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Yesterday George Sin eh and his wife Ann, were
charged before Alderman SMITH with stealing a
seven-shilling picze, tile property of Mr. Richard
Ealand, a butcher in Cloth Fair, Smithfield, by
what is called ringing the change:.
Mr. Ealand told the Alderman of the prisoners
coming to his shop, and purchasint, a piece of meat,
which came to Is. 7d. for which he received a gui-
nea from the female prisoner to take payment ; he
acct.rdingly pulled out two seven-shilling pieces to
give change, and put them on a table, which being
seen by the man prisoner, he took up the two seven-
shilling pieces, nd saying he had got silver, threw
them down again, when the witness returned the
gainea, and they went away ; but his man desired
hint to take care that they had not changed the se-
ven-shilling pieces, he having heard cl a similar
trick in the neighbourhood ; upon examination, he
presently found one was bad, and the prisoners were
pursued to a wine-vaults, when they were taken into
custody. Five guineas and a 11::If in half-guineas
and seven-shilling pieces, all good mune..., were
found upon them.
The Solicitor of the Mint attended, and recog-
nised the male prisoner to be a John Dalton, who had
been formely convicted4for circulating ha,e coin—he
Was fully committed for trial, but his wiie was dis-
charged.
Thomas Gold,/ was likewise fully committed for
stealing 4.3 yards of striped cotton, the property of
Mr. Burney.

Yesterday morning arrived 'a mail from Jamaica,
brought to Falmouth by the flualand packet.
Monday evening the Judges again as,.embled at
Serjeant's Inn, and heard the remainder of the ar-
guments in the case of Easierby and M'Farlane.
The decision of their Lordships will be declared at
the next Admiralty Sessions.
His Royal Highness the COMMANDER in CHIEF
has appointed Col. SPLMC La, of the late 23,1 Light
Dragoons, to bf! In.pecting Field-Oilicer for the
counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Northum-
berland, and Durham. _ _

His Excellency the Lout) LIEUTENANT Of IRE-
LAND has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Ca Ut: as HENRY St. Jonm, Earl O'Nxia, a Go-
vernor of the county of Antrim ; and the Right
Hon. RcIBERT Lord ERRIS, a Governor of the
county of Roscommon.
Sir RICHARD CLAVTOW, Bart. Sir J. H. HIP-
PR‘LRYs Bart. S. SPRANOER, Esq. Master in
Chancery, and J. Rucotts, Esq. Barrister-at-law,
are called to the degree of Benchers of the Hon.
Society of the Inner Temple.
By a recent letter from the island of Trinidad,
we learn that a number of opulent adventurers have
engaged with great spirit in a project for harming a
great number of plantations of the cocoa-tree,
which is the most profitable tree in the known
world. In Jamaica it is not unusual for a single
acre of cocoa-trees to produce to the owner a clear
annual profit of two hundred pounds.
P. LANOMEAD, Esq, one of the Representatives
of Plymouth, has purchased, for the use of that
port, from Mr. GRAATHF.AD, at his own expence, a
Life-Boat, to be applied for the preservation of
ship-wrecked mariners.
Tuesday General Amoar.ossi, the French am-
bassador, hit secretary Mr. PoRTAI.Is, Baron JA-
co 'I, the Prussian Ambassador, Mr. Sc m Lt. EN-
NINCK, the Dutch Envoy Extraordinary, with Mr.
COWERERDT DE MONBREDT, French Commercial
Commissary, visited Messrs. liaact.av and Co's
brewhouse in Park-street. Southwark, and after ex-
amining with great attention these extensive works
and machinery, they were elegantly entertained by
the opulent brewer, according to the old English
custom, with a Stob-Hole dinner. Amongst the
company present were Sir ROBERT BARCLAY, Bart-
M. P. Sir JOHN MACPHERSON, Hart. Mr. Alderman
HIBBERT, JOHN HILTON TRITTON, Esq. hanker,
and Colonel BARCLAY, Consul General at New
York. _ . _

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Such is the state of some parts of Spain, that
Lord and Lady Hos.' AND have found it necessary to
have a consider-4bie escort in their travels.

According to a plan projected by the A RCiinuic
CHARLES, all the inhabitants of the Hereditary Do-
minions are to be counted, to form an estimate of
the number of persons capable of bearing arms, in
any unexpefted case of emergency. General MACK
frequently assists at the Council of War.
It having come to the knowledge of the Imperial
Cabinet, that there now exhibits a manufacture of
false Vienna Bank-notes on the French territory, an
estatette has been sent to Count CORENTEF L, at
Paris, charging him to make the most urgent re•
presentations to the French Government, to obtain
the arrest of the delinquents.
Letters from Havre, state the arrival there of.one
thousand three hundred French florn Maestricht, to
embark for the Island of Dominica.
Letters from the Russian confines, dated the 213 t h
of December, say, " The ports on the Black Sea are
to be declared free ports. All articles of traffic may
be imported into them, free from duties; and the
Duke de Ricust.tau, Lieutenant-General in the
Russian service, is appointed to the principal di-
rection of the affairs of those places, both commer-
cial and militaiy." . •
General MORZAU gave a dinner a few days ago
to several Officers who served under him derma the
war. Near the end of dinner his guests called for
the cook, and unanimously decreed him a odractlwe
of imam An order for it was immediately given
to one of the first silversmiths •in Paris, and the
allegories to be engraved pn it are said to carry with
dim dm atom curious elusions. •

