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-- PP— . kb I bear constantly in mind the 7 most distant I ,; t hßh rt s o f my lempAiriei p • ajac the .„. „, " lebialteur isos. (Signed) 24Al'ottON." A Consatum, of the 19th of February, pub oed by or der . of Govenunent; contains the follotiving ppositions A R I. Such foreigners as shall render, or hi ' Ve T. d e minent services to the State, or who are ea.', T owe d w i t h particular talents, shall settle in France, In d introduce there any useful invention or branch in d us try, shall, after a twelve months retidence, g oy all the rights of French Citizens. II This privilege shall be conferred to them by or special decree, by virtue of the report of a Mi iser, after the Cotmcil of State shallhave been heart' C nt, A copy of the said decree shall be delivered to t h e fottigneiS so naturalized, signed by the Grand i sl a g e, Minister of Justice. V. With this copy he shall present himself before t he Municipality of the place where he means to re slt, and take the oaths of obedience to the Constitu onfthr empire, and of allegiance to the Emperor. ANCONA% 1 , 118. 2. A ncurt iMg to the last accounts from Otrfu, there w ived tiff that island an English squadron, con arias of %6 large and small ships. It is probable list dos squadron was intended to make an attack nu that island ; but the English, finding it was wig , sailed away, only leaving a few ships to alike observations. Th e outer of the ship from whom we received i mo o telligence, brought at the same time private to t em from the lonian Isles, from which we learn s h u t this inhabitants of the small island of Hydria, boing•continued to sail under the Turkish lag, she E n glish have taken not less than fifty of their mai. & st vessels, and carried them to Malta. It is not true that the English have taken ossSs. s:on of therm or Andros islands, in the Archipelago. SVe have no news directly from the other islands: we' ' only know, that terror and desolation reign there ;' and that the inhabitants, abandoned to their feeble :leans of defence, have not dared to refuse provisions to the English squadrons. The whole Archipelago suffers great scarcity of all necessaries, and fears a bmine. The island of Tenedos,successively occupied by the larks, Russians, and English, is absolutely exhaust ed, and has been deserted by the greater part of the *Abuts. Several Barons and Communes (Uni "asks) of Sicily have repeated their demands, that a Parliament of that Island should be extraordinarily coevoked, to deliberate on the critical situation of the State. The Algerines, though the Allies of England, have raptured two Sicilian Tartans going to Lisbon (be fore the entrance of the French into that city), and notwithstanding the remonstrances of the English Cresol, have obstinately refused to deliver them up. It isnot even known whether the English Consul will be able to save the crews from slavery. DORSTE4, FEB. 25. Yesterday, the formal taking possession of the town of Wesd and its territory, in the name of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, took place. In the even ing, the whole town was illuminated on the occasion. The taking formal possession of Munster, which was to have taken place on the Ist of March, is de- 'erred till further orders. ST. PETERSBURGH, LAX. XL General Count Buxhowden lately arrived in this capital, is about to take the corm:nand of the army assembling in Finland. General Wasmatinow, our, )(mister of War, has given in his resignation, and is replaced by General Araks, late Inspector General tf Artillery. An American ship, lately arrived st Barcelona from Majorca, brings intelligence that the Prince Regent of Portugal, arrived in the port of Bahia about the be ginning of the month of January. Yesterday, a few minutes after twelve o'clock, his MAnory arrived at the Queen's Palace, ftom Wind- Ef. where the Dukes of Yozz, Karr, and CArimunoes were in waiting to receive his MAJzzry. Soon after twelve o'clock his MAJZSTY held a private levee. The following had the honour of being presented *his Mmurry, upon their appointments, &c. The lion lows and GZOILGE ASIIIUSSILAJII, by dreb• father Viseoset ST. AIA M. JANIS SATRURIIT,UPSIR his return from Sweden. Basta WILLIAM HRNRT BUCKLEY, upon his being appointed Tye of Honour to the KING, in the room of Master STA rt- P.M promoted to an Ensigniry in the Guards. 