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tri wed tely inLe with isst 'inf. Grp. mi. the blic, , in COlentil W D0V1.12, ()cross* 7. the 'ens, m of M. Med sit to ne p fu e, iu Juke ith • near aRGE r, for A rif 10' 44, Mr. I.)t, ' L.: ~: 4 C p I S, ran'. . . bttec., )ru, - }- 4.1nr..t rrivt ..1 'te, t. rt Usi‘ 's It in 1;,, rxy F,. t )0 1 " I' 7 *awe. 1 1 .-- mo d • •Ii RIOT. A t two o'clock, yesterday, a soldier belonging tab rricnt ori r c ifi j e u . t ti ch ar e d r s, wont siiver into the G sh li o d p en su are. of Pork and purchased six pennyworth ofd pig'shead, whiels was cut purposely for him. In a few mi r-lies he returned, and, demanded his money, insist mg that 1 e had not teceived the swath of it. 'I his . vas refused ; on which he went away. but, in about a n hour he returned again, with two of his com rades et the same regiment, I. inning with him also ,se hare hones of the Fiece of head, and re peated his demand for his money. This being re- F jvi l second time, the three soldiers abused Mrs. Fulton in the most sharnidul manner, and, by their sieves behaviour, cull: Et .1 a mob of between two and 900 h erons before th.. house. The constables were sent tor, and three soon arrived, one of whom offered the soldier his money,on coneition that he and his c ompanions should go away quietly. This offer, and all remonstrance were in vain, and the consta. : ) ies were under the necessity of attempting to take •aeM into custoJy. The soldiers, who were almost i-antic with liquor, resisted, and a violent saline c :sucd, in which some of the mob took part with , 3 , 3 side, and some with the other. The constables It last succeeded in getting them away as far as C.amaby-street, ashen one of the soldiers effeEled ho escape, leaving the other two fighting, and eruggling with the constables. The latter were obliged, in their ow:. defence, to make much use s.f their staves, with which they beat the soldiers upon the head, and cot and bruised them desperately. At last. two of the constables overpowered one of the soldiers. end, seining him by the legs and arms, dragged him to Marlborough-street Police Office. .—The third constable, who remained behind with the third soldier, being unable to manage him, made his escape into the house of Mr. Fowler, in Carnaby street. The soldier pursued him, and, with his sands, broke the shop-door window, tore the frame eosin, demolished the glass in the , windows, and at tempted to leap in several times, but was prevented by some persons behind, who pulled him back. The sob assembled by this time was very numerous, and great apprehensions were entertained of a ge neral riot. The neighbour, became alarmed, and began to shut up their shops, when a posse of consta bles, armed with cutlasses, arrived, and carried the soldier off to Marlborough-street Office. Here an examination tuck place before the M•ots 5, which lasted a considerable time. Mr. Button at tended. and produced part of the pork, to chew that the meat was sound, and of good quality. The two soldiers were committed to the New Prison. They were conveyed through the back door, from the 0-- lice, to avoid the mou, who were assembled in ere st numbers, and continued there till near eleven o'clock Sewisst Re&sisolo, one of the populace, was also con, milted, upon a charge of assisting the rioters. Mr. Balton and Mr. Fowler were bound over to pro secute. Irerentar. Mr. Pitt paid use visit from WAloser, in cempariy with Gi.neral Lord Forbes, who has the command here. He inspeifled along the Own., the mull place of Parade on Siiridays, the different regiments lying in the Castle and on the Heights, consisting of the Noithampton, Herefordshire, East York, and Ist Suirvy regiments of militia, with de ttchmen:s from other regiments employed in the fortification , . The threeregiments first mentioned are ordered to Brabnitrn Lees. about 17 miles from hence, in the Ashford road. They expert to march between this and 1 hursdey next. The Surrey are to remain to a.sist in carrying on the works, being most of them artificers. The Guards now ly ing at Deal are to march in here ; some say they are to embark in the Boulogne expedition. Seve ral Soars ftron the different ships on this statim we ventured to run in be:wcen the flotilla and the shore, one of which was fired at, but got of with only one man wounded, but not dangerously ; they picked up five men, who came nil to them ; I cannot learn to what place they have been sent. According t. 3 report, there are three or four thousand troops left in Boulogne. The recruiting parties belonging to the 11th Light Dragoons, head-quarters at Hythe, are called is. A troop of them lies hers, a:icianotl.er is. in consequence, expected. Mr. Pitt %ill inspect his regiment of Volunteers on . 