A young man, in the neighbourhood of Wakefield, lately un dertook, for a wager, to hop 60 yards in 20 hops, and performed his task in 17, with apparent ease. A meeting of the inhabitants of Lewes was held on Thurs6y last, when Petitions to the two Houses of Parliament, prayiug them not to lay any unnec e s sar y restr i ct i ons on the Regent, were proposed by Mr. Blackman, and agreed to. The brig Elizabeth, a Plymouth trader, lyin g n ear t h e p i er at Ramsgate, took fire on Monday evening, and was burnt to the water's edge. The cargo was valued at 151,0001. The ves sels alongside her fortunately escaped. Early in the morning of Monday se'nnight, the Hon. Mr. Vernon's gamekeeper, accompanied by two assistants, surprised a gang of poachers in one of the woods of Stainbro' Park, York shire, shooting pheasants. The villains immediately fired upon them, and wounded tke three —the gamekeeper in his h an d, t h e landlord of the iun at Stainbro' dangerously in the back, and the third man in the arm (so that it has been found necessary to amputate it) and then escaped. Co war-MAKI - Lat.—Saturday sen'night, a Court-martial was held on board the Salvador del Mundo flag-ship in Hamoaze,on Thomas Smith, a Royal Marine, for attempting to desert in a boat to the enemy, with two other marines (who turned King's evidence), from the Venerable, 74 guns, kir H. Popham, Kiit. when, atter a long trial, he was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged at the lore-yard-arm, of such ship as the Lords Coma niissioners of the Admiralty shall appoint. A number of farmers and others, were last week summoned before the Magistrates at Stafford, for making a deduction from the wages of their servants, enrolled in the Local Militia, on account of their having been absent from service during the pe riod of training and exercise. The Magistrates observed, that the Legislature had provided for the point in dispute, and re ferred to the 15th clause of the 46th Geo. 111. c. 3. N% hich or dains that no ballot, enrolment, and service under the .Act, shall make void, or in any manner affect, any indenture of ap prenticeship or contract of service. The defendants, upon the Act being read, agreed to pay the servants their full wages. The new aqueduct iron bridge of the Grand Junction Canal, over the Ouse, near Stoney-Stratford, Bucks, was opened far the passage of boats on Tuesday. The whole length of the ron-work is 101 feet; it is wide enough for two boats to pass ach other, and has attached to ita towing-path of iron. On Thursday morning, about one o'clock, the Parsonage; ad joining Maireafield Church-yard, Sussex, where the Curate, the ilea. Mr. Bingham, resided, was burnt down. Last year, Mr. Bingbain!s-stables were destroyed in like manner, and, as sup posed, because he had endeavoured to check the disorderly con duct of some of his parishioners. If Mr. Bingham had nut been awake, in consequence of indisposition, he and his wile and nine children would undoubtedly have been burnt in their beds. Having heard a noise, he got up, went down stairs, and s:sw man going front the house ' • he attempted to open the door, which he found obstructed by part cf the furniture raised against it: he then went round to an outward door, which he had bolted within just before he went to bed, and found .it broken open, and some furze-faggots burning, which had been broughainto the.room, and the furniture placed round them. The lire was so rapid, the house being chiefly of w..od, that it was with difficulty, any lives were preserved ; two of the ch! . - dren were obliged to be thrown out of the window, awl two were nearly suffocated before they could haaxtricated ; but no wearing appareli furniture, or other property could be 4avcd. At the General Sessions of the Peal for the town and port of Sandwich, holden on. Friday last, two saldiera, quartered .at Ramsgate, were found guilty of purchasing .bate coin , and ten tenced to twe/ix viwnihi imprisonment. The prisoners were sus pected of being concerned int.his net:axj.ouo traffic, and a . pinion was in consequence employed by Mr.• Solicitor to the Mint, who assumed the character of a Birttshigha n iyaVrller, which, it appeared in evidence,. is :known to signify a seller of base coin ; tnis stratagem 10.41.11 e desired effect, the prisoners having dealt with him, conaikaing the' neighbourhood where they resided to be well adapted far the purpose of their depre dations; but, to use the technical terms of villainy, they were not 44 down to the queer," and were convicted as abuye. • At the Berkshire Quarter Sessions, on 'Tuesday last, Mr. William Kent, wbo uati been convicted by W. H. Price, Laq. • Justice of the Peace for that county, it .the penalty of .V.Ol. for teaching and praying, appealed against such conviction,and had ' his trial by Jury. It appeared that the defendant and Ltveral otbet persons, on Sunday evening, Octobcr 21, met at a house - : a .