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~ ,-ti 711 K MARQUIS OF HUNILL Y. Eiis I.nrdsh : p was in Ireland with his regiment the rebellion of 1793. Af er ti e Leaders had surrende,ed, an I thrown them elves on the lenity of Glvernment, the Marquis And his regiment were or dere,lluto one of the co 'nits th it hid been most alintrbed. At the appeir.m.:e of the army, the a 1... (righted inhabitants, men, women, anJ children, Aed in eveiy direction, and t othiti w.s to he found but deserted villages. The Matquis, unattended and unarmed, set off in pursuit of the fugitives, calling out to them Th it he was corn •to prate R, not to rrs emit? them," and i motoring them to rcriirn. 'else s ervice was a most dangerous one; for it was a TD ere chance whether the ignorant and afflighted fugitives should consider the pursuer a friend or a lbe. Had the latter been the impression on their m ind, the Marquis must have fallen a sacrifice, for t here was not a soldier wi:hin a mile of him. For tunately, however, they construed rdi motive truly, ana n t onig,..l by his kind and ingenuous beha viour. returned to their homes, confiding in the sin terry of his a lei ce. Nlatquis can now reflect wit/rpleasure upo i his cundui, which restored to their fire sides a mass of people, who, but for his in terpos t on, roust have been dispersed through the con^:ry, and probably hunted down as flying rebels hr the first military force which should come in teir....sy. The name of the Marquis is never men t? in that part of Ireland but in terms of the s urest gratitude and praise. , reelnesday evening, their NlAJarrt es and Pain t •es ssalked on Windsor Terrace, till eight o'clock, WAS attended by a very genteel and numerous r. -npany of Ladies and Gentlemen of Windsor and it environs ; they afterwards returned to tea and a . r ,,,„,, cun ce". &c. in Windsor Castle. iierday morning His MA:csr Y. Princesses S. rata, Mousy*, and AMELIA, accompanied by Loy Itasiii.t.*, THY SNA. Generals Fivzitov and r, a• .d Colonel - TAYLOR, rode in the (", • 1 0 , , k. and returned at twelve. -tartar, at three o'clock, the Princess of . • is , aiiended hr a Lady in Waiting, came to in A htrouche and four, and after honouring Nobility with a •isit, left town soon after 1,.e 'clock, on her return to Blackheath. _ _ _ bat. ELI IST.,N closes his engagement at the Man chester Ti,e it , e, this week. Mr. and Mrs. kitt.i. an also p 'forming there. Towoley-bouie, at Ramsgate, was opened on Moaday last, with a grand rout, which was attend ed by ell the fashion a the neighbourhood ; four hundred cards were distributed on the occasion, and the supper and all the arrangements were given in /sirs. Towxcay's usual stile of elegance. Mr. laceassoes was to perform his Voyage to INdia on Thursday evening, at Liverpool, in his way to London. Mr. Mit VIN was to play row R ',hid, in at Cheep, thie Heart Aehe, on l'hursday, at Birming ham Theatre last night Beleilk, in The School fur /riser, and Reread, in 1 kie Shrepahe..rtnß : and on hfondtp by desire of Colonel Sir Gary SICIPWITII, Bart. and the Loyal Birmingham Volunteers, the 7ew She/Peter's in golia Ball. Earl lica.sors, accompanied by the Countess and Lady Cu A 'MOTT E. have atlived at his Lord s:-..p's prebendal residence, in the Cathedral Pre ends, Canterbury. '2a stet-bury Races commence next Tuesday ; I. ,rd Wen:worts and Mr. Datums. are the :)-ewards. The Salisbury Musical Meeting commences en Wedrwsday next. Mr. BRAM A Id, Signora SroaAc and Mrs. V Al CHAN, are engaged. Mr. bANSIS rigs was to bring forth his Budget last niellt at Exeter, by desire of Lieutenant• General ENGLAND. We have authority to state, that Lady Anne Te.asu, daughter of the Earl of HAILDWICKS, Wig not married on Thursday to Viacoant Poi Lieu - row, as stated in some of the Papers. The N..hle Viscount, we are concerned to say, is much indisposed. Yesterday ►eing the anniversary of the Birth Day et his Royal Highness the Duke of CLanctice, one o! the most splendid fetes ever given at Vauxhall wit pr' clued in honour of the occasion. The houses of his Royal Highness's tradesmen were also iliu m a tel. and