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LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTLMBFR Filter OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.CN".st I j per Cent. Confois 511;3 54—01 d 5 per Cent. Otn,ium, e _PRICf. OF STOCKS YEs FERDAY. 3 per C. ConE 5334} -- 5 per Cent. N.Lvy 87 India Bonds as. a 3, diE Imp. 3 per Con, 3 1 Imp. Atn. ihni:iiina 7 : : S 0,-.11. 4,:c. 53 EXCHANGE. 1 Cadiz p-.p Nar:cs ••-• Ditto ;-,5!„ •fr. Gvnua 46i Madrid pap Venire 56 I Ditto ;(.4cs`. Li.ben (3 Bi!boa 3( cli. Oporto 63 Leghorn so Dublin 'b4 Agio on the Bank of Huiland SI per Cent. Cent. Gov. Debentures 89. on London 161 16. CoURIE OF Amßertiam 55 8 2 Do. at 3S 2 Rotterdam 55 9 s LIE klamOurgh 33 8 si Pr. Alton& 33 5 2 * LE Path! day's date 23 18 Varia - 24 6 s Ur. Bourdelux, ditto 14 7 Dti I LIN,SLPTFM.IIIt42.3 Courfe of Lich.loge--Di Our letters from Dublin inform us that Dwyer, tl.e rebel marauder• of the Mountains of Wicklow, who, ever (ince the former rebellion, has eluded every means that has been employed to feize him, has at laft been taken, and will probably foon meet that pu• nithment his climes have JO long merited. Two more of the incurgents have been tried and convifted. This morning we received letters from Jerfey, dated the 34th, which (late, that on Tuefday morn ing tall, a fleet of men of war and tranfports, con filing of about fizzy fail, pallid that Ifland to the weftward, and that about la o'clock that night, a tremendous cannonading or bombardment was beard diftinftly by the inhabitants of the Ifland, which con tinued until four o'clock of the morning of Wednef day, the day on which our letters were fent off. No particulars, however, had been received at the time they were difpatched ; but the prevailing opi. Won was that the firing milli have been at Granville or that neighbourhood, it was heard fo very dif tindly. We have thought it our duty to lay the above par ticulars before the public, knowing the general cor moaners of our Correfpondent. We think it firange, however, that the firß intelligence that thould reach us of fuch a fleet being in motion, Ibould be from Jerfey. That fuch a firing as has been mentioned was heard there we cannot doubt, for that is a point on which there could be no miftake. It is poffible, how ever, that it may have been oecalioned by an engage ment at tea; for by our letters from Portfmouth re ceived this morning, we find that a fleet has jutlarrived there from Cuernfey, which poffibly may have been the one teen to pats the former Man& It is, how ever, fo difficult to conceive that the inhabitants of Jerfey fhould be fo uninformed of the failing of a fleet from Guernfey for Portfmouth, as to confound the circumflance with an attack on the French coati, that we mutt wait for further information, to clear up the prefent u.lcertainty. The on-boats which got into Calais were not frcm Boulogne, as the account that reached us yefterday Rated, but from Dunkirk.—The cireumftance, how ever, only thews that fometimee a few boats may, under favourable circumaances, find their way dole in (bore from one port to another. That a few boats hould move from one port to another, is of little confequenee in itfelf. The port of Calais is not ca• pable of containing any confiderable number, and the more difperfed the armament intended againft this country, at haft of fmall craft, is, the lefs likely it IS to a& with concert, the lefs it is likely that any advantage of weather, favourable to one port, can be equally fo to the whole. As to the probability and the prafticability of an invafion with a flotilla of boats, every one has formed on opinion. Some think it practicable—others think it ridiculous. It is proper to be prepared for every thing that may happen. We may then fafely defpife a bravado which always prefumes that England has no defence but the ditch which divides it from France. The French may pars it once—but they would find it *ever again to be croTed by a living might. We