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IMISZTA DATA MARCH

TIVENTY4,
The further' examination of Captain Faisit, of
il2;, Artillery, was resumed this morning ; in the
wise of which he gave a minute and distinct account
of the Artillery, Ordnance, Stores, &c. captttied from
, the many ; of the resources which the army held for
cannonading the town of Buenos Ayres, from the
plaza del Toros and elsewhere ; and of the probable
effect of such cannonade.
captain Saunas, of the Artillery, confirmed 'this
part of Captain Femmes evidence.
Colonel Memos was next called ; but he not being
gland, Lieutenant Colonel TORRENSI Military Se.
atoll to the expedition, was examined on the sub-
lett of the orders Lieutenant General WHITELOCKZ
Bare to him ott the sth of July, and also as to what
cyders were issued, through him, to the Commanding
Officer on the assault.
The Court was more crowded Than ordinary this
morning. His Royal Highness the Duke of CU.s-
ND still attends the Court.
his rumoured that the prosecution finishes this day.

-Thorst Royal Surrey Militia, which has been
staloged at Dover these four years, Marched this
mg* for Ospringe Barracks they are succeeded
at Doltr by the 2d West York, from Canterbury.
About 500 of the East York regiment of Militia
marched km Deal yesterday afternoon from Rams-
go on their route for Dover, and are quartered on
tie town.

FEMALE FASHIONS;

tom I, LS 'MLLE ASSEMBLES ; OR, BELL'S COURT 1
AND YASIUONABLL MAGAZINE," FOR THE PRESENT
MONTH.)
A round walking dress of white canst.ric, or brows] velvet ;
fade to sit close to the form ; laced behind, and reaching to the
file of the throat, where it is finished with a broad plaiting of
French net, or antique ruff of scolloped lace. Long full sleeves
trimmed at the edge of the wrist with correspondent cuff, aact
broad hair, or coral bracelet. A Zealand coat of ruby, purple,
or crimson velvet, made without a collar : flowing loose from the
shedders, and tied or confined with a brooch in the centre of the
bosom ; ends rounded in front, and reaching the bottom of the
petticoat behind; trimmed entirely round with a full and rich
ermine. Turban hat of the same material of the coat, turned up
ap round, bordered with ermine, and tied round the crown with a
figured satin ribband. Hair cropt behind, and flowing in irregular
earls in front. Shoes of crimson velvet ; and gloves of York tan.
The prevailing colours are purple;' shaded green, Devonshire
brown, crimson, and yellow ; coquelicot and morone are on the
bane.

