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C4NTERBOR Y, APRIL 26.

Tuesday last being the day appointed for pre-
seutiug • sword to Citiatuiu Sir Thomas Staines,
wren by the Geotle.oeo of Thane, an ele,lant
dinner on the occaaiou was provided ut
ma, 'lntel ; after the cloth was removed, and
the health of the King, Queen, and Royal Prouty,
given, the President, (D. Jarvis, Esq.) rose, and, in
an eloquent addresa,recapitu Weil the varions splen-
did acts of valour performed by Captain Staines,
particularly last year, iu the Bay of Naples, against
a very superior force ; he concluded with promot-
ing the sword, and giving the health of Captain
Sir Thomas Staines, which WRY rapturously ap-
olmclerl. Sir Thomas, in a speech replete with
..„A„ty and good sense, returned his thanks for
the honour conferred oil him, and stated his resolu.
non to pursue that line of conduct which had pro-
cured loin such a distinguished mark of their
&fem.—The meeting ass most respectably at-
teudeel by the Gentlemen of Thanet, and coaduct.
el with the greatest spirit and harmony. An ap-
propriate glee was sting by three Gentlemen of
Thane, which was received with great applause ;
and, after many constitutional toasts, glees, and
„App., which added to the exhiliration of the day,
the company departed, highly gratified with their
entertainment.
Tuesday the Easter plata was run for on Bar-
ham Dawns, by Mr. Hawkins's b. h. Mr. Del-
mar's hr. h. and Mr. James Abbott's b. na.; the
liner of which was distanced; the other two
aifoule,l very excellent sport, and the plate was
won by the former.—lii the course of the afternoon,
a bye match was run by two horses, but, we la-
ment to sly, that, after they had gone over the
coil e, the loriag animal dropt down, and iustaotly
txilred.

POETRY.

THE KISS.
IMITATION OF •N ACRZON.
Eliza, kiss nie fasl.sad sweetly,
The peewit monieat is our own;
Tone, the spoiler, flies so fleetly,
Joy is past %samosa as house.
With more fervour love ! and warmer—
Hot so to; ly—oot so rola—
Youth and Love kiss thu., my chamber,
Chill caresoce leave the uW.

Now, whet' tune mud tide tutting,
Tempt Os to eistatic blob i
Let us, lips to lips unitime,
Brest\ our wolf iutu Ma kiss.
Sweet delirium ! warmly throlliug,
Tam' my veiws II feel it roll ;
tueast sit► panful pleasure filling,
While is rapier. swim* ley well. TEUTHA.

Thursday*. Ma'arra, the Dukes of Yount
and Canaan/ill, riiiiCONIRS AUGUSTA and So—
PIIIA, took On siring iu Windsor Great Park, ac-
coinumtied by Lords Sr. HELIX'S and ARDEN.
General. DaBUDR and Fs rzaus, Colons' T•IN
LOA, end Lady CAROLINA COLLI6I4 and returned
,to the Patter at twelve o'clock.

The Duke of CLARE ems left Windsor on Wed-
ne.day evening, and the Dukes of Sussex and
CUMBERLAND, so Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Saareinneou arrived in town, about a week
since, from Southampton, where be has been resi-
dent fur the- last four months.
The last arm/141A et Cheltenham ere
The Earl of Suffulk, Dowager Lady Doually, Lally Hare.
wood, Lady Lucy Erskine, Lady Teresa Deane, Sir John
11)1elliore sad Lady Smith, Sir Wm. Oakeley, Hon. Captain
Duncan, R. N. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, Ham. Mr. and
Mrs. Trench, Geo. Mathew, Hon. Col. Plunkett and family,
Gee. Erskine, Major-Gen. Disney, Major-Gen. Sherri tt, Ma-
jor Gen. and Mrs. Maxwell, Cul. Macdonald, Colonel end
Mrs. Mitchell, Col. Barry, Cul. Drumusund, Major D'Arey,
Major and Mrs Daniell, Major O'Brien, The Most Rev.
the Dian of Christ-Church, Rev. Dr. Bendy, Dr. Fitton,
Dr Bros ae, Or. Julia Jalaill.,ol, Rev. Richard sod Mrs. Rolfe,
Pas. Mr. Hohmann, Rev J. V.s.sse, Rev. R. H. Asher, Rev.
I. M. Twins; Rev. Mr. and Mai Brunton, Capt. Bowyer,
p M'il ti.ms, pt. Moh wr, Capt. Deadbeat., Capt. Honey,
Capt. Julonson.

