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quire. 'And however on this, or on any account; • inclined JO siippOse`that a Court Martial is,a pre-' ferable Mode of trial .to ' that of the Civil Tri- 1 . bunal, When the one can give .as good security • for the. PUblie ; Peace as, the otlrer : 'Certainly, I am , not. .. As . ..a general proposition, :I". contend • no such thing. Bur. I say this;. tlkat by a eon- , .'"stant praCtice•of -thi'§ Country, in the miinage. . . • meat. Of its Public concerns, there • have been occasions,: and there always . - will-be occasions, where.. the Trial by a Court Martial is pre feral* even i to.', that Of a . Trial,by jury, be camise;• better•adapted to the Cause. to,.be tried. If thiS be.oot so, for what reason is it that we are, year afttr y'ear, in the constapt habit of pass fing the Mtitiny, Bill .? Let it not be supposed that I wish the..Marrial. course of • proceeding to, be extendedbcyond its . necessity, to the diminution of the Civil *Power--1 only. Say it" proves this, that,Farliament'have considered wh:lt-, forms' are beit:, adapted to cases, instead of foirowing' WIC uniform . courselor them all; and evv..in erdinery times. of . .pcaee and public • tranquillity, it - Was - : - cons4lered Alias. the IVlartial Law is better adapted td some oaks than the Civil'Authority. U.Par: . - lianient. has been in , tlie . habit of . adopting Milk ..tary.Law for rile decision. of some cases, what will they not, ,do, when the Public ,_.•;:ifety. depends, upon A dopting such a system ?—When the first objet is `the Public tk_fety---4hen it applies flat only .to the party accnsed, ;to •the judge, to . .the Jurors, ~ to the Witness in Civil, Snits ? When Civil . Process cannot be carried on—when the - Safesy of the . ,PUblicr.which . ..alwayS ought,, to bccont,idered first ; when proteCtion to the : innocent individual, -' . the .net. object, comes to bc considered,; . . when ..the •Jarclinary mode of civil ,process cannot ,be carried on with- . out.this Military aid,4 ask, what is it that Parlia, merit, will not assent to for the purpose' of accom plishing this sysiern.of'proteaion ? If this, be so= .will,any man . toll mc, that retaining, as I do, ..an . ehth'usiiptic reverence for the Trial by jury, it is.not better to have a partial Military. Law, for the preserwationof the csaence' of that very Trial, than by clinging to the name. of a Trial by Jury, lose the spirit of it, ' which you value so highly,. which you, tave alWayi wished to preserve, and hay 9 prcserv,ed it by iemporary measures of Mi litary spirit.; instead of adopting'. that • indiscri minute, and destrudiVe spirit Of.iVlilitary Force, whidi,A)tfltinilitig in the name of Freedom, has to tally des trOyed it in the French Revolution? I say, returning to what I:have digressed from, there is,. gr"eat.dilierence in policy 'between the one sort of Mi;itary Law and the other—great ditretence,, in dc'e(l., bet wcen . that...which is partialand regulated, and that which is ma k to Oyerwhtm all'other a tithori t' , . whatever.. • I Would ask any. !nal), Whe ther. h thinks there is' no . difference between Martial Law, adrhinisteredby Oficers_sworn to • cto.their . dtAty, who'" are appointed bi.' and who .• ate ,I:sponible. to, the Government ; who, regu bred hy the rule,s of Civil' justice; haire aPpoun-, a - them, to .their several. stations, amid who are themselves Under the superintending controul of - Civil'Antho,rity, and that sort - of: Martial Law which , is adrlp(ed in the Field of Dittle, the re-' du) t ,'of a ilceilion. by -the . ebtsh ,of arms; on the faig of .which rilay der* the',.recovery,.orruld of a Country ? I •shotild like to know :Whe-, thef t any . map can doubt .of the difference be tWecn .1 Fiore LaW'onder such regulations as those I have alluded, to -''' 1 that sort•of Martial ~,utt , ,• . 