The Sun.
London, England, 1809-06-27 00:00:00

SO,U77H AMERICA

The folldwing article is contained in a letter from
Stoke, near Plymouth, by yesterday's post :--
I send you the following intelligence, having
arrived at Yealtn RiVer, a port,a teiv miles to the
Eastward of this,place, this morning :—On the 19th,
of Cork' harbour, I was boarded by his Majesty's
Ship Seine, Capt. ATKINS, with her prize the El
.Cassamero, of 28 guns and. 180 men, from Buenos
Ayres, .bound to any port in t'rance, having on
board an immense quantify of specie, sent by Lt-
NIERS tor the.use of the Spanish Government under
JOSEPH BVONAPARTE. There were also. on board
a Spanish ,Nobleman and two Gentlemen, as pri-
soners ; these persons were sent out by the General
Junta of Madrid, they having. become popular in
the province of.Buenos :Ayres. . Lit4tutts.finding his
consequence or; the decline, and he being decidedly
in
,the 'French interest, had them seized in the mid-
. dle of the night in their 'beds, and sent.upwards of
thirty-Miles down the river in a boat, on board the
Cassamero. LINIERS'S Aid-de-Camp and Secretary
arc also on board,
,being charged with dispatches for.
Ktng JOSE1P11: Party spirit runs high at Buenos
Ayres ; the principal people are tor. their being inde-
pendent; the lower order for King FERDINAND ;
while LINTERS, and the principal Officers of the Re-
venue; are for BUONAPARTS. The Revenue and
Taxes were all colle&ed at Buenos Ayres, and in-
tended to be shined, they say, fur Spain, for the
use of the Patriots, but would,he ordered tor France
as this ship w?.4, The Captain and Officers French,
drew Spaniards:" •

DREADFUL EXPLOSION at PORTSMOUTH.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

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The number of lives l'ost ;and of persons wounded,
cannot be positively ascertained. Three soldiers oi.the
Bth regiment,-who were standing about_ the baggage,
were killed ; Tour were badly, and five ,slightly
wounded. Several .ort he soldiers' wives and children
have lost their lives. The soldier who was guarding
the baggage. had the barrel of -his grin blown out of
the stock, and the buttons of his coat to,rn oft, . but
himself was not hurt. The calamity, as we have at- ,
Teady stated, is attributed to the wife of one of the
'soldiers.. She was washing near where the baggage
'lay, on the beach, and finding the tobacco in her pipe
would not, burns she struck the bowl of the pipe
agaihst the pebbles, when a little of the tobacco fell
out, and set fire to dotne,few grains of powder. that
were scattered on the beaeh ; this communicated it-
self to a cartridge, which flew into a.crate of baggage,
set same loose cartridges on fire, and communicated
itself, to a barrel of powder, which blew up. She
was stooping down to take up her child,
..with en
intention to make her escape, when she was beaten
backwards-; her washing-tubs, &c. fell upon herself
and child, which nearly covered her;, and to this
circumstance.she.attributes her preservation, which
she-bewails, because she has been the unhappy means
of causing the death of so. many others. After.
the cartridges blew up; some of the soldiers who
were near took that circtunstances as a warning, and
flew from the spot, .whilst others- were drawn
nearer to it, to ascertain the cause, and these unfor-
tunate persons Were of the number of the principal
sufferers.: . .

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RnExp.—There being no Court,of Aldermen to-
day, thel.,ortn-MAyott, after inspeEting the returns
of Flour from the Baker'S' Company, ordered the
price to be lowered id. per peck.
SPorrttsto.-r,A„match, which excited considera-
ble interest, took place yesterday. on ibe Harrow
Road, betwixt an English and an Irish poney, ten
mil* for 100 guineas. The animals were rode by
their owners, each of whom A,eiglied nearly twelve
stone, and bets were two to oue on the English po-
ney, but he was beat by a mile. The winner is out
of the celebrated Podreen mare. and performed the.
distance in 33. minutes.

