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THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. Mrs. JORDAN being prevented from pia% irg by the illness of one of her children, Mrs. e Loy rzformed the character of the Widow Bclinour, in Mr. Murphy's pleasant Comedy of the Way to Keep Him, and did it ample justice. This Lady's Comedy is obviously so superior to her Tragedy, that we wonder the Managers do not see the difference be tween the two, and confine her to that walk of the Drama, in which she appears to so much advantage ui She reminds us of A sGrosi, and cannot faiito make her way, with credit to herself, and advantage to the Theatre. The following private letters appeared in a Paper of last night. HAGUE, JAN. 21. On the 19th instant, Citizen Szstortott. Le, Am bassador from the French Republic, presented to our Government, in the name of that of France, a 'Note of Remonstrance against the proposed conver sion of the financial rescriptions, payable eight months after the peace, into perpetual annuities.— The French Government disapproves the measure exceedingly; and insists, that the Batavian Go vernment shall fulfil its engagements to the holders of the rescriptions. The Batavian Ambassador, at Paris, had, before this measure was publicly pro posed, sent notice, that it would not be dissatis factory to the French Government. The French three'tory, when in power, had taken two millions of those rescriptions at 23 per cent, Those have been lately withdrawn, and sold on the Exchange at Amsterdam. Having lain for some rars in the desk, they were particularly known, when produced, Isy the freshness of the paper. It is understood, that Mr. Vies had made some mistake in regard to the answer of the French Mi nister. The rescriptions are now rising in value.— They have been sold, siace the note was presented, at from 66 to 67 per Cent —The house of BosK at Amsterdam, had ostlers (on the very day on which the Note was presented), from the House of IfoonzatiosvtN and Co. at Paris, to make pur chases of the Stock to. a large amount. It is pretty well known for what prsons in Paris those purchases were made. _ We have information from Brussels, that all the ckmi-brigades of the French infantry, both light infantry and troops of the line, are to be completed to tire number of 2,800 men each, by a tonn-ription. The regiment of cavalry S and dragoons are to be wised each to 600 men : the horse chasseurs and hussar regiments. to 800 men each. The corps of cavalry and infantry of the FIRST Corsut's guard will also be reinforced with an addition of 600 men. There is a great activity of manufactere now ping an in the cannon founderies and the arsenals at.. Douai, Metz, and Strasburgh. The Minister of War has given orders, in all the Belgic departments, to raise as many recruits as possible for the colonies. Wlajrr-General LVZNOX presided at the late Quar ter Sessions for the city of Chichester. It has been stated that Mr. Prrr, on the last Birth-day, was not distinguished w4h a royal smile —a time there was, w:len Mr. PITT'S own smile was more an objca of ambition than that even of Royal ty itself. The Earl of I)w:omit moan, in preventing the proclamation of martial law. in di.: counties orwA. =ford and Tippera: y, by his personal and spirited exertions, {leservos the warrru:st thanks of his cone n-ys and if other Noblemen :nut Gentlemen were to fellow so laudable an esaruple, their efforts would save that part of the United Kingdom from all the. horrors of a m Glary reFsrm Mr. KENIIILE, on his return from Spain, is or pected to have added so stror ,, a somhre cast to his serion; countenance, that all his admirers long to sec him in the Grare-dii(zAr Iffnr. The Due de BERkYp the Earl and Countess of BUCHAN, Countesses of BALr:ARRAS and Lotr.,.x, with many other p:rsor.s of distinaisn, graced - maxi's Concert, on the I.lth inst. at Edinburi;! - :, with their presence. Lord INVERUILV has been very active in end .a souring to recover property plundered from a wreck, at Rattery-Head, on the coast of Scotland; one man, charged with that offence, has been sent to Aberdeen gaol. Mr. Cot Nr apes new Comedy has been read in the Green Room of Covent-garden Theatre. CooKE Ass a part in it .admirably adapted to his talents and manners. The Piece is said to possess uncommon merit, and to abound in interest. It is not yet The new Play, announced