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LAW INTELLIGENCE. ICtllit s T OF KING's itENCII, NVEVININST''.n, but :t Mr. Last:tut moved for a Rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be fled against a Mr. Seaton for sending a challenge to Mr. Wickham. It appeared that, during some private correspondence which passed bet . veen the parties, the name of one of Mr. Seaton's family had been mentioned by Mr. Wickham in a manner that was conceived to be an insult, in consequence of which Mr. be.ton demanded satisfaff;tion ) and sent a chal lenge by Major Morgan, cn which Mr. Wickham explained his condua, and stated that he had meant nothing personal, on which Mr. Seaton appeared sa tisfied, bet shortly after altered his mind, and again insisted 'hat Mr. Wickham should accept the chal lenge, observing that the Duke of York had fought a &lei, Air. Pitt had done the same, and his Majesty would not retain a man in his privy council who kid-refused to give satisfaCtion to a person who con ceived himself entitled to the same. Mr. Wickham was informed terther, that in case he persisted in refusing the challenge, lie would not be noticed by any Member in the House of Commons, and his ruin would be inevitable. The Court, after having heard the fads above mentioned, .granted the Rule. Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, his Ms.. :Esry and the Pais: tors attend divine. service at the Chapel Royal, Windsor. After breakfast his M JTATY and the Duke of CAusialoor., the Princesses SOPIIIA and AMLLIA, attended . by Gen. CARTII, Col. Frrznov and S:INCE2, Major Drsitaow, and Lady PITT, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Gre..o Park, and in :pearl thz farms, and returned to the Queen's- Lo_dfie about two o'clock. • Her MAJESTY and the Princesses AUGUSTA and EtzzABETH taok an airing to Frngmore, and walked in the gardens till about one o'clock. This morning the Royal Family are expo ted in London and t 9 dint. at Kew. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday. Re port states, that the additional force proposed to be raised for Irzland, was a principal subject of its con sideration. It is whispered, that some difference of opinion prevails h?tw•ern the Gentlemen on this and the other side of the water ; the former considering the addition of 10,000 men to the present military force, as sufficient for every purpoie of the defence of that country, while the latter urge the necessity of a new levy of not less than 50,000, for that part alone of the United Kingdom. We are happy in having it in our power to an nounce the receipt of letters from Gibraltar. to the 19th May, which are entirely silent revecting any thing like the accounts brought through the medium of the French papers. The garrison continued healthy. Generals Nryse and Dort, with their suite, have been at Dunbar on a survey of the coast. They also inspeaed the ropewalk, on which, it is said, bar. racks for cavalry, to contain 1,000 horses, and an ordnance depot, are to be built. A large barrack for infantry is to be construeled on the Gallow Green:: West side of that town, the two to contain 3,000 men. . _ Leghorn has been placed in a state of siege. An embargo has been laid on all the English ships in that port, but they had all left it except two. Government having received secret information that Jersey and Guernsey are threatened with an at tack, a squadron of four frigates has been ordered to sail from Portsmouth, with all expedition, in or der to co-operate in the defence of these islands. We understand that it is determined by Govern ment, that the Foreign Mails which used to be sent to Hamburah and Bremen, shall be forwarded to Gottenburg for the present. The Journal der Definieurr states, that the Dutch Ambassador, as he was passing over Lon4n Bridge, to St. James's Court, had the mortification to behold the ships of his country stripped of their colours, and cargoes of the English. A great number of Letter: of Mar pie have been is sued against the Batavian Republic. Letters have been received via Spain, which state that an English force has taken possession of Sicily and Sardinia. The French, it appears, have en►ered Honover. MoRT ER, with a considerable detachment, marchde into the town on the 6th. He had previously been waited upon by a deputation of the Magistrates. who delivered to him the keys. The French Com mander in Chief has taken up his residence in the palace which the Duke of CA MDRIDGE formerly oc , cupied. We admire the zeal of the French Generals, who entreat to accomp.iny BoN Ar A are on board the ves sel which shall carry him triumpbant to England.