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• Lady Dwnaney, on her marriage.
The Rev. Mr. Rushout and Lady Rushout, on their mu-

tinge.
Lord Motpeth, on his arrival from France.
Mrs. Wingfield Strafford, by Countess of Kingston.
Mr. C'yleti, by his father Lord Auckland.
Lady Dalkeith, by Lady Mare Stopturd.
The Bishop of trawl, uu his eieration to the See. His
Lady wit likewise presented..
I..rd and Lady Melville, on their creation to the title.
Mts. Merry, by Lady Ilawkesb.ry.
Miss Houyerie, by the Cuontms l‘lorrion.
Lady S. lane, by Lady W.estruoreioniL
Two Mks Monks, .Mili.S,s.4tingtori, and bliss Sarjant, by
the Lady in Waiting. e , -
I.atly tankerville peesented. ito, daughter.
Lady M. Fitzroy, by Lady F.itston.
Mrs. Bentilick, by Lady lieu ark, on her marriage.
The Rev. Henry Lloyd, Bachelor of Divinity, Regius Pro.
fossor of ilebrew in the Unnersity of Cambridge.
TOO N11%4 Piutiketts.
The following were at Court for the first time
this season :
.sir John Colpoys, Countess perby, Marchioness Bath, Lady
Srkyv, Lint Murpeth, Lady Dudley and Ward, Duke of So-
merset, Lady Cornwall, and Lady Home.
The Drawing-room did not dose till half-past
our. At half-past tive that- 11,14.i.F..rtEg and the
P INC ESS Es returned tir- Buckingham-house to

dinner_ • • .
Yesterday the LORD Csamaratattt gave notice,
that chairs would he admitted at the Engine-yard.
for the accommodation of the ladies.
Previous to his Alaivst going to the drawing-
room, he gave a •Iong• audience to the Duke (..f
lORK, at Bu.ckinghani-house, on military arrange-
nieats.

Yesterday morning his M 4.lmv and the Duke of
Cemesat Ann, attended by General MANseas, left
Buckingham-House, and rude to Kew, where they
walked sonic time, and retemcd to the Qutrx's house
*bunt .one o'clock. Tlris seaming the Royal Fa-
mily leave town for Windsor.
Lord Ila ADIORD bac taken the elegant mansion.
lately General St. Jo H res, in Audley-squarc.
Lady Tr Ase 1.1.-rovrn has delivered five hundred
cards of invitation for her intended rout on the 128th
is Portland Place.
Mrs. Raiitisongaee an ete sit Ball last night
in Priwi Gardens. Her grandra Rout is fixed for
14eiZnv next.
/it a 11111. given a few weeks ago by the French
"Minister of Marine, Madame BosApaart and
same,of the Ladies oilier palace were present. She
sat on a richly-embroidered arm-chair, placed at a
good distance from those ottiipied by the rest of
the company. .Her two Ladies tat behind ter.—
This etiquette teemed to ,give great offence to the
company assembled. What formed a singular
contrast •with this loftiness of the Ftarr Conant's
spouse, wa; the ease and affability of Madame
Lows Bo m APAJLTE, who opened the Ball by dancing
the Minew,el to Rene with Monsieur Iseatan, her
drawing-master.
Mr. SEATON, Owerseer at Portsmouth Dock-
4ard, is appointed Foreman of the New Work
their.
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rANZONF.T.
Vs. tittle triuippli in my woes,
A A ony Ino.Pflowthg tens to view :
;low ,eqr te wfmallet that I eY..,iwose
That Cully windil have Lira foe yonia !
Irigt pees the pleowire thou bait

A.,41 ..-ry sorwi v;11 .t be o'er :
?11.4t busuns volierr.thirsu tong hie re.:i '4
Shall h0n.147 thrbb iut dose no mere.

Sur vainly think my team, my sighs,

Loy a's power pruclatok :
Ihrts drop that trickles crriiir my eyes
Sat held to garlic!' hit 0317)4^!
RA DZIVIL.

I,ISIIION.

