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London, England, 1817-05-03 00:00:00

NAPA iiiritithikat

14.1.M0U.111, APRIL .fit
Arrived: the Lord .Hobatt packet,- witfi a •
!btu Maltailaslt froth Gibraltar, fn i 5 days ; Queens:
berry packet, with a Mail ffoin NeviYink and Hali:
lax, in seven weeks from the firmer, Bailed the
Rind, kevenne critter, on a cruise.:—Wind
Nine o'Cltick P.M.—A ship is now off the hlana-
des, beating in, itippoicd. to be• the Prince Ernest
Packet.. knits It is the above packet:
Potvi'sMauTti, MAY 2
Arrived his Majesty's ship ERIDANCS, froth a cruse,;
and the- Weymouth more ship.from the.D•wns: The
.F.RMANUs has sailed again. Wind N.
DEM.. MAY 4.
The Cornwall, for India, 'tan can shore fit'eitrehlt
into the Downs last 'evening, on. the Brake Sand,
where the rem iined for two hours, till the wait-r
11.,wed ; she then fl rated off, and brought up
the Dotvns with little or nn damage. Arrived thd
Diana, Ctuaraixcs from the Canal Islands.
~
Fire o'Clock.—Sailed the Cornwall, fur India;
IY3VER. MAY 2.
Arrived last night the Lord Duntith patter, Cap-
tain PASCOE. front Ostend, with a Mail and parser.
gets. Sailed this morning (or Calais the L' rd Dun.
can packet, Captain HAMILT)V, with the French
Mail and passengers ; also the King George; eirain
Mancini ; Queen Charlotte, Capt. Tip-nuns ; C Ithe-
-60, Capt. Minim; and Dart, Capt. WlLKivsng,
for tbe' same port, with passengers. The wind has
blown hard from the N. E. all this day, and we have
had only one arrival from Calais, the Flora, Captain
WATSON, with about 20 passengers, no other vessel
being able to get out.

HARWICH, MAY 2.
Pot batk the Lord Castlereagh pac Eel, with a Mai
for Cuxhaven. •
gclwEs, MAY S.
Arrived yesterdAy the Qoeeit and Retrievs trtos-
ports, kohl London, and sailed this mottling with
troops for Barbadoev.

SCILLY, APRIL. ES.
Arrived on the 514t'i instant,
.the Elizabeth, firw
nansnri, from the Cape of Good Hope, and
Ocean, Mountsom, from Tenerife; they both s,:i!ed
again yesterday for London.
GRF.ENOCK, APRIL 29.
The Ayrshire, KING, arrived here this foivinon
from Dominica left thence on t',e I Ith ultimo, in
company with the Bellona, Citawirottcli for Clyde:
Left the fnllo&ing vessels 10. Jing : Lord Melvillo,
FRAZER ; Dematara, —; and Hope, DUNCAN, for
Liverpool. The Nereus, PATEitst,N; R.thust, LAN.
DELLS; and Paragon. NI,GotiN, fur the Clyde. On
the 21st in lat. .5:1. 42. long. IS. spoke the ship
sannah, CR-len:sox, from St. Vincent's to Clyde.
'GRAVESEND, MAY E.
Arrived the Ocean. Gram, from Jamaica ; Slrene, Eiger,
from Calais; btar, Ogler, rid Mary, Briner, front Am.terdat ;
Recovery, Barnett, from htt•nvil; and Eleanor, Bell, &eat
Dantsic. Sailed the Maria, Pratt tor Sr. Thomas's; Cwt.
cord, Waffle, for St. Vinc,:it's; '1 heels, Dimly, for Lisly.:.;
Marshal Hitcher, Adams, for o.tend; Coiling, Coiling, futile.
ligotaud; and flumes, Brown, t..r Hambitegh.
COSI'OM-1-10tfiE, MAY '2.
Iftwszlito IXwAsns —I he Stuerriqr, Baileock, from
Southampton; b, from Patnb.rgh; Call Jottan..bstr-
gttgon, trim Celle; Datbara t;tert ten, from Nor.
way; and Lord Newt', Witt, from Limey.
Out waugs.—The Rover, Kin, for tiamborth; Doke of
Kent, Puunl, for ROM:MOM; Periterefilire, Roberti., fur ---;
seders, Cullen. for Glenna and Leghorn; Charming Moliyi
Farrier. for Cafe's; Ida., Aldridge, for Ltrmuda and rialifLa ;
and William and Mary, Miller, for Rio 14ileir,,, mAdra, Isle
of France, Ceylon, and Forts St. Chine and WilliaM. •

