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BRIGIITON, Auousr fel. - At ten o'clock this morain!: Mrs Fri %it tit az:r, in her barsuche and four, left this for Londfin. At the same hour the Artille-v Company a , sembled noon the West Battery, and fired the great guns: they fired sic rounds. The So u th Gloucester Mi litia paraded as usual. The E.trl of HERKELLV was present : his Lordship is iodefatigable in his atten tions. The signal gun from the Cygnet sloop vets fired for all hands to come on board. and they im mediately set sail on a cruise. Mr. MEE En and his family are gone to town. Mr. PolArtit.t. and fa mily leave this on Wednesday. Mr. At:nasals is expeOrd at his house on the New Steyne to-dat ; some canting, some going, keeps up the bustle. Se- Mal cruisers are in sight. SOUTHAMPTO.V, Aic. I:. On Saturday, Mr. Rose's p:iees were sailed for in ekis River—but there be:ng nn wind, it was even in; before the List vessel tut ned the station. Eigh t4n started—the first prize, five guineas, was won br .1, hn Chipman ; the second, three gnineas, by Paskiiii ; and the third, two guineas, br John Mathews. The remainder (15) had each one guinea given them for their loss of time. The Re..- bark cutter received Mr. Rose, sen. and jun. in which there was a band of music, and a rich supply of every delicacy, to regale a sela company invited on board. Lyndhurst races, en Friday. afforded tolerable sport; particularly by the Hants Yeomanry Ca valry, who contended far a purse of 1.5 guineas, which was given by the Officers. It was won by one of the troop of Rornsey, after f ,ur heats. Mr. )cow's own beat the bald, in the ox race, and cre ar'd much diversion, from the novelty. r lond.iy, the Prince of Niiales's birth day was ob served here as usual, with festiv,:y and kw:ll , y. Tuesday. our Volunteer Corps mustered in march ing order, very strong, and amused themselves by mounting 20 in framed waggons, when they rode several times round the Marsh, and up the High street. No accident happy:led, though several shewed their dexterity by vaulting and jumping off and on, at full speed. The inhabitants %sere highly pleased with the aEtivity and spirit displayed by their voluntary defenders. Ten waggons au:laded. The Officers sat in front of each waggon. SALISBURY, AUGUST 19. On Wednesday Colonel Brenton impeded the Sarum Vo!inure; s, commanded by Colonel Boucher, the South Wilts Itattali , in, commanded by Colonel Bailey, and the Avon and Bourne Battalion, Com manded by bir Chat le, W. Malec, Bert. nu Netton Down. The several cnrpc made a vet y noble appear. ante; their waggons. &e. were in complete order ; and, horn the safisfadion expressed by the inspect fag Field Officer, there can be ms doubt of his re porting them ready for immediate service. The West Wilts Regiment of Volunteers, under the command of C;ilnel Pena addi•cke, were inspea ed on Thursday Its', on Flindon Down, by Coked Brenton, and highly commended. In the coarse of the lay a hell accident betel Joseph Foot, a Vo lunteer. and driver of a waggon attarlied : in trying :o stay his horses, the wheels passed over I.is body, 'wand killed him on the spot. lie had just time to see h i: danger, and cry ou', brit nn more. A widow and nine aiiildren bewail his destruCtion. Our Races began on Wednesday, wlseat the King's Plate of 100 gs. was won by Lord Sackville's hr. It. ViikaCtAft, heating Mr. Frogley's Triptolemus, wl was distanced the second heat. ; bur schty three horses started for the ?timbers' Plate of 501. and came in as under: Sir be. Mirror, 4 yrs. old . . 1 1 Mr Richaniw.n'sb g. Lemortitqueezer ' nod . . 2 2 I.q id bh. W sg.td .. . . dr. For the City Bowl, Mr. Richardson's Lemon squeezer walked over the course. On Friday Mr. Sutton's gr. m. Betsey, and Mr. Sadler's b. c. Peregrine Pickle, started for the Sub scription Plate of 501. and the former beat her anta gonist easy. A third horse started, but was drawn after the first heat. This Plate remains in dispute ; and we understand a prosecution is carrying on against one of the par ties for running a horse without having previously fp.icl the duty. "These Races were thinly attended ; there was lit tle betting, and as little sport, being scarcely a well contested heat. Triptolemas gave some expeciation in Sunning the second heat for the King's Guineas ; hot shortly after he bolted. aad was distanced.