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84 to 1 apt Marcella, l6 to I *got Opal
13 to 1 apt Syeorax 18 so 1 opt I). of York's
144 to 1 opt Lossioespe Whsleirmso
16 to 1 apt Bess . 20 to I opt soy otber colt
OA6B.
44 to I apt Parasol I Sto 1 apt Meteor'
to to 1 apt Reserve
IT. LIMIER.
94 to 1 apt Marion I 12 to 1 opt Soap
19 to 1 apt Ajax 13 so 1 apt Akariic ,
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FREE HANDICAPS.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING. MEETING, IRA
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MONDAY.
Sweepstake' of 100 p. each, h. ft. fur See year old. sod up.
wards. Lost Ibree miles of B.C. Four to accept or sio
Me.
Ape. at. lb. Age. at. lb.
Spectre 6 0 Wouvernsano .. 0 8 6
Master Henry 6 0 Surephon
Little John .... 5 12 Romp
Euphrates .... 5 12 Chef-d'oeuvre
Sultan
Banker 5 10 Ellie Deans ...• 6 8 4
Charopigoen
COOlllll
Airier
Cordons] Wolsey b 8 Philip ......... -5 ''7 12
Regent .. -
Miss Allegro - 6 6 I Letitia
Sbreckhuro .... 5 6 I .
'etitsoA7.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs. each, b. ft. for four per old*. 'Da.
Four to accept ur so race.
at. Ih. -st. lb.
Selina
C. by Ardrossaa, out Antiupe 9 5
of Vicissitude .... 9 0 Sorcerer. e. (Mr.Josies%) S 5
Spnrus
Borodino
Anti-Galilean
St. Patrick, by Sir WM. liombaisine 9 2
lee • . ' ..« 11 cony'', by Rubes 6 0
Dnusinane
Mr. I Alr
Cavalier • 8 8 Arbotoa • 713
Sir John 8 8 Clan Albys ... 7 11
Cripple
/Locus
Moonraker
Paintbrush
Loss
WIWI "MAY.
Sweepstakes of 100 p. each, h. ft. fur three year-olds. T.Y.C.
Four to accept or nu race..
at lb. . st.lb.
Zeal
Michirelinu
Prophet 9 12 Filly by Ruben*, nut
North Wester ...
Lawrence
Vsreisoes
Pasturella
P.inioulle
C. by Sella, out of I Phidtas 713
- Palma .
Rusicrusian
Jock the Liird's Bro. 8 4 Lavaler
Prosody 8 4 Valentine
Ilamelas
Civet

7110altialr. • I
Sweepstakes of 100ga. each, h. ft. fur three•yr-olds,7A.F. row 1
to accept or me race.
at. lb. at. lb.
Jerk Spinet 9O I Blue Rule 6 2
Augusta
Gustavus
C. by Partisan, out of Newry
Ridicule
Fortuna 8 4 Carbunaro ..... ..... 8 0
Adolphus
Reginald
Princess Royal 8 6 C. by Comes, out of
Sir 11 uldibrand, by Oc I Lily Prances .... II 0
tavias,out uf Truth's Gr. c. by Y. Gutless',
dam
th%
My Lady
litack.aud.all.lllack 8 4 Richard 7 13
Tressilian
Ibla
Centaur ll 3 of Joint of Paris's
Peter Lely. .
limier
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NAVAL INI'ELLIGENCE; ."I".*
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PORTSMOUTH, DECVESER 26.
Arrives' Ike Twit Valise(' Ni sssss from Calais fur Mar-
seilles, with loam Omni. The Queen trao•purt frum Chiozzi
has come Wu harbour to discharge her cargo.
PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 15.
Arrived the Phaeton, from lrelaud ; and Lind Estauotb,
Barrett, from Quebte.
Put back the Pe rrrrrr mice, Dyne, wish sails split; and
the Catharine, Roberts, with loss of main•booin.
Renssio to the Sound, 7 ships and 4 brigs ; and in the
Catwater, 4 ships and 13 blip and schooners.
The wind shifted during the sighs from E.D.E. to
W.N.W. bluwiug bard, but modereted tooards the morning.
It is reported that a vessel drove um slime cm Sunday lust
between Bantam Island sod •tharestinie Rock, laden silk
bale goods and some mules : ouue of the crew un board.
EALMOUTR, DECEMBER 25.
• Arrived the Caledonia, Gullies, from Calcutta is four '
mouths; end Hoppe, Paten, from Aho fur Lishon.
Sailed the followsug packets with mails :—Doke of Marl-
boruogh and Stammer fur Lisboa; Sandwich for Jesuits;
Fox for the Weeds ; Primers* Elisabeth for America;
Swifture fur the Meitner rrrrrr ; and Camden fur the Brazils.
Also the following was wars4buund:—Frirud.hip, Tigris,
Juno, Charles, Julio, Richard, J 'diva, Canadian packet, and
Young Proteus for the Wein Indies; Tleirza for Gibraltar ;
Mcvagissey and Caledonia fur Naples ; Antelope Sot Venice;
Graben' Moore fur Aocous; Lion, Cyreue, and Albitio, for
Trieste. Placidia and • Rover for Genus ; Skylark fur
Smyrna ; Fancy for Oporto ; Seneca for Tarrnguaa; and
Delight fur Seville. The rest (shoat 33 sail) sesnaio.
HARIEICIL DICENIMIR N.
Arrived the Gemini, Tate, from Shields, with loss of
anchor sod cable, windlass, lee. ; Britau•ia, Jackson, from
Hamburgh, with loss of anchor and cable; and Emily
packet from Gni leaborg—neeil lauded at Scarborough.
TheJene, Hutebinsou, from Loudon for Scarborough, baa
been brought in here waterlogged aun without rudder, hue-
hag struck open, a wreck to the Swin yesterday, and knocked
off her stern-post.
Sailed ti• • Leicester packet for Cozhaven, and Meaty
Prcelisig packet fur Holland—each with a mall.
RAMSOsTE, DECEMBER 20.
Arrived the Tula, While, how Londno fur Gibraltar ; and
Pelican, Edwards, from ditto for Doblsn, with lima of au
anchor and cable each.
DEAL, DECEMBER 26.
The wind got rotted Ibis morning to the S IL and the
outward-booed werrOreparing to sall, bat is backed again
to the S.W. blowing strong, with rain
Came down from the River the Mellish, Ford. fur Ne-
dra', &c.; Betty, Hymen. fur Africa; Darlington, Wilma,
for Jamaica; Amity, Mackintosh, for Berhiee; Sappho,
Heppeustall, for Malta; and Charlotte, Appleton, for New.
York.
Arrived and manias tbe Fort Wlllialo, Glass, trout ea-
task. The Wily, Copper, broke her sorbet, and has bees
supplied with autotimer.

