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foll,,wing ill judged and
,olfensive words, "You are
all Felons," which 'he saki he should display upon his
hat in the crowd. Against this I remonstrated, and
strongly recommended him not to do so ;• as such an
exhibition could seive no other purpose than that
of irritating and inflaming the people. Soon atteb
the Officer conunauding the troops informed us that
he had received written orders from the Magistrates
toad. , I instan'ly protested against his so doing ;
and, warnini him of the'reSposibility he would in-
'cur by such. a measure, expressed my 4,stonishthent
that the Miistratea 'should hak.egiventich orders,
when one of theM ,had, but a few minutes before,
acceded to the propriety of my propoSal, of going
tout, -as scion as Cie above nLce was printed, to at-
tempt the dispersion •of the people ourselves ; he
requested me to see the Magistrates, and conclud-
ed me and my brother-Sheriff to their room.

" We were introduced to five Police Magistrates,
.then at dinner, • expressed my surprise, that
they.should hate given such orders ; that I was
confident they were More likely to irritate than to
effectually dispeise the people; that I would en-
gage, with the sole aid of such officers as were then
in attendance.; to -clear the streets ; but, that at all
events, the more c. nstifutional mode would be, to
try first the effect of the civil power ; and if thet
failed,' then, and then'only, to call in aid the mili-
tary.' The proprie.ty of this plan was agreed to by
three of the Magistrate's then present. During the
conversation, the Field -Officer in waiting upon the
Secretary of State arrived, and said, that he was
`desired to say, from Mr. Ryder, that the Sheriff
certainly had the right of calling in the power of
the county, but that the Magistrates had also the
right of acting.'
However, after mmy arguments and observa-
tions on brith sides, the Commanding Officer, who
had taken the wise precaution of receiving. written
orders from the Magistrates (signed, I believe, by
four of them), " to disperse the people, aid not to
allow'. any person to pass up or down the public
road," being somewhat impatient, 'and requiring his
final orders, I said,' (addressing myself to the Ma-
gistrates) I protest against the measure—you have
taken the pOWer out of my hinds, and if any one
shall be killed, you will be justly responsible for all
consequences, and I shall certainly think it my duty
to india the parties offending." We still remained
at the Gloucester Coffee-hoose. About five o'clock,
Mr. Coleman; the Serjeant at 'Arms, was intro-
duced. He produced the. Speaker's Warrant ; Mr.
Cater, of the Sheriff's Office, asked whether ht) in-
tended to leave it with the Sheriff`.? He answered
in the negative, and said, that the 'suh;ect of his
visit was, to require the aid of the Sheriff in its eae7
cetion.' Mr. Cater directed a copy of the warrant
to be taken; and then asked M.. Coleman, in
what maiw'ier he exizetied the Sheriff should aid
him ; whether by breaking itito the house of Sir
Francis Burdett, or how otherwise ?' He said, he
did not know.' He as then informed,' that the
Sheriff had considered the subjed most fully, and
that he conceived the evarratiewas not a legal autho-
rity to break. open the outer door, and that he could
net, therefore, assist him in that way ; but that he
was ready to aid him in all other respects with the
Sheriff's' power and -antliolity. In the course of
the conversation, Mr. Cater asked the Serjeant at
Arms, '-whether he, had taken legal advice ?' He
answered, that he had laid the case bettre the At-
torney-General, but had not >et obtained his opi-'
nion ;' and promised that he A'ould furnish us w itlt
it, immediately on remit ing it. We
.remzened at
the Gloucester Cotre•house' until near i i o'clock,
but did nut hear from him. Returning into the
city, my apprehensions where realized. The people
had been dri, en from one end of Piccadilly to the
other, and there remained In great numbers, and,
for a considerable distance in the way, had broken
the lamps, notwithstan'ding'the presence of themi-
litary, On Monday morning I relied on the attend-
ance of nearly .300 constables, as well as that of
many hundreds of the inhabitants of the county,
who were ready to come forward to preserve the
peace- and I have no doubt, that with that force,
that Objeat would have beet) fully accomplished
without the slightest aidirom the nailitaiy. In my
way to Piccadilly, I met one of the Under-Sheriffs,
'(Mr. Forbes) who informed me, that Sir Francis
Burdett had been taken froth his house that morn-
ing; that the Serjeant at. Arms and hi, Deputy had
called him (the. Under-Sheriff) up at one o'clock,
and communicated to him the opinion of the Attor-
ney-General (already befeee the Public). He at
the same time informed the Serjeant, it was the
Sheriff's intention to beat the Gloucester Coffee-'
house, attended by the civil power, for the purpose
of preset ving the. peace; that be (the Under. Sheriff)
was confident the Speaker's warrant would-meet no
interruption in its execution ; but whether the She-
riffs would take upon themselves to enter by force
the house of .Sir Francis Burden, was a question
for them to answer; but this be would take upon
himself to say, from• his principal, Mr. Sheriff
Atkins, that no molestation should be offered to the
Serjeant at Arms in the execution of what he might
conceive to be his duty, in the manner of effectuating
that execution; nor had he any- doubt that Mr.
Sheriff' Wood, on his part, would do all that was fit
to be done." •

Mrs. 'LITCHFIELD, late of Covent-garden Theatre,
is engaged to perform on the Bath stage.
A CHRISTENING.—On Tuesday last, was ini-
tiated as a Christian, in the Parish Church of Stil-
lington, by the Rev. WILLIAM ODD/ E, Burn
NORTH, of that place, aged. eighty years. The
Sponsors were htr son, aged sixty, and her two
daughters, also well advanced in years. •It is pre-
sumed, the ceremony of the godinothei's handing
the infant into the arms of the Cleirgyman, was dis-
pensed with on this occasion, the godchild being of
the jolly order; and we,know the Rev. Divine is not
very athletic.

An extraordinary circumstance occurred last
Friday; as one of Miss GOLDWORTIiv's servants
was passing through Hyde Park, he perceived a
genteel woman, with a black veil over her face, on
the bridge in Rotten-row ; she bad a bisket on her
arm and appeared very much agitated; she threw
the basket into the water and made otf ; a New-
foundland dog, which was near the water's edge,
went in and brought out the basket, which, uPon
examination, contained a human orm and band...—.
Search was made alter the woman also had dropped
the ba,ket, but she could not be found.

.ITEFFREY, TJLg 5EZ.41,114

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The followinci is 'an extract of an affidavit, sworm
betore JOHN -CLARKE, Esq. Mayor of. Liverpool',
by GEORGE FIASSELL.,. Mariner, who arrived, it Li-
verpool on the 4th instant, in the ship Elmo
longing to the house of NaresoN and HEATUCOTE,
of that to-wit. The Deponent sta.es, that, in the
month's:if March, 1809, he left the towns of Marble-
head 'arid verley, in the States of Massachusets, for
Boston; that about two or t hr- e eta s h'eforeDepo• ent"s
lea% ing Bever;ey, he saw a person of the name of
Jeffrey, who, be understood, was by trade a black
smith, .".ith whom he bad some' contetsation, and
who told him, that he (Jeffrey) was born in the
West of England, and had been put on, shore in the
Island. of Southiern, from an English sloop of war,
by order of the Captain, having been conveyed in
the boat by a master's mate and tour men ; and that
the offence for which he was,rnt on shore was, for
having taken some spruce beer belonging to the offi•
cers—that he retnaitied on thelsland fur three or fait
days, and subsisted by eating rib fish, that happ• ned
to be washed on shore, and.geiting water to drank
from the crevices -of the rocks, after had rained;
that he had bethi taken' up front t..e Island by the
schooner, Betsey, Captain Francis, of AI (1, in
her voyage from-Martinique to Mardenead, That
at the time Jeffrey came to-M.,rblehead in the said
schooner, -Betsey, he worked with a Butcher there,
and afterwards left Marblehead tor-Beverley, a dis-
tance of about six miles; and where Deponent saw
him last in the month of March, 1809, working
With ai blacksmith, and from whom, as Deponent
understood, he ret.eivecl ,wages at eig'iteen dollars
per month—And this Deponent farther saith, that
the said 'Jeffrey was well known iii: the neighbour-
hood of Marblehead and Buvetley, previous to Depcp•
nent's leaving, and was generallycalled by the name
of the 'f Governor of Sombrero," tt being so notorious-
ly known there that he had been put on shore by the
order of the Captain of an English sloop of war ; that
Jeffrey appeared to Deponent to be about twenty.
two or twenty-three years of age, andahout five feet
4 or 5 inches in height, with a light complexion,
and rather slender made; and this Deponent further
deposeth and saith, that the reason why he so ap-
peared before me the said John Clarke, to testify
the truth to.the foregoing 'statement of faas, was,
his having on Sunday morning last accidentally
taken up a Newspaper, called " The Liverpool Sa-
turday Advertiser," Of ate date of the 21st
,of April
inst. wherein he observed and read a_ paragr iph to
the following effea c That orders were received
at Plymouth on. Thursday' from the Admiralty for a
swift-sailing cutter to prepare to sail, for America,
and from thence to the Island of Sombrero, and all
ifie other West India Islands, to, sense!), for and en-
deavour to ascertain the fate of Jeffrey, the seaman
belonging to the Recruit sloop, who was set on shore
on the a)ove Island of Sombrero by his Command-
ing Officer Captain Lake," and that Deponent' was
desirous that the friends of Jeffrey might know
where he know resides, and to give information
where he was to be met or heard of in America.

HASSELI..
Sworn at Liverpool aforesaid, this 2st h day of
Aptll, iszo, betore
JOHN CLARKE, Mayor.

The prisoners of war at the depot at Portsmouth
amount to about 12,000.—Purchester Castle is fit-
ting up to receive between 6 and 7000; and Forton
Prison hold. about 3000. The prison ships in- that
hal-bour, which at present. contain those which are
to be removed to Porchester, will be paid otT. It
%rill prove necessary. to keep four or 'five ships in
commission, to hold those which the above prisons
will not, and !or the immediate reception of others
who may become captives. We are sincerely glad
to hear, that, considering their number, there are
but very few sick amongst them.
A Merchant of Nuremberg, of the name of
Meisner, lately shot himself, his wife, and one
child, in the room of an inn at Munich, where he
lodged. His despair arose from .pecuniary embar-
rassment, some hlls of exchange which he had
drawn upon a banking-house at Augsberg having
been returned protested. In a note which he left
1.1,,0n the. table, he requested that
_they might all
three be buried in one gray e, which was complied
with.

Battcrie3 have been erected on various poinis of
the llly-rian Coast, with a view to give confidence to
the coasting uncle. Under shelter of these the guns
of the Russian ships have been conveyed on board
traniports to Urnago, Cittanova, \rola, &c.

A number of masons throughout Hanover have
been put in requisition, for the purpose of effacing
the arms of Great Britain and Hanover, with the
initials G. It which are cut in the stones of the
public buildings.—Prayers are also in future to be
put up in the Hano%erian churches for his West-
phalian Majesty.—The beginning of the Decrees are
to be altered, and the seal of the EleCtorate, until
now used, superseded by that of Westphalia,

SMITHFIELD AIARKET, APRIL 30.
This day's Market was well supplipd with prime
Beasts, and the show of Cattle in oilier respets was
_very good ; Beef, Lamb, and Veal, suppirt last
prices ; Mutton and Pork are dearer ; and the-trade
in general was pretty hi isk.—The sales in the Hay
market were somewhat lively ; Straw and Clover
fetched last prices ; Hay has fallen in price,--We
annex. an accurate statement of the prices and num-
bers

To sink the Offal per stone of 81b.
Beef 4s. Bd. to6s. od. Mutton 4s. Bd. to 6s. 4d. Veal ss.
to 7s. od. Pork ss. od. to 7s. od. Lamb 6s. cd. to Bs. od.
BeastS 2300. Sheep and Lambs 14,500.--Calyes 3zo.—
Pigs 300.

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
Hay 41. os, od. to 61. 6s. od. Straw 21. lOS. od. to 31.
tos. pd. Clover 61. os. od. to 71. Los.

CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.—The supply of
English Wheat to-day is short, but there are consi-
' derable quantities of foreign, Fine at a small in
crease in price, inferior rather lower; some prime
Dantztc exceeds the quotation ; Barley is cheaper
Malt mid White Pease scarcely at last prices; Beans
of both sorts fully at last currency ; the supplies of
Oats are considerable, mostly foreign, and this trade
at little variation ; Flour without alteration.
Wheat -78 s a 945 a lobs Tick Beans (old) sos a 95s
Fine ditto - 1123 a 1155 Oats - - zts a z6s a 3S$
Rye - - -46 s a 52, Poland ditto' 3c,S a 135 oc:.T.
Barley - - 3Zs a 47; Pot:doe ditto 34s cd a—s
Malt 68s a 75.% Nape -aced • -48 J a $4l
White Pease - 645 a 7as tine Flour . iiss a QOS
rey ditto 4t6 a 48s Seconds . • Scs z S;s
Beans (tAd) • 6os a 666