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of the !en the lad an- NAVAL NEWS. ' PORTSMOUTH, AUG. HARWICH, AUG. DEAL, AuG. 11. AS3.- , ana quit . ac- )ICI ion, Hon engo n of ord• bit stet 'O4 ! ray of )s) it t , Of 10 JAMAICA. KINGSTON, JUNE 17. ARRIVED the Sea-Horse and Jane transportt, • from the Straits, and are under quarantines ABOUT I P. M. yesterday arrived the Princess loyal Packet, Captain SANTER, from Holland; the Mail was landed at Aldbro' about ten o'clock the 6 aule,moniing„ it being then calm. This day at noon arrived the Earl of Leicester Packet, Capt. THomrsoN, from Cuxhaven, with the Mail and Passengers ; and at g P. M. sailed the Prince of e Packer, Captain BRIDGE, and the Diana Packet, Captain OsBORN, with Passengers, and the respective Mails for Helvoetsluys and Cux haven. On board the latter embarked Mr. FORT_ z‘IANN, the Hanoverian Ouarterly.Messenger. PUT into the Diwns this morning, by contrary Winds, the Eatayian Frigate Maria Rejgcrsberg, Commanded by Captain J. B. LOMBAR, and bound to the East Indies• The above Ship sailed from the Texel the sth inst. in company with the following Ships of War, to the like destination : Ship s . Guns. Conmanders. Pluto, Bato, _ —74 Capt. J, CLAROSSE. Continaar, - - 68 Capt. B. ZEEGzits. Spion, 12 Capt. AcKEmuour. The following Dutch Men of War are now in the forth Sea, bound to the West Indies : Proserpina, - - 32 Capt. TREsI.ONG. 1 K.2119 Hasselaar, - - Capt. by smAN. - - - Capt. HOLLAND. Ipomenus, - - 14 Capt. WE u Ts. Serpent (Schooner) - 6 Lieut. Ile :s. kOse (Cutler), - - :2. Lieut. DI:: G ENIA Admiral limtrsiNc:, in the Brw As, Dutch Ship 74. guns, with t , Vo other Line of Battle Ships, •zind a Corvette, pissed by this morning at the back of the Goodwin Sands, from the West wurd, bound to the Texel. TItEsDAy the General Assembly of Island Th.,,et agr e e a bly to P roc l amat i o n, an d his H onou r th e - Lieuten ant Governor having been acquainted there ‘vith, a Message was sent commanding their at lendance in the Council Chamber, when his Honour \v4 s pleased to open the 'Sessions with the following : " Gentlemen of the Cowie:ll, " Mr. S c peaker, and Gentlemen of the ds. " semblj, " It is with much reluaance that I have felt my_ 'elf obliged to call you together 'at this season of the Y e ar, but the importance of the object will, I trust, ' u ffleiently point out to you the necessity of the le aSU re. l am at the same ti me h a ppy that i t al.. f il the me an oppo r tunity of congr atu l at ing you up on " return of the blessings of Peace, by the signing "the Definitive Treaty. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the As s , ; r ` You will, I hope, with your usual patriotis m hd liber4lirv, take into your consideration, t h e veettliar circumstances in which this Island is at pre_ sen t placed, and ntike a full provision for the exi.: ( %cies'of the Serviceaccordingly. " Gentlemen of the Council, " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the " L!' I shall direß the necessar y P a pers to be l a id o re you, in order to explain the nature of the j e "lmunications which I have had from His Ma „,stY's Ministers, Upon the su bj e d of The present Tuesday morning at two o'clock, the loth Regi. i ri m e nt of Light Dragoons marched from the Barracks Spanish Town to Fort Augusta, for the purpose of embarking for England. The 83 Regiment took Possession of their quarters at si:c o'clock the same 41Orning. A Letter from Tunbridge mentions, that •the I° Pite of conversation there is on a very melancholy zitibjea,, Colmel Hor,w ELL, a gentleman of that V a ce, a widower, pos sess i ng the most amiable cha -a`Liery had six Son s , five of whom he lost• at an i i ar LY age by a concurrence of unfortunate events, and ixth, a y oung man o f great prom i se , went a few Yea rs since to India, where he had realized a hankt .i,(2nle Proper t y b y hi s own i n d ustry. I n t h e l ast ritVer.the F at h er rece i ve d f rom hi s darling • Son, he og u ainted hi m t h at h e W as on hi s way to E ng l an d rj a , s s a short ti me among his friends. The corn c' •,,,"'tion was a su bj e ct o f muc h- j oy to t h e - i -r !nt, who anticipated the pleasure he should " I ve from seeing the - only surviving branch of his fz m'lY ; but what were his feelings when he receiv ,shia. few days ago a letter from the Captain of the infor - m . him that the Vessel had arrived safe • I n the Downs,:. but that his Son fell overboard, '3ll s their - ; to the Cape, and . thOugh every exertion a used to save him, he sunk and appeared no more. i i ti L ast v week a melancholy accident happened to a er e of on e o f the baggage waggo ns , a b out two p s , west of Shorehatn. This unfortunate man , i t o _P t ears, as he was c a r e l ess l y wa lki ng b y t h e s id e 3kit_he thill.h orse, inattentive to the danger of his wt(?a!ion, suif erQ d t h e wheel to Foss upon his heel, annaie,ll, throwing him down, passed over his body and crushed him to death. 