Star.
London, England, 1802-02-09 00:00:00

Verum übi plum nitent in Carmine, non ego paueis .
Offender Maculis.

Mr. STURGIS obferved,that an Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Tierney) had cenfured the late Minifters for
not adopting the meafure of a Commiflion of In-
quiry fimilar to the one mentioned by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer in the Committee on a for-
mer night. The fart was, that in tficso an Aft
palled enabling his Majefty to ilrue fuch
Commif-
fions ; and it was upon that very Aft the prefent
Commiffion was founded. The imputation was
therefore unjuft.
The CHaNclu.ort of the Ex cm Eqyall flated,that
the perfons who were proceeding to the Welt In-
d es were fent by virtue of the Aft pallid during
the Adminiltration of the late Miniftry.
Mr. Wm. Duxuas Paid, the Hon. Member (Mr.
Tierney) had imputed to the late Chancellor of
the Exchequer that he had, for purpofes of fecrecy
and concealment kept back certain accounts. This
was a very high charge—and confident he was, if
it was made in the pretence of his Right Hon.
Friend, it would meet with the anfwer it deferved.
It was not for him to defend his abfent Friend,
who was fo much better capable of defending him.
fell. It was fomcwhat remarkable, that his Right
Hon. Friend should have !men every day prefent in
his place in the Houfe, and that the charge againft
him timid be brought forward on the day when
he was neceffarily Ascent in the country. It was
a charge molt unfounded ; for if there was any one
quality for which his abfent Friend was pre-emi-
nently dißinguiffied, it was his uncorruptible inte-
grity.—lt was impoffible for him to hear one with
whom he had long been in habits of the clofeft
friendfhip and intimacy, and who was dear to his
heart, mac the objeft of cAumny. He hoped the
Houfe would excufe his warmth ; he. would quit
the theme, as he found it was one on which" he
could not trult his temper. The Honourable Gen-
tleman behind him (Mr. Nicholls), the friend, as
he protein(' himfelf, to the pacific fyllem, had ob-
ferved that the day would come when the conduit
of the late Minifters would be enquired into. He
fuppofed by the oisfervation, the weighty charge
was preparing. He would allure the Hon. Gen-
tleman, his Majeity's late Minifters had no difpo.
fition to shrink from enquiry. He did not mean
to depreciate the talents of the Honourable Gen-
tleman, but he could not avoid remarking that
his language was very itrange in the mouth of a
new Ally of Minillers, who perfeilly approved of
the conduit of their predeceffors. With regard to
what had fallen from another Honourable Gentle-
man (Mr. Tierney). he had only to obferve, that
he would find himfelf extremely rniltaken if he
fuppofed the prefent Chancellor of the Exchequer
would court his fupport at the expence of the late
Chancellor of the Exchequer. However defirous

