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PORTUGUESE PAPERS.

LISBON, JUNE 29.—Yesterday arrived here about
3000 troops from England, under convoy of La
Nymph frigate, Capt. PBRCY.

011 of 3000 tutu ariNgd on the rill] not ill Mu h. 1.-1
where it was joined on the 13th, by a corps front
Conventecal, and then marched to Mirandnia and

Alcuescar.

The Walsirzglzam Packet, Capt. RosErts, arrived
here on the 25tb,, with the Mail of the 14th inst.
ABEP,NTES, JUNE 18.—His Excellency Sir Aite
I'HUR Wa•LLESLEY, has addressed the following let.
ter to the Supreme Junta of Badojot,:
" MY LORDS, Abrantes, Tune 4.

They write from Idattba, under date of the 12th
instant, and from Castello-Blanco on tho 1 -4 ih, that
a corps of 7000 men assembled there, and a park
of artillery was expected. On the loth the French
attempted to pass the Bridge of Alcantara, but it

" I had the honour to receive your Excellencies
ast letter, of the 16th June, and feel concerned to
14y, that I found it impossible to answer sooner,
haying thought it right first, to give the necessary
orders to the troops under my command.
" it is my intention to mare* by the road of
Castillo-Blauco and Coria CO Placentia, and to Banas
through Tie;as. I request your Excellencies will
direct the Magistrates to provide quarters on that
March for 30,000 men and 6000 horses, including
cavalry, artillery, infantry, and baggage.
" I have the honour, &c.
" A. WELLESI.EY."

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was broken down by our troops. The French made
preparations to retreat to Madrid on the approach of
the. combined Army.

CIIA.VES, JUNE 13.—Intelligence was yesterday
received that the division of Marshal NaY is marching
to Castello Viejo, and a French Courier is said to
have been intercepted, with orders for all the French
Marshals in Spain to retreat to France. We hope
this piece of information will be confirmed.
By intelligence communicated, from Pampeluna,
by his Excellency Marquis de AYERVE, one of the
Lords of the Household of his Majesty FERDINAND
VII. we learn that his Majesty, and hiS august bro.
ther, Don CARLOS, enjoy the best state of health,
and stilt reside in the Palace of Valencey. They
are kept in the most profound ignorance with re-
gard to all the occurrences of the day, and not even
allowed to read the French newspapers. The park
where they are permitted to take the air does not
extend beyond a league. His Majesty's household,
and even. his Physicians are separated from their
august master. Heaven, which watches over inno-
cence and virtue, will not leave unpunished the un-
precedented wickedness. and atrocity of the monster
who keeps in confinement the objeEts of the hope of
all good Spaniards.—(Liston Diary, June 22.) •
According to the last accounts from Spain, Gene-
si! BLAKE'S army was daily reinforced. The enemy's
loss in the last battle exceeded 2000 men, and they
also lost much artillery, and a large quantity of mi-
litary stores.

The army of Alcaniz has entered Arragon sixteen
thousand strong, and was received under the most
enthusiastic acclamations of " Long live FERDINAND
the With."

Lisßow, Jnrrs 27.—The Governor of Oporto,
General TRANT, has issued a Proclamation, dated
Head-quarters, Oporto, 12th June, direa.ing all the
Portnguese troops dispersed in consequence of the
last occupation of Oporto by the French, immedi-
ately to rejoin their different corps on pain of being
apprehended and punished according to the articles
of" war.

The following notice has been published at

Oporto :--

, " The Board of Commissioners appointed by his
Excellency the Governor of this place, General N.
TRANT, to seize all property belonging to the in-
tended French Government, makes known to all per-
sons, of every quality and description in this City and
its district, as well as in the provinces of the North,
that they are to be accountable for all such sums of mo-
ney, 'plate, provisions, warlike stores, and all other
effects, as shall not be declared to this Board within
eight days', by those who inhabit this city, and within
20 days by those who reside in the other provinces,
and key shall also be tried by the Criminal Tribu-
Qat OL this city ; and, if conviCled, punished as
guilty of embezzlement and theft. With regard io the
P°rtUguese and Allied Nations' effeEts, rights, and
claims; which, in consequence of the occupation of
the French, were seized upon by the said intended
Government, the respeCtive proprietors thereof may
address their claims to this Board.
MACROBAN FULVAS MO:it:WIEN BORRI15."