841004411en1 PAOIT, by Lard Panty, upon his being ap rioted to the command of the 80th Regiment. Major-General Lord Fosses, upon his being appointed the sc reed is command of the Forces in the Mediterranean. Captain Boit za, of the Royal Navy, upon his return from the Mediterranean. Major-General Sir Joust STUART upon his bring appointed Command e r o f t h e F orces i n the Mediterranean. His MAJESTY held a. Privy Council, at which the Earl of Mover EDGECOMII2 was introduced, and sworn in a Member, and took Isis seat at the Right Honourable Board accordingly. His MAJFsry held a Council for receiving the Re corder of London's rep rt of the convicts capitally convicted in January Sessions, viz. G. Rudd. alias Rude, and T. Donovan, for sheep stealing. Martha Davis, and Isaac Castle, for highway robberies. J. Coates, and R. Badger, for burglary. G. Russell, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house. Eliza Crosby, G. Humphries, C. Brown, J. Mathews, Ma he& Minster,and J. Webb, for like Waxes ; and When Carroll, alias Mitehall, for uttering counterfeit money ; they were all respited_during his MAJzzrz's pleas ure . Soon after six o'clock his set Off on his return to Windsor. . . • The .-‘, tunas, Bwedish ship, 'arrived at Cirri men &t l eo Friday 1 . 1( - ;itt Gottenbnrgh, sailed ,a_ three weehs ago, and left tke meet for Britain the.4, - wind-bound. She brims rio,i ws, only a 4p4A that the Danish ship of the line which4ms under the Sea*, had TIM for Norway, on which the 'Sam light was immediately extinguished, having beentighted for the guidance of the Danish ships. The Lydia, Captain Wittrrix, arrived at Live if: pool from St. Kitt's, spoke the Mary, —, of New bury Port, from Guadaloupe, who reported that a brig, laden with coals, iron, &c. was carried into Guadaloape on the 12th January, and. that three privateers, viz. the Madame Erneuf and General Erneuf brigs, with the Victor cutter (late his Majes ty's cutter Barbara). were fitting mit to cruize. A general exchange of prisoners had taken place at Guadaloupe, by which twenty-seven masters of ves sels had been released, three of whom came passen gers In the Lydia; and report that 27 privateers were at sea, and fitting out from Guadaloupe on the 28th December, on which day they left that island. Capt. Wntrrut reports that two line of battle ships and two frigates had arrived at Martinique, with troops, from France, and that Admiral Commies had sailed from Antigua to blockade them. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9. Sailed his Majesty's ship Boadicea, on a etnize off Havre.—WineNt E. . DEAL, MARCH 9. Sailed his Majesty's ships Skylark and Furious, on a cruize.—Wind N. E. The Speculator Luisnmitx, from Demarara, for London, is arrived in Bantry Bay. [. The Pechess of Cumberland, —, is condemned [ at St. Domingo. The Merry Andrew, BRIDETT, from St. Michael's, is put into Crookhaven, leaky; and has thrown one third of her cargo overboard. The Charming Kitty, Capt. Kixe, from London, for the South Seas, was all well in Delagoe Bay, on the stlrof September last. The Surinam, HYNDMAN, and the ships under convoy of the Julia, for Surinam, sailed from Deme rora on the 21st of December, under the protection ' of the Ulysses, and a sloop; and, after beating eight ' days, were obliged to bear up and put into Grenada. The Matchless privateer, which lately captured the Spanish packet Antelope, of and from St. Sebastians, bound to Buenos Ayres, does not belong to Guernsey but to Mevagissy in the port of Fowey. Yesterday arrived at Gravesend, the Malvina French privateer, captured in the Bay of Biscay, by [ the Guerriere frigate, commanded by Captain SKEENE, on her passage to Jamaica. A vessel arrived at Dover en Sunday from the Continent, the Master of which reports that the vari ous crews of the English smuggling boats, which were in the neighbourhood of Antwerp, have been sent to that city, m order to assist in fitting out the ships of war at that place ; and that their baits have been seized, and sent to Middleburgh. Yesterdiy a Court of Directors • was held at the' East-India House, when Capt. GEORGE Hoopan, of the ship Sir William Bensley, took leave previous to departing for Madras and Bengal. The Court ad journed at six o'clock till to-morrow. wo `, Yesterday Mr. HAsx, from the Bank, read at Stock Exchange a letter from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, respecting the funding of the four millions of Exchequer Bills. In this letter he an nounced some variation from the proposals made the day before. In regard to the notable reduction, if the sum written in should exceed four millions, it was apprehended that difficulties might occur as to the fractional parts of the Bills; and it was therefore proposed, that Books should be opened this morning at the Exchequer Office, where the Holders might write in their Bills, including all these dated up to Vie end of the year 1807, specifying their numbers, and dates, and that, as soon as the sum of four mil- 1 lions should be compleat, the Books should be shut, and the Subscribers should respectively have the whole Sum inscribed. As to terms, he proposed an option. If they chose to take all 5 per cents. he proposed to give, for 1001. Exchequer Bill, 1051. in the 5 per cents. Or, if they preferred to take part fours and part fives, he proposed to offer for every 1001. Exchequer, 631. Ss. of 5 per cents. 