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most ingenious sophittry, Ministers have determined
that it shall not he perused by the PRINCE Ream..
There is no man, we believe, however indifferent
aliout the interest of this country, who will not
readily confess, that the situation to which it is now
reduced, whether it has arisen from the. violence of
faction, or from an arbitrary system of Government,
justifies the most melancholy apprehensions, and calls
1 for the exertion of whatever wisdom or vigour is left
among us. The Pitt:sces answer to the Petition
from the Common Hall, and the measures adopted by
i the Ministry, amount to a plain declaration, that the
principles on which they hitherto acted, are to be
carried to the utmost extent, and supported in all
their consequences. The same spirit which violated the
freedom of election, now. invades the Declaration and
Bill of Rights, and actually threatens to punish the
; subject for exercising a privilege scarcely ever before
disputed of Petitioning the Crown. The grievances
of the people are aggravated by insults ; their corn-
plaints not merely disregarded, but checked by au-
: thot ity ; and all those acts against which they Peti-
tion, confirmed byttre Pet xces decisive approbation.
•At such a time, no honest man ought to remain si-
lent or inactive. &Weyer distinguished by rank or
property, is the rights of fteedom we are all equal.
As we are Britons, the least considerable man among
us has art interest equal to the proudest Noblemtin, in
the Laws and Constitution of his country, and is
fequalty called upon to exert himself in support of
them, whether it be with the heart to conceive, the
understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.—
IThe man who deserts such a cause, at this alarming
crisis, is an enemy to his country; and a traitor to Ms
Sovereign. The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief
Magistrate, will neither advise nor submit to arbi-'
Ivory measures. The City of Lodon has furnished an
example which, we doubtnot, will be followed by
the whole kingdom. Tile noble spirit of the Metro-
polis is the life-blood of the State, collected at the
lime. From thence it circulates, with health .and
vigour, through every artery of the Constitution.—
The time is come when the body of the British 'peo-
ple must assert their own cause. Conscious of. their
strength, and animated. by a sense of their dyty, they-
will not sereender their birth-right to Ministers,
Parliament, nor Kings.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

. COURT OE EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, ArmLlt.

NE F. BURDETT, IN Limon, V. THE MANTA OF THE
HOWL OF COmmoNis AND AGAINST TOE LAGI. OF

Mr. CLIFFORD was this day heard in reply, on
the part of the Plaintiff, in error, contending, on
three grounds, that the warrant ought not to be
. supported, being grounded neither on Statute, in
usage, nor in necessity. A ready mode of obtaining
redress lay open to the House, if they had any thing
to complain of in the conduct of the Plaintiff, by
• prosecution at the suit of the Attorney-General, and
in that case there would have been no necessity for
breaking into the house of the Plaintiff with the as-
sistance of armed soldiers. Besides, the Plaintiff
could not, in the nature of things, have been guilty
of an obstruction of the business of the -House of
Commons, which was the only thing they had al
right to take cognizance of, while he, in fact, was
confined to his own House.—The warrant, the Learned
•Counsel al-o submitted, was defective in not sullici.t,
ently expressing the offence is 7th which the Plaiiitiff i
, I was charged. He was charted with pullishing..a
libel reflecting on the House of Commons. Now,.J
I out of twenty-three meanings giveniwto the word
'" reflecting," in Johnson's Dictionary, only two of
them argued any thing that could at all be construed 1
in au offensive sense. The Learned Counsel also ob- i
jected to thq execution. af the warrant, by armed
soldiers breaking into thetoyse oft e Plain itr
(its this paid ho 'rat
.cut short by Sir JAMT.3
Ntseseter.n, who fi:liiimed him, that having already
`argued this part of the case, he might save himself
I any further observations- on it, the opinion of the
Court being fully made up upon it.
Sr Jxots Alansriebo then delivered the opinion
of the Court. Ile held, that wherever there was a
legiilative body entrusted with the passing of laws
for the government of a country, that body, in or-
I demo exercise its functions with advantage to the
'puc, must be armed with powers to prevent ob-
structions, directly or indirectly, to the due and
free exercise of those functions. That this had been
a privilege enjoyed by the Commons of England, at I
least from the time of Elizabeth, was sufficient to.-
establish the usage; how far beyond that pci iod the I
right had been exercised, it might be a matter of cu-
riosity to antiquarian's, but could not he material for
the Court to enquire. As to the objection dwelt
upon by the Learned Counsel, that the house had
been broken into by armed soldiers, it was highly
fitting that it should be understood that this was no
objection; but that the character of citizen did -dot
merge in, but still existed independently of, though
in conjunction with, that ofi,soldier. The evil-effects
which, in the year 1780, resulted from a forgetful-
ness of this principle, on which occasion soldiers
stood by and suffered felonies to be committed in
their presence, from a mistaken notion, that because
they had not a civil officer to instruct them, they
were not entitled to interfere, would not speedily
be forgotten, and afforded a useful lesson on this .
subject. As to the publication in question, it was •
I
impossible to read it, and not to be convinced that it
was peculiarly calculated to create an obstruction of I.
the business si the House, and one for the punish- I
ment of whictithe House, through its Speaker, was I
justified in issuing its warrant. The Court was
therefore of opinion, that in both actions the verdict I
must be affirmed. I