COIN/BRAt JUNE 22.—They write from Valencia,
under date of the lOth of June, that after the battle
of San Payo, the French retreated to Pontevedra,
where they were attacked by Genera/ lquart.Lo, and
defeated with considerable loss. They then retreat-
ed to Culdas, and farther to Santiago. Six thousand
English are expeEted to disembark in Vigo.

Letters from Basaln; in Catalonia; advise, that the
Germans continue to desert, and that the inhabi-
ants of Ampundam have risen in a mass against
the French. In letters from Tarissa, a revolution
is, said to have taken place in Barcelona against the
French.

VICTOR is at Torremetcka, with 6000 men ; in
Alulpartida, are 1600 ; ',AMU has as many ;
MESLIN is at the head of 2000 men in Montanches ;
and another General is with 1,500 men in Arqui-
jell. The rest of the French foirce.in Spain, which
i, estimated at 22,000 men, are divided into detach
inents which overrun and rob the country. A divi-

‘")111,

TO THE EDITOII.

In Me Edinburgh Review for the month of Apiii
I:,A, upon the Publication by Mr. Newenharn otithe
StAte of Ireland, is the following Paragraph

" deeply indented coasts, her extensive lakes, and the
fiunlbel, sae, and direction of her Jivers will in4vitably ze.
cure to tier a most excellent system of navigation as soon as
the capitals of individuals are sufficiently large, the profits of
employing than in other ways sufficiently reduced, and,
. above all,the quantity -of goods to be carried sufficiently eon-
,siderable to encourage private subscriptions, and secure their
effectual application."
•
The Reviewers then proceed to say—

" But that this great obje6t cannot be completed until this
period arrives, is nearly certain ; and how far, under all the
circumstances of the case, a very beneficial stimulus can be
given to it, by the Government Advances recommended.by
Mr. Newenham, may reasonably be questioned, when we
hear so much of the inveterate propensity to jobbing which
prevails in Ireland in the experkiture of Public Money. 1 t
was no lodger ago than the end of last March, that Sir John
Newport stated in Parliatnent, that of the 500,0001. granted at
the Union for the Inland Navigation of Ireland, only about
27,0001. had been drawn for in the course of the eight years
that had since elapsed,of which 60001. had gone in salaries; so
that the superintendance of the Expenditure of 2 I ,0001. for
Public Purposes, had already cost 6,0001."

The general imputation of an inveterate propensity
to job&ing is thus especially fixed upon the Direc-
tors-General of Navigation.
Such unqualified assertions, so confidently given
to the Public, however improbable they must ap-
pear to any reasoning mind, upon the very face of
the statements, will tlevertheice‘a übtein cnciir. The
Reviewers in the same Publication declare that,
" what they want is a collettion of well authenticat-
ed facts," that they are in search of " faCts and in-
torMation." Now most persons into whose hands
that Review may fall, will indolently presume that
the Edinburgh Reviewers could not possibly have
gone out of their way to advance so serious 3 charge,
unless they had first in their search ascertained that
it is founded in truth. Uncontradided, the assertions
would be taken as admitted fads.

Not knowing whom to address as the Writers or
Editors of TheEdinburghßeview ,you,Sir, are request-
ed to inform those Gentlemen, through the extensive
currency ofyour Paper, that if they had inquired from
any one acquainted with the condud of that Board,
if they had consulted the Returns made to Parlia-
ment, and printed, or if they had taken the trouble
of asking Sir John Newport, they must immediately
have been satisfied that the misconduct which they
have imputed to the Directors-General has not the

