Star. — London, England, 1807-04-28 00:00:00

GENEE44 : ELECTION. TO THE WORTHY, INDEPENDENT LWERY OF LONDON. Gag rsaacsx, 1 - irt I'EVER of public or of private ineoove ni: nee may arife from fo (widen a Ditolution of Pur..a ment, it gives to inc palatially nu regret. beeaufe it brings. th , mgh vruporarily.inte pradice, princi2l., hang fettled in my •,.ind, that the appeal of the Reprcfentatives to their Conititueuts Ihouhi be more frequent than by law they are. In th: Lit three Parliaments you have been plt.sced to hnnnur me with your confidel,ce During that time it has heat my fortune to have berm fometialts the twofer, and lumeticnes the fupporter 01 Ministers; but in neither cafe have I ever felt any dread of their power. or benefit from their favour : the public intereft lac been • the oily motive that ever adman d any conduct, and a continuance of your confidence the only rctompence I looked to I throw myfelf again upsiu your eunlidefation, and in I . ..slicking ft warmly as I do, the favour of your votes to return axe as one of sour Reprefentatives in the nes t Parliament, I repeat to you my afro antes of an unalterable Att.tchment to the Conftkution of our Country, aced I provide you a COlitillUallet of that independence which, I truft, has hitherto manildted itfclf in my public conduCt. With great refpect, I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your much obliged, and faithful bumble Servant, a C. COMBS. Great Ruirell-ltreet, April sy, a - y. • T i - CINDEPENDENT LIVERY of LONDON,i• in the IN I'EREST of Mr. Alderman CO VIBE, are ropteltad to meet at the New London Tavern in Cheaplide, on Therfiley next, at (even o'clock, to confider the beft nteana of &ming that Centleman'a elettion —April 28. tgoi. TU THE WORTHY AND INDEPP liiiiitlkit'LlVlLßY OF THE CITY OF LONDON. • Geissusszsa, 'THE prevalenr report of an Immediate DifThlutiein • + of Parliament, authorizes me to make you a ref', ettfulultsr a my Cervices, in cafe of fuch an event. Defended from a Family beg conneded with this great City, I mall at all times be anxious to promote its Commercial Interefts, and to preterite the Rights and Privileges of my fellow Citiztns; and being aduated by au ardent zeal fur the Co: ftitution of niy Country, and for the independence of the Satins Empire, 1 trait 1 (hall be favoured with the alive fupport of the Livery of London. I have the honour to remain, with the gnat& relped. ..Gentlemen, Your t . iithful Servant. J. P. HANKEY. , The Committee in the interefi of Mr. Alderman HANKEY, At daily at the Alderman. Houle, in hlincirg lane, where any information and alfiltance will be thankfully r..c.ived. Mineing-tane. April 17. 18T7. lvindqn, April 17, 18 , 7. THE FRIENDS of Mr. AlJernhin HANtiEY are particularly requetted to meet on WEDNESDAY Nc it, at Two o'Cloelt precifely, at the London Tavern, Bith•tpfgine• ftrect, to confider the heft mode of fir uring that Gentleman's Ejec tion as one of the Rtprefentatives for this City in the calling Par liament. To the - FREEHOLDERS of the COUNTY of ABERDEEN. GiNTLIMICN, WHILE the merits of our late Eleaion for the County were under tho inveftigation of the Committee of the Houfe of Commons, a Prorogation has taken place, which is to be followed up by an immediate Diffolution of Parliament.— In eonftquesee of this event, it cannot now be afeertaiLed whe- ther I ought to have been returned your Reprtfentative. Impreffed with the ).igheit fence of gratitude for the warm and dittitignithed fuppcirt with which you have honoured me, I once nose presume to offer myfclf to reprefent you iu the coining Par liament. I have the honour to be. With great rerpcd, Gentlemen, Your molt nbedient, and molt faithful humble re vant. London, April 27, 007. A. BA Y. 'fo THE GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF YORK GtNTLIML:, _ - _ AN ininietii.tte Ditiolution being now announced, allow me once more to offer myfell a Candidate for the honour of rtpret.nting you in Parliament. While I timed: my deep and uoalt erattle gratitude for all your pad kinduers, la me affure you, that fhould I age ir retain from you the important trult which you have Girt times (ma, n eti on mr, my condudt will continue to be ynverned by thofe emiltiro thmal and independent principles, which have been fandioncd by your approbation during three and twenty years. I am, Gottkinen, yot,r obliged and faithful fervant. London, April :7. tBo7. W. Wll.lll , Ft FORCE. 