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, • r, 4 + sed tams, extreme/ wet, it for His Majesty's liervice- there t P It P/ Hight Hum. Lord CAE , &c. &c. Extract of a Letter from sin Dli sloop Pylades daleJ at May 3, Lord Collat ( :mad. I have the honour to inform your Lorilabip, that yester day His 111 Nicety's sloop outer 111 i command, s.t. etching suer to Carlton, with a fresh breeze Coin the lk E. at ten am. saw a settee coming dowu before the wind fur the purposes! oreemnsitring us i when perceiving what we were, imoM diately battled her wind ou the starboard tack. and after a chase of live hours iu the wind's eve, came up with and cap tured her. She proves to be Le Grand Is; apolroa pries seer, commanded by Jsoqui• Donifaee Starrier, pierced for ten guns, but only four rooested,oue of M bids thrown over board Juriog the chase, with a complement of thirty-eight men. She was tbirtrea days. from Marsettics, bad taken et/thing, nearly new, and equipped for a two months' cruise. I also bad the pl e to capture. on the with tilt Le St. Mousse, a French tartan, from Fort° Tabu in Corsica, lend to Tripoli. She bad in scren hundred musket-11m i* gad leeks fur ditto. k titgoed) G. M. HUGH. L'. CA NI pear. 6 of His Majtsty'o st..soo Vtee-Adiu. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY. JULT 20. The Confounder gau-brig is arrived at Ply. mouth, from off Cadiz, after a passage of eleven days. She has brought dispatches to the 3d inst. General SFr. Imre has landed his troops at St. 3lary's, in order to refresh them. If we remember zii,b!, it was off St. Mary's the 4 Spanish frigates were attacked and taken, under the adniiiiistra tin!, of Lord MCLVII.II7.-.—DUPONT was still at And had nn! yet been attacked by Geaeral Castzttos. Ai.-unts had been receiv ed at Seville, from Saragosee, which state, that a corps of French, of 7,000 ;nen, after three days action, hod been entirrly cut to pieces, by the Pa- riots at Saragossa. The Officer who brought these • dispatches to towu, arrived last morning, in Down .< •`. ing-strlitt, in a chaise and fo•tr. He attended the Foreign Office, the Duke of YORK'S Office, and the Admiralty. and afterwards a Cabinet Council, which eat at two o'clock, at the Duke of Post- Loups. The CAtarly gun-brig arrived on Saturday night. atPlymouth, with dispatches from Corunna, and on Sunday the Alciiitor arrived at the Mille port from otf the Tans. The dispatches brought by the Claw!, are of so late a date as the 9th instiust, with Mr. Win' and M. FIRMI AII VIA/10, Spanish 05car of distinction. The dispatches of !bee Agents state, that, on the Ststli of June, the Spanish patriot army, commanded by the ,larqui,. k PALB/07L, attacked the French under General LErvvas. The French were 8,000 strong. After a load resistance I.IIFEVRE was routed ; and the Spanish peasants, though a capitulation had beets concluded, broke in with their (arum blasts) knives and swords, with which they put every Frenchman to the sword. The Portnguest were likewise marching toward.. Lisbon, where, it !vas beliend, JuNcre was in a most critical situation. If we assume, that the account given in the Go vernment ILllletin. imcrted yesterday, relative io Dneosiv, is not in any degree exaggerated, or ren dered more encouraging than Lord COLLING WOOD'S whims warrant, we may venture safely to look for a fortunate termination of that first great military operation of the Andalusian patriots. It will have the nio,t important effects on the cause of itipe Spaniaras, no less than on BONAPARTE. The re treat of Durowr, near thirty miles, along the banks of the Gisalalquiver, in au easterly direction, from Cordova to Andujar, when joined to the fact of his laving proposed • conditional capitulation, suffi- ciently indicate how desperate must be his vitna tion. With the mountains and paws of the Sierra • Morena behind him, and having in his front the still higher mountains of the Sierra Nevada. which separate the little kingdom or province of Jaen from that of Orrnada ; unable to reach either Ma laga or Carthagena ; equally prevented from re treating upon Toledo or Madrid; his escape is, according to all appearance, almost hopeless.