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cad be buown, as is evident from ds• such statements are false. the Dutch Papers there is a very impor. dated Trieste, November 3, by which it Admiral Col,z.fxqwoon had communi- Russian Admiral in that port, by flags had required him to dismantle and lay until sit months after the conclusion of proposition probably was to surrender • terms given to the Russian fleet in the Russian Admiral is said to have re , have sent off a courier to the Ambassa- Court at Vienna. The dispatches which • days ago from Lord COLLINGWOOD, the think, related to this negociation. THE ARMY. y ester day, the 3d, (or King's Own) Dragoons, 2t iontd in Canterbury, received orders to hold them. g ees i n readiness for immediate embarkation, and fret to march for that purpose in the course of ; ere — re nt vie& Th e gd Dragoons, (or Queen's Bays) have been to Brighton and Lewes, to do the duty of the Id D r agoon Guards, now on their way for embarka ke. The Queen's Bays do not go to Spain, as erro seemly Mole& G en eral COTTON'S Brigade of Light Cavalry is eorrembarking at Falmouth ; and General Peres's, ifiary Cavalry, at Portsmouth. General Loom - es Brigade of German Cavalry will immediately how that of General COTTON at Falmouth. Next, lig before more infantry, it is supposed that Briga. deGeneral Dogm's, of Heavy Horse, will, take General COTTON has served in the 16th Light Dra. rem, and General I'AvNE is Lieutenant-Colcmcl of i6d Light Dragoons. Besides the three brigades of cavalry now embark. jag for Spain, the brigade of horse artillery comman daby Captain MIDONAJ.D is embarked, together with recruits for most of the regiments in Spain and Per- Commissioner BaowN from the Transport Beard, id Dr. GIANT from the Army Medical Board, are it Falmouth, expediting the service of their respec i.6 Departments. Wherever this originates, we nas allow that much merit is due. When the heads Departments the Members of the Board them. elves, personally superintend, the Public business is core likely to be faithfully. executed. Being on this sttect, we cannot but give our tribute of praise to mother of the public Boards, the new Barrack Board, the Members of which have all of them, during the summer, been travelling over the country, inspecting the Barracks themselves; and not. as heretofore, trusting to Surveyors and the crowd of inferior offi cers, who have too`often been themselves interested. The improvements meditated in Barracks and Hos 'pitals, ee hear, are numerous, and will be of the greatest service to the Army. ' The Inverness-shire local militia, commanded by titonel Fusait of Lovat, have been enrolled at In. *se% They declined accepting the bounty to which ite act entitles them, an example which is expected Isk followed by all the volunteers of that county. GENERAL ORDERS. Hone-Guards, November 54. 110 &view of facilitating the hate of pay to Offices* absent kin their regiments on leave, his Royal Highness the Cobham kis Chief has thought fit to direct, that whenever leave of ab met 'granted to any regimental Officer, a certificate, property biped, shall be delivered to the Officer receiving the indulgence, Nig the pFsicolae circumstances under which it was granted, MIMI period of hs commencement and termination. beams wherein an Officer may be absent from his regi- Sam account of ill health (a monthly certificate of which - , ac wee to the form prescribed by the General Order of the 30th linthibl ik kok is to be transmitted to the regiment) the Comman der's f approves of the General Officer commanding the &- Victor brigade to which the regiment belongs, granting the (Mi ter *monthly certificate of leave for three successive months, .provirid Ms state of health renders him intapeble of regimental dueler so long a period, and that the Gen i ecal Officer is satisfied ititb:M causes assigned in the certificate from a Military Medi cal Officer, which mutt be transmitted so as to arrive at the Regi s:caul head-quarters on or before the tuts of each month; but la tam of an oficer continuing absent from sickness for a longer saws than tht.e mouths, it will be incumbent en the Officer cemmaadiog the regiment to require an especial report of his case fast the Medical Officer by whom the certificate is aped, and to