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r rP J 1. , ~~ have been Ilion& feet many years- .Can T ceer 1 otherwise than love a man. who after rendering me such great services, came with his trunk . wider 10; man wet offered to go France with me, which he ac tually did at a time when I era:, deserted by every other person." These Gentlemen, who were :Laing as mediators, reported to Colonel liarwood what tiir Jacob Astley had said, and he reillied, " Go back, and tell him I am satisfied, but I think he ought to do somethir.g for Ludt skstley.' The result of this negotiation Was, a re , onciliation did in point of fait take place, though it was thotight proper to defer the public avowal of it •i:l after the eleaion was over, lest it should give (se ssion to some of Sir Jacob's enemies to draw in i. from it injurious to his interest. Now, I ask von A 4 hether, after all this had taken places there (eight to have been any affirm brought into Court ? Yon - will say there ought not—yet, in order to ren der this reconciliation of no effea, conditions were afterwards required, which no man of honour could sa'amit to—l think when once I prove there was a ete-fea reconciliation, and a mutual forgiveness, you will be of opinion. that the Plaintiff has ailed ill-advisedly in exposing this cause to . the animadversion of the public. If the cause is not to stop here, I must do that which will be most t: :pleasant to me. I must infer and prove that which Colonel Harwood, from long intimacy in the lam& of the late Sir Edward Astley, knew to he the fait. I must shcw that Sir Edward repeatedly, and to the last moment of his life, declared that the ni;scundua and nukindness of his son, the Plaintiff, had broke his heart. The learned Counsel 'ere -tated the circumstances of Sir Edward A s tley becoming embarrassed ; his assigning his estates in trust to Colonel Harwood and a Mr. Jones, for the benefit of his creditors ; the scorn and ill-treat n:ent be afterwards nut with • the mortificae tious he endured ; his being r efused even the privilege of cutting a little fire-wood, and a va riety of other insults and deprivati, ns to which he was forced to submit. Mr Gurney terminated his obiervaticau by saying, " My learned friend will have his reply; hut when be has done all he can, I .have only to intreat you to icier to your own minds, in order to tell you what you think of a Plaintiff, who, after such a reconciliation, can provoke a discussion in a Court of Justice. 1 trust your first an.cwer w ill be, that the Hun. Gentleman, my client, never meant the words in the sense im puted to them ; and, secondly, that after the par ties had been reconciled, all idea of an anion should have been driseped. The consequence of these answers m ill he, that you must feel yourselves bound, if you should return a verdit in favour of the Plaintiff, to give merely non.ival damages. Mr. Ward said he was present when the Defen dant used the words ; lie was attempting to explain Clem when he was pulled down. Mr. Christopher I)inniore proved all the eiretim :-emees stated to the f/efendant's Counsel—Mr. Er skine objeaed to his stating the iuipressitai the words made on his mind. Mr. Gardener deposed precisely to the same ef fea, hut the same objeCtion was taken to his evi dence. Mr. Barnaid vas called t. the same points, but he was not allowed to prove either his conception of the • irds, or that the Defendant had it in contempla- lion to have explained them. Mrs. Allison proved the death of Sir Edward, but she was not suffered to state, that he had not seen his gm for upwards of a twelvemonth. Mr. Eisei et replied, in a very eloquent speech • —lie insisted, that his claim to damages *as not in • the least degree removed, but that he was irtitled to the full amount laid in the declaration, w:thout the least deduction. Mr. Justice Gaost informed the Jury, that in nrirr to their returning a verdict in favour of the • Plaintiff, they ought to be satisfied, that the words seem spoken, and that they conveyed the meaning stated m the declatatinn. His Lordship recapitu * lased the evidence, coMmenting upon it as he pro ' eeeded. If there were any circumstances that could induce the Jury to give a different interpretation to the words, they were bound to do so. The conversa !tioh whic.h had passed between the mutual friends err the patties, he considered as, strialy speaking, not sufisciently authorized by the Plaintiff, Sir Jacob Astley. If the Jury should be of opinion the words were used in the