er's counsel replied, that the appearance here mentioned was occasioned by a blow with a cricket-ball. Mr. Conant, who presided on this occasion, now summed up the evidence, and concluded by telling the jury, that they had nothing to do with the general character or conduct of either of the parties; that, however excellent the life and conversation of the prisoners might be, they were answerable for their transgression of the law; and, however perverse the conduct of the prosecutor, he was still under the protection of that law, The jury, after a few minutes consultation, gave their verdict of guilty against all the prisoners, but recommended them to mercy of the court. the ground. Beloe was the son of the Reverend William Beloe; Harwood was also the son of a clergyman; " and as to Mr. Wagstaffe," said the cute common serjeant, "he is the son of a country gentleman, who is beloved by the poor, by his tenants, and by all who have the honour to know him." Now, the truth is, Wagstaffe's father, who has been dead many years, was the servant of a clergyman in Somersetshire, in whose service he died. The clergyman educated the son out of charity, and, when he grew up, procured him a place in the post office, a considerable part of the profits of which place the young man has regularly transmitted for the support of his mother. Mr. Cobbett had, by means of a letter from this clergyman, been fully apprized of all these cir cumstances, the last of which it was his intention to communicate to the court; but, after the story about the country gentleman and his tenants, such a communication might have been thought malicious. There was someAfter a very short deliberation, Mr.Conant thing whimsical, too, in the declamation pronounced sentence. He said, that, in respecting the tender age of the prisoners. consequence of the imprisonment, which The pathetic common serjeant called them the defendants had already suffered [about school-boys, lads, and sometimes children. We five days], the magistrates were disposed shall not, indeed, insist, that school-boys, to remit any further punishment of that lads, and even children, are not to be found sort, which, otherwise, they should most upon the patronage list of Lord Auckland, certainly have inflicted, as a necessary one but the prisoners, though two of them in this species of crime. He was directed clerks in the general post-office, are not to pronounce, that the two prisoners, Beloe mere insignificant children. Beloe, accordand Wagstaffe, should pay a fine of thirtying to the lowest statement, is eighteen years pounds each, and Harwood a fine of ten pounds; and that each of the three prisoners should enter into recognizance to keep the peace, and to be of good behaviour for the space of two years, Mr. Sylvester, the counsel for the prisoners, then asked Mr. Cobbett if he would join in the recommendation, to which the latter replied: "Certainly not, Sir; I came here to ask for justice, and not for mercy." We can assure him, that this school-boy, this fellow, who is represented as too senseless to know the nature of a riot, would, had it not been for a mere accident, at this moment have been a secretary of legation, if not a minister, at some foreign court!!!-Wag staffe is upwards of thirty years of age; and Harwood ought not to be a child, seeing that he has a wife. old. He has been about two in the capacity of a clerk; so that, if he be yet a poor ignorant boy, he is like to prove what the drillsergeants call one of the king's hard bargains. Besides, now we think of it, it is a The prisoners conducted themselves with mercy that he is not at this moment an ama tolerable degree of decorum. They ap-bassador! Let not the reader stare. peared to be sensible of the danger in which they were, without having forgotten the greater danger, which they had been fortunate enough to escape. Wagstaffe seemed very much affected when he was brought to the bar. Beloe looked rather sulky at first; but when the counsel for the prosecution drew towards the conclusion of his speech, he was evidently much agitated, and, finally, he cried like a child. Harwood had in his countenance the marks of alarm, if not of contrition. He looked as pale as death itself. In this scene, which was rather of the solemn kind, there arose one circumstance ludicrous enough. It was this: in speaking to the character of the prisoners, their counsel chose to go back to their ancestors. This is sometimes slippery FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Genoa, July 2.-The intelligence we have received from Algiers for some weeks past is exceedingly disagreeable. About the beginning of May the Regency sent out eleven corsairs of different sizes, viz. two frigates,. que of 46 guns, and the other of 36; four | demnities.-Of all these prizes, the most rechebecs, two polacres, two schooners, and a markable is that of the Portuguese frigate brig; and it is known that they have, al- La Cygne, of 44 guns, and 350 men, which ready taken nine considerable prizes in the was captured, on the 7th of May, at the encourse of six weeks, namely, five Neapoli- trance of the Gut of Gibraltar, by an Algetan vessels, two Spanish, one English, one rine frigate of the same force and about 420 Gengese, and a Portuguese frigate-These men. The Portuguese suffered themselves privateers have even stopped two French to be surprised, at least we must believe so. brigs, under a pretence that they were not The Algerines came upon them with a provided with passports; and it was only press of sail, fired a few shot, and then after some strong remonstrances that the boarded. The Portuguese captain, the lieuagent of the Republic was able to obtain tenant, and 36 men, were killed. If they their release. There is no doubt that the were