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BOARD OP Cißtt.N CLOTH. ST. JANLI ' S PALACI, JAM. 15, 1807. By His Majesty's comma.id, no Carriages are to come into the Lord Steward's Court, on the ensuing Dinh -day. except those belonging to The Ministe•s The G.est Officers of State The Officers of ,he Voog's Household The 'amigo hiltoi•tets TheGnid Stick The Speakers of the Houses of Loris and commons The flake of St Alh.n's The UMW% atten.i.oe the King's person The ierrints am-while Her krfaje,ty The Servants attending the Prom! and Princess of Wales, &c. Co.nie de Wor,nsow. N. , Coaches, but such as are allowed to set corn. r. Joy down in the Lord Steward's Court, are to wait the Kitchen Court. And it is ordered by the Lord Steward, that no Hackney Chairs or Coaches be admitted into any of the Courts. Ord-rs are given for the accommodation of Per inn. going away in Chairs, that the Passage leading fr0...4 the Great Drawing-room to the Engine -court, will be opened, and the Engine-court allotted for the reception of Chairs. H. STR•CHIY. Calif. CON. We understand the Gentlemen of the long robe are preparing for aillinn in the Court of King's Bends, cm behalf of a Navy Captain, on the coast, bur not at A watering place, against a Captain of a hfilitia Regiment, quartered in that neighbourhood. The lady is married about four years, is now about twenty-five. extremely lively and engaging, and has two beautiful little girls. husband is at Last fifty, very rich, and extremely fond. His public situation often c. 11.1 him abroad, when it is said, t'se Caprain so piteously described his niarclus and hit conotr-aiirPhes, and all " tie penis he bad pseud," that, like a second Desdemona, she loved torn 44 for his sufferings." It was upon his return to London, with the Lady, from a tour to Oxford, Bath, Bristil, Sze. that an anonymous letter awaken ed the green-ey'd monster in the lo east of the un suspefting husband, who had raised the lady from an humble station tui be 1 1 )• narne• of his fortunes. THE EARL OF MILLTOWN. Died, sudienly, on Saturdry mornin; last. in Dublin, in the 72i year of his age. the Right Hon. Douce, Eatl of MILLTOWN, who succeeded to his brother Joss''', the late Earl, November 27th. ISM : he is succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, Juscru, now Earl of MILLI ,iis N ; who still enter his eth year, on the I tth of Fulouary ; this young Nobleman is the son of Joserx I.Etsov, Esq. eldest sein of the late Earl, who died befote his fathet succeeded to the title; and EMILY, grand-daughter of General DOUGLAS. The young Larl has a brother, HAN rTA LOOT. born in like); and a sister C.Ecit.l a, born in 1801. shortly after the death of her father Yesterday, the Princesses ELI ft. MART. and 41/ es t►. honoured Lady C. Finest with • 'risk. fhe Duchess of Your anisad its lowa, yestard4y. from Oat lands. _ Mr. Gout o, Ate Proprietor of the Opera-house, is an dangerously ill, that at a late hour, last night, be was not expcfled to survive until this morning. Mr. Stones' Bootee presented a Petition to the !louse of Cs.mmins, last night, to postpone the Petition against Mr. GHAT" - sir for the City of Dublin. on the grounds, that that Creasman was cot So br foull4. The Right Hon. J. P. CURS AN, Master of the Rolls fur Ireland. leaves town this day for that part of the Milted Kingdom. Yesterday. arrived in Grosvenor-street, at her brother's home, Dr. Hoses's, Mrs MICA truer Hums and family, from Lissanoure Castle. who sets off, this day, for Conley House, the seat of Countess II'CARTN EY. at Chiswick. The new Opera again attraAed all the fashion of the town, list night, to Drury-lane Theatre.— Beanam was in fine voice, and was rapturously encored. In the brilliant display were, the Earl and Countess of Mrxsoanucu. Lady,MAar BLNTIPICK. Lady BLACILWOOD,Latiy Gone& CAVSNOISH, Sir WITHIN WILLIAMS W v.ic, and Brigadier-Gene. ral lirxrets cc, with an elegant party of six, who sat in fits R.,' il Fl;ghness the Duke of Karr's box. The 25th of Feb. uary is appointed for the Fast in England, and the 2tith in Scotland. The Archbishop of CANTRIIIIHR• has been the Rev. NICHOLAS SIMONS, his Grace, to the Vicarage of le nf Thanes, void by the death Doosvroarm. BA Trts.