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NOTTINCH.III COMMITTEE, ARCHM 8.

The prpceelings of this day were distinguished
by the conin,i,tiii,4 to the custody of thc Ser-
geant at Arms of . F S----, a trades-
wat of considerable resix•,.(laiiility, and, as we under-
.rand, of very large propecy in the town of Not-
tingham, for prevaricating in his evidence before
the Committee. Ile was examined to a variety of
vary important and material falls, but the answers
to the questions put to him were altogether incon
sistertt and contradi&rry. The Committee degired
the while of the evidence to he read over by Mr.
Gurney, the Short-hand-writer for the House of
Commons. At pariicular passages the Chairman
earnestly recommended the witness to correa and
explain what hi►t had sworn. It was not the wish
o 7 the Committee to entrap him—but rather to al-
low him full time to recolk himself. The witness,
however, persisted in the truth of what he had
sworn.

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The Committee determined to adjourn, in order
tb decide upon the testimony he•had given, and in
the mean time he was desired, not to leave the
Court. The Court retired for about half an hour,
and on the return of the Committee, the Chairman,
(1. H. Browne, F..<1.1 addressed the witness in
these tents Mt. I am very sorry
am not commissioned to give you an admonition
/tone; severe as that adnarn,ition must have been ;
but the Committee have resolved, that you have
wilftilly prevaricated in your evidence ; that it
should be reported to the House ; and that you
should be immediately taken into custody by the
Sergeant at Arms. It is so very material, the de-
liTering of true, cOnsictent, and good evidence, be-
fete r Committee ; and the crime of calling God to
witness that which cannot be truth, is so great and
heinous, that it is absolutely necessary to come
to a severe resolution. The Committee have an-
ed on the impression you- evidence has made
on their minds, without any knowledge of your
diameter and life. Believing that you are in a itti-
atior, the Lonsideratim of which would have been
Favourable to you, it, however, thinks that your cha-
rafter, rank, and station in Socie.7 render your of-
fence iefinitely mere aggrsvated. I speak this merely
of my c.mt acet,rd ; all thati am commissioned to do
is. as Chairman of the Committee, and by the an.
thoritv ot. the Committer, to commit your person to
the Liston y of the Sergeant at Arms.';
Mc. Clementcon, the Sergeant at Arms, was
sent for, but as he •was attending the Speaker, he
could ticv. come; he therefore deputed Mr. Jones,
the Niessenger, who was ordered to take charge of
the witness.

Mr—lbnes said, it was necessary for him to have
an order from die Committee ; upon which the fol-
lowin7 xesolution WUS entered un the minutes by the
kibort-band Writer, and a copy delivered to the
Messenger.
44 11U:sots:so—That F tl witile.s, has
b-en gu.ltt of wdfiit pre‘aricaiion in his evidence Lefor • the
Commitfeo, and 'hat he be committed to the custody of the
lietgetint at Arms."
The witness was taten out of Court by the Me-
Seng,er, and the Chairmen afterwards proceeded to
the House of Commons, to make his report of the
circumstances.
Respdl for the Committee, and delicacy towards
the individual, prevent us from Ifientioning the
come, or the side for which he was yroduced.

TIIE DV'KE OF BRIDGEIV.4TER.

Yesterday morning departed this life, his Grace
the Duke of Bsinot.w Arta, after a short illness.—
Of those illustrious char aaers that have done ho-
nour to the British Peerage, the Duke of Bac or; r-
*Ayes deserved to be placed in the first rank.—
That time and fortune which too many others have
devoted to purposes, if not injuriJus to Society,
act least useless, his Grace spent in pursuits that enti-
tle him to be called the lienefattor of his Country.
A=By his aaive spirit, and his unshaken perseve-
rance, he amassed immense wealth. But the
public grew rich with him, anibis labours were not
*tore profitable to himself than they• were to his
country.
His Grace's titles were the Most Noble FRANcic,
buke of BaInGtWiTLII, Marquis of I}aAc4LEy,
tarl of BRlDnawATits, Viscount BRACKS.Ey, all 4
&MIS of. Ellesmere, of Worsley, L:anear,hire, at 1
Aslibridge, Bucks. He svas born Mar. 21,
*l4 succeeded the late Mario t x his brother, it; the
1745, and remained unmarried. tie ACAS the
third Duke of Bridgewater. On his dying without
rogues the Duketkiin becomes extinct; .6cl:l:Gapes-
late, sled the Earldom of Bridgewater, .I.lfitfelve. tie
Majoreseeeral W. J. E:-;estilittrl.4tl M. cat
413torrenorakitete; ettil 'Colchester, .petal with
S iota, of war 90,0001 Per ye • - ,
We tthaerittid thet the hikt:ster utewle
tteste the doolf tee all 'Strong-Beer. to .rea- ebilliage
the IhatiViL