under the title of The nether/3 Hero, is an Historical Piece, founded on the story of Sir WILLIAM WALLACE. It is written on the model of Cot stAN'S Batik of Hexham. We have heard it ascribed to Mr. H. SiDDCISS. Mrs. JORDAN'S eldest daughter, We are sorry to learn, continues in a very doubtful state, Mr. lioLcaorr's comedy, therefore, waits in suspence. Mrs. JORDAN plays one of the principal characters m it. Mr. GRIMALDI, the whimsical Clown of Drury -I.ane, is so far recovered from his late serious in disposition, as to be enabled to resume his profes sional drolleries. The new Othello, at Covent-garden Theatre, was hisled by some private enemies ' but the favour of the public will, we hope, make him Cordele of it. We lately observed that a veteran Duke, with whom Dv. Atom is said to have dined, wanted no other apparatus than a pair of bright eyes to an•mate Isis Grace, and a late amourous adventure justifies our observation. Lieut. Ctorrost, of the 24th Regiment, was the officer lately robbed and ill-treated on his way to town from Woolwich. We are informed by . a Morning Paper, that Tommy MOORR is preparing a piece for the press, which is to be read at the next meeting of the Blue- Stocking Choi. This information we have every reason to think erroneous; and we hope it is not the effect of malice or envy, that a Gentleman of super lative genius is distinguished by sti. diminutive a Title. I'se, if that is alluded to, cannot constitute genius or respectability. The following seven sail of the line, of 74 guns each, are to have arrived on the Jamaica sta tion, to reinforce the squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Sir J. T. Duccwoßrn : Cumber , and, Theieus, Be lerophon, Vanguald, Elephant, Cr. , Lah i Cringes. It s settled that in future the Packets from tnaica are to call at Crooked island, with a Mail for Bermuda and the Bahama Islands. ORIGINAL POETR Y. THE CREATION OF EVE. (F-ararted 6q permisiod, from Dr. D.tßwilec TEmrte t) NATURE, wh.ei ail! he pithlish.cd ui u few Ddr.) " How short the span of Life! some hours poestes'd, Warm but to coel, and active but to rest The age-worn fihrt.s guadiel to contract, BY repent:on pakied, cease to act; When Time's cold hands the languid senses seize, Chill the dull nerves, the lingering currents freeze; Oteaiiic matter, unreclainfd by lade, Reverts to elements by chemic strife. Thus Heat evol it'd from some fermenting mass F. \lianas the km/ll:rig atoms into pi; Which sick ere long iii cold concentric rings, Condensed, of Gravity's descending wings. " But Reproduction with ethereal fires Naw Life rekindles, ere the first expires; ('all's up reoascent Youth, ere tottering age Quits the dull scene, and gives hint to the stage; Bills on hit cheek the rase of beauty Wow,• And binds the wreaths of pleasures round his brow ; With finer links the •441 chain extends, And the long line of Being never ends. • " Self-moving Engines by imbending 'rives May walk on earth, or flap their mimic wines; In tubes of gists me-curial eralunins ri.e, Or sink, ihailient to the incumbent skies; Or, as they touch the figured :sale, repeat Tne trice gradations of circiimfluent heat. But Raproductiou; when the perfect Elf. For ins from fine glands another like it:elf, Gives tile true character ref life wet setae, Anil parts the ereaaie from the chemic Ens —. Where milder skies protein the nascent ',moil, And earth's warm bosom yields salubrious ford; Each new Descendant with superior powers Of sense and motion seVetiS the trannent hours; Braves every season, tetiants every chine, And Nature rises on the wings Of Time. " As Life discordant elements arrests, Rejects the neelous, and the pure digests; Combines with Heat the nit:mating mass, And gives a while solidite: to gas; Oig.wic forms with chemic changes strive; Live but to die, and die but to revive ! Immortal matter Waves the transient storm, Mounts tern the wreck, unchanging but in form.— " So, as the sages of the Fast record In sacred sy:nbol, or unletteed word; Emblem of Life, to change eternal demn'd, The heauterms form of fair .1 rioxis bluom'd.— On Syrian hills the grateful [(tinter slain Dyed with his gushing blond the shuddering plain ; And, slow-deseerid Mg to the Elysian shad.', A while with PittlSEetlNe reluctant stray'd ; Soon from the yawning grove the bursting clay kt•stor'ci the Beauty delighted day; Array'd in youth's resuscitated charms, And young Dione woo'd him to her arms.