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I; POLICE. 110 W-ST TILE?. Four British subjeccts were found on board the three Spanish galleons which we lately took off Cape St. Mary, bound from Spanish South America to Cadiz. The account they gave of themselves was, that they had been pricnners of war in Buenos Ayres, in consequence of their being on board the Lady Shan' transport ship, bound for aany Bay, on board of which a mutiny took place , their passage, And the Captain and Officers in -I,.::tranly murdered. The mutineers carried the ship i.‘to Monte Video ; they had been rcle.ased by order of the Government of Spain, and were to be landed at Cadiz, and conveyed to England by the first conveyance it the expence of that Government. This account was transmitted to the Secretary of State's Office, with their names, viz. Jahn Brown, ! . .11vard Eaer, Francis Ward, and Lamic!lot Movies; and information being sent that they were arrived .a ihe River, and on beard the Enirraria- tender, Sir .;:e a H WO f orosentAdkins and Anthony for them Lot Men y. The Officers lodged them in Tothdl v. Us They have undergone several ts 'initiations, and the account they have given of ni,elves and their adventures is as folows : dleurei Ensie said, he was a drumnic:' in the New tio.ith Wales Corps; that he was on board the Lidy Shore when the mutiny took place; that he had no share in it ; he was then only fourteen years of age ; that since that time he had chiefly been in prison in South America, in Buenos Ayres and other places; that he received permission to come to Europe in the Spanish frigate Medea, which was captured off Cadiz. John Brown said, he was born at Cambridge, and is about thirty years of age ; that he wits on board the Lad_y Shure at the time of the mutiny as a soldier in the South \Valet Corps ; he was not in the watch at the time of the mutiny, and knew nothing of it until the morning, when he found himself fastened below. The Frenchmen, Dutchmen, and Irishmen, who were concerned in the mutiny, fast ene I down the hatches before they t,ok the vessel, rind our officer told us we could not reteke the vess..l, and that he had given up his sword, and we :nust give up our arms. Serjeant Burns brought the order fruit i!,e officer ; they took no prizes after wards, and. the Fienclimen carried them into the Ri ver I.a Plata, wuere he had been a prisoner about seven yeas: the Frenchmen were all in one watch. Enneir Ward said, he was born in the North or Ireland, at Ballyhay ; he was a soldier in the South Wales Corps ; was on board the Lady Shore at the time of the mutiny ; he inlisted in Lond.:ii, an , l was very young, and worked in London as a journeyman tailor; he was sick below at the time of the mutiny, and knew nothing of i• ; they were taken into 'Monte Video, and atter that to Buenos Ayres; the other three prisoners were vi ;ill him all the t:me they were inprisn; and they came home as prisoners of war in the Mist's? Spanish frigate. Lgoorsiar Snowier said, he was born at R•iscrea,i:: Ireland ; is now upwards of seventy years of He went in the "nly Shore as a convict, having been convilted of a fraud in obtaining money by fah.: pretences, and ordered to he transported fur seven yesus. :Major Semple and he wore the only two male convids 41rt board ; they laid in the steer age, and heard or knew nothing of the mutiny until the pistols and guns were fired on deck. The Lorlif Sityre was carried into Monte Video, and he was the first man that told what had been done, and knew they had obtained possession of the vessel. _ The mutineers were eleven Frenchmen and seven Irishmen. who were s-idiers in the South Wales corps. flc was the only Englishman on hoard the ijil.;drilli Spanish frigate, when she was taken. They -d ;a the month of August, 1797, from Fal outh, for Botany Bay, which place the old man, stranr to tell, lamented, with apparently a deal ot coacet o, he did not reach ; observing, he had no doubt, but he shook' have passed his time as com fortably there as in London, havin.; a strong recom mendation from the late Mr. kirhy, the keeper of Newgate, and several ether per%o .5, to Governor Hunter, and had considerable property given him by his friends to take, and every thing was made as comfortable to him as his situation would admit of. The mutiny was accomplished by the following ex tram danary means ; the small number of eighteeen men, consioing of eleven Frenchmen and seven Irishmen, happening all to be upon the watch at the same time. When the mutineers had murdered the officers, and made thems-Ives masters of the vessel, they put on