Star. — London, England, 1809-12-18 00:00:00

AMERICA. BOSTON, NOVEMBER 14. Captain Fraser, arrived at Charleston froth Saint Pierre, Martinique, which he left on the Ist October, ini;)rms, that preparations were making at Marti nique for an attack on Guadaloupe. NovEmr.Ea 17.—We are informed that obr Go. vcrnment has received dispatches from Mr. Pinckney, dated October 5, and from Mr. Armstrong, as late ; it September 20. By the letters from Mr. Pinckney i t appears, that he expects no alteration in the mea sures of Britain towards this country will be brought about by the late change in the Ministry. Indeed, it is merely a change of men, not of measures. Mr. Armstrong's dispatches hold out no favourable pros pect respectin& our differences with France. On the whole, we think Mr. Madison will have nothing to j a y before the Congress which can cheer the gloomy prospect now before bur merchants. SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHEW. This interesting exhibition continued on Saturday to attract a great concourse of persons of distinction, rho patronize the important arts of breeding and L►ttening cattle ; and of practical graziers, farmers, butchers, &c. _ Besides the animal mentioned in our last,Mr.Thomas Pickford exhibited a black and white bull, bred by him, and kept on hay and turnips, which weighs 201 stone, at two years and ten months old. Some remarkably large Swedish turnips were also exhibited. Sir Thomas Bowes exhibited, in a separate part of the yard, 58 very fine new Leicester wethers, and shewed the carcasses of two from this lot, which weighed 161 pounds, and 163 pounds; although only two years old ; fed on grass only. Mr. Cothar shewed three fat Gloucester wethers. Mr. William Coles shewed a large black and white pig, 20 months old, and another 18 months old, bred and fed by him on barley-meal and water. • Notices were stuck up of Lord Somerville's pre 7 nifums, to be distributed on the sth and 6th of March next; and William Shepherd's prizes of various agri cultural implements and machinery. The exhibition continued this day. At half past two o'clock the Members of the Club met to confirm -the premiums proposed, and nominate judges for the next year, previous to the annual dinner, at five o'clock. Last week, the Remit, Captain MtRRAY, arid the Wolverene, Captain CARR, arrived at Portsmouth, from Vera Cruz, having on board three millions of dollars, on Government and private account. They left Vera Cruz thirty days since. The Spanish line of battle ships San Ander and San Dramon had sail ed with 12,000,000 of dollars for Cadiz ; the latter snip was accompanied by the Undaunted, Captain Lixo, she not being deemed sea-worthy ; and a few days after she sailed she sprang _a leak, which ob. ?iged her to put into Porto Rico. The specie, it was t;iought, would be put on board the Undaunted, for I:er to tai% it to Cadiz. The Franchise, Captain DAsuwoOth bad left Vera Cruz for Jamaica ; and the Ethalion; Captain Cocitna NE, o r Barbadoes. Colo nel COCHRAHE JOHNSTONE retuttned to England in the Recruit. The Haughty gun-vessel, Lieutenant Wu.- unt4s, is also arrived ; her two former Commanders died at Vera Cruz. . The FRANCHISE frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. Dun wo,,,), arrived, on Saturday evening, at Portsmouth, in 37 days from Vera Cruz, and 23 days from off the Ilavannah. She has brought home a-million of dol lars for Government. The Marquis D'APARTADO and Don WINS- de VILLA URRUYIA, came passengers in her. Thty are come from Mexico, purposely to mike a tour through England. The Marquis pos esses one of the nchet,t mines in Mexico. The FRANCHISE spoke the MERMAID frigate, Capt. HEN:NI- Kra, a few days since. She had parted from the convoy which she sailed with from Quebec, in a gale. The British ships which have lately visited Vera Cruz, have been very sickly. The FRANCHISE lost 26 men, besides Lieutenant DAVID JONES, royal navy, and Lieutenant H. P. CAVANAGH, royal marines. All the Midshipmen of the UNDAUNTED died there, except one. Monday last John Armstrong was tried and convict ed before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, of a robbery in a shop in Dalkeith. He was sen tenced to be executed on the 17th of January next. The tide of Earl CRAWFORD