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net: o U, I:t th - i 0114 1 .• Fur La Intelligence, &a. see last page. LON DON, SATURDAY, DEctreca 24. THE BRITISH PRESS. The Princess Augusta Packet is arrived at Ful mouth, after a passage of 30 days, front New York. We have received by her papers and letters to the 18th list, the most important feature of which is the Speech of the Paustomr, to the Senate and House of Representatives, on the 7th, at the opening of the Session of Congress. It states, that it was proposed to England , That on her rescinding her Orders in Council against the conatuzese of the United States, their trade would be opened with her, and remain shut against 6 Prance, n case of the fui:nre of the latter to rewind her Decrees; and that the some proposition, under a mollified form, was submitted to France-- Lit that this arrangement having been rejected by England. and no answer having been received front France, liar any inilication that the requisite change in her decrees is contemplated —THE NANG° NECESSARILY REMAINS IN TSIR EXTENT ORIGINALLY CIYEN TO IT." In arguing this case, the PILES! OF.til• dwells chiefly upon the conduct of England, and charges further, that the expected reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake, which formed a distinct ground of completed, has not been made. In the House of Representa tives, on the 10 th,Mr.CHUTTRPIDEN moved, " That a resolution for the immediate repeal of the •Ein htrgo be referred to a Committee of the whole House," which motion was agreed to, upon a divi sion, yeas, 83—nays, 9. The consideration of this important question was fixed for Monday the 14th,, until which day House adjourned from the 10th. A string of icit ',16011 1 . entirely opposite, reason mendita; a prw.tbitiou of all intercourse with France and E ,land, was to be discussed at the same time. 'A he next an rivals from New York will he of great interest. They will bring the decision of the !louse of Representatives upon this important strasum. It appeend in evidence, before the Board of Inquiry apes the Convention of Cintra, that the British Briny sent to Portugal was deficient is heavy ordimice, the largest calibre not exceeding nine-pounders. Ministers, whose foresight and knowledge are now become proverbial, have re solved to repair this error, end have accordingly ordered a train of heavy artillery to be shipped for Lisbon. It is now getting ready at Woolwich, and transports fur its conveyance were yesterday en gaged for a month, at 255. a ton. Not many daya leave elapsed since thr sent a fieet of empty trans ports to the coast of Spain and Po; tugia. We know not which to admire most, the vigour or the economy of Ministers. It i. assorted, that Sir A IMMUR WIILLSILEY has been named Commander in-Chief of the British fortes upon the Continent, in the place of Sir Joan Moons:. Sir Aistnua is new in Ireland, and the Treasury Journals assert, that a frigate is or dered to Cork to convey him to the scene of his Military command. What has Sir JOHN MOORE done to lessen him in the eyes of Gover nment ? It is very tree they sent him upon • fool's errand to Gottentinrgli, but that was not kis fault, and he is generally co..sidered a brave and intelligent officer. Of Sir Alcratua's military talents we are also not disposed to speak lightly, bat we may ask, what bentilt la the country to derive from the change ? Sir ARTHUR will probably arrive en the field of bi.ttle iu the moment of victory, or the inommt of effecting a judicious retreat. Is it intended, Niece, to act the Cintra scene over again, to has,: a new Convention. and a in s denouement, disappoint ing the hopes and expectations of the nation ? Sir Haw MUMMA, no doubt, was Commander-in eh:clot the date of the signature of the Conven tion of Cintra, but the country cannot forget. that, according In the evidence given before the Board of Inquiry