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it ry, for the crime of deserting mihracing, the royal cause, shall it Council of War of the ISth tine at Dijon, has recently con laileiers, to very exemplary pu :r.e of ap,ravated desertion. .sty gave audience to the Doke •ither Ambas.adors. ielieu Afterwards tranracted bu- Y. .r.ll D.trcn Mullling has been in hi\ ING AR. - )N DON. E MIST OF THIS MONTH, THI COMMENC.EI DRAWING. JANUARY 18. 1817. m-DAT o r).—Huliaay at an the Pub& es. of Wednesday arrived this =or- Tuesday have not yet been re- enahied to give the proceedings Dquitie in their first and se- Plan of Law regarding Indivi w other notices, of some little ilbo added. itrived this morning, by which verb to the 2d of December. '!'hey %ince of any importance. The • had, on the 29th of November, ision—that the Bill brought in I4r return of Slaves, should be Ly set apart as the Queen's Birth- London and Westminster rung a casion. of the birth of gOEFRT BURNS, to be celebrated at Dumfries on public dinner. The mausoleum the remains of the Bard, is now . was a Meeting obthe Friends of t ,siorm t the Freemasons' Tavern. -lumi s we have given a sketch of' One great object of the Meeting to thke the cause of Reform out I men as Meurs. HUNT and Co., a frugal management of the m id the correction of every abuse , effects of external pressure may Into the management of our public ' desirable, has been admitted on MI Ministers themselves . but it does . Ulu the nostrum of every poli be totted down our throats, to el public inaladies. In fact, many 1 Ii the whisk community has reams fieen brought upon no by the ne. .n those who had the care of the Led the State against the mad pre. :rid intemperate leadd de-Reforawsii sober habit' of thinking are three. , nothing can be more natural Ild lend their support to measures' that mischief; nor will they al- Alter these measures are correct in will only compare their horrible Ail ;vely greater posilive evil which they :onnteract. Hence deviations in Ad princ , ples; and hence tno the Imes, of a force lewd dm low, for the ling the vicious and the turbulent. acquainted with Masan nature without atusbuiing a worse cha. motives to Utters than to other men, , tore of corruption and innovation, arbitrary domination—that is of a defined by law, but guided by the entrusted with the reins of go :lolling cat) be more natural or even Ministers, than to believe them qualified as any of their predeces• i authority not too strictly defined , law. Imposed on Rulers to repress the in dangermis men, never fails, in its beget great abuses; for if the ma ' deem necessary have any thing of a Yet recognised by law, they seek to and authority by the legal enact lament: but this they cannot effect ;—and hence an increase of Places,• inecures. i . iples and consequences attach. only rulers ? No. Whether Whigs or or l•oxites, they are equally siLder 'sew influence. this that the turbulence of unprin and demagogues, and the natural crusted with high powers to extend pity and infiqiciice, produce but one -,t—encrAchneents on the rights and country—and an increase' of its rbulence of bad men never fads to part of the community acqusesce in stretches of the power of Rulers, on so, on the other, there is alwa)s a certainty, when the encroachments, . the sufferings thereby entailed on shall reach a certain point, that the tide -id, if not met by a suitable return a practice calculated torestore poli t idanger the safety of all the embank erected by the labour of ages for State And of the People. apply this to our present condition necessary I but the principles being.tette have thought it necessary to throw the conAideration of our numerous hope that they will prove not alto- We have merely touched on them. be at no loss to fill up the outline. ca of the or^ of ir reg iments and en e- held no n and 1 ") ; * 1 : • Die fi rs 1 . ntr/13:411C. . poi:4t r be Organ, situ a eme d six private "4 Id int roMS for the cr:i Id Year. , iy Midi- tVe nt . v.! tit, iII The D,,ke of tticlie !T. t is :.I.•jess, Ari.• • • I t • •e Prussian thr,er es. .aeral mays. ch 1 V an !If er r FiDAY, TIFF 1;c t r . % i E 1.0 ITERY at ra styru R DA Y, es * MAJESTY'S MITI 14 td !f, Ite pais Papers o t•A • ,i• I ut tivise of 1 ry e- firm tl,zse we are • i t e Chamber of 1 re „ I T C , •un the 1 le A 's n, re , t , have alsc tr- er A lAri3ica Mail at cn toe Jamaica Pap of , tin no intelligen Id ore rf Assembly b y t, -Ind, after a diei , , c- 3 more pimiento 7 aced. . 