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London, England, 1804-09-14 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'. LIST.

tS n we, SU,. 12 —Paused by the Levant, Thrchn,
hem Gibraltar • St. Peter, Bowyer, from Gallipuly Fe.,; Si,
ewe, Host ,• &lid the Two Gesusters, Bordttn, from Nordm;
lIPOIP Hendrick, Lorelei, from Papitentungh ; Concordia. Pe
t eerian, from Tanni,sea ; 'Toby, BOW ;
sad Vie View Martha, Dawtosi, from Lear ; Columbus, tVeti-
Mom from Brem.rat ; Fonuna. Hanson ; Vrow Felt*. Jacobs
liCoroP ; Wiliam, Meyer; lio'nung, FON • Magdalena,
a.m.; Frew Hyknia, Jacobs; Two Brothers, Darla; and the
Teens Frederic. Cling, ftwai Eranden. Sailed the Alexander,
Wee. for New York ; Frienderheft, Mortz; and the Vrow
Arm, De News, for Embdera.

•avivito•
At Liverpool-4h. I.lans, Karon, from Barbados, ; Superb,
Lo oat, from Charleston; President, —, from Phila.
tielphis_, _. Oliver Elswortb, from New York; and the
Atha, M.Farlane from Nova bowie.
Al Amaterekto.—the Melpermeoe, Domburgb, from Now
Test

Qoebeo....the William and Sohn, from Liverpool.
At Aaltisoorr—doo Orb, Farley, from Liverpool.

'MAN MILITARY DISTRICT.

The following am the Brigade appointment for
the Severn Military Distriti :

lOW IR =Milt It It.
Meehiißj th• 'Cavalry and laraMtr.)
Or. *Awe. imp Field Clow. ilissi•Suarters.
MR goire . . 0.1. Trim' . . . . ladk.
0 Love amass I U.
flat. Tidier . . Col. Pales . . . .

INDRCISTIBUNIRD AND NIINEVONDSDIRE.
GM stn . 0611.Horsistest k liconstey Worcester.

111ttmot, 'Potent% AND OLAmmt GA pr.
est Lifter= . STIOITIICI Sc Slerkl..n Abergaveent.
miasmal., CARMARTHEN' AND PENIBROKE4IIIRE.
Gen. Gamy** . Col. Stewart . . . . 11“,,tordwest.

The marchwontes for the Volunteers in the shove
diitriet. in case of invasion. ere dons made out :
, Boseenet.andshe force in Gloucestershire, within
INN 'tap of Bristol, to march. upon Marlborough ;
meths remaining pat of Gloucestershire, upon
Burford.

The Southern Division of ilerefordshire (iaclud-
fmg the City Volunteers) by Ledbury, Tesesbury,
Cheitenbetts, aqd Frogmill, upon Burford ; and the
Atiosillosva Division (including the Leominster Corps)
My Woooester, upon Banbury.
Waseca's. and Radnor march by Sti.:tford, upon
ia` oath, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pembroke,
of Cardigan, t,i march by Gloucester—
c
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remaining part of Cardigan, upon Butfurd.
only of the establislinielit of each corps
di isbuitryiit• is be called upon to march out of
their respeeive distrids. The troops will be conveyed
:;:hezilily as
.possibk, by waggons, to Burford,
it is expelled, they will be torw.uded, in case
of necessity, by similar conveyances, to tbe neighbour-
hood of Loodon; and it is to be recommended, that
moth man be provided with provisions for two or three
say., biome theethould Us, • difficulty at first to ob-
tain a stifficient supply on the road, in consequence of
the number of troops m arching towards the same point.
11111 Yeomanry Cavalry of each county are to remain,
in the first instance, stationary ; or the patsole and
-eriber duties* police, assisting the civil power in
maiming intelligence, or colkcting carriages, and
escorting supplies.

