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True Briton (Newspaper) - March 16, 1799, London, Middlesex The Proserpine frigate. In our paper of tuesday last we inserted a to ural of the circumstances attending the loss 0 his majesty s ship Proserpine which was copied by this As Well As All the other papers from a weekly paper entitled the county chronicle. We have by the following letter torn the Captain and officers of that ship their authority for saying that such statement or journal was both erroneous and unfounded. To the editor. Yarmouth March 13, 1799. having read in your paper of yesterday a very erroneous and we May add a false state. Vincnt of the particulars attending the loss of his jul majesty s ship the Proserpine we the under. Si.,n. A being the Captain and principal officers of that ship think it a duty incumbent on As my what we owe to the meritorious conduct of the Crew to request you will contradict in Toto a hat has appeared in that paper that the Public May not form any opinion to their prejudice until after the court martial which is ordered to be held to enquire into the loss of that ship when you Snail be furnished with a copy of the official letter on that subject now in the Possession of the right Hon. The lords commissioners of the admiralty. We Are also totally unacquainted with George Hayward Esq. Jas. Wallis Captain. J. Wright first lieutenant. John Garden Perry second ditto. W. Anthony master. John Ridley lie menant marines. P. , Purser. M. Rent surgeon. A Etc notice or into nation ror at set chants traders and masters of Vestel a in the Fri Vijh islands. Having been sent out by the government of the United states to command a Squadron of ships and vessels of War on this station for the Protection of Trade and to prevent the depredations and insults committed on our Flag and Commerce by the National and private armed vessels of France i do hereby give this Public notice that i will afford a Convoy to All vessels bound to the United states from time to time that May rendezvous in these roads whenever the number ready to depart May make it an object. And i further inform the merchants a. Aforesaid that As Commodore Barry it on the Windward station with a Squadron has fixed on Prince Rupert s Bay Dominica for his rendezvous i have no doubt but he will afford the like Protection in that Quarter on application being made to him. Given from under my hand on Board the United states ship Constellation in the Road of Basseterre Saint Christophers this 21st Day of january a go. Copy. Thos. Truxton. 1 Peter Porcupine. Portsmouth March 14. Arrived the following outward bound East indiaman Manship William Pitt and a Edward Hughes from the Downs. Arrived the Calypso Sloop of War from a cruise. A 1 ?1 1 Mil Ford March 12. Arrived Here this Day his majesty s ship Chapman Captain Kerr with a Convoy from round land. The following extracts from the whimsical paper of this writer in America May be considered by our readers As not uninteresting or. Gerry. A Boston paper says " we Are authorized to " say the honourable mind the honourable " Elbridge Gery Esq. Does not wish to be considered As a candidate for the second Middle District As he will not serve if unanimously i gentleman perhaps he intends to lie upon his oars for another embassy having Aheady Given such ample proof of his diplomatic , before he begins any other task i would have him set Down and reconcile his letter to Talleyrand with the letter to or. Pickering which he signed jointly with the other two envoys. When he has done that i la say he s fit for any following Lette has been sent Tourre lord mayor by order of the lord lieu tenant Dublin Castle March % " my lbs Chi " the Lead lieutenant and Council having by order in Council on tote 46th of May la St directed that no person whatever should depart this kingdom without having first obtained a passport for the purpose signed by his excellency s chief Secretary or by some person authorized by him to sign such passport " and it being necessary that the said order should b e Stripy enforced 1 Arft hefted by my lord lieutenant to acquaint your lordship that no person whatever will be allowed to depart from this kingdom without the passports required by the said order in Council and that 1 have authorized Alderman James to sign such passports for persons embarking in the Harbour of Dublin of which your lordship will be pleased to give notice that All persons May conform to this regulation. I have the honour to be a. " Castle right Hon. The lord Myor. Frd in ammunition arid Rafti it the Derroj lotion of the House which they very nearly effected without resistance As or. Adams was not at Frette. We understand that these regular in their nightly depredations and that they have plundered several houses m that part of the country. To the catalogue of Savage barbarities which has so disgraced this country report says is to be added the inhuman murder of or. Nogle who appeared a an evidence on some military trials during the Lare rebellion. The body of this unfortunate Young Rhan was Cut in four pieces and a Label affixed to each which threatened a similar Fate to any person who should inter his mangled remains. Public office . British museum and Royal Academy. There is not a word of truth in the account that has been inserted this week in different newspapers stating that or. Desenfants had endeavoured to remove the Royal Academy from Somerset House which had been the cause that the