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POITRY. 1.-•••Poplicohs. Pro patrift sit duke mo , i ice t atque decorate; {Woe pro patri& deriu* ease puto. 4,--I'ropketce Peat*. lila de rebus prrdicere teraratatis; Hi de preteratis dicere faits 'amt. 3. I,,,,'eerin Foronna. Nana arda est Fort ; eqns omnibus, omnibus sun ; Spent dat paupei ibus, ditit nuncios matutu. PatrF..t. Par their country to 4 ,e, may to some pleasure glee, 'Tis more pleariog to me for my country to lire. _9 —Prophet. and Poets. 'Twilit the Pool and the Prophet, the difference bow vest, ThO paints with triek the s rleare, that fotrifs deepest. 2.--Apainzafer Fortune. Cease to complain of Fix tune's freaks. Call her nu more a partiAl poa'r, With fears the r e nom's rest elm breaks, She am* with ',pc the pour inan'a hour. We ern much concerned to state,. that the Lady of the 11011. (IFORGL PDXSONSY. and third son of the late Lord PONiUM iv, lies dangerously ill, at sjdoouth, Devonshire. The Right Hon. NIAUSICZ Frimutfaamt, F. A. Pallets, Cusnt.ra VI - 4U It IF.141• (Lou. tiCHILY. QUIS,, and COI* TALIBOT, are amon4,t tit hist arrivals in town, front Ireland. Lord Ror3iw MArtrikaa will leava;towu this day for Belveir Castle, Lincolnshire. The only Nobility at the Opera-house on Tues day night were the llachesi of N OltTHUMArlif. AN D, her fair daughters, and the Countess of CARDIGAN. What a falling otf is he...evince the days of Hu- List:Toe an4l CAT A 1.4 N ! Miss C PORI), the lady iii waiting upon Mrs. CLARKE, on her visits to the Home of Commons, was lately a Nun. It cannot be said that Mr?. Cl.aatis has not s . fiesh shoat her. Lord ittol Lady 11sat:WOOD are expected to morrow ut their house in Ilaersood-place, over-square, irons their seat in Yorkshire, for the season. . Countess Dowager SPENCEt arrived in town oo Ttienl ty, front St. Alban's. Mrs. Boast; hall a cant party, on Tuesday at her house in Berkeley-square. The House of Commons were almost uitaui. mous. ou Tuesday night, in voting Mrs. CLlale to the chair. If we way judge from her skill kit va t isitec the supplies. she would probably make abet ter C'htlheellor if the Fxr;arver. The christening of the intantsnovil the Duko Do C Maki ES will not take place until the retina of the Countess of kisaitisortoo front Ireland, as her Ladyship intends, to be Ofte of the Sponsurs. The Missed Jointer° sit had a oriel music ptarif. last night, at their bowie. in Hanovertasinsre. The following is. a copy of the. Bulletnsissuissi last night, at Cbolmandeley-linsisc, Piccadilly rr Earl ClmapeerlAley is is every revel laEllawilat better tit..day.—.4llo. (ford) ••401/ All tod. *A a:air Lord li,teststit4 hiis been very ill, at his house in Rrookvstrin.t, hilt wa yesterday tnu.ch hinter. The kept Mistresses. by assuming the title of Ladies inuicts Peoesetitvi, etedgetly athiet to be Artentos Cinveret The Earl of E.ssgx entertaiinol a select party at dinner, yesterday, at. his house in Lltil-.street. Mn H . . ./.041411TQN is en:paged aJ< the IVaterforfl Thise,tre, which was to open, yesterday, m► ani kilo to with Mr. Jousirron's ifonslet: 1) 4 10EIOr JEREMIAH Do NOV'S a, One of Mr. WAR- T:Met; witnesses, has published an appeal to the public. wits call it 7k Lamentations of Je remiah. Igoe tomerally at,lulittecl, that PlacocK's Itattnageaie boasts utorefitreigit performers than the Opera I lottso. The !boa. Miss Cogtswet,mt, daughter to the Ilishop of I,ll,tclirViio, is indisposed. She is at tended by Dr. V4,UUHAN. Lady JON LS was touch better last night Lady Scattsoaut is nearly recovered from her late revert: illness. The Roods which lately deluged the country have begat, to subside • butwe look is vain for the Done with ike Olive Bnistek The Countess of MAO:LES/MELD is indisposed at her house in Curzon-street. The Earl and Countess of CJVISTENJULD in tend to return to their seat in Derbyshire, in the course of next month. GIeYLLIN is the sirnanie of Mr. WIRDLe. A cockney in the gallery of the House of Commons. on Tuesday, not eonver,ant with the Welch pro nunciation, asked for Mr. Groh-eon WAILDLE. Lady PeRTH will have a select card party, this evening, at her house in Hertford-street, Mae-fair. The