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London, England, 1801-08-25 00:00:00

YAgilidUTH; Arc. 24.

. .
•sal L E the Ann Armed Ship:, with a Cotivoy fot
liambtirgh; anti. Diligence CLitter on a Cruize:.
.2" Arrived the.B/aze-i•Ciun-brig frorkr.Leith;C:aq
i•Toiistritd, for Anisterdam,, sent in by
•tte ; 173-,mt, Johanna; GRA.NiTSIIIIIii from Am.
;,terd-an; to Lontion, With v. feat and' oiti, t,.ent in
the George Cur ter ; arid , Apo//d, BR/On-01ER,
'r°lll IftsbOo, with' gOoch for Amsterdam; sent in
bY:the North Sea Fleet;

The following Orders have been eirotilated by
'Qrd NE Lsdr/ on board his Flotilla :

DOWNS, ilag2ll.! 18.
• torci N r. t. so ti has the greatest satisfaaion
'`.sencling to the Captains; Officers; and, Men; under his
rnr?"l4nd, that 'Were emPlOyed on the lite attempt: on the
Flotilla.offßoulogne, an Extra&of a Letter 'which
has received frimi the. Ifirst,tord of the Admiralty; not
(AA, • .
S oily
of their,zeal and perSeVering courage, but be-
t°4‘l.ltig the highest praise on them. •
h;•Vice..Arliniral begs to assure theni, that the EnertlY
rn:trle't have long reason w boast of their security; for he
tomps; ere long, to assist theta in person irta way which will
etely. annihilate the whole of them. Lord Net.-
toN
convinced, that if it had been, possible for men to
-aye is bro
tht the. Enemy's Flotilla dut, the men that
,yvere
meat
to do so would have accompliihed it. The mo
nal -11-
ellt the Enemy have the audacity to cast off the chains
‘,
lich fix their. vessels to the grsUrid, that moment Lord
ju
ELsorq is well persuaded they will be conduced by his
°rave followers to a British Vort,-or sent to the bottom.

( Sighed)

" NELSON and BRONTi."

N'('ZACT OF A .LETTER. FAONI SARI. ST. VINCENT. TO

1.:1%:,..;) VISCOUNT NELSON, lg. D. DATED TIIE 17TII

.
It is not given to us to command Success. Your Lord-
the gallant Officers and Men under your orders,
tgrilY-deserve it;' and I cannot sufficiently express my ad.'.
~~llation of the zeal and persevering courage with which this
nt enter tine was followed up ; lamenting most sin-
thaloss slistainecl in it. The manner in' which the
iZern)..B Flotilla-wls made fast to the ground, and to each
~‘1.3 Could not have been foreseen: the ,highest praise is
Ie
c, Your Lordship,' and all under your Command, who
't6to.l.:a in this gallant attempt."

, -,---
.iz-r,
•,,A.C,T OF A LETTER FROM Aft OFFICER ON
BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S BRIG BASILISK, DATED
°I'P MARCOU, AUG. 17, 1801.
e" Yesterday at noon, cruizing off Cape Bar-
r, in company With His Majesty's Brig Blood.
t 4,1,1, we descried an Enemy's Fleet, consisting of
140 National Brigs and fourteen Gunboats ; in
trsequence of which we instantly weighed, acidjiLlo sail in pursuit of them. At half past three
i;wl• we anchored in front of the Enemy's Flotilla,
eo.two fathom water, tinder Barfleur Batteries, and
which
a heavy fire against the two Brigs,
qliokh were the immediate objea of Lieutenant
z, ti ()cH's attention. The Batteries and the Flo-
-43.4 opened a warm and Well direAed fire against
- ' It is allowed that upwards of one hundred

shOis passed btWeen Our Mas 4. Previocs tO the
commencement of the Action, our Commander. had
liven orders to the Bloodhounil to board the Rehab:
licanCornMandant on the bOw; while the Besi/I:tk
should do. the like on the quitter; but; Unfortu-
nately, the- shoalnesS of .the water, obstructed this
bold and Well concerted plan. .His Majesty's
gate the Maidstone, heaving in sight, made the sig.
nal Of recall, which was instantly obeyed by the
Bloodhound. In consequence of the close attention
our OfficerS and Men paid to their duty, we remained
an hour longer saluting the French batteries; and
had the honour of firing the last shot:—l am sorry
to inform you, that notwithstanding our utmost
efforts, the Flotilla escaped ; and, 4 conceibe, have
reached either La Hogue, 'or Isigney. . Perhaps we
may yet gi4e a good account of them before. they reach
Havre de Grace, the place of their destination. The
gallantry of Lieutenant Goocit's attempt is ac-
knowledged by Capt. DONNELLYj of the Maid-
stone,in terms .of high commendation. —For,
innately,' we 'have suffered no loss; Which it the
more remarkable, _when ,we consider the cloie,
heavy, and well,di'reaed fire of the Republican
Batteries and Flotilla.

