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London, England, 1805-11-02 00:00:00

DUBLIN, Ocr. 23.

Lord Cathcart, owing to contrary winds, did niit
sail for England. on Wednesday last. The wind
has been unfavourable ever since.
The Commission of Oyer and Terminer wts
opened on saturday last, by the Right t!-.e
Lord Mayor, and the lion. Judges )Jay rnd Fox.
when the Grand Juries icr the city and county cf
Dublin were sworn in.

Eh.r Hon Judge Day, in his a 'dress to both
Grand Juries, congratulated them upon the light-
ness of the calendar in the present Commission ; it
was also gratifying, to learn. that the report of the
different circuits was equally of a temperate nature;
it was also a pleasing refleCtion to observe, that from
the present asped of affairs. Government found it-
self in such an efficient state of security, as to en-
large and restore to their families, and to society,
many of those Stive Prisoners who had been infa-
tuated by notions of mistaken politic..
A Correspondent has favoured us with 'he fol-
lowing account & the extension of the Royal Canal :
On Tuesday, the 22.1 inst. at six o'clock in the Morn-
ing. the Court of DireCtors proceeded from the
Broad-stone Harbour, in thee Fiords:l4e Packet, ill
order to open the new Navigation to Thomastovm.
where they arrived at half-past four o'clock in the
evening, a distance of thirty three miles from Dub-
lin, and about seven from Mullingar. The joy ma-
nifested by all ranks of people at the appearance of
the Packet, was so great, that before she reached
her destination, they were met by a consist• rable
number of persons, who took the hoe ses off and tree
the boat themselves to Thomastown. Such was the
ardour of the gentlemen of the country, that they
dismounted from their horses and assisted on the oc-
casion. On their arrival, they found a vast assem-
blage from all quarters, several broths and tents
were ereCted.and, in short, the while cnustry abound-
ed with bonfires and music, exhibiting a truly pleas-
ing sight.
The navigation to Mullingar sill be complete 1
about the Ist of March next.

Extra& of a letter from Tintrim, county of Gal-
way, OR. 9. On Saturday night last, a Miss Cdr-
ningham, the daughter of a respeaable farmer in the
neightaourhood of Tintrim, was forcibly taken away
by one Fahy, and an armed banditti, with intent to
compel her to marry said Fahy. After stopping
her month, and tying her hands, they dragged her
to Shannon side, and then conveyed her to the Great
Island. As soon as young Mr. Burke, of Tintrim,
heard the affair, he, m a most spirited manner, ac-
companied by a Mr. Fatzmaurise, and I'. Biggs,
pursued the fugitives, and, mgt. ithstand'ng the elu-
sions of the country people, came, up with them,
after crossing the Shannon, ne.tr the Castle or Anna,
in the county of Tipperary, and rescued the runs;
Lady. They then recrossed the water, bearing her in
triumph to the m ansion-house of 'lngram."

A woman, having a child in her pmselsion, un-
der suspicious circumstances, was taken up in Clem-
rnel, on Saturday last, and not Mina able to give
any account how she came by the child, WAS com-
mitted to gaol by the Mayer, where she died II !-
deftly that night. A Coroner's Imps lit was holJoi
oil the body the next day, wren the Jury reiorne.l
vcrdift—Dted visitation G. Tht ch.l
has since been restored to its parents.

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rtwslmor WALLS, ()cr. 31.

