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Tenders; to be delitered the Rods in Three, and the Pop in Twelve 3fonths, in reridar AittAthly Proportions, into the bletualling Mores at Deptford ; e he paid for payable, a ith Interest, ninety Days ettier Dote. :7. B. Xi Tender for u IeLS Zeantity than Fifty Thowated Rods tilt be vv.:tired. If the Contracts mop he seem at the Stcretory's ostte ; and all Person: thn m,u, think proper to make 7. ni er upon the said ()cession, art des:. cd to take Notice, that no Pcgard till be hot to troy Tender. in t.hi. h -the Price shallnot be inserted {Vords at lA-n:lh, or Mot shall not be delivered to the Board :Afore One o'Cio k on the said Tuesday the 221 Instant, not viv'ess the l'irrion rho sakes the lender, or some Person ix his tthalf, ottends, to (nutter chew called for. • VICTUALLING-OFFICE, 21st Fun. 1803. 7 1 HE Cornnthsianer: for Victualling Hi: Majerty': 1m y, do hereby give Notice., that ms Motadiy, the 14th Marc!. peat, they wilt be ready to reerUe Tenders in weitirg (sealed sip) mod treat for the supplying of Sea-Promsions, Rum, and fresh Berl, to 114 2114osty's Skips and Yessds at Yarmouth, in the County if Natfolb, "separate Contracts, for t tsetse months el. taro ; and . fur- Wier, antil six months warniv shall be giros on either site for the Sri mination of the .aid Contracts. the :eudi!;ons of the Centrals may be seen at the Secretary's Olnce, at this O#ce, or by applying to the Collector of Ills Alkiesty's Customs, at Yarmouth aforesaid. _ . "kJ all persons ?rho stay think proper to make Tenders urn the said occasion, are desired to take notiee,that no regard will be had t any Tender in which the price 5h..11 not Le d Is words at length, or that shalt not be delarered to the Board before o'rloek sea the said .31a,:d.zy Ott 14th 31 ireh next; nor an:cs, the person whir stakes the Tender, or sante person on his :Ahoy; atti.nds to assayer ales callesifor. PUBLIC LECTURE ON GALVANISM. THE SOCIETY for the Promotion of useful Science, acquaint the Public, that the Lord Mayor stiruct.onl for the legal licencing of the Public LECTURES on . XPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY and GALVANISM was the only cause for th.t inuereitnig Lecture on this subject being postponed for a few days. Notice by public Advertise ment will lie given of the Day and Hour appointal for the first Lecture. New Editions of useful Publication!, ip o Pt4et FPITOME of the STOCKS and FUNDS, which contains exert' Jaaces3ant to be known fur perfitelly understanding theNitett .of the S and the wide of doing busisce therein - . To lihecti is annexed, a copious Equation Table, exhibitielt, at Ore Views the Value the difitrent Stocks and Funds bees .to each other; also the Value of Land, and the prices at. which (lie tame interest is made in either upon the Homey laid. out.--With 461 Appendix, contaiiiin;: the only Accont over yet pubijalied of the Batik Stock and Funds of the. Uoiteit States of Atilittak By T. FORTUNE. The Sixth Edition, with Adcrilloos, prlccls. fi Also, by the same Author, P. A Concise and Autliejlistory of the sank ;of Eng land; with Dissertations on Tsfgtals add Coln, Rink Nett."' 'and Bills of Exchange. To which is their Charter. Third Edition, price 24. 6d. 3. A Correct Alphabetical List of all the4tintry..Rinkers residing in England, Scotland, and the ?tames of the Rankers in London orlon whom thew *air. Witiatleparate Latta of the Rankers in Lntilitn anl Dublin '-'l:loutiei In RiUa of Exchange, &c. Fourth F.dirion, price Ts. 6d.. • Print .td tor and sold by T. lliscrs,,v, 011 Broad -sir*, near the Royal .Ex-hangs;-14. D. Sym3nds, FatiTtiosticr.itsh ; and nelLatict liradfutt., Edinburgh: • IMP.EAIAL PARLIAMENT: . HOUSE OF LORDS. MO' DA c, FEB. 21. The Committee of Privileges sat previous to the House proceeding to other business, and csme to two resolutions. • Lord PELHAM moved, that the order for tak ing his Majesty's most gracious Message into.cansi deration relative to the establishment of the Prince of Wales, on Wednesday next, be discharged ; and moved, t hat a new order be made for Friday, and that the Lords be summoned. Ordered. Earl GRAHAM (Duke of MO tiT ROSE) v. fe no. tice, that he would, to-morrow, move an rumble address; to congratulate his Majesty on his provi dential escape from the machinations of tkose who had traitorously conspired against his Royal Pi.rsoa ; and moved, that the Lords be summoned. A si milar address was moved in 1800, in the case of Hatfield's firing a. pistol at the King; in Drury : lane Theatre. The Proper Officers from the Bank' and tilt Ex chequer severally made returns to the orders if the House, for papers relative to the Bank Notes la cir culation, and Consolidated Fund. _ _ Lord RAWDON (Earl Motes) moved, that the said papers be printed. Adjourned. HOUSE OF OF commons. HONDAV, FES. 21. - desultory convent. 