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LONDON.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4.
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PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONst O'CLOCK
Confab, for money, 6off--for April 644—Radnced 61i.
PRICE OF STOCKA YESTERDAY I
Dank Stack %oaf 2:3 soai India Stack thi
3 per C. Red. An 6stt India Rao& 24 4 3a. pron.
3 par Cent Co.( 60.19 t Imp. 3 per Cent Oot
4 Pee Cent )91 Ifni Etebel /Mr 40. prow
per Cent. Navy pill Lottery Tkk • tel. tan
LONg Ann. 1719 t 6 CouL for ax. 61 64
We yeilerday had the fathfaaion to announee, in
part of our impreffion, the capture of the Cape of
Good Hope by his Hajelly's Forces.

Major BAIRD, of the Army, with difpatches from
General Sir Dam Bomb, and Capt. DOM/1174AP, of
the Navy, with difpatches from Commodore Sir
Flows Porstaw, containing the particulars of this itri-
portant event, arrived in Town at four o'clock in the
afternoon.
Soon after the arrival of there Officers, the follow-
lag Note was fent by the Fit ft Lord of the Admiralty
to the Lord Mayor, and the receipt of the news wit.
at the fame time announced by the difcharge of the
Park and Toter guns:
" ADMIRALTY, FED 27, /So&
" Mr. Gast has the honour to tramfmit to tile
Loan Mavot, the incload account of the fuceefs of
his Majefly's Forces under the command of Sir Davin
Resin and Sir HOU. Po►maw.
" Admiralty Mice, Feb as, alto 6.
• Otpusta Down: an, aide hiaießy's Ihip Diadem, arrived
tide afternoon with difpoodam from Sir 140111111 POPMAIe, dated at
she Ceps of Good Hope, the 13th of January. The &moots
11 night by Ude aster Rate, thlt the firadron tinder Sir Hone
POPll4l.loleololMild arrived et the Celle on the Ath; that the
inshing of the .t►oops was faded on the 6th ; and that ante an
stilton on the tkh. in which the enemy loft about 100 and his
;!g *AO foam ahem Mo in tined and wounded, a capitulation
WY lived ea the lath, by which the Ceps Town and it. &pen.
&Was weft turrendand to hie Makites arms. General JA /I SOM.
who cemm►aded t►e estray's troop., bed retired with the re.
illaapSer hk fate. amannadint to about itoo or sOOO seta, Into
tit Wirier el the country. (A one Copy.)
Medan " Jaws. Snsw, Mayor.
" Meabm•Heds. Feb.'s,. taco,
" belt pet teer, P. M.`
In addition to the above particulars, we are in.
formed, that on the landing of our troops on the 6th,
General Basso infiantly advanced with them towards
a hill, Amend miles diflant froth the town, which had
previonily been occupied by the Dutch forces, to the
amount of near sOOO men. The Britiih troops, whore
t♦ayttber did not exceed 4000, advanced naon the
imosiay under a tremendous fire of grape and muf.

kinetry, and charged them with the bayonet. The
Dutch (attained the charge with firmnefe fot time
time, but in the end retired, leaving, killed and *oho-
dell, in the field, upwards of 700 men.
Our land forces, which exerted theenfelves fo glo•
rionfly and faccenfuHy in this inflanee, confined of
a detachment of Artillery i a detachment of the loth
Light Dragoons j the 14th, 38th, 59th, 71n, 7141,
s3d, and 93d Regimeats.
The following is, we believe, a pretty correB nate.
trent of our own 101 l on this occafion t
7.lnedvitOart. Foams, rick R. sod Bitten privates.
Worredodv4Anstssani Colonel CAMPIII[I.I., /la RAs.: Liette-
goat WOW 011•11 T, 7sd ditto; Lieutenant Camel Homer-
UAW, 93d ditto ; Captain MT. , 59th ditto ; Az Sabal•

tarns, and 573 privates.
The Dutch General left about too of his troops at
Cape Town, and retired with the remainder into the
interior of the country. On the loth, the town and
its dependencies furrendered by capitulation, without
attempting any further refißance. The terms are of
I the ofual defcription. The prifoners are to be fent
borne the firfi opportunity, and the place is held for
his Britannic Majcily.
It is thought that the troops who have retired into
the country under General Janos!, will not long
hold out. They are chiefly foreigners, and their
pay being in wear, it is highly probable that they
will be inclined to furrender, and perhaps to enter in-
to our fervice. The want of pre:miaow' is likely to
prevent their maintaining thernfelves in the interior,
to that we may Conn exped to hear of the entire con-
quell of this important liniment —a potreflion of fo
much value to this country, that we hope it Will never
be again relinquilked.