PORTUOUEIIe Astussiisoint entertained a arlect Pattl at dinner s yesterday, at bus house, in south A udley-street. Mr. Ileevtetse gave brand. concert, on Mon day night huts,. ist hie bows w Ilauover-square. irstwl twists of ispartiNsteln were brilliantly lighted, and refreshments were served to a lie nicrous and elegant company, iii a peculiar stYlt of riegiwee, There were uyivarda of three huntlred Faskinuebles present. The principal performers were Madame assent% Miss norvotit, and Signor LANZA, who mug several fiwoueite songs and duets. Messrs. SALE, Goss, Lceee,VoitiGli•ti, And SPnP rotiru, glees. A new trio, by the Lea swim and licsimes, was universally admired. Mr. WeeTBY also performed on the or;au. Nash -court, near noughton, in Kent, haw Preeo takes fee the resideuee of Brigadier... General MON 'Melon end his bride, the late Lady &m ins. On TtteldskYi the first stage rehearsal of the forth coming opens, called The Circassian Bride, took plaec At Drury-lane. It is much in the at) Ic of The Nit'ste of Belgrade. Tlsejimale to the first act is very delightful, and was applauded by mill present. — The whole of the music is by Mr. Diego?. THE LIST. Yesterday being appointed by Royal Proclama tion for a General Fast unit Day of 'floanksogivitig, it was observed on.doe metropolis with seat solem nity. The shops were shoot up. At an early hour the different Volunteer Corps mustered at their usual places, with only their side-arms and a band of music, and proceeded to their different parish churches, which were very much crowded. St. Jame,:s Church was tilled to an cower*, the St. James's Volunteer* bayou.: mustered: very aeon{. Auto .at the Nobility who attended there were— The Duchess ut DOC• 11 and Ural Whitworth, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Stn!Pard, Countess 1)0.2 7 ,0. Spcn e..r, Cninateito of Ltoerpoo,l, Cntntes% of Sefton, l. vs of Camden, and Lad.ro Carrington, Lucas, and Illuabeth . tit. George's Church, Ilanover-siplare, was ulso well a! tended— _ . . _ The s sof Iler:forsl mei flow ssibire , Conu tests Cowper, l'artwie, ; Vim...0404%cm toe, Disrager Lady and I.aiy L Ma.msrs, were vsrertiet. At South Autller-street Chanel there V/1114 oleo • au elegant assemblage of Nolsihty,alasuu;4.4 *how were-- _ —.. The 31,u elsionesses of Rath and 1fea.17. - e t ; Countease. of Caeoh%an, Clautwassil, auul Ch. vh•rfield ; Yi.u•oautess Cre wok ue; Lrdy De Cldford ; awl the Hoo. Mrs. h.uox. OXFORD, gATURII4I, 1111.4. The Retina Professor of Ptts sic will hesclii his Coarse of Lrctuves in Anatomy and Physics;nay on Tuesday the 7th istant, in the Anatomy School, Christ Church, at twelve o'cletrlc. These Gentlemen of the Uttivorsity sho consider them selves as lleshesl Students, eat, nu cilriss in their names to the Prohesor, wader thnt drusissinattiou, be admitted to thtse Lecterns cstlkust any pa) went. On Wednesday last the Wowing gentleman were admitted to depots : Ila , teet f Art.. Rev. (rage Raslateigh, of ttrial-eoller. Item Edward Morel, of Perahriske•coliene. Rev. William .Dowel„ of Warih,w-colle ge. 51r. Lenjainin Dent, of Worrester-college. ker. John lierward, Trimly •celkge. Mr. Itobinsuo Eladak, of 4 'orpostheisti-entlege. chelara ; a r t,. Mr. Gram Milian, ,crier, of Ilrasenose-cullegA Mr. Joh* Got duo M.Caul, Ballsol relit Kr. 'Else Nev. E S. holm A M. it appoaated Chaplin, of hedrleo-rulk•pe, to this Illairtraity. • * . .-. r.. :1 • ~.4 vi l siL)c_. ..., ',Ta. Forma — If thie4Sollowing EPUTIMIS Sr. deemed worthy of insertini; iu your excellent pa per, they are at your service. OwLei. LLII RA, t Vestimlay se'lim, t ilt, as a CINISI named Green, Isclosiiiig to !seamed, was thwersitig the beach of that t in order to nick up frugine:.ts of the Malta hr observed &tiling ery near the cie.k, icialcreil conspicuous by a aril Bag, which he secured mid took home. This tittie me— srl hail, no doubt, been • launched, by order of floimpa,te, from the fiencii coast. to convey in. formation to this country, a. the cargo consisted of two packets, with French ~aperscriptioas, in pint. They were delivered to the Rev. Mr. Evros, who immediately transmitted them, miopeord, to