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POLICE.

arisuri-noust.
Yesterday 7,mees Ilibite and lamer Giles were
brought before the Loan Mayoa, on suspicion of
being concerned in stealing three hogsheads of su-
gar, tberproperty of Mr. Lingham, sugar-cooper,
near Thames-ureet. This robbery was stated to
have been committed on the Surry-side of the Rl-
vur, bin the prisoners were apprehended in the city
they both underwent a private examination, and
were cnalered into sep.trate confinement in the Poul-
try Tempter, to be brought up for further cumin-
a:on on a future day.
A man, who called himself Jobe How, a barge-
Man of xford. was also charged• before the Louts
MAYO?, with stealing a gold watch. It appeared
that the prisoner had offered the watch for sale to
n pawn-broker, who, suspeEting him of having sto-
len, the watch, gave him into custody. A Gentle-
man acended, who claimed the watch as his pro-
perty. The prisoner prevaricated in his account of
obtaining the witch • at first stating that 'he bought
it at Oxford, and afterwards: that be found it in
St. Paul's Church-yard. He was committed for
further examination.
N A It 1110101:01•STittt.
Yesterday Mary From: was brought before the
Magistrate at this office, charged by a respectable
.housekeeper in Cerman-street, with setting fire to
her lodgings, w;.th 'an intent to burn the house.
The landlady of the preinises :stated, that the pri-
inner clad long been a disagreeable lodger, and
that she had put up -with her bad behaviour in
hopes of .lity amendment. In a quarrel that hap-
pened between their, some time hack, the prisoner
told. tier, that she Would set the house in flames
and hum a that wis in it ; this expression had been
since repeated, and soon after a fire was discovered
in the apartment sire occapled, occa-iioned by son.e
eloathes that were bornir.q- in a :!,air.
Tie prisoner produced a bundle centai-i^s the
things found in flamesa—She sad they belanged to
her son, a little boy, and that they hsd accidentally
caught fire, but how she did not know. Wile denied
having any intention to commit the crime she was
seemed of, and vas ignorant of havinßmatie use of
the expression which her laudlady nnotioited ; she
appealed to tlee-lilagittrase to juke if she could
have any moiise fer an action of tliat kind, whcri
in the t repurtr she was ossesied of was in her
room, without being insured.
Mr. Costar, the Malistrate• nrciared her to
leave the house immediately in which she lived, and
sent an officer to oblige her to take another lodging
at the house c.f a person whom she said was her
friend.
paw 7teninv was charged with panning several
nitwits of (loathing, the property of John Hamil-
ton.

The cloathes had beep left locked up in a box, to
be taken care of until the complainant should call to
dentand them; the Prisoner had, however, brniten
the le: k, and taken auroral things OUT, which he
The n.-gistrate pointed out the extent of the pri-
suner's crime, and ordered hint to be discharged!, on
of making immediate compensation to the
,invner of the yfroperty.
Thomas; liar on was examined on a charge of
aratultirr William Wiiiiants (a Black) and taking
away his bundle, at a public-house, in Parker's-
street, Diary-lane•
it appeared that the Complainant went to enquire
after a girl of the town at the public-house, where
he was engaged in a scull', during which his bun-
dle was taken away, but by whom, he could not tell.
The prisoner called Cu: landlord of the house,
who gave him a good character, in consequence of!
which lie was distharge4.

