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FAVIIOV OLE ARRAV:FMCVS FOR THE 1117:K.

NL.ND —Lady Wil!iaql Elquelzrk% Aali and Supper,
I.nwer Brook-4v •t.
Tr ISDAY —..jl,4_ra. IT tyrnark7t. jndy Somere, Ron% CR-
ventli4,-AttAre. Sir GN,Tg.! eattlSet(iN ih..ner, St. JallllevS
Num.:
Tim ottoair tif Tl.,aeVort': Grand Roil%
StailhoiK-area. L,rd Carl.tqu's (irAgge-street, Ila-
nov;r-sqmrc.
SATu RD Alr tyinaecrt.

Saturdar trintning, in consecrienee Isf its raining,
the Royal Family did nct go out ti!l aSrint two
o'clock. When the rain abate.!, hi.: MA !FAIN', at-
tended by General Gwv vv, took a short ride in
'Windsor Great Park. His MaaE.fv WAS Accum-
panioti home by Loris Bet..ct EY and HrNi.r.s, :
those Noblemens' families a.-e at Englefield-green,
to spend du: holidays.
Yesterday morning the Royal Farail7, attended
by General Gwv,N, the rim. NV Pe icL, Lady
CHAIILti". TE Doestta, and Mrs. DRA X, went to
the Chapel Royal in the Castle, where the Bishop
of Norw Ica preached from the first Epistle of Co-
rinthians, chap.:v. ver. 13, I.t.
hor it there i. o r Resurre7tion of the Dead, then is
i• Omit nor r.svit
" A!'d it Chri-t be not risen, then is our preaching vain,
awl our faith it, vain also."

From the Castle the Royal Family went to Frog-
more, the day being remarkably fine, the boy al
Family walked en the Terrace, for the first time
this season.—Windsor was full of company yester-
day.
The Royal Deer, for this day's diversion, is to be
turned nit near the dog-kennel, at Ascot Heath.
The Princess MARY took an airiag in the neigh-
bourhood of Hampstead on Saturday, and yester-
day in the neighbourhood of Fulham.
Her Royal Highness the Princess MARY drove
through Rotten-row in a coach and four, about
four o'clock, escorted by a party of light dragoons.

Hyde nu k vc as yesterday crowded with the most
fashionable company in both the equestrian and pe-
destrian ranks ; amongst the former were the Prince
Of WALEi, who looked extremely well, the Duke of
RUTLAND, Earl GALLOWAY, COL SILWART, and
Major MAX'., i;LL.

Sir W,t. MUNTGONSFP.V, the father of the late
Colonel, seas an Irish Baronet, and father by a for-
mer marriage to three Ladies who, from their
beauty and accompiishments, were called the Graces.
I.LIZABL'IH marred to the late Lord Muunrroy ;
BARBARA married to the Right Hon. Jonx BEI{ ES-
ORD ; and ANNA, the present Marchioness of
TOWNSEND. lie mother of the Colonel, the pre.
sent Sir GEORGE, Mrs. BY NG, and Mr.:. 111. VA; L L
was Miss Evt.TT, a Lady not more remarkable tot
beauty than amiableness of disposition.
The Hon. Mrs. Sr. GEORGE CAULFIELD, of St.
James's-square, has issued SOU cards of invitation
for two grand balls on the 18th and 20th. Lady
ELLENBOROUGIT has likewise issued tickets for her
rout on the liith instant.
Lord HET CHIN ore has taken up his residence in
Welbeck-street.
Sr 11. Mii.stav, Sir 11. VANE TEMPEST, Lord
GRAVES, Mr. Sr. GEORGE' CAULFIELD, and Mr.
M A nnox, set off last night for Newmarket to attend
the races which commences this day.
lhe Countess cf Po RT ARLINGTON, Lady LOUISA
and Lady H. DA.Asom, have taken an elegant
house in Upper Seymour-street, for the season.
The Countess of DA RNL EY and family are pas-
sing the holidays at Cobham Hall, Kent.
Lord ET .‘NILL'Y left town last Fri lay, to take the
command of his regiment, the '.!.1 Royal Lan-
cashire Militia, now stationed at Liverpool.
Admiral Sir Peter Parker has taken an elegant
house in Weymouth-street.
Capt. M Cti AMA rt s was much better last night.
Nit person eau be admitted to see him without pats-
lag the rs•om in which the Police Officers are sta-
tioned. The Newfoundland dog, which was the
cause of the unfortunate dispute, is in the same
r-oin with him.

------- Saturday moving seas interred in a vault at St.
James's Church, the hotly of the late Col. MON T-
GONIKRY. The funeral was attended by General
Lorre., Mr. Bvivi, and Mr. BERLiFORD, repre-
senting the three families with whom lie was most
nearly connes7.2,l and highly r-spated and beloved.
The remains of the Dowager Countess of attes-
ts v. on Sunday last, was removed from her late
house at Rounds, for interment, at South Borough
Chard', near Tunbridge Wells.
I.4rd DENcarNoN and Family are expeßed in
town, this day, from llrinkinhast, Denbighshire.
Lord Cot. E, Col. and Lady Caroline WOOD, Lady
Catherine HARRIS, L.:ay Elizabeth Hoe cox, Mr.
CJIDICHILI., Captain ARTHUR, Colonels GREVILLE
and UPTON, Oil Saturday last joined the fashionable
party at the Earl of Massrict.D's seat at Caen
Wood, to pass the holidays.
In the new edition of the Phannatoprria Edinbur-
rims, which will shortly appear, the nomenclature
introduced by the Yrench chemists is adopted in its
full^st extent.
Mr. MA nsit, of St. John's College, Cambridge,
has been lately engaged in writing an elaborate 1)c-
-fence and Illustration of the Hyrthesis proposed in
his Dissertation on the Origin et the Gospel.
Messrs. HAMILTON and CAMPBELL have an-
nounced a Geographical DiElionary of Asia, upon a
new and extensive plan, with Maps, by Mr. Aa-
KOWSUIT H.
On Wednesday last Miss Wtou, and another
Lady, returning to town from Afton in their car-
riage, the horses took fright, and ran away. The
carriage was overturned, and the coachman killed
on the spot. The ladies escaped with a few slight
bruises.

• LAW lATELLICEVCE.
COURT OF CIL A►m. 9•

Before Lord Ghanallor EL DON.

