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Also The Chairman stated, that the Court of Directors arrived the following Indiaman , Arniston, Thames, had come to a Resolution, that there was reason to believe that all the persons who were on board the Royal Charlotte, Cabalva, Thomas Grenville, and Ocean at the time she was supposed to have been Neptune : they are expected to be dispatched to-mor- lost, had perished—that as the occasion and circum row, and to sail in three or four days. stances relating to her loss were wholly unknown, DEAL, DECEMBER 18. there was an impossibility of inquiring satisfactorily Arrived and sailed for the River the Free Briton, into the loss of the ship ; but from her being stored in a sufficient manner, and the experience and ability HUTCHINSON, from Quebec. A rr i ve d t h e John, JACK- lof the Commander and Officers, it was reasonably sox ; and the Batchelor, —, from Newcastle, for !to be presumed that mo blame attached to them ; he Surinam, the latter with the loss of an anchor and I then moved that the ballot, for the confirmation of • cable. Came down from the River his Majesty's ship this Resolution, be fixed for the 17th et January next I —as also the Question for restoring to the service Cdtameus, and several merchantmen: The outward- `Mr. HENRY MERRIMAN, late Chief Mate of the extra bound remain.—Wind W. ship Tottenham. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER is. Mr. MICHAEL Root stated, that the expected re . - Yesterday, P.M. the HORATIO frigate, of 33 guns, newal of the Company's Charter this Session, being f Capt. Lord GEORGE STEWART, arrived here from He- an object of considerable importance to the Proprie t • : ligoland, where she in a gale threw some of her guns tors of Stock, he therefore requested to be informed whether any steps had been taken, or were in a train overboard, and the wind being strong from the N.W. ' for that purpose ? she was four days seen off and on here before she could : The CHAIRMAN observed, that the information re get into the Roads. Also, arrived from Leith, the quired appeared to be tu.)eriluous—Proprietors were . CALYPSO sloop, Captain Were, where she has had a • already informed, that the Directors were anxious p;rtial repair, having in the late gales thrown all her for the renewal of the Charter—such anxiety certainly guns overboard, and was very much damaged. , was not d diminished , and no exertions on their part I would be wanting to obtain the renewal at at early a A man of war's launch, 33 feet lon g , m ar k e d P. 0. period as possible.—The Court then adjourned. . and No. 810 on the stern, was discovered on Saturday' A Court of Directors was yesterday held at the ivorning last, lying on Lowestoft South Beach, with 1 East India-House, when Captain T. PRICE was sworn a few materials in her. How she came there no one into the command of the ship Lord Duncan, ton g present knows, but her number corresponding with ' signed to Bombay direct, as was Capt. P. ROLLAND , into the Alowick Castle, consigned to China direct. that of the Mrsoreuft, 74 guns, lost last y ear on th e C?ast of Holland, it is presumed it belongs to that I . slip, and that some persons have taken h er an d made] Yesterday a fi ne Indiaman, named the Bengal, was their escape from the Continent to thi s c o un t r y. I launched from Blackwall. Sh e i s a ver y fi ne vesse l. THURSO, DECEMBER 10. Her head bears the figure of an Indian Bramin, ex- On the 2d instant, a snow-rigged vessel was disco-1 ceedingly well carved. vered coming round Howburnhead from the westward, The Bonny Lass, Bane, which sailed from Leith and was believed to be standing for Serabaster roads, on the 30th ult. for Wick, has lost all her sails, boom, bat the afterwards shaped her course towards Mur- l and boltsprit, in a gale at sea. The crew and pas. k% bay, probably mistaking Dunnet Head for the sengers must all have perished, had they not provi "test point of the island of Stroma, in the Pentland dentially fallen in with the Prince of Wales cutter Frith; the result most unfortunately was, that the ship brig, belonging to the Excise, the Commander of ran aground during the night on Dunnet Sands, and ' which not only supplied them with what necessaries was there dashed to pieces, and every soul on board • they wanted, but towed them into Frasersburgh, a perished. Next morning no part of the hull of the distance of upwards of 70 miles. vessel was to be seen entire. Some leaves of the log- I The ship St. George, HOLBURN, from Quebec, arri book were picked up, by which it has been ascertained , ved at Plymouth on Sunday, with timber for the dock that the vessel was the Fingal, of London, Thomas yard. She brought passengers Captaiu Teemeeee Ffeugh master ; that she took in a cargo at the port ' and part of the crew of the ship America, belonging of Mtrimichi, in New Brunswick, and was bound for I to that port, which vessel, during a gale, parted from London. The greatest part of the cargo, it is expec- her cables