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London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Doom, .11111 E 11.
There is some danger that this place will shortly become
•station fur Wain vessels. One of this description, the Rob
Boy. of Greenock, arrived here yesterday, with the inters.
Hon of caviling pawners between this and France. She
smiled this morning fur Calais bat with very few PaaSell.•
ger., as those iu lows preferred the regular packets.
••
.autre 11.
Arrived the Pyramus from Plymouth;iltlilj 1
d' the alalPr
from Hemlines for St. Petrrshorgli.
Sailer! it,. Brothers, Jenkieson, fur Quebec; anJ Am"
Slifka, for Opurtu.
'• rat.writivr, JUNI*.
Arrived the Lard Hobart packet with mails frum
rice, 18 days from Halifax.
Out, suit
Arrived and sailed for the River, the Prince Regent,
Jones, from China; Albion, West, from the Mauritius;
Cerro', - Illarrliall ; Sir George Webster, Rages ; Ralacio,
Wham Rath, Hanley; Planet, Barclay ; sod Elizsheili,
Petty, from Jamaica; Harvey, Irvin, from Trl4lldad
James Dunlop, lihrpherd, from St. Kitt's; Eliza, Ford,
from Palrrniu ; Economy,. Gardner, from Lisbon; corn-
wellis, Bourke, from the Cape of Good Hope; Lady Bur=
ringdmi, Living, from Bombay; Archimedes, Boland,
Isom Cadiz; and several more, names unknown.
Came deers tram the Meer and sailed the.Helee, Barton,
fur Mirissuichi. „.t .vo Jrool o:• --sr- ti a =',n • • • •
The Hall. Conant lantaira to tiiirpoei, egg drier*
on ,hate at HIITIMIllillf revival; to the SO ult. Part of Site
cargo oared.

The Janus, from Carlierona to Rio Janeiro, is wrecked at
Cape St. Rcque—eargo saved.

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*ensue csaggeration of its !author, eisertaiesi neserthekia
three specific averments of fact, in a charge of 44 Ice000lgille:
pninirmeatior" (pa. bewails it) against Mr. Fusatul ogailmit
Me also, as his coofederate iu that offence. •It is alleged
that Mr. Fox seat sue to Pesersburgls in 1791, se his repriit
seotative—that he scot me thither for the porpoise offs
outing the ohjergs' for which the King's Illinistess wete Ins'
tho to trust—mod that I did actually frustrate some of
IluseasobJects.
'the mutter of this article furnishes your lordship wills •
ground fur a comMent'ote the criminal extent to :illicit Mr.
Flit meshed his party principles, and for • presumption that
he had recourse to this mesnitire" in 'the ettruidewt hope that
he should overeet Mr. Pilre piovided the.
Itraprees of flunk could be prevails(' urns to persevere in
her demand."
And your Lordship concludes with alfillidlligthit'y are.
• "not aware that any attempt has ever Mom
s made try Mr.
Fox, dr his friend., to cootratkrt these factd, .r to itsvalidate
this reasoning." •
Every one of the six impliNailif Ilk* titter affirmed is, or
' to he collected froth, the AO* statensest, beginning from
pispri372 of your second volanssand eliding at peg* 449, aad
conseg went ly yuur Lordship's comment on Mr. Fox's supposed
party views, is erroneous. I will take these facts in their
order.
u.
. • First, it is not Tilivelo,Fp* Ifiallk 'lt. Peters-
burgh as his reprered •_ll9 lei seed me
thither at all. I Mean Ms NlfefithWillf the rub-
Hence of this charge when T &dart, iipabrik'bersour, that '
1- had fully resolved to undertake this jouridt,lese bad notate
my preparations for it, before I eves comnsitnicated my is..
1
tentioas to him. At this distance of lbw I cannot affirm
• that be positively dissuaded my golf*, but the impressive on
my mind is that he did; and I am quite confident that he
never encouraged it.