the officers uniforms ; Capiairt Wi!Lrix's was worn by the French ', 1 who t.ink the command, and was gene nrh .loM (who has since been fete ..:tee at Executinn Dock fine the crime). There uete sixty four young female crolvias on Sherd. When they arrived at ?dome Video, it lt,t being cus tomary for Europeans to do any work, they were serptrused by the female inhabit ints, who provided them with Spanish dresses, and made them their companions. Some of the women conducted them seise-. with a deal of propriety, and are married and sAtt,..l there—some to .he inhabitants, and some to American Captains. Several of them behaved in a very loose and disorderly manner, and were in con seq sence taken into custody and carried before the Governor, who committed them to prisms at Buenos AP es. where they reformed. and agreeing to turn to the Ittimass Cathnhc religion, they were espoused by the hill thitanti, and are now comfortably settled Wlen they arrived at Monte Video, the Frendt mutineers wrote to the French Government, stating the capture thee had made, but concealing the horrid murders they had committed. The French Government. in consequence. wrote to the Governor of Monte Video, saying. they considered it such a brave and gallant adieu for eleven French men to take a ship with so many men on hoard, that they dire/teal the vessel and cargo to be sold, and the amount 011ie sale to be divided among them, ac cording to the rank they held in the command of the vessel after they had taken I er, amt some rif them are stowenjoying their ill gotten property in that country. He said he was put on the sick list, on board the Spanish (dote, :and had every indulgence shown ham in consequence of his age ; when she was taken by the English, he last the property that had been givers him hy the 4ovenior and miser gentlemen at Buenos Ayres. 'I he crime for which this man was transportel, teas for obtaining money frcm tLe ca- Find convitltt in Neozite, u.mkr a peteuce thilt he could procure them pardons, through the interest of a servant belonging to the Duke of Portland, at the time his Grace was Secretary of State. On Thursday he was lib •rated, by order of Sir Merl A FORO. The other three remain in custody ; one of them, who was a drummer, is to go for a soldier. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, the Master of the Swan with Two Necks, is Lad-lane, was summoned by a gentleman beiore the siting Alderman, whose complaint was, that two hares had been sent to him from the coun try the day before Chrisimas-day, and had not been delivered according to the direction, ,‘ The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly." The master, his book-keeper, and porters, proved their being sent to Piccadilly, agreeably to the di reaion ; but they would not he received at the Cellar, and were left at the White Horse oppo site, and the gentleman informed of the circum stance, who, refusing to pay the carriage front Lad-lane to ,Piccadilly, they remained there. The Master said in holiday time he never allowed any parcels to be delivered until the coach arrived at his house, the final destination, to prevent game being lost. The Alderman thought the defence was so extremely reasonable and fair, he could only direa the Gentleman to pay the carriage, and receive his hares. A NSION- HO S C Yesterday, a complant was made that a shop in Threadneedle-street, iv; thin two doors of the Watch house, had been robbed, and a watchman had given information that he had seen the goods deliberately put into .1 coach at three o'clock in the morning, and carried off. The Officers are in search of them. MARL BOROUGH-STREET. Thursday a busiress or curious notice occupied the attention of the Sitting Magistrates a consider able time. Gosling and Spencer, beadles of Saint Anne's parish, charged a Serjeant in the 14th Re giment of Light Dragoons, with violently as saulting and beating an unknown person, in Comp ton-street. It was stated, by the officers, that they took the prisoner into custody in coasequence of his having 'eaten a person in the street. assisted by others, and creating an immense mob. On the Serjeant being put on his tletettc• - :, the charge took a very different turn ; the he'.l as follows : The prisoner was sent ssa:t saspatzhes to Lieut. Colonel Hawker, the officer :,nainanding the re giment, and on his way to the Colonel's lidgings, he saw A person whom lit knew to be a deserter from the Bth Regiment or Foot. The fellow took to his hetis ; and the Prisoner, who was unable to head him, kept strikibj him with a stick, and as he ran, cried " stop thief, a deserter." A