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IRELLIIVD.

ocatia, DEC. O.
There are a ermsiJerable number bf coasting ves-
sels in °or harbour, laden with grain and matt, as
also salted and dried fish, with sundry other ne-
cessary Articles; likewise Dungarvott sloops, with
Apple anJ black potatoes. There are likewise ves-
sels from the coast of Wales and the West of Eng-
land, freighted with Portland stone, oak bat k, aul
oak planks, fish, salt, &c. and, moreover, a num-
ber of colliers.

On Tuesday lair, Lord Cathcart set out from
Galway, on his return to this city.
The poor inhabitants of the neighbourhood of
Cartt.n will have to regret the death of their illus-
trious benera^tor, during the approaching Christmas.
Ia th•! lite time of the Duke of Leinster all their
wants were supplied—but where is now the hand
that will relieve them?

Mrs. Creswell is not dead, as has bet n reported ;
she is, however, in a delicate state of health, and
for the present, has quitted the stage.
We feel great satisiaetion in having to announce,
that the murderers of Johnson, the blind man, of
Simpson's hospital, and of Mallow, his comrade, are,
ptobably, by this time in custody. l'his discovery is
to be attributed to the lendable promptitude in the
duty of his office, of our Superintendent Magistrate,
Alderman Alexander, who, immediately Ate/ the
horrid deed, dispatched a chief peace officer, Mr. '
Logan, and a petty constable, named Jordan, to the
north, in quest of the atrocious offenders. Mr. Lo-
gan has been enabled, we bear, to obtain a charge
of the foul crime against Mrs Johnson, the wife of
the deceased, and a man of tile name of Boyle,
who is supposed to be the monster who adminis-
tered the poison in the fatal cake. An examina-
tion has been had from a woman, who has de-
"posed that Mrs. Johnson confessed the tad to
her, of pros iding the poison, aid that Mrs. Johnson
said, at the same time, she much relented the dia-
bolical
contrivance, shortly atter she gave the poi-
son to the person to administer, but too late to pre-
vent the direful deed. !she and Boyle have fl d from
Donegall ; out the last letter from Mr. Logan, the
clod peace-cificer, states a certainty of his being
able shortly to overtake them, from the closeness of
the pursuit he was then making.—Duldia Journal.
THE LATE CAPT. HUDDART.—WE are happy to
learn that a subscription is about to be set on foot
for the destitute family of the above-mentioned un-
fortunate Gentleman; and we have no doubt, that
in the abundant benevolence of this capital, a case
of such deep and affecting di.tress will find more
than a temporary relieh
We hear, an English Company of Shoemakers
have been induced to form an establishment in this
city, who can import shoes and boots from their
country, and sell them here at per cent. under the
price charged by our Dublin shoemakers. such are
the consequences of avarice and imposition.
Colonel Faulkner's new regiment, consisting of
1,603 men, was inspected in We Pnee-is Park, on
Thursday last, by Sir Charles Asgill, who, on pass-
tog them, was pleased to pay the highest compliment
at their handsome and soldierly appearance. 'I bey
are a fine set ef young men.
We understaLd that a plan has been adopted by
Government, which, at the same time that it will
produce the grea•est advantage to the public service,
is calculated upon the most just and beneficial prin-
ciples to individuals. An addition is to be made
to every Second Battalion of the Regiments of the
Line of Ten Boys per Company ; they are not to
be less then five feet high, nor inure than sixteen
years of age ; they arc to receive a Bounty of Half-
a-Guiliet, and the persons who recommend them to
the regiment are to receive Two Guineas. The
hoes are to be clothed and furnished with necessaries;
a.id are, in case of sickness, to be on the same
footisig as other soldier. ; but they are not to do
duty till they are of sufficient age and strength.

The new Toptg Roiczor, Mister BiNwat.t., who
recited Cidliar': Ude me Ike 12,1511011 S with so much
applause, a short time since, at the Chester Theatre,
is only eight years of age. The first discovery of
his abilities was the performing the charafter of the
Dike of lurk, in the Tragedy of Ring Rickard the
Tird. lie delivered the speeches with so much
energy and feeling, as to produce universal and en-
thus:Astic applause from a crowded house. His
father is a respeftable aftor belonging to the Chester
Theatre, who is determined to pay every Attention
to cultivate his genius, and to improve his education,
but thAt he shall LUX attempt any principal charailer
till he is ten years of age.
Mr. WIATCAR, brother to the celebrated breeder
of cattle, alighted from his horse yesterday at the
door of a tea-dealer in Gracechur,.h.sereet, and
We7:s :no the shop to buy a pound ,•f t:'d. In 1115
abstisc the sadJle was stolen from ud lior.e's
back.