Secondly, I did mot go for dm purpose elf frustrating lb.
Kilt 's Ministers. What my purpose wasor rather my moss
tive, I have not the slightest objection to avow. In addition
to the anxiety I felt ou public grounds fur the issue of a
question in which our foreign system was so materially in-
volved, I had a motive which I may call, in some respects,
• persoull, inasoineb as it regarded the rank and estimation,-
which I shall never be ashamed to acknowledge I was de_
siren. of establishing for myself with my political friends.
1788, when his late Majesty's illness gave reason to este
pet that there would be a elitisme of gureranient, Mr. Fox-
signified his intentions of placing me iu the foreign fine.
From that time I resolved to qualify myself as well as I
could fur diplomatic offices. The slate of Europe in 1791
prrsented me an •pportunity. On the RIOS/inn question
particularly, the part taken in Parliament by the friends to
ohms I wee attached, supported, as your lordship must
yourself confess, by the unanimous sentiment of the coon-
, ary, mid likewise the known preference of the Empress
Ostberioe for English connexion, gave me advantages for
kerning the real situatimi of affairs at that Court, and for
discovering its future intentious, which rarely fall to the lot
of a private Gesatlesnanned which are mot oftio obtained
' even by an accredited Mtuiatcr. Of these 1 determined to
avail myself.
Your lordship wiN not expect me to reveal by what
means 1 obtained, when I got there, a knowledge of events
as they were passing, adr to tsarisr or derituate the -persons
''filth whom 1 conversed, and with whom I discussed, with
the °peones. and freedom which Englishmen are accustomed
• tw case in such direstasiosis, lint with use secret view whatever,
' Isoth the rouses and the cousequencts of the measittes then
in agitation. .Eren at the distance of thirty years it would
he bath indisicreet and stiehoisourable in use to divulge these
matters; nor is it necessary for my argument. It is enough
for rue to declare that this, and this only, was the motive of
way jonraey, •nd that this, and this (poly, was the ehararter
of the counmeoicatious into which I entered while at Si.
Petersburg's.
_ _

It is moat true that 1 freely gave my opinion on the mat-
ters then under diecumion. I did not feel myself called open
to conceal that I entertained ou this subject the same opi-
nions which were butlifelt and declared by my country, by
the Iloase of Common; by Mr. Fox, and by Mr. Burke
himself. It it haw, likewise, that in it letter which I wrote,
whew all wan over, 10 Mr. Fox, I expressed much exult..
tiers at a result which, in my conscience I believe, had it
been different, would have produced most serious mischief,
and made au enemy 'of Catharine far more formidable than,
• few years afterwards, we blond her unfortunate son to Ire.
I Iwveheeu Informed that this letter was opened and read
previous to its delivery to Mr. Fox. I will not believe it. I
gave it.io a gentleman and a mall of honour. I gave it to
an old Bch 1-fellow, whom I found at St. Petershurgh. I
gave him this letter, at his own solicitation to be the bearer
of rine le 11r. • Pox. I' will-neither believe, therefore, that
it was intercepted io its passage, nor that SIIIIIIIIX the adrer-
sari. a ul Mr. Feat any gestlenra• could be fused 0, break the
a•+l GIC. it. Things, fur which I know nu name, I Cannot
imagine. If lam deceiied in all this, and that the paper
be really among the u authentic documents" you refer

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he alwaso MU onoto•
.timemwoomst---- •
. i ;jaw ”rin r.,t ' Mr..' Illutkes dnes, or your ow*. To the prestaition or.
riamaill"
t"'g'S
1141k* PITICI:".'Ne 717:40-34. - •114eihrt"I 'non elle al! alit' --.toevaellt iciaoadesultirdtes(nYtiyaoteureit; rodiillirtbre tithe-firs:if ,
Mr. Idair has published, is theism of 111 Pittner WS liocsasent 1 have no objection on my own aocarout3
;#410...5ti ?awe Lett„„ts, the BisAip,v whom:us:l saliaGed that 1 San explain every eager, every ilicsutioisits
elision (if such there be) winch.
