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lillww. PRIVATE CORRESPW.7) r.yCE . tinitts, or r. IS. Although the officer. for the entry and discharge of goods have already 'iren exfuniael on oath by the Commissioners of v iui; y t the first thing done, when an officer comes before them, is to swear him ; from the very extensive range they tike in their en quiry, it is supposed they will not finish for some r ears, but certainly it is impossible they can be rea dy tor the next Session of Parliament ; in the event, the salary of some will be enlarged ; but all fines, perquisites, &c. &c. will be entirely taken away, and the establishment put as much on the phur of the English lin:rse as possible. It certainly was absurd, that the different places of land-waiter , •which were filled by genthstnei, should have a salary :•.it of 301. a year annexed to then, which was infi less than a common porter's ; however, I am S-.clined to think the ger/Honor would rather have the Sul. a year and fees, than an enlargement to 6 , 14 tories that sum yearly. Their enquiry is not confined merely to the officx.rs of the Custom House, but the clerks in the Post Office are every day examining by them. have learned, from the best authority, that Government intend to a'aolish the places of Post masters General of Ireland, now filled by the Mar. quisses Drogheda and Ely, and that our Poet Office is to t•ntirely under the controul of Mr. Freeling, at your side of the water. Old Mr. Lees is just alive, and that's all. Sir Michael Smith, lam con cerned to state, is very ill, and :attended by two surgeons. There is some talk of Mr. Walker, our Recorder, being advanced to the Bench, in case of a move among the Judges; but he has no chance of succeeding to the place of Master of the Rolls, in case of that place becoming vacant. BRES7' FL ZEE -• Low" of a Lester from s Naval Offic-r on hos d the You ds•yant, Rsr•AAuairal Sir Thomas Graves, off Brest, w a Naval Officer at Dundee, dot al 7th Sept last. I have enclqied a list • of the enemy's fleet in the eater road of Brest. They are extremely formidable, sad the finest ships I ever saw. They .t'spear to me ebbe all ready for a start. I went in the Strill% fri- gate, with Sir Thomas Graves, to reconnoitre, and the weather being fine, we had a very good view in deed. We stood in so close, that we had the plea sure of being saluted fr.)nr both sides of the entrance with shot and shell ' , two of the latter nearly fell on boa►d of the ft ig.r.e. A very few days ago, four Freed, soldiers came off in a boat; they belonged ao the 4th brigade of marine artillery. O. is a very intelligent man inleed, and has been one of :11, Noblesse. He would not serve any longer under the tyranny of Bonaparte, who seems to he deserted even by the .army. The French soldivis have only 3d. per diem, and a coarse suit u,t blue cloth once in three year>. Bread and wine are very dear in ftabee. • ELOTTE DE WIEST. Gun , . Le Venceur . . . Le it,publecain . . 110 Lia.incible . . . . tin Le VetRA nt . . . $0 Le Jean 'tort . . en Le Cemq...r•nnt . . SO La Foutlmy .nt . . so 1.1.111.14 , 1. x . . SO I:Ao,4nce . . . RO I.'Uly. • L Jupd...r . . . • 74 1: Vtitandre . . 74 Le Tswvilla. . 74 (7..‘ VVa , qmi . . 74 L• Star - Le Nati"! . 74 - 1: Eolc L'Ariethn . Le Deometle . 74 Patrinte . . . . 74 IA Veleurouse . . . 40 I.lodieune . . . .• 4D • CreneVe . . . . 40 Ls Vui , r/tdra . . . 40 La . . . . 41.1 TO TILE EDl7'olt OP THE BRITISH PRESS. SIR, A letter appear ed ' in your paper last, th• 27th la, which, as ittten by a prole. : -.•:d enemy of my self ilia my whole family, I shall, in my answer, beat with every possible respell. No slily% (not that I recoiled having seen it, though I .ay his statement is perfeetly cornett), that -.sit it he sugge.ts was in cons , qucaceot a paragraph by s.rti inserted, speaking (I holr not with appro bation) of ap t la in foreign countrie. tisr unfortunate damsels, Wl° had too credulously listened milte voice of sedudion. He calculates urn great advantages arising from, but does he well consider the general tendency of, hia dodrine ? I, too, could cal: elate un the other side. and I hope every one of my Grads would concur in my calculation. Let us. 