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SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE.

On Thursday lot, the Society for the Suppres-
sion of Vice, and the Proclamation Society, held
their annual meeting { on which occasion a sermon
was preached, to a most erouded congregatior., at
St. George's Church, Hanover-square, b} the I.ord
Bishop of Lst+oarv, from Gala'. vi. 9, " Lei as
se he weary is srei doial."
To those who ate acquainted with his LordshiP's
animated oratory, any observation on the drat of
his most energetic and solemn discourse would be
unnecessary. He stated, with his accustomed feli-
city of language, and powerful strength of atigli-
zr.ent, the -leading sources of public immorality,
their consequences and remedies. Among the latter
he particularly noticed and unanswerably defended
the proceedings of the excellent and truly patriotic
institutions then assembled.
We are very happy to find, that this admirable
discourse will shortly be published.

Yesterday, agreeably to ancient custom, the
Eleetors of the two Unreenities from Christ Church,
Oxon, and from Trinity College, Cambridge, an-
comp:mind by the Dean of Wesuninster, atsended
Divine Service at Westminster Abbey, previous to
the examination which takes place this day in West-
minster School of the Gentlemen who are to be cleft-
el to Oxford and Cambridge, and those who are
admitted on the foundation.
The Ticket No. 633, 'drawn on Saturday a Prize
of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, was sold in
Um. QS/MITTS, Two EIGHTHS, and EIGHT Six
TtiNTII SHARES, by T. 81111, 4, Combat. and 9,
Charing Cross, where all Prizes from Tweets
Pot.yes to TWENTY THOUSAND will be paid on de-
mand. The following is the State of the Wheel:
Fiees of I ?0,000 3 Priam 1,000
to.ooo 7
OW 13 3OO
tAkou 31
&c. dc. &C
Wednesday nest will Le the Fifth Day of Drawing.
The Sherieroe J.orta; of Fr:day List has the fol.
lov..ng paragrap? :—" On Tuesday' died at Dor-
-3 chester, in the pnme of life. cf a broken heart, uni-
versally regreued 'oy all who knew her, Mrs. Goa-
-00:4, i.: of the Rev. Luc/Karr Crulteort."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