'icing the day is y, the bells of Lo eery peal on the oci se The anniversary o t Scott;sh Poet, is es es dorilay next, by a I II .ccong there over th e host completed. i Yesteiday there w ',alimentary Reim the preceding colt r, a ptuce dings. 01 enii t•• Imre been s t the hands of such t. i.rt rettenchment, • cal tevrnue, and e- I..ch time and the 1- ..ve introduced into traits is highly deli . n Ands—even by Mi e theretore follow . • cal quack should b ti .t a cure u! our p t die evils• 4 which complain: i`: ce C • essity imp •r it otitis safety t guar, i•• ctsefanarchists aim When men of sobs • ed with anarchy, an that they show' alcultted to avert ays examine wheth he abstract : they vs bt ith the comparativ re proposed to co inctice from 'Mind recite, sometimes, .orpose of restrainin o Bat all who ate .ost know, that, v Arle Or worse naot tts tis in the very tutu o kget a lave of ai ~ wer not strictly d eJgment of those (lament ; and not tut, for any set 01 t o Ives just as wen q a b to exercise an +I '7 the bite of the The pecessity im etoperance of dar onsequences, lobe toes which they de omplezion not yet • ire it that force a " its of FifliaMC t. %bout a majority ensions, and Sine De these principl , one class of rt oriel— Pitches oe operation of the :e It follows f ro m i • Plcd innovators of all men int r " to own authori t , rd the same effect re Imileges of the of ''dens. 9s But as the turbt Ate the sober pa constitutional sit le one hand ; so, ogee, nay a cer Le .'dahose,e acid t; community Asti se ill aw e , n turn ; ant principles and a 1 health, will end 'lts and works st safety of tlte SI Je 11 1 we mean to a at is is not necessa all times, we Itt out for the 'dm. Se the hi ig tiser useless. %V he Reader will b es THE NEW SILVER COINAGE: The new coinage will speedily make its appear ance ; and the Government itself having recom mended that all Silver Coin, excepforeign (for that is actually the meaning of the subjoined Notice) how ever defaced, and worn, and reduced in weight, shrwild continue to be given and rrceived in payment, until exchanged for the New Coin, it is to be !lupe , ' that shop-keepers w.II not destroy their own traffic, and if.convenience tl.e public, by refusing to receive old Shillings and Sixpences. After the publication of the Following, the motives of those who shall re fuse to take the Old Coin may surely be well sus pected not to be quote pare. 0 NITIOE. NEW SIINUR COINAGE. " Royal Mho, /an. 17, ist7. I " The New Silver Coinage being now very near:y frtil.hed, artangentedts are plaiting for enabling all his M. jest y's sabjeati in every part ut Great Britain to exchange, at the same p. dads, the Old for the New Silver Coin of the Realm. This eschaege will commence on or before Mot:day, the Sri of February next, and all Standanl Silver Cum of the Realm, however defaced or reduced in weight, by use, will he received in exchange for the New Coin, by tale, at- its nominal value. " The Public are requeseed to °beery., that the new Silver Coin to be issued from his Majesty% Mtnt upon tilts occasion, will he delivered in Exchange to the hoiders of the old it is therefore svongly recommended, that ill Silver Coin of the Realm (however defaced or reduced in weight by use), should maim'. tube given and received iu payments, for the very short period that wid elapse h. fore the issue of the new Silver Coin. by this means no interruption of the Circulation will arise. " Nete.