Star. — London, England, 1807-04-29 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, APRIL sift. Arrived the American (hip Eleanor, Cap-t. Loan, ' from Norfolk, laden with flour, 34 days perage ; The brings no news. Sailed his Majeßy's Wip Tilact . Captain Virtual, for Newfoundland, having under his convoy 15 fail of merchant vetfels t HUM salt, Cm:r utin HILL, on a cruize, and Townfhend packet, C,cx, with mails of the t4th and 21R infant, for Lifbon. Several velTels at a great dißance in the offing were feen palling this port from the eaftward, this eveninauppored to be the outward bound Lilbon and Oporto Meets.--Wind E.S E. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL. 28. Arrived his Majeßy's fhip MERLIN from Quern. fey with a convoy ; among them are the Northum berland. Friends, Melanthe, and Reliance tranfports• Alfo arrived the HussAa, a new frigate lately launched near Southampton ; London, Ocean, Olive Branch, and Augullus Carar tranfports with the zit battalion of the 6th regiment on board from the Downs, bound to the Mediterranean. Sailed the EXPLOSION bomb, with a convoy for the Downs.— Wind W. N. W. DEAL, A Mtn. sit • Arrived the SKYLARK floop andFtrasous gun brig, from a crnize off the omit of France ; Ftottots hired floop, from Plymouth ; HARLICCJIN armed Chip, with a convoy of merchant veffels from the weitwardt which have failed through for the River; and IILAZIR gun brig, from the Nnre. Sailed the Mu:- sum floop on a cruize off Calais; Fulton: gun brig, on acruize off Oftend, and FINDON hired floop, for the River.—Remain in the towns the Edgar' Frincefs of Orange, Collett, Vanguard, Trufly, Clyde, Skylark floop, c h ary bomb, Blazer, Fearless tigtefs, Builler, and Turbulent gun btigs, and Hate leivin armed !hip. SHEERNESS. APRIL 23. The Hammy, of 74 guns, Honourable Captain CotyttLy, failed yeflerday from Chatham on her way to this port. The Acsar Sloop of war, Captain itiftwaiss, has hoifled the fignal for a convoy to I'onningen, to fail on the 3oth infant. The VICTORY, of too guns, was taken into dock at Chatham, on Thurfday laft; and undocked the following day ; it was generally thought in confequence that that beau. tiful flip was going to be commitlioned, but it 'Hears that her copper had been fallened with patent copper nails, which had become fo loofe as make it receffary to dock her, and fubilitute thole nails ge• orally nfed in the ferrite. . SCILLY, APRIL 27. - On the rith Ina. was buried at St. Mary's, Scilly, Captain jofeph Maughan (of the brig Thetis, of Lynn), and his two failors ; they were drowned here pearly five weeks back, and only the day before yef WNW were their bodies defcried on the furface, and but a °tort dillance from the fpot where they funk. It happened as follows :—its putting off from (hare, after night, the wind blowing hard, and tide adverfe, he mi&cl his veffel in St. Mary's Road, and vias driven out to tea ; but foon after cliy light they rowed in dole with St. Agnes !nand, .where the lighthoufe fiands, hut being veli cold, and probably nearly (pent with the fatigue of the night, made incautioufly an attempt to land in.& moll ,dangerous place, and, in confequence, the boat was (lathed in pieces, and they were all drowned in tight of Cpedators who could render them no affiliance. Tfie Captain has left a wife and feveral children ; his Odell fon was at the time mate of his veil - el. 11,:is to be hoped that this melancholy accident may ad as a ferious warn ing on the minds of Mailers of veffels in general (a circumffance mall strongly required to be impreffed on their minds), and deter them in future from re • mining on chore at public houfes after night, when there is great of of losing their lives in going to the harbours at the other iflands,or to their veffels in Sr. Mary's Road.