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r i . •., .1. ,,-- ' .^ ,• of Briti,h Linen c'mnp,.i.nv • of their ••!, intelligence e. departure, and the place for which they had em barked, reached Scotland before them. When'the vessel was about a mile off Dundee, three police of ficers breaded her aild arrested Piper and M'Kay, and while bringing them on shore in a boat, one of the officers observed M‘liay moving about un his seat, and presently heard a splash in the water, but did not see the cause of it. It afterwards turned out that two little girls gathering pebble-scenes on the beach, about three miles front Dundee, picked up up some bank-notes, and a red leather pocket-book, v:hich had been washed ashore, containing a turn letter addressed •' .1 ohn M.Kay, Blue Boar, Lon don." These articles were given by the girls to their mother, and both they and the old woman s.vore to the articles„which they produced. The ne.t put of the evidence related to the apprehen sion n f Catapodi and Foss. In the house of the for reer, in St. Geerge's-fields, the plate was found i and in the custody of the latter, the seal. Camped', upon being apprehended, said there was no harm .1 man having an engraved plate of the kind in Ins cu.t':.ly, and said he could not be punished for it. Piper having been admitted an evidence for the Crown, described his acquaintance with M'Kay having taken place in Scotland ; and that he came to Loudon in August last upon busing, of his, and went bask again. In about two months afterwards he came to - Loudon once more, in company with hPKay, u ho promised to lend him 1001. for twelve nrositlis. Atter a long detail from this witness, it turned out that he had been introdnced to Foss and Catapodi, and seas the person who attempted to ' s the note to the landlord of the St. Andrew. H e did not know the note was bad at the time, aid he cause off in the vessel wit's& M'Kay, being anxious to get home. It likewise appeared ;hat the witness saw Foss stamp sonic notes; but this was the mornii.g of the day of his departure. Mr. Joctice Heath ho e remarked, that there was no evidence that ei ther Foss or Catapodi had forged or uttered the note in the county of htisldlesex, or were even privy to *Kay having uttered it. The Jury retired for a short time, and returned a verdict —Geis" of wenn: and InnYlAin; against IsPKay—Vide.—Foss and Catapodi—A of ado. they were, however, ordered to be detained. Afralmtm Ntcl , 9les, a person who had been em ployed in the General Post-Office, was capitally in dieted for secreting, on the 2f.'d of January last, a letter containing a 101. note, two 'A notes, and' 3s. in slyer, the property of Joseph Goldsmith. It ap- ' peated that Mr. f aylor, an attorney in Gray's Tun, having occasion to remit a sum of 141. ss. to 11r. Goldsmith, at Lewes, in Sussex, gave his clerk a cheek fur that sum, for which he gut cash at Messrs. and Sharp's, in the Strand. • The clerk put the money along with a- bond into a letteraddressed te, Mr. Goldsmith, and give it to another clerk to put into a receiving house. This the other gentle man did, by putting it into a receiving house, in I last-street, Bloomsbury. The mistress of the shop swore to the letters having on that evening been sent to the General Post-Office as usual. A clerk of the inland department of the General Post-Office at tended (the eighth' division), on the '22d of Janu aty ; a letter fur Levees woald of course come to that division. The prisoner was on dtity at that di vision in colleting and facing the letters for the witness to charge. After this was done, it was the prisoner's slut-; to lie them up in bundles. If a money-letter, or one known to contain money, ap peared, it was always sent to the clerk at the money hook, who entered it on the bill to be sent to the post-master in the country. The prisoner might hare secreted a letter, although they pass throagh eight ur ten different hands before they reach the eighth division. isli. Cuter, of the lottery-office, Coating-cross, said, the 101. note which kid been lest, No. 139 Y, had come into his possession in taking payment for three sixteenths of different tickets iuihe present lottery, purchased, he did not h:sow, by whom. H.: had marked his check num bers in the note, against No. 51 ; one of the six teenths he had sold. He paid away the note to the Equitable Assurance Office, and soon after heard from Mr. Parkin, Solicitor to the Pust-Oilice, that :...such a note had been lost. In a few days the pri soner callild at his office, desiring him to stop the sixteenth, No. .51, as he had lost his pocket-book Containing that share. 