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PRIVATE COR R Es PONDENCE. DUBLIN, JULY 91. Perhaps at no former resiod was Dublin so thin of inhabitants as at present. The ci:izatits seem an xious to indemnify themselves for the disappoint ment they suffered in consequence of the insttr..ec tion last summer, and have hurried Liu tl:e iin• try with augmented numbers, and increased avi dity. Of course you must suppose the late rumours of an intended rising have not made any stroi. ~ o n Within a few days, the Pip -water Corn ainee have us with a l arger supply of v•alt r, hut it is of the very worst land, black, turbid, and illaaaed. They have, I understand, made a 1:•.:oher of cuts from the Cit' -water Course to the !Slack Bogs, which lie in the interior of the County of Wicklow ; and this is the pare source front which we are to be supplied in future. :Ile Graee-dei ger in Haruki says, a tanner will last you nine years." This remark, I understand, struck some of the members of the corporation as founded i t , g ood sea,e, and confirmed by experience, who have since struggled, with laudable anxiety, to procure the Citizens a beverage which might unite all the tanning qualities in high perfec tion. 'They have at length succeeded. Bi water being strongly impregnated with the bark of dc. cayed trees, is astringent, antiseptic, and an excel lent bitter after repletion ; sometimes operating as an emetic, frequently as a cathartic, besides it is purer than spring, river, or canal water ; for, as ne i t h er fi.b, frog, nor reptile, can live in it, it is not liable to be polluted by their sexual intercourse, or other animal fundions COURT OF CHANCLRY. LINCuLteS-INN H A LI, AVG. 6. PIERCE 9. CiVTCHiILI.O AN I) EII NE r. Mr. F• •ria to Node staved, that this was the Pe. tilion of Mary Pierce, otherwise Locker, praying that the Executors of her late father might pay to her a sum of 4001. for the purpose of paying the debts she had incui red since her marriage, and the further sum of 4001. per annum, till she should at tain her age of 21 years ; and also praying the Court to order her husband, John Locker, to )oin in such settlement as might hereafter be made. The peAvon stated, that the father of Petitioner died in the year 1801, leaving a large real and personal pr: petty, hi tween her and her brother, who was hi, natural children, and that Messes. Crutchfield and Ensm.st were his Executors.' That in this year lOW, she intermarried with John Locker, and his Lordship, upon application being made, ordered a Cl 7minal information to be fi:ed against Locker, for marrying a ward of that Court, without leaee, and ag iiast Johns Locker Wainwright and Wife. for assisting in such marriage. That her husband was a very ncely man, and destitute of the means of making he; any all.maiice towards her mainte nance, &c. That she had contra/led debts since her mama s e, to the amount of 4001. That she was then 20 years of age, and that the Lteeutors were empowered to make her such allowance. Counsel on behzll of the Executors and of Mr. Loektr consentiar, the prayer of the petition was accordingly granted. In the cAir er parer Dc Attar:cystns, Mr. ' 11.citaans mentioned to the Court, the: the rll - 11/1 had entered into am agreement amongst themselves, which he moved to be made an Order of the Court, E 3 far as it respelled their infant clild.—The application was granted. • VAUX/141.L lUMING-itATCII. Yesterday tveniag the Annual Rowing Match took place. the Priam of which was ;11 Wher. y given by the Proprietor of Vauxhall Gard.'n. Ihe an.srch was rswed by seven pair of Oars in In:forms of blue ar.l sesrlet, and the boats carried whi.e Liz% wish large red :puts, by ti,L, number of hich each boa; was distinguished. The numbers arm± names of the Rowers were as foliose, viz. 1. Ws 1:4 ni trekm2.lertn jan.,v•ru,,•,nAs • • • ' 2 C; h•rge 11. Ms Pla•lk Sate T 3. Robert Brne'aing T..e-eas *auks . . . . Cuper's 4 , Vill.am Seeker Charles Witoew >ed . . . Vauxhall. 3. Rei^ft &flaw . . . • . Bleekfria”.. W Iliem Ailey . . . . 