-- h 4l; e;t: 'vas the favourite at staring fur the Mem . 4 ire, on Thersday ; but be fell lame utter the mist best, and was obliged to he drawn. 1 here was however a splendid ball at the Rooms TharsdaY, the company amounted to 144 persons of rank and fashion : and a ball and supper on Fri ' day, when 100 of the company sat down to a sump turifis .sepper at the Rooms, served up in excellent by Nlr. Gibbons, of the Spread Eagle Inn.— The Conntess of Radnor, Lord Viscount Folkestone, Lady B. Bonverie, Lord Viscount Sackville, and the junior branches of most of tie Eta families in the neighbourhood, were among the company. Mr. Setope, the Steward, presented five guineas tothe isPistiry Irqtmary. 4. tw mitigated fine levied on a turnpike-man, for goerine Major-General Warde and Colonel Brere ton in going throutrh the turnpike -gate, has been E'e , eared to the widow of the Volunteer who lust her site 40 tlindon I N,wn. Mr. Mutinies and Mr. EMERY are playing with ghat success %It the Liverpool Theatre. Thefisshinns at Paris do not correspond with the t•Pather. The limier conceive it elegant to wear silk siackings when it rains, and hnt.iS in fine wea ther. Th e fier/.. imitate the gentlemen: the greater part have worn their sh , es with the instep entirety uncovered during Ilse winter ; since the summ:r commenced, alosost all wear their alines laced even keynoil the inst p. A 'aisle no lo.Ter rrsts upon leg: ; it reposes nn the `hoe' le►s nt an Atlas. The legs of a stool are now 14014) 1E 4 into yrving Cupids squatted play fully on the grinind; And a sideboard of plate has MU'cilser to the middle. and is couple of Bacchanals to it it Oft Cola side. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. On Wednesday, Her Royal Highness the Prin cess of WA 1.1%. attended by the lion. Mrs. 1. v L Lady in Waiting, and Mrs. and Miss FIiZr:ERA arrived at the Hon. Colonel Hon n's, at Cathering ton, near Portsmouth, to dinner. On Thursday and Friday, l fer Royal Highness. rode sound the c' wry in her barouche and tour. Saturday, about three o'clock, Her Royal I lighriess paid a visit to Commissioner Sir CHARLES SAX lON 41 the Dock-yard, Portsmouth, where she partook of All elegant cold collation. Her Royal Highness then, accompanied by Sir CHARLES SAXTON, Lord A. BEAL CLIME. the Hon. Colonel HOOO, Captain and Mrs. °alerts, Captain and Mrs. MA smo, and Ler at!endiNg Ladies, walked round the Duck-yard, with which she appeared very much pleased ; particularly with the steam engine and block manrifaCtory. Her Royal Ilighnesi re turned to Carlierington to dinner. We under stand her •say there will be about two month,. Admirals '.l,,+r. nu, and Sir Isaac CueviN, and the H..n. Ctl.—.ll Hues., our Lieutenant-Governor, waited t.ron ilcr Royal Highness at the Commis sioner's I loose. The Royal Standard was hoisted at the Dock-yard, upon her approach. Bathing machines are fitting up at F.tusworth for the use of koyal Highness. COUNTESS-OF AVCRA3f. On Tuesday the 13th inst. the remains of the Conatess of A '7ll AII were interred in the family vault, at Ness bat , le Abbey. The hearse wit met on the confines of the Lothian estate, by the tenantry in mourning coaches; these were afterwards joined by the carriages of the principal part of the Nobility and Gentry of the County, who attended on the occa sion. The procession was closed by the colliers and the farmers servants. The burial service was read in a most solemn and impressive manner, by the Rev. ARCIII YALU A 1.11011, Prebendary of Salisbury, 3tc. Cl ief Mourner. Right liononratle Lord Newhattls. Pall He mere Tina. ll , •nry Fas. Kerr Hon. Shomberg Robr. Kerr Hon. Col. Douglas GecupC,anstonn, Lord Napier Duke of hoecleuch Lord Montague Earl of Dalkeith. 