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THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FealtyAtv 4. The nuke of Kent Packet is arrived at Falmouth with a Mail from Jamaica, in 46 days. She brings intelligence that the inhabitants of Curesoa having espressed a wish to place esemselves under the pro taboo of the British Government, Admiral Da- EKES on the 9th December dispatched His Majesty's frigates Lamm!, Asgard, and Arethem, to take pos session of it in His MAJESTY'S name. The Blanote frigate, Sir THOMAS LAYIS, arrived At Portsmouth on Monday, from off Kochfort ; ,• a !eft Commodore KEATS' Squadron all well, on e 1 sth ult. on which day she captured the liia4hino,- kw, a large copper-bottrlnA American ship, from Philadelphia, having on hoard the Capt. Officers, stores, and crew, cf the raleortus., French frigate, condemned in the Delaware. Some letters from Portsmouth add, that act milts received by the Blanche, from Itochfort, state, that BONA * TS had been defeated in a treat battle, on the Vistula, and was blocked up in Warsaw. This is evidently false. We have accounts from Warsaw to the 14th. The Russian Official report of the battle of Pultusk, on the `'2oth of December, extracted from the Kquingsderg Gazette, is given in a pteced irg column. It is signed by the Commander in Chief, General arstsvismsxa, and congratuk.Les His PRUSSIAN MAJESTY on bia success in repulsing the French. The French attacked the Russian wings, but failed in the attempt, and after a battle, whit+, lasted from II o'clock till night, were driven bask with a loss of 5000 men. This probably is not an exaggeration, as the French admitted a loss of about 3000. AINNINGSEN adds, that BoxHov. DEN not having j9incd him, as he expoeted, he was unable to 'Wiese up Isis villory, and that the total want of forage and previsions obliged him to re tire to Rczan. EitNNINGSLN says, that the French did not molest him in his retreat. He adds, that Lassos and Davoosr were among the French Generals opposed to him, while the French Bulletin SIAM. that Buzsioyntu's corps was part o( the farce which these Generals engaged at Pultusk on the flt;th. From a comparison of both accounts, it would appear that no decided advantage was gained on either side. We fear also that the rumours of victories gained by the Russians, upon the three con. secutive days of December, derive no strength from Beast Nose's's report. His letter is dated the 47th, at Rozan, 15 miles from Paltusk ; and, as he had retreated, and the enemy had not pursued, it is pretty clear that there was no action between them upon that day. His MAJESTY is expelled in town, this day, to bold a Privy Council, when it is supposed the She riffs for the ensuing year will be pricked for. Yesterday, the Marquis of WA TER ro no and the Earl of KINGSTON transaded business with the Duke at Yoaa, at his Office. Vice-Admiral Sir CHARLES COTTON, Bart. Ir. rived on Monday morning at Portsmouth, in his Mat env's ship Spartan, Captain AsTLE, from the Channel Fleet, having been succeeded. as the second in command of that fleet, by Vice- Admiral Sir JAMES SAVNI ARIZ, who has hoist ed his flag on board the S.rn Joly; 112 guns, Captain CONN. Sir CHARLES will Lila down his flag till the Newfoundland season, when be hoists it on board the /sir, 50 guns, Captain Nssve. as Commander-in-Chief on that station for the next three years. We assure our Readers, that the Bulletins which have been published, purporting to be accounts of battles fought between the French and Russians, never were inued from the Foreign Office, nor have they been circulated on any Ministerial Authority whatever. These Bulletins were in general nn. thing mote th.ln answers of clerks in the public offices, to enquiries made by their friends. All the Officers. Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates, of the lit Somerset Regiment of Militia, have volunteered to extend their services to Ireland; and have requested Major Sir Cita as. es Ita ea moms, who now commands them, to transmit their offers to His Royal Highness the Cora st annen-rn-Csrase. The Aiwa. Frrucs se ILA I. D, from Newfoundland, for Lisbon, has been captured by a Spanish priva. tear ; re-captured by the Amason frigate, and carried Into Plymouth. Yesterday, the Leto M A voa, en examining the blerslweigher's Returns. ordered the pric..! of Bread to be reduced an assize, to take place to-morrow, *then the Quartets Loaf Wheaten will be sold fur Is. Old. and Household 111 d. A Court of Common Council will he held to morrow, for the dispatch of public business. The following is an abstraft of the effective strenrth of the Volunteers in C:eat Britain ; dis tinguishing infantry, Cavalry, ttod At:Lllery ; ac cording to the latest Returns, dated tl.e let of December, I eO6. C•va:ry—l,C.,:, Officials, 16n; Captaim. 441 ; Subalterns, ; Staff 05 .I,s, 74%; Set; •ant,, 1,51 ; Ttunsoster• ctrl Drumow , l, SW; Rank ani Fair, 2.4180. Infantry—n..l,4 (hikers. 1,2,7 E; Captain', 3,154; Sub. Own'. 7,455 1,735; Seri...wt., 13,426 ; Tram; titers a id Mummers, ; Rank and Fs•.., ?..9001. AyellleryField o:fiery', Q 9; Captains, 1.l ; Subillenys, Ovi ; Stiff Offsee,s, 55; Se jtariti. 554; TfuraNteg , and Drummer., ?Y1 ; Rand y.nal 111,4 b:• To o.lieer•. 1,4:7 ; Captains, 4.438; Slibllteve• *7L"; StaX .105 ; 11 10 4 ; 'TR , '3l" , trrs ay:w: Oryandi" 6.7,;«,; ; Rink and Fait, '251:0 4 3. g 4,1, tril4 , l;. • t e a • . 7 Its KING'S THEATRE. Last night, a Centime, from the most favourite Piece of II Prinep di Tereuts, pre-eded the Div' r tisement of L'Agrereble Brame,: after which a new Comic Opera was performed for the first time, called Roberto L'AssenTino; the music by To ENT° . The principal charaliers were sustained by Signors NAL or and SIBONI, and Madame l'en INI. This little piece possesses more ii , teresr than com monly falls to the share of an Italian Opera. A young Lady elopes from her father's house, and fol lows her lover, attended by a cowardly servant.-- The woods are infested by robbers, whose leader is Roberto, the efignstin, by whom the travel lers are seized, and conveyed to the robbers' cave. Roberto lecom-s enamoured of the fair prisoner ; whose lover, at the head of his troopi. surrounds the wood, takes the robbers pri soners, delivers his mistress, and restores her to her fdther. Roberto, the AJ.sassin, gives an inte resting account of his life, and proves to be the brother of the lady. A general reconciliation takes place, and the lovers are married. Signor NA LDI in Roberto, and &most in Ataijii, the lover, dis played much excellence. They were rapturously en,ored in the charmiag duet ineare in faecie a rimer." Madame Psalm, gave great interest to the part of Loretta, and was much applauded. The whole perform ince went off with great 'spirit, and received unb.dunded csplause from an elegant; but not crowded, audience. Lord hassiesi sisia Opt,. ildrruara 1, 180'1. Notice is hereby Oro, that there will be 4 Drawls.; room at St. James's', on Thursday, the 12th instant. Yesterday, the Cabinet Adiaistins dined with Vis count SIDMOUTH. The Officers of the Ist Regiment of Guards en tertained the Duke of You with a sumptuous . Antler, yesterd.y, at Wita.ses Rooms. The 134nd 01 die R-giment attended. '1,17e ‘larquis and Marchioness of WM:EMMA Will give a grand dinner, on the 6th instant, at their house in IN•rtman-square. Lately was married, at Henbury Church, Capt. Hats, of the R ,, yal N rth Gloucester Militia, eldest son of J. BL *ODER HALE, Esq. of AMers.y, in Gloucestershire, to the Right Flr.n. Lady To EODOSIA BOURKE, sister to the Earl in M Sunday 'senniWit, at three o'e:ock, her Grace the Duchess of BEDFORD, accomaanied by Miss FORDYCE. and the Martinis of A VII•TO,CR, attended divine s,rvice, in St. l i a:rick's ca!hed,..ll, Earl Sr stress has been