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Mit 1 I.S. ARRIVED-4 Waterford. DUR—I Malta, t Waterford, Dublin. THIS ii:ty A r T w7L.v...o'cLoczc. t 5 ; Ommium . . . . dis. 904 .A . i9i Consols S par Cent. Navy . T El E S U N. QUID DICERS FALSUM ALIDEAT ? N 0 N, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1812. We. this morning received the following Letter frdmFalcnout : FALMOUTH, • APR it. 13.--Arrived this day the ship Flora, Captain STODDART, from Jamaica in b 5 days, bound to London ; she brings an account of the capture of the dmethyst frigate, of 40 guns, be longing to Crirt I STOP II 53 ; having on board 400 men (her crew) and 300 troops, going against P ET io No by his Maiesty's ship Southampton, 32 guns, Cap tOin S r J. YE 0 ; she was commanded by a French. man. It appears Ih..t Captain Yeo bailed, to know to at nation she belonged, but could get no satis fatiory reply ; on firing a shot, it was instantly re turned. an action commenced, which lasted two Lours, xvt:en she struck, having all her masts carried away the flineihyst had 350 men killed and wounded, among the former is the French Captain. The Southampton had 12 men killed and wounded. After the capture, Captain YEO landed all the crew And troops of the Amethyst at San Domingo, and arrived at Morant Bay in Jamaica, with the frigate. A corvette and brig were in sight at the commence ment'of the a6lion ; the Manchester packet, Cap tain ELPHINSTONE, had arrived at Jamaica. Also arrived this day the ship Success, RICHARDSON, from Liverpool, bound to London ; and the Linnet cutter brig, Lieutenant TRACEY. The Petition from the Roman Catholics of Ire land is this day to be presented to the PRINCE RE... ostirnt the - Levee. The Petition is so long that we are unable to insert the whole of it : in sub stance it differs very little from those which have heretofore hen presented to the Legislature. It states, the Petitioners have taken every oath of fide lity and allegiance which had been prescribed by the Legislature, that they reje& as impious and un chr—ri,,n the• dete.table doctrine that it is law- ful in any ways to injure any person or per sons whomsoever, on the wound of t'.els be ing heretics, and &so that unchristian and im pious doctrine, that no faith is to be kept with heretics ; the Petition then procee Is to recite the Various tests to which they Lave subscribed. It ad verts to the testimony which the Irish Legislature has, at various times, borne to the peaceable de meanour of the Irish Catholics, and then proceeds to make an assertion which we are almost inclined to believe must i awe been inserted by mistake; it states, that " for nearly the entire period of the last twenty years, the progress of religious freedom has been obstructed : whilst other Christian nations have hastened to unbind the fetters imposed upon religi ous dissent, the Roman Catholics of Ireland have remained unrehev,-d." Whatever claims the Roman Catholics may think they possess to 3 liii compFance with the remainder of their demands, they surely cannot forget, and ought not to deny, the almost innumerable conces sions that have been made in their favour ; they ought not to assert that the progress of religious freedom has been obstruEted, or that they have re mained unrelieved. Those who profess themselves to be ungra:eful for, or insensible of, past conces sions, surely do not come with a good grace to de mand new ones. The following is the concluding prayer of the Petition : " May we then, with hearts deeply interested in, the fate of this our humble supplication, presume to appeal to the wisdom and benignity of your Royal Highness on bell of a very numerous, industrious, affectionate, and faithful body of people—the Ro wan Catholics of Ireland. And to pray, that your Royal Highness may be pleased to take into your favourable