considerable mob was assembled, and the beadles interfered, and insisted on taking the Prisoner to tl e IVatch house, for assaulting the deserter. The S ajeant ialiirmed them that he wassettling a deserter. The officers, how.iver, insisted that the prisonertpd com mitted a !treads of 'the pease, and wok him to St. Pane's watch-house, without paying any resrea to his prow.tations, or the deserter, wits eii'eaed his escape. Lieutenant-Colonel Hawker, and Cornet Knight, of the same regiment, accidentally were passing near, and witnessed the trans.:Lakin. While the needles had the prisoner ht custody, tshOn't tl* same moment had hold of the deserter, Cornet K. without making himself known to them, reques•'-d of the beadles that they would first secure the deserter, and in that case the prisoner's conJuEt could have a legal ins c,tigation. They, is .wever. took no notice of the t emonstrance, but conveyed away the serjeant from his prisoner. The Magistrate remarked, that it was the duty of Ofii-ers to suppress, as much as possibl-, any kind I of disiirler and riot in the .street ; and it was also their ditty to secure the person or persons who ap peared to theist the aggressors, and bring them be fore a Magistrate, as it was nut for them to decide. It was also every man's duty to secure a deserter ; and they had aged wrong, it it was within their knots ledge that such was the case when the Prisoner had the man in custody. He gave Colonel Hawker the names of the Beadles, and stated, that a Bill might he pieferied a g ainst them at the Sessions The Colonel expressed his determination to that offal ; and the business will, of course, be heard again. The Roman Catholic Committee, it is now said, proposed to postpone 'lie final decision upon the C - tholic Petition to Parliament, uotil the second of February hest. Letters from New York, of the 15th ult. state that JLROME ISONATAIIni continued there at that dAte. _ _ . Mr. DIESSINS, the Messenger, who lately went from I.niwon with diSpiIICIICS for the Court of St. Petersburg!), had the mistortune to break his collar. bone, when within three days journey of that capital. Don FKPIANDOZ, a Spanish office', who formerly did some important service for Lord KEITH in the Mediterranean, will go out as Cuaimiary General to one of the expeditions now preparing in our ports. 'lle .11Parva, of Liverpool, Oster, from Peters burgh, for Tenerife, is detained in Grimsby Roads by the tide surveyor. The Reliance, Goauoo, from Bristol, is lost in the River Gambia. _ _ _ The East India Company's ship Es►! trafterga waxy, which has just now left the River for India. is one of the largest of the Company's shipping, and the first ship of that class ever mast to Bengal. The Caslle Eden is the next ship for Bengal, and is to sail some time in March, and the only remaining regular ship of the season that is to sail for Bengal due . _ - On Thursday se'nnight was launched from Mr. PITCHER'S yard, at Northfleet, a fine new ship of ROO tons and upwards, built by HENRY COOKE. Esq. for the East India Company, and chartered for six voyages. She is named the Droviahire i and is destined for Ceylon and Madras. Private letters from Bordeaux state, that the inhabitants, far from testifying any joy upon the oc casion of the Coronation of flosar•erc, shewed their indignation against him in the most unequivo cal manner ; they not only refused to illuminate, but destroyed the fireworks, transparencies, &c. which ws:re prepared for that occasion. It was not to be supposed that such open insults would be suf bred to pass with impunity by a man of such an implacable temper as floe AtA a re. Military Com missions have been ted, and several of the inhabitants of that city have been shot . . . . PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES. • It is with pleasure we are now enabled to confirm the assertion which we sortie time ago maie, (net, all differences upon the important subjeCt respelling the care and e.hicatian of the Young Priccess CHARLOTTE of WALLS HAVE DEL? ADJUSTED in the Loopiest a n d mo st boaouralele minuet for thee. great and divingnii'le,l Personages concerned. The KING is to exercise his right in the care' nnd education of His t; RANO DAUGHTER; and it w:11 astonish the vile and malig:unt slanderers, who cats live qtly in times et turbulence and dissenticn, to learn, that His Royal Highness the Prince of WA i Ls never opposed the full exercise of that right on the part of his Roy At Fa ram Actuated by every dejree of tender afFeCtion and loyalty to his Roy AL PARENT, the PaiNCL knew that the Law of the Land had established