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and Severn cenat; anothet, lot; building a bridge toe
across the Thames, from Queen-street, Che.tpside, to ;
the opposite shore; and the other against the Padding. 1
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to*Water.works; and petitions were read, agreed to,
, and ordered to be presented by the Sheriff's forthwith:
' I —The Committee of City Lands, to whom it was fie- 1 DI
- a (erred to prepare plans for building on the quarters'of . •i,
Mr. Benner,- the Referree, named by the Committee iMoorfields, reported that they had advised sfith the I
of Subscribers, that. he was only re5S4 in arrear, with : City Solicitor thereon, who laid before them the ori:
oome debts due thereout for the House, ttie returns gm• al Grant of King Charles the First, and having,
anntially being £37,000, and the expcnces above considered the same, were of opinion that the late four
se3ii,ooo.—The.furtner heaving was postponed. I quarters of Moorfields should be enclosed with stone ,
INAICII 6.—yra7 tits v. -rarLoa. and iron rails tb preserve one large, spacious,
This day finished the arguments on the part of the defendant.l coping
open sqnare) for the air, health, comfort, and conve. I
The ease was, an application for an order to remove Mr.
Taylor frion the management of the Opera-House, and to ap- nience of the•C nizens of London, and for the pur. !
ps.i-st a receiver Of the monks. The plaintiff was a principal poses intended by the original grant ; and on the 1
istdder of shares, and a mortgagee, as far as £14,000, with in- -
question being - ptst, the same was negatived, and it 1
terest on the concerns, as well as executor of thei,ste Mr. Gould,
the former joint Proprietor of the Theatre. There was a deed was referred to the Committee for general purposes,
with trustees, executed in 1804, between the parties, ins which to consider of efirAing buildings thereon. I
the question turned. I ,r.,..
he remains of the late Queen of France, consort ',
The Loa o Ca ANCeLt.Olt having heard all the arguments, gave
of Louts XVIII. were removed from 'Westminster i
judgment against the appl cation, on the ground, that tins was
rot like any other partnership in which the Court could inter- Abbey on Tuesday, and put on beard a vessel in the
pOse, by any interlocutory motion, to grant the relief now prayed River, to be cost eyed to Sardinia for interment
for. kits Lordslip said, he could only destroy the whole con- i
cern, or direct it to be sold out, as the business never erakt be "" The Winter in Paris," which his been so long
carried on under his Lordship's direction, or by any proceeding expected, is at length announced for publicatiea. It
in flee Master's Office. He said he would read the affidavits comprises the real Memoirs of a -Lady of Fashion,
again at home, to me if his-present opinion could be changed.— written by herself ; and contains, we understand, a i
llifosiort refused. I view of the present state of society and flannels in the
SAUL l'. SAM& /
Mr. RICIIAIDI moved for an order, on behalf of the &fen- ' Parisian capital ; and is interspersed with a variety of
dant, for the removal of a sequestration, issued in may bat ,' original and highly interesting Anecdotes.
apaimit his property, for the non-payment of the salaries of the I -
The British Gallery, Pall-Mall, reopened its annual
Performsrs, and the rent, uses, and insurance expences of the I
Theatre. The sequestration went forth for want of answer; and ; exhibition on the 12th tilt: It is with pleasure we
was noi executed till the 6th of Febuary last, when it was I:iseo- i perceive this laudable imtitutioirmaking such rapid
-oared that he had a suns of .ff 13,000 in the hands of Messrs. advances ; the performances in the diffetentbraaches
Radian and Co. the Bankers, lodged therein by Mr. Taylor, in I
of art being much superior this season to any of the
his own name.
Mr. Taylor now put in an answer to the last bill, and stated • preceding years. The Directors; by the increasing
vermin sum. due to several of the performers, which 'the plain- irewards they hold out to the encouragement of the
tiff doubted, and by his Couosel, prayed that the performers may .