sense attributed to' them, they mould then consider what damages the Plaintiff was entitled to recover. lie observed, that in no case ought a Jury to give vindietive damages ; • all they were justified in doing was to give such 'reasonable damages as the Plaintiff was entitled to 'for the injury he had sustained. • The'Jury consulted together about half an hour, and returned a verdiet in favour of the Plaintiff, 2,0001. It is impossible to convey any idea of the interest 'this cause excited in the county. An immense con tourse of persons assembled round the Court House 'before the doors opened, and the access was attended If ith extreme difficulte The heat of the place was ;oppressive to a degree. • An eleitieent cause was to have been tried between Nile sane patties. It was hreught by Sir Jacob Ast glee, to recover firm Mr. Harwood possession of a tlirm demised to that Gentleman by the late Sir Ed ' se.ird Astley, and upon which Mr. Harwood had * NM considstable sums of money. Sir Jacob, pro'bahq thu.king it would ptejudice hi 3 action for . de:mutt ion;'e iit k lrew the record. There was epxy little buainess at the A The l'aisoneis on the Crown side were tried by Mr. lieraeahr riggir—T•me According to relipeable advices from Madrid, under . date of the. To hl uit. received by a Spanish house ae ni jlaburgh, eintruded cession of Loui siana to FrAece has ot i casioseed..the-presenting of some strorig inemorialA agaiatt Cis measure, on • the part ot the Diplomatic Age Ats of two different Powers ; to which the Court ot Strain 14; not, how ever, thought it pri2per to make :thy reply. Other memerial.., in mote urgent language, have since succeeded the former, yet -with tio, farther seems. The Spanish blinisery have 'sent a courier to Paris, probably to desire advice of the French Govern ment bow to an ender such an emergency. • The law Middlesex regiment of Militia are ova &red to muster At wren o'clock.in the morning, on; Friday next At Edmonton:. Corner av Et Lev non.—At the close of the second dayis poll, the numbers were, . rut Sir. !Whore • . SU:Stratum -FOREIGN INTBLLIGENCIC • V!IRMIWA, NIA Ring TS. The Palatine of Hungary has set out on his jour , ney for St. Presburgb. .0" A great commercial Home at Brett has Niel : a commercial house here has likewise stopped pa; .= meat. There-is a report of a long journey which their Imperial Maje,ties propose to make in the Spring. They will go, it is said, by the way of Pisa and Rome to Naples ; thence to Venice, where they will receive homage ; from Venice to Trieste, to inspea the harbour ; from Trieste to Gallicia, to receive the Palatine and his Consort ; from Callicia to Dresden. to be present at the marriage of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and thence back by the way of Prague to Vienna. ROME, FEL 24. According to a private letter frinn Messina, the Maltese Bak Tomasi, has accepted the dignity of Grand Master of Malta, for which lie was origi nally proposed; but a certain great power rather Prince Ruspoli. Tomasi is of an ancient 'Unica» family, nearly related to the Spanocchi and Manfred i ni . There is talk here of a new French Expedition against Algiers. In the Treaty of the 17th Decem ber 1801, the I.ky promised to restore to France all the establishments on that coast, in the same condi tion in which they were previous to the year 1792; but he now reftises to give them back, unless he tr ceives the old trilmte. The Republic of the Seven United Islands has sent a Minister Plenipotentiary to St. Petersburgh (who has already arrived at Vienna.) In these islands a National Assembly (Nazionale Conise•so) has been convoked, to settle the internal regulations, relative to which Count Moncenigo and the Presi dent Teotechi lrave issued Proclamations. MADRID, mi. 21. On the 19th inst. the Santo Domingo arrived in the Road of Cadiz from South America, with five millions of piastres on board. As soon as advice of her arrival was received here, the vales rose five per cent. and will be still higher. HAGUE, MARCH 12. Our Loan, which was.scarc,ely opened, is already filled, though on the whole it is not so advantageous as that of last year. More has been subsc; ibed.than was wanted, that is, than 'twenty-three millioni of florins, for so much was thergcit. The Landgrave of Hesse Cassel alone subscribed a million. Many other foreigners, espeCiiilly . friom Germany, likewise subscribed considerable mans. - - --- NAVAL .17111 1 2LLIGENCE. PLYMO‘IfI4, MARCH 21. Came down to their respeEtive ships