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London, England, 1804-09-15 00:00:00

PONTEFRACT RACE,

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. I?.
Sweepstakes of 30 gs. 10 gs. forfeit ; co!ts Rst. 21b.
fillies 7,t. 151 b. th.n tyre : year olds—The last
mile and three quarters.
-Sir 55' G:r br col:, by Chatioy . . . . 1
Lord FA4...lli.mn's bay hay. Maiden . . . .
1 I to 5, the field against Chariot.
TUB SAMS DAY.
The Gold Cup of 100 gs. value, a Sweepstakes of
10 gs. each, with 20 gs. added—Three. year olds
84t. 21b. Four-year olds 7st. lei& Five year
olds 13,t. 51h. Sir-year old, Bct. Pill. Aged
9a. 'Wires and Geldings allowed 31b.— Four
miles.
Marc:s . , ..... t
Isonl Ds,,o3r.i•i•s Ifl:thatar.l
i and S to 1 on Haphazard.
llig SAME DAT.
The Macaroni Stakes, a Sweepstakes cf lOgs. each,.
for horses. ilcc. not thorough bred, Ivit each;
and to be rode by Gentlemen.—Two
certificate of their pedigree to be produced be-
fore starting.
Nu. L. W iartliWs horse, C .96-yer
Mr L. 1.. li*dirsQn s colt, Olynspot
2 to 1 on the Grey.

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LITCHFIELD R.,IOES, Gut. 1!.

King's. Plate of I.oogs. by 5 yrs old; three mil^ heats.
:At It. h Wa't,n I 1
Su W W. Wy mw b. h . 2 dr
Mr. Dyolt% b. mby Joe Andre... . 3 2
SAME DAY.
A stake of I Gag. An ages ; one two•n.ge hear.
I.d. Grey. vc. Sur Oliver, 4 yrs old. .
Str C. B elury% b. h. mold 2
Mr. C,.ventrv. Laura, 4 yr. old . . 3
Mr. Kellerman'. ;Vary, 4 yrs old . . 4
A very excellent heat for the stakes; Sir Oiivet
won by only half a neck. Mary was not more than
two lengths from the winner.

A Coroner's Inquest has been held at Southend,
upon the body of the late Mr. I tremor.. %erdi.l,
eq the v;sitoltun of God."
The Grand Jury, on Thursday at twelve, :brew
orit the Bill of Indiarnent which was prefer ..c1
against THoM ss M•r.ert.L tl.s4NAt.t., fora felony;
in attemp:iri to discharge a p;stol at Mr. J
seine, near the Crown and Anchor Tavern, du.ing
the law Eleaion.
21 dreadful fire happened on Thursday evening,
Sept. 6 : the castle ct Sir Ta•acrss LiSSIM AN, at
Yeasley Moor. Hilhngdcn, Middlesex, was entirely
consumed to ashes, together with all his valuable
live stock, estimated at a considerable amount.
lie was a staunch friend of Sir FRANCIS r .
It requires but little calculation to shew the ad-
vantages in favour of adventurers in the ensuing
Lottery; they are more considerable than have been
for nr.nr Toms. A bare perusal of the scheme is
alone sufficient to justify this assertion; and, if com-
pared with the last Lottery, in propertion to the
number of Tickets. there will be found an addition
of 32,0001. in Prizes in favour of the present one,
and the Tickets selling only at the same price. tin-
der such circumstances, it is almost needless to uts-
serve that I ickets must rise considerably before the
drawing, though the time is short, as it commences
on Mon lay the ..3th instant. Messrs J. lots:. ore and
Co. ever grateful for the pre-eminence with watch
the public have Distinguished their Cifice, particu•
larly recommend an early purchase, and respedfully
inform their numerous Frienjc and the Public, that _
the Tickets and Shares arc on sale. in ,t groat variety
of numbers, at their truly fortunate Lic.nted State
Lottery Office, No. 3, Pope's Head Alley, Corn-
hill. London, remarked far more than thirty years
in selling numerous Capital Prizes.
In consequence of the very great Demand for
Tickets and Shares at the old established State Lot-
tery Office of Ho lINSBY and Co. they beg leave to
recommend to all those who purpose having a
Chance in the present State Lottery for either id the
three 20,0013 L three 10,0001. three 5,0001. or any
other Capital Prize, not to delay buying the same
immediately.

N.B. Orders, by Letter or Carrier. for Tickets
and Share., executed ezaaly on the same Terms as
it present.
*.• All Prizes, whether of 201. or 20,0001 paid
on I)cmand at the old established State. Lottery
Ckic: 4314 Cu. e,Curobill.

