and energy for raising the embargo, but all in vain. The hostile resolutions were carried against him by a sweeping majority.

The principle of the non-intercourse restriction, it will be seen, applies equally to France and Great Britain, and comprehends both public and private, armed and unarmed vessels. It was supposed in America, that so soon as this measure should be carried into effect, the embargo would be raised with respect to other countries.

These papers also contain several official documents relating to the embargo, which accompanied the President's message.

It will be seen, from the returns of those states that have voted for the election of President, that Mr Maddison is likely to be chosen, by a very great majority.

General Lefebvre, after he was taken, rode from the British camp to Corunna, accompanied by Captain Wyndham, and attended by two servants. He expressed great apprehensions lest he should not be able to excuse himself to Buonaparte for having been taken, as he said, in so foolish a way; though 20 charges passed between the cavalry on the occasion, and he was cut very much about the head and body, and reGeived a wound in the face.

A curious cause came on at Beverley sessions last week. A woman, whose name has not been transmitted to us, was indicted for perjury, in swearing to the filiation of a bastard child. She had, in the first place, sworn to a man who had not seen her for sixteen months before the time of her delivery; she next laid it to another man, who was not known to her till between two or three months before that time; after

wards she fathered it upon anothe man, one of her fellow-servants. In dependent of these circumstance she was completely contradicted i her statements to the court, whic sentenced her to twelve months in prisonment in the house of corre tion. Another woman received th same sentence for a similar offence.

A coroner's inquest was held, c Wednesday last, at Oakedge, ne Wolseley bridge, Staffordshire, on 1 Harryman, a boy about eight years age, whose death was occasioned t the following singular circumstance He was assisting his father to pla trees, and finding a small white ston he put it in his mouth. A nide pheasants getting up near him, 1 suddenly elevated his head, and t stone stopping in its way down } throat, he was choaked before a assistance could be rendered hi Verdict-Accidental death.

A short time since an unfortuna girl of the town was sitting in tl White Lion public-house, Chathar and complained of being cold, upc which an inhuman brute (a labou ing man) said he would give her warming, and instantly set fire to h clothes, by putting a lighted cand up her petticoats. The poor creatur ran off in a fright, and, before he clothes could be extinguished, w burnt in a most shocking manne She, however, was going on well, an was considered out of danger fro the injury she had received from th burn, when she took cold, and bein seized with a fever, died on Tuesda se'nnight. A jury was summone to inquire into the cause of her de cease, who deliberated, by adjourn ment, two days, when they gave a verdict-Died by the visitation God.

15th.-CRESCENT FRIGATE. Th

llowing is an extract of a letter ceived at Portsmouth from Mr 'homas Mason, late clerk of his Majesty's ship Crescent, relative to e melancholy loss of that ship: "On the 5th inst. (Dec.) we ruck on the coast of Jutland, near obsnout, and were completely wreck 1, with the loss of 220 people. The irvivors, 60 in number, were saved, e major part on a raft, the remain er in the jolly-boat. Our situation as truly dreadful, even worse than the old ship's (Anson) loss. We ive been removed from Robsnout to is place (Aalborg) in waggons, out 32 miles. We have as yet en treated very well-expect soon be released."

The following instance of the base eachery of a French dragoon, after ving been vanquished by a serjeant the 7th light dragoons, and taken isoner, may be relied on as a fact: aptain Dukenfield, of the 7th light agoons, commanded a small dechment of that regiment on a scourgparty, and, at the village of Palais, they fell in with a party of rench light dragoons, whom they gaged. A serjeant of the 7th comted the Frenchman in question, d got him completely in his power, en the latter threw down his sword, d held his hand to shake with his versary. The serjeant, with the he characteristic of an Englishman, ok him by the hand, when the sassin drew a pistol from his holster the moment, and discharged it, hich blew the serjeant's hand to ms, and killed his horse. The sassin was instantly killed by the aniards, and his body was conned to ashes, in a fire made for it purpose. Such was the disgust the Spaniards, that in their venance they killed the assassin's horse.

