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`... lientures; and taso 6'ool shippir.g wises, am! 'O'er princip..l amities that are Irft open by the Company, to be sui,leci of English private trade." On the Ist of Dacei-r, the Sampson, Admiral Srtaetra, arai:ed in the River Plata, laii . ving on herd General Gsev, who is tb eucceed General li. no in the cern in sod at the Cape. Admiral STII. k.iNG, as th-, public already kaow, carried out -.silk him t rd.rs to supersede Sir Home Poem aid, in the command of His MAAS? es ships at the Plata. It had been arranged by Admiral or tat. NG. that the :Cameron should sail on the 13th eff . December fad. the. Cape, with General GKIV, and proceed ft om thence to England, as convoy ftr that settlement and St. Helena. The Ad n.....1 proposed to Sir Howe to take his pas .. 4:: in rne Oantiesn, which he declined ; but re• e.. 1 a transport, which the Admiral could t save. He, howev..r, accommo fated Sir I: 4.1 e. with 'he Reqn, which he bad captnred. As tie- A d:niral had occasion for all the hands on board of her (twenty five in number) Sir Hosts Poe ts •fis was allowed to procure as many men as he re. wired, to Foceed on his voyage, from other sources. When the men were procured, and the ship was nearly ready to sail, the Pheasant, one of Commodore Doris esse's squadron, arrived, and gave hopes that the Arde at man of war, and her convoy, might be soon expefted. In conuquenee, •dir H. PUP AAPI requested he might wait the ens voy's arrival. A fortnight, however, having elapas rad, and no further amnia of it bring received, Sir Hogs embarked of hoard the Rd rh, vzssel set sail on the 27th of December, and art ired at Weymouth on Monday evening, after ow of the qu ck fit voyages ever knn en. Sir Flout pros set.hzd to his residence, near Windsor, whiah he reached on Tuesday evening, and arrived in torso ;esreeday morning. In the course of t . e day be attended with Captain fiten, at the Admira:ry. The .'f'/ND , 014 sailed, as was proposed, ca the 19th of December for the Cape. Before the erairetion of the time allowed by the Spanish Proclamation, for the sailing of forei3ti ves sels fro-a Monte ‘'idert, several American vessels were obliged to leave that port s or become captures; same of them being also liable to' be taken by our crui•ers. We understand these are about fourteen detained at Maldonada. The &hash Committee, yesterday. declared both the Sitting Members unduly elefted. Most of our contemporaries, we think, have sli,cnsd am r.luell the reports in the French Po pes., rer,:eaini the declaration of war by }he Porte Ru►ua. It is stated in sin letter from Plymouth. that Admiral Lord Cot.r.lNcwnnD has drtaclsed the Ile. et George, Vice Admiral Dccan.oliv a ; the Poar,Ns. Rear Admiral Sir b. SmiTi4 ; and the 'fondue. , Cattle, Captain BOY Lg. to reinforce the svadvin under the COM - n a nd of lira Addoiral 3!!' T. Louis, at present craising off the Dardanelles, in consequence of the Noble Lord having received intelligence of the Porte having declared war ogairm Russia. The presence (.1 •rich a Pace. near Contr:oltinnple, will, tee trust, have t'ie dewed eff-a, and itsoltice the Turks.% Government to adopt r decided line of conduet _ An article, of intelligenee which appeared in this paper a few days ago, has led some persona to rep poi,. that r 1.4 measure of abolishing the Slave Trade, which the Parsinstrr of the Uouri.o ge.ete, in his speech at the opening of the Ses sieas. so strongly toge . d the Congress to adopt, had Islet ssith some opposition in passing through the oivs B tdy. Nothing can be farther from the truth tli-an tt.is supposition. The Bill for cif ding the Abolitio.n of this Trelfe, passed the Senate wit!taut a Jivision, or corona debate. In the House of Iterr,”.entatives. the principle of the Bill has been n tresbted ; and the only difference of epicir:n w:;ich had arisen upon it, when the