conEned with a cold and fever, since Thursday. Sir \VALI. es FA RgUR•R attends him t who will not allow him to sit up mach. The Duchess of GORDON and her son, the Mar quis of Ns. LEY. are on th it way to London, to join the lishionrhle world , ia which he. Grace holds so pre-eminent a station. ViCrAllitesc 1:A14;00,41.c, Mr. MOAT Z Lilt. Mr. SEEN-, and Mo, ARNOLD, have left Brighton for the Winter se.t.no. Mrs. AsHe and Mrs. Vane:HAN are principal fe male singers at the Ancient Concerts, which com mence this night. Mrs. Bs I, norow has retired, far the present busy season, from the clamot,r of publ,c applause, to the enjoymeat of elegant retimment, in a sel2t circle of admiring friends. The Marquis and Marchioness of LAisnows will give a grand dinner, this day, at Lameluwn.house, to the Marquis and Marchbncss of Starroan, the Earl of Wm:Heise*, Lord Freecasri.p, L d 83. HINGDON, Lord ARCH. HAMILTON, Lord limonite, Count Alutssl ER, and Mr. SMITH. We are concerned to state, that Lady Lusts( is so seriously indisposed, that her physician, Sir Wm.. Tea FA mivitA a, has ordered her Ladyship to re move to Hammersmith. The fashionable elopement, which last week was the topic of convi.srsation in the monde, proves to be a dashing pot-girl and a rc.-ruttins Scjerva. in the vicinity of St. James's. _ Madam, CATAL•NI'S dim, in Stmiranside, and Miss DUNCAN'S 14[0g/ilia hat and roemme, in tine opera of Faire Alarm!, are expelled to take the lead at the Nla,,yerade to-morrow night. The Opera Taylor has a great dislike to Gold binding. The Earl and Countess of Haenwrece arrived on Friday at tlytir house in St. James's-square, from Winipo;e Hall, Cambridgeshire. The Countess of CLA N BRASSIE has arrives at her house, in Stanhope-Street, Mayfair, from Ireland Lord Haws oxtt, we are sorry to state, is indis posed at his house in Ganges-suet. Colonel and Mrs. BE•USIONT'S lovely children are pettedly recovered from the measles. The Duke of BEDFORD'S ar.nual donation of one hundred pounds for the relief of the poor of Woe burn, was last week distributed in meat, fuel, and clothing, Lady Morelove's allusion to the beauty of her elbow, io Miss Lea's unsiiccessfill comedy of Assig nation. proved a death-blew to the piece ; many of the audience conceiving the part was intended as a wire on Lady s mayor', the beauty of whose arm has excited almost as much admiration as Mrs. Joni)* N's fiat. The Marquis of Asuicoart will take phssession of Viscount ANSON'S house, in St. James usquare, cc /At let 0 . 1 4,11, at the moderate sum of 1300 guineas per year, fir three years. His Lordship's plan of entertainments, as announced in a resped able Print of yesterday, is the same as that of the new ArgyLa-street Institution. His Lordship will prove a formidable rival, as his visiicrs will have the advantage of being at free slignsters. Since Her M. jesty's birth-day, Admi ra l an d Mn. Bi,akner, Miss Bii,:krier, Mr. and Mrs. den kinson, Miss Marlon'', Mrs. and Miss Verilish. Rev. Mr. Pettingall, Capt. and Mrs Kennedy, Captain and Mrs Codding , on, Sir C. M. Larrell, Mr. anti Mrs. Otto &yet, and Mrs. Edwards, have returned to Brighton. That own co , .tinues very lively, the ltalis are generally well attended. And the season LAW INTI?LLIGRNCF. COURT Of JUNG'S BENCH, MurmursTr ff. 116. 3 The Coen was ocenpieel until IS o'clock., in oq t:tying beiL A vast number of persons qualified, uut not in any considerable woe. : ILICTION FRACAS. Mr. Ws csow. on behalf of bir.Ansell. one of the Sherifs of Norwich, moved for leave to file a Criminal Information against a Mr. Charles Hardy, a respectable grocer of that city, on the following grounds k -it- Upon the 3d of November last, during the elec tion for the sit y of Norwich. several riots took place in the mar ket-platy, and much mischief was apprehended. Mr. Ansell was sitting in his own Court, upon business, when he was called out to quell the riot; he