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tvedneslay a young man, who is brother to an at-
tn.-my, was charged before the sitting Magistrate
on r.uspicion of stealing a pocket-book, containing
property to the amount of 1001. from a Mr. Daw-
son. It appeared, in the course of the examination,
that the parties were all spending the evening toge-
ther at a coffee-house in the vicinity of Fleet-street;
and Mr. Dawson happening to take nut his pocket-
book, the young man alluded to, who sat next to
Mr. Dav:son, made several excuses to pass him in
the cosine of the evening, and returned ; after the
company was separated he missed his pocket-book,
and immediately suspected the young man ; his
lodgings were searied, but no traces of the book
could be found. The evidence, hoavver, swearing
to the suspicion of his being th,.: person who actually
tees: the bunk, the NMS ir.dtv.-ed to com-
mit hoe fur trial Several ef !Us friends attended,
and amongst the rest his brother, and urged his ge-
neral good character : but the Magistrate informed
them he was obliged to attend to what had been
sworn, and lw fek it his duty to send bitn for trial.
A journeyman carpenter, named Sfismoar, way
charged by his master, Mr. Lane, with leaving his
work unfinished. Mr. Lane stated, that this man
agreed to serve him fur a week, and after working
at his business for three days, abruptly left hint, and
Ise had not heard any thing of him till yesterday,
whoa he summoned him to the Court of Requests
fur wages which he alledgei was due to him. Mr.
Lane accordingly took the opportunity when he met
him there, to bring him before the 'Magistrate.—
Mr. Alderman Newaham consulted the Act of Par-
liament, and observed, that the Act authorised him
to intlic: a I.unislinier.t of three months for this of-
fence, and not less than one month, discretionary.
He said, it was highly necessary to enforce the act,
in order to learn jourueymen their duty. Simmons
acknowledged that he had left his master's service,
but said he had not left any work unfinished ; he ex-
pressed his sorrow for his fault, and said he was
willing to icturn, if his master would take him back,
and serve the remainder of his time. Mr. Lane,
however, would not agree to receive him again but
said, if the Magistrate thought proper, he was wil-
ling to receive an apology, provided he would pay
the expences incurn.d. Simmons very gladly accept-
ed the proposed terms, and Mr. Alderman Newn-
ham gave nim some excellent advice as to his fu-
ture conduct; observing, that if he again infringed
the laws, be would be punished with the utmost se-
verity.--4 le was then discharged.

2.IkNSION-110e5g.
70.6 Cie/It Mk was brought before the LORD
MAYOR, by Robert U, in, a fellowship porter, for
refusing to pay him for measuring and landing a
qua:mty of turnips.
Mr. Reeves, a meeter, attended on this occasion,
and stated, that it was a general practice of late to
impose upon the City by landing goods of this na-
ture, without weighing them or paying the duty re-
quired. The fellowship porters had also to com-
plain that others were hired to do in their stead this
work at reduced wages. The LORD MAYOR de-
L...ded the rights of these persons within the City
liberties, and ordered the owner of the turnips to
pay tilt complainant his regular wages.
1:mos-HALL.
Wdliam Parkhurst and William Carter, two dust-
men, the former the master, the latter the man,
were brought forward, on Wednesday, to answer
the charge of suspicion made against them for steal-
ing two horses, a cart, and a piece of brandy ; the
former the property of Samuel Quinton, of White's
Grounds, Bermondsey, and the brandy the property
of .Messrs. Mills and Co. They were remanded for
fiuther examination.
ssAItI.BniOtGH•43IIIIZET.

Wednesday Ame Pallets was fully committed for
trial, for stealing a quantity of lace from the shop
of Mr. Burford, in Ozford-street. The prisoner
went into the shop under the pretence of puTchss-
ing some articles on Saturday evening, and trsok
the opportunity of secreting the lace, but was im-
mediately detected.