smallest foundation in truth. They might then have
known that upwards of 350,0001. have been adually
issued, comprising Grants for the Royal Canal, the
Barrow; the Limerick, the Newry, the Shannon, and
the Tyrone Navigations, and for Dublin Port and
Dublin Harbour ; that -a further sum is engaged to
be issued upon the fulfilment of contra&S, and, upon
inquiry, they might nave learned that an agreement
is depending, which, if it shall succeed, will, with
the fells and Poundage, payable to the Public on
Issues from the Treasury, alit-oust entirely exhaust the
whole of the Grant. By a very little trouble they
might have colleaed these facts well authenticated,
and they would have learned with how little truth
ur justice that Board could be charged with an in-
veterate propensity to jobbing in the expenditure of
the public 'money, or with inattention to the pur-
poses of their institution.
The Reviewers are all honourable men, "and no
doubt will do what they can to wipe out a stain so
unjustly cast-from their pen ; nevertheless, as up-
right men, they will still feel a wounded refle&ion
(and it may happily indUce them to curb an in-
veterate propensity to censure), that although they
use every endeavour within. their power to remedy
the mischief, it is not possible that it can be Com-
pletely done away, because many will have seen the
charge who never will sev its contradielion.
Dub/in, X. X.

American Papers to the 12th of June inclusive,
have been received: The Pa* had arrived with
the intelligence of the exceptions taken by the Bri
tish Government to the arrangements made by Mr.
ERSKINE. The preparations for the eelebratiou of
the renewal of free intercourse with Britain were,
of course, suspended: The 'papers contain accounts
of the proceedings of Congress, which shew that
the American Government Is disposed to prevent the
abuse of the rights of American citizens, by means of
protections, obtained by foreign seamen by false
swearing. Above ten thousand of these false pro-
tatfilions are supposed to be obtained in this mangier
every year. Mr. DANA. had brought in a Bill to pre-
vent this abuse. This Bill, which was well receiv-
ed, and likely to pass, would do more than any other
measure that could be devised' to prevent disputes
between the Officers of his Britannic Majesty, just-
ly claiming British subje&s from American vessels,
and American Commanders wishing to prote& all
rightful citizens of the „United States.—Mr. DANA
has proposed also to,exact from the masters of all
American vessels a security that they will not enter
any port declared to be in a state of blockade. From
these voluntary propositions, containing much of the
stipulations which Mr. ERSKINE was expeeted to ' It is not a little curious, that at a Meeting, on
have comprehended in his treaty, we are enabled the 4th instant, or Americans at (Paris, to celebrate
to hope that the amicable adjustment, the prospect the Anniversary of the Independence of the United
of which gave so much satisfaction to us, and to our 'States, among the ornamental emblems prepared
American brethren, will not experience any impedi- for the occasion, France and America were repre-
men t. , , sented as reposing together in the Temple of Peace,
The Governor of Quebec, as appears by a speech with poor Old England at their feet. BUONAPARTE'S
delivered by him in the month of May last, has pro- Orders and Decrees have prevented every thing like
rogued the Provincial Parliament, with a view to its amity from prevailing between France and America,
immediate 'dissolution. He speaks his mind very and every moment seems to threaten a rupture be-
ingenuously to the House, arid tells them, that in- tweet the two States, 'particularly as this'conntry is
stead of furthering the public business, their whole adopting every conelliatory measure towards America
time has been occupied in personal animosities and consistent with her own dignity. But that England
useless discussions on meaanres, the principles of should be represented as prostrate at the feet of France
which had been long fixed and acknowledged. He and America, is ridiculous, since her naval trident en.:
dismisses them to their constituents, to defend their., ables her to bid defiance to the sceptre of usurpation
condual in the best way they can. . in France, the iron crown of Italy, and all the
If it be true, as reported, that LANNES beheld the vassal states of Buosiarmers, and is the best friend
approach,of death with terror and dismay, and even that America could find to proteet
shed tears at the awful fate immediately before him, arrogant Tyrant, who despises comiher against an
nerce in compa-
it skews, what could hardly have been expected, rison , with military renown, and who would willaig-
that his atrocities had not steeled him against the ly purchase that at the expence of every State in the
power of conscience. Considering the multiplicity world, and even the ruin of the country which is
of his` crimes, it is nut wonderful that he should f cursed with his domination. •
have felt some compunction, nor is it at wonder- I BREAD.—There was no Court of Aldermen to-
ful that BUONAPARTB should have beheld such emo- I day. The Lord-Mayor, after inspecting the returns
dons with contempt or indignation; but the same of the Bakers' Company' and Meal-weighers, ordered
awful moment will come to him, and dreadful in• it to advance id. per peck.
deed will be his death-bed if he should be sensible The King of Wirtemberg has ordered the removal
of his approaching end, since the whole history of , of Oe public cheats from Stutgard to Strasburgh,
mankind cannot produce so bad a man, or one'
, T 1 owing to the incursions of the Tyrolean patriots.
who has occasioned so much misery in 'the world.
he new drama of. The Foundling of the Forest
• When Colonel WARDLE'S Solicitor went 'to Mrs, has made such an impres.ion on the Public, and
CLARKE, previous to the late trial, to caution her as promises to be so Vet y productive, that the Hay-
to her evidence, and frighten her against the terrible market Proprietors may be said to possess a Diamorid-
voss-examiisatiors 'of Sedeant BEST, she told him mine.
that she considered Col.Ws RDLE was the greatest fool The Austrians have thrown a bridge over the. Da-
she had ever met with, but he really seemed to be nube near Wolfsthal, one post station from Pres-
a much greater. It is not true that, in anslker to an burgh, and fortified it with a redoubt on the right
inquiry in Court whose proieaiert she was then un- bank, and ereeted, some batteries on the left.
der, she archly said Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S. No a The. new King of Sweden, CHARLES XIII. has
such question was asked. abolished the custom observed among the Officers of
The French Minister at Hamburgh lately ordered the army every since the Revolution in 1772, of
an edition of the Correspondenten, which contained wearing a white scarf round the left arm, owing to
the Parole of the Austrian army, alluding to the bat- its rendering them, in skirmishes and general en-
tles of the 21st and 22d, of May, to be suppressed, gagements, easily- distinguished by the enemy's
and the Editor to be summoned before the Civil Au- mails,nieri.
thorities, by whom he was heavily tined. '. The King of Bavaria has ordered another con-
Gen. AM-ENDS raised, in the Saxon territories, a scription to be enforced throughout his territory.—
corps of 1500 men, for whom he obliged the City Ali males between the years of 17 and GO are to be
of Dresden to furnish uniforms. He also loaded ta,ken. The reasons asrigned for this measure are,
120 waggons with ammunition and military stores the loss which the Bavarian Regiments ha.s sustbin-
from the arsenals, which he dispatched to Prague, in ed in 15 engagements, and the increasing boldness
Bohemia. , of the TYrOCeal)..e. .

