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and that )1. sal PA Vie* 61614 son noc a's- owl Mirror, 'mill Cl? it) •WI MD 0. 1 mild t,r full pot en as d abotnert icriptre comma is well DEir ifigii is cote. Tibor* Mind ti sch ar t iftlitiat gawp)? • certain the nm Toot/ been t" doubted • in‘a"‘ I titt:!.;. uses 4t IN DON, THURSDAY. Mama .e. 4. war. A vessel arrived at Carlscrona, from Memel, brings the intelligence, that Prussia has declared ar against Sweden. The Prometheus sloop of war has sent into port a Danish brig, which she fell hi with in cruising otf this port, and when the prise left her, Ale was in chase of some others. 'l' he Vanguard, of 73 guns, and the Quebec fri gate, got into open water yesterday, and it is es pected that the Stately and Nassan. of ti 3 4uns each, will be released from the ice to-day, us g, eat exertions are making for that purpose. The (io vernor of Cottenburgli offered to supply one thou sand men to cut away the ice, winch is very thick and strong ; these ships, it is said, will proceed to the Sound. The King of Sweden has issued a proclamation, forbidding all intercourse with Russia. THE BRITISH PRESS. Great expectation ions e icited, yesterday, by the ar.ival of His MAJeSTY in town, in consequence of the understanding, that the sentence of the Court Martial upon Lieutertant.General Wurez- LOCKE would be laid before His NIAJESTY. At half past three o'clock, the Hon. Mr. HYPER, the Judge-Advocate, arrived at the Palace, car rying with him a large blue bag, containing an abstract of the proceedings on the trial, and the sentence. In about an hour after he was admitted to an audience of the KING, with whom he re mained in private conversation nearly an hour and a half. On his departure, he returned to the Duke of Youe'► Office in the Horse Guards, where he deposited the bag and its contents: He had visited his :loyal highness in the course of the day, littlire he •aited upon His NlAJarry. From the Duke of Vogues Office, Mr. Itenea proceeded to Dnvroilt;-street, where he dined with the CHAN. EEL LON. Of the Excitr.laueit. A report prevailed that the Sentence would be read publicly to General Warm wens, this day, in open Court. at Chelsea. Nothing of this sort is however likelyto take place, but it is expected to be speedily announced in General Orders at the War-Office. It was ru moured yesterday in the Ministerial circles, that the Sentence is against . the General upon all the charges but that which might affect his life, and that lie is to be SEVERELY ccesuesis and CASH -IERVD. During the progress of' the trial, the mind was disposed to think that the Sentence svouldeake this middle course. A Gottenburgh Muil arrived, yesterday, with letters sad papers from that city to the ryds inst.-- We have also received Dutch Papery to the 18th.— All the North of Europe is in arms against Sweden. Russia, Prussia, and Denmark, have declared war against her. Count BITIMIEVOEN, and uot Prince BAGRATIIION, as stated in some of the Papers, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Rasiian forces that Lave entered Swedish Finland. He has published *mother Proclamation to the Fins, in the true French revolutiooary style. Among some of its moat prominent exproi ions. it says to the Fins : " Do nut allow providers to be sawed to take gross. or to treat in s bustile wanner the troops that are consents% to my order." . _ _ This, from an enemy who promises, in the same proclamation, that Finland, if she submits, shall be treated in the same manner as other conquered pro viiices of the Russian Empire, reminds us of that sort of contest alluded to by the Roman satyrist, in which one party inrikes, and the other bears all the blows. We do not think so meanly of the Swedes as to suppose that they will be seduced from their allegiance by such a promise; and, on the other hand, we fear that the combined force against them greatly exceeds their strength and spirit. At the date, however, of the latest ac