Star.
London, England, 1805-02-28 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTIO,V COi(MITTU. Kb. 27.

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turtle Popham, with the Dates of the Renew of diem to the Ad-
„,:ratrf and Navy Boards, and Copies elate Esanthaatioss ea that
s;,sjett before the Corm:Son of Enquiry.'
Mr. GREY faid, he believed that the papers had
not Keen returned to the Admiralty and Navy Boards.
Sir C. POLE faid, the papers remained with the
roard of Enquiry fill applied for by'the Navy Board.
They were then fent to the Admiralty, of which
the Navy Board were apprifed.—The motion was
agreed to. •
Admiral MARKHAM faid that more papers were
Rill wanting. He then moved for

" An Amount of all Bills drawn by the Naval Officer at Cal-
cutta, it, the years slot and otos, on Account of the Baloney,
and , chcr Ship, under Command of Sir Horde Popham, fpecify-
ing •hc Expenee of the particular Ships, Be."—Agreed to..
.11:o," For Copies of Letters from the Navy Board to the Se-
cr:tary of the Admiralty, relative to all Bills and Expellees in-
cured for Sir Home Popham, in the years Clot and il.n."—Or-
&red.
He moved afterwards, . •
_

" For Copies of all Letters curtain, the Navy Board to iavefli
g t the condo& of Sir Home Pophate—Carried,
Sir W. BURRO UGHS gave notice of feteral other
motions for papers.

BAKERS.

Sir JOHN WM. ANDERSON prefented a Petition front the
Mailer. Wardens, Ste of the Bakers' Company, Rating, that in
confequaice of the advanced Price of Provificms, the Rate of Ser-
vants' Wages, tee. and particularly the pmpried Tax upon Salt, the
petitioners we-e under the neceffity of (eliciting an additional allow-
ance to that which is at prefent fixed by the Aft with refpedt to
the Affix of Bread. Referred to a Committee, and the Report
from the Committee appointed to confider the Bakers' Petition in
the bit Seffions, was referred to the Paid Committee.

Sir JOHN WM. ANDERSON prcfented a Petition from the
Carmen's Company, offering to wave the oompenfation to which
they are entitled from the London Dock Company at the expira-
tion of three years. and praying that they may be allowed the fame
privilege of working in the Dock that they at prefent enjoy on
the. Quays. The Hon. &roan moved to refer the petitioo to a
Committee.

Mr MANNING rote, not to objeet to the motion, bot to Rate
that the Claufe in the Mt, of which the Petitioners complained,
was infcrted at their own inflame, and yet they now came forward
to regticlt an exclufire privilege of working in the Docks, which
privilege, thole Docks being cute& the limits of the City of Lon-
don, tbC Petitioner had no more right to demand than the Car-
men of Blacknrall or Hounflovr.

Sir JOHN WILI.IAM ANDERSON declined for the pretbnt to
enter into the latter part of his Hun. Friend's obfervation ; but as
to tbc f.,?nter part he Would fay, that lithe prayer of the Petrion
were rele ted. many of the poor men from whom the Petition
came tnig.4 Rorie before the end of the three years fixed fur the
propofed compoftioo, bold arrive. and the obj,d of the Petition
therefore was to procure them employment and fubfdlence.
The motion was agreed to.
SLAVS TRAIN.

Lord TEMPLE prtfented a Petition from certain Merchants
and Traders connoted with our WeR India Mande. deprecating
the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and praying to be
beard by Connie! 'gelid the fame. The Nobk Lord prefented
a Bonier Petition from Edward Puget Lyon, Agent for the Bland
of Jamaice.
Thofe Petitions were, after a few words from Mr. Wilberforce,
in which he expreted his refolution to rellit the heating Petitioners
by Colloid, ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. tosrea prefented, purfuant to order, contain Axounts
front Ireland...-Ordqed to he on the table

Mr. W. DICILth lON pretested the papas ordered with refpea
to the property, &c. of prance individuals, wbo were pillagers
on board the Spanifb frigates captured previous to the war.—Or-
dead to lie on the table.
Mr. H. Tneaurom moved for an Account of the number of
Sank of England Notes in circulation no the tstlt of each month,
from the isth of December, 1803, to the t stlt of liebruarr,
diftloguilising the notce under 3L—Ordered accordingly.
Mr. HI/season brought in the Property Tax Bill, which was
raids het, and ordered to be read a fecund time to-morrow.

Mr. ALiXANDZIL brought up the Rmort of Committee on
the Loan BM; which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be
read a third time to-morrow.
hir. WiLas rose g prefented two Petitions from certain Cloth-
workers and ashen concerned in the Woolien Trade In tbc County
of York: praying for a revifion of the Laws which relate to that
Staple Manufadturt.—Ordsred to He on the table.
The Honourable Member alto prefented a Petition from tessera
inhabitants of Addersfield, in the County of York. praying for a
lID to althbrife the balding of a Church at that place..—Ordcred
to be referred to a Committee.

Te Ada:lona! Pottage Duty BM was reported, and ordered to
be rids third time toinorrow.

ft lett Honourable the SfiARIII acquainted the Houle that
the Clerk had prepnred the Annual Lift of perking appointed to
try offence' in the Eaft Indies.

The Committees of Ways and Means and Supply wcre then Oa
off WI Friday, and the Honk adjourned.

LONDON.

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY sE.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Coeds, for roam, April,slß—Oosohtm 4.

American papers to the iyth ult. Rate, that on
the t ith of November Admiral Lino's arrived at
the We of France, with two Englifh prizes, the Up.
ton Cattle and Queen Charlotte, of Bombay. He
had alfb captured a Company's fltip (name not men-
tioned) which was cut off by an Engliflarigate juff
as the was entering the harbour of the Mauritius.

It appears an Englilb fquadron had been cruizing
off the Mauritius (but of what force is not afcertain-
ed) from the beginning of Gal September until the
middle of November, the period at which the Ame-
rican fhip, which brought the Lail accounts from thole
leas, fol.k her departure.
The Delaware, American fhip, arrived at New
York on the isth ult. She left the Cape of Good
Hope on the 7th of November ; and Rates, that there
were 7000 troops there, and that they ate ezercifed
every day, under the ezpeaation of receiving a 'Mt
from the

Several letters of various recent dates, down to
the t9th, were received in town yeflerday from Hol-
land :—one of them, of the s Bth, from aneminent
houfe in Andlerdam, Rates, that a velTel bound to
Embden, with Britifh goods on board, was forced
by &els of weather into the Texcl, and feized by the
French by order of General Maateopyr. A report
of this circumllance being made to to the French Go-
vernment, Bottzrzityr, in his anfwer, highly ap-
plauded the condud of that General, urged In the
firongeß terms that the utmoß vigilance fhould be
tired for the difcovery and confifcation of Engliffi ma-
nal-allure, and that even Embden &mid not be (par-
ed in the plank of Inch merchandize. In conic-
qoence of this information, which was of com-
municated to the Pruffian Conful at Arnfterdam, the
latter immediately fent a courier to his Court, and,
at the fame time, wrote a letter to the Pruffiao

. .• •
iler at Paris,. rtcpteßisg him to amoeba' te spina
fuck a violent and unwarranted proceeding on the
part of the French Government.
A Note from the Executive Direttory at the Hague
to the Legiflativeßody, given in a preceding column,
thews in very clear terms the wretched Bate to which
Holland has been reduced by its connexio4 with
France. It does not deny, but only comphini of
certain eatements made by two of the Members, as
being exaggerated and declamatory. In fait, It
amounts to an admiffion of the opinions which it af-
fear to point out as unpatriotic.

