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^ -9 1r•: - BRIGHTON, ScrT. 9. --am.-- At ten o'clock this morning, tWerty-e:, ; 14 4.61 of the East -India Fleet and two whaleis, li•we in . sight, underconvoyof Admiral RA I S 17‘, 'tom whose 1 ship a signal was made to ilk- light-runs...-- They remained in sight the whole of the day. Numbers of gentlemen went off, and wear on hoard. Such was the demand for boats, ill it a guinea was asked for a single person. A letter came to Earl CRAVEN, informing him of a near relation, I am told, his sister, being on board; but his Lordship WAS engaged vi ith his mili tary duty, and denied himself tic pleastne of meeting her. At 12 o'clock, the iith Enniskillen . Dragoons mustered on Hornhory Castle l till, and shortly after, the Earl of CH Al H A m, in full uniform, General GREY, and Earl CR A VP.N, arrived on the ground, and several military officers; the troops made several charges in different direelions. When the review was Over, the Earl of CHATHAM went to the centre of the line, and complimented the officers and men on their promptitude and execution. The Eal of CHATHAM then visited the barracks, and suspeEted them. They then proceeded to the Prince's Cricket Ground. where the South Gloucester Mili tia were in readiness, with EAll BERKELEY at their head. They went through the platoon exercise, and fired twelve rounds each. The string of car riages containin; the company that attended, was a mile long. Ihe 7th, 13. h, and 21st Light Ca valry are under marching orders, six troops are to be taken out of the Enniskillen:, which now causist s often. Earl CRAYLN gave a grand dinner to the . Earl of Cita Tit •ts, Earl and Countess of Istßits- LILT, and a number of officers. The Earl of Cstat, Ha sr proceeds to Lewes, and will review the troops quartered there. Captain Haas iT, his Lordship's aid-de-camp, arrived here last night. _ - DOVER. . 9. All apprehensions for the safety of our homeward bound East India fleet niust now entirely vanish, About two o'clock this morning ten sail of them hove in sight, and took in pilots for London. Se veral passengers came on shore, and immediately proceeded to London ; from these I learn, that they parted from the remainder of the fleet on Sun day last, the Ist inst. in the Chops of the Channel; they had a tolerable good passage, but had been delayed for some time at St. Helena. in consequence of the report of the Combined French and Spanish meets being at sea, and their destination unknown. 'these ten sail were the Bengal and China ships. The Madras ships remained with convoy, soles of them being heavy sailers, but the whole are expedt ed up either this ever ing or to-morrow at the far thest. Several pilot-beats have left the harbour, to meet them. A very fine homeward-hound Daniih East India man stopped in these loads this saorning, to take in fresh provisions. She had neither seen any thing • of our fleets or those of the enemy, during her voyage. A large English brig, from Quebec, to London, also stopped in these loads, tor the same purpose, and to take in a pilot. I could gain no in telligence from her. The YOURif "'rose Sultrie, a very fine Danish ship, cleared this harbour this tide, to proceed on leer destined voy ire. This ship had bees detained about three weeks op, by the Jackal!, King's cutter, on suspicion of having some enemy's property on board. She cleared out from St. Thomas's, and was hound for Amsterdam. Her papers were trans mitted to London; and, after going through the ne cessary investigation, she was permitted to proceed. Sailed from this harbour, the Ihnei cutter on a cruise; also some viEluallers, for the Downs and Dungeness. The Corgrirr trotter, which sent in the French schooner to this port, on Thursday last, came down from the Downs, bpund one cruise off Dieppe and the adjacent Coast of France. I have conversed with some of the crew, who corroborate the account al ready given, of the retreat of the French army from 4oulognc and tie :ozighbouring heights; indeed, we have bad ocular demonstration of it this day : the weather has been remarkably fine and clear, so that we can distinguish the coast to a great 'stew, and even from the Pier-head, d stinAly see the ' high grounds, and even count the windows of the houses