immediately proceeded to the place (having his civic gown on) where the dis turhance was, attended by some constables, and found the mob had almost dragged a gentleman off his horse. Mr. Ansell, upon this, took the m os t foie@ rioter into custody, and was proceeding with him to the Guildhall. when Hardy came up to him, grossly abused him, shook his fist in his face, and, by this sort of resi.tance on his part, the min was actually rescued, and ran up alone; the Sh•rif followed him, and when he got to the top of the lane, he was again met by beady ; and the man, through his means, escaped a second time. The Sheriff immediately afterwards Laid luild of another man, who had all', been vety adive in the riot, and was proceeding likewise with him to the Guildhall, when Hardy again interfered, called the Sheriff " a scoundrel," and, seizing his gown, tore it in pieces ; and, by this means, the second man escaped. The Learned C nmsel observed, that Hardy was a man of considerable properly in the city of Norwich ; and if such an offence was to be tolerated. the ends of yitstice must be wholly subverted. The reason for not making an sailer application to the Court. he stacrA to he, that the eledion for the county of Norfolk, coming nn a few days after this transac tion; and just as the Norwich eledion concluded, the Sheriff was occupied until too lam to apply last term. His brother Sheriff being old and in firm, the whole of the duty devolve.' upon kin. alone. The Court granted a Rule to chew Cause. Mr. MOORS moved fir an Attachment against the Bishop of Durham, for not retaining a r a..rew rapiw. He doubted whether he should move for a direr/seas nran Attaeiment. The inter.ll curse of praftice being by Attach ment, the Court granted a Rule to bile*. Cause. COMMON MEAS. Y[YtON O. CAE;if. This was a motion made nn the part of the De fendant. that a bail•bond (tilt() which she had en tered, for the payment of a debt of 'AI.) should be delivered up to be cancelled. oa entering a comma appearance. 4eljeant VA von sts observed, that the Defmd. ant's application could net be attended tee, if the facts stated in the affidavit he held in his hand, Gould be rvlied on, in which the Deponent, I lenson, swore, that the Defendant, rtfrs. Carey, had come to lodr at his house, in ttse character of the widow of an effacer; tha, she had. in his house, contract -41 debts to him, amounting to 241., for which he had repeatedly applied, in vain ; at length, the Depo nent tocatened het with arrest, in cue. of non payment ; whereupon she declared, that Captain Carey, whose mistress, r.a:. wife, she had been, was then in the 3d Royal Veteran Battalion, quartered in Jersey, on whom, if the Plaintiff' would draw, he would undoubtedly accept the bill, and provide for its payment in due course ; the Plaintificomplied with her request, and wrote to Captain Carey, in closing a draft, which; in a few days, returned unhonoured ; he then waited on Mrs. Carey, who told him she was sorry for the disappointment, but was easy as to any consequences resulting from it to herself, as she assured the DepOnent she was the legal wife of Captain Casey, from whom, for some private reasons, she had lately eloped ; sbe, of - course. could not be liabl.2 fir the deht, while her husband was 1 ving. The affidavit farther stayed, that she now went by the name of Carr, ard lived under the proteltion of a Gentleman in Wetiminstet. l'he Counsel urged, that as, in this case, the fait of coverture was at best very dmhtful, which was the ground oii which the application was made, the Defendant's application must fail ; for this he cited an authority from 21 Blackstone's Reports, 903. For though the Defendant might swear ia har affi davit, as he understand :he had, that she had been married, yet, as :hat : term might be differently ap plid, she might only mean to say, that a sort of form et marriage m:ght have passed botween