have a perfea conviction that the French, with an inferior navy, never can land at any one point of Eng'and a formidable number of men, with fuitable fopplies ; and, if they did, that the high fpirit and the encreafing military refources of the nation would quickly defeat the attcr...pts of the largett force which the enemy could propofe to embark. A cartel, which failed from Dover on the 4tb with Fret.ch prif mers, returned to that place yeller• day from Modals, the French port to which all in tercourfe refpeeting exchange of prifoners has been confined by order of the Government of Frar•.ce. We do not find. that any French journals of a recent date have been received by this veffel, nor. is it the route by which, on common occalions, we thould look for them. Indeed the Paris journals afford fo little in formation, the prefs in that fee rouvey being com pletely fettered, that the Britifh public can fuller little Ly the want of them. Yeatetlgy trineni:lg Lig MA;2PT*:. attended by 1'44 ATT. „Wilt to view the New Palace at 'Kew. .it La:l;:fteiltine his 111:,JA!TY went to the grand Cctamon. _ 1 - kr !sIAjE.:TY and the Princefics AUGUST/land F•AZAll`trti, at!C;:des.: :,y Lady Srawr Lt. And ot:ber‘, 1:f I..rw at ten Soon alter 1: they 3:rived at iVindfor. her NiA:rs - r Y come by Richmond znd e‘..cr Ashford Common. The I),:ke of M.laLaoaot)c w gave nn Thurfday an cl-garit l'a.ifua react to tic n:zl . l.seninc , Nanlity 1 r IGIUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND V.'. S.W. nut• ARC DUR• robEn z i Hanburgh o S tt'ycuford PLYMOUTH, SEPT. rs. Two more Batavian Eaft lndiamen, prizes to the ussmt, of 32 guns, Captain I'. WILKINSON, and Lord Nelfon privateer, Captain CROUT F, are ordered round to the River, that the Eaft India produce may be landed there and warchoufed. As they are droits of Admiralty, they will be put under Corn miftioners appointed by the Court. To lave the enor mous expence of fending round prifon.:rs of war by land, in future, the Commiffioners of the Tranfport Board,when there is an overflow of prifoners of war in Mill Prifon, or the prifon (hips in liamoaze, they are to be fent by hired voile's to Briftol, Yarmouth, Pont . - mouth, &c. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 16. Arrived the REVOLUTIOHNAIRE, of .4 guns, Capt. LocK, from Jerfey.—Arrived the GREYHOUND Cll2- ter, Capt. Witcla sou, having left the Newfoundland and Q2ebec convoy, with the ORPHEUS frigate, Capt. HILL, on the 26th of Auguft, in lat. 45. 3 0 . long. 21• 30. W. with a fair wind. The MAGNIFICENT, Of 74 guns, Capt. Jravis, has made fignal for failing, to join the Channel fleet.—Arrived the WASP Hoop of war, Hon. Capt. Artarra, and the DUKE of YORK cutter, with a fleet from Guernfey.—The 3 tit regi ment embarked this afternoon on board of tranfports for Jerfey. The STARLING gun-brig, Lieut. Guyow, is appointed convoy.—Sailed the FURY bomb, with a fleet to the Eaftward. SHEERNESS, SEPT. i 6. Arrived his Majetly's fhip HARPY, Captain HEY. wOO% with the Minx, and CENSOR, gun•brigs.—The Toy LT ERE t.t.a has gone ont of Harbour. We fcarcely ever remember fo few (hips to be here ; the commercial part of bufinefs in the place, feems to be quite at a (land, and particularly among thole who are chiefly employed by the (hipping. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 16. In eonfequenee of an expels from Cromer to Ad. miral TbIORN Botova if, Rating, that a privateer had made fome captures off that place, the Admiral or dered out the following veffels to go in queit of her, viz. the Fsaarris gun brig, HuNTER and BADGER, Revenue Cutters ; the two !aft fell in with the fup pofed privateer yellerday evening, off this port, and when hailed, turned out to be a veirel from Orford, on a cruize.—This day the BADGER. and Hurrsa Cutters returned from a cruize :—arrived the KING GEORGE Cutter : Sailed the PEGASUS frigate, arm ed en flute, with French prifoners for Lynn.