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~'. k-~ 9ie 111 DELICATE INVESTIGATION. On Friday Morning will be publifhed, AN ADMONITORY LETTER to His Royal Nighnefs the PRINCE of WALES, on the Sella% of the late delicate Enquiry. Containing Anecdotes never before Pub, bawd, which may probably lead to the Detedtion of the Real Authors of the late Sqntialotts attempt to fully the Purity of an Illuitrious Perf,mage. Omni', b nada. Inca funt plenilllms tures, P . (Ilan= tom eohon eft Minato tibi. JOON OR SAIJIIVRY. Printed foe Tipper and Melanie, LeadenkaU•ttreet. WEST INDIES. BATUMI:OEB, JUNE 29. Admiral Cocitaama arrived yeflerday with his Coadron, for what reafon we know not, but he flays t:vit two more (hip s of the line, and Come frigates, have got into Martinique: nuking now there fi. fail r• the line and feveral frigates, having on board a cot.liderable quantity cf troops. No time is yet ap if • pointed for the failing of our homeward trade. WFDNFSDA' PRICE OF STOC Bank Stott ttsi 2:3 2144 3 pet Cent. Red. An 6t 4 661 3 per Cent. Conf. 63i 66 63 ii. 4 per Cent. Beili 5 per Cent. Navy 9941 931 Long Ann. tft iBnCT India Bonds, ts. a as. dU. ', AUGUST 6. KS YESTERDAY. Imp. Ann 8 9 rilf Piths per Case 96f VI Entice'. Pills, par I. prom. Omnium Tel tf EngliOs 'rickets t9l, ID. CooL for ace. 66f tkai • Yeßerday Difpatches were received by a Flag of Truce, from Boulogne. Their contents have not tranfpired. Stocks declined yeßerday towards the dole of the Market. The fall was varioufly accounted fo-. Some would have it unit difpatches had been receiv ed front France, which brought accounts unfavoura• ble to peace. Others fent a Meffenger after Lord LAUDIRDALI to order his immediate return.—The real cattle, however, was limply this: Several hol ders of Omoium finding the price high ennuet, wifbed to realife their profits, and brought large fume into the market for tale. The following were the prices at one o'clock this day :—Coofols, for money, 63—ditto, for Auguß, 65U—Reduced 630—Om nium t t —Exchequer Bills, par. 35. prem. We Rated yefterday, and on the bell authority, that M. D'Ouaass. had, in figning the Preliminary Treaty with France, gone beyond his inliruSione. We can now add, that the terms are fo ignominious and difadvantagtons to Rasa, that is thought by tome diplonlatißs, the Emperor ALEXANDIR will pro- bably hefitate to ratify them. In the mean time, NAPOLPOII ads as if even the Definitive Treaty was figned. On the very day that D'Ouaan. figoed the Preliminary Treaty, it was in. timated to the Aufbian Asokalfador, that his Maßer mull immediately abdicate the crown he has fo long wa,n as HcAtl of the German Empire, and confine himfelf in future to fuch matters as concern only his own Houle. The Lord Hobart packet, from New York and Halifax, is art ived at Falmouth j Ole failed from New York on the 4'h, and from Halifax on the 16th July ; the letters will be delivered to morrow. The Abunt.lan;e (lore-fhip from Jamaica, is arrived off, Dover. INDIA. We are enabled to expldin the eircumilance which gave rife to the attack upon Fort Gohud in the Eat Indies, which we were apprehedive would have oc• cafloned a renewal of the war in that quarter. We mentioned, that by the laft arrival from India a letter was received, (Wing the death of an Officer in an affault upon Fort Gohud on the alit of February. At that period it was fuppnfed that this place was in poffeffion of Scindia, agreeably to the terms of the treaty between the Beitins Government in India and that Chieftain, and that the peace was interrupted in confequence of his treachery. The following is an extraft from the letter to which we alluded : I lament to Inform ycu, that your fon (Captain W. B. Mac vitee, t tth iteziment of Native Infantry) fell In donning the re doubt before Gohud, on the arft February. It will, however, at ford you fame confutation to learn, that he proved himfelf, on this necalion, as oa every other, a brave and gallant Officer." As this intelligence created conliderable anxiety in the public mind, and could not then be