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ad tS, n. Ts kibmi 'ZZEIC;II22) 'I he Carteret packet, from Surinam, die. arrived at Barbadoes on the 21st of Deceitbef. The letters and papers brought by the DIADEM will be up to-mor. sow : she sailed on the 10th of February. BARBADOES, DEC. Q.S. A small ship, answering the description cif a FA mouth packet, was captured on the Bth December, about two leagues N. E. of Barbadoes, by a Bye pri. ',weer schooner, after in action of two hours.— The captured ship loft her main-mast. The privateer fox has not been heard of since she captured the Lapwing packet; off Barbadoes; The circumstances of the present crisis continue to call forth the sagacious animadversions bf news paper politicians and negotiators. Some of them string truisms together till they bewilder their own reason, in the hope that they will produce correspond ing feelings in the minds of their readers. They tell us of the perfidy, cruelty, turbulence, and insatiable ambition of BONAPARTE, and remind us of the ex pence of blood and treasure to which this country has in consequence been compelled to submit : and then the conclusion is, that if the British Ministers do not carry on war till they have dethroned the Tyrant, it is possible he may again involve us in war. Now this is only to tell us, that plague, pestilence, and fa mine are great evils, and that Ministers deserve every execration if they do not adopt effectual measures to prevent the possibility of the recurrence of such cala mities. Other declaimers manage their arguments with more adroitness. The first take for granted, what they themselves never really credited, that Ministers had resolved and ordered, that all negociation should be terminated, till the conditions of peace could be dictated in the French capital ; and then, this mis tatement being exposed, they accuse them cf the folly of having adopted strange and mad projects, on which they found it impossible to act, and which, consequently, they were afterwards obliged to abandon. In cases of pestilence, what can any Government do but enforce the quarantine laws, and act with be: corning vigilance to prevent the spreading of infec tion ?—they may also recommend, but they cannot enforce a similar policy in other countries. In cases of hostile wrongs, they are bound to protect their subjects to the utmost of their power ; to call forth and direct the moral and physical energies of the nation, for the purposes of repelling insult and in juries. In cases of injury inflicted on weaker States by a turbulent Government, the laws of good neigh. bourhood and sound policy eall upon other Powers to assist the oppressed in maintaining their rights; but if the party assisted resolves to treat with the enemy , is the third party bound to starry on the war alone, Whatever change may take place in circumstances ? - The idea is untenable It may happen that, at tht very moment when one Ally desires peace, every con sideration should induce a vigorous prosecution of the war; but the other Ally, if advice and remon *trance fail to induce perseverance, must either ac quiesce, or run the risk of a war, with her Ally united against her. - We have beets supposing that no occurrence can, in the case put, have made peace desirable. But it the enemy has been punished—if he has been hum bled—if he has so far been brought to reason, that good terms may be commanded ; and if, from any deem:tams whatever, a farther prosecution of the war threatens the loss of advantages already gained, wise and prudent Ministers have imperious duties im- posed upon them; not will honest ones, in such a case, sacrifice the interests of the State to the clamours "of the ignorantor to the wailings of humanity over the crimes of a villain, whom every good man must wish to have seen placed beyond the possibility of ever again disturbing the peace of the world. It is reported in the City, that accounts have been received from Dover; stating the defeat of Marshal MacnoNato by the Allies, with i loss of Two Thou sand men. Dispatches were this day received from Marquis ELLINGTOY • dated at St. Jean de Lug, on the 20th ultimo. They contain no details of military move ment.... Private letters by the same conveyance state, however, that ail was bustle at Head-quartets, and that the Artily was preparing to advance. Yesterday the Earl of Livtittoot. transacted busi ness with Lord MELVILLE, at his Office at the Ad miralty. Mr. Curtvorstra, the Messenger, who left town on r'iesday night, was the bearer of dispatches to LOrd WELLINGTON. Mr. DANIELS, the Mesenger, left -.own about the same time with dispatches from tht Foreign Office to Earl CLANCAATY at the Hague. Ytsterday the tail of fiAanoway gave a Cabinet linner, at his house in Grosvenor-squire. Yesterday the Duke or