Mr. Leach, in London, in order that lie mi 4 lit forward diem to tioternowist. They probahly contained the ltot4 end Snth 4tuaeGna, as they hues been since published in the Loodon pape.s. The cask s which was much larger thou an half tinker. was ersotrived tor the purpose.. The flag -11140 was secured by bcing driven ti t4 htly into the arsug•hvJos which MU4 Ceilitlited round with a coin position quite impervious to water. end to the trottom wes affixed a bag, coistaiiiing tem shot% to give it a proper degree of buoyancy. It is now in the possession of Major i'i'raut, of this town. Extract of a latter front a Serjeant of the 6th regt. of foot, dated Plymouth, Jan. 30—" The Ithtttl,hips I went throng'i in S;etirs are such as 1 hope never to meet agion.--Alarchilig night and day for some time, and when we did halt to refresh, it was is the fields where the water was r ttttt hog under us. Sometimes our provisions would be issued out in good time ; we then would prepare to cook, but at the moment our fires were wade anti, our kettle* on, the bugles would snood, and we were compelled to mareliiinsuediately 4ii or 50 English miles without Isahtug again, leaving our provisions behind its, and the Fieocli (At:Log up our rear, and taking most of our stn ~lrr.—lu deed the fatigues the Army went thritigh were such as I thought no men could ever undergo ; some did not reach Comma ; for both soldiers, Wg1.11.11, and children, died on the sites or the road or in the li4 iirs ; horse', mules, asses, oxen, dogs, &is sharer' the same late. 1 ito not know what this expeditioii must have rust Eng ' land, for every thing that was IWO to Spain (even the rneney) was thrown away, destroyed, or taken by the eiemy.—The company I !Alum; to lest in missing I serjeant and 35 privates."—(Bury Post.) When the late Ministers were in wince, it cir cumstance occurred respecting the office of King's Advocate, which was highly creditable to Dr. Lawrence for his disinterestedness, as well as to his feeling's and attachment to an old friend. The King's Advocate was offered to the Doer-, when he very honourably observed, that the then holder of the office, Sir John Nichol!, had a large and stood 10 wed of it; lie was a single man, and was not in want of it; and lie requested that Sir John might be allowed to retain his place. The ship Robert, Capt. Tunas., one of rho transports which carried a part of Jutsor's array from Lisbon to Rochelle, an camaequeuce o the Cintra Convention, was taken on her return from thence by a French privateer, and carried into Calais, where she was detained some days; at length an order came fur this vessel and sill her crew to he released and permitted to sail, and she is now arrived in the Downs. The Captain of the Robert reports, that he was very civilly treated by the French, and that after thin order came for re storing his ship, lie was furnished with an anchor and cable, and other cordage, and had given to him besides 701. in cash ; and further, lie states, that the Captain of the French privateer who took the Robert, was committed to prison for his conduct. However ditfereut this may appear trans the general conduct hitherto practised by all those under 800 APArtre's cuutroul, yet this unecdote may be depended on to he a fact ; and no doubt lout the handsome treat ment experienced by the Robert may be attributed to the exact and honour:aisle h ue of conduct *hewn by this country in fulfilling the terms of that un fortunate Convention. FLOODelftt allrriir WENS. _-......-- - teuaensa mart a.] • r ...-.... The west and moth sides of Downham have the appearance of seas, there b:•iiig about tivu feet water on hundred. of acres of law!, whereon from sixteen to tweot.: coorobs an acre of nets were grown lust season. The gulls on the new Bedford Bank are not yet taken, and it is feared the fanners will not be able to get the Ludo ready for cropping the approaching season, however favourable the spring may prove. The water M the litnidrAl Feet Washes was higher than rive was knor:3, being six feet six inches deep on Mepul Cilll,.:Wily.