counts, the Russians had little to boast. They had obtained possession of Loins., Borges and Ab bonier* ; but the Swedish army still remained coacentrated in the vicinity of the strong fortress of Tewatsch us. The French are said to have entered Holstein on the sth instant, and same of them, it is added, here crossed over into Zealand. The ice, however, W `IS beginning to break up, and some of our men of war. which had been locked up in it, have oh taiued their liberty. The Dutch papers contain the Declaration of Russia against Sweden. It asserts, that. by an ar ticle in the Treaty concluded in 1783, between the Empress C•TUCEICE and (3FUSTAIIUS 111. aid another in the Treaty of 1800, between the late Emperor Pant. and the preaeut King of Sw E DE*, the contracting parties have stipulated to maintain the principle, that THE BALTIC Is • CLOSE se•, with the guarantee of its coasts against all acts of liostibty, violence, or vexa tions whatever. These treaties. which constituted the plan of the Northern Confederacies against the maritime power of gu g land, the Declaration calls upon His Swett:sit MAJESTY to fulfill in this particular; and the attack upon Copenhagen is the cause assigned far calling the atipnlatidfts into action, and requiring Sweden to join with Russia• and Denmark in shutting that sea against England. Sweden is also charge:l with partiality towariki this country ; and the menace of Mr. CAmtutts to occupy Zealand with' Swedish troops, and gita raatee Norway to Ms SIALDISIE MAJESTY, is also revived as another head of charge against him. This last circumstance was first disclosed in a diplomatic cor:espotuielice between Mr. CAN st NG and Mr. Rtcsr, which we lately copied from the Foreign Journals. • Dispatches were received, yesterday, at the Ad miralty, from Lord COLLINGWOOD, which were brought to P:ymouth by the Serinans sloop of war. It appears that the English brig, stated in the last French Paperato bare run a-ground on the coast of Calabria. in an attempt to relieve the for tress of Scylla. was the Delight, Captaiu HAN.. FIELD. At the time of the accident, she was in the act of defending five Sicilian gnu-boats, which were on the point of falling into the hands of tile enemy. The Delight, eihen a-ground, was fired on from the shore, and most of her crew killed, when she was taken pommies of by the French. Captain,U 4 l,- ctlitse, of the Clow, who had rowed in his barge to give assistante to the brig, wa, wounded and taken prisoner,.but afterwards liberated on his pa role, and sent to Messina, where he died of his wounds. Captain DUNN, of the Bittern, oLserv ,ing the Delight crowded with Frefichmen, worked up towards her, and having driven out the enemy, set her on tire, mid destroyed her. LOrIICOLLIMONOtoD was at Syracuse on the 9th of February. The Rochfort and Toulon squadron* may hare joined, hut it has Loren ascertained, that so late as the 15th of February, the Carthagena Squadron was alone in the Bay of Patinas, in Majorca, in which it had taken *better, and was left by the Hydra frigate. _ _ _ The Auddand packet illalso arrived at Fa!nu iith, with Mails from Malta and Glbil.11;!1, Left the former place on the id of Febrit.try, and the latter on the Id instant. the left Cie toadrojarat, of 80 guns, Sir SIDNIST SMITH, at 6: ivaltar. so ;- posed under orders for the Brazil, lie had MA , patched the Surinam sloop of war with the itLi vices received yesterday, at the Admiralty, of whic.h we have given the "116u:ince. The following are extracts from letters, brought by the Agekland packet:- 11111.41. TA, CFI. 1. His Majesty's ship Moho smiled to leave es the loth ult. with a Bret fee lingtood poet of Wen returned in roe. osowsesorri•beresp yin *NS taw WeresPiklot smiled sink when the ..is body of the Beet were Is eight et Vatette, atd were area three dap since by Ui. Meissty's ship Visaed to the Eastward of Sardinia. G 1811,411.3311. fie. 23. His Majesty's ship :Sirius, with twelve wit of mesh un der soon., from