I 'um the LONDON G4ZETT4, Saturday, Feb. 7. HAMM:I'TeI( ENL ATIGEn. APMICHAEL W. iiri;ol . :4erel;ni; frwn l7. to April 7. BANK/U:1 0 1TV SUPEItSI 7 . DLO. II ix W. Tydd St. Mary's, Lincoln, wool dyer. BANKRUPTS. PROCTOR W. Shefficli. optician. Feb. 16, 17. March el, at Shef field. Att. Mr. Blakclock, Scrjeant'e Inn. Rost. S. Swam*. dealer. Feb. 23, 21, March 21, at Swanwa. Att. Mr. Price.i.inColn's ViAan J. Milton Abbott. Devon. cattle jobber. Feb. 24. Z 5. March el. at Tavistoek, Devon. Atts. Alexander and Co. New terza It. New Woodstock. Oxford; ironmonger. Feb. 13. 14. March SI, at Oxford. Atts. Robinson and Co. Charter Hons.:- square. Two tt y J. Plymouth. mariner. Feb. 17. 1 a. March 21, as Plymouth Dock. Atli. I).rke and ('o. Clianccny-lane. , SPLNCER T. Nfanchester, commission broker. Feb. 40, 21, March 21. at Manchester. Attt. Hurd and Co. 'Temple. It. Aberg.ivesny, Monmi tub. victualltr. Feb. 111. ID, March 21, at Aberkircnny. AtL. .Icnkins and Co. Nov Inn. s . ,irecas M. late of AMcrsgatc-street, victualler, March 17. 18, CI, at Guildhall. Atts. Clutton and CO. Iligh.strect, Southwark. 1: t . t.:88 T. late of Fulham, dealer, Feb. 14, 21. March CI, at Guild- nal/. Au. Mr. Shater ' Millbenk,treet, WesttriAster. 1! v . H S. Angel -court, TlinKrnortor.xtrevt. broker, Feb. 17.24, :tiara', 21, at Gui1.11:311. Au. Idr. llueklc, Sise-lane, Bucklers- bury. oeuE J. S. S. lstz of Golden.7anc, checerniorger. Feb. 14.41. March 21. at (;tuldhall. Att. Mr. Conat4ble. Symoncre Xvettt•rr .1. and S. ard F. Nash. latr of Westntinat.sr•rvad, Frh. to. I. March 21. at Cuildhall. Art. Mr. Dian. Clifford's Inn. , ‘motox T. Wo.t flans Abliey. F.sscx. tin ier. Fch. to, ;.+1 March that Guildhall._ Att. Mr. Argil!, Wititcchapcl•road. DIVIDEDg. 11..1. and .1. Vmmett, Garrard-wee, Soho. tailors, Feb. es. Trevor mid .1. Richards, Whitchurch, Salop. bankers, Miadt 2. 5. and U. Boardman, Liverpool, merchants. March 7. J. (tooth, Wib.ey, YOrk, cotton manufacturer, March 4.. W. Bonham, Exeter, ironfounder, March to. J. White:wad. M. Howard, and J. Haddock, Cnteaton-street, bank __ ers, March 7. 11..antl J. J. Battier, Goahl•uquare, Crutched Friars. merchants, F'di. vl. T.I bhnea, J. Harris, and J. D. Inglish, Long Acrc. coach makers, F,A). 14. S. Amherst, late of Market-street, Westminster, brewer, Feb. t:S. H. Aloore, I roatnonger-lane„ merchant. Feb..m. W. Hodgson, Playhouse Yard, Whit paper stainer, Feb. 26. IL Payne, LieerpooL linendraper. March C. J. shepherd. Moorton, Gloucester, nialtster, March 4. C. Blt'i. ISishopweannoutii. Iturinun, ship owner. March 2. 7.. Bailey, SelwoixL Somers:A. shopkeeper, Feb. '2K. 11. Chestier, Sitt;nglansi I:, Rent. miller, Matell 2. .1. Routh. T. I.e Mesor;er, told 11. 1.. Routh. inkschants. March 4. W. Lowe. F fields, Larica,ter, machine rt alter, March 4. .1. Toinkimon, late of Northwich. Chester. salt merchant. March 2. T. Martin. Chielicqter, collar maker. March 7. T. Rose..l. Richard% and R. Jones, -Liverpool, tailor, March 5. IL flaini..s, late of Scolt's Place, Lower Road,l,lington, wine cooper, Feb. W. Knight, itagshot, Surrey, miller, Feb. Q. A. M•Larldan and .1. Galt, t:t. Helens, factor% Feb. 24. and J. Hurry, late of Nag's II esti Craceciumli-street„ iner- chunts. F.. 1). .1. and T. Harker, Helmsley Blackmaor. York, grocers, March 4. Peacock, Lincoln. watokmaker, Atarch 2. eI.:ItTIFICATES, Fyn. 28. A. W. Sorgcnfrey. Savage-gardens, Te NOT Hill, merchant—Fl. Wylie and W. 3. Richardson. Abchurch-lane. mtrchanti--C. W. Walker. Briglitelm , =totte, stationer—.l. Word, Liverpool, grocer—F. Hodshon. Strati, Kent. .hrcwer— L Paean.% Whitechapel. vie / ttaller-3. staler, Wakefield, linendraper—J. and J. Goodchtld. Low Nihon, Ilurhata, J. sad W..lackson; Hotsgr.e.:i wharf, J. Jackson, Epplcton, and T. Jobe% sen. Greener tit, I:urliant. bankers. ESTAISLISFIEM EIGHTEEN YEARS. The Public are respectfully invited to an inspection of the very large and cheap stock of IRISH SHIRTING and SIIEETI NG CLOTHS, now on sale, at N... 4, The South side of Bloomsbury-square. The Company. from the nature of the Esta blishments here and in Ireland, offer to the community the allot e articles nitteh cheaper and better ihan they can he procured through any other medium. Titeir linens arc bleached under their own in spection without the help of acit‘i; they Warrant their durability and colour, and en age to return the money, should a fault appear. Country Orders faithfully attended to. Agents: John Donovan, N 0.4, Bloomsbury-square, London ; John Doyle. No. 31, St. Mary's Abbey. Dublin. Good Bills on Ireland, and lank of Ireland Notts taken or dis c 4intati. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS TOR THE EN/II'ING WEEK. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT GARDEN. Tn.Morrow—Fazio, the new Tragedy.—The Pantomime. Tom.lay—Guy Manneting.—The Illustrious Trave ller. Thur.,:at —Fazio.—The Pantomime. Poillay— . A Grand Selection of Satunlay—Zuraa, a new Comiek Open. ROYAL CIRCUS and SURREY THEATRE. TO-MORROW, Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur day Evenings, will be presented. Ist time, a grand Melo-Drum, founded on Mr. Coleridge's favourite dramatic Poem. called • ZAPOLY'A; Or, The WAR WO LF. With new Scenes, Drones and Decorations. Berklen. Mr. Hunt. Icy; Zapolya, Miss Taylor; The Counts Samna. Mrs. Dibdin. In Act I. An address. inddehtal to the Piece, by Miss Adcock. in t!ie character of Arid. concluding with Shakespeare's Sung of— Where the Bee sucks, there lurk I." To which be nded, for the fifth t7me, a Burletta. taken from ktchling's Navol, called TOM JONES; or. The FOTTNDI.TXG. TOM Jones • Mr. Huntley ; Partridge, Mr. Fitzwitiarn ; Sophia Western, Niil4Jonis ; and Mrs. Honour, Mrs. Brookes. Boxes Is. Pit 2s. Gallery tv —Half P . nee, at half-past Eight.— Dmr; to be opened at half•past Five, to begin at half-past Six. Nlond.,y *vei( µ•ill Lc revived the Burletta Spectacle, called StAvrs tY HARAARY; or the Bombardment of Algiers. THE NATIONAL REGISTER LONDON: SUND.IY, FEBRUARY s, 1818. PARIS Papers of Tuesday anti Wednesday last, were vereivcd yesterday. The discussions on the Recruiting I.aur .vere still continual; on the Sd several of the articles were passed with the amendments which had been pmpt)sed in the Committee. The Duke of Wel -1,-,con had a private audience. frith tie King on .the THE NATIONAL RE( E'ER. 3d, after which his Grace paid a visit to Monsicar and dined with Prince Tallcyrand. On the same day the English Ambassador gave a grand anus bull at which more than 1000 persons were present. A report of a most alarming-nature prevailed on Friday, in the City, on the authority of a letter from Genoa, dated about the sth of January. It was rutted, that the nieces or daughters of the British Consul had been seized at Algiers anaconsigned to the Haarana, that his son had been murdered before his eyes, and in the presence of the other Europeon Consuls. The sane story, but with some variation in the circum stance, has ca.nc tract Frankfort, thrtm:;h the Mitch mail; and a letter trout Genoa, of the 12th ultimo, brought by a mail fiorn Hamburgh, affirms a similar violence to have been manifested towards M. Caron. the Sardinian Vice Consul, whose niece was carried off to the Hamm, and he himself order..d to quit Algiers : this gentleman is asserted to have arrived at Genoa, be. titre the date of the above letter and to have been plural in quarantine. Can the two narrativ, , 3 have referenee to the same fact ? .or was any outrage in either ca:se offered to the representatives of the Christian world? in contradiction of this horrid statement it is ass:rtcd that accounts have Wen received from the Agents of Lloyd's at Genoa, bearing date the 9.34 of January, that letters have also reached severed merchants imme dialely connected with that city, and that through nei ther of the above channels has the slightest notice transpired of the circumstances in question. Little doubt, we should hope, can thence ba entained, that the 'Miele, or leading parts of the information are un founded. A respectable meetiug (consisting of the Archbishop of ('anterbury, the Bishops of London, Glocester, Ches ter, and LaudaW. and indeed nearly the whole bench of Bishops, together with the the Duke of Northumber land, Lord