account of the tenor and result of Mr. Pinckney's negociation at Naples had been received: Mr Pinckner made a peremptory demand of the restitution of several vessels seized by Murat, or a complete indemnification for them and their cargoes with regard to the rest, he offered, on the part of his Government, to waive all claims on condition that the United States should have an establishment in some convenient part of the Neapolitan territories: he particularized Messina as the most eligible, and stated that the required establishment would comprise an hospital, a depot for Naval stores, and some telegraphic stations. The Neapolitan Government affected not to perceive the weight of the demand couched in these terms, though it was impossible to misapprehend it; and requested Mr. Pinckney to inform them whether the establishment was to be considered as an avowed Government concern, or whether it was to be on the footing of an establishment of private individuals. Mr. Pinckney, without hesitation, intimated, that it must be considered as a Government establishment. The Neapolitan Government, on receiving the explanation, rejected the demand in toto; intimating at the same time, that there would be no objection to the Agents of the Government of the United States keeping Naval stores in the Neapolitan dominions on the footing of ordinary mercantile depots. The negociations with regard to the confiscated vessels terminated in a manner equally unsatisfactory to Mr. Pinckney.

On the authority of a Jamaica Paper, of March 11, it is said, that General Morillo had been defeated on his way to the Venezuela territory, and that a division of foreigners had deserted him and joined the Independent cause.

Another paper, dated Kingston, March 17, states, that General Marino had taken Cumana by assault, after a loss of 400 or 500 men, and put from 700 to 1000 Spaniards to the sword, who had retreated into the fort. Commodore Taylor, commanding an Independent squadron, had been very successful, and captured three Spanish Guineamen, one with a large quantity of gold dust on board.

There is now no question of the invasion of the Spanish territory in the River Plate by the Portuguese army being without the concurrence of the King of Spain; so far from it, Ferdinand is, on the contrary, in high dudgeon at this attack on what he still calls his own territory.

The Inquisition has been re-established in a most solemn manner at Lima; aud its first labours have been to destroy all traces of the late Spanish Constitution, as well as of all the free periodical papers, &c. published in every part of the Mo

narchy during the administration of the Cortes.

Letters of a recent date from Barba does mention, that the Royalists and Buonapartists have been at open warfare in Guadaloupe. About thirty on both sides' have been killed and wounded. This explosion was occasioned by a report, brought by a vessel after a short passage from France, that the tri-coloured flag was flying at Toulouse and Bourdeaux. The partizans of the Usurper in Guadaloupe, it is said, are numerous and daring.

The following is said to have been the occasion of the dismissal of the Legisla tive Assembly in the Bahamas. The British Parliament is known to have been induced to expect Acts from all Colonial Legislatures, tending to counteract the smuggling of slaves, by ordering that they should be registered once in every year. Instead of this, the Bahamas' Assembly brought in a Bill, directing the registry to take place only once in three years. The Attorney General was deputed by the Governor to remonstrate with the Assembly on this proceeding; but the reception which they gave this officer was such, that their intention to force the Bill upon the Governor was apparent, and he dismissed them.

Letters and papers have been received from New South Wales to the 1st of August. They give a favourable report of the improvement of that colony. Governor Macquarrie had ordered a survey to be made of Van Diemen's Land; it has been completed in thirty-nine days. Several excellent harbours had been dis covered.

COUNTRY NEWS.

March 18. The Spinning factory of Mr. Brown, at Knott Mill, Manchester, was destroyed by fire in the short space of an hour. The loss is estimated at 20,000 about 14,000l. of which is insured.

March 23. The New Church at Weymouth was opened. In the morning a most impressive discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr, England, archdeacon of Dorset, from Psalm xxvi. 8; and another, in the afternoon, by the Rev. Dr. Wyndham, the rector, from Levit. xxvi. 2.

April 5. The Society which existed in the University of Cambridge, comprising a large proportion of the Graduates and Under-graduates of the younger part of the University, who have been in the habit of meeting weekly to discuss political and literary subjects, was last week interrupted by the Vice-Chancellor (Dr. Wood) and the Proctors, who commanded them to discontinue their discussions, as inconsistent with the discipline and objects of academical education.