Suicrus.-.-On Sunday , morning an upper .female
gested itself to the Hon. Gentleman's mind in con-
servant in the family of Colonel Thorp, Islington sequnce of a discovery he made in the annual ac-
Road, hung herself in her bedchamber. Several counts, that the total expenditure of Great l3ritain,
things had been missing from the house, and on Sun- in the year ending the 6th of January, 1808,1•Wilti
day morning her master's. son inquired of the de- seventy-one millions, and that in the year coding
ceased ter' an 'article of his dress; she pretended to go the nth of January, 18094. ri Was seventy-nine mita
for it, but went to ht chamber and• destroyed her. lions. The Honourable •Gentlernan finds co increase
self. Duplicates of -.the articles inquired • tor,, and of charge to the amount of eight millions', and the
other articles of property were found in her pockets. necessary and natural inference is, that a saving of
The Limerick Paper, of June 20, says—" A letter eleven may be made. Having-come to, thig icresist7
received by a Gentle Man in this city, from Kerry, tible-conclusion, the Honourable Gentleman ,Ziastens
states, that on Sunday night last Oliver Stokes and to publish his discovery at the Crown and., Anchor,
George Church, Esqrs, apprehended three men, neat and has since laboured to mike up an account,
Crotto, in that. county. In the house where they sheaving the means by which this saving may beef-.
were taken, were found the copy of a United Irish.; .felted. Before I proceed to 'say a few words on
ma'n's oaili,:of a very violent tendency, forty builel4, . those means,' I will endeavont tp.state very shortly
some gunpowder, two carbines; and a volt or rat of to the House the principal causes of the increased
tecruits, 96 in nuinber." t txptnct in the year itrov, torsi red Ivitti,the pie-

