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. . . CORN MARIE 1 S. Cup HI/WT(3U RETURN FROM OXIIKIISOt. F6/RAWLY 3. Wheat, per Load, from t3l. to 161. tos. trrley, per Quarter, from 11.51. to 11. 7s. Oats, per Quarter, from 11. 3s. to 11. 7s. teams, per Quarter, from iL I 2S. to 11. 18s. Peafe, per Quarter, from 21. os. to at. 3s. MARK-LANE, FEBRUARY+ The late impediments in our navigation being row completely removed, and the wind having been favoltrable for the arrival of vettels coallwife' our Marke.; to-day was abundantly fupplicd with C rain of aloft defcriptions. There were very few riles made of Wheat, on account of the fmall number of buyers we have in general at this part cf the week. We do not cape& any great declen 'on from the prefent quotation. The quantity of Barley has exceeded any arrival for a long time. The Maltflers being very bare, from the want of fupplies, the greater part of the fine Norfolk faMples were taken oft at afis. and very fine 28s. 6d. ; though very few indeed have obtained the latter price.-Buftolks have no pro. portionate fait, hnlefi ekeeeding fine. We do not apprehend they will be lower. Oats ate is. lower. , Tick Beans and Hog Pea (both of which were in large quantities) have declined full ts. for the Farmer, and dear as. on the latter per qUarter, and many remain unfold. Rye and Malt have no variation. Boiling Peas are looking down. There is scarcely any thing doing in Garden Beans and Peas. _ Grafs Seedsorevery dercription. fetch the prices quoted ; yet Ole quantity of Red Clover flow of fered fur Pale gives that article an inclination downwards. ?lour will certainly be cheaper, as the augmen tation our flock will now eiperience, promifes to be •ery confiderable : prices to-day, 455. to 485.• per fack., . L'Srglifir Wheat, per qr. sos. 541. Fine 58s. 6os. Superfine Etc. 625. line Dantzic Wheat, sos. 565. Rye; 345. 381. Barley. s4k. 16s; (Very Fine) :7s. 28s. Malt; VS. 4.55. Oats. qt. 20S. 335. Honk Beans, New, 335. As. Old, 345. Adr. Tick Beans, New, sus. sip. Old, 321. 345. Hog Peale, 335. 343. bd. Boilers, 34.1. 431. Carraway Seed, 365. to 4ts. per cwt. Coriander, 285. to 3os. per cwt. Canary , 7 3 t. to 745. per qr. Rape Seed, 341. to 361. per lam. F10ur,432,505. per fack. NAUTICAL INTIILLIGSNCE. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY r. Arrived the American fhip Rebecca, Captain *Kix'', with flour, Raves, &c. from Philadel phia, after a palTage of 58 days. Called here for orders the brig Four Friends, Hoax:No, with bale goods, &c. from London; the William, EMMA', with fugal-, &c. from Liverpool, bound to Havre de Grace; and the brig Suit., Capt. Jot's:, with provifions, from Waterford for London. Sailed l'Emilie French Hoop, Capt. TARTSWEAU, with wine, &e. for Havre de Grace ; the Succefs, Lamina, with fith, laR from Newfoundland, for Poole; the Diana, WA LLIR, with butter, &c. for Southampton; and the Spaniih brig El Amißadt, GALIAIIo, with wine, fruit, dtc. for ORend. Put back yellerday, and is expetted to fail again this evening, the Dutch ship Three Sifters, Capt. Rysists, with gin, laft from Rotterdam, bound to Guernfey. The King George packet, with the Mails of the 25th uk• failed on Saturday for Lifbon. The Wallinghans packet, with the Mail from thence, is hourly expefted.--Wind N. PLYMOUTH. FEBRUARY A. Large q uantities of flip timber for bends, knees &mocks, &c. are now purchafing in Devon and Cornwall, by the merchants of Dartmouth, who are going to contra& with Government for build ing three frigates of a large fcantling on the Gips at that port. • _ __ _ By the 6fhing-boats we learn, that a large Well Indiaman, apparently,French, is on fhore near the Prank Point, which, it is imagined, will go to pieces. Came in this morning, from Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, with new-raifed feamen for the fleet at this port, the RAMILIR, of t 6 guns, Capt. H. huts ; the ESCORT gun•brig ; and Gall. WIT, cf 14 guns. As flan as they have landed the feamen, they will fail again for Ireland for the Lime pur;,,ife. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 3. This day arrived the Ckaaastrs frigate, of 32 gtic,s, Captain J. M•Nass•a•, from Jamaica, laR born Ire:AnJ. Sailed t:.c Airy cutter, Samosa, a regular pa:ket, for I Lyre ; and the Backhoufe s Stiassm, , Ir. South Seas. COWES. FEBRUARY 1. Arrived the American (hip Ann and Hope, Captain Littwo, from Batavia, laden with coffee and faqir, to wait for ord,rs alfo the Friend(hip, of North Yarmouth, W. %UM& mailer, from Rotterdam, laden with feeds, for Belfaft, very leaky. LaR night the Excife cutter, Captain SARMON Commander, feized near the Needles, two pilot boats in the ad of running prohibited fpirits, whole owners, on acpunt of Admiralty licence granted to thofe veffels, are under bond at the Cullom bottle, in the penalty of yool. each, that they null not be employed in fmuggling. DOVER, FEBRUARY 1. Arrived laff night from Boulogne, a (mall pals lap velrel, la &Keels, P. CORN LE mailer. It was with much difficulty he got out, as the bar was very great before the harbour. The palrengers were Mils FORTESCUE, Mr. JAMENER, and Mr. SNOULTON, a Gentleman of Canterbury, who ac companied the remains of his daughter, all amiable young lady, who died fait week, at Boulogne, aged zo. Alio arrived, the Harry, of and from Wey mouth, WILLA", sis, laden with Portland (lone, bound to London. This veirel was difcovered, by fume of our boatmen, in vei y imminent danger ; and had they not providentially gone to her affift. Ante, every foul on board mull inevitably have pet ifhed. Arrived alfo the Alive, of Bideford, Captain BROOK, with butter from Newry, bound to London. Sailed the Irifh Miners, of and from Cardigan, NicHoLs, with butter, for London ; and the Pre• derick, of and from Dunkirk, NEWELL, with oil cakes, for London. The PRINCESS. Or WALES packet, Captain SUT TON, will fail this evening with the mail ; C. Be A u MONT, Efq. and family, and a few others, patien gers. Captain LAI-enemas, of the Nancy, on his !aft paffage from Calais, picked up a fmall vet Tel with nut name or any perfon on board, fuppofed to have driven from fome place to fea whilti the crew were on Ihore. DEPTFORD, FEB. 3. Yellerday his Majelly's (hips CAROLINE, of 36 guns; .Captain PACE ; and the Joao, of p guns, Captain RICHARDSON, failed from IVoolsvich for Long Rea ;as did the MIN r ay.s, of 43 guns, Captain Basurox, from Deptford. The AFRI CAIN a, 0144 guns, Captain MAIM', could not fail for want of fufficient depth of water, but will to morrow,lm the coMmencement of the fprin tides. The Falvey, of 36 gunt, was this day commiflioncd, and the command given to Lord WIN. F/TZROV. FROM LLOYD's LIST. DE/IL, FIIIIWAIT 3..—Came down and Laud through the Downs leveret outward bound velre.ba Sailed through the Downs, the Niptunus, Spence, from Sunderland, for Rouen; Mtgdaline, Adams, from London, for the Weft Indies; Fortitude, Hannam, for Londonderry; Thanes, Lewis, for Liverpool; Eanny, Hardy, for Madeira and Dominica; Affiltance, Kerr, for Leghorn ; and Elton, Lockhart, for the Strclghta..—Ranain in the Downs, Flrnmor tame frigate, Arrow floopof war, Vireo and Moodhalwel gun brigs, with leveret homeward bound tips and Velfels..—Wind N. N. W. blows bard with (now. G AAAAAA ND, Fa aRV Ai T by . the Balky. M' Lean, from Jamaica; At:live, York, kom Philadelph ia; Arkl, from liilhna ; Atty, fmm Norway; darielt, I.egroi, (torn Dunkirk ; Eleanor, Howe, from Bowileaus ; Sarah. Stuart, from Limerick ; Almeria, Richmond ; and the Supply. Hall, from Riga.—Sailed the Thetis, Chunky. for DoillilliCA; Eliza, Allen, for Trinidad; Fanny, Harley, for Maderia ; San Jn( ph Animas, —, for Markilles; Trois Frtres, —; sad the Prow Joban:ta ,—, for Dunkirk. WHITEHAVEN, FED. r. The following 'Ails put into (or arrived at) Dumfries, during the late talcs, viz. the Speed- well, KtRRraTRICR ; Friendfhip, WILSD*I ; Betty, FOLIAR ; Nicholas, PATTISON ; Neptune, GR A HAM; Nancy, WYLIE ; Maid in her Teens, FOLDER, from Workington ; Nelly, EDGAR ; Mayflower, CH [l sar Unity, M'Dur►; Content. GRAVF, from Whit:haven ; and Gelly, EDGAR, from Liverpool. BELFAST, JANUARY $7. There is a large (hip on Ihore on a point of the Copeland Bland, at the month of this Lough, (aid to belong to Liverpool. Eleven of the crew are drowned. lam told all will be loft. I don't le trn her name. GREENOCK, FEBRUARY t. Arrived here on Saturday, in 33 days, the Arh adne, .1°14,135-opt, from Batbadocs, with the lots of her boats, which were can ied away, with almaf every thing elfe on the main deck, in a dreadful gale, about the beginning of lafi month. which fatted fevers) days. On the 13th ultimo. (poke the American (hip Minerva, LINDSAY, in lat. 48. long. 23. from Charleikon for this port, all well, !ben out 35 days, the Captain of which informed Captain JOHNSTON, that he had been lying to for 7 days in the fame gale. The Sally, SHAW, from this port to Hambargb. was weU on the Bth ult. in Lochleigh, near Staffs. North Highlands. French politics are completely at an end at the I CJurt of Peteriburgb. The Cabinet of Ruffle has at length dircovered that