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.A 1314 We statalrety ianoceutti oa Saturday that Mr. Lampoon, * American Minister, dined the day Wore with I party at Mr. Fox's. Little did we Mink at the time, that we were giving our Contem poraries such a hard bore to yak. They hare been ver since giehiag, gnawing, and living upon it..— c ot paper cannot refi4 this dinner, another cannot rereffew it, and a thitd which, we thought, could digest any thing, says it goes against its stomach leisg the original furnishers of the ji-ast, we flatter muselves we may help ourselves from our dish, with out incurring the imputation of a taste for stic:ag our neighbours. In the first place. then,' those .fritfed minions of party pay a poor compliment to English h.,, p d e fio, when they lay such stress upon a rood di a per. Formerly, indeed, when writers starved in garrets, and immortal bards traversed the streets in the molt perishable materials, this coarse would base been excusable ; but they are in a very different plight,case, and condition now; and if we may judge from their chops and changes, no set of men are more ready to subscribe to the proverb of "Eaten bread is smsfordatims." or think less of agood dinner. When, thin, they attach so much importance to the dinner givenby Mr. Fox to Mr. LIVINGSTON, we must pre same it is not of the present of so many pounds of beef and mutton to Mr. Liviacisron they complain Some persons area to see, in a sumptuous dinner, nothing but surfeits, dropsies, and a whole train of &Orders. The writers to whom we allude, may, therefore, probably see, in the dinner of Mr. Fox to Mr. Livinorror, a series of ignominious peaces, French insults, and Corsican devices. Suppose Mr. Lantos-row, seated at Mr. Fox's table, and asking for a bit of Duck. Aye, says one of these shrewd seers, this is an attack upon Mr. Drake, the fellow would tear our Minister at Munich to pieces. To give a man legal possession of an estate, as large as Great Britain, a swig or a red of any part of it is :efficient. Upon the same principle, these writers apprehend, that a slice of beef or mutton gives Mr. LIVINGSTON siege) claim to all the locks and herds of England. A wing of Turkey upon Mr. Lirttro troves plate, is a hint for the partition of the Otto man Empire; and as to a challenge to bob me/, it is a proposal for a treaty of alliance with the Corsican Despot. Need we add, that the eiceliag glass is the emblem of revelation, and that a hearty zet S. at the bottle is proof positive of al Gallomanier, of a partiality for French produltions, and a desire to fraternise with Champagne and Burgundy, if not with the whole French Republic. But this is not all. What will the Paris Editors say, when they shall hear of this famms dinner ? According to the new French philosophy, their roast icrf, their fine tadi jfesee-topped garter, and their real . fite., make the English morose, sullen, and ferocious. The Paris Editors will, therefore, see Mr. LIVINGSTON seated at Mr. Fox's table devouring freer'', v, like a student at the Temple devouring law. With every drink of potter he imbibe: an equal proportion of the soar juices of the English blood ; every place of beef adds to his instal strength; and the coal fro at his back throws him into a fira: . y. Thus, while one party is roastiag Mr. Fox for giv ing Mr. LIVINOSTON a dinner, another party is &sling the latter for eerie: it. Mr. Fox has been charged with mellowing French doftrines at TA L. LTIt AND'S table upon his late visit to Paris; and Mr. lavinsron will, no doubt, on his return to Paris, be charged with devouring the principles of the British Constitution at the dinner of Mr. Fox. His Royal Highnebs the Prince of WALLS gave grand droner yeamdAy at Caron-house, to the Dake of Carcnce. karts of Ca:ysfort„ Berkeley, awl roues are. !Anti--Yarborough, Stanley, Grander, Gtastouhurr, Clifford, Dana's, Sc. Cotoiirda--Crauferd and WMalinn. Palk, John Cox HtppeJey, Theenat Mostyn,Ralph Ililbanke, Joh,' Aubrey. Messrs....W. Cavendish, James Milne., Melte, Ninth, Joh n Harason, Erskine, Bryan Cooke, Robert Adsii., I.