631 1.1.1te,N441N , N . the Ballot for a Committee to try the co Eleition for Liskeard ; after which it was ordered that the same be taken into consideration on Friday next. Upon the Motion of J. C. BERESFORD, it was ordered, that when the House should be called, those Members who should be absent should be ex cluded from sitting on the above Committee ; re ported to the Speaker, and taken into custody by the Serjeant at Arms. The same order was also made upon the Petition respeaing the Eleßion of the City of Waterford. It was also ordered, that the time for bringing in private bills be enlarged to Friday next. Mr. W. ELLIOTT said, that Dr. Laurence had given notice upon a former day, that he would bring forward a motion respeding the arrest of Captain D'Auvergne in France ; but that in consequence of ill-health he could not attend ; he therefore pledged himself, that Dr. Laurence would bring forward the motion as soon as his health should per mit him to attend. The following members were named AS a Com• mittee to try the merits of the Coventry EleuctiOn : Wm. Adams, Esq. Hon . John Simpson, Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. Matthew Russell, - Esq • Rob. Sharpe Anodic, Esq. J. W. Egerton, Esq. • Francis Dickins, Esq. Ord, Esq. Hon. Horatio Walpole, F.dward C. Hillard, E. John Osborn ♦ Esq. Hon. R. Ryder, C. Chapman, Esq. T. Sovis, Esq. %V. Keene, Esq. The Sheriffs . of the City of London presented a a petition, for power to enable them* to pull down Bethlehem Hospital, to convert its preient scite in to a square, and build a new one elsewhere.—Re ferred to a Committee. -• The LORD MAYOR gave notice, that on Wed nesday se'nnight he would make a motion for taking into consideration the petition of the Ship-OWners of the City of London. The following were named as a Committee for trying the merit► of the contested election of Bridge water : Wm .Barweil, Esq. Str F.. O'Brteri, ban. Lord Andover, CharleN Smith, Sir T. Trowbridge, Bart. - Sir R. bldbank, Bart. lion. W. A. Town,ticrid, A• Adair, Esq. Francis Gregdr, Esq. Rt. Hon. T. G . renvilie. Ntialter Bagettel, !tin. W. Lew ill Hughes, F.Aq. Hen. L. Bouverie, Sir C. M. Polo, Bait. E. L. Guxer, T 11(. SEC. at WAR gave notice, that on an early day he should draw the attention of the House to a periodical pullication, called (we think) the " Monthly Argus," containing principles of a dan gerous tendency. Sir W. ELFORD made his promised motion re apeeling the dismisal of Mr. John Marshall fronithe Office of Chief Bsilder of Plymouth Dock-yard. In bringin t e . n orwardthe present motion he had no other objet to do justice to the public, and to vindi cate the upright conduct of an indiv: ual, upon whom an attempt had been made to cast an obloquy. The task which he had undertaken required no great talents ; it only needed a clear explanation of fails. -Commissioners wear. Co examine into the conditior of the Naval • Offices, and among others that 6 Mr. Marshall. He was only told that there we* some complaints ; and that he must write to tl,e Board. lie did not know the extent Mr. DIBDIN's PROFESSIONAL LIFE. This Das. is published, _price 2!. 2s. 01 , 14 E PaOFESSIONAL LIFE of Mr. ME. IL DIN tug her with the Words of Six Hundred Songs, selected tram his Works, and Sixty small Prints in Aquatinta, taken tram the sq`nects of the Songs. To bc embellished also with an elegant Engraving, by Mr. Smith, front a Portrait of Mr. Dihdia—a striking Likeness, and an admirable Picture, painted by Mr. Devis. Published by the Author, at his Music Warehouse, Leices ter-place, Leicester-square ; ant also bc all the principal Book :films throughout England and Scotland ; whole mimes will b e acyerally insertal in the. Provincial Papcm In the Pnss, and will be published To-niorow the VW irritant, rINHE SECOND EDITION' of GUINEAS 1. an UNNECESSARY and EXPENSIVE INCUNI- Vd ANCE on COMMERCE : or the impolicy of repealing the Bank RestriftiOn Rill considered. To which is added, an Ap pendix, examining the Influence which the Restriction has opmi out Commerce and Foreign Exchanges. Printed for (3. and W. Nicol. Pall-Mall and James As perue, PHILOSOPHY correctml by PHILOSOPHY. VGERIA, or ELEMENTARY STUDIES on the Progress of Nations in POLITICAL ECONOMY, LEGISLATION, and GOVERNMENT. • The Seventh Numbcr was published February 196 : A Discussion on the War of Rome and Carthage, applied to the present circumstances of France and Britain.