'counts Last ':arcely Physi. sent a of the did at z3l of fy tic in tic p that )er. trade tal of on a Ic ssern.. ; the rGEN D Ye- City n the I the r th 6 ans ; ins? tfrtkEymo uriP, AtausT zo. LAST night MEIR MAJESTIES and the PRIN.. cEssEs went totthe Theatre, to see the Comedy of The Heir at Law, and the Entertainment caned Of Age To-morrow. In the Play Mr. ELLisToN performed the part of Door Pargloss ; and in the Entertainment, Frederick. Mrs. MILLS sung the Dancing Song in 11 lionducani, which gained her great applause. TgEIR MAJESTIES and the Company present were highly delighted with Mr. ELLISTON'S per formance. This morning Hrs MAJESTY and PR INC Ess AUGUSTA bathed. Atter breakfast THEIR MAjEeTtES and the PRINCESSES, accompanied by the Marquis of SALIS BURY, Lord PAULETT,. General GARTH, Colonels CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY; Ladies CATHCART, RADNOR, STAWELL, arid CRANLEY ; Mr. and Mrs. FREMANTLE, Mrs. DRAX, and Mr. GOR DON, went on board the Royal Yacht. There were a great many Sailing Boats out, the,day being fine. NORIVICH, Auc. COUNTY SCRUTINY. The following is the result up to Monday's ad journment : Bad Votes struck off Mr. Coke's Poll of - - 4317 Total from August 4 to August 9 Present state of Mr. Coke's Poll - - - - 4275 Bad Votes struck off Sir J. Astley's Poll of - 36tz Total from August sto August 9 -- - - 3 8 Present state of Sir J. Astley's 101 l - - - - 3574 Bad Votes struck off Colonel Wodehouse's Poll of 3517 Total from August sto August 9 - 75 Present state of Colonel Wodehouse's Poll - - 3442 Present majority of A stley over \Vodehouse - 132 Lieutenant General Ross, Surveyor General of the Ordnance, left Dublin on Friday morning, ac companied by Captain DEBUTTS of the Royal Engineers, to visit and inspect the several military depots and coasts of that Country. Lieutenant_ Colonel Twiss, of the corps of Royal. Engineers, arrived in Dublin on Saturday morning from Eng land, upon the same duty. The ToxornoLlTE Society met at their ground behind Go‘ver.street, Bedford_square, on Monday last, according to annual custom, it being what is technically termed the Prince of Wales's Target Day. The heat of the weather prevented any con.iiderable exertion before dinner ; but after the genial repast, the contest was strenuously disputed. The shooting being concluded about eight o'clock, the " merry men" retired to their Pavillion, and the luxury of cool wine, when Mr. CAZALET, as Captain of the preceding year, being in the Chair, announced that the honours of the day had fallen on Mr. S HEPII AR D, as Captain of the Target ; Mr. MASON, as Lieutenant of ditto; Mr. CR UN D EN, as Captain of Numbers ; Mr. SIIEP II A RD, as Lieutenant of ditto. The Hawkers of Paris, it seems, went about the streets crying the New Constitution under this title, "The Neu French Constitution, in 87 Articles, de_ creed last night."—As the People had little ex peaation of such a thing, public Curiosity was much excited, and the Hawkers made a good harvest. All Europe seems to be looking for Indemnities. —Even the Batavian Republic wishes to obtain its Contingent—it hopes to have a part of the Country Of Munster, and Prussia will cede to it besides, a certain Distrit on its Frontiers. The Members of the Municipality of Amster dam now take the title of Messieurs, while the Members of the Government at the Hague retain that of Citizens. It was stated in the Proclamation of the Consuls of the French Republic to the French People, on the 14th of July, " that at the Epoch of Peace, Institu tions, suitable to the French Cliara&er, ought to environ the Laws with an impregnable entrench ment." This phrase afforded much food for reflection. Many imagined they saw in it the approaching re_ establishment of the Clergy, the Noblesse, and the Tiers Etat, and even the Convocation of the States, free and unfettered. The Abbe StE YES, observing, in the commencement of the Proclamation, that there were no longer any heads which did not bow down beneath the Empire of Equality, and think ing, at the same time, of the Legion of Honour, could not help saying, like another CAT°, " Truly, we have a very pleasant Consul." At the late Assizes at Gloucester, a Bill of In dktment was preferred by the Commissioners of the Navy against a person who had long enjoyed a place of considerable trust under them, for feloni ously converting to his own use, timber belonging to His Majesty, in-Dean Forest. The Grand Jury returned the ,Bill a true one ; and the Judge imme diately granted a warrant for his apprehension.