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FROM 3AT UR DA NIGHT'S GAZ ETTE. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR d•PFICE; AUGUST 4. Hii MAJKSTV 1135 been pleased to appoint the . un. der-tiwntioned Officers of the East , lndiA Company's tortes, to take rink by brevet in his.M.ljesty's Army in the East Indies only, as follows : COLONELS John Rieharlion,llenry Pll-ha Tr"Tian& Daniel M`Neile, Thomas Marshall, Charl , ... Rryt,nl.l%, William Kinsey, Tlionia; Bftsyser, Barry Close. ling , ' Stafford. Morris, Peregrine Ptisvi-11, Robert Phillip., P ob.•rt Bruce, Harry C. Palmer, Ro bert Blair, Alexander - Kr'. I'o be NI t MR-GENERALS. Limy' ENANT -COLONELS Nicholas Carnagie, John I foriford„ John Gordon, Thomas Satin- den Bateman - ,4ibert 'l're(lw.o v Clarke, William H. fat& Nlalconn Gym, John Bailie, Wilhamion Arthur Disney, lames Brunton, John Capp itoNs Lan, Hrm•y I'. Lawreime, lirnry Whirr, Gabriel Martisiden.Charles Rumlcy, George S. Brown, Walker 1). Fawcerr, Henry Woodington, 1 o be COLONEL. 6. CAPTAINS Peter Littlejohn, John Maclean Stewart, George Eagle, Mathew Marnamara, William Sturrock, Andrew Fraser, John Ander son, James D. Sherwoo.l, Lawrence B. Morris, Robert Berrie, Thos. Hill, George Ftilior, Geo. Mason, Thos. Maran, Robert Spottiswoode, Francis Drummond, Alec. Macleod, Edw. Wm. Butler, Gregory Hickman, Nathaniel Cumberlege, Dennis H. Dalton, Gervaise Pennington, Archibald Campbell, Henry Jacques, Anthony Green, Alalcahn Macleod, Achison Max weli, James Mow, Robert Stevenson, David Robertson, Je rtitii.eli M Johnson, John Me llor, Sir Thomas Ram t say, Barr. Joseph 'Taylor, Robert Hetzler, Clement Brown, Horatio Greene, Albert N. Mathews, William Hopper, Thomas Au burry, Thomas Wood, To be MAJORS. . op , 'ail Regiment of light Dragoons—Captain P. A. Heyliger, from the 55th loot, to be Captain of a Troop, vice Bayly, who ex• changes. 11th Ditto—Cornet S. D. King to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Corry. who retires. 14th Ditto—Niaj r F. B. Hervey to bo Lieutenant•Cnlonel, vice Talbty, deemed; Captain John Chapman to be Major, vice Hervey ; Lieutenant Francis Anderson, from the 23d Light Dragoons, to he Captain of a Troop, vice Chapman; Cla- Tering, Gi nt. to be Corset, without purchase, vise Peliew, pmtnotod. lath Ditto—Major the Hon. Henry Murray, front the !6th Foot, to be Major, vice Otway, who exchanges. 21st Ditto—Cornet James A. Fehrsen to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Jones promoted. Co'dstrcam Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Adjutant T. Freemantle to have the rank of Lieutenant. 7th Regiment of Foot--Lieutenant Charles Lorentz,from the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant,' vice Blundell, who exchanges. Oth Ditto—Hospital-nsate William Dent to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Forster, int - mimed. 10th Ditto—Captain Stephen D'Arcey Kelly, from she Newfound ' land Fencibks, to be Captain of a Company, vice Nairne, who exchanges. '1 Ith Ditto—Lieutenant James Archdall Crawford, from the 2d Garrison Battalion, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harding, who resign.. 17th Ditto—James Greenhill. Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dalgalrees, promoted In the 7th Foot. 26th Ditto—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel L. William Otway, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice Murray, who ex changes. =9th Ditte—•Thomas Hamilton, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hillier. pronioted. 14th Ditto—Ensign John Henry Crawford, front the 4th Garri son Battalion, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Dobree, appointed to the 92d Foot. 43d IJitto--Ensign Thomas Boys to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Holmes, who resigns ; Williams, Gent. to be .Ensign, without purchase, vice Boys; Frederick Cullen, Gent. to be ditto, vice Clarke, wko resigns. 65th Ditto—Captain Paget Bayly, front the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Captain d a Company, v!ce Heyliger, who exchanges. 8 1 0th Dkto--Lieuteuant John Blundell, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, *lee Lorentz, who exchanges. 