^-e An t"ine, Rattan!. Lann•nec, bonds., Lygon. Tymyhar, Kin nard, Ralph Laannon, W. Barbey, lion. Cluck:* Pelham, John Raine. Abbe Sicard, the humane inspetclor of the Deaf and Dumb, whose zeal and talents have penetrated into Russia, has received from the Russian Emperor and En:press, two beautiful diamond rings of great va lue; they were a ccom p an i e d b y t h e following letter, written in the name of Their Imperial Majesties : Si 1--The Emperor my master, and the Em prtss his august consort, share in the general appro bation, which your painful labours of consoling and instrufting those unfortunate beings, the Deaf and bumb by nature, so justly have acquired you, and therefore accept the offer of your rears blinaron. lam also ordered to remit to you the inclosed pre sents, on the part of Their Imperial Majesties. I take this favourable opportunity to express my own ad ration, and the great esteem with which you have I nVered me. (Signed) "Eu a." The water-works at St. Cloud will now play re- VaTIY every Sunday, during the season, though espence will amount to several millions. So lath does our beloved Chief regard money. when he Int ','" that he can give pleasure to the Parisians. , '-. 3 ‘'eniee, in gratitude for the quiet and Aappinen l allahitants have enjoyed under the paternal I . iv ernment of the First Consul, pave nominated Beauharnois, a can did ate f or t h e S ena t e , 1- .1 the First Consul has honoured the choke with t ri rob tLa Cc- elte de fr.e.'ff.) • LA n. coymox PLEAS, GUMDITALL. • —• Sidings after Term, 6cfvre Sir J •It CS MANS, lELD. SATES V. WHITLOCK. The Plaintiff, who appeared to be the mistress of a broeiel, kept in Welicloso-square, brought her aaion to recover 101. of the Defendant, a Gentle man of fortune, at P.atcliff highway, for money lent under the following ludicrous circumstances : Mr. Whitlock, havirg met with a NE's Davis, was pre. veiled upon to accompany her to tlit house of Mrs. Bates, where refreshment and wine were amply .provided for the visitors. On the morning following, Mr. Whitlock wished to go away; but was prevented, in consequence of being deprived of his cloaths, which were taken away during the night, to pre vent his elopement. With mach difficulty, his cloaths were, however, obtained ; hut, being defi cient in cash, the 101. in queition was lent him by the Plaintiff, to defray the expences he had incur red, more than the half of which went into her pocket, and the remainder to Miss Davis. In sup port of the Plaintiff's case, several witnesses were examined—but Sir JAMES MANSTILLD •Wol.lld not suffer it to go beflre the Jury, observing, there did not appear any fair and creditable ground for the anion.—The Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. WIOLY AND WIFE V. lALTC;I.FE. This was an aelion to recover damages for an assault. Mr. Serjeant SHEPHLIW described the Plaintiff to be Clerk to a merchant, and the Defendant as a shop-keeper, to whom the Plaintiff's wife, Mrs. Wigly, usually went to purchase butter, &c. On the 17th of last November. the latter bought one pound of salt butter, which she discovered to be deficient in weight, therefore took it back, and requested three ounces more might be added. Mrs Metcalfe, who was in the shop, instead of complying, flew in to a passion, and called down her husband, who, in a brutal manner, threw Mrs. Wigly into the street, and broke her arm ; a woman, passing by at the same time, saw her in shit situation, and during the agony of pain which she suffered, afforded assistance; the Learned Counsel observed, the unfortunate wo man had been much injured, and was entitled to large damages. A woman named Collins, and her niece, who were in the shop when the assault was committed, Cor roborated the foregoing statement. Mr. Serjeant COCK/L, on the part of the defence, observed. that Mrs. Metcalfe had just recovered from a state of illness, when the Plaintiff's wife came into the shop, and behaved in the most outrageous man ner: having thrown down a seven shilling piece on the counter, she insisted on having change for it, of a particular descriprion, namely, two shillings and sixpence in penny pieces, sixpence in new halfpence, and the rest in silver; after imperiously refusing