Some Dutch fchnyts, under neutral colours, arriv-
ed in the River yelterday, the crews of which report,
that a formidable French army was in motion, fop-
pored to be defined to a,t againft Pruffia, who conti•
mired to refill the demand of France relative to the
hutting her ports againft tke commerce of England.
It is probable, however, that the army alluded to, is
that which has already been rived to be on its way
to the toad; as we know that the molt vigorous
exertions are now making along the French coalt, the
objed of which, according to every accounj, is an at-
tack upon England early in the coining fpring.
By the above veffels Dutch papers, one day later
than thole we yefterday made extraels from, were
rc,•,eived t alto fome of the unofficial French Journals
to the fame date as thole of yelterday.
The inhabitants of Frankfort have paid two mil-
lions, that is one half, of the contributi9n irnpofed
upon them by the French. They hope by the alacrity
they have manifcited in paying the &ft moiety, that
the other will be remitted. We fufpeEt, however,
that they will find the French adopt a different mode
of reafoning.
The French armies continue to accumulate on the
Maine. It is sow afccrtaincd, that, with the weep•

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(ion of Bowasaart'a life guards, &wetly a French
corps of ronfiderable belies has puffed the Rhine
en the contrary, the conferipts continue to arrive bn
the right bank of that Ritter. Franconia, the Land
graviate of Darmlladt, Frankfort, and the dilltifts
contiguous to that city, are rerefented as being in-
undated by French troops. The army of Auoa-
'a Eau has been ;Imelda to fifty thoufand men, and
6611.hiDOTTI, with forty thoufand more under his
command, is near at hand to form a junAion with
him, if it &Wel be neceffary. Other di►iGons are
behind there t fo that alraoll the whole of the force
which beat down Auntie, can be brought, in the
entitle of a few days, to bear upon Heffe, or Saxony,
4nd Pruffia, ultimately. It is Paid, that A ooze sates
corps is to remain in Germany, " till every thing is
`fettled." The phrafe is well underßood in the Em.
pire. When Bo 's plias (ball have been rea-
-1 lized•—when independent States and Princes (hall
I have been parcelled out, and transferred and ex-
changed one gait& another, according to his caprice,
or ulterior •iews—then, and not till then, will Ifis
troops evacuate the countries which they drain and
opprefs.
We have already had occafion to announce that
the Elector of Baden is to be one of Bo 'a
new Kings. His dominions according to repent are
to be ;omitted by the annexation of Frankfurt, and
a confiderable part of Darmfiadt ; the Landgrave of
vitt:chi' to be referred for his indemnity to Weflpha-
lia, or more likely, after the example of the King of
&iota lA, to wherever be can find it.
The Pruffian provinces of Anfpach and Bayreuth
are probably defined to pats under another rule.
The Gazette els Frame offers a very ingenious argta•
ment in fupport of the neceffity of the proje6ed alit-
, nation. This diminution of territory is even proved
to be all for the advantage of the Court of Berlin.
It is held out as the opinhn of the ablef Frahm
Statefmen, and even his Majefly is Paid to be recon-
ciled to the principle, " that it is neceffary to facri-
fice the dillant provinces to flrengthen the heart of
the Kingdom." We cineftion whether FILIONRICII
%Visuals will be induced by the force of this friendly
logic to content to the lots of Anion!: and Bayreuth,
or to admit a principle which Bo has always
ready fur the fervice of the Continent, but which, io
no one inflance, has he ever applied to himfelf.

AMERICA.
Mails arrived this day from Halifax and New
York, by which we have received American Papers
up to the 27th January.
According to the lateft accounts from New York
and Walhingtonithe differences between America and
Great Britain bad not been amicably fettled, however
much defired by the Inhabitants of booth countries.
The doors of the Convert are now thrown open
to ((rangers as ufual : it was underflood that Arne
matters of the laft importance were diteuffed while the
public were excluded, and the proceedings of Con-
yers dnrirg that period had not tranfpired.
A war is talked of between Spain and Ame.
rice, and an expedition againfl the Colonies of the
former Country is Paid to be in agitation by the
American Government.
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Yeßerday the Lou, Cams ca t.coa dined with the
Duke of Dtvossio tan.
On Wcdnefday !aft Colonel ?ANA Now was re-
defied for the Borough of Aldbnrough.
Mr. MARIDIM retires from the &crew-y(6;p of the
Board of Admiralty, and will probably be fucceeded
by Mr. 0. MA222211.
'lhe Right Hon. J2I4ES F1TZ011121.2 is to be ap-
pointed Mailer of the Rolls, in Ireland, in the place
of Sir MICHAIL SMITH, who retires on a penfion.—
The Marquifies of Et.tr and Dario m IDA are removed
from the Joint Pofimallerfhip of Ireland; and Lord
HINLY Frrzoxitat.o fucceeds to one of thofe appoint-
ments, and not to the Tellerfhip of the Exchequer.
The Duke of 1311202 D went down yefterday mor-
ning to Woburn Abbey, to complete his arrangements
there, preparatory to his embarkation for Ireland,
where his Grace, and the Duchefs, are experfted to
arrive before the 57th of next month, nn which day,
being the Feftival of St. Patrick, a fplendid Court
will be affembled at the CAI!, in order to congratu-
late their Excellencies upon their arrival in that king-
dom.

Yeflerday, Sir Isaac Hump, Garter King at
Arms, with the proper Heralds, attended the Houfe
of Peers, for the purpnfe of attending the ceremony
of introducing the Earl of LAUDIRDALII, as an Eng-
lift Peery Lords CRSIIVILLI and HOLLAND were
likewife in attendance with their robes, far the pur-
pofe of introducing him, but the Noble Earl did not
arrive till four o'clock, which was too late for the
ceremony to take place, it being contrary to a (land-
ing Order of the Houfe for a new Member to be in-
troduced after four o'clock.

