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BRIGHTO.%, JULY 13.

The General Court Martial for the trial of Lieut.
Gre,rA, who is also Assistant Surgeon of the Surrey
:militia, oil cli,ie;es brought against him by Major
of the ,satile regiment, founded or. his ab-
,,ti,ig jawarlif imam his duties without have, was
commenced at die Castle yesterday, and the whole
of the busisess for the prosecution gone through.
This IDOnlitig LieUteilant Gregg read his defence,
which was coueltied in very feeding terms, the prin-
cipal cause of the usisdeuntenor for which lie was
called to so serit e an account, wile, h&Vltig a wife
he tenderly love*, dangerously indisposed at a dis-
tant..., to visit shorn he had repeatedly applied
for leave of absence in vain. The Court dill not
hew his defeiree unmoved, nor could he read it
win tout betraying great emotions himself--and the
gearral hope is, th,it the military fault will be
visited with leniency, if not entirely forgive'', in
consideration of the lacerated feeling. of the hop-
baud and the inall. The Court was adjourned sine
die, Is •fore three o'clock. The result cannot be
prabiid v lumen' until it has received the sanction of
the dpi rigs. Corporal Corti., of the Oxfordshire
Militia, whose trial we noticed ta former letters, is
at press tit confined at the Horse llarrark.. the sta-
tion as evert' of the troops of the 10th Light Drs.
ions-
Stioaers at intervals have fallen both yesterday
and to-day, giving a raoltie,s to the weather, *hall
has been elnerally bright end pleasant. Lord Nen-
tw ies Leree had an unusually crowded attend-
ee re this morning. The rides before diluter es-
ti Sited an increase of fishionable equipagos, and
flora-Arians were beyond all count; they were needy
tT.esame yesterday, when Ail (oral l'eytoon, who was
is king an airing in his rh ta-comilanied by a
vi rung Lady. oa Holingbury Hull, nit t with au 00-
'0111:Int accitent. One of the boric.. it appears,
being alarmed at a cart that posed him, heiaime
RI tire, Slid did not cease plunging and Lucking
instil he had overturned the carriage. Happily,
hoarever, no hurts were received—the Admiral and
his fair conipanmii walked home smiling at whip
liappental. aunt the gain:harm led his beeves
inter the town. Lady El z (firth Alexander, Lady
Pan,, t idy Stuart, the Hon. lh. Erskine, a:al•
marir whets of minor rank, are in the Iva list of
arrivals.

The Theatre was attended by a fasisionsble audi-
tory last night, The Iron Chet, mad The Quaker,
lwiut relor«,ented by desire of the OfliCEril at the
South Gloucester Militia. when bath pieces, as ru-
wont assures us to-clay. were eery ciectivelY
ms-
asgeA. This evening, The Straner, and 'Me Pour
Soldier, will he performed, under the auspices of
the Officrro of the Royal Hone Artillery. Oar
races corarnence this dry fortnight, and the turf
proiniees to be in a .mirsitile artier for the: spm ts.

The r.lloaing is an eat►act Pam a private Irtt..r
from Lisboa, hyought by the Walritrzhain ket :

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Lii6o fig JULY 4.
" No packet being in the Tagus last Sunday, I
'4, deprived of the tal.-alwre or ostitiiog to you. Ar,
mots froinCinded Rodrigo state, that the French
have entered the citv, and made a great breach,
!oiling and wounding a great 'somber of the
ruhabitenre. A sortie by the English had the 16-
sired effect ; about one hundred French -were
leftist) the field. Fortunately the French maga-
zine blew up; and their artillery, of course, were
silenced. We every hour expect more particulars.
Bt all acconote, the French arc receiving supplies
et men and provisions ; and tomething decisive may
expecte.l.--G:e it confidence is ',laced in the
ahlitics of the Comen:sfuleraiWChief; and the
Portuguese troops daily immove.—Borlajoz is
quiet.
Cad z also ; and well siippliekl with provisions.—Net ins arrivals in ',articular ; but expect a great
number of Americans with floor, which continues
very dear. The expected cousoyositis troops from
Fat month, is not yet arrived."
An extraordinary eircnnistanee occurred last
!reek on 3 farm in the neighbourhood of
in Wales : a yomig girl. accompanied by her
brother, flriring some cows into the field from
milking, was a.;-asked by a bull. thrown down,
and trampled upon ; the boy, anxious for his
si,ter's safety, picked up a sharp stones which he
threw at the aminal, and striking him betwixt the
etas, he fell dead instantly, dwelt'''. being literally
buried in the skull.
A few days ago, a woman, 74 years old, hang
herself with several pieces of pack-thread. twisted
"-:"IlEn by herself, aided by part of a b-f!..eord,
her e, as Neston, in the county of Cheshire.—
hat is lei", singular, she desired her niece never
to 'not lo 'aging her %very piece of cord she could
-h.! would stand in need of it some
ttumt—
the used Was therefore explaiiesd as abuse.