• 'lvo or three other persons knees, and sung h; only against preachers now olei Act are exempt, on . yet the ..irman (•Lurd Radnor) after stating this - was a new and difficult ease, expressed it as 'his opinion, that extempore prayer inc►uded teaching, and the Jury according found the defendant Galy. The procecclinrs, we learn, will be removed by certiorari uto his Majesty's Court of King's Bench. -, -, TIIE NATIONAL REGPs TR , TT R. ,______ , frwor-.....1,41.2.11 ft.oft.i —' '' . " ''--- most!i=imurm The Bill then msecl, and the Chancellor of, the _EgAequer of th e d e f en d an e e, at. Child.rey, when he and two or tL was ordered to bring it up to the L o rd s . persons engag e d i n extempore praye r upon their kn Adjoiscuod to Monday. . , \ . ; ~ : , , ? i , sung flint's ; and though t h e A ct g i ves the.&eralty !in] • . pivachcrs and teach ers , ( w h o now by t h e , olerat:on - • ...I PROVINCIALS. . - .., i. , exempt, on taking the oaths) yet the L'hairman (turd TUESDAY' S LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. William Ebsworth, of Charlton, Glocester, dealer. - James Hyde and John Clemson, of :Manchester, dyers. BANKRUPTS. John Kennedy Malleson, of Sweeting's-alley, Cornhill, bill broker. Thomas Greaves, of Oldham Lancaste; grocer. Williatn Cogswell, of 'Trow bridge, Wilts, clothier. John Lewis, of Worcester ' vintner. Thomas Knight Kent, of Cannon-0- East, timber-dealer. James /idly, of Great Pulteney-street, Gelden-squareOvivb tualler. Edward Bradshaw White, of Chamber's -street, Goodman's-. Fields, carpenter. Allatson Hodgson. of Fenchurch-street-chambers, merchant. John Joseph Lockley,. of Tooley-streeL, Southwark, dealer in soap and candles. John Sells, of Brixton-hill, Surrey, carpenter. Lawrence Aint:svorth, of Wlthnell. L•nicaster, and Philip Bennett, of 'Munn, Lancaster, cambric-manufacturers. Thomas Beishaw, of Manchester, machine-maker. Robert Graham. of Liverpool, merchant. Czsar Jones an.l Benjamin 1.31d:4113n, of Sheffield, druggists. William Llewillen, late of Brist,l, toy-dealer. Archilydd Bernard Crook, of C.;ine,.Lancaster. Philip Bennett, of Dcr.ynend, Gloucester, ine.iltran, William Augustus GrobeAcr, of Great bt. Helen's, ship owner. John Walker, ' of Little Britain, lace dealer. Morris Cassel, of Stm-sire Bishopsgate-street, shopkeeper. Edmund Smith, of Greenwicl , grocer. John King, 6f Hampstead, shopkeeper. - Thomas Bennett, of Long-acre, ironmonger. CERTIFICATES.—rEa. 12. David Walker, of Holborn, hookseller.s—Roliert Kerry, of Bucklershury, warehouseman.— = Thomas Silverwood, of Settle, York, innkeeper.—Thomas Harrkte of Camomile -street, sta tioner.—William Westall, late of Moon t -street. Whitechapel, yeast-merchant.—Joshua Barton, of Stockport, Cheater, cotton spinner.—John Perkins, of Neatli, Glamorgan, apothecary.— John late of Great Coram-street, Brunswick-Rip: v(1, merchant. St. George, SATURDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Hugh Dick, of (iosport, gJuthu:npton navy an d• prize-agent. BANKlttrirrcy suPERSPDED. • Th3mas Webb, of 'Waleot, Somersetshire, cabinet-maker. BANK IZAT PTS. . Th , )rnas Tallemach, of Petersham, S•trrev, clair;man. Witham Rodman, gen. of Queen-street, St. Saviour's, South .w. .Irrey,victuaa , r. Janie.; Wain, late of Brixton, '•:erev, clothier. . • WiliiaM Ili - Mc:ens, late of t:r..at W ilebstrcet 1 ;Amin's-Inn fie!ds, victualler. - • , Joseph Webb, of Bristol, linen-drape,. .-• ‘. •-• P.' I Jdrr t":"; Dawkins, of Queoi-strcet„l l iipeliouse, timber-nier chant. " '•' Henry Lmecii, of Buri St: Eilmitturs, Sitifvlk , merchan'. John Kriufs, of n.tnehe:ttr,lnc.r(liznt. RobSrt Collins; - of Union-court, Broad-street, London, and of Kuuston-hall, Northamptonshire, buildei . . • • • Thomas Proctor, late of Shoreditch, and •sinc.a of Nightingale lane, St. George's, Middlesex, brewer. , • • William :Blovr, of I lertford, tanner. James Hyde•andJohn Clemson, of Manchester, dyers. William Heridy, of Swansea ; Glamorgansiiire, victualler. • John Camp, of West Smithfit stationer. John Salisbury; of Highgate, victualler. • • Francis Adrian Van Dycli, of I:en-cburch buildings, Ftill• churcb-itrect, merchant. • e: ... ~.. * .., fr. • .. : 4