Mast of th • ememsny have left the Wel!: ; the
4,31011 is nos, reirnute:ety over— •he M4C rut of the
cots/ airs, swirls h,s rrnps e.f rnitsirians, left us
some days sire; and the walks begin to have a
rs,..hrr anneerat,e., fr the went of the hesory
which enlivened them, and the approach of stern
winter.
Die theatrical campaign, tinder the command of
the Female General BA ss.a, closed last night, with
Pr /rife of Ti,y 11444 44. Ibe Ilmontrirver Leyte -
we, and St. David's DA" Unor the whole, they
bay- been tolerably successfril, and their audiences
have been fashionable and genteel s 'in analyse the
company would not be fair ; but, take them in gene-
ral, and, I believe, few provincial ones are be:ter.
As a singer (and 4 y..•tog nor), Mr. STEP:MPS
bids fair to rank hiz!•. I t1,1,1,t-stAnd he has played
at I dverpool, (Manchester, &c &c. His voice is
sweet, powerful, and r apAhle of much modulation ;
only wants instrudion. DA Luis, in the comic
line, is de‘ervet•ly a favourite ; and YoutiGee,
the cast of StkiticA, Pe err./led, tee, soars tar
above mediecrity. It would be ijildice hot to
mention uso charming boys, sons of Mr. Doses ON,
of Drnry.lane, who are under the an ipices of their
mother—the elder particularly, will, if he live,
he an °roam-Tit to the stage, if we may judge from
early promise.
Th: re was a ttra• d i!tspeaion of the North Pe.
vensey Legion, un Friday last, near Lichfield and
East Grinstead. lord SH rr Pict c commanded the
whole. The Right thin. the SPIAKER :he cavalry.
Much company attended ; and the different compa-
nies. after the business of the day was over, were
m itched off (to partake of refreshments) by their
respcnive Commandants.
A me' unholy accident happened, last week, at
Fetching. a town on the estate of Lord SItErFILLD.
A Mr. Cave, sou of Mr. CAVE, a tespeaable t.hop-
',:••••per Oleic, went out, as F? said, with the linen.
Tien of gibing to Lord SIMI' lIL D'S ; he was absent
from Moniay LI! Thutslay, when Mr. Got nen.
S rjeant-Major of the Pevensey Legion, from inti-
mathin l:e bad received from a labourer, had the
f,h ponds rf M-. airy et.n. of the Rocks,
a-agped, ashen the bos!‘: discovered. Nn cause
can b. ....,igned for . rash anion ; 'tic only said,
ke was latt—tly additled to the tenets of .41etbodiam
Ver.: —Lunacy.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Sit —The provsrbial gloominess of the month of
vembser, and the creek it is supposed by foreign-
et :o have on the minds of Englishmen, is not in-
ept. •em irked; bet was never more strongly ex-
am. fie than by the writer of the leading column,
in ts.l Oppasition Paper of yesterday. f woot.l
gladly suppose, that the few hours witch had
clamed of this dreary month, when the article was
written, or perhaps the very dread of its approach.
had eh eady so completely unhinzed his faculties,
that he wrote in a state of petfeet msaiiity—Be it
:is it will, the day was ushered in by this pat, toile
writer, with one of the most wretched, desponding
Owes of the country, that his most gloomy fancy
could possibly suggest, or his inventive genius create.
Nevi r curdy was there language more completely
sale :loafed to beat down the spirit of the country,
and enervate the arm of the British nation. ' Cis in
vaiii that such men as O'Connor. Despard, and
other : brought In justice for their crimes
—they never did half the mischief to the country
that ewes do, who, by daily purilicatimis to the
profit*, hold out to them, how unavailinc their
efforts must ever be, to resist the Absolute dominion
of France ; who already had the tyrant of that na-
tion, as Emeetor of the World ! and proclaim him
as being favoured of Divinity ! Yes, this is the
language made use of by a Paper of yesterday, after
ioge authenticating the capture of the Austrian
army, and its Commander. The whole article
would disgrace the columns of its contemporary,
The alrgirs Never, surely, was there so complete a
prostitution of public duty; it calls most loudly for
public reprehension. not being the langlilge of one
man to another, but of one to thousands. W•th
what face can this writer proclaim himself an Eng-
-1r:howl ? if he be one, he is a pander to French
anibition ; not four days ago he proclaimed the fate
e! the Continent decided, on hearing of Prussia
Laving joined the confederacy ; yet one reverse of
Austria has (in his opinion) given the empire of
the world to Bonaparte.—Wireli are we to admire
most, his pettalmig or hie arareel '1 He says, th it
His Majesty's daughter list be to compelled to he
the hostess of the Freach Enmeror, and hints at the
por!bility of his meting wiCa a more dignified hos-
tess. when he arrives here. To read such language
as this. without expressing our detestation of it, is
; but, I tritu, that if ever the contest be-
tweeri the two nations should be decided on British
ground, that 'tie British ranks will never be thinned
by such humiliating language of despondency, as is
daily held forth. The cloven-foot is too far thrown
out to stumble upon it, we have only to beware!
Aso. 2. Amnon.

The Rlainiferd, --, from Tunningen, for Lon-
don, is lust on the coast of Essex.
The Como, from Liverpool, for Riga, is
lost on Riga Bar.
The flisreers, Wussirtev, from Archangel, for
London, is lost near i'srchangel. Eight usher ves-
sels are on shore there.