13,ek.ele. 6 Jelin Grrgery Riclurci Kele f. James T.ins . . . . . Vauxhall. Weal . . . . . Str.in.l lane. At half-past five o'clock, the signal wis given, and the boats started from Westminster Bridgo. They kept pretty dose till they reached the Aciel phi, when two of them, Numbers I and X, got foul of each other, ani the !attn gave up Cie coiitest. .1 he rest proceeded rapidly; turiej the centre well Biackfriars Bridge, and rowed up the River, against tLe tide, as far as the Red House at Bat'....e sea, r..he:-e there was a boat moored A second boat I.ere gave up, and the remaining five pursued t` , .e:r way with great vigour. For some time the Hires hest !mats kept so close tagetlic-, that the vic tory s. is set v doubtful, and Cie betters remained in a-.xioits suspence, which at len -gth terminated in :sour of No. 7, belonging to Tims and Wood, w!..0 suddenly shot ahc:f and Brined the Goal be. foe the rest of their competitors. The next best b , 4'.. Nos. and 2, were also entitled to prizes, the first to two, the latter to one guinea. 'lima and his partner were th en seated in the pri zi--w herr y , and c arr ied in tri iroPhi amidst the acclamations and congratulations of the populace, to the house of the firmer, where the ! ealth of the conquerors was drank with un tognedyld will. The fire engine boat, belonging the Royal Exchange Assurance Company. bad keit previously prepared, and a stage creaed on it for the reception of His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Band, who played a number of martial and Popular A: , s, and received the successful candidates with See Ike Csnquering Het* runes, and concluded with God SI rP /he King. The Prim Captain was in a beantiiul sis.oared galley, decorated by a sp:endrd white awn i ng , and- red and white flag* It also earned a number of elegant females. Boats innu merable, crowded with Itches, iii white dresses, ad ded to she charms of the gay: scene, and the shore was lined with thousar,ds of speaators. Order and r ind condua railed th roughout the whole, and e evening closed without the Let accident cr pleasant cUcumstsusce• MIDDLESEX ELECTION. • TIIIRTEENTH Dar.—The friends of Sir F. BUR. DETT came forward with much alacrity, and at tv.o o'clock, he had polled upwards of thirty votes more than Mr. Mainwaring. Coaches filed with Free holders were coming to the I lustings at the time the books closet, and many of the Bar ,net's voters were obliged to return without voting. During the day's poll, no less than 47 of Sir Francis Burdett'i votes were reje&eti, and to of Mr. Mainwariag's ; the for mer candidate, however, obtained, during the day, a majority of 41, as appeared by the numbers which were declareti For Mr. Miinwaring For Sir Faneii Burdett . . . Majority for Mt. Mainwaring 417 The greatest anxiety appeared to pervade the au ditory until the state of the Poll was announced, which was followed by loud cheering and exulta tion for some time. Silence having succeeded, Sir rrancis thus add; e-sed the Electors " GENTLEMEN, " I cannot but feel highly gratified by the very flattering situa , ion you have placed me in ; I have to express .noch satistastion at the state of this day's 1011, and mu :t say, I feel myself addition illy grati fied, because I have held out hopes without intent to delude. It will also add considerably to your satisfatftion and mine, to see that if it had not been for a system of objection which has prevailed, we should have been forty or fifty more than we are, on this day. 4 ' Gentlemen ! I will not state accurately, as I am not fond of mentioning as a fact, what I am not positive of; but I understand 57 of my votes have been rejected on trivial objections. Gentlemen ! it increases Inv confidence, to be able to state, from the infermation of my inspecting friends, that my opponent's strength is so exhausted, that he has had recto arse to the of l trick at the last Eleftion, namely to palm on us IV strni,Per Ocna4lo.4;ers, &w..