at Chelsea, he received pri vate instructions from Lord Cartuacasau, ,to consult Sir Aiersue WeLLest.te upon all im portant occasions, and that Sir ARTHUR was the principal actor, adviser, and negotiator, in pre paring, settling, and concluding the Convention of Cintra. The country also cannot forget, that the merits of that trausaction, and all the parties con cerned, are in course of trial ; and that the appoint ment .r Sir ARTHUR WELLEsI.ET to a command an the Continent, is to prejudge the question, and insult the country that has called for inquiry ; arid that it is not only an ivault to the country, but a disrespect to the Throne, which bas promised to the country that due inquiry shall Le made. At a moment when the destiny of Spain seem. to be inure than doubtful, and when, if the arms and inachointiou. of BONAPARTE shottld prove suc cessful, he w ill unquestionably next direct his ac cumulate 4 force against Ireland; it i, of all alb jects the Inc.! interesting to survey the means which he actually possesses, and those which be is pre : osring, to transport his legions from Vigo, o r from Corunna, to Cork, or to the Shannon. After the proofs which we have seen, in the course of the present war. that French sects may navigate the Atianti - c,'and crew reed' the Wew..f 0.t.. • ....c neitsritludaaffinfr nun Line;rale . of Brest, it trill deureely be contended, that he may not chile our vigilance, and put& across front Ushunt to Ireland. That he meditates., Immures, auto auticinntai the accnmpli►hmeut of this project, At AO 4110141 d lit n,.(l of nine, is obvious. How much it will be fscilituted, and acccleruted, by the possession or sulajligntion of Spain., it is unnecessary to state.— He would then combine in Ins own person the power which, even in separnte hands, had twice so nearly nverinmed this country; once in 1588, tinder ELIZABETH. when Pilule IL sent his Ar mada into the English Channel; and again, in 1690, when Loins XIV. gained the naval vietnry at Beachy Head, over the combined Dutch and Bri tish fleets. The invasion of Ireland by James IL which, nevertheless, cost so minty million., and so many lives, to repel, could enter into no compari son of real magnitude or danger, with an attack mode by NAPOLEON, as Sovereign of the Conti nent, from Denmark to the 3'isgus: . we 'laic, in fact, only the alternative of contending with this revolutionary tyrant, either in Andalusia, in Por tugal, and in Gullicin, or in Kerry, or in Galway. Row dexterously the naval Commanders of France can evade our exertions to restrain their maritime expeditions, is evident from the successful cranky of GANyttluoNE, °MTN few months ago. " That able Officer," says the French Minister of the Interior, in his Erposi made to the Legislative Body last tonnes. " with a squadron fitted out at Toulon, as if by enchantment, and conducted with skill, has been able to defeat, by able manoeuvres, the combinations of the enemy, by conveying to Corfu two years' supplies of men, artillery, provisions, and ammunition. After having thin rendered use less th:• Expedition with which that barrier of the Adriatic was threatened, the fleet of Adm. GAN THEAHNE returned safe, through all the difficul ties of a boisterous star it;stion, and ail the dangers of continued tempests." It lutist be owned that tins eulogium is too just, and excited no small as tonishment w our minds, at a time when our fleA was cruising off Sicily, under Lord COLLINO WOOD. "The West India colonies," says the French Minister, " have in like us.i.veer hem, successfully supplied with provisions, by squadrons of frigates and corvettes." Yet Lord Mu Lail .Ira continues at the head of the Admiralty, after such en avowal on the part of the enemy. " India, prizes t • the amount of 15 millions, (more than six hundred thousand pounds) have been the result of the cruises of our frig An." Well may the comiuct of our