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COMMON MILL. 13Y THE MAYOR. To the Master and Wardens of the Company of These are to require you to rause your Beadle to give uotice to all the Liverymen of sour Company to appisir at Guildhall, no Friday, the ath day of May uext , at twelve of thy cluck at noon, in their livery gowns, To take into run sides stion the alarming assumption of Privilege, by the Ifii outirsble the House of Cumulous, of arresting snit iiiipr:sula. during pleasure, the People of Eil e lland, for tilt . ..neer tug lambic in the usual Courts of Law." Hi recd . WI out. Peed this 85th day of aptil 1810 WOfIuTHORPE. L4. I iTASTER LENT ASSIZES. Before Sir Simum Le BLAMC, Knight. ASSAULT IN A CHAPEL. CAL !ICE, V MONK. Mr Sc A R LILT, Counsel for the Plait, a, described the nature of this us-cult. It w..s one which was aggravateui, not by the violence with which it was attended, but by the place in which it was com mitted. Many of the trials for assuitite, which had occurred iu the course of the Assizes, bad origi nated in public house quarrels, and, therefore, the Jury had justly marked their leprebension of them, by limittiug the damage!. to the loweat dessontina lion of the earwig Coln. la the present iostauce, he trusted the Jury, though the personal injury Was trifling, would mark their disappinhation of the Defeuilatiesconduct, by giving exemplary damage.. The place iu which the assault in question oc curred, was one sac►ed, by its being consecrated to public divine worship; it was a Chapel, called Douglas Chapel, to the township of Ninth, so the county of Laiscaster ; the au inhabit ant of the township, had been 1,,r upwards of Su years in the constant habit of att.m.!ing Douglas Chapel, NMI OCCUrying a particular pew ; on the Sunday, when the assault in question took place, lie had gone there as usual; shortly after the De fendant eutered the Chisucl, amid came towards the same pew; the Plaissiiff civilly and courteously opened the dour to adiuit bim,whets the Defendant imitated elik dragging him out. and, its execution of his purpose,"violentfy assailest . tim, and, in the act of pulling I ' out oft he pew, Cr... tared his shins ; the officiating Clergyman, the R " v. Mr. Johnson, was just coating up-the aisle, and. of course, he in quired into the cense of the tumult ; upon being M ho-wed, lie reptiommded the Deleisdant, who sot only justified what he had done. but, in the coarsest leaguer, expressed his determination to repeat it. The first Witness called gave bust au issilistinct account of the transaction; and, on his cross-exami. tiat:og, he as. I, the Plantar had acknowledged to him, that the action was carried on without his con sent. Mr. Johnson the respectable Clergyman of the Chapel, stated, that, oil the Sunday the assault kook place, he was •111V , I.C11)g up the middle aisle, when lie observed the congregation all standing up. and soon noticed Mr. Monk in the act of forcing the Plaintiff out of the ; be sent fur Mr. Monk into the vestry, nod repies.nited to him the proba ble consequences of his violent and illegal conduct; - the Dereliction replied, that he was iiiitemilitied by 'Squire Jones. that he would turn the Plaintiff out of the pert oil every sob aqiuelit Sunday, and kick his b—k--. The Witness remonstrated with him. but the Defendant said, that Mr. Jones would keep him harmless. Alr. PARK iiiiiititained, that this was on action as frivolous as any that mid breu tried. Ile pro nounced • just panegyric upon his own tolerant principles in to titers 01 religion, and expressed even his veneration for topic who deviated from the faith to which he was Atilt:lied, but, in the present case, he considered that i he Minister of Douglas Chapel had not acted as the apostle of peace, but had foment ed a dispute, winch, without his interference, would never have hi en brought into Court. The Learned Counsel sea, in the course of his address, extremely severe in his remarks upon Dr. Johnson, the Preacher at Dongles Chapel. Dr. Johnson interrupted him, and expressed great iiithgnation at the litallUti in which the Learned Counsel had observed upou his conduct. He said, that the sacred character be hi ht was not to be trifled with or aspersed by the flippant observations of a Barrister, however high he might dunk of his own importance. Ile