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MIIMMO W W -; - , .raitzny 11772Lticlyet. erect, rte. 9. The .following letter from General Noy .to C. Mohr, Secretary of State, has been published here:- 4' I am informed, Citizen Secretary, by teperrts which have reached me both directly and imrtrectly, that a number of foreign vagabonds infest the high roads, and commit all sertsof crimes. Robbery, murder, house-breaking, take place in various quar ters, while no measures to repress them are adopted by your Government, or to protect the safety of travellgts, of the inhabitants and their pro perties. "this indifference multiplies and emboldens malefactors, and deprives the inhabitants, who rely aspen the protection of the laws,' of ail confidence, when they see them remain unexecuted or chided by the enemies of France and Helvetia Several petitions have reached me from persons styli* them: selves patriots and good citizens, reclaiming the arms they had voluntarily surrendered. They complain that those they call insurgenti had concealed theirs from discovery, and that, 4441 of falling viaims to inch; hey require back their arms to defend their fa milies, their persons, and properties. I have complied with some of these applications made by persons in the neighbourhood of Zurich, where, by my orders, General Barbon has given them back their arms. It must likewise be within the knowledge of the Helvetic Government that the political opinions of the area of lb, foevle are influenced by Men who have openly attacked the lawful 'authority, in spite of the declared intention of the First Consul to cause cq be respected the provisions of the laws and the measures that might be the result of them till after the cantonal arrangement and the establishment of the new order of tiings. These men dare to boast that they will render them illusory, or at least will render their execution difficult. They threaten to exercise 'vengeance upon those who employ vigour en reduce them to obedience. These insurrectional measures appear to have intimidated and to have weakened the system of Government? The inte rim police of the Cantons is so ill-conduCted, that no information of the culpable proceedings of the enemies of public tranquillity comes before the Tri- Is t urtvlCto enable them to display severity against the numerous offences and enormities which arc the teisimqtteuce of them. “ Emissaries of Eugland, officers in her pay, and the old pensioners of that power, enlist under the eye of the Civil Authorities, without their giving any obstruction whatever to it. Numbers of men receive pay in money, to second, on the first signal, their - auclacious enterprises, in case the new order of things was not agreeable to them. The agents of the secret Police are in some sort dependant upon them, because they receive large gratifications. A Counter-Police, skilfully directed, exists in every pan of Helvetia, and all the secrets of Government come t,o their knowledge. " The Mediator of Helvetia is treated with very little ceremony in the libels and pamphlets which daily circulate among the people. The F rench soldier is considered as the er.errty of Helvetic liberty ,• and many of them have accordingly fallen the viairn; of the resentment and animosity cfrmaed against them, although in gem rat the French troop in-this country have observed.* wise and moderate condea, and praaised that discipline t: hick causes the property and safety of citizens, Whatever he their opinions, to be respeaed. " All these considerations, Citizen Secretary, oblige me to call upon you to lay before the Exe cutive Council the observations which have been di Rated to me by my solicitude for Helvetia, and to request the Council to adopt such measures as are calculated to secure the tranquillity of the pro. prietors and the safety of the citizens, and to cause t4be expelled from the country the vagabonds who trouble its repose, and to prevent the recruitors from taking away men whom commerce and agri culture may usefully employ. The police also de serves their attention. You may assure them that I will second with real whatever tends to promote the welfare and happiness of