— They have no taste for the nil:) , vusth that are to go to the bottom. BONAPARIE'S Generals seem anxious to take him in for a good thing- He is now pledged to come to England, but should he come, we should be p'.ad to know which of them wni undertake to redeem-him? Letters born the Hague state, that in the sitting cf the Legislative Body on the 14th, a Message was eclivered horn the Government, announcing the de parture cf Mr. LISTON, and the recalling of the liatavian Arnbas•sador. It was determined im srte.diately to issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal against the ships of this country. An order has been sent to all the Departments to arrest all the English, from the age of eighteen to sixty, who :ite now in the Batavian territories. Lieutenant UMW-nal VICTOR has been appointed Comma der in Chief of the Dutch troops. There are letters from Hrimen, which speak of the French being in the neighbourhood of that place, but as w.t having interfered with the neutrality of the town ; there is no reason for attaching the least credit to this statement. The Parties who proposed to bid for the Lottery, waited upon Mr. A noimorom on Monday, and stated, that they had (aimed a junction--and that, if their terms were accepted, they would divide the Lottery among them. The Minister declined the offer—conceiving, that if accepted, it would deprive the Public of the benefit that might he expected to result from competition. The business was accord ingly postponed until this da y. The Kitio has been pleased to present the Rev. Roam'. Sw As to the Church and Parish of St. Monance, in the Presbyt er y of St. Andrews, and County of life. M. TALU A, Madame TALst A, and several other eminent performers, are to play at Brussch during the visit of the isesr P :11 7 4TE CORRESPOYDEAPCE. -.r.w.r.-, .. ... ZIFRACT OF A LETTER, FitoM LA VLtiDAts DATED jumE 10, 1803. " Since England began to arm against Bonaparte, the reign of terror is the order of the day in our wretched country. Spies, intrigues, bribes, threats, and fetters, accompany our suspicious tyrants .very where in our ruined cities, and in our depopulated villages. Religion itself is employed to betray the sacred secrets of the virtuous, the unwary, and the timorous, and to discover if true loyalty is yet ex isting in a country where so many royalists have bled for the cause of their lawful King, and sealed with their blood their faith in the religion of their ancestors. Arrests, imprisonments, and transporta tion, immediately follow a thoughtless aftion, an indiscreet word, or a suspeifted look ; we are not per mitted to go two leagues from our houses, without a pass ; and after dark, even in crossing our streets, or visiting our neighbours, we dare not be svithout our 'civic. cards, or our alts of amnesty; bemuse ,gene d err me:, on foot and on horseback, stop every one . ; insult, arrest, and often plunder those who have been imprudent, or negleCtful enoti:ll, not to carry with them those undeniable proofs, we, the inhabitants of France, enjoy. Where no protcCtion is afforded, no obedience can be expected ; and the inhabitants of the \Western Departments arc as ripe for insurration now, as in 17;13 ; and should an in surrection take place here, we are certain it will be a signal for a rising en mut, not only to all loyal Frenchmen, but to the oppressed per,ple of Italy, Switzerland, and Holland ; and if four yzars have been necessary to organize Bonaparte's military dLs potism, four weeks, four hours, or four minutes, may be sufficient to shake an usurped throne, and to dethrone an usurper, who, by attempting to unite all parties, to degrade the royalists by associating them with the jacobins, and to elevate the demago gues in mixing them with the aristocrats, has dis pleased or offended them all ; and if ever any union amongst them takes place, it will no doubt be to chastise their common tyrant. 1 he Corsican knows that ..re have many deposits of arms, yet undiscovered, and yet concealed ; he knows what use . we intend to make of them, and he know; we abhor as much his tyranny, as that of his , ;:tortay predecessor Robespierre, who satisfied him self with the murder of the royalists, but never tried to introduce a revolutionary clergy, and a revolu tionary religion, to betray, totorment, and to trouble the consciences of the Christians. • " Two months ago, every person here, except the public funetionaries, were ordered to deliver up their arms, and domiciliary visits have taken place in every house where arms were supposed to be hid den. All returned emigrants, and pacified royalists or Chouans, are obliged to present themselves twice in the decades before the prefects, sub-prefeas, or their deputies, under pain of transportation ; and those purchasers of national property, who have given up or sold again to the former and legal own ers, their confiscated estates, are subjected to the sa:nc revolutionary vexations as the