IN THE NI AT CEA OF KENNETT, A BANKEITT.
A petition had been resented by a number of
the creditors of Robert Kennett, an Upholsterer, in
Bond-street, praying that the commission of Benk-
ruptcy issueo against him, might be superseded ; the
case excited a considerable degree of interest And
attention ; sonic of the circumstances relating to it
have been recently laid before the public, in conse-
quence of an indiament for perjury against one of
the parties concerned. After counsel had been
heard at length, the Len! Chancellor delivered his
judgment in a very eloquent speech, in which he
took a review of all the transactions to which the
petition referred; his Lordship stated, that it ap-
peared by the petition a commission of Bankruptcy
lied been issued against Robert Kennett, on the pe-
tition of Richard Dyer, under which commission
Robert Kennett was declared a bankrupt. Dyer
proved a debt of 1601. and Bracklev Kennett. the
brother of the amkrupt, proved a .lebt and the
debts pi oved under the Commission n ere about 14001.
That at a meeting of the creditors Dyer and Brack-
ley Kennett wen! chosen As;igneris. Before any
thing had peen done, except looming expences,
the bankrupt obtaieed his certificate, a circumstance
which, his Lordship said, created the principal dif-
ficulty in this case, for he shout'• most certainly
have thouela it his bounden duty not to have suf-
fered the Fk.nkrupt to have Lone thieh again into the
world with his certificate, had the allowance of it
been controverted. Dyer had since become a
bankrupt; and, in the month of September last, a
meeting was held by the Creditors for the purpose
of appointing an Assignee in his room. At that
meetiag a majority in value of the Creditors ap-
pointed Braekley Kennett sole Assignee. His
Lordship said, that upon the state of the case thus
tar, it was evident this was a friendly Commission,
for, from tile affidavits which had been laid before
him, it appeared that the farmer Commission hav-
ing been taken out against Robert Kennett, it was
thought adviseahle by his family that another
Commission should issue under the working, as it
was termed, of Friendly Assignees. it had been
sworn, by a persen of the name of James, that
Robert Kennett had told him an act of Bankruptcy
would be taken out against him as soon as Frieselly
Assignees could he procured. IL; Lordship
here observed, that when Dyer became a Bank-
rupt, and it was necessary to proceed to another
choice of Assignees, it might have been ex-
pected that some other Assignee would have been
appointed in the room of Braeldey Kennett, who
from the time of his being chosen, up to that mo-
ment, had never taken one single step which had
for its objet the general interest of the creditors.
The Petition further stated, that after the appoint-
ment of Dyer vs Assignee, he had never aaed nor
interfered at all, and that no dividend had been
made of the Bankrupt's estate :tad et-feels. His
Lordship said, that to those who were net in the
habit of attending this Court, it might seem rather
extraordinary, that a Commission should issue in
January, 1801, and no dividend should be declared
so late as December, I eae:. Certainly it might hap-
pen, that in the fair administration of Bankruptcies,
the at could not be otherwise; but he verily be-
lieved, that in nine out of ten of the Commissions of
Bankruptcy in this country the Solicitor's charges
were the principal 0b1e5.2 in sucing them out. That the
intent of the present Commission was to get this Bank-
rupt unfairly discharged of his debts, to the prejudice
of his creditors,was beyond all doubt. It evenappear-
ed, that for the purpose of getting a petitioning credi-
tor, who was friendly to the Bankrupt, they had
made use of the oame. of a person to whom he ac-
tually did not owe 10.)l. at the time of his Benk-
ruptcv. Dyer, in order to invest himself with the
character of a petitioning creditor, had sworn, or
rather affirmed, fix he was a nuttier, that 1031. was
aThially due to him ; thouzh now he affirmed, that
he only believed the flan!aupt was indebted to him
in that sum by reference to certain aceounts, which
in fact proved, that he watt not a creditor of Robert
Kennett for more than COL It wa.: in:pos.:lie a
Commission of Bankruptcy, founded upon such a
Petitioning Creditor's debt, could be supported. It
was a-meet scandalous proceeding ; here was this
Qnaker first affirming he was a creditor to the
amount of 1001. and then affirming that he was not.
It wis to be observed, that Robert Kennett as well
as hie brother, positively denied what had been
sworn by .lames, as tothe intention of having a friendly
Commission. But he thought more credit was due
to the affidavit ofJames, because, in the first place,
he had no interest in swearing what was untrue ;
and in the next, what he had sworn was rendered
extremely probable by the cireetneeancei of the case.
It was a misfortune to the administration of justice,
Chet .fudges could not look into the hearts of meet,
in order to discover on which side the truth lay.
There was a transaction relating to this Bankruptcy,
which it gave him concern to be obliged to allude
to. Previous to this Commission thcrewas a prior one,
on the petition dimes and Wakeman. This Com-
mission had been taken out by a Solicitor of the name
of Decimus Cook, who, upon the issuing of the se-
cond, by Messrs. Scott and Lander, So:icitors, ap-
plied to them, and informed them he could prove a
pt ior At of Bankruptcy, and that if the Commis-
sion went on, he must jointly share the profits with
them. No doubt could exist, said his Lordship,
with regard to the extreme impropriety of such con-
do:Ft in Solicitors ; if such a circumstance ever came
regularly before him, he should repress himself not
in strong terms, bit by strong ads. That Solicitors,
under a‘Commission of Bankruptcy, which was likely
to fail, should stipulate with another Solicitor to
share the profits with him, in order to induce him
not to bring forward a preceding mi of BankruFt-
cy, was a praaice which he hoped he never more
should hear of. His Lordship noticed, and cern-
mented upon a variety of other transactions, which
had taken place in the course of the proceedings.
It was a fad asserted, and not denied, that
Bracklev Kennett the Assignee, had done a thing he
had no right to do. He had paid out of the Bank-
rupt's estate the costs of the first Commission, a
plain proof that the secoad was issued with no outer
view than to relieve the Bankrupt at the expence ut
his Creditors. Among the documents exhibited
was a letter from the Bankrupt to the petitioning
Creditor, Dyer, which strengthened the other cir-
cumstances of the case, and strongly inferred this
was a mere friendly Commission. It was a hitter
written prior to the .13:mat- uptcy, and entreated Mr.

