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F nwc - - - ~' A . ll . THEATRE. • tiettv-Lana. Last night FAlQUilAllell comedy of The Inconstant; or, The Way to min Kim, was repeated to a most brilliant and crowded audience. Mrs. JOIDAWS Baser( is one of those unrivallesl performances that delight and fascinate by repetition, ■nd el;cit a ew beauties each night. The variety which this lady displays, the captivating melody with which she gave Drink to mr *au with thine eyes, the archness ...flier transition to A Shepherd ono had kW his lore, called firth the most rapturous applause, and the whole performance wont eff with great spirit ; the performers were mellowed in their parts, and gave to them the rich colouring of the author. Miss Bo vice is merb improved. The fascinating Lila Koseabe►g inert aces in attraction. The interest is sn well sup. poe*d throughout, every tender passion that re it^ in the human breast is called into anion with the h.lpiest effesft. All the fashion of London wars pttS-Llt. - CH RISTM AS F&STI VI TIES. 74r. rtnytom —The Romance of an Hour, 7h ng BraidY, and 'rho but H e t Mr. TN 4Mu HO -7 he Chs:d of Rater., Labeler r., all I The Upholsterer. The Emperor of Ruist a—The Royal Convert, and fir t lock b Track. Boa•r•3ta—The Bravo of Venice, and Abroad od at Home. I. •vs--7 h.Mirlsnonnter Night', Dream, S‘ng re Believing, and Hear km let. olr. BILCRIOND—Tmon of Athens, and The Con tent/tr. ViwountCaaetsv— Teas Thumb and The Till np he General Ca AUVLIND —Loge laughs at Locismiths, and Prarrro. The Lad of Pown— The Naha, and ley's Day. ro eAttinuetl.) ADMIRAL SIMArIN. Admiral, hiniavin, now at the Tagus. Ant families in Russia. About the g then a loath, he was sent to Eng mien Court, who obtained permission Government for his being admitted Navy. He was accordingly, Dr s of the Admiralty, received on of 50 guns, then destined for the America, where he served about was afterwards employed, for dine, to the Mediterranean, as a Inman, oa board the Pearl frigate, d by tne late Hon. Seymour Finch, Earl of Aylesford, which ship he :-.a. in 177, in order to render to his benefit of that know edge and re, acquired hom us, Russia being tikes ath the Turks. against wh , ..rn he to to a zealous adversary. war he served, and held the rank in the Russian Navy, and was et that %%11AV/id in the Medway ; being ordered home, and the Em log into the views of Bonaparte, he continued in retiremeat until Russia common, cause with this counuy. rnoroing. His MAISITT, Princ and SOINIA. being the tiiit hiwsetiack ut•.ce fur iodrsporrition, eleven o'clock, in the Great Park, one. We ate ha7pv ro announce, rasa pettedly recovered. Doke of YURI. will leave rows, for .e his Royat Highness wid retuAin mowing. waves he will Attend His NI h, and chow to town is the evening. is neaaty tecoveted Irmo his tate Towhsnasto will lc the town ibis . Hall, Noef"lk. MUchinness of War 'grotto's will be baptised in the course nt 1 1 9 wager Marchioness of WA I . it liLlZ•itill CwaresTaa Milt be . drew die long-bow on Major the Ceara-aroler, bat pleads a wile gave a must splendid dinner, yes,. tar'. Hotel, to .lit Wail.' Ast and ...id a large party of her if-triads ; into/vitro, with them duce her return .4 dancer, wag, it seems, laid by the rctun, on laic way to . th.c conntiy, by of the French. who bear en un it, Holland. Surely the French 1.4•1 e feared that any/OW step could him by Lite vasslteng Here of the V tRilOll, of Westminster School. who part of 74,,5i5, 10 l'a•soc es Co.. tariat4iri. at the late Reheatsal, is a ion of Yogic. •m-ii end Gentlemen of the Benson held ti e r annual dinner at the White ploc:, on Monciay, H. OA/LOVIII, Amongst the company were the and ADINUDOIt, Sir H. Par ros, la c WHITMOILL, ANNUL IY. Vll- and many other gentlemen, eel.-- prrwminence in driving. Each Ismouche and tour, and at ; *matt( a in Oxiord, by the regu oopion. , to nia;ee Inc progress of marine ;ladle. A ilsotiauf it c , ate tot His MA• I,s auts _ beer. And IS N.:arch last. As soon A. set Aise Sileslae. She mid peen woolly period clf ten moithA ; ans. 'mkt the cummatid of Cosmos _ . As. • _ Fr: - ~.: s. •I• . PIRL r - • A the broke out, at eight o'clock last evening, at the Countess of Clertnont's house. in Berkeley square: Her Ladyship had company ar dinner, and the cloth was just removed when the alarm was given. As soon as her Ladyshi/s c•lmpany heard of the dreadful accident, they persuaded her to quit the house. but in vain ; she remained in the house, and would not suffer the doors to be opened, while the fire was ritg.ng with the greatest fury in the back attic story, where it is imagined it had begun: the engines soon arrived, and the whole neighbourhood was in alarm. Water could not be procu:ed for a conrderstale time, and when the plugs were opened, there was not a sufficient quantity to work the engiaes, until the main was forced at Pimlico and at the New River Head. By that time the flames hid spread to mph an alarm ing degree, as to threaten destruction to the houses of Earl Powis and Sir John Harring ton. Lord Fc:ey's house also stood in great danger, as the balk drawing-room windows pro joie, and were very much scorched by the flames. At nine o'clock, the square was filled with people, and carriages full o: ladies, who stopped to witness the dreadful scene; the flames by that time hay ing extended to the front of the house, and still keeping to the attic otitis.. burning in the most awful manner. It illuminated the whole atmo sphere tor many miles round. The engines by that time had received an ample eupply of water, but it did not seem to have any dial on the devouring element, it still burned with great violence io the back part of the house, and consumed the third floor room, with its furniture. By ten o'clock the roof fell in with a dreadful crash, which stopped the progress et the flames, although the ruins of that part of the house. by ts.e great heat, threatened dectultion to the second dote. About eleven o'clock, it was nearly got tinder, but it still had an awful appearance. Lord Foley oo,a; on the roof of his own house, during the wi.ole time ; and Lady Foley, who had packed up er jewels, remained within, with the greatest for titude and composure, being determined nut to re tire until it was thought necessary. I ler Lady ship's carriage was at the door during •he whole time, in case it was thought prudent for her rc leave the house. At half-past eleven, the fi.e was very much abated. The St. James's Volun teers attended, and kept excellent order. the fire men also exerted themselves to the utmost of their power ; one of them having got access to the top of the hcuse on fire, through Sir John Harrington's house, he broke the windows of the dormers, strip ped the lead off the top of them, and beat down the rafters. This had a very good effelt in stopping the progress of the flames, which, at that per:od, had nearly caught the roof of Earl Powis's house. At twelve o'clock, the engines were all et work, and the square was crowded with people. Every Gen demaa's house in the square was opened, and ready to receive any thing that might be saved from the -qaeration. anierr SCOTLAND. • ICILIO, POW 26. A young man of the name of Tan, who had just left the service of Mr. P. Robertson. at Ednam, set out from his uncle's house at the village of Mellersrain, about six o'clock on Monday evening, to go to his fa ther's Leese as Fans, a distance of two Roles. Nei.' morning he was found dead.about two hundred yards from trot father's door! He had some time ag s, we are informed, gat one of his legs broken, and, these is reason to believe; that, from the seventy of the night, he was nnahle to sustain the cold and fa tip,. and having sat down to recover himself, be fell asleep and perished. COLOINGNAN, NOV. 24. In the late severe storm, which commenced on Thursday evening, the 19th instant, and confirmed until the following night, the tern, of Peterhead, Armand. master, was driven on shore op the rocks to the east of Coldinghaes Sands, anti literally dashed to pieces. Oat of the crew, consisting of the master, four men, and a boy, with three passengers, only the master and one of the passengers were saved, and that alone by the persevering humanity of the tenant of the farm on which the vessel was wrecked, who, along with his domestics, in defiance of the storm, and atter more titan an hour's labour, extricated the master from his perilons situation among the rocks, quite exhausted with fat;gue. The vessel sailed frem the Orkneys. laden with slates, (by the master's account), at eight, a. es. on the 19th, and WAS wrecked about nine, p. M. of the 20th, running, in that short space. the whole length of the East coast of Scotland. Foer of the crew, and two of the passengers (one of then) a young woman from Orkney, said to have been going to Leith to get married) were all buried yesterdy, in one grave, in Coldingbarn church-yard. Report says, another vessel was wracked, the same night, to the Eastward of Eye'noutb, clew raved ; and another to the Westward of Bt. Abh's Head, only one saved. ---- General SPLNcai wil! not protetsl in Portsmouth till the transports are ready. His Aid-de-Camp is ,here. Colonel BATHVIST la appointed Deputy- Quarter.Master-G:neral, and hd.jor Tt.casit As sistant-Adjutant-General to the Expedition. EMPIROR A itIANDIII.—We were positively as tared, during the residence of the Emperor A Lex. , *soca and BON/A.& era at Tilsit, previous to the sigaature of the Treaty, the forma was for three dap Woolly in the state of a prisoner to Boma ream and that during that alarming intetvalbe was actually induced to sign a liver, binding himself to agree to any secret articles which the former might think proper to send from Paris, in addition to the terms of the Treaty of 'Mit, which have ►een promulgated, ao much to the disgrace of Russia and the sur prise of all Europe. We had cogent reasons for concealing this melancholy fact at the time we heard of it ; and indeed, if we had not, we were inclined to h. pe that the Emperor of Russia would ,effect on the danger of hot situation, if he suffered himself to be drawn toe closely into alliance with France, and that he would bays roused to a ,ens of his own dignity, which he had so fatally committed whim he entered into the degrading Treaty alluded 0- (Sea.) • !Wit MADRAS COVERNMEN I GAZCITF, JL xs. 4, 1114. Letters received from the Isle of France annoy „,”' rec. - that two very severe gales of 'wind have Jaren ex perienced there, the last of which defrayed a great part of the plantations on both the istands. Many of the buildings also were materially injured. The Danish brig ,t'epkiei, which hid anchored the even ing before the gale, was driven on shnre, and lest with all her cargo. The island of Bourbon has changed its name to that of the Island of Bona parte. The utmost distress was experienced ; at the Islands from the want of provisions, as Attie wily remained on hand sufficient for three months longer. Rice was selling ar 10 dollars per cwt. A Danish vessel has reached franquehav, from the Isle of France. She tepnrts she wse. detained there for upwards of three weeks, to prevent her giv ing intelligence of the sailing of thePirrinfontaire, tor India. The Dane says, that the above ship, and the Call.. soarer, which is on the Manilla station, are the only ships of war now cruising against our trade. The Sevailhnte has been dismasted in a hurricane, and was returned to repair. She further reports, that all the privateers were laid up in the harbour, for want of men to navigate them. No prizes have been recently brought into the islands. Ulao RI LIN .17' E ACCIDENT. [The following Account of the late Accident which lisprened near D 3 lagliad4e, hat been ttaninnit:e4 to us from a very resoottabte tuatrtor, that aaaaa no doohr of its aultientmitr. Wit are the mine • , 1111 , .1111 to give it punlicay, so it has been illiberally runioore.l, Ilia no exertions wow wade to save the onlootunato 4,r,r, who lost his lifo on th• ocezoiln.] On Thursiay, t?fith Nov. between the hours of fi7e and six o'clock, p. se. a post carriage belonging to the Donegal Arms, driven by Edward Farming, in passing through the Cotton Bog, near Donagba dee. was overturned into a deep pit on the side of the road, ai,cl the driver unfortunately lost his life ; boils the hones also pe-rished. Next morning, previous to the removal of the body to BAtabl, an inquest was held or. the' spot, by Mr. Hull, a 'lagistrate for the Cuatity of Down, frorn which it appeared, that the carriage, with Mr. Rabin Bateson, of Orangefield, and his servant, passed through Newtownards, on the way to Donaghr-lee, about a quarter past seven o'clock, oa Thtusda! evening ; it was then snowing, and had the appearance of being a bad night. Mr Bate son wished die driver to remain at N:wtownaris all night. as the horses seemed weak, Ana the evening unpromising; but the driver insisted tau going for ward, said his horses were very able to oo r.. and that he should do very wal. Mr. Bateson acgni es:eJ, and soon after leaving Newtowuards, tell asleep. lie was awakened by the overturn of the carriage, and his servant exclaiming, " they should be all killed "—Ms. klateson then called MI loud as possible to the drives to open the dour r.f the car riage which was lying quite on one side, the roof M chain& downwards. Not • • mime aloactuay W t . Bateson got out of the window of the carriage that was uppermost, and when on the outside of the carriage. repeatedly called to the driver, but .;id not receive any answer ; he then leaped from the carriage, and with difixeuby suc ceeded in clearing the pit in which it lay, landed on the bog, and called to his servant to follow him (which he did), they then again repeatedly called to the driver, and made every possible search for him, but they did not hear any noise whatever, nor could they see any thing except the head of one of the horses appearing above the water. After march ing fir some tune in vain, they proceeded to some houses in which they saw light, at a very short dis tance, and having procured a light and several as sistants, they returned with all possible expedition to the spot, to search for the darer, but no sprat . - ance of him could bsi seen, though every possible search was snide. After remaining above two hours on the spot, and animating the exertions of the assistants in their search for the aidorionate driver, in a manner that did the highest honour to his feelings and humanity. Mr. Bateson proceeded to Dimaghailee, and soon after the body of the ill fated Mover was found in the very bottom of the pit, in which one of the horses then lay dead, and the other scarcely alive. It appear, d from the examination of the body of Use deceased, that he had been cut on the head by nail us one of the bone's shoes, and from the situ ation in which he was found, he must have been thrown forward, from his seat on the carriage being we/named, trod under by one et the horses, and illently suffocated by the water which filled the The isirdia of the Jury was, that sg Edwafild Farming. the deceased, came by his deadt in con sequence of the carriage he drove being accident ally overturned into a deep pit filled with water. in which he was suffocated." Had the carriage been overturned a yard on either side of the spec on which it was found lying. Mr. Batman and his servant mutt have inevitably shared the fate of the uolorturtate driver. It is but barely justice to mention, that the sympathy Mr. Bateson =initiated, and indeed his while sonduft on the occasion, de served tne highest praise. On Friday two companies of the Royal Artillery matched into Liverpool, from Woolwich, on their route to Ireland. " This sewn." says a Liverpool Paper, "has, dur- I ing the last tottoight, been inur.dated with soldiery waiting fur a passage to Ireland. It may not have been unamusing to an &newt,. observer, though it must necessarily have been mingled with pauitul sensaticins, to remark the patient fortitude with which they beat tl.e hard lot lotto which they ate cast ; they and their wires and little odes march daily through the snow to the quay, to await sailing order►, and as often do they return in quiet depsea sion of soul to their quarters. One of these poor fellows going late id the morning for th? put p , ..4 ut embarking. was met by a more Attie, comrade, who accosted him with " hollow, friend. whets arc yon goings"' Oa Oa board." be answered. "O, you may spare yourself the trouble, man, we're or- dered on parade this afternoon." " Thank God !" observed the other, turning to has wife, who dragged heavily atter him, with a child 16.1ser arias 1 A quences, t io . int. It was a duty locum_ 'sit on the Prosecut...ss in make an example of those persons who were the occasion of this sad catastrophe; anti the gensiervers 1 caucerned had, with this inipressisn, tined eery exertion in their power to piinisit the delinquent'. Prisoners at the Bar were °lemma to be noisy and riotous chain: , the whole evening, so much so, tha' the Peace Officers were called in seep nil times. A young GemJena*, wt.° sat *ear went. . accidentally toothed one of the women is compacy with the Prisoners ; the elder Pierce insitredia.-tv endeavoured to raise a disturbance, whea the Gel Unseals begged the woman's pardon a thousand times, and declared, he had no intention of offend ing her; all his apologies availed nothing; and the elder Pierce cried out, " be damned, if he does not fight, but we'll have a row " Their benarione was so grate, that the Officas we:e forced, hone the manner in which they condufteil thenotives, to turn them out. While they were in the aft of ' • doing so. some person cried " fight," which . way mistaken for the cry of fire." the melon- choiy consequence of which alarm . was, then W Irperseus were killed in less than a quarter of as • hour. Mr. George Suter, 6f Somet's-town, deposed. dude on the Itith of Oftober he was at oadler's-Welk Theatre. Soon altar eight o'clock. ht. attention was drawn towards the Prisoners at the bar. they canduCted themselves in a very nowise and diem. derly n.anner ; saw one of them go out, ant. bring in some brandy. Sever-I per.cus near tient begged that they would b. meet. W,r e.s oh served several constables, cliiri4 the performance. desire therm to be quiet. They told diem. that their mor,ey was as goad as say other peruse's, and that their right to be there ought not t., be die; med. Neaten stood upon forms at the back of the pit s there 'sting no room for them to sit. They con tinued vr y r.eisy until about a quarter sites tea o'clock, when they occasioned such a wise as to . compel the Consiables to take them out Ilia woman appeared very attire, and contribuord to the dtsturbance. Winne:* .fed iset hear the cry of " light,'' nor " fire." Atoms. idwiefret! i'ett6as r3t err at the time the Primates were taken l amongst the number was the Witness. John stoghts. aged 13, deposed, tkat be add fruit ra the Pit of Sadler's-Wells Theatre. Oa do Ifith Ofiober he observed the Prisoners very rams ' dunes this whole of the evening ; saw a yours • man pnbed (loans from oC tae farms by them ; saw oi.e of the constables Ei,o to tin Prisoners, and heard them say, they supposed the coattails bed got a A. crown in his pocket, meaning, as witness sappr.sed, the crown on the top of t. e and damn. d him ' and the crown. The elder Pierce whets, iderritird as having been very riotous, he having spit'ispon his head. John Hudinot, a Constable of St. Pancras, de posed, that be saw the Prisoners very riotous 41 i rJ. la's-Welts Theatre, on the evening laid en the it diclment, saw them quarrelling with a young m.a. whom he hoard beg their pardon; was ohligei, trona the r kraus manner in which they oehaved, ro desire them i n be silent; when they tolu him they sopposed be haJ got a crown in his pocket, and damned him and it : about half-past ten they were obliged to be ' taken out. Several other constables corroborated this state ment, with tl,e additiim, that l.ucar endeavoured• te p the constables taking out John Pierce. Mr. Charles Dffidin, jun. Alanager of Sadkesa ' Wells Theatre, was called to prove, that every ••: exertion on the part of the Managers and P:oprie tors was used to quiet the fears tit the audience. s a . Mr. Kuare, fur the Prisoners, took the tipper- • 1) tunity of cross-examining him, from which it ap peared, that wine was sold in the Theatre at a cheap rate, but no other liquor was allowed. 