royalists, of hom all the former chiefs, who have not by treason made themselves worthy to be the slaves of Bona parte, have been carried away from their homes, and nobody knows to a certainty what has become of them. " By the pacification in 1800, all young men in this and other royalist departments, were to be excepted several years from conscription. By fraud, force, and treachery, they have not only been put into requisition, but dispersed and incorporated in different corps, in different countries ; this has, how ever, partly turned against our tyrants ; because they have not only themselves m•)stly deserted, but decoyed away with them number-, of other young conscripts ; and we know where to find them, should occasion present itself to make use of them. "Ily the same aft of pacification, 't e were excepted from paying certain contribution, which, during our civil wars, the fire and the sword of the Re publicans rendered us unable to pay ; but such is the modern republican faith, that I pay more taxes to Bonaparte for two farms (remaining of 25 I formerly posse: ;NI) than I paid in proportion fin fourteen farms to Louis XVI. We arc taxed as emi grants, as royalists, as Chouans, as Christians, and as French citizen ; we arc taxed as suspeßei ; we are taxed as disaffeaert ; we are tax,d for having emigrated, we are taxed for Living returned from emigration; we :ire taxed far permission to reside in our province; and we arc taxed for permission to leave our province; not to mention our voluntary donations to the spies of the police, to the favourites of our magistrate:., and to the darlings of our go vernors, to avoid false denunciations, arbitrary im prisonments, and unjust condemnations. " I was disturbed last Sunday morning, at one o'clock, by a visit from the police in search after a pamphlet circulated in France lately, entitled "An Appeal from the Shades of Louis XVI. to all faith ful Subjeas of Louis XVIII" After a vain search for two hours, the police agents demanded some wine, which they continued to drink for two hours more, and, during the whole time, my wife, my Mil _ eltildrm, and My snvants, were, with myself, un• certain, if, after all, those agents had not secret orders to carry us to Brest for transportation. From the agitation caused by this republican frater nization, which has extended to all our neighbours, my wife and my daughter are yet detained to their beds. This is only a small sample of the safety and protedion we enjoy under the mild Consular Government. " The following is one of the paragraphs con tained in the above-mentioned pamphlet : " French men must know, that a war with England, at pre sent, is not a war between the French and the ling lisp nation, but a war of the satelites and slaves cd Bonaparte, to continue their idol upon his usurped throne, at the expence of French honor, French blood, and French treasure, which cannot be done but by involving the world in a new war. Usur pation, tyranny, and war, are inseparable ; let Fr.•nehmcn recall the Bourbons, and they will re call order, safety, and peace. " Since the declaration of Ore war, our suffer ings and oppression have been augmented by new tyrannical measures, surpassing every thing we had before conceived. After the proclamation of our prefer% all gent d'armu, and other military, were ordered to arrest, or, in case of resistance, to cut down any assemblage consisting of more than five persons. An invitation of mo►e than five persons to dine with us at a wedding, at the christening of a child, or at any other festival, is called a conspiracy, and punished immediately with transportation with out trial. A family in my neighbourhood was last week carried away to be transported, God knows where, for the crime of having to dinner fifteen persons to celebrate the birth-day of a daughter.— Our country is crowded with soldiers, and our houses converted into barracks ; but fcr fear of se dunion, our suspicious tyrants make continual changes of our guests. " Notv.ithstanding all letters dirated to us here are opened, and a cordon of troops endeavour to prevent our communication with the coast, we re ceive often news from our unfortunate King at War saw, and from his relations in England. We know to a certainty, that several Republican Generals have offered them their services, and one of the most distinguished Republican Generals sent lately into our country two of his aides-de-camp in dis guise to inquire into the public spirit. One of them lodged with me at a time when I had twelve soi diers quartered in my house, bat fortunately taped discovery. " I dare not say more for the present ; when any thing is determined upon, you shall hear from me ; but that discontentment in the army is great there is not a doubt, and if bayonets have raised a tyrant into power, bayonets may annihilate the tyranny with the tyrant." The High Bailiff, attended by the candidates for the representation of the Borough of Southwark, proceeded yesterday to the Town Hall in order to commence the scrutiny of the votes for the Right Hon. GEORGE TIERNEY and Sir Timm TURTON. The business was merely opened pro formd, and an adjournment took place to this morning at ten o'clock. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR, after having exa mined the Mealweighers returns, ordered the price of Bread to be continued the same as last Week, viz. 9 Wheaten, and 8 Household, the quartern loaf. A Court of Common Council will be held to-mor row at Guildhall, to elect a Junior Clerk of the Court of Requests, and on other Business. And on Friday, a Court of Aldermen will be held, as also a Common Ilan, for the Elenion of Sheriffs, and other Officers annually chown, and to swear into Office, Sir MATTHEW BLUXIIAM, lint. M. P. Alderman of di! Ward of Bridge Within. On Saturday last was married at the Mansion house, Gatewick, Surry, WM. KELSEY, Esq. to Miss SERLES, of Bletchingley. Thc Lord BIS.IOP of Losinor: has appointed the Rev. Ronswr Honosos, his Nephew and Chaplain, to the valuable Rectory of St. George's, Hanover square, vacant by the decease of the BISHOP of h:xETr.R. And the Rev. EnwA an HODGSON, by the same appointment, succeeds the Rev. Rostar HODGSON to the living in Essex. Several theatrical secessions, and changes, have taken place in con.equence of the new arrang_e_- ments at Covent-Garden: Jo aNST ON r, with JoussoN and his wife, have gone to Drury-Lane; while C. Kcssai.r, Miss De CAMP, and Mrs. G LovEn, have crossed over, and entered the lists of Covent-Garden. On Thursday evening last, as Mr. Onitr Li., of Winsley-street, Oxford -street, with Mrs. OKRELI., were passing in their chaise over Goulder's Green, on their way to Hendon,about half past eight o'clock, they were stopped by a single highwayman, who produced a pistol and demanded their money. Mr. OItREL t. declared he would not be robbed ; and af ter the highwayman had uttered violent oaths and threats, and put his pistol several times to the heads of Mr. and Mrs. ORRELL, Mr. ORRELL jumped out of the chaise and laid hold of the highwayman, nearly pulled him off his horse, and laid hold of the pistol ; upon which the highwayman struggled, and spurred his horse, and having extricated himself, galloped away towards Hampstead. He afterwards stopped one of the Hampstead stages near Red-Lion Hill, in which were six passengers, with two men and the coachman, outside, and robbed them of upwards of lOL He then coolly rode off. The robbery was committed in the presence of several persons passing on the road.—lt is supposed that the same highway man robbed the carriage in Clarges-street, and Lord G. SE I' moult, in Grosvenor-street. .~ • .. r~...• ._ .. ......_. .._. . - 1 7 .151110 g. MR NDF.NBURCH-HOUSE,TIrr.k rn :CAM The liberal hostess of this splendid mansion, oft Monday night, indulged about three hundred per sonages of the first rank and fashion in town, tvith two performances at her Theatre, which, in point or excellence and splendour, have perhaps never been excelled and scarcely equalled. The company were conducted to the Theatre through a suite of magnificent apartments, elegantly lighted up with splendid lamps, from whence entered an orangery 150 feet in length, the beauty and fragrance of which, might transport the spec etor from the banks of the Thames to the odoriferous luxuriance of an Eastern clime. • The lee formances commenced about eight o'clock, with a comic farce in two aeSc, principally translated from the French, by Mr. Keppel Craven, entitled Poolt Nonnt.e. The characters, which were support ed with infinite na.veti and spirit, were as follow s Alr. liestmfoors tan opoient Traduman Mr. Hamilton zi.tbrry (in lore with S•ophiaj. Mr. Ket Porter Neddie 1 .1 A Mr. rtnminis' Seretnt) Mr. Kop pe l C LAS I.TI Nrcky Riot , er) M. Cilatv.rley Xi Wet (their Cou-M ) Mr Nixon Sop! id t Mr. Hemming: Daughter) Mrs. Burke girgriy (Nud.lle's M..ther) Tile Maigravine. The story of this little piece, which possesses much humour, and is in many places irresistibly lu dicrous, is shortly this : Mr. Hemmings it called from his country scat to town on business, and, pre vious to setting oirs leaves particular directions with his four servants for their conded in his absence. The care of his daughter is entrusted to Margery, with strict in junctions that no on should see or speak to her, as he destines het in marriage fer the son cf his particular friend. Very soon after the old gen. tleman's setting out, the misfortunes of the Nadk family commence. Noddle, in cleaning the cage of a favourite canary, lets the bird escape, and in at tempting