fatisfaCtorily accounted for, we are happy in having an early op portunity of removing the apprehenfion of a renewal of the war in India, which it was fo well adapted to produce. Tide afftir at Gohud colt more live,, and proved, in every TelpeO, a more ferious affair than was at &It imagined. The following particulars re fpTeging it we Rate on the authority of a Britilh Offi cer jilt arrived from India-- • It u.,viog Leen Itipuiated in the treaty that Fort Gohod was to 'e gieen up to Scindia, and the knowledge of this cheuenaance Isa-ins publicly tranfplred, an enterprlfing partisan with a Bran force furprited the place, and taking pulTeftion of It refuted to de liver i: Into the hands of Seindia, under the preteacc of holding it fur his legitimate Sovereign the Rbaja of Gelled. Major Bowl. Was in confecucnce ordered to compel him to ftirrender the place to Seindia's troops. He proceeded apinft it with one battalion of the atth regiment, and pan of the WI. Major Bowie was lying I•efore the foreprevioui to tie failing of the [aft geet, and hope, entertained that this adventurer would (peedity zi!; up the irticipedtation was, however, dffeppodeled. • Captain koleAtte, 'al we before Sated, and two other Oakeie, fell In the 4 ,eti t . e s, unYlk it was foetid nweFery te flake usfew tin rednibt ; privates were killed, end' moil afore wounded. Captjist : ;% 4 scan witch regretted as a brave and impulsionad elnees e " aJv;ces from 'lndia are aptly to bring 1 • account of the re4n9ion of Gotta!, although, the' known charafter of the felloW who has in. Ica himfclf into the place, d'etermiticd Tana rchcaded. • ? .1. it }• t •0 . .0411 r.' 6.. • 1 ' 1 IF! r, RAMSGATE, AUGUST S. After the •heavy rains on Snnday, an order ar rived for the 62d to embark direllly. They marched ' in the evening to the Pier, and the cutters and loggers took about 300 of them, in high fpirits, nut of the harbour, for the Dawns, their band playing on the Pier Head, where there was an immenfe concoorfe of fpeltators. The tide had fallen ton low to allow the tranfports to move, but before we were out of our beds next morning they had failed. A great deal of baggage, and feveral Commiffioned Officers of the 6ad Regiment, with about 3o men, fill remain here, waiting for conveyance. Yeflerday afternorm the fleet of tranfports failed from the Downs, with a fair wind, for Pr-a•tfmonth. Our Harbour is at prcfent quite naked, but five more tranfporta are expelled here to-morrow. General 13Laccarsras, Q2arter Mafler General, fill remains here.' He has been very alive in his department, and has condulled every thing to admiration. The weather is here very unfettled, notwithßanding which the oats are cutting all over the Ifle of Thaw, and the corn in general is very forward, and pro. miles an abundant harveft. MARGATE, AUG. 5. At the Theatre on Wednefday was performed the Country Girl: Mr. TAYLOR performed the part of Moody in a' mafterly manner ; althea, by Mrs. Hooters, was performed in her ufual flyle of excel lence; Mils Kt No's Lucy deferves the highe praife; and Mifs De Came, in the charaßer of Peggy, was very great, and reminds us of Mrs, JORDAN ; the performed the pate with much fpirit and arrived. To the play was added The Devil to Pay, Yolfon by Mr. LOVIOKOVI ; this performer we cannot praife too much; Nell, by Mifs Ds CAMP ; our obfervations on the part of Pero cpply here alto. Lall night rite infant Rofcia, Mifs MUM, per formed the part of Douglat, and afterwards the part cf Rexalana, in The Sultan. Mr. GUN ea will per form the'part of Shyloei, in The Merchant of Venice, this evening. The Promenade at Kidman's on Sunday was the fullell this feafon. WsirPIRT made his fiat appear. ance there with his harp ; upwards of 4co perfons were affembled to hear him perform. Sir W. W. WYNNE and the Officers of the Denbigh Militia were' prefent- In IN/rimer's fecond harp fold he intro duced feveral Wellh airs, with •ariations, and Sir W. W. Wynne's Fang, as a Rondo, and God Save the King, with variations. At ten o'clock the com pany retired, highly gratified. On