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RIGHT HON. THOIGIS. coNoLLr.

This distinguished gentleman died on the night
of the '2;th of April,• at his seat of Castleton, near
Dublin. On the death of the late Earl Strafford,
his uncle, he succeeded to his f .ordship's estates,
which, added to his'owr. pa•nr:lal fortune, estimated
at 20,0001. a-year, placed him, in point of pro-
perty, at the head of :'ac Commons of Ireland.
Having undertaken, however, to pay his father's
debts, which were considerable, and his hospitalities
being unbounded, he did rot accumulate any mo-
ney, but lived up to the extent of his means. For
forty years he represented the County of London-
derry in the Irish Parliament, and took an active
part in all the political transactions of his time ; he
was a strenuous supporter of the volunteer sys-
tem, and one of the Irish delegates sent to the
Prince of Wales upon the question of the regency.
During his whole Parliamentary career, he bott the
charalter of an undoubted, unshaken patriot, until
the Union, which he supported, and thereby forfeited
some of his popularity. Those who knew him, were,
however, convinced that he acted from principle. In
facet, there was nothing in the man, upon which cor-
ruption could operate. His fortune placed him
above pecuniary temptation. As to honours, he was
frequently offered a peerage, but he preferred, as he
said, being the first commoner in the country, rather
than the -last.peer. He was much devoted to the
turf and the field, and passed most of his time at
Castleton, where he lived in a princely style, keep-
' ing open house for the large circle of nobility and
gentry whom he reckoned among his friends. He
was a kind friend, and an indulgent master, but he
was most distinguished as a liberal and indulgentland-
lord ; as suchTno man was ever more beloved by his
tenants, nor was there any pare of his character to
which he was so much indebted for the universal
esteem in which he was held. He married Lady
Louisa Augusta Lennox, sister to the Duke of
Richmond, and dying without issue, is succeeded
in his estates by his nephew, Mr. Byng, Member
for Middlesex. Vicountesses Castlereagh, and the
Lady of Admiral Pakenham, are his nieces.

The new Eletlor Duke of WI arca BERG lately
issued the following edict, respecting theatrical re-
presentations:—" His Most Serene Highness, hav-
ing, tcith great displeasut, perceived that many
persons dare hiss during the public performances at
the theatre, it is his Highness's will, that in future
any offender of this description shall be taken out of
the playhouse by the military, and delivered into the
hands of justice for punishment. His Most Serene
Highness further expels, that du, in his presence
at the Theatre, no one shall hiss or applaud, unlesv his
Ileghteess himself; by Lis example, shall give the signal
for doing to."

The impress service at Swansea has met with
considerable resistance from the populace, who
have committed several ails of outrage: but by the
prompt aid spirited condud of Lieutenant BEN-
NETT, who has taken the ringleaders into custody,
and delivered them to the civil power, order has
been completely restored.

Sir Cli A /4 LES HO L LOWA Y, of the Engineers, who
so eminently distinguished himself in Egypt, lately
arrived at Cork for the purpose of taking the com-
mand at the forts of Core, Spike Island, &c.

In the following Anecdote, which is taken from
Broca's publication of " The Conduct of Heroic
Women during the French Revolution," Despair,
resulting from strong conjugal affeaton, is forcibly
depiaed :
" In one of the prisons of Paris, among a mul-
titude that expeaed their trial, was a young man of
a most interesting figure and countenance, who was
accompanied by his wife, an extremely young and
beautiful woman. Happy that they were not se-
parated in this dreadful moment, this young couple
fully persuaded themselves that the same blow would
release them from this life, and unite their souls in a
better ; and the sweet hope of a union that never
could be dissolved spread inexpressible charms even
over the horrid scenes with which they were sur-
rounded. One day, while the youthful wife was
walking in the court with the other prisoners, she
heard her husband called to the outer gated the
prison. She comprehended that it was the signal of
his death : she ran after him, resolved to share his
fate. The jailor refused to let her pass. With
unusual strength, derived from her grief, she made
her way, threw herself into the arms of her husband,
hung upon his neck, and with the most affeding
cries besought them to suffer her to die with her
husband. She was tom away by the guards. Bar-
barians I' she cried, ' can you compel me to live ?'
at the same moment she dashed her head violently
against the gate of the prison, and in a few minutes
expired."


LAW IlineLL IG ANC E.

