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.- FusicaaT The Daikr sloop of war is jest arrived, brining Icttrrs of 4 Lie clatz. from Old En7lAnd. About wee k ago A most trem.:..l ius storm visited this S►lau.l, continuing for the spice of four days, ac c +m,iAnied b" a deal of thunder and lightning, doing •tsme szveral houses and a church were struck by the 'attn. The troops from I:gypt are dAily expected, as the last accounts spe.tk of the emAarcation of stores. For the last month nothing has been going on tv-re bit masperalng :—for three days we h.t l a puhlic mastrterade h the streets ; no &lice!, how ever, was atmet d to a; pear masked. Lord Elgin art -wed here on the 24th from Con. ttantinople, un his way home. His Lordship will contivie here a few days. There is not the le tst appearance just now of tha evacuation of this island ; the British troops, however, some of whom have been a crinsiderable time on service, look anxiously for a relief. - The t rench and Neapolitan Plenipotentiaries, with about '2OOO Neapolitans, encamped and can toned without the British works, s!ill continue— Those troops with themselv:.•s back again, being very badly paid. The proportioas of prize-money at tending the redudion of this island arc reported to be made out. Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton's squadron, consisting of five sail of the line, &c. arriv.•d here last month fenin Sardinia. We have had several French mercirantmen lately in oar har bour. The OfE:en of the Mysore Army, after the tak ing of Seringapatarn, sent as a present to the Mar quis Wstts.st.rv, a brilliant Diatrsnd Gelrie, of great beabty and immense value, which his lord ship refused, holding it to be incompatible with his oath, to accept of any kind of present. Government mean to purchase the Isle of Lundy from Sir V rar newt, for the purpose of making it a military station. • It is generally Wieved that Alexandria has by this time been finally evacuated by the British troops, particul.trly if that proceAing was required by the Porte: . In ca:.e of a svar with France, it would not, we believe, he thou ;ht good policy to retain the place, without th..! concurrence of the Turks, as that would give the enemy a pretence for landing troops in Erzypt, for the ostensible purpose of dislodging; the 'English, and be, perhaps, pro eluaive of an alliance between France and Tur- key. Monday sennight the Officers who served under Sir CHAR!. ES CR'. V, in the West Indies, dined at AtwellN ivern, Cove-street, Dublin ; General Sir JouN RADOCK in the Chair; Lord ERRIS, Vice-President. The entertainment was diqin- guished for excellence, and the attentions highly StaEof Ireland is principally to cAmsist of the following Office7s :—Mjor-Gcneral Sir CHARLES Aso§ L r., Lieutenant-Genzral CS rnLI. L, Lieute stant-General DeummoNo, Colonel GROsE, &c.— General Fox, Commander-in•Chit:l of the forces. Lord MELVILLE WAS chosen, oa Tuesday last, Cs.vernor of the Bank of Scotland. The Duke of Mos - roost, and the EaTIS Of KELLIE, LAUDER. nALr, Da tmovstr, and GLASGOW, were, at the same time, chosen Exttaurdinary Directors. The French Government, since the peace, has imported ten thousand tons of hemp from Peters. burgh, and five thousand tons from Riga. Our letters iron] Copenhagen of the 19th of March, inettiott, that Prince WILL I am of Gt.ovc ESTER had been there slightly iadlscosed, but was again in per fed health. A most singular discovery was made, on Friday last, at Depttord. IVliile a number of sailors and others were busily employed in unloading the cargo of the Aimed an East Indiaman, who ar rived at the above place a fortnight ago, from Madras, (laden with sugar, salt-petre, and some bale g0.A. , ) then being in the at of dragging out of the hold some of :agar, they discovered, from a board in t: e of the ship, a green snake, of An amAsing sine, w`oose appearance was •so ter rific, that it gave a general alarm, :nal it being well known that its bite is instantaneous death, it was found necessary to procure weapon; for its destruc tion, which they completed by thing a spade to the end of one of the oars of the bcat, by which they caught it by the neck, and confined