On Tors,.lay. the 27• h Mora the foundation of
ti.aCastie of KiLitman, belonging to Captain Mait-
l.n.d, was laid, in pi esence of James Gil leseie. Esq.
architect, Edinburgh. attended by a large party of
Isdiss and gentlemen, residing in the town and
relhhoiirhood, besides w vast coucourse of specta-
tars, collected from this place and the surrounding
c Lary. A masonic procession, which was very
clowning and respectable, assisted by the band of
tie Cum, or lid Regiment of h•tfeshtre Local Mi-
b,iss proceeded bum their IMhe, precisely at
3 o.do, k, and reached the scite in about half an
hos: afterwards. lieveiol gold, silver, and copper
e; .s, ail of the reign of Ills 'mascot. Nlajestvi along
won a ropy of rde Edinburgh Evening Courant,
sal of on Edinburgh Almanack for the year 17110.
",rle inc!o•ed within a glass 'phial, hermetically
*Wed. and deposited in a stone. The ceremony
441 concluded with a solemn and appropriate
flyer, delivered by the Mew. George Campbell,
1.1. U. Senior Minister of the borgli. The
leP;.,ietor, accompanied by s number of his
rn.i.,ls, assembled in the Crown Inn. win-re they
P't.•nk of a sumptuous dinner, given iu honour of
The utmost festivity and conviviality pre.
; a variety of imitable anal constitutional
loots were drunk during the evening. The curs-
P-ay separated ■t a late hour, deeply impressed
anh those sentiments, naturally inspired by sn.•h
,ssession. This strum ores when 6.tishrd, will
oue of the largrat and most magnificent seats
im the county; built upon a consincuuus and an
ell ,iterl situation, it will embrace a prospect, truly
eoiniinic and delightful, extending from beyond
Lomond hills ow the west, to below the ws.rr
ou the east, comprising a distance, exce
leelity miles. •

Sc,.. decree sit ellastris.
1 h.. cantle, with du every tarry, aad eirenr‘ima.
W4ll. (foss succecdttig wats. czciie be t auLotto Abon

SPORTING lIITELLIGENCL
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, Inn.
THURSDAY, •tra t. 46.
Gen. Grosvenor's R entaquin, est. beat 141 F. Bentincl's
Ai mole, 7,4 I Ills..—Twoir obi Connie, 25p.
5 to 4 agst. Ramequin.
IA Saukville's Deceiver best LA Grosvenor's Plover. sit.
71b. each —Ab. M. stoup.
610 4 on Deceiver.
Major Wilson's Juniper, est. elb. beat Ld Seckville's Bus-
tard, est. 71b.—Acrues the Flat, loons.
_ .

S to 4 00 Juniper.
Mr. Wilson's Cambric, 7al. :lb. beat D. of Grafton 's Char-
eo4l4 SM. dlb.--.TWO•yr. old Course, sore.
Even beitlim on Cambric.
Produce Sweepstakes of -20ogs each, h. R. colts, sst. Ib. ;
fillies, ust. D. M.
Mr. Luke's c by Sorcerer
Sir F. Standish's e. by Mr..Tessle
Mr. Lake's f. Miss Hob
Mr. Northey'sf. by Sorcerer pd
Mr. Lake's I (dead) by Sorcerer
4 101 as Mr. Lake's illy.
_ _

A Subscription Plate of snl. fur 3-yr olds carrying 611. 71h. ;
3.yr 01.14 Wit. Mb. ; 4-yr olds Oat. MU,. ; Syr olds gut 416.;
6-yr olds and aged oat olh. D Al.
Mr. Watson's gr c. liinhaliire Grey, 3 yrs old 1
LA. Jersey's b. e. Jeremy, 3 yrs. old g
Mr. Ginldard's ob. f. by Sorcerer, g yrs old • 0
Mr. Iltiworik's b. f Angiolisi, 3 yrs old •
Mr. Lakes h. c. Carillsk 4 yrs old
Ld Groovenues eh t Aatunia, g yrs old o
Mr. Ehres's b. e. O. P. I yrs old
Capt. Halfendeles ch. c. Sir Edward, 3 yrs old ... 0
Mr. Donveries b. e. Discount, 4 yn old o
Mr. Cravat's b. c Itramlenbargli, 4 yn old
Mr. 5i11V4114.• br. e. Auctioneer, 4 yrs old
D. of Grahou's bl. f. Charcoal, 4 yrs old dr
Mr. G. Boast's b. f. Gratitude, 4 yrs old . .... dr
The Judge could plies bat a. • "-- --
sto 1 agst. Yorkshire Grey-5 to a kgst Jeremy-5 to-I
agst. Antonia.

Sweepstakes of sags each. D. I.
Mr. Vansittart's Burteigb, sat. nib..
Sir W. W. Wynne's Mademoiselle Presle, sat. 71b. I
Ld Jersey's Laurette, dst. sib 3
IA F. Beutinek's Persian, 7st. Mb. pd
2 to 1 apt. Burleigb.-.Eves bettiog as Mademoiselle
Preele.

Sweepstakes of toots eaeb, b. ft. Ist. 41. Ab. M.
Mr. Ladbroke'. e. Mr. Edward ree. ft.
IA Lowther's e by Wetter Pd
Ld Jersey's e by Sorcerer
Sit C. isesbery's b. f by Whiskey, rec. A. from Mr. Thorn-
hill's b. t by Harabletosioa, oat esels.—Twoir oW Course,
mop. h. ft.