11ursd .y next. The second battalinns of the .:7th and 7)th regi ments, and the third battalion of the Royals, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to em bark at Leith for the Thames. Yesterd.iv. the ',sots MA YOU, on examining the R..orris of the Mealweighers, was under the nc atp ordering the prize of Bread to be raised • A►size. or 2d. in the peck loaf. which will take a morrow, when the Quartcrn Loat Wheaten, will e sold for Is. 144 ; auU Household Is. lb. oz. dr• Q•iarsein Loaf, Whtttee (Is I{d). es weigh ♦ .5 8 (j»rt•, n Loaf, tiotn-h , 44 Is). dine I ilf Q .arson I..isf. Wheaten (61.1) Mali (4.erteris Loaf, loesehold. (511). dtt•o 4 2 14: •I Nre•penny Loaf. iifhelt4n, Threepenny Lh.s, Home:1001..1mo. 1 . 44,4414, I. , •af. Whealum, ditto Tgeoimeoui Loaf, ditto 0 11 9 Penny 1.1.54 WiwAle.. deur .5 2 Posuy Loaf, Iloweetioil, ditto. TA* Gazette of last night centaius an offer of par don to all white's who have deserted from any of ills M T ' S Regular forces, CM declaring them selves as inch ; they are to be elaced in such regi ments as His MAJESTY shall think fit, but are not to he returned to. the regiment from which they way have deserted. Deserters serving its other corps (Militia and Artily of Reserve excepted,) ere to continue therein, upon declaring themselves to their respedive ecnunanding officers, and they will not be liable. at any future time, to be claimed by the regiments in which they formerly served. No soldier who may desert after this periud will be included in the above pardon, but be proceeded against with the utmost seventy. Nor is any sol dier, who surrendered liimself upon any former Proclamation of His MAILST v's pardon. and who afteroards again deserted, to he included in the above pardon. And it is to he clearly understood, that this pardon is not to extend to any Jetsetter from His Mafesr v's Militia Forces, or its= the Army of Reserve, or Additional Yoroe. fliL FA MF. LAUNCH OF lIIS MAJESTY'S SHIP IF‘M'F. Yesterday, the Fame, a beautiful line of battle i ship of 74 guns, was launched at the King's Dock yard, Deptford. At an early hour, the men of war iind merchant vessels, lying in the River, prepared ' to celebrate the introduction of another gallant ship to our invaluable Navy, by displaying the Hags of Old England, and the , colours of all nations, in their shrouds and rigging. The seamen, upon this occasion, proud of the fete, vied with each other in the arrangement of their yards, and the neatness of their vessels. The River presented a speCtacle truly picturesque. Within the Dock-yard every rezirla , Opts was adopted to render the ceremony as gratify ' ing to public curiosity as possible. The First Bat talion of Tower Hamlets Militia was placed at the entrance of the gates, and ranged in extended files in every direaion within the I) ick-yard, for the purpose of preserving order. The Dock Volunteers were also stationed Hear the water-side. Stages for the accommodation of the spectators, were erected contiguous to the vessel ready to be launched, and those commanding the best prospeet of the cere mony were covered with white canvas, and appro. printed to sae& company. On the right of the Dock, close to the water, a stand, covered with green cloth, was prepared for Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, who was expeCted to honour the launch with her presence, and a flag staff stood ready at one angle of it, to hoist the Royal Stand ard, when Her Royal Highness should approach. The bands of music belonging to the Tower Ham lets Militia, took their stations in the latter stand, and the drums and fifes of the Dock Volunteers were placed at another part of the Yard. The Mineron, a frigate building in the Yard, together with the other vessels repairing, were crowded with spettators, many of whom stood in the most peril ous situations. The banks of the Rilet opposite, were also filled with a multitude. The Fame lay in the slips, decked