Lady C.ltrnr.r.r. g:we a Grind Rout, on Wed-
mdtly evening tact, to about three hundred of the
fashitumble world. Antong the company present,
dire noticed the following, viz.
•
!uteri rr4E.
rrtl.3 rm. Cumberland, and Athol.
Muria iq of So el.
Nanlimat'nb".l/4* and Liineyiefr.
reseountv-1. ttsharti, Falut..oll, ?Ind Sudlev.
11. ntiuck, IL Petty, St. ITrien'., and
kahron.
A. W Call, D Carnegie, 11. Clarke, 11.
-Doilatined, and 11. Par'...cr
Grewrll lfilnrr. _ -

C.40101--fl.nrjr,f, Rieliardson, Turner and Ramsay.
Copeeii,s--(Inslow. Due awl
Moors —0414111. Wyan, Perry. T. Gamier, Phipps, Trol-
ler, Iblinevnallie, Coulee. Emmen, Code,. Million, Tel,-
toot. Soonle, Dome" Campbell. Williams, Stewart. Mill-
um* Riell7, Mistelibunk, Cox. Miller, Neugetit, Strang:,
&Ors. T. Smith, Pagou, Metrnont, Russle, J. Riddle, An-
ntuboa, Cisle.tourer Taylor, and Gi
Duchess of B•liiiiort.
MereAleuseasni—Ratti aid Dover.

Crimetraws—Macclesfiekl;lkeith, Antrim, Limerick,
Ashbuniham, and Gospqn.
firoaleirte,--pnw le and Newark.
Lake—C. Howard. C. Lennox, Phipps, W. Bernina,
haussonstd, Asgill, Martin, Auckland, E. Murray, Lan-
itiab, Douglas, Rose, Weltey, Spencrr, Smith, Langford,
tsirsbervie, Templeton, Cutiliffe, L. Stewart, Sheffield, C -
wt, Sinclair, U.llo*ard, Laugham. IlaggErston, and A.
Rabies.
ifisfrears—Sturt, Thompson, Spalding, Trotter, Elliot,
Mime, Dawkins, Emmett, Holbeacb, Dundas, Pocock, Co,:,
Clsoieum, Wtgoy,u, Pllbur, Newton, Ilaultol, Smith, Pi-
Calvert, Rowell, Row, Stiemair, Robinson, Sleek,
Ta ' Melharne, Robinson, Hope, and MRlnt r.
31suer—Two &cur, Ford% es, two Thompson., two Rou-
wens., Ilasoininisf, Copland, (s i-don, Miller, Wrird,
CAW.M, Douglas, Ert-rernande, two Wetb)s, two Thymic-.
nail Lre.

Lady Poactrtcrtr. gavc, on Wednesday evening
last, a grand Rout, at hrr house in Grosvenor-
square, to all the beauty and fashion of the metro-
arnong the fashionable visitors were,

His Royal lligliPse4 the Prinn isr Wales.
Dirkes-i—Du Plea 414 Orleans.
Ateryl64..--Winch"ter and Dernistiire.
rerle-ii-Ntaar, Derby, Kingston, Westruniesi'l, ortcrue,
V and Limerick.
rsoornin.—Craniesr sad Stoproid.
Count Statheinberg.
Limit—Grave., Dune, Amherst, Kmnaird, Grantham, If.
Petty. Suirtusg, Cryan, Stanley, Cawdor, Dynevor, and
Bruce. _ _

Sirs-4 Cotry*, C. Panl, R. Buxton, W Call, W. Lang-
Mrs, J R,d4k, and D. Carnegie.
General 'Mangum
C.eisesiAeidead.
Cepikiar..Werd, Kan, Drummonit, Digtet, and Stopfont.
Oren.—Neave Vaal, Ea' -hurt, Morton, G. I ferbert, Orn •
I, Town.benal, islfour, Law, Robinson, Wird, Astiltv, Call.
Z. takes, We*, Floe, Watha, CE/Jelea, Helirdoi , and Crim-
inal.