RAPORT
FROM CONMITTSIS ON SIOLVNRAD ROADS •ND

HAIIS,WIL

(Ordered, by the Home of Onnsams, to be printed, alit
Mardi, Ism)
The Coin 11l i l tee appointed to inquire into the
state of the road front Shrewsbury to Holyhead ;
into what itaproveinenhs or alterations may be de-
sirable and practicobh- therein for the convenience
of travellers; and into the state of the funds arising
from the turnpikes thereon, and their expenditure;
and to report the same, with their observations and
opinion thereupon, to the House ;--and who were
instructed to extend their inquiries to the road lead-
ing from Chester to Holyhead ; and also to consider
the state of Holyhead harbour, the sums expended,
and the sums necessary to complete the same ;
have, pursuant to the Order of the House, exa-
aniued the matters to them referred ; and have
agreed upon the following Report :
Your Committee, ceasing the comparative
im-
portance of an inn:abate Report upon that port
of their instructions which requires them to con-
sider u. the state of Holyhead harbour, the slims
expended, and the sums necessary to complete the
same," have turned their more immediate atten-
tion to those objects, and having made such inqui-
ries therein as appeared to them necessary ; find,
That in the seveion of 1808 a grant was made to
His Majesty by Parliament of a sum of 10,0001.
towards improving and securing the said harbour :
That no part of that sum has been expended
upon the harbour
That with a view to facilitate the intercourse be-
tween London and Dublin, as well as for the pro-
tection of vessels navigating the Irish Channel,
your Committee are of opinion that much im-
provement is requisite and practicable in the har-
bour of Holyhead :
That, according to the plan and estimate of Mr.
Renoir, annexed, the expenses attending such im-
provements will amount to the sum of sixty-seven
thussund eight hundred and sixty-two pounds ;
which sum your Committee are of opinion will be
necessary to complete the same:
That it will be requisite that a Bill should be in-
troduced into Parliament for the purpose of carry-
lug into execution and effecting the iniprovetneuts
necessary.
--
ESTIMATE _ _

Of the probabk expense74l;idding• Pier at Holyhead. ex-
tending 6:14 feet beyond the Perc►, mad formiim a swt,
and excavating part of the interior harbour, agieeably to
the plan proposed by the Elder snares of the Trinity.
House of Deptford Woad.
To i 590 rubm yards of masauryons %web Rock, L. s. d.
245
To 750 ditto, 2im 750
1 o 76;0 rabic yards of masonry, as on inside
quay of Jetty, aOs 11,505
To 20,099 cubic yards of rabbis lilliag,
mi. Cal 3,643 12
To 67,40 cubic yards of • larger Mae of rub-
bk, for semi& stone. so 16,017 10
To 26,474 cubic yards oaf cuwriog, M. 10,329 1.2
To lA, cubic yards of mown, eat —
To 2,336 cubic 'awls of paring, 45 5407 3
To earnests bar quay wall MOO
To 25,1014 cubic yards of earth is mishualaneat
for mad to be taken out of the harbor, gs. a,5 to
Tu 5,940 cubic yards of rubble stuns bar stops
of ditto, 35. 641 6.9 10 -.
To forming read aerials • tow poem of I•ad by
the Customhouse too
To 12,340 cubic yard* of sassiug for rued on
the west end of the barboor,
- .

To i,os•• collar yards of rubble stone for *kora
of ditto sod road, 3s 14d -
Parchuse of Salt Islasid and hod foe road .•••• • 3.500
Cunt toe %Kies

L 67,86* - -

The celebrated PAUL haw FIELD, who is said t
ha e atoll hat.-ly at Paris in indigent circumstances,
was a native of Cheltenham. His family was re-
spectable, but ant rich: His father was a builder,
;and, amongst other hostiles erected by him, was the
large house in that town, used by Miss MUSICIAN as
a buiarding-house ► he was ■ man of considerable
mechanical ability, and there are some of his tables
stall Rana' ig in that neighbourhood, of very in-
genious workmanship. On PAUL. BENVIELP.S re-
turn from India, wine years ago, he was supposed
to posses', near half a million sterling.

To ea' EDITOR of The BRITISH PRESS.
Slit—The important and interesting •Report of
the Lords' Committee of Secrecy,. ',WU:shed in
your Paper of t24tli 61,4. dildote* infr.r.nation on
the sith.fret of the Bank of England mid Country
Banks, that deservix the rat-talon of the public.
The Order in Council of the 21/ It of February,
1797, end the-subsequent Acts of the
which have restrained the Batik of England re.iii
paying their notes in specie, alyear„ from this It. -
port, to have bean mewnirt a of ex peal ency. diet ,red
by the peculiar state of this minor v, owl of
on the breaking out of this eventful war.
was threatened by the French, and the alaim or
seeing the Sams-Culotta landed on our shores, to
hoist the red flag on the dome of the Bunk of
land, caused the timid and the ignorant to call for
extraordinary supplies of pecie, to hoard, its a re-
source in the last extremity of danger ; to this ef-
fect, of what I ever considered its an alarm un-
worthy of my countrymen, wits added, tit the mine
time, the real and pressing want of specie from the
failure of some Country Banks, the circulation of
whose notes hail spread over the North of England,
to a very considerable extent ; and the vacancy cc-
califmril by their being suddenly withdrawn
the great wheel of int. rind exchange, ill which
they had been the principal spokes, it was mice.-
sary to fill with other materials ; and the demands
erf the country for specie seem to have ev:erded
the anprftfee sf the precious metals.
Mr. Thornton observed (and it is self-evident)
that, in proportion as the commerce of the country
increases, a greater capital is necessary for (Wry tog
it on ; and it is no dubious proof of snereu.ing
commerce, that time number of Bills for navigation%
and canals, passed in the lour years preceding the
war, was thirty; the number passed during the
four years of the war, was sixty-nine—more than
double in number; and further, that the .um au-
thorised to be borrowed for Junking these canals
and navigations, was in the first four years
2,377,2001. ; and in the last period 7,4150001 ;
which is more than three times the amount of ca-
pital employed for the conveyance of produce sad
manufactures.

