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BURGLAR:ES

Jan Needy, and Thomas D.r.et, were indiaed for
burglariously breaking and entering the huuse 4

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John Grange, and stealing therein a feather bed, a
hat, a Dutch clock, and other articles, the pro-
perty of William White, George Gregory, and
Jolla Grange.
The Prosecutor Grange, said, he was a frui*rer
in Piccadilly, and ha.l A house at kloxtou, situate in
the middle of a garden. On the of November
last, his market man, William White, slept in that
house, and all the furniture within was his but the
sheets, which belonged to Witness. About four
o'clock in the morning, Witness and Whitt went to
town, during which the house door, after White
had locked it, WAS broke open, and the articles men-
tioned in the indiament were stolen. The Pri-
soner Dorset, at that time, had just been discharg-
ed from the service of the Prosecutor; and, on
the 17th, went to live with one Smith, in Por.-
tipool-lane, to whom Dorset. in confidence, related
that he and. Needs had committed a robbery; that
they had broke open the Prosecutors summer house,
and stolen cloaths and other articles. This info:-
mation Smith communicated to the Prosecutors
Grange and Gregory, who proceeded to search the
Prisoners lodgings, and, finally, discovered the
Dutch dock, a water tub, the bed, and must of the
property, in their possession.
Dorset, in his defence, endeavoured to invalidate
the testimony of Smith, by describing him to be a
common thief, and one whose word was not to be'
taken.
The robbery being proved by sufficient evidence,
the Jury found them Guilty of stid.,,g to the aeol-,,t
of 40s.

John Hsi/Gains was indited for a burglary in the
house of Thomas Crook.
It appealed that the Prisoner, on the 2tith of
May last, went to the Prosecutor's house in Little
Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and finding the
door open, went up stairs, opened t•.te two pair
of stairs room (then locked) with a false key; and
was going off with a handkerchief and some linen.
when the Prosecutor collared him, and sent Cot a
constable. While coming Jown stairs, he had 1 hat
on belonging to the Prosecutor, which he brought
out of the room, and on being taken into custody,
offered the officer five guineas to let him escape.—
The Jury found him Guilty.
Joseph King was indilled for feloniously stealing
several pairs of stockings and articles of hosiery, the
property of Joseph Mashers.
The Prosecutor, who is a holier in King-meet.
Covent-garden. having missed his property at va-
rious times, suspeaed the Prisoner, his shopman
and, on the 31st of May, observing his pockets to
be larger than usual, he insisted on searching him;
he hesitated to submit for some time ; but at last
pulled out the articles stated in the indiltnient,
which the Prosecutor knew to be his by shop m.trk
The same were identified, and the robbery being
proved, the Jury returned a verd

MANSIO!CHOUSE.

Yesterday a well dressed young man was taken
into custody at the Bank of England, and brou ht
before the Loan MAYOR at the Mansion-House.
It appeared that he bad applied at the Bank for
cash for a .51. note ; and, when desired to indor e
it. as is customary, wrote " Abrahams Artivaii.e.i,
Beek" Strange to tell, this signature not only
prevented his receiving cash for the note he offered,
but deprived him (under the idea that they were
either forgeries or improperly come by) of all the
notes he had in his possession. He also declined
answering any questions, and was sent in the custody
of one of die Bank porters before the Loan MA Y OR.
Mr. Kaye, Solicitor to the Bank, attended. In an-
swer to the questions put to him, he desired to know
I their charge against him. His name was Abraham
Newland ; that he lived at Gosport, was a gentle-
man of lot tune, and lived on his money ; had given
cash for that identical note that morning at the
Bank, and had received the other notes in exchange.
from whom he did not then know ; that he had slept
At Kensington the night before, but refused to give
any references. Mr. Kaye threatened commitment
to the Compeer ; but his Lordship, finding that he
had aaually received the note in question at the
Bank that morning, and that the others were hum
far good notes, dismissed the Prisoner ; who said he
wrote Bank after his name from being at the time
in it, and claimed no relationship to that very re.
speaable gentleman, Abraham Newland, at the head
of that Establishment.