'vitae we wish to enjoy the advantage of social and ..• :to ale comfort ; nay, while we wish to enjoy the 1 •;re;og of heaven, for ever hold fast and firm the ;iffertiale delicacy and propriety. And let us ' 0 " ",* fall into the imitation of foreign. absurdities. the state of society is in thoie countries, where voit..:ll are subjeftod to a sl rvish degradation, or where they are, by a laxity of general opinion, suf fered to degrade themselves, let any sober man or woman reled ; and let us never throw away great general goods, to avoid partial evils. The propor tion of distressing accidents my adversary has to reckon upon, in support of what he recommend., can be but small; but, were it even greater, I am still of the same opinion as to the necessity of strong measures in this affair ; and must, with all due re sped to my countrywomen, whom I believe to be the Most fair, most virtuous, and estimable in the uni verse, speak seriously on a subjed which I conceive to be, both to themselves and the other sex, of the inmost importance. 1 am, I.:c. 2), iso-i. SLVLIITAS. Lord Rousse FITROIRALD gone on a tour through Porcuipl. In his Lot Jsiiip's Absence from Lisbon, the business of the embassy it condufted it' Lord Seassit,soan, Sesrelary d Legati°a* WESTIONSTER SESSIONS. &Art Wti. MAINWARINO, E. , 7. and the Rend, of Attic's. Yesterday Rhdert Bonfield was Indieted for assault ing WlMain Salo - ion. The Prosecutor stared, that the Prisoner had en ticed his wife away ft out him ; hut, willing to forgive put offences, he had taken her bac'rr, on condition that she would behave better in future ; hut the Prisoner un.uld not he quiet, and :it la t took her away entirely, and kept her from him ; he after wards treated the Prosecutor very ill, and threatened his life. On the 44th of May last, he came to the bakehouse in Carnaby Market, where the Prosecutor (being a baker) was at work, and, after some few words interchanged between them, the Prisoner, without any provocation, knocked him down three several times, called him various opprobrious names, gave him two black eyes, and otherwise bruised several parts of his body. This account was cor roborated by other witnesses. 'the Prisoner, in his defence, stated, that having some difference with the Prosecutor, relative to hi s wile. they had some words together ; but, in the sequel, the Prosecutor proposed they should shake 114.45, and forget all past animosity. Afterwards Prosecutor offered to fight him ; they bad some rounds together,but he could not tell who Bruck first. William Griffith, on the part of the Prisoner, said, that they had all been taking some gin toge ther, preparatory to their going to Bow Fair, and most cf tnern were rather intoxicated. The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, and the Court setrenced him to fourteen days imprisonment. Thomas Alandert and Richgrd Gruzes were put to the bar, to take their trial for assaulting J. Chair. Upon the Prosecutor's being called, it appeared he had been arrested under a Judge's warrant, at the suit of Richard Groves, for an assault, and Was then in custody in the watch-house. After some investigation, the Court ordered that the Prosecutor should be brought up, as it was suspeded the arrest was made to prevent his attend ance to prosecute. After a short period, the Prosecutor appeared, in custody of a constable, an] being sworn, stated, that he had been a tenant of the Prisoner Manders, and, on the 7th of April last, went down to the kitchen to draw water at the pipe. The Prisoner, Manders, was there, and would not permit him to fill his pail; a scuffle ensued, and the Prisoner struck him several limes, threatened to put him in the water-bucket, and, when his wife interfered, he struck him over her shoulder. After that, the other Prisoner, Richard Groves, got a speaking trumpet, and made a most hideous noise with it, and called him many vile names. The noise attraled a great crowd about the hail door, and when he went to it, Man. ders drove 1-.;m with great violence into the street, three or four times. He remained for some time after in the house, during