a grand entertainment was given at lio,hy Park, whi,la was attended by a most brilliant itompaity. The Countess of A Logos otiott and suite are gone to Ireland, on a visit to her Lord, at his beautiful seat, Balan, county Wicklow. l'he Thea s•e has been fitted up and new painted, and several dramatic pieces are in preparation—The Deceit. l'an—All is the Wrong, and Such Thiliga Arc. The first of three Grand Subscription Concerts was to take place last night at the Assembly• Rooms, Ramsgate. Mr. and Mrs. Amu, Messrs. LIIIDLIIT, B:Nsicf, Gaa v, and Master GAITIE, and several other first-rate performers, are engaged on the occa sion. A valuable colleaion of books, consisting prin cl.4ly at superior editions of the Bible, in the Italian, Spanish, German, and the Dutch language s N.. last week presented to the Literary and Philo s yhical Society of Newcastle, agreeably to the will it t'.• late ROBERT Pa Os. Esq. "e:se much-admired Comedy of Laugh when yew .14. and the Farce of The Prase, will be performed 4 a.s night, at the Windsor The ai.e, by desire of the Officers of the Regiment of Royal Horse Guards, Blue; Goisruoter by Mr. Cat art tette, and M ,, Mortimer by Mrs. Monte.—fhe play of The Ofr.fews and the Farce of A House to be were rev.,Vred with such applause, that they will be re.. Pated erne Night previous to the Theatre closing. " Atter pleasure follows pain ;" this is an old say :llß. and in no instance has it been more truly yeti ied than in the announc.rment of Me Fair Sifee.-'s withdrawance to mart .w evening ; an event which canno t fail of fili• ,; the admirers of corral I estavne and unequalled splendor with the most painful rerets particularly as they will also be deprived of tt"' luirmtahlt paragon of female es. eelience, M.,. As 1 ICENSES. TO THE LICENSING O.I4GISTRATES Ok T. IE e , JUN rY OF MIDDLESEX. OeNTLEMeS4, The public atfention has been very rec -nay called to the condaft of Magistrates, respell ug the Li censes refused to, or taken from Publizans. The Mover of this question has, in his time, of ered many subjects of consideration less worthy their noti•-e than this: Indeed if, on a future investigation, lie should be able to proJuce, in a Committee, a tenth part of the charges brought against the Licensing Magistrates, it is earnestly hoped that the Commis sion will be purged of its corrupt members, and the Honour of Magiatracy be vindicated and restored. The Bill lately proposed mentioned only the great sufferings of persons, injuriously. and for insufficie.:t reasons, deprived of their License, and consequently of their bread. But it takes no notice of another great -vii, viz. the improper grant of Licenses from mot'ves of partiality or interest. May I be permitted, Gentlemen, to state a ease which calls aloud for investig Wan. A. B. a Licen sing Magtstrate, has a menial servant of too much use to be parted with without great inconvenience. This servant, being married, complains that his wages are insufficient for the support or his family. His master, very kindly to the man, adds to his in come, by establishing him in a public houses in hi. di vision. The care of it is entrusted to his wife, who is totally unable to keep good rule and order, and the effect is, a more disorderly house is scat rely to be met within the whole district ; tippling is allowed at all hours of the day; au.l disordeis frequently prevail during the whole night. and particularly on Saturday nights, when the labourer has received his money, and can borrow from Suede', some hours of dissipation. which he mita•spends, to the ruin of his family, and the great disturbance of the neigh bours; who complain that, till tour o'clock in the morning, their sleep has teen disturbed by noise, dancing. and romping between the setts. To say that the License is granted byway nt commination,or aset off tor wages, would be a scandalous insinuation, not to be admitted for a moment : hut the busy tongue of illiberal slander is not easily silenced when any act of apparent tyranny or severity in the orJivary course of jostle* has once sac it going. The pure charader of a Magistrate, however, is no m ir.