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4ti6stion, do not consiciet the real interests 'of the Country. We have now the more pleasing duty of con. gratulating the Country upon the formation of a new AdMinistration, which, as we are deprived . of the services of Mr. PITT, Mr. DUNDAS, Lord GR ENV I LLE, Lord SPENCER, and Lord LOUGH- BoßouGn, gives, from the talents and charader of those who compose ft, the best pledge for the continuance of that System by which alone the true interests of the Empire can be maintained ; and we know not where His MAJESTY could have seletted men fitter to replace those whose retirement at this critical conjuncture we cannot but deplore. Yesterday being the day appointed, by Royal Proclamation, for a General Fast and Humilia tion, it was observed with great decorum by the inhabitants of this Metropolis. The ROYAL FAMILY attended at the Chapel Royal ; the ICING and QUEEN were accompa nied by the PRINCESSES AUGUSTA and ELIZA. SETH. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Moss, from the Book of Proverbs, cha,. xxiv. verse ro. " If thou Lint in the day of adversity, thy strength is The Sword of State was carried before THEIR MAJESTIES to and from the Chapel by the Duke Of ATHOL, The Nobility who attended at the Chapel were, .Dukes--Roxburgh and Athol. ilarli—thatham, Harrington, Morton, Westmorland, Haranurt, and Leicester. riscounts—Selse}i and Stopford l —Boston and Napier. General Burgoyne. Colonel Roberts. Marchioness, of Bath. Gesintessei—Waldegrave and Harcourt. J.:dies—C. and M. Thynne, Grenville , and M. Wynyard. Afittreact—Barrington, 0 'Byrne, and Portedus. ;Misses—Chester, two O'Byrnc!, Wrann, Hecate, Jeffries, and Colman. After the Service HIS MAI ESTI' gaVe audi ence ro the Earls of CHATHAM, LEICESTER, and WESfMORLAND, and at three o'clock the Ro YA L FAMILY returned to Buckingham-house. The LORD CHANCELLOR, ARCHBISHOP Of CAlltrit!lUßY, Bishops of DURHAM, WINCHES TER, EXETER, GLOUCESTER, CHESTER, and ST. DAY D'S ; Earl SP ENCi R, Viscount HOOD, Lords AUCXLAND aid HOBART, went from the House bf Peers to Westminster Abbey, 'where a most excellent Sermon was preached by the Bishop of WINCHESTER, from Proverbs, Chap. xir. v. 34. 14 Righteousness exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a re proach to any People." The SpEAKEk of the House of Commons went to St. Jobn's Church, Westminster, where their Chaplain delivered an excellent discourse from gevelations, Chap. iii.`likerse 19. " As many as I love I rebuke and chasten ;. be zealous, Martine, and repent." The St. Margaret arid St. John's Volunteer Associations, with their band of music, escorted the SP HAIM. home. The Duxn of Yoax, accompanied by Colonels 'WYNYARD 3 FIRWCII, CALVERT, and the Hon. NIT. UPTON ) went to the Military Chapel in the Almonry, where the Rev. Mr. GAMBLE, Chap. iain.Gcneral to the Army, preached a Skrmon. The vve believe, a corred Copy of the Letter written by the late SPEAKER to Mr. LEY, notifying his Resignation of that Office : Palace lard, Peb. to, act. " SIR; " PIS MAJESTY having been pleased to ex press his intention of appointing me, at this COnjunaure, to a 'situation which - would be , in.. compatible with the continuance of my serVice to the House of Commons ' I am obliged, to request that you will tender to the House my lestgnation ~f an Office,' in itself the most Ho nourable, and repeatedly conferred upon ,me in a manner the most gratifying'. in quit t i ng suc h a situation, endeared to me by considerations the nearest to my heart, I am unable adequately to express the sentiments of respe&, gratitude, and regget with which lam impressed. I ;tin sus tainek by' the consciousness that on this occa -sion I am aauated by the same prindiples of pub lie duty, by which it has been my earnest Wish, and constant endeavour to regulate my conduct, and from which, I trustohat I shall never deviate. 