the right of the Care and Education of the PeiNcEss and PRESUNIP fIVE I leis in the person of His Mare.r v. His 111 , 41 High ness knew also, that no person could exercise that right with greater solicitude for the happiness of the Young Palaces:, and for the welfare of the State. Hut there were certain points of etiquette—certain forms—which are highly honourable to a father, and which are here unnecessary to be particularised, that operated for a time on the PR 1 N CEPS feelings, and required, in his opinion, a satisfaClory explana tion. After a full and fair discussion of the subject, every cause oi difference has at last been happily re m'Aied, and such explanations made as haste per fedly reconciled the parties most deeply interested. It is now for the present agreed -1 That the care and education tit the young Princes of Wales shall b. vented .a His Majesty. 2 That Ilk Ma , estv, with the approbation of Hit Royal !Lehi:cis the. Prince, shall have the nomination and appoint ment of all the Governesses, lustructers, Sec. requisite for the yr,ting Princess. . 0 3. That the young Princes*, while in team, shall, for a certain time, reside at Carleton-house ; and, when at is deemed proper to remove Ilei Royal I I,ghilim, to the country, that she shall reside at Windsor. Ihese particulars, we have good cause for believ ing. contain the brief Abstraft of the present Ar rangement, which was finally settled last Saturday, ' by the Lorin CIIaNCELLOR, Earl MOIRA, and Mr. Pr rx, with the cordial concurrence of the Karts and the Palace. DUELLING. • The Public are sufficiently acquainted with the sensation produced by the unfortunate duel in which General Hamilton fell, and the grief which his death occasioned in America. In several of the States, re solutions against duelling were entered into, and a general spirit was excited against a pra4lice which had risen to a height which threatened to be attended with consequences utterly dest:uftive of domestic peace or public tranquillity. The following is the Memorial of the Represen ta:ivti of the State of South Carolina on this subjeft: " Your are deeply impres•cd with Fief at the presslmee of th,• entrains of 1/tainting, which, tniinAing upon all lars. human and divine, sweep: cff many useful citizens, leJving their blush,* a prey to sorrow, and often to poverty and vice •' That thii euit'im originated in dark and barbarous age% when a r. (Aar east i.n,atrt al administratiou of jugote was us. ?wean% oud triseelNised ; but It ought not to be tolerated by tire eivilisati.ni modern tunes, under a 1-gislation, which has provid-d, or mar easily provide, adequate redress for all serious injuries c.onnsitted ageing the life, liberty, fame, or property of the That this custom emu a tribunal for the settlement sof pets .nal differeacoi, iu witch, contrary to all sound principles, a man becomes the sole judge in his own cause; whence, as might have been expected from such a code, the only punish ments for the kwest, as well as the highest offences, are written in blood. That restraining personal resentment, by giving the attri bute of vengeance to the laws, Walia thir greatest victory obtained by civilisation over barhsrism ; but the custom of duelling is tow well calculated to dcfeat the hisnecill effects of that triumph, and tow oaken the authority of all iaws, by accustoming Rico to contein.i th, ir Sa actions. "That your Memorialists are apyveliensive, from the fre• quency of the practice of late years, that this cudum is gaining ground, and seems likely to be earned to such great length:, as to degrade men to the condition of glatliators, and to introduce a new reign os barbarism. " That, from the nature of the human mind, men are ever ready to follow exaniples, especially those set by einment per sons; 11604 therefore the body of the community perceives great, and in other respects, virtuous citizens, shedding each others blood on slight provocations, or trivial pretences, the fatal practice be general. Thus, the barriers between virtue and vice, innocence and guilt, are broken down, arid that horror of shedding human blond wantonly, which is the best safeguard of the peace of society, is greatly diminished, or wholly destroyed " That in countries where distinctions of rank are sanction. ed, a pernicius cu•tuni may exist, and be confined to the higher orders of society, and be, compaiatively, little destructive; but that, in our country of equal laws, tights, and rank, such custom. if unchecked by the laws, will necessarily become general, and spread its destructive Cfects far and wide in the community, Ow