppe, under the command of Admiral Ds WINTER, where we received every mark of attention and politenefs, and •fi da• -tiler fent hr -un our parole!' INSinuiEcnek Ar TRINIDAD. A Moft formidable cnnfpirscy among the negrnes at Trinidad has lately been ditcoiered. and prevented. A letter from a Gentleman in a high fituation in that Maud, dated the tath of December, Elates as follows : " At prefent we are ocenpied in Camcii, taking examinations of Come negroes, about 25 in number, who have been engaged in a confpiracy of a dan gerous nature. They were principally taken up in in the valley of Cuefs, and in the town and vicinity. —The individuals under examination were the chiefs in the plot, which would probably have been at tempted to be executed during the holidays, had not fuch information been received as led to a difcnvery. I am confident. from the 'matures that have been taken, that every thing is now fecure. We (hall pro ceed with due deliberation." Another letter from that Mold, of December tB, givel the following particulars A plot to renew the (cents of St. Donthigo has been providentially difcovered, and martial law was proclaimed again on the 14th instant. It appears, that ander the pretence of forming Beumbeidas, different re-1 giments of nave, had been fecretly organized ; King. Generals. Staff Officers, Judges, &c. were appointed ; the molt horrid oaths taken, and Chriftmas Eve fixed for the execution of the plan. One of their meetings was to have been held in the Carinage Bay, in a place which the negroes had fecretly cleared. They were to hive [allied forth at midnight, paired la Chancel. i koebards, and Odibuts, fet fire to all the plan tattoos in that neighbourhood, and exterminated alit the whites. While this was doing in that quarter, the town was to have been fired, and the fame affa ffi na. dons to have been committed. The like fcenes were to hale been perpetrated at St. Jofeph's, end in every other part of the illand at the fame hour. Thank GOD ! their black Majeßies, with their Officers, and Nobility, are arretted, and the criminals are to be tried before the Governor and Council, and executed under their fentence. The trials commence to-morrow.— We axe all on the alert, and sleep with doors and win dows barricaded, pißols loaded, and honks !addled. Guardsare pofted round the town, and great vigilance ordered." We have been favoured with (till later particulars of the infurration at Trinidad, in a letter from a Gentleman high in office there, to his friend here, dated December 19, of which the following is an extraa " We had nearly experienced a rebellion, of the negroes here, and a general maffacre of the Whites, which, had it taken place, would have involved all the Windward Mends in general devallatioa. The explofion of fuch a volcano here, as well as at St. Domingo, would have completely overwhelnsed not only the firkins, but all the other colonies. We have arrefted feveral free negroes from St. Domingo, who where banilhed by Colonel Piaon, but were after wards fuffered to return. One of the Kings, or Em perors, a Negro flave of Shand's effete, hak this day been executed in the Square in town. To-morrow, fix others of the Royal Dynafty take their leave of this world ; and the (emelt fcrutiny is making into the views and objeas of thefe nefarious confpirators.— Coldnel John Glofter dikovered the plot in the valley where be is Commandant, and made immediate cow rhunication of it to the Governor, who fent a ftrong detachment of regulars in the dead of night, and took all the confpirators into cuftody. Their nni forms and Randards were found concealed. The Council has had a permanent fitting of eight days. Mr. Begorrat has fingularly diftingtutbed himfelf, by his great aaisity, labour, and talents—and the tin. wearied folicitude and precautions of our excellent Governor, General Heflop, are above all praife. The projeas of thefe fcourtdreh were, to get poffeffian of all the white men, and grind them in Mr. Shane; new wind mill, and they were to caft lots for the White Ladies. Not a child was to have efcaped their fury. The plans of thefe moniters have fortu nately