I I Students, have already awaked the genius of out
be sworn to that fact, which they were greatly alarmed at as to--
British youths, and we hope shortly to see their
reigners, by their manners in Court, and the statement of their talents
Gemmel applied to nobler pursuits than those et mere Portrait
The LORD CIIANCILLOR observed than he should be sorry Painting. To describe the whole of the Pictureswould
M alarm the performers be the slightest degree, but justice re- exceed tur limits, we shall therefore bticfly touch upon
tame an affidavit to 'hew their demands, which all parties !, .
thOse wLich appear to be objects of general attraction.
seemed willing to be paid. He further stated, that as the money i
was lodged its the Defendant's own name with his bankers, R —ln the grand style, Mr. West's pictiire of the Bard
and he was boond by the deed to make these payments, in ail I stands pre-eminent ; it is a powerful effort of genius
events the application ought to be complied with on the pro., and does him infinite credit. We exhort the ritititi
per affidavit, although Mr. Taylor's answer stood now referred Youth of the present age to study the works of this
- for insufficiency to a Master, without the delay of a Report,' I
great master, as their guide to historic excellence.—
Which be ordered to he hastened, and brought before !sins on Sa-
Sir W. Beechy's Venus and Cupid is a beautiful gem.
*clay nsit.--Notion granted.
There are also many other good pictures in historical
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH 7. and poetical painting, by Copley, Beechy, Trumbul,
Westal, Daw, Woodford, &c. In domestic subjects
SIIIIDLISY, WIDOW, V. ROSIERTS.
Mr. La Cease has two high-finished specimens, vit.
This was an action, founded upon the• statute of
Reading the Will, and the Consent Refused. Mr.
awry, to recover the penalty of three tithes the valuel
Borney's Children is the Wood are well grouped,
of. i1`137 10s. alledged to be lent on usurious interest.
and his Flower Pieces finely composed; and executed
It appeared tram the evidence of Mr. James Pict-
with great taste and elegance. Mre Collins's Fifer,
ding, the son-indaw of the plaintiff, that he having
I aad Mr. I'. Barker's Shepherd's Dog possess great
. borrowed that sum of the defendants, and wishing to
merit. Mr. Sharp's Letter 0 has surprising neat-
easatinue die loan till the 10th of January, 1810; on
ness ; and Reinegle'senior's Fighting Dogs are ad-
the 18th December, 1809, they proposed to him that
mirable. It-would be indelicate at present to con e-
• 'sum of ZlO,OOO cranium belonging to bilb should
sent on those. performances intended for the pre-
remain in their hands as a security for that loan, they
miasma, and we must also, for want of room, defer
making a payment of £lO per cent. which yould be
our observations on the fine Landscape by P. Rei-
due on the cranium on the 15th of December, and
negle, Glover, Arnold, Linnet, anti Barker, to a lir-
- receiving 3-Sths per cent. or ie37 10s._ being more
ture opportunity.
than £3 per cent. per annum legal interest on the
. TRENCH PIIISONERS.--Mr. Rigby, whom we have
loan ; which sum, together with the £lOOO paid on
the omniarn, and the original loan, was accordingly already stated to have been charged with aiding the
escape of two French Captains, was au Thursday ad.
paid to the defendants, as appeared by the witness's
flitted to bail to take his trial for the offence.
draught on his Banker for E 0275, which he produced.id
There was no evidence of the payment of the WonsfilP-STDP.F.T.-111GiMY.—Thursday a woman
of genteel appearance, of the name of -An Ciar4, was
al 000, by the defendants ; and Lord ELLINBOROGGH
asked the Jury, whether there were not cases in I brought up and underwent a final examination, being
which ifstalments were not paid on the day. 6zed iiharfed with having married, in November last, Francis
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for them His Lordship knew, that in the elan- Copier, in the parish churchofSte Leonard, Shoe/ditch,'
choly month of October, many instalments failed to her first husband, George Clark, ebeing alive, to
eie, be paid ;and on an occasion like the whom she was married in November, 1796, the regis-
present, every
ter of the said marriages being proved by the parish•.