April 15. The Marquis of Bath laid the first stone of the new Free Church at Frome; when an appropriate sermon was preached at the parish church; after which a collection was made at the doors, which amounted to nearly 150l. towards the building: 20,000 persons were present.

May 1. This day was laid the foundation-stone of a new Episcopal Church in the Island of Guernsey; an event which cannot fail to give pleasure to every friend of our Church Establishment. Of

the ceremonies observed on this occasion we shall give some account in our next. May 2. A most alarming fire broke out at Thame, in Oxfordshire, which, from its nature and appearance, threatened destruction to one of the principal quarters of the town; fifteen tenements, two barns, a stable, and the dwelling-house of Mr. D. Moore, were, in less than an hour, completely destroyed; the thatch of the whole being on fire in nine minutes from the time the alarm was given. The fire commenced at a small heap of straw near the calves' pen of Joseph Style, which communicated with the cottages. Six other buildings were on fire in different places, by the large flakes that were flying about in every direction; but the fire of these buildings was fortunately kept under. Thus were sixteen families, consisting of 71 persons, driven from their habitations to seek an asylum with their hospitable neighbours.

May 3. The furze and heath on Fradley Common, near Lichfield (the gamepreserve of Visc. Anson) were mischievously set fire to, by some youths who were fishing in the canal adjoining, in order to warm themselves. From the intense dryness of the heath, &c. and a brisk wind, the fire rapidly communicated to the other parts of the heath, until nearly 100 acres were involved in smoke and flame; and it was with the greatest difficulty that the plantations of F. Moresby, esq. which skirted the common, were preserved, by ploughing up a portion of the heath near them. The destruction of game is very considerable : some hundreds of hares were burnt, with their young, the mangled remains of which may be found throughout the whole covers. Numbers of wild ducks, which breed here, experienced a similar destruction, their eggs being roasted in their nests; the other game suffered in proportion. The youths implicated in the cause of this mischief were taken up; but, it appearing to the noble and humane proprietor of the preserve, that there were no malicious motives connected with the circumstance, he has generously restrained any prosecution.

May 8. This evening the city of Oxford was visited by a violent storm of thunder

and lightning, during which a very considerable quantity of electric matter descended into the garden of Mr. Bull, in New-Inn-Lane: a few seconds after the house itself was struck in three different places. The electric fluid in one quarter passed with a tremendous explosion down a stack of chimneys, displacing and shivering at the same time the coping-stones of the adjoining wall; in the other it burst open a side of the house, and passing along the bell-wires to the offices, slightly stunned a servant. Providentially no serious injury was sustained, although several of the family were seated close to the fire places where the fluid descended.

May 12. A most destructive fire happened at Aldbourne, Wilts, which destroyed fifteen cottages, three barns, two malthouses (one built at an expence of 5007. in the two last years), a large quantity of barley, threshed and unthreshed, a rick of oats, two waggons, a cart, a large quantity of malt and barley in the malthouse, a smith's shop, a carpenter's shop, and a weaving shop. It began near the smith's shop, about 12 o'clock at noon, and caused dreadful alarm and distress: the unfortunate persons whose houses were destroyed lost almost their all: the damage is estimated at from 3 to 40007.

May 19. An inquest was held before Wm. Whateley, esq. coroner, on the body of Thos. Hodgetts, who died in consequence of a wound from a spring gun. The deceased worked for Mr. Joseph Stubbs, of Hamstead, near Birmingham; and it appeared that on the 6th inst. on coming to work between six and seven o'clock, he went into the garden and shrubbery in front of Mr. Stubbs's house to call up the servant girl. In a few moments afterwards the report of a gun was heard, and the poor man was found lying in the garden, the contents of the gun, which was charged with small shot, having lodged in the calf of his left leg, the smaller bone of which was broken, and the muscles much torn. The deceased knew where the spring gun was placed; but he said that he went out of his way to look after some chickens which had been hatched the day before, and that no one was to blame. He was removed to the General Hospital, where he died on the 9th inst.-Repeated depredations had been committed on Mr. Stubbs's property. The gun was not placed across or near any path, but amongst the, shrubs, near to a potatoe bury and pigeon-house, which had been several times robbed, and it was pointed low to prevent material injury; notices were likewise placed on the walls. jury retired, and returned a verdict of Aecidental Death; which they accompanied with a recommendation to Mr. Stubbs to take care of the widow,