A regulation ha, been adopted by the prefent Go.
vernment, the objed of which is to facilitate the pay-
ment to officers of their fiaff pay and contingencies,
as loon as the money is iffued from the Pay office.—
For this purpofe notice is to be given in the London
Gazette and the other newfpapers,of the day on which
iffiies are male for any of the above-mentioned fer-
vices. Thus the naff-officers will be officially apprized
of the moment on which they ought to receive their
demands, and no excufe can exilt f.,r protrafling the
payment to the feveral claimants upon them.
On Wednefday, Lord Moms, attended by General
LAWSON, Col. D'AitcY, and a number of' other Of-
ficers, arrived at Chatham and infpceed the fortifi-
cations now nearly completed at thatplace. His Lord-
(hip, after a fhort flay, let off for Canterbury, on his
way to perform a tour of the coati, fur the purpofe
of examining what (late of defence it is in.
Two troops of artillery hones are arrived at Chat
ham, one of which is to proceed to Cavite? bury.

• kAST INDIA NOME.

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, Yeßeedit y a Genertai -Court of Proprietors was held
purfuant to public Notice, for the purpofe of confi.ter.
Ins a propofition from the Court of Diretkors, which
Lad relation to the late Marquis Cornwallis.
, The Chairman opened the bufinefs of the Meeting
In a neat fpeech of a few words. He hated to the
Conn, that the melancholy event (the death of the
late Martinis), which was the occalion of their being
then affiembled together, was not only deplored by
himfelf, but by every perfon at all interelted in the
affairs of India, and by every fincere well wither to
the Britith Empire. it was, therefore, unneceffaty
for him to attempt to pronounce a eulogium to the
memory of a man what integrity and talents were
recorded in the heart of every Engliffiman. It was
Tome coofolation for the country, however, ro reflat
that, though hi* invaluable life was loft in their ler.
vice, he had lived long enough to arrange the plan
'ef a pacific fyllem, which there was every reafon to
eipcfl would be abed on b f his focceffor (Sir George
Barlow), and would produce the mon beneficial re-
hilts to the &inn% interells in India. The Coort of
Diredlors had therefore come to a refolution to ca-
mels their gratitude for fuch important fervice, by
voting a fum of money to his heirs, as a fmall re-
muneration which would have been juflly due to the
Noble Marquis himfelf, had he furvived the labour
of his late million.
On the motion of Mr. RANDLI Jacasos the col..
refpoodence which took place between the Diretlois
and Loid Cornwallis on the fubjeft of his appoint-
ment ; a letter of,the Noble Marquis's on his arrival
in India, hating the enibarrafFed fituation in which he,
found the Company's finances; the official flatcment
of his Lordfirip's illnefs and death, by Sir George
Barlow; and a fubfcquent letter from the prefent
Governor General, holding out a hope that by the
adoptiop of the Noble `Marqui.'s plans, a general
peace in India would i.e fpeedily brought about, and
the intereft of the Company be confiderably advanced.
Mr. R. Jacasoa, in a very animated fpeech, re-
counted the many fervices which hid been rendered
to the Company, by the late MOCIIII! Cornwallis; he
dwelt with peculiar force on the mesitt of the politi-
cal lfc, and urbanity of rnanners.of that revered No-
bleman, as well as his plan for the civilization of the
natives, which had endeared his name to every man
throtighout the Afiatic territories. He entirely can•
corred with the Court of Dire fors, in the fentiments
which they had expreffed, as to the propriety of voting
a fum of Money to the reprefenratives of that great
warrior and ilatefinan (Marquis Cornwallis) apd
concluded with moving,
'Muhl' Or isoslog hued sad deo ppm ossopooleatell AT
the Mast tiMesesso emeassilsi tie Isis Nam* elposvalils,
issodose obbstalr Illoislodsasapos slot
Itstskol4Tiet sliolliost Num wit% ilnowsile the
Crowe of Solis hatipmats which dry Pave iv lovingly
emealred, Mat great and Marlow charades. That
losititstor Crevices of his life, to 'feature the calamity
of Ids Peek, Olen an deeply deplores the ton which the
1:111,1
Eolt Ise& Coaspobp pod.** Pdhlic have (Whined, in being de-
prived of the ski et to moth wiftioro, and Co much virtue, at a
this of thdr Mai sfo peculiarly calling for the emerge of thole
qualities. That trim under there (ormolu! Imprellon I. this Court
cannot but partake of the fatisfaelion exprertd by the Court of
Diredlo:s, that the purpofe for which his Lerdihip may be truly
(aid to have , ffered up his life to his country, Is likely to be ft.;iy
answered by the (chaise of general pacification which be bad dif-
Mftiy marked out, by the progrth already snack In negotiation
under his orders, and by the determination of Sir George Barlow
the pre eat Governor General, to adhere to the prindples laid
down by his prodeceffor, as founded upon the declared will of the
Lcsitiature, mid the unequivocal orders of the Court of Dirt:Clots.
Thai feeling equaly anxious with the Direaors to evince its grate
fol refpedt for the memory of this eminent perfon, this Court doth
cordially agree with their recommendation, to grant to the repro.
tentadves of his Lordship the Glary of Governor General for the
remainder of the year In which he died, sod for one whMe year
betides ; but taking it Into its eonfideration, that bad the Noble
Marquis lived he would have received that Glary in Bengal, and
hove Iven entitled to fuch advstitages of exchange as ovoid have
made 233 addition of upwards of eight thoofand pounds. This Court
recommends to the Court of Diredlors to pretent to the It preen.
Wives of the late Marquis Cornwallis a fum equal to a year aid a
hairs Glary of Govcroor General, together with loch amount as ,
would have been produced by the advantage of exchange relishing
therefrom.
Mr. ROCK, in a fhort but impreffive fpeecb,feeonded
the motion.
Sir WILLIAM Bottom/oils bore honourable tefli-
envoy to the wifdom of the plans of the tale Noble
Marquis, avnich, from ten years experience, he had'
known to have been the means of rendering the inha-
bitants of India, who were fubjett to the kiritilli Go-
vernment, infinitely more happy than any other Art-
istic fohjeas. The Worthy Baronet then entered into
a minute detail of the Rate of the Company's finances,
from which he inferred that, notwithhanding the
enormous appearance of the Company's debt on pa-
per, their finances were confiderably improved Since
the year 1797-8; the Company's revenue was nearly
doubled, their territory extended, and their frontiers
Nrengthened. He then moved, as an amendment,
That one half of the film propofed fhould be given
to Lady Mary Singleton, daughter of the late Mar-
quis Cornwallis.
This was feconded by General Campbell.
Mr. Geasr, the Chairman, denied every part of
Sir W. Burroughs' Ilatementof finance—wifhed much
that the refolution might pats as propofed, and the
Hon. Baronet might make his amendment the fubjeft
of a dillinel motion.
Mr. R, Thornton, Mr. John hone, Mr. Elphinflone,
and Mr. Twining alio condemned the detail into which
the Worthy Baronet had entered, aid fupportcd the
original motion.
The debate was proceeding, when
Mr. &MAW:U.ILT obferved, that it had occurred to
him, that the advertifernent did not correfpond witti
the Bye Laws, which prohibited all grants of money
v ithoin a fpecific notice, that fuch a grant word," he
propofed. He, however, imputed no blinte to the.
Chairman, whole numerous duties might eafily have
occafioned the miflake.