baieasse ; the lioneGentlerean'e
therefei, eeierediscreetfy ispe4ie-•, to
altogether feeni averrent. e ihere
is the eugitteetationtO tire eharge of.the public deb •
occastoped b) • the', ken of thelYeare •iarnountine• le
about keeoool. In th navy.en .ihci-eatedjele'recce,
of 1,6.09,0001. owing "•peincipally .tb the increased
eirice ef, veva! etores. j_n ere;y, treleeseeee ,te
the Same 'arnotinte reehrg to the angthentatice or*
.`bur regular foree, Cr, our having had'it'gt cat pre-
portion of that force 'employed in aiittee-Opeeitione
in Spain, end Portugal. There it also 1,500,0001 r
en 'arrest. of debt due by thc'Publie to fire EaeLt Indie
Company, for services perforined b rh4en in fernier,
years e and about a,e00,0001. of Ceetariiery eo our
allies, te which 1.260,0001. was selit ire the 7.-efee
Sweden, underelte lietion of Parlieerieee • aed.. the
remainder th aid the petriotie .efferts, of fief ,See,
niardti, with the concerrence 'and ,riperobet:on of •
every man in the kieedorn. leave teethe
House and to the pnblic to jttoee, wleetteer.-efiy
these kraiicks., at expenditure cotild have beeri
tbiidged, consistent with justice or• so eel poliey
and will pow peoieted to the plan of the Hoe- -Gene'
tternati., • , • , • . .
His first prop oral is to disband the tete re etimeere
of Life Guards. They are represented' by the•lio-
noel-able (..4entlenian to be totally unnecessary; net
1 thipk when the •House considers not, only that •
thesecorps ore connected with th 6 splendour of the
Throne, and are called, upon' to attend upon the.
Sovereign.wheneeer visits any public place in the
-metropolis, bur that their services ate required on.
all. oceretions of ,publie. cerertioey; !end are essential
forthe preservation of ptil?licetranquillty and goo.t
order;, 'they will.not he dispbeed; to allow, the Hue..
'Get-PP-mien to take credit' for Iles - propesed saving.'
,llldetd it must be..obvireus that if these two .entice
were; redueed, other••cortis of cavalry, in lewd' to
thii Same eitente Would burequisite for the service
tied .:'Police of Lyndon, and the, tamest
'therefore, diet cOnld. be effected by the sacrifice of
Vie other considerations to Which I have referred;
would ,be, the paltry difference, between the pay
of the Life Guards and that of cavalry of the lime.
The neXt !eying is of a more extensive and
,sweep-
ing nature. 'O6 Honourable Gentleman proposeie
to tednee the Cavalry at once to iitneen thousand
ne'en: Unquestionably, Sire If fifteen thdueend
Men eufficietit body ef Cavalry fQt this country .
to mit:titain, ell above; that ntineteerethoreld ,be re,
duced : but the Honourable Getitletrian assumes
the feet 3. and, if We are prepared .upon the -mere
ipse dixit of that Hon unable Gentleman to disband
heady one half of our cavalry, de saving Inuit fele •
Jew as a wetter of, course. This is no wenderfut
discovery. But is the
•Henie prepared tit 'tact, upon
the bare assertion at the Hettoirable,Gentlerpan, •
and to allow his authority upon this great Military
question, unsupported by any etatement,or argument
`lt hatever, unaccompanied with any eornparattve
view of the proportion Which the Cavalry of an
army like ours ought .to bear tt, its infairtri, to out-
weigh the opinions of all the great tudttery.eharae-
tersevho have been consulteclupon tits StibjCi,t, and
the judgment Of the House itsett ? 1 deed, Sir, tee
time which the 'Honettrable Geteleinan naSichosen
for proposing reduction to sottie4bat'
It is preceely at a motilent When a 'Considerable pro- •
portion of Oa Cavalry is distingoisteug itseit npoti
foreign et rviee„. %ellen we are called upon; from all
quarters, to send a much leiter corps trece-operate
with our Allies, and when our decisive stitietiortty icy
ttrie dasiription of three has recently been SO strongly
marked and acknowledged by our own Generate,
and felt by our enetuies. This is' the period of, the
war which the Hon. Gentleman seleets iu order id
bring forward a proposal to get rid of pearly one-halt
of the Cavalry.
TO the foreign eorpse his next, head of -tett-cliche
menti Jie stews lege of his indolgeneth They
must be swept away altergetlier. He has talked of
them as trdescription Of' men not to be, tolerated;
whoSeexistenee,ets a Military corps, 15 a disgrace to
the country; and whose-tot/dna on service has shower
them to be destitute both of fidelity and CouFage. In
this general deseriptien I,cati by no meanS couctile—~
such charges appear to me, as contrary to' reeorded
fedi as they are cruel and illiberal towards that mee.
ritorious class of men, who„ tient feellugs el trayally
acid tidelityabove all praise, hare been the vietims„
for these last sixteen years; of that dreadful .
volution, which began by their ruin, and has Plow.-
nearly effeded he'eutu of the civilized World, That
.serne, trifling instances of misconduct may have eta,
curred in'the emigrant corps, as they•do other
corpe•-•-thatsomeof them were recruited by method
which I never did approve • of; are- Igts which I din
not prepared to deny ; but thesis instances have
,beep
ertfully and grossly eeaggeratede whilst their deedl
of gallantry and heroism are kept out of light. I
will not detain the House by recalling them et pre-
shut bitt If the Hone Gentleman is at a loss ,for (ma
instance, let him look' at the siege of Ypres by:the
Vreireh 'in the last war; when an emigrant regikvint •
ballied forth, with a spirit never
,excellede to cm its
way through the besieging army, an attempt, erhich
ekeited the •admitation and surprise of the British*
arid Austrian Comthander6, when the few, who had
sure ivied the desperate eptetprize, joined the; gilled -
threes. But, Sir, whk is the aeseriPtiontif foreigti
corps which we now poSsess, ,and which the Hon
Gentleman is so anxious to dismiss. isnornintoesle
from our service'? They consist of tx*, born' eun-
jeets'ef and owing allegiance to the same Sovereigrt
with oureelves—of men who, when drieen hotel'
Hanoeer by the ntiproveked aggression of die entifiY;
sought an asylum in this country. What Course on
that owasion would the Hon. Gentlenian have. taken ?.
Would he have *repelled them from our shores
Would he haveadvisert his and' their Sovereign to
Metal 'shut. his ports, and refused his protection to
Men Who had each strong elitims to that protection
Would lie' have dritren thein; in despair} 'Tito thei
ranks of the enemy;' or would he now send them
back to 4anover, in order that a couseription marry
forcethein into tunic; ranks ? Had such been out
polity, the CI tanee-of war might I vrierpe have brougrii
them into this country as prisoners; and instead of
paying them to fight cur battles, wp might tipvj have
had to maintain Aileen, re nearly the eatne expencee
mixed in our prtimis with the inveterate enenete of
this couutry.'" I's this the only footing upon which the
nol!.-GetIttensan would' hive been willineao have
given thetti aayluin ?-eeTo the loos:'.-gener.41.-chargt,
the Hon, Gentlenien lees thrown Out ihem of
niieetraduCt in the field,' 1e can enly oppos'e the tie-

