The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-12-31 00:00:00

HYDE PARK.

Yesterday being a fine bracing day, the streets
dry and the sky serene, the derpentine boated en
extraordinary number of excellent skaiteri, and the
Perk presented a greater display of carriages, horse-
men, and pedestrians, of all ranks and classes. thus
we ever witnessed at this season of the year. In the
splendid ring we noticed the carriages of the—

Duke of Roxburgh,
Earl of Barryinoro,
Viscount Carleton,
Lord Harr.,..b,,,
Lord Castlereagh,
Lord Morinth,
Lord Greueille,
Lard MelsiVe,
Ri,hop of Litchfield,
Bodiv of Clio-he,ter,
Sioni•lt A ntimssador.

Lori and 1.,1,1Y 9(an.rr.•,
Sit Richard !fermi,
Co'une: Corner,
(2.0 Duncan,
IV Rowley,
Dr. Hebeoien,
Dowager Duch,•« n( Len!,
Marchinge*" of V. I
G,nnd, of 1..‘er,00 ,
LA,/ Loo tog Mac.1....,k1,
I lan..wSy

At half past three, the Park on the south side of
the Serpentine became so crowded with speetators,
that it wa► impossible to pass or repass that was.
fhe agility and graceful movements of the .kaiser.,
as it were, riveted their attention. The candidate,
144. fame at this delightful exercise were norm-
T',115. and many of them entitled to great praise.
Pre-eminent, however. in the list were tour Ladies,
two of them, we understand, n stives of Brabant, and
two from Amsterdam. They remained upward:et
twenty minutes upon the ice, vying with etch other,
and astonishing the beholders by the elegance and
velocity of incur movements, and the variety of the
figures, which they executed in their rapid career.
In the most difficult part of the art. the rctro..r.iste
movement, they particularly excelled. Colonel
Cat LFIELD and a great number of young N.,lfletne t
exerted all their skid in competition, but were u-
ligesi to yield the palm to these fair foreigner*.

Lieutenant-Colonel G WAGE A. F. LA Kt. on bah
pay of the 2 uh Foot, is appointed I)e?wv Quarter.
Master Genet al to the troop sr; viog in the
East Indies, vice 'LIMIT, deceased.
The Countess of TA Lour arrived in town yes-
terday at Mr. A sisom's house in St. James's-scum:T.
where her Ladyship will remain till after he:
accoacitnte,t, which is expected in a few days.
The Dosva•Ter Lady Di CLIFFORD intends sport.
ing, on the ensuing Birth-Day, a fashionable car-
riae, of a construction entirely
BON A P•Riet imperial Mantic is like charity—f. it
covereth a multitude of sins."

The Hnn. SUMMERS CUCKS. M. P. and Imlay
have arrived at his nuuie iii Iler.ford street, for Cie
season.

Mr. Inc i.kDON performed at the Beth Theatre on
Saturtlei night last, in Lore re • Village and The
Q mekn•. _ _

Mr. H"LT expeded to find The Land r n.,
flowing with milk and honey, but. it has
out ,uur moue.

The CoutiteAs cf CHESTINFIELD is nab) in the
famly svay Her Ladyship is at Kradby.liall, in
Derbyshire. Great hopes are einettAined, that tli^
noble infant will prove a son and heir.
The Opera nn Saturday night was very splemli,'
the boles were very tall, and the ladies
dressed.

T.iis night TA- Sadter'y Dniphirr and 11
•f ibe OaAs be performed At the Louth Tir•.'••
These is Al% 13411 At UppingliAm. and aiwtf.. c ..(
Castor.

The theatre at Liverpool re-opens this night vain!.
The ilerci&mat 4!/- Vasa.% A gentkman makes hi•
dehui in the character of Shylork.
The Norwich Theatre will open on Saturia,
next, with Lave in • I'dleige, and Tice Vraq:
Lseuwr.
His Majesty of BATH has announced his grtni
assembly for Friday week, when it is expeaed all /1,,
liege and trusty subjelts will attend his court.
On Saturday night Mrs. Jou oast wore a niost be-
coming turban of white satin and white fur.
The Bath Harmonic Society have their next meet
ing on Saturday. The Stewards on the occasw:
are the followingt_Gentlernen:—Major &sarong). V
H. WINS rtilit, Esq. Dr. BILADSNAVi, Major Not!
WALSH PORTLI, Esq. J. W. Sic rir, Esq. t;
DANDRIDGE, Esq. Li.vi Amts., Esq. T:,e einer.
tainment prepared for the Laci;ss by the Mernli--
of the Bath Harmonic Society will be of the
spleastid description; and Master JUNI is hn re(
tho special permission of Hcr ft. H. ele
Wsiss, to assist at the concert. with vint.;
evening amusement is to corntrume.

