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GOTTENBURGH MAIL. This morning a Gottenburgh Mail arrived at the Post Office—the last probably which will be received for some time to come ; for in the Stockholm Gazette of the 21st tilt. we find the following : PUBLIC NOTICE d‘ is hereby given that the intercourse by Post, which, during the war, was established between Gotten " burgh And EnglAnd, is now to cease. " General Post Office, Stockholm, 20th June, 1810." B y t hi s Mail we have received German papers to t h e 27th ult. but the most interesting articles received by this conveyance are the following, , respecting an INSURRECTION at STOCKHOLM. GOITENEURG, JUNE 25.- By a courier arrived this morning► from Stockholm, we learn the intelligence of a riot having broken out in that city on the 21st instant, the day on which the corpse of the late Crown Prince was conducted to the Palace previous to its interment. Count Fersen, who led the procession, in capacity of High Marshal of the kingdom, was attacked by a mob, who ac cused him of having been accessary to the death of his Royal Highness. They commenced by assailing his carriage with stones, &c. The Count escaped from his carriage into a house, but was followed by the infuriated populace, who literally tore him to pieces. Another account states, that having got out of h:s carriage, the mob entirely surrounded him, and stoned him to death, after which they retired to their homes. Since the arrival of the above-mentioned Courier, another express is said to have been received, bringing an account of the mob having collected again on the following day, and surrounded the houses of Count Uglas and Countess Piper, but fortunately neither of them fell into their power. From subsequent accounts it appears, that several lives were lost, as the soldiers, in their own defence, were at last compelled to fire on the people. General Adlercrutz was struck a violent blow in the back, but secured the man. The mob at one time agreed to a parley, and consented to proposals made by the General, that Count Fersen should be carried to pri. son ; but another party of the insurgents arriving, he was torn from the soldiers and murdered, by being stoned and trampled on, and so cruelly mangled, that his eyes were both beat out of his head. Yesterday, in consequence of these disturbances, there was issued the following PROCLAMATI2N. " We, CHARLES, by the Grace of Goo, King of Sweden : " It was with the most profound concern we re ceived the unexpected intelligence, that on the occa. sion, when the corpse of his Royal Highness, the late Crown Prince, was brought to this capital, and when 1 , by a general mourning, accompanied with tranquil lity and order, the deep sense of the -irreparable loss which we have sustained, and which we deeply la ment in common with all our faithful subjects, some , ill-disposed persons, forgetful of the duty which they owe to their iellow-subjects b atrociously committed a murder, disgraceful to the Swedish name. " We consider it as a consolation necessary to our wounded feelings, hereby publicly to express how much we feel concerned on account of the unfortu trite consequences, occasioned by the disturbances which agai t took place last night. After all possi. We admonitions had been used in vain by the Com mander of our troops to prevail upon the multitude to disperse ; and after public notice had been given that force would be resisted by force, and strong mans employed to restore public tranquillity and se cure personal safety, the riv)b attacked the peaceful troops with stones and insulting language, until the latter found themselves necessitated, by our gracious command, for the protection of the law and public order, and in their lawful self-defence, to meet force by force, which at length produced the beneficial re sult that the multitude dispersed, and public order Was restored. 46 We entertain the confident hope, that public tranquillity will, in future, be preserved, and that even those who for a moment could forget their duty, and suffer themselves to become the tools of lawless and perfidious intrigues, will entertain a proper sense of the dangers to which they are exposed, if they con tinue their criminal conduct. All our faithful and beloved subjects we graciously desire and paternally exhort, mindful of the duty which religion, as 'well as the laws of our country imperiously impose on them, to rely with confidence on the measures which we are determined to pursue for the purpose of preventing all acts of violence, and preserving public tranquillity and peace, and to listen with obedience to the orders which will be given them on our part by their superiors, 'Magistrates and Commanders. " We commend them all to the protection of AL MIGHTY Got. a (11ALLES. 