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VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SESSION of OYER Ind TERMINER, and GAOL DELIVERY ! w oe Trial of Offences committed on the High Sea, within the ) i fieAction of the Admiralty or England, will be held at Jostle* nag, in the Old Bailey, London, on TUESDAY, the 49th of May got, at Eight o'clock in the morning: And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, In whose weedy any Prisoners, charged with Offences committed on the Mgt Seas, or within the said Jurbdledon, may be. are hereby malted to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. liscesitt., the Solicitor of the Admiralty, on spring Garden Terrace, London, in order that the necessary mea ems may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for Trial, at the said intended Session and all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any inquisitions, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizance. may Nue been taken, touching any such Offences, are required to trans mit the same forthwith, to Mr. THOMAS SHILTON, the Clerk •of Amigos to the High Court of Admiralty of England, at hirOlbie, d the Sessions House, in the Old Bailey, Loudon. J. W. CROZZE. OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND CORE COMPANY, Easnas-sTruT, &AIRMAIL • Lottoost, MAY 4,1697. • tOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY, will be holden at the Crown and Andaor Tavern, is the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, on WEDNESDAY, tit 30th Jay of May instant, at 'Skeen o'Oock in the Forenoon, for the Election of a Dewy Governor of the said Company. By Order of the Court of Directors, RICHARD GUDE, Secretary. Ii a The Cliair will be taken at Twelve o'Clock preciekly ; and Aoki a Ballot be required, it 14 continue open for Four Hours Lenin commencement. Now but Proprietors will be aintitted, NEW CHURCHES. ST. Maanutows, Mt S, Is2l. TO STONE MERCHANTS, lid/ISDNE, &c.. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Vestry men of this Parish will assemble on Saernaosr my, the nth day of ?day, for the purpose of receiving Tenders from Per sons desirous of Contracting for supplying the best PE l'EltH E AD, w HATTOR GRANITE IC MB-STONE, for the enclosure of the Church erecting in the New•teed, opposite the end of Portland East The requisite drawings and specifications may be seen, sad every information had, by applyins at the Court House, 74.7140ne-tan.. Security will be required for the due perform. we of the Contract ; and all Tenders to be sealed and endorsed • Tender for Kilt,' and be delivered to the Vestry Clerk before Ekren o'Clock on S durday next. By Order et the Vestry, JAMBS HUGO GREENWELL, Vestry Clerk. hat published. THE tIVARDS; a Novel, in Three Vols. past Svo. 4 Anna Virnmque Cana"—Viactt. Printed far T. C. Smith, Naval and Military Magazine Mee, x, 6t. James-meet. NIEBUHR'S HISTORY OF ROME His day was published, in Two Vols. ova with Two large Maps, price .11 4s. in boards, THE ROMAN HISTORY. By G. B. Nzanume. Translated from the German. by F. A. WALTER, Esq. F.R.S L one of the Librarians of the British Museum. "The History of Nneatnaft has thrown new fight upon oar huddle of Roman affairs, to a degree, of which those, who are %napalmed with it, can scarcely fords an adequate idea."— Qauterly Review, July, 1a43. " We have no hesitation in recommending the translation now Were 03, which is executed in a vigorous style, and with a degree si idelny and accuracy highly credicable to Mr. Walter."—. ' , handily Review, April, 1112 t. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. This day was published. In One Volume evo. price 14a. In boards, A HISTORY OF INVENTIONS AND DISCO VERIES, Alphabetically arranged. By FRANCIS SELLON WHITE, Esq. F.A.S. Many Tear* on the Military Staff in India. Printed for C. and J. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-yard, and Waterloo-place, Er An attempt Is made In this publication to trace. In a plain and conci.e manner, the origin and progress of the various arts and mimes, and of those discoveries and institutions which have con tributed to the improvement or civilisation of mankind, or are intimately connected with the history of this country; by which de acquirements of the ancients are brought into competition with Use of the moderns, and the introduction and cultivatkin of the Metal and mechanical arts in England, compared with the ad visement of them in other countries. CHEVALIER RUSPINI'S MEDICINES. THE CHEVALIER RUSPINI be g s to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that be has appointed Mr. Clarks Betier, 4, Cheap side, Agent far the sale of his Medicines, Ws the Denttifice and Timers fur Woolly* Ned preserving the Teeth and Gums, and fastening those Teeth that are knee; his Elixir ter curing the Tomb.athe, and the Balsoesic Styptic for Sopping all Bleedings external and InternaL They are now pre pared by the CHtvauta from the original Receipt of his Father. Sold by Butlers, Chemists, 4, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, Loodun; 54, Sachville.Sreet, Dublin ; and 73, Princes street, Edinburgh; Smyth and Nephew, Perfumers, New Bond -street; sad the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. yr The above Medicines cannot be Genuine unless t►e Name et the Canavan J. B. Rusrun is engraved on the Government Stamp which is attached to each boa and bottle. DR. JA MRS'S POWDER. - - THIS celebrated Medicine is invariably adopted by Physicians; and for those who cannot obtain lledital advice, trick each Packet are enclosed full directions for its use. It. A rley Is most certain, if freely given on the attack of Fever, Measles, Sore Throat, recent Cold, with Cough, and other Inflammatory Dissolets. In Rheumatism and Cl:tonic Complaints it has per lowa the most extraordinary Cares, when used with perigees.. to. Dr. James's Powder continues to be prepared by Messrs. ,mttetsr, from the only copy of the process left by Dr. James, own handwriting, which was deposited with their Grand litho in 1746, as joint Proprietor. In packets its. Istl. and 245. th.J.V NI ES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS alba constant relief in " 4 1tttiqn, Bilious and Stomach Complaints, Gouty Symptoms, ttelett Rheumatism, and Cold with alight Fever, and are so mild kir effects as not to ruire confinement. Dr. James's Ana dot Pills are prepar e d eq by Messrs. Newbery, frum the only npe tsie.ing loader Dr. James's band, and are sold by them in o7,. : 1 " fl ed. and 24e. at 43. S t . Paul ' s t bomb yard ; and their s g"iss I. Singer, 150, Oxford-street ; and W. Pegg, Dublin. The " 1131 1 " F. Nswbery" is engraved in each GOVIMAIWII: Staalp FRENCH PAPERS. FROU TUB BTOILZ, DATZB SATT/RDAT t 1.415. PARIS, MAT 4. Letters front Trieste, of 21st of April, say that a vessel arrived in nine days from Syria, has brought the sews that Lord Cochrane is chiefly engaged in persuading the two assemblies of Egina and Castri to meet together at a third place, and that he has represented that it was necessary ) above all things, to concentrate all their forces Ito deliver Athens, and then to act against Negropont, in order to become masters of Romelia. Every thing possible for the execution of this plan was immediately offered. The Candiots, who have been dispersed in the islands, have been summoned to repair to the Isle of Zea. The Greek steam-boat has captured two Turkish merchantmen, laden with provisions Letters from. Leghoro say, that the Bey of Tripoli demands of Tuscany 4000 Spanish piastres for the re cognition of M. Rossini, the new Tuscan Consul. Two Tuscan vessels having sailed some weeks since for Tripoli, which were not commissioned to deliver this p:esent, it is feared they may have been detained, and hostilities commenced. MADRID, Arm 23. The Marquis ani Marchioness of Chaves have ar rived at Irun, where, it seems, they will remain till far ther orders. The Captain General of (3uipascoa had them arrested as they passed through Hernani. The English Government ha! caused some smuggling vessels to be disarmed, which were under the British gag, but were manned by Sardinians, Genoese, and Spaniards, and had long cruised on the coast of the country of Niebla, in Andalusia. One of these vessels having attempted to avoid the execution of this measure, has been brought into Gibraltar. His Catholic Majesty has just given permission to a merchant at Cadiz, to import four steam-engines manu factured in England, to facilitate irrigation, on payment of a duty of one per cent. on the invoice price, under whatever flag they may be imported. This measure will be henceforward extended to all machines of the kind, and to all instruments useful in manufactures and agriculture, till they can be manufactured in the Peninsula. An inhabitant of Estremadura has just been authorised to found a town by the name of St. Amelia, a desert place,which has hitherto been the retreat of banditti. PARTS, Shy S. 1111011 Tilt CONS fITUTIONNIM OW SAIDA!. POLITICAL Raveata.—No one could imagine the mission with which the new Spanish Ambauador at the Court of England, who has been here for the last month, has been charged at the French Court. Who could conceive that the Spanish Government has ima gined an arrangement by which Portugal would be re united to Spain, while by way of compensation,Mezico, Guatimala, and other independent States, would be ceded to the Emperor of Brazil? Do not imagine, that previously to taking into consideration this senseless project, either England or the Republics themselves were consulted t the opinion of the Court of Madrid was the only one by which M. Offalia came supported to solicit the French Ministry's countenance. What opinion are we to form of pretended Statesmen to whom people dare to address such extravagancies ? And all those fine projects were formed previous to the Ordi nance for the disbanding of the National Guard 1 The love of justice cad love probably inspired the Camarillo of Madrid. It is a remarkable fact, that