501. Os. of 4 ditto, which, in both cases, would be a knnu of from lira ' 2 per cent. 'This is considerably under the offer made to Mr: PERCEVAL, by the Gentlemen who attended him on Tuesday ; but he has, no doubt, confidence that the terms will be accepted. The first impression of the offer on the market was, of course, to lower the Funds, because it will bring four millions of heavy stuff into the Alley. The holders of Exchequer Bills will not hold stock. They will sell it forthwith, to buy more Exchequer Bills, which is more convenient to the monied men in the way of speculation, and pays them a higher rate of interest. They however recovered a little before the close. It is a question, whether persons living at a distance ! will by this arrangement be in time to subscribe. The Sacred Oratorio of the Mereiah was performed last night at Covent-Garden Theatre, and the several Performers executed this divine and simple music in the most captivating style. Mr. BRAHAM displayed his unrivalled powers in " Every Valley shall be ex alted" to the greatest advantage. Mr . BELLAMY'S fine deep tones gave the happiest effect to " Who s hall abide his comingr Mrs. BLAND :weedy war bled " He shall feed his Flock like a Shepherd." Madame Dusan was much applauded in " Come unto me, all ye that labour." Mrs. DICEONS was powerful and grand in " Rejoice greatly, 0 Daugh ter of Zion 1" The fine Chorus of " For unto us a Child is born," was lou&y encored ; also the grand Chorus of " Hallelujah." The whole received un bounded applause. A Captain of the Guards, on his. vsy. to town from Rochester, on Thursday last, after displaying many eccentricities, suddenly disappeared from his servant on the road, and has not since been heard of. --e ri n er al OAK* AILMY. ..monommomol.. 4 it *bet ) . ter . fOr Maki". to totieeeted Sir Cnslm9itssan in die , command. A 'fitter 'man for this important station couldnot be found in the British army. General Oaten is one of the ;first of.our liood officers, and is extremely popular, .both with the officers and men. He was one of the. it - Immortal and distinguished heroes, who, underthe erste, 'to be lamented ABERCROMBY, commanded a brigade ;in Egypt. 5n his return to this country, from his known charisCter of integrity and independence, he 'lnt ' appointed President of the Commissioners of 'Military Inquiry, bat he won afterwards requested to relinquish this simatiosn and obtained from his Sove reign permission to go on active service, and was im mediately appointed Quarter -Master-General to the r i Army in the Mediterranean, from whence he returned livith Sir JOHN Moons. Among the troops to be immediately employed in Sweden, and added to the corps, of which a detail has already been given in the STAR, are— The whole of the King's German Legion—Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry. 6000 of that matchless body of mew, the Foot Guards. Several Regiments of Cavalry—Heavy and Light. ' Lord CATHCART will, it is said, have the chief command ; and having under him these distinguished leaders, Sir JOHN MOORS, Sir DAVID BAIRD, Sir AR THUR WELLESLEY, Brigadier-Generals DTOTT, and COTTON, there can be little doubt of the glorious result. The next India fleet, by which a great many troops will go to the Cape and India, will sail in about a month or five weeks. With extreme pleasure we announce, that Lieute- Sant-Colonel Sir JOHN WARDLAW, 64th Regiment, who was supposed to have died of his wounds in de fending a transport, after being carried into Guada. loupe, by skilful treatment, has been recovered to the army, and now commands at St. Ann's, Barbadoes. Brigadier Lord BLAYNEY commands the encamp ment at the Cape, which consists of The 21st Light Dragoons-24th Foet-72d Highlanders—the 824-137th-89th, Regiments all in high order . Major-General Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK, iS ap ,•pointed to the Staff in Kent, in the room of Major 'General Lord Potters, who is appointed to the Staff in Sicily. Several salutary changes are about to be effected in the higher ranks of the army Medical department ; but as we have promised our readers in a short time, to lay before them the substance of the Report of the Military Commissionerson the Medical department, we shall postpone offering our own surmises on this subject, until the'whole of the documents are before the public. There