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jag prepared in .the fullest manner with his
Ante, was highly ;censur:o—more especiallrhis
having mentioned the case of Colonel.: -French,
whom he knew to be in the West Indies; and whose
absence, be stated, would not allow his proving that
charge.
Mr. SaEninAt4 felt perfeffly convinced the Hon.
:Gentlenian had not, brought forward 'his present
'charges from any unworthy motive, and he'trUsted
(he House would give him that fair and candid indul-
gence whiCh might be expeded from the liberality
of a-British Parliament. He could not, however,
avoid reprehending the lightness with which the
Honourable Gent'eman had aded in the whole of
this business. He had himself, when he first heard '
of the Honourable-Gentleman'scintention to.,bring
forward those charges, taken the liberty to send a
'common friend to advise and commune with him on
the high importance of the'aecusatious he was about
to make; this h© (Mr. Sheridan) conceived it to be
Ilia duty to do tronaAnotives of public duty. .Ho felt
that the Bonourable Gentleman's intentions were
the ;:rust fair and hUnourahle, but he had to lament,
That it appeared evident in .this instance he had been
made the tool of an association of men of the most
unprincipled nature, and whose charaders, if the
)406. Gentleman had taken time to inquire, he
would have found Were most infamous. He depre-
cated, in the strongest terms, the delay of the in-
quiry and after some further conversation, it was
agreed tliPt• the .following persons should be Sum-
moned to• attend the House on Tuesday next:—
Captain Huxley Sandon, Mr. Cockayne, Mr. Curry,
Mr. Donovan, Captain Tuck, Mrs. Mary Anne
Clarke, and Mrs. Shaw.
The Reports of the Committee were then ordered
to be printed, and the House adjourned pt twelve
o'clock tilllo-morrow.

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SATURDAY, FEDRUARY 4, 1809.

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'We are sorry to hear that the ,Expedition;runder
the t.ommand- of Major-General SitunattooK, eon-
siithig of about 5000 men, has been dispersed
by sever© weather. One Transport has put back
into Portsmouth, and two into Cork. Their desti-
ny on is sUpposed to have been for Ceuta.

We yesterday contradiaed the report of the French
having advanced near Lisbon, and of the evacuation of
that city by our Troops. The subjea of Portugal was
last night adverted - in the House of.. Lords,
and the statement of the Earl of..l4.mtPoor.
fully con4rrned the inforknatlon. which we sub-
mated to our Readers.

The important subject of the.- Charges against
the Cominanc.ler in Chief, aS, our Readers will
see, was resnined yesterday in the House of
Commons, and though', we:, shall. persevere in
refraining from alt Comments; on,the :',vidence till
the discussion is concluded, we cannot forbear from
expressing otir sincere pleasure that the result is
lil;clyto be in the highest degree honourable to
the character of the Tllustrious Persimage, in ques-
tion, not only as to, the charges themselves, but
as AO the great ,adVantages which the Nation has
derived from the improvement of its Military Ser-
vice. •

Our. Readers will find in' a subsequent Column the
tbtli Bulletin, the substance of ,w-bilo WAkfita It'd Yes-

terday.

His MAJESTY did not come to town yesterday, as
was expected, awing to the ferry at artehet not yet
being m a state for cart taps tuliti'lerried over, and
the bride which Separates Eton and Windsor having
been blown tip by the floods, His MAJESTY will
come to !OWL) on. Monday, if the impediments to
his txavelling are removed: ,
It is now said, that the plan of Her MArcery
drenrting at the Duke of cUr•IBERLANn's for the
Drawing-,lloom is given up, in consequence of there
being convenient places to keep Her IIAJESTY's
pnd tne. PRINOESSI!ni Court dresses,in his Royal
l'iwatiESs's apartments, and that Her MAJESTY and
the PaiNczsses will dress at the.caueen's Palace :
a teuiporary gate will -be made in the wall of tha
garden aLtached-to'St:limest,a ralace,from the Park,
for the Royal Family's carriages to enter;- they will
proceed through the garden to n:window where thew
of stew, over .wilieh tberowill,he a tem-
porary ctoopy eroded for them to enter,: To give
time for these arrangements 44.11e,,rhpde,:_ytte wider-
btaqd ti'e intended pritwing,rauq# iorplA off from the
.16th,to the g3d inst.
sir V4iie HUNT and Sir JONAII BARRINGTON
are, wt.:, hear, to be returned to Parliament for
English BOroughs this Session,,
On Monday last, as some workmen were digging
a drain near a large piece of water, on the estate of
Jopti } ~tt,ttsor , 1;144. at Shotswell, near Bucking-
ilwy struck against- a hard-substance, whith
wau`observttt to he a,large vase,.of ialttiothe weight;
„olid on its being opened,. it proved to contain a very
curious collection qf old coins, and other valuable
.st:tignities, The dates upon sonic &,the coins cor-
•,..,;,,titt with the thw uf 01.1YER CIO4s(WELL;

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frootif fire iii P4ll 411 littatened
•. highiy injuriooS.tiiqhe-Arts,•ai iLbroke out
.I‘,lr, 1, NGit.,IIEIN, who, for its
ot the iinest eolleetions of pie-
,: :',!, ot..ntry. 'These .piclorc..:s were, how,
reitinve4 tr,;l,- atter "he shorn • was
40:1 dep, d 0..1 a glace of c,airtk.