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MADRID, MARCH 18.--The civil and ecclesiasti-
cal deputation of the to'.vti of Requena had to-day
the honour of presentinz its homages to his Majesty
the King, who replied with much goodness to the
President's discourse. His Majesty told the Mem-
bers of the deputajan he was sensible of ihe wishes
they expressed ; that his only desire, since the
commencement of his reign, was to contribute all in
his power to the happiness of his people, and that
he would negle& nothing to obtain so desirable an
end. His Majesty, informed of the state of manu-
factures in that country, has taken into considera-
tion the means proposed by the deputation to restore
them to their ancient splendour.

PETERSBURGH, .MALiCH 3.—ln order to facilitate
the raising of recruits,, men between the ages of I 8
and 37 years, above four feet nine inches high, are
allowed to be received. ,

BERLIN, MARCH 21 . —Our 'political relations be-
come more and more satisfaaory.
M. de KNISEBUK, Aid-de-Catnp to the King, is
upon his return from St. Petersburgh. Lieutenant-
General DE GROWERT, Governor of Silesia, and
Major-General DE KLUST, have arrived here.

PETERSBURGH, MARCH 6.—The course of Ex-
change upon Fans is 11Q centirrics ; on Amster-
,►am, t 1 stiv,2.rs ; and on Hamburgli, l 0 schillings.
COPENHAGEN, MARCH 17.-According 10 reports
which appear authentic, the-enecoy's force now be-

iii;rd'en AtiltOlt anti Rltilled, consists of the iolloWini
P:yramui; 36 guns ; .Daphne, 22 ;
1 8 ; Raleigh,' ig ; Fly; 18 ; and Sheldrake, of Jo
guns. At the depatture of the last accounts, there
were no enemy's vesseli in the. Belt Or Sourid.

LEtrzte.3, MAttbu 2 i .—The Anhiveisary of the
birth of the King of Roa B has beeb celebrated heie
tvith the greatest aplendobr.
His Eiteellency Marshal Doke of ELcuttidErt,
gave a grand dinner to the Generals andOtEcers of
the Staff who are here, 'avwell as to the Civil and,
Military Authorities or the country.
At night all the town was illuminated: . •

VIENNA, MAacn 18.—It is generally thought thc;
Hungarian Diet will close towards the end of this
•
month.

It is added, that the Archduke PALATINE has 're-
turned to Presburg, to notify this resolution. to the

•
Emperor.
VIENNA, MARCH 18.—The last courier from
Hermanstadt brings intelligence froM . LoWer Wa-
lachia to the end of February, the most import4nt
which is, the right wing of theltusSian a7rny
which was in that province, and had been com-
manded all the campaign of 1811, by. General, SASS,
was likely to pass under the orders of another
General.

General SAss, whose health is continu^aly shaken
by the fatigues of war, and determined by other
motives, has demanded permission fro.m the Empe-
ror to return to Petersburgh, and t:entains at Bti-
charest' waiting an answer.
Lieutenant-General Count MP.R.KOW has been
appointed Commander in Chief rif the right wing of
the army.' He has, like his predecessor, established
his head-qUarters at Crajowa ; his advanced Posts
occupy .t he banks of the Drin, 1, opposite Widden.—
Nothing has occurs rd on tbis side. The Turkish
corps- d'artnee, stationed at Widden and its neigh-
bourhood, has received reinforcements. It appears
that till fresh instruaio'is are received, if will remain
on the defensive.

The course of exenange on Augsburg is to day at

260.

LONDON SESSIONS.

MONDAY, APRIL 6

• The Sessions for the Cliy of London commenced
this day,
,before the LORD MAYOR, Al:lei-man Sir
J. W. ANDERSON, the RECORDER, and Other City
Officers.

Robert Towers was indiBed for endeavour,ing, by
every n-mans in his power, to seduce,- entice, and
corruo, Samuel Davis, a Turnkey, in the employ-
ment lA-Mr. Newman, Keeper of the Jail of New-
ga!e, to favour the escape from prison of the late
unfortunate Mr; George Skeene.

M r. KNAPP having opened the case on the part
of are prosecution, evidence was adduced. to prove
that Mr. Newman was Keeper of the Jail of
Neu/gate,- &c.
Samuel Davis was then examined, and proved
that the prisoner, with whom he had not previously
been acquainted, but whom he had seen visiting
Mr. Skeene,-invted him, in the evening, about a
fortnight after Mr. Skeene's being committed to
theirtn custody,
to drink with him.. They went to
or
the New Inn, Old Bailey, and being seated in the
public room, the defendant proposed that they
should have-a private room. 'This the witness said
was nanecessary. The defendant then drew his
chair close to the witness ; first asked him what
familye and being informed that he had a
w and three
children, said, that if he would. do
lead,rhim (the defendant) a ftvour, he. would have it in
his power to make them all comfortable. The wit-
ness asked of what nature that favour was, and was
informed that it regarded Mr. Skeene. Supposing
that it related to his accommodation, or indulgence,
in prison, the witness told the defendant that he
should have every accommodation consistent with
the rules of the house. The defendant, however,
was not long in undeceiving the witness, but on
their way from the public-house to the prison, gave
the witness clearly to understand, that he stipulated
for nothing short of Mr. Skeene's escape ; inform-
ing him, that if he would oblige him by favouring
it, his-reward should be equal to his most sanguine
expedations ; that it should be paid, not in Bank
notes, but in gold, and should be so ample, as would
put him and his family above the necessity of his
continuing .a turnkey.-
This, evidence was confirmed by Mr. Newman,
and by Mr. Hardy, Mr. New Man's confidential
Cl4rk, to whom Davis immediately communicated
the attempt made upon hia'integrity. Mr. Newman
also swore, that when the defendant next after the
conversation alluded to called upon Mr. Skeene, he
(Mr. Newman) called the defendant into a private
room, and confronted him with Davis ; the defen-
dant did not deny the charge, but contented him-
self with stating, that he had otieted to Davis no
specific sum.
Mr. ALLEY, Counsel for the defendant, contend-
ed, that there were no words on the face of the in-
dialment to support the present charge. There must
be a specific criminal ad alleged and set forth, in
intelligible language, on the face of the indictment.
Here the crime charged was the endeavouring, " by
every means in the defendant's power," to seduce,
&c. Now, it might so happen, that all the means
in the defendant's power, though exerted by him to
the utmost, might not be sufficient to constitute a
charge of 'felony, in which case there would not be
on the face of the indidment such a charge as
would. support it.. Such being the case, and there
being here no specific words which necessarily in-
ferred criminality, the indi&ment, he submitted,
must fall to the ground. In respell to charader,
Mr. Tower was prepared to shew a most unexcep-
tionable one. He was from the same land as Mi.
Skeene, and was also his townsman, and from all in-
telligence that he could procure concerning him, he
possessed a most noble and generous heart. No

Wonder, then, titt he siticuld be found ener to aile-;
Viate the sufferinss of a Man, who,, whatever faulis
he might have comnitted, was forrneilv a person
every way worthy to,be,a companion to such a man
as his client. Mr. To,ver had pl i,p;i all the active
part of his life in the service of 3 country ; and
passing over feats o' uncommon braverV, which he
performed in themidst of his enemies a; sea, he had
twice; at fhe imminent hazard o 1 his, ovtn life,
plunged 'regardless into a terupestunus-iei; and res.-
cued two men frOm perishing in the waves. Sochi
BeneVOlence, chewed him to, posse, s a mind attem-
pered .to th,6 exercise of virtue, and One who bL-Ireld.
with sorrow the suffetings of the iinfortunate.
What tt, to must his agitation have been, when he
beheld a. man,'grown up with him-in lici!;(i!ii• froni,
his childhood to the dignity Oa than, all at once-
plucked 1 from his rriends,. and about to suEr an
nornin'ious punishment ! He certain'y artist have
wished,nay yearned, to'see his situation amellorat.;.
ed. But even granting the whole -of the rime hie
which he stood accused,•his was not an offence of
that, heinous complexion- whiCh those persons aim-.
mi,;ted who endeavoured to rescue a murderer from
the bands of Justice ; lie honed; therefore, for
mild sentence from a feeling Court.-
The. RECO.RDER, in addressing the Jury, expresi-
ed it as his opinion, that there was nothing in the
objeCtion to the wording of the inditimcnt, which
sufficiently pointed out an offence, and which of-i
fence had been clearly- proved in evidence. As to
the situation of Mr. Skeene, his rank and prospecia
in life, ancithe powerful friends he had—they were
all aggravations of his guilt, and of the offence of the
present defendant, who would have favoured. his es-
cape from public justice. What would have been
said •of the law of this country, the proudest boast
of which was, that it took equal cognizance of the,
rich and of the poor, if this .pOwerful and richly
allied man had been suffered to escape, While s-
poor man, for the same offence, incurred certain
death.

The Jury found the defendant Guilty.
The RECORDER declared the sentence of the Court
to be, after due consideration of the circumstances
of the-case; and to deter others from the cormis-
sion of similar otfences, that the defendant do par
a tine of .501. ; be imprisoned in the Jul.i of New-,
gatelor twelve calendar moat hs, and do, at the ex-
piration of that time, find sureties to keep the peace
for one year.

The defendant addressed the Court, beging that
they would have the gOOdness to revise their sentence,
and to banish him at once to Botan.y Bay. It had
been trulfsaid, that no man, however pure his prin-
ciples, could expel, on his return from confinement
for any length• of time in • a common prison, to be
an objet of trust or confidence. For his own part,-
he was swished he could not long exist among suck
people as he had seen in Newgate. As to the fine,
though he was a poor man, and wrought hard for
what little he possessed, which was all earned by his
own ten fingers, that he considered, comparatively
speaking, as of no moment. •
The Recoerett informed the defendant that the
Court had already considered the case in all its bear-
ings, and deemed the sentence which had been pro-
nounced, the lightest of which the case wituld ad.
nit, not in relation to the delencnt, whose situa-
tion they deplored, but as holding out an example
to whets to beware Of such attempts in the City of,
London.

Mr. ALLEY, on reckoning the Jury, observed
that they consisted of 13, whereas 12 ;s the legal
and evablished number. On this ground he sub-
mitted, that the verdidt was void.

The RECORDER said, the prisoner had the 13th
in addition. One too few would have been
fatal to the verdi&, hut one too many did not in-
validate it.

MARLBOROUGH•STREETo—A man, named Mar-
din,e, who resides in' Charles•stree', Drury-lane,
and a woman, who passed for his wife, who called
herself Mary Ann Derry, were charged with. beat-
ing, and treating with various atis of cruelty, Har-,
diuge's daughter, a child seven or eight years old,
and also withholding from her necess try food. The
prosecution had been laudably instituted by the Pa-,
rich Officers of Si. Giles's, from the representations
of many respectable inhabitants of the neighbour.
hood where Hardinge lived, the testimony
duced on the occasion went to probe, that the neigh-
bourhood had been much disturbed by the moanings
and shrieks of the child, -and it was Played that the
woman beat her unmercifully ; and the landlord of
the house proved the child having been shut up for
hours without food. The child, who appeared in a
deplorably emaciated state, had one arm tied up,
which she had been deprived the use of front the
barbarity of the woman prisoner. On it having
been ascertained that the woman was not married to
Hardinge, he was sworn to give evidence against
her, but he cloaked, as much as possible, her con-
duct. She had borne him se% eral children, bat the
sufferer was by a wife who is dead. T►he woman
was committed (or bail, and the child was taken
under the proteClion of the Parish Officers.

A Nobleman's servant gave information at this
Office of hi& havirig been wounded and lobbed ,of his
watch, in Lansdowne-passage, Berkeley-square,
on Sunday night. Apart of his hand was nearly cut
off by the robber, who wins alone.
At Gloucester Assizes, S. Bryant and R. Stock-
well, for highway robbery ; I. Jobbins, for sheep-
stealing '; J. Evans, for horse-stealing ; and
Dan. Bishop, for a like offence, were condemn-
ed. The last-named prisorier pretended idiotcy
during the ttial, but on-condemnation, being pass-
ed, made use of the most horrible exnniions
to the Judge, and said. " I wish I was near thee,
that I may give the a bolter ;" and on quilting the
Court, whirled his hat at one of the witnesses !
Maxemen Broneville, a chiimiey-sweeper, was
found guilty of the murder of his apprentice, by
brutal usage, and sentenced to be executed yester-
day morning.

At the above Assizes an action was brought by
George Webb Hall, Esq. of Sueed-park, Against
Colonel Berkeley, of Berkeley Casti,, for a wUid.
trespass with his fox-hounds, and drawiag the plan-
tirri covers, without his permission ; when, after
hearing of six hours, during two of which Mr.
Dauncey exerted his best abilities in defence of his
chew, the Jury found a verdict for the phintiff,
with 2.85. damages ; and the Jodge declared he was
hound to certify in this c;ise, which lixes the defen-
dant with all cwis.

PciPLliB RESPECYMG tho NEGOCIATION

FOR A RENEW4L OF

THE EAST-INWA CONIPANIt's EXCLUSIVE

PR IV' lEGES;

[Continued from Yesterday.

Nos. is and 19 are merely minutes of the Secret
Court of Dire&ors.

No. XX.

HINTS APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE O.V CORREi
SPONDENCE, AND, SUBMITTED TO THE COt iSIDBRA-

TION OF THE RIGHT ZION• LORD MELVILL t.

East India House, Feb. a th 009:
That the renewal of the Charter shall'pt •nceed
upon the basis, of the Ael of 1793, and Ural no
'greater extension of the trade shall be granted titan
what was allowed by that A& ; but the Depot trion
are ready to recommend to the Court of Direct 'ors,
and ultimately to the Court of Proprietors, to ad tilit
such modifications as may be deemed necessary to
give greater facilities to the private t►ader.
Ist. No British or Indian ship to sail, directly o v
circuitously, from a British port in Europe to China.
2.(1. No British subjeCt to be permitted to reside
in China, without the Company's license.
3d. No goods, the growth or produce of China;
to be imported igto any of the ports of the United
Kingdom, except be the East-India Company.
4th. The power of levying duties in India upon
British subjeas, and the subjeas of foreign nations,
to. be continued to the Company, upon the footing
on which it at present exists ; and the same powers
with respect to British subjects, to be extended to
the district's within the jurisdiaion Of the Court of
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, and Prince of Wales
Island.

501. 'Saltpetre to. be considered as a political ar-
ticle, and to be confined exclusively to the Corn-

piny. •
-6th. The whole of the Indian trade to be brought
to' the purt of London, and the goods sold at the
CoAnpany's sales, arid to be, as at present, under the
Company's management.
7th. rht. three per cent, now paid• to the Com-
pany by the private trade's, for the warehousing
and management of the ptivate trade, to be increased
to five per cent.
Bth. No private .ship, to be permitted to sail for
India, except from the port of London.
9th. No ship to be permitted to sail, except un-
der a license from the East India Company. Ships
-obtaining, this license, to deliver one copy of their
journals at the East India House ; and the license
in contain such clauses, as may be likely to prevent
an unlimited or improper intercourse of individuals.
with India.
•to' Fire-arMs, military and naval stores, to be
ptobibited articles.
t ph. Existing restriClions, with respect to the
article of piece-goods, to he continued.
12th. It being desirable, as well for the public as
for the Company, that the quality of the silk grown
in India should not be deteriorated, it is submitted
that this article be-confined to the Cornany.
13th. The ship: of private persons to be subjeti
to the same regulations, in respe6t to convoys, &c.
•
as those belonging to the Company,
14th. No private ship to be permitted to 'ail, ei-
ther from Great Britain to India, or from India to
Great Britain, of a less burthe►r than four hundred
tons.

t sth. The Company to be subject to no obliga-
tion with respecA to exports to India, except in com-
mon the private traders.
• [6 h. Tne Lasvars- told- Chinese stilors brought
home in
,private slips, to be placed under proper.
regulations. Not, upou any account; to be suffered
to wander about the streets of London.- Good treat-
ment to be s",-!cured to them ; and the'Company to
be enabled, by some summary process, to recover
the expenses to which they h hall be subjected, in
the event of negh.6l on the part of the owners of
such. ships.io these respells. •
[7th. The Company to- be indemnified for their
onexpii ed engagements for extra' shipping, provided
for the accommodation of the privnte traders.
18th. An unrestrained intercourse with India to
be -t:reven,e,t, and the existing; restriaions with re-
ipeet to residence in India to be continued.•
10th. The number of his Majesty's forces in In-
dia to be in...future maintained by the East India
Company to be now fixed, and any troops sent be-
yond that number (except at the express requisition
of the East India Company) to be at the charge.of
the public.
20th. The Company to be released from any fu-
ture account with the Pay-Office, and to be hence-
forWard charged, either.so much per regiment of a
given force, or so much penman.
21st. The present heavy current and postponed
demands of the Pay-office against the Company to
be arranged on some footing of general equity, and
some advertence, in settling this account Made to
the share, which the Company have been obliged to
beat in foreign, captures nut retained by them, and
to their having beenconstrained to maintain an Eu—
ropean and native force larger than what was requir-
ed for the defence of the. Peninsula' and other heavy
expenses..
. 22d. The Proprietors to be secured, as at pre-.
ent, in the receipt of their dividend of ten and a half
per cent. u?on the faith of which dividend the capi-
tal in 1703 was raised. •
23d. The whole of the surplus Of the East India
',Company to be appropriated to a diminution' of theii
debts, until the debts be reduced to the sum of ten
millions sterling .
.4111. The sums required by the East' India
Company to liquidate the debt transferred from
Irt-
dialto Europe, and becoming payable in 1812 and
1813, to be funded by the Minister- the interest of
which shall be regularly paid into his Majesty's Ex-
chequer by the 'Company, together with,any such
_per centage for the gradual liquidation of the capital,
or redemption. of the fund, as shall be deemed pro-.
per by his. Majesty's Ministers.
The twenty-fifth- article did not form a part of
the propositions subdritted to Lord Melville, but it is
cow introduced by the Committee of Correspond-,
eine, and et as follows, viz.
• 25th. That in order to give the utmost possible
attention to the commerce of private merchants, and
state same time to secure the Company's exclusive

trade to and from-China, private ships be not per.
mitted to go farther eastward than Point Romania,
at'the entrance of the China seas, and to the north-
ward, not heyond the ErjuinOalai Line. ,
N: B. Should it be the intention of Glvernment
that private traders shall be excluded from the Spite
island 4, the limits ought then to be for them not to
go to the eastward of the Straiis.of Bally, nor to the
northward of the line.

Nos. 21 to =7 we have not space to insert. They
chiefly consist of the various communications be-.
tween the. Government and the Company, which
end in the arrangement detailtd in the -succeeding
No. (28).