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LAW INTELLIGENCE,
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
•ver/ui
Joseph Cabrera.
Mayor's court ts the city of Philadelphia.
On Friday, July 6th, this diftirguifhed
prifonrr being placed at the bar, before a
refpe&able jury, the charges of forging and
uttering three checks, drawn and preferred
in the name ft the'*Spjtai(h ambailador, the
Mar<juij| do Ofa Yrbjo, upon the bank of
Fennfylvania, for the Aims of 6c®, 1000
ard 3*o dollars, were opened against him
by Mr. Irgerfol. The trial was unavoid
ably protracted by two long adjournments,
?r.d Lifted twenty.two hours in ftfljon.
The fedimony war voluminous and detailed,
and occupied about twelve hours.—On the
part of the common wealth it went to (hew
the prisoner's ex pen five and extravagant
mode of living, and the narrowness of his
means, from whence it was to be inferred,
that he rnuft have refotted to artifice and
forgery in order to fullain his great expences
—the preffrttatioii at the bank of the third
check, eonfelfedl/ by Cabrera’s dirtdion,
and the ftmilariiy of the writing in this to
two preceding checks. For the prisoner it
was fwoin, by several witnrffes, that he
was a man of illustrious family and connec
tions ; and it was attempted to be proved
that he had received the lad check from a
Frenchman; who, however, fworc in ab
solute denial of this charge, and was con
finned by strong evidence of witmfics, as
well as corroborating,circuinftances. When
the tdlicuony was closed, the case was fpo
kch to by Mcftn. Heady and Lewis, for
the priToner j and- Mr. Charles Ingeifol
and the attorney.general, for the profecu
lion. Th<To dftcuft.ons woe rircumftantial
and animated,—At ten o'clock, Wenclnef
day night,- the Recorder delivered a full and
accurate charge ; and at eleven on Thursday
morning, the jury returned with a vtrdiftof
GUILTY.
On Tuefday morning, the 16th July,
after an impreftive addicfs, the Recorder
pronounced the prifonar's fentcncc to two
years imptifontnent at hard labor, arid a fine
of 2000 dollars, —During the whole of the
trial, the prisoner's conduT was competed,
gentleman.like, and becoming. The wea
ther was ejn-ffilvdy hot, apd the hall very
much crowded. The jnftice done to this
mad on this occasion, in the eircnmttances,
manner, and event of hi* trial, is honorable
to the court and jury ; and cannot fail to
innprcTs ,'his country’ with highly favorable
ftnuments of the impartial integrity of A
mcrican tribunals.
Britt,n Imperial Parliament.
CA THOLIC PETITION.
One of e moll interfiling difeuffions of a
parliamentary kind which ha* been lately re
ported in England, is that upon tke Iridi
Catholic Petition. It received all the defence
and support which the friends of civil and
religious liberty could give it, but in vain
—the church was against-it; and ludicrous
to fay, the Protestant church government
in i Hos refufe thc liberty which they them
fclves claimed in the 16th century. The
majority in the Houfc of Lord* againil the
roeafure which Lord Grenville,had the ho
nor to propefe was 129—178 who voted,
49 only efpoufirg rhifecaufe of human nat
ure, and driving to return to their fcllow
mcn the rights of which they have been
difpoflcflifd.
In the Houfc of Commons the debate con
tifmediwo days. Fox and Grattan (being
his rdaiden fpecch in the Parliament!
ZTtr“imrnrgii7nrcJ among the patriots who
pleaded for the reiteration of the f< rights of
iuan,” t® the efiaved, impoverished, per
fect! ted I rifli. Fox, whose name alone fills
the hieatt with emotions ofenthufiafro, ap.
pears to have felt in all it? influence the
rmmenfity of the charge which lie had on
dertakco, and with the importunity of a
beggar soliciting food to save him from pc
ridtiog, he defended the claim, and alferted
the just ice of (heir demand, Grattan, with
the boldness of an incorruptible Patriot, and
with the energetic language of Demofthe
ncs aided his friend in the noble objed,
and in fentenres which would aim oft melt
ftones/alledgcd their inalienable right to the
enjoyments of which they had been so long
deprived, and of which they ought imme
diately to obtain poftefTtou.