Dyer, in the most e7.rnrtt manner, to critne tsp to
town from %'itney, in order to communicate with
him upon a subjeft which interested him much.
This request it appeared was not attended to, and
lislibsc
citiet :itly manyi tplc
tiel w n as made to Mr. Dyer,
accompanied
offers and promises if he
would come to town. It ineflit happen, said his
Lordship, that in the worst' of a mtasaEtiou like
this a debtor might he found writing a letter to a
man who had it in contemplation to take oat a com-
mi,.sion of bankruptcy against him ; btu if the per-
son written to refused to pay any attention to the
application, and waited till it was renewed, it af-
forded a very pregnant ground of belief that the
Commission afterwards Issued out by such person
was not his Commission, but the Commission of the '
Bankropt and his f,iends.—Mr. Dyer had sworn to
several conversation; which 11:s Lordship said he ,
should take no notice of; for his consinet had h.2en
such that he was not worthy to be believed. Dow
could any attention be paid to the evidence of a man
who had been prevailed upon by liberal promises to •
come to town, to go to the public office, with a So-
licitor, and there make affidavit of a debt of 1001.
when he must have been conscious that not above
651. was due to him. Hi.; Lordship next adverted
to a conveyance of property made by Robert Ken-
nett to his brother Vincent Kennett, to defeat which
he said was anumg the objects of the Commission of •
Bankreptcy.—Under the!,e circumstances the Peti-
tioners insisting there was no petitioniug Creditor's
debt to warrant the Commission of Bankruptcy, dnd
that the Commission was not calculated to work the
legiti:nate purposes of the Bankrupt Laws, prayed
that it might be altogether superseded. In answer
to this application the affidavit of Brackley Kennett
stated that so far from this being a friendly Com-
mission, his brother Robert had uniformly been de-
sirous of avoiding the disgrace of a bankruptcy. His
Lordship, after
.noticing the affidavit of Brackley
Kennett, which contained nothing very material,
observed that an Assignee under a Brankrupt's es-
tate even though that Assignee was the brother of
the Bankrupt, was bound within a reasonable time
to make a dividend of the Bankrupt's effects; but
in this case the grand and important object of the
Commission had been obtained by Robert Kennett,
having procured his certificate, though no Creditor
had received a shilling. His Lordship then noticed
certain conversations between different persons and
Brackley Kennett the Assignee, in which the latter
had stated by way of excuse for his not attending
to the concerns of the Bankrupt's estate ; that such
a duty would have been troublesome to him ; that
it was his custom to walk about Bond-street all the
morning, pick his teeth in the fruit shops, and then
go home and cat his mutton. His Lordship seemed
to marvel that such a dashing Bond-street lyangee
should condescend to eat such humble food as mut-
ton. But he hoped this Geutleman would divest
himself of the idea, that such frivoloes though fit-
shionable avocaticns were an excuse for his negleta-
inrr the duties of so responsible a trust as that of
being Assignee to the estate of a Bankrupt, after he
had thought proper to assume it. His Lordship
next reviewed the bills of costs of several Attornies,
among which were the bills of Messrs. Cook, ScOtt,
and Lander—Swan and NVillington and a Mr. Sykes,
all of whom had been successively employed in the
• course of this proceeding. His Lordships remarks
were not more facetious than the items to which
they rferred were curious.
The Bills contained an infinite number of charges,
something to this effect :
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Attending you to CJilitlit and advise on manor,: Of great
import:-ore ; 1),,t you was not at ;tome l3 4
Attandiner the ha ikrupt to advise upon the sublet of
t:se p,,stition pusent.,d to super:edc Ili3 bankruptcy,
when I was in:Ormed I could not see, him fill the
evening l9 4
Attendaig again in t!w evening fir the like purpose, but
he was just gme out 6 8
These, and such like charges afforded his Lord-
ship a wide scope for mirthful observation. Such,
said his Lordship, were the transadions of this bank-
ruptcy. He added, that it had become a pra'ice
too prevalent for Asinignees, instead of going the
short way to work, by colleding in the banknipt's
property, and disposing of it for flit benefit of the
creditors, to sit thenlselves down after they were ap-
pointed, and give themselves no further trouble. In-
stead of persons being nominated, who lived conti-
guous to each other, he frequently found that Assig-
nees resided in distant parts of the country, by which
means they were prevented from any communica•
Lion with each ocher; and the whole affairs of
the Bankrupt were thrown into the hands of
the Solicitors, to do with them just what they
pleased ; and nine times out of ten such con-
dna was produftive of the most ruinous conse-
quences, but the present instance went far beyond
those cases; for this commission had been taken out
without any reference whatever to the rights of the
creditors. Under such circumstances, he repeated,
that if a petition had been presented before the cir-
titicate of the bankrupt had been allowed, it never
should have gone out of the hands of the Court ;
but the certificate had unfortunately been obtained ;
however, if the bankrupt flattered himself, it would
be attended with the end he had attributed to it,
he would find himself most egregiously mistaken ;
for, if any creditor should hereafter come forward,
and prove a prior ad of bankruptcy, he should take
care to expunge the names of the creditors who had
signed it, and prevent their voting in the choice of
Assignees, or signing any future certificate ; and,
therefore, he deceived himself if he considered his
present certificate any thing more than waste paper.
His Lordship observed, that it was with extreme de-
licacy he did any thing to defeat a bankrupt's
certificate, who, fairly coscciving himself by its
operation a free man, had gone forth into the
world, upon the faith of such a document,
and had gained new credit. When a man had
obtained a certificate under circumstances which

rendered it invalid, it was undoubtedly an in-
strurnent of swindling, which the public cculd
not guard against. To overturn such a cir-
tihcate might undoetedly press hard upon third
persons who had trusted a bankrupt so obtaining i!.
But in this case he did not think that considerate,
ought to stand in his way, for the Commission ap-
peared to be one which ought never to have been
issued. Such a view of the case cleared the ground,
and brought the question to the single point, whether
under all the circumstances this was the Commission
of the creditors or of the Bankrupt and his friends
If it was so, it was his duty, presiding as he did,
under the authority of the Great Seal, not to permit
Assignee:, after having been chosen, to sit still and
t tke no further care about the bankrupt's estate.
If he could posslbi? air.v this Commission to

stand, he Should think himself bound to ord
that Bracklty Kennett should be discharrd from
being Ass'ipee, and that the creditors who had
signed the certificate should be restrained in the
choice of Retire Assigneis. tie should also think
it necessary no enquire whether the Creditors had
been prejudiced, or any loss had been sustained to
the bankrupt's estate by the delay in the disposal
of it. But thie, under the present circumstances,
he could not do, for it was Ins duty to examine this
Commissiou to the Lone in order to a:;certain whe-
ther it was a Lone frit Commission. He had done so,
and he was convinced it was not, when he attended
to the circumstances that belonged to the first
Commission. The nature of the proceedings under
the second one—die act of Bankruptcy, the peti-
tioning Creditors debt, the manner in which the
choice of Assignees had been made, the conduct t,t
the Solicitors, and the circumstances under whic;i
the certificate had hen granted, he was compelled
to say, even though he should be wrong, that it was
for the interest of the Creditors, but above all fer
the interest of the public, that this Commsssiret
should be !:uperseded, and therefore, said his Lord-
ship, let it be snperseded at the joint expence of
Mr. Dyer, (though he has been a Bankrupt) of
Mr. Brackley Kennett' the Assignee, and of Robert
Kennett.
His Lordship, in pet nouncing this judgment, oc-
cupied a space of upwards of two hours. There
are many points which we regret our limits do not
admit of our adverting to. The Hail was attended
on this occasion by infinliely more than the usual
number of strangers ; and we trust that the whole-
some lecture his Loidship delivered will have its
due elk& upon those Merchants and Traders who
may hereafter contemplate the advantages of a
friendly Bankruptcy.

