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1 but what the Situatitrk of this Country' absolutely demanded, ,The Danish Navy, which is eow hap pily' in' our possession, if this Expedition had not been so premptly conceived and vigorously :carried into effea, would certainly hare been in the Polises sion of France, and would as certainly have been di. rested against Great Britain:- It is impossible to cal• culate the injury which we might have suffered if , France bad obtained poisession of that Navy ; for, with such a powerful maritime force, she would bave been able more completely to hold every Conti. ; rental State in subjugation, and to have compelled them into hostilities agains' t,us. But, indeed, the other Powers of Europe,. seeing Fiance in possession of such an accession of naval strength, might have thought it hopeless to look for any future aid to— wards Great Britain, and consequently might have' conceived it more for their' interest to co-operate heartily with France. All these dangers, however, •are ndw obviated, and the Continent, overwhelmed as it is by French power, can still look with hope And expeaation towards this Country. But we are captiously asked, " if it is understood that the Danes are to be skill considered as our Enemies 1"-- The answer to this is, that the matter rests upon the Measures which the Danes themselves may vo luntarily or compulsively adopt. We have plainly shewn . that all we wanted was to prevent them from I.)iinglurcerl to tec3me our Enemies, with the pother to onnoß us. Having deprived them of that power, we are willing to he upon the most.amicable foot ing with them. We have shewn by the modern= tion, the .forbearance, the reluaance that marked . our whole proceedings, that they did not originate in hoStility towards Denmark, but in positive duty towards ourselves: It is said that it would be a cruel thing to punislt the Danes farther. .Is there any think'- in the Articles of Capitulation that sliews a (litiposition towards cruelty ? On the contrary, has not every attention been shewn to thc. feelings of the Danes, in the mode of quartering our Troops, and in the agreement to, evacuate their Country as soon as the main purpose of securing their Navy from the grasp Of France has been fully effeaed ? We are sure that though some discon-' tented spirits at home may condemn this EXpedi tiou and its consequences, it will; in the general opinion of mankinct, afford new proofs, of British liberality, as well as of British wisdom and .valour. A V t ireurastance has been mentioned, on good au• thority, which, if true, will detrad very much indeed from that honoui aule charade: which the Danes have usually ttaiotained, and which we cannot forbear conceiving to have a considerable spice in it of French policy. Witen . our Carpenters surveyed the bottoms of the Danish Ships; it was found that in the bow of each Ship, 'below the water-mark, a square hole bad been cut, and so neatly covered over with s piece of deal plank as not easily to be dis covered. If this horrible stratagem had not beast deteded, there is little doubt that every Ship, when deeply laden, and when tossed in the North Sea, would have gone to the bottom. It is to be hued, should this really prove to be the case, that the Danish Governor will disa vow all knowledge of so vile a transgtion, as he did of the ti.ing of the Danes into their own Lord CALitorite, it issettled-by htnisters, is to re tain the Government of the Cape of Good Hope. His MAJC , ,TY has direaed Letters to be written to Admiral GAIIRIER Wand General Lord , CATHCART, expressive of his highest approbation of their con duct. The farmer is created a Baron, and the latter 1 Uto be advanced to the dignity ofa Viscount of the :United Kingdom. Sir ARTHUR 'WELLESLEY is likewise to have some additional honour conferred upon him. Vice-Admiral S - rkwitops and Sir H. PorinAht are to be created Baronets. Mr. ABRAHAM NEWLAND resigned his office as thief Cashier of the Bank of England