• An anion was tried on Wednesday in the Com-
mon Pleas, brought by snx AN against Mr.
Evtts, the Warden of the Fleet Prison, for suffering
JouNson, the celebrated smuggler, to escape. The
damages were laid at 5001. It having appeared in
evidence that the escape was effeaed with such art
and ingenuity, as ordinary care and prudence could
not prevent, the Jury found for, the Plaintiff only
nominal damages.

Yesterday morning, Providence fran-ard was, put.
want to his sentence, executed before the debtors'
dons of Neegate, in the Old Bailey, for forging a
checque, for the sum of 7411. purporting the same
to be drawn by Mr. Jour RICUARD RIPLEY, on the
House of Messrs. Rowers, CURTIS, and Co.
bankers. He was brought out of Newgate a few
minutes before eight o'clock ; just before he was
turned off, he shook hands with the Sheriffs, seem-
ingly reconciled to his fate, and bowed to the mul-
titude, praying all the while. He was genteelly.
dressed in mourning, and appeared to be about 24
years of age. After hanging the usual time, he was
cut down, put into a hearse, and taken to an under.
taker's. As this was the first execution since the
King's indisposition, it excited a great curiosity, and
at an early hour, the whole space between the prison
and Snow Hill was 6Ued with the populace, who
seemed to feel much more than they used to do was n
scenes of this kind were frequent. lie fatal apparr
Ins was eresited in the old way in front of tl e
prison.

On Friday morning last, embarked at the garri-
son jetty, thin, Captain Wairs. and Lieut. REEI #
and Ensign SAC:4[IIEIMM, with a detachment ...-
about eighty rank and file of the Third Royal Lin-
coln Militia, who have been taught the great gun
exercise ; and sailed the same tide, with camp equi-
page, and a proportion at powder. round, grape.
bind case shot, and small stores, &c. for the batteries
at Shepherd's House. and White Booth Roads, in
Lin:9luslnre, and the Spura Head, in Haldernessig

—,dil

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
roarsmutria, 51:1V 4.
Sir Edward Pelle* this morning hoisted his flag
on board the CultudeA of 74 g.Uns, Capt. Cole, and
made the preparatory signal for
.sailiffig. Gen. Sir
J. Craddock is expefted this evening from Loudon,
to take his passage to India.
Arrived the of 74 guns. Capt. Darham,
from off Ferrol, hot from Plymouth to remit.
The Hydra, Capt, Munday ; Sala. Lord
H. Fitzroy ; and the £peroier brig, ('apt. Watson,
are nearly ready to go out of harbour:
The Fl eon revenue cutter is appointed convoy for
Guernsey. Wind, N.W.
SANDOATE,
There was a very heavy firing this mot wing, from
ten to twelve, at Boulogne, which, it is supposed,
proceeded from some fresh movement on the part of
the enemy's flotilla.—All, however, is mere conjec-
ture, the weather being too hazy to admit of any
accurate observation being made from hen.e.
General Moore's brigade struck their tents again
this morning,for a short time, semen the troops were
praaised in the service, which the' may have to per-
form, in ease of'a landing being effected by the ene-
my. For this necessary purpose, the tents are
struck every Tuesday and Friday; and, I am happy
to inform you that the disposition of the whole of
the troops is of the most excellent description ima-
ginable.
General Dundas is expeaed to review the Brigade
in a day or two. The preparations at Shorucliff
for the reception of some of the Guards, have for
the present neon suspended.
The wind is to-day more Southerly, and blows
very strong. If it continues thus, our blockading
squadron will probably return to Dungeness this
evening.

HULL, JULY 4.