/ROM THR DUTCH AND r;ERMAN PARER&
Letters from Copenhagen, of the `2oth ult. state,
that all the Danish forces in the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Schleswig are to be erearneed early in
May, under the immediate orders of the Prince
Royal. The French continued at this vl.tte to col-
lea large depots in the Duchy of Lunenburgh.
Uncommon exertions are now making at Ant-
werp in building boats of a new construaion for ca-
valry, according to a model which has been parti-
cularly approved by the First Consul: they, toge-
ther with all the vessels to be engaged in the enter-
prise against this country, and remaining in the dock-
yards in Belgium, are to be ready by the middle of
May.
A frigate of 44 guns has lately been launched
ex Antwerp, and is immediately to proceed to Flush-
ing.
Two large rowboats lately arrived at flushing
from Antwerp.—They are 26 feet broad, quite Hat,
and draw seven feet water : each of them mounts
sixteen pieces of cannon of large calihre, and ate
to carry dismounted hussars and rangers.
The Eleaoral Prince of Bavaria lately ars ived at
Hamhurgh reeve. Has Highness has recently com-
pleted his studies at Gottingen, and is now on his
travels, which he pUrposes to extend to Englanda.—
He travels under the assumed name of Von Berg,
and is by no means smart or elegant in his appear-
ance.
The Eleaor of Baden has charged tl'e Prussian
Minister, Count Goma, who votes for him at Ra-
tisbon, to notify to the Diet the late violation of his
territory by the French. The communication, how-
ever, is to be made indivilually to the Ministers of
the different Courts; the Eleaor being deterred from
a public avowal of the injury, by an apprehension
of exciting the hostility of his lawless neighbour.
Talleyrand is stated to have quoted the example
of the Eleaor of Baden, to induce the Eleaor of
Bavaria to connive at a similar violation of the
law of nations in relation to some Emigrants who
had sought an asylum in his dominions,
The King of Sweden is stated to have been much
chagrined by the answer of Bonaparte to the note
which he addressed to him from Carlsruhe on the
arrest of the Dec d'Engliien
A great number of Italians have been ordered to
leave Vienna, in consequence of application made
by the French Minister to the Austrian Cabinet to
th t effea.
Ihe Bishop of Chalons was arrested for drawing
a pension from England, and for addressing a pas-
toral Letter to his Diocese. '1 he Abbe Amax*,
who was arrested by the French Government in
Germany, died of an apoplexy as they were convey-
ing him to Paris.
A letter from Middleburgh states, that the troops
were much harrassed by the aaivity of the squa-
dron under Sir S. Smith, and that they were ob-
liged to reit by day, being constantly uncial alms
at night.
The Police of Holland have become so cireum-
'pea, that no. person isedlowed to enter or to leave
any of the towns without permission ; and some
strangers have been arrested for negleaing to an-
nounce their arrivals to the Prefers.
The First Consul. is stated to have recently de-
clared in a circle of private friends, that he was
glad to find,that Moreau was not sq culpable as it
was at first supposed.
The secret intercourse between the First Consul
and his Senate continues.
To countenance the shallow tale of Pichegru
having been guilty of suicide, an order has been is.
steel, that the prisoners in the Temple shall be un-
reniitt a
.ly guarded; in the apartments of Moreau,
Georges, &c. five geno-d'ese me: are statiortil night
• and day. Thuriot, a brother-in-law to the infamous
Damon, and a Mvourite agent of Robespierre,
is the person to whom the examination of prisoners
' in the Temple is c•mfided.
A letter from Constantinople of the 2d ult. says,
" That the works in the arsenals continue without
interruption, and that immediately after the con-
ference of a certain ambassador, the number of
Artificers and workmen were augmented to hasten
the equipment of the fleet destined for the Mediter-
ranean, which is now ordered to be more numerous
than was first intended. The Porte has besides
hired many transports ; a great quantity of artillery
and ammunition has been embarked, destined for
he coast of Mores and Albania. The troops com-
manded for these two provinces are ready to march.
They are all picked men, exercised in European disci-
pline and manccuvres, and headed by the best
officers. These troops go by land to their desti-
nation."
Fifteen hundred conscripts, deserters from the
Ist, 2d, 3d, and sth regiments of artillery on foot,
and from the Pith, 9th, 10th 13th, and 2:lth regi-
ments of the line, have, within one month, been c
rn-
dcmned by several military commissions to im-
prisonment in irons, and public labour.
The custom-house officers, upon the frontiers of
Piedmont, have again seized a quantity of English
goods. This is the second xieure within a fortnight.
On the 10th, six English sailors, under pretence
of being dissatisfied with their Captain, landed in a
beat at Havre. They had deserted from one of the
three fiigates that blockade that port; but as every
Englitienan is to be tuveasid, and deserves paatsh-
meat, they were sent to prison, and will be tried as
spies, by a-military commission.—Joarised des De-
fir: se,irs.
Eighty-sir blficen, soldiers and sailors of the Eng-
Fsh ship Mee/I:fiend, hate arrived at fort Bitch,
near Metz, During their march from Brest, they
had the insolence every day after dinner and supper
to drink to the health of George III.; when this
condua caused the gins d'armes to prevent them
from having wine to their meals, they drank their
King's health 111 water. Is not this a ridiculous fa-
naticism ?—(sfostraal des Defeasears.)
An English frigate and brig of the fleet under
Lord Nelson were stranded near Leghorn, during
a late storm. 'Ewes Eaglish privateers were at the
,arse time lost near Viareggio, in the territory of
Lucca. The crews we: e saved, and are prisoners.
Anions the prisoners condemned and executed
in one week at Turin, were a son, for poisoning his
father and mother; a wife, for poisoning her
; a married Woman. for poisoning three of her
children ; and a maidservant for poisoning her
master, mistress, two of Their children; and tr:o of
her kllow4nyvnnts.— (Ciauttt do Frogs.)