yesterday, at u General Court Meeting. He has been upwards of trio years in the service of the Bank, and the Direc tors intimated their intention of settling an annuity on him for his meritorious services, ac'cording t g custom: Mr. NEwLAND, however, being possessed bf ample property, declined the offer, but was pre vailed On to accept a service of plate, value it 000 -guineas. Mr. NEWLAND' will be succeeded by Mr. RNRY RACE, the second Cashier. Earl FITZWILLIAN, when he recently inspeaecl the First West York Militia Regiment at Hull, after complimenting them on being one of the first corps of that species of force in the kingdom, ex pressed the regret which he shotilk feel at parting with any man among them, but declared, that in case any of them should wish tovolunteer,- he should he sorry to thmw any impediment in their way, or to interfere with the operation of an Mt of the •. Legislature." It might have been expeCted that the - Noble Lord would at all times be unwilling to throw lily impediment in the way of patriotic heroism,-or to interfere with the operation of a . measure intended for the defence of his Country ; but at this critical period, when our national independence is threaten etl, and when every man would share in the orb.- man ruin, and when the Noble and the Opulent have particular cause for alarm, we should have hoped that the Noble Lord would not have been roatented with the negative merit of not opposing, but that he would most naively have exerted him self to encourage a martial spitit, and give all pos sible efficacy to the operations . of Government for the pretettien qt the Empire, NAVAL NEWS. • PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 16.---..4.rrlired' the Spartiate, of 74 guns, from PortstriOuth, to take on board bul loCks for the supply of the Channel Fleet; also the Latona, RITCHIE, laden with tar. from Archangel, for the Dock-yard at this Pcirt ; and the Danish Brig Vigilancia, Capt. STUBS, laden with marble/ Sm. from Leghorn, bound to Touningen; detained by the Ccesar Privateer. ._.:. - PORTSMOUTIIi SEPT. 17.—The Lively Frigate, Captain WKINLEY, has again sent into this Port the Vigilante, SILVIERA, from Lisbon, with coffee and cotton. Sailed the Essex, ROUNDTREE Ayres Quay, HAWETH and Salacia, COCKERON, for Sunder• bnd; Nadent, FEATHERSTON, for Wou!wich. Went outof Harbour this morning, the Tereraire, 98, Capt. Sir CHARLES HAMILTONAatt. FALMOUTH, SePT. 15,—Sailed the• IVahinghant Packet for Lisbon. DEAL, SEPT. 17.—Sailed Frls Majesty's Ship Royalist on a cruize. SHEERNESS, SEPT. I6.—Arrived the Allundance Store-ship, JOHN FicyEtt Master, from the West Indies. Arrived His Majaty's•Ship Snake, from Deal, to refit ; and His Majesty's Ship Snipe, Lieutenant CHAMPION, from the North Sea. Sailed His Majesty's Ship L'Ainzable, Lord W. STUART, for Yarmouth. DISTRIBU riom OF PRIZE MOVEY. To the Officers and Company of His Ivlajestv's Ship Ari..tine, for the eaptUre of the Juno and the i)Anktooskyu, on il.e 20th August, illoo, will be paid the net proceeds on boar~ii.on her arrival in port, and every W.inesday and Fri day, between eleven and three, and fur three months after, at No. is Throgmortou-street. To the Officers and Company of His Majests Ship Scor pion, for the cal:tore the I acob Zachariah and Trende Sostre, on ,the 30th April, 5799 l • and to the Officers and Company ot' the &line, and 146: hared Lugger, on board the said Ships, for the capture of the Mean, the prize-money arising from the s.nu captures, on the zzd inst. at Messrs. William and fames. Fish,. Great Yarmouth ; at No. 13, Great George street; and for three rams atter, at both places. Directions have . beeri sent to Chatham and Sheer mess for receiving the Danish Fleet at those places; and as the number of seamen that will be necessary to navigate them will be more than can possibly be spared from the Men of War off Copenhagen, di rthions were yesterday given to Captain RICHZELI., the Regulating Officer iri. town, to propose .to the crews of