and LINDSAY, we I:nderstand, is likely to be succeedid to by Captain CAMPBELL, of the Buffs, who is the grand nephew and -heir of line to the late great General JOHN Earl of CRAWFURD and LINDSAY, and who is at present in Spain, and commanded th e grenadier company of that Regiment, in the action at Coruna ; and also on the 28th July at Talavera, where that gallant company suffered most severely ; losing about fifty rank and tile, killed and wounded. Colonel WARDLE has published a letter, addressed to Lord ELLENEORODGH t occasioned by his Lordship observed in his charge to the Jury, in a late trial for a conspiracy, that the evidence for the pro. <rcution was contradictory, and that they must there iore look to the probabilities of the case. The Colonel :Vomits, though in the most respectful terms, that there were also some improbable circumstances stated hy the defendants on a former trial, which he proceeds tl notice. The Address alludes to the direct contradiction 7,!ve n to the testimony of Mr. WRIGHT and Mrs. Crattxr, by Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS and Mr. 'Luxe %Tut ft', both of whose credibility was unimpeached, but whose evidence was passed unnoticed in the sum. ming up. The Colonel concludes with the following obserra tions-4, Your Lordship seems at a loss to guess what r msld indtice Mrs. Clarke to make the discovery which -,!te did, and undergo for a length of time the exami liation of the Hour of Commons, unless she was led !O hope for a pecuniary recompence at my hands ? " The answer, my Lord, is not of difficulty ; is .t cot probable that Mrs. Clarke might look forward t" a public investigation. as a means of inducing the Duke of York to comply with the claiths she had upon him ; and has not the result evinced, not only that such claims have been attended to, but that a tar greater sum titan was originally demanded by Mrs. Clarke, has been paid to her ?—(aUuding to the sum cl . ! 410,000, reported to have been paid to. Mrs. C. be an annuity settled on her for life, for- t h e. sop orb= pamphlet.") • ,s; COVEN .GARDEN TIMATIM Saturday night the Operatic Melo Drama of the Exile, and the Farce of All Me World': a Stage, *ere performed to a respectable audience, but by no means so numerous as on the preceding evening. The pit and galleries were nearly full at the rising of the cur . tarn, and not a murmur of disapprobation was heard. —On the contrary, the performance was received throughout with flattering attention and applause. All the symbols of opposition disappeared. The au -1 dience in the pit kept their seats, and the greatest possible harmony prevailed, till after the half-price entered, when there were a few murmurs, and we still apprehend that part of the treaty is not di. stinctly understood by the late Belligerent Powers. —At the final dropping of the curtain, a gentleman rose in the pit, and from what we co uld collect, in spite of the interruption that prevailed, said he was authorized by Mr. SAVAGE, a gentleman of the O.P. Committee, who would have himself attended had he not been prevented by indisposition, to state that Mr. HENRY HARRIS had refused to ratify that part of the treaty of the Crown and Anchor, which related to throwing open the private boxes as they were in 1802. Mr. SAVAGE, he said, had conversed with Mr.HARRIS on the subject, and was distinctly told by that Gen tleman, that no more than twelve of the annual boxes would be removed at the end of the season. This the speaker contended was by no means what was under stood by the public. He would forbear going further into the question, as Mr. SAVAGE would attend at the Theatre on Monday night, and would require Mr. KEMBLE to address the House before the play, in order to the settlement' of this misunderstanding.