On Friday evening last, a melancholy accident
took place at a very respe&able house in Mount-
street, Grosvenor-square. Mrs. Adderly, a lady of
the highest respeaability, whose husband holds a si.
tuation of the first rank in. the service of the East

India Compnay, in the ad of feeding a squirtcl,
opened the door of its cage, when the animal, eager
to obtain its food, ran out and bit her so violently
by the finger, that she was compelled by the pain to
utter a loud cry, and suddenly rise up ; at the same
time she unfortunately let the candle fall on her
cloathes, which were immediately in flames. Ire
this situation she screamed out, ran down stars
and threw herself in the passage, at the par-
lour door. The whole family rushed to af.
ford assistance, and by rolling her on the car-
pet, and using every means in their power, they
endeavoured to extinguish the fire. Unhappily
every attempt made by her friends was inef.
fedual. She was dreadfully burned, and, no:.
withstanding all possible means were used by an
eminent surgeon for her recovery, she expired in a
few hours after the fatal accident happened.
The relations of the deceased are extremely 3.f•
feed at the calamity, more particularly so, as the(
amiable behaviour of the lady had rendered her
high in the estimation of all who knew her.

On the 6th inst. a Courier Extraordinary brought
dispatches to the French Ambassador at the Hague,
of which he notified the contents to the Bataviart
Government. It is a requisition to the Govern-
ment of that country, to take into its pay and ser-
vice, four other battalions of infantry, and three
squadrons of cavalry, which, with the other corps
already in the Batavian service, will raise the whsle
number of the French troops, in Holland, to fifteen
or sixteen thousand men. Another fall of the funds
was expected when the news reached Amsterdam.
From Flushing we have information, that there
were never so many French troops in that town as
just now. The prices of provisions have risen to
such a degree as to excite the murmurs of the
people.
It is rumoured that the English packets front
Brighton will not venture to cross the Channel any
more, until the important question of Peace or War
is decided.
The Professor At DIN t, in his passage from Dover
to Calais, tried an experiment between the Red Fort
and Western bank, from which it results that the
Galvanic influence in passing the see loses no part
of its action. The Professor will for:hwith comma-
, nicate to the scientific institutions in Paris all tile
details of this interesting discovery.
The Professor Vassali Effendi has made for up.
wards of two years the most conclusive experiments
of the propagation of the Galvanic fluid, in passim;
the water. - These facts, in the same circtimsetnceF,
on the eleetrie fluid, serving as an example for the
others, do not, on comparison, present any great dif-
ference in the results. The physician Vassali Ef-
fendi is at this time occupied in determining or as-
signing, 4 exactly as possible, the rapidity of the
' transmission of the Galvanic fluid, by means of long
sonduelors. In less than the eighth of a second, this
fluid has run through a silver wire of I 1 06 feet, Paris
measure. This experiment having been tried on a
gold twist of 1000 feet long, the transmission did not
take place. The cause of the failure, accoreing to
the Professor, was in the &leas of the coraudor
which interrupt the jundion with the golde e :re
which was encircled by silk thread, in order to i
the twist. That physician will immediately pub';:,-:
a memoir on this important question, which seat= se
well treated in the comparison between that an, •
electric fluid.
The two republics of Sparta and Holland form,
in one point of view, a singular coincidence : in an-
other, an extraordinary contrast. Both of them were
the most powerful states in the world, consisting
of a like number of people, and a like extent of
territory ; but the power of the former arose from
the want of commerce, that of the latter from the
possession of it; yet they approach nearer to a re-
semblance than we are at first aware : the Spartens
had no means of obtaining the luxuries which de-
prave the miiid, and enervate the body ; the Dutch
people, posset.sing all the resources of Orientel mag-
nificence and Epicutean gratification, had the virtue
to resist the allurements to which Tyre, Carthage,
Athens, and Rome, have successively fallen a will-
ing sacrifice.
The two most flourishing empires on the globe,
in the seventeenth century, were China and Hol-
land ; the former is averse to every species of in-
tercourse beyond the limit of its own territories;
the existence of the latter depends on its exterior
commerce, and with a view to its cultivation, esta-
blished an empire at the distance of 6000 maw,
which exceeded the native governments of the met
in interior strength. and rivalled them in -external
. splendour.

