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Iv! i .iftnnlty as a more St topic fat a future is,a,sion. tfr. MONTAGUE considered the debate alto .ei ,r inopportune and illtimed ; and observed, .re was ore los; for w:lich no compensation could pe gril'el, namely. the I:ss of time the ;House pszai led. rbe REAKER then put the (I'lestion. that the Irate on t he committal of the Bill he adjourned A c:il t•londay. Carnet in the affirmative. General GASCOYINIE gave notice. that as the icicle of indemnity Vl43 generally admitted. h e L l s , !ill ITIVIC a distina clause on that point on gtp.sday• rd HOWICK said, it was one of the seat rr,toe,iinary propositions, after what had passed, t he Ilan. Member might ezercise his own di.- —Adjourned, at HALF PAST ONE. to . Y • ;OREN!! INTELLIGENCE. GOII'ENBURIia MML. GOTTLSIBUNGN. Its. 6. s 7•1t5;41 courier arrived here this afternoon. in I. r Osys from tit. Petersburg, he came across hah of Bothnia ; in English courier left Ns ~ • K b at the same time. but having taken ann• her gout', is not yet arrived. The latest acc.iunts from the armies in rolatssl .re, that the French have been most rooghly seat ed in the late affairs. by the Itiissiiuss lst they have suffered greatly by the weather and admess of the toads, through which they have lost 0 14U/table part of their tired . It is scd :kat Bonaparte is 'heavily of his Polish o nipaisrn. and of being confined, as it were. so far trim home, where his presence IsiTins to be ne see'arv. It is reported, that Gen. Ilimbioviski has k-en kill, I. the Q•ah , e frigate and the Fenny gun-brig, hating landed the money with which they %vele ' urged Inc the Emperor of Russia, will sail the fist lair wind. and will take some merchants sh.ps toms lire under their coilvriy. ••• irtieure of tetintorar, UIJ Ittr tto Ariel ou te,rwttt.n. upon the article in Th,. Can , rel, entitled H.. strr DIV.MI," onbl Monday. ; -- 11 - IE - BRiTISII 'RE SS• I.ON DON , SA i'IMD AY, ViItRUAILY it. 84 11 ,ss P.iessam's wrest was communicated, Lit r , g t, by tl:e Fust Lnrd of the Admit alty, an! the ,: n::nt for that rur;,cse produced to the lionse of C mmoi i. A Coktenburgh Mail arrived yesterday, with Letters Atli l'apers to the eth instant, brought to Its-nsgate by the Kin; paeket. The g. nee which they contain is of a general nature. It states Coat :he French have been very roughly treat. el in tbelste affairs by the Ru‘siani, and suffered gre•elly by the bainess of the weather, and of the toads. • We have verrived pris Ate accounts from Holland, ; cf as late a date as Sunday last, whirh sta.e, that %tem were three Dutch frigates, (any provided for a long voyage, waiting at Helvnetduys, for an op portunity to sail.—lt is supposed, that they ate destined for Batavia. An embargo has been laid upon all vessels at Helvoetsluys and Drille. Oii Weshiesday se'nnight, King Louis made a peat number of Knights of the Order of Union and of Merit s with notch ceremony. The report of the French having received some very severe checks in Poland, was very generally credited among the in st informed people in Holland, t anwitlittatidaig the assertions to the contrary in the French paper s. The requisition, iri Brabant, of all young men from IG to 25 years of age, is enforced in the most rigid manner, and has produced some very serious disturbances. The coronation of King Lows is shortly to take place, wi:h great splendour. A Russian Officer artier d yesterday in town, with dispatches for the itirssian Ambassadir. Ile lett the Russian army on the Vistula, Jan. 22, came by St. Petersburg to Gottenburg, from whence be s tiled on the frith instant, in the K 177. Gorr Packet, for Harwich, but the vessel having lost her bowsprit, and received much other damage, she was obliged to make for P.amsgate, which port she readied on liursday. The dispatches, we un derstand, state in sr rtis.nt nAD •ctM No usria. PAL SAITIR, I