he might be of the fhpport of that Von. Gentle •
man, yet, upon fuch 'terms, be was perfuaded he
would never accept of it. As to many of the ot.-
fervations which had been ufed in the courfe of the
prefent
t()
ad v e atntd former
o themd ;
if de it
ci t
thoughtua
•shierdlyie
proper
cc fart'
i to call
names, and fay things were fcandalons, there was no
help for it—it was + matter of tafte, and mull be
placed to the account of a man's deed in point of
breeding and good manners. It might be proper
to fuggett, that the items in the Account related
to a War, voted by the Houle jua and necefarl,
and he would venture to fay thought fo by the.
great majority of the country (a cry of hear ! hear!)
—a war of aggreffion oq the part of k ranee, a war
in which "every Engliffiman flaked his indepen-
dance, his likerty, and every thing dear to him.
What were the items of which it was faid they
could not be read in a public market-place with-
out exciting forrow and indignation I—What were
the Subfidiary Treaties this Country had formed,
which an Hon. Member had compared to engage-
menu with German Butchers ?—Was this the 11,0-guage
guage of a Britifh Houfe of Commons !
Parliament had thought it neceffary for the fuc-
eels of the cattle in which the country was engag-
ed, to employ the aid of Continental Powers, was
it right or becoming to apply terms of reproach
and opprobrium to thofe of whole afliflance we
had availed ourfelves ? He would afk the Her..
Gentleman behind him, if Peace could have been
attained by the country if it had not been for the
Egyptian Expedition? Whatever might be the
ideas of that Hon. Gentleman, with regard to the
confequences to this Country of the French poffef-
fing Egypt, did he think that with any &fay to
the interefis we had in India, a French army
could have been fuffered to have remained there ?
If he did think fo, he had only to regret he was
not better informed. If it was neceffary to the ex.
iftence of our interefis in India to drive the French
army out of Egypt, was it wonderful that with
fuch an armament, and with fuch a fleet, there
fhould have been fuch an expence. Sir Ralph
Abercromby who commanded the expedition bad
thought the firft blow would have been decifive—
that the day of affault would have been the day of
vidory. The event had not juftified his expeda-
float, and thus an expence had been incurred far
beyond what had originally been calculated.
Mr. Melilla laid, that nothing he had heard,
had yet in the leaft altered his opinion on the topics
which had been difeufled to-night.
Mr.TIERNav begged leave to fay a word or two
on the extraordinary attack which, he faid, had
jut been made upon him, by the Hon. Member
oppofite to him (Mr. W. Dundas). His crime was
only that of expreffing a peat readinefs to fupport
the prefent Adminiftratton; and which, in fpite
Of the intemperance of fome of its friends, he
would fupport, while its meafures appeared to him
to be what they fhould be. Whether the Hon.
Gentleman was pleated or not, he could not tell,
but out of doors, Mr. Tierney thought the chap.
probation of that Hon. Member would be a feather
in his cap. As to his uttering infinuations againft
the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, be would
only refer to the recolledion of the Houfe, whe-
ther he did not guard his expreflion, and avoid the
ufe of a ['lngle word that might be luppofed to re-
lied on the perfonal integrity of the late Chancel.
for of the Exchequer—He had no intention of ut-
tering any fuch word, or of conveying any fuch
idea. All he had faid was, that accounts had
been kept back when they ought to have been
brought forward, and that he perfifted
What it is that I have done," raid Mr. Tierney,
" to offend the Right Hon. Gentleman, I do not
know ; and, he will pardon me, if I fay, I do not
much care. I have faid that I will fupport Ad.
miniaration. He is an experienced man in there
things. and underitands them ; but for a young
beginner, as I am, I think I may fay I have met
with rather harth treatment. If it is to be under.
flood, that no man is to fupport Adminiftration
but fuch as will readily eat every former word. if
neceffary, and fwallow every fentiment which may
be uttered in this Houfe by thofe who poffefs power
in Government ; that none !hall be allowed to
fupport Adminiftration, but thole who can readily
pratfe whom they have been accultomed to attack;
who can recant every public fentiment they ever
uttered, renounce every public profellion they ever
made, then I am not fit to fupport either this or
any other Adminiftration—but in as much as I
think a man may fairly fupport Adminiftration,
without that fpecies of flexibility—in as much as I
think, that in the hour of danger or emergency,
an Adminiftration, whole proieffed principles I
approve, deferve fupport, the prefent Adminiftra-
tion fhaU have my cordial fupport while it conti-
nues to aft upon thole principles; and I fhould hope
that my conduit will not be mifconftrued, nor that
I (hall be fubjed to blame, and until I hear it
pronounced from the lips of fome perfon of higher
'authority than that of the Right Hon. Gentleman.
that I am liable to cenfure, I (ball remain latisfied."
The &murain, at WAR explained the caufe of
the charge of the item in the account of coals tent
to Gibraltar, which he juftified, and profeffed a
readinels to give any. further information to any
Gentleman who fhould require it. •
The Houfe was anxious for the queftion, when
Mr. Rosso* rote—he was commencing in a
(train of invedive, and had ufed the word "Tcanda.
lou s "—w hen
The SPEW& called him to order, obferving
that fuch language was very improper. He felt
himfelf to blame for not having checked it in the
courfe of the former debate. He did not think
the teas fcandalous was one which it was parlia-
mentary to apply upon the prefent occafion.
Mr. Rosso* laid it was an alarming circum.
fiance to fee the prefent Chancellor of the Exche•
quer identify himfelf with the former ; whole
mea-
lures he had defended in the fame manner as if
they had been his own. It was alarming to hear
the man now in office defend the unbounded ex-
travagance of the late Minifters, who had wafted
300 millions of the public money. That part of
the Extraordinaries which related to Egypt, was
an expenditure not to be defended ; it was the aft
of the late Minifter, and it was adopted by the
prefent. No Cuch expence would ever have been

had the We Unifier riot broken the
Treaty of El Arifch, but permitted the French to
evacuate Egypt. (As the Hon. Member waspro-
ceeding on this fubjea he was caUed to order by
she SrsallEs, who Paid, that his obfersations had
nothing to do with the queßion before the Houfe,
which was " That the Refolution be read a fecond
time.")
Mr. SIESEON defended the Refolution I which
was read a fecond time and agreed to.
The Houk having refolved itfelf into a Commit-
tee of Ways and Means,
The CHANCELLOR Or the Excosquart Rated,
that previous to railing the Ranh necefrary for the
Supplies of the year, It was necelrary to vote a
furn for the purpofe of fatisfying the immediate
demands of the public •Ser vice. He therefore
,novcd, " That the furn of a,r00,0001. be railed
by way of Loan or Exchequer Bills."
Mr. ROBSON thought it would be necefTary to
lay before the Houk an account of the lofles
fuf-
tained upon Exchequer Bills already ilTued.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQSTER laid there
could be no objection to layfuch an account before
the Houfe.

The Refolution was then agreed to, and the
Report ordered to be received to-morrow.

KELM OF CILIDITOILS.
Mr. C. Wvatta, purfuant to a notice he had
given, rofe to call the attention of the Houle to
the fubjeft of a Bill which he meant to move for
leave to bring in, and to the Rate of the Laws for
obliging Debtors to Amender their Effefts for the
Benefit of their Creditors. By an Mt of the 3zd
of the late King, debtors confined in prifon, but
having effeits and refuting to pay their creditors,
.were liable to he brought before the King's Bench,
and make difclofure of their effeEts, and affign the
fame for the payment of their creditors. and in
cafe of refufal were liable to tranfportation. By
that ad the obligation extended only to debtors in
the fum of one hundred pounds, but by two fub-
fequent and fucceffive was it was extended to debt-
ors for two hui&Jrcd pounds and three hundred
pounds. If the principle was jug, he raw no rea-
fon why it thould not be extended to debts of any
extent. For if debtors polfelfed of ample means
chofe rather to remain in prifon and fpend their
effefts in luxury than pay their honeft creditors, he
Caw no reafon why they might not as well fpend
their fortunes in Botany Say. He propofed to
have gone much more at length on the Cubic&
but at fo late an hour, and after fo long a debate,
he did not now with to detain the attention of the
Houk beyond the mere outline of his propofil—
He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a
Bill for extending and rendering more effeftual
tlie Mt of the 32d of Geo. 11. for the Relief of
Creditors.

Mr. NicHou.s rote, not to oppofe the motion,
but to obferve that it was extremely hazardous to
alter the eitablithed laws of the land upon a lubjed
of fo much delicacy. Alterations had been fre-
quently made by our Courts of Judice in the laws
of the land with refped to debtors, but they had
been there the gradual refult of great experience,
and cautious regard to the liberty as well as the
pr.operty of the fubjeß. He was extremely un-
willing to fee the feverity of our laws againft
Debtors increafed. If Debtors were to be obliged
to give up their effeCts to their Creditors; a dif-
charge from confinement mud in judice be expell-
ed to follow, and this would in effeet be to ellablith
an univerfal 13ankrupt Law in the country. He
felt the ftrongell Mu/lance to any alteration for
Increaiing the feveritiel of our laws "n this fuhjesl,
but hoped the Honourable Member in urging for-
ward his Bill would give time fur full consideration
and ample difcuilion.
Mr. WYNNE laid he fully coincided in every
feeling of humanity expretfed or felt by the Hon.
Member towards the dillreffed and really infolvent
prifoner for debt, and -Mould always be found
ready to concur in any reafonable meafure for his
relief. With this feeling be had voted for the In-
folvent Bill laft Sefton, and he heard with much
fatisfaltion that a Bill was intended to be brought
forward in another Houfe of Parliament, to ren-
der the provifions of that Bill. permanent. But
he had no notion of a debtor going into the King's
Bench Prifon with 2or 30001. a year, living in
fumptuous apartments, rioting in expenfive luxu-
ry, yet pertinacionfly refufing to pay his honed
creditors, who were often configned to rot in
the dungeons of other gaols for infolvency,
created by the want of thole very debts wantonly
and cfifhoneftly withheld from them. Indances
of this fort were numerous and notorious. In a
very ingenious report upon this fubjed laid before
the Houfe force years back, it appeared that a man
named Pope, poffeffed of 'fey, or, as was confi-
dently faid, an hundred thou and pounds, fuffered
himfelf to be committed to the King's Bench, and
confined there ten years for a debt of t 0,0001.—
TuftuuLeb of this fort were furely not to In tole-
rated under any principle of juftice, and while
laws were made every year for the relief of the
infolvent debtor, it was defirable that tome atten-
tion ihould be had for the fufferings of the cre-
ditor.

Mr. I..twis fupported the Motion.
Mr. Stele tow alkcd if the Hon. Gentleman meant
in his Bill to provide that all the future diets' and
the new property which men might acquire after
being let out of prifon, fhould be fubjeft to the
payment of the old debts or not ? He difapproved
of the Honourable Gentleman's plan for extend-
7ng the allowances to Debtors of all kinds. The
Legillature was wife in •confining them to thofe
who owed (mall (urns.

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Mr. %/haat explained; and the Motion was
Agreed to.

Sir H. MILDMAY, in purfuance of the notice he
had given to move for leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the ad of the 22d of Geo. 11. for the Relief
of Debtors, thought it would equally well anfwer
his purpofe, if it was incorporated with the Bill
jult propofed by the Hon. Gentleman. By the
above aft prifoners confined for debt had a privi•
lege of caufing themfelves by petition to be brought
before a judge at the then next term, and, on furren-
dering their effeEts upon oath to their creditors, to
be ordered by the Court fix-pence per day rubfif-
tellee, to be paid them daily by fuch creditors,,

en Wart of which all owanee any cute
debtor would be entitled to hls immediate libera-
tion. But prifoners confined for debt in the pro•
vidcial prifons, and in the diflaat parts of the
kingdom, having only the opportunity of claim-
ing this indulgence at the next affixes, which in
fome places occurred but twice a year, and in
others not more than once, the unfortunate debtor,
as he muft give to his creditors fourteen clear days
notice of fuch his petition, after having loft the
opportunity of obtaining relief owing to the short
flay of the Judges in the town, bad frequently
languiflied fix months ors whole year in prifon,
without any opportunity of advantage from that
humane law. His (Nee was then to refi the
power of granting fuch relief in thefe Magiftrates
at feffions.

Mr. SPRAKER obferved that there was full op-
portunity open in the Bill, for which leave was
juft given, to carry the Honourable Member's
purpofe into effeft.—Houfe adjourned.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9.

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Long Ann. 20 3.16 i Conf. for Acc. 69

Some of the morning papers of this day affect
to difcredit, in fome meafure, the ftatcment we
gave yefterday refpeeting the terms of the Defini-
tive Treaty being completely fettled, fo far as re-
lates to this Country and France.
We again art *befall, and, in anfwer to their
reafortinp, have only to fay, that truth cannot be
converted into falfehood to accommodate itfelf to
their want of information, however definable this
may be to fome of them.

Our authority is infinitely fuperior to any pre.
tended letters which they may boalt to L. be teen
from" Amiens, and to any unofficial ftateasents in
the Paris Journals.

By the Mail of yetterday the following commu-
nications were received through private channels,
Tome of which may prove amufing to our Readers:
PETBRSBUROII, JAN. I.—The Eussitoa has been
pleated to order mourning for three months, to be
reckoned from the t 7th of December Taft, for his
Serene Highnefs the Hereditary Prince of Baden,
Cummas Lewis, the father of her Malay the
Emprefs, ELIZABETH ALIIIIIVNA.
The work of KOTZEBUE, intitled, " The molt
remarkable year of my Life," is by his IMPERIAL
MAJESTY'S command, permitted to be in►roduced
in to Ruffia.

As a proof that the new Imperial Univerfity at
Dorpat, in Livonia, will be effeelually
of which many have hitheto doubted, we now
learn, that his MAJESTY has invited Profeffor
WILLIAM FREDERICK HELEL at Giefien, to be PECl-
fefror of the Oriental Languages ; and that this
diflinguilhed literary charater will aCtually accept
this advantageops invitation. To conjeaure from
this beginning, it feems to be the En P ILOR 'S plan,
to rail:: the Univerfity to eminence immediately,
and for that purpofe to fill it with men of ability
and merit.

His IMPERIAL MAJFsry has undertaken a reform
in the Rate of the Court. Several of the higher
Court Offices, viz. that of Court Martha], are
Altogether abolifhed. The number of attendants
is much diminithed, and thole difmiffed, retain
their wages : by this reform a very confiderable
fum will be annually laved.
JAN. 5.—Mr. ANGERSTSIN, of Lincolnthire, who
has gained the refped and gratitude of his coun-
tryr.►en, by his great benevolence and humanity,
has fent 4000 rubles as a contribution towards the
eltablifhment of fchools or hofpitals in Mofcow,
with a requeft that he may be permitted, in cafe
any new inflitution fhould be eftablifhed in Peterf-
burgh ufeful to mankind, to contribute a like funs
thereto.—The Ellraacsa has fent an Ukafe to the
Senate, by which a particular uniform is prefcribed
to them : thole Senators, however, who have the
right to wear a military uniform, are permitted to
retain it.

Jaw. B.—The EMprefs Dowager having refolved
to introduce the cowpox inoculation into the
Foundling Hofpital here, Dr. ScH uLTZ, lately ar-
rived from Berlin, bas offered his Cervices for that
purpofe. Our College of Phyficians has received
from the Emperor a commiffion to examine Dr.
Sc H uLrz in this refped. —Prnfeifor Sof RADER from
Kiel, who has rendered himfelf celebrated by his
refleaing Telefcopes, has 'quitted the Academy
of Sciences here, in whore fervice he has been for
three years as a conitruaor of optical inftruments,
and has communicated to his IMPERIAL MAJESTY
a plan for the eflablithment of a manufaiture of
Sal-Amoniae, which after proper examination, has
met with the the approbation this MAJZSTY. The
latter has caufed 4000 rubles to be paid to the Pro-
feller for the execution of this plain ; in return for
which he has engaged to deliver the Sal.Amoniac
at a limited reafonable price.

His ISU&&IAL MajiiTY has refolved to requite

rim each Government of Ruffia, a full toliogra;
phical chart of the country, by the means of the
Officers of the General Staff, and the commence-
ment is to be made with the Governments of
Efilionia, Volhinis, and Podolia. This great and
ufeful undertaking will be fet on foot early next
fpring.--His MAJESTY has publilhed a proclama-
tion for the confirmation and renewed cilablifh-
ments of the Order of St. George and Vladimir.
AMSTERDAM, JAN.. v.—The finances of this
city beiog in a moft deplorable fitualion, a plan
for ncgociating a loan for its relief has been fob
mitted to the Government of the State, which,
however, as yet, has been attended with no fuc-
ccfs. A commiffion from the interrnedial common
Government, lately difpatched to the Hague for
urging this harmers, has returned with the Pimple
promifc of the Treafurer-General, that confider-
ing the preffing neceflity of our city, he would lay
the matter before the boverntnent of State without
delay.

HAGUE, Fes. i.—The following is a lift of the
!hips under the command of Admiral HARTSINK,
which, except one, are arr- ived at Breft, and bound
for St. Domingo, having French troops on board:
the Brutus, of 74 guns; the Neptune and John de
Witt, both of 68; the Ajax of 16; and the Flying
Fifh of 14, 'with the French frigate the Pourfui-
vante. The Flying-Fifh having received fome
damage, was compelled to return to Flufbing.
—The Atalanta, which failed the 17th from Flufh-
ing, and defined for the coaft of Guinea, has long
fince paired the Channel.—Laftly, en the I 3th ult.
failed from the Texel, the Seahorfe and the Eagle,
defined for Smyrna and the Mediterranean ; and
the corvet the Daphne, defined to Lifbon, and
afterwards to the Barbary Potentates. On board
of the latter is Citizen Vat. GRAM LD, Minifer
from this Republic to the Court of Portugal: the
three latter have been obliged to put into Cowes,
through contrary wind.

Thus it appears from the preceding detail, which
may be confidered as genuine, that a part rf the
flips have fafely reached their provifional places
of deflination, and that the reft are proceeding on
their refpeaive voyages, without having fuffered
any damage of importance. Moft of the large (hips
and frigates, built within theft three or four years'
and now for the firft time at fca, are found to bt
excellent afters, according to the teftimony of all
the Commanders and Officers. It is impoflible
to defcribe the harmony which fubQfts between
the French Ind Dutch Tailors and Officers, nor
the zeal and alacrity with which the Dutch fqua-
dron at Brett has been (applied with every necelTary.
On the requen of the FIRST CONSUL to Admiral
HARTSINIC, the latter has received on board his
fhip five Aid de Camps for the General in Chief,
ROCHANIIII• U 9 at St. Domingo.

Yellerday Lord CHESTERFIELD had a convi.
vial dinner party at his honfe in Stanhope flreet,
at which were prefent the Prince of WALES, and
feveral of the moll ditlinguithed amateurs.
Yefterday M.arro gave a grand dinner to Lord
HAWKESsIJP.Y and feveral other of the Cabinet

It is at length finally arranged that Sir Jour/
MITroaD fhould go to Ireland as Chancellor; pre-
vious to which, we underftand, he will be honoured
with a Peerage. Mr. Arosovv is certainly to be
propofed as the new Speaker. Sir Joint MITWORD
has been Speaker exadly one year.
Wedncfday the Right Hon. HENRY DUNDAS
paid a vifit to the Lord Provoft and Magifirates
of Edinburgh, at the Council Chamber there.
Friday night her Grace the Duchefs of GORDON
and Lady GEORGIANA, arrived in Edinburgh,
from the North, on their way to London.
On Saturday the la Battalion of the Third Re.
giment of Guards came on duty at St. James's,
for the firft time fince their return from Egypt.
Sir SIDNEY SMITH, General CoorE, and other
diftinguifhed Officers, dined with Colonel JOHN.
STOKE upon the occafion.
Orders were on Saturday received at Portfmnuth
from the Admiralty, to pay off feveral more (hips
of war. Among the number are twelve frigates
and !loops.
The Right Honourable the Lords Commif-
fioners of his Majefly's Treafury have ordered
toool. fterling to bf granted to the Lord Provo%
Magillrates, and Council of Edinburgh, to be
given in premiums for the encouragement of the
White Fdhery on the Coati of Scotland.
Laft week a Committee of four Gentlemen con-
neded with the Brewery, had an audience of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who informed
them it was his intention to levy a tax, not only
on Beer .but on Malt, as a part of the Ways and
Means Of the prefent year.
General Manou's trophies appear to be an Ego-
time Wife, and a Cives Cat, and the curious Parifians
follow them in crowds, afking tobith it which P.
It is perhaps not generally known, that when it
can be proved that fires are occafioned by the ne-
gligence of fervants, fuch fervants are punifhable
by a fine of tool.—or, in cafe of inability to pay
it by eighteen months imprifonment, and hard la-
bour, in the houfe of corredion.

Turfday fe'nnight, as two Officers of Excife, at
Norwich, affifted by two private foldiers belonging
to the 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, were
conveying to that city fix honks and five carts,
whir a large quantity of fmuggled geneva and to-
bacco, which they had feized on Cawlion Heath,
they were afautted near the village of Orsford, by
thirty men, armed with blunderbuires and guns,
who immediately fired upon them, beat and much
bruifed one of the officers, wounded a foldier, and
rafcned two bodes and carts and part of the geneva.