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Dearatertr—Du Part. Ntontrov, and Northumberland.
idarchiones. Winchester.
Cwisdaaws—De Bruhl, Hire."Urt. CUTlarroll, Dowager Thick-
bigtiasielhire, We/intendant!, Cantigui, Clare, Derby, King-
Non, Furtwesor Cartide, Dow.g •r Sefton, Chatham, Bridg •-
‘32411. Limesici: &IA Casysford.
rignessownes—Wentworth, Bulkelty, Downie, und Newark.
I. dint--Youog, Templaciws, C 'Witte, F. Ratcliffe. J
Howard, Tanewd, A. Carpenter, two P.l.rxhartat. F. •Mareh,
Mier, C. Montarre, S. Faroe, Andover, Amherst. A. Gras-
well, Owen, F. Wain, Buxton, Henley, Townsend, Vene.Ht.
Douglas, Bernina, Binning, Sandtan, Say slid Sele, S. O'Brien,
Widehouse, Twittered*, Mdtlary, De Clifford, D. Dunstan-
vine, Percival, C fr..oten, F. Montotne, Wins, Ca:l9
field, It non, Forttaue, I taggerstnts, Cawdor, G. llowarrl,
A. A•hiry, Litigil4l32, Bruce, L. Sunward, Sitic..o, and Car-
sec ie.
Abstretses--Hertfrd, tg-rtnn, Neave, Catm.b.ll,
Put, Lineourt. <is rot. Ornbv, Dudley North, ileiwagr,
Start, Law, G lung. Hervey, Kal, V.s.agh4es, Cnrnwalln,
Codringtue, liaillcrt„ Call, Cox, R G
Cornwall. Jodhard, EUiot, t;hiil.lmcnoicly, Ilenear, and
Courtney.
ifistra—.TED,ot, two R yokes, two Upton', Nlnntarue,
lon, Smart. Cow,
_Vernon, Grant, Buxton, Efferker, Stun,
Dductiet, Steno, Town:land, Ironmonger, /odeltotra, Cole-
., la, Bede., Rowed hen Tionwheirts, Fitvoy, Anguidt,
Cal airoa, Juditard, Sommerville, 8010 ote, and Courtney.

Mrs. SiDtioNs was to have played for ten nights
at Cork. Monday last was tohavecommencedher en.
garment ; but it is supposed the intelligence of her
4Liaghter's daniferous indisposition reached her on
Sunday last. She is expeacd every hour in town,
to console and participate in the poignant feelings
of the Lunily.

The Rev. Mr. ROWLAND HILL, we understand,
intends to preach a sermon in his extensive chapel,
towards the support of the Jennerian society.
Lady Lutist, of Argyle-street, is so far recovered
from her late indisposition, as to be able to ride out.
A evari-Delfor being lately told that his nostrum
wotdd not cure any disease—" I can assure you (said
he, in reply), that it has cured me of a number of
importunate dints—a mimes direaat in most places.
There seems much propriety jp laying the scene
of a Drama in a MaJ•floare. It makes every thing
too for the Author, and throws a dash of the natural
over the whok, wbiuli we seldom find in modern
plays!
A pressgang on Tower-Hill, we are told, pressed
some milord Lot wick. is this a way to SW, the
DAVY ?
ills Dowager Duchess el 'Arias 'is returning
thanks to her fashionable friends, fur their ulAg-
ing enquiries after her health. .
The Honourable Mrs. ti r. GLOSOL Cams:m.l)
last night much better