The orators have acquired immortal ho
nor, and the unfeeling tools who.heard them
evcrlatting infamy ; with the fame apathy,
they pass a tirnpike law, as the addrels in
support of war, by which the world is dis
turbed, their nation rendered wretched, and
their fens made the victims ot an infatiate
ambition ; and with the fame feeling refafe
the just claim of several millions of people,
** one.fourth of the population of the Briiith
empire.”
To the eternal glory of the Britifli House
of Commons, 124 of its members were
willing to accede to "the Irish prayer, and
336 refined their after.t. The effects of
this event arc not io easily divined—Are
not the Irilh in the fame (fate a* the Ameri
cans in 1775 ard previous r--Let us difeard
all men, all meafurcs, and all things which
oppose the dignity and happiness of man.
Under specious names, let us not be de
ceived. A patriot is open, he wants no
cloak to kide his detigas; he has but one
1 objcfl In view, Ins country's good ; bccaufe
he knows that what promotes his country’s,
augments his own. Let us rejoice that we
live where no one dare to pronounce the
anathama, if our ererd do not accord with
his j and where the church, which has
always been, when it bore sway, the rnoft
dcfpotic of all tyrants, dees not control us,
but by the arts of persuasion and its own
intrinsic excellence. Bait. E<v. PoJI.
LONDON, May 25.
Prvjfiu and Sweden, —By private letters
from Berlin, jdn which entire confidence
may be placed, \ye find that a very feriotis \
rnifundcrlbnding has arilen between that I
court ami the king of Sweeden, It has been
even reported that Prussian troofis will Ihoit.
ly set down before Strallund, but no qujr,
(Hon seems to be entertained thut' all intern
coinfe has coaled between the two fovereigri*.
An officer of one of the Ihips lately cap
tured by the Bold gup brig, gives a molt
formidable account of the camber of the en.
ewiy's flotilla in the ports of Boulogne, Vl4
mereux, Ettaples, Calais, Oftend and
kirk. He (wells the total amount to 5000 ;
that the attempt at invafioo will
be made this summer ; that the French fleef
will come out and fight ours, and that whilst
they arc fightipg us with their ships of tilt)
line, their large frigates will release thsfio
til!a from the different ports and convoy
them to our (bores. The number of men
encamped on the Boulogne coatt is 50,000.
May 29.
A letter received yeiterday from Cork,
flares, that that city had been thrown ituo
foa e alarm, in confequcnqe ©f an express ha
ving arrived there with orders for every ar.
mtd veficl to put to sea with the greatest
expedition, and to fail to the wdhvard ; *
from which it was inferred that the enemy
had been fecn in confidcrable force In that
quarter.
May 30.
A letter fr*m Paris, dated May 18, fays
—** I fuppwTv jou nave neara mat many of
• the United Irilhmen are quitting this coun
try for America, Dr. M'Nevin has refign
rd his commission in the Irish Legion,
and is going there ; Sampson, the barrister,
and Sweeney, who killed Corbett in a duel,
are also going."
It is reported that fomc meeting of difaf,
feXcd persons . (fomc fay several thtvufand)
have been lately ofcfcrved in the Coukty of
Kildare, Ireland.
Bonaparte in answering the address ©fibe
people of Milan, and speaking of Italy,
fays.--“ God has given me a good fevord to
scatter its enemies."
The crew of the Pallas frigate, LordCoch.
ran«*, have been paid a part of ,their prize
money ; the proportion to each fbftmafl
man was 301, which was paid in hard caftu
All the hack carriages and horses, with eve
ry blind fiddler and Tailor’s girl in Dock,
Plymouth, and the purlieus, were soon pat
in requifttion, all has heenjolity and fun for
two or three days, with those that could
make; their money last so long; all could
not, for one seaman aftually got rid of his
301. in eight hours, and on going on hoard,
half muddied, declared it was the hardest
• day's work he ever went through in his lift!
