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• I WUIG CI,UR. Yesterday there WAS a meeting of the Whig Chtb, at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand,• Sc-. F.IX in the Citair. The members appeared more than usually anxions to chew their attachment to their great leader, and the principles of the society. Upon Mr. Yox's health being drank, he addressed the meet ing :n a speech of some length, in which he observ ed-that the only occurrence of any moment that had tak , :ii place since the last meeting, was the resignation of the Administration ; an event which tart one scald suppose he could regret. An Admi nistrat;on civ , sen so contrary to the principles of that CIA, alid so inferior in talents and property to every Administration that had preceded it, ought not to stand. Its downfall, therefore, could not be beheld but with satisfy Lion. It was an Administra tion appointed solely by the influence of the Crown, without any recommendation of property or talent, and such as ought not to last. What Administra tion would be formed in.its place, he did not know ; bat of this he WAS sure, that it would not be destitute of property and talents. Although his I.ealth was generally first drank in that Club, 4 y ,:t his family had not given such proofs of patriot iqn as had been displayed by the H eases of Caven dish and Russell. No exertion, however, should be v. truing, on his part, to . provohie gratitude t and he he should be able to continue to give the same support to the constitution which he had hitherto done. This speech was received with enthusiastic aplause. The Earl of Laymen Le said, he was so long out of the habit of addressing a public assembly, he should content himself with drinking the health of the company without further observation. Sir WILLIAM MILNER, Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, and several other Gentlemen, spoke in approbation of the principles of Mr. Fox. Mr. SMITH con cluded his speech with the following toast : " May that Administration be short which does not compris e these talents which had btu proteded oar Leertie; at kwor, and ere lac eseljArti to en.nrre :Inspect abroad." This toast was received and drank with eatlnt eiasm. The Meeting was uncommonly numerous, and had excited great expeßation; but the speeches were abort. and did not afford all the information upon the present state of our internal politics which it was hoped they would disclose. The followin; is a copy of the Prince of Corent's Letter, conveying his thanks to the Emigrants, for their public expression of their concern at the mur der of the Duke D'Emonirrs Winstead Ilome, April 27, 1604. " The excess of our pact, Sir, has not prevented my son and me (rum feeling, as we ought, the generous interest which all the faithful Endplate have taken in the great loss we have recently sustained. W. teal has much our duty, as it is our anxious wish, to make known to them our entire gratitude. The nunittli of thsib worthy renew to wham our saanke are due being too great to permit us to address °vendee. to each in particular, we have requested the tfintillor of the King, who is the. Mad of the lovasons, to express, as perfectly at it is possible, to those Emigrants so worthy of the cause they suppett, hew sensible we are of the generous and distinguished Manner in which they have min je-cl their regret with ova, in the august and mournful c rm. stony of yesterday•. We therefore beseech you, Sir, in concert with to be the interpreter of our just and lively gratitude, which will never be extinguished in our hearts but with our breath, which will terming, at once our sufferings, and our uieforturiate race 4 . We owe to you, Sir, our particular thanks for your rare of the ceremony of yesterday ; and we beg you to rest ahured of our gratitude, and of trio sentiments of perfect esteem arid sincere frier.d..hip fur you, with which we have long been penetrated. (Siena) " LOUIS JOSEPH DE BOURBON. • Tile sulentn 4.r at St. Patrick's Chapel. COURT OF ALDFAMEN. A Crum of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall, at which were present the Loan Mw Yon, 3 Aldermen, Sheriffs and Recorder. The Court, having examined the Returns of the Mealweighers, ordered the Price of Bread to be raised Half an Assize, or One Penny in the Peck Loaf, to commence to-morrow; the price of the tjuartern Loaf wheaten will then be Bid. and house hold 7d. The following Gentlemen were named by the Lotto Mavoe to be publicly put in nomination to the Liverymen on Midsummer-day nett, for their ileetion of two id them to be Sheriffs of the City of London, and Sheriff of the County of Middlesex. tt'i rain I.nellington, Esq. Citizen and NterAunt (1.0-le%ben, Fsq. rr z•:n and Clorliworker. Fsq CitiPen and Hacker. Edw int K. stable, Esq. Citiaen and Salter. Koscrt Eq. Citizen and Ironmonger. John Karelian', Esq. a•rd Dyer. rii Ctimer .;t141(;1"ver. W , ' , a.ii Dold‘rnitb. AliCl ksislorsg. It:sq. Citizen and Stationer. Upon the recommendation of the Right Hen. the Loan MA VOll. JOHN Svtvxsrts, Esq. the Recor .'