LAW INTELLICENCE.

JUNG'S BENCH, SATUIDAT. NfAT 5.
7446 KIY:G r. ACRAHAM MICAS.
The Defendant in this case, whose trial for a Li.
het we have given at large in a former paper, was
brought up to receive the final Judgment of the
Court.
Mr. Justice GROSE proce2,lcd to pronounce judg-
ment. observing, that. he, Abraham Argas, was
guilty of a crame'.if a very enormous nature, in
publishing, in several newspapers, and at different
times, a gross aid malicious libel against a Lady of
respectable charafter, a woman in an advanced age,
the rarent of ieveral children; and, what was the
.worst of all, the mother of his late wife. The libel
purported to be an advertisement, wherein Mrs.
Montefiori (the Prosecutrix) was represented as a
person superintending the oducation of ilegitimate
children, and insinuating that she had many of
her own of that description ; this had been left,
by Argas himself, at several News Paper Officet,
and was in his own hand writing. The Court
ordered that the Defendant should be imprisoned
in Newgate for six months, and give security for
his good behaviour for the space of five years, him-
self in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each.
THE KING V. W. HARM', tsct.
This was en aft ion brought against the Defendant
as Mayor of the town of Liverpool, for exercising
the duties of that office, he being illegally appointed.'
There were in this case a plea and demurrer which
came on this day to be argued before the Court. Mr.
CLAIRE argued ably on behalf of the prosecution.
Mr. LAMB was proceeding to argue on the part of
the Defendant, when a new point arose, and the
Cow t desired the business to stand over until Wed-
nesday.

ASSAULT.

DELIVICK v. CROMWEL L.

Mr. G ARK 0 W said, the P“rintiff was a breeches-
maker, and that the Defendant WAS art eminent
purse-proud brewer, tesiding at Hammersmith ;
against whom he sought damaz.es for an assault and
false imprisonment. Plaintiff and a friend had
dined on Saturday, the 3d of December, at Turn-
ham Green, and returning home, stopped at the
Cock and Magpie' public-house in Hammersmith,
where the Defendant and others were drinking.
Here the Plaintiff fell asleep, and missing his picket-
handkerchief when he awoke, he went to search for
it in the Defendant's pocket, from which he took
out one that was not his. The landlady interfered ;
and the Plaintiff returned to Defendant what he
had taken from his pocket, when he found it was not
his own. Mr. Cromwell, however, sent for a con-
stable, charged the Plaintiff with a felony, and had
him lodged in the cage; where he gave him a push,
and drove him against the wall. '[his was the as-
sault complained of. Here the Plaintiff was con-
fined that night and the following night, exposed to
cold and damp. On Monday morning he was
taken before Mr. Hal CNETt, a Magistrate at Ham-
mersmith, who referred the business to Bow-street,
where the Plaintiff was discharged. Mr. Gaaaow
called Witnesses to prove the above statement.
The Jury gave the Plaintiff a verdid, witlr 1501.
damages.

