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London, England, 1808-04-21 00:00:00

LIEUTEAUND VILLIMOES.

Among the Dance who fell on board the Prince
Christian Frederick, of 74 suns, taken by the
Nassau and Srme/m,.we uudermand was Lieutenant
.ViLicauses. He was killed by otie of the last shots
fired in the action. This gat siit officer is thus no-
ticed in an interesting little work ratitied, A Tour
is Zesdand in 1:402 :
go List, though ant least, is Mr. Vi lemurs, a &VOW
Liewtenaur, who commanded the *paling battery, Nu. I.
Much hes beat said about his skill in mammas-ming his
raft, which 7o4nkisted "licitly of p number of beams traded
together, with w fleuring laid to support tke guns. It was
square, with a breast-work fall of port-hulcs, and without
masts. I shall aol take upon myself to mole how far it
were possible to Nblilage such a log, but timely say, the
manaer in which Villeninea mancruvred his guns, and ulti-
mately saved his raft, attracted the notice of Led Nelson,
whine ship lay, fur mmic time, opposite the thiatmg battery.
The Admire: is said, in the hduithennest manner, to have no-
ticed to the Wince Royal, how much the country, ...a future
occasions, snieht fairly expect from the abilities of young
rilletutwx. lists trait of hie Lordship I consider as a never.
froliaq flower in the wreath Adel, military Minns and ene-
ma base twined around his hems."

!Lis Ro7al Ilighttemi Doke of Ctsaettcg
left towa at four o'clock au Tuesday wonting,
for Deal, act mutsanied by his secood wa, Mastt+
I-lEN:tY FITZ-CLAILENC; they crawl' at Leal at
t'at.c..; o'clock at uomi, when 11.8 Modal
resigned his youthful chine to Al offal liEsTc.s,
why took him ou beard the ..itiperb man of war,'
which sailed Feiesdity, and his Royal High/sets
returnetto town.

The Ixtlrticul, as well as the fashionable world, is
attracted to the Sound. 51*.latne CATALANI in
London, and our expeditiou to Swedeu, feel its
influznice.
M4.lnwit CATALANS coons forward in male at-
tire, this night, to entertain her visitors, wbo are
extiected to he av splendid as numerous.
/Se Wield, and Ella Rosenberg, last night, were
well attende.l. His Royal Highness the Duke of
KENT, Lady Claws, Lady 8r0w:1.4 and a UM-
ber of Fashionable', were present.
CATALANS'S Wahz was all the rage at the Easter
Ball, at the Mansion-house, on Monday night.—
The city brokers, however delighted, would have
iven a prtfereace to her notes.
.0 . on, . A.B. of Trinity-college,
Cambridge, ts e:ectett a Fel low of Dowsing-college.
The Right 1100. Deimos Poeticisms arrived, un
Tuesday, in town from Ireland.
Mr. Cools:, last night, played his favourite port
of Sir 'Wanes: Mnesycophant, in MaCaLia'S
tardy of The Man of the Wend, and displayed the
greatest excedence. Mrs. IL JOHNSTON was very
lively in Lady Rodolphe, and the play went off
with great spirit.
Mr. Jolts Ltscome Bost•. of Emmanuel-col.-
lege, and .Ir. SAMUEL Rases, of Caius-college,
are admittist Bachelors of Arts, at Cambridge.
The late emulates' Dowager MOIRA, by the tle4th
of Faatscif, Earl of Husltsnonx, without issue,
succeeded to the eight aracient Baronies of Hunger-
ford, Hastings, Botreaux, Aloets, Pawns%
New march,and Dr Hound.

The subject of the Poetu for Mr. Starotes prize
for the present year, is, The Holy Wars.
Mr. Bottom has declined the contest for Sand-
wich, kering the field to Sprit RAlArtn.--•• Uh
Ask flesh, how art than fi.tilyfed .'"
Tile nev. DANIEL FERIA:SOM. 13..1. late of Em-
manuel College, Canthridge, Hector of Broughton
Sidney, in Nottinghamshire, has been instituted to
the Berm". of Walking ton, in Yorkshire, worth
10001. per annum, nu the presentation of Wm-
Limit TilomPsna, E. 4. of Leetis.
" The Wurbl" of Irrury-luae is aver,. sunsatirra/
one. The pre;surr of the audience rejects f tem-
perate or frigid zone, and acknowledges only the
torrid zone.