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In my letter of the £ tth of November, I gave
you an aetount of the decisive victory gained by the
\lamelukes ; in Which they lost only 50 men, and
which would have been followed up by the extirpa-
tion of every Turk in Egypt, were it .not for the
presence of the English. Since that. time a corre-
spondence has been kept up -between them and our
Head-quarters. General Stewart's Aid-de-Camp,
was at the camp a few days ago. Immediately af-
ter their last engagement, they applied to Captain
Keating, who commands a party of • the etith dra-
goons at Birket, for a surgeon. The Captain trans-
mitted their request to Head-quarters, where it was
resolved, that it should not be complied with. They
have since been furnished with an Italian praaitioner,
who had been at this place. I mention this cir-
cumstance as a proof of the stria nsutrality, which
e have observed between the contending parties.
The Mamelnkes are now ene amped on the banks
of the Nile, between Rh:amnia arid Menonf. They
are every day levying contriblitions on the neigh-
bowing towns; and between them and the Turks,
the untertunate inhabitants of the Delta are neurly
fleeced and Hived of every thing they possess.
We are still in as great a degree of uncertainty
widirtelinl to our departure: from this country, as
we ever were in. The are val about a month ago,
of the Anson, the Pandere troop-,hip, and seven
traneports gave us reason to suppose that the order
(Cr cur departure had at length arrived; but no
communication has vet been made upon the subjed.
Reports hare just s retched tr; by way of I.eghorn,
that we are going to have another war with France;
and that we are to retain this country. The con-
dult of the French Government is said to have ex-
eked great jealousy and discontent in England. The
day Mere resteria y General Stewart and his suite
went to Bit ket, where a party of dragoons is station-
-I.This place is not far from the camp of the Ma-
in: hikes.
Senor days ago (notwithstanding the s:riCt orders
Lis the ceraratv) a l'inki,li vessel, after having lost
severil men by titt :)la:,,te in Aboukir bay, came
and ancher;tl in the new harbour here. Seven or
eight ;arsons ill of the plague, were concealed under
dezks, trim the rsedicat officers appointed to inspeit
vessel: thae arr:ei• l:: re. The Master declared so-
lemnly there was not a sick person on hoard, and
bosh he and hit ,a lots had constant intercourse with
the towns-people. • -As soon as this affair was disco-
vered, the villaircontrisecl to escape by the assist-
ance of the C.eltein Pacha. Had he been taken,
he would have been hung from the yard-arm of his
own ship. The vessel has since been set fire to and
burnt, and all her crew are in quarantine. It is
conjectured there arc sonic symptoms of the disease
anions the 1 urkish chips in the harbours ; for the
Captain 134 has applied, to the Commander of the
Town fur an hospital, which is granted to them :
slid if the men sent on shore shall tern out to have
the plague. the General declares he will order every
Turk to be sent awaylons Alexandria. You will
hardly believe it when I tell you, that the Turks
have no such thing as a physician or a surgeon in
their whale Army.
I send this letter by the London transport, the
same in which Colonel Gordon, of the 2tith tint-
;goons, sails for England. She takes with her 31
invalids bum the diderent regiments, and a Captaia
of Artillery. The departure of Colonel Gordon is
regretted by every man in his regiment. the offi-
cers of the 2tith, gave him a sumptuous entertain-
anent this day, as a mark of their high esteem and
affection fur him. '
I am happy to inform you, that the plague, which
in November broke out among some of the foreign
corps, has been prevented from spreading any far-
ther, in consequence of the exertions of the Board of
14,...11th, of which Colonel Bestsferd is President. Suf-
ficient praise and thanks cannot be given to Mr.
Webb, resistant InspeCtor of HospitaL, ter his vigi-
lance and exertions iu stopping the progress of the
contagion. All his plans tor that purpose have been
adopted by the Board of Health, of which he is a
member. Sonic few cases of plague occasionally oc-
cur among the inhabitants, and they are immediately
sent into the pcst-hospital; where they receive
medical treatment from Dr. Buchan, who has now
for the third season, volunteered his superintend-
ance of that place: and has declined accepting
double pay, which all persons on that duty are enti-
tled to. AU communication between the different

regiments and the town, and with each other, is cut
oif, except among the Officers. Only one instance
of an officer catching the plague has occurred this
season; and he is now recovering front it : he be-
lungs to the loth regiment, and is suppGald to have
caught the plague from an Arab girl, who frequent-
ed his lodgings. The: Board of Health has caused
all persons of that description to be taken up; and
either sent to perform quarantine, or confined to
their houses, where there is no access to them.
acaF,
The Volunteer Corps, many tit which are now as-
sociatirfg, are in future, even in times of profound
peace, to have a field-officer, and a serjeant, perma-
nently existing, so that they may be assembled at
any time at a short notice.
A correspondent desires to know how many wars
have followed armaments The Last and the for-
mer wars were not preceded by armaments ; the
Russian, Spanish, and Dutch armaments were not
followed by wars. Wars have usually broken out
in a hot and furious spirit before the parties were
armed.

A few days ago, Mr. Justice Bell, of Dublin,
having received information that a well-knoivn forger
of Bank-notes, in that city, called by his associates
Long Kamm, the Tailor, had been in the habit of
sending large parcels'of forgeries to one Roache, a
woollen-draper on Leighlin-bridge, went to Carlow,
and applied to the Rev. Mr. Whiny, a Magistrate,
who accompanied him to Leighlin-bridge, where
they aot only found the forgeries, but also the im-
plements for coining. Roache, after much prevari-
cation, confessed the whole, and that he had pur-
chased several parcels of forgeries from this Kear-
ney, who is a native of that town. Roache was
committed to Carlow gaol, to abide his trial at the
next assizes.—We are concerned to hear that a cer-
tain female, of great respeCtability, leas been men-
tioned by Kearney as oue of the most extensive
dealers in forged Bank-notes, whom le has been
in the habit of supplying. He observes no delicacy
In mentioning her name, and boasting of her ad-
dress in disposing of Bank-paper, particularly at
card tables.

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N.11'.11. INTELLIGENCE.
PT.VMOVTIf, APRIL 7.
Came in from the Yore to join the fleet of obser-
vation in Cawsand Bay, the Albion, 74 guns, Capt.
Ferrier. Warped down the hat bum- to the lower
moorings preparatory to going into Cawsand Bay,
the Malta, 8 4 guns, 'Capt. Boulton. Capt. Sir E.
Pellew, Bart. with his usual zeal for the good of
the naval service, has generously offered by public
advertisement 591. per annum, to any qualified
school Master who will take charge of the young
gentlemen, midshipmen, in the men of war fitting fur
sea at this port.
'llth day the Sp; e, 21 guns, Captain Kerr, be-
ing found so defe‘clive, was paid off, and her crew
have a fortnight's liberty. But as the Ville de Paris,
of 110 guns, was this day commissioned by Capt. M.
Seymour, with whom, during the late war, the jolly
Spitfire crew sailed three years, there is not the least
doubt but they will enter with their old Captain, on
board the Ville de Paris, he being so great a favourite
with the whole ship's company. Carne in the Doi-
phi* cutter, and the Ranger cutter, Captain A.
I.'raaer, from a cruise, with• men for the fleets.
Came in the Jurchee, and the Sally, Fidget, from
Guernsey, with wines and brandies.
Sailed the Friendship, Patterson, with passengers,
for Trinidad ; and the Recovery, Walker, tor Bilboa;
also the Easy; Revenue cutter, to get seamen for the
fleet. Remain in Hamoaze, the Princess Z;harione,
of 40 guns, Admiral Lord Keith, K. B. Salvador
del Manila, of 112 guns, Captain Lane ; Vi/Ic de
Paris, of 110 guns, Capt. Seymour ; Plantagenet, of
guns, Capt. Hammond ; Tenant, of 84 guns,
Capt. Sir E. Pellew, Birt. Malta, of 84 guns, Capt.
Buller; Spartinte, of 84 guns, Capt. Murray; Mars,
of 74 guns, Capt. Sutton; and Conqueror, of 71
guns, Capt. T. Louis.
In the Sound, the Dasher, of 18 guns, ('apt. Deh-
funs. In Cawsand Bay, the Culloden, 74 guns,
Rear-Admiral Campbell; Courdraux, 74. guns,
Capt. 0. Hardy ; Neptune, 98 guns, Capt. Drury;
Venerable, Capt. C. Searle; lief/or, 74 guns, Capt.
Skipsey ; and Albion, Capt. Ferrier. Every morn-
ing at dawn of day, at gun-firing, Lord Keith makes
the signal to Maker Tower, for the number of ships
in Cawsand Bay, which the signal man immediately
answers, and gives their names.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 8.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Ameba, of 40 guns,
Captain Lord Proby, from .lersey.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Juno, of 32 guns, Cap-
tain Richardson, for Gibraltar, with General Sir
Thomas Trigge on board.
His Majesty's ship Diamond, of 36 guns, Captain
Elphinstone, is under sailing orders, anti will proceed
to the westward to-morrow.