the Malta,. of fit guns, and Tonant, 74, Captain Bader and Capt. Sir E. Pellew, Bart. This forenoon a Captain, three subalterns, six serjeants, and 100 rank and file of the Royal Marines, marched from Mill-Day Barracks to the North Jetty Stairs Dock-yard, and embarked on board the Mart, 74, now fitting for sea in 1 lanioaze. The propriety' of embarking Royal Marines thus early in the fitting cat of nt& of war is perfealy obvious as they are, front long habit in the late war, good seamen, and very bt for rigging and getting ready for sea ships put into commission. The long coaches for several days past have been crowded inside and outside with great numbers of fine fellows, neatly dressed, volunteers for the Royal Navy, all in high spirits; number , of men also enter ter the Royal Marines. Tlp• Prince Pre &rid, of 64 guns, late convalescent ship, is to be refitted for a receiving and examining ship for en tered seamen and landmen for the navy. Admiral Lord Keith is very active in receiiing the daily re ports of the ships getting ready for Sea, and issuing orders in consequence. Great aCtivity prevails in all departments of the arsenal here, all ranks seem ac tuated (whatever may be the event) with one com mon spirit to repel the aggressions of France.— That fine ship the San Jos f, of 110 guns, is order ed to be hauled down the harbour, preparatory to being commissioned. Orders tone down on Sature'ty from the Ord nance Office to General Moose and Colonel STE , . P HENS, to get mounted directly at the lines, dock, and citadel here, all the guns usually mounted on the different batteries for the war establishment, to be immediately 'taken out of itore and got ready for immediate . service. In consequence or which orders The Royal Carpi of Artificers and Royal Artillery hive been turd at work ever since Saturday. PORTSMOUTH, HAICH 22. Sailed from St. Helens his Majesty's ship gum, of 32 rains, Capt. Richardson ; and remains his Ma jesty's sloop .Vorgiana, of 16 guns, Captain Rayns ford. And at Spithead, his Majesty's ship Neptune, of 98 guns; Venerable, of 74 guns ; Itit, of 50 guns ; Calcutta, a 51. guns ; 41:ntene, of guns ; attkeu.,_ of ;i2 guns; Airora, of 28 guns; La Lteternunca, of 24 guns; and Port Alaht , n, of 18 guns; with the Admiral Chapman Danish East Indianian. Wind S. E. blows fresh. This morning arrived bete the Right.H.O n. Lord Gardner, and is . expeaed to hoist has Rag on board his Majesty's ship Ngitiore, of 98 guns, to-morrow morning. DOrtß, MAUCH 4 .i. Arrived last night La ymephiae packet, Lam bert, with Mr. Martin, messenger, with dispatches from Naples. Sailed the Didebett of TA passage-vessel, Wat son, for Boulogne, with his Highness the reigning Prince Auerstorg of Germany. LLOYD's LIST. • The twirteo, Casey, from Cork 4r Liverpool, is on shore ne.r Holyhead The Mary, ilahley, (coin Hull fur Lisbon, is lost near Brea. Alt It rico. At Clydt.--.Dunlop, M'Gregor, from Virginia. At Cork, Carleton, Car:ee, from Virginia. At Cuxhaven, Gitcte Eseitarting, from Lond o n. At Antwerp, Hoop, Joann, (ruin London. At lieleoetsluys, F. dins, Farrell, from Virginia. At Virginia, 1 Jerald, Wh:te, from London. At Rochester, the Jackson, Salmon, from London. At Honduras—the Thomas and Rebecca, Rochester; and th• Jackson, Salmon, front London. At Bengal—the Cullands Grove, from London. • At China—the Minium, Royal Charlotte, Brunswick, Chinon, Persererauce, Rltiwick Castle, Thames, Ciiffnells„ Marquis of Ely, Canton, Neptune, Oinstsester, am:WI/der Calle, from London. t • At Botany Bay—abo Cescsnandel, and Hercules, from London. At Jamaica—the Aleiander, from Lit:erpoce ; Diamond, Claris; and Crisccut, Cowan, (ruin LAW: • -itsctlss . •rettnat. The you'rne AT n ehatf contains the &Hosting , hservations on the present administration, the de bates in Parliament, and the awful crisis in which ...ranee and F.ngland are bow placed, our readers must discover the genuine char.icter of a French n, who alone coutd treat such grave and me. Illelltt , JS matters with such unbecoming petulance anti levity. England has created two singular privileges for itself : the first, in considering the commerce of the whole world as its exclusive property ; the second, in induiging itself in the boldest public discussions on the conduct of all governmeuts, and in treating them with an insolence of language often insu&za ble. All the nations of Europe have been grossly insulted in the debates of the English Perlieinent since the Treaty of Amiens. No person can deny this