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London, England, 1805-01-17 00:00:00

THE LEVEE.
Yesterday, at half-past one o'clock, His MAJES-
TY west from the Quaam's House to St. James's
palace, to hold a Levee, and it being the first since
His M air.sv v's indis -,ositinn, it was uncommorly
crowded. At two o'clock, the Levee commenced,
which was attended by
Hi, Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, their Excellencies
the Hessian, Danish, Rus.no,Prtlllialt' Wirreinberg, Torkisli,
Tortueuesa, and Hanoverian Ambassadors ; the Lord Chan.
cellar, the Lord Chief Justice of the Coort of Klng's Bench,
the Lord Chid Justice of the Court of Common Pti.l4, the
LtNlChief B.nrin of the Curt of Ex;Seqiier, the Chancellor
the Fseliequer, the Secretary of State, the Secretary at
War, the First Lord of the Adinira'ty, the Judge of the Ad-
,. -,esy Court. the Attorney, Solicitor, and Advocate General,
:-iiaacellor of ti,' Docily of l.r o :dem, the Loot savor
a-1: the Recorder of Landon, and stoma other Officers of
State.
And there were present
Dukes-rirßoxburgh, Montrose, Bedford, Rutland, and
Bemired.
Marquises-. 1 honsond, Blandford, Cornwallis, Bath, Tacit-
field, Circello, Salishirry, Lorne, and Abercorne,
Earls--Chesterfield, Euston, Jersey, Mount Edgcumbe,
Sandwich, Athlone, Westmoreland, Talbot, Harmon, Ma-
....cittney, Moira, Mountroirris, Bathurst, Bristol, Slaiiifielil,
Spencer, C...yeit, Romney, Uxbridge, Beilmrough, Peeler,
V, Do•e,i,oter, Sea rboro gh, Ma eel e .field, I far ri Igor n ,
osz,tou, Buckinghamshire, Darnley, Winchelsea, Effingham,
Morton, and Portmore.
S'iscounts--Hood, Limerick, Duneannons Goaford, Castle.
nigh, Wentworth, Sidmorith, Melville, Sidney, and Sudiey.
Lords--Heathrield, Rolle, Elliot, Villiers, St. Asaph, Ltt-
'rine, Osauldoa, King, Boriugdon, Hotham, Binbuav,Dun-
-1,,
fluntingfreid, Mir-sham. Carleton, Dynevor, E. Somerset,
ilione, lie Broke, A Beauclort.,
;'t'i, Bray brooke, Arne, Radstock, C. Somerset,
• .hey, Selkirk, Loftus, Glenbervie, Boston, Macdonald,
y one, Arden, Harvey, and Gwydir.
ains-llompeoch, Lcnthe, Nolken, and Nichols.
Bohops-Durham, London, Winchester, Liecoln, Bath
a- d Wells, Norwich, Gloucester, Exeter, and Brhtol.
Rev. Drs -.lmmo and Burnaby.
Sirs-J. Coffin, B Watson, C. Price, J. Gordon, D. Baird,
W. Scott, A. Grant, W. Meadowo, A. Macdonald, F. Ilart.
I well, G. Lee, T. Metcalfe, J. Burger, J Andeimn" J. B.
Warren. A. Clarke, T. Trouirrirlge, S Fludyer, hi. Dance,
A. N. Hamond, F. Wills, G. Heath, 1. Heard, 'F. Millman,
E. Douglas, W. Dickinson, J. Pulteriey, J. Nicholls, H. Sera.
chev, N. B. Neale, F. Spencer, and R. Undo..
Adinirals-Campbell, Patten, Sir R. Krag, Markham, and
Negiort.
Generals-Smith, Leland, Hewitt, Wkitehirk, Cartwright,
I.ftter, Leslie, Hotrod, Rainsforth, Ross, Kuno., Phipps,
Erlich, Grosvenor, Manners, Hatton, Lumley, Lenox, Mar-
tin, Calvert. and Broomfield.
Colonels-Carey, Taylor, Stewart, Lumley, M'Qiiarrie,
Walpole, Campbell, Fuller, Hill, Homage, Wh:t", Wort-
ley, Chester, Rebow, Beaumont, Roberts, butidas, Adar.,s,
Yongley' Keating, Gore, and Smith..
Maims-Ogg,s-Ogg, Brown, Askew, M'Quarrie, Douglas, Allen,
Grey, and Crutchley.