4 ‘ T. A. BOI:TZLLL." " Stockholm Castle, June The TRIUMPH, 71., t, ,ich left Cadiz on the 13th tilt. has arrived at Plymouth, having the remainder of the French prisoners that were at Cadiz on board : and the HisErtNlA which left the same port on the following day has arrivt.l at Portsmouth. As we had accounts to the same date last week, they bring nettling new respecting the operations of the enemy. They left at Cadiz 14 sail of Spanish line of battle ships, 12 of them ready for sea, but not manned, and two with their masts out. Admiral PICKMORE had shifted his flag into the TEMERAIRE. There were be sides, the ACIIILLS, ATLAS, ZZALOUS I TONNANT, EAGLE, BLAKE (just arrived) and Resistance frigate. The DRucter, Lord BAcooNut, had sailed for Lisbon. - We are happy to learn that the crew of the TRI UMPH lost none of her officers or men by the saliva. tion excited among the crew by .the bursting of some casks of quicksilver in her hold, saved from a Spanish wreck, as stated some time ago. Lieutenant Dim, first of the TONNANT, had his leg broken, and was otherwise much bruised, by se veral shot that were thrown into the TONNANT'S launch, while alougside a prison hulk, in Cadiz har bour. This so exasperated Mr. STOKES, a midship man, who took charge of the launch after Mr. DICK was wounded, that he brought a carronade to bear OR the hulk, and fired nineteen rounds of grape-shot into it. Four seamen belonging to the ToNNANT, and one belonging to the ACHILLE, were lately tried by Court Martial for having attempted to desert to the enemy. They were found guilty. The four former were sen tenced to be hanged—the latter to receive 200 lashes ; and suffered accordingly in presence of the fleet. THE KING v. CORBETT, &c. This morning, at an early hour, the Court of King's Bench was unusually crowded in expectation of the Defendants being brought up to receive the Judg ment of the Court, and, after a good deal of routine business was gone through, in matters of Bail, &c. Lord ELLENBOROIIOII 9 accompanied by Judges GROSE and LEBLANC, took his seat on the Bench- Mr. Con- SETT, Mr. HANSARD his Printer, and Messrs. BUDD and BAGSHAW his Publishers, then appeared on the floor of the Court, when silence being with consi derable difficulty obtained, in consequence of the prodigious pressure, both in and out of doors, Judge GROSE proceeded to pass sentence in a firm and im pressive manner. Hit Lordship briefly recapitulated the libel complained of ; the evidence given on the trial, the defence of the Defendant, Cobbett, and the various topics which had been previously touched upon in Court during the proceedings. His Lord ship observed, that the tendericy of the libel in ques tion, (besides being written at a time when every arm and every pen ought to be employed in one common defence) was to alienate the affections of the people from their allegiance, not only to this Go vernment, but to all kinds of Government whatever. His Lordship then pronounced the sentence of the Court, which was—that the defendant, William Cob bett, should be imprisoned for two years in Newgate, and pay a fine of £lOOO to the King, to be imprison ed until the fine is paid, and until he should find se curity for his good behaviour, himself in £2OOO, and two sureties in £lOOO each : the defendant Hansard, the printer, to be imprisoned two months in the King's Bench; and the other defendants, Budd and Bagsh.aw, the publishers, to be imprisoned three months, also in the King's Bench.—The defendants then severally bowed ..nd retired. Thu Court a.icl avenues leading to it were uncom monly crowded during the whole of the morning, and it was with great difficulty that the door-keepers could mike room lor the Judges and Counsellors to pass. Mr. COBEETT seemed to be in good spirits. Judge G►tose's Address did not last above ten minutes. Letters have been received from our fleet off Tou lon, d:tted May 3, which was then at anchor in sight of the Toulon fleet. The French have fourteen sail of the line in that port, four of which are 3-deckers. Our fleet consists of fifteen sail, viz. VILLE DE PARIS, ROYAL SOVEREIGN, CENTAUR, (Sir SAMUEL HOOD), TIGRE, LEVIATHAN, YORK, CONQUEROR, BOMBAY, REPULSE, WARSPITE, VICTORIOUS, SULTAN, F.tME, AJAX and CoLossus. The NYMPHE frig:ve, Captain CLAY, will Sail in a day or two with public and private money for Lisbon, to the amount of 560,000 dollars. The I' CONSTANT frigate, Captain DICKSON, is un expectedly returned to Portsmouth from the Cape of Good Hope, to which station she sailed in December last. When within forty miles of the Cape, she un fortunately ran on an uninhabited island, in the night, where she lay with almost hopeless expectation of ever L getting off. However, by suitable means she floated and reached the Cape, where every thing was taken out of her, and the holes in her bottom stopped with oakum and skins. She is returned home, and come into harbour, to