46 I am, with true regard and friendship, SIR, your TAM, ObedientSOVant, g HENRY •ADDINGTON." We find that notice was g iven in the House - or Commons on Friday by Colonel FuLLARTON, of a Motion which he intended to make on Monday, for the Thanks of the House to the late Speaker,' Mr. Ao Di IV crox, - for his Services 'and ConduCt when filling the Chair. • However the retirement of Mr. PITT and his Friends may be regretted, the People .have at least the consolation of not seeing any danger at present of. the .elevation of Mr. Fox and his Party to office. Mr. Fox has given such un gualified eulogiums on the French Revolution that he may be justly suspected of a partiality to French. Principles. Besides this very important ground of objeEtion to- his resumption of Mini-; sterial Authority, ht • even committed himself Strongly in favour - of those Principles in matters 'relative to the Government of Great Britain ; for be id accused of havingdeclated . that « resciiionti was a question merely of "mfr." . The infer ence from this declaration, seems-to he alarming indeed, for it. implies a right in - the People to resist whenever they may have reason to consider themselves as strong enough .to succed, and hence th. old principles of Repub/ihin. Zealoti; that they may tatkirr - their Governors when they please, is what might. he • revived, if any man were to bi .- 444.vested With power who entertains such loose notions on the doctrine of, Political Obedience* .t (7 5 NAVALZ,-*-‘7,4.,' ti‘z qko r->•Va imperium priagi, Jo t trilusteni, Sed mihi Jorte daturn. PLYMOUTH, FEB. i 2. .ARRIVED the Pally Transport, ARIS BOURNE master, with part of the 49th and 85th Regi ments on board, from Guernsey, undei convoy of the Rambler Sloop of War. The above Troops were taken Qut of the Denton Transport, which vessel was driven on shore and totally wrecked at Guernsey the 9th inst. in a pie of wind. Arrived the nench Lugger Privateer L'Espoir, of 6 swivels, with 20 men, belonging to St. Ma_ loos, captured on the gth inst. by the Lady Char lotte hired Armed Brig. Sailed the rille de Paris, of ito guns, and Wog, of 98 guns ; to join the Channel Fleet. DEAL, FEB. 13. INTILLICENCE has been received here, that the French Frigates which made their•escape from Dunkirk Roads to Flushing, soon after the cap ture of La Desiree, have within these few days sailed from the latter Port down Channel. His Majesty's Frigate Nemesis, with two Armed Cutters, have in consequence received orders to proceed immediately to Sea, itrquest of the Ene my, and they are notv under weigh for a Cruize off the Coast of France. SHEERNESS, FEB. 13. His Majesty's Sloop Dart was this day un docked. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM OX •BOARD THE GREYHOUND CUTTE a, DATED DARTMOUTH, FEB. IT; 1801. " Being yesterday ofrPunck Knoll, at eleven o'clock in the morning, received information from the Lieutenant at that Signal Post, that a Privateer had captured a Brig in the S. W. We immediately gave chace in that dire&ion, ind at twelve o'clock saw three Sail 'a -head, standing to the Southward, a Cutter, Sloop and Brig : at four o'clock had the pleasure of recapturing the Brig, being the Mary Jemima, of Exeter, laden with a very valuable cargo of groceries, bound to that Port. We shifted Prisoners, and made sail after the Sloop, and at half past five came up with and recaptured h.zr, which proved to be the Fine, of Neath, laden with barley, last from Weymouth. They were both taken by La Dorado, French Cutter Privateer, of i 6 guns, and her consort at a distance (being those which cap_ cured His Majesty's Cutter Comititution), which had got a long way. to windwartt of us. By the time we retook the vessels, night coming on, we lost sight of the Enemy. This morning, being off the Berry Head, and it blowing very hard, we were obliged to bear up for Dartmouth, where both the Prizes are also safely arrived." Earl Sr. VINCRNT arrived in Town yesterday morning from Torr Abbey, in consequence of his having accepted the high Office of First Lord of the AdMiralty. La Virgin do la Alcres, a Spanish Ship, laden with sugar, tobacco and logwood, arrived at Milford Haven on the 3d inst. in company with La Yeniekr, Lieutenant ihkow c)o D. The Spaniard was captured off TenerifFe, on her voy age thence from the Havannall, by His Majesty's Ship Argo : tile Prize -master, from want - of Ob stirvation and chatts, took the English coast in the Bristol Channel to be the French coast, and accordingly shaped his course for Plymouth ; and had it not been for. the appearance of La r f oeur, in all prOability they would have been driven on shore on The coast of Wales the following 