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FOREIGN INTEL LIG E N .
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Within thew few days a,spi of tn:t Ikons in-

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snrretion began to shew itself among r sailors at
.Imsterdatti. The eitraordinary length of the frost,
and the continuance of the ice at the harbours, oc-
ca.ion thii disturbance. . Several merchant, of Am-
sterdam had hired sailors to go Out in.shii ~ which
should have sailed two months since, had it not been
'fur the ice. The merchants refused to pay wages to
the seamen for the time during which.they were de-
tained is . port by the frost ;,.and the sailors would,
in their resentment of thi4 ii age, have proceeded to
the most desperate excesses, if the police had not vi-
gorously interposed to check the tumult. Tranquil-
lity has been, by its exertions, entirely restored.
T.*: Government has officially announced, in the
public papers, what was bcfures.irriciently known.
that all the West India Colonies taken by the Bri-
tish during the war have been filially given up, in
consequence of the peace, to the Batavian Republic.
Last Tuesday arrived from •Parts, one of the Aid-
de-Camps of General Victor, with an order from
the First Consul that General Cesar lierthier should
rem tin in his appointment of Chief Officer of the
Staff for the expedition to Louisiana, and should net
obtain that new employment which was s.,ine time
since intended fur him by the First Cm,sul. The
Naval Minister writes to General Victor, that lie his
given the necessary orders for the departure of the
expedition in the end of March. Its departure is
what we devoutly wish.

AMcTERHAM, MARCH 3.
On the same day on which our Government an-
nounced in the Leyd letzette, and other Journal!),
that it had been signing brthe French Ambassador
from, the First Consul, that this Government. was,
for him, at liberty to dispose of the rescription as it
should think fit; on that very day, appowed in the
lifon,,eur of Ventage 7, an article,,ollatelligence
from this place, of the 141 h of F=,4 rel ttive to
the rescriptions, and a decree of o %ti..e Body
upon this subjes't. In the introduaion to that ar-
ticle, which was probably not written without the
privity of the French Govurnment, is the following:
Any thing having a tendency to bring the Ba-
tavian Rescriptions into discredit, would also afFea
the credit of France ; and the condua of this Go-
vernment shews its constant attention to preserve to
every species of public stock, its primary tile and
charafter, without alterat'n." An observation like
this stands in singular contrast with the late measure
of our Ally. It would be unseasonable, and even
dangerous at the present moment, to the liberty of
the press, to hazard all slle reflections which these
fasts naturally suggest. The Batavian Rescriptions
are now between 68 and 69

A new Bank is about to be established in New
York, which is to consist of a capital of four mil-
lions of dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each.
In consequence of the resigaation of Mr. WEA..
Vr. a, as Chief Clerk in the Cheque Office at Sheer:
ness, the following promotio,is have taken place in
that Office :—Mr. Gto. WEAVEK to be Chief—
Mr. JNO. BlillOP 2d—Mr. Jso. WEAVEa 3d—Mr.
TtonAtt. 4th—Mr. Smirr .Ev sth or extra.

Cheltenham new Chet&lrate Spa is just covered in,
and a most commodious sump-:nom erected.—A
new Theatre is in a state of forveardness.

We have received letters from Gibraltar to the
14th of 1 ebruary, at which time the garrison was
in vc.)d health, and quiet and regular, as usual.
" CIBRALTAR, FEB. 10.
On the 7th the Atlive frigate sailed for Malta :
she cars ied up money for the payment of the troops
there.

Ye.;:erday his Royal Highness the Governor
presented the SO wub their new e.,:ours,
v hen he nixie them a very han is(.me sp..ech on
occasion; doing jas;ice to the gallantry they had
shcwn throughout the war, and di inking them for
their exemplary conduet since they had been uadcr
his comn 411,1 in this garrison.
• There is grand boar.tunt in Spain to-day,
ut ten miles from this, to which many of the
officers in the garrison have gone to partake in
the amusement.

•' Vie have at present a set of Izallan and
French performers here, and a Spahislt Company
eve Equestrian Performers, by no means contemp-
tible."

