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London, England, 1804-10-16 00:00:00

TUNBRIDGE IVELL'4, O r. 14.

The office of the Master of the Ceremonies at this
place broil; vacant by the resignation of A. Fo-
rums !NCI' A ea, Esq. in consequence of his being ap.
pointed the Paymaster of the Nottingham Militia,
in excellent situati in, which is worth at the least a
clew 3001. per annum, is open for any gentleman.
The company being, perhaps, the most select in the
kingdom, and the Wells tree from that noise, bustle,
and confusion, which prevail at many other watet-
ing places, hold, out a must excellent retirement for
any gentleman who, feeling himself qualified for
the duties of the °dice, wishes to relinquish the
gayer scenes of the world, and spend the latter part
of his life in such a salubriot:s and delightful part ut
England Two gyntlemen, we have hciid, are cam
VASSIIIg ; one an officer ii the army, the other an
eminent attorney of the place. Ti.,, eleaion will be
at the Upper Rooms, on Thursday nest.
The Wells continue fill i and lively; the company
in general •tay much Wes than formerly. Many
houses are engaged till January. Several families
have returned, and are returning, from the coast,
whence the late high wends have blows almost all
the visitors.

Among our arrivals for Olober are,
Leif Tempe, the Bishop of Hrtrusl, Fa,l apt °met •gs
1106orossigh. Mr and Mrs Bond. Mr. awl Mrs. iterrerl, nun.
Mr. and Mr.. &reverie, 1114, J. Capper, and Mrs. Capper;
I Capper. Esq. :owl Mrs. Capper; \lt.s. J. earni,h,.ti, Mrs.
f.aut.)u- %I L.rekhart, Pelham. Re) WAl•er, Wen.
train, Cot. Str. Are.

. I.sse, the artist, meets with such success
here, that his stay wiil be proiongesi for a corisiJer-
able tune.

'Rte North Pevensey Legim were yesterday re-
viewed on Ashiawn Forest, by Lord Siterrart o.
They have acquired an high state of discipline,
through the great care and attention of their offi-
eet ; and particularly of Captain H eve ems, of the
Rifle Regiment, who has been fur some time their
aljuta it. The grouni on which they performed
their manoeuvres, is very high, and open behind. it
commands a view of the long extenaed waifs
Kent. Susses, a,d Surrey, and even the bilk •-•1
Hampshire. On their right, the South Downs, ris-
ing with majestic grandeur, seem to form an
endless wall. In front, the beams of an autumnal
sun, and the air clear as the water from the rocks of
Wales. revealed to their tight the Bay of Pevensey,
so renowned. and so fatal, in the history of Ent:-
land. Ea:h man, as he saw the ocean. clasped his
piece, and swore never to let the French Irsorper live
on the British shores, whilst life remained. The
Sesastss was at the head of his corps, and great
lumbers of visitors from Brighton, liourw. and the
.Wells, contributed to enliven and animate the scene.

At a preparatory review, on Monday last. Sir
Joan %lacy/mai/3s, who Is Captain of the Frank
Corps in our Legion, through the slipping of the
hinder legs of his lama., fell; fortunately, no bones
were broken. He rode home afterwards; but, we
are sorry to say, that be has received so moth in-
ward ir.jury from the fall, that perhaps it may be a
comidemble tins Won: lie recovers it.

EDINBURGH, OCT. 11.

HIGH COURT 4W JUSTICIARY.