Melte, arrived berg as the ,loth int. The Carteret packet sailed from Gibraltar for England on the Std ult. ; and the IVeslsiaghaas packet sailed for Malta on the 24tla. Yesterday morning, Ministers, the Duke of Tout, age. received dispatches from Sir CHARLES Gazes, at. Malta, and Major-General CHADWICK,. at Sicily. Yesterday, Shin Mr. )?CYDER left His MAJESTY, he took the documents, with His Maarxry's plea sure, upon the proceedings of the Court Martial, to the Duke of YORK. at his office, fer the inspection of his Royal Highness. The result of which, or the sentence, did not transpire. Most of the ships at Portsmouth, ordered for the Baltic, hare been countermanded. A letter from Plymouth, however, states, that the ships which were ordered for the Baltic at that port, are in per fect readiness, and are in Cawsand Bay. The Centaur, Sir S. Hoon's flag-ship, has sailed from that place for the Downs. Sir JAMES SAVMAREZ, as originally stated iu this Paper, is to command the srjuadron in the Baltic, and to have under him Admirals H'SOD and KEST& Captain Bore goes Captain of the Fleet. The Duke of lurk, Capt. -, from St. Do miugo, for Liverpool, is arrived at the Isle of Isla; she 'sailed from 4.;onsivcs on the 3d ult. and left there the Wes, PARKER, of Liverpool ; Elizabeth, of London; A/eau/tiler, WATT; and the Ants, PaEscorT. _ • The accounts from Paris, in the Dutch Papers, relate to the creation of an ',credit:ivy nobility in that conntry. They also stale, that the French have got possession ot Fort s Scylla, after a bombard ment of six days. They are even said to have made a lodgment in Sieilr, in a peninsula to the north vrtst or Messina ; this statement is, hawever, allow ed to be very doubtful, and we trust will prove er roneous. . . . . . Our Squadron off Ferrol has raised the blockade of that port. and returned to Plyinooth. Tins St. Michael (a Russian venial), f►onn Lon don. for St. Pet ersburgh, is seized by the Swedes al flottenburgh. The Toulon. Carthagena, and Rochfort mos drnia, in the Mediterranean, amount together to about 17 sail of the fine. The British finial force in the same sea consists of the following ships: Royol Sow t to (treats Foratidabk • • • 9-t Malta Cur‘nr . so Eagle -74 Meetings 74 C.)Mono— 74 Spartiate 7♦ Raper% Miim.— 74 Renmffn .74 Refight .74 MMODRegfe 74 KANN • • .74 C c' bt•ina it io tun r a .74 I Awl • camber frugates and smaller viesele. Of the above, 10 sai of the line, including Ad. aural Trion w Boatman's sisadroo, are unrk4 the command of Lord Co Lst w wools. The remainder coustiiute the squadron of Sir ItICHAILD CZtucsag. It • . Ie Ij CI IL Is 0, f f ,f to 10, Itgj Ir tY li. • IF det 0 t sluc us Ire! t IC t he c pet I pe tt,o • •;31 nee. 617111 Ilut it ate ties, deso eaded oil, !tact. tot kV, but ATM WOW pitted be of Ytit t Its I tit. our r imy.! mom Inn V THE COURT. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, ilia AIASEIFTT . came to town, its usual, from Windsor, and was received at the Quatit's Palace by the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CAMBRIDGE. At two o'clock His MAJEITY held k private Levee, which was at tended by— The Lord Chancellor ' the Lord President of tee Council, the three Secret-ales of Slate, 'ha Chem *kw or the Excite crier, the President of the Board ofTeade, the Secretary at War, the Jape-Advocate; the Duke of Montrose; Earl. ini Plett Hu waif tug) and Pembroke; Viscount Cathirait; Getirrele N. Balfour and I.ionley : Rev. Doctors Goodall sad King ; Firs B. Cottrell sod P. Hales. The lollowing had the honour of beinr, presented to Ma MAJESTY General ?i. Balfour upon his promotion. Briodler-General Lumley, by Lunt Ilrathfiell, upon his apr.tntment upset the Stall' at Malta The R. Dr. Cowl:III. the Master of Ftm College, upon his tieing appointed a Como of Windsor, in the room of the late Dr. Dural. . . . . The Rev. Dr. king, upon ►ia being appointed a Prebend of Westminster Abbey. • • - Thn Earl of PernhrOkie, upon hM marriage. His MAW