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THEATRE.

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A new Comedy was performed at this Theatre,
on Saturday night, entitled "The Land we Live in."
The principal clarafters were thus represented.

Sr ROWlaall English, . . Mr. Wroil:hton.
Sir Edw.tril Metall*, . . Mr. Powell.
Sir Harry Lovelace, . . Mr. Barrymore.
Young Melville, . Mr. Elliston.
Harcourt . . . . Mr De Camp.
Dexter, . . . Mr. Bannister.
Peter, . . . . Mr. W.•%,itz ,r.
Mr. Roger, . . . 11Ir M
Larry Machoof . . . Mr. J. Johuhtone.
. . . . Mr. Purer.
Rightley, • . . . Mr. Raymond.
Laly Lovelace, . . . Mrs Jordan.
Mi.s Betty, . . Miss De Camp.
Liddy, • . Miss Pope.
Mrs. Doublecharga, . . Mrs. Sparks.
Polly, , . .Miss Mellon•
Susan. . . . .

In the execution of this task, the Author has not

consulted historic trirh, n r

Had the author of this piece submitted with pa-
tience and resignation to the just sentence of con-
demnation pronounced upon him by a humane and
merciful Jury, we should have let it pass like all
other abortions of its kind, which never can become
the subje& of interest or discussion, and may there-
fore, in charity to the author, as well as justice to
the reader, be suffered to steal unperceived away
along the stream of oblivion. But when, after a fair
trial, a most patient hearing, and a decided verdift
against it, we are assured by the author's friends,
that this is " a play so admirable as to command
unqualified approbation ;" when he has the bold-
ness to state, in an advertisement in this Paper,
that " his piece did not receive a candid hearC
and that he has, therefore, determined to publish it
with a preface," to shame the audience and critics, no
doubt," we depart with reluflance from our usual
course, and, without the least disposition to slay the
slain, are forced by necessity into an ungrateful de-
tail. The Play opens with the arm ival of Young
vide, in obedience to his father's command, at Lynn
in Norfolk, to marry Miss Betty, daughter of Sir
Rowland Eniclith. The parties here, as in the case of
Miss Hardenstle and Mr. Marlow in " Th, Mistahes 4!)-
a Night," have never seen each other, and of course
Young Melville, who is enamoured of another, has an
opportunity of substituting. in his place his cousin
Harecort, a young officer; who agrees to personate
him, and extricate himself from his pecuniary embar-
rassments, by accepting the hand of the wealthy
daughter of Sir Hanolanal English. Lady Lovelace ar-
rives at the same inn in pursuit of a husband whom
she loves, but between whom and her, caprice aid
the follies of the day, without any crime or disho.
flour on either side, have produced a separation.
Here she meets Young Meleille, whe had been
formerly her admirer, and is ignorant of her
marriage with Sw Harry Lovelace, whom chince
has brought to the same place in pursuit of his wife,
to whom he is still attached by santiinent and af-
fection. His jealousy is. however, :thorned by a
discovery of the passim of You..g Melville, and the
ninon which he sought is on the eve of being de-
feated for ever, when the et n r is expiiined, and a
perfect reconciliation ensues. In the mean tiny:
Harcourt becomes as much in love with the beauty
of Miss Betty as he had bef ie been with her
fortune. At this moment things are thrown into
confusion by the arrival of S;r Edward Melville;
but, after some j assionate effusions, Sir Row.land
resolves to put to the test the real honour and sen-
sibilfty of Harcourt. fhis test succeeds to the wish
of all parties, and the piece conclioles with the
union of M/. Bitty English and 31e. Hail-our!.
The name of this piece imports a picture of
England, and, to make it more striking, its man-
ners, as it now is, ate contrasted with those in times
of old.