in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and drove ted, will be saved ; and from the dimensions of the on shore, shortly after which, she became a wreck. logs the vessel must have been of considerable bur- One of the crew, named FERRIS, was unfortunately then. She was copper-bottomed, and in all likeli- drowned; and another, the carpenter, named NEL hoed had a complement of 12 or 14 men. Six of the sox, died on board, a short time previous to hergoing 1 bodies have only been discovered by the last accounts. I ashore, His death, it was supposed, was occasioned CHATHAM, DECEMBER 15. lby excessive fatigue. The Nymphen was put out of dock yesterday; to-morrow the i Arrived at Greenock, on Thursday, the Venus, Deltona will also be put out. The new 74-gun-ship the Alia s and Kennedy, from Quebec, in 45 - days—sailed in corn tee Montague, will be docked immediately in their stead. 'Ulla D any with the Lucy, M'Millan , for Troon — Attack gun-belg was about to sail from hence yesterday, wh e n • a . - - p the Port-Admiral gave directions for her detention till 'Tuesdaywith her in the Gulph. The Eliza, Hunter, for next, in order to her being more completely stored and fitted.— Troon, was to sail in five days ; and the Aurora, Ibe Audacious was paid off yesterday, and the crew were taken Boyd, of Greenock, for Belfast, in eight days. in fenders lo the Nore; the Monarch was also to be paid off, but . thrpsyment is deferred for the present, owing to their hot being The ship Princess Elizabeth, Stevenson, of Greer able immediately to dispose of the ship's company. nrck, was totally burnt at Alicant, 6th ult.—Crew PROM LLOYD'S LIST. ;saved,. . The Herald, M'Kessock, arrived at Hargate Creek, The Elizabeth, Mathews, front Belfast to Amelia island; and the-Patlaa,......‘,.orNew York, are 'onshore near Loughawilly. left. -the Sir John Francis, loading at Alicant, for The ,Aptphyrite, Morgan,- from Liverpool to Bristol, is on '4lendon shoWnOlitt Caroarvon, and it is feared will be totally lost. The Ann, Razor, from Greenock for New Bruns- The Friendship, Dow ; and the Peggy, Smith, from Quebec to tick, was lost 23d October, on Cape Sable—crew Tialifix, are on shore In the River St. Lawrence, and part of the cargo saved. The Battle- Trader, Tullbeh, from Londtds to Quebec, was totally lo,t en Cape Brelne,.bn the gth of October; crew saved. A letter from Dundee, dated Dec. 13, states : The Inclustiy, Hirvey, from viane, to Tegumouth, has been "-Ar ten o'clock forenoon, one of the pinnaces that taken, ant scuuled; by a French privateer, which sailed from ply on the ferry betwixt Dundee and Woodhaven was Welsh, in company with nine 'others, on e 2341 ult. to cruise , observed from the Craig Pier to sink, with two boat- In the bay of Biscay; , 1 men on board, George lEirkildy and George Ad'm. son. Several boats put off to their assistance ; but Adamson only was saved. - Kiyialdy was observed supporting himself by an oar, and a rope was thrown to him from one of the beats ; but he almost imme diately disappeared. A letter from Arbroath, dated Dec. 14, says : Ale brig Betties and Susan, Captain WEIR, of this ,pert, sailed from Newcastle, coal loaded, on the 3d Instant, and has not since been heard of. Several vessels that left Newcastle the day after arrived some days ago. In addition to the crew, an Officer and five or six men of the Forfar militia were on board ; , cine of the men had his wife and two children along . with him. They applied for a passage by the other -- vessels,but finding the Betties was to sail a tide earlier, ' embarked in her. It is reported here, that the people in the Bell-rock Light-house, saw a squat e-rigged •vessel founder on the 4th or sth inst. - A letter from an Officer on board the Queerer fri gate, dated Leith, Dec. 13, says—" We arrived on e 10th, having escaped a tremendous gale. The Old QUEBEC was almost exhausted, and, I think, had not the wind and sea subsided when they did, we should ere long have gone down. In so bad a state were we on the fourth day of the gale, that we were obliged to heave six of our largest guns, with their carriages, overboard, accompanied by 72 shot. On the filth, we decried a vessel, apparent!): in great dl'- tress. We came up to, and boarded bee: she proved to be the Atalanta, from Amsterdam, bound to Lone. tdon, and prize to the NIOIIII frigate, who, doubting the legality of her licence, had put an Officci with eight men on board, to convey her safe into some English port. The sea had struck her the day before, had carried away her misett-mast,-overy thing move able from,the deck, and three of their best men, who • were sever seen afterwards. The men hid been at the pumps for three days and nights. We took her in to*, and succeeded in sa ing property to the amount of 16000.