NAUTICAL. INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. B.—Sailed the DOLPHIN
frigate, Capt. DALRYMPLE, to the eaftward.—Se-
veral chips are coming up to St. Helen's, luppored
to be the Weft India fleet which (;tiled yetterday,
as the wind is now right againit them.—Lafi
night arrived the tilip Rat, from London, Con-
INCS, bound to Cork, to take on board Convi.as
and proceed with them to Botany Bay.—This day
arrived his Maj My's (hip AJAX, of 74 gunc, Hop.
Capt. COCHRANE I and CARYSFORT, with fundry
other flips, &c. from the Downs, part of them
Are as tolluw : A LNWICK CASTLE, PRESCOTT, for
India ; Ann, air K INS, for Jamaica; 'Regard, Ey-
musn, with naval Rorer; as alio the Plymouth,
LEE, with ditto; Abigal,
_IONE% for Ferrol; Ea le,
SILVER, from Arundel for Liverpool • Profpeft,
New Concord, and Bolton, n coals, Sun-
derland.—Capt. Davisom of the flip PERSEUS, is
put back, and left the Eall India (hips and men of
war at ten o'clock this morning, off Portland ;
Capt. FOT HERING, of the armed fhip has not failed,
but is delivering ordnance flares, and is ordered
round to Shields to be paid off.—Wind S. S. W.
SHEERNESS, FEB. B.—Sailed the Wootwicu
and CHICHESTER flore.fhips, for Deptford ; the
BEAULIEU frigate, for Plymouth ; and GANNETT
floop, for the Downs. Arrived the ST. TERESA,
RESOURCE, and la MINERVE frigates, from Portf-
motliN ; the CRASH gun-brig, from Yarmouth ;
and the CONSTANT, from the River. Came in
from the Nore and failed for Chatham, the MINO-
TAUR, of 74 guns, to be paid off. Went out of
harbour the Isis, of so guns, and the A'APHION
frigate, for the Nore. Paired by the Nore for the.
rivcrl'ArE:cs tr4E andI'EcvPTILNNE frigates,from
Portfmouth, to be paid off.

YARMOUTH, Fr n. crday P.M. the Royal
Sovereign, Cart. G.tynoN, about 400 tons burtben,
with coals, from Sunderland be..ocl to G7zernley,
liruck on the Scroby, and though the got of again,
by beating-on the fand had iix feet water in her
hold ; and, as the water gained very rArt, the crew
were obliged to run her afhore on the South Ham;
it is however hoped the will be raved. The Syren
of and from Sunderland, AwrHoNv REVEL mailer,
ftrnek on the fame Sand and is wrecked, bnt the
crew are !lived. A veffel was this mot-pint): teen
on the Cockle Sand, but the lea running high no
boats could get otf to her aft fiance, and it is fcared
that the crew and fhip mutt be ioa. Pat in here,
with the lofs of her anchors, the Ann, Capt.CLosF.
from Blyth for London.—Sailed the Jane, Capt.
HARRIS, for Oporto, with bale goods.—Put in
here, wind bound, the William and Mary, Cot.-
LiNowoon, from Gainfborough, bound to Lon-
don, with goods.—No Packets arrived from Cux-
haven.

CowLs, FEB. 7.—The price of provifions, which
for theft hit two months had experienced a con.
fiderable reduCtion in the wellern ports of Eng- ,
land, from the re.admillion of live flock, pork,
poultry, &c. from various ports of France,
within this week pal., get up to its old flandard,
viz. beef and mutton to 9d: per lb. and ether ar-
ticles in proportion. The French, it appears, have
Hilted a decree, prohibiting the cxport..:tion of ar:r
more provitions, on account of the high price cf
corn, and a probable defalcation in this year's crop
from the exceffive heavy rairr, w!iich have almost
inundated different parts of the R...ptihlic.
POOLE, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Dart, BF'ty,
from Cherburgh. The freighters of thi3
had purchaled for her 1-.. ling upwards of a hun-
dred hogs, betides other articles, the r,-r: '.ter pin
of which was 114;:ed, when a mob :Ifferlbi..d,
and in the mofl ontre::-,eous manner t(.ok the whcle
cargo away from them, except eight dead hogs.
A party of Colliers interpofed, and• faved thus
much for them ; and but far their interference,
they conceive their lives would have been endau-
gered.