—There arc also ! two breaches into Burnt Fen, one nut of Brandon River, the other out of Mildenivill River ; one into Lakenticelli Fen, and one into Wereham Fen. I About .500 sacks e ere tilled with cartn, and laid ! en the banks of the Old Bedford River, on Friday ! soil Saturday se'liniolit, at various places where the , waters were then frowing over. This proved ef ' fectual in saving that part of the country from a general deluge. It is estimated, that the inundation has extended mom than 15 miler in length. and that above. 150,000 arm of land are completely flooded.— The injury to individuate is almost iucalculable, es 'the quantity o( stock kept on these fens is far greater than no the uplands; nunincre of sheep have been Mt, and the difficulty of hinting food fur the preserved is each, - that many persowg have been compelled to sell them at a certain loss, ;bar -tieularly WI it is so near raining time. Should the water not he drisined oft hefure beer, time ? the lose to the occupiers throughout the several districts of the fens, will 1w little short of it million of money. Many persona removed their stocks of oats from the lauds CM to the einbankinviit, but their had: iurs proved ineffiectaill, as the high wind of Son.lny se'nnight corapleiely dispersed them. Mr. Little, an opulent farmer of Welch's darn. fortunately weird 700 sheep, by driviin: their out of tho few to uplands, out above an hour before the Dank gulled. The coaches from London to Lynn, through Downham sod Ely, , have not travel4•rl since Thnrsdav su'onight, bat were expected down se,din on the 711, ;mt. as a great nambar ni men sic e I employed on Littleport Bank. in order to render it p.n.s: Vole, who worked all Sunday last. CARLINLE. rim 4. The oldest meson living does not rentemberthe rivers L'ilen, Caldea. and l'etteril. to hsve stunned a greater height, or occasioned more extensgve and serious ',alio:hid', than they have done this week. During the greater part of the week, tae rain has continued to fall ; in consequence whereof, the ri vers above-inentigined (which were already übove their levels, owing to previous rains), overdowed their banks. and inundated a vAst expanse of cone try, isrerentsigg, to the eye the appearance of net east lake, or rather sea, vetted with little islets. The damage experigniced is immense. bridges, trees, fem.'s', immense quantities .of soil, Ike. were rented. awes by name: moity Of the torrent. The buy at Setlaroy has lowa en tirely destroyed. Arinatiovaite bay has also beets demolished. But the roost serious injury sustain ed in the neighbourhood is at the bkoching•pre 11114e$ in Denton Holm, belonging to Mr. Robson Clarke. About 200 yards of the embankment whieb served to prevent the eueroachment of the Cliglew upon the Hgolm, were tarried away Ly the imgattuosity sir the eurtent. • !The :Mitt?, no longer restrained. instantly formed.. new eharesel, mud, rushing with irresistible violence against the pre mises, carried away or destroyed the sluices, and several pieces of machinery. Owe of the water wheels was lodged on the oppoiitc side of the river, a taw yards helow, and it is expected will be MN. erred. l'he drying-house hes sustained consider able vlamairee—one of the an3les, several yards in height., and upwards of one yard in hrearlth. was • Wednesday last brought down by the strength of the torrent. Some of the workmen had a nar row. curape, having removed from the place bat a few s:corids before the ruins fell. On the some day, as smite wortieu were. about to he conveyed in it coot out of the dwelling-houses forguing part of the premises, (the writes' having entered to the depth of uowargls of two Pert) it •euloeltrly upset in a deep pool. They, however were eatricuted by one of the peopte, just in time to save their live,. Alportton of ground. tlieproperty un thelMisses Graham. of. Aaa'sphill, owing to the liiirsthig . of the hank, is ogee under the exclusive sovereignty of the watery eleramit, but it is supposed it may be again recovered. During the Rood, a few days, since. a Gen- • 'tertian heing &serous to go from Worcester to Upton-upon-Severn, t Owe Fit linel ki,LN, of Stour port, awl two of his men, undertook to convey hire thither in a boat. They arrived there perfectly Safi, and landed their passenger ; but ou their re turn, the boat,, by some means unknown, was up set, and Mr. U. and his •ruen were unfortunately drowned. The bodies have 'nice been all taken op near Severn Stoke. On Thursday morning, between seven end eight o'clock, the passage-boat which plies, upon the Se vern, at Newnhain, was swaito.ged and sgiiik. when Mr. Hewer?, of Frampton, and the .two boat.