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TO TEL 1[oe&•

To the KNIGHTS, CITITENSidied BURGESSES of the
Honourable HOUSE of CONS, of GREAT BRI-
TAIN and IRELAND, to th.„4:lnted Pertinent* as-
sembled :
The PETITION at ALEXANDER STEPHENS, at the
Himourabk llootty of the Middle Temple, and Park
. House, is the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
. Humbly 'hews*, •
not certain rename lately serving die office of Grand Ja-
iling* tor the county of Middlesex, to the number of about
Igoe, Miring visited the House of Correction fur the said
- conuomd called the Cull Bath Fields Prison, on
a, N the ad, in the yea: of our Lord one
sight hosilisid and *even, between the hours of
sieves awl twelve la the forenoon :
They there discovered, that all the leaves found by them
(emelt of which ought to vitamin sixteen ounces, and to be
doitributed daily, at ten o'clock in the morning) were greatly
deficient M pu,ot of quantity, us will be seen from the summed
dittement on the part of our of the Magistrates of the City
of Loudon
That the prima weight demanded and used open the pre-
sent occasioo, fur trylog the loaves in rotation, proved also
ellaßeient, as was fully demonstrated in both instances on the
day, when e iniParea with the stauilard at Guildhall,
'he pre-mote, first, of Sir William L.-41:ton, Knight, then
d Mayor; and Accused' of Ruisard Phillips, Esq. then
Ets
d still one of the Sheriffs of London and Midamex, as well
lof four of the late Grand Jury ; aid, 'moreover, that the
seeks of the said prime newel/Om and frauduli nt.
Copy of a Vetter frays Ile. Shea Phillips to William Main-
**mini E.q. Clialtmem of the Quarter &mime, he.
0 Sts.—l outrider it a date *Mai I owe the public t..
bans you, as Chairman of the Quarter Sess,ons, and, I
Wien, ewe of the Comatttee fur conducting the business
=ape that Ids
jasuri;reos;nttuesicleoUtthliltl upped
tiliewrtmlterlyi
th
..... .., that 1 witnessed tKe ciounination ofi
the pond id.. he weighing meat and other provisions in
die Has.. of thltirettion, Cold Bath Fields, when it was
tumid to he ammlealladedba if en ounce too light ; and that on
' Man MGM which were found in the same prison,
bi Oftrp, they appeared also to be considerably
too see mitlor• of them being from as mince and a half
magma
to two mows um* weight. I should compromise the feel-
ings which I basreserseds elm respectable m y of the
agility of Millis,'el were to omit to milisetrtriL formal
commemicatiota* .. I have the honour to lie, Sir,
0 Tam most übediest humble scream,
. R. PHILLIPS, iilserill."
•u Bridge-street, Nos. la, 1007.
.' To W. Mainwariog, Esq."
You: Petitioner, together nab other Gentlemen, late
Members o*tiie Grand Jury, also discovered :
That rese.ml of the liege subjects of this realm were eon"-
seined to cloys mostiedy. an tells destitute of fire, right feet
three incise. I mg, by six feet tons ibehes setae, ',.., of dim
to 1/4)311, situ. ugh sick; ao.ne, if nut all, of these acre in-
buccal ill point 'fact, me all o ere then innueeet in point of
L:.v tieing data under the pretext of re-examination,
suet roasinocal uncoodemsied by the legal joilitinenf of
thaw peers, or c a the act nsatory rostra of a UMW J ant.
Of this somber roue a mother, • ilsolgliter, nail a sou, 4
credits:4e air ac; the two fortotor, is our cell, so IIIIII•
Me dastobe es ed to n rontintial current of *sterns; air.
't the pow lity r - ecru - the -
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SILPIIENS.

FOREUJN TELLIGEACE.

MAI Lll.—: Further extracts.)