The Rev. JOHN HAMMY, late Curate of March.
in the Isle of Ely. is presented, by the Bishop of
ELy, to the Vics•sge of Cuddicot, Herts.
Mr. H. looms Ton is said to hare cleared £5OO
hr liiir benefit in Dublin.

The Rev. ADAM Ct.taitt, Methodist Preacher,
is honoured with a Doctor's degree front a British
Universitr, an the reward of Ins extraordinary
exertion% in the walks of Literature, and is also ap-
poiatril to till a literary stat.on under the House of
Commons.

A shocking accident herd the Lady of W. G. A L-
vuourst, Ewq. of Clewer, Surrey, on Monday night.
Men. ALTWORTIS. her eon, and two daughters, had
returned home from a visit at half-past 11 o'clock,
when the former went into her bed-room, leaving
her family in the drawisig-room. The shrieks of
the mother alarmed her children, and on their
battening up stairs, they found that her garments
;rail caught fire, and were literally reduced to tinder.
Surgical aid was as quickly as potsililentltninistwed,
but the unfortunate Lady died in about three Lours
after the accident happened. A Coroner's Inquest
he. wit on the body, and their verdict was decWeatal
Deed. The deceased has left eight children to
bewail loser loos.

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eezteemies irigeftst

An laqttest was held yesterday by G. Heint.sna,
Esq. at ttielateeeu'a Heal, Itiliagtoil, ou the body
of Mr. Frt.deni k Mosiieke. who was found dead, on.
Sunday warning, in a ditch' near the White Co.-
duit-house. A very respectable Jury attcuded,
who. aftintatiey were swore, proceeded to laliugtoii
Chandra* vleir the body whiell lay .in the vault
under the' church. exactly in the same state in
which it was fouadc The Jury very minutely ex-
amined it; therscappeared a dreadful cut Ms each
side of the threat, and four deep cuts oathe left
wrist ; the left eye wan tweed bleck, as if occa-
sioned by o ;hit pox .near seven inches of a
am:krt. haudkerekiet hang out of the month ; the
handkerchief mind the neck was very tight. the
Inualsawerts "treated• toltards. the throat, • and the
face was cdtatileilaVitia blind ; ace one of the most
dreadful spectacles aver witnessed. The Jury had
the hewn:driller taken out of the mouth, which
was effected with difficulty., uud were ,war tr.enty
minutes in making their obaen.atimis, after which
they returned to the Queen's Head. Severul Gea-
tleineu attended, who were passing at the time the
body was discovered.
The first witnews was Itlr. John Astir, who stated,
that be lived at Nu. 3, Air-street, Clerketver..—
On Sunday morning last, about half-past seven
o'clock, he wits walking, with his dog, from Maiden-
lane, across u field, which was two fields from that
in which the body lay, and three from White Con-
duit-lioure--he did mat think he would have per-
ceived the body of the deceased, had it not been
for his dog, which started and barked-,lns went to.
wards the animal, stood on a husk, and perceived
io the ditch the deceased, lying oil his left tile,
with the right side of his throat cut, and a poeket-
handkerchief in hie uttinth, with only a small corner
of it to he perceived, and the body was covered
with dew. Witness called a boy, who was at some
distance, but he would lint come ; seeing a Ge.die-
mnd walking, heal" called to him—he immediately
came--wad remained on the hunk with witness.—
Shortly kfterwatols, near fifty persons naseinnleil,
when some of them, unkpown to witness, drugged
the body out of the ditch, and one of them pulled
the handkerchief out of the deceased's month, near
seven iii. hes, when witness interfered, and ob-
served, as the Jaen was deed: it was better not to
take it out, until it had been ipsaeirserf-hy the Jury.
W""e" a44llibittnfieed a iisaadfalr•ent Ore 'the left
side of„thathissab • Witness knelt nothing'entire-..
and went abay..•
Mr. eSehitisiA hitxTTer,mereleant,anda -relative
of the daweasedZsiatesa, that he lives in Bartlett's-
:42oo4ra Hodgman,—ile knew Mr. F. blonicke