the parties, which was not at all binding in Law. Such instances were unhappily too frequert ; he, there. fore, hoped, that except the case of covertute were made out by other documents beside the Defend• ant's affidavit, the Court would refuse the applica tion to cancel the bail-bond. Serjeant Bess observed, that supposing the whole of this scandalous affidavit true, the tac• of her coverture was in no wise impaired by it. The answer even of Captain. Carey In the Plaintiff's letter did not declare she was not his wife ; bat only said, that he could not then accept the draft. By perm sting her to use his nom*, and ss.'n calling her in his letter Mrs. Carey, the matter was almost placed beyond a doubt ; but the Counsel observed, he could even bring in evidence the deposition of the Chaplain of the ftsgiment, who married the par. ties, if the Learned Judges thought it absolutely necessary. The Court not deeming an; thing farther neces sary to establish the •alidity of her covertnre, grant ed the application. On Wednesday last, the body of a man was seen fl. , ating near Lo.thester Bridge by a person who was passing over it, and who gave immediate inti matian of the circumstance to some watermen. The watermen proceeded directly to the place where the b.dy was seen, and soon re•urned with it.— ]he unforinnate person was dressed in a vet y re speCtable maQner, and had every appearance of a gentleman. Upwards of '2O guineas and some silver were fund in his pockets, but not any thine that cotlld lead to a discovery of his name co rn.. . : ... . • CoROUER'S An Inquest was held. at three o'clock yetterdar, at the Grange Inn, in Carey street. on the body of Henry lloadley, fanner, of Lir:she'd, in Surrey. who did suddenly, last SAturtly afternoon, in the 'tap of the Angel Inn, back of St. Clements, S:rand. ANTHONY Cosner. The fir,t Witness examined, was Mr. Wiliam Fisher, who keeps the Art -1 Inn Tap ; he stated. that last Saturday, the Slit of January. about lour o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased was broutot into his tap-room, by two men ; he appeared to hint to be very much in liquor. The two men said, they found the deceased sitting on the step of the door of Mr. Jones, fruiterer. at the corner of the A-gel Inn gateway. The Witness permitted him to be seated on a bench, near the entrance of the tap room, and finding he leaned forward, and was in cl,ned to fall, and there being nn table befiae him, he had him removed to another pert of the room, where there was a table. Oa being seated tllere, he immediately slid down on the floor. wh• re be ley. on his face, snoring, and, is all appearance, sound asleep. Deceased lay in that situation, to the best of Witness's recnlleeion, about two hours, when Mr. Totion, a horse far:ier, who was in company with two or three pc sons, in the taproom, lifted him up. and said—" I think the man is dying."-- Upon which. Mr. Fulmar ran Ire assistance. and sent for Dr. Stanton, of the Strand. wlt‘i came, and examined the decean d. Wit ess being alarmed. anJ called away, did nit know what paired, till about half an hour afterwards, he was inlorntl ed the man was dead ; and was desned by th .se pre sent to search his prickets ; he did so, and found a ten pound Bank of England not-, No. 6,9 CB—dated the 12th day of Novernher, l 846; me gum-a, ist gold ; sit shillings and six-pence, in silver ; three pence in half-pence ; a silver watch, a pocket-knife, a pocket-handkercnief, and a pair of gloves. Mr. F h-r's evidence being closed. Mr. John Stanton. surgeon, of No. 3s?, Strand. heing sworn, said that last Saturday, about sic o'clock in the evening, a person came ham Mr. Fisher, of the Angel lan Tap. desiring him to come, as there was 4 man dying there. Mr. Stanton being at that time very busy, sent hi: Asaistaot, who attempted to bleed tne deceased in the arm. Mr.' Stanton came a few minutes afterwards. d