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rtial. neat peeled to exercise a lit:1 • moderation in their pre. sent attacks, but of this they appear incapable. ffnme little forbearance towards the Minister is rt q tired by gratitude ; but of this they OWI not the inflo:nce. They would repair their disgrace and lcsses by the fury of their new assaults.—They im pudently assert, that the public sentiment is not in unison with the verdict ; and ho.v is this proved Wily, a Morning Paper made a second ecii . . in, on Wednesday, announcing the arrival of an express, from Portsmouth, with an account that Sir sloe Pore A ss was honourably aryanted. Most of the Even ng Papers `copied the intelligence, thus positively averred, and the report of course became general, through the town in the course of the night. This is a nntorious fa& ; and yet those p ray writers, who 3.lck at nothing that answers their purpose, gravely tell us, that people speak as they wish ; and asTall fhe town rang on Wednesday night with the ho. otourable acquittal of Sir Howe POPHAM, it fol. 1 , ws, of course, that all the town wished it. There cannot be a more wilful misrepresentation. The report originated and spread precisely in the way we have stated. The progress of a falsehood was rover more clearly traced and defined. That :fir HOME POPHAM is a man cf ability, of spirit, and of enterprise, is unquestionable.— pssessing snch a chara4ter, a severe sentence and punishment infUled upon him, would not have been a popular measure. We might appeal to the joy manifested by the populace, at Portsmnuth, as evidence that they prefer the present, to a severer sentence; and, on the other hand, the charges being proved, an honourable acquittal would have been a verdizt, in dire& contradidlion to the fats. A verdia more cAlculated to answer all the ends of :;:-'ice and policy, by sheaving that Government had grounds of disapprobation, and, at the same time, not falbng too severely upon a meritorious officer, wet) had done the ItA:e some service, we Can. not conceive or desire. Rut Admiral Bvsio was sacrificed to the popular frenzy, and the Advocates of Commodare Poru•st, in tie exuberance of their regar. l , insi.t, that Government ought to have; had him tried by a packed. Jury, and sh-t, to satisfy the public that he had fairly incurred their dis 111.a.ure. Private Letters from Iloliand, but none of a later date than ti e Journals which arrived on Thursday, were received yesterday. 'limy state, that the French head quarters have been removed to Thorn, and that till the French trot'ps have been withdrawn from the :shrew. It is almost super ri !11l to observe, that this is a speculation flonciLd utlon the last French Bulletins. Letters have been ai•) received from Stettin, dated the 2ath February, wiiaa state, that at that date, no account 1..k1 re r:hcd that city, of any serious aftion subsea silent to the Rth of February. Some smart skitmidvor, howev-..r, are to have taken place on the le:h, at lieilsberg, on the Alle, and Rossockin, on the following day, in both of which the Russians were successful. The Russian General VOl4 ESIMPS, who was at Poppen on the Lakes the IS,h, is stated to have joined the army of bess►o.nt on the Ally. A Paper of yesterday states, that the two French stips of the line, and the frigate of shitty-two guns, isMich had taken shelter in the Chesapeak, have been captured by a division of the Reet under Ad miral Sir A. CocxaaNC, cansisring of three ships of the hese and a sloop of war. l'he French ships, it is said, had ventured out of the Chesapeak, thinking the English were not on the look.out, but fell into the mare to judiciously l i. 7 for them by Admiral CowilltAPE. We do not know the authorily for this statement. A letter from Constamianple, dated the 13th of January, states, that the Atli*, frigate had taken on Dead the 1/mstan Asts►ss►ooa to the Porte, and :OA for Smyrrs, where she was to touch. for the purpose of inquiring about the convoys, and steer• uining the ewe of our shipping in that quarter.