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bt•en reeeeerr4,-notirithstandieg whiele.it.ls supposed the
damage trial rieredl,soo/.
RANIOATC, MARCH A.
In 4.lslilissn to over letter of yesterday, several venals have
iskrti shelter in this lierbeisr, having selfeved severely dec-
line the late very isrriry gale: The ivied confiners Mooing
titAl iv very arms from tee meth. The tonsillitis' is a list
of sense of th •tim
Sts.ps—lit rain, Elliott, from Lowden to the West ladles.
tii.inaord ; Hirt parfso Hosssulalf, lust 'anchor. nod
cabls ; tind Asters, Wilma." .wisilluso gone. •
lirits—Joststim, Hollidsy,lest anchors end cables; Gooks.,
LO.,due 'To Belfast snailietast- gone, and
; Dams, Woos Loeskin to Liver.
t..... 1, .lassousird ; indefatigable. Cuennifig, from London I.
'Mishit, lost s mast ; Aerie. Evingtou 'hula 'Shields to
Itrustel, knt a sise•4 • aril Fortune, D:istom, hied 'Hero,
fruus S4I oder 1441. sse Portediesti, lost anchors sal
Tnis'enoreinc, In etteinplitig to ltel into •the !tabour,
Ftrrdbds

slip widelillreil ~..glop ea the Sends. as
'unfortnisMffelisSalty meaeredbp Obi laierere, to wkiek the
•liip was itapril,_ givim way, time sad it which, striking
'Mr. Water, oriatiliWasomo, killed his es time spot, Mike
the' kg a aoritatimit;iiii bomb legs Ka Illtrd. lin of +um
arrre Insiplayed al IMarpalesa, a* the Meat Pier Head, In
kaoline* Om mid abip.
Some et the vale* shuts tiff lM WPM,* Sends lime
been gut ..dt, v.
the Mellow he rift. There
-are at preeratlfiliterdaiffillb sail of yawls, of different de.
seriplitme, is dislMANWingsgmbieb a pest laity are lewd
Akenaged.
Smelt a hurricane ime arm been 'witnessed here before;
one maids covered with spare, eardrum &e. persist 14nd up-
pemanee, emblems& sup by the Dittnamitte pt* people busily
enaplayeil in salkering *bagger might he Imbed ambers.
The wind nor .blows weer Mg!, and seam natieiple a very
sung% sight.
ItAItOATIN Minna S.
' lbtt ender reasseed ~Maria) and also imday se love
letaidmiett •in Ste Deems, bea heed blestebt in Isere, and
puma me Imam erweinte mataw.lmadatry.
Te sebnerner Maria, lamp, was else liesagbt is here
lase aight, within...at amber sod cable.
The Barrows, tad 1/141vilk, Victory, sad Fbienix, tiara
sailed frost Pate Sand Hole sbianewrabm
The Java Ems Indianian,. and tbe Franklin Duch East
ludiantsti, remain of this peel. •
Captain Nichol, and part of the crew of the Marquis
Vesesiwy, who leaded here yesterday, lame gess uhf again
ta the ship with an ancbor sad cable.
DIAL, SWIM 4.
Anima and sailed for the Rivet, Ike Hannah, Edward,
from New Brinsaniek, with lees of an anchor sad cable.
In addition to what we staled yesterday, we tears that the
Industry memo tatter, and two brigs, cool-Wens rwwwdeted
hi the Duane daring the ple, la contagion*" of a large
Swe.h.h ship having rum fuel of them: The brig Hartley,
cornier, front Shields to Grenada, is missing, and it is mach
feared that she is age of those ran foul of by the above
Swedish vessel.
Five o'clock... Moe Blenheim, has not yet been
beard of.

111111611 TON, WARM S.
We had a moat furless stores us Wednesday Night, and
Brest injary his bells sestaised. The leads have beer die-
14.1eril from the tops of the houses, the windows very gene-
rally hedger. the chimneys blown .lows, mid many busses
uartiered. The Jeers' Synaeogne, in West-street, was par-
tially blown done, as.4l en enclosing palisade fence or
two or egrdnia. In the vicinity of Hilly-place. were nearly
airewilielred *She tempest. Considerable usirehief has been
Anse in the aft windmill to the goals or the chureh; and
lively apprehensions are entertained fort the fate of the Re-
grid packet; which wrist have been tempest caught .bunt
lialf-was scrims, on her passage to Dieppe.