not deficient in courage, they certainly French government will take some notice were deficient in foresight and skill. The of this conduct of the Regency, and demand rest of the Portuguese were thrown into the reparation. There is reason to believe also, hold naked and loaded with chains. The that it will interfere in the affair of the two wounded were seven days at sea; without Neapolitan vessels, because the Republic is clothes, without nourishment, and without immediately interested in the circumstances having their wounds dressed: when they of their capture, One of them had been arrived at Algiers, several of them died in dispatched from Corfu by the French Agent consequence of their wounds having mortiin the Republic of the Seven Isles, with a fied. This prize, of which there is no simicargo destined for the service of the French lar example in the annals of Algiers, excitamy in the kingdom of Naples. The ed in the city the most extravagant enthu Agent of the Republic at Algiers being in- siasm. The insolence of the government formed of the circumstance, which was has thence increased, and the Europeans can carefully concealed from him, desired to see no longer appear in the streets without being the dispatches of which that vessel was the exposed to the insults of the populace. bearer; they were refused to him; and the An Algerine Rais had the impudence to ill efforts be made to cause the prize to be use the second officer of a small French vesgiven up, were attended with no other suc- sel in the harbour of Tunis, and we know c than that of obtaining the liberty of that in the discussions which have taken some passengers who were on board.- place on this subject, between the Regency In regard to the Neapolitan captain, his fate and the French agent, the latter complained is truly deplorable, and he still groans in of the bad faith and rude behaviour of the the most cruel captivity.-The other Nea- Vekislargy. It is even believed that the politan vessel, which sailed from Marseilles French government will not suffer such insults with a cargo of hemp, was taken in sight to go unpunished, and that if other powers alof the Hieres Isles; the crew consisted of low their flag to be insulted, and their vessels 21 men; one of them, it seems, was drown-plundered, the First Consul will inviolably proed in attempting to escape-two succeeded tect in the Mediterranean the bonour of the in getting on shore, and gave in their depo- French flag, and maintain that security which sition, the other 18 were conducted as be bas promised to all commercial speculations. slaves to Algiers. The captain demanded the interference of the French Agent, and the affair is now under discussion.The English prize excited a violent altercation between the Regency and the English Con-The Regency pretended that the Admiralty pass which the captain produced was forged, because the vignette represented a vessel with lattine sails, whereas the vessel seized was square rigged. The Consul wished to send notice of the seizure to the British Turin, July 10.-The Administrator-General, in the 27th military division, eager to put an end to the inquietudes and doubts of certain citizens of the ci-devant Piedmont, has hastened to publish the following arrêté of the Council respecting this subject, and the letter of the Minister of the Interior, which accompanies it. The following is the Minister's letter: "Paris, July 2, 1802. government; but this was refused, "I address to you, Citizen Counsellor of and the port was shut. The affair is not State, the inclosed arrêté of the Councils decided, and the vessel is still detained, which grants an amnesty for all political The French Consul has remonstrated with offences which have been committed in the great firmness, and threatened hostilities if departments of the 27th Military Division. the vessel be not restored with proper in The First Consul, in ordering me to (1 address this to you, has commanded me to observe to you that he has chosen the period for carrying this arrêté into execution when the King of Sardinia bas, for the second time, in renouncing the crown, released the Piedmontese from their Oath of Allegiance. "Be so good, Citizen Counsellor of State, as to inform me of the receipt of this letter, and of the measures you have in consequence taken. I salute you cordially, "Chaptal." The arrêté of the Consuls annexed to the minions, will, it is said, march this week for that purpose. Bourdeaux, July 15.-The opening of the Scheldt has thrown alarm into all our com mercial ports of the west; they apprehend that the former prosperity of Antwerp will be revived at their expense. Nantz sees nothing but its total ruin, and Bourdeaux calculates the loss of its commerce at more than 300 millions of livres per annum.Are not all these losses exaggerated? The chief branches of the commerce of Nantz letter of the Minister is to the following were, in the Slave Trade, the Cod Fishery, and effect: Arrêté of the Consuls of the 29th June. I. A general amnesty is pronounced for a political crimes which may have occurd in the six departments of the 27th military division. 1 There shall not be, in the six departments of the 27th military division, any list of emigrants. II. All the absent individuals, even those who fill diplomatic or administrative situations at the Court of the above-mentioned Prince, are admitted to return to their country, and there shall be granted to them a prorogation to the 23d of September, in the 11th year of the Republic. IV. They shall make the declaration before the prefect of their department, that they shall renounce all connexion with the house of Savoy, and with foreign powers; and they shall take an oath of fidelity to the constitution of the French people. V. Those who from ill health, or any other good cause, shall not be able to return by 23d September, 11th year, shall be bound to make the same declaration before the French agents in the country where they are. VI. Those who, on the 23d September, 11th year, shall persist in remaining emigrants, shall be definitively declared banished, and their property shall be annexed to the Republic. Buonaparte, First Consul. Berlin, July 13.