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NAPAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTIfi j AN. 25.
This thoritteit the Donegal, of 84 guns, Capt. Sir
lUStrachan, sailed with sealed orders, supposed for
the Mediterranean ; but before she cleared St.
Helen's, the signal of recal was made from the
Telegraph, and she has since anchored at Spithead.
There are various conjectures as to the cause of her
return ; it is most generally believed that she is to
take dispatches to Gibraltar.—The Hercule, of 74
guns, Capt. Ferris, is ordered to be fitted and
stored for twelve months, and to sail immediately
for the 'Mediterranean. The Censor gun-vessel,
Lieut. Atcheson, is ordered to Leith to receive
seamen. The Leda and Theta frigates, which sailed
on Saturday to the East Ward, were obliged to re-
turn, owing to strong easterly winds.

PLYMOUTH, Jail. 24.

Letters received here from Jamaica, dated the
2. nth of November last, state the accounts from St.
Domingo, received there, to be particularly dis-
tressing to the French fleet and army. Previous to
the death of General Leclerc, he disarmed the whole
of the 6th regiment of men of colour for cowar-
dice, and attempting to join the Brigands, and with
their wives and families had them conveyed on
board an old transport, which was scuttled and
stink. The whole harbour was soon covered with
floating dead bodies : the poisonous stench arising
from their putrid state, and the heat of the weather,
occasioned dreadful mortality both afloat and on
shore. In one French frigate lying in the harbour,
Out Of '270 men, WO died in six weeks. Every
day boats full of dead bodies were seen drawing to-
wards the shore ; the letter, Which is from an intel-
ligent Officer, says,. the French Officers publicly
declare the affair of the conntte4 of St. Domingo
is very similar to the unfortunate busintss of Qui-
heron with the emigrants, in 1793.—Letters from
Lisbon, received by the owners of the Lord Nelson
schooner, dated Jan..s, state her safe arrival there
in good condition, with a cargo of pilchards, &c.
for Venice and Naples, for a market. She sailed
the nth of November last, and has been ever since
beating about the Bay of Biscay, trying to gain the
Strait's Mouth- in the most tremendous hurricanes
and mountainous seas ever seen by the oldest sea-
man on board. Capt. C. thought it prudent to bear
away for Lisbon, where he arrived safe on the 2d
instant, all well, with a great number of vessels of
different descriptions and nations, some in damage,
all waiting a wind to push through the Gut of
Gibraltar. Came in the Ann, of this port, from
Falmouth ; and the Hop, from Swansea, with
coals.

Came in the Henrietta, Capt. James Poingdarter,
from Honduras, bound to London, laden with
mahogany : she is considered as the latest ship from
the Bay ; and when she sailed there did not appear
to exist any disagreement between the English and
Spaniards, as has been so generally stated in all the
public papers ; the Dasher, of 18 guns, from a
cruise ; the Los:ra, of London, Capt. Fothering-
ham, from Jamaica, in thirteen weeks, bound to
London, laden with rum and sugar ; the Victory,
Capt. John Newel, from St. John's, in '29 days,
hound to London, laden wi►h fish and oil and In
Bonne Mere, Capt. Louis Leumone, from Mar-
seilles, bound to Havre, laden with soap and other
merchanclizs, after a passage of 47 days.

AN. 23.

Arrived late last evening,the hired brig Regulator,
Capt. Redman, from Toru•ia, in '25 days, with the
Leeward Islands Mails, which were intended for the
Lady !Mart packet : but that vessel, on her arri‘ al
at Harbadoes, found, by the scaled orders she car-
ried from hence, she was to sail immediately for
Jamaica, which she accordingly did. The pas-
sengers by the Regdator are, Captain Kerr, and
Mr. Btsh.

Arrived also the Antlland packet, Schuyler, with
the mail from Jamaica, which she left on the 18th
ult. There were lying there his Majesty's ships
Go! ah, Santa Varpritta, Woolwich, and b./pig:y.-
0n the '2Bth nit. in lat. 3'2. 0. long. 69. 56. she ran
her stern on the wreck of a large ship, bottoth up-
warcE, and carried away her cutwater, the packet
then going at the rate of seven knots an hour ; in
consequence of the shock she received, every nian
was carried off his legs ; fortunately no lives were
lost, nor was any other injury done to the ship—it
blowing very strong they could not make any fur-
ther discovery. On the 30th ult. spoke the ship
Mary, of and from Greenock, bound to Norfolk
in Virginia, then in lat. 34. 54, long. 67. 56. ont
days, all well ; and on the 10th inst. in lat. 41, 36.
long. 31. spoke the Betsey,. of and bound to London
from Jamaica, all well. The Auckland brought no
passengers.
His -Majesty's ship Cerderus sailed on the 7tb ult.
from Jamaica with the mail for England.