- to be called in question than Cassar's wife ; and taerefore he ought not to have it in is power to Jo that by which his fair fame may be called i • qu titian ; nor ought he to be at lib- riy to dispense with Cie .•-r -sonal attendance of the Publican no the sp woo is the only rrson responsible for that decorum. without which a public-nouse is an intolerant* pub lic nuisance. I would therefore earnestly recom• menJ it to you. G-ntlensen, (and indeed the reso lution should be universally adopted), to grant so License to a Female, as a substitu:e fur her Hus band, in order to leave him at liberty to seek his livelihood in some ether way, and at ' , me distant place. But when Widows have been long ia po:- session of a License, and no material inconvenience is foetid to arise from it, I would not advise the taking it away, without some compensation from the Successors, to be allowed duri4 the present possessor's life. I AM, Gentlemen. Your faithful humble Servant, AN EN &NT TJ Joas. Hi; Royal Highness the Prince of WA LRS has been graciously pleased to approve the wishes ea- ; pressed by several friends of the late Lieutenants General Stuccoes to emit a monument to his me mory, for which purpose his Royal Highness has subscribe , l 1001. Earl FOATCSCUI 501. and P. 8111 ARD, Esq. 501. On Wednesday, Lord Mutma au had the ho nour of kissing His Masesey's hand, at the Levee, upon his being appointed Lord Lieutenant of the E.tst Rt4ing of Yorkshire, in the room of the Lail of Ca! List. e, resigned. His Lordship was sworn in accordingly, before the Privy Council. Sir Jam ts CM Alt; was likewise sworn in upon his appointment, as Governor of Upper and Lower Canada. The Marquis De Sowza. the Portuguese Am- bassador, arrived at Portsmmth, yesterday, frogs Worthing. The Marquis walked round the Dock yard, in company with Admiral i..sseirassou. He afterwards set off for Southampton. Lord Firzusaers has resigned his situa:ion as Under Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart ment. The Hon. Citriakts Dames, we understand, will succeed him. The M. kills Castle, Excise Cruiser, Ha x ay DUD DAs BEATSON, Cousinander, sailed on Thursday seinnight hors Roseneath. Scotland, having on board the Duke of AMOvt.t. and suite, on a tour through the Highland Isles. Orders were on Monday sent down to Sheerness. for the sailing of the transports. having an board the Royal Artillery, with their drivers and horses.— They consist of about teensy sail. Gamine Coasts, Esq. is appointed Comp:roller of the Customs of the Port of Newcastle, in the room of the late Roney PAGE, Esq. In consequence of the resignation of the Earl of DARTMOUTH, as Colonel of the Loyal Birmiligharn Volunteers (occasioned by ill health), Sir Gave SKI SMITH, Bart. is appointed to succeed him; and the three Battalions are ordered to assemhlr. on Monday morning, at nine o'clock, at Moseley Wake Green, to receive their new Colonel. We understand the barra:ks at Ashford are to be kept open for the reception of the men who are daily expefted to voluateer from the Militia regiments in East Kent, for the regular service. The transfer of the militia into the line is expell ed io take place in the course of a few days. The militia regiments at present stationed in Canterbury are the Royal Perth and the West Norfolk ; both corps have shewn an ardent desire to volunteer ; and, from their present high f discipline, they will prove a truly acceptable augmentation to any regular corps in His MAJESTY'S Wyk!. The same zeal has manifested itself in the East Kent Militia, which will, with. iut doubt, furnish its complete quota of volunteers. Thursday afternoon. to' Dutch soldiers, and a Lieutenant of the Navy, taken at Curacoa, were marched into Canterbury, under an escort from Davey (where they were landed from a cartel 'a few days since); thig have proceeled nn their route to Chatham, where they are to be contiaed on board one of the prisJa.sii:pr, t their removal to Norman Clots. LAW INTELLIGRNCE. COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Ausurr 21. Sir W,.t. SCOT r sat this day, at the usual hour, and several motions were made of no general im portance. 