stated, VIM, conceiving his panishiotier to have been ill treated, he had applied to the Bidtop of Chester to grant him a faculty con firming his right to the pew, which lie had enjoyed for 30 years. and that he hod thought it his duty to afford him all the protection su his power. Mr. SC A RIAT (Powered, that it had been remark ed. near 2000 years ago. with reference to an orator who had undertaken a bad cause, Yeats laments:est ',rater Antonian. He wis surprised that. consi desing the religious turn of mind of his Learned Frirud, no one should have been found to advocate the propriety of an assault cotousitted in a church, except Mr. Pal k. Tie Leanief JUDGE, after taking an impattial view of all the eitconitintoces, was of opinion, upon the whole, that it was not the sort of anion which ought to be encouraged by tt Court of Law. He considered, that it would tall, with snore propriety, within the scope of so ecclesiastical jurisdictioi. The Jury accordingly gave 'uusual damages. The 11th regimeiit of infantry, which on Fr...ley arrived in Strutload, Bow, &c. is under orders for foreign service. Wednesday, the 7dth EirAiintot of Foot passed through Glasgow, ea their wzr.to Ireland. Wednesday and Thursday, the Stirhagshire Mi liti s marelicd fruits Glasgow for Edinburgh Castle. Thursday forroomi, the 15th Regiment of Fo..t. (2il battalion) from Dundee, arrived to the barest Its of We have been informed by a Correspondent, that two affne, of honour have recrutly been the subject of griver..l emiversatiori in the neighbourhood of Berry-ho ad ; the one between Lieut. of the Royal Navy. If iwl Mr. E—, .surgeons: the other be tween Sir "a' ••• and the first untied Gentleman, witir swords ; in both isittances, uo serioits cause triencet occurred. A duel was fought some mornings since behind 111 1 1 l Inny.lsoase, between Mr. the eon of a I-molter in the City, and a Solnoierit t o the East Losislrin Militia its con7equeisce of some trifling divote ai the Lady Stiyorr'ss's Ball on Mouday. After discharging their pistols in the air, their seconds interfered, and terminated the affair with out bbtodidted. . The stair kavoimte, Capt. Far Maw. from Sierra Le +tie, bound to London, win, h arrived bolt week in the Channel. is laden with a valuable cargo of ivory. gun. casiewntsl. &c. She sailed from Sierra Lin-e six weeks sister. and brines no particular Mr. Dour:Las, chyrged with dispatches for Gov's inured, came l eis,enger in her. He brought !emit• twit enormous soaker ; they are ..tt gently and that a child silly handle tnem without the least daager ; they are daily fad with rive; one of them is about seven feet in length. mid the thick. nese of a tout's leg, the other uvt quite so large. FIFTH REPORT Iraa al 7117. COMMITTEE ON THE mimic EXPEF -1)1111al, &c. OF 111111, UNITLO OFFICE of PAYWASTIFit of :WAHINES, and AUDIT of .UNT3. The Committee appointed to ()MAIM and euneider whet Re gulations mid Cheeks hare bee. esialdistied, ia order tu cusitroul t *evil a brauchi .01 ILO Pistilli: Expeurlituri iu Crest Britain and Ireland, red how r. lilt a u.r b.. been effectual ; and what further measures niche adopted fur reducing any part of the said Expeudituie, or diminish. big the amount ut Salaries and Emoluments, wit►out 4,- Ird:bent to the I'ubht service ; Being informed that ft convitlrrahle default had been discovered an the Otice of Paymaster of Ma. rioev, hare directed their firat inquilies to the na ture of the regulatiuus under which that depart ment is conducted, with a view to as...vrtutm whe ther tho.e regulatious are iniu&cieut iu them selves, or ill adapted to tlva service, or whether there has been a culpab!c or negligent departing from them. The Paymaster, whose fluty is confined to the payment of the marines while on shore, presents monthly accounts to the Admiralty. stating Ins re ceipt and expenditure dui ing the last mouth, and en estimate of the probable dvinands upon him fur the current month, together with a statement of the b flances remaining in his hands on the lirst and last days of the preceding month ; in consequence of whodi *yip:a:Amu, an order is forwarded to the Navy Office, accompanied by a copy iif the mouth ly isecomit, direitiog en inquest to be issued by the Treiraiirer of the Navy, who is the general hanker, as the Navy Office is the general office of account fur every branch of naval service.