Sidmouth, and about 23 lay Peers) was held yesterday at the Freemason's Tavern, fin- the purpose of forming a Society, and raising a Fund in aie of the intenilodearliamentary grant for the building of church et. Several appropriate resolutions were made. The subscriptions in Boston, America, for the late sufferers by fire at Newfinindland, amounts to up wards of 6,000 dollars. A subscription in London on the Fame scale, in proportion to the number of its inha bitants, would amount to more than 40,0001. sterling. Ey a letter from Bologne, dated on Monday last,, it appears that the weathL:r has been most tempestuous alongthe French coast, during the last week. On Sa turday week a smuggling vessel was lust within a stone's throw of the Pier head ; and we regret to state, that the whole crew, conshting of nine Eu,;lishmen and one Frenchman perished. BRIGHTON, FES. 2.—His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, accompanied by Count Munster, returned to the Pavilion from Windsor, about four o'clock this af ternoon. The Duke of Dorset arrived at the Palace about an hour previously. The Marquis of Anglesea, accompanied by Mr. Singleton, came in about ten mi nutes after four. Lord Henry Cholraendeley returned to the Pavilion this afternoon. The Duke of Leeds, Lord Lowther, and Mr. Croker, are momentarily ex pected at the Palace. The Duke of Clarence, and se veral of the Pavilion visitors, were on the Steyne to day, during the more favourable intervals ; but the rain and snow have been predorainant since day-break. Rumour says that a matrimonial negotiation is also on the lapis between his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and a Princess of Denmark. We do not know which of the Ladies. The daughter of the ,present King is 25 years of age. The two daughters of the King's Uncle are both older, and are both widows.—. Morning Paper. Report states that the Prince of Hesse Romberg, who is a nephew to the Landgrave of Hesse Darm stadt, and is now in the 49th year of his age, is about to enter into a matrimonial engagement with the Prin cess Elisabeth. Tuesday he Majesty, accompanied by Princess Eli zabeth, took an airing in a coach and four in Windsor Great Park. The I)uke of Yurk went to Windsor to meet the Prince Regent, on Sunday, and returned to town is the evening. . . Mrs. Davison, in consequence of some misunder standing with the Sub-Committee of I)rury-lone, is no longer a member of that theatre. It is sit in an article from Hanover, that, accord ing to the wish of his Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge, two artists, Messrs. Groegar and Alden,- rath, from Homburgh, have followed him to Cassel, in order to finish his Royal Highness's picture, and also to paint his Royal Highness's intended bride Loth in oil and miniature. The Earl of Sefton, we are happy to ;:tate, is so much better, that hi mself and family arc shortly =- rectal in tom. LAW INTELLIGESCE. FEB. II COVET OF lUNG'S BENC/I, FRIDAY, FEL G, Wit. ,osuroxio v. ABRAHAM TiloaNToN, IN AN APPLAL or MIRDLR. The argument in the demurrer in this case having been fixed for to day, and their lordehips having order ed that the parties should be present, the appellee was put to the bar, in the usual custody, at a quarter be fore nine o'clock ; the appellor entered the body of the Court with his counsel. Shortly before ten o'cloel-, all the avenues became so much crowded that bar. risters could not get to their seats without great diffi eulty, a great number of people were also assembled in tF.e hall. Mr. Clarke, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Chitty, appeared as before, for the uppellor, and Mr. Reader, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr Tindal, tic the appJlee. Their Lordships did not arrive until past ten o'clock. • Lord lillenbortmgh inquired, (after the case bad been called on by Mr. I.e Blanc,) whether the parties were present ; Mr. Clarke re:died, that the appellor was an the - floor ; and Mr. Reail , :r signified, that his client was at the bar. Lord Ellelt , orough desired that the uppei. for should take a seat, he having risen on the entrance of