'l6th Ditto—Ensign John Vest) , to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vise Burrows, who retires. filst Ditto—Ensign James Mogan, from the Monaghan Militia, to be gnsi g n. 8 Ditto—Lieutenant WMiam Small, from the 71st Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harmer, appointed to the Li Royal Vet- ron Basta.ion.. 94th Dr to--Ei.sigo William Cannon to be Lfeutenant, without purtbase i vice Cabncrcart, promoted ; Ensign -- Thornton to be I.i eutenant, vice limes, deceased; Lieutenant James Campbell to be Adjutant, vice Cairncross, promoted. 96th Ditto—Captain Charles L. FittGerald, from the 101st foot, to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Turner, appointed to the 3d Royal Veteran Battalion. ▪ h West India Regiment—Gustavus Low, Gent. to be Emilio, without purcha.e. vice Hepburn, dismissed the service. Royal St aff Corps—Brevet Colonel John Brown to be Colonel. R0.) , a1 African Crops—Brevet Colonel James Willoughby Gordon to be Colonel. 4th Ceylon Regiment-. Lieutenant William B. Fairman, from the Isith Foot, to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Hewett, alipti.ntid to the 22d Foot. SI Garrison Battalion—l.lnsitm Henry White, Nan the 25th Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Crawt.rd, appointed to the Itth Foot. 4th Ditto--John Montgemerie, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Craw. ford, promoted in the 34th Foot. lst Royal Veteran Bartacion—Lieuterant Kenneth Sutherland, from the 6th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vies McLachlan, who exchanges. td Ditto—Lieutenant William John Harmer, from the aid Foot, to be Lieutenant. -3d Ditto—. Captain Robert Turner, from the Nth Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Grove, deceased. Ditto—Ensign Samuel Abbott to be Lieutenant • Serjeant. Major David Glass, from the 10th Foot, to be E nsign, vice Abbott. f thDitto—Lieutt nant Alexander Mq.achlan, from the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, who ex- changes. Royal Newfoundland Fencibles—Captain Thornily Nairne, from the loth Fuut, to be Captain of a Company, vice Kelly, who BREVET. Major Sampson Freetb, on Half-pay of the ISth Foot, to be Lieu tenant.Culonel In the Army. HOSPITAL •STAFF. Assistant -Surgeon Charles B. Hill, from the 21st Foot, to be Sur-, gron to the Grenadier Bat' alien formed • f the Regiments serv ing ' of Lieutenant-General Sir John Stu- under the command art, K. B. /assistant-S9rgeon Joseph Cooke, from the 81st Foot, to be Sur geon to the Light Infantry Battalion formed under the com mand of Lieutenant-General Sir John Stuart, K.B. lticl and Capes, Gent. to be Hospital-Mate for General Service. John Huges, Gent. to be ditto. The King's German Legion. lit Dragoons—Major John Baron Bulow, from the 2d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Decken, appointed to tho-!d Dragoons. !d DittoLieutenant-Colonel Claus Biron Decker, from the Ist . I Drazoong, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, with tem ry rank, vice Schulte, who resigns. IlLight Dragoons—Captain Augnetue Frederick Baron Bombe, from the 3d Light Dragoons, to be Major, with Temporary - Bank; vice Bulow' promoted in the Ist Dragoons ; Comet Lewis Baron Bock to be Lieutenant, vice Jansen, promoted on the Staff. = id Dltto--Ceptain and Brigade Major Frederick Poten, from the g t aff. to h. Captain, with temporary rank, vice Buosche, pro mutt d in the 2d Dragoors. Stk Battalion of the Line—Augustus Windier, Gent. to be In sign, viceaerger, promoted. ' -• ' • , STAFF. Lieutenant %h. Maw, fro* the'2d Light Dragoons, to be RA ' . glade Major, with temporary rank of Captain, vice ?own, ap- L , imitated to the 34 Light Dragoons. • 1111110P.ANDUM. _ he v. . 44. as state:lin the 0 tte of l f tthe2sd F oot , w ho raft, "f le a ; "'Pe tal s.- In his rank. . 11".- Fuer Tau N. Hepburn, of the Bth West India Regiment is dibnsissed the service. Cornmissipn, signed by his. Majesty Robert Faster, Oent. to be Adjutant te the Cinque Ports Regi ment of Local Militia. Dated July 28, 1810. COMMis itlns in the Cioque Ports Ret!iment of Local Militia, signed by the Lord Warden. Robert Banks, Earl of Liverpool, to be Colonel Commandant. Hon. C. C. Jenkinion to be Lieutenant-Colonel. . Dsvii Lamb, Fsq. to be Major. Wm. Knocker, George Stringer, jun. Wm. Phillip Lamb, Rich ard Suilenian, Win. Deane, 1. I'. Sladen, and Wm. Henderson, Esyri. to he Captains. Wm. Hu ton, Gent. to be Quarter,Master. Dated July 28, 1610. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Sept. 24. William Bucknell, of Kirby-street, Hatton-Garden, Middlesex, warch : manufacturer, at ten, at Guildhall. August so. Charles Aldridge, of Aldeisgate-street, London, flat ttir, at twelve, at Guildhall. October 2. George Slow, of Manchester, dealer and cbapman, at ten, at Guildhall, London. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. 1 bonus Smith the elder, and Thomas Smith the younger, both of Wakefield, Yorkshire, linen-drapers and copartners. BANKRUP l'S. John Paul, la e of Paddington-street, and now of Mary labonne- street, Middlesex, pawn-broker, dealer and chapman, to stir re`thler August 7, at twelve, August 21, at ten, and Sept Is, _ at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Fiske, Palsgrave-place, Strand, near Temple-Bar. William Sykes, of White Lion-street, Norton-Edgate, Middle sex, seed-factor, dealeraud chapman, August 14,18, and Sept. 15, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Courteen, Walbrook. Limes Anderson. late of Gateshead, Durham, grocer, dealer and chapman, September 12,1,8, and 15, at eleven, at the George Inn, Pilgrim-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Attornies, Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow-lane, Cheapside, London ; or Mr. Francis Seymour, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. John Sharpe, of Great Peter-street, Westminster, baker, August 11, at two, August 18, and September 15, at one, at Attorney, Mr. Fitzgerald, No. 1, Leman-street, Goodman's- Fields. _ _ William Hassell, of Manchester, grocer and shopkeeper, dealer and chapman, August 22, 2; and September 15, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, High-screct, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Hewitt and Kirk, Manchester; or Mr. Ralph Ellis, Chancery-lane, London. William Woodman, of Lime-street.square, London, merchant, August 11, at one, August 111, and Sept. 15, at ten, at Guild hall. Attorney, Mr. Pasniore, Warnford-court,Throgntorton- street, London. John Earl, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, shopkeeper, August 7,11, and Sept. 15, at one, at Guildhall Anomie., Messrs. Rear don and Davis, Cori:et-court, Grace-church•street, London. Abraham Hancock, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, grocer, dealer and chapman, August 21, 22, and Sept. 15, at one, at the Old King's ead, Sheffield. Attornies, Mr. John Rawlin Thurgar, of Sheffield; or Mr. Battye, Chancery .lane, London. George Wheatley, of Kingston .upon-H ull, merchant, dealer and chapman, August 27, Y.ti, aiail Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Nep tune Inn, in Whitefriar-gate, Kingston-upon• Hull. Attornies, Mr. Galen Haire, Hull; or Mr . George Edmunds, at the Ex chequer O f fi ce oPleas, Lincoln's Inn, London. John Smith, of Withington, near Manchester, victualler, dealer and chapman, August 27, 2s, at the Star Inn, Manchester, and Sept. 15, at the Castle of Lancaster, at eleven. Atturities, Messrs. Foulkes and Creswell, Manchester; or Mesa...Foulke', Longdill, ar.d Beckitt, Gray's Inn, London. William Higgins,of Newport, Salop,stockiug manufacturer, dealer and chapman, August 47, at five, 2s, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Jerningam Arms Inn, Shiffnall, Salop. Attornies, Mr. Henry Smith, Wolverhampton or Messrs. Price and Williams, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London. Samuel Downend, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, grocer, tea-dealer, and dealer and chapman, August 21, 44, and Sept. 15, at two, at the Old King's Head Inn, Sheffield. Attornies, Mr. John Rawlin *Churgar, of Sheffield; or Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane, London. Charles Bithery Sharp, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, factor, dealer and chapman, August 13, at tour, 14, and Sept. 15 at eleven, at the Tranret's I avern, Birmingham. Attornies, Mr. Isltcholls, Gray's Inn-square, London or Mr. Mole, Bit- wingl am. lames