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I V • • .3 the special esierwment ; that he went to Pumper H. where it wAs 5414 Jolm Atkinvhn lived; could N.,1V41L INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Aram 1. PLYMOtTU, MARCH 31. Arrived the Reward sloop of war from Ireland. DOVER, •PRIL 1. not nnd .uiy John .u..tiaso.), except - a laOi.nrii:g niaa of that usime s , nor any person of the'name of 'Thu. Ahbot, whose name appezed ASSubscri:ying witness to the note. • delis Atkinson proved, that he did not know any person of the nano, ef John Atkitison but himself, who was a firmer, and lived near Bumper Flail ; inew a person of I.e name of Thomas Abut, but he died a'lout months ago. 13enja.niu li7es about a Mile and a half from Bumper Hall, near to the last witness, John At kinson ; said he kri:w no other of that name near Pumper Hall, hot t.tc last witness ; upon the note ;hewn to :iim, be was sure it was not the. last hant.l.m riting; knew no person of the name s 2: ..V;lxit, but Thomas Abbot who died about !I! nientits ago, and has left a son about eight or nine ye.:rs t.f age; that he knew that the late 'I homas At.)bOt could not w: he. The note was dated :27 th March I SO?, drawn by John Atkinson, and made payable to prisoner. The 'prisoner made so defence, but produced a number of pe..ple to speak to his character. The learned Judge then summed up the evidence to the Jury, and observed that it had not been proved against the pr:soner that -he ailually drew the note; but if he knew it was a forged one, and uttered the same with the intention of defraud, he was equally guilty of the capital offence for which he stood ditled; as to the witnesses produced on behalf of The prisoner, that was not to make 'any impression upon their minds, as charaaer ought never to have Much, if any ea - ea r,ainst positive faa. The Jury 'retired, and. after some time; brought is t-e:r verdi.f of—Not, guilty of ut:trin! , a forged war tb ittkutiote to diramd.—This verilid l in law wasthe same as an acquittal. Sailed his Majesty's ships Neptune, of 98 guns, Captain Drury ' • and the Venerable, of 74 guns, Captain Searle, for Plymouth Scund. Remain at Srithcad, his Majesty's ships Dread oi• p 8 guns, Admiral Lord Gardner, and Captain Rcwon ; Rimull, of 74 guns, Capt. Wil liams ; of 33 guns, Capt. T. Elphin atone. ; of 41. guns, Capt. -Lord Proby ; iiraphiao, of 3? guns, Capt. Hardy; game, of 32 Capt Richardson ; Calcata, of 31 guns, Capt. Woodriire ; Arrow, of 30 guns, Capt. Vin tent ; and S,/Mb, of 18 guns, Capt. Grate. At the Nit.therbank,. under quarantine, his Ma esty's ship H--tor, of 74 pins, Captain Skipsey ; nd at St. Helens, the Psgm' cutter, of 14 guns, Lieut. White.—Wind S.t. and moderate. . . His Majesty's ship firaor. of 74 guns, is under orders to proceed to Plymouth. We understand his Majesty's ship Autphiose, of 32 gu"t, Capt. Hardy, is under orders for foreign DEAL, APRIL I. Sailed the Thigh Inglis, Fairfax, for India, and several outward-bound vessels.—Wind S.E. Sailed this morning the Extre.a packet, Cart. Dell. with mail and passengers, as mentioned yes tet ty. Mr. Abraham Cohen and Mr. Melcombe Hunter lan Jed here last night out of the Mellioasiwe, Captain D. Johnston, from Jamaica, bound to London. rya O'CLOCK, P.M. The Princt •of Waits packet, Capt. Sutton, is just sail,:d for Chris with a messenger. Two pas sage ves.el; are in sight from Calais, but as there is very little uind, it will be late to-night when they arrive, The Ducbes: of York pacsage vessel will sail to. mormw morni , 7„ with Sir William Pratt Call, Mrs. Casscil, Mrs. Young, and their attendants. Extras of a Letter from Mull, lied March 19, 1803: « For some considerable time Vast we have had very, mild weather, and, indeed, upon the whole, we have had a very good winter; for though we hid some . very stormy weather, yet, we never could say but that it was in its proper season, and from CUT winter being so seasonable, we have every reason to expea our spring and summer will be " Notwithstanding the high winds we had for As together, there has been no wrecks on this ; - (so far as I can learn) excc r t one vessel laden ' •. which happened about ten days ago She 7-1 oil' the point of itoss dismasted, and just upon the water, and when the people of :e out to her assistance, they found not a mattre on board. A number of boats and towed her to the shore, but, unfortu. • upon a rock so that she soon went to 1, • Every precaution has been taken by the ;.! per officers tur preserving the cargo; bu: it k said that no papers have been found, or any thing that can lead to a discovery of who or what she is. " The•cattle dealers are now beginning to visit us, and arc giving very high prices indeed. It is believed, black cattle continue to rise, or even at their present prkes, the proprietors in the High lands will soon ne at a loss what rent to ask hr their lands. 