in all the pride of naval magnificence. the St. George's, red, and blue ensigns, were displayed at the fore, main, and ' mizen jury-masts. A red ensign was also hanging over her stern, and the Union Jack forward. She appeared LbPutiful ship, built for all the purposes of war: her head is adorned with a figure of Fame, sounding a trumpet, fin ly carved, and painted white, with blue drapery. It is impossible for any image of the kind to sit better on 'he caseate? ; the rak.: is perfectly suitable to that of the stern, which is built after the French and Spanish models, not u :like the stern of the San Josef, a Spanish three decker. Her stern gallery and windows are te onarkably neat And plain, without superfluous exter nal ornaments; au, • he quarter-galleries are formed in .4 St) I of workmanship, that adds considerably to her grandeur. On the water, the decks are several inches wider and longer than many of our seventy fours ; the orlop is peculiarly convenient for stowing her cables, and tie parts are fitted in a manner that must add to the security of the guns. Agreeable to a new constitiaion, she is built without knees and riders on the lower deck, chocks are substituted for them, and she is rendered more roomy and conve nient to her clew, than any of the old built ships. Upon the whole, she is considered by the best judges, a great acquisition to the 'levy, and likely, from her mould, to prove a prime sailer. Alvan half-past twelve, His Royal Highness the Duke of Susses arrived in a landau, with three at tendants, and immediately tack a seat in the stage appropriated to the Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness was followed by Viscouet and Viscountess Castlereagh, the Turkish Ambassador, and a nu merous assemblage of Nobility and Geniry. The ban l of music began God stove eke King, on the ar rival of the Rnial Visitant and party. The dock yard men soon after began to remove the shores which supported the ship on the slips. 8y one o'clock, the tide had flowed nearly high enough, and, at twenty minutes after one, the usual signal WAS given, the remaining shores were taken away, and the rime began to move with all the solemnity which the motion of so great a mass of mecha nism could impress upon the minds of the be holders. She went off the slips, and glided into the arms of the River Gad, amidst the shouts of at least 4J,000 speaators. The bands of music, at the moment she was in motion, struck up Rule B,atansia, echo repeated the sounds of triumph ftom the distant hills, and the grandeur of the scene cannot be ex pressed. Having been named with the usual cere mony, of throwing a bottle of claret against her bobs, she drifted to the middle of the stream, and dropped anchor. The company on board of her then went ashore ; and, after warping in the fair-way of the liver, sails were hoisted on her jury-masts, and she dropped down to Woolwich with a fine breeze. On re-passing the dock, the spetators on board the ships, and on shore, greeted her with three cheers ; the bands again played martial mu sic, and the launch ended. The absence of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales occasioded a disappointment. Lord l food, accompanied by se veral officers, came in his twelve-oared barge, and appeared highly pleased with the gallant manner in which the vessel went off the slips. Atter the launch, His Royal l hghness the Duke of Sussex inspeited every part of the Dock-yard, attended by the Port- Admiral, and an Officer of the 'Fower Hamlets Mi liti.o. Having passed through the store-roams, and other departments of the yard, llis Royal Highness returned to the grand entrance of the yard, where the Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia was drawn up to make a royal salute, wh,ich His Royal Highness received with the most polite condescen sion ; and, alter conversing some time with the Co loud of the Regiment, he returned to town. We are sorry to state, that the pleasure of the day was damped by an accident of a shocking de scription. 