— Pleased for a while the assurgent youth above Relights the golden lamp of life and love ; Ah, soon again to leave the cheerful light, And 'ink alternate to the realms of night. " hence ere Vitality, as time revolves, I.eaves the cold organ, and the mass dissolves ; The Reproductions of rile hying Fats From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence. N •ve buds and bulbs the living fibre shoots On lengthening branciree, and protruding mots; Or on the (ether's side (ruin bursting glands The adhering young its nascent form expands ; In branching lines the parent-trunk adorns, And parts ere long like plumage, hairs, or horns. " So the lone Truffle, lodged beneath the earth; s!:Gots from paternal roots the tuberous birth; No stamen-nia!es ascend, and breathe above, No seed-Iran :eves by female love. From each gaung tree, for futnre buds design'd Organic drops e.xsude beneath the rind ; While these w:th emir-envies nice teerne t And those with apt propensities unite; New embrvoa fihrile round th: trunk comhinet whit qua k ein'araee, and form the living Erie • Whose cluine and reatlet at their ace's b:rth Seek the dry air, 6,1 pnerce the humid earth. "So safe in waves Vo!vnx dwells, • And f.ve descendants crowd his lucid cells; So the male Polypus parental swims, And bran Ching in:hnts bristle all his limbs; So the tuna T.enia, as he prows, teolongs j lie flatteti'd farm with young adherent throngs; Unknown to sex the pregnant o;-ter A. d'coralsitiseets build their radiatt shells; Parturient Sires caress their infant train, And heeren-born Storge weaves the secial chain; Staseelsive Lirtlii her tender cares combine, And suit a:Leticia.; live along the hue. " On angel -wings the (resit es: Foot) tleertsle, Rem nd her fond broods her silver arms she bends; White streams of milk her tumid Lamm swell, And on her lips ambrosial kisses dwell. Light joys on twinkling feet h •fore her dance With playful nett, and momentary glance; Behind, attendant on the panged plain, Yetmg PSYCHIC treltsis with CUPID in her train. " In these lone births no tender mothers blend Their genial powers to nourish or defend; . No nutrient streams from Beauty's orbs improve These orphan babes of solitary love ; Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers Inc transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds. a; *netting successive buds decay, And insect-shoals successive pas; away, Inereas:ng went: the pregnant parents TeX With the tumid wish to form a setter sex; Wlease milky rigs with. pure anikosial food Might charm and cherish their expected brood. Tile potent wish in the productive hour Calls hi its aid linaOhiation's power, O'er embryos thruegs with mystic chirm preldet, And sex from sex the nascent werld divide's, With soft affectiaos ivaruni the callow trains, And gives to laughing L4ve his nymphs and swains ; Whose inieg ing virtues interweave at length 'The mother's beauty with the father's strength. " So tulip-bulbs emerging from the seed, Year after year unknown to sex proceed e Er.:while the stamens and the styles display T'lCif petal-cuttaint, and adorn tne day ; The beaux and beauties in each blossom glow With wedded .ioy, or amatorial woe. Uemarried Aphides prolific prove • For nine successions unieforat'd of love ; New settesatext s with sober passioin s a ting, • Breathe the fond vow, and vino with quivaing wing. " So erst in Paradise creation's LORD, • As_ the first leaves of holy writ record, From Adam's rib, who press'd the flowery grove, And dreamt delighted of uatasted love, • To cheer and charm his solitary mind, Euclid a nevi sex, the MOTH EE Or MANZIND• —Buov'd on light step the beauty seem 'd to swim, And stretch'd alternate every pliant limb; Pleased on Euphrates' velvet margin stood, And v:cw'd her playful image in the Hood; Owh'd the hie:- flame of love, as life began, And smiled enchantment ors adoring Mart Down her white neck and o'er her bosom roll'd, Flow'd .n sweet negligence her lock: of gold; Round her fine form the dim transparence play'd, And show'd the beauties, that it seein'd to shade. —Enamour'il ADA SS gaz'd withfond surprise, And drank delicious passion from her eyes; Felt the new thrill of young Desire, and press'd The grace ut Virgin to his glowing breast The cuirscious Fair betrays her soft alArin4, Sinks with warm blush into his chiding