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CORREs. Tvesinme wett.s, j kW.23, INS. Notwithstanding the atrralious of the Birth-day, place still boasts of --any people of distinaion. ,e chearful sea son of Chri tmas Was kvt up with much mires, though not with great lendor ; and agraeaisie dances, an I parties, Rith ~,,te r r, made the long nights appear but short , e s. The different brigades of volunteers in this dis of g e nt were tbis week inspefted by Major Lord GAG& In consequence ot a recent order ei His Royal Higlintsss the C., sitss Annus in (in acircular knee), all officers of volunteers t o produc• their c immisions at the seat inspec on. The clerks of counties. I suppose. fed a great o f tees, owing to many gentlemen eat having • ken out their commissions. A very elegant standard and pair of colours are on preparing antler ti-e tauteful &reale , * of Lady .IUfFIELV. to be presentedbo the North Peverwey At their next general insiseition. R ,sass ...S.ircsav, Esq. M.D. of I unbridge Wells, is p ointed Physic; to to t h e Leg i on. The late Archbishop of CA LLLLL UR v's delightful ideate here, Gave House, is to be kit. His r ace, had he lived, meant to have re occupied it ally in April, as h always found this air avec 'ith him. The Earl of A BIRO AVErNY has l n eft a nsion of Fridge CaAr. for Londo. his noble sit lona M AC Bart. has disposed of his at cottage and ev Ate of Knowl, to Col. &CAT.. sot., of the India set vice. - - NTT BrSINESS. ' A Court of Common Council was held at Guild. ball yester.t.iy, the first Court atter Christmas. at which Were nieseta the Lt74D MAYMt. several Al. devil en, and 4 "lea( number of Commoners ; after sealing the City anJ Hospital Leases. his Lordship deciared a vacancy in the nice of Junior Clerk in **Conn of Requests, by the death of Mr. J Asa Ls Sr. •• es, which the Court agreed to fill up at the eat \letting. The Thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to .he Rev. Mans., Woo*. WA ebolairt to the %pia Hemiturakte the Loire hisvoa hr his excel lent %et MAI, preached Ware his Lordship. Sheriffs, 44 Commoner Comte% at dee Parish Church of St. Latently , Jewry. on amnesty the 6th of January but aid he larlesived to print the same, and send a Ante to every Urtaber of the Cam. The Comm**, of Centroul over the Coal and Cara Met ri, resented a Report for allowing Mr. WWI'? Vat,' the ism Ochres hundred pounds for the als.aance lend red by him in prosecuting the Po ! hefime Ifarlians.st, Oar she establuhiug a tree m 2.1. t is the Crty of London for the sale of Coils. &C.. Sir Ries's*. Weccu and Sir ;arts Atantxtiosa, Knights. lat.! Sheriffs, preseftecl a Memorial to the Conn, praying prermssinn so use the name of the Corporation of London, in order to recover some goods in the Court of Chancery, belonging to a con side& felon which was referred to a Committee to consider an d report. The consideration of the Bye Laws. for regulating the P Art of London. was adjourned, and the Lose Maros was revealed to hold a Court especially ° she posposs. . SNOCA I4dC SVICIDE. I 4 motot r ndaysnon a reputable gun sad pistol m of Misiningisain, having..otp4to re. phemelis aim a teeth about 196 for view, Ibe interoneabsdiel of the mod tied of A isiodaty, =mad beat Me mem auerigenusly, that he for the esesfereme aseestable. as Well to pr ons the pe amettai lisissily as to ensure bb own prassal ask,. Tide. berierear. only increased the rang soh I seej my ran up itatens is sale assainsissue finished adonbielsamel. hiss* Aida lie lissome& so destroy his Mor say other parson daring to approach him. the cienseable :prised, he was dissuaded by the family from amampting to apprehend bem espenially without' Amber assistance, the father =lfpeullorstly leit the house, when be found f m each immisent danger. A very con eidemble time had elapsed before the constable re turned to the house, with two assistants, at one of whets, on his entering the back-yard, the young desperado fired tht ough a window with slugs; but the nian, providentially, seeing the piece before it