Helvetia. (Signed) " NEY." The Executive Council have sent copies of this letter to all the National Prefe&s, with a circular, rem:minding to them to conform to it, and to re double their zeal and aelivity, in order to secure the eiecutinn of the lass s, and the maintenance of peace and order. BRUSSEL% FEB S. New embarkations of troops are about to take place in the ports of Dunkirk and Havre for the colonies, and principally for the island of St. Do mingo, a certain number of armed ships are ex peCted there for the different ports of La Manche, which will take on board the troops destined for this service, as well as the arms, ammunition, and all kinds of military stores. Besides these, the Depots for the colonies, established in the ports of I-lavre and Dunkirk; by a decree of the Consuls, daily in creases by the reformed soldiers who arrive there, as well as by many volunteer recruits from the di visions which compose their respedive distrids. IT. PETERSBUROH, JAR. 21. Our Court having now come to an understanding wi►h Eng?and and France respecting Malta, Cou riers have been dispatched on this account to Paris and London. The Neapolitan troops in Malta, it is said, are to be maintained at the expellee of Eng land, aussia, and France ;, but this requires confir mation. Isqe:strms.—On the 29th ult. an inquisition was taken at Great D W4ering, Essex, on view of the body if Edward ' about eleven years old, who died through excessive drinking. On the 2fith ult. an inquisition was taken in the same county, on the body of John Studd, a child only two years of age, who was most imprudently left with another infant, in a room where there was a fire, the mother having gone in se-arch of wood. The post-boy. who travels that road, happened to be passing at the ir..tant, and observing the child in flames, alighted and stripped its diktats off, but too law to save its life, as the child languished till the follow. log morning.„n4 then died.—Accidental Death. On the 'Pits ° ult: an inquisition was taken on'the body of Isaac White (a native of Hallingbury) who fell from the roof of the Stortfort coach, by which fall his skull was fraftared, and he died in about a inmate after he had been lifted up by another pas-- senirk--:-Verdiet, accidentally killed. On the sth instiot, another inquisition was taken at Waltham sunir, on.the body of C. Thus, who in a fit of lunacy hung hims , rlf in the garden of 1. R id, Esq. in that parish.--Limacy. PAJPICi . • .•. 41/ O iTIONAI, INSTITVI3OIi , Of DEMI AND Du*" BOIL Tetip 4 sitstipr. School and Eaa4lidinuot flit Board at P*l4 Every body knows the success of the itstinition of Deaf and Dumb from their birth. • The eager ness with which those unfortunate beings, .restored to Society by means as infallible as they are inge nious, take to the lessons which are given to them; the sympathy which they inspire, have long since rendered it a duty of the administration of this house to give them a publicity in its new reports of public utility. By the benefactions, and under the auspices of the Minister of the Inter' r, divers attempts at Inter amendment have been L ade, and all succeeded. The foundations of the i trudion were laid by the famous Abbi de l'Epee ; and fame hath not yet ceased to publish the glory of the religious misan thropist, who invented this extraordinary method of teaching. What his successor has added to this fine discovery is well known. But whilst all ad mired the resources of an art, which triumphed over the difficulties which nature threw in its way, they regretted that those unfortunate objects, assembled' from all points of the Republic, in this interesting school, learnt nothing more than how to devttope their intelledual faculties ; and that all the time which they passed there was lost for learning a teade. The deaf and dumb were enabled to communicate with other men, which was certainly a great acqui sition; but, not being habituated to labour clumg the course of their education, they were accustomed to an idle life, and, when returned home, they neiL ther knew, nor were willing to apply themselves to any thing. They were connected with Society, but not less a burthen to themselves and their