. .
It is at length finally rettled that the monument td
the memiiry of the late Lord NICI,9OM is to be erected
on the South Dents, Yarmouth, in a situation to
serve as a mark for both Gat ways.
Yesterday the AT FORNEY-GENERAL announced to
the bar of the King's Bench. that he had accepted
of the appointment of a I'uisne Baron of the Excite..
quer. It was also understood that Sir SAMUEL SHEF•
HERD succeeds Sir Witttaxt GARROW as Attfitneyr
General. It is suppo.ed that Mr. Lescif will lie'Sit-
lieitur•General. By the promotion of Sir I.Vaia
Gamow to the Exchequer Bench, the offii...e of Chief
Justice of Chester becomes vacant, and also his seat
for the Borough of Eye, in the House of Com.rions.
There State prisoners were 'brought to Exeter oat
Monday, and lodged in the county prison, by warrant
lof Lord &moms, dated 25:h last. Their names
are John Johnstone, Sonsuel Drowsnoond and Aroph thrill,
from the neighbourbend of Manchester (one from
Middleton), but they came last from Dorchester.
They are charged " on suspicion of Hidi'l'reason."
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund com-
menced yesterday purchasing 4125,000 Stuck, hat-
ing hitherto only purchased WHAM) • they mean
Ito continue purchasing the tot mer sum temp Trans-
lee Day.
BARNET this morning, at eight o'clock, had pet.
formed 675 miles of his undertaking, since his corn.
osentemerit, the 19th ult. and still continues to pee.
severe in his arduous task, with great confidence of
!•finally acvmnpl'shing it.
The grand Pedestrian contest between EArots anti
BAKER if 'filed to commence-on Wednesday atter-
noon, at Wormwood Scrubs. 'lt is supposea this
match will• be severely :contested.. and ix expected to
excite as much 'interest 'ainongsi Ant spotting gentry
as any one hithaerto perfirmed.. They are to sleep on
the ground, on mltich a matcynee is to he erected for
each at the end of. his. course: . They will go 2211
lyards out and iu ; and cords are to • sun along the
tground,. tti iceep.thern from intro,ion; • .
• Friday evening as a .bny, about tali years old, -was
attempting. to get a troop, with which'• lie fra.l been
playing, out. of the 17 Ater, ne ir the Pagoda Bs idge, in
the Park, he overbalanced himself and tell
Another boy viewed the transaction gave the
alarm, and although • immediate assistance was con.
dared, he wan not got rut Me nerrlY half an hour,
when the vital spark was qoite extinct.

Yesterday. as Ularles &Manly, a young man, was
riding on the ro tE of a coaeh, which was going at a
brisk pace along Piceadtlly, when opposite Sc.- j,,,e,
Church, the hitch-pin came um, and he was dashed
with great violence un the stores, as it broke Jowl) :
every rib on his right side was broltru, and several
parts of 'his body were rireAdtully bruised. He was
carried in a hopeless state to St. Gorge's flObvit.ll.
LONGEVITY --The following cirentsistance may be
interesting to those who enquire into the causes of
Longevity " A Gentleman of eitosi‘krible research.
lately made a catalogue ct nearly right hundred per-
sons who had attained a great age. and lutin4 their
habits et life only to agree in one particular, namely,
early rising in the uryrning.".