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JACQUES ALVCIS TiiSTRIOT, Joke of eh: Carui Al and Spkial Tribunal of the Eti.pa tment elate before whom 04gteau, Piz.ltrg 4. Gzarvs, Se. were privArly examined. Most of the men employed by Bonaparte as in strums:Ws to entrap and condemn the pretended conspirators, whom he regards as personal rivals, or as enemies to his usurpation, are the very same Irani n•:10 plotted the destrudion of monarchy in 179 t ; C Ml 3 terrorist , in the name of liberty, ;,ad who plundered, while they extolled equality, daring the years 179% 1793, and 1794 and whose crimes were so notorious, that, since the death of Robespierre, none of his successors, except Bona parte, has stooped to associate with charaaers, cor rupted as well as atrocious. The Judke Thurior, and Cut Police Direaor Real, are both of this description. loth were, in 1789, advocates of the Parliament ; both were disgraced by nefarious aetions ; both were despised by their superiors and shunned by their equals; and both, therefore, became flaming pa- tre.ta, and as such joined in rebellion. Theriot was, on the 14th ofJuly, 1789, one of the Eleams of Paris ; and, on the 10th of September, 1791, chosen a deputy to the Legislative Body for the department of Marn, in which place he chewed himself one of the most violent and bitter enemies of his King, and of Monarchy. He was, at the same time, one of La Fayette's persecutors, whose imbe cile and lukewarm patriotism displeased him. In March, 1792, he provoked measures of rigour to wards the emigrants, and threatened, in case el an opposition, an insurreßion of the people at Paris. On the 25th of May, he declaimed against religion, and against the clergy, " whom b: desired, for the relfare of manliad, at the 4et -I,ni of the sea." In July he ascended every day the tribune to calumniate his King and to blaspheme his God. On the 2Gth he proposed to declare the cJuntry in danger, and the permanency of the Pa risian sections. After the 10th of August he be came the interpreter of the insurreflion munici pality, caused domiciliary visits, and a revolutionary tribunal to be decreed, and defended the massacres t,f prisoners in September, because this sumnini l n of the 4overript trope was necesrary for the Inlay of the country, as the Pie of liberty could ne-...er flag/WA • hein; continually inundated with the blood of Ari,:ocrote, and ober enemi , of the rerolutian. Eleaed a Member of the National Convention, he continued faithful to his former ferocious principles ; and, during the trial of the virtuous and unfortunate Louis XVI. he daily called for the destruetion of this good prince. On the 12th of December he demanded that the typoot Cepa should le judged, and mesa the watfold erithie three the same day he was appointed one of the Con. vcntional Commissaries, sent to the Temple, to ask Linis XVI. the names of those counseP.ors whom he chose for defenders. On the 18th l'huriot announced in the Jacobin Club, That if the Nations! Convention ecuwed any signs of clemency, he would go blew out 4_ll .1t hisudf to the Temple, a nd Cog, for whose death he, of course, voted in Ja nuary 1797. Always a partisan of violent and oppressive measures ; this friend of liberty caused, in March, a law concerning passes to be decreed,to which free Frenchmen are still so subjea, that they dare not walk in the Erects without a pass in their pocket. In May, he denounced all bankers and merchants as incorribl,: aristocrats; and, as a punishment, moved, that they should immediately be obliged to pay a forced loan of one million. In June, he was made a Member of the Committee of Public Safety, " where" (according to La &vomit d'elnredote , , page 345), "having appropriated to himself 500,000 hares in assignats, deposited there, and belonging to arrested persons, he was turned out by Roberspierre, and escaped the guillotine, only by assisting this re publican tyrant in sending his revolutionary antago nists, the Rrissotines, to prison and to death. During the remaining part of Roberspierre's reign, Thurio: was his assiduous valet, but remained silent in the National Convention, from fear of exposing himself to the opposing &Elio's. After Roberspierries exe cution, he became the official defender of Barrere, d'Herbois, and their Republican accomplices, who. doting eighteen months, had condemned more innocent persons to be guillotined, shot, and drown ed, than had perished, during the monarchy, for the fourteen preceding centuries. In February 179.5, Le Gendre accused him in the National Convention of being chief of the terrorists, aster whose defeat by Pichegru, in the insurreaion Cu the I st of the following April, he was ordered first to be arrested, and afterwards to be outlawed, as, on that day, one of the principal plotters for restor ing the reign of terror. He remained concealed urtil the amnesty