CitlAl. CON. •

JETRACC FROM THE SPFILCIt tYF CITRR AN,
ex sEtir%Llll.74llruAiSilfre.
Is A. CLUIC the 'l,lv. Mr. htASSV e. the Matitid of
. %Pt OR 1:,
C.•yort+d ur VerattLar. P4.,er

But let me call pier attention distinftle to the
questions You have to consider. The first is the
fad of guilt. Is this Noble Lord gifitty ? fik Coun-
sel knew. too well how they would hate niortilieJ
his vanity, had they given the sataiieet reason to
doubt the splendour of his atchievernatt. Against
any such humiliating suspicion. he had taken the
most studious precaution, by the publi -icy of the
exploit. And here, its this court, an& before you,
and in the face of the comma), has he the unparal-
kit" ethontety of disdaining to resort even to a
eo,!rission inmierker ; his guilt estiblished, your
next question is, the damages you should give. Yoe
have been told that the amount of the da-
mages should depend as- circumstances ; you will
consider theae circumstances, whether of aggrava-
tion or mitigation. His Learned Counsel contend
that the Plaintiff has been the author of his own
suffering, and ought to receive no compensation for
the ill consequences of his own conduit. In what
part of the evidence do you find any foundation for
that assertion ? He indulged her, it seems, in dress:
'generous and attached, he probably indulged her
an that point beyond his means ; and the Defendant
now impudently calls on you to find an excuse for
the adulterer in the fondness and liberality of the
hushand. But you have been told that the husband
connived. ()slims and impudent aggravation of
injury, to add calumny to insult, and outrage to
dishonour ! From whom, but a man hackneyed in the
paths of shame and vice : from whom, but a man
having no compunctions in his own breast to restrain
him, could you exiled such brutal disregard for the
feelings of others? From whom, but the cold-blooded
seducer; from what, but from the exhausted mind ;
the habitual community with shame; from what,
but the habitual contempt of virtue and of man,
could you have expelled the arrogance, the bar-
barity, and folly, of sd foul, because so false an im-
putation? He should have refleiied, and hate
blushed, before he suffered so vile a topic of defence
to have passed his lips. But. ere you condemn, let
hint have the benefit of the excuse, if the excuse be
true. You must have observed how his Counsel
/lettered and vibrated, between what they called
Connivance and injudicious confidence ; and how, in
fiffeaing to distinguish, they have confounded them
both tegether. If the Plaintiff his connived, I free-
ly say to you, do not reward the wretch who has
prostituted his wife, and sin rendered his own honour;
do net comp:el-are the pander of his own shame, and
the •; tiling in •trunient of his own infamy. But as
these is no sum so low, to which such a defence, if
true, ought not to reduce your verdict, so neither is
any so high, to which such a charge ought to inflame
it, if such a charge be false. Where if the single
FAR in this case on which the remotest suspicion of
connivance can be hung ? Odiously has the Defend-
ant endeavoured to make the softest and most
amiable feelings of the heart the pretext of his slan-
derous imputations: Now the charge which this
noble Lord builds on this indiscretion is Theu
fool—thou lutist confidence in my honour—and
that was a guilty indiscretion—thou simpleton.
thou thoughtest that an admitted and a cherished
guest would have respelled the Loss of bonnet anti
hospitality ; and thy indiscretion was guilt. Theo.
thoughtest that he would have shrunk from the
meanness and bails:why of requiting kindness with
treachery; and thy inaiscretion was guilt."
Gen:lemen, what horrid alternative in she treat-
ment of wives would sealt reasoning recommend ?
Ate they to be immosed by worse than eastern bar-
barity ? Are their principles to be depraved-otheir
patsions suhlimated—evely finer motive of action
extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus
treating them like slaves ? Or is a liberal seal ge-
nerous confidence in them to be ate passport of the
adulterer, =tithe justi ian of his crimes.?
Honourably. but fatally for his own repose, be
was neither jealous. &topic on* nor cruel.—lle
treated the Ihfoiclaat with the c nfi It 'lce of
friend--- Ind his wife uith the teed. c s a fin -
band. Ile dititeave to the noble Main, 10. v.
sical possibility of committing t iin the
MAMA crime which can be ; eraieratt .1 a oai act a
being of an amiable heart ant refitted td:..-
and the noble Defendant had t':e hnnont to avail
himself of it.--In tit. middle of the Jay, at the
moment of divine iv, cahip, when the miterable lota
but d teas on ha kneca dircrtaig the prayeri and
thanksgiving of his coneree a• ton to their God--.
that moment did the tense:tales. adulteter choose
to carry of the deluded vielint tram her hustat od—•
from her child—front her aura:at-4'mm her hip.
riness.—as •:, not content to leave his corm: con-
fined to its inseparable and miserahl• aggravations,
unless he also gave it a cast and colour of atleitious
sacrilege and inyiety. Oh i how happy had it
bean. when lie totted at tile isank of the ,aver with
the ill-fated fugitive, me yet he bad onmmitted her
to that boot. of which, like the fabled barivie of
St's, the es le was etental s how happy at that mo-
ments so teeming with misery and uith stiame, if
you, env Lord, had /711 him, and could have Ae
'nted him in the chars ter of that good genius
which had abandoned him. Hove impressively
might tam have pleaded • the cause of the father,
of the child, itf the mother, and even of the warth.
less Ektistis, int hiessetf. You wouti have said,
a Is this tire requital that you Are about to make
for respeet and kinsitteas. and confidence in
your Imeour ? Can yfsa delfherately expose this
young man in the bloom of life, with all his
hopes yet before himi Cats yon moose hint,
a wretched outcast from societs • to the stout of a
merciless world ? Can you set him adrift upon the
tenspettut•us ocean of his own pastors, at this early
season, when they are most liculatroug ? and can
you cut him out from roe moorings of those do-
171eStiC Uhi;gaSitllS. by whom cable he alight ride at
safety fr m their turbulence I ILink, it you can
conceive it, what a Prayerful iioluenca arises from
the score cf home, farm the seared religion of the
earth, in qaelnog the passiocts., in reclaiming the
twauderings, iu cur-editing the domains, of the hu-
man heart : do not cruelly take from him the pro-
- teCtion ef these attachnierts. But, if you have no
pity foe the faker, have mercy at least upon his
ailment and helpless child : do not ccn2enin bins
o an educasi-as scamlalous or re,.loacd-atto not