1,,6y whic h i ; . itlopted at the p9int.of the bayonet or the V i4or purstting the. Vanquished Eheniy ? Is, that •the policy, Which any,smne would„piefer to the policy whi.6- is about to•be submitted,lp, you by : my Noble, friend ? . Why, Si 4 if . w come to the, Qne:lion , of Law, 'I shall not presume : ari p rmie ii ': I: ,have not been long enough in rthpprOitst:ion to possess trifleh 15.noWleqg 9f iti. • 1 ' •et4re, are others, ih this lionse jeady, and (...-- • ‘ akrlipt: 4 11 4 c to. t h at task,,if it be necessary to dis- . cmts. it, Itut,l would ask, whether any *an will tel me that t,be,crime •of Rebellion depends on five or • six . , or; fifty, or lice thousand men as sembling 4440)6' ?: I say no, Jinn. is not 'the' , s•andammi t wthich to refer the Question of. Re -IQIIOII. -144 ere be a's`•stc: riatiF plan forrind for tl)e destruc fon,oi. a Country, and there ii 'a coll. cert Prinpoyhetbet three or five, or any' other numb ;r, to 4cconiiilish 'that end, : whether by bur glary, or robbery,, or murder, or any species of eriminalty. Whatever, r in furtherance of that plan, to deter the loyal and peaceable part of the. Cornna,unity frombeing true to ' their, al legiance, for, the purpose of executing. with ; °lore f4cility rheir Martial ,Law, a' ,a system 'either of terror •or othcrivise-; to .rob triumphantly, or take away by stealth—vvliether,it be " the pestilence that Avalketli in' the darkness, or the, N s ord' that wa3tctli in the noon day ;" if its chara'aer be Rebellion, Rebellion be it. called—if it's of eel be-tri defeat the purposes. of civil process; vvliether bi the daAgei, of the assassin, or with the parade, pomp,' ar.a- circunistance .Of, I will not s;ty, glorious_ Var,,it is still- Rebellion—whef. ther,fl4gttioits t , bold §nd open, or Sly, insinuat... jug incicrafty•-•-7Whether 'with much, or with littl bloodshed, Tay be points' which Ina)/ ,ccinstitutc a differemn:e in the dciree ; . which is most detest. able, :is a tiring not worth'elebAting ; neither c,mii . it be :tolerated in a - Country .tendeaing the hap_ pineo, , of its SubjcAs; aril it is to their safety, that if, c:therill:force, terror, or cunning, a..systcm,is 4ml optd by the disloyal, lo 'supersede tire operation cNi MumuCipal Law, and have for its e Ai ic(t ,tile .tlestinaion of its. Government.' and Corn:; tit ition,,and that is the question 15 - efore.us•- irj i.., e' ~,,,,,b,; l , .t say, -and therefore it is the duty ot •ti j is....l.louce; if it cari have' any duty, ,to prO. •,•;:',.. ; ...inst the operation .of such ,_a sister°, '\ ~, t :!. , .'n is the question befor tr., ?--,-Wifelher . . - 1;x: i . I.li .1 'reitn: -.. li• p.m ~.• .', i(i'N Iff. , . qt9,l tt., , • < .t:es. . - mired, ~ 4 ,', , ;:,.."; ••ivl a tend 'La w „ awl, pref. cr v e the" great -tt.i:::• , ; to' I'6o eiyil Ri:,.;ll , ts of the SobjeCls in i re l ac c ; ; r, t . ~.'ill hazatiVA ck,riZliti:m:itir wlirch the •vv)mi., lc :,..:,, 14: ilium ri Wider.. tt(e'flnquAlifieci, un- A .,-... ~. • ..• • - n a ble spins t . , r4 sl.-1• ; , i ,m.,:, . untimm ted, , out tinge; v c - • 1 . _apit'Linc.:Nkrptii4lt. 'pr.Mice 01,:MattialLaw•?,-I smiy, •.:!t,i.i or ri . t. , .:h a'qtwst it nu homiest, hrfelligeni, man (.::, , a -I,c4tate, Now, Sir, "a word,. add' a b , , . . . n 1 ~,1 1 • •Waircf oni.v, .( ? n,tne-ctfaracter 0 1 the*oru 4,iente cl4!