This morning arrived two Gottenbugh Mails, by
which we have received Hamburgh Papers of the
2th and isth infant. Extraas from them are fob-
joined

FIB. 9.--By a pafrenger who arrived
laO night from Heligoland we are informed, that on
the 6th inaant three packets, and another vefel, ar-
rived at that Wand with fix Englifh mails. Our port
and the Elbe are entirely clear of ice.

Husum, Faa. to.—Notwithaandiag the mild wea-
ther, and the wind being fair for tome days pall, we
have not yet received any Englifh letters from Heli-
goland. On the Bth two Heligoland fniggs were in
fight of Wefterhevcn; but owing to the floating ice,
it was irnpoMble to get the letters on more, and yef-
terday the weather was fo hazy that it could not be
effeßed.

Srocitmoi.m, FEERUART I.—The Royal Family
arrived here on Thurfday, all in pedal health.
They juft came into Stockholm to fee the children,
and returned to Haga at night, on F,iday. They
came to the Palace at eight in the evening, when the
Britiffi, Ruffian, and Spanifh Amberadors had their
formal audience of introdultion. Tomorrow night
a fplendid ball and fupper will be given by the Gar-
rifon to the King, at which all the Royal Family
will be prefent.

It is reported here that M. REH&UUN, who was
formerly Mininer from this Court to Liibon, is going
as Minifler to London, in the place of Baron Siam-
11111M.

FED: s.—On Wednefday arrived the Prince of
Wales and Earl of Leiceiler packets, after meeting
with great difficulties in the ice ; a frigate and a cut-
ter alfo appeared off Afarltrand the fame day. The
former having on board his Excellency Mr. Novo.
SETTIOFF and fuite, but from the Rate of the ice,
they could nct make a landing. They were (ten on
Thurfday going up the Cattegat towards the Sound,
where it is thought any attempts to land will be quite
'thief&

VIIEtA,
Jas. s 6. Marfbal MUNI, the late French
Ambairador at Cooftantinople, according to tome
accounts, has arrived at Buchareft. The Hofpodar
0( Wallachia has fent a Rrong honorary efcort to meet
him.—After the departure of Marfhal Bevwc from
Conftantinople, the Sublime Porte requefted the me-
diation of a German Court.

The new French Ambafisdor here, M. dela Roca a-
vouca u er, is flaw employed in negociiting with our
Court, relative to the affairs of Italy.
AUSTRIAN TERRITORY, Jar. 27.—The march of a
num►er of Auftrian Regiments to Italy, appeal" to
have caufed a confiderable fenfation at fome foreign
Courts ; but this movement has been made from two
motives, very confillent with peace—the firft to fecure
againft any infatious diflemper by a ftrong cordon,
the estenfive coati from Cattaro to the Tyrol ; and
fecondly, to give fome relief to Bohemia, Moravia,
and Auftria, where it is well known the laft harveft
was very deficient, by the removal of feveral regi-
ments to Italy. The fyftem of our Court is entirely
pacific.

Gssoa, JAN. 17.—A letter from Batavia, dated
June 36, 1804, has been received here, which Safes
that the frigate Scipio, commanded by the Genoete
his lately arrived there. She failed from
the Cape of Good Hope on the aoth of January,
and convoyed to Admiral HARTSIMCX fix tranfports
with troops on board, which had arrived fate at Ba-
tavia without meeting with obftruftion froin any
Englifh (hips of War.

JAM. t2.—According to the Well ac-
counts from Naples, the French and Engin Lega-
tions, and the whole Royal Family Rill continue
there. France does not perfift in her demand, that
the Sicilian ports (hall be (hut igainft the Englith
the French t nroy, indeed, did not exprefs this with
iu a written note, but only in a verbal conference
with the Minifier.

Throughout Italy there is talk of the eftablifb-
ment of a new kingdom of Lombardy. The Mini-
Rer TALLITIAND is Clptaed at Milan in the Spring.
together with his French Imperial Majelly.
There are reports of changes which may be ex-
peeled in regard to Leghorn.
DRZSDIN, Jammer aB.—The Spaniffi Manifato
has been delivered officially here as well as at Berlin
by the Legation of that Court, accompanied by an
appropriate note.

Palm, JAN. 25.—The prnpofitions of mediation
front the Pruffian Court with refped to the diffe-
renees between France and RUN, have arrived here,
and we flatter ourfelves they will produce the bea

Pasts, Fss. 14..—0 n Toe May, the txth inll. his
Excellency M. &HIM met..kvstwot, Atnbatiador Ex-
traordinary from the Batavian Republics it. a.s admit-
ted to their hiajeities to take leave:

Refpeaing the ftetaaron which has faired from
Rochefort, we read nothing in our journals; but the
Marsiteur, in communicating the Englifh news, and
Rating from them the departure of that Beet, toys in
note—' It is now a month fince the Rochefort
fquadron put to fea, and, according to all the letters
from England, no conjeflure could be formed there
relative to its aCtual declination."

The privateer I'Adolphe, from Boulogne, has cap-
tured, and carried into that port, an Englifh Chip,
with a cargo of flour, dying wood, tin plates, lead,
dte. valued at soo,ooo francs.

The Thetis, an Englilts brig, coal laden, is carried
into Calais; and the Thomas and Mary, with coals,
is carried into Dunkirk.

FITS per cent. confols. 6o fr. 8 e.

This day his Maymv held a Private Levee and
a Privy Council.
Petitions for the Repeal of the late Corn Law
have beta forwarded from Perth and Cupar of Fife.
Difpatches were yeaerday received at the Admi-
ralty from Admiral CORNWALLIS, dated on board
the Vicce as PARIS the ara init. They bring no
new of importance to the Public.
Lag night difpatches were fent olf from the Ad-
miralty, to be forwarded to Sir Jams. Sao M All z' at
Guerafey. Difpatclies were 'alewife fent off for
Admiral GARD/la. at Cork.

Sir T. Teem/Ramos has taken leave of the Admi-
ralty Board, and will fail for the Eall Indies the firft
fair wind, to take the command of the naval forces
in thole leas.
The Commiffioners of the Navy have, within there
few days, contratled with the feveral Ship Builders
In the River Thames for the immediate building of
tea fhips of 74 guns each.
, The blockade of Cadiz, it is laid, has been a dif•
eretionary meature on the part of the Commander of
our fqoadron on that Ration. Orders have been fent
to raife the blockade of that port as far as it relates
to neutral vetch, unlefs they have enemy's property
on board.