—A state ment of the balances in the Pay maater's hands, in cluded in the mutually account, is traminsiitei with the order for each imprest to the Navy Office. Tins statement of the bat:awes iu these monthly accounts 'Words, in appearance, a secure and con stant guard against any unitise acc w oul a li o n of money in the hands of the Paymaster : but this ap pearance is delusive ; for these accounts being ne cessarily unaccompanied with vouchers, do not ad mit of any effectual check, until the delivery, at a subsequent period, of the general annual account. The consequence of which hex been, that they have unfortunately produced the etre*. t of preventing ra ther than forwarding any useful examination into the real state of the finvitisster'a balance, ;Awl seem to have precluded all auepicion either at the Admi ralty or the Navy Office, of any improper accumu lation of money in , lus hand.. . lii the printed re.,,euldtions unit instructions rdit. live to the Royal Nlarine Forces while ou shoe., the seventh article directs, that the f).l master is to pass an account with the Co.uuusiuu ft/ Or the Navy ; at the end of every year, he is lo deliver a general account of all money 'cc , teed and paid within that time." If it was the only of the to pass. it becaine the duty of the Commis sioners of the Navy to examine; and your 14:41,11 mettee cannot view, witl t greet dissati•faction, the delay which has prevailed in the delivery of the general annual accounts ; the causes of winch will be notired hereafter. The practice of the Office. with respect cache ao moots of the Pa . ..master of Marin..., appears to have been this : the monthly accounts already al luded to, which sic trireqm! telt bM the Admiralty to the Navy Office, receive to particular examina tion, and, indeed, do not adult of being checked, as before stated, except in the or: icles of imprests and balances, brought over ft our the preceding month ; but an examinatiou of these items alone would obvioasly nut aces tam the correctness of the hal ince rein.tinitig. The general annual account, when delivered, is ex.imined with tile imprest ledger on the tine side, and with the Accatisitant's vouchers or. the other, by one or inure of the clerks in the office of bills and accounts; by them the balance stated by the Paymaster is confirmed or corrected. A statemeut is then made uut by the permm who has examined the account, of the disbursements ouly, detailing the nature of theta mud of the vouchers, with °biter trationsois any irregularity in either,oti the authority under which the payments were made, or on any other circuinstauce deserving notice. The statement so made out by the examining deo k should be checked by the chief clerk, and is then submitted to the Committee of Accounts; and it is their duty, after due consideration, to direct the SUMS 4/161)UrSed anti properly died, to be allowed towards clearing such imprest as may he standing out against the Accountant. To what sum this imprest may amount, is not however brought under the notice either of the Committee of Accounts, or of the Board (sinless specially called f.r), the statement itself. not containing the imprests, or the balance remaining; and the original annual account never undergoing their revision. And here your Com mittee cannot but express their sinprise, that the general practice of the office should have sanctioned so extraordinary an omission in the saterneut of any account. as that of the SIMI owing by the Ac countant to the public: and that in this particular instance the examining clerks should not have deemed it their duty to bring under the immediate notice of that Committee, an article of such rasa aitade and importance. They trust this practice has been at length etli-ctivilly corrected by a minute of the Navy Board. dated 17th linuary, laid. lii other respects it appears to your Committee. from the inspection of many of these stitetnents, which have been laud before them. that the disbursements in the Paymaster's accounts have received an atten tive sod accurate investigation; and it further ap pears, from a document prAuced by the Navy Beard, that few of the accounts in the office of bill, and accounts are in arrear, and none greatly so; and that the balances of none of them are su large as to ext itr • The H onoursh'c George was appointed Paymaster of Marines by th.