of this Assembly it Wilber per t-a:led him agaio to fraternise with his former as sociates. The revolution effefted by Bonaparte in 179 9, found him without bread as well as without a conscience, steady to perpetrate the same enormities annulling • throne for an usurper as he bad already committed for anr.ihiLeting that of bis lawful love teifiu. of dri felt glut Lol thi del thi vei acl an Co AL 1111 Of fn A 4 ti is GI li a a • t : WOLURN MEM SHEA JNO. On Wednesday morning, very early, a patty, con sisting of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, Lord Sheffield, President, and Mr. Arthur Young, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, -- Crisps, F.sq. William Smith, John I'arey, etc. rode to Prisley Farm, a distance of four miles, And viewed the new-water meadows, and other improve ments thereon : a more pleasing objet could not be presented than the three meadows of two years, on:: year, and half a year's standing, where the ste p; bog was found, by the aid of irrigation, coveted in proportion to the time of its application with its best natural grass. After breakfast, which his Grace gives publicly during this Fete at the Abbey, the Company assem bled at the Slaughter-house, adjoining his Grace's stables, and the carcases of the fat Wethers, which were examined alive on Tuesday evening, were mi nutely examined by the Graziers, Butchers, and amateurs present, the judges appointed to decide on their merits having previously examined them. After this, the South Down Ewes were exhibited, one by one, in the Sinew-house; when the company re paired to Crawley Heath, a distance of about a mile, where seven ploughm •n, with their respeaive in struments, started, in the breaking up of Clover- Ley, as competitors for the prize offered last year by his Grace, for the Plough, which should, with the least force, turn the cleanest and deepest furrow : the seven Ploughs belonged to Lord Somerville, Samuel IVhitbread, Esq. Dr. Macquin, Joseph Cowley, Js. Potts, Mark Duckitt, and Mr Lester, the remainder being in use on his Grace's faun, under the care of Mr. Willson, the Bailiff. Much interesting disenssion and observation presented itself to the speilators in witnessing this very laudable contest ; the judges minutely attending to all the circumstances of pounds weight exerted by the Horses in drawing each Plough (except Mr. Lester's, which failed at the on set). the depth, width, and cleanness of furrow, itc. The Rev. Mr. Brown exhibited a long tlorse•hoe, and Mr. Mark Duckitt. a Sc o rner, the operations of which were inspected by the judges and the company, who then repaired to the Park-tarn, where Ruud man's Horse-hoe, Cartaeight's three Furrow Plough, Salmon's Chaff-Cutter, brill, and Scuffier, were submitted to the inspeaion of the Mechanics and Agriculturists present. Mr. Blunt, an mist of emi nence, attended, and made drawings of some of the machines and implements shewn Mr. Garrard, of London, the famous modeller, wasjalso present, and took sketches of some of the most favourite animals. S' , o'n after three o'clock, more than SOO persons sa: il U'.i•n to dinner at the Abbey,after which the very in.truaive converiations of the company were en the following toasts: — Tot KING. Sucre-. to Agriculture. The Fleece. breeding in all its branches. The Plough. Small in site and grett in value. Irrigation. Succoei to the Farming Society of Ireland, whicli produced a short speech from an Irish gentle man present, on behalf of that most respeaable Society. . _ M . r. bridge Mr Overman, Svc. Printed proposals were circulated for the premi ums to be given by hi, Grace at the ensuing Sheep shearing in June 1805, which are equally liberal, and diredetl to the same objects. as heretofore, with the addition of a premium to the Ploughman, who shall hold or conduit the successful plough in the trial of those implements : also, to the Shepherd who shall have reared the greatestnumber ot Lambs in the spring of 1803, in proportion to his Rock, Five Guineas : friar other premiums of 4,3, 2, and 1 guineas are offered, for the nest greatest numbers in succession : but the principal novelty in the Premiums is the handsome offer, on the part of his Grace, of Fifty Guineas," to the Farmer in Bedfordshire, who shall, between the Ist of January, 1801., and the Ist of June, 1805, have converted the greatest quantity of land into water-meadow, not less than ten acres, on the best and most approved system." After dinner the company repaired to the Park- Farm, and inspected the operation of ten Sheep shearers, w;in each sheared four Sheep, as Candi dates fur the Pr,ze, offered last year, fur " the best Sheep-shearer." Several South Down Tops were then lett, and South D awn Ewes; end Hereford and Deron C.:ult.., were s. , id by auelbu, which closed this day's business. In the courie of the forenoon, the Portuguese Ambassador, Earls