M. Offalia ar. rived here almost at the same time as M. Camacho, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Envoy Extraordinary from the Mexican Republic, and both stopped at the same hotel. Another singularity is, that M. de Villele is talking of the incredible project of giving Mexico to Brasil, at the same time that he is negotiating with M. Commie concerding the acknowledgment of the in dependence of Mexico. The Moniteur, in its official part, publishes the Royal Ordinance, countersigned by the President of the Conn ed, by which the resignation of the Duke de Doudeau vale is accepted. The portfeuilie of the King's House hold is conferred, par interim, to BATOIr de la Bouilerie s Intendant of the K ing's Treasury. Viscount Sosthene undoubtedly continues in the De. partment of the Fine Arts. There is no longer any doubt of the retirement of M. de Chabrol. Count St. Romanus, Peer of France, whose Monar chical principles are certainly not suspected, addresses to-day a letter to the Quotidienne, signed by him and all the officers of the Bth Legion of the Ex-Naiional Guard, of which he was Colonel. He protests warmly against the remarkable ealsounks, and the odious allega- Ism circulated against this honourable Legion: " I should despise them as far as they concern me person ally ; but I repulse them, and my former comrades do the same, as far as the honour of a body, whose me• mory will be ever dear to me, requires." ELECTION or M. BIGNON AT ROUEN.—As we foresaw, M. Bignon WAS declared, yesterday evening, at five o'clock, by a large majority, as the Deputy for Seine Inferieure, in place of M. Stanislaus Girardim. The total number of voters was 967: in the first scrutiny, M. Bignon obtained 760 votes. M. Duvergier de Ha manne, the other Constitutional Candidate, obtained 163 ' votes ; seven votes were lost in consequence of the name , of Bignon not being clearly written. Thus the Minis try were only able to obtain 87 votes. This, then, is ' a specimen of the majority of which Messrs. Villele, Carbine, Peyronnet and Company, may boast. Let us pray that the Electoral College of Mamers, imitating that of Rouen, may send M. Dupin, sen. to sit at the side of M. Bignon. Certainly all independent and Con• ' stitutional suffrages unite iii favour of that celebrated ' advocate and eminent orator. IROM TIIR Jou avAL RR FARM RP FRIDAY. MADRID. Auu. 3. (PROM A PRIYATR LLTTIR.) "The Council of StAte has just proposed to his Ma• jesty to appoint a Cotn,niitee sif win versed in the law, from among the Members of the Council of Castle, to draw up a new code for the practice . Of the civil tribu• nail. This proposal of the Council is oldie highest ita. pdrtance, for we have only one code, more voluminous than that•of the Roman's before the time of Justinian, composed of regulations almost contradictory, which renders all causes brought before our tribunals inter minable. " An officer who has lately arrived from the Havan nah has been sent with orders for General Vives. He will embark at Cadiz The Governor of the Council of Castile has just sent a circular to the authorities of the kingdom, announcing that a great many persons had come from Lisbon to Spain, to excite troubles and disorders ; and his Excel lency calls on them to exert themselves to arrest these persons, aid send immediately to Madrid those who may be taken.' • LISBON,• Aran U. • • • PRIVATZ LITIIIIL ' , The alarm lately excited respecting public tranquil lity sad the safety of the new Order of things, by the dangerous illness of the Priam, has now entirely sub sided. . General Clinton has by this time re-occupied his snug quarters in the Bishop's Palace at Leyria—. every regiment of the British Army remains in its former cantonments. The . Queen has already heard of the narrow escape which the Constitution made from the blessings of her maternal kindness. She had got the text of the charter ready ti produce in support of her claims. The following are the articlus alluded to ; which, had the aunt of the late King, Donna Maria Francisca Benedicta, refused to act as Regent, would have left the Ministers no other option respecting the Regency than rebellion against the charter, or submission to the Queen Dowager. 4 Article 92.—During the minority of the King, the kingdom shall be governed by a Regency, the right of which belongs to the nearest relative of the King in the order of succession, and who has attained 23 yens of age. 4 Article 93,—1f the King have no relative uniting these qualities, the kingdom shall be governed by a permanent Regency named by the ge-i neral Cones, composed of three Ministers, of whom the senior shall be President.' Article such a Regency be elected, the kingdom shall be governed by a provisional Regency, composed of the two Minis ters of State, of the Interior and of Justice, aad two of the senior Councillors of State, presided over by the Qaeen Dowager; and in default of her, by the oldest Coun cillor of State. Don Miguel not having yet attained the requisite age, besides