last be counts left Auteric .e, respeSed she Clause which provided for the disposal of the Slav 'a who might be seized and forfeited under the Ad. It was at last determined, that they sbould be fret, and should he suitably provided for by the United States. Nothit g cam more sattsfaanrily prove the taadaLle artiety of tf'e American Gins t u i em i , to free themselves from the'priih of the Slave Tea le, than this, that although the AA of Confederation pu t s it out of the power of Cmsgress to prevent the imp , t tainn of Slaves into America, before the lit of I moat y, IPS; yet, that Congress are nosy lekslatittg prose: tively (by an aft which makes it I:lseir to i-npert a slave after that day), so as to present ary slave voyage from being begun. wiieh 'hall rot terminate Wore the end of the pre seat year. As a proof of the general opinion enter taisahl of this trade in America, it may be proper Oa mention, although the General Congress had so power to make laws on this subject. which Arnold take effect hero:, the ttst January, l4*dB, yet that every State in the Union, with or.e ex ception. had ahoirhed it more than ten yeaes ago. South Carolina furni dies this solitary exception; and even in this state, attempts have been annually made, for some years past, to abolish t' is trade, which have failed generally by a siapje vote. The attempt mat tetewed by the Legislature of that State, in Decembet last, and failed again only by a single rots.. But the question oa the occasion relat ed simply to the continuance or discontinuance of the trade fur the present year, for when that year shall have terminate I, she Act of the General Can grew will supersede all provirscial legislation on the salspat., • 41ee Owe aaserson Nesisentr-, at 1/.1 Xtit to:k CAtt-1t0.546. ' tt • . 1 ' yaw , 31 , a-*V";I:tN fse. I THR4TRE. Last eight a new play was produced from the pen of the late Mr. TOBIN. The celebrity of the comedy of The Honey Moon, by the same author, had raised public exp' Cation to such an ex treme, that as many persons returned, wls. could no: obtain places, as were admitted. So great was the anxiety to obtain seats, that the performance of the first aft was repeatedly interrupted, and c uld not he heard with satisfaelion. This Play is replete viith interest and deep pathos; it possesses many striking situations, and much excellent stage effeft. The scene is laid in feudal times. The Norman Baron De Traci, had many years before publicly reprimanded the Danish Baran Ittishaidn,o, whore Comm trader he was, for some fault in military discipline; they were app.i• roily reconciled, but Fasardiaz nourished in his breast the most rancorous revenge against his un suspetting adversary ; and, to facilitate his scheme, has a report of his death circulated, whilst he attacks the happiness of the damn, by the pretended infi delity of the Baroness ; to confirm which, he appoints a time when he shall find a man iii her chamber, and contrives to appear there to the delude,: hnshand, who 'stabs his wife, but not mortally. She, however, conceals herself and her infant son, and takes her passage for England, her native country. The ship is wrecked, and, it is believed, all on board had perished ; however, the and het child are saved, and she lives, its disguise, near her bur band and daughter, and watches them. To ircrease the misery of the Baron, he is now convinced of the innocence of his wife, and builds a Mausoleum to her memory. H;s deadly fue still pia- ues hint, and raises a numerous handi•ti, whom he conceals in an adjoining wood, who are to storm the castle at the toll of 'be Capftel. and murder its inhabitatos. The liareit's Daughter elopes, in boy's do• %es. front the castle, to meet her lover Bertrand, a nobie minded youth, educated by the 8ar0 , ,, but of humble origin, and is seized by the b.,ndirti, who da mine on the death of the boy. tier own brother, liohirf, who, from