--The old Sdver Coin of the realm, however defaced or reduced In weight by use, is revived in payments at its no minal value, foy all branches of the Revenue; and at the Bank of England, and will continue to be so, until it b exchanged for the new Silver Coinage. " W. W. Po:a, " Master and Worker of his Majesty's Mint." A Copy of the above Notice was yesterday sent by the MAST= Of the MINT IO the LORD MAYOR, ac companied by the following note: " Mr. W. Pine presents his compliments to the Right Hon. the LOAD MATOIt, and has the honour to enclose 2 copy of a notice which has been issued this morning fruni the :►tint. Mr. W. Pocz has taken the liberty of nedering the first 500 notices which can be printed to be sent to his Lordship, from the Ga zette Office, In order that his Lordship may, if be judge it to be proper, have them circulated as speedily aipossitde iu the City of London: THE AX M 1: It is at length determined that all the Brhisii Of serving wills the Portuguese Army shall be placed on the halt pay of Great Brasin, from Chou mas last. _ Orders have bey° received at Chelmsford for the Staff of the Chelmsford Recruiting District to be broken up on the 2lst inst. Most of the Officers re tire upon half-par; and the recruiting parties, sta tioned in the counties forming that District, will re pair dirtct to head•gnarters. NAVAL IN7*ELLIGENCE. The Millbank, Run, of Sunda-land, in attempting that harbour on Tuesday morning. struck ou the North Rock, and was with great difficulty kept afloat till she arrived between the Piers, where she sunk, and is, it is supposed, very material' ! damaged. FALMOU I H, JANUAIitY 15. Arrived the Mary Packet, from Jamaica, with a Mail. The following Packets are now in the Roads waiting a wind t Countess of Chicbeaer, for America, mid Princeu Charlotte, for Jamaica. The strong tefrom the N.W. prevents his Majesty's shipi non and Timeotietpa from bringing in the French brig la Jenne Francois., mentioned yesterday.— Wind from W.S.W. to N.W. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY l& Arrived the LIM, CARR, from Prince Edward's Island fur Falmouth, in 22 days. Captain CARR says, that the Mary, which sailed the day before the John, bound to Falmouth, was reported to have gone on shore and totally lost in the Bay of Antigumia, together with a brig, name unknown.—Wind W. PORTSMOUTH; JANUARY 17. Arrived the following vessels from the Downs s Shannon, FALCONER, for IJarninical Cadbury, for Bermuda; Kate, STEWART, for St. Domingo ; Ocean, MORRISON, for Teneriffe; Veneli a, thaw;; and William, BALANTYKR ; Also arrived the Samuel, BALLY. from Hull, with loss of anchor and cable. • DEAL, JANUARY 17. Arrived and sailed for the River the Lavinia, KEITH, from Cork : she picked up aArkin of butter on the 7th instant, 60 milts south rl Cork, marked T. W. P. Cork. Put back the Kent ' !alum), for Calcutta. *Amain the ships as before. Wind W.S.W. DOVER, JANUARY O. Arrived the Minstrel, JACKSON, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and the Catharine transport, from Calais. The Lupford, MAXIMS, from Bremen, in attempting the harbour, got on shore off the North Head, but cleared again and proceeded for Ramsgate. GRAVEBEND, JANUARY 17. Arrived the Waterloo, Mae, from Smyrna; Al bios, WOO% from Hamborgh ; Elizabeth, HUNTER, from Charente • and Chance, BEALL, from Denim. —Sailed the Effort, Imes, for Malta; °read, Put tee, for ;Amite ; Echo, Rowe, for Cape de Verde and Senegal; Minerva, MILLE, for Waterford; and the Flora, CULLEN, for Rotterdam. BRIGHTON, JAN. 17.—Tlle Dinner Party SI the Palace yesterday, included the Pasticc REGENT, the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE, the Grand Duke MotoLitz and suite, the Austrian, Russian, Hanove. Ilan, French, Dutch, and Spanish Ambassadors, the State Officers and Noblemen immediately attached to the suite of the Palace R.: "ENT, and a very kw by invitations. Covers were laid for forty-five, and not a seat was •scant. 'Towards nine o'clock the com pany began to assemble for the ball, and in less than an hour almost every individual expected had arrived. The ball was opened by the Duke of CLARENCE and Lady CHARLOTTE CIipLIIONDBLEY. About thirsty couple followed. Towards two o'clock in the morn ing the sapper-rooms were opened. After supper dancing was recommenced. The Duke and Dueness of GLoucerrot went to Covent garden Theatre last night, and sat in their new private box, for the first time, attended by their suites. On their entrance the audience called tor 44 God save the King," which was plAyed by the band. , Yesterday the, grand Jury found a true bill Against Jaws frattots, jun. for shooting at M►• lez,urr, with intent to kill. To this indictment, if he will not appear, ii is said, immediate proceedings will be instituted asahist him as an L4W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, JANUARY 17. EEPARTE LUDLANk, IN THE MATTER OP LUDLAM, A