Star. — London, England, 1811-12-10 00:00:00

THE Itirmt nrrnmmtet. Jonsiderable reinforcements are about to be sent • , FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 7. to our Army in Portugal. It is also said, that several .The following packets are in the Roads, detained ships are soon to sail with a large supply of ordnance by contrary winds : Arabella for Lisbon, Ann for stores. Some transports loaded with small arms are to sail from Portsmou t h ; one o f which, it is said, has the Brazils, and the Norton for Gibraltar and Malta. 20,000 muskets, destined for th e Guerillas on the , PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 8. Spanish frontier. This activity ib forwarding supplies Arrived, having overshot her port, the Hope letter is of great importance at the present crisis. of marqtie, Fox master, of and for Liverpool, with a Generals CLINTON, KEMP, and some other Officers cargo of lemons, oranges, cotton, and raisins, from of a similar rank, set off yesterday to join our army Malta. Also arrived the GLENOIRE hired ketch from in Portugal. Jersey. Put back the QUEEN, 74, bound to L'Orient. The precious remains of the 29th Regiment, about Wind strong at West. 400 men, commanded by Major HonoE, landed at Portsmouth on Tuesday. This Regiment was parti- PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 9. cularly distinguished at Rolica, Oporto, Talavera, Arrived his Majesty's ship WANDFIIER frcm the And Albuera.—They have lost two Colonels, and West Indies. His Majesty's ships ARGO and have one now h int; severely wounded ; Maier HoncrE mien are this day released from quarantine. Put has been woutscled twice, and they have lost about back the squadron that sailed for off Cherhurgli.— 1100 men since they left England, about 4 years at;re One hundred fine young fellows belonging to thit Arrived the PLANTAGENET from Plymouth. The distinguished corps, Sir Davin Bairin's Regimes(, Catherine Green, Essex, London, Union, Neptune, the 24th, who embarked at Portsm , toll on the 29 , h and another West Indiaman have got round after a November for Portugal, still lie wind-bound at Spit- beating passage from the Downs.—Wind Southerly. head. A detachment of finer men has not been em- DEAL, DECEMBER 9. barked for a considerable time past. I Wednesday about 300 of the 97th regiment march- The outward-bound still remain—and his Majes. ed into the new barracks at Winchester, from Ports- ty's ships as per last. —Wind S.W. blows hard. inouth;having lately arrived there from Portugal. I YARMOUTH, DEC. 9. . The remainder of the Herts regiment, which cm- The following vessels have put into this port to re barked at Harwich on the 14th September, arrived pair damages received at sea, viz. Mercury, WILSON, safe at Cork the 28th of the same month. They are of and from Lynn, With grain, leaky; Atlas, BELL, quartered at Ballinasloe, County of Galway. . from London, leaky; Hurbord, SCOTT, anchors and In the late arair of General Hill, General Camp- ' • cables • and the Mary Ann, MARKHAM; with loss of bell, who commended a Portuguese brigade, passing a Frenchman who Was lying on the ground, calling her bowsprit. Ships of war as per last.—Wind S.W. loudly fin mercy, attracts his attenth.n, and induced DUNBAR, DECEMBER 5. him to inquire what lie was ; when the poor fellow , Last night the wind shifted suddenly from W. to N. W. With candidly told him he was a Cr mn:issary's servant, snow ; since which, it has increased to a storm, with a tremea and had 4000 d 'liars with him, which v. ere invent'', dous sea. , The sloop Jessie and Nancy , . rn of Leith, which stink to the souti.war . a of this place on Sunday ontirl ,has gone to taken possession of, and the poor fellow removed to p er.e. , some. part of the wreck has appeared here; as to the sa place of safety. g ads , perhaps such of them as will Boat, may drift ashore, but EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF THE ROYAL this will bent little consequence to those that are concerned with ARTILLERY DRIVERS TO lIIS FRIEND AT PLYI9IOGTII. ' them. " Frenyado. 1 ,t' Nov. 11,11. " When I bat wrote you, I stated it as my opilior, that our present quarters would most likely be our stack.% i . or the whier, and I have as yet no reason to alter that opinion; for in this part *1 the arriv,t, Ito ;,aricular movement, have taken place, exzept Captain Bull's troop artil;ery, which is moved to the front division. -ince 1 wrote you last, we haee taken a number of Prisoners, and have had many de,e rters (torn the enemy—among the latter is a Cse nerzi °Hirer. On the i-st. it was very gsne ral'y repot ted that we were to remove to juente Guiralda, our old quartets in Spain; bt:t that intention was glveti up. 13 conse quence of a large division of the entry having on that day marched in sight of the out-100-ts: their number was estimated at about 10,000, being a guard with provisions and stores for Ciudad Rodrigo. A party o(Spat.iards late y Ica near Rodrigo NM bullocks ; and nearly an equal number of goats, belonging to the enemy." TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Silt—Having observed in one of the daily papers I. a paragraph stating the exertions of Captain Fairman for the purpose of encreasing the pay and allowances of the Officers of the Army, it occurred to me that the present is not an unseasonable time for noticing the situation of a class of Officers who haste had the peculiar misfortune of seeing their advantages dimi nished, while those of the rest of the Army have been so liberally encreased*l mean wore-out Assis tant-Surgeons. . When the pay of Medical Officers in general was increased, and provision made for the retirement of worn-out Regimental Surgeons ; when Vetet an Bat talions were formed, and all other ranks of Officers entitled to retire upon full pay, upon their being broken up—and even deserving old non-commissioned Officers further rewarded by Commissions in these rettalions ; and when Lieutenants who were not en titled to these advantages, but were from the circum stance of mere kngth of service allowed an additional shiling per day, Assistant-Surgeons had no reason to complain, there being at that time an ample and comfortable provision for their retirement in the situa tion of District Surgeoncies, and entitled, when re duced, to the half-pay of ss. per day. Within these two years, it appears a regulation has taken place, ordering that in future this situation is to be filled up by Surgeons to the Forces ; and the only provision that remains for a Medical Officer who may terve unfitted him elf for active service, and con sequently for proieotion to the rank of Regimental Surgeon, by premature hard service or disease in un , wholesome climates, is retirement into a Veteran Mattalion, to attend the old and obstinate—wear out the little remaining lite he has left, and retiee upon ' the hail-pay of Ss. per day. It is pr:liable all the patience and fortitude which validly falls to the lot of man will not readily recon cile this class of Officcrs to the belief that after hav ing expended considerable eures both of money and labour toqualify themselves in their profession, that the circumstance of having exhausted their powers, both natural and acquired, in the service, should not entitle them to some remuneration which all other classes of Officers are enjoying: and diet this very circumstance, which is the express reason why the situation of others has been rendered better, should deprive them of all future advantages. Nor will it to any consolation to bold out to the prospect of an handsome income from private practice in time of peace, when their bodily infirmities will bring to heir recollection, that their former services have ren. Wered them unable to practice in the Army ; and, in consequence, their half-pay cf 3s. per day will con stitute the whole means of subsistence. NAVAL APPOIN 'WEN rs. Capt. Right Hon. Lord John Colville, to the Queen ; Captain Willock, to t:,e :titter ; Capt. T. Brown, Irons Vie Vengeur, to the Bulwark, which 13 to be the flag ship of Sir J. S. Yorke; Capt. Dunda• , w the Vengeur; Capt.T.BroWn, to the Hanibal ; Capt. C;arth,to the Ctrberus; Lieut. John Smith, to command t Cheetly cotter Lieut. Joseph Dodd, to command the Providencehrie.— , Captain Henry Boys is promoted to the rank of Post Captain.— Lietattnant B. Kelly, First Lieutenant to the late Admiral Rowk v, ! has been promoted to the rank of Post Captain.-1 louts. Cat ter to the Arethusa ; J. simmonds to the Malta; E. Handlield to the Phipps ; R. Streatfield to he Christian VII.; Burton to the Bed ford; C. Nicholson t t the Imptrieuse ; C. Adams to the San Jo sef; W. S. Fuller to !he Malta ; J. Cairnes to the Grampus ; B. ?shepherd to the Criflin ; H. Overaud to the Primrose ; A. B. Crawford and F. Borer to the Malta ; G. Urniston to the Grant pus ; 1. Sutherland to the Queen ; E. Curlewis to the Cressy ; Healey to the Vestal; J. Little to the Charles armed cutter; J. Wh ttham to the Bermuda; F.Winton io the • l'yrian ; J. Argu imbau to the Gorgon ; R. Cock to the Muscuitto ; H. Sheridan to the Royal George; G.D. Barclay to 'he Regulus; T. Archer to the 1.3.-siree ; S. Ramsay to the Allred.—Mr. John Harris, to be Master of the Zephyr ; Mr. Carr, to be Ma►t rof the Porcupine, Mr. Porter. to be Master of the Cleopatra; Mr. M'Kenzie, to be Master t:f the Barhadoes.—Messrs. Clayto• , Brooking, Ni cholson; Jones, Hawkins, Wilson, and Ticke4l, have passed fur •Litutetianta. Yesterday the dispatches for st. Helena and Ilen gal, per Tigris, were finally closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Purser. Passengers per Tigris : For Bengal—Lieutenanc W. K. Jackson, Mr. H. Williams, Messrs. Beecher and Flosing, Mrs. Pilfold and :aridly, Musts C. W. and M. Williams. For St. Helena—Mr. G. Mead, Assistant-Surgeon. FRENCH PRIVATEERS.—The audacity of the ma rauders, considering our vast superior naval f wee, is trtily astonishing. No less than three of them were in the offing between Plymouth and the Edystone all Sunday; they were distinctly seen from Maker heights, and tine of them had a merchant ship in her possession. The requisite signals tvere made, and the ORESTES and FOXHOUND sailed in quest of the enemy. From the heavy tiring kept up, it is supposed that the Ruix frigate (being seen to the Westward on Saturday evening) was tn chace of them. Five privateers, car rying a consiierable number of guns, are likewise cruizing near the Scilly isles. The FoximuNn has recaptured and sent into Ply mouth, the brig Samuel, belonging to Mr. Paget, of Great Yarmouth, which had been captured on Sa turday last, by a French privateer, The Nimnon enter has taken a Dutch brig, laden with spices and wine. - " When the Aezacnostmr, of 74 guns, novfr in Ply- mouth, was off Rcchefort, a French officer came on board, in a small fishing : boat, from Isle d'Aix. He had had an altercation with the General of the forces there, and the latter having struck him, he returned the compliment; rushed to his apartments, seized two pistols, and running to the water side, ordered two old metl, who were in a boat, to put off immediately, and putting a pistol to each of their heads, compelled • them to make sail to the English fleet. He says, that r sail of the line (the Neptune and Ocean) will be , n in Aix Reads the next spring tides, which will r 4 e the enemy three sail of the line and three s. One frigate had slipped out, astd was gone to . •dram& Lately a young woman, who seas taken in the Hope, passae-vessel, from Plymouth to Guernsey, arrived Plymouth, in a cartel from Cherbourg.— Being the only fomale on board, she was allowed by the French Government to retu:n to England, which circumstance being publicly known at Cherbourg, she was entrusted with above 1(X) letters, chiefly ad dres xd tl French prisoners of war confined in this count: y, and six addressed to friends of English pri soners confnied in France ; the former were taken from her before she left the shore ; the latter she con cealed in her shoes, and brought safely to England. The following is a list of the.erew and passengers, on board the Hope, who, being males, were detained and scot to Cainbray, where they were all well on the .sth of Noverriber Sanity., C'dtor of Da.wlsh; Robert Hooper of Dartmouth; lawca DtV: ten of Ponsea ;John Johnson and Son ef Southamp ton ; William ict:ew:tub aitil Son of Ouernborough ; Thomas Sidi& ick, John Golldriug, Simon Amm, and John GiU,of Ply mouth ; William Pike, Robert Crawford, and William Hall, of North Yarmouth; Timothy Laing and William Jones of Stock ton; Pichardßadcock of Lymington ; John Harries of Hshguard; nomas Bellamy, Thomas Coat, and John Egget, of Lynn; Wil liam Adon of Poole ;Richard Williams of Chepstosi. About ten Lia;s since, there being only two of our 74's near Cherburgh (the Venerable, Sir H. POPHAM, and Vengeur, Capt. T. BttowN), he enemy, with tht:r usual gasconade, made a thew of putting to sea; not daunted by observing our two ships about 13 or 14 miles off, and with a favourable breeze for their making port at their own pleasure, two line-of-battle ships, a frigate, and two brigs, beat out of Cherburgh about six miles, and commenced some petty nvanceu rres. It was observed at the same time, that a large brig, and two large prawns, within Cherburgh, had springs to their cables, and their topsails loose, ready to assist their heroic companions, should they by any untoward circumstances, be brought to action by the British, upon whose making unto cut them off, they hastily regained that port. 4w Im LLIGBI7CB. • ‘• . a.! ar would address himself' criminally to 2 Own' 'eti AtlY f s mrie than. dirty, widow , the most unel ItuivbCal adiaisces twn her tiari? /1,1 she s lemed have practised all the .rts of wonr a i twin ; and to have relied so cons 'ently opon Lis aff flies her in asylum, as to have -penly blasted to hr.r husband Of the concpitst she ha ' made. Under the advic? of a friend, howevdr, the ..Ik.f.n !ant w:ts firm inn fusing to receive her ; •n the adultress had rervillie to the last artifice of r sex, and threatened vi , .l-nce upon herself. Lord ELLENnonovoit comme:ded Ole d's-r i nof the Learned Counsel fOr the defendant, in a intining tie fact of adultery, whic' , , to be sun., I,e -fore the Court abundantly ro :ed ; an dirt.cte.l .he Jury to give the pl rii.tilF such t:•Triper tte,. modera:e damages, as would _ at once prove Out tl , e p 1 i Air; It id not disgrace! himself, and th at the deft. diant had nut aggrayated his crime. The Jury found their vzrdict fur the plaintf.4—Ds. marrbes COURT' OF RING'S BENCH, DEC. ?. MORTIMER V. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL sta.ed i that this Ras an action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife; and he should be unworthy of the situation which he held, if he were to tell the Jury that thi, wag an aggravated case of that offence. There were, in fact, many mitigatory features in it; and the Learned Counsel should net deal justice to the defendant, if he did not allow, that the letters which he should pre- • • sently lay before the Jury did not she ', that since the commission of the injut y for which the plaintiff sought reparation, he had .tcted with great propriety. Wlttn he allowed thus much to the: defendant, still, he was bound to do the fullest justice to his client ; and to say, that if the defendant had not aggravated the in jury, neither had the• plaintiff's condurt to h's wife ey . er furnished either her or the dellndant with the excuse fit committing that injury which was some times set up, and allowed its due weight, in actions . _ of this nature. The history of the prestnt case was shortly this : The plaintiff was a Gentleman of com petent fortune, and was in January, 1800, married to a Lady whom he tenderly loved, and whose affections he flatteted himself he reciprocally possessed. His cottage was situated at Burnham, in Buckingham shire ; but since his marriage, he had entered into a regiment of militia ; and was at the pet iod at which this case took him up quartered at Plymouth. From hence his wife had occasion to pay a visit to her mo ther at Cheltenham; and the plaintiff accompanied her as far as Exeter on her way thither. At Chelten ham she met with the defendant ; this was in the year 1810 ; and when she returned to her husband, she plainly told him that he was no longer agreeable to her, and that her affections were completely estranged from him to another, naming the defendant, with whom she said she had had that connection which de termined her no longer to sleep in the same bed with her husband. The plaintiff was thunciet struck with this intelligence, which he treated as a dream, the reality of whiCh he could n,,t bring himself, to htlieve. An opportuhity offered, however, one day of examin ing the contents of his wi'e's writing-box ; and there he found letters of the defendant, which totally de prived hint of the laid doubts which he had enter tained of the truth of his wife's n.trrative. These lt•t ters, however, although damning proofs to him, were all that he could adduce to the Jut v as lezai evidence of the adultery ; but the Attorney-General was atf,,:d the Jury would consider them as too strong tt. leave even upon Their minds a doubt of the fact which the plaintiff was compelled by this process of the law t ;- day to establsh. [The letters, to the number of seven, were read :.the earliest were addressed, " My dear Caroline," and talked of the" con nection" which had taken place between the parties. One ap peared to he an answer to a proposal of elopement on the part of Mrs. Mortimer, and of living with him. It said that the defers dint, mistrustful of h.& knowletle,e of the world (he then I, big not of age) bad taken the advice of a sincere friend upon the subject ; and the following was the result of his consultation with that nd, who was the only pers: nto whom he had revealed his connection wl-h a lady in h. r rank of lite, and to whom he had not divulged her name I suffer her to ;iv., v. th me ? A. Undoubtedly not. Q. But I have promised Ist'. she shall. A. '1 hat is no matter : your own character, your situation in life, the feerngs of a mother, brird it. You will destroy her happiness if you do. Q. But I 5h..11 destroy Mrs. Monimer's ' happiness, if I do mfr. A. Not a bit of it : the lust of the moment may make her think so; Ina el:pend upon it, a very few years will convince her that to prosecute a sits is not the road to re- I pentance. You have broken a positive commandment; and a ! perseverance in the crime would only drag damnation upon both her head and your's. Think not so Irglily of a promise to do wrong, made in an unguarded moment?' The defendant wrote to Mrs. Mortimer, that he-had committed this advice to paper the moment his friend left the room; havirnt before d-terniiited 'toabde by It, let it be what it might. It see med that the lady had, in answer to this le:ter, threatened violence upon herself ; for the defendant's next epistle to her was a long dissuasion apinst suicide. 'the other letters were less important : they blamed Mrs. Mortimer for her indiscreet disclosure of the con nec'ion between her and the defendant to the plairriff; and one or two of them talked of intended, and alluded to ettec:ed, meet ings in the neighbourhood of the plaint.ff's residence.] The ATTORNEYGENERAL concluded, that the de fendant had, very much to his credit, taken the ad vice of this judicious friend, and had not added pro ' tection to adultery. He had no doubt but the Jury, except in the actual injury, for which the plaintiff was entitled to a positive recompence, would think that the defendant was a man much more to b • pitied than blamed. MAST v. f?^BI.E I ESQ. • This was ad act on of slander, brought hi a Suri , geon and Sub-Lieutenant of the Su set Militia, against a Magi,trate of that county. The slancint consisted in the di fendatit's saying rf the plaintiff, tcr a Captain -Lee, with whom the plaintiff had berti ng, 6 , Do you know that man you were waking with ? He's a d—d scoundi el, and has cheated my son out of .€1f1,0.)0." The defendant's son, it ap,_ peared, was an officer in the navy, lovely t eturncd from the Adriatic ; and had told his father that he was pr ved of prize-money, in die distribtition t f which the plaintiff had some concern. In comequence of this sland.r on the part of the defendant, the plaintiff was suspended finm his mess ; arid a Committee of Officers waup pointed to enquire into the null tit the charchargdltThe defendant referred them to his sun, who failed to snake good the assert4na, after some delays and postponements cf their meetings ; and the plant:if was restored to the g(led opinion cf his bro then otlicers, and to his Peat in their The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff,—Da mages £5O. Bazan.—There being no Court of Aldermen this day, the Lunn MAYOR, after inspecting the ReturLs. ordered it to fall Tinee•pence per Peck. The Qum.. tLrn Lctf, cn 'Thur:day, will be 17d. In the Litrvrick paper, an Irish Gentleman, whose wile had absconded Irom him, thus' cathicns the pnac against trusting her—" My wife his eloped from me, without rhyme or rettsvi, and I desire no one w:11 trust her on my account, for I am hot mardel ha.."' A Gentleman from New-York, states, that the GA yemment had sanctioned the seizure of two French ships under circumstances which we shall shortly ex plain ; one in t'ie pot tof Charlston, and the otl,e.r fit ' Philadelphia. It appears, th.•t the sesscls in cilestion were captured separat ply some et= ago by the French. carried into a port of their own, and there con demned without the IPast justa:ation: They were afterwards pul chased by Frcnch citizens, vilo in the way of trade sent them to America, to bripg home clrj goes. This circumstance coming t. , the knot% .die of their real owners is America, they seize., their pf perty, and were supported in their claims by the 'Go vernment, All parties uni ed in the approbation Of such an act of summary justice. In a private letter the. following tiairaulars ttre mentioned relating to the death f Lueuteti.►nt Joho Perkins, of the Cherokee sloop of war, In the month of.Tttly, he, with four seamen, took charge r.f a malt plize, for the purpose of navigating hei i n to Lc•.h roads : the vessel shortly after sprung a leak, and was in a sinking state, when a Dartiilt bouod tot Norway, appeared, and presently took Mr: Perkin and his foot seamen on board: The-master Of thei galliot had ten Danish seamen en b-ard his vesseli and yet fearfttl of the safety of his vessel, from bay.: ing five poor shipwrecked men on Ix atrd, actually came to the resolution of destroying th,m, which he effected by throwing them into the set, except oai man, who is an American. It is report:•ed, ..1 ► he WAS cast into prison on his arrival in Nt,rw.:l, to :aka his trial for ilfence. The Rev. Edward Foster proved the marriage of I the plaintiff to Miss Bedingfield, on the 13th of Ja nuary, 1800, at St. George's, Hanover-square. The witness visited the couple for the first season after their marriage, when they had a house in to wn ; and spoke to their happy appearance. Captain Thoyts, of the Royal Horse Guards, had an opportunity of seeing the life they led, particu larly in 1808 and 1809, when he was quartered in the neighbourhood of Burnham-grove ; and thought that their life was harmonious and happy. They had no children. Mr. Whitaker married a s'ster of the plaintiff, and always had opportunities of witnessing the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer towards each other. They ap peared to live like other married people. The plain tiff placed unbounded confidence in his wife ; and she appeared to deserve it. The witness could notjecol lect any exception to their happiness. The lady was 21, and the gentleman '23, when they married. Mr. Wm. Hare, clerk in the house of Messrs. Bid dulph and Co. the defendant's bankers, proved the hand-writing of the letters. He had heard that the defendant, who was just now of age, would have the greater part of his father's fortune, which was very considerable. Mr. Tonga°, for the defendant, would not trouble the Jury by questioning the fact of the adultery, which the letters o: the defendant could not but prove to every conscientious mind; and addreraed himself solely to the mitigation of damages. As the plaintiff's Counsel had commended the defendant's conduct, save in the mere offence itself, so neither had Mr: Topping any instructions to censure that the plaintiff whom the defendant did not know, over whose threshold he had never passed, and with whose very person he was nn acquainted, having never seen him. This was not, therefore, the case of a deliberate villain, going about to seduce the wife of his Friend; and the learned Counsel would undertake to say, from the relative ages of the parties, (Mrs. Mortimer having been at the time of the adultery one or two and thirty, and the defendant only about nineteen,) that it was she who seduced him, and not he that seduced her.— Was it to be believed, that a young gentleman of that A letter from Brighton of the 7th inst. says--i 44 Two or three ships were distingULhable hence at an early hour in the morning—among wh'eh was the Ann scheoner of Yarmouth f TAYLOR master. anti which, having sprung a leak, and b..conte water log- . ged, with her pumps choaked, was driven on shore, near the harbour's entrance cf New Shoreham, abont ten minutes before rnid.day. The fi•herraien of this' place, with a zeal that did them credit, hastened to the assistance of the di,tressel vrssrl , aid tbrongh their well-directed elms, the crew, consisting (4' two men and a boy only, were, in the end, preset ved. Every possible method was tried to keep the sh'p en tire, but ineffectually, I.r she went completely to pieces, the gale iacrea,ing with the tide, it half-past !Our o'clock this afternoon. The Ann sailed front Portsm"uth, in ballast, at three A. M. to-day. Num.; berless ind;viduals are at this time employed, nitre P. M. in rescuing fragments of the wreck from the foaming billows, the gale hav'ng but little abated." Tuesday last fifty buoys were launched from Ply mouth-yard, to be placed in óe Sound, for tl.e pur pose of directing the vcssels where to throw ou: their cargoes of stoves, &c. The soun.iings are found tot bc extremely irregular. The depth r.f water at the Tinker Buoy, which is stated, in the latest sailing d:- rections, to be 18 feet only., is found to he 42 • nth:e places have lost their stated depth, and it w ill, there. tore, be necessary to sald down a considerable quan tity of rubbish, &c. at first. The inner m , le will is, : circular ; but, contrary to general exp .cation, the outerone, runrtingfrom Bubbtson Bay, will be strain it. The Rovza, Captain FINLEY, who was appointed with the SOPHIE, Captain LOCKYIR, taEet the Liabo,, convoy to a certain latitude, on her return to Ports. month, off Cape Finisterre, gave chace to a I ng e armed merchantman, richly laden front Batavia, which. after a shot or two, was taken possession of bf the ROVER—no other ship in sight. Admiral Sir R. Cut-. rte, under whose directions the ROVER bee 1, shares in the prize. Shr deeply laden. She is sl cego, which was comsat and captured during a de; by a squadron of French ! an obstinate defence, Ma, v,. .~,; '~ / I • :~i Ilr" (e; ' ... V .. '''•?V i• i . t i' i ., ~., ~, . 0 i I , .r-i aiwir. LA 41 LIM n. 11=4 1:•• Lions the ROVER is place I, , he 'mount , . 1 t guns, and Is laid to be fcrme!ly the Vat. anded by Captain WRIONT, lead calm, in Quileron Bay, . 1 gun boats and lugger', acb.s. ly 20,180!. I'