it till they se vered the head from the bod y . It was as green as grass, fifteon feet long, and eighteen inches in cir cumference. It is supposed that this animal, in the sight-time, found its w-ay on board the ship while lying at Madras, by the means of colicealinft itself in one of the bags of sugar, or sliding on one of the pl.urks into the hold, following the scent of the sugar. Its bite is always understood to be more venomous than the bite of a rattle-snake. Last Wednesday a decree passed the Legislative Body, for a goLi and silver coinage. The silver pieces are to be quarter francs, half francs, three quarter francs, two franc pieces, and five franc pieces. '.'he franc is te contain five grammes, of which nine-tenths are to be pure silver, and one tenth alloy. The gold coinage is to be of twenty and forty franc pieces, each having nine-tenths of gold and one-tenth if alloy. The copper pieces N7ill be those of two hundredths, three hundredths, and five hundredths of a franc. These coins are to bear on one side the head of the FIRST CONSUL. With the legend, " BONAPARTE, Firjt COll.l ui," and on the other the value of each, surrounded by two branches of olive, n ith the legend .4 French Republic." The five franc pieces are to have the kgond, " God proteeta France." The journal dr Park of the 3i st, contair.s the fol lowing paragraph : " It has been discovered at Hamburgh, that an order had been given to a manufalory of fire-arms at Thuringes for .30,000 muskets of the French mo del, and that 30,000 florins of the value ha,: been paid in advance. The apparent and pretended pur chase is the slave-trade. Tne fact that such a spe culation has been made is ascertained, but its avow ed purpose is evidently sappositious. It cannut be imagined, that so considerable a quantity of arms can be employed in a branch of traffic, to which a great variety of merchandise and hut a small quan tity of the same articles are generally necessary. There is reason to believe, tharthe intention of the speculators was to furnish the means of defence and destruCliou to the revolted uegroes of St. Domingo ; and mere than one circuiestance renders it proba ble, that these speculators are Anglo-Americans." 1.- - 6)IGINAL POSTRr, LINES Aurviirito IJ WlBl THLODMiIA ♦MAYS. Let .Itheista view tire lovely The, In .v'r• charm completed : Ant liappineol they'd on:. agree In abt...,'s bosom +eated. And mu-t nwit (who am net curb A Bing wretched, ruesoni , ..) That I do covet, overmuch, To sleep in Al/ca/el bottom. Gran's run. r:I SHION. J S. METIWEN'i POUT. Mrs. MFTHUEN gave, on Friday 1.1-1, a grand Rout, to about 300 of the first rank and fashion, at her Kouse in Lower Grosvenbr-square.—ln the company were, Margins of Winchester. I:orb—Stanhope, Portsmouth, Ab:lyne, Ca!Mon, and 3,lhinntliorr,s. /Arils—Rodney, Willoughby De Broke. Graves, Ducie, and If P. try. Sir..-P . Hal. -5, \V. Langliam, C. Talbot, R. 'Williams, R. C. Glynn, G. Duck-tt, J. Riddle, and 11. Dashwood. Cn one's—Atailley, Arm.triong, Glynn, Dyke, and How4rd. Captabot.—.Morton, Rennet, Ell more, ami Holloway. M o ues.—Townilieod, ‘Vlotaker, Heath, Steward, Harley, Warner, Paine, Sawbridge, Rodney, Nevide, Coleman, I leath cote, LAnghant, Cements, T. Walpole, R:a .kett, Wdlets, G. B:a:ltmaii, A. Stanhope, G. Dorien, Peny, Black burin., Sloane, Ca-iainajor, Pierce, Trent, Robinion, Cooper, Cox, Dirkenvni, Ford, Ifeatliente, Push-, Ilcath, Vincent, Dougiga, North, S. Stanhope, Vansittart, 11. Coat, Nicholls Ridwy, Botnrerie, Roo; Wulfl, Joddrel, /lope, Milk, and Dr.:mm.lnd S:!itt .1. Winchest , r. Coituteors-4.,:vernool, Carhampton, Porterinutli, K Pomfret, Abergavenny, Nlountiloiri., and Carilar. von . Visenunteis Diullty and Ward. Lwliesa-.Cutiliffe, Buxton, Do Donstativille, C. Jenkincon, Langh.m., ProFtur, W. Wynne, Brayhrook, Ando ver, Williams, Fustier, Bowman, Hunt it:Tried, R C. G ymi„ De Clifford, Duch., Sheffield, Dowager Wyatt, Douglas, R... - M . rttunv. Eoston, L. Pucie, B..auttionr, F. Ihri!son, Brownlow, Shelly, E. Tufton, Call, Sommers, Boaton, King, twu Mar)liants, Hawke, C. lluward, Say and Sete, and Head ley. Irst reret--I rale, Garai Grant, I:sath, Baker, fiendmrinn, 