The TOTAzt frigate has captured the General Au-
gereau privateer.
Sir Rosser CALDER fucceeds to the command of
the fquadron off Ferro'.
Lieut. C---ww—tt, of the 4th Dragoons, on sr,
recruiting part), at Lewes, we are forty to hear, has
been wounded in a duel. The ball from his maga-
nift's piftol lacerated the &lb of one of his cheeks,
but no &riot's confequences are,to be apprehended.
THE LATE ELOPRIIINT.---The following further
particulais have tranfpired refpeaing the elopement,
mentioned in our paper of yefterday : It was on
Monday morning, about two o'clock, that the lady
left her father's bottle in a poll chaife and four, in
company with two of the male friends of her lover,
he following the chaife at Tome diftance, to avoid any
unpleafant circumftances which might have arifen
had they been overtaken, from his being found in the
lady's company.
It was from Lord P.'s feat in Norfolk, that the fu-
gitives took their departure. They were, as we have
already ftated, traced to Whitechapel by Lord and
Lady P—. On their arrival in town, they applied
to Sir RICHARD FORD, and other Magiftrates in the
Middlefex diftrid for affiflance ; but aotwithftanding
every poltble means were retorted to, the parties re-
mained undifcovered. A letter is Paid to have been
fent by the young cchtple yeflerday, entreating for-
gi venets, and adding that they were married by banns
poblifhed Come time fince. They have not yet, how-
ever, ditcovered their place of refidence.
The hero in this bufinets is about thirty, and the
lady is eighteen years of age. The attachment has
been a growing one for tome time, arid is Paid to have
been dilcovered a limit time lince by Lady P. who
acquainted her hatband with it, and his Lordfhip in
confequence, gave the gentleman intimation that it
was his intention to procure him a more eligible fitu
ation. The tutor, apprehenfive that the lent had
been difcovered, baftened to fecure her flight without
delay.

This morning Reginald Hayward, for cutting and
maiming Mrs. Wilfon, of Thayer-fireet, Manchef-
teaquare after committing a burglary, and for
maiming Benjamin Chantry, of Mary-la-Bonne lane,
together with
yobs Tennant, for robbing Mr. Robert Shawe, at-
torney, of Bridge-fireet, Black-friars, were executed
oppotte the Debtor's door of Ncwgatc.
They were brought on the Platform about aquar-
ia- after eight: Hayward came on firft with horrid
effrontery, feemingly unmindful of his aweful fate.
in imitation of the wretched ak.-rfiaw, who was ex-
ecuted on Kennington Common. He kicked off
one of his fhoes among the populace, bat failed in
trying to throw off the other. He forced a laugh,
and died as he had lived, in a Rate of hardened de.
pravity ; having attempted, the preceding day, the
life of Mr. ALLPOLT, one of the keepers of- Newgate.
His fellow (offerer, Tennant, behaved with becosmng
decency.—They were not on the platform ten mi-
nutes before they weri; launched into eternity.
Porrsmourn, Fes. 27.—Sailed the Sta Ahoesw
MITCHIILL armed fhip, with a convoy for the Downs.

DEAL, FIN. 11:•..litCrnalil in the Downs. the Monarch, Utrecht.
and Trufty, men of war • Narcifius, Cellar, Jefou, Champion,
and Jamaica, frigates ; Zephyr, Hermes, Spccly, Autumn, Mert,
Vulture, Harpy, Oreftcs, Botutta, Arab, Spy, Helena,
and l'Argus, hoops of war; Profpern, Lucifer, Dircovery, Heckle,
Volcano, Etplotion' and Fury, bombe; Furious, Griper, Mon-
key, Bold, Load, Tickler, BaGlifit, Bloodhound, Manley, Minx,
Archer, Ritionan, Watchful, Pincer, Haughty, Sparkler, Tygrefs,
and feveral other gun brigs; a fleet of armed defence (hips; Kitty
privateer, Windham, --, and Plrniz, —, for the Emit In-
dies; and a Beet of other outward bound veffels..--P. S. Salted the
Arab Hoop of war, and feveral gun brigs, an a cruise. Wind 8 W.
Oa* zzzzz D. FLA. 57.--Paffed by, Jofeph, Walker, hem Dub -
On ; Henrietta Carolina, —, from Oporto' Miners's. Munn ;
and Paradifc, Pool; from Charente. Sailed the Alfred, Boyd,
for Jamaica; Litde James, Hutchins, for Bohan; end Kooks,
Van Prof's, for Embdeo.

the Downs, the Newry, Reiney, from Newry;
Argos, —; Fatlor, Conway ; lane, I‘4'Donnell ; Eagle,Dillon;
and Fame, Smith, from Zdlaf. At irloylake, Ttennic,
from Savannah ; Sarah and Ellat. , from Charlefton ; and
Sarah, Kennedy, from New Orleans. At Londooderry, Fame,
Thompron, from New York. At Virginia, Reward, from
I ndnitry, Vickery and Mary F.Y.4 jump, from Li-
verpool. At New York, Abeatii, sad Oaaaria, Weeks,
frost LiVerPool. At Savannah, !world, Ltrtrpool.
At Africa, Preadult, Rowland. trim Livetpool.

The Committee having met, Mr. MILL. continued
his opening of the cafe on the part of the Sheriff of
Middlefer. The Learned Counfel occupied the at- -
tention of the Court between three and four hours,
fur the purpofe of inferring that the condua of the
Sheriff had been impartial, confonant to the advice
of learned and experienced profeffional men, and in
every re fpea legal.
NiwetAN KNOWLY3, Efq. the Common Serjeant
of the City of London, and Affefror to the Sheriff,
was the only witnefs examined this day. He Rated,
that the Sheriff had afted in conformity with his
advice, in agreeing that the Freeholders who ten-
dered their totes on the 15th day fhould have theni
inveftigated before the dote of the poll ; but that,
upon confidering the Mk& the next morning he in-
formed the Sheriff he feared he bad given him in-
cerrea advice, and that the fafer way would be net
to aa upon it. That he accordingly advifed the She-
riff to declare the numbers trrecifely as they flood at
three o'clock on the fifteenth day, conceiving that he
was not juftified in continuing the poll beyond that
period. He detailed the circurnftances of Mr. Pi.
gore's coming down to Brentford the morning after
the fifteenth day, and arguing ageing the propriety
of the Sheriff adding a tingle vote.that !tad not been
accepted in due time on the preceding day. He alto .
teemed to imply, that Mr. Plumer; the Connfel for
Sir Francis Burdett, had diffinaly admitted, that, if
the Sheriff had committed an error in entering into ,
an improper engagement to receive votes, which
could not legally be put on the poll afterthe fifteenth
day, it was nut too late to repair it. He likewise
proved the proteft of Mr. Mainwaring's friends and
Counfel againit the arrangement first acceded to by
the Sheriff. Such was the general (cope of his evi-
deuce, which occupied the Committee about three 1
hours. Having given a fimilar brief account of the
proceedings of this Committee on each day of its fit-
dogs, we regret to learn that the fubjeft has not
been well underftoed, in.confequence of the public
not knowing what is the defined objett of its inquiry.
To obviate this difficulty, we lay before our readers
the Petition upon which the proceedings are found-
ed. There are two petitions, but the preterit one is
on the part of the Freeholders who were denied the
right of voting, by the alteration of the arrangement
made by the Sheriff. It Will be teen that it does
not go to a void eleaion, but merely involves the •
quellion of the feat, and whether Sir Francis Burdett
ought not to have been returned, inftead of Mr.
Mainwaring If the decifion fhould be in favour of '
Mr. Mainwaring, the fubfequent petirion, referring
to his qualification, will be enquired into. ,Ifitis in '
favour of Sir Francis Burdett, it will then be open
to Mr. Mainwaring to prefent a Counter Petition, if
he thinks fit.