" P.S. The only damage we sustained was the
cat-block being shivered' to pieces. . Our friends 'in
England may surely rest secure, when two.of His
Majesty's Brigs, manned with only 5o ,men each,
could give battle to such a force as is stated above,
and hoist the. Flag of DetianCe in their_ teeth. In
consequence of our Attack, three of them ran a-
ground. Lieut. GOOCH is in good htalth. As
we' are well manned; I hope .soon to have the plea-,
sure of transmitting you some news more worthy
your attention."

The following is an extra& of a 'letter -written
.by the Sargeon Of the Hannibal to the Rev. Mr.-
WILLtAms, of Romney, whose. son was killed at
the tittle that. Ship Was.takon. It strongly contrasts
the barbarity with which' the' French crews treat
_their prisoners, with the generosity of the English
towards those Who fall into their power. _
" Capt. 'FERRIS and nifself both feelingly con-
dole with you-on your son's death ; yet it may be
a consolation to you that he died like a hero. He
was the first that was wounded on the pobp ; and
the same shot killed the Captain's-clerk, knocked
Capt. FERRIS doWn; and killed six, marines. Your
.son's right leg was entirely
_smashed to pieces, and
the left shattered, besides -being otherwise much
bruised. I amputated his right leg, and took
-every possible care of him till the a:Eon wasover,
which lasted five hours ; after which the ship caught
.fire in three different
.places in the cockpit ; and I
sincerely viish I could draw a veil, over thedread-
ful catastrophe which then followed ; as the French
and Spanish soldiers and sail-ors, in extinguishing,
the lire., trod great ,numbers the wounded- to
'death: Y9ui- son, however,: surfired; and late in
the evening I gat him sent to the.hospital at Aige-
sitas; -hut from the toss of blood, and the dreadful
cotittisiOns, ye was quite, ezhauSted,. and,:expired
next day. :Ile-bore his mislottpnes with-the greatest
courage, rid often declared; .he did not mind:his
own vvounds? Or_evendeath, 'provided we were but
'successful. None of us saved any of our'clothes.
And although I sent him to the hospital in a coat
and matrass, yet they Thad taken every- thing from
him:"

The- folloWing is the Sentence on Lieutenant_
Colonel WINTFR, on a Charge 'exhibited against
him by Capt. Bt E, of His Majesty's Ship-Malta,
for having made the of ex.pregsions_publicly' on the
Marine Parade; tending to create discontent in the
minds of -a party of Marines, then going to eM-
bark.on board the Malta; with the service upon
which they were intended to be employed,- and to
the prejudice of good order and military discipline;
" "The Court is of opinion, -whatever' tendency'
.the conversation might have which passed between
Lieut. al. ROBERT WINTER and Capt. BERTIE,
.which .by no means is' proved to the 'ex,tent of the
Warrant;_ and- which, nevertheless, Might be good
or bad', • according to- the -style., or manner of its
delivery, as, by evidente achfuced, it reached not
the ears of the men, and was, consequently, a con-
versatiOri confined wholly to themselves; that Lieut:
Colonel WINTER could have no other objeft in
view than, the good of His' Majesty's Service.-:-a
sentiment the Court the mire readily adopt, from
the very high and flattering testimony which the
Witnesses have brought towards the establishment
of this principle in the Lieutenant_Colonel. • ,
"Lieutenant:Colo'nelß6B Err WINTER is there_.
forie fully 'acquitted of the charge. brought against
him :.the Court do therefore give him' the most
honourable acquittal." • -

•We are 'conceited to communicate the- loss of
the ship Mitmaid, Captain ._ GAAmEN, belonging to
Calcutta :-She struck Lip-on a, rock, about two
miles from the S. W. joint ofl-Diamond Islan'd,- in
a violent gale of wind;, and was wrecked.--After
they had clung, 53 hours 'to the rigging, a boat
manned with Burmah men-came out to /the. /assist.,
ince of the crew, the whole bf whom were fol.-
tunately picked; up. The loss of :the Alerrnaid is
entirely. to be attributed.to her unmanageablc.rstate,
Caused by her having been deprived of. hir main
and mizen masts when captured and teleavld by the
privateer Alalartic.