v
A late Monsieur chains tjhe following
reflexions upon the conduX of Russia ;{
ft The preponderance of Russia in the Morea
continues to inercafe in an alarming manner,
There is even a report of its obliging th*l
Sublime Porte to renew with it the scandalous
treaty of 1798, according to which, with
out any reciprocity, the Porte would alien.)
ate its political independence entirely ini
favor of Russia. Very different is the cafei
between Russia and Perils ; the Ruffians,
beaten at Araxe, have loft the fruits of a
two years campaign in one day j and were
compelled to retire with precipitation
towards their own frontiers with the loss
«f three parts of their artillery. The Empe,
ror of Persia, full of energy and rcfolution,
defends his estate and his independence in
person. Twice has he sent ambafiadors to
the Porte to solicit fucconr, or, at least,
its intervention; but that feeble govern
mens has nor only been deaf to his representa
tions, but even pretended to doubt the
authority of the meflengers, and compelled
(hem to leave Constantinople in an abrupt
manner. Whatever may be the views and
the ambition of the Ruffians ; it is easy to
fee that they mufl yield to the cavalry and
artillery of Fatah Sehah, Hostilities were to
recommence on the ift of April ; and it
cannot be conceived what objeX the Ruffians
can have in fomenting a division between
the Porte and the Persians, its neighbors."
DOVER, N. H.
Important Dtfct<very..~.A number of men
,J p the earth, in this town, for {he
purpose of making an aqueduX through Mr,
Daniel Waldron's land, difeovered a vein
of dark brown sand running from east to
weft, much impregnated with quickfllver,
of the heft quality. Upon clofc infpcXion
globules of this vein from the fizc of the
fmalicft grain of sand to that of duck (hot—
which leaves no room to doubt, bat upon
further attention, larger quantities may be
difeovered, and prove beneficial trthe own
er of the land.
Dreadful Fires f /-.-By accounts from fir- |
vttal of the neighboring towns, wc find that j
j the fires, inthecccrfe cf last week, trade
1 dreadful ravages. In Barrftead, Barring
ton, Farmington, New-Duiham, Middle
ton, and Milton, the fences, for many
miles, confirmed ; the forefts, ard reserved
woodlands, destroyed, together with the
adjoining fruits of the earth, fitch as grass,
corn, rye, &c. and many pastures wholly
over-run; horned cattle, (beep and hogs,
very much injured by the fiamts and smoke j
and two cows killed.
BOSTON, July 17.
By tire (hip Belvidere, capt. Schenk, ar
rived here yesterday in 43 days from Liver
pool, we have received files of the London .
|/Couries, Mrfferiger and ’Traveller, up to
- May 30, 1805—-fire days later than before
received-—They do not afford any addition
of conference to our former stock of intelli
gence ; except the Dutch decree on com
merce. This article, with others, of fotue
imereft, we have ex traded.
NEW-YORK, July 12 .
Clpt. Stelwagen, arrived here yesterday
from Malaga, informs that on the 23d of
June, in lat. 30, 40, long. 60, 10, he
saw a fleet of French men of war, confiding
of fail, chiefly (hips of the line* finding
to the north, the wind from the eaftivard.
He was brought to by the Achilles of 84
guns, one of the fleet who sent a boat on fV
board, for capt. S. and the flap's paper's ;
and treated him politely, They vv»re fronv
the Weft.lndies ; but capt. Stelwagen did
not learn where they weredeftined, He was
informed by the lieutenant, that every ship
bad a great many troops on board—and they
were obliged to be on two thirds allowance
, through the fleet,
Ja/jrlS.
We have great plcafure in stating the ar
rival in this city of Dr. Mac Nevin, late
an eminent physician of the city of
This gentleman diftinguiftied himfelfin the
Irilh cause in 1798, He was a member of
the executive committee of that ill fated
country, and consequently, a fufferer in its
unfuccefsfßl attempt to (hake off English do
minion.
Capt, Ogilvie, from Malaga, informs us
that the Cartfiagena fleet, confiding cf eleven
fail cf the line, had got out of the Mediter
ranean. An idle rumour prevailed at Mala
ga, that the britifh government had offered
terms cf peace to Spain, and had proposed
as a preliminary, toreliore the frigates and
treasure detained before the commencement
of the war, and to mak» restitution for
the frigate which had been funk; but that
the Spanifti government, irritated at the
wanton facrifice of its fubjeris, in the action,
- wherein the said frigates were taken, had
rejedlcd all overtures of peace.