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The Petition upon which the Committee are now
fitting Pets forth—
. That the Petitioners are Freeholders of the County of Middle. '
fm, and claim to have had a right to vote at the left Elediod for
that County ; that at lush Eledtion Sir Francis Burdett, Ban, and
George Bellhop Mainwaring,Efg. were Candidate to reprefent
the laid County in Parliament ; that, upon a thew of heeds, that
Sheriff, James Shaw, Efq. and Sir Wm. Leighton, /Ent. declared
the majority, on the view, to be in favour of Sir Francis Burdett g
but, a poll being duly demanded for the fail Eleditin,the (+interred
granted by the raid Sheriff, and communed on the aid day of July •
1804 ; that the Paid poll continued open on the fltft day till about
Svc o'clock in the evening ; that upon every other day during the
continuance of the fame the poll was kept open (even hours ; that
on divers days during filch continuance foreral perfons attended at
the booth appointed according to law to give their votes, and did
tacordingly declare their votes to be in favour of Sir F. Burdett,
whole names, places of abode, and freeholds, and in whore ono.
pations their freeholds were, were duly entered on the poll, but '
the Sheriff refuted to permit the feratches or marks to be fct op.
polite their names, denoting the Candidates for whom they voted,
until their titles to vote had been examined into, although they of.
fered to fubitantiate their titles by their oaths, nor would the She- •
riff allow fuch examination to take place at the booth, but inlifted
Ilan their attending in a box placed in a different part of the but-
tinge to undergo fuch examination ; and although fuel perfons in
compliance with fuch regaffition, did accordingly ate nd at thofaid
box, yet the conflderation of many votes, fo dreumfianced, was
adjourned for want of time till the days refpedively fucceeding,
and thereby great delay and confuSoo swore: and In order to pre-
vent the fame in luture, application was at fundry times, by the
Agents, Friends and Counted of Sir Francis Burdett, made to the
Sheriff of the fetid County to keep the poll open longer than (even
hours, as by law he was bound to do, when upon good and (WE.
tient mute reguefted fo to do ; that the raid Sheriff, at the feveral
dmesaforefaid, refuted to accede to Rich application ; that on the
lads and teth days of the Paid poll, the Paid Sheriff, together with
N. Kssowlys, Efq. who then and there fat as affeffor or affiltain to
the raid Sheriff, leverally and at fundry times declared, that if at
three o'clock on the Paid 15th day th'e votes of any perfons that had
boat before that time objeded to mould not have been examined,
the (aid Sheriff would proceed upon fuch examination, and deter-
mine on the fame after three o'clock on the tams or the following
day ; and the Petitioners further Rate, that at three o'clock on the
tsth day of the Poll feveral voters were in attendance at the She-
riff's box, in obedience to orders given by the Sheriff, waiting to
be examined in refpedt to the titles to their votes, which had been
previoully entered on the poll, and their votes declared, tome for
the laid G. B. hilainwariug, but many more for the (aid Sir F. Bur.
den ; and the Petitioners humbly fubmit, that If the poll had been
aft up at fuch hour, without any further examination of fetch
eaten, the names of fuch voters ought to have been reckoned, and
thereby a majority of voters received on the poll declared, as in fad
it was, in favour of Sir Franci, Burdett ; bat the Petitioner fur-
ther Rate, that the poll was not call up, nor the numbers declared,
fill the following day; and in the mean time, the Sheriff, in com-
pliance with his aforc(ald promife, proceeded to fatisty hinder re-
fpedting the Mice of the voters, fu previouily entered on the poll,
and, after inch examination, direeled marks to be (et oppofite to
their names, tome in favour of the raid Sir Francis Burdett, anti
Tome for the Paid George Boulton Mainwaring, according to the
votes prerioufly given for rye or uCer of the (aid candidates; that
a majority of the votes received on the pull did thereby alto appear
in favour of Sir Francis Burdett, and the laid Sir Francis Burdett
ought to have been returned to ferve in this prefect. Parliament for
the County afurcfaid ; and that the fa:ti Sheriff, well knowing the
premifes, did, on the fifteenth day of the raid Eledion, Illegally,
wrongfully, wilfully, and falfely, declare the majority of numbers
to be in favour of the raid G. B. Mainwaring ; and illegally, wrong.
fully, wilfully, and falfely, returned the raid Geo. Boohoo Main.
tearing to fare tor the laid County in the prefent Parliament, al.
though the raid Sir Francis had a inaiority in number of votes re.
ceived on the pull in his favour, anu ought to have hkm returned
in the Read end place of the fold Geo. linulton Mainwaring, to
ferve in the prefent Parliament for the County of Middlefex afore.
laid; and therefore praying the Houle en order the raid falfe return
of the raid Sheriff to be amended, by di reding the name of the Paid
G. B. Mainwaring to be crated theretrone, and the name of the
raid Sir F. Bartlett to be inferted therein, ht the acid aad place of
the name of the Paid G. B. Mainwaring, and grant to the Pal.
nowt' fuch further relief in the premixes as to the Houle Oran
Seem meet.

A treaty wbieh has been fora, time pending be.
tween Mr. Coistax, Mr. Motes, and Mr. T. Dia-
ble, is at le3gth cotlc'thied, Mr. DIBDIX and Mr.
Motets have purchsfed one-half flare of the Hay.
market Theatre. and a memorial from Mr. CoLmars
haring been Frefented to the %ma by Lotd DART.
mourn, his MAJESTY has direeed the infection of
their names in the Royal Pertniffion to as plays, Ike.
I at that Theatre.,

a ~
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ate again& , tit:petting the tqitadron which has fairedfrom MIDDLESEXELECTIOAT coMMlrrse. Pd. 27. s
•••••=••••••••••••••••
'og on the Rochefort, we read nothing in our journals; but the '
Afersirear, in communicating the. Englifh news, and . The Committee having met, Mr. MILL. continued .. '
the Hague fluting from them the departure of that fleet, rays in his opening of the cafe on the part orthe. Sheriff of .!
• Middlefer. The Learned Counfel occupied the at. -
g column, I note--44 It is now a month fince the Rochefort tention of the Court between three and four hours,
eto which fqnadron put to lea, and, according to all the letters fur the purpofe of inferring that the condua of the j
taioa with from England, no conjeaure could be formed there Sheriff had been impartial, confonant to the advice
mplaini of relative to its actual dedination." of learned and ezperienced profeffional men, and in
every
retpea legal. embers, as . The privateer l'Adolphe, from Boulogne, has cap- N • .
SWMAN KNOWLTS, Efq. the Common Serjeant .1 '
In fib, it "tired, and carried into that port, an Englifh Chip, of the City of London, and Affefror to the Sheriff, j
&e. valued at soo,ooo francs, 1
rhkh it at. with a cargo of flour, dying wood, tin plates, lead, was the only witnefs examined this day. He Rated, I, I .
that the Sheriff had afted in conformity with his I •
• The Thetis, an Englifb brig, coal laden, is carried advice, in agreeing that the Freeholders who ten-
Mails, b dered their votes on the 15th day fhould have they into caws ; and the Thomas and Mary, with coals, inveftigated before the dole of' the poll ; but that,
lets of the is carried into Dunkirk. upon confidering the fubjea, the next morning he In.m
are fah- Five per cent, confoh. flo fr. 85 C. formed the Sheriff he feared he bad given him in- '
cornea advice, and that the fafer way would be net
he arrived
• • to ca upon it. That he accordingly advifed the Sk-
.•••• • •
ime Gay his MAJIIITT held a Private Levee and riff to declare the numbers precifely as they Rood at :d, that on a Privy Council. three o'clock on the fifteenth day, conceiving. That he '
veffel, ar- Petitions for the Repeal of the late Corn Law watts not juftified in continuing the poll beyond that '
Our 'port have been forwarded from Perth and Cupar of Fife, period. He detailed the circurnftances of Mr. Pi.
gott's coming down to Brentford the morning after
Difpatches were yeßerday received at the Adtrii-
mild wea- nal_lL from Admiral CORNWALLIS, dated on board the fifteenth day, and arguing ageing the propriety
f
the V
importance to the Public. LS Di PARIS the 21a int. They bring DO ingla vote. that gad not been
new of of the Sheriff adding a
rs pall, we
accepted in due time on the preceding day. He alto
from Heil- • teemed to imply, that Mr. Plumer; the Counfel for
Left night difpatches were feat off from the Ad- Sir FranCis Burdett, had diliinaly admitted, that, if
ga were in stinky, to bertfoirrpwatacridteesd
wtoereSiratJastwisfseSateunwt Aoaffez,i! the Sheriff had committed an error in entering into
oating ice, Guerafey.
for
e, and yd. Admiral GARDNIft, at Cork. an improper engagement to receive votes, which
, could not legally be put on the poll after
He fifteenth
ild not be Sir T. Teowsatoos has taken leave of the Admi- day, it was nut too late to repair it. He likewire 1
ratty Board, and will fail for the•Eaft Indies the firft proved the proteft of Mr. Mainwaring's friends and i
• fair wind, to take the command of the naval forces Counfel againit the arrangement first acceded to by I
rat
health. t Family
in thole feat, the Sheriff. Such was the general (cope of his evi. 1
a
The Conuniffioners of the Navy have, within there deuce, which occupied the Committee about three
e children,
a inu ar brief account of the
few days, contrafted with the feveral Ship Builders hours. Having given f 'I
iy. They in the River Thames for the immediate building of proceedings of this Committee on each day of its fit•
when the tea kips of 74 guns each. dogs, we regret to team that the fubjett has not
s had their , The blockade of Cadiz, it is Laid, has been a dif• been well uuderftood, in. confcquence of the public
row night eretionary mealure on the part of the Commander of not knowing what is the defined objea of it. Inquiry.
our fqoadron on that Ration. Orders have been fent To obviate this difficulty, we lay before our readers
y the Gar- the Petition upon which the proceedings are fond-
to rails the blockade of that port as far as it relates u
al Family to neutral veffels, unlefs they have enemy's property ed. There are two petitions, but the preterit one is
on board. - on the part of the Freeholders who were denied the 1
who was The TOIPAZI frigate has captured the General Au-
right of voting, by the alteration of the arrangement
is, ;wing gereau privateer.
made by the Sheriff. It *ill be teen that it does
not go to a void eleaion, but merely involves the i
,a g,„aa., Sir Rosser CALDIrIt fucceeds to the command of queßion of the feat, and whether Sir Francis Burdett
the fquadron off Ferro!, ought not to have been returned, inftead of Mr.
Prince of
Lieut. C—aw—LL, of the 4th Dragoons, on w Mainwaring i If the decifion fhould be in favour of '
recruiting part), at Lewes, we are forty to bear, has Mr. Mainwaring, the fubfequent petirion, referring
ee meeting been wounded in a duel. The ball from his antago. to his qualification, will be enquired into. ,Ititis in '
and a cat- nit's piftol lacerated the flat of one of his cheeks, favour of Sir Francis Burdett, it will then be open
fay. The but no rerious confequences are,to be apprehended. to Mr. Mainwaring to prefent a Counter Petition, if
WI.. Novo. THE Leers Et.oea sr slr.—Tbe following further he thinks fit. 1
of the ice particulars have tranfpired refpeaing the elopement, The Petition upon which the Committee are now ',.
' mentioned in our paper of yefterday :It was on fitting lets forth—
Ire. That the Petitioners are Freeholders of the County of Middle. •.
teen on
ftt,r
can.oudncrialmytrtboahraavrefoheadb
EaAhrt to vote at the hit Ekdliod for
Monday morning, about two o'clock, that the lady
the Sound, left her father's hook in a pat chaife and four, in
ill be quite company with two of the male friends of her lover, George Moulton Mainwaring, Efq. were C rancls anrdett
dacu io' Ban. and
he following the chaife at fume diftance', to avoid any
ofLeightSir tan' IClelist.Bdueciaredrdett g i
the laid County to Parliament; that, upon a thew of hatda, entb: ai
teriffmajoeptitniy,coos Shaw,
TiEewfq,.toanbed StoirfeWootwm.
unpleafant circumftances which might have arifen
ate French
g to tome
• had they been overtaken, from his being found in the but, a poll bung duly demanded for the fold Eloftitimthe fanietrad I
granted by the raid Sheriff, and commenced on the aid day of July ;
lady's company.
Hofpodar It was from Lord P.'s feat in Norfolk, that the fa- 1804 ; that the raid poll continued on the Atft day till about '
opt to meet evening ; that upon every other day during the
fioncovntdoini'vduaoreicickeionftdthheeelfam; the poll was kept open keen hours ; that
gitives took their departure. They were, as we have
LOW, from already Rated, traced to Whitechapel by Lord and
continuance &viral pufons attended at I
led the me- Lady P—. On their arrival in town, they applied
to Sir RICHARD FORD, and other Magiftrates in the pointed according to law to give their votes, and did
the toroth days
• ° pg
lac
Iccordingly declare their votes to be in favour of Sir F. Burdett. '
Middlefex diftria for affitlance ; but aotwithflanding whole name,, places of abode, and freeholds, and in shore coma . :
pations their freeholds were, were duty entered on the poll, but
eta Roots- every poffible means were retorted to, the parties re-
the Sheriff refuted to permit the hutches or marks to be fet op. ..,
g with our manned unditcovered. A letter is Paid to have been pefi„ their names, denoting the Candidates for whom they voted,
fent by the young cOuple yeflerday, entreating for- until their otos to vote had been examined into, although they of ,l