Thihrrince Arta/Ass packet,• with the first July
Ma from England, arrived at Barbadocs on die
7th of August.
A letter from St. Andern, dated 13th August,
NON as follows :--44 The Brealw• French ship pri-
vateer %nil very soon sail on a N W. course."
J')m me., er,.„„„, .._....-, from Charleston, for
Liverpool, is pet into Virginia in distress.
Captain at? tacit, of the Brunswick, which has
jars arrived from the Brazils, has brought home
with him several rare natural c'iriusitics, both of
the feathered and finny tribes I aud particularly little
ma animals of a species reputed by experienced na-
turalists to be merely fabulous. They were found
lio the maw of a newly.caught dolphin., and answer
peacise/y in form to the piatire usually given of a
• set horse, having ezatily the bead, neck, mane.
filar paws. and hotly of:. horse, and lions the navel
downwards the tail of a ofish. They do not exceed
four or five inches in length.; and are, apparently,
else of some much larger animal. They are
in spirits, and intended, by Captain MA r-
umq as a present to the British Museum.

AMERICA.

FROM THE NEW YORE PAPERS.

NEW YORE, AUG. 7.
The following paragraph, taken from a Landon
Paper, appeared in The Moroi Chronicle of this
City, about a month ago.
A siN G V L A R Cr RCUMST ANCE.--" A pistol loaded,
was fired inadvertently agaii.s• a young woman, in
Manchester ; the ball struck against her breast, but
having a silk handkertihf on, it did her no other
injury than producing a violent contusion. 'this
produced the following wager; that a ball would
not penetrate a dog, if covered with a silk. handker-
chief —The trial w is made along shore, near Liver-
pool, a few days ago, with success; an , although re-
peated several times, produced no other effea than
bruising that part where the ball hit. Singular as
this may appear, we are assured by our• intotmant,
that it is a fast, z.nd that no ball will penetrate a
, body clothed with a silk garment."
We have an instance in our own city corrobora-
tive of these farts.

About a fortnight ago, several gentlemen went
over to Brooklyn to shoot at a mark for a trifling
wager. Mr. Sneiffelin, Druggist, in Pearl-street,
was one of the company. Ihe parties stood ten
paces from the target. Mr. Shieffelin had tired se-
veral times with accuracy. lie again took his po-
sition to fire. His pistol was loaded as usual, and,
while waiting for the word, hung pendant with th'
muzzle below the knee ; the ball, of course, was
not more than twenty inches from the font. In this
position the pistol was accidentally fire I. The ball
struck the top of the foot near the mule. Surgical
aid was obtained. Dr. But rows was the professional
gentleman sent for.
Mr. Sheiffelin had on ordinary ribbed white silk
stockings. On examining the wound, it was dis-
covered, that although the ball entered the foit,
about halt an inch, not a Bread of Me stocking was
broken! The impetus given to the b iU extended the
threads where it hit, but the stocking was as wholly
unbeaten as if the accident had not happened. The
part which the ball hit was forced into the foot, and
made a sort of bag for it. After separation from the
stocking by cutting, the piece (or the bag, if I may
so express myself) and the ball were taken out toge,
ther. I have now in my possession the part of tke
stocking which the ball struck, and which any one
may see by calling at the office. The circumference
of the ball is distinftly marked upon it; but within
this there is not the least fratiure of the stocking.
In a conversation which I had with Mr Sheiffelin,
on Saturday last, he told me that the pistol, when
the accident happened, had the usual charge of
powder ; he mentioned a middling sized thimble
full.

Dr. Burrows has the ball in his possession. The
netting and the ribs of the stocking are very distind-
ly impressed upon it. This is proof of the re-
sistibility of the silk. Now for the application of
these f 0141 S.

It is satisfaCtorily established that, previous and
subsequent to the acceptance of the challenge, Mr.
Burr w..s in the daily habit of shooting at a mark.
On the 4th July (after the challenge was accepted),
he dined with the Cincinnati Society, in company
with General Hamilton. There is every reason to
believe, that, before he left home in the forenoon of
that day, he prat iced shooting at a mask in his gar-
den. Every Member of the Society remarked,
when he entered, the austerity of his countenance,
which was preserved during the day. General Ha-
milton was chearful, and favoured the Society
with sever al songs.
Nothing can more clearly manifest the desperate
purpose of Mr. Burr than this daily practice, espe-
cially when we consider how sensible he mast have
been than General Hamilton was dragged into the
interview.