Yesterday the High Court of Justiciary met here,
within the Etchequer Court-room (the ordinary
Court-room bring under repair), for the trial of Rich-
ard Mendaant, of Howgill, near Annan, now a pri-
soner in the gaol or Edinburgh, who had been instill-
ed at the instance of His Majesty's Advocate, for the
crime of forgery, or at least of uttering forged notes,
knowing the same to be forged. •
After the indiament had been read, the Prisoner
pleaded not :rake, and his Counsel declined offering
any preliminary objection to the relevancy of the
accusation. But from the terms of the indiament,
it occurred to the Judges that a question of law
might possibly be agitated in the course of the trial,
which might occasion considerable embarrassment
to the Jury, if the case were remitted to their ver-
dia, without a previous discussion and decision upon
that question. The notes alleged to have been
tbrged or counterfeited, were the 51. notes, of date
2,1 February 1401, which had been issued by
the Banking Company at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
commonly called the Newcastle Bank, of which
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. and others,
Are partners: and the Prisoner was particularly
accused of having, upon the 4th day of Fe-
bruary last, er upon one or other of the days of that
month, or the month of January preceding, or the
month of March following, ullered or needed, or
tented to Ls tattered or vended, to one Thomas Arm-
strobg, a number of the forged notes, including
seven stores, specially descnbed by their numbers,
or one o; more notes, hearing one or other of these
numbers, he (the Prisoner) .8 knowing the same to
be forged, fabricated, or counterfeited. in imita-
tion of the promissory notes issued, as aforesaid, by
the said Banking Company, at Newcastle." The in-
diament, however, contained this additional state-
ment, viz. o for which notes, and particularly those
numbered as aforesaid, or one or more of them, so
uttered or vended to the said Thomas Armstrong,
you received, or stipulated for a veduallr rontiderotton
from him :" which statement induced the Judges to
suppose that the present case might p,-rhaps afford
iforoduaion to a question, which had been agitated a
few years ago, hut which had not then undergone
a solemn decision, namely, whether convietion of
the crime charged in the indiament could follow
upon a proof, that forged notes had been issued
by a person knowing the same to be forged, to
another person equally aware of their fiaitinus
charaaer, instead of being passed as genuine?—
Without giving any opinion upon this question, the
Judges present (Lord Casio, Lord Ctn. ame, and
Lord Meanowsana) severally expressed unwil-
lingness to send the ease to a Jury, if there was
room for any such general question, before having
the same thoroughly discussed and solemnly deter-
mined ; for which purpose it occurred to their I.nrd-
ships, that the question ought to be argued in
printed papers, under the title of Informations;
and that the Counsel should endeavour to ascertain
the understanding and laraaice of the Courts in
England upon a point of so much commercial im-
portance, and as to which one rule certainly ought
' to be observed throughout the united kingdom.
Upon hearing the suggestions of the Court, the
Loan Aovwc art stated that the fad, which he ex-
pedecho bring home to the prisoner, certainly was
that of issuing the notes described in the indiament,
not as genuine notes, but avowedly as forged, and
for a rice below their apparent value: and his
Lordship most readily acquiesced in the suggestion
of the Judges, that the question to which they had
alluded, ought to be finally decided ; because th's
would undoubtedly be a proper subjea of consider-
ailed for the Legislature, if the law should appear to
be so far defeaive, that persons might, with impu-
nity, sell forged notes by wholesale, and, by the
temptation of profit, seduce others, at the risk of
their necks, to retail and circulate the same, in de-
fraud of the public. His Lordship observed, how-
ever (and the Covet approved of the observation),
that it would be proper to introduce an additional
question into the information about to be prepared ;
because it was expead, in the present case, to prove,
that some of the notes which the prisoner was al.
leged to have sold to Armstrong, avowedly as forged,
and at a price below their apparent value, had been
afterwar Is passed by Armstrong, as being genuine,
and of the full value which they expressed. If this
additional fad should be established, whatever
might be the fate of the gen-ral question before no-
ticed, his Lordship proposed to maintain, that the
prisoner, who could issue the notes for no other pur-
pose, and under no other expeaation, than that of
their being re-issued in defraud of the public, was,
in the eye of law, concerned as art and part, in the
ultimate uttering of those notes, and consequently
liable to the punishment which this might infer.
Accordingly informations were ordered, upon the
relevancy of the iadiftmcnt ; and the diet of Court
was adjourned till the Ist of November next.

