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THEATRES. rbe entertainments of Saturday were repeated t aught. '1 he house was genteel but' not full—. LTALANI was in tine voice, and played and sang her happiest wanner. DRURY-L4NE. :SNICIIT'S Opera of False Alarms attrated a haat audience, last night. to Drury-lane The , Mr. BRAMAN' was in tine voice, and received most rapturous applause. COMET4T..GARDEN• Last night was produced a three act piece, cal 1, Me Wanderer: or, The highs 6 / 11 °Vitali s DRAMATIS PERSONK Prince Mr:mead, Mr. C. Kemble. Coral o l d en i s , Mr. Pape. Coral Sparse, Colonel Baser, Gestates Adolphe*, Ramsay, Careless Valilestent, Mini Smith. Christian, The following is a sketch of the Fable: — The Scene lies in the island of °Claud, and the !bon consists of the interesting meatier of Prince ethmovid, who, during the re i g n of CHARLES the , headed the Poke and entered Swedeti,with a kw of recovering the 'Throat. of his ancestors, which he Senate had deprived hint of, in favour of his fade. It were difficult to give a regular plot, shore the whole interest consists in the contrivance, Owe.% and itivolvetnents of a -fugitive Prince, lading the vigilance of his pursuers. The gene 'ons protection and hospitality offered him by the '7intatess Valdestein and her husband (favourites ad staunch adherents of the reigning Monarch, CHARLES,) is a whit: and touching instance of ho our and humanity, end form the grand feature of le drum, which is so menages' as to keep alive a roug anxiety for the preservation of the unfortu ate wanderer. Th., 'intuitions' and surprises (which many and varied) . arise naturally from the pro rem of circumstances, and are calculated to till he mind with pity fur the evilest Prince, and adrni mu for the dangerous Illa ,aaininity of his pre nt. The sentiments are loyal and appropriate, d are put into itutenar at once natural, chaste, nd forcible. The music (by Russum, and DaYv) well adapted, and does credit to the taste and fence of the minimisers. The chorusses were intended to lengthen the . and give it variety : they suit very well in a do-Drama. but they destiny the dignity of a lay. Neither do we approve of ballets in serious pieces. The second act was heavy, but the last possessed great interest. and was produc tive of muc»hese effect This piece is said to be a translation from an unsuccerrful one, brought oat at Paris, three years since, the author of which was banished. It is inirossible to do justice the exertions of the performers. Miss SMITH was dignified, interesting, and impressive, and wed herself a perfect mistress of her profession, n the ditferent cnangto of her countenance, from to fear, from despair to soy. NORTON ed pretty and interesting:in the fair niece of the mutest. Mr. C. K smote never appeared to eater adviuttage; he was energetic and Mi ne. Mr. Fi.wcerr, as the old faithful do .e, was very well; hut the attempts at humour low avid peurile. The Prologue war a little re on the present times, and was spoken by Mr. littuneces. The Epilogue was very poor, and the allusion to the asisletve not fortunate. Miss NOR- Tow spoke it with spirit.—The house was crowded, and the Play announced for second risprescutatiou amidst loud applause and repeated bravos. The Rov•L FAMILY are expected in town this 4ay from Windsor, and to remain till after the edebration of Her M•rerry's Birthday. Mammy will hold a private Levee and P;:vy Council soon after two o'clock. The apartments io St. Janies'e Palace, formerly the nursery for the junior branches of the Itor,te FAriatLx, while under the care and tuition of Lady CHARLOTTS FISCH, are now undergoing altera tions, and are new furnishing for the reception of the Duke of *telex. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES left town, yesterday, for Brighton. Yesterday, the Duke of Mortveoss entertained a select party to dinner, at his house in Grosveoor street. Lord EDWARD SOMERSET is expected in town on Monday from Ireland. The Duke of BEstroar will return on Saturday to his house in Grosveuer-share, fr Badiuiutou, to be present at St. James's on Monday. The Earl of Erma came to town, yesterday, from Cashiohory Park, and returned in the after pooch to dinner. The Countess Dowager of SF.piroM had a select card party, last night, at her house iu Hill-street, Berkeley-square. The t)uke of BEDFORD will be iu town, on Sa turday, from Woburn Abbey. Mrs. PaRCRVAL and her youngest child are going on a visit to the Princess of WALRS, at Black heath. The most superb dresses are in preparation for the occasion. TMODIAS Garevesow, Esq. is expected in town in the early part of next week, front his residence near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mr. InoLear had an ovr,:rflowing house, last night, at the Lyceum, in the Strand. Goat