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PHE PIRA tE. • . .
The following Advertisement is prefixed to this
new production of Sir Walter Scott, " The
role," exhibiting the facts upon which it is founded :
" Anvenfismeaxe.—The purpose of the following air.
retire is to give a detailed sad securate account or certain
remarkable incidents which look place iu the Orknry
Islands, coneeroistg *bleb the more imperfect traditions aid
mutilated ds of the cesietry ugly tell as the following
' erroneous particulars:—
"In the month of J y, 1724.5, a Vessel called the
Revenge, bearing 20 large guns, and six smaller, consemod-
ed by Juhn Gow,,or Golfe, or Smith, came to the Ork-
ney Islands, and was die d to be a pirate by various
acts of insolence and villainy committed by the crew—.
These were (or some time submitted to, the inhabitasts of
these remote isles& not possessing arms nor menus of
sistsuce; and so bold was the Captain of these basdutti, the:-
he nut only came ashore and gave dancing parties in the r.:.
lage of Strumuess, but before his real character was
vered, engaged the affections mid received the troth-plight
• young lady possessed of some property. A patriotic hail:.
vidual, James Fea, younger, of Clestrou, famed the pier,
of securing the buccaneer, which lie effected by a ni;:tnir
of coyly and address, in consequence chteily of Gun's
vessel having gone ors shore sear the harbour of Calfsouod,
on the island of Eda, not far distant front a house then
habuted by Mr. Feu. In the various stratagems by which
Mr. Fee contrived finally, at the peril of his lire, they btisg
well armed and desperate, to mma,k.ejituibeeswiloil.er, pirates toesanlidia.
tiNaitrile:fstrthliee waslate iiraelchualmidediAblyng, rag. the acme sod inge-
nious historian of Scotland during the 17th century,
"Cow, and others of his crew, suffered, by art:trice of
the Hixli Court of Admiralty, the pbnishenent their crimes
bad low deserved. He conducted himself with crest
dscity when before the Court; and from an account of the
matter, by an eye-witness, seems to have keen subjected to
some unusual severities, in order to compel hunt to plead.
The words are these: 'John Cow world not plead, for
which be was brought to the bar, and the J•dgea mitred
that his thumbs aboold be squeezed by two ones with.
-whipcord till it did break; and then it should be doubled,
till it did again bleak; and then laid threefold, and that the
executioners shotildpfull *alb their whole stfeligth; whirl:
sentence COM endured with a great deal of bolJness."l-lee
next morning (27th May, 1725), when be bad seen the
preparations for pressing him to death, his mirage girl
way, and be tuld the Marshal of the Covet thai he %Quid
Not have given him so much trouble, had he bees assured
oot being hanged in chains. He was then lewd, condemned,
' and executed, with others of his crew.
" It is said that the Lady, whose affections Cow had en.
gaged, went up tu I.ondon to see hum before his death;
and that ariiving too late she bad the courage to request
• sight of his dead body ; soil then touching the hand of
the corpse, she formally resumed the troth.plight which
she had bestowed. Witheatt going through this cavemesy.
she could nut, according to thesispriatitiow of the country,
have escaped a visit from the ghost of her departed lover,
in the event of her hessowiog spun soy I:ving suitor the
faith which she had plighted to the dead. This part of the
legend may serve as a curious eunimenlary on the beautiful
tale of the fine Scottish ballad, whirl, begins—
' There came • ghost to Margaret's door,' Ste.
" The common account of incident further bear*, that
Mr. Fea, the spirited iesdivi by whose exertions Goo',