Naval Commanders in those seas, where our maritime force seems to have been so m issmployed form a leading object of inquiry and of cow plant ! It has been already begun in Leadenliall street, arid will constitute, we are assured, an early sub ect of investigation, as soot) as Parliament is assembled. But, great as these exertions have been, sod deeply as our commerce has felt their effect., it is not to depredation and plunder that BOIVAPAKTL limits his views. Let us not deceive ourselves ! It is invasion and conquest that he is pre paying. He tells us so without ambiguity or cir cumlocution. From the Scheid, round to the foot of !tidy, he is pressing forward to his object. " Ten ships of the lirw," says his Mraister, " constructed in the docks of Antwerp, and fitted for sea, many months since, are awaiting their destination. The tiotida at Boulogne, kept up and equipped, is still in readiness."—Twelve ships of the fine, and as marry frigates, have hien launched within the year. Tictiityfre ewe. and as ninny frigates, on the sleek,, attest the activity of our dock-yards." It ap pears that " the bacon of Cherbourg is so far ad vanced, that it may be able to contain squadrons before the lapse of two campaigns." It is not against France, Holland, and Flanders, that we shall have alone to contend. Italy will lend her aid to NAPOLRON. The immense resources of that beautiful country are all in his hands, and at his disposal. AIeRAT is able, active, and vigilant, as we h ave experienced at Cnpn. and may soma ex perienre at Messina. Genoa, Leghorn, and Civita Vecchia, will all contribute their quotas. The Corsican knows the consequence of every harbour and every port. " Spessia." we are told, "is about to become a second Toulon. Venice, An cona, Naples, and all the means of Hollaad and Italy, are in motion." After so ingenuous a dia.' closure of his ability and his lineation, we cannot plead ignomme. Should Spain fall, and that he add her means of every description to those, of which he is already po- *rued, we may indeed pre pare for the, last extremity. With en administra tion constituted like the present, what a prospect have we before us ! Tice Princess AuvtAte packet arrived at Fal mouth, from N•-* York, spoke on the lath De cember, n Lit. 7.3. Eit.t, 26 league*, a brig from for Lmidun, out fourteen days, and on the end:, spoke a Portuguese frigate, with several vessels in tympany, steerierto the Westward. The jampriy, Cos. front Nearfouutarud, for Jamaica, is captured, and carried into Guada luu re. 'the inland pat letters v; eve not delivered until It fete hour ye.trrday, iu coosennence of the ee 14:My of the weather. —Se% ete i of th e hi e d. *ere brim 4 nt to the Post-office on horseback, where they did nnt arrive until after twelve o'clock. The Norwich Mail had not reached town at two. The 11 or.ester, Taunton, and GlouCest-r.s.s. MAILVARIMT. The Tragedy of Venice Preserved was peetbitsieql here last night, for the pia rpose of introducing Mrs. Beausto NT, in the chareeter of Belvidere. Ti c e lady is the wife of the "Imager of the Glasgow Theatre, on which hoard • 'lie bas sustained first rate parts with ccint, w at is sister of Mr.. Mums. of Drury-lane. Siz! r.....sesses a good person. about middle-size, a handsome conateriance, and i.raboat SO years of age. Her voice is foil, and of a onsider able compass, and she appears perfect mistress of the bosiness of the stage. The scenes in which she was most successful were those with Jailer, where she says " remember twelve," awl the frantic scene. Her acting displayed judgment, and a correct conception cf the part. Ilcr powers were perfectly adequate to the execution, unit the audi ence acknowledged their success by unbounded ap plause. The announcement of the piece for repe tition was meet favourahly received. The horse resounded wink repeated braves. Mrs. BewESSONT m.:is supported by Mr. C. KLMILE in Jellies, and the manly Pierre, as usual. in this company, found a perfect repreoentutiva in Mr. Cushy;. The new farce of The School/er Anthers, followed, with its wonted success. . '6. !". • •-• . . . . . * 411 At 1 0 1. 