to accept of any other change. She hid the same given her to avoid altercatio,i, and went away with mound of butter ; about eix o'clock she returned with the same; said it was not weight, and requested it might be weighed ; it was found to be three ounces short, and was objeaed to, as not being th e butter bought at the Defendant's shop in the morning, be ing of another shape. Mrs. Wigly, however, per sisted it was; and said she had washed it, which had altered its appearance. Being very clamourous, she was desired to go out of the shop ; and, on her refusal, Mr. Metcalfe came down, and endeavoured to prevail nn her to go away peaceably—but finding all his endeavours unavailing, he turned her out of the shop without any intention to hurt her ; and she unfortunately fell over the threshold. It was con tended, that the injury she had sustained was acci dental. Sir J Isits NtsmsriEl.D. after hearing sever.d wit nesses for the Defendant, advised the parties to w i t hd raw a Juror—which they acceded to. GUILIMALL, MAT 29. Sittisgs before Lord 'EL us noncoms. NICHOLSON V. WILL AN 'Nei svMrsovi. This was an anion brought against the Defendants, as proprietors of the Leeds mail coach, to recover a compensation in damages for goods which were to be sent by that conveyance, from Nottingham to London, and which were last in the carriage. It appeared, in evidence, that the Plaintiff had pur chased twenty dozen of sill• gloves from Mr. Chtry, of Nouingham, for 581. and it was of great conse quence that they should be sent by the first oppor tunity, and in the most expeditious manner Mr. Clury sent them to the coach office at Nouingbans, with particular direnions that they should be for warded to London by the mail coach, it being con sidered the safest and most expeditious conveyance; the person who left the parcel at the coach office, paid two shillings for the carriage up to London, which was the price by that conveyance. It appear. ed, that instead of sending the parcel in question by the mail coach, as was direned, it was sent by the Trot 134,0”, a long coach which went some hours later than the mail, and also belonging to the Defol clants : in this carriage the parcel was lost. Application was afterwards made to the De fendant (Simpson) for the value of the goods, or proceedings would be commenced against him. tie said tfe was willing to pay to the amount of 51. but no more; and that in all those cases, where anions were brought against them for the loss of parcels sent by their coaches, Mr. Willan defended them. The Plaintiff had paid Air. Clury for the goods, and now sought to recover the value of them from the Defendaius. The defence set up by Mr. GA.Row was, that in consequence of a notice posted up at the coach office, the Defendants were only liable to the amount of 51. The notice was nearly as firllows ir Take notice, that the Proprietors of the coaches at this Office will not be answerable for any goods, money, plate, jewels, writings, or any p a ckage whatsoever, if lost or damaged, amounting, to up wards of 51. unless insured and paid for at the time of delivery, and demanded in one month after such loss or damage is sustained. (Signed) J. Wotan and Co." It was further contended, that die difference be tween the mail coach and the long coach WA. very trifling, and that the ODE was as sale a conveyance as the other. Lord ELLZNBOROrGiI nbseited , that this was an atlion brought a3aiibt carrier 4 for compeasation tor the loss of goods delivered to them, to be carried to a curtain pla..c; and first, the qualm was, aLe • tber they were delivered to be carried by a particular conveyance ? From the notice delivered in evidence, the Defendants had limited their responsibility to five pounds, unless the goods were specially insured. In this case, they were unquestionably liable to th tt amount. A point was then made, " whethrr, und er their notice, the pa r ty cou ld be made liable for tne whole amount?'' And the Counsel on both sides agreed, that there should be a verdia for the Eain till' to the full amount, and that the question should be settled upon motion. The Jury, therefore, found, that Ole parcel was delivered specially