LUNATIC. Mr. Ber.t, stated, that this was it petition on the part of Mr. Ludlam, the lunatic, praying that um Lord Chancellor would be pleased to dismiss hi• keeper, as he WAS not only in perfect health, but also -I sire mind. and fully competent to take care of himself. He complairei that the expense of retail ing the keeper was not less than 497 10s. per annul: out of the 4200 which the Court allowed hint, and that such exp►nse WAS a considerable reduction of his property, and by no means necessary. Sir SAmun ltostrux And Mr. LEACH said, that seri large hiela had hien sent to them on this sub ject, but that they had recently been taken away from their chambers by some person, and therelf)re they had nothing to state to the Court on this oc casion. Mr. Cone sutlested the propriety of his Lord.hip's making some thhnitive order on the subject. Mr. LEACIf observed, he had informed Mr. Lud lam that the petition could not be received without proper a fEdsvits to support the allegations. The LoRD CIIANCELIAR said, it was absolutely fie cesssty that the Committee of Mr. Ludlam's person should pay every proper attention to him. No person who had seen the poor man two or three days ago could entertain a doubt that he was in a very Lamen table state of mind. The Committee, titer -tor?, should attend to hits with all the tenderness due to his teetings, but at the same time with proper regard to his security. This was the only order which his Llrdship could then pronounce. His I.3rdship was occupied in hearing other luna tic petitions, of no public intereA whatever, until two o'clock, when he left the Court to attend to some bu siness of State. The VICE-CHANCELLOR continues indisposed, and is not expected to be able to reburne his sitting until About a fortnight. COUR r OF KING'S BENCH. JANUARY 17. ELLE•atmovoH, Mr. Justice Hamm and Mr. Justice ABBIT, Sat this day for the purpose of hearing arguments on motions for new trials. THE KING U. JOHN CLOUTING. This was an action tried betore Mr. Baron Worn at the last Assizes for the County of Suffolk, and the question was, whether the defendant had been duly elected a Common Councilman of the Borough of Eye? The Jury found in the-atlirmative, and during the last Term Mr. Serjeant BUT obtained a rule to thew cause why that verdict should not be set aside. Mr. Waimea and Mr. Serjeant lltasszt were heard at considerable length against the rule. It was finally agreed that a spacial verdict should be en tered, and that il the parties could not agree, the zaie should again go down for . trial. DAVIES In HARGACVA AND OTHERS. This was an action wainst the defendants as Prin ten of the Fork Herald, for publishing a libel of And j concerning the plaintiff. At the trial before Eu.atmottouott in Trinity Term last, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Costs 4i.h. In the last Term Mr. Sc4atzrr moved for a Rule to stew cause why the judgment should not be ar rested. The case was in substance this—Tlie plain- Lig being indebted to the parish where he resided in Scarborough. for four monthly assessments of poor rates, whieb amounted to Ars, he paid the same to Mr. Hutchinson, the Collector, who refused to give I a receipt for the same. In consequence of this irre gularity, proceedings were instituted in the Exche ' quer against the Collector, which were afterwards determined by the Collector's being adjudged to pay the mitigated penalty of stls. A parochial meeting I wai afterwards held at Scarborough, at which res9.l lutiens were passed. describing the vinduct of the plaintiff as-being a unneighbourly,litigious and veiti duns." The Counsel for the defendants contended that as there was no inuendo in the declaration, al leging that the libellous matter was 4‘ of and con cerning" the plaintiff—the verdict could not stand. The whole Court on this day, atter heating the ATTORNIV-GUNRAL, Mr. TOPPINU. NMI Mr. CoklYN. for the plaintiff, were clearly .of opinion that the de cimation was good in point of law. And that the li b Hoes matter was fully proves!. T,ltry therefore discharged the Rule with cysts. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Yesterday, fiatte•nici Banos, a German. was indict ed for the murder ut Hinks, in Thames -buret. on the night of the 28th of December last. The prisoner, being a foreigner, had a right to a Jury composed partly of foreigners; but Mr. ALLEY, his Counsel, waved this right, and consented on his behalf to be ttied by a Jusy corsisting entirely of Englishmen. Chrstian Newman, examined through the medium of an interpreter, deposed, that he was a sugar-baker, that he heed in Upper Thames-street, that he wa s employed by Messrs. Fick, and Co. that Hinks, the deceased, lived there ton, as well as the prisoner Button. They wete all three in Mr. Ficks's entpli,y. The witness remembered, that on the 28th of 1)e -cember last, about nine o'clock at night, thedeceased and the prisoner went out, and returned h..me toge ther; that they went into the room where they cook ed tbeir victuals; there was no one present at that time bet themselves ; there had been no quarrel be tween them, to the witness's knoskdge. They were apparently on good terms at the time; they had worked together some months. They slept together in the same room, and were. as friens.s till the 28th. On that night they were supping together, and the prisoner took up his candlestick and began to mend it with the poker. when the deceased objected to the noise, he not haring finished his supper. The pri soner continued beating with the poker, when tlie deceased stepped forward and laid I.old of it. The; struggled for some time (about five minutes), eacl taking hold of the poker. They were enraged at each other. They each held the poker with one hand. %Hid beat one another with the free hand. They thet, laid held of it .with both hands, and endeavoured te *repel) it from each other. which the prisoner suc ceeded in doing. The prisoner then struck the de ceased with it twice on the head, when the deceased Coll down. The prisoner discontinued the blows as ,soon as he had fallen. The people came down ii consequence of the toise, and a doctor nag sent for rhe prisoner and the deceased were both in liquia at the time. Kalil Worthington, it Surgeon of St. Barthulor mew's limpital„ saw the deceased before his death us heed w4s opened after his death ; there wss a iarge wound aheve the left els. ; the skill was fr.ee k tured under the wound, which might have been cc c4sioned by a poker, and the Ir4cture, hi witness's lodgment, was the calne of death. The pris •ner offered no defence, and produced nO witnesses t chirac:-r. Mr. Irstice PAIIK. addressing the itrry, stet-d them the di-tinction between maiislarigli 4 r and four ler, and sa'd, that in this case Cleve apprAred no evidence of th.it make prepense which constituted , he latter crime. It was proper, iv all C4SeS when 4 life wis taken atsay by viril..nce, a icl' wiien there conIJ remain the le.:st d mht with regard to the state of mind with which the act was rrpt`trAled, 10 send it t , i the decision r:f rs Jury ; tint Ilete tLe evidence went 110 Wittier than murder was chsrvd in the indicanrsit.--Gu by of MA.:•• SLOUghter. Thews: Kendal and Jorrish Saiq were indicted for the murder of Robett Pope, pauper in the work house of 113etlinal-,•iTen, in having assaulted him on the 10th n 1 December last, and indicted urn lian bruises: died on the 2001. The first witness called was Richard Alr, a pau per in the workhouse. He kne . Pope, tee deceased, who was a veer man there, like himsel , ; but was unacquainted with the prisoners at the b.r, who lived in the same house. He remembered, on the loth, three Gentlemen entered witness's weed, the Rev. Mr. Pratt and two ChurchwAidens, Mr. el pith And Mr. Brugg, wl.le came to give a ttpsiicansi to the ward; this was in the forenoon. He soon afterwards saw rive or six Men entering and carrying off Pope, the deceased, frern the side of his bed; witness did Rot know the men. 