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abase had, taken place. It was 11len ptopasea to pro-
Cure tlie,..aitiolei 'wanted by open contra& yet fir.
Davison, tiy being male acqnaiuted with the other
tenders, and bidding a little lower Ulan their
securcd the 'contract to himself; for all these reasons
he mo‘ed that t'here be laid before the House a copy
of the opining of the Attorney and Solicitor-Genvral,
respeEting buses in tiie Department of the Barrack-
..

Master-Genera!, arising out of the Third Report of
the Commissioners of Military Inquiry.

. Lord 11. PETTY should not follow
_the Right
Hon. Gentleman through all the points he had
touched upon, but he could not but notice the posi-
tion which had been laid down by him, that this
Wa3 of that class of poses ntions which ought to be
' conduaed under the authority of that House rather
than by the Treasury. He might state without tear
of its being Controverted, that it was the duty of i
Treasury, when they discovered any frauds to have
, been committed, to take measures for their pußish-
' meat, and to secure the public interests. If the
Treasury didnot n& in this manner, they would
merit the censure of the Hotfse ; if they should omit
to take such measures it would be the duty of that
House to take such steps as might appear necessary
on the occasion. But he should ask, what conve-
.nience would result from the House inst-ituting a
prosecution, after a proceeding had been adopted by
the Treasury ? The only effect of granting the Paper
moved tbr by the Right. Hon. Gentleman would be
to convey information to the Defendant, of the strong
and weak parts of the evidence against him, whereby
he might be enabled to frustrate the objeds of the
prosecution, by secreting such parts of the evidence
as might be necessary to supply any deficiencies
at present existing. The Treasury had done its'
duty, and nothing but its duty, and it was not de-
sirable to produce the confidential opinions of the
Law Officers el the Crown upon the subjed.
Mr.-PERCH/72H, agreed with the Ncble tord,
whose reasons would be satisfa&ory to his Right
Hon. Friend, He did hot agree with the position
of his Hon. Friend, that the House ought to inter-
fere when the prosecution-had been begun by the
Treasury. If the buSiness, hoWever, had not pro-
ceeded so far, he should have thought it -were de-
sirable that the prosecution should be instituted un-
der the authority of that House.
Mr. ROSE expressed his satisfaction at the rea-
sons stated by the Noble Lord.'

Lord HEIVRY PETTY in explanation stated,
that no prosecution had yet taken place, because it
had been thought necessary first to come at the Cash
Account," under the operation of a Bill -then before
the House.

After a few words from Lord ARCHIBALD HAMIL-
TON, the MOtion was withdrawn.
On the Motion of the Loan ADVOCATE of SCOT-
LAND, the-Order of the Day for a Committee on the
Scotch Clergy Biil was discharged sine die. _
Mr. \VICKI:AN' brought up the Bill for investing
certain Commissioners of Barrack Accounts with
full Powers.to administer Oaths, and.send for Papers
and Accounts. Read a first time; to be read a se-
cond time to•motrow.--Adjourned.

DUBLIN, '/AN, 3 t .----Yesterday the Duke of 33 ED-..
FORD and his son, accompanied by a number of No-
blemen and Gentlemen, hunted
.for the first time
since his arrival in Ireland. About five miles from
the City, near the honks of the canal, they drew
for a fox, and continued the clime for the greater
part of the day. The hounds Were brought from the
'County 'of ,Kilkenny for the purpo,;e, being consi
dered the finest in Ireland, and were folloWed by all
the Nobility and Gentry of that Comity. The Duke
determined to hunt every week for the season.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
at GUildhall, at which were present the Loan
MAYOR, several Aldermen, the Recorder, the City
Officers, and a great number of Comindners.

, - In pursuance of Letters Patent under the Great Seal
of England, dated Westminster, the l oth of April,
666, in the reign of Charles tLie Second, the Court
ele&ed the Irish Society, of which HAttyny,Cuals-
TIAN Comttn, Esq. was re-appointed Governor of
the City's Plantations at Ulster, in Ireland, and Mr.
Enwnab, COLEBATCH was elected Deputy to, the
said Governor.