tiptoed, the temporal artery, but nn blood issued, and the man appeared to him to be quite &Ad ; be et-' amined the head and body, very minutely, hut d s coveted no :narks of vialnce, nor did o • perceive any smell, which could lead him to tnink the de ceased had been in liquor. Being irterrogatca oy the Coroner, as to his opinion of t..c cause of the cl•-atn, he answered, it was a fit of anonlexy. Mr. Thomas Hnadiey, of Chedningstrine, in Kent, elder brother to the decenserd. said, that the deceased was subj it en an unthula, from ac child, and would be, rat tunes, for twelve or fourteen hours, in a state of saffocatioii; and that it was at t . first breaght on by a fright. O n 'b e i ng questioned v." as to the fright, he said, his brother having gaae to call his father dinner, a man called fur a gni, so shoot him; from which time he never enjoyed a good state of health. - The evicle.ice being closed, the Jury returned a erten& of—Died ty the *swami of (earl, tarousii an The Coroner granted his general warrant for the removal of the body, which was ca.ried away last night, in a c arava n, u, Linsfield, in iitari y. The deceasen was a very respeelanln farmer, abr. ut 45 yeais of age, and has left a wite, and ii yen children ; the eldest feu teen years old, and the youngest only seven weeks. He left his home •ast Saturday morning, and c ime to the three lulu, at Croydon, tr••m which pl ice he oat at twelve c'elock the same day, an.: came to .own, in com pany with a Mr. King, i neighbouring farmer. He had left his horse, in the Borough. and intruded o return home the same night. The watch ; actor, in ;he case of his watch, led to the discovery n !is name, &c. The Overseers of St. Clement's a-* n tled to much praise, for the pains which they n on Sunday, to discover his friends, and Lien. „in caution in breaking the melancholy news to his fa mily, in the most humane manner. As Mrs. Stutsom, the wife of an attorney in Po land -street, Oxtord-street, was sitting alone. in the absence of Mr &smote, in h-r kischen, ~n Monday night, after the rest of the fermi) having sew .1 to rest, her clothes eccidental.y caught fire. A Geo dentin who lodged in the house, frightened by the sirce.l of the burning clothes, came down stairs and alarmed the neighbours, but ton late to save the Lady's life ; she expir-d at five •i'cl - ick next um ins, in great agony. She was a han4s , me woman, about 40, and ha+ left a son and tour daughters. A fire broke out la t night in the hack roam , f a house in Craven•Heild:ngs, in consequ -race of the curtains of a bed t.king fire, as a servant rn was making it. The Aimee were eringrughed without much injury • but in the crinfusion the fire elicited, those Ml.,as e vied the boost of Mr. Nina u am. the Register Office, in W• eh stree t , and proceeded to rob it —Tory were d stem-red, and attacked by the neighboui ing ich thitaet4. but the villains made a desperate resista: ce. and. 1126 g fought their way through the crowd, effected them escape. s.):t Mnu4ay eveaing, a yeang man, of rented' appearance, irho, we understand, was reeently a clerk in an extensive mercantile establi.. n:ent, made an attempt to put a period to his erstense: by shooting himself near the Half-way House, at Knightsbridge He had d.sc..arged a pistol iC lis head, which providentially jsaJe cm:y a slight wound, and he was prevented from any buds.r et tempt of a similar nature. The young nil had recently gone into business for himseaf, but d d not succeed, and he became, in con.equet cr. dtritltged in his intellects. Ile was taken to tit. house .t bit brother in Portland-street. • There are no less than seven misnames for murder in the Cum ty Gaol of Sr:rty :—Tien tot du• nrorder of Mrs. Prast.air„ at Hor'alyd two; out for tie tuns. der of Mr. Calyces, at Cliphans ; Asersist. tisk black, fur the mut,:er of P. Tea Wit s.tasts, his m •ssmate; a Genrl?man's cnac..man. for fr ~ I