Early yesterday morning, the coach-house of
John Way, Esq. Lincoln's-inn-fields, was broke
open, and the hammer-cloth stolen from the chariot.
On Wednesday morning, a fellow knocked at
the door of Mr. Jones, in St. -Alban's-street, pre-
tending he had dropped a letter into the area, and
while the maid servant was gone to fetch it, he atole
two coats and a waistcoat out of the parlour, :ind
got clear of.
On Wednesday evening, the coach-house of Mrs.
Sprangcr, in Jockey-fields, near Bedford-row, was
robbedof the hammer-cloth belonging to the coach.
Townsend, one of the Bow-street patrole, who
was so dreadfully wounded on Monday nigOt List.
in Crown-street, St. Giles's, by a ruhber, is Eo
much better, that hopes ale eutertained of i.is reco-

VCry.
An attempt was made; by a single footpad, to
rob a servant to Mr. Kestertw, of the White Horse
Inn, in the Borough, on Wednesday morning about
oat o'clock. near the nine mile stone on the Brom-
Iry mid, but the servant being oa horsPbac:, got
away with all his property.

AGRICULTURE.
We have been favoured by a friend with the pe-
rusal of. the following circular letter from the Duke
of Bedford. As we deem the subject of import-
ance to a considerable number of our readers, Nye
glad ve it insertion.

IY gi'.
Trebera- Abbey , Dee. 1, 1802.
The Dukc of Belfollll, anxious to try the co:npatetive merit;
of the various eorts ofetheep in this island, propose. to the dif-
ferent breediss of each sort' to send him 20 wither lambs to
Woburn, between toe 15titof September and the 15th of Oc-
tober, 1803, accompanied by a ceirtititate from the breeders of
each, stating the period, as near as may be, when they were
lambed. The Duke i, willing to pay the full price for them,
and all expencio incurred on the journey. He requests those
who propose se-reline them, to inform him by letter of their in-
tention, in the month of August, or sooner, that he may have
the opportunity of declining them, in the event of his having
hail prior nreice of a lot of the battle breed being to be sent from
Another quarter
The Duke proposes to treat them in the following manner :
—they will be weighed as soon as they arrive and again on the
pith Novein'eer. They will he then divilled hate two lots,
ten of each salt. One lot shall be such as each breeder shall
have himself previously marked as most likely to come to early
maturity. These, on or about the 15th of November, will be
put to turnip's, as felloweisto the fatting sheep. In this manner
they will be keet threogh the greatest part of the winter. In
the last month or six week., it it he found practicable, their
foal will hr weieeed to them.
They will thee be pot to tolerable grace in the spring, and
produced for the inspection of the company at the sheep-
sheireee Ishi $ ; which time one of each sett will he killed,
imessi the breeders of the sheep slinulil object to it. Out of
the remainitig !nee, the breeders, if they axe prevnt, or if not,
some person from the county where eeelt sort was bred, will be
requested to select four, whiCh will • eliately he put to good
pars and front that time pushed foreard, with the intention of
nuking them goad meat ae soon as possible. As fast as each
shrep arrives at that state, he will be slaughtered, and a particu-
lar account taken of his live and dead weight, offal, ;re. &c.
Such as are not fit to be killed front grass, will b. put to the Lest
turnips and hay on the 15th of October.
The remaining five of each sort in this let will immediately
after the selection of the above-mentinnee, be put to a rather
bare pasture ; such an one, however, as will promote their
growth ; sell on the Ist of November they will be put to Wl'
sips, with a small portion of hay, and three of C:eil
!acted as We're by the breeders, or their countrymen, at the
sheep shearing, 1804, will be slaughtered In the time manner
as the four above-mentioned. The nomainiog two of eacii sort
will be kept at turnips through the winter. In the spring
they will be put to good grass, end slaughtered at the sheep-
shearing 1805.
In each year of this experiment, an attempt will be made to
ascertein the quantity of food consumed by each 'sort, by put-
ting them into mietisrate-sieed slit moos of dry bare pasetre,
weighing and cutting turnips for them, and twice to oftener,
in the course of the week, weighing back all that it not con
sunned. These sheep will be eiten weighed, and a wayt when
their fond is changed.
The second lot, consisting of the rem ' g ten of each sort,
will, upon their being divided, be put to hard keep, and adl
contiuur to be treetee in that tanner through the first winter
and the fullowlng eueimer. 'rho et-veld winter they will have
some has given them, and in the spring be put to tolerable
grass. They will be exhibited at the sheepshearing% 1604 and
l'os. Such as are at the Lot sheering fit for the butcher, will
be slaughtered, and the remainder, as soon as they are iu pro-
per condition.
The deferent lots will, of course, be alwayi7kept in the tame
field.