'The witness said he was it lad to see him, as he had been very uneasy respect mg the note which he had paid for the shares. He desired the prisoner to wait on Mr. Parkin, which be readily agreed to, and called twice for Mr. Car ter to go with him ; at length he went himself, and said 1w had only purchased one share. This was stated by Mr. Parkin, who said, that at length he aeknowledged buying three'; but said, that during she week in which he had purchased them, he re ceived three 101. notes, and wished to recoiled where lie had got the one laid in the indidment. Ile was then taken before a .Mat;istrate. It also appeared that the pocket-bsook had been found in th e :end that it contained the lottery shares. A great number of very respedalde witnesses appeared to his character. The Jury for halt an hour, and returned with ver dia of--Ueilty; but in con-.' 'Aeration of the favourable charefter he had re ceived, recommended the prisoner to mercy. Rol»rt Smith, alias Alexander Gordon, was capitally indicted fur assaulting Francis Treadwell, on the highway. near Paddington, and there robbing him it one pound two shillings, his property. The prosecutor, who is a hackney-coarhman, stated, that oa the tith rf .Ipril, he was called off tiT ANL/oat Charing-cross, by the prisoner, who or s!' him to drive to Paddington ; when 11.7: had •o‘v.•tieti some distance past 1 ybum-turnpike, the prienter called Ceachman, your dour is open;" which the witness got off the gas, with intuition to shut it. On his goiug to Use coach door, the pri soner jumped um, ineaelliett a pistol to his head, and dissuaded his money; he immediately gave hiss five shillings and sixpence, and a seven shade% piece. The prisoner then Jensunled his watch, and struck him a vinleot blow on the right arm with a tuck stick, after which three shillings more, and a seven %billing rives- . were given to ham The prisoner im rnediate y after mask off. eaclaiminp, " It you fol low me, I will Mow Your brains out." pruses:u tor had not the least 'doubt as to the Wrathy of the prisoner's person, as he had known him by sight fur near fuur yrars , it was a moonlight night, and he could not possibly he niaaken. NVhen ht tirst knew Jinn, be belonged to the artillery at Woolwich. The witoess was robbed un Zsuriday night, and the rext mortsiog he saw the prisoner at the Police Of -Loki Folatinaglo . a nall'Ol'es said that be met the. %Cox* it, the Xing'..rati.d, where be T • . . ett' study npon suspicion; on searching hits he found a pistol in his pocket, loaded with broken glass ;and several duplicates. He could not give any account of himself, or his motive for carrying the pistol. Three other patroles who assisted in apprehend inF the prisoner, gave the same account as the last witness. • Mr. Justice HEATH &mac(' the Jury to give their verdift, observing, that the fta of the prisoner's having committed the robbery had been clearly proved. The Jury without hesitition pronounced the pri soner—Gsaiky. There were no less than five other indiensents against him for highway robberies, and one for ma liciously shooting with a pistol. CLERKENWELL SESSIONS. Saturday Elizateeb Moran was indiEted for steal-• ing a silver thimble, the property of Anne Sloper. The prisoner was one of those artful thieves who► take advantage of the credulity of weak minds; and the longing natural to .such imbecility for having their fortunes told She had, in the coarse of bet peregrinations, frequently come to the prosccutries house in Fox-court, Gray's-inn-lane, and filled the head of this silly woman with the most romantic notions of wealth and happiness, giving various bits of wood and leaves, which always emiured gosh{ luck and a good husband. Tiit prosecutris, how 'ever, having missed sever.l little articles during her late visits, had the prisoner searched upon the last occasion, when the silver thimble was found upon her person. She made no defence, and was.found an-old offender in this way,the Chair man sentenced her to s'.!ven rears transportation. NAVAL INTELLIG.ENCE. --- Poit I•MotTil, APRIL 22. This day at eleven o'clock, arrived at Spithead his Majesty's ship Exeilloa. of 7 t guns, Capt. Nash, fmm the West Indies ; she was seen yesterday at anchor far out, but there wis no certainty as to her name. Came to Spithead from St. Helen's his Majesty's ship La Sys;/le, of 41 guns, Capt. Adam : she is in want of anchors and cables.--Came up also his Ma jesty's ship Thalia, of 38 nuns, C.tpt. Moncur. Arrived his Majesty's ship Regulus, of 44 guns, Capt. Prrsland ; and A//tiater, of 28 guns, Capt. —, both from the Meoiterranean, and went into qrtarantine : and his Majesty's sloop of war Penguiv, of 18 guns, Capt. M'Farland, from the Cape of Good H4ape, and rentain with the squadron of his Majesty's ships as per last, with the Earl Howe, and Lord Castlereagh East Indi.unen, and Ocean transport ; several excise cutters, a number of col hers and traders, laying wind-bound by the present gale, which continues to blow very hard at West, and without any appearance of moderating. Remain at St. Helen's his Majesty's sh:p.Amphion, of 32 guns, Capt. Hardy, and Pigmy gutter, of 14 guns, Lieut. White. DEAL, APRIL 22. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Wahne, Cat tle, --, from China; Mary, Izatt, from Charles town, and Elizabeth, Dempster, from Oporto.— Wind W.S.W. blows hard. DOVER, APRIL 22. Sailed this morning, for Calais, the Prince of Wale, packet, Capt. Sutton, with the mail, Prussian courier, and a great number of passengers, amongst whom were the fidowing: the Hon. Mr. Cavendish, Alexander Cockburn, Esq. Charles Hereford, Esq. Baron Nlunchausen, Harcourt, Esq. Sib bald, Esq. Mr. Bellisario, Mr. Brown, Iqr. Fraser, Mr. Henore, Mr. Morrison, Mr. David, and Mr. Freer. A French boat arrived this morning from Calais, with a letter tOr a mercantile house in this town. I understand there ate seven French passage vessels freighted at Calais, and that upwards of eighty p-asiengers are engaged to come in one of thent. It is supposed that the bar across the harbour at Calais, at present precludes vessels from getting out. The ship Mary, of Liverpool, is on the bar before the harbour, from the Capc of Good, .Hope and Lisbon, with part of the 8l st regiment on board ;. she has lost all her anchors and cables. When the Mary left the Cape, it was in possession of the English. Half past sit o'cloCk.—The Britannia passage ves sel is just arrived,' and several other passage vessels are within two or three miles of the harbour, but cannot learn that any messenger is coming. I ir. James Ogilvie ISnded here to-day fit= the ship Vile, Capt. Lawrie, from Oporto, whiCh has passed by fur the Downs. Some time ago a party of West India Gentle men, who were enjoying. their evening at a tavern, unluckily involved iheinselves in a quarrel, on a. circumstance of very. little Moment ; challenges took place, ,and the event was to be determined next morning, in a field adjoining Kennington Conimun. '!'litter they repaired with their sse conds, and accompanied by a vargeon of Lambeth. The place axed on was a piece of g round close to the garden of Mr. Poe L, lligh Constable of the Comity of Surrey, who being surprised at seeing so many persons assembled in such a situation, got over the pales of his garden at the moment when the seconds had measured the distance fur the conibatants to eniage. The pistills Went al ready loaded. Ile immediately interfere inform. ing them that he wrs a peace officer, and insisted on their leaving the place, warmly remonstrating with them on the iroprop..iety of their coudtiet.— They wLiv equally, bent on accuthplishing, the Oh jea of their meeting ; but no arguments could prevail with Mr. Poet ; the only alternative Was to seek another scene of alion ; and they were proceeding to Brixton Ciuseway, when Mr. POPE pru.ineed his staff of office, and declared his in tention of following them through every part of the county.—ln the course of their journey, they became somewhat more cool, listened to his in treaties, and at length Were finally prevailed upon to relinquish their. horrid purpose : and, by this praiseworthy pers3verinee on the part of Mr, prtsbabt piatscwui y ca ~« ...•• ...Aro rm. - Port, probably two or three lives were saved, as four of the gentlemen were to have fought. They, however, retarned to town in a very reconci- led and atnicalile manner. %Vete such A conduct more generally aslopb:d by the intenchntts on . thtte Censurable meetings, commonly the - result (lt %very insignificant causes, the happiness or life of worthy individuals might be oftner preserved. "Pr' YTRACT FROM A SURVEY AND REPOWF Or 161 E COASTS AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND; Made by the Command of the Right Hon. the Loads Commis -bionets of his Majesty's Trea s ury, in the Autumn of 1802. By 'NOMA, TLLIOR D i Civil Engineer, Edin. F.R.S. THE vele' ATION't. " That emigrations have already taken place from various parts of the Highlands, is a fad upon which there does not remain room to doubt ; from the best information I have been able to procure, about three thousand persons went away in the course of last year ; and, if, I am rightly bit - twined, three times . that number are preparing to leave the country in the present year. 4 , I shall not encroach upon your Lordship's time by investigating all the remote or unimportant col lateral causes of emigration, but shall proceed to that which I consider to be the most powerful in its present operation ; and that is, converting large distrifts of the country into extensive sheepwalks. This not only requires much fewer people to manage the same track of country, but in general an entirely new peon' who have been accustomed to this mode of life, are brought from the southern parts of Scotland. • 44 The difference of rents to the landlords be tween sheep and black cattle is, I understand, at least three to one, and yet on accoent of the extra ordinary rise in the prices of sheep and wool, the sheep farmers have of late years been acquiring wealth, As the introducing sheep farms over coun tries heretofore stocked with black