COY TM! tan OF OLCEtIII66 ILo TN! On or JAmwev, the date of the dispatches; bur that there had been daily skirmishes between the nut-posts, with various success. Th.? Russian Officer, who was an eye witness of the es Lnts cnn- Vainest its the dispatches, reports to the same effed. He says, that by this mode of warfare the French Army was much harassed, and great discontent is said to have been excited in it. He records the feillnwitv cirenmstance, as a proof of the dissat;s faaion which a winter campai t• n has produced in its ranks : —On the 31st day of DecetrAser,lfive days after the battle ssf Pultnsk, Boar AAAAA 6 os dered try, regi mums of 'his owe ou•aus, to make an attack upon uhe of the Russian out-posts, which they declined. This refusal so exasperated him, that he ordescd the two regitootts tube irnmediatel) shot. They INTO accordialey turroundeJ b 7 seve. ral other qv giments, and every nian of the two regiments was put to death. The Russian Officer de dares, that be svas told this anecdote by a person oho declared that he had been an eye-witness of this shocking sc,m-. Though we do not credit the rela tion in its full extent, we may presume that it is n t entirely without inundation. The Russian army AMODStili to 2SOMO men, exclusive of 30,000 i!Fussians who had joined them ; thet mops were full of confidence and well appointed. They were still under the command of General BEMNINGSZN, on the 22.1. The French army was equally numertnti, but sickly. Our naval column contains several particulars of the damage sustained by our shipping, in the late storm. His MAJIIITY has made the folluvring alteration% in the List of Sheriffs for the Present year. 'I hese alterations will appear in this night's Gazette. 'I hey are as lollow : ~icectersisere—Edwspi Dawson. of Whitton 'House. Esq. 11 i s th e rums , of William Bu t ton, of 11i ken, E.g. deceased. Staftedihiressnlohn Line, of King'. Bromley, 1... q. in the room 4 George Briscoe, of Suatinerhill, Esq. Carmarthetishire—Ssekville Greene, of Glenbrane, Esq. in the room of John Morgaii,of Furnace, Carmarthen, Vie. An Estitmde of the produce of the Duty on l'ro • perty ; f.r three years, commencing the 5:1, of April 1804, sth of April 1805, and sth of Aptil 18Zti: • F oint 'ith April 1404 / . 11nder the Act of 49 Geo 111. to sth April 1805 at le. in the pound. 1. 4,658,00 0 1 Ac Fmni sth April 1805 Under the tof 45 Gee . 111. :o sth Aped 1606 at Is. 3d. in the poun 5,937,510 'ir•ini sth A ,ril 1806 / Under the Act of 46 Geo. 111. to sth April 1807 5 at ts in the pouod 11,5.;0,000 I The Srfren, of Hull, Witt o HT, is upset off Lowe. 'toff ; Crew saved. The LtherSPs, of Sunderland, STORY; the Henry. Ga•sioe ; and the Mary and LiCarJr, J ACKSON. 'from Newcastle for London, are stranded, near Yarmouth. The Palmyra, from America for Liverpool, is lost near the latter place. C.,rgo exprEhd to be saved. 'llse following, with several other vessels, arc • shore near Yarmouth : The Tartar, Graves, iron Shields, fog London; the J-tr, Allen, from Alterdt en, foe Lond-st i , the Aba, Reynolds, tr Neweast.e, far London ; the Pothook, So....mime, frith S tl—latsl, for Plymouth ;te ho, Ham, uf Sields Dundin ; tho Ceteth and th- • Indun y gy, Nor h th Co.ntry The Mentor, Yet.s.ownv, with cotton and storm from the .c pr. dwell, is lost nn Crooked island. The HsNter, lie.r.nue Curer. is lost off Harsbro'. Some papers have b , en taken up at Yarmouth, belonging to a vessel called the Heart 4 OaA. Mr. Pitt clots, of Bridle-street, has given Mr. JANIS W r Ifs roair:, Four Hundred Pounds for the Copyright of the Cua few, written by his late brother Josue Toms, Esq and the publication wiil take place on Monday morning. The following is an extra& of a letter from an Officer at Maldonado, to Lit friend in Minter, dated Maldonado. Rio de la Plata, Dec. 8, 1806 : After giving the particulars of the captirre of Buenos Ayres by Gen 