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PALMOUTH, MARCH 31. he American brig Prince Madoc, from gorkk, as detained off this port by the aubilee privateer ) sad sent for Fowey. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 1. The Anors sloop of war, has come up hatbour t o repair the damage she sustained in running down the UNION galliot, of Poole, off Waterford.—A neu tral vessel, on her passage to this port from the east ward, laden with oil, was wrecked last week, off the Start ; the captain and most of the crew drowned. _A frigate passed up channel this forenoon, but did rot come near enough to give her number ; she is su pposed to be the UNICORN, with dispatches.— Arrived, the WELZLE schooner, from Torbay.— Sailed, the PHEASANT sloop, Captain PALMER, on a cruize; and the FAVOURITE sloop, Captain CLEMENT, .vith an American brig and two empty mast ships, under convoy. They are gone first to Falmouth, to join other ships at that port. Friday night a jolly-boat belonging to the AFRICA, was cast-away on Drake's island; the crew, consist ing of four boys, a master's mate, and the wardroom !:c.vard, were all saved.—Wind N. N. W. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2. Arrived the ALCNIENE frigate, from Gtiadaloupe, with the Thetis, Columbine, and Woolgar transports, with French prisoners on board. They left the Island Nth ult. with the following transports in company, which are not yet arrived, viz :—Agincourt, Helen, Ann, Idis, Cambo, and the James and Harry ; the latter ship lost her main-Mast and fore-top mast, by miming on board the Cambo. The Royalist and Nelson transports are left at Guadaloupe. Arrived also the TVRIAN sloop of war, With the East India ships and a few merchantmen, from the Downs.— Sailed the RECRVIT sloop Of war, with a few trans- ports with troops on hoard, for Cadiz and Gibraltar ; and PORT MAHON, with seven transports with troops, for the same places.—Wind W. DEAL, APRIL et. Sailed his Majesty's ship HERO, fur North Yak.- N.E. YARMOUTH, APRIL t. Yesterd:ly P. M. arrived the HERO, of 74 guns, Captain NrwmaN, to join the Grand North Sea fleet and the PANDORA brig with two laden vessels, which she captured on the coast of Holland. Remain in the Roads with the above, the Roebuck, PAmiable, Tribune, Tartar, 'Tartarus, Ariel, Prometheus, Lynx, 'Badger, Reriatd, Vixen, Snipe, Ernest, Acute, Ha voc, and Flamer. Refitting—Britomart and Blazer gur. brigs ; Patriot, Jande, and Enuns schuyts.— Wind E. BRIGHTON, MARCH so. Yesterday, at about half past six o'clock, P. M. as announced by the telegraph, a French privateer cap tured a trading brig in the offing, and it is feared suc ceeded in conducting her to one of their own ports.— There were several ships of war in the S. E. at the time, which answered the signals from the telegraph, but as the capture was made at a great distance in the S. W. and the wind strong from that quarter, it is scarcely probable that a recapture could be the result of their efforts FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRATMNII, Ara ta 2.—Arthed the Star, Chisholm. from Lisbon. Sailed the CoUingwood, Webster, fist Newfoundland. The ship Orion, Mrrciatt., parted her anchor in the late gale in St. Mary's Roads, Scilly, and went on ?bore on Samposon island. Her cargo of maho gany will be saved, but the vessel was expected to be lost. The Windsor, bt Kinky, from Limerick to Liverpool, is on there near Waterford., but expected to be got off. The Recovery, Skrubsole, from' London to Oporto, is lost near Vigo, The Sacra Familie, from Cadiz to Gibraltar, is driven on shore, and burnt by the French. The Lady Ann, from Watertord ; and the Eleanor, from Beau maris,bound to Liverpool; and a Carnarvon sloop, are on shore at taumaris. The Three Brothers, Sanderson, from Cadiz, is wrecked near North \Vales. The Nancy, Crawford, from Clyde tit Grenada, was taken and link about the I.2th December, by four Prenclakietes. 