Mr. ADAM, the Standing Counfel, confirmed this
interpretation of the law ; and the Court was of nc-
re& y adjourned till fourteen days notice (ball have
expired.

The fleet which failed 110 M Cork on the evening r f
the 2nth nit. return -d the next day, except the SQf
en. hoop of war, and f.urteett fail, which had not re-
tut ned on the 23d.
Monday morning, ac feveral of the Davis's Straits
fltips wire the wadding of one of the
gone of the Nior,)l.l:, in fca:inz, Ornck the (boulder
and face of Captain I.Ft.-.sr,s ;.,m:1-,!, Matter of the
Hotlnung, I-vgh, and inftan,ly
killed

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'NAUTICAL nu it LIGXNCL
MAILS THIS DAY.—.ITIA4 WM.I
•1111. Out. "00t.
. Dublin • s a GottenbreVe ••' • 3
Waterford tz 3 iiamtstog... . 0
LlThon 2. z I jarful,' O 0
FALMOUTH; FOS. 2g.—Arrived the Waliingham
packet, Capt. Gael' (ailing) from Lif'onn in nine
days ; and the Mancheder packet, Captain Davisi
from New York in nineteen days, both with mails ;
the Adventure, BARRON, from Nino!. Wind S. W,
P/14ZANcJI, Fla. 25.—This morning the PrutLan
galliot the Rhea, of Stettin, 6ttit. CHAR LCS Gahm,
from Labor:, failed with fruit, for London ; and the
Nancy of this port, with block tin,
_ acc. for &MA
Pparsmoorm, Fulsome? d 7 .---Arrived l'Essont
(loop of war from the Cape of Good H.pe ;
lus frigate from Guernfey, and the Malades ( new
French fhip lately captured), from Halifax ; Defen.
der, Forward, and the Hardy gun brig from a cruise :
the Anfon frigate is appointed convoy to the Weil-
ward.—Wind N. W.

DIAL, Fes. 27 —Arrived the Pansrsao bomb,
from Portfrnouth, WL TMOVTH frigate from the Eaft
Indic., with a convoy, which have failed for the River;
11rw frigate from the Nore, Rants ua and Ost•
son hoops, Uaarter, Acurr, BasiLisz, Moaarys
And Dues, Ave gun brigs from a cruise, and the
Suffer Oak ketch from Deptford.—ln the Downs,
Edgar. Utrecht, Trully, Immortalite, Venus, Miner.
va, Weymouth ; Daundefs, Raillenr, Efpiegle, Ansa.
ranthe, Kite, Mofquito, and Bonetta hoops Prof-
pero, Devadlation, and Fury bombs; Diligence horn
fh:p Urgent, Actite, Bafilifk, Monkey, Defperate,
figreft, Mariner. Earneß, Flamer, jackall, Griper,
And Archer gun brigs Harmony tranfport; Wal-
thamßow, Lord Nelfon, Afia, and Fame FAR India
(hips ; Bullet Oak hired ketch, and Addington hired
tranfport.Atrived and failed for the River, the
Jupiter, DON*, from .Lillson, in la days pa/age; the
beat ail Spanilh privateer. mounting 54 gems, and
so men, in lat. 40. 35. N. long. so. as. W.—Wind
N. W. by W. blows hard, equally.
, PROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Aitaiven-v•ln Standeate Creek. tie Thema*. Duel, from Se-
wing. ON Dover, Speedwell, Medlar, (wok Gibraltar. In Ike
Clyde. Hope, PAacGoarge, from Bniknn ; ord, Humphries,
from ; Mary, Rice, from Savannah;nd the Recovery.
Wylie, from Hew York. At &Valk, William, Were', front
London. At ITlgelestso, Chirlotte from
Liverpool. -
The Amelia, Bevels?. from Penzance for Londoia,
was captu'ed off Portland on the 14th
The Burtend, —, from HuU for Ifonsloo,
captured and carried into Calais.