with our glasses. There is not the least appeatanee, or even vestige of an encampment, upon that part of the heights where there used to he a very exteesive one. 4. number of our cruisers are discernible dose in-shore along the French cart. The American Gentleman who landed from a Dover fishipg smack, out of a Danish ship from Cherbourg, as mentioned in my letter of yesterday, has Leen detained here, and his papers sent up to I irdon to be examined, before he can be furnished • with the necessary passports. Coming from an enemy's port, he must undergo the stritlest scrutiny. A great number of colliers, and other coasting and trading vessels, have paned from the eastward, steering to the westward, is the coarse of the day. On Thursday was held the Annual Meeting of The Clergy and Sons of i, a Clergy, of the city of Bristol and neighbourhood, who met their Stewards, O. Right Honourable Lord AR TSUI Sossaiiser (cfficiating in the place of his brother Lord En.. w /sun Snsteriser, unavoidably absent on military duty), and the lion. and Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bets t ot., at the Cathedral, to attend divine service; after which an appropriate sermon was delivered by the Rey. 1-jitaer Smote, A. M. from Galatians. vi. 10. From the Cathedral, the Society proceeded to dine at the White Lion, where the ruin ot . ',l/r7l. Ss. was collected for the purposes of this benevolent in stitution, including 161. 17s. 6d. contributed by the Ladies, at the church door. The meeting was ho. soured with the company of— Th., Min. and Right Res. the Lord Bishop of Bristol, Lord Arthur Sionsereet, Lord De Clirf..id, the Right Worshipful this Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Pietheroc, Alderman Minority, Alderman leir wins Lippincott, Bert. Win. this Langton, ):01. M. P. Dr. Muncrirffe, Dr Nutt, Dr. Camel, Dr. Xesitiih, Dr. Stack, Dr. Joh.. Daubeny, A. P Cams., Esq. Ram. Ifolvards. Es 4. W. Parsons, Esq Suomi Oliver, Esq. Eduard vorter, E.q. Aerews, Esq. R. H. Davis, Esq. 'C. J. Ilasturd, Esq. Richard Vaughan, jun. Esq. Jout Carsliwzr, Jun. Esq aud many other respecza!illa country gentlemen and wizens. LOWIRTDOR BRIGHT, F.sq. and the Very Rev. tire Dean of &tilt ot, were chosen Stewards fo► the 001$13ng year. FOREIGN INITUIGENCi FURTIIER EXTRACTS FRuSt THE FRENCH PAPERS. siattu, *on. St 10. The famons Dr. Gall devotes a great part of his iini- to leauring on sculls. He his departed from il.tll, and has left behind him the most profound ad mirmion of his dothine. Six sculls were sent from Jena to the Judge Loder, with the h ography of the persons to whom they belonged. These authentic .trcurnents were sealed up, and these mysterious packets were not to be opened until the oracle hal pronounced, that is to say, until after the de rision of Dr. Gall. Without doubt, no communi- cation could be sent to him by post, or otherwise. Be it as it may, the Doctor gravely examined the six sculls, and has found the organ of thievery, more or less developed in each of them ; he said, that one of the six belonged to the most stupid of mor tals, the dullnes of whom was fully evinced by the formation of the scull. In short, this was the most stupid scull which he had ever examined. The do cuments were then opened,with all requisite solemnity, and it appeared from them, that he had just pro. flounced judgment on the head of Schinderhannes, and those of five of the companions of that Twitter ; and that the stupid scull belonged to one of the five latter. But one of the greatest triumphs of Dr. Gall is, the convitlion of Professor Schutz. the most obstinate of the incredulous,who had disbelieved the doctrine of craniology. This Professor thought to lay a snare for the Doctor, in presenting him with the scull of a person, of whom the friends of the Professor knew perfenly well the life and cliarader. M. Gall decided. that it belonged to a person who had some inclination for thievery, an excess of gi 'dine's, and a particular faculty of imitating and mimicking all kinds of fantastical charaders, and also of acting from nature. The astonishment of the Preessor was beyond conception ; he was struck with vencra. tion for the Donor, and his system of craniology. The scull was that of a pupil of M. Schutt, a most hair.brained young