which the Prisoners an noyed him from eight o'clock in the morning till eleven at night ; continually scraping penny pieces against the wainscoat of his room. On his cross examination by Mr. ALLY, he ad mitted he had received notice to quit; he remained in the house a quarter of a year after Bards ; he never was summoned Icr the rent; nor did he know he was indicted, until 1w was iv-rested in his way to - Court that morning. The Prisoners very well knew where he lived, as they had been ht his house the Sunday after he indicted them. The Jury found both the Prisoners GO7. The CHAIRM sN, in passing sentence, observed, that their crime was greatly aggravated by the sub sequent act of arresting the Prosecutor, in his way to Court. lie then sentenced 'Thorruis !Handers to pay a fine of 114. and Richard Groves to be imprisoned One Month. Jane Lambert was indiaed for assaulting Eliza beth Fordiu m. the Prosecutriz stated, that, without any previous provocation, she was attacked in a most violent man ner by the Prisoner, who beat her. and abused her dreadfully ; she beat her and tore her hair out in great quanti.ies, by the roots (the Prosecutriz here produced several entire locks of her hair as torn out). Her testimony was corroborated by another witness. When the Prisoner was called on for her defettee. she stated, that they had been thinking together for some time, and, after calling each other names, the Proseciarix challenged her to fight fur a guinea Seconds and bottle-holders were appointed. and they shook hands for no Inw: that is scrarchimir of .Inert, tailing of haw, kr. wee all fair. The Prose cittriz was a fighting woman. They fought for about three quarters cf an hour. Handkerchief and cap were torn, and her hair pulled out by the roots. Here she prochiced the tattered cap and handkerchief, and even more hair than the Prosecutriz had. Coutre-4 , She did nut get the better of you, it seems?" Answer—" No, no, she promised she would not take the law of me if the did." 'the Prisoner produced a number of witnessel to corroborate these fat,, but the Coots not thinking it neeessarr, the Jary equitted the Prisoner. &Ml'!" ' Price WAS induded for stealing a ladder, the property of James Isard. It appeared that he had obtained the property from the Prosecutor, on pretence of borrowing it to complete a job, and at tcrwatds offered it for sale to a broker, who refused to purchase it. As the Prisoner had not parted with the custody of the ladder, the indiftment was not sufficiently supported, and the Prisoner MRS SC fle was then tried for a similar offence ; in bor rowing a step-ladder from Ana Hunt, .the day pre vious to the foregoing transaetion, which be had adually sold to thr same broker for eightpence.— He was found Geiby, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Ircmiaid Mgrlgn, a boy &bent 15 years of age, was easedfed of stealing a silk pocket handker chief out of the pocket of William Denman, who was returning from Drurydane Theatre. The Pri soner, in his defence, said, he taw the handkerchief drop, and he picked it up. The CIIAIRMAS, in passing sentence, observed, he had been ;;ittity of a crime which, if not checked in time, would in the end bring him to an untimely fate. Ile had got into a bad c innedion, which would be his ruin ; but, as it appeared to be his first off.mce, the Court were unwilling to transport him, and wished to give him an opportunity of amend ment ; and he much wished his friends would pro • cure him a situation on board a s!iip, and t4 . 6e him away from his present companiotit. lie w; t e si,o tertera to ,ix imprisonment in di.: llousz of Correetiun. Thmpas Joy was ronviPed of stealing one pewter quart, .and three pewter pints, from a pi6liean at Chelsea; he was sentenced to 11 days impt isettnient, and to he publicly whipped. Ana Rc , t, a child of eleven r ein old, and Afar ! , trod, about fifteen, were inclined fur stealing three sh twls, the property of George Reed. it appeared that •the Proseeutor kept a cloaths shop in Orchard -street, Westminster : the shop door was shut and all the family up Stairs, Mrs. Reed heard a noise below, and on going down missed the three shawls : she ran out and saw'the Prisoners, the eldest perceived her running, and immediately took to her heels : she came up with them, and hav ing procured a constable. had them searched, and found the property upon the little one. They were both found Guilty. The mother of ,\nn Rose appeared in the deepest affiftion ; she said she was a widow with flee chil dren ; the prisoner had been a week away front her, and she did not know what had become of her, till she found out she had been enticed away by the other, and the two slept in the fields every night.