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London, England, 1801-02-04 00:00:00

8121775 H ARMY.

Mistral diftribution of the Briti(h Army, Feb: 1.
Jet:Warr. Fentible. Mit TN. Inv.
c.v. by: Inpffltry.
Bet C.""
England a,,el Wales as 19 4 74 122 31
North Britain 1 I 2 14 4
Ireland 7 II 3a 30 6
Jerfey.Gaernfey, &e. 9 2 11 20
In the Garrifons of Gib-.
ralur , Minorca. and
Malta. and on Secret 2 .19 4 45 •••••
Service. in the Mein.
North America - S 2. •-• 7
Weft Indies - 1 435 36
Cape of Good Hope I 6 7
Eaft Indies •4 6iB 21
On PaC from Abroad

Totalv 144 45 86 gt 6. 61
(e) Including the 68th Foot, two Battalions.
(i) The Company's Troops czclufive.
5 Exclufive of Artillery and Engineers at home and abroad,
Independ,nt Companie., Additional Companies of Rqamana
sta Foreign Statiom, Recruiting Carps, Volunteers. art.

Their MAJEsTirs and the PRINCESSES yeller-1
day mut Mug took an excurfion to Kew.
The ROYAL FAMILY honoured the Concert of
Ancient Mufic this evening with their pretence, be-
in4 the firft this featon.
Thee HAN CEL LOR Of the Excneoy aPt was yeller-
day indifpoled with the gout.
The KING has been pleated to grant unto Sir
THOMAS TROVIIIIOO E., Bar:. Captain of the Royal
Navy and Colonel of hit Majeßy's Marine Forces,
Captain ALE:. 13 4 Lt., Captain SAM. Hoon, and
Captain B. Hassowess, of the Royal Navy, his
Royal Licence and Permit ion to accept the rank
of Comma' ,der of the Order of St, Ferdinand, and
.of Merit, u hich it is the intention of Ferdinand the"
Fourth, King of the Two Sicilies. to confer upon
them ; and to bear the infignia of Commander of
the Paid Order.

At the clofe of the Poll on Tuefday fe'nnight,
for the county Wicklow, the numbers flood thus :
for GEORGE Porno:tar, Efq. 666, for Lord
Paosv, 604.—Majority fqr Mr. Poi:sot:iv, 6a.
At the final clofe of the Poll on Wednefday,
the numbers were as follow: for Gsoaos PON-
sOK AY, Efq. 695; for Lord Paolv, 622.—Majo-
rity for Mr. PONSONIy, 73, and not 47, as erro-1
neoufly Rated yefterday.
• At Bradford, in Yorkfhire, a Petition for Peace,
Rating the War to be the caufe of the prefent dif-
treffes of the Country, was refolved to be prefented
to his MAJESTY by a numerous and refpettable
Meeting.
On Friday laft, at twelve o'clock, a meeting was
held at the Moot-Hall in Wakefield, of the mer-
chants; weol-ftaplers, manufacturers, and others
connected With the Woollen Trade in that town
and neighbourhood, at which it was refolved to
prefent a Petition to the King for a fpeedy peace.
The Whig Club yeflerday dined at the London
Tavern, when his Grace the Duke of NORFOLK
was in the Chair, and he m•rintained the convivi-
aliw of the day with all his ufual fpirit. The
noble Duke gave " Mr. Fox," and added, " May
his King and Country fee their error before it be
too late, and call forth his virtues and talents to
refcue them from the dangers with which they are
furroundcd !" A number of rlentlemen were ad-
mitred Members of the CI,Co, and feveral Candi-
dates were propofcd to . ballotted for at the nett
meeting, when Ear' l'Hassr is to be in the Chair.
Yefterday thr cord Mayor ordered the price of '
Bread to be ralied one affize, or two-pence in the
peck loaf; o take place to-morrow. The price of
the c • ,:-• ern loaf will then be one Shilling and
fro% -..2zoce three farthings.
Y::fierday a General Court of Proprietors of
Eaft India Stock allembled at the India Houk
purfitant to adjournment, for the purpofe of de-
termining by ball.n the following queftion, viz.
" That it is the opinion of this Court, that the
Enquiry into the alledged Abufe of Patronage
ought to be continued." At fix o'clock in the
evening, the glans being finally doled, were de-
livered to the lcrutineers appointed by the General
Court to examine the number of votes for and
againft the Paid queftion, who made their report as
follows, viz. 550 votes againft the queftion, 415
votes for the qadtion ; 139 majority againft the
queftion. The Court then adjourned/at As.
Married at Aberdeen, on Thurfday the soh of
laft Month, THOMAS Cacti. Gaatnosa, Efq. of
BridgehOufe, Sures, to Mifs Et:russet* Banns'.
01• N, eldefticlaughter of THOMAS BANN im•st,Efq.
A letter from Manchefler, dated 31 ft Jan. sBo t,
lays, " On Tuefday night, an alarm of fire was
given from a fattory near Oxford Road, belonging
to Mars. LITTLIMOOD and KIRBY, which, in a
few minutes fpread with Such fatal rapidity, that
the infide of the building was in a blaze. Unhap-
pily, we have to Rate that the people were at work
in it ; and from the fire beginning in the lower
part of the building, thole in the upper parts were
cut off from the means of efcaping. In this dread-
ful fituation, feveral of the work people threw
thernfelves from the windows, with a hope of fay.
ing life, and every poffible afliftance was rendered.
Eleven lives were loft in the building, and (even
perfons were taken to our Infirmary feverely burnt
and wounded : fix of them are in a fair way of re-
covery. The diftrefs that this calamity occafioned
may be better conceived than defcribcd. All the
property in the factory was deftroyed, but it is
nearly covered by infurance.
On Thurfday evening, about feven o'clock,
we are lorry to add, a fire broke out in the fattory
of Mr. SALSSORT, in Alport town, Deilagate ;
which Spreading with the utriroft v,:locity, in a
Short time totally confumed the infide of the
building, and left merely the walls, which hay
farce fallen down. The people were at work, but
providentially eicaped, except, as far as we learn,
oue woman, who going back for Something the
had kft, could not return. Great exertions were
made, we anderftand, by two men, to take her nut
of a window in the roof, but ineffeflually. The
property is infured.
" At the Quarter-Seffions held on Thurfday laft,
Francis Har, a whitefmith, WAS tried on a
change of having uttered (editions words, and
acputteiV

Lt IV %NTZLLICsNCL

COURT OF IUNG's MINCH, FEBRUARY j.

„ .
This mo-ning the two Grand juries for the
County of Midafeces were (worn in before Mr.
Jullicc Gaosr, after which his Lordfhip delivered
to them a very excellent Charge, previous to their
entering on their public duty.
John Dutton, a Shoemaker, who has been in
Newgate fence May for tiling difrefpeftful lan-
guage of his Majefiy, was this day, in confcquence
of the motion of the Attorney General, difcharged
on his entering into his own recognizance for col. to
come up whenever he (hall be called upon to re-
ceive the judgment of the Court.

♦ANDYKE V. WNITMCit.'.

This was an Adion on two Policies of Info-
ranee, both dated the 17th of March r 798, at and
from London to Rotterdam, or Arnfterdion, &c.
One of thefe Policies was on one hundred and
thirty-(even boxes of fitgar, that were put on board
a Pruflian (hip, and which arrived tale at the port
of her declination, and therefore there was no dif-
pate as to her cargo. The other Policy was on a
quantity of La gar, a large quantity of coffee, and
t 1 calks of-tobacco, which were put on board
another
Pruillan (hip, called the Lydia, and which,
in the courfe of her voyage, was captured by a
French privateer; and the queftion was, Whether
the Plaintiffs were, under the circumftances of the
prefent cafe, entitled to recover? The Jury found
a Verdi& for the Plaintiff, fulled to the opinion
of the Court on the following cafe:-+" The fhip
Lydia intending to fail for Calais, the Plaintiffs
obtained an order of Council to (hip on board thirty
calks of tobacco for that Port, in the month of
, December, 1797. On the 23d of December, an
entry was made at the Cuftom-Honfe, an oath
taken, and a bond entered into, agreeably to the
At of the prefent King, that the tobacco fhould
he exported to the ports or places therein fpecifieJ,
and to no other. That after thefe goods were put
on board the (hip, the parties concerned learning,
(though this was not Rated in the cafe) that the
tobacco could not be carried direftly from London
to Calais without confifcation, ordered the (hip to
fail for the United Provinces, and The was captured
in the courfe of her voyage."
This cafe was argued (the fecond time) with
very great abilities, by Mr. Glass, for the Plain-
tiffs, and by Mr. Rous, for the Defendants.
Mr: Gnms obferved, that there were three ob.
jedions which his learned Friend Mr. Ker (who
argued this cafe the fint time with great ingenuity,
on the part of the Defendants, as Mr. Giles did
on the part of the Plaintiffs) took to the Plaintiffs
recovenng. ift. That by the Common Law of
' this land, the Plaintiffs being fubjefts of this
Country, could not trade with the fubjefts of Hol-
' land, who were then at war with us. That was
admitted by the Counfel; but he Paid that objec-
tion was no former Rated than it was anfwered
from the fads of this cafe, namely, that this trading
had taken place under a licence from the King,
which, in confequence of his prerogative, he was
able to grant to any of his fubje&s. Another ob-
' jedion Itated by his ingenious Friend on the firft
argument was, that that licence, whatever dice
it might have bail when it was granted, ceafed to
have any effed by the 38th Geo. 111. c. 28, which
had palled fome days before thefe goods were
(hipped. In anfwer to that, the -Counfel directed
the attention of the Court to the sth Sedion of
that Ad, to flew that the provifions of it were
not to extend to any goods exported in conic-
quence of a licence from the King. The next ob-
jeftion was, on the thirty calks of tobacco. His
learned Friend had contended, that after the par.
ties had Contrafted agreeably to the Aft of Parlia-
ment, that this tobacco fhould be exported to
Calais—after they bad taken an oath, and given a
bond in double the fun, that it fhould be exported
to that place, and no where elk, the (hip after-
wards failed with it for the United Provinces.--
This was an illegal voyage, and therefore no valid
infurance could be effefted upon it; and the ground