— She was afterwards to proceed with his Excellency to Corfu. The transport, Na. 64, with part of the 89th Re giment on board, bound for South America, on Thursday pot into Falmouth. I'he Kirin vas beets pleased to appoint FRANCtS K 11,1117.. i.sq. to he His Maitsvv's Consul in the Duchy of Courland —(siarsgtei) Ilse KING has beets pleased to grant unto a .. 41) Jonas, Esq. Resident of the East India Corn ,:anti at Bagdad, and Member of the Ottoman Or iier of the Crescent, of the second class, his rolfal lizense and permission to receive and wear the En i•.:risof the superior class of the said '..trder. which the Cs sett Sine wirishath I +rely. as a mark of his fur ther favour, c.:Werred upon the said Hanscom Joh, j The K tac has been pleased to nominate and sp rint Sir E o MOND Sr AI4L Er to Is,: Recorder of His Ma fear v's Court of Judicature in Prince of Waher's Isi Ind in the East Indies.—/ fe411.1 The Kowa has been pleased to constitute and ap point the Right Hen. Taita as Earl of Eresirr and Kt:magmas to be Flis sl Ai "-A - v's Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of A notice was on Saturday posted up at LI °Yrs'', informing the owners of ships, drat eighty anchors and several cables had been pick sl up iu the Downs, supposed to belong to ships wrecked in the late har.. bean.. on the lath ult.: o.lt they were now an POS. SYYSIGtt of the Depnty Wrrilen nt the Cinque Ports ; and were ready to he restored to the owners, on m ots the salvage. 0 R5....,e„ * f , 4 x.._.a..ie. 4 ..._ 4 _ ) 4 8 ' „ to • , .1 lY )1;/: :gat r i de ;me cl be wry I ad. rapt e cp oath dot tlra licit gtt. !ray, Intl. war vice 'care arr.d. eel rated Twe d all nrce Irin• tale, >fly ; hien le to and THEATRES. Or ER A-110132. On Srtarday eveninz. the Anions Opera of I! Ritorno dr Serve was performed before a numerous An brilliant audience. Madame CATALANI SUS. rained the part of Alpena, with her usual excelleere, and received uraounded applause. There were present—... Ms Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; the l)uksis of Orleans, Argyle, and Portla , id ; the Ducliest-s of Rot urge, (;nidon, Richmond, St. Alban'r. Bolton, and Dorset; the Mar-iinesesses of Salisbury, Stafford, Dounishire, Wellesley, and Bath ; the Countesses of Camden, Sefton, Marx, Card' can, I lardsicke. Creeper, Cork, Barn/more, Banbury, Di;►f, Euetnn, and Roth's; Viscountesses Caaleresigh, Melbourne, Astilarook, and Drimstsn ; Ladies Newport, Penh, Taylor, W. Riooell, M. Rentinck, Milinan, Smith Mugu, M. Hamilton, Kinuaird. DRUIT.I. ANC. On Saturday night, Mr. De CAMP, for the first time, appeared in the part Rod,'t. in the play aif The Cryfer, and was very well rP , cived. Mr. Di tausn's new After-piece of The YC,ung Hisser, fol lowed. It has undergone some very judicious cur tailments, and was received with the most rapturous applause. Mrs MOUNT AIN and Mrs. BLAND warbled Ke.xxv's sweet music with the happiest eff::a. The Glee, by Messrs. DIG:it:NI, FilZ• sisswosis, and MILLIS, WAS nit.ch applauded ; and the Duet between Mrs. 81.A.D and Mr. Gleams, loudly encored. Mr F.s.i :sr ~N gave every interest to the Hero of the Piece. Where harmony, interest, and incident, are so judiciously combined, they must always command success. The how° was crowded in the extreme, and the Piece concluded amidst a tumult of applause. Saturday molting •he ROYAL FAMILY left town for Wiedsur. The Paiscs followed their M SS• Tr as about three n'enck, and returned to town yes terday at five .'clnck in roe afternoon. Yesterday the Yrinzeis CHARLOTTI of WALKS attended divine service at the Chapel Royal. Yesterchy Lord Citancer.Loa bad a select party to dinner. Yesterday His MAJESTY and the Pei oicesses, Lady G. MURRAY, Sic. went to At. G-orge'. Chapel, and beard a sermi.n by Mr. HALLAM, from the 9th chap. of lame!, and 4th verse Her bIAJE,Yv and Princess Etizasern nad divine service performed in the Palace. The Earl and Countess