Lauderdale and Darnley, I .ord William Russell, Mr. Coke, Mr. Anson, Mr. Nor:hey, Mr. Lee Ant 'rile, Mr. Byng, and several other persons of distindion, arrived from London, and among the company we noticed, Sir John Seabright, and Messrs. Barnet, Trevor, Hig gins, Godfrey Thornton, Smith, Thomas Pickford, Chandler, Riley, B. Bevan, Brion-. Rutley, Potts,3tc. T 4.) THE F-DITuR OF THE RKITISH PRESS. Si a, The following statement of du•ies paid upon West Indian produce, imported into this country from the conquered colonies tor three years previous to their cession, is curious, and may be interesting to that portion of your readers which has nut the means of access to the original sources of information—it is extraSel from an official account, p inted by the House of Cotomor.s, April the 13th, 130'2. I am. Sir, your obedient Servant, 15t4 lane, 104. G. R. J. Net amount et duty paid upon West Indian pro duce, imported into Great Britain, from the follow • ing colonies, distinguishing each year 1799. 111U0. L. s. d. 1.. s. it. 141,440 13 4 ISCI. 4 199,445 10 10 eutiass, ........ Dammed, Waxman, 39.!14 1 - 19 and 1:41 q.iibe Martinlce :6!,91019 9 M LIAM V,.11). 0 6 Tabor , 1500Y2 19 1 •5,978 1& t 117,5iu IS II 170,573 14 9 11,410 12 0 73010 93 293,617 12 • 19,449 7 1 56,634 2 3 4726 4 7 1.757 10 h The imperta.ion of cotton wool hoo Great Bri tain from Surinam, Demerara, Bethke, and Lsw qu;bo, in 1801. was 9,426 204 pounds. From Mar tinique and St. Lucia. 1,216,816 pounds. These stawments will impress upon the mind of every reader, the great importance of completing the re conquest of those cvlouies from France and her vassal republic. LAW INTELLTGENCE. WERTNONSTER, Tnuesn tr, Jvnz 21. &l': i.forr Lord Et.tErnoaot....;4. warn,. Giirs IN. This was an staion brought to recover the amouat of d promissory note of the Defendant's, for 131. Mr. GA atow said, it would be quite sufficient at that stage of the cause to prove the Dufeud.,ot's name aid Luul-writing to the note in quebtiun. This was accdrdingly done. _ _ _ Mr. Glass, on ihe part of the Defendant, stated that the Plaintiff, .in this case, was one of the over, seers of the pat ish of Clerkenv.ell, and the Defend ant was a poor hairdresser, residing in the same parish. Unfortunately for the Defendant, a lady swore a child on him, and a warrant was issued. against him, to enforce the maintenance of. the in. fans ; and the parish officers threatened to imprison him, if be did not pay a sum of 401. as an indemnity for the supporting of the child by the parish. The Defendant declared his inability to pay such a sum; but, dreading aprison, he contrived to pay them 141. and save the note in question, as payment for the remainder. After this the child lived but a short time, and the Plaintiff then sought to re,:c..v.r the amount of that note against the unfortunate De fendant. Mr. William Daws. one of the -people called Quakers, was then examined. He affirmed, that he was an overseer of tha parish of Clerkenwell ; that the child was not dead at the time the note was 'passed, but• did not live any length of time after. He said they never applied the money of the parish to their own purposes, 1)1 that ,they relieved the poor with it almost every night. Lord Et I.strsoadoon observed, that most un doubtedly the father of an illegitimate child was liable te indemnify the Parish for the maintenance of it, but in this case there had been no evidence of the expence the Parish had been at, and, at all events, the sum the Defendant Lad already paid, was in all reason sufficient to indemnify it ; he con sidered it as a very mischievous thing to allow such contracts ; it made the Parish Officers careless of the life of a child, and was attended with many other bad consz.quences. The Jury found a Verdi& for the Defendant. ASSAULT AND PAUSE IMPRISONMENT. PARKER V. ■LLI.. Mr. Easetrit, in stating the Plaintiff's caie, re minded his Lordship that these parties bad been be fore him at Guildhall, on a former slay by the abo minable condul of his Wife, the Plaintiff was obhg • ed to bring an anion against the present Defendant, for goods, which she his wife, in conjenCtidn with the Defendant, had possessed themselves of, for which the Plaintiff, by their contrivance, had been apprehended, as having stolen them, and was con fined for some time. In that Minn he recovered 101. damages. Immediately after the Plaintiff had been released from confinement, the Defendant, who was High Constable of the Holborn Division, without any warrant or authority whatever, struck him violently on the head with his C•onstable's S:aff, and dragged him before the Magistrate. It ap peared in evidence, that the Plaintiff was at the Hal and rue public-house in Hatton-Wall ; when the Defendant came in, some high words passed be tween them, in the course of which the Plaintiff threw half a guinea upon the