fact ought to be strictly proved. This case also stood
books ; when the case being made out, she was fully
tr,ion die credit of the witness, who upon being asked,
whether this was Mrs. Sencdley's own action, and committed to Nesegate for trial.
whether she knew of all the circumstances, which in- - Thursday a common informer, convicted last Ses-
-' duced her to bring it, to indemnify herself against the sions for extorting money, stood in the pillory in
Smithfield-market, from one to three o'clock. There
losses she had sustained by her son-in-law's ill sue- ,
cess at the* Stuck Exchange were a great number of spectators present, but they
Exchange ? replied, that he had I
did slot pelt the culprit. He was afterwards conveyed
convinced her by his figures, that she might recover
a coach•batk to prison, to suffer the remainder of
this. penalty on the statute of usury. If the Jury `in, his sentence.
'found thatthpy could not give credit to the witness in a
point like this, where their own knowledge of the world q
Isaktossrs —An inefuisition was held at
checked him, they would consider what credit was Edmonton, before the Coroner for Middlesex, on the
• ddeao the rest of his evidence.—Verdict for the de. sth instant, on the body of Sarah Hoye. It appeared
fendants. that she met her death by being violently gored by a
sr ARCH B.—iiiiriieh. INGLIS. cow, the property other husband, which occasioned
her instant death. It being proved that the beast was
This was an action on a policy of insurance at and
. very vicious, the Jury found it a deodand of the full
from yAnpouth toHeligoland,
value, y verdict a forfeiture to
which becomes the'
.
Mr. OAILILOW stated the case
on the plaintiff. It
the Crown, or to the Lord of the Manor, having as
appeared alai the insurance wee only against enemies
grant of Deodands.
risk, and the consequences ,of that risk, and not against e
i .
Another squisitton was held before the same Co-
the pet it of the sea. In the course of her voyage from
inner in the parish of St. Luke, on Edward Parry,
Yarmouth to. Heligoland, the vessel got on shore
.an infant. The unhappy father, through mistake,
upon one of the small islands off the coast of Den-
intending to administer a small quantity of Godfrey's
mark, at low water, during the night ; but she floated
cordial, g.tve his own child oil of vitriol, which had
again at high tide, though not till the Danes had dis-
been purchased by a servant to clean copper, ard put
covered her ; she had, however, received no damage
into a bottle, which produced the child's death in a
in running aground, and when she floated, site imme.
.diately got under sail to proceedaowards her destined' few hours. The distress of the father, them aterial
witness, was very affecting.—Verdict, Casual horni-
! port. The wind, however, driving her towards the
Danish coast, after sailing about four miles she came tide.
Another inquest was taken the same diy. The
to an anchor, and soon alter she was boarded by the
facts were that two young men belonging tc the Swift,
'l7 crews of two Danish boats, taken into Copenhagen,
a Scotch vessel lying in the West India Dock, being
....
the ere* made prisoners, and the vessel and cargo
somewhat in liquor, quarrelled. They fought about
condemned. He understood the defence intended to
four minutes on the ship's deck, when suddenly
'be set vp was that she had not been lost by enemies
i closing, they fell over the ship's side and were drown.
risk, but by the peril of the sea, the wind having oc.
eel . he dispute happened between nine and ten
easioned her getting so near the Danish coast as to
o'clock on Tuesday last. It is remarkable, when the
cause her capture. bodies were taken op, the men were locked in each
H- These circumstances being proved, the Learned
e was instantaneous ; and seems to give colour
death others arms. This leads to the inference that their
-
Judge Put it to the Jury, whether it could be main
mined that the vessel was lost by the peril ofohe sea,
to -a prejudice, that the waters of the West India
and not taken .by the enemy ? The Jury instantly
itsuasd a verdict forethe plaintiff for the sum insured. Dock being in some degree stagnant, imbibe a poiso- I
nous matter from the quantity pf copper with which
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the lower part of the slipping lying there is incased*:
i • .