FORTZSCUE, and a large otty yesterday, with the Earl lind Countess Tem I'LL, at their house, Whitehall. The Marchioness fn c. will give her second rout, next Thursday, .tt her souse, in Man cheater-s !woe. The Countess of IVl:xtr:w. died, last week, at her house, in Rutland-square. Dublin. Lord and Ltd attived. yegerday, at their house, in Gr( ,veisor-square, from Winnington, near Northnich, Ch. shire. Mr. and knaDYCIL will give a grand dinner, next Wednesday, at hduse, Caddick's-row, Whitehall. The Marquis of HusrLay gave a grani dinner, on Saturdsy, At his house iu C.harkoo.street, Berke ley-square, to a large party ot ; Amongst whom were—Lirds REAT, and lit.•sry ILE Mr. anJ M i r. Due As. Her Royal Highness the Princess of WA La, gave a grand uinaer,•yesterday. at her house at Black heath, to a large party of Nobility t amongs: toe company were, the Duke of RICIMOSID, and the Marquis of Huey Lay. • Viscountess CAST on gave a grand supper, last Saturday, at her house, in St. James's-square, to year •ne hundred Ni.uility, amongst whom were— Toe Duke and Mellen of Richmond, the Dueness of Ult. dna ; the Sdary , oimes of Wonky and Abero•rn ; the Mae. chopleas of Sansoury ; and the Earl and CUUlltel4 ut CAtf,dell• The Marchioness of IhRTFORD gave her first grand rout, on Fr•day, at her house, in Manchester square, which was attended by upwards of four hundred Nobility ; aniongstwhomwere— . . . _ Royal Dtahnesses the Prince of IKalcs, Dukes of Cutisherlind, Cambridge. and Sussex; the Dukes of (Means. Ue ISmti, Rrchotood, mai Argyle; dos Duchesses of Nor thumberland, Boiloll, Gordon, Richmond, and Chandra; rite fslarcistuticsms rst Stelfmd, Downstur.. Salt-tiury. and Nish. Sir Wirsosoa EitismoKe gave a grand dinner, yesterday, at hit house, in Albemarle-,t-eet, to Prince ESTMAZY. the Dukes of O•La►NS And Da Resat ; the Duchess of Goitoom ; Lord and Lady KINNAIIen, and Avert' French Noblesse. In the evening, the Misses 14uPILOKII had a large party, which consisted of near two hundred Nobility ; amongst w:.om %vele— m. M.rchin eoses nt Salisnury and Dounshire th, Coon te,ses of Camden, C..•eper, Sefton. mei Ft,ett the 1.6111.C.4 Perth, M. !kismet, Deere, Long; and the lion. MA. Drum mond. It is said Mr. Jones. the Patentee of the Dublin Theatre, is in treaty with Mrs. BILLINorost for the after-season ; there is no place where Mrs. Bi t. i o- Tom's tranacendant talents were ever more admired than in that city. Hyde Park, yesterday, considering the coldness of the weather. was visited by a number of the Nobility. The dust was very troublesome, and the glasses of the carriages wete obliged to he kept up. The prevailing rcuttoric was dove-coloured mantles, with hats to match. lu tite ride we noticed—Her Royal HiAhness the Princess CHARLOTTE Of Waxes, in her cha►iat ; his Royal Highness the Duke of CA lad Bit LIGg, mounted on a beautiful hay ; the Duke of MORT ROLE t the Duchess of Sr. A 1.- a• N's in her eat-a-via, accompanied by Miss Manages and the Hon. Mies DAVMMOND E.'rls Lys my, i nMusiaan. BA iiiiVlllolil, and Cowr tit, were on horseback. The most conspicuous equipages were —the LORD MA VON and a company of Ladies, iu a yellow hooted landau turonehe, di awn by four bays, with two footmen behind. in splendid liveries of blue and gold ; the postilli , m was also splendisily dressed, with • jacket richly trmrnA with gold. and a cap with gold tufts, at the ti pof which was a dragon, • richly gilt ; Sir Julia Lane, Sir FRANCIS BAKING ' and Mr. Buttes, drove tour in hand, with great dexterity. The Park was cleared by fire o'clock ► by the severe north wind. LAW INTELLIGINCIL , COURT OF caws - C.:FRY, faiscni.scs-Ilia, SA [USDA?, MA Deli I Fsliarte Juansor+, a ilanl.r.ipt. The Binkrtspi, in this case. w.ss for many yeara a persan of great smuggling nntoriety; but in conservv!re of anma imp..rtant infor mation he bad given, and yome essential ser vices he had rendered to Government, he twice received Ili, Majesty's mist gracious pardon, and, as it may be