This morning the o.l,:enct, Capt Nicholson, ar-
rived at this port from l's'oolwich, v. ith Naval stores.
The next convoy for Touningen is appointed to
sailor the 101 h inst.
A convoy will also sail horn hence on the lOth
inst. with the vessels fnr the B.11::c.
A letter from Barhadoes, dated May 19, states
that French privateers have made a great many cap-
tures off that island ; and a vessel of guns, said 22
to be from Hull, is carried into Guadaloupe.
cast, JULY 4.
Sailed the C t7,fiw frigate for Dungeness, Mariner
and Archer gun.hrigs, on a cruise.
Came down from the Ricer the Caledonia, for the
6uuth Seas.
Arrived the Argus sloop of war, with a convoy
from Ireland, which are sailed for the River, with
the Succes,, Itichard,on, and Diligence, hllis, from
Liverpool.
Arrived the Lasser' gun-brig from a cruise, and re-
mains in the Downs with the Mmarc,i, Ihrechs, Ve-
teran, and Indefatigolilc men of war, La I'm:plls
frigate, Tar'ar and Zara bombs, Argus sl op of war,
Loadon, Flora, Brita,nia, Tartar,
Fli:a, Tapper, Alejettie, Anacreon, Ai-radar, Diadrm,
1-rei•ler, Perterig, LorirNelson, Ranger, Antra, Alas,
PoPeigoi, Triton, and Sir Andr a Mitchell armed
defence ships ; Corr and Ceo:,i transports, under
command of Captains Watson and Goddard, and
Lieut. Morgan.

FIOM LLOYDS UST.
C 114•11•111111, 31011, tim Antneetta, Sabin,
from Norway; Anna Maria, Q,trat ; Franks, Wi'soot ; Vrnw
rink, —;Fortuna, and Abbe Man.. front
goiThdett.-o'.ailed the Atlantic, Asttng, for Rtgai and the
Irertraitia, Leas, (or Emlxten.

ST. DOMIN(;4J

GROW !Satan RT orssA t. IN us, IN TIIE CAPACITY
or GOVERNOR 6LNEE4I.,
" All Ttoptietnes, that hae., produce to sell, shell previ.,u.ly
goy • fourth part as a territorial imposition. The plota of
seliing prod u..:e of the 11111 year le ill only bAnne to ertiprkt,,n
vbo belonged to the Indigenous Arnie in the l Ith year. er,r-
awls who, moos: that pe.iod, have resid,d • itb the French, ate
not to have the benefit of that year's prort.t.at; tit prnpotty
*int confiscatmi for the use of the Imin:coo,. A.my
't holies, and otheranisoals, ty•ltotenog to the haht,..
*ions sequestered, are to be given it; to the Admint.trat. re of
Domains, who Ste to give an e:roti tit .t t re mane to the Gene.
MI commanding the Departm.nt, wit., •rill !dame them in the
wort advantageous thinner on the sequestered estates, to be
employed in eult,..nirm.
sa ILA expresaly fret idleu, that any OfFeer than interned He
with the r eltivatiou of the estates.
• " All sugar mapufadotiet tovemosly Irina. to Chiefs of
..ied to the Arlnunt.traturs of De/11511,1t.
TeStelent with the roach, to the tone of
taking prasesston Of s place, shall ttrfeit
• ellattradttelbg the 11th year
rgdir Depolnahrass shall nose (hoe-
ti.cfintiteuirios filleted In be erefSed
of the interwar i and the Generals of
tone to time, make reiWtts of their pro-
undo.
Its of mnltahles or immoveables, mote by
,vuor persons trvidloic .14 the I Iar:1, are
When so made, after the hatheati-
, up wren to repel the French front Hayti.
(Vgned) " DESSALINES."

EXTRACT
TIM( A IPAMPIKLET SATITLED
" OBSERVATIONS 1.71'0N TILE DRAMA,"
By EDWARD GREEN.

