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Home-Baron Hotham and Justice Heath.Hertford, March 7.—Chelmsford, March 9.-Maidstone, March 14.-Kingston, March 21.-Horsham, March 28.

London Gazette, Feb. 12, 1803.-At the court at St. James's, the 10th of February, 1803.-His Majesty in council was this day pleased to appointJosiah Wedgewood, of Gunville, Esq. to be sheriff of the county of Dorset, instead of John ArbuthBot, of Weymouth, Esq.-John Pooley Kensington, of Putney, Esq. to be sheriff of the county of Surrey. T. H. M. Gwynne, of Llanelwith, Esq. to be sheriff of the county of Radnor, instead of T. Grove, of Owen Ellan, Esq.-J. Windsor, of Vaynor, Esq. to be sheriff of the county of Montgomery, instead of R. Knight, of Gwernygoe, Esq.

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BANKRUPTS. Passman, J. Doncaster, machine, maker. Allen, F. Pall Mall, milliner.-Wickins, L. St. Clements', haberdasher.-Coleman, J. Fetter-lane, painter.-Smith, W. Durham, ship-builder.-Gibbs, W. Box, Wilts. miller.—Taylor, J. and H. Cowley, Gainsborough, merchants.-Jackson, J. Oxford-street, linen-draper.-Wagner, J. Lower Tooting, callico-printer. Joyce, W. and W. Bachelor, Bristol, Silversmiths. -Richardson, T. and T. Worthington, Manchester, merchant.Hopwood, J. Worcester, glove-seller.-Eyres, S. Manchester, corn-dealer.-Durner, J. G. Liverpool, merchant-Ashton, W. Kingston upon Hull, brandy-merchant.-Clifton, W. Kingston upon Hull, brandy-merchant. - Buck, M. Clapham, Yorkshire, dealer.-Atkinson, H. Howarth, shopkeeper.-Gabbitas, M. T. Brinsyard, farmer.-Clancy, W. Waterford, merchant-Hughes, M. Hackney, milkman.-Horrocks, T. Rippondale, bleacher.-Emerson, J. Bitton, brass and spelter maker. Williams, J. G. Marshall-street, merchant. Nimisno, H. Bristol, merchant.-Bruce, S. Oldham, dealer.-May, S. H. Great St. Helen's, merchant-Girling, H. Hackney-road, shoemaker. -Hewlett, G. Shipton Lee, dairyman.-Green, E. Charles-street, Soho-square, man's mercer.-Collyer, W. Pullox Hill, horse-dealer.-Thomas, J. Chester, malster.-Wright, J. Manchester, cottonspinner.-Parker, J. Birmingham, plater.-Holbrow, Haynes, Haynes, and Henderson, Gloucester, chemical preparers.-Donnison, J. Prescottstreet, merchant.-Davies, R. Shrewsbury, portermerchant. Janson, J. Blackburn, cotton-manufacturer.-Michell, W. Somersetshire, clothier.Hook, J. Bermondsey, leather-dresser.-Fearon, J. P. Upper Grafton-street, dealer.-Cole, C. Drury lane, victualler.-Bright, T. Inner Templelane, stationer.-Barnard, J. Jun. Bedford, coinfactor,

Births On Thursday the Hon. Mrs. J. Markham, of a son.-On Saturday evening, the Hon. Mrs. Baird, lady of Lieut, Col. Baird, of a son. On Sunday, the Countess of Ilchester of a soD.At Rochester, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham, of a daughter-On Monday, the lady of the Hon. Spencer Percival, of a son.

Marriages At Hanmer in the County of Flint, Lord Kenyon to Miss Hanmer daughter of Sir T. Hanmer, Bart. of Batteshield Park. -On Friday, Capt. G. Hope to Lady J. Johnstone, daughter of the Earl of Hopetown.-At Ballindean, in Perthshire, on the 9th inst. the Hon. Major-General Hope, to Miss Wedderburn.