41. , 1 elderly man, employed as a scaffold man in the duck-yard, fell from the lower deck of the Fame into the hold, and, suit:tag his bead against the keel-stone, was dashed to atoms ; he has left a widow and five small children. Several persons fell into the river during the launch, but we have not been able to leatn, that they sustained turther injury than a ducking. A ei icket match was decided nn Mon Jay, at Tuntni,lge Wrl6, between four gentlemen tr,m , utliborough. and three of the Wells; the fanner won by one inning. POLICE. lOW-STREET. Yesterday, !acre Wi //ir, a servant of Mrs. Smith. in Quebec-street, Portman-square, was charged be fore Sir IVILLIAISI PARSONS, with having raw: ed watch belonging to Mrs. Smith's son, a hos , twelri. years of age. It appeared that M: s Smith i prated from her husband, Colonel Smi h, and cr - joys a separate maintenance. Mrs. S. a .hort time since, called upon her son, at a ticerdine school, at Chelsea, where he is placed by Iris , and got the watch from him, saying, it want.-J to be repaired, and she would get it done for him ; but, instead of this, she took it home, and gave it to t:ar Prisoner to pawn. The Prisoner likewise said, she had pawned various articles of wearing apparel, be longing to her mistress and lo•l. slaughter, as well :IS her own clothes, to oblige her mistress, for which she was promised to be rewarded with a handsome present. The MAGISTRATE severely admonished the Pri soner, who, he was of opinion, had aged under the influence of her mistress, and discharged het, on condition that she gave up the duplicates. A respeftable tradesman from the City, and one from Suho, were charged with having uttered counterfeit shillings to a considerable amount. Richard Tanner, a dealer in Welch flannel in New Town, Montgomeryshire, stated, that he had csN. inferable dealings with one of the Pastimes in the City ; and last May, when he was in London, he ap plied to him to settle his account, when various modes were proposed, but none to his satisfaCtion till the tradesman from Soho offered to lend 201. in shillings, which he agreed to take, and settle the account. On his taking them home, they all proved to be counterfeit. He made several appplications to get them taken again, but all proved in vain, which induced him to apply to an Attorney in King's Bench Walk, Temple, who referred him to the So licitor of the Mint, who took his information, and yes terday morning Riven and Parkes apprehended the prisoners. On searching their premises, they found, in the City, sixteen counterfeit shillings wrapped in brown paper, in the desk in the counting-house ; and at the house in Soho they found a deal box with about 601. of counterfeit shillings, packed in mahogany saw dust, apparer.tly arrived from the country within these few days, by one of Willan's coaches of the Bull and Mouth Inn. They were committed for further examination. Join Larb, Janus Denver:, and Maus Leach, the three boys whom we stated on Monday to have been apprehended by Young Crocker, at Brixton Cause way, on Lis way from Croydon lair, were yesterday brought up for further examinotion ; when Mr. Henry Balky, of Bedingro near Croydon, attended, and stated, th a on Wednesday he was at Croydon Fair, when his pocket was picked of his pocket-book, containing about 301. and, to the best of his belts I, he recoilefted seeing one of the boys near him. They were committed fur further examination. MURDER OF MR. BLIGHT, The pistol which did this horrid deed not h tying been found, slr. Casua ls determined to go to the premises of the deceased, at Dock t lead, on Mon day motning, to make eve-y possible exertion to find it. He was attended by Mr. STATfORD, An thony, Adkins, and several of the patrole, who took with them lle.ter Kitchener, the servant of the deceased, from the Brown Bear public-house, and made her describe the exact part of the house she was in for some time previous, and at the time cf the. discharge of the pistol, likewise every thing that passed between Mr. Patch, her master, and herself, in anions, as well as words. The officers and patrole then proceeded to clear a deal of rub bish from the collar, in search of tbe s pistni, but in vain, and then removed some heavy timber in the yard, and afterwards searched an East-India vessel, which is breaking up at the what f, till dark, but All to no purpose The officers brought the girl back with them, and lodged her again in the public house. MA WSION-HOCSZ. A poor man, who had formerly been a porter to Mr. Hynes, a grocer, in Cheap-side, was brought be fore the Loso Maros. A watchman stated, that he had taken him up the night betote, opposite to Mr. Hynes's door, to prevent