ot the British. Geovrais, under whom they
set ved in 7'.ealand'antl on the Peoinsuia,and, I trust,
thcir lavl.nrable ti stinumy will have as much'weigiit
wit Ii the House a the unsupnoited assert ion -of, the
Hun. Gentientan. Alter ad, the House must recpl,'
tlytt if we disband aiid semi home these j'4,000
foreigners,' this diminution in our army' Must be
mmnote up by: an nuinher of Engli-hmen, to. be
raised at a much gteater, and maintained at an equal
expense drit this diicovery of the !Bono :Kahle
Gentleman .:worthl 'fled no saving;,, miles-S
-11 e could
also,persu id.? the House• and the Country, that our
regular force, which it_ has been the uniform ,en-
deavours 'ot the House to augment, could undergo
a rt.doctiou of 20,000 men, WittiQut any intonve-

nience.
Un the.subje& otthe Lobal Militia I shall not del
thin the Hous,:-., by any detail. The.. Hon. Gntier
mail has called it the most profligate of all estahliSh.
merits ; I shalt only spy that it -is an establishment
called tot by the voice of the country, and by the
senile of ti•is House; that 'it is the
.description of
force which, from its nature and composition, seems
ot all otheri,-.the least calculated to increase patron-
age, and to afford scope tor profligate esrAlish-
uterus that the i-I vourable Getalem'att, with his
view of the ltstiett, ah uld have 6pposed-the mea-
sure itsetr, when it was „übder the.consideration. of
Parliameot, a ctiurse which .I,do not recolleti liiM
to have ,tiiken. • but is Iftn ent has diretted.
tin. force to be proiidrd, Executiic Government'
would be giossly remiss it, it negieaed to carry the
Jaw into exc(utoti,;' and I am sure that it would be
inipotsible to raise, emoodt, and officer, so large a
force; 1.4 bout .neurring the full amount of expeuce
granted by Parliament for this purpose. . So long,
theretore, as this force is maintained upon its present
footing, the Hon. Gentleman cannot expe6t any say-
sing to. beef cicd.
I shall not follow the ion. Gentleman through the
de:ails of ad the other savings which he has propo-.
, sed, because the House must have perceived that
they all rest upon the same foundation-!-the mere as.
si.rt.ous of the Hon. Gentleman, that such and. auch

establishments are useless, that such and such re-
6tion4- may, lie, effeaed. To such assertions so
stipport.d, or rather so totally •ttsupported :it is un-
net
0 ess:lr. for me to oppose any thing enoru than
co. I,tvi- ,sertions-; though 1 cannot 'help observing
th... ail the services to which he has objected are an-
on • v brought under the consideration at Parliament;
that pro ision Is annually toade.tOr their support by
th( yowl ,xt this House ; and that
that it is loo'muchfor
ti, 11,1, Gentleman to expe that.a mere declara-
tion from hint that such smvices are useless,should be

all lie pro4)l. titat' Patliatiipit would regain: oil the
ct. In no instsnce duo the Bon. Get-Irk:man
cond. ,ceud to explains either .the principles of his
recrenchineni, or to give us any calculation by which

he fats ascerutinecrthe precise stun to be saved.—
Thus, in adveriiq to ortikatioosi 'he tells us that
they are altogether unneeessary4lhat theil present
exi once. is 700,001, per annum, but that f'20.0,0001.
t 4 ,be sutficietit. fan any thitig be more loO4e
in reasoning—more unsatisfactory iu result ? Why
not take certdit tor, the whole 700,0001.? As all

