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- , Princesses Au- • aCCOUlpitlitti and Colonel ape% and heard and ltev. Dr. 3d eh. st) r. • repentarmolo. bier. z er of the Eng. of or it by pre t orthe Worees tory. His MA... **ledge of the er with it one .t oat its &room :tonipaaiod by ataitufacturer. peso of ess,lain . Her Mares. e present. e wait prole/did Loom. by Lord CL I mulct and •strett. on S.. own on Friday r, for Alnwick ha:l an early on.e 111 Souill tl►es* 1)G CA*. uav, used the bee issued out on the 15tb of d-row. tttt tr, on St 'acre. Among tENviLLE. Mr. t A PITI.P. uer, 04: Setup. to the follow. n, Hoe Maws. I. Henry Pee- Ed. n, Jekyll, &e. end dinner, lost -agnate, to the oillemen. E. a xrat,tl din e Puilt Corner, LTV Ct.' ECM Allt. of distinetiou. he End of Es. yesterday, at hod a meek dinglota-,lrett rutt•, ' , II tllu nor-s,l tin re. it w*Q' of ri C. net. A!) sell.---ierela :otra.l2s Riese mugie patty e Cointrin), is 'form for tour Will imike her iota or Lap 11. Jonsnoit, were to coop lay last, in the ter. won or money late Professor nguislietl Nobs 'he whole sum benefit, r wet face, at which atioseribers, for oy., in Trinity eve engraved • florrtsra. roof Dr. !Wog, of ratans set of): is to gi►e Nix first of which r. Every time nuse was exec*. Aro lest nights, eight day. be. ild not get att.. ALDI anrl BRI• lit, at the Hen ['ices of all the of the waggon attention to the Sed the title d Ai become the tsP. *eh leers of the t the failewiag fneud, Wan I mid before It. back by die tits of au scumtiow." lor 11,0 gustier/ Oen, beteres mires! rar , ft in ouer►ful speed, of Feints. — mile for twenty s 1 the di,usites is his leis. ht eras. elsti cow. fifty womb. . . MRS. JORDAN'. Er It bee been industriously reported, that the sight of the fire et Drury-lane Theatre, • quarrel took place between the Duke of Clarence end Mrs. Jordan, in which Mrs. Jordan seised a poker, arid, by a violent Wow, cut his Royal (lighotr the face. Utterly destitute of •all sa this story is, from the character and conduct of the parties thus calumniated, yet has it found its way into the public prints, while in the very same paragraph they confess its far hood. The motive, however, of the libel. is nut in the lead tliunitilihril by this admission. When a paragraph is sent out to the world in this way, it is not the less likely to do injury in conaepience of the qualification . The reader autumn) asks, if it be a lie, why publish it ? And cousiders.the qualification dictated not by • wan of juutire, butt by the fears of the w,itrr, with A woe w to his nwn safety. lu private Lie Jordau is distinguiv!ieil for goad humour, goof nature, slit kilufutu, to a ll o rnu n d h e r, Iu public life there is tie greater favourite. If a truly ion ffnvii e men eau be foetid iu sveiety, he is the Duke of Clarence. A stranger to the lollies, as well UV to.the vices, of fashiousble life, his tittle is spent i t rational and laudable pursuit.. Much of it is devoted to his children, and torch to improve m-uts at lim.hy. His happiness is placed in domestic telirensent, and the domestic circle of hits family.— Those alto knuu the Duke of Clareuee loud llrs. Jordan, k•Iow that this is a true picture of their lift• and inatiners, and to such ►he cootrailietion of any vile or degrading story of either is untieressars: but these can only be few, compared with the great mass of society. Lliifirtunatrly, too, there is a growing disposition aiimiig the lower classes for slander; a disposition which hail men, front var . motives, labour to enconrage, from the libeller, who aims at revolution and general confusion, down to hint who exists Upon libels, and de“rurs a repo . talon at every meal. If inoffensive manners could have been a prnteetiou a t ...ain't such men, the. Duke of Clan' ii and Mrs..lardati might have presumed upon Kifety ; hest a e fear, that, at the pensent m merit, a Royal Dyke, although as pure of Snow, torah' not escape calumny.