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ELOPE

As elopement to Gretna Green has lately been
meditated and prevented, under the following cir.
curastances :—A young lady, possessed of a consi-
d'rabie fortune, at the age of seventeen, who re-
sides at Preston, had formed an attachment to a
gentleman, but her I.:Jibe: had a great aversion from
the mat: h. Her correspondence or intercourse with
him were strialy watched. The young L.cly was in
the co, s• ant habit of taking a walk before dinner ;
and on the day of her flight, her lover had a chaise
ready az the end of the town, leading to the North,
with wh'cli he was in waiting to carry her off. She
%trial): obeyed the voice of Love, and, instead of
taking her usual a alk, went with all possible speed,
as sons 34 she left her father's house, to the obje&
her off dim, sod they instantly departed for
:retna Green. N'Uss not returning at her usual
,inie to prepare for dinner, some sus; ;don arose,
ind, after enqu7ries, no doubt remained of her
;light; and the toad they had taken heing aseet-
•ained, the father and several others set off in pur-
Alit of them, and traced them to Lancaster, where it
a, d'scovered, they were not suspicious of a par
as :h v were only travelling with a pair of horses,
and did not aprear in very great haste ; this em-
u t, it is supp').ed, xas Adopted to Avoid suspicion.
They certainly pursued their flight without any elk.
itigeirent, for tuey proceeded slowly, without going
nu' r•fthe main road. At Lancaster, the father and
his friends, after changing horses, continued their
pursuit, according to the information he had pro-
cured. When he arrived at Mutton, he learned that
they had not long left that plate for Kendall ; in
consequence of uh:ch he employed a man to ri .e
off with the greatest speed possible, to pass the
chaise, and to lieu to Kendall before them, for the
purpose of getting the constables cf that town to
secure them an their arrival there, in both of which
be succeeded ; he passed the lovers on the road,
and arrived at K. rid el time enough to engage the
cops ahles to .oast tile chaise. '1 he bustle and
confusion anion the ceneahles, and the arrival of
the ihaise wi h a lidy and gentleman guarded, pro-
ducr.l ,4re it alio m, d coile&ed an immense
crowd. Some thought it was Jerome Pooaparte
and his lady ; others, that it was some great state
criminal and his wife. Just as the chaise entered that
town with the lovers, the father, on horseback, came
up with it, and rode through the town by the side of
the chaise, shaking his stick in at the window, and,
in a most violent passion, threatening them with
punishment, to the no small amusement of the
multitude, who were assembled to behold tbi.
novel sight. the chaise stopped at the Crown len,
when it was surrounded by constables. Miss
leaped out of the chaise, and, with the greatest
heroism, made her escape from the constables, hue
they pursued, and succeeded in securing her. Tbry
conveyed her into a room on the first floor of the
Inn, where she was soon followed by her father
and her lover. On the father's entrance into the
loom, is a violent rage, he struck his clangleer twice
with his stick, which was resented by her_ lover,
who was not likely to have much influence over
him to soften his rage; the father was then
about to strike the lover, but was pi evented by
tlair constables. They then agreed to strip, and
light it out, bet were prevented by the interference
et the constables. In the midst of this confusion,
Miss, with great lot tituJe, told her father she would
very willingly comply with his wishes in any thing
else ; but, in this, she must judge for herself :
her affeetions were fizsd, and her father's opposition
was in vain, as she was determined to have her lover
for her husband, and none other. She was obliged,
very raluetaxatly, to return with her father to rrestoo.