was
Yesterday morning Lady Simc ass set off from
her father's house, the Duke of Gaspers's, in Green-
meet, on a visit to her sister the Duchess of • M N-
CR VITRA, at Kembolton Castle.
Mons. LE Bat; Grand Diresior of the Louvre
at Pieria, we a purchaser at Liiristiv't sale Wi Tue.-
day and Wednesdalast.
Thu Duchess of YOLK art ivf.„l in town yesterday,
from Oatlandt, at her Royal iigluiess's in Port-
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Btre the Hem. Mr. 7witicr HEATO.
MURDFR
See?bee Sr !well was indided for the wilful 'murder
of his wife Mary Ann Stilwell, by giving her divert
mortal wounds upon the head, of which she died.
The Counsel for the prosecution stated, that the
prisoner at the bar might have lived happy with hW '
wife ; he had married her from inclination, ant
bed found her, as far as the testimony of those who
knew him would go, a person of an amiable dispo-
sition. !laving an opportunity, they set up a_pubea
lie-holiee, near Mortlake, where they might have
lived happily, if the prisoner had not, by his ill-treat-e
nient and bad disposition, produced the fatal conse.
titmice.. which happened to the unfortunate woman.
I lis canduet was, constantly inhuman towards her ;
and it would be shewn, by a servant who lived with
them, that he had long treated her with cruelty
and contempt. On a quarrel, which he made about
his :npp some time previous to the dreadful event,
he ordered her into a barn, which place, he said,
was too good for her ; and, upon the whole, had
constantly. endeavoured to make her life miserable,
by every ad of brutality he could conceive. It weuld
appear in evidence, that, at the time wiwn 'he mur-
der was committed, the prisoner aepearcd to be
composed, and the deceased was hying in perfect
confidence with him. On the morning et' the 20th
of December, the people residing near the house
were alarmed with the groans of the unfortunate
woman, and the appearance of Stilwell, who rushed
from the apartments where the °Ned of his cruelty
had expired. He was seized by two persons, while
attempting to make his escape towards Mortlake,
and by them conveyed before a magistrate.
The first witness was John Ward—He said, he was
a baker at Mortlake. On the eetli of December,
about 5 o'clock in the morning, he was in his shop,
and heard a violent noise in Stilwell's house, who
kept the sign of the Jolly Gardeners ; the witness
immediately opened his back door, and went into
the road, when he distinctly heard the prisoner ex-
claim, "Come," (addressing himself to the deceased)
" get up ! your time is expired!" to which the de.
ceased replied—" My dear Stilwell, do not murder
me !" or, " Do not kill me !" The witness then
went and alarmed the house. He knew a soldier
lodged in the room adjoining to that from which
the noise proceeded, and he immediately cried
out, " Soldier !" The man looked nut, and an-
swered him; about ten minutes afterwards, the
prisoner came down, anl ran out at the front door.
He was dressed in a yellow jacket. On coming close
to him, he observed much blood about his hands
and face ; his clothes also had the same appear.
ance. The witness seized him, and delivered him
to the care of Benjamin Knight.
On being cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Beer,
he said, he was at the far end of the house when he
heard the words already stated made use of by the
prisoner, and added, that Stilwell said, when he
came out," Damn it, set that house on fire !"
Benjamin Knight said, he was going by the Jolly
Gardeners, when he heard an alarm, and several
groans issue from the prisoner's apartment, which
looked into a yard. 'the witness got a table, and
stood upon it, so that he could look into the room
window. He heard somebody go out of the room,
and he immediately went round to the front door of
the house, where he met Stilwell coming out, who
said," Damn it, set that house on fire !" His cloaths
were all over blood, and he appeared in the situa-
tion already described by the foregoing witness.
He then went up stairs, and saw the deceased lying
dead, with her head beat in a shocking manner; he
was over the soles of his shoes in blood, which was
all over the room. He immediately made an alarm,
and laid hold of the prisoner, who struck him seve-
ral times, but at last begged that he would not hurt
him. The witness then described the noise he at
first heard to be like a stamping with feet, and
SCAling.
Charles Barwood, a carpenter, said, he lodged in
the prisoner's house. On Tuesday the teeth of De-
cember, he heard a violent noise in the room where
Stilwell was, which was under his. He heard Mrs.
Stilwell cry, " 0 Bet !" meaning her servant, "come
down, come down!" The witness immediately put his
cloaths on, and went down, and heard Stilwell ex-
claim, "You have given me sweet liberty ! On going
to the hack door, he saw the prisoner with his face and
hands as stated by the other witnesses. On going
up stairs, he found the deceased on the floor, in the
situation already described; a pistol was lying near,
with the top broken. The witness saw the pri-
soner and his wile, about 8 or 9 o'clock, on the
evening preceding, and they appeared to be very
agreeable together; he never saw Stilwell out of his
mind during the time he had known him.
William Bardolph, a lodger in the same room
with the last witness. On the teeth he heard a great
noise proceed from the room under his. lie dressed
himself, and saw the prisoner run out, and heard
him say, " Set that house on fire!" He appeared
in his right senses.
John Davis, a surgeon at Mortlake, stated, that
he was sent for in consequence of the murder of the
deceased. He examined the body, and found elle
had been killed by several violent blows which she
had received ; a gre:at portion of her brains had
been forced out on the right side of her head. lle
found a pistol, the handle of which was broke, and
covered with blood—(Here the prisoner fainted away ).
It was produced in Court
Elizabeth Carter said, she was servant to the de.
ceased. She had frequently beard the prisoner say,
he would murder her. During which, he always
appeared to he in his senses.
The prisoner addressed himself to the Judge, and
said, that by the aggravating temper which the de-
e-eased was of, he was compelled to murder her.
James Brown was called. He said, that he had
employed Stilwell to work for him in his garden,
And had frequently observed him behave like a per-
son out of his senses. On one Sunday in particular,
be came into his garden, and asked him if he had
sowed any -oaion-seed ? and many questions, which
were delivered in a way that led the witness to be-
lieve him deprived of his reason. At the mane time
he opened the garden-gate, and *asked for a knife,
which wags lent -him, and he cut all the witness's
['use trees down even with the motile. A eleenee.
sation took place between them, respedingeise pre-
soner's unhappy appearance when the bete, de-
clared, he would never go into his house aigigmilere,
as several persons in it were constantly iag
.him.
The whale of the evidente bring gent •tiussgh„