'I he Sittings ended this day, and at .)ne o'clock the Court adjourned to the 26. h of next month. P' LICE. !M A RL 110110UnN•STIt ILT. .14met PA , llips, Esq. an 04cer, now, or lately, in I ers army, was brought up from the watch-house, to answ , o the charge of Mr. Day, a hatter, of D ik-- street, Manchesters,vare, and a charge made by the servalt boy of Air. Day, against the Prisoner, for beating, or switching him out of his master's shop. The charge made by Mr. Day was, that the Pri.. scrim. for several days past, had uttered the rlin.t senrrilous and provoking expressions towards him. for merely requesting lion not to disturb the h ruse and neighbourhool of Mr. Day, by excessive noise and violence at late hours. The Pi iv - slier is a lodger in the Prosecutor's house, being takea in as such by his serva.x, a few days ago, when the Prosecutor was absent. The most offensive words stated were. Ae calling Mr. Day a ureochomical felling, or retie when demanding quiet from the Prisoner for h;mielt and family. The IVlacis dvised the Prosecutor to bring an asion for the foul and slanderous expressions, which the Prosecutor declared has readi..ess to do, at any expense. As to the charge of beating the boy (although but slightly) the Prisoner was ordered to find sureties for to. appearance at the trial for the assault. 'fae Prisoner appeared very composed, until the order wasmade. and then declared, that he would m•+st vigorously prosecute the Proiecutur for Cis false and malicious charge. The Pri.oner had gentlemen of coosiderable re speBability in Court, who became bail for tii.o at the suit of the boy only. BOW-STILFET. Yesterday EOll Evans was brought by l'anr.ton, the °Aker, befor,i Mr. NARES. tse Sitting Magis trate, charged on so.picion of feloniously atea.mg two gold seals, ot the value of nine guineas, the pr •perty of Mr. Rogers, of Cockspur-street, gold unto ond jeweller. It appeared, that on Wed ne.J.ty morning the Prisoner went 'o the Prosecu tor'. shop, said he WAS A Messenger belonging to the Secretary of Sta:e's Office. and that he was sent by a gentleman belonging to the Office, who wished to purchase some gold seals, and be WAS to take him some to Joie at The shopmau MA the proper precaution of sending a lad with him, with instruiions that lie was either to bring back the seals or the money. The Prisoner conducted the lad up the Breit st tiresse of the Treasury, towards the Secretary of states ()ELT for the Home Depot tment ; when he got to the Office door, he desired the lad to give him the seals, and he would bring them back to him, or the money, which the lad complied with. The Prisoner returned to the last in about a minute, and told him thee gentleman was stepped out, and would return in about haif an hoar, when he would bring the seals er the m uney, and the lad returnedthome. On Thursday the Priioner called a: another shop be longing to Mr. Rogers, in the Strand, mounted on a very hue horse,and saw Mr. R. He mentioned the cir cumstance of his having got the stale from his other shop, on Wednesday, and apologised f.tr not hav ing returned them or the money ; he as:ured them the seals were for Mr. Nepean, the son ot Sir Evan Nepean, who had sent him for them, and went out of town very unexpettethy. Mr. Rogers, however,. was not satisfied with this tale ; made inquiries, and found that the Prisoner was not a Messenger to the Secretary of State, but that he had been a Messenger to the Admiralty, and bad been discharged about three or tour years since; Mr. Rogers could not learn that Mr. Nepean, or :Loy gen:l;min belong ing to the Secretary of State's OS:e, had sent for any seals ; he therefore gave iulormatioa at the above office. Yesterday, about two o'clock, as Taunton, the officer, WAS Oil duty in the Parc, he observed the Prisoner riding on a very handsome horse, in great stile ; the offi:er contriir-d Co get to the Horst guards before him, where he stopped Lim, and conveyed him in a coach to the .Tice. The officer found the seals belonging to Mr. Rogers, hanging to the Prisoner's watch. The Prisoner said he had been known to Sir Evan