— Th e hot season, which was rapi4ly approach ing, would increase all his embarrassments.— The Spaniards, moreover, by adopting the mode of warfare which the Americans so success fully practised against BUIGOTIIa at Saratoga, and which is so peculiarly adopted to the relative position, character, and other circumstances, of the two contending nations; justify us in believing, that their counsels are sagely and cautiously con (ducted. Shcrtild DUPONT . , army finally surrender to General Carrtsos, tits prisoners that must fall into his: hands, when added to those taken on board Harastm.v's Sqoadrou, and those who are already captnred in various parts of Portugal, in Gallicia, an d Aerogori, will forma very large aggregateliody of men. With whatever intlifferenea NAPOLEON considers the lives and the freedom of those oho li g ht in his cause; and however coolly he may con . . . sign whole regiments to perpetual imptisonment, wr to death ; yet he cannot avoid ftr.linz, that the French, who fall into the power of the nmurzents, will be considered by them as hos tages for the security of the Spaniards whom he has sent to the shores-of the Baltic, and there de tains, or surrounds. Never did any Sovereign. or sny Government, in modern ages, adont so nonage lad ro inhuman a polity towards its own suLjects, slithers and sailors, tsictit in battle,- as ass s- PLZTE hus done! NVitntts his orderin; the hat- ••• teries d Morlaix to fire en the seven French Naval Captains or Officers, who were not long *go sent over thither froin • Plymouth in a ilag of truce ! Witniss the treatment experienced by the fishermen carried over recently from this country to the coast of Normandy. who were not allowed to land, and who were in fact sinunled into their own country. ilia dread of ail contact between England and the unfortunate people Whom he op presses and conscribes, in order to transfer nee. Itiogdoins to his brothers, is the cause of these ty rannical regulations. They will inevitably revert with violence on himself, and accelerate his de struction, if fortune, or, in other words, if consum mate prudence, which has hitherto conducted all his entarprists, shall cease to inspire them. Dispatches were received ye►terday from Ad miral CocsaataE and Lord COLLIst WOOD. Their contents have not transpired. The Growle► gun-brig is arrived at Plymouth, with two French Chasse mares" and an American ship, captured by her and the Amethyst, olf Bor deaux. The French vessels Wurc pint of a (convoy of as sail, the remainder of which were driven on shore or destroyed. Yesterday the Duke of Yoia held a public day at hi, Office in the Horse Guards, and gaie to Lords DoacttaaTElt, K N CST° N amf Doisotiettswee ; Sir J. Moose, General BOWY El 4 On his return from Jamaica, &c. &c. Sir Jose Moose transacted business at the Commander-in-Chid'. Office, on Morsil:ty. Sir Hew DALITKPLE will lieve.the Command in Chief of the troops sending out to the aseisianee of Spain mad Portugal. A Court of Aldermen Wei held yesterday, at ' at which JOSHUA JOVI ATHA% SMITH, and CLAW:In:I STEPti LIUNTER, Esq. nheiiav Elect, gave bond to take upon theluaelves the said Office. NATHAN SALOMON, was admitted a Jew Broker, in the room S q-nana Lev LIN, jun. resigned. The Assize of Urea.: was ordered to be - conti- ' ailed at is. Old. the qu4rtern loaf. Mr. A LILIAN eta, late Ch:orman of the Commit tie of N ass and Means, and cousin and Secretory to the Earl of CALI DON I tlovernor of the Cape of Good Hope, is arrived at Portsmouth, to take Ilia plunge to that C010.,y. Th. St. Miehail. an American brig, is arrived at Falinoutli from L'Orie'.i,ead bn'se, dispatches from the American Government to Nlr.l't scha EV. Up the Gentleman who . brings these dispatches, there are acermuts that the ilirletences which have for a twelvemonth past beta tie ~it,ject of negnejettion between Mr. AIIVISTOLONG a 1 Ow Fre•so 11ittister, at Paris, are at length al.)out uiteentinat.