'lle Margaret, Bryan, front London to Newry, was lost of Dundalk, the 26th instant. - - The Conceicao, from Terceira, is Stranded on Hoyle lank. C rew we d. The Antelope, Le Peßey, from the River Plate, has arrivedoff Doter; last from Rio Janeiro, from whence she sailed on the .t3M of January, The Franklin, Fmtnerson ' from Virginia to Great Britain, foundered on t h e b an k s of Newfoundland. Crew arrived at Cadiz. The Janr, NTaccavr, from Malaga to Guernsey, was taken the 19th of January, near Ushant, by two privateers, and carried to Cone.:le. rhe Thcr:sa Catherina, Hulow, of London, bound to Ply mouth, Iva: t ot i lly l ost on t h e S tart P o i nt , on Sunday se'nnight. Only our Ilan sat ed. - Tht• Mary Ann, Croker, from London to Mogadore, is put into Crookh wen, in distress, and part of the cargo damaged. The Joseph and Betsey, Reed, from London to Lisbon, is put .nto Conlon.), with damage. 'lle Good Intent, Lambert, from Berbiee to London. put into Cl .4eston the end of January, leaky, and is condemned. The Spanish ship Havannah, from Amelia Island to Liverpool, foondtred the 231 of January, in lat. 31. long. 73.—Crew saved. ' The Lucretia, Wells, from Liverpool to Trinidad, having eTeent *lrak, was abandoned by the crew the 20th inst. in lat. Cnbben. kin g. 1 3 . — Crew taken o n b o ard the Whitehaveu ship, „,rhe Hanna,l3antsen, from Trequeir,is detained, and sent into ertiouth, Doke of York d cutter. The Twee by the Vriend en, from Franc hire e, is on shore near Margate. The Hibernia, Hardie from New Brunswick, for Liverpool, ugse: in a gal e t h e 19th of January. The Syren, Williams, from Bristol, was burned on the Cow of Africa the 18th of December last. The Margaret, Masters, from Drogheda, for Portsmouth, has lost into Cork with the loss of masts. The John, Brown, from London to St. Michael's, was taken it'd burnt by the Conflance frigate. The Ann Booth, finest Seville to London, was taken and i-rrt the 11th ult. Lettert front Cariscrona, of the sth and 11th ult. state, that " a t Were lost on the Island of Gixidand (one of them the Cc. 11--er al 13 n Kong), and that only three men of the whole crews * Pre saved, 1 The Marv, Sibsey, from tendon for Lisbon, has put into 4 t illy with damage.: -130 sail of coasters were lying there en tOtk ult. The 2d Battalion 63d Regiment tn irched from Chelmsford in two divisions un - Friday and Saturday for Portsmouth, there to be immediately embarked for - Guernsey, owing to the very sickly state of the regiment. The Royal Cornwall Regiment, under the corn mand of Major Brom, marched from Norman-crOss barracks on the 24th ult. for Chelmsford. The German foot troops now at Porchester will leave that place this week, and go to Colwell Bar racks, in the Isle of Wight. ARMY MEDICAL BOARD. The Papers lately called for in the House of Com mons, respecting the appointment of the new Medical Board, have now been printed. The documents are 42 in number, and commence with the letters inter changed between Mr. HusatssoN, the Secretary at War, the Commander in Chief, &e. on the subjects of the disputes that had prevailed among the Mem bers of the late Medical Board. It appears that Gene ral Sir THOMAS TRIGGE, Lieut. Generals DE Lamalt, and BROWNRIGG, Major-General CALVERT, and Lieu tenant-Colonel GORDON, were constituted a Board of General Officers to report on the best methods of ob viating in future the " detriment and inconvenience to the public service," occasioned by the dissensions in the A►my Medical Board. On the recommendation of these General Officers, Doctors WEIR, GORDON, and KER, received their appointments as successors to Sir LUCAS PEPYS, Mr. KEATE, and Mr. KNIGHT. The instructions to the New Board respecting their duties, and the items which are to compose the ex pences of the establishment, are next given. It appears that no pension, pay, gratuity, or al lowance whatever, has yet been granted to the Mem bers of the late Army Medical Board, and the most important of the documents now laid before the pub lic, are the remonstrances made by Sir Lucas PEPYS and Mr. KEATE, against the discontinuance of their ' offices, or rather of the emoluments, as Physician and Surgeon• General. Sir LUCAS PRPYS informed the Secretary at War, that to take his office from him would be an encroachment on the prerogatives of the Crown ; and Mr. KEATE maintains, that nothing short of the sentence of a Court Martial, can deprive him of his situation of Surgeon-General to the Army. There are some passages in the letter of Sir LUCAS PEPYS to the Secretary at War, dated January 28th, which will no doubt excite the attention of the Medi cal Officers of the British Army. With all due de ference to the President of the College of Physicians, so far from admitting the academical monopoly urged by him in favour of Cambridge, Oxford, and Dub lin, we do firmly believe that every Medical Officer, *hose studies have been confined to the schools of these Universities, will be as competent " to the at tack of a fortress," as to the cure of "camp and con tagious diseases."