It is a certain fact, that very few persons once im- i
The Gentleman who dropped down dead, millets-
. •siay uight. in Bloomsbrip-scitiare,-was Mr. Dalton; a mersed in those waters, are recovered to life. Verdict I
respectahle statioaPdie. bchurch-lace, Os the City. Casually drowned. 1
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S/1I;WN MOS irsl74l
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tWSPittrotci IlilitiVlLN AT UXBRIDGE, 74111411 it
Wheat per loth"' Sll. I. to - Mi. Os.
SWlefe PO *141,1014 : Ilis. ....d. 40 . 41s. -41.
Oats 416 e. ....411. to 365. -d. ,
Beans .445. -41. to 'yes. -IL
New ditto 4.35.-d. to 465. -4.
Peas . -525. -411. to 58s. -d
SPArTHFIEIII MARKET, March S.
To sink tho Offal per Stubs of sib.
Beef ss. Dd. to ca. sal. Veal 6s. Od. to 7s. 64
Mutton 2'. 44. to tis. 4.1. Pork ss. 4d. to 7. Od.
IIEAD .ii, VAVTLV 'hits cost.
Beasts, atneit 5...:0-,hetLp Sod Lambs, 24500.
Calve*. .1 ito- l'ar., 240
. tIEWGATE AND LEADF.NHALL MAP.KET
Perstono or itib.by the carcase.
Beef 41. ud. So 5.. od. Veal ss. od. to 7s. 01
Atnobs 4s. 4d. to 5.. td. Pork ss. 44. to 7.. 04
PRICE OF HOPS IN 'I HE BOROUGH MARKS l'.
Bags Pockets
i Kent 51. 51. to IL I.ls. Kilo 61. os. to 91. Os '
Susses 5l. Os. to 71. tre. Sttso'x 51. 10s. to 11. 13.
PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW.
St. JAM LC*. ~.. WillTi rt.
1 Nay 41. os. to 101. Os. Hay 61. Os. to 61. lii
straw • Si. Its. to 44. Is. Clover 11. is. to 101. to.
1 Straw 31. 10s.--to 31. lit
PRIME OF 1-.IY AND STK AW IN SMrI'HFIEI.I).`
Mtia,liw Hay 61. Os. tc 01. Os. Arrows 51. Qs to 81. 0..
Clover 71. Os to 101. 0.. Straw SI. 101. to 41. Os.
RAW HINTS.
Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary Is. Qd. to Is. ild
stone) ti.. od. to sa. ud. Market LAI 1.75. 0.1. each
14.1,11.111nga 9i.,44. to 2s. 64. Estglisli Hurtle 111 s. to 144. ud
MICE OF LEATHER IN LEADENHALL MARKFT.
Butts 2014. 221. Calf Skins 545. 411
Ditto 241. tod. Ditto 36i.. 40d
Merchants' Backs 104. 20;d. Ditto 27s 62d
urciksixig 11:41gy 18L1. 19.;.1. Small Seals SS. Od. Si. 14
`ins CO2411114; 1944. 214 d. Large ditto 120 s. 160*
Crop Ifidos for suit. /90. 924. I:Wad Horse Hldos isd 204
Ditto 174. 194. Goat Skins fos. 70s
PRICE tilt TAT.I.OW.
St. James's Market 4s. 40. Town 'ratio* 75s iv
Clare hlArkot 4* Q. Yellow kussti riit. t:tl
W Isitoslia Is. 1 Martin 44. 44. White ditto 654 od
per stone of 615. -.--- Sot/. tli.::• . 1141 0
las 2,44.1. Melttrz S•tufr 58: ocs od
Average 4s ad Ditto-rotze,h 3Cs 001 01
Graves 16* Od Good Dregs lls Od
Yellow Soap, 604--Mott1•11, 90s 0(1--.--eldl (I , 544. 04.
Price of Candles, per dusen 121 1.4,--X1 -..;d., t 1. (...1.