Any person who mar send sheep, and who may is-411 fnr any
particular attention in the treatment of them, sti:l, if he Fint•;
iu his request in writing, have it prop.nly attended to, provided
it 5h0314 not appear to injure the general experiment, or git,e
to his sheep any exclusive advantage.

FRENCH COLONIES.

These politicians who advise and contend for an
oblivion of the past, are right when men are in ques-
tion. and indeed no one thinks of opposing them :
but they are wrong when principles are the thing
to be looked to ; for it is under strong governments
that false principles ought to be counteracted, and
good principles established for future conduct. The
moral observation which we here set forth, may
be jusLified by facts of an evidence altogether irre-
fragable.
During the revolution we warred with all the
governments of Europe by our actions, and with
ourselves by our pi inciples. Our victories have pur-
chased .us peace, a most valuable consideration.
They have reinvigorated and confirmed the national
character; and the only inconvenience and ailment
that now hang upon us, proceed entirely from our
false principles. We are still at war, but not with fo-
reign powers : we have now to wage war with those
whom philosophy has turned loose upon society.—.
We are endeavouring to rescue our colonies, not
from the English, but from all those disasters that
have sprung from a false and ignorant philanthropy.
Was it not for that war of principles which we have
waged against ourselves, what would now be
wanting to complete the commercial, the general
prosperity of France ? Our colonial possessions,
which had fallen into the hands of a foreign enemy,
have reverted to us in- very excellent condition.
Those which our philanthropical politicians have
undernaken to administer, cost now the lives of of-
ficers whose loss must wring the heart of every
Frenchman, and immense RIMS, the expenditure of
which is indi.,rnsible. For the first duty to be per-
formed of g, xcntment after a revolution, is doubt-
less to arrest the progress of evil ; a condition, with-
out attention to which all, even the best combined
attempts at improvement, must necessarily prove abor-
tive. These refleaions arc equally applicable to our
internal situation. The war we have carried on with
foreign powers has afforded us an indemnification of
the evils it produced ; it has secured us from all
apprehension of a new war, or of its consequences,
should ever any of the European powers allow
themselves to be imposed upon by the Cabinet of
St. James's, than which nothing is more doubtful.
But where is the indemnification for the evils
which we have inflicted upon ourselves? and
where would be our pledge of security, if we
did not combat those false principles by every
mode of argument in our power ? while government
for the happiness of France, makes them disappear'
at its frown, let the apostles of philosophy assert
what they will, there is no suds thing as a philoso-
phical government. The King of Prussia and Ca-
tharine 11. great sticklers, no skubt, for philosophy,
never thought, however, of governing philosophi-
cally. So true is it, that politics can never begin to
philosophise, dr philosophy set itself at politicizing
without throwing both ideas and things into confu-
sion. This is :5 truth that cannot too often be re-
peated, because there are persons who still contrive
to doubt it ; and even it today every one agreed
upon that truth, yet were it necessary to repeat it
to-morrow, least some men of evil intent might not
have already forgotten it. In the same manner,
with regard to what concerns our colonies, we must
now continually bring back our thoughts to the
past ; for if we should come to forget why we were
fig "sting in the middle of our own possessions, and
ae,ainq whom we were fighting, we should lose the
fr'eit's of an instruction teat has been dearly pur-
ch:red indeed.—From the Merciare de France.