was discharged, droppei beneath its level, and the con. tents dashed against the walls and brick-work. In stantly raising himself, the man gained the stairs of the warehouse unhurt, but, before he had ascended to the first floor, the ptrenzied wretch had placed `the pistol to his head, and blown a iarge portion of his skull off, which, with his brains, lay scattered over the warehouse; thus, in a moment, putting a period to his own existence ! a shocking instance of !suntan turpitude, resulting from the impulse of un restrained passim% and 4 contempt of filial duty. A Court of Dire tors was yesterday held at the ' lndia House, when the destination of the Lady larill,reagh, Captain T. G. Mciiii.sr, WAS altered *om St. Helena and Madras, to St. Helena and Sertial. Captain Jour; RAMSDEN, of the Phenix, and 'Captain JOHN It Doi e, of the elireria, took leave if the Court, previous to departing for St. Helena and Bengal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednes day next. The Ditgent, l'a:ce, from Liverpool, is lost at Romney. His Excellency the Chevalier IT ANDUAGA, the late Spanish Ambassador, arrival at Harwich, with his suite, on Wednesday evening. He intended to embark on boar,l a neutral vessel for Holland, on his return to Spain. M. NovosikzOrr, Grand Chamberlab to the tmperor of Russia, whose arrival in this entuitry we announced some time ago, as a person invested with extraordinary powers to arrange and conclude a Treaty of Alliance between his Court and ours, set off yesterday morning, on his return to St. Peters burgh ; and we believe t.e carries with him the said 'treaty signed and ratiEed by our Gayer:meat. V "yr COURT OF IMIG'S BENCH, WMTMINSTER. vavasoer, Jae. 24. IMPRESSED sLAMAN. In Me moaner of JONI. Ikon's, an aw i rerwd Seaman. Mr. JARVIS moved for a Rule to shew cause why the Mit of Habeas Corpus, in this case, should not be quashed. The Learned Counsel grounded Isis application upon the affidavit of the Muter of the ship to which Brock belonged, and the several Ibits of Parliament on the Greenland Fishery. It appeared upon the affidavit, oat Brock was apprenticed for the space of five and in the month of ()Bober, when he was % reseed, was of the age of eighteen years oil three months The Aet oldie 16th of His present Majesty, after 'Midi* that wary vessel in the Greenland and Southern Whale Fishery should have on board a certain quantity of Whs. lien, harpoons, ke. far ina tAuietel a ssirthited number of men and ap- Pemicess periiiised to the number of tons bur ets law to be indented for three years, at the dorm dm, tea 14 and under 18, and that not be accounted among the queethab, therefore, was, whether the also bock, under dip SIM Geo. 111. was that de -6145611 of Fr u* Iwe poietbed bey _nod the tens of *pee years ? He observes diet Ms was • very hipmat question to the navy of this kiagdssos, and tit treiierstood there was at present a bill before Parlimeent upon this allied. He had conferred with Kr. He Lsove, who was nn the other side, and they kid agreed to bring the question before the Co•irt for their Lordships opinion. Rule to shew cause granted. FRIDAY. JAN. 25. CRAMSZISTI. CAULFIELD. Mr. DALLAS moved for a Rule to thew cause 4rlty there should not be a new trial in this case. This was an anion for Crirn. Con. which was tried at Westminster, the Sittings after last Term, of which we gave a full report in our Paper of the 4th of December last. The Plaintiff obtained a Verdie of 2,0001. damages. the Learned Counsel moved upon two grounds The fist was, that in point of law, the Verd' should have been fur the Defendant, and the next, that the damages were excessive. He o,served, that Mr. Essatrie, for the Plaintiff, had proved his case, by giving in evident': cir Lumaances -f adultery having taken place in the month of August, 1799. A deed had been entered into between the parties, which h ave the wife a privilege of separating from her husband, and, in pursu.ince t fit, she did sepa rate from him, and they had lived separate and apart for some time previous to