—That accidents of this fort do not happen more frequently here is ailoniihing, Co man y hairbreadth el - capes fo often occurring. BRISTOL, APRIL 27. The following extra& of a letter communicates the particulars of the lots of the Loyal Volunteer, Gso. HODGSON mailer, bound to Dublin : " On Friday fennight, at day-light, the wind blowing very hard, thought it right to make for Milford, if poffible ; drove before the wind, at the rate of ten knots an hour, till we came to Ramfay Sound—fhip's pumps at work all the time. At ten o'clock got into . Ramfay Sound, mime we (truck Itpon a funken rock, and unfhipped the rudder. In in minutes after we loft the rudder, and then (truck again, which knocked a hole in the ship's bottom. A fea came, and drove us off again, when the Captain cried out, ' LORD have mercy on us all—we mutt unlefs our fail , protedi us.' In ten minutes After, we were drawn by the.fea to Ramfay Hand, among the rocks ; where, by the help of PeovineNcs we viere All favcd. There is only one bottle on the Waind to receive 29 paffengers, fume without !boss and BaCkiDZS ' and Some almoil naked. When we got tiltore, we had a rock to climb, one hundred feet I th, which was dee;:led impuiT;ble ; but after great :!Notts we reached the top, otherwife we mull all have inevitably been drowned, as the tide had begun to set iti." ELSINEUR, APRIL it. The Fake. (loop of war failed from hence the Bth inftant, for I feratt The 9th, arrived :he Sally armed fhip, from Longhope. la d Charles, from Hull, with convoys; alto the gritilb Fair, and Favourite eutters,froni Yarmouth : the two armed (hips have pro• eded to Memel, and the tut ter: remain. The Nightingale takes t'ar•je of the homeward b-.:att:d flti26, and wid fail to morrow, if be wind is favourable. Aram 14.—. The Coal Pits, of 14:meanie, Shadforth, is afhore at li thnftadt, on the coati of Sweden. Part of the London convoy , /3 Cle 7 the Spy (loop o war. zrrived this forenoon.—The Nightin - Pie raaaim The t*o cutter', meutioned in our lalt, proCteded 't:!trdsv for the 13:Itie. ABERDEEN. On the evening of Thurfday the 16d Mat, the brigantine Britannia, Autrannue Yr.e; of and from this place to London with Roues, in :inning up the Swin with a fair wind from N.N.E. Bruck on the fand called the Monte, where the ielfel is totally 1911. —The crew and part of the rigging ind materials Caved. The brigantine Ceres, At.t.xn, of this place, from London to Sunderland in ballaß, which has been miffing fince the tsth February, fermi to have been captured by the enemy, as a draft has appeared from the Mailer, dated at Arras in France.—The French privateer le !Utah, Captain Lavoissv, from Antwerp, carrying two ts and four 6-pounders, which lately infefted the North Sea, and put into Chriftianfands, after efcaping from a Britifh frigate. is reported to be taken in the Baltic by a Swedilh frigate. The John and .Robett, CAM mu., of this place, failed hence the 24th of February, for Riga ; and being unable to proceed on account of the ice, was under the neceffity of returning to Liebau, and patted through the Pentland Frith, with a cargo of hal - Ceti for Belfaft, the i4ih inilant. NAVAL PROMOTIONS IN THE EAST INDIES, AU- GUST 23, ao6. His Excellency the Commander in Chief Sir Tno t4A3 TILOOSILIDGI o Bart. has been pleated to make the following promotions : MACABSIII.•••Captain TROUSILIDOZ, of the Harrier, to be Poll Captain4lnto the Macaffer. Lieutesuints MITCII [Li of the Harrier, R NDY SR of the Ca roline, and Mr. Pates? of the Bkniteim, to be Lieutenants of the Macster. -Mr. Hon a KIN 9, Pura of the Harrier, to be Purfer of the Ma caffer. Mr. M'Faintt, Surgeon of the Hairier, to be Surgeon of the Maeaffer. The Boatfwain, Gunner and Carpenter of the Hurler into the Meatier. Hwammt—Lieutenant WI M, of the Blenheim, to the Harrier, with the rank of Commander. The Boathrain, Gunner and Carpauer are made from decrying men of the Blenheim into the Harrier, in lieu of thole removed into the Macairer. Mr. PLDDZI of the Blenheim to be Lieutenant of the Caroline DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The Leander, for the Ville de Milan and Cleopatra, captured Feb. 24, 11305 ‘ . will be paid on Monday next, at No. xi, Upper Thames-area, and there recalled every day for three months. HIGH COURT 1:4 ADMIRALTY, APRIL A.