on which his Friend fupported that argument
arofe on the 29th of Geo. 111. c. 68, rec. 40. In
anfwer to that objedion, the Counfel contended,
that the only eft& of not failing to Calais, as was
certainly originally intended, was the forfeiture of
the bond. That was the extreme effed of not go-
ing to that port, and it by no means rendered the
voyage illegal, or the infurance invalid. Notwith-
Rending, therefore, thereobjeftions, he contended,
111, the Plaintiffs were entitled to recover the value
of the whole cargo; or, sdly, if the objections had
any weight, they could only extend to the tobacco.
Mr. Roos Gid, his objections to the Plaintiffs re-
covering he hoped would appear to the Court to
be very futhcient. It had been admitted to him
by his learned Friend that if the voyage was illegal
the Plaintiffs could not recover. The principle on
which that relied was univerfal, and founded on
the nature and charafter of Courts of Jultiee,
whek province it was to enforce the ohfervance of
the Laws, and not that which was in contravention
it. His objection was this, that by the Common
Law stud feveral Ratutes, trading with an enemy
was illegal, fubjed to the power Of the Crown to
licence that trade. He Paid the party muff bring
himfelf within that licence, and he contende4
that in this cafe the party had not obferved
the terms and conditions of that licence, and
therefore could derive no benefit from it. He
was authorifed by a claufe in the 34th Geo.
111. e. 79. fec . 30, to fay that the Plaintiffs
muff not only obferve the terms and conditions
under which that licence was granted; but if any
proceeding, civil or criminal, were inflituted in a
Court of jtiftice, it was incumbent upon them to
prove that compliance. He contended, they had
done neither the one or the other, and therefore
could derive no benefit from the licence, and of
courfe the voyage mutt be illegal. 'the learned
Counfel illußrated and enforced thin argument
wilt great abilities.
After an able reply from Mr. Gs vas, the
Loan Cour Jusrica obferved, among other
things, that he could not fay lefs of the Cotutfel
On both fides, than that they had done great jut*.
tice to their Clients. The argument teemed now ,
to be delivered from all the points except this.—

•
Every body now teemed to acquierce in the pro.
potation, that trading with an enemy wa illegal,
and the qneftion. therefore was very properly uar:
rowed. It was admitted alto, and, it had been
molt ably argued by :Sir Jona Nicircit.! in his ar-
gument of BELL, v. Po-rrs, that trade might be
carried on with an enemy in ,confequence of a li-
cence from the King—that it was one of the Royal
Prerogatives to make Peace or War, and if his Ma-
jelly could snake Peace between an hollile. nation
and the community, he could make peace between
that nation and a tangle individual, fo as to enable
him to carry on trade with that ho ile nation, though
not to depart from his general allegiance. But
fince the difpeniing power (as it is called) was
put an end to at the Revolution, every liCence of
the King was limited by this, that it mutt not
interfere with any. pontave law. What the Court
therefore had to do in this cafe, was to fee to what
extent the licence went, whether the terms and
conditions of it had been complied with, and whe-
ther there had been the breach of any politive law,
which the King's licence could not difpenfe with.
The cafe feemed to be overwhelmed with fame
confufion at prefent, which the Court mutt
endea-
vour to get rid of by a little attention.
The Court will take time to confider of that
judgment.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS THIS DAY—Wind( t

ARRIVED
I Dub,ln, Jam 31,
o Wattrford,
Donnaghadee, Jan. 31,

see.

This evening mail vein be made op at the General Pelt Of-
fice for Barbadues, Martinique, and Jamaica; and for New
York Sired, which will be conveyed to the Weft Indies, in the
LA IIT FRANCES hired packet, mounting t 4 guns; and to
America, in the Mesas packet, Captain THOMPSON.