11Any farms in this island have been let this year at nearly double the rent they gave t!tis time seven years, and of course what must be the rise on these that were let 1-4 or 19 years ago . ? " I ohservcd in :la Edinburgh-paper lately, that " a gentleman in GlayTow had plechased lands in Arsyleshire at nearly .ftfty ye:trs pnrchase ;" even granting that, I a:n conscious he has made a very good bargain. " Within these twenty Tears many estates have been butight and in Argyie , ,hitr, some of ‘elei.:h have been re-inlJ at a very limit profit, and are still. cheap inning!' ; and at present 'there ca nnot be a better speculation than purchasing lands in the Highlands of Scotland, for all that have yet pur chased there have WU out their rnriney to very great advantage ; au it is to there few public spi rued gentlemn who have cf late made purchases, emit t!,e counriy owes the rap;d progress it is mak ing in :agricultural improvements, and in every re *fell ; and th , ugh sve hare heard a great deal about the can*: of , emigrazion, .uni the means of preventing it, I will affirm - that emigration never will be * prevented, until 'retlemen of capital and of pohlie spirit Femme MOM generally proprietors in the IlighLtakil." ! WONDERFUL D.ELIVER.-IA'CR. The folloing interesting narrative has been made public by Dr. Lettone “ The following hiStory of a convict was related by Mr. Livins, a native of New Hampshire, in America, and then Chief Justice of Quebec, under General Carleton. He was now in London, and, on reading a morning . paper, he observed a para graph to the thllowing import To-morrow, the noted lions breaker, Cox, with • • 40 ,* of Piscata way, hi New Hampshire, for returning from trans portatiee, will be executed at Tyburn." The Chief Justice had never seen Nevrgate ; and observ ing that a person from his own native country was condemned to exphite his crimes bit the gallows, was induced to visit this prison, and see his coun tryman. His relation was nearly, as well as I can recollea, (for the transaftion happened about the year 1, - 30,) as follows ; it was, however, too inte resting ever to be obliterated from my memory. The convict had been an American sailor, and pas sing in a boat from the ship, lying off Wapping, to the shore, the boatman informed him that he could sell him some canvas, sunicient to make him a hammock, very cheap ; the price was sixteen shillings. Within a short period afterwards he was arrested for purchasing stolen goods ; and, proof being adduced to the court that the canvas was worth twenty-four shillings, lie was condemned to be transported to America, then under the croen of Great Britain ; this, he said, he did not much re gard, as he could work his way thither, from his seamanship,and his father lived in New Hampshire. Some time after his arrival in America as, a trans port, he hired himself in a vessel chartered to Lis bon, and which he understood was not to touch in England. The agent at Lisbon, however, received . orders, from a merchant in London, to luau the vessel for the latter port ; this at first e ularmed liiiii greatly; but he reconciled himself to the voyage, under a resolution never to go on shore whilst on the river i hames : he kept his resolution till the day betcre the vessel wes appointed to sail, upon which occasion the Captain had given all his men the privilege of going on shore, and taking leave of their acquaintance. 'I he unfortunate American was the only sailor who did not accept the oder ; the Captain remained also on board, and. recollecting something that he wanted in fr9m shore, refitiestea the only seaman he had with lam to take the small boat, and seull her on shore, to procure what he then warned : he made some frivolous excuses, id at length, by the persuasion of his Captain, he con sented-to go on his errand; but scarcely had be stepped on shore before lie was recognized' and ar. rested. In the presence of his judge he was iaent fled, and the gallows Was his sentence. Chief Jus tice Livius observing to him, that lie seemed to have some comfortable food in his cell, inquired how he could afford to purchase it : he replied, that a person, he believed a Roman Catholic clergy man, gave him money, in hopes of his dying a pa pist ; but,' added he, 6 lam no papist in my heart ; and as for dying, I have harasnips enough not to care so much about it as about my wages, which I wan: my wife and children to receive fur me.' He was asked if he knew Mr. Livius's fa mily, which he described immediately. The whole history appeared to the Chief Jus tice to merit further investigation, and inqantly he rreceeded to enquire respelling the circumstances attending the chartering and sailing of the ship, and also the particuiars of the original trial and subse quent sentence, which corresponding with the seilor's narration, the wilehy lvlagistrate hastened to Lord