being out of the kingdom, and his two sisters residing in Lisbon being still younger, there could, consistently with the Charter, have been no ether alternative but a provisional Regency, with the Queen at its head. " I have seen a letter'fronean Officer in the Spanish Guards at Causes, not far from the Portuguese fron tier, addressed to his brother at Elvas. This letter states that a party of the Guards had been sent by forced marches to Spanish Estremadura, and that an additional force had been accumulating on the southern frontier for some time. There is no question of the fact. The Spanish Government, when peremptorily required by that of Lisbon to give an explanation of such conduct, after the pretence of an armed rebellion on the frontier had been abandoned, stated that this movement was entirely to be ascribed to the precau tionary policy rendered necessary by the advance of the English army to the Tagus, and the concentration of a Portuguese corps near Viten. The allegation was flimsy; but the justification was received- The only change in the position of the British army which could be alleged, was the march of a squadron or two from Leyria to Thomar. If this movement was not an arragement of mere convenience, it was one occasioned by the previous conduct of the Spanish Government. The Portuguese Ministers, however, acting no doubt by the advice of their allies, have professed their satis faction at this excuse; and it is to be hoped that they will have no reason to repent of their continued for bearance. When one of the Governments in a dispute adopts the Quaker-idea that the patty who gives the blow is not to be blamed for the quarrel, but the party who resents the insult or repels the aggression, nations are in a fair way to realise the peace of the millenium. Meantime it is reported in some diplomatic circles here, that the insurrectionary proceedings in Catalonia not having yet been subdued, and the difficulties of his po sition appearing to multiply, Ferdinand has of late been listening with somewhat more of favour to those who counsel a change of system. " The packet which arrived yesterday from Fal mouth brought London papers to Saturday, the 14th. Br them we have received the glorious intelligence of die change of Administration. (here is but one feeling here among Englishmen, of satisfaction and delight at the triumph of Mr. Canning, one expression of admira tion at the noble firmness of the Kings•-and one prayer that his Majesty may be able to sustain himself and his Minister on the approbation of the country, against all opposition." LISBON, APRIL 24. " Yesterday being the King of England's - birth day, was celebrated here with the greatest en thusiasm, occasioned in part by the knowledge of the courage which his Majesty had displayed in resitting an aristocratic faction. All the British ships of war in the river fired a salute at one o'clock, the Portuguese vessels joining in the compliment, as it is the habit with ours to join theirs on similar occasions. The merchant vessels displayed their colours. The English Ambas sador gave a dinner to the Noble Admiral and to the Naval Captains on this station, to the Consul General, and to several other English Officers and private Geo tlemen who are now residing iu Lisbon. The pleasure seemed to be general at Mr. Canning's success. In the evening, the Opera was more numerously attended than usual, owing to the same cause. " The Commission apFointed by the proprietors of the Batik to import into the policy of agreeing to the measures of the Government for the loan, and giving their op nion respecting the proprl.ty of increasing the capital of the 'establishn port. It decides posit' creased of their capital, decision of taking the according to their view Ifor such an operation. _ " Count Villa Elor would see in the Lisboa the Portuguese military force, which ma — de the wirild amount to 50,000 men, and gave 211,000 for the regular troops. The list is a gross exaggeration, and almost it wilful perversion. The fact is, that if the Government had 12,000 or 18,000 troops, sch as those formed by Beresford, they would be quite sufficient, with the 8,000 or '7,000 English, to defehd the country against Spa , n, and even to march to Madtid, if necessary, and if the French. were away. P.S. There. are papers from Oporto to the 21st insCadte . Nothing of importance had occurred. • • . . latielaTitY 01 .IrUsTtCl. " The Princess Regent, In the name of the King, orders to be sent to the Corregidor of the Comarca of °garde (department) the enclosed copies of the decree of the 13th of June, by which her Highness has thought pro per to grant to all Portuguese subjects inculpated for their political opinions or seditious act!, committed from the 21st of J9ly last year to its publication, an amnesty and general pardon, with the exceptions men. tioned in it; and for the prompt and entire etecutinA of the same, she orders all the Magistratt s and Judget of the s taid Comarca, in which there may be any processes