Captains--O'Bryen, Chedwell, Brown, Gavot, neve.
Fielding, Gore, Tromy, Markham, Cowen, HOod, Facial
Dundas, Paul, and Bishop.
Messn.-Broderick, Nii Ile, Gordon, Bearcroft, P. Carew
Yorke, Williams, Sibbald, Ramit.croft, W . Mainwaring,
B. Maiewaneg. ram, Purse, Fret., Rey.
Long, Long, Hunter Perchaol, Canning, Walpokr,
Bond, Adorns, Bishop, lion. J. King, Hon. GutkelK
Shaw, L.:ighton, Scott, Dickinson, Sloane, Lyson, TilttOno
Golding, Drummond, Porter, Watson, Wihdham,
Villiers, Manning, Tierirey, D. Grosvenor, Reynolds
Kin r, Wallis, Penn, Herhert, G. Markham, Rio, Jolliffe„
Bragge, Foster, Corry gm) the, Kinnaini, Byrne, Wills, Gor-
don. Addington, Hehlaerdert, Hon..). Spencer, W 'tondos,
Huskisson, W. Elliot, F. Foster, Sullivan, Smythe, jun. and
Limon.
The following were among the presentations to
lliS MAJESTY.
'This being the first Levee since the chanize of
Administration, the Ministers were formally intro-
duced to His MAJESTY.
Mr. Pitt introduced the Lords of the Treasure.
Sir George Leith. Major of the 17th Foot, late Governor of
Prince of Wales's Nand, by Lord Castlereagh.
Mr. Bearzrott, upon his return (moan the West Indies, by the
Lord in Waiting.
Captain O'Bryen, of the Royal Navy, by the Marquis
Thomond.
Maio, Ogg, on his being appointed Groom of the &d-
-ie amber to the Duke of Sussex.
Colonel Carey, by General Hewitt.
Lord St. Asaph, by the Duke of Montrose.
General Whitlock, by Lord Arden.
Major Brawn by the same.
Capt. Brown:by the same.
Major Askew, by Colonel Lumley.
, Lord Villiers, by his (arbor, the Earl of Jersey, upon his
eriarriage,
Colonel Taylor, by Lord Heatlifield
His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh, by Colonel Stewart, on
his coming to his title.
Mr. Pole Carew, on his being sworn in one of Ills Majesty'.
Most Honourable Privy Council, by his brother-in.law, the
Right Hon. Charles Yorke.
Sir Isaac Coffin, by Sir Brook Watson.
Captain Chedwell, by Sir Charles Price.
Mr. Williams, by the sonic.
Lord Eliot, on his cooling to his title, by the Lord in
Waiting.
Mr. Canning, on his being appointed Treasurer of the
Nary.
Mr7AValoole, by his father, Colonel VI ilpole.
Mr. Adams, on his being sworn in a Member of the Privy
"Cooncil.
The Rev. William Long, by his brother, the Right lion.
Charles Long
The Ika,ol Mayor of London, ha Alderman Perring.
• Ahrerm o llouter,by the Lord Mayor.
Sir YVSfia in Leighton aid Mr. Shaw, late Sheriffs of M.d.
diciest, tdex loam of His Majesty upon their retiring from
odice.
11r. J.ll Frere, on his return from Spain.
Mejoellitkairarrte, by his brother' Cul. SCQuarrie,
Sir David Rain', by the Loot In Waitiog
G. B. MaMwaring, Esq. by hie father, William Maine/air-
ing, Esq,
Sir John Gordon, by Lord Arden.
Two Ms. ['time's, by Lord Lenin'.
The How. Mr. Ginkelt, by his father, Lord Athlone.
Lon! Ilusingdon, on his marriage, by the Earl of Wive-
inorland.
fir Bishop, nn lii Ming appointed King's Priglor, by
Scott.
Sr A litsia inter Grant, by the Earl of Sandwich.
The Hon. John King, by his brother, Earl of Kingston.
V toceunt Sidnaouth, on his creation, and being appointed
P•e.iderit of the Council, by Mr. Braggc.
The Earl of Buckingliamshise, roi his coming to his title,
hi apprnnted Chancellor of the Duchy of Lam-aster.
1..1c Felucca Biron Corolatirit, Chambellan Actuel de S M
l.'7.ospereur de. is Russo, It? the Russian Ambassador.
s Wood Gore, by the gad or Camden.