assertion, which is proved by the Public Jour nals. By virtue. of the first privilege, England never patiently stile. • . eetion to exteed its commerce ; by the se:. .. con,iders the slightest observations of ()tier e, . e• eats on their privi leges, as an attack upc:, t it.gni.:: ; its pride is even offended when its own Lteclerations are repeated by any other nation. It is in these two assumed privi leges, and in their consequences, that the. cause of the present extraordinary couduk of the- British Mi: nister must be sought ; for it is impossible that any thing new could have occurred in the negotiations. Let us take a review, in a few words, of what has passed since the meeting. of Parliament. In his speech, on opening the Session, the King did not affirm that his conduct towards France should be re gulated eccording to the Treaty of Amiens, but by the situation of Europe. This was to announce, clearly, that the treaty (of which his Majesty took no notice) either should or should not be executed, ac cording.to circumstances. 'l'];w party, which disapproved of the peace, in the midst octhe most indecorous charges on France, loudly aemantitel .the non-execution of the treaty, in censuring the Ministers for having concluded it. Haves the Ministers denied the possibility of a re newal of hostilities, and the disgraceful idea of a violation of the faith of treaties? No ; they justified the . peaVe with timidity ; they claimed thanks for having concluded it; and they - positively declared, that thil would take the rust favourable oppor tunity of renewing the war. ' Lord Hawkesbury urged no ebjeClion against war, but the danger of undertaking it without Continental alliances ; no Member orAdministretion obje6ed that the national honour was . pledged to tile fulfilment of treaties ; and the Minister himself, at length avowing that he hesitated between peace aue war, has demanded an establishment bordering upon both ; that is to say, double the peace establishment. Such has been the condud of Englend since the Treaty of A miens, and it mai be asserted upon good grounds, that the party in that country most inclined to peace, was that which willed to gain time to sound the dis positions of the Powers of Europe before they ap peal to arms. • The French Government has not utteted a com pleint, but, leaving wholly to the English the li- bear of discussing a veiny, which all parties had originally approved of, has confined itself to the cor dial exec trine of the articles agreed on. ' Three,:houths after the opening of the English Parliament, the session of the Legislative Body, commeeteed in France : the Government presented a review of the situation of the Republic ; and, :ac cording to custom, published to the nation the state of its relations. As the whole world saw and was acquainted with it, it was unavoidable to say, that . the contending parties of England left the question of peace or war in the same uncertainty ; and that Malta had not been evacuated, though it ought three months after the signing of die Treaty. 'I his public filet *was mentioned with all the decorum shish nations owe each other, even in their differ ence; ; and all that .regarded England in the review of the situation of Frauce, was so far from any hos tile disposition, that it concluded with the following sentence " Yes, no doubt, pesre will every day be more consolidated ; the relations of the too Governments will aasuane that charac ter of benevolence which accords with their reciprocal inte rests. IL happy repose will obliterate tho long calamities of a disastrous war.; and both France and England, in promoting -their mutual appiness, will destitve the gratitude of the whole world." The French, who all remember how many pro spats of peace and happiness the review of the situ ation cf France presented by the Government gave rise to, will scarcely believe that it could become, with resped to England, an appeal to oppression, to invasion, and to arms. We well know that the state of our finances has struck the English with astonishment ; they have not known France since they regarded' it but with animosity, whilst we know England bettor than ever, because we view it without jealousy, as well as without admiration. We know also, that the revival of our commerce, the adivity which the First Magistrate imparts to the nation, our mutual confidence, the prodigious effeas of a single year of peace, must be displeasing to the English nation ; but the sentiment of envy so natural to every people, exclusively