umiak the same through the reguLir channel, for the *oust &ration of the Commander in Chief. In addition to the certificate of leave, the regimental Paymas ters are to certify the period to which Officers, going on leave of aim; have received their pay. 21 command of his Royal - Highness the Commander is Chief, (Signed) H. Catvsavc Adj. Gem. The Hon. Captain DAVENPORT arrived in town • yesterday from Spain. - Lord BoaGNERSH and Colonel HILL left town this day for Portsmouth, to embark for Spain. Letters have been received from the Brazils, which gate, that FERDINAND VII. was proclaimed by the Civil Authorities of Buenos Ayres on the 22d of August last. We have not learnt what part was -taken on this occasion by LINIERS. • Government, we understand, have received ac - taints, which state that the people of Mexico most •:• Cordially sympathize in the cause of the patriotic Spaniards, and have resolved 'to make every effort to supply them with mo cowman every resource which it is in their power to . _ _ Friday morning last Lieutenant BrnxE, 23d Light Dragoons, concluded the match be had made, to walk 100 miles in 100 successive hours, one mile in each hoar. He walked the last mile in less than ten In:mites. The wager was 300 guineas. The ground leas marked out in Vauxhall Gardens, about a mile flora Birmingham. , Th e people of Brighton have had a survey of their '-•;l l llpending cliffs—and it has been decided, that it will Is 1 1 4424,000 even to secure the houses on the Marine o swaaa for two years to come. Houses in that guar. . 11 ,kriefalleri 30 per Cent. in value on this report. NdVIIIC4L IN7NLLIOZNCE. TORBAY, DECEMBER 4. Lastreening arrived his Majesty's ship Ruviwou, Honourable Captain Paoir, from Plymouth, to join the Channel fleet here. Sailed his Majesty's brig ANN for Corunna ; and his Majesty's ship la PLECHE on a cruise. Remain his Majesty's ships as per last. PORTSMOUTH, S. Arrived his Majesty's ship Eciarsz with dispatches from the Brazils ; Henry, Bowtiass ; and Martha, Ctranspols) from Oporto. Sailed his Majesty's brig Puriawith a convoy for the Downs. Wind southerly. DOVER, DECEMBER 5. A great many ships have gone by here this day, bound to the River, some of them from Quebec, some from Oporto, Lisbon, and other Portuguese ports.- A Russian and a French Messenger arrived this morning about eight o'clock in a flag of truce, from France—they were not permitted to land.— Wind S. W. „ben it sr : of tha h% a nkle, di' t hat A with the . we , and pis ibiPs u'l Thesite' F t he same r - The , andtoh o f his Cou 'Tal a few d incli ned t° DEAL, DECEMBER S. Came down from the River. the Posthumus, Srm- CER, for Jamaica, and remains in the Downs with the ships as per last.—Wind S. W. • SHEERNESS, DECEMBER S. The LEvEnrr sloop of war sailed this,day with the trade for Gottenburgh and the Baltic. The Dolphin store ship, Capt. C. WESTON, is arrived at, the Nore from the River : she is ordered to carry out stores for the use of onr fleet at Gottenburgh, and in the Baltic. It is expected a number of British men of war will winter at the island of Marstrand. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER S. Sailed on a cruize the DA PHNZ frigate, of 22 guns. —Arrived from a successful cruize off the Scaw, the CRVIZER sloop of war, having captured upwards of a dozen vessels, Some of which are laden with pitch, tar, kr. rte.—Several of them are arrived in this port. Arrived also the BUSTARD gun brig, and a cutter with a convoy, and remain with the Roams., Vice- Admiral DOUGLAS, and HAvoc gun brig. Wind S. W. fresh breeze. LEITH, DECEMBER 3. Arrived in the Roads on Wednesday, the BASILISK gun brig from a cruize ; and STRANGER gun brig from Sheerness. Sailed from the Roads on Wednes day, the ARTADNE sloop of war on a cruise. The CYGNET sloop of war, which sailed lately from the Roads, dismasted, is arrived at Sheerness. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gummi:), s.—Paucd by the Tortoise, Cook, from Malts; Nelson, Shuter ' from Westport; Father and Sons, Wynne, from Valentia; Anna, Paynter, from Waterford; and the Industry, Johnson, from Wexford.