— Into the minim, of the persons aho may have on. &Med the charges aping the Duke of York. and papered them fur Mr. Wardle's hands, we will uot Inquire. That the business will do good, and that, whatever may be its other results, it will ope rate as a wlndesotne preventive against official cor ruption, we confidently hope. That ;he bustue‘s has been taken up just in tins! for the safety of the Constitution and the country. and the disappoint ment of those. if soy such. there be. who me ditate the destruction of our admirable sys tem of society, we also believe. It has, how ever. been attended in its progress with one evil. It has extended the circle of blander, and encouraged its attacks upon the Royal Fulani,. The Duke of Clarence is not the only sufferer. Pot a day has passed aince the commenceinent f the Iniquity into the conduct of the Duke of York, Shit has not produced so.ne calumnious story re *petting seam other member of the Royal Mom. 'The Uoke of York's case is the rock and fomitla . Ai" nu which they stand, and fortified there, they hops to attack all the rest of the family with success, and at their pleasure. To this we are indebted for the cruel, false, and disgraceful story, respel•ting the Dolma Clarence and Mrs. Jordau. mud a thou sled other stories equally absurd, and still mure senscious. lard FALKLAND was lately re-engaged in His Maimerr's naval service. Lord Mom:mays had appointed him to the command of a frigate. The Corporation of the Bedford Level ore shout to apply to Parliament for assistance, in cowte 11111COlt of the damage dune to the feu-eouutry by the lee fools. The two gold medals anomaly given by his Grace the Cilsocci.i.oit of the Ustveasury of Catlett! oat. to such Bachelors of Arts as revel in classical learning, are this year iscljud-ed to Mr. EDWARD IFIALL ALI:HM*OD. sod to jr. JoltsStasoty. STANDLY. both of Cain, College. It is a /*wet no less sinkilar in itself, than it is honourable to these young teem that they have ranked as hi..:11 in mathematical attainment, as they are now distin guished for clastical knowledge—Mr. Atm:aeon having been the Senior Wrawgler, and Mr. Srteo. LT the Second Wrangler of his year. It is re markable also. that the gentlemen who have thin monopolis:d the very first honours of the Uni versity, art 'nut only members of the seine College, but were also pupils of the seine instruetors.— They both completed the classical part of their education ender the Rev, Dr. MALTS*, of Bock den; and, at the University. they were both private ponds of Mr. Wool:mob's, of Came College. The fleet which sailed from Portsmouth, on the 1501 December last,. fur the West Indies, were spoken with on the 19th January, all well, to waidward of Berbedoes. Tuesday last; JAbles MOOlt, Esq. resigned his situation as Mayor of the Borough of Lancaster, is comequence ofindispwitition; sod the same day, hie brother, Tuo.sAa MOOll4 Esq. was elected Alayaeo for the remainder of the year. 4 slimaine accident happened on Saturday merrede,is Duke-street. !alienist's-inn-fields. A 7 10 141 ipme, a bricklayer. wile employed in putting • pot OM a chimney. shoo he unfortunately Gal into the street. His left area and thigh were broken, the hose sit the letter came through his . email clothes. His upper jaw w.,* f0rc...1 own his under one; so that hie upper teeth cat off hit Wire lip.—He was takeu to 4t. Bartholomew's Misrelate with very little hopes of surviving. At a (iaster p.ivt twn o'clock, fix St. Domingo, • 74-gurr ship wait launched, on Fridriv, at the King's Yard, Voulvrich. She went off the blip in the most majestic style. Among the consionly pre sent, who were very numerous, were the Princess of Wales, boot Florid, Lord Mul l :rive, Ike. TUE ROYAL TRANSIT. On the 3d of thin month, the town and neigh bonrltood of Ipswich wore highly gratified by the launching of a very fine sies.sel, of a new and sin gular constructlon, which had long excited the public curio.ity. She snored from the stocks about one o'clock, mind the act lanottions of a humeral', asseanhloge of spectator's. This vessel, which is caller: the /:''y's/ Trensit, was built according to the phis of Nis.. R. H. Gower, who, in 1800, had coostrocted a velar! on similar principles. The muchaisism of the present ve.sel is au improvement on that of the former; and, by her extraordinary superiority of sailing, she is likely to lie of great maritime utility. Mr. Cower has clearly explained the theory, according to which this vessel is built, in a Supplement to his Prettiest Stomas/sip, which has lately been osildi.lied. A melancholy :iciitieot bappeued. on Wednesday