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• LtlIV TE4.LIGENCE.

BRIGHTON, Feb. 27.

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i OF KING'S IIF.Nt .1, GUILDHALL, MANCIII 2.
:1 mg: after Taw, lefore Lord ELLEMBOROTCH.
THOMAS V. DAY.
"i his was an action to recover the sum of
i 10s. 9d. for damages sustained by the negli-
gence of the Defendant.
*the Plaintiff, who is a dealer in linens, had sent
various goods to be delivered at a warehouse in
Mark-hue, ke,l by the Defendant. In the progress
of craning up several bags 'of linen, one of them
gave way, and fell into the street, where the water
penetrated through dr.! outside, and damaged no
1,.-4s than seventy-wine pieces, occasioning a loss of
three-perce in ate yard on the part of the owace.
The blame was imputed, by the Defendant, to
the carman, as the property had- not been received
into the warehouse previous to the injury. it was,
however, proved thatthe warehouse-keeper was an-
swerable for whatever damage was done to the
goods in question, as it was his duty to see them
safely deposited in the place appointed for them
after they had been brought to him far that pur-
pose. A verdn was therefore given for the Plain-
tiff for the amount of his loss..
The other causes that occupied the attention of
the Court, during the day, were too uniuipo.lant
to detail.

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The Prince's harriers, on Wednesday, threw off
near Patcham Windmill, when a brace of hares al-
iiir.led some sharp running, though both of them
ultimately escaped the vigilance of their pursners.
On Friday the sport was renewed from the Race-
hill, which turned out very indifferent ; one hare
‘only, after a very short run, comprised the whole
-of the morning's diversion. The field each day
was very respeCtablv attend..d.
In consequence of the presliZion of the French
Prophet, now something more than two centuries
ago, but which, within this last week, has been the
current topic of tea-table conversation, that the
tide in the &itish Channel would rise at least thirty
Jett perpendicular?, above the level it ever reached
before, on the 24th or .25th of Eebruary 180:;,
'several persons have aetually removed from this
placeto Cuckfield, lest the prognostic should be ve-
rified, and the dreadful phenomenon overwhelm
the town. They are expeEted to return to this place
to-morrow, unless a recolleCtion of the alteration
which has been made in the style since the pro-
phecy was uttered, should recur to them, when, in
all probability, they may deem itnecessary to avoid
the coast, at least eleven days longer than they had
first calculated as necessary.
Arrivals—Lady Bradford, Mr. W. Byltsm, Mrs. anal Miss
Po- nail; lion. Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Lyon, Mr. Walter, Colonel
lielhost, and Mrs. Forth. Deirartur,s—Mr. T. Bogert, Mr.
Mri. aad MissSmish, Mr. Basanquet, and Mr. H. Mount.