COURT OF KINGS BENCH. w
ESTAIINSTtI. MAT 2.
THE RING, V. HILL DARLEY, ES4.
Mr. ERSKINk appealed to the Court in support of
the application made on Saturday by Mr. Sergeant
Rest fir a Rule for a new trial in this prosecution.
He admitted that the statute of Anne, on which the
Defendant had been convided, was made for very
wholesome purposes, and ought to be carried into
execution, but not against the person who did not
manifestly appear to he guilty, a result which could
not appear, if by accident the party had not been
able to bring forward the evidence necessary to the
establishment of his innocence. The Defendant
had been deprived of the opportunity of amending
his first affidavit, to put off his trial on the absence
of a material witness, by the mere accident of his
not being personally present, and he had accounted
fur the circumstance of his absence. Had he been
present when his defective affidavit was stated, be
would have been allowed to have amended it, and
the Court would not have reqiiired him to have
stn' •,.1 the particular testimony to be given by the
witness whose absence was the ground of the appli-
cation. He would have been in the ordinary course
of a Defendant applying to put off a trial for
wait of a material witness.
The Learned Counsel stated Mr. Darley's first
affidavit, in which he deposed that Robert Duncan,
Vv:. his witness, had, as he had been informed,
gone to Scotland, orniting to add that he verily be-
lieved he was in that part of the kingdom. He had
now amended that affidavit, and had sworn that he
verily believed Mr. Duncan was gone to Scotland,
and that his ont7ssion to state his belief of that
fad originated in a mistake, and in consequence of
his being advised that it was not necessary for him
personally to attend at the assizes at Horsham.
lie also stated, that his Solicitor having been obliged
to attend the assizes for frahvay, in Ireland, upon
the trial of an ejectment, he was deprived of the be-
nefit of his assistance. His affidavit added, that he
had caused notice to be served on tht prosecutor
.that he should apply to the Couft to put off his trial
en the absence of a material Witness ; that on the
29th of March he received an expresi from Hor-
sham, informing him his application had been re-
fused, on which he immediately took a post-chaise,
and went down to Horsham, with the intent
of making an affidavit similar to the one he had now
made ; but he found the cause was over, and there
had been a verdict against him. He further said,
that the prosecution had been instituted for the pur-
pose of extortion, the prosecutor having offered to
drop it if he would give him 1501.; he added, he was
advised, that if a new trial was granted him he
should be honourably acquitted. His affidavit went
on to state, that Robert Duncan was a material wit-
ness for him, for that he was at Brighton the day
before the assault, and on the day of the assault,
and that he saw the prosecutor pursuing Mr. Darley
in the streets of Brighton, and calling upon him to
pay fifty pounds, which he alledged he had won of
him ; that Mr. Darley was forced to take refuge in
Mr. Duncan's lodging, to avoid the abuse of the
prosecutor, and the persons he had colleded round
him ; and that Mr. Duncan was present, and did
hear the prosecutor and three other persons consult
and agree to go to Mr. Darley, and demand the fifty
pounds they had done him out of the night before ;
and if they could not make him pay it, they should
force him to commit an assault, for which the law
would lay hold of him, in order to oblige him to
pay handsomely to make it up.
Mr. ERSKINE trusted that the Court would not
refuse this application for a new trial, when it re-
colleded what the offence really was which the
statute meant to prevent. The offence which was
the objet of the statute, was that of assaulting a
man to make him pay money he had lost, and not
assaults committed by the loser in resisting ag-
gressions made by the winner for the purpose of
obliging him to pay a demand which the law did
not sanction ; the policy of the statute was this—the
law would not assist any man in the recovery of
money won at play, but it had frequently happen-
ed that people procured the payment of the money
they had won by intimidation ; by challenging the
loser to fight, or by actually assaulting him. In
the present case, it plainly appeared the winner had
come to the loser with the intent if not of assaulting
him, at least of abusing him, and compelling him
by threats to pay the money, and therefore the as-
sault committed by the loser was in his own de-
fence, and by no means within the scope, letter, or
meaning of the At of Parliament. The Defendant,
whatever indiscretions he might have been guilty of,
was a young man in a considerable way of trade by
his marriage with a Mrs. Pritchard.
Lord Et LENBOROUGH asked whether the De-
fendant's affidavit stated in what part of Scotland
Mr. Duncan was, and whether it was likely he
would soon return?
Mr. ERSKINE observed that it did not; but lie
added, that the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common fleas, when it was sworn that General
Grant, who was a material witness in a cause, was
in Scotland, said he would 'resume he would coon
return.