Saturday the driver of a bathing machine went too far in the water white the tide was coming up, and the Gentleman continuing too long in the lea, the machine was obferved fwirnming ; immedi• ately, ropes were faftened to it, with; three honks, to get it out, but in vain, the rope broke, and the driver was obliged to fwim on Ihore. At lao, other ropes were brought from the Margate :Joys, with which they made a fecond attempt to Pave ir, and had the good fortune to bring it fare on terra fiima. Among the arrivals are, Lord and Lady CARTE.. IRV. Count& of 2rlarrartttn, Mr. and Mrs. SNYDE, Mr. and Mn. EGPRTON, Mr. and Mils Gaavtut,s, and Mrs. and Mifs BtOADHURST. The Marquis of Mascot's and fuite are arrived at hi..t.ordchip's feat, in the Noi th of Ireland. Arrived at Edinburgh—The Duke of Gordon, on his way. aft Gordon Coale; the Right lion. the Earl of Moyne, from Law I don • the alight Hnn. the Counters of Elgin, William HamUtwil, Nifbet, Efq. and Lady, of Archerfield, :cc. the .light Hon. dot Countcfo of Lauderdale, and Lady Ann Maitland; T. Kennedy. Efq. of Duntire, and family; Sir Aleunder Gordon, But. of Greenlaw ; Lord and Lady Rirmaird, Lord Primrofe, the Haw. Arch. and Mrs APDonald. Mr.and Mra. Chillialm, of Chifbolna, and the Hon. Mr. Primrofe. Sundt; fe'nnight the Right Hon. the LORD cartADVCR of Scotland arrived in Edinburgh from London. The 54. th regiment from Colcheder barrack.. come into Chatham on Mond.y. They are on their way to the ceaft. The batallions of the Coldaream and 3d regiment of Guards, lately quarterei at Deal, arrived at Chatham barracks lett week. The third battalion of the Cinque ports Volunteers commanded by Col. Lama, WAS dillunded on the 24th ult. and the men 114vc delivered in their arms and accoutrements. At the evening parade of the Arelfhire Militia, on the agth ult. the Commanding Officer, Lieut. 0 , 1. CAMPBELL, delivered to JaMts !saw, private in the faid regiment, a handfnrne Myer watch, 11.;:ing a prefent from a Society of Gentlemen in Leith, as a teilimopy of their approbation of his t.ontinp, ip flying the lives of two children that fell into the New p ck, at that p lace, on the 16th of May laft. . The Galgo arrived in Colic harbour on Tteefday fe'nnight from St. Übe& On the 19th lailant. off Cape Finigerre, law (even fail 4 Englilliline 4 battle Mips, and on the 'aid, was hoarded by an Englifh frigate, in lat. +s°. long. to° +t • 1 A letter from Bolton dated June 24, fat's —. J " Ilia feared that ere 111;1 a battle has been fought between the Americans an d eb d Spaniards at Natchitves. What will he the refult Hood, that great preparations arc making by our Ci tizens to aid and luccour their countrymen againit f• the Spaniards." A letter received in Greenock, from a gentleman in the civil department in the ifland of Ceylon, under dye of the ill of March, fays--4 6 I had an opportu nity of afcertaining, ahOut two months ago, that the unfortunate 14 4 3.1. Davy is Gill alive, which had been eoislssie er tome time. A Malay, nephc %an hd Native Captain here, who had been liken in Cindy, made his efcape.' I examined him, but his declaration threW s mute light on the unaccountable capitulation of Major Davy, but too ttronglit corm borared the horrible accounts already pubilibed of the tnalFacre. He alto &poled that ha had ten the Major only a Few day. jpefore he made his &ape, in peed health; hut that Captain arrilLieut. Mtrapbreys ar: bcth dead./.! • ' • • , LONDON. M ,02 Z ANE. CORN EXCHANGE, ACOVRT 6. At the new Market this day,. there Were not many further arrivals of Wheat, and the (unpile: were chiefly of Monday's; faleala this trade at (mall va riation.; and Barley with Malt likewife. From the expctfted (bort crop of White Peas, this Rill continues a riling article—Oats of fecond and ordinary quaG• ties were in large fupply—Rape Seed at better price— Flour and other articles at no particular difference. OINEIAL CURRENCY Al UNDER: Wheat, eas 68s Bos per qr. Grey Peale 40543 s od Fine Intto.Bss itss od Beans, 425476 cd Rye, 36s 421 Tiek Ditto, 33s 399 od Barley, 34939 a od Oats, 22$ 271 Jos Malt, 68 741 04 Poland ditto 311 33s od White Fide, 68173 s Rape Seed, (new) aBl 321 PRICE OF 11.001. Fine Flour Us to . 