DUBLIN, Aux 10.

"EEPEAL OF THE UNION.

" Yesterday Sir JAstss RIODALL'I official dinner
wee most numerously attended ; but so universal a
dejection as the gloomy aspect of the times prodile.• '
eil, perhaps, was never observed its any tesembly
Convened for purposes of civic conviviality. The
'customary toasts kindled no warm spirit in nonparty
—a sort of calm despair seemed to have assumed a
dominion over every persist' present. Even the
healths of our Representatives, so honoured and
valued us they are, produced no corresponding
emotion. At length, Mr. HUTTON addressed this
meeting ; expstialed on the shameful usanner in
which Irish affairs were treated in the Britisa Par-
liatunit, ond the neglect of the Irish Menibets to the
interests of their co 1111 l rv—for had they done
their dotty, Mr. Mirrors said. that the Irish
Budget never could have been suffered to pass the
House of Commons. Ile concluded with giving
notice, that on Friday the e Oth, he would soluda
Ito the .:use of the loyal and temperate, a notice
for the repeal of the Union, and an investigation
into the conduct of the Irish Members. Mr.
MINCIUN followed iu the saute course, dwelt upon
the ruined stale of comin-rce, and the oppressien
of the Budget."—lCorresposuient.)

" Taere will he a Council held at the Cr.tle on
Saturday next, 111 'outer to take the deplorable si-
tuation of the atartiog maottfaeturera of the
Liherty into further cuttattlerattioss."—(Dablin
Evening NM)
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JULY 12.
THE DUBLIN GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

His Grace the Lor ' Lieutenant having been
pleased to aponiot—
!ohs Pattie:, *hit. Jaffray, Ran. 3Plpoistieti, Francis
Richski Litton, Jolts Lindsay, Jobs Carleton, Ri-
chard Darting, John Otr, J. Hone, and AltX. Shaw, Esirs.
toreceive the opolications and look into the secu-
rities of such persona in trade as a►e possessed of
funds ultionwely more than sufficient to answer all
demands upon the it, but olio have not the means
of converting those funds into multi or ttegriahle
securities, in time to" meet the pressure of the
moment ; the Governors and Di►ectors of the
!link of Ireland hare agreed to advance to those
Gentlemet. suing, not exceeding to the whole two
htitstred thousand l ds, to enable th,m to :rive
relief 'ism initfacturers so situated. co .f.inti4l)ly to
the recrommendation Ina Ic to his (:nice the laird
Lieutenant by the Lords of His siadtares Privy
Council.
Another Council was to he hold at the Ca-tle, on
Saturday last, to take the subject tutu fArther con-
sideration.