—The letter itself is too important to withhold from our Readers, and we therefore give it at full length : Copy of a Letter from the Physician General to the Secretary of War. Upper Brook-street, January 28, 1810. My Lord—Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin Universities will have to lament your Lordship's acquiescence in the lessening of the credit and character of the learned professions. The regular Physicians from those Universities were gradually getting into the charge of the Army. This I have been bringing about for the last sixteen years, and when I first came into the Army there was only one regularly educated Physician in it there are five Fellows of the College of Physicians, and only two out of the whole number who have not been approved by the College. The Board about to be established under your I.ordship's sanc tion, propose to have the care of the Army committed entirely to Regimental Suageons. Whether your Lordship was of opinion, that previous Academical Education is necessary or adviseable before the Study of Medicine in the Medical Schools, either here or at Edinburgh, I wished to know when I had the honour of waiting on your Lordship lately; but as I found you declined to enter on the subject, I thought it my duty, as President of the College of Physicians, and well known by the Universities as a zealous advocate for Academical Education, to trouble your Lord. ship-with-this, that it might hereafter be known that I had ex pressed my opinion in writing on this important subject. A Boartlof General Officers determining on the Medical arrange ments of the Army, is not more incontpeteut than a College of Physicians to decide on the attack of a fortress. As the Commander in Chief disavows the intended change, as originating with him, your Lordship will see the propriety of my addressing you, before it is too late, to request that the abolition of regularly educated physicians from the army may he well con sidered by your Lordship. For this purpose, I hope my paper, delivered to Mr. Perceval on the subject of the Fifth Report two years ago, has bees read by your Lordship, and also the Appen dix, No. 8, B. 4 and 5, of Mr. Keate's printed Observations, where your Lordship will see the consequence when Surgeons, called Physicians, but really not so, act as Physicians. I can have no other inducement in troubling your Lordship with this, but my attachment to the Universities, and a sincere wish for the welfare of the army. I have, &c. (Signed) L. rErvs. Right Honourable Lord Palmerston, Ste. Ste. dte. DISTRIBUTION OF BRI rISli NAVAL FORCE.--The report to the Ist of April, is as follows :—At sea, ships of the line, 91 ; fifties, &c. 15 ; frigates, 128 ; sloops and yachts, 42 ; bombs and fire-ships, 4 ; brigs, 210; cutters, 29 ; schooners, &c. 67. Total, 586.—1 n com mission, 838—building, repairing, &c. 67.—Grand Total, 11111. Captain J. N. MORRIS is appointed to the FOR SIID*BLE ; Captain HALL, to the ROYAL WILLIAM (the flag-ship of Admiral Sir ROGER CURTIS, Bart.); Captain IRWIN, to the PUISSANT ; Captain BURTON, Ito the PRIMRGINE. The Express Packet has arrived at Falmouth from New York, which she left on the 21st February. The Express left no English Packet at New York ; but on her passage spoke his Majesty's sloop SOPHIE, Captain LOCICTER, who after receiving some informa tion from the Packet, proceeded to Cork. By the latest accodnts it appears that no fewer than 85 ships, belonging to the United States, have, in pursuance of the French Decree, been confiscated in the ports of Italy. Three of these vessels, whick re cently entered Leghorn with India goods, and valua ble produce, are each of them estimated at a million of ducats. A letter from Captain MILL, late of the Kinloch schooner, of Dundee, dated Dunkirk prison, 12th of March, 1810, advises that he was taken on the 2d ult. off Huntly Fort, by the Fury privateer, of 14 guns. He adds that there is no account of the arri val of the Kinloch into any port near Dunkirk, and says that the same privateer took the schooner Jean, of Aberdeen, BLACK master, and a Danish ship laden with timber, about as hour after. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, which was rather fully ttended. It was unanimously agreed to affix the Seal to the Petition from the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital to the House of CoMmons, praying to be heard by Counsel against the removal of Smith• field Market, it being deemed injurious to the value of the Estates belonging to the said Charity, should such intended removal take place.—Petitions to the Honourable House of Commons Against the Bills for making Wet Docks, Basons, Cuts, &c. at Ro therhithe, &c. were agreed to, and ordered to be fairly transcribed and signed by the Town Clerk, and presented forthwith by the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer.—A motion was made to rescind the Standing Order of the 15th of February, 1787, viz. " That no person who has been convicted of defraud ing in weights and measures, or who has compounded with his creditors, or been a bankrupt, and has not paid 20s. in the pound, shall be elected on any Com mittee chosen by the Court ;" which was negatived. The intended removal of Smithfield market expe riences much opposition, nor is it surprising that it should. The market in its present situation is not a nuisance to any one in the strict legal sense of that word ; for every person residing near the spot has placed himself in his present situation—he has gone to the nuisance. But carry the market to any other spot, and you carry a positive nuisance to the very dwellings of thousands of individuals ! Is there any necessity for removing the market ? None whatever. It is only on Mondays that Smith. field is found too limited on Fridays it is never one sixth part occupied. The reason is obvious—the Monday and Friday markets are too far asunder— the Friday and Monday too near each other.— Change Monday's market for one on Tuesday and all the present evils will instantly cease. A shorter supply of cattle will be wanted to serve London from Tuesday than from Monday till Friday ; and a larger supply will be needed on Friday to answer the de mand till Tuesday than is now required to serve till Monday. Thus would all the present inconvenience be in tirely remedied without expence or injury to the public or individuals. True it is, the great salesmen who now attend only Monday's market, leaving Friday's to the management of their servants, might be ob liged more frequently to attend both market days ; and if we are not misinformed, the real cause of the projected removal, instead of adopting an alteration in the market days, is to save trouble to these sales men ! Shame ! Shame ! We have done our duty in stating the true remedy. Let Parliament do its duty in enforcing this, which is the only rational and proper remedy. The number of newspaper stamps for England, Scotland, and Wales, issued from the Stamp Office (the account made up for one year, ending in 1809), amounted to upwards of twenty millions and a half ; when the advertisement duty is added to that of the stamps, what a handsome sum, we may conceive, these useful vehicles of knowledge and entertainment bring to the revenue. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-Last night the new Comedy of How to Trate and how to Please, was again represented ; and, notwithstanding the highest efforts of the performers, it seems still to labour under the public disapprobation. During the second and third acts a great part of the performance was inaudible. The conclusion of the fifth was hailed with inter mingled groans and applauses. Mrs. JOHNSTONE, without difficulty, obtained attention during her re cital of the Epilogue, but when Mr. YOUNG appeared to announce the play for the ensuing evening, the noise of discontent and disgust was greater than it had been before ; at length Mr. Youtio was heard, and, by announcing the Cattle of Andalusia, relieved the Audience from their apprehensions. Saturday morning Thomas Turner, a Custom-house Officer, was committed to Exeter jail, for trial at the next assizes, for stealing a large quantity of copper, the property of Mr. Rundle, of Richmond-walk, Ply mouth Dock. Yesterday se'nnight a Court-Martial was held on John Curry, alias John Pearce, a seaman of his Ma jesty's ship Vic-roily, for deserting from her and en tering into the Durham Militia, and receiving part of the bounty. He was sentenced to receive 500 lashes. —Rear-Admiral Orwav, President. About three weeks ago, the crew of the NAIAD fri gate, Captain HILL, sent a Round Robin to the Ad miralty Board, complaining of the tyrannical treat ment of their Commander.