—Re main in the Roads, the GsLys um, of 68 guns ; the KING GEORGE, HUNTER, and BADGER Cutters. Wind S. W. frefh breeze. . FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL. S ter. VS.—Arrived from a cruize l'Afrkaine frigate, Capt. Mauby ; Speedwell floop of war, Capt. —; Difcovery bomb, Capt. Joyce: the latter ihip is felld for the Nom; the for mer remains in the Downs. with his Majeßy's Mips Monareh Right Hon. Admiral Lord. Keith, Capt.—• and Utrecht, Rear- Admiral Montague, Capt. Rogers; and Yo;11„ Mitford; Jackal' gun-brig, Lieut. Leaver; Comet, Canada, Aurora, and Illinorra tranfports, under command of Capt. Watfon, of the Royal Navy; and Diligence Eaft India pliot.veffel.—WindW. S. W. GRAVESEND Sam 16.—Paired by the Friends,Lumley, from Norway.--Saikd the Friendlhip, Johns, for Jamaica; Perumas, Maes, for Fillmore ; Anna Catharina —, fur Tanningen ; Fa paiment, Eyding, and View Ocbroe derg, Burs, for Entbden. Arius am—At Plymouth, the Adventure, Specks, from New YorkrAt Liverpool, William, Blackburn, kora La' ; and Lord Nell" Maces, from Havannah—At Leith, Charming Mary, from Virginia' ••••Off Scarborough, Ann, Ritton, from Arch angel. Captain Loam: is appointed to the command of the UTRECHT, of 64 guns. Captain Lama is appointed to the command of the Sea Fencibles on the river Medway. On Wednefday night a fmall French privateer ven• cured to appear off St. Margaret's Bay. On informa tion of this circumftance being communicated by fig. nal to the Downs, a cutter was immediately feut in purfuit of hcr. The report that General ANDREOSSI was in dire grace at Paris was certainly well founded. lie dif agreed very 'much with TALLSYNA%D, 'eroding fomething which paired in the lafi negotiation with this country, and felt himfelf fo tr:rpleallintly that he retired at the beginning of the rummer to his native country, Lan guedoc . The war Ir. ever frongly oppofed, a ff urrng the CHIEF CONSUL that the Englifh were nut to be humiliated, much leis fubdued, by any internal divilions, or by want of power or fork to renew the conteft. Events have amply confirmed his opinion, and we learn by recent advaces from Paris, that the CHIEF CONSUL has writ ten a letter to him, approving his conduel, recalling him to Paris, and appointing him Quarter -Mailer General to the Army defined to invade England ; an office, which at this moment he actually holds. Though he does not approve of the war, of courfe he will do his duty as an Officer. He was highly fatisfied with his reception here, and very muck pleated with this country. The appointment of General ANDREOSSI to the Office of (tvarter-rnalier•General of the invading army is, however, more remarkable, as tending to prove what the fyflem of Bonaran-rk. was rcfpeaing his Commercial Agent:, as he called his authorifed (pies, than as (hewing any thing like a conciliating temper towards any tbat dither from him in opi nion. Alsotiossi's coneifiiiin of the difficulties that will attend the iniafion cannot do away the in formation he was enabled tii acquit ! by the fituation he filled in this ciAtistry,siiii! the Mass CoH suL is refolved to benefit by it his Ambafradors are military men. Tbe Conn; of Err )pe would aft inly, if they IhmildretlAve to difcani ;Nay one who L.7.ass. tir has tau nr. a I L e;;cl. ASLETT OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Yeller-day the Grand Jury, at the Old Bailey, found three Bills of Indiilment againft Robert Af ktt for embezzling property of t he Bank, purporting to be Exchequer Bills. The Deputy Governor, Mr. BISII, Mr. GOLDSMID, and twelve other witneffes, were examined. In confequence of which Mr. Aflett was this day, about eleven o'clock, put upon his trial at the Old Bailey. No Ids than fifteen jnrors were challenged by Mr. Metes Counfel, and ordered to be withdrawn in confequence ; eleven Jurors were abfent, and ordered to be fined, and one who had been fummoned died yetterday morning. After a fhort opening by Mr. OILS!, Mr. Gaeitow began by Rating, that he thought it ' a juflice which he owed to