— One of the Constables stated, that he knew Mary Rose: her poor father had applied to him to take her up several times, for her bad conduct ; she had gone home while her father was absent, and stripped her little brothers and sisters naked and ran away with their cloaths. She had been before the Court some time ago, and was a well known offender. The Cli•lahlAN said, that the sentence of the Court was, that Ann Rose be imprisoned in the House of CorreEtion for six months, when she will be separated from her present infamous connenions, and have an opportunity of hearing a worthy clergy man preach and pray, whose advice he exhorted her to attend to. She was in the high road to de truetion ; but, ihstead of sending her for transporta tion, the Costar wished to give her an opportunity of amendment. As fat the other, Mary Wood, she was so incurs igible, that, for the sake of the commu nity at large, it was thought proper to send her where she would not be so mischievou! as in this couatty. The sentence was, that she should be transported beyond the seas for the space of 7 years. PERTH, Ocr. It Among the fashionables in town at the Hunt last week were, Earls Manifiolit and Clifton'. Lords Kinnaird, Rollo, James Murray, and Dunsinnane. The Hon. Chatkit Kinnaird and Fr neis Hay Drummond. Generals M•Donalil, Drummond, Sir Win. Erskine, and Robertson. Sirs Patrick !Amity. and David Wedderburn Bath. Colonzls Moray Stirling, John Robertson a n d Beaumont. Maj .rf Ramsay (Gnarls! M.D ona ld' s unCle), and Askew Mess. Stirling, of kippendarie; Grant, of Kilgraston. Allan, of Errol; Roo, of Rosiie •' Erskine, of Cardrowl, Johli John Oliphant, Graham, Ma..tertun, &c. Countess of Mansfield. Ladies Kinualad, Amelia Murray, Harriet Hay, Weablerburn. Hon. Misses Kinnairdi, Mrs. and Miss Churchill, Mrs. and Min Moray Stirling, Misses Wedderbum, Mrs. Robertson (Lude) Mrs. an 1 Mo. Haldane, Miss Drummond (Maebany), Mrs. anti \1i.,4 Stirling (Kippetadarits), Mrs. and Mho RorsVto.sie , Mrs. Giant ( Kilgr.uitut), Mrs. Allan, Miss Morley, Miss Atutule, Mrs. Masterson, Miss Law, irc. The stewards were, Lord James Murray, Messrs. Kinnaird, and Stirling of Kippendavie ; and, in a principal degree, to the attentions of these gentle. men, we believe, it is to be attributed, that the last meeting w as one of the pleasantest of late years. Under their auspices blythe time was portioned mit in the following manner: The pleasures of the day commenced by a public d t jeinoe in the Glovers Hall, between one and two o'clock. During this hour the doti!ile row of coaches, chariots, barouches, and curricles, which filled George's -sleet, the hurry of numerous servants, the crowd of spetators, and the busy stir that pervaded all, gale an unusual anima tion to our city, which rarely witnesses other bustle than that arising from the humbler operations of industry and commerce. The remainder of that part of the day, which, among fashionables, is de nominated the morning, was devoted to the sports of the field. At seven, dinner was served at the George and Salutation Inns alternately. At ten the company colleted in the ball-room. Supper was laid out in the adjoining county-rooms about twelve, immediately after which the jocund stance was re sumed, and Niel Gow seldom ceased to invigorate the movements of sprightly grace, until that hour when the sons of labour breathe out their last yawn, and prepare for the occupations of the day. Purses had been advertised to be run fur both on Thursday and Friday, but no horse appeared. Ea ger, however, to promote the amusement of their friends, the Stewards gave purses for 'hack races, which were produ:tive of considerable entertainment. On Friday Mr. kinnaird ran twe mares successfully in two races, agsonst horses of Lord James Murray and Sir David IVedderburn. Whether these were actual matches, or only intended to (paiz the na tives," many thousands of whom had turned out, we cannot determine, not being judges of these matters.