BON4PARTE :
A SICETC:I.

e

1.
I subscribe to-the opinion, that Bonaparte is. far
from being the great general of his tare ; because
that opinion appears 'to be used and tinive.-sa!,
liut the opinion that Bonaparte is also the great
polar oars of his time, I hold to be either premai Tare,
or I:ut partially right, or wrong altogether. 'Pi e-
ma; ; inasmuch as his relility for a government
of peace has not yet been tried : Partially right;
because he appears to have discovered and
operated, what was never discovered and ope-
rated before, viz. the means of depriving his coan-
try of every public alliarce—of alarming it into
the utmost exertions of which it is capable—of per-
petuating that alarm—and of hiding from all hu-
man view the probable period of its duration. or the
means of dissipating so formidable an evil. Yet
this is but the policy of a military man, :tering in
military circumstances; or, rather, it is the r-sult
of an accidental supetiority Cl. military pnwe ; and.
would leave the cbaraeler of a turersign foal enema.
6te) still defective and incompetent. imagine
any thing like the amor potrix in one that is a fo-
roiguer to the country he rules, and who- has crept
up into an empty throne (as any other bold and
fortunate demagogue might have done), amidst the
fears and follies of a people harrassed by all the
varieties of oppression, and terrified by a vidorious
banditti under his influence, is absurd ; and to any
thing of the pateraet complexion, so attractive in
Henry the Fourth of France, in some of the
Romans, and more amiably perhaps than any other,
in our native Alfred, we are as much strangers,
as we are to any mixture of the same in-
gredient in his domestic character, as a private citi-
zen; and while the names of Cyrus and Trajan
are prophaned to make comparisons K ith him, his
heart, grasped wholly by an ambition, vast, indeed,
in its dimensions, but fantastic and unavailing in
its views, is too cold to low any Mini r: He is nei-
ther the father of a family, nor the father of his
people : lie reigns, and only can reign, by ads of
power, under the stigma of a stranger and an usur-
per. A military politician is the substance of his
charaaer.—the leader of an army trained up to po.
lineal ignorance, hardened by bigotry, and heated
by enthusiasm : A man made great, not by heroism
or true virtue, but by arts, accidents, and desperate
prattices ; to say nothing of those paltry imitatiaris
of antient heroism, which have not escaped observa-
tion, and, consequently, must materially detract from
his reputation. His contempt of commerce, and his
evident indifference to all the substantial, enriching,
and comforting arts of peace, have appeared, either
positively or negatively, in every art he has done,
either as an agent of war, or as a sovereign of
nations ; and his occasional areaations of a snore
favourable disposition, like those of a highway.
man at a feast, or a sermon, have only served
to render his real absence and coldness more ap-
parent. His expression. that u the English were
a nation of shopkeepers and cowards," might
alone decide t is part of his charalter. It was
not the expression of an honest citizen in a harrassed
and impoverished state, that he wished to foster
into legitimate power, prosperity and happiness ; but
the slang of a terocious pirate, who had nothing but
subjugation and plunder in his view, and to whose
taste every thing but treachery, malignity, and deso-
lation, was loathsome, contemptible, or insipid.
While the benign temper of Fleury, or he 'dive and
provident genius of Colbert, circumscribing all views
of expanding the vain bubble of extended dominion,
would have applied themselves solely to the conter-
vation and improvement of whet they bad, Bona-
parte has exhausted France merely to rob and op-
press the lawful do ~;:lions of others ; and to enlarge
the bounds of an empire, too extensive, perhaps, for
its real interests and happiness already.
Bonaparte, then, in acquiring all the territory
and power that it is likely he ever will be able to
acquire, and, in attaining to his present state of ab-
solute sovereignty (for no man can suppose it the
interest of Europe that Great Britain should either
be destroyed or subjefted to France), has, more
probably than ever, arrived at the acwe of his for-
tunes and his fame : The moment that peace, or the
caprices of those he deludes and oppresses? call
upon him to close his Machiavel, to sheathe his
sword, and to repair the derangements of a ruined
country by any other means than those of fraud
a.d conquest—that moment he paralyses : 'De
element in which alone he can exist, ceasing to exist
itself, down he goes ; and, like a red hot poignard
cast on the water, extinguishes and sinks for ever.
"favor ti, 1804. S. S.