—The Eighth Number will be published the sth of March : Tile Judgment of Minos nn Edmond Rorke. Price 6d. each Number. • Printed for T. Cadefl and W. Davies, Strand. "Viiis Day is published, in Six Volumes 12mo. price 11 is in boards, DELPHINE.-By MADAME DE STAEL-HOLS FEIN A Mao ought to b.: able to brave public opinion ; a Woman abould subriit to it. N. B. This Translation is by the Translator of Madime de Steers other Works. . _ Priutod for J. Maw nun, in the Poultry. Of whom may be bad, I. Home: a Novel, in 3 volumes, price 11. sewed. The Microcosm : a Novel, in 3 vols. price IL sewed. This Day is publiilied, In Three Volumes DIIO.I2IiMO, price Fawn Smilings in bouril4, Two Parts in a Volume, a in the oritriu ti Work, DELPHINE: a Novel. Translated from the French of Mada.iie DE STAEL-110LSTEIN. A man should be , r.a:rable of braving the opinion of the work!, a woman must submit to it. _MADAMS NECCLA. Printed for G. a n d J. Robinson, Paternoster-row. TILE GREAT ENGLISH SPATE LOTTERY, • Comistine of •14,000Tickst, To begin Drawing 4th APRIL, 1,09. GRAND SCHEME. %%t tte of CaCh. Total Valise. 1.20,000 is 1.80,000 10,000 • 80.000 3,000 15,000 2,000 6,000 1,000 5,000 100 3,000 3,000 250,000 tlu. of Pr:22s. 4 of • .M• 11,500 -4 . • This Scheme differs front ail netters for many Yells pact, in the circumstance of not haring any Prase fixed for I. iitculat WI FT and CO. No. 11, POULTRY, are ap. I.pointed by Ce‘irerninenkto sell the Tickett and Shari* of 'tie a bo ve Lottery. This Office (established in the Year 17 t l l It fortunate in the Sale of Capital Pri=t;THIRTEEN vi which acre of the Lair 4 and Three preediag Lutterie,., and sided ”risiv Shares. svote of them d... - into misty The Prizes of the Noyemlicr Lottery lining now parable in id" , Swirl' and Co. rneonimencl alb early itpp:ication to ?er s,ms who wish to exchaiigu them for Shares of the present Lotterir,.whieh will certainly aisiinee is ptica Ss the Drawing asiproaches. •4DVERTISE FEBRUARY 22, 1803. of what Was alleged against him. (A letter from Mr. Marshall to the Board of Admiralty was then read, explanatory of what he supposed to be alleged against him, and asserting his charaater as an upright man, who always did his duty to the utmost of his knowledge). Sir Wiliam Elford then went on to state, that as Mr. Marshall had thus appealed to the Navy Board, he was no longer noponsible for any defect which might irtve hap pened in his department. It was die duty of the Clerk of the Checque, an officer appointed for that purpose, to have found out and notified such defeat, and if he did not, the blame attached to him, and not to the chief builder. t'pon the vi sitation of the Commissioners, Mr. Merahall and the storekeeper were discharged at a month's no tice : and it must consequently appear, that if any depredations had been committed, Mr. Marshall must have had his share of them. Was this to be presumed from a man who had been thirty-seven years in the scryice ? Certainly not. He should read certain doitiments, which he held in his hand, from which it would Appear, that so far from Mr. Marshall's studying only his own interest, he had used his utmost endeavours under Lords Cornwallis and Bridport to prevent and detei frauds. Here the floe. Member ?rad several letters to this effe. He then proceeded to ask, why Me. Marshall was -now disgraced? Having made such appeal to the Navy Board as he had before read to the House, he would ask < Was that the language of a man who had failed io his contract ? WAS that the language oi . .a man who had defrauded the public ?' Certainly, not. If a man does every thing in his power to de tea andprevent impositions, he, at least, does his duty, and can do no more, and if no other degree of pecula tion can be attributed to Mr. Marshall, than what must and ever will escape the observation of amen in his situation, namely, the petty frauds or the underlings, not only Mr. Marshall, but the whole corps must be discharged. It was, he said, a bold, if not unconstitutional thing in the Navy Board, to be administering oaths to officers, as thky now did, when that power had been refused thent by the House of Commons. In favour of Mr, Marshall, he stated, that beyond the limits of his duty, he had made several important discoveries, which, although desired by his friends to obtain a patent for, he had communicated gratis. [Here the hon. Member read sane letters to this effesl, and attest ing the good charader of Mr. Marshall,] he added, that he could only suppose that vacancies were created for the sake of filling up, rather than for the default of the present possessors. General MAITLAND here interposed in behalf of order. He had attended, he said, very minutely to the long speech of the Hon. Baronet, and was ittre s rjsed to find that the topics of it contained atarges - irsgross and flagrant miscondut upon others, while its professed object was to exculpate a certain individual. He submitted to the House whether these two things had any direct reference to each other, and stated himself to have been led into this interruption, only from a sense of duty. Sir WILLIAM ELFORD replied, that the House would be better able to judge between him and the Hon. General, when he informed them that what he intended-to move was, for « a Stied Com mittee to enquire into the conduft of John Marshall, Esq.