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coNrißmAtiog OF IHg CONQUEST OF r,GYPT. THIS morning a Dispatch was received at Lord .HAWKESBURY'S Office from Lord CARYSFORT, V't Berlin. This Dispatch, which has come with extraordinary speed, the Packet having been only forty-eight hours on her passage from Cuxhaven, brings a Confirmation of thz glorious News which yesterday communicated, of the Conquest of . _, J Egypt.by the British Forces under the Command tlf Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY. A Dispatch from c 3 that Pfgccr had reached Constawino" and was on its way to England ; but the news having got to Beeliff, Lord CARYSFORT thought it of such im- Rortance as to forward it immediately. The decisive Battle took place on the 21st of IVl.irch, near Rhamania, to which Sir RALPH . had vanced to the attack of the French.—The Enemy lost zOOO men in killed and wounded ; the British about 300. 'Further . particulars were not known at . .. • We h a ve the happiness : to add, that by this Dis. „ipatth she o 4nelligence from the North of Germany . P 4 XS .4.13 AS t comkrtable nature. • " .~ ~~, ~ LAW REPORT. Jr:" •- • - KING's BtNCIT, TiiVRSDAY, APRIL 3c• f.. - . -,: ,--: •., ;' 'THE ICING" al. 11FAVOR. - ' • 'SU TS *as an informatiOn -filed by leave of the , court against -the Reverend Augustus Eeevor,. for ' doirespojiciendd by letters, and discourse in - public, aMounting to a challenge to fight a duel, on the part ,• - ~ pithe:Defendimt, with Major Pain,' at Norwich. Thf....4funifewanding arose out of some conversa (l ~. . it° rebreding„the Defendant's father. -ct ' ,r 1 atitt e Cause stood for trial at the last Assizes for v: "flift 'l:kwlien- it was proposed, on the part of the Rromiuticin; thatif the Defendant withdrew his plea ... ofNot.Guilty, and suffered Judgment to go by de .-: raillt, or allowed a single Witness to be examined ':i for the mere purpose of recording a verdict against ~',. him; lte-ihoUld . hear no more of the matter ; but this ... I ,the_Ddendant declined, and instead of it he defend ed' the case as.strenuously as he was able, and Mr. M'lntosh deliVered" a vehement Philippic against ,:. the PrOsecutor, which it was alledged by Counsel fbr . -1116 Prosecution, must .11...6'e been done it} pur, ..... nuance Of . theinstrations of the Defendant; because ,if ih;it.Learned Gentleman had been left to the free exeraselof his discretion, he posessed too much of it to purs ue a course so irritating t o the feelings of - , t h e Prosecutor, who was a Man of Hon our , an d • . w hi c h must ultimately prove so injurious to his oWn _ Client ; a nd this was, to-day, ass i gne d as the rea. on w hy the. Prosecutor could not now accept of an ~.. . apologY froul'the Defendant, and why h e appea l e d '- -- ivhe justice .of the Court for the protedion of his ''Unour. . • . .. Mr. E&SKINE this day addressed the Court in behalf of 'the Defendant, and wished very much that: this snhje& might be 'put into some train of .; 'amieibleadjuhtntent. • Mi: : Mfivrostt on the same side, deftired to rest . . the case on the eloquent address of his learned leader. • • - NcAr, Mr. C AR ROW , Mr. DARREL'', and Mr. BEST, addressed the Court in • support of the Prosteution, and 'assigned the reasons 'already stated. chiefly 'as- the 6use..of. Major Pain's calling for the judgment of. the COurt. • The Affidavits being 411 read, The Defendant alledged that* was not his objea - to fighta.Duel withthe Prosecutor, nor. had he any . t9 or to treat him uncivilly,: Sce,-. ' but th'e ,findylg. of the Jury who pronounced him exiitY,'''illic3os,ed of' that matter as. was fairly ,ad miziettibP ICC'Easici ifs in h is Address to' the. COuilanwla lin • Lord IC-noir. said, that the o.bjeCl of all Prose_ cutipn and of Punishment, was to put an - end to offences, but too often that ()Ned failed.