him from drowning him self in the Thames, as he declared most solemnly he would before morning. The Prisoner stated, tuat Mr. H. refused to give him a ChATAEIET ; and, know ing that he must starve without one, he thought it best to drown himself. The LORD MAYOR repri manded him for his folly, and, having discharged him, told him, if be would summon Mr. Hynes be fore him, he would, at all events, oblige him to give I a reason for not giving him a character. its, I The Kenii,h Courier of yestet day states, that in the case of Thome: Archer, a seaman, at Chatham, the Inquest gave a verditt of " murder" geaerally, and not of " murder against Captain Truett," as stated in a former number of that Pal-e:. Captain 'Fa se rt.' is now in town. On Friday, as J. NI. Cs lees, Esq. of Lewes, was riding near his farm at Stantons, his ho: se, by a sudden start, dismounted him, and one of his arms was unfortunately freatired by the fall. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a serious accident took place in a house in Little Vine -street, corner of Swallow-street, Piccadilly. A poor wo man (who, with her husband and two children, had taken an upper apartment in the house, only the night before) went to polish her rale with a paper of what she supposed to be black lead dust • and, nut finding it answer the purpose, she threw the paper, with the whole of its contents. consking of near half a pound of gunpowder, into the ashes ; a spark of fire immediately after communicating with it, the whole blew up with a violent explosion, that alarmed the neighbourhood. The house being very old, upwards of 12 or 14 feet square of the front was forced into the street, with several arti cles of furniture, but without injuring the roof. The poor woman was a little burned in the arm, but the children, who were fortunately playing at the ocher end of the room, escaped unhurt. it being at first imagined that the accident was premeditated, the parties were brought before the Maersvaar is at Bow-street, sad underwent an ezaminat:i:n I hut it fully appearing that it was a mere accident, they were discharged. A considerable crowd was at tradled to the spot during the greater part of the day. ^omit. fi , ucarsm. - The-famous match betty: en • Ire Goes ('hid. rs and Galley WAS to take place yesterday at Haylsham. irf •ittssex, about GS miles from town. Thirty miles of the toad is very deep, soft sand. 'lhe gene r!ernan who went down Iv the mites' -urpose of wing an account of the right in this Taper, had non • eturned when it was put to press. We shall give he particulars to.rnormw: Extract ht a letter from Gloucester, dated O. 7th :—" An attempt has been made to introduce the disgraceful and siVn4l custom of prize-fighting into this neighbourhood. A S114.(11 was made at Tewkesbury Races, between William Prrktni, of Warrington, in the county of Worcester, and Charl-s Ballinger. of Cheltenham, tnro celebrated chain pions.--The Swan, at Staurton, was fixed for the place of meeting, on Wednesday last ; but the Rev. Mr. Conimeline one of one worthy Magistrates, immediately interposed his aathority, and prevent ed it. Tile concourse, consisting of upwards of 200 i people, many of whom bad tome a very con. sidetable distance, than roceeded to Little London, in tlerefordthire. Intel ligence of the taostilt haring been communicated to that vigilant hlagiirrate, toe Rry Dr. Yate, be instantly proceeded alone hi the spot, there not being time to collet peace-officers ; could not reach it,liowever, before the combat hod begun ; but lie rushed into the eel !, and, with great personal risk, took Perhine nut of the ling, to his own house, and bound him over to keep tre peace ; when the speaaturs gradually dispersed, uttering their discontent in the must opprobrious expressions, at so unespeaed a disappointment. A special con stable was nett day sent over to Cheltenham, toe Bailinger, who, with proper sureties, entered into the ussal tecognitances. This lawless assemblage w as pa tronised by several persons of distinaion from Chel tenham; one of whom brnught Ballinger to the scene of aainn in his carriage, and attempted to persuade Dr. Yate of the policy of heightening the English spirit by these exhibitions. The Doaor, however, par -isted in the discharge of his public duty, ar.:l dispersed the mob." It is with extreme regret we have to annouree the sudded deeth of J. ROOKR, Esq. of Bigsweer- House ; a General if His Majesty's Forces, Corueel of the tieih Regiment of Foot, and M. P. for the cminty of Mani:teeth. 