Star. — London, England, 1804-02-18 00:00:00

he ii. 11 ;aft Ii- it. ad• )gal trod pre pro- mith Ser• ntle filk HAN land , fue• is on ( g oy. Kt et g the o die teeth iftanto W3l 8., till r , arc verage old At of 'S• talAp. oti the e tosr• of S~LOTILLA OFF BJtJLOGNS. Dorsi, rsi. t 7. • • • This morning, very early,'we heard diainiftly the firing of guns, feemingly in the direction of Calais; and this afternoon the Soy meat. frigate anchored in the Roads, with a fchuyt fitted up for a tranfport for horfes the was one of 24 fail bound to Boulogne, and was taken between Calais and Boulogne. The fignal has been hoified, and We learn that 70 fail of gun boats and tranfports were endeavouring to go along More from Flulhing to Boulogne, but our cruisers have obliged them to take fhelter in Calais. Some heavy firing has been heard, and the Su!) utast. has received a cannon (hot through her cutwater, but no other damage. Jail arrived the Paosmix (loop, hay. inn loft anchors and cables off Broadftairs ; part of our (hips are bloakading the gun boats in Calais— the reft are off Boulogne. Sailed for the Downs the CHAMPION frigate, Susaast., the SPSCULATOe lug ger, and a cutter. Hie Majelly's Ws Loco& at amber off Boologes, Toefilay, Feb. Lt. t Itco. "rit not in mortals m command farces But well do more, Wen define It. I take the opportunity of a cutter going into the Downs, to continue the correfpondence which you Batter me is fo pleafing to you :—We are now at anchor, infide of the Bank, in Boulogne Bay, in com pany with the LIOPARD, of so guns, Capt. MORRIS; the IMMORTALtTI, of 36 guns, Capt. Owen ; the Sopa:tat., of 20 guns; Lana frigate, the Almost gun-brig, and tome cutters. Captain MORRIS took his Ration yelerday : he is tit prefent the fenior Officer. 'You know we have been under We command of that gallant Officer. Capt. Owen, who has endeavoured, as much as pot= table, and infpired thnfe under hint with the fame seal, to annoy and intercept the enemy's veffels: while Fame is loading his head with laurel, it would bt tharlith to deny a few fprigs to thofe under his command; and if seal for the fervice deferves an ho. nourable mention, the names of Lieutenant Laala of the LOCUST gun-brig; and of Lieutenant Swat liars, of the Aacuse gun-brig, Ihould not be omit ted in the lift of thofe forms:oft to defend their coun try, and fupport the chetahs of Britilk icemen. It MAY fetus unfair to give partial praife ; but I am (peaking what immediately' , comes within my own knowledge, without a doubt that every Officer and mum of the Boulogne fquadron would exert himfelf to the utmoft, when prom? occafions prefent ; yet, let to gun-brig gentry, as our freprreibenr friend calls tis, have our 'hare of approbation for the duty .we perform, which has lately been extremely hareem& from a conflant endeavour. in the late prevailing un favourable weather, to keep dote in with the French land, end within fight of the flotilla in Boulogne har bour : fuch cruising, 'nth Ration was Demos before this war thought of. Lift Sunday, about twelve o'clock, we were cruis ing off Cape Ganes, between Calais and Boulogne: we difcovered two French tuggers, creeping round the Cape: as the wind rather blew off the land, Lieutenant Lea as thought it poffible to cut them off: this We attempted ; feven more appeared ; we kept forby a about an hour and an a ;the half, they e b n ui d n e g av fi o re ur a i t ng a to keepwith the land; tea ran high, by the wind getting up, which rendered our firing ineffeltual, lint to prove our bell endea vours were exerted, we even ran in among the break ers ; upon trying with the lead, we found only about' le feet of water ; we draw about 52 feet ; and at this time the fhot from a battery on (bore were whitt ling over our heads ; the loggers availed themfelves of the neceffity we were under of bearing off from the land, and made their efcape to Boulogne ; they fired but few (hot, The AscHla gun.brig being in