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r LON DON, MONDAY, Fin. 11. THEATRE-Rona, DAURr-LANE. THIS FVFNING will be prewnited the Comedy of THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Sir %%Mil Constant, Mr Bannkter, jun.; Sr 11.61 Fa- .pion, Mr. C. Kemble• Loveortre, Mr. WrougNt• , r), Widow Mrs. Joidan; Mrs. Lovemore, MN. Pope; Lady Constant, Mils Mellon; Moslin, Mrs. Hanowe. To wlorli will be LOVE AND hIAGIC. _ _ On Saturday the 19th inst. will he pruducon a new Muskat Drama, called The Hero of the North. THEATRE-ROrAL, COVENT-GARDEN II I'S EVENING will be nerferined the Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet. (Third time), by a Young GENTLF.MA Ghost, Mr. Cory; Polon:us, Mr. Mundt; King, Mr. 'Aradly ; Horatio, Mr. Brunton; Laertts, Mr. Claremont; Gave - Diggers, Messrs. Emery and Simmntis. Ophelia, Mrs. H. John.zon ; and tin-Queen, Mist Chapman. To which will be a.hled, HA RILLQUIN's HABEAS. A New Curn•dv is in relioarsal, called John Ball; or, Au Englishman's Fire-Sole. 11 .• The Readers of this Paper, who are not regularly served with it, are repiestcd to apply to the °Ace, and there state their parti.near case. The Editor is tired with general complaints of irregularif • total negleti is the service of the Paper. TILE BRITISH - PRESS. Paris Papers lip to the 10th inst. vane received on Saturday. They contain a good deal of interesting information upon the affairs of St. Domingo, the particulars of which :ue detailed' in a repilar series of Official Reports ofevents between the 18th of Sep tember and the 3d of December last. This series, in cludes the attack upon the Mole by the Blaclzs, the re taking of Fort Dauphin, the accession of Roottast stau to the command in chief, and the subsequent events. The two first originally transpired through the American papers, and were reported in the Paris papers that arrived on Tuesday last. The new ac counts, however, bring some new particulars ; and as the public te . e is so much turned to that island, we, therefore, think them not unworthy of insertion. la the attack upon the Mole, it is stated, that six of tho prio,:ipal leaders of the brigands were left dead upon the field of battle, and that not one of their cavalry escaped. The retaking of the Mole is said to have been effeeted by the succours from France, upon the very moment of their arrival. The most important by far, however, of these do cuments, is a Proclamation published by Gen. LE- C L LYC at the Cape, upon the 6th of October. All the accounts collet: 4 4d from the American Papers, and other sources, represented the situation of the -French as truly deplorable about that period. They were, however, too vague and too general to convey an idea of the precise lads, while their uniform ern currence left no doubt cf the general result. The Proclamation supplies this deficiency ; for while its ordinances prescribe the particular remedies, they of necessity admit the particulars of the disease. Friar this document, then, it appears, that in the begin ning of Ottober an ir. , ,urreetion broke out in the northern part of St. Domingo. This insurteLlion was planned and provoked by persons highs in com mand in that quarter, particularly by Cu LLS DE- L its, General of Brigade, who, with his wife, was tried and condemned to death, by a I'vlili , atry Com mission of General Officers, on the ail of October, at the Cape. Tire French army was, at that pe riod, so reduced by sickuess, as not to be able to take the field, and the insurgents conceived that an opportunity was nor: etiered of forcing them to evacuate the island. In prosecution of their plan they simpered with the colonial troops, and over-ran the nurehern part of the country with fire and sword. In this ckplorable situation, General Le- CLERC published the Preclametion of the .sth of Occleber, in which he ad .;its his own weakness—the expectations. of the Rebels, and endeavoured to inspire confidence, with an assurance that succours equal to the army originally sent out were upon their way from France. While the French troops r.anained in this state, shut up in the towns, the Brigands contineed to ravage the country ; but at length the promised succours arrived from France, and in some measure relieved the general despondency, by the re-capture of Fort Dauphin. lint whatever check the Blacks may have received, there is very little reason to presume that the other and still more formidable foe of the French—the yellow-fever, had relaxed its ravages, as the Pro clamation of LECLERC taught the army t 9 expect. To the list of distinguished personages who have fallen its victims, we are now to add Generals WA TRI N and DUGUA, both officers of great merit. 'the latter died so late as the Ist Deccauber. The principal States of Germany, it is said, have determined upon a new ecclesiastical sy:.tem for the German Empire : the principle of which, is di scaly subversive of the Papal power. It requires that the principal ecclesiastics shall be appointed by the Princes within whose territories their sees are rc speEtively situated ; that their jurisdiaion shall be purely .ecclesiastical; and that they shall be responsible for their conduit to their respective territorial Sovereigns. , One object of the FIRST Cuaset.'s intended visit to the North EAstern part of his territories, is laid to be the inspeA;on of !cites of new fortresses, which are to be constructed for the purpose of strengthening the French frontier upon the side of Holland. The French Funds still continue to rise. They were, on the Bth, 58 f. 90. c. Saturday a Court of Direaors was held at the Fast India House, which adjourned at six u'clock till Wednesday next. By the Minorca, a Botany Baf ship, arrived off Dover, we are advised that the extra ships L.rd El don and Minerva, outward, arrived at the Cape the 20th Oetober last, and the .Sickon Carlle on the 25th of that month. The Lord Et lon was getting under way the 4th of November, and the Vrelton Cade on the 10th, WAS only waiting a fair wind to put to sea. Yesterday morning arrived a Mail from New York, brought to 1 alnxiuth, by the Cbs,:pficiti Packet. " The papers of yestertisty contain the following paragraph . : —" The members for the City of Lon don yesterday morning waited on the Secretaries of State, for the purpose of laying before them the particulars of an event of considerable importance with regard to the health of the people. We do not wish to mention the precis: facts that have come to our knowledge, laqt we ar.2 confident, from the prompt measures of precatt..ion that have been taken, thAt no inconvenient,' likely to arise to the pifadc from zit:: ciitunistancc to which we ailuie." It k expected, that Oa business of Pariiament will inrease rapicly, fioni tnis day forward, and it is leered, smhe obstacles to its progress will re sult from their being •ici large a number of Commit te.:s on Election Petitions to be hallotted for. These Election Petition Coniniittees were to have sat on Saturday, but two of them weie under the neee.;- sity of adjourning till this day, in consequence of a member of men being abstat. The medicitl at tendant of one gentleman bore testimony of his ab sence being occasioned by severe indisposition. The absence of both the gentlemen must, according to the Act, be reported to the House. A parcel of papers were fonnd on Saturday at the ltoyal•Exchan,;e, by a ticket porter, who took them to the Lord Mayor. These papers, we un derstand, hold out threats of a most seditious and treasonable natwe ; in case certain sentences lately passed, should be cal ried into execution. They must have been written by enemies of the parties whose cause they affect to advocate. 'The quantity of ice amongst the shipp:ng in the River is so great, as to prevent the navigation, be low bridge, by boats. There are a► present in the debtors' side of New- Mto, upwards of one hundred Reduced Naval and ilitary Offi.crs, who have served the Empire with Z 321 and gallantry We are sorry to learn, that the emigrations from the Highlands of Scotland continue to a great ex tent, and that some persons from the back States of America are now there, for the purpose of seducing these credulous people from their homes. It is believed at the War Office, that our troops have, ere this, evacuated Egypt. The York Papers of the loth are slent as to the reported commitment of a Gentiethan to the Castle, which is stated in the Derby and some other provin cial papers to have taken place on the .sth, fur the inurdi.-: of his two chill-en. They enumerate se veral other commitments, and we can hardly sup pose they would have omitted one of so mucii inter est, had it taken place. The Dutch Prui.e.money, for the captures at the Cape of Good 14.(;;):. , , amounting to upwards of 250,0001. was rno-.-e than nine months since paid to the Agents, fur the purpose of distribution k but t Tee Sari;cons in the arm: having preferred a claim to 611-are in a higher class, the division has been sus pended : the Agents should on this, as on similar oc casions, reserve enough to cover the ne.v aad d , st:-,bute the residue. The Government of the Italian Republic has re solved to farm out the ,cttery of that conatry to the best bidder : they have announced their i itention of farming the whole togeth,T, or in division., fur each side o. ttie Po. Books of schemes, &c. aru spee dily to be opened in all the prelectoraces. The sale of redued and common salt, by whole sale or ret til, is p.-oliliezed thiougho.it the Italian Republic, and permitted only to persons ara.horiseo Lv Government. The kicnikur* contains seve!al decr!es regulat log the/0r:44/(J respecting the blectora 01 we two sections auto which the i-Llvetic De putation has divided ascii, viz. the partizans of use old regime, and tile partisans of tile new order 01 things, most of the termer, says the Clef du Cabi n t, arc deputies of the ci-devant sovereign cities, and six or seven deputies from canttins, wh le almost all the latter are deputies elei:cvd by the cantonal semblies or Diets. The FAUST CONSUL, as President of the Italian Republic, has issued a Decree for Elia organizaiion of t.ie University of Bologna. In the First Class, comprising Natural Philosophy and Mat, emat.cs; ALDINI aadGIuVANt are appointed Professors o.* Experimental Philosophy, and PiAzzi Clocutim Lonov ico, Professors cf As.ronomy. The sidings fur Midulesex commence Lois day at nine o'clock. 'I here are several curious trials ea peeked to come on in the course of the sittings ; and among others, the trial of M. PLLTIEi for wlibel upon BONAPARTE. Some men of property have been committed to Exeter gaol, for having 15aJ cwt. of cordage, be longing to the KING, in their possession : ban to the amount of 10,0001. was offered, but refused, for one of them. Letter from Genoa state, that the arms of the Poli,h demi-brigade, destined for St. Domingo, have been packed up, and shipped on board French .vessels lately arrived in that harbour. The war in India, beavuen the Mahratta Chief tains, SCINDEA and HOLK A it, cannat fail to engage general attention. By the over-land dispatch we learn, that the Teishwa has declared in favour of Sciuns.a, and conclucLxi a treaty with him, by which his Highness is bound to furnish 5000 ca valry. and 4000 infantry, to March immediately to the succour of the army, which is blocked up by 110LKAR; the declaration of tue Peishwa will pro bably influence other Powers as to the part they will take, and thus accelerate the termiflation of a war, which, in its opening, has been markied by the most singular vicissitudes. PASIIIOM FASHIONABLE ARIIANGEMENTS TILTS WEEK. MoxpaT —Lady Metrtaa's Raid, Portland Place. Mar grave of ANSPACIeI Pluy, Brandenburgh-House. TUESDAY ---();,era, Haymarket. Mr. DtvwTNts's Private Doser.street. --- Counter' of SCTIIIIR LAN Rout, Ar lington street Lord Hoamte'a Griu,d Diana, Gruarowor- Place. Mrs. BAY Vell Rout, Harley-street. TituastiAT —Margrave of A nsracu's Play, Brandenburgh- Mama. Countess of Essex's Par•y, Curzon-street. FRlDAY —Marquis of sLzoo's SA 11:11 nkr —Opera, Hapmark.•t Lord Hoa efi Dinner, Grotivernor-Place. SPRAKILIt of the flii,uita of COMMONS . Dinner. Stwomr.--Merehionc:s of SALttouer'i Patty, Alt:lpm.. streo.. His MAJEsty will hold a Levee next Wednes day. The Royal. FAM►L.v are expected to remain in town during the whole of this week. Yesterday their MAJESTIF3 and the PRINCESSES attended divine service, at the private chapel in Buckingham-house, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. BARN c; Rector of Satteiley, Suf folk. Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Duke Of CUIIBI.aI.AND paid his respects to their MAJ ss- TIEs and his Royal Sisters. At one o'clock his MAJEiTY gave an audience to the Earl of HA It- ItiNGTOti. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of CLARLNCL visit4Ll Piince a WALES at Carlton- House. Last night their MAMTIEs had a performance of sacred music, which commenced at eight o'clock, and finished about ten. It was attended by the Countess of E.v, Lady CAROLINE DAMLR, Mr. HENRY Fox, Miss Fi NC:I, Mrs. A. St 4Nt4OPE, &c. The Dukes of lonic and CUAIRERLANIO visited their MAJxsrlxs on Saturday morning, at Bucking ham House, and the Dukes of CLAREN( E Mid CLMRERLAND dined with the Royal Family. After dinner, her tvlxixsr v had a small party, consisting of Lord and Lady HEN LEV, Earl of HARRINGTON, Lady and the two Miss DOUGLAS'S, Lady CR AN. LEY, Miss OMSLOW, Lady BULKELEY, Mrs. A. Si ANIIOPE, Mrs. How', Color,eis CA R IGHT and SPENCER, General W Ira v tw, I,4rd CATH CART, Lord Mot.NT.EDGECUSIek., C4.,ILInte 2 ,S Of HARCOURT, Sir W. kialitt.xuN, Lord SLLLEY, &C. &C. &C. Ibe Marqui. of BLANDVORD had a Concert last night, at his licuse in Piccadilly. Sir HARRY VANE TEMPEST has taken Sir JOHN BOY o's house in Grafton -street, Bend-street. Mrs. CAVENDISH I3k AMN AW continues indisposed at her house in Albernarle-street. Lady CAHIER'S present severe indisposition has not originated in it cold, as stated in one of the Morning Papers, but was caused by a severe fall her Ladyship received last week in consequence of the slipperyness of the ice • we are concerned to add, that the hurt is in the small of her back. Lord Sr. Viscerir has a slight cold, but it does not prevent him from attending the Admiraltyßoard regularly. The Earl of CfirSTERFIELD gave an elegant din ner, on Saturday, at his house w Audley square; among . the company we noticed the following, viz. Marquis of BATH, Earl of CHATHAM, Earl of (ix neloca,lr..lCAr Healy', Lord lieLKELEY,Gelleral GARTH, General 1Y1a.14 4./1 as, General car !ic ILT, &c. &c. The Marquis of SLico gave yesterday a dinner to a seleet party, at leis house in Grafton-street.— Present, the Earl of MORTON, Lord and Lady CARLEToN, Admiral Lord KEITH, Lord LIME RICK, Mrs. HowE, Mr.. WALPOLE, &C. &C. &C. Lcrd Ha mEwoon and Family returned to town, on Saturday, from Harewood-hall, Yorkshire. The Pic Ni:, met on Saturday, for the first time elis season, at the Tottenham-street Rooms. On account of the absence of several leading mem bers, the meeting was adjourned for a few days, when a Committee will be appointed tar arranging and conducting the amusements of the Society fur tile ensuing season. Mr. 'l'. Di BDI N'S two comic Operas, the Caliaet, and Family Quarrel', have proved uncommonly at traztive at Covent Garden Theatre this season. Mr. Co M A res new comedy, called jam Bull; or, the BufiJhntan's Fire-Sid:, at Covent Garden, and the facto of the Nunl, which is preparing for spe.Aly appearance at Drury Lane, will, in all pro bability, run the race for popularity at the same tittle. Report speaks favourably of b oth. On the 24th of Jan. the higher order of the no of Vienna took an airing in sledjes. Seven teen of those vehicles graced, by ladies Elegantly dressed, drawn by superb horses, and accompanied by a numerous cavalcade, paraded the city. A military band accompanied this brilliant spectacle. Capt. SAMPSON, Of the Compacts of Elgise packet, left London on Saturday evening, for Calais, to bring over Lord and Lady BESBUROUGH, Lord and Lady MORPETH, &c. 'They are expeEted at Calais on Tuesday. Levis noNAP AM, accompanied by his wife and Mad Arne LAM BEET I NI, are said to be on the eve of their departure on a tour through Italy. The celebrated sculptor Do4LNakur; VERON ESE, lately died at Rome. The Cardinal Legate, CA P ARA, is much better. He is attended by M. CURVISAItD, tile ksiesT CON SUL'S Physician. DuvatE, the French author and actor, is arrived at Berlin,. in his route to Petersburgh, and has been very well received by KOTZEBUE, IF FE AND, and LaroNTa NE. The first is, at present, emphyed in adapting to, the Gentian Stage oue of the plea unrest vieces of Duv A Le - a he new Portuguese Ambassador, being con duZl,d to witness the masquerade, at the Opera House, on Thursday night, in company with the late Plenipotentiary from that court, on passing the box-door, they were accosted by a man, who, pre tending that he belonged to the house, and in a grave tone of voice, thus addressed them : " Gen tlemen, the cruwd is so great on the stage, and the pickpockets are so numerous, if you enter, your watches and property are in danger ; you had better leave them with me for safety, until your re turn." The gentlemen not suspating the fraud, readily agreed, and delivered up their gold watches, of considerable value, to the sharper, who irnme-. diately decamped w/th ,his booty, leaving them to lamest Cheer loss. . FROM THE NEW rola" PAPERS. ST DOMINGO. The Columbian Centinel (from Bdston, New Eng land) of the 22d December, states, that the Fame, from, Port Republican, has been spoken with at sea ; the master says, that the Negroes had taken that place by storm, and put all the white men, women, and children to death. By the dates of this account, the Fame left . fort Republican cn the 16th of November. The New England Palladium of Dec. 24, further states, that information had been received at Phila delphia, from Cape Francois; to N0v.17. The main force of the Blacks w g encamped within'twelve milet of the Cape; the inhabitants of which place were in constant dread of a desperate attack. A want of ammunition, on the part of the Negroes, alone delayed the assault, but a supply was expe6ted from Port Republican. The French force at the Cape was about 2,40 men, and that of the enemies, in its vicinity, 10,000 strong. It was. difficult to decide whether the French or Negroes were the most cruel. St. Marks had capitulate.l with the Negroes, whose final success was almost certain. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF XLNG's BENCH, WESTMINSTER, Ft s. 12 AILIS V. DICKIg. Mr. Ma R era r, on a former day, obtained a Rule ai,i, to sliew cause why the inquisition ia this case should not be executed before the Chief Justice a.;:d a Special Jury. It was an a.ftion brought against the Defoliant for slander, in saying that the Plaintiff, who is the Keeper of the Cold-bath-fields Prism, had starved two of the prisoners committed to his custody. The Dofendant had first pleaded the general it tie, but had afterwar.is pleaded a jia.Eficati4n, and suf• fered judgment to go by default. Mr. SCOTT she‘ted cause against the Rule being made absolute, and argued that there was nothing in the same to prevent it from being executed in the common way before the Sheriff. Lord Et tr.ueououon was of a different opinion. It was a charge, he said, of considerable import ance to the Plaintiff and the Public : an inquiry ought therefore to take place in a superior Court, beloie a Special Jury. COMMON PLEAS SA Ili DERS .. JONES. Mr. Serjeant BAILEY had obtained a Rule to enter a nonsuit in this case, in consequence of the Plaintiff not bringing the cause to trial. Mr. Serjeant ONsi.ou moved for a Rule to shew cause against the nonsuit, stating that the absence of a material witness had prevented the trial. It was an anion for 23 pipes of wine shipped at Oporto for Lisbon, which the Defendant refused payment for, on pretence that the liquor hard been caul. derably diminished in the course of the voyage. On the 9th of July a commission had been ob tained to examine a witness in Oporto, whose de-. position was not yet returned, but expelled every day. The Court refused to make Mr. Serjeant &tit tv's Rule absolute, and ordered that the caw* should be set down for trial at be Sittings after Easter Term. Nothing further was done at all interesting to the public, the day bein,q K i..11y devoted to the future buiiwss of the Ccntrls. Hilary Term closed this day. By a decree of the Vice-Preident of the Italian Republic, all compos!tioits for theltrical represen tation, national and foreign periodical publications sold or distributed, and all forei:ra works exp ose d as objects of commerce and merchandize, are sub mitted to a censorship of a magistracy, composed of three persons residue* at Milan: The charaiinK Mademoiselle Pattie has been received in Russia, in a manner worthy of her distin guished talents. The Emperor has presented her with a superb diamond necklace. The poet C Asc r, a Florenthe by birth, and suc cessor of METASTASIO, in the place and title of Poet Laureat of the Court of Vienna, died on the 6th inst. at the Age of 82. There is not to be any considerable addition to establishment of Madras in consequence of the lace treaty With th.: Nizara, it being lik Avise sailed that the subsidiary force at Hydrabad, is, in case of emergency, to be at the disposal of our Go vernment. Three tons, 14 cwt .961 b. of foreign specie, was last week landed at Duvet, from L'Achille and Par fait Union Packets. Allot, 'IAMB KHAN, who was lately in this city, in December last passed through Constantinople, on his way to India—lie has presented to the Turkish Government the Manuscript of a famous Arabian Diaionary, translated into Persian. Lord ELGIN had not left Constantinople on the 24th of December. A letter from Constantinople, of the '24th De: ceruber, says, " Sidky Effendi, who has left this with a parzicu!ar commission for Llndon, is said to be the bearer of different insigniA cf the, Order of ti►e Moon, of Medals, &c. &C. to be given to the Of ficers who slistinguisked themselves in the Campaign Egy pt: 9 As soon as the news of the death of General LE.. CLERC reached Milan, a general mourning . took place, which lasted for a week; and the Const►tuted Authorities set off to present compliments of condo lence to General MuaA,T, bis Lady, and Madame LECLERC. Citizens I)st au P and CVVIER, have been ap pointed Perpetual Seeretarizs of First Class of the National Institute at Paris ; the former fin - the Ma thematics, .the latter for Natural Philosophy. Citi zen SIC Mt r) has been appointed Perpetual Secreta ry of the Class of Languages and French Litera ture; and Citizen DAcIEg to the Class of History and Antient Literature. The Wicklow and Wexford mail was u again rob bed on Friday se'nnight, being the time in about three months. Three armed men stopped the mail almost at the end of Leeson -street, and took the bags, which, it is supposed, they opened by the light of the moon, the letters being found next morning near thespot at which they had been taken, one of them containing a draft at sight for 701. on the bank ; and another a guinea note, doubtless overlooked iu their hurry. The plunder carried off principally consisted of Bank Post Bills, of which there was a cousidaraliie amount hclor.ging to arm person. :. . •• Or ' • .-. I