During the lite tempestous weather an immense
quantity of lobsters were driven upon the coast be.
&eau Flandore-hiad and Morose. ; several hun-
dreds of which sold at two-pence each. Sonic were
caurtht that weighed upwards of 41b.
'the t**b regiment, lately the td battalion of the
.5`24, now it Chatham Barra( ks, is under orders for
Ireland.--jrhe 79th regiment, in four divisions, last
week marched through Glasgow, on their route to
)veland.—The 1,51.11, 4101. h. and 62d, are under orders
for .larnaicl, from Ireland.
bitters from Trieste, of the 12th Jan. state, that
at eleven o'clock of the preceding day, five large
vessels, richly laden, of which two were Greek, one
Danish, one English, and one American, were driven
ashore by the tompestous weather, at the Old Hos-
pital and the Ba:teries. The greatest part of the
crews were savod, but the cargoes were entirely lost.
&yen other vessels who were in that port have also
suffered considerably, and great apprehensions are
entertained foe their safety daring the next bight, if
the tiara continuei. This :morning two other large
ships were wen at vi me distance, which had been
dimmed, aitd were holding out signals of distress.
It was impossible, however, to venture out tti their
assistance.
The state of bitths,.deaths, rnarria;:es, and di-
vorces. in tails, from September 1801, to Sep-
tember 23, leet, -vas, accarding to.recent accounts,
as fo:lows:—Born in wedlock, males, 7993; fe.
imam ¶.l/51 total, 1.;,619. Born out of wedlock,
malesi 27491 tamales. 2110; total, 5499; forming
the general total of births, 21,018..--Died, males,
10.31:.1; females, 10,077; total, 2.0,1390,--Marriages,
-4694. Diserees, 902. From this statement it ap.
pears, thatthe morals of the Parisians do not mend
under the new regime; as orwletirth of the children
ham in the French metropolis am illegitimate, and
.tarty the same proportion of married people enter
In i thitt state only with the view of dissolving it
by &faux.

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CORN .V.IRKET, Fit. 7: • 11

Our arrivals of Whrat at market today are con-
slat-rah:L.., and appears to decline in price about Is.
and 2s. per quarter, the demand not being estremel y
large. --supplies of Barley are very great, and
causes this article to sell lower with Malt. —Peas and
Beans not quite so lull a supply, and arc s trine
dearer,—Ate still have large imports of Oats,
they continue to iodine dowr ' -Prices of Flour
are tt;sp something lower.

R1111:1:71 4uLICE OF
Wlsrat 444 SO4 564 Od
Flue .',7s Aid
Rye
Itidey "J 4 265 6d
Matt 40, 4N4 Od
(his l4s I9s Yis Od
Feut t lour, Crs. 495. SC(

GRAIN AS UNDER :
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Whitelleve M. 41) Od
Grew Pk we
Snuill Beans...—. li, .;i: 0 1
'lick,.
Nape Serit !;11 •,4I cwillar.t.
..ind .litto, 4os. 4.5-.. per 5....-;.c.

Nif RRATIVE

OW TUE MOVEMENTS OF THE FORTY-SECOND
11.1.WM1.:,r, 0% TUE '2IST 01 INIAAC.H 1801.