Mr. servo, the son of the Lord Chancellor, by his father,
on has Marrone
Two Gentlemen from Naples, by the Neapolitan Amino.
Woe.
Mr Foster, from Ireland, by Lord Hawkesbury.
Mr. I.nton, on his return from his Eno's.? at Sweden.
Lientenant•Colosel Keating, of tha SColi Regiment, by the
Lord in Wanoig.
GetitlAt Mortis, on his promotion, 6y the raffle.
Groton Towry, of the Qiicen's Royal Yacht.
Mr. Dickinson of the.Adinicalty.
Major Crinclik•-y, of the St. Andrew's and St. Georgo's Yukio.
teen, on his promotion to that rank, by Sir James Wood
Borges, the Knight Manual, on which occasion be bad the
' armour to kiss Hrs Majecy's hand.
Minor Askew, by Lord Braybrooke
Sir John Gordon, by Earl Fife.
Colonel Taylor, by Lord Hcathfield.
131 Lord Selkirk, en his return from itine7.ca.
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DUBLIN, Jartuaav 12.
Several gangs of footpads have lately made
their appearance, and begun ttieir depredations,
in the vicinity of this city. Three nights ago,
between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, as
a gentleman was going to his. brother's house,
in Drumcondra, lie was stopped by three men,
who ordered ' him instantly to " Shell oat,"
which desire he, with much apparent fright, promis-
ed to comply with ; at the same time pretending that
he was a poor man, he requested !hem to let go
their hold, and not to abuse or beat him, and
putting his hand into his breast, as if to get his
pocket-book, which, he said, contained all he was
worth, he, to their great astonishr.,ent, pulled out a
pistol and fire,' at one of them, who immediately tell.
He then retreated and gained his brother's house,
from whence, however, he returned in a few mi-
nutes with assistance, but the robbers had fled, hav-
ing carried off their comrade; but whether dead or
alive cannot be ascertained. A great quantity of
blood was found on the spot, but it could only be
traced a few yards. Every search after the of-
fenders has as yet proved ineffectual.
The very next night, a young man was stopped
on the Canal Bridge, Siimmer•Hill, but, having
no money about him, was let go again ; not, howe-
ver, without having experienced the vengeance of
the met ciless villains, by a dreadful beating, for
their disappointment.
Yesterday, a Court of Direllors was held at the
East-India. House, when the following Captains
were sworn into he command of their respeillive
ships, stationed as undermentioned, viz.
Captain Henry Stimnick, Preston, fur Madras and Bengal.
Captain Thomas Garland Murray, in the rosin, of Captain
E4meades, resigned, Lady Castlereagh, for St. Helena and
Mad ras.
Captain John Rogers, late Commander of the Admiral
Apliii, in the room of Csptaiii. Mortmier, resigi.ed, Geneial
Stuart, for Nfa.:A.a and l3nn.S..y.
The Preston and Lady Catilrernffh are appointed
to be in the Downs on the 2d of March; the General
Stuart is now at Gravesend, and is expated to sail
Irom thence in a few days.
The following Captains took their final leave of
the Court cf Pire&ors, previous to departing for
their respective destinations, as undermentioned, viz.
Captain 3. 443ndeland., Walpole, 820 tons; Captain J. A.
Cum:wrier, Surrey, 819 urns; Captain E C. BrAft,rd, Lord
Duncan, 830 tons; C.a,naiii 'Thomas Hudson, Ceylon, 1410
tons, for Madras and Bonital. • ,
Capt. Anthnny Murray, Karl Howe, 876 tons, for Madras.
Capt. T. Welladviee, Charlton, 818 tons, for ditto.
Capt. J. C Lackner, C.irmarthee, 510 tons, for Madeira,
Madras, and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at a late hour till to-
ITlOrrow.
The following ships are now under dispatch at
the India House, viz.
Wexford, Captain Clarke; Henry Addington, Captain Kirk-
patrick ; flonihry Castle, Captain Hokin; and Royal (jeerer,
Captain Gritib!e, for Bombay and China.
Earl of Aberezvenny, Captain Wordsworth, for Bengal and
China.
Warren Hastings, Captain Larkins, for St. Helena, Ben-
coolen, and China.
The above ships are expelled to be dispatched in
he emirs,- of the present week.
A new !hip, will, on application made by the
Owners of M-Arlitthar/ :WV, be %Bowed mite befit
in her room. agreeably to the Alt of Parliament.