'night. TM Brig Charlotte,' 'Capt. SALMON, 'from Neath to London, laden with iron and tin plate, has also put into Milford-liaven in great distress— cargo supposed to .be damaged. • • . The Schooner St. Joseph Los Amigos,. Capt. A. CASSE L Ls, from Campeachy. to Kingston (Ja maica), having upwards of 25,0001; in 'specie on board, belonging to Meisrs. LoNOmAilt.amd. St n- BA LD, ,: Kingston, was captured on the 2d. Dec. by a French Privateer, of four gUns 'pen, off Old Harbour, who, after keeping Mr. SI - 8- BALD clan in the hold in irons three days, landed him, 'almos.t naked, at Nairil Point, and proceeded with her prize for Cuba. The Jeffrow Anna, Rentee, from • Memel to London, is or shore' near Elsinore, and . full of water. - , . Lord ,CHARL;s, SrENcER, we believe, is to be Joint Postmaster. General with Lord AUCK LAND. The Expedition which lately sailed from Ma dras, is supposed to. be destined for Manilla, the chid of the Philippine Island's, belonging to the Spaniards. Acebunts have been receiVed.of the departure of all the Spanish Ships of War . frorn that Poi The Island is full of valuable commodities, which have been warehoused for some. time, for want of ship; to convey them away. Rt;TSIA. Tit! extent of territory and addition of popu lotion which the Russian Empire has gained during the last century, is enormous: It maybe estimated from the following calculation. - In 1-;*2 i, Russia received an actessicih' of Livo nia, Estbnzia, and Ingria ; the first 4if these Countries is co m p ute d to contain woo square miles, and a population of 0 . 5;300 souls : The extent of Estbot:ia is 403 miles ; its population 200,003 souls. Ingria is 4co miles square,:and has 406,000 inhabitants. In 1742, CaTelia,lVbourg i and some districts in Finland, containing together 990 square. miles, and i i 8,000 inhabitants, were added to her dominions. Her acquisitions in Poland during the years . 1772, 1793, and 1793, amounted to 8742 square miles, and to 6,0 4,800 subjects. In the Crimea and the Ottoman Distri&s, she acquired in 1774, 1783, and 1791, a surface of 1900 square miles, and 430,000 people. New acquisitions in Courland i during 5795, were 2.57 square miles of territory, and 300,000 inhabitants. Total accession.of strength during the century 1,3,739 square mile% 8,014, too sub jeets. The Population of Russia ,was estimated in 1784., at 24 millions, exclusive of its Asiatic Territory, which contained about six . millions of inhabitants► To these are to be_added, about 4,000,000. Poles, the number gained since that period, as there is to be dedutted from the total of Poland, what the year 1772 gave, calculating 300,000 people for Courland, and ioo,ooo for the Crimea, and we shall have for the Population of European Russia, 28,400,000 souls. The total extent of territory i 5.25.1,300 square miles. A Letter from Memel of the loth ult. says, that the weather was so mild there, at that time, that the Harbour had t 6 fathoms of water at the entrance. But a very small quantity of merchan dize remained in their warehouses at the close of the last year: Their stock of Wheat,. the only article free for exportation, had been exhausted by the English ; who also took with them as large a quantity of hemp and flax as they could stow, the news of the Embargo in Russia having oecat sioned a great speculation in that article. - A great quantity of masts and rafts are left' here.—The following is a list of the Vessels• which entered the Harbour of Mcruel in the year Iftco : English - - .553 Prussian - - - 128 Danish - - -38 Swedish - - Pappenburgh 12 Lubeck - - 6 Mecklenbingh - 7 Hamburg!' - . 2 Oldaaburgb. - - 2 774 Mr. tt/Mi3P.RLAND, we are glad to find, is again coming forward as an advocate for the Christian Faith,, in ov e pOsition, to the sophistry of modern Philoiophers. Sudi 'a dircetion of talents andlearning from an Author whose labours have in general been of so different • a kind, can not but increase. the respea Of the Public for this distinguished Literary 'Veteran, though there can be little hope that his . arguments, how ever.clear and convincing to the . wise and virtuous part of mankind,, will have any'effeCi upon the insidious tribe whose mischievous dodrines he is laudably solicitous to refute. Dr. PARR, it is said, is about to publish the curious Sermon which he delivered at St. Paul's four months ago, and which had the rare merit of being equ4lly pleasing to frievds andfoes. To the former it was so mos , ng, that none of them could bear to listen to such a trial of their feelings above four hours, and-on the latter it operated as so comfortable q narcoti c, tti.it it kept them in profound repose during the whole time of his delivering it. Few modern Plays have been" so well supported as the Comedy of The Poor Getitlernan, , at Co_ vent-Garden Theatre. The parts are properly assigned to the Performers, with hardly one ex ception. The result is what might be expected —strong interest and 'diversified entertainment. We did not give a sufficient tribute to the merit Of MURRAY in our first account of this Comedy, uor of 'TowNsEtin, who is an industrious and, useful Performer, and who supports hii Charac ter with spirit, simplicity; and nature. The Comedy itself, though not of first-rate merit, is much superior to Most produaions of the modern Dr.una. MORTON'S Operatic Comedy; we understand, is to be entitled The Blind Girl. The story , is very interesting,' but • mihgled. with episodzcal huroourl. 1111Azzi.N.Grit and Re EV a are busy on the Music ' and the Piece itself is receiving'• the last .touches from the. Author, The new Piece of Deaf add Math, is founded upon the priCtice of the French Professors, re. speduing people under the unhappy predicament signified by the Title, and is said to be founded on an interesting &vin6 that really happened in France, The chief events of Mr, Monk LEWIS'S hew PlaY, we . hear, depeikl, upon a dream, which is supposed to have occurred to one of the charac ters, We hupe the high expedition this Drama has excited in,the :theatre will not prove, a dream a 150,.. as... the .Plece .itselfis preparing in'so mag. niacent a style, :that if will in that case be a very expensive reality, . A certain Baronet is ac keta in his Inquiries into the , State or a Prison as The celebrated - flow. Alto, though, we believe . , the World ,are gene rally of optnioti that there •is an essential Ayr. rence in the- motives. • The Caricaturists have already taken hold of a certain Northern Potentate, who ii represented under the appearance of a Russian Bear, with BONAPARTE for hit Leader, Luckily, however i the caprice of this same allegorical Bear-is cqua! to his strength, and he may play some Unexpe4ed trick at the expence of his Cort;efin•Ceitehtelor. Two Friends, Lorenzawick., from London to Trieste, is captured by a French Privateer, in the Mediterranean, and carried IlltQ Carthagena. dORONEItit-11810iEffi': YESTiRDAY' at twelve o'clock; a COroner Jury met Mr. SHI ELD, the Coroner, It the Dort Horse, oppoqite St. .GeOrge's Church, Southwark; to inquire i n t o th e. death of . Pizabeth Brown; who lodged at a hotre - in Pe.orge.) . .ard, in the Bo:, rough. . . . After viewing the .bossy, the Jury continued sitting. till nearly fivc . o'elock: . !.. . • A great number of witnesses were examined; many of . theiri poor unhartiy women, who live by the wretched earnings ofprostitution:. The first Witness. said; she lived in the same house . with the deceased, Who had a companion of the name of Jane . , Williams, 'but generally known by that'Of Welsh Jenny. -She heard the deceased and this v . vomanquarrellingabOut twelto o'clock, and supposed the former %Vat turned out of doors, as she heard her afterwards knocking at the door, and .begging to be admitted, saying she had hurt -her head, &c. The deceased, she said, belonged to a parish near Cannon-street. She had been put into a Work-houscat Mile-End, but had left it about a month ago, and came to live. in George-yardi where she was employed in going on.messages for the unfortunate women who inhabit that place.— The evidence of several other of these Women was to the saine.efred. The siedielietS of the parish or h. Owi st-, anti a Surgeon.wiTo had examined th e b o dy, were theca called ; the latter said, - that it did not etearly pear to him, that ~the ma r k s o f violence upon the body had been the occasion of her ideath. It appeared . that the deceased was much given to intoxication, and it was sugvtted that Wet. wounds might have been occasioned' by falls, &c The account given' in a Morning Paper of yes- , terday, respeeting two men having jumped out of a one pair of stairs window, was proVed to be incorrect. The mete atided to appeased, from the cc of several respedabli Gentlemen in the neighbour. hood of Blackman street; to4have been two credit able country dealers, who, having been at the Dun Horse till a late hour on Tuesday night, had, on leaving it,, been decoyed into George yard - by Jane Williams. They continued in her, apart_ ment, which was on the ground-floor, until se ven in the morning, when they were informed that a dead body was lying in the passage: ing a considerable Sum of money about'them, they were alarmed, and immediately got but of the window. These two Gentlemen, it was stated, were ready to make their appearance if necessary ; but the Jury thought there was no occasion . for . 'examining them, being of opinion that the de ceased, who had only .a part. of her clothes on when found, had come by' her death from lying in the inssage exposed to .tln• inclemency of the weather, .and returned a verdict accordingly. Srottm7G.---A most extraordinary circum.: stance happened with the Berkeley hounds, on Monday'last; meeting the Company to, throw off at Hodgmoor; they. soon unkennelled, and went ;away in , the highest stile imaginable; crossing a considerable scope of country, with beeast.high running for two hours ; they at length reached Pollard's-Wood, where the field of horsemen' was very. much.reduced ; here Reynard finding himself severely pressed by the pack (who were close 'at his brush); jumped into what is called a grolia,fall, of ,ten or twelve f cet d eep , and was instantaneously followed down the ph. scared precipice by the body of hounds, who were completely lost to view, and the very few horsemen near, left in a state of the utmost Con sternation. 'Forn Oldaker, the huntsman, and one rtubipjler-in, 'being up, the latter permitted him. self . to be let down into the dreary abyss, from whence, by. the Most incessant exertion, and incredible fatigue; he extricated and got to the surfice seven couple,—then the fox, and with a persevering Herculean labour, the remaining fourteen couple, many dreadfully bruised, and the last, a favourite leading hound (which - it is supposed went down close _to the fox), quite dead : previous to the conclusion of this arduous and dreary task, the "whipper.in had earnestly implored assistance for extrication, and had nO sooner reached the surface than he fainted, and his recovery was for some time doubtful: It is extraordinary, 'that notwithstanding so great a quantity of Salt fish comes to market, it is retailed so high as Bd. per pound. - There wants some public spirited men to set up a market for Fish, as well as other articles, and we doubt not that it might be sold for less than half the present price, with a good profit to the Subscribers. Fresh Herring's are sold at . 4.d. a .piece,. though such' shoals arc constantly brought to market. The Ladies of Truro, and its neighbourhood,' at their Bieizeientepository, on Thursday, Jan. 29, disktlayed the most elegant assortment of va rious. Pitney Works, in. , the Assembly-room, which were arranged on .tablei between the pil lars on either side, antreitending from one end to the other, formed a complete,coup-d'arl. Such wis the impatience of the seoMpany assembled to be. Conic purelysers, that instead of waiting for 'the appointed hour, the Ladies who so charitably con.. tributed their work, were . necessitated to coin. mence the sate soon after the doors were opened .and we have the pleasure to add, that the amount was upwards of an hundred guiticits, which were immediately appropriated to charitable purposes. .The French and German Chemists have lately much interested theMselves in . procittink Sugar from the Beet root, and we are glad co ii4d . thattlw subjea ha 3 not been neglected in this Country ? as we understand that Mr. Coxwell, of TeMple,Bar, .a Gentleman' extensively. engaged irt . praetical chernistry,..is about to publish- a Treatise on. the different Vegetable, thegrowth of this CoLifitry, from which Sugar.. can be r?htaitted tbr general purposes—in - which it is intended to point out.the bun mode of conducing the process upon a large scal , , and to .give 4 comparatiVe staten3ent of the .p.cotludis e