Ne pean, twenty years, who had get him appointed a Messenger to the Admirali y, and persisted that Mr. Nepean sent him for the seals ; he said the horse he rode was his own, that he kept it in hii stables, with ten others, attached to his house in Pimlico, and tun he was shortly to be brought into Parlia ment. Mr. Nasals told him he could not discharge him, but must commit him for further examination, till Mr. Nepean can attend. The horse the prisoner rode was owned by Mr. Briant, a livery stable keeper of Park-lane, from whom prisoner obtained it under a false pretence. The prisoner is well kno#n to the public; he was originally brought forward in consevence of his having been employed by Nlinistes a as a spy over the Corresponding Society, and he gave evidence upon the State Trials. He afterwards ap peared before the public as the Prosecutor of the once celebrated yens Weis, who, our readers will recoiled, charged several respeetable gentlemen with robbing her in Kensington Gardens. Last night a Kew stage.coachman, of the name of Mites, was charged with stealing 6JI. in Bank notes, from the bar of an Inn in 'lumbago-green. The circumstances against the Prisoner being very suspicious, be was committed for further examina tion. Previous to the fight, on Thursday, near Craw ley, between Dodd) Sam and Ton !tricker, freili re hulations were drawn out, and a blow on the knees , owever given, was declared foul. We nuderitand that the AO to With, by the sastgkLy Gentlemen of *Farnham Greer., terminated in tavour of Mr. Ckotto, who, on his arrival at Marlborough.had left his antagonist ten miles behin 2. Mr. Listaano proceeded no tamer than Drinzes. The match was for one hundred guineas, ball tot test. DREADFUL FIRE. (Further Particular. of the F.re, on Thursday nie.t, at the bath of S/i111,Ury..1.11111.V,) About twenty houses have been materially in jured; five are burned to the ground. and the upper part of one entire sihr of Craven Court, con sating cf seven small hotsse•, is also cunsumek. with the greater part of the furni.ure, werkmen's tools, Re. These seven houses were inhabited by a great number of poor trades-p crate, two of thefts only were insured, and that for a very Off rg turn. From the narrowness of the court itself, and the only passage int) it from P.eetstreet, the tlfor tuiate inhabitant; were not Able to WU! one-fif;h tTf their littl, property trwra flames, and many per sons who on Thurs,l 1 V w re able to earn a comfert able subsistence for thernselve, and families, are this day reduced to beggary. Of the louses which wete burnt to the ground. besides Mr. Swan's printing house, were Mr. dirch's extensive stand paper ma nutaaory,end a cal•into.maker'a warehouse, and from the rapidity of the A sm-s, an 1 the difficulty in prncur ing A supply of water, not a parole of the paper. goods, tools, &c Cc. were wed. Only a small part of these premises, we un !era and, ware to 'tired in the Globe, Sun, and Exchange Insurance Offices, and Mr. Swan's premises were not insured f a. one farthing ; Yrte are radio informed, that Mr Swan has a large family, and that Mr. CroShy, Bonk seller. of Stationer's -court, will be a considerable loser, as Mr. Swan had several valuable work, of his in hands, the whole of which were consumed. At one time of the night, the coal igration threat,. toed the whole space et ground from Water-lane, Fleettstmet, and • Salisbery-squares and had there been a high wind, nothing could have saved upe waris t le° houses from the ravages of the fl ones. Near an hour elapsed before any thing of a plena. ful supply of water could be procured, and even then, from the situation of the place, it was wit's the utmost difficulty that the eegines couli aft wth any effeel. The loss is almost incalculable. horn the nature of the business. and the quantity of typ-s. paper,4urniture, toe's, books, &c destroseil. We are further informed, that Mr Swan was not able to save any part of his books, hills, or notes. or any other valuables. His two sons made several fruit• less attempts to save some of them; but the rapidity of she flames oblrged them to make their escape with