The RUSSIAN ASIIISSSADOI from the Court of
Petersburrh to the Court of Madrid. after spending
a f:w day, at SA!trans, with laird Bovitionom, to
enjoy thr 1-auriant beauties of that deligbtfal man-
passed thrxtgh Plymouth, on the 29th, with
his family :lad suite, for 'Falmouth, whence he
means to take the packet for Lisbon, and then to
Madrid.
The force under the command of 13caaAtiorra,
wfich was destined to prevent the junetiun of the
advanced column it* the Itussiat,s with one of the
4:elisions of the Austrian army, is of a very different
4'scription from the other Fiench armies, being
principally composed of B tvari.tos, Dutch, and
troops of those petty Elettors, who were coerced
and dragooned to march under the F.ench banners ;
Afore* by no capable of resisting the Rus-
sians, and still less so, reinf-aced by Austrian
circuin.t.mces whicii render the accounts
Axelved, of its total rout, coasiocrAbly more pro-
!c.

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IiPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARLE I' THIRD OCINHSFR ; 0., HOUGHTON
M MOS
TlitaltaDAY, oce. 91.
girorlystako of yle. Inch. T....yr. old C.
tlen. C.rescr's Semler, 114. 11b - 1
Nr 1-1 .tv 11.meety, - -
M, Melh,th's I,,ichty, Y pt. old, - 8
Andr-vri's Fathom, 84 - 4
rite to 2 on Swanky
Subsariptiroi fidndkop Kite of 511 tro 4,5, 6, yr . n! !.,
stud horses. L 1
kir. Ladbrokes hr. h. ill-tard, 4 yr' GLI, 7st 11;.i. - 1
S., C Banbury b ru Elerwer, aged, 9et 215 -
Mr It !three, cis b /I aged, 9.e ttb. -
Mr. D Radelifes hr h Orville, Cr yrs old, dd. 121 b.
1.14,1 piney. ch h. Captrin Absulot., 6 yrt. 01J, Bat. 816.
Si. F St 01.101 Ct brrathn totitarfml, 5 ars old,
Mr Mravia'. La f. II .utdr, 4 yr.. old, V. 121 b.
Mr W.ttn•l't b. Is. Dreadnooglat, 5 yr. o'tl, 1.1 3th• dr.
The Jodi, vould place war tlirel.—•Frye to 1 .est. Ruitard
h. 4 opt [lmhof —5 to Y ag,t
So C. $ toihury% Lydia, 34. :lb best S.f 3. Shelley'.
Corr:comb, 6.4 1015. Tarro.y r. oil C at:go. 4011—Sot to 4
on I,allia

llnke of f;...fton'4 Merry Tio.ight bed Mr Meiimil's
Flieht, Brt. each. First MM. of Ab. N. 250..—F,ye to 2on
Men Thuogl.t.
Mr Clee 11.,..rne's Stretch rec. 15Uritt. (rum Mr. Melltsli'y
Lrly Ab M. tour.
Mr R. ROVCej 13rt. 91b. mst. Ilanyroore's
Graticuell. Blb T. M. M. B C N:o8s• thf c..!,•enl
Mr I..illreolc c. by Vlf”..tivcker. 84t. Gib. re.: It born
MI Blantltwayte's c. by Pegasus„ Ist. 144. K. M. 100 g.
h. it.

KF.I.SO RACES.
THI'ltbDA V. (PCT. 21.
'llo Hunt-e. Pli,eo( Fifty G•fine...i yen won by
Robert Baird. £4l .4 Yfi.f.fg Newbyth . I I
Sir John Maxwell's bay gelding . 2 2
WIIA NMI ItobeTtg.iti, bay horw,aio C o.raW% bay
laufad, it.irt —A Cod f
FRIDAY, OCT. e 5.
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The PUrhe of rffq Uuineat, fsr all agcy was walked (or bi
Sir Medspvih W3I iarneon's Starlinx.
Same dew, a Pu•te of Pik Pound* was eralk.Al for by Lord
Reihave3i*4 Lady Marv.
There wer aft,•-wards an exc.:Heat If .ck Race, which atiud•
ei a vett deal of sport
The attendatie., this <eatqa, at the R ices, has been very na-
- wont, and the Jstemb'ege of Sedate awl fashltn, ore or-
diiiar,es and belie was g.eater than 14 many yrem pee.
Am me the r..ntia.toy nresent we ureier• ; A:44 !Isitientin.
Mint*, Kehler •3s, flame, 40.1 Tyletlllooii Str Joh. and Lady
Pran.ut Ridie :; fir .Vertand Don; Sir J oil Ma' wer ; S.r
M P ; Sir 11,4 re Has iw.o•UrOi Mr. KM
he, P.; Mr twos, of Ladritire, sad (amity ; Lady Ca:
inichael; arid a large parry of Luber, .Ye &c.