On the morning of the 21st of March, the '
piquets of the reservennad given their fire and re-
tired,
when Brigadier-Beneral Oakes ordered the
left %ring of the Ind to advance. Major Stirling,
who commanded this wing, had nearly gained the
left of the redoubt, in entich the 2tith regiment had
taken post, and were engaged, when he immedi-
ately encountered the enemy in front. They were
at this time endeavouring to force the redoubt, the
ruins, and the corps, which communicated them
thencetn the sea. To the left of the Mhjor's po-
sition, the road from Alexandria to Abounir passes
through a considerable hollow, which separated the
Vld from the guards, a space which was unoccupied
by any troops in the first lir.e. On this road the
otncers of the light company descried, and gave in-
formation of a column of the enemy directing its
march upon their flank, and having with them a
standard and a field-piece.
The Majot himself soon after ascertained this co-
lumn to be wrench, and dinned the officer com-
manding the light company to be ready to form
front to his flank, in case any attempt should be
made to turn it.
'rho firing at this time was vary smart, betit in
front and to. the right. Passing by the rear, he had
lost reached the right of the wing he commanded,
when he heard a dische of grape ; and on re-
turning rapidly to the lei, sow a Freinli battalion
in his wear, with a field-piece and six horses. and two
loaded camels behind them. Conceiving himself
likely to be placed between two fires, he did not hesi-
tate to order the wing to face to the right-about,
and charge. The order was obeyed with a spirited
promptness, lehich speediln insured the discomfiture
of pant of this corps, and obtained possession of the
gun-
The head of the enemy's column, fnllowed by
Major Stirling, directed its movements on the ruins,
and were now mien by the right wing of the 42d,
under Lieutenant Colonel Aleitander Stewart, who
here .tinned in the conflict.
*thee Oohed, a part of the column sought
tcr in the reins, which they cohered, reneihnlig
fun of some coinp4,ies of the ntith r.zinntnt.
Olin this time closed in with then:. 3tia their
tl
• standard was taken from the bearer bin Major Stir-
ling, who consigned it in chase to a non-commis-
sioned offteer, fhe survivors of the enemy imme-
diately sulrendered, and were marched prisoners to
the beach by Ensign =an of the 4241 regiment.
Both wings of the 42d, now quitting die ruins,
formed battalion under the orders of Lieut. Col.
A. Stewart, and prottetded to the ground which the
left wing had occupied, at the comencernent of the
action on the left of the 28th redoubt. Along with
the 28th, the regiment was now engaged in opposing
the repeated attempts of the enemy to force the re-
doubt—attempts repeated also in the same manner,
by fresh bodies endeavouring to come round its left,
apparently to bunk the line of the 42d, and force
. the redoubt.
The column in front-kept up a heavy fire, ad-
vaecing at ,the same time; when Sir rselph Aber-
cromby coming up to the 41d, gave orders that the
enemy should not be allowed to gain the height.
Orders were at. that 11:0111tIlt given by Lieutenant.
Colonel A. Stewart.to charge, which was instaetly
done, and ,the Freeeh • infantry were driven down
the declivity to a considerable distance in front and
left of the position the reserve. They retreated
through 16_ intervals, of their cavalry, who were
now observed, its the ;smoke cleared away, clone. to
the left of the 4nd. The exertion of tins charge
had disordered the line ; and Lieutenatt-Color.el
A. Stewart judng 'that the enemy's cavalry were
preparing to charge in turn, ordered the •fr2d to
form quickly on the grenadiers, and prepare to
receive them. This moment was seleitcd by the
enemy for a desperate charge. It was, daubtless,
a moment in which a regiment pressing close on a
set:tinting enemy cannot lie supposed to be comedy
in line. The charge of the cavalry was made en
swan and in some places penetrated the intervals
which had been occasioned by the movements to
form on the grenadiers, an order which, in tie con-
tinued firing of musketry, could nut be distinctly
heard by the whole battalion.
The right was protected by the fire of the `nth in
the redoubt, and Brigadier General Stewart bring.
ing up his brigade at this critical moment, his owe
regiment gave the enemy a close and welletirected
fire, which allowed time to the ltd to join their
efforts to these of the rest of the reserve. and of
the foreign brigade, in repelling the cavalry.
This service wan speedily accomplished with the
effect stated in the dispatches of the Commander is
Chief. The rest of the action consisted in sharp
shooting and cannonading. as stated in the same
dispatehes.
The noneeemmissioned efficer, Serjeant Sinclait,
to whom the standard taken from the enemy was
given in charge, was woundechin the rear of the re-
giment, and by him the standard was lost.
The 42d inflect, with great satisfaction, on the
prompt and effective support they received inset the
28th regintent, the Rank companies of the 49th
regiment, the 58th ruin:ant. and Queen's Gorman
regir;::nt, with whom they more inaioedifteinthetod.
above narrative was drawn tip vgca_rab.
tion furnished by the officers ' And at
their desire. It has been sabaidtonor` '
co%
and we declare it conk:mai& to Own beat i:
'ion and recollection of the facts.
(Signed) A. ST.Cw4rf• MitOir and Lieut.-
Col. 42d R. H. dent..
(Signed) JAS. STIRLING, Milt
Col. Ild R. . iter.