—Captain BILTTBS• Useresige sloop of war. IMlri his Of. -ent at the splendid ball, which was • Inn, last week, at Brighton. On ball -roots, early is the morning, rd their vessel, which was at an- They bad scarcely got on board, enemy's privateer, which they and (*pored, in a very shert Duke of Noefeuteetehmo has Agent, Mr. Bonus, Army of awake sow commanded the Oxford 911116 • of Direaors was held at the when the following Captains command 14 " their respeOire Met Mae TIM, /nor/ford ; Capt 'boo, Nara Calk, for China adjourned, at seven o'clock, till has presented a plan to the of the Admiralty, to prevent ig at sea. shich is said to hare approbation. 'berg! suhseription has been en hien& called Quakers, in Bit relief of our &stressed country. IA prisoners in France. Part of been remitted, and applied to - for which it was intended. 11)LD TRIAL OF LORD CALEDOW3 VALIT. Jean Leris Baptiste Barrier&t was yesterday brought up, on a charge of stealing from the dwelling-house of his Noble Master, the Earl of Caledon. a considerable quantity of household linen, wine, and articles of dress. On this indidtment, it was suggested by his Counsel, Mr. GUNNZY, that the Prisoner must be acquitted, as no &reit evidence could be brought that he had taken, at any one time, vallnlsles from the dwellkg-house of his Lordship to the amount of 40s. and after some deliberation, the Counsel for the Prosecution consented to decline entering on the capital indialment. He was next charged with stealing several arti cles of value, the property of Lord Caledon, under various false pretences; to this indidtment he else pleaded Nit Guilty. Lo►d Caledon gave evidence that he had, in cnn sequence of very great recommendation, taken the Prisoner as his confidential servant and valet the Prisoner had formerly lived in the same capacity with Lord Hutchinson, and other Noblemen, from whom he had received an excellent charadter. In cons?quence of the departure of his Lordship's steward and butler for the Cape of Good Hope, the Prisoner became entrusted with the care of almost all has Lordship's concerns, and more particularly with the removing of a number of packages, which his Lordship found necessar► for his intended voy_ age to the Cape of Good Hope, of which Settlereten he has been appointed Garonne. These package were accordingly removed to the Portsmouth Wags grin Inn, in Warwick-street; ten whet packages o piate were also removed by the Psisoner to thee Borough ; and shortly after, his Lordship being in formed that a sloop of war was prepared to convey him to the Cape, he, in the first week of December, set out for Ireland, to adjust his affairs, and take leave of his friends. His Lordship concluded his evidenre K ith observing, that, prior to this unfortu nate affair, he had every reason to be satisfied with the condudt of the Prisoner, in whom he had placed unbounded confidence. David Morris, coachman to Lord Caledon, stated. he had assisted &mienlet in rensovenz the packages to the Waggnn.ofE:e, which were 32 in number, according to his calculation; though in this he disagreed with the Prisoner, who made the number several less ; the day after their removal, the Witness was surprised to observe the Prisoner come in a hackney-coach to his Lordship's house in Stratton -sweet, and take from the coach nue of the packages they had left the preceding day at the Office; thus, he observed. was broken open in a few days the Pt iusner brought four more. During this period, and for some time after, he ohs. rye.. the Prisoner aged ins very extraordinary manner, assuming in ever; thinga degreeof consequence and authority, altogather inconsts en' with his situathsn ; he frequently its the same day changed his dress. was continually in company with females, one of whom breakfasted with him, and took away, in a hackney coach, several articles of chest, together with a quantity of wi e. in one of the cases the Pri s.