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May 22. This morning a most destructive fire broke out in Birmingham, at Water-street Mills, situate by the side of the Birmingham Canal. In a few hours, so violent were the flames, and so extremely rapid in their extension, that this vast pile of buildings, which occupy a space of ground as large as the Haymarket in London, was entirely consumed. The value of the property is stated to be 200,000l.

The lowering of Ball's Hill, near Hertford, is now completed. The hill has been lowered about ten feet, and besides the benefit thence arising, it has been the means of employing during the winter all who were out of work in that neighbourhood.

Some labourers digging in a field at Avisford, near Arundel, on the estate of Sir W. Houston, lately discovered some feet below the surface a flat stone, which proved to be the lid of a sarcophagus, in the centre of which was deposited a highlyfinished sepulchral urn, containing the ashes of a burnt human body, and round it were placed twenty earthen utensils, in the shape of cups and saucers, together with two pair of Roman sandals, regularly covered with brass nails in a decayed state. This relick of antiquity likewise held, three jugs and a lachrymatory. Two small vessels, apparently lamps, were placed on a projecting edge at each end of the sarcophagus, and two earthen candlesticks.

Ten of the persons called Luddites, have been tried at the assizes for Leicester, upon capital charges.-Eight were found guilty, and sentenced to death. One was so ill that his trial could not be proceeded in ; another has received sentence of transportation under the Frame-breaking Act.

Messrs. Heathcote and Boden, of Loughborough, have obtained a verdict of 10,000l. against the Hundred of West Goscote, in which their premises, destroyed by the Luddites, stood, subject to reference.

Belvoir Castle is likely soon to exceed its former magnitude and splendour. The foundations of a very large tower, to be erected on the site of that part of the building destroyed by the late melancholy fire, have been begun upon.

Some ploughmen at work in a farm belonging to Mr. Taylor, of Madeley Heath, lately turned up two ancient urns, containing a quantity of Roman copper coins, all of which appear to be of the time of Constantine the Great. Nearly 4000 were collected, of various sizes and devices: the head of Constantine, on many of them, is very fine, as also the different emblematic figures on the reverse, and the inscriptions perfectly distinct. The urns, which appear to have been made of a kind of black earth, were so far demolished, that the parts could not be collected together.

At the late Cornwall Assizes the trial of Robert Sawle Donnall, of Falmouth, 6

surgeon, on a charge of having poisoned Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, his wife's mother, excited great interest. Very strong circumstantial evidence was produced against the prisoner; but, as the fallibi-, lity of the chemical tests employed in this case was positively asserted by the medical men who came forward in behalf of the prisoner, he was pronounced Not Guilty.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Windsor Castle, May 4. His Majesty continues in a very tranquil state, and in good bodily health; but his Majesty's disorder is undiminished.

It is said to be the Queen's determination to have a Drawing-room as soon as her state of health will admit: but that will be the last which her Majesty intends to hold, the fatigue necessarily attendant upon such ceremonies being now too great for her constitution to bear.

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This morning Sir Wm. Garrow appeared in the Court of Chancery, attended by Mr. Warren, Mr. Raine, and many gentlemen of the King's bar; and delivered the writ, calling upon him to assume the dignity of Serjeant-at-law. The writ was read, and recorded. Rings for her Majesty and the Lord Chancellor were then presented in the usual form: the legend was Fas et Jura. Sir William proceeded to the Court of Common Pleas, where he was invested with the coif and robes of a Judge. He then attended the Lord Chancellor, by whom he was sworn as one of the Barons of the Exchequer.