'l'o THE GENtLEMEN, CLERGY, AND YEOMANRY, FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Gartuatair, 91'HE many flattering taimonies I have received -II- Mee the lalt Elt Ilion, of your approbation of my general eonduel in three fuceciEvc Parliaments intirce me m hope that I &AU, on the day of nomination, meet with Inch fupport at will be themes,' of again placing me in the high and dillirgniChed fitua Lion of imprecating you in the enfuing Parliament. I hare the honour to be, with the higheit eftcem and regard, Geode men, Your molt obedient and fa!tbrul humble fervant, WILLIAM GORE LANGTON. Crofoutor fquare, April ay, Igo7. TO THE WORMY AND 114 , 110PliNrol/Nr FREEMAN OF THE PIOROUUH OF MA!DSTONE. GILNTLIPttN, AS - Piffolution of Parliament is in fl antly ex- WWI, f take the earlieft opportunity of folici ing a repeti don, of the vet y.hiztt and tittering honour which you conferred On 11A4 lad Autumn, in rikAing me our ut your eprefentativcs. I then pledged myfclf to promote your interelts and to rapport our eitellett Conftitution With firmoef• and zeal. This pledge 1 led that I have redeemed, as far 'as opporteugdes have hitherto offered, and on thi4 ground, I trua that a connection wilt b. per. petuated which I curtider as the proudttt eircurnitance of my lite. have the 'tontine to be, with every fentiment of refpc:-.1. and • gratitude, Gentlimos, Your mull obliged and molt devoted fervent. Lonskin,fpril 27, 18n7. GEORGE LONGNIAN. To tHE GEN / . I.6;lENTct.giZlr,;lll•4l.) OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCAS OssittLaterr. JMPRESSED with the , cleepell fenfe of grmilude by your part favours, and truly confcious of the additional value which your liberal at d generous coi.duet has itivatiably Itemised upon them; I ant encouraged. once more humbly •0 fo liek the hortmr of your protection and furputt on the day of the &pp:v*l'lns EleCtiou. B:unalid you again coodetceod to delegate ioto my hands that lova:tam halt, which I have ever been ambitious of ditchargial with atialaus attention and tidslity ; I beg leave to kMr you a re neural of dude atruraucts, which you have to frequently received with a lavuurable car; that it will be the principal object of my as far dour, limited a ilitka wit allow, to embrace every opportunity of promutit g the local iuterelt:ed the County and toe galena prollperiry of the Erni ire —I have the honour to be, With the was Illt:lt icutituertu of refpect alt ana c h, t ,, Lt . Geoth.men, Your molt faithful aid obedient fervent, London, April 37. T. s rANI.EY. TO 'rHE GEN'I LEMF N, CLERGY, AND FR EEHOLDF.RS OF 'THIL COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCAS TER. GaNTLLIIIB/1, AS An isnincdiAte Ditrlittinn of PArliament expeCted, I take the earlieft opportunity of Witching your Votes and luttnett at the raising Eketion. Intpreffal as I am, with the n.olt fincere and fervent gratitude. tur the repeated initaneca of kinducfs and attachment i have log twenty-three year. experienced front you it will bethe higheft ad. AWOL to that fetitiment, if I am agtio honoured with your coos dews and &plant. Permit me to fay, that as I truly citinute the value of your ap. probation, I WV, if posit le, feel a ftronger date to retain it, and continue to pay at all times the aloft asunou• attention to the general iutcteM of my native cou , ny, as wall 411 thole of the gauntry in general...-I have the honour to be, Gr.ntlettorn, Your molt fa thral and onedient bumble femur. Park-ILN ea. V: gamin dee, JOHN 1/LACKISCILNE. 1103437 :,,.fling, /I:.ril 37. tBc7. GENERA!. ELECTION. • 1 HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION. • Gray's lon Collee-hnufe. HoMoro, holt stesllo7. T a mtnierons Meeting of the FR EEtit)l,l)oS I- 1 - of the County of HERTFORD, refident in and nitar dots, held this day purfuant to public ativ,rtifement, to etagere ntsafores for the fittestfs of the Eledtion of the Hon. THOMAS BRAND The Rev LYNCH BURROUGHS in the Chair. I. ft was unanintouGv Refolved, That the Hosiourable Thomas Brand :ppears to us to be a_proper pedals to be one of the Itrierc 7 fentatiues of the County oferiford. a. That a Committee be appointed for the purpofe of promot• ins Mr. Brarnrb Lleetion, and that the Committee do meet daily at the Gray'. bin Coffee-beide. Holborn, at Eleven eelack. until the Fleetion be doled. And that the Friends of Mr. Brand be particularly requelted to attend is the Committee. 