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; •it., P .. • • 7 , 41% PROM LAST NtGllns GAZETTE. ILI TART PRoNIoTIONS. War- (*n, Joule 7, laps froth Regiment of Foot-311giur-Georral Willies's Deurdss well, from the soils Foot, to be Lieuieuant-Colont:, vice Lreimmond, who exchanges. S6th Ditto—Lieutenant-C,doisel Edward Drummond, from the tioth Foot, to be Lientenant.Colonel, •iee Do...dry wall, who exchanges. BREVET. Colonel AVilliam Munro, on half-pay of the Caithoess Le gion, to be Major General in the army. I.icutenant-Colonel Francis Delaval, no half-pay of the lu drpesdests, to be Colonel in the army. Lieutenant-Colonel John Pant, ou half-p.iy of the 97th Foot, to he Cohtuel in the unity. Brigarte.llajor J. Carriagton Smith, to be 517j0r iu the aruty. STAFF. Lieutenant-Colonel Riaha;d:liouria, from tbr Fbot, to be Pekinlll4:l4t Assistant in the Quarter-31asterifseserars m Departent as Major, vice Coffin, appointed Deputy Quarter-Master-General in the Mediterranean. Jahn Kane, Eq. late Lienteaant-Colonel of the 4th Foot, to he en Inspecting Field-Officer of Yeomanry and Vo lunteer Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colour! in the sail chile so etoplo)ed. Mb Majesty his been phased to appoint the tindermen. twined Meta of the East India Company's f,nee , „to take rook by Brevet in His lajoisty's army to the Last lard•es only, as follows Colonels—George Roberts, trbam Tignrs, Archibald Brown, Robert Cruker, George Wahab, Samuel Macro, Robert Rayne, Richard %teen, George Hardynian, Thuroas Leighton, Francis Toreene, Cary labiude, James sad iticbard Sore—to be Major-Grarralo. Lieuteamot.Colonels—William Kirkpatrick, Jobs Marini) re, Jobs Gardiner, Hoary de Castro, !lo mat Marley, Wil -IPA Burn, Thomas Mawksliaw, Dyson Marshall, Hamel Coainghaos, Jahn Gantin, Samuel Bradshaw, George Wood, John Mayas, Patrick Agnew, Robert Marta Maelesti, William Merry Blailford, Charles Hoye —to be Colonels. (spate's—Clarks Monet, James Parlhy, Diehl Immoden, Peter Great, T M. Mt-violin, James Davidson, titers, Cridtemden. Pali' Bradshaw, Richard Hodgson, J. Fe. Smith, F. Wilford, William George Palmer, Williina Cuppsge, Robert Morrell, Bartlett Kellie, Donatil Ma- (dead, Joseph O'Halloran. B. L. Giesler, Robert Frantic, D. V. Keine, William S. Nur, John Ainsley, George Ildoeuseeine, Charles Williams Langhorne, Tboasas Fee therstorm, William George Massell,John Leatbart, Delarnaim, Arty Hearsay, Sidney C. J..nes, William Ran. kin, Richard Hay, John Leslie, William Franklin, El liott Voyle, Cleary William Hicks, Peter Gascovie, Mar tin Fitzonitl, John V. Bradford, Goddard Richsols, Martin White, Frederick French, George Downie, Ben jamin& Stewart, Thorns. Cea.uu, Arnold King, Thomas Evans, Joke J. Bird, Dacia Sloane, Thomas Robinson, John Drumurnad, Philip 11. Keay, Dennis St. Mulford, flannel Carter, George roach, Hubert Blackall, John Johnson, Benjamin R. Mason—do be Majors. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. James Hamm ass! Richard Bargees, of Higher Ardsick„ Lancaster, eutloo.4naniarle tart Iv Jul?' is, 1803 . Joseph Hardcastle and Joseph Beyer r, of the Old Swan, London, merchant. June t, Ulna. Titoism Clark, Kt-swirl:, Cumberland; Benjamin Clerk, late of Mallon, York ; and James Hanks, of Kighlc.i. York, atuarryterti. Jane t, 10na. Thomas Hawes, Benjamin Unwell, WiVer.n Itmada!l, aml Natlaseirl Randall, of Chriatchatch, Surrey, map•oisim factiuers. September 09, 1507. Joseph Lyne, !coo Lytle, and Jacob Freierick Vogeler, of Liverponl. April so, lane. Richard Walker sad John Walker, of lancliareter, tiro bcr-nserebasts. March 23, lean. George By field and Samuel Ware, of Craven-street, Strand, Mislellasex, architects June 6, tools John 'triages and W' kern Wuoley Simpson the yuuoger, of Malden, Estes, commen-brewers. May es, Ivo.. Elizabeth Ganntlett, Christopher Gatintlett, mad William Gaatatlett, of Wincheeier, vone•usinehants. May