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FOREIGN rfTELLIGENCE.

HAMBSURGII MAILS.
FARIS, rsit. €2B:
The la.t summons addressed to the Conscript, for
the year 13, is posted 0.1 all the walls of Paris, by
order of the Pro&ft of the Seine.
Admiral Built, commander of the Imperial flo.
tilla at Boulogne, has been here for some weeks
past ; he is declared to be consumptive° and the
physicians are hopeless 9f his recovery. The com-
mand, ad issteria, has heel/ given to Rear-Admiral
Lacrosse. an it is thought the command is re-
served for Admiral Villaret Joyeuse, who, report
says, is to be recalled from Martinique f r that
purpose.
The fleet which sailed from Rochefort, six weeks
ago, is commanded by Rear Admiral Missiessi,
Who is an old officer of =rims skilful and experi-
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enced. He was a Rear-Admiral at the commence-
ment of the Revolution, but was obliged to con-
ceal himself, to save his Lead. The fleet has 5,000
land troops ors board ; th.,tr destinauon is as yet a
secret, bet it is believed that they are bound to the
Isle of France, to annoy the trade of the l‘nglish
in the eastern seas, and to relieve Rear-Admiral
Linois.
It is universally concluded that the Colony of St.
Domingo is last to the French for ever, at ►east, it
prdl not b.." speedily re-conquered. The obvious
season is, that DessAlines, hAvipt distributed the
estates amongst the negroes, the population must
necessarily become awre formidable.

110101411 OP TtlE visrutt, Irtt•
The Countess De Lille will tet oat from Verso-
vie, the Sith February r and the Duchess d'Angou-
leme, the Id of March, for BlekincrlA near
Mittau. All the family_will set out from thence, in
the month of J uly, for riow.
scrams, wsecti

We learn here, that the French troops have, far
some days pa-t. been placed in the village: around
Lubeck. and permit nothing to leave it.
• Lutmics, rsa.it
An amicable convention has been coecluacd b e-
tween Austria and France, that no mere troops shall,
on either side, be sent to 1t.2:).
N•fl4%, YES. 6.
A Danish skip which arrived here on the 2111.
of January reports, that she met in the Straits of
Gibraltar a Russian einadron ; and that she had
seen a Russian ship of the bee not far distant /ism
Messina. •
-te MESSINA. SAM. 30,
Yesterday morning, an English brig artivrd here
with intelligence that the French Toulon fleet had
put to sea in the absence of Admiral Nelsan, and
steered its course to the South. In the at:el-ramp an
express arrived from the Commandant of the flirt
of the Faro, with adrices that a nu-nerousfleet hikd
appeared off the Lipari islands, the entours of which
could not be distinguished. A great cornurotioe was
excited among the populace, as the ;vise-A was spread,
that it was the Toulon fleet,which wa., to lani1„194000
men in Sicily. An English corvette that lay lieae.lits-
mediately sailed to reconnoitre. and the Engliet trap-
sports, No. 39, 40, *l, and some Maltese ves,s4e gut
ready to sail with an expedition to avoid, ihoul4,lle
report be confirmed, falling into the hands ortbe
enemy. In the evening, tirebrig likets-iee to
sea, but returned early in the morning with certain
advice, that Admiral Nelson, with tvnlve shies of
the line and five frigates, had arrived off the Lipari
islands, in the hope of finding the Toulon fleet- To
day, at noon, he endeavoured to pass the Strait,
but a strong south wind prevented, and he now lies at
anchor at the entrance of the Faro. Of the Toulon
fleet we have not the least intelligence, and it is now
believed that it is a mere report that it has sailed
for Egypt.
manor% Ice. S.
It is now said that a considerable body of our
troops will advance to the frontiers of Portugal.
We have now no longer any fears for .Majorca
and Minorca, as the garrisons have been gradn,i:y
reinforced, and placed in A respelable state of de-
fence. There is now no doubt that about the end •
of January a plan had been formed against Gibr d-
tar, the execution of which was to have been fa-
voured by a secret understanding in *the town, and
the attack was to be made partly from the camps
of St. Hoch. and partly from the gun-boats of Al-
gesiras. The principal object of the expedition was
to recover the ships taken from the Spaniards,
among which were several King's frigates in Gi-
braltar. It is, however, believed, that the care and
increased vigilance of the English have prevented
their attack from being carried ante effeCt.
It is doubtful whether Portugal will be able to
preserve her neutrality in the present was.
FERROL, JIAN.
There are now thirty gun-boat;. two ships of the
line, and one frigate, in this load. Three ships or
the line will soon join them ; and three others a e
fitting out with the utmost activity. This place is
now in a respeftable state of defence.
rtoacsce, res. 5.