distress, has joined them, is fixed on to commit the murder ; but when she cannot prevail on hint to spare her, she confesses her set, and he becomes her proteetor, and takes her to h is mother's cottage. Fa:44.rling then ,umes the habit of a Prow, and comes to coot. .s the Berm. The Bann.,':, during this intervi"w, is tocught before the L,sraa as a witch ; 'she denies the charge, but priontses to raise his wife from the grave. She recognises, in the Friar, the Capseia .f the Bandstii, and determines to watch him.. The Hares gives the Friar a private Meeting in the ellossafrainA, when he discovers himself ; Ind. at tits moment he is going to murder him, the tomb bursts open, arid the Baremear comes forward, most splendidly drest. An rel.Werreenwnt takes place. The Baron offers Arsherd•nir his forgiveness, which he refu.e4, a, d is sent to confinement ; the attack of the dry:el:Pr is defelted by the Mitts maims of Rarer and his sister, who is bestowed on her lover lionir,n4. Mr. Et.s.isror:, as risiAninte, evinced mach judgment in the designing villain ; and, though we aislike the part, we mast admire the aelor. Mr. ft SIDDONS displayed such energy and spirit, in the heroic and youthful Arlrand, as called forth re iterated plaudits. Mrs. Posett.t., in Matilda. and Miss DUNCAN. in Fleet re, were every thing the min‘t tartiihous critic could desire. Mr. BANIAIiTZI'II part of R. 05, rt resembles that of If n!ier in The Chil dren in tar ma, in svhi hhe so much excels. Mr. Bait:a/m(3Ra, in the Baron, WAS dignified, sold Mr. Pests,' received much and deserved applause, in O/d lenlier, the Curfew Ringer. The language is classi cal, and airoutids in imagery. 'I he sentiments are li beral and refined; and more decided approbation. or more eager attention, we never saw paid to a Pi:ce. A Glee was introduced, and admirably suing, by Messrs. Fivzsixidoris, MILLER, and GIB BON. Miss Du acrid spoke a very lively Epilogue, with nii.wh point and spirit, and the Play was given out for a second representation, amidst the loudest aLaimstions Lord C, tumor, and bib Secretary, Mr. A. BA a - 111400, arrived in town on Monday, from Ports mouth—a. circumstance which has given rise to re ports of an unfavourable !Win", relative to the Cape of Good Hope. A duel took place, yesterday seitnight, at Cork, between Lieut. B--, and Lent. T—, of the Galway Militia, quartered in the Barracks of that city. At the second shot, the former Gentleman received a severe wound in the head. The lag arrivals at Bath are: ! Lunt .111114 Jab, MileaarOrg 114 7 Verft/r and Rey Mr. •irry, Sir John Lmhbil ,, ge, Sir Cheats Talbot, Sir William and Lady Ousefey, Sir C. Mallets, Sir C. Turner, Sir George Dana% Grn. Smith, C.l.i Oliver, Col. Mldedl, Col. D.gby, Col. Aubrey, Lieut.-Col. Jones, Lieut..CM. Elford, Liinst,Col. Starke, Maki, Hyde, Major r. etmart, Mijor sod Mrs. Fitzgerald, Major amid Mrs. The Leinster Circuit will commence at Wicklow, nn the tith of March. The /wises are, the Cunir Baaws and Baron Gsoaar. Sr; PAT sic!' CLAUD EWiiS, Ban. lately died near Wailer, in Nurthumherland, aged 87, who , forseeily married Signora CLNICCI, a Neapolitan lady, by whom he 1:4,1 i*sie an only son, born at Sisnerser. This Mil married without his father's eonstsit, the latter disposed of all his estates, invested the pradace in the pubiic funds, and withdrew inta soy humble retirement, about forty yeArs sinci, leaving his son, since deceased, the scanty pittance of 401. a year only, and whore he never afterwards would be reconciled to or see. The deceased nude many wills, and by the last, af ter giving in legacies about 40,0301. becineatlied the residue r.t his immense property (exceeding, it is said, 50,0001. •retling) to a distant relation at New. ry, in Ireland, win) dying but a very short time be fore the testa• or, t2e title, and whole residue of this splendid fortune devolve, by lapse, to