—He look ed forward with fear and trembling as to what may be.: the consequence .of indulging-this spirit of Duel read. with pain and sorrow, various accounts Ngwspapers• of., these' things; anti 'sometimes of • dreadtili catastrophe' by which whole families were Overwhelmed with calamity.- 7 -I'he Court therefore —must 'do all they could to . deter all descriptions of ..perSons• frtsm, 'cOrniniting this offence ;—it impOrrid A r e Pot')lie .that they should do so. - At' . p rese d t iettellnant must stand committed; to the bison of that Court, the King's Bench; and be hrou'ght op.this day se'nnight to receive ;he Judg. meat of the Court. The East . Ihdia Company has presented Sir Jo- s - Ent BANKS with One of the bricks Which are to be fount' in. inch great gnantities near Hiller, go the Euphrates, the spot whereon, according. to Major .gp.:4Nr,t. and the antient Geographers; Babylon was Situated. On these bricks cbaraders are engraved perfectly similar to those commonly called Persepo/;- ta/,. and 'described by CETARpIti t CORNEILLE LE MU! i f* K : .; l 4 at iat: Rj ;NlEnuHß l and Others. This is ortaukithe rowit enrious discoveries, as it appears I tPtt . ( 4 l l YArMili,beaded charheter's are real .letters, Atitahotrgidie coMmon, not only in Persia, but ?1 46 thwilliVcavitient Capital:of chsldea. The lite ra;4o. iibndware undecided, whether these Charac ters,. separated by - lines like the Chinese, are to be read perpendicularly, as may be seen in Dr. c Introdu&ion to the Chinese, or horizentally; sometimes one Way; and sometimes the Other. The Gangan, • from Gangan to bps been taken by a Privateer; retaken by 'the City of London, Green, and earriecito. Bengal., ...I.)Acielle French Privateer; commancleil-tfF - totrr: -c ;air, sen. is captured in the Bay of I; i:711 the Albatross Sipop of War. * • . • 6 1f..17i i .P. t .• ,or vh, 15 4 ^ • • NAVAL ‘,_ . NEWS. Nc: Noa WI betpeilum stevuntime triirstem, Sed mThi torte datarrs. HA RIVICH, Arßit 30. THi King George Packet, PHILIP DEANS Com . ; mander, arrived this morning from Cuxhaven, with Dispatches from Berlin. This Packet left Cuxhaven on Tuesday last, and was only forty-eighi hours on her passage. The Danish ship Cron Primen, Cu. T. NIELSON master, -from Christiana, with deals, and under de. tention at this port, sailed from hence this morning for London, the place of her original destination, by Special permission of Government. The wind blowing hard at East, has occasioned about fifty sail of Ships to put into this Harbour; bound to the Northward. YARMOUTH, APRIL 30. SAttga His M.ijesty'4-.Ship- Ifol.ae;n s . for the Tore ; and Mary Cut ter, -on :a crulze. Arrived the Latvia I~ligate from Admiral DICK. soN's Fleet, whieh she left, all 11' ell, off Goree yesterday.• It is said the Latona is to take on hoard Lord Sr. HELnqs, for Pctersburgh. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30. • ARRIVED the Y. Afarirh-, from Rostock, with wheat. • Sailed the Providence, it; 4 v 411". Troops - • r.",.. , 11 ; . for Guernsey. 7 7 • SHEERNESS, MR rt. - 30. • . , Hts MajestY''s Sloop Ranger has gone out a Harbour to the Little Nore. STATENIENT OF TUE DISTRIBUTION or r»r BRITISH NAVAL FORCE TO THIS ,DAY, Exclusive of the Ii RED ARMLD VrssEt.s, wlitich are chiefly employa in Kett:cling the Coa s t: n g Trade of Git.LAT B.ltl Sps. 6S Line In Port and fitting - 16 Guard-ships - - - 4 In the English and Irish 2 25 Chareris - • S In the Downiand.Nortika 9 Seas - • - - 0n the Baltic Service - st At tl;eWest India Islands 3 and on.the Passage At jamaica - - 4 In America and at New- foundland - S 50:s ,3 Frig 7 6, C. of G. Hope; E. Ind. - and on the Passage Africa andon Sec. Exp. 8 On the Lisbon Station - 4 'fit chi Mediterranean s 6 Hospital and Prison Ships i 7 total in Commission 136 Receiving Ships Serviceable and repziring 9 for Service - S it In ordinary - 20 Building . - 19 Total Igs STATE 01 , CITE ORDINARY Line. Portsmouth . - Plymouth - - Chatham - _ Sheerness - _ River - - Total 6 0 2 2 AT E co's 0 . 9 15 4 1 4 I 22 1 5 ACH r I Frig , A 9, 3 2 4 , 0 10: f 6 Sps. L Tot: 99 33 Zia .17 S 3 Tot, 41 36,1 _,381 118 Letters from the C/y4, of 44. g uns, 'Capt. CUN NINGHAM, dated z3d inst. off Brest, state, that she had looked into the outer-road, and the Officers distinaly counted twenty-two sail of the line, and ten frigates; and in the inner -road, fifteen sail of Spanish ships of the line LaMontagne (pow.L'Oreern), 01130 . guns, and r Soo rain, is the flag-ship. The Pomona and Kangaroo, together with Trans ports, .having different Derulmentrof Troops on board, for Gibraltar, Minorca, and General Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY'S .Army in- Egypt,. sailed from Portsmouth on Wednesday. , The "Fransports with the Troops destined for -Eg:yptvere precluded from receiving any women onboard. Golrrunent has given permission for. the Fishing Smacks belonging to the roma Harwich to proceed to Norway,; for the purpose of bringing lobtel•s to r the supply of the London marrcet, as Usual.- bea.uti(ul model of the Tile de Parii w•as ye:.. terday .presented to the Earl of Livticticioi..._ It was -13to6ght from the West Indies. Yesterday .Mr. NEw:.....:vo ' • from the :Bank'. of England, gave noti ce at t h e Stock Exchange, in eonsequenre'of .an' application froth. theSii%e'iihers to the Loan, that the yoklil3,lniticnitihe third, :fourth, firth, sixth,.an.sevepth;!;lllsctalrniists• ; the eic4ith to be made b 7 'the Stibgpsiimitspy antiltlie.whole to be redteMed on or beftire tl4d.4tlt, eee ar neit. - - — On Satutday a Genttemitn famn-Odiiii.ttk, who went from 'London in the Mail Cvnii• to Liverpool, cut his throne in a fit of insanity; iiirurgical assist ance was Ininiediately bad ; andol‘?ugh every pros_ pet was, entertained of his speedy rc \ covery from the cygund, he : flied in, strOtig convulsivn, in private to %villa h 6 had been rem0,,1,,T.41., Thc Janson, from Rostock toldn don, i., taken by a Danish . Privateet\, And carried into Presto, neAr coFenhagen. Nine 'uther Volels are a b o cap ured and carried in there, OYAL ACADEMY. t93.—Mentor and Telemachus, thvir first inter View NVith i CalyoSo. li. WES - T, K. A. tt - has often been observed, that Mr. WEIRi suc ceeds best. in his smaller Works, and the remark is certainly well-founded, though his large Pic tures are generally placed too near. the eye to ad mit of a proper judgment. This' is a very beauti ful ‘Pitiure. The luxiitiance of Calypso's island in the fore-ground, is' well contrasted with the depart. ing horror; of the storm in the distance. Calypso and her Nymphs are well grouped, and the tudes are diversified so as to afford an amusing ih tetest, particularly in those whose curiosity seems arrested by the . ap - pearance of the Strangers. . , No. 19t..--Por!rait . of Lord Avonm. ore, Lcrd Cllief Baron\ of His Alaj...ty's Court of E x‘fiequer •in Ireland. M. A. SHEE, R. A. We long ago prcdiaed that this Artist would be come one of the most distinguished Portrait-Painters in this country, and the prediaion will, we doubt not, soon be fulfilled. This is one of the best Por traits in the Exhibition. The face is very much in the style of Sir josuLTA. REYNOLDS. It is bold, clear, and forcible. The colouring throughout is vivid and harmonious. No. 2o6.—Rebecca ; a Portrait. Sir W. BEICHRY, R. A. 'The mode of investing, Portraits with historical dignity is favourable to taste, as well as gratifying to sensibility, and bid s defiance to the capricious tyranny of Fashibn. We'eannot judge of the like ness of this Lady, but the PRture we can venture to pronounce full worthy of the Artist. Retiecca is going io draw water, and there i; a simplegr ac e in the turn of her head which is perfectly charaae ristic. The arm is beautifiUy coloured. There is' a romantic air in the landscape, if landscape it may be called. It is a scene of sylvan seclusion that constitutes a very pleasing Plante in itself. z07.--Portrait of Mr. Antrobits, T. LAwRrNcE, R. A. Fidelity of resemblance is the least merit in this Pidure, though .tha;.is a striking quality. Inpoitit of colouring, it has nothing of that gaudy glitter of WhiCh Mr. lj,w 11E24:4E . was so fond, and whirl► still lurks alio - tit hi 4 'pencil. If he had not made the curtain so light, the head would certainly have come forward with a bolder eifetT. But it is a very acsurawanti - 4)irited Portrait. • • ts7.—Durch Boats in a kale : Fishermen endeavouring to put their Fish oirivi IV I W. .I:CRNER, A. The impregsion Of this l'itiure has been highly favourable 'to the charaEtcr of the Artist; and it is 'iconsidered• as one of the, greatest Ornaments of the present.Wiibition. Mr. T-tr,i6nit: is,' indeed, a very powerful Artist, and all-his works itidicate a ' strong imagination. Nothing little appears from his hand, and his mind seems to take a - Comprehensive • view 'of Nature.- It must be Confessed; how. ever, that his desire ,of giving :r free - touch to the objeas he represents, betraYs hint into carelessness and obscroity, so that we hardly ever sce.a firm de termined outline in any thing he does. •This, genre appears like 4 .4 f/illation rather than grandeur, and. his colouring 'generally -exhibits a or gravelly -brot.....vx, that_ makes his Piatircs, .parti ..eularly his 'Drawings, appear as if they had been scorched. -It maybe said, indeed, that the work be. fore . us rather deviates into the contrary extreme of co/dgcss.. With a:him merit of this Piaure, and it must ,he acknowledged that it possesses no ordi nßry share of merit, it - strongly 'participates of that affeeted carelessness, which' almost invariably marks the produEtions of his pencil. The Duke of Bit ino E WAI:EIt, it. is said, has purchased' this Pifture for 2501. Far from presuming to hint-that this is too high a price, we hope the report is Weli-founded, and we are disposed to, honour his GraCe for such a liberal patronage of rising abilities. No. 21 I.—from Shakespeate's - Play . of the Te'mpest —Pro. spero, Mira n d a , and Calilaan. J. NoeTitctrE, R. A. Of this Pieture we, took. notice preOious to the opening of tl RdlibitiOn. It was, we understand,' painted for Sir J NLi lc rs.r4R, and the charader of Miranda is in for a Portrait of one of.his family. The Scene is. well 7 imagined. Miranda seems to express a 7 sense of pleasure that the Tem pest has subsided. The face of the Lady certainly does. not equal what might : be expeeted in the Sim p*, beautiful, and-interesting eharaderdesigned by the Poet ; but this is not the fault of the,Artist, who was, of course, obliged to ibllow his model. ,We Before obicrved,tbat,,Gaibottr is by no 'means suf fiCiCLUil savage in his appearance. fie rather ex-, cites the idea of Dlt . 1171) .sll,v,tring Cuddea," C) , non, When he fir t st beholds the charms of fbhi. genia f than the . derni_mon s ur of S...IIA.K.ESP A. 12 The figura of rcspei-o vengral,•le, and the Pi Lure in general is the work of an able Artist. J •No. ra.f.