the unhappy Gentleman' a the Bar, to mention, as early as pogible, that he had been 25 years in molt refpeaable fituations in the Bank of England ; that he had advanced, by re gular gradations, in confequence of his merit, from the Ration of under clerk to the very refpeaable one of Cafhier to that great and highly refpeaable company ; during the whole of which time, up to the period of the tranfaftion which had brought him to the bar, he had concluded himfelf with the utmoß fidelity and refpedability, in confequence of which a confidence alma unbounded was repofed in him. The Learned Gentleman adverted to the circum fiance of the former trial : he then entered into an elaborate and very minute defcription of the manner in which the bands of the Bank was concluded, which we are prevented from following by the con fined limits of our Paper, at the very late hour we give this account to the public, The former india ment, he Paid, was not confidered fufficient to bring the cafe before the Jury, as it fisted the Articles em bezzled or fecreted by Mr.Afiett &Final) , and fpeci fically as Exchequer Bills. The prefent indiament, he thought it neceffary to remind the Court, Rated the articles, with which it charged the prifoner, as purpertil to be Exchequer Bills. 'That was a material difference, and the Court would find that it Rated them as fecurities in one Count, and as effeas in another. This he confidered as in dubitable, and had no doubt that be would be able to induce the Jury to be of the fame opinion.— The magnitude of the concern which the Company of the Bank of England embraced, had induced the Legillature to pars a law, fPecifically for the protation of that Company, by which it was enafted, that any officer or fervant of the Company, who fhould be guilty of ferreting or embezzling any of the d'ed: of the Bank, fhould be deemed guilty of felony, aad be punifhed accordingly. It was an important duty which they owed to the public, that nothing fhould be wanting nn their part that might tend to bring Co great a delinquent to juftice. Mr. Easears then rote on the part of the prifoner. He contended with the utmott ability and ingenuity, that the papers mentioned in the indictment were nothing but Waite paper, and that no money could legally be recovered on them. tie then read a claufe of the Aft which was pall 'aft Seflion, in confequence of the former trial, at the conclulion of which was a provifo exprefsly pointing to the prefent cafe, by fay mg that it (hall be in force for civil purpofes only ; and not affed any trial for an offence committed be fore the pat Eng of that Aft. Mr. Serjeant Ls &awe obfetved, that he'perceived that it was the intention of the prifoner's Counfel, that the cafe fhould be argued firti as to the propriety of going into evidence. To this be had no objection, though it appeared to him that the moil advifeable way was to leave it to the decifion of the Judges. Mr. Serjeant Bssr, on the fame fide, argued that in the Bank All, the affociation of the words bul. lion, money, and other feth," meant obvioutly other effeds ejufdest genera. Therefore to be confi dered the Cffeas within the meaning of thit Aft, the articles mull be intrinfically valuable in them felves, without looking fo any fuppofed value, as being fceuritier, when they did not give the holder any legal claim over the giver. Mr. Serjeant Li BLANC, however, Rated that he law no reafonable oblation to their then proceeding to evidence. The points to which the Learned Counfel had directed their cbfervations, might more properly be referred as a cafe for the opinion of the Judges. Mr. Robert Deft, a principal Clerk in the sank, Rated the different times, and regular gradatio'ns by which Mr. Aflett had advanced : he attelhd :b: in tegrity of Mr. Mat, as had been mentioned by the Counfel for the profecution. Vr. Abraham Newland, Principal Cafhier of the Bank, depofed nearly to the fame effect, and added, that no perfon but he or Mr. Aflett figned the