fight, came up, and rendered us as much affift ante as poffible, but was not fo near in with the land as we were. After this the wind encreafed ;we had a very heavy fee to encounter all night ; at day. light next morning we difcovered the Germ,: cutter ehacing a French fehooner to the weftward ; we im• mediately let all the fail we could, thinking to cut her off from the land ; we ran fo clofe along the French fame, that the foldiere employed holies to drag field-pieces along the beach to keep even with our courfe to fire at us, which they did very brifkly the Ichooner, after a very active fire from the cutter• got under the batteries and cfcaped ; fo, that though W e cannot boat' of any victory, we can fay with the Pat, It it, however, very vexing, that with all our vi gilance, they are continually adding to the very nu merous flotilla in Boulogne harbour; and, perhaps, it is as vexing to the French, that we dare anchor on lima own coaft, in defiance, in fight of that deluded army, who anticipate the ruin and plundering of Zngland, but wbok projeas, I truft, will be rendered boitive, without a fevere trial of that patriotifm od loyalty which animate beyond all former exam ps the regular military and volunteers of Great Li Abent a trailer alter twelve o'clock yerlerday w °ming, a Foreign MclTcoger arrived at Lord I tWKISE vay 's Other, pith difpatches from Mr. ~sum, at It it raid tint M.•asw has abfolutely refilled to be admitted into the Legion of Honour; affigning 2. the realm, that he could not enter into it, wiled. Li+ ultole Amy were to accompany him. 'll kik A iiiraiL*iski MAILS THIS DAY.;bWied if. N. E. . •11. HL ill. DOZ. Dtiblfa . S 6 I Waterford P az:awes, Fitz. ts.—Arrived la& eveitini and this day the Oak, Ha:, and Thomas, Ecvsca maf ter, both from North Yarmouth, with barley for Dublin.—The Swan, of and for London, WILLIaii matter, with (late.—The Catharine, of Barnftaple, EDWARDS, with corn for London.—The Kitty, of and for this place, Noes., with fundries from The John and William, Masson, and the Mermaid, BUD° a mistier, from Newhaven, with corn and flour for Liverpool, and the Elizabeth and Grace of Kingtbridge, J mailer, from Cardiff, with iron for London. FALMOUTH, Fes. 15.—Sailed this evening the fol. lowing vide's, under Convoy of his Majefty's dip INCONSTANT, Captain Diceissos, for Africa s—the Venus. lamer; Thomas, GOODCHILD Hamilton, MOULD; Herriet, CLuta ; Jenny, Curron ; and the Eagle, Ramsey. Thefe veldt arrived laR evening from the Downs, under Convoy of the GI ITHOUND cutter, which, on feeing them fafe in harbour, failed again immediately for the eattward. Sailed alto his Majeßy's kips Fllll3llllOl of 38 guns, Captain Lord M.Ksaa, and the }lOl/an (loop of war, of 14 guns, Captain MAIVIIILL, with the WeR India fleet under convey, among which are the following The Nancy; Bowen; Latina, Merresth; Maria, WUfan; Crefeent, PA'AfnUl; wad Berwick. Oftfaa, for Denier= ; the Harvey, &mac; and Ink, CritcheWfor Tabor; Trinidad, Smith; and Br J. B. Warren, Ham, far Trinidad; Trdawney Planter, Capt. Amy, for Bermudas; the Admin. Jenkin, for Jamaica; Jane, Hyndmen, for Weft Florida; Am, Club, far Grenada and Valiant, Goodwin, far Hondaraa. Sailed alto wider the above convoy the flip Cam brian, Capt. GaltDila, for India. • Arrived late this, evening from Plymouth, his Majelly's Gip °artist's, of 32 guns, with the out ward-bound Lifbon and Oporto fleet, and vii %remain here about two or three days, in order that the veffels bound thence may join her. Early this morning a floc". the Lively of Barn fiaple. Captain MODEM, from Cork. with butter and provifions for this port, was difcovered to be on fire in the Bay ; the immediately ran on bore. and by the (ea frequently walking over her. the fire was fortu nately extinguilhed ; fl mild the weather prove fine, it is expeEted that the whole of the cargo will be fared. Wind north. TOMMY, Faa. s6.