Mr. Burr, however, was not only intent upon cal-
culations of certainty as to the life of his antagonist,
but also as to the preservation of his own.
The extrra from the London paper above quoted,
in regard to the resistibility of silk, appeared in The
Morning Chronicle about ten drys previous to the
fatal interview. We know that Mr. Burr prialised
• hooting at a mark, but we arc not sure that The
Morning Chronic!. crotation was " into his
hands, and that lie tried the experiment of shooting
at silk, in order to ascertain how he could best pre.
serve himself from the ball of his illustrious vidim,
in case he flied. Fads, however, warrant conjec-
tures very unfavourable to Mr. Burr.
After the challenge WAS acc.. red, Mr. Burr wrote
a note to his tailor, Mr. Francis Davis, requesting
that he would make him a root (having already
the under garments of silk) by Monday evening,*
and adding, that unless it was then brought home
it would be of no are. as on Tweeday s nning fry four
o'clock be woo is leuvc loin ! Special directions
were given to make the coat unissoelly large. It
was made according to order; and delivered to Mr.
Burr on Monday evening. In this coat, which was
black, he killed Cen. Hamilton.

The public will reason upon these fails for them-
selves, and draw Lheir own inferences—l cAnnot,
however. conclude without expressing the satisfac-
tion I derive from the pmspen that the perpetrator
of this deo/ --ethoui es /bone, will in some sort be pu-
nished.

Deed, in Cambridge, America, on Mon.lay the
23d July, after a very long and gradual decay,
Stephen Sewall, Esq. F. A. A. and formerly Han.
cock Professor of Hebrew and other oriental lan-
guages. He was born at York, in the Distria of
Maine, in April 1734. His circumstances being
narrow, he was first taught the trade of a joiner, by
which he acquired the means to pursue his classical
inquiries. At the age of twenty-four, he was ad-
mitted a student of the University of Cambridge,
and pursued his literary course with unabating ar-
dour. After graduating in 1761, be remained a re-
sident graduate, and supported himself by teaching
the grammar-school in Cambridge. The place of
Hebrew iastruaor became vacant about that time
by the resignation of Mr. Morris. An American,
who had acquired a sufficient knowledge of I lebrew
to be qualified for an insertiOnr, was a phenomenon
at 'ha: time. Mr. Morris v.as a Jew of Algiers.
To the disedvantage common to all foreigners, there
was added a peculiar unhappiness in teaching. This
had sunk the reputation of Hebrew into a state of
contempt. Mr. Sewall undertook the task of reco-

• The dud wu twaght tut the baliewieg Walesaley.

Tering it. His grammar is exceedingly simple and
intelligible. His reputation rose with that of his
department, and when the late Mr. Hancock found-
ed a professorship for the Hebrew and other oriental
languages, W. Sewall was the unrivalled candidate.
He continued in this office above tvienty years. His
letinres were morsels of I..nglish compositim, and
the suavity of his disposition insured him the esteem
of his pupils: Orce only he was married. His wife
was the daughter of the first 1)r. Wrigglesworth,
and died a year or two before he lost his prefesmt.
ship. Mira that event he led a very retired life.—
He was early in the revolution, and continued a
warm friend to it. In 1777, he was honoured %ski'
a seat in the House of Representatives, by the elec-
tion of the town of Cambridge. To an elegant
taste in composition, of which specimens in several
languages have been published, he added a modesty
not only unassuming, but perhaps in some cases ex-
cessive. He died in his ilst year. His only child
died in infancy.