FALMOUTH!, If ARCM 4.
At day-light this morning, the wind was from the W S.W.
mud !moderate ; 'bunt Ii s. m. it backed to the southward,
■nd Goon that to the S S E. and since that time to the present
moment ($0 p. r) it has blown a lerrieasse, with a heavy
sea. The ships in the roads sad harbour appeared, a little
'before dark, to ride it ont well ; but I ant afraid we shall
hate souse damage to the westward, as the gak is dead on
abs si'►ry and Ow weather very thick.

waxen S.

A remelt West 'odium drove un the rock; between the
Prowl and Start Pouts, shoat ten miles from henry, sad noun
%rut to pieces ; her name is La Jenne Cecile de Colo ; ber
emirs is all lost, and out ono of the crew see ured; a few
grains of- sous sod a kw cocoa outs have been washed on
;Wee, .O-Here is a crudity dilates on the rocks, which
appear to belong to sugar casks, sod sulking else to ba seen
listriaim of timber cud plank.

LivrarnoL, ■Affil S.

The Parker and &me, from New Orleans, ►as bees
on shore on Berkentwed Keeka..-kiet her rudder, sad re.
reivril whet damage. The Elisabeth, Whitest, that sailed
for Chirhester the day before yesterday, has pot heck wit►
loss of anchor and ca►le, sad foretop-sail-yard and jib-boom.

mums, MAIM 4.

We have had a heavy gale of wiled but sight, is which
six ships came ow share us the Black MA/1M; Ave of the.
Mw bee. got off bat the Mary Asa, Tisdale, of Whitby,
omodis o• Awe, sad is likely to become • esiesplete
viesek—the ewers of all are safe. The Amore, Duos, of
Lois, has got iota) harbour with less of f•rrm•sl.

Mamas 4.

Last night we esperienced a most tremendOes pie frees
the S.S W. derieg which the following ships canoe a share
UMW the North Pier :—The Flora, of Me port;
tithes, of Whitby; Sisters, of ditto; William, of ditto•
•1111166 e, of Lyon; end the Robert and Francis, of ditto. The;
lime ell bear trot off with damage, except the Sisters, and
she bas pee to pieces; and the Robert sad Francis has souk.
HARWICH. MARCH 6.
Arrived the Castlevragh packet, with a Mail from Holland.
Sailed the Charlotte packet, with a Mail for ditto.
soaves's'', seam S.
Arrived the Prise* Leopold, Smith,froon Marseilles; Two
Itrothers, —, from Malaga; Hash William, Metherell,
from Aucona ; sod Misters, Collett, from Cctte. •

flailed the Edward Ellice, Capes, for Yereatan ; Henrietta,
bungles. fur Baltimore; Prince of Waterloo, Page, fur O.
tend; Ansity,Guiol, for Calais, sad Mary, fur Rotter-
dam.

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neighbourhood of Oxford many trees have
down. A fine large one was torn up by
Christ Church Meadow, and several
down in Magdalen College Grove.
Christ Church Meadow was stript
vicinity the storm raged with tre-
Thunder, lightning, hail, rain,
successively vented astounding horrors ;
of the city houses were partially
. vane of the Abbey tower, after bray.
boisterous Pile, wee blown down—a
' well, of 130 feet in length, near
to Claverton down, was levelled
—and the river has nverdown its
a very unusual height. Almost
trees have keen rooted up io Mells
- in Orchardleigh park—Farinbo-
_ we hear, was unroofed, and two
blown down. The Portsmouth mail
)pset by the violence of the wind,
from Salisbury ; but though there
messengers, we are happy to hear no one
injury. A large elm-tree fell
near Caine, between two Lon.
on the point of meeting—they
no other inconvenience than the
occasioned by the removal of the btu.
itupeduneut to their progress.

LAW INT4LLIGIAWIt.

-COURT OW CHANCERY, gaseous% ling,
S►suaoas, Hawes 7.

