Star. — London, England, 1811-11-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY. The Roscommon and King's County regiments, stationed at Plymouth, hare commenced volunteering for the regulars-73 of the former turned out on Tuesday. The .sth and 28th regiments are the fa_ tourites. ' INTELLIGENCE. PALYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 4. Sailed his Majesty's ships Rom. and Ritzy, on a cruize.--The Princess Charlotte and Swallow pac kets are gone into the Roads ; they will sail to.mor row—the former for Gibraltar and Malta, and the latter for Cadiz.—Wind W.N.W. and moderate. PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER S. Arrived the ACASTA frigate from a cruize off Brest, and the Elizabeth tender, with impressed men, from Greenock. The American schooner Young Caroline, from Bourdeauz, bound to New Orleans, laden with a valuable cargo of wine, oil, silks, &c. has been de tained and sent in here by the Ss:minima frigate.— The BltliK S 1001) of war is appointed to take convoy •to Cork, and the PHEASANT to Portsmouth : they will both sail to-morrow, if the wind perraits. The SAN Josef', of 98 guns, is expected to sail to-morrow, to , blockade Brest. It blew a very heavy gale at W.S.W. the whele of last night ; and much mischief, it is feared, has been done on the coast. No material da mage was sustained by any ship lying at this port. — Several vessels that have received damage in the late , heavy gales have teen compelled to put in here.— Among them are the schooner Christopher, of Yar mouth, from Malta and Gibraltar, with sulphur for Portsmouth ; all her sails split, and in a leaky state. Prussian ship Vrow Maria, and Swedish ship St. Jchannes, from Malaga, laden with wine and fruit ; the Oporto from Quebec, with timber for this port ; the brig Midas, of Hastings, from Newfoundland and Gibraltar, with brandy and wine for Guernsey ; and the brig Ann from Dublin, last from Falmouth, with linens and provisions—all in a leaky state, and much damaged in their sails and rigging. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 6. Arrived his Majesty's ship FAVOURITE, from Ply mouth ; HOLLY, from Guernsey ; and the Escoax, from a cruize.—Sailed the Darrattous and Meausa, en a cruize.—Arrived the Peace transport, from' Milford, with troops, for Harwich.—Wind W.S.W. DOVER, NOVEMBER 6. The privateers mentioned in my letter of yester day continued hovering off here till dark ; and about seven o'clock they attacked a large homeward-bound West Indiaman, off the North Foreland, which they engaged for about 20 minutes, keeping up an inces sant fire of musketry, when the ship struck, but was fortunately fallen in with just afterwards and retaken, by the FOLKSTONE hired lugger, and carried into the Downs. The ship had two men wounded in the action. The engagement was distinctly seen i from this place, and alarm guns were fired from the &ie., rent batteries. DEAL, NOVEMBER 6. Arrived the Henry, Cant, and the Simon, TAY NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. • , LOR, from Jamaica ; also, from Jamaica, the Thalia, daprole, Byng and Lieutenant Pricket, to the Warrior; Capra* HAitma, after being taken host night, of Dover, by a W. R. Smith, to the Orestes; Mr. Sidney, to be Master of the Cephalus ; Lieutenants Glenny, and Sheridan, to the Royad French privateer, and retaken by the FOLKSTON& George; Lieutenant West, to the Mars; Lieutenant Keyle, to l ugger.— Th e outward-bound, &c. remain. the Ab oukir; Lieutenant Carnegie, to the Tigress; Mr. Street, , to be Purser; Mr. T. Hannah, to be Surgeon of the Curritier- I YARMOUTH, NOVEMBER 6. Lad; Mr. Hatton, to be Purser of the Super)); Mr. J. Mama- ; Yesterday, P.M. sailed for her station off the Tezel, mars, to be Purser of the lmperieuse; Mr. A. Girven, to be the Surgeon of the Royal George; Mr. D. Henderson, to be Surgeon the QUEBEC frigate. This morning arrived the fol iar the Trident. I lowing ships of war : DAPINe sloop of war, under The Emerald frigate, which is at Portsmouth, has jury -mast, she having, in a gale, carried her's away ; brought home Lieutenant-General GREY, late Com- the CASTII.ION, STARLING, VIXEN, and CRACKER ; the mander-in-Chief of the troops at the Cape of Good latter has brought in with her a smuggling vessel.— Hope, having been relieved by Lieutenant-General Passed through, several large ships from Archangel, Sir JOHN CRADDOCK. and some few ships, part of the Baltic fleet, which The London and Edinburgh Cnmpany's smacks • Piompt, Fifeshire, Leith, and Eliza, were all well in Pass through almost every tide, the wind still con- Yarns , tali' Roads on the sth inst. The Fifeshire and tinuing to blow fresh from the S.W. Put into this Leith have troops on board. port the Mary cutter, in distress, and several ships Sir JANIE.; CRACFURD, and Sir PATRICK BLAKe, bound to London, wind-bound. have inserted a statement, in The Bury Post, relative , ABERDEEN, NOV. t. to.the amicable settlement of some dispute, the parti-1 Wars of which are withheld from the public view.