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battle, as Mr. Busxl obferves ; and u Mr. Girl
sows fays," they will be overlooked in the divifion
of the fpoil."—Of whatever mifchiefs they are
made the tools, and with whatever hopes they
may be milled, they find at laft that they are but
the humble inftruments of crimes by which other
men profit. There is not a fingle exception to
this remark in the hiftory of mankind, while
modern times furnith fome ftriking illuftrations of
its truth. The lower claffes are not excluded from
(haring the fpirit of liberty, as well as its praCtical
bleffings ; let them cherilh that fpirit, and they
will find its belt nourifhment in the independence
which is the fruit of honeff induftry. Let them
be high fpirited, proud of their rights, and brave,
to defend them ; but when they find men who
would entangle them in barbarous attempts or in
criminal defigns, they may be Pure that they are
miferably deluded. As to the army, we are con-
fident that they muff be indignant at any attempts
to feduce them into crimes difgraceful to their
chargter as men, and their honour as foldiers ;
and we have no doubt they would have the fpirit,
did they know the culprits, to chase from their
ranks all who could be guilty of treachery either
to the fervice or to the country.

DUTCH MAIL.
This day a Mail arrived from Holland. It
brings but little news from the _Continent. The
fubjoined letter from Surinam is however of tome
importance, in as far as it thews that, fo late as
the zd of September laft, no preparations had
been made by our troops for abandoning it. We
may therefore conclude that we flan not have the
trouble of making a fecond capture of it, thould
the points in difpute between this country and
France lead to an aftual rupture with her and her
Allies.
The troops defined to take poffeffion of Loui-
fiana under General Vicvoa, have not yet failed.
A letter from Vienna Rates, that the Span&
Conful there remonftrated, but without effeft,
againft the French taking poffeffion of Parma.
thous, Nov. i4.—General VICTOR, whore ap-
pointment as Captain-General of Louifiana, will,
it is faid, be foon publicly announced,' is expefted
here in the courfe of a short time. The French
troops which have hitherto been in the Dutch
pay, and are defined for that Colony, will foon
embark under his infpeftion. Several French (hips,
it is faid, have already arrived for that purpofe in
the Maas. •
SURINAM, SEPT. 2.—As yet we have heard no-
thing of the fleet, which is expefted from Holland,
to take poffeffion of this colony, which is to be
delived-up to them by the Englifh: the latter feem
to have made no preparations for the evacuation
of it. Several Dutch ships have arrived here in
the courfe of a few weeks, but they will not be
lighted to leave this place, till the colony is again
placed ander the proteftion of the Batavian Go-
vernment, which, to many, is an unpleafant cir-
cumfance. Only three ships have been excepted,
under the command of Captains eakt.outs au, SKIT,
and de LANCE, which arrived here with fpecial
orders from England.
An uncommon mortality prevails among the
foldiers and failors ; it feems, however, to have
confiderably abated among the natives : we have
lately loft our able Phyfician, Dr. Marla: his
death is a great lots to the Colony. The heat here
is exceedingly intenfe, and fcarcely a breath of air
is flirting. The thermometer, from eleven in the
morning till four in the afternoon, Rands generally
at 90 degrees. We are much afraid alto of the
confequences of the drought.
Several fkirmithes have taken place lately be-
tween the Indians and the Buffs Negroes; of the
former feveral have been killed, but the Govern-
hunt has taken meafures to effeft a reconciliation
between them, and it is probable that their dif
pute will occafion no more bad confequences.
The Colony is in great want of phyficians, fur-
geons, advocates, bricklayers, carpenters, fmiths,
and other workmen, as well as of young men for
the counting houfes and plantations. We had here
great inundations, which have occafioned confi-
derable damage in the cultivated fields, and to the
whole Colony in general.
VIENNA, OCTOBER 3 t.—Yefterday a Courier
arrived here with Official intelligence, that the
Duchy of Parma, Placentia, and Guaftalla have
been taken poffeffion of by the French. According
to other accounts, two half brigades of the troops
of the Italian Republic have entered the Parmefan
territories. The Spanifh Conful here endeavoured
to remonftrate again( this meafure but without
effea. . 41•11.11•=1.11. %. •

THEATRES.

