Star. — London, England, 1807-12-11 00:00:00

I' THE HOUSE OP CORRECT 10V, COLD BATH FIELDi. Our Readers will remember a flateusent which appeared about a month fince, of deficiences detec ted in a pound weight ufed at the above prifon, and in loaves of bread found there, by the Grand Jury of the County. The known public fpirit of Mr. Sheriff PHILLIPS oceafioned an appeal to that Gentleman on the part of the Grand Jury ; and in his pretence, at Guildhall, the pound weight and the loaves were weighed by the city Randards, which it will be recol. leaed, were adju fled about a century ago by the great Sir ISAAC NPWTON. Mr. PHILLIPS very .properly reported what he had witneffed to the worthy Chair man of the carterQ Seffions, and the matter has fince undergone an invefligation before a Committee of Magittrates, of which the following is a report. The Gentlemen ( (the late Grand Jury, whole fairnefs is arraigned in this Report, will,probably feel it necef fary to juflify their difcretion in relating fuch a weight and loch loaves as the objats of their en quiry and animadverfion. LETTER FROM MR. SHERIFF PHILLIPS TO WILLIAM MAINWARING, SIQ, CHAIRMAN OF THE CES/ARTER SESSIONS, &C. &C. SIR—I confider it a duty which f owe the public, to inform you, as Chairman of the Quartet St him's, and I believe one of the Committee fur conducting the bufinefs of the prifon, that I WO prefent when an appeal was lately made by the Grand Jury of the County to the Standard Weights, in Guildhall—that I witneired the eon& ation of the Pour , / o %Vete: r ured for weighing meat, and other provianns, in the Hrufe of Corredtion, Cold oath fields. when it was found to be feces of as ovate too light ; and that, on weighing tome LOAVEI which were found in the fame prifon by the Grand Jury, they appeared alto to be conliderably too light—one or two of them bring from an ounce and a half to two ounces und•T weight. I fhould comprontift the feelings which I bear towards the re • fpedable Magittrates of the County of hliddlefex, if I were to omit to make this. formal communication. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient, humble fe rvant, Bridge Rreet, Nov. 13. R. PHILLIPS, SherilE To W. MAINWARINO, F RI. Hanover (gone. TO MR. SHERIFF PHILLIPS. &fan lloufe, Cleikenwell Green, Sil o Bth December, do,. INT leave to acquaint you, that your letter of the iAth Jay of November fait, addreffed to the Ch..irman of the Q27rter &Mons for the County of Mill Wes, and tranfmitted by bim to me, having been laid before the Prifon Committee, and taken into con• fideratlon by them, they made their Report off I matters relating to the Houle of Coerce!Rinn, which was laid before the . Court on the County Day of the lalt Salon ; and I am (heeded by the Court to tranfmit to you a Qopy of fo much thereof as Mates to the ful jedt of your letter. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient bumble (errant HENRY CULL- SE( av, Clerk of the Peace. To Rice. Put tlrs,Efq Sheriff of the County of Middlefex. MIDDLESEX. To His Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the County of Mid alleles, in their Central Sefton of the Peace, held in and for the laid County, in the Month of December, 1807, The Rtruar of the Committee appointed to enquite into the Receipt and Expenditure of the butcher's Meat, and other Articles, provided fur the Prifon. re in the Houfe of Cor rec'llon, and alto to infpca the general Concerns of the Pti Cutters belonging to this County, 'T. Sir DANIEL WILLIAMS, Knt. in the Chair, Thomas Bennett, D. D. William Lcwi., fq George Gafeolgoe, D. D. William Wirt, Efq Charles Churchill. Efq William Kinnaird, Efq David Dean, Efq John Nichol', Ffq Hammond Crelle, Efq Johc Hunteren, tfg John Warner, Erg William Fortter, Frg Edmond Cotterell, Efq hlward Roblin' Clerk Samuel jackfon, Erg Millington Buckley, Cl< rk Mark Beaufoy, Efq Richard I.endcn, Clerk The Paid Committee report (inter alia)— That having received from I,Vit.t.tam Matw.vaa too, Efq. the Chair man of the Setfion i , the letter which had been tranfenitted to him by Ramsay PHILLIPS, Efq. Sheriff of this County, Your Committee proceeded to inquire into the al . legations therein contained ; and fire, into the eh-- cumftance of the one pound weight, which is noted in the Sheriff's latter as a pound weight ufed for weighing meat and other provifions in the