- COAL MARK: T, blarcl. 6

Ships at Market • Sold Prier%
51 Newtistle 4q 41is. Od. to ;Bs. 01.
6 Sunderland 4 48.. ed. to 5.4. 0(.1.
1 Cinders 1 38r. Od.
Ct/tRSE OF EXCIIANC;Ii.
.
Amsterdam, ea 4 2 U Palermo, ISS Panne pet os.
Ditto at sight, 27 6 Leghorn, 58
Rotterdam, C. f. 8 6 9 1./ Genoa, 54
liainburgb, 24 0 9i: U Venice, n. C. 92 I.lv. Pleeole
Akona, - 24 1 25 U effective pert. stet.
Paris I day', da. 17 16 Liv. Naples, 42
Ditto, 2 Us. 18 0 1.41t0n, 87}
bourdeaux; dal. 18 0 Oporto, 62
Madrid, Lffeet. Dublin, IC* ! .
Cadiz, . 4/ Effect. Cask, . itft.
Whoa Effect. New Dollars, is. 61.
Rio Janeiro 72, Malta 63, Citiraltai 40.
FLOUR.—Average consumption •of the h‘nropolis and ten
miles tufts[, per week, 18,000 sacks, that is 'early :/.:6,026 sacks.
In the year 1210 there was nearly artntich Wheat a ,a Hour im- I
Das would suffice the metropolis and tea miles round.— I
During the yeitil7B9, 90, and 01, the Crops of wheat were so
abundaut is England, that not more than about LAI quarters were
imported during that period: but the latter end of 1791 the,
l'renels were in great want of wheat, and large quantities %roe
exported us that country front hence, most et which was pail
for; but on the breaking out of the war sit 1792, several carritn4
was seised in Franci,,whleh, whh the vessel-. (British) wife
condemned. The whiat crops being various since then, it bele",
necessary to import large sinantiiii:s tome years and lass other
i
but in 1600 large supplies atoned here from Dantsie, 'for in PO',
breary, that yeqrawbeat sold for •I 704 per quarter in Mark tattel
The crop 4 1204 was goad;, very link was imported that yearli
and in )803 it Was similar; thatltOune 190 4, the best wheat
sold so low at 535. 6tl. per quarter, but in February following, It
got up to t 24s.per qw tter. Hopes may be entortained that im-
portation will be greatly dietinisised,-as there are sow near surf
Bit:* for Inclusures, Draining, Allortint,, Sec. before Parliament.
and-great improvements arc daily made in ...gricul, ere.

MARRIED. • •
t Wednesday, tke 6th inst. at Melton Mowbray, by the Rev.
tDr. Ford, tote Pochin, Esq. of Normanton Hall, leiecster-
,abire, to Miss niZa.&eth second daughter of R. Nor-
mass, Esq. of Melton Mowbray.

• DIED.
On the 20th Instant, at Aviswys, in Santersetihire, lames
Thomas. Benedictos Xlarwood, Eoi. one of "lie ric!lest cammon&
era in the West of tingled, left property 424:mated at up-
wards of half i Million sterling. •
At Etruoutli, after a long illness, 'Robert Slia.we, 'Esq. late of
the 74th Foot, and a 13rigastier. General in the Western llistrict.
At Edinburgh, ou the 741 ult. Helen Carolineol.iughter of Dr.
Thomas R. Harris, of Phile.4elphia, is Perinsylv.icia.

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TO THOMAS TAYI.OR, ISQ.
NO. 9, NEV BRIDGE:-SI:KEE'f, LONDON.
tronoutteo Ste, .* _ .