At one o'clock on Wednefday, an exprefs ar-
rived at Plymouth from the Admiralty, in 36
hours, with a large packet of fealed orders for
Rear Admiral Deceits. They were immediately
put on board the NETLEY fchooner, which has
been viaualled and stored for four months ; the
was expeaed to fail the fame afternoon.
Mr. BING, the American Minifter here, it is faid,
has refigned that office, and will return to Ame-
rica next fpring. It is not yet known who will be
his fucceffor.
Yefterday Sir RICHARD FOR!) dined with the
Duke of CUMBERLAND.
Lord WILLIAM CAVENDISH BINTINCK, the new
Governor of Fort St. George, is fecond fon to his
Grace the Duke of Poznan% and has juft attained
his twenty-eighth year. His Lordihip is Member
for Nottinghamfhire, Colonel in the Army, and
Lieutenant Colonel in the z4th Regiment of Dra-
goons ; the falary attached to the Government of
Madras is fixteen thoufand pounds per annum.
Yefterday morning at twelve o'clock William
Harris was brought from the Houfe of Correction,
and placed in the Pillory at Charing-crofs, agree-
ably to his fentence, for felling obfcene prin,ts. He
had on yellow ftockings and blue trowlers, which
is part of the prifon drefs. The populace let him
trudge round the Rand very quietly till within ten
minutes of the expiration of the' hour, when they
fent him showers of mud; and it rained the whole
time, fo that he had not the moft agreeable ap-
pearance when he was taken out.—About three
years fince he received a fimilar punifhment for
the like offence, and others of a worfe kind.
. Late on Saturday, evening a fire broke out in
the Cotton Faaory belonging to Mr. Appleton,
fituate in Hert-ftreet, Manchefter, which in a very
fhort time confumed the interior of the building,
leaving only the walls (landing.
On Tuefday fe'nnight,about feven o'clock in the
evening,the barnand outhoufing belonging to Mrs.
Jaggar, at Hagg, near Holmfirth,were difcovered
to be on fire. The flames were fo rapid and vio-
lent, that they immediately communicated to two
adjoining kitchens and the dwelling houfe. The
barn, full of corn and hay, and the kitchens were
entirely confumed; but by the aEtive exertions of
benevolent neihbours, we are happy to (late, that
the valuable furniture in the houfe was fared.—
From particular circumftances there does not ap-
pear a doubt upon any rational mind,but the pre-
mifes were wilfully and malicioufly fet on fire.
MR. STEELE'S MURDER.—The following letter
has been circulated on this melancholy occafion,
by the Mayor of Henley-upon-Thames :
Henley-upon-Thames, Nov. xB, 3802.
Sir—A man and woman exactly snfwering the defcription of
the perfons advertifed by Sir Richard Ford in the London Newf-
papers, as bag fufpeded of the murder of Mr. Steele, on
Hounflow Heath, were ken on Wednefday laft, on the road
between heeding and Henley ; and on the fame afternoon about
half loft four o'clock near Gangfden Hill, about two miles be-
yond Nettlebed, on the Oxford road. It bfuppofed they went
that way to elude the fearch made for them at Saiiibury and the
Weft of England—. Should any Each perfonsbe fern in or about
your town, you will, of murk, think an examination of them
highly proper. I am, Sir, &c. &c. Joist ALLAN.
• A very ill-looking fellow, dreffed in a ragged
foldier's )acket, wearing a long black hufhy beard
was on Wednefday night committed to gaol, at
Deal, on fufpicion of being the murderer of Mr
Steele. The man had about him a leg bone of an
ox pointed at one end, which, with lus fufpicious
nppearance, induced the Mayor of Deal to emu-
.invicato the matter to Sir Richard Ford, and the
man is in cuftody till an anfwer is received from
Bow-ft:vet. He-underwent a public e;aniination
at theOuildhall oriThurfday morning,When it ap-
red that he will i¢ the neighbourhood of Houn-

PARIS JOURNALS.
We have received the French lefoxiteur of the
16th: its contents, however, are entirely void of
interdi. It is filled with Addreifet to the Flaw
Comm. and his Lady, during their late tour, and
with extraas from books.—P ve per cent. 53f. 85c.
• Private letters Rate, that Lord WHITWORTH
;reached Paris on Sunday lan ; -and alfo That fume
unpleafant accounts haie beta'received from the

SUPPOSED HIGH T REASON.
CHANCELLOR,
Chieftsri
Yefterday, at ten meeting of the Privy
..,..iiii .
0---,ciocike,Laords
' was principall.e held
iialr-Laix.—Lalt night, during the perfor-I
Council, confutingf the LORD
lialince of Thi Winter's Tale, at this Theatre, an
Abp. of CANTsiauoRY, Ll
S Oa r ICi •
aLO dHIOLBHAAINT:LOEardrICofHwATIHsAiMm,OI.:IIHLAANWD,REas...SEeUCAthEETSe:
opportunity was afforded the audience of manifeft-
r
ing the ardour of their attachment to his MAJES•
' TY, and their abhorrence of any confpiracy form- Lord in
ed againft the fafety of his perfon, or the fecurity ,
r;. MST% STAFFORD, WHITE,..r
'OLNEY GENERAL, the SOLICITOR GENERAL, Mr..
ithSeiTr RrelarcuHrAytt,DaFnodßMD
of his Government. In the firft aa, KING, Mr. EVANCE, one of the Borough M g
where Camillo
difclofes to Former:a the plot againft his life, Po-
tratort::
Clerk of the Police Office, Union Hall
fizenes very naturally expreffes his aftonifhment that
any one fhould attempt to deftroy the exiftence
of a Sovereign, who had never in thought injured at Lord PELHAM'S Office, to examine Halls
any one individual. The prevailing report of afurther mt.
the charges exhibited againft Colonel D
moil infamous and abominable plot atainft the and the party apprehen ed with him RSPAICD
d. ,
life of our gracious Sovereign, inftantly fuggefted About ten o'clock a Serjeant's Guard a •
to the audience a peculiar application of the fen- HARVEY,rrived
at the Office, commanded by Serjeant
timent. Loud applaufes were heard from all with fix privates belonging to the arlt and I
parts of the houfe, and continued to an unufual regiments of Guards ; three of them were ae"nd'
length. This was not, however, adequate to the?pre-
hended in the Tower early yefterday morning,and
etpreflion of the general feeling of affeetionAte .
three in the Tilt-yard in St. James's Park.
loyalty. Four or five diftind peals of applaufe HARVEY has been particularly active in difen'vrjt.
fucceeded, and never did we witnefs, in any pub- ing the men who are fuppofed to have been cr.
lic affembly, a more unequivocal teftimony dif. cerned with the meeting. Sanders and Wcon.
played of the indignation which all preent felteramina.ruter-
bottom, two of the men, underwent an
againft thofe monfters, whoever they might be, lion, the particulars of which did not tram.);
who would attempt the deftration of a Sovereign I re.
About the fame time Colonel D
Co juftly dear to his people. ESPARD was
brought to the Office, without any irons on, in th
Cow ENT Gains v..—Laft-night the. entertaining cultodr of one of the keepers ; and remained b;
Farce of the lryb Widow was performed at this L: r i : ,e; p
asiMaeat A1r.,4?
.r..ICHARD FORD'S room a lour ' •
houfe for the firft time thefe feveral years. Mrs.l„r tune,
but underwent a very (port examination
lATCHFIELi took .the part of the Widow Brady,a Council. He was fully committed to . ore the
and did k fuch juftice as to convey to thofe who take his trial, but not for High Tre r ev.,gate;to
raw her a very favourable opinion of the verfatility a on, as it has
been reported, in plotting againft the life of his
of her talents. She rattled and romped. and (wag- MA]
ESTY—no evidence to that effect was adduced.
gered away in the molt famous ftyle, without ever The crime he was accufed of is, feduciug fome of
being coarfe, vulgar, or unfeminine. When fhe aP- the Guards from their duty and allegiance. It has
peared as the fort and tender lover, as the giddy, been idly rumoured that more than 200 of them
extravagant dealer' in hufbands, and as the hot. were feduced ; but we can affert, from unqueitton.
headed, bloody minded Irifh Lieutenant, fhe Rill able authority, that the number does not exceed to
fulfilled the intentions of the author, and exceeded Mrs. DESPARD attended in the morning, to all
the expetitations of the audience. She imitated permiffion to fee the Colonel, to give him a change
the brogue to admiration. EMERY fcarcely looked of linen, &c. In 'the afternoon Sir RICHARD Foan
fufficiently feeble for Whittle : but his corifternation granted her requeft. It is ahnoft unneceifary to
upon the fudden change in the dear creature of add, that this is the Colonel Defpard who was fb
his affeetions was highly comic. SIMMONS, on long confined in Coldhath fields prifou, and who
the contrary, feemed too old and worn out even for made fo many complaints of the treatment he ex-
Kecifey. The caricature, however, had the decided perienced there.
approbation of the Gods. BLANCHARD fhewed About half pall ten o'clock, Taunton, an Of
drollery in Thomas, and WADDY contrafted ficer, arrived at the Office with Charles Pendle
with good emphafis the high Mood of. the O'Neal' in his cuftody, whom he had apprehended by vit.
with the dirty red puddle of the Whittles. tue of a warrant, figned by Sir RICHARD FORD,
Charging him with treafonable practices: He is
now 'A journeyman fhoemaker, and the Pfficer
found him athis work at a houfe in Toolerlireet.
He was fore -time fince a meter fhoemaker in the
neigkbonileoff of Red Lion.fquare. He.was con-
fined akouttw.o years ago in Gloncefter gaol with
Binns. Tte Officer, When he apprehended him,
fearched him and found upon him a card,engraved
with a neat device, and round it , LondonCorref-
ponding Society, United for Parliamentary Reform?
He underwent an examination, in the courfe of
which he was afked if he had not affociated with
ibldiers lately, particularly at Windfor, to which
he moil firmly anfwered in the negative, and af.
Cured the Cabinet 'Council, that fince hii enlarge-
ment
from prifon he had attended clofely to his
bufinefs, and had not affociated above twice wits
any of his Uolitical friends.
He is about twenty-three years of age, ac ii
enjoys but a bad flare of health, in confederation
1 of which he was affured that he fhould be treated
extremely well, and be committedto Tothill-fields
Bridewell, where he would be provided with a
good bed, and have every thing comfortable. lie
was accordingly fent there, handcuffed, with DI?.
mas Wood, a private in the Guards, who was
apprehended on Tuefday night at the meeting,
and be underwent a fecond examination yefterday.
John Frarcis and Thomas Broughton, who
were . apprehended at the meeting on Tnefday
night, were brought from the New Piifon, Cler.
kenwell, heavily ironed. ' They underwent an
examination. The printed forms of oaths which
were found upon Broughton by the Officer when
he fearched him were produced againft him. The,
were both remanded back to New Prifon.
Whatever may have been the object of the per-
Cons apprehended; and of thofe connected with
them, it is certain that no pofitive proof has y_.:t
appeared of their entertaining any defign to al;
finate the KING on his way to the Houle of Peers.
Their affemblies have been held with much fecrecy,
and their numbers are very confiderable. We learn,
that in the Borough of Southwark alone, there
were feven divifions and eight fub-divifions of them,
all regularly organifed. Each fub-divifion had
four Delegates, all of them qualified to vote at any
General Meeting, the time and place of which
were always kept fecret, until within a few.hotlrs
the
chief its affembling. The perfons who have been
chief inftruments of difcovering the tranfaa,onsot
the Meeting, yefterday gave in the names cf the
foldiers who took an active part in the proceeding s
..
They were brought by different efcorts to L0.r,0,
d
PELHAM'S Office, and examined before the Pro
Council. Several were ordered into confinemcnt.,
The great allurements held out to the foldiers bry_
the Delegates, was, that large fums of moneY c
'Neon
expelled to be remitted from France, and that
.e .
accomplifhing their object they would be allowed
d
for life three &Wings and fix-pence per day.
Colonel WlNveanof the ift Regiment of Guard,,:
attended the Council during the examivation t
the • ildiers. Ilion of th:
Among the papers found in the poffe . ~
prifoners, were feditious tufts and fangs, butta"..`
molt material was, one Declaratory of cc!
,3ut.
Rights, with a copy of the oath taken on I),=c ,r,
ing a member. It begins with—" Coq/fit:awn.
71,
6.,
of Ireland and Great Britain, E li
—qua__,z,attut.l:l.
a / Civic ights."—Then follows an alint oce
sl c .
the members will unite to maintain the lama
fa:.
all thofe Heroes who may fall in contending
their rights. ti I
The words of the oath run nearly thus : -in
A. B. do hereby fwear to endeavour, to the utate7,
of my power, to obtain the °kit:as aho.
i
telinicilts,
and that neither fears, rewards, ~or punt . p
~.
than compel me to refign thole rights anudn
.:,.
-.1"-h the SuPREME BEING in his b(, 3,,