fortitieiition is useless on what Baia is it tliat ►he
Hon. Gentleman finds that 200,0601. per :tumli is

the precise stiro,whielt, ought to be appropriated to
this unnecessary purpose ?' Is not this trifling with
the time and goal sense cf the House ? How far a
system Of fortification ought to form a 0.4 of thede-
fence -ut, this kingdom; is cite the quaions.Upon
which military men and this !louse base been Most
divided in opinion
,; but the th:o. Gentleman feels
no difficulty deciding !von it. In his view, all
fortifications are. useless; but as 5.00,0001.
sWer hit:purpose, he is generally pleased to allow us
900,0001. fur tbe, amusement of those who. are of a
diffeient t pinion. In the'ariicle of army clothing
the Hon. Geo;leman calculates upon saving of
270,0001. per annum. This is a downright fallacy.
The great mats, for the army, and all 'the clothing
provided by Government, whether for our own tor-
• ces, or those of our allies, are procured by pub-
lic cornpetition, and as, the very mode by
which the Hon. Gentleman proposes to etfird his sa-
ving, it is obvious that no further abatement can be
looked for updn these bupPlies. As to the clothing
• which every Colonel furnishes to his own regiment,
.I.;overnment has no concern 'in it. The'off,reckon
ings,.; out 'of which the regiment is Clotned,'oo, as it
is v ell known,: en allowance of a very 'old•standing,
made to the tilonel for this put pose, and which,
not wi.listanding- the rise of every article, hai not been
augmented. The interference of Government goes
no farther than to take care -that the regiment is
clothed ..accordi ,g'to the regulation's of the uriny..
„The-mode and terms of purchase are left altogether
to -die .Colonel, and the difference between the
price paid by him, and the etf-reckoninsi allowed
wy Goveroinet,t, constitutes thechief proht.of the re,
vment. If; under these circumstances, the Qpneral
OrliCetsef the army, who are Colonels of regiments,
pay for their own clothing, as the lion. Gentleman
st:;:es, more than is alloWed by Government to its
Colltratitng, it proves a liberal a,temion on their part
to the ennitnrt:nttheir men, 0.00 on the pait Of Go-
Verimient that wary possie economy is pia4lised ;
ter in this heart- eNper:dn tire the