••r of this City, was unanimously eleeted Steward of the Borough of Southwatk, in the room of JOHN t; ••COE ON 1: FaNsa aw, Esq. deceLsed. 'l•be Court appointed the Courts of Conservancy to be held for the counties of Essex and Kent, on tio: 6th June and 16th July; and for Surrey and riliddle -e*, 21st June and 18th July. Tl:c :I:st Court in June is appointed for the elec t. -It of the /tillers of the Watcrmcn and Lighter •o, y. The pa:zepts fur Midsummer's day were ordered to be issued. Five tbsmsaod two hundred pounds Orphan.,' stork was ordered to be drawn off And annihilated. The Court voted their thanks to the Right Rev. Lord Ri.hop of GLOVCESIt It, and the lies , . Lr. Toosisc, for their Sermons preached b•fere this Coors, And the Governors of the •ev•rsi Flospi , Als, at Christ Church, on Monday atns 1 iteuniy, is 'aster wee: last. RAMBURGII MAIL. FROM THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN 'APRA!. PARIS, APRIL 24. Letters from Constantinople of the 20th of March say, that the Russian Ambassador, by the Sublime Porte, Count Italinsky, has concluded, with some Grecian and Armenian merchants, contra is for the delivery of provisions to a Russian fleet, daily expeeted from the Black Sea, in the Dardanelles, where it intends to pass three weeks. The sum con tratied for amounts to one million of dollars. The policy of ..he Turkish Government of admitting a Russian fleet in its harbours, and permitting so many armed ships to enter the Mediterranean, is very much doubted by the French, Spanish, and Dutch Am bassadors, who on that account have had several conferences with the Divan, where it is said, they have severely remonstrated, though without effee.. The Pacha of Mostar, in the Turkish part of Dalmatia, is in open rebellion. The Sultan has tent 240 purses to the Pacha of Haujaloka to recruit for in army, and to march against the rebellious Paella. The Sultan has sent Aleph Pacha t:pon a secret mission, but with full powers, to Eppt. He has already sailed with .1 numerous suite, on board a small Ragusan vessel. It is supposed that he is eharged toengage the Arnauts to return to their duty to the Sublime Porte, in assuring them not only of full pardon for the past, but by offering double pay for future. (Journal de Paris.) The Criminal Tribunal has condemned the tim ber merchant Le Page to the Rallies for six years. He has been convk'fed of a fraudulent bankruptcy. Of the 1800 bankrupts announced since the present war broke out, it is supposed that 1750, at least, are fraudulent ; it is therefore time that some ex ample is made which may convince other nations that French merchants are not permitted to be rogues with impunity. (Le Clef dcs Cabinets.) The Emperor of Germany has, by a decree, or dered the Eledlor of Wirternberg to restore to Count de Dukler, member of the equestrian order, the mines of Mittelbron, situated in the territory of Wirtemberg. The special military commission at Mentz, in the department of Mont Tonnere, has condemned to death Schnitter, Witters, and Muller, suspeited of having recruited for some foreign power. The night before their execution, they found, however, means to escape from prison, by the treachery of the jailor's wife, a ho, after locking up her husband in one of the dungeons, set these criminals at liber ty, and accompanied them in their flight. The gens d'armes are in pursuit of them. Letters from Dresden say, that the EleCtor of Saxony has invited the King and Queen of Sweden to pass some time in his capital; and that Their Ma jesties have accepted of the invitation. A letter from Basle of the t tith complains great ly of the stagnation of all trade in Switzerlani, since the present war—and since French custom house officers there, as well as in Italy and France, impede their commercial communications, under pretence of preventing the entrance of English pt du/lions. A memorial has been presented by 500 of the principal Swiss merchants, to the Landam inn, who has communicated it to the French Mi nister, Vial—but he declared that the f irst Consul was determined not to lessen the measures he has adopted to ruin the trade of England.—(Journal dr Commerce.) At Coblentz there have been condemned by the special Military Commission, within three weeks, 36 smugglers of English goods. They have, with the exception of four, who are women, and in a state of pregnancy, been executed. Among those guillo tined were an old woman near sixty and a young girl not much above fifteen, but who were regarded as the most desparate of the whole gang. (J.agrnal de Commerce.) Citizen Jean Mosseguin, at Poitiers, aged 109, married, on the Ist of April, his 9th wife, Maria Varois, aged 19. He died the night after his wed ding, leaving behind him 29 children, 49 grand children, and 69 great grand children.