Deaths-On Sunday sen'night, aged 55, Thomas Hammond, Esq. of York, brother to G. Hammond, Esq. under Sec. of State.-On Saturday, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Manners, of the 96th regiment. -On Friday, the 4th inst. at Paris, the lady of Sir A. Grant, Bart.-At Dublin, on Sunday, the 6th inst. Colonel Biquiere.At Dusseldorf, in her 28th year, Baroness Hompesch, lady of Major-General Baron Hompesch.

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SUMMARY OF POLITICS. PARTIES. THE The millenium of poADDINGTONS, litics seems to be fast apAND MR. PITT.) proaching: there is scarcely any distinction of parties left; for, thought we do, indeed, hear talk of the new and the old oppositions, there is in reality no opposition of party, and, if we except a few individuals, a perfect indifference appears to prevail as to the consequences of the present system of public measures. The same men who were alive two years ago are still alive, but their minds seem to have been changed; the rule of the Addingtons and Hawkes

buries, which is more like a burlesque of government than any thing that ever appeared before in the world, has rendered public life so ludicrous and disgusting that it really requires more than common fortitude to enable a man of character to interfere, even for the sake of preventing the destruction of his country. The absence of opposition, which is to be ascribed to this disgust, to this loathing inspired by the scene altogether, the Addingtons have the modesty to attribute to an universal acquiescence in the wisdom of their measures. Happy people! To them all is sun-shine. They live and laugh under a load of contempt which would sink any other of God's creatures to the grave.-And well they may laugh, for they are advancing on a grand pas, towards a monopoly of every thing that is profitable, as well as of every thing, which, before their time, used to be accounted honourable. Like the snakes of South America they are winding themselves round the limbs, the carcass, and throat of John Bull. Poor John may roar as long as he pleases; he will roar most hideously by and-by, but that will not save him from the effects of their deadly embrace: nor, indeed, ought it to save him; it was his degeneracy, his baseness, that placed him under their controul, and that still makes him submit to it in silence. Let him suffer. He deserves the very utmost of that punishment which is in store for him.-What we have constantly stated as our opinion respecting the durability of the present ministry, is now, we think, fully verified. Had MR. PITT possessed the power, he certainly would, after what has passed, have had the will, to sink the Addingtons into that obscurity, from which he was so indiscreet as to raise them. He has not the power: he feels that he has it not: he is, indeed, at last, awake, but, alas! he awakens only to a sense of his debility; he rises like Sampson the arms of Delilah! No: MR. PITT cannot eject "the family." We conjure our readers not to deceive themselves. There is no hope from this quarter. A vast majority of those who used to support MR. PITT against all the world, would now support

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the family" against that very MR. PITT, because the latter is not approved of by Buonaparté, and because any changes which he might wish to make in the present system, might expose the country to the "horrors of war.' Some of the friends of MR. PITT may think differently from us, on this point, and, full of confidence in his power, will endeavour, perhaps, to prevail on him to exert it; but, our readers may

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rest assured, that he will never make th hazardous experiment.-M. J. H. ADDINGTON is, we are told, sworn into his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council! "The Right Hon. John Hiley Addington"!!!! -Resentment must now cease to exist in the breast of MR. Fox!-However, thank God, Mr. Hiley is not yet a bishop!-The demi-official paper, through the columns of which the family" convey their sprightly observations to the world, has made an attempt to defend these rapid and unparalleled strides of the Addingtons, by alluding to the example of Buonaparté and his rela tions: "The partizans of the new oppo"sition, full of the haughty and high aris"tocratic notions of their leaders, affect to

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despise every person who cannot count a "dozen coronets in his family; but, ex"perience, very late, and even present ex

perience, shows, both in this country and "in France, that what is called NOBLE BIRTH " is not absolutely necessary to the conduct