REPORT.

SHERIFF'S COURT, ftLY
BURCHALL, ESQ'.

RIDGE AGAINST SALTER, ESQ.--FOX

Mr. H.vltrisotr stated, that this was a species
action which rarely came before the Jury ef a County;
but particularly the County of Middlesex, it was an
adioo brought by Mr. Ridge, a Gentleman of large
landed property; in the neighbourhood of Edgware,
against Samuel Salter, Esq. and the object of the
salon was to recover damages for an injury sustained
by the defendant coming upon the. lands of the
plaintiff, with hounds and horses, for the purpose of
turning out and hunting foxes. The Learned
COunsel observed, that an atlion like the present
might seem extraordinary to those who considered
hunting as a lawful amusetnent. It certainly was arr
amusement less injurious, when enjoyed by those per-
sons at a distance from town, who having landed pro-
perty themselves, knew bow to• partake of the diver-
sion without injuring the property of others ; but it
was a very different thing when such an amusement
was resorted to in the.
of
of London,
where, from the value of the lane, and a variety Of -
circumstances, the injury far exreded what could
possibly be sustained in the country. The defendant,
Mr. Salter, was a Member of what „as larwerly
called the Berkeley Hunt, and vas now-a part pro-
prietor of the p-ick of hounds which belonged to
Lord Berkeley when he was living. In the tune cif
Lord Berkeley, they drew tor the foxes at a consi-
derable distance from London, and though they did
injury, it was comparatively trifling to what
the subje& of the present aOion. The hounds
were now turned out within- 10 miles of Lo\Ann, and
notice was given of the time. The consequence was,
that every horse-dealer, every clerk, in short, every
person who could procure an animal with four legs
and a tail,was sure to attend this hunt, to the amount
of perhaps two hundred or more. These persoas
having no land of their own, had of course but little
regard to that of others, and they galloped indiscrr:
minately over the fields of the Plamti.tf, to drain
which considerable sums of money had been ex-
pended. They had thereby' not only destroyed the
effeCt of the measures he had adopted for draining
and cultivating his land, but they had rendered the
land itself less valuable to the proprietor, for some
time to come, Having dwelt more at large on the
nature, of the injury, he concluded by trusting the
Jury would give such damages as would prevent a
repetition of it.
It -was proved that the Defendant had received
notice not to bring his hounds npon the Plaintiff's
lands. It was also proved that the Plaintiff's lands
had been in an expensive mode of drainage, which
had been rendered ineffedual by tire; trampling of
the horses ; that the Defendant was sectshunting,
after he had been warned off, and that the person
who had warned him, instead of being attended to,
had been threatened with a horse-whipping.
Mr. STEWART addressed the Jiiry on behalf of the
Defendant ; he maintained that hunting was a h'iw-
ful recreation ; that by the ancient law every man
was sanelioned in following the hounds over the hinds
of others, doing as little harm -as possible. He ad-
mitted that the Defendant had no right to go upon
the Plaintes lands and turn out the foxes, and for
hiving done so, he had suffered judgment to go by
default; but he felt perfealy assured the Jury would
not consider this a case void, called for vindiaive
damages.
-Mr. UNDER SHERIFF stated that the Defendant
had admitted the trespass, and the only question
was the quantum of damages. The trespass was not
excusable by its having been inadvertent--,it was
a wilful trespass, commuted atter warning had been
given by the Plaintiff.
The Jury consulted a short time, and returned a
verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages 501.