Mr. Sergeant BEST expressed a wish, that if this
motion should fail, he should not be precluded from
moving an arrest of judgment.
Lord Et LENBOROUGH desired him to state what
the grounds of such a motion would be.
Mr. Sergeant Br.sr said there were two7grounds ;
the first was, that the indiament appeared to have
been presented and found before the assault was
committed. The day of the assault, in the india-
ment was subsequent to the Sessious at which the
bill was found. The bill, by some mistake, was
stated to have been found at the Midsummer Ses-
sions in July, and the assault was not committed till
the September following. The next objection was
on the authority of what was said by Lord Kenyon,
in the case of the King against Young and others,
Third Term Reports, page 98, the Defendants were
indicted for several misdemeanors, and the objec-
tion was, that the judgments for the several mis-
demeanors were different ; and Lord Kenyon ex-
pressed his opinion, that an indictment containing
different counts, to which different judgments were
applicable, was informal, and might be made the
subject of a motion in arrest of judgMent upon all
of them.
In the present case there was a different judgment
on different counts ; for the judgment on the first
count was on the statute which imposed the punish-
ment of forfeiture of goods, and two years im-

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prison neat ; and the jt..igment oil
for acommonassault, wasdiscretionary in the judgct.,
Mr. Justice La BLA nc asked whether any jud,-
ment had ever been arrested on such grounds. lle
was answered, there had not, and the argume,,.:
only rested on Lord Kenyon's dctum.
Lord ELLENIOROUGH observed, that as to the
latter objection the judgment might be entered upon
a particular count, by reference to the Judge's notes
of the trial ; and, with regard to the first objection,
the mistake might be amended by a certiorari. His
LorciAip said he was afraid the grounds mentioned
by the Learned Sergeant would not avail him in ar-
rest of judgment.
The Court, however, on the merits of the applica-
tion, granted a Rule to shew cause why there should
not be a new trial.

NOTICE TO SOLICITORS.
In a cause which had been entered for argument-
last Term, Lord Ett EN 110 ROUGH remarked that
the paper books had just been delivered to the
Judges. This, he said, was a practice which ought
not to be suffered. Causes were entered fur ar;,u-
ment long before the parties were ready, merely is
order that they might gain a preference in havin„rr
them heard ; but such a pra4lice the Court would
not tolerate. It would consider causes as entered
only from the time of the delivery of the paper
books. His Lordship accordingly ordered the cause
which had called forth his observations, to stand for
argument after all the others had been gone throUgh.
Mr. Justice Gn °sr said it was essential that
some new order of the Court should be made on this
subjeel : no Rule for argument ought to be drawn
up till the case was settled and signed by Counsel,
and till the paper books were ready for delivery.
The Clerk of the Rules was desired never in In-
Lure to draw up a Rule for argument, unless the case
so settled and signed was presented to him.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
MORGAN V. A LEXANLIER.
Mr. DALLAS skewed cause against a Rule, ealling
upon the Defendant to pay certain costs in an ac-
tion against him, at the suit of a Miss Mary Ellis,
in which the Plaintiff acted as Solicitor. The fat
of the case were these Miss Ellis, a young
lady, had been deluded by the Defendant's promise
of marriage, and had admitted him to that degree
of familiarity with her, which terminated hi her
pregnancy. The Defendant had deserted her, and
had behaved with extreme unkindness towards her.
In consequence of his treatment of her she had been
advised to bring an action against him for the breach
of his promise of marriage, and for this purpose had
applied to the Plaintiff, who, upon enquiring into
the circumstances of the ill usage she had received
from the Defendant, consented to become her Soli-
citor, at the same time informing her, that as she
was an infant it was necessary she should rue by
guardian. She accordingly commenced her aetion
against the Defendant in the name of a Mr. Walker,
Who for that purpose was appointed her guardian.
The cause stood for trial at the last assizes at
Bristol, but from motives of delicacy on the part of
the Counsel, they recommended the witlidrawiag
Juror, and the reference of the cause to the award
of a Mr. Hobhouse. That gentleman, after inves-
tigating the circumstances of Miss Ellis's ill treat-
ment by
,the Defendant, awarded that he should
pay her the sums of LOI and 1001. at stipulated
periods, and the costs of the action.—Miss Ellis
went back to her father's house and resided in
his family ; but she was treated with such cold-
ness, cruelty, and contempt, that, as she ex-
pressed herself in a letter to the Defendant, exist-
ence had become a burthen to her. She, therefore,
entreated him to take lodgings for her, and observ-
ing, if he paid the sums awardedagainst him to her
father, they would be intercepted. Sho requested
he would pay them to her for her use. The De-
fendant accordingly yielded to her request, and re-
newed his intimacy with her. He paid her thc.,
money, together with the costs of the suit, and ob-
tained a release from her, she being at the time of
full age. The sole question in the present instance
was, whether the Defendant had done right in pay-
ing the costs of the suit to Miss Ellis, after she had
received notice not to give an acquittance for them.
The Court was of opinion that the Attorney had
a lien on the Defendant for his costs, which it was
nut in the power of Miss Ellis to defeat.
Accordingly the Rule was made absolute for the
Defendant to pay the costs to the Plaintiff.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Mkr 2.
The business of this day was confined to motions
of practice, too uninteresting to admit detailing.
The Court broke up at an early hour.