IC, tent& Kdlim Ker and Samuel Robrrtson, of Liverpool, men mission merchants. May 31, lane. William Hartley, John Hartley, James Hartley, Richard Hartley, and Peter Hartley, cotton-twilit spinuera April St, 1000. RANKRrPTS. William Peps, ef Weselpury.spon-Serers, Gloucester, dealer is pigs, to eumnsder, Jane 17, at tiro Is, at ekres, at the Lower George, Gloucester, and Jul; io, at eleven, at the Dear Inn, is Nevenhain, Gloucester. Attorney., Mr. Lucia, Nevadans i and Mr. George Echassels, Exchequer Office of Pleas, Lincoln's Ins, Laudon. George Denson acid John ralowley, both of Liverpool, merchants, to surrender, June uu, au, sad Jul) ig, at owe, at the Glebe Tavern, is John -street, Liverpool. Attuning, Moan. Staaintseet and Eden, Leigh-tercet, Liverpool ' • and Mr. Thomas Windie, Julis-street, Bedford-row, Leiwilsi. William Lows, a Drsry-lase, sex, rebind.," cher, is surrestter, Just Is, al, and July in, at twelve, at G.tild hall, London Att•wseps, Mews. Net hi and Fledgate. Nor folk-street, Strand. DIVIDENDS. JuNP J. James Hodson, of Watling street, London, mer chant, at tam, at G oddball. June te. Jobs Carleton, of Hither* Hall, Westmorland. rnams-splaser, at one, at Gaikliodi I oodon Jul) u. Thomas Tnek, of than ii-ltrti t, Besbnalligesen, Afiskileses, dealer 113 floor at one, at Guildhall, London. Jane Is John %talons and Thames Anther, of Grist St. Ndea s , London, ,asuratme•hruhera, at elocen, at Goild hall. July 5. Timothy Perkins, of Dine Anchor-road, Hennaed sey, Surrey, teaser, at twelve, at Guildhall, Landau. June at. Joseph Castowarth, lase of the Delude, Arens, Wapping, Middlesex, victualler, at tea, at Guildhall, Lou don. June 30. William Molina. of Lancaster, corn dealer, at Are, at the King's Arms, Lancaster July it James Taylor, uf Neu rate.us man, at tea, at Guildhall July t. Jesepil Sheriff, of Markt': iare'• road, Storey, bow ewer, at tirehe, at I:10.0411, I.onthin Jane WI. Charles Conlishaw, ofjahboulue, Derby, grocer, at sae, at Geddloall, I . Jaly e. James Cis molly of South-street, Mary 's-bonne, at iddleset, slime-lasso., at Gm, at Guildhall, Lewis*. Jay e. Joseph Merton, late of Bath, victualler, at abysm, at the Christopher Is. sad Tavern, Balk. June so. Christopher Potter, of Parliament-street, West sower, Middloms, orthall.maker, at ten, at Guildhall, London. AIM` Ss. William Batt, of Pages-Walk, Bermondsey, Surrey, hatr.tomehant, at one, at Guildhall, Loudon. July t. Edward Byre, the rimier, of Liverpool. mil - chant, at ore, at the Globe Tavern, Johwatreet, Liverpool. July I. Iliorlooo Fon, of ~ingstoo-opms-Hull, watchmaker, at fiery's, et the Dog and Dedi Tavern, faste.laise, Hull. Jay a. Thomas Droatav, late of Liverpool, statioaer, at twelve, at Guildhall, London Jane 50. Edmond Armistead, late of Geggisserielt, 'fork, irottorepumm, a. eleven, at the Cutantercial lan, Las corstre. Jose as. Jobs Gilder the tormgre of Lingetna-spos-Hall, meet - cheat, at sieves, at the White Hart Torero, kiiiptuo opos.ll u It. haat iriy. Richard Smith, late of ILotterwordi, Leicester, mercer, at eleven, at the Hind Iwo, Lottoraorth. Juan 30. Christopher Shaw and Thomas Shaw, formerly of frootbamptos, bookers, at oue, at the Coach and Hume goothomporm. CENTIFICATFS—NItat se. Thema Cones, off - Grabill, London, stockbroker. Thomas Cassidy, of Waltham Abbey, Loom, shopkeeper. Charles Gustave Gabriel kierrslif, of Prodengamtoare, laic of Bayswater Cottage. Middlings, merchant, Geo. g e Davies, of Crasboarne-street. ,Leitestsr-lialds. ilueu-draper. Lon.lumb isles- CATHOLIr CLAIMS. It was not to be expected that the faiourable progress made in public opinion by the Catholic claims, as manifested by the late discussions in Parliament, should have passed without the notice of the ignorant, the illiberal, the mercenary, and the malignant part of the public press—dim part of it which thrii - es upon the worst passions of 'tumuli nature, and in which we see no object but the gra tilicaOsii of selfish and sordid views. 