71s Seconds 62. to 68. per fact. CITT BUSINESS. Yeflerday, at one o'clock. purfuant to public re quifition, a Common Hall of the Livery of London war convened at Guildhall. for the purpofe of elat ing an additional Sheriff for London and Middlefez, in the room of the Gentleman chofen at the IA Corn- mon Hall, who has fincedeclined to terve the Office, paying the Win' fees for bis mule. The builnefi of the Hall having been opened with the ufual formalities, the names of the following Gentlemen were read, as put in nomination for the choice of the Livery— TOMAS ROWCRORT ' Efq. Alderman. J J. Sian ii, Etc. Alderinan. S Motes, Efq. Alderman. ioBN Po INIIIP. Efq. Alderman. P. TiAWHIV,Efq. Aldertnan. °SIAM &TWILL, E. Alderman. Siiixoo s. Efq. Stationer. —.— agaves, Efq. Embroiderer. • •••••••••• PIARION, Efq. Glover. W. BAR tow, Efq. Bricklayer. . WILSON, Efq. Glover. ••.•• CLARIt, Efq. RICHARD PHILLIPS.N. Statietter. lAMBI BCANICOMI, Efq. Dyer. - Mr. WAITHMAN then addreffed the Livery, and exprefed his hope, that the objet for which they were called forward this day was the choice of a Sheriff for the City of London, who fhould be really difpofed to aftume the duties of that important office, and competent to difcharge thofe duties with honour to hinifelf, and dignity to fo highly refpetlable a Ra. tion in the metropolis of the Britifh Empire. There was one of the Gentlemen whole names had been juR aow read to the affembly, and who was fuppofed to Rand at the head of aloft candichttes moR likely to be the objets of their telethon, namely, Mr. Symonds. But he could allure the Affernbly from communica tions now in his poffeffion, and particularly from a letter received from Mr. Symonds's phyfician, that, fo dangerous and precarious was his Rate of health at this moment, as to render him utterly unable to aflame the duties of the important Ration, fbould he be honoured by the choice of his fellow citizens, and therefore intreating leave to decline the elation. The fad now mentioned would have been haled in the more regular form of a petition to the Common Council, but that there was no meeting of that Af fembly (ince the laft Common Hall day, when Mr. Symonds was put in nomination. He trotted, there fore, the Gentlemen of the Livery would confider the intimation he now gave on the part of Mr. Sy. monde, as a full and timely notice, to prove to them that he was totally incapacitated, from ill health, to atume the duties of Co important an office; and there- fore he relied, that the Livery would now think it high time, after fo much money had been extorted from a number of Gentlemen who were chofen, although it was known they would not ferve, to pro ceed now to the elation of a Gentleman willing, able, and eligible to airtime and to difcharge the duties of fo important a lituation. Such a Gentleman he would now have the honourlof propofing to their choice a man well known, he believed, to many of them, and whom, he was fore, they would admit to be a man, eligible, from refpeaability, and competent. from his well-known good underflanding, to diP charge the funtlions of that department with honour to himfelf, and to the choice of hi. fellow citizens.. He concluded, by propofing Mr. Richard Phillips, Stationer. The nom in at ion was feeondcd by Mr. Deputy GOOOBE II 6RII. Mr. J. Dixon, notwithftanding the very warm pa negyric with which the fart fpeaker had propofed Mr. Phillips, a Gentleman of whom, however, he knew nothing, yet, he trulled, the affembly would do him the favour of following his own, though a vet y dif ferent counfcl from that of the Gentleman who (poke laft, and, in fo doing, eonfult the dielates of their own good fence. The Hon. Gentleman had thought pro• per to charge the Livery with elating Gentlemen to the office of Sheriff, for the mere purpofe of extorting money from them. Such an imputation, he thought, not only indecorous in the extreme, but alto