r Gra7e the Duchess of Gordon. we are sorer'
to learn, is contloed to her apartments with a severe
pain in her hip.
Der Grave the Duchess of Richmond iv expected
to kiwi on Saturday next, trom England.
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Lord Die Blasi oiere had a very largv party of .I;4_
titietion the whole of last week, at his -est iis
Tuha-
more. Amongst those present were, the Lord Lien.
tenant, the Diteheas of Gordon, Mi.s Max Aril,
Capt. Parkhurst, Capt. 11e.1.1y, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and several others.
Mr. Dawes, the King's Messenger, 11 id ti very
narrow eseaee for his life on Tuestl •y l.tst
dignrr•hed far his Eteeterney lit r Loral Ltentetseetel,
who was on a visit to Lord De 11h,qur rr, at Ins s.•ot
at Tullamore, •tt ceder to attend a Couri.ed, he 1.3,1
a severe fall f r his horse, and broke hi. thigh, and
received other severe hroises. Ile was brought
home in a carriage to his own house, where he I:QM
lira Jaug•rrously ill.
Ow Tuesday last, the Bishop of Kildare. as Dean,
at the head of a deptsiat nn from the Chapter of
Christ Church, waited no his Grave the Lord Lieu-
tenant, and MI the Chatteelbtr of she Exchequer, at
the Castle. to state, that it being the intention of
the Dean and Chapter to re-edify and improve the
Cathedral, nod to open and rebuild the several ad-
jacent streets. according to plans hereafter to be ap-
proved ; but their funiN being men& ient to produce
the grandeur and rnagniticesier who•h should aopear
iie so ¢r-at a work, a•ol to restore arid v.:obeli:l-1i a
part of the city, of late years fallen into decay. they
us:petard the aid of His Majesty's Government.
The Deputation was rc, iced with all di • reels...et and
attention due to such sties, u,•on lasoilvlsle an
nece-ion; and both Iti- Gne-e and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer promised rsery aid in their power
to forward a work so desirable.

A French privateer is crane:lig in the Channel,
ht (wren the islands of J«rare• awl Guernsey and the
Dorsetshire root. (h► Thursday last she attacked
the Chesterfield packet, from Guernsey; the par-
ticulars of which are stated in the feltowin► extract
from the journal of a passenger :—"July 12. !Stu.
C'hesterfieirl packet, STARR %WOOD. COmonauder.
At eleven a. AL sailed trim Gileriise y with the mail
and passengers fur Weymouth; at six p. NI. SAW ■
lugger in the SW. Portland WSW. two lei/goes ;
at half-hest eight p.on. he ranged alongside* within
pistol shot ; gave him our bro.dsirir, hick made
lion sheer off. It was a Liege lugger of 14 guns on
her deck, and full of men."

Friday se'linig ht. John Rem)ult. • nntorions
dealer, Mil apprehended in a garret is Avernestriret,
and lorl4eri in Bath gaol. At the last Ozford
Assizes lie was confided fur horse stealing, but
with cousider.ible ingenuity effected his r.cape
from the condemned cell. Restored to liberty.
he immediately resorted to his old practices, and
at the last Malnieshure fair oll'cred for sale two
fine blood horses, consiariably under their calm-,
%Inds creating suspicion in the person about to
purchase them, Bennett, ',redo' of the down-
queued', formed some pretest to get off, nod
made a pre.:ipit,tee retreat, leering thy horses
behind him. lle soon after came to Bath, and
married a woman in Holloway. notwithstand-
ing he had • wife and fife children in Oxford,
and has been lurking about the neighbourhood lion
that time to the period of Ina apprehension. Dar-
in; his confiliement in Bah P.l•Cri, it appears, he
has been industriou,ly emplo:,e4l; for, no Tuesday
evening, the gaoler discovered that the door of hi.
cell was nearly cut throuAli. which he had effected
by mean. or eominna pocket knife; and he was
thus happily prevented nein wiping from the
bauds of justice.

LAJV lATELLICENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WesxmaNsTrn, JULY 16.

Sittings at Nisi Prima, blare /.ord Chief J4stice
EL LEN noitouG 11.
GRAY V. LII)ULE.

This was an action h ght by the Plaintiff
•gain+t the Defendant, his brother-tst-law, to retlo
ver a halaner of an account. It type .red 64 the
action wo•tld 'sever have beets brought, it there
ht.(' out been a faintly quarrel. It occupied a length
of thin, as there sit'. is set-tiff, the tlifferent
of which required to he prated. 'Fuse Jury, siul•r
the direction of hia Lorddly, gave a verdict lot the
Plaintiff-61.