1)01VNSH1 RE ELECTION. Heraldry has seen a favourite study at the D awn EleCtion. The fami* lrre was put in requisition. The Couatess of Clanwilltam, mother to Ccilosicl Mead'', is stated in panegyric to be the grand. clau4liter to Ity.e Colville, who was him in the castle of Newtownards. and Viscount Castletvagli, the lineal repr.'se.ttative of that worth ? old 11.444 Princess Granapi irdele. whom Queen Eli. aabeth of-tided so much by presenting her with a facie bawarreGrf. Nor was the conte.t co.:fined to the genealogy of the candidates ; dispntas ran at high between the voters, as the following extra t, allading to the wife of one of them. will prove : .• Sail Wn. Rtr's brother was a Captain in Iris M.:jesty's last.-r end of the Reign of Ge wee I. and be ginning of the Re.git of G,fric 11. and died io consequence of a wrund which ha received in a duel, in which he got a szvere prick of a swoil in his arui, which fat Was .u . lOO4Cd. swine to hi , hs..•ig been a cnri.olent man) moitiSert ; and, such ra. Si. :tt. toot he would loot suff-r esi Simplot:46oo, declaring, 1;...t d be must lose his arm, his body should ae cuilikany st to the grave—non.. '.ut coward; being afraid k, die." ZDINBURGII, AUGUST 1 5. POLICE. Twn Gentlemen were brought before the Court of Polire, chirged with having given and accepted a challenge, which they admi , ted. The Judge fined them, and bound them ov: r to keep the peace; and upon this occasion delivered his sentiments and intentions, with reg4ri to duellang, in the following terms 7, 1. By the law of Scotland, it is a capital crime to fight a duel ; and to give or accept a challenge, may be punished with banishment, and forfeiture of moveables: perhaps the rigour of the punishment has in mail) , instances allowed these offences to pass with impunity. .. An Alt has lately passed for regulating the police of this city and its vicinage, where several powers are conferred, adapted to the objeas of the Al, the leading principle of which is, the preven tion of crimes of all kind., and every offence against peace and good order. It has fallen to my lot to execute this aft ; and I feel myself called upon, by the strongest tics, to discharge this duty in the manner which I think most likely to accomplish the ohjet in view. " I have already said, that challenging and duel ling are crimes against the laws of the hand ; I therefore think it my duty to repress them: and I trust that the powers given me by this Ad are suffi cient fur that purpose. They authorise me to punish by fine, by imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Edin burgh, or by commitment to Bridewell, all offenders against peace and good order. I have already ap plied the re.nedy authorised by the Aft in some cases, and I shall certainly make the attempt in the case of duelling also. As this is the first instance of a challenge er duel, which has been brought be tore me, I shall only punish Ton by tine, taking at the same time sufficient bail that you shall keep the peace. But if, hereafter, persons are brought be fore use, and conviael of having given or accepted a challenge, I shall consider it to be P 3 V duty to send. such persons to the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, for a certain period, by way of punishment. beci,:es binding them over to keep the ?eace ; and if pers:ms are brought before me, and conviard of having fought a duet, I shall equally consider it to be my duty to send. thetas to BriJewrll : because, all re spea of persons must he attached to their stria ob servance of the laws of their couutry ; and those who bid defiance to the laws, in whatever situation they may otherwise be placci, ~re equal in that re sisted, and ought equally to feel the forte of those laws which they contemn." The Spec-Mors in Lottery Tickets arc so eager to purchase lots of them, that the CuntraSors have been obliged to limit the sale to a certain number; otherwise there would not be enough left to divide into Shares for the public accommodation. LAW INTRLLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY—Wismar, Annear 19 Ex-parte INCH, i.. the meter of TIPIMPSAN, a Valli , air. .1 . ! ; 5 seas the petition of Elizabeth Finch, and prayyd that the bankrupt's certificate should be s'ayeki, on