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PI/ VAL INTIILLIOLNCE.
PCOILTSMOIItn, OCT•
Amy.' the Seahorm frigate, from the Mediter-
ranean, with a fleet of transports. &c. under con-
voy. Among them are tbe following, viz. ;'the
Ranger, Camperhem, &meta, 1 homes and Mary,
Lord Load, Venue, Heron, Mary Ann, and Monarch.
Sailed His Majesty's ship La Fhehe, on a cruise
of Havre.—Wind N.W.
TLYMOVTLI, OCT. `..?2.
L'Asele, which arrived last evening from the
, Black Rocks, has sprung her mainmast.
Arrived since, the Coniaiiee sloop; Cheerio. and
Scorpion brigs ; and His Majesty's ship Minotaur, 74
Capt. Mansfield, just come to anchor in the Bay.
By the Moselle sloop, Capt. Gordon, which ar-
rived last night, we have received satisfaauty in-
telligence of the squadron so long missing under
the command of Sir Richard Strachan. The gal-
lant Admiral was on the coast of America ; two of
his ships, the &Mei& and Brllona, with the Melomput
frigate, fell in with L'lMpetatens, 74 guns, one of
Guillaumez's squadron. chased her a long time,
and drove her on the rocks, where she was burnt.
The Metampus had taken 400 prisoners out of her,
who after wards attempted to rise upon the ship's com-
pany. From these prisoners it was learnt, that a
74 belonging to Guillaumez's squadron had foun-
dered in the late hurricane. Two others were gone
into the Chesapeak. and the French Admiral to the
Havanna. Sir Richard had hoisted his flag on board
the Triumph, :and sent the Cesar, to be repaired at
Halifax.
By the Mane ran, Capt. Hawes, whiCh arrived
this morning, dkpatches are received from Sir John
Warren, who was left with his squadron all well off
the Chesapeak, bn the 16th of September. Sir John
had several times been pretty close to the heels of
Guillaurnez, but he had always the good fortune to
escape him. The last information he received was,
that part of the French squadron had gone into the
I Chesapeak disabled in the late hurricane, And the
gallant Admiral was there on the look out ht them.
•NOTIIER LITTER, SAME DATE.
Came in the Minotaur man of war, from off
Cadiz ; the Cesar man of war, Sir R. Strachan, is
arrived at Fayal, with the loss of main-mast ; Mo-
Wile sloop of war, from the Capes of Virginia, with
dispatches ; she brings an account of the destrullion
of the Impetuses: French ship, of 74 guni, h^ the
Beilona and.Britrisle men of Vint, who drove her
on shore on the coast of America, and burnt her.—
Spanish gun4ugger of one gun, captured by the
Miser On frigate; Shepherdess (an American), Cord-
well, from Sierra Leone, for Cowes; and the Danish
vessels Dry Freorde, Peters; and the Aunitiii4,
Guellenon, from Malaga, for Tonaingea ; all de,
tained by the Liu privateer.
Passed up Channel, the Athrniennt man of war,
with a fleet of transports, from Ciibraltar.
EA IMOUTII, OCT. 21.
Arrived, yesterday, the Speeds, Stevens. from
Swansea ; 7:eson, Ntil, from Ulverston ; end
Sally. Rogers, from Carmarthen ; and Brothers,
Coats, from Bristol.
Arrived this day, the Princess Marl packet, Po-
csick, with Mails from New York and Halifax, 31
days from the latter place ; brings intelligence of
three French line of battle ships having put into
the Chesapeak. where Sir J. B. Warren was gone
after them. Admiral Berkley sent the packet with
dispatches to Fayal, for Sir R, Strachan, who was
then in the Triumph, having shifted his flag to her,
and sent the Cater to Halifax, where she arrived
with loss of main-mast. The packet arrived at
Fayal on the 9th instant, and Sir R. Strachan sailed
that day for Halifax. The Meuebester packet had
arrived at Halifax.—Wind S.W.
DEAL, OCT. Cft.
Came down from Sheerness, last night, His Ma.
jesty's ships Spartan, Crocodile, and hkrnye ; also,
from the River, the Abundance store-ship, and sailed
from the Downs this morning, with the outward-
bound, &c. under convoy for Portsmouth.