—Sailed the Milford, White, for Gibraltar, and the Venetia, Edwardson, for Jamaica. A boat, marked on the stern Betsey of London, Joshua S. Wedge, has been picked up at sea by a pilot boat, and carried into Scilly. The Hope, Bowden, is arrived at Liverpool from Lisbon, which place she left on the I 9th ult. a fleet sailed from thence for England five days before. The John and Jane, Mary, Delight, Atlas, and Hercules, (colliers) were driven on shore near Brigh ton, on the 28th ult. The two latter vessels have since been got of and carried into Newhaven. The Thomas and Mary, Gibson, from Wixford, l for London, has put into Milford. The John and Thomas, of Harrington, from Li verpool, is lost near Whitehaven. The Jane of Leith, from London, for Malta, was spoken with on the 16th ult. in lat. 39. 41. She had parted from the convoy seven days before, the wind then at south. The Industry, Robinson, sailed from Lisbon for London, with convoy, about the llth of November, parted bout three days after, in a gale of wind, and has not since been heard of. The Mayor, Sheriffs, and Common Council, of the City of Cork, on Friday se'nnight, voted the freedom of that city to be presented in a silver box, to Captain SEYMOUR, of the AMETHYST, for his very great gallan try and ability in the capture of the Thetis. The harbour of Brest was reconnoitred by the in shore squadron of Lord GAMBIER'S fleet, on the 28th ult. when the enemy's force consisted of eleven sail of the line, (one of them a three-decker) and three fri-1 gates, all ready for sea, with sails bent, and top-gal lant yards across, besides a corvette, with topmasts struck, and two or three vessels unrigged. A letter from Gottenburgh, dated the 25th ult. says, " The last fleet from England are dispersed ; a trans port, No. 18, is taken near Stragoe, and it ii feared that many more will share the same fate. Two ships are come back, and have brought this account." Private letters from Holland state the arrival at' , Atristerdam of the Dutch Ambassador from Paris.' This arrival, connected with the circumstance of the Ambassador having devilled with extraordinary ex pedition from Paris, created, it appears, a very con siderable alarm among the Dutch -people. What the cause of this alarm, or what the object of the Ambas sador's journey, none of the letters we have seen allude to, or even insinuate. Measures of additional rigour have been taken to prohibit the introduction or conveyance of any article whatever of foreign commerce, and particularly Eng lish manufacture, in Holland. With this view,, all boats and waggons passing through the interior of the Provinces are obliged to take out certificates, and are subjected to the same restrictions as those which are Imposed upon ships at sea, or coming into a Dutch Iport. MAiiLsoaouoitarrastr.—A Porter in the+ employ of Mr. Roberts, the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, was yesterday charged at this Office, by Lord Kinnoul, with extortion, in obtaining 18d. more than his re turfare for a basket of game. It appeared that d Kinnoul had often received packages, &c. from Dundee, in Scotland, similar to the present one which came from thence, and consequently be detected the imposition. The porter was fined in the penalty of 40s.—Another charge of a similar nature was made against another porter, who was also fined. Tuesday a Court Martial -was held on Mr. T. Richards, Carpenter of his Majesty's ship Africaine, for absenting himself without leave. He was sen tenced to be dismissed from his office ' and to serve in any other situation the Commanderin Chief shall direct. —On Thursday Mr. Thos. Savage, Purser of the Venus, was tried upon a similar charge. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Venus. THEATRE, fIATMARKET. I mowed of a blacismith's daughter, to whom it was ' reported he was married, and the plaintiff, upon con. The Covent-Garden Company removed over ele versing with one of her friends upon this attachment, quay last night, where, after the play of the , Moue- slid, it he liked the blacksmith's daughter, he might *seers, a new farce, called 4i School for 4 whom, was h ive her, she could get a betterman to wipe her shoe: produced, said to be written by the late Mr. TOBIN, at any time. Subsequt*tly to this, the father, in ern. author of the Homy Moon and the Curfew; and, unfor- versation with the defendant, told him, that he had fortunately, the b ays that are shooting thus freshly, heard that iv had had a child by the blackyrAh's spring but to overshadow his grave. The production daughter, wh , a; he very properly said to the tidal.. of last night increases our regret; and the genuine dant, hat he thounht she was the pr :per woman fcr laughter, which so chaste and yet so comic a drama him to ma , ry, and that he had better , if so , make h e t will excite in the tasteful part of every audieace, must an hon2st woman. sometimes for a moment be crossed by a sigh to fie At that time he denied the fact of his marriage, memory of the Author.