By the late treaty with Sets DCA, the India Com-
pany are bound to support him in the event of lii
being attacked ; and iu order to do so, some new
regiments were raised and se:dinned on the fiontiers
—these troops, including others paid by Sc :so LA, in
all about 6000, together with the division of the ar-
my under Gen. WELLESLZY, are already in motion,
in hostility to their late ally, and in defence of their
recent enemies.—Such is the rapid and extraordi-
nary vicissitude of Indian politics.

LITTLE ROSCIUS and the LITTLE LOTTERY ---
These two national wonders attraa the notice and
astonishment of every person, for they are both un-
equalled. To see a youth perform the most difficult
theatrical charanei,, with a maturity ofjt.dgmentun-
exampled, and to see ,be present grand S.ate Lottery
Scheme with more Capital Prizes and less Tickets,
equally excites the adrairation of a discerning public.
HORNSBY and Co. are satisfied that the Public ap-
prove 01 the present State Lottery, which begins
Drawing next Monday Morning, Nine o'clock.—
The Scheme is worth attention. It gives (what no
other Lottsry has given) three of 20,0001; three of
10,0001.; three of 5,0001.1 and divides among the
I lolders of 'fickets and Shares 40,0001. more than
the last Lottery, which is a saving to the Purchaser
of One Pound Ten Shillings in every Ticket. These
advantages have Caused an unusual Demand, and
must occasion a great scarcity of 'rickets and
Sham.

N. B. Orders, by Letter or C irrier, Tickets
and Shares, executed wetly cn the same Terms as
if present.
*,,• All Prizes, whether of 201. or 20,0001. paid on
Demand at the old•established State• Lowery Office
of lionbser asd Co. No. 26, Cornhal.

.Tyr I:T7A Arzt hil
' 01. D 8.41.1.441-,Stry. 15.

- Sari-!F Istierif Rine years old, was
cro,viie;./ nj st9,4l.ing twelve peony Oieces, and Oilier
''nicurieli, the `proPer )4 "(: f Joseph Smith
She was senitenciml by th.4l.ecorder to be well Alp-
ped 'in the inn, and ttren deliverei to her Unhappy
mother, wl), with in iaf tot in her arm,, attended
in court in the deepe,t
(.414e,sine Druw and Calerioe Carey were convia-
ed in potty felony, in stealing two pieces of callico.
containing 51 yards, the property of Thomas Pow-
dich, linen draper, in tiolborn.
. The prisoners, under pretenie of purchasing some
muslin from the shipkeeper, ulternatcly kept him
employed, while each concej-d a piece of callico
under her petticoats ; they were deteted in the lip.
and well known to be old ofc.Jers

William Mllarttw, a decent looking, well dressed
man, was CaltziNd of stealing, on the first pf
gust List, a basket, containio3 two live f:ntrls, the pro-
pc•rty of Richard Castle. The basket and fowls
were produced in Court, and the case fui4 proved.
Eli-nteth Iferlert Was indiaed fur stealing si ta-
ble-cloth, two shirts, dald other articles, the property
of Susannah Selman. The prisoner protested her
innocence in so solemn a manner, that the Jury
hesitated for a tithe, and called one of the Witliebits
up a second time ; but he swore so positively to her
person, she was found (leafy.

Robert A dinton was indi&ed for stealing seven.
teen pennywelghts of silver from James Bzidgernan,
silversmith. Ihe prisoner was watched by an ap.
prentice belonging to the prosecutor, who saw him
cut the piece in questkn from a slip f silver: when
the prist,ner was tak it into custody, the piece was
discovered concealed in the crown of his hat Viten
called 'upon for his defence, he stated, that he had s
wife, mother, and six child, en, who wholly depended
lf,on him for their support, and he threw hisosdf
on the mercy of the Curt and Jury.
Several persons were called on the part of the
prisoner, who hal known him many years, and gave
him a most excellent charader.

The Jury found him Gasiiy ; but recommended •
him to mercy.