Past by the Lady Castlereagh, Warren Hastings,
and Exeter, outward-bound East Indiamen.

Put back the Cakiitia, outward-bound East-India-
m.tn.

Arrived from the river, the Ocean, Captain Mer-
tho, with convicts for Port Philip, in New South
Wales ; she will sail in company with his Majesty's
ship Calcutta.
Rennin at Spithead, his Majesty's ship Dreadnought
of 98 guns, Admiral Lord Gardner, and Captain
Brace ; Russell, of 74 guns, Captain Williams ; Dia-
mond, of 58 guns, Captain Elphinston ; Amelia of
40 guns, ('aptain Lord Proby ; Calcutta, of 56 guns,
Captain Woodroff ; Aurora, of 2S guns, Captain
Malbon ; Arrow, of 30 guns, Captain N'incent ; and
Sylph, of 18 guns, Captain Goatc ; with several Re-
venue cutters, employed on the impress service ; the
Lord Howe, Calcutta, and Hugh Inglis East Indiamen,
and Ocean convid ship.
At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship Amtbion, of 52
guns, Captain T. M. Hardy, and Pigniy cutter, of
guns, Lieutenant White.—Wind S. L. by S. and
moderate.
In the harbour, his Majesty's ship Gladiator, of
41 guns, bearing the flag of Adniiral Holloway ;
Puissant, of 74guus, Captain Bowen ; Grampus, of
50 guns, Captain Caulfield ; La Topq,ze, of 38 guas,
Captain Lake ; Enclymion, of 41 guns, the Hon. Cap-
tain Paget ; Castor, of 32 guns, Captain Peacocke ;
Orpheus, of 3 guns, Captain Charles Elphinstone ;
Chichester, of 41 guns, Captain Spear ; Eurydice, of
'24 guns, Captain Malcolm ; and Starling, of 14
guns, Lieutenant Guyon.

DOVER, APRIL 8.
List night arrived La Parfaite Union passage
vessel, Capt. Muscat, with Mrs. and Miss Texier,
and a number of other passengers ; also, a Bon-
logne vessel with passengers.
Sailed the QUM Cbarlotte, with passengers for
Calais ; also, this morning, the Prince of Wales
packet, with the mail and passengers, for Calais.
Arrived I.e Poisson Volant, Capt. Segur, with
Lord Grantham and family, from Calais.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 6.

Arrived the West-India ship Dominica, Clark,
fmm Jamaica, in nine weeks, with rum, sugar, &c.
for London ; on her arrival she hoisted an Imperial
flag at her main, as having sickness on board, on
which she was ordered into quarantine ; three reve-
nue cutters immediately got under weigh, and
came to an anchor near her, to prevent the men
from escaping ; on examining they found that she
had only one boy unwell; on which she was imme-
diately cleared from quarantine, and her crew all
pressed : also arrived the high Miner, Nicholls, and
Princess Royal, Owens, from London, for Liver-
pool ; the former has siirung her foremast : also
arrived the brig Lisbon Packet, Jenkins, with bale
goods, groceries, &c. for this port, from London.
Passed this port, the Fast-India ship Scale:l7 Cas-
tle, Capt. Learmouth, from London, for Bombay:
the wind having blown very strong all this day from
the southward, it is expelled she will be obliged to
put into this port.
Sailed the American brig jaws, Fulger, with
rice; list from Charlestown, or Havre de Grace;
the I)anish brig, Haak, Wisburg, with fruit, wine,
&c. last from Lisbon. for Norway ; and the brig
Severn, Hackwood, for Chichester.
Remain, by contrary wind, the Price Adolphus
packet, Capt. Jones, with mail of the .29th tilt. for
Lisbon. The Deb of Toth packet, Capt. Deake,
with mail from thence, is hourly expeeed; as is also
the Queen Charlott: packet, Capt. Mudge, with mails
from America.
LIVERPOOL, Aram 7.
Arrived the gam, Henderson, from New York :
Penrjh, Buik, from Alicarit ; and the Don, Morri-
son, from Galippli. The, Laura!, Baldwin,. from
Africa and Barbadoes, is arrived at Trinidad, and
old there. The Washington, Nayes, from Liver-
pool, is arrived at New York, iu 34 days-

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CESSION OP 1.01.115L1N.1. &e.