— It remains, of course, for those who say that the Pro. prietors hare not stood by their agreement, to prove that assertion. The pledge publicly given by Mr. KEMBLE on the stage was, that " the tier of private , g boxes in the front of the Theatra i ohould, at the 44 end of the present season, be thrown open and re , " stored to the public." The proposition that was made at the meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern was, that " these boxes should be reduced, after the close of the season, to the number which existed in 1802." It is upon this point that those who were hostile to the conduct of the pro prietors have misunderstood e a ch other. A great number of them, with reference to these boxes, had no other object in view than that they should be placed in the same state in which they were before the late conflagration, and this being conceded, and an apology made for other matters in dispute, these gentlemen are now satisfied. Others, on the con trary, are disposed to adhere to the letter of the pro positions, and to insist upon the private boxes being limited to the number which existed in 1802. And they say, that without this the public have gained little or nothing. Eight boxes above the stage were private before 1802 ; and these were for the mere ac commodation of the proprietors and managers ; but when Mr. Kemble came to the theatre, an encroach ment was made on the audience side, and eight more were made private. This we believe to be a fair statement of the case. We lament that after so long a contest the terms of the pacification should not have been more clear ; but we hope that the parties will come to an immediate and perfect understanding. A box orator pleaded strongly in favour of the Ma nagers, and exhorted the audience to be satisfied with the terms proposed to them. The Gentleman who had been taken up in the Cecil-street Coffee-house, also procured a hearing, from the Upper-boxes, which we were particularly happy at, as the sentiments he delivered do great credit to his liberality. He stated, that, in conse quence of his having been taken up in the manner with which the audience were well acquainted, he had commenced proceedings against the Managers for redress ; but that, in consequence of the very liberal manner in which they had come forward, although he conceived he had been as much, if not more ag grieved than any of them, he had abandoned all fur ther proceedings, and earnestly entreated the View mal contents who still exist, to act with moderation, as he was confident the Managers would no longer give the public cause to complain. Several hand-bills, containing a pathetic appeal to the 0. P.'s in favour of that most deserving man, Mr. BansnoN, were thrown into the Pit in the course of the evening ; and we were happy to perceive they made a strong and an interesting impression in his favour ; for we are still of opinion that Mr. BRANDON has been unjustly used. He was the mere agent of the Proprietors in all he did, and it is they and not he whom the public should have visited with their dis pleasure. As the Princ . p ils have been forgiven, the deputy must not be excludA from the benefit of the amnesty. _ _ _ Three cheers were proposed for Mr. KENIBLE, but they were not generally given. Three groans were then proposed for Mr. HARRIS ; and three cheers were given for Mr. SAVAGE.. The company then left the pit, some proposing a now meeting at the Crown and Anchor, others expressing an intention of insisting on a satisf.ctory explanation from the stage on Mon day.—The spikes in the back of the pit, and those that were beneath the front of the dr.ls-boxes, have been taken away. KING'S TBEATRE.—The Comic Opera la Stomesta, with the same Divertissement and Ballet which were performed on the opening of this Theatre, was repeated or. Saturday. The audience was as numerous as could be expected as this time of the year. The excellent singing of TRAMMEZANI, and the exquisite acting of NALDI were much applauded, as were VESTRIS and ANGIOLTNI in the dances. We could distinguish most of the persons of fashion who are in town in the boxes. Saturday night, about nine o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at the house- of Mr. CAIRNCROSS, cabi net-maker, No. 11, Hollen-street, Wardour-street, Soho, which began in the work-shop, and was not discovered until the flames burst from the roof. It is supposed that a lighted candle had been incautiously left, which communicated to some shavings. The engines having arrived, the flames were extinguished jby twelve o'clock. A quantity of valuable maho gany in the timber-yard was saved. The confined situation of the buildings'placed the neighbourhood in the greatest dange r. A house adjoining was unroofed , 4 awl one house b urnt down in a court at the back. 4; • Cf. • NAVAL INTELLIOENCL : FALMOUTH. DECEMBER H. Arrived the Snake packet, in 13 days front Cadiz. PLYMOUTH AND PLYMOUTH DOCK, DEC. 16. I am happy to state, that there is every reason to believe the report respecting the disastrous loss of the Human is unfounded. Letters were received here yesterday, stating that she was in Torbay on Tues day night.