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* i .m . The ir.teretir:g Case of PyRCELL versus NI Act hir4 A t , ,•chic! was ycsterday.ciecided in the Court of Chancery, wilt be found in the last Pape of this Paper. MAILS. Aa?xxvtp--.1 Dub:in. DuL—y ilarriburg)l 7 Gottcpburgh, i Dubiin, 2 ‘V:.:.teriprit. PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS LAY AT TWELVE O'CLoCK. CO;$01; - , 62.1 i Red. A pa, - A 3 ( Oninium 6i THE SUN. SOLE.M gUIS DICZRL F4LSUZA 4UpE4T ? LONDON, TUESDAY,' AUGUST 19, 1806. This morning, between One and two o'clock, a Nlessenger arrived in Town with Dispatches from Lord LAUDERDALE. Nothing has . transpired : with respect tmo the pature of, the intelligence which he brought. Wr. last night received Paris Papers to the t o th and Dutch to the 14th. It appears that .lONA PARTE either expeals.some Opposition to his plan far placing himself at the head of the German Empire, or else he is desirous, by an ostentatious "display of his foree, to awe the Powers on the Continent into submission. The French Troops are marched and countermarched with uncommon rapidity, and very considerable bodies of thepa have crossed the. Rhine at Strasburgh, to reinforce the French Armies. in Swabia, Bavaria, and Franconia. It is stated in private Letters, that Prussia, Saxony, and Hesse Cassel, are arming, and a league among those Powers is still tallied of, for the purpose of preserving the inde pendence of the North of Germany. We stated on • a former occasion : our reasons for disbelieving this intelligence. The KING of PRUSSIA: would, we 'have no doubt, willingly join in such a league; but it is not probable that any other Power would, after the experience of the last two, months, risque its safety by making a common cause with Prussia.— . BONAPAIITE appears to be by no means satisfied with -the condua of Austria, and a very heavy corn plaintis made in one of the Minor French Papers, in a fabricated Letter from .Augsburgh, of a number ' of Libels which have been circulated in Swabia,.and which, it is said, were sent from Vienna. It is per feStly well known that the French Government consi 4'er every publication a libel that is not gross panegyric, Ind are determined that no Country under the power or influence of France shall possess greater liberty, with regard to the Press, than the French themselves, 'The F.4pzaoß of GErtmANY is threatened in the most unequivocal manner with the vengeance of Bo- J PARTE if these libels are not suppressed It is true the article to which we allude is riot in the Moni tear; but after the warning lately given to the French unofficial. Papers, we are convinced that they would 'not venture upon such " high matter" without or ders. The Surrender of the irsignificant Fortress of Gaeta is a subject of, great exultation in the French Papers ; but they, at the same. time, conL fess that it was ,necessary to send the Army which was employed in the Siez,e of that place into Calabria, where it is to be,employed, like Ge neral VERDIER'S Corps, " in destroying the renzains of the wretches who revolted in Calabria." We are sorry to find that some refleJtions have been thrown upon Admiral COCIIIINE, because he was too prudent. to risk the lives of hit gal lant Crews, and th'e fate of our West India Islands and Trade, upon a contest with an Enemy much his superior in strength. The charaaer of this excellent Officer is too well known, and his re putation too firmly established, for him to receive the least -injury from such rash and ignorant reflec tions. But we feel top much respea for his name, and are too sensible of the services which he has rendered his Country, to suffer such ill-founded aspersions to pass without our most decided cen pare. We may be assured that every thing that pirit, under the guidance of judgment, could perforin, was attempted by the gallant Admiral; and as his Squadron has long ere this most probably been j.-_ , .ined by the force under the command of "Sir JonN PORLASE WARREN,, We' may confidently expe& all possible success fn.:fp the united efforts of two such flistinguished ornaments of the British' Navy. Mr. Fox was yesterday so much better that he was able to take more exercise than he has (tone for some 4veeks. He passed a very favourable night, and, though his medical attendants are still properly cautious it, delivering their opinions, it is evident from the whole of, their manner, that they indulge ;Wore cheering expeelation. Yesterday morning the DUKE of YORK arrived at Windsor from Oatlands, and after transacting busi ness with His MAJESTY, rode on horseback with the PUKE Of CAMBRIDGE, PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, and Soriiii; attended by. Lord WALSINGHAM, Count rviptsrsTert, &c. PRINCESS AMELIA. did not ride, being indisposed. I-44 sgsTY and PRINCESS ELIZABETH took an airing to FrogtnOre. From the FRENCH and DUTCH PAP.AI4S, .1 )71., / AUG. 8,--A.ceordint , to one of our Jour pals of this day, many people4 - are of opinion that the peace 'With England is already signed, and that it will, if not earlier, be made public oa the birth. day of the Emperor, this day se'nnight. It was last Tuesday evening.that Lord LAUDER DALE, who was received on his route from Calais hither with the greatest expressions of joy, ar- Fi;ed in this capital, and on the following day was presented to' his Majesty. He has with him, as Secretaries, Messrs. STUART and MADDISON. The Jewish Assembly here has already' answered three of the questions proposed to it : these are as follow 1. 