girl, who was foolish enough to go on the stage, and used to play constantly a Jena and who being often suspected, had at length drowned herself, to avoid the consequences of a charge of pilfering. The auditors of M. Gall, to trio number of 436 persons, were composed of physi cians, surgeons. their pupils, and some military men. The Judge Reil and the Judge Loder hove not as yet published their opinions,and intend to col. lett a great number of observations before they pro nounce for, or against, so extraordinary a system. Some time since, in making an excavation before one of the gates of Studtgard, the workmen dis covered the bones and the teeth of an elephant. The largest of the teeth is six feet long. Six years since, in digging at a short distance from the same place, were also found the skeletons of fourteen elephants, which appeared of a different nature from those we now know. At the side of the bones of the elephant were found the bones of a rhinoceros. Here are ample materials for conjefture, on the antiquity. the flooding, and the changes of the globe. went, •uousT 18. SHOWER OF PAS. Donor Heim, of Berlin. has published the fol. lowing Note,, on the subj a of the shower of peas, which, we are assured, fell at Landshist4in Silesia 1,. ,. The Privy Counsellor of lichke has sent me a certain quantity of those grains, which have fallen at Landshut, and its environs, in a violent storm. On first looking at them, I took them for seeds ; but having steeped them in water, I found that they were tubercles, such as we often see grow to the roots of several plants. I was doubtful, whether they came from the oer.'iir, from the spirripipardiv'e; or, in short, from the ranuncither-ficaria. The apo thecary, Schroder, soon convinced me, that these tubercles belonged to some roots of the jfearia. This plum, which Liao us also calls chetidersierre-reitniss thrives in watery places. Probably, an immense heap of these tubercles formed themselves to some contiited place, from which a whirlwind has carried them into the air, and they have naturally fallen in a shower. Our celebrated chemist, Klaproth, has pointed out to me the first and second volumes of Tie New Cbemic4lJournal, published by Gehlin, is which a very interesting account is given of the same kind of showers of peas or grains. These tu. bercles contain, like all others, a farinaceous sub stance, similar to that which is extraCtea front pota toes, turnips, and other roots. It will be useful and profitable to people residing in the country, to understand and manage the jfeerta. LISLE, AUG. 1. The day before yesterday this city was the theatre of a catastrophe which has thrown the true friends of the sciences, and of humanity, into the greatest consternation. M. Becu. first physician of the Military Hospital at Lisle, was building a house in Le Hue Bane. Not long since he had - finished the arched roof of a small house at the bottom of his garden, to be di vided into baths for the sick. This arch was covered with a layer of earth, but it was doubted whether it would be strong enough to support the weight. At half past three in the evening, after those dreadful storms which had rendered the day so melancholy in our city. M. Eccu proposed to M. Testelin, who had dined with him, to go and examine whether the rain had not soaked through the roof. M. Testilin, Professor of Mathematics at the second school, had already given his opinion on this building to M. Beets, and he wished again to consult with him.— Hardly were they within-side, when the roof, over charged by the quantity of water which had soaked into the earth, fell in, and overwhelmed them. Though every effort was made for their relief, the workmen wire not able to come at them in less than three quarters of an hour. They were both found on these digs, having their bodies hall bent, and their h Inds supported on their knees. It is thought, that, warned by the noise, previous to the fall, their first movement had been to stoop down. Neither of them had a fraeure t or a mortal con tusion ; it is, therefore, certain, that they were smothered. The extraordinary dilation of the lungs of M. Becu, the state in which the sleeves of his coat were found, ptorre the efforts which he made to remove tile rubbish, and get air to breathe. Every effort was made, in vain, fur their recovery. The latest news from Naples, of the 3d of Au gust, remove out tears concerning Calabre and Poialle. The shock of the 26th of July has been lobe awe, hilt has produced but little damage. It - • llt esemate f , that furry-six cities, boroughs, Of 10- i lager. have been entirely destroyed in the crusty of Molise. It is remarked. that 78 years foul, they experienced a like shock at Naples. (FAR niEtt PkRTICULARS OF THE LATE. EARTII QU KE AT NAPLES J txTaAcT of A PRIVATP. LILTTML raom MAPLES, PATIO J . 