Star. — London, England, 1809-12-05 00:00:00

A , ..1: 7 AL INTELLIGENCE. ■ PALNIOUTH, DECEMBER 2. Slikd the Walsingham, with two mails for Lis bon ; and Humber armed ship, for the Downs. ILYMOUTH AND PLYMOUTH -DOCK, DEC. s. The GOLDFINCH brig of war was recalled last evening by signal, and will sail as soon as the wind va l permit, for Coruna*, with two transports under convoy, laden with emu, ammunition, and accoutre ments, for the use of the Spanish patriots. Last melting arrived the NONPAREIL schooner, Lieut. BRAY, from Cadiz ; and, at six o'clock in the e vening, a Messenger landed from her, charged with di s patches from Admiral PURVIS ; and also from Mr. j A ctsus, left at Seville by Marquis WELLESLEY. Arrived the THAIS sloop of wtir from a cruize off t oe French coast.—.lt blows a violent gale at S.S.W. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 4. Put back the SARPEDON with her convoy, and sailed : ,zain to-day for the Downs.—Came into harbour the y3cßy:r, WOOLVERINE, and l'ArutcAms frigate._ ,arrived the SLRLY cutter, with dist)a.ches from Lis t:sn.—Sailed the CHALLENGER, for Cork.—Wind N.W. RAMSGATE, DEC. 1 Ye3tcrday afternoon four French hugger-privateers !..ad the audacity to make their appearance off the Yorth Foreland—attack, and carry off, a brig, that was passing near them. An alarm being given to e ships of war in the Downs, several cruizers were dispatched, and this morning intelligence was received lee that the In*s cutter and SPECULATOR lugger had retaken, near Calais, the brig in question,which proved o be an American frtm Liverpool to Gottenhurgh, with deals, &c. The master and men were previously aken out. DEAL, DECEMBER 4. Arrived the Fairy transport, from Halifax; parted —mpany, the Sd November, off the Banks of New. buncliand, from the SQUIRREL sloop of war, having ender her convoy six more transports—observed one of them, the Pallas, to bear up for 13arbadoes, with !he loss of her main-mast and fore-top -mast, and in a very leaky state. The Fairy saw nothing of them afterwards. Also arrived the liusrem armed slip from tote Westward.—Wind S.S.W. SHEERNESS, EECFNILIFR 4. This day sailed the OSPREY sloop of war, with some transports, and a convoy to Gottenburgh ; and ano ther convoy is expected this year, if the weather con. ti Hues gen.—Wind W.S.W. YARMOUTH, DEC. 4. Arrived here this morning, with a convey from the Baltic, his Majesty's sloop CURLEW, of 16 guns ; the, sloop remains. but the convoy sailed for the Downs. Also arrived the Mary and British Fair cotters from 'be tkrens.•••iailed, with herrings for the Mediterra. eon, the Palafoz and .Anson.—The SATURN 74, and CONSTAST gun-brig, are under sailing orders for the Fore ; and the Havoc for Scotland.—The Ca/edo tia, of and from Riga, C. HMG master, with hemp, te. bound to London, is put in here, having lost her ir.,:hors and cable and received damage at sea.—The Asrarws LARSTROM master, of and rn Carlsham, with deals and rosin, is put in here, haritg brat off her rudder on the Scroby Sand, and :s full of water.—Remain the Bellerophon, Saturn, Rcebuck, Diligence, Britomart, Havoc, Pincher, and Ccr.stant.--;Wind S.W. LEITH, DECEMBER r. Notwithstanding the wig heavy gales at Heligo land, that of the fleet which sailed from the Roads on the 7th, under convoy of the NMITTIgGALE sloop If war, no accident has happened to them, except the Eliza, M‘Gnnoon i having been driven ashore, but has since fortunately got off withottt any material damage. The brig Lady Tyrconnel, GRAY, of and from Aber deen to Lond/n, with stones, was, on Thursday the l3th, run down in Sea Reach, near Leigh, by a light collier, and in five Minutes after went to the bottom, :Ile crew having hardy time to save their lives. Arrived his Majest 4 l's ship CIULDERS, from a cruize weeks, having Made three prizes, one of which , ::E, with ludia produce, is valuel at 5620,000. I - ROM .I .0 YD'S I.TST. • ''lAV',./ Tiv.c:.ms‘a the David Senn, irorn .P. , Antnin s.li!erl the Prospect, Spence, for Ma - ; Olive Frawl., Coultnn, for Jamaica ; and the Betsey, • fcr 13chlin. Iti:hard and Mart, Harrison, is arrived at Plymouth, leaky ; :be h.is thrown alt her guns, and half • overboard. I. GraF•art, i. arrived at Hull ; she parted frolit the • -.;ff Anholt, cn the c'Ztl tilt. c ret:er, from Stoc!. he!m and Gotli:and, to I.ondon,isbft V.ant.l of I.swx.:. Part of the cargo saved. I ,, uocrs, re Preis,tound to the Baltic, is taken by a ivawr. The-rias, hem Ccrk to Falmouth and Plymouth, on ur.