'lite hit of the Saturnalia in Rome, when the slaves were let loose,, and these unfortunate beings indulged in every vice and extravagance for a few days, it is true, has long since ceased to exist ; bat it has given rise to a modern fashion among our eleseidteers of lon, who select particular du n s, when they change places with their roachnien and postilions, and, instead of being driven by them, very humbly and patiently submit to drive their servants. The Writers in The Courier, the very :one gentlemen who edited it when it was a fu ristis Jacobin Print, bui have lately seen the ace light of 3lessrs. Ilsweasneav, CANNING, and Co. appear t• have improved upon this old Elf of the Saturnalia, and the modern fashion of the most celebrated whips of Rotten-row. In their Pa per, of last night, these spur-galled hacks appear to have plunged through their harness, _thrown their riders, and kicked most rirdently against the late discussions in Parliament, and the growing senti ment in the public mind in favour of the Catholic claims. The article to which we allude sets out with observing, that " the Editors, {the two Kings of Brentfisrd), snatch the first option •ty that has been afforded since the two debhtes upon the Catho lic Question, the question of Catholic Emancipa tion, as it is imprudently called, to make some few comments upon it." Now this preface is not correct. —The 'Catholics have made a great proves. to a level with their fellow subjects, what remains is comparatively trifling. toil con stitutes the whole of the Catholic It is not aeknosledged or set forth as " Catholic Einaucipation" by the ptiWic in general, or by any individuals perfectly acquainted with the subject ; and, therefore, to represent it in that light, nod give it that obnoxious name, as a generally receited idea, is false and Ibigitious. So far for the preface to the article in The Courier. iieft proceeds, with true Satursishirn license, to pretend to arraign the couiluet of Ministers in the line dieciissioti of the Catholic Petition iie both Muses of Parliament. It is said to have lizen " most sneaking, shuffling, and treucherous." Instead of vigour, it charges " that they betrayed imbecility—and instead of courage, nothing bat cowardice." This affectation of independence is ton groes to deceive the public. The slaves, after the enjoyment of their Saturiutlia. will only return with more" zeal and devotion to the service of their masters. At the time the wicked and seasvlcss cry of " Popery" was first Tinier! ; a cry, that if not withstood by the good sense of the public, might have involved this country is civil warfare ; these writers prayed that the rry 'night never cease to ring from one end of the kingdom to the otl.rr. Were they religious fanatics. they might be objects •f pity ; but it la not very likely that they will claim the benefit of that plea. The fact is, the Minister has been obliged to yield something to public opinion, and having, like another great character, learned to throw away bad iustrumeilts, after they have an swered his purpose, he hail left The Caurier to rail against the Catholics, in support of its own consistency ; if, indeed, the word consistency CAD be with any justice applied to that paper.— in the prosecution of this purpose, it does ant stick at trifles. Representing the Irish Catholics as rebels, it asks, " What does Mr. GRATTAN say ?" and, putting these nerds into his mouth, " You have lost all your other allies, now make the Irish Four allies:" it titmice infers. that " unless we do, they will not fight fur their conntry."