On the Ith inst. the French frig** Co;leedia sailed
again from Genoa to join the fleet.' A ship of the
line, two other frigate*, and a small vessel, have
likewise been separated. These, accotuing to some
accounts, have sailed for Corsica': according to
others, they have gone with succours to hiinorm.
An Lnglish cutter was taken off Mahon be the
Toulon fleet, before it returned to roulon ; the
crew was taken out, and the cutter burned.
The King of Naples, it is said, will now dish And
the Provincial Militia, as he has received satisfie?,,ry
assurances with respea to his neutrality.
Business goes on as before at Leghorn The The-
atre was opened again on the 99th of Januar).
Mr. GLAD', who sof thirty-sir. years *Pts a re-
speaable housekeeper and payrnbmker in Oxford-
street, worn down by misfortunes, and the neces-
sary espences attendant on a large Lundy, died
some time since: his widow Mort disposing of
the remaining stock, embarked in se I.:e shop
in the neighbourhood, :o endeavnor rox.support
her family; but her constitution was unegc.l to
rci butssi
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her exertions, and, at this moment, this worthy wo-
man lies dead, her bed sturtrunded by env" orphito
bethancchhdgil:lrtechile:ozio.minMaythordicwbel.aty tcreet.tocaonwity., ":hlterPtun:PoriCarrst
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A .11Elf MONSTER.

A brutal ruffian has infested the suburbs, chiefly
the neighbourhood of Hackney, for some time past.
The fair sex have particularly heed the objed of his
insults and abuse. The most beautiful and most
respeOable females of the place have been assaulted
by him, and treated in the most indecent manner.
Many of them he has way-laid ; and, rushing sud-
denly upon them, has flung them across his knee,
and treated them as bold children are sometimes

treated in a nursery. By his atlivity, and the aid
of various disguises, he for a long time eluded all
pursuit. Sometimes he appeared in the dress of a
gentleman, son►etimes like a labourer, and some-
times like a pauper. He appears also to have been
in constant motion, for he had scarcely com-
mitted an outrage in one place, when he was
guilty of another in some remote quarter.—
From the variety of charatters which he assumed,
the support of which must be attended with ex-
pellee, he is supposed to be a wealthy fellow. The
li,-•w-street Officers having received information
r.f. his scandalous outrages, hunted him for a
length of time, but to no purpose. They ap-
p►ehended him, however, on Monday evening,
by the following stratagem. One of them dressed
himself in the first style of female fashionable walk-
ing dress, viz. a muff, tippet, pelise, and straw hat.
Thus equipped, he took a solitary walk in one of the
most retired parts of Hackney. The Monster soon
espied him, and rushed upon his prey. but, to his
great disappointment, found himself in the iron
gripe of a Bow-street Officer. Some of the com-
panions of the latter, who were stationed within
view, came up to his assistance, and helped to se-
ecru the Monster, and lodged him in the cage.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COCKY OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S-INN, MARCH 13.

In the mailer of NOLAN, a Bernkreepf.
This cause has been frequently before the Court
and the public, in the course of these last twelve
years, and the question chiefly turned upon the con-
cealment of property by the Bankrupt.
Mr. Cossets, on behalf of the Bankrupt, applied
for his discharge. He stated, that he made this
application, first, upon the grounds of the Bank-
rupt's having made a full disclosure of his property ;
and, secondly, upon the jurisdiaion of the s.:om-
rnissiontrs of Bankrupts, which, he contended,
went no farther than for the purposes of discovery.,
and not for the purposes of punishment ar.d ex-
a tide. The Bankrupt had originally been com-
mitted to Newgate by the Commissioners, for re-
fusing to answer interrogatories, respeft;ng a dis-
closure of his property ; 4,0001. of which, he had
stated, had been lost in the mail coach. The Bank
notes of which this sum had been composed, had
been regularly traced to the respoSive banking
houses : and, in the subsequent answers of the Bank-
rupt, he had fully discloseil all the remaining pro-
perty, in the account of which, he had been cor-
roborated by the evidence of his wife. ‘Vith respell
to the second grounds, the Commissioners had
refused to discharge him out of custody, unless he
would criminate himself, by acknowledging he had
been guilty of a capital felony, in secreting his pro-
pft.ff from his creditors. He contended that the ju- .
riztlion of the Commissioners only went to the
purposes of enquiry and discovery, not to that of
punishment and example. The statute had chalk-
ed oat a line for their conduel in such cases, but it
remained with the Court to decide the rest. The
Bankrupt had been upwards of twelve years in con-
finement, and the Commissioners uniformly refused
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to discharge him. Upon thew grounds he trusted
his Lordship would grant his discharge.
Mr. Rosttrrtr, on the part of the creditors. ob-
served, that, so far from the account which the
Bankrupt had given being satisfactory, it was quite
the reverse ; and the examination of the Bankrupt's
wife was a dire& contradiftion of his account.