—There are, however, some of our Perth h flowing once, who have no hesitation in declaring it a hen r, for the horses went at an easy canter ; and they assert, that races are rode at a full gallop! An iron pot, containing 600 weight of pitch, boiled over in a pitch furnace, at New Crane, %Yap pieg, on Wednesday. and produced ail alarming ;ire. It was subdued, after three hours labour, by the firemen and neighbours, who smothcred it, by accumulating mud and rubbish upon the burning matter, which is considered a more effeßual mode than by pouring water upon it. Yesterday, an intrepid fellow, opposing the. Officers of Shadwell Office, in the execution of their duty, was fully committed to Pri, ,n, under Lnrd ELLENBOROLOH'S Al, for cuttin g and maim ing several persons, one in particular had his finger nearly severed from his hand. Fi4emsav and Co. 26, Cornhill.—The few re maining Tickets now for sale cannot possibly supply the public demand for the chance of obtaining the Three Gran.l Priam of Twenty Thousand Pounds. The extraordinary rich state of the Wheel, and the very low price, are such strong inducements es ne ver were before presented for public advantage. Huarissv and Co. therefore request their friends who wish to secure so capital a chance, not at delay ►uying. .1:-ICCLVE • MR. Lollop, In The Observer of the 7th instart - !swing paragraph A 6rcurissra ee nis occurred which tends to shake tie cre.rit of the Jek. nerian discovery ; a long s!Jtemrnt lias been enlist lished respelling two ehrl.fren in Fult.rec)...i's-rents, who, after having been vaccinated. have caught the natural small pox in a violent degree. T/IV stilskit has auntie& the serious attention of medical .men, wh. have instituted a committee to invretioateir; many being of opinion, that the children'sdisorser is the chicken, and not the small pot." This account is perfestily correS, excepting, that the greater num. ber of medical men, and those of l--at ;kill and practice, were of opipion, that the disorder seas the real small pox. But, with all due deference to thA author of this report, it doe, net shake the credit of the Jeunerian discovery. Children have been blown to be inb:eted with the small in the natural way', after being afiliaed from 1:10 inoculation;, nay. they have been known to have it tee . ce in the natural way. But these instances are very Tare, ahJ do not militate in the minds of reasonable people at r all against the system of inoculation in general. A medical gentleman, of great respeSability, asserted, that out of ‘2,.Stpo persons, who were vaccireted at the Small Pox Hospital, not above three and those not from the of the disease. Can any evidence of the etfic'aey of the system be more strong ? Here is qtr solitary instance of childrei having caught the distemper after vaccination.— What then ? Does it prove that vaccination ought to be dicontinued ? God forbid 1 An institution that has for its objed the extermination of the small poi; %Own that objett has been promoted successfully, not only in oar own country, but in foreign islands ; when'the thanks of the rned;cal societies of difFeient countries have been conveyed to the Jenneeian board fur their laudable and philanthropic exertions, surely it would be tea much to say, that because it has failed in one instance, though it has succeeded is thousands, and millions, it ought to be annihilated for ever ! Institutions of a navel r stare have to combat the prejudices of the ignorant, and the obdne racy of the obstinate. When Lady Mary Wortley Montague 6-st introduced inoculation into this comae try, it was railed at, and cnntemned, as the c tpricious phantom of a woman's brain ; but when the etfea WAS proved by the operation on her own children, the sceptic was obliged to avow conv;:lion, and the infidel to confess the