MANSION HOUSE.

Yesterday the Water Bailiff brought taro large
porpoises to the LORD MAVORy which had been
eauglk in the Thames, within his Lordship's ju.
risdidion.
'rhe fishermen who took them, were paid the
usual fee of six shillings for each,igiven by the City
for catching fish of the above description. The ap-
pearanat of porpoises so far up the River, is adjudged
by seafaring persons to indicate the approach of
severe weather.

Yesterday the LORD MA VOR went to Duk es-place,
with his attendants, and held a Court there, fur tho
purpose of swearing in the jury and constables for
that jurisdiaion.
Yesterday an examination took place before his
Lordship, relative to two Bills of Exchange, which
hadlbeen stolen, and advertised by the owner to prevent
their being circulated. The same were, however, of-
fered in payment- by a linen-draper at the west-end
of the town. An alteration had been made in the
bills, which appeared like a forgery, done by a per-
son who is not yet taken into custody. The affair
therefore is left for further examination.
Lord SPENCER CHICHESTER, brother to thee
Marquis of DONEGAL, has subscribed 6001. to the
Nymph Bank Fishing Company, lately formed at
Waterford ; a sum equal to what Government has
granted for that purpose.—lf every proprietor oc
estates on the sea coast of Ireland would follow the
example of this young Nobleman, the fisheries of
that country would soon be placed on a respectable
footing. His Lordship, we understand, is also,
forming, at his own expence, a fishery town On his
estate in that neighbourhood.—Surely Government
ought to encourage and extend such laudable et-
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FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE.

FROM Tilt P %xis rArrts:

PARISS Atait. 124.
ncconnt: from Marseirts wz are informed,
that the Engh'.h evacuated Alexandria on the 17th
March They have taken with them on board Nlo-
Lammed Elly Bey, as Ambassador Extraordinary of
the Beys to the Court of London.
They have embarked and taken with them all the
brass cannon, and every article conneaed with' the
artillery that were at Alexandria. The Porte will,
therefore, be under the necessity of sending,. out a
lizsv park of artillery for the defence of that fortress.
—3len;ttur.
Letters from Strashingh state, that on the 24th
the Imperial ratification' ut the Conclusion of the
Diet was received at Ratishon.
Captain Plasdeau, ceinnianding the ship Frryit
who arrived at Bow Beaux from the isle of
Franca on the (..`.:`d of April, reports, that he mez
near the Azores an English squadron conveying to
Europe the troops wlaich formed the garrison of the
Cape of Good Hope.
The. Prince of Nassau Orange, cl-devant Stash-
holder of Holland, has published the convention, by
which he abandons in full sover'cigsav to his son, the
Hereditary Prince. all indemnities which he is to re-
ceive in the Germanic Empire
It is stated in letters from Basle, that a general re-
conciliation has taken place betwirt the. leaders of
the opposite parties. At a meeting of the Grand
Council on the 21st of this month, for the purpose
of choosing two Burgomasters, several Members
who during the convulsions of the last two or three
years were distinguished by their mutual rancour,
approached each other, and a reconciliation with
every appearance of cordiality was effected.
The Grand Judge of Turin lately addressed a
letter to- Menou, the Governor of Piedmont, dray, ing
a very lamentable piiiture of the want of tran-
quillity and eubordisation in that country. He
now impresses on the General the necessity of
taking some effeaual steps to restore good order.
Menou sent a copy of this letter to the different
Prefeas, and at the same time recommended to them
the stai.ftest attention to the suggestions of the
Grand Jude.
There has been lately discovered in the gelati-
nous substance extracted from bones, already so
mulch celebrated, a new quality. M. Seguin, cor-
respondent of the National Institute, has discovered
in it the virtue of repelling the approach of fevers,
and thinks that it might be substituted for bark,
which is too dear to be puEehased by the poor.
He cites the cases of seventy-two patients labour-
ing nutlet a fever, who were cured by this means.
virsea, APRIL 13.