-A courier arrived here on the 11th, from the Marquis de Lucchesini at Paris. The contents of his dispatches are not known, but it is believed they relate to the business of the indemnities, which at ength approaches to a conclusion. It is pretty certain that all the great powers are agreed on this important point.-The troops destined to take possession of the countries which are to be annexed to the Prussian do the entrepot of foreign merchandize of every kind. The latter of these great means of prosperity, is the only one which can be injured by the opening of the Scheldt. But Nantz, situated at the Mouth of the Loire, cannot fail to be a favourite entrepot, on account of the easy and advantageous passages which it affords into the interior of France. Bourdeaux has much less cause to be dissatisfied. Its wines, which are an inexhaustible source of wealth, alone suffice to fix, in this port, an important trade. But it also has its communication with the Mediterranean by Languedoc, which also makes a considerable entrepot for the merchandize of the Levant.. Its raisins, pitch, and tar, its iron, and a quantity of other territorial materials, offer to foreigners all kinds of advantageous returns. Is it supposed that the lace of Antwerp will rival so many precious productions, and detach from the noble port of Bourdeaux, the rich cargoes of English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish vessels, which always frequent it? The departments of the north are well-favoured by their position, but those of the south will always attract foreigners by the nature of their productions. A merchant of Bourdeaux has received a letter from the Colonial Prefect of Guadaloupe, dated June 8, which contains the following intelligence; I have the pleasure of announcing to you the complete reestablishment of the national authority in this island. The fugitives, in their flight, however, have burnt several plantations and cane-fields, but the damage is not so great as reported. The whole of Grande-Terre has been saved, and a part of the island of Guadaloupe, properly so called. The insurgents are every where returning. Agriculture is resumed, and good order restored. This is important intelligence to commerce, which may now, without uneasiness, pursue its speculations, which, indeed, were never interrupted by this state of warfare, which lasted nearly a month." The Banks of the Mein, July 16.-The last letters from Berlin of the 10th inst. announce that a negotiation is going on between M. de Haugwitz on the one part, and M. de Rheden and the Baron d'Ompteda on the other, respecting an exchange of a part of the Prussian indemnities for certain possessions in Hanover. After several conferences, the Baron d'Ompteda has set off to combat the Hanoverian Ministry of State, relative to a proposition which, it is said, has been made by the Court of Berlin. It is, however, very problematical, whether this negotiation will have the desired suc COSE.. the squadron of the United States in the Mediterranean, and from Mr. Gavine, our Consui at Gibraltar, communicate the disagreeable intelligence of Mr. Simpson's ar rival in that port from Tangiers; the Emperor of Morocco having forced him to depart precipitately, and having at the same time ordered his vessels to be armed against the American merchantmen. I beg that you will give notice of this event, without delay, to our Commercial Agents in the different ports of France, requesting them to dispatch copies of this letter by the first vessels which sail for the United States, or the West-Indies, and to direct the captains of those vessels to publish it in the ports in which they arrive. Commodore Morris advises all American vessels, bound to the Mediterranean, to rendezvous at Cadiz, where they will find a convoy appointed to protect them on their passage through the Straits. Hague, July 17.-Dispatches from Admiral de Winter, who is with the squadron on the Barbary Coast, announce that he has delivered all the presents destined for the African powers, who have testified a desire of renewing their ancient commercial relations with this Republic, and of making arrangements to prevent any cause of comphint on the part of the Batavian mer-lutions were passed the 19th inst. by the chants The squadron will stay some time Smyrna. Frankfort, July 18.—The following is the result of the intelligence received respecting the business of the indemnities: "We are Asored that it was stipulated in the last article of the Convention signed at Paris on 4th ult. between Citizen Talleyrand, the Count de Markoff, and the Marquis de Lucchesini, for the purpose of regulating the indemnities of the Hereditary Princes of the Empire, that the Convention should be ratified within forty days from the day of its signature, and the ratifications exchanged on or before the 14th of July. After the exchange of the ratifications, the gccupation of the secularized States allotted indemnities, was to take place without low of time, according to the same stipulations, even if Austria did not accede to the Convention." It is not known whether the exchange of the ratifications, and the accession of the Court of Vienna, have taken place; but the report of the German Miniser at Paris, respecting this subject, is expected with the greatest impatience. Letter from Mr. Livingston, Minister Pletipotentiary of the United States in France, addressed to Mr. Skipwith, the American Commercial Agent at Paris: Sir, I am, &c. Rob. R. Livingston. Amsterdam, July 21.