the utmost precipitation; one of them, we is.. derrtanJ, received sr-me it jury This erifortunate event r, said to have been occae sinned by the bo•ling over of a quantity of oil wrach Mr. Swan was preparing for making ink. Among other works at Mr. Swan's, a large edi tion of Aseer's Sketch el the different Dromuiwitteas sj Missions, which had been removed thither only a few days ign, is entirely consumed. Th are are several remarkable r ircamstances re. lathe to the premises that have been destroyed which are worthy of notiei- : —ln the time of Rich ardson, they were the King's ?tinting Office, its which were printed all the Ass of Parliament, &e. as well as the first ed'tinns of the popular novels of that celebrated writer,' and some of which, through the improper condaet of the persons in the Office, who pulained the printed sheets, were published in Ireland before they had appeared in England. The building in question was let on lease a few years ago to Mesas. Swan and Son, Printers, Messrs. Inney and Co of the same profession, and to Messrs. Birch and Son, Paper-stainers; and all the ground Boor, nearly 100 feet square. were the warehouses of Messrs. Crosby and Co. of Stationtes'a court, in which were deposited all teeir extensive stock of new Terre books, which tonid not be cone tained in the premises where their business is car ried on; a considerable part of this property was insured at the Eirenii Fire Office. as well as their interest in the lease in two other Offices; but Messrs. Crosby and Co. will neiertheless sustain a serious loss, in consequence of having within a short time removed books into the premises to the amount of some thousand pounds. consisting of the varlets stock cleared from their different Printers, a few days previous to the fire. dhe property of Messrs. lnney and Co. was insured, but we are sorry to say, that the like precaution had not been taken by • Messrs. Swan and Son. The fire was discovered a few minutes before twelve o'clock, but nothing be longing to either the printing-offices, or Crosby and Co.'s warehouse, was saved, owing to the hielding being in such a conin)d situation ; and such was the quantity of paper destroyed, and the rapidity of the (I ones, that, in the morning, St. James's park, and part of Westminsier, were found strewed with pieces of burnt paper, being a dia. tanee of nearly a mile and a half from the place of conAagretion. At a late hour last night, several fire-tingines re mained in the nelgnbourhood ready to aft in Casa the fire should break out again. Toe ruins emitted a vast quantity of smoke, and tears were enter tained that the back walls of the houses in Crown• court would tumble down. A ship, of about 300 tons burden, from Liver pool for Jamaict, was captured on the 17th of June, and carried into Guadaloupe. The deny, Bascomat, from Newfoundland, for Barbadoes, is captured and carried into Martinique. Extrad of a Letter from James's Fon, Acora, Coast of Africa, dated May :--" The DiaaP. Gooocni on, and the Lard liodytv, CARLisi.t, wid sail in two months, from Lago,; and the ahrt, LAW, in six weeks. The Dllll4lll sailed for Lagos. from Cape Coast, on the 21st of May. rho Admiral Cams. COOLEY. and the Meow, BOIVIk fr- London, are arrived at Cape Coast. Ana, M'Gris, and the Alerera, of ' slaved, and would sail imMediately. BIaSSZY, from L'verplol, is on the Coast." Extraa of a letter from Greenock, 18:—" I am happy to inform you of the Jamaica sh:ps for the Clyde in the parted convoy off Cape Clear en Fria; ship only, the Ki ty, has come up, however, are all wiMin the Cumbraes, formed there are 12 or 14 sail, but r' are the only names I have been able tt Mars, F.sh ; Emerald, Douglas,; Columbus, Sox; Canada, Campbell; Loud Gasslneu, Cum ?Wino ; Thaws ' !tosburgh ; Union, Cam ,10.11, ••The itemOrtat, Kixtoca, of GlaTaw. fleet for Lonilol, and was well whoa the r parted." i/ BOWL LI, from FI st. Ahoy London, were The Laitriy. • h: Wind .vard , dated Angust the an Leal of :e River ; they • Way last ; one sp, the others rues, I am in- n the Mewing to paean s— scs, Km!. suy. Cameron aigocr, is in the the Clyde ships