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T 1 e best kidney ptatoes are so plentiful in.Hert-
fordshire, that they 'are selling at one shilling a
bushel, and the common sort at ten-pence, and the
superabundant crops of wheat and other corn, are,
well got in. • I , ,

. . . .
•Married at Winchester, oh Sunday the 23d inst.
Mt: Git 1 r.;G, of Newbury, to, Miss ANN COLDHAM
FussELL, Daughterof Mr. FussELz.,, Organist of
the Cathedral and College at Winchester.

A man named Floradine was last week committed
to Warwick gaol„charged ',with the murder of
Ha.n►►ah Gooldingay. Lhe deccased*proving Preg.
rw.nt by the prisoner, Communicated :to_ him her
situation, when, in order to,procure an abortion, he
;lave to her. some medicine, which occasioned her
Beat h.

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POPES

WP have Been favoured b Correspomieht with ,
foliowing, as the origin of this famed relic of
our favourite Bard.

. .
" The, famous and admired ,Weeping Willow
planted.by POPE, is at length‘felled,to the ground';
it has been long deCaying, yet the axe still linger-
ed, but: at length the fatal stroke was given.
" had-not heard t•lr: early history of this 'Tree
till since its fall came from Spain, inciosing
Prersent to thelate Lady SuvpoLK, who 'came, over
with GEo R.O. anSQuEEN CAROLINE, and was
a favourite of both, particularly So, of the Kt
Mr. POPE ..waB in company when- the covering Was
taken off the Present : he observed the pieces of
sticks appeared as ifthere was some vegetation, and
added, " Pedlars they may produce something we
lxave nth in gngland."--;---Under this idea he planted
it in his garden, and it .produced the Willow Tree
that has given Mirth to so many others."

FoNTH r.t. Au cTioN.,=7—The.Adlion at Fdnthill
concluded'on Saturday. The known taste of Mr.
BEFluoin, . in furnishing this celebrated, mari,
sion, excited, a general wish to' behold the fur-
niture ere it was finally' separated ; 'there was in.
conse.querice a numerous attendance'of the Nobility.
and Gentry ;. and " the costly display, whilst it
extorted their admiration, excited An irresistible
impulse. to bid. The sofas, glasses, and fittings-up
of 'the Turkish room produced 74r guineas ; the
glasses in the tapes-room, 4..z5 guineas; and. the or
gan in the entrance_hall was knocked down for 290
guineas. Upwards of zOOO persons were assembled
on the last day's sale; and,for several days a general
scarcity of provisions and accommodations for man
kind horse was experienced for' fifteen- miles round

Covent-Garden Theatre opens, on Monday the
14. th of next month.
The play of The Red Cross Knights, which was
performed last night at the Haymarket, was first
brought for Ward at that. Theatre. It was written
by Hoz.m/01,.the Aftor, and was in a great measure
derived froM The 'Robbers, Of Soli fu.ta, The
English DramatiSt has, however, ingeniously con-
irived to convert the Ir6elling s t ice of a Ban-
ditti'into the adventurous enthusiasm of a Christian
Knight.- .

the Aaor, has returned to London,
after a very sticcessfitl rambling excursion. His ta-
lents are so well known, that the artrafflon of his
pe'rforMances, at the several placci he c:isi,ted, was
no More than was robe expelcd front.his merit.
Qv Icx is under engagements at Cheltenham,
and, other. places,- that will. occupy his time -.till
several weeks- after the Opening. of Drury-lane
Theatre. 'l'here is certainly no. performer exaalv
in hiS line at that theatre, and. the town must of
course be glad that. so excellent an aaor is likely
to be restored to it.

Old Q. is quite the life of Richmond at present.
He keeps open house, displays a magnificent spirit
bf hospitality, and entertains 'the neighhourhoOd
every night with bands of music on the water. He is
withal so .courteous, that he readily enters into
familiar chat with every rural damsel he meets,
ho\-vever homely her. attire, 'conceiving with the
Poet that •

Loveliness needs, not the foreign aid of ornament:,
" But is when unadorn'el, kdo'rn'd the,thost."