will be soon a general movement of the troops in the Southern and Western districts, some of the barracks being greatly crowded with men, many of whom are unhealthy from that cause. The 6th, 35th, and 50th, all 2d battalions, and the Ist batta lion of the 88th, are crowded into the barracks at Ashford, where the troops have suffered much. The Ist battalion of the 88th will not be fit for fo reign service until they are first recruited from the 2d battalion, which is strong and in high order at Wa terford. This will take. place in a few months. By the exertions of Colonel BINOHAM, who has bad recruiting parties all over the lehgdom, the 2d battl e lion of that old distinguished corps, the 3d Regiment, or Old Buffs,itow quartered at Kingsbridge, is com plete, and fit for service. Monday and Tuesday last, the West Essex Militia , marched, in two divisions, through Lewes, from Gos port for Silverhill Barracks. And on Wednesday' he' Nottingham Militia, from the same neighbourhood, marched into Lewes Barracks. We hear most melancholy accounts from various' quarters in England, of a great mortality in many', regiments, produced by a very malignant fever, ac -1 companied with an inflammatory affection of lungs, which has been very prevalent in the counties of Sussex and Hampshire. This destructive disease has also appeared in Kent, and still rages with great violence in several of the garrisons there, particularly at Maidstone, Hythe, Ashford, &c. We understand that the disease is very rapid, and that its course is attended with great debility, resisting every attempt to check its progress. The North-Yorkshire Militia marched in the ccoaai of last week from Eastbourne to Pleyden ; the Een frewshire from Pleyden to Pevensey ; the Royal 13uclt inghamshire, or King's Own Regiment of Militia, '\marched on Monday and Tuesday last, from Horsham ID Eastbourne Barracks ; the Royal Berkshire, from Bletchington to Hailsham ; the Northumberland, from Lewes to Bletchington. The soldiery, particu, laxly the Militia recruits, have been very unhealthy since they joined their respective regiments at several of the barracks in Sussex. At Horsham, where three regiments were stationed, a great number have died; but as wine of the regiments have been removed, and the recruits are generallynow what is called seasoned, we are in hopes of hearing very shartlyetiankkheing re-established among them. The Kirkcudbright regiment of Militia marched from Leith on the 15th of February, to occupy the barracks at Seaton House, and Port Seaton. This regiment has been quartered upwards of four years in Leith, and, during the whole of that period, has conducted itself in such a manner as tA gain the re spect and esteem of every inhabitant. We under stand it is the only regiment in Scotland, which has completed its quota of Volunteers to the Line. T r _ g cliteurit g cause was tried before Mr . . Justice Hearn', at Hertford Aisizes on Friday, Maticli 4; rims. VANDIAPANT O. THOMAS liILVIERE AND JOHN NIONITOAD. This action .was for an assault and false imprison ment. .The Plaintiff (as appeared in evidence) is a • Captain on half-pay, residing at Ware, in the comity of Hertford. The Defendants are officers, one a Captain and the other a Lieutenant in the Hit ch; Regiment of Vo lunteer Infantry, and were on duty three nights dur ing the dreadful fire: at Stevenage in July last, pro tecting the property of the inhabitants. The plaintif f was a stranger there, and about twelve o'clock at night intruded himself into a bedroom at the White Lion, without the knowledge of either the landlord or his wife. The landlord was consequently alarmed, and intreated the defendants to assist him in remov ing the plaintiff. The landlord, followed by the defendants, went into the room, and repeatedly with great civility requested the plaintiff to leave it, which he refused and resisted • they were therefore under the necessity of taking him out by force, and as he continued to make a disturbance, when in the street, they, in order to preserve the peace, conveyed him attended by a constable to the watch-house or cage, where he was confined for the night, and taken be fore a Magistrate early the nest morning, by whom he was reprimanded and. discharged. For that assault and imprisonment this action was brought, and the Judge in summing up the evidence stated to the Jury, that the defendants were justified in turning the plaintiff out of the house, though the law did not warrant them in committing him to the cage ; and that having so far acted illegally, however proper their intentions, they must be responsible for the con sequence.—The Jury gave a Verdict for the plaintiff —damages £4(X • / CHELMSFORD, ESSEX, MARCH 8. CROWN Sun.