nrsifly litima years; the dec. a eel lived in Ward-
robe-place, Doctore'lCOrajpaiia. 444 was lay trade a
fareifik;• liefieettl' he nivs!forty:tliree yems of •
T4lfiattiasia he saw lima woks ntiPtiary hut,
betwetianolipaliaa "dock Iri theatti.rairmii, at
the Vt'itnesa'awatair 'house in Bartletes-latildings,
Holborn. He appeared to himiu a very low and
dejected state, iq consequence of sonic embarress-
, meats in his affairs. The deceased had a meeting
of'his creditors the day before, and felt mach dis-
appointed that nothing had been done at the
meeting. Witness said every thing in hie power to
comfort him, and was to have sera him sive• next
day ; he remained with hind near half an hoar, mid
went away very low in spirits, but very cosuponed."
The knife found in the field was produced to wit-
ness, who said it was each us furriers make use of.
Mary Millet; wbo resides at No. 7, White Lion-
yard. W.hite Cross-street', stated, that she had
worked for Mt. Monicke, at his house No. e,
Wardrobe-place, Doctors':Coinalons,, for, upwards
Lof five yeniannaillrin hangars. 14' forra4; Sloe ol
ry seed hiat.affifieto be in tty, inelanchotv date.
1.21" tact tient' ihe saw ;her tipster, was at his own
haute, on Saturday evening List, about half past
seven. He did not speak to her, but only passed
by the parlour door and appeared to he in A. very
low and dejected 'Otte witness was told that he
went out about eight:O'clock that evening, aed she
did not know of bye death antil Stereine
The knife was. produced .ro witness, Sota*Stsless
a furriel,:lhat:wi• hate tht could'het swear
ed 111 bag matter. The pocket handherchief wits
1010 produced; it was a small white handkerchief,
with a coloured border. Witness said she knew it
to belong to the deceased.
Here the evidence domed, when u conversation
took place with Mr. Shirley, a surgeon at ivinigtoti,
repeating the vesture of the wounds. He Kind it
could not be well ascertained, without dissecting the
parts, but in his oainion the jugular vein was cut.
Here the Jury expressed their unanimous opinion
that the deceased had come to his death by
an net of his own. They, therefore, did not
think it necessary to hear farther evidence, and ac-
cordingly returned a verdict—" That the deceased
had come to his death ty elating his throat at a time
when he was not is a sown/ Moir of mind." He
was a name of Germany, and has left a wife and
six children, the elde4 only Wow years of age, and
the voitugest only one month, old. NC' lien he left
ho neon Saturday, he told his wife that he was
g.in to Finsbury-square, and would be at house
by tat o'clock. Two shillings and some halfpence
were found in his pockets. One of the ereditars
of the deceased. u geialetnan resident in Fittibury-
square„and several other persons, who saw the laxly
shortly after it was discovered oil Sunday morning.,
attended to give evidence, but were not culled
anon. A greet crowd was collected at Islington
church at the time when the Jury were viewing the
body. Several of them contrived to make their
way into the vault where it lay, and one meme on
coining out, dromagLabarn in the chareavord,'
aanyently lifelasenditmas ititilartlyeliscovcre d;how-
ever,that be bad only fainted mita, being overcome
with terror stilt" • lit e - shocking a spaded*. •
The commeneement..*4 Tuesday. at the gravel
Commercial Hotel, is iSkinoernitreet, before the
Commissioners and Trustees of-the (IV Lottery.
of cutting off the Tickets' iota the Wheels ,ex the
same time that it derplilipioeessediAbs Altruism of
spectators with gm,Neanitipprosell of theaditaing,
gave them an "amiability of contemplating the
magnificence of the Memnon, which heads the nu-
merous Capital Prizes that entirely stand at issue
on Tuesday next. The *erne was altogether, aid
which still continues so, of stitch an inter sting de-
scription, as to oceatioq a great additional demand
for the now vary inconsiderable portion of Tickets
and Simms that remain unsaid.