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ing of national affairs."-Whence a paragraph like this, whence sentiments like these, could alone proceed, is, we think, evident enough. But, without having any very great respect for the Buonapartian race, we cannot admit, that they are upon a footing with our family." As to birth, indeed, they may be nearly upon a level, Buonaparte's father being a village attorney; but, in point of qualities, and of actions, where is the similarity? The Buonapartés may be, as Lord Hawkesbury termed them, Corsican Adventurers, but as long as courage, understanding and talents shall be held superior to pusillanimity, ignorance, and imbecility, so long must it be an insult to common sense to attempt to raise the Addingtons to, a level with the Buonapartés. Nor, to say the truth, should we be at all surprized if this act of temerity, on the part of our modest gentlemen, were to bring them a severe rebuke from the Moniteur. Their boasting relative to the finances has called forth a pretty sharp reproof, and we would have them take care how they revive the irritation, by putting themselves upon a footing with their betters. Squabbles less serious than this have sometimes terminated in war; and, dreadful indeed would it be, if we were, after having made so many sacrifices, after having submitted to every species of injury, insult, and disgrace, for the sake of avoiding a "horrid appeal to arms;" dreadful indeed, at once supremely dreadful and supremely ridiculous would it be, were we, at last, to make this "horrid appeal" for the purpose of deciding the precedence in point of birth between the

sons of a village-attorney and those of a village-doctor!

ST. DOMINGO.-The intelligence from this island is more favourable to the French than it has been for some time past. Were it not for fear of putting the Richmond Park ministry to the blush, we would ask them, what is now become of all their hopes and predictions about the evacuation of St. Domingo! Mr. Addington will easily comprehend what we mean, when we say, that this evacuation is not so easily effected as that of Malta.-When the last advices came away, trade was so far revived at Cape François, that the American agents were writing to their principals to ship them India and other goods from the United States. The war continued between the French and the Blacks; and, though we do not believe above one half of what has been said about the cruelties committed, on either side, we can easily conceive, that the destruction has been very great. In the mean time, Buonaparté seems resolved to add this sable nation to his long list of conquests. Troops have embarked, on this expedition, from Leghorn and from Corsica; the Polish demi-brigade has been embarked at Genoa, and a considerable part, we are told, of the garrison at Brussels, have volunteered on the same service, and are to embark at Dunkirk.-Thus, it is not France altogether, which supplies the means of French conquests. The people of France see that their government can, if necessary, call forth the arms of others to fight their battles. And yet we hear people talk of the exhaustion, which the war of St. Domingo will cause of the population and resources of France!-On the subject of the ultimate effects (with respect to England) of the restoration of the colonial authority of St. Domingo, the Maidstone Opposition have lately uttered some curious sentiments. They perceive clearly enough, that the people of this country must very soon begin to be alarmed for the fate of Jamaica; and, as their plan is to blind and benumb the nation, till it is TOO LATE to act with effect, they are endeavouring to check the progress of every opinion that has a contrary tendency. Hence the essay, to which we allude, and in which they most strenously deprecate any mention even of the danger, which is to be apprehended to our own colonies, from the establishment of a great military and predatory force in St. Domingo, alleging, as their reason for this cautious silence, that it is serving the cause of Buonaparté to point out to his soldiers the easy prey, which Jamaica offers to them, an