—We proceed back to our station off Flush i ing immediately." . . DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Etertion, for the twee Gebroeders, ou the 26th inst. recalled Wednesdays and Thersdays. Echo, for the Maria, on board, yesterday; recalled at No. l 3 Great George street, Westminster. Gaiiant, for the Restorator, on her arrival at Leith; recalled at 37, Southampton-street, Strand. "C' 2.175.494\117, A NEW t 4 -02VEP. 1 Imperial Observatory, Potts, Dec. 9, sill. te A new Comet has just been seen in the.constel. , lation of Eridanus—it was seen by M. Pons at Mar seilles on the 16th ult. The thick weather did not permit its being seen at Paris before the sth instant ; on that day, at II hours 1 minute of mean time, its right ascension was 64. 23. and the declination'l3. 34. S. The apparent motion of the Comet in right ascension is retrograde and very slow, and the motion in declination carries it towards the nort'iern hemis phire. It is not visible by the naked eye ; with very good glasses, its nucleus, the light of which is vivid, is seen surrounded with a light cloud, but not the slightest trace of a tail is to be seen. " It was announced that, on the 4th November, at 7 p. m. thee was seen at serne, in the direction of E. N. E. a Comet above the horizon ; and it was dded, that the tail was tunied d:rectly en the side of the horizon. It will not be unneces-ary to remark, that these indications cannot in any measure relate to ihe Comet di,covered by M. Pons, first, because on the 4th November this Comet was still below the horizon at eight at night, and next, because it rises .n the S.E. and has no tail. It is probable that the Astronomer of B..rne mistook the Nebulous of An dromeda for a Comet." NAVAL. APPOINTMENTS. Capt. James Aberdour, to the Muros ; Capt. F. A. Halliday, to the Ferret ; C..pt. W. Haydon, (pro tern.) to the Crane; Capt. W. Bedford, to the Prince of Wales; Capt. John Eveleigh, to the Jasper, vice Capt. Hunloke, deceased : Capt. Price, of the Sabibe, and Capt. Hamilton, of the Onyx, are promoted to the rank of Post Captain; Lieut. Arthur Stew, to the rank of Commander. Mr. Watkins to be Purser of the Mercury, Mr. Thomas Berry, of the San Ildtlomo, to be Purser of the Minotaur, building at 1 Chatham; Mr. John Mitchell, to be Purser of the San IWefonso, tit. Miles to be Purser of the Ncd Elvin. The PRlNtrss ofAVALEs cutter has taken a French cutter privateer, formerly the Carrier, in our service. BOYD and GRANT, the seamen belonging to the DIANA frigate, who so nobly supported their charac ter as British seamen, in refusing to engage in the mutiny on board the prize brig, and in finally rescu ing the brig from the mutineers, have been strongly recommended to the Admiralty for promotion : They are both natives of Scotland. A few weeks since as the RODNEY, 74, was cruizing off 'room, a boy who had washed a pair of trowsers, white endeavouring to fix them to the ship's side to dry, fell over. Boy overboard," was instantly cried out. Captain ALLEN, the Commander, hear ing The cry, instantly plunged into the sea from the gallery window, and rescued the youth. It was quite dark, being about eight o'clock, A. m. and while the ship was going at the rate of 15 knots an hour. Cap. tain.Au.e.N was taken on board, after following the ship with the boy, a quarter of-an hour. It is most remkkable 'that this was the first time Captain A. had been out of .his cabin for ten days, having been confined by a severe fit of illness. tru is NO7TINGII4M RIOTS. By letters received yesterday from Nottingham, it appears that the practice of frame-breaking continues to as great an extent as ever in the vicinity of that town and the adjoining counties. In the mean time, the 'trade is endeavouring to bring the men to a com promise. They have come to a resolution generally Ito advance the price of labour, and lists of their terms have been printed and distributed amongst the work men; but whether they are such as will satisfy their demands, remains to be seen. The military toree is daily increasing in the neighbourhood, aid amongst others, the Blues have anwed at the scenes -of not this week, from their quarters at Windsor. The lovers of the fine arts will regret to hear, that, among other wanton devastations committed by the Nottingham rioters, in Garendon Park, they broke open the fine Temple erected there by Ambrose Phil lips, Esq. early in the last century, and destroyed the tine statue of Venus, then brought by him at a consi derable expence from Rome. Yesterday, copies of a Proclamation, issued by the Privy Council, were forwarded from the Secretary of State's Office to the Lord Lieutenants of the Coun ties and Mayors of different towns, where riots at pre spot unhappily prevail. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'. BENCH, DEC. 17. PAYToN v. caus•. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for the loss of a horse belonging - to the plaintiff, which was killed by the defendant driving the pole of his chaise against him. The plaintiff is a gentleman residing at Cobham, near Bromley, and the defendant, a coachmaster ; in the latter end of April.last, the plaintiff's servant was proceeding to Bromley, with the horse in ques tion in a chaise, when. he was, met by the defendant, who was driving at the rate of 7 or 13 . miles an hour. The plaintiff's servant was on his right side of the road, but perceiving tha defendant coming OH the same side, he drew up as close as possible 'to avoid him ; but without effect, defendant driving so dose • as to cause the plaintiff's horse to shy, and the pole of the defendant's chaise entered his flank near six teen inches, and inflicted a wound which caused hiS immediate death. These circumstances were stated by the plaintiff's servant, acd corroborated by a per- Son who was in the chaise with him. A gentleman who came up at the time, told the defendant he we!, to blame, who acknowledged that he was so. A gentleman named Dyer, stated, that the defen , dant met him a few minutes previous to the accident happening, and persevered in pressing him on the• wr.arg side of the road, and in doing so, ran against the witness's chaise, and bent the step. A gentle man, who was with the witness in the chaise, in consequence of the step being so bent, when gct ting out of the chaise, missed his footing, fell down, dislocated his collar bone, and broke the small bone of his leg. Mr. GARROW, for the defendant, said he had seve tal witnesses in his brief, but should decline calling them ; he had also declined cross-examining any of tlx witnesses who had been called; he trusted he should not be suspected of neglecting the interests of his client in having adopted that course. He felt that the case was so strong it would be impossible to overture it; and that th ere must b e a ver di ct f ir t h e !plaintiff. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages re 42, the value of the horse. HUSLAR V. THOMAS, This was an action to recover damages for a tres -1 pass and assault. The plaintiff and defendant were r both pilots, and had been employed to navigate two ' vessels from the River to the Downs. They arrived at the place of destination in safety, and the plaintiff went on board the ship in which the defendant was. The defendant was at that time engaged in a dispute with the Captain of the vessel, on the subject of the o.,harge he had made for pilotage • and the plaintiff, unasked, gave hi s o pi n i on t h at le charge was .too !high. Upon this a dispute arose between him and the defendant, which continued till they left the ship and landed at Deal, where they both mounted the outside of the London stage. Here the subject was renewed, and abuse was plentifully bestowed by each on the other; till at length it was agreed, that when the coach stopped they should fight it out. On the vel.icle stopping to change horses, the defendant pie pared for coiribat, but the courage of the plaintiff had by this time evaporated, and he refused to fight; upon which the defendant, without futther ceremony, gave him a milli ng , a I n C r ibb. was the assault for I which the plaintiff now sought redress. Lord ELlANacinotints observed to the Jury, that ti'e assault haviog been proved, the plait:till' was en titled to a verdict ; but; at was for them to sly, under all the circumstances, what damages he was entitled to, as a compensAtion fur the injury he had sustained. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages Is. ESUERBY v. lOLL.L. This was an action to recover a compensation in daniages from tlle . 4lifendant, Ciptain of the ship Friendship, fo • Pete 4t4 sni - Mpt.susta 7 ' ll4ll l l tt ne li b i y F a vessel tinging to the plaintiff, called 'l* GuiSt4 from the Friendship running foul other. • • Mr. GAItaAD VAIDCI the case, which, wai as f la Guistc, a vessel.taken froui the French, bad been purchased by the plaina at Plymouth; and put into a thorough stata-ot repair; and, when so repaired, had been orde r ed Toundlo Limah, 'aUd'a Lieufe . nant of his M t i e sty'l Nav y being at that timeatm• ing from Plymouth to London; toil charge •of her; she was, therefore, Under the CCittjuct of a gentleman of skill at the time the Frienciahip.dattkaged her.— On the li t of November, 18119, h G r UiSte ) came round to the Doams, and here cast aacher : she had been at anchor about five hours, when the Friendship came up, and, sunning athwart hawse of la Gniste, cast anchor also, and thereby placed her in a very dangerous situation. Sown Wirt, a brisk sale carte on, when the Friends'aip attempted to get under weigh, with no canvas set ; the consequenoe of which was that she became ungovernable, ran alongside la Guiite, and Irr ancht , t hooked into the cable of the litter Vessel,' which was materially injatedi her mi. zen-top-masts, gaffs, and quarter-pieces were tout away, and the stern of the ship very much' injured; in short, the damage sustained by th e vessel Ned, such as to render it necessary to proc ur e eight adaitionat, hands to navigate her to London ; all this evil atrose, as would be proved by the witnesses, in consequence of the negligence and bad conduct of the defendant, who, when hailed, and warned of the diniequences, refused to pay any attention to the