been completely fruftrated, and no injurious confequecces are now apprehended." Such is the information that has been received ref pruning this alarming intelligence. We think it pro per to add, for the fatisfaaron of thofe who have re latives in that Maud, that we have teen (eters' other letters, which all agree in Hating, that the danger is entirely over. The Governor, General His tot, has behaved on this occafion, with the fame coolnefs, promptitude, and vigour, which have charaCtcrifed every public proceeding fince he took the charge of the ifland, efpecially when it was alarmed in June tall, by the arrival of a French fleet in that quarter. His conduit on the occation juft alluded to was filch, as to gain him the admiration, efteem, and confidence, of every inhabitant in the ifland ; and during the late danger he confirmed by his meafures the high opinion that was before enter tained of his merits. The St. Vincent Gazette of the rath DeceMber Pays, "Advice has been received here, that a force of three fail of the line and nine frigates, with loco troops, are momentarily expeaed at Martinique from Rochelle, Rochefort, and L'Orient ; in confequence of which every precaution has been taken here:" The Antigua papers down to the 26th, reduce the force ell:reeled to two frigates. Admiral Cocstasez, with the NOITHUM AAAAAA D and Ati-ts, of 7¢ guns; two frigates, and three Poops, was off Martinique s•n the tath December, to übfervc the approach of the enemy. We have received New York papers to the 29th December. The public mind in America hems to be in a Rate of confiderable agitation and ferment.— The following is ant-strait from the New York Papers: " 1111. W YORK. DEC. 2!. $g Both in and out of Congrefs there feems now to be an unequivocal and strongly marked indignation againft the authors of the indignities and injuries of fered to our commerce, whether England or others. It is no longer to be doubted that a jealoufy has crept I both the A: — \ and Britith Cabinets refpeftir We have great pkafure in laying before the puhlis a corral Copy of the Addrefs which the Gentlemen of the Bar have prefented to the Lott) CHMICILLOI, with his Lordthip's anfwer : At a Meeting of the Barri tiers of the Court of King's Bench agembred this Bth day of February, Ibleived Unanimoolly, That the Mowing Added, be prefentrd to the Right Hon. 'NONA/ Loao Lamm, now Lord High Chooretior ; and that EDWARD DATIZI.L. and DANIEL P Com; Efirs. king the Senior Barrifters of this Coon, do reran the few& " That we cannot deny narking the fatisfaalon of pretends, nor Snare congratulations to thc Slight Hountrable TROIKAS Liao EISIUNE on his appointment to the Office of I.:= Chancellor of Great Britain, and of exprefLog the deep • Made upon ua by the uniform kindnefs and attention which wit have at all times experienced from him during his long and ratan five pradtice =one us; and we further beg lease to adlire his lerdedp, tbat in retiring from an he is accompanied by our belt milks for his health and hippinefs " The following is the reply of Lord Chancellor Eau's, m the Addrefs froth the Gentlemen of thi Bar of the King's Bench, prefented to hini on Smut , day : Gentiernen—t cannot exprefs whet I felt upon wedeln. year Week, and what I mutt ever feel epos no weelleilleta oda I came originally into the profdion 111111111 W swot ihrinew bred in military Fitt, t total teat milleit Der, eadeat ma dded to rape& any favourableisoytlts has irate babies or previous friendfhips; my faddell MMOMMIIMIS leap grew Minds before I coup rank is Sok sr h kintag *Mt estmetanto were mP fedora allb, was colonised to h ammo Atha Dad* but prejudge aids ter I leak bait Mikis errettode Epos no is lied wink tar kite and twenty you r expeelidalul =see which I Ned a pride. as wed as a es,b aire slow enabled me to ur~t ltaYilup pieful Masa& ties, usevated what would othe a t o r r lia 'wadi** of Binto an uninterrupted nods set b. it happy that yotirpartbdlty anew *sear dos sirloin open record this Wit tribute ai as mad brew eL the Englids Bea. My only Isla sat to dea& to fn much chub;pp the petemell iwidlliblo iewellos a mind deeply alledoel by frallbastio produce nit Faulk. wads fun Aare la Way Sief+rglrlftelf rewarded. last hr• wet oneds, Gewibiesso, peer and fandriawiliswebie kraut, Lisesiskolnwliesds, las gmb doe. • L4o' INTELLIGINCS. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. :Mr. Juftiee Rocca, and the Honourable Mr. fuftke Ceawaaa. t, the Iti of March, at die caftle of York. City e( York—The fame day, at the 0611dhall ortM City. Lemaildea—AVodneiday,, Merck 16, at the Wile at Lam:dim COURT OF SING'. BENOH, FRE. 3. THE XING S. IDWALD GOLDIUINI, This Gentleman bad been found guilty at the Sit: tangs after lea Term, of writing and publifbing • libel upon the Officers of his Majefty's Regiment of.l Royal Horfe Guards Blue, contained in a publication called The Blueviad ; and be was this day brought up to receive the judgment of the Court. Lord ELLINIMOUGH read his notes taken at the trial, in which alfo was inferted the libel upon Cap. taro Abney, which commenced in the following form a Nineruit! to thee my mute next tunes her fon, For next in rank fhe marks you in the throng : Thy had enormous, &An her worid•ring eyes That bead more large than three of common ilss;; • Aad when for fcnfc we look, the hards Is vein, Donee thou west barn, and dunes thou wilt remain : Dark and more dark, the dreary manna: growl, its native ftrength rafting blows an blows I Libels of a Ilmilar nature were publilbed again! ILieut.-Colonel Darien, Capt. Bird, and his Lady. The Defendant produced an affidavit, by which it appeared, that he was, at the time of writing the. ,libels in queftion, an Officer of the Regiment 'already mentioned, and then only eighteen years t:fate. That being young and inconfiderate, he had liloroperly contracted debts with feveral of the Of ficers of the Regiment, and fame of the inhabitants of Canterbury, where he was then quartered, all of which bad been Gnee difcharged by his elder brother, who had lately attained his twenty-fira year, and came into poffeffion of an ample fortune. While in the regiment, he was treated with great infult by Lieutenant-Colonel Dorien, one of the Profecutors, who not only bellowed on him the appellation of a !windier, but had inferted in the Orderly-book of the regiment, force words alluding to his debts, for the purple of infulting him ; and when he fent Captain Miller to him, he iefufed to give him any explanation upon the fubjetl. He farther (fated, that he had been treated very ill by the other Profecutors, para. cularly Captain Bird, with refpeel to the (ale of Rime holies, into the particulars of which it is not necefiary for us to enter ; all of whom being his fuperiors in rank, he could not call on them for fatisfaaion in another way. The two latter Gentlemen, as well as feveral ocher officers of the regiment, had encouraged him to write theft reties, and he frequently repeated them at the mefs, at their respell, and to their ap parent fatisfaetion. He was not yet nineteen years of age, and, being a younger brother, not entitled to any fortune. The affidavit of one of the officers corroborated the recital of the verfes in the melt room, and the appro. bation teftified by the gentlemen of the regiment. By the affidavit of the S.ilicitors for the Defendant, it appeared, that he had offered to go before the Mailer of the Court, and brake any fatisfaaion the Protects tors, or Mr. Erfkine, as their Counfel, thould dire& Mr. Serjeant Bast addreffed the Court in mitiga tion of punifhment. He laid; that he hoped the Court would take into their coalideration the extreme youth of the Defendant at the time the libel was pub hilted, being then not r 8 years of age. The Learned Counfel blamed the malignity with which the profe cution had beeh condueled, Mr. Goldburne being in volved in expences which he was unable to difcharge. He lamented that a profecution should have been innituted by perfons fo ill qualified, who had often flandered the Defendant, to the full as much as he had libelled them by the publication complained of. Mt. Bast hoped, that the Court would pronounce a lenient judgment, taking every circumllante of mi tigation under its review, t~~ilMt~ Tile Hawn I I / . ,