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F ~s j' ~ f -. ~r u R i • ii I. rf ~. of the town ; and the other, a refined and emascu lated siditinn, for the amusement of the board ing-school tuiAsio. Thie plan, however, had not been many days in contemplation, when it was settled, that it would be unsafe, as emdra bo oms mutes, to publish any thing grossly obscene; and the printer. Mr. Gll.l.liT. a irtry respectable one, received instructions for on7y one copy. This dif- Scotty, however, was scarcely got over, when a ties. oue 'wus htarted. The Letters contained beve- n f il LONDON, : FRIDAY, Amur. 14. E I Ii 1,, ~~. ~" 11 'l, . f ~~ • • .• S; - • i ,~~ . .• • At tile Sokthw trk Meeting, of which ae gave a full report yesterday, Mr. ALcocu, alluding to tlteturtiitlk of Mrs. CLARKE'S Book, expensed - a wish that it might rise like a Phoenix from its ashes, in order that the country might see tie• buitidalous manner in which its utfairs'were maaaged, and its confidence was abused. The honesty and sincerity of Mr. ALCOCA'A wish no man acquainted with Lis character can doubt, but we do not believe that his wish, if realised, would answer Ins expectation. A Sample of the Duce of Yonfe's Mee-letters is be fore the public, in the es idence given upon the ill spiry before the House of Commons, and Mrs. CLARE had a great many others from the some pen. Serval objections were, however, made by her legal mod friendly couiisellers, to_ the publication in their original state. Some were objected to as too vies, and it was proposed to emasculate them, for Ilse benefit of the sentimental and boarding-school li . saies. In answer to this, it was said that such re finemeut would rob them of their only merit; and af t era long discussion with a certain civic Knight, who modestly characterizes himself ti an Eminent Pub- Usher," it was agreed to publish two editions, one in pari4 orsiara:ibus, for the use of the old batche lore in the city. and the kept ladies in the west end ral allusions to the other Nletinbers of the Royal Faun!), :lied it was suggested; that coupling them with some infamous reports and parsgraplis in some of the newspapers, • ease might he made out fur a Jury, tantamount to a conspiracy to degrade and vilify the Royal Family. Here then the prolong knife was again set at work, and every paragraph in the amorous epistle. of his Royal Highness contain ing any anecdote of the root of the Royal Faintly was cut off and cast away. It war in this stater that the work was prepared for the pn•ss, and ten tlmu • sand copies were worked off, when on Saturday last, Mrs. CLARKE issue) hioliat for an auto dafr, and they wr .- ddi co.Aigned to thc attunes. Mrs. C: LA RE E ' it tipprais, never had a child by Dowl.cit, nor by l t tar Luxe, although she had several by the miser able fellow, her husband. If. i:i.• of the DLAL's letters he says something in his awn defence, and CANlrtiiiiPlo that, by a former Sot , -..ue, be bad two ugly children, whom be occasionally risited.--This i 4 the only private scandal that Wars r.tained in the work. Report has stated, that Mrs. CLA ItliE had contrived to introduce herself to the Duke as an Officer's widow iti distress, and all the world arena aidti•ni to know whether this story was true, . as &epsilo! of this modern Mad. Da MA,rietcsorde Bat 'even this point, so interesting to all belies ausiotiaeo ire under preicelion, was not noticed, and the work wits cot down into is mere dr ' fence of lot ow u suotliect. sass wit, sin/ scandal, same anecdote, same tawdry, semis every thing to ren derit delecrahle to refilled *oral sad political taste. We may, therefore, ash ly say that neither mora lity, politics. literature, mit lewduros, have loot any lilies by the suppression of Mrs. CLAZILL'S Work. THE BRITISH PRESS. We yesterday announced the arrival of the official accounts of the ertutplete surrender of Martinique ; and also of the strrtuder of ViKo. They were pub lished