We understand that the papers and books of the
society of working shoemakers in Wakefield were
seized on Monday last by the Constable ; and Davd
Stephenson, one of the Committee, and George Kr,ter,
the Clerk of the Society, were committed to the
Moose of Contains; by WILLIAM DAmSON, Esq.
This subjea is to undergo a legal investigation.
The late Colonel Benin, who made so large a
fortune, with so f i'r a chamaer, on his arrival in
Ireland, looked at different Gentlemen's seats, until
he saw that of Mr.Cnoc c at Painstown, near Carlow,
and hearing it was to be disposed of, he waited on
him in town, and asked his terms for house, land,
furniture, wines, &c. Mr. C. replied, his agent
was in town, and if be would call on him at four
that day, be would inform him. At four
the Colonel went, and instantly acceded to the
price proposed by Mr. Coot c ; and the next
morning left town, and was pat into possession
of every thing. In a short time after, on lockir.g
over the furniture, to see what was not fit for use,
he observed an old shabby oak or walnut is st of
drawers, which he instantly condemned as unfit ;
but, on its removal, in g sld and bank-notes, near
t'.oool. was discovered, which be instantly conveyed,
with a polite letter, to Mr. Cools, observing, it
never could be his intent to dispose of such a mat-
ter as this—and if, through hurry, anv other thing
was overlooked, he requested be would -laim it ; in
consequence thereof, Mr. C. requested some family
piaures.

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COLCHESTER, Ocr. lg.
OF' AB-iENCE. •
GENLIi AL OCDEIS.—CIRCULAR.
am Spiced by- Lieutenant Gimeral Su ..1040 Craig, to ac-
quaint yew, that inn-insulin...et. of a reiweseitatimi 113,41: be
him to the Commander in Cinci, lie ha. received Ills 12,14
Highness's apprubatirei tn rant 'leaven( absence, and ,scertaia
limitations, to the (Mfic.miot the Militia Regiments 'erring in
the district under his cantruaed.
'tlie situation of the country renders it absolutely iseeeseury
that this indulgence should be reamed with much prentution,
and should be confined to case: of real business, or urgent ne-
ccisity ; and that in every instance there should rernaM rfl;
/settee in each Regiment, at least half its Fi..lit Officers, and
two-thuds of the Capeaiusand Subaltern Of6cers.
The Officars, who are indulged with leaven( absence, must
hold themselves in cinstaitt readiness to juin their respective
Regiments, on the shortest possible notice.
In consequence of this communication, and the netrictiori
under which thu Lieutenant-General is placed, he expects ne
application for leave of abience will he made to him, but ia
strict conformity to His Royal Highness's orders.
(Signed) R. M. GORDON.

The 9lst regiment has replaced the 42d, which
lately left London on its route to Livcrponl, where it
is to embark for Leland immediately. Rumour gill
says, that the encampment is to be broken up on or
before the 20th, bat no official communication on
the subjel has yet transpired.

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NORTHALLERTUN ME LTISG.

THI:RSDAY, OCT. 11.
Sweepstakes of lOgs. each, with 2Ogs. added, for
three years old colts, Sst. '2.lb. fillies, est. Two
miles. (4 Subscribers).
Mr. N. b H.dison's Koty filly, Prirmila, by Dripini, a:
of Eliza, by Alfred J. Jackson)
Lord Strathmore'. br. colt, by Sir Peter, oat of Prim-
r..os,23 dam N. Smith) . $
4 and stol on Priscilla. Won easy.
Sweepstakes of rrge. etch, for hunters, Vlst rode by
Gentlemen. Three miles. (10 Subscribers.)
Mr J. Irotto.N. grt.y twee Confitteur, by Lielmoi, dam
hr Podure .b. Mr. Asker) . . 1
Mr. R. W Petrie.; bay mare, by Reat!,.. (rod.: by Major
Drade, . I
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6to 4 and C. to lon Confessor. Won very easy.

FRIDAY'.
The 501. for three an.: four-year olds. Three-mile
heats.