— The Concordia, of Lubec, Captain CAPPER, from Memel to London, with timber, was driven on shore Ali that appears is, that the affair was accommodated by. the interposition of that great peace ma ker—s , lf " on Wednesday—crew saved. She sailed from Got- The following ships and convoys remain still tenburgh the 25th ult. with a convoy of about 250 wield-bound •: sail. The same evening, in gale, she laboured At St. Helen's—Royal Gene and Swiftsuir, for the Mediter- : much and became water-logged, when it was found rateam necessary to cut away hei main and mizen4nasts.---- At salithead—Barbadoes, *ith the West India convoy; Kan- The same day another ship appeared off Peterhead, game, with the African convoy. with the main and mizen-masts gone, steering for At Yarmouth—Recruit, with the Halifax convoy; Vulture, with the Guernsey convoy. ; Rattra Head, where she must irevitably have genre At Cowes-:eorlanclo, with the Mediterranean convoy; Nraden to pieces, and :ill on board have been drowned. When and Rorer, with the Lisbon ditto ; Spittirc, with the Cork ditto. north of the town, the inhabitants came to a resolus We ate sorry to learn that the last homeward-bound tion of firing three signal guns, one of which being Baltic convoy, has suffered very severely from the late f heard, made her lay about, and stand for the Bay, gales : several vessels are said to have loandered off I where she got ashore, after, with difficulty, clearing the Coast of Jutland, and some have keen driven into the heads. The seamen brought the crew safely to harbonrs in the north of Scotland, in great distress. l an d, with the exception of one man, who was wash- When the above fleet canto away, a number of ves.-t ed overboard before the vessel struck. This ship sets were loading both at St. Petersburgh and &rid- i proved to be one of the same fleet from Memel to strnd, with cargoes for the s upply o f use French fleet. London, with timber, named Enigheden—the cargoes They were destined for Lubec. of both will be saved, but it is doubtful if the ships The Caroline, —, from Bourdeauz to New . Or. can be got off.—Another large ship passed the same leans, has been detained and sent into Plymouth, by day; from her situation, apprehension is entertained the Semiramis; and the Henry, NEWMAN, from for her safety, as also for that of many of the fleet, Bourdeauz to Baltimore, has also been sent in by the several of which the crews of the Above ships report Armide. as having seen to founder. A Prussian ship, of 300 The Clyde, - Cook, of Greenock, from Newfound- tons Widen, with hemp and tallow, from the Baltic, land, and the .Russels, —, of Whitehaven, from was driven ashore in the Bay of Lunan, on Wednes- Montreal, were put into Lcchindall 25d ult. dry.—She had lost her main and mizen-masts three The British licences for the importation o f r a w silk days before, when three of the seamen were drown are made out to be in force until the lat of April, ed ; the remainder were saved by the life-boat, but 1812; but there is a stipulation on the back of them, the ship will be a wreck. A small prize -vessel, at importing, that if the vessel using them does not ar- Montrose, broke from her moorings on Sunday last, rive in England within the time specified, she shall and was carried by the force of the current-out of nut be admitted to an entry. the harbour, and totally wrecked among the rocks A letter from Grangemouth, dated Nov. 1, says : to the southwards but fortunately there was no per -46 The Pastora, Carron, arrived in our roads from son on board. Memel, sailed from Winger Sound on the 25th ult. The Ann, BOLTON, from Dublin for London, put with about 250 sail, under convoy of the Courageaux into Plymouth on Monday last, with the loss of lore and Plantagenet ships of war ; a few hours after mast, and leaky. sailing, a heavy gale from the Eastward dispersed Aiteivito— In the Downs, Fancy, Glosseotte, from Jamaica; Fortitude, Al Archer, from Honduras. At Liverpool, Speedy, the fleet; only some waggling ships of wh i ch w er e Wade from Lisbon. At Belfast, Fisker,.--, front New Bruns sern by the Pastora the two days following. Captain wick. ' At Bristol, Ann, Lawson, from Honduras. ' The small-pox raged with such virulence on board of the transports which conveyed the King's County Militia from Ireland to this country, that ten children died on the passage. So much for the prejudices which have been so unfairly excited against vaccina tion ! EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF 111011 RANK IN LORD WELLINGTON'S ARMY (JUST ARRIVED AT LISBON), DATED OCIOEER 14 : N , thing has occurred worth my writing about till within these few days, when st slight affair (of which you will, no doubt, hear before you receive " this) took place with the enemy's cavalry, which ap pears on the part of the French to have been only a reconnoisance. The