—(Lc Pli• The number of masked balls advertised at Paris elle, during the late carnival, amounted to 16061 and the money expeaded at them by different citi zens, is calculated by Citizen Mercier, to amount to upwards of six millions six hundred thousand livres. After this, how dare we complain of scarcity of money, or publish the twenty of the per Parisians ? Putt.cisie). en flat-bottomed boats, mounted a, Hussars, lately left Havre, to challenge the English cruisers, who dared not attack them. They manoeuvred in the road for two hours, to the admiration of the mari time prefect, Forfait, and General Lebrun, the son of the Third Consul.—(Le Gazette de France.) The place of the Mole St. Nicolas, the last in our occupation at St. Domingo, has been evacuated by our troops. Bonaparte has acceded to the last declaration of the King of Prussia at Ratishon, relative to the affairs of the Equestrian Order of the German Empire. The Journal Peril contains a letter from Mar seilles of the 14th inst. in which is said, that on the 9th prece.b;,g, Admiral Litouche, with four ships of the line, tour frigates, and four brigs, had been seen near that city. It is said, that General Marmont complains greatly of the want of zeal in the Batavian Govern ment, and of obstinacy and want of pains/ion among the Batavian citizens. Even among the Dutch marine and military troops, the former par tiality for the English is not entirely extinguished. Citizen Rigo, Captain of the sth Battalion of Light Infantry, and Adjutant in the Staff of General Du. moticeau, has been cashiered for holding very incon siderate language in favour of England and against the hF st Consul. It is therefore time for France to let in a less lenient manner. Circumstances require it; -al wi.at power Can prevent die French Govern ment from d treeing the liatavian Republic the 25th or 119th military station What state can com plain of this aft when, without it, the destruflien of modern Cartb. ge is retarded, if not prevented, and when tare Betavians are set:l,h or wicked enough not to enter with energy in the philanthropic plan of the First Cons) to crush the tyrants of the seas ; to make the ocean free, and the world happy ? emirs" Anii-Britarnisies dr Berm's). '-~ t -_ '~ Citizens Jolly and Masson, appointed by the eri mina tribunal to be present at the burial of Charles Pichegru, went on the 7th inst. to the municipality, Rue Mignon, and required Citizen Rouverel, pub lic officer and inspeCtor of burials, to accompany them to the court yard of St. Chapelle, where the corpse of Pichegru was deposited, :aid from which place, after being laid in a coffin, which was put on a cart, and carried to the church-yard of St. Catha rine, the common bum ial ground of the 11th district, it was buried in the presence of these citizens, who signed the prom verbal. No priest attended, and no mourner accompanied the conqueror of Holland and Brabant to his grave. Sir transit g1.r..2 ',swab! (L. Catuyen Franeoiv.) VIZXNA, *rim. 2t. Yesterday Baron Gemmingen, Cue Minister from the Elector of Baden, presented a memorLd con cerning the arrest of the French emigrants in his dominions. rarturz, APRIL 24. A courier from Paris arrived here yesterday with dispatches for the Prefet, concerning the proposal of the Senate to make the Government hereditary in the Bonaparte family, and registers are to be opened for the citizens to give their ♦otes in the manner they did two years ago far Bonaparte's con sulate for life. The young Napoleon, who is to be his successor, was born on the 10. h of Oetober, 1802. - - - - II AN KS Of THE WIN, MPHIL 4 21. The six gun-boats built by the department of the Lower Rhine at Strasburg, for the expedi6.ll against England, arrived yesterday at Manheim. They are to go to Holland as sOOn as the wind is favour able. I nVIDEN, APRIL :15. Letters from Berlin of the I; tl, ult. announce the departure of the Cabinet :Minister, Count flaug witz, for his estates in ; being recovered from his slight indisposition. NAPLES, APLIL 7. . • The English ship of the line, G i braltar, has Leen at anchor for several months, near Puttici. The British subjects here have requested that this ship should take on board their persons and property . in case this capital should be occupied' by the French. An English frigate of 32 guns, is cruising before this harbour, where it sends often for water and fresh provisions. The report that the French in tend to come here, is ungrounded. They continue quietly along the Adriatic Sea, and their head. quarters are at Tarentum. Their numbers there are 15,000 men, lately reinforced wilt .5000 more. They