pitality, loyalty, above all, a pride in the
naval glory of his c,•antr y, are the r tiling passion; of
Sir Rowianil a::d the prominent features
by which the present are contradistingnished from
the past times. All those, however, who remember
the enthusiiism excited by Bail Howes victory of
the first of .lune, and the still more glorious battle of
Aboukir, are competent to say, that at no period
of its existence, has Faiglamt attained a high.:r
degree of nay ii glory thau it now does ; and
that it never displayed more loyalty and patriotism
than it has done since the commencement of the pre-
sent war. All selfishness and egoism apart, it was
drawing too much upon the generosity of the pre-
sent age, to sari'lion so much compliment to the
past, at its own expence. The declamatory address
of Sir Roila,id English, to the old oak tree in his.
domain, and the praises bestowed through a whole
scene, upon the Terrible of 74, guns, for taking a
French vessel, which, for any thing that appza:-s,
may have been a fishing-smack, were all heard with
indifference, it nut disgust. This, however, is only
in the elm., of secondary obje9ions. It may seem
strange, it not incredible, that a Play should
have gone through the process of managerial
perusal-, private rehearsal, and green-room criti-
cism ; that it should come forward with as
fair a promise and brilliant expeaation as ever ush-
ered in the works of Seminar; or of Kommut,
and yet be in fall destitute of plot, incident, or cha-
laaer. A plot supposes difficulties to be overcome,
mysteries to be unravelled. Here is neither difficulty
-r mystery. Of course, the great source of in-
terest in every good and legitimate piece is absent.
The necessary consequence of this want of a well
constructed plot is a total deficiency of all the cha-
r.' rteristic features that belong to it. In every
play in which the rules of the art are coa-
suited ; a mystery is excited in the begin-
ning, and the story is unfolded in the progress of
the piece. Recital is introduced only cf necessity,
to explain and elucidate the passing sceue. But in
this. Comedy nine-tenths of the business is recital.
The play stands still from beginning to end; and
the second a.'t might as well be the third, without
disturbing any alive tot order or harmony. Among
the defeats in the struElure may be noticed the
introduSion of char:tarts in no respell conneEted
with the pi-ce. Of this description is an honest
moralising lawyer and an Irish waiter in the first
after which they totally disappear, and we see
n more of tt:Lrn. A few sham/kers not necessarily.
inward with inc; main story are allowed in every
.ree, ac es,ential to the formation of a ccmplete
vale ; but then they ought to be treated as such.
hese tv:o chart its, how:vcr, thus isolated, and

suddenly withdrawr, are intrednced as objeels of im
portance, and are coloured and set off with a de-
gree of care and study, that induce the audi-
ence to tegard them as principals in the piece.
It would be at ungrateful task to detail the vari-
ous points in which the author (a gentleman, we be-
lieve, of the name of Hour) has betrayed his ig-
norance or contempt of stage cited, and the rules for
the construCtion of modern comedy. With all these
&teas, however, he may lay fair claim in many
points to good writing. The Irish waiter, although
so ignorant and illiterate as not to know that 9 and
7 make 16, makes several hits upcn the taxes and
parish rates, with an epigrammatic tersenessand point
not unworthy of the hest ,cenes in The School firSeon-
-41. Deafer is also a principal vehicle of the sane
' in which the piece abounds, and details the various
occupations of a Grub-street author, with ranch
whim and variety. The language is also good,
and, as to sentiment, it possesses sufficient really
pure, exclusive of the many instances in which it is
coarse, and of an immoral tendency. We mean
the passages where, alluding to a bridegroom
going to be married, Yew,: Mel. 'le says, ‘. there
it no Snorl of the gallows until the thief rst-r;ces:"
where Miss Betty says, she is frightened "at the Devi!
and the Ten COnnllandlnenes," and several others of this
description. These impelfeEtions, however, might
be easily expunged, and the piece brought forward
with a chance of success, if it were not radi-
cally defative, and totally destitute of interest.—
The customary mode of introduCtion, a Prologue,
was on this occasion laid aside, asd a Preluds. per-
formed, in which the Author, reduced to penury,
and driven almost to madness by his numerous cre-
ditors, calls them together, and engages to pay
th ni by drawing, at three dap sight, on the old es-
tablished house in Drury-lane, where ." Apollo
and the limes hare so long tern slerning
partners."
'nisi little piece had a good effect, and the instruc-
tions to the creditors how to ad, so as to secure the
success of the Play, were whimsical and entertain-
ing. The indireft censure, however, upon Drury-
lane, with which it concluded, was too great a hu-
miliation to the house, and bespoke no great mo-
desty on the part of the Gentleman, who fancied him-
self able to awake them. 1-Low far he kept his pro-
mise the result has shewa. The first and second aets
were heard with patient iadnlgence, but in the third
the audience became soured and disgusted, and the
disapprobation increased with the progress of the
piece to the last scene, when the noise and eon'tision
became so great, the aetors could no longer be heard.
The only moment in which the tumult subsided, was
in the fourth all, which exhibited some charming
dancing, by Its. Sat A IIPE, (late Miss B. Mi.sAc..E),
Mr. I;vusr, and his most interesting little son. At
the end of the Play, Mr. NVROC,II ros came for-
ward, made an apology for Mrs. JORD•N,
who was taken iii, and unable to speak the 1 7il Tue.
We be kre he also attempted to announce the
piece for iuttore representation, and that the Mana-
ger had it in contemplation to bring it forward
again, in an improved state, on this bight week.
111;s determination has, we understands been since
over-ruled, and it is never more to make its ap-
pearance upon the stage. As it contains, how-
ever, some good writing, it may prove amusing
in the closet, and there compensate in sonic mea-
sure for the public disappointment. The piece was
very strongly cast, and got up with great libe-
-1 tality on the part of the Proprietors. Report
had stated, that Mr. Streit inaN had contrihnted