Our Government is 'employed with the utmost
zeal in examining the dispositions of the Conclusion
the Diet. M. de Cobentzel having a fit of the
gout, the Minister of State, Count Colleredo, de-
votes his attention to this subjea ; and the Emperor
passes several hours a day in the Imperial Chancel-
lor's court, to consider himself all the points relative
to the Conch:non. It is said that in answer to the
mite of the French Ambassador, in which he in-
sisted on a prompt and general ratification, a
declaration was made, that there would be no
other delay than the examination of the subjea
required, and that there was no anticipation of
any difficulty presenting itself on the subject 'The
report of the return of M. de Thugut to Adminis-
tration, which had been spread with views very little
conformable to those which the Imperial Cabinet
oever ceases to manifest, is entirely destitute of
foundation. Our Court has definitively refused all
the offers which have been made on the part of
England, and M. Thugut will continue ;is Hun-
gary, where he has lived in retirement since his
rttrr.it from power.
It is said that onr Cat!:net havir.g demanded in
the name of the Duke of Modena, that the French
Government should withdraw the tro Ts which now
ticcupy the Briotaw, received for answer, that the
evacuation sliou)d take place as soon as the affair of
tlrc Indenmiries is definitively settled.
Captain Williams, who during the last wax com-
thanded the Austrian gun-boats on the lake of Con-
stance and Zurich, erns the service of his Im-
perial Majesty, with the rank of Colonel, and a
considerable pension.

RATIIIION, APRIL 19.
Yesterday in the sitting of the Diet the following
declaration was read by the Swedish Minister :-
44 His Majesty the King of Sweden, informed by his
Minister of -Legation of the contents of the vote de-
livered on the .2.-ith of February by Magdeburg,
respea'ng the different declarations made by his
Maj.:s*.y, his Majesty has ordered him to make the
fidlou big declaration
his Majesty will not manifest his way of think-
ing, respeaing the advantage or disadvantage that
bas accrued to the North of Germany, from the
armed neutrality, w!licli was concluded in conse-
quence of the react! of Basle. His Majesty will
content hira,,ell with declaring again and again,
sh a tile declarations wh;cli be caused to be trans-
stinted to the Diet on ditTerent occasions, had al-
ways for their object the defence of the Germanic
Empire, against a foreign force, its independence
arid its true interests. Ili: objed could not be
accomplished, without the unanimous concurrence
and co-operation of the Members of the Vripire;
and, above all, it rer.dered the exact .ob,ervation of
tl'e frindamental laws of the Empire indispensable.
'Ole King of Sweden, as Duke of Pomerania, has
n:ft,rml y endeavoured to filfil hi- duty as a state
4.f the empire, and to encourage by his .example, his
ea Ileagues in the empire to fulfill theirs. It is there-
fore somewhat difficult to discover, in what consists
that passive part which he is supposed to have
afked. His Majesty renews with satisla.tion, the
decbratioe, that an anxiety for the general interest
of the Empire, and an enbiainded respeft
for the laws, have been the only motives that hare
influenced his condna. These sentiments his
Majesty has inherited from his illustrious prede.
sesstirs on the *one of Sweden. Such is the
political system of his Majesty in the present sinus.
tion of Germany, and in that he will invariably
per,eerre for the future, whxte% er may be the
ea.iutions ss Lich ciretanstancet may give rite to."