Houk of j Corrali.m. Your Committee examined Mr. Ati., the Governor of this prifon, who gave the I Bowing teftimony, viz. the one pound weight taken from the 4chen of the Houfe of Corretion, by one of the Grand Jury, 1 have no doubt is the fame weight which I direCted Jofeph Ballard, the late cook of this prifon, to take from one Itobett Tweed, a ptifoner in this prifon (one of the mutineers) in the year tdoz, and I am confident that firth weight never was or could have been ufed to weigh plovitions, or any other article whatever in this in iron, for the pi &nen, or others, as a pound weight is never ufed to weigh any article in this prifon. Your Committee then examined William Bailin (a prifoner,) the head cook in this prifon, who gave the following tellimony upon oath, viz. a I am a prifoner in this prifon, and have been here Near 17 months. I have been head cook ab o ut feven months, and have, during the whole of that time, con. flantly weighed out the meat when dreffed to the pti loners, the allowance to each being fix ounces. The weights ufed upon the occafion are an half pound weight and a two ounce weight in the oppolite fcale, and doting the whole time that I have aeted as cook in this prifon, I have never at any time whatever made ufe of a one pound weight ; and that fines I have ailed as cook, a scale maker has been twice in this prifon to examine, regulate, and adjult the weights." And your raid Committee further report, that they then proceeded to inquire into the tlatemrnt con tained in the Sheriff's letter, refpeCtinq certain loaves which were deemed too light. Upon the invelliga ti.n, it appeared to your Committee that the contra& with the baker is, that he (hall ftunifh a one pound loaf of bread for each prat ncr per day. The praftice has invariably been to weigh the bread upon deli• very, in the grofs, and to enter the weight in a book kept for that purpofe, expreffing in different columns the over weight or under weight of the bread deli vered to the prifon each day. The entry in the book on the 3d of November lag (the day on which the Grand Jury vifi!ed the prifon ani took the loaves to Gnildhall, London), is as follows: I Bread and I No. of 1 Gr a s I Om , flour for Loaves weight weight In. wall received ____ I Na of I No of Date Prico- Chil lier' dn. iSo7 kW" 254 Ito I 2 lb.. 1 276 z7B lb. 1 IN _ By which it appears that there were two pounds of bread over weight delivered for the prifoners on • The a Winn for Under weighs is blank. this day. And moreover, yotir Committee, have been informed that the above entry was fhewn to the Grand Juryman at the time when he took away the loaves from the prifon. Your Committee think it neceffary here to Rate, that it appeared to them upon a minute examina tion, that two of the three loaves, which were found in and taken from the ki•chen of the Houfe of Cor ration to the Guildhall, London, were very (tale,, having been there Come days, and belonged to the Cook of the PAC:9n; and that the third was alfo what is called a (tale loaf ; and that none of the loaves taken away were intended for or had been delivered to any of the prifuners. But your Committee, for the Farther information' of the Court, have extrafted from the Book of the Priam, the amcunt of each day's delivery of bread for the prifmers in the Houfe of Corration, lince the ta day of January left, and have fubjuined the fame to their Report, whet eby it will appear that the overweight of bread, delivered in the month of Ja nuary, 1807, was 661 b. in the month of February, .807, 271 b. ; for the month of March, 1807, 421 b.; in the month of April, 1807, 27111.; in the month of May, 1807, 131 b.; in the month of June, 1807, 231 b.; in the month of July, 1807, 321 b. ; in the month of ' Augull, 58137, 801 b. ; in the month of Sept. 0537, 711 b ; in the month of °Sober, 1307, 851 b. ; and in the month of November, iSc7, 861 b.: making in the whole a total overweight of bread delivered for the prifoners in this prifon, fence the 11l day of Ja nuary fall, of 5521 b. (and which entries and due delivery of the bread confrizmably thereto, was veri fied on oath by the Clerk of the laid Ptifoo, who re ceived the fame.) Upon the v.hole, therefore, of this invefligation, k appears to your Committee, that the Sheriff has been imp fed upon. and that the statement made to him, uhich occafioned