_cl;--ileel liltidi ttit)t than I have C:` . power •to utter on -that sablia,. although I am persuaded I fetl. only - in. common with -the . whale - Df l this House, for we all mist feel • for that eharaCter, every„ .thing that . belongs to wisdom and to true, patriotism: That name, that illustrious . mime, has - been quoted by my Isoble.Friend with the affeElion - it 'commands ; Ina has, it been brought to aid the measure, by calling for the confidence of this House on the streligth. of its estecm for that illustrious.. Chara Ber ?:--N0 , ,, Sir, but it was quoted in a: ' way in syllicli Gentlemen over against rue, who agree ,wit-li, Me in opinion upon . that Chf k raCier; ' ,becauSe they ,cannot resist it—the opinion of that Noble ' Personage has been quoted, dotas a dry, legal, .or technical. eiidenee, my Noble Friend not chasing that - course; hut.as a proof of the general feeling of that' Venerable Statesman. He gave it in a fair Parliamentary way ; he gave it 'as a point 'to satisfy our . minds and.judgments, which always.ought ,to be rnade7 up from .cir cninstaiiees unshackled by dry and uninteresting detail or. rigid forins.—That power. of Martial . Law which is now 'proposed, has teen given . already, .and it, has .been approved. of by the LOrd ,Lieutenant. That he. has exercised the. power under it, even so , lately as - the last 'month, is certain, and it- is'as indispur.. able that.he has frequently issued Warrants, and caused the trials to take .place under that Power, , which proves his opinion of. the necessity- - of the measure. That ,he has exercised that power with lenity, ná man will deny, for no man' doubts it : Than under these trials several persons'have been . foend guilty, not of co mmon crimes, but aftually convicted of Rebellion,., and furtherance. of Re -,bellion, is also beyond, dispute, But, Sir, the. Hon. Gentleman says, aCourt-Martial may.judge. ill,' andhe.giveS Yon a solitary instance as a proof of it. Why, Sir, so he may of the condua of a jary—but . what would tie said .to me, if, after , giving an instance in which a Jury had convifted where they (night to. have acquitted, or had ; ac quitted where they ought to have conviCled.;. if 1 were from, thence '. to conclude that .the Trial by Jury. -is an ' evil, and 'that you ought, to have no more of_ it ? . I believe . I shoidd. not have many supporters in this House, or in this Country ; and yet the Hon. Gentleman's -in stance of the mistake made by one Court Mar tial, amounts to ati more than that Which I have stated. But we .have been tdld, that CoUrts of Law are open in Ireland—Why, , yes, Sir, they • have beedopea, because the object of the Law now proposed to be continued' was, :that they should be opened. They are open, not only in consequence; of the Military Law being in force . there, but because also tbdt Military. Exertions have made it possible for the peaceable subjects thereto enjoy the advantages of civil ProceSs, •in the same manner as'-in times ofprofound Peace, and because' we have been able to afford these in,. valuable Privileges.Of Civil Security, torso large 4 ClasS'of His Majesty's SubjeCts;and because we are.now, by'a sparing and reluctant hand, continu ing to enforce that Martial. System to a partial and limited extenr,rsome men think fit to oppose us—but 'as a great multitude of the .peaceable classes of the great community of that Country aPProie it, beeanse this system of Military Power 7LS not to overwhelm the Civil Power, but to pro— ' tea: it, frotii-being overwhelmedbecause this is a 'plan to' continue Military Law in order to preaerve 'Civil Security, I \ apprehend there will .. pot be much difficulty in this question, and on this question I am inclined to . hope this,House c will not . be.disposed to adjourn," Mr. WIIITI3 READ said, the .Right flon. Gentleman had made a very eloquent:, , but, in his opinion, a' most inconclusive speech. He lia& ivislied,.