I may venture to assume, that, as the commerde
of the country increases, and requires a greater ca-
pital for carrying it on, there will also be required
more currency for the purposes of exchange; ■nil,
as tar as analogy may be admitted to Illustrate, the
increase of canals, navigations, and inclosures, im-
plies an increased demand for money, in paper or
specie. On this principle it may he argued, that,
in the year 1797, there was a real increase to the
demand for money to carry on an increasing trade ;
an actual defalcation in the supply of currency, from
the failure of the Newcastle Banks.and thealarmists'
(of all others most urgent) demand for specie; un-
der these circumstances, it was judged expedient
by the Government of the country to interfere, and,
as the most obvious means of preventing the fur-
ther spreading of these mischief,, to make the
notes of the Bank of England legal payment; there-
by only confirming, by authority, the credit which
the responsibility, solidity, and actual property of
the Corporation. had already acquired and de-
served; a claim which I know no reason to die.
regard at present, as their responsibility is mina-
paired, sad their property considerably increased;
that doubts of the flank's ability to meet all their
engagements are confined to • few, I judge, from
the gre6t advance in the rim of Bank Stock, and
the increase of their annual dividend ; the latter
justifying. and the former expressing more forcihly,
than any language I can use, the firm, untbaken,
and increasing confidence of those most compe-
tent to judge, and most interested in judging right.
It appears from the pamphlet of Sir Philip Francis.
K.B. that the price of Bank Stock, in 1797. was
U 271; in 1809. ISO ; and that the dividend has
been raised from 7 to 11 per cent. besides sundry
bonnsses. I cannot admit these. nor consider any
other circumstances that have yet bent stated, as
symptoms of insolvency.
It has beeu lately contended, that, notwithstand-
ing the flourishing state of the Bank of England,
their notes are depreciated, and one Gentleman has
actually published, what he calls the per centage
of discount on Bank Notes, calculated on the price
of standard gold per ounce, the excess of which,
shove the mut price, is considered as an actual
disr.ount on paper : the calculation is made with
much ingenuity, and the table dots credit to the
industry of Mr. Mushet, but is by no means conclu-
sive ; the saute doctrine is asserted by Mr. Reseda.
in his pamphlet, entitled The MO Price of Brillion,
o Prof of the I lepreciation of Bask Notes, and is
adopted by tame of the Reviewers ; it is briefly
denied in The Gentleman's Megnsine, for Fe-
bruary. and combated more at length, in A De-
fence of Bank-Notes, by Mr. John Grenfell. The
arguments on both sides being before the public, I
will only add one, that has not yet been noticed. It
has lately been stated by a Member of Parliament,
that the number of British ships employed in trad-
ing to the ports on the Continent of Europe, ■re
only two thousand, while the foreign vessels
amount to more than four thou-and ; the latter
prefer gold and silver to any other commodities, en
account of the facility with which these metals pass
the Foreign Custom-houses, where British menu-
(miners and col 'al produce are prohibited ; or, if
they return is ballast, they will at least take their
freialit on spec e. This, which is one of the evils
of the present CHI N tni tour war, contributes to en-
hance the price of gold.
It appears, from Mr. Grenfell's Defence of
Bank-notes that there was no considerahle advance
ou geld, till some time after the exchanges between
London ■nd Amsterdam, Ramburgh and Paris.
had fallen below par. It is well known to every
Merchant on the Royal Exchange, that excessive
it•pwnations of produce from the Baltic, and of
corn and wine from France, occasioned the falling
of the Course of Exchange with those places. To
those who argue, that the unfavourable state of
Foreign Exchanges. is owing to the alleged de.
preciation of our currency, there is an answer,
which, I think, every unbiassed mind will deem
sufficient, in the actual advance which has taken
place in the Course with Hamburgh. during the
time this question has been under discussion ; that
Course, ethic!). in October last, was sm. Gd. is 31s.
per pcund sterling, in the present mouth of April ;
and, I will venture to predict, that, as our debts
due to the Continent for foreign merchandise ins-

port. d, see glidingly oriseheresda the Coarse of
Exchange will continue!. advance towards the intr.
without any reference to the circulating mediu.o of
the auuniry, whether it be in metal, or notes of the
Bank ~f F.ogland.
The superabundance of paper, which is noticed.
with mach poti,t, by Sir Philip Framie, is inaltra.
stated, without any ground bei :g anig. ed, on
which it (WI ap!:e.r how ruttii•!l the amount ex swim
the progressive demands of yeti interim' coanneice:
nor is this complaint, if fouvde 1 in fact, mute
legaine,t the Bank of England, than islca.n..t the rin
meruns pne or batiks, now estelilistirti in every town
in the kingdom, which are out all entitletl. to the
Sallie deg'''e of credit, nor all conducted with i:.e
acute discretion.
__l sin. Sir,

Your obtdieut Servatit,
Lumlors, April J 7. MLIRCATOIL.

/AVIJLST

An Imiuritt was held. )e,terday, at the Catch
and Ilur.co., is St. Martin's-lane, by AMTMOKY
CELL. Esq. on the body or Mrs. Anna;#4..ria
Ken.,rrley. whn died ea l'utuday laetA in Cause.
ti,iieuce of being dreadfully burned at her Wage id
St. Nlartin's-cunrt.