Captain Boozes was yesterday sworn into the
command of the General Stuart Indiaman.
Accounts have been received by the Maria coun-
try-ship, that the Woodford, Captain MA er I /I, from
China, and Hugh Inglis, Captain FAIR .11, from
Bengal, sailed from Prince of Wales's Island, for
Europe, in company with the Marlfli and parted
from her shortly after sailing. 'These ship; may,
therefore, be daily expelled to arrive.
Marquis Coenwa atm will proceed to Bengal in
the course of a month, most probably in a frigate
appointed for the purpose.
The English ship, The Expect:, of Belfast, bound
for Bristol, has been taken by a French privateer,
which has captured three other English brigs be-
The George, Capt. SIMPSO4, of Greenock, has
been also taken by a French privateer, and carried
into Guadeloupe.—(!dent).
The ordnance and stores now shipping at Wool-
wich, for the intended expedition, are on a scale of
magnitude and quantity, exceeding any hitherto
known in that department. Of heavy ordnance only,
there aro upwards of 100 pieces, gad among the
stores many thousand shells, made according to
Major SHA APHELIA experiments, calculated to be
thrown from cannons of every size. The range of one
of these shells from a 42-pounder is from 600 to
750 yards, and it is progressively cncreased,
weight of metal is diminished, down to a 9-pounder,
from which it is from 13813 to 1500 yards.
Major General Titoarcrow has taken the com-
mand of the garrison at Ashford. in the room of
Major General Lord Sour Ha neT43.l.
The Ist battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regi.
ment, in barracks in Cants.rbery, which were under
orders to embark for foreign service, have been
countermanded as to embarkation, but are to hold
themselves in readiness to move at the shortest
notice.
M. Lavuor, remarkable for his imprisonment of
35 sears, in' the Castle of Vincennes, died lately at
Paris, aged 80 years.
We are concerned to state, that the relapse of his
Grace the Archbishop of CA TTTTT usty leaves but
little hope 13. the recovery of that amiable Prelate.
Dr. Sumps, the Bishop of Norwich, will cer-
tainly be presented by His MAJESTY to the Metro-
politan See of Canterbury, in the event of the death
of the present venerable Archbishop, which is daily
expelled.
The Rev. Mr. WtLr issues, Rector of All Saints
parish, in Stamford, is appointed Chaplain to the
Tower of London ; a preferment worth 1501.
a year.
Siw.'e the establishment of the Society for the
Relief of the Ruptured Poor was instituted, under
the immediate patronage of Lord Macs, Lis, and
under the medical dire/lion of Mr. Teats Re at.,
8000 people have applied for relief, and nearly 4000
have received considerable benefit from this Institu-
tion. Subscriptions are received for the suprt of
this truly useful Establisment, by Sir JOHpoN
Pits-
HORN, Treasurer, Borough Bank, Southwark; and
by ROSMITS, CIATIII, and Co. Bankers. Lombard.
street.

SESSIONS,
Ifetel at the Old Bailey, Wine Sir WILLIAM SCOTT,
Sir Roei:tr Gaanast, emiSte SIMON Le BLANC.
After the usual forms had been gone through,
Sir WILLIAM SCOTT delivered the charge to the
Grand Jury, in which he informed them of the
offences which were to come before them ; and con-
cluded by saying, that their own experience would
Le 'the best guide they could possibly have in the
business which was for their consideration.
Only four bills were delivered to them, three et
which were found.
Benjamin Waterhouse, and Timm", Car:terbium, the
former a boy of sixteen, and the latter of thirteen
years of age, wete put to the bar, indict id for that
they, on the 9th of September, about half a mile
from the harbour of Weymouth, and within the ju-
risdietion of the Admiralty Court, did damage a
certain vessel called a sloop (the property of Ben-
j imin Kerrage), by making and boring two holes,
one of them in and through the starboard side, and
the other in and through the larboard side, by
means of which she was in great danger of sinking
and being lost.
Mr. GURNEY opened the case on the part of the
prosecution, and Mr. KN A rr staled it.