3. That the Friends of Mr. Brand be alfo earneftly requeited Itn mediately to tranftnit the addreffes of Voters not rtfiding in the County. and all other communications which may tend to the for cers of his Elation, addreffed " To the Chairman of Nir. Brand's Committee, Gray's Inn Coffee-boafe, Holborn." 4. That from the afrumnees of fupport which Mr. Brand has received front a large hndy of the Meatus, and from the active eel ;hcy have maiiirdted in his fupport, we look forward with confident expectations of fuecers. LYNCH BURROUGHS, Chairman. It was afterwards manic/loony refAred,Tl•et the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr. Burrostes, for his ciindudt in the Chair. P LIAM is' Nlittlr PROC Eti:D INGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. APRIL s 7. Abont a quarter before three o'clock. the Gird Chancellor, EA, I Canidejt, and Lord Hawkeibtsty. took their Seats as hi. Maießy's CorMuiffl , iners. Mr. Q . ' ARM the Deputy Mar rf the tack Rod, was fent t o the Houle of Commons to requite their attent:ance. After Come time had elapred, the Speaker, scent panted by a great number of Members of the Houfe of Commqns, came to the Bar The Royal Atfient was notified - , by the Lo: ds Corn millioners,, to twn private Bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in his 141.tjetly's name, delivered the (*Hewing Speech : " 1,15 , Lords and Gentlemen, N We have it in command from his Majeny, to inform pm, th a t his Malay has thought fit to avail himfelf of the firm moment which would admit of , n interruption of the fining of Parlinnent,withnot mat e ri4l inconvenience to the public bufinefs, to clofe the relent 8,111 , m ; and that his Majelly has therefore been pleafed to caufe a Commiflion to be ilftte,: under the C.:teat Seal for proroguing the Parliament. , 4 We are further comma".ded to Rate to you, that his leslajefty is anxious to recur to the fenfe of his People, while the events which have recently taken place a►e yet fulls in their recolleEtion. " his Majefty leels„.that in retorting to this mea• lure, under the prefent ciicumftances, ht at once de m,•ntlrates, in the molt nnequivoeal manner, his own confeiroti.)ns perfnafion of the reeitnde of thole mo tives upon which he has acted, and ram& his people the :Jett •+ppn: • unity of teflifying their determination its rapport him in every exercife of the prerogatives of his Crown, which is conformable to the facred obligations under which they are held, and conducive io the welfat: of his Kingdom, tract° the fecnrity of the Conflittithm.. " His biajelly direets us to exprefs his entire eon vinion, that after fo long a reign, marked by a feries of indulgences to his Roman Catholic fubjells, they. in common with every other daft of his People, mull fret allured of his attachment to the principles of a jull and enlightened toleration, and of his an rim's defire to protefl equally and promote impartially the happi nets of all defcriptions of his inhjcas. " Gentlemen of th: h'ot!re of Common:. " His hlajdly has commanded ns to thank yen, in his Majefly's name, for the fopplics which ynn have furnifhed for the public fervice.' He lots feels with great fatisfaftion, that you have b-en able to find the means of defraying, in the prefent year, 'link • large but necefrary experces for which put have pro vided, without impaling upon his People the imme diate burden of additional Taxes. " His Majefly has obfetved with no ler% Tatisfac lion, the enquiries whiCh you have inilititted into fuljeds colnated with public ccc.nomy ; and he truds that the early attention of a new Pirliament, which he will forthwith ditek% to be called, will he applied to the profecution of 'bete important objeas. "My Lord: and Gentlemen, • 6' His :-lajdtly directed us mr.ft earneflly to re commend to you, that you thould cultivate, by all means in y.our power, a fpirit of uriion, bainiony, and good will amngtt all chiles anti delcriptioni of his People. " His Majefiy truth that the divifions naturally and unavoidably tidied by