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DOVER, OCT. 2. ► arid sen.. r the ,-. .011- I • .--• 0 the y be d af- Te of ~~~P~~ our do it their in- ican to a the 'ER that ads. sub- ssta, ty a only )lace athle tha C ac ling till 10L. .THE and , the aro. , the ;heir the end iress tiff. high well alotis .3 of fort.- Star rued d by', Ford :E Of ,AND them ocia n• o f - wit h with Sion- and AVE, f the the men• ,aye fence nail! oso: 5 jet , caries c or- otOt s [e, c° die frora the oer sC t she Slhifs 7 0 ,ps• 6 Ck" dr :.."-I' s t",, ,, ,:- -Ca N AP:I L t i, -A4 .... , r y NEWS. 115 ,/ 4 v.: ;\•,riX.:.... .5,1., Rom illi imperium pelagi , savumgue tridentem, carte datum. EARLY ti tis morning a Secretary of Mr. OTTO arrived here, with Dispatches for the French Go vernment,' w ith which he sailed immediately i n a Flag of Tract: to Calais. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. Z. T H is day arrived and came into Harbour Hi s Majesty's Frigate Acasto. Also came into Harbour, His Majesty's Ships Russel, Capt. Cummtwo, Venerable, Capt. Hoot), and Diana, Capt. BERESFORD. Arrived at the Motherbank, and there put under Quarantine, His Majesty's Ship Audacious, f rom th e Squadron under the command of Sir JAMES S.UIMAREZ. Arrived the Fortutzle Frigate, Lord BEAUCLER K, from Weymouth. The Anson Frigate has made signal for Convoy for the Mediterranean. The Grand Falconer Cutter, Lieut. Cu L C OTT, arrived this evening from Marcou. Arrived the ;De s.re -e la Paix, VI B ERT master, from Gottenburg to Jersey. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 30. ARRIVED the Dantzic Ship industry, with tim ber, for Truro, from Dantzic ; the Dover Cutter, Capt. SHARP, having brought in a Smuggling Cut ter, having on board iso ankers of spirits, whiCh she captured last night. The Falcon Sloop of War made signal of sailing this evening, with Convoy for Madeira : she is e xpelled to sail early to-morrow. Sailed with a fine breeze at N. W. the Chester. field - Packet zd , Capt. B LIGHT , w i t h M a il s o f t h e to nst ' 'or Halif ax an d N ew -Y or k ; an d t h e Har o- L'el" Packet, Capt. GRAY, with Mail s of th e z z d inst, for - r Lisbo n . —P assengers b y t h e l atter were IV ir• Tip Lany, Air . J.A..LIOTSON, Mr. BRANDON, r • MOORE, and Mr. ROBERT GORDON. Per Chesterfield—Mr. JONES. SHEERNESS, OCT. 2. His Majesty's Frigate De Brack, in coming dow n to the Nore this morning, struck on the Nore Sand, at about two hours ebb, and in conse quen'ze of the tide falling, stuck fast. She is now I.l e.trly dry, and has a great list to the larboard h en the tide has flown sufficiently, she will be got Sailed and we tr ust w i t h li tt l e d amage. °aiied the Empress Mary Store ship, and Laurel Lir e( ' / 3 The Rd ag son and Bouncer have gone out of Har bour. HARWICH, OCT. 2. T HE r;p e r Exci s e C utter yesterday recaptured, 1,30ut seve n leagues off' Orfordness, a Sl oo p ca ll e d : he ' N 'iwicy, of Ly nn , J oHN H EUGH master, bound e Pl ymouth, with barley, from Lynn, and arrived re t his Mor n i ng . Th e Privateer belongs to Bop_ 4ogne , mounts 14. guns, an d carr i es 3o men : h er lis : arn is the La Racroiserese, has three lugsails, and about "linan ded by JOSEPH BRO Q UANTE ; and cruizes e ' - ',gilt .eazues off Orfordness. YARMOUTH, OC T. 2. SAII.E'D the King George, DEANE, and Express, Packets, to Cuxhaven; and Two Brothers, N uGHTY, to Hull. Sailed the Furious Gun-brig ;De .7zfrofz u VISER, and Frac 'Waren, ANDERSON, to Norway. Arrived the Shannon Frigate, Rattler Gun-brig, arld Trial Cutter. The Shannon has brought in the Samuel Smith, master, from Batavia, bound to Amsterdam, . :ric h goods. (.. le sterday a C omm i ttee of the Court of Common f-°tlncil met i n t h e C ounc i l Chamber at Guildhall, the Purpose o f taking into consider a tio n t he %iand e moluments of the Office of Town-Ci erh., the bY the d eat h o f M r. R rx. The emoluments 111 (1 a s ? f6 ce were found to amount to a b out :coo l. for the - (\ t peared that there were two Candidates a nd se ;,,Tee, it was moved by Deputy LEEKEY, the coe,-,(1-----That it should be recommended to ! l ito6l`„of Common Council to divide the office a r : i v " and Law Department, and that Mr. 4 4 0 (1 ° Ivi r .41 ( ?kr.r: should be appointed to the former, 4eb ''hl.:LToN to the latter, which , after some at e was agreed to. t h e , n est . erd ay the adjourned Sessions of the Peace for the of L Londo n was held at Guildhall, before 3 (c. figntlion. th e LORD MAYOR, the Reco r d er , p eis nr tlle trial of assaults, misdemeanors, and .ap- THEM MAJESTIES, last night, Went to the Theatre for the last time this season. The House was crowded in every part. The portOrmances were The Critic and the entertainment of Bitte Beard. Between the play and entertainment, Mr. PENLEY, scared on an ass, delivered the Comic Address spoken by him at the Fete given by HER MAJESTY!at Radi pole. God save the )tug was encored; and the whole went off with great eclat. Mr. litrox Es, the Manager, has had a golden harvesr, theji.oYAL FAMILY having been to the Play fifty‘one the course of thirteen weeks. Mr. WI , AT, the Architeti, had a long interview with His MAJESTY yesterday and this morning, about the repairs that the Lodge is to undergo previous to next season. The speclators, when the ROYAL FAMILY de parted, greeted them with loyal affection. The Royal Yachts sailed this morning for Green. with. Pp of tion, His Iten- WINDSOR, SEPT. 30. Tuts morning the first division of the Stafford. shire Militia, consisting of the two flank, and three battalion Companies, with the field pieces, music, and ellours, marched in here from Bagshot, and took possession of the Infantry Barracks, which have been fitted up for their reception. Four Troops of the toth (PRINCE of WALES'S) Regiment of Light Dragoons, it is expeeted, will occupy the Cavalry Barracks to-morrow or next day. Yesterday the PRINCE of CoNDE and his 'Suite visited Windsor, and after seeing every objea wor thy of attention in the Castle and Town, proceeded to the Great Park, to inspeti the KING'S improve ments, and from thence continued his journey to Brighton. ACCOUNT OF TUE PROBABLE QUANTITY OF GRAIN IM PORTED INTO GREAT BRITAIN, IN THE COURSE OF ISOI, .WITH THE AVERAGE PRICE rummy, AND BOUNTY PAYABLE THEREON. GRAIN IMPORTED. Wheat - s,soo,ooe, Quarters Oats - - 400,000 Barley . 200,000 Ryc x 5,0,000 Pease . . . 40,000 Beaus xs,ono Americanßarrels Soo,ooo --- Rye Meal Indian do. and Indian Cora cost 4. 7400,000 boo,ooo 400,000 ,000 . ~s 40n,000 k. 12,700,000 Bounty on the abokre, to lie Maid Governinent 2,300,000 Total Cost —I— 4. 15,000,000 THE THEATRE.—The old stock Comedy, as it is technically called, of The Suspicious iinsband, was represented at Covent-Garden • Theatre last night. There was no alteration in the performance sufficient to require any particular comment. Lewis gave Ranger with his accui tomed sprightliness, and, availing himself of th e event which h a s a ff or d e d so much • satisfadion to the Public, po*erfully in terested the feelings, of the audience. Just ,at the time when Frankly and • Bellamy; with drawn swords, under a mistake, were going to fight about their respective mistresses„ Lewis, AS Ranger, en tered, and exclaimed, " How now, at War, at this moment, when every mind is animated with • the idea of a general Peace." This timely arid appropriate effusion operated upon the audience with ele6tric rapidity. An eager and general ex pression of applause burst fronl all parts of the Theatre ; and suspended the Performance fbr some minutes. God save the King was demanded before the Play began, and every heart seethed to be w armed by intelligence so important, so acceptable, and so unexpeted. It does not appear, that, icS the enjoyment of the blessings of Peace, we are to have art unquali fied Good, but that its due proportiim of evil is to be intermixed. Dr. PRIESTLEY threatens to re visit us on that great event. His Majesty's Postmasters-General have been pleased to appoint J. B. AUSTIN, ESCI. Clerk of the Kent Road, to succeed the late EDM. BARNES, Esq. as Clerk of the Chester Road; SAMUEL BROWN, Esq. - Clerk of the Yarmouth, to succeed Mr. Au sTIN, as Clerk of the Kent; and. J. H. Bk 'CGS, Esq. to succeed Mr. BROWN, a: Clerk of the Yar mouth Road. At a Guild held at Saffron Walden, Sept. 29, THOMAS SM I rii , lssq. of Horn 'Lane, - was unani mously chosen Mayor for the year ensuing. Accounts from Copenhagen, of the z9th ' ult. state, " that the late- storms have ;one very great damage in the Baltic : more than twenty vessels are supposed to have been lost in the course of a fortnight, amongst which are two Russian Men of •War, and an English vessel ea trying horses to Peters burgh, without a single man being saved. Every where bodies and wreck are seen floating and driving on shore.—A Commission, consisting of Rear.Ad .miral STOCKFLETH, Chief Capt. KR-1 E GE R, Captains KNAB BE, GROVES, and the .Chamberlains KAAtt and 11 , IoTTirE, are appointed to. suggest plans for the best defence of Norway towv.rdsthe sea." The 'high price of provisions has excited a great spirit of industry in Cornwall, in the improvement of waste land, and many . large traits of ground, hitherto wholly barren, have produced considerable crops. There is at present a plentiful crop of fine potatoes and turnips on the summit of Castle-an-Di nas, naturally one of the most barren and. expoSed situations in the County, and which was totally uncultivated till about two years since. We learn, according to a letter received from Calcutta, that coffee grows at Amboyna in sufficient luxuriance to encourage the Ambovnesc in the cu:- sivation of it ; and'the quality of it is by no means inferfor to that of Java. The sugar cane also grows at Amboyna tá a great perfeltion ; some of tl't canes have been examined, and found to be as, 1,!11' of sap as those of Java. It is stated to, be ptcti: - ..- able, and easy to be conveyed from' Amboyna in the Company's ships, which could be stowe(j as a lower tier, and'serve for ballast. 1 Tea death of CaptAi PARKER must be lamented by the Nation at large;' as. the loss of a most pro mising and able Officer ;- but to those who had the happiness of his acquaintance, it must be the - subjed of deep and lasting afiliaion. On his professional merits it is needless to enlarge : to have been raised to the rank of Master and Commander when scarcely 21 years old ; to have been distinguished at this early age in the naval annals 'of England, in its most illustrious xra ; and, above all, to have been transmitted to posterity as ," the good and gallant friend and able assistant" of the -greatest of our Naval Heroes, are fadS:which speak more power fully than panegyric.. But the frustration of those hopes, which so brilliant an outset in the race of glory had so justly inspired, is, not the- principal source of the aftlidion of- his friends : to a spirit ardent in the pursuit of honour, to undaunted cou rage, and to active and unwearied perseverance in the acquirement of the knowledge and discharge of the duties of his profession, he joined a generous and unsuspecting openness of heart, an artless and engaging courtesy of manners, -a warmth of bene volence and fidelity in friendship, which. made him as amiable, as the more shining virtues of his cha rader gave hopes he would be great. The singular mildness of his temper was most stronglylprovcd in the last weeks of his life ; when it not only enabled him to sustain, with exemplary fortitude and resig nation, the torments of a most painful wound, but for a time allayed the violence of his fever, and even prothised wholly to avert the blow, which at length fell on his Mends clic. Loft.: or from 't,2;. c s delayed. A very melancholy event took place at Chelsea Hospital yesterday morning. Two invalid Cap tains had entertained an animosity towards each other; but it was prevented from breaking out into violence by the 'influence of a Superior Officer, who constantly laboured to reconcile them. Death un fortunately removed that restraint ; and the en mity, of which we know not the cause, at length produced the fatal effeft so long dreaded. Be tween six and seven o'clock in the morning, one of them came to the chamber door of the other, as he was in the aft of rising from his bed. He brought with him A case of pistols, which he bought the day before, - and, presenting one of them to his 'ad versary, demanded honourable satisfa * ltion. The other indignantly struck the proffered priesent frorti his hand, and, by its fall to the ground, the trigger was broken. The assailant then left the room; but, whether of his own accoid or by compulsion, is not known: He did not, how ever, go away ; but turning round, he fired through the glass window in the. door ; and shot the unfor tunate man within, right through the heart. The report of the pistol excited an immediate ,alarm, and attraEted all the people of the place to the ' spot, where they found the two old Captains, one dead on the floor, and the other at the • door, from which he- never made any attempt to stir.. Being ques tioned- as to the melancholy event, we understand he gave the above account of it ; said it was he who fired the shot, and did not betray any consciousness of his having done a criminal or improper aft. From this circulistance, and his whole manner and beha viour, he is supposed to be insane. They were both nearly So years of age. Letters from Constantinople of the 25th of Aug. report, that the French Ambassador, Citizen RITF- EiN ) and his suite ; were to be dismissed next day from ,their long confinement in the Seven Towers. A late Letter from Calcutta, says, the Oil which is found in the bOwels of the earth, in the Burmah dominions, is of a very peculiar quality. To ob tain it, they sink wells to the depth of one hundred cubits. The Oil is drawn pure from the wells in the liquid state as used, without variation ; it is of a dingy green, and odorous. One family, per haps, will possess four or five wells ; the cost of sinking a new well, is about 2500 sicca rupees, and the annual average net profit is about 1256 sidca rupees. It is remarkable, that no water ever percolates through the earth into the wells, as has been supposed. When a well grows dry, they deepen it, and none are abandoned for barrenness. The Oil is excellent in preserving wood from de cay, and is likewise celebrated for its medicinal properties. The gross amount of all the wells, per annum, is estimated at 289,737 sicca rupees. POLICE OFFICE, WORSHIP-STREET.—An In fonnation was e!thibited before JOHN MosER, Esq. on the Fish Aft of the 39th Geo. 11. for nc enter ing the Ship within three days after passing the Nore, by whi.ch the Owners forfeit the sum of sot. The information stated, that on the +th of Aug. r, the ship Eliza, from Berwick, laden with fish for the Lorrion Market, arrived at the Nore ; and that Kranci s Orde, the master, neglected, for above the space , af three days, to enter her arrival, by which the sum of sot. was feited. It was contended, that the Berwick Smacks were not Fishing Vessels, and not bound to giv e suc h a Report as Fi s hi ng Vessels did ; that there was no set form for the Report, and if they gave one in substanc , z, it met the intention of the At. To esta blish thf; distindion between the Fishing Vessels and the Berwickers, it was statel that the latter paid in my dues, which the others were exempted from. Th e ,Magistrates, however, being of • opinion that :iv vessel carrying fish came within the mean ing , )f the Ad, and that for want of an original repc.rt there had been no regular entry, pronounced judgment against the Defendants; who immediately ent , :red into recognizances to appeal to the next Quarter Sessions. Monday evening a man intoxicated, by 'some !pearls or other got on the parapet wall of Swansea Castle, fell asleep, and on his waking fell over into the yard of Mr. Williams, ironmonger, a height of 6o feet, without receiving any other injury than a slight contusion on the head. Thdrsday morning .the servant maid of Mr. Tahourdin, of Argyll..street,. was found hanging on tie. staircase. The Coron;r's jury sat on the body in the evening, and brought in their verdict— Lunn y. DUEL. DUBLIN, SEPT. 28. Mr.O'DoNEL havingexerted his influence, which was considerable in the county of Mayo, in favour Of a Mr. DILLON, son of Lord Drt,LoN, to repre sent the County on the first va2ancy, eiedioneering hand-bills had been last week posted up, by 'his orders, in all the public places, which wc!rc torn down by the rival Candidate, DF NIS BI NG ;PAM, Esq. and replaced by counter notices of an irritat ing and personal nature. This .produced a chal lenge, and the parties met at Ballina, on Thursday last, and, having appointed SecOnds, . took thd. ground ar twelve yardsdistance. Both parties fired at the. Stolle time. Mr. B N G1111:,1 i first fire took effea ; it entered Mr. O'DONEL'S left breast, and pierced his heart ! . • . • - About five minutes before this Unhappy. 3fEfir, Mr. O'Dor,EL called for pen and ink, and wrote a short Address to- the Eletiors of •the County , of Mayo, which we have just seen in his own' hand_ writing,. It would seem to breathe a presentiment of his approaching dissolution. " To the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of th - -. Coutity of MAYO, . " Shoffid I fall in the contest with Mr. BINGHAM, in support of your cause, of the Indep . endenee of the County of Mayo. Had I lived, it was my . determination to have done all in my power to have p revente d you from ' being Slaves, and the County from- being made 'a Borough.. You yet, I feel, will do it, and 1 earnestly intreat. rdl .my friends to give their interest to Mr., Di L Lox, and . any other person whom the independent interest shall nominate as his Colleague.---Farewell, my Friends. "114/lina, Sept. 24, tElot. " J. M. O'DONEL." ..,pray for Mr_ O'Dptc. i t i , CHARLES LIONEL. FITZGERALD ; for ivir. DING_ HAM, Colonel JACKSON, of the North Mayo Mi- ficia. His MA J g STY has been pleased to approve of and confirm the sentence of a general Court Martial held at Government House, Plymouth, on the rgth Aug. last, on Mr. Hall, Barrack-Master of Pendennis Castle, for conduel unbecoming a Gentleman, in violently knocking down, kieking, and beating Ensign W. Jones, of the Royal Invalids, on the parade, on the 16th July last past.—The sentence :was dismissal from his situation as Barrack. Master. HELytTIA,In the new Constitution given by France to the Helvetic Republic, the Pays de Valid is separated frOm the Canton of Berne, and Made a Canton by itself. A Protest against this measure was circulated in the Pays de Vaad, and in a few days it acquired a great number of signatures.. The Prefeic.l POLIER, on this, issued a Proclamation, in which he strongly forbids the inhabitants to sign this Protest, and declared his intention to prosecute criminally the unknown authors ()fit. A few days afterwards, he received a letter 'signed by thirteen of the most respetiable persons in that -country, avowing themselves authors of the Protest, and that they were ready to defend its 'propriety to the last extremity. The letter,. which was written With great spirit, they printed for the information of their countrymen, and, in a very short time, 8000 signatures were added to the original Protest. As .so heinous a crime against the Revolutionary powers could not be overlooked, the authors of the Protest were fined so francs each, or 31. 3s. sd. They have appealed against this sentence, and the signatures increased in number every day. As the Members of, the old Government of Berne have had no share in this transadion,. it shews plainly how the people feel towards the old Constitutional and the new Revolutionary powers. All the Citizens of Berne, Members of the Eleding Assembly, having refused to take the oath required by the .011 , -voir Execia?i, were expelled from the Assembly, by the special command of that first of the Revolutionary power, which has likewise' impeached before the New Di. redory, the Members sent 'by the Cantons of Switz, Uri, and Underwald, for having persisted in tim same refusal. - The inhabitants of the Vavois have sent to several European Courts a strong Protest against the intended incorporation of their country with France. The French Government admit that they have not the smallest title to that counter, but say it is necessary to their connection with Italy, that it should be in their hands. There are at present at Paris . 44.5 booksellers, 340 printers, 138 bookbinders, 41 Ftiv-liers of pamphlets, 327 engravers, 58 copper plate printers, 49 printsellers, and 71 old bookshops ; 240 seller: , of lemonade, 200 keepers_of cook_shops, 630 wine.. merchants, 546 perfumers, A 54. lot tery-office keepers, and 975 act)rs, atiresses, singers, and dancers. . All the Vessels from Hull, Liverpool,'" arrived at Elsineur under convoy of the Pomona, have passed the Sound for the Baltic ; and those thence for England were to sail under convoy Qt. the Pomona, nn the 24th of Septernbu, if the wind was fair. r:at The Danish Galliot, Northern Lights, from Bay onne to Copenhagen, with wine, is put Iwo Coves with the loss of masts. SPORTING ANECDOTES.—On the 7th of Febru ary, 1731, a wager of five hundred pounds was made between Lord CAYENDISH and Sir ROBERT FAG, that the former did not ride a hunter from Hyde- Park-Corner to the Lodge, in Windsor Forest, in, an hour and five minutes. His Lordship performed it in an hour and six minutes, and consequently lost. Upwards of 50001. were betted on the occasion. The celebrated Marquis De La FAYETTE rode, in August, 1788, from Rhode Island to Boston, near 70 miles distant, in seven hours, and returned in six hours and a half. On the 2+th of January, 1792, for a bet of coo guineas, Mr. 13INcHAm's bay gelding, performed. two standing leaps over Hyde Park wail, near the gate going from Piccadilly, winch wall is six feet and a half on the inside, and eight on the outside. As the descent was so considerable, long dung was placed on the outside for his reception. The DUKE Of YORK, PKINCE WILLIAM -Of GLOUCESTER, Lord DERBY, &c. witnessed this surprising per. formance. In ORober, 1780, Mr. FOZARD, of Park lane, for a wager of rsoi. against tool. undertook to ride 40 miles i& two hours over Epsom Course. He rode two miles - More than had been agreed on, and, performed it in live minutes under time.