—Mr. Getereft, we belie►e, used the word " allies ;" but it is ridiculous to suppose that he applied it to the Irish in the common aecaptation of the term. The Irish Catholics, however limited in civil and political rights, strictly speaking are fellow-subjects, and cannot be allies. A treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between Greet Britain and Ireland, both integral parts of the United Kingdom, would be indeed a curious article. Mr. GRATTAN could only mean, that, to make the Irish Catholics fight with equal zeal, they must have an equal object to contend for. u, a community of in terests with their neighbour,. NVlien the meaning of a word is thus perverted and tortured, for dm put pose of raising an argument upon it, the cause requiring such aid cannot he a good one. The nest charge is, " that the Priests keep the Irish Catholics in ignmesee," a charge which c•rtaioly Wright enable the Catholics to retort the compli ment of ignorance upon the writer. One *Mild suppose that, in the words of the Poet, literally— ., On er'ry d'art, delightfel condom mws, " la cy'ry rill &meet instncotos dorm," and that the Priests were a .et cf..:rage, cruel, and il4-muted shephords, alio tit. d up their flocks, mist suffered them to starve, sootier than permit them to drink of the rill, or to browse upon the thorn. The fart is, the mass of the Irish peasantry are scarcely able, by the uttnivl industry, to earn a miserable subsistence, and have neither time nor Means to improve their minds. The public then will judge whether this charge applies to the Priests, or to the Minister who refused dOOOl. for the instruction of three millions of people. But then comes u eoufea ;um, that the writer who thus abuses the Catholie and their Priests, is totally ignorant of Ireland, never set his foot iit the country, and takes his bad hopres,,ions of it from Tourists and Reviewers.— •• We take," says he, •• the state of Ireland from too writers, both well disposed towards the Catho lics —one, Sir JORN CARR. Knighted by the Duke of BtAIFORD, on account of his Strauger is Ire land, and therefore a favourer of the politics of the Emancipators. The other, the Edinburgh Reviewer.—The former, in giving an account of the proceedings at .a Quarter Sessions in Ireland, draws a most frightful picture of the state of mo ods. lie talks of perjury as being a crime com mitted so frequently as to be a source of merri ment. One man,' be says. swore backwards and forwards ten times in as many minutes ; and wherttver he was eletocted in the most abominable perjury, the auditory teas tArosru into couvadriums of merriment.' Horrible and disgusting! The Editiburgh Reviewer talks of the lower Irish as proud of their talents for litigatiou, and Lot yet ashamed of those habits of jocular perjury (Jocular perjury !!) in which tkey have been encouraged.' JORN CARe tells us, I moral sentiments have never been instilled into the poor Irishmen ;' and the Reviewet adds, that • it will Ix no easy task to change the associations of pleasure, pride, and mirth, whirls the Irish children early fonn, ei►h tl•a ideas of cheating, stealing, prevaricating, and " Sir JOlll4 CARR, in his Tour in Ireland, may hat_ seen a solitary instance of a low, vulgar, but shrewd fellow, fencing with bis oath, and exacting laughter by his bluiiders, his humour, and his in genuity. This, we presume, is all that the Jaunt ing-Car tw•aut ; fur we fancy that there is nothing in the nature of cold naked perjury, in the abstract, to excite the risible faculties of the most perverted imagination. With respect to the charitable character of the Edinburgh Re viewer. upon whose authority The Courier. thinks the population of Ireland ought to be con demned, ea muse, we shall enly observe, that a few years ago, a Scotch Serjeant having broke out of his lodgings, in Oxford, and stashed several per sons in the streets, the Editor of a London paper, who happeaed to be his townsman, made interest among his brethren in Landon, and this Scotch Serjeant was universally gazetted• as an Irishman. We could name the London Editor ; and we be lieve he was