up for. the sake of keeping up that expeoee. It is
unnecessary therefore,. till we have settledslis prin-
ciple', to follow him' into any further detail :—there
is, however, one remaining point, on which I feel it
necessary to corre& .a misrepresentation of the Hon.
Gentleman. Ile stated the establishment of the
Commissariat department in Ireland to amount tom
less a sum than 95,0601, whilst the whiSle expendi-
ture was only 236;0001. The How., Gentleman,
with an air of triemph asked of the House to ebrisi-
det what most be the cltaraler of..sdch a depart-
ment, in which 9.5,0001. was necessary; an este-
blishMent,
.in order to manage an expenditure of
235,0001: Now, Sir, the Hon. Gentlemaii must
know, that the whole expense of this department,
so far as relates to what is generally described under
the head Of establishment, such as salaries, allow
traces, office rent, coals, and candles,• &c. does out
exceed 20,0001.; and that in the estimate from
which he has taken his statement is included a corps
of waggoners, amounting to 1.050 horses, with their
-drivers, arc. necessary in Ireland for the delivery.of
the soppfies to the troops ,both in ettarters and in ,
camp, the Contractors There not undertaking for the
deliveries, as is the case in this country. In this
respea, therefure, the statement of the Hon. Gen-
tleman was calculated .tu convey an unfounded ims'.
pression, and a false charge, which I have thoughtii
necessary to set right.
' Although I have now trespassed on. the attention
of the House'much longer han I intended, by the
observations I have thought it right, to make ott tlet
Hon. Gentletnan's'statement with tespeo to the pub-
lic expenditure, 'I must request their indulgence for
a few remarks, which I find it necessary to make on
theanitnadversions which he has made on the eel-
leaion of the Revenue. Hefgoes first into the Post-
Office, and-having ascertained that in Mr. Palmer's
time this; service was perfotmed at an expence of E
'200,0001. per ann. and that it pow costs 400,0001.
lie immediately infers that abuses exist to the aiommt
of 200,0001. and thq this. stim. might be saved to the
public. Now, Sir, I will take upon myself to assert
that it this subje is inquired into'in the,thost mi-
nute detail; thelionse will be satisfied that ao in-
crease of expence has been incurred in this depart-
ment which was not absolutely necessary for the public
service, or conchieive to the improvement :rod increase'
of this branch of the Revenue. .P"e House must be
aware, that in this department, as %elle. in, others,
it has`been found absolutely necessary to augment The
salariei of 'the clerks and subordinate' officers, who,.
lam sure, are not now overpaid. Where the nutn,
hers employed aye necessarily very large, as 41 the
Post-Office, including sill the Postmasters, LeLter-
Carriers, &e. in the kingdom, an augmentation, hew-
eveeitnall to each person, amounts to a very consi-
derable sum upon the whole. Whatever other wig.;
mentation of expence has been incurred, arises either
from the increased accommodation which haS been
afforded to the trade, and to every part of the corn-
munity, by Opening new lines of communication,
'establishing new Post-Otbees, by a daily delivery of
letters 'To places where they werefortnerly totiveyed
only every other day, or twice-a week, and very
much by the increased establishment and expence of
packets fore Maintaining•an unek:ourse with distant
COIIIII6OI, and for th,. eneon,ragetnent of our foreign
commerce. fret, in making.-these improvements.
_I •
cm assure the House, that the Post-Odi
at all times justly anxious to contributeto the Colll•
fort and convemence of the community, and particu-
larly of the commercial class, dues nut lose sight Of
the interests of the revenue; and that t here ia scarce-
ly one of them which dues not amply compensate for
the increased expence; so•that the addition Nyltich
has been made to the public charge iothis reaped,
if examined merely as, a revenue consideration, is
money well laid out, and productive of a very large
return toll* public income.
IT. &continued.) .

4URICUL7 GRE.

man's grievance is, that Gov eminent, 16,sived Cheap..
er tt.an the :individual: In the whole statement;
the Hon. Gentleman appears to procecd on the prin.
cipl4.l that the large establi!thmems we arc obl,i,ged to
maintain, for the ptirposeot security and detence, as
'this 'House and the Country have hitherto foolishly
rconeeived, have no such objets ; but, that the real
on)eci of them is in order to create aiarge expence.
This is the discovery which it was reserved- for the
Bon.. Gentleman to inalse Hon:UNntlrn7an
argues as if the order of, proceeding in this House
`NVas this..:—First,. to resolve to roalw our expenditure
us large 84 possible, and then to'frame our establish.
ruents accordingly. Hithetto, Sir,. we have been
taught to believe that our estaulislanents were reguz-,
lated according to the exigencies of the country, and
therm-its of this House.. were goVerned by, such
estAlishments. .11111, this: view of the subjeet-w-enkt
not Stijl the. non: Gentlernan',s purpose ; and:, in the
his,:argunient; he has assumed that our
4.-•
„t? reAent.,‘establishinents were not necessary' for any
ether I)l29)c:the than that of adding to • our ex.
petive ite has ;Irgued.as if we evert: a4I
,i!gfeett
this point, and as. ti the, only differel.ce of opinion
be w hcthe> they should or -should not he kept ,

:A premium was, some months ago, otTereeby
the,Dalkeith Farming Society, for the best Model of
a 'Reaping Machine, and an Additional premium of
300 .guineas to the inventor, should the Machine,
when construed fully answer the important pur-
pose of reaping. Fifteen Models were'presentect at
the last monthly meeting of this patriotic body,
which have since been severally inspected, in the-
most deliberate manner, byn Committee, The Earl
of Dalkeith, and many of the most respeetable Gen-
tlemen h the County were present.
On Menday the !gib, the Holderness Agricul-
tural Society held their quarterly meeting at Hedon,
which was numerously attended.. The (location for
the Society's consideration was,---" In the break-
ing up of Gras* Land, is paring ant? burning al-
ways, or under what circumstances, the best pro-
cess ; and when that process' is. adopted, what is
the best method, and what the most proper time
of executing it ? What is the .best, succeeed-
ing Crop,. and what in, general are the
.par-
licular advantages resulting from this: process
Many MeMbei s delivered their sentiments on these
subjefls ; and at the conclusion the ;opinion of the
Society appeared to be, that paring and burning is,
for the greatest part of the-land in Holderness, high-
ly advantageous ; and a majority were even of opi-
nicin, that it 'was so generally in every situation.—
Same very intelligent MeMbers, 'however, objected
to the, praelice on strong clay lantfi, and thin swarth.