counter, saying, he'd give that is beat the lkfeactant well : upon t h is the Defend tnt laid hold of him, and with the assistance of one Chapman, another Constable, dragged him before the Magistrate; in the course of their way thither, he struck the Plaintiff several blows on the head with his staff, which made him bleed vio lently. The Plaintiff made no resistance whatever, and after having been detained some time at the Ma gistrate's, he was discharged, no charge being made against him. Several Witnesses were called to these fiats. The defence set up by the Defendant was, that the Plaintiff had threatened to fight him, and in a menacing manner squared his arms, as if he would strike him ; that he was kicking up a not at the Hat am/ Ten, and the Landlord, Carey, desired him to take him into custody ; that he had used no violence whatever with him, and when he was brought before the Magistrate, he begged pardon, and promised to conduft himself better its future. The Defendant call several Witnesses, most of whom were Peace offieers, and save very contra diCtory evidence to that of the Plaintiff's witnesses. The Plaintiff then called two other witnesses, who corroborated the testimony of the first ones, atal sitively swore, that the said Chapman, who was one of the Defendant's witnesses, as well as several others, cried out to Defendant, not to strike, not to kill the Plaintiff. Lord E n. t.set so nouo k observed, it might have been a justification for the Defendant, if he could hive shewn a breach of the peace had been committed in an attempt to carry the Plaintiff before a Magistrate ; but if, in conveying him thence, he had used him ill, by striking and beating him, without any resicance having been made on the part of the Plaintiff, he was guilty of a violence, for which he should suffer; in that ease, not one circumstance alleged against the Plaintiff, amounted even to a pretence towards a breach of the pace. lie therefore fat it was a case not fur excessive, bat for considerable damages. The Jery found for the Piaintirf 201. damages. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WESTMINSTER. 5i1144,4 hfure Sir JAltss LAMIIOf In 'FLAMM This was an adion to recover a compensation in damages for an assault. The circumstances of the case afforded much amusement to the Court. The Plaintiff is a writing master, and the Del...ndant clerk to an attorney. They arc both volunteers Ix, longing to the Queen's Royals; or Pimlico Corps 3 and it appeared, they retired about seven o'clock in the evenmg. some time since, to a tavern in the neingbourhood, for the purpose of passing a con. vivial hour in company. The parties were then on terms of friendship ; an 3 having entered into con versation with each other, an abstrad proposition became the source of argument ; namely, Who w as the most virtuous man in the world as a public cha rader ? and whether Bonaparte possessed cooltieks as well as violence and impetuosity The writing master was inclined to ascribe mach merit to the mock-imperial Emperor of the Gauls ; observing, 44 that he was a man in whom all the above mentioned qualities were to be found ; and that he possessed all the impetuosity of youth, a 41a the coolness of old age." He did not, how ever, maintain that Bonaparte, who lied mut dered between four and five thousand ueforta nete wretches in cool blood, could be a humeri: or eparegeous mane he was silent on that head, and contented himself with making quotations from a . patapidet, published in France. which accorded with.the words se had introduced upon the subie3. The Liefendent, feeling much disgust at the Plain tiff's arguments, became rather warm in oppesi tion, and finding lie could not preserve his temper, bee ;e3 the Plaintiff to drop the conversatien, "if it was not fur the law, I would an swer this in another way." To which the Plaintiff answered, " You need not care about the law, I evonld not take a blow from any man." The Def c' dent then gave the Pleietiffit gentle tap, while he e sitting in a chair, with his opeu hand, upon the fa .e. on which he got up, and, at the same instant, tee Defendant struck him two violent blows in the lac:. that gave him black eyes ; the Plainti ff male nu re sistance ; and the Defendant said—. Have you got enough—l thought you wanted to fight. and am sorry I have struck you ; if you had not that inten tion, yna beve had your rkrer, and I have had mine, let's shake hands again and be friends." The Plaia tiff returned no answer; in cousequenee of which, Turner said, " If there is no way of settling it (meaning the dispute), let us go into the garden." the Plaintiff afterwards said, he should not take the law, and the company interposing, all animosity was declared to be at an end ; the parties shook hands, and a glass was drank to each other's health ; but, notwithstanding this seemi recon ciliation, the next morning a