Star. — London, England, 1804-10-27 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY...—Wiod N. Z. •la. DPI. AIM. DIM. Dublin 1 s I Simian's o o Waterford 1 s • Creuenburgb o o Ptozowet, Ocrom 24.—Since my lel, the /hip Penelope, of Uddewalla, Capt. DALLIS( ' and the Union of Scilly, Captain Tatootemm", Ailed with Pilchards, the former dire& for Naples, the latter to Falmouth, in order to join convoy, for ditto; the Polly and Fancy, from Enver, Lowattem, with fundries, for Greenock ; the Danifh brig Ef, perance, Capt. P. PErstsov, of ulemfburgh, from Guernfey, in ballall, in order to take fifh fot the Straits. All yeflerday and to-dsy it has blown (hong at N. N. E. FALMOUTH, Ocrosse24.—Arrived the Swedifh . fhip Speculation, Capt. 820141121 G, from Leghorn ; the Speedwell, Foor, from Cork ; Thomas and Mary, STOCKMAN, from Southampton ; Edmund and Hen ry, GALL MAN, from Cowes; Eliza, LovaLL, horn Plymouth ; and his Majeßy's fhip Pou 'Arm of 20 guns, from a cruize.—Sailed the lirincefs Charlotte Packet, Kaaa, with mails of the 3d inft. foi New York and Halifax, and the Prince Emelt packet, Prral, with mails of the 7th intl. for the Leeward Iflands; alfo the Freed, PouLsos, for Venice; Stroufe, GROPIO, for Leghorn ; Kron Prins Frede rick, BAAOI, for Venice; Wilhelmina, Orro, for Leghorn; Fair Darner, Guiss, and Santiflima Ann Unicafa, ZUZIIICIC, for Venice, (neutral►,) with pil• chards; the Anna Catharina, Ecoss, for Oporto; and his Majefty's fhip fluidise, of s 6 guns, Capt. Hn.L, his Majefty's brigs G of 18 Puns, Capt. Bus; SaaouLL, of ;8 guns, Capt. Bulls, and the MoucH IRON, of I 6 guns, Capt. HAWES, on a ernife. His Majefty's fhip la POULITTI, Of 20 guns, made Sgnal this evening to take convoy to the Eaftward ; but the wind Rating, the did not get out. The Auck• land Packet, from Lifbon 1 Duke of Cumberland packet, from the Leeward Iflands; and Cbefter6eld packet, from Jamaica, are daily expelled, The Prince of Wales packet fails od Saturday next with two mail, for Lifbon.—Wind North. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—Came in the SW/ETIENNE, of so guns, from the Eaflward, and the Refolotion, of Stockholm. from Ramsgate, bound to Fowcy. to load pilchards for the Mediterranean. A frigate ap• 'eared off the Sound from the Eaftward. having brought feveral veffels under convoy from the Downs; The has paid on to Falmouth. The Rosa cutter is laid to have failed for Ferrol, with a meffenger.— Sailed the Ranger, Revenue cutter, on a cruize. POITAMOUTI. OCTOIIIR s6.—Arrived his Maier ty's fhip G way, OE9B guns, from the Channel fleet ; and the novo Coop of war, from the eaffward, with a Danifh veffel, which fhe has detained. She was laden with warlike gores, and going for a French port. She alio refeued welve merchantmen from the danger of a French privateer, which was bearing down on them, and to which the PLUTO gave ehace, till (he was out of fight. Sailed the Bea ssopir cutter with a fleet under convoy for Cork The Locos,- lying here has had orders to return the flares for foreign fervice, which the took on board. from which, it is concluded, that the expedition (he was going upon has been laid afsde: fhe will now proceed to the Downs. There are feveral gun brigs here which were to have been employed on the fame fervice. The Spanith fhip Fama is ordered to be repaired at our expence, and returned ; it is there fore fuppofed that the Spanith war is at an end. Wind S. E. DIAL, OCTODEIL 16.—Sailed the DEVASTATION bomb, with the Doris tranfport under convoy, fur Portfmouth : BASILISK, ESCORT, MARINER, and JACKAL I. gnn brigs, on a cruize off the French coal!. Arrived the DASHER armed (hip, from Dartmouth, and remains in the Downs with the ref of the (hips as per lan. Wind S. E. CVF OSTVNIN OCTOBER i 6. This mwrning, for the firs time during a fortnight pall, we have Lad a peep at our fiiends in Oilend, but we found no alteration, except the addition of two !Charmers to the'r fors. The weather has lately been bad and unfettled, accompanied with hard gales ; but the wind has now got into the fouth well, and we hope it will become more moderate. At prefent there teems to be no Air on the coaft at all. Lissome's, OCTOIIII 22.