to catch him, knocks down a fine service of china, breaks the leg of a favourite pointer, which he was afraid would devour the bird, and at length, in despair, demolishes tables, chairs, and every thig that came in his way. Noddle, whose duty it was to guard the door, is deceived by a pre tended message from his master, and admits-Atrry, who, by diChrent manomvres, dupes Margrry, znd elopes with A 11.,: Hemmings. These misfortunes, and dread of their master's anger, determine all three to drown themselves, in which Nicholas, the gardener, determines to share their fate. As they are preparing to execute their intentions, Noddle discovers a basket of wine, on which the old gen tleman had put a label declaring it poison, in order to preveet its being stolen. Noddle prop os e s th a t they should drink freely of it, as the easiest manner of destroying themselves, in which they all concur, and retire to the kitchen, where, before the return of old Hemmings, they all get completely intoxicated. hi this state they enter, make apologies to their master for what has happened, and take a departinn; leave, expeding immediate death. At this moment Aubrey returns with Sophia, whom he had privately married, and implores the father's pardon, whi.:h is at lcuisth granted ; and the piece concludes wish old Hemmings declaring, that, instead of poison, they - bad only drank six bottles of the best port wine. Mr. Nixon, in the list scene, kept the audience in a continued roar of laughter ; Mr. Keppel Craven personated the blundering awkwardness of the clownish footman with infinite naivete; and the Margravine in Margery was inimitable. After the company had taken refreshments of tea, negus, lemonade, &c. in the saloon of the Theatre, a Pantomime in three ads, called The Re lease of Eblis, was performed in a manner which would have done credit to any public 'llitatess. It was entirely composed by Mr. Kepi.el Craven, and the music, seleded from Haydn, Kozeluch, Edel. inan, Nicolai, Devienne, &c. merited the warm approbation which it received. The story is Per sian, and founded principally upon the ambition of Abensaid and Afostanter, younger brothers of Schap ' seddin, Ring of Persia, who secrete the King's younger son, with the view of succeeding to the monarchy on their brother's death. These schemes ' are frustrated by the Queen Zeneroisde being declared heiress of the Crown ; and the principal business of the pantomime consists in the various maniztieres of the brothers to get possession of the kingdom, for which purpose thsy call in the aid of Elhis, the Spirit of L• vil. 'I his chareder was eminently per form-d by Mr. Keppel Craven, who, in the second scene, danced, as an attendant on the court, with that excellence, adivity, and ease, for which he is so distinguished. '1 he pantomime concludes with the discovery and coronation of Cassino the King's lost son. The Margrevine sang several beautiful airs with great taste, and the whole was received as it merited, with the most unbounded applause. After the conclusion of the performance, about 150 of the company who were invited, sat down to most magnificent supper in the great gallery. The supper consisted of every delicacy which ex pence could procure. Fruits of every species were in the greatest abundance, and wine, from sparkling champagne to most excellent hock. Every thing was served on silver plate gilt, valued at least at 40,0001. Among the company were all the French Princes now in London, the Marquis of Lorne, Lords Boringdon, Macdonald; Strangford, Forbes, James Murray, &c. &c. Countess of Jersey, Ladies William Russell, Ann Wyndham, Harriet Gill, Wieterton, &c. &c. It was near four i,'clock be fore the company departed, highly delighted with the splendid hospitality of their illustrious hostess. We think it propel to notice an erroneous report, stating, that the Mergravine had given a similar party on Friday last. Monday night was the first performance, and her Highness gave no party what ever on Friday. Oa Saturday the Ri t ;ht Hon. Lord De BtA gcicKe Was eleCkii Member cf ParliArner.t for the., Borough of Downton, ii the room of the Hon. E • WARD 800 vERIE, whose seat was racate d b y •• , acceptance of an office. Two persons were carried to the Midlesex HoMr pital yesterday. from Soho-square, in consequer, of falls there, from the careless praftice of throwing green pea-shells or orange-rind on the pavement ; one of whom had his leg broke in two places. Children should be cautioned against this folly, a , • • punished if they did not Attend to the caution. mown persons continue this habit without consider.? ing that a slip of a loaded porter may incapticitawei . ,' him from ever working afterwards.. and if be loss a family, reds,. it to misery and want ? , 4 - I It .' * * ~~: f 4 1 l r