At the close of business in the Court of King's Bench, the same day, Sir Wm. Garrow, previous to taking his seat on the bench as Baron of the Exchequer, took his leave of their Lordships and of his Brethren at the Bar. He said that be had been 30 years in practice, that he came as a humble agent in that tribunal, unprotected and unpatronized, and that he should ever recollect with profound respect and gratitude the condescension of the Bench towards him, and the kindness of the friends by whom he was surrounded. He took the opportunity of giving an useful admonition to his younger friends in the same pursuit; and held forth to thei the advantages they would derive by perseverance and industry in their profession..

The Monument voted by Parliament to the memory of Admiral Lord Collingwood, and ordered to be erected in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, is now completed. The inscription on the monument details the various actions in which the, gallant Admiral was engaged.-Another Monument, also voted by Parliament, has been erect, ed in St. Paul's, to the memory of Maj.gen. John Gaspard le Marchant, who fell in the glorious battle of Salamanca.

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April 17. Marquis of Lothian, one of the Scotch Representative Peers, vice the Earl of Rothes, deceased.

April 22. Mr. Baron Richards, sworn in Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, vice Thompson, dec.

May 6. Sir William Garrow, sworn in a Puisne Baron of the Court of Exchequer, vice Sir R. Richards.

Sir S. Shepherd, sworn into the office of Attorney General, vice Sir W. Garrow. May 9. Robert Gifford, esq. sworn in Solicitor General (and a King's Counsel), vice Sir S. Shepherd.

Oxford, March 24. Rev. Henry Foulkes, B. D. Principal of Jesus College.

Oxford, April 16. Rev. Thomas Darke, M. A. and Rev. William-Henry Turner, M.A. Proctors of the University; Rev. Thomas Wood Simpson, M. A.; Rev. Edward Whitehead, M. A.; Rev. William-Edward Hony, M. A.; and Rev. Peter Johnson, M. A. Pro-Proctors.

Rev. Thomas Evans, Pembrey V. co. Carmarthen.

Rev. Christopher Packe, a Minor Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Rev. Hen. Dampier, Crawley R. Hants. Rev. Francis Wilkinson, M. A. Boston Perpetual Curacy, vice Thorold, resigned.

BIRTHS.

Feb. 21. In Upper Grosvenor-street, the Countess De La Warr, a son.

April 14. At Knightsbridge, Hon. Mrs. George Villiers, a son. — 16. At Cosham, Lady Curtis, a son.-17. At Midhurst, Lady Stopford, a son.-At Condé, France, the wife of Col. Hugh Halkett, C. B. a dau. 18. At Poultons, Hants, Lady Gertrude Sloane, a son.— At Ballitone, co. Kildare, the wife of Lieut.-col. Thompson, 27th foot, a son. - 19. In Grosvenor-street, the wife of Paulet St. John Mildmay, esq. a son.— -20. At Haileybury, Herts, the wife of Rev. Dr. Batten, Principal of the East India College, a dau.

22. At Clumber Park, the Duchess of Newcastle, a son.-24. At Broke Hall, Norfolk, the Lady of Sir Philip Broke, bart. a dau. -26. At Glen Stuart, the Marchioness of Queensberry, a dau. 28. In Cavendish-square, the lady of Adm. Sir G. Cockburn, a dau. -29. In Seymour-place, Lady K. Halkett, a son.

Lately, In Henrietta-street, Cavendishsquare, Lady Frances Clonmore, a dau.

In Hill-street, Hon. Mrs. Sullivan, a son. Lady Edward O'Brien, a dau. The wife of Hon. and Rev. Gerard Noel, a dau. At Norwich, the wife of Rev. Archdeacon Bathurst, a dau.-At Dean's Court, Dorset, the lady of Rev. Sir James Hanham, bart. a dau.-At Cheltenham,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Arthur Robinson Chauvel, to the Prebend of Pancras in St. Paul's Cathedral. Rev. John Mitchell, B. A. Kingsclere V. Hants.