In the French service, according to the present
arrangement, no General Officer can have a regi-
ment. Those Generals who have deserved well of
their country are provided for in succession, by
being appointed to the command of Distriets ; or,
as they are now called, Military Divisions. Of
three hundred *Generals, seventy-five are provided
for in this way ; many more have the command of
garrisons, and are employed in the inspection of the
troops, stores, &c. Others are employed in the
civil department, on embassies in the colonies, &c.
A great number are, as it may be supposed, in a
stateof solicitation.
Letters from Petersburgh, dated Jan. 21, state,
" The points in discussion a espeding the island of
Malta, between our Court and the French and Bri-
tish Cabinets, arc at length said to be adjusted, and
couriers have been dispatched with the result to
London and Paris. The Neapolitan garrison is to
be maintained at the joint expence of Russia, Eng-
land, and Prance,"
On the Ist inft. Prince Wa ILIA ANI of GLOUCESTER
and his Sweoisu Maitarr, attended by a nu-
merous retinue, set oat from Stockholm to Crisp-
'holm, and returned on the :id.
A method has been discovered, and practised with
success, by M. ISEUTit AND, at Metz, of extra4ing
spirit from potatoes. The process is as follows :
'take 6001bs. of potatoes, and boil them in steam'
about three-quarters of an hour, till they will fall to
pieces on being touched. The vessel in which they
are boiled consists of a tub, somewhat inclined. In
the lower part of it are two holes, one for the pur-
pose of bringing in the steam produced in another
vessel over a coal fire, and the other made to carry
off occasionally the condensed water. After the
potatoes are boiled, they are crushed and diluted
with hot water, till they are of a liquid consistence;
then add twenty-five pounds of ground malt, and
two quarts of won ; the mixture is to be stirred,
covered with a cloth, and kept to the temperature
of'l.4i" nr Reaumtsr, or of 61$" nearly of Fahrenheit.
After fermentation, and the exhalßon of the car-
bonic acid, the matter sinks down, and is fir. for dis-
tillation. By means of two stills, this MASS may be rec-
ti imd in oneaday, and it will produeeahout forty-four
quarts of spirit, worth a guinea and a half, while the
whole cost, including . coals and labour, is about
twenty-three shillings and sixpence. The residuum
is good food fir hogs.
We hava gTcat pleasure in stating, that a consider-
able part of aha valuable cargo of the brig ~rotor has
been mcover.A. This vessel foundered at Cerigo,
the 17th of Seraeniber 1802, on her passage from
Athens to She was laden with sculptured
marble of utAt,,alled beauty and worlinanship,
from the Tor.pic of Minerva at Athens, and other
monuments of Gcecian antiquity, belonging to
Lord Elgin, nu; Ambassador at Censtantiao-
plc. Mt. Hamiteo, his Lordship's Secretary,
Captain Leake the Artillcry, and Captain
Squire of the Engiewers, wire passengers in the
-vessel, on their retapi from a very interesting tour
through Syria and Greece. The Journals of thke
Gentlemen, with tla. ri:ms of several places in
Greece, which they had taken on the spot, will, we
bare no doubt, now be laid before the Public. It
is entirely owing to Mr. Hamilton's indelatibaable
exertions and persevering efforts, that any part of
this truly valuable cargo has been recovered ; be
rer,,ained some weeks ou the island of Cerigo,
try if it were passible to get up any of the property,
And after having employed various meant, he at
length sent for divers from the 'island of Samos,
who happily succeeded in the attefnpi. This intel-
ligence will, no doubt, be hizlhly gratifyirw to the
lovers 41f LiteraLlre and the hat Arts. •

CONBIN.f77OVS.