the ground that the signatures had not been regularly obtained. Mr. Rossit.av, nn the part of the petitioner, stated, that Mrs. Finch had employed the bankrupt, and his partner, Crooksbank, to pnrchnse stock for her. In the beginning of the year ISO:, she went to the bankrupt, and desired him to purclia,e a cer tain quantity of stock for her, which lie promi,ed to do, and went out for the purpose, but, on his re turn, told her, he could not then get it, hut desired her to leave the money with him, and he would take care and have it done. She accordingly gave him 1101., and he gave her an acknowledgment. He afterwards met the petitioner and told her, he had purchased the stock, aril she having the greatest reliance on him , made no further enqairtes. In the beginning of the month of November 1804, the petitioner again went to the Bankrupt, and gave him tO5l. to purchase an Exchequer Bill, he giving her his acknowledgment cal a piece of waste paper for the amount. He afterwards met her, alid told her he had purchase ! tl,e. Exchequer bill, and she being onaequainted with business, made no inqii;ries. In the latter end of November he called at her house, and telling her he was going to tl:e country, said, he wished to give her a more satisfaelory security for the 1051. she had lately given bins, and then drew a promissory note in his own name, and gave it to her, getting from her the acknowledgment he had hefoie given her, by which his partner Cronkshank would have been hound. Soon after this the partnership between the bankrupt and C , , , oi.shank. was dissolved, and not long after, Mr. i'hompson was decl.tre 1 a bank rupt. About this time the petitioner went to the Bank, and demanded a dividend on the stock for wh;ell she had paid the Bankrupt, but was told there was none standing iii her name. On further inquiry, she found that Thompson was an ins:dyer:T., that a commission had been taken out as4ainst him, and that he had got his certificate signed liv a suf ficient number ct creditors. This pe itioa was, therefore, lodged, and pray-d that the cevificate should be stayed until inquiries were made respelling the signatures. Mr. Rout t. a v fart' er stated, that the sum of 2001. had been paid by Cronkshank. to which debt the partnership was liable, but that the 1051. for which the Bankrupt gave his note, and in doing so, became solely liable, was what Mrs. Finch expelled to have a dividend on ; he, therefore, hoped that the prayer of the petition should be granted. Mr. Wir ism ate, on the other side, contended, that there had not been 1001. collet - led under the com mission, and that as the majority of the creditors, and those who were mint deeply inietesied had signed, his Lordship should dismiss the petition. The Loan emsnckt.t.cas sail. it was the duty of the Court to examine into the condos% of bankrupts, subsequent to the Commission being taken out ; but as there were so many frauds praftise..l, in contem plation of bankruptcy, he wondered some of them were nit indiaed. His Lardship then, on looking over the papers, observed, that the affidavit of the sienature of the principal creditor, veho lived in Edinburgh, had not been exhibited to the Com missioners, and said, he thought it necescary to say respell ally, to all the Commissioners of Bankrii ors, that his greatest wish Was, that they should attend particularly to the affidavits of the signatures to certificates. His Lordship then ordered, that this should he seat back to the Commis • ers, an 1 that the matter should stand over until the next slay of petitions. ix-frarie BOVILLt in tlse mailer of 1111 V sou:my a hank- rftpt. This petition prayed that a meetinty, of the credi tors of the Bankrupt should he celled. and that the Petitioner should be allowed to prov.: a dent on a bond of 10001. or on a bond of 9901. Mr. Rossit.sv, on the part of the Petitioner. stated that in consideration of a marriage which was to be solemnised between the daughter of the Bank rupt, and the Petitioner, Mr. Reynolds and the father of the Petitioner entered into a p stole agree ment to advance 10001. to their respeEtive child, en ; shortly after this, in the month of June 1803, the marriage took place, and the father of the Petitioners paid down his 10001. but the bankrupt not finding it convenient to give his 10001. paid 251. the interest for half a year. In April Ido-t be gave his bond to the Petitioner for 9001. and agreed to give him the other 1001. in furniture; but this not being done, he on the Bth of May following, gave his bond for 10001. which the Petitioner now prayed he might be at libesty to prove. Mr. Be st, on the other side, submitted, that the prayer of the petition should nor be granted, as he conceived the bonds were given in contemplation of bankruptcy, and that, thereloie, the petitioner would not be allowed by the Commissioners to prove either of them. The loan it ANC El. t. cm said, if they were given in contemplation of bankruptcy, they could not be allowed ; but as there might be some circumstance subsequent to the parole agreement, and before the signing the bond ; such AS, fnr in , tance% the payment of interest which would be sufficient to take it r,tit of the statute of frauds ; his Lordship was of opi nion, that it should he sent to the Cinimis sioners to enquire what agreement was entered into, before the pas,i.:q the bonds, and also, whether either of them were given in contemplation of bank ruptcy. La pork STF.AD, r's Me wailer of Sill TM ZS and 0 ritr.as, Reakrapts. Mr. Rica Altus stated, that the prayer of this Pe tition was, that the Commis.ioq against the Bankrupt, at the suit of the Petitioner, but not with his own consent, should be superseded, and that Mr. Lee, the attorney who issued " J. —iff-- IfAy all the expences ir.curred. It appeared from the affi davit of the Petitioner, that the Bankrupts Were in debted to him 1601. and that Nlr. L--e, an. attorney living in Leeds, where the Bankrupts carried on business, offered to get the money fcr him, and de sired him to call on him ia a few days. The Peti tioner accordingly did so, and Mr. Lee then told him cosign two- papers; one of them was an affi davit of the Defendant, and the other he did not know the contents of. Some time alter this Og PetitioLer saw one of the Bar.krupts, and consented to give them time for the payment of the m+y, provided they would pay Mr. Lee eighteen shillings costs, which, he said, had hen incurred. They then went to Mr. Lee together, the Bankrupt to pay the costs, and the Petitioner to desire h:m to stay proceedings hot, on their arrival, were informed that.thc commission had been taken nut. The affi davit then declares positively, that Mr. Lee had no direaions to take this step, and therefore prays that the commission may be set aside, and that he may be compelled to pay the espences. Mr dtossti.tv, on the part of Mr. Lee, read his affidavit, and the affidavits of two of hi, clerks, all of which contradiCte.sl the affidavits on the other lid. ; positively averring, that the octitioner had called several times at Mr. Lee's (Ake, and had left direCtions to have the Commission instantly ; and had even blamed Mr. Lee for mot issuing it out sooner than he did. From these affi davit), the Learned Gentleman contended, that the Court could not grant the petition, as, if they did so, it must in (aft be supposed that these three persons were perjured, and of that there was not the slight est hint thrown out at the other side. The LORD CM Asc st.Lok said. the affidavits were so cnntradiftory, that the matter most stand over until he had time to examine them minutely. CJRLISLE, Aug. 17. Yesterd'y afternoon. C. S. Fetherstonhaugls, Esq. High Sheriff for this county, accompanied with as great a number of respeflable gentlemen, (both in carriages and on horseback), as has been remembered these several years, together with a number of javelin men, proceeded to kule-Ilolme bridge 1 at which place they mat the lion. Sir A. C4A4nrte, and the Hon. T. M. Sur rot', Knights, whom they escorted to the Town Hell. The Court being opened, an adjournment took plats till this day. I.ord Morpeth is expeCted here, to be fcreman of tbe Grand Jury. The Rev. Mr. Hare ;s to 1 ranch the As , ize Sermiin at the