friends. Work-benches of several kinds are actually esta blished in the house of the Deaf and Dumb ; Print ing ; Turnery ; Engraving on Copper, and fine Stones • Drawing ; Mosaic Work ; Joinery; Tay lors' and Shoemakers' Work. _ Among the scholars, some become sufficiently good shoemakers, not only to make shoes for their comrades, but also for visitors ; others make clothes, and in the great chamber, where they all sleep, un der the supenntendance of four masters, there is not a single bed which has not been made by the deaf and dumb. As every body would regret, that the sort of in stnidion which is received there, should be confined to gratuitous pupils, the Administration, under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, has laid out one story cf the main body of the building, in which the children of opulent families will be re-. ceived, as private boarders, and superintended by a private tutor. By this new arrangement, the House of the Deaf and Dumb forms two sorts of establishment : one consisting of SO gratuitous pupils, at the expence of the nation, brought up to mechanical pursuits, to learn a trade under masters paid by Government ; the other can only consist of 4.0 pupils, at she ex pence of their friends, who will be treated in every respect as young folks are in genteel families, and instructed in all branches of knowledge which are taught in other schools. They will be taught : Ist, 'Writing and Reading ; 2d, Religion ; J. I, the French and English Languages ; 4th, Numbers, and the Principles of Geometry, so far as concerns the Arts carried on in the Institution ; sth, the use of the Globe, and Geography; 6th, History ; 7th, Drawing ; filth, Engraving on Copper and fine Stones ; 9th, Mosaic Work ; 10th, Turning, The expznce for each of those pupils, for lodging, board, washing, medicinal attendance iti health and sickness, instruaion, and the above-mentioned arts, is 900 francs a year ' • each pupil to bring his bed, sheets, and rmen for his own use ; and he may be admitted from the age of eight years upwards. Deaf and dumb females are also received at the age of seven years and upwards, upon the same con ditions, abating 100 francs of the expence. 'I hey have a separate building ; they are superintended, night and day, by two persons of their own sex, who teach them all kinds of needle-work. They are also taught, as well as the males, Ist, Writing and Reading ; 2d, Religion; 3d, every Knowledge suitable to their sex and age. The gratuitous places are, as already stated, eighty in number. It is necessary, according to the regu lation of the Minister of the Interior, to ascertain— that the applicant be not less than twelve, nor more than fourteen years of age ; to receive legal attesta tions of real poverty ; to be furnished with a register of birth, and a certificate from the Officer of Health, attesting that the applicant hath no illness or infir mity to impede his application to the work-benches. Applications must be addressed to the Minister of the Interior, who alone disposes of these places. It will be useless to address these requests to any other person, even to the Diredor of the Institution. The pupils enjoy these places for five years.,--Alesiteue. ROTAL INSTITUTION. The leatires delivered at this institution are prose- cuted i a a manner highly satisfaCtory to the nume rous audiences, of both sexes, who attend them ; and we observe with sincere pleasure, that a taste for sci entific pursuits is rapidly diffusing itself among that class of society; whose chief distmaiou has hitherto consisted in title or forttine. The two professors, Dr. Young and Mr. Ihvy, deliver six lectures in the week, three each; the former on Natural and Expe rimental Philosophy, the latter on Chemistry. Gal vanism was the subjea of one of Mr. Davy's lectures last week. This branch of natural knowledge, so closely connected with chemical science, has long occupied the attention of this ingenious Professor, who has enriched it with several new fiefs and dis coveries. Among other curious phenomena exhibit ed on this occasion, we may mentiol the inflamma tion of combustible bodies and nietalt. A few years ago it would not have been