%-c. (cheering). nese were to have been toe Pioneers of four hundred others of similar descrip tion, intended to be brought in. if they had been established. Gentlemen, thus far the exertions of our forces have the superiority ; and, I trust, with great confidence, the contest will terminate in the way I hype predicted. In so p re diCli ng , I h ave ne ver spt,lten from accurate knowledge on the suhjear but have firmly relied on your spirit and patriotism, which, I know, will not ho wanting to me on this most important occasion. I shall offer a few obser vations to those Freeholders who have come too late to poll, to beg and request of those Gentlemen, that they will not weigh the inconvenience too hea vily. I am sorry it happens so, but have no remedy. They ought to recolleft this is the last shift of our adversaries; it is possible they can drag up but few more voters. I address those Freetioldas whom votes have boon objeeted, begging they will conic early to-morrow. If, by pin,. o'clock, my Counsel and the Sheriff will wait for them ! and I h.tve no douht of estahlishing them to my satisfaCtion ; this ob. jo ftion of votes is the obstacle on which depends the re salt of this contest t but they cannot all be rejected. I know at this time, t' a spirit of patriotism can alone induce the Freeholders to come forward for me: influenced by such reeiing, trust they will give their votes. without co •si..l..ring, the ohs:Acles in their way of great consequturce. I ought to make some apology for sayiul so much as I have on this subjeCt ; but I have spoken Wth,in,:-nr to impress on their mind , , how important their con dua is to the isvie rif the conteia. " Gentlemen! it has been industriewly spread by my oppone.as. that I am hostile to England, and the Constituti in. During every day we have been engaged in this struggle, hand bills have appear if, and it has been stated to Freeholders, that whoever voted for me, must be a friend to pe.jur-, treason, mutiny, and revolution. (A ere of No! No !) Such are the slight insinuations they throw out against my chnraFter, and think theyare mere election squibs: the scurri'ity and vulgarity are so gross, that it oily rebounds and injures themselves (Loud e4ere t4). It has hem perpetually in the mouths of my °pigments to talk about tale !thee, of the free!, and t!•-s is the rational, discreet u.e 14. y make of the / 6,,5„ ,f l 4, p ress I how thaw detest, to- !I•bt &toed, he qtromuve pe-to.-“, thus publish to the world their in offensive enmposTuas, I cannot accgunt t and un less, by the freedom of the press, they think themselves jiistitieJ in taking away my charac ter, I cannot tell what they mean. I am not only held up as an enemy to the Constitution, but an inventnr of calumny. I k tow it has been the occasion of many Freeholders voting for me, who would o herwise have been neuter, by havintt the calumny I have been guilty of re-called to their minds. It is stated in a letter I have received, that Free:tolder, who had teriolved to vote alain-t me, ire, since voted in my favour, and desires me to nial,e mention of the calumny I am accused et. Gentlemen, a few years ago, wilen I was nit the Grand Jury, there was a st.erneat reseeding the treatment of the Prisoners confined in the Cold-Bath }lrish Prison, and the Grand Ju.y were petitioned to have them re.frhsed—they acc.ndingly to Mr. Mainwaring, Chairman among t h e Magis. trates, to that effect, who said if there were any reasonable complaints they should be remedied, but that he could not permit them to go into the prison. Gentlemen, I got leave to hived the prison, and I witnessed those ads, the exposition of which con stitutes the calumny I have been accused of. I offered to bring the charges before the Government, I pledged my character to bring them before a proper tribunal, if required so to do. Am I then a calumniator, if no attention h paid to the charge I can prove? Am I a calumniator, when I abuse a system unfit to bs presented by the Grand Jury r.f the county ? My opinion is, the Grand Jury were insulted ; and if they performed their ditty on that occasion, they would have presented that Chairman and prison to the county as a public nui sance—therefore, (load cheering) I am so far justified. ..—Reaprding ..hut has been said of my opponent I do n t stand here to abuse him, but the question you have before you is, whether he or I shall be your Representative? You are sure this struggle is a g ainst a system of corruption, and not against the candidate, who is only made a tool to destroy your interests and independence. I beg leave so say it is not the Eng lish Constitution I have been an enemy to, but to those who would destroy the liberties and priv.leges of the Constitution. (Loud rfleer'org). If I abuse such, shall I be your enemy ? I am :rot averse to the Constitution, by the principles I stand on The fair, clan basis of our Cotistitution, is to afford due prerogative to Cr