remembered, was released from prison, in order to plot the ships composing the expedition to Holland, when his Royal Highness the Duke of York . comenanded in chief. Johnson latterly had the command of the N 11,0,1 revenue cutter. Some time since ne was arrested tar WOOL and confined in the Fleet prison, from whence, by a singular stratagem, he made his escape, and went to sea. He was af terwards made a Bankrupt, and a few days ago attended under the Azt at Guildhall, in order to surrender before the Commissioners of Bankrupts, and go through his examination. Mr. Nixon, warden of the Fl-et prison, and his assistants, attended at Guildhall upon that occa sion, and tnok Johnson into custody; notwithstand ing the temnustrance of the Commissioners, who informed hirn of the consequences, but in vain, Mr. Nixon persisted in detaining his prisoner, and car ried him to the Fleet, where he now remains in custody. In consequence of this transa/lion, an application WAS made to the Lord Chancellor, to discharge the Bankrupt out of custody, and that the Warden of the Fleet, and his assistants, should stand committed for a contempt of the Court. in arresting the Bank rupt, and detaining him in custody, it being aigu-d, that, in proceeding to be examined before the Cms missioners, the &Mil opt w..s under the proteftion of the Court, from the time of leaving his own house, until his return thereto again ; the refore, that the present arrest was illegal, and the party entitled to his discharge. The LOR D Cat•scst.t.ea delivered his judgment yesterday, to be, that he could not, under the cir cumstances, order the Bankrupt to be discharged out of custody ; but observed, that an application might be made for AO Habeas Colri, from the Court from whence the original process issued. V. S•NDOVIr. This cause came on upon demurrer to the Plaint iff's rill, which he tiled for an accnatit, and other rel;ef, in Ow 44-rmises. The llama had purchased a lintel belonging to the Defendant, and it was agreed that the whale should be vahsed by, a regular appraiser. The prices of the several Articles' were accordingly fixed, and among the rest, :4 quaetity of wine was valued at 9501. and the querrity and quality ascertained in this manner. A bottle was tiiken from eine of the binns, which contained the wine, and tasted by the partie,, and the Defendant stared, that the whole of the wine was of the same quality. It turned out, however, that much of the wine sv is very bad, and cf a very interior quality, considerately b-low the value which had been fitted by the ap praiser. "l'he Defendant demurred to the bill, on the grounds that this was a case for a Court of Law, but not of Equity . The Loan CIIAKCILLOR considered it a very navel case, sod .we which required mese consider ation ; and he accordingly po..tponed his judgment fur a future day. Saturday night, at nine o'clock, a Cabinet Coun cil was held at Lord GRENVILLL'i house, which sat till twelve. C done) °AIM ; who is appointed Military Au ditor-Genei al at Bombay, goes out in the D eeea d a - re East-lndiaman On Wednesday, the 4th inst. died, at his house iu Mountjoy-square, .Dublin, after A severe illness, the Rigut Honwrabde Lord CAestav, deeply re gretted by all who hail the happiness of knowing him. A Dublin paper contains the following observe L the Report of the;Committee of Supply al! the Resolutions were agreed to, except that for granting 13,0001. to Maynooth College. Mr. Pan. c LVAL reiterated his former objec t ions to this grant, with little accession of a:gement. and with no better result than attended his tirst opposition to it. The objedicn was of use, as it called up Mr. GRATTAN ; and it is always important that that Gentleman should interfere in mint:nos relating to It iah affairs. His experience will corred the errors of all parties upon those subjells ; his knowledge will inform and guide them ; his til.mts will dispel the darkness of prejudice, and his eloquence preserve his country or her inhabitants, from