COURT OF CHANCERY, [VLY'I7,

SIR T. COCKBURNE AND OTHERS V. THOMPSON AND

OTHERS.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved, on behalf 'of the
Plantiffs, that certain sums of money, in the hands
of Messrs. Prescott and Co. and Sir Walter Stirlim:7,
and Co. bankers, be paid into Court. The circum-
stances upon which this application was .founded
were the following :—A society had been founded
under the denomination of ", The Philanthropic
Annuity Society," for the purpose of granting an-
nuities
upon more equitable and advantageous
terms than were before offered • to the public.
The Plaintiffs were chosen and appointed Di-
ret-fors, and the Defendant Thompson, Soli-
citor to the Society, the funds of which were
to be. paid into the hands of the above-mentioned
bankers. The Society, however, had scarcely graht-
ed more than ope or two annuities before it was dis-
covered that they were disabled from carryicg their
plan into general execution, by the 17th of Geo. 111.
which required a specific enumeration of the names of
the grantors of the annuities, which was in this case
imeompatihle with the nature of the Institution, the
shares being in a constant state of fluatsation with
respe& to their holders. It therefore became ne-
cessary to dissolve the Society, acid distribuie the
funds to their respedive owners. The Defindont
Thompson had received a good deal of money tt.
he had not accounted for, and it was thereforethought expedient to apply to his Lordship to or-
der the money to. be brought into Court, to the
purpose ot. facilitating the diAribution thereof.
Messrs. Prescott and Co. and Messrs. Sri,ii?,.4
and Co. expressed, by their respective Coup,el,
their readiness to pay the money in their hands,
praying however, to be allowed to retain in their
hands sufficient to reimburse themselves for tt e
costs of their answer.

Mr, AGAR, on behalf of the Defendant Thompson,
said, he entertained some doubt whether the• C 0..:;
had power to lay its hands on the property of
partners, on a bill filed by a certain number of them
against the others, before the answers of Ile laot..r
had been put in. He also begged leave to state •ji;.!
Mr. Thompson was himself proprietor of shares
the Society to a much larger amount than tl;ose
held by the Plaintiffs, and had likewise ei;,iws
against the Society much exceeding any baidn:
his hands beknging to them.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.--" This money
be best in Court, as those who have got it setfo
have co objeoion to deliver it up. It is then:tor,
well to take it, while they are in that humour. At

• the bankers, 1 think, aie entitled to
-something to defray the costs of their answer."
-After some observations from the Counsel for the
bankers, the Court allowed them to retain 301. in
their hands for that purpose; and the remainder of
the money was ordered to be lodged in the Bank of
England, with the privity of the Accouotaot-Gene•
rat, to the credit of this cause.