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~ r I , . NAUTICAL INTE'LLICENCE. ) MAILS—Wind N. E. AMR. DUE. ARR. DU I . Dublin I (bon 0 I Nat olord 43 2 Tonningen I 0 (~,,Lir,nblif6h 0 I I FALMOUTH, MAY 27. Yeflerday arrived tht Maria, Captain M , DoucaLL, from Liverpool,towait convoy for Ma' , a ; the Rover, sy m urros, from Ditto ; the Hopenell, QErcrt, from Britiol ; the Jane, Conic, from Bury ; the Br ethers, BALL, from Swanfea ; the Orpheus, ADAMS, from Liverpool ; the Villiers, DOLLING, from Swanfea; the Brothers, DOLLING, from ditto ; the American brig Nary, of Bolton, Captain Belling, from Briflol, with wines, bale goods, &c. Sailed yeflerday the Ameri can fhip Orion, Captain M4MILL AN, for Am flerdam ; the Danifh fhip Seablumfter, FOYN t, for Amfler dam; Damakotta, Ducat/41)01tm f t Rotterdam ; Diana (late packet), GIBBON, for Brittol ; and this day the Walfingham packet, Roams, with mails of the tgth intl. for Lifbon ; alfo his Majeitv's brig Mosal.t.e, of i 8 guns, Captain GORDON, for Liibon and the Medi terranean.—Wind N. PLYMOUTH, MAY 28. Sailed the KENT, of 74 gum, to the Mediterra nean. Came in a Hoop of war from the EAllward, with a new (loop of war in tow, for the purpofe of bcing fitted. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29. Sailed his Majelly's (hip EN: cLous, on a cruize.— The Fury bomb is appointed convoy fur tke Downs, and v ill fail as loon as the wind is fair.—Wind N. E. DEAL, MAY 29. Arrived the OTTER (loop and PINCHER gun brig, from a cruize off Boulogne ; BLOSSOM 11Jop, from Portfmouth ; Supply tranfport, from Deptford.— Sailed the Supply, naval tranfport, nation hired (loop, Wexford, Windham, and Earl Howe, Eaft In. diamen, with the !ell of the outward bound, &c. under convoy for Portfmowh. tbIAN IN TIIP. DOWNS: Princcfs of Or:lnge, Alfred, Trufty, Clyde, Otter, BloTorn Kangaroo and Mofquito, fikmps; Explotion and Dtvallation, bombs; Blazer, Exertion, Defrerate and Raeleis. gun brigs; Widgeon, and Sealark, fcheoner..—Wind N. N. E. %kb a flab breeze. DOVER, MA 4 ( 29. The MAltliialt gun-brig has fent in here, this day, a French Hoop, laden with cheefe and fundry other goods, bound firm °fiend to Dunkirk, which her boats brairght off frcm the there on Sunday lA, near the former place.—Paffed by yetrerclay the (hip Hon. duras, Capt. TEDIUGG, from the South Seas, bound to London. Three Earl India (hips and feveral coaflers have gone pall this day, from the Downs, bound down Chant:el, with a fine breeze fr•:m the Eaftward.—Wind N.E. and blow:, rirong, with rain. SHEERNESS,' MAY 29. Arrived his Majelty's floop ALERT, with a large fleet of merchant veffels under proteetion,- from the Baltic; the Juso frigate has all() arrived at the More. The DILIGENCE florp hashnitled the lignal for convoy to the Baltic ; there are a great number of vetrels colleted here to proceed with her. This day the crews of the Si4!PE and AGRESSOR gun veffels were paid their wages. A royal falute was fired at i z o'cl , :qt from the batte: ies of this place, and the arti ficers, Etc. of the Dock yard have a half day's holi. day, in conftcptence of its being the anniverfary of King Charles the Second's Refloration. YARMOUTH, MAY 29. This morning arrived from Tonningen, the Lady Nepean packet, Captain GEORGE DEAN, s' ith mails and feverat paffengers; the packet failed for Harwich. Ships of war remain as per laa.—Wind N. E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. CR AVE 3 E N MAT 24 —Palled by the Anna Marla, Bloom. fled, from labor) ; Spartan, Akerman. from Gibraltar ; Experi• met. t, Normand, from Bombay ; Rnbert and Sarah, Wilfon ;Polly, Beard ; and the Venus, Stacey, tor Tonningen ; Brixton, Ford ; and Mary Ann, Verner, fro:n Jamaica. Yefirday a Court of Directors %vac held at the Eitil India Ho.tft; %%hen Lieut. General HA, Nl , Dowstr. was appointed Commarder in Chief at Fort St. George, vice General Sir JOHN CRADDCCIC. The Court adjourned at fix ','slack till \Vedoefday next. Captain HINRY LIDGBIRD BALL hag hecn fuper• feded in the command of I is Nfaiefly% fbip ZEALAND, at the Nore, by Captain Fa Nen RT. Extra& of a letter from Captain THomPSnN, of the Harriet, from Demerara to L:mcalter, captured and recaptured " The ard Mexander itt with, on the tsth of March, in lat. 26. 