An unfertunate young female, in consequence of
her mental peace being dearoved, and be;ag pr,7-
nant, last Thursday plunged into the Thanies near
Vauxhall. Lifeless she was brought to Mr. Kip-
ping's. Perseverahc? by Mr. Stuart in the usual
methods, restored sensibility atal animation. Last
Sunday the Rev. Mr. Batley, at Lambeth Church,
read the following thanksgivii.g : " A young wo-
' man, under great trouble of mind, being tempted
to commit the unnatural and heinous sin of suicide,
was providentially rescued from the watery grave,
and afterwards, by tile blessinr, of Almighty God,
upon the means dire&ed by the 1-hunane Society,
was restored to life and to her friends : she, for her-
self, and those also who were made the instruments
of her restoration, desire to return their most hum-
ble and unfeigned thanks to, the merciful Ruler of all
events for the great blessing vouchsafed to her and
to them." Mother and child both saved. The
trlas...rer has paid five guineas to the parties recomp
mended, who have returned thanks fur the rewards
of the Humane Society.
The followie.g. occurrence took place lately at
Shields :-1 gentleman and his wife, after having
paid an agrwahle s'isit to their friends in Holland,
satelT arrived in the harbour, though not without
experiencing a rough and dangerous passage. After
the vessel was moored, they prepattd to go on shore
in a boat; which having conic alosig-si.k, the first
attentions bt. the ship's company was direaed to-
wards the laity,: 'rho was politely handed in.; but,
as for • the gentleman, he, in descending rapidly
from the ship's side by the assistance of a rope, just
at the moment when the boat had sheared off a
little, was suddenly immersed in the river. The'
lady, seeing her husband:in imminent danger, by an
impulse foreibie as it was instantaneous, plunged
into the Water atter him,
,ard vticceeded in wiring
bin} by the neck of his cat, though she had not
pcmer jpi*e, i4ti to thesurface. In this terrible
dile., , 4 was -every moment apprehltded that
;an ...would disappear, as r.either could make
yt}t.p eaertion to:save themselves: but happi-
lv the bchitmtp
,tot up in sufficient time to cati.li
hLrld-Of4l*.k.lady's gosui„ juft as six war thiling, and
thus was the happy instrument,of rescuing au Alni-.
able couple from a wawry grave I

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AMERICA,
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Mr. Monroe, our Minist:x Extraordihary to
France and Spain, left Richmond the 2Sth ult. fur
this it whose he will embark for France.
The brig
.yrion,- Captain •Dean, has arrived
at Wilmington N. C.) in fourteen days from Point
Potre, Guadaloupe, where a contagious fever raged,
which carried off a great number of American sea-
men. Captain Dean lost till his crew except two
men, and his mateb who was confined by severe
sickness daring the passage. Captain Gardner of
the dorm —, of Bri"tol, ( R. 1.) having !oh all his
crew but 'one man, sailed on the 10th ult. to lee-
ward, in order to procure seamen.
EXTRACT OF A LITTER FROM A GENTLEMAN AT
NI W-oILEEAN., D•TEUGEC•IB, 1802.
". Being present this morning at the Intendant's
Office, when the original of the following Royal
Order was transcribed, I • seized the opportunity of
procuring a copy, and have translated it in a
hurry, under the hope that it will be acceptable to
you.

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4' The Minio-r at War has communicited to me the fol-
lowing :--1.1 a lett•tt of the 1 ith instant, 11. n Pedro Cevatfie
me a. tivliQW% Wherraviiis NlaiLitv has test dto the
French Republic the Colony u: Prin.:tee of Loui.iana, i!. all
iti present event, and as It wa4 he:A by the Fren:ll 'when
c fried tulip' Majesty, 1 advisc y.o thereof, by lii. r nu: miter,
that yuu mese the ti .-errarir arrai.pihents for the darlivi; y of it
ti the French Commissioner ur Csiminigsioliere who, b, i.,1
d fly authnriaal •y the Government, may pr ..ent tileantelve;
f.: the pu !was. Whi h r +pal determination I haw: made
kaolin to the Captain General of Lou.sisna. intemiug him at
seine time, that it is his Majesty's •;lira.ure, with respect to the
Regiment o; ilie play., and the M.litary that gartzsuu the pro-
vince, that iiidividua3 who volume/0y wish ta tedia;ft under
his Niajney's dominion, shal:, aler dot vering up the Colonv,
proceed to t flavantin, where nth po<ts will he aliot.cd
them. Of this 1 adYiiJ von by R9*:3l Order, that you may
conni:y wait that part of his Royal determination which relates
to you. Gad preserve you many yatra.
• " SOLER,
" Minister of Foreign Affairs.
" To the Intendant of lonisiana,
" Madrid, July 20, 1802."
In addition to the above we can state, on the au-
thority of a Gentleman who left Paris on the 9th of
Oftober, that the Cession was universally there
known to have taken place ; that Compaaies formed
for the purpose had purchased large trals of land in
the territory, of the French Government, and had
opened subscription-books at various places.in Paris,
to obtain purchasers, who were to embark for, and
become Settlers in the territory.
On Wednesday, Jan. 'la, A lAA. AnnisoN,
was found
.guilty, by the Senate of he State of
Pennsylvania, ot the charge presented against him
by the House of Representatives. Twenty votes
wer. given for declaring him guilty, and four not.
guilty.
The following is the Sentence pronounced against
him by the Speaker otthe House of Represen.tatives
on the succeeding day, viz.
'fuel At EXANUF.R Aouisom, President of the several
Courts of Common Pleas, in the fifth Diwrict o this State,
shill iv., and he hereby is rerniverl from in; office of Presi-
dent aforesaid, and alto is disqualified to hold jtitt exercise die
office of JAge its auy Court of Law within the Common-
wealth of Peon Sylvania."
NEW ORLEANS.