DEtiovzinint gave a grand to a large paify of Noblemen and Gentlemen, Ott Devonshire House. Icsterday Lord HOLLAND gave a grand clinker t 6 a large party of the Opposition bletnbeis i al his ho ~.se in Gt. James's-square. RLSCA, killed at Soissons, Was a man devote d to BuNivArrs fioni.his first _Campaigns in haly f with out any military talent, but ready and eager to under.' take the Brost degrading strsices. He was several nines exposed as such. to the contempt of the world, while the French press still enjoyed some libeity, un der the Directoll • GIBRALTAR; IA.2ItURY 7. The fever having entirely subsided, the falnWing orderi were thii day iisited by his Excellency ,Lieti tenant-General etkin Calirnza., Lieutenant Uoier nor, &fa _ - " The Auatoturk hiding beed pleaied to remove the pestilence with iihich this Garrison has been •i -sited, the Lieutenant-Governor congratulates the Army on the restoration of health. " In a particdlar manner his Excellency begs to express his thanks to the General, Field Officers, and Heads of Departments, for their zealous attention in fulfilling his orders; and to the other Officers, Non commissioned Officers, and private soldiers, for their patient and steady conduct under their calamities and privations. And, at the same time, the Lieutenant- Governor has much satisfaction in notifying the be haviour of the soldiers, which was most exemplary ; no acts of impropriety, of any description, having taken place, when it became necessary to reduce the guards, and to withdraw the greater part of the sentinels. " To Doctor GILPIN and the Medical Staff, the Lieutenant-Governor's praise is due, for their unre mitting attention to the arduous duties of their situa tions, and by which many valuable lives have been saved. 4 4 His Excellency has great satisfaction in noticing the conduct of Surgeon Dow (37th Foot), who was appointed to the superintendance of the General Hospital Establishment at Wind-mill H►ll : the great success attending his exertions is most conspicuous.— Surgeon LAstzar (7th Royal Veteran Battalion), who afterwards superititended a general hospital that was formed in the Naval Hospital, conducted that establishment with equal success ;- and the Lieute nant-Governor has in consequence transmitted the names of these Officers to his Majesty's Secretary of l State, with his recommendation for promotion. " Assistant-Surgeon WILLIANts has already receiv ed a mark of his Royal Highness the COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S favour, for his services at the Civil Lazaretto, of which he is most deserving. The Lieutenant- Governor has not failed to transmit the names of the other Medical Officers to the Secretary of State, to gether with his recommendation, and lie hopes that they will reap the fruits of their services on the law occasion as favourable opportunities occur. " The exertions of Assistant Commissary-General RAGLAND, and of the Gentlemen of the Commis sariat, were such as to contribute greatly to the com fort of the sick, by supplying every article requireds and even acting as Purveyors to the Hospitals, and which has been duly reported to higher authority. " My personal Staff was most useful, both in sug gesting and carrying into effect all matters connected with the welfare of the Garrison. 44 The Town Major's services were of the greatest importance at the breaking out of the disease, by reducing the population; and afterward 3, by every active measure where his duty called him ; and he was well supported by the Majors of Brigade, by the Town Adjutant, Garrison Quarter-Master, and other Officers appointed to these departments.—By com mand, (Signed) " FRED. JON Ei, Maj. 96rh Foot, Acting Town Major.° Yesterday, a little before four o'clock, the Duke of Pont( held a Levee at his Office, in the Hui se Guards, as Commander-in• Chief.. Among those who had in terviews with his Royal Highness were, General Needham, General Oakes, Lieutenant• General Lin singen, Colonel Deßoorg, Majnr•General Conraine, Sir Charles Hastings, Sir George Osborne, Colonel Mulkey, General Gros venor, the Marquis of Worcester, and Colonel Thomas, of the Guards,on his return. fran4the Marquis of Welling•on', Army. The East-Norfolk Militia arrived at Plymouth on Monday from Dartmoor Prison duty, and the South Devon Militia embarked on board the prison ships in Hamoaze, to do duty in the room of the Monaghan Militia. The 4th, or Roborough Rrgiment of Local Militia, under the command of Sir M. LOPEZ, as sembled at Plymouth on the same Yesterday the Marquis WELLESLEY entertained a select party of friends with an elegant dinner, at Apsley House. We learn from Holland, that in the island of Wal cheren some disturbances have lately occurred, from the severity of the French requisitions. There had been a few