io answer to s-charge of very serious inagnitode,
in the iseicuudriictimuif emkPr heart, am! not calculating My'
r-anstownting indeed 'to an imputation little short of words, I may Lave lumina oat uurestraimed to my
•tblitision, which has been brought by the Bishop friend.
against Mr. Fos and Mr. Adair in the Life lately Thirdly, 1 dewy bovine, to toy konwkdge, frustrated oar
episbergblise,hedwhoifehtlfieteßisi:ohltelily ouni.,oloVitltieliamvigrPitt.nuTtlite.
Right Lordship kuows the object of Mr. Pitt'a •ronavieut was gives
of the objects of the King's. Illation!. lu fact, as yule ~
thy of the ministerial scandal of the day. Intimates in
in
cloh,e.Blouisels,eceo,faci 'vein.
that.l4r. Fox, in the year 1791, seat 'Jr. Adair. suns on moneditthieet"):eirrilge'ratifileletisseasitted,ebriantiel
systopuprsoerlifedadmb to . St. Pctersburgh for the sole purpose of thwart- 'All that the negociatior. really
yit,tohef ticuiedolpdpryo.sition in the H 0119? or commons,
ing certaia objects pursued by the British Govern.' toro d
r_ upon at St. Pawl/ u rg:ld. was, bow to gel tliie ,ino.:iii,rrata.ki ,
assist at the Court of Catherine. and that Mr. for • Speech fur the mewing Parliament. lfh ..i . till
any object of this nature, your Lordship will al. the good.
Arlsir, *cling in furtherance of Mr. Fox's desire.,
sets
actually succeeded in defeating the views of the
htsovseta tneowohaat it
oneowasit,hand how I , did
Mr.
r. nike.s.frustrate.aeco it.
actually
of
this
' British Ministers. We collect from Mr. Adair'a transaction;' as you err
.prefiitaN that immediately upon perceiving this piece from him. 1 proceed to your 11..ordthip'st astid_ tie you have
pleased to call tine ariii le you cow,
of Court scandal revived in the Bishop's work, he given your
d readessa id° uindd"tshiarised I:),V's"eti•tr"eentiliciay'tintrt!il to
wrote an answer to it which he intended for publi.
cation. But before committing to the picas M
_ r.
throvytiduire.eatieLatuorer.vyßauut,knee'mortessiesroifiaincfs,iii:lhnirlt:lCylollu, Iruau;.ll IhrCli.ve .
Adair was willing to try the effect of a temps- known at the lime, although wow, It seems, you are'' taut
rule appeal to the Reverrod Prelate himself, aware" of their existence. They enable mc,
Fourthly, firmect coutfadietien to your Lord.
correction o
it, order to obtain. if possible, from hit jilAtiCe a
to affirm,
ox d' in direst
deo this charge, an much as any-
f the errors into which be hod bolt be- •
schhisprZ le-hats
can be Mn.'denied b, for eYit is stated, timely, by a dial. - ,
titled. With this view he selected pone of the
must serious of these errors, and trill them before and conceotrated by Mr. Burke, in 1703, was uotormusty
g; to inquire Into it. Eycey one of the rumours collected
the Bishop, but the result of the txtrrespondenee in circulation in 1792, whet& Parliament set. Tare was, .
not proriog autisfactory, Mr. Adair finally resolved :indeed, some vague hintd from
1171.
.Pitt,tilio,fmi iricsito.biaeiro gm into li,)ut boe
.
to commit the whole matter to the public. The . draasn'sureatricuans alit. aa
Ilautouioren to yt'hea r u moo ss, and Mr. Fox's In-
letter which he addressed to the Reverend Bishop
*fiords a clear tiew of the subject in dispute, we ilintquutirreelibil!tU llltiewirastarnrtelip.ly I containingfy,
h area
rdwireigurtttc,..haalleinigeet
min
therefore present it to our readers. The public known, nud the coutrary of winch it o•s so items:try foe
-must be obliged to Mr. Adair for correcting a mis. You in have ascertained before you sal down to wriie this
o, Pert ti 4 )(tor history, I w ill reeuninieud your turtling to the
tepresetitation in a statemeot which involve, site 26113 a Parliamentary
14 .