—The 'hip Peggy, of New Or leans, which I wrote you of in my left, attempted to weigh on Monday evening, having the wind freas from E. N. E. accompanied with a difagreeable fea, and jult as they had got wort a-peak, one man broke his handfpike, with heaving, and fell backwards with fuck violence as to receive a revere contufion on his head, the pilot materially bruifing himfelf nearly at [ the Caine time, when the flukes of the bell bower an chor In:oke off clofe home to the crown ; that for the prefervation of the chip they were obliged to lie faft till other anchors could be procured, and this morn ing, with a fine wind at about N. E. failed for Cadiz, Allb failed the 114 Oakwell, Capt. MARSHALL. from London to Liverpool, having loft two anchors here. The Sea Baia gun brig intends failing this evening for Plymouth, fhe having milled flays in working out, loft her anchor, and was near being on fhore, but is now warping out.—Wind N. E. by N. Pt.viaourir, Fes. r6.—Came in the AURORA, of 28 guns, from a critic!; and the BUST, Revenue cotter, with a leisure of Ise Wks of fpirits; and UNITY cutter, from a cruise.—Sailed the Sri/swift, of So gunc, to join the Channel Fleet.—Remain in Cavil:and Bay, the MINOT•Ilt. of 74 guns. Poivistourm, Fan. 17.—This day arrived a fri- gate, fuppofed to be the EURTMCI, from the weftward : alto arrived the brig Mentor, from the Downs, bound to the Mediterranean ; and the Ihip Cove, of London, with a brig, the name I have not yet learned, both bound to the Well Indies. Sailed his Majefty's (hip Nam ssi s. on a ensile to the well. ward ; the ran foul of his Majefty's Ibip Mat Possess, carried away part of her quarters, and love her boats in ; the damage done is but trifling. Came into bar• pour his Majefly's !hip REVOLVTION•III.II.C2pt.LOCIC. Remain here three outward bound (hips for India about twelve or thirteen for the Weft Indies; four veliels for the South Seas ; and about nine or ten fail for the Mediterranean. The lltip Samuel, Cap- tam Socuaus, is out of Dock, and nearly ready to proceed on her intended voyage to Jamaica. DIAL, Fes. 17.—Sailed the BASILISK gun brig on a eruize. Arrived the MIL/MOOR fehooner from a cruise, and remains with the MO/MULCH, UTIMCNT, ILLUSTRIOUS, and RAISON/MLR men of war ; Ey- ITALVS frigate ; ARAB, AUTUMN, R , VINCE. co, and the Lve a !loops of war ; Cow rucv gun brig; Nessus ; and Fula bombs.—Wind N. E. The weather for feveral days pall has been es etedingly (ewe t tome fnow feU laft night, accom. panied with Iron. The wind fill continues north esti. Some outward bound paffed through yederday. YARMOUTH, Falk I7.—Yellterday failed the Pane tort frigate to the Nore. Arrived the Roll'', of 64 guns, frum a entice, off ihe Dutch coati. Admiral TMORY 110ROV011 has hoiflcd his flag on board the lisao, of 74 guns, the Hon. Capt. Geer:rasa, emir ing in the North Sea. Arrived the Semitic; c loop of MAI, and KiLL4III) and CIIIIIPIPION gun-brigs. 'lbis • •• day CAW the ifaLsatta geln.blig. Remain in there Roads the °assess, Admiral Rossis's flag.fhip Roar, Uf 64 giusi &vireos !loop ; tiara ma and Swim cutters. The Bias or Litcisrsi packet dill remains, wind bound. Light wind N. E. Caesium', Fes. it —On Saturday it blew a very heavy gale from - the eaftward. Three lighters were funk, and one difinafted. A number of large veffels drove confiderabli, but, fortunately, none of them were Materially damaged. One of the lighters his fince been railed. During the gals, the (loop Aan; of this port, Whisseas mailer, was forced on (bore near the battery, and, soft probably would have been loft; bat for the imam:diem aid rendered by bis jefty's (hip Tonataitisse, through which the (loop was got off without damage. The conftant readinefs of Capt. &seisms, his Officers and men, to afford al: faience on all occa fi ons to the trade, enfures to them refpeft and efteem. The Fa&or, CALDWELL, and the John and Alice, Dosswee, came up yefterday from LBlll6ll', basing performed quarantine. By a letter from the