arrests, and the popular discontent was considered to be strong. At Glogau, LAPLANE, the Governor, had offered to capitulate on terms which were subsequently referred to the King of PRUSSIA. Deventer, a fortress important from its situation on the frontier of Holland, was understood to be prepa red to capitulate on the arrival of the first regular troops. It is said that a deputation has proceeded from the Netherlands to the head-quarters of the Allies, to in vite the Emperor of AusTRIA to resume possession of the Netherlands ; • the deputation apprehending that any union with Holland will not be able to secure them from attack on the part of France so effectually as being placed again under the power and protection of the House of AUSTRIA. Such was the enthusiasm of all classes at Berlin when the French were thundering round their walls, that every lady was employed in , furnishing supplies for the hospitals, to alleviate the sufferings of their brave defenders. At all the Assemblies, too, such as that of the Princess of RADZIVIL, &c. &c. the guests were not permitted to depart, atter their evening's amusement, until each had assisted in scraping a cer tain quantity of Vint for that laudable purpose. The Admiralty has received certain intelligence, that nine frigates, of the same class as those recently captured by the VgNERABLE, ate still at Seel. On the lOtit of Jannary one of them, in lat. 17. 2. N. recon noitred the convoy atrived from the Brazils, and stood away to the N.W. Captain RIC&ETTS, of the Vex czue, sailed from Basque Roads on the 10th ult. to take the command of the squadron off L'Orienti for the purpose of Cruizing for them. The Alctheae and Iphigenia frigates sailed from Cherbourg on the 26th of October. They proceeded to cruize off the Wes tern Islands, and next to the coast of Africa, where they made prizes of two Guineamen,. *hich they burnt, after taking out the Valuable part of their ear goa; consisting of elephants' teeth, atc. They after wards sailed to the Canary Isles, in the vicinity of which they took sir prizes, fotir English, one Spanish, and ode Fortnum,' and destroyed them; • ,M(~1~. I'4 AI& Otis. ask. Ova. polka 1 p - 0 0 Waterford . 4. 0 Hadrobad - 0 I Cadiz - 0 Outinser • 0 0 'Lisbon . *my . o 0 Maki - 0 Passages - 9 0 GottenbOi-ga . - O 1$ Halifax 0 o liodland - 0 3 St. Sebastlaa's o 0 CAPTURE OF ANOTHER FRENCH FRIGATE. The Plymouth telegraph has announced w the Admiralty the atrival at that port of a fine Freich frigate, captuied by the lOTA, of 38 guns. The Mail from Gibraltar and Malta, brought to Falmouth by the Manchester Packet, will not be de livered until to-morrow. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 28. • Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, from Lisbon, with a Mail, in 15 days ; also arrived a man of war, and a man of war brig, names not ascertained ; and the Manchester packet, with a Mail, from Gibraltar and Malta.—Sailed his Majesty's ship RAPID, with a convoy of 55 sail, for the Downs; Duke of Kent packet, with a Mail, for Lisbon ; and the Princess Charlotte packet, with a Mail, for Passages.—P. S. Since writing the above, we have learnt that the man of war above alluded to, is the DIADEM, 64, Captain BYNG, from Bermuda in 18 days ; the brig proves to be the Montagu packet, from Scilly, u❑der jury.mams. PLYMOU UH, Came in the Jahn, Ntcou, from St. Michael's ; Burn, FiArturs, from Oporto ; Prince of Wales, M , WILLram, from Bermuda ; and the ARROW schooner, with a convoy, from Falmourh.—Arrived the ROYALIST sloop of war, from the Coast of France ; BACCIIUS sloop of war, from Cork ; SPAttrtow, from a cruize ; and the Lord Gambier transport, from Passages.—Wind N. W. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2. Arrived his I‘l4j , sty's ships HEBaUS, from Passages; Coat ET, from the West Indies; and the BRLTOL, f rom Plymouth ; also about a (11)/. :11 snips from Plymouth DOVER, MARCH 2. Two or three French privateers have been in sight the whole of this afternoon, and this evening we ex pect a visit from them, as the wind is from the S.W. Fleets from Oporto, Dartmouth, and Falmouth, have gone past for the Downs, and many vessels are now coming up Cfmnnel. I trust they will not fall into the enemy's hands. DEAL, MARCH 2. Arrived the Idas privateer, of Hastings, THOMAS NEWTON Master, with the American schooner Com modore Perry, from Botadeaux, bound to Philadel phia, laden with silks, &c. which the Idas captured the '2sth ultimo, in lat. 45. long. 4. W. after a chace of 36 hours.—Arrived the SMIGHTLY cutter, v►itb a convoy from Dartmouth.—Put back by contrary inds the Samuel, Suunitru, bound to Jamaica, with the loss of anchors and cables ; also put back severs: other ships—particulars not known.—Wind S.W. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenarrs Greene ( :) to the Espeittle, 1 . Burn to the Havcc, S. Hellard to the Benbow, Nwherland Colquhoun to the Queen Charlotte, John Campl ell (4) to the Apel es. Mr. S. Paramour, of the Scarborough, and Mr. Wm. Hay, of the Piinces4 Caroline, hive passed Pursers. Mr. Thomas Mends, Clerk, to be Purser of the Snipe. Mr. JaniesAzzard, Purser of the Basilisk to the Castaltan. It was yesterday understood, that Sir THOMAS TY ft- WHITT will leave town on Sunday, for the Continent. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East. India House, when the following Commanders took leave, previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz. Captain J. KIRKPATRICK, of the Henry Addington ; Captain N. MILNER, of the Dur setshire; Captain P. CAMPBELL, of the Lord Keith ; Captain islewALL, of the Alexander; and Captain Klaus, of the Thames. His Majesty's ship AconN has captured and car ried into the Cape of Good Hope, on the 4th of De cember, the A nierican whaling ship William Penn, with 150 tons of oil. The following letter has been received by an emi nent merchant in the City : " Ship Cambridge, Havaunab, January 19. " Sift--I beg leave to intorm you, that on the 6th inst. we appeared off this port ; at three P. M. were attacked by a schooner privateer within three leagues of Moro Castle ; she attacked us under the Carth age nian flag ; she had on• long gun, and about 70 or. 80 men. As she was under neutral colours, I hauled towards her as soon as she fired at us, with our co lours fl) ing, and told him we were an English ship, from London. Notwithstanding this, they kept up a heavy fire of musketry and grape. I then ordered our guns to be fired, which were veil prepared, and double-shotted with round and grape, accompanied with a few muskets ; this occasioned him to make sail and leave us, and we got safe to anchor the same evening, We saw him capture a ship to windward in less than two hours afterwards. (Signed) " JAMES EVANS. Monday se'nnight, two faithful lovers were united I I in the hymeneal bands, at Dundee, after a courtship and separation of more than ordinary length. The happy husband had just returned, with honourable scars and spoils, from the sea, where, in his country's service, he had spent the last five-and-twenty years of his life, without having once seen or written to or received a letter from his love. The disconsolate lady, now the blithsome bride, in the mean time supported herself with the wages of honest industry. A short tithe since, she was astonished and delighted at the re-appearance of her long lost sailor; whose first care, on returning to that his native place, was to discover the mistress of his youthful affections. We need not say with what raptures she listened to the renewal of his suit. The banns of marriage were proclaimed on Sunday r the.nuptials were celebrated on the day fol lowing ;• and the parties are now solacing themselves with a matrimonial pleasure jaunt- There ages are alike and 'Wk s ' Mount to 106, . • .4, ' • • .. £allm LLlußmvca. OMMINNIORI• • • COUPS be , CHANCERT, MARCH I. REGENT'S CANAL. AGAR, ESQ. 'V THE RBOENT'S CANA& COMPANY. . The arguments on the motion of the defender:it, for dissolving the injunction obtained by theptaintig in this cause, to restrain the defendan.ts from ,conti nuing the collateral branch of the Regent's Canal through the estate of the plaintiff, called Sim Lodgr, at SaintPancras, in the county of Middlesex, without his consent, there being special clauses in the Act exempting his rights expressly, we r e concluded by the reply of Mr. HART this day ;—when the LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the importance of Nit case, part of which he was now satisfied of, namely; the special excepting clauses respecting the plaintiff's land, which his Lordship was clearly of opinion could not be overturned by the general clauses of the Act, or any construction to be put upon phem; notwith standing any public importance or utility of the Ca nal, on which a sum exceeding 140 or £150,000 was stated to have been expended, between the passing of the Act in the year 1811, and the time of filing the plaintiff's bill, was so great to the community that he shvuld take two or three days to consider his judgment final.—The general judgment deferred. CO JRI: OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH I. WELCH V. TIIUMPSnN 7 . This was an action brought by a Gritier from the North, against a Gentleman residing at Turnharn green, and poisessing a farm at Northaw, to reco#ei the sum of £.51., being the price of two cows, sold by one .Bunker, as the plaintiff's agent, to one 4rovirti. who managed the d e f e nd ant ' s f arm . 