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NAVAL I.I.IGEIICE.-

1.7.1-mot-nip arum 13.
Arrived the 71e,eler.-r, ct ;s.. inns, Captain Bed-
ford. and the Ardent, of tit flints, Captain Win-
thrcp, from Sheerness; the Lloadicea, of 38 guns,
Captain Maitland, from a ernize ; find the Ranger, ,
Busy, Renown, lliz•ele, and &Tie canters, ftom
cruize, with impressed men: tlie hitter is under
gerarantise, has ing impressed two men o' of the
Cativo/sr, of this port, from Malaga, which vessel
is arrivesi.off the Sounds
Ihe Courigeve, of 74 guns, which was stated to
have sailed for Torbay, is yet in Cawsand Bay ; it
was the of 74 gams, Captain Ferrier. that
ior Torbay with the Yeptust.
The Deuher, of 1$ guns, and the Hunter, of 18
inns. which sailed yesterday, are retunted again to
the Sosuid.
Came in from Guernsey, the Blanche, of 3( guns,
Captain Z. Mudge.
Ve'hile the six East Indiamen were :sing ton off
rite Eddystone, for the easterly wind on Ms,ndav
last, the cruizets' boats in the Channel, manned
and armed, boarded them all, and made a fair
sweep of nearly 300 prime seamen for the service of
the fleets • the crews of the fr.dianten, till boarded,
bad not ;he most distant ijea of any misunder-
standing with Fiance. If the Indiamen should
want -seameis to navigate theta to the River
Thames, the men of the ships in ordinary in the
Tamar and Hamoaze, still, as usual, be drafted for

that purpose.
The ships now in dock tinder repair are as fol-
low :—ln the double doct, the Warrior and Terrible,
of 7i guns each ; in the south duck, the fi,gard,
of 4A guns ; and in the middle single dock, the !in-
terwar, of ti 4 Ftuts. They are all to have it tho-
rough repair. l'he whole of tiae repairing idozks
are quite full in this dock-yard.
Arrived off the Sound, the Desin-ara, of Lan-
caster, Capt. Peter Ea les, from Demerara, bound
to Rotterdam, laden with sugar and coffee. The
following passengers landed from her this afternoon :
• Mrs. Jones, Mrs. James, Miss Gibson, Nlr. Hinde,
Mr. Taylor, Mr. Waterson, and Mr. Parker: the
ship is beating up Channel.
The Demerara packet, and the Coiling', two
Dutch ships, sailed horn I)eniei ara, at the time the
Demerara of Lancaster left it, bat parted company
soon after. The place is said to he extremely un-
healthy, and the Dutch soldiers die at the rate of
so a day, owing, in some measure, to the want of
bei.n properly fed.
The laregray, Captain Adams, which was ashore
on St. Nicholas's Ishtud, is got off without much

damage.
1100aTsVOUTH, ATIRIL 14.
Sailed his M.,:icsty's ship Arida, of LO guns, Capt.
Lord Proby, to the eastward, to complete her com-
plement of seen.—Arrived L.. 44.4, of 3t guns,
Capt. Wolfe: and remains at Spithead witfi his
Majesty's ship Groves, of 50 guns, Admiral laud
Gardner and Capt. Caulfield RULI(I, of 74 guns,
Capt. Williams; Puissant. of 74 guns, Capt. Bowen;
"lima, of 24 guns, Capt. Malbon ; Cahiera, of
SC guns, Capt. ''riodriti; and Arrow, of 30 guns,
Capt. Vincent; with several revenue and excise cut-
ters; the Lewd !trove and Lord Ca:tiered:6 East
InJiamen, and OMB/ transport.
At St. Helen's, his Majesty's ship 4,7/kilo, of
1:: guns, Capt. T. M. Hardy, and ri;;!moy Luttei, of
14 guns. Lieut. tit bite connuansicr.--14 Ind S. A. E.
and moderate.
INovst, APRIL 1 I.
Sailed this morning the Express packet, with
'ail and passengers for Calais ; and this afternoon
the /Jambe,: of cork passage-vessel, with W. Rogers,
Esq. W. Porter, Lays Mrs. Impert and family, and
several other passengers.
Arrived . Irk ille, from Boulogne, with tTic Hon.
and Rcv. Edward Taylor.
Passed by the American ship Racl,niond, Rudd,
from New York, hound to Hamburgh.
An order arrived at Boulogne a few d.tys since
for 250 se.uuen, 100 of which were sent off to lirest
yesterday ; similar requisitions have been received
at all the French ports.
An impress boat came into our 'harbour last
night, and toot a number of ruen out of the col-
liers and other vessels.