It is said that lieeteuant-General Featreis Dcx.
os. will succor. to the corn:nand of the Southern
District, pro tanp,re, in the a'-.hice of General
F (kiwis Dc.n ss, who is sitre;:y expected to re-
move from Head-2 ratt:r„ Canterbury, for his
winter-qua. ter, At otelsea.
The last Envoy Extrao: din;ry. and PlenipotenCa-
ry to the C vrt of Berlin, was the ltt. fun-
MaS •.-'ho was accompanied, on the
occasion, by ,cptiew, Mr. C. M.P.
a. a Commis..t y. rile vessel in which they sailed
v ..:itor•unately, lost near the mouth of the Elbe ;.
of tile crew, however, were savz.l. Mr.
atm v 1.. suv: his suite were take s in a host to
the Isle of deli !olan I. 'r'.m whence the Niegociator,
nroiwit'o:tno !mg !II lost his baggage, PlO.
seeded to the pl ice of his destination.
The K -me hid n..r cop-sails heat yesterday at Chas.
ham ready for siailino, an I will go (lows the first
fair win 1. She is so deeply lACTA WWI stores
of every description, that aithough she Las not yet
taken its her guns, she toOdieS the ground at her
moorings nif the Dock•yt-d, at low %vac er.
The CL.,ries. TooNumi.., was
lost on Dubiin Bar, on the 26th ult.
The 91 sr Highland regiment of Foot arrived at
Chatham yesterday from Weely Barracks, Essex,
on their way to Oiptinge. 'the 92J are expeded,
this day, n t their way to Canterbury.
Last Sunday night, the dwelling-house of Mr.
Mellott. Cheesemooger, of Brick-lane, Bethnal-
green. was broken open by some villains, and robbed
of 7011. in Bank of England note, of 101. and un-
der, -1001. in gold, consisting of guineas, half-gui-
nesi, and 7s. pieces, besidas a large qnantity of
hoJy-linen, tahle-linen, and divers articles of wear-
ing apparel, with which the robbers made their es-
cape.
On Wednesday night, or early on Thursday
morning the shop of Mr. Witsiba, silversmith, of
Peterborough, was broken open, and robbed of foot
or five silver tankards, twenty watches, forty ethie
spoons, twenty-three dozen of tea-spoons, sixteen
pair of sugar-tongs, a number of cream-mus, a
quantity of gold rings, and a larze assortment of
jewellery, u. the amount of several hundred pounds.
On Sunday evening, as a poor woman, the wife
of the man who has the care of the Lock at the en-
trance of the Grand Junflion Canal, at Brentlord,
was getting some water its a pail, in stooping down,
she over-balanced herself, and fell in ; before timely
assistance arrived to get her out, she was unfortu-
nately drowned. Every means possible were used to
restore life, but in vain.

On Monday morning, the ch;ef sugar-boiler,
Dundee, while descending a trap-stair in the sugar-
house, was precipitated the bottom, by which
ac.:ident hi: left arm and thigh were fraetured. He
is recovering.
Yesterday, the Stewards of a Benefit Society
were summoned be:ore Sir M T THIW BLOZN AN.
the Sitting Alderman, at Gujisthall, by Edward
Luzon, who complain:d that the Sisciety had scratch-
ed his name horn their bunk, without any just
cause. In ansmer to this complaint, the Stewards
stated, that the Complainant, while he was the
Steward of their Ben tit Club, had emlsezaled the
money entiusted to his care, to pay the sick mem-
bers ; and that it was under an article expressly
framed far the prevention of such frauds, that
he was dismissed from the club, he not having
been able to make up the deficiency, amounting to
41. Si. 21. Dixon confessed his having 10-t the
money; saying, his wife had broken open a box, and
ran away with it. Sir MATTIIEW BLOXI4A4 SAid.
he could give him no relief, and was sorry he had
s ich a wife:
Asoriti.a Tway: re Thous* en ! I—The Ticket
Na. 20,6214, drawn yesterday a Pt ize of 20,0001.,
WAS sold in 1 Quarter, 3 Eighth, and 6 Sixteenth
ires, at Busies truly fortunate Offices, 4, Corn-
Al, and 9, Charing•cross, where 7,378, ansither
Prize of 20,0001 1,167, a Prize of 3,0001., and
1,2:i8, a Prize of 1,0001., this Lottery, have been
all ScAd. Shared, and Itesistered.—The Lottery
finishes this day.