undergo a thorough repair. We have received East India papers to the 21st of January, from which we have made some extracts. The In dia fleet, just arriv e d, w hi c h h as b roug h t t hi s intelligence, left the Cape on the Ist of April. A few days previous to theit sailing, a gun-brig arrived, which had been chaced in the Mosambique Channel by three French frigates, just escaped out of the Isle of France, which were bound on a cruize. The French have a settlement on the Island of Madagas car, where those frigates had been to obtain a supply rf provisions. They sail so much faster than any of our frigates, (the Status, Captain Pray, excepted) that they can leave the Isle of France almost without any apprehension of safety. The Boat:mum, Captain Rowz.tv, was the only ship lying at the Cape ; all the other ships were cruizing. Admiral BEItTIE intended tp proceed to sea in the BOADICEA, on a crnize off the Isle of France, to see if any . thing can be done against the enemy in that' quarter. The troops at the Cape were very healthy, consisting of the 21st, 21411, 83d, and 930 regiments. General WETheatar.r., with one regiment, expected to proceed to India. The Lie of Bourbon had been abandoned by our mops, for want of a sufficient force to retain it. The troops that were on it bad gone to Rodrique, which island, it was thought, was taken possession of its preparatory to making an at tack on the Isle of France. Captain STOPFORD, and the officers of Sis Majesty's late ship Vtcron, and the officers of his Majesty's ship Laxits.L, are come home in the RArburmate. h~q _-, ••• - INSIALAION O N cßinvrzuz OXFORD, JULY 7. Installation odes and oratorios, discourses and de clamations without number, uttered both in English and English-moulded Latin, have given place to an amusement no less generally attractive and interest ing, viz. the Aeronautic Expedition of Mr. SADLER, who, accompanied by his son, ascended in a bAlloon from Merton-fields, .Corpus Christi College, this being the fifteenth time of his visiting the ethereal regi,os. Early in the morning, the wind blew rather fresh from the south-westward, and it was feared that the process of filling the balloon with hydrogene gas would be impeded, and perhaps entirely frustrated — a circumstance which would have proved vgreat dis appointment to Mr. SADLER. who had intended to set off in the grandest style possible, and had resolved to travel as far as practicable before he descended. As the sun rose, however, the breeze abated, mid the weather proved very favourable. The filling of the balloon commenced between eight and nine in the morning, but, owing to its size, and the obstruction met with from persons who in truded themselves into the enclosed area among the assistants, the balloon was not completely filled with gas till half-past one o'clock, two hours later than was expected. At the different entrances to the ground 'were placed persons to collect the admittance-looney, at the rate of five shillings for each person ; but so great was the pressure, that the temporary barrica ding, placed to keep off the populace, gave way ; and, although it was intended that the crowd should be admitted at very reduced prices at the moment of, the ascent, y e t, w i t h out t hi s ceremony , the ground I was filled with spectators in a few minutes, as well as the walls and the roofs of the neighbouring Colleges and Churches, which glittered with thousands of pa-1 rasols. A band of music attended on the occasion. Every thing being properly adjusted, Mr. SADLER, and his son, genteely dressed in black, mounted the car, which was tastefully decorated with arms, mottos, and banners, one of the latter of which bore the tol lawing inscription—" Protected by the Conqueror of Bonaparte, the- Hero of Acre, Rear-Admiral Sir Syd ney Smith, LL.D." Exactly at five minutes past two, the aeronauts took th e ir departure from the earth, and, waving their banners to the gazing mul titude below, as long as these were visible, they rapidly soared in a direction nearly perpendicular to the city ' of Oxford, in the most majestic and sublime style imaginable. Although the sky was tolerably clear, the balloon in about four minutes became invisible, from a thick cloud with which it seemed enveloped, at a very considerable height, for the space of more than a minute. Mr. SADLER took up uith him seve ral philosophical instruments to ascertain the degree of heat, rarity, &c. of the different regions through which he was to pass. He also took up with him two live cats, one of which he dispatched, suspended to a parachute, from a height of not less than '2500 yards. The animal was above five minutes in descending, and fell safely at some distance to the north-eastward of Oxford. The balloon, after rising to a considerable height, was seen taking a north-easterly course, and, as the wind