Patrick Hodge, master of the sloop called the
Five Brothers, deposed, that on the 9th of Septem-
, bier, she was lying about half a mile from Wey-
mouth harbour, in five and a half fathoms water,
laden with stone, and in good condition. It would
not have taken more than a quarter of an hour to
pump out the water she would make in twenty-
four hours. At ten o'clock on the morning, of the
9th, he tried her pump, and found her dry. In the
course of the day, he came on 0103 C, And left the
prisoners on board to take care of her. One of the
prisoners was an apprentice, and the other he had
taken in on trial. He came dawn in the evening,
and hailed the sloop, but received no answer. He
then hailed a matt of war's boat, which was pas-iiig,
and she sent the prisoners on shore to him, in the
sloop's boat. He went on board Vt its the mate ;
and havisig heaved the anchor, hoisted the jib-sail
for the purpose of going into the harbour ; but the
vessel would not sail, and he found she was
water-logged, and that she had tour feet water
in the hold. He then ran her on shore, at
the south side of the harbour, to pi event her sink-
ing in deep water, and sent for the owner and some
ether hands to help at the pump. About ten at
night he saw the Prisoners on board ; but having
gone.into the hold to see where the water came in,
the Prisoners went on share in tic boat, and were
not taken for two days after. The sloop was not
cleared oat till five in.the morning. He then went
into the hold, and found the lining had been torn
away from her bottom, and two holes bored
through the outside plank, one at the starboard, and
the other at the larboard side. He said he had no
doubt but that it was in consequence of these holes
that the ship was water logged ; and, he believed,
if he had not come on board as soon as he did, the
vessel would have sunk in less than halt an hour.
Benjamin Kerrage, the owner, said, that when
he came on shore, he pursued the Ptisoners, and
overtook the younger of them, Canterbury, at
Blandforch in Dorsetshire ; and the elder, Water-
house, at Wimbourn, about eight miles further on.
He brottglyt them back to Weymooth, where thea
were taken before the Mayor.
Thomas Clark, clerk to the Town-clerk of Wey-
mouth, was present on the 20th of September,
when the Prisoners were examined before the Mayor,
and set their marks to their confession, which is also
signed by the Mayor.
The confession was then read, which stated, that
when they were alone in the vessel, one of them
said, he wished there was a hole in her bottom ; and
that they both went down, and, having taken away
t' e lining, they bored two holes in the outside plank,
with a large girnblet, the handle of which coming
off, it di opped through the hole into the water.
gir Si sloe La BLANC summed up the evidence.
The Jury retired—and, in about a quarter of an
hour, found them both
Sir W. SCOTT then pronounced the judgment of
the Court, and, aim an appropriate adnionition,
sentenced the Prisoners to fourteen years transporta-

tin.
The other Prisoners, against whom bills were
found, not being as yet brought up from the differ-
ent sea-ports, where they are in confinement ; the
Court adjourned at an early hour.

SUM& SESSIONS, JAN. Ir.

The Court was chiefly occupied this day in hear-
ing and deciding Parish and other appeals against
conviaions before Magiitrates, &c. of no public in-
terest whatever.
Several fills were found for Assaults, Larceny,
Nuisances, and Petty Offences, which, after being re-
turned to the register, the Foreman of the Grand
Jury informed the Court. that he was direded by
his brother Jurors, to report the conchal of one of
the gentlemen who had been sworn on the Grand
Jury yesterday. Immediately after taking the oath,
he went away, and had not since attended in the
Grand Jury room. One of the Gentlemen of the
Jury, on his way to the Sessions House this morning,
by accident met the Gentleman alluded to, and
asked him, should he Iltfr to which he replied,
it was totally out of hi, p.,wor, as he had invited
some company. to whom he was to give a devilish
good dinner. The Jury, therefore, thought it not
only their duty to the Court, bin justice to them-
selves, to represent this circumstance.
The Chairman, Mr. Serjeant OISLOW, expressed
the acknowledgments of ale Court to the Grand
Jury for this communication : he observed, that it
certainly was a very great hardship upon the gentle-
men who faithfully and conscientiously attended
their duty as Gland Jurymen ; and assured them
that the Court would take the matter into their se-
rious cpnsideration, and inflid an adequate punish-
mentypon the defaulter.
On Friday, the !area. Capt. Hotsv 14 AN, arrived
from the French coast, and anchored in the Ness
Iloads ; a boat from her coming on shore, upset by
the swell of the surf. wish seven men and one officer
• on board ; and, notwithstanding a boat was imme-
diately got off to their assistance, four of the men
were unfortunately drowned. Their bodies havo
since been picked up ; two on the shore at Romney.
and tit@ other near Lyda.