--- He will be tried at the next Assizes. At the above Assizes, a very decent-looking young woman, of about twenty, was tried for the murder of her bastard infant child ; but from the extreme good charaaer she had given her, and the remarkable affetion and attention she had always shewn to the children of others, and from the• pro b Ability that she might have destroyed the child un intentionally when she delivered herself (it being her first child), in her own room, without any as sistance.whatever, she was acquitted, to the uni versal satisfaClion of the Cckirr. She was tried by that acute and learned Judge Sir SIMEON LE BLANC. It is a pity the man who seduced her escapes punishment. An Appeal, of some importance, was decided at the Shrewsbury Quarter Sessions. Me Appellant was Mr. Gittins, jun. a renting fanner, at St. Chad's, and the Respondents, the Direaors of the House of Industry. The objea of the Appeal wag, to be relieved from the burthen of a second Parish Apprentice. The decision went against the Ap_ pellant, the Court being of opinion, that persons ought to take apprentices in proportion to the amount. of their Aslcsments to the Pours' Rates. By this decision it appears, that a person rated at 4001. a-year . is compellaW to t;11(e thirteen Apprentices before another rated at 301. a year is obliged to take one, SURREY IZES. curLDFu%n, Aud. 10. Erd , er Dawkins, Alaly Cm2 7 4 15,: i and Ann Stevens, were indicted for assaulting- MoSe... Murphy, in White Lion court, Tooley-:;tieet i , Borough, eid taking from his person a bag containg three O n e_ pound B an k Notes, two 75. pieces, a zs. 6d. in silver, and other monies, his property. It eppear ed the Prosecutor had been violently assaulted by a number of infamous women who frequent the avenues about 'fooley-street, and had been rob bed. He immediately complained to the Constable of the night, who, from the description given, was induced to think the Prisoners, or sonic of their companions, had committed the depredation com plained of ; he therefore took the Prosecutor to a house in the above Court, where he found a number of wretched Females and same Sailors, ricrtint! in perfea nudity. The Prosecutor immediately ilen_ tified the three Prisoners as the women who had surrounded him, and forcibly taken his money. The evidence, however, as given in Court, was so broke in upon and unsupported, that the jury thought the safest way was to acquit the Prisoners. The trials on the Pleas side were principally in di&ments for not repairing the highways. One of these was against the Parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, for not repairing a road from Camber‘vell to Croy_ don, across Norwood Common, which it was con tended had been a public highway time immemorial, and that the inhabitants living on a certain part of the Common had no means of getting to their dwell ings but by this road, now rendered impassable, " Unless they went in the newfangled way of a bal loon." Notwithstanding this assertion, the par_ ties failed in proving it to be an established carriage_ way, and a verdil was given of Not Guilts . Mr. Mr. GAR ROW then wished to make it appear that the , indiament was frivolous and vexatious, which was over-ruled by Baron MACDONALD, who agreed the prosecution was a very foolish one, though he could not believe it had been brought with a view orrly to put the parishioners of Lambeth to veXa 'don and trouble. In the case of GILL BAR RATT and others, an ailion for false imprisonment, the Jury gave a Vet did of 4.05. damages. The Plaintiff, it appeared, had been mistaken for another man of the saite name, and arrested. He was taken to a spunging_ house, where he was confined for three whole days. Mr. GAR Row defended the aetion, and from his re_ presentation of the Plaintiff's character, the Jury were induced to give such small damages, AUGUST 11. George Brown was indided for feloniously as. saulting, Sze. Elizabeth Wyles. The Prosecutrix is a little girl, about twelve years of age, of a delicate and rather emaciated appearance. Her Evidence was given very colld. edly, as follows :—She went out in the beginning of July to gather hurts, with two little boys. When they had filled their baskets it began to rain ; she then went towards home, and on her way met Brown, who asked her to stand up out of the rain. She did so; and after a few- minutes he went a little way to see if it had left off' raining. On his return,' in a minute or two, he assailed her, and acted as the Indiftment charges. After he had perpetrated the atrocious crime, he offered to give her a halfpenny nor to tell; she said she would tell the woman she lived with how he had served her.