—the motives for discharging him from his of- i fice in Plymouth Dock-Yard, and other proceedings of the Commissicmers of the Navy." General MAITLAND observed, that had he been aware of the precise nature cf the Motion he should not have made the observations he did ; but it certainly was not explained by the comments in which the speech abounded. ' Sir W. ELFORI) proceeded next to state, that he had little farther to add, but shortly to re-state some of his former positions : that under the new system all former practice was inverted ; that it was heretofore the custom for children to be bred with an express view to the dock-yards, which gave them an attachment to that employment, whereas it was now usual to advertise for children and apprentices, and that persons were now dismissed, not for any fault or incapacity of their own, but in order to make room for others. Persons so dismissed had no resource whatever, but in the justice of that House. There was no men would deny his Majesty's power to dismiss whatever servants he thought proeer, hut if there Should be Ministers who advised the Sovereign to exercise that_ prerogative capriciously, it sviVi the duty, and in the privilege of the House a Com mons, to censure them. He concluded by appeal ing' o the justice of the House, for its sanftion of the peeper inquiry : he called on the justice of the Minister himself, and the regard he had to 'pub lic opinion, to support it ; and lastly, called on the Board of Commissioners to endeavour, by justifying themselves on this occasion, to remove that disgust that' such conduct generally excited through all the departments, both civil and military; finally, he read his mot:on as already stated. The SPEAKER informed 'the House that no question could be pot, as the motion had not been seconded.. Sir WM. ELFORD seemed incredulous of this, and contended that it had been; but a cry of " Chair! Chair!" and no small degree of laughter, put an end to the discussion. _ _ _ The Bill for preventing Officers of the Revenue in Ireland, and the Militia-training Bill, were read a second time, and committed far tomorrow. Mr. VANE presented a Petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol, praying for leave to bring in a Bill for Improving the Harbour of Bristol, which was referred to a Committee; as was also a Petition from the Shoemakers, Sadiers and othel. Manufafturers of leather, praying for leave to bring in a Bill for extending the laws relating to the dressing of skins to all places within fifteen miles of London. A Petition was presented from the Merchants of Grenada, praying fcr relief, which was ordered to lie on the table. After receiving private Petitions, till half past nine o'clock, the lionze adjourned till to-morrow• I?. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING's BENCH, P44.wam4,FLa.9l. Sottings before Lord ELLZNBOROGGH mega Special Jury, at if est mi,6ster- TkiE KING, UPON Tile PROSECUT/ON OF NAPO. LEONE BONAPARTE, FIRST-Coostio s VERSUS JAMES PELTIER. At nine o'clock the Court was thronged, as well as the avenues to it--excited by an eager curiosity to hear this trial. The names of the Special Jurors upon the returned lists being called, eight of them appeared out of the twenty-four, viz.— Thomas R.tualsridgs, John Peurs, Mae: S r rtit, Jo‘epli Farriegfon, J ihn P•rceJiti, Peter Daw•on, Jahn Next•n, G. toune . , Esquires. Upon which Mr . . ATTossEY-GEINEStsi. prayed a ink:, when the following names were called over out of the Common Jury:— Jonn taunts; Thomas Mama, sit.' • William Draw, R ictiard Hughes. Mr. A saoT then opened the pleadings, by which it appeared that this was an Information filed by his hlajesty's Attorney-General against James Peltier ; and the information stated, that before, and at the time of publishing the Linni therein stated, there sub sisted a friendship and peace between cur Sovereign Lord ehe King arid the French Republic, and that Citizen Napokone Bonaparte was First Consul, and as such, Chief lvfagistate of the French Repub lic. That the Defendant well-knowing this, blot in order