'Tuey, Richard), Sawbtidg:., Codringrun, Brown, Heatlicote, Crof , , Blackest, Freemantle, T. Smith, G. Donn!, Conyei, Pierce., Lawrie, Rohinson, Drummond, Sullivan, Dawkiti , , (:oci fail, Vincent, Noith, Nlitner, S. Stanhope, Van smart, Clyde, Bouverie, Anguish, Dashwuod, Rose, Marcy, Roch, Morton, and Drummond Smith. Misee,--Ilales, Buxton, two Citlemans, Heath, Campbell, two Townsliends, Ilarl.y, Richaols, Gages, Prodor, Paine, Wynne, Blackwell, Langliarn, J.thitsmt, Eustace, Andrew', Fitzroy, T. eurie, Cos, Cie:news, Lown.les, Gages, Dickenson, iini ley, tli Grioddards, nought), North, Cust, Shelly, Dash wood, and 11.1 inure Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Scott' and AMELIA, attended by Generals GWYNNE and HARCOURT, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great l'ark, and viewed the different improvements carrying on there. Her Royal Highness Princess Et.tzmirrit, at• tended by Mrs. DRAKE, accompanied his MA• Jisr r in an open phaeton. Her MAJESTY and Princess AUGUST A, attended by Lady CAROLINE DA MER, took an airing to Frogmore, and walked in the Gardens, the day being remarkable fine. Yesterday morning Sir WILLIAM and Lady PITT left London ; they paid a visit to her MAJESTY at Frogmore, t)n their way to Hackfield Heath. eiter:'..iy, between one and two o'clock, the Princess MARY wok an airing on the Edgware road. Lord COLE left town on Sunday, on a visit to Lord and Lidy C AST 1.1:Itil A GU, at their villa, East sheen, from whence he will visit the Earl of nt MANS'. r [Kith at his seat at Cacn Wood, and afterwards will pass the Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs. BvNG, at their seat at Northam Park, near Barnet. Viscount and Viscountess CAS f L%REACH left town on Suaday for their Villa at Fast Sheen, where they will remain till after the holidays. :,sir GIL:H.ILT and Lady licaTitcori: and family left town, on Saturday, for \orm:wton Park, Stam ford, Lincolnshire, where they inland to pass the holidays. The Princess, of horn the Queen of PRUSSIA WAS delivered on the '23d of February, was baptized on the 21st ult. by the name of FKEDERIc.t WIL. IIELMINA ALEXANDRINA NIA/ILA HELENA. The sponsors were, by proxy, the Emperor of RUSSIA, the Empress Dow an En, and the Hereditary Princess of MF.CKLENBURG SCHWERIN. Lady XELBY gives a sFlendid ball and supper to a large party on Thursday, the 21st inst. Lord XV A L LSCovr:E, one of the Governors of the county of Galway, died last week in Dublin. He is succeeded in his title by his nephew, JOSEPH HENRY BLARE, a minor. The Duke of Gottoorr has this last year exa:lly doubled the rental of his Scotch estates, which were ba'are but e-2,0001. a year. So great is the general improvement of property in Scotland, that Lord MAcnom Lo has also increased his income not less than 60001. a year. It was Lord CHARLES MURRAY, fourth son of his Grace the Duke of ATHOL, and not Lord J A mEs, who had been so dangerously ill of la grippe. His Lordship was attended by Sir W. Fa licit:ll Alt and Mr. CHI LYB R. Lord J AMES MUR- R A v was never in better health and spirits, and has been with his regiment, the 10th Light Dragoons, at Brighton, for these last three weeks. KE mor E is to open with Macbeth on Easter Mon day, at Datil. All negotiations between him and Old Drury are totally Lt an end fur the present seaori. _ _ Mr. SKEVTINGTON, who last year presented ",;-s. MArrocKs, at her benefit, with a play (the Pord of Honour), has, we understand, two pieces in great forwaidness, one of which will make its ap pearance at each house this present season. For one of them, it is said, he has taken the whimsical name of Tops and Bottom'. On St. Patrick's Day, a prize of two silver caps was run for, over the four-mile course, in the Earl of Llandaff's great park of Thomastown, by hunters, the property of gentlemen resident in the county of Tipperal y, and was won by Mr. E. 0. Bei . Lk.it's Shamrock. _ At Berwick, last week, a fellow, pretending to le.lure on astronomy and geography, alter running in debt at several houses for lodgings, &c. suddenly cc/ipt,/, to the great disappointment of more than the phdolotbrrs of the place. • • roAK ASSIZES. TRIAL. OF JAMES LUNE/. • 'The