Eztrat of a Litter, dated Torre de l'Annonciata,
near Naples, Dec. 2, IBos :----1, On the Both oh. (two
days ago) we were reviewed by their Sicilian Ma-
Jellies near this place. Sir Jona(Fdrostar commanded
the line. We exceeded eight, ahoufand men. Sir
jaws CIAIO accompanied their Majeßies, who ex•
maid their admiration at the appearance of the
troops, and their confidence in the fupport which had
been thus furnillsed by the King of Great Britain
againft the common enemy. It walla curious cir-
cumllance to contemplate a Brains may manceuver-
ing at the foot of Vefuvios, whofarlofty crater was
di(charging its fmnky volumes air their heads. The
day was fine, the grosnd of review 'on which the
troops were afferobled was the felt beach, and the
profpeft of all the Britilh (hips of weer and tranfporu
in the Bay, decorated with their lerightell colours,
contributed to reader the whole one of the moll im-
preffive fpeilacles that could be imagined—add to
all this, that the regiments which were reviewed, are
fome of the fined of the Briti(h army.
,' There was a very confiderable eruption of Ve-
liavius a Ihort time before our arrival, the lava of
which is (till warm between Naplei and this place.—
The effetla of the earthquake are elate every where
throughout the kingdom ; there i fcarce a hoofe in
Naples, this place, Callen a Mare, or any where
along the coati, that has not a vifible rent from its
roof to its foundation. In Abruzzo, where its atlas
were particularly felt. feventeen thoufand lives are
(aid to have been loft. Every bleffing has thus its
counterpoife : were it not for thefe difellers, to which
this country has been fometimes prone from natural
caufes with which Paovousaca has thought proper to
tax it, its climate would render ita paradife."
The General Court Martial, which has been fit-
ting in Brißol, has elofed : one of the charges
brought before it was inflituted by Capt. Catiettdifh,
of the Welt Middlefex Militia, againit Lieutenant
and Paytnafter Francis Auftin, of the fame regiment;
sit, for refuting the payment of the Captain's bill for
the payment of his Company; ad, by fuch refufal
keeping the men from their pay, which tended to
fubvert good order and military difeipline ; and 3d,
caufing it to be ennfidered, by fuch refufal, that
Captain Cavenclills had made a falfe demand, injuri-
ous to his honour and reputation as an Officer. The
opinion of the Court is, that the Paymaller is guilty
of the crimes laid to his charge ; but as his coquet
proceeded from an error in judgment, the Court fen-
tenced him to he reprimanded, which fentence has
been coufirmed by his Mijcily.
Coast EXCHANGI, Fa s. :S.—Owing to the late
blowing weather, the Market is without arrivals of
Grain io general—waiting better fupplies, but few
tales are effeeled—Fine Wheat fu:ports laid price ;
Barley likessife, and frw prime (ampler here—White
real at the late reduetion —The Oat Trade, for thole
of hell quality, is rs. an I as. per quarter dearer-
-1 In Fiour and oilier articles bin (mall vari.ason.

CZNIiIAL CURISNCT All UNDIII:
Wheat. 45S 60, 70. prr qr. Grey Peale jcs 369

Finc Ditic, 7sit Iss cd
Ric. 37101 od

Scam, (old) scs 56,
Tick Ditto 44, so. Oti

Bar 1,4,171 33. 04

M■k, 63, 69. at

Ulitc l'eak, 334 421 04

Oat', 34$ 28$. 31$.

Palms iitco 3ss 33► 6d

Rape Seed, 381 431- per klt.

PLICI Ot 'LOUR.
Inns Floor 6es to up, oco.exas ss• so Got pa tat.

LAW ATz CI ti LE.

COURT OF KING'. BENCH. nut 17.
I. W. AND ►. COLLINS V. jOSAPN TODD.
The Plaintiffs are timber merchants, in Nicholas.
lane ; the Defendant is a Ihip builJcr, at Berwick-
upen-Tweed.
Mr. GARROW, for the former, laid, that, in conic-
quence of an application from the Defendant, they
fupplied him with timber, to the amount ref3lsl.
and under fome pretences into which it would be the
bulimic of the Gentlemen of the Jury to enquire, this
gentleman had paid into Cum t only .881. at a full
I,ltrisfaelion for the demand.