soon after veered more to the westward, it is supposed that the direction of the aerostatic travellers would accordingly vary to the Eastward. From Oxford their track seemed to be in the direction of Aylesbury. in Buckinghamshire, and it is probable they would pass over part of Bedfordshire ; and tho' they did not, at the great height to which they were elevated, appear to move in a horizontal direction very rapidly, it is supposed they would pass over a large track of country before they descended on terra firma. Mr. SADLER ascended at the desire of Lord GRENViLLE, who, we believe, partly remunera ted him for the expence of the undertaking. The balloon was very handsome and well made, and alone cost £5OO. The other materials and apparatus em ployed were very expensive, but it is thought the en coeragement afforded Mr. SADLER would completely compensate him. His wife and daughter were pre. sent, and nothing could exceed the high spirits in which he appeared to be in setting off. Lord GREW. VILLE and all the fashionables of both sexes were inte rested witnesses of the scene. The cat in the basket was picked up by a country man, at a village called Headington, about two miles from Oxford, with a red collar, and a direction to Miss ROBARTS, daughter of the coach proprietor in High•street, Oxford. The countryman took the cat home as directed. On his way he made an exhibi tion of Puss, at a premium, to see the cat that had been up in the balloon. It is sup6osed there were 50,000 persons collected o view this truly grand sight. Mr. SADLER, a grocer of this city, followed the di rection of the balloon, and left it near Buckingham, and returned here about half past seven o'clock. To-day there has been nothing of University amuse ment or edification ; but only a conclusion of the whole Commemoration by a sort of generafjubilee. Lord GRENVILLE dined at the Town-Hall with the Stewards of the Radcliffe Library on Wednesday, and at Christ Church on Thursday, sitting at the right of the Dean, on whose left was the Duke of SOMERSET. Yesterday his Lordship was most mag nificently entertained at Brazenose, whither, this morning, every body was running to see the exhibi tion of the plate in the hall of that College, previous to their dinner this day. To day Lord GRENVILLE took his repast at Exeter College, after paying several visits to different heads of houses, &c. He held on Tuesday, and yesterday, a kind of /rue: at Baliol ; and on those, and other similar occasions, wore only his Doctor's gown. He leaves Oxford this evening for his own house at Dropmore. Mr. Thomas GREN VILLE went away List night. Earl TEMPLE is yet at the Star. Among; the numerous visitors of oar grand exhibitions we have the .Marquisses of WORCESTER and TOWN SII END, Lord ARTIICR SOMERSET, Lord Viscount BINNING, the Marquis of A NDFORD, who is much at Baliol ; the Hon. Mr. STEW:I &c. The whole of this business has been highly credit. able and honourable to the University in all respects, principally in the manifestation of the talents of the young men, which reflects praise that ought never to b= divided—that of the able teacher and the accom. plish6d scholar. The efforts of the Students art thought, even by every Oxford man, to be upsirpass ed by former disp!ays. Asn:d a.il the merits of tht publicly recited compositions, it has been ranarked that there has not begot much of th?..ll;gh tone of 61 and political freedom. Prelates and M-aareis b ye had their bill share of pantly,yet. No emit kitting has been shewii to the f , avia n , ara4r frithiajgAmiloor."- There has ben a good deal of pies:awry, .anst few hoaxes, which was to be expected, as si me this* most expert young gentlemen in that line. from 1. don, are here. fit to take a degree for n hems . ttw I who, at a Am would Dispute the prize wi:l , • h nit diest JohN;an. The n:ames of Grposs and Bat-44- mew', am .ng the poetical competitors l ut tb • mitnir• wit in mind of the Lime noted Darnel in Ili, science. who though neither Lit:nists, nor Greei3ns, were counted of the more ancient nation of the Mr( es. P. S. We Live ist ! heard that Mr. SAD. an and his son passed over Aylesbury, at a quarter I st t s tance of 26 miles), and descended footing s 'rum Newp rt Pagnell a little after lour; dhtance from Ox ford 50 miles. N 47.1 L Ant'LLIGENCE. The Jamaica fleet arrived off Cape Clear on the 3th inst. The ships bound for Brian] have arrived them FAI.MOUTH; JULY 6 Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, Captain Fortitv.stm.v.„ with a mail in 31 days from the Lee- • ward Islands. Sailed his Majest)'s ship AMICLIA on :4 cruite. The Princess Elizabeth packet, with mails for Li,hr•n, is detained for orders, supposed to carry out the new treaty.