Newman, of Coral'', and of Savage-Gardens, London, insurer, merchant, dealer and chapman, August 7, at ten, 80, at eleven, and Sept. 15, at tell, at Uuddhall, London. Attor ney, Mr. it wingtoa, Fenchurch-street-buildiags Fenchurch • street, Lowden. William Hobley, late of Manthorpe, (now a prisoner in the Castle Goal, Lincoln) miller, dealer aud chapman, August 21, 22, and Sept. 1 5, at eleven, at theN:re d Eagle Inn, Lincoln. Attornies, Mr. Wm. Walker, Spilsby ; or Mr. Ralph Ellis, Chancery lane, London. Peter Howarth, late of Sswerby-bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire, linen-th aper, shopkeeper, dialer and eliapmao, August 22, and Sept. 15, at two,. at-the Dog Tavern, Dt mitigate, Man chester. Atttornies, Mr. Basnett, Manchester; or Mr. Hux ley, Temple, London. John Dawes, William Nobl-, Richard Henry Croft, and Richard Barwick, of Pall-mall, Middlesex, bankers and vipartners, August 7, 18, and Sept. 15 3 at ten, at Guildhall, London. At _ . tondos, Messrs. Clayton, Scott, and Blatnire, Iskw-square, Lincoln': Inn, London. William Wild, of Budge row, London, warehouseman, dealer and chapman, August 11,25, at ten, and Sept. 15, at one, at Attornics, Messrs Hewitt and Kirk, Manchester; or Mr. Ellis, Chancery-latre, London. Richard Pearson, of l'enterden, Kent, draper and tailor, August 7, 111, and Sept. IS, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornias, Messrs. Payne and Morshead, of Aldermanbuty, London. William Wild an.' James Dalton, o 1 Manchester, dealers in twist, chapmcn and cwpartners, August 11. v. 5, at ten, and.Seilt. 15, at one, at Guildhall. Attomiel, Messrs. Hewitt and Kirk, Manchester; or Mr. Ellis, Chancery lane, London. James Dawaon, late of Craven-buildings, Drury-lane, Middlesex, scrivener, dealer and Chapman, August 7, 18, and S.-pt. IS, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Thomas Saunders, Scut's yard, Bush-lane, Cannon-street. John Rayner, of Homer -street, St. Mary-la-bonne, Middlesex, (now a prisoner In the Fleet) builder, August 7,18, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Eastabrooke, 48, Haymarket. Daniel Elfstrand and Samuel Valley, of Kingston-upon-Hull, mer chants, dealers, chaprnen and copartners, August 7,1`.4, and Fept. 13, at eleven, at the White ldartsl'avern, Kintstott-upon- Hull. Attornies, Messrs. Sykes and Knowles, New-Inn, Lon don; or Mr. Martin, Hull. THUNDER STORM. A thunder-storm passed over the metropolis yester day, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by a heavy rain and a quantity of hail. The house of Mr. Hornyblow, in Upper Marsh, Lam beth, was struck about half past one. The electric matter entered at the upper part of the ch =les, and descended to the attic storey, where a man and his wife were sitting at dinner ; it passed withi n afoot of the woman, but fortunately without doing her any injury. It passed from thence into the second floor, rending every thing in its way, and to the first floor, where the chimney-piece was torn away, and a picture rent. It then descendei to the lower part of the house, where an old Lady received a considerable shock, but was not hurt , and passed to the entrance, splintering the door in its progress. ,Seveial of the windows were broken, and the house was much shaken and materially damaged. The house has a N. W. aspect. A house in Bowling street, Westminster, was also struck in a similar manner, the electric matter enter ing by the chimnies and 'passing through the floors. A. bell-wire was melted, and the door at the entrance was broken.' A newspaper which a person was read ing at the time was set on fire, but the person reading received no injury. A female servant and a child were hurt, but not dangerously. A 'remarkable phenomenon occurred during the storm at Mr. Fraser's, Botanist, King's-road, CI els.