'Fite circumstances atterd ing his dissolution. afford an awful lesson of the u ;- certainty of all human enjoyments. He was sport ing on the Trellick Hills. oa Friday last, and hail just fired at a bird, when he fell dead from his horse, in an apoplexy ! As soon as the event was made known at Monmouth, by the servant who attended him, Dr. Bevan and NViiliam Powell, Esq. set off immediately to the spot but all the efforts of inedi cal skill to more animation, proved ineffeaue!. The General had represented Munenouthshire re se veral successive Parliaments; and might be truly styled a gentleman of the 01.1 Fnelish School. being of an open. socia', and men adeble di position : in deed, in the exteusive en de of his acquaintance. no cheraCter could be more esteemed or moss respeeted. During the last e.'ar. he had the command of the Severn District; on relinquishing which, the Mayor and Corporation et Bristol voted him some superb pieces of plate, as e mark of the high sense they en tertained of his private worth and public services. On the return of peace, he retired to his estate in Gloucestershire, where he spent his time in the enjoy menu of ficld ports, and the pleasure of social in tercourse with the families of fortune in his neigh bourhood. Yesterday se'nnight died, in consequence of a fail front his horse on the preceding evening, as he was returning from Droitwich to Worcester, in the 22d year of his age, Capt. J. 13! ae, of the 96th regime:l. His remains were ieterred on Friday, with military honours, in ht. Osivald's burying ground. attended by the two regiments of Herefied Volunteers, and all the Officers quartered in Wor cester, including those of the Loyal Worceste Vo luateers : the procession was solemn and imps es.ive. We are sorry to announce the death et Mr. Dees Sooty, at Cheltenham, on Friday last. By his death. the Parliamentary Representation of the Scotch Burghs, of St. Andrew's, Perth, &c. becomes vacant. Cep - - HA aDC asr cc, of Bath, died, on Saturday, at Worcester. This Gentleman had only arrived on that day from Malvern, in the company of a friend, with whom he was walking on Broad-street, when he was seized with an apoplenie fit ; he was immediately conveyed to an inn, where he exeii ed. A young lad, about 17 years of age, who is fee. boy to a Noble Lord at the west end of the town, lately fell in love with a girl, who is housemaid to a genteel family in the aeighbnurhood. 'They had agreed to a marriage, and a day was fixed for the ceremony taking place. In the mean time, lover of riper years (About 25 or '26) presented himself, and the female slighted the lad. In consequence of this disappointment, he last week got abided pistol, and attempted to blow his brains oat, but his tre pidation WAS so great, that he missed his aim, and Cited over his shoulder. He then was so desptrately resolved on putting an end to his existence, that he cut his throat. lie is still, however, alive. As six men, who are employed on the Martell Towers, with a woman and girl, the wife and daugh ter of one of them, wcte lately taking ass aquatic es cursion in a boat, between Pevensey and Eastbourne, they were upset by a sudden gust of wind, and all drowned, except one man, who saved himself by getting upon the bottom of the boat. The unf. 're Senate woman was far advanced in her pregnancy. We have not head that any of the bodies have been picked up. On Saturday morning, a man of the name of Wis. L I Ado MST RIP RN, a bricklayer's labourer, was at work, repair mg the roof of a house, in Richmond. Just as he got to the top of the ladder, he tell back wards, into A wheelbarrow, and was killed on the spot. The woman, whose house was repairing, had a dream, two nights previous to the accident, is high was ominous of the event. She dreamed ileac the de. ceased fell from the top of her house into a wheel barrow. She told him hcr dream the next mein leg, and was continually cautioning him to take care, till the fatal accident happened. What Is re they remarkable, the deceased had u , ed a hod to fetch his bricks in, till the , day, when h • got a wheelbarrow. The Coroner's Jury sat en the h .ly on Monday morning. Vcr.lia—dicidesimidsarii.