I. .
BE'; leave to infoem Toni; that'ever since the year
1790, I had been afflicted with the Cues Venerea ; which, frier
its obstinately resisting every course of medicine prescribed by the
Most eminent of the faculty here, and, undiggcing severe) 'evert
coehisi of salivation, and twice diecluergett fror the Hu:vital, with
little relief, would appear to he of the Inuit iiveterateuature. le
the spring of last year my disorder had Lot to such a head, ar
nearly to put a perioet to my existence. I had a large ulcer on the
crown of my heed, one on Ault area, and my let' -were beaten
out in a ft,ightful manner; my rigia wa: dreadfallytainful, ands
hatebeenen a state of eaceretioli rut the last s,:rett years; any lett
had alsitlviii nodes upon ki, Was very much discoloured, mid gave
nee such excruciatiod pain, particularly wket warns in bed, as
nearly to deprive we of rest; in thiolemelitable state, turas re*
commended by Mr. ). Thivsno, kwon tycoivod so groat a cure
by them Isere,) to take your Leake'SPitent Pills, winch I beiat;
to do on tie !6th May ; ifs the cpttrse of a fortni:sh I legate to
receive benefit—in little mot* 'thine a moth the ulcers on my
linad alai arena were soundly kelled—soonaftex, the sores on in)
leg healed also: kaviiio, however, considerable distoloera •
titan in the skin, rle pain in the bone of the lett, whichf by the
blessietrof God, and a little toner prrsever:ance in your invalua-
ble Medicine, sublided ; the nodes dipersittg, the skin regaining
itsnatural hate, sod the nocturnal pains Mutually going off—l thus
became, by your liberal advice and-medici2.:e, perfectly free from
my former complaints-7Jave teoovefred my former spirits and
strength, and mil become jolly aml,le,iii %click etafehavi,:s con-
tinued many months to the astontsinnent of a a who knew me, I
am at a loss in what terms to express thy grant ode, but beg you
for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this any case as
public as possible, as I shall on every occasion—in so cluing you
will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful obedient very herlible sec;
vant, ALEX. MURILEft.
Swan's Closer High-stn et, Edinburgh.
Prepared and soul by tke ails Proprietor, Thomas ilityloy;
Member of tha Royal College of Surgei.nsin ltrion, at his house,
No. 9, New Bridge-street ; where, after a cons:aut resideme for
more chaff 40 years, Inapractii.e particularly directed to the
Cure of Venereal Complaiuts, and those incideutal to the
Parts of Generation, with that inviolable secrecy which flint
of his profession should always observe is such eases, be flat- 1
ters himself, the advice and assistance he gratuitously admi-
testers to persons taking this Medici/if, will be esteemed, by a dis-
cerning Public, as an advantage seldom attelned and void of all
ambiguity. ,
They aro also sold by his moat, at the Perfttaser'e, No.
liir,
3.5., St. Alhan'e-strect; Pall ; the Toy-eligs. Nu. 194 Os
ford-street ; Mr. I)isborougb , No. 7, Fish-meet-hill, nearly op-
posite the Mnnumert ; and by one person Is every cut aideratele
town in England, dm.ln been only es. od. eieck, sealed ap watt
full alfld.plain directloos, whereby possum adoisisar ka eaar'essr••
isoosoiros Witi sass amsl 1181111 f. ~

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i• COURT Of CIViNCERY.—TUESDAT, MAACK qk •
OPERA-HOUSE.—WATERS O. TAYLOR.
This long contested cause came on again this day,
by motion made by Mr. HART, who woke at eonsi►
derabl'e length, and was follnwed by Mr. .lottvsnw on
latatellof the plaintiff,
,praying that a receiver might
be appointed to receive the monies at the Opera-
House for' tht use of the Plaintiff, who is owner of
sertrral sixteenth shares in the concern. A Mr. Reid,
late money-receiving clerk, made an affidavit to waive
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the foregoing charges, with grounding his motion foi
a receiver. Mr. Taylor, by Mr. Richards, his Coon,
sea, contended, on his affidavit and the report of 2
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Dock Companylreven ed a petition Mr laying !lotwo NM
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indortiiii in the Milleons at Illack;rall, which wag d
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and referred to the Navigation Conimittee.—A pelt- osi
tion was read tot widening Grub-street: it was re- Bel
ferred to the Committee of City Lands.--The Nevi- Nc
1 gation Committee reported against the bills pending Pe
in the House of Commons; one for making a canal
I from the Wilts and Berks canal to join the Thames Best