—This day the !tight Hon. Sir WM. Scorr, proceeded to the adjudication of the following cafes : Gute Hollnung, Steencker Mailer. —This Tafel failed under Oldenburg colours, ladi•.t with wheat. Ship reltored with freight and cipences, and the cargo pronounced to be Bremen property. Morgenitern, Freerka matter --This Pappenburgh vcffel was laden with fait. Further proof direaed as to the property. Yellerday the Lord Mayor ordered the price of bread to be•continued at eleven pence three farthings, the quartern lo4f of wheaten; and ten pence far thing houfehold. There is now living at Woolwich an attorney (and an huneft one, we believe), who has adopted the fol lowing Pimple method of laving much trouble :—His houfe is lituated on the top of the highell ground be hind the barracks, and confequently may be feen from all open parts of the town below. If the inha bitan:s, when they wiflied to confult him upon any occafi,:rt, were to have the trouble of walking up and down the hill, perhaps three or four times, before they could meet with him, „t)te repea ted difappoint n3ent would be very To prevent this, he has cabled a long flaff to be ereEted on the top of his hnufe, and when lie is at home, there is always a flag flying at the top of it, which is taken down while he is•otst. Would it not be worth while for the inhabi tants of this Metropolis, to adopt Come fimilar mode of informing their acquaintance when they are at home, or when they choofe to be fun? In the fira place, it would lave their acquaintance much trouble ; and in the fecond, it would put an end to that abo minable praflice of teaching fervants to tell lies, by laying their Mailers or Viftreffes ate not at home when in fad they are. Mr. Broughton, a tradefrnan, in Yeonsanes-row,. Brompton, was fwindled lalt week by a fellow of dafhing appearance, out of 81. 16s. Ile went to Mr. B's (hop in a coach, and, after agreeing to parr chafe articles to the amount of the ablve fum, he gave him a cheque on the hank of Meths. Pybus and Co. but on Mr Broughton prefenting it for payment, he was informed that no perfon of that name had' cafh depofited with them. In the night of Ft iday lall, two men, John Stewart and William Armour, broke out of Stranraer gaol. They were clofely purfued, and on Sunday morning committed to Ayr gaol, having been arretted in the neighbourhood of Dalrymple. Thefe men are laid to be charged with having forged notes on the Britifh Linen Company in their potTehion. The circumflance of their urea has proved that a pretty extenfive plan was in confiderable forwardnefs for patting forged notes. On Sunday morning, upwards of 93 forged guinea notes on the above bank, were found under a (lone in Ayr Green, which had probably been de parted there in confequence of the reafon afligned for there men's arrell being known ; and fince, a fearch has been made in Irvine, and a woman has been committed to prifon under very fufpicinus cir• cumflances. The Government Ramp, the water mark, and the Company's feal, we underhand, are pretty correftly imitated in there forged notes ; but the paper is darker in the colour than in the genuine notes. A black pointer bitch, which was loft on the Moors, near Maresfield, in September lall, was dif covered a few days fince by a Gamekeeper in the fer vice of Mils Shuckburgh Evelyn, on Athdown Forell, not very far from the fpot on which the was miffed by her owner, in September. The Gamekeeper firft found, among the heath, a litter of her puppies, which he watched a confiderable time, but no parent making her appearance, he furrounded the cubs with tome flicks flock in the ground, and left them for the evening- Early the next morning the man vilited his foundlings, and, as he expefted, law their affeltionate mother, the pointer bitch, labouring with great diligence, to effeft afubtenaneous pail . ..age to her little ones. On the man's approach, the wagged her tail, and watched, with the greatett apparent anxiety, while he removed the fence from her pup pies, when the initantly laid down and quietly tackled them. The above animal mutt have fubtitled during the autimm and winter on rabbits and vermin -.bur it is extraordinary that (he Iltotild have fo long 'chided her fell from the haunt, of men, and yet have preferved hcr gentlenefs and docility. L .1W INTELL IGEN cr. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS, APRIL. 