COI,6IIIIAGIN, JAN. 19.
it sprawl', that as early as the month of ly
him, it was soprosed. in the. Isle of France, that a
war must a last be unavoidabie between Denmark
and England. nu which account an embargo was
hid as all the Datii.h ships lying there, a hope is
therefore entertained that by this measure of the
French t foveraincat there. many ships of our mer-
chants and trading irompaisies will escape being
raptured.
By the fitting out of the Danish fleet, orders for
whirl' have berm scut dorm to Portsmouth, it is
very manifest what was the real motive for the rob-
bery committed here ; could any doubt remain
concerning it ? The English, at tint, boasted they
had ships enough, and only wanted to detaiu our's,
that they might not he employed against them.
To encourage our manufactures, inul annoy the
enemy, the following three turners, have been
proposed as the tuost efficient :

I. Prohibition of t►e we and importation of nny Fag Mali

/1. The iLtruductioa of • aational dress.
111. The cstahlisliuseat of a great pr.vateering cookout'',
1111- privati ere wl should keep at oo grim dist/sore
faros ea. ct!lrr, so as to be able to come to each other's
aid u. the lust cria E. itg, h 0 which zucans Oar, might be
taubleil to caplase the cuatvyiug ship, and all she vessels
toiler its ,Llll, Uy.

Th;s, it is stated in the plan, mieht easily be ef-
fected, if the shi9 of war I.e an:leiter' at the mule
time o,t the heiol, the ster.i, anti on both sidrs,
by a number of prnateers, ft:eh kiiiuir from
20 to .30 1.; tor. The ellaSiB Of Norway litid the
West 6411:111 Spa. are the ;wilt rooer places fur
ilsch privattees to cntise in, This plan cremes
ire= 0 twine ulliver.

BRITISH PRESS OFFICE,
Monday Morning, Taro o'Clock.

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.
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PARIS, ?CD. 3.

The Kiag of England, in his Message to Par-
liament, complains that the Court of Vienna luis
declared war against hint, without having made
known its motives or stated its yomplaints. As there
are in this Message several unfounded assertions,
we suppose that this is equally inaccurate. The
following paragraph is literally extracted•from the
dispatches of the:Court of Vienna, which we must
presume its Minister communicated to the Court of
London:—

" The Court of London has only answered by the refusal
of the utediatiou of Russia, a refusal further confirmed by
the exPedilloil to Zeeland, a measure in ‘Mlatitio of the
rights of neutral a:thous, and accompanied by official deelm
ratioas diametrical!y opposite to the pi Melees adopted by
other Courts."

It is ariureilly impossible to wake a complaint
more ecpliciily.

FED. 5.

The Envoy Extraordinary of Persia, who had
been in Paris for seve:4l months, has returned to
Ispahan.

rrs. 6.

The Emperor and King has raised to the rank of
a Princeep Aladeinniselle Teacher, a relative of the
Empress. This Princess has married the reigniw;
Prince of Ahreteherg. The marriage was cele-
brated Lilt Monday at the apartments of the Queen
of Holland, by the Cardinal Arehhi•imp of Dons,
iu presence of Their Majesties the Emperor and
Empress.

A notice has keen lately issued, placing all Sar-
dinian vessels in the ports of the- empire auder
embargo.

YEBRIIARY 7.

Last Thursday her Highness Antoine" ,Mortit,
niece of the Grand Duke of Berg, sa4 .declared
a,Princess, in the evening married the Prince of
Hohenzollern. A magnificent ball was ;riven upon
the occasion, which was honoured with the presence
of Their Majesties the Emperor and Einpress."---
11:41$fete, one of the most splendid that has been
gietn, pre►ented an enchanting coup (Neil.
This day there was a grand parade in the Court

the Thudieries. 'f he Imperial (:ward and the
ricimei of Paris wanteuvred in presence of His
"Majesty. •

FEBRUARY P.

The Diplomatic Corps yesterday repaired to the
Palace of the They were introduced
before maw to an audience with the Emperor and

King, with the usual
'event' presentations took place.
The brig Jidunina, arrived at Dlaye the 3d 'of

At this liudiwice

ebruary, reports, that on the 33d of January she

rat met by a French squadron. in lat. 29. She
spoke with the ship of the line, Le Sourrein, one
of tie squadron, the Captain of %Inch gave her
Amp refreshment.

The French privateer Josephine has captured,
on Malta, and carried to Majorca, the Catherine,
Capt. Thoma.s Beckfort, of 300 toils, lades' with
cotton, sugar, bte. which had been vibited by an
Englieh brig.

FEE:WART 0.
'There was a circle yesterday in the grdniforart-
tnent at the Palace of the Tbuilleries.