—And yet, on the other hand, she could not remain there so long, according to etiquette, without informing the Port Admiral here. They have lot, however, up to sunset this evening, received any intelligence at the official department, either in confirmation of her loss or safety. The SEAFLOWER brig of war, reported to have been lost, is safe at Lisbon ; in company with the BAR FLEUR, 98 ; NORGE, 74 ; VENUS, 38 ; Costus,22; and WILDBOAR, 18. The violence of the wind on Thursday night has seldom been exceeded, even in this place, which is exposed to the furious blasts of the Atlantic. On the above evening, the wind suddenly veered round to the S.E. and threw such a tremendous swell into the Bay, that the TEMERAIRZ was for some time in great danger of foundering ; she pitched most vio lently, her hawse-bags were washed away, and the water poured in so fast at the hawse-boles andbridle ports, that it rose in a short time to four feet in the hold ; but the great exertions of the crew enabled her to ride out the gale without other material injury.— While the ship was in distress, one of the Caw sand boats, with a boy in it, drifted from her moorings alongside her, and the boy fortunately saved his life by getting into one of the port-holes. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 16. Arrived the FRANCHISE frigate, Capt. DASHWOOD, with specie, from Vera Cruz ; and Courlisse French cutter, prize to the SURVEILLANTE frigate, in ballast. Nothing sailed.—Wind S.W. DEC. 17.—Nothing arrrived or sailed to-day. The Royalist transport has got off South-sea Beach, and come into harbour.—Wind S.W. by S. DEAL, DECEMBER 16. Arrived the ZEPHYR sloop from a cruize. DEC. 17.—Arrived the MERMAID frigate from Ply mouth. The vessel on the Goodwin Sands, which appeared dismasted, was detained by the OBERON sloop, laden with wheat and flour, from Calais, bound to London—the Master and Supercargo of which were drowned ; the crew saved themselves by the boat; and the vessel and cargo entirely lost. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER 17. The ships on this coast have suffered very severely from the late gales. About twenty sail are on shore, and several dismasted ; and one foundered at sea on the Newcome, off Lowestoffe, and all on board perish ed except one man, saved by the Lowestoffe Life Boat. The ships put in here are : The lane, Robert Reed, from Newcastle, with coals; loss, mast and bowsprit. - - Lamb, George Jackson, to London, with coals; loss, anchor and cable. Providence, Henry Rankin, to London, with coals ; windlass upset, and ether damage. Princess Royal, George Nightingale, with coals, to London ; loss, anchors aad cables. London Packet, William Nissby ; loss, anchors and cable : and several others brought into tbese Roads. The Mary (JAMES WILLIAMSON Master) Hull tra der, bound to London, is on shore near Caister— crew saved.--Ships of war remain as per last ; ex cept the CENSOR, Lieut. Lucas, which sailed on a cruize.—Wind S.W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GIAYCSEND, Dec. 17.—Arrived the Eliza, Grotto's, from Oporto ; and Peggy, Colley, from Mogadore.—Sailed Freedom, Baizrie, for Grenada ; Fanny, Prouling, for Cadiz ; Rose in June, May, for Oporto ; Lustre, Smith, for Jamaica ; Medway, Wat son ; Myrtle, Popplewell ; and Scilly, Lewington, for Gibraltar ; and the Draper, Gowan, for Belfast. The Concordia, Somers, for Calais, is totally lost on the Good win Sands. The Fame, Howton, from Newcastle to I.ondon, is on shore near Yarmouth. The Phosniz, Mahony, from Cork to Liverpool, is lost in Car dipn Bay. The Catherine, M'Kenzie, from Sunderland to Chatham, is upset near Lowestoffe. Had only one man (the Captain) saved. The lentlina packet, from Liverpool to Newry, was totally lost on tioyle Bank, on the sth instant. The Regulus, from Madeira to New-York, foundered at sea, id of August. The