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Pg 0410 ft'ibZ.r his de-
ce. . . •
The Learned Judge summed up; and observed,
that there did not exist a doubt of the_ peiecaer's
guilt, •sts the 'evidence had broiteist that -eke:ly
home: the question, however, whieh the Jury had to
"eide-liPan was, whether be • poseessard. hie under-
standing. at the time he perpetrated the deed; or
whether a was •Occa%ioned by moutity- ? 'The prisoner
had worked himself into that degree of passion, that
he did not knoW what he did: One witness had
stated his hiring formerly been deranged, but the
opinion of all the rest had differed : it therefore ap-
peared that he lad committed a cruel mad cricked
crime, by depriving hero(' life wit/lye:rem lac had been;
joined in wedlock, and whose welfare it was his first
duty' to have preserved.-e-The Jnre would consider
of his defence respedirig his wife's temper, and if
any circumstance could be found in his favour,
'they wseild not fail to take notice of the same t. if
there was none, they must find the prisoner guilty.
'1 he Jery, without the least hiiiintion, eetunatii a
verdid—Guilne
The Judge then passed the sentence of death in
the usual newsier, appointing Saturday for the day
of his execution.
Several times during his trial, the prisoner fainted.
He was a man of decent appearance, and apparent-
ly much agitated.
THE DtTeVciont iiEnmsT.
Robert Cragg and lecher were indided for the
wilful murder of \Vali:tin Matthews, -Commonly
known by the name of ile Dulevr.ch Her nit.
Richard Hickson was the first witness cal
He said, that he met the: prisoners. op .thie .27th
neeember, and that be UV, Cragg and' hii w
atsmt half a mils:from the cave in which the de-
ceased lived ; they were going towards Dulwich,
end it rained until nine o cluck that evening. The
witness Asked them, where they lived ? and they told
him in Kent, and on Sydenham Common. He
said to Cragg, " What are you doing so far this
way? Why are you not gone on your journey to
where you are going ?" The prisoner said, his wife
had brought him there, and she did not know for
what.
Thomas Davie, a patrole, was en his beat, and
met the prisoners un the 28th of December, about
a mile and a half from Dulwich. The witness had
some conversation with them, and at last consented
to let them both sleep in his watch-biix, which shel-
tered them from the wind ; they remained there
from two o'clock until six. Cragg said, that he
ani his partner had been to sec Old Matthews, the
Hermit, and that they found him in his care very
much alarmed at their coming • he told them, he
had nothing to give them, nor nothing to sell. The
witness asked them, "Where they lay ?" They
told him, they had pitched a-tent on Sydenham
Common. On hearing of the murder of Matthews,
he immediately gave information, stispeding the
prisoners were the men who had committed the of-
fence.
• James Brown, a Patrole, corroborated the lest
evidence.
William Morris heard Cragg say, when he was
taken into custody, to his companion, " Whatever
you do, keep in one story ; if you do not, we shall
he done."
William Howard said, he met the prisoners on
Sydenham Common, and told them, that some
y had killed old Matthews, to which they re-
plied, " we knew that before you."
George Field said, he took the prisoners before
the Magistrate—He asked Cragg if he had seen old
Matthews lately ? who replied, that he had not seen
him since last August.
Mr. Justice Htarit observed, that there had
appeared nothing in the evidence adduced to crimi-
nate the prisoners, and that the injundion which
Cragg had lain upon his partner to be of the same
story, could not possibly imply guilt. He therefore
directed the Jury to acquit them.