last, at Lay sett-bolting. near Newcastle-uuder- Gyuse, by which two apoor men employed there were literally dieshcd to iiieces. On preparing to let them down into the pit on the morning allovethelitigined, by menus of .the lawney, the chain new out of the pulley. and fey a suddris jirk upon the liarre.Oroke the bow of the curve ix which they stood; one of them was iminordiatery precio.toted to a depth of about ninety ynlOa; the other kept kis bold of the chain fee eta time,. but from fatigue, sad the honer OCClasluswill by hie dreadful situation, be at length let it go,jmillet Shit moment n gam was let down to his relief. On Saturday week, as the Res: THOMAS Mse sesuen. Curate of Overton, near buiaister, woo returtimg home, Ise ism drowned in the river e-unis. opposite ,t. George's-Quay. Owing to the dark+ nest of the night. Ise mistook the mod feeding frees Skerion. amid gra:keJ into the river he was dim. tincily heard e 'Mug for kelp; but from the eit %revue darkness of Use night, and oa pets.. bents njar with a .boat, ao assietunce coW be re —Mr. alemsseka wad lately of•Beecestle. Cat beamiti. 0 . . I • . . , . MORE MEL CRRIST CHURCII E; OIPOILD. ♦n account was received in town, yesterday, of lit alariniug tire at Christ Church College, Oxford. It b.. k,• out on Friday night hist, between eleven sod twelve o'clock, at the smith-west augle or the gr e at quadrangle. Provideuttally the Hight was calm, mid the lire was overcome at revert o'clock on Saturday tutirisoug, by the joint exertions lit the Members of the University and the other inliaba. ants of Oxiiird. The house of flr. White, Regius Professor of Hebrew, is de,troyed, and the ravage extended to some distanee rums the south-.vest engle, towards the hall on ouc side, slid on the other towards the tower of the gi eat gate, neither of which, however, are injured. No life was lost, nor wits any one materially hurt ; the entire miter walls remain Mantling, mid apparently undamaged. Amongst other disasters on this occasion all the hooks and manuscripts of Ur. White have lotto dram) ed. Yesterday afternoon, a lire broke out at a house in larsibeth-walk, whirh, in use course of an nouir, entirely consumed it, and did some little damage to the two edjin 1111 l g houses. cause of the tire is nut kuowii. but it commenced while the family were at church. Reports were in circula tion, that a dila had been left in a cradle by its mother, and that a lady WM. iu the hums, oho bad just recovered I her acouuchenseia; but we vi.•re not abl4 to trace these runanura to any f Toe firemen were, as usual, very netise in atop pill.; tht• proirrss of the Hanes, ausi a party of were mooa ou the spot to keep off the mob, and prevent depredations. THE ROYAL OA I On Saturday, at tweedy minutes rust three o'clock, the I€..ptl Oak, t.,e finest inlaid of :toy . 7.1 iii the 11:IVV, was lanaelied from ;11r. Oa(Loan** yard, at Deptford. She had been 12 letthatill4 Oak tile .0.1Ci0., mid was the :144 of ten ULM tnteteit fur by M... !hid in the ortruiaistr!)tion of Lord Melville; her bmilen ta I,7notoes. A bomh was cree . .ed for the acem ttttt Malmo of select CC/Mr/444, and ,he Adintrai's bade was titteci with an anal dcc.irateil with colours, for Cie accommodation of her Royal 11141iess the Princess of %Vides and suite. but 11.. r IZu)al High ness did nut .attend ; neither did Mire-Adziiirul Stanhope, li eia , f 'wen 14,11111ser0 by holisposition.-- COTTlMaaltnit•e:. yacht ass skis fitted up for the Gemini, on board which were Capt. Young's family, ant a large assemblage of beautiful fe males. Toe day was very favourable, and about 300 persm. were launched is the Royal Oak. At the head of the ship is a crown, and above it a lion rampant. hisiniarmiely ornamented. When the shams were knoeke.l ilie ship, adorned with the Royal Standard, the union flags, &c. glided off without the slightest impediment, and had it moat tzrand appearance ; she afterwards gait under weigh, with temporary roils on IN/ fors-loads, to . the King's Yard, at iVuolwich, where the is to be coppered. Mr. Uudantu, the builder, provided a sumptuous col I eri;:ation in the form rream, winch was most tastetilly laid out for too persons. The eitterteinmenf; we u.tileratuaul, was supplied from the London Tavern ; the company sat down to partake of it at half-past four, which consisted of his select frieads, and Naval AtiitOlalltitry °Meer., and their fainili x. After the removal, several loyal • and apyropriat• toasts were given—The King, , Qrseent, and Royal Farad); Sateen In the Royal Oak, and the Vriteek .