-The following reso Provisional Government of this city, at the instance of the Commissioners of our Bank; -1. To make it known to those interested, that in consequence of the payments made to the Bank by the common treasurer, the deficiency being entirely filled up, all the debts on bonds or stock which have been deposited in said Bank, are now replaced by hard cash, so that there is now nothing whatever in circulation but upon effective real value, and that thereby the Bank is now in that situation in which it was when originally erected.-2. That the common treasurer of this city be qualified, on behalf of the assembly, to receive from the Commissioners of the Bank, all the pretensions which said Bank had, as also the several bonds resting there in pawn, and to do the needful in this respect.-3. For facilitating the operations in bank money, at the re-opening of the Bank on the 30th inst. to cause to cease the tax of a half stiver on each hundred gilders, which was imposed the 31st March, 1796, by a resolution of the Municipality, on payments made-in bank money, and to fix it on the old footing, namely, three stivers for each sum which, per banco, shall be transferred.-4. That the superintendants of the Bank form a Committee, in conjunc tion with the Commissioners, to revise the regulations and ordinances of said Bank, to make the necessary alterations in them, and as improved according to the exigency of present circumstances, to present them to this city Government for its assent. Paris, July 22. The produce of the French is to only inte the ports of Nice, Toulon, Marseilles, Cetre, Bayonne, Bourdeaux, Rochefort, La Ro chelle, Nantes, L'Orient, Brest, Morlaix, St. Malo, Cherbourg, Rouen, Honfleur, Havre, Dieppe, St. Valary, on the Somme, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend, and Antwerp. The duties paid on French colonial productions is of two kinds, viz. the duty of importation and the duty of consumption. Raw sugar, for instance, pays on 5 miriagrammes (about 10516. of the old French | weight) 1 fr. 50 c. for the former duty, and 13 fr. 60 c. for the latter; in all 15 fr. A bounty of 25 francs is given on every 5 miriagrammes of refined sugar exported to foreign countries. The exportation is to take place from the above-mentioned ports only, or, by land, through Lansleburg, Versoye, Bourglibre, Strasburgh, Mayence, and Cologne. The produce of Colonies belonging to other countries are admitted into France under the following regulations and duties, viz.--The productions of foreign colonies, enumerated in the subjoined tarif, shall pay the duties stated in that tarif.-These duties shall be paid on the arrival of the said productions, unless they are placed in actual entrepôt, in which state they cannot remain longer than one year.-The merchandize placed in entrepôt shall pay only a countervailing duty on importation, and shall be exempted from any duty on re-exportation. On being removed from the entrepôt to the interior, the following duties must be paid: Brown sugar, the 5 myriagrammes (or 105lb. of the old French weight).... S Clayed sugar, idem.. Coffee, idem.. F. c. 22 50 37 50 37 50 37 50 50 0 50 1 50 4 50 4 50 50 7 50 quarter of the Ottoman Empire. A deputation from the members the Company waited on Lord Hawkesbury, by appointment, on Tuesday, to obtain information on this subject, and to request the accommodation of one or two ships of war in case the progress made by the Insurgents should render it expedient for the Company to remove any part of English property from that quarter. His Lordship assured them, that there existed no ground of apprehension with regard to the safety of British property in the Turkish dominions; but that, as Government had generally kept up a small naval force in the Levant, he would make the necessary application to the Admiralty for the appointment of two frigates to that station, which would remain there for the protection of the trade.-His Lordship also informed the deputation that his Majesty's ministers had no reason to suppose that attempts would be made from any quarter to violate the integrity of the Turkish Empire. With regard to the concession which the Porte is reported to have made to France, of the free navigation of the Black Sea, his Lordship observed, that Government had no knowledge of any agreement to that effect baving taken place; but, if the Turkish Governnient should think it proper to make an arrangement of this nature with the French Republic, the deputation might rest assured that no privilege would be granted to the French trader, which would not be equally enjoyed by the subjects of his Britannic Majesty. The Princess of Orange arrived on the 19th at Brussels from London, and continued her journey the same evening for Germany. MIDDLESEX ELECTION. At the final close of the Poll on Thursday last, the numbers were, For George Byng, Esq..... 3849 The following are the concluding addresses of the two rival candidates. 40 To the Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County of Middlesex. 1/ 50 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. The Levant merchants interested in the Turkish trade, have made inquiries of Government to ascertain whether that branch of our commerce would be injured by the troubles which at present prevail in every Gentlemen, Permit me to return you my most sincere thanks, for the great exertions and support you have been pleased to give me, in the long contest in which we have been engag ed-The poll is now closed. The Sheriff's having thought proper to return Mr. Byng and Sir Francis Burdett as your Representa |