I 1 th and 14. th Dragoons, as well as the Ist Hussars, behaved nobly ; there having been not above 350, opposed to 15 squadrons of French, whom they charged eight different times; our infantry also charged the enemy's cavalry in a 1 most glorious style. The French are falling back, but not without having effected their purpose, which was to throw succours into Ciudad Rodrigo. Mar mont certainly intended attacking us on the 27th of September, but Lord Wellington, by taking up an other position, frustrated his plan. Lord Wellington had a narrow escape on the 25th—while busily em ployed in reconnoitring the enemy's movements, some French dragoons got completely in his rear, and would have taken his Lordship had not Major Gordon galic+ed up and informed him of the circumstance, an,' he was indebted to the speed of his horse for his escape. Lord Charles Manners was also closely pur sued, and was obliged to have recourse to leaping a large rivulet. " There is a rumour, and a very probable one, that Soult is coming down on the Alentejo side. It is pretty clear that the French do not want to drive us out, under an idea that their purpose is better an swered by our expenditure of men and money in the contest. gi The sick at Lisbon are about 12,300, ,or rather more, if any thing. Sixteen Officers have died at Lisbon within these few weeks. " Mr. John Silva, son of Madame Silva, at Jon eluiera, has been taken up by the police guard, and lodged in Belem Castle. His mother was seen enter. ing the castle on the following day, but whether she came there for the purpose of seeing her son, or was Implicated in the cause for which he was confined, we have not yet heard." lg. fteet would Carron suppses that greatest part ot the heave until t gale abated." _.„,ifC CU J - o ' iittarrroN, AferEVBEA 5. Daring yestetdaf we had continual showers; the PRINCE REGENT :lid not quit the Pavilien, except to take his usual exercise in the Riding-school : the Duke of CUMRERLAND, attended by Lord YARMOUTH and Colonel BLOOMiIRIA walked a short distance on the Sterne. His Royal Highness afterwards took a bath at Williams's. This day has not proved better than the preceding,: during the greater part, the wind blew a complete hurricane from the south-writ, with heavy rain. The Nunez Recur has not been odt of the Pari lion•grOnnds. The Duke of CwanxitiaNn and Lord YAamotrra were among those at the siiarring.match this morning ; but, owing to the unfavourable state of the weapher, not more than an hundred persions were present. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. S. Atltirda Albion, Smith, from London. At the Cape of Good Hope. Go: den Grove, Howe; end Good Hope, Napier; froatLandoo. I HOBBs V. HAMMOND. This was an action upon a policy of insurance upon the ship Jane, from the Brazils to Rio de Ja neiro, or any port or ports in Rio de la Plata, back to any port or ports in Great Britain or Ireland ; with licences from our Government, and from the South Sea Company : and the vessel was consigned to Peter Kendall, at Rio de Janeiro. On the ship's arrival there, the Captain was directed by Mr. Mac larlane, his. partner, to proceed to Buenos Ayres, where Mr. Kendall shipped on board the vessel a cargo of hides, &c. In the mean time, the revolu on took place, the Viceroy was deposed, and the Junta established ; and when the ship was nearly ready for sea, she was seized by Spanish troops, on the ground of her having snuggled goods on board : the ship and cargo were consequently condemned, and had never been recovered. Mr. Mannyar, for the plaintiff, contended, that there was barratry in the Captain ( Brown), and that he had no! :mkt' ac cording to the instructions of his owners. Bin, upon the cross.examination of the Captain by Mr. GAR ROW, it appeared that Mr. Kendall had conveyed on board the vessel a quantity of goods which had tiot paid the duties, wholly with 1.• the knowledge of the Captain, until the ship WAS seized. The Cap tain was directed by his owners ;0 comply implicitly with the orders of Mr. Kendall. Ll)rd ELLENBOROI:OII.—The orders being given by Kendall, is the same thing as if they were given' by the owners themselves. It would be other wise, were it a fraudulent act of the freighters and the Captain, to the injury of the owners. His Lord ship held, that there was nn pretence for barratry in this case ; the plaintiffs had sustained the loss by their own agent, agamst whom they might have an action, but they cPulci not sustain the present one.—Nonsuit. In this case, it WAS also dmided, that a licence from the South-Sea Company could not legalize an illegal voyage, as . part of the penalty was given to the com mon informer, and the Ling could not remit it. MAYDIW V. SCOTT. This was an action upon a policy of insurance upon the ship Industry, to Pillau, or any port or ports in the Baltic, warranted free of seizure in her port of discharge. The only question was, what was to b e considered as a capture in a port of discharge ; for the port must be coextensive with the means of dis charge. The plaintiff's own witness proved, that the barb ur of Pillau extended two English miles caret the bar ; and that he himself had had ships discharg ed very nearly from the place of the plaintiff's ship. Mr. GARROW, for the plaintiff, then claimed a return of 8 per cent. upon the premium upon arrival for 2.1. hours. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, that question would be one of safe arrival : but he would save the point.—Nonsuit. MELLISH W. ANDREWS. This was an action upon a Policy of Insurance for 8200 upon the ship Minerva, from London to any port or ports in the Baltic, warranted tree from capture in .her port of discharge. The loss was averred to have been by seizure, but not in her port of discharge. This policy was at 12 guineas, to return Je6 per cent. upon rival ; and there was also another policy upon ex actly the same adventure, but in a different interest, at 125 premium, with additional liberty to go back wards and forwards, and forwards and backwards.—, When the vessel arrived off Cat lsham, she addressed herself to the conductors of the voyage, who directed her to Swinnemund ; and when she arrived there she was sent back to Carlsham, where she came to anchor four English miles nut of the harbour, on account of bad weather ; the cable was slipped fur the preserva tion of the vessel, which had lost her windlass, anchor and bowsprit. Before a carpenter could be procured to set the vessel to rights, her papers were seized and she was sequestered. This was on the ith of Decem ber, and on the 90th of April following, she wa., condemned. Mr. VAUX testified, that the diffetence in premium of the two policies did not arise from their difference in wording, for he was sorry to say that underwriters never read them, but Iron: the one being effected in August and she other in Octulien—Verdict for the 1 defendant. NOVE MEER 6. This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Judges in the morning waited on the LORD CHAN• MAMA, as esual, and then proceeded in State to their respective Courts. The usual returns as to the state of the different prison ships were read, which, in addition to the ordi. nary statements, noticed various recent attempts en the part of the prisoners to escape, particularly from Woolwich, whence on one occasion, 19 prisoners es caped in a body, though the greater part of them were afterwards apprehended and brought back. On the motion of Mr. HOLROYD, a rule was granted to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue for a new election of a Mayor of the Borough of Plymouth ; the last elected Mayor, Dr. Bellamy, having refused to be sworn in, in consequence of his declining to an swer whether he had taken the sacrament within 12 months previous to his election. Mr. Pot.comc moved for a rule to shew cause why an exenerdstr should not be entered on the bail piece, in a case where the bail had not surrendered the prin cipal within eight entire days during term time, it Sunday were to be included, but where according to this computation, the principal ought to have been on the last day of last term, instead of surrendered 7 being offered to be surrendered, as he now was, on the first day of this terra. The writ was returnable - I • ... • • 'on die 25th fang itivie tnitfifiti Min Matti Oil Elie >fd dray. There was therefore eight entire days to re ,rea4er the principal, if Sunday was Included, butainly seven entire days if the was dot to be taken into • the computation. Learned Cm:inset believed it was a point that Intd never been decided. There were certain exceptions as to Sunday, and he did net see why there should not be ode here. Lord tl,LENsottouon s.id the Practice was contrary to what was now contended for ; and if one reason more strong than another could be deeireal why Sun day sheedd be comprehended in such a ease* thi•, it was to be found in :hie very circumstance, that eve, on a Sunday the principal might be arrested, for the purpose of being rendered in ditch tree of his bail. Mr. Pate.oca took nothing by his to ton. WSRIO V CHRISTIE. This was an action uprin a Palley of Inserance epon the ship Frederick William Gust trtT, horn G ittenburgh any port or ports in the Baltic.