—The Laura, ---- from New York, for this port, failed in company with the joilah Collins, DA LTOV. that arrived here on Friday, in 25 days from thence. The Alonzo, CCM& LIK. from hence at Bolton, was (poke by the Jofish Collins, in lat. 46. N. long. p. 25. W. out 25 days. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GaAtt Sr ,D, Orr. f6.—Doffed by the Spy. Illorrowes, from the South Seas; Arrls, Renekenan; Nitta, Leavitt. and the Satur nus, liciprk. from Dantztek ; Nate ileum, Scheirer% and theVrow .AUna, Young, from Vaseti. and Adolphrete, Leinder, from Rot terdam; jufh ow Nannies, Rahcll ; Alert, Hill, and the Myna • sins, Smith• from Tnetningen; Four Amebas. Gaol's. from Am- Iltadam ; View Magdalena, Janfon, via the Good Worwoghting, Boer. from Fnanden ; and the Anna Catharine, Pm, Hu (um. Sailed the Infrph, Walker, fix Du lin; Flora, Klock, Elbsear; Rernarana, Dounca, and the Jong. Jacob, Lila, for Lobdeo. Arrlved—At Plymouth, tie G...nd Intent, Harvey, from (:„tne , We. At Quebec, Defiance, Mudge, from Jamaica. Captain C is appointed to the command of the GLOP v, 0(98 guns. Admiral DRURY is appointed to the command of the Sea Fencibles on the emit of Ireland. The °trillion, LA NM T, from Dublin for Memel, is 101 l on Memel Bar. The William Pitt, loa on the Elms .9 for Embden, is totally TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SIR-4 perceive that Lieut. Col. MAXWELL has publifhed in your Paper of the 18th infant fome par ticulars relating to the meeting which mould have taken place between Mr. Botron and Mr. EDWARD BROOKES, on the 9th inn. near this town. On his Ratement I will not comment, but as my filence might occafion an impreflion unfavourable to Mr. BOLTON and myfelf, I feel it my duty thus publicly to declare, that the appointment was faithfully ob ferved by us. Not perceiving Mr. EDWARD BROOK Rs, or his friend, Lieut. Col. bfaxwaxx, at the Eaft end of Mather's Dam, the ground I had fi xe d, a nd ex pelled them on, I placed Mr. Bovron at the fpot molt fuited to fuch a meeting, and after the lapfe of afeirminutes, proceeded along the Eaftern fide of the Dam, in the courfe of which I a complete view of every part of it. Not finding them there, or in the field adjoining, I. immediately returned to the EaR end of the Dam, where I remained until ten minutes after fix o'clock, making the time we had been upon the Ground twenty-five minutes. The other party not appearing, I told Mr..Boxxon that I confidered it =medial that we Gould continue there any longer; in confequence of which we returned to town, and-in the courfe of twenty-five minutes after I had got home, Lieut. Colonel Maxwaxe, waited upon me, and acquainted me with the particulars he hat Rated in your paper—l immediately, a fbcond time, demanded a Meeting, to take place early. the (Mim ing morning, which the public itre already informed was prevented by the interference of the Magifirates. I beg the favour of you to publifh this in your paper, and am, your molt obedient. Servant, (Signed) Tirostas J. Patti. Liverpool, October at, 1804. . • His Majelly has received from the Marquis *at.- LIMEY an elegant fet of twelve ivory chairs, richly inlaid with gold.—Two of the fame defcription have been fent to the Marchionefs. Mr. Haaari, previous to dte performance of Rs V MOLDS'S Comedy, bought the piece for five hundred and fifty guineas. Though it was a bfindbargaih, it does not promife to prove a bard one I Mrs. Bt ar.anwrow and Signora GRAMM are en gaged at the Opera Mottle for the enfuing feafon, at a falary of goon guineas. They have contraaed not to perform at any private Concerts, but to devcte their talents exclufively to their public duty. Comic Operas are to be giten up, and Signor MoastAr has entered into an engagement at Lifbon. The following iv a verbatim cot* of_a letter lately received by an overfeer of a pan& in Newcaftle : theta it proper to scquant yon of this Slr Comftance for it was wane befor and is the Ram new won W. R. in has his !sous Raper with Child. and &e is Ilk* to cum trubtifort to tie Parini witch. I thaw peeper to Kermit you for I beie►c Otc has not wane our to call bir own." " The DIA" lately d—d at Drury, was originally brought out At the Theatre Norwich. of which City, we underfland, the Author is a native. Its title was then " &Oda, Times, or tbe Ssboo!