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•••, • V IVIUUt '..iirt to .3 28, Off Cape Sumana. • 29, Made Porto Ric:ca.—Front wbieh Coast the Squadron takes its d;:parture for England, as we suppose. The Islands at which the squadron has `touched have been in general very healthy ; neither does it appear that the Squadron ,has lost a man by the fever. Several of the Ships on the Station have sett reek ,lost a man these tee months. Refreshments at Martinique . at tolerable prices ; bur ar Pdttßoyal and Kingston, rather exorbitant ; the articles of bread, sugars, fruit, &c. being mach more reasonable in England. At St. Domingo, ToussAtwr, relying on the peaceable disposition of the English, has reduced his Army to 25,000 men. Some French, Prisoners have been lately shot at Jamaica, in the following manner : It is customary there. to read and explain an Order to Prisoners confin.. ca in the Prison ghip . s, that if they attempt to escape they will be shot. The meaning of this order is to intimidate them from attempting to escape, The Lieutenant commanding the Priscin Ship • at Port had left those orders with the Master, an& Pot 'on shore, where he generally is with his vifeand family. In his absence, some of the pri, sneers who had the former order explained to them, 'were found .attempting to escape in empty casks, l 'hich were about to be sent out:of the ship for flu lufgr The' Master,- who Was the orrunantling Officer, immediately .ordered the caski to be thrown civet-board arid fired on by the Marines, by which ras h 44 of this Officer, and of him singliand only; ten men were killed in the casks, and one or two Lrt. The remainder Were taken up 'again, but two of the killed drove on shore. The Master was tried by a Court Martial, but ac- Tlittul, in consequence of his orders, and the exe ction of those orders meeting with the approbation (4f : his StiperiorlaffiCer, the Lieutenant. Bat this 'PProbation has betn fatal to his Superior, the Lieu t"atiti has 'it has since cost him his Commission, 15 eing by Sentence of Court Martial 'dismissed the 'Service in the most ignominious manner ; from which circ umstance some of his family are since dead, and himself and'others dying. PLY Al UT.II, MAY 28. At ItrOEt, the Suwarrow hired Armed Schooner, from a Cruize off Brest. The, Enemy's Fleet, in the Outer-road of,that Harbotir, on the 25th inst. , :onsisted of Seventeen Sail of the Line (six three_ deckers, and eleven two.ckekers), Twelve Frigates, 4 ,, a Nine Corvettes; and in the Inner parbour Eighteen Sail of the Line (four three deckers, and fourteen ,two deckers), Three Frigates, and One 'corvette. Those in the Outer road are ready:foi• Sea) and it was expected they would sail ' in the Course. of a few days. There - were also several Transports in the Harbour; supposed for the purpose f receiving I.'koops.. Arrived the Renard Sloop of War, frwn a Cruize. PORTS MOUTH, MAY 29. I'llB, Nerley Soooner s3ilz!,l hence fur P o rtugal, wjiiii , 4,,Fleei under convoy, on T4estlAy la st • Is this mommur put back to St. Helen's. y4Rxourf-i, MAY 29. 'kit/17ED . the Jfarpy Brig, with Dispatches from til t 13 a4ttc. • • DOVER, MAY 29. HALT ?AST SIX. tro Is Moment the-Nancy Passage. yes:-:eT arried n i, , . witir,Vispatches. r assed by for London, the George, M e dt; l4 " , 4 ;Id P 'ledetiCe j 'BEA RY, from.Phaadeiphia•; 7%.hage, MEc HAN, from Denier try ; and Clrai;ltra, Ro k Isom, from' Sa trnnnab*. SHEERNESS, MAY 29. 1 II is day sailed His Majesty's Ship Nerni:ils, of zg guns, Captain Ow EN ) for the Downs. Brilliant was taken into Dock. Thi, day being the Anniversary of the Reston• t ion of Ki ng CHARLES IL a Royal Salute was fired t, Y the Batteries at twelve o'clock, which was re. P e4 ted by seventeen guns from each Ship at the 15 —) at one o'clock. DEAL, MAY 29. 