prison er s t oo d indiael for obtaining goodi under fake pretences. The prisoner was a ruler for a hosier in Man chester ; the prosecutor a dealer in linen cloth; and lives at Brompton, near Northallerton. The pri s,mer. in the course of his journey, called upon the prosecutor, and during tiwir conversation, said to the prosecutor, that he could obtain orders for him, which the prosecutor told him he might do, pro vided he was sure of the people of whom he tool the orders. The prosecutor, upon his examination, said, that the -pt oner sent him a letter containing an order for a Miss Itobimon, which order the prosecutor ex ecuted and was regularly paid for ; thdt on the 19th of Febrnary, th e prisoner called upon the pro secutor, and told him he had obtainid an order for him from a capital house in Manchester, of the firm of Darnton and Co. ; that the prisoner himself wrote down the order, and said, that Darnton and Co. Nvcre safe people ; that upon receipt of the goods he might have a draft to the amount, upon allowing a discount; that he gave orders to the prosecutor to (tired the goods to Darnton and Co. Manchester, and put the initials W. D. M. upon the package; that the goods were accordingly sent off, according to these direetions, together with a bill of parcels, direned Darnton and Co. Manchester ; the goods were sent by Walsh's waggon, according to the pri soner's dire:lion. The bill of parcels was returned to the prosecu tor, from the post-office in London, intim-nil:lg him that no such house as Daimon and Co. could be found in Manchester. Upon being cross-examined by Mt. Sinclair, he said, he did not authorize any person to go to the prisoner in Manchester to demand the money of the prisoner. John ‘Vilson proved, that having business that called him to Manchester (which the prosecutor knew of) he desired him to enqui!e if there was such a house as Darnton and Co.; that he went to the carrier to make the inquiry ; that the carrier told him he knew of no Damon and Co. but that, he knew a William annton, who was a printer; that, by the prosecutor's request, he waitd upon Mr. Johnson, an ;_ttorney, and the prisoner was then sent for; that Mr. Johnson charged him with the fraud ; upon which he said that the William Darn ton, the person whom the carrier had named, was the person whom the goods were for ; that he consi dered him as a respectable merchant at the time he gave him the order for the g oods, but that since then he had been deceived in him; that he found him otherwise, and therefore had taken the goods to himself from the carrier, and had taken them to Mr, Newsom's, for N'-hom he travelled; that the wit ness was to excuse him to the prosecutor, for that he himself would pay for them. _ _ _ . . Abraham Ibberson, book-keeper to Mr. Watch, proved that the prisoner and William Darnton came to their office for the goods, producing the bill of 'parcels, and describing the diralion ; that the goods were taken to Mr. Newsom's wlarehouse by the pri soner's direflion, for Wm. Darnton. William Darnton was examined on the part of the prisoner; he said he was no merchant ; that he cer tainly did order the prisoner to buy goods for him, but not particularly of the prosecutor—He had been acquainted with the prisoner about two years. The Learned Judge, upon summing up the evi dence, observed, that if he had been entrusted parti cularly to buy of any one person for William Darn ton, and afterwards lie saw that he had been deceiv ed by William Darnton, then the Jury could not find him guilty; but if it appeared to the Jury, that when he gave the or ler to the prosecutor, that he intended to defraud him, lie was guilty of that wherewith he was charged : indeed, observed the Learned Judge, his intention of rand appears evident; for he speaks of the firm of Darnton and Co. as being safe and well known, when it turns out upon the evidence, that after all due diligence used, no such firm as Darnton and Co. could be found in Manchester; and the story he told to the prosecutor's attorney in Manchester, that he had been deceived by William Darnton, appears a strong circumstance against him, for he ought to have written to the prosecutor, in forming him of it, and procured instructions as to the disposal of the goods ; no such thing had he done ; but instead of which, he kept the goods, and appears to have disposed of them, and converted the money to his own use ; for it does not appear that he had offered to return the goods or to pay for them. Verdi& Guilty. Sentence, seven year: trans portat:on. 