EtiTY held a Privy Council, and gave audiences to the Cabinet Nlinisters, 'Viscount C ATHCA FIT and Mr. Pauca, the Judge Advocate, arise laidissfsvr• His bLikaury the volunknotts re port of the trial of General Wutret,nexr., a - nd was closeted with His MAJESTY for nearly two floury upon the business. At half past six k His Malin's' set off on his return to Windsor. ANCIENT CONCERT. The seventh of the Concerts took place, last night, under the direction of Earl FORTES cut. Mrs. BIRLINOTON r.pite'DRYDEN'S Odr in the hiwst style, and was rapturously applauded. Mrs.VAUGOAN SIRSIIIOit impressive - in the Anthem, " 0! 'salsify the fAed!" Mr. HARRISON displayed hiigreat powersin " &pyrite, (I.soithen, l iree:e .r' Mrs. kit LINGTONI fiang the wrof sinsphri, no, eon eredete," by Cs*.vcK, with tile greatest sweetness and execution, Had the *hole performance went off with great sprit. Amo . nef the distinguished personages were— The Duclie.s of Dorset; his Royal Hiplyurss the Duke of Turk ; the Bishop of %Thickener ; the Carts ut M0n46e14, felklrk, sad Oxfor..l; Countesses MoesGeld, Selkirk, s , :lloal”rtt Lor..llTlhtwortb ; Ladies Arden, Ahrsit!ey, E. Montague, hose Eliestreth Barley, sod Smith ; Mrs. flame; S'ue M..rk Sykes, Charles Talbot, sad Drummond Smith. . ()it Tuesday, the Duke of GORDON. the Mat- ' quisses of Hu a TLEW and TwatoiSALE, the rad of ABARDLEN. Viscount MILLTILLEi and - several other Scotch Noblemen, dined with Mr. FdatrTqh, 4 in Whitehall. ot.:•:.. is , The last week's arrivals at Brighton a . :::Ji i '' '' ''" ' The ]Marquis of Tiehfield ; Msior-Gruersi Miti . 4 sad Suite; Major Here; Samuel Croft, Esq. ; 'Mee sad Family • Captain Millman ; Slim liettkr ; Timm= Hudson, EA . i Mrs. White end Family ; Mrs. Skinner ; Muse Swaffirld ; T. Pearce, Eat. and Family ; the AVises Blisli, daughters of Thomas BliO, Esq. M.P. &c. Lc:WV Mr. THOMAS SHERIDAN is busily employed .. in his historical Bona. It is founded on the memo table storx . of tkcßritisli berso,‘4aacrocilas,,•auCk a SIISICCS is MOW', Of reviiiiT; and'as it may tend to rouse the national energies, is very proper for dniinatic spectacle. Mr. Ir Env t t.t.a,we underetKod, will fill the part of Caratech. The music byitir. BISHOP, a gentleman of considerable musical '1"- labrity. • :: The Oratorio, last night, was 'fitsbioindirati; tended. Mr. SitiinAsi and Mr. BELLlaslit' / BOYCE'S favourite duetto " lire. . FUN CAarity," most divinely. Mrs. BLAB b . 16 1 /et • warbled " The Hyrax of Ere." Mr. liaanast was most rapturously applauded in " Cwae, if .you dare." The whole selection was raptUtouely applauded. A vulitute of BASMINGTON'S poetry has been published in Botany, the profits of whist' are to be applied to charitable purposes. His prologue on opening the, Theatre is deservedly admired, as abounding in many happy hints and apposite allu sions. It contains the foilowing Intro:— " We're Patrfefs tree, fur he it understood, 01 We left owe e•sotry for oar Country's gone' A collection and charitable assembly for the,re lief of the British priSapers in France, under the pa tronage of theldsTott and Mrs. MAN Nell SUTTON, il the coerse of the last week, met with the most *bend support from the town acid neighbourhood et Newark. Above 1701. has already been sub scribed on this truly benevolent and public-spirited occasion. The Officers of the Royal Glamorgan Militia, statioaed at Taunton, gave, on St. David's day. as ustial, an elegant entertainment to their friends, in commemoration of their Tutelar Saint. The mess roam not being sufficiently large, the dinner was provided at the Castle-inn : Colonel Atlitalf pre sided. A most excellent Welsh song, composed by Sir Lcoilwa Jams's!, describing the actions of St. Dsets, was sung by Captain Bums ; and several others, appropriate t. the occasion, by Cap tains Itoaissos and Latuti, and Messrs. RI CSARD% Reas, and ANWY Lf..—Among the com pany present were Generals WATSoIt and WI LTC ; Colonels TYSTE, Bt DLAIE, and FITZMOIERIS ; oh jot.. DEusze, Cocas., and Carrel' ; and all the Officers recruiting in that part of Somenietshire.