The following is a copy of a Letter from the
President of the United States to the Governor of
Kentuckey
Si a,-Your favour, of November 30, has beendnly
received. The occulsion of the port of New Or-
:cans, by the Spaniards, which is the subjed of it,
was calculated to give great alarm throughout the
United States, and especially the western parts.
Information of it was received here from New Or-
leans on the 6th inst. and measures were taken to
have the proceeding redified. We think the evi-
dence tolerably conclusive, that it was not the con-
sequence of any order from Europe, but merely an
irregularity of the intendant. Measures were im-
:v•diately put in motion for duly impressing him
witii the conseqtiences of perseverance ; and the
Spanish Minister here, expressing his entire 'con-
vidion, that the proliii)ition was unauthoris-
ed, undertook immediately to remonstrate to
him against it, and also .to dispatch a letter
to the Governor-General who resides at the Ha-
vmnah, to interpose efficaciously and without
delay. We trust, theretbre, that it will he as
promptly remedied as the distance permits. It has
furnished, however, a proper occasion of urging on
Spain the danger of leaving the peace of the two
countries exposed to the caprice of any officer; and
the importance of some arrangement, which shall
leave us independent of that wrist, and free to
maintain this treaty-right, without crossing the At-
lantic to seek redress. For the present it is the
interest ot every part of our Republic to
cherish peace, and await a friendly redifica-
Lion of the injury ; and I have no doubt, that
seeing our present situation in a true point of
view, you will concur in inculcating a reliance that
the government will not be wanting in a just inter-
ference to preserve the rights of the nation. The
uncertainty with what Power we may have to settle
this matter, adds to its difficulties. I take the li-
berty ot enclosing you a copy of my communication
to Congress, and of tendering you assurances of my
great resped and consideration.
THOMAS JI:FFERSON.

SPORTING.
No. I.
YORK FREE lIANDIC IPS.
SATURDAY BEFORE THE AUGUST MELT !NC, Ipo3.

.Swecy.tak..* of .sClgs. each, h. R.--Laat thme miles.
Mr. Stockton, by Gabriel, /So. :21b.
Sir 11. Williamson'!" Walton, by Sir Peter, 7st. 121 b.
I.ord Darlington's L'Oritot, 7it.9lb.
Sir R. Winn's Tankt.tiley,'7st. SF).
Mr. Peitoes aliyi .br lien mgbrotrg 74. lb.
/ATI:CHAT 114 THE AUGUST HEELING, 1803.
Svreepstak.m of 50p. each, h. ft .-4 miles. -
11fr. worth's Choice, th,n vrs. old, 13-t. Gib.
M ilerchsr's I lightand Fling, 5 yrt. (.14, 21b.
Lord Str.tthrhortia bole. by Nlstittn, ti yr., okl,'Hst.
.01411e$ AlO'lzo, S yrs. U. . I Pi.
Mr. FrAclier's Alkirdini, 5 y old, 7 it. I lib.
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The ItLagitairates and Council of Aberdeen have
resolyed p> sent ao his Majesty a -loyal address
of congratulation upolt the late proviJenti4l
cafery of the cousirlracy formed against his Ma-
jesty, arta lal-Abe aoswitated dathoritier of ilia
kiOg4om.

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