yesteiday, in an lixtraardinary Casette, whieh is is writ in our preceding columns. Sir At TWO. WiLLEILLY and Iris Staff remained Oct Wednesday, at Portsmouth ; and die tritrivports, with the 3d and 4th Dragoon:, which bad Sailcd tinder convoy of the Frederickstein, fur LiAnii, bud put into Stoke', Bay, being forced buck by con trary. winds. Lord Aacausato Hann:sow gave notice last sight in the HOWL' of Common', of a motion rela tive to Vircottot CLIITLEREAGII, grounded upon the evidence before the Select Committee upon East India( Patronage. W k stated yebtertlay, that •ant the Noble Viscoust suitst go. nod wok now ro. peat go be mw,t. Perhaps in no department of Administration has BoNAMAirrit disployeof greater ability or din:em inent, than iu the selection of those persons whom lie has employed, and whom be conti n ues to em ploy in diplomatic situations. Three of these in dividuals lisle been particularly distinguished in the Court 4 of Turkey, Austria, arid Knurls. The tiro, Srfurtiani, after vivitiog Egypt, Persia, Syria, and the Asiatic provinces of the Porte, finished by governing the Counsels of the late unfortunate mod was in fact more master at Con stantinople, during ;oome years, than the Sultan himself. He has sere' theleste beets recently sent into Spain in a military romanand. imireussi, the second. commenced his diplomatic career in this rThatrY is IOL He was a 111411 of science is his .... •~~ _ - Toot is'on is an engineer, had setved udder tON k- PARTE in Egypt, and was personally beloved by him. Like NAPOLEON, AN DREAPSSI was by desceut an Whim, though Lis family had been naturaliiied during three generations in France. TALLEY= RANO long opposed his nomination as Ambassador to London ; andl when he was ordered by the Fta.T COttsbL.to make out a list of persons fit for that employment,' he omitted AN PREOSSI'S name. Surprised and indignant at the circumstance, 80.. APARTE remarked to the Minister for Foreign Affairs 4. Je n'y vois pegs le nous d'Andreessi. Flutes le inserer." He then selected ARDREOSSI for the mission. Bat TALLEYRAND took care to accom pany him with a spy, in the person of PORT A its. Secretary to the embassy. ANDaLosst was a Mall Of plain sense, frank, open, rough in his manners, and destitute of all finesse or artifice. He had even a republican rudeness about him, ill-adapted to raise him in Courts. NAPOLEON nevertheless continued to employ him at Vienna, down to the present time. Com Jimmies is the most celebrated of the three, and has played a most important part in the court and history of Russia. His name will be handed down with execration to Im,terity, on account of the part which he performed in the tragedy of the Duke D'Emosims. Assuredly, it was impos sible to do any act more calculated to consign his memory to the abhorrence of future ages. Yet, justice demands, arid truth exacts the avowal, that CAULINCOURT, far from courting that commission, endeavoured not only to avoid it, but to execute it in a manner that should have allowed the victim to escape. We know, from the best authority, that CAULINCOURT, when he arrived at Ettenheiin, where the Duke D'ENGHIEN was, far i: ni•at tempting to surround the house in w!, • • !, resid ed, gave notiee of his approach, '7 i n i..nti on that the Duke might quit the tuna. A 4411iiiig at the head of a party of car dry at the door of the house, he entered it; and, nrossint; the hall, met the Prince himself. Affecting ignorance of his person, though lie knew the Mike well, he ad vanced, and said, " Je Aida enrimi ici de la part de L'Emperear, pour iue swish de In personae du Due IY Eaghica ; Lc comagissez-cous?" The Prince had only to have disavowed any knowl.nhie of-his person. But, whether from want of sufficient pre ' seace of mind, or disdaining to deny his name, he replied, " Cat raoi qui nit . It Dec —" In that case," said CAULINCOUKT, " lay orders are to arrest your Highness." The rest is known to all Europe. No act of Boa