Mr. J•s. Emits+. (now SirJaaes Ewi ss, Bart.) the testator's gr.sralson. of Newport, Montn - nithshire, perfumer— a man of unblemisbed charaCter, probity, and into groy, with a large family of ehildten. LAW INTaLICEATE. COURT OF KING'S BENcii, , Fes. 9. Silting: at Nisi Priqs. Infers Lard Chief Jititire ELLEN soliouaN. a. la acqumsTett. This was an afhnn of slander ; thu Defendant was a tailor, and had employed the Plaintiff. a car penter, to make some repaits in his house, fittm which transaCtion arose the wards complainei of, viz : He ii ens of the Greatest villains that ever was unhangel, I Am.:Liam...Al,. nang on' transport hint, to has rol-is Is :F. wards of ) , 0 weight of lead (sum site, anti carittd it away in a hasket, &C." To this the Defendant pleaded a jiisiifieation. It appeared in evidence. that the Plaintiff had taken away some of the Defendant's leaden window weights, and substituted iron or metal ones in their place. The Defendant also having spoken the words, not as chat ging the Plaintiff with a felony, and it tiwing stated that the objed of the latter was merely the exculpation of his coaraher, Lord Et tin aiarteuoit ohserved, that such being his obje,f,t, and his charafler Low standing unim. peached of any felonious intent, the better way would be to give nominal damages. The Jury accordingly found a verdia of One Shilling damages for the Plaintiff. coczaa xi. me rotiov. This was an aaion brougl-it to recover compen sation in damages, for detaining the Plaintiff pi ison, four days hiiyond tLe time when lie should have been dischatged. Mr. GAR/LOW stared, tl , tt the Plaintiff was a Gentleman of tespeattri:ity, but having fallen into the displeasure of the C..urt, by carrying off and marrying. a Ward of Chancery, he had suffered a loot our isannient, during which, his affairs be came embarrio.ed At the expiration of. the pe i..;cl of his confinement, he had got discharges frism all his cteuitors, except the Defendant, to whose Attorney the debt was tendered ; but lie re fused to g.ve a discharge until some extra costs a:10E11.1,1)e paid. The D.-fendant was next applied ts, but teferred to his Attorney ; and in this r Ay the Plaintiff was detained in prison four days louder than he ziiould have been. It aprearing, however, that the Defendant's At tormy was out cf town, and a discharge offered by his Cl? k, which the Marshal of the King's Bench was not authorised to act upon, the Plaintiff was nonsuited. OLD BAILEY, Fc■. 19. This day several causes were Liu! before Sir Nests Cause. The only trials capable of exciting any NA.: interest, were the following : Wes. 11 .iltuin was charged with stealing, in the dwelling house of Jeremiah Crowley, near Lime house, on the 22d of January, 11 guineas, and 3? half guineas, the property of Charles Hurley. Th. Plaintiff, who is a labourer in Deptford Dock Yard, lodged in the same room with the Prisoner, whom he, and his bedfellow, left on the morning of the 29 h, in bed. They proceeded thence to the Dock Yard, to their daily labour. The Plaintiff recoiled. perfeftly well, that on the preceding even• ing his money was safe, in a trunk, in the room in which they all three slept. In the evening, after work, the Plaintiff returned, found his trunk broken epee, and the little stock which he had, with great labour and frugality, saved during two years, taken away ; his suspicions immediately fell on the Pri. wiser, who was observed on that day to have lie. sleeted his usual occupation, and made an °menu lions display of his ill•gntten wealth, to his compa nions. He was immediately apprehended, and the officers found on him a silver watch, which he had purchased on the day of the robbery, together with the greater part of the money stolen. The money was produced in Court, folded up in two pieces of linen, which the Prosecutor swore were the same in which he himself had folded them, when last he added a trifle