trustees of the British museum had met on the occasion and rejected the plan with indignation. We Are authorised to say that such a meeting of the trustees has not taken place and that or. Desenfants has never proposed the removal of the Academy As is evident by the plan he has presented them and after the publication of which both the Royal Academy and the society of arts and Commerce have unanimously voted him their thanks at their general meeting. Extract from or. Fenno s paper. We hear a negroes servant to the honourable Thomas m Kean doctor of Laws was within some weeks last past safely delivered of a son and heir who with the Mother is Likely to do Well. And further we learn that the Little infant having been christened by the surname of Buonaparte is become a great Favourite. I Don t like this profanation of the word christened. Call it named Call it marked Call it branded Call it what else you will or. Fenno but do not Call it christened Munden s engagement at the Haymarket theatre expired last season and he does not Chuse to enter into new articles because he can derive much More from provincial rambles. He is engaged to play with the Edinburgh company in the course of the ensuing summer. Incledon leaves covent Garden somewhat before the close of the season upon his engage Merit for Ireland. He then is to join the Edinburgh manager fur the race week and proceeds with him to Glasgow. We Hope or. Thompson who is preparing for representation another drama from Kotze Itje will endeavour to Clear it from All Jacobi Nical opinions to which that author is too much prone and which we shall be sorry to see in any works of the translator. Though the musical Syren who has withdrawn from an indulgent husband and her friends have been sent to Coventry yet such is their contempt of opinion that they attend the theatre together. Or. Palmeno s client lady Eliz. Ricketts will not be much obliged by his comparison of her to Helen. Having once in her life recovered a very Large sum of Money for a reflection on her moral character she cannot Well Brook a com Paxison with Tindaris Bis rata. It has been proposed by an opposition print that a Little discount should be allowed on the in conv. Tax for prompt payment. This proposal must be deemed very generous on the part of the opposition As it is a measure from which they Are not Likely to derive the least possible advantage. Or. Grattan we Are told is perfectly re covered and Able to receive his friends with his usual hospitality. When we consider How the fund was acquired by which that hospitality if it exist is supported we cannot but lament the mistaken munificence of the Irish nation. Such is the Rancour of the Jacobin mind towards crowned Heads that even the misfortunes into which a Prince May fall cannot soften the Malignity of its hatred. In a paper of yesterday there is a pretended letter from Sicily published for no other purpose than to degrade the King of Naples and to Lessen that sympathy which his Fate must excite in every heart not hardened by Republican malevolence. But the excess of this Jacobin malice counteracts itself and Only brings disgrace upon those who Are so callous to every humane and Liberal feeling. If tip poo knows any thing of the conduct of Republican France it can hardly be doubted that he would willingly give up the fortress of Manga lure of the English As a proof that he has no design to Confederate with France is. If the French were once to get a footing into his dominions there is no doubt that in time would be the victim of their farce or pet Fly. Or. Newman who lately died was a Happy instance of the wonderful Powers of accumulation by the steady Pursuit of honourable Industry. Without speculation or adventure he acquired 6oo,. As a grocer. He retired about four years ago from Trade but so forcible was habit that he came every Day to the shop and ate his Mutton at two o clock the Good old City hour with . The clergy of St. Annes. Soho have set an example worthy of imitation in these times by the rest of their Brethren throughout the Metropolis. Lectures on the catechism Are read in that Church on a sunday evening to the Young people who Are to be confirmed by the Bishop of London in easter week and to a great number of the parishioners at Large. It is in some respect Lucky for the states of Europe that the Frencl do More to explain the theories of Good Faith order and subordination e Converse than the Wisest and most Active of european legislators could do themselves by bidding out the positive necessities of those Virtues. We have had numberless this during the continuance of the present War but that we should be served hot and hot with example they have lately Given a Lively instance of their goad Faith in the Conquest of Naples. Champ tonnes the French general finding it difficult and perhaps impossible to invest himself of the City of Naples enters into a solemn armistice with the neapolitan general for a certain period of time which is no sooner done and the neapolitan off their guard than this Champion for Liberty and fraternization seizes then Opportunity of Confidence and brings his whole Force against an almost unguarded people. This treachery no doubt Cost them dear and thousands of unhappy French soldiers were sacrificed on the occasion. But to principals who trample upon oaths and the rights of nations the Wanton effusion of the blood of their fellow citizens is of no More consequence than the human sacrifices of the most Savage