dt,olauoil thoitsands of famdieg. Thal this 'aortal vengeance is not resorted to merely in eases of griftvou, ;.moue, for which the laws may not have provided an ademiate remedy; but, in many cases nt t•inal offence, which 4 40tiernos mind would williugly pardon, this tyrant cudoin is 'opposed to impose an obligation to call nut to the field of blood even a companion or friend who may have unguardedly given the provocation. That this absurd custom decides no right, and settles no point; anti as the religion and philosophy it modern times ell nut admit that this Almighty disposer of events will inter pose his power, on such au impious appeal t his rustier; which the credulity of the Gothic nations believed, when this Cliftenits6ted anions them in the form of judicial combat. It is themfore conceded nuivermlly, that the innocent and ag grieved p^rson is as liktly to he the v. iim as the guilty uffen der, and probably more so, as a mild and peaceable man would les inclined to acquire or exert a morderclu= skill, the c11....a of which he abhors. That the preteiiee o: those who would excuse this custom, on the ground that it polishes society, and meients assassMa non, is wholly inifouisd.ni, as the most polished natium of car tient times—the Grecians and Romans, and the moat humane and civilised nation of inialetn times--the Chineac, have en joyed society in perfection, without the adventitious aid of this pernitious and unnatural custom; which, though in aired hostility to the principles of Christianity, prevails only in Christian Europe and America. Your Mensori.ilisu have been informed, that although the comm. 011 l ow in the land deviate; homicide in a duel In be mur der, the law h.. lieeovie obsolete and a dead letter. That all the decisimas in our Courts of Justice have turned wholly on the :airimoi with which the duel was conduet,d, and verdias of Acquittal, or Manslaughter, have constantly been ten dared. Titmice arises a necessity for a clear and explicit ea mush.' of the Legislative will on this important subjeet, gua ranteed by II .nod v.gorous mations. " Your Nteniurialists, therefore, humbly pray that your Ho namable House,: would be pleased to take this important sub. jed into your iiiiists,ioits consideration; and, that sou would in vow wisdom provide such remedies as mar effe:tually de stroy that evil praetice communed of, by regulat.ons wisely cal lutated to protect the fame and feelings of the innocent and insalted person ; and to punish tigorrius'y the bold aff,iide r who shall dare to lift his hand against his neighbour, and shed his blood in a dael, iw violation cf the divine law and the law of h.s - • . .. •r GALVANISM. .. . ~ . • --..up.—. We lately inserted a paragraph, respelling the • recovery of sight to Richard Cooke, a seaman. Mr. Creaser, surgeon, of Bath, has since publi:bed the ..,.: following truly interesting account of this extraordi- 1 nary case: Richard Cooke, the patient in question, says Mr. Creaser, received a wound in the right temple, some years since, in the A of hoarding an enemy's ves sel in the West Indies. By this, he was instantly and totally deprived of sight, ant so continued.— Being robbed of all ft's money, in the streets of Iron don, some time since, he returned to his native place, Bridgwater, after receiving the assurance of one of ' the first oculist; in London, th it his disease seas in capable of relief. The opinion of this Gentleman, in writing, which is now in my possession, is thus given : 44 i do nut think that Franck Cooke w it ever be simnel...-. • ; Ha nu a confir,ned Gotta S,•e,,a--,nd noth.ng out liiioWl3l anxious desire would have induced ine to try sty recncdy." Under these prospects. through the humanity of Mr. Sandford, he became a patient of the Dispen sary lately established at Wivelitr•omb, in she county . • of Somerset, under the auspice, of Lord Somer.: ville, and several Gentlemen of th it neighbourhood, . and condufted by Mr. Silly, sur:•eon ; a Gentleman .