AINIRTIeI life, none of his crimes or warder., have made so odious an imprei.bioa on Europe, us the execution of that magnanimous Prince, performed by torch-light, in the Fosses of the Chateau de Vincennes. That the capture of Vigo, and the French garri son, is not an event of sufficient importance and magnitude to compel, or to mince, SOULT to abandon his attack on Portugal, we believe. But it is s nevertheless, a piece of success, calculated to operate strongly on the insurgents in the North- West of Spain, to quicken their operations, and to impel them to pursue the advantage. SouLT had i pushed on, as it appears, to Braga ; but we are yet without any information of his having reached Oporto. And it may be doubted, after the low of Vigo, foltosted by the defeat of the French who' marched from Toy, how far Sou,/ would plunge deeper into Portugal, leaving Gallicia, Conning. and Ferrol, to the protection of Nay, who is not understood to have more firma 5000 effective troops wider his command. The situations of affairs in Portugal, both on the Douro and on the Tagus; towards Oporto, and towards Elves ; is most criti cal ; and our next accounts that country must be proportionably interesting. The capitulation of Vigo differs materially from the spirit of the comm. vention of Cintra, and prot•eeds on such bases as a British Commander need not blush to sign. The Cork illercas=h7=surk contains the fol lowing article Intelligence is said to have been received from Washington, a duty later than the date of the American newspapers, which mention that Mr. Gittes had proposed a resolution, by way of rider, to time Non-lutercourse and Embargo Bills, • putting off their operation till the mirth% of the new Congress, in May, which it was thought would not be rejected. We do not see any reason for treating this report with much respect." A Requisition to call .‘ a Meeting of the inha bitants of the town and neighbourhood of Shrews bury, to consider the propriety of votieg their thanks to Mr. WAIIDI.U." dtc. gas mr Tiirmlay presented to Mr. SMITH, the Chief Magistrate in the absence of the Maros': the consideration of which. he 1s requested may he deferred till the return of the MAYOR, who is expected this day. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Fuel India House, when the Six new Directors took the usual Oaths and their seats. CNAL GRANT and Wx. Aarr Lt., &qrs. were elected Chairman awl Deputy Chairman. The Court atlourued at Wx o'clock WI %%redoes vtay next. The Pomona, T►:swt.t:x.tn, from Lisbon for London, was captiare , l on the 11th Dec. The crew W arrived at Sinitr. the Royal Charlotte, Moans., is arrived in the Clyde, from Grenada, which place site left onthe 2d ult. in company with the Eglittivton, (ituttm iml, for the Clyde--parted, on the rilte, oft* St. Theresa's. The Sovereign, —, for London, and the Heeler, for Liverpool, put into Grenada tu February, leaky, and din-hinged part or their cargoes—the former sailed again on the 11th Feb. —and the latter was to sail about the middle of March. A -:. • lasers TO COWL MILL SZ •1 VOLLOWIL April 17, Newmarket First Spring Afteting-5, Mallow 3lny I, Newmarket Second Spring Meeting, and Cbeiiter Durham-lu, Goodwood —L 47, Lpsona—io, Guildford AU, Waddington —lag, York. Jane y, Tenbury. J nly iNewmarket—U, Kusitsford. August 15, Canterbury. BAill-A ?RI /. la. Mrs. Jonna.n.