The Matchless privateer, of Guernsey, of 12 guns,
las captured a Spanish packet of 16 guns, and carried
ter into Fowey, in Cornwall. The packet was bound
from St. Sebastian's to Buenos Ayres, with important
dispatches, which the Captain attempted to sink, but
without effect. They have been forwarded to• Go,
venom.
Letters received by the Camel store-ihip, from the
Cape of Good Hope, stax.e, that advices bad been re-
vived at that place of the war between this country
and Denmark. Several Danish vessels had been de-
timed and brought in by our ships on that station.—
An instance of extraordinary luck is mentioned in
these letters, that the Kitty, a privateer which had
been fitted out at the Cape, in a cruize of ten days,
had brought into that port a large Danish Indiaman,
apposed to be worth about .690,000.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the undermentioned Commanders
tog leave, previous to departing to their respective•
dntinations, viz. :
FOR ST.HELYLNA AND BENGAL—Captain Kv 'writ, of the Lord
Catiereagh; and Captain CARL enELL, of the Lord Keith.
Fat MADRAS AND BENGALCaptain HERBERT, of the En•
linlec
Fat Mama*, MADRAS, AND BENGAL—Captain FRANKLIN,
of* NOrtkumberland.
The undermentioned extra-ships were taken up, and
tins stationed, viz :
tot MADRAS AND Elemoaa—The Indus, Captain G. Wevr-
sts ;Triter', Captain. J. COLLINS; and Earl Spencer, Captain
GORGE FLEMING.. .
FOR BONIAT-..Lord Eldon, Captain W. YOUNG : CM-Mar-
-1 eb; CEPtaiD 3. Ross. - •
Captain WELTDRN was sworn into the command of
the ship Indus, consigned to Madras and Bengal. The
Court adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow. •
We have authority to state, that. the Pamphlet
lately advertised as, a second part of the Inquiry into
the State of the Nation, to be published by H. D.
Snouts, has no cotjnection whatever,wi&the.work
formerly publisheeby I.4or4oNsAsi, Hunsr, Reiss, it'd
airs, and is utterly unknown to the Author
thereof.. t.. . *- • .. •
...
. . .• •
The Mr. GIFFARD TeCendyappoiAted to the place
dAccotunant-GeistorSt bf the Customs in Ireland, is
lot Mr. GIFFORD the Poet,.or Mr.„ Cetwonn.the Anti-
'Jacobin, but Mn..currAalaribe•Eatoratetd Proprietor
of The &din -Journiti; remarkable for his - violent
speeches :tn,the Common Council of th`St city,
_and kis
writings us his paper against the RoMan Catholic
',laiins• It.will be seen by our Parliamentary Report,
that Sir JOHN NssePOliT means to bring this apposnt-
seat under discussion. • .
. • .
The Will of Serjean't Hit.r., lately deceased,: suP-
Pod to be the ablest Lawyer in England, is likely
ti create many difficulties, from the incomprelseruii-
laty of the most material items of bequest. •
Next Tuesday the State Lotter ..begins Drawing,
!loam and Co. respectfully acquaint the Public.
ill the time is drawing very close for obtaining the
CPital Prizes in the State Lottery ; and that the
Chance__ of the First Day is valuable, on account of
'4l being no fixed Prize.—Honzessx and Co. re-
-1
ill* their friends not to lose so important a consi-
(kistion. .
Nat Tuesday the State Lottery begins Drawing ;
asd
..,_ 4 there no Capital Prizes fixed for any dis-
'""laYl, thine who purchase before the drawing be-
km, have an evident advantage over those who buy
T. se!:, as all tht Capitols may be drawn the first day.
___,Butt, therefi ,re, advises the public to purchase as
'4leTlll possible at his old established Offices, No. 4,
and 9, Charing Cross, where 38 Capital
Plitt' Were Shared and Sold in the last year, including
tw° ?tiles of 90,0001.—Prizes paid on demand. '

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-PAitstovnt, *EB. Rt. • . . ,
-taw in his Majeatri ship Brisk,froin
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PLYMOUni, MAtta I. .
4..tione in the American shif! Beti;Vt;
WAKTBURNi *from New York; .with *heat and
detained by the Defence, of 74 guns : *sh *is bound
to Oportoshe sailed the sth of Septetnber lastk and
soon after carried away her mainmast, a....4puetttna
St. Michael's to refit, and.after sailing froM.thence
was detained by the Defence ; Portuguese'shiii li-
zara, from the Brazils for Lisbon, with cotton, de-
tained by the Surinam, of 18 guns ; Bremen galliot
Margaretta Dorothea, H. A. KY.RICHOTIP, from Ton-
ningen, in ballast; last from Yarmouth, detained by
the Eclair, of 14 guns ; British ship Juliana, • Geo.
STOW, late master, about 450 tons, from Malta and
Gibraltar, with oil, sulphUr, and fruit, for London :
she was taken the 15th ult by a French privateer,
retaken the same day by the Gloire, of 36 guns ; was
taken again the,27th ult, by the Prince Jerome French
privateer, and retaken the 29th following, off the Li-.
zard, by the Unity privateer of this port-the Unity
is also arrive&
Came in tke Hindostan, ,of 54 guns ; Hound,• of
10 guns ; Plover, of 18 guns ; and 'Peacock, of 18
guns, from a cruize. •