cattle, creates an extensive-demand for the young sheep from the esta blished farms, it is possible that the high prices may continue until a considerable portion of the 'country is fully stocked; after this takes place, the cinanti ties of sheep produced will bear a very great pro portion to the demand, and then it is possible the prices may fall below the average value ; in this case it is probable the farms will be subdivided, and a proportion of black cattle and cultivation be in troduced in the lower grounds in the vallies, while the upper parts of the - bills continue to be pastured with sheep. This I consider as the most improved state of Highland farming, and is consistent with a very considerable population ; a beautiful instance of this is to be seen along the north side of Loch. Tar. But improved communications, by means of roads and bridges, are necessary for this state of society, and for this reason I . have said, that if thesetonve niences had been sooner introduced into the High lands, it is possible this emigration might not have taken place, at least to the present extent. " The very high price of black cattle has also faci- Ifteted the means of emigration, as it has furnished the old farmers with a portii.:3 of capital which enables them to transport their families beyond the Atlantic " In some few cases a greater population than the land can support in any shape, has been the cause of 'emigrations ; such was the island of Tiree. ~ Some have, no doubt, been deluded by accounts sent back from others gone before them ; and many deceived by artful persons, who hesitate not-to sacri fice these poor ignorant people to selfish ends. " A very principal reason must also be, that the peeple e when turned out of their black-cattle farms to make way for the sheep farmers, see no mode of employment whereby they can earn a subsistence in their own country, and sooner than seek it in the low lands of Scotland, or in England, they will be lieve what is told them may be done in the farming line in America. " What I have here mentioned appear to me to be the immediate causes , of the present emigrations from the north-western parts of Scotland. To point out the means of preventing emigrations in fu tine, is a part of my duty, upon which I enter with no small degree of hesitation. As the evil, at pre-' -sent, seems to arise chiefly from the conduft of land owners, in changing the economy of .their estates, it may be questioned whether Government can with justice intert . ere, or whether any essential benefits are likely to arise from this interference. • "In one point of view it may be stated, that, the mountainous parts of Scotland as a dis mid of the British Empire, it is the interest of the Empire that this distrin be made to produce as much human food as it is capable of doing at the least posiible expence ; that this may he done by stocking it chiefly with sheep ; that it is the interest of the Erapire - the food so produced, should not be, , consumed by persons residing amongst the moun tains totally unemployed, but, ra:her in some other • parts of the country, where their labour can be made prothAiVe either in the business of agricul ture, fisheries, or mannfaaures ; and that by suf-. fering every person to pursue what appears to them to be their own interest, that although some tempo rary inconveniences may arise, yet, qpbn the whole, that matters will in the end adjust themselves into the forms most suitable to the place. " In another, point of view it may be stated, that it is a great hardship, if not a great injustice, that the inhabitants of an extensise distri& mould all at ' once be striven from their native country, to make way for sheep farming, which is likelx to be carried to au imprudent extent; that, in a tew years, this excess will he evident ; that before it is discovered, the country will he depopulated, and that race of people which has of late years maintained so ho nourable a share in the operations of our armies and navies will then be no more ; that in a case where such a numerous body of the 'people are deeply in terested, it is the duty of Government to consider it its anextrairdinary case, and one of those occa sions which justifies them in departing a-little from 'the maxims of genZ4ll policy ;: that fur this purpose, . regulations should he made to prevent land owners from lessening the population upon their estates be low a given proportion, and that' some regulation of this sort would; In the cad, be in favour of the land owners, as it would preserve the pOpulation bekt suited to the most iMprovett mode of I fighland farming, such as is pra&ised at Bteadalbane, and to the establishment of fishing-villages, on the prin. cipte laid, down and pratised so successfully by Mr. Hugh Stevenson, of Chan, at Arnisdale on Loch 1 - lours. " In whatever light the foregoing statements may be viewed, there is another on which there can, I think, -be ao difference of opinion. Ihis is, that if there are any public works to be executed, which, wheft completed, will prove generally beneficial to the country, it it; advisable these Works should be un dertaken at the present tisane. This would-furnish employment fat the industrious and valuable part of the people in th:it own country, they would, by this means. be' accustimeif to Labour, they would acquire some wind, and the fothulatosii Would I . 