30. N. lung. 55. W. the French privateer, l'Alert, of 20 furta, and 200 men, which begot to erg th..7m at half paft two, P. M. At half paft three., the Alexander (truck; the privateer Rill) continuing to engage the Harrit t for 45 mirtius, when the Alexander being 'manned by the enemy, came dow❑ to a alit the privateer. The Harriet engaged in r: for half an hriir, when Captain Thompfon finding, from the d:falded (late of Ids, fhip, his faih and rigging beirg much injured, with five men wounded, hinifelf ibot through the thigh, that further refillance was unatail• hag, Bruck to the enemy " The NAUTILUS, new fir inp of war, has had a fate, attended with flill mere terrible circurnilances than the Ajax. She was urerked nn a fmall in the Archipelago, and immediately funk, all the crew were Caved but ten cr eleven, who were drown• ed. Ti , e others, to the nun.ber of 60, were taken off the ifland by a Swedifh Irrgare, in a moll deplor able flare, having hiffered it:credibly through hunger and fatigue, the iliand affording no Cutiertance. The dead tylkiies nf their fhip-mates were their only Fir , d ! their life blond flaked their thirft. and for nine days they tailed nothing but !lomat: Pit:111! The Captain and others %%lin loathed this aliment, died raving mad—a fouice of nn fmall pleafure to the cut vivors, who immediately devoured them. NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS ELECTED. Russia-X. Windham and J. Fuller, Efqrt. Lama RIC COUNTIN-Lord Archibald Hamilton. Bea:vita Coo NTY-Oenrge Bai FLINT BOROUGH -Colonel Shipley. ROXBURGH COUNTY Rutherford, Efq. Kico's Couture-Mr 'Bernard and Mr. Lloyd. Wiextow CouNTY....Mcfres. Hume and Tighe. . Rosco atom Cou Nr r -The Hon. Stephen Mahon and Arthur French, Efq. WATER F3RD COUNTY-...Mara. Beresford and Power. Ma Leow-Denliant Jephfon, Efq. Du NGAR VAlNGtiteral Walpole. Ciaie CoVie el-. The Hon Col Burton and Sir Edw. O'Brien. IRISH CONTESTED ELECTIONS. —DUBLIN, MAY a 6. CARRICIEFERGUS.—State of the. Poll on SsrturOay. M. May - 2cB Mr. Craig - 20 $ LIMERICK COUNTY..... State of the Poll on Saturday. Colonel Odcll 303 Mr. Monfell 186 Honourable W. (42i11 R 74 DROGHEDA.—On Saturday the nunibers flood as follow: . Hon. Colonel Futter s 9 H. M. Ogle, FA. 57 KknaY, MAY 22.—Second day's Poll. The Knight of Kerry 57 Colonel Crofbie 13 Colona lierhert 57 DUBLIN COUNTY.--Tliird day's Poll. Mr Hamilton - 4; 8 colonel Faulkener 298. Colonel Talbot - 347 YORKSHIRE, MAY 28.—Eighth day's Poll. Wm. Wilberforce, Efq. 8965 Lord Milton • 7706 Hon. Henry Laft:lles 7989 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 29. Yerlerday Trinity Term commenced, and tbe Judges, alter pat taking id an elegant djenne with the LORD CHANCELLOR, went in procetlion to Wellmin• ller Hall, where the refpeelive Courts were opened with the accuilomed formalities. Cu:mos W , IOD, Eft!. who has praflited fo many years in the Court of King's Bench, ani been em ployed in all the Cruwn pleadings, took his feat on the Bench as nue of the Barons of the Exchequer, in the room of Baron SUTTON, now Lord MANN ERS, and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Serjeant Wont) took the folliwing motto : " Legibus enivides moribur °rues." In the Court of King's Bench the ufual returns of cone Ps at Woolwich and Portfmnuth were made. It appeared that a degree of ficknefi. had prevailed on board the Prudentia hulk at Woolwich, but that it had now fubfided, and the convids were reported orderly, and ftec from ficknefs. Q.yn WARRANTO. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved Itr a rule to thew caufe why an information, in the nature of a writ of Quo Warrant° Ihould not be filed againll James Gaborean, Ertl. requiring him to let forth by what authority he holds the office of Mayor of the Borough of Saltafh. Their Lordthips would recollect, that a Mandamus had iffued, commanding, that the Borough fhottid proceed to the elation of a Mayor, and in confequence Mr. Buller, the then Chief Magiltrare, proceeded to fummon a meeting of the Aldermen and Burgeffe, for that purpofe. The Candidates were put in nomination, but on account of fome in formality, no further proceedings could then be had, and Mr. Buller, finding that to be the Cafe, declared the meeting to he adjourned, vacated the Chair, and quitted .he apartment. As loon, however, as he had retired, the perfons who remained infiqed upon tak ing further peps, and, in his abfence, put Mr. Gabo rean in nomination for the Mayoralty, and he was by them choten. The Court would fee that the proceedin g , wiihnut the prefence of the Mayor, could not be legal, inafmuch as it was required, by the charter of incorporation, that the Chief Magif trate thould be prefent at the election of a Mayor fot the enftring year. In return to the Mandamus fent down, Mr. Bullet's party had Paid, that no elation had taken place ; while that of Mr. Gaborean re• plied that a Mayor had been chofen, as was direSed by the Court. Lord ELLENBOROUCH" You may take a rule to thew Caine." SUSPICION CF BURGLARY. Henry Kemp was brought up by Habeas Corpus from the Gaol of Chelmsford, in order to his being admitted to bail on a charge of burglary,. preferred againit him by Thomas Firman, who had depnfed before a Nlagiaratt that he faw Keinp and his bro. they break into the houfe of Thomas Underwood, in the paiilh of Tilbury, E(for, in the night between the zgth and 26:1) of March Lab and Ileal thereout divers articles of wearing apparel, &c. The affida vits to induce the Court to admit the prifiner to bail went to prove an and to ellabliffi the fad of the prifoner's not being within two miles t,f the pro fecwoi's hour° on the night Rated. It was alto men• tioned by Mr. Marryatt, t!lc prifoner's Connie), as a matter of complaint, that the depofitions of tw9 wit netTes on the pm t.f the prolliuti:m had been taken behind the back of the ptifoner, and at a time when he was abf,:nt. After heating the affidavits on both fi.lea, the Court ordered the prifoner to be remanded. obferv jog, that the cafe was fo pregnant with fufi.icion, a dark lanthorn and picklock keys having been found at the place of the prifoner's abode, that it was fit a Jury thould decide upon his guilt or innocence. NAVAL STORES. Ann With) , was brought up to plead to the mat ters of an indielment, Charging her with having un lawfully received King's (torts into her poffeflion.— She pleaded Not Guilty,' and gave fecurity for her appearance. WRIT OF ATTACHMENT. Phenias Lara, a Jew, appeared in Ccurt, on a mo tion being made to attach him for not paying coils, purfuant to the Mallet's order, and addreffed their Lordfhips, claiming the protection of the Court againtl the oppreffion of certain legal praCtitioners, who, he laid, had exhaufled his houfes and lands,and reduced him to the !all (billing. He laid that they had got 7001. out of him, and nearly all of it in defi ance of an order of that Court, and the award of Mr. Nolan. Lord ELL NE' faid, he mull apply for malty to the Coitrt, and if redrefs was necellary, he would meet with it. At prefent the Court could not ant him, and could only crdcr the attachment to he made abfolute.—The party bowed and with drew. CHaRGE CF FORGFiIr. . • MAWS, •N two young men, of reputable.appearance, named 'ti and .Hitchins, who were committed by the LORD MAY , R, on Friday week, upon a !charge of forgery, were brought up for their fecund examination. On the former examination it appeared, that an Office was opened, in St, Michael's Alley, Cninhill, with a brafs plate upon the door, on which the words " Winkler, Brothers, and Co." were engraved. purporting to be the names of the agen.s f.,r a hank ing company, at Ipfwich. The oitenfible manager in this Office was the prif •ner Still and the butinels carried on was that of dilc-unting hills, and giving for them, in lieu of money or Bank of England paper, notes, purporting to be thole of the Bank of Ipfwich A youth, about fourteen, named James Page, the fon of Mr. Page. in N. , rfolk, was the fiat witnefs examined : lie Rated, that he was at fehool at No. 105, Fenchurch (freer, and that on the 28 h of April he received a letter from his father. containing a one