Rev. Daniel-Race Godfrey, A. M. White Colne Perp. Curacy, Essex, vice Hume, dec. Rev. G. Trevelyan, M. A. Archdeaconry of Taunton.

Rev. Richard-Henry Baker, B. C. L Hanney-cum-Lyford V. Berks,

Rev. H. Cripps, Preston V. co.Gloucester. Rev. Josiah Thomas, M. A. Archdeaconry of Bath.

Hon. and Rev. Mr. Legge, a Prebend in Winchester Cathedral.

The lady of Sir Edward-Bayntun Sandys, of Miserden Park, a dau. At Caswickhouse, Stamford, lady of Sir J. Trollope, a son. At Dublin, Lady Baker, a son.

May 2. Lady Harriet Paget, a dau. 3. In Grosvenor-place, Viscountess Milton, a son.-7. At Green-hill, Hampstead, the wife of Hon. and Rev. EdwardJohn Turnour, a daughter, since dead.

MARRIAGES.

1816, Nov. 20. At Calcutta, Mr. Nepean, son of Sir E. Nepean, bart. to Miss H. M. Becher, eldest dau. of Capt. Becher.

March 18. In Jamaica, at Twickenhampark, the residence of Francis Graham, esq. Michael-Beniguus Clare, esq. M. D. Physician-general of that Island, to Mar

Rev. W. Roles, M. A. Raunds, V. co. Northampton.

Rev. John-T. Parker, Newbold-on-Avon y. co. Warwick.

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Lieut.-governor of St. Mawe's.

April 2. James-Henry Slater, esq. of Ragall Lodge, Sussex, to Cecil, youngest dau. of Francis Saunderson, esq. of Castle Saunderson, co. Cavan.

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3. Edward-Lloyd Williams, esq. of Alderbrook Hall, co. Cardigan, to Dorothea, dau. of James Bell, esq. of Uttoxeter.

5. Lieut.-col. Tho.-Stourton St. Clair, to Caroline, dau. of the late James Woodbridge, esq. of Richmond Green.

9. Dr. Henry Fraser, of, Bath, to Elizabeth, dau. of the late Henry Bishopp, of Gray's Wood, Surrey.

10. At Dublin, Capt. R. D. Spread, 15th regiment, to Hon. Emily Wingfield, youngest dau. of the late Visc. Powerscourt.

15. Dr. Spark, of Ipswich, to Miss Perry, of Northampton-square.

17. Sir William Hoste, bart. R. N. to Lady Harriet Walpole, third dau, of the Earl of Orford.

21. Capt. Prince, of the Coldstream Guards, son of Lieut.-gen. Prince, to Anne Penélope, youngest dau. of the late Gen. Ainslie.

22. Charles Basden, esq. R. N. to Lydia, dau. of the late J. Pereira, esq. of Jamaica, and niece of Sir. M. Lopes, bart.

24. By special licence, at the Duke of Wellington's, Col. Felton-Bathurst Hervey, to Louisa-Catherine, third dau. of R. Caton, esq. of Maryland.

At Stutgard, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Heildburghausen, to the Princess Amelia, second dau. of Duke Louis of Wirtemberg, uncle to the King.

25. Rev. Charles Jervis, M. A. Rector of Luddenham, Kent, to Maria, second dau. of Rich. Grape, esq. of Eton, Bucks.

At Edinburgh, Charles Fraser, esq. M. P. Colonel of the Ross-shire militia, to Jane, fourth dau. of Sir John Hay, bart.

28. John Clifton, jun. esq. second son of J. Clifton, esq. of Lytham Hall, co. Lancaster, to Maria, youngest dau. of the late John Trafford, esq. of Trafford House.

29. Earl Percy, to Lady CharlotteFlorentia Clive, dau. of the Earl of Powis.

John Thornhill, esq. to Henriette-Philippine, eldest dau. of Col. Beaufoy, of Bushy Heath.