this
career of iniquity was rut snort. ass so far from receiviag
any reward from Guver•arut, that be could not obtain
even countenance enough to protect him against a variety
of sham suits raised spirit him by ?irrigate sulicitterc,
who acted is the name of Gow, and whets of the pirate crew:
and the various expenses, vexatious plosecatisins, and 'Abe
legal ecnosarares, in which his outlawry involved Lisa, al.
terry ruined his fortune and ►is family; making his memory
• notable example to all who shall in future take pirates tar
his OWII authority.
" It is to be supposed, for the honour of Gsor►e the
First's Government, that the last circumstance, as well as
the dates, and other particulars of the comatuuls received
story, are tasecarair, sauce they will hr found totally inertia.
citable with the following setae narrative, compiled
from matertaht to which he himself stone bas had a, by
" THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY."
MRRTINGS OP CRRD/TOR• AT TIM COURT
OF COMMISSIONERS OP BANKRUPTS,

X. A.
R. Needham, Brompton,sitversmitit
ll Kipion, Lambeth, timber.mettirant 3 10
W. Streets, Aldermanbury, galloon-manufacturer
T. Mathews, High Holborn. lines.desper .. 3 11
J. Mutatiy, juu. coach-master ..... 3 It
H. J. Nudism:we, Lime.street, wine-merchant
Mayilun and J. K.. Bendy, Welbeck.street, aisc
3 12
T. Spencer, Gray's lan lana, livery.siable-keeper
W. mud S. Kinder, Nutting Hill, atsge.cusch-keeper 3 13
F. Richardson, Cheapinde, waiehunsemati ...... 1
W. L. Bryan and R. G. Gunnell, Poultry, primers 3 12
W. Eyre, Cockspur-street, trunk-maker
R. Wills, Bltiumabury, tobacconist
J. Calvert, lair of Tartstuck Hotel, merchant 2 1$
W. Durmast, late of Fmsbury, tailor 2 1
J. Browne, Canterbury, lisiemdraper l%
W. Cleaver, Chelsea, grocer
J. Carry, Beckley, dealer .....
11. Callanau and T. Wal■h, late of Wapping, soap-
makers 9 1E
T. Grabs, Knightsbridge, plumber . 1 12
S. Churchill, late of Hallow-street, wine-mcicbast.. 1 W
C. Croaker, Crayfurd, farmer 1 PI
M. A. Rubinson, Red Liun.street, grocer
DIVIDENDS.
Ahlermanbury, black well-ball-factor

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U. Fry, Newbury. mercer
W. J.rmiujou. Kraleitsbridge, paper•bauger
G M. Markle. Fetter-lase, and Pleet•atrect, wsue-mei-
chant
T. Merrick, late 1.1. Soho, umerebeet ... . lO

Yesterday—ST. Joun—Holiday at the Bub; Eachecact,
East ludla and South Sea Heusi*

BIRTH.
Yesterday the Lady of T. J. Pettigrew, Lg. of Spi
garden, surgeon, of a at i Il.horo son.
MARRIAGE.
On Thursday last, at Hartli bury, Worcestershiee, by
Rev. J. N. Reward, John Griffiths, Esq. of the W.
Herefordshire, to Mary Aar, eldest daughter of the ft,
Hai ward, of Ilartlebury.
DEATHS.
On the 22..1 instant, at St. Auss's Hdl, ow Liverpool.
after a painful illness of many months, Jaur, the $f
daughter of Gilbert Henderson. Doi. in the Intl year 41..
age. Her virtues and her graces will long snrwiee iu tr
affectionate remembrance ul her relatives sad friends.
On Wedueaday, at his Wear at lianapino. Dear H. refute,
J. G. Hauningtua, D.D. cue of the Prebendaries of
cathedral, and fur toasty years Rector of that pat ish.
On the 19th inst. at her boom to Nurit.umherland.strtc.
Newcastle, after a long illness, aged 83 years, the widow r,
the late Grorce Claveritig, Esq. et Greenmail, and mother
of
the prompt Ste Thomas Clattering, of Miceli Park.
On Tuesday last, at the Vicarage, Blackburn, i• the 63,1
year of his age, Thomas Durham Whitaker, L.L.D. Yin'
of Blackburn and Whalley, sod Rector of [lrritant, v.
Lancashire; the lea/oast author of " TAa Nieto*: os.
)fitalley," of " Crams," and of 's Lidos and Malec
and of a portion of the General History of the county 0
York, comprehending Iltiehmeselabire.

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Heroin 29 after 4. I Eirealag 41 after 4.

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