•• of the Scilly rocks and sunk in 2O fathoms Fay b...er. raised again and :he cArgn landed. Lainclon, froml.ymington for Bristol In ballast, .• , cr: •:an, rat Scilly, and sustained some damage. tent Plymouth for Dublin, wis otlged ••'inrc at Scilly , fortunaiely with little damage. • : rr, '1 regerfhen, from Southampton with timber ; Watkins, from North Carolina to Liverpool with :.:se arrived safe tit • "s::::, Turner, from Newfoundland to Pool; and Fer . ".t:ciio, from Minorca to Loudon, are on shore near :Inters, from FLiladelpida to Tonaingtn, is carried - =` Tr'or. and Edward, Durger, from London to New York, and arrived at Lisbon. Forbes, (tom Cork to :amides, foundered at sea • u:!. 'di.C: ltd . .•Ts - rce•nr.cll, eras , . from Aberdeen to Loudest, was 7 . - at St a Reach on the 15th ult. C•nreerci, Fl7nn, fr3in Petttuitta to Boston, has bees rttliten, and rent for Lisbon. . 1 :"' Sant!". Bristow, from the !gab Seas, has bees re-taken, vyr .I.!sbon GREENOCK, ntumurit 1. , The Sir Edward Pell ew , Orr, arrived here xesterdijr, front De; merara ; sailed thence Ildi October.—L‘ft loading, ,the Slated; Cameron, for Clyde ; the Caledonia, Thomson; and Prigantai —, for Liverpool; all expected to sail in fifteen days titertafter. On the List, in lat. 16. long. 56. picked op a boat with Captain Forbes, of the brig George, of London, from Cork to Jamaica, his Mare, one seaman, and three boys, which vessel foiindered three days before, *hen one boy went down in her; they must have all perished had the Sir Edward Pellew not hove in sight, as it came on to blow very hard and a heavy sea shortly after; the above persons came here in the Sir Edward Pellew. On the 9th November, in lat. 37. 35. long. 38. 30. was cbaced by a brig, which Capt. Orr suppostd was a French privateer ; during that night and the following day, when it came on dark, Capt. Orr altered his course and escaped ; the privateer Was at one time within three miles of the Sir Edward Pellew ; on the 15th, in lat. 44. 10. long. 35. 46. saw a sail a-head, which, on nearing, proved to be a barque, with two white mouldings, on her sides and stern, water-logged, only her mizen-mast standing, and no person on board; could not leant her name; supposed she was loaded with wood; on the 17th, in lat. 47. long. 40. spoke the ship Bristol, —, from Liverpool to New York, out 17 days, all well ; on Tuesday last spoke a brig, (does not recollect her name, or the Master's), from Pictou, bound to Saltcoats, very much weather-. beaten ; bac!. lost on the passage in blowy weather, some of her sails and spars, a part of her cargo of wood, and two seamen were washed off the deck. ISLANDS OF SCILLY, NOV. •27. On the 24th inst. passed these islands, from Newfoundland, under convoy of the ANTE cora, several merchantmen hound to Pool. Unfortunately one of that convoy, c.elled the Nymph, of Pool, Captain WM'. Tuanza, mistaking the Light-house for the Commodore's light, struck, about ten o'clock, ou a rock tilled the Gunner, when the Captaio and crew, expecting that else would founder, took to their boats, and landed on the island of St. Agnes, but on the morning of the 24th inst. it was discovered that the brig had drifted on the island of Sampron. The weather being very severe in the morning, very few boats from St. Mary's could get to the place where 'belay, so as to protect the property from plunder ; in consequence thereof, most of the light things were carried off by the populace, but some of the cargo, rigging, &c. is saved. The vessel, being only two years old, still remains nearly entire in her hull, but as the weather continue* to blow very severely, it is expected she must go to pieces. ANTIGUA, OCTOBER 16. There are no lc ss than 90 sail of American vessels at St. Bartholomew, laden with the produce of Ame rica, and cannot sell, as the Act of Parliament ex presses it shall not be imported from a neutral Islarr, in any bottom. In consequence of this our pen of war are swarming there to catch prizes, and there are now in our harbour 11 great many ; on this account, provisions there are worth nothing. Our Legislative Body have now, however, passed an act