Mr. Rohert Rowney, a Cl.'rk to Mr. Reinterley,
...lid, that lie slept on the ground-floor ;0.1 Tuesday
morning last, about half-past one o'clock, he was
awak-bed by some noise in the house ; the witness
ran up stair.,and, between the first and second floor
stairs, he met Mrs. kennerley, who was running
down with her clothes on tire, sod .he excietuird,
tt Robert, assist vie." The MittICIM went into the
rim fluor back-room to get some clothes to wrap
round Mrs. Kennerley, who followed him into the
room ; out finding ally thing, he attempted to get
up the draiving-ruout carpet, but it was nailed to
the fluor ; then with his hands he tried to extin-
guish her clothes, which were burning very rapidly,
in the attempt he berried one of his hands; he
next ran down stairs to get the counterpane off
his bed, and ran again up stairs with it ; he met
Mr. Benjamin Ford, who had been *binned by the
noise ; he desired him to take the counterpane, SA
to go and wrap it round Mrs. Kenner!. y. The
witness opened the street-door, and called in some
persons that were passing at the time, and desired
them to render assistance; they went up into the
second floor bed-romn, and found one side of the
bed in flames, which they extinguished. There
was a cluitilestick close to the bedside; there was
no candle to it; it appeared to have been burnt
down to the socket ; the witness sent for Dr. Tho-
mas, and also to Hitomrimith, to inform Mr.
Kennerley of the melancholy accident. The wit-
ness afterwards went up, and assisted Mrs. Ken-
nerley down stairs, and laid heron his bed. Sbe
did not give him •Ity acconnt how the accident
happened, and appeared perfectly sensible, mad
in dreadful agony : the akin was completely
off her hands, and several parts of her body
face was also very much scorched.
Mr. George Benjamin Ford said, he was a sibiptios -
man to Mr. Kennerley ; on Tuesday morning 411
he ass awakened by the smell of fire and some seise
in the house ; be ran down stairs undressed, and met
Mr. Borgne,' on the first stairs. who gave hint a coun.
terpene, and told him to go into the first floor beds
room, and throw it on Mrs. Keunevley, while
he went to call assistance; the witness found Mrs.
liennerley on a mattresas 014 MAUI tin tie Ali kead
there being no other bedding in that room ; he
wrapped the counterpane round the deceased, and
extinguished the fire; she appeared to him rely
much burnt, but did not speak. A gentlewoman
entering the room to resider assistance, the witness
went up into the second floor, to see if the flee was
out; part of the bed clothes had been burnt, and
some clean linen was on the bed, and a candlestick
was by the bed-side, burned qnite black.
Dr. Thomas said, on Tuesday assuming last, be-
tween two and three o'clock, he came to Mr. lien.
Heeler's house, in St. Martin's-cotrt, and found
Mr...Kennet ley on a bed on the ground floor ; she
was consplaining of excessive Laic; upon examina-
tion. be found she was dreadfully burned in the
trunk and upper extremities. It was very clear that
her death was inevitable. mid lie directed his atten-
tion to give her present relief. She expired about
five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. The
deceased was perfectly sensible, and as knowledged
the great attention that had been paid to herby every
one present.—This Jury returned a Verdict
//tridental Death.

On Monday, the 16th instant, the following
Gentlemen, Graduates of the Unive►sity of Erbil-
borgh,tvere elected Members of the Royal College
of Physictsne, of London :—Doctors Tuos. BROWN.
G. DENT. W. MAson, B. F. 04TRAM. We
Bkomibr.

At the Anniversary Sermon on behalf of the Aey-
lum for the Deaf and Dumb, which was preached
on Sunday last, in Bow Church, Chrapside, by
the Reertend Dr. GISRILARD ANDFEWS, Dean
of Canterhitry, before his Royal Highness the
Duke olGfoticcsrea. the Lord Mayon, and She-
riff'. of London, sod a crowded congregation; inch
was the effect of hi• eloquent and affecting dis.
c•.uree, that the collection after service 'amounted
to upwards of 1501.
The Bile), lox hunters, last week, presented a
very elegant silver cup to Mr. J. East.ll, fir the
mastetly style in which he has conducted the Iw•x•
den hounds for the last nine years, having it,lled
more foxes each season than any pack of hounds to
liekiogdota, having hunted only twice a week.
A young math residing at Fulford, near York.
last week atrended the execution of a wo;pai►.la.l
four raw" for foreery in that etiy, and sews so af-
fected by the 18,4 fisl :.tottr, that he went .beimir
hang.-d hems, If io his en.v-hnti.e.

The new Low°ln post-coach was robbitt ht.t week me:
between Prterbornuieh D.eporg. The gam • on.
hatopenutu to he on the toech•in.% w tit the CU 'LI/. ill
man. a man not up be.nud, and cot the rope, by
:i•
wheels the luag.m« we. fastened on the t.it ; when,
mowing alter the eonch to catch wavy Mao* as it - • -
dropped; hr we- ,hscovreed by s parortmer benning, •• •
sumo of the lugtvg.• Gal,. One truol, •cutibeining
property to a oui.oterai•le an:nicht. ltelottgmiL 111
t4,,enger, was found tin e.t morning in a teen Ise
two hn:s, emt far from the soot, with thot-ottout
k•.ocked nut and the coottota gene.

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S! RANCIg BURD Arr.
41411410X611 11l TUB TOWER.
The Address edit Freeholders of Middlesex, in furl
County assembicrl.