hundred pound bill of exchange, which he was di rcaed to carry to a gentleman at Baker's Coffee Finnic to get dircnunted. From Baker's Coffee houfe he was telerred, by the Gentleman, to the office in Michael's-alley ; he fiw there an old lady, who told him the Gentleman was not at home. He called next day, and did not fee him ; but law him on the ;II of May, at his office, when Mr. Still told him if he would accompany him to the Edinburgh Cattle, in the Strand, they, would meet a perfon who would give him the amount. He went there accord ingly, and met Mr. Hitchins, who told him he was a partner in the concern, and gave him the one hundred pounds, in notes, purporting to be notes of the Ipfwich Batik. The 3J of May he received ann. ther letter from his father, inclofing him another Bill of Exchange for tool. defiling him to call on the ir , ufe in Michael's-alley, for the like Turn, in Ipfwich notes, finding that the 411 hundred pounds had cir ciliated freely in his neighbourhood ; and he accord ingly went, and received the notes. He (aid, that, about a month before, ie had a pl. bill in the houfe, which 'was paid by Mr. Still, in Michael's alley, whom he (tippled to be a partner in the bnfinefs. An old lady named Vaughan, who lives in Michael's alley, proved that the office aAocled to is the (hop belonging to her !mule, which Poe had let to Mr. Still laft Christmas. It was for the purpofe of occupying it as a C“untry Bank; the plate on the door, with tile names Winkley, Brothers, and Co. was afliv.ed ;here by Mr. Still. She never law Winkley, Brothers, or any other partner in the bull- nefs but Mr. Still. She never law Hitchins there.— Mr. Still continued to occupy the houfe till now, paid the rent, and took receipts in his own name ; and the had direfti.ins whenever any body afked alter him, if he was in the way, never to deny him. Mr. Inner, an engraver, was next called ; aetA be ing (hewn Tome copperplate impteffions of blank notes of the Ipfwich Bank, !hied, he bad engraved thole plates fur Mr. Still ; they were for one-pound, five pounds, and tenp nods, and payable in Lon. don only. He delivered the plates to Mr. Still, who paid for them, but ordered the bill to he made out in the name of Ralph Holden and Co. He law another perfon at Still's office at the time, bu t did not know hi? name. The next perfon called, was a %4r. Young. He Paid he had been employed to take a honfe and a& as a clerk at Ipfwich, by Hitchins. He was engaged as for Ralph Holden and Co. but never faw any perfon of the name of Holden there. Mr. Hitchins always paid the notes, and the name of Holden was always figned by Hitchins, who informed him that he was a partner in the haute. A note was now fbewn to him by Mr. Bolland, Counrel for the pro fecution, and he was afked is•hether the name of Ralph Holden, figned thereto, was not written by Hitchin: ? He anfwered that he fhould certainly have thought fo, had he not, fince his former examination, feen a perfrm whole name he was told was Holden, whom he faw fign his name, and whole hand writing was In like that of Hitchin s , that he could nnt dif tinguith one from the other. He did not himfelf know the name of that perfon to be Holden, he was told fa by a Mr. Bland, who introduced him He had feen his face fomewhere before ; it might he at Ipfwich ; but be never faw him aft in the bufinefs wherein he was employed. He acknowledged to have feen Hitchins continually write on the notes iffued the name of Holden, and he himfelf was in the ha bit of entering and counterfigning them, fometimes before they were fo figned by Hutchins, and fame times after. He never law any perfon but Hitchins employed at the bank in Ipfwich. He had received orders to continue paying as long as they had any money left in One bottle, and they did not (lop pay ment before their money was all gone. Mr. BOLLSND, on the part of the profecution, ad dread the Chief Magigrate, and fobmitted that, upon the teflimnny adduced in this cafe, there was ample evidence to !again the charge of forgery. He cited a variety of cafes from Eall's Repnrts, in fop port of his affert,jon ; particularly the cafe of Anne Lewis, tried at the Old Bailey, in In.