consideration tl,e whole of our condition—our numbers, our services, our merits, ;Ind cur sufferings. " And, as we are conscious of the purity of our motives and the integrity of our principles, we there. fore humbly [ray to be restored to the rights and privileges of the Constitt.vion of our Country ; to .be freed from all petrol and disabling Laws in force nvinst us on account of our Religious Faith ; and that we miy thereby become more worthy, as well as more capable. of promoting- the service of the Clown, and the substantial interests - of this great Empire, now committed to the unrest rifled wisdom of }'our Royal I.lihness." Yesterday, the PRINCE REGENT took an airing on }horseback. Tuesday the Duke of Yoiu held a Military Le vee at Office in the Horse Guards, previous to _ . NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, APR IL 15.-Arrived the AMEC,GALLI CHA 11, from Rio de Janeiro,with a cargo consisting of sugar, hide-s, coffee, &c. bound tri Jersey, put in lit•re by contrary winds ; sailed on the 12th of Ja nuary, and left at Rio de Janeiro the Foudroyant man of war, Captain HANCOCK, the flag-ship of Vice-Admiral De COURCY, and the following mer chantmen, viz. Betsey, Faith, and CEolus, belong ing to London, and the Hazard belonging to Edin burgh, which vessels were waiting for cargoes. Arrived the Sisters, COOPER, from London.; the Lord gautkesbury, STRtJGNELL, from Southampton ; and the Mercury, ADAMS, from Wale:. The Ocean, 98 guns, will sail in a day .or two to take the trade bound to the Mediterranean. DEAL, APRIL 1 s.—Sailea his Majesty's ships Theseus and Duncan for off Flushing; and the riper cutter, with a few ships, from Portsmouth. PORTS MOUTI!, APHIL 15.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Queen for Plymouth. Came into harbour his Majesty's ship Scar torough. FALMOUTH, APRIL 13. Yesterday arrived a Mail from. Lisbon ; landed at St. Ives by the Queen Charlotte packet,. Captain MUDGE, after a passage of it days ; the French had made several sorties froth B idajoz. Lord WEL• LINGTON has got_possession of one of their strongest out-posts, with the loss of about 200 met and 5 of ficers, in killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Warm woak is expeaed, as the garrison is very strong, and all picked men. SOULT and MkEMONT are making rapid marches, and there is not a doubt but that a general a&ion must take place. Three batteries were opened on the 24th. AU our troops are under canvas, and Lord WELLINGTON fares no better than the rest. We are extremely concerned to inform our Read• ers, that ;darn:ling Riots took place on Tuesday last at Sheffield, on account of the price of pro-, visions, and that. though military aid was im mediately procured, they had not been suppressed when our letters left that place. The town was much agitated, and it had been found necessary to place cannon in the windows of several houses. The QUESN will hold a Drawing Room on the 30th inst. and it is understood her MAJESTY will hold them once a fortnight afterw - ards, The day originally fixed on was the 23J, but it was post poned from that day on account of tne call of thc. House of being fixed for that day. The QuceN and PRINCESSES arrived at Windsor Castle, from London, on Tuesday evening. The Princess of WALES will give a grand dinner on Sunday to a selet party at Kensington Palace. The Marchioness of HERTFORD entertained a few distinguished Fashiunables, on Mondry night, at Hertford House, in Manchester-square. On Monday Mr. Sau was sent off' with dis patches to the Earl of WELLINGTON. RUFF, not DUFF, is the natne of the Messenger who bears the dispatches to Mr. FOSTER. INDIA-HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors was held, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective deMinations, Capt. Wm. Patterson, of the Thomas Grenville, for Ma deira, Ceylon, and Bengal ; Capt. D. Bownian,„of the Dia na, for Batavia ; Capt. G. H. Newell, of the Alexander, for Madeira, Bengal, and Bencoolen ; Capt. C. B. Tarbutt, of the Apollo, for Bengal direct. - LISBON, MARCH 31.—A letter from the camp before Badajoz, dated the 27th, states, that a Spa niard in the town had permission of the Gover nor to depart. On his arrival at the Beglish lines, he was searched, and there was fund, sewed up in the collar of his co;:t a stash note di retied to the French General Sault, informing him, that the garrison had only ten days am munition left. The writer adds, that in --conse quence of this information, it was thought that the Governor of Badajoz would not stand an assault, but that, if he did, it would cost a number of lives. It is said, that Generals Hill and Graham are going to form a jutietion to prevent Marmont from unitieg with the army of Sault. We were in hopes that some of the more re speetable characters in the City would have come forward in order to make a constitutional stand against the fadion of the Common Hall, who seem to be aeluated by the same principles as induced the French Reformers to overthrow the Government of their country, and, after all the revolutionary hor rors, to reduce it to the miserable state of military despotism, under a 'foreign Usurper. But indeed that fa&ion have exposed ftemselves • so much in the eyes of the public, and have rendered themselves so contemptible by their violence and vulgarity, that there is the less occasion for any such association as we have alluded to, in order to detect their artifices and frustrate their machinations. BARON GERAMB.—This contemptible impostor wrote before he embarked at Harwich a most furious and bombastic manifesto, proclaiming the injuries which he said he had received from the Brilist) Go vernment, and threatening the NatiOa with his ven geance. He declares that he will throw himself upon the mercy of the great NAPOLEON, who, he is sure, will pardon him for otreting his services to this country, and he adds, that • he will make his wrongS resound from the banks of the Seine to those of the Danube. These wrongs, he says, were intlieled upon him, not only by the Go vernment,_ but by the newspapers, anti he kindly gives us notice, that he will, some time or other, come here' at the head of his tremendons Croats., and take vengeance upon us. In the mean time he says he is quitting this country with no other pro perty but his sabre, though he brought 80001. into it. It may atlO:d some satistaaion to his cre- INIPROMPTIJ rrEARING• THAI Till - EVES HAD DEScr.Nrzn INTO sin IstLLAnn atsenay's HOUSE ; FROM A LARGE 3TAILE • OF MERCURY. The tale is not so very odd, That, aided by their patron God, The Rubbers should an entrance find ; But, mange all their art and toil, - They could but seize on vulgar spoil, And WoaTit and GEN I us left behind. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, 181 z. TUESDAY, APRIL 14. Sweepstakes of boogs each, h ft. colts, Bst. slb. fillies, Bst. 21b 1). Al. Ld Rous's c. by Quiz, out of Bird of Paradise .. Ld F. Bentinck's 1. by Walton, out of Gipsy The zooogs. Stakes, a subscription of wogs. each, h. ft. for colts, Sst. 51b. and fillies, Bst. zlb. rising three yrs old, R. M. LA Darlington's hr. c. by Dick Andrews, out a Buzzard .. mare, sister to Kite - - 1 Ld Stawell's b. c. Cato, by &mac), nut of Gipsy 2 Mr. Ladbroke's b. c. by Orville, out of Marianne 3 8 to r agst Ld Darlington's br„ c. by Dick Andrews—g to a agst Ld Stawell's b. c. Cato. The Claret Stakes of zpogs. each, h. ft . . colts, Bst. 71b. and ..... fillies, Bst..llb. rising tour yrs old, D. L. The owner of _ . . the second horse to withdraw his stake. Cell. Gower's b. c. by Walton, out of Currycomb's darn r Sir j. Shelley's Phantom - .. - 2 Sir F. Standish's Wellington - - 3 Ld Darlington's br. c. Hit or Miss, by Haphazard, out of YEthe - - 4 Mr. Peirse's .gr. f. Albuera, by Hambletonian or Be ningborough, out of Constantin - 5 - ton to 5 agst Gen: Gower's b. c. by Walton -5 to 2 on Phantom-6 to r agst 1,,d Darlington's br. c. Hit-or-Miss. Fifty Pounds by Subscription, for 4-yr olds 7st. 91h. 5-yr olds Est. 31b. 6yr olds and aged Bst. 71b. Last three miles of B. C. Non subscribers to pay cgs. entrance. Ld jersey's b. h. Langton, aged • - t Mr. Goodisson's gr. c. Bustler, 4 yrs • .. - 2 Mr. Batson's br. h. Illurnination, 5 yrs - - 3 Langton, even. The King's Plate of roogs. for mares, 3-yr olds Bst. 41b. 4-Yr olds, 9st. 41b. 5-yr olds gst. tolb. 6-yr olds and aged test. Last three miles of B. C. Mr. Norton's b. f. Variety, 3 yrs - - t Gen. Gower's b. 1. Donna Clara, 4 yrs • - - 2 Sir I. Sliel ley's b. 1. Stingtail, 3 yrs - - 3 Ld Suflield's ch. 1. by Alexander the Great, 4 yrs - 4 Mr. Dundas's gr. 1. Witch of Endor, 4 yrs - 5 Mr. Lake's ch tri. Britannia, 5 yrs - - . 6 to to i agst Variety-5 to 2 agst Donna Clara —a to t agst Stingtail. Mr. Lake's c. Daffodil (dead) by Giles out of Money Musk, agst Ld jersey's c. by Hyperion, out of Coarse Mary, R. IVI. 2ocigs. h. It. (No weights ir.entioned). WEDNESDAY, APRIL. li. Sweepstakes of 200 gs. each, h. ft. for colts, Est. 61b. fillies, Est. 31b. Across the Flat. D. of Rutland's bl. t. by Alexander, out of Rival a Gen. Grosvenor's ch. I. Guadiana, by Quiz 2 Mr. Lake's c. Pupil by Whiskey, out of Lady Mayoress 3 Ld G. H. Cavendish's br. c. by Trunipator, out of Ducat's - dam - - pd Ld jersey's c. by Hyperion, out of Ipswich's l ain pd D. of Rutland's bl'. I. by Alexander, even. The Port Stakes of roogs. each, h. ft. for colts and fillies rising lour yrs old, and not named in the Claret ; colts, Est. 71b. fillies, Sat, 41b. T. M.. M. with this condition, that it there were six or wore subscribers, the owner of the second horse was to withdraw his stake. N. B. Sir S. Sitwell was a subscriber, but is since dead. I.cl C. 11. Cavendish's c. Nlerryg,rc.tund,by Trurnpator z Col. Udney's Truffle; - - 2 Air. Glover's Cross Bow .. - - Mr. A narvvy' s Vagrant _ - I'd Ld Darlington's b. c. by Haphazard, out of Bacteta nal's darn - -. ' pd 3 to 1 agst Merrygrotind —2 to t on Truffle. Sweepstakes of logs each, h. ft. colts, Sst. sib. and fillies tat. 2il). T. Y. C. IA lersey's, c. by Hyperion, dam by Skyscraper 1 Mr. Nielfish's ch. t. Maria - - - 2 Sir C. Bunbury's Amelia - - 3 Mr. Thornhill's Histuria, by Haphazard, bought of D. of Grafton , - pd 5 to 4 agst I,d Jersey's c. by Hyperion. The Newmarket Stakes of s: , gs, each, h fr. colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, bat. 21b. D. M. rising three yrs old. Mr. Lake's b. c. Pointers, by Giles, out of Sag,itrut's . .. . . dint - . z D. of Rutland's 131. f. by Alexander, out of Rival 2 Ld I ersey 's br. c, by Ilyperion, out of Ipswich's dam 3 Ld C rosv,tnor'6 b. c. by Diamond, out of Adela Gen. Gower's b. c. by Orville, out of thistle, by .... , . Woodpecker Mr. Ba'dock's b. c. by Orville, out of Rosabella Ld Foley's ch. c. by Sancho, out of Darling Cell. Grosvenor's f. lava, by Alexander Sir C. Ilunbury's 1)1. 1. by Sorcerer, out of lessamy'S • dain - .. - pd Mr. Wilson's b. c. by Trumpator, dam by Buzzard, out of Camilla - - pd 111r.!Elwes's hr. f. by Orville, out of Trumpetta pd Mr. l'erren's f. by Orville, out of Dick Andrews's dam pd Mr. Lloyd names ch. f. by Waltom, out of Gipsy, by Guildford - pd Sir C. Bunbury's bl. 1, by Y. Whiskey,outot his Trum pator mare - pd Major Wilson's ch. f. by Giles, dam by Ilightlyer, out .