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~~.~T~=~ LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCII, JAN. 23. TH IS being the first dad, of Term, the Court did not sit until one o'clock. Lord.KENYON was not present. A report was made; in the usual form, of• the state of the Conviets at Woolwich and-,other places, after which. the Court proceeded to take the justi fication of Bail - and the other business Of course. . The 'ATTORNEY GENE.RAL moved fora Rule to chew cause why a Mandamus should not issue, di reAed to Richard Watts, Clerk of 'a division of the County of Sussex, commanding him to-deliver up certain books in his hands, and to render account to . the Duke of Richmond of certain - fines imposed on those who had been balloted for Militia, &c. the being Colonel of the regiment, and ,which by A& of Parliament Mr. Watts was, to pay. over to his successor, to 'spew cause granted. • Mr. OIBBS moved for a Mandamus to be direft ed to the Bailiff and Aldermen of the Borough of East • Retford' (we think), , commanding them. to proceed to the eleCtion of Senior aid Junior Bailiff according to the forms of the t;orough, which, it was alledged, they had not done.--= - Writ granted. Mr. WOOD moved for leave to exhibit Articles of the Peace against George Johnston, Esq. of Hanover square, at the suit of Christopher Saville; , of Park street, Esq. The Articles stated, that Mr. Saville:. met Mr. Johnston in the Committee-rOom -of the I-loose of CoMmons, when Mr... Johnston . demanded . personal satisfaetion for a Letter -which Mr. Saville Wrote to his Constituents at •the Borough of Hey . don, in the County of York, in which Mr. John- - stOn conceived himself alluded -le, although not named. That Mr. Saville.deciined taking .notice of the language of Mr., Johnston; That on the of December last, Mr. Johnston sent a Letter by a Gentleman of the nathe. of. Forbes to Mr. Saville, -requesting satiSfaftion by granting him a meeting, which meeting was to fight a duel. Mr. Saville having sworn that these Articles were not exhibit ed from malice,: hatred, .or by blip,. but merely 'to save )tis person from harm, the Court.or dered the usual surety, &c. - Mr. Scoirr moved for a writ of Habeas. Corpus, to' be direaed to the keeper of Ne.vgate, com manding him to bring up the body of Allan Ll' Li'bd , on .Monday next, to the Court, in order to make an affidavit, on which he meant to "ground a Motion to the Court. He was now a prisoner_ in. Newgate, in execution of a judgment. Mr. Justice GRoSE—" This quite irregular, Mr. SCOTT, because it is the common course, where it is necessary for a party in custody to rmike affi davit, to send for _a Commissioner to come and administer the oath, and it is done without difficul ty." i Mr. SCOTT—" My Lord, he is n town, your Lorclbhip . sees." Mr. Justice GRO3E—" We .11, Wilnt then ? There are Commissioners enough and enough to go and take the, atfidavit, if he require it." rot, EX DEI4. SMITH V. EDWARDS. Yr. ERSKINE moved to set aside a judgment in eje6tment in this cause, which he stated Ind been obtained by 'a gross and infamous fraud. The Defendant had a lease for twenty-one years of the Premises in question, situate at East Gritistead, in, the County/of Sussex. • •The Lessor of the Plaintiff,. who had purchased the estate ;from a Mr . . Moore,. was very desirous of getting possession of ft twin; cumbered with the lease to . the Defelidant, he used every persuasion to induce him to part, with his beneficial interest, but without efr'ea:—• Ile then went to the Defendant, and told_ him ,it was necessary to the confirmation of his title, that he should -set his mark to a certain instrument. The Defendant, who was a simple, illiterate mai., and suspecting no treachery, consented, and a paper was presented to him, which he readily signed—it turned out to be a 'Warrant of Attorney, to confess a Judgment in' Ejeament ; and shortly after it was signed, the Judgment was entered up, a writ of pos session sued out, and the Defendant ousted of his term.—The Court granted a rule to spew cause. The KING, V. STEV FNTO,N.. The argoinent of this Case was fixed fdr (1:1y. I:ext. MOD2RN ANsAzoNs.