Horriot Brews- was inclined for stealing two
muslin gowns, and other articles, the property of
Elizabeth Smith.
Mr. AL I. or stated the case on the pan of the pro-
secution ; the circumstances as stated are somewhat
singular : the prosecatrii, Mrs. Smith, was a widow,
who kept a linen?hop in Wells-street. Oxford-scree.
The prisoner came to her, and desired she would
send some reads, male muslin gowns to her mis.
tress. Lady Careless' in Portrran-square ; wishing to
make a customer of her ladyship, she iname.hatcly
accompanied the prisoner to the house, the door was
opened by a servant in livery. and s'se was told her
ladyship was -then at dinner; prosecat- ix said she
would wait awhile ; some time after the pris seer
came to her, told her that her ladyship was taking
her wine, and could nor possibly be disturbed ; how-
ever she would bring her up the gowns, and let the
prosecutrix know which she should keep ; she soon
after returned with two of the gowns, and said her
ladyship would Ic!cp the other, and desired she
would make her another of the same pattern by thee
next day. The prirreentrix accordingly brought, the
gown, when the prisoner &aired she would leave it,
as her ladysh:p was not then at home ; she further
added, that her young mistress was going to he mar-
ried, and desired her to bring lace caps, Ste. the next
time she came. Imagining she had got a most ex.
celleat customer, the too credulous prosecutrix, sorne
days after brought the goods, and her bill for the
ft.rmer articles. The prisoner took all from he-,
and carried them up stairs. She soon atter rett. ,-
ed, and told her she must call again, as a sad
dent had just occurred, his lordship had broke his
leg, and her ladyship was in the greatest riftzlion.
The prosecutrix, thinking this story very probabie,
and, pitying the parties. retired perfedlly satisfied.
S ton alter she discovered the whole to be a fraud s
no such person as Lady Careless lived there, and
the servant in livery and the prisoner ha,l abnoasled.
She then applied to the Police office, and some di, s
after the prisoner was apprehended in o..tord-street.
Baron HOTH•Is observed, that, from the case, as
stated by Mr. Atter, the preseat Maj.:brunt for
felony could not be supported; it was a swindling
trans:talon, and the Jury must acquit the prisoher.
She accordingly was acquitted; but his Lordship
direfted that she should be detained, sad an indat•
ment for swindling be prepared against her. ;
The prisoner appeared to be a decent looking,
servant girl, about twenty years old.
Helom Day s, indiaed for stealing a gold pin. the
property of Robert Dolphin, was ecysi.:ti, it ap-
pearing he had made use of threats, to prevail on her
to acknowledge the theft.

Amparat,e Wootton was indkdled for stmaing a on!
pound Bank note, two dollars, and several other
monies, the property of William Orange.
On the 29th of July, the prwaner was seen lurk-
ing about the prosecutor's door : he was traced tolis
lodgings : on being searched, he dropped the silver
out of his pocket, and the note was found con•
coaled under the carpet. Verdid—Gaily sf
sag the mtte.

A detachment of the Brigade of Guards, corn.
minded by Colonel Roes, will march this *turning
14 Reading, from which place they will escort 900
17rench pnsonws to the depot at Norman Cross.
Average prices of British Corn, from the R.
turns received in the week ended the 4th Septem-
ber, in the Casette: Wheat 655. 6d. It ye 39.. 63.
Barley tiSs. Oats S6l. I Od. kietns 406. 1.1. Pease
416. II d. Oatmeal 431. Sd.

On niday last. a melancholy accident Kapp n.ci
at the lock, known by the name of the Rye Houvo,
Lock, near Hudslesdon. on the river Lee. As the]
lock-ke:per's daughter, an amiable young tarmac
was returning from A message across the I rck, Fe
foot slipped, and she was preclpitated into the
and drowned.