the name and influence of the Emperor Axe: Aimee have been employed by the French Court only, to exalt its, own power, by making the former the dupe of its intrigues. The Court of ROSA has been governed ever fince the death of the Emperor Pact. by the moll pacific emMeils. Remote from the fceneenf danger, and anxious to reflore the bleffings . of peace to the di/trailed world, that Court lent its power and influence to Inch meafures, as appeared likely to 'fee this defirable obje&. But when it perceived the rapid and gigantic Arida of Gallic ambition, it wikly reverted to that found policy which is fo worthy of its greatnefs, and has alto ether renounced the connetlion which it had formed with France, with the Cole view of bringing about a general peace. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINO*,, BENCH, FEB. 3. THE KING V. RICE. The Defendant, Lieutenant henry Rice, was brought up to receive fentence for tending a chal lenge to Captain Freemantle, of the Ganges. He had let judgment go by default. To-day, his own Counfel, Mr. I...lest:lac, moved fur the judgment of the Court. The information was therefore now read. The belt ray to convey a proper idea of this very curious cafe will he, to Rate the fubllance of the affidavits on both fides. Captain Freemantle Rates, that he was Com mander of his Majeily's (hip Ganges in the years t Soo and t Not ; °trimmed a part of the Channel fleet. For I , rne time the Defendant was Fit tl Lieutenant, but in December 'Soo deponent con fidered it his duty to apply to Lord St. Vincent to remove him ; he was folely .floated by a regard to the good of :he fervice, and had no motives of a perfonal kind ; the Defendant was luperfeded by the Admiralty, and another Officer was appointed in his Read. Nothing more paired between the parties till the 16th of July lalt, when the depo nent, at his houle at Swanbourne in Buckingham (hire, received the following letter by the Pod : " st tt , " No. 5, Adam-rtreer, A,Ldphi. " I here mentioned to all my irtenth your Conine Looduct to t . . me, a conduct which I mutt fay is um •rxikme.m.iii,,lintson.'s,6,l•. and ..itfts . You told he gallain Ad. tura) (Lord St. Vin cent's), who then commanded the Channs.l Ike?, an 4lfiate fapy with refiwa to me. and in conkquence of this fatife re prefentation I was luncrfQded. Ark me 'fun, or my friends, Tvioat will heal the wounds you have ineLled ? They will tell you, that nothing remain except to give me, in the field, that C164(261,4,1' which every Gentleman In England, whole feelings have been injured and outrag.-d like mine, has a right to demand from the perfon who has done him fuck an in jury. hly mind has been long prepared to mak,. every Lrrifice, and be Aimed I Wall rather bleed on the I.:atibld, than Cubmit to be trampled on by a petty tyrant. l am, Sir, with the mutt marked contempt, &c. EDWARD lIENIIT " Poftfeript.--1 revel your anfwer loon. at be :aired I do net mean that the butinela thould nit h-r,." lie received another letter, r eproaching him for not anfwei ing this one, when on the 27th of July he wrote to the Lords of the Admiralty, inclofing them both. He commanicated information of this Ilep to the Dcfendant, from whom, on the tßth of Augull, he received a third letter, cont. • • g there espreffions:—" Your condua relcmbles that of a dirty, fnivelling boy at Ichool, who, when he is afraid of being beat, applies to the mailer. I per ceive that you have not thefcelings of a gentleman; therefore it is unneceffary to thy more." Captain F. farther Rates, that, fincc the commencement of the profccutiin he has finial times met the De fendant, nhol,ati never failed by words or geftures to insult him. On the igth of December he met him in a lireet at the Weil end of the town, when he laid, '! Are you not afliamed of what you have done and was going on to tile other opprobri ous espreflions, when depon:nt walked rid. Again, on the tBth, in Pall Mall, he oloet yeti the De fendant following him ; to avoid him he went into the bode of a friend ; he believes that the Defers. dant remained opposite the houfe the whole time, as, when he came out, he was immediately ad dretfed by him in theft words:—" You have taken an unfair advantage of me by complaining to the Admiralty." Deponent replied, " My duty to the King's fervice required that I Should take this Step ; but I cannot dilcufs the propriety of it with you." A number of people gathered round, when he walked away. He believes it was the Defen dant's °Nell to hold him up to contempt for apply ing to the Admiralty, refuting