Mr. PA!lit, for the Defendant, Paid, that his ob-
jeilion to this claim was on two grounds, both of
which the Jury wrarld difcover to be equally tenable.
In the [piing of 1804, the Defendant came to town,
and applied to the Plaintiffs for timber, who accom-
panied him in the yard of Meffrs. Brenta, where he
was Amu a quantity of plank, which was fappy, and
mhera ife deteilive. Notwitlifianding this, the De.
tendant gave an order for timber to Media. Collins,
but with an cxprefs direilion, that the planks exhibit.
ed at Meflrs. Theo's' yard fhoold not fupply his or-
der, as be had extenfive contrails from Government,
to which Inch an inferior article was wholly inappli-
cable. This was nut all. In confequence of the slit
ferenees which unit between Mcfrrs. Collins and Mr.
Todd on this tranfa9ion, three gentlemen, or the
aussesof Slack, Beam. and Harvey, were nomi-
nated arbitrators ; and by the two latter an award
was made, by which it was direiled, that the demand
Mould be reduced to iHI. which was the precifefum
paid into Court.
Altar a long examination of witneffes for the De-
fendant, and new tellimorry had been adduced on the
part of the Plaintiffs, and the rejoinder of Mr. Parke,
with the general reply of Mr. Garrow, had been
heard,
Lord &Lamentation Paid—" This cattle has oe•
copied a very long time ; but fo much time as is ne-
. ce(ary,.io be applied to the porpofes of fubtlantial
jullicetitjs, Gentlemen of the Jury, both your duty
and mine to devote ; but where time is engaged, and
expense is incurred needlefaly, confide, ing the anxiety
of the parties, and the heavy charges to which they-
are expofed under the mod favourable eircumflances,
I cannot avoid noticing it with concern. Whatever
procraftinatiOn may have been employed, to me is uf
little confequence : my whole time, and my whole
being. is for theßublie ; and if I am not engaged
bere, I am fulSlllog duties elfewhere, for the Weigh
of the public. Whether I try the merits of this cafe
by the evidence for the Plaintiffs, or for the Defen-
dant, all cenfpircs to one refulr, that the Defendant
having received an article which he did not order,
received it under cireurnaawes inconvenient to him-
(elf,- to prevent Ids to the Plaintiffs. Then the clerk
of the latter, in the name of his matters, intercedes
with the Defendant to take the goods, as it would
only make a bad matter work to rejeet them.' Aller
I loch a letter, t is no common boldnefi in the Plain-

tills *snails to have the invoice price. If fuch treat-
wont were:admitted. it would extingnifh all human
confidence, and cargpes would be returned upon the
. calliper, to the slefiawition of his intereft. Then
with refpeet to theatbitration : it appears that Slack
was made acquainted that part of the wood bad been
fwept away by the tide, and he could not afterwards
expeft that the whole &mild be exhibited for the
examination of the arbitrators. With this knowledge
be anent* to tie Arbitration : he is himfelf one of
the nominees s and being thus funifus officio, he con-
ceives
there ie inherent in himtelf the means of can.
ceiling the bonds This aEtion is the return made by
the Plaintiffs far the affent of the Defendant to an
arbitration, and .for the reception of a cargo into his
yard which he lied before repudiated. I hope, Can.
denten, your vstsiiit will reprobate this carafe, for it
will, and muA do fo, if there be any community of
moral feeling between us."—Verdia foe the Defen-
dant.
town assvinorou V. W. 101121111 T.
was an a‘tion for an affault.
---- for the Plaintiff, obferved, that he

This ,
Mr. GAaapw,.,
bed his Lordfbip's authority for laying, that an a&
faukor affront Islas often more grievous when it was
attended by grofs intuit from the time, place, and
*maim, than when a ferious perfonal injury waste*
ceived: The Plaintiff was a Coal.merchant, and
was on the Coal Exchange, .when ,the Wain
thought fit to ruts between him and a Gentleman
with whom he was converting. Not content wish
this indecency, the Defendant thrall his fill in the
face of the Plaintiff, (truck him with his umbrella,
and ufed Riots and abufive language. For this vio-
lence and intuit, the Plaintiff fought a fatisfailion in
damages.
Mr. Todd raw the Defendant with his arm forced
egaiW the breaft of the Plaintiff, and heard the for-
mer Wie the latter, that he was a dirty fcoundrel,
and that he would roll him in the kennel.
On his crofs examination by Sir VICARY Gun.,
the 'withers acknowledged that he heard the Plaintiff
fay to the- Defendant, that he was a dirty black-
guard, but that it was fubfequent to the abufe re
ceived from the Defendant. The Witnefs did not
recollea that the Defendant Paid he did not tinder-
hand the term blaelguard, and that he was referred
by the Plaintiff to Juhnfon's Diftionary for an ex-
planation.
Sir Vicaar Cress regretted that fuel; a ridiculous
rate was brought into Court. The truth was, that
r he;e was a great crowd in what is called the circle
the Coal Exchange ; that in the bufile, the Plain•
nil was not treated with that perfett decorum he ex-
petted ; that he received a pufh, in no degree more
violent than that which he (the Learned Connfel)
gave to his friend (Mr. Pates), from which he was
convinced no aCtion would accrue.
Lord Ecci•rrsosorron (aid, lie amid have liked
the cundlid of the Plaintiff better, if he had not
condefeended to retort the ahufive language. It was
very imprnp,:r that Gentlmen (horrid be incommoded
by any violeree in places retorted to for the purpofes
of pubic Winds.
Verdi et for the Plaintiff—One Shilling.
SLANDIIII.•.4IIOIY w. kilt!.

Mr. Caaat.w fisted, that the Plaintiff was a young
nun of rod character and conneeinns, being crnfi•
deutial cook of I).tvis, Pinchbeck. and Co. eminent
rnrechams in the city. The defendant w if a miller
boot and thoemaker, and went to take (two : wine with
. petion of the name of Davit, a clerk i t the fame