A rnesseagcr arrived from London this afternoon
at four o'cly.ck, with dispatches of consequence ;
he embarked with every po,sible expedition ou how d
the AuciLuul packet, which sailed inirnediately fur
Calais.—The racket was hired for the purpose.
115E•1., 11.
Came down and sailed the Quebec, Rayiry, for
'Quebec, and Regvialer, ---, for -Manta. Remain in
the Dow/1S his Majesty's ships as per last, and the
:Rwory, Deacw, from Honduras, and S'a,A,
from Plyrauudi.

The latest advices from Petersburg!: and Stock-
holm mention, that the crisis between England and
France has much raised the produas of exportation
in those countries. At Copenhagen, too, the colo-
nial commodities lave, for the saran reatin, experi-
enced a vet y considerable dist.
A s sa: nor e or I.‘ an KA I Ns.—Dr. Berkely, pre-
bendary 131. Canterbury; and some other men of emi-
nence, ILA passed the prior part of the day at the
house of Lord Kaints, anti were preparing to take
their leave, when their entertainer was hastily sum-
moned from the room. lie did not return till after
some time, when he entered the apartment with
bolts of the greatest dismay, followed by his daugh-
ter, Mn. —. This young lady had been mar-
t,..l to a Mr. —, a gentleman of large estate,
hat had so far forgotten what she owed to her situ-
ation, that her husband had, at length, discovered
her infidelity, and sent her home to her father.
It was to receive her that the atheist had been
summoned from the room. Ihe young lady, as we
have mentioned, entered the apartment with him ;
and, in presence of the tornpany, thus address-
ed him : •• Nay, Sir, you have, of all men in the
world, the least justice in accusing me, fur nay er-
rors are oily the unhappy fruit of your own. Yes,
Sir, I accuse you in the presence of this company,
of haring been the cause of my crime, and conse-
quent rinser!. It eras tiom yo a I learned that I
had nothing to dread from any future account. i
loved my husband, but in his long absence bee.une
sawn:entail/ attached to another. The restraiais
of religion wile removed by your care in my educa-
tion. I had nothing, therefore, to dread, but the
consequences of deteaion. The absence of Mr.
---- put ate at ease upon that heatl—he returned
atter pc:Artily --"