Died, on Sunday evening, of a cholera moan',
Major-General William Irvine, a distinguished and
alive officer during the whole of our revolutionary
contest. General Irvine bad a very early command,
and was on the Canada expedition, where his talents
and gallantry were very important, and occasioned
him to be consulted by the Commander in Chief
during the remainder of the war, on all the opera-
tions in the middle states. General Irvine was a
native of Ireland, and educated to the medical pro-
fession, which he had relinquished at the call of the
country he had adopted long before the revolution
General Irvine has held for some time the otlice of
Military Intendant, and had the charge of the public
arsenals. He died President of the Society of Cin-
cinnati of this state. But it is in those relations
which mark the man more than all the exterior ac-
tivity of the world, that General Irvine was most
estimable, as the faithful, virtuous, and affeaionate
husband, the fond and tender parent. In him nei-
ther disguise nor chicanely superseded the honest in-
tegrity of the heart; sincere in his friendships and
as sincere in his dislikes—he respeded none but those
he deemed worthy, and those he despised he shunned
in silence.

AUG. I.

The remains of the late General William Irvine,
whose death we noticed in our lest, were yesterday
interred in the ground of the first Presbyterian
church in Market-street, of which communion he
was A member. The funeral was con,' ccd under
the direaion of a committee of the ( i Lionati, and
was attended in a very numerous and respe3able
procession from his late dwelling in Eighth, into
and down Market street, where after an exhorta-
tion in the church, the body was removed and de-
posited in the family burial ground, with military
honours; the infantry corps commanded by Capt.
Lewis Rush performing the funeral honours.
The concourse of speaators was numerous, and
the more to be regarded, as it was the spontaneous
tribute of public feeling to the memory of public
services, and to the domestic •irtues of the deceased.

Minute suns were fired from the departure of
the procession to the interment—the attendance of
the militia officers of the Fitq Philadelphia division,
in uniform, was tsamerons : the officers of the fe-
deral and state governments, the city comicils,
diciary and law chara6ters, and the Cincinnati,
pretty generally attended the funeral.

CNAIILLSTON, JULY 11.
On the 28th ult. as Mr. Janes Harkness, of the
High Hills of Santee, was asleep in his bed, his
own negro, named Buck, deliberately, as appears by
his confession, levelled a gun, and shot his master
through the body. In order, as he thought, to
prevent suspicion, be made his way to the apart-
ment of a gentleman, who lived in the same house
with Mr. H. who expressed his surpisc at seeing
Irina, as he had been absent for three days, and en•
quired of him the caua of his coming ? he told him
that he heard the report of a gun in his master's
bed room, and was afraid that somebody bad shot
him. The confusion, and symptons of guilt in
the whole behaviour of the negro, warranted the
suspicion of several people, who witnessed the hor-
rid scene of Mr. Elarknesi dead, and drenched in
blood, as to put the negro to totture in order to ex-
ton confession, who, in his agony, declared himself
the murderer !

This inhuman monster was made an awful ex-
ample, and on the :loth suffered in the flames the
penalty of his guilt.

A gentleman well known as a cricket player, and
who fills a situation in the SCCaST•II If of STATIC'S
office, a short time since chanced to mix in company
with several gentlemen at an inn, who were to him
entire strangers. In the course of conyer cation,
friend, who was with him, happened to mention
his name, which immediately attraSed the atten-
tion of a gendeman present, an attorney, who po-
litely asked, Whether he had an noel,: in Anseric t
To which he answered in the affirmative, with the
addition, this he had nr4 heard of him for many
years. After several further enquiries, i: appeared
that the uncle in America had amassed a large for-
tune, and although only known to his nephew by
name, had bequeathed the whole of his property tt)
him, and that this attorney had been employed two
years in a fruitless search, till accident bad brought
the parties together. The gentleman and the at-
torney have now sailed for America, to take pos-
session of the property.
A letter from Captain Cr, ant, of the Ames kiln
ship Loo'io, which arrived at l'o;ladelphia, .!•
states, that during his stay at st. Domingo, toire
appeared off the harbour three British frigate', with
flags of truce, viz. the Baidpice, Captain Mi air;
the Piple, Captain Ross ; and the Fraurhisc, Capt.
Moat AY. AU those officers were on shore, some
of them three days. They said they had intentions
of further blockading St. Domingo. There was at
that time a serious division between the two black
Generals, CHRIsTOP HE and Dassaunzs, which may
prove fatal to the Blacks.
In the list of curiosities detailed in the Cabinet of
Antiques of the French National Library, is a
circular crown of gold, of the 6th century, embel-
lished with the figures of taints. It has been pro.
posed, that the Holy Son of the Church, who
reigns in France, should be crowned by the Pon-
tiff with this sacred relic, as a public denotation
of his profound reverence for those illustrious mar-
tyrs, by whose meekness and purity he would regu-
late the whole of his anions.