The Loan CR•t4CLI.LOR said, that from the pro-
ceedings then before him, he had a full persuasion
on his mind, that the answers given by the Bankrupt
were by no means satisfaaory ; in the first place, the
Commissioners had reported that his answers were
unsatisfaelory, and there was great reason to ima-
gine that there was still a concealment of a very
considerable part of the Bankrupt's property. With
respell to the second grounds of making him ac-
cuse himself of a capital offence, his Lordship did
nut think this point came before the Court in a pro-
per form: it was in the power of the Bankrupt either
to answer the questions put to him, which he had a
right to demand in writing, or to demur to them ;
he would then come before the Court under Habeas
Corpus, the matter might be fully investigated, and
hi, Lordship could then decide whether he was to
answer the questions or not.
Mr. CULLIN assisted his Lordship, that he had
not been aware of the Report of the Commissioners,
as to the first part, or he should not have troubled
the Court with this motion. The application was
accordingly refused.
' I. v. ItCEPORD.
_ _

This was an appal from the MASTEN of the
Rocca' Decree, by the Defendant, Mr. William
Be( kfi,rd.

The Defendant, as survivor of his late father and
smelt, became the mortgagee of an estate called
Blackwall, situate in the Island of Jamaica, and
having filed a bill of foreclosure, he was put
into possession of the estate by a decree of
the Coon is that island. The Plaintiff in the
present cause filed his bill in this Court, claiming
his right to the equity of redemption, as the
assignee of the original mortgagor. The MASTSa
of the Ho ts.s, in that cause, decreed, that the Plain-
tiff should be let into possession, upon payment of
the sum due for principal, interest, and costs; against
which decree the Defendant now appealed, contend-
ing, first, that he was regularly put into the possession
under the decree upon the bill of foreclosure; and,
secondly, that at all events, having expended a con-
siderable sum of money upon this estate in stocking
it with slaves, kc. he had a right to receive a remu-
ner *boa for this, as well as his original debt, with
int •
last the appeal, contended, that
;01r • made die necessary persons
• 11,-7 #e lof Foreclosures the 11191 t-
-1-1 assigned at different times,
• , 11s: • tbe legal interest vested

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in them were not parties to the Bill. The Plaintiff,
in this cause, was the assignee of the equity of re-
demption, and had a right to the possession, upon
payment of the principal, interest, and costa.
After some further argument by Mr. Rlc itAaps,
in support of the appeal, the LORD CHANCELLOR
reserved the further consideration of the question
till thit. day.

0 NOME CIRCUIT.

WZRTTORD, MARCH 12.
CROWN SIDE.

There were five indietments on the Crown Side,
on ene of which there was no prosecution.

HORSE-STEALING.
john Horton (a lad of 16) and James Mood,, were
charged, in two indietments, with horse-stealing :
in the first, for stealing a brown mare, the property
of John Gale, a farmer, at Sawtry St. Judith, in
Huntingdonshire, on the 28th of November last ;
and, by the other, with stealing a black horse, at
Yoxley, in the same county, on the same day.
John Gale said, he saw his mare safe in his yard,
the evening of the 17th of November, and missed
her the next morning ; but, from information he
received, he tracked her to the White Lion and
Wheat Sheaf, at ‘Vare, in this county, and found
her in the stable there ; the two prisoners were then
in bed at the house, and were apprehended.
Thomas Sell deposed. that he was the hostler at
the White Lion and Wheat Sheaf. at Ware ; the
two prisoners came there on the 11th of November,
and brought the horse with them ; they enquired
whether they could have a bed there, and accom
modation for their horses ? being answered in the of
firmative, they stopped. The last witness arrived
soon afterwards, and claimed the brown mare. The
horses were hot and in a sweat, when they came in,
and appeared as though they had travelled a long
way. He thought it was the old man who rode the
mare.