—Jame: Wye, a respectable looking man, was indicted for horse-stealing, in taking, on the 17th day of July last, two horses from the Yields of a Mr. Hadsell, when they were depasturing. Mr. GARROW, for the prosecution, stated, that the prisoner had himself formerly been possessed of the horses in question and that the property in them passed by virtue o f ! an assignment under a commis sion of bankruptcy, awarded against the prisoner, and therefore in one count of the indictment, they were alledged to'be the property of his assignees.— The circumstances of the case were as follow :—The prisoner had, during the last two years, been in part nership with a person of the name of Darby, ,as a hop-dealer, and upon a settlement of accounts be tween them, it appeared he was indebted to Darby in about 11001. which not being able to pay, and hav ing committed an act of ban k ruptcy, a commission of bankruptcy was awarded against him, and the Messenger took possession of all his effects, and among others, of the horses in question. They were by him delivered to a Mr. Hadsell, into whose fields they were put. On the night of the 17th of July they were missing ; and as a much more valuable horse was in the same field, which was not taken away, the prisoner was suspected of having taken them, and, upon inquiry, it turned out that he had himself left them at a house in the parish of Harlow the next morning. The assignees thought the present prose cution was the better mode than by indicting him for secreting his effects. In order to maintain it, he must prove all the stages of the bankruptcy, and that the prisoner was the actual person who took the hales. The Solicitor tinder the Commission w: :s called to prove the issuing the commission against the prison sr. On cross-examination by the Common Serjeant, he stated, that the prisoner had not passed his last exa mination before the Commissioners ; that the prisoner told him he had taken the horses, and where he had placed them ; at the same time insisting that he had a right to the custody of them until his last examina tion was past. The LORD CHIEF BARON here immediately inter fered, and observed, that this could be no felony ; the prisoner acted under a mistaken impression of his right. It was like a case which occurred at the Old Bailey a few Sessions back, when some Journeymen Printers were tried for taking copies of some books which they worked at printing : they claimed a right to have one copy of every book which they printed. It was clear they could have no such right ; but as the thing . was taken in claim of that right, it was not a felonious taking. He directed the Jury, therefore, to acquit the prisoner, which they did. CIVIL SIDE..--TYTHES. •• . NEWMAN HARDING, EDO. V. MORGAN. TWA was an action against the Defendant, as pro prietor of the tythei of the parish of Hornchurch, in this county, for. not taking away the tythe of grass after it was set out, but suffering it to remain and in cumber the Plaintiff's land. Mr. GARROW stated, that this was a question of considerable interest to the inhabitants of the parish of Hornchurch, which was at present in a ferment on the subject of tythes. The Plaintiff, in this th cause, was a gen lmilau of considerable p yin e parish, and had set out his tenth. cock propert y in the atish. and had set out his tenth. cock of grass when. it: was mowed, and it became the duty of the Defendant, as proprietor of tythes, to take, it away, and not to leave it incumbering the Plaintiff's land. • Mr. Justice HEATH here interfered, and said he took the law to be clearly. otherwise. The farmer, he said, by common law, was obliged to ted the grass fer the parson, and not put it in a green state into the cock, and that the parson was not obliged .to take it away before it was turned in the swarth. Mr. GARROW cited a case from the Court of Chan cery, when the contrary had been held ; but the .Learned Judge being clear in his opinion, and Mr. Garrow admitting that it was cocked assoon as mow., the Plaintiff was nonsuited. HAMDEN ro. SPARLING AND ANOTHER. This was an action of assault against the Defen dant, an Attorney, at Colchester, and the Serjeant at Mace, of the same place, for taking the Plaintiff into custody. It appeared in evidence, that the Plaintiff had taken a piece of ground, to which the Defendant claimed to have a fair title. The Plaintiff attempted to put up some pales to inclose it, which the Def.en• dant resisted. This caused the assault, which was so trivial as not to deserve notice. The Jury, after hear. ing a great deal of evidence as to who struck the first blew, found a verdict for thp Flaintiff.—Dautars farthinz. . . . dt ins >dip the the ext. nin ain, ,und and ' the tents