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ItArAL iNtELLldtyte.
rormitarte, Jain. ra.
Arrived. 'front - Hathisgs,

the Downs. the frnrren
Re7al Groove, Earl of .41frorgarenny, Htruy oldranroar
Werforti, and Ocean, East. India-.
anent tinder convoy of the Ti Noy of 90 guns, Rear,
dfniral Louis, Captain Argles; Eagle, of 74 guns.
Coils, ; Alagtrirnot, of 44 guns, Captain
Ifl,KeeKle ; and the Wraarossii, of 44 guns, Captain
,peeper[ nthlch ship %%ill take the India fleet to
Aim
arrived the Lilly sloop, with a large convoy
of coaxer", colliers, &c. and the Lion hired armed
stutter from a crnise 410. Havre: she fell in w:th sk)
vessel keel nppelmost of the Oars, and left her in
totes of an Isle of Wight sloop.
Bailed for Lisbon the Orphent frigate, Captain
Hill ; and Stierrlcurli btig, Lieutenant Robinson ;
r baker gun-brig, and Entre/we/sante cutter, on
cruises. Came into harbour the Plantagrnei.

JAN. 21.
Admiral Cornwallis sailed yesterday in the Vile
de Paris, for Portsmouth, to get sonic repairs to
her rudder ; also sailed this day for their station off
12shant, wider the command of Admiral Sir C.
Cotton, Britannia, Atlas, Courageous, Dreadnought.
Preece of Wales, Temernire, Queen, Defiance, War-
rior, and San Josef.
:there is a line of haute ship in sight from Berry
Head; standing to the Westward, supposed to be
the Ville dr Paris, going for Plymouth, having met
with the wind to the Eastward, bore up tor that
port. The Neater:, frigate remains.
'PLYMOUTH, JAN. St.

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Came in the Spanish ship, St. Anna Coqf.: rick,
fTfam Oronoko, for 13-u canna, eaptnred by the Endr•
aeio,, frigate ; also, the Sa,,ta Thensat, --•-•, from
the River La Plata, captured by the Ajax.
Sailed the Fame privateer, and Anybron and Pallas
frigates, on a cruise.—Wind easterly.
SEAL, JAN. 22.
Last night the Ihron.)ny brig transport, from Lon-
don, for Portsmouth, ran on the Sandwich Flats,
neat the second battery. If the weather proves
moderate. she will be got off.
Remain in the Downs, the Utrecht, Imitrx4tr,
Zak-dent men of war ; Greyhound, Castor, and
frigates ; Arab, illonso, Dart, Zepb.iir, naivete,
sad Cum', sloops of war ; Zebra, Disc-emery, Vel-
ar**, Heels, and Laeyiy bombs ; Bearer, Thrasher,
rtrklet, Bouncer, Jacked, and the Rifleman gun-
brigs, and a fleet of armed defence ships.
sets., JAN. 21.
A convoy is appointed to take the ships from hence
for Portugal. to sail on the 27th instant.
Another violent gale, more dean:Sive in its con-
sequences than the one mentioned in our last. came
on-at this port horn the South East, on Saturday af-
ternoon. and continued the whole of that night.—
Four river sloop', with coals, See. were sunk in our
harbour : one of them is an entire wreck ; and a
rear deal of damage is dune to the craft in general.
. . unately the wind had a tendency from off the
e, or its areas on the shipping would, in all
bility, have been dreadful.
~. Last night, the Penncf Wales, Graham, bound
orta
Scarborough to London, put in here with the
Of her anchor and cable.