28. In MATE v. PRATT, this day, the Rule for a new trial was difcharged. This was an aelion to recover wages due to a feaman who had engaged for a three months cruize, and not to lea ye the (hip till the ar rived in fafety at a Britith port. The Plaintiff had quitted the vette) at the expiry of the term, v. 1 ...en (be was lying At fingle anchor in Yarmouth roads, and gbh, was argued by Mr l . .Setjeant SuITHEID to be a breach of this engagemern. The Court, however, were of a contrary opinion ; and, confequently, did not interfere with :he Verdia of the Jury. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, APRIL 28. HORNE V. HUGH IS. Mr. Maitavarfi;WedCaufeagainfl a Rule to en ter a fuggeflion on the roll for coils under the London Court of COnfcience Ad, which enafts that ,‘ if any aftiap fisall be brought within London. for any debt not exceeding $l. the Plaintiff Mall not have his coils." This aetion was brought for 61. gs. 2d. but by the evidence it appeared that 21. had been paid, and the Plaintiff recovered only 41. The Court, therefore, held that the finding of the Jury as to the amount of the debt recovered was conducive as to the amount for which the action was brought ; unlefs perhaps where it fhould appear that the Plaintiff had a fur. ther demand ; but from fome accidental failure by his witnefs being abroad, he could not prove the whole amcunt : in which cafe the Court would judge of the circumfiances. DO! V. RIANNINC AND ANOTHER. This was an affirm of ejeament brought to reco ver the whole of certain premifes in Bermondfey, a part of which the Defendants claimed an interelt in, under the late letfor. About the year 1782, the father of the Defendants conveyed certain parts of the elate to his mother, for her life, who loon after dying, he made another conveyance of the fame portion to the Defendants, his brothers and fillers, for their ufe and benefit, dur ing their lives. In the year 18ox, he difpofed of the whole of his remaining intereft in the preanifes in queflion, to the leffor of the prefent Plaintiff, but did not give notice to him of the conveyance to his bro thers and filters ; and, loon after dying, the leffor of the Plaintiff brought this aelion of ejeftment to reco• ver poffeflion of the whole of the elate. The princi. pal Lie left to the Jury was, whether the deed of the conveyance from the deceafed to his family, was executed in contemplation of fraud, or otherwife ? And the Jury found that it was not a fraudulent deed.. Mr. Laws formerly obtained a rule to Phew cnufe why the verdift in this cafe fhould not be fet afide, and a new trial granted; and the cafe now came before the Court upon a folemn argument ; the quer don being, whether a voluntary conveyance, without a valuable confideration, was to be confidered a fraud in law, and the deed confequently an invalid inftrument, as againft a bona fide purchafer for a full and valuable confideration ? Mr. Laws, in fupport of the rule for a new trial, contended, that from the very firfl authorities in the books, a voluntary conveyance, without valuable con fideration, was always held to be prima facie evidence of a fraud in point of law. The conveyance, in the prefent cafe, he confidered as coming direaly within thefe authorities, and the legal conclufion drawn in all fuch cafes was a conveyance in contemplation of a fraud. The Learned Counfel here quoted a vafi number of authorities of the firfl Judges of their time, in fupport of this pofition. Mr. Serjeant Besr contended for the contrary doctrine, as laid down by Lord Chief Juffice Hale, Chief Baron Gilbert, Lord Chief Jullice Eyre, Loid Mansfield, and others; and in the moll able and learned argument infilled, that, in point of fad, there could be no contemplation of fraud whatever in this cafe, the conveyance itfelf having been made upwards cf twenty years before any fraud, as againfl the.prefent Plaintiff ' , could ex& He retied his cafe chiefly upon the number of authoritiesin his favour outbalancing thofe of his Learned Competitor, the confiruaion of the flatute of vyth of Elizabeth, and the faits themfelves ; and, upon thofe grounds, he fupported the verdia as it now flood. The Courtr confidered this a cafe of the hig!rell importance, as it refpeaed voluntary conveyances ; and, unlefs the quettion was folemr.ly confidered, and the rule of law perfealy afcertaincd, all conveyances of this nature mull hand in a very doubtful and dan. gerous predicament. From the great variety of au thorities cited uprli both fides, and the .very great contrariety of npininbs entertained by there Learned Judges, the Court expreffed a defire, that. if the pro perty was fufficiently confiderable to bear the ex pence, the cafe firould be put into the fhape of a fpecial verdkt, for the conlideration of all the Judges. Mr. Serjeant BEtt replied, that the whole of the rents were onlyssbout 2001. per annum, which was the only property his clients had in the world. Under there eircumfiances, the Court ordered the cafe to (land over for further argument next term. MANDAMUS. Mr. PEAKft applied for a Writ of Mandamus, to be directed to the &layer and Burgeffes of the Borough of Carmathen, defiring them to admit Mr. William Skein a free Burgefs of that Corpora.ion. The Learned Counfel was proceeding to hate the words of the charter, when the Court reminded him, they were pettedly acquainted with it already. He then Dated, that the Corporation inflated that Mr. Skein's title was not regular, inafmuch as the leafe and re leafe (as they term it) did not bear date the fame time, becaufe in the body of the deed were there words—" Indenture of leafe and releafe, beaiing date the day next before the day of the date of there piefents ;" which were the ufual words in all con veyances of that nature. The party was qualified to be admitted to be a Burgefs in every other remelt. The Court granted the writ. The firft foundation ftone of the intended New Corn Exchange, in Brunfwick ltreet, Liverpool, was laid on Friday lan. Wednefday laft, a gentleman fell from the head of George's Dock Pier, Liverpool, at low water, a height of nearly thirty feet, end fortunately cfcaped without any other hurt than a few flight bruifes. Monday as a young woman was croffing Wheeler ftreet, Spitarfteids, the was thrown down by a cart, one of the weels of which went over and broke both her thighs. She was taken to the London Hofeital, where it wa feared amputation mutt enfue. POI. ICE. .9 pivinbrok-r in Btrmondfey, Iva* yeller . day charged at Union Hall with refuting to deliver to a Mrs. Heddon fi.rne paintings, which the had pledgetl, on her tcrdering th e princip a l and interell. This re. filial he pertinacioufly adhered to, and condueled himfelf with fuch contumacy before the Magi (rates, as to induce them to comma him in the county gaol. Mrs. S. a baker, was charged with having in her poffeffion 17 .I.raves which were 58. ozs. Ilion of weight. This bread, which was intentkd frr a poor hnufe, was equally deficient in quality,The was there. fore fined in the full penalty, ss. per 'oz. Y. Taverner, a hackney coachman, was yefierday committed to New Prifon, from Hatton Garden 01111:e, f:r, while in a hate if drunkennel', the pre. ceding night, driving over a Mrs. Rands, and there. by braking two of her ribs ; and for a violent affault on the officer who apprehended him. CITY PamLicrs.—Several watermen from St. Olare's Stairs, Tooley (beer, yeflerday complained to the LORD MAYOR, at the Wolfson Houle, againft the matter of the [kip Hope, a coafling vette' from Bridgewater. They charged him with unloadinghis cargo, with the atfillance of lighters, fo near to the (lairs, as to almolt (hut up their plying place, and en danger the lives of all perfons frequenting it. The Captain, they laid, had been warned of the danger to which the parties, their boats, and the public, were thus-expofed ; but he paid no attention to, their re monflrance, until one of their boats was damaged. They added, that the place being within the jutifdic dieTion of his Lordfhip, he had it in his power to a trot d redrefso nd that complaints had been frequently made upon the fubjed of this grievance, feveral per. lons having been drowned in confequence of it, within thefe few years. Capin Snow, the principal Harbour Mailer, at tended, and it appeared from his teffimony, that the Hope was not improperly moored, if fh:vhad delivered her cargo at the wharf, but that the danger and damage arofe from the lighters employed in unload ing the fhip fo near to the !lairs. The Loan MAYOI ordered the Captain to pay the amount of all the damage done, and expenees incur red. His Lordfhip gave notice, at the fame tiny , that