Flaxley, Puckey, from London to Falmouth; and the Ade line, from Caen, are on shore near Ramsgate. The Voluntario, Conder, from Lisbon t• Bristol, is retaken, and arrived at Lisbon. _ DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Talbot, for the Twee Gebroeders, captured April 26, 1809 ; Bagatellen, April 29; Neskilden, April S 0; Emanuel, May 2 ; Providentia, May 10; Gesina, and Nautilus, May 18 ; a n d S ara Catharina, May 19, 1809, will be paid on board to-morrow, and recalled at No. IS, Great George-street. _ . Ringdove, for I. Trente et i':itarante and rEglee, French pri vateers, captured January 7 and 8, 1808; and recalled at No. 22, Arundel -street, Strand. Gibraltar, for the Marie Josef, captured Nov. 4, )806, will be paid on board op the 26th inst. and recalled at Messrs.Hingeston's, at Falmouth. Bustler, for les Deuz Guillaume, Felix, and Bien Vent'', cap tured Sept. 18, luOtt, recalled at No. 22, Arundel-street, Strand. Melampus, for the Valliant, captured June 25, 1805, will be paid on Thursday next, and recalled at the Office of Mr. John Hawker, Plymouth, on Tuesdays and Fridays. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, DEC. 18.—From the late contrary winds, coastwise, there are short arrivals of Wheat this day; early in the forenoon sales of fine were at a small advance in price, but other qua lities at little variation—Barley likewise in short supply, and full as dear—ln Malt and White Peas little alteration—Beans of the two descriptions fluc tuate but little—Oats are also in short supply, and this trade fully at our last prices quoted—Flour is without alteration. GENIMAL CUARINCT Al UNDtIII s Wheat, 78s. BSs. 1094. Beans, (old) 601. 664. Pine ditto, 106 s 110 1 . Tick ditto, (old) 50s. 955. Rye, 50s. 545. Oats, 26i. 30s. :oh: Barley, 506.565. Od. Poland ditto, 365. 995. Od. Malt, Tes. 365. Potato. ditto, 411. Os. Od. White Peas (Boilers) 765. 861. Rape Seed, 481. .`2. • Fine Flour, 90s. 9.15. Seconds Us. Ws. LiftP 111PELLtCINCIL ... ._. , j. ......_ -....mm.......1.11• COOkt . * OP KtNG ' S BENCH, DECEMBEK Is. • . . • aTILII V b MEHRA:Xi The AtvoiitEr GENRICAL stated this to be an ac. Coif by a foreign seaman, to recover from the defeu• dant, who . was the Captain of an American ve,sel, named the 'Logan, the amount of his wages, in it voyage from and to the port of I..ondon, which omit. pied the space, of one year except nine days. The plaintiff was one of ten hands by whom this vessel had been navigated, twelve having been ori g i na lly engaged, two •of whom deserted, and whose wage! the defendant had agreed to divide among the other ten, on their undertaking to navigate the vessel them= selves, without any further assistance. The plaintiff and his companions had brought the vess e l sa f e u p the River, and did not quit her till she was moored at the station assigned her. They then quitted the ship, with the consent of the Mate, and returned the next. day for their clothes. On a subsequent occa, sion they • applied to the defendant for their wages, which he promised to pay them the moment the ship was unloaded. This he had since refused to do. The agreement between the defendant and the seamen, in which•the lowest rate of wages was £5 per month, was given in evidence. Also the agreement by the defendant to divide the wages of the tJro men. who deserted among the other ten. Lord EbLENBOROUGH held, that this latter agree ment was illegal. The defendant might have entered into it, from any thing which appeared, through cam. pulsion : and, besides, he had already purchased all the services which the plaintiff and his companions had to bestow. The seamen on board the Loran were then exa mined, who proved that they navigated the vessel ; that they did not quit her till she was safely moored in the station assigned her in the River ; that they then went on shore, with the consent of the Mate, the Captain not being then on board ; and that they re• turned to the vessel on the following day, and got away their clothes. Two of them also swore to a promise made by the Defendant on the Royal Ex• change, when applied to by one of the partne r s, to know when their wages should be paid, that they should be paid the moment the last bale of goods in the cargo was over the ship's side. Mr. GARIIOW, for