captain Schomberg, sailed from Portsmouth for Corunna, with 2,200,000 dollars on board, for the service of the patriots, and with merchants' money for Cadiz, and dispatches for Mr. Duff, the consul, M. Adlerberg, the Swedish minister to the Supreme Junta, and suite, went in her. 19. The Pyrenean Mountains. -This prodigious range of mountains extends from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, a distance of 212 miles; and many parts of them are 108 miles in width. The roads, or passes, are four in number. The first and greatest, is that which Joseph Buonaparté took on his route from Bayonne to Madrid. This road, for about 22 leagues, lies through the Pyrenees. The second pass is from Perpignan to Barcelona, a distance of 50 miles through the mountains, where in many places 100 armed peasants may arrest the march of an army, and where neither houses, provisions, or accommodations can be found. The third pass leads from Bayonne to Pampeluna, the capital of Navarre; this difficult defile is only passable between the months of May and October. The fourth road is that which leads from Tarbes in Bigoree to Saragossa. It is a track merely pervious to muleteers during the summer; but in winter, the wolves and snows render it totally impassable. There are nearly sixty other narrow passes called openings, most of which are rugged, intricate, and hardly passable for laden beasts, and even these are frequently blocked up with snow. The Pyrenees present, in profile, a mighty amphitheatre, declining by steps about 400 yards each. The point of Vignemal is 3,456 yards in perpendicular height; from hence is a rapid declivity to la Somma de Seuha, which is 3,214 yards in height. The peak of Ania in height is 2,560 yards. The fourth range declines to the level of the mountain of Hory, the height of which is 1,602 yards. The level of the mountain of Haussa, about the vale of Baztan, which is the sixth, is 1,334 yards in height. The seventh is that of La Rhune, about St. Jean de Luz, which is 924 yards high. The mountain of Aizquibel, on the border of the sea, and which is the eighth of the above series of steps, rises above its surface 556 yards. This moun. tain terminates in a very precipitate decline to the very edge of the ocean. The peaks of these mountains are formed of naked rock, and mostly covered with snow all the year. In the vallies the heat is frequently so intense as to be fatal to human life on extraordinary exertion, and the fogs are so impenetrable as to render many parts of the mountains utterly impassable. Scotch Law Court of Session. -About four years ago, the sheep, pasturing on the grounds in the neighbourhood of the city of Edinburgh, were much infested by dogs in the night time, and on many oc casions great numbers of them were worried and destroyed. No discovery could be obtained of these nightly depredators; and as the mischief still continued, the procu rator fiscal of the county, at the instance of some of the proprietors, offered rewards, first of 25 guineas, and afterwards of 50 guineas, to any person who should be the means of obtaining a discovery in the premises," which rewards were offered by advertisements, published repeatedly, for many months, in the Edinburgh papers, and were to be paid by the procurator fiscal, on conviction. It happened that a poor washerwoman at Stockbridge, who had been sitting up all night, paying the last duties of humanity to one of her fellow-creatures, going to the door of her house early in the morning of the 17th of April, 1803, discovered a dog worrying sheep in a field belonging to a gentleman at Stockbridge. The destructive animal had already killed six sheep, and was chasing the remainder of the flock, when the poor woman, whose name is Charlotte Wilson, frightened him away. The dog was traced to his house; the owner of the dog was cited before the sheriff of the county, and the dog being fully convicted of the offence, was executed. It was some months before the final sentence was pronounced upon the dog, owing to a litigation which the master of it maintained with the gentleman whose sheep had been worried; but as soon as the conviction took place, Mrs. Wilson applied to the procurator fiscal for the promised reward, which was refused, chiefly on the ground that the information given by her was not in the terms of the advertise ment. She applied by petition to the sheriff of the county, who found her entitled to the reward of fifty guineas. The procurator fiscal brought the sheriff's judgment under review of the supreme court, where the litigation has been maintained for upwards of three years; and at last, the contest was finished by two consecutive judgments of the whole lords, ordaining the pro curator fiscal to pay to Mrs. Wil. son the reward of 50 guineas; and he was also found liable in all expences of suit. Extract from a private