• in an anki.: cable manner. They so, that this is not owing to the recent events, nor has A q3erota abated one tote of her pretensions. Mr,W.t'u RV, cs, who brou.,ht the dispatches from America, continues in Framer; the St. Michael is to be aline:ea tore:lva to L'Orieitt. A Gentleman arrived at Falmouth in the Attu'. riean brig St. Michael from L'Orient, *repents the rumour which we mentioned last week, ofu serious difference having arisen between 'N Santa*, a..d TAI LILT IttND. It was reported at L'Orient, that the Mitehiavilian Minister had been arrested, and was held in close confinement under a guard of soldiers. We have been reentered with the following extract of a letter from (),Hirto. It contains a anore eir ctirn4antiol account of the last successful effort to re-establish the old Government. than say which ha. yet appeared: oroaeo, JUNE 19. " A few hones Am my lest, the inisabitaLts of this city rue, with eschainations a live the Prince Regent, Reeperee of Resnill,' nod esavinhten tonsultunosly at the bar rette of the mood regiment, and front thence proceeded with a corps of artilkry cod some field-pieces; the Porto eik dying i. all the streets to join the awed, sad thence went to open the trip:mt., •!.r.- the arms and alumni:aloe were deposited. They befall to nag ifie hells, &adulated the Mum. This lasted from icx o'clock in the 'venue meta day. *ma. All the night was passed in tumult. Their esinber at ie.st consisted of 2o,nee, colleted front the town and sutmrte, to wait tic Lusa' of ono French, who were said to be advancing but now, at t 1 o'clock, rie lonians isformation respecting them has been rewired. It is possible obey were of to thiposithre of the 'shabatants, in consequence 7 11 1: 6d noa-arrival of the 'applies of breed: whiclf were east to them by °hegira, the Guyana:, and which were in tempted. The people assembled in the Bias° to elect ano. thee Governor, until the Conti et MAP tablubrd, and they if. ter-wards issued • ?rociatnevion. All this was transacted with a tranquillity of which there was ao exanopk They coolonsed in the streets all night, soccasmoodly discharging pus in token of rejoicing. To-day, orders were given that all pratieb ships of war and merehant rm.!, should be admitted into the port. Artillery are planted at the bridge, and the throe other ove rsees which lead to the town. Officers hate bees dispatched to arrest the follsocieg partisans of the French, viz. Mows. Donadien. C. Dustier. Richard Manuel Teles de Negmbes, head of the French Trilsoina Caine!), s e, French Col !Artois DVAlVtifill, the , Sore de Tooje, Comuss“.io., of the Order of Christ." The following is an exact statement of the e.r traordimery height of the Thermometer, in the last and present week; exposed to the open air in a Northern aspect, in James's-street, Buckingham- gate : Maaig July 1 till 7 tsesir...• •• • I .tb Wvi5d.........• • ..... .. 13th 1 74 Them% •• •, lads - l 7ll rrit;; •• .; •• •••• • ..... .• Istli sans J ' Ads WI ' sanely l7th ' se -. . M mbdiy llll Tuesday ........... .. .... lob 92 Last evening. as the workmen were repairag the holm: intended for the Ordnance-of f ice, in pill- mall, ore of the floors gave way, and buried thole men in the ruins. out: of them yeas dug out in a short time afterwards, dreadfully mangled. and dead ; bitter %olive hours di i titin.4, the other two were found damisrou,ly bruised,. but not dead; they were ..srried to the hospital, with hula ea pectittion of their recovery. There were no less than seven Coroner's IngsteAts held on Monday, chiefly on pursoui drmitie,l whilst bathing on Sunday, vial. three taken from the Ser pentine river, one from the Canal, two f•rius the Thames, and one from the New{tiro. of the persons drowned in the Thames was a mature peinb-e, whose cries were heard by the erm!:.1111 on 1310 , kfriars' Bridge.' Sev.-ralreines put oft to snit: Lim, but be sank erc.arrirtarte could reach biro. 3 • • • t 1 t P. 4, ie to L a a a S' . 711 i1.. ,1.,'1, . • , .. - - - ,to 4 '• ,- 7. 6,4- • ''' IP . ... Ilk iii* -- ; if . • -- --. 4 .. / Q.lh. 4. A PARTY OF PLE.ISCRE. It appeared on a trial, yesterday, for Crime. Con. that theiovers left London on the 19th May, slept at the Angel Inn, Ly • _tan, on the Ipth, and the two following night., as Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett ; on the night of the 22d, and the two following nights, they slept at the Crown Inn, Lyndhurst ; ou Sun day, the 25th, they came to the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Popliato-lane ; on the it'll), they arrived at Mr. But./.'s horse. Walhain Green, and continued to live there un'the mil June; and they now reside at the hams. of Jr. IleacHet.L, a nurseryman, in the neighbou.liood of Fulham. POETRY. GLASGOW THEATRE. LINVS PrOKIN Os •ATIIR:'..II" TVENIINO, BY Mrs. CLOVES, AT Tilt COSCLLSION Or MRS. ISCIISALD'A COVFOIC OF " WIVE. AS TREY WISE, •51) MAIDS AS THEY ART." What is c'ea now inspires the Patriot band, To drive oppi resign from their isative laud, To hail venranct• un a treack'rous foe 'lls for the Spain tionly strikes the blow ! Oh! may each fallen State example lake, Essay twee more the Gallic yoke to break ; Liko Spain assert their rights, and dare be free, Or glorious fall for glorious liberty ; Herr after .grs should the deed record, Ind grateful tell the achievements of their sward ! Like yun -proud pillar raied to N EL.SON's am% That speaks, stance, Isis own and Glasa.sw's ; Whvar cris'eulm fantail-1x nobly led the a ay, To strike the thrcat'aing Despot a n h d.smay ; And pray'd4heir Sov'ceigu, war might it ..srer cease, Rat bee Oulu Britain sac inglorious la C • . Oh ! never shall tkat realm that rules the waves Be rsiik'd ainciog the Gallic Tyraurs. slaves ; Nor outfit. Spain, that makes such bold advatme, To groan beneath the iron pouf': of iranee. Go r,u , ye cal!ant Sous of freedom's fivour'd Isles,. • Tim grateful l'airshall bless with their smiles. Their flu! Eli..dinesses the l'rincess or Wuxi, and the Duchess of BRUNSWICK, with their attend ants. arrived at Windsor, from Lord MALMItBUILY'S seat, at Park-place, near Henley, soon after two o'clock on Monday, on a visit to Their-MssEtertes. The Castle and parish bells were Tung on the oces- Sig:). The above Personages dined with Their Msicsyscs and the ROY•I. FAMILY, at three o'clock, in the Klan's apartruouts. At • six the !Loyal Party went in tier Ntaaarry.'s liarnuches and four to Vro4tuore, Had walled in those beau tiful Gardens; they afterwards -went to the Prin ce-a Ectzsasatt's i7oitare at Old Windsor, sad iiartnok of tea. At eight o'clock,. the l'rtiacess of WAIL' s and Duchess of 13asrafulytta. set oh' ou their return'to Loodoii. . • Yesterday itior:riug, Ma.rasvv, • Princesses Autasisr.ts Sprats, and AMELIA, accompanied by Lo‘ds Rtvasts and WALSINGISAIC Generals MAR WITaINIII a rd CRIUSWRIORT, Col. TAY Ludt and leidy ELY, r-wle on horseback, in Windsor Park, Hai kIAJZSTR.IS. expected in town this day to hold a Court at the.Qec s's Palace. lionday; Vie Ditke and Duchess Of Yortx Lad a Rivet party tb dinner. Monday, the Duke of Volta arrived at Yt.rk flouse, Si. James's. from. Datlands. Son,' after which, his lirryil Highness gave an audience to ti. Earl trf CHA'NIALI. Lortll;n,ascriSna'reccived with his *ife, a for tune of 30,000 1 .• widi.his verdict of 10,0001. makes a net sum of 40,0001. The Earl and (ount••+s of LAnD.tf■ left Lon don, on lliondarisist, for Cheltenham. Ilia Load .;tip will leave the Countess with his.sister, Lady E. NIATIVIIVI, and proceed to visit his estates in We lately .. .t.ispied a paraf.r,raph from a morr,; .paper, stating, that his Royal - Highness the Print.; of WALES Mia 4 confined with a sprained It has been since stated, that he had inct with an ac cident of that nature, and is now perfectly re covered from it. This account is not true iu any respect. His Royal Fliglincsis complaint is the gout, and he is now confined with it du both his 'rel. WILLIAM JACOB, of Dartmouth -street, in the City of Westminster, Esq. is returned to serve in Parliument for the town and port of Rye, in the room of Sir WILLIAM ELIFORD, Bart. who has ac cepted the Chiltern Hundred:.. Friday last, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was celebrated by the most joyous festitity, occasioned by the eldest son of Sir HENRY Woast.LY Houses. Bart. that day avaining his full age of al, being the first heir male of that ancient family for half a century. The morning was ushered in by ringing of bells, and ever• public acclamation of joy ; the Corporation of Newport, and t h is principal inhabit ants, were most sumptuonsly entertained at din ner by Sir Demme Routes; the two principal Inns were opened for the entertainment of others, add • beer was moat plentifully supplied to all the people; tint the evening opened a scene totally new to that island, and fascinating in the extreme. Sir IFlRNar's gardens, handsomely il:unsiiiatei, were thrown open to the public, abr.' nearly lax► people assembled, who, enlivened with good mime, ta-gan the merry dance, in which all ranks cheer fully joined, and from which few retired, ■nd then reluctantly, until near sun-rising; in short, greater and more universal demonstrations of joy were never known in that island. clearly indieatire of e high esteem and regard the public hear that very ancient and honourable family. On the follo-sing day Sir 11F.NRY Ilotmes gave a dinner to all Ls numerous tenentry ; and in the evening the same festive scene again took place iii the gardens, to a still more numerous assemblage of both 'old ar.d young, and the merry dance was ccrntinned, with great spirit, till twelve o'clock on Saturday uight. when the band struck up God sore the King as a *` r ural for dep•rture, when each retired highly gra tified with the attention paid to their accommoda tion by the worthy host and hoarse. and with rap turous encomiums on that peculiar affability and ClN,4'eobeensioas by which every individual of that faen:v are so eminently distinguished. On the same day Mr. VI'ODALIVIr TIOLYEe was ananimousl• e!.., t: , a !Mtintser of . the ancient and respectable Corporation of Newport. LAW IN TI?LLIC ENC . 1.. SHERIFFS' COURT, Rpox•RD-Rerly, .luLv 1(;, :," CRIM CON. LORD BORINGDON r. SIR A. PAGET. A Special Jury was this day impannelled to stars the spritsails. of dama;es in -this iniun., brought against the Defendant, for erinsinal co.l - with Lady Buringdou: the Defendsla having suffered judgment to go by default. 1, e ,, they were sworn, hlr. Dean La openeci the plead ings, and land the damages at 30,40301. %Ir. P.taa then addressed the Jury, andostat,d his case nearly as follows : " Gentlemen of the Jury—l have the honour to appear before you as Counsel for the Nv:,:e Lord who is Plailititi in this cause, as appears u:, 0 ,, the record. My Learned Friend, who snails-4r has acquainted you with the nature and ol:jeo, this action. It will be my duty to enter at large into the particulars of the cruse, and t o .tats to you the cievimstatice., grounded upon ankh the Plaintitf, w hose cellar I this day advocate, Ls felt it his duty to appeal to the justice of his tams. try fur redress. Lord Boringdon, the •Pianalf., is a Nobleman of exalted rank, and opulent for tu.se, high in public consideration, and commie,' with some of the most honourable and distinguished families in this country. About four years lip he was married to Lady Bonngdon. He was then in the Jitd year of his age. The Defeadant, Sir Arthur Puget, is also a gentleman of noble birth, being the second son of the Earl of Uxbridge.— He has been employed in some of the most import ant and distinguished situations connected with the stmt.!. He has been employed as an Andas sador from this country, at two periods, the one on a mission to Vienna, the other to Constant:. ,noples He is also a Knight of the Bath. The I Noble Plaintiff, and Sir Arthur Paget, heoame quainted very ..arty in their lives. They were both at the verve University, namely, that of Oxford, and were fellow-students of the same. College, Christchurch. In the year 179.2 they met ea'cli other in Russia, and there renewed their early friendship,. From that tune no great intimacy eau be said to have subsisted between them, each applied himself to his respective pursuits and duties in life; my Lord Boringdon attended closely to his duty as a Peer of Parliament, whilst Sir Arthur Pager directed his talents and attention to the interests of country „ill ithypther manner. After his return .from his twociiplosnatic missions, the Defendant did not participate in any very extensive intereourse with the Boringdon felony. Ile dined, 1 believe, twice at the hone of the Plaintiff, but was merely retrived with the ordinary civility due to his rank and chanieter. The Plaintiff, with his family, ar rived at their house in town early in the inotali of January of the present year; and it must be to the recollection of the Jery, and indeed of ereiy sem Who was wont to read the newspapers of the hate Parlutnientary Session, that my Land i uric- don most constantly applied himself to his public duties during a very severe and fatiguing Session. A consequence of this attention was, that the house of the Plaintiff was not, for that period. open to those pertienend entertainments which are so par ticularly esteemed iu the fashionable wort.:. Sic ' Arthur Paget was thee, therefore, rarely a visitor with the knowledge of Lord Boringeion. It is nii• my duty to draw your attention to those facts which preceded the marriage of my Lord Boring. don, and to the line of conduct that he uniformly oleterved, after its eonsututnation, to the lady arks choice. and the object of his affections. in the year 1803, it so happened that the Noble Plaintiff resided in the house next to that occupied by the Earl of Westmorland, the father of Lady Augusta Pane, now Lady Boringdon. This situation af forded him frequent opportunities of eyeing that Lady, and of repeating those attentions which are sought for by a person who has meditated Ginn making the female to whom he is attached, his wife, end which are generally preliminary to the solemnisation of the marriage. This state of reciprocal inteatiou and court-hip continued dtrinz the part of the yrs, inni, in which the 1 lain tiff and the family of the Earl of Westmorland re mained in town. In the slimmer of that year both retired into the country, and on their return, at the beginning of the vest thee. the mule intimacy was renewed, and was followed up, on the part of Lord Baringolon, by a prOposal cf . marriage, in 'he month of May of that year. This proposal did not alone recite the acquiescence of her father acd f, ',ends, hat corresponded with the feelings and the wishes of the lady heeself. She was then in her eighteenth year, full of youth and beauty, with a mind well cultivated. acct under the influence of all those principles which promise every hope of happiness and inttisfaction in the connubial state. T! , ev were aecordnittly married in the next month, I believe on the 34th of Jane, awl continued to bye in an uninterruuted state of felicity. until this connect:on with the * Deretidant robbed the husband of his happiness, and the unrorttinate wife of her hitherto unsullied honour. This, Gentlemen, you must perceive, was an union foimiled upon al rhos • hopes which promised a csottionaece of felicit-, The parties were alike elevate ti in rank and - tune, and there was no disparity in age; f••° surely alien you recollect that the Noble Plaint.h' tras'only 32, and Lady Augusta IP, it is insprr sible to contend that Inch a difference botvreen ages of the husband and the wife comtit toed any thing which could be termed inequal.ty. But even coold this disparity be in any case petrel ted into a,• objection, it is such an (Nettie:ins cannot prcri in the mouth of the Defendant, Who, 1 uudentaml the 34th year of his allce--thrit is, two vt al elder than the Plaintiff. But this day it will t my duty to crilhefore yon evidence a-most retrec able.erh.ch I am confidant cannot.ant: riot,lra a douLt rpm, rant minds, that this cun t le cs tinned in an aftectnstsate and happy state of en' until the month of May of this arisen the of the Plaintiff withdrew herself' from tilc. hot.. her tinslaind, and ehsped with Sir Ar.int There lied certainly oecurred circumstaceer d , ing the months previnns to the elr;:etrie.:t, which, if the Plaintiff was made arquait.: would hare awakened :strong snspkions ill ins mire but in this, as in almost all similar case.., the 1.1. hand tids die last perso:i to .acre bee - Pak.