13 it lawftil fbr the Jews to marry more than one wife ? 2. Is Divorce allowed by the Jewish Religion ? Is it lawful, though no sentence' respeaing it be pronouned by the Tribunals, and in pursuance of the French Code ? 3. May a Jewess marry a Christian, tad a Christian; Female with a Jew; or does the Law require that the Jews solely marry among each other ? The answers contain principally, that the Jewish Law, in the striaest sense, permits PolypMy, Di vorce, and mixed -Marriages, but that these are E mitted by praaice and usage. To the question Which relates to the duties Of French Citizens, the Assembly .voluntarily, and without premeditation, answered in the fullest manner. AUGUST 7:—The Comte De METTERNICH ar rived in Paris last Sunday. It is long since the Diplomatic Corps was so complete as it is at this moment. AUGUST 6.—At the instant when we yesterday announced, on the faith of the English Journals, the departure of Lord LAUDERDALE from London to Paris, as an event extremely probable, that Nobleman had arrived in' this City-, where he alight ed at the Hotel de l'Enzpire, in the street Cerutti. Those who tecollea how much, under the old Administration, he always spewed himself the par tizan of peace, must augur very favourably of the result of a negotiation in which we are doubtless authorized to believe that he is destined to take a principal share. • Lord LAUDtaDALE sailed in a •frigate, from which he was landed at Calais on the 3d instant, about noon. The frigate saluted him with 15 guns when he quitted her. The Mayor and the Constituted Authorities of the town went to receive him at the port. (FRONT TEir ARGUS). The present situation of Europe calls for a political system , totally different froth .that which, to its stame, the English Government has followed s o long. The time is not far distant, when, even for its very interest, the Court of London will be very glad to acknowledge' the rights 'common to all 'nations. It has hitherto made war upon principles Which'it should already have disavowed. Doubt less we ought not to be surprised, that in the midst of a Negotiation which proMiscs a happy result, it is still making formidable preparations. France ',discovers the same attention to support the strength of her Armies, and the military spirit which ani mates her soldiers. • These demonstrations only prove the desire of each of these Powers to make Peace the more advantageous and solid. But 'what grieves us is, to see that England has not yet nounced, in her Expeditions, that system of disor ganization and anarchy which is incompatible with ,the existence of civilized society. The Expedition of MIRANDA, to which it cannot be doubted that England has promised assistance—the conneeions kept up with Di4ssimirrEs, and the revolted in St. Domingo—in short, the nature of the aid given to King FERDINAND, and which has consisted in or gani'aing revolt, pillage, and assassination in Ca labria, are a true scandal in the eyes of all European Governments. The law of nations certainly permits the defence of the States of an Ally, but it must be by legitimate means ; for War also haS its le gislation, the objeEt of which is to diminish the ca lamities which it brings in its train. It would -pro mote the cause of humanity were there never seen . • in camps any other than regular troops, or regularly organized. In a revolted Country, all the'., inhabi tants become enemies., The cottage of the la boureris no longer a respecaed asylum. The whole people are exposed to the horrors of war. It is fall time that. Governments should cease to have recourse to this miserable resource. The Emperor of the French has disdained to employ it in this:War. No revolted subjeas have been seen under his tri umphant colours. Let us hope that the example which he gives to the-world will not be lost, and that hii glorious reign shall be the epoch of a po licy 'more stable and more advantageous for Flu- inanity. ,, 'BRUSSELS, Ago. g.-Late yesterday evening we saw pass through this place successively, 3 French Courier from Paris to the Hague, and a Courier from the French Ambassador at Berlin for Paris, who had orders to use the greatest expedition.," 139t1a tN4e, re charged with djwatches whieh were of the most pressing impoitance. Some moments after there also passed through an Englishman of respe&abi lity, from Paris, on his route to Holland. He al lowed himself scarcely the necessary time to change horses. LEYDEN, AUG. 12.—Some letters from Paris say, that the arrangements with Prussia, both with re gard to the revolution in Germany, and the adjust ing of a certain difference respeaing some distribu tions of territory in Westphalia, have been com pletely terminated to the satisfaEtion of both parties. All these matters standing in more or less connec tion with the Negotiations between England and France, there is reason to hope that all. obStacles to a general Peace Will be removed. Lord LAUDERUALE, add these letters, will finish at Paris the great work which is the wish of all. ALGIERS, Jt..Y1.5.—1n the night between the , sth and 6th instant the camp 'of 80,000 men, which the DE? had assembled under the walls of thiS city, broke up to march against Tunis. But the arrival of a Courier, this day, froth Constantinople, \vith dispatches for the Day, has, it is said, indecad the DET to send orders to his army tohalt. It is sup posed that these dispatches consist of -letters from the principal Chiefs at Tunis, and _that their contents have dissuaded the DRY from his design. • FRANKFORT, AUG. 5.--The march of the French troops to the borders of the Inn continues Uninter- • rupted ; and nothing but the ratification of ,the Nice lately concluded with Russia; and the yield ing of AUstria, who must have no share in the Ccn federation of the Princes of thelthine,. and, in the annihilation of the Germanic 'Constitution; appear sufficient to prevent a wataupon the Continent.— Through Swabia the march of theyrench troops continues with astonishing celerity, and the French transport with them much artillery, Ste. that was lately on its return to France. FRANKFORT, Atrc 6.—The intelligence lately contained in the Hungarian Newspapers, that Scha batz had been carried by the Servians, is at present contradided by them. It is true that the insur gents, on the 26th of July, made a brisk attack, but were repulsed with considerable loss. NAPLES, JULY 21.—0 n the day after the sur render of Gaeta, the Garrison embarked for Si cily, after having given their word of honour not to carry arms against France during a year and a day. The English left in the town the five mor tars which they placed there. There remain also 120 pieces of artillery, and a great quantity of war like stores. It was on the 11th of July that the Prince of HESSE PHILIPSTHAL, Commandant of Gaeta, was struck by a splinter from a wall thrown down by the explosion of a bomb ; he remained on the spot as if dead, He was then, carried on board an English Vessel, which. immediately sailed for-Pa lermo. We are assured that his wounds are so se vere that his life is despaired of. . His Adjutant,,Co lonel HOTZ, succeeded him in the command of the place. UTRECHT, Atm. 10.—Yesterday, an hour after midnight, three grenadier companies of the 21st Regiment of French light infantry, which- were en camped at the Hague, arrived here unexpeaedly; they were quartered Upon the Citizens. They are to set out to-morrow for Ithinen, and the day afte r ; for Arnheim, frOm'whiCh, .it is said, they-'will march to Wesel. Dutch Troops have set out from Ber gen-op-Zoom and Bois-le-Duc for-Amsterdam and Haarlem. This day three companies of the 65th Regi ment of French Infantry of the Line are expeaed here from the Hague, where they were encamped . :They will continue their route to-Morrow for ToOr thuisen, and from thence for Deventer. and Coevir den, fm - otn whence they will march to the County of Bentheim. STUTGARD, AUG. 2.—The French Troops which have been posted on the Left Bank of the Rhine, are passing that River successively, on their march for Bavaria through Swabia. From the 26th to the 28th of July, 7000 men marched out of Stras burgh, a great part of whom arrived at Pfhoorsheim on the 30th. AUGSBUROH, Jta.i , 26.—A great number of Ger man libels, with which Suabia -has been inundated, have been seized in the possession of,the Bookseller STAG.. -This Bookseller received them from his Correspondent STEIt , , at Nuremberg, who obtained them from the Booksellers,Kupraa, of Vienna; and Bunion, of Lintz, Cities in which these libels_ have been fabricated. The House of Austria employs a singular method of making her acknnwledgmekts for the moderation and generosity of the Emperor NArotrot.r, in exciting, by libels, the inhabitants of Scabia against his Arrnies. What a Melancholy resource ! The Emperor of Austria, too faithful, 'is ignorant of these manceuvres ; but the Ministers who direct his Cabinet, and who continue the ene, mies of their Conntiy, will end by 4rawing on its ruin.'' - The Booksellers KtirpEtt and tuitio' may one day pay for this' perfidious condua. The Einperor has caused to be delivered up to a Military Com mission the venders of these libels, as guilty...of having attempted to raise the Country against the Army. Certainly, if the French Army had wished to excite Countries against their Governments, it would have had nn need of libels, NAPLES, JUNE 1 .—Gerieral YERTMER has, at this Moment, his Head:quarters at Cassano : those of General REGNIER are at Catanzaro ; they are em ployed in destrOying the remains of the' wretches who revolted in Calabria. The Province of BaSi / licate has conduaed itself in a way which does it in finite honour. The civic Guard, established by the exertions of General PIGNATELL4, and the President SASANNA, maintained their good order and The taking of Gaeta has produced the happiest effects. That event destroys the guilty hopes of the enemies of tranquillity ; already a large Corp; of troops has set out• from before that place, and - has advanced into. Calabria ; and there is rea son to expea, that, in a little time that Province will be entirely purged of the Brigands who disl Curb it. LAYRACtr, SLILY D'ALavcK, whom Lieutenant-General BELLEGARDE had sent to V. enpa, has arrived here, on his return to the Squadron *Eat three'weeks ago from Trieste. Mr. GOLDS:du:is intended Fite is to take place on Friday next, at his beautiful villa at Merton. The house and, gardens are preparing in the most tasteful and elegant style of - decoration. • The PRINCE of WALES, all the junior branches of the Royal Faintly, and a very numerous train of the higher orders, are invited to this splendid Pete - Champetre. A splendid- Military Speaacle was displayed at - Dublin on :Tuesday .last, the Anniversary of the Birth of the PRINCE of WALEs. The several Regi ments in garrison were 'paraded at *nine o'clock in the morning, and marched off to the Phoenix Park, where-they forened line in the Fifteen Acr6, in the presence of the Earl 'OIHARRINGTON, Commander ,in Chief. On the right' were the bth Drapon Guards, 26th Foot, Cavan and Wexford Militia, rand 43th Foot.; ..in: the centre the park. of artillery, and on the left the 18th Light Dragoons, the 92. d Foot, the Monaghan Militia, and the 28th Foot. The Duke of BEDFORD arrived soon after one, on horseback, escorted by a, Squadron of the 18th Dra goons. The Duchess followed -in,an open landau, escorted in a similar manner. His Grace was re ceived under a salute of ,t.tt guns ;• after which, having taken hisstation in front,.the line presented arms, and the bands played " God save the King;" The Duke passed the lint, and then returned to his station in front; when . three fezia.-de-joye were fired from right to left in honour of the PRINCE Of WALES'S Birth -day, the Artillery also firing at in tervals, to which succeeded three cheers. The troops then marched past the Duke in grand .diVi sions. • The line being re-formed, his Grace rode up to the centre, and dire&ed Lord HARRINGTON to, express to the Commanding Officers his perfe& tisfadion at the military condud - and appearance Of each Corps. A most superb Fite was given by the Duchess in_ the 'evening.. It is said, that previous to the sailing o f t h e f as t Packet from Lisbon, ".accounts had been received there that Spain had actually ceded'three or four of her provinces to France. Two of these provinces ere said to be Biscay and Murcia, in the opposite extremities of the kingdom, the latter of which in.! eludes the important port of Carthagena. We have not heard the names of the others. It is rumoured at Lisbon that Spain is to be indemnified for them cessions by the kingdom of Portugal. A Letter from Canton, dated Feb. '25; received vie America, states, that the first" Convoy was to .be dispatched on the 25th of that Month, to come through the Straits of Malacca ; and that the Dort setshire, Warren Hastings, and gauges, would be ready in about a month or five weeks. MiA. EDWIN, the comic heroine of the Dublin Stage, is engaged to perform a few nig4ts at the Margate Theatre. GRASSINI has been so much admired at the Oral torio and Concert at Liverpool, that she has been ,tempted to display her powers . for two nights at the Theatre, in scenes seleCted from the Italian Opera. The Gretna Green lohacconist contends -that he is a very proper person to be concerned in the busi- DOSS of marriage, as it is a subject that all people . ought to chew upon. Last Tuesday new barley was shewn at Penrith market, for the first time this season, by Mr. Robert • HOlehouse. It was of very excellent quality. A.melon has been cut within these few days in the garden of Mr. Thomas Taylor, of Norton, near Stockton ; the circumference one way measured 36 inches, and the other 23. It weighed 16 pounds • and. half an ounce. It was the largest that was ever grown in 'that neighbourhood, and supposed to be the largest in England. A poor woman who was lately about to be tried in Ireland for a capital offence, was asked by the Judge if she had any Counsel or Attorney ; she replied, very seriously, " She bad no Counsel but God, and no Attorney but his Lordship." A tragical accident lately occurred at Cookham, near Maidenhead.—A-farmer's son having sold the fruit of a cherry-tree, standing in his father's orchard, to a young man, his friend, the latter went to gather the cherries : he had not, however, been long-irrTtre' tree befbre he was surprised by the farmer, who held a gun,:and threatened to shoot him unless he came down. • On the refusal of the young man to obey, the fanner fired, and missed him ; but firing a second time, wounded him, of which he died soon after. The farmer has been taken into custody, and is now i4l Reading Gaul.