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11WMARIET CE4EN MELTING, sot. •
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Mt. }:ellelAsi's tut. boot Lord t Seat
rew,(4s: two-ti it9tP.
•PtZ I na.aaiso Jsa,tica.
111 r. Earsis's Tuilorkjira‘l r sUdvapettre'. s Act..
Two-yrar old C. 41). z.
5 to 4 on To•lar.
The Secool Class of the t/allaild tatakes of 507 e.
1,. R. 1!.1.
Lord Grosvenor's Violsitte 5 yrs old, gst olb. - t
Duke of Grallue.'s Parsed aged, at. ;alb. - g
Sir J. Iluitywund's I/striae, 4 yrs o'4l, at t gtb. -
Sir f'. Turner's Ilion% 4 yru old, sat. - - 4
Mr. D. Bodclitte's Ildnaso, rs old.
Mr. K elleentsn's L'llu.h k Vrous, a yrs old, ;.t. ulb. 6
Mr. Mallet's Jsreis, •by Asubeos,o, out at Joni, r,
4 yrs aid, 7st. 4th. - 7
Mr. Femmes flipposstors, 5 yrs old, M. 11b. • oat
Mr. Like's l'oriolaass, 9 yrsold, let. 7lb. - -
Loot F. Benticel.'s Job Thurnbervy, 9 yrs old, let. pd
Sir J. Shelley's ('lasher, yrs old, sit - P 4
b to 4 against Vtolauts—d to I against L'lltsik ar tenon.
Sweepstukes of loop. eiscb. Across the Flat.
Mr. Sh7keepeates Zodiac 911.
Lord Jersey's I-augton, pd lop. 7st. 71b.
Lord Foley 's Al:solute, 151 legs. 7st. alb.
Mr. Pa, nr a Ferdinand, 7st. olb. rec. vv. 61011 Mr. lake's
Coriolsuus, sat. 7114 Across the Flat, :wogs. la. A.
1). of Grafttai's Masitsaty Sit. 12a, rec. svgs. from Mr.
Llosd's Cardillo!, art. ddb. Mr M. let.v., b. ft.
Mr. ratedttitresMsatentilit, sat. 611 i. rre. 'Met. trona LA
Jesseg's Poke, 74. a h Too-,r okl Coarse, wog,.

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OFFICLIL INSTRVeituNS.

ST Na eeintnessescas NOS INNITINTIVII Tat ernes
Or LOAD SION •INIIIII•L OP Till UNITED kINCDOS
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The ft:ght HungersMe Ltd Castlereagh, nue of 114 Ms.
j(aWt.Prioeipal Secretaries of St.ite, busing trsostnitted to as
II is Ilf•iesty's Instruction, unthr he. signet and gigs 'wraith
dated tlu tolls of March, lac*, to the Commanders of Hi.
Mojest)'s ships of ear and privateers, 111r:civil( that all non*
haring on board Negroes, captured on the Coast of
ponoiont to the provisiour idol Act of Parliament pawed in
Ilse 4; tit year of is present Aiaj.sty's Reign, entitled "In
Act far the Alolilion of die r CT! Tr,die," be eareed hats
Sierra Lent*, a colon Or the coast of Africa, 1.4.11. adjudica-
tins ; Vie send you irciused printed Copies of ICs
Majesty's- it ',ruction idweinentioced, and du hereby re-
quire and 41 :• et you to pay the situ trst regard net: c?trilloti
thereto, :vs give the like directions to all the faptions,
COUSMIOAkr I, sad Couitesoding tifticers, of His Majesty's
ships sod vessels ustkr your constraint
(deco ic • -dcr our liac.ds the of Apt il, loos.
To
Coin:::and of their Lordships,
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SHIPWRECK.

The Persererairce, Bristol packet, *ailed front
Cork harbour on Sunday the 3d instant, with a
cargo on board, and a number of parsetnic.s. Ott
.the eveoiog.of that day she cleared the hathont
with the wind itlowmg forrsh from the S.S.W.
Towards iiightiillegals,tactslasail—and during the
night bei•atne,...lsevricaue. • The sea was ?mini% •
mountains high,` avith in a shalt time store iu the
caws.eriadowo. The coalition of the vessel Wu
then aluitning. In this efige•icy every /*Mire that
could be matte fur lier preservation was used Ly
Cml44ll,bieAtilaWan. and oil Mon,My, the storm still
coutinumg,Amilstupytited to near •h,;Welietasmaseelitedekilinve not eister,.it!e front
oxtreteittikosithstasr °film sea. 11. con!ego.A.'ly
euilawrearsed keep.) the *easel off; bnt :t
beceltitt tediailiiiii4calite by the helm, emu r •
&mut Only to the flay of the storm. Ots •.
day „mossioup •eat• 490 f Fast thrto o eAw . e
struck on Istaidelt"patt ut „Via :coast of '
—Tkie sittmairi:4l•o:loy A. hard st: •
that 'time cleplialaela,Milait.linats being got
with every expe.iitioS, and an en.) tide etas
siodie:maistance, the platen:erns and raw were ads
litatiod in safety, In to short tieuemfter her strikinter"
the stern parted, and drifted out to sea. Her titre.
lers, however, remained firmly together, tut: a •
part of the cargo •was saved, which was effected,
with as much expedition as possible. thi l'nvirte
illy, two days after she had struck, she went to
pieces.
After the cargo had bet-) landed, a fortunate
accident prevented it from the plunder too often
practised its similar circunistaiscei•. The accenct
of the shipwreck reached Swansea critically as a-.
corps of Voluuteer Cavalry were about to be die-
iiinucd after an iaspection, and they, with a most
creditable aliscrity,.proreeded to the place, and im-
mediately took the property in charge. A; consi-
derable quantity of the whiskey she had on board
was lost after landing, it being found better to de-
stroy it thati to permit the people, who crowded to
the wreck, to drink it, %hid) they were doing
greedily, and destroy themselves ; two died of in- •
toxication before that preeentiern was adopted.