By a Clause, in the Insolvent Bill now passed, as
there ha's been in several preceding A6lB of Insol-
vency, it.is'extended to any poison who may, at
any time previous to the paSsing of the satue, he in
prison oil an execution from the Court of Requests,
Whatever may be the amount of his debts.,--There
is at present in Tuthill-fields ,Prison a person, who,
availing himself of the Clause, contrived to be ar-
reked on -the very day on tlie,44 passed,
and whose debts are said toetnoupt tovo,opol. By
the way in-Which the Chinse is worded, this..person
Will .not fail to be liberated along with 0106!,.. who
are the legitimate objects of the Bill. It is remark-
able, that under the AO 1802,:a person in similar
circumstances received his liberation, whose _debts
anrounted to t 73,6001. - , ,

Yesterday afternoon the Inquest of the- body. of
John Deiniond wets resunttd. --Vidiet, Man-
sitttqliter.

OLERKI4II/ELL SESSIO.,vS,

Yesterday ihe .Sessions coinmenced here,- before
MAINWAAINC, and than rest oh the Bench of
Justices..

lllary.Barnes stood itkliEtel for assaulting Francis
Augustus GAHM, and Anne, his wile. The parties
live at Hammerstnith the-Defimclant is the wife of
a publican, and the Prosecutor a teacher of music.
On the 14th ot• February last, the Defendant went
to hiss-house to'demand a snail and, upon a dif-
ferende arising about the =mint, a scogie ensued
between the parties.—They lodged,ertr4-examinir.
tions against .each other, and the now Prosecutor
was tried at the last. Sessions, and convi&ed ou the
evidence of Mary Barnes,. and tined 101. The par-
ties, this day, changed planes, and .Ciallaf and his u tat
swore she assaulted them,i and hot they her.
The CHAIRMAN larnented so much discord and
:waste of tune end nioney between the patties about
a tsttling ale-house score.
. The Jnry found the Defendant Guilty, and. the
Court sentenced her to pay a tine of iol. for caches-