% !tellind whose house, in a southern expoiore, thL h in consequence of a strong ed ly wind, had fallen in such quantities into a back cellar. the door of which happened to be open, Rs to t!come a com plete piece of solid ice, about eight feet in circum ference, and two feet in depth. ASSIZES. A ludicrous case of assault was tried at Northamp ton Assizes on Wednesday, in which the .Tury found a verdict of 4250 against. Dr. BAILEY, a Clergyman, for an assault. It appears that there is a pond in the village where the Doctor lives, in which the poor women are in the habit of washing their clothes—the Rev. Divine chose also to wash his horses in the same water : this the women resented, and with mops, brushes, &c. beat the horses and the Doctor himself, which so exasperated him, he, in return, struck one of the assailants (a woman pregnant at the time'', for which the action was brought. The Doctor compro mised for striking another woman, by paying £5O into Court. At the Assizes for the County of Berks, held at Abingdon on Tuesday last, Joel Lawrence Jewell, for stealing a black mare poney, the property of Richard Paddick, of Benham; and Thomat Gould, for bur gl ariously entering the dwelling-house of Mary Capel, of Cumner, and stealing from thence thirty pounds in notes, and four pounds five shillings in silver, re ceived sentence of death, but were reprieved before the Judge left the town. John Harpur, alias Curr, for stealing two sheepskins, the property of Bernard Saunders, of West Hendted ; to be imprisoned two months, and fined Is. WINCHESTER, AUGUST S. John Britton, Captain of the West India Rangers, I was indicted for the wilful murder of his son, George Britton, by beating and kicking him about the body. The circumstances of this case are as follow Tke prisoner was commanding officer at Niton barracks, in the Isle of Wight, and his son, who was described as a fine boy, ten years of age, was brought up under his own eye. It was proved by two fe:nale witnesses that the prisoner was severe in his correction of the deceased, as he applied a walking-stick or a tope to his back without mercy, and that, too, daily. It was stated by these witnesses, and confirmed by several others, that the cause of these merciless beatings was in consequence of the deceased being dull at his book, the prisoner having undertAken to educate him. It was allowed by all the witnesses, that s: hen the priso• ner was not employed in teaching his 51311 9 lie was a very fond father. A youth, of the name of Wilson, who is an Ensign, and who was quartered in the barracks at Mum, proved several acts of severe correction administered to the deceased by his father, on the 29th and 30 - h of . April, and the Ist of May ; but on the latter day this witness saw the prisoner kick the deceased violently on the loins on the left side; and on his remnoslrat ing with him, he said that he had only kicked him with the side of his foot on the stomach, which could ne• hurt him. These and other acts of severity were fully established by Eve witnesses. Mr. Powell, a surgeon, who opened the body of the deceased, proved that the prisoner had informed him that he thought his child had died in cons: quence of his having scolded him for not repeating his le: spits, and he acknowledged hating beaten him. On exa mining the body, the deceased appeared to have b.:en bruised &cm his neck to 1 i heels, with a blunt ins-rn men, such as a sfck or a Is:. There was a recent wound under the ribs on the left side. The kidn and lungs were much inflamed, and witness had .r.o doubt that the mortification which was the cause his death, ensued from d e contusions on the Wick which were the aggregate of several days heating.— Witness could not state that a m"re recent blow which appeared on the g..oin was :h! catue of death, n )r would he hazard an opinion that any particular con tusion was the cause of death, but 1 e believed, froni the general appearance of the body, that mortifica tionlad ensued from the repetition of ill treatment. The case was here ended, as the indictment stared the defendant to have been killed on a specific day, when it turned out that he died of the aggregate ill treatment he had received on several days, and the chastisement inflicted on him on any one day would would not have been sufficient to have caused death. The Judge consequently directed the acquittal of the prisoner. OXFORD, JULY 4. Wednesday last Sir S. LAWRENCE and Sir S. LE BLANC, oFened their commission for this county, and On Thursday morning attended divi service at St. Mary's church ; after which their Lordships proceeded to the Town-hall, when the following priloners took their trials, Viz. James Humphries and Thomas Buck alias Buckingham, recom mitted by the Court at the last Assizes, char g ed on suspicion of burglariuusly breaking into the dwelling houses of Edward Arneit and Joseph Druce, of Ensham, and stealing sundry articles, their property.