-Arrived the Fury bomb, from Portsmouth ; Com-
batant and roforauf prawns, from a cruise ; and the
Ilhasintr.gumbrig, Lieut.,Smithers, with a large ship
ender Ragusan colours, of 14 guns, and thirty men,
from Amsterdam, ter Smyrna, which site leas de-
tained.
Sailed from the Downs, this morning, a ship, tail-
ed L'hivention, bound to the river De La Plata, to
which place she has already made a most successful
voyage. Sbe is a beauraultast-miling vessel, mounts
:S guns, is well manned, and commanded by that
meritorious officer. Captain Lc Breton.
coal, OCT. 17.
The arrival of an American ship, the Marbles.
of and from Norfolk, Fawn, has put us in posses-
sion of some interei•ing information. She sailed
from Norfolk on the 2d ult.—Previous to her de-
parture, His Majesty's ship Cescicater had arrived
there in a very disabled condition, in order to be
hove down and repaired. eihe had got on there
on one of the Capes of Virginia, and received such
injury, that the Captain, finding the exertions of his
crew incompetent to her preservation at sea, bore
away fir Norfolk. A French line of battle ship
and a frigate had also arrived there disrnasted, the
day beicre the Martha sailed—they smut past.of stse
squadron, which had been on the coast of Africa,
and sobsequently in the West Indies. On the 3d
ult. the Murtha spoke an English line-of-baitle ship,
to which she communicated the information we have
stated. The Martha was bound for Liverpool with
naval stores.
The Cherry, Has Si LAD, from Liverpool for
New York, foundered at sea on the t7th ult. crew
saved.
Not a Capital . drawn on the SeconeDay
of Drawing, which somewhat extraori

Prize
irass.ng, ich is idinAry.
The next Day of Drawing will be no Tuesday-, the
4th of November. %IVheel contains the follow-
ing Capital Prizes:—`L of ilusgOol. ;2 of 10,Q001. ;
3 of 5,01/01 ; 5 of 1,0001. ; and 7 of Sohl•
Hoansatr and Co. are selling Tickets and Shares,
warranted undtawn, at the same prices as before
the Drawing began. I lORNbIY and Co. beg lease
to *mitre the public, that there are a very few
'Pickets and Shares remaining to be sold, but as
long as any remain, tiny may be had at their old
established State Lottery Offices, 26, Cornhill ; 52,
Charing-Cross ; and St. Mnikiret's Hill, Borough.
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• POLICE.
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'No business was dote yesterday at the Martsion-
House.
OVILDN•LIL.
Beere Mr. ellefeween SCHOLIY.
Two Cyprians, named Mary and Elivibed Gerrard-
. rhattf, stood charged with stealing a silver watch '
from one of their paramours, who stated, that a
little after twelve o'clock on Thursday tight, pas-
sing with his friend and put-companion, through
Cloth-Fair, they met with the Prisoners, and pro-
posed accompanying them home ;• thai he pulled
out his wa:ch to see what was the hour. when Mary
snatche.4 the watch, and gave it to Elizabeth, %lio
immediately ran away with it, She was shortly
alter taken, and, though both were searched, the
watch was not found.
Elizabeth was, a few days since, before the
Court by the name of...feht,sorr, on a charge of
cheating a grocer in Long-lane, Smithfield, and
swallowing tour half-guineas; and was then dis-
charged upon her second ex untriation. under some
doubts of her guilt ,• on the present occasion
too, she had again the good fortune to escape
committal for the felony, through some prevarica-
tion on the part of the Prosecutor, who stated, that
be was not intoxicated ; btst the parish constable,
who took the Prisoners, said, he and his companion
were very much intoxicated.
The Prisoners were, however, committed
to
Br i dewell.

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WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, OCT. 24.
Refers WILLIAM MAINWARINO, Est. Choir/sox, end
a numerous Bench of Justires of the Peace for the
Cue, and Liberties of IVestninoter.
Ileorseasass Corm.- was indided for assaulting•
James Wearing Childe, on the 13d of April last.
