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determined to obtain their freedom 

 unconditionally. 



A resolution was then passed 

 for calling another aggregate meet- 

 ing on Thursday se'nnight ; and 

 that the Board, thus authorised to 

 prepare the petitions, should have 

 the same ready for the considera- 

 tion of the meeting on that day. 



Two French officers, on parole 

 in Reading, fought a duel, in a 

 field not (ar from the New Inn, 

 on the Oxford-road, when one of 

 them received a ball, which passed 

 through the back part of his neck. 

 Unable to procure pistols ; they 

 agreed to dec'.de the affair with a 

 fowling-piece, at about fifty paces, 

 by firing alternately. The first 

 discharge was conclusive. The 

 officer who fired rendered every 

 assistance to his wounded antago- 

 nist. He accompanied him in a 

 post-chaise to his lodgings, where 

 a surgeon dressed his wound, 

 which is said to be not dangerous. 



20. Sheffield. ~ Yesterday there 

 were great rejoicings in this town, 

 in consequence of the determina- 

 tion of government, to suspend for 

 a time the Orders in Council ; by 

 which America will have an oppor- 

 tunity of evincing her desire to re- 

 main on amicable terms with this 

 country. The ringing of bells and 

 the firing of cannon were among 

 the modes resorted to by the people 

 to demonstrate their joy on this 

 occasion. We fervently pray, that 

 neither the people, nor the govern- 

 ment, may ever have cause to re- 

 pent of this measure ; evidently 

 conceded by the latter to relieve 

 the present distresses of the former. 



Leeds. — The beneficial effects of 

 the repeal of the Orders in Council 

 are already apparent, in the im- 

 pulse given to the woollen trade. 



Bales of cloth, which have been 

 stored in the warehouses of the 

 American merchants for months, 

 in some instances, we may say, 

 for years, are now in transit to 

 the place of their destination; and 

 we are peculiarly happy to state, 

 that there were more purchasers 

 in the Leeds clolh-halls this morn- 

 ing, than there has been on any 

 market-day since the enactment of 

 the celebrated Orders in Council. 



Stafford. — It was reported at 

 Newcastle, and the Potteries, on 

 Thursday last, that ministers had 

 pledged themselves to abandon the 

 Orders in Council. In conse- 

 quence of which considerable re- 

 joicings took place, particularly in 

 the Potteries ; and the countenances 

 of the people resumed an appear- 

 ance of satisfaction and pleasure, 

 such as we have not witnessed on 

 any recent occasion. 



24. A nest of villains has been 

 discovered in the Isle of Wight, 

 deserters from the several detach- 

 ments there ; who were proceeding, 

 in a systematic plan, to rob and 

 plunder; they had dug a cavern to 

 contain their booty, in which were 

 found remains of lambs, sheep, 

 and calves. Three of them meet- 

 ing a countryman, stopped him, 

 and asked him to buy a watch ; 

 the man prudently told them he 

 had no money, but would go and 

 get some; instead of wliich he 

 applied to a company of sheep- 

 shearers, who, with the man, took 

 them before a magistrate of the 

 island, who recognised on the 

 back of one of the robbers, a coat 

 he gave to a poor man whose house 

 they had lately broke open. They 

 were committed to jiri^on. 



In the renewed Turnpike Acts, 

 passed this session, a new clause 



has 