to import a part of American produce from that Island. _ w A fleet of 54 vessels sailed from Oporto on the 10th ultimo, for Great Britain, under convoy of the FVLLA : the cargoes consist of 12,478 pipes of wine, 4713 quintals of corn, and 4303 boxes of cotton. The British Tar transport arrived at Portsmouth on Friday last, under jury-masts. She sailed from Halifax on the 25th October, under convoy of his Majesty's ship SQUIRREL, Lord Wm. FITZROY, with eight other light transports. They separated on the morning of the 3d November in a most tremendous gale, when she carried away her foremast by the board, main and mizen top-masts and bowsprit, and lay a wreck upon the water for four days and nights, during which time the gale continued with a violence never before experienced by any of the fleet. The frigate, near foundering, was obliged to part with a number of her guns. Three ships are missing, and they crews of three others from Quebec were picked up by the fleet, their ships having foundered in the, same gale. The Nymph, of and for. Poole, WILLrAm TURNER• master, from Newfoundland with codfish, is lost on Sampson bland, with great part of her cargo. On the night of the 9.3 d, while Use vessel was on the rocks, the master and crew escaped on shore ; but finding in the morning that the vessel had not gone to pieces, they returned to her with the view of saving part of her stores, &c. if practicable. - But some of the islan ders of Bryer and Trescow, had been before-hand with them. Every thing moveable was gone. Even the wearing apparel of the master and seamen had been carried off. The inhabitants of Bryer, we are told, distinguished themselves in this inhuman and infamous business.. We would recommend to our cruizers a sharp look out round the Scilly Islands. Few vessels pass Scilly without seeing French privateers. The Prince of Wales packet, Captain Toon, frog• Lisbon, fell in with a large French brig off those islands on Sunday se'nnight, pierced for 18 guns, supposed to be the same that engaged the Phipps schooner the week be fore. She has no figure head, and is all black, except two white moldings. Upon the packet stand ing towards her, she crowded sail and made off. 'rho Respect, from Liverpool to Gottenburgh, has been taken, retaken, and brought into the Downs. The Fanny, of Dover, is lost at St. Michael's. The pugilistic contest betwixt Nicholls and Richman the black, will take place next week for 200 guineas. Mr. HICATONIS harriers, from Binglcy, threw off. on Saturday last, near Bradford, and immediately found a hare in Bolling Spring, which took by Bol ling. crossed above the foundry to Tiresal Gates, thence to Black Carr, made a large circuit to Ry croft, leaving Tong Park on the left, threw a double, and made back for Black Carr, and killed in Tiresal Wood. Found a second hare in about -20 minutes at Tur6eld, crossed Holm Lane, took the right of Tong Park oaer Toftshaw Moor, to North Bierley, took the under side Birkenshaw Foundry, to Great Go mersal, to Gomersal Hill Top, and down to Spen ; after throwing a few doubles, took for Hanswc.rth back to Gomersal town ; took a large circuit towards Wiskett Hill, and killed at the Iron-stone Delves, near Birkenshaw ; this hare ran at least 16 miles w.lll - ►carcely a check. Captain Trowell, of the brig James and Ann, of I Bridgewater, was taken in a few days since, by a man who *net him in the street, hailing iiini as a countryinan, and invited him to a public-house, where, shortly after a third person came in, pretend ing to have lately had a large sum of money left him, , of which he seemed extremely prodigal. Captain I T.'s new friend then proposed to him that they should lay down.a sum of money, as if to invest it in the' fund*, in order to induce the pretended spendthrift to do the same. With this request Captain T. was weak enough to comply ' and laid down £lO, but lia•- ..g occasion to quit- the Loom for a minute, on his return he found-the confedev;ktes had retired with his moiler ; • kreing him the itckoking to dis Charges "C I 'VRA T TAc-IRDAS TR£gfl E: tut . night, - the infinortal SnaltzsPEAlies of Othello was represented at this Theatre. This Play is gen erally considered by Ehe learned men on the Contine nt, as the most perfect of our ad mirable bard's dramas. Mr. Yot'i was the Othello of