-When that Right Hon: Ge'ntleman rose, that thellotise should have adhered to its usual. Courtesy Of hearing one oldie two new Members,who rose at the same time, and 'he was the mote anxious' that they should have - beenheard, as they were'lrisli.Meinbers, and might have given the . House sonic information on the subjca now be. fore it.' 'ln the course . Of this most. unfortunate, War, the, principles of Jacohi l isin hive been made the,:exense by His .Majesty's - Ministers, for the most 'arbitrary :measures, and for the. most flagrant violations: of the Constitution. - -- . But it, always ' was, and stilt continued, his fir;ii opinion,, that it was the eoridu4 of the; Right' Hon. Gentleman which first called these princi, plea into tioeratidn, which gave theM their power and their energy ; which sustained their ineiienee in France' and' h e would not; hesitate t o assert,. , that tliis mea•sarewould be carrying them'fartherin. ' ibis Country than ever they-hid been' carried even in that. But it seemed to him to be the Principle whicit,regulated tke cOndgf of Ministers; .to at.. tain power to themselVea.by the ruin of the Con stitution. They .Call - the supporters of a Reform in Parliament " Jacobins," . bot'llßeforin in Par •liantent, ' though it might have lessened their power,' would . have deprived theitipporters of Rebellion of one or their mos t poWqrful engines. The voint now before the Hoite is not tNllltther Mar:tial Law shill be continued in Ireland, but merely whether ,the House shall delay deciding this yestion,for' a few days, till it can makethe: proper and 'really inquiry, whether. that cowl nuance, is really necessary. The • Noble Lord . ratheilinproperly introduced the Opinion, of the NofslelVlarquis who is at thehead . nf'theGovern 7 merit' in Ireland. He had . a v ery high respA 'for the Opinibns 'of that Noble 'Lord, 'but 'surely it was nut' the4eadiest or best way,for inducing the Legislature to grant him, as Lord Lientenkit of Ireland, extraordinary powers, .to 'inform it that' he had asked for theth. He contested the position laid down by the Noble,Lord, that the passingof tfiis measure. ;would be' granting 'a boon rather than' infliCling a hardship. In case of an open Rebellion in any part, or thrOghout the. whole kingdom, the Lord Liiiitenant, as the Repyesen tat tve . of the' Executive Government,',maretrforce lsittirtial law without application tO iii... Lcgisla. ture. But in his'Speech at the close of the list' Session of the Iriih Parliament, he 'congratulated it t hat .there was remaining no tendency, e ven to insurreCtion; and yet this Houseis called upon, in . opposition to this declaration; without ally'. it s -,. quiry, without. any atatement of t 'Change • . • having taken place in.' , the Ittlistsur4tance,a of that Country, and , without e l ven ; .any,,MeSsa'ge from, • the •Crown,:- to. - impote ~3tpon it. this' heavy: scourge, ; that too,- yvhen.., : sve are told by -- tae -14011. ,Baronet (Sit PARSQNS) that the ordinary .Courts of justice -are- 'held, and exercise their functions' , without molestation, in security and safety. The . .-House' is told, thatsin .the last. year, .39 out of, zo7.have been condemned tod.eath..by Courts Ma.reial ; but the Noble Lard sfiould_have:.proved; in order make - this any .*atturient,. that. these .men could not have : been' fairly tried in the usual Courts. But by. this Bill a power is. left to Courts Martial', not only to inflia-the,punishment of death, but sentence to any other-, punishment, whether recognized or not by the Law of the Land, to sentence to tor ture, half hanging, or any other, however repug nant to the principles and praaiee of civilized ,life. Is this, apart of the boon which this mea sure. is to grant to the People. of Ireland.? By the last of the two Aas of the Irish Parliament,. the - number of which the• Court Martial must consist is reduced to three. Good God ! were there -so • fewOfiicers in. Ireland that this reduction of num ber was necessary ? By the 'Mutiny. Bill, no Soldier can suffer,the punishment of death except from the Sentence of a Court consisting ofthis teen ;. but by this Ala, the People of Ireland are subject to that punishment from . the. sentence of three lads of the age of seventeen. The Noble Lord ought. to have shewn why the numbek was reduced to three., There is an Army of too,ooo men :in Ireland; could the ordinary number of "Ocers for constituting a Court , Martial not be found among . all these ? . He did not mean td speak disrespeafully, of the Army, but it is known that an Army is the heaviest scourge which can be put into the hands of.a TYrane. It is known, that when compion.nien have been for any length of time . employed in the Army, they lose the habits of civil life, and even become unfit for its employments. However highly,' therefore, he • might think of the honour and principles of Offi cers of the Army, he was clearly of opinion, that. they were not the fittest persons for the admini stration of.justice • that recourse ought never to be had to Courts lVlartial,, except in cases of the strongest necessity, or when recourse cannot pOssi- . bly be had to the ordinary Courts of Justice. Can calmness of investigation, or.,unbiassed.decision, be expected from men sitting. to . try persons at cased of Rebellion, frond those who perhaps the day before have been heated by contests with Rebels in the field ? But farther, tR House ought to consider the difference of age at which persons. can act as Jurymen, and at which they are allowed to sit asiadges in a'Court i Martial. A boy of seventeen may sit as a Member of a Court Mar; tial, but ti- man can sit bn Jury - till he be twenry-one. t Is this favourable for the administra. thin of Justice ? What' is it that is asked by the 'Motion for 'Adjournment ? It is only time for inquiry - into the necessity of this unprecedented, measure. The Mt may expire for a few days, but this witl.not prevent the detentionrof r thole,. who are in custody, or the takivig others inter' custody. No evil can therefore tesult, 'He hoped; that if iitqtary Were made, it would be found that there is no necessity for such a rigorous measure. He concluded with calling on the House to -con sider, that this was their first Mt relating to Ireland since the Union of the two Counrries=•;-a Union syhich, was carried - with much difficiilty in that Country—a UniOn which was alledged -to be the pledge of blessinks to it, to be the-sure means of allaying all animosities, of stifling all discon- • tents, to be the harbinger 'of'amity and concord'. He called upon the House not precipitately to' pass an Aft $6 inconsistent with those assurances; whiCh must make the People of Ireland at' once see their fallacy, and which would lead 114 to view that measure as . the forerunnet'Of the enti're extinEtion of their liberties; rathe j r . than • the means of their adniissioti the blesiings ,of the rf English Constitutio.' iktr. IVESTENR 4 said, he was but -a yo . ung•-- - Member of• Parliainent, 'but as' a'Mernber' for a ' populous county, - 'he thought himself 'called upon to declare, that from his knowledge of the state of Iteland,• he' was convinced that Martial Law absolutely necessary . for ' that Country. -He had no Motive to mis-state fads, or , to exaggerate the misfortunes' of hii 'Country ; whafhe *ated-- he stated as . a' witness. -The measure proposed by:' iheNuble I),orti hild. his decided approbation. Mr.. CANNING , ente red. into - a - full discussion of the arguments used by, Mc.:WHiTßkawo.•• ,said he had done just what he rose to rebuke his l~igbt,i-lon. Friend .(Mr. :PITT) for havini done, prevented the Irish Members from delivering their sentiments upon a measure, of the. necessity of which he supposed . them best enabled to judge. He had differed in his argument very much, and had even contradiacti the, arguments _which had been used before on the same side or the ques tion. His,friends had' said we perhaps wo uld not have ol*diOns, to granting this power, bad We . , any security that it would always be exercised, as we have no doubt it has been, and would be, by the Noble ,Lord who is now at 'the head of the , . • Government of .Ireland or' had we any security 'of his ,continuance in office. BLit the Hon. Gen, tleman . departs V,iiidely froth thii opinion, and sap, Tell not Me of the testimony of a man , ; who i to be invested with a power, in proof of the ne cessity - -of granting that power."-- A similar discrepancy of argument, Mr. CAN: NiNG contended, Was , to be found between the ,arguments of the Hon. Gentleman and hisfriends, on the . power of the.,,Eitecutive CovernMent of it - self to establish Martial Law: 'The Hon. Gel. tlernan asked, if _the necessity of this measure could not .be discussed while it' was suspended.. He would. answer, by another question--It is no t disputed, ,that While this Measure ha's been in face, .it lias had the cited to preserve the public peacb, and in a.grcat measure to remove the (linger WhiCh evisxed to personal security, and that of Private. proity, ,It proposed - to . altow this measure . of defence to be sttS.pencled;: kie . wouldAhen ask, thurc any: persOn. her e . part' id..those i , gainst Whom, the LaWisyntend'e4, to engage on their.part,.that,they will ',knaki. no. attack, that the vvil; au:fend, their, Nlitrtial that t hey • will. retliaiti quiet 641 :themibleft it! toolilritnct, aeliberately dismissed ; to. sayy - tay litary.Tribunals, and desist from our t midnight Massacres ; ,lay aside your shieldk Qf de r t . fence, and we wilLlay down-our. weapons of at tack. Only one • other,. argument used, by : the , Hon. Gentleman required attention. . Be call 4, on the House . to recoiled .that it. was for - the!tra.,, time engaged in deliberation on the affairs of Irk 4; _land, since the • incorporation of its Legislature • with that of 'lbis COuntri, - and to be cautious oft. beginning with a measure •so rigorous aa. .On the . other hand, he would call the House to -celled well, before - .they repeal:what the.indivi dual Legislature, of Ireland has done for. its safety ; 0 before they consent to - reteal ACts. -which .*lhave: . been found beneficial and salutary. He would, call upon the House to be cautious, 'lest, milking on the interests of Ireland; it:should be tray our own. . • . ajWC ire sorry that want of room prevents us frpm-at: entering upon the remainder of the Debate,J y, a I 4 Mr. FRENCH supported the necessity of con, tinuing Martial Law in. Ireland, and sheaved the . danger of allowing it ta . be suspended'even for a week, from a fadt, thift during short suspension, of it in 1799, more quit 20,ac01. worth of cattle were destroyed by the Rebels in the course of a week,. in,one County. Col. FITZGERALD Mr. CLAUDIUS BERES, FORD, ,Mr.. 00 LE; dr. HATTON, Mr,Cox, COL MARTIN, ',and Mr. Lis, spoke ably on the same side 'of the question, and 'gave some very, into_ derails of t he 'present situation- of Ireland; Of the circumstances which led to the originat adoption of this measure, of the lenient manner in which the poler granted by it has been exercised, and of the advantages. to -the accused, •as well as to the Community, of which it is and has been. produaivc. • Mr. POUVERIE oVieded to the manner. in which the measure was brought forward. Dr. LAIVRENCE reprobated themeasure as most violent and unconstitutional;' said it was. no more the Martial Law of this Country, than theConstitution.of Morocco. Mr. HORNE TOOKE suggested the propriety of - carrying the accused from the rebellioui Coon_ ties to be tried in' those Counties which are quiet, and where Juries And Witnesses would be un biassed. • sr. Mr. Snuttmor.and Mr. PITT mutually ex. , explained. , The Question being called for, the Strangers were ordered to withdraw preparatory to a Divi sion ; but after-some conversation upon the point, the House dfd not divide. - The Strangers were.not re-admitted, but w e understood that Lord CASTL ,AGtl moved tot leave to bring in his proposed Bill for the Conti nuance of Martial Law in Irel ji nd, which being granted, the Bill.was brought,inaccordinzly, a d_ read a first time. The - other. 4rdos . of were, then posed of, and,at a Quarter past Tifelytotiock, ; the HoUse.agliourised till -to-nloiriow, • THE SUN. SOLIM QVUI DICERS FALSVM AUDLAT LQ N DOW, Al ARCH igor. / '~ Foul:Han:burgh Mails remain due. • .11ER MAJESTY and the PRINCE S SES yesterday mornklg took an airing through Bronipton. Y M A T This mop 'about Altmorru i . Irrupg day-break, 'the fpllqwing Ship sailed' from Var. ! mouth Roads (s4posed-for the Baltic), under the ComMand of *AdmArals-.Sir 1-Iyo R PAAKER Lard Nr.l,:sort . • • • . ci. 74 ic i sona ulO Lunde.4 98 Ronl 6s s 7. 6 4 sc. Ge o * - 9 3 Russel - 74 Ncartionti n 6 4 'Monarch . 74 Defence - 74.. EDLlP . l'emtts - 6 4; 'Beliona • . Ganges -• 74 zi w 14 arrior - 74 it ident 64 • • . Sat Urn 74 Veteran - 6 4. 'BOMBS —Terror, Volcano., . Explosion, Hecla,, Z...:brae • Abion,..Sulpbur, Di,scovcr}•. . Fk.coATts,--Blatche, Atnazony ant Desiree. 'SLoor s— Pyi odes, H vreria,.Darti and ittroiv, • •CoTTE Ica —Fox'and Hazard. .Scrioox r - .1. - u c G v.a's , --Ro'ver and Lark.' • ' .G eN. t rGs-4liter, Rioter, Bruiser, Tigressi:t Force, e I ter,. Teaser, 14arpy , and, Sparkler.. , Remain in the Roads, utider,Admiril DI c Princess of Orange - 6,l • Lqyden - 64 ,Monmouth 64. Madras - 54- Attinciaurt - - 64 `Miiitance - 1 6, ,F a GAT.ES—Ariadne, Soiebay, anct.wttakzamitaid. Liberty-Cutr, and Vollmer Gun-brig. f • • . • 1-fis Majesty's -hired ATmed. Cutter Hazard.: will sail this afternoon with the. Mails lot Cus.., haven,. n.o Packet 'being here. DEAL, MARCH z z...—rsitt Majesty's Ship Ed— gar sailed last night to, 'the Northward.—Thol - .Terpicbore Frigate, with the Alfred, Woodfortf,- - Albion, and Fort William East Indiltmen, came ' down from the River, the former last night, the four latter this afternoon ; and they zera4in with the averysscl, -Fort:o'er, Netivesil, Gicri and Sa_: wage Sloops, Xing George, : Fouls 15t, Armea Cutters, and 4'aisdcti , iih .Majesty!sL Ship . Heldin• anived this mowing, and-remains with the above/male 'Defiant', of 74; gunsi'' bearing Admiral-Grtions's Flag - at the .mizes.:•: mast, •is now its tight, willing inns the' -Downs' from the Wettwatd. THE THEATRE.---Mrs. joasmw highly gta.;". tified the•admirers of true Comedy, by appeasing for tire first time this season atristurr.late Thea tie. last night in the-clargterof Pew, in Thy .-4;wittrw Girl. That :Minna wtrs enttrely fuH, even to Overflowing, and the Audience Se eeived this natural Ana - spirited Aare's With the warmest...applause, to'wbich the melte= of her performance: throughout the put, gave her intlis. parable pretensions. She is less Ths - lsompixt than she was,' buf , the looks - very well, and is by gleans mipair vivacaty , and humour. • • roildoz . : B. WMILLAN (orilow-slatt. Coitentigitsiet. l l`.;', apd Put.lished by WI Li.km $l6 S re 3 notn.ferry -road, IV-etitaiinslo),, 4; No. 1 12 , Strand. . • ' •