to go by the mail c.meh ; and they further found a verdia tor the PLlintds, of 581. subjea to the point made. LOTT v. FLLIOT AND !THUS. This was an thion brought to recover the value of a horse, which had been killed, by the wheels of the Defendant's dray passing over his hoof. It appeared that the Defendants were eminent brewers in Pimlico—and as the Plaintiff's cart was taking in goods at a warehouse in Stretham-street, Bloomsbury, the Defendant's dray or caravan, witlythree hones, heavily laden, in passing by, the wheels went over the hoof of the hone, and com pletely separated it from the leg, by which the miserable beast, „after lingering a day or two, died. It appeared that the dray was coming up with the horses, in a smart trot (though so heavily laden), when the driver of the Plai n tiffs cart called out to the persons who were with the dray, to take care of his horse ; and although he hollowed to them several times, they took no notice, but drove on. The horse was proved to be worth 35 guineas. The Defendants attempted to prove that the acci dent was not occasioned by the wheel of their dray. but by a hackney coach, which had previ ous ly passed by the Plaintiff's cart ; but this being contradiaed by the other witnesses, and•the nature of the injury, the Jury found a verdia for the Plaintiff, SOL WILLIS V. WZLLS. This was an anion upon a breach of contra& The Defendant had sold a quantity of hams and bacon to the Plaintiff, and in a written contra& had stipulated that the goods should be of good quality and condition. Upon examining the goods, the Plaintiff found a 'quantity of them damaged, and unfit for use : upon which he applied to the De fendant, who thereupon said he must take all or none. The Plaintiff produced several witnesses, who proved the original contra t, and that at the time it was broken, the article was rising in price and va lue every day ; and that by the breach of contrast the Plaintiff mast have lost considerably. The Defendant contended that the Plaintiff was bound to take the gnodeas they came, for that by the usage and custom of the trade, the seller always made an allowance to the buyer, in a certain pto portian, fur such part of the article as was not mer chantable. Lord ELLEXIOROUCH observed, that a special contras/ had bee, entered into by the Defends:it, by the breach of which the Plaintiff had sus tained a loss, and it was for the Jury to ascertain what that loss might amount to. After some consultation, the Jury found a verdiet fsz the Plzhnif —391. F.l. DUBLIN, Mar 95. A curious dispute, conneCtel with the arrest of the Rebel General Russell, has arisen in this city. An attorney, named Enprson, seems to have been employed, in or about the time of the late insurrec tion, by Nlajor Sirr, as a ' , xi:fa/kind of b id y,and hav ing obtained some remote hiformation which enabled the Major, and Mr. Minchin, a Magistrate, to arrest Russell, he sought to obtain the whole of the reward offered for the apprehensiosrof the Insurrection try Chief. Disappointed in this avaricious expeCtation, Sirr (who, at the hazard of his life, disarmed and arrested Russell). having got half the sum proposed by Government, Emerson, in an appeal to the pub tic, complains that he got but five hundred pounds!; and he asserts in a memorial, to the truth of which he makes affidavit, that he was in the room when Rus sell was (4.,.ir mecl and arrested. In contradiaion of this, AN Sin and Mr. Miachin have made oath before the Lord Mayor, that " Emerson was not in th • room when the arrest was made," but entered it s• .a after. If the oaths of the informer and Ma jor hirr were merely opposed to each other, there might be a possibility of the public judgment beir! undetermined ; but the oath of Mr. Minchin, a most respeetable gentleman, being thrown into nue of the se des, the inference is obvious and nnquestionalile I dormers are, unhappily, sometimes useful, and should he paid ; but it is not alone the necessity fur such instruments that is to be lamented, but the corruption of morals, and unblushing contempt of decency, which remain twig after that necessity is removed. Olt ! it is a sad thing, and debasing to