111.11 31. Those who were at the Florentine The.ttre be held, just at the moment of the two first great shocks, the decor snorts touching each other, from one side of the Theatre to the other. The boxes threatened to fall into the pit, and the Magistrate who presided at the representation, having given orders that no person should stir, the spectators, stunned by the shock, iemained as it they were at the mouth of a cannon. After this, in the interval of calm, they all went out with \ut disord:r.— During the whole night, nothing chid be heard in the streets, but the complaints, cries, and groans, of persons, who,*calling aloud, sought for their chil dren, their parents, and their friends; it was a pi&ure of the end of the world. There are various accounts of the number of the killed and wounded ; but, you may be assured, that they are very incon siderable in our city. The number of dead at Campo-Basso, is estimated at 300. It is said, that the town of Arienso is entirely destroyed ; in short, they are not relieved from the fear of a new shock. Every eye is turned towards Vesuvius, from which scarcely any smoke issues: this stillness is threaten ing. Else persons who live nearest to it report, that since the day of the shock, they hear, in the inte rior, a hollow rumbling noise, as if proceeding from matter in ebulition. It has been already said, that there is scarcely a house here which has not been damaged.—Mine, thanks to its being long built, has suffered less than the others. To the Palace, of which I have already spoken, as having been much damaged, we may add, the Palace Royal of Portici, and many others. That of the Prince of Saint Nicandre is entirely uninhabitable. One quarter of Pizzofalcone is nothing but a ruin. There are very few who can pass them ; both on account of the ruins, and on account of the danger of the fall of the houses yet standing ; but which threaten to tumble into pieces. In many places troops are stationed to prevent peo ple from passing, Those even whose houses are still habitable, from the fear of a new shock, take care not to pass the night in them ; chusing rather to sleep in open places, an the ground, or in car riages. Persons who can afford it, have tents pitched in the fields ; there are a great number seen on the road to Chiaja. Last night there were in the envi rons, and at a certain distance from the new castle, more than 10,000 persons, and a prodigious number of carriages; so many, that there was no room for more to pass. They speak of many phenomena observed in different places. It is said, that a fountain, situated near St. Germainn, the water of which was soft and good before the shock, in ar instant became sulphureous, &c. VOLUNTEERS. CI.ERIZENWELL VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. This regiment yesterday hegan to do permanent duty at home, for ten days; upwards of 430 were on the ground. The regiment musters twice in the day for military pra&ice, at 7 in the morning, till 9, and at 4, till 7 in the evening. Capt Robins's company (the grenadiers) performed guard duty yesterday, and the other companies are in rotati,,n to do the same. Sentinels are posted at different places in the patish. who are hourly relieved; and there is a serjeant's guard stationed at the New River Head, where a room has been fitted up fur its accommodation. The officers have a mess dur ing the ten days, at the head quitters of the regi megt, where they sit down to soldiers' fare, and are allowed one hour only for ;heir dining. LOYA4. NORTH BRITONS. On Monday List, several companies of the Loyal North Britons marched to Highbury, where they fired at targets for two elegant silver medals, given by two of their officers, latentenants