A Noble Duke, whose chief delight is in making
the Poor about him as happy and comfortable as
possible, last week gave orders to purchase One
Hundred Sixteenths in the present Lottery, ard
reeled his Steward to buy them at ten different
Offices, and distribute them to One Hundred dif-
ferent Childaen in the neighbourhood where be lives.
Yesterday morning, about six o' •losk, a fire
broke out a: a bird-cage-maker's, at W.:-end New
Town. tac;n:4 the London Hospital. which com-
municated ;r,a China shop. and which set tire to
Mr. 80,. se's house and shop; on the appeara oce of
the Ere, the drums beat to arms, when the olun-
teers repaired to the place to keep off improper
person:; the engine belonging to Mr. Li 's
distillery revs the first that Arrived, and then the
engines belonging to the different Insurance Offices
poured in very tact; the flames were subdued with
great difficulty, the houses bring very old and dry,
but most of their contents were destroyed.
In pulling down the condemned houses in front
of St. Clement's church in the Strand. a stack oi
chimnies built of brick, which seised four of them,
wasleft standing. It contained twenty fire
and as of a pyramidical figure taperini to theistcoei:
w
Yesterday, about three u.clock, p. it fell scd.
deftly down. A man, who was working at its
foundation, had just time to save himself in a 'auk
close to it. Yesterday mornir.g. about two o'clock,
a. sae. the house in the same range. w'nich stood at
the corner of the Strand, also fell suddenly with a
tremendous crash, but fortunately also without doing
any injury.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, Ore. V.
S tiled this morning the Leopard man of war,
Rear-Admiral f,r-uis ; rlnd,,itnon and I mai it
frigate*; and several gun-brigs on a cruise, cif the
French coast.
Remain in the Downs, the /search, Antelope, .4r.
dent, Cevlor anu lulterihe men of war; Jamsire
fri-
gate; Orestes, Cur'ecv, Alert, Harpy, and Dar: sh.ops
of war; "'alumna, Yes/trims, and Devatintion Lambs;
Mosinee., Tteller. Bouncer, and It.:d gun-brio ; and
a fleet of armed sliips.—Wind Easterly.

neat, DEC. e 4.
On Thursday last, the lfercar!,, Martin; and the
Tito,,, Hudson, both from this port, for Tonningen.
put back, from severe frost, and a stress of weather;
the former has returned with the loss of an anal(/'
anal a cable ; the latter, with the lint of her fore•
mast, bowsprit, and both anchors and cabin-, whilst
riding oil Heligoland, yesterday seionight. Th•
Trllo,e was obliged, in crossing the soa, to he taken
in tow by the convoy.
On the same day, the Amisialor, Hitter,
Shields, and the D. Vratl, AC/.,
lrom Gixen, in Spain.b,ab for Totiaingen, put into
this port from the same cause which obliged the ,
above two vessels to re:urn.
A letter from the owner of a vessel just arrived,
from Smyrna, states, that when the vessel left Gila.
raltar, on the 17th ult. the Captain was told by the
Pratique Master, that the town an,l garrison were
tl:en in good health, not a single death having oc-
curred for some days.

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Plenty the Pines tinlll they were distinguished from
all other peisons, bh calling both the eldest and the
rest of the King's sent Me wad Chtuarr, and they
had no other titles. Now Clito is a Latin word,
which cranes from the Greek word Kir'te3, which
signifies birtyisr, most noble and famous. So the
word ,Eiheling, as Edgar ,Etheliag, who was not the
Kin's sin, but his great nephew, from the Saxon
word Ethel-Robtlo ; which shews that all the Royal
Family were called by the ..ame name .ts the King's
sons; and so sets out the admirable un:ott of the
Royal Family.
•4 The first son of the King is called Prince nt
England, bef)re any crc.vion ,o it is in Scotland.
Ket..ne the Union he was called Prince of Scotland;