'lustrous, and its subse- Trent sceapture by the Spaniards, which have been already detailed in the Government dispatches. he st ir The Spaniards have di-persed Gen. Bre at. roan and hi; men all over the country, three or four at a place. General BACK HOUSE. who commands Maldonado, received a letter from Gal. BEASIFOIIII a few days since, in which he says he is very well; he is about 64., miles distant. The Spaniards com mitted the most horrid cruelties on our men, such as cutting off their ears, and wearing them as cock ades ; stripping a man naked, And putting him in a ring of forty or fifty, so that each might have a stab at him This we learn from those who have made their escape. ' , There are now 6000 Spanish troops encamped evert 1 a miles from this place, commanded by Gen. Pivots°, who are expefted to attack this place every day. The troops here are only 2300. The Spaniards are all mounted on most excellent horses, of which there are thousands in this coun try, and the best of them may be purchased for two dollars. They have a most curious method of fighting. with a long rope and a noose at the end, which they throw with the greatest nicety to the distance of 30 yards, it is fastened to the saddle, and, as aeon as they have caught their ohjAt, they gallop off, and drag him to death in five minutes several of our men have been taken in this way. 4. Admiral STIRLING, it is suppesed, is waiting for a reinforcement from England to attack Buenos Ayres again ; it is expected to be very easily taken. but the difficulty will be keeping possession of it. •. The foraging parties that are sent out for cat tle, generally bring in ahem two or three hendred at a time. A cow and call clay be porchased here for two dollars, which is 3io per teat. dearer than they usually are; meat we get at one mewl per pound, very excellent tender beef—but nu mutton, as sheep are very scarce." Some Paris Papers, to the 11th, have been received, but they -are of little interest. Au article, dated Paris the 10th, says, Since the ie. turn of the Empress, this city has recovered its gaiety. Yesterday, the Princess CA canAN IC A the Countesses of MIITTEIINICH-W A LSISCRO, 7 YITI7II. SElS.MOlitosstA, and Mrs. Ai usTotosu, then Ame rican AillbASSACifill 1.1141. were presente t I ler MAJzst r.'"llleCapt3:n of the frigate f;ciett at, has transmitted a report to the Meritime n B Prefe at rest, sta ting, that on the 30th lan.haviee rit snider weigh with the intention of sailing tar Brest, with a con. voy of 2t; sail, from St. MA°, escorted by the Prieremps cutter, and the Run -b• ats 262 and 21, the gutter was attacked by six or seven En glish pin naces, sent from the ships nt . war stationed vff Brest. which shipped almost all their crews on hoard, armed with pistols, pikes, and rut:laws, with the design of carrying her off. and seizing the convoy ; but the vi gorous resi•tance they n.et with, in a brisk engage. mart, which lasted about shier quarters of an how and during which two men belonging to therrietemps wre killed, and ten badly wounded, obliged the English to sheer off, leaving the Master ot one of 0-e pinnaces on boats!, mu tally wounded em eifferent places, besides losing most ot their n ice 'T `^ S ~' ••E•I'lqP.Rl ......_ • .. 44 . ;, Pt. '": 6 e • ( It 1- 1 . ; 1 111 .0 — 1, Vol NLIF AM's/Cll. FUND. The twenty-first Co:.cert, for the benefit of this excellent Institution, was held at the Great Concert Room, King's Theatre. on Thursday last, and the high estimation it is held in, was fully evinced • by the presence of tn,re than two thousand Nobility. Mr. CAAPALA led me band; rnd Mr. CIII•TORIEX most ably c-odated the business of the evening 1 he Concert comment., I with the Grand Dtet;egen 7e Drum. Mrs. Astlt gave Sweet Bird," ac comp inied by Mr. Asni. on the Rote, with the most fascinating sweetness. Mr. KIWI A* was ex tremely fine in s' De'fer and deeper stale' but his execution of 1. A Smile and a rear." called forth a most enthusiastic rnrore. Signor NALDI and Madame BIA/gLIII were highly applauded in two Italian darts ; in that of " CMS pdliiitata Sapprli.Mo. " they were rapturously 'neared Ma dame Ca r at.