___ of Teucer's dan4 - - pd Sir F. Stanilisn's c. by Mr, Teazle, out of Storace pd Mr. Andrew's ltasper, by Grasper, out at a sister to Peter Pindar - pd Mr. Stafford's b. c. ‘Vhitburn, by Firelock, out of Walton's dam - pd Ld F. G. Osborne's b. c. by Trumpator, out of Virgin pd Ld G. U. Cuvenklish's c. by Trumpator, out of Pagoda pd 4to 1 agst Pointers---3 to i agst D. of Rutland's tat. I. by Alexander---4 to I agst Mr. Baldock's b. c. by Orville. We regret to see, in some of the public prints, illiberal comments on Mrs. Swot)Ns, and hints that it is time for her to leave the Stage. rely, as there never was so great an Aaress before on the Euglish,,nr, perhaps, on any other 'stage, and as it is certain that she will shortly take her farewel of public life, all persons, of liberal taste and feelings would be rather anxious to prt,long her stay, than to goad her, ibt order to precipitate her departure. Her talents are still unimpaired, and her person has been. little changed by time, except in point of size. Hence every judicious Critic must on such a point agree with CHURCIIILL " Before such merit all ohjeaions fly, PKITCHARD's g(!nteel, and ARR ICK SIX feet high.•" A duel was to have taken place yesterday at Wimbledon Common, bet wecn two Gentlemen of the names of Fielder and Colston, the latter of wkom is an Artillery Officer, in consequence of a dis9nte at a coffee-house. Information of the intended meeting was .given to the Police, and whilst in the a& of taking paces, they were apprehended, and held in sureties to keep the peace. A shocking accident happened on Tuesday even ing, to a respectabh: elderly woman, of the name of Green, in Brompton-read. Mrs. Green bad hired a coach to set her down at Hyde-park-corner, a!id on another coach endeavouring to pass it, the drivers both set elf their horses at speed, and the coach which - Mrs. Green engaged was overturned by the wheel getting against a large paving stone. The consequence was Mrs. Green had her arm broke in t ;No places, and was otherwise so much bruised, that she lies in a very precarious state. The coach- ,- PREIVCH FROM THE IDURNAL DE PARIS OF APRIL to. If we take a view of the French Empire, we see that it to-day offers a development of forces, per. haps, unexampled. At the moment when near 500,000 men are marching from Hamburgh, the Wesel, Mayence, Verona, Munich, Dresden, and Berlin, to take a position upon the Oder and th 3 Vistula, whilst 50,000 men form camps of reserte for the, protthion of th 9 coasts of France, Italy, the kingdom of Naples, and the Illyrian provinces, and that six armies, amounting to nearly 300,000 men, are in -the Peninsula, 50 battalions are in March from difE-rent points, to replace, in Spain, seven or eight regiments, which have been re= • called, and some detachments of the Lopetid Guard, six thousand cavalry, have set out from the derCis to reinforce that same army—and all this is done without effort, without extraordinary means, without blistle. At the same time considerable fleets are equip. ped and armed ; several vessels will, in the course of the summer, be completed in Toulon; several are constructing at Venice, one has been launch e d at Genoa, many others are upon the stocks at Am sierhm, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cherboufg, and Rochefort. The funds to be appropriated to ships, roads, ca nals, bridges, new basins, and dock-yards, are, as we are assured, more considerable than those of last year; the consstrudion of a new basin at the mouth of the Loire is talked of ; the road from Hamburg/1 to Wesel will, this year, be finished ; thus a route of more than 80 leagues, costing more than ten millions, will have been finished in less than two years. The road 'from Amsterdam to Antwerp occupies three depots of workmen ; six of the same are employed upon that which coasts the Mediterranean, from Nice to Rome ; that f Parma to Spezzia. The causeway from Bourde to-Bayonne, across Les Landes, will he finished ills season. Roads, which will cross the Berre in diffe rent dire&ions, are, it is said, in contemplation, and the establishing of a direst communication with Sa ragossa, by travelling the Pyrennees, at a great num ber of points. The basin of Flushing will he completely finished before the month of June ; thirty vessels, complete ly firmed, will be able to enter it, an advantage which the old basin -did not possess, in which slips could not enter without having their guns taken out. This - year the Elbe has been sounded, and under stood.; that river possesses similar advaetages to those possessed by the Scheldt ; it has fine harbours, basins, and an arsenal for building will be establish ed there,, The works of the strong fortresses a . e pursued with equal activity. Three fors have been construeled at the Helder; forts Morlando, Do gemmu, and Lasalle, are entirely completed, and covered by inundations. Batteries defend the pa , - sage of the Helder, and protest the squalron. A. basin and a marine establishment have been decreed, and will be commenced this year. Already world three months' open trenches be'required + t take the fielder, that key of the Zuiderzee and H01L,40d., LAW REPORT. WESTMINSTER HALL, WEDNESDAY, Arrttl. This being the first day of Easter Term, the LORD CHANCELLOR find Judges came in procession to Westminster Han. They afterwards proceed,d to their respective Courts. COURT OF KING's BENCH, APRIL tc. Mr. Jusiice BAILEY came down as early as half past time, for the purpose of taking bail. The te non of the state of the Convi6ts on board the hulks at Woolwich was read, as usual on the first day of term, from which it appeared that they were in ge nerat sober and orderly. BUSH V. BELL. Mr. CARR moved for a new trial in this casts, which was tried at the last Sittings at Lond(.n, it was a case arising out of a Baltic voyage, and the question was whether a License granted io o na mercantile house to export goods, covered the goods of another mercantile house exported under that li cense ? He contended, that a license granted to A. B. was valid only lb them, and 'kit nobody but A. B. could export under that license. Rule Nisi granted. POLICE. BOW-STREET. --Yesterday a farmer, of Wit!Fog ton, near Croydon, was charged before Mr. NARgi, with selling 7`2 trusses of straw, on the 21st of last . March, the inside of which were of an inferior sort to the outside, at St. James's Haymarket ; the mid dle of the trusses being composed of short, rotten, wet straw. The defendant was convitled in the pe nalty of is. for each truss, and costs, amounting in the whole to 51: ss. HATTON - GARDEN.—Yesterday 11. Vise,' charged with robbing the Taunton coach of a parcel "contain ing property to the amount of 25001, on the night of the 2d of August, t 810, was brought up tor a . third examination, during which no further proof 0 t the identity of the prisoner was made; be was how ever remanded. At the Old BAiley nothinz of any public intcreA occurred yesterday. Biron GERAMB, according to the accounts which have been given of him, since his departure from this country, has appeared in as many disguises as PROTECtS ; but, amidst all his various change , ;, it noes not appear that there was any difference in his real charaaer. An Opera from Mr. LEwts, the Author of The Castle Spectre, and the great Horror-mon!. ; rer of the day, is said to bt: among the novelties forthcoming at Covent-Garden Theatre. Yesterday morning, hetwem the hours of four and five o'clock, a fire broke out. in Conduit-court, Long-Acre, leading into Hart -street, which burnt very fiercely for some time, cons wed two houses, nd damaged two more. Two houses at the corner of the court in Long Acre, owing to their back park being within a few tees of the houses destroyed, were danger, and had it not been for the exettion of Ihi firemen, would have certainly tell v,ctr'rus to the fury of the flames. Happy arc we th it ['o live`