Comedy, according to the judgment of critics,
should be the mirror of life, and the exemplar of
manners; of course, as perfea a piaure as possible
of truth. It should at once combine peasantry with
the precepts t morality ; not gravely sentimental,
nor encrouzliing on the province of tragedy. The
mind requires to be relieved from the attendant
woes of life by occasional relaxation ; and the smile
which smooths the wrinkled brow of care, without
an injury to the feelings of another, may surely be
indulged and-prtimated, as the effeß and indication
of iiinucent and virtuous gaiety. Comedy, combin-
ing its two essentials of improving the mind, and of
softening the asperities of life, may be sufficiently
dignified without bordering on the serious and pa-
thetic. There is the proper medium between the
dull and sententious on the one hand, and a gross
and flippant buffoonery on the other. The placing
moral depravity and absurdity of character in a
point of view, so as to render vice odious, and folly
, an objea of ridicule and harmless satire, constitutes
the essence and spirit of true comedy. An audience
will depart in this case delighted with the comic,
and instructed by the more sentimental parts ; col-
lating information from the dialogue, and wisdom
from the circumstances of the piece itself ; impressed
with au affection for virtue, contempt at folly, and
an honest hitlignation of vice.
Whilst I am on this subjea, I would wish to
off-r a few remarks on the nature aad probable el-
leas of the German Drama, to which, at the present
moment, we seem to be so partially attached. The
habits and manners of men take their form, in an
essential degree, perhaps, from the Drama ; whose
moral laws have an effete next after those conveyed
from the pulpit, or promulgated in courts of justice.
Mr. Burke, indeed, has gone so far as to observe,
that 4, the theatre is a better school of moral senti-
ment than churches." If this be the case, how
much has the Dramatist to answer for in the tri-
bunal of virtue, whose works have a tendency to
shake the foundations of virtuous principles, by
giving to the world a false and vicious sy%,eM
morals, under the specious colours of amiable sen-
sibility! Such charge may, I think, be justly urged
against the present race of German writers. The
Sorrow.; of Werter, that fascinating and mischievous
effusion of sensibility, has been the model of all
that refined and polished vice, which, while It has
charmed, has betrayed its tender and susceptible
admirers into the gulf of moral error. Front such
sources does the modern German Drama derive its
origin, and the features of the offspring are stamped
with every parent likeness.
As an uninterrupted state of prosperity is unfa-
vourable to the exercise of virtuous sentiment, en
occasional exhibition of the woes and sufferings of
human lite must be friendly to the cause, and con-
ducive to the praelice of the moral virtues. To
feel for sorrow, the heart must itself be made ac-
quainted with grief. The uses of adversity are
often sweet and wholesome; and hence adversity
has not improperly been termed the school of
virtue.

The object of Tragedy, in presenting us with pic-
tures of human woe, is that of softening the rug-
gedness of our nature, calling forth the better af-
teCtions of the mind, and of predisposing it, net less
to commiserate, than to alleviate the distresses of
our fellow-beings. For this purpose the Tragic
Muse should confine itself to the quiet haunjs, and
to the natural scenes and circumstances of domestic
life, in a forcible and affecting pourtray of indivi-
dual suffering ; attaching itself solely to those in-
stances which life is continually furnishing, of virtue
struggling with, and rising superior to, distress ;
and, above all, in faithfully repeating the voice of
Nature harealf. To accomplish this end, it is ne-
cessary to be acquainted with every spring and
move • ent of the human heart. I will venture to
say, that the tragedy of The Gnmeitor, from its na-
tural and pathetic incidents, and more especially
from its speaking the simple language of nature,
finds a much easier way to the avenues of the heart,
and conveys a more forcible lesson of Moral virtue,
than most tragedies on the English Stage. Real
grief adrnits not the embellishments of poetry; nor
ran that which is built on mere conceit, and affected
imagery, be deemed the offspring of genuine feel-
ing. It drenches the cheek only with a mechanic
flood. The tear in this case rolls ndt with energy ;
unlike the springs of unaffelled sorrow, warmly
pouring down the breast, and creating those pleasing
pains, that " luxury of woe," which sighs attempt
to speak, when speech itself is lost in the strong
emotanis of the mind.

Lesson% of virtue are not to be inculcated by a
display of the wild frenzies of ambitious heroes, nor
by that of the affeded pangs and childish whimper-
ings of lovers; and I conceive that the true end of
tragedy is wholly departed from, when its muse is
employed in one or other of these sub:jet:ls.