Weymouth's office, and thence to the King, at Windsor, and returned to London just in time dr stay the fatal rope. After the trials and circuits stances attending themevere revised, the King was pleased to change the sentence to transportation dur ing his .naturel life, and he was shipped off from London soon after this ad of mercy. Livins, how ever, who.felt a lively interest in the fate of his coun tryman, wham he believed guilty from ignorance and not design, renewed his importunities, and at length got an order for pardon; he hurried with the glad tidings down the river, and overtook the con vi is at Gravesend, where he - found on board the transport ship the poor sailor chained to another convict. The order from the Secretary's office was shewn to the Captain, who absolutely refused to re sign him agreeably to the pardon, because he had re ceived thesehonvids from Mr. Akennan, to whom alone he was answerable, and that the prisoners were no longer under the jurisdiction or controul of a Secretary of State. Disappointed as Mr. Livius was in the prosped of liberating the prisoner, he hastened to town again, and got a proper legal order from the late humane Akerman ; he then hired a Gravesend boat; and did not overtake the transport till he arrived at the Nore, whence lie conveyed the convict to London, where a fe* merchants on 'Change, on hearing the whole transaC.tion, colleded sixteeen guineas, with which the ear, honest in prin. ciple, sailed a fres man to the American continent." Mr. PEP vs, jun. has lately constructed the most powerful Galvanic apparatus that has been yet pro duced : it consists of 60 pair of zinc and copper plates, disposed in two troughs, constructed on Mi. CRUIKiHANK'S plan, but with some accompanying arrangements which are extremely convenient and useful. The experiments made with this apparatus by Mr. PEPYS, on the deflagration. of metals, were the nto , .t brilliant and splendid ever beheld in Lon don; of which the following account will give some idea the troughs wet e filled with 32 pounds of water, mixed with two pounds of -concenrrated ni trous acid. With this charge irori wires of 1-200th to 1-10th of an inch in diameter, were deflagrated with great splendour. A number of small ones, twisted together, produced somewhat like a little brush deflazration. Charcoal of box-wood was not only deflagrated at the place of contth, but renraiti ed permanently red-hot for near two inches in burnt with great vividness, bc . coming red-hot, and emitting a small volcano, or adjiitage cf red spark; with the flame. 'I in-foil burnt with great splendour, with smoke and sparks. Dutch-leaf, or brass-foil deflagrated vividly, with smoke and a profmion of sparks. Silver-leaf burnt with an intense vivid ,green light. Gold-leaf defla grated with a white bright light. Tine wire, one eighth of an inch in diameter, fused, burnt, and ox igated with great splendour. Platina ! wire, 1-16th of an inch in diameter, became red-hot, white, and fused into globules at the contaa. Gunpowder, phosphorus, and infl immable substances, are in stantly hred by cent 2451 with contiudors armesl with charcoal. The galvanic power was capable of de llagrating charcoal, after - tuning dumb Sixteen persons with welted hands iie:ned. EGYPT. , ••••••• Extreore Letter from em Officer tclongintr to the Br:- titb Army in Egypt, tilted Alexandria, Nov. 1. " The war so long carried on between the Ma melukes and Turks has now approached so near to this place, I,;srat I am at length enabled to give you a more accurate account of their nit), emeets then it was hitherto possible to obtain. All of the latter who were in Upper Egypt have been totally de feated,. and routed out of that part of the country. And the vielorious Mamelukes, after leaving 1000 men to guard the entrance into it, have marched into Lower Egypt, to the number of between 15 and 0,000 men, including the Bedouins, who have joined them. " About a fortnight ago SOO Meenelukes arrived at Birket ; where (as I informed you in my last let ter') some of our troops had been sent to put a . stop to the depridetions of the Bedouins. From that plac one of them came in the disguise of an Eiarlislunan to Aleiandria, to desire that General Ste wart would allow the Bey Mahomet Alphy to come and have an interview with him. The request was complied with ; and on the'evening of the same e iey, Meeomet arrived with an escort of dragoons, and waited on the General. His stay was very si:ort, for at twelve o'clock the same night he de parted for Birket. Nothing has transpired with re gard to the object of his journey ; but it is supposed sh.t he either wanted the General's approbation to an aeaek being made on the Turks in Lower Lgypt, or care to solicit his interference as a negotiator between the belligerent parties. During this time meal body of the Manielukes, 15,000 in num ber, weir. a. El Hoche, 