—Acquitted. John Hemming and Edward Buck alias Buck:ngham, recom mitted by the Court at the lest Assizes, charged with being ac complices in the above burglaries.—Acquitted. William Humphries, recommitted by the Court at the last As- ' sizes, charged with receiving one cock and one hen, the property of S. Couling, of Znsbam, knowin g them to have been stolen.— Acquitted. • fohn Bennett, for being at ilrge before the expiration of the term for which be was transported.—Left for execution. At these assizes an action of replevin came on to be tried before Sir SIMON Le BLANC, and a special jury, between the Earl of Abingdon and Dr. Croke, for impounding the cattle of his Lordship's tenants from off a piece of commonable land, in the parish of Hor ton, in this county ; when, after a full and impartial investigation, and the most , learned and profound ar guments of Counsel on both sides, which lasted eight hours, the Jury pronounced a verdict in favour of his Lordship. At these assizes a person who was summoned to attend on the Crown Jury, instead of obeying the man date, procured another person, who was not sum moned, to personate him, by answering to his name. On the fallacy being discovered, the Judge severely animadverted on their misconduct, and ordered them to be fined £es each. The works at Howth harbour have been lately re- commenced upon a most costly scale. Twelve hundred HIGH WATER AT LONDON MIME TO-MORRO men are daily employed there. If they cannot cont. T M0rning............ Afternoon ..... .. -.. ...if, 27 111!§ , it..% a!; 1. 6 plete the necessary operations before the setting in of the winter storms, it is apprehended that all may be LuNDON t Printed and pu 3114bril by !AXEL K F.N 1. a: (*.yr. again swept away, a s w as t h e case d ur i ng t h e I #st terbury•Place Lambeth, at the STA r-Orrics, No. I. Cart w'.f . winter. i litres; Pub/I;4ed also u the itaa•Orrica,Tetn:) , Par SLAPS CAUSE. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL'. en Saturday, h 2 -th o' y, 18 Ct mmissinn . of Ap e.tls in Prize - .uses Q ishe4 the r sitting o: she es.ion ; pr vtotts to their adj: urnmen hey gave judgmmt in -.trio us res• rveJ cases of gr • import.tnee. o.le f em cspeci illy was of the greatest interest t•tl e fr t t liberty and hum.tnity, and its deci ~ tt was such as wia doubtless giv•: t rent sod tq tal suds:amen in this country and America. CASE OF THE A NIEDIE—•-.JAMIS Jn11113014, MASTOL This was a vessel under American c.-Lours, %hit slaves from Africa, captured in Dece:oher, 1807, iq the West Indies, and carried into Tortola. The, claimant pretended that she was bound to Chao !esti.% South Carolina, where the importation (4 - slav e s crn . tinned to be lawful to the end of that ear; Ina ;hat having been detained on the coast, and there bcinz no prospect of reaching CliarlcSlMl 4clork: I. 1.4 day of January, 1808, the period app, i:red tor tht ct don of the Slave Trade in cvery p trt of the tr,, lte d States, by a law of the General Con4p.s.:, the M.ater of necessity bore away for e!.e Island of Cuba, acts to wait directions from his owners. It was contended, on the nth-r hand, by Ole cap. tor, that this statement was a m.:re pretence, an] th..t, in truth, the original plan of the vovago wai a deal. nation to Cuba, which was mil twfui tinder the Arne. rican laws, long previuus to their genet-41 abulitton of the Slave Trade. Admitting, however, the case so to be, it was rre• nuonsly contended for the Clamant, that a British Conn of Prize lee! no right to take any cognizance of Americ n municipal law, and that as no bellige. rent right of this country bad been violated, the pro. perty ought to be restored to the neutral owner. A series of precedents seemA to support this doetrim The sbip was condemned at Tortola, and the en slaved Ali icons were, according to our Abolitirn Act, restored to their freedom ; but the Claimant appealed, and the liberty of the Africans, as well as the prnpee t y of the