to his little hoard. The Jury, on the most satastaftory evidence, found the Prisoner— Gear,— Deaih Grurge Afrv, a boy of eleven years of age, was fe) and Guilty of stealing several pair of ►hoes and a pair of boots, from a shoe-maker in Mary-la born-. Joh,' Liinsow was charged with stealing a writ ing desk, value 30s. from the Prosecutor's( Thomas Handlord) shop in the Strand. As he was ob. snored in the ad of stealing it, and the desk im mediately after found on him, the Jury, without a moment's hesitation, found him Guilty. Richard Wood was inditted for stealing from the shop of his master, Abraham Slade, a butcher in Tottenham-court Road, a beef stake and a mut ton chop, value eighteen-pence. Slade, and his apprentice, Bedford, proved the theft ; but as it was acknowledged by the Witnesses to be the privi lege of the faculty to lay by psivily a tit-bet fax themselves, and as the Prosecutor himself lamented having brought the matter into Court, since the Prisoner had always borne the best character pre vious to his deteetion in the present affair, the Jury brought in their verdia Net Gail!". His Lordship observed, that although the Jury had been so far aCtuated by humanity, as to give their verdidt in the teeth of the evidence adduced, yet neither the Pri soner or the public were to consider this verdia as aan►lioning, in any form whatever, the custom of streams' purloining any part of their matter.' pro perty. Joarpk Watkins was fosond Grillo of stealing four pigs, valued in the indiftmeat •tt 41. but the Jury were induced, from ►amp circumstances adduced its his defence, to find him Bratty of stealing only to the amount of 395. The Juno transport, Captain Arroaasom, is cap tured at Buenos Ayres. The trial lot the murder of Mr. Sven' will com mence at the Old Bailey, this day, at ten o'clock. Considerable pains have been taken, we noder stand, to have the soldier belonging to the German Legion, charged with the murder of a woman near St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, removed to Maid stone gaol for Trial, contrast' to the privileges J f Dover, within the Jurisdiction of which place the crime was committed ; but the exertions for the pur pose have tailed, and the Praiener remains in Do ver gaol. CIT r PUS INBES. Ye sterday, as a sufficient number of did nit att nd to constitute a Court, could be transaflod. A. Court of Common Council was held, which was ettmereusly attended. The several Comniitten for the year and also the Comrcissionets of Sewall. The flight Hon. the Loco Kayo. the Costit a letter he had received from General Sir .7oliti St 'IA ar, K.B. in answer Thanks voted to him by the Court, fer eminent services at Koda ; which was I ordered to be entered on the Journal ceedmps. On a Report from the Coal and Corn an applicAtton W 29 agreed to be made to for a Bill to consolidate the several laws the Coal Tract"... The Committee of City Lands presented a port for treating with the Governors of the Lona,. Institution, for a scite of the lease of Blackwell.H4, which was ..greed to. and the Committee , consider of terms 1, r the same. Several Pet;tions fer leases and otherwise presented. and referred for ezarninat.on : a , other business of importance was tramafted. ,rmetetrFre-5er..T.,.. NAVAL INTIiLLICM CZ, PORTSIVOUT 111, . Arrived Hi. Majesty's ship Crocodile, Gwrosey.—Wind N.V. blows hard. P I.TMOVTN, Sailed the Princess Royal man of war, ham; the American ships Galles. .4 4 r, Copenhagen. and Hen:wild, NielvAle. gen.