the evening, and in several of the scenes manifested thelpossession of an acute judgment. His address to the Senate, and his threats to /ago, were among the finest exertions of the kind, that we have heard for many years. When we mention the logo by Mr.. 00014, it is like speaking of a chef d'euvre by a master. We have often seen him in this part with pleasure, but we never recollect to have seen or heard him before, when he approached to perfection so nearly. He marked his passages with due emphasis, and gave the character almost all the colouring that it would admit of. The celebrated speech of " Who steals my purse," ecc. was perhaps never spoken with more correctness or spirit. It would be withholding a just tribute to merit of a secondary nature, vecre we not to bear witness to the excellent manner of Mr. C. KIe.NIBL.:, in the drunken scene of C.o.:Tio. Miss NowroN as Desdemona. and Mrs. Sr. LEGER as Emilia, performed to the entire satisfaction of the audience. We m:nt remark, that we have never seen Othello dressed in a mode so appropriate, as on this night. The scenery was beautiful, and the Managers have profited by the late unfortunate conflagration, to have views of Italian cities, which being exhibited as illus trations of the concomitant costume of the persons of the drama, form altogether a more complete repre sentation, as far as these points are concerned, than the Pritit.-.11 stage had previously known. Though after halt-price there was very little noise ( - luring the fourth act, a few persons stood on the benches with their hats on, in the upper part of the pit, notwithstanding a partial cry of Off hats, :Ind sit down, from several parts of the house. In the interim between the fourth and fifth acts, the stan ders received a considerable reinforcement, and before the play was over, more than half the pit were on their legs. The hallooing, however, was not loud, though sufficient to divert the attention from the per formance. During the entertainment, the noise was considerably greater ; the 0. P. dance was partially performed, and several sham struggles, in which the cry of 0. P. served as the rallying signal. No 0. P. was exhibited, nor did we observe a single medal in any part of the house. The private boxes were un molested, and were all occupied but two, most of them having their full complement. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. CLIFFORD V. BRANDON. This afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, the Jury returned a Verdict, finding an assault and false im prisonment proved against the Defendant Brandon -IDaMages—FlVE PCUNDS and Costs. Loud and long continued shouts of 0. P. and Cur-Loan for ever, immediately resounded .throughout Westminster Hall, and the applause was re-echoed y the crowd collected in the various avenues. Serjeant BEST opened the Plaintiff's case in a most eloquent speech. The Defence was conducted by Serjeants CocK.LE and SHEPPARD. The Edinburgh Mail was lately upset, near Ber wick, by the breaking of the ailetree. The driver was the only person hurt. Tueiday se'nnight, the ground in Candleriggs, Glasgow, lately occupied in part as a guard market, and partly at present as a green-house and police office, was sold by public auction, at £7. 16s. 6d. per square yard. Saturday se'nnight, the guard of the mail coach, from Lewes to Brighton, apprehended, by a descrip. tion in a hand bill, a passenger in the coach, on sus picion of horse stealing. He was taken before A Magistrate, and fully committed for trial at the next Horsham assizes, for hiring a horse and selling the same afterwards at Worthing ; and for tiring a horse at Hastings, and not returning it in 14 days. Saturday se'nnight, as the Gloucester waggon was passing the New Bridge, at Easham, it was, by some accident, overturned, whereby one of the horses was killed on the spot. There was one woman passenger, who luckily escaped unhurt. Saturday as Mr. Ward, horse-dealer, was exercising Four young horses in his sociable-break near St. James's-street, they took fright, and ra❑ the carriage against the post at the corner with such violence, that the hind wheel was shattered to pieces ; they then caught that at the corner of Arlington-street. Mr. Ward was thrown from the box, and his leg broken. Five of his children, in the sociable, were