caution, or even to give any answer, when he was told that by hoist• ing his stay-sail he would be enabled to shoot to the eastward, and avoid doing injury to any one. La Guiste was lying at anchor, and could not get but of the way, and the result wat, that the Friendship ran foul of her, and did her the injury which he had sta. ted ; the cost of repairi n g whi c h, an d the a dditional expence of navigating her to London, amounting to re2so, was the sum which the plaintift now sought to recover. These facts were proved in evidence, and the Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the Plain. tiff, damages £250, costs 40s. tossers v. DAY. This was an action of asstimpsit, for breach of a contract for the purchase of forty barrels of herrings which t' e defendant bad agreed, through the medium of a broker of the name of Gedge, to purchase from the plaintiff, at, a certain stipulated price. For.the defindant it' was attempted to be shown, that the contract wait. illegal, and was struck at by the statute of frauds, the sale note not containing, hi praii• of it, any stipulated price. It appeared, how. ever, from the evidence of the broker and his clerk, that this was merely an oversight, the price having bden adjusted previous to the snaking out the sale trite; and that when the broker, on discoverink the °Mission, sent to the defendant for a copy of the con tract, such copy. which *as produced on the trial, was furnished to him, on the defendant's own order,• having the stipulated pi ice properly filled up. It was then endeavoured to be made out, that the herrings had been warranted as of a particular quality; but in this also the defendant failed, the broker ,deny -lug any warranty of the kind, and it appearbso that while prime herrings were then bringing 31fir shillings per banel ; the herrings in question, and which were then lyingat the Commercial Docks, wire purchased by the defendant for les. per barrel. The Jury accordingly found for the Plaintiff... Damages re 24. Aunt v. Dicks. ' • ‘..) This was an action by the Assignees of a Bankrupt, of the name of Eastman, against the Defendant, a young man who had gone out as MatTof a vessel be. longing to the Bankrupt, on'a bill oteacha9ge for a certain quantity of Portuguese money; to 'the vales of about £B9 Bri:ish., The bill being proved to be of the Defendant's hand wrieng, • s: : Mr. Toerixo stated, that if he should not be able to make out a defence in this case, he slit:4Q ateem it one of extreme hafdship.—The Defendant had gone out as a mate of the Trine:• of Brazil packet, belong ing to the person tor whom the present Plaintiffs were Assignees, and the Captain having become * deranged in the course of the voyage, when he attempted to dr.. stroy the ship, and every person and thing on boatd s y by setting fire to the gunpowder, and having alter wards died, it fell to the lot of the Defenciant, a very young man, to carry the vessel through the remain. der of her voyage, a task which lie performed in a very meritorious tnarater.—The Defendant did not object to pay the present b:11, but only wished that it "should form a part of the set lenient of accounts rela tive to the vessel,an adjustment of which he had repeat edly requested, having 1 mg ago rendered his accounts for this purpose. This general settlement of accounts, however, had been purposely resisted by the Plain tiffs, until the Defendant should have gone before the • Lord Mayer, and made an affidavit as to the loss of the powder, by its having been thrown overboard. ID consequence of the Defendant's refusing to comply with this demand till 11:5 accounts should have been passed, the Plaintiffs had the Defendant taken into custody, at the very moment when they had ap. pointed to meet the Defendant to settle his accounts. In these eircnmstances the Defendant was under the necessity of availing lAimielf of a plea, he would not otherwise willingly have urged, to meet the present demand, namely, that he was au infant at the time of granting the bill in question. • This defence was clearly proved by a brother of the defendant, who was I 1 years older than aim. Lord ELLENBOROUGH held, that if the condition sv.s not acceded to, the pronii,e or acknowledgment fell to the ground. The Plaintiff was acc rdingly noasuitecl. A C flirt Martial was held in Edinburgh Castle on the sth December, 1811, for the trial of Set jeant Duncan M , lnt , sli, of the liirkmibright Militia, charged will allowing the escape of a French priso ner, whom be was con,:uc.ing from Stirling to Edin. burgh Castle, end for being drunk also while he was executing tgiis duty. The Court ware of (pinion, that he was guilty ( f ailowii,g himself to be brought to a predlcarLent, through neglect cf duty, in which the pri,ouer was forcibly rt scued, .though the j .Acqui.t d hiin of any connivance, ur of being drunk. in con (sequence of this sentence, which w.is approv-d b y Lieutenant General Lord CATIIC.I it .', thd prisoner i was reduced to tic rank and pay of a private.