Com:110N PLEAS, of x .
WILLER tr. GLOVER.
In this case a rule had been amine(
Serjeant SHEPPARD. The cause was tried, during
the Sittings after last Term, at Guildh4ll, and was
an anion on a policy of assurance on the ship
Wooifgard, laden with oats, from a port in Last
Friezeland, for London. The insurance was
feaed in consequence of a letter written by one of
the owners, dated the 30th November, leuS, from
Bourderigue in Friezeland, stating that the ship
would sail the day following, and requesting the
agent, to whom the letter was addressed, to effeft
the policy as low as possible, in case the captain did
not arrive. The ship was lost, and did not sail on
the Ist of December, but several days after the time
fixed on for her departure; nor was the above men-
tioned letter snewn to the Underwriters, when the
policy was effefted ; the risk, in consequence, was
considered greater, and payment was resisted ; but,
at the trial, a Special Jury gave the Plaintiff a
verdit.
Serjeants BAILEY and Best. argued against re-
movii.g the verdia, on the ground, that the Jury
were of opinion the letter was not necessary to be
produced when the policy was effeCted.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPPARD, in support of the tele,
contended, that the Underwriters had not received
all the information which ought to have been com-
municated when the policy was effeeted.
SIT JAMES MANSFIELD thought the letter was
rich a one as ought to have Lean la'd before the
Underwriters, and that a new trial should be
granted. The Court acquiesced.
Rule made al,solute.
STRONG r. NATILLY.
Arguments were adduced by Serjeants BECE and
awes's, against a rule obtained by Mr. S-rj-,int
Sittereao, for setting aside the verdia given in
this case for the Defendant. It was an aaion on the
insurance of a carga of Shetland fish, which ar-
ri4ed safe in the River, and were sent front the ship
to the Plaintiff's wharf, at Wapping ; but, in con,e-
*Bence of rain and tempestuous weather, it was pre-
vented from being landed the same evening, as the
rain would have spoited the fish if they had been
uncovered. The craft or lighter, in which the fish
were, was accordingly made fast to the wharf, in
order to be delivered in the morning, and the light-
erman undertook to appoint a watchman to look af-
ter h, during the night: the Plaintitr, however,
would nut suffer any person to watch, but his watch-
man ; and the consequence was, that, during the
night, a quantity of timber, drifted by the tide,
struck against the barge, knocked out the plugs in
the side, and otherwise occasioned her to sink. It
was contended, in support of the rule, that the
fish, by not being landed, remained under the po-
licy, and that the CAW WAS similar to several others
(which were cited), that had been decided against
the Underwriters.
The Court were cf opinion; that the Plaintiff, by
taking the goods into his charge, was tesponsibk for
the demage they sustained. There was no evidence
to prove the accisicit could not have been prevent-
ed by the vigilance and auer.uun of a careful
watchrmn; therctore the verdia night cot to be die-
tneuesh—kula shscharge.i.

TROMPSON r. GREECE.
A motion having been made upon a former day,
to sat aside a verdict in this case, an aillion on a po-
licy of insurance on the. ship Led, 'Whom, the Court
took time t., ertrnine minutely the evidence, and
this dap made the rule for a new trial abs :lute.
Matastotr House, MAY s.—Win. Bvham, ware-
houseman to Menrs. Jackson and Co. drug-
gists in Bishopsgatc.street, wa; charged by his ens-
ployers robbing them of money and goodS.
He used to be permitted to sell goods occasionally'
while the shopmen were at dinner ; at which
times, various article; were missed. At last his 'ens.
ployers marked some pieces of sde. r, and gave
them .to confidential persons to lay nut in the
purchase of articles, while the prisoner attended in
the shop. A part of. this money so marked was
found in the till, and the greater part in tie pri-
soner's possession. On searching his lodgings, a
large new box was found there full of vain able drags,
many of which were proved to have been the proper.
ty of the prosecutors. He WAS committed for further
exar•.iir,:;

An irlt;:mation was exhibited against a pawn-
broker in IVatiiag-street, for having taken one half-
renni more interest than he was by law entitled
witness, who appeared to support the inform-
ti.m, being proved to have sworn falsely,!the case was
dismissed.
Si: journeymen cabinet-makers were on Satur-
day charged at the Public Office, Maribor. ugh-
street, with crmspiring to raise their wages. Four
of them were committed to prison f. r two months
the others, having good charafters, were discharged.
Incestuous InrEacouase.—A curious cause
was tried two or three days ago in the Consistory
Court at Dos'lors' Commons. It appeared that
man of the name of Burgess, who resided in Great
Portland-street, Oxford-road, had, for three or four
years past, lived with his niece; and that they passed
for, and cohabited together as, man and wiir. 'I he
brother to Mr. Burgas promoted the present cause,
for the avowed purpose of doing away this in-
cestuous intercourse, The facts of the liner coarse
being clearly proved, Sir Wriiiaat SCOTT said,
tliat men guilty of this offence, which violated the
sanctity of the laws, and produced endless confusion
in society, were usually punished by being obliged
to do public penance. But he should now punish
the defendant by oliliging him to pay ail the costs
of the suit. The next step w.is to abate the nui-
sance, and stop the indecency complaint-1 rf. For.
this purpose, he would issue a staid Mjualion, that
these parties should act merely have separate hrds
in the same hous.., but must live in future separate
and apart ; and if okk.clience was not A;ven to this
order, excommunication and its conseo
follow.