totally unfounded ; and inch an infinuation its, lie troflecl, the; would not now infra to (way them into the pre cipitate choice of a perfon, who, he would not fay, might not be very ref - I:104We, and very competent' to difcharge the duties of the r ffice, for he knew little or nothing about him, but who certainly had no claim of inecedtwe to In many ierpedable Gentlemen, in nomination before him ; his name having been pro. -pored this moment, for the firll time. He requetted, therefore, the whole lift might be fairly gone through, in order that a fair feleillion might be made, and every man have the opportunity of voting for the perfon he fhould think molt worthy of his choice. If that choice fhould fall upon the Gentleman fiat mentioned (Mr. Symonds), be was confident that the reprefentation now made by the Gentletnan who rpoke left, if urged in the proper place, namely, before the Common Council, would ban its due weight, is exempting him from the fervice, withoitt any expenfe; and that it would not appear, there was any wilh on the part of tl.•'ie %Ira propoled him, to have him elated, merely tor the purpofe, as bid been generally charged by the lion. Gentleman; 3f extorting from him a fine. Mr. WAITiIMAII, in explanation. repeated his for• mer affertions and rai4, he could not conceive for what other purport, except extortion, Gentlemen were fingled oar for elpion to the office of Sheriff, while ill health, avosAions, or dillant refidence, it war known would preclude them from fervics If the City of Lendoi!weittei ileney, it Ibould be elated in tome other way, than by elating Gentlemen trk offices, againft their will, in which they were unwil. • ling or unable to ferve, and then molding them in large fines, for declining the fervice The office of Sheriff was one which required Come time for previous e arrangement with the perfon choler; to fill it, as was evident from the length of time which usually elarfej between the election and the entrance upon its duties. But if the Livery fhould follow the advice of the Ho nourable Gentleman who 101 l fpoke, in proceeding through the whole lift, and continuing to cleft, diy after day, and week after week, Gentlemen whom they knew would not feive, merely for the purpole of • obtaining fines from them, the confequence mull be, that on the commencement of the next official year, the City of London would fill be in want of a Sheriff. Mr. TATLOCK expreffed Come furptiie ut the pro pofition brought forward by his friend Mr. W4th. man, for the election of Mr. Phillips (a Gentleman whofe refpeAsbility, competence, and eligibility, to the office, he by no means gaefli••ned) when, upon the loft day of elation, he had teemed to fupport the claims of Mr. Branfcomb, in whofe favour alto the Phew of hands, on that occafiin, appeared fo predo minant. If the pretenlions of Mr. Phillips were urged upon political ground, he could only fay there was no 'vantage on that point, as he believed both candi. dates held the fame principles. He believed, alto, that the refpedability and the competence of Mr. Branfcomb would not be wondered inadequate to the dignified Ilation for which he was proposed ; and even upon an equal ground of pretenfioa on thofe points, he fruited the claim of feniority would pre ponderate in favour of Mr. Branfcomb, who was ready and willing to •(fume the arduous duties of the office, and to difcharge them with honour and fidelity. He therefore begged leave s with the mat cordial fentiments of alienation for hes worth, as well as of regard for the honour of the City of London, to recommend Mr. Branfcomb to their choice. Mr.. GRIFFITH very warmly feconded the recom mendation of Mr. Tatlock ; and obfetved, that for twenty years, Mr. Branfcomb had been a member of the Livery of London. The Common Crier then proceeded to propofe the Names of the feveral gentlemen, in (octant:to, as they 'land upon the foregoing lift, when the Phew of hands appeared to be obvioufly pending between Mr. Phil lips and Mr. Branfcomb. The majority, however, was declared by the LORD MAYOR