o w n , and to prate& the liber ties of the sufje;ll. lam conscious of those priv:- I.ges due to the Throae, which, if duly adminis tered, would be abundantly sufficient ; and which it is the duty of the highest as well as .the rweanest stibo to support for their own happiness. (11a:za! liavin 7 saki so much, I have only to repeat my hope that; your exertions will be oncon trouled ; that you will come early to pill, and become a rallying point, for, every county in the o k f i n gdm the o con , s t recover tutin the B a u n r c o i ro t f g a s i e rd . l u teLt e i , e d s tber :torch, du •iv whit!, Mr. Matatitria: at tempted to sarak, the danwarfi.reed bin Ai rehrc being helrel.) l'he sailors, in their ship, as on Saturday, formed part of the cavalcade of Sir Francis, who returned to town in his usual style, accompanied by Lord Foley ; Miss Manners; Lady Melburne, in her idge. with Miss Lamb and Mr. Elmer ; Countess or Bar rymore and her sister ; Lord Petersham, in his car riage ; Countess of Aldborough, in her carria,ge, in a Mamelitke turban, and Burdett's favours ; Ma dame Grassini, in her carriage ; Mr. Moore and family, in his carriage ; Lady L. Manners, in her carriage, &c. &c. When the cavalcade and frigate reached beyond the church in Piccadilly, they were stopped by a gentleman,who regaled the whole of the ship's crew, with several bottles of wine, &c. Before the arrival of the cavalcade, in Piccadilly, we noticed the houses, fr , lm Sir F. Burdett's to Hyde Park Corner, crowded with fashionable visitors, viz. Mr. \Veighter,Mr. Marzin, Marquis of Biandford, Sir F. Evelyn, Margravine of A nspach, Mr. Lushington, Mr Penton Earl of Coven: ry, Duke of Queensberry, tile Hon. Mr. Gordon, Mr. Cranford, Mr. Cock erell, Earl Dysart, &c. with Burdett's colours, and crowded with persons of rank and fashion. MILITARY C.R. The experiment with the Military Car succeeded perfealy on Friday last ; it reached IVelling, a dis tance of eleven miles, in two hours and ten minutes; the men having suffered no perceptible inconveni ence or fatigue. After waiting two hours or more to teed and refresh the horses; the fourteen men were as safely and pleasantly conveyeeiback to town in one hour and fifty minutes. Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, another apparatus, intended to answer the same purpose, was drawn by four horses int.) the parade before the Hsrse Guards, and was examined by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Mr. Pitt, and a great number of General Officers and persons of distinction. This apparatus was slung upon the springs of a common post chaise carriage, but it is clumsy and expensive, and wants most of the advantages of the fcrmer appara tus ; instead of the tight-rope going from one sprtl: - ... to the other, serving as the support to the men's hacks, and which it effettually did on the trial, these are six large irons standing up from the s.at boards, three on each side, to support a rope; in stead of one board for the men's feet, two have been substituted side by side; instead •4 its being sus pended by ropes, large str ups and buckles are introduced ; most clumsy foot-board for the serjeant and corpo ral, who sit in front, has been added, supported by three large irons ; in short, this apparatus is at least t~i.e the weight, will Lost mi.re than twice a♦ math, and requires twice the s pace to stow it-in whet , not is use, as the :ipparatiis tried "II Ft iday, and yet it is calculated fur carryiug two men less ; and which number seems quite AS MAPV .15 ought to be ousted upon the common carriage cf a post chaise, whose usu.,l load is twelve hundred weigh! or less, whereas the twelve men who went off on tne carriage yesterday, weighed, with their accoutre. inents, not less than twenty-four hundred weight. 