Her Royal Highness she Primeeu of Wituts e. the
Karl of Livemybot. mad Count M exists's, Ens
*cators of the late !Mee of Bay ms*tcii.
The SOLICITOR-GENBEAL-4. This motion has
stood over since Thursday week. at the request of
Mr. Shadwell, Counsel for the loyal Plaintiff, to
give hire an opporttinity of producing an affidavit-of
his client, 'relative to the second security, which
affidavit has not been rude."
Mr. Sn AVIVIM L-44 Sir Samuel Romilly, who is
not at present in Court, is leading Counsel for her
Royal Highness."
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT having come into Court
addressed his Lordship nearly ns Follows I have
now the honour of bring Counsel for the Royal
Plaintiff. No affidavit has been made, sod I would
not .bejuslified in advising her Roc' Highness to
make one, and lam coutident your ordain!' would
not require it if the cue was properly before you.
The hill is tiled by her Royal Highness, against
the Defendants, the Executors of the late Duke of
Brunswick, to recover the payment of two secu-
rities for 15,000 i. given to her by her brother. the
late Duke of Brunswick. They ask by their
motion to see the second security ; I ask them, in
return, what right they have to see it ? they cannot
have the right by motion according to the practice of
this Court. Why should the Defendants ask her
to make an affidavit, for is not her protestation on
honour at a Peeress of the Realm sufficient ? I sin
sure your Lordship will think it is."
The Lunn CtikacEt.t.ott•—•• I never thought of
her being asked to snake an affidavit; her.protesta-
lion is sufficient. I should wish to hear more of
the case. The rule of the Court certainly Is, if
the Defendants want discovery they must file a
cross bill. Let the case now he heard. Go on
with ymtlr motion, Mr. Solicitor-General. I feel
every respect for lier Royal Highness, but I must
consider her and the Defendants as l would any
other suitors of this Court." 1
_

The SOLIGITOIII:GENERAL stated, that lie moved
ou behalf of the Defendants, who were the joist
executors of the late Duke of Brunswick, that hrr
Royul Highness might be ordered to produce and
submit to the inspection of the Defendants two
promissory notes or instruments, drawn in August,
1816, by the late Duke of Brunswick, iii favour of
her Royal Highness—the oue for the sum of fifteen
thousand pounds sterling, and the other for the
same sum of 15,0001. payable in lotiiird'ors. He
founded his motion on the affidavit of Count
Munster, stating, that her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales had filed her bill in this Court
against him and the Earl of Liverpool, as executors
of the Duke of Brunswick, to recover the amount
of the money contained in the instruments in ques-
tion ; and further stating, that having beets called
upon to put in his answer to the bill, he could not
safely do so, or prepare a defence to the suit of her
Royal Highness, unless lie had a preiious inspection
of the instruments alleged to have been given by the
late Duke to her Royal Highness. The principle
upon which this application was made—by motion
upon affidavits, rather than by a cross bill for a dio-
covery, was, that if the Defendants .filed a cross
bill, they would, in the due and ordinary course of
practice, be compelled to put in their answer to the
bill of her Royal Ifiglines• before they could have
the benefit of her Royal Highness's answer to their
bill. The Learned Solicitor adverted to several
cases at law, for the purpose of sheering. by analogy,
that the principle upon which he sought to have the
present discovery on motion, hail been adopted and
acted upon by the Judges of Courts of Law, on a
variety of occasions.
Sir ARTHUO PIGGOTT was on the some side.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, on the past or her Royal
Highness, contended, that no such motion as the
present one had ever been made iu this Court with
*GCMG.

Mr. Maim was else Counsel for her Royal
Highness, and he in ' Wined that there was not a
single precedent to support such a motion.
Mr. Rsa.t. argued, that where, in a Court of
Equity, a party sought a discovery of say thing
whatever, he had on 111121111 of obtaiuing it but by
a cross bill.
Mr. SHADWET.T. observed, that the magnitude of
the names of the litigant parties was the only cir-
cumstance that gave importance to such au appli-
cation.