ant so (says Mr. Selion) it is in nther nations ; as in
France, the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France,
was called ei'dir ftWeis de Piz:ere—Grandson of
France, nut Grandton to the King. So Henrietta
Maria, in the marriage articles with Charles the
First, was called Idle de France,-Daughter of
France, and not daughter of the King. Having
then made it appear, I think chiefly, that all the
children and grand-children of the Roysil Family
are public "persons and Ninces of the nation, and the
Prince of Wales himself one and the same person
with the King; it follows manifestly, as a just cornl-
Liry :end consequence, that the King, woo has the
executive power in him, is to have the care and com-
mand in the marriages of these children fur the
good or th swh lie nation. It is part of that origi-
nal trust, which, by the constitution of our govern-
ment, is reposed in the King fur the security of his
peeple. And as this is a prerogative vested in the
crown in the reason of the law and nature of a ma-
-..archy, so in all ages the Crown has pr.iftised and
been in possession of this right. Now in the point
of marriage, t!ierc are precedents from the time of
H. 111. down to this time.
" In 28 H. 6. it leas one of the articles of im-
peachment of High Treason against the Duke of
Suffolk, Mr attempting only to marry his sun to
Margaret, the daegliter and heir of the Duke of
i, Somerset, who had a right to the Crown after the
c, death' of the King without issue, although she was
not heir apparent, for there was a Prince of \Vales
then living. When he came to his trial, lie did not
deny but It was an offince, but insisted it was not
true, for that some of th- Lords then present knew
that he intended to marry his son to the Earl of
Warwick's daughter. And this is still the stronger,
because this Lady was in ward to him, and so he
had a private right in her marriage.
" By an Aft of Parliament, 28 11. S. it is made
• high treason tee marry any of the Royal Family. It
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is thereby ena.fted, that if any person presume to
•snury any one of the King's children lawfull,-
it born, or otherwise, or commonly reputed, or taken
his children, or gramlchildren, without the spe-
cial leave of the King, he shall be adjudged a traitor
to the King, and the Realm ; and thereby it is made
hint] treason in the Lady too, being against the
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King and the Realm, which chews clearly that the
whole kingdom is'concerned.
" And though this Ad is now repealed in a
crowd with other Afts to bring all treasons to the
standard of 2.5 E 'ward 111. yet it is impossible the
Parliament should make that high treason which
was no crime at all before, and especially high trea-
son in his own children ; nay, when it was Lawful
beiore to marry any person of the Royal Family (if
the doftrine we lie might be true), and each had
Pa right to marry as they pleased. And it is ob-
i' servable here that the Parliament makes no difference
~ whether the father be living or not, nor takes any
care of that paternal right which is pretended.
" In Queen Mary's time, though this offence
ceased to be high treason, yet it did not cease to be
a clime; for in the year 1559, the King of Sweden
V sent a message secretly to the Lady Elizabeth, the
Queen's half-sister only, afterwards Queen Eliza-
beth, who was then at Hatfield, to propose mar-
riage to her. But she rejected it with warmth, far
this reason, because the proposal came not to her
by the Queen's direttion. And upon an excuse
ma!e by the King of Sweden, that he first made
love as a gentleman of quality to gain her consent,
:ar.J then-he would, as a King, address himself to
the Queen in proper form, bee answer was, she was
• to anti:nein no such propositions unless the Queen
• set* them to her. Upon this the Queen sent Sir
Thomas Pope to the Lady Elizabeth, to let her
ibill6e- she well *penned of the answer she had made,
Pend the Lady Elizabeth further declared, she would
invite tee the messenger more, because he had pre-
7snmed to come to her without the Qneen's leave.—
!lb that here is one foreign king and two Qacens of
4 England concurring in the same sentiment, which
!seems strongly to argue, that it is the law of na-
tions, as well as the prerogative of this crown.
* " The next instance I shall mention, is the ease of
*Lady Arahmla, and a law baok to support it, and
that is the Countess of Shrewsbury's case, 12 Co.
94. in the 10th year of King James the First. The
Countess of Shrewsbury was then in prison, and
tent fur before the Council to answer to a contempt
of dangerous consequence, bee-ante she refused to
answer when examined about Lady Arabella's flight
for marrying Mr. Seymtair, she being of the Royal
Family : and there the Attorney and Solicitor Ge-
neral of the King charged it as a crime, that
Lady Ar.hella, being of the Blood Royal, had
married Mr. Seymour, second son of the Earl of
Hertford, without the lung's privity and consent.
Now it appear Seymour was committed to the
Taxer for Lai, offence, hut escaped ; and that Lady
Arabella was also committed, and she escaped, and
was taken flying beyond sea before she gt over.
" The first crime charged on the Co em washer
a! erring the flight of Lady Arabella, "illitCC, and
the immediate creme was not answering isgiihat case.
/low, as marrying without the King's leave was nn
rirtse, she could never have been accused for nut
answering to her abetting the Right for such a mar-
siage; deo that the marryieg without leave was
plaenlv charged as a crime. 'ley both were com-
mitted for a crate, and they both fled as for a crime,
an/ Ilk is admitted and taken for granted to he a
crime. And her contempt in not answering in the
ease of marriage in the Royal Family was also re- I
solved to be a ctien, ; and this was done by all the ,
great Ministers of State, and by the Chancellor and
two Chien Justices (Fleming and Lord Coke). and
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Duchy and Chief
Baron, in the fifteenth year of King James I. and in
the end she was fined ten thousand pounds, and com-
mitted In the Tc weir.
likg i 1..- nest ca-a• I, shell mention, is the marriage

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