givenefs, and adding that they were married by banns Wed to fubftantiate their titles by their oaths, nor would the She-. , l march ofriff allow fuch examination to take place at 'tie booth, but infifted i
a publifhed tome time fence. They have not yet, how-
on their attending in a box placed in a different part of the huf-
appeal" to ever, ditcovered their place of refidence. dogs to undergo fuch examination ; and although fuel puffins in
me foreign The hero in this bu finds is about thirty, and the compliance with fuch recniffition, did accordingly ate nd at thedhid e from two lady is eighteen years of age. The attachment has box, yet the confideration of mine votes, fo dreumitanced, was
• ' been a growing one for Tome time, arid is Paid to have adjourned for want of lime till the days refpedilvely fucceeding,
rft to fecure been ditcovered a &rid time fence by Lady P. who
anvendttbthefte tameby gricantidoelay and cotiftifion swore: and in order to pro-
ng cordon, was at
Francis Burdett,
times, by die
Agents Friends and Counfel uel of application Sir
tuccoirdtbo,ewfabcoin
acquainted her hatband with it, and his Lordfhip in
thanmade to
vte oh e ~
7yrol ; and confequence, gave the gentleman intimation that it Sheriff Of the Paid County to keep the poll open longer
"saffs,.:ldthande (evert!
, Moravia, was his intention to procure him a more eligible litto
ehiecenreit eal.esoufebyriewettheedwirtob°dllon;d
IA ha„eji ation. The tutor, apprehenfive that the (cent had
refufed to accede to huh application ; that on the
, . been difcovered, battened to fecore her flight without it, md it'd,
le tst ys of the fail poll, the faid Sheriff; together with
teem rego Bela
y. N. Knovrlys, Efq. who then and there fat as affeffor or affiftant to
tis entirely This morning Reginald Hayward, for cutting and tun
rodecalokrifto,nitev;zltylandh at fundry times declared, that if at
maiming Mrs. Wilton, of Thayer-ftreet, Manche;- been before that Ile objesdit ed to ihouldno day thtt st°fhaanviePbeerfera mi had
ed,
tvia, dated ter-fquare, after committing a burglary, and for the raid Sheriff would proceed upon fuch examination, andeaa
dunce-
ehich Wes maiming Benjamin Cbantry, of Mary-la-Bonne lane, mine on the fame after three o'clock on the fame or the following
day ; and the Petitioners further Rate, that at three o'clock on the
he Genoefe together with. : h day of the Poll feveral voters were in attendance at the She-
Yobs Tennant, for robbing Mr. Robert Shawe, at- 11. .bo in .
failed from tenet?, of Bridge-ftreet, Black-friars, were executed rill's
examinedin refped to the titles to their votes, which had been f January, oppotte the Debtor's door of Newgatc. previaufly entered on the poll, and their votes clattered, tome for - •
tranfports They were brought on the Platform about a queer- the (aid G. B. fslainwariug, but many more for the (aid Sir F. Buy-
d tt ; and the Petitioners humbly fubmit that if th Bur-
ter after eight : Hayward cone on fira with horrid exe„ up a„isch hour, ' c poll kad been
Cafe at Be- without any further examivation of fusee
from • • effrontery, feemingly unmindful of his aweful fate. voters, the tomes been
of fuch voters ought to have k
any in imitation of the wretched dik.frfinw, who was ex. thereby a majority of voters received on the poll dcelared,oatnectir;
fanal ;;
ecuted on Kennington Common. He kicked off it Was, in favour of Sir Franci, Burdett ; bat the Petitioners fur. . 1
iatel ac- one of his thorn among the populace, bat failed in titer Ra
he ftoeilthat thed poll was not call up, nor the numbers declared,
;liar Lego- trying to throw off the other. He forced a laugh, pliance witoliwZsgafoaryclialadnpdrin thee, npelearere:ectiktimet,othr.ethishreriblariineicrorrne:
and died as he had lived, in a Rate of hardened de- ?peeling the titles of the voters, fu previoufly entered ion the poll, ".
I continue
gravity ; having attempted, the preceding day, the and, after fuch examination, directed marks to be kr oppoflte to
nand, that ife of Mr. ALLPOLT, one of the keepers or Newgate. theiro (names. lonic in favour of the raid Sir Francis Burdett, and ,
eEn life : His fellow firfferer, Tennant, behaved with beconong votes p,,r laidtrnioeuuygivenfter ore ilio°lar uti‘l'eair
onfwtbarinfg.,daccording to the 7'
canbdidateos ; that ;
pearsl 1,
l this with decency.—They were not on the platform ten DU- a majority of the votes received on the pull didalth
flutes before they were launched into eternity. in favour of Sir Francis Burdett, and the laid Sir Fraryteis BurdettaP' .
conference
ht to have been returned to f tree in this prefect Parliament for i
PORTSMOUTH FRB. 27.—Sailed the Ste ANDREW tea County attired...id ; and that the fa.d She riff, well knowing the ;. I f
• MITCHSLL armed kip, with a convoy for the Downs. pretnifes, did, 011 the fixteenth day of the faid Election, i eftablifh. on, illegally, ;'I - t
,•DEAL, FEL sy.....Remain to the Downs. the Monarch, Utrecht, wrongfully, wilfully, and ialfely, declare the majority y bc •s, ,
The Mini- and Trufty, men of war • Narciffus, Caltur, Jafon, Champion, to be in favour of the laid G. B. M.nnwaring ; and o numbers
'
he Spring, and Jamaica, frigates 1 ' Zephyr, Hermes, Speedy, Autumn, Alen, fully, wilfully, and falfely, returned the (aid Geo. Boultuln Mai!: 1.
Vulture, Harpy, Oreftu, l'Utiie. Barletta, Arab, Spy, Helena, waling to lave tur the laid County in the prefent Parliament al .
• arid l'Argus, floops of war; Profpero, Lucifer, Difeovery,Heckh, though the laid Sir Francis had a mairprity in ntunber of votes re: ;•. ' '
lay be ex. Volcano, Explollon, and Fury, bombe; Furious, Griper, Mon. ceived Oil the puff in his favour, anti ought to have bkes tetunaed '
key, Bold, Loud, Tickler, BaGlifk, Bloodhound, Manley, Minx, in the Read and place of the f. Lid Geo. button Maine, • arms, to : i
Archer, Ritionan, Watchful, Pincer, Haughty, Sparkler, Tygrefs, fcrve in the prefent Parliament for the County of Middlefes afore. . • ' ,
mama, and leveret other gun brigs; a Beet of armed defence this; ; Kitty laid; and therefore praying the Houle trader the raid falls recurs i '
privateer, Windham, .--, and Phenix, —, for the EaR In- of the raid Sheriff to be amaideff, by dire& nitthe name of the laid 1a at Berlin dies; and a Beet of other outward boned veffeb.—i'. S. Salted the 0. B. Mainwarlop to be crated theretrom, and the name of rho 1, '1 '
Arab lloop of war, and feveral gun brigs, on a cruise. Wind aW. raid Sir F. Burdett to be inferted therein, iii the head aad place of a- ‘i
tied by an
the name of the laid G. B. Mal:mating, and grant to the Pet'. II
Oa* zzzzz D, FLA. sy.--Paffed by, Jofeph, Walker, from Dab- the
fuch further relief in the premifes as to the Houle OwE . .
Ka ; Henrietta Carolina, —, from Oporto; Minerva. Munn ;
mediation and Paradife, Poole, from Charente. Sailed the Alfred, Boyd, Kenn ma'
,„ for Jamaica; Little James, Hutchins, for Bolton Nosing; end Nosing
l.
the diffe- Van Froths, --, for Embden. A treaty which has been tome time • pending
be. i 1
rived here, Aititiven—in the Downs, the Newry, Retfier, from Newry; tween Mr. Co Amino Mr. Obsess, and Mr. 'l'. Drs-
and e the bet Argus, —; Fedor, Camay ; lane, M'Donndl; Eagle,Dillon; • .... s •,- . •
MN. ts at magus cone tided. Mr. DIEDIM and Mr.
and Fame, Smith, from llelfait. At frioylake, 'Monte, --.
'
from Savannah; Sarah and E11en...:-...5., from Charlefton ; and Motets have purchafed one-half (bare of the Hay.
.h intl. his Sarah, Kennedy, from New Orleans. At Londonderry, Fame, market Theatre. and a memorial from Mr. Cocoon li
Taztorugyota, from New York. At virstais, Reward, •-•-•, from having been Frefented tothe r ..ttier by Lotd DANT. ifrador Ex- G ; lodoltry, Vickery; and Mary Eroi, amp, Li- now TN his hf A E has d. 'l,'
,inns, . , J silt treded the infertion of ii' .. i•as admit- veep*: At New York, Abeooi, es— ; sod
their names in the Royal Permiffion to act plays, Ike.
from Liverpool. At Savannah, !merit', —.ohms Ltairpool.
At Africa, Preldeot, Rowland, hum Liverpool. 1 at that Theatre. •
Ii
. A