KELSO JUSTICE COURT.-At the last Justice of Peace Court held here, three cases between master and servant were brought before the meeting; the first at the instance of a clergyman in the neighbourhood, against a servant whom he had hired for the winter half year. The man entered to his service some days after the term, but upon pretence that the horses were not to his satisfaction, left it. The justices found him liable in damages, and fined him in 51. Sterling, besides the expence of process, and granted warrant to commit him to the county jail, there to remain till the sums awarded were paid. The second was against a woman who had been hired in the public market here, but who refused to fulfil her engagement. The court found her liable in damages to the party complaining, and in expences. The last was at the instance of a respectable corn merchant here, against a woman who had entered into his service at last Whitsunday, and whom he had hired also for the winter half year. he, however, left her place at the term of Martinmas.Several aggravating circumstances being proved against her, the court ordained her to forfeit her wages for the summer half year, to be, with the other fines, disposed of as the justices should direct.

16th.-Mary Bateman was fully committed from the town-clerk's office, Leeds, for the murder of Sarah, wife of W. Perigo, of Bramley, in May, 1807, by poison. For an account of this abandoned impostor, see Chronicle of last year, page 215, in the EDINBURGH ANNUAL REGISTER, Vol. I. Part 2.

17th. The daughter of a respect. able tradesman, at a town in Surrey, not far distant from London, a very

pretty and accomplished girl, only in her 15th year, was permitted by her father to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend at Hampton Court, who had a niece about her own age. When one day walking in the cloisters of the palace, she was seen by an officer of a regiment quartered in that neighbourhood, more renowned for his conquests over female innocence than military achievements. He unfortunately saw and marked her as a victim for his libidinous desires; to accomplish which, he had recourse to the servant in the family where the young lady was, and, by bribery, got an opportunity of speaking to her; when he so worked upon her unsuspecting mind, as to induce her to consent to an elopement, which, with the assistance of a male pander of the captain's, was effected on Thursday night last, between nine and ten o'clock; and, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the fugitives walked from Hampton Court to Hounslow, where they procured a post-chaise, and proceeded towards town. The young lady being very soon missed, her father was immediately sent for, who soon ascertained the cause of his daughter's flight, and, almost frantic with grief and rage, set off in search of her. At Hammersmith he learned that the chaise had broken down there, but that they had procured another, which had conveyed them to Leicesterfields, where all trace was lost, the driver stating that he had put them down in the street. All Friday and Saturday the unhappy father, whose anguish of mind can be better imagined than described, spent in fruitless search of his daughter, though assisted by the police.

Another elopement took place from the neighbourhood of Kings

ton on the same evening as that fro Hampton. A custom-house offic was the gallant in the second affa His companion was the wife of dealer in grocery and hardware, years of age; whom the husba was fortunate enough to find yeste day in Duke street, Manches square. The husband got poss sion of her again by the interferer of the police; and 701. she had fi nished herself with was returned him.

EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT. Some time since, a young lady Bath, possessing a very handsome f tune, being in Wales, wrote to! brother and sister, who reside in L don, informing them she was ab to leave Wales, and should come London, but did not fix any ti when they might expect her; obs ving, they need not expect her till tl saw her. However, two months ela ing, and not having heard from h they began to be alarmed, fearing had altered her mind, and had g with the family she was with to I land, and they had been lost in th passage. They, in consequence, wr into Wales, to inquire after her, a received for answer, that she had Wales for two months past, with uncle, of Bath. On further inqu being made, it was ascertained t the uncle had left his wife and fam about the above time, and was st posed to be in London. The you lady's brother and relations in L don made great exertions to find t uncle, in hopes to learn some tidin of the young lady; and at length, great exertions, discovered the unc who lodged in an apartment in Ble ett's-court, Fetter-lane; and on Tu day morning the brother and the ter's husband went there, when, to th great surprise, they found their sis

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him most unmercifully about the head: the officer, of course, did not return the blows, but endeavoured to prevail upon the young lady to leave her uncle, urging his having a wife, and a daughter as old as herself. Snip, the tailor, took no particular part in the affray, except abusing Adkins for not keeping the peace. At length all the parties were on the floor together, fighting for the young lady: they contended for her till nearly all her clothes were torn off; when her brothers, finding it her de termined resolution to continue to cohabit with her uncle, left the shameless woman to her own course.