--'-T-

114:SOLVES IS.

LIST OT Pltlsol4MtS WHO IPROP3SE TO TACt Till
BENLTIT or Till LATZ INSOLVkIit ACT.
(C,Dtitinued from our Paper of Yesterday.)

PRISONEEts in the KING•.: RENCK Prison, ia the Count,

FIRST ticaTICE.
Jet:e !littler (sued by the na tie of .1.4 m. othorelle J.lfttlh
Jotepli), formerly ail Ensign in the Stwex keg:
merit of Slditia, and formerly of tin. 11, Arabella-row, Folic,
awl I to of N. 21, Pall-Mall, both in the county of mild...
se-., d :der in medi.:iiiet, and hotly an iu
Kent Militia.
'lllolllas Trafford Ni.ollr, formerly of Uttoxetet, aftervir6
of I.ane-end, both in the county of Stafford, and late of Tay
lor's.row, Islington-road, in the county of Middle‘ex, attomet
at law.

Dan,>l Mendort, formerly of Little Saint Mama,
Queen,tiect ,Cheipslde' teacher of the science of Nightie, alet
late of the Lord Nelson,Whitcchairel-road, publican
John Spencer Colepeprr, formerly of Millbank-stort,
minster, afterwards of Park-plate, and late of Ptethan., In IN'
county of Surrey, gentleman.
Thorna. Butlin Clinton, formerly of str,er. ;
in the Parish of Bloom,airry, and contitv of %liddles,r . • t
of Herne hill, in the Prih of Lambeth, in the county o:
surveyor..

Richard (hero, formerly of in the c ninth_ ~
wilt<, and late of Fairborn, in the ci ..t) of Hoot.,
tractor.

Ann Laimiall, formerly of Crnwn tenet, in *he parioi
St. Gillis, butcl.er, wid.iw, and late of Dymt w-e t, in the 7.4.
n ilt of St. Dales, both an the county of Middlesex, bakti.
aervant.

James Harris, formerly of St. Nur: Chnrch-yard, in t;;:• cif•
of Lon lon, and la•r• of Thuoballr.r car fled Lon -yu,n•, in !hie
County of Middles •x, suleon and ap-t.n.cay.
Mary St.avey, otherwoef.iod-av tcgmnutt...l by tb,, n.•nte
of Mary Straccv,otl. :rwidcGNsenbatli),foribetly of T:lor.111;
►trcK, Bedfued sqaute, it' the county of Nt..:dtuq:
the Borough road, St. 0..0rg.:'3, fiekii, in Ow candty of Stltftf,
ogle woman

johea Rau'her, formed e the N •ar Cut, •,e1 hie of Narrow-
wally buth lit the pari'.h of St. Mary, Latubtah, to the malty
of Surrey, fell ger.

Ann Lanotill, formed), C•nwn streets in th• paw, d
Shut Ann, Soho, hint her, it Ida v, and Lt • ..1 11
in tl:e parish of S.:int Giles, both in the county of M
baker's SCIVAI,t.

formerly a walnut tree wa k,
and late of No. 7, the Upper Marsh, Mush gate turaeikn, is
the comity of Nu. rry, gentleman,
• ..

Thlinas Grace, of Gihraftar row, an.l late of the
11-,rough roof, Saint G ••orgeN hotli in the p•flfil of
Saint George, Suuthwark, and county of Smt.y, war kecciet.
PRISONER in th, Gaol of NEVVGATV, in acd fur thr
City of lits,to', and C.nantv of the tame City.