the aft of adultery proved : to support this, he cited a case in the Term Re ports. of Weldon v. Tinehrell, where it was held, that after such separation as appeared in this case, no ac tion for criminal conversation could be maintained. On the second pi.int, of exce.sive damages, he ob served, that the acquaii•tance of the :Defendant with the family oi the Plaintiff commenced only tix months prevnAts to the time the act was charg ed ; and that the rainliff, by cruel and brutal treat-' went of his wife, has disgraced himself. and, therefore, he contended, that. upon these grounds, if the damages were not merely nominal, at the least, they ought to be extremely small. Lord Eor.111110110OGIS^" You %ill be so good, is arguing this case. to causider the groan& en which Weedon and Tinsismil was decided, but most particularly as to this point, whether a deed of semi. '..ration can preclude the husband from bringing an anion in case the person of his wife should be vio lated ? I wish this poise to be argued to its founda tion. Take a Ride to show cause." THZ CPO IF TIIS 11031. MS. DORMS. In the COWS* of last term. Mr. F.RSKIIII moved for leave to file a criminal information against the Defendant, for sending a letter to Mr. Robert Knight, pith intent to provoke him to a shallow. and to fight a duel. Mr. ERs►INR moved so make the male abide*. and as no affidavits had been filed in aaswet, the rule was accordingly granted. COMMON PLEAS, WES/PANS - En, Jan. 21. Sit/lags at Nisi Pram before Sir Janes MADIStIILIT. BEDFORD plii/011 S. PLIIITWAN and tet.i.onies. This was an a&ion brought against the Defend ants, as printers of the newspaper called re Mere lns Advrtisee, to recover three penalties of 501. each, for inserting in that paper three advertisements, of fering a reward for goods lost. with no questions asked. contrary to the AB of the 25th Geo. 11. commonly called, Jonathan Wild's ea. Sergeant Saar HEIM addressed the Jury. and begged to know, whether any of the Gentlemen then in the Box chanced to be Proprietors of The Messing tether,dk and was answered in the negative. He then stated. that by the Mt of the 25th Geo. 11. it was positively forbidden that any penes should insert any advertisement or paragraph, be public paper or print, stating that certain things were lost or stolen, and offering a reward to any person who should give them up to the owner, and, at the , same time, promising that no prosecution shoublha commenced, or, as is commonly the words Wife use of, that no questions should be asked. He them adverted to the different advertisements, and said, that all he had to do was to produce the affidavit of the Defendants. lodged by them at the Stamp- Office. and to prove that the advertisements were inserted. He concluded by apologising to the Jury for inquiring whether any of them happened to be Proprietors ; but as he understood there were 1768 shares in the paper, he thought there was so great wo.tder in asking the question. Mr. Lionel B.wth, an officer of the Stamp-Office, appointed under the Mt to receive and keep impres sions of the newspapers. produced the papers which had been lodged with him. The advertisements were then read. The first was on the flth of Sep tember, 1804. and began with " Teri soonest re ward. la watch-nuakees, pawn-brakees, and ethers. Lost, as old : fashioned plain gold work, with dials and seal. kc." Every part of which was accurately de scribed, and concludes with, " Whoever will hei,lthe same to a Wigan hawse (mentioned in the advertise ment), shall ten guinea' ,word; and if an, eat has ad vowed money on A they iepaid4 ant es fen. ions asked." Ile second am on the 15th of September, 190.. Thfs was Air some eapper-m.