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| anti-patriotic act, which they ascribe to
the New Opposition! As if the soldiers of
Buonaparté wanted a stimulus of this sort
to lead them to St. Domingo; and, were
that the case, as if the prey would not be
pointed out to them more directly and in-
telligibly than through the speeches of
the New Opposition, not one of which
speeches did, or will, the army of St. Do-
mingo ever read, or hear cited!
"cannot," says the Maidstone patriot,
"say to France that she shall not re-oc-
66 cupy St. Domingo; we cannot say to
"her, that she shall never entertain the
"design of fitting out an armament from
"St. Domingo, against the island of Ja-
"maica. If we cannot do these things, what is
"the use of conjuring up the phantom of future
"ills, to torture our present existence, without ob-
"taining the least information how we could avoid
"them -What are we to do now, after
"the peace of Amiens, lest the French in
"the next war should attack Jamaica?
"Why truly, the only thing that can be
"done, is to be prepared for the worst, and to
"defend Jamaica when it shall be attacked,
"as well as we can."*-Without stopping
to examine, by the maxim here applied,
the conduct of the leader of the Maidstone
Opposition during the last war, when it
was necessary to pass a law respecting
newspapers, when it was absolutely neces
sary to abridge the liberty of the press, in
order to prevent intelligence being communicated
to the enemy by him and his associates in and
out of doors; without stopping to make
this examination, we will ask how, if the
sentiment here laid down be adopted, it is
possible ever to discuss, or, at least, to
oppose, any one measure of government af-
fecting our foreign relations? Allow of this
rule, and the faculty of speech, in a member
of parliament, becomes perfectly useless,
except for the noble purpose of eulogizing
the conduct of those, who have it in their
power to confer places: allow of this
principle, and the regal attributes arè
instantly transferred from the Sovereign
to the Ministers; the Chancellors, the
Secretaries, and Under Secretaries, can do
no wrong, and, for aught we know, their
persons may be all sacred down to the very
door-keepers: in short, if this degrading
principle be allowed, the servants of the
King are the masters of the parliament and
the people.-Because our country cannot
now, after the treaty of Amiens, say to
France, " you shall not ruin my colonies,"
the New Opposition are to blame for ascrib.

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ing the approaching ruin of those colonies to the treaty of Amiens: because the evil is now rendered inevitable, we are not to complain against those who have brought that evil upon us! But, this is not exactly the argument: it is still more absurd and impudent. Because we cannot now prevent France from entertaining a design against the island of Jamaica, we ought not to say that she has that design; and, • when it shall, at last, appear that she not only entertains, but is actually engaged in the execution of, this design, we are then to be prepared for the worst, and are to defend Jamaica as well as we can'!— This is, perhaps, the grossest insult that ever was offered to the understanding of a nation. There never was any thing so audaciously base. Yet, the leader of the Maidstone Opposition knows well what he is doing: he knows the people, whom it is his object to deceive, to lull, and to lead under the yoke of Buonaparté: and, to say the truth, a people that can be so led, and by such a man, deserves to wear such a yoke. We deny the premises of the argument; we say, that we can yet prevent France from forming any design against Jamaica that should be dangerous to that colony; but this is only to be done by measures, which would probably lead to war; and war is "certain ruin;" or, in the emphatical expression of the Maidstone. philanthropist," the country may be subjugated, but the people must EAT."This is the standing reply to every argument for offence or defence, and this reply will, we are afraid, yet be made, when the enemy shall be landed in Norfolk or in

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Indemnities has, at last, been terminated by a convention between France and Austria, acceded to afterwards by Russia. Austria is, we perceive, besides the loss of the Brisgaw, ceded to the Duke of Modena by the treaty of Luneville, now to give up the Ortenau, for which sacrifices she is to receive, as an indemnification, the permission of Buonaparté to appropriate to her own use the revenues of the bishopricks of Trente and Brixen, situated in the Austrian province of Tirol. It will be much about the same, if the Consul or his successor should (which God forbid !) give the King of England leave to seize on the revenues of the bishoprick of Durham. The Grand Duke of Tuscany, in consequence of his renounc. ing these bishopricks, is, it seems, to receive certain morsels of other states, and is to be made an Elector of the Empire!-But we have not room at present to enter into an exposure of the several parts of this shameful transaction, which we cannot but regard as the death-blow of the Germanic body.

NOTICES.

The several articles relative to the Navy shall be duly attended to.--Our next will contain A Letter to Lord St. Vincent, on several parts of his public conduct, and on the present alarming situation of the fleet.-Our other correspondents will be so good as to excuse us till next week.

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The SUPPLEMENT to VOL. II. is, at length, ready for delivery. A full account of the

numerous valuable documents it contains will be given in our next.

Complete sets of the first Six Numbers of VOL. III. may now be had of the respective publishers.