The following article, respeEtitig the dispute now
depending between A rtieric.a and Spain, from an
American paper, will be found interesting :
" It IP-WM, to he adalittP(l that Louisiana is now the property
of France. What will be her policy rcletike to it, modern data
foriiish us wall nu sidle' taken its corinectioit
with ionic anterior events, much light is thrown oil the sub-
ject.
" Louisiana was first discovered by the French as ea, ly as 1.541.
le 1682, they penetrates! the Mississippi, explored and surkeyel
the country contiguous to it, ants. to its tributary street:is, need
took posiessimi of it front Ltetroit Aloe, the Westerit waters to the
same rivet, so as to include not only the preseet state of Ohio,
and the lateen territory, but also !wally one-Imhof the Siete tli.
Georgia elaty settlements were attempted; some of them
suceeteled. the French possessions in this quarter
were greeted to Spain; arid how a rteconveyance has taken
place. The circumstances wide: which the Met cession was
made, in 176 J, exhibit some pronsinetit and cliaeLeerietic te4.,
tures, strongly calculated to develoee the present policy et the
Chief Culls:lL
" Subsequent to the discovery of the country above the
mouth of the Ohio, and the pessessi in taken of it, in Heti, the
cilium, of novelty in a great measure ceased to delight. Fur
about seventy yk ars these vast ulterior regions selthrin attracted
the attentioe of /react.. At last see became convex. d tnat,
from song te.gle.ct, her claims were v mealy relintimillieel. Due-
ire this period, the country was gr.duelly peopled by our own
citizens. Ms very much mercies d toe value of it, arid open(
an extensive and poen:sine trade wiem the natives. Fne ice was
at letigth determined to rerair toe evil of her own neglect.-m.
About the veer 17.541, site resu.vet to revive her cietins, and to
re-posiew herself of e hat seer Mid ae.pareoth etiewlened.
ensure Imes:tee, and with it t..e sovereignty of all Ninth Ame-
rica, elm dispatched secret emits- :::s of uuservation and talents
into the tliiit rent regiorne—itistrueted them to discover the must
vulnerable parer, the nature of tee cuuntry, its soil, productions
and resour..es, and the positions and adeaittaget of its ST:LT.IOIIi
water;. From their reports, it was conjettured that -a plan of
operations might be formed, which would tend to a speedy re-
drietion of our power, arid to tee acquisition of the other objeets
she had in view. Some of these rep..rts, on tneir way to
Frenre, were happily intere ord. These recommended the
gradual establislinieet of a chain of fortified posts on the
western waters f Canada to the Mississippi, as a preliminary
step. Englend was awakened from her weathers; she per-
ceived the whole e stem of the danger, and declared war : the
consequences ut it were, a iota atinkitiettiou or the French
power in this country. Cube& resigned her laurels to the gal-
lant Wolte : wet the celebrated Pitt compelled France, Much-
against her will, to make a inkier of Louisiai.e to Spain. He
was well aware, that eie two great hereditary rivals of each other
could nut breathe okt the skilliC witileut the tiatiger of
perpetual war.
" What will be tire consequences of the reconvevance
Louisiana to Fra,ice? On a full view o: tee subject, it does not
require the gift of prophecy to foretell them. %V ill France con-
cede to the timita and bound.bres agreed on between the United
States and Spada ? No ; she will sewn' threw. ‘Vheti it suits
like interest, she perpetually fecers to what she calls first prin-
ciples, and ancient claims. She will therefore contend fur the
boundaries as smirked out in l6Be : Nor will she conceive
herself bound by any stipulations made between us and Spain ;
fur iii the recent purchase of Louisiana, she will arrogate to
hess:lf the seine rights and priveeges as accompanied the its
sion of it its 176 e. In Europe, she has revived and prutrecuted
a variety of elating less plausible tool this. Sire has assumed
the ancient boundaries of her emetic, of which she was the-
posseeted, either by the sword, or by treaty stipulations, many
ages pee ; and shall we wonder, if the proud dictator of tile
Terrible Republic now attempts to acquire the doiniuton of at
least one-third of our territory ! The advantages are too con-
spicuous fur him to neglect ; widen the system of disastrous
and cruel policy established and pursued by him, our destiny is
already inscribed, and we cannot fail to read it.
" Admit that Fume will nut attempt to enlarge the bounda-
ries lately esteblislied between us and' Spain, will she not con-
ceive herself at liberty to deprive is of the Missieippi naviga-
tion ? What obligation will she be. under to permit our water-
craft to navigate that river? She will maintain that our stipu-
lated rights and privileges in Louisiana no longer existecithan
while that province was in the hands of Spain ; for, she will
ask, hew can I be bound by national compacts, to which I am
not a party ? Louisiana is obtained by France partly for the
purpose of revenue; and the probability is, that she will
either shut us entirely out of the Mississippi, or so encumber
our commerce with fiscal restrictions, as almost to prohibit the
pursuit of it. She will even treat our complaints with con-
tempt, and refer us to Spain fur a redress of grievances. Such
will certainly be the language of France end we ought to
prepare ourselves to meet it.
" If more be necessary to illustrate the views of the Terrible
Republic, it may be derived from a variety of sources. In
one of the Numbers of the Gazette de France, an official Paper,
published in Paris some time last summer, many labottred
ar.cl insidious observations appeared relative to Louisiana ; and
they terry on the face of them the most indubitable marks
of an official pear. The pub ication announces to the French
people the cession alluded to, and details the almost incal-
culable advantages to be derived from it. If this were to
be the criterion of our judgment, ail Europe is materially in-
terested or this event. It lavishes, with a prodigal profu-
sion, the most bitter and unremitted censures on the Ame-
rican people : it paints them as ambitious, fertile in popu-
lation and resources, and as hostile to the rest of the world.
It alledges that, front motives of cupidity, and a went of a
sense ut justice, we have in view au extension of our territory,
already adequate to the reception of more than one hundred
millions of inhabitants; that South America and the West lnd,a
islands will soon fell a prey to our avidity, wiles sonic Lures
preen power, furnished with the necessary menus, opposes it-
self to our projects of conquest, and has the courage to six
itself on our shores to diminish our greatness ; that Lou-
isiana is the point Or pivot, on which rests the tranquilty
and security of Europe, as it affords an insurmountable
barrier to our wealth arid policy ; that, therefore, Eitraud,
Spain, and llolland, must applaud threw magnanimous views of
France, and tender their efforts in the execution of them. It is,
Isiwever, ineutioualy admitted, that tilers: is no danger to be a 1.-
preliended from the politics oh' the present adminiettation of our
teoverumedt—but, says the Gaette de France, what security is
there for successive administrations? Hence it iie.ifecrea, that
the friete: y sentiments of Mr. Jefferson are of iw emesequenze,
wheat put in competttion watt the profeupd policy arid exten-
sive views of the First Cousin.
" When we call to mind the conduce of Franca towards the
close of the liiiericart revoution, her seutiments at any subsie
quent period will not asturesit us. She has arrogated to herself
me exclusive goarrantee oreiur independence—lout at what pe-
riod did she vellum to arweitit ? When we had secured it to
ourselves by tee caviare of a wiiohe British army, site was per
suaded to eiiieark in the contest! Even tile aesistance afforded
es resulted nut from friemity motives —to humble the pride of
Eneland, and to gain an accession of territory, on which she
had long exed her eyes, were all sire had in view. Let facts
decide. The better to give efficacy to her plans, under the ap-
peareece of candour and justice, she stated to Congress than, as
she bee caiberked in our cause at a critical Crisis, it would ba
ungenerous in the States to make a separate peace, and thereby
leave tier to contend atone with England. These seutinsents
had weight; and, without the least suspicion of a dangerous
paat, our Minister, then at Paris, ass instrueted not to conclude
• peace v. ittiout tic koomiellge of the French King, and not
until he had agreed to the cuielitiems of it. What adveiitege
did France attempt to derive from the liberal confidence of the
United States? Sae ceulti not with propriety openly claim the
cession of a eased territory in this ceuittry as a reward for her
singular service., es,reciaity alter she was frustrated in her at-
tempts to ohtain the exclusiee jurisdiction of Ittexle
and therefore viewed Great Britain as the most certain milieu
of acquisition. To effect her purpose, she dispatched a secret
agent to tee Court of London; who Wormed the English Mi-
:ester of tue restrictions imposed on our COlllll/i1.401115, and
that we were umiak to agree on the terms of peace without the
concurrence of France; that if Great Britain would insist on
retaining to hetsell the vast territory hounded on the Ohio and
Mississippi, or compel a relinquishment of it to Spain, she
would favour the project. France well knew that were either
Entitled or Spain once in possession of this territory, she would
LC able to übtaiu it in exchange for ante of her West India
Islands, or by some other adequate stipulations. This plot
was happily discovered by our Ministers, who were enabled, by
mama of a counteragent, to frustrate it. The consequence
was, that Great Britain and the United States made a separate
peace; acid France was kit to deplore the effects of her own
incautious duplicity.
" Other circumstances occur to illustrate the general policy
of France in the acquisition el Louiciaus. Can it lie suaiustmi,