--. had has purchased by as one. • The third WM eti sis Aver spoons, and offering to pay the expenses, if best, or to redeem them, if pawned. Serjeant, Bier and Leos submitted. that this ac tion could be brought only when goods were actually Ina sr stolen, and that. as there was no evidence of this, it remained with them to prove that the gouds were lost. and they were convinced that could no' be done, as it was entirely a trick, for the purpo.e of committing a fraud on the newspapers. Sir Jan Mamsr LLD said, that if that were the case, it was a gross fraud on the part of the Plain tiff ; and that, if any person could be base enough to do it, every step should be taken to punish him; but he conceived that their own advertisements were evidence that the things were lost or stolen ; and as the Plaintiff was a common 'informer, he was not supposed to kaow whether these things were lost or not, but only commenced the actions from seeing the advertisements. Serjeant Bavtav said, that as there were so many proprietors, it would not be more than three shil lings each. Sir JANIS MANSFIELD explained the Act to the Jery, and told them, that, according to law, the Plaintiff had a right to recover. and they must find the three sums, not as damages. but as penalties. The Jury asked, whether it were not: in their power to mitigate the pomaded Sir Janes MADSPIELD said, he did not think it was consistent with their oaths. They found a veriat fir the Plaintiff, damages to the amount of 1501., vis.iol. sit each action. SPORTING TRIAL. snots W. DAZES AND DODOES. This was an xenon brought against the Defend. ants, who were stewards at the Canterbury races in 11105, to recover the sum of 501. the value of a plate then run for, and which they refused to give is the Plaintiff, alleging, that his mare was not emitted to run, she having won a plate at Tunbridge is the same year, which was contrary to the rules of the race. Serjtant CODILEL, on the part of the Plaintiff, stated, that the Defendants were appointed stew ards, for the purpose of regulating and deciding all difference, which might arise at the races which were held at Canterbury. It appeared, In the pub lic papers, that there was a piece of plate to be run for, by a certain description of horses. Mr. Emden, seeing this, went down there, with his little mare, called Gipsey, and having paid the fees, she was duly entered, and every necessary form gone through, to entitle him to run her. Five horses started the first heat, but Glow!, led them all, and arrived first •it the post. The nest !o her was a horse called Gift, and the next to him a colt gut by Perms • the other two were distanced both b y Gipsy a nd Gift, but the Prgors colt was only dis tanced by Gipsey, being within a very short distance of the second horse, GO. When they were pre paring for the second heat, the objection was started that Gipsti, had won a plate of 501. at the 'Tunbridge races in the same year, and therefore was not qualified to run ; but, notwithstanding this oh rftion, the groom was weighed, and Gipsey ran the second heat with Gift, and was again victorious. The learned SERJ SANT concluded by saying, that a still stronger point in his favour was, that the Pep no colt, distanced by Gpiae. did sat, nor would not be allowed to run the second heat, though. if it had been the received opinion, that Gipey was disquali fied, then the colt would have run, lad had a right to insist on running, as he had not been distanced by the second horse Gift. Henry Crosier deposed, that he was clerk of-the course at Canterbury in 1803, and that there was a Ow run for by Gipaey, Gift, the Priam colt, and curb others. In the first heat, three of them were dis tamed, and in the first and second Gipsey was before ' eitt• On his cross-examination, • he said, that after the first heat, he had heard it objeaed by the Stewards, that Gluey had won a plate at 'Tunbridge, but that they having gone away from the scales, the groom was weighed, mid Girey won the second heat. He also said, he had heard Mr. Emden as knowledge, that he had %Won a plate at Tunbridge, which was advertised as worth 501. but that it was not worth SOL Upon*, tOSdenee, Serjeant Bur contended, that thePlalldfftliotld be non-suited, as it was a condition 1t the Canterbury races, that no horse should run, who bad, in the same year, won any plate to the value of SOL The Court was of opinion, that