—Wind S.W. The Pipeoa. Cot L 'TT, and the Horqy , Twine', of and horn London. sailed from nado, about the 21st Novi.mber. for Engl., The Betsey, Ft.fen, from the West Indies, near Londonderry. The Diana. Hot.t.IIROOK, bound to Rah:more, returned to Liverpool, w.th damage, havlng run foul of, off the I,le cf Mar.. The Bristol Packet, D A li g from Liverpool, to America, has been captured by a Spanish tee!, off the Rock of Lisbon, retakes& by cutter, and sent into Falmouth. The Bogard, GALES, from London mouth, is lost in the Downs. The RUBY. from Lonsl lin, is captured, and carried into Morlaix. The Anna, .Ataxamssa (an American). St. Ives for Leghorn, is captured by a Saudi privateer. The Alerwaret, noftnoa, from Whitehaven ' London, was driven on shote, 2d • peachy. The Henrietta, MARTIN. from Aber deen London, was captured on the 30th ult. tear, and is since lost. It appears from a paper laid before the Commons, that the tollowing Peasants', have been ;ranted, between Ist April. ' Ist Jan. 156 r, as far as regards Ireland : Dugald Calup`sall, Esq. and Cath,;iie his ride • alear. !Cilia Hon. I. Corfft ditto. NIS. Ella. Marsden, ....Vt. of Alec Marts .n, The daugStert of Sir Thomas reathitratone. dints. Light Honourable Italic Corry, time ada menet. The Wife of Sir William AlliSlStal Vitt. 1301 A Letter from Yarmouth, dated February says—" This morning, about three o'clock, a violent gale Came on from the N. E. Several geld' have been wrecked, two on Scroby The Snipe gun-brig, with French prisoners, another vessel, are on shore on the South two on this Beach ; four on the Winterton a ship is seen bating botsoal upwards; riding with all her masts eat away ; several running through under hare poles. The war ride will with their top-roasts and yards but the gale still continues at N.E. It • much damage has been done on the Coast. We feared that the gale of Tuesday night do much damage to our alaippiug. Unrc our fears were too well fonnAed. O: Correspondent has transmitt.d us a most sing account:—At day light, on Wednesday moist lag, eight vessels were seen on shore, Isetwetu the South end of Deal and Kingsdown, a distance of about 21 miles ; two large %Vest Indiamen were wrecked, close by Deal Castle; two more ships near NValmer Castle ; four more vessel. are on shore to the southward of the same place ; seven or eight were seen in the Downs dismasted ; betwtea forty and fifty parted their cables, and were blown oat of the Downs. —A ship of war is supposed to have foundered, and all the crew perished, as the bodies of some marinas have been washeckon_shore. The gate had not- enlasidesr When the post left Deal, and a dreadful night was apprehended. - _ PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Ilank Steck IISI 3 per Cent. Reduced , per Cent. Cumuli ti"tit 4 per Cent. 5 per Cent. Navy , • . 9.4 96 Lostg Annuities 17:3 1G Imperial Ditto N 1-16 India Bonds 3s. 4t. preen. F.i.tehequer BAIA ts. dir. Is. picas. Consols for T. RISII. 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A t. erect :spar. arhli truary I till). .14:1:, a moot f st ieveral /dr leito roby Sand. as isoners, and dad uth Hawn: .tai ton Beach s da; another 401 reral vessels The men of 00 ards snuck. n 1 [t is teased th the Nerds light would irortabately Oar Dail ost /blares. 1 , .a.fAv mni n. d, Psi. Liana Chstlet Iruk. • at tlore std. bt Acre. l e mei) DEATHM. Wednesday last, at N•rmantan, Norfolk, in the Ottl year of his age, Willits Hurry, Ea. 4 furmerly a merchant and ship owner so Great Yarmouth. Uu Saturday last, at his house at Laytonstone, it, the 71M year of his are, Charles LintsOn, km. late l)eputr .•f the Ward of Aldrate, and many years a Member C o rpora. of this city, • Governor of Christ's aid St. Th•t•da Hospitals. Same day, ht his 63th sear, Charles Mario.. We!stead, Psi. oflton, Hunts. He basica a widuw Lod tell childless tu lament his hes. Yomerday, slim • Ow days illnewt, Mr. Tl , ooto Lisa•* Ruirt4, an eminent Bout- make r, M ()4ord..str,et On Woduoulay evening, in Dover-vireo, the Hon. Chart Savo. I)NDON ..-.-I'llolLed lb. UAVIU3UA . /hi. 17, Coat, bow-west, Covont-Gardwo, awl pattbsbpd o.fice, No 15, Hoek of St. Cleinent's Chuuth, Strand. w. sTucx, of No. 7, New Nottonstreet, LCD( °Meet, de. for ths Payee, soot to els, (Moo (poet , vii M duly literda I°. II