11-ing . asked if he knew of any spirituous liquors bring soldt he answered in the negative. 'co a que,iinti, if he never had heard of any complaints having been made on account nt sisch,liquors saving been wild f he replied, be had heard it mentioned, but no coin plair.i had come regularly before bias ; if he bad known any of the door-keepers to sell any spirituous ;squ i ds, he would immediately have discharged them. Mr. Kis A rr, on the part of the Prisoners, made a very able speech, in which be exhorted the Jury to banish from their minds all remembrance ct the statements which they mi&ht have read in the Newspapers, i.e hoped the t a eallemen of the July would exercise their free and unbiassed judgment - thisoccasion ; but, as the ardor:testate event, -4 up,in for which his clients were tried, was stated fully in all the N ewspapers, and as thacircualstoace was dis cussed in all rival* parties, it was necessary for him to draw tba alto:aloe of the Jur y to the fads of l,e case. In the language of the inJittmenr, the Pr s were cortigrd with unlawfully arid riohnoly assess bling with other's, ter the pro pose of e.-casior.rog a riot, to the injury of His Mejesty'sliege subjects. tie contended there was no proof of their assethbling ter that purpose ; they had gone to tie •fts-atre and paid their money as any other persons 'night do, without any intention of occasioning a riot. Atter a charge foie the Learned Chairman, the Jury, atter SOW coasederatioo, found the Pnsoners juhi Briggs was congaed of an assault are; , ,knn m ee donsiJ, if.sci. a very regrettable surge, is in Orper Fined 61. ad. '., - - AD I , !R The . Aussian Admit is of et e of the first f year 17b3, being thee Lod, by the Russian I hall the British GIN. Volnnseer in our N. (flier of the Lords e beard the Lront/ce. ml Halifax ;taunt. im A suer years. He a nearly the same time v.e Inteer mtdshipma zommanded by Leah's' to the Earl Quitted at Stryrr.a. it ma connar) the ben perltsee be had seep garaged an a war al secn.ed, by nature, ti Oaring the last w, s' a Pubs Captaiu it one Lit Metz Fleet I but as that fleet brit roe Paul entering wired,' and Gamine s b .tis wane con:imam sem •tiesterday mornit taw she rode ca It.. talc an owing, at eh vtiar!eroed 4 end tJat l'inurtsSOrns, 'l•t.3 .14) the Dui where h • , , tr a;. Oeindspr. a I 'iiCo4l:4 G• 01. ,:loviton. ).cid Citaatts 1 t r linuabsun 11 i;,e Masquis at.< ileua dengilLer will lei, week. 'ibe li / and Lady It Motives, wbri !brews. denies* • sad us - t,Viitets. e Maas ,1140.1r,s Qt Way; at Kstxua •ea . • tiy *souse, and b•lrl tier brut inter •tes India. Ihen•vas, the fr at Amsteeclans Ger. c.f SCPRIC. arelaale sway • aler coulet not LA' P ! hikers against h pro hugest.. Master V trams aced the pa, of hispachot. the Arct.b:sthop Th. Nob- Iw% !err e* / Girs4 held t lure, in that ti intbe.chair. Ot I flail. HAMM O N suss, Mayan, and tor their atleinan dt‘ore ed very peat • dui peaces Ale happy tare is I.ed r • •ereelee k he • • sassed th t:- to .a.roicoon Col • • • • •.- • . .;'-• • `t , t• - • MIDDLE=SSIONL • * CLERIENVO-:LL, Dim. d. SAOLars•-arru.s. th'it day, In Ott ..bstnee of Affr. Mslowativel; Mr. BAKER (4.1 k the Chair. • rtheent Pierre aid Job* Piney, to,c, brothel', an 4 Elisok44 t Jour. itld•et.d for ?revisit. or the niglit of the 18th of Chttobet last, oulawfolly eatssei dr a l tat .It. '10•WellS TtUatie„ M. COPIT;k ACM:I' the Jury oo the On of the prosecution, acrd, tit was sorry that Jr. tack de- volved upon him to rte the circumstances which occasioned that most melancholy event. In soar cases, the mirds of wen were generally prejudiced; but • e sl , sould must strictly endeavour to abstain from any other statement than that of the eircem stances which occasioned the Unhappy conse- quences, and, if parfait*, coefine 'a 'to th.t inn nt. tr was • duty .nenift..flt on the Preset - m.. 4 s