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Dublin, July 27.

ON Saturday night the garrison of Dublin was under arms, large patroles sent out, and every precaution taken that the apprehension of public disturbance, upon a large scale, might be supposed to suggest. The garrison had been lately weakened by the embarka. tion of two regiments of the line for England (the 7th and 8th), and, with the exception of the 5th garrison battalion, was composed of militia regiments at the time of the expected riot. However, the whole force, inadequate as it was to continue the heavy details of duty that the garrison requires, were ready for any exertions circumstances might render necessary. The serjeant posted at Harold's Cross, (a principal entrance to the city, and the road from the counties of Wicklow and Wex-. ford), reported, that during the day he had remarked a considerable number, to the amount of upwards of a thousand, of country-looking persons who had passed the post on their way to the city; and several other persons whose vigilant eye detected those appearances, which, if they had been credited, might have prevented the misfortunes of the 23d July, 1803, communicated their suspicions to government, that some mischief was impending. The discretion of not mentioning names is too obvious to be apologised for. However, the night passed over without any cir. cumstance occurring in the smallest degree to countenance the reports that were made. Government, without al. tering the mild tenor of its conduct, is prepared to use a strong hand.

London, July 29. The following letter has been received from Halifax in America.

Halifax, July 4.

'The Columbine sloop of war, which arrived this morning from the Chesapeak, brings an account that the Leopard, of fifty guns, sent a lieutenant on board the American frigate Chesapeak, to search for five men who had been se duced from the British frigate Melampus, but which the commodore would not allow the lieutenant to do. Captain Humphreys of the Leopard then fired a shot a-head of the American frigate, and received three shots in return. Captain Humphreys then came within pistol shot, and having hailed the Chesapeak, and received no satisfactory answer, he poured three broadsides into her, which killed five and wounded twenty-three of her men, the shot having gone completely through her. The American commodore struck, having five feet water in the hold. The lieutenant of the leopard then went on board the American frigate; and on his reaching her quarter-deck, the commodore delivered up his sword, which the lieutent returned, and gave him permission to hoist his colours, saying he only came on board to search the vessel for British seamen, shewing the commodore vice-admiral Berkeley's order to captain Humphreys to that effect. The American commodore then ordered his crew to be called on deck, when the lieutenant of the Leopard immediately singled out three of the Melampus's men.'

Deal, July 30. The convoy to the

eastward, consisting of two sloops of war and two brigs, are just getting under weigh, and the transports with the expedition are expected to sail this evening. Orders were issued last night, to be in readiness to sail on the signal being given; not an officer belonging to the troops in the Downs has been seen on shore all the day: their destination remains a profound secret here: Conjectures are various, but no one seems to speak from any better authority than

another.

The embargo is so strictly enforced here, that not so much as a shore-boat is suffered to go off to the ships with provisions without a custom-house officer. The Howe frigate, store-ship, came into the Downs last night with a Spanish prize, the cargo of which consists of tallow, canvass, &c. one of the sixty sail taken in Monte Video by the gallant Sir Home Popham from whence she sailed about two months ago.

Yarmouth, Aug. 2. Sailed this morning the second division of the fleet, consisting of his majesty's ships Minotaur, admiral Essington; Majestic, admiral Russell; Resolution, Agamemnon, and Mars, and several small vessels. Remain in the Roads his majesty's ships Roebuck, Agincourt, and the Vixen.

Portsmouth, Aug. 1. Circumstances have called lord Collingwood for the present from his station off Cadiz, where he has without once leaving it, blockaded the remnants of the combined fleets. since the glorious day of Trafalgar. His lordship sailed on the 27th of June up the Mediterranean; it is imagined for the Dardanelles, as Sir Arthur Paget went with him in the Ocean. Admiral Purvis now commands off Cadiz, in the, Atlas of 74 guns, captain Pym.

Falmouth, Aug. 2. Arrived the Princess Mary packet, Pocock, with mails from New York (left it July 4). and Halifax in eighteen days; at which place were lying his majesty's ships Ville de Milan and Observateur; the Duke of Montrose packet arrived at New York on the 4th July. By the accounts nothing but war can appease the mobility of America. Our supplies are ordered to be discontinued to the

English ships of war: in consequence, they have threatened to lay three ships of war along-side Hampton, and take by force what they refused; the Hamptonians were using every means to resist. On some part of the coast the boats of the English ships have landed, and carried off fifty head of cattle. Or ders have been issued by the secretary of war for all naval officers to repair without delay to Norfolk. Commodore Barron and midshipmen are among the number of wounded on board the Chesapeak. One hundred thousand dəllars were offered to bail colonel Burr, and refused. Several vessels (Americans) have been sent to Halifax.