* men, were drowned, in view of severill spettuturs on both sides of the river, who, a!tisouit they in stantly put off in another bout, were not in, time to render them any assistance. They had gone over to the opposite shore in the small bout, and were returning to Newsiliarn to avoid the good, when they were unexpectedly overtaken by the• bore, or head of the tide, which set in with paralleled height and rapidity, and were suddenly migulplied in the tremendous deluge, whilst pite ouily implorin7, assistance from the sltore. When th e y saw that they could not escape the tide, they jodieimisly placed the Liam end-on ; hut such was the overwheliniog power of the torrent, that their feeble bark was iiicap.thle of reiistin; its awful f„,cel—..llite of the boatmen, TIieDIAS KNIGHT, (alio had been a faithful and elution.' servant at that ferry for eighteen years,) ha, kit a fainilv of seven cliiidren ; the other, Tao►t.ti Ruoste, has left three small. children ; and each of them a,preg.. omit widow, in such circ•umstnnees of &Areas a 4 to render them great objects of charity. Ms. Haw- LETT had been married but a fee weeks. -~ A t POLICE. 'elllllllte-sinsr. Oa Istinday two men of the asters of ..a. . e ' • were csans.ised on a charge of rolibiez Its it) Mr. Whitwell, of Beth.•al-green roma, soda 1,•41,1 ussittifitet use,. The Primmer, wet e stopped Kcs, edy, and others ur the patrule, lielonghig Sr. ~., at Bethnal gri en, crurying two large sacks, . p se isiniatienwine found to contain •pusre.• u,' weight of Bodo and pearl nab. The odic. re 10.10 whence it had been 1:10‘41, immediately owl 40 Ms t= h 37 well, who identified the property. Mr lir. said Pot boners were nut in his employ, hut was afraid were tom fleeted with some of his serviwits; for with.. a very short period he had been rubbed of the abqve me-eke is, the amount of sad.; bat had hitherto been with e to Awe oat the thief, and was indiiited for the present sinpurtant,dts. covcry to that very useful and necessary offender: of the Pollee, the ;nitride. 'I be Prise:wee could give ny either ac count than that they saw the sacks lying millers wall, and as no person was near them, they did nut k"uw that it would be awy offence to take them up. When the Patrule apprehended them, they said they did nut know t hat the casks contained, and that they lied not bed th••in „ve nilautes; but um being dearched, m ilinuitity of soda was found in their packets. They were committed fur SUPP: • Alma st month since, a sailor, of the name o:_ Janes Page,was sent from 011 board A roan-of-war, et Portsinoutii, in custody, to Bow-street!..lifice, irs• ernistspieriee of his basing confessed, that about, eight years ago, he, in company with asiothey , to a s robbed and li/ordered a nuts, and threw the hotly into aditeh, end covered it over- with earth, grass. He assigned as a reason for his confession s that he was miserable in his mind, in vonsequenee of his hoeing murdered the man. Ile w.ss delass:• ed its eustudjs mid Anthony sent to snake town, : rues a kw miles on the Bueirinhailishirc-rond, 'puling from Oford-street, where he said he com mitted the murder, hut not the lama iiifornintien could be pitied respecting such a eiftuntstaiicit having taken place. - Anthony persevered' in the inquiries on all the roads leadisg from Osfard- Street, lest the Prisoner should be mistidtcn in his description 011ie place, but none could be gehir.l. The Prisoner persevering •in his confession, An thony took him M wear. 11, for him to point net the spot; when he µMuted out more pieces !frau one, but was sn indecisive in all he said, shut Anthony ass satisfied his tale was manufactured to answer some purpose. A good deal of the 'flea's history ha:, since been traced, and it has been sisoerteisied, that about twelve years since he fell from a hay rick, and pitched on his head, the elect of whist:, it is supposed, has caused a slightdevangement.