at sitting with him, and learned that they had been living together, as man and wife, for about two months. The brother was overjoyed to find his supar posed lost sister, and after expressing the: his happiness at meeting her, remonstrated with her on the impropriety Ne of her conduct, and entreated her to leave her uncle, and go with him; and that her conduct being only known sh to her family, it should be buried in oblivion. But all his affectionate entreaties had no effect upon her; for, callous to what he could say, she preferred continuing in the most horrid and wicked state of life with her uncle, under pretence of affection towards him. She is only about twentysix years of age; her uncle sixty; a little grey-headed man, without any personal charms; has a wife, and two children about the same age as the the young lady, whom he has deserted at Bath, to cohabit with his niece. The grey-headed uncle also assumed the character of a young lover to his own niece; professing his affectionate regard for her. Her brother, however, being sensible of the disgraceful connexion, declared, if his sister would not quit the connexion with her uncle by mild means, she should by legal; and set off to get a constable, learving her brother-in-law to take care of them. But while he was gone for a constable, they, by force, and in defiance of the brother-in-law, left the house. After a vast deal of flight and pursuit, the frozen enamorato and his prize were traced to the house of a valourous son of the thimble, where, assisted by Adkins, the Bowstreet runner, a battle-royal took place; the young lady, her uncle, and a niece of the tailor, on one side, and the young lady's brother and brother-in-law on the other. The wife of the tailor attacked Adkins, and beat

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VOL. 11. PART II.

18th.-HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.-Our most gracious Queen completed her 64th year, on the 19th day of last May, the celebration of which, as a national festival, has always been put off till the 18th day of January following; the 19th of May being too near his Majesty's birth day to afford encouragement to the manufacturers, artists, and other persons generally employed upon those occasions. The celebration of her Majesty's birth-day, which took place this day, must. like all others, be considered as the commencement of the London season; as it, in some degree, forces the nobility and persons of distinction to the metropolis at that time, for the purpose of going to court to pay their respects to her Majesty upon the occasion.

Although the cold was more severe than any day this winter, numerous parties of fair damsels, very elegantly dressed, (if dressed some of them could be called, considering the severity of the weather,) began to assemble in the rooms of the palace leading to the drawing room, about ten o'clock, and waited, with anxious,

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but patient expectation, to behold the company as they passed, till twelve, until which hour even the attendants upon the royal family did not arrive. We were sorry to observe some of them were refused admittance, although provided with tickets of admission, on account of being, as well as some gentlemen, dressed in black; as it is contrary to court etiquette to admit any person so dressed upon the days of the celebration of their Majesties' birth; for, f the court be in mourning at such periods, it goes out of mourning on these occasions.

As the Horse Guards' clock struck one, a double royal salute was fired in St James's Park, and the 61 cannons on the Tower wharf were discharged.

Soon after nine o'clock, their Majesties, the Princesses, the Dukes of York, Clarence, Sussex, Cumberland, and Cambridge, breakfasted together at the Queen's palace. The Duke of Kent was prevented from being present, by indisposition.

About eleven o'clock, the Princess Charlotte of Wales arrived at the Queen's palace, to pay her respects. In the course of the morning, the Bishops of Chester and Salisbury, and a number of dignified clergy, attended at the Queen's palace, to pay their early and private congratulations to her Majesty.

About half past twelve o'clock, her Majesty and the Princesses, and Princess Charlotte of Wales, went from the Queen's palace to St James's palace, and proceeded to dress in their court dresses. The Princess Charlotte of Wales afterwards went to the apartments of Lady Charlotte

Finch, and remained with her ladyship till near four o'clock, when she went home.

About two o'clock, her Majesty and the Princesses proceeded to the King's levee room, where the attendants of his Majesty's bed-chamber were in waiting, to pay their respects. They then entered the entré-room, where the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Portland, Earls Camden, Westmoreland, Bathurst, and Liverpool, Lord Castlereagh, Mr Canning, Mr Perceval, &c., were in waiting, to pay their respects; after which, the ministers left the palace, and went to the Queen's house, to attend his Majesty at three o'clock, for the purpose of finally arranging his Majesty's speech, to be delivered by the commissioners, at the opening of the session of parliament to-morrow.

In her Majesty's way to the grand council chamber, the boys from Christ's Hospital were presented ; after which the new year's ode was performed.*

The Princess of Wales entered the drawing-room about ten minutes before three o'clock, and was conducted to her Majesty by Mrs St Leger. Her Royal Highness, after paying her respects to her Majesty, passed on, and shook hands with the Princesses and the Duke of Cambridge. The Prince of Wales came about five minutes after.

The company was as numerous and brilliant as upon former occasions.

In the evening their Majesties had a select party at the Queen's palace.

In Dublin, Edinburgh, &c., her Majesty's birth-day was celebrated with the usual heart-felt demonstra