all perfons fo offending in future, by unlawfully cbftrulting any plying place, man be profecuted at the expence of the City. Yeflerday three young men, named Beans, Yana, and Paull, were brought before the Sitting agif• trate, at Guildhall, charged by a fourth, named Collins, with a violent affault on the preceding night, at a public houfe in Salifburylquare, Fleet-ftreet. It appeared that the delinquents were Welch (lore mafons, who having devoutly kept the weekly fefti val of Saint Monday, had adjourned with fome others their companions to spend their evening at the Paid public houfe ; and having duly difcuffed the affairs in Poland, the charaeers of Boney and Bennigfen, the French and the Ceraeis, not forgetting the purragaiws of Parliament, the converfation next turned upon profeffional lubjetts, and upon comparifous of their refpetlive capabilities. Argument turned to difpute, next to altercation, and finally to blows; when cud gels, pokers, tongs, pewter pots, and glades, were dealt about the heads of each other with a degree of fury, which threatened - fatal confequences. The complainant, Collins. who was prefent, feeing his brother's life in danger (he being one of the cousin. ny), ruffled into the thick of the fight to extricate him ; but inftantly innumerable blows from the wea pons before mentioned, affailed him on all fide'. - md he was obliged to fare his head by running it up the chimney. By this manoeuvre, the combatants were attraded to another quarter of the battle, whilft the complainant (Collins) retreated, called the watch, and, after fame refiftance, fecured the three delin quents, who were cbnveyed to the watch-houfe.— All the parties bore Ailing marks of the ♦iolence they. had fultained in aeion ; and had it not been for the fortunate thicknefs of their fkulls, their brains, if they had any, mull have been knocked out. The delinquents, in their defence, pleaded that they had no ill•will whatever towards the complai nant, whom they were very lorry to fee injured : but that he received the injury by his own interference in a quarrel which originated entirely through his brother, on whole account he had come into the affray. They were willing to make him any reafon able compenfation fur any hurt he had received. The Magiftrate, after fevercly reprimanding the parties, and admonifhiag them againft idling their time and fpending their money in public houfes, dif miffed them to make up their quarrel in the belt way they could. On the Igth inflant the Aniverfary o Humane Society was celebrated at the'Landon Tavern. Above 300 Gentlemen were ptefent I and the King's health. as Patron, was follcwed by an applanfe almOft paralleled. The Treafurer introduced the grand procefflon of Lives reffored:—Ayoung Get:thaws. fel - - cued from the watery grave, returned thanks. W. M. RussecL, Efq. expreffed his gratitude for the life of his only fon. Mrs. WI ts.si likewife for the life of her child, and faid'repeatedly—May Heaven 610 and ptyper the Humane Sociely!—Dr. HAWES, in his appro priate addrefs, ooferved, that ere long it was his ar dent hope, wherever there was water to drown. or noxious air to fuffocate, there would be linoserse So. defies to rave and to refufcitate. It is a fait that there are more capital Prizes new in the Lottery wheel, after two days drawing of a fcheme of but 25,000 numbers, than were formerly at the commencement of the drawing' of Lotteries confining of 60,000 Tickets. In truth„fuch is the extraordinary opulent Rate of the prefent wheel, that the xO,OOOl. Prize to the firil drawn'number next Saturday, i 3 but one of the many interening (Neat • which, at this moment, fo forcibly and critically in• vites the embrace of adventrirers. With pleafure we communicate the information we have received of the Ticket No. 24,305, e n t i t l e d to 20,0301. on Thu, fday the z3d irritant, dieted by BRAN SCOMB and Co. No. t t. Holborn, 37, C orn hill, and 38. Hay-marker; the Half being Quid to a club of 40 Members, in Oaford.Rreet ; the Q2arter to a Club of 2+ Members, at Norwich ; one outteenth to a Club of is tileroVers, at Thame ; an Eighth to a family at &Mary ; and the remaining Sutteeath to vne of our Wyse Defenders on board the Bedew, off Plymouth. r