'They carried the deceased down to the oakum-cellar, without telling him, in the beer ing of the witness, what they were going to do with him. Witness immediately went to give information to Thomas Nicol', the master, of whet he Me sere. He himself went down to the teller is about ten minutes afterwards, and blond Mr. Smith there.... When they came to the doer, it WAS !Mind fastened; and they could not gain AdosittAi.ce, although they demanded it, for two minutes. He heard nothing at i the door; but, upon entering, he saw Robert Pope mended by the two h4nds, tied mitt) rope ports up to a beam. Mr. Smith untied him. Witness helped him up the cellar-btepe, and led him to the ward, and ,saked bins it he seas hurt? The deceased sant— ig Yes, very much." Witness asked if lie knew who they were vales hint him? Witness left him, weet way, and raw no more of him. Henry Russell was a pauper in the woikhouse of Bethts.thgreen ; reuses) bered Rs.hert Pope, and was 'in the loons when some peisce,s cern , . cet the 10th of December last, and snatched him away very sod. [ Idenlv, saying nothing: witness fellewed them e s quickly in he cuuld to the oakum -cellar, and S4W the deceased tied by cis two hands to a beam, his feet touching the gruubd ; he saw hies receive frnm eight lot nice to twenty strokes. The :mikes were Lehi s 1 they were given, the deceased crying out murder se veral wine. The strokes were Oren w tit the stave of an Irish butter tub ; his ct..e. was teeked op, 414 be was struck over the loins vest' severely. Tin lint member that he heard in the rt:ckoning w.'s eight or nine: When he had received a di le 9 the wearet was shifted into another hand. lie did mot know the prisoners, And was so erected with the cries of the deceased that he did not attend to their persons so es to be able now to identify them. He heard one man saying, ~ It is Tone duty to beet," but could not :Ay who. The prisoners kvere in the house as paupers. Sew the deceased next day, who said he «4s very sore. The deceased ate ilia food, but seemed to be in a declining state. . Joseph Speingay was in the workhouse on the 10th of December last, in the °Ames cello, at two o'clock, when Pope was brought down. The de ceased WAS tied up immediately. A great man? teemed to be concerned in the business. lie was tied up by one.pereon e Joseph Saint the pri,oner ; Th u . Alas Kendal assisted in punishing tout sci h ;he steer of a barrel. Witness did not St'e where . Kendal struck him; Joseph &jut Afterwerde *rug him. No other person was concerned in iisffictingthe blow:. The deceased cried rise:ides.. 'fits season given fur the blows in the cellar Wdli i that the deceased lied spoken agoinst the rums of the lamer. Witness eaet no more ut the deceased. . Cross - examined . — timid there were forty people in the oakum-ronm duriolthe vielence on Pulse. 'They appeared all engaged in the same objett. Witness had seen a scene of this kind (white. PO I ,:i was sickly : he complained of a wound be had received from the scales of a balance on the day le: dived. lie di e d ;linnet immediatelrafter the htiit from the scales, of which Ise bled very much. This was six teen days after Isis punishment is the -.skeins-room. Robert Ford, flour-keeper At the workhouse, SkW the deceased repeatedly from the 10th of December till his decease. He appeared Always iockiy, but Irian that time he seemed worse. On the 20.1) a December witness was sent to the deceateu'e *ere. And saw him bleeding at the nose and math. Tres contitseieJ two minutes ; he fed, back upon the bed, ,And died almost immediately. Cross-examined.--,laid Ise heard of the accident caused by the Kale' ef the balance. Mr. Agar. a burgeon, WAS Caned in on the 20• It of December to examine the• dy of the deeeissed : saw slight bruises aeout Use hens, ur :Allier else n:- mains t i judgme n r, tie the set bruises. Il i .s .ile str Y death. Ile I n- 1 " : ' opened the body, and found the Appeerance of the rupture of a hlooe vessel in the luny, of which rupture lie Lad no doubt he died. 'l he rupture cuulci not have ta s kta place on the lUth of Decembet, a :ten he was beaten in the cellar. Mr. Justice I-lot-novo summed up the evidence. He approved of the cireduct of those who had erought *inward tile ppeent prosecution. It was oroper, when A man died in circumstances that War. 'anted the slightest sespicon. that the matter should 'ee Bitted to the bottom, and that the public should be ,atufied that justice was properly administered, and hat guilt could not escape. It was more especially necessary to convince them, that in receptacles fur he poor no cruelty would ler permitted to be prat. iced with impunity, and that the utmost Name vas observed in the prevention of crime: but in the mint case there appeAted no evidence to support .he charge of murder. There appeared, he aed e d i J have been forty engaged, mid they shietild knew