ted.
wife

The Star (an Evening Paper of esterday) boasts
that " it procured an early and faithful report of
the trial of Sir JACOB ASTLEY V. Colonel HAP,
WOOD."—Tillis wonderful exertion consi4ed in pur-
chasing a " kitith Preis," yesterday morning, for
fv, pence balfpenny—the trade-price ! The Editor of
the Star ought to know, that the British Preu ac-
knowledges no difference between literary and me-
dical Quark:. . ,
' A foreign Messenger arrived on Thursday after-
noon, at half past twelve o'clock, at Lord 1-LswitES.-
itlity's ()ince, with dispatches from Naples.
It is fettled, that in the event of a war, Lord Nn-
so ri shall have the command in the Mediterranean,
already the theatre of his brilliant exploits. To this
station he has this week been appointed by Earl Sr,
ViNcEsT.
The Costume of the French Messengers, Or Cou-
riers, (so many of whom have lately arrived;, h a
dark blue coat, double-breasted, Kith small yellow
bettons, placed very close, military breeches and
boots, with a grey surtout ornamented with frogs
and. tassels, and a large bear-skin cape. They are
in general very military-looking men.
The Pillory, of 100 guns, is ordered to be fitted
with the utmost dispatch. The flag of Lord Ni.i.-
ses is to fly on board this ship.
The Peiisant man of war is ordered to be got
ready for commission at Portsmouth.
Captain Mori.tv is appointed Regulating Of-
ficer at Gravesend; as is Captain T•raass, at
Greenock.
Captain O'BRIEN and Captain lisentroe are
appointed, the former to the command of the
l'eseeies bomb, the latter to the command of the
Ttrror bomb.
The Gamper is not, as reported in tome of the
Morning Papers, put into commission, but only or-
dered to be pi rpared and brought forward for that
Pil:Pose-
NVednesday a man, being pursued in Stepney-
Fields by a press-gang, making a Imp over a.stile,
he entangled his foot between the bars, which
broke it in two places. They immediately took
Prim to a neighbonring surgeon, and gave him same
money far his present relief.
The parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, has been
in a great state of alarm for some days past, in
consequence of a, discovery being made that omen
bead bodies had been stolen out of their graves.
&vicious has fallen on the Aesieraet Sestoo, and a
Committee of the Officers of the palish are engaged
in a minute investigation into the -baseness.
• 'Tan *rukr.--kiy a 6066c:dice in the Gazette, it
aPpeats, that his M &)ut is Plate of One iinnaircd
Guineas, hitherto reu for at bsuford, is trassfsurtd
to noncasta;

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otstsitivezß ADDRESS.
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A Molting of the Initabittossa Westminster wns
yesterday- held at the Clown and Anchor in the :
Strand, lot the purposr of moving an Addrese to
his Majesty;•on his {ate happy escape from a teal.
torous end daft-or-Ns comps:mi.— The Meeting' 'i
teas attended tty t 1 Dtt;e of Non''ollt, Mr. C. J Fox,
and ieveralef :r.e Nabilitt,;xnd Gentry; inhabitants '°
K the City of Weatminstei. Mr. Bicknell, the High
I.
Bii,al,if, was unanimously called tts the chair. '1 he '
Duke of Norfolk said, it was perfretv unnecessary
for him to occupy much of the time of the Mating
hi prefacing the Motion he bad to submit with rufu.7 i:
obegrvations : he was happy to see the Meeting s..i
resliedable and numerous, and that it was ii,,i
more folly attended be could attribute only to ore
cause; that cause was, every inhabitant of the city
of Westminster warnanated by the same semi:- ci,t
of loyalty and attachnitetit towards the Sovereign,
and were well assured that every individual who
attended the Meeting, would express the sentiments
of the whole city. He concluded, by moving An
humble Address to his Majesty, congratulating him
on his late happy etcape. The Motion was second-
ed by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, and the Ad-
dress was approved of; sea. sea: The Duke of Nor-
folk then proved, That the Address should be pre-
sented to his Majesty. by the Right Hon. Charles
James Fox, and the 1-lon. Lord Gardner, repre-
sentatives of the city of Westminster in case his
Lordship should return to town *on; his profes-
sional duties at Portsmouth. The thanks of the
Meeting were voted to the Cheirtiiiin, and the Ad-
a**, WAS }eft for the signature of the inhabitants.
• POLICE.