largely to the piece, but we could trace no mark of
his aid, except a picture scene, which is borrowed
from The • Scandal. We have already sa;J,
that there are some epigrammatic points in the
early scenes, not unworthy of his pen. The house
overflowed lung before the rising of tile curtain.

The King has been graciously pleased to grant to
Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Rear Admiral of the
lted Squadron of His Majesty's fleet, his royal
licence and permission to accept and wear the in-
signia of the Ottoman Imperial Order of the Cres-
cent (of the superior degree), transmitted to him
by the Grand Signior. And the Order of the Cres-
cent having been instituted by Flis Majesty's ally,
the Grand Signior, in commemoration of the signal
and important services rendered to the Ottoman
Empire, by the glorious atchievements of the Bri-
tish arms in Egypt; the King has further been
pleased by warrant, under his Royal signet and
sign-manual, to grant unto the said Rear-Admiral
Sir Richard Bickerton, His Royal licence and p:r-
mission to bear, in allusion thereto, a crescent, and
certain other appropriate honourable augmentations
to his family arms, together with supporters ; the
same being first duly exemplified according to the
laws of arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office ;
and also to order that this His Majesty's said con-
cession and esisecisl mark of his Royal favour be re-
gistered in his College of Arms.
Sir GILICKT HILATIICOIII is particnl'r!y find of
hunting, and is now at his seat at Normanton, in
Rutland:hire, enjoying that sport daily, when the
weather will permit. Sir Gmatar has thirty-xis
fine hunting horses, and three packs of hounds.
He always has five in his suite: two huntsmen,
two whippers-in, and a groom. His chace is fre-
quently joined by seventy or eighty gentlemen of
that country, and the whole groupe are dressed in
scarlet, according to the rules of the hunt, which,
when the weather proves favourable, has a most
delightful die&
The Christchurch and Lambeth Volunteer As-
sociation will be inspedeJ, on Thursday next, in
Vauxhall Gardens.

A letter from Stamford, of the 44th, says—
" With the return of Christmas has recurred to us
the pleasing ditty of noticing the charitable munifi-
cence of the nobility in this neighbourhood, and of
affording expression to the gratitude of those who
have partaken of their bounty. On Friday and
Monday last his Grace site Duke of A ncaster's an-
nual donation of three large fat oxen, with a pro-
portionate quantity of bread. was distributed to the
poor inhabitants of the parish of Edenham and
Swinstead, in this county. On Monday a bullock
and a Luse quantity of potatoes, the gift of the
Lady Noels, %tete distributed to the poor of North
L.lffenham. At Stapleford, Whissendine, Teigh,
Staitiby, and Cunby, the Countess of Harborongh
has liberally dispensed stockings, flannel petticoats,
and linen, and has contributed in many other re-
sped, to the comfort of her Ladyship's indigent
neighbours."

BARB4DOE4 Sm. 2d;
[ATM FROM AN EMINENT MERCANTILE HOME.
We deem it our duty to our correspondents, and
the mother country, to make known some transac-
tions that hare taken place here, and generally
through these blind. and Colonies.