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.siivauLAß,eirmAA CTERS.
Tire following deiscription of a singular charafter
may not prove unaceeptahle to our readers :
It is a curious, till at the same time a melancholy
retieaion. that more than half the miseries of life
are of our own creation. The human mind is
tenacious of zffliCtion ; it clings to and broods over
its sufferings ; it magnifies every unpleasant °hied
that conies within its ken ; and, by the help of ima-
gination, turns slight and transient disquiet into
real evil.
Disappointment in a party of pleasure, a rainy
day, an ill-roasted joint of meat, a lost argument,
or a spoiled new hat, pre sufficient to put sonic peo-
ple out of temper for a month.
A literary actituintance of mine, who is apt to
be troubled with the hypotiondrie, seems to exert
his whole ingenuity in making himself miserable.
If the weather in .lanuary suddenly become warm,
his thoughts are perpetually recurring to the dread-
fel plague in the reign of Charles II.; if the sun
look red and fiery, he is no doubt coming !full
drive against the earth to reduce ns to ashes, or
there will be sonic other terrible derangement in the
planetary system ; either Jupiter's four moons will
go to loggerheads, or Saturn swell to such an enor-
mous hulk as to burst his belt.
A thunder storm sends him upon Lis knees, be-
cause lie is persuaded the last day is arrived ; and
a shower of frail in the night is sure to rouse him
from his bed to look for tire running along the
ground, as it did during one of thepla;,nies in Egypt.
His existence, indeed, is one continued malady of
mind and body. The apprehension of misery Iras
at length become worse than the misery itself; and
every slight bodily indisposition, or even the small-
est symptom of indisposition, so affe,i,ts him, that
his house looks like an hospital, instead of appear-
ing the residence of a gentleman and a philosopher.
He has nolliing to do but to cough three or fosse
times in the morning, and he immediately risutlles
himself up in flannel, lies down on a sopha by the
tire, aid spouds his time in marking the changes of
the sky, counting his pulse every four minutes by a
stop-watch, drinking water-gruel, rubbing his
throat with hartshorn, and spreading plaisters of
Burgundy pitch.
whom I was intrecleced some little time ago, is, if it
be possible, still more ingenious in the creation of
visionary wretchednee. Having applied himself
from his youth to the andy of Antiquities, and a
very attentive peruser of Ancient History, he has
at kneth persuaded himself that the present is a very
degenerate age ; that every new century brings ,
with it a thousand new evils; that the moderns are
a set of unfortunate ignoramuses and rascals ; and,
in short, that the trite way of living rightly-and
comfortably Ives known only to the ancients, and
has never been re-discovered since the decline of the
Roman Empire.
This notion is almost uppermost in his thoughts,
and is consequently betrayed in every word and
action of his life. He thinks the world is grown
too old to be of much use any longer; is continually
quarrelling with his hard fate that brought him
into the world in the eighteenth century, and made
him a rich bachelor, an Englishman, and a Chris-
tian ; and cannot conceive the reason why he was
not born two thousand years ago.
The first thing he does in the morning, after er-
omitting his cabinet, to see whether his gems, me-
dals, intagtios, &c. etc. are all sate, is to throw up
the window of his bed-chamber, curse the heavy
hypochondrical atmosphere of England, and sigh
for the delicious refreshing breezes of the ancient
Campania.
Ile theta dresses himself, and while he is putting
on his shirt, cannot help uttering a thousand lamen-
table soliloquies on the disuse ot flannel and woollen
inner-garments ; on the infinite superiority of flan-
nel to linen, wearing better next the skin, and being
much wholesomer ; and on the stiff cut of modern
dress ; not forgetting to execrate the want of taste
monifented by the preeent age in the total conceal-
ment of their toes, which is the consequence of
wearing shoes instead of sandals, and is a custom,
he is certain, we have borrowed from the Chinese:
whereas, argues he, if sandals were in fashion, our
young nien would not only become more cleanly in
their persons, but nti dont:. as in Rome, cur beaux
might learn to slide more easily into the hearts of
the ladies ; and a good foot with the toe; neatly
pared and rounded, would become as great an Al-
traaion as a white and taper hand.
t)ur antiquary,' after indulging himself in these
and such like melancholy reflections, proceeds to
breakfast ; a 'meal which he regularly continues to
tat with ill-humour, and an ill-relish. Every spoon-
ful of tea that he sirs indices him consider how a
Roman would laugh to see him drinking a clecienion
of a paultry Chines' herb, evidently ot modern use,
and consequently utterly umbisical and barbarous;
anal yet he is, froin habit, so attached to certain little
modern conveniencies, such as tea, swat, tohac.co,
&c. that it is with the greatest veolente to his
animal inclinations he can prevail on iliiaself to
forego any one of them ; and it was but three days
ago ne told ene of his maid-servares, teith tears in
his C't.`F, that he belizeed lie must Lt~ compel/ed to
take off his two toasted crumpets wont his morning
rucal, as he had sonic doubt% whether the collyra
lonian', mentioned by Pliny, was the exaCt modern .
crumpet or no.
As his table, however, notwithstanding piteous
complaints of ill-faze, u, in general not only ele-
gantly, but even sumptuously furnished, it is al-
most daily surrounded by a could of acquaintances.
who are content to hear his lamentations, enjoy the
good things of a very excellent larder, and !aught
in their sleeves at the man who has Al the comforts
ollife within his reach, and ?et will iiio put forth
his hand to obtain them, because Providence has
sent them in the nineteenth century, and not in the
reign of .iviseiai Casio, or iilwinuirr the Grta:. R.

The heart and bowels of the late Pope Pies the
' Sixth, arrived on the 29th ult. at Valence. All the
magistrates of the place, and a great number of
the must distinguished inhalsitants, with a !amber
of females in mourning, went nut to nieet the re
mains at I.uriul. On their arrival at Valence, the
procession repaired to the church of St. ApoUinaire,
which was hang with black' upon the-occasion, at
the dior of which the remains of the unfurtunate
ris4 were received by the Bishop, accompanied by
a numerous body of Clergy, and were then placed
on a magnificent Catafalque erefted for the purpose.
The service was then perfumed. During the cere-
mossy, which lasted throe hours and a half, scveral
discharges of artillery took place.

