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pletely beaten. The beys, following up their advantages, pursued the Turks for several days together, and would have entirely exterminated them, if the commanders of the English and Turkish troops at Alexandria had not sent out detachments to collect the fugitives and prevent the further progress of the beys.

5 The pacha of Cairo endeavoured to assemble the remains of the defeated army, and to collect reinforcements; but the beys have got the ascendancy too decidedly, and have the complete command of Egypt

As the season is uncommonly mild, the plague still continues, and several of the ambassadors have retired from Pera to the country.

Grand Cairo, 12th October, 1802. The bashaw who commands the Turkish troops here, is fortifying, with great haste, the palace that Bonaparte occupied in the square called Ezbekier, through fear of the beys, who have made themselves complete masters of Upper Egypt, and of the province of Alfieli. They make incursions as far as the pyramids, and have five times completely defeated the Turkish troops. The English remain at Alexandria with 4000 troops under general Stuart, and there is the greatest discord between them and the Turks, as the latter imagine that the mamelukes are paid and supported by the English. Two commissioners were sent some time ago by the beys, secretly, to treat with the British commander. The Turks have 3000 men at Damietta, 2000 at Rosetta, and 20,000 at this place. All the taxes imposed by the French have been continued by the Turks, but tripled in the amount.?.

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Petersburgh. In virtue of a convention concluded between emperor and the pope, the nuncio, who is to be resident here, will enjoy merely the rank of an ambassador of the first class; thus he will exercise no jurisdiction over the catholics, nor pretend to any superintendence over the apostolical functions in any part of the Russian dominions.

18. By letters from Constantinople, intelligence is obtained of the loss of the antiquities, &c. coltected by lord Elgin in Greece. The vessel which contained them put into Cerigo bay, in stress of weather, and the pilot letting go the anchor in too deep water, she was driven on the rocks, and sunk in fifteen fathom. An English brig has sailed from Constantinople, in the hope of raising some of the cargo, but with little prospect of success.

19. The late storms have been severely felt on the coast of Scotland. At St. Andrews, the Meanwell, of Scarborough, from Bourdeaur, last from Hull, was on Monday seen off the coast, so near that she could not clear the land; and as it was impossible for her to anchor, there was no alternative for her but to attempt the harbour or run upon the sands.-Flags were hoisted, fires made, and every thing possible done to direct the vessel into the harbour, and a number of people assembled to render every possible assistance. Just as the ship was about entering the harbour, a tremendous sea made her strike, and drove her out of the channel among the breakers and rocks. The life-boat was in readiness; but the storm was so great that the people were afraid to go out in her. However, Mr. Cathcart Dempster, captain Horsburg of (B)

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the 39th, and Mr. David Stewart, master of the Venus, with a gallant crew, readily volunteered their services, and by the most wonderful exertions, in a sea where it appeared almost impossible for any vessel to live, they happily succeeded in saving the whole of the crew.

Johnson, the smuggler, before he quitted this kingdom, after his escape from the Fleet prison, sailed in his own cutter, the Ann, from Hove to Bexhill, in the county of Sussex, where he landed, and remained some hours before he returned to his vessel; and this he had not long done, before the circumstance was communicated to a captain of a revenue cutter lying off in the road, who in consequence pursued and boarded the Ann, but without finding Johnson, who, it is not now doubted, on seeing his cutter chased, went aloft, shrouded himself in the rigging, and thereby experienced another hair-breadth escape.

Limerick, Jan. 8.-Last week, Michael Marshal Apjohn, esq. and captain Richard Lloyd, having received private intimation of a large quantity of iron being brought into the village of Pallis-green, in this county, they went in the dead of the night of the 4th instant to the forge of one Barkly, in said village, and observing five persons therein, broke in at the front-door, but were only able to secure Thomas Tierney, the other four men having escaped in the forge was found a number of unfinished pikes, quite hot. Tierney was on Wednesday evening brought in, adorned with some of those murdering weapons, and fully committed to the county gaol, by captain Lloyd. For some days past, various letters were received, and intelligence given, that a rising of disaffected