LAN wros, Esq. and family, are come to their house in Grosvenor-square, from Bath, for the season. EArl4 GREY DE Howits and LAUDERDALE were expected to leave Howiek Castle, yacterday, for towns The Conntors Gave and family will re main a fortnight longer w Northumberland. It was reported last night. that en account had arrived in town, stating the death of Lord Au-A .twiDER Li3ADON, seeoud son tJ the Duke of sloe a ox. We. know, on Monday several letters were received, which and his Lordship was Letter, but Rot out of clanger. twee WILLIRMS, Esq. M.P. and family ar tits d at his holt*• it, tin. idelphi. on Monday even ing, foe the season, frola WA seat in BOARD OF OREM CLOTH. PT. JATIIICIerI PALACt, JAS. 13, ITO& IMaiest)N command, so Cerriages we to fame into film LmNlSl..eienre Court uu tilt canting Itirtli-Day, except . _. those belonging to— Thu Stiaisters. The Great Officers of State. The 06cers of the King's Household. The Ftweigs Ministers. The Gold Stick. The Speakers of the Humes of Lords sod Cannons. The Duke of St. Albany. The Kermit, attending the King's person. The Servants att....riding Her Majesty. The Servants attending His Prince and Pillions of Wales, and the Royal Dukes. Comte de Woronzow. No Coaches but such as are allowed to set company down in the Lord Stec ord's Court, ors to wait in the Kitchen Court. And it is ordered by.the Lord Steward, that no Hackney Chairs or Coaches be atlstitted tutu any of the Courts. Orders art ClVell fur the accommaintitou of persons going away is Chairs, that the passage leading from the Great Drawing-room to the Engine Court will be opeued, and the Engine Court allotted for the reception of Chain'. H. TRACHEY. PEDESTRIAN FEAT. Yesterday moruiog, Capt. Baact.AT set off at a quarter past ten from the stone at Cumberland gate, went to the Chum:lt at Harrow, and returned at nine minutes utter one ; by which all bets were won on his ;tart, as the time allowed was three hours : he seemed to have porforined it with great ease. tie was dressed iu a white flannel jaeket and drawers, and kept his thumbs in -a silk handker chief slung round his neck. Notoriety is the order of the day, nn matter by what means accomplished: Formerll p e destrian feats were not so suceessful in attaining this eud. A. Mr. Miami-R. brother to the unfortunate gentleman who shot Misaßav, had walked nearly all over Europe, and got the nickname of Milord Pietas. Being at the Court of the King of PRUSSIA, His Majesty was informed of his Credentials, but not appreciating them in the same manner as they would be at present, he immediately dismissed him his Court, with the appropriate phrase of , 1 veil se promise dour." LAW INTELLIGENCg. courr OF CHANCERY, J. i 2. i•Mk.... ronceu. e. 111`NA91ARA. In this cause, in which the interests are so com plicated and various, the Loam CHANCELLoR pro ceeded to declare „judgment uPon the exceptions taken by both the parties to the orders of Lord Erskine and the Master of the Wills. Upon these orders the Plaintiff, Frances Purcell. felt herself aggrieved with respect to two items of suinsof money claimed to tlt credit of the Defendant, viz. the sum of 2,0001. and of 14,0001. the latter claimed, according to the deed of 17e4. There were also a variety of exceptions made by the Defendant to the nature of the evidence, and to the manner in which it was produced befkre the Master. The LORD CHANCELLOR took an accurate view of the instruments by which, the Plaintiff was al leged to have assigned certain securities to the De fendant. The original deed, in the year 1776, he contended was such as no professional man ought to have drawn, but from the variety of subsequent interests arising out of that voucher, it wax alto gether dangerous to meddle with that suUtratitisi.— No man was more disinclined than he was, to per severe in his errors, and if his original decree upon this case was defective, the parties had the means and power of seeking a re-hearing.-- Judging, however, upon that decree, the pouci ple of which was equally imperative upon the Master, he was of opinion, that with respect to the Mon of 20001. he should reedit book to the Master, with a direction to review his report; and to nicer tivia whether this sum ought not to be compre hended in a gcneral computation of recounts be tween the parties. Upon the next exception, as referring to the sum of 13,0001. allowed to be due to Mr. IltNamati, by the order dins predecessor, founded.upon the deed of 1784, his Lordship con firmed the potions order, considering 14 as a sum of money due to Mr. *Namara at that period,snb ject to any and every s ubsequent set-off which it was in the pow..a. of the Plaintiff to produce. With re spect to the exceptions taken lie Defendant to the orders of the Court , his Lordship, after a number of strong