the defendant, represented the present as being a case of the very last importance to the mercantile interests of the country. With the very great naval force Which Great Britain was obliged, in the present circumstances of the world, to maintain, it was hardly possible that our commerce could be carried on without the assistance of foreign seamen. To what a deplorable state, however, must the commerce of the country be reduced, if it should be held that not one or two of a crew, but that every man on board should be entitled, the moment they come into any river leading to the port where they were to unload, to desert the vessel, and to leave it ex posed to the thousand accidents which even then it might by possibility encounter ? It was part of the maritinin p law of this country, and it was also a stipu lation in the agreement in question, that any of the mariners quitting the vessel before the navigation was concluded, and deserting for the space of forty eight hours, should not only forfeit the wages due to them, but • also the clothes and other articles they might have on board. This, he should prove, was the case in the present instance. The mariners, one and all, who, it was to be observed, had come forward as witnesses in their own cause to-day, not only quit ted the vessel without leave of the Mate, who was the commanding officer on board, but returned the next day, and, under the idea that the obtaining of their clothes would operate as a remission and Oblivion of their former offence, so as to enable them to insist for their wages, carried off their clothes, also compelling the Mate to give them the key of the locker in which their chests wen, deposited. To prove this defence, the principal witness was the Mate, but his evidence being unsatrsfactory, the Jury found for the plaintiff ; thereby deciding the other nine actions. 'ILLIAMS V JOHNSTON AND YEATES. This was an action brought against the defendants, respectable wharfingers, of Dice and Smart's Wharfs, by the plaintiff, formerly their walker, to recover the sum of £3l. 10s. being the amount of sixty weeks wages, at half-a•guinea per week, for collecting wharfage, and distributing wharf-bills. The plain tiff's case being proved, it appeared on the part of the defendants, that a considerable number of Yar mouth and Hull vessels resorted to their wharfs, and that the plaintiff's duty was to collect freight, &c. for the Captains of the Yarmouth vessels exclusively, for which be had been paid in the usual manner ; that they never considered him their servant ; and that at the Christmas of the preceding years, 1807 and 1808, they had gratuitously given him a present of 10 gui neas, for any little business he had transacted for them, to which sum he had, not only, not objected, but expressed his thanks for the boon, and his surprise at so liberal a reward for so trivial a service.. This case was also made out in evidence, but it appearing that the defendants had continned to employ the plaintiff in the same way, during the whole of the period for which he now claimed payment, and had not paid him— • • Lord ELLENBODOVVI:thDIIght it would meet the justice of the case, to take the•two former years' re muneration as a criterion to go by, and the Jury ac cordingly found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £12,175. and 'costs. • COHEN V. LEVI. This was an action between two Jews for an assault, by which the plaintiff was severely bruised, and laid up for several days under medical attendence. A dispute had arisen between the parties respecting a bed, which the plaintiff, whd way a furniture-broker, was to have altered tor the defendant. The parties had met in Cheapside, where an altercation ensued, and when the plaintiff mas going home, the defendant followed him, knocked him down twice, and beat him most severely. The plea was son assault demesne, the defendant alledging that the plaintiff first spit in his face, and kicked the defendant so furiously, when the parties were both down together, that the defen dant had been unwell ever since. The evidence, however, went only to the plaintiff' lshing the de. fendant from him durins, I the plaintiff—Damages A.'! `_ 1 . .4 I is plaintiff's pushing the de. ig the dispute.—Verdict for e2o. ,