distru.t or aspersion. Mr. Pe a- CCVA t'sobje:itions proceeded from policy more thin the bigotry imputed to him. H. is not a man really entertaining the narrow unenlightened prejudices that persons, who coach:de upon appearances only, have charged upon him. He, like most other Gen tlemen, who take a great deal of trouble about the public, has no ohjeetion to a place ; perhaps to re some his last place. He knows that a C4.411ge of Ad ministration, is rot probable, unless the prejudices as cribed to the English people be roused, and the Ca tholic question used as theinstre ment todrive them out. It is not bigotry, we sat, it is policy, that has driven :slr. PIM c cv AL to adopt the opposition he has,given to the bestowing of grants to a Roman Catholic Se minary in Ireland. It is the subjea, by means of which he will try the temper of the People of Eng land. It will serve to rally a strong party, and some advantage may be gain -d; if it tail, the pros pects td the Gentlemen who oppose the Minister in Parliament, will not he of the nit, a promising aspect. The new system ol Finance, die gradual progress of reformation in •ill the public departments ; the en lightened principles which hive assetted the rights of mankind upon external maxims of justice, mora lity, and true religion ; s l these have made the Mi nisters for the present p.ipular in Esiglinal There is, therefore, ne chance left of dispcasessing them of the public confidence, except what the religions opinions and p:ejuilices of the people may afiNrd ; and those, it appears, are tried in Pat hamenr by Mt. Ptactvax. and out of Parliament by Mr. De puty Blocs. We axe deepl mistaken in :he ch.'. lager of the English people, if those proceeding.; should succeed—the prelude, at least, do not open auspiciously fir the asthma." 11098 CIRCUIT. cust.usroars, v•t:ir l 7„ CROWN SM.—MURDERERS. roof. is Bvllrr , Welran+ Wird, Daisbi .foin , s. and Bllr4tlt, tour cuuntryttren, were in:lord toe the wIF l mur4er et Alexander Macdtinetld. a Fri. late soldier in the 7:4 Regiment Gf F.ot, on the 231 r of July last. John Oshorie and Henry Daniels, two lads. stared, that they were at ClAitnfl nor on 'le 2.5:1 of duly last, and were at the Blacksmith's Arms, wh..re there wis. a company of country people danc ing, until very early the neat morning. 1 . ney saw soldiers come in, slin insisted that they would hays the room to themselves and their women, and that the country folks should not dance there. The coon. trymen then went into another room, and insisted that the soldiers should not come amongst them. Some of the soldiers intruding, they were shoved out by the countrymen. The soldiers being shut out. they drew their bayonets. The countrymen armed themselves with sticks. A scum, ensued, and the soldiers being worsted, they ran to their barracks at lVheeley ; and were Fdlowed by the countrymen armed with sticks ; but neither of those witnesses saw the de:eased until after he was dead, and could not tell who knocked him down. The principal witness was Samuel Bird. He stated, that the soldiers began the ceiarrel, and threw a bayonet at the countrymen before they had struck a blow. The c ontrymen, then, armed will! sticks, drove the soldiers down stairs, and pursued them towards Wheeley. Bird was among the patty, and he threw his fagget.ttick, which hit the de ceased, and made him fall. Batim immediately e Eme ep and gave him another blow. Ward im mediately limped upon his body, and said, " ll—n him, if you had not killed him, I wouid." Baram shortly after said, " there Les the Scotsman—l have tilled him ; " ar el Bigler said, " I have given hies his gruel." Butler and Eararn both hid their sticks among some nettles, and as they were ccming hack, they said that they must say nobody could teU ho did it. Mary Bacon, a young girl., stated, that she also went to Clacton Fair, and that she saw Butler with the mob, who followed the soldiers ; she saw the dead soldier; and when she came back to the pub