ward to what may be the 'via of going on with thii
ttial, and I with to fruooth the parties."
Mr. Gaa5.0w....." We will content tolay aide,
but not to part from cur fword and therefore we
will furpend, but not drop, our anion."
Mr. FASII1112." We are not at'raid of your fword;
it is much too blunt to hurt us!'
Lord Et.t.swaoaoucm.—" I am fire that every
man of intelligence within hearing, will think that the
intereft of the parties is ben confulted by withdraw..
ing this caufe from this tribunal at prefent."
Mr. Litmus-4' My client, the Defendant, is as
brave and as honourable a man as any in his Majer
ty's lervice, and has no nu re to do with the fubjed-
matter of this anion than I have."

Lord Ettettatutottom.—" I think it is better the
matter fbould end here for the prefent, and that you
&cold withdraw a Juror."
The Juror was withdrawn, by which the matter
remains injlans fro.

TiII"VARY 27.

MTH V. THE Ri►. SAMUEL WATSON.

The Plaintiff is an auctioneer, the De— letidant is of
the facred profe&on, and keeps a boarding fehool on
Shooter's.hill. This action was brought tor putting
up to fate an eftate.
The SOLICITOR GINEILAL, for the Plaintiff, fail,l
that the eftate was offered at Gartaway's for fale,
on the 3d of November, 1797, that it was advertifed
in the ufual way, catalogues were printed, and the
regular expenees were incurred ; yet this 'gentleman
not only refufed to pay the demand, bin thought pro
per to plead the Statute of limitations. The charge
made by the auetioneer was extremely moderate, and
he fhould take the debt out of the ftatute, by proving
a promife to pay two years ago.
Mr. Chattier, the Cltrk of the Plaintiff,. produced
the books, and (hewed the entries in his own hand.
writing, containing the charges, whist) he Paid were
not in any refpett unreafonable.
Mr. Glover proved the promife to pay within the
term hated by the Learned Counfel. The whole
amount was only 61. 13s. 6d.
Lord E.t.a.' Boa° 11.—" The Defendant, by his
promife, has admitted the propriety of the bill, and
has taken it out of the Statute of Limitations. The
charges feem not only to be fair, but moderate ;-1
confefs, I never faw fuch a bill from an auctioneer,
and I am difpofed to attribute much credit to the
Plaintiff for his conduet in the tranfattion." Verdict
for the Plaintiff, 61. 135. 6d.

Trwaa V. CAWSLON AND MINNADT.

This was an adion on a note of 'hand for t6ol.
dated the eyth February, 1793, at two months, with
interell. The Defendants were the drawers.
Mr. Eames for the Plaintiff raid, that the firft
Defendant admitted judgment to go by default, the
other put in the plea of the general iffue. The
Plaintiff was a maiden Lady, and had a brother who
lived in Africa, on the Gold Coal This Gentleman
bad configned to his filler Come of the produce ofi
that country, which was fold to the Defendants,
land this note was given for it. After the form of
payment fo adopted, the Defendants divided partner-
; and he underßood Mr. Kennedy was this day
to contend, that Cameron bad taken upon himfelf
the debt, and that therefore he (Kennedy) was no
longer liable. His Lordlhip would acquaint We Jury
that if any agreement regarding the debts due from
the partners Were valid with refpeft to themfelves,
to all the reit of the world they were liable jointly,
for every bill to which the partnerlhip firm was at-
tached. Further, with reiped to Cameron, after
judgment had 'one againa him by default, he
made an affidavit to fet afide the judgment, and
(wore to merits. This lingular indecency, to fay
the lean of it, would receive fume explanation nom
the witneffes.

Mr. John Rankin, the Clerk of the Defendant.,
depofed to the eziltence of the debt, and to the fig-
natures to the bill.

Mr. Robert Tower, the brother of the Plaintiff, gave
evidence to a converfation with Mr. Cameron, on
the fubjeft of the affidavit :" by G—o, Towers (laid
this Defendant) I do not know what to fay of it ;—I
did not, by G—o know, what oath I had fworn to.;
if there was any thing wrong, I hope GOD will pardon
thofe who drew it up."
Mr. &ADULT, for the Defendant (Kennedy), at.
tempted to Brew, that the debt atofc before his
client was taken into pArtnerfhip ; in this, however,
the Learned Counfel did not fucceed, and a 7erdi4l
was entered for the Plaintiff, in the full (urn of the
Bill, and the intereft accruing thereupon lince the
jolt: April, 1798.