the Plaintiff should be nosisulted. FRIDAV, JAN. 25. WETNIIIINEAD. wtMtts v. Serjeant SNZPIISRD moved the Court, that the Defendant should be discharged out of confinement. He said there had been an agreement entered into between the Plaintiff and Defendant, that the latter should take all the hops, half-bags, and half-pockets, which the former should grow in the year f so 4 ; and should pay for them, at the rate of six guineas a hundred, as soon as they were packed and deli vered. The Plaintiff demanded payment for the year's growth of hops, when he had tendered a part of them. and the Defendant, refining to pay num, was arrested, and thrown into gaol. The ground on which he moved that the Defendant should be discharged, without being held to bail, was, that it did not appear hon. the affidavit of the Plaintiff, that the hops. which had been packed and offered to the Defendant. were properly dried, and every thing done to them to make them fit for packing, nor did it appear that they had been put into bags and pockets. Serjeant BAT Lay said, that. he hope d t he Court would think the affidavit sufficient, or, if not, that they would permit him to amend it. Sit SAMS' MANSFISLO said, that by the agree ment, the Plaintiff had engaged to deliver all the hops he should grow in the year, but it only ap peared from his affidavit, that part of them had been tendered ; he did not, therefore, think, th.t the Defendant should be held to bail, but that he should be discharged forthwith. SlPTillUlt SA Y Litt then moved that the Defendant should undertake not to bring an &Rion of trelsass fee the arrest. The Comet did netthisk an axon of trespass would Se egelsaldse, estimated the rule abselate. PORTSMOUTH, JAM. 24. Arrived the r ..gire.ope and Legg privet Cr‘. add se veral outward -bottnd vessels, from the Downs.-vo Wind E. blows hard. DEAL, J \H. 24. Remain in the Downs, the Ardent, Utrecht, and the f a ilexthic men of war ; Leda, Greyboyncl, and Carta,. frigates ; Arab, Alonzo, Dart, Zephyr, and Barletta sloops of war ; Volcano, Zebra, Real, and Lucifer bombs; Rbr. rr, Jnrl al4 T heal her, Honorer, and Riffrthan gun-brigs ; Royalist, So,. he, Draken if bedtard, Muste r Dauber, Trito n , Helder, I , wave, Traveller, Aar:, (Pollen, Diadem, and Aereee armed defence ships. Wind, S.E. blows . hard. No communication with the shipping from the snore. awe". At Datmotith—.W. Washington, Otto, from &Nevem .•) , t t hr and the Ft-rtta --, from Salle, with d unapt • At Liverpool—the Four Brothers, ?Arrington, from Vass,- • t'.•. chusoo. At Norway—the Sampson, Neilson, from the coast of Spain. In the Eq.:l.-v.:he Afirte ' Ilanion, (rim London. At St. aliv•liael's —the Charlotte, Wanslatitgli, from Mottr.vey. • At it trbado,—the Etiterpri•.l, Lawton, front .1 fric.a, t,eating off a Fre:ich privateer. Thursday the dispatches for the several Presiden cies in India and China were finally closed at tke ,t East India House, sad delivered to the Parsers of the following ships, viz.— • Wexford, Capt. W. S. Clarke; Henry Addinroo Ca Kirkpatrick; Bombay Castle, Cape. Ha milton. and key George, Capt. Grihble, for Bornhay and China; kart of Abes• gavenny, Capt Wordsworth, for Beugal anti Chi a. Two very valuable prizes, captured by a south ei Sea whaler, belonging to Messrs MA Pa LLs„ of Wapping, are now safely moored in rho river Mr. Bates, the late Meitner •ior Herfoulahlte, has again offered himself to fill the vacancy i t she representation of that County, occasimed by the - death of Mr. Lana. A few night* ago, a desperate assault was commit ted on 'f uom AS Av atrium, Esq. who is a partner in the cotton manufaciory. Carlisle, tender the firm of Litesn m and Co. with intent, it I. supposed, of robbing him. In riding between the above-named place and Stenton. about half pa.t ten o'clock, at Coasting Sykes, where there is a narrow 17111.1 lead ing to a small bridge, he was attacked by two rtiflia7:s who pulled him off horseback ; and, while rte wis stinstly conflitling with them; the spirited animal he rode upon, set off homeward. - Mr. A. vigorouly defended himself, and had knocke I down ,me of the assailants, when, as if to his assistance, the mare cams galloping back, the distant clatter of %Otose feet so disconcerted the villains, that they fled very hastily across the country, though one of them wag much bruised; wheretip m Mr. AT:O No-es, with ce - .