— He said, if she did he would kill her. In conse quence of this threat, and the fear she had that her mistress would beat her, she kept it secret till near a week after. Susan Sweatman corroborated the testimony of the Pr6secut rix. Mr. Newland, a Surgeon, was called id to exa mine the girl w4ieu the complaint was made. Upon examination, he was not satisfied that the Prisoner had completely effeded his purpose. The Learned Judge, from this evidence,' was of opinion that the safest way would be to acquit the prisoner of this charge, and he would take care that another indiament should be preferred against him for the assault. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, acquitted the Prisoner accordingly. William Thomas, a black, was tried for stealing in the dwelling-house of Peter Malone, sundry articles of wearing apparel, his property. The Jury found a Verdict of Guilty of the simple felony ; and the Learned Judge, after a very severe reprimand, passed sentence of Transportation for seven years on the Prisoner. Michael Wood was indicted for feloniously steal« ing a brown horse, the property of Percival Evans, Esq. of the value of 301. and convicted upon the clearest evidence. George Blown was again put to the Bar, to take his trial for an assault, with intent to commit a rape on the body of Elizabeth Wyles. The evidence was precisely the same as on the former trial.—The jury found him guilty. The Learned Judge, in a most impressive speech, expatiated on the enormity and atrocity of the Prisoner's offence. He then passed sentence on him : to be imprisoned for the space of two years, and during that time to be kept eo hard labour. SUFFOLK ASSIZES. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, AUG. Wsliam Gibbs, a youth cf i 9 years of age, be. longing to the r3th Regiment of Dragoons, was in.. diaed for robbing Miss Ann Buckingham on the King's highway, in the p a ri s h o f K esgrave , o f a silk purse, - containing one guinea in gold and 55.. 6d. in silver, on the I 7 th of May last. It appeared on the • trial, that the Prisoner was riding on the turnpike-road, when he accosted Miss Bucking_ ham, and another female with her, and request ed the former to give him a shilling, but she said She liAd not one, and asked her companion to lend her one ; this, the Prisoner (who seemed attracted b e her person) said, would not do, as he must have one from her, he•then laid.his hands on her shoulder, aid pushed her down ; she said, if he would let her get up, she would give him one, which he accord ingly, did and when she took out her purse-for that purpose, he snatched it from ; her, but she from L'lmi rc!O7ncd it irit•6 her pocket ; after which, Miss suff:rea him to put. his;li irid iilto hei- po , J;tr, io:c1 tA ,- ,e out her purse ; this he ItJCi no sooner &me, thall the Mail-coach ccaiiiiig op ; lie galloped cl-F vt.itli the same, and a hue and cry being inBtan:lv aide, Was soon after apprehended in Ips.vich Barracks. Oa the part of the Prisoner, it was very ably con; tended by Counsellor AI.Dr that the capital: part of the Indi f ,!tment would nut hold g<ioti, as the, Lady confes se d h erse lf, d ur i ng the whole time, not to have been under the least influence of fear of her life ; but the judge was of opinion, that the raking of any thing from a person against t!,,•ir conse!tr, justified the formal words of the indithnent in such cases. Captain Morris, of [he 13th DragoOns, gave the lad a most excailent charaaer for honesty col integrity ; and related, that the Prisoner, who - had inlisted into a Feneible Regiment at Southamptoni was employed on ship board as a servant to the 01.. fleets in their passage to St. Domingo, in the WT:st Indies, and had constantly slept in their cabin ; where he might have had many opportunities of ri!.. feting ; that Captain Morris had afterwards taken him as a servant,, during which period lie (Captain M.) Hinted under the afliiClion of the yillow fe ver, which deprived him of his senses ; arid that the Prisoner was tlTn intrusted with his property to a very conside ra bl e. amount ; that at the p art i eu: lar solicitation of the Major of the Regiment, he parted from him in order that he