A Scotch Paper, which we received this morning,
contains the following article :
" In our Paper of the 10th of this month we had
occasion to ieforneemr readers, that an an adion had
been brought by Messrs. Nit/Wenn Stirling and Sons,
of Cordate and Dalquhurn printtierds, against cer-
tain operative printers in the county of Dumbar-
ton, for contravening the Ael of the 59th and 40th
of his present Mejesty, ehtiticd "An Aet for prevent-
ing utillewini Combinations among workmen ;" that
they had been comielad on the statute, and com-
mitted to prison.
" We understand from Dumbarton, that, on
Thursday last, a similar ninon was brought by the
senie pursuers against William Forrest, Lite printer
at !Stilton-field, who was liken isc convi&cd upon the
most clear evidence, and sentenced to three months
imprisonment. From the books and correspond-
ence, which were found in the hands of George
M‘learlane, grocer, in Dumbarton, whom we men-
tioned in our Paper of the 10th inst. it appears, that
a very genet el combination among the operative
printers in the three kingdoms has been organised,
which °not only expose those concerned in it to be
punished by imprisonment and otherwise, in terms
of the forementioned ace, but has in view objects des-
tru&ive to the general interests of the trade."
We have for some time past dire red our atten-
tion to these subjed, which we consider to be of the
highest importance, and deserving most serious at-
tention from the Government. That the labourer,
the mechanic, and the manufadurer, should be ade-
quately paid for his labour, is a principle which no
one will deny ; that the price of that labour should
increase with the increasing value of and demand for
the articles manufactured, is a position which we arc
not inclined to controvert ; that the rise on the prices
of the necessaries of life is a fair ground for an aug-
mentation of wages, we readily admit—Perhaps it
would be well if the price of labour were regulated
by the value of the bushel of wheat. But we know of
noci►cumstances in which combinations are necessary
to cad these objects. The Masters in most cases are,
webelieve, anxious to render thosewhom they employ
happy and comfortable. Interest here combines, with
inclination. But if the Master does not feel that
anxiety ; if be be inattentive to the situation of
those under him; the labourer, the manufadurer, and
the mechanic, have their remedy before the Magis-
trate or the Quarter Sessions. And let not these
persons think that such a peaceable, legal mode of
obtaining redress of any grievances, is degrading to
them. Much, much more likely are they to secure
solid relief by these means, than by that array and
attitude which bid defiance to the law. To attempt '
(and the attempt must always be unsuccessful) to en- •
force redressby opposition to the law, 'stile surest way
neither to obtain nor to deserve it ; and let these
persons see to what extent these combinations may
lead them ! They begin, are cherished, and cement-
ed in alehouses; the cunning and the idle entrap
the industrious ; the money that should support and
nourish their family, is squandered in liquor ; the
blessings of health, the habits of industry, .are lost
in the riot and niatiness of drunkenness; and in
those moments are they led to express sentiments,
and to adopt measures, which are calculated to in-
volve them, and not only them, but their families,
in ruin and destrudion. Let such persons, before
they enter into such combinations, look at their
wives and children, and ask themselves, as fathers,
whether they be content to risk the happiness oft
objets so dear to them ! . • -
Let them rece,llcd too another thing, that com-
binations of this kind are not very remote from trea-
son : the line between them is not broad. There
may also be persons who lead them into these com-
binations, not veth ar.y view to procure for them
higher prices for their labour, but to make them
engines for the accomplishment of other objeets.—
What have see seen of late years ? :11en. have been
misled, and have joined societies from a general
loose promise, that their condition should be better-
ed. They have joined them at first, from an idea
that they should obtain. more erages. Once initia-
ted, they have been told that it was too late to re.
treat, and have thus been hurried on to the most
culpable excesses.
We confess that we have been induced to make
these observations from the intelligence we received
some time ago from Dumbarton. A most exten-
sive combination was there developed before the
Justices of Peace : it extended to every printing-
ground in England, Scotland, and Ireland. We
do not mean to say that it had any thing of a poli-
tical nature in it: but what were the terms used?
there were local distriets ; regular meetings attended
by deputies from each field officers appointed for
the management of.affairs ; regular correspondence
maintained with the different distriets, passes given
to any person who conceived himself aggrieved by
his master ; and an allowance to such person, till he
could get a master nho would comply with his
demands. Yet, though we do not believe that this
combination had any thing of a political nature in
it, all our readers will recoiled the same terms used
updp other occasions, and for purposes very differ-
ent ii-urn that of procuring an increased price for
labour.
Thts.e subscriptions of money among the labour-
in' poor, are extremel) praiseworthy, when applied
to the niaintestanceof the sick, the aged, or the in-
firrn ; but they should be absolutely discounte-
nencede.si'hew they are to support in idleliess those
who chose to think themselves aggrieved, and who
obstinately oppose the persons that employ them.
The subjed is of such importance, and involves
in it so many points, that we shall renew the dis-
cussion of it on a future day.. It is one, indeed,
which cannot be too deeply and seriously attended
to.

BRF.AD.—Tuesday the. Loan ltiiavon ordered
the price of the quartern loaf to be reduced half an
assize., or Id. in the peck loaf, when the price of the
quartern loaf of wheaten will be W. and house-
kohl 71d..
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A very !serious fracautook place last week at the
Portsmouth. Thoarre,.occasioned by some drunken
young bucks of the Navy. The.y interrupted the
performance, threw a lighted candle into a box
ama9 some Ladies, and otherwise conduaed them-
sehes in a very. riotous wanner. The Peace Officers
being afraid to aa, as the young men v7cre all
armed, the military were called in, upon whicka
4..ry of frn was raised, and the whole..aultencc
thrown into, the greatest alarm and oxiwian, and
4everal serious striAieuts were the coasoqueoce.