are to remain in this kingdom, until the Eug lish fulfil the treaty of Amiens, by giving up Malta. craws, APRIL It. On the 31st ult. 1200 Russian grenadiers Arrived at Corfu, under the command of Col. Papadnpoli. lIAMMIROH, MAY 1. The passage into the Elbe, through what is called the Watten, is completely blockaded by Ills Britan nic Majesty's cutters and other small craft. It is said, however, that Sir George Run:bold, the Bri tish Risident here, suffers some Hamburgh bottoms to pass through the Wangle, and allows, for this purpose, an official certificate. Letters from Vienna, of the 21st ult. mention, that the Note which the Minister of the Eledor of Baden has presented to the Imperial Court respee ing the arrest of the French emigrants on the Elec tor's territory, particularly the seizure of the Duke of Enghien, has given oecasion to a conference of state, the result of which is not very favourable to the French interest. The Austrian army now con sists of 411,989 effective men. _ _ Letters from Petersburg!), of the 10th ult. men tion, that the division of the Russian Army in Livo nia has received orders to hold itself in readiness to march. 'Fhe French still occupy Meppen, to hinder the conveyance of British goods. A French Journal, published at Rouen, and cal led La Repertoire, has been suppressed, by order of Bonaparte, for having dared to insert some remarks respeeing the emigrants. GOTTEN BURGH, APRIL QB. An order has been sent by Government to the Marine Department to fit out a considerable number of gun-boats. The workmen are in consequence busily employee upon them. These boats are or dered to repair to Stralsund as soon as possible. By private letters received from Bourdeaux, it appears that all the English, without exception, many of whom have been resident there for a great number of years, have been ordered ten leagues up the country. APRIL 30. In addition to the gun-boats which are fitting out here for Stralsund, WO men from this neighbour. hood have received orders to repair thither immedi ately. A fleet, of about 300 sail, passed this place this day and yesterday, for Kinnear, under convoy of the Ddsienee armed sbip, Captain Kerr. Two French privateers, a brig and lugger, arc crisiug off the coast of Norway. DUBLIN. AL► 4. COURT His Excellency the Earl of Hardwicke held a Privy Council at the Castle. on Tuesday last, and transaded a variety of Business. A Proclamation was direded to be issued allowing the import of cambric; in neutral vessels under certain regulations. The Fever Hospital anJ House of Recovery, the first of the kind ever built for the specific purpost in this country, was opened for public exhibition, complete in all its apparatus, and futniture for re ceiving patients, on Tuesday, the '24th ult. His Ex cellency the Lord Lieutenant, who had laid the first stone of the building on the 24th of April, 1802, was graciously pleased to attend on this occasion also; and expressed the highest satisfadion at every part of the buiLting, and all its arrangements. The concourse of visitors of all classes, from the highest to the lowest, on every day since the opening, has been immense. The sanguine friends of the principle of such es tablishments propose no less object than the utter extirpation of the Typhus Fever. It is but justice to the benevolence of that •irtu ous and exemplary people, to mention, that this great and humane institution originated with, and arose to its completion under the direction and pa tronage of tire• Quakers of thi- metropolis. LAW TATELUGENCE. ROM's BENCH, Wagreeter ~,,, MAT S. WRIT OF ERROR. MILTON V. CI. AFTON. This was an itaion brought on a Policy of a Ship Insurance, and was tried before Lord KEN visa when a verdid was given for the Plaintiff ; a Writ of Error was obtained, and came on this day to be argued. The ship in question was caned the Woman, and warranted a Dane. On her voyage she was taken by a French privateer and carried into Senegal, where she was sentenced tti condem nation by the Prize Court of that country; the aetion was brought against the Underwriters to reenter the amount of the Policy of Insurance, and a verdict was obtained for the Plaintiff, as already mentiOnetl. Mr. JENNINGS, on the part of the Plaintiff, argued the point at very great length. He contended that to make a foreign sentence conclusive, the special ground of condemnation should be distinaly set out by such sentence, and not inferred by argument ; the Learned Counsel cited a vast number of eases in support of his argument. Mr. l'a argued tlisa case on the part of the Detendaut. The Court, conside-ing it a case of great import. ance, and which required mature deliberation, post poned their opinion till a future day. 611INCHIN AND OTHERS V. MOMENT!. • Mk was a Writ of Error to a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas, And