—ln consequence of this' letter, the Admiralty ordered a Court of Inquiry on board the NAIAD, at whieh Sir EDWARD BUTLER presided. To rebut the testimony of the complainants, several of the crew were brought forward, who justi fied the conduct of Captain HILL, and the business was considered as being set at rest. But many of the crew, it seems, not satisfied with the decision of this Court, wrote again to the Admiralty, requesting a new Captain ; and, for some expressions in this letter, eight of the ringleaders were on Tuesday last brought to trial on board the Salvador del Mundo, in Ha maze ; when one of them was acquitted, four were sentenced to be flogged and three to be hanged ! Wednesday last a Court-Martial was held on board the same ship, for the trial of the Carpenter of the , RATTLESNAKE sloop of war, for cruelly treating his yeoman. The charge being proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed the ship, to be placed before the mast, and rendered incapable of ever filling any situation of trust in his MAJESTY'S Navy. AGRICULTURAL REPORT.—The heavy rains in the early part of last month impeded the seasonable ope rations of agriculture upon tenacious soils, and con siderably inundated the low lands ; but the fortunate change of weather about the middle has made the ploughed field a busy scene, and promises a fine kseed-time. The young wheats are rather thin upon some soils, having suffered somewhat from the slug and wire-worm ; but the large breadths of spring wheat that have been sown at the latter part of the month, since the dry weather set in, are likely to make an ample compensation for any deficiency that may oc cur in the winter crop. The early sown ryes, and winter tares for soiling, have made a large shoot for the season, and promise to be a forward and luxu , riant crop ; a timely substitute for the turnip crop that has suffered so much from the severity of the w inter. KINGSTON, FEBRUARY 10. - of AthteapaMrieeshting of of Tre th la e F wne l:eeh y, convened i a d n d bypubi Inhabitants icad.. vertisement at the Court Haase, in the town of Fal mouth, on Monday, January 8, 1810, to take intb . consideration the conduct of our Representatives dui! ing the last Session, ALEX. HAWTHORN, Esq. in the Chair. The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to ; I. That having always considered the privileges of Britons which we have hitherto enjoyed as our most invaluable inheri tance, we must view every attempt to abridge or encroach upon them, with the most serious apprehension. 2. That from the very clear and able Report of Mr. Tagil- to the House of Assembly, on the 16th of November lait i it ap.. pears that such an attempt has lately been made, by his Majesty's Ministers; although it is well known that similar innovations here too frequently attempted, have always met wiih a successful resistance. 3 That should our complaints be allowed to reach the throne, we rely for the redress of our grievances, and the preserva:lm our Constitution, on our most gracious Sovereign who, during a long and eventful reign, has ever proved himself the guardian of our rights and the father of his people. In the town of St. Anne, Counter-Resolutions were adopted on the 20th January. GEO. CRUICKSHANK, Esq. in the Chair. It was unanimously resolved—That the Resolutions of the late Honourable House of Assembly, passed on Wednesday the tsth day of December last, have expressed the decided sentiments of this Meeting, on a subject involving through that Honourable House, our dearest and unalienable rights and privileges; and we do solemnly resolve to support to the utmost such constitutions r_sistance to all unlawful enzroachments on the legislative fuuc tons of our representative-body. A number of boys from Ckrkenwell hired a bo ti for an excursion on Sunday afternoon, near Black friars-bridge, when J. Clarke, 16 years of age, and another lad, heaving the boat from the barges, they both fell over the side, and Clarke was drowned ; his companion, with much difficulty, was recovered. Sunday se'nnight the mail coach from London to Glasgo N was overturned at Douglas mill, in Lanark. shire, in consequence of the horses becoming ungo. vernable. The