4 1113 Majesty's Ship Serapis• arrived this morning wi th a Fleet tiiidr convoy from the Mediterra. neap) and the .Friends and V erona E xtra Ship s , f r om' Bengal, which proceaded for the River. a ' A rrived the L a p w i ng , I nvest i gator, r 'd Gannet Sloops of War, and Areber Gun.brig, from th e Westward. They remain with the 0.1 , 0,1- 44 Eugenie, and Fri - refer Gun.brig„ Rivf GtOrge d ' d.r, 1 '44 and V;gil an t Lnggers„ Guelderla;td, Pithitrite, and Gdatea littch Ships of War. ~, . • Letters from Autwerp state, that by the new _arrangements adopted betwetn the French and l3a. tavian Governmeuts; the number of French troops which are to remain in the pay of Holland, includ_ irig the Legion of Franks of the North, is to be 3 0 ,000 effeetive men. , , 24. on The First Consul returned from IVlghaisoyes'e terday, and gave audience to the Amliastiadors e r— The Envoy of the United States,' empowered to transmit the ratification of the Treaty of Peace with -France, was presented. The First Consul set off in the evening, for Malmaison, whence he will return on the zsth to the Great Parade. • l'he Mayor of Isle, Dieu gives an Account to Gen. TRAVOT, that in a conference Which lie had had with the English Adm. PELL EW, he had learned that the Division under his command was instrated to watch the French ships now in the Road of Ais. It has for some days been whispered, that General LMNES has been killed in a duel, and this news had become the ,subject of universal conversation. 'The fatt is, that Gen. LXiNES has not fought any• duel, and that the man who is spoken of as his adversary is not even at Paris. One of our, journals announces, that• the Arsenal at:Cad4 has been burnt. NA ri.'Es, ApR I. 29. The Court has' officially published, that the Peace between His Mkjesty our King and the French Republic had• been ratified.--- 1 s joyou-s intelligence Avas celebrated by Public Festiali, which lasted three successive days, and by;the illamination'of the City. We learn that the French troops, 'ts,ooo in pumber, have concentrat ed themselves tetv,',2t.n a 'rant° and Tarentum. Ay 25. An English Flag of Truce which sailed from Egypt 96 the 3 ast . March, having on .board,.the Garrison of the Fort of Aboukir, arrived at Mar seilles on. the 1 . sth inst.' qt sailed from illa/to;a0 reports that it had leftsat Engtish.Shiys of the Line; several Frigates, asp Turkish and, English Transports, and Three 'i'urktrh~`lips of the Line, besides some:' Frigates.. Tpehtidy: 'of General ABEILCROMIIy had been remo where it had been buried, We learn iliac the Fort of Aboukir, invested by the . whole British Army, and consistiric , only of 16S- ; held. out eleven days. Ir catpatuiated with. all .the honours'of war on the /Bth March. The death of General .A a CR.Olvt .was•coneealed.from the French Prisoners ' , as well as every circumstance subsequent to• the battle of tEe 2ast March. '-The sending of this. Flag of Truce is merely a hois . ting effiart - of the Enemy. They have joined is' Spaniards to the' small Garrison of Aboakir in order to make the number of it greater, , N General Moaanu arrived here yesterday. It was reported at Se,dia, On the al of May, that the GRAND SIdNOR was dead. Yesterday, four carriages belonging to the'Couut of LEciroxist arrived - at the Spanish Ambassador's: The Prince himself is.expeded to.day at Paris. Git - von, MAY r a.—The letters fforn Lrgbora which have this moment reached us state; that the French Squadron' which had appeared. bir that port, •.had sailed 'again to.pursue its route. . Two Frigatei of that. Squadron were cruizing before the Canal of the;lslc of Parr o _fi 'errajo, in order to favour the Expec,lition. When the letters came' away, tlte.` place .had nor surrendered, and the Forts defenckd themselves with obstinacy, We expect, farther de.:. tail's. 7 14,i'Cut,'IVI.‘y 18. The Asiembly of the First . Chamber Of'the Pgislati ve'Bodyll . ,,ls 'thin niojning • decreed, thar•th Report of the COmmittee'i'egAidt. ing:the revision and the new Plan of the Cb7tstitu tion which it 'has drawn up, shall be rirkki distributed among the Members. The •It4Pett'arid the Plan are.ro,be-submirted to the ,deliberStidni 4 OF the Assembly_ three days after. the .dis tribu t ion. All . slit absent -Members are invited, by circular letters, to be present the*delibetations.—Our - Funds fall rlailsr more and more. MAY 27. M. D'AzzA.R.RA, the Spanish Ambassador, ex -I,Phettall day yesterday the .Count of LZGHORN. J r is from this circumstance doubtless that the joutals have published this morning that he arrived last bight.—The Count. of Le CHORN did not arrive ti!l two this morning. At one in the afternoon he 5c., otf from Paris with M..D'Azzaßa,A, and re paired to A/a/mai:air, where he was received by the Chief Consul; IJe returned from thence'at three itf the afternoon.--The Countess of I..EnttO7tit- ac ., companies him. ‘, We shall not speak of the absurd reports which malevolence has circulated, and to which the weak ,have given credit upon this occasion. VN . O shall 'only rethark, that it is not extraordinary that where there are cunning people,. there should be also credulous fools."--(Chi du Cabintt.) Letters from Sr.. Peterslptirjh state, that His Im- PERIAL MAJEbtr, by a message of the i it,h April, has created, for the,,examination of the Affairs of , State, aliristy Council, composed of men, which the same message represents as, equally honousFty:4, l th‘e'confideive of thePublicand His hi PE444 1 1,M4 51 JEATY. The number of the methbersorob this 'Council is riot fixed, His MAIRSTY resetacing to: himself the power of augmenting or din inishing it, as cireurugances'shall require, iNleinbers of this Council are, 141e1LLMarshal Count r ; ow ; thii General of Infantry Prince Struou the Greral of Infantry COttot . Sulsou.; the Priyy-Coursellor ana , Vice-Chauccllor Prince Km; ;Luc ; the General of Infantry ) Vice-rre. General of Infantry PEKt.relioFr ; 'the ,PrivY. Counsellor and Treasurer of State, Baron W.A.Z I- L Pr ; the General of Cavalry and. Governor of St. PctersbUrgh, Count de P4tiLLN; Prince LoPOIJKIN; Prince de GAGAIUN ; ti Ad. tniral and Vice-President of ,The Co'llege of Mali: ratty, Count de KoucH - D., - A-A, , ; and, lastly, the Privy.CoUnsellor Count de..,'ZitoctilNCKt. The-L' mpittss Do4vA:o.gtt; with the copcorrenee, of His ., lift , ritIAL MAJESTY, has sent the Grand Crqss of the Order of St. Catherine to •the OUEEti of • Pttosst A, and likewise to the Spouses of the ELEc.: Tort of IlAvAttrA and of DoitE Lou ISOf WUXTEM. BURG. Letters from Berlin, of the 't 2th inst. menton, that the Russian Amdassadar, KRUDNER ) had on the preceding day given a great diplornalic.dinner, at- which General BiiI7itONVILLE .and, Lord CA arsroar were placed at table next each - other. Volitical,observers fancy they discover in• this ctimstance, another proof of the desire of the Ca binet of Petersburgh to bringahout.imcific arrange ments:4. • • BREST, MAY zi.---Adm. VII.LA,RET JUT FUSE,, Who arrivtd here on the 16th, hoisted his Flag on the I.7th on board- the Qcca7. The whole Fleet saluted him : the Spani.l . rds with the same marks of respea as they had paid to Admiral GILAViNA. HAGUE, M. 21.—Several_versiqns of theNcw Constitution are in circulation, all of which the Committee has declared to be fai;e. It is, however, certain, that the Legislative Body will be divided into twt) Chambers ;. that the one will consist of 37 Deputies, and_ the other Qf 16, The Meeting of these Chambers is to take place twice a-)ear. The firF Sittinfr, is to be from the ISEII of April to the Ist ok June; the last from the of. isth of October to the :51 o December. The Members are to have a salary of 2000 florins per annum. There is also to be a Regency, in whose hands the Executive Power is to be Jodged. It 'is to be composed of Seven N4embers, with a Salary of oiooo flcrins each. This Regency - is to have under it a Scere.ary of State ; another for Foreign Affairs ; another for-War ; another for Naval Affairs, - and . a Secretaryci Intczior. BARCE:,ON,I, MAY 13.--A detachanent of the 47th Demi.brigede, from Afautp:lii , r, passed through here a fortnight ago, on its road to CartLageivz. Another detachment is nOW proceeding to same destination. Orders have been given to prepare for the reception of +ooo men of the best Troops in France, wito.are, it is Faid", not vtt-aClay-sjoUrocy from hence. Nine hundred French Sailors arc also to repair hither. They will immediately go to Car thaserta‘; and "the ia,,a troops will take the road to Suragcara..=—There are in our ports- SecTil oreight sail of transports. , ; DUBLIN, MAY . 26. Yesterdav morning, about eight o'clock, His Majesty's - Yacht, the Dors - eip-Slitr -A. ScmcirdtBlll“; Commander, arrivcd.i:n.ourAlf, -bearing the Xrn ;.perial Standard at her maint i o 4A ,she‘was initncdiate ky sAleted'hy the liattei . 'i'es oti the South Wall, and -the guns in the.' Plite'nig , 'ltatit7:"While the joy-beils Commence4,a4eal, -•.Whith Continued without inter. mission the whole of the day. - , flis Excellency Earl HARowictti landed at the -Pigeon-house at about half,past eight, and having 'taken .sotile refreihmenf, proceeded to ihe Castle, which he reached at hidf.past eleven. • The streets were titled by . the Troops in Gard son as His Excellency passed. , A irivy Cduneil being assembled, in the Great . Chamber of the Castle, His Excellency was. sworn into the office of Lieutenant General. and Gene ral Governor of. Ireland, before His Most Noble Predecessor; the Marquis Co it NWAL His Excellency the LORD LI EU T NAI4I' is aCCOM. panied 4)y Lord LINDSAY and the Hon. Mr. LIND. SAY, brothers of his Countess. The 'Marquis CORNWALLIS will, iris said,, re main for some time in this Country, in order to pert & the military arrangements commenced Under his auspices. A Cornrnittee of the House of Commons is now investigating the morrientous plan of repealing the Salt D4ics. It does the highest credit to Mr. ADDINGTON, and will increase his justly acquired popularity, his having brought forward a measure, the accomplishment of which will relieve the Public of a heavy burthen, and give life and support to our Fisheries and many branches of IVlanufadure and Commerce., We . feel it our duti , to correct the statement of the Seeeeli of sit , \V. 6. Nswoomgx, on the Irish 'Mama! Law ficrt.43llronet did not re- Av'esent the present state, : oGlrclaud a.rdetterahle, aq , expression which has peen erroivously inserted. The Prernium of the greater,Sliver Pallet, for the Pest original Drawing friiiiiWature (by Artists or others,' under the age of menty.one yeart), has been adjudgetl•by c the Society of Arts, to Mr. lettANcts jam; SARJENT. The subjea which does . SAairst so much honour, is . a View tear Reading, in Berkshire. The new Romanc- entitled `" Clara," we have authority to say, 'is nor frdtn - the pen of Mrs. R4D,C 1. I fiat imagined. ' cp IZT Q.F . XI - p.; IiEN CI IVA Y, Af t,?.. SITIANG BEFORE toltl3 I\'''o S, IN GUILDHALL, LO NOON\ 1,“.) .111% , ...r . : 1-T. , I 3 TG The Defendant is an Attorney living i t c H a t tnn _ - garden, and the Srei„t,d of the ,Rt.-111!; &c. ‘vheik: the,Pitiintia; a poor wdrrz.,f ing' Man, 4:xas stated, tt.ti r sonic ilifieaij . !. the Plaintitr,s houSe was broken ot. , en, the / thief was in the house, the ?'t ~Card ! etune tin d-.'" interrupted hirn as' be was cettlilly; :iway a leaden. pipe.- The , - thief was abotit - to stab the Plaintiff with his. knife; but.. the wife' came, who, by' her' shrieks, diverted, the thief ,fi - orn his purpose, ant then .the Plaintiff,-knocked hiM down, and secure 4, Mtn With the rope ‘vhich he intended to tie tip the property in•.—The wife - , however, - never recovered of the fright,but soon ;therwar4 died, "fhe'fol'„, low ing thy the thief Was ta,l";.en before the Ila!,7istrate at Union-h a ll, i n t h e B oroug h, for this - was (lore irl Surrey,- and upon notice to the, Defendant, he a! - - tctided'as Siew"ard of. the Estate, and he, at. well as the •Plaintill;. was haund over to prosecute taus thief; fora.house acljoir.inz to thatiwltiefa the Flain • tiffilecupie& and which wits uninhabited, had beer: stripp:d. of some lead. `1.114,i parties attended at the Assizes At,,Guillford,,, but the drafts'of two *lndia m ews they! had pre . pa.rcd weredefeive, and inap- plicahle to Pre'ease of the Pr . utn:ler ; anOther Wa3 prepared by Nit. Stat Ford, the el ..k of Mr.' Knapp, "WttO titkcs care of inditments upon that circuit ; by% thu ,ifil4Ciment the Prisoner was ch a rged th , breaking open a dwelling.bouse in the day -time, 'Zicc. iii citelt"'l'ri..'in;per:is - ai'c,:ted th-e,Pri.lo.ner's life, .upon v. - hi - ell charge he was 'tried and capitally cos.- . vicitd befc.n.e Mr. 'Justice Ga0.4'..---Upon that oc casion,, : the Learned judge - , in .pursuance of the provision Of:a : We ,'tct of Parliaincht„ exercisetthis dikretion in-the-distribution of the reward of foity pounds, allowed upon the s:orlyieli..)ll of offenders this description ; and, accordingly he ordered to this Plaintiff;,zol." Afterwards, this. Plain t iff; and three other persons, agreed at Guildford to come, up to Town, llr,d , refer it to the D.:let - Ida/3 to, settle what should he the share 01 each of them, .after de, ducting about 191. expellees ineurted out of the ori niat ginal 401. Accordingly they came tip', and put the;e, ,money lwrote the Defendant, on a desk—The gave tq' . each of thetn five guineas ; hut when he offered five - iothe Plaintiff,' he refused to take it, and the De fcridant said; ‘.‘ Very 'well, you "ditty; do as you „pleasc.').--Thcre was then a bill produced (a bill of costs) by. Mr. Bigg, in which theta Was an ite.th of 4]. los. to the I)ettidarit's Cleric for his trouble in attending at the Assizes, instead of the Defendant, who, aithongh bound over to pl'osceute, •dict not AL tend: The. Bill contained several other items,' of which., Lord ICENYoty expressed his disapprobation rxiOst strongly, i , and observed, " that there was no - neces, sity for Any .of.this charge, .neither was any of :it legal, nor .was the order.of the• Learned Judge, for the., diLtribution, o.dtained, be mts •sure, on a fair representation of thetkase. i-h desired it to be remembere,l, that -the Adi-of Parliament was, paki,with intent to encourage men to enter intri thq ln'tz:hdous. enrerprizes,..of appnd reheing robbet.,,, who trould not, perhaps, 'do , so, if , thgy`hats not th e prospect Pt this'.reWard ; ;antl et.e.'n if they died after the acct, th. money% went to the.eKecutors , for these purposes' the- Mt had direded, that the should be allowed, without. any,,dedUdi , m by or OtrierWise, except the few shillings to. the Officer . of the . Court.--.4-1e desired, that the priidiee'of mak ing these,dedudions, by W'ty of allotvances to those, not included in the Ad of Parliamenti"shtuild not, under any pretence whatever; be continued.-1. flat whenever any of these Certificates came before hint, he said he should take. efredual c;irei for this pur.. pose, and 'to- reserve the pure intention of tlie .14, • crislature.—lf it was found to be iinpr;:tdie;.tble to do so, every resP 6 et) he hoped s o me Nkiither,l9 mof the House of4COmohs would bring fo r w ar d . measure. by „which; either , the • reward, which hack been found fault with by some, as a system that . was erroneous, should be done altogether away ; or, as others thought the principle of it . a good one, so ti otlified as, that , these abitse , ; of allowi v motley to those who had no shale in . the hazard appre hending 'the. robber,, for they were the only objeds of the eneouragein6nt of the Legislature, should,be ;:r ii , p a .c u c a i l mk ly ur tzi n a, x v , e st d. se ;k e ' r h i e 4), }Lrel i zt e e w a t , a o s , norant man, who apikehended a robber,--bound over to prosecute hint,--attending, at the Assizes ordered by' the Judge to have a reward of limes to an , A ttotncy, • who outht . to know he liad no right to make nut any bill Of:eosts whatever in such a c:ise„ tbe he ought to have himself itttentie4 according to the exigeucies of histict, he being bound over to prosecute.--=-Instead of which, he makes out a , bill of COStS,,,WithOUt any foundation whathver, and allows his ott'n Clerk, who had nothing upon .eSrth to - do with the 'matter, 4.1.: anti the up-shot of the thing was, that this poor felloW, -who thought is ii to have 2014 -:.ts the Learned Judge had ordered, was only tohave .0. , -rl-SUch,pio... eeeding Was' most setndalovis." . - -The A•rTon, E Y-Gr. t:n it at 'said ; that not a far. thing profit went into the pocket of Mri. Bigg in this.hustness . : 4 Lord KENYON said, he would not examine into the .minute detail of thin proceeding ; the,brOati out.. line of the thing I:ad a complexion that spoke for it self---if the money, now demanded, was paid to this poor man, good and weir; otherwise the resistance to the demaia into be made subjeet to all the sequences he would t,ii care that that part of th distribution of juttice whith depended ,on him, should be, performed: h stated, that befo!e this e:tuse opened by the Plaintes Counse), hi.: said to Mr. Big l ),-, - that as Le was 'a profesSional of e li arader, it would be better for . h'im to ktve it referred, 'for that indOd•-he'was ill...advised in bringing is into Court, but th4t M.r. Bigg dissentedTrorn the nroposition, ' • Lord KtiNvoN saidi be saw nothing to refer, nor any thing that was wi4C eo I').x done, but tloa t p,,) ing this poor man his, money. kiowever the sum of money which had In'en allo , qed and paid othets (for ioit appeared LW betn the raw), tarn it down to Goildford, and txp,,:nwa