ship, depended on tl:e issue of this appeal. The case Was solemnly argued in March last, and as, in the opinion of the Court, it turned on the new question of the elect of the American and Bsitish Abolicion Acts on this specks of contraband com merce, when brought before a Court of Prize, the case, on account of its importance, has since stood over for judgment. Several other cases of American SW* shios have also iNtood user, as depending on the same ge::eral question. On the above day the judgment of the Court was delivered by Sir Wit. GRANT, the Master of the Rolls, nearly in the following terms • " This ship must be considered as being employed at the time of capture in carrying slaves from the coast of Africa to a Spanish Colony. We think that the was evidently the original plan and purprise of the voyage, , o.withstandingthe pretence set up to ye 1 t! e true in - ention. The Claimant, however, who if an A mer:c tn, complains of the capture, and demands from us the res itiition of prop( ny( f he .11edges that he La; been unjustly dispossessed. In all the. former cases of this kiad, which have come helot e this Court, the Slave Trade was liable to considerations very diiferent from those which belong to it now. It had at that time been prohibited (as far as respected carrying O.:yes to the colonies of fOreign nations) hr America, but by our own laws it was gill allowed. It appeared to us, theiel we, difficult to consider the prohibitory law of America, in any other light than as one of tilose municipal regulatiens ()la foreign state of which this Court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration, which has since taken place, the question sands on different grounds, and is open to the anilication of very different principles. The Slave Trade has since been totally abolished by r' country, and our Legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the FrincTiss of j,•stiet: and kimanu). Whatever we might think as individuals before, tie could not, sitting :is J:idgrs in a British Court of Jus tice, regard the trade us that light, while our own laws permitted it. But we can now assert that it. 's trade cannot, abstractedly speaking, have a legitimato existence. When I say abstractedly speaking, I mean that this country has i.o right to controul any forcign Le gislature that may think fit to dissent from this dm. trine, and to permit to its own subjects the prosecu tion of ti:is trade ; but we have now a right to Arra that prima peie the trade is illegal, and thus to throw on claimants the barthtn of proof that, in respect of them, by the authority of their own laws, it is other wise. As the case now stands, we think we are en titled t 6 say, that a cl itnant can have no right upca principles of Uliversal law to claim the restitution its a Prize Court of human beings carried as his dims. lir must skew vine right that has been violated by the capture, some property of which he has been dis possessed, and to which he ought to be restored. In this case the laws of the claimant's country allow ti no right of property such as he claims. There can, therefbre, be no right to restitution. The consequence is, that the judgment must be affirmed." We congratulate the friends f the oppressed Afri cans on this important and most satisfactoty judg ment. It gives a death-blow to the most active eon traband dealers in human blood on the Coast of Africa, and removes one of the greatest obstacles to the effectual execution of our own laws for the abo lition of the Slave Trade; for, be it observed, that not the subjects of America only, but of Sweden. and, in short, of all States, which have not expressl; legalized this trade, :tie equally affected by the ope ration of the principle laid down by the TUE CUURsE Amsterdam, 33 9 2 U Ditto at sight, 32 2 Rotterdam, c. f.lO 0 2 U Hamburgb, 30 5 21..0 Altoua, 30 6 21 , U Paris 1 day's da. 21 1 Uv. Ditto, 2 Us. 21 Bourdeaux, de. 21 5 Madrid, • 44 Effect. C4diz, 411 Bilboa 41 Effect. Rio Janeiro 'l2, Mats May Doublet NC Palermo, 123 Pence pet ea Leghorn, 5$ Genoa, 34 N'enice, n. C. s Ltv. Resole ineffective part. stet. Naples, 44 Lisbon, 64 I Opr.rto, fibi Dublin, 9f Cork, I of New Dollars, ss. 314 00, Gibraltar 34i. us, 6S ks. Od. 44k_