The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-27 00:00:00

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ROBBERY OF 'NI E LEEDS MAIL.

The City was this morning thrown into an alarm j
by it bait* announced at the Post OMce that the
Leeds Mail had been robbed on its load to London ;
further than the simple fact of the robbery the Post
Office will not suffer to transpire, and there is now,
and has been all the morning, a correspondence and
communication between the Mention House and the

I'ost Office. Both City Marshals, we understand,
are ;treacly actively etnployed. It is understood
that 15 other Bags, independent of the Leeds, have
been got clear off.

PRINCE REGENT'S COURT.—Yejertlay Lis Royal
Highness the Pnisce REGENT held a Privy Council
at Carlton House, which way attended by the Arch- '
bishop of CANTERBURY the FiltiT LORD Of the
TREASURY, the FIRST LORD Of the AMUR Writ,
the SECRETARIES of STATE for the Home and War 1
Departments, and the CHANCELLOR of the Excuz-
QUER. Mr. BULLER attended as Clerk of the Court-
eil.—Four Proclamations were directed to be issued :
one respecting American prizes and prize-money ;
another declaring English sailors traitors who are
found on hoard American vessels ; the third re-
specting the distillation from grain and sugar ; and
the fourth prohibiting the making starch from corn.
His Royal Highness gave audiences to Viscount SID..
MOM!, Earl of Live/moot., Viscount MELrio.c,
and Mr. VANSITTART. Lord MELBOURNE and Mr.
C. BRADSHAW, were the Lord and Groom iu Wait-
, ing.
It is ascertained, that an American privateer has
made its appearance In the Channel. We presume
That it has not crossed the Atlantic, but has been fit-
ted • Bourdeaux, - other of the harbours

' : ted out at liourdeaux, or some other of the harbours.
11.1111 , .
:thei good and discreet management of 'COvent-garden
.! of France. .
I i We had yesterday letters from Prince Fdward's : house, it obtains little more than the )gleaniugs or
I I island to the 19th ult. and from St. John's to the, overflowing, of the other. Bet as " new brooms"
i lid inst. They mention no new captures ivy- the : I
erect much Breve is expected, in a fetv days, to . •
sweep its neglected boards to a profitable effect.—
I;' imericans. The convoy was to sail on the sth ofjn g ,
ids Iht In the Tempest, You're's departure ,
' I this month.
1 i two Gentlemen *rho have just arrived from ii from KElll3Led new orthography and hew reading of '
, filling Caliban's bones with witches, was marked by i ':
I lirance,state that seventy licences had been sent for the ! ' . i
t s nature of B?NAPARTE, notwithstanding whose ab..' particular applause. • i
our soils tithe to'ret• a twat authority let ap. .1
ke at the distance of WO miles from his capital, which-m.oer mound GOT sepremipower earl maintain. 1
trarrto the practice heretofore, there bad been ro and Arid the weight and charm,of this n.. '
• Prospe,
nt relaxation of the severity in regard to trade,
in 1 admirable production of the British Blvd, were well
• which every thing was orgioized so as completely to 1
i represented in Mr. Yours and Miss KOLTON.
sower his purposes in the enormous exactions on
r atty.—Yesterday a Meeting of the Omni°. r .c.,'
i' itiportell merchandise. There was abundance of . i
men, intending to bid for the ensuing Lottery, was
r s ie hi circulation, and seificient quantity of grain convened it the Office of Mr. Hesse, at Somerset- • , ;
t answer all the demands on Agriculture, both do-
e house, by desire of the Cuswes.r.toit or. the F:xcee.
stic and' foreign. .
rause, for the purp,:se of discussing the ir:acticability
'he American colosrs taken. at Fort Detroit, have
of arranging a new Plan, whereby every „'Wicket may •
n hung up in Whitehall Chapel, near the Frensh - ..i
hare- a separate and distirct fete, ivithoist,. being de.
les and standards. _ .
. de-
termined bt• another, as iirthe'late mode of cl.Assix:; ..
i • ' LECTietti.—No person shall betapable to sit
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them. The determination of the 'Minister will he
11, a vote as a Member of the *loose of Commons,
communicated by a notice, to IA sent to the Bank ;
riw shall not have an • estate of Freehold or Copy- . , I 1
•' h for his one Life, or some greater estate, either and The day for receiving,the Biddings (which was
intended to hnre been 010Fthilly next) it is expected
. in wor aity, over and above what will satisfy
will be fixed for Toesdanittiavenitier 3, to give an I. c
an clear all incumbrances of the respective annual •
opportunity far the oompfeiton of New Lists. We
va e hereafter limited, vie: 6001. per annum for trust also,'that rare :will ho taken that there shall ;1
vev Knight a the Shire, and 3001. per annum for ,
not be allowed more than three blanks to a prize;
r ' e aqui
s Citizen, Burgess, or Baron of the Cinque i
and that all vocal out of the way modes of era.w .
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✓ po , wed persons not halal panned qf each estates in
1 g will be prevented. . , .....
r re dive'', their Election tpd Retard shall he east , ,::
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