'len private•, a corporal, and serjeant, were seated on the carriage, about half past one, with all their marching accoutrements, but they alighted by or der of the Duke of York, and went to the Guard house, to be accurately weighed being again seated, they drove off followed, exaCtly at two o'clock, for Welling, accompanied by two officers of the Guards nn horseback. Mr. Pitt seemed to take the must ,Rive part of any one present, in in spe:tirg and suggesting alterations of the apparatus Among the company present were noticed, Generals Burrard, Hope, and Lesley, Major Ounsell, Ea! I Cantle:l, Sir John Fordyce, Mr. Burdet, Hooks were provided under the seat-boards for hanging the soldiers knapsacks; but they carried them cni their backs as on Friday, and it seems most proper and convenient for them to do so. This apparatus was, we understand, produced by the same Coach-maker, who made that tried on Friday. It gives tut the highest satisfaction to inform the friends of liberty, rhat a very numerous and re. speCtable body of Freeholders breakfasted with Mr. svgas, at the Nev London Tavern, Chears .le, yesterday morning, and proceeded from thence in a body o support M.* good old cause, by giving their votes in favour of Sir FiIANCIS BVILDSTT, Bart. The Commissary of the French Prisoners of War on Parole at Chenerfield, has received orders, from the Transport Office, to permit fourteen of them to return to France upon parole ; they are Medical Men, Commissaries, and Pursers of ships, and they will march in a few days to :;outlismpton, where they will take shipping for Morlaix. General WHITILOCKI, Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth, is appointed Inspettor Genetal and Commander in Chief of the Forces in the Isle of IVight.—During the time the General has com manded Portsmouth Garrison, which is nearly six years, there has been but one officer tried by a court martial; and that was held last week on Captain Yemen, of the Worcester Militia. The minutes of the Court are sent for the approval of His Maim., till which the sentence cannot be known. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to order that Dr. LIND. first physician of the Royal Hospital at Haslar, shall be superannu tted on his full salary, as a reward for his unrernitted attention to his duty doting a service of n years. Doaor Two m rine, a gentleman of much professional ab:- lity, and who is universally respelied, is, we feel great pleasure io stating, appointed firit physician. "Ir - • I - Ct;RtcaiS custo4: A very singular sustom, connetged with tl r manor of :toetford, in Esier, is the balding of what is called a Lostile., court. Its origin is uncer tain, but tradition represents it as Ar.sing fkm a conspiracy against the Lord.of the M snor, projeCted during his absentee, and overheard by him on his way h-me. As a punishment, he ordered that all the tenants on his manor should ever afterwards ass-mole at a certain hour of the alight, on the same sp .t where the . b.nspiratorS met, and do homage for their lands The court is held lo the open au-, on King's Hill, on the. midnight of the first Wed nesday after Michaelmas day ; and all the business is transacted in whisper:, the minutes being made with a coal, instead of pert and ink. The steward opens the court in as low a voice as possible ; yet, those tenants who negleCt to answer, are deeply fined, and every absentee forfeits double his rent in every hour's absence. time of assemWing is from twelve till cnek-crow. The parties previously meet at the King's I kad, in Rnchforsi. The body of Mr. Joets, who was drowned in the Thames, opposite Somerset House, cn Sunday s is not yet found, though the most .dive search has been made f r it. The child is perfeitly recovered. At eight o'clock on Monday, a Gentleman who had undertaken to walk from Hull to Drilfield and back again, I - or a wa e er of two hund re d gu i neas to one, set off from th e end of Prospeift-street, and reached dh iiiield ahout a quarter past twelve. He returned to the place whence he started aboet 49 minutes before live in the morning, being i minutes within the limited time. A great number of person s had assembled at that early - hour, to wait the decision of the wages. A singular aid melanaleily circumstance hap pened a few days ago iu Salt-lane. Salisbury very fine child, two years of age, was sitting with his mother at dinner, when a boy, about twelve years old, entered the house with a frightful old mask on his face, the sight of which so much alarmed the poor infant, that he fell into fits, in which he continued five or six days, and then died. This is mentioned as a caution to deter parents Fern suffering their children to disguise th .mselves in order to frighten others—a praditee which, ex. elusive of this instaace, has frequently been attend' d with most fatal