-jr,N &e. The coinpany did not separate until a late {ism., said the evening was spent with the greatr4 conviviality. At an early hour the avenues leading to Deptford were fille:1 with persons of every description repairing to the launch. A:I the surrounding wbarfs, &c. Were greatly e:upth 11, and there were not less than 5000 spectators. Thmigh the nurnher was Mr great, we have not heard of any accident having happened. TIIE ST. DOMINGO. Lair iNniudairwir. COURT OF CIIARC FAY, 114 tax 4 The L 041) CI A 4cE4Loßheard a longargninept,in the case of the Corporatieo Lazars. which being extinct, the landi dedicated to that cloteity are now chinned by the Crown, on the one hand, and, on the other, th.! Priucc of Wales. a* Duke of Cornsall. his I.urdslaip stated, that he shoulJ titre judtpaelit in the caw on Iloutla3. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Haase 4. Afore Lord Eu.t.xaoauuutt and a Sp:tiol Jury. PEACOLA v. PEACOCK. This cause excited a considerable degree of in terest, and the verdict which was returned by the Jury seemed to he satisfactory. i r the highest de gree, to a very crowded Court. The Dereliction, Lewis Peacock, is a very re spectable law-stationer, is Chancery-lane, and the Plaintiff is his son, who brought this action to re cover the profits arising front a shirt. in his father's bus;iiess since the year IBM. At that time Plain tiff became of age, and it was proposed by Defend. ant to give him a share ; but, from the unsettled state of the books, it could not be ascertained what, in the fiatlier'e opinion, was a competent share for the management of the tinsine,s. In the mean time, Plaintiff received a 'weekly sum of is, which was afterwards increased to ;RI% by way of pocket mosey. The Plaintiff, iu the menu time, acted as is principal in the lessinees; the name on the door was climitred from Pi:periek to Peacocks; ■ll bills were made nit to NlCsisrs. L. and H. Peacock ; and u new set of break.. were had in October, 1803, the tour thl. riirtnership commenced. They- conti nued iy this way till liio6. the Non etlvray• triwing to his father's honour fur the fulfilment of his pro 'awe, when a di..ntire arose, which came to such a height, that the Defendant turned Plaiittaf out of doors, to shift for himself in the brat way lie could. • The Defendant theta took in a partuer of the name orfhoomm, a2-IMat wh o m and i)efe:alant, t::1 tiled a bill in Chancery. On the pert of the I)eft•ttrlaut, it was attempted to lie proved that the Plaintiff was only a nominal partner, uad was, in Cot, nothing inoitthan Defendant's servant.. On Defendant's examination, however, he admitted, that he said Mu ist:ll should have a share 'auxin as it could be ascertained what the profits of the bu siness were. Lord Et tr.anottourm, in addressing the Jury, slid, there was nu douht lint that thel'laint id had a right to a share, scal it would be for them to con rider what share, and nom what time it should commence? lied Defendant died insolvent, Mani la would have been liable to all claims a4ainst time l'ather ; and he thought it a very strange doctrine to hold out. that the son was to have no profit at tached to the risk he rail. The Jury immediately found a verdict for Plain tiff, allowing him a quarter of the business since Ist October; 1603; and it was agreed that the present partner should be disposed of by arbi tration. The Court of Common Pleas was occupied all day in causes upon Policies of lusistauce upon Slops, of no public interest. • PAARAON O. TAYLOR. This was an legion of slander, for canine the Plaintiff a sewn:ire/. C rogne, a thief, Cad a rubber. The Plain+►f Defendisist were both if:leers of Excise, and had a qu:u•rel about shutting a dour, when the Defelidant culled him by tliose mimes. Mr. Cisstatiw, for the Defendant, said, that the Plaintiff was a 16y - finalities', t antio . g. Methodist P►eacher, and that the Defendant, in allusion to the 10th chapter of St. Joint, v. 114, called hint a robber, beeaum it Is there r 011... lie