OPERA HOUSE..

MU. r. TAYLOR.

A special motion on the merits was made this day
in the Court of Exchequer, by the SOLfCITOR.•GE•
NEKAL, Mr. [lira., and Mr. O'DcoY, on the part of
Mr. Hill, an Attorney, to dissolve an injunction ob-
tained by the Defendant at Common Law, under
which the Sheriff of. Middlesex was restrained from
selling the chandeliers, &c. of the Opera House,
which had been taker► in execution for adebt of 3001.
After a great deal of argument, the Barons ordered
the money to be brought into Court, if not, the in-
junction should be dissolved, which would, in effect,
extinguish the lights:

From the LONDON GAZETTE, April 21.

DIVIDENDS.

Juse 19, E. F.lourr, Bath, lailog-house-keeper----May 2.W-
Powell, Brecon, liquoi-merchant--Mav la, P. Taylor, Shef-
field, screw-manufacturer—Max 15, 'r. Ward, Liverpdol, inn-
keeper—May 13, T. Andrews, an. Hot-wells, Gloucestershire,
coach-maker—May. 12, J. Kirkman, Liverpool, merchant—
May 13, K. Pickering, R. Pickering, jun. and li. Pickering.
LeMls, bleachers —May Hi, 0. 'Brodie, Senth Shields, Cord-
waimee—May 13, IL Horner, Welborn, Yorkshire. tanner—
April 25, S. Gosling, Gosling, and A. Gosling, Mark-Jane,
wine-inerelmate—April 25, A. Kruse, Union-court, Broad-
street, merchant—May 8, J. Agg: jun. Bristol, printer—Slav 2,
11. Phillips, Worthing, Sussex, wine-eterehant—May 12, S. Par-
nell, Kingston, Surrey, linen-draper4-May 12, J.G. Peters, Chat-
ham, confectioner—May 16, R. Williams,'Oxford-street,
and glatenuto-,2May 5, W. Murray, Pall-mall-court,
tailor—May 12, It. entice and J. Pease, Cheapside, factors--
May 1'„•T. Like, told !irons-Woe, builcar—May eaver
S.. Cooper, lleast-street, St. ildiargear.*vis-640.4re,
haach-sisakers—May 12, A. Salt and C. S. Beckman. Birming•
m, wine-merchants —May 16, J. -Atcheson, West Smithfield,
coal-merchant—April/5, Mumford and J. Skeen, Greenwich,
timber-uterchants--May 15, T. English, Myton, Kieigstontpots.
hull, ship-builder--Slay It W. Jdny, sen. Union-street, Dept'.
ford, aed W. May, jun. Greenwich, timber-merchants.
CERTIFIJCATES—IbIeN 12. •
upAon.,
lE.ryernet,, Tistirstamlstbrdtshe
m:r,Ysilekshire, oil-merchant—J. Aide'',
Blacknowe street, CLlre-inarket, grocer—G.. Poulson, SRA.-
, potter—J. Lirabham; Bridgewater,
corn-factor —A. Eloure, Bath, lodging-honse-keeper— M. Kelly,
Pull- ualt, music-seller—W. Oxford-street* furnitere-
warehouseman-0. Pouchun..Cbeapside, hat ter—W.Glaabruo k ,
White Chapel Iligh-strect, hosier—.l. Whitehead, Alcdiall4lecri,
S!toreditch, b;o ker—P.-I.elscombe, Gravesend, tailor—W.. A oder.:
ton and it. tighteners, Charley,' Lancashire, cotton-spinners—
M. Joel, Shureditch, dealer in glass.--W. Slade, Paddington,
common-brener—J. Byrtb, Ph-mouth-dock, grocer—J. Sititb,
lialifii money-scriveners-J. ilowgate and J. Ilowycate, /no.
Wakefield, manufacturers—W. Midlaue, Gosport, gi ocer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVI.I.I.
C. Berley and J. lathe, Vonr-street,Edgeware-road,
ser, twi6e-spinners—N. Warren and J. Baxter, Preston, I.nn-
cashire, innkeepers—S. Sewell, St. Alartia's-le-Grand, London,
and I'. King Creak, Bermeadsey, plumbers -J. 14-sage and J.
Hart, Dunk-street, Mile Eod New Town, silk-manufactures.
J. Smith and S,Twigg, Worcester, saddlers.

The Russian Counsellor BKADSKY has obtained a
reward from his Sovereign for a method of inoculat-
ing sheep. He dissolves the verus in water, and
steeps in it a piece of thread, which is•afterwards
drawn through the extremity of the ear, and left
hanging like an ear-ring. At the expiration .of a
few Jays, the inoculated sheep has the same symp-
toms as a child who has been „vaccinated. The most
--vourable time for this operation is, the month of
•
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ATTEMPT AT Sutant.—Yesterday mer
woman, who lives in Duke's-court,. ttv „emu",
and gets her living by washing, attemp NI to pat a
period to her existence by hanging herself in ill.
apartment; fortunately, however, the book to which
she had suspended herself gave way, and the noise
she made in falling alarmed a woman living ucffer
her, who, on going up, found her lying on the 60,,
nearly strangled, and in her fall had broke her aria
near the shoulder. She was driven to this vast, :It.
tempt, it appeared,. by distress. of mind, 4,;si,i
from the loss of one of, her, best customers, owity; fe
her daughter, a child about ten years of age, havi g
been met in her' way to the tady's house, on Saw,.
day evening, with some'linen, bfa villain, who DR%
tended he was coming for them, .and took them from
her. •

A fine youth, 10 years of age; son of Mr. tebboi
of York-buildings, Park-place, was• unfortunr.N'y
drowned within view of the speetators Oil Westm.a,
1 ster-hridge, on Tuesday afternoon. He wal'aiiiita
' ing lihnself with en oar at the stern 'of a• }pleasure
boat when he fell overboard, .in the presence-of iris
Jil sic; and another relatirer.and disapprarel.
! Captain Phibbon, of the 60th regiment, was taken
:i.sradetily ill on Monday in, the street, and was can.
vt yea into a house at Lambeth for medical ;tit!, w.,itit
kias it stantly afforded, but without effect, as he
1 ' t•horzly expired. He had been married but a fair
i days'
1 11-oviderful ! most. wonderful ! a Lottery to be
drawn on the 30th of 461, and 110 ?we on it in
the'Newspapors.—'Whyls.this E' Ilecatne so e.ce).
lent a Lottery needs no ptsifik;,,, awl therefore Ctn.
Tra only simply' informs the public, that lie is selling
Tickets and Shares at his Old Office, 8, Charing.
I Cross.