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OLD nAn.,fr SESSIONS, Noy. 1.
kfore LoriEtt.csiewtouon, BarenTilomP-
SOlll..Mr. Asibee ROOKE, th, RE, ORDER, and ;cor-
ral' ALUMNAE/M.
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Willians 4dkiv, a boy of fourteen years of age,
was indiZted for stealing a silver watch, the pro-
perty of Henry Taylor.
The Prosecutor deposed, that he lived in Wilson-
street, Finsbury-square; the parent of the Prisoner
lodged in the same house. Oa th- gd of Septem-
ber, his w itch being out of repair, he left it in his
drawer, from which it was ,tolen. In the begin-
ning of September, the Prisoner eloped from his
father, and shortly after he nifs.e4 his watch. Oil
the '2.1 of Oliher the boy returned home, and a
few days after, in consequence of some information
he received. he had him apprehended.
Peter Mason, an Officer, deposed. that on the
9th of Ofloher, he took the boy into custody, and
when he asked him what be did with the watch ? the
boy denied knowing any thing of it, until his mo-
ther, who was standing by, sai I, she supposed that
Was the watch be told his father he found fifteen
miles out of town. The Prisoner then confessed,
th.rt he had given the watch to his father ; but
said, that he found it on the stairs, and not in the
country, as he had told his father. As soon as his
father cane home, he produced the watch, which
he had taken from his son, until he could find the
owner.

• rhe Prosecutor swore to the watch ; and the Pri-
soner being called upon for his defence, said, that
when he was taken tsp, the Prosecutor told the Offi-
cer, that he lett the watch iu a drarer, Kith a five
paund Rank Note, ami one pound notes, and
he did not think it probahte, that if lie bail a mind
to be a thief, he would have taken fne watch in pre-
terence to the notes.

M: . Bunn 1 Rom rsou s•unnt^d up the evidence ;
and die Jury, without hesit.tio t, !_assn,] the P►i.oner
—Guilty.
The Prisoner was a small buy of his age ; and
;minel quite unconcerned_ at the cntivi.ftion, and
during the whole trial.
.1, Sellime was capitally indiaed for stealing a
sil►er vat,-teand two guineas, in a dwelling house,
the property of John PrinLland.
Anne Irankland deposed, that on the 8d of Oc-
tober, the Primer tank a lodging far a night in the
house in. which she lived. In the morning, when
she was gniag away, .he complained of beiag
thirsty, and the witness took her into her room, and
gave het ionic tea. While they sat together, fte
witness was called down stairs, and, by the tim • she
returned, the Prisoner had eloped, and had taken
her hutband% watch with her. She ins•antly pur-
sue 1 her, and seized her in' a pawnbroker's a'r•p
with th.• watch in her hand. The watch, she said,
was worth two guineas at least, as her first husband
had given five fur it thirty years Ago.
'Die Prisoner, in her defence, said, that the Pro-
secutor owed her thirty shillings, and gave her this
vt.ttch to paw-, and pay herself pair of the debt.
Lind Et.t.cts Ragout:it charged the Jury, desiring
them first to consider, whether she tonic the watch ?
and if she did, what was the value of it ? as, if the
vAlur was under forty shiliags, the capital part of
l'etrelTltrge would fall tot!_ gross id.
the Jury returned a verdia —Guilty of stealing
to the value of thirty-nine shillings.
Asa and Mary II rldssis were inclined. the former
for stealing, and the latter for receiving. several ar-
ticles of wearing apparel, the property of Mrs.
'turner.

Mrs. Ttirrter dep •scd, that en the 9th of Septem-
ber, she tink the Primmer Anne into her service,
ani, in a few days after, the went a s ty, without her
knowle 1:tf• Aber she was gone, she rn:s*ed a pet-
ticoat, aed several other articics ; and h lying heard
where the Primmer lived, she peat All (Aker to Ap-
ptehend her.
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The Officer deposed, that in searching the mother
of the Prisoners. he found a dupl... use of some of
the Articles ; and, on applying to the pawnbroker,
was informed, that it was the Prisoner Mary, a child
of twelve years of age, that pawned then).
Lord Et.t.tri Benoit cm was surprised that the mo-
ther slnsold be allowed to escape, And this child,
who was hvr instrument, indifted. His Lordship
then read over the evidence, and informed the Jury,
that there was no evidence to affea the younger
Prisoner.

The Jury found Ann Ballwin 041119. She WI%
only seventeen years old, and notwithstandifig her
early iige, there were other inliaments for like of-
fences.

PAL4Ct COUR', Nov. l.