— The whole went off with the greatest spirit and harmony. _ _ _ ..... The Concerts at the Moil;e Room, Oxford, on Monday and 'Tuesday se unight, were attended by n. brilliant and fashionable company, though not so crowded as we have witnessed on former occasions. The performance on evening consisted of a selection of sacred music, chiefly from the works of lILNDEL, sod on the second evening there WAS a grand !miscellaneous concert. That very eccellent singer. Mrs. Saunas, together with Mr. Goss and Mr. BILLLAVIT, were the princi. cal vocal perforiners ; Miss BOLTON also sang two songs the second evening. The whole of the per. forinances were very much applauded, and several of the songs, glees, &c. deservedly encored. Mr. SUNDELE, of Orton, near Peterborough, who is retiring from business, sold off, last week, 60 of his prime ewe., in lamb, by a Leicestershire ram, for the enormous sum of 300 r. to Mr. Cao►», of Elton, Ilaots, who is a ts•nsiderable ram-breeder. EXTRAORDINARY DUEL. Notwithstanding the great number of duels which are comMually of:curving, the history- of late years goes not preseut us with such a singular rencontre u took pherm in France, in the early part of the IsAt eentary. ' We extract the following ac count of it from Plloner's interesting History of tAs trncals gdeiliehietsilas recently made its appearauce -'• "The. Dote de Richelieu was the cause of an Prepeeeedented duel ,between two women, Madame de Polkiddinal Madame de Neale. who disputed the poirieseion or him. The Duke bad repeatedly salad,' to see the former, but this ass of no *veil. Maclaine de Prolignac still loved her inconstant ;;ablaut with as Much ardour as ever - , and was there fore jealous of till the ladies Who had succeeded her, not singly, lint iu troops. Tortured by jea lousy, she one day met Madame de Neele, and challenged her to fight with pistols its the Bois de Boulogne. :11ailanie de Nesle eugerly ac eepte.l the challetige, being animated by the slime spirit as her fair aptegonist. and hoping , either to kill her rival, and thus remain is undisturbed pos.sessioa of her lover, or to evince the strength of her attachment, and the ardour if her passion, by an honourable death. The 'edit* met, and fired at each ether. Madame de Nesle fell, and her fair bosom was covered with blood.-. "Come en," exclaimed her antagonist, " I will teach you the consequences of robbing a woman like nit of her lover. If I had the perfidious cress ture in my power, I would tear out her heart, as I have fdli*u out her brains." A young ciao who heard these cruel words, begged her to moderate herself, and not to exult over her unfortunate op. poneut, whose courage, at least, could not but command her respect. " Silence, young cox-, comb,' cried Madame De Polignae,. " it does not beenaie you to presume to give Me instruction."— Methane 1)e Neste was not wounded in the breast, as had at first bean feared, but very slightly in the shoulder. On coming to herself, some person asked her if the lover, fur whose sake she had fought, was worth her exposing herself to such a risk for I • ? yes," replied she, "he deserves much better Wined than what circulates in my veins. to be shed fog' him. He is the most amiable man of the whole Court. All the ladies ley snares for him ; but I hope, after this proof of love which I lane given, to obtain the exclusive possession of hie heart. I4irn ander ten great obligations to you." continued she, "to conceal his mune. It is the Duke de Itiehelieu; yes, the Duke de Riche lieu; Vie Brat-born of the God of War and the less of Love !" DREADFUL FIRE. (Further particulars of the late Fire at Chelmsford.] • The ire • brute oat ON Saturday morning, attend throe .OU-tech, at. Mrs. Smith's, milliner, is M.ddte row.