Capt. Sewards, arrived at Boston on the
r 2th inst. from Cadiz, informs, that there
fivu ihips of she fepaniib line, lying in
the bay, ready for sea ; one of 140 guns,
two of 74, two of 64; and four others
were to drop down in a tew day snd wait
the arrival of eleven more from Carthagena,
which were hourly expedled. There was no
aceouiit from the combined fleet fmee they
\left Cadiz, their dedication was flill a se
cret. Capt, S. also informs, that general
Moreau had a friendly hint to leave Spain ;
and was to take passage either in the (hip
Sachem, of Wifcaflet, for Boston ; or in the
Washington, for Ncw-Eedford.
July 22.
A gentleman left Newharen on Saturday
informs us that a biliois fever prevails there,
of which fix or eight persons died within
the last week. One of these was the custom
house officer, who had visited a brig from
Porto Rico ; another was a young lady who
died on Saturday, and who resided near a
pool of stagnant water, from which it was
conjectured (he had received the disorder.
PHILADELPHIA, July 19.
The recent accounts by Americans who
hare been at St, Domingo concerning the
government of the blacks, does not present
so flattering a piflorc, as might he conceiv
ed from a consideration of the principles of
their recent constitution. We have obtain
ed a copy of their military code, which we
mean to tranflatc and publish to-morrow.
This code and the constitution lately publilh
ed are fa id to be the production of general
Memory formerly a deputy to the national
convention, aided by Bo froundy Tottnere
aud C hanlattey all blacks, and who are the
draughtimen of the emperor Deffalines pro
clamations, The biography of the black
chiefs, if we can rely upon report, is a cu
rious evidence of the inability of human
affairs, aud an important lesson to the vani.
ty of man. The i( firft emperor of Hoyt /,'*
is represented as being originally a sweeper
of the government house at the Cape, gen.
Chrrfiopie is said to have been butler to gen.
Rochambeau the elder during the American
revolution. —Vernet the minister of thefiaiK
ccs was an handicraft man, some fay a tay
lor ; and it it dated that none of these chief
officers can read or w rite j and the emperor
himfelf is represented as very recently enga
ged in going over his ab, ib, 06, & c , under
. the tuition of his fecrctary Ckrvmuxy gen
| erals Petton and Gljfrard are said to have
| been fiivcr smiths ; they are both mulattces,
and command the foiuhcrn divisions doubts
are entertained of rheir fidelity to the impe
rial regime ; and the fame hatred which sub
sisted wherj Toifdh;tit\d *•*******»#
were prominent chaiaflers, has not fubfid'd
between the blacks and mulattces.
NORFOLK, July »g. I
WtU'iam and Letter*
Yesterday the drawing cf this Lotter' I
minated in a manner equally ueexpetted I
unpleafanf. As few tickets rozaim', £ I
was certain that the drawing weald I
in the early part of the day ; the ten :I. 0a I
sand dollar prize had not been dnwr, ■
the last drawn ticket being a prize cf ten I;
thousand-dollars, made this cay 's Cisn
extremely interesting—-accordingly
concOurfe es were afftnjbkd, txpec- 1
ration was on tiptoe, and fpeculaticn Pf* eat I
tickets fold towards the latter part cfthcE
drawing at three hundred dollars each. I
| bout twelve o'clock the drawing I
but behold there was no ten thoufattd doL ■
lar prize in the wheel.—This ctrcnmSance I
occasioned no small degree of affomflimctu I
to all present, and to none more than the I
Managers, who knew that it was put into I
the wheel. An examination E
took place, when the tnyftery was ■
up ; it appeared clearly, that there hadbc**u E
a miftakc in calling the ten thoufend dollar I
prize, a five hundred dollar prize, as there I
is one more five hundred dollar prize t?cor- I
d-d than was put in the wheel.—This mis. K
take, for a mistake it can only .he fopcoied B
i« jf&eltdcd with some uneasiness; in addi. I
tion IPwhich, it appears', there is one num- 1
her (hort, not having been put into the K
wheel. From wha fm- -can underfland, tba I
Lottery will he re-drawn.