human na ture, to see in one day the price of blood becoime the objel of contention; and any person assuming and pretending to the name of Grneb man, violatinit. with Thema -shriek and Patopyrr thirs, the grave i•f the viaim which he had slain. I assure you, the circumstance has excited a very general sensation s.f horror and disgust here ; and I am glad that it does, for it shows that the proud and ennoblirg dis tinaions of man have not been entirely olslitcrat,:o, by our cruel and unhappy civil dissentions. Yesterday morning. five Regiments of the City Volunteers, and the Artillery, with two pieces rf cannon, went through th e diff erent evo l ut i on*, h. lore the Earl ['ARRINGTON, and the Duke of YORK. They acquitted themselves with their accus tomed regularity and discipline. greatly to the satis fadion of His Royal Highness. On their return through St. James's Park, the guard at the Queen's House was drawn out, and saluted the different corps as they passed, with the colours fling, had been presented to them last week, at Green wich. The remaining five Regiments of City Volitr tcers are to be inspeded on Friday neat, by tr.: Duke of l'oebt. It is now certain that Prince de Bory{hese , brothei - in-law to the First Consul. intends to buy a coun'.7 in Suabia, xhieh will he ereaeil into a principality. But the report that IA %site is to continue at Rome, an.l that same disareement subsists bevacca and her hushaud, is without fomaidatiow • **. FROM tHE LONDON GAZETTE, IRTIr dehainsity-Offirs, Iffeo*29, 1804. His Majesty's Ship Le Pique, off Juane, SIR, Maras lit, 11'.04. I have the honour to inform you, that, afief 4 cheer of five hours, this day, we came tip with and captured the French National Cutter La Terreur, of to guns (si; of which the threw overboard In the cheer), and sevent7-11ve Wien, commanded by Mons. Collinet, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, from Santo Domingo two days, and had taken nothing. I have the honour:to he, Ste. . ' < LS . ,. H. H. Rail To Sir J.T. Duckworth, Rear Admiral of the Red, Lionmander in Chief, &c. etc. Colo of another tetter from RenrAdoirral Sirloin's Thalami Duckwmth, K.B. to William Marsden, En: dernea Jamaica, Ilia 7th of April, 1804. I transmit you herewith a letter from Captain Let Geyts, of His Majesty's ship Stork, stating the cap ture of a felucca privateer; there are alto two other privateers captured since our last, aecordiee to the accompanying list, which I beg you to laf • before the Lords Commissioners of the .tdmiralty. • I " I am, &c. J. T. DucKwoare. His Majesty's drop Stork, off Caps Nicola. SIR. Mole, March 90, 1804. I have the honour to acquaint you, that His Mn' jesty's sloop under my commend has this day cap tured, after a chace of six beers, the French felucca privateer, L'Hironde ll e, of three gun s (t urns / which were th rown overboard in the chats), and forty.four' men. She has bees three m ont h s from Guadeloupe,: but last from Banacoa, and had taken nothing. • I have the honour to be, &c. • - (Signed) Geo. Ls Gaels. To Sir J. T. Duckworth, K.B. Roar-Admiral of the Red, Commandsoin.Cloisf. Return of vessels captured and destroyed by His Majaag . ws. eels under the coolants of Rear-Admiral fir J. Tt Dutiat worth, K.B. since the list in c ised 10111 March, 1404. L'Hirondrille felucca privateer, of three guns and hogs*, men; captured on the 90th et March, by the stork. . Le Casar felucca privateer, of one six-pounder, and 46 men; captured on the 3d of April, by the Fortune-; out five days, and had taken nothing. Jean Baptiste felucca privateer, of 28 men; capture] on the 2d of April, by the Racoon. Copy of a Letter from Renr-Adtairal Decree to Wiliam Mars den, Esq. dated on board the Franchist at Sea, 27th March, 1804. SIR, Having direaed Captain Murray to chase a schooner, which was discovered a-head of the con voy yesterday afternoon, you will be pleased to ac quaint my LniJs Commissior.ers of the Admiralty. that, by half past seven o'clock that evening, she w as captured by the Franchise, and proves to he Ls Petite Harmonic privateer from Martinique, mount ing 2 four-pound carriage guns, cm:erne:sled by Citizen Guerel, and manned