Norrvich, Aug. 4. At the late assizes: for Norfolk, Martha Alden was found guilty of murdering her husband. The following, among other circumstances, came out in evidence: On the Saturday. night, the prisoner, her husband, and their little boy, were left about twelveo'clock at his house. About three next

morning she was seen walking along the road by three persons, to whom she said her husband had been out drinking, had come home and gone. away again, and that she feared, he was murdered or drowned. A young woman, named Mary Orsice, who had been very intimate with the prisoner, said the prisoner called upon her on the Sunday morning, at six o'clock, told her she had murdered her husband, took her to the house; where, in the bedroom, the girl saw Alden lying dead, with a wound in the forehead, his skullsplit, the cheek and jaw-bone broke, and the head nearly severed from the body. Every part of the room, a book, cloths, &c. were sprinkled with blood. The girl and the prisoner put the body into a sack, and buried it in a hole in the garden. The same night the pri soner opened the grave, and they both dragged the body a considerable way along a road, and threw it out of the sack into a clay-pit. On the two following days the witness assisted the prisoner to clean the house. Some time after, the body was found. She told the whole affair to her father, but denied it before the coroner. All the articles marked with the blood of the

deceased were produced in court. The prisoner had nothing to say. Nobody spoke for her; and, after full investi gation, she was found-Guilty. The judge, in an awful and impressive manner, passed sentence on her.

London, Aug. 4. Sunday evening their majesties and princesses walked on Windsor Terrace, which was much crowded, but not so genteely attended as usual; many were turned off being intoxicated, particularly one person who was desired to pull off his hat as their majesties passed, which is the customary respect, which he refused to do. The marquis of Thomond, who was walking near their majesties, seeing only one person not uncovered, stepped up to him and took off his hat; upon which he immediately struck the marquis, and kicked him. He was immediately secured by Edwards and Dousett, the police officers, and kept in custody til their majesties went off the Terrace, when he was examined before colonel Desbrow, as to who he was, when he then gave his address, and said his name was Hodges, and lived in Westminster: he was then set at liberty, with a reprimand.

On Wednesday next the prince of Wales will leave Carlton house, about noon, for Brighton. His royal high. ness will remain there until the conclusion of the Lewes Races, when he goes immediately to Oatlands: his stay there will be shot, only during the celebration of the duke of York's birth-day; then he visits his brother Clarence for a single day, to celebrate a similar festival; returns to London, and from thence proceeds direct to Cheltenham, where his highness intends to sojourn for six weeks. Lord Fauconberg's house has been taken for the purpose. Previous to the prince's leaving Brighton, he intends giving one magnificent ball at the Pavilion, to which will be invited a numerous party of his friends. Of the six weeks proposed residence at Cheltenham, his highness will set apart a fortnight to rusticate as Warwick castle. In his journey to and from Cheltenham, he will adopt the same method of travelling as he did last summer, and visit his friends on the road, ia the same unostentatious manner.

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On Sunday the duke of Marlborough sent a white satin flag to his majesty at Windsor Castle, according to custom, as the tenor by which he holds Blenheim-House, granted to his ancestor upon his gaining the celebrated battle of Blenheim. The flag was richly embroidered with emblematical devices.

Aug. 7. A most alarming fire brcke out about half-past seven o'clock yes. terday evening, in the engine-house belonging to Mr. Pearson, who kept a very extensive cotton manufactory and feather warehouse at Hoxton. Mr. Pearson's dwelling-house was the left wing of that grand and beautiful building, the Haberdashers' Hall and Almshouses, which he held from the company on a lease of sixty years: he kept upwards of thirty men, women, and boys at work.

The fire is supposed to proceed from that which was under the copper in the engine-house, as it broke out in that building, and socn communicated to the machinery and cotton. In less than half an hour, the whole of the house was in flames, making a rapid progress towards the warehouse, which was filled with goods to the amount of 20,cool. From the dry state of the buildings, in which there was much wood, these houses, and two adjʊin ng new ones, not entirely finished, were completely burned down in an hour.

The flames were so furious, that they were perceivable from all parts of the town, and spread a general consterna. tion among the inhabitants. Every street was filled with spectators to beheld the awful sight, which filled the mind with dread and terror. When the first engines arrived, there could not be a drop of water procured but what was carried in buckets from a pump which was in the rear of the building, water being very scarce in that neighbourhood. The fire communicated to Mr. Pearson's dwellinghouse, which was the left wing of the haberdashers' alms-houses, and caught the roof about nine o'clock.

About eleven o'clock the fire was subdued so far that no further damage was dreaded.

A dreadful fire broke out at one

o'clock yesterday morning at the Lambeth Water-works, which raged with great fury for four hours. In spite of every exertion, a part of these valuable works was entirely consumed. This calamity will occasion serious inconvenience to a great part of the borough of Southwark, Lambeth, and other places that were supplied with water from these works. The mischief done amounts to three thousand pounds.

Aug. 8. American papers are received to the 12th ult. They are filled with the proceedings of different meetings upon the subject of the affair between the Leopard and Chesapeak, and are of the highest importance.