Lis writing the letter to the Chairman of the Seilion, originated in mifapprehen. fon, was altogether frivolous and unfounded. And your laid Committee laftly report, they have frequently examined into the (late and condi inn of the Houle of Correilion, and of the feveral pi ironer: therein cnr&ed; they have found the prifon per fatly clean, and the prifoners healthy and without complaint ; and your Committee bare great fati4ac tion in reprefenting to the Court, that it appears to them by the information of the Rev. Mr. Evans, the Chaplain to the Prilbners ; and Mr. Atis, the G. vernor, that the prifoners behave orderly in the prifon and with decency, and with due decorum in the Chapel, during divine fervice ; and that the chi'. dren, who are kept feparate and apart from their parents, in the prifon, make great rowers in their learning, all which the Committee !ohmic, &c. DANIEL WILLIAMS ; Chairman. 1 1 The late elegant refidence of the D :wager Duchef, of NPWCASTLE, in Charles•lireet, Bei keley-icioare, is to be the future town refidence of the Pi incefs SOPHIA of CLoucss-rsR• M. , nday, the 3oth ult. the regiment of Ayrefhire Yeomanry was infpeeled by Lieut. Col. M.DoL'G•ALL, Infpefling Offices► of the Diaria, who was highly pleated pith the foldierlike appearance of the corps, and the flare of the arms and acc6ntrements. Notwithliandirg the late diallers *tiring fiom going on the ice before it was fufficiently congealed to bear, a number of rafh youths yeflerday had the hardihood to venture on a pond at Pentonville, when the frozen mafs gave way, and one of them, named Pike, the fon of a carpenter at • Somers Town, was unfortunately drowned. _ _ It was lho - cking to humanity, on the afternoon of Tut!.lay and the courfe of yeiterday, to w•itnefs the many melancholy accidents that happened in con fequence of the (now being (offered to remain frozen in great lumps on the foot ways. A number of hu l ks fell in the carriage ways, and, in confequence of their broken limbs, were configned to the knife of the flaughterer. Filh-ftreet and Ludgate Hills, with the acclivities and declivities of the three Briiges, par titularly London Bridge, were the molt fatal ; four honks' in the courfe of the day having been killed near the end of Tooley.llreet ; but this was not the greateft injury, a young man in the employ of Mr. Field, in Fleet-titter, fell, broke his leg, and fractured his arm ; a tradefman fell from the Reps of New Inn, his Ikall was fraflored, and his collar bone dinocated; A boy not fix years old, attempting to Ride, his feet flipped from under him, arid, on his being taken to the hofpitsd, it was difcovered the fpine of his back was very materially injured ; three others with va• rinus fraCtures, were taken to St. Bartholomew's Hofrital, and a greater number to St. Thomas and Guy's Hofp:tals. It is hoped that the perfons whom it may concern will caufe the foot ways to be cleanfed as the ACI requires, or put the penalties is force againit the offenders. Tuef.lay evening, the Quarter Mailer of the Royal Horfe Guards went to Wi - ndfor Theatre, and when the performance WAS over, from his not being °b raved to move he war fuppofed to be asleep ; but was difcnvered to be lif:lefs. He died while fitting on the ben.:l), without thofe near him having the lead knowledge of it. He was taken to the Tun Inn, and every poilible medical affißance tried, but in vain, the (park of life was gone. When he went to the Theatre he was in perk& health. On Tuefday a daring offender, of the name 9f Merlin, was committed to. Bedford gaol, charged with breaking open and robbing the bottle of Mr. Thomas Ekins, of Blunham, near 13igglefwade, on the night of Saturday, the 21ft of November fall— The prifoner has been for Come time fug - peeled as an incendiary, and in the prefeot inflance had left behind him fume matches, and a. quantity of tinder, in the houfe broke open. The fame night the wheel of a cast, belonging to a Mr. James Allen, a farmer in that parith, was cut to pieces ; and the prifoner, who had fotmerly occupied this farm, having been repeatedly heard to vow vengeance againft Mr. Allen, became fulpated of the above offeffes ; and an attorney at Bigglefwade proceeded to the rift) _ ner's refidence in Cambridgefhire, fecured him, and he has been lodged in gaol to take his trial for the fame at the next