•boq'r Frolic." Yawata Puir.--A New• York Paper fags, " A gentleman in this town lately dining on a tov4 piece of beef, began by fcratching his plate with his knife ; and on being alked the redon, replied, " to fet his teeth on edge." As a Gentleman was carelenly Stalking on the beach on the well fide of one of the groins at Brigh ton on Wednefday, his foot flipped, and he unfortu nately fell trier, a depth of fome feet, into the fea. Happily. however, the water, which was not very deep, prevented his receiving any injury from the hard Runes at the bottom ; fenfible of which, he re marked, on releafing himfelf from the briny elemen that the piale had certainly prefervad him. We are now enabled to give a morc corral account of the fire at Chelmsford ; and truly melancholy as the cataftrophe is, we are nererthelefs happy to find, that, inftead of fifteen of the foldiers being found burnt to death, and twenty.one miffing, as was Rated in the former account of this afflieling event, twelve only have been the viflims of it. By the evidence given before the Coroner, it appeared that a party of Hanoverians, about t2O in number, marched into the town about two o'clock on Monday lA, and were for convenience lodged in the houfe and Rabies of the Dog public houfe ; that they retired to reit at an early hour, feventy of them in particular, into a large (table, without any other faftening to the door than a latch ; that about eight o'clock the fame even ing, the premifes, where the feventy men lodged (among whom were fume women) were eifcovered to be in flames. Unacquainted with the ufe of a latch, the Hanoverians were Come time before they could open the door, but it was eafily effeEted on the outride, and they (it was fuppofed all) made their efcape, many of them, however, molt dreadfully (cinched, and their clothes on fire. About twelve o'clock the flames had completely fubfided ; and the next morning (Tuefday) niimbeis repaired to the fpot, who by voluntarily removing pieces of timber, at last came to the horrid fpciftacle of part of the re mains of an human being! Alarmed at the light, the rubbifh was quickly cleared. and no left than bodies were drawn out in a mutilated Rate. too dreadful to defcribe. One other unfortunate Hano verian died the next morning from the injury he re. ceived. and feveral others continued in a doubtful Rate ; but, marary to report, not one remains un accounted for. Every foul mull have perillied in the fl.llllef, had not the Corporal of the detachment. to whom the alarm of fire had been given molt pro videntially ran down to the liable, a nd extricated them from their diftrang fitnation. The bodies of the thirteen Hanoverian., who pe rifhed in the calamitous fire at Chelmsford. were yeaerday interred with military honours. Every at tention has alto been paid by the Commander in Chief, and his Royal Brother of Saes, to the folace and comfort of the farvivors. 'f be Ticket No. 9: 2 9 drawn ye Illerday a Prize of so,oool. was fold in one Half, one Fourth,nne Eighth, and two Sizteenths, by BRAM /COMB and Co. at their lucky Lottery O ffi ces No. t t, Holborn, and 37. Corn. bill. where the Sift 30,0001. Prize ever Shared was fold in one Half, one Fourth, one Eighth, and two Sixteenths ; and where the Ticket No. 24,196, in the prefent Lottery, drawn a Prize of 5001. the 4th day of drawing. was fold in one Eighth and fourteen Six teenths ; and where likewife the holders of any of the fortunate Shares may receive the full amount of their Prize on demand. LOP INTELLIGENCE. PALACE COURT, BOROUGH, OCTODIT. :G. MARIA PASCOR V. WEE, FRASER, Esq.:. A caufe of confiderable importance to the liberty of the fubjed occupied the attention of this Court the greater part o f the day. Mr. CLIFFoRD Rated the cafe on the part, of the Plaintiff, after a (port opening by one of the regular Counfel belonging to the Court. The Learned Counfel obferved, that ,there were many cafes in which the heat which is frequently occafioned by elation contefts might be eonfidered as tome pallia tinn of an offence committed by the lower orders of