}, for perfoni fying a feaman's legatee ; the cafe of George Wilkes, tried at Bodmin, on a charge of forging a bill in the name of a perfon not in exigence ; but the Judges were all of opinion it was a forged ingrument, be caufe uttered with intent to defraud ; for that it was the fraudulent intent which cnnfiituted the vcry ef fente of the crime of forgery : the cafe of the noted James Bolland, which was a curious and critical one; he was a Sheriff's officer, and fo much in the habit of circulating Bills of Exchange, and his name was indorfed upon fo many, that his credit was injured, and his fignature rather impeded than promoted the circulation. Some perfon to whom he pallid a bill made this remark to him, and told him his name mull be changed c.n the back : he accoreingly erafed all the letters of his name except the B. and made the name Banks, which he laid was the name of a vidualler, in Ratbbone•place ; there being no loch perfon in exigence. The fad was proved, and held to he forgery ; and Bolland was convieled and exe• cured. From tote' analogy of all thofe cafes to the prefent, where it was clear the puilnners had let up offices under a fielitious firm, and iffued notes in the names of that firm, and affixed fignatures to thr•fe notes not their own, obvinufly v ith a fraudulent in tent, he relied that both the forgery, and the utter ance with fraudulent intent, were proved, in a way which made it the duty of the Chief Magifirate tr. commit them fur trial. • Mr. ALLAY, on behalf or the prifoners, ackr ow edged this to be a moll Important cafe ; but he totally denieJ there was any analogy between any of the cafes cited by learned friend, and that of his clients now at the bar ,• and he Rated particularly the circumflances of each cafe, contralling thept with !he prefent. It appeared that, for five months pall, :hey had carried on their bulinefs with credit and Fu duality, *lid paid many thtutfands of pnunds; tl tK .heir Clerk (Young) as he proved, had diredlions to pay to the lan ; and that this charge wat brought againft them only for a balance of acol. on account of Mr. Page, who, he obferveli, was the ap , licant to his clients, who, in fad, fent his bills to put ch4fe their notes ; and it was n it they who applied to him, or demanded hi: hills in exchange fcr their no:e.. He had, in fait, purchafed lhefe notes for his own fecuritief, and at his ow t respell ; and therefore they could not be implicated in any charge of forger, or fraudulent utterance ; rit was in ptoof thAt there was fuch a petfon as Mr. Holden, of the 1 0 1 wirk Bank, who write to Mr liitchins; that the Clerk of the Fi m Y •unr, could not fwear whether tie or Hutchins had ligned the notes (hewn to im. Both his clients, he laid, were men of property kits:4 tefpea :bility. Mr. Still was a gentleman who had obtained io,cool. fortune with his wife, w`iitt !re ha.i dev:ted to finite her a Itttlement of fax), 3. .4 , , and therefore was pr.-chided from applying am r ir r. of that fum to liquidate at pretent the 2001. du ; to Mr. Page. At the word his clients had incur (d no charge higher than that of a mildeme3nour, wh ch. though it might flubjeet them to trAniportati.. , :i. was yet a bailable uffence, and fuel' as diJ not precludz his Lordlitip from enlarging his clients, upon foal cent fecurity. The LORD MAYOR raid, he had heard the Couniel an both fides; hut tefore they had fpolcon at all, he was clear in his own mind that the prifoners ought to be fent to trial, and he would commit them ac cordingly. Three well drefred females, of grave and reputable appearance, named Riainas, /Farris, and Martin. two of them above so, and the thi , cl about 25, were charged by Turner, a Police Officer, with picking the pocket of an old Lady, in Ivy•lane, on I'hurf• day, of a pocket book, containing fome Bank notes, and they were fully committed for ttial. According. to the report of Gentlemen, who have infpeeted the ruins of the town of Chu dleigli, the whole of it may be Paid to be dearoyed, as there is not a trade or occupation remaining; neither baker, butc her, pub lican, innkeeper, or