‘ner had broug' t back frem the Wawa -office. He added, that in tl e removal .4 the cases from &rat on -street. he and the Pti.on.r were the only persons en,paged, and from thi tircurn.tance, he reepreased the deficiency in the number of the C 1.114 meld scot hay.? happened is the ritaxwal. John B•rtley, bookkeeper at the waggoei..reee, corroboelted great part of the deposition of the former witness, and added, that on the 3d day after the packages had been left at the office, the Prisoner came and couLtermanded the order for their imme. diate dispatch, taking thence several articles from one of the packages, and soon after he removed that and eight others. Of these packages some were direded to Lord Caledon, others to Mr Alexander, who goes out as Secretary to his Lordship. Anne Kennet, Charlotte-greet, next swore she had been introduced to the Prisoner at Drury-lane Theere, where he was well known in the gay circle of her acquaintance, and passed for a Nobleman, and h id made her several valuable presents ; the re mainder of the circumstances of this case are *sadly the same as have already appeared in our former statement of the examination of the Prisoner, after the return of Lnrd Caledon from Ireland. Mr. smith, the linen-draper, of Piccadilly, proved the intention of the Ptisnner to dispose of a consider ahle parr n! his Lordship's table linen, plate, and other articles ; he impose 4 himself on him for a SVIISS Nobleman, and wished him to dispose of the above mentioned articles, as he was going abroad, and would not incanvenience himself with luggage. After an accurate statement of the evidence, by the Loan Cnitr BARON, the Psisoner was found Gentry by the Jury, without Leaving the box. Patrick bander:aft, 'teem Myer, and Catharine Prendergast, were Indifted for rubbing the house of Mr. George Bell, of the Parish of Great Bridge, near Etigeware, on the 19th of ►ast September. Mr. fell, a venerable and interesting man, up. wards of eighty years of age, was the principal witness ; he said, that for a considerable time the Prisoner. Catharine Prendergast, had been his house.keeper ; and, in consequence of her services, her father. Patrick Prendergast, had a daily allow. ance at his house of ale and broken meat. On the evening abovementioned, he was alarmed by a noise at his window, and rising from bed. discovered Prendergast, the Prisoner, by the light of a candle the Pi limier held in his hand, endeavouring to enter ; the Prisoner stood ens ladder, and finding he conldnut open the window with his hands, he kicked in the stsh, and with it fell into the room. In his tall he struck Bell in the leg (witness thinks accidentally) and knocked him dawn; the Prisoner lifted him up and desired him in go to hod, and deliver op the keys of his desks, as the party were in want of money, assuring him he should receive no personal injury. He then went down with the Prisoner and four others, and pointed out to diem the bureau, where his money and plate a •re deposited ; he then opened the ball•door. by the Prisoner Prenclngast's direc. Lion, and nine others entered ; they immediately proceeded to break open the bureau, from whence they trwik six guineas, several articles of plate, a watch, and some promissory notes; with this booty they escaped, being alarnsed by the outcries of Mts. Lewis. who slept in the back rosin, and the Pri- soner Catherine Prendergast. Cht istophes Jones, °lbw, saw the Plisoalg Prentice. cast 1114111siiit, Proh Uteeeinfil4, ie;th ender silver his arm; arrested tin], and found also on him a silver spoon, marked M.A. A. which theformer Witness proved to be his property ; the Prisoner. on being interrogated, said he had found the coffee pot; bat after he was lodged in the House of - Correflion, he confessed it was Mr. Bell's property, and that he was concerned in that robbery. This Witness was corroborated in his statement by Michael Lee, another Bow. street officer. Mrs. Purcell, Bembridge-street, swore, that about two months since, the Prisoner, Hoye,, came into her husband's lodgings, about eleven o'clock at night, and told him he was going to sea, in conse quence of being sumelted of the robbery of a far mer, sear Edgewere ; he said he knew the persor.s engaged in it. and gave a list of their names to Purcell. He then observed, he would place his life in Purcell's bands ; confessd he was engaged in the robbery ; and requested him to come with him to assist in selling his share of the booty ; which Purcell refused. A yntm.t