to fight, and com mencing this prolectition. Mr. I:asocias then de sired the affidavits on the part of the Dcfendant. to be read. Lieutenant Soaley ,fwears that he was third Lieutenant on board the Ganes from Auguft teoo, till April iftot. He confidered the condo& of the Defendant as gentlemanly and officer-like; he was not quarrelfome, and always behaved re fpeelfully to Capt. Freemantle. One day in No vember, 11300, Capt. F. called up I.ieut. Rice on deck, d—d his blond, and Paid he deferred to be hanged, and that he would hang him. Lieut. R. was going to reply, when he exclaimed, " Hold your tongue, or I will confine you." Soon after Captain F. in deponent's prefence. read a letter to Lord St. Vincent over to the Defendant, laying, that if the Defendant would not fecal his com plaints to the Admiralty, he would try him by a Court Martial for having fent a boat on Shore, contrary to orders. This affair of the boat hap pened two months before. The Defendant refufed to do fo, unlefs Captain F. fhould apologife to him for the words he had tiled. This Captain F. thid lie would not do, and put him under arra. At= terwards the Gunner brought a meffage, which he had received. in thefe ords—" Tell Rice I have no with to hurt him, I am as an xictiv. to make it up as he is. If he will write to Lord St. Via- I cent, laying that his complaints were premature, matters would eafily be arranged." The Defen dant replied he was ready to make all honourable conceflluns, but Captain F. mull apologife. The Gunner returned with orders to fay that Captain F. would not apologife firft ; hut he afterwards came back again with an invitation for the Defen dant to meet the Captain on Shore. They both went on Shore accordingly. The Defendant upon his return teemed extremely ditratisfied. He was obliged to keep a watch like the Junior Liente. mats, a thing extremely unufual in a (hip of the line. In a thou time he was fufpended, and af. terwards irregularly fuperfeded by the Admiralty —They were then off Brea, but a Ship, the Rut: fel, was returning to England ; on board this (hip the Captain refuted to let him go, and detained him unneceffarily ten or twelve days in a very de grading fituation. Henry Rice, the Defendant, depofes, that be was appointed Firll Lieutenant to the Ganges in taco. She was then lying at Portfmouth. He was unknown to Captain Freemantle, and received letters of introduEtion to him, to which he paid no attention. The Deponent believes that he was much chagrined in not being allowed to name his own officers. Deponent's father and tillers being on the coal!, came on board for an hour. When they were lime, the Captain appeared violently angry, and Asti to Do not you know that I do. not chute company on boat-3 my velfcl ?"—To which he replied, that it was not poffible for a fin to tell his Father, you Fauf ret t•jit ear While the (hip was lying at Shithead, the Captain on going on !lore one day, left the following Or den." Let all the women be fent away before three o'clock in the afternoon, and let no boat he fent on Ihore after thath ,, ttr.".Depottent was not on board at the time, and did not arrive till after three, lo that he was not refponfible for the execu tion of this order. He found that about tso had been fent away, but that to or to fill remained. He ordered a midlhipman to carry theft on (lune, and return immediately. This young man did rot return till nett morning, and had 101 l three of his crew. Captain F. was in a violent paffion, and threatened to bring Deponent tn a Court Martial; but upon a properexplanation taking place he was pacified, and nothing more was laid of that mat ter for two months after. After the grofs language deice ibed by Lieut. Maley, he wrote the following letter to Lord St. Vincent MT LORD, It is with reat concern 1 nate that I have been molt mote ferve,ny ill-treated by my Commanding Officer. He damned my Wood, laid that I ought to be hanged, and that bewould %lug me. It I me. it loch language lam certainly eat fur my ilia/doh hut, confcious film I have tnhaved .an ulcer and Grneknytn. I demand an Inquiry: and lum t that, if your Lortithin fulnekut rrafun, you will not deny me one. Nutt receiving an anfwer he wrote again, ea. prciling how miferable he was under the fligma that there attacked to him. Soon after Captain F. threatened to try him for find'ng the brat on !kora, unlefs he Mould meal his co.uplaisits. The Affidavit mei) , confirmed the liatement of Lieutenant Soaley, as to the letters to Lord it. Viocent's upon that foible& and the fubfequent overtures for accommodation by the Captain ; as to the dinner on More, it liated that the Defendant had In firmly relied upon it, that Captain Free. mantle intended to make an apology, that he had written to Lord St. Vincent, begging him to de. they hi. 