fhopkeeper, are left in the place. Not a yard of cloth for clothes, not a rag 4 linen, n t a medieine is left : in fhort, thole who are Phut out of home and atelier, amounting to above a thnufand fouls,, are fed by contributions of bread and provi. fions from the country. Oa the 24111, a cart was fent from Exeter, with ten pounds worth of bread and cheefe, which tame very feafonably ; and in the even ing arrived tents and marquees for the poor fufferers, and alfo ten guineas worth of bread, fent by 'he Chamber. Two waggons followed the next d.y, and on the 26th fuhfcriptions were to be made through• out Eseter. The Fire Offices lofe Amu 26,0c01. but the total lofs exceeds 80,0301. Bath inns are burnr ; and from the entrance from Exeter, where about nine holdes only remain, the eye fees only Mr. Bond's henfe, and the church; the whole (pace between is one heap 4 Ales down to the gardens, and they are literally fcorched up by the &M-S. CORONIN'S Isioyssr.—Yetterday an inqueft was held in the parith of S . Bot , Iph, Aldgate, before J. W. Unwin, Efq. on the body of G. Elias, a Jew Rabbi, the refult of which, it is hoped, will prove a caution to perfons who are in the habit of warehouf ing merchandize by cranes in the public ltreets, and to thole who pals under them. Dr. CANSTADT Rated, he was called to view the deceafed en Thurfday everting, whom be found in a dying Rate, with the left procefs of the fifth dorfal vertebra: broke, which occafioned a great flux of blood from the nofe. He concluded he would live but a fhort time, and he underflood he expired (non afterwards. His death, he doubted not, was occa fioned by the fradture. Mr. Lazarus, of Somerfet•freet, Rated, that as be was palling up John-flreet, he faw a bag of cotton. fufpended ft cm a crane by a fmall rope, at the ware houfe of Meffrs. Tullock and Co. and in a moment it fell from a tremendous height on the deceafed, who was palling along the greet. The weight was upon him ab ut a minute. The deceafed bled much at the nofe. Witnefs found the bag in a decayed Rate, which he thought was the oceefion of its falling. John Billets, warehoufeman to Mellrs Tullock and Co. of Gould-fquare, Paid he was Rationed on the top of the warehoufe, and his butinefs was to conduet the cotton from the crane. He knew nothing of the con dition of the bag. Thole which had been hoofed were hooked to the bags. Charles Johnfon, of Swan-greet, furgeon, Rated, that he was drinking tea at his brother's, oppofite the warehoufe. The bags feemed in a-tattered condition, and fome of them were covered with matting. They weighed three hundred weight. He thought they should not have been trufled to hooks, but flung. They were taken to the height of 30 fret. Witnefs did not fee the package fall ; but he faw the unfortu nate (offerer under it. J..hn Law, a carman, laid, that fume of the bags were in a tattered condition, which he put at the bot tom of his cart. It was ofual to hook the good bags : thofe which were decayed were flung. He had hook. ed three previou fly to that which fell, and be confider id that to have been fide. The height was great, and he had generally made it a rule to give warning to perfons palling, but did not fee the deceafed. Mr. Unwin—.. The principal aftors in this tragical and melancholy cataftrophe have come forward vo luntarily and fairly, and from their teflimony you cannot infer that depravity of intentioa which would corilitute a crime. It is, .htrefore, a cafe of homi cide, per irfortunium, or, in other words, a esfually ; and Gco forbid, lays the great Judge HA:, that a mifchance, not intended, (Mould make any perfon guilty of murder or manflaughter. But the prac tice is full of danger, and it tail' be proper to thew our fenfe of it. The Crown has 101 l a fubjed, and footle yan efficient member. The bag of cotton, the crane, and its appendage, are a deodand, being all moventia ad ntortem. In alfeffing the value, you will be guided by a principle that (hall have a view to fu ture caution, and operate for the public good ; but fo as not to exceed the true amount of the things for feited.—Verdift—Cafually kijled -!--Deodand 251.