• Board of Aglinnalty, J9th March. 1793. and . re-app 1111 l tad as Paymaster and Inspector 9th May, Mi, with iiirtietilir di rections is to the mode in which lila departmeot was to, he conducted, enjoining him rn make fre quent visite to the different div . •sinsis and stations of marines, from the waist or neglect of which great abuse, had ptevaileil. Hi. s..lary was raise.' by Coat warrant to 10001. dear of all deiluetirm., w.ih an allowance of SJOI. fur his clerks; IWO. f'. 1 ' 1 """ r ent, &c. ; and a further allegiance for tray...lll3K e xpellees actinely incurred. No examination IS the state of his aeconntss which tem ,fined dneettl for BeVell years, at the period of this rP-appotot.pc appears to have taken place, nor was the &multi. hia balance I: oov.ti or inquired into; s hich Is isecertarned to have been, at the end of th. • 1804, 177,8471. His to counts, which hid been pasted t •bla r..ollsrity and ex i palitaxii tts 'he ys.r and 5, fell him) ;;rest ;are. .r to ti e bolt' as to the time of delivery and the as • of thew. B y V -3 1" tss 3 ••••••• - 0 * an vo t. a Ob I • CI ••• 9 G 1 1 L t ~71ii —atrait2 DRURY•LANB The Petitions presented to the Privy Council, from the Proprietor , . of the late Drury-latie The. tore, hive c ortiitily thrown a new light on the sub ject. The monopoly, though reco4iii,oed by the I'rivy Council, is not contended for by them, if t,,ir remuneration can be made, its its the cases —,r e d of other patent rights ressimed. We readily a place to the following Petition from Mi.„ Hiu d s ,, ii . It lay* more sties , on ti,e inuitepoly - ,0 m teat t.f Nlr. Sheridan : to) TIIi IVNG'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The Humb!ePetitios of Sarah Itirha. dawn, widow ot Joseph Richardson Esq. late Mender for Newport in Cornwall, and, hy bs will, sepreacutative for her four Daughters of • Quarter Share of the Patents and other semaining Pro. pe t ty ..f the lute Drury-lane Theatre, iii behalf of 'nisei( anal and of all those who have interests depeusi. leg im that Property ; 111 tWler it, That your Majesty's Petitioner lofting been Informed, th a t, w ithout any regard to the calamitous situation into which the and her family are plunged by the destruction of the late Drury-lane Theatre. and without any cuusidination for the various interests allow. cunnee led with that pi ()petty, • err. Mho combination has been formed, and a subscription set on font, fur op-mog a third Thai re in this metropolis, and that • Petition b hecu presented to your Makin), soliciting your floral authority fur that purpose. That your Majesty's Petitioner, under an impression that, were she uut to use her best endeavours to prevent any such tacnir from being granted to the above Subscribers and Peti tioners, tt would lie e failure in what she elves to herself, her family, and to those who in Drury-lane Theatre have mu barked a own greatly exce ding abuse bemired thousand polio 14, mem ih • faith of them home right of represent prams, amid other theatrical periormauces vesting in that Theatre, soul the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden, bees limo. fats to sultana to your Majesty, as to the Fountain in all lu.twe in the Birtr.h Dui nut °lily the peculiarly it IS air and , lm tressed hire wo Kaye. ty whatever but the above Quarter Share, hut 11. e remotu emu...Tamen that mast inevitably result to their im lei's, „,,,t t i me , n i s ys s ie of all 'hone who have ailvauced their money in the lee Theatre-Royal Drury lam should th e est4hlidinsent of a (bird Theatre take place in Ibis usetnipolos. That haviag considered a Royal retest as an 'iviulable security, those who eni'iarkeil their initimy, either its Drury lane Theatre, or ilt.t Covent cinleu, feeling themselves assured in that particular, willingly advisracsAl heavy coins teem& ra'sing anal ea 'Tortuga those eitablishintuts for liberal and Mirth el nal amusement. That shvald a third Theatre be sanctioned, the value of the tee Winter Theatre. 