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he has no resource by which be can counterbalance ' the evil, and the foundation of his" Power and his In flnence is gone. Britain iiosscsses Resources yet un touched, which w;A enphle it to meet any event within the reach of human calculation, • whilit a brave and loyal People' are ready to rally round the Throne and the Constitution, and to shed the last drop , of their blood in the defence of their Country. The Resources of the Country, great and ,com manding as they are, must necessarily be still more imposing, if their application is direeted by com manding talents and prompt and decisive judgment. Those abilities which have been so successfully cm: ployed in repelling the aggressiOns and chastising the inordinate ambition,of an inveterate foe, might surely now be employed with, if possible, still greater circa. The Nation is entitled to expea that all the talents which the Country affords, will be engaged in its Service, and that its Energies and its Valour may be led on to the Contest by those in whose tried prudence, courage, and ability, it can repose with unlimited confidence, and particularly by him, the energies of whose mind are ap peculiarly • calculated to meet and to overcome the difficulties of our situation. This morning at twelve o'clock the 3 per Cents. were at s9l for Money, and 60, 59* for the Account. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Her MAJESTY and the PKINCESSIts, attended by Countess HAIL. EINGToN and Lady C. WYNNE, in two coaches and four, with their usual escort, took an airing in the neighbourhood of Hampstead and Highgate, and • returned by Portland-place, Cavendish-square, Bond. street, and St. James's.strcet. About half past nine, His Mat esrY and the Duke Of CUMBERLAND, attended by General GWYN, 'rode in' the neighbourhood.of Chelsea, over Batter. tea Bridge, through the fields by Clapham, and re. turned by Stockwell, over Westminster Bridge, about twelve o'clock. About two-o'clock HIS MAJESTY held a Privy Council, which was attended by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the CHAN. CELLO & of the Excuscau k, the Dukes of PoltT. LA ND and ROXBURGH, Nlarglaisses SALISBURY and CORNWALLIS, Earls Sr. VINCENT, CHATHAM, RABA INGTON, WESTMORLAND, and DARTMOUTH, Lords .Pet.HAttr,. 140BABT, HAWKESDURY, C.ATH. CART, Mr: HIL.EY ADDINGToN, and several others. The Council broke up about three o'clock. The business is supposed to have been upon His MAJES. Ty'S Message to Parliament.' After the Council broke up, Mr. ADDINGToN had a long private Audience with HiSANIAIEsTY. This day a Proclamation was issued for raising the bounty to Seamen. Orders were sent off from the Admiralty on Sun. clay last, for the Channel Fleet under the command of Admiral COANW ALL LIS, to sail yesterday from Torbay. Camps will be immediately formed in Kent and Essex, as well as near Briancon and Portsmouth. The Middlesex Militia is ordered into Kent. In the Mai le, we . Understand, are a considerable n u mbe r of large flat-boats, which will contain from eighty to an hundre& men each. They are both sailing and rowing. boats. It is in such Vessels that BONAPARTE will. attempt to carry into execu. tion his plan of invasion. The attendance in the House of Commons yester day was greater than was ever known ; near Five Hundred Members were present. Mr. Nil- intended to take his scat yesterday in the House of Commons, hut did not get down before four o'clock, after which hour he could not be sworn in. He will certainly take it before Monday next. • The Minister came dOwn to the House yesterday in the lull dress of the Windsor Uniform, which has a very military appearance. As he never had worn it in the House before, the citcumsiance excited a a good deal of remark. It was yeiterday very confidently reported, that one of the three Messengers who arrived at General ANcoutosst's on Sunday, had brought Letters to the KI NG and the tscit of WALEs, from BONA. PA re, b,ut this, upon inquiry, we found to be •1111. true. Mr. St LVESTIR, the Messenger, came on horse , back into London yesterday morning, about one o'clock, with great speed : at Whitehall, where the stones are extremely slippery, his horse stum. bled and threw him, which sprained one of his ancles anti bruised his ribs very much. He' was to have returned with the answer to the Dispatches which he brought from Lord WI-Wm° trra to Calais with all possible speed, but on account of his onfor. tunate accident Mr. HutiTert, senior, was sent with his answer to his Lordship. Mr. Fox, it is said, mean 3, after the discussion of the Negotiation shall have taken place, to make Motion in the House of Commons for the proposal Of overtures for Peace! Mr. Fox and all his Patty, we understand, mean to oppose the War.