Affizes. It is now about a year and a quarter fine Mr. Allen's premifes were burnt down, and buildings. corn, &c. defiroyed, to the amount of isool. and no acc..unt could be then given for the fire ; a number of burglatiet have been lately committed in the neighbouthcpd of Biggler wade. NAU TAL INTELLIGENCE. MAII.S—.Wind N. R. 4taa. ova I ARR. DUI. Dublin - a 0 I Mbar' o 0 Waterford 3 Gottenburgh 0 CORK, DECEMBER 5: Irefferday morning Sir SAMUFI. HOOD made the fignal off this hat bout for the failing of the tranfports with the troops on board. The fignal was repeated at Carlifle Fort, and immediately the fleet got under weigh, but the wind was fo fcant, that Come of the tranfports were obliged to be towed out, and the whole were not clear of (Le harbour until t t o'clock, P. M. This morning, the wind not having been favourable, all have put back. The American fhip Eliza, which arrived in our harbour, from Lifbon, yeflerday, was boarded on the day before about five miles [-nth of the Old Head (.1 Kinfale, by a French fchonner privateer, with black fides, of 14 guns, and 70 men, the Captain of which (hated, that he had, a fhort time before, taken a va luable brig, bound from London to join convoy at this port, for she Weft Indies. FALMOUTH, DECEMUER 8. Sailed the JAMAICA frigate with a fleet of tranf portsfor Ireland ; Endeavour and Mo.-ri flown armed brigs with a convoy for Waled ; alfo the Portugnefe fchooner Nao Guero, Captain VEL')SA ) far Oporto. Wind N. W. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER to. Arrived his Majcfty's (hips HEARTY and RESTS resci fiom a cruize ; alfo a fleet of outward bound veirels from the Downs ; amon, them are the Pbccnix Eaft Indiaman ; Junn, Reward, Lady Cathcart, Europe, Centurion, Pitt, Loyalty, Thetis, Thalia, S , )vereign, Lord Duplin, Earl St. Vincent's, Trufly, Mariner, Tullock Cattle, Uuinn, Brook Wltfon, Olive Branch, Jonah, Peace, Caliaa, and Prince George, bound to the Well Indies. Sailed his Mal jelly's (hips .LINNsr with a convoy for the Downs; and the HALCYON, with difoatches for the wellward. Wind N. W. DOVEa, DEC. to. Arrived off here the (hip Fair water, of Prartlrnd, in 32 drys, from St. Peter (burgh, bound to London. Paired by yellerday a great many American (hips from Finland, bound home ; two of them (the Hardware, Captain LAID, and the Pallas, Captain' EVERET) put feveral paffengers on (hone, among whom were fame will have got releafed from con finement in France, by procuring Certificates of being American Citizens. They bring no news Gone by the Midas, Captain Keller, from Bremen, bound to London.—Wi id N.E. and moderate. DEAL, DECEMBER rz Arrived the Lynx hoop from the Note; and Fu. ar(Ars gun brig from a ci u'ze. Came down from the River this afternoon, the Elphinflone and Walmer Cattle, L•'aß Indiamen, and felled through the Downs for Purtfinouth, with the Albion, Burtts ; Lord Forbes, Lisx, and theWilli.tm Luthingtun, KITCHEN, fkr Jamaica. Sailed Lill night, the Phcenix EaR In diaman, •for Portfmnuth ; and the Mint and Buld gun brig., on a cruize off the Coif of France. In the D )wns—Pt incefs of Orange. Tray, Clyde, Lynx, FiniouF, and Pholphorns. Wind W.N.W. HARWICH, DEC. to. Arrived this day the Auckland packet, Captain BRIDGE, having landed Mr. IthT at Cuxhaven; alfo, the Auckland, Capt. HAMMOND, from Heligoland : while lying there, two Eaft country (hips, which had been captured by two large Dutch loggers, came in there by contrary winds, not being aLle to reach a port in Holland ; one of which was taken poffeffion of by Mr. Cu ',LEN, mailer of Captain HAMMOND'S packet ; and the other by the pilots at Heligoland They are left in charge of the Governor there, to be fent over to England—have not yet been able to learn their names:—W.od North, blows flrong—a large fleet of (hips, &c. are now here, wind bound. HULL, DECEMBER 4. The Charles, CLAPHAM, (Ailed from the Humber yefterday afternoon for Yarmouth Rnads, with the frigate Hy PER I ow, and remaining crew of the Dnis, llasrfh gallint, prizeto the ASTREa frigate, ordered into Grimll,7, after being taken under quarantine to White south Roads. The Providence armed fhip, Captain Rye, failed from Elfinore on the zo.h, with the following (hips under convoy, viz. —Bell, Kirby ; Amicus, Simp. fon ; Mary, Oa ; Richard and Ann, Ricken ; Boy ton, Jackfon ; Ocean, Smith; Triton, Huiron ; Mercury, Todd, all from Peterfbnrgh Phoenix Nankeen ; Fraw Rebecca, Mine ; Aldbro', Ramf den ; Providence Goodwill, Anderfnn ; Retrieve. Taylor ; Jane, Brotin ; Henry Beveridge ; Anda lufia, Rayner ; Symmetry, Cloughtsn ; Maria, Swalwell, all from Riga ; Chriftian, Wadford, from Pillau ; Britannia, England, from Stockholm ; Arid, Colley, from Pernau ; Two Sifters, Lille, from Liehau ; Samuel, Mitchinfon, from Hernefand; Mixon, Rofe ; Eagle, Murton, both from Narva ; Jafon, Hall, from Wyburg ; Freedom, Calf ; J.Anna Clara, Jones, both from Memel ; Venerable, Drab well, from Helfingburg ; Fame Rudlton ; Wage, Ward, both from Hull ; Alpha, Brown, from Co penhagen Roads ; Courage. Damn, from Koningf berg ; Thomas, Holiday, from London ; Advice, . Major, from Ca/1111am ; the Syren. Wye ; the Nab Crompton, from Riga. The Venerable, Fame, Wolga, Alpha, and Thomas, were upward bound for. Ruffian or Pralian ports ; and have returned with their cargoes. The Alfred, Jackfon ; Neva, Bnn ney ; and revtral other veffels whore names we have nor received, had arrived from Ruffian ports, in Helfingburgh roads. The following trails have arrived here, viz.—The Bell, Providence, Goodwill, and Symmetry. In anfwer to to the letter to the Colum in ding Officer in the Humber the following was this morn• ing received by exprefs, by the Right Worllfpful the MAYOR, from Captain RYI His Mattity's Armed Ship Prlititienci erimiby Roads, Dee. 3. tBo7. Sta,--I was fo late yefterday when I :mired Mr. Eggingtnn's letter, that I had only time to fend the lift of veffels whore mailers received ;nitration , from me at Helfingburg ; and very few of that number weighed with me when the general fignal was made for the purpofe, by his Majefty's frigate Cyane, on the morning of the aoth tilt. The Providence weighed and Fay to five hours to called her convoy, between Crr.nberg Cattle and the Koll. For the latt three hours there was no addition to the number under weigh, and they confined of London, Hull, and Leith veffels : at one P.M. from the increaling violence of the gale, attended with fleet, I was obliged to make the fignal for m 3 king fail, &c. as we had then drifted fix miles below the Koll, end expeded, front the nate of the weather, foon to lofe fight of it. Twenty eight fail of thi.,:s bore up with me, includiog the Charger gun brig, under my command. To her commander I gave convoy inftrudions, with orders to repeat my lignals, and accompany me to the - Humber ; he unfortunately miftook my fignal, made on me on the morning of the zt It ult. for altering the mirk to port two points, and made it three, by which accident, when the day broke (near 8 o'clock) only four veffels remained with me, the .reft with the Charger were conftderably to windward, the wind having (hilted from the South calf to the South welt, and this opinion was corroborated by my falling in with his Majeny's fchnonerWhiting, on the 23d, who informed me, that the paired through the day before a convoy greatly to the windward of me ' • there has been no weather fince to difperfe them. From their lunation, the moderate fail which the Providence al ways carried ; betides, - (tom her having worked to windward in quell of them, I did expe.'t they would have arrived at leaft two days before me. " I came in wn Tuefday afternoon, and the Vul ture flop Alb from a cruize off Whitby, where (he had been in quell of two lugger privateer', which were reported to have taken veffels off that port. Captain Pearce informs me, from very good infor mation, that one linuggling lugger had caufed the alarm, and that the crews of force tracts had de. ferted them through fear. For further information to the merchants and Ihip owners, I left in Helfing burg Roads the Cyane frigate, his %jelly's Hoops Spitfire, Orelles, and Gannet, the Hebe armed ihip betides loggers and fchnoners, that will accompany the remaining fleet, which, from the increafed trio. lence of the gale. could n , t weigh on the 20th (the Providence has brought home falely . a much larger), and proteet them in their paffage. I hope this information will prove fatiblaCtory to the gentle. men, as I have it not ie my power to fend out any veffel upon a bare formile of the convoy being dif• per fed. I have the honour to remain, your obedient firs ant, (Signed) 44 mit ARRIVID. In the River, T ye ll er.Harrlron, front