Th; Governors have been instructed from home
in time of war, to allow of the importation of bread,
flour, corn, rice, limber, and other articles of the
first necessity (which the mother country cannot
supply) from America, in American bottoms; and
harasalso, in times of scarcity, admitted beef, pork,
butter; soap, candies, and dried and pickled fish, &c.
which the mother country and the colonies have
been in the habit of suppls big us with, and, in gene-
ral, furnish in as great quantities as we nced.—
In of aelital scarcity, sound policy would
dictate that we should be supplied from wherever
we could, and that the interest of the mother
country should give way to the necessity ; but
this pradice of admitting American provisions
has been carried to an alarming length of late,
insomuch, that every thing. that came into port,
has been admitted to be landed, when the merch ints'
stores were at the same time full of the like articles,
imported from the mother country and its depen-
dencies ; and not only the articles before-mentioned,
but gin, brandy, and other liquors, which we had
never before been in the habit of receiving ft ont
America, were poured in upon us in great quantities.
The importers from America being always able
to undersell the importers from Europe, it is plain,
that while these importations are allowed to take
place without limitation, there must he a very tri-
fling demand for such articles as are before mention-
ed from Europe ; and, iu the end, the British or Irish
importer must he entirelf excluded from the market.
In addition to what is openly admitted, it fre-
quently happens, that great quantities of these
articles are landed clandestinely from American
vessels ; and even nankeens, inuslins, and other
Indian goods ; but whether this may mt be con-
nived at by those whose duty it is to prevent it,
we will nut pretend to say. We need hardly ob.
serve to you, that it is unfair that Britain should
be at the expence of ptoteding, and America
reap the advantage of these Colonies. We think
that it becomes the duty as well as the interest
of the merchants of the United Kingdom, con-
cerned in this trade, to adopt measures to het
instrudions sent to the Governors of these Colonies,
not to admit, from the United States of America,
such articles as can be supplied from the Mother
Country, unless an actual scarcity of these articles
exist ; and if something of this kind be not d, ne, you
need hardly send any more of the articles we have
mentioned to this mat kat.
The Custom-house OtEcers ought also to be in-
struded to use more vigilance in preventing India
goods and other commodities from being lauded
clandestinely. The India Company is much in-
terested in this, and should make It representation to
Government on the subject.
Its justice to our present Governor, Lord Sea-
forth, we must mention, that a petition has been
presented to him, complaining of the importa-
tion herein alluded to, which he graciously re-
ceived, and has not since admitted any of the
articles stated from America ; nevertheless, we have
been surf-cling, and the home trade is likely to suffer
materially, through all the British Colonies, by un-
due and impolitic indulgence granted to American
hottoms. N e conceive we could not properly acquit
out wives to our CotresponJents in the United King-
dom, or to our own country, did we remain silent
on the present occasion.
Having done our part, it remains for the re-
speetable Merchants of Great Britain and Ireland
to take such measures as may be best calculated to
get these growing evils cm: efted.
We would not have troubled our Correspondents
upon this head, had not these evils arrived at an
alarming height ; and we beg leave to add, that any
fads we have advanced can, if necessary, be fully
proved.

Ou F:iday night disp itches were sent from tie
Admiralty to Sir JAMES SAGIAAREZ, at Jersey.
Several privateers have been fitted oat at Liver-
pool, and other of our ports, and arc now in per.
feet readiness for sea, waiting only the licence of
Government for their sailing.
The Tirwasend packet, whose arrival is now so
anxiously looked for, has been due a fortnight.
The Royal Commission about to be appointed to
examine and report upon the improvements .ug-
gested by the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry, w,ll
consist of Sir CHARLES MIDDLETON, Bari. Admiral
Sir ROGER CCRTIS, Harr. Rear- A Jmiral DOll ET r.
Mr. Foals t.E. of the Land Revenue Office, and
Mr. SEARCE, 11l the Transport Board. The Secre-
tar; to the Commission will be Mr. l'uollPiON, the
Naval Ofheer at Leith.

'lbis day, the 2cl and 5d Companies of the "ea
Regiment of Loyal London Velumeets will mu.tet
at their alarm•post : from thence they will march
to Canonbury lI ,use, Islington, to lire ball, for
two silver medals, to be given by Major PRATT,
after which they will partake of a dinner provided
by the Officers.
An emi:tent Speculator, on Saturday last, gave
two hundred guineas to receive a thousand, if the
market price of Lottery Tickets is 251. or upwards,
before the drawing commences.
On Friday, one hundred and forty Irish recruits
joined the Colds:ream Regiment of Guards, lying
in Knights'tridge LATTACkS.
We, last, as Miss FLowts, cf Chancery-
lane, was standing by the fire, her muslin dress
caught the Hame., and, in extinguishiag it, her hands
were much burned.

Private letters from Paris state, that a treaty has
been adually signed by the French Government on
the one part, and by ARTMETR O'Connor; on the
other, in the name of the people of Ireland, stipu.
lat,ng for the independence of that country, in
etteaing which, France engages to employ a force
of '25,u00 men. With the articles of this treaty,
ssisich is modelled after the celebrated convention
Co Ichided with Louts XVI. by Doan, FRANKLIN,
His Majesty's Ministers, w• have strong grounds
to believe, are fully acquainted. EMMETT, who
was a Member of the Executive Union with Aartiva
O'Cori ri o a, and whose arrival in America was lately
stated, refused to give his acquiescence to the treaty,
and remonstrated very strongly against the condi-
tion; which it contains

POLICE.