dashed upon the stones with great violence ; one taken up appa rently lifeless, the others most seriously hurt. The carriage was broken to atoms ; even the iron work was torn from the wheels. Sunday evening, as Mr. Shate, of Clipstone-street, was returning from a visit to a friend, at Beaconfield, accompanied by Mrs. Shate, and two children, in a double-seated one-horse chaise, the horse broke from his harness, and the chaise was upset. Mrs. Shate and one of the children who was riding with her in the back seat, were removed to a neighbouring house, in a senseless state, and both are dangerously hurt. The other two persons jumped out, in doing which the other child broke his leg at the ancle, but Mr. Shate escaped unhurt. The following Epitaph was once to be seen in the parish church of Saint Faith, under Saint Paul's : To the memory of Sir John Mason, who though but three score and three years old at his death, pet lived and flourished in the reignF of four Princes, viz. —Henri the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth ; and was a Privy Ceun , senor to them ail, and an eye-witness of the various revolutions and vicissitudes of those times. Towards his latter end, being on his death-bed, he called his clerk and steward, and delivered him self in these terms : Li)! here I hate lived to see five Princes, and have been a privy-counsellor to four of them. I have seen the most remarkable observables in foreign parts, and have been pre sent at most state transactions for 36 years together; and I have learned this after so many years experience; that seriousness is the greatest wisdom, temperance the best physic, and a good consci ence the hest estate; and were I to live again; I would change the court fo'r a cloyster, my ptivyrCounaellor s beistles for an hermit's retirement, and the whole life I 'fired in the palace, fur an hour's enjoyment of GOD in the chapel! All things elstforeake rue, be sides ay Gan, my duty, and tuy pawl." MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday these Sessions commenced at H/cks'i:. Hall, before Mr. MAINWARING and others, the Ma.. gistrates of Middlesex. Daniel Hyde attod charged with receiving a quantity of brass, know/11g it to be stolen. 'file prosecutor, who is a printer, stated, thlt the defendant, who keeps an old iron shop, came to him, and said he had StiT,P, brass rules that were used in his tr.tde, and snai.i sell them cheap.. The plaintiff said he would call upon him, which he did, and bought them : on examinin them, he found them to correspond with such as • had formerly lost; he then had him apprehended, and on searching the premises, a few. more were found.— On the part of the defendant, it was proved he had purchased them for 9d. per pound, and had offered them to the prosecutor for Is. per potind.—Under these circumstances, the Jury found him—not guilty. Mr. Thomas Herbert, a cotton-merchant in the City, was indicted for assaulting Lieutenant-Colonel Vickarew, at Knightsbridge, and other places, on to town, on the 19th of August last. Mr. CoNsr, for the prosecution, stated, that a more unwarrantable or more unbecoming case of assault had not, he believed, been ever brought before a Court of Justice. He then detailed the tacts as they were afterwards proved in evidence by the Colonel himself. The gentleman, who was most grossly and wantonly insulted, as his instructions led him to be lieve, sits a man who had most eminently distin guished himself in the service of his Ling and Coun try ; he now bore the marks of his gallantry abot - st his person ; he had received different wound's in the hour of danger, but above all, he had in the field of battle received a musket bill in his right knee, which ball still lies unextracted in the hollow of the bone of his knee ; thus, whilst he is yet a young man, in the prime of life, he is totally disabled from either riding or walking without the aid of a piece of machinery which now supports the injured limb, and must con sequently be, of all others, a man most unlikely to seek a quarrel with such an athletic man as the de fendant at the Bar, or to be a fair object of the irrita: Lion of any man. On the day stated in the indict ment, the prosecutor was, with the assistance of the machine vhich he now wears, riding from town to wards his residence at