"'fur. mr. IN 7.
The following narrative is chiefly extracted from
the Barbadoe: Lxpositor, of the 17th November last,
and we doubt not will gratify our readers, as cer-
tainly the first authenticated account which has yet
come before the public, of a transaetion which, at
the time, excited a. strong interest in the Maritime
and Mercantile world. It relates to the ship Friend-
.4o, in the African trade, belonging to the port of
Lives pool, ofavhich Messrs. Brown, Huson,
ley, &c. are the owners. This ship was seized by
the crew in Majumba Bay, in the absence of the
Captain, about the end of the year 1801, but after-
wards carried into Barbadoes by a stratagem of one
of the crew.
In the autumn of 1801, the Fritnelthip sailed from
Liverpool on a voyage to Africa and' the West In-
dies ; early in October of that year, she arrived on
the coast, and anchored in Majumba Bay ; the Cap-
tain having occasion to go on shore, for the purpose of
bartering the commodities he carried for the natives
of the country, the boat that conveyed him returned
to the ship with intelligence, that that night he
should stay on shore ; some of the seamen were at
this time intoxicated. At night, when the Chief
Mate, Kennedy, in the absence of the Captain, had
set the watch, and as if suspecting a conspiracy, had
come upon the quarter-deck, and wrapping himself
in his surtout, had laid down to sleep, the mutiny
began. It was dark, and the utmost tumult and
confusion ensued : part of the crew had possessed
themselves of fire-arms. Copeland (the Surgeon)
twice snapped a musquet at the Steward, and actu-
ally fired it at M'Cawley,•the third Mate, and son of
an owner of the vessel. M'Cawley, and Kennedy,
k the first Mate, unable to resist, and maltreated by
the mutineers, reired to the cabin, to which they af-
terwards confined them. The unfortunate Jae},
(the second Mate), more resolute and less pnideet
perhaps, was killed by a ball from a musquet, and
instantly thrown overboard. While this scene of
violence continued, the cable of the ship was cut,
the sails unfurled, and the ship got under way and
put out to sea. The leaders of the mutiny now as-
sumed command, and a few hours afterwards com-
pelled the two mates, and such others as they *ought
were not friendly to their projects, to quit the ves-
sel; and having put provisions and water in the
boat, they left them at the disposal of Providence,
by whose protection tidy regained the African coast,
and since arriving in this island, with the Captain,
have been the principal means of convicting these
pirates. Sherbome, the boatswain, had got into the
boat with intent to accompany them, but him the
mutineers detained, his services were necessary to
the execution of their daring scheme ; for he was
the only man remaining on board whose knowledge
of navigation enabled him to direct the vessel's
course ; that course (after some consultation) the
mutineers agreed should be for some French port,
and as the fittest for their purpose, they fixed on
Cayenne.
'They had not been to sea many days before a
party of them, among which probably was Jelly's
murderer, impelled by the dread of the Justice they
merited, resolved to leave the ship in the remaining
boat, which they did, and have not hitherto been
heard of. Sherborne, in seeming obedience to their
command, to steer the vessel for Cayenne, practised
a most praise-worthy deception, though perilous in
the extreme to himself; the first hour he took upon
him to direct the ship, he formed a counterplot to
conduct the ship to Barbadoes, while he made the
pirates believe he was carrying her to Cayenne ;
this he communicated only to the carpenter (Snow-
don) and another, in whose fidelity he deposited his
life ; in the prosecution of it he met with deserved
success ; happily his intention was never discovered.
As they approached Batbadoes, the sloop of war,
the Hornet, hove in sight ; then in their terror the
pirates proposed to plug up the shot-boles that were
conspicuous in various parts of the vessel, as an ex-
pedient to elude enquiry and suspicion ; but the
councils of villainy under the influence of fear, are
generally precipitate, unsteady, and unwise ; suffice
it to relate, that on the ship's being boarded by the
Hornet': boat, the whole was disclosed, the princi-
pals, as named by the boatswain and carpenter, se-
cured, brought into this port, and committed to
the prison of this island to be tried for the henious
offences of which they were accused.
After a very long and interesting trial, which
took place on the 9th of November last, the Presi-
dent of the Court declared, that the Court had
unanimously found three of the prisoners (Cope-
land, Carr, and Lewis) guilty, and acquitted
Smith. He then, after a long and very excellent
address to the prisoners,in which he descanted on the
ruinous nature of the crime they had committed to
the dearest interests of Great Britain, passed sen-
tence on the three unhappy men, and they were to
be executed on Thursday the 18th of November
last.