with twenty-two men. I h ave ordered her to be destroyed t and am, &c. J. R. Dacau. SQUADRON UNDER COMMODORE SIR SIDNEY GENZIt&L ORDER. ifatehtpe, If Ostend, May all, 0104. The Commodore 'Abet the opportunity, before the extension of the Squrlron to a ert:ater dist ince imam each other, to sig. ray hi. eut,re avp:ebatiat ro CAI rviti , ed and on whkh the eree,al ;Mutt sit the late a, ti soe rem Ahait the Cailausiis and Conntandera of the Shops and Vrieeis utadri. kit relicts. He highly anpro%et of the spirited manner in which Captain Ad a.id Mitchell engaged, imineilisitely on tlirir jinx:tins, without waiting for particular inatructiona, acting on the true pii,icip/e, sanctioned by law and practice, of doirgy " the utmu.t !Killable in yusettitot an enemy, and to taut • friend in view." Without derogation from any other Officer, the Colllllooe dor.- feels it incumbent on him to particularise Lieutenant Maiiderston, cornnianding the Minx, who lied the attack an the l'raa:n, and Lieutenant Lapolie, mammals ling the Marisa,. who seconded that attack ; and to arum those Oflizers that he parti.ip..tes sincerely in the general admiration which thtir gallantry arid address excited. The signals made and repeated to the ftatd-r " to get to lee ward of the chat.," at tha cone time that the general sienal for action was flying, was Me only one that occw-redto ir.d,c.4 that there was wart to leeward for that sloo;i, although the:ei was not water iti the direet course which Captain Mas•,.'s anxiety to clue with the enemy induced him to take. The Commodore is much gratified in being the fiat among those who wilt approve the gallant 'tuitions et the OfiitAXS, sea men, and marines, of trait squadron, to express that a;Troh-tion. The tire kept up by the squadhati was constant ,nil ucU d,rectel ; and this Commodore hereby returns them th...nks io the name of their mmauy, of which they are at present the Anneal guard. (Sirsed) W. SIDNEY SMITH. A Irnoultdge of the following Aa of the United States Of .Arne:ica, may be of use to those who are conne&ed with,the funds of that country: An An to repeal a pal of the Ai intiteled, " An Adt sup Venientary to the Aft concerning ConeLls and Vice Consu.s, ..ad for the fertile: reunion of .I,m-clean Smoten." B. 4 emitted by the Senate and Howie of Repres-Adt:ett of the , Uhitxt Seth" of America, in Colgreatats:::thitd, ti.a the ninth se.tio d of the AO, intituled " An Act supplementary to the Act cuticernlng Conyu:s and Ir - we -Consuls add for the bather protection of Am e ri c an gzsmen,4 :; ,,,t t h e ~ e t h o f , Fcla.i.ty, one th,unl eng!:t hundred And , be, arid the ~ hereby re; vied. hitt U —.toe h., it fwthe• enacted, that all power, of ae• tort;y for the , rao•tef of any -node 01 the United Siatzt, or fee tll.l receipt of int:rest thereon, executed in a foteign country. th e „ . ,;.e, of June, 111.13, arc noting to the tomtit, use a: thd r metes ef the tYnotcA pri ,r to the said Seth d., 1 „ of Juise, 1303, b: all intents and purpocei; any p7,35...V1 in thc af , -ettid retieu ty.by rerimird to the eon. Lary itete.t . n-anti mg. (Signed) Nate hi•c.m, SeeclrePcf the Home of keprelclitet.tex. (Signe3) Jesse F try , Prr.itnit of the Senate , . hlzrch Pre Tempore. A ppiovel. (Signed) T J n. On the I 2 , 1 i inst. the garrison at 34eyence was in formed, that the Senate and the Tribunate had pro p sled to declate Bonaparte the hereditary Emperor of the Fri.c.ch. With one voice, the troops .ez claiaresl. "May BeeraAode berfer ever!" Our Government has required, in the Electorate of lianover, 3.000 more ht - stses for our cavalry. and 1,1011 for our artillery. As the 6,4 of the H4llO - is entirely empty, General Des .olles has rtrdered the horses to be taken in the ditfe rent towns ar.si villagel in Hanover, by French OIE. cers and Commissaries. The owners of these horses I . will arrange the prices aid the mode of payment, with the Me nbers of the fi - moveritin States. %Vhen this acquisa:tto of horses is completed, ilanover will have f . ttrnished us, wtthin these last twelve months, wit'. 'Z...;,.500 ism se, for our cavalry; G,200 for our drag: s tns or hussars; and 5,025 fur our a.-tillery. . (Le