}iii Majesty set out at nine o'clock in the morn-
ing to hunt in the woodaelMorfmitaine.

AMITERDAM. FEB. n.
The sale of the cargoes of the sequestered ‘essels
ill CUTIIII.OII2 immediately. Colonial produce is
ia the rise; but enlightened and sensible merchants
resign tlicinnelv..s rheerfdlly to these sacrifices and
privations, in hopes that the measures which cause
them ail lead to the independence and liberty of
commerce and the seas.

FRVNICIrORT. FEB. 2.

The hereditary Prince of NVirteallierg it to be
shoal}' married to.the PrineeisCiiarlotte. daughter
of the King of Bavaria. The French and Spiniiib
officers at. I lamlnirgh buy op all the maps of Swe-
den. All COI II Ili umwation between that country and
France is entirely interrupted.

PI.TERSIIIIIIGII, JAW. 16.
The General in Chief of the linind Army.
Commit linxbortleu. is arrived here.

Mince LabanoT liotowsky, knorn by the seve-
ral missions which he tilled at the eul of the late
war, .and one of the persons who the Treaty
of Tilsit, is appointed, Military Governor-Gene:nil
of St. Petersburgh, end General Dawn de Moller-
Sakowelski, Inspeettir-General of Artillery. in,llue
place of Count Aniktrichejeff.—Thl Privy Caws-
calor, Count Strogonoff, is appoiuted Major-
General.

New Year's Day was celebrated here ins
splen-
did manner. Thew was a grail circle at t 'mut,
and a grand ball. The Emperor, and as the rest
of lite Imp-rial family, supped at • table of 300
coma The French Anshavailor, and other
lifieitthers of the Diplomatic Corp., wow present.
:tp off.e of lapi,lation has be. n formed here to
lode the cletits of Russ'..... &objects Lie! those of
rtilijeota it comista of : merchants, with

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY. Fsssoi►st 94.

At two o'clock this morning we rc elver! a regu-
lar seeie:, of Paris l'apers, from the ist to the 11th
instant: They contain the proceeding on the open-
ing of the session of our Parliament, with notes
uporsthe speeches in the debates upon the Address
to lii. Ma.msev in both Houses, but we have not
now time to notice them. BOX•PARTE continues
to elevate and wears his family, by extending its
connexions among the ancient Hones of Germany.
The niece of his brother-in-law, MVIAT, has been
lately married to the Prince of Nolte PIZOLLERN,
and a relatise of Madame BONAPIATZ, to the
Prince of A HREMBERG.

1, vessel, that fell in with the Rochfbrt sciaadron,
states, that it was in Ist. ,29, on the 4234 of January.
If this account be correct, it was farther a-head of
Sir sIONN DUCIMOrriI than we were taught to
believe. The Coates, it was said, saw the enemy
on the V4tli, in hit. 33 ; and on the 47th gave no-
tice to the Admiral, then otf Aladeira. The intel-
ligence Isom St. Petemburgh does not come down
later than the. Wilt last, and throws no new light
on the policy of the Northern Courts. Some
military t have taken place in the higher
coinatands of the Russian army. General Bux-
110VDEN, the Commander-in-Chief, has arrived at
St. Petersburgh.

A Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance
hue been concluded betwecif this country and
Sweden, by which, we tnidenuand, England is to
furni►h Ills SWEDJAI 'MAJESTY with
ist, &merit nail a the Ltie.
sd, Twenty thousand Ilritsh troops, with which a carps
St 15,900 select Swedish truer are to at t.

3.1, A Subsidy of iuo,oool. lrcr twoutlt, durisg tbe coed-
punnet uf the war.

lit cotis;tlcration of these succours, Sweden un-
dertakes, on her part, to make common cause with
England to the last extremity, and to am render
the island of 111ortrand, near Gottetiburgh, to the
English, as a &Tut for the naval and military force
to be employed in the Baltic ; Mot-tested ponsesses
an excellent harbour, and, from its strength, is
termed the Gibraltar of Sweden. It will be fur-
ther inepokant as commanding the entrance of
the Cattegat.
Every num in Sweden capable of hcraring arms,
between the am of 16 and 60, to he called into
spir:t of cathitriaem has burst through
the ,• mate), awl all considerations of the dangers
and privations of the a ar, ate lost in Anticipations
of the glory anti advantages of its result, be fat at
leastas refers to the invasion of the Itussians.

The Swedes are forming magazines of brood, fo-
rage, &c. at Illelsingburgh and other parts of Sca-
nia, where it is understood the British army is to
be mtatiotted, to appose an expected invasion o
the French and Dutch from Zealand. The provi-
sioning of our army in Sweden will be attended
with considerable difficulty, the country tieing so
deficient in the necessary supplies, that much of
theta would necessarily go from hence.
The principal carps of the Swedish army in
Finland was at lielsingfors, the works of • which
they are incessantly employed in strengthening.
Magazines are also forming there, and reinforce-
ments of Loops are on their pass►ge f.oin Stock-
holm, &c. The fortress of Louisa has also beat
strength ued and provisioned fur a siege. The

Militia of the country liar been assembled at
'flak abtlius.

The Swedish Cabinet, in their application for
naval force from this country, expressed aprefer
elite for the ships taker► from Denmarki-arise*
calculmed for the navigation of that sea.
Mr. THORNTON, the Ambassador to the
Swedish Court, hus left Gottenhurgli to attend IN
NIA, 'Are at Stockholm.

It doe* not appear either from the communica,
Lions of M. Ant.EssEat; or of Mr. TUORDITOIN to
Ministers, that the Russians bad at the slide of tin
last advice from Stockholm passed the Kynunene
river. The advanced corps of the army which me.
naced Swedish Finland, was at that period at Pre.
dericidiaut, and the Staff was at NN'yburg, bat Cam.
lie was so destitute of provisions, that the supphrs
were sent by sea from Petersburgh.
Part of the Russian flotilla accompanies their ar-
my iii its progress towards the Swedish frontiers.

A report of a partial change in the Cabinet •as
circulated on Saturday, and continued to grim
ground yesterday. The Duke of PORTLAND, sad
Mr. CANNING, it is said, are to retire, and the
latter gentleman is to be succeeded in the Foreica
Department by Marquis WaxLest.sv. The sue-
ctasor of the Duke of PORTLAND is not mentioned,
A difference of opinion upon the mode of the de-
fence and justification of the Danish business, is
one of the alleged causes of the breaking up of
the constitution of eU the rigosir. Mr. Csarttwo's
sneers against the old morality have, we understand,
given offence in a certain quarter. It is to the e!4
morality that the King of ENGLAND owes the
safety of his Th:oue, and every subject of England
the liberty and comforts that he nJw enjoys. It
was the old 'scrota! that made England what die
is—the last remaining prop and stay of Europe—
the last harrier against tha arms and bonny
of BONAPARTE. It RAE the were morality that
overturned the throne of the Boutaows, and
extended the revolutionary deluge to the re-
motest corners of the European Continent.—
The old morality is no doubt old fashioned,
but it is strong and sturdy, and with care will out-
live the mew morality, and all it+ proselytes andvo-
taries. To treat the moral system, to which Eng-
land is more indebted than to any thing else fur
all her greatness and glory, with levity and con-
tempt, is no proof of a hberal and comprehensiie
mind. Our constitution and our laws are not the

worse of being old. There is something venerable
and sacred in the rust that encrusts public institu-
tions, which none but a mischievous and puerile
hand would profane. None other would tear
down our old morality, to follow the maxims
of the modern French school. For fifteen years
has England fought with its best blood, and ex-
hausted its richest treasures, against the contagion
of French example, and yet that which we re-
sisted with so much force, we are now urged to
pursue. Does BONMPARTS meditate an attack
upon Denmark, Ministers plume themselves upon
anticipating him; does BONAPARTS itlitle mon-
strous decrees against neutral commerce, Ministers
follow the example, and justify themseb•ea upon
the fidelity of their imitation. This new morality
will not do. It is too late to think of fighting
France with her own weapons; and our owe,
though old, are still too good and valuable to
be thrown away. France has fifteen years the
start of us on the revolutionary course, and it
is now its vain for ns to attempt to beat her
upon that ground. The writers in Tiw Courier may
extol the vigour, the energy, and activity, of such a
system. They have only to advert to their own
works in that journal a few years since, when they
worshipped the Goddess of Risme, and sacrificed
at the shrine of the French Revolution. rut the
people of England are not to be easily laughed Qui
of their old morality. Being neither whimsical nor
capricious, they are net to be sneered out of %licit
old principles and habits.

Dispatches were seat off, last night, to Adminil
Lord Cots.rnowoon, in the Mediterranam.
We announced, in • former Paper, that Sir
SIDNEY SMITH has proceeded to the Brarils, ti
assume the command of the British squadron elf
South Americo. lie sailed on the 16th Lest from
the coast of Pert r,;al, in the Mbsotax:..
. The late order in France for calling out the Con-
scription of the year 1809, it is said. Las alarmed
Russia. The invasion of England is the mese as-
signed for this measure ; but Russia cannot forget
that the Grand Army which humbled her, and de-
stroyed Prussia, was assembled upon the same pre-
tence. A new levy of ere in 500 males, between
the ages of is and 43, list. it is said, been order, d
throughout the Russian Empire, and particular
privileges have been grunted to the serfs. or slaves,
on the Imperial deincfnes and chinch lands, who
enter the army before the Ist of May. A Council
of Military Inspection bas also Leto formes'. at the
howl of which the Grand Duke CoN,sTsN2ttna has
been placed, to superintend the organ;s dims of the
army, and regulate its gener.il apse intmeut and
supply. These regulations, bows.% er, inay hme
been made iu contempt/stir,' of the ear sit'',
Sweden. and net in consequence of jealousy of
France.

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u poser it> inning, vest during the severest ,
—dint t the kl-t itt • i
bust, so !artificial" waruith by mean s!Of hod, while the rem: "
ride ireitsw twavrel ail the caufurts of mopes roomy ward, IMJ
Path oecesiusai acres to fire.
That is oat of those toady crlls was closely ronfined a
*'signer of mite raiik, the Chevalier de Blau, mho, as we •
ease Witt, by oar of t' • lore, whik an immured, had
bay deproest of ti s reason, 4 who presented to your Pr-
teenier a ltleirierial ore his i. ,e• who after euterersisig with
em Free& mime time, through the key-hole, namable:l Pa
to eater. i
That M tb's place, iseielnally demists ler the improve-
•- • boat ire else masts of petty offenders, • female thesoore, ea
we have hermit, has ken lately debauched by the sou of the
Chid Jaikr, ue Gocernor, who then held se Mike of trust I:.
its the prisoo, sod has Wife had a child, now, nr at least '
lately, burtleasinne to the parAin of Kensington, in the
goaLty of kiidillwiat. Fe
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. .
That fear dobtois were shut up in this Houle of Co.. ei
tecilue, the only eiriarisniiieatiou between whom and the
• trarld, appear, to take plate ocossiewallyi by tato* of 'so all"
kmee-pstes, at upwards of eta feet distance from each °the, ,
with Jlllllot walkiog in at intervals,,so as to preclude coon- r
pialat ; and thit from the exatnlaatiolta a &pea, and also, 401
k a letter from him, boon in the reormesaion of yent l'eti-
Owners, tt ammo that ire was that sired& persona guilty of
robbay, end une.stural crimes. .1
And, lastly, that six inward persons,. klse Rills against
mamas had been throw" out by the Grand Jury, were draggrd Ci
Aron Coil Prieou, to Hirkes-hall, to open day, at
the Close of the sessions, first manacled, and then fastened to- c°
father bye rope, to be discharged by proelatuatiou. Ei
you: petitioner, titerrfure, conceiving that such gross
inehiusees of fraud, eoupteil with such as open ;lodation of
As Ivry, end can of the repress orders of ussion, see eel.
deloted to bring His klayerty's Governuwnt into contempt, Ity
abi rest an amserited odes ea our must excellent Coast'.
thaldwe also, the! if seek malprectiere were dr-
WOO in a casual sad afield survey, of Iris than ten hour in
Iderptlea, far greats shun we likely to be brought to light,
• br lb* inerr.entwa of the Greed Implost of the !Wagons, I
met humbly and earrnaly wilint this Iletionrabk House to
tale pre.asers into runsider.ition, and by • public and
open examiestion at its bar, n. any other mode afford such wi
',lief as may sass Melt A. STLPHENS