the late unfortunate and un called for agitation of a quellion fo hiterefting to the feelings and opinions of his People, will fpcedily pats away and th.tt the ptiev ailing fenfe and determina• tiun of all his fubjeas to curt their united efforts in the caufe of- their counts y, will enable his Majelty to conduit to an honourable and attire let ruination the great taw elt in which he is engaged." Ther . i a Commiffson for proroguing the Parliament was read. After which the Luau CHANCELL4II • " l y Lord: and Gentlemen, " By to tue of his !staidly's Commitlion under the Great Seal, to us and other I...srds dirated, and now read, we do, in his bli+fly's name, and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to Wed mfday, the 13th day of May next, to be then here holden ; and ibis Parlianient is accordingly pro. rogued to Wednefday, the t3th day t,f May nazi." The Lords Commiffioaerb withdrew from the Hou!e, and she Commons retired from the Bar. HOUSE OF COMMONS. PROROGATION OP PARLIMARNT. For'p r confiderable time before the Speaker came , to the:4We, the Deputy Ufber of the Black Rod waited for him behind the Bar. The Speaker came irrecifely at five minutes Pali three o'clock, ard the Deputy Ufher then retived to the omit& of the door. Prayers being read as %goal, the Speaker immediately proceeded to count the 1-Tonfe, but, before he had counted four, the Deputy-Uther.knocked at the d 'or and entered. The Speaker immediately took the Chair, the Black Rod, according ro Parliamentary (Wage, difpenfing with the neceffiry of the ufual numbers.,reqnilite to form a Houle. The Deputy Miler thin . in the dual form, fumutoned the lioafe to the 'Houle of Peers, to hear the Commidiou for ' prorogation read. The Speaker, attended by moll of the Members piefent, proceeded to the Houfe of Peers. He returned in tabour twenty minutes, I Cal: the fpeech at the table, according to the ufual cutlom, and retired. r For the Speech lee the report of the ' Lords.] Witil this was doted the Firit Seffion of the Third Parliament of the 'JniLed Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL. O. PRICE QF STOCKS TI II 1 DAY AT ONE ArcLocK Confute, for money. 6 tf—e•Map 63if —omllfuto Fr. Exchequer Hi par. to ts. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTFRDAY. 3 per Cent R An. 61i 54- Excheq B 11i, TS pr. mar. 3 per C. Cont . An. 610 63f Omnitim prem. 4 per Cent. Y. - if I kilt mtium qy per Cent. Navy 96f 97f Lottery Tickett 191 tar. Long Ann. 17 ISI6 I Confuls for arm 6231 63; India Bonds as. a 51. pr. Parliament, as we announced in our laft, was pro rogued yenerday in the ufual way followed of late years, by a c ,, mmiffion and a fpeech delivered by the Loan CHANCELLOR in the name of the KING. The Proclamation announcing the Diff lotion, is expelled to appear in the Gazette of this evening. This event has taken place snore fuddenly than was expelled. It was very generally underfic.od that Minifiefs v.:fhed to make an eatly appeal to the peo ple, but it was equally well known that his Muerte was for iitme time averfe to the meafure, and that the idea had been in cnnfequence abandirned.— Thule who, Cr' m tlotir lunation and conneflinns, ought to he informed on fuch a fubjell, area, that when at laft refolved on, the meafure proceeded en tirely, and without folicitatinn from his MAJESTY, who came to town on pnrpofe, and ordered the Conn cil to be fummoned, which on Saturday evening de tided on the lips to be taken. It is afferted on ore hand that this meafure has been halleued from a with to fkop the proceedings of the Committee of Finance, which would have led to the arraignment of (owe perfons high in rank and ofEce.—On the other hand it is afferted that this could not be the veafnn for the difolution, becanfe this event does not deflrny the evidence, which Rill continues upon record ; and it will be in the power of the new Patlisment again to tertian the inqnirys On the one band, it is affirmed, that the Members of the Committee being in the Houfe, and the Chair man ready to prerent the Report, which would only have required a few minutes time, the appearance of the TT:her of the Black Rod, to common the Com mons to attend in the Houfe Pecrs, at that critical montent, was the Ore& of management.