'f A be laid cor future employments. If, as I have been credibly informed, the inhabitants are strongly at tached to their native country, they would greedily embrace this oppixtunity of being enabled to remain in it, with the prospea of bettering their condition, because, before the works were completed, it must be evident to every one that the whole face of the country would b,! changed. The Caledonian' canal, and the bridges and roads before mentioned, are of the'cb.tsc4tion here alluded to, they nut only furnis.ll present em ployment, but promise to accomplish all the lead ing objeEts which can reasonably be looked forward to for the improvement and future well :re of the country, 'whether we regard its agriculture, fisheries, or manufactures." • _ •••. " The Cabinet of St. James's, while it seems to bs fully bent upon prosecuting its hostile prepatttions„ does not, however, appear still disposed :.o hazard the consequence. of a new war, and it is confident ly asserted that Russia will interpose her• mediation between England and France; the time that has elapsed since the King's Message lends a strong ground of probability to that assertion : While the conduct of the Fiench Government is so strictly conformable entreaties, that it cannot but look with satisfaction to the intervent:on of a, great Power for the adjustment of whatever differences may have arisen since the conclusion of the peace. After having indulged so long in invectives against the ambition of France, after having provoked France by the unaccountable capitulation entered into at the Cape . of Good Hope, the English must sunl astonished at such an instance of moderation. But the nation that has resisted all Europe, w:io had risen in arms against her, may, without dreading the imputation of weakness, appeal to Europe, re stored to peace through her exertions, to sit in judg ment on the justice of her cause. To acknowledge that French diplomacy has claims to the reputation of strict and generous fidelity--a reputation winds France has merited for so many ages, by so many sacrifices, is the first victory which, under the cir cumstances of the moment, France must gain over England. -Nations well governed can aspire to no triumphs but when they have resorted to arms. " The general conversation at London still con tinues to turn upon a change in Administration; and nothing less is looked for than the adinis,m, of Mr. Pitt or Mr. Fox into the Cabinet. As there is the widest possible difference between the manner in which the situation of Europe is viewed, by those two Statesmen, it might be matter of surprise to see England march forward and confront events, with out knowing by what sort of Ministers or of prin ciples they are to be direaed ; but of fate e should be accustomed to feel little or no surprise at the conduct of a country that fluettiatcs between disap pointments, and a system of pblitics which it can not bring itself to adopt, though every day tends to demonstrate its necessity. We have only to wait and to observe—lf war be declared, whatever may the cause alledged, hostilities can never be brought to an end until the liberty of commerce for all Europe, or the commercial slavery of the whole of Europe, be substantially and for ever de cided."—From the Mercure de France. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL, THIS DAY. R. Auderson, Guildford -street, merchant 1 10 DIVIDENDS. T. Johnson, Norton Fa',gate, chemist. B. Burton, Coleman-street, druggist lO E. elayfield, Grafton.street, wooilen-draper ...... 10 E Pain, Piccadilly, wag.chandler J. Laugham, Watnird, Fleas brandy-merchant J. Forbes and R. Tomkills, Lad•lane, warehousemen lO MARRIED. On Wednesday last, by special licence, George Saline, Esq. of Devonshire -street, to Miss Jane Sidaway, of Beau mont- street. Lately, at Bratton, Mr. E. Seagram, of Warminster, to Miss Ballard. DIED. On Saturday last, John %Vard, Esq. of Russo irp, near Whitby. • On the 16th instant, at het house in Upper Guildford street, Mrs. D:l9, relict or Robert D.1..p, Es.l. u: the county of Cavan. At the Palace of Kilmore, of a convulsive fit, bliss Anastasia Beresford, ser..)nd daughter •t the Bishop of Kilm re. • Pluut le stoCK S. ON IP.TI Bank SO K+ l6B per Oent Red ....AV ! 4 3! 3 per C. C. 3 4: 4 per Cent Corti... 811 5 per Cent. -Ann. .. 991 98 ti per Cent. 1797 98i 71 Kink 1.. AMC. AMA Short knn. Imp. 3 per Cent. . Ditto Aon 1:1 1 1DAV. 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