Mr. KNAPP, as Counsel for the Prosecution,
stated, that this prosecution was not persevered in
so twitch from any material injury done to the Pro-
secutor's person, as to exculpate his chars ter from
the vile aspersions thrown out upon it by the De-
fendant at the bar. The Prosecutor was a young
man, an artist, and made a respedable liveli-
hood by imparting his profession of a painter, in
the iintrudion ut young people; and for this
reason, particnlarly, it was necessary his cha-
rades should be preserved free and uncontami-
nated by the blast of malice or calumny.—
The Defendant, he continued, was a butcher,
who, on the evening of the day mentioned in the in-
didment, between nine and ten o'clock, came to the
White liaise Public-house, in the Strand, where the
Prosecutor, with tome friends. was spending the,
evening. He pined them, and atter sitting awhile,:
the Defendant tapped the Prosecutor on theahoulcier,
and taking him out of the room, told him, that he-
was under an obligation to him ; for that on the an-'
tecedent Saturday night, while be, the Prcsecutorm
Was drunk, he, the Defendant. had seen him
safe home. The Prosecutor said; it was all a mis-
take, and they returned to the company. -The Dee.
fendant then said, befote all the people present.,
~I'll be d—d if you are not the man. You led
me through several dark lanes and alleys, and
wanted to commit an unnatural crime with me."
A senile was the result, and the Prosecutor was as-
saulted by the Defendant. The former protested
his innocence, and the falsity of such an accusation,
and afterwards made his complaint before the Ma-
gistrates at Bow-street. It was not, however, the
mutat that he complained of, but the foul and
scandalous aspersions which had been thrown upon
his charader, from which he wished to be excul-
pated, and to stand forward again in the estimation
of the world, an innocent but an injured indi-
vidual.
Mr. GURNEY, for the Defendant, said, that he
was instruaed, by his Chart, thus publicly to state,
in open Court, that he was now sensible that he was
most completely mistaken in charging the Prosecu-
tor with such an offence.
After some consultation with respell to the De-
fendant's apologising in the Public Papers, it was
agreed, he should personally acknowledge his error
in open Court. When he declared,-0 Ido not
really think you are the man, and I wholly ac-
quit you of the imputation."
The Jury, accordingly, found a verdid of ac-
quittal.
Gratis Smith was arraigned upon three indid-
mesas, for stealing three pewter pint pots, the pro.
perty of tome publicans. Being consiaed of the
first, he pleaded gushy to the rest, and was sentenced
to 14 days imprisonment, in the Home of Corree-
-tion, upon each offence. He had been already six
months in confinement, and was represented to have
been a reputable watchmaker, with a wife and four
children. and, failing in his circumstances, was sup-
posed to have committed this theft through neces-
sity. lie WAI a decent-looking, well-dressed man,
about 50 years of age.

The General Pere( oi. from New Orleans for Li-
verpool, has put int() Pensacola, leaky, and in
distress.
On Thursday, about three o'clock in the after-
noon, a most dreadful fire happened at a farm,
called the Fir Trees, at Baliall Temple, in War-
wickshire. Such was the tremendous havock of the
flames, that a barn, a wheat and Geist rielia, a lane
quantity of hay and clover, and other property of
considerable value, were entirely consumed before
the 61 ( could be stopped.
On Friday se'nnight, a signal gun was fired on
board the Salleadur del Mande, flag-ship. in liamoaze,
and the yellow flag hoisted, as a signal for an tie.
cation. Weed, the mutineer, attar praying some
time in his birth, with the chat lain of the ship, at
eleven o'clock was led forth for execution, along the
gangway, to a platform erected on the forecastle.—
e attended by the clergyman and provost.
marshal ; when ha came to the platform, the rope
Was reeved round his neck, and, after praying some
time. the fatal bow gun fired, and he was launched
into eternity. He persisted in hi; innocence of the
crime for which he was gUirla to suffer, but said he
deserved death for his other crimes, which were nu-
merous. hie appeared very penitent, and declared
he died in peace with all mankind. Atter hanging
the usual time, his rernaias werelowered down in-
to a shell, and carried ashore heir:torment. All
the boats of thEfiret, roanueskand armed, atunteled
the execution.

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