'Th e purchase was made at Barnet, as the beasts *ere on their road to London; and Brown gave the elaintiff's agent the name of his mister ; and it was agreed, that Bunker should receive the money on his way home Irani London. It appeared that the defendant had giieri Brown two checks, of £26 each, to pay for the cows, !nit Brown had misapplied this money: It was proved, that the defendant bad never authorised his servant to buy ally thing for the fartit upon credit; nut had always given him money beforehand to pay for his purchases ; and when the defendant Wad Applied to by the plaintiff for the paiment of the .ows, he sail—"" Why did you trust asy servant he must go to gaol." Lord ElA.r.Nsonouon laid before the jury the law as to this subject, between tradesmen and the :haste: af servants; no man, he said, was liable fur a debt, contracted through the medium of another, unteali his authority, express or implied; and if a master sent forth his servant to buy goods without m, ney, the law would imply that he authorised that servant to buy upon the master's credit ; but if the master gives the servant money enough for the purchase question, or always keeps him in cash for any pun= chase that may arise, there is then no authority to buy kpon credit. The strongest proof of a master'siautho ising a servant to purchase upon credit, ;s his after-. wards paying fur the articles so purchased ; lint if it be proved that the master always gives the servant cash for every purchase authorised by him, no act of the servant's can pledge the authority of the master, and that authority is expressly negatived by such cit. cumstance.—The Jury, therefore, found the verdict for the defendant. COX V. CLARK. This was an action to recover from the defendant £1 1. ss. dile to the plaintiff, proprietor of a Potts month waggon, under the following circumstan'crs : The defendant appli• d to the plaintiff to carry certain goods for him by the waggon to Portsmouth, and, at e his request, the waggon stopt at his (the defendant's) warehouse, and took in the goods in question ;—a ticket was given to the waggoner, specifying to be the weight of the go , ,ds put into the waggon, which proceeded as far as Chichester, when, on passing over the weighbridge, it was found to be 19 cwt. heavier than allowed by Act of Parliament, and the toll-col lector charged £5. 19s. 6d. for the over-weight. ft afterwards appeared that the excess of weight was oc casioned by the defendant having put 19 cwt. 'bore into the waggon than stated in the weight-ticket giieri to the waggoner. Upon this discovery, a deniarid of the R 5. 19s. 6d. was made of hairs, in addition to the carriage of the goods, amounting in all to 411.55. The promise of the defendant to pay having been proved by the waggoner,-the Jury found a verditi for the plaintiff—Damages All. ss. costs 4.13 e. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MARCH 2. A.SIUNEES UP SMITH, A BANKRUPT, v. THE ATLAS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY; . This was an action brought by the Assignees of Smith, who some time since kept a clothes shop in Newgate-street, to recover £2.500, the amount of his insurance with the defendants. The SOLICITOR CURRAt stated the case, detailing all the particulars of the present claim. Smith, the bankrupt, it will be recolledted, carried on extensive business as a tailor, in Newgate-street, and was in sured with the Atlas to the amount of R 2500. Late at night, or rather in the morning of the 12th of No vember, 1812, his house was discovered in flames. There was no person in it at the time but his wire, who slept in the second floor. She escaped with the aid of the neighbours, but the highland some ibjtiry sustained by the fire occasioned her death ition after.- The house was burnt down, and• in corisequence of si suspicion that Smith had set fire to it with intent to defraud the defendants, he was' tried at the Old Bai ley. The evidence was extraordinary, but the cir cumstances brought forward by the prisoner induced the Jury to acquit him. The Solicitor-General sum: plained of the refusal of the defendants •to pay the' insurance after a verdict of acquittal, and endeavou red not only to prove that SrOitli had acted honesty►, but that he had been ruined by the fire. He was pro. ceeding to call witnesses, observing, at the same time, that he could not call several tradesmen who had long known Mr. Smith,- because they were cre ditors under the commission, when The Learned Judge suggested, that it was a cast peculiarly fit for settlement by reference. After some consultation between the parties oath, ' nature of the recomrnendaticn, it was agreed to tiff• the claim to arbitration. • exiCE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILVZ O'CLOCK Bank Stock per Cent: Rod. 704 Cons. 701 I—for acc. 72-4 per Ct. 85i 6 per Ct. a74--Lg. Anna. tkut—Oennium 27 Italia Bauto 71.81. Pre--Elolol4tr Ses 51, rt. .:.~