The SPZANSIII of the House of Commons has
notitic.l hi, having received the Cominiavione:s* rc- .
Lora, from Ireland, of the evidence on the Dublin
Uniiervity rk t tion, and directed the Committee
to reassemble, in order to take the same into cot.-
sicleration on l'iscsday, the 3d of his 7.
At Autrim Assizes, • cause was tried in the Re-
cord Court which excited considerable interest. A
fanner named 1111117, was plaintiff, and one Y °Lao
WWI defendant. This action was bmdklit. by the
Plaintiff, for compensation for the loss of the arr.
viers of his daaghter, whom the Defendant had se-..
duce& The damages were laid at soul. A another
of respectable witnesses were examined, who gave
the, young woman an excellent character, for the
general proprietv of her conduct, before the Leeitice
acquainted with.the Defendatit--and, after hearing
the 'ligament*. of 'Counsel oa Loth sides, stud an
able and perspicuous charge from the Hon. Justice
DALY, the Jury brought in a verdict of tlool. da-
mages, and bd. costs.
. • trial of a similar nature afterwards took pl me,
when a verdict of i. 301. and lid. tints, was given
for the Plaintiff.
Laurel:re Bourke was lately tried et Connie!,
before the Hon. Justice FLlzroma, and a most'
respectable Jury, for tiring at ate won .ding MALT
1.1 ins rasur.s ; the result iris* minithste actystirral
of Reinke, and an exchange of situation between
him and one of the Prosecutors, who was onritited
into the dock, and bills of isidictment immediately
found against him. The very great prey of bun-
netts did not afford time for the bial of the debit-
pleat. but we bent he 4 held in large bail to abide
his triad at thie next narizes. This ins., is the near
relative of Join Rrri, who was executed for tics
murder of Bourke fotker.
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LvrrauGENCO..l.-

• . rowesuotrw, Aram V).
Ptit 'welt tisTitsjesty's rtuFr< Ylelp' witeme, Jiro_
wedary, atoll Asaarereths, gitn the tlcet foi• the West
ludies.-+Yrasl W.

porauntiklialL 14.
Calile in His 111ajest3''s shiproSiriolktw, Scorpion,
and La Recife, trou► a. erlft* Cockatrice I.ud
Eagle, with a vonvey front the Downs.
The Four !Shiers, of this port, from Wales, was
run down, on Finlay la-V, otf the Eddystone, by a
large cutter, and sunk itatnediatety ; the crew
saved.
A vignal is made at Maker-Tower, for five sail of
the line to the westwitrd, suoposed to be Admiral
Duckworth's *quadrats.

PALI4OdTII. APRIL 17.

Sailed the brig Pilo, is Kan., with the
Andrews; Mary, Dusmore ; Erperitneat,----, for
blnlt.e: and the Dili:;ente, store-ships for Gibraltar,
tojoia the outvrard-tioand Nlerliterrancan fleet now
of this uort, under convoy of the Volu,taire, of 40
Runs, and Serapit, armed en Pte. The fleet con-
sisted of about 40 sail, and proceeded down Chautiel
with a tine Breese.
Yesterday sailed the Prin-ess Charlotte packet,
Gibbon, with mails of the Gth in for Barbadoes
and Jamaica; and the Duke of Kent, Coatessvortii.
with mails of nine date for klalifax and New Ydrk.

DELI, ♦I'RIL 19.
Sia ea Ilia Majesty's whip Leda. fur Sheerness.
iutl Southerly.

Hel.T. APRIL 19,

• The Providence Goodwill, Captain Briggs, ar-
rived herr, en Saturday evening, from Loudon,
and brings information, that on the NMIe wort:-
inc, about six o'clock, a smack-bullt privateer,
i‘h rigged topsail-yard and black sides, fell 'Ai with
a fleet of about saii of light collies, awl brought
fear of them to, Saltfleet hearing W. by S. June
lowerel his stern haat, and boarded theta ;
they afterwards bore away with hims steering
E.S.E. appearing to be captured.