Several witnesses gave the young man a good cha-
rafter, up to within a twelvemonth ; and, from their
testimony. ;t appeared that he belonged to a very
respeßable family.
TheLearnedJuoce told the Jury, that, although
the stealing was first Accomplished in Huntingdon-
shire, yet On • might be tried in this crninty, as the
felon• travelled with the horses, and was, in con-
struCtion of law, committed wherever the prisonets
might b.• appre- •ncled with the horses.
The Jury found the old man Gushy, hut acquitt, d
the younger, saying, it did not appear to them,
that the evi 4ence reached him.

They we:a again tried upon the second indiel-
ment, the circumstances of which were precisely
the same as the last.

The Prosecutor, Joseph Birch, steed, that he
lived at Yoxky, within seven miles ot the last Pro-
secutor, and hr missed his horse on the same even-
ing, the 18th ot \ ovember ; he followed it to the
same house at Ware. The hustler proved that the
boy rode this horse, and brought it there.
The Jury found them both Gado.
_ _ _

..
Marie Broote and Ann Clark were indi&ed for
stealing five pairs of stockings from the stall of Wil-
liam lly mock, at lloyston Fair.
llymock, the Prosecutor, stated, that the two
Prisoners came to his stall, and pretended to cheapen
some articles; but he SA. Mary Brooks pat a pair of
stockings in her pocket, and searching her, he found
four pairs of his stockings there. He afterwards
searched Ann Clark, and found one pair in her
pocket. The Constable produced the articles as they
were delivered to him at the time, and, being identi-
fied by the Prosecutor, the Jury found them Guilty.
They were sentenced to one war's hard labour each.
yuarph Lawrence was indieled for stealing a bun-
dle, containing a pair of worsted stockings, a pair of
shoes, a shirt, and a jacket, the goods of Joseph
Birch. From the evidence of the Prosecutor, it ap-
peared, that both he and the prisoner were labouring
men, sad on the 15th of July last, were at work
together in the neighbourhood of Bushey, in this
county ; not being able to procure lodgings, they
were obliged to lay in a hay loft, and the Prosecutor
left his bundle at an adjoining public-house. The
nest morning the Prisoner gut up before the Prose-
cutor, went to the ale-house, and asked for the
bundle. The landlord, not knowing it did not belong
to him, told hint to take it, which he did, and WAs
not heard of until the Inth of Jan. last. Being then
apprehended and taken before a Magistrate, he con-
fessed the fag. The Jury found him Gluey, and he
Was sentenced to On, year's inerrimmi at.
This being the last case, Mr. Justice ROOK pro-
ceeded to pass sentence upon Harlon and Moody, con-
viaed of horse.stealing.
He observed, that one must see that there was a
material ditainition between their cases, one had been
convieled upon two indietments, and the other only
upon one. The former also was an old man, and it
was not uncharitable to suppose he had been the se-
ducer and corrupter ottbe other, who, until a late
period, had borne a very good charafter. As it
i was never his praitice to .port with the feelings of
his fellow-creatures, he should without hesitation
declare his intention of recommending the boy to
His Majesty as worthy of royal clemency, and no
doubt his life would be spared ; but whether he
would be suffered to remain in this country WAS
1 what he could not say. But, 'with respeit to the
other, he seriously advised him to employ the few
remaining hours of life in imploring forgiveness from
the throne of mercy; for he could not think him an
objelt of mercy from his offended country. He,
therefore, must pronounce the dreadful sentence of
the law, which was, that they should be hanged
1 until they were dead.
This finished the business of the Assizes at this
place.

The Jamaica, 1V-scats, from Jamaica, for I.on-
don, is lost near Ambleteuse. Crew saved, and
prisoners in France.
On Wednesday last, the remains of Mrs.
Kssowt.cs were interred in the church-yard, at
Slaugham, &MCI, She had desired that the might
be borne to the grave by eight men, dressed in new
black round frocks, with the shoulder straps marked
in white, E. K. (the initials of her name), the 414 y
on which she died, and her age; black neck-cloths,
and black stockings. This singular request was
literally complied with, and the novel appearance
drew together a considerable number of country
people to behold it.