Cultom.houfe, Stranraer, of the 6th, it ap pears that there malt have been a reffel loft between the Mull of Galloway and the Point of Corfall, as there have been call on (bore, between there places, feveral cafes containing flak' of oil, and other articles. One flafk of Florence oil was picked op on that beach the other day by a fa il or, and yefterday a piece of (hip plank was picked up- At Lochryan, lad week, a failin g boat, belonging to one of she armed fbips there, going on board, was trierfet, and the chief Officer and four men Were drowned. The night was very dark, which pre- vented the fituation of the boat being feat from the other (hips. The boat was found the following morn ing, bottom atp. almolt oat of the Loch. PROM LLOYD'S LIST. 0 I), Fn. ty .—Paired by the Speadkiee, Lee#zy, Ikea llekp ; Remy, HAO, from Rip; Jane, Smith, foam Rote; Tbree Bream Irk, Cray; sad the jeep Pam, from Aesiberdme ; Ork, from Met Yeeger, Fry; Good bye, jeep 'Ammo, Pk& ; and die Prince Sem fts.—sand die jeep Eldon, Ja cobs, ane,for 111111dm, Kiosk sod the View Omen, for Embelte. Annevas.—At Cent, Ann, WSITIII4 from de. lilleiners—At illienpah, MaiUlm tram Kaplas—At Notts. Plass. from Pass. Ants, Wellman, tans Ca6...At New York, Mum OM, Waides,frcne Fkaabden I and b 1 ach0pma........ teem LandendueT—As Zama, Margaret. Candor; and Indenvowr. ban Venice. Upwards at ay at collars hove pot Ste the Hetaber, baying roaciami damp theft fib e law pion TM 160, Molt" too Loofas to Oaialmo'.la spared. Miss. el ILlseitsfigs. asd tbo Jencks', Watsford, bays bon Wien by e Fres& pleotow. rtrusks§ by ties Moose Meek fas Goaroley. TM Rasp, May. fele Paditsw, for Cock, is as Sort raw Millealesuo boot lisocy,Pasairtso is om lionriek far Lambs, woo eoptimod as ties myth via—TM arrived at fldbiog. frogs abases M writs. Mai ds at Parvari. time dm Zephyr. Poramma, and her odor ward% as alma by the fans privateer. TM Willemt. evade Henry, Goya Leaden, arrival at Hon duras bib Odober it. Dube Mr paws, be MI is whit a Frew& privates, wiry after as copeasst atoms boor, Bee beat ber aIL TM lase,Mnaar bad copmeral s loop firm Mamba Drat, jemmies. Mood to HHdfas TM Jobe and Missy. from Calk to Wks, a few days aeo fell to with a Praia =toer, air Seiko), za pos. owl mime to Mr breadarby et draped Wog captand. Yefterday, in the Court of King's Bench, a witnefs named lank was called to prove a hand writing, and having looked at the paper for fome time with out (irking, Mr. Eas mos exclaimed. "well, Sir, what is your belief ? Don't let the Devil overlook Lincoln, but give us your belief of the hand writing." The witaefs, with great compofure, turned round and Aid, " I did not obferve, Sir, that pa were looking over me—and as for the band writing. I can form no judgment." The Court was couvWfed with laughter. The trial of the CORDONS Win take place at Oxford on the sth or 6th of next March. There does not appear to be any troth in the report that they were to be tried at the Old Bailey. On Monday, a foreigner (eked at Caßieber, was brought up to Dublin Cattle, under an dcort of a party of the 16th light dragoons. His Excellency the LORD LISUTRIANT has been pleated to appoint the following Gentlemen to be High Sheriffs for the enfuing year: County anutet—Huab Montgomery, of WE IL Erg. Cork—Maw Wrizon Dacha. of CoMpfs. Efq. Fermanagh—George Ninon, of thzelphall, Galway—Rabat O'Hara. of Enka', Efq. Meath—William Dattrtiby, of Do4Mlle, Erg. s k uer t is w_ Cotost7—Coebran Paine; of Anthill, Efq. Frannie William Orton, of Killttnalagh, Erg. The following appointments have taken place in the Southern Doane: Lieutenant-Cobol Webb, of the third battalion of Refer, to be Infpeding Skid Seer of Yeomanry and Volunteeh In Eaft Kent, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Miller. Major Marley, of the Royal Staff Corps, Want Quarter- Malter-Genessi, Is appointed to the Mirka and Anima at Can terbsay. Coked Lawfrm, at the Artillery, Is appointed a Brigadkr-Cie tient as the Staff, and Rational in the diftri& at Chatham Lira. Lieutenant-Colond Sunbury, AS Rant Quarter-Mafter-Gene nil, is removed to Canterbury, and to take charge of that depart ment, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon.. _ _ _ . Colonel Twills, of the Royal Engineers, a the Stall'. Licutroant-Caioriel Gore, Infpedting Field 0/scer of Yeomanry and Vidantion In the Cinque Ports. Liar Oarroatos.