-Some years since, a Gen tlcruanin the City, extensively engaged in West " Indian commerce, was involved in bankruptcy by a Misplaced-confidence —he retired info the neighbour_ hood of. Bradford with two daughters,: and shortly .afier sunk beneath the pressure of his misfortunes, leaying them wholly ,without provision. The for tiler affluence of their father had ptevented their ac " qUiringa knowledge of any profession by which to • e:tr'n a - . respetlable' maintenance—they could not work, and were ashamed to beg. In this dilemma, their enterprise - rose superior to considerations of 'tear, and prompted the hold expedient of assuming the dress and charat!"ter of men, and entering into the Navy. They- went to Portsmouth, and, by their address, obtained a situation on the quarter ' deck of a Troop-ship bound to the West Indies.— They Were. engaged in the' redudion of Curacoa, &c. and served with credit in two or three aftions in those seas, till one of them was wounded by ,a splinter in the side, when her'sex being discovered, she was discharged, and came to England - about six weeks since.—The other sister was, at this period, sinking under the fever which has proved so .fatal to.suropeans in the. West Indies, and had been sent ashore at Dominica ; there, under an im pression of approaching death, she disclosed to one of the Officers of the ship, her sex. The discovery gave tenderness to the esteem he had before enter tained for his young friend: his attentions contri buted to her corivaleScence. In short, she recovered, • and they were married, and are now on their return to Europe, in possession of the means to render - happy the remainder of their days. LONDON : Printed by BUCHANAN I. LAN, (oi'Bow-Streit, Covent,Garden); and Published by WILLIAM AamicEa Sea mrs (of Horse-terry . ..toad, We':,9ninster);: At the SuN-OFF lc E, No.Z iz, Strand where Advertisements, Orders for the Pa p er, Letters for the Editor, &c (post-paid), must be ad-dresbcd. INSURRECTIONS IN . INDIA. TRe Df?COl t '3, a people who some years since maintained a sanguinary ,warlare with . our Indian Government, and excited, a considerable degree. of alarm in this country, are again.ia arms; and - hare committed great excesses. - - - Accounts from Ramghur, of the 4th of August, state, that. a very powerful body of these people had made an incursion into that neighbourhood where the convicts were eMplOyed in. clearing the jungles and repairing the public roads : they brought With them :fire-arms, pikes, &c. to arm the con yids, having previotisly agreed to set them free, and associate them in their intended plunder of the distria. The Seim guard made a gallant but inefreetual : resistance, most of them being either killed or wounded; when the convicts, with their deliverers, retired into the Hill Country. From . their fastnesses they have made numerous excursions into the adjacent country, depopulating villages, and destroying such yroperty as they are unable toremoye.The &limiting and extensive town at Aurungbaad, which in 179'9 was destroyed by Jvooo DEp and his adherents, - having been re built and re.:peop)ed, and numerous extensive gra_ naries ,eitablished There, has been again• plundered, and reduced tä ashes by the DeColts. The leader of, this banditti is a man of distin guished talent, who formerl3‘ held . high tarilc:in •the army of the late Nabob of the Carnatic,- but . in consequenee of some Offence committed against the English, he threW up his situation the better to indulge his revenge. He appears to have fo mented the troubles the Southern districts, by the dispersion Of sedition's letters, eic. and his pre sent insurreCtiOn, which, is'secretly encouraged by many of the friends of the late . Nabob, is.in close concert with the Poligars. Another insurreftion, which at first wore a seri ous aspea, broke out . about the end of July, in the distrias between the Ganges and Goomty, in con.- . .sequence of the Nawab's hiving made some re_ sulations, disloleasing to the people, and of which some disaffected persons. t'f , ok advantage to excite them to rebellion. We :6in, howeve'r, ac emits from. Purtoobghauz, that'. the Foarth Regi ment, the Native Cavalry, and . the Second Regi ment of Sepoys, having. been ordered to march against the insurgents, many_ of then) had dispersed, and .the country was gradually regaining tran. quillity. ' EFFECTS OF THE STORM.