ij
fanner, at
few dad .
crS
I
invfemale
ented
taoly,
servant,
atelytei.at,ei
under
years
taft
ocaiell:wdi
)011.0,i
ehlonimlrui)rilana.otngvhpfn,iio;l:siirgregtoalhsatmeoeih
a.airndc‘‘tt::-
neighbourhood,i,aofteal
inymrlogeteeprucsroaai
urrric ebtert:eassiilv ect
des::::
ta,
dt,
house,
an
improper
tween her late mistress and a man who lived in. the
! neighbourhood. This rumour at L.,:lgth reached the
ears of the husband, who, being of a jea:ous t !To.
sition, took the circumstance so much to he'll nntt
he quitted his home, and never returned. t•ll4.faw
weeks since. His Wife •was in the mean times*
much affected by this cruel desertituh,. and o.e.causo
of it, that she gradually fell into a'cittline, and at
the time of her husband's return was prcrionnied
past recovery. She then earnestly 'solicited aninter.
view with him, which having obtained, site mated
him with the utmost so.lemnity, and oni the word of
a.dying person, that st.e was entirely innocent of
trie crime laid to her charge.*: • Her:husband implicit.
ly believed her, and a reconciliation took place, but
unfortunately too late, for this
.unhappy victim of
mttlice and -calurn4 died a few dayi afterwards.—
The young worean who had caused this eisirritoin
mischief being. threatened with a prospeation, has
since confessed her:goilt, and attested the inflames
other mistress, and has in consequeace
ly excommunicated in the neighbouring elfare;tes.,--
The unforturnate husband is in a state of melancholy
and•distresS, from which" it is appoilrended tisat lie
will never recover.—( Licespiol Aper. 4)
•Surcing.—A butler in a GenFeman's family. '•
Gower-street, Bedford'-square, was found ea ~•t
in a building nt the back- of bis 'master's ho..- .
Mon(lay.
Early on • yesterday morning -a deeeptlyAlr.sscil
young woman took a boat at Bankside, desiring the
waterman to take her to the Temple; immerlia'elyors
coating to the middle of the river flung herself over.
board ; fortunately the tail of her gown got entail*
gird by an iron hook in the boat. when the water-
man, with great difficulty, got her into the boat again
and took her safil on shore, after which she was con-
veyed to the workhouse. She refused telliug her name
or place of residence; but was' recognized, and scut
home to her friends in the BoroUgh.
The most elevated point of the mountain of Ar.
near Chamberi, was, on the 17th of Fe-
bruary, detached from its base, and buried beneath
its ruins five families, their houses, cattle, Ste. <
At a Circuit Court held at Jedburgh, on the 15th
instant, Andrew Ilurzy Liddell Rutherford and
James frogwan Angus, both residipg at Coldstream,
accused of? celebrating clandestine and unlawful
marriages, were found guilty, and banished teeth
of the kingdom of Scotland, never to return tlw-rein,
under the pain of death, in terms of the Act of
, Parliament of King CHARLE; ( 1 fitii), against
'clandestine and unlawful 'marriagos.
I. Our Saturday setwa;ght, 'nu retnoving a small cora 4itnri
I Irowhill, there wasflund behind konehundreit and Ghat)-four
rapealive, six only of which est:aped.
lisucirerm.—Onsaturday se noight,ll.ll,hop,altasSimmons
aged 'l•2, for horse-stealing; and P. Sn.ith, alias agvd 10,
for highs., ay-robbery, were executed at tilunceitert 1
aurmiain
to their sentences at the late Assizes. The former inzinmined to
Ithe kisf a sulleatindftliteence and' insensir.ikty of his ao fol situ.
eternity. tint be steal at
I-home with kw family at the time it was committed.
at
I someday; Win, Es lett, the rider, was executed II M
l .7411"leonlirertegapht3agi. kifdillutrt4ile:reilatnliSet:eitrinass4;afaslllashunc'rt:leadd"iktreStedj:
',..fitittorsi--stealing. kis son was convicted of the same c .
f :14111114,Seu.ao,iite-.4argrasircdsioiseelidinibgobeneta..wcEicynto:penufliarni
left
Williamsi aced tlohn .11andley, two hoot-closers
wages), bad
fur
alpodun on account of the general turn-out for wages), 104 e
!ling away too pair of bouts, entrusted to them tioirsel
:crlytoioutht:itchlifisett'd4:haCaavilu-utga:ninediri
Pr.,Stephen Barns, Board-street., Litchkelfl. 'Jo p
they
r'
Aboongh Burton and Derby to ixattenghant, where v
-taken, with the property uptat them.

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