man, named Sullivan, then entered, who made oath, shat the Prisoner, in his hearino, confessed he knew some of the pi rsons engaged in the rnhorry, and that the house had long since been devoted to plunder, as the daughter of one ot the robbers lived in it as servant-maid. This witness denied that Hayes confessed he had been one irf the persons concerned in the robbery of .Ir. Bell's house. Mr Bell's evidence was further corroborated by Mrs. Ekenhead, who slept that night in the house, but sh 4 was not of opinion that Csabersine Preniler gast was concerned at all in the affiir, as she appear ed sistrensety terriiied, and even Wig bitterly when Mr. Bell insisted on her going down stairs us give the keys to the robbers who were below. The Junoa observed, that from the total want of evidence, they could not help discharging the Frivoler, Catherine Prendergast. With respell! to the other prisoner, Patrick Prendergast. there was a train of evid •nce of so strong a nature as almost to preclude the possibility of a doubt. Against Hayes, he observed, there had been no di reef evidence brought forward, and the only testi mony which 'freed him was that of Mrs. Purcell, which proved his own c:r..fession of being a party in the robbery. However, tnis solita-y circarostance would, he supposed, scarcely be sufficient to justify a verdia of guilty on Hayes, 01 , 440 (here was cer tainly something v ry suipicious to his sndd n de termination to go to sea. The Ju-y in a few minute.; hroright in a wercliA on P. Prendergast. Gu.1141-0 , 1 Catherine Prendergast and James Hayes, .Arne finale. ifInDLESt.X •P.S iIOIVS—.IAs. 16. &ton► Wit Afars MAI %WAR tio, Faq. Ch4i , inan. and a n.we•als Reach of Juslees .r the Prate. Lrts Mortur and J0..p1, I arms, were indiaird r.sr a conspiracy, and obtaining rnon.•7 under false pre• truces from Mr. Lorg, proprietor of Long's Hotel, in Dover-street. Most of the parri,:ulars of this (-ice have been al ready before our readers, in our Paper of Friday the fish inst. under the head of Police. No further ma terial facts transpired upon the trial, except that tupp,nt turn'd out to be (instead of the %tam: of a Rus ian Prince) a discarded servant of a Leghorn Merchant ; and !Writer, by his own account, was perredly known to . his Gores die - Dadra of eat:a bridge, the Duke D'O I -ASP. Viacom: Hoqick, and several other persons of the firs. d stinSion ; and stated that he had rendered some of the mist essential services to this cnuntry, by carrying of se veral pieces of cannon from the enemy, at the time when the French entered His Majzs..y's Hanoverian possesions. The farts, as already laid before the public, being fully proved, the .lury round both the Defendants Godly, And the Court sentenced them to transport- ation for st van years. But from some subsequent representations, the Court direeed that the sentence sitou'd not be recorded until the Court should fur ther consider of their case. Robert Frier was fully terrified of indecently exposing his person in the neighbourhood of Russell square. The Learned C Masa AN, in passing sentence, ex pressed himss If under great difficulty, as to what would be an adequate punishment for so diabolical an offence. The Court had had it in contemplation to Whit some other sentence than that of mere im prisonment upon such offenders, who had become so numerous of late years, that it was impossible almost to say, what should he done with them ; as to exposing them to public shame in the pillory. Am it would only tend to familiarize the mind of the people to such offences, and perhaps lead to the worst consequences. The Court, therefore, sen tenced him to one years Imps isonment, in the House of Correflion. 7 howsiu Wide wit convilied of assaulting and vio lently beating his wife, without any previous pr.'