15 tqes from Birket. " iii er the conference between Mahomet Bey end General Stewart, the General's Aid-die eemp was sent off to Cairo, and retnrued the day b fore yesterday. Colonel Moore, the Adjutant- General, was also to have set out this day for the same place ; but his journey is put a stop to, in consequence of an account we blue just received of an engagement having taken place two days ago between the Turks and Manselukes, within five Miles of Damanhour ; in which the Turks, who first made . the attack, lost .e,oop men, and 4 pieces of cannon. The loss on the other side was very trif bag The l'urlCsh cavalry, at the fast charge, ran away in the most shameful manner. In consequence of this intelligence, the Pegartu, which was under we; rh this morning, has been ordered to remain. She was going to Smyrna with Lord Blantyre, who was es proceed from thence to Constantino' Were it not that the English are at present in Egypt, the Mamelukes would extirpate- every Turk in the country. " Our Commissary at Rosetta, having informed the Board of Health of a report that a Greek priest had d;ei there of the plague, a Surgeon was on guedey last, sent thither to investigate the matter, be fore the place should be put in quarantine. He found the report to be totally false, and that it had been propagated by a Genoese Doetor, a pradi tioner at Rosetta, who wanted to have it believed that the death of several of his patients was occa sioned by the plague. Tne priest was in perfek health ; and the town is at present free from conta ! zion. I am sorry, however, to inform you, that his dreadfal distemper has just broke out at Alex andria. Three men of the Chasseurs Britanniques, and one of the foreign corps have died of it, within tee last two days. The pest-hospital is to be esta blished, and Dr. Buchan has once more volunteered to superintend it. I send this letter by the Experiment troop-ship, which sails to-morrow with dispatches fur Malta. She arrived here on the 10th inst with money for the army. She also brought some stores, together with powder, intrenching utensils, tee. From this, as well as from the circumstance of parties being employed every day working at the different batteries, it would appear that there is no probability of this place being speedily evacuated. CONSPIRACY. PARIS, MARCH 23. Madame de S. had procured a reception from Madame Bonaparte ; young, elegant, and handsome, she had been particularly distinguished among the circle of superannuated beauties uni formly seen in the Consular Saloons. When the Consul arrived, she expressed that timidity and em barrassment which announces either a desire of pleasing, or a rising passion. She lost her spirits, and appeared entirely abandoned to that admiration which is not the less flattering for being mute. If she was in any other of the circles of Paris, she re covered her ease and gaiety. She spoke of the First Coati' with admiration; answered all his detrac tors ; and performed the charaCter of a woman pas sionately .in love. It may be easily imagined that this was reported to the First Consul. However insen sible he was to beauty, he could not see without emo tion that he was the objet of the enthusiasm of a we man,'extolled for her wit and beauty. He felt him self flattered by the whole of her conduct ; by that respeetful timidity in his presence, and that eager ness to speak of him when he was absent. Contrary to his custom, ht.. addressed some flattering words to her. His attentions to her had already become so frequent and unequivocal, that they could not but be remarked, and Madame de S. D. was the objedt of the regards ut some courtiers. The more the pro gress of her favour was sensible,' the more she seemed to be ignorant of it. Madame Bonaparte perceived the beginning of this intrigue, but she determined not to evince any jealousy. However, she obtained secret information relative to the Lady she feared is a rival--her opi nions, her connedtions, and her family. 'lbis is what is related of the result of these researches, and the causes of the disgrace.of Madame de S. D. They pretend to have discovered that this Lady is sister to M. de T. assassinated under pretence' of emigra tion, by the orders of the Consul, some days after the 18th Brumaire. She was conneied with the former Chiefs of the Chouans. r principles were opposite to those of the Government. This woman is very vindictive. It is only a few months since she laid aside her mourning for her br. ther, and quitted her retreat where she deplored his loss. If she ap peared gay, dressy, and e doubtless me ditatt,d some plan of vengeance. The ii:Nounwnt of the adventure is this:—Madame de S. 1), was arrested, as she quitteu the Saloon of Madame Bonaparte. • dlie wai cot dtiarYcl to the apartment of M. Duroe where she found the Grand Judge. A,poiiiard v:as timid upun I er. It is ad ded, that she ingenuously confessed t: at the poniard illr Loud : Printed he J Git.i.ta, No 18, Crown-court, Fh:et-..treet ; and publilthoa there by W. 1 Ccestaue, of Nu. 201, Stravt , l. Adv•rti , oll,•lit4 311,1 !Alters (post paid) Mail be Wrested to the Qtfice, Nu. 13, Sit' Aakry-mluz.ta. was the only pledge of tenderness her brother be. queathed her when. he diet.