rbateref indt:e t to eve information in
the lands—So help me GOD."
We annex an accurate lift of the names of the
„dons who have been apprehended, and the
Pri-
ions i
in which they are confined :
nwcArt

Edward Marcus Dcfpard.
New PRISON, CLERICRWSPERR:
is Edward Ruffell
thonalFrainacckfon, alias Phillips James Price
pani.M.Grae William Lander.
Dams Broughton
TOTNILL-TIELDS BRIDRWILL :
CV:cid John Doyle
Tome Caner Abraham Bally
Newman Solomon Chatlon
•otia Connelly Lawrence Sheridan
4 ocs Scdpvick Wrattca Charles Michael O'Neil
oats DI George Wade
eph Blake Samuel Smith
tot Via cot John Emblin
eta pollard Charles M'Cooty
Byrne, alias John Jofeph Wheeler
Danbert Charles Pcndle
It appearing that this alarming combiaation had
agents in different parts of the country, particu-
larly
in the manufacturing towns, meffengers have '
been clifpatched to the Magiftrates of thefe places,
with initrudions to take the fpeedial and moil
effeaual rneafures to make every poffible difcovery
'dative to the fubjed.
The foldiers who were apprehended by Serjeant
EARCEY yefferday morning in the Tower and in
the Park, were ordered to be kept prifoners in the
Guard-houfe during the night.

BRIGHTON, A 017.18.

The PRINCE'S harriers threw off yefterday near
Portilade Windmill. The field was very indiffe-
rently attended, and the weather too damp and
topleafant to afford any thing but mud fplafhed
boots wet jackets, and indifferent fport.
The charitable donations and willing affillance
which Mrs. Fivzirtassav has, and continues to
bellow on the unfortunate individuals of this place,
has justly endeared her to the inhabitants of every
defcription.
The Elizabeth and Margaret packet, with nine
tailingers, among whom was Capt. ARBUTHNOT,
failed Tor Dieppe at fa P. M. on Tuefday. The
Lark packet, with 16 paffengers, arrived at four
P. M. yefierday.
Sir RICHARD and Lady HERON are expeaed
about the latter end of the enfuing week, for the
Whole of the winter.
Arriials—Mrs. Delaney, Mr. Harvey, Mr. &holey, from
(Upham Common, and Mr. Stewart Wortley.
Departures—Mr. Evans, Capt. Twaddle, and Mr. Smith.