L it week, three young men at Brighton wet.
impressed and put on board the £lgm, sloop o
war, Ifing off that place, and at elcir.n o'clock a
t the three unfortunate young men jumped ova
boa-d in eip- Q lion of being taken op by mat of eh
nc.ermen : two of whom were drowned ; the dare.
by accident was picked up, and saved by • best,
nicer b:iag ow hour isthe WAN!.

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DLit, SEPT. 14.
Sailed ibt fratisVist and !Prang* gun-brigs on a
grata, of ill* French coast.
Cams down from Sheerness the Grevhemoul frigate,
Dearstitilea and Luri.Yer bombs • Garter and Hawk-
grin4skigt• and tcrnain in the Downs with the
s'aips as per Lit.
The Dersiratior boil% has made a signal for a
convoy to the Westward. Wind, S.

smstisEss, s4Pr. 14.

Sailed the nrutlirk armed ship, with 44 5.61 of
vessels, under convey fur the Baltic.--Wind S.W.
nearly calm.

PLYNtOtT if, SEPT. 11.

Arrived the Trauraire man of war, front A cruise.
A►cade, Male ; Bardy ; and the ilaria,
Brands, from Jamaica, with French priviners, after
a passage of sixty-four days; they sailed in company
with three other vessels, but parted some days since.
Came in the Cu!nitir of Boston from Virginia, for
DankA, dcrained by the Nouteur sloop of war.
Sailed the Tois.,:e frigate on a cruise ; Gekairiee.
and the Lid" Warr:a armed ships to the West-
ward.

PAf.stfIETTI, SEPT. 12.

Arrived last evening, the hired armed brig,
J4torrislomos, with convoy from %Vales, for the east-
ward, and sailed again this evening.
Also arrived Ms Majesty's ship, MemlN,. of 20
guns, Captain Hill. from Plymouth, to coiled the
vessels waitimg convoy here, for the eastward. Ili'
Majesty's brig, Caws, of Id guns, Captain Bass ;
and Had cutter, Adam, from 4 cruise.

Also arrived the Two F.-iewls, Cooper, from
Arundel; the Pri,,er.: ft., 71, Omens, from London ;
the Stow, Dobson, from Sunderland ; and &also,
Xing, and ('bane, Quintel, from Chichester.
Remain, by contrary wind, the following packets,
with Mails of the s‘ll inst. for Jamaica, Barbadoes,
Midas, and New-York, v; e. Leda Arabella, Porten c,
with the latter ; and Wiud.or Cwallr, Sutton, with
the former. _ _ _

The Auckland racket will sail on Saturday next,
with two mails( tth and I I th in‘t.) for lasb
The Princcgs El,:akeiti packet is appointed to carry
out the mails of the I 9th inst. for the Lei:ward
Islands.

The Spanish kig, El tahrminr, which arrived
here on Sunday labt, is still detained by co; trary
wind. On its cc.ming favourable, she will take on
board Bs Exce:lency the Spaniih Ambassador
'and firmly, now at Wynn's lintel.—Wind S.

YARMOVTII. SEPT. 14.

The Katird,r, Schoontacker, from liotterdain with
salt, bound for Cie North Sea Fishery. is sent in by
Ferritter gun-brit ; De Dile Ge.4re ler', Sorths.
f-nm Ernblen, witl. lime, is sent in by La COMlliwlet
f-;gate.
Arrived the ,Lipgr 3h on, De Jonge, horn Loml-in.
Yesterday morning, the Jovpi, Barber, from
Newcastle to I.e.idon, vei.b coals. struck on the
Szroby Sand off this town. but is since got off.

YARMOUTH ROADS. HIP 1. 13.

Arrived the Dv!, and herd trelsoa cutters, and
Rosanne armed ship; Pis*, Alert, and Fhb cutters.
Sailed the bispedor sloop. Visas and Ferrelsr
brigs on a cruise; the Cielpirtr4 frigate with lion
stock fur the North Sca fleet; the Earl S,. rihtest
omen sad Vemu lugger. Wind. S. by E.