• PIS XLS, ♦PRIL IR.
T.t•o Etnetits of the 6th reg;m&nt of Artillery
that %, etc in
,g.trtison in this city,-have Lately left it ;
4ine of them t• gone to &Mile, and the (idler to the
,c Aids of St. Miaow(, in order to petite& them
.coits..t any tonne atuel. Altho%h thcre be but

littld appearance of a rupture vilth England, it is
prudent to adopt such turAsures of precaution.
RoI.:LN, /Omit.
Letters from Havre state that fifteen vessels, the
greater part of heavy tonnage, are now construe=
in:;, with .the view of being employed in trade.
M.;st of them will be construfted in such a man-
ner as to admit of being armed ; and, in case of
necessity, converted into ships of war. The port
of Hartleur also distinguishes itself by the number
and the aaivity of its constru6tions. There are at
this time on the stocks, twelve ships nearly finished.
ISOURDEAUx, Antit. 423.

At the tine when a rupture with England first
began to be dreaded, several persons, affecting to
be well informed, said, that our place was exposed
to very considerable risk of large losse.. The
amount of property vlsosed to this risk was calcu-
lated at no less than a hundred millions. This va-
luation will not excite surprise, when it is considered
with what anivity the vessels hal beta fitted out in
our port for several months, and of the number-of
vessels, both national and foreign, which have been
ensured on our part. At the present moment, the
friends of the commerce and the prosperity O our
town, must experience the liveliest satistaftion in
considering the numerous arrivals which have taken
place in our port within the last month. This in-
ternting circumszance has already greatly dimi-
nished the amount of risks, and every day furnishes
us with the hope of seeing them totally annihilated.
It is clear that if a new mantime war had broken
out at th 7 present moment, Bourdcaux would have
expel ience'd no losses capable of giving any shock to
its commerce.

JVArdIL, IN!' FL

PLYMOUTH, APRII. G.

• Yesterday the 11:Sor, of 7* guns, Capt. Skip.
soy, as the wind was got round (her pay-books
having arrived some days), made a signal in Cvv-
sand Bay to go into Harroazc, which Admind
Lord Keith ansavered, she immediately got under
weigh, and soca arrived safe at her moorings in
liarnoaze. This day, with the usual alacrity at
being paid off, and having a prospect of new scenes,
the ship's company began, at day-break, to snip
and unrig het for that purpose.
Went from Barnpo6l, alongside the Jetty Head,
off the Dock Yard, La Prevoyank, of 4lt guns, to
discharge
.hcr cargo of hemp and iron, when- she
will be stripped and paid ofF.—The ships listing for
SCA at Haniosze are csadly as follows

St. Ja;ef, of! ;....Captain Spicer.
Ville de Paris, of 112 guns". Crptain Soya
?rive, of 98 emir, Captain
Canopus, of S 4 van, Captain.
Conqueror, of 74 guns, C pain Loin..
When ready for sea, which will be soon, as
boys are hourly alongside, sieualling and
storing them fer sea, with the following ships, al-
ready viaualled aid stored, in 1-lamoaze, Cawsand,
and Torbay, will furnish no bad specimen of the
aaivity of the artificers at this yard and its depen-
dencies, as well as of the Captains, Officers, and
crews of those ships, viz. Saluador.del Mundo, Ili
guns, Capt. Lam? ; La Texans, 34 guns, Capt. Sir
E. Pellew; Naha, 44 guns, Capt. E. Berkeley ;
Stadium, 84 guns, Capt. G. Murray ; • Mars, 74
gnus, Capt. SiLtton ; Culloden, 74 guns, Rear-Ad-
miral Thurnborough ; Plasma:ens, 74 guns, Capt.
A. Hammon.i. _ _

The only ship to be called ineffedive out of these
eleven sail of the line is El Salvador Id ilfunrio, of
112 guns, fitted its a receiving-ship, and fur tie
flag of Lord Keith, as superintending Port Admiral.

PORTSIIIOUTH, APltti. 30.

Remain at Spithead, his Majesty's ships Rosstll,
FxreUrns, Puissant, Grampus, lfir, iicasta, La Plus,
L'Aigls, Aurora, Camilla, Alligator, Expeditn*, Ar-
row, Morgiana, Starling, Locust, and Censor.
MAY 1.
Remain at Spithead, his Majesty's Chips as be-
fore: and at St. Helens his Majesty's shipAnolsion, of
32 guns, Capt. Hardy ; and Rgisto cutter, of 14
guns, Lieut. White.—Wind West, and blows hard.
Sailed the Kngsifsher, Ant, Swan, and Lord How:,
sloops of war, with troops for Jersey.