The observations which I have made are merely cur-
seryones. I have not enteredupon the sublet) without
a consciousness of the little ability I have possessed
for its discussion. I have been principally induced
to offer these hasty remarks, from a wish that a sub-
ject, so truly important, may be taken up and more
amply discussed by others better qualified for the
task than myself. I have simply suggested hints;
and, imperled as they may be, even these have little
perhaps to boast of originality. The plagiary,bow-
ever, is au inconscious one; nor can 1 better excuse
it than in the words of one of the first geniuses of
the present day. " Faded ideas," says Mr. Sheridan,
" &est in the mind like half forgotten dreams t and
imagination, in its fullest enjoyments, becomes sus-
picious of its offspring, and doubts whether it has
created or adopted."
Viewing the Drama as an objet of the first con-
sequence the interest of society, I have wished
to see it divested of thsise errors and imperfetaions
which obscure its beauties, degrade its charafter,
and destroy its moral uses and effeCts. As a picture
of life and stunners, the lesson it conveys should be
such only, a. to discourage vice and promote virtue.
To use the language of Julius, " to inform the un-
derstanding, correas and enlarges the heart;" and
I further think, that to make man moral and good,
through whatever medium it be effeCted, is to ren-
der him happy in the truest acceptation of the word.

• .

THE SIXTH REPORT.
QI ?HI tObllltstiogras A !EOM TE AN ACT Of
TM& 19PrY•T11ttp Tenn Of TOR REIGN of
NIS PRESENT MAJCBTY, INTITu LED,
" An Ad ?or Coaumassiouers to inquire and ex-
amine intsany wregolarities, (rands, or abases, w huh are
or have been practised by persons employed in the several
naval tlopa:tm-tnna therein inentionei, and an the business
of prise agency, sail to report such observation as shall
occur to them for preventin4 such irririlaritieo„ frm.ds,
rid s'isses, and fur the burr conducting mad man.agliig
the busittesi•of Carina departaanintv, and of prate aviary,
in future."
[Continued from our Piper of Yesterday.]

i •• All sup, r mantaaaottee VIVVI4IOIIII 'Milk TO VOW/ Us
I : .
Corps, thslf be returned to tl.e Athruntaratura of Donsa.nt,
•11 ," All proprietor/ reVideht 'with the Fir nth, to the tint, of
the Indigem•us 4 rmv takm; ptosar-ston of a place, sltall ("deli
all the produce of Meier:ire% during She 11th year
ta The Generals cootniaotoe.Departaer 11t0 shall etimenene.
Tali of Brigade to est Foie 11,c fmtifeatioos mined In be ere Are
in the h'gb inou.itains of the ulterior ; and the General. of
Ilairede shall, Nen tone to wile, make reilerta of their pro-
ceedings, and their worka
" MI 841e', or ICI" of MO•tahltS or immoveables, mote by
irni'elliF;lrt'hhi,d:tOrtii:un;4eattet.rwle";i:jaol'rrlhaZ,Fthaeftel;h4TtliXi'ind7;rlBlll.
" Apr:l% ISM- (Vgned) '. DESSALINES."
ammiarmlia
On Wedneschty- artived in Lads Roads, from
Aberlady Bay, the. Rocha, of 44. guns, Captain
MicniriLv.
Same day arrived in Leith Roads, from Burnt-
-1 island, the Chariton armed ship.
i'
i7' Thursday sailed from Leith Roads, the alerting
armed ship and Print.- of !Nola revenue cruiser,
with the trade for the Baltic.
The following vessels have been hired into Go-
vernment service, and the respcoive officers, whose
names are affixed, arc appointed to command them:
The Lord 4411.11.0
Attruea
Mitesell .
A•goirs• Capt. II thud.
--- Whtte.
Sir A. halt
Slade.
Dottiest -- Pr, , y
i A singular and awful circumstance to , place at
1 Wooton-under•Edge,Gloncestershire.on Sunday the
10th ult. A woman of the name of LAN/' who had
been in the habit, for twenty years past, of insult/l-
-i ing poor children who attended the Sunday School
at the Rev. RowL sem H'LL's Chapel, particularly'
11, I wished, that when it should please God to take her,
... • sire might die in some part of the premises belonging
I t 9 this indefatigable man. She attended the chapel
• as usual in good health on Sunday morning, and
.• appeared perrenly well, till Mr. HILL had concluded
Lis sermon ; when she was discovered by some of the
1
corwre,-.ssation to change colour, and before they had
,-,
tiin, to take her from the place, she expired without
i a groan.