connected with individuals comprehended in the dispositions of the said decree, to delver up with. out loss of time, and in conformity to the laity all aca cured persons, namely,—those of the militarf erdet present, to the military authorities;, and those not mia Wary, or military absent, to the Supreme Court pf the district, that they may be competently tried. " And that the spirit of perverae ingratitude and ins fidelity may not be able lo make an abusive em ployment of this act of Royal clemency, to prepare and perpetrate new crimes of sedition and revolt with the hope of impunity, her Highness likewise orders; that if any individual or individuals Int the future dare to propagate 'editions opinions, or to perform any act tending to excite to rebellion, and to tette., the hoes tors of civil war, the Magistrates and Judges of the rea spec:ive districts, in preference to all the other objects of their charges, shall begin competent trials In the shortest space of time possible irons the perpetration of the offence, and shall send them, along with the a:cused; before the military authorities, or a competent crimina l tribunal, the said Corregidor being charged to commua nicate promptly the decree above alluded to, and the present order, to tire Magistrates end Judges marca, and to watch over its faithful obsery•ance, giving an account of the whole to the Seetttaaidrip of Sate. Mined) " INFANTA KEGENTIL " L }LDS MOURA CABROWI " AMA, April 91.11127." LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. The political excitement in France, arising out of the late attempt to shackle the Press, and prevent the free exercise of opinion, proves that the dominion of priests craft has not made the progress in that country which the friends of civil and religious tyranny calculated upon. There can be no doubt that the ecclesiastical power which has been for some years predominant at the Court of Versailles, had long contemplated the total overthrow of every thing like rational liberty in Fiume. This sort of warfare against human intellect and social improvement has ever been the policy of the Chinch of Rome. Nor is it to be wondered at, as the fabled in• fallibility of that Church is founded upon the ignorance and consequent superstition of mankind. Any power which dreads the diffusion of knowledge must be in its nature bad--but the Church of Rome, which has no enemy like intelligence, never obtains a footing in any place without setting about to extinguish the right of free publication, if it is found to exist, and even to abrogate the privilege of thought. But still we must acknowledge that the tyranny over the Press which the priests have vainly endeavoured to este= bliah in France is not worse than that which another class of persons actually exercise over the Press in this country. The bigotted and irrational hostility which most of the Judges entertain towards that power which has been more instrumental than any other in enlightens ing mankind, gives encouragement to the basest and most profligate characters in society, to proceed against newspapers in actions of libel; and men whose charac ters are too highly estimated at a shilling, or one far thing, tan pat a newspaper to the expense of hundreds of pounds in defending an action of this nature. The low class of Solicitors being aware of this, instigate the most trumpery actions, well knowing that if the client should only recover, in the way of damages, the stymied coin in the realm, the defendant must pay all the costs, which amount to a very considerable penalty. It is wonderful with what sympathy most of the Judges listen to any charge which the most audacious Tam bond or swindler may make against the Press. only the most worthless or depraved member of society be at one end of an action, and a newspaper, however respectable, at another, and in nine instances out of ten the Judge will sum up in favour of the delinquent on whom the brand bf public opinion has, in con sequence of his misdeeds, been indeliby fixed. By metaphysical refinement in pleading, a defendant can not justify a libel under the plea of 4 , Not . Guilty r and if he should plead a justification, such is the technical nicety required, that however good his cause may be, there is such a danger of falling into some vet but in accuracy, which may have all the consequences of ad adverse verdict, that few like to put in such *plea, and thus the worst ruffian that ever script others of their peace or property—whether he be an a !niator, a pick pocket, a gambler, a convicted galley slave, or con firmed swindler—comes off with firing oilcan. With all the efforts of priestcraft and civil despotism, the Press has not been brought to this state of slavery and degradation in France; and if both the law and pras tice of the Courts ate not altered here, we shall soon s" other nations leaving us behind in a rational c onception and just exercise of the Liberty of the Prcvm..-mernial Herald. i I L 11. ./ .. 1 ;. 4. ( • 1 r e . .1 4 i I . t t „ I 1 1 I