On Saturday, the apprentice s
nent silversmith, in Bridgwater-square,
a long examination before
and Alderman He,: eta, ci
on suspicion of being concerned
robbing his house on Frida;
turd ,y morning, of a quantity..
value of more than 501. The
the prisoner had been lately/
conduct ; that on the boring f
had staid out the whole night,
of associating with persons of
was a part of his duty, as well
apprentice, to carry up all '
before they went to bed,
chamber. On Ftiday night,
afterwards stolen, htd been left
shop door was found open iv
was the prisoner's business to
the grounds of suspicion agau
soc.er deaied all knowledge
said, lie thought his fellcsc ,
up the remainder of the pl
count of the different persons
sociat'J with, and he WAS suf
promising to assist i:1 finding
of the itibliely.
A Mrs. Stone was summoned
MA if Co a by some Custom-house'
to recover from her a penalty
possession sever al India and
and other contraband gauds,
siace been condemned. The
ri.rt brought forward,and the .
could not convict the woman
goods ; as, he i.bserved, the
have been manufactured in '
India. He had known man'
manufactures in Guernsey.
fore discharged.

On Saturday Edward Ev
J:,hn Brown, the three other m
board the Spanish Galleons,
above office from Tothilttields
amination, when, there being
torn: coacerried in the mutit
Share transpott, bou,rdike P
d•scharg,,d. They agreed
Wales Corps, to which the;
and they expect to recover t
their absence from the regiment, .
of seven years, as their absen:e •as
own consent, hut occasioned by An
Colonel Groves, of the N.
attended, and gave them a two
promised to join the corps:-
The mutiny above afla.ierl
collect. Major Semple, And
were prr. on board an open '
tering the dangers of the scra
hundred leagues, providential)

Saturday morning a recruiting
brought before the Magistrate; •
street, charged Wall having -
;only cut an intlortunitte woman
severely with a images-. 'f he r
the centre of St. Giles's, and ,•
intoxicated at the time.
some trifling eircurasmace. _
of the Whine's, he wan committed
procure hail.
On Sourday morning, between
as Mr. WORK A L, shopkeeper in
was going to Nesegate.market
he was accosted by two mcn
struck him with a large sti.
blow on the head, which sn
loins rifled his p ickets, and
watch and nt A rly twenty pounds,
made their escape.
On Friday, EowA RDS, the
ed the two men who are in cu•
and robbing I ler M AJ EST
from Wind,or to Reading
at the ensuing Assizes for
offence.

A pedlar named Cassese.
Fite, lately mach: several attempts
libs. lie first pierced himself -
not having sufficient resolution
body, he withdrew it, •
razor. Still, however, the s
and the Magistrrtes had him
booth, where he languished
pain, and expired. His
ately under the town clock.
rgit ited his nerves to such
ills most agonising shrieks.
A female vagrant, who, while tieing ,
last week through Doncaster, ptetendad ;:r be
el with canine madness, and thus excited
passion of the people of thakjair, caw.
seems, considerable consternatter list
posture had been deteeted, and her person sei:ti.ei;:
and sent on, several individuals who h : a Ast...
h..r, conceived themselves to be attacked • • • •
phobia, aad one nEtn, who fancied some of ti.e .
bad dropped es hi, hand, set oaf post for Cairns, .
procure proper medicines.
The following observation, contained in the pro
ceedings of a General Court Martial, lately pto
mulgated, tending to reprobate and discourage
praftice at one time but too prevalent in the Britisl
Army, though, for the credit of the service, excel,
in a solitary instance, long since discontinued t w
think, for the sake of example, and with a view t
deter Officers in future from that once unmanly cut
torn, cannot be made too public :
" The Court is of opinion, tint the tight did strike
soldier on the ,iarade,gt mode of c irrection, in the opinion r
the Court, highly reprehensible ; bet it appears that the Prison
was ornmediatels ?emoted for it by the Lieutenc.t.Co!onel„
the parade; when he expressed his regret or what be K
done, vartig h., inexperience she dtwipline of the army
Greet having lately returned Sr. n foreign service
India, with which explanatiuu the Lietiteiiatit Culowet e
pressed himself :visited "
Such condua has occasionally and deserved
called lord' the severest animadversions of oor Kr:
cirrus Sovereign, who, to the lionone of his lea !im
be it spok.,u. never fails to stigmatise aggressors
this description with his most marked sired Sir•-•
censure and djsapoobation.