Stn—With the name of Hampden, conseciated
to the eternal gratitude awl veueration of English-
men, for having resisted the illegal exercise of
power by a Kea g, the present and future ages will
couple the nine of Burdett, for having resisted au
illegal exercise of power by a House of Commons
To you 'we are indebted fur having caused dis-
cossioos 'which have done honour to our age and
ration: but such a variety of principles base beer)
shaken in the strange proceeding*, against you, that
the extent of our obligations to you, first, for your
constitutional doctrine, and then for yuur resisting
the violators of our Constitution, cannot as yet be
estimated. We trust the obligations will prove
beyond all estimate; as we trost they matt termi-
nate in a restoration of that viola' ed Constitution.
Whatever, Sir, may he the prostitution within
certain walls, whatever may he the profligate abuse
and pvenlation of office, we inky, however, congra-
tulate. our country, that she has yet abledefenderaof
her rights, who, with you, are rallying around our
two-fold Constitution : a Coustittition that hath nut
only a law, which is 4. the perfection of reason ,"
but whenever that law may meet with lawless oppo-
sers, Moth also " a sword of its own," without need-
ing to horrors soy other, native or foreito, for the
sure awl resistless enforcement of that law.
Inquiry, Sir, is now awake, anti at work. Rea-
son, founding stark nn constitutional principle, bath
now to decide, whether, for ritherkeeping the peace,
or for enforcing any process of English Law, recourse
ought to he ultimately had to the county power, or
to the standing mane : that is, shall the pripleomil
the law of England, be upheld by tile vitt: power,
or by a military force ?
It is in fact to be decided, whether Goverieninits
(whatever tie their form, or their current deournims-
timi) are not el.:linable to be cisd governments, or
military governments; that is, free st rtes, or despot-
isms. as they shall ultimately resort, for exectitioutif
their laws, to the civil poser, or to a military force?
Time county power of England, which his been
aptly called the martial brooch of the Constitution,
is yet strictly a civil power, hieing conipased of free
citizens only : whereas the stooling army is wholly
a militiry force, composed of " soldiers;" who,
Com the nature of the military law to which they
are subject. are not free citizens; arid, according to
Sir IV. Jones, " in fact no more than iustruments
io the hands of their commauders."
When (as remarked by Blackstone) the Laws
and Constitution of t::is kingdom, know no such
state as that of a permenal standing soldier;" awl
when (as observed by Sir W. Jones) the power of
the county includes the whole civil stage. from the
Duke to the peasant ; while the military state, as
such, forms 110 part of that poser, being ler a
different command, and " subject to a different
law ;" must it not follow, that the law cannot be car-
ried into execution by the standing army ? that be-
tug an instrument it does not know, au instrument
" under a different command," aid " subject to a
different law."

And when Blackstone. concurring with num-
laerlt sr writers of highe4 authority, and with every
intelligent Ilion's reflection, abet remarks, that,
a land of liberty it is estremely dangerous to make
a distinct order of the profession of arms;" and
likewise adds, " in absolute monarchies, this is ne-
cessary for the saf,ty of the Prince, and arises front
the main priticipl.l of their Constitution, which is
that of governiirr by fear ;" will it be possible,Sir,
a:iy longer to doul,t,' that it is the design of Nit-
'misters to bring us under an uabsoliite monarchy,"
especially when we shall combine together all their
arts, and all their practices, to that end ? Do we
mot hear our English Government, by Nlinisters, by
Court Lawyers, and by all abettors of arbitrary
power, perpetually called a monarchy; which is a
Government wherein one man's will is the law ?
Do we not hear our King as constantly stykal •
Monarch ? And. ever since the dreadful riots in
1780, when Sir Wiliam Jones took oacasion to com-
plain that our county power had been shame-
fully ne4lected, and ought to be restored to full vi-
gour and energy," hue not that county power, from
that day to this—now thirty sears, continued in the
gator. shatnefully-netlected condition, unorganized,
unarmed, untrained ? And for what conc,ivable

season can there have been this shameful neglect,
but that it ;night he divested of all power and re-
spect, and then, as a thing useless and coincinpti-
ble, be a holly superseded in the quelliug of riots?
Aid have we not accordingly seen, on all occasions,
the standing army officiously and ostentatiously call-
ed forth,on every frivolous disorder in the streets, as
well as uniformly paraded and held M readiness
svhenever the people are to have meetings on public
atfairso4 that the nation, governed by fear," may
quietly yield to .‘ absolute monarchy ?"
If, Sir, we be correct in our conception of the
county power, it is as old as the Constitution and
common law, and vital to our lihcrtics.
The etanding army is a novelty of yesterday ;
and alien not constitutionally over-bohnced by the
county power. •• ii full vigour and enero." must
be dangerous in the extreme to public freedom.
A county power is the sword in the hand of the
nation, regulated by the ordinary law of the land.,
Its sole object, self-preservation ; that is, the pre.
serration of law and liberty.
A standing army is the sword in the hand of the
Dlinister ; and we have recently seen how prone Mi-
nisters are to find other objects for this sword, than
those which should scene to be its only legitimate
ones, namely, offensive war abroad, and defence
of external possessions; because, a species of force
which is a comparative novelty, both in principle
and premier, with our Government, as well as ut.
terlv unknown to " the Laws mid Constitution,"
never could have had, for its object, the defence of
our island; which, as already Aeon, was most
amply provided for defence in the original institu-
tion of our Government ; since all the county
powers collectively, must amount to far more than
a million cf men able to hear arms, and willing to
defend their King, their country, and their Consti-
tution. The conquests of the standing army abroad,
ought only to be over our enemies. Its conquests
at home, if it he to obey the will of Minister% and
to have its *paranoias duetted by the analogy of