Yesterday, at Guildhall, Ann Brcgks was :charged
by Mr. Wallace, one of the- keepers of, the Royal
Exchange, with. assaulting him ,in his duty.. Mr.
Wallace stated, that. on Saturday last, between-three
And four o'clock, this woman, with two .more very
gaily dressed Toimg4,adies, would persist in going
into the/Change amongst ,the Gentlemen, and when
he attempted to.stop her, she struck him a blow
Porter and. Constable who assisted the 'Change-
keeper made also a similar charge:
,She'iaid in her
defence, that she saw a young woman whom she
knew go in, and Wished to follow her..,-The Sitting
Alderman told her 'she .hyd aEted very improperly,
and' if would, be necessaiit to get four house-keepers
to bail her for the assaults-, ere she could be libe-
rated. ,

- Sunday aftertron the inhabitants of East-lane,
.WalWorth, were thrown into an alarm by a column
of fire and sMoke issuing from\a shed where some
unslacked lime was kept ;" but by proper exertion
it was soon extinguished.
A young man lately entered on board His Ma-
jesty's Ship the Terror, and of course when' he was
entered,. he swore he Was not an apprentice, but it
has since tun* out that he is an apprentice, and
has been chtitned by his master. He has been ae:
cordingly given 'up, but the Solieitor of the, Acitni--
ratty has caused the youth to be apprehended, on a
charge,ofdefranding the 'Lords of the' Admiralty of
the Bounly Money which he had received,. to make
an exarnple of hith, to prevent thentm.teroos depre-
dutikrub which halie lately been committed. in this
,
way.
Last Friday night, a man who is in custody for
stealing a horse. out of Bushey Park, was, at his
own request, brought before Mr. BOND, at the
Public-Office, Bow-street, for re-examination, he
saying he knew where the' map was 'to be found of
whom he bought the horse. The man was accord-
lusty brought to the Office, when the person in ells-
tody being—put on his.oath, declined swearing posir
tively ; and it turned out, on investigatiOn, that
the Prisoner had sold the horse in this man's name,
and given his address. This. was accounted for by
the man having, about the time the horse was stolen
out of the park, left the town of Hampton, which
was his residence ; but a complete alibi- was proved,
several persons belonging to Woolwich Warren at..
tending to prove he was at his work there at-the
time the horse was sold by the Prisoner.. The Pri-
soner was therefore rernanded far trial

A few mornings since, a well-known feniale cha-
raCter, went into a Turner's shop in the neighbour-
hood of Covent-Garden, and 'an:inarm elderly Gen-
tleman only being in the shop, she,played off an old
trick called the Pinch, by asking for a shilling arti-
cle, and then requesting change for A Guinea, ob-
jeeting- to almost all the change that was offered,
and changing it several times, till she contrived to
make, off with :1. Bs,

