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alolaute). To get rid of that enemy, all my effort.'
have been directed; beans I ani convinc al that ther
is the danger. There ate abuse, toweriu; above tit?
Constitution, and the Country is sick at heart—until
some remedy is applied, it is in vain to look for any
del :nice against a foreign force. Gentlemen, the per.
sent session of Parliament has added ranch to your
burdens, and nothing to your liberties. I take sham!.
to mysc,lf for . allowing the Indictment BM, to pass
through the House of Commons ; but (tom the
manner in which tke public business is conducted,
it is impossible sfor any man to watch over every
Measure
Gentlemen, there is another Bill in its progress, which
shall not pass into a la .v without my reprobation : 1
mean the Local Militia Bill. 1 hope we are not yet
bent so low as to submit, without remonstrance, to the
List stage of human degradation laid upon us by this
Bill. Gentlemen, befinv I conclude, I must repeat
that a reform in Parliament is that only measure whit h
can effectually suppress all peculation. This is tits-
grand master-key to our national prosperity, and tiw
want of it is the real source of all our evils and mi. -
fortunes.
Sir Fitascis retired about ten o'clock, and the re.
mainder of the evening was spent in the utmost har-
mony and conviviality.
NAUTICAL, INTELLIGENCE.
TORBAY,-MAY 22.
Sailed, the PARING gun-brig, with the transports having 4.3
board the 39th Regiment for Guernsey,---Wind W.
pouTsmouTH, MAY 23.
Arrived his Majesty's ship SUPERS from the Mediterranean
with dispatches ; the HARDY gun brig from a cruise; the David,
WALKER ; Catharine, YOUNG; and Perseus, BAY Yes, from th,
Dow :Lt.—Wind %V.
DOVER, MAY 23.
Passed by this day a fleet of ships from Falmouth bound to the
Rirer ; a ship of the line from the westward for the Downs; brig
Narden of and for Gottenburgh, with salt, from Lymington; brig
Mitierea, front the Cape of Good Hope in twelve weeks. bound
to London : she brings no news, did not touch at St. Helena int
her passay.e. Sailed the THRASHER gun brig to protect the fishing
heats be!uo-:ng to this town and neighbourhood. Another line
of battle ship is just going by for the Downs. Wind W. S. W
and blows very fresh.
DEAL, MAY 23.
Arrived the RENOMMEE and ENDYMION frigates from the Me-
diterranean ; MALABAR front South America: Altar sloop and
SigARPSIGIOTER gun brig from Portsmouth; KAnomtoo sloop
and I)r.sre Kara gun brig, from a cruise, Sailed the RILNuMMLL
and MAI AZAR for the Nore.
SHEERNESS, MAY 23,
Sailed this day his Majesty's ship the TusautzNT, with the
convoys for Gottenburgh and the Baltic; and the Taustrzotz
hoisted the signal for such ships as are reay to proceed to Heli-
goland, but has since hauled it down.—Went out of harbour his
Majesty's ship CALYPSO, and the TROMFEUSE has been paid
wages.—The Baltic and Gottenburgh convoys got under weigh
about eight o'clock this morning, and as they had a fuze breeze of
wind quite fair, were out of sight of this place in two hours after
they bad sailed.—Arrived from Chatham, and sailed with the
Baldc convoy, several ships, which have delivered their cargoes'
there, and are bound to different ports in the Baltic : some have
taken in cargoes.—Wmd S.W. fresh breeze.
HARWICH, MAY 23,
Arrived this day the AUCKLAND packet, Captain BRIDGE
from Heligoland ; she landed the Mall at Aldborough.--Saileci
the EARL Or LEICEETER packet, Captain HAMMOND, with Baron
Lieu's' and suite, for Gottenburgh. The shave packet has not
taken but a mail. The Virzi Revenue cutter, of this port, has
captured and sent in a smuggling vessel with upwards of 400 tubs
of liquor.
LEITH, MAY 21.
Arrived in the Roads this monde& his Majesty's frigate Twa-
t AR, of 52 guns, Captain BRTTZSWORTH Cunimsnder. In at-
tempting to cut out some gun-boats out of North Bergen, it be-
came a dead calm, and she was exposed to the fire of the batteries,
by which the Captain and a Midshipman were killed, several of
the tr.:w wounded, and the ship very much, shattered,
INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 23.
The Person claiming to be the Duke of Norfolk came into
Court' complained tnij,e want of Justice in the Court of Chan-
cery ; alit-aged that 01 Lawyers were mostly corrupt, and hoped
for attention to his case in the Court of King's Bench.
lord E N BOROUGH informed him, that if he had any idea of
his case merit* attention frum the Court, he should instruct
some Gen:len:au at the Bar to state it to the Court.
THE KING V. D'EGVILLE.
The defendant, ballet-master of the Opera-house, who was
found guilty last term of an assault on Mr. Waters, the executor
of the late Mr. Could, appeared in Court to receive judgment,
and was ordered to pay a fine of 101, which he paid, and eat dis-
charged.
TIIE KING V. COLONEL WATSON.
The Defendant was brought up to receive sentence for assault.
ing and sending indecent letters to General avyune' under the
signature of SHOCK Sass, and was sentenced to be imprisoned
for one year in the King's Bench, and after that period to be
bound over on his own recognizance for 2001. for the space of two
THE KING V. JOHN GOODRIDGE.
The Defendant is a surgeon and apothecary at Cranbourn, and
was tried at the last Assizes for Dorset, for assaulting and mai-
tre ating Mrs. Charlotte Miles, a widow lady. It appeared that
the Defendant and the lady had been upon very bad terms for a
. considerable time ; in consequence of which be took an opportu-
nity of jostling her against a wall when she was taking a walk one
evening withlter children, whereby he bruised her arm, and put
her in bodily fear ; for which be was imprisoned on the 12th of
May in tile County gaol, but on being brought up by Habeas Cor-
pus, he was allowed to call at Cranbourne. On his arrival the
bells were set a ringing, and the Widow Miles's effigy was car-
ried about on a jackass, under the title of Madame Bonaparte,
when at last it was thrown into the river. All Mrs. Miles now
wanted was to restrain the Defendant from future insults ; he was
therefore fined one shilling, and bound over to keep the peace WI
. his own recognizance in the penalty of .501.
WARDELL V. TIIE SHERIFFS OF MIDDLESEX.
This was an action for a false return to a writ offer/ flubs,
against the goods of John Maven, who kept the Cock public how.-
' in Tothill-street. Before the execution was put into the house,
Mason gave a bill of sale to an auctioneer in cary4ime, Cheap-
side, his brother-in-law, who had indenmified the Sheriffs, and
put a man in possession, to take care of his interest. The Sheriff's
being indemnified, they returned NULLA BONA. It appeared, by
several witnesses, that the whole buiiness, on the part of Mason,
was a fraud, and the Jury found for the plaintiff sta.
Letters from the Isfixigava, of 44 guns, Captain
HA WK I Ns, dated the 6th ins 4 off L'Orient, state, that
the boats of that ship, manned and armed, commanded
by Lieutenant Comm, landed in a bai near L'Orient,
attacked and carried a battery d.fended by ore 18-
pounder and a large party of soldiers, in the block-
house, with loop-holes. The gal ait tars turned the
gun towards the block-house, and tired it through ;
then spiked the gun, and took the ccntinel prisoner,
when the enemy tired through the loop-holes, and stn
fortanataly killed Lieutenant Coottx, but his pary_
succ,:eded in call ying the body on board,lith naval an
and the nest
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honours.Nrascommitted to the deep, with
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An Irish pedigree hunter has found cut that Madam
CATALANI was a native of the land of Potatoes, and
that her original name was Katlern .I—lt would be well
&or
if he could persuade her to stay in her min coma.
try, and spend the money she has got by the
lily of Messrs. Ain and Patrici
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