—Landscape. Sir F. riquictoxs, R. A. • lAs this Artist is .one of the main pnips of the 'leadenly, we are sorry .to see but one Work from his'hand this year. The magnitude of tlial single Work, howevel, iri,some degree, comperisatei'for the want of more. it i s one of, the largest pro. eudions of his geiiins that we have. seen, and it is, distivg'uished by extent of merit as well as size.— It is a rich, 4lowing, and luxuriant view of Nature in one. of 111- most splendid situations. The dis nixes are finely graduated from the fore-ground, the cattle are painted with accuracy and spirit, and all the figures are. employed so as to vary and en liven the scene;' — The water is beautifully transpa rent, and the pootirfol ili,fluence of a morning .sun give , ' life and iiistte , to•the ;:, No. w. : —Po . ririir of the" Hen. Pro)ine Upton. R - Here tee. have another specimen of RENCE's skill and taste, ,without any of his former glittering luxiiriance. This beautifid profile exhi:. bits a fine sober tone of colouring,thatprevail s over the ornamental cinth which appear in the headdress, but Appear in due subordinatitm to . the general_ chit. raaer of the composition. This Portt;:it is not a tame represcht6tion of the fedttqes, bat is an mated by the charm of sentiment. STATE OF THE 117:17'2-SII.ARMI?: GE:ittALL DISTRIBITTION OF THE BaiTlSti Altl4Y, MAY tEnt: Fe.':, • Cat,. ce . Bat. Comp. 25 22 -- 4 74 12 5 40 - /2 13 6 6 it 13 32 - 62 6 ''-- 9 -- 2 --- 11 2., Englanci and Wales - North Britain - - I relankt - - Jere Guernscty; The Hakic - - G ibraltar - - - Minorca - Malta . . Egypt - - - Canada, Nova Scotia; 6:c. West - Indies Cape cf• Good Hope - Easx Indies S - 4 7 --- 1 - • 5 3 22 I 173; -- 1 d -.- 4 szS Total. •41 146 x 3 44- 86 33 0 * 7 2 • `.(a) Including the zst Batta:bn •of the tst, and the 64th, Foot.—tb) . The Company . 's Trtopse xc l us ive.—(c) Ahd Ue tac lunekt rs troll/ the Re.e,Corpt. * Fxcli siyeo: Artillery and Engincereat hq.-ne and abroad; I ndependza t• Compzu A(lti ttionat Co!kvanies O f I(egi (At Stations ; Rocruitilig Corps,' Vlutltcersi &c. PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET. 'VEST' iv ' DAY Benjamin Beale o,!as brought liefore FOLD, Esq, .charged with violently as: saulting, with intenr to ro!) and troktler Margaret Smith, a respe t aable widow, 4‘.'p a chandler's shop-, iu Chapel -street, Pad.dingtoa. It at , peared froni the evidence - of a number of witnesses, that between ren and eleven o'cibek on Monday night, just as . the Prosecutrix was about to shut up her .shop, a Alan carne into and asked fot a rasher of bacon, which she servetthins with, when he asked for another,,and he.nishe lmit served him with it, desired to. have a third, and, by this extraordinary conduel of ordelii,g a rt:ilier at a time, she suspe6ted he was cone for the . pnrpoSe of stealing . something in the. sltop, which cai4ed her to fix her eyes. upon him, al:d not lose sight of him, which he . per,:eiving, Joshed. • upon . her, and with horrid .imprecations, struck her three violent blows on tier head with a hruntner which he took from his pocket, and the bows brought her to the .ground, DU( her Screams were 43'extr:toely violent, that he made off without robbing her, 'anti her screams were extremely loud, her' ri.. , inhbdUt.,, not discover froth . whence they proceeded, contrived to get to the door of the next' boil • her, and when the'door was opened she 'fell into ti., passage, apparently lifeless, when ?assiStance. was procured, and she 'was conveyed to Sr. George's Hospital. • The Prisoner is a journeythin Sho , 2-Maker, and lives with his master in the utile .nei;3hbourhood, and about the , tirne her screams 'were heard, the Pri soner was knockingat'his master's door, and on his gaining admittance, hd appeared much agitated, and after he.had been in some titne i -he inquired of his master if a Surgeon had - been sent for the woman, and a - tariety abther suspicious circumstances came out, which caused the'Prisoner to be susp?eted, and on Tuesday. he was taken into custody, but through the imprudence of those who bad him in custo4, in sufrering him to go from his .master's shop up, stairs, under .a pretence.of changing his clothes, he jumped- out of a hack one-pair-of dow, and made his escape ;' and the circumstance being made known 'to Cridland, one of the . Captains of the . Patrole belonging to the ahove Qihce, and he learning that the Prisoner had a brother who kept a Public-house not far from the neithbour hood, he stationed his men within sight of - it on Wednesday night, and, at a Tate hour; the Prisoner camel& the-door, when they took him into cus tody, ; and early yesterday morning the Officer took the Prisoner and his men, and several,strangers, to the bed of the Prosectitrix, and asked her if the nun was among them who had woundedhea when she, without hesitation, pointed out the Prisoner. The Surgeon belonging to the Hospital, who has attended the. Prom:utrix, was of opinion that her skull was natured, and, that it had been done by a round instrument similar to the hammer which was found in the Prisoner's room, and he habut little hopes of her recovery. At . the time the Vrosec-u -trix was attacked, .she had Cash .and Notes ~.to the amount of Sol.' upon her. The Prisoner denied the charge, but admitted having been to the shop on Monday night., Be was committed for further examination.. ~ . . , On Tueiday last was celeb rate d at the London Tavern,- the Anniversary of the Huinflne Society.-- The Laid Mayor presided—Lord Willoue,liby de Broke;Hon.;Philip-Puziey, Q. A. IceMpenfeldr, Esq. and Dr. LettBptn; . Ilite-Plesiacnts ; • an d f ont b un Ared beneficent aitraacts, honouced this ekcellent Institution. wiih: their 'presence . lii-i the afternoon,. 1.1 , 4 the . Cif , -. 0 Marshals:, St . cWard solemn'' s, soien''.rncts . ic, and aixisiq 2%anneri, introduced an irnmenie prcices sioq of. ripiett men, woinen, and cbildrep. 'Ho nOrary. Medallions 'were presented by his Lardship to_ those' Med iralAssistants who. had pro v iilentially reitOrcif - their ',fellow..creatures to life. Captain g:t I;rii ‘.;l:lS' unanimously voted thank s for his Inge .nious &Nay on the prpervation of the lives of ship wrecked mariners.. ‘• The . Treasurer addressed the respp4able - clOrnparry on . the prOgress o'f the . Society, at,d after manyinteresting reflections, he obserVed, " it must be ac nowtedged on the broad basii of universal 'philanthropy; that in the Sublime Art ?f Resuscitation, the Modern s rise superior, far supe rior to the. Greuian and Roman States.", The vo luntary snbseriPtiojis; &c. _afforded the most ample proofs chat the vi6?ii of thislife.Restoring.Soeicty - . are replete with benevolence, wisdom,cl and benefi cence. Yesterday a Track Selman Was examined at the Police Office,. Shadwt.ll s on a charge bt having as-. saulted a-Foreigner, in scufile• that t oo k p l ace be tween the parties, and , .t.•ta hini in a most crud and barbarotts manner. It qtacared, from the evidcnce of several witnesses, that a quarrel ensuing between them, 11:e prisoner kidded the fortigner down, and inflifted ieveril deep wounds on his'head, which,' according to the deposition of a Surgeon, would, in case Of al . ever, terminate in death. The ptisoner was committed to custody for this shocking outrage, and the ‘vounded man lies in a house in the neigh. box:hood, in a dangerous state. rs 41 1