'etre, s, and think no more of the coo. plaint. But „hen he met Captain Freemantle on those, fo far from the apology he expeeed, the Captain laid, in a very 46 and tralant manner, 4 , You cannot fuppote that what I (poke in paflion was ferionily meant. The fame thing may again happen within a month ;--but I give my word and honour I will take no ad. vantage of your conduet about the boat." Th i s deponent confidered extremely unfatisfadory, and therefore refilled to dine with him He was on his return obliged to keep the watch, and feworal initances were limed of Captain F. attempting to bring him into contempt with the men. la Ja nuary, dor, Captain F. Paid be had received a letter from Mr. Nepean, by which deponent was ftiperfzded. Deponent laid he would not confider himielf as fuperfeded unlefs by an order coming regularly from Lord St. Vincent. " Then I far pend you," Paid the other. " Am Ito confider myielf as a prifrmer 1" allied deponent. " You may confult the dictionary for the meaning of the word," replied the Captain. The fame fads were Rated about the Captain's refufal to allow him to return to England by the Ruffel, after the regu lar order arrived, with this addition, that on ac tion was every day expelled, and that he could have claimed no part of the Ihip. Next came a letter, dated on the 27th of kit month, which he bad received from Lord St. Vincent, to the fol lowing effect lar—Althoogli I maw, in ray dicta capacity. Wafers to year favour, u a scatlasaa, 1 mutt fay that it miaowing so your exemplary conduit! off Cadiz that you were promoted from -- so the tarn, are. ST. waterer. The deponent concludes by laying, that from. thee repeatedindignities, when he was no longer in aCtual ferrite, being free from the laws of rub. ordination, he confidered himfelf called upon•to demand fatisfathon. He expreles contrition for having violated the law ; but declares that he felt no malice to Captain Freemantle, and was merely actuated by a define to afkrt his own honour. Admiral Montague's affidavit fluted that the Defendant had long (erred under him in the &1.. ferent fituations of Midtbipman and Lieutenant ; that he had every opportunity of knowing hi s character, and that be always appeared to him to be moil zealous for the interelL and honour of the nariy ; that for a great number of years he had. not known him in a tingle inflance difobedient or reluctant to obey orders ; that he was by no means of a rgarrdftwie or litigious difpofition, but no the contrary of mild manners, and of that esrll anL peed even towage, that was equally incapable of giviaz or of kering infults. This affidavit concluded' with paying the highett compliment to bis cha rafter in general as an officer. A number of affidavits followed Admiral Mon tague's as to the Defendant's charafter amongft them were the affidavits of Captain Drury of the Neptune, Capt. Mork, Lieutenant Tilnan of the Sampfon, and in thort of aimed every Officer whom he had ever ferved under, or who had been his meffmate ; as alfo of the Surgeons of the dif ferent Chips in which he had ferved. Their affida vits perfectly agreed, in defignating the following as the character of the Defendant, that he was a man wild in bit towoneet, rOellfnl sad olvoSent to bit foperiors, lived to bit itfetiors, and o f a thipofttioa to amiable and toneittating, that be Wel wsiverfaily ryjoefied and beloved 11 all et& barn ban. Mr. Ga a aow rofe on the part of the profecution, but was flopped by the following queltion Lord ELLTNIOROUCIN—Pray, Mr. Garrow, is not this rofecution at the instance of the Admi ralty f•Blir. GARROW—.It is, my Lord. Lord ExxialloltOUCH—Then I thould wills that thii bufinefs may lie over till the Admiralty, and Lord St. Vincent's have an opportunity of reading the affidavits which we have now heard read. It will then be for their deferetion, whether they may think proper to bring the Defendant up for judge went or not. Mr. G wow took the hint and fat down. Lord Etta:omens/0N then obler4i, that then had been very improper condo& face the cons. mencement of this profecution--(Here he alluded to the Defendant's infulting the Profecutor in St. James's•llreet and Pall.mall)—lf this condo& was perfifted in, he fad the Court would be inclined to all with feverity to the Defendant. Lieutenant Rico then withdraw.—Tarn mar.