---A letter from Liver pool, dated on Thursday, says—" Since one o'clock this marairi b ' ,, , it has blown the . most tremendous gle. ever known here ; several vessels are driven on' shore, and others sunk." At Manchester, on Thursday, the storm of wind and rain .exceeded any similar visitation ever re membered ;: several houses were blown down, and, , we lament to say, that four persons were crushed ! to death:by the falling of - one of the numerous stacks, of chiinnies razed by the hurricane. Ar Sudbury; Ipswich; and their neighbourhood,. several houses were unroofed by the wind on Thurs day night, and several chimnies blown down. . A mill at .Ballingdon.was nearly broken to pieces. At Norwich, on Thursday, the streets were strewed with the fragments of chimnies, roofs, &c. and in the neighbourhood, several large trees were blown down; and a pear -tree , belonging to Mr. Gurney, in Magdalen-street, was torn to atoms. Other damage was- &One the amount of one thousand pounds. '. At :Horstead a large tree was torn up by the roots, and falling on an old woman, nam ed Hobbs, killed her instantly.. At - the late Quarter Sessions for Norwich, the Court was moved to quash, an order of bastardy, which had been made on an opulent farmer in that county. From the evidence of the mother, it ap_ pears she kid been a servant t 6 the farmer (who has a wife and several children) ; that she' had : been seduced'by him, •and that on her being obliged by her pregnancy to quit her service, she had been in-, duced by his promise and entreaties to swear the child to another person, for which purpose he took her to a Magistrate. After the child, had been sworn, the farmer placed the mother at a midwifes. at Norwich, where he paid her board and lodging, .and supplied her with cash ; he then prevailed on her. to got() Wisbech to stay a couple of months, in order that . the child's age might • be misrepre sented to the' person to whOm it was sworn. -The mother, shocked at the enormity of the crime she had been induced to commit, • went to the Magistrate, and"statcd the fads to him : under his diredion,, the _child was re-sworn at Norwich against the farmer, and an order issued - on him to pay for its---support. Several attempts were made by the farmer to invalidate the testimony produced against him, but the Court contirm - ed the order. A - fever ofa malignant nature has raged for some time at Langford; in Bedfordshire. The Magi strates called in the assistance of Physicians, and converted a barn into a temporary infirmary for the reception of the sick, which has fortunately check ed -the progress of the disorder. At Liverpool; last week, the cloatlis- of a fine child about two years old, unhappily. caught fire, while it was atone in a room only for a few minutes. The poor infant was so miserably burned that* surltived only two days. And 'on Wednesday even:. ing, in Temple-lane, the cloaths of another child, of about five years old, caught fire while its mother was absent ; its cries soon brought the neighbours, but it was so dreadfully burned, that it died in about an hour after, irhexcruciating pain. • A poor man was found dead on Thursday morn ing in the kiln-hole of a malting house at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, where it is supposed he crept the preceding night for warmth, and was suffocated. Mr. Rogers, an eminent Farmer and Grazier, was last week found frozen to death in Nottingham Forest. TILE ARTS' TUE recent publication of M. DE I',NFANS, on the subjeft_of Painting, has made a great impres . - sionon the Professors of that beautiful Art. Many of the more liberal of the fraternity have testified their approbation of the acute and erudite Criticisms with which the work abounds, bqt others who either find themselves incapable of rising. above mediocrity, or, at least, find /the world perversely ! disposed to place them - in that rank., are highly-in censed.witjt the ingenious Author for remarks which they have thought proper to apply to theMselves. These discontent3d votaries of the '.Pencil have vented, their splepn in peevish complaints, and anony l ißottsepitl.es„ The work has already reached a secoild,cAtiori; and the Author. has given the fol lowing general answer to all whom he ha's banded by observatidns - which, rightly employed, would improve,their taste, and enable them to make a more distinguished figure in their profession.' " When we published about three weeks since , . , ie 'first edition of this little Work, we jierc not --,:- - conscious it contained ought that might incur the slleasure of any one ; as..however some Actists - , oThers Nvho believe themselves to be so, have _ written to reproach is with an intention olinjuring thein in their profession, and haVe censured several passages, that are not suppressed in the present edi tion ; we think ourselves called upon to Say•a few words in our oWri justification. , We are, in the first place, reproached with having degraded In the eyes of the Public, the whole body of Painters, by accusing, them, generally, of envy and jealousy. As we have alledged nothing slightly, or inserted any strictly in the Catalogue, but what we believe-to he true, we should he wanting. to ourselves were we to retract what we then advanced. The fact is as follows : " Having occasion, during the last Autumn, to peruse the Lives of the different. Painters, for the purpose of procuring the best information resped ing the works that we had to describe, we were struck by-observing that many of the most cele brated Masters had . been susceptible of so grovel- . _ . ling a passio❑ as jealousy, and it reminded us of an observation we had' before, made, of some Artists of our 'own time, who are stibjeit to the same in firmity ; for we have not unfrequently witnessed the cruel pleasure that they have taken in degrading the works of their Fellow-Artists, and with a warmth that nearly bordered on rage. " Such was our inducement to observe it to be a misfortune thatinsread of a low envy, the bosom of the Painter did not glow with the : noble emulation that existed in other liberal professions. c , What would haVe become of us, or what would have been the fate of. Britain, if, about five years ago, when insurrection reigned ,througliour her Fleets, our, brave OffiCers had, like many of our Artists, been jealous' of eaeh•other, and had not, with an united hand,. crushed the rebellion,' and restored subordination ? " Fa&ion, in an Academy of Painting, is neither dangerous nor of much consequence - to the State-, but much more difficult to suppress, and more tedious in its duration, than a political revolt. Far from intending injury to any one, we have avoided%mentioning, - or pointedly attacking any' individual ; but .in contributing our 'endeavours to root out art evil which ha's been' Of - Considerable in.- jury to the - most meritorious' Painters, and. parti cularly- to young Students, who stand in need of every assistance and advice, we have, on the autho rity of those Authors mentioned in our Preface, taxed Lanfranc, Claude, Rubens,. and Velasquez, with jealousy and' envy.. We however solemnly declare we had ,no intention of alluding' to those Artists who have written to us on the subject ; on the contrary, we freely'confess we are not aware of anrresemblance that they bear in any resped what ever tp those Masters.' • " We intreat they will review the Catalogue impartially, and they will observe that we have adopted great caution -in mentioning the jealousy that exists among Painters, and made very consider, able exceptions to ies being general. We trust it will'appear evident' we have only attacked the guilty. " In a word, far from wishing 'to injure the body of 'Painters, our attachment and zeal for their interest, is so well known, that within a short time past, the Royal Academy of London, and the So ciety for the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences, have respeetively honoured us with a. Vpte of Thanks,• at one of their public meetings. " The next accusation against us is, our having said in No. 142, that the Art of Painting admits of no middle ,degrees, by which assertion, they, pre tend, we have discouraged a number of men, who never can rise, above.mediocrity.. • " We have indeed:aSsertedlvhat is perfealy true, and continue to say, that such Painters will never he tanked .amongst Artists, not withstanding the vast quantity of canvas, which, by a natural quickness of hand, they colour in the course of a twelvemonth ; and we appeal to those who are acquainted, with the difficUlties of the Art, to the professional men who really aim at fame, and are reminded of its trouble and fatigue, by their daily painting, rubbing, effacing, and correcting works with which they are themselves never pleased, till .they are brought to a certain degree of perfection, by labour and great efforts of genius—on them we call, to say whether our assertion is not just. - " A set of men, stiling themselves Artists, with out any claim to the appellation, and a set of taste less-Collectors, who satisfied with the most indif ferent pictures, have filled. their rooms, at a few Guineas expence, offended by our candour,, hayse already raised the war-whoop against ourselves, and a colleEtion they have not yet seen. But we rellea on it with indifference, as we look forward with Confidence to the approbation of the true,,,Artist and the iinpartial Connoisseur. Far, therefore, froth retracting whaf we have advanced about those pre tended Painters, who,toofrequently usurp the place of meritorious ones, we are more than ever con vinced that their knowledge and a total ignorance are perfectly on a par. • • cc Any man blessed uHith common sense only, may, by study and labour, - acquire science and suf ficient knowledge to distinguish himself in most of the professions of life ; but notwithstanding good sense, labour, study, and knowledge are also neces sary to form a Painter, they are by-no. means suf ficient, for he mustbesides, be endowed with that - celestial fire called Genius. " In time of yore, kind fairies, or Apollo him .self; used to preside at the birth ,of Poets and- Painters, in order to bestow on them that precious gift ; and as no one dared then, write verses, of paint without it, taste was not orTended,and plagued with the works of a fop, foolish poems, and bad pit; tures ; but in our days, in . spite of taste and of Apollo, and quite a stranger ; p Genius, and ,to the Art itself,, any.man• who can buy. 4 few yards of. .cloth, a pint of oil, and a pound of colourt , , - sets uf• as, a Painter, and feels affronted if John Bull, not, awed by the prOduetions of his pencil,'enters his,: painting room in boots, and With his, hat on, 'for; the new Appelles says, it ought not to,be the case . • in a polite country." DIED. • At her House in Princes -street, Edinburgh, crt the wit, instant, the Right Eton. Mary Clara, Lady Eliink. On Friday, aC his house, N. - 30, Queen-street, Chealt side Mr. Robert tjenders9n,Alerchant. The sane day, at' his house, in Queen Ann-street Wcdt, John Willes, Esq. of Asteop-House, Northamptonshire. On Friday evening, Lieutenant-Colonel George Daere,' late of the Hathpshire Fencibie Cavalry. .On the 17th inst. in.the 33d year el' her age, Mrs. Bower the wife of Robert Bower, Esq. of Welham, in York:aut. PRICE OF .STOCAS, SATU Der. Bank Stbck India Stock Navy 5 per Cent. 981 . 1 "- Exclieq. Bills ,s. s. prem. ; per Cent. 1797, 984 gi Purpclable to prem.. I rish S. per Cent... . 3d Exchequer Bills I N S , 4 per Cent: Con. 85iii - New S. S. Stock ; per Cent:Red. Ornitium . • . 3perCent. Con. 68ati . Kuper. 3 per Cent. 674 DittoScrlp Ditto Ann. rz 3-16 i Bank Long Anil. 19 . 15-16 zo -13ank for Account Ditto Short Ann. India for Account Ditto Scrip . Consols for Feb. 631-i-i ELIGIBLE , FAMILY HOUSE, DEVONSHIRE. - • . PLACE. • • TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, By Order of the Executors,.of J. Hodges, Esq. - • At Garrawav's CoffecAiouse, • • TO-MORROW-, at Twelve o'clock, AVALUABLE _LEASEHOLD ESTATE' comprising a substantial BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, three stories high; Two handsome Rooms on the principal Floor, fitted up in the present-stile. Stone S . r.iiP!., cases, &c. ; convedient.domestic.o likes e'very description; spacious Yard; Coach- - lioLise,'ind Stabling for tour Horses..., The whole fit for the iininediate,receptiOn,of a Gentleman Family, situate No.,32,,,Devorshir-place, - Cavendish-squar e • 'f he neat Household Furniture may be had at a Valuation . May 6e viewed to the tithe of Sale. '• • -Particulars on the_Premises; at carraway!s; Mess; Leteh and Goodeve, No. 4, 'Holborn -court, Gray's NO and o 2 Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Golden-squan;. • - NAVIGABLE CANAL, and LONDON•DOCK SHARES' • • • • MONTHLY SALE, . • MONTHLY SALE, By Mr: SCOTT' On. Friday, FebrUaiv 5, at Twelve o'Clcck, at Carraway's , ' - • 'Change-alley, London. - - HARESin the following NAVIGATIONS, The GRAND (UNCTION and. PADDINC;TpI CANAL, Original Subscription Shares and 1-laft Shares. 