- elder:able property about him, joyfully remreaO;). : .l, -and got safe home. A few days since was opened to the Public. a beautiful Painting, executed by Messrs. Rate so a • and BA R a, representing Sir Sedscy Soli! Action with oty-nine sail of the enemy's Fotilla, in May last. It comprehends four classes of their vessels, Prams, Schooners, Schuyts, and Lug-sailed Rowe j boats ; and shews the City of Ostend, and the Flo- . tilla in the harbour, with a line of sandy coast towards Flushing. this Painting is the admiration of every one who has vet had the pl-7aiutre to view it, and is highly interesting on macor accounts. _. The effect or sun -set, the glow of colouring over - the whole, and the =curacy of the representation, arc such as will certaidly ensure the Artist: mob praise, and the patronage of the public. We have • heard that the whole has been d'rected by a person - of the first authority, together with the joint inform- . ation of the Officers of the Squadron then on that .„ station. This Painting, and the Class i cal Vi ew of I Rome, eminently interesting to every one at. all conversant with the Roman History, which is to continue open for a few months longer, render the Panorama in the Strand a most sublime and inte resting exhibition. Theold Grecian moralist, EPIC /STU s; says, "Every thing has two handles." Bat the P.tlosopher seemed to have no idea of the nom/ A •veires by which For , tune is to be laid hold of ; at least, he had no con. ceptiun of the numerous :Wee haled et which future, ages would prese for raising her votaries to the pinnacle of sudden and imniense wealth. How would the old sage have wondered, had he heard of such a catalogue of Capital Prizes as she Scheme of the ensuing Lottery contains ! There is little doubt, however, that, under inch intorrnatien, he woeld, have exclaimed, " Purchase instantly a chance, lest every handle that Fortune offers becomes lost to you" B EN toit'd for years against the tide, I n silent isi,h to mend hi. S ince Labour all his want. denied, H op* gave poor Sett a Lou'ry Shan". No Tine TO as LOST .--The unprecedented de mand for Tr c ITS and Se acs, in. the ensuing Lottery, being tar beyond calculation , a great ad vance in the price must be the cousequeece. J. Joins sox and Co. therefore recommend the attention of their numerous Friends and the Public to come to an immediate purchase ; and re.pO.lfelly inform them, they have on sale, at their old Fortunate Li censed SIAM Lottery Office, Not 3, Pope's Head 1 Alley, Cornhill, London, TICKETS and Sit,. aas in the greatest variety of numbers, and at the lowest prices. A few day. since, an industrious young man fell into the Thames, and \ hen rescued from the wat:ry grave, was conveyed, as an apparent corpse, to the Acorn, William-street. Twenty minutes had elapsed before the arrival of Mr. BA it ev, Salisbury-square. In about half an hour, signs of return ng life were evident, and the next day the restored person was removed to his friends. At the monthly Meeting of the Managers, JOSRPH Jest:teas, Esq. presided, when the Medallion was - unanimously voted to Mr. BAIL iv. 'rise Treasorzr ai paid the rewards to the claimants, as recomm . Likewise four brave sailor , were rescued fitan the perilous ocean, and re stored by Mr. BANK ES, of His Majesty's ship the Pearl ; Affidavits were made by :he Surgeon and Mr. BICE, before the Mayor of Patin. r:seb, so that the parties have been liberally rewarded by the Hamer)* Society. SUBSCRIPTIONS, BTC• fat carrying on this life-saving institution, are received at Baron Dims- Daces ; bir M. Btoxam's ; FULLER'S and CIIIATT E. RIS t the Loudon Coffee-home ; and at No. square. a `~~~ ~` , keF m-nosipe ; sna at ►w. w/o aria 7 I I