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(011010111 g 0 the most accurate account we
yet seen of the Egyptian Monuments in the
ash Mu.eilin. They were ttil• n'from the Freud'
troy,..in Alexandria; and sent to England in Sep-
:miser last, under the charge of Colonel Turner, and
arc now placed under slight temporary coverings in
the coort-yard of the Museum.
At either end of theirrst shed is a statue of white
marble, evidently Roman; the first supposed to be
Marcus Aurelius, the second Se/mimic Severus ; but
both of very inferior workmanship. They were
discovered in the researches at Alexandria, and it is
not known whence they originally came. The next
augment is a ltani's Head, about four feet in length,
carved from a soft red stone, called by the French
mop grais, and was brought from Upper Egypt.
It has part of the right horn broken of; but the
workmanship is exquisite, and the expression of the
eyes exceeding good. The Ram's Head represented
the Deity called Amoun, whom the Greeks (who
borrowed much of their mythology from-Egypt)
afterwards adopted by the name of Ammon.
Amoun denoted to the Egyptians the creative
power of God, his beneficence and diffusive influ-
ence through the works of nature. His chief
temple was at Thebes; whence the epither of The-
ban was given to the Ram ; which was also a repre-
sentation of the Sun in Aries. They who desire a
further acquaintance with the symbolical attributes
of Amoun, may consult Jablonsky's Pantheon Egyp-
tiacum. We next come to two Obelisks, richly
charged with hieroglyphics, and much resembling
in their general appearance the one at Mattareah,
engraved in Dr. Shaw's Travels. These obelisks,
it is supposed, were erected by the Egyptians as
gnomon: for astronomic uses, and had anciently a
ball on the top supported by a very small.shaft,
the projection of whose shadow on the ground
near that of the gnomon, formed an ellipsis, by
which the middle determined by its position ex-
actly enough the height of the centre of the Sun.
They are of hasaltes, and were likewise brought
from Upper Egypt. Betwgen the obelisks stands
a large square sarcophagus or chest, con:posed of
what the French call berclx verte, and appears to be
of an algregate kind, with which our mineralogists
were liefi)re unacquainted. It was brou;;ht from
the mosque of St. Athimasins, in Alexandria. The
hieroglyphic language inscribed both inside and
out, denotes it to have been used for sacred pur-
poses. But whether as a chest for the images of
the Egyptian Deities, or as a cistern for the holy
water used in the sacred mysteries, does not appear.
In form and size it seems to represent the great
chest in the largest of the pyramids of Egypt,
except that the -latter, which was long taken for
the tomb of Cheops, was unadorned with hie-
roglyphics. However, that this chest was some-
how concerned with the mystical worship of Osi-
ris, is more than probable : though it is not
likely, as has been suggested, that it was one of
the ;Myra, or secret chambers, which had so great
a share in the Egyptian mysteries. That it was
not placed on end, seems probable from the hori-
zontal direction the hieroglyphics are drawn in.
Its weight is nine tons, an among the symbols it
is covered with, the sacred monkey is frequently
repeated ; an animal that is not once mentioned by
Jablonsky, though most classical readers will re-
member the allusion to it at the opening of Juvenal's
15th Satii e.

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" Qnis ne<cit, VOtIBI Prhynice. Qualia demens
" pone= colat Crocoddon adorat
" Pars hxc : illa isavet saturam serw-ntibus
Laietries sacri aster abstra CERCOPITMECI."