Si- T. Gascoirac's bay cost, by .iir Pete*, 3 yrs. old,
7st illo. 3 1 1
. . . .
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Mr. W. HAtchinson's bay colt, by Piptto-, 3 yrs.
OA% 7,t.b;b. . . 5 S It
Mr. Brandiansfs Adam, 4 yrs nld, Bst 51b. .R 4 3
Lord Scanhrugh's bay colt, Cc...u,a.u, 4 yrs. old,
e t.slb. . 4 9 4

Mr. Walker'. Sir Sidney, 3 yrs. 7.t. 51b. •3 S dm.
SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE EXTRA..
NEWMARKET SECONIt OCTOBER. 11.E.ETIINGI.
UODIDIT, OCT. 15.
Lord Saektrille's Inchakter, B.r. 411.. .pt S.r S4.sa4l's
St .1., B.t. 11b. IKTOSI the Plat. 1110 p.
TNQRSD•Y.
Mr Wilton% Sutelv, ••t. llb. ag.t Mr. Melloties Sulks, bit
Anugus, 6,t. 91Z). acre.. the Oar, lOogs.
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Saturday, at the Public Office, Shadwell, a youra;
woman., of the name of Danesty, made a very
serious charge against a young man, of the name
of Sot tv•a, for having a design en her haslit.-, at-
tended with some very aggravating circumstances. '
On this charge. for want of sureties, he was committed '
to take his trial at the next Quarter Seasons. The ;
angry juir soon relented, and, returning to the Ma
,istrate, solicited his release; producing a licence ;
from Doctors' Commons, and another from her 0
priest, declared her determination to marry him;
and at last prevailed on tha Magisti ate to exchange !,
the chains of the law for those of wed/ach. into which
happy state they yesterday morning entered, at the
Parish Church of St. G.nsro-,e's in the East.
Sumo:sc.—Oa Wednesday last, the coachman of
Lord Ls Dssrrwcsa cut his throat, at his Lord-
ship's
house, at Meteworth. Kent. The (*moiler's
Inquest sat on the body, on Saturday, and returned
a verdict Lunacy. No particular reason can Le as-
signed for this rash aft, except that he had been in
-kind of melancholy habit, ever since the loss of Isis
wife, who died about seven months ago. On Tues-
Jay he (hove the coach to Cozheath, whet e hit lady
went to see a pity performed by the Officers in
camp there, and did net return till between two and
hree o'clock on W:dr.esday morning.
A hair-dresser, in Bet wick-upon-Tweed, named
Huila, had one of his hands so dreadfully shatteted
by the bursting of his lowli..g-piece, st•bilt- out spott-
ing yesterday se'nnight, that immediate amputation
was deemed necessary.
A person has, within the last few days, been en-
deavouring to circulate considerable quantities of
base silver coin in Hull; the pieces are chiefly shil-
lings, of a tolerable appearance, but remarkably
light. Many of them have the impression of one
or more small letters stamped upon them. We
hope the offends will not escape deteflion. Seve-
ral counterfeit five shillings Bank of England dol.
lass are also in circulation ; they are well executed,
, hut are easily deteaed by wanting the dot after the
X in Rex ; they are only washed with liquidated
silv-T, which wears off in a very short time, and ex.
poses the copper.
Wednesday, pursuant to a sentence of a Coen-
martial, three seamen were flogged round the fleet
in Ilamoace and Cawsand Bay. (Lie, a vows man
of good conneitions in Ireland, ha: wild and dissi
pated, had entered for a seaman, received 100 ladle,
for publishing seditious songs amongst his slit
company. A second received :zoo lashes for t'
serting from the Cam4raen, of 41 guns, and enterl
on board the Sirius, of S 6 guns, and receiving b V
bounties; and a third for mutinous conduft, receive
2.5 lashes. They were all sent on board ..a.:111,1,
ship to wait for cure, and then L 3 receive the re
mainder of their punishment.
The present Wonder.al Lottery Wheel cuctair
3of 20,0001. lof 10,0001. 3of 3.0001, of 1,0001
and 6of 5001. HOWNStY and Co. 2:i, Cornhfir
will sell until to-morrow morning nice o'clock, was
ranted undrawn, as under,
Tickets . 191. ISt. Halves . 101. Si.
Quarters . 31. 3s. Eighths . Yl. 12s.
Sixteenths 11. ris. 6d. •
The thanes of obtaining a Capital Price in tli
present Lottery is five to one in favour of the put
chasers more than in 1793, and onat.fifth kis in ',lir,
Such advantages as these cannot be pawed unnoticet
N. B. 10,000 i. First-drawn Tomorrow Marnan:.
and 9%1,0001. First drawn ea the Eighth Day, an
only Four Days to Draw.

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