Chiswick, between eight and nine in the dusk of the evening. At Knightsbridge, nearly opposite the Horse-gut:els Barracks, the Co lonel being then on the right side of the way, and not at all interfering with the defendant at the Bar, as soon as he came somewhat near a gig in which he and two others were, the defendant, being the driver, struck the Colonel over the baclewith his whip, and gave his horse such a cut that the animal capered, and, in his disabled state, was very nearly the means of unseating the Colonel; however, he was rno , t providentially saved, or else, from the state in which he is, it is most likely he would not have been alive this day to relate the facts. As s.oon as he recovered himself he tinned round and demanded the cause of his being thus insulted and put in danger of his life ? One of the other persons in the gig said he must be .mistalen ; it was not they that struck him, it must have been some other person in another carriage.— There was no carriage, however, in the road any where near that spot at the time, but the one, and the Colonel, after giving his own name and address to them verbally, demanded a similar return from the person who struck him. To this he received no answer, bet the most vio lent abuse ; he said—" Gentlemen, you see I have been disabled, and am net calculated for a personal contest, but I insist on the Gentleman who struck me giving me his name and address, and I shall give mine in writing to him.". Atter this declaration the defendant challenged him to fight, the Colonel again. stated his inability to enter into such a contest with him ; the abusive and insulting language was re peated over and over again ; the defendant endea, voured to drive off in his gig, but the Colonel still following as fast as the poney could carry hiin, with a view to obtain the defendant's address, the latter continued driving on his gig; swearing and using other offensive expressions, and, as often as lie could reach him, striking the Colonel again and again, with his whip, until they came to Dowgate-hill, where he drove up a yard. The defendant then threatened to drag the prosecutor off his horse, and the Colonel was under the necessity of making such an appeal as must always have the effect of rousing the generous feelings of Englishmen—he said, " Will no man pre sent see what is fair and honourable alone towards a man who has been deprived of the use of a limb ifie the service of Isis country ?" Some terse then inter fered, and the address having been at last cbtained; the prosecutor has now appealed for the redress of such wrongs and insults to that country fur alias he has often bled, and for whose cause he is at this mo ment suffering. The facts were sworn to by the Colonel. Mr. CONST then stated that an offer of an apology for all that followed after the first assault had been made, but that it was thoUght necessary to prove the facts in order to obtain the verdict of the Jury. The Jury immediately pronounced the Defendant Guilty. After a few minutes consultation with the rest of the Bench, the CIigIRMAN stated, that the Court felt particular satisfaction in observing, that the prosecutor had adopted the most truly honourable mode of ob taining redress by appealing to the laws of his coun try, instead of following that course which is too ge nerally pursued by many persons, and which they foolishly call honour. Few men in his situation of life would have had the courage to act as the Colonel had done. He then pronounced - the sentence of the Court, viz. To be imprisoned three months in the House of Correction, Cold-Bath-fields, and fined £5O. We understand that Newgate ',vas. afterwards substi tuted for the House of Correction. ''Thursday, at noon, Jame: Etkuards, alias Dudley, and John Steck, alias Stockton, convicted of a burglary at the last Carlisle Assizes, wen: conveyed in a cart from the county gaol in that city, to the common place of etecution, where they were , launched into eternity, and, after hanging the usual time, thci bodies were delivered to their wives, each of whom has young children. Edwards was abow- 35 years of age, and Stockton about 4.4 i each of the n stout, good-looking men: They have left behittel them a considerable property: • I I .......lIIIIiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIMiIIi