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were only the oath of hatred to royalty , and he invited all his colleagues to conform exactly to the oath prescribed by the law . —The Council of Ancients took the oath in these words ; I swear haired to royally . Each member repeated the oath at the tribune , and several added , and hatred to all tyranny . Dupont de Nemours said , " I swear hatred to royalty , and an intrepid resistance to all tyrants , let-their numbers and powers be what they may , whether they wear the red cap or a crown . " Warsaw , Jan . g . At eleven o'clock in the morning 12 , 000 Prussian troops , with a numerous train of artillery , entered Warsaw . The Russians immediately ieft it . The ratifications of the partition treaty of Poland have been exchanged between the Court of Vienna and that of Petersburg ]! .

HOME NEWS . ' ' DISASTERS AT SEA . —The Sandwich packet met with' severe gales of wind on her passage from Tortola , and had nearly been lost . •¦ . ' . i . On the 1 ith of January , at three o ' clock P . M . a sea broke upon the ship , and laid her upon her beam ends , when she broached to , arid lay on her side , to all appearance water-logged . At the same instant , three of iSie seamen were washed overboard , and never more seen ; the man at the helm was also swept away , but

providentially washed into the ship again by a lee surge . Much confusion and difficulty ensued , to clear the deck ; every exertion was made to throw the guns overboard , but the carriage pins had been so fastened ; that all efforts to unlock them ( for want of proper tools ) were for a time ineffectual , and the ship seemed gradually settling in the water ; every one was preparing for death : this dreadful state continued for about ten minutes . At length an axe was found ; the ringbolt stanchions being cut away , the guns and their carriages were committed to the deep . The ship then shewed , as it were , signs of life , and began , ' though'yery .

slowly , to right again ; and the , reefed foresail being set upon her , she felt her helm , and scudded before the sea . At this time the vessel was two hundred leagues from land ; she continued her course , experiencing much blowing weather , until the 28 th of January , when she made the little harbour of Ilfracombe , in Devonshire . The day after the accident , Mr . Hawke , a passenger , was found , dead in his bed . A fine little boy about eleven years of age , who used to attend the cabin , was missed after the accident , and never since seen or heard of . 28 . The Court of King's Bench met at nine o ' clockwhen

MrStoneaccom-, . , panied by Mr . Kirby , the Keeper of Newgate , arrived with the retinue of only a few peace officers . The gentlemen returned by the Sheriff to serve on the jury were 178 , of whom ' 130 answered to their names . . About So names were called over before the jury was formed , several being excused on account of age or illness ; many because , though returned as freeholders , they were not so , and twelve or fourteen being challenged by Mr . Stone's counsel ; but the most singular apology was that of a Mr . Smith . who very earnestly and successfully intreated that he might be exempted

from sitting on the trial of a gentleman with whom he had been intimately acquainted for twenty-five years . Lord Kenyon remarked , that the return of so many persons who . were not freeholders , was a matter of great blame somewhere , he could not say where . After all these obstacles had been removed , the following gentlemen' were returned and sworn upon thepannel : John Leader , John Mayhew , John Etherington , Thomas Cole , Charles Minier , Daniel Dyson , Thomas Burnet , William Somner , John Lockyer , Peter Taylor , William West , and Isaac Dimsdale , Esqrs . Serjeant Adair , the leading counsel for the prisoner , requested that the Court would give Mr . Stone leave to sit during his trial , being a good deal indisposed ; which was granted ! '

The indictment was then read , which consisted of two counts . The preamble and the first count stated , that on the 1 st day of March 1794 , ln the 34 th year of his Majesty ' s reign , and long before and continually from thence hitherto , war was and is carried on between the King and the persons exercising the powers of government in France- ; and that William Stone , late of Old Ford in the county of