—The Oratorio Seaton com menced laft night at Covent Garden Theatre. with confiderable eclat. The performances are under the management of the As LILTS. Such finging as that of BR AN•I4. Mrs. BILLING TON. Mifs TIRES, &c. could not fail to command fuccefs: we were, there fore, not furprifed at the numerous attend..nce at the Theatre. The infirumental band of the prefen: fea fon, led by \Velum's., is very powerful, and the cho moires are well fuftained. The Grand Selairon of lad year was the performance of yeller day evening. Indead of the overture, a Samfon," the audience were, on the railing of the curtain, moil agreeably faluted with" GOD five the King," in which the chief performers took a part, with a general chorus and a full orcbellra. Two verfes were happily added on the occafion, the one allufive to the threatened invadon, and the other to the melancholy fituation of his Mailers:. in which the cordial and fervent willies of the country are expreffed, for the Fedora tion of his health. They were both greeted with univerfal and reiterated plaudits. A delay took place at the conclufion of the fccond Part, at which the audience ezpreffed tome impatience, till Mr. BRAMAN announced the carafe to be the fudden indib pr.,fition of Mr. AsuLtr, fen- LEW INTILLMEIth Z. • COURT or E3lOl paliCit FEIL it A &El W. TOM. n, o. The Plaintiff is an Organ builder, In the New Road, Lambeth Mar& ; the Defendant, n Clergy. man, who lately had an eilabliihment atJ3laekheath. for the education of young Gentlemen, bat litho now refides at Deptford. It farts the Defendant had fame difcord with the man of concord, or the urge aid he employed at his Chapel ; and in order to pie. vent the harmony that mould always attend der facred Cervices float being interrupted. he had Order, •-. ed an organ to be ionfiruded on a plan fimilar to thole of the Itinerant Jews, which would difpenl with the neceffity of having a profefed muficlan. In purfuance of this defign. Dr. Tow* gave an order to the Plaintiff to make an inilrument of this kind, for the value of which (2014 the . crel'ent anion wad brought. Mars. Eucims arid Kantor, for the Plaintiff. dated his credit and eminence in his bufinefs, and . produced Mr. James Ayre as a whites, who &Toad to the exPcudon of the barrels', Ike. ' Mr. Lincoln was alto broogbt to prove the hand writing of the Defendant to certain knees, whisk . contained the inkruitions to the Plaintiff for the cow. pletion of the work. On tense befitation in giving his teftimcny, Mr. EISICIIIS Paid, he was confidant that be only paafed whik “ the Devil was looking over Lincoln. '' Mitchell, ti third witnefs. having proved the dd. livery, Mr. Gaeaow addtefed the Court andjuyy in law half of the Defendant, and then proved, by fi tidic. tory evidence. that the Organ was not executed in a Workmanlike manner. and that it mil not delivered until a confiderable time lifter the period prefcribed by the order. A mechanic devoted, that although intended for fund mace. it was only faked to di& turb the congregation. by exciting ridicule ; that the mufic produced was as different from what was In. tended,. as Chevy Chace from the favourite Asthma of Save the King. This fingular witneh ear eluded his devofitions with offering his remit* (In the ffylc of Sioeffer Deigerweed), and reminding Mr. Gum*. whore client he bad brought off, that both for him and his Mier hi had been employed in the ' nsufical way. and he Grid he hoped for the maim. lace of his patronage. Lord Ettennonoooli n .