—This fascinating actress made. her tint appearance on the Bath boards List night. It is unnecessary, it would be superfluous, to be strew particular commendation where all was excel lent and enchanting. To say that Mrs. JORDAN is the grit actress of the age ; that she never has been, ■nd ptohablv never will be. surpassed ; that for playful huMour, naivete, and a bewitching sim plicity of mariner, no performer of the present day can approach to a competition with hertelitit is it but to repeat the universal sentiment of all who have seen her? In such a general dearth of dramatic talent, it is pleasing to witness something that calls as hack to the "good old times :" anal those who shall neglect to see Mrs. JORDAN will deprive themselves certainly' of the highest treat that theatrical representation, in comedy, can afford. _ - COUNTESS OE FORTESCUE'S GRAND ROUT. The COUNTED of Foorzscus gave her first grand Rout List night, at her house in Grosvenor. square, It was attended by all the rank and fashion in town. The arrangements for the even ing werw in her Ladyship's usual style of elegniit'e. At ten o'clock the Company began to assemble. Ainiing,t them were— Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex; the Duke and flambeau De Castries; Duchesses of )Itootruse, and Leeds; Dowager Northumberland, and M ; arg. Douglas ; Marchionesses of Salisbury, ticadt.rt, Dna nshirr, Stafford, Lausdown,Townsliend, and Exeter; Earls of Stair, Bridgewater, Powis, Longford, Es,ex, Cardigan and Sefton ; Countesses Camden, Barryinore, Cow • per, Psoilmoke, arnick, Curk, Buckinghamshire, Carlisle, Berkeley, Albemarle, Dartmouth, Macclesfield, Cardigan, POW k Cameroon, Mansfield, and Sefton; Viseiniutoiscs Metbourn,: Faliciinberg, Hampden, acid Newark; Ladies Newport, King, De Clifford, Pousonby, Grenville, Perth, Drummond Smith, Somers, Dunn's, C. Beutiock,l Perry, Taylor, Ron., Smith Burgess, Cecil', Keith, Somerville, Lyittlkin, Callender, Thymic , Rowley, and Glynn; the Hon. Miss Fortestne, the lion. Mrs. Egettoo, rod the Hon. Mrs. Walpole. "eaterday inorisiug ueiug very wet, ilis MAJES TY did not ride out. On Tuesday evening, the Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER arrived at Windsor, on a visit to iler MAJESTY, and remained there till yesterday, when she returned to London. The Duekess of YORK left Windsor on Wed nesday., where she had Wan some days on a visit to the Queen. a _ . The Guests and Princesses Soeet♦ and Awe- Lus are a little better. Arrivals at Clifton and the Wells:— Lord Bolton, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Powktt, Hue. Mr. mid Lady Ann Rigby, Hue. Mn. King; Sir VlAllam, Lady, and MisAes lVolsely ; Sir Charles Wheeler, Lady CNN*, Gen. Nicholls, Colonel Plaskett, Major Whetbani; Capt. ll'arde, R.N.; Captain Payton, R.N.; Capt. Atehenin ; Key. Mr. Mrs. and there MnMS Capper, Rev. Mr. Gervais, Rev. Mr. Murabead, Mr. Mrs. and the Mhos, Attersolls, Arrivals at Bath : E art Gotiford, Countess of Dartmouth, Lord Borriegdou, Lady sod Miss Gambier, Lady Digby, Ladies C. sad H. ge, Hos. Mr. Legge, bar J. sad Lady Aubrey, and Col. aid Mr.. Balfour. V hietwittess MORPETH was considered better last night. Veieount and Vi countess DUNGANNON . * house, Su Cruftou-street, has been prepared fur their re ception. They are expected in u few days from Wales. irl FOITEICUE will give a grand dinner, to morrow, at his house in Grosvervir-square. Lady C I.THORPE'S grand rout, 114.. t evening, and Mrs. BEAUIIo NT'S grand lull and supper, were the resort of nearly all the Nolallty in town. Earl and Counte.% CanI.MOXuLLEv are expected to leave town as soon as the weather is favourable. The Ilan. Mrs. MacuoN AEU has issued cards of thanks for the numerous inquirits during her acesuchement. The Earl and Countess of CHESTEKFIBLD left town yesterday fur Bradley Hell, Derbyshire. The Duke and Duchess of Bassi FORT arrived lest night at their house in Grosversior-square, for the season, from Badminton, Gloucestershire. Sir T 11105145 and Lady lIESICETH returned to town yesterday from a visit to the Earl and COUIF. tessof D►nay. at the Oakes. Yesterday %HS occupied is hearing parish ap peals at Clerkenwell. Nothing of public interest occurred. Sir JAMES BRANSCOKII and Co. havethe pleasure to acquaint the public they shared two of the Grand Prizes drawn on Wednesday last, six. —No. 3,618, entitled to 1,000 Tickets, and 9,123 drawn a Prize of £20,000, both in Sixteen Sixteenths. The First-drawn Prize on Friday the 21st inst. will be entitled to 500 Whole Tickets, which