—Wind S.W. TORBAY, JULY T. Yesterday arrived the Fingall 'letter of marque, Captain DENNING, from Buenos Ayres, bound to London, 76 days on her passig►e : reports that on the 25th ult. in lat. 39. she fell in with a French priva teer and chaced her eight hours, but she got off; and about eight hours afterwards she fell in with his Ma jesty's frigate ENIERALD, and informed Capt. MATT• LAND the course the privateer steered, when she made all the sail she could, and went in pursuit of her. This day worked into Torbay his Majesty's ship CALsontms, from Portsmouth, bound to Plymouth.: she did not come to an anchor, but proceeded down Channel. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 7. Arrived the Tett:Nien. 74, Captain Ltxsvc, with' a convoy from Cadiz. The convoy stood up Chan nel, and the TRIUMPH k put under quarantine ; also arrived the PHEASANT sloop, Ceptain P UMER, from the Downs; PAtoLE frigate, Capt. WOLFE, from Portsmouth, where she went to land 2,0,10,900 of dollars from Barbadoes and Jamaica ; and :mother cartei from Morlaix. A large Hamburgh ship ar rived here yeverday, prize to le RHIN frigate, Capt. MALCOLM ; which vessel has also captured a large French brig, mounting 20 guns ; and when the above prize left her, le Rum was cruizing between Cape Ortugal and Cape Clear, in quest of la Manche French frigate, which was hourly expected from the East Indies, with a quantity of specie and a valuable cargo on board. Sailed the MARINER gun-brig, with Admiral YOUNG'S luggage for Deptford, and 20 sail of vessels uader convoy for the Downs; .the lISPLA. CABLE, 74, Captain COCKBURN, for Portsmouth, to be paid wages. By the above cartel, I have received an account of the Union powder hoy, which was taken out of this harbour by nine French prisoners, as stated in a for• . mer letter. The Union arrived safely at Roscoff on the evening of the flay after she sailed from this port ; and the next day the crew sold the vessel and cargo for Jfi'32oo, and divided the proceeds equally amongst them. Gill, the man on board the vessel when they took it away, was sent to prison' at Roscoff. —Several English prisoners were waiting at Roscoff and Morlaix, to be sent to this country. Mr. NYE, an Admiralty Messenger, came over in the ACTIVE,_ with the final answer of the French G•)vernment to our ultimatum respecting the exchange of prisoners, which is reported to be favourable. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 8. Arrived his Majesty's ship Moue, from a cruize ; and the IMPLACABLE man of war, from Plymouth.— Sailed his Majesty's ships NAIAD and COQUETTE for of Cherbourgh. DEAL, JULY 8. Sailed the whole of the outward-bound Merchant men, under convoy of the FLY sloop of war, for Poris mooth ; also a fleet of transports, with the 20th, 76th, and 84th regiments on board, bound to Cork, under convoy of the Rora frigate.—Arrived the Hnm, with . several transports from Gibraltar.—Sailed his Ma jesty's ship SAN DOMINGO for Plymouth. YARMOUTH, JULY 8. Arrived the CALYPSO sloop of war off yesterday, with convoy ; and this morning sailed the NYMPIIEN frigate, CALYPSO, URGENT, LESERETT, with the con voy, for the Baltic ; and the CALLIOPE and BRAVDA. GERIN on a cruize.—The Bumstt FAIR cutter arrived with a convoy from Heligoland ; the ships are prin cipally laden with wheat, and bound for the Thames. Report states that the trade on the Island is renewing. —Remain Roebuck, Chanticleer, and Britomart. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, JULY 8. .Arrived the Baring, front Bengal ; Castle Eden, ; and Dover Castle, Richardson, from Bombay ; Lady Castlereagh, —; and the Devonshire, Mut... ray, from Calcutta. Sailed the Shark, Hassack, for St. John's; — Sir Sidney Smith, Branford, for Demerara; la Invention, Linnan; and Palo:it, Hare, for Madeira ; and Weymouth, Gardner, foe New Yolk. A fleet of transports having on board the 20th, 76th and 84th regiments, bound to Cork, yesterday passed through the Downs on their voyage. S iturday night's Gazette announced the failure of the Banking-house of BRICKWOOD and Co. in Lom. bard-street. This stoppage is imputed, in a material degree, to the failure for £:390,00o t.l one t.i t.‘e arms in general brokerage, 'Alt more especially con. - ' cerned in We India dealings. One of the Banking Company, t h e relative of an Admiral,'who acquired a large pr Te:ty on the Indian station, embarked XI CO,OOO in the establishment a few months since and the prinzioal ot toe house, we utioerst.owi, make an addition to his previoas capital of £60,000, not are shor t JULY IE 9.—To-day there more , than A or: MAR rti:zhc a go.. CON•MIT short arriv..l• but eonsideralge to :an week's ...reign su ply. upwards or 24,001 quarters; prime keeps its .lice, oth.r qual,tics heavy salt—Very little barley, and with * Malt sttppott..ast currency—Peas anal Beans of the two birds arly so—Oats are in tolerable supply, with a dentane, and this rade mallows us price-.-kluur wil,hout vallatien. J I