—se The order Ira wither executed in the proper time, or in the proper mar ter."—Verdia for the Defendant. Ith NATIISIII. iiswras The Plaintiff it well kioiit as an inn teepee, as the Bing's Arms. Glalionbory ; the Defendant is in the fame occupation at Bridgewater. This attion was brought under ten counts of malicious Deader,. to recover damages. In the provers of the csofe s only one of the counts, viz. the third, was fupportedl by the evidence, and the gravamen was, that the Plaintiff had left the collo:is of Lord Da Dusszas. vissa by finch malicious Bander. The words' cons. plained of were nearly thofe employed to every per. (an unveiling poll, by ihe coalition of inn krperso when he withe; to be driven to a bon& ndt in the routine of their intereft. " My Lord (laid Mrs, Newman) you will act meet 'with barks essoakh. ae with accommodation fulEcient at GLltionbary Hooks we always drive on to Street." In coofequence of this obfervation, Lord Da Dneszsaviasa, from the Student's box, gave evidence, that he and his retinues during one excurffoo, abandoned the honk of the Plaintiff, and gave his voltam according to the rw comnsendAtion of the Defendant. Mr. Easeful, for the Plaintiff, endeavoured to fupport the different counts in the declaration. awl he contended that it was not neceffitry to date fin. cial damage ; but it was competent for bins tog* into the general damage, which was laid to the ez. tent of zo,oool. He adverted to the magnitude of the concerns for communication on the great roads 'of this opulent kingdom, and be trotted that due Jury would, by their verdib, repair the great been his client had faffered from thefe malicious nitre prefentations. Mr. Gaeaow, for the Defendant. ezpreffed his furprize that this anion was transferred to Wefe. mintier, inftead of being brought on at the Bridge. water Affizes, where the Plaintiff might have had the affiance of his Learned and facetious friend Mr. Jekyll to open his cafe, and of Mr. Gibbs, to lead on the occafion, who is julily .diftinguithed as the great Prophet of the Western Circuit. si It Curtly Odd the Learned Counfel) is no fcandal to fay that an inn is not licenfed for poll horfes. I have fame. times been at the bottom of Shooter's hill with tired bealls, and it is well known the immenfe building nit the furnmit has had no licence to fupply horfes in fueh an emergency. I hope I (peak no fcandal when, I fay this, for which I than be brought before this Honourable Court. My Learned n icnd Mr. Er. (trine and myfelf have unfortunately met in the north Circuit with the retinue of the Doke of Northumber land, in his progrefs to Alnwick Caftle, and we hare been fpoken to in the language of the prefent De fendant, that horfes were n, t to be procured at Terry. bridge, and that the Angel could give us no menus. modation ; yet no anion was brought—and Inch pre. cifcly might have been the citcomaances when his Lordlhip, who has appeared as a witnefs in this cauk. was upon the road. Out of the ten counts. olic only remains ; it is in ;deli futile and nuatory. and ought never to have been lu:J elitted to a jury in Wel:mint:et Hall." Lord ELLtrisoanucii—o The rule of law is, that yon not go into (Pedal damages without fufEcient notice to the defendant ; and there mull be fume conformity between the words ufed in an ailioat for liander, and the teflimony to Inch aaions. It is not enough that words are spoken of a certain ins. port, but they mull be falfely and malicinufly fpokeru I may recommend any particular inn, but to enforce fuch recommendation. I mull not neerflep the limits of tenth I if I do, it will be eonitrued that I have malicinufly fpoken. It does appear on this evidence s that a rnifreprefentation wo made to my Lord Da Dunhanville,and that he did, in confequcnce.oaone occalion, leave the Glannnkrury Houle. He travels wi t h fits hnefes, and perhaps the loft OA this fingia citeuvinance is not likely t , ) amoapt to man dim 39 ,.—Vcrdia for the Plaintiff stn. .