— rhe plaintiff s a4ent of Messrs. Heckskit awl Co. and the loss -e averred to have been by capture of Prussian soldiers. Mr. GARROW,.for the detendent, objected that the licence Was given to Mr. dee. gerdon, of London, and others ; but there was n•. evidence of its application to the ship in question. ' Lord ELLESIBOROUGH over-ruled the objection, the defendant having admitted the licence as f.r this voyage, by the terms of his admission. If lie had admitted that the ship was properly licenced, it would have been enough ; but he had gone on and ad. witted too mach. There should hive been a saving of just exceptions to the licence. Mr. Gattitow treat rested his defence upon one shirt point, which ap peared by the terms of the Captain's protest. The ves sel was bound to the Biltic, and -Arrived in Swinite mend roads, when she was in a condition to go in and discharge her cargo ; and she had no right t i lie upon her oars, and look about into the politics of the place. If she did this, it could not be at the risk of the under writers, without their leave. In this case the Captain addressed himself to those who represented the plain tiffs in interest, who begged him to undertake a new vnyage in consideration of a certain number of rix irs, and proceed to Liebau. He arrived in Swin aemund roads on the 14th of November, and waited till the 17th, for leave from his owners to undertake this new adventure. Before their decision arrives, he is captured by Prussian soldiers: Lord Ettatmonotion asked whether Liebau was not a port in the Baltic ? and upon being answered in the affirmative, said, that the only excuse for the de , Pendant was, that he had not read his own policy. The plaintiff had a right to cbange his destination, to wait for orders; and might have put out half his goods at one port, and gone on to another with the rest. From the 14th to the 17th of November could never be called delay, and there was no colour tie the plaintiff's not recovering. The policy was for RAM, and the plaintiff took a verdict fur 5e2981. allowing a return for short interest. COURT COMMON PLEAS, NOVEMBER 6. This being the first day of Term, the Court was I occupied in justifying bAil, and hearing motion: of course. • Monday morninz the Deal coach was loaded with a number of fine boys, dressed in true blue and col. loured handkerchiefs, accompanied with three Gentle men in the direction of the Poor of St. James's Parish, destined for one of his Majesty's ships lying at Deal, where the Captain had agreed to receive them. It is much to the credit of the Gentlemen having the management of the poor in that very respectable and populous parish, in bringing tip a number of children by having them instructed in navigation, &c. and thereby rendering them fit to serve their King and Icotintry in a profession where they will have the best wishes of the public. We were much gratified in seeing the spirits evinced by the little fellows,and the kind attention paid to them by the t• lef a Guardians. We witnessed a similar pleasure ab 'tit two years since, in seeing the Portsmouth coach engaged for the like purpose by the same parish : indeed it is .much to be wished that such conduct should become more general. Five THnUSAND PoeNDS!!--The Ticket No. 3,30, (Class C) a Prize of £5,0J0 in the Lottery just ended, was sold in one Fburth, one Eighth, and ten Sixteenth Shares, with several other Capitals, at CARTER'S, 8, Charing-Cross, where the fortunate hclders may re ceive their Money on Demand.—Tickets and Shares for the Little State Lottery, to. be drawn lath THIS MoNTI4 are on Sale by CARTER. A most alarming fire broke out at Andover, on Tuesday evening, occasioned by the fall of a squib or rocket on a barn. At ten o'clock several build ings were entirely burnt down, and the flames raging with violence in eight or ten more. The extreme exertions of the inhabitants seemed at that time to produce but little effect towards its extinguishment, and we fear its eztent will be found to be very great. The election for Treasurer of the county of Surrey, vacant by the resignation of Mr. ALCOCK, took place on Monday, when Mr. SMALLPIECE, Solicitor, of Guildford, was chosen, after a very sharp contest,. The other candidates were Mr. PENFOLD and Mr. WARE. 'At a general meeting of the county of Linlithgow, held on the '2sth ult. for taking into considei ation the report of a Committee of the Highland Society , of Scotland, on the subject of weights and measures, a resolution was come to, highly approving of taking all necessary steps for obtaining a general uniformity of weights and measures thro:ighout Scotland, and a Committee was appointed to meet at Edinburgh, to 'co-operate with those of other counties. - On Wednesday se'nn:ght, a large party of armed, ruffians attacked the house of Mr. Purcell, a respect 'able farmer, living near Early, in Ireland, which they succeeded in breaking into, and, after beating all the men that were in the house, forcibly carried off Purcell's daughter. alarm being immediately given, Godfrey Massey, Esq. of Ballwire, collected ' a number of his neighbours and tenantry, and crin• tinned in pursuit of the villains, until a late hour on Thursday, but without being able to come up with them. • O'Flynn, the Irish 'Officer, who fell in the enemy's service in the action of the.:lsth of September, near Fuente Guinaldo,is said to hive been one of ththea transported from Ireland to Prussia in the year I 7gfi• Twn seamen belnng;ng to the Svnti.t.a have been flogged through the fleet for mutinous repressions, pursuant to the sentence of a Court Mittial.