nations. Can the Powers of Europe still pause and slumber Over such terrible examples ? do they think armistice truces or even peace itself ratified and confirmed under the most binding forms can essentially give Security to their thrones or Tranquillity to their subjects ? no frenchmen have solemnly and repeatedly sworn the contrary on the Char and they have uniformly verified these oath by their practice what then is left them for a Choice but to unite with hand and heart to exterminate those bloody faithless invaders of general property or sheepishly wait a few remaining year9, perhaps months to be the last devoured. In extenuation of the conduct of citizen Champi Onnet respecting , a Republican chronicle excuses Tim by saying he did not at tempt to infuse Jacobin principle in the common people though he might cowardice in the Gentry. No because be found the Lazzaroni would not be corrupted but lie gave in himself and army a specimen of Jacobin principles by the vol. Est treachery and an infraction of the most solemn compacts. Or. Fox has been As civil to his constituents in the " pretty love v uses he has lately published in the morning chronicle As he has been by the avowal of his conduct in Plain prose a he tells them in these verses " that although he Khz is lived fifty Yean yet the last year of his life Lias been the when it is Well known doing that time he has never once represented the City of Westminster in parliament surely Hij constituents will to a Yil enough to return the compliment. No business in the House of commons this evening Worth notice further than the Chancellor of the exchequer on discharging the order of this Day for going into the committee of ways and Means said that eff thursday next he would move that the House do resolve itself into the said committee before whom he would propose certain resolutions. The accounts from the different Southern and Western districts continue to furnish the strongest reasons to apprehend that the spirit of rebellion is by no Means so depressed As we have of late been led to Hope the Cork and Limerick papers Are filled with dreadful details of murders committed in those counties and Force upon us the melancholy recollection that the rebellion of May last was preceded by exactly the same kind of outrages against individuals and the same ferocity of spirit which afterwards ripened into atrocious and horrible insurrection. Conway one of the desperate gang concerned in the murder of the late Captain Hume was shot on sunday be night in the county of consequence of an information conveyed by a deserter of this villain s usual a Motsin the country a party of the military went in Pursuit of him and having surrounded the House in which he Lay concealed and precluded All possibility of escape he surrendered himself. The deserter who led the party having recon. Sized the hat of Captain Hume which the prisoner wore the fellow in a fit of despair declared positively he would not proceed further on which he was instantly shot dead. Hughes one of the principal mail robbers recently taken by major Sirr will be put on trial to Morrow before a court martial at the Racks. Finnamore Connor and son concerned in the robbery of or. Pike s House near Rane Lagh were on saturday last executed at kilmainham., quiet another of that desperate Banditt who received a shot which passed through both Cheeks was respite in consequence of a recommendation to the lord lieutenant grounded on some traits of humanity he betrayed last summer when a gang of rebels among whom he appeared to have considerable influence had seized upon a or. Hume of this City near Naas determining to put him to death Ouin diverted them on some pretext from their intentions and secured his Retreat. A detachment from the South Fingal yeomanry corps on saturday night last in pursuing a party of armed insurgents near Howth consisting of fourteen men shot six of the number. On thursday about two o clock majors Sirr and Swan aided by or. Alderman Poole in consequence of information seized in Smithfield several implements for manufacturing forgeries of Bank notes. They found in the place a very Complete rolling press and two plates in Copper counterfeiting Guinea and Guinea and half notes of sir Thomas Lighton and co s Bank one for a Guinea and a half on the National Bank and another for one Guinea on the Bank of sir John Newport and co. Of Waterford and an immense Quantity of the notes finished which were artfully concealed Between the lining of the tester of a bed and a Case of pistols were found upon the top of the bed loaded almost 40 the muzzle. Unfortunately the artists of this factory were not at Home but we Hope they will not Long avoid being brought to Justice. Before Nicholas Bond Esq. Ofis Gerdav Francis lord Omer taken up at covent Garden theatre on suspicion of picking a Geh Treman s pocket was brought up for reexamination but the evidence not being sufficient to support the charge of felony he was dismissed from that complaint but detained on a warrant from the Duke of , As an alien in order to be sent out of the kingdom. John Liberty was charged on oath with at tempting to commit a rape on the body of Ana Arnott Baynes a child of nine years of age. The prisoner resided at Enfield and the Chi Ira had been put to him by the Parish of or. Clement Danes. On the evidence of the child who told a very artless tale he was commuted to take his trial for the assault. Maidstone assizes. To ii thursday March 14. This