Cathedral, to morrow. The followiirl are the prisoner, Maw gaol, to take their trials : Ge Ale Pave) , and Jaie U.hw, .tthe wi e Jtne Alaimo% rtrued wth a nut at W.,rkengis o ; itanytt Virkon, otherwise John Sto7, chsrged with telemy, a,verai hank .a,tet hum Andrew (;tahaoa, of Scare; John /frown, charged sr to luring in hnpaesesauat revere,' counterfeit coins, and its pirrnent4 f w ruining; ffenrr Wll.on, charge! wth kitbag and Warnig Woodman; James 1J:zoo charged wits At Morpeth there were but three prisoners for trial, two of whom seere capitaiy conric‘ed. SP lII.VG TIDE. Mr. Entrria--Thz late spring tide, oR the 10th ins:. and three followin7 days, is an :culat demon stration, that the Moon does not govern the ocean, and that she causes little or nu alteration in the tide. If the Sian had been in the same position as the Moon, at the late full, he would have caused a very high tide ; fur the Sun, by impulsion, accelerates and retards. according to his position, the motion of the water.; he gives motion to the air, and causes the wind to blow upon the earth, he causes the sea sons; the Sun produces the day by his presence, and the night by his absence ; in fail, it is the Sun. and not the Moan. that governs the tide, fsr he is the grand and principal agent in all the operations of nature, which izconte.tibly proves, that Newton's Theory of the Tide is erroneous. I am, Sir, yours, &c. W. Pat►tccs, A.P. High-street, Esrvugh, Avg. 15. On Friday evening last, the new Afterpiece called Out of Plet e ; or, The Laic ,f &rhyme; which was received with sich applause at Covent-Garden Theatre, last season, WAS brouzht forward at the Winchewer TLeotro, under the auspves of that ad mirable Comedian. Mr. T. Cottirs, of Drury lane Theatre. Mr. Fitzsimmons undertook the part of Young Valtehri, and received the most un bounded applause from a brilliant and numerous audience. The music, which is beautiful, afforded him an oppornmity of displaying his charming voice wth the happiest efical. i-Us songs were raptur .iusly eireered._ 1 he De►il has allually got among the Tailors. As a party of Printers belonging to THE Gaon/ Newspaper, were returning peaceably home, after 'pending the evening of Saturday. at the Cale donian Punch House, near Lincoin's Inn-fields, they were attacked by a party of Tailors. The former sought to avoid all quarrel; but the Tai.'or, being about niire times the number of the Printers. insisted that it was a fair and equal march. The fell upow the printers, and wounded one of them severely, having attempted to cut off his ears with a pair of scissars. The offender was yesterday token before a Magistrate, but was adThitted to %Vanten run, exercised on weak or puerile minds. is always etuel and &Incr.." and often fatal, as in the following instance :—A few days since a lad, fifteen years old, in the parish of St. }blowy, in Cornwall, threw a boy, of just halt that age, into the se-t ' at which the child was much frighted ; but 'though, when he got out, he repeatedly cried " .114,d,r." the oiler threw him in a second tirn', which terrified him so much that Le was unable to. dress himself, or "Pull; home without assistance. Finns that mein, •nt his stomach ejeied all suste nance. and convulsions soon came on, which put au end to his existence. _ On Saturday, the 10th inst. as thre: French Ge nerals, prisoners of war at Chesterfiel.l, were return ing from the hospitable mansion rt r Lientleman who resis'es in the neighbourhood that town. they were stopped by three fellows, armed with bayonets. who tooXrom them all the money they had about t 'rh Wenders, i• is suppi.sesL ate known, and mes s ires are now taking to expose and punisn them for such a disgraceful traniaaion. Yesterday sennigor the body of the Rev. Two s. as Houma was Gnind in the Itiv,r Lone. The following day the Coroner's I:.quest wa% b Id before J. GARDNER, Lag. at Newton, when it appeared that the di-ceased had been so a desponding way for V , MO time, and it was supposed that in a desperate st.ne he had ',grown himself into the river. Verdolt —Lav,ey. Ha was liettor Halos/1, neat (km kir k. r 0Y4.1