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH *. :, •
Arrived the Argus, from Cork.—Saßect the Clyde
and Camel, .with a convoy for the Dawns. Widd W.
• DOVER, MARCH*:
Passed by tast night the brig PO, Capt. GRoCOT,
from St. Mishaers, 'with a cargo .orfruit, bound to
London; she brings no news, having been SO days on
her, passage. Arrived, wind bound, the brig Perse-
verance, of and for' Lynn, with a cargo of iron, from
Cardiff. Came into the Roads this morning the Pan-
dora and Fly sloops, and Flamer gun brig, from a
cruize, and sailed again this afternoon to resume their
station off Calais.—Wind N.E. and moderate.

DEAL, MARCH 2:
Sailed through the Downs the Venus, DONN, for the
South Seas.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Trompeuse,
on a cruize ; Tigress gunbrig, and Vigilant cutter,
from Plymouth, with a convoy of Danish prizes,
which are sailed for the River :—also, the Hector,
GRIFFITHS, from Dublin ; Anna, Six, from Water-
ford ; Towan, CUNDY, from Falmouth ; Flora, Ro-
GERSON, and the Tyson, NIALL, from Lancaster ;
Diana, WEAZLY, from Bristol; Britannia, Hulrrta,
Apply, BATMEN, and the Perseverance, EvANS, froM
Liverpool.—Sailed the Bold gunbrig, and Phosphorus
fire-vessel, on a cruize off Boulogne.—Wind N. W.
LEITH, FE& 29.
Saturday, and yesterday, sailed from Leith har-
bour, - ftir the Roads, the following vessels bound to
Straits:—the Raith, Royal Bounty, William
and Aim; Thomas and Ann, and North Star. The
Success and Rattler, bound for the same place, have.
also arrived in Leith Roads, from Bo'ness. Friday
night, a man belonging to the North Star, in coming
on shore, fell betwixt the vessel and the pier, and was
killed on the spot. _

_
HULL, FEBRUARY £9.
The Prince William armed ship, Captain MOTT,
arrived in the Humber on Monday, from Heligoland,
having, been driven off by a gale. The Actzon,
which is supposed to be either lost or taken, was on a
voyage from Narva to Hull, and has not been heard
of since December 1.
Saturday morning, the Lynx, (letter ot marque)
Captain WHELDON, sailed from this port for the
Davis's.Straite fishery ;—and yesterday morning the
following vessels, all belonging to this port, for the
same destination, viz. Leviathan, Tather ; Gardner
and. Joseph, Story ; Elizabeth, Dick : Symmetry,
Cloughton • Mary and Elizabeth, Hewitt ; Royal
George, G;eenshaw ' • and the Harmony, M'Bride
Also from Dundee, for the above fishery, the Estridge,
Christopher ; Jean, Christopher ; Horn, Valentine ;
Mary Ann, Deuchars ;•and Advice, Webster.
A letter has been received by the owners of the
Peggy, Nesfield, of Whitby, a missing ship, from the
master, dated Morlaix, 14th of December last, con-
taining an account of the Peggy being captured on
the 30th of November, in lat. 49. 30. and long: 9. 10.
on her voyage from Quebec, by a lugger privateer,
after an action of an hour and a half, in which Mr.
Nesfield was. wounded, and carried into Itoscoff, a
''port about forty miles to the Southward of Brest.
The crew were about to be marched to Arras.
The butclurnan, Brown, from London, bound to
Newcastle, with a cargo of rye, put into Whitby on
Tuesday last, from contrary winds, and having taken
the ground its. an unfavourable position, • filled on the
flowing of the following tide ; in consequence of which
accident, the-cargo is obliged to be delivered. On.
Wednesday, the Neptune, Wright' of Scarborough,
coal loaden, went on shore near Scarborough hat-
, hour ; thei•Ciivi were saved by the life-boat. She was
got into.the harbour when the tide flowed, but not
without &image.
The Albiod of London, Leek, owner, was deserted
by the crew off, the /lumber about a. fortnight since,
being full of Water, and on her broadside; the crew
arrived at Blakeney.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Glatvzsaso MAICK 2.—Passed by the Anna Catharina,
Rollins (a pris;); Concord, Hanserd, from Waterford ; and the
Advenntre, Parsons, from Ross.
The Betsey, Wnsuicostn, from New York to Oporto,
put into St. Michael's in distress. She had been re-
paired, and sailed from thence early in Jan aryu; a few
j est
days after, was taken possession of by his May's
ship Defence, and sent for Plymouth, where she arri-
ved on Monday last in distress, and her cargo of flout
and corn greatly damaged.
The Peggy, —v—, from Scotland for London, has
been taken, re-taken, and carried into the Downs.
The Hedley, BENSON, of Sunderland, vAth coals,
was captured off Flambro' Head on the 19th ult.
Yesterday the Tartar frigate, of 36 guns, com-
manded by Capt. BETTE:WORT/I, dropped down, the
River to Woolwich, to take in her guns and powder..

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ADMIRALTY Could, DOCTORS' COMMONS,
iThis day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM Sarit
proceeded-to the adjudication of the following ease :
" The Two Bretbees, master.—This brigiuct)Kellsban-
Need. ind was in a perilous situation Wbentilicovereby the sail-.
von, who were prodeeding on a fishing, voyage, which they im-
mediately broke hp, and bore down to the yesiet in question, and
brought bar safely into Harwich, in doing which they lost.thch
boat. The tom* was of opinion that ails was a service of merit,-
idthough not acemnpaided with any particular danger, and there-
fore directed, in the firstptife, payment to the salvors for .the loss
of their boat; ind in the next, decreed the sum of 70oL to be dP,
vided between them leigbt in number) with the addition of TOL
to the limiter.

MARCH 1:

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'This day the Right Hon. Sir W. Seprr proceeded
to the adjudication of the following cate,s 1---
Robust, Verckil muter.—This French ship was .proceeding
from New Orleans tdx port in France, when she was captured
by the Phenix man of.stie and carried to lackey. The question
before the Court isiaiil 41alitt. of joint capture, set upbytthe 6pott&
cer and Henry privatteA, on the ground of- being In' siglkt-ind
cheer at the time. - The-Court was of opinion that. the officel= of
the Phi nix had in his answers admitted his adveriarke interest,
and decreed Iccordlngly._ ,:: ;• ,,
Principe Atalanta, Amp master.—Thls vessel,-nreS4:4
from the Brazils to Lisbon.—Property pronounced tarkk
guese.—Damages and captors expellees roesmad, • ~,giiii.C.:
The Commerce de Rio, Gonsalvo inastre.l-8.01.61010i tat
cargo pronounced to be Portuguese property:'. • * . -
:Ventura Felix, Visa master.--Salvage was deciiitlietikellie,
asid the consideration of ether property deferr4. 0 ,-.• • •,',- t
• 0111/MaNI i
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COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, I,44lltegi k • .
SHADDICH V. HENRY HARCOURT, Egg•` '''''• ' •
, This was an action brought to recover 1401:. the
amount of a bond 'yen by Defendant to Plaititiff, is
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New South Wales, .Botany Bay). The hand-Writing
Of the two subscribing witnesses to the bond were
proved on the part of the Plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeant BMT addressed the Jury on the part
of the Defendant. He said, he should prove, that at
the time his client had signed this instrument, he was
not in a situation to know what he did. If he should
shew that at the time Defendant signed the bond he
was insane, or in a state of insanity, occasioned by
drunkenness, the Learned Judge would tell them that
they ought to give their verdict in favour of his client.
The Defendant was son of an opulent and most re-
spectable gentleman, the heir to a fine estate, and
connected with the family of a Noble Earl. Early
in life he entered into'the army, where he was obliged
to fight a duel with a brother officer ; they fought
with broad swords, and Defendant received a wound
in the head, and ever since, when he drinks any liquor,
he becomes completely deranged in his intellects, and
behaves in the most outrageous and violent manner.
Some years ago, he, by some means or other, got a
sum of 'money, with which he wandered from his
friends, nobody knew whither. His relations have
since learned, that he went to India on board the
Glatton East Indiaman as Midshipman • that ship
cast anchor at Sidney, in New South Wales, where
this unfortunate young gentleman became acquainted
with Mrs. Susannah Shaddick, who was. transported
from this country, and who was also a dashing lady
of pleasure, and with her he cohabited while he re-
mained on the island. Froni thence he proceeded to
India, where a relative filled a high and important
station in the Government. He some time4ter re-
turned to Sidney ; and one night, when in a•state of
lunacy, he was prevailed on by this woman, who was
a notorious prostitute, to sign the instrument in ques-
tion, with many others, at a tune when he was incapa-
ble of acting rationally. The payment of the bond
had been refused by his friends, as they thought,.that
from the situation he was in, he might have given se..
curities to so considerable amount, that the payment
of them might impoverish the estate, and they thereZ.
fore wisely resisted the payment of? the present one.
The servant, who attended the Defendant at- Sidney,
would prove in what situation he was at the time the
bond was executed; and he would also prove that
Mrs. Shaddick had sold the bond for 101. -
. Harcourt, Esq. of Baker-street, Portman-
square, father to the Defendant, proved . the signa-
ture to the bond to be his son's, and also that five
glasses of wine would make him outrageously violent.
He added, that this was the consequence of a
wound in his head, which he received in a duel.
From the violence of his conduct, he said it was
i found necessary to have him confined.
Philip Clarke, Gentleman, corroborated the state-
ment of last witness, with respect to the conduct of
Defendant. .
Elias Nathan, whO attended the Defendant while
he was in 'Zielney, deposed, that he knew the Plaintiff.
She is a woman of pleasure; remembers attending
the Defendant, who cohabited with 'her. •He was
very much addicted to liquor; and, when drunk, was
sometimes mischievously inclied, and at others Might
be persuaded to do any thin; remembers perfectly
his executing a bond at the tune he was not capable
of knowing what he lid. There stood upon the
table half a. gallon of grog, and under it was a leg
of 'mutton. The subscribing witnesses supped there ;
previous to Defendant signing the bond, Plaintiff and
' he Quarrelled, and he received a blow froni-a tei4lot,
'Which cut him, and the mark of which he bears.
Plaintiff coaxed him to sign another bond, as the
first one was of no use, being witnessed by :a cOirrit;
,
On hii cross-examination he admitted he .was.trans
ported for receiving a 101. note, knowing it le; be
stolen. Never heard of Mrs. S. having paid any of.
his debts. Defendant was imprisoned fol. debt in' Sid-
ney, but released on thy, Governor's paititig his Ward,
for the debt. -., - • • •
Sir JAMES MANSFIE.iD' summed tip thetevidence,
verdict the Jury found a verct for. the Defeti
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TAYLOR V. OULLUM AND 80Ne .. ..,.,.
This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, are-'
spectable butter-rberchant and dealer 'in • int, in
Newgate-market,,against the Defendant's;' respectable
cheesemongers and dealers in • eggs, in Clare-market,
to recover 61. 10s. the price of a paicerof eggs sold
to Defendants, but returned as' stale. It appeared
that in January. last, Mr. Stephen Cullum, the son,
applied at Plaint4'.s shop for eggs ; that he examined
a basket, containing '450, which he purchased' at the
rate of 11. Bs. per hundred, and ordered to be sent
.home. They Were, however, sent back, and Mr.
Stephen Cullum shortly after called. at plaintiffs
shop, and assigned as a • cause, that they were not.
fresh... -It was proved, however, that he had examined
them one by one with a candle, and that not one of