3 ,, f1 ,, J FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS - OP - rio_N - AI: t.( , r•., — NOTES bearing .; per Cent_.. Also Sll, R ES ituthe M 0 MOUTH, KENNETandAVON, E1.1..11 GQMERY, and the BRECON and ABE I:GA'VEN-r 4 NAVIGATIONS. • '•. • tet LONDON Docic SUBSCRIPTION for forrnin;,' Docks at Wapping, Four Shares of 5,,01: eaCh; Ikar;og $ Cent. Interest till the Works are compltzed. ' • ,site Particulars at Hatchett's Hotel, ; the _Horse 'Uxbridge; at G'arraway.'s ; and of, Mr.. Scott, ,4 gate-hill, London, who is -commissioned to sell any of t ' te above Shares, and in various other. Concerns, by Fr i.° Contraci. •ad.• To TIIOMAS TAYLOR, Esq. HonouredSir, e No. 9, New Bridge-Street, L'ond6n. Edinburgh, March IS, OW', 5 BEGI iet to inform you, that ever since t; ', year tno, I have been afllieted .with the Liles Vefi e „( rea; which, from its Obstinately resisting every course t, Medicine prescribed by the -most eminent of the faco L l 4 here, and undergoing several severe courses of salivall.g4, and.twice discharged front the Inispital, with' little rel'ilo" Would appear to be,ol• the -most inveterate nature, t o; spring ot last year my disorder had got to such a head,cer nearly to put a period - to my existence—l had a large, ol ,„ z s h ho the crown ot my head, one - .on each arms, were broke out in a frightful manner ;. my ;right was dreao - fully painful,: and had been in a state of ulceration for if, last seven years . ; my lett had also tWo larg; nodes om i t , was very much discoloured,-and gave me such e xcroti jc , tog pain, particularly when warm in bed, as.'nearly t°o. rrive the of rest ; itt this . larrnottable: state,' I . was rec ° ll $ mended by Mr. J. Thompson, (w!to r,:ccived so P e : - I:st cure by them here), to take your Leal:e's Patent ri c at which I begin) to do on . the .26th Of May.; in the c°",:fo .of a fortnight, I began to recei're benefit'-sin little than a month, the, ulcers on my heed and arms soundly healcd—soon , at ter, the sores on ins legs he` t oo also; leaving, however; considerable. discoloilr,;:ion - ill t o , skin, and pain in the bone of/ he lett , which, by tire '3 . ' o , hng of God, and a little longer perseVerance in your 11 ,,at suanics.Midicine, - subsided ; the nodes dispersing, s of regainin - A.its natural hue, and the notif,rnal pains grad0.,(316, going off, 1 thus became, by, your liberal advice anj &eine, perfectly free trout all my former complaio b e• - have recovered my former spirits ant strength, and ao' 3 o( come jolly and far, in which state -11,ivingcontinUed months. to. the astoniskoent gratitude,knew me, 3i, o tto 4 losiin what terms to - c 5. tress gratitude, but beg : : of forthe. good of, c;her . suffering mortals, to make . case.as - publie as possible,. as i fball on every oCc 4s ,ral" in so doing, you will greatly . aft:e, Sir, your gra) c `ii,„. :oktiient, very liumialeservam, • ALEX.. MU /Us-7 Swan's Close; high-s.trect, Witnesses to the ahoy:: Cure: - . fontsTitotor soN,• :NO. 3, New VoultrY Market; 311. (aft tM' :r Os it, Old Close,Edinburgh. Prepared and Sold by the solo r aTrietoj, • Sir THOMAS TAY 1.6 R Nitirber of the Royal College oi,j t t! goons, at his i-louse,- 9, .New where, after a constant resclenee of ,nore than years, in. a practice particularly dir:i..tled to the ,`,.. 0 .0 ° ,1 Venereal Complaints and those ineic,..ntal to the GeneratiOn, with that ;itivig.labsie s...crecy .which 0., his profession should always observe insuch Batters himself, the advice and aisi•nance ti - administers to persons taking. tins Medicine., sO. esteemed, by a •disceming as an advan tah dom attainable and void of AlSo sold," b'y his appointment, for the conv-enie?,rs;t; those living at a distance, at the; Perfumer's, o• " 2 0 1 ,' ; Albares-street, ;., the •Tays!lop„.No, 03: tiled -street; , Mr. 'Disbarough's,' 7,* Mr. Steel's, Bookseller, No. t, Littl iww,,e hill • -Mr..Baxter's, South-bridge, "Edinburgh; m i l 01 1 .;, dorra'ld, oGlasgoiv-T . i au" . 1 01 • person. in: eyeryconsiderable town G teat BrttaiP 1 1 $1 land, Boxes of only 7.5. each, sealed up v‘, e % 0 and plain directions, whereby persons of either cure themselves With ease, speed, secrecy, and sa l le t y n 01!ig N. 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