—Compelled to declare whether it was against the First Consul she melint to use it, she said she never intended to strike him —" but the first time I had found Mr: F. in the oigr - tment of Madame Bonaparte at the side of the First Consul, I would have sacrificed at his feet that atrocious man who bad made him sign my brother's death. It was there I would have prepared that terrible scene, which would have taught that the blood of a man is not to be shed with impunity, when he leaves attachments behind him. Midame de -S. I). was released, after eight days detention at the Magdelonettes.—Courier de Londres. Information has been received at the A dmiraltt of the loss_of his Majesty's ship Determine, and that the following persons have unfortunately been drowned, viz Mr. [(twice, Midshipman, Ed‘vred Franklin, seaman. Soldiers of the 81,1: itegim•nit—Patrick Cat/Cyr:o, J din Purcell, James Trotter, Michael Haley, sam yet Dorriss, Janie Gnernlet ' Thomas TUIICy, Willi an Thompson, Jere ;Walt Murphy, Michael I:eavensergh. Airs. LI yd amt child, D. M . nati and child, Belford's child, a woman and a girl, names unknown. Mr. Fox was fortunate enough to procure in his late trip, at Paris, all the finest 1,1 editions of the Roman classics, which are scarcely known by our English Librarians: • Hesse Darmstadt, by the plan of indemnity, gets, in Westphalia alone, 36,343,000 German acres of land, and a population of upwards 01100,000 souls. LATE ARRIVALS AT BATH.—Duke of Queens.. berry, Countess of Clanwilliam, Lord Foley, Hon.. Mr. Foley, Lady Maria Meade, lion. Mrs. Lysaght, Sir H. Matra, Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Sir Robt. Leighton, Sir Thos. Allen, Adam and Nis's. Pakenham, Col. Peachy. The machine invented by'Mr. Sst ea? of Cam4ert - Town, for sweeping chimnies, consists of a number of wooden tubes, of about 30 inches lone., and three quarters of an inch in diameter, which run on a rope or cord, and fasten into one another, to any length. To the upper tube is fastened a square brush, the block of which is about sir inches long by three wide, and from it, pn all sides, issues heath-broom, or any other stiff, but flexible sub stance, large enough to fill the breadth of the chim ney. The ttbes are about 30 inches long, of course the joints between each will bend to the most crooked chimney, and* in coming down twist clear out the corner, ledges, &c. which are sometimes found in chimnies. In the course of the present month Mr. SMART has; in the preseace u: many respdtable witnesses, effdtually cleansed several lofty and crooked chimnies. So completely does this invention answer the plan proposei 1 y the se , veral societies who have undertaken to ad. r tate the cause of the poor climbing boys, that noth:r.g is now wanting to put an end to the common mode of • chimney-sweeping. By Mr SMARI'S method a chimney 50 feet high may be swept in six or eight minutes, and with much less dirt than happens by. the common mode. NIARRIE.D. Lately, at Harhottrne church, Mr. G. Greave, engi. neer of Soho Foundry, Staffordshire, to Miss Mary Lloyd, of the same place. On Monday; the 2.8,th ult. Mr.' Wadley, at Stow, Gloucesterantre, to Miss Godd .rd. DIED. On Wednesday last, at Eastbourn, in the loth year of his age, C. S. Mortimer, Esq. O.) Thursday evening, at her father's house in Great Marlborough street, of a decline, Miss Siddons, eldest daughter of Mrs. Siddons, of Drury-lane Theatre. Lately, at Wells, Somersetshire, pre infant son of Capt. W. Otway, of the Royal Navy. On Thursday, in Holles.street, Cavendlih.square, Miss of Inninpers House, Hants. At her house, at Inveiness, on the 26th ult. Mrs. Mary Hutchinson Fraser; widow of the late S. Fraser, Esq. of Fandlan. aster a painful illness, which she he re with christian fortitude and res.pation. On Thu sday mo-nin.:, in Ha , ley•str.:et, Mrs. Clay. On Wednesday niLlit, Mrs. Godfrey, of Holland-street, Kensington. On Tnursday 'morninz, at Bath, univerally regretted, Mrs. Bogle French, the wife of N. Bogle Frencn, Esq. of Dulwich. PRICE OF STOCKS SATURDAY. Rank Stack .... shut 10in.lium - 1411 disc 3 per Cent Red.— do. I,t(lia Stock 3 per Cent. Cons. ....6311 63 Ditto Bonds 4 per Cent Cons... shut Irish 5 per Cent 94 3.1 5 per Cent. Ann..... do. Excheg Rills . per Cent. 1797... shin Eng. Lot. Tick ' 181. 3s. Bank L. Ann..... do. Irish ditto . Bank Short Ann. Imp. 3 per Cent..... 63 6.24lliidia for Open. 202 • Ditto Ann HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. THIS DAY. 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