„ighoracter of a statesman whose fume is itittntatcly To 51,:pcpecnoef
Mr. Fox to have catk.l fur inquiry into (sets
the ltegister, vol. St
.Itermecteil with tha,bonour and interests of his which he was not prepared either to deny if criminal, or ii
Ficsillutry : justify if Itersoless, were to suppose nu almordliy. Why,
then, was it never fumatitots4l Why was tin upporiu- ,
AIPIFIFBIII RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF
vat tht!.
WIEE,HESTER, &C. &c.
Isur):ob•
face tguitfLellou'illitch. liFisolgael.cuse:r Bthuet elhlaariglle nil I:l.our;lBauruguirlei
res.lo, Loan—in the Memoirs ells( Life of Mr. putt re- degree, and that be was at all times ready to meet it. '
-pally printed under your Lordship's name, I bud a passage
is
certain. Thai e dii‘d,
htfrot
wiletshig to ajourety which 1 made to Si. Petersburg!. 'o!to Mr. Burke
What calls d
1791, and 'hi which my c.ouduct is adverted to in a manner for his notice of au accusation., sclutmledged a few tumuli!'
that rrtitler's it impossible for me to be silent under the ion. shouldwrit6 hat PhaanlveirlittiosienrellXi ne:
afterwards by Mr. Buike's literary executor. (in their pre.
putatsou which II is calculated to convey. ' 1 . '''" ' face to die •uthentie work published by Kivingioail to have
Proftssing to give an aecontst of the causes whit* sees- been grounded on no other elm:rime thou that of a tribal '
sioued this failure of Mr. pat', Degoeisiion with Russia in commouication from some pursue I onnected with the Minim,
that pint, your Lordship has copied from a paper drawn up try-? or bow could he have selected ono point to reply to is
by Mr. Borke,addretesed secretly by him to the heads-allay this malignant paper, without replying ou the rest—to the
Whig party in 1793,surreptiriously publishei by • bookseller whale of the 54 articles of his alleged misdemeanors!
to 1797, and declared afterwards by Mr. Burke himself toharee ' Fifthly, You say that, to the lii,it of your knowledge.
been written in longer, ind never hamlet, by him to mei t the none of Mr. Fox's friends denied the facts. I was not arty
public eye is any eh*, a violent personal attack oil Mr. his friend, but in refereiire to this ebasge, I stood in • dia-
l:int and myself; and the facts alleged in this attack you racier which.ahe insignificance that might have caused }ma
affiriu that that you can ,substautiate by authentic dote- to overlook me in tither circumstances, will nut excuse your,
mend to Mr. Pitt's correspondence. forgetting in this. 1 was not oaly his ft iend, but by the ae•
This paper of Mr. Burke, charged as It is with die donne:" i - ,n,:t vs-- heiemlopted from Mr. Burke, au! for which yeas•

count you, __red fron. -e, n.._
as a liorturiall',-are responsible, I was his accomplice. K
my name sever yet bas reached the high sphere 10 which
you move, you ought to have inquired shout it tan Whet
place*, before deliberately consiouirig it to the press, accom-
panied with so gross an error of fact 011 a matter in which
my character was involved. Had you done this you would
' have found that, immediately idler the appearance of Mr.
Burke's pamphlet, I contradicted the calumurous charge in,
a letter locoed with my name, and published in The Morn-
ing Chronicle of February 54,.M7, 'I be couclusiuu of
that letter is in the Colton lug word.
" How far. I ant still at liberty, injustice both to Mr. Fun
and thyself, lo continue stlent since the partial, but very es.
tensire circulation of this preteuded letter, and ander all the
circumstances of thy case as it now sleuth, is more than I
can imededittely determine. I must be geverned by the de-
gree of Credit annexed to the charge ita quarters where I
wish to stand well, and to its general Impreestonsmthe
lie miser'. If soy better sentinteset than curiosity eau be
gratified by my josikficution, 1 ens ready to enter upon it
without delay. It is enamel fur me, its the mean time, to
affirm that the charge is Glue.
(Signed) " ROBERT ADAIR." •
My motives for remaining silent were (with some addi-
tional ones needless to sweeties) the same as Mr. Fos's. It
seemed fighting with the air, to refute rear/Mug which
had not • single established fact for its kiondation.
But our motives were not conclusive on oar common
friends. Time passed, mud the story was forgotten. Mr.
Burke, who was in a declining state st the time of the book-
seller's fraud, died within • few mouths, sod nine years
afterwards Mr. Pitt, sod then Mr. Fos. On this last uses-
shoo, there appeared • variety of well-written characters of
Mr. Fox. They were collected in two volumes by Dr. Parr,
and published, together with one drawn up by his own power-
ful baud.—This work authorises me to contradict,
Sixthly, The issertiou that no attempt was ever made to
invalidate Mr. Rnrke's reasoning. What you call Mr.
Berke's " rsasuoing" is, I suppose, his endeavour to apply
some truths which nobody ever denied, to facto which no-
body ever attempted to prove. All the reasoning in this
endeavour is met and confuted by Dr. Parr in a waiter
that admits of no answer. That yon should never have
men it is a presumption which the literary celebrity of its
author does nut intermit. Your Lordship can but bare &r-
-iotous it. Torn then again to page 2d9uf the drat voltam, ;
you will there see a complete dissection of Mr. Burke'*
charge; its flimsy Is xture torn to rags, and all his fallacies
dispersed and minihilated. The whole work itself may be
lead once more, my Lord ; it will refresh your better feel-
ings. It will prepare you to do that justice to Mr. Fox's
memory which I here formally require at 'nor bands.
I have prepared • public letter, containing a full and de-
tailed rept), to your Lordehip's statement on the points thus
shortly brought together, but I prefer appealing in the first
instance to your own sense of what is right, iu the persua-
sion that you will be deterntiocal by that sense to correct
publicly, explicitly, and immediately, the errors of fact
which 1 have thus pointed out to vuo in your work.
h now ouly VVIIIIIIII/ for me to request hum your Lord-
ship an early communisation of the course which you may
Wrisd to pursue in consequence of this letter.
I have the hensour to be, My Lora,
Your Lordship's obedient mud humble Servant,
Queen-street, May-fair, No. 22. ROBERT ADAIR.

We are gratified to announce the testcration to
health of the much esteemed flied venerable the
Lord Bishop of MEATH, and. that his Lordship will
shoutl tic enabled to resume the arduous duties of
hits cese.—( Correspoudent.)
In the afternoon of Wednesday lost, while a num-
ber of workmen were eniekled in widening the bridge
over the Ellen, near Templepowerhy, the centre or
frante.woi k oh one of the aicheit, upon which they
' were laying the stones, anddetily gave way ; a mu.
mentary warning, however, had the effect of saving
eleven out of fifteen persons who were oit the arch
at the time; of the remaining Your, two instioctively
laid bold of the edge of the old fabric, and adhered
sa tenaciously, that, notwithstanding the general
consteruatioo, one of theta was rescued from his
perilous situation; the strength of another bring es-
housed, lie dropped into the übym below, and was
touch bruised ; the other two fell along with tl►e
wreck, one of them was miraculously saved front
drowning, but the other was so much crushed that
his life is despaired Carlisle Paper.)

'esterday—WnlT Turaorr.--lioliday al the Rink Ex•
chequer, East ludia and South Sea Muses.