commercial, cannot sufficiently explain the condud of the English Minister. " What is it then in the review of the situation of our country that could give him so much annoyance ?" Could it be this expression—" The Maritime peace is the want and the desire of all nations ; to preserve that, the Government -will do every thing compatible with the national honour essentially conneded -with the rigid execution of treaties ?" • To demand the rigid execution of treaties, and to make that the foundation of national honour, is this to be guilty of blasphemy ? Is this to threaten war ? Is it not rather according to the consent of all nations- to speak in favour of morality, of true policy, and of peace ? And must not England.have seriously determined, beforehand, to fail m the exe cution.of treaties, thus lively to be alarmed at a de mand of the rigid execution of them ? la case even that political motives should induce the French Government to modify with good will the articles of any treaty whatsoever, so far as it saw no lib• cessity for them, so far as it had not accepted atty . compensation ; in a word, so far as it had , come to no positive or publicly declared resolu tion ; is it not its duty in addressing itself to France to make the rigid execution of known treaties the basis of national honour? In Get, it is only . in the %English Parliament, that the safety of the State *IL I the national honour can be supported on contrail principles.: but it was chiefly within the last yearei - that the falsest principles of polic2 liecarne v•.• lent in England, that a Minister was heard to ailirrn, in a full- House, even at the time he acknowledg, the want of continitytal alliances=" It is true, war on the Continent is otlen unsuccessful to our allies, but is always advantageous t o 1 1%." Tlit English Minister, who had till then been content to apologise fur the peace, whi.l he cot , - eluded with the approbation of the whol:: nation, takes advantage of a very ii ii ,ocent phrase, addressed by the head of she French Government to the French people. Every thing is carried on .with such rapi. dity, that the King is scarcely allowed time to re turn to London to subscribe the message, on a pro' jest of invasion, which existed only in tl:e .s of those who desired to excite an alarm England, which they felt not themselrei. The English must have very soon lost the practice of 'watching the ports of France, to he ignorant that there was neither cons- , pleted, nor preparing, any hostile armament in them. This Messag(!; succeeded by a demand of 10,000 seamen„.in addition to 50,060 already granted bpi Parliament, was produced with such precipitancy, that the public funds fell fifteen per cent. ; a cir cumstance unexampled iu England, u ithout paral lel in any country under an ali!e Minister, because the art of government. consists avoi2i;ig the shock, whenever so great an alarm as the for midable possibility of war is given ; it apprises the holders of Stock.; it avails itself, in support of the public credit, of the numberless means that are always in its power, and' it su.cceads in regulating the motions of tar: public funds. In a countrj. where, as in England, the finances depend entirely on opinion, it does much more injury to lower the funds 15 per cent. than the certainty of the rep tended armaments in the ports of France and Hal land could. What will be the issue of srch Ines, plicable conduct ? It would be difficult to dpciiie. CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 23. This day there are not many fresh samples of Grain here, and rather thin of buyers. Wheat 114 A very plentiful, and fully maintains its prides. We have plenty of Barley, with many of Monday's Parcels unsold ;it;s at - something less. Peas in good supply, with Beans, go off almost unvarivd. I here arc many Oats at Market, they appear to sell (id. lower ; but the superfine .quality for seed, arc some shillings higher than the currency. We note the prices of Flour as our last. MARRIED. On Thursday last, at St. Butoiph, Bishopstsii, hy the Rev. Dr. Conyheate Mr. Thomas Min, of Noun.ls di ch, to Mrs. Elizabeth Gladsome Clark s of Union-tow, On the Ist inst. at Prestwould, Philip Hamad, Esq. s cued son of Anthony Hamoad, Esq. of West Acre, Nor folk, to Mi , s Anne Pace, youngest daughter at Charles J. Packs, Esq. of Picstwould, Leicestershire. DIED. Monday, at his house at Chiswick, the Hen. Thomas Walpole, in the 76th year of his age. 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