to traduce and vilify the said Chief Magistrate of the French Republic, and to deprive him of lie state and dignity of the Consular office, and to up the subjects of the said Republic to kill and do.. stroy him, and with intention, as much as in the Defeadant lay, to interrupt and destroy the peace inbtisting between our said Lord the King and the said Consul, and the SubjeCts of the said Republic, and to excite animosities, jealousies and hatred anninct cur said Lord the King by the said Chief Consul, &c. printed and pub lished, in the French lin ',tinge, a lil tl, of which there was a translation, which the Learned Gentle man said - he would read to the Jury, Here ne read the whole of the libel, as set forth upon the record in Fogyish, it being set forth in both English and French ; the tendency of which was under three heads—to traduce the Chief Consul as Chief Maf,:s trate ; to excite th e French people to revol t against Government ; and finally to 'assassinate him.—To which the Perm/ant had pleaded " not guilty," whereupon issue was joie ed. The At Toannv-Gintesont. _then proconded. to open the case to the Jury, nearly as follows : s 4 You are now, Gentlemen, by the very distinct :opening of my leaf nod friend, fully in possession o the Libel which this information charges agains the Defendant, and upon which the simple, and ; as it seems to me, no very discult question which you *hive to try will be, Whether or r.ot the person charged as beingthe Author cf this publication, is rightly brought before a Jury, by a prosecution that charges such publication with being a Lil el. 4 , - It is impossible not to know there is a, great deal of curiosity and interest already attached to this trial, and indeed one can scarcely cast one's eye around the Court without perceivieg there is as sembled an audience and appearance different frcrot that which ordinarily graces Courts of Justice. I should be extremely sorry if I thought, which I seriously do not, that such a curiosity was excited with a view to hear any thing which may fall from me, because disappointment is, on all occasions, an unpleasant sensation ; and I should feel the more to be the occasion of it to such an assembly as the present. That such, however, would be the effea. of this day's proceeding, if any such ex peCtation existed with respect to what was to fill from me, would be unquestionable. If any person' was so weak as to suppose that any thing which may l. e heard from me will reward him for uncemmen at tention, he will be much mistaken ; for on this cc casion my duty, as well as my inclination, not only leading but confirming me, to what I shall adhere strialy, unless driven reluaantly off my guard by sty learned friend who is of Counsel, for the Defen dant, namely, to the dry and plain meaning and tendency of the libel now under prosecution, and the question of law which is conne.led with that prose cution, namely, Whether the Lnw of this country, according to' what we must be all supposed to know of it, from the pmceedings which have taken place upon subjeas analogous to this, can allow this pub lication to pass without deeming it a Libel ? The principle to which I have to refer, is so plain and ob vious, and the application of it is so recent, that in deed, neither instinntion nor amusement can possi bly attend any part of this proceeding: and although there is no man living who more strongly feels, or who is more ready to acknowledge than I am, the very distinguished talents of my learned friend who condu&s this case for the Defendant, though no man is more abundantly satisfied of his most ex tensive knowledge, brilliant imagination, and acute understanding, and judicious taste than myself; that no one can avail himself more effeetually of all the topics which eloquence can furnish—yet, ever he will not be able to do mach to gratify curiosity upon this occasion, provided he confines himself to that which, is the matter for our investigation to-day. I ors the points fox us to consider are, W,hether the Defen dant is the author of the publicanor.? If he be so, then, What the tendency is cf that publication ? then, What is the character of it, according to the rules cf the Lan of England ? These are the a):e*- Siam, and the only questions towards which this prosecution fairly points. If, indeed, I could sup pose that my Lcarned Friend could lend his great Ailities in any degree to the spirit with which his client seems to have composed the publication which is now before us, and made t:so subiea of this prosecution ; if 1 could suppose that he should think it conducive to the interest .of his client, to attempt his defence by a repetition of the hbellous )