—The .li/habiants of the house, rostra's: a:together of Is . .ales, erreu is number, were in a most perilous inte stine. They appeared at the siodows of the mooed fine, Por the first was us fire, u they hod risen from their beds, tittering the most piereiug shrieks. As the wawa likely niV4l•4 of rescuing them, two hiders wen • petit:peed, sail raised againwt the born' insert of the Ileum; but sorb was the danger of aoaMlli Sio *sir re lief. from the violence of the lames, that • neumliery We solution cussed antosig the spectators this tpunitdasilly 7ed •vel: safety, a young nun, Mr. Henry Goy, and Mr. sir bar neighbor, ma de an attempt UP preserve them. farmer succeed ed in require a little girl, Slant nib_ raw rild,iliere to Mrs. Sundt. The maid servant , who bad not ma of the garret window, and clambered to the roof of dm haste, was brought doss by the lattrr. Hobbies, wag goner, who brat discovered the fire, ascended • ladder, with tlis latest of briuging down Mrs. Smith, bat so us trews was her trepidation ' that abs woo incapalge of win xty ex. ttioili sail it Mecum neesmary to dreg bar from tbe •wihrlow by force; in doing lib li, owing to her convalsbe 'boggles, she MI open the resent below, but iniencolubly without having any . AllOllO at the sione.instaut, two young ladies, Mesa WEISE* sod Miss Wilkioson, rendered bootie by terror, precipltalad themselves from the winiloos into tie street, sod were a. seventy &sired, that witch doubt is entertained of tbelr rev army, as well as of-that of Mn. Smith. Two amiable young Ladies, Miss itoohaer, aged to, whose pareats risada at Norm-hit/eh, svaT Mite Ewe, datighter of Mr. C. Eve, a ViCtillli to the devouring element. Hotwitlistantlinc the most strenuous sicertiousa the pops. lace aLd the s ,I(Leve (sum the garrieoo, by its o'clock the houses of Mrs. Smith, Mrs. rack, thumps, and Mr. Hill, stioeinibr, adjoiniug, were totally destroyed ' • and those of Mr. Rood, plasterer , and Mr. Nash, bair-dresocr, woven greatly dansagetl, that it will beano rocosoary to rebuild them. The Eaterprizr, Woozy, from America, fee Le4liorn •, and tl.e Lewis, Lswastrcs, from Liver pool, for Naples, are detained, and sent into Malta. Captain B$AU111•11 is appointed to the command of the Princess of Ornate of 74 guns. Private letters received, yt.sterday, from Holland, state, that seven of the most eminent niercbants at Antwerp, and four at Brussels, had been taken into custody, for having violated the Decrees recently issued for the prevention of all Mtarroorse w Gre.it Britain. They are charged with heel's!! u cam trivet. sanctioned, and connived at the ttd t aisswo into the ports under thi dominion of France, of vs. ri4,us goads, the manufacture cf England, of hav ing negotiated kills for the payment of such goods, and of hiving seat money nut of the country, eon tniry to the teaor of the Decrees of France." 'They bare been forcibly taken from their families, and sent, under a strung escort of Gras dr Ames, to Paris. Several Fugliiih subjects have effected their deeps from Fludmig, and are arrived in Deal and Dover. They were only detained, pot actuall y imprisoned at that place. Their craft, laid up by the enemy, amount to about sixty vessels. Tuesday an inquisition was take' at Fordsgate, Winston-rood, on the body of Mrs. Ekrusa wlio and her death by accidentally setting fire to her clothing on Sunday night. The farts of this dis treasins case resemble those we stated respecting Mrs. Wants , . . , . was sitting mune in Her parlour o aitifig Idr some inmates who were gone out to spend the evening. Cht a sudden ber servant in the kitchen was alarmed by her shrieks, and on going to ber apa•tinent Mrs. A. presented herself at the door enveloped iu dames. Her dress, which it is supposed had caught firs whilst she wss dosing in her chair, was reduced to tinder, and the *errant, in her fright. was usable for some time to afford assistance, and the unfortu nate ron.sn, who was 60 yea's of age, ennrod the next morning. She was unable to tell how the ac. cident happenol.—Accidesitel Denth. 1 1 1 1 , , I i i 1 Y s' t i t !`• 1 t . i - i .1