11.1 long r‘talilisiscil, would MA ouly inevitably he iliusioisistd, cacti a third, but the exclusive Patents which wine granted to Sir Wilburn bavenaot and Thainas Kali grew, being wire violated, [beet could no longer lie any certainty that mire Tueuirea might nut he isle lied ; let peripta would awed'. e tic 6.1 rash at to advance runny fur re huilAing. Aud this ariros your Majesty's Pe titioner feels to rip-rate moodily neniiiitt Drury-lase Theatre, tlit endear-nos wed to reinstate that diminished pre- .. t lier T4Sl the inv rs i•olalility of the Patents appeared to the Pro `' prieto of Dim:tams Cheep. of twat e.t.a i 's' moortanee, that they rather chose to purchase., at a heavy expense, the Patent granted to Thomas Kt;legless, tool then donator, than to build their late Theatre on the presumption of Its heiar, totirporteol by reorwals of their cynicism Patent. The • Patent for twenty-vac years of His late Majesty King George , the ton, uut oily having beets granted at a period when the Ken Patent, .if the late King ("limits the Second were in the moniession of au iiidividnal, but whea, from the nascoudoet of tbe prrs•ia WtiopossesseJ the ii, they were sospru'ica ; and 4.1t1 gli that huipeOsitot, His late Majesty King George the Wiest tsar phased afterwards to remove, yet, from the eircum- Maiire of one person holt:tug both the Patents granted by Mint (Volt:. the Scmiiil, those Patents virtually were h e ld eace.tl, there still bring but tau Theatres sanctioued in the mettmoilis. Th a the rinses of Theatrical Proprie•ora must in any woe Lieviribly be very great, cud that ma,' persons have been retard Of •iventurost; the aceumula•ed gains of many sears of diligence and frugalriy, upon the certain heavy expenditure, and precarious seeress of a Theatre. Tait Authors, polished by allocation, awl respectable, 'both by situation and by character, count not be expected -to direct their talents in the Drama, oulestithe reward should immune to be adequate to the exertion. That the respectability of the Company of Pet formers eamt greatly result bons the pre ~,,, ary litlVSOlorall they de live, as has b en much exemplified by the mere awl cumin 'l"' dom iii ohieh they.have been held, since the salivate al. - elite.' to them by the Proprirtars have brim so I,beral. Per tfarniers of en•r:t net having of late years been subject to Ithuse domestic ditheudies which formerly so much inter tfeted with the exercise of their prof. 'urinal dulti a. That it having been generally conjectured, that al •though the Proprietors of the two Patents granted by „Ht. fete Majesty King Charles the Second were obliged, into l'm failure of 1111.1kocilS, to unite their Companies teen hiring the eetgo of that Sovereign, yet the increased populat t on of the metropolis was such, that it would St ow 14%1.1'y .4.11 support three 'llseatrea ; your Majesty's Ile , iii e'er bo a' ,:, oe4t leave to state, its l'Cfiatalsoli of that "lt ,, thm, that the Kum:Ours of Diary- I ante Theatre hove it '" (heir power to prove inemitioveridoly to any pctsult, nin o n sour Majesty in your goodoess may please to appoint r.... ...ti a miso g the feet, that their Theatre, (aid it is .up- P'..l that they mini eately add that ref Covent (:arden) could heir: kehl, takin g Me average of the Season, and carry on that mein ;” through every 'Amin, since eta mailetsoctitm, denhle the number it bas ever leeeived. lu Minabl e , yet confident rclimire, therefore, or your Ma ra illelitt, graeioussains, sad muceasing dt sire to gassed the . rights sad property of every class of pow Majesty's ttoincts : and particularly regarding )i.o, 51.i.ii sty as In^ elefeuiter of the widow and the (alto, tow, your Pe tition.r etil;oLte, is ration of herself s" (truth,., sad " tiug ttrlnnf of those who Wee eusbasked nit till ZitCOSt* properly iii the late Theatre-loyal, Diary-lane, that co.lliotal.itoot re. :Pectiog their case, and that slielierinz podertion a liiirti it • the ti . archer of your blairsty to afford to all those alto 14 7 tutu grievances at the foot of the Thrum A u il your 'Majesty's hu nark Peti I ienwe, 'll, 11. - . teas-.fired, Fib. g. Atisll ever pray, flee l ki 4 egeo , grow 1-04 ism. SARAN IMCIIIA It Detrt. Mr. Wthaiital has ore led a New Ilal!. Nur irt4l t he performed the 1. '4104 of roacred wad .Ni;;lsmaluts, mad the Ewe- of The Agreeable Surprise. Sigis•auhtla vi.l Cowslip by Mr,. S. KENIOLV. Wilo tr e!ls4ageat hightr. The other 'me, pies .tee. M. Roo- Taarereal; RUSSELL iu Limp,: gild Learn, from l'at Maroche,ter in- A I.4r.b.wt. writer aunutle,l hi. rea:ivra ky 'emq to their notoce a ow.. tr,tit 1, 1 , • 1 641" laTU/SKID..L UVittIIN ;" II .1 i!I mire! occur to uur reader. that the 11 " M . Nlybreo haat stauttiog 0,1 *twit . ' S:t Fauutts Bvisarres letter v, his Cots acut, . ....... .