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MANISTON.-1101!”!.
Yesterday informations were brought before the
•Lord Mayer, against fitly. rtspedable Cheesemon-
gers in the city, for having exposed to sale firkins of
butter, from different parts of the country, without
the proper marks ordered by the Ads of the 31d
year of his present. Majesty, to prevent frauds in tho
weight of butter sold by the firkin. The penalty
on each firkin by the Ael is ten shillings. I hese
informations were brought by two Well-dressed men,
strangers, who told his Lordship. they had done it
by the desire of a Company of Cheesemongers, who
wished to have the point. settled ; and as that was
the objet, they were willing to reduce the informa-
tions to whatever number his Lordship thought
proper. In consequence of this
,deelaration, they
were seduced to nearly half the original number,
and except one or two they were commuted. There
was no appeal, it being neknOwledged the firkins
were not marked according to' th* At. His Lord-
ship said, it did not appear that any fraud was in-
tended by the Gentlerneopreseor,but as the AA did
subjed the vender of one firkins to the penalty, the
same is the batter-fader, he.was under the nece;sity
of inflicting the penalty, and hoped they would nut
receive any butter %future without the firkin being
marked as direded by the Ad of Parliament.
DOW-STREET.
3. f. Sir it. Fonn and T. ROBINSON, El?. •
Yesterday the man apprehended on suspicion of
various footpad robberies, was brought up for re-
examination, when, in addition to the charges ad-
duced against him on Monday last, for robbing
Lord Hobart's Groom and two Hackney Coach-
men, the following appeared. Thomas Treadswell,
the driver of a hackney-coach, said, that on the night
of the 6th inst. he was hired at Charing-cross by
the prisoner, who ordered him to drive to Bayswa-
ter, where he robbed him of about twenty-two shil-
lings and sixpence, presenting a pistol and tuck-
stick, and slightly wounding him in the side with
the latter ; said he thought he recolleded the per-
son of the prisoner at the time, having known him
in the King's Bench Prison about two years ago,
where he was confined for debt ; he then belonged
to the Train of Artillery, and went by the name of
Robert Smith.
John Chilton, a porter at Mr. Spode's Stafford-
shire warehouse, swore, that on the evening of the
14th instant, about eight o'clock, the prisoner stop-
ped and robbed him of as. Gd. near Bayswater,. and
slightly wounded him on the breast with a tuck-
stick. The driver of another hackney-coach identi-
fied the prisoner, as having robbed him a short time
since, near Wandsworth, Surry ; but there already
being five positive charges against him in the County
of Middlesex, the Magistrates did not bind the
coachman over to prosecute for that offence.—The
prisoner, as before, declined saying what his real
name was, or answering any interrogatories, except
that he was a Scotchman by birth, had been about
fourteen years in this kingdom, and traded as a
Merchant, but in what way he did not mention ;
denied ever having been a soldier, though proved
by the coachman. He is a tall, well-looking man,
about thirty, and has a military appearance. He
was remanded ter Monday next.
Lord NELiON attended the Admiralty yester.
day.
13y accounts received at Havre from Gibraltar,
dated 18th Feb. state, that two French vessels, La
and k Afamrt, bound from Marseilles, were
hailed on the lSth by two French ships of the line,
whoinformed them that they had sailed from 'rou-
lon, with troops, destined for Saint Domingo, under
the orders of Gen4ral Bti3AUX. ft wai requested,
that the intelligence of their having been fallen in
with, should be conveyed to Havre as expeditiousiy
as possible.
Letters from the Hague, of the I sth, say, ' A
Courier from the FiILST CQNSUL, who is arrived at
the French Ambassador's, has brought dispatches,
upon the receipt of which the sailing of the expedi-
tion for London was countermanded. The troops
had already left their respedive quarters to be em-
barked ; they are now returning to them. Sever..l
battalions will be canton's! at Heivoet., and in the
environs, where they will wait the ulterior disposi-
. Omni of the French Government. Frequent state
conferences are held; several couriers have been
dispatched to different destinations ; and orders have
been sent to the Marine Cousicils and the War and
Finance Departmentt. We bear that Admiral HARI -
since, who was to have relieved Admiral lit Wt •
ea in the Mediterranean, will not sail with his
squadron Wain our posts all it be decided wbetlar
peace will be preserwrd or not. An English Me-.-
*anger has brought dispatches for Mr. !Arrow, the
British Minisnte, and is gone with important 4,a
patches to the ikl.ethern Courts. Our funds fall
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