YARMOUTH, JAN. 25.
The Hope, of Hull, Capt. Dougal, with bran-
dies, which lost her anchors and cables, and which
was obliged to run for Harwich in the late gale,
arrived here on Sunday, to deliver some brandy at
this port : she drove from her anchor on Monday
morning, and the gale continuing with sleet, she
drove on this beach on Monday evening ; part of
the cargo will be saved ; none of the crew have been
lost; hut the vessel it supposed to have received
considerable damage. The Ariaaa Pieter Ne//ar,
Lion Crays' master; and the gonge Catr'na Korne-
Chiel Kuyper, master, two Dutch schuyts,
with passengers, which they landed at Lowestoff,
were, on account of the gale, obliged to slip from
their anchors, and run for this harbour, which they
ruched with great difficulty.—The sailors at this
port have entered into a resolution, not to proceed
to sea without an advance of wages ; in consequence
of which, the merchants not being willing to com-
ply with their request, the ships are prevented from
sailing, as they compel the sailors to leave the
ships.
Remain in these roads the Lynx sloop of war,
which is entering seamen at this port.—The gale
still continues at east, with sleet.

braii, 3A14. 2r4. •

Sailed through the Downs, the Lady Shaw Stewart
Barry, for Montserrat,.
Caine down the Mien, for Leghorn, and remains
itith His Majesty's ships as per Last.-✓ Wind E.
blows hard.
DOVER, JAN. 25._

Arrived from Calais, the Rambler, tapt. Dejo-
beeP—aho PArtif; Captain Baele. In the latter ♦es-
sel, Colonel *Farlane, of the 72d regiment, and
Mr. Gee, *ith•their families, were passengers.
No departures, as it blows to-day too hard front

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the Eastvrarci for any, veuei to attemjit td erase UM
Channel from this Port.

' FROM LLOYD's LIST.
Tke Benjamin and Elisabeth,
.Henderson, from Hotainnti
for London' is put into Charleston..
The Providence, Lewes, from Bristol for Exeter, is lost off
Exmouth.
The Elope, polies', fnim Charente, for Hull, is onshore on

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Yarmouth Roads.
The London Packet, Swaine, hors London for Lynn, is on
shore near Poole; also aucalser vessel, supposed to be the
Union, Head, (rum Lon4ga.
The Ceres, Thompson, and Flyinetah, Miller, that were oa
shore near Whitby, are got of with little damage.
The Dumfries, Gibson, from Dumfries, for Liverpool, which
was said to he lost, is safe at Dos/Alas.
A Brig with timber, from London for Liverpool, is on shore
in Dundalk Bay.

ARRIVED.
At Barbsdoe9—the Atlas, Richards, from London.
At St. Kitt's—the William Manning, Digan, from London.
At Antigua—the Flora, Grant, frons Mad Kira; Favourit:
Richardson ; Jam.s, Henry, from Liverpool ;. Baltic Mer-
chant, Smith, and Cumberland, Drummond, from London.
At Domini :a—the London, King, from London.
At Jamaica—the Nesbit, Wood, and Undaunted, Mayon,
front London.
At Grenada—the Orion, (Away, from London ; and Rosa-
lind, Suttle, from Africa.
At Op wto---the Telemachus, Wells, Harmony, Wells add
Sodulus, ,from London ; Mer s•ut7,Richard ; Dispatch,
Church ; C oieral Prescott, Brand ; Jove, *, and Elisa-
beth, Dern..ster, from Newfoundland.
At D ....rara—.4lte Thames, Bin*, from Africa.
At Cowei—tho Arid, , from Bilboa, and Hope,
Lubbiwk, from Damerara, with damage.
At P.iole—the Jane, Gallop, from Bilboa.
At Weymouth—the Enterprise, WIICOX, from River Plata,
Ana and Hope, Lung; from Batavia, Stag, Hanaun, from
Mes-dra, end N. S. del Carmen, —, from Balboa.
At NI ifard—the Diligence, Griffiths, front Lisbon.
At Itri tol—the Mary, ii:on Virginia.
At Falmouth—the Felicity, Smith, from Virginia, and the
Venus, Toz:r, from Teneriffe
At I loylaka—the Venus, Dallas, from Baltimore.
At Liverpool—the Hope, Daa.mn, from Virginia, Hobson,
Booth, and Fanny, Williams, from Lisbon.
At Clyde—the tiat,th, Bowden, from Charleston.
At St. Kites--the Hero, Smith, from London, and Isabela,
King, front Cycle.
At Grenada—the Charlotte,Mouter, from London.
At Charleaton—the Mary Ann, Ingal, from London.