receipt of there Bills, or gave them into the parlour of the Dircaors. After they had once gene over there, they could not pollibly get again into the market. unlcfs by fraud. On the 26th of February, the day on which thefe Bills were fuppofed to be given in, Mr. Aflett was the perfon who gave them in. _ The trial was going on when this piper went to prefs. We shall prelent our readers with at more ample Raiment on Monday next. —The Court was uncommonly crouded. The whole of the trial en gaged the particular attention of every perfon prefent.. Mr. Atlett feemed to filflain his tittle:ion in the moll becoming manner—he was firm, yct A fine range of barracks, at Nfa'den, capable of holding twelve hundred men, is nearly fin:hed; but much difficulty is experienczel in presenting water, the workmen having dug •Go feet without effect.— That town has all its frelb water from a diflance of two miles. Barracks are alfu to be crated at Dan•- bury. Offers of volunteer ferrite from the following places in the Weft Riding of Yell:111;re have been ac cepted by his Isf 1% s rv, viz. I Mira% ( t c.to) ; Deal bury, Ripon, Lovtry, Krim efivirono t h, IVaketicld, Roibcrliarna, Thorne, Wapentake of Sttincrolo, Hud dertfield, Sclhy, ( taco Infantry, and 74 CAVAT .); Bradford, y, Sheffield, Pcn te.i-aa, and alfo of the Wharf-dale Volunteers (6.7.0 ; Craven Infantry and Cavalry, I ord Hat swoon's troop of Coo-thy, and the N , !rt1 4 .:..n aal E:,ll;berri reginnr.: A Yeomanry Cavalry. DeBUY, SEPT. 10. This day, John Hay, alias Harr, ingned for com paring war, and attually levying war againft the King, was tried before the Special Commiffion. The general fact of the rebellious infurreaion of the 23d July having been proved as on former trials. the principal witneffes were the fame as on the profecution of Rourke, namely, Mahaffy and Ryan. The firft of thefe clearly proved, that on the night of the infurreaion (23d July) the prifoner was actively engaged in it in Thomas-ttreet--that he was among thole who piked the dragoon, at whom Rourke dn . - charged the blunderbufs, and that wirnefs heard him cry nut to the rebellious mob 4 , boys, is it the Cattle we'll attack firft ?"—Ryan depofed alto to the ge neral aaivny of the prifoner in the infurreflion, and further, that be law him pike the honk on which the affalfinated dragoon had been mounted, and that this alt of wanton and favage cruelty was committed when the poor animal had fallen. Nothing came out on the trots-examination to affelt the direct tali mony of thefe witneffes. Donough M'Creathe, Efq. depofed to the tranfac tions occurring in Thomas-ftreet on the evening of the 23d July, as on Come of the previous trials, and corroborated Mahaffy's teftimony as to the piking of the dragoon and honk, and tome one among the crowd encouraging them to attack the Cattle. To the chara&er of the prifoner, Pat. Fannin, who keeps the Talbot Inn, in Thomas.ftreet, was produ. ced ; he deporedlthat the prifoner had lived in his ter vice for tome months, and behaved honeftly ; to his general charafter for loyalty he :Auld bear no tefti mony ; the witnefs Ryan had had a little room up in his inn yard, and Mahaffy lodged with him ;—they 1 appeared to him indufhious perfons. On his croft . I examination, he Paid that the prifoner had driven a car for him on the 23d July, but on the next day (Surtflay) left his fervice without any notice, or af hgning any caufe, nor did he hear of him again until he heard he ras taken up at Edenderry, to which place he had fled. Three female wheelies acre to the prifoner'shav ing been at his lodging in Soot], Earl-ftreet, (near Thomas4reet ) on the evening of the 23d July, about nine o'clock. bet admitted that he might have gone out again that evening. The defence having been doled, the Hon. Baron Groans recapitulated the evidence on both• fides clearly and minutely, and obferved, that although the evidence of the three women had been true, yet ,would it not be incontinent with that of the