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SINGULAR RACE OF PEOPLE. •
In Spanish America there is an order of strollers,
who are called Gamin-jot. Their mode of life re-
sembles that of the gipsies, except that they are not
addided to thieving. These vagabonds are very
badly clothed, their whole dress consisting only of
a coarse shirt, and a worse upper garment. The
articles of dress, together with horse-furniture, serve
them for bedding, and a saddle for a pillow.
They stroll about with a kind of small guitars,
to the sound of which they sing ballads of their own .
composition, of such as they have learned from
others. I.ove is in • general
,the subjed of these
songs. Thus they wander about the country, and
endeavour to divert the peasants, who, in ectitrn,
skew their' gratitude by furnishing them with vic-
tuals during their stay with.thern, and even giving
them other horses when they lose their own.
This liberality and generosity will appear the less
surprising, when it is considered, that in this coun-
try horses are of very little value. Great herds of
them run about wild in the vast plains, and seem to
belong to whoever will take the trouble of catcliing
them. The Gauderios generally march about in
parties, consisting of four and sotnetimes even of
more.
With respell to the means of procuring food,
they give themselves so little conccru, that, when
setting out on an excursioa, they provide themselves
only with a rope, a few balls, which arc fastened to
the ends of the ropes, and A knife.
When attacked by hunger, they contrive so get
one of the young cows or bulls, whir"' run about
wild, entangles' in their snares. They throw the
captured animal down, tie its legs together, and then
cut, even hefere it is dead, the flesh, together with
the skin, from the bone, make a few incisions in it,
and, thus prepared, put it to the fire: when half
roasted, it is devoured without any additional cere-
mony, except a little salt, when 'they happen to
carry any with them. Some of them kill a cow
merely for the purpose of obtaining the flesh between
the ribs and the skin. t )thers eat nothing except the
tongue, which they roast in the red hot embers.
The remainder of the carcase is all left in the fields,
and becomes the f.rey of carniverous birds and wild
beasts. Others again are still more easily satisfied,
taking nothing but the marrow-bone, from which
they cut oft all the flesh, and then hold it over the
fire, till the marrow becomes soft and fluid.
Sometimes they praise the following singular
mode of cookery. Having killed a cow, they take
out the entrails, and colleting all the tallow and
lumps of fat, put them into the hollow carcass.
They then kindle some dried cow-dung, and apply
it to the tallow, that it may take fire, and penetrate
into the flesh and bones. For this purposa they
close up the carcass as well as possible, so that the
smoke comes nut at the mouth, and another aper-
ture made in the lower part of the belly. In this
manner the cow often continues roasting the whole
night, or a considerable part of the day. \\ lien it is
done euough, the cenipany place themselves around,
and each cuts for himself the piece he likes best, and
devours it without bread or salt. What remains is
left in the field, except any of them happen to carry
a portion of this favourite food to a particular
friend.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 1.

Sailed from Spitbead his Majesty's ship Lecpard,
of 50 guns, Capt. Collier, bound to the eastward
to be paid off.
Went out of harbour to Shithead, and remain,
his Majesty's ships Anthisa, of guns, Capt. Har-
dy, and Camilla, of 24 guns, Capt. Hill, with the
squadron.
Remains at St. Helen's his Majesty's ship Le Her.
cult, of 74 guns.
Arrived the' American ship the Risixg Stain,
bound from America to Cowes, Isle of Wight, with
corn.—Wind N.V. by W.
Orders were received at dill and the several dock-
yards about two months ago, on no account to sell•
any old rope, unless cut up in lengths of one fathom
each. Since which, orders are again received at
all the yards, and it is supposed for very special rea-
sons, to attend in like manner to the selling of junk ;
and not even to suffer any to be exposed for sale,
until cut up in lengths also of six feet each.

YARMOUTH, MARCH 1.
Arrived his Majesty's frigate Lapwing, Capt.
Skene ; and remains in the roads with the Lela
and Penelope fa igates.—Wind N .N. E.
DOVER, MARCH 1.
Sailed this morning for Calais, the Prince of
Wales Packet, Capt. Sutton, with mail and mes-
senger.

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