'trite him into ttat most dreadful of all litunan con
ditii ns, the orphanage that spriogs not from the
grave, that falls not from the hand of Providence,
'or the stroke of death but comes before its time,
anticipated and irilliaed by the remorseless cruelty
of parentatguilt." For the pont' viaim herself--
not yet immolated—while yet balancing upon the
pivot of her destiny, your heart could not be cold,
nor your tongue be wordless. You would have
said to him, Pause, my .I.cirsi, while there is yet
a moment for ref Chien. What are your motives,
what your views, what your prospeas, from whit
von are about to do? You are a married man, the
husband oi the most amiable and respe&sble of
*omen; you eantiorlook to the chance of marrying
this wretched fugitive : between you and such an
event there are two sepulchres to pass. What are
your inducements? Is it love, think you? No--
do not give that name to any attraaion you can
find in the faded refuse of a violated bed. Love is
a noble and genetnats passion; it can be founded
only on a pure And ardent friendsh p, on au cashed
respea, on an implicit confidence in its objea.
Search your heart, examine your judgment ; and,
in the estimate of a woman's worth, the 'chi:lion of
your own incomparable wife spews that you are not
without discernment: do you find the semblance
of any one of these sentiments to bind you tq her ?
What could degrade a mind, to which nature or
education had given port, or stature, or char:liner.
into a friendship for her ? Could you rel•ose upon
her faith ? Look in her face, my Lord ; she is at
this mnmeat giving you the violation of the most
sacred ot hum in obligations as the pledge of her
fidelity. She is giving you the most irichagable
proof, that, as she is deserting her husband for you,
so she would, without a scruple, abandon you for
another. Do you anticipate any pleasure you
might feel in the possible event of your becoming
the parents of a common child ? She is at tlas
moment proving to you that she is as dead to the
sense of parental as of conjugal obligation and
that the would abandon your offspring to-morrow
with the same facility with which she now deserts
her own. Look then at her condo& as it is, as the
world must behold it, blackened by every ag-
gravation that can nuke it either odious or con-
temptible. and unrelieved by a single circumstance
ot mitigation that could palliate its guilt, or re-
trieve it from abhorrence "

a Mean, however, and degraded, as this woman
must be, she will still (it you take het with you)
have strong and heavy claims upqn you. 'the force
of such slams does certainly depend upon circum-
stances; before, therefore, you 'expose her fate to
the siusadful risk of your caprice or ingratitude, in
mercy to her. weigh well the confidence she can
place in your fnture justice and homer: at that fu-
ture time, much nearer than you think, by what
topics can her cause be pleaded to a sated appetite,
to an heart that repels her, to a just judgment. in
which she never could have been valued or re-
spelled ? Here is not the case of an unmarried wo-
man, with whom a pure and generous friendship
may insensibly have ripened into a more serious at-
tachment, until at last her heart became too deeply
pledged to be reassumed : if so circumstanced,
without any husband to betray, or child to desert,
or motive to restrain, except what related wkly to
herself, her anxiety for your happiness maz!e her
overlook every other consideration, and commit her
destiny to your honour; in such a case frhe strong-
est and the highest that man's imagination can snr-
pose!, in which yoti at least could sae nothinaa but
the most noble and disinterested sacririce ; in which
you could find nothing but what claimed ruin yt u
the most kind and exalted sentiments of tenderness,
dad devotion, and lesiva ; and in which the mmt
rastidlaas rigour would find so mdsh more'subjee
for sympathy than blame: let me ask yon, could
you, even in that case, answer far your own justice
. and gratitude ? I do not allude to the long and
pitiful catalogue cal palsy adventures, in which, it
seems, your time has been employed—the comae
and vulgar auccession of casual eonneCtions, joyless,
loyeless, and unendeared: hut do you find upon
your memory any *late cal any engagement of the
Chair.l NV I have sketched Has your sense, of
what you wined owe in such a case, and to such a
woman. burn at least once put to the test vi expe-
riment ?" Has it even once •happened, that such a
wotnan,7witit all the residuum% of strong faith,
flung her youth, iser Max, her bcair.y, her fakir,
uunn your bosom, weighed you against the wotld,
wtsich she found but a feather in the scale, and took
you as an equivalent I end, if so, how old snu then
acquit yourself? Dal you prove yourself worthy of
the sacred trust reposed in you ? Did your spirit
so associate with hers as to leave her no roof:: to re-
pel the sp:endid and disinterested sacrifice r...e had
made? Did her soil find a pilaw iv' aha tanasr.
ness. of yours, and a support in its tinanew I I)id
you preserve her 'high in her own coasciousitess,
proud in yourA lnairation and friendship, aad happy
in your affeZtiori ? Xou might her. su aZied; and
the man that was wotthy- of her woald bait pe-
visited, rather than not so act as to make her de-
lighted with h.tsii., cutiSavi :0 sacred a trust to his
honJUI•-Di-i you -so all? Did she feel that, how-
ever precious to y. ur heart, she was still snore ex-
altei 'and honoutod in your reverence and respect?
Or did she rind ou coarse and paltry, fluttering
and unpurposed, unfeeling and ungrateful ? You
found her a fair and blushing floe Cr, iti beauty
and ha flitgranee bathed in tae dews of Heaven.
Did roe so tenderly transplant it, as to preserve
that beauty and fragrance unimpaired Or ...id you
sA ruaely cut it, as to interrupt its natrrri.a.t, to
waste its sweetness, to blast its beauty, to bow down
its faded and sickly head ? And did you at last
fling it, like s' alo tthsome weed. away ?" If thcn
to suds a woman, so clothed with every title that
could ennoble, and cult, and endear her to the
heart of man, you could be cruelly and capriciously
deficient, how can a wretched fugitive like this, in
every point her contrast, hope to find you just?
Send 21:r then away. Send her back to her horse,
to her child, to her husband, to herself." Alas !
t:ant was none to hold such Language to this noble
Defeniant ;he did not bold it to himself. Bur he
paraded his despicable prize in his own carriage,
with his own retinue, his own servants—this veteran
tlaris hawked his enamoured Helen flora this wes-
tern quarter olds:. island to a sea-port in the eastern.
coorned with the acclamations of a senseless and
grinaing rabble, glorying and delighted, no clouts:.
so the leering and scoffing admiration of grooms
and hostle, mit' waiters, as he passed.

11.1r.1L INTELLIGENCE.

Rl~RWICtip AUG. 13.

The Auckland Packet, Capt Hammond, and the
Dorset, Capt. Hapilton, sailed yesterday. afternnon,
with the Maas (-Sae 11th, lorliusum and Gotten-
burgh.
rite Eurl of Luccskr Packet, Capt. Thornton, ar:
rived. last night from Huatm with several passen-
gers, and SinV Hanoverian recruits.
The Lut,t, Capt. Dell, is hourly expetied.
DrAL, SILPT. 13.

Arrived the Con flits gun•brig from a cruise. and
remains in the Downs with the rest of the ships as
per last.
P. S. Came down from the river the Swift East
India pilot vessel, with an armed defence ship and
three gun-brigs.
POITSMOVTH, SEPT. I. _

Passed by, • with a convoy from the Leeward
Islands, His Msjesty's ships Dleftheint, of 74 guns,
Capt. Younghusband; and the P•old..ar. Capt. Nash ;
they sailed from Tot tola on the 31st of July.
Arrived the *olio, --, from Oporto; the
Matthew, Dahl, from Christiana ; and the !flip
.favenrirre, Newton, from Barbadoes. Wind W.