1 11 THEATRE. FATAL DUEL. On the nth instant an inquest was takes at Parlitagtoo, by Mr. CIIIARNIEL HATEMAIty Corn:ter fur the coustyot Derby, on a view of the body of Captain Fort Denegos, French pet- . goner of war, aged 47, lately residing at Ashity•de-la-Zentch, whole death was occasioned by a sword wound, received, it Is conjectured, to a duel, ...ought with SOIMI mss of his fellow prisoners. lb* body ass found by a tabooing man war five o'clock in the afternoon of the title tolling, in a Mild to Pack import, *beet sink floe Ashby, and warm. The coat and waistcoat, corn by the deceased, bad been takes if before the supposed combat, as was evident from their out tit itor pierced by the weapon the former lay Nees npuit, and co. vered the body, and the waistcoat, with • pocket-lhasdker chief, was (moot Mot a few yards, and another handker chief hi) to the fret of the deceased, hut no weapon was Round, nor ons any person observed veer the place—The sword entered the breast ou the right side, between the fourth and fifth ribs, passed through the lungs, aid pierced the heart ; the left hand wee also slightly womeded between the second and third finals. The Joey returned • verdict of Wi/fid l'erder, agetest some pressen or persons etakooo n —lt appeared that this geor . man, io the coon( of tbesaele ante nnae, bid arquatidio the person with whom he Wired, be expected • letter to he sent for him, and destret if it came be nine.l hr trilled from a public-boom he freepterted ; (bat be soon afterwards returned, to inquire titles lett.v had been received, sod again a third time ; and, about four o'clock, finding no letter, he left his Imigieets, apparently in tonne haste. No further circumstances have vet transpired which threw any material 413 on this traesectioo, eimjec tared place with which of the is Spas fatal nrommtre took Tuesday morning P:lavessCil AUGUSTA arid SI•aY took an airtii_ h a coach and tour on the Maidenh.-ad T'in:scia? Lao, . I ,iyr. DCSIDAS paid a visit to Her MA.) t and the Patacuisas at Wind o, Lusve ; at.erwards her Ladyihip returned to St. Leonard's Hill. where she is on a visit to the Hou. Mrs. HARCOURT. Viscount CREK ORIIR will ail.; day give hi s an imal bounty to thirty of the oldest Irish cluvinatia Weataiiasser. It consists of two bushels of coals. a half-peek loaf, four pounds of beef, and two shillings in money to each man. Sir Ht.NRY and Lady liatuo• left lila/tames Hotel, yesterday, for their seat in Essex. Viscount and Viscountess DUDLCY and Virgao. during the Christmas holidays, will entertmu, of their seat, Hemley Hall, Staffordshire, a numerous assemblage of Nobility. Sever a l Balls will be given. - A select band of musicians has been cow gaged to go down on the occasion. The Conuteas tof SUTTON, on Tuesday night, presented her Lord with a daughter, at her house in Arliagtoii-street. The Duchess of MONTROSE bad a select card party, last at her house in GrOeVelloT square. Among the Fashionable. last night at Drury-lane Theatre, were the Countess of Basaisoacsocu, Mar quis WLLLIsLIY. &V. Sir Jolts andLudy CAMPLIPIII WILOTTEIMIRT, and the Hon. Mr. EDkN. left town, yesterday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Dvuy, at their seat at the Oaks, in Surrey, where Lord . Sts•Lxv arrived, on Tuesday last, from his regiment (the 2d Loves! Lancashire) at Hull. Mr. Mxt.vin performed the parts of Captain Plume, in the Comedy of The Recruiting Wicer, and Michael, in the Farc e o f Th e Adapted Child, for his own benefit, at the Binsinghatin Theatre, on Thursday last, on which night he closed his engagement there for this season. Lord O'N sit., one of the Post -masters Gene ml, arrived