—On the other, it is *fretted, that Clough h had the t fee to prevent the report :torn beinx prefented, it was the refult not of difign or of management, but merely of accident. We can form no opinion on this point. but what ever may be the fat), we believe there will be found few well-willters to their country, whi will not feel tome regret that matters were not lo managed as to allow fo interelling a repot t to make its appearance ; for the cortetlion of altufes ought never to be a fillet . - tion of party, nor is it eafy to fee that Mininers could have any motive for preventing a report of the nature of that alluded tu, from being received by Parliament. A report prevailed in the City ycllerday afternoon, that a Cartel had arrived from • France, bringing a pacific overture froft) BONAPAII.Th. This was fo con• fluently alleged, that for a time it produced a mate vial rife the Funds. These was, however, no fuch arrival, but part of the contents of the difpAtches received from Lot! HUTCHINSON, on Thurfday ball, had traofpired, and gave rife to the rumour. It was Bated iu the difpatches alluded to that a pacific over ture had been received from Bosararrs—by the Emperor of Ruffs and King of Pruffia—which both tefufed to liften to, without Great Britain being • included in the negotiation. Repi)rt adds, but we know not with what truth, that NAPOLEON, after fume helitation, had agreed to the propofcd fiipulation.—lt was alfo rumoured yellerday, that an armillice had taken place in Poland, but we believe no fuch account► have been received. Sir ARTHUR PAGAT will go to Conllantinnple in the Cambrian ft igate. We yenerday received American papers to the 2 t It ult. the following ate the only articles they contain. ‘, It is tiated that the moat ferious .apprehentions are entertained by the Americans to a Rupture with the Bey of Tuni►. A paragraph is given in the Cotantercial Aelvertifir of the r6tl4, (striated from the Norfoli ( America) Ledger, which avers, as they Cry, from undoubted authority, that orders have been received by his Br i. tannic Majelly'a Commanders in Chid on that. Ka. Lion. to releafe every American feaman who has not voluntarily entered into the !kit& fet vit.." • ,~. • t • • • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 11 MONDAY, APRIL 57, sfloy. N. B. When this M-eting falls in April, the horfl with refpeet to their ages, are confidered as if it had been in May. Mr. Wyndham's e. by Schedoni, 7it beat Mr Arthur's Worm. wood, Eft 91b —Two yr old C. svgs. Five to 4 agft Mr Wyndham's colt Duke ofiGraftou's DOdona, Y.R. 71b. heat Sir F. Standifles After to Ilusbury. Bft—B. C iccgs —sin to 4 agft Dodson' Mr. Mrllifh's Eft. heat Mr Arthur's Achilles, Eft 71h, 1).1. 30cgs —Five to 4 og Lord Grofvenor's Msteora, Eft 21h. beat Mr Mcilifh's Carllret Beaufort, lift 5111—D. I. 2oogs. h. ft.—Fix to 4 on Meteors*. Mr. Goddard's Mountaineer, Eft Sib rec. 3cga front Ms Wat. fon's Charmer, Bft A croft the Flat, jogs L rd F. Bentinck's Job Thornbury. by John Pull, nut or Fu er , Bit 71b rte ft. front General Grofvenor's h e 1 be Terocraire Waiter, 7ft 71t'. Acrofs the Flat, smogs h. ft. Lord Foley 's Paris, Eft 71b. agit. Mr Craven's Bonze, Aerate the Flat, songs h. ft —Off by content. Mr Howorth'sl.angtoo, Eft 9 1 .14 rec. songs front Lord G. H. Cavendith's Pagoda, Eft 31b.—1). M. 3zoga It. ft. On Sunday evening Lard lisvanwav lgt for Staines, where Isis Lord(hip flepi, and proc?,d to Windfor early ye4lerday morning, and lead an art dience of his Majervv. loon after nine o'clock, f ur about a quarter of an hour ; after which his M 5. issr r proceeded in his travelling carriage to ].en. don, and arrived at the weer.', Palace about twelve. At two o'clock, his MAJtSTY held a Privy Cone. cil, which Was attendedj3y the L RD CHAWCULLOt, the Dukes of Poarssag and MoriTROSE, Earls c Ati . DEM, WWI MUKFL AND. and BATH Ult ST, Viktllltit CRSTLIER F AGH, Lords Pax assauav, MuLcsays, and Mr. PFRCtVAL, when an order Ara% jai l ed for proroguing the Salons of Parliament to the 13:h of May, preparatory to the diffintian. The Prince of WALES, on his return from Hyde Park I'm Sunday lA. ca,lied nn ti:e Duke of Posts• LAND, and remained cluteted with him above two hours. The Afirea and CJlehy frigates *re appoilted to wey the E.rl of PEMBROKE and 1.