Letter, dated Stockholm, December 15."A Swedish messenger, baron Klenkowstrom, captain in the navy, set out by the last mail for England. Orders have been sent to Carlscrona to prepare the fleet for the spring. We talk of no thing but war. The king is very popular, and more so than ever he was. Every thing is well, as far as relates to loyalty, patriotism, and devotion to the common cause; but we have indeed hard times. The poor suffer exceedingly from privations of every kind, and we have daily hundreds of emigrants from Finland, who arrive in the most deplorable condition, many of them being nearly naked. I heard to-day that the English have subscribed for the poor Finlanders. I remember when I was in Germany, some time since, how much good the English did them-surely the Swedes have not forfeited their friendship and esteem. We are all astonished at the Russian general's agreeing to the armistice-25,000 Russians, and only 7,000 Swedes; but thanks to our brave general Adlerkreutz, who would not agree to the first demands made by the Russians, though he was in a most critical situation. Murder-Last Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Wm, White, a respectable farmer of Hoo, near Upnor in Kent, was sitting in his parlour reading, a shot was fired through the window, which instantly killed him. The alarm was given, immediate search was made after the perpetrator, but but without effect. A gun, recently discharged, was found in a ditch, about forty roods from the house, near the Medway; from which it is presumed the villain escaped by water. The deceased was a widower, and bore an excellent character: he has left a family of eleven children to lament his loss. The most deliberate aim must have been taken by the perpetrator, as he had placed a hurdle before the window to rest the gun on. The elder branches of the family were sitting near the unfortunate man, and his eldest daughter had just risen to reach something from an adjoining cupboard when the shot was fired, which entered the back part of his head, and came out under his right eye. The gun is an old musket barrel fastened to the stock by a nail in the breach, hammered down double in the wood; the lock will not stand at whole cock, but was fastened back by a piece of twine, which is supposed to have been cut at the time of firing, as it appeared in that state when found. Horrid Murder.Plymouth, Dec. 16.-Yesterday, the Parthian, 18, capt. Baldeston, was ordered to Corunna with dispatches, and while talking to the purser on the quarter deck, one of the master's mates came behind him, and shot him with a pistol between the shoulders through the spinal marrow. Capt. B. exclaimed, "Oh, Lord! I am killed," fell on the deck, and expired instantly. The villain was instantly secured in irons by the ship's company, who were with difficulty restrained from tearing him to pieces, so much was capt. B. beloved by his ship's company. This morning, the body of capt. B. was placed in a shell, and brought ashore to the Royal Hospital for the purpose of a coroner's inquest. Minute-guns were fired from the Parthian while the boat was carrying the body on shore. She sailed directly for her station. Captain B. was about 22 years of age, a gentlemanly and good officer, and is much lamented. So many irregularities and disturbances have recently broke out amongst the students of the EastIndia college, near Hertford, as to require a personal investigation of the court of directors, who have in consequence come to a resolution to expel every student who shall commit any similar offence: amongst the other pranks of these Oriental pupils, that of sporting over the manors of the neighbouring gentry, and destroying their game, has been a principal amusement! The place of collector of the customs, now become extinct, produced an immense income. The late earl of Liverpool, we believe, declined telling its amount, when an inquiry respecting it was sent to him from a committee of the house of commons. 22. Friday, the remains of the earl of Liverpool were removed in state from his late house in Hertford-street, to be interred in the family vault at Hawkesbury, in Gloucestershire. Providential Escapes.