The SOLICITOR.GF.D IRA L, i►► reply, said he was
quite sure, that in the present case justice would
be impartially adminivtered ; and the Princess of
Wales being Plaintiff, and the Prime Minister De-
fendant, would weigh little in hi. Lordship's mind.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he hoped
in this case, as well as i►► every. other, be should
decide with strict and impartial justice. He had
nothing to do with those who came into that Court
but to consider them ■s Plaintiff and Defendant.
This was a bill filed by the Princess of Hales
against two tielSollll who were executors of the
Duke of Brunswick, and it was tiled to obtain
payment out of the assets of the Duke of Bruns-
wick of two bilk, which had been given by him
to her Royal Highness. The Defendants stated,
they bad been advised that it was material to
them to insist ou her Royal Highness's demand
bring made out in the first instance by the produc-
tion of the bills. He felt it his duty to dispense the
same measure of justice as he should do between
other parties. It was a caseof very great importance
with reference to the practice of the Court. He should
say but little on the subject, because it was not his
intention to give his final judgment till a future
day. His Lordship remarked. that in Courts of
Law it had been the practice for ages to insist on
having a prefer: of a speciality ; and here his Lord-
ship alluded to cares in the time of Lord Mansfield,
and also quoted the opinio►► of the learned Judge up-
on the subject, as founded upon chat he conceived
to have been the practice of Courts of Equity. His
Lordship, speaking with deference of such a men as
Lord Mamfield, said, he did slot appear to him to
have recollected what a Court of Equity would
have done upon the questions to. which he had re-
ferred, but his Lordship added, that theyases at law
did met, as he apprehended, apply' to the preeent
clew. The present case could be dccitled only with
reference to the practice of that Court.' There might
be particular exceptions to gene►al rules of practice,
but then care must be taken, that the Quart should be

satisfied the excap►tiot: did 'Warily exist. It be oame
him, therefore, with reference to all those rules by
which the production of instruments was enfoi ced, to
recollect what it was those roles required. The bill
stated that a double security had been given for the
same sum. It would be natessary hereafter, wheu
the answer was filed, to look at the bill, in order
to see what the hill said ; but as the answer was
not put in, and as the Defendants alleged they could
not put it in without the previous" prod uctiou of the
instruments, he must look at the affidavits on which
the present motion was grounded. to see that it
stated a case, forming an exception to the general
rule of practice. He should read the papers, and
look at some of the notes he had taken as the argu-
ment had proceeded, and would deliver himself on
this subject on Tuesday next. The Court was
extremely crowded to hear this motion.

READING ASSIZES. NhacH 3.

Lord FOLIISTONE V. ZASTAFF.

Lord Fo'ketone, under the Act of the 31st of the
present King, which directs ell Magistrates to visit
the gaols, and examine and report the state of the
prisoners, demanded admittance to the three state
prisoners confined in the gaol of this county, which
the Defendant, who was the gaoler, refused, by
order of the Secretary of State, which directed him
to admit none but the Visiting Mogistretes. For
the Defendant, it was contended, that the Act could
nut contemplate State prisonerri and on this ground,
alter a trial of ten hours, a verdict was gives for the
Defendant.

A notorious horse-stealer, named Webb.; connect-
ed with othrrs in custody, made his escape from
our gaol. during the Assiacs. by breaking his way
through the top of the prison. whilst in the room
adjoining waiting to be brought into the Dock.

H.I.IIPSHIRE ASSIZES.

WIRCIESTER, MARCH 7.
The Assizes for the County wr►e closed this
evening. by the assistance of Mr. Serjeatit PELL,
who, yesterday ino r g. from the number of pri-
soners remaining to be tried, wan appointed to
assist the Judges, by opening a flint! Court ; Mr.
Jastice ABBOTS' having been under the necessity of
leaving two Special Jury causes as renames, to
be tried at the next Assizes, that lie might try at
the criminal bar.