Charles Chisholm, Eq.- stood indittesL for asqault-
ing Mr. Blacklin, on Sunday, evening, the 7.11) of
May last, at his house in Blenheim-street.
'lt appeared in evidence that the.. Prosecutor lived
with-hts sisters, who were respectable nr:litners,in
Blenheim-street, .and that the Defendant lodged at
the Blenheim Hotel, .immediatelv: opposite, was a
young'man of fashion., .and was observed .ut various
times to ad with considerable imprOpriety, both
.in
his room which looked towards ihe Prosecutor's
house, and in the street oliposite the, house, put-
ting out his tengue) and using getures' towards-
the. Prosecutor's sisters and other ladies, highly-
, indecorous. On the evening specified-in the in-
didnient p.irticulaily, he was observed by the
Prosecutor to walk backwards , and forwards. sea
veral tiniPs in frnnt of the house, constantly
casting his eyes to the draWing-routh, in which
the Misses and some female ac-
quaintances were ; the .Proi-Z-,tentar perceiving
his attentions 'and .condua .extremely
,improper,.
called out to ltim, a'nd desired hint to go about his
busine4s, or get home to his garret, on Which the
Iletendatit crossed the way, and'demanded, vvhe-
liter the prosecutor' addressed himself to him? Mr.
Blacklin replied in the atfirMative, when the De—
fendant jumped over the railings, and getting partly
Into the window,. struck him several time's, using
at the time exinessions indicative of his con-.
tempt fix him, calling hint coward, .rascal, petti-
fogger,• and 'liar. lie was at length, however,
fdiced out of the window, and by his clamour and
riotous condu6t, raised a considerable mob, threaten-
ing, it he could get the Prbsecutor outside, ke would
thiash him, and pull his nose.
Gentleman named White, who was dining with •
the prosecuter, vliss Blacklin, and a Miss White,
proved the charge laid in the indictment, and •also
stated that the Defendant's 'cOndtita was extremely
_indelicate and impertinent.
The Jury, after a short cdnsideration, returned a
verditt of Guilty. ,
Mr. Justice MAINWAIUNG, after consulting with
his,brother Justices) then addressed the Court, and
said he felt the highest satisfaetion that the prosecutOr
pri-
shua:dward, oaput
and opted thei d
nut
bp
yre7iaennyt
Lei
ot tni dfoor
damai szhesi n the,
c ree
him from the obloquy his miscondat deserved. With
all the semblanceof a.gentletnan, he had acted in an,
extrermly riotous and disorderly manner, and emi-
- 'testily deserved the punishment the Court thought
proper to award. It was vsident that a pecuniary
tine was not that kind of correction, the public peace
and safety 'required ; he felt hitnselfjusti&d, there-:
'lute, in concordance with the sentiments of the other
Gentlemen On'the Bench, to sentence the prisoner
to one month's imprisonment in, the House of cot-
reetion, and lamented that a Gentleman of fortupe
should, by a conduct so improper, subject-himself to
a punishment so deserved, but so ignominious.'
The prisoner was a dashing young felfow,
,about
twenty-five years of . age, fashionably dressed, and.
had an easy confidence of manners, but °alluring
the sentence, seemed much atfeed,

-The London Sessioni commenced yesterday, at
Guildhall, but not a single criminal inditinient was
preferred.
Yesterday morning, as Mr.WIIITERSAD was.driv-
ing to town front Tanner's,End, in a single horse
chaise, accompanied by his son, the horse fell and
broke the shafts, which occasioned the animal to
plunge and kick, by which means the C1)31313 was
overturned; and Mr. Nit riparian had hii leg frac-
tured; hision escaped unhurt. Tiluy were imme-
diately conveyed home in a coach.
A few days, ago, as some men were digging in
Swanage rocks, on the island of Purbeck, A petrified
land tortoise was discovered, set enty feet deep from
the surface, in the highest stale of perfection; the
Rev. SaMuel Woolmer ,being in the neighbourhood,
the men brought it to him for his inspection, who
being struck-With admiration at ,so great a curiosity,
iintriediately 'Offered them five guineas fit' ir, which
they detlined accepting, but afterexhibiring it about
sold it to a gentleman of Upway, for e'ght guineas ;
since which 3001. • has been refused for it.. It was,
supposed very probabletlhit its mate might be found
near, as the male and .female are generally together;
upon which farther search was made,... when after
digging some time another was dug up, but entireli:
broken in pieces and spoiled.

A methodof obtaining by calcination, from unser-
viceable painted oanvass, the whole of the c.)lour
laid thereon, has lately been discovered. The re-
sult of several experiments tried, before the torn-
tniisioners of the Navy in Portsmouth Dock•-yard,
was, that from one ton of much canvas, was obtained
upon au average, 400 weight of dry colour, ;in va-
lue 91: 6i. while the expence of the process did not
exceed ds.

PubLid-tfousss.—lp the City. of. London:end
within the Bills ot Mortality, there ace 4,20 t li-
censed public-houses 3 and it .11,4 been calculaied
.that the money expended itr beer and spirits in those
places, by -the lot:waging people 'only, amounts to
upwards of three millions a year. ,
Yesterday Morning t u o i&iti..contending who were
the best sWitinners, at the Preen Batik, S •uthwark,
having itretehed too tar into the tin catthont of 1114.-tu
was w)fortUllattly drowned.

LONDON; Punted by RICHARD FIAI{RIS", of tio. 4, Martlrtr.co.trt,Bow.btro by NV 1 i.t.11 A itIVII,C; L. it St.
At the Sux-Uvitcs, h.. t Strand deivaiis..lients, Orders lor Painr,..tetterg for the &liter, &c. tpostpuiaj, 41: