MAY 15. PROS' IN CIALS. Fos Cif ACE.—A. few days ago, two dogs, belonging to Mr. Marchan, Of Ridley Ball, started a fox in tile West Bank, near Judas Craigs, passed Jingho Haugh, in Ilexhamshire, from thecae to Blanchland, and. returning the same way back, pro ceeded to Beldon Shields, the distance about 40 miles, which was run front chace to view iu three hours. The fox was taken under covert. The Dottrel have not as yet appeared on the Width. They were never known so late. Swallows w hick generally appez.r..4 there between the llth and 13th of April, did not make their ap pearance till 11a) -day. The season of course is 16 or 17 days later. LAGLES.—A short time since, nt Moorside Parks, in the parish of Artedon, (about five miles front Whitehaven) ten Jambs, belonging to Mr. Dickinson, of that place, wcrt killed by two eagles ; and some others desperately wounded. MURDERS.—A letter dated on Thursday. last at Drayton, Dorset, states , that a horrid murder w as committed on the b odies of Mr. and Mrs. Sledger, of Thaw Fatal, two miles from Dray ton, on Wednesday morning, at two o'clock. Three robbers broke into the house and alarmed the fatally, and the farmer and his wife were hound together in bed. 'there was only a maid servant, of the name of Sarah Cullum in the house, and she fled at the alarm, at four o'clock in the morning. Two hoOrs after the servant had escaped, she procured assistance, when the poor old man and woman were found dead, and mangled in a shocking matinee. Their ages amounted to 130 years, they were unable ' to make resistance, and the house had been completely plunder ed. One of the villains worked on the farm, according to the in formation of the servant, anti he has decamped. Snot KING CarILI.Tv.—A poor boy, named John Knight, had been hound out as an apprentice from the house of industry, at Melton, in Suffolk. On the 9th of January last, his master's head man, named John Dafeldeo, took hint, while verv . ill and unable to work, naked out of his bed, put him into a hog-cistern, and unmercifully beat him with a horse-whip and the root of a tree, and afterwards kicked him. For this brutal assault, Ila selden was tried at the late Woodht idge Quarter Sessions, and frotenced to on:• year's imprisonment. The wretch pleaded guilty, to prevent the evidence from being given ; hut the Magis trates heard the whole caw, in order to fix the punishment. TUESDAY'S LUN DUN GAZETTE. admirakii-Ofice, .41n.y 10. Eslead of a Letter from Capt. Palmer, of the Pheninnt sloop, to the Hon. W. W. Pot:, dated at Spithead, *Oh inst. On the sth of last month, in lat. V. 10.1ong. 56. W. 1 fell it. with a trench privateer, and, I am happy to ad,l, that after a ch.tce of four hours, I captured her. Site helotved to (ioadst inape, her name Trnpard, had been out wee k-, l taken no thing; N% as formerly his Majesty's schooner-the king's Fist), or Hying Fish, coppered, and copper-fastened, now rig;:,ed its a sloop ; had on hoard when taken live guns, viz. otte long IS pounder, a traverser, and four 6-pounders, uhd tnatunid with 62 men. [The Gazette contains another list of Army Promotions, be ginning with Lieutenant-General Robert Morse, of the Royal Engineers, who is appointed a General of the A roty.—Mitjor- Ceneral William Congreve, of the RON al Artillery, to be Lieu tenant-General.—Five Colonels, begintain;r , with Evelegh, of the Ito%al engineers, and ending s i;l7 Edward Stephens, of the Royal Artillery, to be itiljor-Generals.—Thirteen Lieute nant-01'4101s, beginning with Theophilus Lew is, of the Royal Mariues, and ending v. lilt David Collins. of ditto, to be Colonels. —Four Majors, begin n ing with Robert Stewart, of the late Royal Irish Artillery, and ending with Alexander Brice, of the Ro)al Etwineers, to be Lientenant-Colottels.—Twenty-seven liiptitins,Cegiaming with William liettry Boys, of the Roat Itiarine, and tlaling with John Long, of ditto, to be Majors.) PARTNERSHIPS I)ISSOLVED. Cnodwin, Pite. and 711antliorp, Woodbridge, corn-mereltants. ---Dietrieltien and Menden. RatOrme-place, stayrnakers.— Applch and Carter, Manch..ster, wasont..—llartison and Co. Paper-tnakers, Mills, Susses.—Whitaker and Howorth, I(alifax. coed wainer4.—skaise, Irving, and lendlaut, Skinner ftrret.—ll on ley and flurtons, Church (irealey, potters.— I) i sun, Greeilhalgh, and Holland, cotton-spinners. Mancliestet.—R tigers and Godb). Queen street, wakhuuseniea.—saiggin, Crawford, and Wltitcli, Lund u. - .C" " ' ~,._ TI-t T4ATIOSIAL 'REGISTER. SM. .BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDrD. Charles Bithery Sharp and Israel Pitt, Birmin,;ham, factors. Guy Knowles, Birmingham, druggist. • BANKRUPTS. • • John Simmons, Leicester, druggist. May 27, nt five, 28, anti June 21, at eleven, at the Swan Tavern, Birmingham. Anne tiles, Mr. Egerton, Gray's-Inn ; and Mr. Stubbs, Birmingham. Dixon Holmes, Piccadilly, warehousemen, May 14, at ten, 21, at eleven, and June 21, at ten, at Guildhall. Anoraks, Messrs., Bleasdale, Alexander, and Holmes, New-ion. Thomas Dixon, Birmingham, money-scrivener, May 23, at four, 94, and June 21, nt eleven, at the R oval lintel, Binning ham. Attorney, Mr. John Alexander, Bedford-row. • Joseph Means, Boston, Yorkshire, dealer, May 23, at the Bull and Mouth Inn, Leeds; 30, at the Angel Hsu, Wetherby, York, and June 21, at eleven, at the• nail and Month Inn, Lerds. Attornies, Mr. Homer Grange, Leeds; and Mr. George Edmonds, Lincoln's-Inn. James A Ivey , Fleet, Lincolnshire, victualler, June 2, 3,21. eleven, at the White Ilan Inn, 14ostoo, Lincolnshire. Altor nie, Mr. Cope, Boston ; and Mr. Wilson, Greville-street, Hat ton-garden. Samuel Chapman, Woolpit, Suffolk, shopkeeper, May' 18, r.t live, 19, and June 21, at eleven, at the 14 mil fuck I no, Bar, St. Edmund's. Attornies, Mr. James liarsham, lxworth, Suf folk; and Mr. Egerton, John Trott the Nlaae, Southwark, coal-merchant, May 19,21, at twelve, and June 21, at one, at Guildhall. Attorney, Hayward, Great Ormond-street. Nicholas Middiecoat, Tiepin), Cornwall, innkeeper, May 14, 2.4, and, June 21, at ten, at Guildhall. Anoraks, Messrs. Palmer, • Thomliusons and Thompson{ Coplleall-eourt, throg morton-street. John Girdier, Lambeth-road, St. George's-fields, gword-cutler„ Nlay 17, 24, and June 21, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Rrgers, Manchester-buildings, 11 est minster. William Restorick, Cole's Mill, Gloytoa, Devonshire, miller, May 14, at one, June I, at eleven, and 21, at one, at Guildhall.. Attorney, Mr. George Abbott, Old Broad-street. John George Peters, Chatham, confeetiouer, May 14, 24, anti June 21, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Mr. .1. E. Grave.i end ; and Nlessrs. Cooper rind Lowe, Southampton-buildings. George Casson, IlalifaX, Yorkshire, merchant, June V, 3, and 2i, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax. Anomie.% r. Cottlthurst, Bedford-rosy ; and Mt. Swainson, Halifax. John Smith, Manchester, cotton-manufacturer, May 19, 28, and June 21, at three, at the Star lan, Manchester. Anoraks, Messrs. Kay and Renshaw, Manchester. DIV WENDS. June 7. John Boycs, Portsmouth, mercer, at one, at Guild hall. .lune 4. John Abraham, Houndsditch, warehouseman, at ten, at Guildhall. June IS. John Stroud, NValton-upon-Thames, Surrey, brick maker, at. twelve, at Guildhall. July 16. John Snawdon, Plymouth, Devon, draper, at twelve, at Guildhall. July 2. ly•anc Mencelin and David Amick, Cheapside, per fumers, at twelve, at Guildhall. July 4. Samuel Turner. Manchecter, inn-keeper, at three, at the )a l, Tavern, Deansg,ate, Manchester. Jane 13. John Rudhall and William Hobson, Birmingham, Warwick, linen-drapers, wt twelve, at the sualseveare Tat ens, Birmingham. May 31. William Rattray, K ing's-street, Deptford, Kent, cheesemonger, atone, at Guildhall. May 31. Henry Davis, Old-street, Middlesex, cabinet-maker, at one, at Guildhall. . May 31. John Stapleton, Newington Common, Hackney, dealer, at eleven, at Guildhall. May 31. John Bruckner, South Molton-street, Hanover square, ladies' shoemaker, at eleven, at Guildhatl. June 7. John Peplow, Shrewsbury, Salop, lineu-draper, at eleven, at Guildhall. June - 3. Samuel Stensim, Kensington, Middlesex, cheesemon ger, at twelve, at Guildnall. June 4. John Warner, khndon, Essex, shopkeeper, at one, •at Guildhall. June 4. John Birkett Wienholt, Old Swan, London, at twelve, at Guildhall. June 7. John Bigwood, Basinghall-street, warehouseraan,' at twelve, at Guildhall. May 24. George Pore" Leadenhall-market, poulterer, at twelve, at Guild:-all. t a 1. ~. 1 0 4 . V r a i s~