ESSEX

ciiEtmsEoxv, z-,

BEFORE SIR NASH GROSt .',ND A Sl' IC

•

DOE, ex pert:. TtioltNroNv.
LANDLORD AND TENANT,

GARROW said, this was a.ques,roo
Landlord and Tenant. He knew the fury.
care to dispose of such a question with as :n salt
partiality towards he Plaintiff% as if all ofthemwo•i!
Landlords. kie never saw a case in whigh ~t was
less possible
.to doubt the propriety Of a Landloid's
determining to make his Tenant surrender his Lease,
nor ,had he ever heard of More gross- miscondia non
the part of a Tenant to provoke 'his Landlord than
that which was the subjea of complaint against the
Defendant. 'Sometimes Landlord, co:npiaincd
their Tenants did not perform their covenants, he.:
cause they did not pursue that course of husbandry
which Was the custom of the Country ; but Juries
told them, if a Tenant was not bound down by th-.•
terms .of his Lease to Tollnw a particular course of
agriculture, he was at liberty to adopt that whictl •
he thought-best. In the
,present instance. it had
been expressly stipulated, that the DA-endant should
do such and such things, and refrain. from others;,
if, therefore, he• had etitcred into covenants, and
wilfully broke them, there. was no one who -would •
not say he ought 'to 'Surrender his term. It would
be shesvn that the Defendant WaS warned not to con.
du& himself in the' manner hie had done. There
were several grounds upon which the Plaintiff insist.
ed the Lease had been forfeited: in the first place:
the rent was in arrears The Defendant, however.
had paid the amount of it into Court ; but he should •
tell his leartred Friend. such a payment was no
answer ;' fo: if a Tenant covenanted to pay his rent
at a.certain time, he was bound to do so ; and if he
did not,• his Lancifyi-rd had a righr to deprive hiin of
his Lease. lint the other Subjeas of compl'aint 'were
more material--it was alledged, that he had kept
the premises; house, and buildings in a most mi:
serabie state. of repair, notwithitanding the Plait
tiff's- Steward, after looking over the Farm, arid
finding it in a state of dilapidation, had assigned
him a sufficient quantity of oak and elm to effect the
necessary repairi' ; he had allowed him as much
elm as would produce 2000 feet of plank. ' How!
would. the Jury sUppose lie had employed this tim..
her l• Perhaps in repairing the .Farm as far •as
would. extend ?—No''such thing—he had employed
it in making a tall, ankw,ard.looking garden fenee,
such as no one ever saw before in the Country, of'
any.man except the Defendant would have dioamt
of. He wasted every bit of the timber in this
ciful eredion olsomeihing,.which was unlike every
thing, and for the- sake of his high pallisades, the
Farm was suifeted to go still farther to decal.
With regard to the management of the farm; the
Plaintiff complained/ it. was a di:ea violation of
et'ery covenant in. the Lease ; it was 'part of the
covenants that none of the arable lard shnuld.temaia
four' years without a summer till, but it would be
found that, instead OfTerforniing that covenant;
he had been all the, while tearing the-hEares`ih&J
out of .the land. Another charge against- the ‘De.,
fendant - was, that, instead: of contenting himself
with the lops and tops of -the timber tt,ees, as a
-tenant ought to have'done, he had.cut off the head
of. a, fine oak, thOugh he had been fold it: was a
maiden oak, and ought -not td have been. violated.
Another cause for forfeiture .was, that he had uilder-
lett part of the land, without
.: the.. licence of the
landlord. Perhaps, it would be•said, that the,part
he.: had let was not worth more than half a crown
a year. It was :the very 'thing! the Plaintiff tom:
plained of; for, if. half the estate had been under-
let,- he wonld have known Where to have gone for
his rent ; but cnt of afarrn of. zoo acres, if a small
piece; of lapel . was severed, it w'as impossible to
know-
.where -tO look for: it : besides,' it would v.:,
pear the Defendant never intended the pieceite had
underlet should revert to the Plaintiff:: It was
sufficientfor this Action, 'it he had covenanted not
to Jet anypar-t. He repeated his assurance, that •
the Jury would do the same justice as if they were
all landlords.•

The Lease was'prodUced—it contained all the'
covenants referred to in Mr. Gmtkow's vpening.
. • .
Mr. Wilt Shire,. the Agent and Steward' of .Mr.
Thornton, .said,% he had the care and inspeaion of
many "thousands of acres—he prepared the Lease,
liaving.first, made himself acquainted with the na-
turc,:of the land ; he accommodated the provisions to
What he thought the best manner of cultivating it.
Some. time after granting. the lease, lielociked over
the estate---repairs were. proposed,. aid it became
necessary to assign timber ; he assigned such oak
and eIM as the tenant. wanted.; he observed that the
rand had not been well cultivated ; he also observed
that many. branches had .been. cut from the timber_ •
trees, and that they had, been trimmed higher than.
they ought to have been. The farm, instead "'of
being repaired, had grown much, worse ; the. tim-
ber, which was cut for the express purpose of the ".
repairs, was applied a different ,way ; it had been
used in making a-tall 'garden fence, for which thure
was not the least necessity: .Therepairsat present
were in a very
.bad state,; the timber. trees had
been all improperly trimmed ; the oaks had, had
their heads cut off, and were converted into pollards,
and, in short, every covenant in ..the lease had been
•
broken.

I;he several breaches Of .covenant were fully sub-
stantiated.

- - - -
Mr. Jtstice GROSS SUggOted that the Defendant
should give up‘the Lease, and that it should be re-
ferred to some Gentlemen to ,:ay upon what terms.
Mr.' Serjeant BEST, • the D::fenclant's Coun,el,
and. Mr. GAttow, consented to this' recommend;{ .
tiln, and it vas agreed the Defendant shou.ld be
to remain on the•prethisesAill the 2,Arli of
June next, in order that he might have sufficient
time' to.take off his crops and that the incoming
tcnan,kshotild, in the mean time, be 'allowed to
sow kris seed; &c,

Upon these terms the C2,2t,,,.: concluded, and a
jwor was withdrawn.

The, Georgia, Loudon, from New York for
Havre de Grace, with indigo, cotton, tobacco, &c.
is detained ,by the 'Admiral Mitchell and Aicr:
hired Armed cutters and sent into Dartr.?oUrh.