that enn•reth hat by the door lido the sheepfold, hot cliusiolli up some other way, the same is a thief and a The Jnry gave a verdict for the Plaintiff—Da mages Cue Shilliug. ' On Thuraddy, Hannah Dunn, a maid servant, ohtaiued 1501. (images, against • Mr. Lewis, u truss sod cotub•maker, in Ludgate -street. for an assault. and false imprisonment; which arose in consequence or the girl's falling, in the late severe weather, with a basket of enlinery articles, at the Defendant's door, and breaking • pane of gluts; but not being . able to pay for it, though she offered to leave the beske!, he gave her in charge to a co:. stable, and she was dragged to the C•mpter, where she reinuined fur seieral hours, till some friends bailed her. • Lord Et.t.esutottoutto, in hist:barge to the J nry. oleierved—.. Nothing is so bad ass bad Police; and from the recent instances than have come before • 'use, of the misconduct of individuals employed in the Police of this great city ; if such misconduct is sot corrected,. the police will become a greeter unisance than the riot and confutioa which it is mean to check and cositroul." The above observation was drawn from his Leeds ship by the flippant and disgraceful demeanor of one Kimber. a Constable; who, acting upon the charge of the Defendant, conveyed the Plaintiff to the Comptes., where the was thrust into the society of several abandoned and profligate females, and coufu•uded with the dissolute and the guilty. • Ano!seowszsmal CITY•DOSIAESS. Saturday. a Special.Couit of Aldermen was held at to complain of nn. article win. 6 up paired in wine of the. newsoapers, purporting to be • report of a trial in the Court of Kin g 's lirtich, entitled " Doing e. Lewis." iii which Lord Elleti borough was made to reflect upon the mal-ailini oistration of the City Police. The inquiry was priucipally to ascertain whether that report was a correct one. To this end Masers. Park. Corm'', and Bosanquet, were called is, who. as we were in formed, were of opinion that hie Lordship's obser vations were general. and not confined particularly to the Police of Lambe. The Lou* MAYOR, however. informed the Court, that he had seen the Gentleutan who wrote the report in citiesties, and that he had avowed it to be correct in substance.— In support of that avowal. another Gentletima, who took uotesof the trial, was called in and exaseined at the b4r. He corroborated the assertion of the tint ; and the Court forming • conclusion that the report was a correct one, passed various resolatioas upon the subject, fur which see our first page. tosawsrs INQUEST. ............_ LORD FALRLAKD. On Saturday morning an inquest was held herrn" Gamma Hounslow. Esq. one of the Coroner. for the county of Middlesex, et the residence of Mel: soder Powell, Big. iu Devonshire-place, ow the bud, of the Right Hon. Lord. Falkland. who died oat 'Thursday morning early, in consequence of a pistol-t-Lut sktlittid recrirtd toy bun ow Taffy morning. Isit. The ouly evidence adducer, before the lei... touching the death of the d e c ease d, was t h at of Mr. Heaviside, Mr. Powell'a butler, named Norwell,. and the nurse who attended bins iu his last asio mvuts. There were several gentlemen present, who were in the cotfee-room at the time the altercation took place bete ern his Lordship sod Mr. Powell, hut their testimony being irrelevant to the immediate object of this iuquiry, it was not ran:clic,' by thin Coroner. Mr. Ileaviside's evidence went merely to prove, that lie had intended the deceased from the time he was brought to Mr. Powell's house, to the mu.. ment of his dissolution. Ilia assistance was called hi on Tuesday morning. when he found Lord Falkland sitting on a chair, very faint from the loss of blood. 