the people at fuch a time ; but nothing could in law jultify an affault being committed by any perfon, at any time. In the prefent inflance the Jury were cal led upon to protect a poor ignorant woman again(' the intuits of a perfon of rank add property, who, no doubt, it would be proved, was fworn to preferve the peace. His client had only, in company with Come other poor perfons coming from their labour, called out " Burdett for ever," and then huzzaed. He hoped that in this free country an Englifhman or an Englifhwoman would always have the privilege at lea(' of huzzaing for any party which ever it might be that they thought fit to efpoufe. He did not with the Jury to take it into their confideration what the words were, or whether they called out for Burdett or Mainwaring. He had no doubt that they were both honourable and refpeftable men ; at testi he writhed to dive(' his mind of any idea of what might be the merits of either gentleman, in Rating the prefent cafe, and trolled that the Jury, as ho nourable men upon their oaths, would alto do fo. notwithßanding a whifper which he had heard about who the Gentlemen of the Jury had voted for- A care had lately been decided in another Court, in which two pollilions were convided of having (truck a gentleman two or three times with their whips, on account of his wearing a Mainwaring's cockade.— The men were fentenced to two months imprifon- Ment. The verdid of this day Would doubtlefs eßa blith the opinion that has been fo long held of the equal adtninißration of juftice in this country ; it would (hew to the country and to the world, that a perfon of high rank and authority cannot go unpn• ' nifhed, when it was proved before a Jury that he had committed an offence again(' the laws. The Jury were called upon to give the utnicrit that they could from the record, namely, to the amount of 51. in Or der that it might be a wholefome lefrm to magif• trates in future, that henceforward they may know that it is not in their power to do any injury to the maiden fubjed with impunity. William White,* labouring man, depofed, that on the 16th of Auguß, between eight and nine in the evening, he was returnipg from his work in the fields near the village of Welton, in company with Judith his wife, the Plaintiff (Maria Elliot), and one Mary Ofborne, another labouring woman, who fol lowed a little diftince behind them. hen they were about eighteen or twenty yards part Mr. Fra zer the Magiltrate's houfe in Welton, Maria Parcoe called out " Burdett for ever," and his wife laid huzza. Mr. F. came out in a violent palrion, and laid hold of the tiro women ; but his wife difentan ' gled herfelf, and went off a little diftance from him. Mr. F. thee raid, " Now I've got you, I'll make an example of you." and dragged Parcae feveral yards along with him. She had a bill hook under her arm which might have hurt her, as (he called our, "Oh my bofom," and then called murder; loon after that the got clear, and on coming up to him and the others, the raid, "He hat taken my hook." She bad one under her arm at the time of being laid hold of; and the was without it when the came up to them. He (wore that nothing cite was raid or done by any of thofe in his company, and that there was no other perfon in fight at the time. Judith, his wife, depofed nearly to the fame effect. Mr. Cow sr, Counfel for the Defendant, denied that the cafe of the port boys, which his Learned Friend (Mr. Clifford) had referred to, was as trifling in its nature as that Gentleman had fuppofed it was. He alfo declared that he had not heard any thing of the whifper which had been (poken of. For his part he fhould carefully avoil, as his Learned Friend indeed had done, entering into the difcuflinn of any thing of party matter concerning the eledion. Bin he would contend, that whatever was the watch word for breeding a riot in the neighbourhood, the tdagif trate had done that, which he always trufted he and every gentleman who held that refpeffable rank in fociety would always continue to do. A great noire and tumult was beginning at his very door, and he very properly endeavoured to feize the offenders .4 to make an example of them," as he had very juftly obferved. He