AMBROSE FORTISCUR V. PHILLIP BASTARD.
The Plaintiff is brother to the wife of the Defen-
dant, and this adion was brought to recover the
flun of 321. Is. expended in her maintenance.
The SOLICITOR GIWIISL, for the former, fa4l,
that the Defendant treated his wife in the moil fcan-
dalous manner; that (he was married in 1791, and
hat experienced from him, during a long period, the
groffen inhumanity. Notwithflanding he drove her
out of his houfe, (he was perfbaded.to return, in the
hope of reconciliation. Whatever might have been
the grounds of her expeeation, her wilbes were
wholly difappointed, and fhe was again driven from
the dwelling of her hufband, without any provifion
made for her fubfillance, and without any proteaion,
until her brother, the prefent Plaintiff, wi•ne(fing her
abject condition, received her into his family ; and
for the necetfat y expellees he had incurred in this ad
of duty, the demand originated.
Mr. ERRRIHP, for the hn(btnd, laid he would not
difclofe the nature of his defence, but would refer the
matters'to Mr. Lowtep.
The SOLICITOR Gas, tam. made no nbjetlion to
this, if the mode of provition for the lady in future
were to be included in the award. The verditt was
then entered, fubjea to a reference.

„aiow•owif
• LA, INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fr.R. as.
KNIGHT, PIO V. TULLIS, Wk.
This was an action for criminal converfation with
the plaintiff's wife ; but when the caufe was called on,
an affidavit, Rating the ioditpofition of the Honour.
able Mr. Dormer, was put in and read by the Clerk,
and, at the fame time, an application was made to
put off the trial, upon the ground of his abfence.—
His Lordfbip afked the nature of the Hon. Gentle.
man's illnefs ? and, on being informed that it was
the gout, obferved, that be himielf had attended his
duty in that place, fuffering under a limilar com-
plaint, and he thou'd expee a mote frtistatiory ac-
count of the Gentleman's illnefs Wine the riling of
the Court.—That titillation was obtained nine
hours after, and the trial Rands over.
CHALLINGE,—LYNCH, ZSQ, V. 110/1•111AR41, ISCL
The Plaintiff is Lieutenant in the ad Regiment of
Life Guards. The Defendant an Officer in the
Navy.—Theallion was for damages Rated at scoot.
lilac cireunallances of the cafe are (Willy theta, as
Rated by the SOLICITOR GRNRRAL..—III the eourfe of
the lag hummer Captain M'Namara, and Captain
• Barry, his friend, were walking N the (tree; a dif-
pute aroft between them and a man of colour, of the
ii:Lase of Dixon, who was the (errant of the Plaintiff
Mr. Lynch. He was (truck by Captain M'Namara.
The man brought hit action for the affialt, and re-
covered a verdie with 201. damages. Capt. M'Na-
mara infitled that Captain Lynch fhonld difcharge
this (errant on account of his impertinence. Capt.
Lynch thought that would be adding an injury to an
intuit, which the man had already met with, and
inflead of difchargiug, determined to pro:tift his fer-
vant ; upon which Capt. M'Nam.ira was pleated to
fulfill on Captain Lynch fighting him in a duel, or be
branded as a coward 1 Captain Lynch determined
to abide by the law of his country. The matter was
In reprefented to the Subaltern Officers of the regi.
ment, that they all determined to fign a round rob-
bin nut to do duty with Captain Lynch, on account
of his unofficer and ungentleman.like conduct to-
wards Captain M'Namara. Expelling him to go out
of the regiment, they had declined to bring for:
ward any charge againft him, otherwife they would
have brought him to a Court Martial. This was
communicated to Captain Lynch, who immediately
faid he wifited for nothing fo much as a Court Mar-
tial ; but this, although he wifhed for it, he never
had ; and to fuch a length had this matter been car-
ried, that Capt. Lynch was aerially fufpended for ig
moot Its a s an officer, withouteverhaving been fo much
as heard for himfelf. It was impoffible, continued the
Solicitor General, that this could have happened,
if the matter 11.4 been fairly reprefented -to the Ge-
neral Officers under whole authority this futpention
took place, for the concise of Captain Lynch was
not only agreeable to the law of. the laid, but alto
to the military law; for the gth and 7th Articles of
War not only prohibited an Officer from fending a
challenge, but protected his honour for refuting to
• Itccept It ; therefore, raid Mr. CMS. '4 Captain
: Lynch is as much fuperior, in this care, in courage,
as he is in aiwalr, to Captain M'Namara; the one
fupports, the other breaks the law; nor have 1 any
doubt, whatever prejudice there may be to the con-
fur ; , that there is more true enrage in braving the
elfivuird motions of wankad. than in warm/ vp to tie
oroath of the capon, or in fade; easy danger to which the
human to* can be expofed. Captain M'Namara
was filch a (hot, that death was the confequence of the
pulling of his trigger, fo that Captain Lynch had only
three objects to look to from Captain M'Namara—
death from his lifted—flaw& from his asoath—or juf.
tire, by an appeal to the Laws of his Country.—He
clank, like a good wax, and a good flame too, the
latter, and the Jury had an opportunity of coned-
Ng, by their verdict, a great deal of error upon
what was falfely called, the Laws of limas in this
cafe.
• After Major G. Calland had been examined for a
while by Mr. Gmtaow,
Lord ELLIINIOROOGI4.” Is there no poffibility
for the Gentlemen who have been the caufe of the
fufpention of the Plaintiff from his military fluty, to
tread back their Reps ?"
Mr. ERSRINIs." Your Lordihip will look at the
Record."
Lord Ettemoneouon —k I have looked at the'
Record,and if the matter comes at lati to me, I
(hall, at the end of the cafe, difpole of it as it appeals
to me the Law requires ; but really this cafe may
aff,me a more het ;out afpett than any civil affirm can
place it in ; and, therefore, I do will; that the party
may think little what they are doing by perfilling
in this coolie."
Soticiroe GENSRAL." I have no difficulty in
agreeing to slitc!.... ge the Jury from giving any ver-
die, my Lord "
Mr. Though I have the honour of
reprefenting an Officer of as high a fente of honour
as any in his Majefty's fervice, and who has no
more to do with this matter than your Lordfhip,
yet, be that as it may, it is fo perfectly clear that
this matter miry be difpofed of by Military Law,
as the Solicitor General has already Rated, that I
have no objection to do whatever your Lordffiip re-
corn mends."
Lord ELLIIIIIIOROUCH.--" I think that all which
has been done towards the exclufion of Mr. Lynch
from the Corps Ihesuld be put an end to, that he
Woad come back to it, as if nothing had happened
to forpend him."
Mr. OARROW..--" We will agree to do what is
proper in the opinion of your Lordthip ; if they do
what is fitting, this record will never appear in this
Court again."
Mr. &ugly I cannot content that this ac-
tion floutit hang over the head of my client for ever.
I will however content to do whatever his Lordthip
(hall recommend."
Lois: 'mot/cit.—a There mull be a mu•
tual underßanding in the cafe. If the action be dit: I
miffed, the Plaintiff will be without a civil remedy ;1
the utmolt be can affent to is to fufpend it. All
combinations are odious to the law, becaufe they are
dangerous to fociety—they are very ferioufly treat-
ed when they take place among the Irrovi perfons.
They ate much more dangerous among the kirk";
and they are the remit enormous of °Tenon on ac-
count of their Jett. ram (peaking without preju-
dice to what the cafe may be, for there is little proof
againft the Defendant hitherto ; but I am to look for-