truth. So, in the present case, when the mild efliFts of this invaluable discovery I have extended their influence as far a; troth can t eel, we we shall have it recorded to the honour of Eon land, that she sent forth her physicians :3 differeat quarters of the globe to banish disease from thy cote cage of the indigent, and to estaili..h health and beauty in their respeffive places.. I am, Sir, your obechent Servant, Pretties TO THE EDITOR OF IYIw BRITISH PRESS: SIR, Coming lately out of the cow try, I t - to call at an eminent carv•a• sod • town, to receive some meter • with the usual (and now Mar • of the scarcity of money, bio • glanced my eye mind a very 14:ii torered wall} gold. My dhnippoi:ltir pecially the splendid appearance ; • shop, put me on refleftirg, rather Cat returned to my lodging, on the presen• scarcity of gold money. Short as my s• with the man was, I learned enough ti. e '• • my mind the propriety of requestli.g p.• submit a few short remarks on this Lubjelt . consideration, through the medium of you lent paper. I learned, with that seiiou, ,• which every well-wisher to his cout.try otig' on such occasions, that while a whole 1 nowned for good sense and vigilan..e, is A r under pecuniary embarrassments, and espe...• the waist of 'circulating gold, two hundred sand guineas worth of this precious met al - merely used, but destroyed, annihilated, by useless and superflumis pre Lice of GILDING: e• • 4 window shutter, every old looking-glass, r dark hole in our habitations, must new be d•• over with gold : our sign -posts, with all their derous incumbrances of lions, unicorns, horse. dogs—our very water-closet--but I dai. , not tare to be bulimia on a subjed that, for an know, may be very cerium,. , I am'too well aware of the recent mani a :•• the timid and avaricious, of accumulati &Porn'' , immense treasures of sliver and 1 ., • might possibly enter/44 you with some I, s though not more ridiculous instances, same pernicious dotage has extended es eu . matey and penny-time,! lam aware that ' but a generous anticipation of public spirit, ••• , ...- speak what I fear is nearer the truth) nothing ' • seresailr will, in the present public CiICUMStAnt • restore these useless masses into immediate circula tion. I apprehend this as an evil which cannot be remedied by any sort of compulsion that will not violate our censtiostional Alertly., and which must, • therefore, be left as it is, to the operations of ;ll= and increasing confidence. I will also cosfecs my sell unprepared to demon:Pete the evil which I i:na. gine must be consequent to the unreeraiva dad cal. saute wee of gold that I allude to: it may be a raid ;it may be only a wildm :I. But if it be, AS I at present venture to suppose it, a thing of formiJa tiie magnitude, and enormonsly pernicious, let the 1 , Government, or the legisl at u re , l oo k to i t speedily. I' If it be held injurious to the state, and even highly f• criminal, to diminish the substance old guiwa, why I are we thus left at liberty to waste thersa::*, in an undiscriminating folly of disguising statue-, hears, bulls, beats, band-boxes, and the whole alphabet of ridiculous es coerce' For this prallice (La say the best of it) is as derogatory to sound slll4ik as it is to all propriety and rainy. Let it be remembered (which I take upon me tat assert) that, in every praftical c insideration, si dint anaddimeg. Let the use of gold. in such lolaries s be r.ctrain.d sot a while by sirlpfu.lry Ir.:r; or. at least, let us have some temporary, balancing regula tions respefting so licentious a consumption of so im portant an article, that, with as little disadvantage. as ri -.able to the mechanic and other part:near in. • eerests in the commm wealth, may help to diminish j that weight, or dismess and inconvenience which now presses so heavily upon Me :.rude. S. S. rie 07, C ex. 1 t I :on6 h the tont the ~u.i. gin.. moor up tv ei.: , I 1;;: ;S ci,m. ce OD 'e,tl"l TI:C nrrll• i os• Wit. eel, t• white- ter, U I the this in a from fining, o~un. have ter a rd. 31, .I" two ly C Sr. days. ,fear nut goc 4 r ..1 re :%eral 'emit Ro zi g's. IA V' *int. ;terra ourd. re in- ICI Y. 'Dow. were their g tb.