•et, who most generously came forward on the occasion, never apoeared to more advantage. and executed tiarnawle the ndienhea Thenvar," with the greatest taste, sweetness, an I execution, and was hailed with repeated brawl. A Concerto on the Violin, hi Mr. Y•wavti ; Concerto on the Harp, by Mr. Dial ; and a Con certo on the Cl minuet. by Mr. Smile! (Musician to His ROTAS Highness the Duke of Cemiseeaww). were received with the most unbounded applause. The crowd was so excessive. that many of the Nobility never got into the room, hut wets patient listeners in the passages. In the elegant .tmeni blage were : sio Royal 11,chttess the Duke of earths:deo ; Eater. Matt the Das etufOrleans and Da Beni, the Doke and Duchess De Castries; the Ditches*. of Roxbet‘h, Holten, and Chan dus • the M .rehinnesses of St .'forti, Wellesley, and Sal ; bury; the . Carl and Countess Chol.suandel.l ; Earl and Countess Forteseue ; the Farl et °shady, E.a•t Pomfret; the Cows. KW of Barrynone; Venottut and Vtuountest Du•!!ey and Ward ; Vaseassant and Vnenunte s Hampden ; Lathes letng. ham, Newark, Luc" Ilemathev, Smith [Surges, Drummond Smith, Par.,. 'NO ,ans Wynne, Raker, llud.on, Rad, and C ..h tram 11...'.., Dr. and Mrs. Hume ; Lnrd a. d Lecly A , 4e.0 ; SA' fro/lAMB and Lady Tiny.; Lord Niactinnald ; Lariy . I ..:Icet; the Hon. Mrs. Anse*; Mr. and Mrs. israoke ; the Hon. Mr. Capel; and and Mn. /snits. OIt4IORIOS. covarte.oalotrt. Last night, the Serenata of Ads ad Gaiety°. and ' a grand Miseenanecus Sele Sion, were performed to a btillinnt audience. In the Serenata. the beautiful ; air, Consikr fond Sberhe,J, was sweetly v.-arbled by Madame DL:bSIK. Tile beautiful duct, hepry WAS sung %ski; great animation by Mr. BRA Alt and Mr; Diccwis. Mr. 13*A If AM sang Lore in her eyes, with infinite taste and sweetrisl.. ; but it is im possible to do justice ro I,is executiun of 'l he Pottle of Maida— it was encored with enthusiasm. DOEter ARNE'S sweet fipnn of kw was as sweetly snag by Mrs. 131. Asa, and encored; as was Mrs. DICKONI in the Sni.lirr tar'd. The instrumental performers I wore m,t less happy in their several departments, and the whole affsoded the amateur a rich banquet harmony. fer I VOCAL CONCERT, It t.IV et H.ISQTER SQL".I l. The second of titese elegant musical entertain thetas took place, last night. and was attended by au elegant and numerous company. Miss Paste made her (Lbw in the charming terzetto Cbi ra per norina belle, with Mr. HARMON and Mr. BANTLIIM AN, and received great ftnplause. Miss PARKL was also extremely happy in Qua: duke dee l'aninin vi rapisee. The frost scene from King elrtlp,r, was admirably given by M _ls. VAUGHAN and Mr. BAIITI.Sli.0:. and received great ap planse. The favourite glee of Denali, surg by Miss PAW, Messrs. Flattaisosr, Goss, a! d BARTLLMAti, was rapturously rterorral. Mr. H A It. lIISC , t4 received the most unbounded applanse in the beautiMl cantata. See ! fions the silent rose Alexis ties ; its Conte if rhse dare, he was grand and impressive, and louldly rerored. The new Concerto (echo) for two French Horns. by Messrs. PITIIIDSS, received the most unbounded applause. Their Royal 1 lighnesse* the Dukes of CAMBRIDGE aad Cu II ; t Earls Of DA IIT. swim', D 44444 r, m he Uzsarooz, and a long list cf Nobility. were present. try Vs 'OLD BATLEY. Fes. ff. MURDER tilt t&R STEIL. 'a ; • „ •• ' it rtf KING L. J.L. FlljlesaA, nt h u Oliver, sad :we, Itteydc r , , cut Hirgerly. • Thil trial, .1}1;s18 wa fie tor ten o'cl a ..,it morning, had exerted a gre..t &greet of po • t r ;sedation, an 1 the Cralr was Cr s 4 •..1 t • a very early hi ne• So great was the ra cs sons, whom curiosity or intertst bad .s was who the utmost jiffeat y r e c • ilet in waiting were able to pr-serve the pea• sh si • tr.. 2 the entrances to the. Court free from eila •-• The Marquis of Aberc• lied Aber. e•-I • • viral other revels' • t .'iat.. Riser. •et wit t' • goon the Bonds. The Prisoners bete,. .•• t3ar. the itidiarnent was re-ad. It cress. • counts, one efmtgine the reisimers •i•h of Mr. Rictiar Pole ateel, or the ' ember, 1802. on Hounslow ti-a 4 . • with a stick or joins such wee ; •• • count charged thee-. with effsain.; s strangling him with a leather e ong. Tie Pti-vsiess !leaded s• 40 Cash!. M.. GURSIT opened the primecatioil . •. .4 , 01* becoming careour, recomanend-it in the .itoy rhi maws of wit iteVer pier.s.,Casictlto: ors: .judisi. I against the Prisnaers at the &irises twine almost inevitably have ate a•ree•'. from tbWritualock • of r-narks filet Lad ittr:aa • •iee to vie public on this very ireeresting sul.4- 1 .. ; and •reCatim mended to them, to comities At...le the e vidaban .. wbids 'sight late -edduaananittiva4u4P ta.-' tbdi,WeVr This be was afraid, 'Or tee safety of the r•isOntls. • would he but too court ire ; thongh kit arras • vinced, that when there was acts .wbestit r. pe circeriai stantial evidence. appeeheostoetorehe..saiety . • t accused was almost Criminst. rile ;srsieeeekish, •. . state the transadion. lion. its eontniteicaetseensto tee conclusion, which be said priemne-d I vieal I barks- and cunning, such as .tad scarcely tires Mere - witnessed before. lie then proceeded tasea'.. Ada*. • . vcral witnesms in order. 'Thos. Stephen G Meyer, being sworm, toot the deceased, who was a lav-nder dislike. so Coe therine l atreet, Strand, possessed a.m..'! hoe • • planWion. near Fentum, beyond l-' • .dos 14- ai • to which he frequently sweet, and remained there a • • night, or sometimes a temple of days. h.• 's! had diem some men employed in burl g.-- the deceased had, en Friday. the 5 , 1% N-vernhcr, 1802, left town as usual for his term—he Aid or* return for some days; this occasioned alien• to his family ; and Wireless, • n the Wednesday follnetrg set out for Fentum. to see what had occasioned this unusual delay. On his arrival th-se, be hiti.id to his aitonishment that the deceased had lett. mon Saturday evening, to return to town ; the alarm soon spread. and various conjcaures wee formed as to what had become of him. It. we, , tt. 'ergot's supposed, that the deceased must have ;Ken at tacked and mutilated on his way to town. ns he Set .t.: at a very late hour (eight o'clock). "i'lley pet ceedee to search the Common. where they found, on ;lie • de of the road mkt to his own house, in a gravel pit, concealed among the flirt wl.ich grew therei m, a • drab great coat. on tae right acne of which was a large spot of hlood ; the coat lie !spew to be that: which tite deceased wore on the day he lvir Lowe g,_ an old Nat, and some peers of a bar. were a'on brought to him by the gardener of the deceased,. .• Henry Manly (which were atterwatds produe id 'yr 7,! Court). They then crossed the road, and trend the °miy of the deceased in a illicit. on wiezh the sods of the bank bad been thrown, so as hardly cover it ; part of his coat was visible above e•or sods. The body Wit •'readfully brained (ape 41 it tir by the blows at a stick) ; the head Was L two places, and round the neck was blond a leathern strap, buckled so tight, wet had he survived the bl..ws, the strap must have cloaked tem. The witness on being ask•id.whethei it was thecae torn of the deceased to writs his name in h.. hat, ..•• other articles of t his'3 answirea, that es alwa, did so, even in his boots and shoes. On oe crosemmined by Mr. Arsonewi, t he Prise' , Counsel. he added, that tt e neighbours ha' pu,.. ed a proclamation. rffsilog coal. reward to .y person who could convia the persons concerned the Murder. Henry Manly, the gardener of the decease'. mated, that en the sth of November, the dec eased. his master, came down to Fenturn , whi se he regime.. ed that night and next day, until eventeg At about seven, the deceased p reposed to return to town Acre, and to toot. The settees' remonsttateti. and urged CA impropriety of his returning at t hat late hour alone across the heath. The deceased persisting in his resolution, tee Witness helped tom on with his great coat, and the de ceased set oi.t. He had not above 2.i or 2;s. in his pocket, having paid the awn concerned in the buiisiii g. previous to his leaving Penturn. l • had on a tight drab coat. helt.beots, and a hat nearly new. Witness corroborated the statement of the last Witness, as to the circumstances aged eche dition in which the body of the deceased was found on the heath; end added. that the place where it was found, was near the third clump of trees from the deceased's hou.e, about 400 yards from the road, across C.e heath, and near 400 thorn the barracks. William Hughes said, he had a<i. wed in the search. and totted die body in a ditch, covered with sods ; the face of the corps WAS covered with Mood, and a strap tit leather was tied extremely tight rou,.d the neck; there were ali•o four.d a pair of >hers, ha: and coat, on another part of the coeunon. The ;Army of Mr. Steel had neither hat. great coat, nor hoots on. Witness wis also present at the corot ethi tn. ghost on the body tr and, when it was proved to be that of Mr. Sti•cl. M. Henry Fro„ der., surgeon, saw, on the 10th of November, the body of Mr. Suet.; I the head was trathired near the temple, with a great laceration of the integuments, proceediag born a violent blow of a stick, or some other blunt weapon he perceived an t ter contusion on the thick part of the head ; the - deceased had also been so extremely abused by the strap. whicla WAS tied closely round his neck. that it he had received no other injury. it n use have caused his death ; but he was of ()Onion r e blew on tee front part of that head ass the mina:- dMte cause. benjemin Hanfiel .1. an approver. oat the n s It pro duced. He had been a coevict, under ser'en'e transportation. A pardon, rseckilig his set:mum, r r ~ _~,~ . MISS t'S TO THE F.lnTon. In your Paper of Monday last, you stated that M'ss M kr. Lon petfirmed the part of Hussite, in The Jcdous grifi, at Drury lane Theatre, on Satur day night. and that having sprained her ancle, Sir Harry It as/s, in the sporting phrase, exclaimed. that iforriel was lame in the of foot.—Formetly, Sir, fine Mtres.es. particularly if fine womln, were mu' h addified to Irvoing, and the steadiest among them was apt to take a Jude in her gailop.Ot late, however, hitati.wr has succeeded to 0440,5ig, and a sprained uncle is almost as essential as a will-turned one. That Mrs. Mocisrairt, who went over so much grould the last two summer seasons, as a wandtrsug Minstrel. shculd be t)e.iten in the feet, or that a Lady should break cl ,, wri in /At Travelers, after so long a rum. is natural en.rtigh; but in the case of Miss Mgt.! on. who has not been so much in the exercise of her Ii co-mcrive powers. lameness. I premined, was only the new theatrical c omplaint asnong those ladies who have the surest and best looting up..n the stage.—Ftel of this subject. Testa day, I had written a whole poem of h.d.blitig verses, of all sorts of feet, I myselt all the while stunt tide ill 'pc, intending tl:em for insertion in Tris Beaten Plass ; but I had scarcely finished, when I bound that, (worst( .slams. I had been guilty of a faux pos. a nd had not carted fair.—Karrott, 1 god. Sir. i upon irtiiiity, has aCtually sprained her ancle; but, • it i. licred, that by fomentation and proper treat . niPnt, it will soon recover not only its fine shape, but ail its wonted elasticity. Yew's, Ttra. Fax s.uca• It, - _ Th e Right Honourable Lord Tuna ow has been ple 4 d to appoint the Bev. J. B. Tim rr• soy, L. L. B. one of fats Lordship's datnestic CD ip tains. - • I