-)rd G. L. GOWER froni Yarmouth to the C•mtinent. The Woolwich Rote (hip at Plymouth, is to pro 'eed to the Rio de la Plata immediately with Rotes. The Lords of the Admiralty, it is fa'd, have ap. pointed Sir HOME? Portiere to the command of a (mall fquadron to curiae off the C:ootinent, in the Rivers, &c. with a roving commilnon. His Royal Highnefs the Dake of York infprera, yellerday afternoon, part of the Second Regiment of Guards, in the yard of Poitman.fireet Barracks, preparatory to their leaving town for fireign ter vire. The CAdflteam and 3d Regiment of the Guards. now at Chatham Barracks, received ruder* on 'awl: day 140, to hold themfelves in teadinefs f r fateign fervice, and to augment their companies to tto anon each ; the draft to complete the Gnarls left Loudon this morning, and will arrive at Chatham Barracks to-morrow. The IR BAtalinn of itoe 43d nnw lying at Hythe, have alto received fimilAr orders. On Sunday failed from Leith Roads, the Not FOI. armed (hip, as a cartel for the 'read, wi:11 the crew of the Dutch frigate lately wrecked in O. kney. he Kingftnn, 14lie, horn New York, arrived at Liverpmd, w.a boarded on the tyth Infant, in hog. ty by a freoeb priva teer, which detained her one day. Slat bad captured three vetrels; but would Not till what they were. • --- COU ItT ARI I L—The Collirnirtial lately aftern bled in Edinburgh Caine, fenrenced Lieutenant Rosa of the 72d regiment, to be" feverely and publicly re ptimanded, and to be fufpended from rank and ray jot fix months."—liis Men si v has been pleated to approve of the fentenre, and alto from proof on the proceedings. finds him unfit to be retained in the fervice and bear his Majefly's commitlion. On Thurfday lafl, a Court Martial was held on board his Maj:fly's flea la ROEBUCK. in Yatnrouth Roads, for the purrofe of trying Lieutenant Hassel. W.gra, Commander of his Mayfly's late guti•brig Ferreter, together with his officers and crew, for the capture of the laid brig by the c emy's gun vends on the river Emms, on the morning of the 3 a . ft of March. It appeared, by the eviience adduced on the trial, that the Ferreter was attacked at day bleak on the 3111 of March, by feven Dutch gun vl.fiels, rich cat. Tying tliree'24 pounders and go men: on difcovering the enemy, Lieutenant ZVsra ordered his cable to be cut. and made fail on the brig, and, notwitlinanding the van fuperiori:y of force he had to contend with, he, with his little crew of onl) 34. men, defended the valet in the moll gallant manner, art! bya fpirited fire from the Ferreter, kept his 'afTailants at bay tot near 4.0 minutes. The difficulties he had to encounter, however, were fuch as neither (kill nor courage coal formount ; the wind was againll his getting out of the. River; his fails and rigging cut to pieces, and at this moment the Fel reter grounded. In this condi lion, being pettedly unmanageable, and not being able to biting a gun to bear, the enemy boarded hiss on the bows and Item in great numbers. Farther refinance w-uld have been rafh and unavailing. and in all probability would have occaliontd the facrifice of the few men he had •, itives of humanity, there. fore, fuls,gellcd to Mr. Wile the propriety of. Order. ing his people below. Great praife is due to Lieu tenant Watt, for the cnolnefs anJ prefince of mind difplayed by him on this trying occafion, and to which indeed may be attributed the prefervation of the lives of his people. Lieutenant Willi made a very enimaiei defence', in which he expatiated with conliderable ability 01 , the zeal, promptitude, and alacrity difplayed by his handful of men on this occafion. and concluded with a very able and energetic appeal to the feelings af the Court and.his auditors. The Court having beard the evidence, and having maturely weighed and corrfidered the fame, were of opinion that the Ferreter was captured by the enc. my', gun vegeta in the river Etnms, on the 311/ of Match, and were unanimoufly of opinion that L ien tenant Wits ufed every exertfba to defend the fad brig, and that farther refinance would have, been fruitlefs the Court, therefore, unanimouily adjudged Lieutenant Willt, his Officers, and crew, to be ma honourably acquitted ; and they were thereby 09 kosourably acquit:gel areerdsagly. The Proficient returned Lieutenant Wart his flood, with a handlione and appro r titte compliment. ■ I