30. Thomas Deacon, esq. of Wigan Hall, Watford, to Mrs. Whitfield, of Rickmersworth Park.

Lately, Richard John, only son of Chs. Tibbits, esq. of Barton Seagrave, co. Northampton, to Horatia-Charlotte, only dau. of Thomas Lockwood, esq. of Dany Graig, co. Glamorgan.

Col. Alexander Anderson, K.T. S. C. B. &c. to Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Thomas Bigge, esq. of Brompton-row.

Rev. C. E. De Coetlogon, Rector of Godstone, Surrey, to Mrs. Wigzell, relict of the late Rev. Thomas Wigzell, Rector of Hardres and Stelling, Kent.

Lieut. W. F. Peter, R. N. to JaneMary-Margaret, eldest dau. of Rev. E. J. Beckwith, rector of St. Alban's, Wood-st.

Mr. William Whiteley, to Miss Anne Thornton, bath of Leeds.

Rev. C. Barton, D. D. Dean of Bocking, to Emma-Frances, second dau. of Rev. B. Seale, Vicar of Braintree.

W. Humfrey, jun. esq. of the Holt, near Wokingham, to Mary-Anne, only dau. of J. Ongler, esq. of Walton, Surrey.

Rev. George Crabbe, jun. to Matilda, youngest dau. of Thomas Timbrell, esq. of Trowbridge.

At Loughborough, Tho. Peach, M. D. to Sarah, only dau. of John Thorp, esq.

John Croft, esq. late of Thatcham, Berks, to Hon. Miss Taylor, of Kingsclere, Hants. At Bath, George Wade, esq. 18th Royal Irish reg. to Miss Caroline Domville, of Santry House, co. Dublin.

At Hull, J. Conolly, esq. to Eliza, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Sir John Col

lins, R. N.

R. William Grey, esq. of Backworth House, Northumberland, to Anne, eldest dau. of Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, bart. of Isleworth Park, Hants.

William Foster, esq. of Hazlehurst,` Sheffield, to Mary-Anne, second dau. of Sir W. Bagshaw, of the Oakes, Derbyshire.

At Scarborough, Rev. John Carr, M. A. to Rosetta, eldest dau. of the late J.T. H. Hopper, esq. of Whitton-castle.

In the Isle of Man, by special license, Maj. M'Dougal, 85th light infantry, to Anne, dau. of Hon. Lieut.-governor Smelt.

At Vienna, Gen. Macdonald, to Madame Murat.

Rev. John Paterson, of Petersburg, to Miss Greig, sister of the present Admiral Greig, in the Russian service.

At the English Ambassador's at Brussels, William Montgomery, esq. of Grey Abbey, co. Down, to Amelia, second dau: of Hon. Col. Parker.

May 1. H. T. Oakes, esq. eldest son of Lieut.-gen. Oakes, to Frances-Jane, fifth dau. of W. Douglas, esq. of Sloane-street.

William-Kerrie Amherst, esq. to MaryLouisa, second dau. of Francis-Fortescue Turville, esq. of Bosworth Hall, co. Leie.

Mr. Donavon, to Miss Vanneck, eldest daughter, and Mr. Lovelace to the youngest daughter, of the late Lord Huntingfield.

Clement Swetenham, esq. of Somerford Hall, Cheshire, to Eleanor, only dau. of John Buchanan, esq. of Donally, Ireland.

5. Capt. Charles-Parker Ellis, of the Grenadier guards, to Juliana-Maria, dau. of the late Adm. Christopher Parker.

6. Robert Miller, esq. of Jermyn-street, St. James's, to Mrs. Pitman, widow of the late William P. esq. of Baker-street, &c.

Rev. Spencer-Rodney Drummond, Rector of Swarraton, Hants, to Caroline, only dau, of the late Montagu Montagu, esq. of Little Bookham, Surrey.

7. At Marylebone, Rev. John Pridden, Rector of St. George's Eastcheap, to Anne, eldest dau. of the late Robert Pickwoad, esq. of Egham, Surrey.

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