By the late alarming fire in Falcon Court, Fleet-
street, the private house of Mr. HAMILTON, with
his valuable Printing Office, was entirely destroyed.
The property consumed is estimated at 11,0001. not
more than 3,0001. of which was insured. Happily
no lives were lost. At a late hour last night, some
appearance of fire still remained, and the engines
were playing from the Tempie Churchyard ; but
no apprehension of further injury was entertained.
Wednesday a Gentleman, from I.ondon, made trial
at Portsmouth, in presence of several persons of re-
spectability, of a new-invented machine for purifying
filthy, corrupted, and stagnant water, and rendering
it wholesome and fit for use. The machine gave
the fullest satisfaction to the beholders ; as in a
quarter of au hour after putting the foul stinking
water into it, a portion was drawn off, which was
perfectly sweet, well tasted, and changed from a
greenish colour to a clear resemblance of clean
pump-water. This machine needs no comment,
as its utility will be universally felt if adopted in the
navy, hut most particularly in long voyages and in
hot climates.
The old white-fronted house that stood within a
court, the passage to which was under a part of the
Black Swan pullic-bouse in Butcher,Row, near
Temple-Bar, and is now visible in consequence of
preparing for the new erections at this time con-
structing, was the residence of Sir WALTER. RA-
LEIGH, when he was so unjustly and cruelly called
up to suffer decapitation, in the reign of James the
First, upon a sentence passed upon him previous to
his last voyage to Guiana. All the long Court that
runs up almost to Carey-street, was, excepting a
narrow passage, the garden to this mansion, but it
has been covered with buildings within the last
twenty years.

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51Ditie0 bp Qluition-

By Mr. KING,
At his Great Room, No '3B, King-street, Covent-garden,
THIS and following DAY, at Twelv. &Clock, by 0-.lae
o; the Executor of Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, lately' di..
c2its,ll,

_ .
AChoice ASSEMBLAGE of "PRINTS ;„iu
eluding a fine Collection of I,Voollett's Woks, many of
them Proofs and Etchings ; among them are the Death of
Wolfe; a Proof superlatively finis; Rattles of the !fogies an,
Boyne, Proofs and Etchinv; Oliver Cr) mw ell and the Rect.
ration, Proof. and Etchings; Cicero at his Villa, and, Cumpa,
nion, fine Proofs; Macbeth, a proof; the Wisher', ersireptely
fine; Cevx and Alcyone; Celnion and Amelia;
Cottegcrs, and Jocund Peasants, Dado and ,Enees' Monne.:
and Evening, Proofs and, Etchings ; Drawing and Engras.:
of the Watch Paper and Crocodile; Deptford Duck-.a'...
l'iunt. and Etching. A teW Bpnks, and Books of Printi,
eluding Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities; Cabinet; de .
and Lebrun; Watta7s, Middiruatt, and Smith's
}Ligon Easels and Engraver's Tools. A few Copper-pla.
particularly the Niube, with £lO impressions, in the finest
dation poss Pile.
May bc viewed oirTuesdiy till the Sale, and Catal,.,v,
then had at the Rooms.

By LEIGH, SOTHEBY., and SON, •
At their Hoarre, in York-street, Covent-garden, TO-NIUR
ROW, Feb. 5, by Order of iho Adroinigndor, the
Hen. Sir Joseph &raki, Bart. K.B.
THE DUPLICATES of ENGLISH FOR.
TRAITS, and BOOKS, of the late
• SAMUEL TYSSEN, Esq. F. k. S.
Of.Narborough-Hill, in the County of Norfolk.
Tu be viewed till the Sale, and Catalogues may be. kiwi ,at tso-
p'ace of Sale.

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