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persons would take place in this and a neighbouring county. On Thursday last such intelligence was received, as rendered it the duty of those intrusted with the civil and military power to take every precaution to prevent this city from being surprised by desperate rebels; in consequence of which, crowds of loyal inhabitants, with the right worshipful mayor and sheriffs, resorted to the exchange, and remained there under arms. The non-commissioned officers of the city of Limerick regiment, under the immediate command of colonel Vereker; those of the county of Limerick regiment, under such of their officers as were in town; and the several corps of infantry yeomen, continued patroling the city and suburbs all night; while the garrison, consisting of part of the 17th and 56th regiments, and a squadron of the 9th light dragoons, stationed at their respective posts, waited impatiently for the entry of the rebels, who very prudently declined the hazardous enterprise: had they entered, they would have met such a reception as should convince rebels, that the loyal city of Limerick, of all other places, is that where traitors will not meet with assistance.

On the above night, so early as seven o'clock, a party of about fifty men, whom we hesitate not to pronounce rebels, attacked the house of lieutenant-colonel Bour-' chier, late of the royal Irish artillery, at Kilsrush, near the hospital, barony of Small County, county of Limerick, and within fourteen miles of this city. On breaking into the house, the first person they met to oppose them, was a faithful servant whom the colonel brought with him from the regiment; this

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man they cut and hacked with swords in a barbarous manner: most fortunately the colonel was on this night in Limerick, and it appeared that he and his servant were their intended victims. Providence directed that lieutenant McMahon, of the queen's German rangers, on that evening called and remained at colonel Bourchier's house; and owing to his spirited conduct, Mrs. Bourchier and her children were protected from the brutal rage of those rebels. After entirely destroying the furniture of the house, windows, &c. taking all the fire-arms with them, they broke open the stables, took thereout the colonel's six horses, three of which were found at six o'clock next morning, on the road, by lieutenant M'Mahon, on his venturing out to apprise James Gubbins, esq. a neighbouring magistrate, who, with his son, Joseph Gubbins, esq. instantaneously afforded him every assistance; but we are sorry to add, that none of the rebels, as yet, have been apprehended. The faithful servant (whose name we do not wish to mention, he having a wife in a distant part, to whom this may be the first intimation) lies in this city in a most dangerous state, attended by surgeons of the first emi.

nence.

OLD BAILEY..

John Scruton and Robert Cooper were indicted for stealing a gold medallion, and other articles, the property of Mrs. Jordan, the celebrated actress.

It appeared, that on the 1st of last December Mrs. Jordan attended the theatre, and her carriage was waiting to convey her home. The servants had left the door open, and the property, consisting. of a theatrical dress and a gold

medallion, was made up in a bundle and placed in the carriage: while the footman was looking another way, one of the prisoners found means to carry off the bundle, by getting in undiscovered at the door left open, and letting himself out on the opposite side. Mrs. Jordan, on seating herself in the carriage, missed the property, and immediately directed her attendants to make the robbery known. Both the offenders were shortly after taken into custody.

The fact being clearly proved, the prisoners were found Guilty, and sentenced to seven years transportation.

On the evening of last Thursday se'nnight, a man went to an inn at Chichester, and ordered supper, but, whilst it was preparing, intro duced himself to the soldiers of the 10th light dragoons, quartered in the house, and of them he learned which was their best horse; and, having obtained that information, retired from his military friends to sup, about nine o'clock: after regaling himself plentifully, and having previously stolen a pair of regimental pistols in the soldiers' room, he unobservedly went into the stable, mounted the horse he had fixed on, and rode off.

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John lord Teignmouth,
Hon. Chapel Norton,
Sir Mark Parsons, bart.
Sir John Frederick, bart.
Sir George Glynn, bart.
Sir Thomas Turton,
Sir Robert Burnet,
R. Hankey, esq.
James Trotter, esq.
John Alcock, esq.

J. Pooley Kensington, esq.
James Bradley, esq.
Henry Thornton, esq.
H. Peters, esq.
T. Page, esq.
John Whitmore, esq.
T. Langley, esq.
W. Borrowdale, esq.
T. Gateskill, esq.
R. Wyatt, esq.

John Webb Weston, esq.

At half past eleven the court met, and the grand jury having been sworn, the lord chief baron addressed them to this effect: His lordship observed, they were assembled under the authority of his majesty's commission, issued for the trial of certain persons charged with all or some of the offences specified in it. It contained charges of high treason and misprision of treason, with offences against the statute of 36 Geo. III. passed for the safety and preservation of his majesty's person and government against treasonable practices; against another statute passed in the 37th year of the present king, for the better prevention of attempts to seduce persons serving in his majesty's forces by sea or land; and against another statute passed in the same year, for more effectually preventing the administering of oaths. The species of offence most malignant in its nature, most destructive to the security of the realm, and most subversive of those

principles on which society was founded, had been placed by the law in the highest class of crimes; by this he desired to be understood to mean, the crime of high treason against the authority of the king. Another offence, of the same nature, immediately subject to their cognisance, and against which the statute 37 Geo. III. was directed, was an offence second only in magnitude to the crime of high treason, and of which, in some cases, it formed a very material part; he meant the crime of seducing persons serving in his ma jesty's forces, by sea and land, from their duty and allegiance.

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law of this land, from the earliest period, had, with due anxiety to the importance of the object in view, watched with a cautious eye over the life and safety of the sovereign. Circumstances not necessary to be referred to, had of late increased that anxiety. The law considered the mischievous workings of the imagination, and the malignant feelings of the heart, when directed towards the destruction of the life of his majesty, as criminal as the perpetration of the atrocious deed by which his sacred person might be endangered. To ascertain and investigate such a purpose in his mind, and the acts done to carry it into execution, which the law denominated overt acts of high treason, had been at different periods the most important part of the functions which juries were called upon to exercise. What should be deemed sufficient overt acts of compassing the death of the king, in other words, what acts should amount to evidence of such a purpose, had frequently been the subject of dispute; but long before the passing the last statute of 36 Geo. III. it had been settled by the most able authorities,

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thorities, that measures adopted for
deposing the king of his royal state,
and attempts against his royal per-
son, either for attacking, obtaining
possession of, or imprisoning it,
were impressed with the stamp and
denomination of the crime of high
treason, and were entitled to be re-
ceived as the most cogent and un-
equivocal evidence to prove it.
Authorities had also settled, that
any consultation or meeting to
carry such crime into effect, though
nothing should be done, and though
the whole scheme and plan should
be abortive; and further, that any
consent or approbation to such
consultation or meetings, were all
equally overt acts of that species of
high treason which consists in the
compassing or imagining the death
of the king. But all pretence for
doubt upon a subject on which it
was so important there should not
exist the slightest doubt whatever,
had been obviated by the prudent
and wise provisions of the 36th of
his present majesty, which enacted,
that if any person should compass,
imagine, or devise the death or de-
struction of the king, or commit
any act tending to his death or de-
struction, maim or bodily harm,
or should levy war against him,
for the purpose of restraining or
imprisoning his person, or compel-
ling him to appoint other counsels,
should be adjudged a traitor, and
should suffer death. To compass,
therefore, or imagine the imprison-
ment or restraint of the king, was
now expressed in a clear and posi-
tive statute as an act of treason,
exactly as it stood under the letter
of the 25th Edw. III. The same
might be said of all the other trea-
sons which were specifically con-
nected with the statute of the 26th
Geo. He only selected the offence
of compassing and devising the

death of the king, because it was
possible that the attention of the
jury would be more particularly
called to the consideration of it.
He had already stated that such
acts as indicated an intention to
commit the crime he had, alluded
to, were properly overt acts of
And all overt acts
high treason.

were required by the 7th W. III, c. 3.
to be named in the indictment, in
order that the party accused might
know how he ought to shape his
defence; but the numerous parti-
culars into which such a charge
might branch, need not be detailed
and spread on the record. It was
enough that the nature of the overt
acts should be specified with con-
venient certainty; and when this
was done, the many other circum-
stances with which they were con-
nected need not be further stated.
The other matters might be so
many parts or appendages of what
had been formally set out, and
might be considered as virtually
included in it. He had said thus
much in the hope of affording the
jury some assistance, which might
enable them to understand the
meaning of the form of the indict-
ment laid before them, couched,
as of course it was, in the tech-
nical language of the law, and that
they might compare it with the
proof which would be adduced in
support of it. He would state
what proof the law required: in the
first place, the law required that
the crime should be tried by a jury
of the county in which a part or
the whole of the overt acts were
committed. Compassing the king's
death, or levying war, must be
proved by one witness to have been
A meeting
committed in the county where the
trial was to be had.
must be proved by one witness to
have been held within the county,

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