Day came on the. Trial of the Rev. I Arthur Young for writ ing the letter to or. Gamaliel Lloydj stating that he had conversed with the jury of the Hundred of Blackburn summoned on the trial of Arthur o Connor and others for High treason and had convinced them of the necessity of finding All the prisoners guilty whatever might be the evidence. The attorney general did not attend but the prosecution was conducted by or. Garrow. Or. Fielding addressed the jury for the defendant in a speech Replete with wit and Humour As Well As argument. When he had nearly half finished the jury expressed themselves perfectly satisfied thai rite letter was neither founded in fact nor written with the malicious intention imputed by tiie information. It appeared to have been written with no other View than that of passing a cantal s jacks upon or. Lloyd an old politician or in the fashionable phrase coaxing him. From the Cork Herald March 5. Last sunday night about twelve o clock an armed Banditt to the number of two Hundred and upwards assembled on the lands of Bally a Paraon in the barony of Barry More about four Miles from this City arid burned two new dwelling houses a Quantity of Timber some potatoes and household furniture belonging to two re. Spectacle Farmers of the name of Cuffe. To this depredation they added the cruel practice of destroying the cattle eight cows in calf the property of the above Farmers were picked to death by these predatory ruffians. Late last saturday night or Early on sunday morning a notice was posted on the Chapel door of Clon droid near Mac Romp menacing with the most cruel death any persons who should either pay rent tithes or taxes. It was however removed in a Short time by Edward town Send Esq. Of is the first symptom of insubordination which has appeared among the peasantry of that neighbourhood. A gentleman who arrived in town yesterday from Dublin reports that he met on the Road near Clonmel a car conveying the bodies of two proctors who had been murdered in that neighbourhood wit i circumstances of the most brutal barbarity. Several notices have been posted in the neighbourhood of Rath Cormack threatening destruction to All who had lately taken farms and who did not immediately surrender them to their landlords. A few nights ago the House of or Adams of Sandville in Roche s country was surrounded by a gang of armed ruffians who disappointed it the Aylesbury troop of Yeoman cavalry and corps of infantry assembled on sunday last to attend divine service in the Parish Church of Aylesbury to return thanks to almighty god for the preservation vouchsafed to their commanding officer the right Hon. Thomas Gren Ville by whom it is needless to observe How much he is beloved. The Rev. Or. Lloyn the vicar delivered a most excellent discourse on the occasion. Agreeably to an act of parliament passed 24th of Geo. Ii. Ann. 1751, the year of our lord Isoo will not be reckoned a Bis Sextile or leap year but will be computed a common year consisting of 365 Days and no More and in Conse Quirce thereof the month of february next to come will consist of 28 Days Only making thereby a differ Enque of 12 Days betwixt the old and new Stiles which difference of the two Stiles will continue the same throughout the whole of the 19th Century in order that the Vernal or Spang Equinox maybe fixed on or near theist of March yearly As it happened at the time of the general Council of Nice Ann. 325. Thursday eighteen men and women apprehended at a reputed office fur lottery s in Pete Valley Cornhill were carried before the lord mayor who examined them separately and privately on a charge of carrying in lottery insurance. When they were taken with their lottery books Sec. At nine o clock in the morning they were handcuffed. Several respectable tradesmen who had gone to insure were of the party and All except two servant women were committed for re examination. Early on thursday morning the House of James Oliver Esq. At Lay ton in Essex was broke open and robbed of a Large Quantity of plate. On wednesday night the House of or. R ssh of great , Bloomsbury was broke open and robbed of plate wearing apparel a to a considerable amount. On tues Lay evening about six o clock As sir Charles Talbot was coining to town in a Post chaise the Carriage was stopped Between Ewell and Morden Surrey by two highwaymen who robbed him of his watch and Money. Thursday or. Taylor partner with or. Mar riot in the Paul s he id tavern suddenly dropped Down dead without having had any previous illness. A most melancholy Accident happened on tuesday night in the family of or Seddons the upholsterer in Aldersgate Street. As miss Seddons about Twenty five years of age was sitting alone by the fire Reading a Book a Coal flew out and caught her clothes which immediately blazed into a of Ime. The Young lady ran Down stairs Bat finding no one there she w5nt up again. The maid servants were so alarmed at this shocking Spei Acle that they fainted and the unfortunate Young Luly was nearly consumed before any assistance Cerreto her Relief. She lingered till wednesday morning and then died. Married. Or. Pritch Rdv of King Street merchant to miss Paley Only daughter of nor. They of High Stilet Borough thursday is lung Ltd at Bath Abraham Ludlow Esq. of the Kozai Greys to miss Gibbs. Died. On Theroi of january last at Nevis of a i in Ewing ill Fiess the Hon. Weort irs Cier con of the sue Jore lord Saau Crun

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