- 11e was claimed, on blunday, are deserter from the Buckinghamshire Militia. Although the verdict of the COroner's Lis com!iletely refuted all the shameful reports that have out of the circunxstance of a female stchton having been found interred iu a held ;II the parish of Cheswick, we fail it due to the irre proaellable caaracter of Mr. B. to repeat, that all the allusions respecting hint have proved the most groundli•ss, and basely calumnious ; siii trust that retry honourable-minded man will use his best endeavours to trace the original propagator of th-se reports ; which, though they may Late origi nated in private malice. appear now to have been imbistriously promoted hr party ntakholeacc. Three-near were lately brought before Air. (let- RAM, by AllniuNif. from near Ilford, eliar t4 ed with uttering forged Bank-uotes. They are all carnmu. and their defence is, diet they were driviag their mania topolter along the road, and they picked up a 'it. bon, whi..is continued forged notes* the isonnnal *Ha • . - • • _ - Monday arming', ass oW bseleiv Io Vidantine row, Bleekfriere-road, winch W. 114 used isisa work -hop, was blown down. A 1000 who was at m o ck, had him leg tnneh hurt, lied hi, thumb cliAlveated by the falling in of the roof ; and a do s ou the pea ittit,s was killed on the spot. The frenticticy of these accident, seems to indicate the ince•sil of • proper soryeyos being appointed to web district, tabula:orders should be peremptory, in either polls iug down haute, in danger of lulling, or else pro pet ly smite:rung or scpainng them, eo to praecpt the possibility of lista, being lost, or occident* baps pening from dirapidated lstrAa. tlu Monday a num meanly dressed went to di.: Earl of Lteauroues °tire in the Treasury, said behaved extremely disorderly, and refused to leave the Oftee; they were therefore obliged to send 'for an officer, to. take bine avow, when he provedee lieidentriged, and had broken out of St. Luke's.-' He was coma-ye:4-in a cow4:l. back to that place. On Monday the 234 alt. sive brilse out in the second boor of Little Theelow-hall, Stard)t., the properqs.of H. &must. F. 41. bet now (reckoned by Col.firaveassse, olti • en a short tate iltstroyed nearly all the inside ut the sapper ru ~,,, * and roof. It is supposed to have bet u occasioned by a large bra kept in an open chimney of the great hall, liming the late severe moaner, to prevent the fire mina from rusting. which commuiticated with sense crows-heatiss iu the charnbAnis On Sionday lest. the mullion. ot Lieut. ntt 1.1.151 SAYRR, late of the tilst roginieut, wire c.• tried through Catiterbuiy, for interment at Sit..., .111, of which place he was a native. Thee died 00 board a transport, us he was home from Spain with the rensuants. of. our lit fated expedition to that country. An inquest was taken, oat Thursday litat r before Jose'' ST.4DEM. Esti. Mayor of FONgtOitr, on the firmly of Ttiostas llirwat.t.,.4f the 12th 'Dragoons, who shot himself .in the often:irou of that slay. It appeared its the evidence adduced before the Jury, that the deceased was atroogly suspected of having felonitstely stolen as k box, containing upwards of 41)1. and .sundry other as tides, the property-of Strjeatit STIWAST, of the detachment, who had ordered Into into eustudy flit the purpose of sending Lin to Dover fur ex. notimitioit, when the deceased, placing his °tubule (o;iicli it it conjectured he loaded iniswithAely wthipirliOn was attached to hint) to breast. claimed I'll do it, so help use Goal" Ausl al thongli several of Isis comrades were iu the anibie, ha pulled the fatal.trige,er before ttie) had awaits to resent it. The Jitry returned their verdict — Ice, de se ; and he was Accordingly buried in the hid hwey. A report has reached us of the bridge at likii!g nort:t having been carried away by the Severn, and of a stage coach and potwengisis having beau loet.—, (Staffordshire Advertiser.J • A i I; I I lj , O . 1 • • e i ' i i, • I : t i I 1 $ i R i ' e t $ P , I • • 1 I e t T tt.