may gain at kast 50,000 guineas. Tickets atid !Mures me seq. * mg at 11, Holborn, 37, Coruhill, 38, .r.laymarket, and i 69, Strand. First day of drawing present State Lottery—No. 18,031, a Prue of Twenty Thousand Pounds, wus sold on the of lust month, in a Whole Ticket, by Ittcusasisoti, GOODLUCK. and Cn. The se cond day of drawing will be on Friday next, the it st instant, when the First-drown Prize above 161. will he entitled to the Parcel of Five Hundred Tickets. Warranted undrawn 'Tickets and Shares, are on sale RICHARDSON, Goontot• and Co. at their O ld Offices, corner of Bank-buildings, Coriihill, and facing the Gate of the King's Mews, Charing-Cross. J awes Go EIINHILL, mentioned in our East India Report of yesterday, who had lodged 3,000 gui neas for ii•Writership, is not from the county of Montrose, as stated by Mr. J. FULLER to the Committee; there is no such county in Scotland. He is the son Of Mr. CHARLES tiaimanit.t., factor to the late Sir DAVID CA11141107. who resides on the estate of Ohl Montrose, a few miles from a bo rough at that name in Scotland. ►, saiiwei (:enlarger s ; ea, his tile, were ill= dieted for Isreakiiie will entering the dmeltitig- Insure of Richard StrefEne, ist the del' thin-, DO person being therein, awl blasting a silver wittch, ten silver tea spurns, and a large ',mayday of wearing ap;strel, the property of this sod Richard, mid of ew Aldritch. Margent ig stated, that she hved'at No. t Pelmineton-street, St. Griorge's in the East ; her hush:sod is a sea-feting loan, and now at sea, awl Matthew Ahlritch was a lodger in her dimes . Lest Palm Su (March 48), she vomit not till Oct three o'clock, leaviog lair haitse,seetireti, front and retie ti her return, t nine .eeftock at night, in company with her lodger, shotossoll the house had been broken open, and roltecd• of the envious articles in the indictment. 'l' Prisoo, iiihaiiited the next house. I ler. testiaho,y %WI confirmed by Writs'', her lod.:er. A mutt of the nettle of Cowan. an opposite neighbour, ita* the state of the p're'mises the sautes Mlt,. The next morning he eieleaicarflt to ei conaroodate matters between the Pro.eetitiis and the Prisoner, !pots whom euspicioit hatl feleu. its ronscquenee of his persuasion, the p isoner took him tirst to her father's in the neighbourho 4, where, in the yard she pointed out the watch 's a d the ten -spoons, and afterwards to another bossy. where he received two bundltai, with the cloths* its them. Mortal, an officer belonging to the Thames Pa lice-Office, being sent for the morning after the robbery, went to the Prisoner's house, and ask d the man's permission to search the piece, whtf se:ifs his wife was not there, but freely consented. Ile did so, but found nothing. The former witite,s Cowan, then arrived, and taking the Prisoner Anne apart, they went out and afterwards produced the things, of %%1141 he took charge atel 'sow produced in Court. They were identified by the Prtntecntrix and Aldriteh. The Learned Judge (Tievetesow) in summing up the evidence to the Jury, told them there was' nothing to affect the Min ; but that they were to decide, whether, under the cireittn-taitces, they le - lievetl the womaieconcerned in the robbery. The Jury, after some hesitation, wanted to find her guil'y of receiving ; but that not being possible, they acqmitted her, its well as her husband. The_ verdict was. very indecently received. by some persons clapping in the gallery; one of whom. being identified, *Recommitted to gaol for the coo tempt of the Court. . - _ _ On Monday, Ninreh 27, Penelope Elitalietli, only daugh ter of T. 1). Harris, Ems. of Higne, in the eou:ity of I)evon. On Good Fr,Jiyy , at Loath, aged 6a, Mrs. livcdale, rsl.ct of the tate Res Robot tvetia:e, D.D. gel tor of imagism, - near Spilsby. She was the daughter of Bennet I.augt.on, Esq. of Langton, by Dian his wife, sLaught,r of Edipued Turns•, Esq. of Stoke Rochford. It is lem.rit Ade that this lady had often expreesed a de►ire that, a hen she died, it ulizlit be on s. Gond Friday. lln Stitardav se'nnight, et his fetlil's house, in James street, Edwin, fourth son of C. L. Wardle, Esq. M. P. Mr. G. Stanton, of the Stafford Company of Comedian, PRICEOE DTOEKS, YF.STEIIDAY. " Bank Stark 3 per ('cut. Reduced Nit • . . 