-A melancholy event occurred on Thursday at Pimlico, accompanied with very extraordinary circumstances. Mr. Man, a hair-dresser, who resided in Ranelagh street, had, in consequence of a domestic misfortune, suffered mental derangement; but being by medical aid recovered, he some time since resumed his occu pation. pation. That morning he attended, as usual, to dress and shave several gentlemen in his neighbourhood, by whom he was much esteemed. He had in all dressed and shaved nine of his customers, the last of whom was Mr. Palmer, of Drurylane theatre. Immediately upon his leaving Mr. Palmer, he returned home, without attending to any of his other employers, and cut his throat with one of his razors. The wound was so deep and extensive, that he died in a few moments. The gentlemen with whom he had been, all observed something very singular in his conduct, and there is no doubt that, during the whole of the morning, he was labouring under the terrible malady which induced him to put a period to his existence. Each of the nine has reason, therefore, to be thankful that the fatal razor was not applied to his neck before the unfortunate maniac raised it against his own. A few days since, the following shocking circumstance occurred in Sandgate, in Newcastle:-A young woman, sleeping with an infant child, awoke early in the morning, and missed the child out of the bed. On searching the room, she found that it had fallen from the bed into a tub of water, which had been left near it, and was drowned. The shrieks of the young woman, on discovering this melancholy event, alarmed the neighbours, who, instead of endeavouring to quiet her perturbed mind, began to charge her with carelessness, &c. This, added to the anticipated reflections of the mother, who was then at Shields, operated so strongly on the young woman's feelings, that she rushed out of the house, and in a fit of phrenzy, precipitated her self into the river, where she was drowned before any assistance could be afforded. 25. Murder of Captain Baldeston.-On Monday last, a courtmartial was held on board his ma. jesty's ship Salvador del Mundo, in Hamoaze, on Mr. Smith, master's mate of the Parthian, on charges exhibited against him by lieutenant Stevenson, of the Parthian, for the murder of capt. Baldeston, on the 12th inst.-President, vice-admiral Sutton. The court having heard the evidence in support of the charge, as well as what the prisoner had to offer in his defence; and having very maturely and deliberately weighed and considered the same, was of opinion that the charge had been proved against the prisoner; and did, in consequence thereof, adjudge the said Mr. James Smith to be hanged by the neck until he is dead, at the yard-arm of such one of his majesty's ships, and at such time, as the lords commissioners of the Admiralty shall direct. The trial lasted upwards of four hours, during the whole of which the prisoner appeared totally indifferent to his fate. Picture of King Joseph Napoleon, as drawn in the French Jour nal of Barcelona.-The French would now make us believe that their hero Joseph is a perfect Adonis, endowed with every grace, and worthy of all our affection. It may be so, but the following picture, which they have drawn of him in the Barcelona Journal, is not very seducing: "The Diario de Manresa has stated, in one of its numbers, that his majesty Joseph I is crooked, lame, and hump-backed. Doubt less less neither the graces of the body, nor any external accomplishments, ought to be regarded as qualities which render princes objects of respect. We can assert, however, that our monarch is well proportioned, though of middle stature; and that to the fine qualities of the heart and the head which eminently distinguish him, he joins regularity of features, and a lively and agreeable physiognomy. For the rest this prince is known throughout all France, and a great part of Europe, and will soon be equally well known in Spain. In the mean time, enough has been said in reply to the effrontery and falsehood of the Diario de Manresa."The Observer. This singular panegyric shows that the Observer thought he had reason to apologize for both the inside and the outside of the brother of the great Napoleon. It is said that this journalist is a wretched comic poet, whom the French have employed as their translator. 6. Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, of a son. 12. Lady Stanley, of a son. 16. Lady Blacket, of a son. 23. Viscountess Morpeth, of a son. 27. Lady Phillips, of a son. 28. The lady of sir John Hope, of a son. March 1. Lady Bagot, of a daughter. 3. The lady of the hon. George Villiers, of a son, 6. Mrs. Saunders, of two sons and a daughter. 8. Lady Jemima Johnston Hope, of a son. 12. Mrs. Harper, of two sons and a daughter. 19. The lady of George Polhill, esq. of a daughter. 28. The countess of Aberdeen, of a daughter, April 2. Lady Sinclair of a son. 4. Countess of Jersey, of a son and heir. 12. The lady of the hon. Montgomerie Stewart, of a son. ter. 17. Countess Talbot, of a daugh 25. Lady Stanley, of a son. The lady of William Cavendish, esq. M. P. of a son and heir. May 1. The wife of Isaac Goldsmid, esq. of a son. 10. The lady of captain H. M. Ommanney, of the royal navy, of a daughter. 18. Countess Grey, of a son. 20. The lady of sir William Walter Yeo, of a son. 21. The lady of the hon. Richard Ryder, of a son. 31. The lady of Wilbraham Egerton, of a son. June 3. The wife of Joseph Johnson, of three daughters. In Hertford-street, May Fair, the right hon. lady Rous, of a daughter. In |