as free from national prejudice, now happily wearing away, as the amiablewriter in The Edinburgh Review. We hoped to have gone through the while of this truly loyal and patriotic article in The Courier, but we have neither tune nor limits to accomplish cur purpose. The little that we have quoted of it, may be sufficient to , shew its character. It is the effusion of a bigot, with a bad heart, and a worse head, if the writer be sincere; but we do not hesitate to assert, that it is merely a flourish of a ministerial parasite, pre tending to censure In. employers. upon a particular point, that he may gain a little credit for his ge neral THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY, ivies s. A new expedition is now in a state of consider able fotwardnevs. Fifteen hone traitsports day from Deptford for the Downs, where. with acme others, they wit: receive one thousaad easelry on board. SIM), troop-ships accompany them ; and, WI Sunday, a transport arrived at Dever to take on board part of a ritle.corps. The military fort*, it it: said, a ill be of con•idetable magmitude, but of its de.tination there is no conjecture. The last (lottenburgh snail brought several let ter. from Sadden. One of them thot our egpedition, which a!rived on the i7til last, at Gotteaburgii, Ma. to proeeed immediately to Mum. (a town itS miles Smith of Christivi:n:s., in order to effect • diversion in ravens of General Aaisaatz-r; "chile others filbert. that the King of SWILDSX wished for its co-operation with his own troops in Finland, hut that the English Officers did not think themselves at liberty to concur in such a deviation from their original purpose, and that this was the e•YN Of Colonel MVIIIIIAt'S Voy age to England. We learn also. through the same channel, some particular. respecting Russia. The Government. far from relaxing is its rigour aguilist this coun try, follows the i npulse giv en it by France, with out any mitigation. The in telligence from St. Pe teraburgh is of the 10th of May. At that date great apprehension was entertained of tl:c Justine tion of the British fleet ; an army of i 5,000 men was aswinbling at Revel, and a large body of troops orderiA to Archangel. To secure Cronstaft, a number of vessels have been sunk, from Hog. land up to Croastadt. We have received some Hamburich mad Altoua Papers, but none of a laser date than the 14th Isq. They state, that the union of Hanover witli the dam of Westphalia is gamily determined u pon, and will be speedily carried into effect. Buttarsare is expected to visit Twlan before leis return I. Paris, for which '•ity King Louts is preparing to set out.—General SKS/LIMAN! is making a tour through the Turkish provinces. On the 24th of Apra he was expected at Old t hsowa. By a vessel, which left Cadiz on the 19th last, we have received Madrid Catena. The Captain *bites, that, on the 13th, General SPENCILI, with ahout thirty transports, joioad the blockading squa dron. Tie French and Spanish men of war imme diately slipped and ran into the inner harbour. Soua after a flag of truce was received from the British squadron, offering the inhabitants the utmost aid in support of their religion and eountry against theincroaehinents of the French; and proposing to take the French and Spanish fleets, with such of the inhabitants a, chose to emigrate, to South America. It was generally u• dersteed, however, at Cadiz, that this offer had been refused. General Sets caa's force uu►ount. to three thousand men. Had a sufficient force been on the spot to take advan tage if the first moments of consternation at Cadiz, the result might, perhaps, have bee:. favourolito. It may Ice seek, by the late letters from Genoa. mid other Italian ports, published in the French papers, with what exultatieu the fortunate es:peti tion of Get4THVALIVIN has, :bet without realm, inspired Bo e Ara stet. It is to be hoped that Lewd Mu Lettere. will