in Limerick on Wednesday se'nriiglit. An Irish paper mentions the committal of D. C to gaol, for stealing • Yemenis pistol from one of the Kerry horse. Viscoust Mot:lll4pr was expected, last night, at his house in Charles -street, St. James's, from his seat in Norfoik. His Lordship will leave town this day on • visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of ADERCORN, at the Priory, to pass the Christmas holidays. Mu Cambridgeshire, the scat of the Earl and Countess of fla Row :tit it, will La etdirea ad, during the Chri,tmas holidays, with en elegant assemblage of fashionatile visatoi Mr. Huila, who hail the honour of kilning the KING'. hand, on Vrdnrsdav, upon his being ap pointd Seriettist Surgeon to the Kure, was die gentleman ano performed the operation upon the Duke of PORTLAND some time since, and pro dutA it complete. eine. The R.•.. Tittinas CASTLIY. A.M. Fellow of Jesus' Cohege, Cambridge, is presented by the Master and Fellow, of that Society, to the valuable Rectory of Cavendish, Suffolk, vacated by the death of the Res. ROOM*, WAIDDINGTON. Coloftel WYNW•RD, and his Lady, came home in tile Walpole Indianian, and were fortunately laud ed at Deal just before the ;pile came on in *lnch else was wrecked.—Six little hwy., comia over for their education, were taken out of their co. moo" .4.- SHOCKING fin Thus-twisty evening, o'clock, a most dreadful e took place in C.lewit's-court, neyinan carpenter, who , hairs bark loom, was sit the explosion took piece, cident, or bus , the gunpowdei known. The man, in great ~inip of the window into the yard not ciethe, • tames, and in this state ran illy; his 1.1.ii;1043 -parlour i and front thei.ce into the cou r t, w h et with the assistr.nce of sereraf people, the Raid were extinodished ; he and his wife were tak , to the lin:lntel in a must shocking and ilsorio state. The explosion forced the partition , whi t separated the ba c k an d fr"iit ream, into the fro room, where a woman and three children were. w providentially received no other injury than sok bruises from th e f a lli nq of the wainscot. T whole of the outride of the front room, iogeth with the sashes, were forced out into a low Ititildir on the npiiesite .ides of the motet. The unfuftupar . man and hie wife have been speechless since th, menuswierim se parrot. • • • 1160W-Tllt 0. Thundery evening, Joie Ts .- savo r bring* before Mr. Rican, by Men. osie of thollond from the eeighhourbood of Cimino, CI nerz ias somploilhinn Crag ea. of she robbers caeca-out iii monerproimi c bossier the Countess of Morton. an a Olt of the tedietment met the Of et concerned is the *bon . Peter Hum* 'destined the Primmer as lasing al lo nos spina whoa. hr bass ..lenses before the Hiened Jam, indoeolltms t.ln the bill of %theta, it. The Primmer charged the Mune with ben a -it (see who gives information°, thieves.) Ifs was fur trial. Jahn rimier, late $ ronitalearlal chart its the Messes. Lyme and Dostaddows, entwout toilsom e :Mei street, in the Strand, understood anotbatt ettatantadosoiam ed with embezzling varies, no. of stoney Delmer it% Is employer,. After a long examinatikm, be wu emumitted brow e ciablanag 611. se 351 de 6cli mud ea by 011141111 fib He irie ebiu committed fee trial fur Mafia* 101111. in the book of '.Verso Dimildelph and Co. thirlienhmeZ Preeneture, the figure of 1, before 4a, the w% 1431. sad making it appear is all lir ociinuisis vial hi mute's, Haulm had paid in to the beehimnifeL there his what he had. Yesteaday, Oseste- ; the porter, bet Ite the Ilbld Hone lon,* Plitteelene, who bon bum sainnily win 4. dem on et fist sad ski Wig • Irounpeper weak teat free the Cbsdinil* ni b litiona Itch Moir eiriiin in St. Mildrerroaset, lookroenstmaimottute when the suspicious ciielatatimsee dynam os sot of th Inn, just aft. r the Chichester maild got to 14 ludginp, we. fatly en/Awned, by hie satinfastoi 1111 peer ni that he emit' ran