time-serving lawyers, can only be over our laws and
libel ties.
We would, therefore, Sir, gladly know, why Mi.
Meters and Parliament do not, in obi &mice to the
Con►titution, suit iu the honest perform ',see of
their own duty, rt store to full vigour and energy"
the t °may power, which, in dn.! very itifiney of
its organization, by the immortal Alfred, freed
England of inv.:dent, who had mastered half the
counties, or COOlterted those invaders into peaceable
arid loyal subjects;
And we would also gladly hear the IPPINOII% why
Ministers and Parliament, while 'legit eting u duty
so obvious and so imperious, spare neither pains
itor expense—an expense paid by the people—fur
adding to oar %lint native strutting army, another
numerous standing army of Gentians, Sicilians,
French:Portuguese, and other foieigu mercenaries;
seeing, ut the same time, that France is en strong
by laud, we cannot annoy her by offrierve war; mid
so weak by set, she cannot evert alarm our external
pos,ecssions in any part of the globe!
A comity power, although the r•sistless arm of
the late. 11-1114 yet a free part MA Irre COMM *ty,
roust kaow, that, to violate law, would he to violate
its own liberty; cud must ever be alive to the feel-
hog, that, to preserve the common liberty, must be
the first and most sacred of its duties.

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Concerning a standing army, as acute writer
task+—" Is it nut possible, 11iGt these keeue•ra •,
mini 'any come to resemble those of a serlgTM, and
tilte the very name of libery, when totally deprived
of their own ?" And " a standing army." it has
been remarked, "ever has converted, and ever
must convert, then into machines. 'rhe individuals
01 a atandiug army, whed they receive orders, east
away the judgment, the mural discref arid the
will of rational beings. Obedience with them is
the law end the prophets ; and he that gives the
order, they think, is the only person answerable
for it."
Should England's liberties survive the s-pled
establishment of a stsn'aing army, elle le ill Inc the
only country on earth, a 11164 to that pradicaineitt,
ever remained free. 'Ellis, as yet unseen, pheno-
menon—the co-existence of a standing army, and
liberty—it doubtle.4 is in her power to exhibit to
the *dinning eyes of mankind ; but it can only be
effected by restoring to full vigour and energy her
county power. That once done, the standing
army would no longer he nn Object of fear and
jealousy; but must thenceforth be viewed hr the
amiable light of a body of inert, devoting themselves
to the interest and glory of their country, in all her
foreign services.
Igilorant and weak P-11, imposed on by the
crafty, and the knavish, are might to believe, that
the civil power of England is inadequate to the
quelling of riots. lint what 6,ys that faithful ex-
pounder of the law, that " most enlightened of the
sons of men," Sir William Jones ?

" Ilasiiig shown," says he, " the nature and ex-
tent of the posse romeitatmose, and proved that it is
required by law to lie equal in its exertion to a v. ell-
disciplined army, I hove established the proposition,
which I undertook to demonstrate, that the eons.
mon and 'statute laws of the realm, in force at this
day, give the civil state in every county is power,
which, if it were perfectly understood owl conti-
nually prerared, would effectually quell any riot
or iiienrcroion, without ,assi*taitee from tilt mili-
tary, and even without the modern riot set." .

And tont v.ito bet c.tefully trod in the steps of
Junes, Inns also shorn. that •• Uu internal trunquil-
lity, which nothing could di.turl., would be issitultur
happy ellrct of reviving the constitutional system of
our ionceNtors. An Untied power of the county,
every where present, constantly ready et the tell of
the in:igi.drate, and abundantly able to crush all
relistaticr, must have the eltuct of preventing tu-
mult, winch a standing army can only quell:'

In 1791, " while soldiers were quartered at York,
rioters razed to the ground the houses of Magis-
trates at Sheffield; while were stationed ut
Nottingham, rioters set Birmingham in flames."—
This conflagration made a feature in the reign of
terror, in support of the Minister, Pitt; and was
effected by a rubble of miscreants, bellowing
" Church and King," as similar rabbles have more
recently, in the service of another Minister, vocife-
rated " No Popery!" and, during the blinistry of
Lord North, while the country was full of soldiers,
" the capital was in flames, and at the mercy of the
veriest brutes that ever bore human shape." Such
is the protection of a standing army ! Bat, if it were
better, who would purchase it at the loss of libe(ty,
at a surrender to Military despotism ! If the stand-
ing army be native, whet most the men of it feel,
when either, on ocoosion of petty riots, obeying
orders, and shooting their contrrymen and comps-
Mims—perhaps their fathers and brothers, or wo-
men and quiet tradesmen in their shopes—or else,
for disobeying such orders, be liable to suffer death
by martial law ?

Against the light which the brightest lisminlry of
the age had brained ill meridian splendour on the
s.ibjert of the comity power, proving it to be
equally our sure, as :',ur legal.' protection, whether
as.ailed by rioter., with their mud, their stones,
and their torches; sir by • Napoleon, with his
plaits, his KiiigA, and his legions, Ministeis, and
Parliaments, with a perverseness and obstinacy,
which have but one explanation, have inflexibly re.
fused to their country the benefit of that light, or to
adopt a " legal mode of suppressing riots."