conseeuences. A very providential and sinettlar preservation from instant death was experieaced by an unfortu nate girl at the Workhouse, in Birmingham, na Wednesday. She was confined in a room four sto ries high, in the sick ward, front wheece she en deavoured to escape from her confinement. She got out of the window, with an intend u, as is sup posed, to leap upon some houses nearly opposite, which were about 20 feet from the window, but missing her aim, she precipitated herself into the yard below, a h iight of hence! n GO and 70 feet ! and, strange to tell, none of her limbs were broken. or bones fraslured. She complains only of a slight pain on her hip. On Tuesday seineight, as Mr. FT.ATIIERET ,13, jun. of Pasrington, surgeon, and another ge see r:lath were returninp: en tl.at I.t tee frisrn se...ato m on horseback, a dog suddenly assailed them. aid bit their looses ; in consequence of e hich o thy were both thrown to the ground. The letter y •n -tleman escaped without injury ; but Mr. Feel. , a - STOW received so severe a flow on the head, f om the fall, that, though his life is not now considered in much d anger, yet the effeas of it he will prt.ba bl) b ar to tile grave. a 01 Monday se'nnight, a wager was determined be. ween a party of Gentlemen, at the Dolphin, Heigeam, Yorkshire. The wager origiaated from a c inveisetion on fishermen in certain pasts of Eng. land currying their boats on their backs from plate to place, which do not we . 211 more than 19 to 201 b. It was maintained as imp eeble for any thing to be consttufled of se small a weight, which could carry a person in safety upon the water. 'I he ne:er party asserted it was possible, and engaged to const %ha a boat for that river, which was performed, not only to carry one man, but two persons, who rowed ale, ut 1. The boat is construe:tea of wicker-work and od silk, it had two bladders on each side the gone-1, with which it weighed only Oh. 1 l oz. It was afterwards contended that no bladders ought to he attached to the boat, and to peeve its powers still farther, they were taken off, and a gentleman rowed from the New Mill Pool to the Tempotary Bridge. The weight without the bladders was $ lb. 14 OAS. The following most extra's' dinars. and auciacinps attempt at burglar.., was made on Tuesday l ast , on the premises of Mr. Bence. in Kir/ale-mad, near Bevngton Bush, Liverpool. About ha!t - -"eat three o'clock, the female servant being in the house alone, observed trom the kitchen w indce.e which looks iefo the garden, three men, habited like sailors, ap proaching the house from an stvenue, which she knew they could only Is me entered by climbing over the wall. She immediately fastened the door and the windows of the lower story, and running tip stain, looked out of the chamber window, and 'de sired to know shat they wanted. They asked for Mr. Buse H, but being toW he tees not at home, they desired to be adtnitt id into the house, saying they would wait till he came in. On leer refusing to let them in, they told her they wre determined to break into the house, and immediete.y arts mpted to force the door. On this she seized a brace of pistols, which were laying in the chamber ready loads..', aed fired them successively at the vidains, without an% She then took up a blunderbuss loaded whit small shot, and fired it also, on which one of the men dropped, and appeared to he badly wounded ; one of his companions threw him across his shoul der, and made off. The thr.d then lodged itp at the young women, and swearing he would beve her life," attempted. with more violence than before, to break into the house through the window. Ternfied with this threat, she instantly ran to the back part of the house, tied a sheet to the windoss -shutter, and, with much difficulty and some bruises, let herself down into the lane. She then called fur as. sistance, but on searching the premises, no traces could be found of the robbers. Adlive search is, however, making after them by the Police Officers, and we doubt not but they will speesl 4 ly he taken into custody. It is remerkable that Mr. Buscn's premises have been attacked no less than eight times, within a short space of time, probably by the same gang. A. tie D,tt, verb labh re, tll 0 cogs, ru the whole S 1. 4 is or C i enccd tint ig• C olt vreas a boo' mks • of by