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. I f 3 14 , 3.; NAVAL " • NEWS, Proff illi imperium larumgia tritlentem. Std pule datin. YARMOUTH, MAY 7. • - the Princess Royal, HAMMOND, from c iu 4 a - ve n, with Mails : two Russian Messengers °tile br thisßicket. The Passengers by this Packet say; that on the zd the Danes were evacuating Ham.. ~bargh, and it was expe&ed that they would all laic it in •the course of two days, PLYMOUTH, MAY 6. THE following vessels arrived here this morning, all detained in the Channel by the Alert Privateer, of London, viz. The Prussian bark Ko'rink, laden with salt, from France bound to Amsterdam ; American ship Diana, of Baltimore, THOMAS FORTE master, from Ham_ burgh, laden with naval stores, for Rochefort ; ship MinervapfHamburgh, Capt. WINDT, laden with hemp and iron, from Hamburgh bound to this Port ; Prussian brig Undetnehming, Capt. WINDT, laden with wine, from Bourdeaux so Amsterdam ; and the American ship Joseph, of New-Bedford, Capt. DELANO, laden with sugar and rice, from New. •York for Amsterdam. Arrived the 'Clyde Frigate, from a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 7. _ ARRIVE?? this day the Redbridge Schooner, from Crutise. FALMOUTH,‘MAt s. , 1 I, Atttitd this day the Pr;ntist Charlotte Packet "bapt.,kaaat, forty.three days passage, with a Mail from Jamaica...no news by her ; and the Earl dower Packet, Capt. MAKI, seven days from Lis. boo. The Mail was forwarded yesterday, having been landed at the Land's End. The Adolphus Packet was safe arrived out at Lisbon, after a passage of five days, A ship Was seen going in as the Gower came out s supposed of Wales Packet. The Pr;iver to be .-the P rimgv" Aiqpbms was to sail from Lisbon the 23d ult. Also arr i ve d the Sylph Sloop of War, C a p ta i n Dasuvmoo, from a Cruize, and the Nymph Frigate, f rom t h e Channel Fleet, which she left all well last evening. Appeared oft, the C?yit Frigate, Captain Cum )n-riGnAt4 ; both sailed again- this evening, to join the Channel Fleet. Yestirday proceeded on for Amsterdam the Ame. can Ship rora, Captain PR INC r; from Charles. town. The King. George Packet is . eitpellal to sail on Saturday next, with the Mails of the 28th ult, and the sth inst. for Lisbon. 11,4RIVICH, MAY 7. I l iiiP.k;& s- g Grose Post-ofLe Packet, Captain DEM4E ) waits to take the Mail in turn for Cux- haven, SHEERNESS, MAY 7. . . ARA tun His Majesty's . Sloop Arrow,, of so guns, Capt. BRoDIE, from . the Downs ; arid the .Barifisk, Locust, Alatimer, Fowler, and Archer Gun -brigs, from the River' Thames. . . , Siiiicd His Majesty's Sloops, Autionn, of zz guns, Capt. Rlcitmtosolv, Alanz3, of 22 guns, Capt. CATHCART, and Dilige/lei, of zz guns, Capt. JONES, for the Downs. A Paris Journalist has observed a remarkable similarity between the circumstances of the death of the E m peror PAUL, and that of the Empress his mot h er .---CATH ER INE died when she was on 'the point of concluding a Treaty of Alliance with Eng. land against France—PAUL died when on the point of concluding a Treaty with France against England. We tremble for the permanence of the present. Administration, when we see Mr. ADD INGTOR attacked by such formidable opponents, in doors and' out of doors, as Lord TEMPLE and Mr. Fox—By the former he has been charged with thinking one way, and voting another ; by the latter he has been emphatically stiled at the Whig Club, the lack. hoot of a j ack-boot 1 But alarmed as we well May be by this - hostile language, coming from individuals so formidable in themselves, and so highly respeded by the - Public, the one for consistency, and the other . for talons, we cannot help auspe&ing that the same cause has - operated on both ; viz. the part which Mr. -- Ar>piNTON took in the debate on the Eligi bait,' of Mr. Hoitms Tool( a. The vanity of the one has been mortified at finding himself in a mi nority on his own Motion and the hopes of the other disappointed, at losing an opportunity of holding up an individual as the objeft of Parlia mentary and Ministerial persecution. 00 Thursday the 7th inst. died, at her house in Bentinek-street, Cavendish -squalL, Mrs, ZA - ETH CAL V etc r, eldest Sister of the late Dr. CAL v gitT, of Dodors' Commons. .LITERARY FUND. THP Annual Dinner in honour of this meritOtious Institution, took place yesterday; in Free Masons' Hall. Sir 141. m Es BLAND BURG ES officiated in the Chairfor.the President, the Marquis of Bott,,and was supported by the Duke of SOMERSET: There was a more numerous company than we have ob served on former occasions; among whom were many distinguished ornaments of the literary world. The Dinner was abundant and good, and after the -Kmd, the QUEEN, and ROY AI, FAMILY, had been drank with heart-left applause, Messrs. Boscawt FITZCERALD, D'ISRAE LI, and BIRCH, obliged the company with Poems in honour of thelnstitu tioo. Messrs. BOSCA*EN, FITZdtRALD, and BIRCH, delivered their own compositions with great success. Mr. D'ISRAE L I'S Poem was recited by Mr. GRUBB. Sir JAMES BLAND BURG ES Concluded himself with his usual spirit and attention in the Chair, and gave such a Etvourable account of the increasing prosperity of the Fund, as could not but be highly gratifying to every friend of Literature, Genius, and Humanity. %\Te shall seled the Poem written by Mr. Deputy BIRCH for insertion this day, as he is one of the oldest Members, and as it is his first Poetical contribution. He recited it with zeal and sensibility, and we hope the flattering reception his Muse experienced, will induce her to make an annual offspring at the shrine of Literary Bene volence. ADDRESS FOR THE ANNIVERSARY or THE LITERARY FUND SOCIETY, ISor. Mit:ol4nd recited by S "WU L BIRCH, Eq. THIS favottr'd Isle of Freedom and Renown, 'Which well Humanity may call her own, Thro' many an age of Fame extended wide, Has almost prov'd that Mercy was its pride ; Whose shrines of Pity towering to the skies, More than its regal palaces surprise— Nor on the publiceditiee alone, Does sweet Benevolence inscribe the stone; But oft with stealth to Solitude withdraws, Ar.d, self . ..approving shuns a world's applause. The mountain's hen;lit—the forest's deep recess, Her humbler characters alike impress.— No pathless wood—no unfrequented Fut Gratitude has there some glowing ,Child i • Whose sighs like unobstrutted ineente - rise, A meek, sincere, prevailing sacrifice ! Unstter,, unpitied, Sorrow cannot roam, For Sympathy will track the Sufferer horite. Wide as Misfortune bids the tear to start, Or silent Anguish wrings the human heart; Broad a, the air—and piercing as the ray, That visits Nature from the orb of day, Her good Samaritan is always found, . To minister a balm to every wound. Our pious Ancestors, who seem'd to try What Mercy best might balance Misery; By Observation and Experience taught, This godlike Virtue near Pertedion brought. They smooth'd Life's rugged road thro' every stage, From helpless Infancy to helpless Age. The child thatdrew, unown'd, the vital air— Or lost, thro' Shame or Want, a mother's care— . Or hall-endow'd, as niggard Nature frown'd— tinblest with organs, or of sight or sound— The tender v rn, of enchanting form, The unshelter'd Lily, drench'd by many a storm, Ere yet matur'd in Beauty's pride it grew, Attradivecnly to the Spoiler's view— And the poor Vidini of sedudive Art, Whom fatal sensibility of heart, By one false step, had dotatn'd thro' life to rove, Thehouseless wanderer of uuhallow'd Love— - The tender Mother, and the faithful Wife, Despairing of her unborn Infant's life , Whose pangs and sorrow, tho' to all' decreed, By Poverty were multiplied indeed The mind subdued by melancholy Care— The shiver'dintelleet of wild Despinr— < And crirneless Penury, Constrain'd to dwell Oppression's Captive in some'dismal cell— The snow-topt wreck of many a Warrior brave, Who hurl'd their thunders o'er the distant wave— And pale Disease, of Life the lingering drain, Thro' all her thousand images of Pain - For wants like these, they some asylum found : Their pious labeairs knew hor rest nor bound. ' They heap'd what good their bounty . estis Id- bestow, On the sad Offspring of unlet teed Woe:— They synipathiz'd with ev 'ry poor Man's let ; The Man of Genius was alone forgot. The sport of Fate, which Wit to Wantallied, And where if brain imparted, bread dmied. While the poor Peasant could his meal supply, The rough=hewn Son of thratightless Industry ; Who little ask'd.—his sturdy arm was sure, With spade or flail that little to procure: Pale drooping Science, with precarious toil, Could scare provide her with her midnight oil. Whose heart refinai, that swell'd with many a sigh, Ot' e'er it could consent to beg, must die. Unsought she never could her need proclaim, Conceard, 'twas Agony ! but known, 'twas Shame ! -At length this wretchedness attention drew ; The glorious privilege was left for you! Oh ! envied thought ! Oh ! exquiste employ ! Your Proud distinction—your exclusive joy ! Search not the records or of Greece or Rome For luxury of thought :—best found at home: - Say ! can the glorious deeds their Heroes wrought, Or the stern virtues whiCh their Sag,es taught, Yield such sublime exuberant delight, As warms arid satisfies the soul to-night? You on the waters caseyOur scraps of bread, Which many a secret Child of Merit fed: You saw them not —you trusted what was given, And your work prospeed, as appov'd by Heaven. So, ere the winter's cold, with liberal hand The Sower strews in faith the furrow'ci land, Hid for a while the future treasure lies, Till vernal showers and autumnal skies Call forth the springing . blade, and swell the ear ; The promis'd plenty of the smiling year. Tht. Reapers now the nodding sheaves enfold, Their loaded tops all burnish'd o'er with wald. With like success your mercy has been sown; list the bright harvest shall be all your own. It is matter of serious regret that amidst all the Ghosts by which our modern Play-wrights seem blunted, they are never visited by the GHOSTS of a SHAKESPEARE, an OTWAY or a Row E It will perhaps be deemed matter of astonishment that to the present number of Theatres in Paris anther should be added, but it is nevertheless true, that a new Theatre is to be opened next month in Paris, under the management of Pi cAitD, an Author and a Player, and under the secret patronage of the Chief Consul. A Work has lately- been published in France, novel in its kind, in that Country. It is a His tory of the Stage 'at Paris during the days of Le published by the son of that celebrated /lore The Work contains much unpublished Cor respondence of VOLTAIRE, Gmktucic, and other cutewporary men of celebrity. , • LAlr REPOPT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, THURsDAY, iiiir 7. THE KING V. WM. DARTER. Tr-its was an Information filed by His Majesty's Attorney General against the Defendant, • for ob struding an Officer of the Excise in the due.execu. firm of his duty; on the 6th of Okflober, at Pc.n.. zancci and of which the Defendant was found There being some favourable circtlinitances in the case of the Defendant, the Couit was disposed to be mild upon him, and therefore ordered that he be only imprisoned in Newgate for a Month, and then discharged. THE KING eV. JACOB CRAB. This was a Conviaion for a similar offence, but of a more violent degree. An Affidavit was read on behalf of the Defendant, by which two Magistrates of the town in which he lived, gave hini.a very good charaler, and stated that they believed him to have conducted himself extremely well for the last ten years, supporting a family by his honest labour, &c. The ATTORNEY GENERAL expressed his sur prize that these two Magistates should havi joined in such an Affidavit, when it was notorious'that this very Defendant was sentenced, in the year i 797 to be imprisoned in Newgate for -one year for the very same offence, and had end ure d t h at - sentence. He could no otherwise account for it,' but that all these persons in the West of. England, near the coast, Gentlemen and others, were in one general conspiracy to defraud the Revenue, and their notion of morality did not include smuggling amongst the vices of men in society.—He must consider whether he would not file a criminal Information against these Gentlemen for this Affidavit, because it was an attempt to impose upon the Court.—Uri less the fats was admitted an the part of the Defendant, that he was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, for smuggling, in the .year 1797, he should desire the Court to allow him time to have an Affidavit of that fat, on the part of the Pro secution. The Defendant then admitted the faa. Lord KENYON lamented the prevalence of this praaice of Smuggling, and the frequency with which Smugglers assaulted Revenue Officers in the due execution of their duty. These parties would do well to remember, that if, in any of . these affrays, death ensued, a thing not at all unlikely, they must all be hanged; inevitably. The number of applica, tions that were made to him for Warrants, in these cases, was prodigious. As to these Gentlemen, who had made this extraordinary affidavit, the one was described as Mayor, and the other as Alder Man of the Borough : his Lordship thought it would be proper to lay the case, as far as it regarded them, before the LORA) CHANCELLQR.—In the mean time the Defendant must stand committed to New gate, and be brought up on Wednesday next to re ceive the Judgment of the Court. • Richard Tuckford, James Tunnel, Robert Carter, and James Shepherd, were soriviaed of similar offences, and they were ordered to stand committed to New ate, and be brought up on the same day for Judgment. The ArTORNEY GENERAL moved, that Allan M'Leod be charged with two Informations ; which he was accordingly. The one charged the De fendant With publishing a violent Libel, _within. tent to stir up . o the People of Ireland to Rebellion, &c. by - declaring the Social Compatl at an end, on the establishment of Martial Law, &c. The other was stated as a Libel on the Earl of CLARE, &c. both these Publications appeared some time ago, in the Albion, Newspaper. The Defendant pleaded Not Guilty to both Informations, and was told by the Clerk of the CrOF,n, that his trials. would come on at the Sittings'.after the,present Term, in the City of London. THE KING V. BEEVOR. The Defendint, the Rev. Augustus. Beaver, was brought into Court to receive its Judgment, for sending- a Challenge to Major Paine, and for mis condutt towards him at• Norwich, the circum stances of which are already sufficiently before the Public. Mr. IWINTosH, who was the Defendant's Coun sel at the trial at Thetford, addressed-the Court on this occasion, and alledged, that he had no parti cular instruEion from his Client to use any severe language against the Prosecutor, and that what he said was the result of his judgment, exercised . .as well as he was able, upon a full view of all the cir cumstances of the case; and said, that if .there was any impropriety in his Address to the jury, he hoped his Client would not he made to suffer for it. By the weakness of an Advocate, every Client must suffer, hut it was not just that the Client should suffer for the faults of his Counsel. The Defendant retutAd his thanks to Mr. 11PINTosti for this explanation, and said; that no.. thing could be more handsome. Lord KEIIYON said, that it he wished to return thanks to any body, he ought to do it out of Court. Mr. Justice GROSE, after having eXpatiated on the impropriety of the conduct of the Defendant, he being a Minister of the Gospel, and whose (Ivy it was to preach and set example to others, of that peace which the Holy Gospel inculcated to all, and having lamented the prevalence of this vice of appealing to arms, under a false notion of Honour, to adjust differences,. by which Parties might be led to commit murder, and having taken notice that this was the second instance within a few months in which a Minister, of the Church had come before the Court to receive its judgment for this breach of Morality and of the Peace, pronounced the sen tence of the,Court on the Defendant, which was, " That hu do pay to the King a Fine of ten Marks, that he be impriioned in the King's Bench for three weeks—that he do give surety for his good beha viour for three years, himself in fool. and two Sureties in 7.501. each, and that he be further 4116- sorted until such Fine be paid, and such Surety b: given," itTN .n6st ins; This was a Rule cal.ing"6n the Dcfenkinf spew Cause why a Criminal fnfdratution thoitld"r3.it be led against him, for alledged miseonthql toWar , is the Commercial Commissioners to who!n he nry!,... his Return upon the Income Bill ; was no* moved by Mr. LITTLEDALEi, that it be c..nlarged t which, after a few . words from Mr. ERS,KIttE Rn..t the ATtOkNET GENERAL, and afterwards , somd observations from the Bench, was enlargedlcdord, • Mr. CEORGE W I LSON moved fat a Mand.aritus to be directed to the Mayor . of Norwich, calling • on him to 'give notice to certain Persons, of their having been eleded by the Freemen of that:eity, as Common Councilmen, under die:te circumstances— Previous to the Eledion of Com Mon CoUneilmen, some of the Candidates had been objeCted to as ine ligible, because they bad not taken the Sacrament, within Twelve Months, as prescribed by the Test and Corporation Ads. On the other hand, it was contended that the tree: men had a right to chose Dissenters if they pleased. When the Eiedion was closed, the greatest number of Votes happened to bare been given to two per. sons ,Ivito had not,-. as it appeared. on searching the register of these parishes, 4ken the sacrament within a year, as requited by the Statute ; and therefore' the Mayor did not teturn thorn as being elected, thiy'being,, in his opinion s ineli ible ; but, as the - others were in a Minority, he did not return them either, eons,idering, perhaps ; that a to rheas the elettion was void ; ‘vhereas it was now con tended, that all the Votes which were given for those who were ineligible were thrown away, and that the next to them upo;t the Poll were duly elec. ted ; and this Mandamus was sought in order tir:t they may be tetttrned and sworn intcs tion.for Mandamus gran redo Lord KENYON said that New Trials mast posi. tively come on on Thursday next. SPEECH AT THE WHIG CLUB. TURSDAY,MA Y S--Vide Alarm. Ctroin. and Post, Me 6. " Mr.' Ea s K . l XS and Trial by itfty," the Toast He arose and his merits thussventurd to boast. I thank you, my friends, for combtning my name • With,thesTriai Ly yx;y, ,the, best kind of fame, I confess 'tis a privilege /must adore, • Aly regret is profound that it itnio is :I/ more. I lament the attackgpmMrfirid)rt sustains; , • /attunt that. strong Statutes Press so re.straini.. • I own the . .rc . are times,when the Trill by jury, May well b.f suspended to curb Rebel fury, Eut now "ifr•Rdrllidn is known in the land, • lam sure in C.;,7lpit'arits none take a hand. • I afllrm, I - declare, I Naintain, / insist, I profess, I proteSt, monnimaiais exist. I .tin sure that our Goveriun'ent 'now has no foes, No Persor.7 . l,vriWiedbui Prisons ca,!lose. • Yet, reiv'd•from right, justice, and reason to warp lis t The Miniitry dare to suspend Habeas Clqra. I howelier shall still at the Ministry hoot-, Or to borrow the wit of Friend Fox, their yarh-ego, otreriy'sinall as ?icon hii large,scale, I a mlni:oz'o in Politics, he a Vat/ Whale.,. I'll note make an end, and /swear till /die, abilities call for,'• and ready, am I. - ,SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET - SECOND SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY, MA? 64. Fifty Pourtds for three yr olds, 6st. 2.1 b. --four yr olds, Bst. —five yr olds, Sst. 71b. , —six .'r olds and aged, _Sst. talb.— Two middle miles of B. C. Wyndlren's br. h. "Eciprriplt, 6 yri old - Duke or.Queensbury's ch. h. Cl. - ,ltanl, 6 vrs old , - 1 Lord Clermont's b. h.. Meteor, 5 ‘"ri oP. . • 3 v 1 r. ConcannOn's b. f. S wabipa, by Voi unteer, 3 yrs old Mr. Golding's-b. h. by . B.dloon, 5 yrs 9:.1 Mr. Frogley 's gr. h. P lou•;hboy, ,agi - • - Mr. 13ullock's.b. f. by Javelin, out at Flavin, 3 ,yr . old Mr. Gintler's b•. h. Caprieorn, 6 yra old. • The I wise placed only thefirst three. Swacpstakes of sop. each. • Across the flat.. •• Nir. Wilson's Surprize, 7st. 31b. - - s Mr. Cox's-Chipp_enhant, Sat. 6 1 b. • - Mr. F. Mite's I fippona B.st. 3, Lord Sackville's.ExPeb ttioa , Sst. tlh. beat Mr. COI)C311., non's Itichniond, 6st. 131 b. Last three miles or IL C. 1008 a. Richmond ran out of the Course. Mr. Ilia theote's..Popinjay, ,Bst. tab beat Mr. Cox's Pet, 7st. 91b. Ab. M. boogs. h. ft. Mr. Contannon's Arrngler, Rst. 41b. beat the D. of Graf ton's Hamby Lass, 81T, 71b. Across the t lat,'sogs. The Marquis of Ponegall's Trifle, Bst. rec. ft. from Mr. R. Heithcute's Schedont,, Bst. 91b. Two middle miles of B. C. 3oog::: h. ft. Mr. Wilson's Surprize, Bst. 41b. rec. 35gs. from Mr. Cox's Cocoa Tree, 7st. 301 b, It. M. 5345. Mr. Coi's Pet, • Bst. rec. ao.:s. froin Col. Matthew's Folly, 7st. 81b. .Two-:yr old Coiire, tobgs. h. It. Dr. W. G. MATom was yesterday unanimously eledecl Physician to the Westminiter Hospital. Al\44ii is now makihg up in. the Ship.Lerter partment the Oost-Mize, for the Army and Navy employed in Egypt, and will be closed in a few days, in order to its conveyallee by a Ship of War ow preparing at Portsmouth for Alexandria. In Hereford market, on Saturday, there was a re. ddlion in the puke of butchers' meat of more than 2d. per lb. _ _ A - .very thotking accid!nttook place a few nights ago in the Temple ; a Gentleman who resides in Chambers "here; having tine: ee - Icily returned to town late ,in the evening,' and being rather intoxi_ cated went to bed, 500.11 after.which his wife, who had been with n pnrey of friends to thOilay, anct who intended to have slept at, the Wes't"endLof the town, came home, and krxcked - at the dbOilla con. sidetable time before it awaked the Gentleman, who not eviety distinguishin4 from. whence the noise originated,' and having his chambers robbed three rinses lately, concluded he Was attacked 'by thieves, and catching up a blunderhus discharged it in the passage; shattered the inner door to pieces, and the slugs penetrating through the outer door, wounded the Lady in a ,dreadful. manner, three of them lodging in her right arm, one in 'her side, and another in the throat : the noise ceasing, he went io bed again; hut the report of the blunder. bus alarming a Gentleman who slept on the floor above, the Lady was discovered lying on the stabs, when the assistance of a . Surgeon was immediately procured, and we are extremely happy to add, them is little doubt of her recovery.