—Of this Party we yet know .not whether we ought to rank Mr. SHERIDAN a nd Mr. Tit:R.:llY. The former of these Gentlemen has always expressed in Parliament,upon very trying occasions, such genuine English Principles, that we can hardly suppose he will objets to a War for the preservation of the very existence, probably, of the English inone. Between the aoth ulr. and .the hth instant, 36 paeket.boats_entered Cdais from Dover, with 37 7 Passengers, including Messengers ; and 34. packet boats left Calaic for Dover, with includi n g M essengers . 377 Passengers, The KING or SPA! n has oracred the construction 0 a 1-14 rh"r at Anando, in Biscay, which is to be e:Oled the Port of Peace, in ,honour of the Nince of that name. IVIIPAL I'El4/J. DOYER, MAy 16. HALF PAST FIVE, P. M. GENERAL ANDREOSSY and his Suite have this moment arrived ar the Ship Inn ; and Mr. MAN - raw. .the Agent, in consequence of directions received by an Avant. Courier, has prepared Vessels, in which they mean to hail the moment. the tide suits this Evening. It is generally believed that Lord WH ITWORTH will be here this Evening. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 16. ARRIVED the /Liao) Man of War from the Noce. ' Arrived at Spithead and detained under the Embargo, the following Danish Ships, viz. Count &timelman, HOLM ; Siittanah, CHONER ; and Emmanuel, BOLLEAN• Sailed the Pigmy Cutter, with Dispatches. The North and South Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, Regiments of Militia, are ordered to this Garrison immediately. The 3ist Regiment is expeaed to embark at this Port as Marines. The First Regiment, or Royals, embarked in the Chichester and another Man of War, for Foreign Service. COWES, MAY 16. A General Embargo is laid on all Vessels here. HARWICH, MAY i 6. Tint Diana Packet, Cain. OSBORN, arrived yes terday from Helvuetsluys, with the Dutch Mail and Passengers. • _ _ In consequence of an Express being received at the Custom-house yesterday, no Vessel whatever is permitted to proceed to sea, and the Officers of the Customs refuse to clear out any Ships or Vessels, DEAL, MAY 16. CAME down, and sailed the Jill - toy, of Ito guns, for Torbay. An Embargo h laid on all Vessel" in the Downs. Arrived and sailed' for the River, the Gratitude, SCOTT, from Teneriffe. Vice Admiral Lord NELSON took leave yesterday of Luid ST. VINCENT and the Board of Admiralty, upon being appointed Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. His Lordship left town immediate ly for Portsmouth, to take his passage on hoard the Amphi on Frigate. Lieut. W. H. PEARCE is ap. pointed Flag Lieutenabt to his Lordship. THE THEATR r.—A new Musical Entertainment of three aEts, entitled The Fair Fugitiliet, was last night brought forward at Covent-Garden Theatre. The scene lies in Guadaloupe, and the interest arises from the capture of the hero and heroine by rebel Blacks, who are - finally conquered, and the lovers restored to each other. The Piece is decorated by some beautiful, scenery, and the Music is upon the whole pleasing. There is nothing very new, strik. ing, or interesting in it, and it is much too long. It was .upon the whole tolerably well received, and announced to► repetition with few dissenting voices. Miss PORTER, sister to Mr. KER PORTER, is said to be the author of the drama, and Dr. IlusEY ut `the music. The Haymarket Theatre opened last night for the season, with the Comedy of The Jew, and the Operatic Farce of The. Agreeable Surprize. The Comedy was preceded by a Dramatic Sketch of one scene, entitled No Prelude. WALDRON appeared as the Promptor, lamenting, in soliloquy, the hard shifts to which the Theatre was reduced, and read ing a letter from the Proprietor, whimsically scat. ing his theatrical expedients. Soon after ELL tsToN entered as the Deputy-Manager, and a conversation ensued principally rclating to the new Performer, whom the Proprietor had colleted, stating their terrors, but relying on the candour and humanity of the Public. This Prelude concluded with a Pro.' logue, which deprecated the censure of dull Critics, and appealed to the judgment of the Public. The whole of this sketch was enlivened with ludicrous. sallies and some hutnourous allusions *Emile titles *1 several of Mr. COLMAN'S Dramatic Works. It was very well received. The Comedy of The Imo was then reiiresented, and several new performers appeared. Mr. CHAP. MAN, from the Worcester Theatre,. is a plain de. cerst sensible man. He played Sir Stephett Bertram. Mr. H. KELLY, from Portsmouth, is like Iric VON in person. He has too much anion, but he acquitted himself respeCtably in Frederick. Mr. MATTHEWS from the York Theatre, seemed mast to strike the audience. He seems to possess a quaint kind of humour, that may render him a favourite. He performed label in a very diverting manner. Mrs. CLELAND, from York, is very well suited to charmers of maternal feeling in common life. She performed the part of Mrs. Radelijr. Dorcas was represented by Mrs. KEY'S, from the Wcimouth Theatre, who is a pleasant Actress. EL LisTON was excellent in Sheva.—MATTHEWS performed Lingo in the Farce, and confirined himself in the good ()pinky: of the Audience.—The House was better attended than is usual on the first night of the season. The firit Division of the Royal i-forse Guards left Dorchester on Wednesday seinnight, for S.disbury: the second Division followed on "flturbd.ty, and tl‘c third on Tuesday last. L le 1? PO RD. OCiU,:f 7 OF KING',; BENCH, MAI i 6. 713 E KING 0 .1. MA ?CA 61 4 . ra Isar. ERNKINE shewed Cause against this Rale, which called oil Gaseley, th e Mayor of Ports. mouth, to site* Cause why a criminal information should not be filed akainst him, for having refused to indorse a warrant to apprehend au Oliker who was on board a ship in the Harbour, and within his jurisdiftion, and which Officer stood charged with an assault of an outtsgeous kind on a female, in the course,of his impresaing -some men at Gosport, and fur whose apprehension Mr. Bingham, a Magi strate at Gosport, had issued his warrant. The Cause which Mr. ERA; !NE had to shew was this:—That when any complaint was made against any Officer or man on board one of His Majesty's ships at Portsmouth, or any other Harbour where the Town was populous, and requiring the personal attendance of such Officer or man, it was customary, instead of issuing the warrant in the first instance, td send. to the Port Admiral, or Commander on the station, a message, stating the nature of the charge, and requiring the attendance of the accused, and if he was not forth.coming in a reasonable time, to issue the warrant and apprehend him, for there was no praftice here, or any where in England, which placed any one in a situation above the law ; and this praelice was not only justifiable, but laudable, for in such a populous place as Portsmouth, many tumults had been prevented by it : that it so hap. pened in this case; for it so happened, as appeared by the affidavits, that when the warrant was brottglit to•Mr, Gaseley, the Mayor orPortsmouth,. he im. mediately, instead of indorsingit, sent a message, according to custom in such cases, to the Com mander of the ship where the Gentleman was, against whom the complaint was made ; that he• came on shore immediately, and appeared before Mr. Bingham the Magistrate; that the whole corn. plaint was laid before Mr. Bingham himself, and heard by him, and that be himself dismissed the complaint; and yet this Gentleman, who called him. self the Reverend Mr. Bingham, and who was. a Magistrate of the County of Hants, , had thought fit to move against the Mayor - of Portsmouth for a criminal information, for not having indorsed a warrant, when he knew that the suhjeil.mattcr of that warrant had been heard and dismissed by him self, long before he caused this application. Mr. Gaseley then added, what Mr. ERSKINE said he could countersign, if that were regular, that he had 06 . 211 occasions conformed to the laws, and per. formed conscientiously the duties of a Magistrate. Mr. BUR ROUGH taia, that the pradice of send. ing for persons charged with assaults and the like offences, when on board ships, instead of appre. bending them with a warrant in the first instance, was a necessary caution for the sake of the Service, and to give the Commanding Officer an opportunity of providing for their return after the'matter was heard on shore, otherwise the -best men in the fleet would be brought on shore by false charges, fabri. cared by their own associates, for the purpose of letting them escape from the ships. Lord ELLENBOWOUGII said, that the fat% dis. closed to the Court stated charges which Mr. Bing ham knew to be in substance unfounded,—He knew of the personal appearance of the Officer before him, and that he had rendered himself amenable to justice, and came with an imperfed statement of a case be fore the Court, and suppressed fans within his own knowledge, and therefore his Lordship thought the rule not only must be discharged; of which there was no doubt, but also discharged with Costs. Rule discharged with Costs, THE KING T. BAPTISTA BARTAZZI. TH E Defendant was convicted for publishing two very obscene libels, the one a book, the other a print. Mr. justice GROSE made many moral observa.: lions on the evil tendency of publications of this description, the corruption of the morals of the rising generation, and especially 'in large and po pulous places; he lamented that those to whom the care of female youth had been committed in various boarding-schools, had nut been more circumsped in preventing the access of this vender of ob scen e works and his emissaries. The sentence of the Court upon him was, that he be imprisoned six months fnr each of the two publications in the New Gaol at Clerkenwell : that during the first imprison. meat he do stand in and upon ti►e Pillory, between the hours of twelve and two, in the open street, near St. Clement's Church, in the Strand ; apti'd or _ ing the second, to stand in and upon the Pillory in an open place near the Seven Dials. - THE KING V. ANN, THE WIFE OP GEORGE AITKIN. This was a conviction also for selling obscene prints. The sentence of the Court upon her was, that she be imprisoned in the House of Correetion fur the County of Middlesex tier twelve months, and that duting that time she shall be kept to hard labour. SMUGGLERS. Struen Wedding the elder, and Stew* Cladding the younger, both convißed of obstruffing Officers of the Revenue in the due execution of their duty ; the son had been conviiied before of a similar offence, and was allowed to go at large upon his own recog, niz'ance, by the humanity of the ATTORNEY GE NE RAL, and he committed this of&nce in less than six months alms wards. The sentence of the CoUrr upon the father was,, that he he imprisoned in the Gaol of Ipswich for six Months, and that the son, for his first offence, be imprisoned in the same Gaul for six months, and for, the second ES months, to commence at the expiration of the second imprison. ment, Benlarilm Leuit, for the same kind of offence, was- sentenced to hp imprisoned 1 8 months in the common Gaol for the County olCorowitil, at I-3od- min, Thwttas Penvi.Pfetoirt for the sime ofrettre, was senienced to he impri4on7d ti r t x months in tire common tliollor the Cmint.y Of D:ron, Exeter: Walk er a o B ojc ,, ffir th , ! sitne were sentenced to be imprisooned firs three tnantl,s in the cominon Gaol of lbtslum. PEfioAtt: The Cordrititiee, to Whord the . '' 13;:ft , ek end •Reporf " of the Coasts :tend Central Highlands of Scot; , • • " land, tnade he the Coil - inland of the gi ;hr Hon,/ " the Lords Commissioners. of Ilk Majesty's Tredsury, in the Autumn of ISoz:," is retertedi and Who were empowered to report their oo,t'r vations and Opinion theteopott, from Time _to Time, to the House a `Having proceeded to the investigation of the varionr, matters contained in the Survey and Report rAerred to tint u, hive thought it their duty, with as Little delay as pOiSibie, to mit to the consideration of the House, such infemottion as thuyt have received on the stibjed of the EnriAratioi:s have already tats... ,::ace, and which arc still -g-oirre,, forw.ad, to a considerable extent; in the . ilighiunds or Islonts of Scotland I as that part of the thsbjed referred to their consi.; iteration seems to them most immediately to require the atttoo tion of Parliament,not only on account of its interesting nature d but on act:Mint of the abuses and suderinc.3 by which it appears to be attended, That information is -coutained tit several Reports front the Highland dociety Of Scotland,. and is con firmed by various other documents, and by such parole evi. dence as your COMMittes have been able to procure, and of which they have annexed. in the Appendix to this Report; such ExtraCts as appear to them most material. Your Committee will iMrdediately proceed to the investi 4 gation of those measures Which, by Kiting employment at home to the industry ofa hardy race at people, mar preclude. them from the necessity of seeking subsistence in diStott Countries, and which will at the sane. time promote the ge:, tieral improvement and prosperity of the EM t• but, in the mean time they think it necessary to call the most serious attention -of the House to s lifermgs and htrdships which those who have already emigiated, . appear to have eniimel d for want of proper- treatment on their passage, which, to the opinion of your Committee, &Maar{ the inunettiale inter position of Parliament, to prevent the reinterence of similar calamities. • • Resolved,. • That it is the opinion of this Committee, that . persons, etni. grating from diarent parts of the United Kingdom, hav,,, in various instances, sutured great distress an d i hardship ; oh ay. , count of the crowded state of the Vessels, the want of a suf., ticient stock of provisions, water, and other necessaries - tOr the voyage, and in various other respeets... • •• • Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee* that it is exile. , client to regulate the vessels carrying passengers lion) the United Kingdom to His Majesty's 1 lantat ions and Settlements abroad, or to foreign parts, with ,respeCt to the number of passengers which they shall be allowed to take on board, in proportion to the tonnage of such vessels, as well as with respeel to the provision of proper necessaries for the VoyAge. A Rehearsal of the Installation at Westminster Abbey took place yesterday. Several of the Knights met about eleven in the morning, in. the Cloisters, and proceeded about twelve to Henry the Vllth's Cnapel, where the usual forms were gone through. When the names were called over, many of the Knights appeared 'by Prosy. The ceremonies oc. cupied about two hours ; but few strangers were present. The Knights present we re :—Gett. Cs. to, DUKE of YORE, Lord HuTcuimoN, lord HEN. .LEY, Sir EYRE CooTE, Viscount GALWAY, Gen. Sir Wm. FAweErr, Earl of MALMSBURX, Lord LAYINGTON, Lord GRAVES, Earl Sr. VINCENT, Viscount How s, Earl NI ACARTNEY. Sir JOSEPH BANES,' Gen. DUNDAS, and Sir Wht. PITT. Accounts from Tellicherry stare, that Captain - WATSON, in his late expedition against UNtmooTA, drove that Rebel into the Jungles, at Maner Ghaut,. where, with only ten followers', he took refuge in a fortified house, seated on a preci s ice, and where he defended himself three hours, with the greatest re. solution, against a body of fifty men, an almost cessant fire of musquerry being kept up the. whole 'time. Captain W. finding - all his effurs ineffselual to reduce the' place, with infinite difficulty found means to undermine the rock, and blow, it nr, in consequence of which, the ring -leader, with nine of his party %vete destroyed. Gooacat., who' was' next to UNrmuoTa, in his late depredations, was t h e person who effeCted his escape ; and a reward of too° rupees has been offered for his apprehension. Considerable attention is now paid to Science in the Turkish Empire :—the GRANa SIGNIOR' has lately sent the Son of his First Physician to Vienna to study medicine and chirurgery, in the University and Hospitals of that Capital. A fire broke out last Monday morning, at the Spread Eagle Inn, near the Episcopal Palace, at Buckden, near Huntingdon, which spread with rapi. dity in every direCtion, consumed thirteen tent- • ments,- and property to. the amount of 30001. it was occasioned by singing a horse's ears in the stable.—There was another fire at Brampton, two miles nearer Huntingdon, on the ,same day, which burnt down a public-house. The following circumstance, on Tuesday, oc curred in the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmund's : A fine girl, /8 years of age, and daughter to a respectable fanner there, conceived an affeetitin for a young man, ,a tin:nutter belonging to a party of the Guards, quartered in that town. Some even ings since, the father met them walking, in one of his fields, when he reproved her fur her imprudence, informing her that the. soldier was married. The communication su powerfully operated on her mind, as to induce the resolution of committing suicide ; and on Tuesday evening, having addressed a letter to her father, expressive of her purpose, retired to her chamber, and shot herself. The report alarmed her sister, who, rushing into the room, found the unfortunate girl weltering in blood, holding the pistol in one hand, and a prayer-book in the other. Chirurgical assistance was immediately obtained, and the. ball, which entered the body beneath the left breast, was extracted from the right side, and she is now in a state of recovery. MANSION Housee—Saturday a number of water. men were summoned before the Lotto MAYOR, on a charge of refusing to wear badges in their hats with the number of their boats. Only one of these attended : and his Lordship deferred entering on the subjed.• He at the same time observed, that the warennen should he compelled to wear the badges. The 'Beadle of the Watermen's Company they had no objeetion to wear the badges on their arms, but would not carry them' on. their heads : and he also represented,, that the short fares were much too marl, biing no greater than they were twenty years ago. A desperate fellow named Menu stf Q d, had been 'confined in "f Prison for . svme. tiine, on a charge of stealing a horse, te n months ago, iiiwilt. shire, and that .own.er, of which-Cn4covered it lately in the Strand. This man hiving affeded 'illness, was put into the Sick Ward ; .froyi which place he contrived on "I.oitnelay tight - to break through the wall of the Prison crow„ind took float. sopt!rs along with They all got away w act making the least