challenge to fights with pistols passed between them. The affair, however, was not decided in that way. The evidence adduced to prove the foregoing fans, were Messrs. Laskin, Heed, and Ombden, persons in company when the dispute happened. Mr. Serjaset SHLPIIERD contended that the Plaintiff had been used ill, by being struck before' he was prepared to fight, art that the Defendant atal.eot behaved with that generosity, that is usual ly adopted by Englishrnen. The learned Conn-el did not, he observed, expel great damages ; het the Jury were bound to consider that an unfair ad. vantage had been taken by the Defendant, where the Pleintiff 'sad suffered an injut y which their rea ch& ought to remedy. Mr. Serjeunt Beer argued, that the Defendant's conduft was justifiable, and that the Jury ought not to give more than a shilling damages. Sir JAMES MANSfleco thought it seas a dispute that should have ended when the parties sho k hands ; instead of which, the Defendant had been called upon for setisfadion the next morning. when all animosity was supposed to have been done away : there was gross impropriety (he observed) in the conduet of both parties, and the case oug ht not to have been brought into a court of justice. The Jury foetid fur the Plaintiff —Damages 40s. On the 4th inst. Mr. Wets GI asoer, of the isle of Walney, and some other pe sans, fishing or. board a boat in Walney Channel, perceived a shark ; and whilst they were endeavo:sring to get between it and the mouth of the Channel, they discovered tWO oteers of the same voracious species, but evidently sick and exhausted. They persevered in their at _ . tempt to keep them in the shoalest pact of the water, till the ebb of die tide left them almost a-dry, and they were ea.ily killed. On opening them, there welts found, in the belly of one of them, a pair of buck--kin breeches. a man's hand, avd a di.vr.ond ring, marked B. It is conjectured, that these ra venous fishes followed some ship from the mummer'. Yesterday morning, between four and five o'cloci., some persons passing along the lane at the back part of White Conduit House, Islington, discovered a young man, genteelly dressed, lying in a ditch, quite dead, with his throat cut from ear to e.sr. He is s iperted to have been murdered by corn: persons at present unknown. The body was taken to the church to be owned. On Wednesday night last, as a man, named SNAP!, and his wife and child, were returniir from Eccleston club feast, in a cart, the horse took ti ight, and the man unfortunately fell out in endeavouring to stop it, near Thistleton, and one of the wheels went over him ; the woman soon after leaped oat. fell, and the wheel also went over her breast. 'The horse continued his career, for about six miles, stop ping at a place called Mecup, where he was found s with the child (under two years old) dead in the cart, the oat morning. Neither the man or womaa was killed; but both much bruised. A CAUTION AGAINST CATS. —. On Tuesday morn ing, the sth instant, die following melancholy ac t . - dint happened at the house of Mr. T. SY KE‘, Deansgate, Lewes: a remarkably fine domestic c t entered the breakfast room, and instantly darted : t his daughter, about twelve years of age, and bit and tore her in a shocking manner; as also hlr. Sy els, in attempting to rescue her ; she next sprarg, on the back of his son, and bit him on the shoulder. and from thence to the wife of Mr. Si KS', who pr videatially seized the enraged animal by the throat, and strangled her. The four wounded persons ate using every precaution agai.ist madness, as that fa tal disorder is now very prevalent ameag cats and other animals. By the aaire and vigilant 'serious of Me.srs.. Savant and W sitter, the Constable and Gaoler of Waterford, the noted .1 , tr• 'lc was, ens Thursday morning last, apprehended in the Mayor's Walk. and committed to prison. This man was an old Ofil;.tsaCt. SAVAGS and WRIGHT had received information where he was on Tuesday night. and repaired to the place ; J,tPrs, however, made his escape by a back door; but, in getting over a wall, a large stone tumbled aster him and broke his leg. In th.t state he crawled into a pig, sty, where he remained all night, and the nest day WAS brought to the hnuse, where he was afte-wvds apprehended. Immediately on being couunitt .ti his leg w is properts set. A very barbarous aft was committed in the neigh bourhood of Bonabreer.e. on the night of Tuesday set:knight. Some miscreant. who had animosity to Mr. Lime/ice, a farmer, in that vicinity, picked out the eyes of a horse belongksg to the latter. to gratify his nefarious malice, and also attempted to break the poor animal's shoulder. The poor horse lives a frightful objea of barb a rity, t h e p er p e trator of which, we hope the gentlemen of that reri4hboto hood will exert themselves to find out and wind " justice.—(Deohn Emirs Post.) ~~