in favour of the latter gentleman, who was declared duly eleded. The Affembly was then adjourned/mike. Thus has the City of London at left obtained * fecond Sheriff for the enfuing year, after fo many fac ed:Gee Elections. The fines, in confequence, now Mitlfummer day alone, amount to no lefs a funs than 91501. Captain Cuivat Noose, R.A. is appointed agent of Tranfports at the Cape of Good Hope. On the tR inflant the foundation Rune of the Mo nument to be erelled in the Ore= ' Glafgow, to the memory of Lord Na Loom, was laid by the Worlhipful Sir Joan Sruatr, of Allan Bank, Bart. Provincial • Grand Matter Mafon of the Under Ward of Lay narkikire. The Members of the Proceflion, toge ther with a numerous affemblage and Gen. tlemen, met in the High Church where a very excellent and appropriate preached by the Rev. Dr. Wm, °Rt drew's Church. The proceffion was clofed by eland Regiment of Volunteers, i lined by the Trades' Corps, the lunteers, and the Anderßon and \ The length of the procefflon more than a mile. It took about paging the Crofs, and was nearly reaching the Green. Its route was George-Rreet, Q2een•ftreet, Trongate, During the proceffion, the veffels the Broomielaw, difplayed their mony, of Liverpol, Capt. Witt being one for every year of Lord the time of his death. When tho was laid, Capt. WI L alfo fired 2 t guns. Not with (landing the immenfe tors, fuppofed altogether at upwards greatefl good order was preferred, happened. In the afternoon the Lord Provoß and Magifirates, and the Committee of Management, gave ao elegant entertainment to Sir Jona Sr our and lithe, in the Tontine. A very fine monument to the memory of the gal. lant Aszscaostsr is nearly finilbpd. The departed hero is reprefented on horfeback, juft as he had re ceived that wound which deprived his country of ODe of its greaten military fupporters. By the falling in of the common fewer in Edwin". amt. Portman triune, on Monday, a large cavity has been formed in the Itreet ; fortunately no carriage was patfing at the time. A difcovery has lately been made on the mate of the Earl Of SHANNON, in the neighbourhood of You. ghat, which will no doubt engage the attention of the antiquary, and induce an anxiety to explore the 4 great variety of fubterraneous exeavations with which that part of Ireland abounds. Some country people having occation to quarry (tones near one of there receffes, fuddenly opened on a hollow, which con tained a human theleton, around which was found the remnant of a garment molt richly ornamented with broad plates of figured gold, of confiderable value; the gold lace is of a pattern timilar to that of th e prefent day. Betides this, there were alto found fe. veral amber beads, much injured by time, together with an article refembling a mitre. The lalt Number of the Repertory of Arts, &c. publifhed on the ill inning, contains an Interefling Paper of Count Ru st Foals's, on the mutual adhefion of the Molecules of Water ; corral copies of the fol. C lowing Patents, viz. Mr. C 's for improvements on Horfe.lhoes—Mr.Wryas a ay's for a Filtering 'soaves 4 6 19- paratus—Mr. for making S ugar , an d Mr. d. MILTON'S for improvements on Wheel Carriages— Alfo a very complete fyftem of Manures by AITHVI E YoumG, Efq. Deferiptiun of an expanding Wheel, to regulate the velocity of Machinery ; and of a ma chine for cutting the edges of paper and books A Memoir on the theory of Capillary Tubes, and fe mai imponant papers in Chemiftry, &c.—and no tices """ • of fixteen curious inventions, for which Patents have been granted within tb:te two months. . eof Ladies and Gen. Ai V T at twelve o'clock, l'opriate fermon wee i 'Bacons, of St. An. ly the Glafgow High. ' and the itreets were tr, : sth Lanarkfitire Vo. I Canal Volunteers. on was confiderabb? " mut half an hour ' ;early two hours ' rte was High.ftreet l ' rongate, Saltmartet. , i effels in the river, at r flags ; and the Her. p 1 tars, fired ,ty guns, nd NILSON'S age. at the foundation 40011 red a Royal Salute of concourfe of fpeftse wards of 80,000, the ed, and no accident : ''