—The characters are as ful- , and renewed the courtship, and went to buy a ring low : and some loves for her for favours. Diaper - . Mr. MJNIIZN After this it was discovered, that the defendant Cleveland a Ms. BRUNTON was actually married before the last promise to •,..e Wormwood • • Mr. Feline Frank • - Mr. resss plaintiff. Jeffery . . Mr. DAVINROIT The case being proved on the part of t' , o nl )la.'fr, Jane (Niece to Diaper) Miss NORTON Mr. G4.IIROW addressed the Jury for the defendant, Susan - - Mrs. Gins. and endeavoured to shew that she had coquetted and The whole of the business of this piece turns on the flirted with another man, a cousin, whom site de. strange infatuation which possesses Diaper, a wealthy dared she liked better. He also relied upon the plain. tradesman, of being esteemed a dramatic writer of •' • L tiff's having released the defendant from his promise. eminence. To establish this character, he has con- Upon the witnesses being called, it appeared that structed a Tragedy, called 44 Gunpowder Treason ; I , , the defendant had come first to the plaintiff's father, or, the Fifth of November ," respecting the success of , at m erry meeting at Christmas, 1805, and then the which, being very anxious, he prey:as upon C leve- i i a . ~..e rry i p plaintiff had sat upon her cousin's knee, and behaved land, a young man of 'liberal acquirements, to ac. i with some degree of female levity. knowledge the new piece coming out to be his — The ATTORNEY GENERAL, in his reply, sheaved Cleveland accedes to this, desirous of recommend. that this happened before the promise of marriage ing himself as the profes sed admirer of his niece, made by the defendant. Jane, an accomplished girl, who is also attached Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in summing up The evi. to him, but whose hand Diaper is determined to dance, applauded the conduct of the plaintiff and her be stow upon no one but 4 a man of genius." — father, , upon first hearing of the attachment of the Diaper, on the night of its representation, remains d e fendant to his present wife. But the action was greatly agitated, waiting the event of Ms Gunpowder chiefly founded upon the second promise of marriage s , Trenton, and, during his anxiety, Jeffery, a servant, to which there could be no answer. arrives with the information that his warehouse in the The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Da. Minories is on fire, and property, not insured, burn mages 1501. ing, of the value of ten thousand pounds. The news does not alarm Diaper, who is so intent upon the fate of his Tragedy, that he is regardless of the fire. Wormwood then waifs upon Diaper from the Theatre, to acquaint him that his Tragedy is damned. Udder the belief that it was written by Cleveland, he brands it with every epithet Of disapprobation, and confesses that by his efforts, and the aid of Diaper': servants, it had been howled to death. The scene which ensues affords MENDEN an opportunity to display his comic powers with the richest effect. In the mean time a Comedy, performed on the same night, has succeeded at the other house, and Cleveland is discovered to be the lucky Dramatist. The good humoured Diaper forgets his own misfortunes in the happiness ofhis friend, and the piece concludes with the disgrace of Wormwood, and the union of the lovers; The auxili ary characters of Wormwood, a snarling critic, and Frank, Jeffery, and Jane, confidential servants, &c. though not absolutely essential to the main story, contribute materially to heighten the picture, which is sketched with considerable spirit, after the model of the old English farce. The piece was enthusiasti cally well received, and bids fair to restore that taste for genuine Farce-writing, which has been some years on the decline. - The characters, if we except the foppish one of Frank, which is a little caricatured, are all of them as natural as they are amusing ; and the dialogue, as far as we are able to judge without reading it, is not only abundant in wit, but pure in diction. Mr. Mum- DEN was the Diaper. We have not, for a long while, seen that excellent comedian in a new and successful I part that was worthy of his talents ; but disuse has not incrusted their brightness with a particle of rust. Messrs. FARLRY, BRUNTON, and JONES, were adequate representatives of Wormwood, Cleveland, and Frank ; and Miss NORTON and Mrs. GIBBS were interesting in the two females, mistress and maid. This Farce, which would perhaps be more justly denominated a Comedy in three acts, was presented to the Managers many years ago; and its great merit, as well as the success that it has found, might make some persons, unacquainted with theatrical customs, wonder not a little that it should never have been acted before. 4 , But wonder (says Dr. Join4soN) is the effect of no velty upon ignorance ;" and those few persons who are not ignorant in dramatic affairs, are well aware that Managers, as well as Princes and Ladies, have a prerogative of doing what they please, without a reason. CLOVER V. DICKSON. The plaintiff is a respectable attorney, at Ryegate, and the defendant a gentleman of fortune, living at Southampton. The present action was for a libel writtin by the latter, which he promulgated in a let. ter. dated from Hatchett's Hotel, on the 20th of July, 1807, wherein he made allusions to the character of the plaintiff, which was founded on mere imagina tion. It appeared, that the defendant had sold an estate to Mr. Kelsey, to whom the plaintiff was soli. , citor ; and some unavoidable delays took place as to the tide, which the defendant wished in his letter to f (sten on the•plainOff, and used such expressions as were actually libellous. Mr. JEKYL, for the defendant, consented that a verdict should be returned for the plaintiff, which would afford hint an opportunity of vindicating his character. Verdict Is. costs 40s. • DE JERINGEI V. SNEETI. The plaintiff and defendant had been partners, and on the 31st of August last Mr. Graham, the auc tioneer, called at their counting house, for some ar rears of rent due to him, a mutual recrimination took place between them, as to the payment, when the pl aim; fic ailed the defendant a lying scoundrel, on which the latter took up the ink stand, and struck him a violent blow on the temple, making a wound three inches long and one broad. Mr. Whitfield described the wound, and - said the plaintiff was confined for three weeks from its vio lence. The Jury treated the matter lightly, as they brought in a irerdict for the plaintiff 6d. damage:, and tid. costs. COMMON PLEAS.—DECEMBER 5. ANNUITT.-11AltIE IP. LESLIE. This was an action to compel the payment of an annuity of 351. granted' by the Defendant, the Honourable John Leslie, to one Wilson, an apothecary, who had assigned it to the Plaintiff. The consideration was 4101. The pay of the Defendant as Cape tarn In the first regiment of Foot Guards, and whatever salary might arise from any future military promotion, were assigned to Chandles, an attorney, in Golden.square, in trust, to secure the annuity in the first place, and then to pay the surplus to the Defendant. The defence was, that the memorial of the transaction had not been inrolted in Chancery within the time limited by the Act g that the memorial did not sufficiently express the nature of the , trust ; that the consideration for the annuity had not been p aid 1 by the grantee himself into the hands of the grantor, as alleged in the Plaintiff's plea. There were nine distinct issues, which, by the plan of pleading adopted, were reduced to four, principally by the vague nature of the Plaintiff's replication upon which however the Defendant, instead of demurring, ha d rejoined and formed an issue. It appeared in proof, that the memorial had been duly entered, but a question arose, whether the trust, in the deed had been sufficiently expressed in the memorial, according to the terms of the Act, it being there only generally stated, that the pay had been assigned to secure the annuity, without any mention of what was to be done with the surplus. As the case turned upon this, it was agreed to take a verdict for the Plaintiff upon three of the Issues, and verdict for the Defendant en the fourth, that the matter of law might be argued „before the Court. An objection I had been taken, that the original mesnorhd, and not a copy, ought to have been produced ) but this was overruled by the [ Judge. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DECEMBER d. This day the Loan CHANCELLOR held his first Seal after the Michaelmas Term, but the cases did possess any thing of peculiar interest. On the motion of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, his Lord ship granted an order for bringing before the Judges, I at the next Lancaster Assizes, a person imprisoned in Lancaster jail for contempt of Court, in not paying the costs of a suit, agreeably to order of Court—for the purpose of having it determined, whether a per. son in such a situation was entitled to relief under the Lords' Act. His Lordship granted this order, not from any opinioa that the Pct of Parliament applied, but that the Judges, before -*horn the person should be , brought, might have an opportunity of disposing of the case, as it might seem to them to merit. Kis Lordship also, on the motion of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, appointed an appeal from a judgment of the Master of the Rolls, to stand at the top of the pa per, on the ground that the plaintiff in the suit had no other means of support than what might result from the suit in question, and therefore that• her very exis tence depended on his Lordship's coming to a speedy decision. IPLCTIMISN Tr-lON O. SMITH.; This was an ejectment to try the right to a piece aground belonging to a parcel of land called " The Spice !stands," situate near Whitechapel. The ground had been of little value till the making of the Commercial read, and there had been some dig pute as to the title; in consequence of which the Defendant and the other occupiers began to imagine that it was their own, and refused to give up the possession. The old gentleman, Richard Re; the Plaintiff, Clearly made out his right, and had a verdict. Sir J. Mattsriacn expressed hia regret for the bad advice given to the poor people who occupied these Spice Islands—this being the sixth or seventh ejectment brought to try aright which bad been sufficiently decided upon the first action. BREAD.—No Court of Aldermen was held this day : the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the Returns, or dered it to fall 3d per peck. Review of Mary Smith': " Observations on Seduc -- ; Con, and on the Fatal Effects arising from it."— COURT 01? KING's BENCH, DECEMBER S. I Price 2s. 6d.—The following is the opinion of the HOWELLS V. CHARLES. •i Reviewer, extracted.from the 0 Cabinet or Monthly The ATTORNEY GENERAL opened this case, which I Report of Polite Literature," for December, 1308: was an action by Mary Howells against the defen- " In these Observations, their moral and religious dant for a breach of promise of marriage. The de- guilt is forcibly painted, and, as brought forward, cr fendant had an estate of 1001. a year, and was a far- rather compiled by a Penitent female, who has tasted mer and timber merchantatLandryst, in Monmouth- the bitterness of Prostitution, but has happily been shire. The plaintiff was the daughter of an honest snatched from the perdition to which it leads, they farmer in Monmouth, and was courted by the defer- may have a beneficial effect, if properly circulated dant for some time. In March, 1806, he made a de- among her more unfortunate sisters. Under this im libetate proposal of marriage, and 'the plaintiff's fa- pression we strongly recommend the present pamphlet, Cher said, that if he would make a proper settlement, which may also be read with advantage by every de. he, the father, would give her 1001. down, and 2001. scription of persons, Male and Female"—Those wbo at his death. The defendant then called on the I are inclined to give them away may havelhem at plaintiff's father, and left the title deeds o f his estate lo ne pound four shillings per dozen. It may be had with him. The defendant afterwards became ena.' of E. Wrtkorr, bookseller; No. 51, Paternew.— • ~ "..