Thirty year* long, therefore, have we felt the mi-
litary rod of an evil generation of statesmen,
lister, of light, and truth, ■nd liberty ; lovers of
darkness. &exit, and despotism ; who, in contempt
of proof and demonstration. have 24 absurdly as in-
cessantly Laboured to cause it to be believed, that •
standing army are legal keepers of the peace, and
that foreign mercenaries are a Colllllitutional and an
honourable defeuce !

To your patriotism, we shall have been indebted
;for a dircussion of these high questions, and all
that is collateral. To your firmness, we shall owe
much, very much. of the !benefits to he derived
from the inquiries which now occupy all minds.
We particularly thuuk you. enlightened coun-
tryman, for coutinuing your resistance to right the
point ; that is until your I e—M law your sacred
place of repose—was for..ed by military violence.
Had you sooner submitted. our oppressors would
only have b, en guilty of once more repeating the
stale and hackneyed illegality of keeping the peace

by military force. But yea have extorted from 1
ty rattily a manifestation of its latent wickedness.
This new stretch of arbitrary power, of elecuting
legal process against an Englishman. by military
force, is to he considered as the Ministers' procla-
mation, that we are =henceforth to consider ourselves
as living mulcr a military government, subject to
the law of anus, and to the dominion of the sword.
Here, Sir, is ample Witter for our comtemplation !
Is this the goal to which we have been led Ly Pri-
vilege!
f-'ad you, Sir, reeled beastly drnnk into the
House of Commons, made a Feandalous brawl, and
thrown a chair at the bead of the Speaker, it may
even be doubted whether yob would have incurred
more than a momentary ileplesistire, although the
dignity of the assembly might have required the
form of a reprimand.
Or, had you, as a base traitor to the Constitution,
even sold its seats by dozens at noon-day, some are
of cotillion, the profanation, although it might have
shocked the piety of the Speaker. might have Levu
pasoid over, even without inquiry.
Why then are yoo in the Tower ?—Our hearts
tell us, it is hes:wise you are Sir Francis Burdett—
because your pretence is imissful to the seat-selling
crew—because, to all trupriticipled factions, con-
tending fur movie soul vt.l, you are are a common
enemy ; one Who, equslly regardless of ins or of
."" I'4m neither to the right hand nor to the
left, but only straiAlit forward to the Constitution
and the liberties of your Country.
Imprisotx.ient, Sir, is not in itself enviable; but it
mos:— made so. To you, it is a just cause of exul-
tatrim. You tritinph. Your enemies only are de-
gilded. Intending to involve you In public odium,
they licensed you ofunconstitittional conduct, of vio-
leiter, and of shedding innocent blood. But odium
recoils : the false and feeble accusation has, by an
awful public voice, at which they tremble, been
hurled beck in thunder on themselves; and they
are universally pronounced nvtviers of the Consti-
tution, men of violence, men of blood. Endeavour-
ing to lower your reputation, they have doubled
the public confidence to your kaoil ledge, your
wii.dolus your integrity. Meaning punishment,
they hove ((inferred reward. Designing disgrace,
they have bi•stowed on you the the highest lionoor
in their gift—their own impotent malice !—But
paoiel•stricken, to shun danger, they rush on du-
stroction ; they saw not, that, in violating your
person, they were promoting your purpose; in
forcing you from your seat, they are forwarding,
your work; in the pros-cation of the reformer, they
were accelerating reform !
Infatuation thus frustrated all their counsels, fo-
reign or domestic. But what then ? It pleistoth
our borough-monger soveleigier that such men shall
rule the law. And are they not tit servants of
such master,,

ccept. illustrious countryman, once more, the
thanks of our hearts, together with our earnest
prayers to I le.tven fur your health ; that you may,
ere long, renew corer Poillutneutary eNertions, iti
ece•operation '4'411 the honest, among your htethren
of the 1-fouse. and all other good nien, toward: a
restoration of our two-fold Constitution,
for the salvation Gfottr roontry.

PROF/.\C/.IC 31 It ILETS.

GI.k3GOW, APRIL 17.

A•itt-A—No •Itaatiou.

CoFer e-1% ithom inquiry.
Celt rus—Very few sates have been snack to 'planers
they erbium venturing gutsily some Utau t. heerceary fur their
temsealiate consumption. A coasidvrable lot ot Perciambuceo
has bete sold at Itv
Dv swoons—llave hems in great demand A parcel of
35 tons Casspecwhy logscio.l, Asa been sold at about dol. acid,
for Jamaica, t9l. might have bean obtained, but ail. were
naked Some pretty large lucks have also been made of Cu-
ba rustic, at 211. acid ofhonaira, ■t lal. par time
Rum—With the eat eption of a few sales among the deal-
mw, nothing else has hero done, I the prices are nue:early,
SVC • 11-11 C sales continue very tr.d, and hue here
made at IP. la is. 6.1. reduction in former prices. Good and
hoc scale sugars might now he Minot at 775. and 795. and
good boiling qualities at 741. awl 7.;5. The quantity sold
last week imamate to 3la bopbeads nod tierces.
Toaacco—A parcel of es hogsheads, of inferior quality,
was lately sold at yd. the other sales which have been made
have brew chicly its siugle hogsheads.
BALTIC Paotabcg.—A considerable advance has taken
place, is Loudon, in the price of 11 AMP, in consequence of
the Gowernmeut contract ; and, by sweatier a from Leith, it
appears, that Ttit.r.ew likewise 111 again iuviied ter, au that
we are iaelined to expect a net teal of (tenoned there.