Francis Piesse, alias Francis Henry Parsons,
aged 31, for stealing, on the 31st of August, up-
wards of ten bank notes, each for the payment of
five pounds, and also divers pieces of money.
amounting in the whole to the value of 3801. 4e. I Id.
the property of his Majesty.
Tile Pri.oner was a clerk in the Navy Pay-office
ti the Dock-yard at Portsmouth ; and to hint being
confided the office of paying pensions, he was in-
trusted with a considerable sum, fur the proper
appropriation of which it was usual for him. at cer-
tain periods, to account to the chief clerk. On the
morning on which his deficiency was detected, being
that on which he was to hand over his balance. he
produced sundry notes. assorted in parcels of 501.
composed severally of 5/. 41. and one pound notes.
Upou examination of these, it was discovered that
two parcels which he produced as each con-
sisting of ten 51. notes. were arranged with a 5/.
note at the top and bottom or each, the interme-
diate ones being nuly those of 20s. On further ex-
amination. it was found that he was dr ficieut the sum
of 38!l. 4.. I Id. On being told his balance was
not correct. he replied he would mike it so, in-
stead of which he immediately left the office, took
a post-chaise, and absconded to London, whither
he was followed, and afterwards traced to Dover,
where he embarked for France. Bishop, the Bow-
street officer, having been sent in pursuit of him.
apprehended him in Paris, and brought him back
to this country.—Seven years transportation.
Orlando Lockyer and Robert Hand, charged
with the murder of John %iron, at Northwood, in
the Isle of IVight.—Jnfin Holding, a Surgeon, was
going to South America with the Prisoners on hoard
the ship Grace.—On the 9th of December lie was
with them at the Dolphin lnn, West Cowes; they
sat together for two hours, when Sutton remarked.
that all the company were iu debt. Major Lockyer
replied—., Do you mean to say that I am in debt ?7
Sutton said. he did. Major Lockyer answered—
whoever is in debt. lam not. Sutton replied •••
"We are all in debt to our Creator." Mar
Lockyer left the room, and messages passed be-
tween them, and a Mr. Redesdale, another pos.
senger. Sutton said, if he (Major L.) called him
out he would meet him. Next morning they met
to settle the dispnte by fighting a duel. [lend
and Redesdale measured the ground. Hand called
Sutton, and give him a pistol, wheal he and Major
Lockyer took their ground. Major Lockyer fired.
and Sutton clapped his hand on his breast, stagger-
ed forward two or three paces, and held out his
hand—Major L. advanced and took it. lie imnte.
diately fell. and the Prisoners ran away. SuUoa
soon after expired.
Mr. Fitzgerald (brother to the owner of the ves-
sel) deposed. that Hand seriously pressed Sutton
to settle the affair, when they were going to the
field—all was said that could be said to induce him
to make concession fur the words he had used, and
not light : this admonition he repeated several times.
Several other witnesses were examined. but their
testimony added no new fact to those not already
known.
Major Lockyer and Mr. Hand both read a long
and very able defence.
The Judge, in summing up the evidence, told
the Jury they must not listen to the appeals front
the Promoters, nor let • any reports or statements
before known to them prejudice the case—they
most.judge according to the evidence then given.
Verdict—Mmulueghter.—Three months impri-
sonment each.

Captain BRANCH is appointed to the Harlegssio,
for the Cork station. Thr Hehews and Maim are
paid off. and are to he sold.
Friday GEORGE PITT ROSE. Esq. son of the
late Member for Southampton, was chosen to re.
pre►ent the Borough of Christchurch in Partin.
mein. in the room of his late grand-father, the
Right Hou. GEORGE ROSE.