•' whose talents and ingenuity ate of the highest or- der. Mr. S. applied Galvanism with co n siderable v boldness, and, on if, ,rt / fi rst applicolima , the unfor tunate man was restored to the sight of the eye oppo site the seat of injury ; the eye nearest to it having . probably suffered in its organisation too much to •I admit of restoration. To the alt eady existing fads, which induce us to form high future expedations from the powers of this wonderful influence, Galvanism, in the relief of disease, I am happy to contribute my mite of addition. From several recent instances, and espe cially from the removal of a paralytic affection in a lady, of several years duration. which had pro duced total inability to walk, I am persuaded that this power will constitute a valuable addition to oar stock of remedial agents. Such, it may be ob served, have been our hopes in several other novel ties which have been illusory ; but disappoiotment in these respeds should be rather a stimulus than a 1 reveatitive to future exertions towards advance ment in a science, too noble to be suffered to re main in any avoidable imperfection. ^7l An entertainment given by the Earl of Sursout, • at Charlton, on the christening of Viscount ANDO. vsa's son and heir, ought not to pass winotieed, as - the pleasure which every truly English heart will feel from the recital of it, can only be surpassed by the gratification experienced by th axe who had the honour of being present on an occasion so thoroughly.r. festive. The house was previously fine.] with si chosen party of relatives and friends, the gent of which joined Lord Sew roxa's truantry, es amount of a hundred, in the spacious and lofty ), at two o'clock. A dinner, most sumptuous and liberal, though plain and substantial, so On the side-board smoked a baron of bt.•ef, coutrements of which, like those of the Barons antique., were sispkted and ornamented by tbs. , . hands of the fair; they con , iited of the armorial' bearings of Lord and Lady A %Doren, most exqui sitely executed by Lady Joilm In the even.ng, a ball was given to the families of ". the worthy and respedful tenants, in whicit they were joined by some of the loveliest and most ele.. gent, as well as most distinguished women this ' kingdom can boast. At eleven o'clock, the doors of the hall (which was illuminated and desotated for the occasion) were thrown open, and a very elegant and magnificent supper presented itself, to which about two hundred sat down. About one o'clock, the dancing again recommenced, and was kept up with unabard spirit till a late hour in the morning. The events of this jocund day tended, in an eminent degree, to shew how far the attachment of good te nants to a kind landlord can be carried, and in mark the benevolence and benignity of an ilinerinus fa- , mily, who seem to consider high situation s and large fortune only as the means of rendering happy all around them. A very good band, belonging to time Tetbury Volunteers, attended, and added much to the festivity of the d.ty. Monsieur 1.) si. t t cou a r and Monsieur PETIT, two French prisoners of war, were last week marched from Wakefield House of Corredion to Chathans, under a military escort, for breaking their parole, the former from Asliborne, and the latter from Ches terfield ;—They were recaptured at Sheffield along with a German, who had got ten guineas from them under the pretence of ourchasiag cutlery goods, which they were to hawk about the country, until they found an opportunity of getting out of the kingdom. They will now be cuatined on board a prison ship until a peace or cartel takes place; in either case they will be the lan to be exchanged. In consequence of some letters having been in tercepted, the man of the name of Murray. the Messenger to the War-Office, who absconded with a sum of money, was traced to Bath, and yesterday neDrfling, TAUNTON, one of the Bow-street Patrols s arrived in London, with him is custody. !le went an examination before Sir R. Folio, at Hawitesseav's Odice, and was committed t - at. • hill-fields We are happy in being able to state, that there is every reason to expe.n i rapid redudion in the prices of grain. The Millers in general refuse the prices lately asked for Wheat, and the Brewers will not make purchases of Malt ; thus business is ohms' entirely at a stand, and the natural consequence will be an overstocked market, and a considerable re iludion.— York Courant. Naw YEAR'S GIFTS are of greater autiqui than some persons imagine. The ancient Roma were fond of conferring them out of respell . t Fortune ; from a persuasion, that it the Goddess bestowed a gift herself, at the commencement of the year, she would prove propitious throughout. It • was for this reason that her Temples were so parti cularly crowded in January with votaries, stung her smiles and favours. But what a throng would there have been, had Fortune's Temple s , as in these days, a pair of Lottery Wheels ! contain ing such Neer Year'i Gith, as prizes of 'ten and Twenties of heusands of Pounds sterling ! Such Rich Wheels, in short. as our Jovia:" L4kry dts plays Citizens would e h r.om ave t w ea u r d utid t teio the whole a l lebi alsp o l a fit ti 01, of their i:rmensely valuable contents. asc