SUSSEX ASSIZES.

litnry Murray wan indiacti far stealing a horst,
tle: property of his Majesty. The circumstances of
this case, as proved by W. Wyatt, a .private in the
10th regiment of Light Dragoons, were as follows .
On the evening of the 10th of January The pri-
soner came into the Inn stables, at Chichester.
where a part of .the regiment was quartered, and
entered into conversation with Wyatt aad another

soldier respelling the goodness of the horses in their
regiment. Wyatt vaunted the excellence of his
own beast., and pronounced him to be absolutely the
best horse in the regiment; but,. said the prisoner.
“ where are your bridles and saddles? I do not se
any of them ;" he was told they were in their
bed-rooms, and that they only kept a watering bri-
dle in the stable. After some other conversation,
he invited Wyatt to go in doors and dri:-.lc some ate
with him, which he did. After they had drank one
pot, the prisoner observed to Wyatt, that his com-
rade, wins was left in the stable, must think it an:.
lead that he was not also invited, and sfat W. to ask
hint to jinn them. Tins being done, they all three
sat some time ; at last the prisoner went out and did
not return. They supposed he meant to have
cheated the landlord of the score, but the next
morning th:y found that he had taken a fancy to the
horse whose merits his rider had so extolled, and by
way of completely setting himself up, he had taken
with it a pair of pistols. 'lire prisoner rude away to
Jelscornb, where he offered the horse to sale fur 44,
guineas to the landlord of a latlilic-house. The
landlord observed the number of :34.; eut in the hair s
of his foot, which led him to say that he must be a
dragoon horse. The prisoner readily replied, yes, he
was ; and that he himself belonged to the 10th re-
ment of dragoons, which was selliag oC several of
their horses ; but that as they fetched a bad price
at the hammer, their Major sent several of the men
about the country with horses to sell to private deal-
ers, as they got the best price that way. The land-
lord suspeEled this story, and caused him to be ap-
prehended. As soon as he was taken. he confessed
the fa&—Verdia Guiky—Death.

The fashionable Mrs. OIDE narrowly escaped a
fatal accident in driving her curricle on Thursday.
As she was returning to her villa at l3ottley. from the
British Hotel, in turning the corner into St. James's
street, from Jermyn-street, the horses took fright.
and ran furiously towards Piccadilly ; the Lady be-
ing unable to govern them with the reins, screArned
violently, when tbrtunately one of the horses stum-
bled and fell ; but, by the gallantry of two gentle-
men passing at the nsomeut, the lady WAS rescued
from her perilous situation.

BIRTHS.
On Monday last, in Hulk,-sticet, the Lady of Gilbert
Mathison, Esq. of a sun.
Friday seisnight, in Newcastle, Mrs. Airey, wife of
Col. G. Airey, ut a soil.
On the 13th, at Baldwins, Kent. the Lady of Sir Jo:-.11
Haritivon ut a daughter.
MARRIED.
On Thursday last, at Chisletuirst, in Kent, the Rev.
William Panchen, of Wocd Walton, Hunts, to Miss
Mary Hyde WuHalton, clad daughter of the Kew. Francis
Wulbilon, of Outelhurft.
Monday, Mr. F. Angus, printer, to Miss Waugh, both
of Newc +stk.
On batu.-day the 9th inst. at Clainn, VV'orcestershire•
W.Mules, Esq. Li.:utennut of his Majesty's ship the Text).
to Miss P. Meade, of Blanquett's House.
On Tuesday last, at Christ Church, Surrey, Mr. Kelly.
of Fareham, Hants, surgeon, to Mrs' Leaches, of Scam.
ford-street, Black.lriars.
DIED.
Oh Saturday, at Helton Park, in Oxforashite, in the
s+th year of her age, the Hun. Mrs. Packer.
At Lisbon, un the list ult. Mr. G. Petty, of Law..
rance-lane, Cheapside.
Yesterday morning, R. Lindsay, Esq. of Hampstead.
formerly of Charlestown, South CaroLna.
Friday, C. Reavelcy, Esq. 011 d of tile proprietors of Ker...
ton Colliery.
On Monday serinight, aged 61, Mr. R. Brown, of Bur.
ton-in Ken.la,. shoesnaaer ; and, about five minutes atter
his death, Mrs. Briiwo, his wife, aged 50.
On Saturday se'ilight, at Trinity College Lodge, int
Cambridge, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. Mansel, Master oi,
that Cu.lege.
The sante day. after a short and mist painful illness, is
) ear at his agc, the Rev. T. Jackson, Head Mac—
ter ut the Flee Grammar Scnt,,,l at Blackburn, in Lanca-
shire.
Mrs. A. Nairne, daughter of the late J. Nairne, Egg. of
Wednesday, the 6th lost. at Piestonficid, in the S;d yrag
of her age.

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