The Lords of the Admiralty have promoted
Lieutenant Gicaser, who behaved so gallantly this
war, in a spirited anion, in as armed. vessel, on the
coast of Holland, where he was dreadfully wounded
and made prisoner, to the rank of Commander. He
was the officer that made a voyage of discovery from
Botany Bay, in the Southerp Pacific Ocean, a few
years since.
tNTII•CT or A TATTZI 1110N1 GALWAY, JAN. 14.
" The weather. these few days past, has been very
tirzstuous. Last night, in particular, it blew a
hurricane from S. W. in consequence of
-ithkh the Troubrrige (one of His Marsorv's hired
Crated ships), of 26 guns, Capt. Bev Afro, dragged
from her moorings towards Hare Island, and would
have posititelv get on shore, were it not for the gale
abating about seven o'clock this morning ; a brig
also dragged a considerable distance. -However.
we an happy to mention, that no damage of any
uonsequence has taken place. We dread inelan-
`ehtily accounts from the sea coast. The tide rose
eonsiderably higher than usual, by which several
bosses and stores on the quays were inundated.
.." The sloop in which il.c cress, of the Swedish
ship, wrecked in Connem4.4, were put, for the pur-
pose of riding quarantine, was driven on shore on
Renville Point, near New Harbour, in the above
gale. We are glad to learn that none of the people
were lost."
Oa the 7th inst. at three 4.1.1. the gallint Jobs,
Owe's% Mester, from Liverpool, laden with rock
salt, for Kinsale, was driven through stress of wea-
ther en Cardigan Bar : fortunately, all the hands
were saved by the spir,,ed and. praiseworthy exer-
tions of the fishermen of St. Dogmel's, who ven-
tured through. the amazing surf at the risk of their
lives. The sea breaking entirely over the vessel,
_ soon metered. her a mere wreck, and part came on
shore. She had been on the coast of Ireland ; hut,
experiencing a heavy gale of wind in Bantry Bay,
was obliged to put to sea with the loss of cable and
anchor ; softer which she was driven about for up-
urardeaf twenty days, the crew suffering great hard-
ships, owingto continued gales ; and, being short
of provisions, -for the last nrne days• they subsisted
principally on potatoes, having no bread left. At
the trine of her making Cardigan, her sails were all
• split, ber bowsprit carried away. no provisions
whatever on board. and, to add in their misfortunes,
the Master had one of his ribs broken, and his knee-
pan displaced.
The Kent Fire Insurance Company, at aGeneral
Meeting of Proprietors hoiden at Sittingbourne yes-
•terday, with-a -liberality which cannot fail to pro.
mote the Instaution, voted a- Gift of 6001. to Mr.
Pori, a hue suffererby the destruction by fire of his
•Corto Windmill, upon Barmirg I leath. It was re-
presented by the sufferer that he fully intended to
complete a Policy which he had given instructions
for, hutthe Premium upon which he had negleeled
to-pay ; analit'appeared, froth the opinion of a very
eminent Counsel. upon a -fair statement of the case,
that the sufferer had not any claim upon the Institu-
Abut.

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iiIitCRIONESS OP itOLIINGLIM.
The late Marchioness of Rockingham was the
dauester and sok heiress of Mr. Bright, formerly of
Badsworth, in Yorkshire, and was born in August. 1
1796. Her mother
.was of the Lowther family, anti
afterwards married the laze Sir John Ramsdell of
Byratn. Bart. of which marriage the present Sir
John Ramsden, and Mrs. Weddell, the nearest and
dearest friend of her beloved sister, are the only mar
riving issue. At Byram some of her early years
were spent, till the beginning of the year 1752,
when she WAa married to the late most nob!,
Charles Marquis of Rockingham. With him she
enjoyed as much of happiness as is attainable in this
mortal state, during the space of upwards of thirty
years. In the month ofinly, 1782, their union was
dissolved by the much-lamented death of that great
and gond man. He was, in the true sense of the
words, a Stateonee and a Patriot, but he was no
Courtier, and he soared above the petty arts of in-
triguing Politicians. The good of his country was
his objet ; and to the attainment of this objed his
course was uniformly directed. In the words of the
Minister, Mr. Grenville, when the Marquis of R.
was placed at the head of Administraion, in 1765,
" He was much too honest a man to remain long
the Minister of this country." His death was con-
sidered as a national loss ; his tomb was bedewed
with the tears of his country; and never was there
more universal concern and respell manifested for
the loss and character of an individual, than ap-
peared in the conduit and countenances of the inha-
bitants of Yorkthire, and particularly of York, at the
performance of his funeral obsequies.
The death of her Lord was the severest stroke of
Providence to his afflided widow. l ler Christian
fortitude and piety could alone have supported tier,
dining her long and violent struggles with the
weakness of nature ; and they at length restored her
mind to a stare of meek composure, and submissive
resignation to the will of that Almighty Being, in
whose hands ate the issues of life and death, who
does not willingly :Aid the children of men, and
who makes all events subservient to the final good
of his faithful servants For many years previous to
this event, her Ladyship had mixed but little with
the world ; subsequently to this period, her life has
been passed in almo.t secluded retirement ; with
some few exceptions, she has been known only by
the goodness of her works. Ist 1785, she purchased
a beaotiful seat at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, from
ti.. Talbot family, where she had constantly resided
rill the day of her dissolution, the 19th of December,
1804. Her death is an irr7parable loss to her ds-
mestics, her few highly honoured friends, and the
numerous and adlided poor of her neighbourhood.
Her Ladyship possessed a strong comprehensive
mind : her judgment was solid, clear, and discri-
minative: and she possessed an uncommon faculty
of quickly perceiving, and most justly appreciating
the charaillers of men. Her political principles were
those of her Lord—they were founded on the ge-
nuine principles of the Constitution, from which she
sever swerved in the slightest degree. She held is
abbinsoce the modern dottrine of 64 eais'ing
ewortaseto," which she saw constantly prostituted to
the worst of purposes ;. the temporising plea for not
doing what ought to be done, and for doing what
ought not to be done ; the pitiful pretence fur the
most shameful deviations from public principle,
and for the most disgraceful breach of public pro-
fessions : and it washer favourite maxim, that truth,
hrzour, and integrity, were the hest system of po.
lic y, both for nations and ; V 1.11)41s.
In P'

The

a th.Nalogy her Lad As deeply read.
writer of this article h.., seldom met with Any p7rson
of more exr-nsive information, and more coi r
views on those subjels that are conneeted with thy:
best interests of mankind. She was a firm friend tii
the Church of England, but without the slightest in-
tolerance. She was a steadfast believer, but no
bigot. Her piety was exalted, her devotion fervent,
but a stranger to enthusiasm. 'ler humility was in-
deed lowly, bordering, at times, on despondency ;
but the evening of her days was cheered with the
animating rays of Christian hope. Her charity Was
unbounded, and her loss will be most severely felt
by the poor of Hillingdon. Her last moments, and
her last words, were direfted to the supply of their
wants and the augmentation of their comforts. Her
liberal hand le't her not much to dispose of at her
death. In the disposition of her affairs, her first
ohjea was the poor, and 'ter afilided servants, to
whom she hiss bequeathed liberal legacies or annui-
ties. To a few friends she has left expressive to-
kens of her regard, and the residue iif her property
to her first and dearest friend, Mrs. Weddell.
The above imperfeß outline of the charaaer of a
most excellent and valuable woman is sketched with
the striitest regard to truth, which has I.r sTainesi
the ready pen of gratitude. Unmerited praise is
useless to the dead, and offensive to the living; bat
to commemorate the real excellence of departed
worth may be of use to surviving friends, by exciting
virtuous imitation. The titles of Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Rockingham are extina, but the me-
mory of them long survive ; and long, very long,
may the virtues that adorned their characters con-
tinue to adorn and dignify the prcs-nt and future
Representatives of the Goble house of Wetitworth.

On Wednesday last, the extraordinary nnmbee of
five lambs was taken alive (torn an ewe. beknging
to Mr. Hoistwoon, of PiLtie, in Cucktield. which
had been killed on account of a disorder called the
staggers, with which she was suddenly sleeted.
On the I ith inst. about two o'clock, the B idge
Hill hariers, in beating for a hare, found a fox
in the cover adjoining to. lee Park, near Little-
bourn, Kent, which ICRTAteIy took oil to
Knowland Shaves, from thence to Wingharn, by
Rattling Court and Southward, where he ran for
Adisham Downs to Ileden Wood, and after making
two large rigs round Ileden Pork, crossed over
11.4rhatn Downs, and made through Bourne Pad-
dock for Gorsley Woos t. Pheasant,' Hall,
where, after several circles, he doubled, and ran
back again through Got ;ley Wo,d, to Whitehall
Wood, and turned off and rrorici the mad to Bi.
front ; at this place, after A most extraordinary run
of tour bouts, the latter half hour by moon-ligh:,
he was lost, owing to the night having cisme on, and
prevented the possibility of perceiving him. Out of
upwards of 30 horsemen, who started at the com-
mencement-of the cbacc, three Nimrods of ly were
in at the dote.

IiATTOR-• A tylkil.
Yesterday a genteel, ttiddanged man. called
Cie, alias Captain Coladerp, underwent an exami-
nation, on suspicion of beingone of a gang al swind-
lers, who have obtained goods under false pretences
in town and country, to a considerable amount. To
carry on their nefarious busine,n, they had compting.
houses in Waleot-place, Lambeth, White-friars, Bas•
Walbrosik, and the different monufaitnring
towns through England, where their bills were drawn
and accepted. Whilst he was under examination,
the officers, Trott and Wood, brought in a portable
desk, that contained letters and papers. which deve-
loped their plan. The same officers secured a vast
quantity of bacon, and other provisions, procured
by them under false pretences. A person in New-
bate-street has been defrauded of fifty pounds
worth of ready-made shirts by one of those bills.
Sixteen persons attended, as complainants against
this combination. The Prisoner was committed for
further examination.

CORN-EXCHANGE, We DIMESDAY. JAW 23.
We have tint many fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day, and the
constant deniaail for fine old causes that quality to remain
&no, and rather inclines upwards; Fine Dantaic 115 s. per
qoarter There are large arrivals of Barley, which is a
trifle lower and has tolerably ready sale. Our arricrls of
Wl.ote and Grey P.-mare large both of which artiekiarw loser
N.:w Tick Beaus likewise. The arivals of Oats aro name.
mu., chiefly front Lincolnshire, ru.uly of good unality, aid
those full as dear. Flour is in good supply, that, wigs other
articles, experiences little variation.
CURRENT PRIL'F. OF GRAIN.
Wheat . 76f. 90• 106 s. J BONA 48s. 53v_ 04.
Fine do. ....less. tIM. 0.1. I Tick Beans 42s. 481 0.1
Rye...
Barley 45s SO.. Oil. Ofei. 04.
Malt yes. 824. Od. Ram tie 441. 481. Od.
White Peas 525. 575. Od. Fine 854. 90a. 6d.
Grey Peas 444. 45.. Od. Seconds SOs. ILts. Us).

Joe and Crotkv, the two Pugilists, who were to
have fought a pitched battle yesterday near Wood
Cretin, Middlesex, and who were apprehended on
Tuesday night, under authority of a warrant from
Mr. BOND, were yesterday takeu before that Magi-
strate, at his house at Brompton, and obliged to en-
ter into security for keeping the peace ; and which
mode, if adopted in all cases of this sort, would
prevent the frequency of such brutal contests, so
disgraceful to humanity and guod order.

A letter from Cork, dated January 18, says,
" The baggage of the 13th regiment of foot ar-
rived in town last night from Bandon, in order to be
sent on board the transports at Mmikstown ; the em-
barkation of the 15th, 90th, and 56th, is expeard
to take place very speedily ; and their rumoured de-
stination is the West Indies. The transports, it is
said, will sail with the outward-bound W., st-India
convoy."
WALT ER FAWKES, Esq. of Farnley-hall, York-
shire, with that spirit of munificence which has so
deservedly endeared him to his tenantry and his
neighbourhood, has, within these few days, distri-
buted two fat oxen and thirty sacks of potatoes to
his poor neighbours.
The cotton and flax spinning mills of Mr. BRAID,
at D ntroon, near Dundee, were burned to the ground
on Friday the 11th curt. Happily for the sufferer,
his property was insured in the Phcenix fire office to
a certain amount We are also informed, that a
sugar warehouse in Dundee was in danger of being
consumed by fire the day following ; and, what is
rather singular, a similar alarm of fire, in another
wrrehouse, in the same town, took place on Sunday
the 13th inst. ; but these were fortunately soon ex-
tinguished with little loss.
NATURAL Cu atom r r.—Eight years since a pear-
tree WAS planted in the parish of Tintagel, in Corn-
wall, which blossomed three times the same year,
and bore fruit twice ; and it has continued to do so,
for seven years in succession. This year being the
eighth year since it was planted, it has blossomed
and borne fruit three times. The first bearing
weighed from 14 to 16 ounces each pear ; the next
somewhat smaller, and the last bearing (of which,
A part is now on the tree) is of a common size.
A journeyman carvnter working at the military
depot near Horsham, lately offered to pay a linu-e-
-keeper at that place, the sum of fourteen shillings,
•aet condition of being supplied, by the said house-.
beeper with as mach plum-pudding as he (the car-
i"ester) could eat iu the space of siren successive
s : the terms having been agreed to, the man
was daily set ved with a sufficient quantum of tins
favourite Old English food, and managed, in the
course of the week, to devour 46 pounds, averdu-
pois ! 11w same carpenter, it seems, is willing to
undertake to ear. a cubic foot of similar solid putt-
ding in a fortnight and, what is more extraordinary
than all, will, engage for a wager of five guineas, to
let pass seven other successive days, without eating
the least particle of any food whatever.
Late in the evening of Saturday, the sth instant,
an impostor, supposed to have come from Carniar-
thenshire, succeeded in obtaining some goods .td
money from different tradesmen in Neath, pretend-
ing that he was the son of a farmer in the neigh-
bourhood, and decamped with his booty early the
next morning. Previous to his departure he played
off a complete hoar on two medical gentlemen there,
having sent them a distance of five mile;, about three
o'clock on Sunday morning, to attend a person,
who, he stated, had accidentally broken his kg ;
and he obtained a hat from one of them, saying he
had lost his own in a- hurry to procure their profes-
sional assistance.—We understand that he has since
been apprehended in Rreconshire.
The London Dock Company are now complcing
their internal arrangements. viz. the appointment
of Clerks, &c. upon.a most liberal plan.