'lV** POL ICE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a Frenchman, who lodged in a re spedable house in the neighbourhood of Soho, was brought before the Magistrate at this office, charged with assaulting his landlord, and throwing him down stairs. The complainant stated, that the person in cus tody had for some time past disturbed his family, by knocking at the door of his house at all hours in the night. On his remonstrating with him, on the impropriety of his conduit, the prisoner had struck him several violent blows in the face, which occa sioned him to fall down the stairs. The accused attempted to prove, that the com plainant was the aggressor, and gave a long account in French of various ads of ill-usage, which he had met with since he first came to live in his lodg ings. The Magistrate ordered him to be discharged, upon condition of making satisfadion to his landlord, and of leaving the lodgings he occupied. Ad A N si HOUSE. Yesterday Elizateth Levy and Pricilla Redman were brought before the Lord Mayor, suspeeled of having attempted to make away with a new-born infant. A woman named Ann Davis stated to his Lordship, that the prisoner was grand-mother to the infant, and that her daughter some time back had been delivered of two children, both of which she had disposed of in a very doubtful manner, having taken them away in a coach, and they had not been seen since. She also said, that the prisoner lived in a state of prostitution with a married man named William Norman, and on Sunday last was delivered of an infant, for the safety of whom considerable apprehensions were entertained; her conduit was accordingly watched by several persons anxious for the fate of the child, and on Sunday night she was observed to go out through an alley near Petticoat lane, with the infant in her arms, and on being asked i~ 1 104ra silt WI gting ft/ ividf tiff site gai•e; to the prirmer Redman, who pretended to carry it home ; a number of pe'tsobs took the infant away o and had them both taken into cnstody. The prisoner Levy confessed that her datietter had been dehvered on Stinday morning without any assistance, and that she was a had girl, as she was living with a Christian by whom she bad the child in question ;• she had behaved upun the whOe so contrary to her fetgion, that her father would not consent to 'suffer her to remain in his house; she was therefore going to take it out to num.. A boy appeared against the prisoner, and said that he had seen Levy attempting to put the infant down a sewer, which he prevented her from (Ling. A Mrs. Bateman was called by the prisoners to prove what became of the two - children fit spoken of ; she said that she knew one tem. d died of convulsions, and bad been burl olloway- Mount. Her story was, however, s • adiaory, that the Lard Mayor ordered her to Pe committed with the other prisoners i until further shall develope this mysterious affair. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LINRUSS SPRING,IEE FING—(Scor LAN D.) FIRST DAY. The weather having proved unfavonrahle in every part of Great Britain, the tieeting W.ll ddayW till the 17th of March, when it began, and was run in the Main manner as under : Mr. Erskine 's Titter, beat Mr Stuart% Vent's. Mr. Weinyes Manic, (get by Snowball) beat Mr. Maul's Toper. Mr. Mansfield's Nell, (got by Snowball) beat Mr. Ramsay's &w hither. Mr. Brown's Fly, brat Mr. R. Stein's Transit. Mr. truce's Lady, beat M. Dalrysnple's Swanam. Mr Black% Jup.tzr, (gut by Sauwhall) beat COI. Ferguson's Hector. Capt. Wellyreioirs Veita, (got by Snowball) beat Sir Wil liam Et-iloile's Whitcclaw. Sir Charles Ilalkett's. Fly, beat Mr. I familtoti's Ju no. SECOND DAY'S RUNNING. Mr. Mansfield's Nell, (by Sno4rball) beat Mr. Erskine's Titter. Mr. BruceN Lady, beat Cipt. Wel'wood's tre•ta. Sir C. Ha,kete. Fly , beat Mr. Wemis's Mauls. Mr. Brown's Fly, beat Mr. Black's Jupiter. THIRD DAY'S RUNNING, AND FOR THE CU F. Mr. Mart.lield's Nell, (by Snowball) bi:at Mr. Bruce's Lady. FroM the want of Hares on the last day, the Main could not be concluded, and was therefore adjourned till the next November Meeting. it will be u.