Litbon—lfahella, Clark, and Eliza, Reve, front Dublin—At Cowes. Jane, BIM, from Phila. dclphia. At Leith. the Hannah, Gurin, from Oporto. AtWhite haven, the Queen Charlotte, Fearn ; and the Martha, Duno, front America At Ayr, the Ocean, Wilfon, from Quebec. At Portf mouth, the Mary and 1 homes, Kemp, and the Severn, Hack wood, from Cork. In the Humber, the Wilberforce, and the Alder', —, from the Baltic, At Gueracy, rh , Neptune. Mt.ffeby, from Its ;a. At Quebec Romulus, Brown fom Leith. A Portuguele fhip failed trom Ramfgare left week. and was captured the fame day by a French privateer, off the South Para land. The Craftwae (a Ruffian), Erieiron, from Peteriburgh for London, is detained and tent into fiarwich, by his Majelty's IDip alriadne. I hc. Pragres, PatiM. from Peterlburgh for London, was all well at Carfham on the loth ult. The Ellis, Hutchinfon, of Bridlington, is reported to be loft 4 LYurgeues. The Barbara, Atkinfon, from Sunderland for Plymouth, was captured off the &nuts Foreland on the Sth in ft. The tern of yellerday by the Happy Return ptivateer, of L,rd Svasworoso and Mr. from Libor', being on board the Aftive privateer, on . the 16th ult. is unfounded. A letter has been re- ceived from the Active, dated the 17th, at which time the was cruizing off the Tagus. By a letter from Hull received yellerday, w • learn that the Post 'Pi A, which is arrived there, failed from Riga on the i sth ult. with 32 other Nei, which agreed to keep company. Nct one veffel was left at Riga. It was reported that the Be►fcy, DRYDVN, and another, were embargoed at St. Peter Iburgh. Eight flips bad put into Carlfhsm. At Calfcrona there was no re. port of any capture for many days, except of th: Lively of Dundee, which was afterwards retaken. The Postorra left Helfingburg en the 25th, and par. ted with the following (hips on the tit HA. . . Manchefter, Kilock ; Mancha, er Punter; Courier, Fowler; Refource, johnfon ; Margaret, Mt to ilf; Fr infect, Clifford; King. Ron, Wife; g!!ebcc, Bennett; Empert r, Treadgold ; Oxen Hope, Sharp; Baltic Merchant, Bowler, for Lo ;don, were well, in the North Sea, Seth ult. The following is an extra& of a letter from the Matter of the brig William, of Glegow, bound from Bolton, in An.erica, to Bet bice, to her owner in Glafgow, giving an account of her capture, on the Lath of Augult, cff Berbice River, by l'Enterprife French privateer fchooner, mr,u ti ig fix Ihort twelve and two long nine pounders, manned with 7o men, betides Officers " She engaged (rays the letter) the_William almoft an hour and a quarter, when the was obliged to these off,being nearly funk ; after having Flogged up their Slot holes (having receive I (cur be tween wind and water). Next day, the winds MU off there ' we could not get in, and the privateer at anchor i t (hors of us, at tour * P.M. the got under fail, and engaged us for a few minutes, when the filmed off, and ftretcked out to lea, but the tide not anfwalng us to get ovdr the bar, I Mid not get in. " At live P. M. the =gaged us again, when the fpring that was on our cable unfortunately gave way, which oceaft gird our guar. ter to [wing towards her, which they perceiving, came up and obliged us t , ) !trite our colours ; they fay on board of the priva teer that they bad two men killed and fur wounded,but I obfcrved ten wounded menin the hold myfelf, and I have maim to believe there were more than two killed. M L'Enterprize proves to be one of the privateers that we fell in with going to Bolton. I had one man impreffed by his Ma jetty's (hip Blonde, off Surinam. which reduced our number to IS (as there was one below 6ek). lam lorry to inform you that the Genie French privateer, of fourteen 6 pounders and one long ze de. and tat men, captured and brought in here, the Clio, Dow. America, M'Ewing; brig Margaret., M' Farlan (Clyde Blip), and the Ponies brig, Clark,of Liverpool, which has not arrived her: yet. The Clio bad fix men wounded; the ref, I believe, hal none. " There Is no exchange of prifoners at prefent, nor has been there fix months palt. which cc-cations the prifon Blip to be crow. ded with people. They allow me to. Ray on fhore, which is favour granted to very few of the Matters and to none of the Mates. The above Blips were from Demerara and Berbice, rn t • ning veffels, and were captured the Item day eter they failed ftom Demerara."