. vocation, and sentenced to one month's imprison ment, and to find security for his future good con duct for twelve months. Thomas Winifred was inducted for a misdemeanour, in receiving part of the carcase of a sheep, the property of Lord Nor:hwic, which had been stolen from off his Lordship's grounds, at Harrow-on-the- Hill, in this County; but t .e witnesses not king able to identify the sheep, the Prisoner was a: gutted. The interval between the First and Second Day's Drawing of the present momentous Lottery Scheme, is evidently an accommodation to an sach as de clined adventuring before Tuesday la*. But as the immense sales, within these few days, of Tickets and Shale+, isa IA known to the whole town, and consequently, but an inconsiderable number of Tickets no.v remaining on hands; it is hardly pos sible to conceive, that the numerous Capital Prizes, with two of 90,0001. each, with which the Wheel still abounds, will not stimulate to as immediate purchase of every Ticket and Sbare that is to be found in the Lottery market. Tuesday the State L e tter► commenced Draw. ing, when No. 2,4,490, the First-drawn Ticket, en titled to 20.0201. wit sold at Messrs. 1 - I,axxao, Buena, and Co.'s Office, Royal Exchange, in one Half. one Fourth, one Eighth, and two Sixteenth Shares Tickets and Shares, warranted unshaven, are selling as above. The Second Day of Drawing will be on Thursday, the Sad inst. and on the Moe diy following. the Figt•drawn Ticket will be ea. titled to 10.004 L , . ALVPRiCA. --www.-- FRONf THI SEW YORK PAPER,. WAsHiNOTOD CITY, DEC. 2. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. . This day, at delve o'clock, the President of tf-c United States communicated, by Mr. Coles, his Pmeretary, the following Message to both Houses of Congredr PRESIDENTS MESSAGE_. To THIL 31INATE AND idqCSe or assistscotrarivre Or THE. UNITED 'raw Or •IatItICA, iii COM-. OREss APSEAISII.ED. It IN , uld have given me. Fellow Citizens, great satisfaltion to antionifce, in the moment of your meeting, that the difil.oilties in nur tnreign relations. ezitting at the time of our last s-paration, had been amicably and justly terminated. I lost no time in taking those measures which were most likely re bring them to such a termination, by special :ions, charged with such powers and iastruflion , , as, in the event of failure, could leave no ion; u tation on either nor moderation or forbearance.- The d,:lays, which have done taken place in our negociatims with the British Governm&d. a- - pear to have proceeded from causes which do nr t forbid the expeaation that, during Vie donne o 1 tl e session, I may be enabled to lay before yon their final issue. What will be that of the negociirsoiss for settling our differences with Spain, nothing which had taken e late, at the date of the last dis patches, enables us to pronounce. On the Wester:: side of the Mississippi. she advanced in considerable force, and took post at the se-tlement of Bayou Pierre, as Ilse Red River. This village was ori ginally settled by France, was held by her as long as she held Louisiana, and vest , f-livered to Spain only as a part of Louisiana. Being small, insulated. and distant, it was not observed, at the moment of re-delivery to France and the United Stares, tl.; t she continued a guard of half a. dozen men, whoos had L-en stationed there. A proposition. however. having been lately made by our Commander-in- Chief, to aasume the Sabine River, as a temporary lute of separation between the troops of the two na tions, until the issue of our negociations shall be known, this has been referred by the Spanish Com mandant to his soperior, and in the mean time be has withdrawn his farce to the Western side is the Sabine River. The correspondence on this subjea, now communicated, will exhibit, more particuiarly, the present state of things an that quarter. The nature of that country tepid.: indispiensibly that an unusual proportion of die force empl eyed there should Ise °aviary, er mounted intantly. • n order, therefore, that the cummandrig fhcer might be enabled to aft with effeft, I had authorised haw to call on the Gnvet ni n .if (Means and Missiuippi s for a Corps of five buodred volunteer car dry. Th. • t,mtp. , rary arrangement he has proposed. raay per haps render this unnecrs,ary. but I inform y. u, with gre.a loasure, of he promptic.de with which the inhabitants of those territories have tendered ttwili services in sietesce of their , :oisniry. It nag dno honour to themelves, into:led them to use confieirce of their fellow citizens in every part of the *bon, ant must str mgthen use general determination to