Petitions to Parliament were prepared and ordered
to be transcribed and signed by the Town Clerk, and
presented by the Sheriff's, attended by Mr. Remem-
brancer, to the Honourable House of COMmOns for
leave to bring in Bills for altering the Market Days
and otherwise. improving Smithfield Market; for
improving fhe Navigation of the River Thames, by
making certain Cuts for the Purpose of avoiding the
Places where the Navigation is most obstructed, and
least-capable of being otherwise improved; and ibr
extendinc, the, Term for completing the improve-
ments at Temple Bar, &c.
The Court appointed Mr. JOHN WRIGHT a Go-
vernor of Christ's Hospital.
The Inhabitants of Aldersgate Ward presented d
Petition to the Court for widening St,Martin's-le;-
Grand ; which being read, was referred to the Com-
niittee for letting the City's Lands, to examine and
report thereon.

The shooting match, at 15 pigeons each, for 60
guineas, between Messrs. MORETON and Wyru4v,
took place yesterday, in a field near the Mitre Ta-
vern, on the New Paddington Canal. From the ce-
lebrity of the candidates, a number of persons. were
present at the match, which, however, afforded but
little diversion. WrruEv killed his first bird, and;
bete his skill ended, for every other bird escaped
him until be had fired ten. time', when the stake
was lost. MORETON hit his fourth bird, and missed
hiS fifth ; and the other thirteen he killed with great
dexterity. The match was decided when MoaEroi
had killed his ninth bird, but he fired at the whole
number, to decide bets.

The tide at Copenhagen and its environs rose so
high in the beginning of January-, that for several
days the greatest part of the Isle of Atnack, and the
little Isle of Salthelew, were overflowed. The 3 mall
portion of soil which remained above water was co-
vered with hares,. which had 'collected together to
save themselves flOll3 drowning,

LAtf 11EP•ORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENcir,

THF. ElNall. RICH.

The Defendant was brought up to receive the sew-
tenco of the Court, for pohlishing certain obscene
libels and Prints, Which Lord ELLENBOROUGH, C.
described as too gross to be repeated. He was tried
at the Sittings t7fter last Term, atWestminster, ~t hen
it appeared that., the Defendant kept a stall near the
Admiralty, and exposed an indecent song-book open.
ly upon a string, with other songs; and sold it to one
of the witnesses for Is. 6d. He the!) produced
,to
him another work, which he chewed to him in a
bye corner up a neighbouring court, and upon pass-
ing by a day or.t wo afterwards the witness saw him
in close conversation with two boys, in the same
corner, apparently exltibiting to them a book of the
same kind.

Mr. LxwEs, who was Counsel for the Prisoner at
the trial, and took an objection as to the record not
stating the title of one of the books in the alterna-
tive, as " The Voluptuary's Museum; or, -,"
now abandoned his objection, and only urged that
the Defendant was a miserable old man, and had
been .already confined eight months. .
Mr. GAWHOW was heard fi- the Prosecutors, who
are Members of the • Society for the Suppression of

Mr. Justice. LAWRENCE, in the- absence of Mr.
'Justice GRosE, passed' sentence—that the Defend-
ant should be imprisoned ten months, should sitind
in the pillory, and enter into security in 1001. for
his good behaviour for seven years.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, F. S.

WYLE V. RICHERY.

Mr. Serjeant BAILEY moved the Court to grant a
New Trial in this case. It was ail aelion on a Po-
licy of Insurance on the. Ship Hind, trading on the
Coast of Africa, where she was captured. At the
trial, 'the question was, whether the Broker had
communicated all the information necessary for the
risk of the Underwriters ?

