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NAVAL NEWS. Y:EIr s OARL:h4II , f.EAT. M'imbEns ELECTEL. PLYMOUTH, MAY 7.—Arrived this morning the dight Sloop of War, of 18 guns, from •Alexan= dri a ; she brings intelligence of the Capture'of that P l ce, on the 19th March, by the 'troops under the c ommand of Lieut. General FRAZER, consisting of 5 ° .0 6 men. The troops landed on the 18th, and \vete opposed hi getting on shore, but so . feebly, that °llly three of the British Troops were killed. There was only one Line of Battle Ship at' the Capture, with sof t ie Frigates and Gun Brigs: On the Loth seven Sail of the Line of *British. Men of War at lilted there, but their names are not mentioned.-- The Delight left Alexandria on the 2gtli March, touched at Messina, and sailed thence thL Bth of April ; left Admiral COLLINGWOOD'S Fleet, off Ca diz. seven days since, all , well. Arrived the Raven ,Sloop of War, with the out ward-bound Lisbon Fleet, under convoy, put in by contrary winds. Sailed the Pickle Schooner, with a Fleet under convoy, for the Downs. EYTBSBtJKY—Lord Viscount . Fit tharris ; dhatl6 Moore, Esq. OXFORD UNIVERSITY—Sir \VIIE6 Scott ; Righ Honourable' Charles Abbott. Bulty ST. EDNIUNDS.—Lord Charles Fitzroy ; Lord Viscount Templetown, WIGAN-a-Robert Holt Leigh ; John Hodson, Esqrs , . NEW RADNOR—Richard Price, Esq. HEREPoßD—Colonel Symonds ; Richard Scuda- more, Esq. .- WEOBLY—Lord George Thynne ; Lord Guernsey. WINCRELSEA-Sir F. Fletcher Vane, Bart. ; Cal- verley Berwicke,. gs q . RYE-Sir John Nicholl •;. the Earl of Ctnoa4. 6=3:mm3—Hon. T. C. OnilO ; Hon. C. Nor. ton. ASHBUILTON—Lord Charles Bentinck ; Walter Palk, Esq. LICHFIELD—G. Anson, Esq.; G. G. V. Vernon, Esq. HYTHE—William Deeds, Esq. ; Thomas Godfrey, Esq , . HtGHAM FERRERS—The Right Honourable Win. Windham. , • PORTSMOUTH, MAY B.—Arrived the Diana Fri• .gate, Captain MALING, from Cork, having on boar 4 Admiral Lord GARDNER ; on which occasion •a Salute was fired from the RoyellTilliam ; His Lord -6144 on account of the bad weather, does not land til A ; to7rnorrow ; also L'Espoir Sloop of Wai, Capt. .PP.g, from. Plymouth. Sailed the Blossern Sloop of Wai, Capt. PIGGOT, for Leith: rAomirra, MAY 6.—Arrived His Majesty's 811 $ Renard, from Portsmouth, with five Vessels Under Convoy to the Mediterranean, having parted from the remainder in thick weather. SEMERXESS, MAY 6.----Came down from the 4 0wer, and sailed again immediately, the .Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANTRAb4, with Volunteers and Im pressed Men for the Fleet. - ---- ----- Arrived the Swift Sloop of War, Capt. WRIGHT) itorrt Heligoland, and Minx Gun-brig, Lieut. - P. 04 ANDERSTEN, from the North Sea. Ma' 7.—" The Hindostat of 50 guns, Captain' tioNvEN, was this day paid. Came into Harbour the Urgent Gun-brig,..Lieut. 11 1013 Y, 'MAY 8. , --The Spy Sloop of War, Capt. HUDSON, made the signal for convoy to the Baltic. DEAL,• MAY s.—Arri ved His MajestO Ship Des 'ate, from a crnize ; and the Zebriz s from Ports 'rnotlth,,with a convoy, which are sailed for the also the Apdlo, HENRY, from Jamaica ; and the Susan and Sarah, from Gallipoly, THE THEATRE. Covent-Garden. A new Opera was produced last night at this 1 1,,.eatre, under the title of Peter the Great ; or, The * -I :±oden Walls. CASTLE RISING—The Honourable Charles Bagot Richard Sharpe, 14',q. • • . - :• • Btsnops CASTLE- 7 -Wrin. Clive,. Esq. general. Ro- binson. EAST GRINsTRAn--Sir Nathaniel Holland, . : Bart=; Charles Rose Ellis„Esq. • ROCHESTER--The Election here terminated yes terday in favour of Sir T. B. Titompsow, Bart. and JOHN CALCRAFT, Esq. Sir THONIASTRIGGE, K. B betn the unsuccessful Candidate. The new-elected Members were chaired round • the ancient City . of Rochester, the one in a triumphal car formed to represent a boat, and the other in a landau, with flags expressive of the principles'under which they were 'severally chosen. Perhaps in the whole Of the approaching Ele&ions, what is termed i he Go- Vernment Candidates will not 'have to encounter so potent an Opposition as at this place—an opposition founded on the very excellent and aMiable charaaer given to Mr.. CALCRAFT by all that know him; as well as. acknowledged with unbounded liberality by his good and gallant Competitors, and the great local interest he possessed, having been born and brought up in the vicinity.—At the close of, the con test th,e Poll stood thus— Sir T. B. Thompson, Bart. 38,1. John Calcraft, Esq. - - 3(i2 Sir T. Trigge, K. B. - 306 novttz.—State of the Poll Third Day— Jenki nson - - - 739 Pierrepont - - - 535 Jackson MAIDSTOgE, MAY 7.