lic-house, Butler said, he feared! he had killed the Scotsman ; she replied, she feared boat he bad, and asked, what he would he dote to for it Me replied, " m: thing ; there is no law for killing a Scotch soldier." Several other Witnesses were called. who con tradieled the fad that Bader was among the mob who followed the soldiers, and stated that he was • seen standing all the time at the door of the Black smiths'-arms. A man of the name of Powell also added, that he was sure the lest Witness, Mary Bacon, was not near the dead body, for she was not out cf his corn p sny, and she was of a very loose charaifler; is which he was confirmed by others. The Lento Osier &nos summed up the eviss dente with great distinftness and particularity, and desired the Jary particularly to consider who were the aggressors, and cautioned them not ti rely on tie evidence of the accomplice, when it was not con firmed ; at the same time observing it was uncon firmed, except by Mary Bacon, who appeared to be of bad charadter, in what she had stated of Butler and Raram. • The Jury, after a short hesitation, arlwitted all the Prisoners. Peter &Jerky was indiaed for the murder o. Jacob Sanstrom. on board the ship Mempers, on the I Sth of February last. By the evidence of the Captain it appeared. that the Prisoner and the deceased had been quarrelling the whole of the day of the accident, and when grey were both alone in the forecastle, the Captain heard a loud cry as of one in pain. He went down below, and saw the deceased sitting on a chest, with a wound in his right breast, and the blood running from it. The deceased said, " see what the Car penter has done ;he has stabbed me." On the 14th of the month, he died at Tabery. Verdiet—Gaifte of Macillurhter. Join Aheadn was indiaed for the murder of -his wife, on the eith of September last, at Colchester. Thomas King and his wile. the Witnesses against the Defendant, stated, that he was a soldier in the ls• battalion of the sish Regiment, quartered.at Celchester. The Prisoner and his wile, and the Witnesses, lodged in the same room. Ahs.ut 5 o'clock on the day stated in the indielment, the Pri soner came home, mu( said he would have some din ner ; his wife said she would put the kettle an, and get bins some tea; he replied, that he would nor have tea always, he would have some Eamon. His wife accordingly got him some bacon. and laid it on a stool near the bed where he eras lying. he then grumbled because he had no potatoes. Ste immediately set herself about preparing some. He d.ornned I.er for not making more haste ; si e replied she could not handle the dirty kettle ar d iron tne Chficers' linen at the same time. He said, he would have no half words and grumbling at him. and immediately knocked her off the stool ; she gave him a small baser in return, on the shins. wi h the nozale of the bellows, up in which be kicked her. and threw her across the room. 'Dm witness then interfered, and said he should not beat her any more. He said he would, " she was his own wife, and he would do as he pleased with her, and he would kill her as sewn as not." He again gave her several violent blows on the head; the poor wo man attempted to walk across the room, but iwas very lame, and obliged to lie down on another soldier's bed. Her hu hand made her come horn thence and lie on their own bed. She was very disk in the evening, and he appeared sorry for his conduct.— The deceased was put to bed, and nothing snore oc curred until the witness heard the prisoner calling in the night " Bevy I Betty 1" and said his wife was very iii. The other woman go; up, and found her quite dead. The prisonerthcn. in a state of remorsse, went down on his knees. eaclaiming he erase wretch e.: man. fur he had murdered her The 1.0110 Csier Baseesi mid the Joey, that this was a clear case of metier, and the Jury Xaviug found him grery he w.s sentenced to be hanged on Saturday mernisp Eight other tiisoners were capital's/ seeder, and About six deck the AUI2CS h - • I 1