•served, from the above account, how the Blood of Snowball distinguished itself, and while Major, the brother of Old Snowball (at 11 years old) WAS receiving for feit from the reputedly-best Bitch in the South of England, the descendants of Snowball were ;ng away every thing in Scotland. A circumstance perhaps never paralleled in the annals of Sporting. NACIN::. KIPPI. I NG-CUATF.S, YORKSHIRE. THURSDAY, MARCH 24. The Annual Plate free for any Horsc, &c. car rying 1 Ost. Fuur Miles. Ka}'-; bay boric, by Pipatur - - - . 1 Mr. Smith% br. Creepiug Kate, by True Rue - 2 On the `22d inst. a bet, which had been pending between the Marquis of Donegall and James Wat son, of Brookhill, Esq. was decided in favour of the latter. Mr. Watson having bet that he would, in the course of that day, with his own pack, hunt (in a sporting manner) and kill, or run in -to, a Doe which was then in possession of the Marquis, the animal was enlarged on the East side of Dnoagore-hill, whence having got a few minutes law, she threeted her course towards Doagh (where the hounds enjoyed an nn prime,) passed over Carncarny mountain to Tardr6e., round which she frequently ran—then proceeded over the country to the West of hells, in the County of Meath, and swam the river there, cont nuing her course next Drummaul, passed over the Main Water, neighbourhood of Galgorm Castle, where she remained in a Moss until tin, hounts lurched her, and Mr. NVatson took her up unhurt, in the presence of several geatlenien who had rode the entire chase. A number of fine horses were neaily killed, frcin the extraordinarr length of • the chase; one aduaily died in the field, and another cn the way home. It is worthy of remark, that the abovementioned Doe yielded similar sport a fear w•,eks before. -, w MArr Er ews, the porter at Clement's-Irrn, who lately drowned himself in the New liver at Isling ton, left a note at the Lodge, signifying where he was to be found, and by this direction hrs bOdy was recovered. The motive of this rash anion is sa;cl to be his having embezzled some sums of money be longing to the Society. The King's-Bench Prison is at prz..sent so thronged with confined debtors, there are scarcely rooms enough to accommodate, or to rhea: one-half of the unfortunate prisoners. Mr. BIRCH NA announced himself a Candidate for Nottingham in a public advertisement, in which he says, " It has certainly bee:: the subject of most painful regret to me, that proceedings did take place, during some periods of the late Eleaion,wl.ichmerit the severest reprehension. But that there are, in all great towns, misguided men, who take advantage of the confusion attendant on every popuia: elec tion, to gratify their private resentment, i s also a lamentable - faa : yet, the existing laws have suffi cient energy ter the suppression and punishment of such conduct. Why then have not the par.ies ag grieved appealed to those laws ?" The neighbourhood about Grosvenor-square was yesterday greatly alarmed by the appearance of fire in Brooke's blows. One of the ciiimnies over the stables had taken tire, and for a tune the flames spt ead from the top, in a manner that seemed to threaten the adjoining houses. Several engines came to the spot ; but happily their assistance was not necessary, as the timely exertions of the several persons assembled, had extinguished the flames be fore their arrival. ,The damage was inconsiderable, . Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, the seven criminals under sentence of death in the New Pri son, Horsetnonger-lane, were executed. Three clergymen attended the in on the platform, to whom they paid every degree of attention, and expressed the mast marked penitence tor their s.:+eral A great number of people were assembled, to be witness of the awful tate of these unhappy offenders, rdicre lives atoned for the violation of the laws. ~---- , . • .1 • r