the declaration con sisted of various counts, fou'tded on promises made uhon debts due to the deceased, and promises made to executors; and upon promises made upon con traits, made with the executors themselves. Thit question was, whether the Plaintiffs had not joined causes of anion, which were distina and differeat ; and the Court being of that opinion, judgment was obtained for the Defendant—Nisi. MAGA It Row moved for a writ of a rtmwari, its the case of the King against Paget. The informas tion stated, that the Defendant, with his father. went into certain grounds to shoot rabbits, and being apprehended, and not able to give a satisfaaory ac count of himself, the Magistrates were warranted to consider him a rogue and a ratrakend; and under the Statute of the Vid of the King, he was conviaed and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, to be wnipped, and at the expiration of that term, to go into His Majesty's service, it being the first offence, and the sentence considered much too severe,. ' a conditional rule was granted. WILSWI ;. GRENVILLE. This was an acliun brought against the Defen dant for refusing to accept a transfer of stock sold to him on the sth of May, and to be delivered on the 25th. It appeared the broker WAS ordered to sell the stock in ti:e name of Mr. Wilson, and at the same time he had stockibelonging to Mr. Arai:, Wilson's partner he was to have sold 50001., to Grenville, and subsequent to the contra& made with (re trine, he agreed to sell 50001. more to one Webster : the stock was transferred to Webiter, when he came to deliver Grenvillti his !tart it was somewhat deficient, upon which Grenville refused to accept it. The Plaintiff was nonsulted. and Mr. GA R ROW came to shew cause against the Rule for setting aside the nonsuit. Mr. EVKINE an Mr. Gins, contended on the part of the Plaintiff for a new trial ; and Lord Et.- : ENBOROUG conceiving there were some points in tile case which should be ascertained, granted the rule for a new trial. (OMIMf•JN PLEAS, WlllW•Ng.til. The Court WAS occupied in he.tring arguments urged by Mr. Serjeant Witt.' sis, relative to the legality of a stamped deed, in a eaw that does not afford the least public interest, after which it rows at an early hour. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Mr. Layscrz applied to the Court for a rule to shew cause why the proceedings a'ainst a maltase at Brentford, who had been conviCted of certain penalties to a large amount should not be quashed. By the affilavit of Samuel Rash&eld, a Col leCtor of Excise, it appeared, that the maltster had begun to make a co.isiderable quantity of malt, without having the necessary licence, and had re moved near b(Ou quarters off his premises, the whole of whieh had been seized. As the ground of the application, it was stated that the excisenran's artarvit had misrepresented the quantity of malt removed, also that the maltster had begun to make the malt under a mistake. The Court were there fore called upon to restrain, by their jurisdietion, the proceedings between the parties. 1 he Court considered the motion such a one as had never been made before in that Court, and ac quiesce,/ in not granting a rule. Tuesday night, about half past nine o'clock, as Lieutenant-Colonel Goa e was returning from Bristol, to his house at Brislingt on , on the road between Mr. MA Xis:'s and Kensington-place, he ob served two stout men qaitting the footpath to come towards him, upon which he warned them to keep off, as he was armed. Shortly after, however, they rushed on him, seized his horse's bridle, and one of them holding a pistol to his breast, demand ed his money. The Colonel immediately drew out one of his pistols, but in attempting to fire, it lashed in the pan : in taking out the other it fell to the ground. One of the fellows then stepped back, and said, Now, d—mme, I'll do;for you, Sir," and prepared to fire; but being now defenceless, the Colonel clapped spurs to his horse, which, be ing a spirited animal, sprung with violence from the hands of the foot-pads, and carried him in a few minutes sate home. Colonel Goat, having re-loaded his pistol, re-mounted his horse, and with some attendants, went in quest of the men. On coming to the spot where he was at tacked, he found the pistol he had dropped, but the fellows were decamped, and he could get no account of them. Had the Colonel's pistol gone off, the villain must inevitably have lost his life, as the muzzle was within a span of his breast, and it was loaded with a ball a- ' ' ' posed they are the same se'nn;ght stopped a gem' post-chaise to Bath, on treAted them in a very bt rifled them of more lbw And buck-shot. It as sup- ime persons who on Friday ideman and lady going in a in Brislington Common, and I brutal m inner, alter haring in a rQ•indi in ca..l