bone fur his great cam; Ye sun of earn discharged. The way the robbery was committed remaiso still a nip ten. . • A Proclamation will 'woes: w tl:is night's Ce 'dent. appointing a General Fast to be observe throughout Engload, on W'erlaesday the Rd. a February ; amid another Proclamatiou aid appiss 111 the same amaze. directing a General Foot t In observed on Thor's"... , the oth of Felbstisary laccutfhout Scotland. Tbe patent place of Collector of the Imports and Potports of the Customs, held by the lat. Earl of Liveapoor., is abolish.A, as dwacted an Act of Pa: :lament, to take place On the dairom; alba Noble Earl. The other piece of Clerk • the Pells has certain. • {one to tht: Earl of Swat non by reversion. At the death of the Earl o Soon son, we understand that place is to be gibe. fished. We are concerned to find that much damage wed . sustained on the CINISt, near Dover, on Wednesday night, during a, heavy gabs and fall of snow, The Ellimo r , of Sunderland. llrsseason, wafts ter, with iron from Cardiff to Londuu, was wreck,' near Shakespeare's Cliff; and also the Jawe, if Carmarthen, from Limerick, boned to London The Captain of the latter is the only person of both crews. He was thrown on shore about o'clock at night, and wandered about until ing, ignorant of where he was. Tho bodies of lig men and two boys were cast om shore yesterday. the same place. The Heslewood. Fowt.ra, from Malta oil " P mouth, and the Stork, CiLtesses, froinew-' :bound to London, were tortured off r the former on the 3d, and the latter , stant, and carried to Boulogne by French tiers. The cargo of the Melpok East ihore near Margate) continues discharging water, in carts, and, when the water. ip, In when the weather is woderate. The • fills tide. The Union Indiaman, for the safety lunch (tear lute been entirtained the s e Nast. anchored et St. Helen's on Thursday noon. Mho had been driven on the meat • " and has experienced very bad weather. last her anchors and cables. Yesterday the election for the Common for the Ward of Faivingdon Without, r casting op the Poll Books the nunthcrs Mr. It ukr. Waatbetan.. 7 , 17. Mr. S. MrAunts Creek .... 711 I Mr. Wm 1 Mr. Wm. Murrell.... 66e Mr. Time. R. Drrring, Esq. Dep. 659 Mr. Jobe L Mr. Rar n in t 6ei Mr. At. •Mr Wm. Juba Reeve 640 Mr. Wm. I Sir J Unnamed+. Kot. 616 114 1 Los. Ree.v . lii6 Mr. James Mr Jobs . • • 149 Igor I.mM/int x kiirree. 9riret'l7 it COntaillo.i of 10.0001., 1 ~. ; 1 ,0001., 3 of 1,0001., 5 of 5001, &c &c. ale so very evident in favour of the that thaw who can buy a Share, no The Capital Prizes already drawn have among the Pithlic; No. 133, drawr 10,0001., on Tuesday last, was *old in one Eighth, and ten Sixteenths, at Co.'s. Comilla and Borough, where Shires will be oft Vale. warranted Codrawn, until Turs:lay Morning, nine o ' c l oc k. Dtsmotut alfowed on Lottery ch a rm, Every Purchaver of ihares of Tickets, amounting to Five Pounds and opearda, will be allowed a Discount, at J. WAJUIER's Fortunate Office, 16, Coenhill, vilioroVapital Prize* to a 1.0 4 .. amount have be e n recently said in S'.art-x. Oniv Twn more • ACCIDENT. r It *bow half past I esplosiois 4,1 gulli,olo4 Litt, Fetter-Imi.. A joy resides iu bl owe pow! home with his wires swot the cause of the owder came there, is r greet agreiy i jompesi 4 yard wija his ellethes t? t ; La 1; wi Malta and PI f. froraCnrk i boa off Doormen, • A rr on th e 4th in - tench privateers. t Indianian (on 4 . , charging sit 10/ 1 1 111 ru iip, in boats, to ship fills every "CI fety of which se i.w several days 1 1 Thursday after. coast 4' Frances • tither. She has , oninion Council, .1 out, clo.ed. At if:ero sere— . sso Wr.ght. 1. Harper S3S Dodoes sa6 roues: 4.11.1 es. List D-p. 476 s Brewer 430 Iv happen again I nil., I of s,o o tdmi . The Chalices the Adventswer. 10 doubt base born divided awn a Ps se of in else Quarter, it Wassail' arid ere Tickeb rod