cure with Mr. Legs/. no 'defendant Ad the
*itnefs if Mr..Legay iraiinTheir bottle? He (aid,
•*a On which the defendant laid of'Mr. tegfty,•he
r ithief. Some time afterwards, the plaintiff being
told of this, waited an the defendant with the wit-
nefs Mr. Davis, defiling him to retrae, or give orp•
his author. But he did neither ; only frying he was
told it by a gentleman at a tavern in Throgmorton-
(Erect ; but wlin be was he would not tell.
Mr. Davis, the plaintiff's brother clerk, proved
this cafe ; and added, that the defendant, inflect' of
retraCting thole injurious expreflions, laid, he him-
felt knew the plaintiff to be a thief.
Mr. Wolf, clerk in the fame haute, had called af-
terwards on the defendant to tetrad thole words, or
give up his-author, which he refuted. Both thefe
vit neftes added, that Mr. Legay was clerk in a very
confidential fituation in the houfe of Davis and Com-
pany.
Sir V. G sass Paid, that this catife was a proof what
a foolilh thing it was for one man to fay any thing
to the prejudice of another, on the authority of a
granger. The defendant was a good bootmaker,
but a very bad lawyer, or he would not have lubjeCt-
ed himfelf to the heavy penalties of an action, in
which the verdict mull be against him, for the words
were clearly actionable.
Lord ELLINSOROUGH lamented that there witneftes
ever mentioned the words to the plaintiff, for that
was the caufe of the action being befofe the Court ;
however, there it was, and the Jury mull difprife
lof it. Verdi& for the Plaintiff.—Damages Shit-
Hogs, which carries curls.
PERKINS V. RHODES.
Mr. GARROW Hated this to be an s&ion Inc the
breach of the Covenant of a Leafe, by which the defen-
dant held of the plaintiff certain fields near Ellington,
' and on which he had covenanted to lay every year
two loads of rotten dung per acre, but which he had
neglected to do for (even years together, by which
the land was much impoverifhed, and would require
manure and time to bring it into heart again,'' as'
the farmers termed it. The defendant had neglected
the fences alto, which he had covenanted to keep in
repair.
It appeared in evidence that the land bad been
tomewhat neglected ; but that the fences were protia
bly in good condition, two years ago, at the time of
the expiration of the tenant's term.
Sir V. Glass admitted, that the defendant had in-
curred fume penalty in this cafe, although he bad
laid on twice as much in one year, as he had cove-
nanted to lay, but had not laid on any the next and as
ha was not permitted to adfor what appearecito him
to be the belt for the land, but was to ad according
to his covenant, which was to lay on two loads of
manure every year, which he had not done, but he
fubmitted that the damages lhould be moderate.
Lord ELLINBOROOGN thought that about twenty
loads of the manure teemed, upon the evidence, to
have been wanting in this cafe, which at twelve [bil-
lings per load, amounted to t el. which appeared to
be the meafure of damages in this cafe, to which the
parties immediately agreed.—Verdict for the Plain.
tiff.—Damages t al.

From an account laid before the Route of Cern.
mons of the feveral contrads for fpirits, and the
prices at which they were made, entered into by the
Vidualling.Board, for the fupply of the Royal Navy,
from sth July, 1803, to gth January, tBo6, dillin
guifhing the quantities of Foreign Brandy, or Britifh
Plantation Ruin, delivered, and the refpedive ports
of delivery, it appears, that the purchafes of Foreign
Brandy within that interval, amounted to 898,:oo
gallons, and of Britifh Plantation Rum to 1,064,0001
gallons.
The Bill for taking an account of the population
of Ireland has been printed. It enads, that tome
fubßantial houfeholder,4of every parilb, townfhip-,,
and place, be appointed to take an account of the
number of perfons wi:hin the limits of loch pari(h,
'the Juftices of Perce for the county of the
city of Dublin, and the R. corder of Grid city, and the
Jultices of Peace and Afallant Barrillers, of the feve-
ral counties, to nominate Paid houfeholder at the
Quatter Seffions. Miltillera, de. of parifhes, alto to
tile an account, in writing, of perfons in their limits,
and prepare returns. The returna to be delivered
upon oath by the houfeholder. Perfons employed,
under the ad to be allowed their expences.
The following is Paid to be an authentic, affeding
Document. The Prayer of Lord Nst.soir :
* May the great Gon, whom 1 moldy, pant to my coun-
try, and for the benefit of Europe; a great and glorious victory!
and may, no mifeonduCt, in any one, tarnifh it! and may hu-
manity, after vldtory, he the predominant feature in the &kith
Sect !—For myfalf, individually, 1 commk my life to him who
made me; and may hi, hkffing light upon my endeavour' for
feeling my country faithfully!—To him I raga mica', and the
, jolt caufc which is vomited to me to defend.
" Amen—Amen—Amen !"
Dr. Aisne from New Jerky, who has lately ex-
plored feveral of the wellarn counties of the Rate of
North Carolina, in !earth of gold, reports, that he
has difcovered gold in branches and creeks in the
counties of Cabarrus, Montgomery, and Randolph,
in a north and north tall coolie, and in the counties
of Mecklenburgh, in a booth, and tooth weft direr.
tion from the firft found, where none had ever been
difcovered before, except in three or four branches
near Reed's (the firft difcovery) in Cabarrus county.
A few piece.; of gold, intermixed with Hone, have
been found on the furface of the earth, and borne
ploughed up in moll of the Paid counties. Several
of the Paid water courfes contain confiderahle qoan•
tities of gold dull, which, he Pays, can be collated
no way profitably, but by wafhing the Lind with a
machine proper for the ptirpofe, after the firfl or
common waffling, and then by mixing mercury
with the land thus wafhed, which will unite with
the particles of gold, and the amalgham, thereby
formed, difunited, by fublimating the fame in a
fuitable furnace.