1 / 1 1 learning the nature of his wound., he ordered him to be put to bed, and kept quiet. lie abstained from potting any questions whatever to the deceased, relative to the manner in which he come by the wound, or who was the author of it. Finding from the symptoms, that it was mortal, be declined probing for the ball, lest the operation Might accelerate the death of the patient. Ka Lordship ling e r e d i n Feat agony until Thumbs, moriii.ig, about two o clock, when he died. Ile faculties were perfect to the hist, but he never utteed any thing to witness, that indicated the manlier he came by his wound. Very little came remotion passed betweeti his Lordaosp and hian, and indeed lie seemed to decline r.dbor than court intercourse with oth r 'lemmas. On Friday morning the deceased was opened, and the course of the ball was traced front the lower nett of the right side of the belly, where it euterrif, passed through the cavity of the abdomen. lacerated sews of the larger intestines,-mud lodged 'Wally in tl &rebel vertebra of the spier, from whence it WAD extracted. Mr. Heaviside was clearly of opoision„ that his Lordship died in comiequeace of title wo I. Nonell, Mr. Powell's butler, stated that die dos ceased came to his master's home Ma Tuesday morning its a post chaise. Imagining that it was his toaster who was in the carnage, lie went to ties assistance of the deceased, icid bellied. along *4ll his muster's coachman, to carry him up stairs, where lie was laid upon some chairs, and Mr. Flea. viside was seat for. The chaise instantly drove olr, after his Lordship had alighted frosts it, and witness urn unable to ascertaiu the name of the owner, which he recollected to hare seen paiuted on she panned. In shout a quarter of ea hour after the deveimied came lino the house, Mr. Powell celled. 4.nt he departed almost iminediately, and *IWO that time wanes, had never seen or heard of hits,. During the time witness war with Lordfolkland,, he never heard his Lordship say any thing shout the manner in which he cause by his wound, or who inflicted it ; nor did he ever hear his ',Lister /UV any thing which induced him to believe he hid bad any quarrel with the deceased. He knew of no minim &irstandieg between them. Mrs. King, the nu rse , proved that she sat up with his Lordship during Tnursday, ssigii4 but never heard him state any thing with respe t to the' tnionner he canoe by his wound. Hr appeared to ovoid conversation with every body; and even to wards his Lady, who attended him to the lust hoer of his existeoce, he observed a perfect 'Oliver, aired seemed anxious for repose. His Royal flightiest the Duke of Sussex visited his Lordship on Wed nesday, and remained with him a consids:rable time iu private. lie retained his faculties to the very moment of his death ; he helped himself when he wanted refreshment, and turned in bed without the least assistance. There being no other testimony to lay before the Jury, as to the wanner the deceased cone b, his death, the Coroner addressed them ahortly, and observed, that they could be but of one opiniou upon this subject, namely, that his Lordship died ui tiaiscipeiree of the *amid lie received. which it was toitinfcsthad been inflicted by 6411111•othe r hand than his own. They kid no evidence before them whatever relative to the author of the wound. or of the circuuistauces which immediately preceded she melancholy occurrence. It only these. fore, for them to pronounce their verdict spou the evidence they had heard, such se it was, mid leers any further inquiry oa the subject to toe vignettes of the police. The Jun', under these circumstances, returned a verdict 4—Wilful murder against s ome p erson of persons Nalessurs. Our Consevaedeva in the West Ind .e iies are to be divided as to the expediency o f attic Martinique; Gen. Itccawtre and Sir Geo. VorT (pinion, that the enemy has so strongly ►einforced aud supplied frau V we to render the ente►prise not hilly ar almost impracticable; while the Aden Coe 44444 sad Ciro. M*lll.lllloo are re} as considering the force collected oil the es to he fully adequate to all the of The following. e. a otateseent of the seinlded at lisrhadoes Lleerteher lawt, Artillery - Artillery m o d E ng i neers , 400 men :- }r " 7th x,- Inent, 000 ; oth, 800 ; 13th. 700; 15th. Soo : 23d, SW ; 46th, (flank communes). 400; 60 , 14 600 ; 63d, 500 ; yoth, aso ; Wtst India Revers, 950 ; Royal York Rangers, 6g• i York Light In- fantry, 300.—Teta 1 of Reropeeps, 7,050 ; besides the Ist, ad. 4th, Gth: sad Zu kllhnePago____ each orttw strength of 000, •r . WNW of 11,20 area. The jug to. Geo. "amm ... :o, c • .. 0. 0... Paev .se .d • lukagol'Aff'`. • aim/LAND and M• I lovoutos, Hon. C. outfit. -r C. oe=s and Gtabet a atirs. The tames tone at . nisipe is stated at 4000 regulars and 641000.110., appointed militia. .