CZ.
1
MANSION-MOM.
entice boy of an ensi.• ;t•
water-square, underwent -
re the Loao Mayors, *.
charged by his master 4
ncerned with others in
day night, or early Sa.-
its. of silver plate, of the .
The master statedk that
:ely very irregular ik hie
r (Wednesday) night, he
;lit, and was in the habit •,.
; of bad character. It
well as that of his fellow
Il the silver every night,
to his master's bed-
thr, the plate *at was
left behind by him. The
its the morning ; and it
to fasten it. These were
nv
against him. The pri- --f
of the 11)5b.9 y, ••••1
apprentice had Car' i d
pl tie. He gave AI, at.•
-4!
'sons he had lately as. ' •
;offered to be at large, OM
ing out the perpetrators
;•if
mooed before the Loao
ouse Officers, who sought
Icy fan having had in her
d French handkerchiefs, Aaj
Is, which had sonic time
he goo Is, however, were ,
ie. LOKI) MAYOa said he
man without seeing . the -
the handkerchiefs ought
Spitai-fields instead of
my such to pass for: India •
• Ihe woman was there.. t•
COW-ereEIT
Eules, Rim It art, and
r mess who were found on
tins, were brou-ht to the
ads Bridewell, for r:-ex.
wing no proof that they .rif
amity on board the Lady "
Botany Bay, they were
I to join ate New south
hey originally beLnged,
7 their pay for the time of
giment, which is np.wards
)sen:e eras not bi their 4
J be an unlawfel force.
New Sou.h Wales C;.rps, s
two plqn.l note. They .4
s on M
ed to ..ur readers Mltre-
Ind a allinhn cf others,
bolt, am), after enemies-
raves fir uptsards two
tially go- safe to land.
•
recruiting serjeant WMI
istrate• at Marlborough-
= on the night Let. re wan-
woman in the head my
fhe patties all resided iri
nd the serjeant was
The dispute arose
r. Alter tit investlgse
unsmitted until should
letween five and six &elm
see in St. George's r ielJs
arkut to purchase pouf4
len shabbily dres;e•l, w
a sudden and vinl•nt
'conned him, when the vii.
r•ihhed him of his silver
pounds, with which they
the Police officer, convey.
cu,tody for breaking open
v's premises at Fr Tmore,
gaol, to take their trials
or Berkshire, for the said
BELL, residing in Cupar,
attempts to terminate his
nself with his sword, but
ition to push it through his
:ind cut his throat with a
he wounds were not fatal,
him confined is the
et! several days In gi
apartment was '7l 1 • •
ck, the striking of w
h a degree, that he Ltteieti
s.
ho, while beini conveys... 4
ter, pretended t aitct.

U

lli•-•veie;
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.aiLLES. # • .
401.--
-.g. . TAMS, SSC. 11.
.adeittee4 to send you the following
_.t remarks on tfie Pier St. Nicholas.
by General Lewis loailles, in the year
ad some accounts ofle battle in which he
life s a battle which affords a new proof •
'tepidity of the French, and, that their
-ephs over the English on sea as well as
,r Columbus three hundred and twelve
discovered the rsiand of St. Domingo,
ti. r on Ite.
piNti.chtool:wiehsicdhahye,
gthievefitthhottf
laaiiitcr
ad I ' ear. on the same day; General
Breed to abandon it, retired in a manner
Salialtul as remarkable as the epillh of the
Elks fir Columbus.
ineeome particulars on this head t In the be-
Of November,CencralNoaillesreceived notice
efieilines, that the tienervl ia Chief, Rocha ni-
ad c tie• oh. '.l with him (on the 19th Feb.
tivitiez h, rial to to give up the Pier. After
~t t0.11.1A1 of V,tr,the Genera! answered,
it having July ifirea order from the Co-nmander
tf of thesColoay, he se sited for official advice
him. idi order to Jed to ; and be concluded
nlfying to tie Stick Chief a desire to be made
heed with IMP casettilation of the Cape. that
pyknow to what he -could he held. 'l'wo or
: e .ifter our General in Chief, with the Eng.
..•mmodere. passed effeseively behiral the Pier.
letter offered to General Nnailles for his gar-
s the same conditions as toe Commander in
I had obtained for his. This proposition proved
;awe were not coin prised in the arraog irntnts of
41)71:: tpha"t%iahleiraimohualter:ita,dieacaupt?iroanr:v
tbsubtuitt
and that we were re.auced :o the moot
situations a situation which could not
heed hut by arose who were well acquaint-
the localities Nerertiteless the General
evasively to the Commodore. Oar ern.
• it ocreased, when, on the night niche 4..11
her, a c•cond Messenger, entitling himself
• in Chief of the Native Army, brought a
dated Cape. field quarters. This chief had
o time, and believing hiweit tote of success,
*rig.our Generalat sent to him by the
ails Geetral, as a pr his confidence, the
lof thilleapitulation of the Cape and Pier,
ded. AS he savd. that nothing niore was neces-
stow to dcterrnine him to follo,a the dispositions.
perfidy, whicArded to expose the General eo
ier a to Mkt, was perceived in the
;Intelsat which he convoked. lii the course
;ch. he detided rot to listen either to the