The information consisted of Extraas from a Let,-
ter sent by the Captain ofithe Hiud, which stated,
that the Enemy had appeared on the Coast preVio-us.,-
ly to the i tth of September,' 1804, and had cap 7.
tured theAaive, of Liverpool, with- other ShipS,
in Maleniba Bay; after a dreadful a6tion, during
which all who opposed them were put to the sword;
also, that the same French force, .consisting.of four
large Armed Slips, and a Brig, had passed the Hind,
the Sisters, and the Sarah, which had placed them-_
selves gallantly in a line of defence in Loango Bay.
It further stated; that the Captain considered it a
most fortunate cireumstance that the Enemy bore
away without attacking them, and that there was
ground to believe they would not return, as they_
had landed a number of prisoners. The Hind was
described to be well on the t ith of September, and,
worth 'lOOOl. and the expressed his inten-
tion to remain three weeks to procure his cargo.
'• Information was received'ot Lloyd's when the po-
licy was etieaed, that several Vessels had been cap-- ,
tared on that part of the African Coast where the
Hind fay; by the fdrce before-mentioned; and the
Jury, under these circumstances, gave a verdii4 for
the Plaintiff.

•
It wds urged, in Support of the, present Motion,
that material parts of the Captain's Letter from
Loanga Bay had • not been extraCted, particularly a
statement that the whole of the Coast (meaning the
trade), --from 8, der. south of the Line,- had fallen
into the hands °Cafe Enemy. The Letter,- it was
contended,- would 'have communicated more infor-
mation:than the "Extra Las frOM It, and consequently
that. the cause Ought to undergo a new trial.
The Coat were of opinion that the Underwriters
had received every information that it was necessary
to conimunicate, and that there was no ground for
disturbing the verdiCt.--The Motion was refused.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, ,Fas. 6.

This day's Market was tolerably well supplied
with different kinds of Cattle ; Beef and Mutton are
something cheaper than our last Report; Pork is
rather dearer ; Veal sold at last Price, and the Trade
in general was but indifferent; the Sales in the
Hay Market were somewhat dull ; Hay and Clover
fetched-better prices than Monday's Market; Straw
has dropped in price. The following Prices and
numbers isr an accurate statement :

To sink the Oiral per stone of Blb.
Beef 4s. Sd. to ss. tod.—Mutton4s. 8(1. to ss. Sd.—Veal
6s. od. to Ss. od.--Larnb Os. od.. to os. od.—Pork ss. 4d. to
6s. Sd.
Be4sts. 65e.:,Sbeep and Lambs, 560(4—Calves, 250.7
Pigs, 370,

smirriirlELD ITAY•MARKET.
Hay 31. 15s. to 51..5x.--Clover 41. 4s. to 51. IoS.--Straw
124. to 21. os.

Accounts from Jamaica, of the 13th December,
say, " We understand, by recent accounts from Ca-
raccas, that among the French troops lately landed.
'there •frgun the Imperial Brig. Austerlitz and a
Schooner, are 25 oCannoneers and four French Gene-.
ral Officers ; and that. the Go: ernment were thrown
into considerably greater consternation from this un-
expe6ted reinforcement than they were at
,the corn-
fag of MIRANDA, conceiving it was the first step of
the French Government to gain possession of that
country."

On Wednesday a man of genteel appearance .was
charged on .suspicion, before A. GRAHAM, Esq. at
Bow-street, by Donaldson, one of the Constables,
of picking pockets on the preceding- night, in the
Pit of Covent Garden Theatre. Several pocket-
handkerChiefs were found on the ground near the
Prisoner, when secured; but no owner appearing
.tbr them he was liberated:

YELLOW FEVER.—The Physicians 'of America,
with Doc-tors MITCHELL and MILLER, Professors,
at them head, have inserted in a Monthiy-Publica,
tion (The Medical Repository of New Yorh),a Re-
port of their unanimous' opinion relative to the lad
that the Yellow Fever is endemical. This exlaly
corresponds with the directions enclosed in the boxes
of Medicine sent out from the Warehouse at Char-
ing Cross, by the Dire&ors of the Institution to
cure Health iu Foreign Climates ;and which proves
that every individual who is going abroad ought to
be supplied with the Yellow Fever Remedy.