The president has issued a proclamation, in which he delares that it had been previously ascertained that the seamen demanded were native citizens of the United States. He therefore requires all armed vessels bearing commissions under the government of Great Britain to depart immediately from the harbours of the United States, interdicting the entrance of all the said harbours to the said armed vessels; and in case such vessels shall refuse to depart, or shall hereafter enter the harbours, forbidding all intercourse with them, and prohibiting all supplies from being furnished them.

Of this proclamation, the opinion of the democratic party is, that it is too moderate of the federalists, that it is sufficiently firm.

The American government have ordered 100,000 of the militia to be called out, the ports to be fortified, gunboats to be fitted out and all midshipmen have been directed to repair to Washington.

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Aug. 12. The extraordinary match between Captain Barclay and the celebrated Wood, of Lancashire, which has long agitated the sporting circles, was finally settled at Brighton during the late races, which, from its extraor dinary nature, caused betting to immense amount.-The parties are to undergo the prodigious fatigue of going on foot for four and twenty successive hours: an exertion hitherto unknown in the annals of pedestrian feats; and it it is supposed that, at the rate of five

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French, esq. of Lawnsdown, in the Queen's County, youngest brother to lord Ashtown, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Dr. James Currie, of Liverpool.

August 1.At St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Henry Rooke, esq. of Withering ton, Wiltshire, to miss Nettleford, of Stepney Green.

4. At Kensington, sir James Innes Ker, bart. to miss Harriet Charlewood, second daughter of the late Benjamin Charlewood, esq. of Windlesham, Surry.

6. By special licence, at Addiscombe, the hon. James Walter Grimston, only son of the viscount Grimston, to lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daugh ter of the earl of Liverpool. Immediately after the ceremony, the newlymarried pair set off for Gorambury, the seat of lord Grimston, Hertfordshire.

At Halstead, in Essex, T. R. Andrews, esq. of Great Portland-street, London, to miss Scarlet, daughter of the late James Scarlet, esq. of the former place.

At the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn, John Hopkins Foster, of North Curry, near Taunton, Somerset, esq. to miss Susanna Millet, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Millet, of the Terrace, Gray's Inn-lane, attorney at law.

11. At Woodford, by the rev. J. P. Mosley, sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart. of Roche Court Hants, to miss Frances Mosley, second daugh ter of the late Oswald Mosley, esq. of Bolesworth castle, Cheshire, and sister of Sir Oswald Mosley, bart.

At St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Charles Lush, esq. one of his majesty's deputy lieutenants for the Tower Hamlets, to Mary, the second daughter of Mr. Amos, of Hoxton-square.

13. At Mary-le-bonne church, by the' rev. Edward Fawcett, A. M. J. Maughan, esq. of the honourable East India Company's marine, to miss Hay of Portland-place.

James M. Boyle, esq. of Tullyvin, county of Cavan, to miss Mary Dawson, daughter of Ralph Dawson, esq. of Cootehill, north of Ireland.

A Glasbury church, Radnorshire, John Eckley, esq. of Creden-hill,

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Herefordshire, to miss Williams, of Vei. leanewith, in the county of Brecon.

DEATHS.

July 25. After a short illness, at Clayton, near Manchester, Mrs. Nash, wife of Mr. Sebastian Nash.

ส 30. In the 58th year of his age, Mr. Joseph De Boffe, of Gerard-street, Soho; many years an eminent importer of foreign books.

31. At Denham, in the 13th year of his age, Frederick, youngest son of John Drummond, esq. Charing-cross. August 1. tenham-court-road, in the 76th year At his apartments, Totof his age, Mr. John Walker, author of the Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, and of several other works.

3. At his house, in King-street, Rotherhithe, Mr. John Scarth, stockbroker.

4. At her house in York-street, the right hon. Sarah baroness Water-park, relict of the late right hon. sir Henry Cavendish, bart. Her ladyship is succeeded in her titles by her eldest son. sir Richard Cavendish.

8. Miss Smith, only daughter of the rev. John Smith, of Lopham, in Norfolk.

Of a decline, in the 27th year of her age, miss Mary Taylor, eldest daughter of Mr. Taylor, surgeon, Bridge-street.

At Mongewell, the lady of the bishop

of Durham.

At her house in Welbeck-street, Mrs. G. Michel, wife of Charles Wilthe county of Hants. liam Michel, esq. of Notherwood, in

At an advanced age, Thomas Watson, esq. of Stapleford Abbots, Essex. In Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, miss Mary Saver.

13. At Cheltenham, where he went for the benefit of his health, captain Thomas Holmes Tidy, of the royal

navy.

Ar Hackney, Daniel Fisher, D. D. Mrs. Richardson, wife of Mr. Ris chardson, of Lincoln-inn-fields.

22. At Gloucester Lodge, Bromp duchess of Gloucester. ton, aged 72, her royal highness, the

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