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hAVAL NE 11/ S. PLYMOUTH, MAY 6.—Arrived the American Ship Genera/ Green, of and for Baltimore, HUGH WILSON M stir, from Amsterdam, laden with bale good, &c. Sailed eight days since, at which time tsoo Durch Troops were embarking at Alk maar, and Is 000 French were daily expefted there for the same purrse. Great discontents prevail in Holland, at the rapacity of the French Troops, and disturbances are hourly occurring between the Troops of the two Countries. When the above Vessel sailed, there were five Sail of the Line, a Frigate, and two Sloops of War, laying at the Helder, in. tended to Convoy the above Troops for the purpose of invading England, A Letter received here from Lisbon, dated the 24th ult. states, that the Paulette Sloop of War, of to guns, Captain j. —uNBAK, was to sail in a day or two from thence, with the Trade under convoy for Newfoundland, and prote& them to a certain latitude, after which she was to cruize in the Western Ocean. Arrived the Heart of Oak, laden with Naval Stores, from London bound to Cork. Sailed the Courageux, of 74. guns, Capt. Bovi., ES, to the Eastward, to join the East India Fleet., which she is to Convoy out. PORT,MOUTH, MAY 7.—Arrived the Diligence, jOHN ,, TONE, from Newcastle. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Amelia, with about 6o Sail of Merchant Ships under Convoy, for the West Indies, among which are, the Blanche, GEORGE WHITE, for Demerara ; Tritoll, LARCOTT ; For_ tuna, FORD ; Alfred, ROBSON ; Nile , PRINGLE ; Fritnetthip, SIMKINS ; ; Ann, FEN. WICK , L Jari a, USSER ; Sister, MACKAY ; God Intent, RIN3 ; Flora, BARROWS ; Hope, BOYD ; and Sidney Smith, WAxottr. FALMOUTH, MAY S.---Arrived the Masa Packet, Capt a i r , D E ALE, With a M a il from Li s b on , s i x days passage. Sailed the Nimrod Cutter, with a Fleet under Convoy for Wales ; and the Matim,;ere French Car tel, for Plymouth. Saturday next, in the forenoon, will be launched from Deptford Dock-Yard, the Royal Sovereign yacht, whi c h i s finished in the most superb style for the reception of the ROYAL FAMILY, in their i ' cc asi'mal excursions. Sir HARRY B. NE ALE is op. pointed Captain of her. The Albacore Sloop will be launched from Messrs. HI etiotr,e's Dock-yard at Bristol, on Thursday, next. She will proceed to Plymouth immediately, to ~..1?e prepared for service. Tnt liamtilui Sloop has been launched at Milford Raven. She has sailed to Plymouth to be fitted for service, and Capt. Aeoteam is appointed to com mand her. Capt. DURBAN, of the Ambuscade, is taking a survey of Boulogne, and the coast of France, in the Leopard, by order of the Admiralty. Capt. FORBES, Of the Pluto, is superseded in the command of that Ship, in consequence of a wound which he received in the leg last war, having shew ed unpleasant symptoms. This zealous Officer has - received five wounds during his career of service. The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that 20s. shall be given to the respeClive Gangs through. out the United Kingdom, employed on the impress service, for every Seaman they may procure, which is as a further encouragement to them to use every exertion in that duty. At Havre.de.Grace, our little Squadron has late lY been particularly bold. They are constantly in the prattice of sending boats on shore, and sup. flying the fleet with vegetables from the gardens of the inhabitants. Some days ago our people went on sh ore there, and extinguished the lights at the light-house, it having been kept dim for some time, leavin g a threat, that u n l ess t h ey kept a better light for tile future, they would batter the lighthouse down : since that they have kept up an excellent light. They are so much in fear of our Tars, that they have never once tired on our boats from the Fort at Havre. A letter frOm an Officer on board the Montagu, dated, at single ancho r , off Brest, the 23 d o f A pr i l, to °l,lii friends, says, " e have this mo ment di s . a conspiracy d'i'e a m o st di a b o li ca l nature, form e d b y about 2 0 'men, to murder the pri n cipal Officers On board. •It was agreed by those implicated in the sanguinary p l ot, Master at Arms, that the Second Lieutenant, and Mr. READ, Day Mate, should be the first victims of assassination. The man on whose confession the discovery was made has, with sixteen others, been in confinement ; four of them, the ringleaders, were yesterday sent into port ; the other thirteen are to he punished on board. The Enemy's Ships now in Brest are 18 Line of Battle Ships, four Frigates, two Store Ships, and several Cor vettes." --Salisbury and Winchester Journal. The Swalloqu, Privateer Brig, of Plymouth, Capt. } lust ea, mounting 18 guns, lately fell in with a French Privateer of 20 guns, which, after a smart inaion, the Swallo-us boarded and got possession of ; when about too of the Enemy, who were concealed in the hold of the. Privateer, sprang upon deck, and, after a severe contest, succeeded in regaining pos session, and compelling the English to abandon her. • Capt. HOSIER, we understand, is wounded in the I )ead and body ; an d many o f t h e crew were wound. 4d mortally. An important improvement to the navigation of Cork harbour lois taken place, by putting buoys at its . entrance, over the Harbourikock and Turbot Bank, the necessity of which has begin long obvious.—The dvantage they will render the lire of battle ships is eyond description, as there are not. more than fif ( et: ti feet water over the Harbour Rock. YOLUNTERR R!UGIDE. YESTERDAY the First Brigade of Volunteers be longing to the Western DistriB of the Metropolis, was reviewed by L ird HARRINGTON in Hyde Park. General BURRARD commanded the right, and Ge_ ral LESLIE the left wing. The Corps drew up i n the following order :—The Old Sr. George's Volun teers, Colonel the Earl of CU FST ERSI ELD, a , the Ist Regiment of the Brigade, accoroing to Military etiquette, took-t -he right; the Royal Westminster Volunteers, Colonel ROBERTSON, as next in se niority, took the left of the Line; the City of Westminster Loyal Volunteers, the Hon. Colo nel EDEN, being the third, took the centre of the right wing; the Duke of Gloucester's Loyal Volunteers, Colonel Lord CH ETWYND, the fourth, was the centre of the left wing; and the two bat talions of Queen's Royal Volunteers, Colonel Lord HoB ART, and the St. Giles's and St. George's, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir JomiN NicHoLL, composed the centre. After going through all the manoeuvres that are usually performed with dumb flints, they were divided into two demi-brigades, and advanced with their Light Companies in front up to Buckden. hill. They were divided into companies twice, and changed their front each time by the eschalon move. ment. ' he DUKE of YORK, DUKE Of CAMBRIDGE, to. gether with several Noblemen and General Officers, who had arrived on the . ground soon after the Re view commenced, as soon as the last mentioned manoeuvre was completed, rode down to the lower part of the Park, in company with the Earl of Mut- ' RINGIoN, his Aides-de:Camp, Lord PETE RsHAM, and a younger son of the Reviewing General's. They placed themselves close to the Nursery near the Magazine, and the whole marched by them in open order of companies. The Corps were so uni versally coma in their discipline, that it would be invidious to mention any as particularly excel. lent. Previously to their retiring, the MIKE of Yottit expressed great satisfaktion in observing the high state of discipline to which each of these Corps had arrived. His Highness added, he had no doubt but that they would be an ornamern to their Coun try, whenever summoned into the field of anion. It was as delightful a day as they cotild possibly wish, and a great number of speCtators were present. Among the most distinguished were the Duke of HAMILTON, Earl SPENCER, Lord GRENVIbiiE, and Lord MURRAY, a Lieutenant in the Prince's own, dressed in the uniformr, of the Prince's Dragoons. The Countess of HARRINGTON, with three youtlg ladies, was in a landaulet belonging to his Loud ship. The review began about ten, and was en-. tirely over by one o'clock. The bounty of the Royal Marines is advanced to the recruit, from 71. 193. to zol. Governor BEM: JON is gone passenger i n the Fly, to Demerara. Of the fourteen Indiamen which are to sail, the Walthantstow and the Lord St. rincent are to touch at the Island of Ceylon, on their voyage to Bom bay, and are the only. Ships of the season which are so permitted : among the passengers on board these two Ships are near twenty young Gentlemen, ap pointed on the Cis :1 Establishment 6f the Island, to supply the void occasioned by the late dreadful mortality, besides a far greater number of Mili tary Cadets.. All the Indiamen are remarkably full of passengers, the Bengal alone has forty-two in the cabin. In the Walthamstow, Capt.' MONEY (her late Commander), proceeds with his family to Bombay, where he is appointed to the very lucra tive situation of Member of the Marine Board, in the room of R. ANDERSON, Esq. who is returning to Europe. There is,hardly any measure in the whole of Mr. I ADDINGTON'S Administration, more grievous in its operation than the mode of collefting the Pro-, perry Tax, a measure so severe, that it will be pro duetive of lamentable inconvenience to a large ma- , jority of the people. By the tardiness and confusion which have attended the arrangement of this Tax, the assessment of a whole year is now to be col. leaed at once. Though Mr. PlTr's Income Tax was twice the am,unt of the Property Tax, yet it was colle&ecl by such instalments as fell much more easily on the People. Mr. ADDINGTON, therefore, in his retirement from Office, will leave additional disgust upon his name, as peo. ple in general will find great difficulty in paying a heavy impost, that would have been but little felt if the Minister who formed it bad duly considered the means of those from whom it was to be derived. A whimsical circumstance took place last night in the House of Commons. Sir WILLIAM PULTE. NEY and Mr. TYRWHITT went out of the House togethis,t, riot intending to vote, and sat on the stairs, waiting till the division should be over. They were, however, seen in this state by the Ser jeant at Arms, who conduced them back into the House with due formality, much to the entertain ment of the Member; who received them with a roar of laughter. The Tragedy of Richard the Third was repre sented last night at Covent-garden Theatre, and though it has of late been so often performed, had a numerous audience, and went off with great ef feft. Cooice was very animated in the bloody Usurper, and KEMBLE exhibited a fine contrast in the meek, but determined dignity of Richmond. Miss DE CAMP had a very produaive benefit last night at Dt'ury-lane 'Theatre. The attractions were Cinderella, The London Hermit, and The Ca ravan. INCLEDON is gone for the recovery of his health to Blackheath. It is not likely that•lte will reco_ ver so soon as was expetted. BYRNE is engaged to assist in preparing the grand Ballet which is to be brought forward early in the season at Mr. COLMAN'S Theatre✓ BONAPARTE should complete the absurdity of his conduct, by which he pretends to hold forth France as a Commonwealth, by assuming the ti t l e o f E M- P E ROR of the French Republic. The word Fothon, which was introduced upon a late occasion, has given so much offence, that it will probably be effaced from the Ministerial Vocabulary, and, at least, will never be found again in a new book of Peerage. FROM PAWS PAPERS. PARIS, APR IL 22. -By Dispatches from the French Commissary of Commerce at the Canaries, dated from Teneriffe, we have received a Copy of the Articles of Capitulation made at Goree, the , conquest of which from the English We formerly announced. It appears that four Vessels arrived from Cayenne at Senegal, in the course of January, and which being reinforced by the Privateer My Uncle Thomas, of Rochefort, determined General Be &NcooT, the Governor of Senegal, to attempt the capture of that Island by a coup de main, parti co!arly as he understood there was but a weak gar rison in it. The whole expedition was placed on. der the command of Serjeant GOUFFE, of the 46th Regiment of the Line, who commanded the Detach ment from the Garrison of Senegal. The Officer who commanded the Privateer took possession of the Fort which commands the Town, and GOUFFE having reached the foot of the North Battery, where the English Garrison had taken refuge, threatened to storm it, and with the weak Detach ment he headed, forced the English Colonel to ca pitulate. APR IL 25.—Admiral GRAVINA, who has been appointed by the KING of SPAIN to the French Ennbassy, is the person who commanded the Spanish Fleet during its long stay at Brest. Letters from Venice, of the beginning of this month, inform us, that at the end of December, a Marquis . DE LA MAISONFORT, arrived there, who !lee: eerved in the A:L;iy of the Princes, and was their Agent at Petersburgh, during the war be tween Russia and France. This Emigrant came in the suite of the Russian Prince Doncortotrsei, who - went to Florence. MAISONFORT gave out, at first, that he was waiting his return, and after. wards said, that he intended to go shortly to France. He took the name of DEBOURG, and occasoinally that of DECOURT. He held the most disrespe&ful language respetling the aEtual state of affairs, and the French Government, towards which Country he gave proofs of the most violent hatred. The arrest Of Pico EGRU affeded him exceedingly. Some days after the news of that event reached Venice, he was at dinner with the Russian Consul, who proposed to drink to the health of the FIRST CoNsue.— MAISONFORT was highly offended, and abused, with considerable violence and vulgarity, the cha rader of the FIRST CONSUL. The dinner party was overwhelmed with sorprize. The Count of BISSINGEN, the Imperial Commissary at Venice, informed of those circumstances, gave orders to MAISONFORT to quit Venice, and to retire to Udi na, where he is detained as a Prisoner on Parole. Count BJSSINGEN has ordered a bookseller to be prosecuted, for exposing to sale a libellous pamphlet w ,ttich has been published some years ago against the ,FtitsT CONSUL. Th,e friends and emissaries of England openly ex press Oeir detestation of France, in the Coffee. houses at:l other public places. The Imperial Commissary ,has given the striEtest orders , that i n all public platers) the respell due to friendly na_ tions, to Governlinenrs, and to Governors, be religi ously observed. kje has made the proprietors of such houses responsiNe for any infrattion of those orders, 2nd any attenOt on their parts to conceal such infraftion will be ce Ansidered as an aggravated offence. The news of the arrest klf the Conspirators on the right hank of the Rhine, has produced a great el . - fed at Venice ; it has discov - ered the extent of the conspiracy ; it has increased tke indignation and contempt of all honest and reasonable men, against the authors and abettors of such a crime ; it has silenced weak minds, vague opinions, N - Id ridiculous hopes; it has blasted the attempt of those abandon - . ed and cowardly men, who think all meaos legal, provided they tend to the ruin of their country. MUNICH, APRIL I 9. —The Prisoners detained in the New Tower, as having been concerned in the conspiracy of the English Minister against the Government of France, lately underwent their first examination. The Clergy who are implicated in it, will not be allowed, considering the nature of their offence, to claim the usual privilege of being tried by the Tribunals of Exception, but they will be compelled to appear before the Ordinary Courts.— One of the offenders, Mr. LINDEMANN, the Director of the Post, is, properly speaking, in the service of the Prince de DE LA TOUR and TAXIS, and he has claimed the interposition of that Prince; but the ELECTOR has given for answer, that as Mr. LIN. DEMANN was guilty, or, at least, has been suspeCted of a crime committed in his Highness's capital, a crime little short of high treason, he is not entitled to claim a privileged jurisdiaion. MADRID, MARCH 20.—His Catholic Majesty. has appointed the Lieutenant-General Don ALvA.: REZ DI FARIO, Chief of the Supreme Council of War, in the room of the Marquis of CASTELLAR, appointed Captain of the Royal Guard of fialber. diers. By a Royal Dispatch, the same liberties and fran. chises have been granted to the Ports of the Isle Porto Rico, which are enjoyed by the other Ports of that class. All the privileges successively granted to the Isle of Cuba, have been at the same time extended to the Isle of Porto Rico. . COPENHAGEN, APR IL 7.—The monument ereca ed here to the memory of the warriors who fell in the battle of the 2d of April, ISo , consists of an artificial Mount, of- an oval form, sixteen feet high, sixty long, and forty broad, is sur rounded by wrought stones, on each of which is the name of an Officer who fell in this glorious combat, and of the - ship' on board of which lie was killed. At the foot of this Mount are pla-ted an equal number of poplars. A path leads to ,tie summit, from which is seen the coast off which the engagement took place. On the side of the monttrn:!nt which fronts the east is an obelisk of Hark marble, s'ith%thia inscription---" They died fo r their Country, April 2, Isol ;" and under- ''The gratitude of iheir Fellow Citizens raised to them this mowument.'' On a iablet of white marble, placed on a pedestal, is sculptured a crown of laurel;, oak aid cypress, intertwined, with these words-+ •' The crown which his Ccuc gieves nerver fades the tomb of. the -Warrior *who has died f;r it; sakes'' I,A if/ EL i'l,./Z•i-. COURT OF KING'S Bt , ICII, MAY 7 GENERAL .PICTON. Mr. EAsKiNP, on the part of rrosecurinn, u the suit of thr Gtrfial Pift;n, some 91 the particulars of whic!; we st :tcci a fora,-- applied to the Court fc.)r a Writ ifillantiamur, dirceied to certain persons in the of rini to exa. mine wirnes.es.on the part of the prosecution. The usual .4111.1,ivit being read ; Colin grariel a rule to sitew cause. THE KING 1/. ALEX. DAvibsoN, JOH: PARsONs, AND THO:.IAS HOPPING. • The Gentleman - who :Toms as the firsir Defer,- dant, is too well known in the es and the scenes of business, to require any notice here. The second Defendmir is a tarot gr 4— zier, who has conduced extensively to the improve_ men: of Agriculture, and is well known, to most of the Societies instituted with thttt 61 , jeti. The 14-: Defendant, Mr. Hopping, is an Atterney at IL chester. These persons had been ;tied and convict.. ed before Baron GRAHAM, Oil If tionunder the Bribery Act. The cause was heard at the. assizes for Somerse !shire. The offence was committed in the Eletlion for B ronsrt chester, where the Right of F.leClion is in the 11:tiliiT, capital Burgesses, and leleteiefets not re • t‘e aims. The share was, that they gave or procured to be given, 301. to a man named j-unt eetwA-,:s, and to thirty_fi..e other persons, and Chat they ob tained grouted, and erected various dwellings, to efF.Ct their purpose, contt ary to the provisions of the Aa in that ease trade arid provided. After the Notes of tilt'. Learned Judge, made at tie tied, had been read by Mr. Justiee LE BeAt\tc, Aid !iv its were produced on the behalf of John White leart,ons, from W. Dickenson, Esq. Mecoher for Soni-t-Pt shire, Dr. Parry, F. R. S. and f;004 various ,ilem berssof the Bath Society of Agriculture, depose ing to the virtuous and in rat Labits of this Defend ant, and to the injury his fortune had received from his zeal for the improvement of Agricul are. Messrs. ERSKINE and ALLEN• then solicited tl c attention of the Court on the behalf of Alex. 1) son, Esq. and Mr. JEKYLL on the part of John White Parsons. They felt extremely the embarrassment addressing the .Court on such an cut-don ; their personal friendship for Mr. Dtvieisnn ttlttt Lee duced them, at another time, to indulge :heir reelinga in apologizing for his conduct ; under the prey: it cir cumstances it would be improper. The Court would, however, recolled the charaCter of Olt - bit-Id. on whose evidence the fate of these persons had depended : it will likewise bear in mind, that the punishment now to be inflicted is not the only one they may be called upon to suffer, because, for this very olenee, prosecutions may be commenced in another form. and heavy penalties may be exacted. It is tie ettid.s, of the English Law to temper jo,ti , :•. with htimanity. Persons of fortune and education. ;:ecustomed in early life to a sense of duty to the;r Country, and to the sacred institutions of Public Law, would feel much more distress from the cenvf'aion of their own errors, and keen the injurt to Own renutation, than from any personal afflitlion they ;night endure under the sentence to he pronounced against them : even the impressive and awful manner in which chit sentence is accustomed to he kitiverea by the Learn.. ed Judge whose painful dozy it is to pronounce lt, it at this moment a source of extreme anxiety to the Defendants. . No Counsel appearing for Mr. Hopping, and'he having declined to address the Court, The 'ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that although the extent of the charges, .of which these Defend.. ants were guilty, did not appear upon the record, yet, that there was not only bribery, but conspiracy with which they were chargeable ; and in the in stance of the latter Defendant, Mr., Hopping, the subornation of perjury., The ATTORNItIi• GENER observed,that whatever doubt might exist in the most sceptical mind, they must be completely removed.by the bouses ereded for the purpose of this eledior, paid for by the money of Mr. Davidson, , alitah were psermanent monuments of the guilt 0 . 1 !hese Defendants. . It was said, that these persons•might be liable to penalties, and , that the punishment s h ou ld b e t nizigated in the expectations of prosece dons for this porpose ; their Lordships would, how.. ever, examine the case as it appears upon the record, and would not, id the view of these remote contin. gencies, incident to such charges, admit the Country to - be deprived of that justice which is due to it.— He was diposed, to allow to Mr. Davidson aki the liberalitv.of feeling to which Jte was e n titled k aat with, regard ,to this Gentleman, .he trusted .tlaeir Lordships would consider thai he was a in .n of gr-at wealth, that he 'had expended considerable rums on this occasion, and that a fine of 5001. or roool. would be a trifle to a man of such a fortune. With' resped to Mr. John White Parsonsr numerous.alffi. davits had bet - ,-a_produced in his favour, and heasad himself deposed,'.that he neither expeded or desir ed any pecuniary compensation. He did not lessen the weight of these affidavits, which appeared to be from persons of. respedability, but the testi mony was the less to be regarded, because his cha. ratter seemed to have been misunderstood; he was a jobber in voters as well as a jobber in cattle, a. - ..l while he was promoting the Agriculture of his Coun try, he was sacrificing its political liberty and inde pendence, by which the benefits of science and in.,. provement could alone be secured. The aggravation in the Crime of Mr. Hopping was the greater, be. cause he was a Minister of the. Law ; and he seemed to have added to the enormity with which the others were chargeable, the crime of the, suborna. t i on a) f Pe r jury. - With these observations he should submit the Defendants to the decision of, the Court, and the justice of their,Country. Mr. DALLAS, who was also concerned .for the prosecution, - declined detaining the Court, after what had fallen from the ATTORNRY-GENERAL. Lord ELLE NBOROUGH.—" - Let them be' corn ; mitted to the King's Bench Prison, and be brought up again on Friday next." • Thursday morning last, a woman' was found_fl:at ing in the River Thames, ne:CrCk;x'b Quay.