• "whitcoh could iinue:t. and
htoe biteiasivdeesn°clntthiltigiiii7d
to Dessalines the summon; of the English
os'e ; but he was sensiede b- had not an in.,
to lose to extricate !insult nom two enemies,
wore shout to untre against him their animosities
their efforts. and to attack us by sea and land.
ght to observe, that the cier St. Nicolas was
which appeared the Gttest to the English to
a vpsdosvous port for their maritin.e forces
the colonies, as, from the commence-
_ WNW. they had joined with the *egoists
ade and attack it
author of this letter being present a' this era.
, and at the blockade of Ancona, in Italy,
s he has found some resemblance between these
ministry operations. The pier was, AC Ancona.
ded even after the departure of the General.in.
, against divers enemies, who displred the pos
as Ancona, this place was the last evacuated
French port of the island. an I iptitte.l in a
' us manner; and as .17 A. 11e...114. Ger.nial N Isla-
cmioned the dist:Mon of enemies, wh.. Via e.a!-
lf, under favour of this dissent ion, he could
• that hosourable c tpittiLation, gr.tittal hg
r to neneral Moonier; he was tinaliy
e. by the esti atodinatv evacuation
igh billefed. and which saved his en.ire divi.
111. willibilkbritring any thing to our enemies.
Let us return to the evacuation, and give sts sc-
ant of the sequel. is.
After having, therefore. sustained the siege of the
fir. by works anii ely and ikilfullr directed. and
nle the very best defenc... General Nnailles. at
I four* summons. con •ng nothing hut his
ii for the glory of his e , and the sanguine
ire to serve it, determin put into etocation,
the night of the tith of December, St. Nicolas's
w. the evacuirtem resolved on by the Conned of
or, and w hich bappentel vet y ..aopity to brAving 411
r dangers inseparable (loot a step of this nature ;
Ihe wished at the same time to leave the walls
ho n. artillery. aniinunition, in provisions, and the
i• ',out a essels.
i '..- necessary dispositions, and all th; movements
e so wisely c.unbined, and executed with so much
..i.its. Snit the garrison, the General Officers,
at General, embarked in eleven small vessels
ifs weft IL I port. the night concealing them
the Log The day following they put into
the
of
* of the troops basin; wrier,/ at Barracoa,
ids embmaee ..t fir galliots which

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sea.
tkneral went 7n the only one of these gai-
t: *bids was armed. carrying four fonr-pounds
• sad sixteen patereroes. This galli,,t. co:n-
aiad by Lieutenant Lteshays, and sailing
le the others. the General, and the Commander
thii vessel, in VVICen. illunking it proper to in-
s the safety of this little convey: went berme
ittsiet the pirates, Or other en.-mv's vessels,
66 might be in these was. They Id not. as
e foreseen. wait long for a rencon:re. On the
6 *I December. at midnight. we recriveki
MI asir% vessel. lithe prcHnoinne were
eltly and the or,:er gives, as well to the
risers as to the s ,14.'itts. to prepare themselves
bank. Insnicd..itay every one was ou deck,
I we saw this ri nel apr-uo :b. whkh was in ef-
* coot*. tr.med rite Nooc erd: hrr force was a U..
kW to oars la inoliry; Farting sel.,•ri guns, one
soot two on e; and • r ,• • p• ?traders ; neverthe.
neithet .:, • • t7.“.••at s, nor
bravejo4lisis oc 2. • • •.r •• .th them,
ein the ifint*l-7.• • t• uatler.
D bad . ' v • • • are
rasa• • •.1 • I . I
. •• tas
'Fry. t* r• ~• • - • • •4 •
feallibad . a.