then rellehii.cafe on another point, that of the necelity of giving a month's no tice to a Magiilrate before any pioceeding could le gally be had again(' him. The Rev. John Lana ie depict!, that he had fre quent reafon to apply to the Magiflrates on account of the riot and coalition which was in the pot of the coon!) , where he rcilded (in the neighbourhood of Welton.) J. Spencer, Efq. a Magiltrate, alto teftified that there was a great deal of riot and diforder in the neighbourhood, which he confidcecd as the remains of the ferment occalioned by the elation, which it'd ended on the 9th of Auguß. The trantadion which was the fubjed of complaint at prelcnt took place on the 161 b, and battle that time he had applied to Mr. F. as a brother Magiftrate, to do every thing in his power to co-operate with him in fuppreffing there forts of riots. George O'Brien, Efq. who lived in the houfe with Mr. F. &poled alto that the riot and difordcr occa fioned by the elation was very frequent, and had con tinued for feveral days after the elation was over, bat he knew nothing of the prefent cafe. Mr. CLI,FOIID, in reply, obferved that he had ex pettiod that loose perfon would have been brought forward who knew (omething of the tranfaßion. Had not Mr. F. any fervent% or were they all deaf or blind that they could not bear any thing of all the riot and confufson which the Plaintiff and thofe along with her had been guilty of, nor any thing of what puffed after their matter ran out to lay hold of the two old women? Mr. O'Brien, he fit/roofed, would not have been brought forward only that he happen ed not to be at home at the time. Mr. Scrjeant M , who it as Judge. in the clearelt manner recapitulated the evidence and the argumcats oat both Was. He than informed the Jury !that the only qtießion which they had to decide lip. whether there was, or was nor, a riot committed by thole perfors near the door of the Magifirate ? if fa, he was ailing in compliance with the principles of, a duty which was imperative on him ; a Magifirate had no option, but was liable to a heavy refpunGbility if he.did not do his %moot} to take foch rioters iMo cur tody. As to the bill hook, that feemed to have been left in his hands for the purpofe of embellithing the cafe ; there could be no doubt but that a gendeinan of inch refpatability as the Defendant would return it, if he was called upon fur that purpore. If be bad aged improperly, even in his magifterial capacity, a written notice Ihould have been lined on him a month previous to the trial, which had not been done; fo that on thefe two grounds he was entitled to an =initial. If, however, they thould be of opinion that he ailed only as a private gentleman, they would find a verditt accordingly.-1 he Jury confulted together about the fpace of a minute, and then returned a vet. did for the Plaintiff—Damages sl. MIDDLISEX SI:3101/1.—Yeflerday aino M'Cart, was indidted for an atfaul ont Elizabe th Matthews,. child of two years old, on the 25th of Augult. The mother of the child tilted, that (be bad miffed her from the door, at her honk in Paddington-area, and the was brought back by a ilranger two hours after, ve bloody, and much beaten. Mrs. Ann Minchen Rated, that the was palling along Q u een Ann•areet, Weft, when her notice was attraaeorby a young child crying bitterly, in the arms of the Defendant, and the was alto very bloody. He • was then beating it fhamefully, and on the remun (trance of the witnefs, he replied, that the child was his own, and he amid ufe his plealure with her.— An elderly Lady,who was patting, fuatched the child from the arms of the Defendant, but he feized her again, and ran off. Witnefs followed, with many others, toCavendith-fquare,where the child wasagain taken from him by a young woman, who earned her to the mother. Mrs. Gauden was drinking tea with her &ter, in Chandos-ftreet, when the heard a child fcreaming vehemently ; the looked out of the window, and taw the child in the Defendant's arms, who was running and beating her. Witnefs alto obferved the child very bloody. Several other witneffes obferved the Defendant palling through the ftreets from whence he had taken the child to Cavendifhlquare ; they fevcrally corro borated the above evidence, with refpelt to his ill treating the infant, and they alto perceived ber very bloody, from the blows the had received in the face. Thomas Skinner, a gentleman's coachman. raw a mob colleaed in Cavendithlquare, and the Defendant in the centre ; on enquiring the eircutsßances of th a cafe, he with the afftftance of the bye Randers, (sear ed the prifoner, who attempted to efcape. The prifoner in defence Rated, that he was In li quor, add had (tumbled over the child, and on its crying he took her in his arms to pacify her. The Cxatareaa obferved, that this was a very ea. traordinary cafe of its kind. It would be the duty of the Jury to find the prifoner guilty of the doges after which, the Court would fufficiently weigh the whole of the cafe, and pats flab a fentenee on him OA his conduit deferved. The Jury, without hefitation, found the ptifonce Guilty. Judgment refpited. The prifoner has a wife and three children, and re. ficied in Banbury-beet, St. Giles's. John was found guilty of baling three pair of cotton hole, which were hanging to dry, and he was fentenced to (even years traofportation. The prifoner (an old offender) had been very recently liberated from confinement in Newgate, for an offence which he had been found guilty of at the Old Bailey. Ezra Amami+ Aar OCCUIRIMCS.—A linguist cit. camaance occurred a few evenings ago, in Mount beet watch-houfe :—A bone main's labourer, in the South Mews, being deteeted, on leaving the yard, at one o'clock, with a quantity of broken laws, and other iron, in his apron, Rolen property, was given in charge to a Confiable, and conveyed to the watch. houfe, in Mount-beet, Grofvenor-fquare. After a long inveaigation, he was ordered under the care of a man of the name of Peddingtnne, the watch-boufe keeper, who had been for ao years in the parifh, and bad gone through all the offices of watchman, patrols', comptroller of the watch, regulator of parillt jarif pi udence, of licences, hired and common conflahle. Raiff affillant, and, at length, arrived at the dignity of watch-houfe keeper. His common refidence was below hairs, upon a level with the place in which the culprit was confined. While at tea, in :he afternoon. with his wife, family, and fervant-maid, he Rarted in a rage, and (wore, d—n his eyes, he thought he law the Pi ifoner hertz himfelf; took out a long clafp ed knife from his porker, opened it. took the key of the cell in his right hand, and approached the dun peon. To his utter airmithment, en entering, he found the culprit fuipended from the beam of the diinze.m, by his neck-handkerchief and an old apron, d: things of which he had tied to the beam— the handkerchief being faßened to the apron by a running knot, and round his neck. When cat down by the watch-hook keeper. he was appa rently dead ; but being dragged into the kitchen, and placed in a chair, before the fire, he tell into convulfions, and, recovering. (aid s " the devil was coming for hint and the watch-houfe•keeper," and, added he, " particularly for you (pointing to Ped. dingtone), who robbed my mailer this night of his due, by cuttin g me down too Coon." This, wi t h feveral other frantic exprelfions, fo frightened the watch-hoofe.keeper. that he changed hts feat, and took a more elevated fituation. from which he view ed, with fear and afloniflarnent, the convulfed tion of the Prifoncr ; when. all on a (ridden, his wife. his maid. and himfelf, were diflurbed by a fudden and tine:pelted noife, which rattled the china plates, chairs, tables, and every ether move able article in the r mm. At this inflant, the pri loner jumped from his chair, to a confider able heights extended his arms, and hollowed nut, 4 Devil, devil. 0 devil! ceafe, quiet, quiet, quiet;" then rutting at the watch-bottle-keeper. he fo terribly alarmed h:in, tint the latter immediately fell into a 6e, and fo continued, without any intermillion, all two o'clock on Thurfday morning, when he expired in great agonies. We are lorry to add, that the fervant-maid lie , in a melancholy date, occafioned by the frights without h.yes of recovery. The culprit has been enmmitted for the theft. to take his trial u the nest &floss.