the Ships recently arrived from the Green land Fishery, ',to proceed' to 'Copenhagen without delay, fur the purpose of being put on board the Danish Ships, to navigate them to England. For this service- they are to -receive a bounty, and the other anal allowances, and will also be entitled to their protections from the impress, on their return, in the same manner as they are from the Ships em ployed in the Greenland Fishery. The Trinity House are also to se!id a : certain number of Masters and Pi lots, well acquainted with the North Seas, to assist in piloting.the Danish Ships to England. INDIA HoUSE. , -..WedllCSday a Court of Diredors was held, when the under-mentioned 'Ships were taken up, and thus stationed, viz. The Calcutta, Capt. —; Lord Nelson, Capt Hutton; Preston, Capt. Sturrock ; Hugh Inglis, Capt. Fairfax; Wil. tiara Pitt, Capt. Graham; Streatham, Capt. Daie ; Lady lane Dundas Capt. Lindsay for Madras an d bengal. lane Duchess of Gordon, Capt. Cameron ; and Bengal, Capt. Cumin, lot Ceylon mid Bengal. Earl St. Vin,:ent, Capt. lofts ; fur Isonihay direct. Phtenix, Capt. Rarnsden ; Europe. Capt. (Alston; and Lord Castlereagh, Capt. Kyruer, fur St. Hun'aa and Bengal. The Essex was stationed for Bombay and China instead of the Canton, and the Canton stationedtor China dire&. Capt. NESBITT was sworn into the command of the Ship Essex, consigned to Bombay and China. • Lord STANHOPE passed a considerable part of yes terday at the mannfattory of Mr. WILSON; a - smith, in Dean-street, Sobo, giving .instruations about the completion of his newly-construeted model of a 74 gun ship. It is 4o feet in length, and is to be tried in a few days, as to its intended eat. To-moriow a fine new 74-gun Ship is to be launch ed from his Majesty's Dock-yard at Deptford. We have received NeW-York Papers to the gth of August, but their content; are not important. Mr. ERSKINE returned to Philadelphia on Monday, the ad of August, .from Washington. CoL,Busa s Trial commenced at Richmond on the 7th. Letters, dated the gth of August (Old Stile), have beer% received from St. Petersburgh, which contain a report of a singular nature, and which, if tree, would atford some ground for expeaing that the hostile disposition of the Russian Government will not be of long duration. It is said, that an order for con fiscating all British property had been presented to the Et peror ALEXANDER, by his Cabinet, but that he bad refused to Mix. his signature to it. British Ships still continue to enter the Russian Ports. So completely is the communication cut off be tween Sweden and all the ports in the possession of the Enemy, that Gattenburgh Journals receive the news published at Hainburgh through the medium of the London Papers. On Monday next, being St. Matthew's Day, ac- cording to annual custom, the Lord Mayor, Alder-• men, Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal Hospitals, will attend Divine Service, at Christ Church. After a sermon, preached by the Rev. JOHN WOOD, Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam bridge, they will repair to the Great Hall, in Christ's Hospital, where two Orations , will be delivered, In Latin by WILLIAM STaPirut GILLY. and in Ens.. fish by JAMES SCHoLEFIELD, two of the senior Scholars of the Grammar School, A magnificent conservatory, in the gothic style of architeaure, is erecting in the gardens- of Carle. ton-house, at the west end of the mansion, which, when completed, will exceed any thing of a similar kind. IMF 1:01111' 7141 • On the frequent paisegyrirai attacks upon Miss Bo i.Tozi aud Mrs. DicKons. Oh ! BOLTON, Oh! Titcicoss, how grest your distress, To be prais'd thus by bigotted zeal to excess 1 Your friends would do better' your poWars to defame, Then ENVY, not FoLt.y, ivould bear all the Uinta. Tim THEATRE.—.The season commenced ditspiL ciously at Drury-lane Theatre bit night, with WvcircaLEv's excellent Comedy of Me Country . Wife, .now called The Country Girl. Mrs JORDAN sprang forward in the charaaer of Peggy, and was received with the warmest marks. of popular favour: She never performed the Charaaer with more hu tuour and spirit. In parts of this kind she has long been without a rival, and it.ii no more than justice to her to say, that She completely fulfils the design of the author. She received warm applause through the whole of her performance, Which she amply deserved. WROuGHTON, who has so long been a respeifitable' servant of the public, was very fa vourably received "on his , entrance, and he perform ed the part of Moody with his usual good sense and energy. BARRYMORE in Harcourt, and PALMER ih Sparkish, diaplayed their usual merit, and had no reason to be dissatisfied with their reception. Hor.- LAND, whose return to this Theatre was somewhat too formally announced, was dent enough in Bet- Ole. He had a favourable notice from the audience on his entrance. Miss Meu.ms was not forgotten, and thnUgh she had little to. do in ii litkea she did that little well. The Theatre has been refreshed in its ornamental parts, and looked very well. NO es sential alteration has taken place. New' side scenes have been introduced, resembling the supporting pii !asters in the front of the stage, but we could not perceive their utility, as the performers entered 'in the usual places. The house was crowded, 'and the play was heard with great attention, that was•only interrupted . by the merriment it excited, and the approbatio►► hestoWed on the perforinvrs. Mis 3 DE CAMP, a sister of 4 , lrs. CHARLES KEM• BLE, made her first appearance on the .I.onJon Stage, on Wednesday last, at Covent Garden Theatre, as Peggy, in the Farce of Raising Me Wind. Her figure, though small, is pleasing. She lias'an agree able face, with very expressive eyes. Her voice is sufficiently powerful. She spoke and naed natutallyi and was very well received. • POPS was very successful in Ireland, but in ad dition to his loss of upwards of a hundre d pounds by' a robbery' he was nearly in danger of being,ship wrecked in his passage to this Country : the 'Vessel; after having been many hours in imminent danger; owing to a high sea, the want of lights, and the want of hands, struck in this melancholy state ; and, at last, with great difficulty, put into Milford Haven Music.---M. JOLLY MAELGIT, of Vienna, has visited Paris; in order to sbmit to the judges of music in that capital, a piece of mechanism of his inven tion, which he calls Panhartnonicon. This machine,' which is moved entirely by springs, gives the sound of all wind instruments with a purity and perfettion which art has never before attained. It combines the following instruments ; the German flute, small flute, clarinet, hautbois, bassoon, horn, trombone, serpent, and trumpet. It perforins pieces of music with great precision, marking perfealy all the shades of piano and forte. The execution of the trumpet is particularly surprising. If this artist bad lived in the dark ages, he would probably have been sacri ficed as a sorcerer, and his iiiachine exorcised upon suspicion of containing a legion rf devils. , SEDAN CHAIR.—This convenient vehicle, which is by no means in such familiar use as it was half century ago, was first introduced in England by Sir SU NI)K R3 ,Dvtqcomas, a Gentleman Pensioner to King JAMES and CHARLES the First, in the year 1 534, when he procured a patent, which veined on him and his heirs the sole right of carrying persons ," up and down" in them for a certain term. It is somewhat : curious that in the same year the use of Hackney Coaches was first introduced by Captain BA ri.sy, a well known chancier of that period. O Saturday s"!utright a perion named William Cliff .Ira, aged oc, dasordered in bis senses, was brought from Filey, to be placed in the Lunatic Asy. intu- at York. He slept that night and remained the whole of Sunday at the King's Arms, near Foss-b6,ige. About three o'clock an Monday morn ing he escaped from the person who had the care of him, got Out of a two pair of stairs window, without his clothes, into theetreet ; and it is supposed threw himself from the battlements of the bridge into the Voss. On Toady his body was fouu.i in 4t. George's dose. adjoining the New Walk, a consi • derable distince from Foss-bridge. • An. Arabian coin has been discovered on, the occa sion of removing the materials for the foundation of a house on therampartsat Nism,es. By Professor JAU• BERT'S account, it appears that this coin was struck at Waseth, on the shores of the Tigris. The inscrip tion on one side is, " There is but one God, and that God bus no companions." On the reverse is, " God is one, he is eternal, neither begetting or begotten, none can be like unto him." The legend runs thus MahoMet is the Apostle of Cod, who 'sent him for the guidance of the faithful. The religion of the true faithful is manifested above all other religions, notwithstanding the hatrect of those (Trinitarian Christians) ,who associate companions with God." - Ou Saturday senuight, when the river Ribble was very high, a young man of the name of Parker, near Odder-bridge, in endeavouring to catch pieces of wood, with a triangle, as they were floating dawn, ,got bold of a piece so large, that he was unable to draw it to the side, and before any assistance could be given, he was dragged in, and:drowned—A victim to his own indiscretion, having the rope from the triangle tied to his wrist I—His body was found near Ribechester, on Sunday afternoon. On Saturday se'nnight a serious accident happen ed to a flock of sheep, the property of Mr. Cooper, of Ralston-Hall, near Stowmarkvt, who had en trusted the care of them to a boy for that day, in tba absence of the shepherd, who was assisting in getting in the harvest. About the middle of the day the sheep broke from their pasture, and the unguarded boy hastened the sheep back again over a narrow and deep ditch, when the leading sheep fell in, and the remainder passing over them, smothered to death i 6 sheep and 4U lambs, to the yal tw of between 701. and sot, 'PORTING .iAiiLiioiithi: itiNciscti;re RACES.. , • TUESDAY. S.W. 15. The Kingscote Stakes of zsgs. each, rim ft. _ond.szs. dared, &c. Three itailts , . To tlii*olikke fogs.. by, the Club. - Mr. Scrope named Mountaineer, s-yrs old , T 'Ur, Germain named sir I. I liiwkin's Clermont, 4-y'ri IA Berkeley named Pie,e.)9l., s ) r,; old . . Mr. Moreton named Whit. i.o e, by Beraigb.roiro, yri, old . • . Won with ease. • The Wetter Stakes of eJcb, rss woi ) )y Mr. .zantl'i b. g. Judgment. by l.ortuat?, aged, A Plate of 'moo. Two-ntile heats Sit f. ilawkins's Clermont Mr. Biggs's Rosario Id C. Somerset's White Rose Mr. Trrvanion's Bucephalus I g 2. A • 4 4 DUBLIN, SEPT• 12. IN the night .of Sunday last, or eat'li next mlrn• ing, one of the ic.ing's stores, on the Ship (uay/ opposite to the Commissary Yard, Derry, was niously broken Into by some villains, s.vh , ) carriel thereout nearly an entire hogshead of leaf toilacco, with which they got safe otr. We are sorry - s4 that it k but a few months since a similar r0Y),..-ty was committed, and that' notwithstailding a ha;l,l - reward was \olil!red for the discovery of this perpetrators, no such information has been obtained, which; no doubt, has induced the SADUI miscreants to repeat the same crime. The Roscommon Regiment, in the most nohlii and spirited manner, came forward a since upon parade,and unanimously, to an i called on Lieut. CAULFIELD to CDlD:nuniccike t!IJIr intention and . wishes to extewl their services. it* m i theresover the present situation of alftirS may . rmke it ekpedient. Their otnr has been hid by their Colonel, Lord LORTON, before the Lord Lieur tenant. It is to be feared that the heavy gale on . Saturday evening has-done sonic damage along the sea efmst ; a brig, from Cork, M ballast, bound tin. LiVerpno4 name unknown, was brought into .I ) :,issage on Alur. o . day last, the Captain and crew oC which, it is slid * quitted her off Hook Town last Saturday evening, and arcs supposed.to be all lost. _MAIDS LYME, SEPT. 15. Friday se'nnight, three stack,' in -the staclt-yard. of Mr. HENItY Woon, of Water-side Farm, in thu parish of South; Bemileet, was discovered ta-be on tire. From the impossibility of an . immediate reA: currence to efficient measures for inipecfing ;lit; prO gress of the 'blues, the whole of the stacks ii. the yard, together with a large barn, filled with - Wheat; and a stable, .were in a short tine enveloped in tine general cbnfiagration, of tremenduously. lot inatnitude, which raged with grunt • fury nearly the whole of that day ; "ter had its force entirely subsided till Saturday; When. the produce of a very abundant crop of 60 acres of - wheat, ten acres of pease, and twenty acres or oats, and about . a hun dred, leads of hay, presented nothing more than heaps of ashes'; the barn and'stab;e were ko co it• pletely destroyed. Front what cause this di•ias rolls circumstance originated has not been ascertained, but it is supposed to have been occasioned' lightning. The loss is estimated at upwards of two thousand pounds. LIVERPOQL, SErr. 16. On Saturday night, or Sunday morning last, the warehouse of JOHN CITORLEY, Esq. in Lionover street, was b'roke open, and two trunks, containing handkerchiefs, stolen therefrom. ACOIDENTS . .—On Thursday last, one Riched Andrew was thrown from his cart, in Tarleton-street, and the wheels passing over him, broke one of his legs, and otherwjse injured hina.-4ame day, JONI Leyland, serv:int of iVIr. H. Dixon, ‘s%title showing sparrows in the garden, had his hand drea.ffully cerated, and the first joint of one of his. fingers blown off, . by the {piece bursting in Ins Same day, Jaillt!3 M' : Murray,, ou of the ° Aston . % Ho discharge of t use°Lrictrsof .dais ..port, While ati ont li ng to the r from the Ani , ric:m Brigs Hero, had both his legs broken i n a most dread ful manner, by a balk sipping from its intended course. Oa Saturday, two young children, being incau. tiously left alone in a cellar in Hurst -street, flu; cloathes of on of tlatan caught fir:, by wilicia at was so severely burin as to cause its death the saao evening. On Monday, Samuel M‘powen, a boy about iq years of age, , had one leg tra , Anred, aild the o f her considerably bruised, by a wheel tailing on it what.) greasing tih:! a!qe-tree of a cart.-Saaie day, as 4 , man belonging to a - fishing-buat was endeavouring to get up an anchor, the windlass struck Ills arm and broke it.—Same day, in Dale-creet; a carter sitting - on the shafts, ir. passing another cart, wag thrown down, and had his leg brake by the wheel passing over it.. • SMITHFIELD MARKET, Sr tP IS. This day's market afforded a `middling supply of different kinds'of Cattle; Beef, Mutton; Pork, and taimh are cheaper than our last report ; Veat something dearer, and the trade for the most part was not over brisk.—The sales in the Haymarket were rather dull ; Flay and Clover obtainN.l la.t prices ; Straw has fallen in price since Monday's market.—The under-mentioned prices and num bers are a corr:l6l sttateinent To sink. the OiCil per stpne of Beef 4s. od. togs. 4d.--Mutton 4s. ad. to 0. 31—Veat bs. od. to 7s. 6d.-Lantb ss. od. to Cs. &L.—Pork ss. 6d. to 61.0 d. Beasts, 640..—Sheep and Lambs, 7 6 00.—Calves, Pigs-410. , . CORR.:EXCHANGE, SHPT. 18: , --The Market to.. day is main thinly supplied with Wheat—t no samples fully-support fast prices, but other qualitita go off heavily; in .Barley little alteration ; fine IValt is in demand and dearer ; Beans of each sort full. as dear, and White Pease continue high ; Oats are like• wise in short supply, and those of first quality Ire , dearer ; Flour as our last. Wheat 45s a Sae a 633 ad Tick ditto (do.) 46 5 a 523 od Flee date . 7as i 733 of Oats - ass 3 0t; a 3 43 .4 Rye . 4os a 4.0 od Poland ditto 3 6 $ a 37S 04 Ilarlary - • • 30s a 42 odo Potatoe - - a 4os GA Malt • . b6i a 743 of i Rape Seed - ail a 281 OS White Pease tarsi a I:4S oft i Fine Flout sss a slis fros od 01,:v dittn - ,613 260 01 iimlttki . . s‘i a 556 4 4 Means (Old) s7s a 4rjk od 1