I.all week a moll dreadful accident happened at
?Ir. Dav:s..clial pit, Nailfca : whilil duce men NOT
working at a'anut twenty fathoms depth, in difengat .
ing the coals, fuddenly a large mat's, calculated at lilt
tons weight, which they did tot taped to be flif .
eiently loofened, dropped from the titling upon whith
they were at work : the center man was cruthed to
atoms, and perifhed intlantly, but the other two were
di/engaged by their companions, and brought up alive
to the mnrrth of the pit. The furvivors were both
exceilively lauded, and one of then[ had his leg
broken 1 they were taken to the Infirmary, where
they are doing well, and, it is very probable, ill be
Ipeedily t eftcicd to their families.

POLICE, &t. •-4
Yefterday Mary Tiller and Luke Lake were charg-
ed at Hatton Garden Office, the latter With Dealing
a large quantity of (hots, the property of Mr. CARY,
Of Saffron-hill, in whore employ he had been eigh-
teen years ; and the former for receiving the fame
knowing it to be nolen. Lake was cnpunitted for
trial, and Tiller admitted to bail.
J. O'Brien was fully committed for embezzling
reverel fums of money, the property of his matter,
Mr. HARRISON, haberdafter, in Fleet-fitter.
On Tuefday evening the cook-maid -in a trade(
man's family, it: Pall-Mall, having had fame words
with an apprentice, fnatched up a carving-knife,
which the threw at him with fuck violence as to
wound Itim on the head, in fo dreadful a manner,
that his life is in imminent danger ; the has been
committed to pacts until the fate of the boy be
known.
Mary Gravin was yetlerday charged at Marlbo-
rongh.llreetoffiee, with forging a marriage certificate
and the regiftera of two children, with intent to de-'
fraud the Patriotic Inflitution for the relief of the
Widows of thefe who fall in the ferrite of their coun-
try. It appeared by the flatement of Mr. Douglas,
Secretary to the inflitutinn, that the prifoner applied
to him to take the benefit of the charity, and defcrib.
ed herfelf to have been the wife of a foldier, named
Gravin, belonging to the t 3th regiment of font, who
fell in Egypt ; but on ezamining the certificate, &c.
produced by the prifoner, it was afcertained that the
hand writing was the fame ai on other certificates by
which the intlittition had (offered. The papers, as
well as the prifoner, were therefore detained until a
letter was written to the Clergyman of Dongarvon,
in Ireland, where the regitlers were (aid to have been
procured. An anfwer was loon returned, in which
the Miniller declared the whole to be a forgery, fo:
no fuels marriage was reginered, nor were ever any
children of the name baptized at ;he church. She
was remanded for another examination ; and in the
interim it was ordered that the writer of thefe docu-
ments fi3ould be fearched after. It was (bated, by a
perfon in Court, that he had heard a woman make
her boalk of having obtained relief five different times,'
by ufing as many different names of perfuns wham
the had reprefented as her hatband.
The Poll boy conveying the Mail from Tarbert to
Rathkeale, was Sopped within two miles of Glinn,
on Tuefday fe'nnight, by two men, who robbed him
of the bags of letters, which fhould have arrived at
the General Poll-office, in Dublin, on the xoth loft.
from Tarbert, and Lillowell.

The houfe of Mrs. Ingham, in Charlotte.flreet,
Rathbone-place, was broken into a fortnight fince,
hut the thieves were alarmed and fled, without er
feeling their purpofe. The attack on the property
was renewed during the night of Tuefday by three
villains, who wit over the area railing, and forced
their way through the kitchen window. A young
lad flept in the kitchen, whom they took up (lairs
with them to prevent hi, giving an alarm, and after
fleeting all the light articles they could get at, they
fled with their booty. A perfon who was linking
about the then is in milady, on furpicion of being
an acedrary to the burglary.

The afflieted with nervous diforders, thofe fuffering
from heat or change of climate, and thofe who labour
under weaknefs and relaxations, originating in a va-
riety of other caufes, as well as thole who are grown
old before their time, by having unguardedly plunged
thesofelves into the commiffion of a folitary vice ;
a book, entitled" Solomon': Guide to ifeolth," has hap-
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as the body, and exalted them from a (late of melan-
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pinch'. The delutive habit here alluded to, is not
confined to the gay, the giddy, and the vain—for,
alas! the rich, the poor, the young, and thole of riper
years, even thole of a fetious and religious difpolition,
arc often drawn by an unaccountable infatuation to
the commilhon of the melancholy crime. All fuel)
fhould feriouily attend to the oldetvations anskthe
cafes defcribed in the " Geri& to Health," price 35. In
that mirror they will behold the dreadful conic.
quences they are procuring to themfelves, and may
then, perhaps, be perfuaded to recite from that road.
which, though fltewed with flowers, is Cure to lead
them to deftruition.—Sold by Matthews and Leigh,
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only each copy, of near 300 pages, with engravings.

MARRIED.
On the aotb Inßant, at St. George the Martyr, Bloom'bury, by
the Rev. the Archdeacon of St. Alban s, Cbriftopbrr Broome, Fig
of Great Ormond-ftreet, to Mifs Scllar, daughter of the late Wm.
&Mar, Efq.
Lately, Samuel Denton. of Gray's Inn, Efq. to ?Airs Helena
Cornelia Pam &tighter of Mr. Cornelius Pam, of Holborn, en-
graver to his Majt fly.
On Saturday lA, at Cbigwell church, James Wilco:, Efq. to
Mifs Jane Elba Owen, only daughter of Lieutenant Colonel
John Owen, of the Hon. Eat India Company'. cervices
On the 16th initant, Captain Burns of the Royal Navy, to Mils
Dalrymple, eldest daughter of the late Llnitcuaut Co/oncl Dal.
rymple, 19th regiment of foot.