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r _. !, „...., , ~,,st Cannon. The town of Alexankii is now al t within the reach of our guns. Oar loss in this ' Adtion has been consideral;le . "I write this on the ground, enveloped with the wind and sand, with a very, bad pen, and, in faci, without the smallest convenience of any kind. 13,1 d 4 , / it you will have th e sat i b f a di on , m y d ear fa tiler, of knowing that I am still amongst, the living, and that I am well." FOR THE SUN. ON THE . DE.irft of SIR R 41. 1 311 ABERCROI.I73I'. ADDREtSED TO .THR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. GREAT FRE.O'RICiC t pause amidst thy bright career-- I'm dazzling Glory maps to shed a tear; iiiiianniaaveeps,. and Vitory deplores, • ! I lea Nile, to far-farn'dAlbion's shores; eb"leitia loss.—But History and Renown, Shall all the Patriot, and the Warrior crown. Rig Pate, and Fame, fstill felt in ev'ry Clime, "hall fitlat for ever on the tide of Time. ghat far.fatn'd Land that saw Great Pourty die, View'd British Valour bleed without a sigh : haw the great Vet'ran in the gloridus strife, Triumph o'er France, and then resign his lifei tut out the brand Derrykracy had hurl'd, . liudfall supporting half the. Christian World. .The wise, the brave,': the good, must yield their breath, .%ritiUeitself's but canouiz'd by death. 8000 nvunfading in immortal bloorn, His laurel .sheds ambrosia o'er his Tomb. it grateful CoAntry shall-embalm his r!itrolh And England blend her Gloty with his Fame. Wlitthur in Marble Busts, or Hearts of Fire, His a4ine shall live, till Time itself ekpire. RoBERT GREER, ',lad. Ejth Ot the WiINT OF TASTE !, the It. ofC. • •----- 13°Esit*Bs*s harangue on the Patriot Cause of assent—no bursts of applause Salute e'er his eyes or his ears Yawns and loud laughter, in disSonant key', At all ti ~,;'efts that around he can ste— 'Tis Si/mice alone that he begs, • CANTAB. 144 401 - 1 1 1411 1 IS. • - ROYAL ACADEMY. 54,—A Vipv of Colebrook Dale, by Night. J. F Tit I.e.urazittovaekt, R. A. • TnE mechanical dexterity of this Artist has been justly admired. In that respe6.l he has hard y,heen surpassed by any of his predecessors. But t L excellence has • been so much his aim, .• that H; has negleded excellencies 'of a higher kind.-- enceHence he seld o m looks at t h e mo d est b eaut i es of or thinks thcm.perhaps beneath his atten. There is too much of a gaudy glare in all 4 ,is Wo r k s , t h oug h, i n d ee d, t h ey ma y a ll b e cuns i . ' 4l 'o as strong proofs of genius, 'but genius nor h`gillated by sound taste.' In the Pia= before Us, the Artist has attempted too 'much. lie has Itte a vivid representation - of, the artificial light s uftin from the foundery, but not contented e with What should haVe been the great object, he has, :otttaipted also, to . spew Moonlight and ,the breiik of ° Y. The ge nera l aspe d o f this piEture is like the *2ehirtvi Trans/,„renews which excite so much vu!. gat admiration in our Print Shops. ii r z, • - •"1 . he Defeat of the Spanish V inc e n t, Admito nhn 'Jervis, K. Ft. otf Cape St. ske. Arc. LEvtLty. •• 3 11th Artist possesses so much merit in nautical pp J e cti, that we are surprized, to see his, name un. i: ce d with Academical honours., The memori. te , t T., i ' ll kvements Of British valour, are here repre. ve r j",. with apparent fidelity, and certainly with p r 6 j efleft. 'We noticed this Piaure in its tet t re ss, and Ow Artist has fully gratified our ex 'cord;tions. The Alion is, doubtless, depiftecl ac. toui l l n g to the best -information which the Artist be L P rc e.urel• and the Pktur_ l e we understand,. has pnrchased by Lord St.' VINCENT ; a circum. that speaks more strongly in its favour than Y• m'nlums we could bestow/on it. N n 2-7 .`*-Portrait of Earl St. Vincent. J. ittz):AN. G a il are naturally led to notice the Portrait of the s ke n t Vetoran whose heroism , and professional the la conspicuously s° conspicuously shewn in the subjea of Lik a rticle. Tb_ C Artist has given an accurate Th -e p ne . s s of this venerable and illustrious charatter. a 10 tIre is alto g ether painted with firmness and ma n i„ . r simpl icity of colouring. No. to 'M.—Christ-appearing to Mary Magdalen, in the Gar den. R. Wrst ALL, R. A. Fr 'Poar le adour of cOlouring we may always_ expea 1 ) : • • 1 1 ,• , . this Artist, but it is too ' often ,splendour isrterted into a burnished kind of Inxurtanee, that tn „,'_ . 'r t tity‘6er to be seen in Nature. Upon subjects Poetical, we have no objection to this dr ,t141‘74 glow, but the subjeCt before us relates to a C a rafter so awful, that a mote simple style would ey'e bern much more appropriate. The chief 4 , 4 , s ur e looks rather like a Yawn,, /lodes than the eharaacr for which it is intended. The , e /4 " o * upon, the forr.shorteried Arm of MARY I ,,, er ni - an accide n t a l smear of dirt. This is by no Qtle of WESTALL'S best Pidures, though IL whole it slums the hand of no ordinary Ar t Lt. Cllr Perso n of the, name of White was yesterday t.4tged with a var i et y o f f rau d s , before the Magis_ .