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IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 4.—ln the Court of King's Bench, this day, Mr. BURROWES rose in behalf of Philip IV. Harvey, Esq. Ploprietor of the Freeman's Jour- Nal, to spew cause why the rule, granting an at tachment against him, should not be - made abso 'tue. He argued at great length, and was followed. on the same side by Mr. GOOLD. The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied, when the three 4 1 .idges, DAY, DALY, and OSBORNE, (the Lord Chief Justice not sitting in this case), delivered their opinions seriatim, and all conceived that a libel more unequivocal in its object to influence the .fury not to take the law fror the Court, on account of the insinuation that the Chief Justice was a party concetned in the con struaion of the Convention AL-t, they had never before known. They accordingly declared the Rule made absolute. Mr. FINLAY then rose on behalf of Washington Greville, Proprietor of tie Evening Herald, to shew cause why a rule should not be made absolute for granting an attachment against him. The publica tion appeared to be very contemptible, being de clared to be nothing but a farrago of nonsense. The Court made the rule absolute, but did not think the Crown Lawyers would bring the Proprietor up for judgment on such a contemptible article. Mr. KEMMtS, on behalf of the Crown, moved the Court for leave to substitute a service on the house of Robert Conolly, PrOprietor of ThelVeekly Messenger, instead of personal service. He lead an Affidavit, which stated, that a person had several times called at the house of Mr. Conolly to serve him with the notice, but that he was denied to him, and said to have been in the country. The Court said, that the affidavit did not . go far enough to warrant them to go out of the usual mode of service in this case. Leave not given. The following is what Mr. BusROWES said yes terday, when the Attorney General declared that it was not his intention to proceed to trial against any of the other Catholic Delegates : " I cannot doubt that the Attorney-General wishes well to the tranquility of the country, and that to relinquishing these proceedings he wisely promotes it. For the Roman Catholic Delegates, and particularly for the Earl of Fingal, I shall only say, that their uniform wish has been to conform to the law, and their uniform effort in these proceed ings has been, without entertaining any disrespea to this Court, to refer the question to law to the Bernier resort. The Earl of Fingal aced under able _advice:in asserting a constitutional right, and was de termined to submit to the decision of the law, but felt himself justified in having that law decided in the most solemn manner authorised by our Consti tution. In this spirit, at the head of the Catholics of Ireland, he gave up what he conceived to be his right at the first approach of a Peace Officer_; in this ►pirit he has instruacd me, upon the trial which is now relinquished, to admit all the fads of the case, and make no other struggle than that the Jury should not, by a general verdia, preclude his right of appeal. He is happy, however, that the transac tions which have occurred, leave it still in his power to compel a discussion of this great question, and that the Attorney-General will not always lave it in his power to prevent it." We understand it is in contemplation to establish regular packets between' Canton and South Ame rica, there being no obstacle to the navigation of there seas. The measure, it is calculated, would be produaive of much advantage to the Company. The Hungarian Diet continued its deliberations so late as the sth January. Their discussions,which relate solely to the finances, were kept secret. The Members, it was said, thonght the Court required too great sacrifices on the pan of the nation, and did nut theretere sufficiently approximate to the plans proposed by the 'Ministers. On Wednesday, or early on Thursday morning, the mansion-house of Johnson, Esq. at Welling in Kent, was broke open, supposed by forcing open the coal cellar and letting a boy or slender person down by ropes. The Butler was awoke by their noise fs etween three and four o'clock : he thought it was the female servants who had got up to work, but not being able to satisfy himself, he got up and took a loaded blunder buss with him. When he got up to the pas sage leading into the sitting parlour, on bearing some persons there, he supposed they were the fe male servants, and exclaimed in a joke, he would blow all their brains out. Upon which three per sons rushed upon him, seized the blunderbuss, and in the snuggle it went off. The robbers then attacked the butler very violently, no doubt, fur the purpose of muelering him. They made a blow at his head with an iron Crow, but he being a tall powerful man, it onls struck him on the neck under his chin; they got him down, knelt on his stomach, &c. ; hos'ever, he struggled bard for his life, and got his hand to the bell-rope, and pulled it with great force, and called murder : this alarmed the family, awoke a footman, who came instantly to the butler's assist ance, and on his al ptarance the robbers ran out and made their escape. They bad found the keys with labels on them of the locks they opened, but only carried off between .50 and (so guineas. The jewels and other valuables were packed up in a green gloth. The butler thinks one of the robbers was a great girl, who held the dark lantern, as, when he was down, he observed two strings behind the waist, which induced him to think it was a pelisse, and not a great coat. He has been confined to his bed ever since, expeEtorated blood, and is very bad. A pig, the property of a poor man, at Downham Market, having fallen into a well, a person named Samuel Hall, a chimney-sweeper, c ffned his .ser vices, and descended the well by meat s of the cre vices and interstices of the surroundinglorick-work ; or getting below, the whole ponderous mass t instantly gave way, and immured him therein. No sooner was it known, than a vast concoutse hastened to the spot and by the assiduous and ene:getie endeavours of about twenty men, the objet of their sea ch was extricated from his subterranean prison, and, except some slight bruises, (the consequence of the ptes sure which hedged him in) unhurt. He was found in elect posture inclined to the side, and so slight seas the injury, that the attendant surgeon deemed even unnecessary to let him blood. .?-111111 Cll I'dPERs. KINGSTON, DEC. 7, 18 t.—A Special Slave , Court was held at the Court-House on Wednesday, for the trial of the following slaves, viz. Peter, Ccesar, and Thomas, the property of Mr. Peter Raymond, and Bleechie, belonging to a free black woman, named Marie Jeanne, for- wilfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, mur dering Mr. Pierre Deschamp on . the 20th ult. by inflialing several wound, on and about his body, of which he died shortly after. The indictment, c. stained two counts, first charging the prisoners coile&ively with the murder ; secondly, making Peter the principal, and others accessaries. - Mr. DALLAS opened the business in behalf of the Crown, and cited authori►ies to prove that an accomplice was equally culpable in the eye of the law with tl►e pr►ncipal, and drew some distinc tions to be observed respecting the law on homi cide. Mr. Peter Raymond said, that the deceased was in his employ, and in good health on the 20th ult.; witness went into the country on the 17th, and returned on the 21st, when he saw the deceased dead, being dreadfully wounded about the body.— The prisoners were all under the dire6tion of the deceased, who had the superiutendance of his bakery. Ivhs. Raymond slated, that the deceased was, in perfea health on the evening of the 200; ult.; she resided in the upper part of the house where the murder was committed; heard a noise at night, and came down from her chamber; saw the ;de ceased covered with blood, and heard him bretthe twice ; all the prisoners were there, except Peter, who wai not present, but had been there when she went to bed. Adonis, a slave to Madam Masse, was in the room where the deceased was killed ; Peter, Csar, and Thomas, assaolted him ; the candle was blown out, and Breechie remained there ; Peter was the one that. k tiled him ; after he was wounded, they all went into the yard ; saw some blood on Cessar's hand, and heard Peter speak harshly to the de ceased when witness was going to bed ; perceived Peter with his hand lifted up, and a knife in it, before the candle was put out ; heard a try to put out the candle, when Thomas did so ; does not know if Breechie helped in the business. .• John, the property of Mr. Raymond, said, that when Peter was called by Thomas to go to work he refused, and said he would not ; the deceased gave him one stroke with a cowskin, when Peter called to blow out the light, and told Cxsar "to give him the thing ;" witness went up stairs to tell his mistress of the business, and Caesar requested him to hush ; deceased, after he was wounded, called out, " Peter has killed me ;" Breechie was in the yard, and not in the room when the candle was put out ; after witness came from informing his mistress of the transaction, he found Breechie and the other prisoners in the yard, with the exception of Peter. Dr. Chamberlaine, jun. deposed, that he inspea ed the bod: of the deceased, and found him most barbarously murdered ; he had fourteen wounds, one mortal one just above the collar-bone, which had divided the subclavian artery, and occasioned his death. Evidence for the prosecution closed, when Mr. GamsAm addressed the Gala in favour of Breechie, and stated, that no evidence was adduced to prove that he had assisted in the murder. Adonis was again called, and stated, 'hit Bree chie was in the yard when the candle was blown out ; that he was not in the bakehouse when Mrs. Raymond came into it, ar.d did not appear to be with with the other prisoners. John likewise was called, and said, when the de ceased cried out " Peter has killed me," Breechie was in the yard. Mademoiselle Vatelle stated, that she was at Mr. Raymond's the night deceased was killed ; she came down with Mrs. Raymond when the alarm was given, and saw Breechie, Thomas, and Caesar; con ceived that Breechie hid the appearance of blood on his feet, but could not be exactly certain, as she was much alarmed. Mr. DALLAS made some observations, and cited the law necessary to establish an abettor; admit ted that there was no evidence to convia Breechie; but ti.;Li there was little doubt of the guilt of the other three. The Court, in their charge to the Jury, were of the same opinion, when the Jury retired for a short time, and returned with a verdict of Guilty. against Peter, Caesar, and Thomas, and found Breechie Not Guilty. Sernence of Death was then passed on the three critnlhals, in the most awful and impressive man ner, to be executed on Friday morning, between the hours of eight and ten, at the place where slaves are usually hung, and Peter's bead to be afterwards 'se vered from his body, and placed on a pole; and they were exhorted to make good use of the stunt lime allowed them to live, in imploting forgiveness of the Alnii.,;loty for the horrid crime, they had — plr 7 pet rated. • Yesterday they were accordingly.condueled from the gaol to the Parade, where the sentence of the law was carried into effea, and Peter's head after rards cut off and taken to Spring Path, and placed on a pole. The unhappy criminals acknowledged their guilt, and called on the Alinighty tO forgive them. A Subaltern's guard of the 1 Bth regiment, with the city constables, attended on the occasion, and the awful ceremony was cond+rned with the greatest solemnity. The following account of a most sanguinary duel, which took place in America, was given in a leiter, dated Norfolk, Dec. 2 :—" Young Mercer (an Officer in the United States Navy, and nephew to General Mercer) received an insult froth the Mate of some merchantman—a challenge followed, and yesterday evening, about sun-down, they met with in a mile of the town; their distance of fighting was only sufficient for them not to touch the body with each other's pistols—the word was given—. both fired, and both fell dead. The whole town is in an uproar. The seconds have take►► safety by flight, leaving their dead comrades without a soul near them. Their bodies were brought to town last evening, and will this day be interred." LONDON : Printed by 'I I-10M A S WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden; and Published by WI I LIAM AR MI GE R SCRIPPS, South Molton-street, Gr)svzoor square, At the, Estal UFFICD, No, 112, Strand, were Advertisements, Orders tor ' the Puper, letters for the .Editor, (post-paid), must Le addrcivci. Po L tct. BOW-STR EET.--(1 - 1 Ftid3y night; George Dorien was brought to the Office, by Humphreys, charged by him with being one of the four prisoners who escaped from 'the House of -Cori-et:lion the preceding night. Joseph Beckell, one of the servants beloeg - - ing to the prison, identified the prisoner ay one of those who had escaped. He was committed. Charles Reeves, a well-known charaaer, was charged by Humphreys with aiding and abetting the prisoner's escape from the House of Corre6tion.— Lieckell, belonging to the prison, identified him as a constant associate of notorious th'eves. The prisoner was committed for farther examination. On Saturday eleven persons, chiefly residing in the vicinity of Newport-market, were brought be fore Mr. BIRNIE, charged by the Society for the Suppression of Vice with exercising their callings on the Lord's-day. The prosecutors, on the defend ants promising to desist in future, begged a remis sion of the penalty, which the Magistrate granted. Henry Gawler, the late Clerk in the Navy Office, charged with felony and forgery, and who was brought to town on Friday evening by Pearkes and Adkins, from Newcastle, was put to the bar and identified before Mr. BIRNIE and Mr. NAREs, by Adkins, as the person advertised. His wig, worn as a disguise, is considerably too small for him to conceal his red hair. He was committed for farther examination. John Caton wss brought to the Office on a charge of stealing a watch, the property of James Hart.— A Mr. M'Donald took him into custody on suspi cion, when he gave him a watch, which proved not to be Hart's, but the property of a young man of the name of Aldridge; who stated, that on Wed nesday evening he was met by a man like the pri soner, in High-street, St. Giles's, who forcibly col lared him and dragged him into Winkworth-yard, and robbed him of his watch, but he could not swear positively to the prisoner. The prisoner said, he had seen a man running away, and he fell down, and on his going to the place he found the watch. Mr. BIItNIE committed him for farther examination. Richard II addle was charged with aiding and abetting the escape of a numberot French prisoners, in conjtmaion with a man of the name of Webb, already in custody. La%ender and Vickery had been after the prisoner for some time. Last Tuesday, as they went in at one door of a public-house in Hythe, the prisoner went out at another. They then 'left the town, as if they had given up the pursuit, and kept away some time. On their return they had the assistance of some light horsemen, and searched the prisoner's house in Hythe. Not finding him there, they pro ceeded to the public-house where he had escapel from them, and found him in bed. He was.com mitted for farther examination. HORRID MURDER.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Bailey, 00 the Old Park, near Wellington, in Shropshire, was found murdered in a stone-quarry near that place : there was a deep wound on the crown of his head, another over his eyes, both ap parently made with a large sharp instrument, and two deep gashes across his throat: his head was dreadfully fradured in several places. His house was ransacked, all the drawers, &c. opened, every thing of value taken, and the keys were put in his pocket. There was no blood found near the body. Some suspicions being entertained respeEling‘ a neighbour, who had attempted to borrow money from the deceased, he was apprehended, and stands charged with the murder by the Coroner's Inquisi tion. It appears that the prisoner lived about a mile from the deceased, and one of theneighbours stated, that she saw Bailey go by her house towards that of the prisoner, about live o'clock on the night when the murder was committed. Another witness said, she saw the prisoner, about nine o'clock on th e same night, dragging something from a new built house, in which he carried on his business of a cooper—that he left the burden on the steps while he looked up and down the road, and then dragged it round 'he house. Upon examining these pre mises, much blood was discovered upon the -walls, and on the floor in the cellar ; the former had been scraped, and the latter was covered with sand : The prisoner accounted for this blood by saying, that part of a horse had been left there. A shirt was found under the coals in the cellar, having the ini tials of the deceased upon it. In the prisoner's house a cooper's adze was discovered, with marks of blood upon it, and the edge of which fitted the wounds on the top of the head and over the eyes of the deceased ; the fradures on the skull corre sponded with the hammer-formed part °lithe adze. The prisoner was committed to Shrewsbury county gaol on Monday. He was formerly a resident of that town. On Tuesday night, between seven and eight o'clock, as a servant man of Mr. Beal's, of Little Smeaton, was returning home Irom Sutton, he was stopped by two men, who dragged him off his horse, and stripped him of all his cloaths, and then tied him on the animal in a state of nudity, when, they Need some laudanum into his mouth, and severely cut hls lips with the bottle. He arrived safe into his mas lees fold-yard, where he was discovered in that wretched situation. His cloaths were afterwards found thrown over a hedge, and two notes, one for a guinea and the other a pound, were taken fic;nt his pocket. The Editor of Journal du Physique, published at Genoa, states that, by causing a very strong Gal vanic battery to aet on a mass of clHrcoal, a sub stance has been produced which appears to have the greatest resemblance to diamonds : he adds, that he has in his possession a diamond on which there are several black points similar to charcoal. The following advertisement is copied from the Plymouth Paper :—" Wanted a steady man in the seafaring line, not belonging to a man of war, for a husband for a widow woman. She bath a little pro perty, and one child. Tile man will be sure to meet with an agreeable partner, and good employment in the mercrient service. None bat a decent, middle aged ran need apply." On Saturday-, Benjamin Hitchcock, the letter carrier, underwent a final examination before Alder man Atkins, when he was fully committed. BIRTHS On the 4th inst. Mrs. Hume, of Petcy-street, of a Son- On Friday last, iVlrs. H. Periol, of Newington• place, Surrey, of a Son. The same day, at Portsmouth, Mrs. Dickens, of a Son. On the 7111 111S1. the Lady of 1 humus Neave, Esq of 3 still-born child. On Saturday last, Mrs. of Lawrence POUlltneY. lane, of a Son. PRICE GI SATU Bank Stock, 2;2 Navy 5 per C ent. 93 I rish 5 per Cent. 4 per gent. 79 78 3 per Cent. tact:. 63,-i 6z g 63 3 per Cent. Ceres. 6z Bank L. Ann. 16 a s.:6ths i\' ' ATiONAL Socu..T . ThHirs,lay Si as 1, 0 11, , n, at Si. Martin's 1,,i1. - ary, a rrieng of the G rieri Committee of the Nationa Society for the Elieli; tion of the Poor. Piesrnt--Th Archhi hop of Can terbury, in the Chair, Archbishop of Yo; k, Seri of Shaftesbury, Eirl Hardwieke., Bishops of London, Durham, St. Asaph, Salisbury, No wich, and Ches ter ; Loris Grenville, Bedesdale, and Radsrock, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Sir J:ihn Nichol!, Deans of Canterbury, Bocking, Archdeacin Cambridge, Dr, Barton, Rev. H. H. Norris, Rev. R. L , •ndon, Burton, Esq. G. W. Marriott Esq. Joshua Watson, Esq W. Davis, Esq. James Trimmer, Esq.—lt iS a most gratifying consifieration, that in the f,irther once of the objeA of !his most noble institution, we find the first in rank and c; trader of both political parties its the State cord ally urine, and give tlitii best support to a system, the adoption of which must: reflet_d eternal hoomir on its founders, while ef.s teEts, in improving the minds of the•rising gi:•nerati; on, cannot but prove a truly inestirmblq atid lasting blessing to ahe Empire. CAMBR IDCZ, Fe a. 7.—The Thdmas Freke, of Ern• manuel College, was yeteroay aiL:ll:ed Master ofits ; and the Rev. William E iston, of St. lohn's College, Briehekr of Arts, His Royal Highness the Plioce Regent has been graciously pleased to appoint the Rev. Win. Gate Townley, 13. A. to be one of his Royal Highness's Chaplains in Ordi nary. lohn Carstairs. Esq. of Stratioagreen, in the comity of Essex, high-sheriff fur the counties of Huntingdon net Cambridge, has appointed Mr. Sweeting, of Huntingdon, his Under. Sheriff: The Rev. James Oakes, M. A. !caw - of Tastock and Rattlesden, Sufi:ilk, was last wcF!lt presented to the cure of the endowed family chapel of Clpping, by C. Tyrell, Esq. of Gipping-hall. The Rev. George Kent._ 11. A. was last week licen s ed t o t h e perpetual yuracy of Horsham St. I , aith's, and instituted to the vicarage of t lor sham, in Norfolk, on the presentation of Lord Viscount Ranclagh. THE CuAC E.— Lord Foley's hounds meet on Wednesday at Wolverley, and on Friday at Walsall Wood.•- Lord Vcr non's hounds meet to-morrow at the Harrows, on Thursday at Burbage Wood, and on I.riday at snareston.—Larl Lams dale's hounds meet to-morrow at Mantar, and on Thursday at U tlington Wood.— Lord Yarborough's hounds meet on Wednesday at Burnham Warren, on Friday at Bradley, and on Saturda. at the Kennel.—Sir Thomas D. Hatton's hounds meet on Wednesday at the Kennel, and on. Thus day lighfield Shinnies —Mr. Osbaldestun's hounds meet to morrow at Gommingham Gorse, on Thursday at Gulthu* Hall, and on Saturday at Dunholme Corner.—The Q , mrna hounis meet o❑ kVednesdav at Holt, on Friday at Wimes would, and on Saturday at Swithland Slate fits.—The Lei cesur harriers meet on Thursday at Foston Grounds. The coursinA at the Earl of Carnarvon's ended un Tues day last. '[lie hires were in great abundance, and ran par ticularly stout. The Cup was won by Mr. Craven's oe lebr. :ted dog Cracker. The Silver Couples by Mr. fun t's Blue Dog, beating SWAG most capital dogs from Haws, Wilts, and BeffiS. A LUCKY Fatowr.—On the 14th of last Month, as Mr. Smithson, (J 1 the EdgeA are Road, was pass ing by Charing-cross, he was Maimed by the popu lace crying out "'A Iliad Bull," and on turning his head he perceived an infuriated animal clo,e to bun, and the only way to avoid him was ,to turn into some house. The first that ()tiered was a Lottery Office, and alter recovering hituself he thought, as he never had purchased a Ticket before, it might be a curious method Dame Fortune had taken to toss hint into her Lap ; he accordingly purchased Two Tickets of one Number, and was rewarded will 20001., as it proved a 10001. Prize.—On receiving his Money he bought two more Tickets in the Lottery to be drawn on TURSDAY, the 18th, and said, " Who knows but I may be highten.yd into 40,0001." Bring out more Barouches and Four, was often the ostentatious order of a late Nobleman whose fortune is supposed to have been gained in India, when the fat is, that be made 40,0001. by pur— chasing Tickets and Shares at CARTER'S Lucky Of— fice, No. 8, Charing-Cross, where we advise the whole Whip Club to draw up before Tuesday, the ►Bth inst. A farmer at Wingham, Kent, was last week con vied in the mitigated penaliy c f c 203. for mAing a false return of his age to exempt himsell Irotn ser vice in the Militia. MARRIED. On the 3tst ult. at Ipswich, T. Hartal, Esq. late of Park street, Islington, to Frances, only surviving daughter of the late W. Langton Williams, Esq. of Greenwich, one of the Coroners for the County of Kent. On Wednesday last, by license, Mr. W. Lund, Comedian, of the Aquatic Theatre, SaAer's Wells, to Miss ii . lary ►;an., field, daughter of Edward. 13antield, Esq. of King street, Sotto. On Thursday last, Charles Delves Broughton, Esq.. son of the Rev. Sir Thomas Brought on , B art of Dnddington. flail, Cheshirt, to Mary Anne, eldest (laughter of tolm A t. k;nson, Esq. of Bank, near Nlanchester, On Saturday last, Lord 13emick, to Miss Sophia Dubo. diet. The seine day, at the Abbey Church, Bath, Robert Rog cowe, Esti 01 Old Broda.street, London, to Miss (lye, of the tormer On the Sth inst. Mr. P. Ogilvie ' to. Eleanor, second dalghter of the late Christian Spflat, Esq. of St. tiCorge . 4.- place, East. On the 24th of May, tfito, at St. Martin's in the Fields, Licocnatit Culone! Thos. Gibson, of the East-India Curti—. pane's Service, to Miss llannali Faulkner, of Buckingham. street, Arle;iihi. At Leighirn Bridge, in the County of Carlow, Ireland, Lieutenant Wiiliarn Stock, of the Comity of Dublin and nephew to the Bishop of Waterteid, to Miss Gregory, daughter to Dr. Gregory, of that placz. L)/l;1). On Tuesday last, at Clapton-House, Mrs. Christiana Hutchins, a , t .-,ed 79. On the 6th lost. James Holbrook, Esq. of Welielose, square, in his 67th year. The same day, William Cadhy, Esq. of Old Bracknel4 . Berka, in the 67th year ut his age. On Wednesday last, at, the Rev. Mr. Heckford's, rear Cambridge, Mr. John Hodges, jun. Last Friday•morning early, alter a long and painful illness, at her house in 13o:ton.street, the Right Hon'. the Dowager Lady Scarsdale, aged 79 years. STOC'KS RnnY. India Stock, I mils 1?s. 17s. pr. New Ann. Excncq. Bills, 6s. Bs. pr. Otnnium,i I :nperial Ann. Cons. for 27th Feb. 62 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-NIOR ROW. Morning, 36 min. after sz. S Evening, s min;,after 1.