and conclusive observations, de cided that upon these _points, the itrevious judg ment ought not to be disturbed. It was observed by Mr. HART, and Sir S. Ho- BULLY, that from the context of the previous judg ment, it did appear that the sum of 14,0001. was considered as a sum of money due at the date of that order, and from meeting which, by any subsequent set-offs, the plaintiff was precluded. Mr. M.Naniaia, the Defendant, assured the Court that no such view of the order was ever en tertained by him. Ilse Loan CHANCELLOR expressed is wish to hear both partiea on this subject. and fixed nex t Thursday; to consider," first, whether the order could `cur such an interpretation ; and next, the nature of the set-offs, by which , this admitted item of 14,0001. was diminished or liquidated. alloy ii wearier thee * malleable. It could not; th ere fore, be inferred, that a person so arcuselk should be acquitted of such as offence, merely on,/,, account of the adulteration of the metal, of which the articles st9len were composed. Mr. Maiti*astisn, the Chairman, overruled dui objection. " • For the .Defendant it was further urged, that .although tl u goods were found in his possession. titey had been received by one of Itie setutts in his absence and he therefore knew rthi rv ng of , their having been stolen. . The Jury impaired the Prisorkr. Charles Seirea was charged with assaulting Sir John Dashwood at the Toll Bar, at Ilyde Park Corner, ou the lath of June last. Mr. COW, in addressing th' cution, observed, that another, which bad late W estminster Sessions, of a groom or Lord Stair. assaulted by the toll, ant was an assistant. Sir John Dashwood lath of June last, Park turnpike gate, whilst on bis way a servant of Lord S. he since understood Park Corner; thee betwixt these tar that he thought would give tutu , give hie evideneev about this time, he had used to came up, and sit he (the Witness) the Defendant putting himself " come on ;" the 1, under the necessity soon as ' The observed, that the indictment . this offence as an areault, but in point of ere was no assault, as no actual blow had given, nor any personal injury received. Ir. KNAPP observed, that undoubtedly his .out, the Defendaut, had used very coarse ex /es/ions to the Protiecutor but had lint committed .he assault alleged. He had advised him to make a suitable apology, but it had not been received by the Prosecutor. Sir J. D. King added, that he had no objection to kept of nay apology on his own account, but that he had brought the matter into Court, in. order that the Defiudant might make some atone ment to the public, and to prevent others from being. insulted in a manner unfortunately too prevalent ah moat of the Toll-bars round London, and particularly the one in questiou, of which various perstins had bad of late too much reason t o complain. The Prisoner was orris red. LOl DON S ESSJO NS. GUILDHALL, Jaiscans• It, ssos. • This day the Sessions commenced before the LORD MAYO*, ittellaDEL ALOClLMER.aidSass tries. The attention of the Court was ocaspied in 'wearing the Grand and htetty Janes. sod a number of Ceeitables. until post two o'clock. .Ali. Clarks Aitguaia Smogs. and Thaw Moak, his eervaat, were indicted for an as upon Mr. henry Paeocke, an Attorney, ou the Huh July last. Mr. Henry Pococke deposed, he is an attorney, and resides in Staples-Inn, Holborn; between tagbt and nine o'clock in the evening of the Itidi of July, he went in company with his brother to Fetter-lane, for the purp ose of oe uvrea poet chaise at Mr. Savage., who keeps the Red Hart Inn, Fetter-lane. The entrance to the yard is through a gateway, ander which deponent and his brother stopped for a whue, when Mr. Savage came out. of the Inn and struck witness; the bear. WWI returned, and Mr. Savage retreated into the house, followed by witness and its heather, who woo wailed and beaten by a parcel of stable Infirm Mr. Joint Pococke and Mr. William Cavanegla corroborated the evidence of the last W items. Mr. Guarrev, for Defendant, stated that Pro. secntor and his brother were in in indecent situation within view of Mr. Savage's wife and daughter that he came out to put them awa y , when they resisted. and a scuffle ensued. Mr. Slnonds, Mayor ofßochaster, deposed. that on the itith of July, 1807, he came to townh and stopped at the Red Hart, Fetter-lane ' • between eight sad nine o'clock in the evenitsg, he was sit ting in the coffee-room, when he heard a great noise, and saw Mr. Savage run in, followedby two on e of whom struck him several times ; M; r r i s. °llll 9arage and her daughter • came est. and ran between Mr. Savage ` sod one of she r=, and snatched a stick from ens el Moir with which Mr. Savage had bees Amok several time,. Witness repeatedly desired a constable to be sent for, when one of the servants said there was none to be got. Mrs. Sa vage got her husband into the bar, and locked him in. %Viten-is advised them to go away, but they would not. Mr. Savage came out of the bur ; the contest was renewed, but by whom he did not know. There were upwards of twenty o n in the passage. Mrs. and Milo Savage were sitting at the parlour window, and could not miss, if they bad remained there, to have witnessed the first part of the fray ; never 'sae men more violent in his life, and the manner in which they comlucted them selves was degrading to the character of g entlemen. Witness most positively declared that no servant belorigingto Mr. Savage laid a hand on one of them. Several other Witaesies were examined, whose evidence went to prove that Mr. Savage wily push ed Plaintiff, end did ndt strike bun. Verdict—Not Guilty. .1111111==.1! IrriLle. . . Whether it be. that tivowite numbers Holt on the imagination of Fortumeo Soitoes, because all the Omits/ Prises will he afloat in thn 'Wheel of the present Lottery, or whether from the super' richness of the Scheme in principal Prizes: certain it is, that applications for Isortirciar Numbers eve i now exteasireis enwic to la the Offices. Thi. de mand. amolg nuin en•us ot!ier reasons ' and . maro Sarer. ni t ly inculcates an sari, a the 18th of June mt. in addressing the Jury for the prose. d, that this assault had arises out of bad been already b diocueoettatthe e ao „ ter Sessions, npon the ' tion Lord Stair, who had e toll k e ep er, to whom . rstant. • dhwood King4kml.that . Iqm the ast, he war • • through Hyde gate, about 5 o'c oc in the evenuig, ray to Grosvenor-place; he observed rid Stair scuffling with a man, whom stood was the gate -keeper of Hide there followed immediately a fight • . two persons. lie raid to the at he had been ill - used , and CM; n his address, in, order that he might see > if neceesagy. Lord Stair armed re, and he repeated the same words o the groom, on which the Defendant said that it was a d—d he; on which . ma) attempted to ride over him, when ut struck his horse upon , the nose, elf in a boxing position, and saying, the horse became restive, and he was !cessity of getting out of the crowd as iy posati66ion of Tickets and Sharer. PLIGIL.IShif. On Thursday last was fought, at Horsington, Someniet, a pitched battle between Hazard, a butcher, and Stacy, a shoemaker, two Doted bruisers. The Lunibatantat catered a taste with their seconds and bottle -holders: Tan Hazard, a sailor, seconded his brother, and Clarke seconded Stacy. The contest continued with little variation till the 50th roaDJ, when Stacy sprained his wrist so badly, that he could not make a blow with his eight hand.; and after matt snore severe rounds, sad appearing very weak, he, at the repeated request of the genemen present, gave in. A dispute hav ing taken p t .sce between the two seconds, a chal lenge was given, and accepted ; and after the above was decided, they set-to, when another very severe contest took place. After 34 hard-fought rounds, victory was declared in favour of Hazard. Sewed amateurs and gentlemen present declared that is all the matches they had ever witnessed, they never saw two harder contests. The fbemer lasted an hour and lti minutes, and the latter 54 minutes. A pugilistic contest took tee on Monday, near Clay-hilt, between George Air, a coateriumiger, uul Jillery Smith, a ventilator. The battle was for teu guineas, and after a contention of about forty 'Mantes, in which the combatants were decently fesked, and the head of Jifery was a good deal die , figured, he resigned the contest, And the costa -1 monger was earned to Westminster in triumph. The fox-hounds will meet,this day. at Kingsbury Spring, near Wisuley, and on Saturday . at Bury area His MAJEATY'S Stag-hounds still built on Saturday at Salt Hill. The writ for the borough of Tosistock was sent off last night. The Right Hon. GEORGE 11 3 014 somisr, who it is expected will be returned for that borough, when Lust heard of, was at Bath with La MaaY and Mias P °mossy. Ysterday the Loan MAYOR ordered the price of bread to be continued et lid. the quertern loaf. A private letter, dates' St. Petersburgh, Dec. nth, says— , . A Liquidation Office, for the settling of all claims between the Russians and English, is now established, and the Counsellor of State BAIIIOI , / is appointed President : the merchants, who are to compooe the Committee, will be nominated by the Minister hereafter. In the mean time, an arrest is ordered on all hills and debts owing to the English, the payment of which will be enacted by the said office. None of the established British merchants will be permitted to leave this country till our Go vernment shall ascertain that Russian property in England has been respected, and all bills drawn from hence duly accepted and paid." The Ceres, Wurrswss, from Newfoundland for England, is lost, and all the crew. The Ariadae frigate arrived on Sunday, at Yar mouth, with two large lugger privateers, captured by her and the Sappho sloop of war; they were pierced for 16 guns each, and were fall of MPH; one was taken on the 7th, and the other on the sth, off Flambormigh Head. They have made se veral captures, one of which was the Gabriel. of Hull. MATTPIrW ROWLAND. Master, but she being in ballast, they took out the crew, sad then scuttled the ship—the privateers both be to one owner, and sailed from Dunkirk—one es new, and the other has been reigning two or three years. The crews of the lugger were landed at Hull, on Monday, and escorted to orison by a detachment of the Cambridgeshire Militia. Letters received by the Gottenburgh Mails give a most distressing account of the situation to which the unfortunate King of Pausal t t has been reduced. Though still invested with the title of Regal, sal nominally possessing considerable territones, be is not only unable, from the continued ructions of biz insatiable conquerors. to keep up an appearance of Regal State, but he has scarcely the means of maintaining the rank of a private g entleinsis. His guard is dismissed, his attend ants ure re ince& and his to de never contains more than tics covers. Soeh is the situation of the man who, at the • of t;ie year 1415, held in Isis baud the fate of the Continent of Europe. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. • HICKS'. HALL--CLimissitti.L, lkx- 12. Ilenty Roberts was indicted for assaulting a Mn.s Elizabeth Williams, in the parish Of St. John's, Shadwell. It appeared that the Defendant was a plumber and engine-nsaker, and that he and** Proesennie were neighbours to each other, but did not agree well together. The cause of variance betwixt theta, was a piece of ground behind their respective' premises, to which each laid claim. Into this area the Defendant was in the habit of forcing the pipes of his engines. and of spouting water through them, ip larder to prove them soma}. Upon the S td of No vember last, perceiving Mrs. Winnows perambu latiug this disputed ground, the Defendant took that opportunity of trying his pumps and pipes, from his window, and gave the Lady a complete drenching with water, while in a situation where she could not escape from the attack. In this or ration the Defendant's wife assisted, by supplying the engine with water, and encouraging her hus kaiak to give it her well. it was alleged for the Defendant, that he was en tirely ignorant of the Prosecutris being on the ground at the time he catty forcing his pumps, and that at all events, she had an op unity of keep ing clear of the water, if she had thought proper ; but she went to the spot for the express purpose of getting. ducking, and indulged her resentment, by afterwards accusing him of an assiiiilt. The Jury found hiin guilty, and he was fined in the sum of ten pounds. William MOW, a respectable looking man , and by . trade a brasier, was indicted for receiving and having in his custody 13 I ba. wei g ht of bras* the property of Messrs. Warner and Co. brass-found ers, in the neighbourhood of Jewin-street, knowing the articles to have been stolen. It appeared that the Prosecutors having for some time missed quantities of Leos, in an uninanuf nc tured state, watched their servauts,.and at length found that one of them had been in the prac tice of robbing them, who, upon being detected, absconded. Upon the Bth of August last, a search warrant was procured to search the Defendant's house, as, front its contiguity to their premises, sus picions attached that the stolen goods must hare been disposed of to him. Accordingly various small cast pieces of brass were found in their nn manufactured state, such as were used in - making beer pumps. The s e pieces were proved to be the' property o f the Prosecutors ; they were made of a composition of copper. zinc, And lead, but by evidence it appeared that this was coarse brass, according to the custousof Mr. Serjeant BUT and Mr. Auit, on behalf of the I3efendant, argued, that the article in ques tion consisted of such a composition as could not justify the allegation in the indictment, that it was brass that was so found in the Defendant's custody, and therefore could not come within the useaaing of the act of the 49th of George the Second, which applied to the receivi.ig of particular metals therein described, and stated the punishment to be four teen years transportation- Mr. °ranee and Mr. (bran argued. that the same thing might be said of an indictment, al leging that a person had swim or received a gold watch, silver spoon., or even a guinea, all of which articles were well known to coutain a taaiiderable MI t. n of itl O•