account to the public for the inex plicable passage of Gentsteacate twice mina Sicily, while our fleet lay inactive, or uuinfornied of the circumstance, off Martinis°. The Spanish &nasty of the hue/Moe Sovereigns, which may now be considered as at an mid, had reigned one hundred and eight years, since the decease or CHABLEs the Second, the last Monarch of the AUSTRIAN liar, in 1700. Four Kings only have swayed the sceptre during that period; namely, PHILIP the Fifth, his two Sons, Faint as.sa tbe Sixth s and CliaaLts the Third, followed by the late unfortunate essences the Fourth. In his fhte, the Emperor of Avenel* may beheld, as in a mirror, his own approaching destiny, and cer tainly at no remote period of time. The King of PR1.4.51A can scarcely be considered, even now, as other than an individual not yet deprived of the Royal Title. IioNAVAILTV, like CROMWELL, finds in his owe family the strongest apposition to his ambitious projects. His Empress is known to nourish is her • id the warmest respect and affection for the &MASON Family. She was inemmolahle for the Duke fYE.voiriets, and vainly exerted her efforts to meet his execution. In Luctste 80% /Wean the Corsican Emperor meets, at every step, a severe and inflexible Monitor, who despises his of fers, and will not wear any of the Crowns that ho so lavishly bestows on his relations and his Ge nerals. Even his mother LiTtTle, though she has been declined a Princess, and is ordered to be ad dressed by the title of " Imperial Highness," io said to accept with reluctance end regret these honours conferred on her by her son. It ma le w understood that Dr. CORNWALLIS, the Bishop of Liielitirkl am! Coventry, is to be trans:ateil vi the See of Worcester, through the interest or Lunt Hair seat , the Duke of Cs:mammas si re commended Dr. MAJEN DIE, Bishop of Cll. st The new Bishop is to be 1)r. MANIC!, N:a.ter of Trinity College, Cambridge. •The Fanny, Eiew•atis,sailed from Southampton, for the Bristol channel, on the 140 March last, and has not since been heard of. The Island of Aland, from uhiell it appears that the Swedes have expelled the Russians, is the largest of all the numerous Archipelago, scat tend met the Gulf of liothnia. It lies nearly midway between Sweden and Finland, and, couw drring its high latitude, is nut unfertile. Towards the conclusion of the reign of CRAILSS the Xllth, about the veer 1717, when that Prince and his an tagonist, - PETER the (411 AT. agreed to form a Treaty of t; ream, the Isle of Alaud was chosen for the conferences. There, the fatuous Bonin Goers r. CUAILLBIest First Minister, and Count 01TLILIfi A N. Parses Ambassador, met for the purpose. It h.ti , since remained unvisited by the calamities of wai. till the present time. Mr. It . zanies's Bill, for tnakiag it felony to commit depreilatioos on oyster beds, pots the oyster under the immediate protection of the law. TtLatiltillA, in The Critic, says, that "an oystcr may be crossed in love," But if this bin passes. they cannot be attacked with impunity. It Is tlse: Ilse Romans, Rho highly valued the oyster, made severe regulations fur their protection. LV(111.1.011 and Pott.to were at an incredible es.- pense in their lakes of es water for fattening oysters. The former, at his villa :tear the pro montory of Mirenusn, on the shore of Campania. fed and kept imiuouse quantities of them. The famous epicure, APICILS Cattus, who lived us der Atit.trres, in his work, De Al Coptimerie, or. The C'illimary Are, treats particularly of 'the oyster. They were even conveyed to Ro.ne. front the coast of limit, under the (:.essas. These cir cumstance*. which seem to make the eviler s classic shell-dah, may justify the British 1 ev.:A tute iu enactirg laws for their preservation. q TI nigh grain de4ci The gane puny cent• Lilit were Ni Dnei Grin Lan am!( Irv, Gall( Card most tun s ;.0 thi are dai Dal St. Jo the Ls it* art Ku thi