P04.1C E.
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• • • iayrlta-castbss.
• POISONING PINE YOUNG WOMEN.' •
Ilaltarda., jury asithe office business had terminated, and
thelnland's -whet shoat ono depart, Mower Dawson,
Charles Goodwill, Severe! Region, and Thomas Boulier,
fear young men, between twenty and twenty•two years of
age, were brought up PiMse custody of William Read, juu.
and William Wainwright, officers, and put to the bar,
charged by Mr. Michael Riley, landlord of the Greyhound,
fileurielbs.street, Brunswick-square, with infusing and
mixing some deadly poison in some porter, and giving it to
drink to Sarah Morgan, Sarah Woodhani, Betsy Fox, Jane
Griffith., and Jane Tucker, five young women, with iuteut
to deprive then, of life.
The Complainant deposed, that he is landlord of the
Greyhound public-honer, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square,
and is likewise a brush-manufacturer ; that the above five
named young Wofilesi worked fur him in a workshop in the
upper part of a bowie situated in an enjoining mews ; that
the tau first earned prisoners ire.gentlenteu's servants,
and the other two journeymen brush.makers, who work
fur another person iu the same mews; that shunt twelve
o'clock that forenoon, one of the two first named Pri-
soners Caine to-his house fur it pot of porter, which Com-
plainant drew into a clean pet; that after taking the chill
tiff ►e carried away the beer, end meeting the other three
Prisoners, they drank better than half of it; after which the
Prisoner, Samuel Renton, took the remainder to the
above five young women, and which they drank between
these. The Primmer* returned to Complainalit's house,
where they sat liown nod had some refreshment. They had
not been long there, when a messenger came and informed
bins that the five young women were stretched on the floor
in the room in which they worked, lying in, the agonies of
death. Witness hastened to them immediately, and found
them as described : one was in strong cuuvulsions, black
in the face, send (naming at the mouth; • second speech-
less, and apparently iu ■ dying state; and the other three
stretched by them on the Boor, sufferisig excruciating pain.
—Witmer sent immediately for Doctor Darling, of 29,
Brume iek-equare, who come and administered the necessary
medicines, but finding their case 'toy daugerou•, be deemed
it proper to have further advice, and three other medical
Gentlemen were called in, sill of whom' agreed in opinion
that their livis were in immi•ent danger, and that they
could rot give the smallest hopes of the recovery of either,
•ud the opinion was, that they laboured under the efforts of
some deadly poison; and not from julep, opium, Spani►h-
flies, or any similar things that might be administered to
them for any vile purpose. Complainant, under all these
circumstances, caused the Pt isoners to be taken i•to custody
and brought to trial.
The Prisoners were salted by the Magistrate, Mr. Seems,
if they wished to say any thing in their defence ? un which a
coutroversy look place between two of the Prisoners. One,
• zentleman's servant, said that be was sent by the two
hrustiniakers to the Complainant's house for • pot of
beer ; when lie got it, hr took tly chill off, and returned
with the beer to the brushmakers ; they made him and his
companion, the other servant, drink ; they swallowed about •
pint of it, and the Prisoner, Samuel Renton, a bruslimaker,
carried the remainder to the young women. This Poisoner
declared, that there could be •o poisonous ingredients in
the beer, when he and his companions drank : as if their had
been they would have been as much effected as the women.
The Prisoner, Samuel Renton, said, that there mast have
been something in the beer which was improper when it was
given to hint by the person who lwought it, tor that he drank
of the beer before be gave it to the young women, and that
be found himself very much affected, sod nut able to go to
work. A gentleman who happe:,ed to be present iii the tap.
room when the two brush-snekers were apprehended, stated
that he heard the Prisoner Renton say to his companion, the
other brush.maker, "'lush—nut a word—keep close, and
they can ilo nothing."
Mr. Riley, the landlord, stated, that he drew the beer
himself, in • clean pot, from two both., which were on
danglit, amid of which no person had complained.
The Magistrate ordered hint to draw no snore beer from
those butts, until it was ascertained whether this melaiichuly
circumstance arose from the quality of the beer or not.
As the case stood at present, he found it his ditty to commit
the four Prisoners until the Doctors madu their report. Sail
was offered Alf the gentlemen's servants, which in the pre-
sent instance was refused. _

Oa inquiry last night, we karn that three of the pout
women are coauidvred not of danger ; that Riley Fox and
Jane Griffiths, the two who were moat iu danger, had n chance
about half past 11 o'clock that forenoon ; and that Dr.
hug, who attended them, bad strung hopes of their recovery.

SOW STREET.

Brutkers, —, from Mats;
from Ancona; and Misters, C
flailed the FAlrrard Ellice,
Douglas, fur Baltimore; Pri
tend; Amily,Guird, fur Cali
dam.
; .
In the neighhourhood
been blown down. A tithe roots in Christ Chi
• elms were blown down in
:111 The cow-house in Christ
1 of its roof.
10 Molt and its viciiiii
mentions fury. Thund,
nod wind, successively v
to various parts of the
unroofed—the vane of tt
ing many a boisterous
riewingly.erected wall,
the road leading to Cit
with the ground —and
hanks, and is at a very
• innumerable trees have
park. atul some in On
rough Church, we hei
of the turrets blown dot
nits completely upset bt
about three mules from 9
were six pauengers, we
received the least *Rijn
across the road near
don coaches, just on tl
happily received no nil
great delay occasioned
pendous impediment to