Close by the great chest lies a massive Hand, of
red granite, clenched. It is thought to have be-
longed to a statue of Vulcan, and was found by the
French among some ruins in the neighbourhood of
Memphis. k rom its form it appears to have rested
on the knee ; and the statue it belonged to must
have been at least eighty feet in length. Beside
this is a small fragment of a light red stone, hav-
ing on it several. diminutive figures, with three or
four repetitions of the crux atuata. Such are the
monuments sheltered by the first covering ; at the
four corners of which are mutilated figures of Osi-
ris, of black granite, brought from Thebes.
At each end of. the second shed is a shaft of por-
phyry, the first of which is about three feet and a
half diameter, and about four yards in length. Im-
mediately succeedin,r, we have two figures of Osiris,
seated in black grani,
te. He is represented with the
head of a lion, round which we see the sun, ac-
companied by the usual head-dress of the Egyptians ;
from the neck downwards he is represented as a vir-
gin, and holds in his left hand the crux atuata, and
on the seat are a few hieroglyphics. Osiris, we
know, was variously delineated, according to the
attrihotei or operations of the Deity the Lgyptian
priests desired to express : And the figure we have
here described was peculiarly symbolical of the heat,
eigour, arid influence of the Sun, in the inundation
of the Nile, when it passed through the signs of Leo
and Virgo. The crux anzata, however, is not so
easily explained. The best and most accurate
writers on the symbolical learning of the Egyp-
tians have differed very widely in describing it.
Some have thought the ems denoted the four
elements of the world, and the circle the influence
the sun had over them. Others have thought the
whole figure to he the name of the Divine Being
who travelled through the world; some, the figure
of the Deity, not made in the likeness of any crea-
ture ; . some, the philaaery of his ; and others,
that it was the ineffable image of Eternity. One
writer has endeavoured, with a considerable share
of learning and ingenuity, to prove that it was the
itrut trout cm, or mariner's compass, which he was
willing to believe was known even to the Egyp-
tians. All these conjectures only serve to chew
that the mystery Couched under the symbolical
learning of Egypt is inexplicable. Close by the
figures of Osiris is a mammy-chest of basalltes, with
a narroU, border of hieroglyphics round the outer
edge. This also came from Upper Egypt, and its
uw is immediately pointed out by the shape of the
cavity, in which the figure of the head and legs is
clearly seen. Next we have a Clue sarcophagus; its
size is smaller than the one already mentioned, but
its weight two ton more. It is composed, not
like the former, of a breccia, but of black granite,
and was brought fkom Cairo ; and like the larger
one, is ,covered with the hieroglyphic writing..—.
Close adjoining is the broken ngure of a woman,
seated on her Kama, and probably representing Isis;
the position, as Porphyry asserts, is a type of the
Deity's being retired within itself. Nigh this muti-
lated figure lies a cylindrical pillar or red granite
and close t• it part of a large *se of black granite'

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very .At and plentifully adorned with Uengly.
pliics, and perhaps osed for the preservatiott of
some of the sacred vestments dr utensils. it Is
rounded at the end, and, with onesside of the srnalftir
sarcophagus, already mentioned, has been engraved
by Niebuhr. This is followed by another mute of
Osiris; beside which there is a small broken figtire.
kneeling, with hieroglyphics; it is of black granite,
and like the greater part of its neighbours, came
from Upper 14y pt.
To this enturination we must add a small chest
of Oriental Manuscripts, gathered by the French
Institute at Cairo; they are in number sixty-two,
and arc chiefly Coptic, Arabic, and Turkish.
There are also two pieces, of antient sculpture,
which have not yet arrived at the Nloseum ; being
at present deposited, for the investigation of the
curious, in the Library at Somerset-lame, belong-
ing to the Society of Antiquaries. One has a triply
inscription, in the sacred, the vulgar, and the Greek
tongues; the latter of which is already engraved,
and a translation of it presented to the Society by
Mr. Stephen Weston, whence it appears chiefly
' relate to Ptolemy Philoineter. The other is the
statue of a woman, sitting on the ground, in black
granite ; between her feet the model of one of the
capitals belonging to a column in the Temple of
Isis, at I)endera.

Having said thus much of the Egyptian Montt-
ments, it may not. be irrelevant to and a few words
upon the hieroglyphics, which appear upon so many
of them. "Though in these Egypt sbadow'ed oat
both the spiritual and physical world, yet it is net
probable that a system com Posed with such con-
summate skill, confined entirely to the acquaintance
of the priests, and even by them delivered orally,
can at. this day be laid open to the world. The
ravages of Cambyses must at least have deranged
the knowledge of it; and Plerodotus :iscerts, that
in his time the priests were but mere pretenders to
it. We are assured by Plutarch, that the hidden
philosophy of Egypt exhibited, even to tho,:e who
were initiated among pritms, but dark hints. and
obscure resemblances of the truth. And thus much
the priests themselves insinutted, +ice they placed
figures of the sphinx at the entrance of their
templ?s, as tipes of the enigrindical nature of their
tl.eulegy.

OLD BOOKS.

Tly• first book printed by Caxton was The Game
of Chas • the second was 77. e Diaat and Sayinge: of
Philotopiers, by Earl Rivers, 1477.
The oldest Herial iu the English language is by
Doctor Turner. It is a folio, in black letter, and
was published in 1551.
Adam Blackwood, who had been a retainer to
Mary, published in French The Martyrdom of -Mari
Stuart, Queen of Scatiand. It is written with all that
bitterness of resentment, which it is natural for a
man to feel, who,. by an act of flagrant injustice,
was deprived of his mistress and his sovereign, his
friend and benefactress. He addresses himself in a
vehement strain of passion, to all the princes of
Europe to avenge her death ; declaring that they
are unworthy of royalty, if they are rot roused on
so interesting and pressing an occasion. Black-
wood was a Civilian, a Yoat, arid a Divine.
Archbishop Spotissvoode'S H.Story of S.-otland,
which is now in such high eiteem,.deserves its re-
pu:ution fur its great impareiaky, the most valuable
excellence of an historian. It was written. by com-
mand of James I. from scanty materials. Upon ex-
pressing a diffidence to James about that part of it
which relates to his mother, the beautiful and un-
fortunate Mary, the King replied, " Speak the truth,
man, Gad spare not."
Sir Walter Raleigh's History cf the ;Voila, now
so seldom read, is remarkable for a pure, nervous.
and majestic style. This admirable work has been
thought a just model for the reformation of our lan-
guage.
Old Fuller was a prebendary of Salisbury. Of
his works, the following is ;he opinion of the best
critics :—His Church History is the most erroneous;
the Pisgah Sight the most exatrt ; and his History of
the Worthit: the most estimable, Of Sutton, the
founder of the Chartershouse, he says qushitly,
that he had great length in his extracetion, breadth)
in his estate, and depth in his liberality."

The E/hoyi Basibie of Charles I. which Milton
says had the same elk& on the affections of the
English, as the famous Will of Cesar had on those
of the Roman people, Tent through fifty edihOns, at
home and abroad, in one year.

BIRTHS.
Lately, the Lair of V. K.lnert, E 9. of New Cavendish-
sir...A, Portland-I:Li-P. or, A d
Lately, the 1..1.t. o Sit F. L. Wald, of Harrovorth, of a
daarilitcr.
rir the 3.1 inst in Devonshire-place, the Lady of H. Rose,
Esq. of a s4n.
M.WRIFD.
On the t"..ith ult. at T,ilisrall, 1Kr..1. Hacking, of Plantation
1111.11. s; neat Blackburn, tt, Nt.s-t Benson, of Cowen Bridge, near
Kirby Low&lc.
DIED.

'On Monday I:st, of a para::. tie stroke, Nfrs. Vigars, wife of
Mr. Villain:, of Solithampton-street,'Strand.
Satiiritiv last, at her house in Park-row, Greenwich, at an ad-
vAn47s.4l age, Mrs. Muyle, widow cii*the laic H. Moyle, Esq.
Lately, in the Mediterranean, the lion. Captain Denclut of
the Guards, the eldest sou of, Lord 'Duncan. He tilt:Venn
thither for the tevostry of his health, and died at wa. His
body was conveyed to Malta, where it was interred with riil
tary hnnosir,
On Saturday last, at Twickenham, Nliddlesen, Mrs. Shakrr-
tey, relict of Peter Shakerley, Esq. of Somerfoid-Hall, Ctit••
shim.
pi, Saturday, Mrs. Castledine, near CO years bar-keepor at
the Shaky;,.-are Tavern, Covent-Garden.

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