The Letter of Napper Tandy has not been overlooked. It is a very excellent specimen of the effects of national degradationNothing has been finally arranged yet respecting the future government of the Swiss. -Another convention, besides that which has been published, has been concluded between France and Austria, in which the latter has formally sanctioned the changes which has taken place in Italy, and also the measures of France with regard to Switzerland.-Great distress has been experience, and is yet experienced, in PrusThe 1st Number of the MERCURE sia, from the prohibition to export raw silk ANGLOIS DE COBBETT was published yesfrom Piedmont.-The edict issued in Spain, with regard to the wool, will, in a very terday.It is sold by E. HARDING, No. 18, short time, be severely felt in England. Pall Mall, and by DULAU and Co. Soho When all the channels of commerce are Square. The 2d Number will be publishopened in Belgium, and when the money-ed on Wednesday the 2d of March.

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COBBETT's ANNUAL REGISTER,

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the work, will be found in the Supplement. -Besides the aforementioned matter, which The Second Volume being now finished, each sheet of the work contains the Editor's is necessarily supplied by time and events, I venture to offer the two volumes to the observations relative to all the most impublic as an ANNUAL REGISTER FOR THE LAST YEAR; and, as the most copious and These observations are, for want of a more portant current events and transactions. complete work of the kind, that ever ap- comprehensive phrase, called Summaries of peared in this or in any other country. When I first described the nature and pro-rusal of them, they will, I think, be found Politics, and, upon an uninterrupted peposed contents of this publication, 1 prepared my readers for "such alterations, additions, and improvements, as time " and experience might suggest." Many and eful have been the suggestions of these patient monitors. After having finished the two volumes, which complete the first year of the work, I now regard it as having assumed its permanent form and

manner.

The second volume, like the former one, may be considered as divided into two parts; the first consisting of the numbers, which have been published weekly during the half year, or, of a reprint of those numbers; the second, of the Supplement. The former of these divisions contains a collection of all authentic documents, appertaining to state affairs, or to matters of political economy, whether they immediately relate to this country or not; and, in making this collection, care has constantly been taken to recur to such compacts and transactions of past times, as do, or may affect the circumstances of the present time.-During the Session of Parliament, a weekly account of the proceedings is given, reserving the Debates, corrected and at full length, to be given in the Supplement to the volume. As occasion requires, and time affords opportunity, brief Notices are given of such new Books as relate to history, politics, or political economy, or that bear upon subjects connected therewith. The preceding heads are followed by a selection of such Foreign and Domestic Intelligence as appears to be of public importance; to which is added, a Record of Appointments, of Bankruptcies, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Prices. The scale of these articles has, in the latter numbers, been abridged; but whatever has been left out in the body of VOL. III.

to form a complete series of statements, arguments, and reflections: and, when, to this series, are added the detached articles from correspondents, whether in the form of Essays, Letters, or Extracts, the whole of the numbers, taken together, forms a Chronicle, not only of events and transactions, but of the opinions, feelings, and motives connected therewith.

adopted a different, and, in my opini The compilers of Annual Registers have on, a far less perfect mode of arranging their materials, which it is their custom to divide into classes, instead of placing them in the order in which they were first communicated to the Public. According to their method, all the State Papers are so inserted as to follow each other without the intervention of other matter; and so of the Proceedings in Parliament, the Historical Remarks, &c. &c. But it is, I think, evident, that this classification can be attended with no one advantage, while it has many very great disadvantages. Considering the Register merely as a book of reference, it is of little import how the materials are arranged, so that they are all included in the book, and are pointed to by the Index in such a manner as to be found with perfect facility; but, as a book for perusal, the chronological order is certainly the most favourable to a clear, an easy, and satisfactory comprehension of the divers matters contained in it. At first sight, it may appear, that the chronological order followed without reference to the difference in the

kind of materials, produces, in one and the same sheet, a heterogeneous mass of Treaties with Foreign Powers, Debates in the Parliament, Intelligence from abroad, Occurrences at home, Fluctuations in the Stocks, Price of Bread, Political Refles

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