The Sun. — London, England, 1823-02-26 00:00:00

which the designs against SL►ain are resisted by all but the Ultra Royalists. • FIZENCII FUNII3.—FEI 3 . 9.9., . Five per Cents. Highest • . Closed at 79 f. 60 c. Neapolitan Five per Cents. Bank Rock —1435 f. . c. Exchange on London—One Month... 25 f. 50 c• 'Three Months 25 f. 35 c. If the Brest fleet has sailed for Cadiz, it is expected that it may come in contact with the two ships which were sent to Cadiz from this country with gunpowder, immediately on the re peal of the Order in Council prohibiting the exportation of warlike munitions to the dominions of Spain! Will the French squadron suffer the powder-ships, if it encounter them, to enter the Spanish Port ? We apprehend not ; and in that case, the question of our neutrality will be decided by the shortest course that is possible ! BAYONNE PAPERS. The following are extracts from the Bayonne Papers of the 12th inst. received this morning : " The military preparations in our city are pro. ceeding with the utmost activity ; and if we rely on the general opinion of the agents of the Army of the Faith, the entrance of the Army into Spain will at furthest take place by the end of March. Their principal plan is first to attack. Saragossa, lvikich would serve as the centre of military ope rations, leaving a strong force to blockade Pam. peluna.—Mr. JAcriSON passed through this city yesterday for the third tithe, proceeding with all expedition to Madrid. 46 Letters from Saragossa, of the 12th inst. say, that the Speech of the King of FRANCE has pro duced the same effect there as in the other States of Spain ; and 'that they expect General BALLAS. TEROS, who is appointed to command the Army in that district. The Royalist bands continue to traverse various parts of that great Province, especially the country contiguous to Navarre and Catalonia. " The Constitutional troops not being in suf ficient force closely to blockade Mequenenza, cannot hinder their adversaries from going in and nut of that placeorhich is their principal point of support." [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] STOCK EXCHANGE, 114f-p«st Twelve &Clock.— This being Settling Day in the Stock Exchange, the chief business is the settling of accounts. En the earlier part of the morning, there had been already four defaulters, and more are expected. Consols opened at 731 and were done at 74, but went down again to 73 at which price they are up to this hour, with rather a heavy market. The Expresses in this morning from Paris bring the French Funds somewhat improved, 801. 10c., and Spanish 39.—We understand by the French Papers that the expected Expos 6 of CHATEAU. ISRIAND has not taken place as yet ; and it ap. years that the warlike preparations still con- tinue. I 1 OREIGN MAft K ET.—There is not much doing tl►is morning in the above Market. Spanish Bonds opened at ;;3-331-331- with a slack .Market. . . Last night, Mr. lluMc moved for an Address to his MAJESTY, praying that there should be laid before the House separate'estimates of the Revenue of several of the Colonies, in the last year, together with the amount paid by Great Britain, during the same period, fur their Civil and Military Expenditure, and the total expen diture for each colony. After some remarks, however, from Mr. WI LMOT and Mr. BRIGHT, tkie motion was withdrawn, on an understanding that the information required should.be granted as 'soon - as possible . . In the course of his Speech, Mr. liustc contended, that as the revenues of the Colonies are insut*ient for the expences of their 'Government, they are a source of - debility and of impoverishment to the country, rather than of power and of wealth, and that it 'would therefore be better to render them independent of Great Britain than to retain the unprofitable sovereignty which she now exer . - cises over theta! Mr. WILMOT both resisted the doctrine. of Mr. HUME, and pledged himself to chew, when the proper time ar rived, the fallacious .reasoning on which he had assumed that the colonies were rather a burthen than a benefit to the country. After such a pledge frOm Mr. WILMOT, it is unneces- sary to enter upon any serious examination of Mr. ROME'S propositions, or to illustrate the modes in which great advantages, as respects Political Power and commercial wealth, may be derived from Colonies, independently al :together of the profit or loss on the account, of their Revenue