anus, Yields to his fond caress ;sin) wanton pta„ And sweet. reluctant, amorous, delay. • LAW INTELLIGENCE, COURT OF KING'i BENCH, JAN. 21.. ROREITSON V. FRENCH. Mr. ERWIN e moved that the Nonsuit might be set aside in this cause, and a new trial granted. It was an action in a Policy of Insurance on the ship Cher/ern/an, bound to Africa, South America, and back to the Cape of Good Hope. She was insured on a prime policy, commencing the 25th Match, and ending the I7th September. The assured meant that this adventure should have been at no time uncover ed ; they did not know what progress the ship had made, or whether she would complete the voyage within the scope of the policy ; yet in order to be certain that the ship and cargo should not be un protected, they had determined that in point of time she should be insured, and in point of place that there should be no deviation, they had therefore caused this policy to he made. Before he stated the terms of this policy, he would humbly submit cer tain general rules with regard to the construction of policies, which had never been departed from :—ln the fit ,t place, a policy of insurance being a com mercial instrument ought to receive the largest in terpretation. This was so much the case, that they received the same construction in courts of equity as in courts of law ; in proof of this assertion he quoted the opinion of Lord Hardwicke in Henkle v. the East India Company, reported in Ist of Vczey. The se cond rule was, that a policy of insurance in its print ed form being frequently unequal to meet the vari ous contracts which became necessary to the insur ance of ships and goods ; the written part always controuled the printed part. The third rule was, that policies of insurance had two objects ; one with regard to the ship, and the other the goods. Every thing was to be taken, railendo tingulit singulis ; what ever related to the goods referred to the goods, and the same with respect to the ship.. Having pre faced these observations, the learned Counsel pro -ceeded to state the terms of the policy, and the na ture of the case. He had not proceeded far, before the Court observed he had said enough to entitle him to a rule to show cause. The question seems likely to prove interesting to the commercial world ; we shall therefore give a full report of it when the arguments of Counsel are heard on the other side. CUTHBERT V. SWINNEY. Mr. GARP ow moved to discharge the defendant out of custody, and that the warrant of attorney on which the execution was founded might be delivered up. He stated that the defen lint, about six months ago having occasion for the sum of 25/. applied to the plaintiff to le .d it lino—he did so. Shortly af ter, he wanted a sum of 75/. for which he also ap plied to the plaintiff to let him have it, which he agreed to. The defendant was to give his warnee of attorney to pay the whole debt of MO/. in six months ; but he was to rely on the plaintiff's word of honour not to call upon him till after the expira tion of a year. The defendant was to pay at the rate of 10s. a week for interest. He had regularly paid the 10s. a week, and within these four weeks the plaintiff had applied to him for an advance of the usurious interest, and he had atcordiugly paid 21. for four weeks. Notwithstanding this, the plaintiff had thought proper to enter up the judgment, and take out an execution for the whole sum. The Court granted a rule to shew cause. RVAIM 4. itatiNStll. • Mr. ERSKINF argued against a rule obtained by Mr. Gibbs last term, for discharging the defendants out of custody, under the 38 Geo. hi. c. 5. sec. 9, by which Aliens abiding in this country, who had quit ted Fraice in consequence of the French revolution, were exempted hem being held to bail. The de fendant had been arrested upon a bill of exchange he had given In England in lieu of a bond he had signed in France. He had given the, bill Unconsci ous of his privilege from arrest under the Alien Act upon the bond The learned Counsel contended, that the bill of exchange constituted a new cause of action arising in this country. Mr. GIRDS, in support of the rule insisted, that the bill of exchange having been given for a debt con tracted in France, was completely under the meaning of the Act, and therefore that the defendant was en titled to be discharged. Lord ELLENBO ROUGH, and the other Judges, re gretted they could not construe the Alien Act in fa vour of a poor emigrant who, perhaps, when he im prudently gave a bill in satisfaction of the bond was ignorant of the law protecting him from being ar rested upon the latter security ' • they were, however, unanimously of opinion, that the bill the defendant had given; formed the basis of a new contract, which rendered him liable to the laws of this country. — Rule discharged. w4llllt EN, qui tam, v. WICK'', E . Mr. ER litt IN r moved for a new trial in this cause. It was a question upon the construction of the Act for the regulation of the admeasurement of coals. The point M issue was, whether the admeasurement by the bushel, prescribed by the statute of 12 Anne, h'ad not been repealed. After long arguments by Counsel on both sides, it was determined that the statute on which the action had been brought conti ; nued in force, and consequently that the present suit V/ as maintainable. • The event of this suit determine! upwards of twenty causes depending against coal dealers, who here been guilty of unwarrantable practices. COURT OF COMMON PLFAS. The proceedings of the Court on this day were chiefly to procure Rule^ for new trials in several causes where the evidence had appeared to b.: irre gular ; none of which were sufficiently important to admit of duailing them. The Court broke up at an early hour. On Monday morning the only daughter of Mr. G. V ♦UGHAN, a hatter of gravel-lane, Southwark, was burnt in a most dreadful manner, in conse quence of her cloaths catching fire. The child who was only eight years of age, was left alone in the nursery when the accident happened, her cries brought up the maid servant, who in endeavouring to extinguish the fire had both her arms severely burnt. We are sorry to add that the child died in great agonies, at twelve o'clock on Monday night. Cow Pox. -During the last year, 687 children were inoculated for the cow-pox, grafi, at the Edin burgh Dispensary, all of whom have gone through the disease with perfect case and safety, and though many of them have been since repeatedly exposed to the contagion of the natural intalliox, not one of them has been subjected to that loathapme disease. POLICE. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. jam 1)1, 6. ;;n waseexamined by the sitting magis trate on suspicion of robbing the house of Genci - al Bunch. The prosecutor, who is a French officer, lives in Dean -street, Soho. He stated, that he Made it a constant custom to keep the servants of his family in the most regular • order : every night before he went to bed, he saw the house properly secured, and' his plate and valuable property carried into his own bed-chamber; on going, as usual, to see that all was safe, lie found the chain taken down from the gate of the house, and that some person had been let in ; he immediately went into the kitchen, •and inquired of the cook-maid if any stranger was there, she said no ; not being perfectly satisfied, he began to examine the house, and insisted on looking into a closet that was locked, the key was brought, and the prisoner was found concealed ; the prose cutor immediately scat for a constable, and he was taken into custody, and conveyed to the watchhouse, where he was searched, but no property was found in his possession. The prisoner said in his defence, that lie went to the prosecutor's house to see one of the servants, who was his first cousin ; while they were talking, the girl heard her master coming - down stairs, she was much alarmed, and directed the prisoner to get into the closet, until he should go away again ; he did so, and was found in the situation already de scribed. It appeared that the prisoner had often paid visits to the Iniuse, and had been in the habit of seeing the servants, before his first cousin lived in the family. Several persons gave him a good character. His master's brother, who is a shoe-maker, in Oxford road, said, he had known him for fourteen years • and that he was always an honest man. The ma gistrate ordered him to be confined until the matter should be more closely investigated. John Lacy was brought up for assaulting the watch, and breaking the windows of a house be longing to Charles Cooper ; it appeared that the prisoner was intoxicated, and had left the building, at which he worked as a labourer, with a great knife in his hand ; at a very late hour he came to the house of the complainant, and demanded his wife, whom he insisted was there ; on being told to the contrary, he broke all the windows, and behaved in a most riotous manner ; the complainant made an alarm, the watchman came to his assistance, and took the prisoner to the watci.honse. In his defence the prisoner alledged, that he was out of his senses when in liquor, and did not know . what he did. Several persons corroborated the as sertion, and stated, that when sober, he was a very good neighbour. The magistrate inquired if the prisoner had ever been brought to the office before, and on finding he was not known to the officers, was induced, from the good character he had heard, to order him to be discharged, on condition of mak ing good the damages lie had committed. i d l MANSION-HOLSE. Yesterday William Chairman was charged before the Lord Mayor with stealing a chest, bedding, &c. the property of John Smith, a seaman, who arrived in a Gravesend boat on Monday night last, and put his chest ashore at Billingsgate, in the Queen's Head, public-house he found it had been convey ed by the prisoner to the Dark-house, Dark-house lane, where he was found with three bundles, which he had fraudulently obtained from the com pany when landing f,-,,m the Gravesend boat. The persons to whom the bundles belonged at tended, and proved . the prisoner's having ran away . with the articles found in his possession. He was known at the Mansion-house, but not being able to justify his conduct was committed to for trial. Benjamin Dawes was likewise charged with hav ing sold a number of silk handkerchiefs, which it was suspected had been stolen ; they were produced, ordered to be advertized, and the prisoner remanded for further examination. The adjourned Guildhall Sessions were held on Monday and yesterday before the Recorder and se veral Aldermen, when no trial of any importance took place. A meeting of the Commissioners, under the Commission of Bankruptcy, lately issued against John King, Esq. of Portland-place, was yesterday held at Guildhall ; the object of it was to receive the further proof of debts, and to allow the Bankrupt's certificate, which had been signed by four-fifths of his creditors. Mr. Agar, the Barrister, attended on the part of Mr. King, to oppose the proof of such debts as were not founded on a legitimate considera tion. Very little scope was afforded for the exertion • of his zeal on behalf of his client, and considering the reputed extent of the Bankrupt's commercial and monied concerns, the claimants under the commis , . sion were comparatively trifling. In fact, the So licitor did not attend, and of course the object of . the meeting could not so fully be entered into as if he had been present. -Mr. King stated, that an ap plication had been made to the Lord Chancellor upon .the subject of the general conduct of the Solicitor, and that his Lordship had expressed his extreme disapprobation of the -proceedings under the bankruptcy, and his determination to have them revised. It was to this application the Bankrupt at tributed the non-attendance of the Solicitor. The Commissioners did not think themselves authorized to allow the Bankrupt's certificate without the at teedance of the Solicitor by whom the commission had been taken out. The subject is therefore post poned until a future day. Monday Professor AL DINr had the honour of exhibiting his interesting experiments on the effects of Galvanism, before their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES, Dukes of CL ARENCE and CUM BERL AND, with several other distinguished charac ters, the Professor being assisted in his operations by Mr. CAR POE, professor of anatomy; Mr. HL TCHINS, a medical student ; and Mr. CUT H BERTSON, an emi nent philosophical instrument-maker. 'The whole of the experiments were performed with the greatest accuracy and effect, at which their Bora'. HIGH • 1.4 ESSES and the other noble personages tedified their entire satisfaction. At the adjourned Quarter Sessions it Ipswich, last week, a farmer worth nearly 30001. was indict ed for stealing a pair of girl's shoes, and honourably acquitted. He was then tried for an assault, in aiming a blow at the hawker, on being charged the theft ; when the Jury gave one penny damages. , The 'prosecutor was afterwards committed t, take I his trial, for perjury. I ~. 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