guard leaped off, and received no injury; but the driver, and a lady who was an inside passenger, received some contusions. The mail was afterwards put into a post-chaise, which singular as it may appear, broke down before it had proceeded far : a saddle horse afterwards conveyed it to Glas: gow. As Mr. nevax, of the Oak public-house, at Ross, who had a horse stolen some weeks ago, and another person, were conveying the supposed offender to He reford, on Tuesday night, the 20th, when the prisoner had reached the third arch of the bridge over the Wye, he took the desperate resolution of leaping into the river, on the upper side. He was caught by the skirt of the coat, which instantly tearing off, he plunged into the stream, and has not since been seen. The river was dragged the following morning in vain; and it is supposed he was drowned. Some mornings siace, three French Naval Officers, who had broke their parole, and travelled from Corn wall, were apprehended at a crimping house near Wapping by some of the Thames Police Officers, and taken to the office, and from thence to Tothillfields Bridewell, till they shall be disposed of by the Trans: Tort Board. They had 90 guineas, which they were ,allowed to retain. Stewart, one of the three men convicted and sell:. tenced to death at Carrickfergus, for a murder corn mitted at Belfast, has been respited, he having prevented the house from being burned after the murder was committed. Montgomery and Chalmers, the ether perpetrators of the murder, were hanged— They evinced much contrition. No less than 14 persons received sentence of death at York Assizes, on Monday se'nnight, viz. five for forgery, due for attempting to shoot at a gamekeeper, two for horse-stealing, two for stealing cattle, three for shop-breaking, and one for returning from trans portation. ttilen. At last Exeter assizes, William Gourd and Wit /lam Rose, (two children, only eleven years of age) received sentence of death, for stealing a few hanks of thread, some stay-laces, and a bundle of cinnamon; the property of James Davey, a constable. Here there is another instance of the necessity of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY'S Bill. At the Stafford Assizes, on Friday, an action to re cover a wager upon a horse race was tried, in which Patrick Macalister, a hawker, was Plaintiff, and Mr. Wm. Hadon, of Bromsgrove, was Defendant. Mr. DAUNCEY stated, that the bet for which the action was brought, was one of six guineas to four, taken by the Plaintiff on Bob Booty, against the field, for the King's plate, at Litchfield, in 1808.— What induced .the plaintiff to make the bett, was, that he and Bob Booty belonged to the same court.) , try—they were both Irish, and he had invariably observed that there was something in the cone stitution of an Irishman that made him back his countrymen wherever they met. He recollected having heard of one of that nation at a horse race, who during the running appeased so much agitated 1 that the Gentleman next him enquired the cause. 14 Och !" said he, g 4 and don't you know the raison ? do you see that little horse there? He belongs to me—Little Bother'em is his name, and he is dri ving all before him."--0 1 And true enough it was," said Mr. DAUNCEY, " for all the other horses had run away from Little Boihreer, and yet the Irish man would not believe but that , Little Bother'em would win. So, in this instance, his client had back ed Bob Booty against the field, though there were five to start." After making other humourous ob servations, he stated, that Bob BOoty won, and the Defendant having refused to pay the wager, this action was brought to recover it. The bet was then proved to ha'sre been laid at the Golden Lion, at Stratford, and that Bob Booty won the race. The Defendant's Counsel, by a cross-examination of the Plaintiff's witnesses, endeavoured to shew that the wager was off by consent, but this turned out to have reference to another, respecting the naming of Bob Booty's rider at Warwiek, whether it was Boast ttr Bounce. Mr. JERVIS then addressed the Jury, stating, that his Learned Friend seemed to be in a situation of walking the course, as both the defendant and the witness had disappeared. He however after• wards made some play, but his ground being bad, Pat, like the horse he had backed, in the end won with eases r os )c 1- to Li- ed cf cfs le as: R