and Expenditure. It would be nearly as reasonable to propose that the public ro ads of a country should be 'abandoned to decay, 14 cause they occasion a heavy expenditure to the C9lolll Unity, without being directly productive of wealth, as it is to recommend the abandonment of Colonies on the narrow and fallacious grounds stated by Mr. Hu ME. It is not without much surprise that we find a respectable Evening Paper, which, till lately, seemed to have been a firm and per , )es,elin , g sup porter of Government, accu , ,ing, by implication, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and Mr. CANNING of 44 official ambiguity," because, when they both declared that new circumstances had arisen which gave a more favourable aspect to the state of affairs between France and Spain, they did ' not deem it prudent to outer into a farther ex planation of the circumstances to which they al luded.—Parliament, in both, Houses, appeared to be fully satisfied with what the Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Gentleman had said on the subject, and not one even of the most determined of the Opposition Members seemed to think that their language was marked by a greater degree of what is thus characterized as " official ambi guity " than was necessary, but rather inclined to give Ministers credit for sound policy in their endeavours to avert as much as possible the in calculable evils of war, rather than run the ha zard of promoting them by a premature disclo sure. It is to be regretted that any of those friends of Government, who have long been dis tinguished for firm and liberal adherence to its general principles, should now give the world reason to suspect that they are deserting a cause which they have hitherto so ably defended, and at a time too when Europe is in a very critical situation, and the affairs of France and Spain are not likely to involve those countries alone, but, considering the known feelings, and indeed the avowed objects, of other Powers, all Europe in the miseries of war. We may he permitted to say thus much, and the Paper to which we allude cannot think that we have ►►ny indirect views on the occasion, since it has obviously drawn on itself, not only in the French Journals, but even in those of this country, the suwicion of having deserted the ranks to which it had been so long and so honourably attached, and that suspicion will naturally be strengthened by the expression which we have noticed. At all events it must be highly gratifying to the wiser people of this country, and indeed to those of all others, to know that the two leaders of the British Ca binet are in complete unison of sentiment, and that no essential difference exists among the members of Government in general. CAPT. PARRY'S EXPEDITION.—The Editor o the Literary Gazette has made the (mode ho nor•able, in a letter to a respectable Morning Paper this day, for the imposition which had been prat. tised on }dm, in a pretended report of accounts of this interesting Expedition, but, in justice to our ourselves, it is proper to state that the con tradiction, FROM AUTHORITY, first appeared in THE SUN of Monday last. The Doke of YORK continues confined with indisposition, except daily riding out in his car riage. His Royal Highness generally visits the Princess SOPHIA. Two vessels are said to have availed them selves already of the permission to export arms and munition, and have actually sailed for Spain. The one a ship of 350 tons, and the other of nearly the same burden. It may be important to some of our readers to know, that there is a Committee formed from the members of the Corporation of London, to investigate the rights and privi leges of the fellowship porters, and to establish a fair scale of charges for the porterage, &c. of coals, corn, salt, and fruits.— The Liverpool charges scarcely amount to one-third part of those of London. AN ILLUSTRIOUS . ABSENTEE..—We have heard that, on the arrival in town of the first Personage in the State, his illustrious Brother, who has been so long labouring under severe indis position, hastened to pay his dutiful inquiries after his health. An illustrious Absentee, it is said, quickly followed, and, if we may credit the on Qs, he was not graciously re received ; indeed, we have a shrewd suspicion that, besides getting a severe lecture for want of dutiful inquiry, or attention, ,during the severe iiiness that has afflicted this Great Personage, he was reminded that, with it splendid income voted him by the nation, the country would be quite us well pleased if he should for the future ,condescend to spend it in England.— ( Morning . Herald.) AFFLICTING SUICIDE,—A short time since, Mr. Ssurn, an eminent grocer' in the 1110-street; Borough. sent a young man, named Lee, a near relation, to the. banking house of Sir JOHN Prwirouw, to depogit there the sum of fifty pounds, but the youth absconded with the money ; and although every effort was made by his friends anti relations, who employed the police, and disseminated. hand-bills, offering a large reward for his recovery, no tidings could be had of him till last week, when Sir John nog received a letter, with the banker's booir, which he had in his possesion, stat ing that the young gentleman who had that book, and who went by the name of Smith, had shot himself that morning at the Woolpack-inn, Ingatestone. Sitio the deceased arrived at the inn,' he conducted himself in very penurious manner, except once he went to a a certain sporting place, when he hired a chaise : he was particularly sober, and of a most muta ble disposition. It is said that on the ;day he committed the 'rash act, he begged of his hostess to permit a fortune-teller who was passing by to go with him into his room ; to this she ob. jected, but afterwards consented to his seeing her in the back parlour. • She was overheard telling hint he lutist cum the water or die. Whin she departed, he shook hands with the hostess, gave her a small present, requesting her to keep in re. membrance of him, and _gave , other sma ll p re sents to other members of the family. He then retired to his apartment, and in a moment afterwards the report of a pistol was heard, and he was found lying on the floor in a gore of blood, quite dead. A New York Paper of the 29th ult. states that ,YAna.Ow, a Moor, died at Georgetown, Colum bin tiu Sunday last, aged 130. years! iiiti ps-- , r • , ~,t. .4.* . f O L 4 A t , c ..,, ,e, 2 , r „ ...-, .:. ~ . ~, . 1..,_,1 ~ •. . y,g* k- - r, '' "' '' ''' 4 krt.N - ,44 - i i lk.i- , ,1. '• - ‘,.. - A- f . -,f,r4r,r- ,' . r ', ; k 4 " -;4 4Zr'; 'it -v.- •r , ..4 - .,..r• o' - > • ..: k' z ';,C. , •s; \ • , ); -,?:* (-:,...-,. ' -'''' • ,-,,%.- -.,\.\: ~ fi'4 4 -,- ' , . -,..• 0 6 . ~..*i-i- „ - - r, ---„, ~„ ~ i,, .4 ' * )1 :1:it <YE j , .* . j ~ -- 1' t;t1:4•.•-,' •P) • ' , ' .••,.,' I . . 'lL' s tf ,1::,ty.51 . •Pl' , • , Ai....ri .i , . p $l. , . Nil . • l'• ,„.... ‘. FASIIIONABLI: .AINIVALS. 'The Earl of Besborough, from his seat, Roeharnpton ; Sir George Pocock, Bart. from a tour ; Viscount Bernard, from his seat, Iver-lodge, Bucks; Lord Berwick, from his seat , Salop ; Lord Ilawke, from his seat in Yorkshire; Marchioness of Exeter, from her seat, Roehatupton ; Lord Langford, from his seat, Cooper-hill, Surrey ; Mr. Ileathcote, from Norman ton.park, Lincolnshire ; Sir Davidge Gould, Bart. ut Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Sir George Nugent, at Reddish's Hotel, Jel'inyn-street ; Dowager Countess of Pembroke, from her seat, Richmond-park ; Hon. C. A. Pelham, from his seat, Lincoln shire; Sir R. Peel, Bart. from his seat in StatfOrdshire ; Hon. Mr. Anson, from Staffordshire ; Lord Selsey, from his seat in Sussex ; Hon. 31r. Eardley, from Yorkshire. DEPART TritEs.—Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, Bart. from the Hyde Park Hotel, for Brighton ; Ifenry. Ileathcote, Esq. from ditto ; Capt. Bayard, Ist Life Guards, from ditto; for Windsor; Capt. Bayard, 15th Hussars, from ditto, for nouns ' low; 111 r. and .Mrs. Tomkins and Family, from Batts' lintel, for Ireland ; Non. Mr. Gage, from ditto; Mrs. Wi!son and Family, from ditto. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. On Sunday last the Duke of Sussex gave his first Grand Dinner at Kensington Palace, since his Royal Highness's re turn from the sea-coast. The same day Mr. alaberley gave a Grand Entertainment at his house in Grosvenor-square. Also, the Speaker and Sir William Pringle, Bart.' gave ele. gant Dinners ; the latter at his new residence in Stratford place. The Countess of Harrington had a fashionable Evening Party. On the day preceding, the folloAing Noblemen gave (hand Dinners :—The Earl of 1-larrowby (a Cabinet Dinner), in Grosvenor-square ; Lord Palmerston, in Stanhope -street; Vis count Cranborue, in Park-place ; Viscount Barnard, in Con naught-place. • On :Monday twatl Sidmouth gave his first Dinner, in Clif ford-street ; the Earl of Westmoreland, one in Grosvenor square; and air. Davenport, one in Lower Brook-street. , Bray ST. F.031.1)14D15, FEB. 2..1.—Tt is .expected, that; during this Spring, a Fancy Dress Ball will be held here, under distinguished Patronage, at the Subscription Assembly Rooms. These rooms are handsome, and have been lately decorated with a splendid brass chandelier, with the French lights attached to it,' and is valued at upwards of 110111. There is one great defi ciency in these , moms, which might be easily remedied, and that is, the watt of a retired Card-room. A Committee of five or seven Gentlemen is to be composed, who are to superintend the above Ball, and make arrangements about issuing Tickets, - so as to prevent any intrusions. The price of Tickets to be as usual, and the customary excellent snpper included. There is no doubt that it will be well attended, if we may judge by the names of those who have been occasionally selected for the Stewards. It will add, however, much to the effect of the night, if the glass-lights are brightened previously, and sufficient notice 'vit the night appointed is given. We were glad to see the' .late Ball numerously, and certainly elegantly, formed. SPORTING. ' ROYSTON PARK COURSING, F. 24. There was a fine day's play for the Cup and the Sovereigns, and the field was well attended by sporting charactert. • " THE SILVER cur. S W. Herd's Rose beat Mr. Hodges's wt. b. Mr. llarrison's'Marmion beat Mr. Rowland's Gypsey. M r . Speed's blk. d. beat Mr. James's Alameluke. Mr. Houldsworth's Spy beat Mr. Round's TUE Ti.ES Mr. Harrisem's Martnionbeat Sir AV. Herd's Rose. ,Mr. ifouldsworth's Spr beat Mr. Speed's blk. d. St:C(IND CIE. -I , oit THE Clip. Mr. Harrison's Alannion beat Mr. Houldsworth's Spy. TILE FIFTEEN GUINEAS. Mr. Flower's Fly beat Mr. Harrington's blk. cl. Mr. Jocelyn's Sleepwalker beat Mr. Frederick's Castle. Fly won with Sleepwalker anti got the Stake. • ROYAI4 HUNT. On Friday last his Majesty's Stag Hounds met on Engle. field Green, where a numerous held of sportsmen of all ranks were assembled.to partake of the day's diversion. About ten o'clock the Deer was turned out of the cart and took to the right towards the new Plantation, and soon a f ter t ur ning to the left down the hill to the Race.course, taking to the right towards Egham, when he soon was taken after a very short chase.-- The huntsmen and hounds, with a numerous attendance of sportsmen, went off immediately to Swinley, and had another line Deer turned out for the day's diversion, whfeh showed great sport, taking across the Forest to the left of Ha hut, across the country round by Guildford, taking through the in. closures and fleas to the left towards Cobham, when the deer was taken after a run of two hours. MATCU TO NEWBURY. Mr. West, the amateur, who started from Hyde Park at ten o'clock on Monday, to perform the distance of a hundred and twelve miles in twenty-eight hours, for one hundred, reached Slough, as was stated yesterday (twenty miles), in four hours. He went through Maidenhead (twenty-six miles) incog, before seven, having halted half an hour. Ile was at Reading at nine o'clock, and continued his journey the other seventeen miles, which he accomplished after a short stoppage, in half an hour less than half the time, after going to bed. He passed through Reading on his return about five o'clock, and he stopped and halted again at a friend's house at Hare Hatch, where he first felt fatigued. lie started from thence to do the remleining :12 miles in eight hours. He lost time in every hour, and from the badness of the roads, he gave in fifteen miles from home, and having less than three hours to do them in. The match has been attempted by others, but never yet accomplished. The last three hours spoilt the busmess. Poor McNtrEN %vas suddenly attacked about three weeks ago with an alarming illness, from which ho, is recovering, but_is still unable to leave, his hed.room. _ Mr. JOSEPH TYLER, the oldest member of the dramatic corps in the United StateS, died on Saturday even ing (January 25) in the 74th year of his age. This venera ble actor had finished the second night of a short engage ment at the Park Theatre; and after .having exerted him self in the character of General Washington, in the, play of " The Glory of Colombia," he returned to his lodgings complaining of an oppression on the breast; in two hours afterwards he expired. Mr. Tyler died of an organic afitction of the heart, produced by the accumulated troubles and anxiety incident to old age and misfortune. Mr. T. has left an aged widow and 14 grand children ( who were d epend ent on hint for sup port) to. deplore his loss, and to feel the want of his fostering cure. Mr. Tyler was a contemporary. of Garrick, Barry, and Mossop, as early as 1775. He was a distingUished operatic performer in the . provincial Theatres in England- In 1793 he arrived in the United States, and joined the Company then performing in the old theatre in John-street ; he continued, by his pro fessional talents, to instruct and amuse the New York audi ence till within a few years past, when not being able from his advanced age any longer to discharge the arduous withtlu tiei4 l ;t: ii f his profession, he retired from the stage, hearing the esteent of all who knew hint. Miring the present week, the piecers ern.• ployed in several of the cotton-mills in Calton and Bridge ton abandoned their work in I bodY, and refused to re turn till their employers, the working spinners, allowed t h em an advance of w age s. Persons of both sexes, front 10 to Years of age, are employed as piecers ; and th e i r wages , according to their abilities, nut front Os. to - 155., or Itia. a fortnight. What they demanded, wasan tuliance of Is. a fortntght. The cotton-mills in question were of course 'stopped. The idle piecers meanest about the streets threatening those who manifested any inclination to resume their labour. number• of them; both male and ferrule, were taken into custody, anti fined for breaches of the peace. Thig :morn ing, they had all returned Out their work, except those of one large Mill.—(o/asirote Chronic*. ) • POETR T. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. Error,: the ( Dublin ) fititlote, of Feb. :''', 1823.1 TUNE—" St. Pap'lek's Day in the Morning." A plague,on these Papists, they'll make shell a pother, When once they've eanosrtal their Bill to an Act, They'll always be teazing for something or other, Concessions . no quiet will purchase; What, thOugh - we give them Army—Navy— What, though we give them Law and State; ti e,ne'er shall dissuade Till JudgeS we've made 'em ; And when they're appointed, and duly annointed, Ile-wigg'd and be-rob'd, with, a Catholic oath, They'll tell us, that still they're °prettied—disappointed, And Must have a touch at our Churehec It is not just simply the sittin in Parini* ir.ent, Ever can satisfy suitors like these; 'Tae same sort of favour Guisrard to peat Harley meant, Papists would grant to the nation ; Can we believe their mild avowals Can we believe their qualified oaths— Don't we remember The fifth of November, With Piercy, and Cattail, the Parliament gates by, And Termonti, Tom 'Winter, and Garnet, and .Fawkes, And Digby, and Rockwood, who all lost their pates, by Their genius for asaassination: Trust not, my friends, to their'cringing and lowliness: Always the case when they want any thing, Set them once free, and for praise from his Holiness, England's tranquillity's bartered, Then with their signs, and shrines, and shrivings, Starving on fish, and stews, and eggs ; With vespers and matins, And Saints in rich satins, They'll touch up their Lordships of Durham and Winchester, London, and Ely, and Archy of York ; They'll light up their tires, and make their hot pinchers stir, England's poor Church will be martyr`d. Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, . Well we must fast by the rules of the Church : What's meat on thejhrtner, is death on the latter day, He who eats mutton is undone ; Then, on their knees, to saints in velvet, Kissing the stumps th.y stand upon; Cutting strange capers, And sticking up tapers, And, just as the vespers chime in with their merry ticks, Domine Francis drops in for a call ; And takes us to Smithfield to see a few heretics Burnt for the glory of London ! Then upon Sundays, and every Church festival, Singing, and dancing, and Op'ras. and Plays, Will driVe the folks mad, while the Priests, as the test of all, Give them a holy ablution, Protestant Parsons whipp'd and scoff'd at, Quakers and Methodists thump'd and ston'd ; A night joke to dish up, They'll broil you a Bishop, And then pay their Priest ; for, in their road to heaven, pence Serve them as well as at Knightsbridge or Kew ; His Rey'rence sends oil' to Rome two and seven-pence, Home comes a full absolution. All this occurr'd, and was found rather troubletonle,-7- Mary and James had a taste for the thing ; And though, in these times, clever speeches may bubble some, Turn to old History's pages ; Read about Ridley, Cramer, liohigate, Grey-headed Latimer, Ferrer, and Ilaur, With persons of honour, Like Gardner and Bonner, And then let us ask, why we seek alteration, In laws which have yielded us quiet and peitce; Or fly in the face of a wise reformation, The boast of our country for ages; Ask Mr. Maddocks, or henry Bate Dudley, Or any of those who had stopp'd out the sea, And created good land, where nothing but mud lay, Expos'il to the swell of the ocean-- Ask them if, after all their trouble, All their expence, and all their care • They'd knock down their labours, To please a few neighbours, And let in the flood to destroy all their cabbages, Which they'd been toiling for years to keep out, And open the door to its roarings and ravages ? Lord 1 how they laugh at the notion"! Then, Britons, since well with your Creed has the law fitted, Why should you change a hat you'll hardly amend ? Or, why, if the rights men have legally foifeited, Make such a free restitution ? Think of the whips, the stakes, the torture— Think of the thumb-screws, faggots, and flames : The point they are winning, ha but the beginning ; Then this is the time for Old England's defenders, To make a firm stand, for the good of the cause; And while we've a King —let no Popes, or Pretenders, Lay hands on our dear Constitution. THE LATE DR. oiNEtt.—A Meeting of the Medical Gentlemen residing in the County took place at the King's Head, on Satunlay, for the purpose of promoting mea sures to pay a public tribute of respect to the late Dr. Jr mt, by erecting a Monument to his Memory in or near this city. Dr. IlAttox was called to the chair. The liberality with which the Profession have taken the lead in this affair, reflects the highest credit upon then.; anti when we consider te vast, the incalculable benefits which the great discoverer of Vaccination has conferred upoa the whole, human rate, , we are sure they will meet with the most ample support in their honourable un. dertaking. It well becomes the county, of which this distin guished Philanthropist was a native, to evince an anxiety to pos. seas within its boundaries a lasting memorial of that mighty genius, whose protecting influence knew no limits, but was felt and acknowledged in the remotest quarter' of the globe.— (Gloucester Journul.) FUNERAL. Of THE REV. Dn. ROBERTB.—(Further Par ticulars.)—'!'he remains of this venerable andirespected charac ter were yesterday deposited in the chancel vault of St Mary-la bonne Church, followed by a numerous train of Clergymen and other Gentlemen, Friends, and many of them formerly pupils of the deceased, in six mourning coaches and four, with a long string of private carriages, and never have we witnessed a procession of the kind in which regret was more strongly pictured on the countenances of the 'attendants. Since his retirement from public life, which took place In the spring of 1814, after having fulfilled the arduous duties of High Master of St. Paul's school for a period of more than five and forty years, Doctor Roberts had resided at his house in Bryan stone-square, in the possession of that literary leisure he was so well qualified to appreciate, and which his faculties, per fect and uniMpaired to the last edabled him to enjoy to the ad vanced age of 94 years. He departed this life on Saturday, the lbth instant, after a .short but severe illness, surviving only a few months the edifice over which he . had so long pre sided. Among those who attended to pay the last tribute of respect to one who in so eminent a degree united the talents anti acquirements of the gentleman, the scholar, and the divine, we netictxl Sir John Sewell, the Rev. Dr. Fly, Reverends A. Roberts, Prince, Agtitter, Hill, Durham, Bean, Lane, Barham, Faulkner, &c. Several Members of the Mercers' Company (the Patrons of St. Paul's School), &c. &c. were also among the mourners. A very ancient silver tiwtini was a few day sago found in the house of an old woman at Montrose. It was acct. dentally discovered in a concealed box, below the locker of an old chest, which has been in her possession upwards of forty years. In the box was also a quantity of gunpowder, nearly a pound, the grains of which were as large as saw... The medal appears to have been struck in coninie. moration of Henry the First of England, and is somewhat broader, but much thinner, than our shilling. On the obverse side is a minature figure of Henry, standing with the crown on his head, a shield on his left arm, and a sword in his right hand ; around which we can decipher the words—" Harriet's I. . °bill l Dec. 1135. On the reverse side is the national modal bearing of England, surmounted by the Crown, and the words " Rayned 36 years, tmryed at Reading," are pretty distinct.--( Smelt. Paper. ) For the last week, and again yesterday, not less than 170 tons of musquet gun barrels, and musquets complete, with stocks and bayonets, have been brought into the basin of the Regent's Canal, City-road, and immense quantities are hourly arriving. and a daily succession is coming, supposed all for foreign service. We have been informed that twenty-five chi!. dren, boys and girls, were drowned a few days ago, in consequence of the ice breaking while they were sliding upon a mill.darn,in the neigh. bourhood of Palely, bridge, in this county.— (Leeds Intelligepeet.) THE ARMY. One troop of the 9til Lancers has received orders to march forthwith from Lymington to Christchurch Barracks, . A squadron of the 2d Dragoon 'Guard's marched, yesterday, from York, and subsequently detached one troop to Sc,arbo.. rough, and another troop to Whitby. A troop of the 7th Dragoon Guards marched from Glasgow, on the 18th instant, to Rilmannock, and proceeded on the fel lowhlg day to Irvine and Ayr, where tt is to be stationad,.in aid of the - Revenue Officers. A detachment from the Depots at Albany Barracks arrived yesterday atlDcptford, for the purpose of em barking, as a G uard, ; under the command of Captain Tron a son, the Ilith Regiment . of Foot, on board the Competitor cbnvict ship. • The Army Estimates for the current year have been !ant before the House of Commons. The total number of the Army, including officers is 89,426, besides the Veteran batta.,: lions, which amount, including officers, to 2,691. From this number is to be deducted 19,977 men serving in India, who are . paid by the East India Company : the charge for the re mining expences of the Army is b. 084,1108/. 2s. 10(1., ing the half-pay anti pensions. With the exception of the troops in India, the following is the distribution of the army For Great Britain, including reliefs - 20,512 For stations abroad (excepting• India) - • 26,196 For Ireland - - - 20,424 69,144 Commissions signed by the J4ord Lieuter.ant of the County of Surrey. • Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia=-Ensign T. Bailey Potts to be Lieutenant, vice Garthwaite, deceased. . Surrey Yeomanry—Thomas Stnith,Gent. to be Lieutenant. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. • Richard Stiletuan, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; Henry Tredcroft, Esq. to be ditto. MERCANTILE SMITING, DEAL, FEB. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the John and tirace, Martin, from Altotta, and a whaler name not ascertained. The Elisabeth, Dorie, for Van Diernao'r Land, sailed last night and put back this afternoon. HALF-PAST SlL—The outward-bound appear all well. The Windsor Castle sailed for the River this murnino. Came down from the River last night the Vittoria, 'rate, for rrinidvd. PLYMOUTH, Fan. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived the Retrench. Ansell, from London for Teneriffe, out 10 days. Put back the Rardon, Richardson, from London to Bermuda, making It. treat deal of water, and the master seriously injured from a tall. FA T.MOUT 11, FEB. :14..—Wind W.-Put , back the Duke of Kent Packet (1) for Lisbon, with damage, and loss done tuan washed overboard. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24.—We had a tremendous gale last night from S.S.W. to, S.W. ; it was as violent as the gales of the sth of December for a short period, and I fear we shall have bad accounts from the coast. The Phceby, Fullerton, from St. John's, N. B. to Liver pool, was totally lost the lath inst. near Tralee; crew saved. The lion. Capt. Barrington is appointed to command the P4r. thian sloop of war fitting out at Portsmouth.' Captain Strange. ways is appointed to commtuld the Clio sloop of war, fitting , for sea at Chatham.—The Briton frigate, Capt. ' tr M. Maxwell, is fitting at Portsmouth for the East Indies.—(Kentish (.;aunt%) EXECUTION. This morning' an immense crowd of persons assembled in the Old Bailey, to see the last awful sentence of the law carried into execution upon six unfortunate men, four of whom for a long time had carried on the work of plunder in a manner that perhaps, for despeitition and extent of villainy, was unrivalled. Mark herd and Watts have from their in fancy been thieves, and the later had been nearly in all the prisons in England ; they were part of the desperate gang of ruffians who attacked, two years since, Marsden, the 'Medea rough -street gaoler, in Itussell•street, Bloomsbury, in broad day, and rescued from his custody four men for burglary, whom he was taking to Newgate, leaving him nearly dead on the ground ; for this offence they suffered a year's imprison ment, and were twice publicly whipped. Brown had before been transported ; and Thomas Puller was a ruffian of deter, mined character, although of small stature. He harl sworn he never would have been taken alive, but he, with Watts, Herd, and Brown, were apprehended by a strong party of police curly on the morning after they had committed a burglary in the house of a gentleman in Somers Town, the stolen property being found in the room. John Harris had been a soldier, and was employed by Col. Dc Burgh, of the 63d regiment, in the country, whom he robbed of an immensity of property. The gallant Colonel had in vain endeavoured to procure a corn mutation of the wretched man's doom, and urged an act of great intrepidity displayed by him at Windsor, when he saved part of the arsenal from tire; but it was thought necessary that the law should take its course, as the breach of faith of which he had been guilty was of a very flagrant kind. With respect to the last unfortunate man, John Wait, for forging a power of attorney for 1,5001., with which he was intrusted for some children as trustee, influence of the first order was used to Wive him, but of no avail : his respectability of station in life, at d the long steady, undeviating character, for upright integrity, honour and honesty, which he received, was considered ; but. the moral enormity of his crime, and the melancholy conse quences attending such an extensive breach of trust, were found to be so great, that it was found no mercy could be ex tended to the unfortunate tnan. Ile had been a merchant in Bristol, and was much respected. When the awful news was conveyed to him, he was much affected, and the violence of his grief continued during the next day ; but'since that day he, be came more calm and resigned. His family, It is said, are labouring under such dreadful excesses of grief, that it is dreaded the awful death of him will prove fatal to one or two of his children. The edifying example of repentance displayed by Wait had a great influence upon the other rend:Awed men, and they attended very attentively to repentance aril prayer. Last evening they teak a final leave of all :heir Ili mines, and after this dreadful parting was over, again resumed devotional exercises and entreaties to Almighty God for mercy. This morning the Sheriff and attendants arrived at Notate, and directly proceeded to the Press-yard, which was crowded with gentlemen. Wait first appeared, and was disencumbeeed of his irons. This rnan's demeanour was cool and resigned, 4i Was also that of Brown, Fuller, mend Herd and appeared agitated. Wait then was introduced, and being pinioned, he addressed some words to a Clergyman who attended hint : he preseated the Most manly firmness; and walked quickly and erect. At eight o'clock the awful prepeTa dons being complete, the mournful procession proceeded to the 'place of execution, neither of the culprits sittaeine a word, i.TI being seemingly abiorbed in prayer. , They .a:tcentied . scaffold 'in the order they entered the Pro,y-rc, , bru., prayed earnestly. At twenty minutes past cia;l:t drop fell, and they expired after a few struggles. CORN EXCIIANOE, Fr:n. Thar h i lof arr_Va-3 lit day are very modera% 1411 tat anti Barley fully maintain the advance of last, :ttor.Say t there i& not much buslno doing this morning in eitha Beans or Pe43, Oats sell freely on rat4r better; termo than last Market day. On Monday morning a now walkittg a h nw shore, at the babk of Townsend Battery, Dover, picked up a gold bar, weighing 35 ounces; it appeared to be or the purest gold, and to have b een th ro wn away unperceived among3t soul° rubbish.