their Lordships, and Mr. Header reapiested, that the appellee might be allowed the same indulgence, which was granted immediately. Mr. Chitty then rose to commence his argument. He observed, that this was a demurrer to a replication, to a counterplea pleaded by the appellor, in answer to a wager LI battle, of which the appellee had attempted to avail himself. He then stated the various pleadings which we have inserted from time to time, and to which we refer, He contended, that the replication to the counterplea was insufficient on two grounls : Ist, That it is not competent to the appellee, in answer to a countenplea, to state circumstances affording a pre sumption of innocence. 2d. That the circumstances, as stated in the replication, were no answer to the eoun terylea. Ia discussing this important and intricate case, he should confine himself as closely as possible to questions of law ; but as it bad been intimated on the other side, that an attempt would be made to show that the counterplea was insufficient, it would be ne cessary for him to inquire into the law and principles of the writ of appeal, and trial by combat ; and he should contend, that a person appealed cf a supposed murder is not entitled to wage battle, when evidence exists affinsling a presumption of guilt. The Learned Counsel then entered into a long and minute citation of all the authorities on the subject of trial by battle; beginning with the statute of Glocester (6 Edw. I ) and concluding with Robertson, Reeves, Henry aad Barrington, from all which he endeavoured to prove that the trial by battle was in the arbitrament of the Court, according to the presumptions. . He likewise quote - d Erskine's Prin. of the Scotch Law, tit. Prvbation, p. 463, and from Cowers Inter preter, tit. Suthdure, or South-door of the church. He was proceeding with a quotation from an anonymous work, entitled Ana duellu, printed in 1632, when he was stopped by the Court, as it did not appear to be the opinion of any historian as to the construction of the law. Mr. Chitty said, that he offered it only by way of observation, and us an eloquent invective against the immorality and impolicy of the trial by battle. In this view he was allowed to continue and to conclude it. He next proposed to bring forward from the year Books and other authorities some decisions applicable to this particular case : first, in Hiliary Term, 6 Hen. 111. quoted in Flub. Abr. fit. Couronne, pl 411. In reference to this last authority, Lord Ellenbe rough put it to Mr. Chitty, what part of the counter.. plea he could point out as affording such pregnant evi dence of the guilt of the appellee in this case as within the cases would oust the appellee: of his right of battle. Mr. Chitty replied, that he meant only to cite these cases Gam the Year Books, for the general rule, and not so much for its particular application. He next referred to the Year Books, 20 Edw. IV. p 6 ; to Bro. Abr. tit. Battaille, p. 4 and 5; to Hargr. St. Tr. L, l 1., and 11. 233; and :to Young v. Slaughterford: Hagr. St. Tr. IX., 341 ; and 11 Mod. 217 and 228. This last case resembled the.present in several eircumstancee, and, according to the report, Lord Holt, who tried the prisoner at the assizes, for the murder of June Young, direct:A an appeal, and in the course at' the preceea ing, had called it " a noble prosecution, and a tree badge of English liberty," referring at the same time, to the Stat. of Gloucester. After noticing the form of a counterpiea in Term. P. C. p 32.'he quitted this part. of his subject, and entered upon an examination of the counterplea of the appellant in this clue, in order So show that it disclosed circumstances establisilin , a pre sumption of guilt strong enough to warrant the Court in disallowing the wager of battle. He was describing the body of Mary Ashford as having been thrown into the pit of water, when he was interrupted by Mr. Justice Bayley, who said, that nothing was stat ed to prove that she bud been thrown into the pit ; for aught that appeared she might have thrown herself into the water. Mr. Chitty contended, that the circumstances strong..