The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-29 00:00:00

DUBLIN, MARCH 24.

A Privy Council wat held at the Castle, ost
I uesday last, by his Excellency, when di Vd: iety of
routine business of state was transacted.
The seals were put 'in Commission, in conse-
quence of the Lord Chancellor being .under the ne-
cessity of departing upon business to England.
The Commissioners for the Seals ar.: Lord Chief
Justice Kilwarden, Lord Chief Baron Avonmore,
and Lord Chief Justice Norbury. The Seals to be
in the possession of the first mentioned Nobleman.
On Monday last, Aldermaa Sir William Wor-
thington waited on the Secretary at War at the
Castle, and : esigned to his Excellency the command
of the Loyal liberty Rangers, on account of his
bad state of health.

WINCHESTER, MAlca 23.
The three foreign soldiers, who were left for exe-
cution in this city, at the last Assizes, for forging
and uttering false notes, purporting to be of the
Portsmouth Bank, having first obtained a respite tine
seven days, through the merciful intervention of a
gallant Nobleman, who is charaaeristically known
as the friend of poor prisoners, have since procured
an unlimited respite during his Majesty's pleasure,
through the favourable report of the Judge by
whom they'Were tried. It appears that doubts have
arisen concerning the competency of the evidence on
which they were charged with having fabricated
these notes, as also concerning their knowledge of
their being spurious at the time when they uttered
them. •
Of the above-menticned for, igners, one is an Hun%
garian, the other two are Austrians. They all ori-
gieally served in the Imperial army, till being taken
prisoners in Italy by the French, they were, with
others of the same description, sold to the Spanish
Government, which sent them to garrison Fort Ma-
hon in Minorca. On the conquest of this island by
our forces, these men were again employed in the
cause for which they had originally been engaged,
being formed. into a British corps under Col. Stuart
and other Officers, consisting of more than 1000
men, called the Queen's German Regiment. Soon
after this, they were sent into Egypt, where they
greatly distinguished themselves, particularly in the
memorable battle of Alexandria. In this they sup-
ported the brave 42d regiment of Highlanders, and
one of them, Anthony Lutz, who himself was tried
at our assizes a twelvemonth ago, recovered the
standard of Bonaparte s Invincibles, which Serjeant
Sinclair had before possessed. One of the prisoners
also, Seijeaut Power, received a pistol bullet in his
body from a French dragoon, and another of them,
Arnes, a cut upon his head.

At the Lancaster Asiizes, which ended on Fri-
day last, an anion was brought by Mr. KIRKPA
T RICK, of Liverpool, attorney, agains... the Propri-
etors of the London Mail Coach, for damages, as a
compensation for an injury he sustained by the over-
turning of the Mail, on the London 'road, in conse-
quence of which his arm was broke, and he was
otherwise considerably bruised. The Plaintiff ob-
tained a verdia., with t.:501. damages. This acci-
dent was occasioned not by any negligence in the
Proprietors of the coach, or any deficiency in
its
appointments, but was owing solely to the drunken-
ness and carelessness of the driver, and shews the
extreme importance of being oerfealy assured of the
steadiness and sobriety of all persons who are entrust-
ed with such employments.

Lieutenant General the Duke de Richelieu,
grandson of the famous Marshal of that name, has
been appointed Military Governor of Odipa, in
Russia,

The Marquis de LUCCRESIKT, the Prussian Am-
bassador, was born at Lucca, in -Italy, and as a
disciple of VOLTAIRE, was received as:a Lite; arl
Companion at the Court of the GREAT FREPEKICK :
he has been a Minister of State to the latt and to
the present Kit4a of Psc.si A ; and was, in 1990,
sent as Ambassador to France. •
Letters received on Saturday 'states, that the
Merchant vessels in the ports of Dunkirk, Calais,
and Boulogne, put to sea ott Thursday last, in ccnse-
quence of an assurance
.from the French Govern-
ment, that they might pri*eed on their respcZtive
destinations with satety.
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