believed that copper, silver, and gold, could be set on fire by means of the Galvanic spark, with as much facility as one taper is lighted by another. For this pufpose, these and other malleable metals Should be presented in the state of thin leaves. The flame with which they burn is much more vivid than that, of a candle. • M.N Ast RA, one of the conspirators who suffered on Monday last, was one of.the persons accused of forming an assassination plain Dublin, a few years since, against the Earl of CAftwotrroN. Three men were convicted of the crime, but M.pi,otAiii. was acquitted be kept . a public-I;vue in that city. NEVER FAIRS. Mr. ROBSON is now at Naples. He is engaged in writing a:Natural History of Mount Vesuvius. . The body of COIODeI DESPARD now lies at the apartments of his .wife, near the Asylum, Lambeth, an.l its interment will not take place till Saturday. Wednesday the.coffin was unscrewed, and the head taken out, from wl iich a likeness was taken in plas ter of Paris. We understand by letters recently received from the East Indies, that the only transports remaining in the 'Red Sea, are the Anna Maria, Captain W. Gardner; the ..T,irah, Captain Mackintosh; and the Cuvera, Capt. J ohn Lowe. The Duck:: of rork, Lieut. Douglas, with the Fury and /Vast gun ves sels, were at ;iuez, awaiting dispatches from Eu rope, with whit:h they are intended to be dispatched for Calcutta. . NAIfrAL INTELLIGENCE. PoRTsMOUTH, FEB 21. His Majesty's ship talcotta iS under orders to Te ceive on board the portion of convids allotted for her' o take out to New South Wales, and to sail with the first fair wind. Remains at Spithead the squadron as per last. And at St. Helens his Majesty's ship Le Hercule, of 74 gins, under orders to proceed on foreign service. Wind S. by W. blows fresh. DOVER, FEB. 23. Arrived from Calais La joicsbast packet, Capt . . Lambert, with the mail and passengers, amongst whom were Major Henderson, Capt. Moreton, and Mr. Gillingham. Sailed for Calais the King George passage ves sel, Capt. King, with Lieut. Colonel W. Cham bers, of the 28th ; Major Chabot, 18th Dragoons ; Capt. Xemener ; Alexander Don, Esq ; • Mr. Le quine, and several other passengers : also sailed the Exprm packet, Caps. Dell, with mail and patitn gers, for Calais. The Swift passage vessel, Capt. Blake, arrived from Calais last night, with upwards of two was weight of foreign specie. n o 4 je a x A •1 • LAW .1N7 1 311761Ve1.... - . . . . • . ICING% BENCH, WESTMINSTER, Fes. 24. Lord ELLZII so amnia was expeded to have sat at Guildhall The Jury assembled, and waited till near hilf past two, when word was brought, that his Lordship had been trying flee or six remaining' causes at Westminster ; that one of them bad *ace*. pied a considerable time, and that there was no Rro bali2ity of his being able to reach the city in time. The Jury were accordingly dismissed. The causes tried at Westminster were interesting only to the parties. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL, F5a..24. Sittings after Term, before Lord ALv. ANtsi. THomisom against !HILTON. .CROCOINLES AND HUMMING-BIRDS. This was an action of great importance to natu ralists and nicknackitarians. The Plaintiff was a person justly celebrated for his extraordinary inge nuity in stuffing and embalming animals. He could equally impart the semblance of real life, to the mor. tal remains of a lion or a cockchafer. It kto a ge nius like his the admireri of Nature's rare and beau tiful productions are indebted for the preservation of those wonderful animals, birds, and reptiles which enrich the British and Leverian Museum, the cabi net of Sir Hans Sloane, and other colleEtions of lesser notoriety. Without the aid of his sublime art, Cooke, Le Valliant, Damberger, and others who have explored the globe, might as well have staid at home, at least as far as regards the naturalist. In vain might birds of radiant plumage have been caught, if the application of the science of preserving them after death had not been the means of trans /hitting their properties and singularities to distant c km ites, and subsequent generations. The Defendant in this action had been fortunate enough to obtan a