`ltei at t h e - -Th arnts p o li ce _oflite, It apßeared that Nitoner endeavoured to pass himself ()it as a Mate t 0 , 4 , 1 / l lli diatnan, and in this assumed capacity ,ex wi.ett v4rio u s sums . of from the persons with Wt .l . c : ll he lodgcd. Several other charges of fraud M, r- : ali '°'depoied to by difrerent witnesses, and the, co,n . ctiving , that there . were strong grotl4dtr,tltes, [a ro sof suspicion ligainst the Prtsoner, detained fo r a future 'examination. - , , SECONJ .REPOrf 0R.014 THE COMMiT*Ek Of SECRECY OF THZ HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Clittimmed from / dr Paper of Yisterd#.) The discoveries. which had been made of similar designs, by the seizure of papers At fixed places of • meeting, - induced them to adopt measures to defeat in future such means of detection ; Clubs were form. ed under the disguise of Benefit Societiesi.and in their coin it was detefMined to commit as little as possible to writing, 'to adjourn their meetings to different places, and, aceogling to the plan above .. mentioaed, to,entrustthe management of their de signs-to a very seied body, requiting theiassisiance of few confidential officers, whose duties might be thus shortly explained to them, without confiding to the mass of their associates, the adnal plans and pradices, or even the names of the principal direc tors. This was the more easy ; as they no longer affeded the- disgnise of aiming only at the reform of alledged abuses in the Constittnion or Cavern ment, which might reqUire long and elaborate dis sertation', to explain and enforce. These men wish ed for no converts but thoe - who from some motive or other were ready'to attempt-by force the direct subversion of the Government and Constitution of their. Country.. They saw in Ireland the example of such a Rebellion as they wi3iled to promote here, and they hoped to find in the reinpbrary,distresses of the poorer orders, a met've for c gaging in such desperate attempts. By the coreinission - of what crimes their objects were to be etfeded, semis to !Ave been a matter of small • concern to many of them ; private and intlividaat.assassination Lingoes tionably was among the nie.euires proposed at ieve ral meetings, as fit to precede rne accompany the general rising: And though your Committee are willing to believe that no great progress has been made in preparing for the execution- of such atro cious projects, yet it has been distinaly proved on oath, that the idea has been frequently thrown out and discussed, with the deliberate purpose of fa miliarizing it to the minds of the hearers, or pre- • paring them for its adoption, if it should be thought necessary. Near .the same time, principles of a similar na. ture were studiously promulgated in a Society of another description, and disguised by pretexts of e different nature. It was proposed to meet in con vivial parties, as. described by themselves, " after a free - and.easy manner, and without encumbering themselves with rules, to converse on the subject re commended to them, to protroke investigation, and answer objeCtions." The topics they proposed for discussion, and recommended for adoption, Were, stated to be contained in a pamphlet published by one Spence, front whom that Society had assumed the title of sliteasonremi. - This recommendation,. at well as several extrads from the work itself, will be found in the Appendix, from which it will ap pear, that the principal object of the writer is to recommend the complete extermination of Royalty, Nobility, and Property, for the purpose of an equal • parochial division of •the profits of lands, as the basis of a " beautiful and, powerful new Republic." Tha this' was . to be effeded by a general insurrec tion of the People, for which the revolutionary ,out rages in France,. and the mutiny in our own Fleet, Were held out as laudable examples. The Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus MI having now. expired, all the persons detained under the sanction of it, who chose to enter into recog. nizances for their future good behaviour, were: dig charged. This was an occasion of too much eitul. cairns to the new Conspirators to be passed over without some mark of distioetion. A supper wag aceordingly giv'en in honour of those thus liberat ed, and at which near twenty of them attended. — The temper and objeas of those who composed This meeting, which was solely of a convivial nature, can'only be collated from accounts of the publiC conversation of the Company, and . the sentiments conveyed in the ToaSts and Songs with which they' were entertained --the latter have been partiCulirly described to your Committee, and were all of the most treasonable and seditious nature, and one of their Toasts was, " The Health of• the Chief Con. sul of France." The discourse held was suited to these incentives—Plans of InsurreEtion were openly avowed, and professed to be direaed in the first in stance against the lives of the chief Officers of. Go vernment, and to the destrudion of the House of Corredion in ColcLbath-fields. Some of those re-- cently discharged, avowed their determination to persist in the same designs, and expressed their con fidence in the number of their associates, .whom they reproached for , not having sooner effe.ded their release by force. This meeting seems to have occasioned a more confident opinion of their strength, and of the sue ' cess of their schemes of sedation. They boasted of the extension of their Society over Aifferent remote distrias of the Metropolis. They were not' however insensible to the proceedings of Parliament on the subjed or the Martial Law Bill in Ireland, which they were appychensive might be applied to the suppression Of their enterprizes here, or if not, at least, that the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Mt would be renewed, and effedually operate to counters& their designs. Under this impression, a particular degree of caution was recommended by the Executives as to the persons to Whom the Oath should be administered—They, suspeaed they were observed, and were afraid of being apprehended he, fore.their plan was ripe for execution, which they admitted it would_not be till they should be pro.: vided with arms sufficient for their piirpoie; The same apprehension' operated differently on some of the most ardent spirits of the Confederacy, who were still more sanguine as to the numbers whd would join them, .and who were desirous of striking the blow before measures could, be taken for their suppression, and who thought they might supply the want . of 'which - they com plained, by a desperate, attack on several teposito, ties of arms, which would at once deprive the Mili. tary of the means of resistance, and furnish them selves with weapons for attack i----others, not ad mitted • to - the secrets of . the Executives,. accused them of tardiness in their operations, ,and were im pAtienA to be called into action, The more cautious councils, 'however, prevailed, which were purhips proincited by Muthal su=pl,:ioni and,ny the re!u6111::!e of some, when it came near the point; to engage in. oUtrages Of such atrocity: In the mean time other meetings, chiefly 'Of a convivial nature, but adapted to the advancenierit; of the same objeds, continued to be held in various - parts of the town, for the exprets I.)rpOse(as avbwed_ by one of their associates) of bringing - together the old Members of the British Union, and of,eneou_ raging them to persevere, by the presened'of Their former Leaden, now again at large ; who on their part agreed to use every effort to reorganize that Society, and some or . whom, in furtherance of that plan, appeared at meetings in one distriii of the town; as Plenipotentiaries from the other. The character. of one of the Soeiety, before_mcntioned, under the name of "_ 4(7l:v:ions," is sufficiently marked by toasts which were given and received with applause, and which on.that account yourCon mittee have inserted in their,Appendix. On ano ther occasion, :nrne ,of the more immediate Leaders of the New Association met with some of the persons then lately liberated, and one of the Most active of the latter description gave, under the name of. " The tremendOus Toast," ." May the last of Kings be •strangled in the bowels of the last of Priests !" , At on'e of the most recent meetings a supper was given, at the'expence of some unknown patron, to celebrate again the release of the Champions of their Cause ; ,whemthey were still entertained with the most seditious 'songs and toasts, sufficiently descrip tive of their att:lchtnent to our foreign'Enemy, and abhorrence of the' Form of our own Constitution ; such as, " Bonaparte, and-success to the Almy- of Egypt"--" The Guillotine, a Cure for the King's Evil." Thd assiduity with which these persons attempt to enlist in their cause every class of interested or visionary Reformers is apparent, not only in the en. couragement given to the Spensonian dot trines of partition of property, which yet ,they treat as chi merical 'and absurd, but also in the propagation' of 'religious tenets, which have obtained some footing, and which lead (as among the Enthusiasts in, the Reign of Charles the First) to the abrogation of all restraint from temporal authOrity. The datrine of In approaching Millenium has found many converts; and is glanced at in some of the publications already noticed. The Leaders of :the New Asspeitition many, of them secretly professing - an utter disbelief in the , Christian Religion, and even considering it as a mark of incivisin to_ be possessed of a Bible; but readily embracing any means of effecting the sub version of all religious establishMent as a step to. wards the destruftion of regal Government, willing ly lend themselves to this delUsion,'and'direa . their Agents never to advance their own opinions in, op position to it, but to reserve them for the more -con fidential intercourse of the deeply initiated, and even to be provided with arguments on 'both sides of the question; in order to promote discussion 'in places of public resort, and draw attention to their own dodrines.. Pn the 19th of April last, several of the persons above referred to as principals of the New Society, Wereapprehen.k3 under a Warrant from .the Duke. • of Portland, while holding one of their meeting The only Papers discovered were another printed copy of the 'Paper already referred to, and which _ had been previously transmitted to your Commit tee, and ,an Address signed Hibernicus, direacci to "Britons anti Fellow Citizens," inserted in the Appendi Your Committee have thus detailed the proceed ings of the disaffected carried on in the Metropolis, and as diredej principally a its disturbance but they would ;Mord a very inadequate representation ~of the extent of the Confederacy, if, in proCeeding to advert to the - state of other parts of the Country, and even of Ireland, they omitted to notice the concert, which - in some measure pervades the whole, anti the striking coincidence of views, and the means of obtaining them:, • While the disafTtidadin London confined themselves in the course of the last Autumn to loose, though violent expressions. of discontent, and endeavoured to evade discovery by avoiding any written evidence of their transations, or any certain place of meeting, the same precau tion was adopted - by those of similar principles at . Nottingham ; accompanied by similar' declarations of hopes arising ficim the dearness of Provisions, and wishes for the' aggravation rather thanthe alle viation of that calamity ;. and when. early in the present year a systematic plan was first observed here, it first began to be rumoured among the dis affeeted there. • At the same period, seditious Emissaries were first deteaed endeavouring to excite insurreaion among the Manufaelurers of different parts of Lan cashire. This was to be done by associating_ as many as possible under the sartaion of an Oath nearly similar to that adopted in London, and which, with an account of the secret sign which accomeanied it, has been transmitted from various quarters to Government, and laid before your Com; mittee. Dangerous meetings were disguised as in London, under the appearance of Friendly Societies for the Relief of 'Sick Members : The persuasion of a general Revolution shortly to take place, and consequently the inefficacy of all resistance, was studiously diffused throughont the Country, with a view both to excite the dis'affeCted, and to dis hearten and disunite the Loyal. On the same account, the numbers of those engaged in the Con. federacy were exaggerated, and stated some t tmes _as amounting to 60,000 trained to Military Exercise at others, including Ireland, at no less tit 1,500,600. The di:Tosition of the people in the part of the Country alluded to, being previously untainted to any extent with seditious it was necessary to found the hopes of itemrrethon chiefly on the pressure arising from the scarcity of Pro Visions. It was this feeling, fomented for other purposes by more artful instigators, that probably led those _who took the OathAti question, to engage in those schemes of insurreCtion. The seditious Emissaries well knew, that if they could pronne a general .rising of a largeyroportion of the inhabi tants of .a populous distbct under any pretext, - it would he easy to thaw them on, under more des perate Leaders, to attempt - the subversion of every Establislainent of 'the Constitution within their reach, especially if aided by 'similar explosions at the same time in different parts of the Country, and _ „ . the alairti,.of aftnal eistelic -- c, - of Though this .‘vits. the pre:rekt ti'-'Y attniselvis felt sci little fiat they ,aireaed to relieve, thit tht.y wi,ll theirassociateS in other plaeci in the wish for the aggravation of the:n; as a n:.)itt powerful Means of eXcitiig papillae tumult. 'Fite principal of these--ErnissaricS-are represented as dr::!.. legated from London, York, Birmingham, 112•istol., Sheffield, and other Considerable toWns, os wdi 46 from Ireland, .who Concluded in private the &tail of the Ccmspirley, conne6e4 with other provinelli meetings, and a ., 11 - o t t iltse uficii onein the Metropoii3; from whence pointa rules for their condoet "were. expeCled to be received, and they seem to have en.: tertained the sat& desperate projects r,f litiacki,lgi the. Magistrates, and, seizing' the ,arms of the Associations, as were proposed in`London the Government and Milhary Force here ; , lind frequently professed theins,:ives to be provided with arms, and even- uniform de:lthirg, ton considera., bie extent. At a late Period, die busin2ss of the..," Societies appears to have been- conduaed with pecu liar caution, by orders issued froin.the 'head of the: liistriet. to two confidential persOos, who associ:ite two others of different classes, and having assem bled in the most private Inatit,cr, issue their orkleri in form of a ticket, to any number whom they think prOper todePute on a particular service. Your Committee have - rcasan to belieVei not Merely from the probability of such a connediol, arising from a similarity of measures adopted, and the notions entertained on the spot ; but from the opinion expressed by one well acquainted with the progress of the Conspiracy, that the Executives is London were in correspondence with, .:ind.probably dire6ted the operations of the .Emissaries in the Country. (To he cemtivord.) OLD BAILEY. SECOND DAY , ;- ,,, - ) IIIVRDAY, MAY if. Sarah Gordon was convided" on the eapini dh - ar7.,e of burglarionsly breaking and entering the dwei. ling.house of Leonard Tweed, and stealing therein a pair of Shoes his property. The case being s faaorily made, out :ikons( tht. Prisoner, and the f„ci of the burglary appearing to have been comtnirA by the breaking of a win.tow, the Jury found t vet. dita to the full extent of the charge—Death. Richard Hall, John Alargrits and. Th 9.. Belo. man were inditted for butlylariously entering into ,the dWelling-house of John SylveEter, and steal ing therein a quantity of \Vitney manufaaured ,blankets, . valued at 301. ; and. Reitec7cii illargelts was indiEted for having feloniously: received the same knowing them to have_been stolen. The Cit. cumstances of the case, which were neither curious nor remarkable, were wile out again“ the.mnle Prisoners, to the satisfaction Of the Jury, Who, pro. nounced them Guilg—Death: Rebecca Marg'etts, on the secondary charge of receiving, was acquitted. 7a.w;l and William. Simmtluis "%yene upqn the capital charge . of stealing two wildti! , ; ; trdr, value TOS the property ofßichlragpeering, privately in his , shop; in this eaw, the Evident_i: was of that nature, as induced the jury to find a verdict guilty ofs:tealing, but not privately," which aced ,the capital part of the charge.' •. • Eleven other Prisoner , ' were, in-the cont., of the clay, convieted upon trifling or unirnportant and five'svere acquitted . • His Royal 'Highness the Du Ks of CO maER LAND left Town yesterday afternoon, to pay h reTeits to his Royal Parents . at Kew-Palace, . When the Legislature restrained, the BArilt.. of England from issuing o(Specie, 'it sub,tim , d their Paper as a medium of circulation iti Grt;:tt Eritain, and it has bean found aderriate to the purls in like manner, when the Bank of Ireland rain ed frpni paying of Specie, their Pa;,or s sabsti titted in Ireland, _ind . found to be atlecisiare ; common medium &queen Zoih C6untrie; hoed, and here the system was defeaive-I,:nee all the difficulty and Notation which 1.;1,i ;:H•i,...1 the' commercial intercourse between these C) To - remedy - this defetFi, the Legislature. should gro one step further, titl consolidate -the ;two National Banks, by _which means Paper would become:a,corn . , mon medium between both Countries, as well as a medium in each, and would be doing all dint - Specie did Ibrinerly, before any restraint was put upon t h e National Bauks, and give to the conuucrcialinter course between both Countries tteti - vity and increase; by keeping exchange at par •perptt.tally between Great Britain and Ireland. The 'National Banks are suiTciently interested in the Paper Circulation, : to 1,1)4“; to re move from it, what Finks. it Wow a Speeic,Cii . cu... lation (which its want of power,. ih pre s e tt . perfea Rate of ir, to !tom a s a colurai)il medimn meal bath Countries assuredly does). In the years x 7,17 and 1798, when the h ilan::c of trlide was in favour of Ireland, Bank of England•Notes..were at. discount in London, to provide Guineas to siA to Ireland; and I3,ink of Ireland Nores Were at par in Dublin, acid cif al to `specie. At t hi s t i,o, ,„;„. 1 the balance of trade is in favour of En'glind, lhwi t of Ireland Notes. ale ;It a discount of 4 poi- cenl. Dublin, to p6vide Guineas to send to E0 L4 1a,1,1 ; and alternately, as the balance of tr&le varies, the National Pink l' ores of each Country must will r dopreciation, in order to Change then into 4.ccie, as the only medium common to butte COUrittlCsi* .until. the consolidation of.the Bank Shall make their Paper to be a Substitute, Or common in' diurn for tagland, Ireland, and Scotland ;..and then . P.tper will be a true 'and adequate repreSentation nf Specie, ,nor exposed to be at discount, and regulating exohange steatlily,at rail rimes. The N.u.iondiS;:uki of both Kingdoms, possessing, as they (;e•er. oity do, the confidence of the Leg'olati_tre atld of ti)e Public, will, no doubt, lend their..iict toot Jut lot warding this Natiorial - work, whenever the lature bring it before ditty 'to the Propvictors, and their own will admit of. •