Fordyce and creole. The fortunate competitors on this occa sion were, Mr. James Geddes of the 2d company, and Mr. T. Girling of the rifle company. Imme• diately after the decision, a circle was formed, and the medals presented by the office's to the success ful candidates. Lieutenant Creole, on this occa sion, made a short but appropriate speech, expres sive of the allied which he and his brother officer had in view in giving these prizes, and of his hope, that should necessity require is, they might be able to dired their fire with equal success against the enemies of our country. This method of creating 4 laudable emulation amongst volunteers, and im• proving them as marksmen, cannot be too much commended ; and it is to be wished, that the gene rous condui of the above two officers, may be imi tated by others in a similar situation. We under stand, that the corps of Loyal North Britons are to be commanded by His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, their former commander, Lord Reay, having lately resigned. They are, therefore, hence forth to be denominated, the " Duke of Sussex's Loyal North Britons." Bit AD.—Yesterday, there being no Court of Al dermen, the Loan Maroc after snipe:ling the Re turns, ordered it to be reduced 4d. in the peck loaf. Lord Keith, on Saturday, gave official notice, that the transports lying in the Downs, between two and three hundred. are perfetlly ready to receive troops; this notice will, we elped, be very shortly followed by An order for immediate embarkation of the troops destined for the e;pedition. Monday, the gallant Admiral Lord trlttsom went to the shop el Messrs. Ruents.t. and BRI Doc, Goldsmiths and Jewellers to His MAJts;v, on L4d gate-hill, to see a service of plate preparing for him; on which occasion the passengers assembled round the door in great numbers, :lad having waited anx iously for the return of the Hero to his carriage, they greeted him with several bursts of approbation. Qn the night of the lat of September, nine of the East India ships parted from the Convoy, and were seen the next morning by the Yenta frigate. ♦s they did not answer the private signals made by the Vesta, they were supposed to be an enemy's squadron, and the frigate immediately carried the intelligence to Admiral Com a !rat 1. is. This eirciunstance most pro bably gave rise to the report, that a division of the enemy's fhtt )44 secap4 kola Emit. mom SPORTING TIWILLIGEIiCT. WARWICK RACKS ON WIDMIeDAT. UPI. 4. His Majesty 9 Plate of 100 guineas. Mr. Fame?' b. e Paeihnii 4 1 1 Mr. linontelit br e. roverprize . . . 3 3 dr. Mr. Ackes's b. r. Newrrtlr 5 r by. Colonel I/Lehner bf M nden . . 0 br. 4r. Mr Clitoris b c. Cor.nlanuA • • . 0. br. dr. Between the hears In , !Cr M Plato. s Sweepstakes of • 10 guilleal such (IF sub cribers). Str Andterwee br. b. Norval . I 1 Lout Brookret ch. g .Syleaftes . , . 2 3 Mr Lnekieys b, g. Herwhell . • . 5 teMd DAY. The Nnhlerneo and Gentleesea's Sulserption farm of 501. Mr. Skionvet b ni. Dialing . 1 1 Mr. Ch.4•nonfteley's hr. r. %Vcleh Rabit . t Mr. Clalt&n% Ur. c. Cortukaou4 71,11401 A T. The Mase-n Plate of 544. NU. Kellerman 's b. c Heeltair . .I 1 1 Mr Glover's b g Herschel! • . I I• V Mr. W. Sartariet ler. f Brown Beta . • . 3ti 3 Between the heats for the M' dent Plate, a Sweeistidaell 14 g cos eta (t i Suloter.ocrii. ' Mr. Brooke's b. c. 1,1! t.cian • . I l Mr A nArewt't la h. tio:val • • . ISI 110eroth'i Entetproe . •. 3 4 Mr. Kelermsn's Mary . . 4 Same day, the rows Subs: notion Parse of $0 Pound was wellte.i ores the Coarse fee, by Mr. Bayard'. Dwellers. csaew••••9ll•Nalmasmo POLICE. • 101 0 Sl• NO ;At. FRAUD AND SWINDLINGYesterday. jets Ws,ghs, alias r -opfa4 alias feaacirre, who, as we mentioned in a former Paper, had undergone several examinations before the Loao Mayors. on charges of swindling, was fully committed for trial. *The several depositions of Mr. White, a stable-keeper in Mooreelds. and Mr. Simpson, a tailor in Corn-Hill, were read over. and many other charges preferred against him ; but the Prisoner refused to make any answer to them, choosing rather to defer what he bad to say until his trial. A respenable tradesman in the city preferred a charge against his own son, fur threa•ening his lift. and striking him a violent blow en the head. t it. Appeared, that this young man, who wea about' eighteen years of age, had several times been hears' to say, he would do for his father, meaning. diet he would murder him ; and, on Tours :ay last, lai fling altercation taking place between them. teiadver to the shutting a chamber door, the boy suvck Bps father a severe blow on the face with a blush. the mark of which was still to be seen. The Loa° Mayo'', after expressing his indigo*. tion at the lad's unnatural condun, ordered hint 80. be taken on board the tender. the father first hattimg. given his consent. Lary Moses, a Jewess, was charged by the of St. Mildrechrs parish with selling filberts i 'trey, the weight she made use of, purpoitiog to half pound weight, being defici •nt two ouncet. f fie Lordship convened her. and ordered her w pay oaf • floe of five shillings. weeeneammemawmer 3 On Saturday, a new schooner was King's Dock-yard, at Deptford; she was n the Armen, and is to mount twenty guns. She hulk on a new construason, without knees, Inilkat h-ads being substituted involved; their, narrow, of trs great length. with a flat bottom, ealcshited for shal. iow water ; she is already coppered, is to be rivet,' on a new principle. and fitted for sea with all tepid dition. rr. The 4th, or Woolwich Division of Royal Mavin . are to be trained at Chatham, till barracks are prOP vided for them at Woolwich. Oa Saturday, W. Gi'es, a water-mars of Sheerretu k was committed to Canterhory Gaol, by E. Shove. Esq. for enticing a seaman to dant from the .No sealer. On Thursday se'nnight. as the ferry.boat was crossing from Baliyhack to Pa s ige, near Waters ford, witn several passengers and two hotsys, one of the horses got a little restive, and the brat being overloaded, as al.o a swell in the river, she sod denly overset, and four of the passengers and one of the boatmen waren, happily lost, Last Tuesday. Mr. BoswELL, Surgeon on board His Majesty's sloop Eugenie, at the More, accistent.: ally fell overboard, and the tide running very strong, he was carried away a considera!ile distance from the vessel. After being nearly rive minutes under water, he was fortunately relieved front his perilous situation, and carried on beard His Majes ty's frigate Clmottion. He is now in a fair way of recovery. A general mourning is an event which, lumpily, seldom occurs in this favoured kingdom ; but a general diffusion of gladness is by no means a EOM circumstance in our annals. An important viBor7 fills the whole island with joy, and a patriotic as'. dour reverberates in every British bosom : but. next to a defeat of the enemy, there is nothing which excites so much general pleasure and sans faltion, as the approach of a State Lotteay. and there is one now before the public, to be draws the present month, whiff; contains the means of dis. tributing the comforts and luxuries of life. among incalculable numbers of the favourites of fortune. On the 29th ult. Rosier trill-peeper at Bervie, Scotland, when cutting some whins loe fuel, about hallo lade east from Bervie, near the lid* of the turnpike-mod, leading from thence tit Stonehaven, found deposited at the road a bosh, A parcel of ladies' clothes, wrapped up in a dale cloak, consisting of ladies' riding habits, greatcoats, silk cloaks, silk and printed gowns and petticoats of other cloths; silk and cotton stockirgs, silk and cot. toe mitts, ladies' head dresses, shirts, gloves, rilt baands. napkins, silk and cotton; pelices maimed with fur; shoes and slippers; a great number af children's clothes, together with three webs of been, and one of printed Cotton cloth ; and many other articles, which could not be enumerated. Owing en ' their consumed state they are all totally useless. 'lle clothes had been of excellent quality, and made in the neatest fashion. Hirw they came to he there, is the milk& of conjeaure, but the one most prob.,. We is, that they have been hid by thieves, who had either missed their mark, or fled for fear of deice , - tion. But what was moat remarkable, in such re pository, was three printed church music books. At first view of the bundle, it le.:resented the posture of a dead body, which struck him more forcibly, as recollening that some time ago the cries of murder were distinely heard near the place. . dr. I k S