trensendous crocodile of the Nile, adorned with crests, scales of gold, and a triple row of teeth ; he had also procured specimens of all the birds that build their nests within the Tropics, and no doubt he had, besides, a splendid collection of orang-outangs, lions, tygers, cameleopards, bears, 'wolves, mountain-cats, and dor-mice ; but this did not appear in evidence. It was, however, proved he had an original inhabitant of the banks of the Phasis, a king's-Rater, a fly-bird, and a humming-bird. All these he wished to have embalmed, conformably to the principles adopted by the anticnt Egyptians. This the Plaintiff expressly undertook to do, and he performed his task in a manner that gave entire sa tisfaction to the Defendant ; but however delighted the Defendant was with his crocodile and humming bird, he experienced very different sensations when the bill was sent in : he refused to pay it, and em ployed a person of the name of Hart to examine the work, and report his opinion. Now it happened that Hart had set up the profession of a stuffer of animals in oppositidn to the Plaintiff, and of course it was natural he would have a ten dency to undervalue his labours. He reported, that so far from stuffing the humming-bird as he ought to have done, he had only been humming the Defendant ; instead of putting in artificial eyes, to resemble those of nature, he had left the wi thered orbs without the least appearance of specu lation ; the same objection applied to the other birds, but in a more material degree to the crocodile, which absolutely appeared as blind as a bat. The Defendant contended it was not within the scope of his contract to find eyes for the blind ; he was no occulist, his business was to stuff the birds, and his demand was not to be counteracted by such stuff as the Defendant wished to impose upon the Court. Lord ALvsis LEY was of opinion, that as the Plaintiff had been employed to perform fanciful work, he had a right to charge a fasulfid price, and that it was unjust, upon the opinion of a rival in trade, to cut down his demand. The Jury were of the same opinion s and gave the Plaintiff the full amount of his bill. VIEW OF THVNATURAL SMALL-POI, &C. Fir Twelve Centuries, this Disease has been known to 1 -- continue its ravages, deitruying probably in every year an entiweess proportion of the whole population of the jIVORLD General Character. Mortality. In some Instances Mild, but fur the most part Violent Painful, _ Loathsome, Contagious, and dangerous to Life. For the most part Mild, but in some instanceii Violent, Painful, Loath some, and dungiiroui to Lite. Uniformly M3d, inof fen•ive, free from Pain or, D.lnger, awl an In fallible Precetttive the Small-Pete One in Six, who have the Disease, DIES. At least half of Mankind have it; consequently, (hie in Ttuelre of the Human Race perish by One Disease! In Lon don 3000 annually. In the United Kingdom 49,000. . One in SOO Inoculated DIES. lu London pro bably One* One Hurd ! Inoculation of Small-Pox, by spreading the Disease, has increased its general Mortality by 17 in every 10U0., LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, Fes. 92.—Wind. S. W. Arrived and sailed for the Ilirt r, tbc„,John and Ann, Jacobson, from Cadiz ; Mary and Elizabeth, Quinton, from Lisbon ; and the Tippou Saib, Tagg, from Charleston. Arrived and sailed for Sheerness, the Intrepid, Moffatt ; La Virginie and La Chiftorme, frigates from Ponsmouth. The Rachael, Ejison, from Cadiz, that was on shore near Liverpool, is got off The Santa Christie, --; fr.im Vera Cruz, for Sr. Malaga, is lost near Gibraltar. •RP IVED. Off Dover—The Swallow, Crawford, from St. nelkaersi and the Queen, Baker, fro:I, Smyrna. At Plymouth— pion, Burgoin, from Lisbon. At Livr-rpool—Jacob, Nob! r, from Philadelphia ; and the' , Thomas, Higgins, from Charleston. At Belfast—St. Patrick, Campbell, from London ; Amerirart Eagle, Merry Draper, Taylor; and the Ohio, Hall, from Nair York. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL, TO-MORROW. M. M. S. N. May, of Great St. Helen's, merchant 2 l• E. Green, of Charles-street, Soho-square, roan's-mercer 2 10 W. Collyer, late of rullox-hill, Bedfordshire, bore- dealer James Peter Fearnu, of Upper Grafton -street. Fitzroy square, late Commander of the Belvidere East India- man, dealer J. Boyes, late of VI/elklose-square, Middlesex, wine- merchant W. and J. Epps, of Epsom, Surrey, innkeepers. - T. Pierson and W. Sammon, of Ru.sia-row, Milk- _ _ street, Irish fattors 3 13 R. Castle'', of Doncaster, dealer in honor 3 10 Jonathan Fox, and William Fox, of the Pavement, Finsbury, merchants 0 1 Samuel Newman, late of Finsbury-place, merchant 0 40 DIVIDENDS. R. Jackson and J.,aul — kii;, -- 4: - Oxford-street, brandy- , merchantso 10 J. otherwise T. Porter, of Deal, Kent, grocer 0 10 M. Bashagan and J. ieramn, of Watling-street, mer chants 0 10 J. Duneclift, of Leicester, grocer 0 le J. Horton, of Cock-hill, St. Paul's Shadwelt„ dealer 0 10 T. Towle, and J. Jackson, •of Paul's, ware housenien e 0 10 J. Butler, of Rickmansworth, Hens, eurnfatStor 0 10 Trrimas Hayman, of Old City Chambers, Bishorsgate street-, Merchant ' *I • OlO J. Yare, of Oxford-street, linen-draper 0 10- CERTIFICATES. D. Williams, late of Holy well, Flintshire, grocer. G. Fleming, of Leviand, Lancashire, muslin-manufacturer. P. Barran, of the Strand, goldsmith. M: Curtis and J. H. A. Scott, late of • Watling-street, vrine and brandy-merchants. F. Brogi, of Thtmet-place, Strand, Italian merchant. J. Craik, of Union-court, Broad-street, insurance-broker. W. Wilkins, of Wapping-wall, ffrocer. J. Gillet, J. Hawkesworth, and W. Gillett, of Sheffield, corareon brewers. T. Ewbank, of Barnard Castle, Durham, woollen mannfac- turer. C. and A. Hodgson, late of Sunderland by the Sea t linen.. drapers. . . T. Pewit!, late of Warwick-street, Golden-square, taylor. BIRTH. At Castle Bernard, the Countess of Bandon, of a sou. Yesterday, the Ludy of Captain Charles Rowley, of a son, at Great Beatings, Suffolic MARRIED. Wednesday morning, by special licence, at St. Stepher.'s, Walbrook, William Moore, Esq. of Doctors' Commons, to Miss Price, daughter of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor- Lately, Capt. W. Berw in, to Mrs. An►► Barrett, Tythe barn-street, Liverpool. DIED. Yesterday, at his house, the corner of Park-lane, Piccadilly, Charles Cole, Esq. Wednesday, at his house in Lambeth, the Rev. Dr. Pearce, Sub dean of the Chapel Royal. On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. T. Clarke, of Greek-street, Soho, in the 52&t year of his are. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT. Morning, 17m after 4. I Aftemnon,...... 35m. after 4. alefs bp giudion. By LEIGH, SOTHEBY, and SON, TO-MORROW and Monday next, at Twelve o'clock, THE MEDICAL LIBRARY of ROBERT KN \ PP, M. D. late of Stoney Strattold, Bucks. To be viewed, and C italogues had at the Place of Sale. By LEIGH, SOTHEBY, and SON, On Tuesday, Feb. x 9, at 'fwelve o'Cluck, THE MEDICAL LIBRARY of Mr. GEORGE WILSON, of Belford-street, Covent-Garden. Ti be stewed, and Catalogues had at the Place of Sale. Ply Mr. KING, At hie Great Room, To-morrow Evening, at Six o'Clock, AN Assemblage of PRINTS, by esteemed Mas-. tors, chiefly Modern. The Death of Lord Chath:uv, by bartolnut —Cottagers, and Jocund . Peasants, by Woollen,, gut—Gallerie du Palais Royale, 2 'rola. bne copy, elegantly bound trt Russo. May be stewed To-morrow till the Sale, and Catalogues had at the Room. • By Mr. KING, At his Great Room, in King-street, Covent-Garden, on. MONDAY next, at Twelve o'Clock, AGood COLLECTION of BOOKS, including the Library of a Gentleman, deceased: among them are Martyres Natural History, 2 vole. coloured Piranesi Anti, chita di Roma, the very curious and uncommon Play, entitled two lamentable Tragedies by Robert Yarrington •' Johnson's Dictionary, 2 volt. 4to. Milton's Works, by To dd, 6 vols, large 011ier, in Russia; Fry; Pantographic; Sheridan's Edi- • firm of Swift, 19 vols. Gentleman's Magazine, 1792 to 11101, 12 vols. Belt's British Theatre, 34 vols. with Character and Scene Prints, Sec. May be viewed To-morrow, and Catalogues had at the Room. Londun : Printed by .1. GI LLET, No. Id, Crown -court, Fleet-street; and punished there by W. I. CLEMENT, of , No. 201, Strand. Advertisements and Letters (poet paid) must be 'deeded to the Uifice, No. 1;4 Salisbury tguare. •