•. . . . 2 17.—- - . l " e .= .11 ,S 5'7 :" WS 4 • ..? , 4 7. 4 5 00;1 Z ~.. rsAos • I . 66666 • 1 , 11111111 l EA! .4 . • • From the time that annual accounts ceased to be delivered with punctuality, adOitional t ppor tunnies were afforded for en improper aci umula lion of money in his Iruitds, the nicrease of which became almost continually progressive; and the Commissioners of the Navy, whose duty it was Is call for stud enforce the regular production of these accounts, neglected to du so. It is however in evidence b-fore your Committee s that the late Comptroller of the Navy frequently repre•ented to Mr. G. Villiers, that •his accounts ought to he more regularly delivered in, and re ceived assurances from him that they should be so; at the same time Mr. Villiers .statettlie : ataeweisy of haring the imprests made to him in full, when the pressure of the public service, about the year 1798, made it expedient to pay only to part ; and the Comptroller was led to believe, from his con versations with Mr. C. Villiers, that these was no balance of public money at that time iu the Ac countant's bands. It is to he remarked, with great regret, that the • inefficient state of the Navy Office, for a period of no less than eleven years, is given as au excuse at palliation of this ornitaion ou the part of the Board and some of the new regulations adopted under as Order in Council of Jane 8, 1796, at the ret‘oin mendation of the Cinurnissionen of liainiry, are alleged so a principal cause of the defectise state of this Office. The strongest representations from lite Nary Office to the Admiralty were made an this subject, at different times, from 1800 to 1807 ; one great and obvious inconvenience was pointed nut, 41• wis ing from making the Chief Clerk in the office of Bills and Accounts, Secretary to the Committee of Accounts (which was recently formed of three Members of the Board, agreeably to the directi, ns of that Order in Council) while the s.me person had the superintendence also of the Foreigu Ac. counts; this inconvenience the Navy Board codes. Toured to remedy by some officill serangeasents, which diminished, but did not rem-ve the evil ; and it continued to be felt, until the duties of these separate departments were allotted to threedistinct officers. The hardships suffered by the clerks in general, from the low state of their salaries, and the abolition of fees, the consequent inactivity arc! languor %%Inch prevailed in the different departments, and the difficulty of carrying on the business, are ennuce rated in this correspondence: but the actual evils, from the accounts not being jined, are not perhres set forth with sufficient force, or with thew details which were calculated to impress the Admiralty with a due arise of them. XOUT Committee, how ever, cannot but remark the neglect with which these representations were treated. No answer whatever appears to have here) ins& to them Inv. fore June, 1.06, and no remedy wig api,lied by the Admiralty until November. 1807, to a case which involved the efficiency of this great and MOO inc. poriacit Office of Account. The balance exhibited io Mr. a Valli r•'s monthly remind, immediately subsequent ro December, 180.2, when she balance was 177 8471. amounts to no more than 2.2.551. mild alter iice3lst of December, 1803, when the balance upon the set tlemetit of the general account for that year, t ruled to be 9464391. the balance to whi. 11 his MAWe was subscnbed.amounited only to 12,0131. Your Committee. notwithstanding Lime pains taken to discover the method by which tors- monthly balances were made to exhibit so ti!lat ions a view of the whole sum, actually iti the Accoontant hands at any given time, have not been olio to satisfy themselves, me to the particular mode bit which the real befance was kept out of sight. It 14 as sogsrstra by ogle of the late marine ~ .cerks, that such parts of the imprests as werenet stoti% pa w t iu the current month,were never snharqueally bra to account; but, with the eecoptcon of I,Oonl. (•Intwa out 0" 144 h July, 1799) than is cerwitile I ...... o 4110171.15.2 i st e e I 11 0 L" 8 x 41 OA . 4 1 ... .4 r s .:F. .2 11 X IP X i a id o 5 -z ?, 0 . -= • .