that self means to ennAnciler army and ce.intists to tit; buk, unrf
marshes of that country, and never dream of an encroachment
on the fertile and salubrious regions in the rear? As a strung pro-
suinprion to the contrary, we may notice the arrival in Paris of
a number of American Indian Chiefs, and the splendid enter-
. tainutents made for them by the First Consul. Did the First
etasol invite these chiefs to France merely to gratify the cu-
riosity of the French people; or, rather were it not to obtain
their exclusive friendship, and to make the Indian tribes Sub-
servient to his views in this quarter ? Our endeavours to civi-
lise the Indians, and to intruduce agricuiture and the house-
hold arts among Clem, is imputed to us as a crime in the Gra-
' wife defiance; because, it is alledged, our übject is to attach
them to us, and to render them inUnical to other nations. If
theca be the real sentiments of the French, they know how ta
counteract our policy by the operation of their own : They
wick at no means, however base, to accomplish the contem-
plated end. A report is abroad, that our government has a!-
ready received official intelligence of the existenve of French
intrigue among the Indians. This is the more to be belizvel,
front the information given by the chief's who lately arrived at
this place on their way to the seat of government. They stated
that, while on their route, they met some chiefs and old inert
of the Wyandots, to whom they disclosed the object of their
mission. The Wyendets advised them to return, as they would
obtain no satisfaction from the Preeident--but particularly as
their u'd friends the French were about to resume their ancient
pomestions in this country, from whom they expected justice.
" When we take into view threes and various other circum-
stances, what are the suggestions of enlightened prurience and
souild policy ? Self-preservation is a maxim paramount to the
form., of decorum among nations : Their usual policy is more
the result of public security and interest, than of individual
justice and sound mcraiity : yet all these concur to urge sums
prompt And decisive measures on our part. Were we to take
immediate posseetion of Louisiana, we should not be destitute
of judifyieg reasons fur our conduct. The prese,4 glyern men'
of that colliery, witliciut pretext or provocation, has already ie.
f inged its stipulated engegemenu with an. The public law
has pronounced judgment in our falfaur : Nations are authu-
nista to do themselves justice. Why should we wait fir des
slow process of doubtful negotiation ? Spain is only the osten-
sible eroprietor, while France, the real owner of Loilislaries
keeps behind the seem., and prompts her neighbour to acts of
aggression —Fioni the past, we may pretty arecuiately estimate
the future. What has been tile policy of France for the last
nine years, bet a tissue of plunder, depredatioii, and death !.
When she lands her hoary myrmidons ink our Stuart's, veil she
be more meek, or less prolific of injuries ! Now is our ume to
act with dign.ty ; success is certain. At another day, an at,
most invincible power may oppose itself to our wishes; once
in possession of the land of promise, it will acquire tenfold vi"
pour, and be the more stimuleted in pursuit of conquest. I.et
us, therefore, assume the sovereignty of an unfriendly precinct,
contiguous to our settlements, which nature inteuikel for our
inheritance, but which mere blind casualty ravished frettn u .
A small body of troops may at this time make a triumphal ciN
try into it; and wine it once overshadows-el by the pinioes od
the American Eagle, in vain might the despoilet of the fake,*
portion of Europe attempt its reduction."

IWO

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Curiosity is greatly excited at Berlin, by the an-
nounced ascent of GARNERIN and Madame GAR..
N N, in a balloon, which is to take place between
the 10th and 15th inst. Professor D'HEitrdsrAnT
has obtained permission from the KING of Pays.
SIA, to ascend with them, for the purpoie of mak-
ing some experiments in the higher regions.
TRlNlDAD.—Letters from.glis island, inserted in a
Greenock paper, state, that a violent dispute. h 4
between General Pielon and Colonel i.'UlLtr..
ton. They proceed to saz:--e, Landed people seem
at a loss what to ask for their property. A piece of
mountain land was valued the other day (by meh
upon oath) at 251. sterling per acre. Negroes are
also higher than during the war: last sales averaged
801. sterling, payable in fourteen months, per bond,
with interest, after six months. People are running
all risks to make this a valuable colony, and the
planter has at present a most &tufting appearance
of a good crop and excellent sugar. The only
thing at present against the island, is the great mor-
tality among the negroes. Some estates have lost,
in the course of a few 'Leeks, from twenty to thirty.
We are all anxiously expecting the time wherrAve
shall be under British laws. Produce has been ad-
vancing for some time: cotton is now (14th Febru..
ry) 261 a 27 dollars; coffee, 15; sugar, a6l per
1001hs; indigo, 1} ti 2 per lb.; hides, 14 bits each ;
exchange 1921."

BIRTHS.
Yesterhy morning, at her house in Tenterden.street„
Hanoyer.squre, of a son and heir.
On Thursday, at Clayton, Mrs. J. Williams, of a son.
On the sth inst. the Lady of the Mon. Major.Gencral
Forbes, of a son.
On Saturday, the ad inst. at his house in Charlotte..
street, Bloomsbury, the Lady of Sit F. Vincent, But. of a
son.

MARRIED.
Monday, by the Rev. T. Beckwith, in the parish of St:
Martin at Palace, in Norwich, Capt. H. Edgar, late of the
49th Regiment of Foot, to Miss S. Betts, second daughter
of Mr. T. Betts, of Hicklinz.
DIED.
On Monday the zSth ult. Dr. Gregory Grant, Physician
in Edinburgh.
Monday, at St. Leonard's-hill, near Windsor, G. Birch,
Esq.
Tuesday, at his seat at White-place, in the caunty of
Berks, the Reverend Ralph Leycester.
Monday, of a lingerins illness, at his house at Hackney.,
I. Rebell°, Esq.
At Arklow, Capt. 3. Sinclair, of the ytzt Regiment.
On Monday last, at Pinner Hill House, Mrs. Lloyd, wi-
dow of the late R. Lloyd, Esq. and daughter of Sir T.
Wheate, Bart. of Glympton Park, Oxfordshire.
On Sunday se'nnight, at the Hague, H. Van Alphen,
Esq. a Gentleman of high estimation in the literary world,
and a warm friend and admirer of the celebratAl Klopstock.

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