protect them efficaciously, arida ell citcurnst-rocm which may occur. I L Having re-eived informs:km, that eibis part' of the tyeir d'dtltlieti, p; ion* in dividual, were combining togreter, erasing and gaming I:teasselvess conserry en law, to military expedition against the territoriesTipain, I thought at necessary, by proalartirion, as well as by special orders, to take measures for preventing aihtbu,ipreising this enterprise, for seizing the ves sels, arms, and other means provided for and fur arreing and bringing is joshes?, its antliins and abettors. It was due to that good faith which ought ever to be the rule of salon ro public, as as in prieet!! tramaftions r it was due to good order, and iegular government, that while the public bone was i I offing striftly on the defensive, and merely to pre. tett our citizens from aggression, the cr tonal at tempts of private individuals, to decide for t country the que.ticn of peace or war, by tontine: c. ing attire and unauthorised hostilities, should IA; promptly and efficaciously suppressed. Whether it will be necessary to enlarge our regu lar force, will depend on the result of our negotia tions with Spain. But as it is uncertain when that result will be known, the provisional measnies re. saisite for that, and to meet say pressure interven. sag to that quarter, will be a subjen for your early consi ler atioo. 7 Toe possession of both banks of the Mississippi reducing to a single point the defence of that river, its waters, and the country adjacent, it become highly necessary to provide for that point, a more ad e q ua t e * scour. Sims position above its mouth. commanding the passagc of the river, should be rendered sufficiently itrong to rover the armei ves sels which may be stationed there ror defencr t and in conjandion with them, to present an icsuprrahlst obstacle to any force attempting to pass. The ay. proaches to the city of Lew Orleans, from the eastern quarter also. will require to be examined. and more afeitually guarder,. For the internal support of the country. the encouragement of a strong settlement on the westran side of the Minis sipFi, within reach of New Orleans, will be worthy the consideration of the L e eii , lature. The gun-boats, authorised by an Aft of the last Swann, are so advanced. that th.y will be ready service in the ensuing Spring. Circumstances per. mined us to allow the time necessary t their more solid constroftit,n. A: a much larger number will still be wanting to place our sea-port towns and waters in that scat:: of defence to whico we are cons. patent, and they entitle!, a simil•r appropriation for a further provision of them is recomuseuded for ensuing year. A further appropriation will also be necessary repairing fortifications ilready establishes, and orklion of such ut:ier WOOl4 as may 114.11 real el.& in olstruffing the approach of an esteems to onT sea port towns, or their remaining oetore thorn. In a country whom constitution is derived from the will ..f the peo?le, directly expressed by their tree soft:Tee, where the priiicipai CI Ctltlll4 hale tionanes, and those of the legislature, ate renewed k them at short pertuds, where, mister the charattei jurors. they exercise in person the greatest minion of the jii.liciary p.).vcr>, where the laws arc mons,- quently so Cosine. and administered as to bow with equal weight and tavout on a tostacialawr -- * - :t 1 1 le a pleased to rilate the M A. Chaplain to hit Minster, in the i•le of the Rev. FRaacis A DANCR •ND A . of the ("retail ire/S, were present at given at the Castle Inn, retiring from the ball- tbil went on board th L!,or uff that town. Thl when they saw an OM pursued, attacked, as His Grace the Dubs appointed his private Agent to the regiment by the Duke, called the Yesterday, a Court East India Menge, a were sworn into the c ships : viz. Capt. JAN Ataixanrica Ronal' direil.—The Court adj Tuesday nest. A Mr. HARDACRII Lords t;ommissioner. ships fiom foundering met their Lordships up We learn that a Übe' fere,' into by the Free sningham, for the relit teen who are detained I I) , contribution ha• be • e btrievoleset purpose last for per- lore will and ars. for the the fea Ge/. larn heir vac- i he I of lien ase- Nish