witneffes in the profecution. The prifoner might have been in Earl-nreet at nine o'clock, and be alfo might have been in Thomas-fireet at the time laid in the india ment—but it was for the Jury to confider under all the circumflances of the cafe, whether the prifoner was one of the perfons armed with pikes and engaged in the infitrreCtion ; betides other corroborative points in the teftimony, it was certainly a material fad, for the confideration of the Jury, that the prifoner had fled on the day after theinfurreltion, and returned no more to his employer, nor was beard of until appre. hended in Edenderry. The cafe was to evidently and fully nmde out, and fo completely divelted of difficulty or doubt, that the Jury, without leaving the box, returned a verdia. Guilty.—The prifoner was remanded. On a motion to the Court to have other Connfe/ affigned to Robert Emmet, in place of Mr. Colmar, whole convenience it would not fait to attend, Mr. M , Na 'Ay was accordingly allgned, and Mr. I. M•Nat.t.r retained as Agent. TUSIDAT, 11. Dwyer, the rebel marauder of the mountains, is taken. Another v.Qim to the arts and (Mullions of the Corfican Tyrant was found guilty today his name 411•Prrisset, end the evidence the fame es was ye lterday on the trial of Mayer. Emmet will be tried on Tuefday next, if I have not been ilinfonned; aqd R4ill, is loon as term com mences, will be identified - before the Court of King's Bench, and executed as an outlaw. A correfpondence has been difcovered between Emmet and the daughter of a celebrated Barrilter her papers have been fearched, but the remoteft pinion does not attach to her father. Although every thing is quiet in the country, yet the vigilance of Government feems to be encreafing. Day-guards of the regulars wire mounted yeßerday for the firli time, and uniifual Etrietnefs obferved in examining every carriage, &c. that paled the barriers. On Saturday laft a Gentleman, attended by a fer rant, wax paling through the Areas, when he win taken, and, together with his attendant, brought to the Cattle : the fervent was liberated, and his mailer 1 detained: I have not heard his name, or any further particulars the circumftance is involved in myffery, In confequence of a with expreffed by GenerAl Dome, the leveret Yeomanry guards paraded yef terday evening in Stephen's-green, from whence they were marched off to their refpeftive pods. This meafure of a general parade will have the effat of equalizing the duty of the whole. The pains and at. tention beftowed upon the comfort and difcipline of the•Yeomenry by General Dome, has already tended much to attach their affeltion, and encreafe their con• Sdence in themfelves and their General. The town of Rathcoole at the time of the execution of Felix Rourke, on Saturday left, feemed to be de. ferted of its inhabitants—not one in coloured clothe; was to be feen. COVENT GARDIN Tenrayea.—The Beaux Slref,:sta was prefented IA night with much of collelliveturce in the performance. Law's fuftained the part of .Irehte with a jug:virile fhare of vivacity, which teems to mock alike the apprtracbes of age, and the ( p int competition. BRUNTot., not being overloaded 1.).T.1 cumbrous part, acquitted himfelf Ainewell. The sifting of WADDY, rich as that of his predeceffor, is (Iron) truth and nature. Of Eraser and M tic cannot be expelled to fay much, parries every comment. We have Sillitit•Y 10 Co little advantage r Sqgwv SuPtia.—Of the Ladies, it eq utl to the part of Derise, w tfruigh her app aranee contradills ii:ed in the name and condult p lieifelf well, and gave fet, with full effea.—ln the After.piece Iv:Lim:is, in the Song of Bow the tweetnefs and compa6 of his L. ••• M.A.,. ea. noier;•••• Iflse;tvrewTelywell io in Feizard, if not.. lioi (tronglY marked by t y ii i l a c rv d tan, h heid . r% M e fif w ean : i ad h l : ie s of tl Ge f fiir:suo l l e ;:n ‘ . g ki 1,1 Mr rs. of Mr. SaUtn, I y Ve : . : 1 1$ ed i t io ; (1 of . 1 1 .11 the g o h ; r w eF e d t Ir, Fr 1/4 1 I i