—State of the Mr. Simpson - -' ;. 356 Mr. Loinginan 326 Sir W. Geaty - - - 324 LivzKroot..—State of the Poll Fir,t Day. General Tarleton - 2gg General Gascoyne -2.5 g Wm. Roscoe - - 1 1 t SHREwsßutiv.—State of the Poll First Day. Hon. W. Hill - - 62 Hon. H. G. Bennett . 40 Thomas Jones, Esq. - 39 YARMOUTH — State of the Poll First Day. Hon. E. Harboard 337 S. Lushington, Esq. - - 303 Wm. Jacob, Esq. - 136 CHARACTERS. Peter the Great, Mr. C. K etts LE. Le Fort. - . , Mr. BELLAMY. .MaUrltZ, • - • Mr. MUN DEN• Count Menzikoff, - Mr. POPE. Sparrowitz, . . Mr. SI mmoNs., Olmuti, Mr. WADDY. Petrowits, . Mr. MOice.A Y. Michael Petrowite, • Mr. Nettooll• Vaulina, Miss Bo LTON. Genevieve, - • •• Mrs. 134,P0RT. Catherine, - . Mrs. C. KEMB LE. Shipwrights, Huntsmen, Haymakers, &c. if this Play were founded upon historical truth, would be needless to detail the Plot, as it would doubtless be known to all our Readers ; but indeed it requires some ingenuity to form a Piot at all out of the 'strange mass of scenes that were ‘ presented last night; which had little, if any, connexion with each other, and which certainly did not tollow each other in a regular and interesting series. Peter the Great is introduced as a Ship-builder ; not in the SECOND DAY. country where he adopted that charader, but in his At the close of the Poll yesterday the numbers own. He is drawn froth the fancy of the Author, were— not on the faith of history ; and though he is re re- • For Lord COCHRAN& • ' - 326 Mr. ELLIOT • 270 Rented as a very respe&able chara&er, he is made to Sir F. ItuRDET .. T _ 213 .dppear much more soft and amiable than any account ' Mr. SHERIDAN of him will warrant. But it" is useless to enter into Mr. PAuLt. 2 9 a rigid examination of any part of a piece that is ' Mr. SHERIDAN came forward and recommended altogether so little entitled t o cr iti ca l notice - .Or silence and good humour to the crowd (noise and public approbation. It is dull, vapid, - and heavy disapprobation). There could not, he said, be a throughout, or rather it would have been so; but stronger prUof of a bad cause, than a retrial to ;hear I . ."the efforts of the Performers, who took as its adversaries. During the whole of the late cori ,lMtieh pains as if they had been employed on a test, he had always kept his temper, and he imeant , r OitlPtisition from the best of our dramatic writers, to do so now. But if the EleCtion were to be car iz..."-° the AL:ling and Singing, we must _indeed tied by noise, he had it in his power to bring people j „: l ,7"likilly attribute the success which attended to make a noise too. He was not discouraged- at ‘ 4ll 4'weryindifferent production, and the Author is the state of the poll, because it had generally been under very great obligation to Mr. and . Mrs. C. his fate to struggle with difficulties and great ma- MONDEN, INCLEDON, BELLAMY, and jorities; and he had been obliged to struggle against rat's. Mrs. C. lizaittLE was peculiarly deserving of difficulties, because he had always made it a point commendation for the excellent manner in which to support the cause of the people of England. , He , She supported the part of Catherine, and for the was not personally opposed to any of the Candidates taste and expression with which sbe gave the Songs. —lie wished them all well ; but he hoped he should AIurIDENT was highly humourous in a Song about be allowed to say a word about each. 29,,5. to -Sir lieynard the Fox, which had, however, little rela- f Francis Burdett, it ought to be recolht&ed, that he tion to the charaCter or to the piece. never took a step in Parliament for the benefit of the The Music was composed by Mr. *YOU'VE. It was people, but he stood at his side. Mr. Elliot during pleasing in parts, but had nothing articular to re-• the late Ele&ion had certainly been friendly to him, corrimend. it on the whole. BELLAMY sung with i and therefore he could, have no personal dislike to great taste as well as science, and was much ap- As to Lord Cochrane, though it might hurt Plauded. I his own interest in the contest, he should despise Some of the Russian scenery was picturesque, but F himself if he refrained from expressing his opinion. the procession at the end of the Piece, and the alle- He knew there were some who thoaglit that a gorical transparencies introduced (though well paint- NaVal Officer was an unfit person to be their Re ed), Constituted but a poor speelacle. presentative. He was afraid he must soon lose the This *era, according to report, was written by I applause which his last words had excited, But he Mr. CHERRY, a well-meaning and an industrious denied that a Naval Officer was an unfit person. man; but who certainly was not intended by Nature Lord Hood had been his colleague, and no prospect to gain laurel s i n th e fi e ld of Literature. of present advantage could make him disavow the The House was well attended, and great appro. sentiments which he had maintained on a tbrrner oc• bation was the order.of the night when the Piece cas i on . The representation of "Westminster was kas announced for repetition on Monday; but a sort of Peerage which . would be properly conferred thoZigh it mar linger a low nights, it must soon ex.. on meritorious Naval Officers. With regard In PLe tor, ever. himself, he was already a Membet 44 Parliament, WESTKINSTER.-At One o'Clock, the Poll for this day stood as follows : Lord Cochrane - - - 102 Mr. Elliot Sir F. Burdett - - - - 55 Mr. Sheridan - - - - II Mr. Paull - - - - • g WESTMINSTER ELECTION. , . but it isras his anibitiOn tk &shit into Parliament in the Mat perfect state of independence ; and.that pendence the City of Westminster could confer. He wished both Sir. Francis Burdett and Mr. Paull - well, but behad been applied to by many respectable persons who had Supported Mr. Paull. The applica tion was not made, however, till after the event s,rhich prevented the personal exertions of Mr. Paull, and he thought it 'unmanly and mean to take advantage of his Bitdation, and therefore Said he would not-come for ward till he saw a public declaration from Mr. Patin - that he had resigned his pretensions. Flaying seen that public resignation, he said that he WOuld cowrie forward. Yesterday he understood that Mr, Paull. - had been proposed ; but having found that those friends who had applied to hiM had acted fairly and . bonourably s .he would still stand the contest, and did not fear the poll. Many stories had been circulated. about him : one was, that be had betrayed the City to Lord Percy and the Duke of Northumberland, the falsehood .of which had been sufficiently proved:-=- Another objection to him was, that he was a place man—that objection, to the, great joy of some of them, bad been -removed. It had been said, that he was...careless about his own affairs; he had -not, pethaps, always attended to them with all the nicety that might have been requisite; but, however, a friend had undertaken to endeavour to set them in order.' 'He - had been 27 years in Parliament, and had held an office:for one year, and for that office it turned out that he was about teool. poorer than be .tore. Ile had his Consolation s 'however, in retiring from Office, that he defied any one to point out any single inatance, during the 27 years he had been in Parliament, where he had given a vote against the people.- He :retired without pension,. place, or re - version - of any sat, and he had this consolat ion; that if he had been of little istility in office, he bad re tired without being a burthen to.the public. 'He had always stood up for the HabeaS COrpus Act, for the liberties of the people, and for everything that ought to be dear to them ; and this much he wust . say for himself, compared with the A/ew Candidates, that with :regard to him they had experience instead of experiment, practice instead of professions, and ads instead of promises'. He concluded •by saying, that the price was not on earth that could make him swerve from his principles and his. devotion to the cause of the people. Lord COCLIRXIIE then stepped forward. With regard to the pretensions of the Candidates the tiec tors must judgefor themselves-. . They had certainty had no experience of him asa Memberof Parliaruenz ; all that he could givethem was a pledge', and they I nust look to his general charader - as a security. He wished again to call their attention to what had been said respeding the unfitness of Naval Officers ao serve iu Parliament. He repeated', that it was impossible thit persons of any other description could give the proper information as to the state of the Navy. Parliament ought to -be composed of persons of all classes, that the interest of all Might be attended to. From the changes' of system in, the ,Navy, Officers who had retired could not be better acquainted with the' actual 'state of the Navy at different periods, than any .of them who had never been sat sea. There had been .systems - of tyranny and abuse in the Navy.—He did not set himself up. as a professed' reformer, but he wished to be armed. with power to say to Ministers, " such abuses exist— reform them." If they reftised, he pledged him self to bring them before Parliament. It would not answer .his purpose to come in for a trifling Borough. Scandalous praEtices prevailed in the eledions for many of these ; but what did they think of a traffic in Naval Commissions with borough agents ? If none else had the courage or public spirit to tell of these, things, he had. He wanted to be returned to Par liament by a numerous body of free and independ ent Men. The seat alone was not his.objed ; it was an easy thing to get into Parliament ; - but he who was returned. only for a rotten borough, when he rose to's speak must feel is if he had . a dirty shirt. If he should be. returned for Westmin ster, his endeavour would he to restore the Con stitution to its original purity, and he pledged him-• self to support inquiries into abuses, and every pro posal that should be for the benefit of the nation. He' hoped that that they would exert themselves to send. men of integrity. into . Parliarnent, far what sig nified. abilities without integrity. It .might require ability to conceal the badness 01 a cause, :but it re!- Oired little talents to prove a truth.. He had spent his life in their servicee--if they should now enable him to serve them in another way, it wouldTbe his study to do his duty. . . Mr. JEstsaisiOas would not make-any professions on the part of Sir Francis Burdett—the people knew that in him they might repose the most perfed con fidence. He begged of them .to use every exertion. to secure his return, - and thereby to serve them selves. They 'would never find him voting with Go vernment against.the interests of the People, and when he rose it would be always to protect them and pro mote their sveltare. He did not wish to say any thing respeaiug the other Candidates, but heeould not help touching upon what had fallen frem . one of them, about the_fitness of Naval OfficerS: They deserved well of their Country undoubtedly, and if they had the gifti s c.: u bi qu ity-L.-if they could be in two - places at the 'arrie .time, he would be Willinss that'they should!be Members of the: House of Commons: But it ought to he recolleded that the attendance of in dependent Officers might be particularly wanted at times when they -could not be present 'in Parlia ment ; it ought to be recolleaed, that the reso lution against Lord Melville was only carried by a single Yoice.., The Noble Lord (Cochrane) must be sensible, that'on similar occasions, however just and sound his principles might be, he might be absent. However, he had no scruple to 'say, that he would much rather - give his vote to the. Noble Lord than to Mr. Elliot, who, to say the least of it, was com pletely untried. He could not conclude without putting them on their guard against the cry of " No Popery," which had been industriously raised by the Ministers. When he recollected that under .a . clamour about " The - King and Constitution," the Habeas corpus Act had been suspended about seven years—that the Treason and Sedition 'Ads had been passed, and multitudes confined in dungeons with out remedy—when he recolleded theSe things- he Could not but be alarmed, lest some new right of the people was to be invaded, when be heard the cry of "No Popery." This - cry was raised by the Ministers merely to serve their own crooked pur poses.He concluded by observing, that the stare of the Poll ought to Alarm them fig . themselves. &ital . .' bald, that h'6 Wouid r(.4ve tl a athe'r Candidates to the Elea - tors'. As fir hithselt, rt‘e de'- clared on his hotionr that his principle's ‘7eri corn"- pletely independent. He defied any one to point out how he .WaS•depender)t., or how he could be de:- pendent.—He Was, indeed, dependent on their favotir. He had resided among than . fot ti,venty years, and had never before come fOrWard in any public chataeler ; Out he trusted that Ms conduti had been such aS to entitle him to some confirm deice frOm the EleaorS. Mr. GIBBONS then spoke in behalf of Mt% PAULL; but in so low a tone, being apparently hoarse, that we could not coned what he said. The crowd, notwithstanding the rain, was as nu.. merouS as usual, and as noisy : but hitherto a much greater degree of order and decency has prevailed oti all hands than 'tiering the late Election. SOUTHWARIC ELECTION. Yesterday the contest for the Borough of Swith wark terminated in favour of Sir T. Tun.ToNs and H. THORNTON, Esq.—At four o'clock, when OA Books closed, the numbers were, For Sir T. Turton - H. Thornton, Esq. Mr. Calvert - 2152 1824 1634 It was then notified that Mr: CALVERT had re signed, and the successful C itadates were d -duly eleBed by the High, Bailiff with the usual it. - tuality. Sir T. TURTON and Mr. THORNTON ad lresied the Ele6tors, and, expresed.their graiitude I.:r the ho nour dcine them, and a det&mination to study the interests. of their Constituents. On leaving the 'Hustings, .they were received by the populace loud acclamations, and finally r de round Lae )..10- rough in open landans,• attended by a cavatcalle of carriages and horsemen, decorated with blue and orange ribbons.--The ceremony of chairing takes place next week. CITY OF' LONDON.--The Poll continued yet,ter day hi a languishing and formal way. The num bers .ere, Sir Charles Price Sir W ill iam Curtis A llerinan Shaw Apeman COrnhe A Alderman Hankey - The realm of the old ;Members is now certain. 1714 164 r 1 494 27 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAY 8. GARRO`N moved for a criminal information against Hedor Campbell, for what he described as being a very gross misbehaviour to the Learned Body of the College of Physicians. By their chdr tin- no person can practice medicine as a Physician without being either a Licentiate, a Candtdate, or a Member of the College. In case any one is prac ticing without authority, they cite him before them, and having examined him, either agree to licence him or admonish him not, to practice, any longer. In this case Mr. C. was cited before the College, and when in'the inner room, he exclaimed so loudly As to beheard by persons in the outer room, address ing himself to the heads of the College, " I know Sou to be a parcel of mercenary 'fellows." " You,"' naming two of the most eminent physicians, " got into the College by bribing Dr. Saunders - , --you are all a paclc 'of qui tam scoundrels." Not content with this abuse, after sleeping upon his anger, he wrote, the next morning, a letter, addressed to every Member of the College, and to Sir L. Pepys amongst the rest, as follows :—" HaAor Campbell's respects to Sir 1,. P. trusts he slept well after having theiatisfitaion of treating a stranger ill. Should Sir L. and, his colleagues choose to bring a our TAM a&ion, he beg 4 they will begin as soon as posFible. If you send your JANITOR, 'or mr-stitl (meaning the officer who serves the summonses) to St. Peter's. Hill (where Campbell resides), you must send him with better manners, or else his ears will be cropped or lengthened,. just as you shalt give, the preference." The Beadle swore,, tnat_ wben he had served the first summons, 'he 'IAA only behaved -Without imperti nence, but was complimented by Campbell for hi's civility. After thiS, Campbell 'being served with' a written admonition from the College, not to praaice, tore it, applied it to a very dirty purpose, and sent it, in a most filthy'state, to the Register of the Colley, Rule Nisi granted. DONCASTER.—On Saturday evening the inhabi tants of Silkstone, near Penistone, were visited by one of the most alarming phenomena ever remem bered. The clouds had portended rain, but none had then fallen there, when suddenly a torrent of water, appearing from four to six feet in diameter, deluged the town, which is situated in a valley, and several ' persons were unfortunately :drowned. In one house a woman and her four children were seated together, when the flOod rushed in, and ri,ing rapidly,so it was with the greatest difficulty she saved herself and three of the. children by running up stairs ; the fourth - , a girl, seven years of age, as cended the sink-stone to save herself, but perished. In an adjoining house a woman and two of her grand children were also drowned. • Two horses in a neighbouring mill lost their lives, and three others, saved themselves by raising the floor, which was coustrutied of thin slabs laid on joists, and. suspending themselves by the fore-legs. A shoe_ maker's shop and all its contents were also de stroyed.. The greatest transition from cold to heat ever re membered had been observed in the last week in April, and the above inundation was occasioned by. a mass of clouds, during the thunder-storm that evening, burstin g in a field in the township of Bradfield, taking their course down the Rivelin and Loxley, thence into the Dun, which became sud denly swollen. Near Doncaster it is said to have risen nine feet in the space of an hour and a half; A Vessel belonging to Mr. Too - ree, of _this town, . loaded with coals; was driven from het moorings and much damaged. Hay, timber, sheep, pigs, &c. were also violently precipitated dev‘m the current. A great number of windows were broken at Hickleton.during a severe bail-storm the same even -ing.- - .Pieces of ice, in au-along-form, exceedini, two inches, were picked up. ,rlg