ALEXANDRIA, July iS. |
Melancholy Accident afrer. I
nooo four persons were killed by lighting I
on board a small veflel in Occaquan Creek") I
near the mills—-one of them bder-etd to ■
this town, Mr. Isaac Jannsx ; two oth- I
ers tefided at and near the mills „ Mr. Ro- B
bsrt Lindsay and Beckwithßoestsb, B
the fourth was a black mac.—We Emdec- m
stand, just as the vefiel was getting under B
way, they ilepped on board to fail about E
two miles for pie a fore, srd bad. out bren E
there more than five minutes bclcre £cy E
met their untimely end, E
CHARLESTON, Jo ly B
Accounts were received from Kscgfioo, a E
few days before capt. Schaalfielc. failed, E
that fourteen fail of the Bririlh homeward ■
bound fleet, from Jamaica, had been captur- I
ed by h rench privateers— tsro others were ■
run on (liore and loft. . - * I
ExtvaSl of a letter from Kldgjfsa, ("Jam.) m
dated the 15 th July, §
ct The (hip Two Friends, capt. M*Ne!?, E
arrived here on the Bth in#, and the flit# 1
and cargo rauft be fold t« ascertain the fa»- I
vage. Capt, M. having teen deprived of I
all his papers, it became requiSte, isi twder ■
to get at the invoices, to open the greater 1
part of the letters. This was tbe navy p
agents, a very difagreeablc defy, but ah- l|
" Toiutely imiifpenfible." I?
Among the new arrangements of die CL- I
neral Pod-Office lately adopted, it is with B
great plcafure we ft ate, that a cosstraiA h>? B
been entered into for a Ihe of foages, to B
convey the mail weekly, to Frankfort, in B
Kentucky, to commence on the firft day of E
Oftobernext, W hen this arrangement iba!! E
have been carried into eifoft, the whole fe, B
ventcen states will be united by a conceded I
line of feftages.— National, Intelligencer* I
The following is an official account of the I
number of deaths at Gibraltar, daring the I
prevalence of the epidemic fever there lalfc I
fall : — - I
Officers ££ I
Soldiers 574. I
Soldiers wives and childrca y6f Jl
iuhabtiams 4%4 ll
Total yg46 y
The researches which have been made for I
fame years past at Pompcia, in the Ncapoli- »
tan territory, have been attended, it appears S
with great success. The ICing and Qyecn I
of Naples lately visited this fiibrerraccan I
town, and were shewn, aowngft other new I
difooveries, gan ancient edifice in which had I
bean found some very beautiful vases, me- I
dais, musical inftruments* and, what is S
much more valuable, a bronze statue of I
Hercules, killing the famtHu hind in the I
uhace. ‘1 he ddign and composition of this E
group are unequalled, Sorzt very ins E
paintings have also been found ia the some B
edifice, one of which represents Diana fur- K
prifod by Afteon. The colouring of Diana ■
equals any thing that Titian h m ever pro- ■
duced, and the piece, in foort, will fiand I
a competition with the most dteemed paid- ■
ings in our museums.— Paris Argus. B
The Spanijh Infi/itiou —have, it appears B
been proceeding ot late, very zealoofiy b B
their care cf the public order, by prohibit- B
ting vairions books. It so happens in all P
the continental governments where litera- i
ture is compelled to wear the shackles oi
a licence, that among the forbiddeD writers E
our Engiiflt authors make a pretry conspi
cuous figure. Who should imagine, how- %
ever that at this time of day, Locke on E
the human understanding would be condem- I
ned as a work deftrudive of moral ideas ? E
Or that Pope foould be preferibed, becanfo
his writing are unfavorable to the Pope? I» 5
this oneot the modes by which Spain means
to carry on often five war against os ? Are 2v
poetry and teafoning to be fetdowc ia tbs. g
fame prefciibcd lift with the hvaeafariure-- cf |
Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester .■* f
London Pap. |