might accompany the Major from St. Domingo to North America during which passage his master died of the yellow fever, leaving the Prisoner in sole possession of all - his property, to the amount of nearly Soool. all of which he faithfully delivered up to the proper Claimants thereof, although in a strange Countrv, where he might easily, if he had been dishonestly disposed, have sequestrated it to his own use. Capt. Morris further declared, that he would, if acquitted or discharged, take him again into his service, in preference to any other man in the Regiment. These circumstances, together with the appear ance of the Prisoner, who was a handsome; well grown young man, naturally excited the commisera tion of the Court ; and Lord ALVANLEY ) in passing sentence upon him, which he did in a most impres sive manner (die necessity whereof he pointed out, from the determination of His Majesty to make ex amples of . the Military whenever guilty of violence, theft, or outrage), was himself so sensibly affected ; that at the conclusion his Lordship burst intotears,- and nearly all present participated with him. The Prisoner was also so deeply affeted, that he fell down, and fainted in Court. • Previous to the Judges 'quitting the town, the Prisoner was reprieved. DAVIS's . STRAITS FISHERY. By the ship job?: and Maesaret, of Newcastle', Which arrived at Stromness the- ult. we have the following account of the Fishery Of LoN no:v.—The D.ellisls, Staver4 to fish; Moss, Clay, 8 do. Britannia ; Westwater, 7 do. Hui-L.—Brothers, Edmonds, to fish ; Gardener and Joseph,. Allan, io fish; Thomas, Marshall ; 13 do. Holdernesse, • Page, 13 do. Oakhall, Colley, 8 du. Katharine, ----, fish. NEWCASTLE.—SarahI Stephenson. rz fish ; Everetta, Bos well, 15 do. Middlet on , l o h nson, 13 d o. Clark, to do. Content, Thompson, ti do. Prescott, Dacres, it do. John and Margaret, jamson, 12 fish. 1 Captain jAmsoN, of the ,7ohn and Margaret, died on the passage home, the 6th ult, much re gretted. Several men have been lost at Davis's Straits this season, owing to the fish being very PUBLIC-OF FICE,WHITECHATEL.-Yesterciay a respcaable young man, of the name of Hill, foreman and manager to a Mr. Goodley, tailor, near the Lon- . don Hospital, exhibited a complaint against 7ere miah O'Leau, a tailor, with coming to his, house in Buckle-streer, Goodman's_fields, late on Tuesday night, armed with pistols, and a challenge in one hand, to fight him as, a man of honour; he hid three other persons at his back tb support him, whilst the unoffending Hill was sitting in his par lour with his wife, ready to lay in; a scuffle en. sued, and by extraordinary exertion he secured him, and fixed him in the watch-house; not without re ceiving severe blows and kicks, which bore con_ spicuous marks before the Magistrates ; the challenge was shcwn to them. The following is an exact copy of it • " Mr. Hi 11; your caraacr of me in Mr. G.oodley's shop seems very hodious, 'therefore I take a proper opertunity of seeing you to morrow morning at six o'clock, in the fields opposite to jeane Street, tail not at your Apiyaril, or I shill be under the Desegreable Neecesity of affronting yow at the next place that I shall meet you at. " JZREMIA O'LEAR'i." Three of his Brethren of the Thimble that were concerned with him, came to the Office to he the result of the fate of their comrade ; when they were tiken into custody as necessaries, and were ordered to priA)ri for want of Sureties, to appear at the , Quarter Sessions. The Gazette Extraordinary of Modrid has an nounced, that his Extellency CHARLES CARACC I .oLo, Duke of St. Theodore, Marquis de Capriglia, &c. &c. Ambassador Extraordinary of his iVlajesty the King of the Two Sicilies, espoused on the 16th of July, with all the pomp and ceremo nies usual in Spain, and in the name of the Hereditary Prince of the Two Sicilies, • the Infanta DONNA MAR IA ISAB ELLA, Princess of Sp;tin. Edward Richards, who made his escape from the Howe of Correction some time ago, was yesterday apprehended, c.oneeided under a bed in ;4italtieids. He stood committed for two years, by sentence of C Airr,‘ for butiock-hunting. Beitg examined and i lentitied i he was fully committed. Ou Friday last Mr. Dicker, who keeps the Hotel, at Crokroweil, between o.lkiemton and Exeter, fell from a colt he was breaking in, and so shock -I,lgy broke his leg, that the bone came through the skln, twisted his toes round, and doubled them up to the calf. The Neptune, Cushley, from New Orleans to New Providence, is lost on the Coast of Fiorida.— Crcw saved, and great part of the Cargo eneCtel o be saved.