3 per Cent. Consols 4 per Cent. 5 per Cent. Navy Lung Annuities Irish 5 per Cent. I ii.tia Stock Ditty Bun& l4 p.cin. Early/bet Dits English !Amery Tickets ~ .. ....... •.:2‘. 44. Cassels fur T. DISH , Siork•Droker , 4, SALES BY AUCTION. FREEHOLD FARM AND LAND, IPIITi.. SUSSEX. Hy nessrt HOMART, and PHILLIPS, At Garraways on TUESDAY NEXT, April is, at to o'clock, with:Jet reserve, the k'orckatter at • fa meta tank . . . out having completed his cataract, Very desurable FREEHOLD ESTATE, coritainitig about 27.1 ac,cs of rich water meadow, 11111- late and coppice land situate at [ping, ;o tulles Lvtit London, 7 from Petcrafield, and 13, from Chichester, in the county of Nusscx ; with a substantial farin-honso, u, sta bling. cart-boom, out-buildings, garden, and to bard, a ilk extens.ve rights of commas, an d A cottage and garden, in the oil upatiou of hlr. Neu mau, teriu espies* at hlickaulnurr, tam). The estate may be viewed, by applying to Mr, Ferrer, Bailiff to Lord Robert Spencer, Woallseditrg, ut ar Midliuts', and particular , laid, to days previous to the sale, of hli Sautliram, Solicitor Hidlotrat ;,Balf-moun, PeiwoitS ; Nor folk Antis, Arundel; Kittets-Aran, Gutlalosing ; Fountain, Portsmouth; Dalphin, Peterseeld at the Libraries .f Brighton, Worthing, and Bognor; of Mr. Knight, banker, Kingston; Thomas Lositcti, Lim. Temple ; Chapter lbfllc house, Paternoster-row ; at I;arraway • ; and of Me sr. Hoggart and l'itillips, Ii t, Broad-street, Royal Eses-- - V • BLE litk:Lll4 " ALUA— .e. FREEHOLD FARM, GRAI d, ESSEX. By Mews. HOGIGART and PHILLIPS, At Garrawys„, no WEDNESDAY , April s 6, at 14, A DV . DL V A I.'S iA K NI, cl!liolil, aryl A Tythe free , comprising 145 Acres of rinroattrom girls Arable and Woodland, delightfully 'Annus', adjuming 13c1- oannt-castle, near Grays, in the comity of Es" sex, with a substantial Farm-butte, spaciott, Barna, St*bling, and Out builaiiip, in excellent repair, in the occupation of L. Bettor. Esq. at the luw Reut of 451. per annum. May be viewed, and particulars had, ten days !pet one to the Sale t at Garraway's t Red Lion, Ilford ; the buns at St.f ford, Purdeet, seal Grays; and of M llloggart ae..l Phillips, Old-Broad street, where a Plan of the Esta a a y be seen. VALVAT" ..ssEEHOLD MANOR Farm, STIF FOR 1), ESSEX. By Messrs. HOGGART and PHILLIPS, At Gaunt, ay's, on/IRMA Y, June 9, at It o'clock, 4 VERY - desirable FREEtIOLL) ESTATF. tiL. comprising the Manor Farm of Stifford Cbsis ; con taining 450 acres of excellent ambit, meadow, and pasture land, in good eultiratiou, lying very compact on both sides of the road from London to South-End, g miles from Grays, to from Romful,l, and 25 milt-strew London, with a newly_ erected brick-built DwellinA house, Born, Stabling, and Out ho &lungs, let on lease to Mt. W. Sdtkett, a inspectable te nant, at a 14,e rent of 7301. per annum, lainl-tawolloweil.-w. Part of flu: prrebase-muocy may remain on naortgnie. The Estate may be viewed on application to IV Wright, at the Dog and Part idge,Stifford ; and 1111'4,40es had, ten days previous to the sale, at the White Haft, Roanford ; Kieft, Arms, Grays; Arerley ; urn church ; Bell, Upnainster ; Angel, Iltad of Sir. 14ithy, Solicitor, Ynekiorham street, Strand; nt Caraway's ; of Messrs. Huggart nmJ Phillips, tio, Bromlntrect, Boy.:41 Exchange, where a plan /Ache Estate may helmets: LONDON, Printed by G. D IVIDSON„ in,. 1111 Boswell-court, Carey-strr-t and pnWiahttl at the Odle,'Nn. Nn. ts, Bark 4,1' St. Clement's Chareli, Strand, by WHITS, of same place.—Ordem, ht. dir thin Pa,w, seat to the Otliee,(pust paid), will be duly attended tu. 4) e* , t it SPORTING INTIILLIGENCR. •