WRI2. Aram. 28.
It is with extreme concern we have to mentima,
that a most alarmirg tire broke out about eleven
o'clock this murnin7, in the-extensive and valuable
distillery of Thomas Walker and Co. in this city,
which raged for several hours with increasing vio-
lence, notwithstanding every eff in to subdue it. A
great number of the military (the t3th regiment,
and Clare Militia), with their resiiettive Officers. at-
tendtd. and were umilaietisiosis, in their
on t e occasion ; and we had great satisfaaien
is observing, that the greatest part of the spirits In
the store vas, by their timely aid, rescued from the
flames; many puncheons of it were rolled into the
river,and the remainder secured under a guard hr the
quay. Abnuttwo the flames in a great degree abated;
and although part of these valuable concerns has
been consumed, we had the satisfaelion to perceive.
that all apprehensions for the remaining adjoining
picmises had ceased.

A very numerous company of the friends and
supporters of. that excellent Institution, the Asy-
lum for Dear and Due e, dined together at :be
London Tavern, on Wednesday last, H. C. Count,
Esq. Ald. and M. P. in the Chair. After dinner,
the worthy Alderman announced the introduaiva
of the objets of this Institution, in number at pre-
sent between forty and fifty, boys and girls, of
healthy and interesting appearance, who, in proces-
sion, with the Stewards, advanced slowly rourAl the
room, exhibiting pleasing specimens of peaassus.hip,
proficiency in asthmatic, workmanship as tailors
and shoemakers, &c. Applications fur relief are sl
numerous, that it is found necessary to ere a new
Asylum, for which purpose several handsome dona-
tions were announced in the course of the eyenin7,
as well as =any subscriptions for the general pur-
poses of the instita:ion.

Thursday rooming last, a woman was found float-
ing is the river Thames near Cor's
On Friday alien oon, about four o'clock, the
body of a man was taken out of the river. a-stern
of the tender lying off the Tower Wharf. Hi had a
violent contusion on the right side of his head,v.hich
it is suppoud he received in falling over board.

A French cook in the service of the Saxon Minis-
ter. Count lie Bur.au, and who had been dismissed
for breach of trtot, attempted to murder his ma:ter
and to kill histrelf at the same time. 'I he Couni w .5
readingin his .idy when thisdespnr.tte man suddenly
entered, point:l,g one pistol to the heart of the Count,
and the other to his own. T:.e latter went off and
killed him on the spot. but the former missed fire.
In the cook's pocket was fount a note with these
words : " My God ! what a day for my master and
for me!"

On Wednesday lest, the gibbet, on which Paine
was hung about twenty-three years back, upon Yar-
mouth North Den's, was taken doWn by order of
the Corporation, and brought into the court-yard.
near the Clrapel, where the iron has been taken of
it. A ludicrous circumstaece happened the night
alter was erened, whi h perhaps may not he gene-
rally known ; the different tackling being all ad-
justed previous to putting down the gibbet (the day
before Painewas hung), some daring licentious blaJes
hoisted up a young ass by the hind legs, to the
aniatemeat of the speasitors the next morning, who
, (cold not but I e surprised at ending the iri'bet so
' u saapeaealy occupied; in consequence, h.twever,
the tackling became so entaaaglcci. that until a young
undertuak to climb u.e gibbet (he which he
eras handsorr.ely remarded), the rghtfal possessor
could not by b;upeadad.

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