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- IlteM Tint LOW OW GAZIII2,IIII. ADMIKALTT.OIIICS, Wilk 20. espy era letter front Vice Admiral itann ea, Comasader in Chief of his Majeity's (hips and edible in tie Eat *bef i ts *I'AM Neaten, Efq. dated in Madras Rod4s, the sob.: &winks. z Bot. Sir—l have at prefent nothing very particular to communicate to you, for their Lordllups' /nation, beyond what may be collected from the difpolition lift of his Majefly's fquadron under my command, herewith inclofed, except the capture of the French National frigate Chiffonne, in Mahe Road, at the Seychelles, on the 19th ult. force as per margin a', by his Majefty's (hip la Svatta.s, Captain CHARLES ADAM, after a fhort but gallant anion, in which a well conftrufted battery of the frigate's forecafile guns, fundffied with a furnace for heating red-hot !hot, co-operated in her de fence. This circumftance, added to the advantage the French frigate derived from her polltion, being at anchor, while his Majefty's (hip had to fleer for her opponent, at the greateft hazard, through a winding and intricate channel, formed by various dangerous shoals, with no other guide than as the water was feen to difcolour on them by a man at the mall head, placed there for that purpofe, may be fairly eftimated to overbalance the trifling dif ference in the calibre of the metal of the enemy's (hip, and juftly entitle Captain ADAM, his officers, and crew, to the diftinguifhed honour of having taken a fhip of equal force. Ihe Chiffonne was commanded by a l‘lonfieur Gut ITU I. failed (Toni Nantes 14th April 'aft, is a fine new (hip, had ne ver been at fea before, completely armed and equipped ; her errand to the Seyc helles was to land thirty-two perfons who had been furpated of being concerned hi an attempt on the life of the FIRST CONSUL of the French Republic. As his Majefty's fhip SUFFOLK will proceed (portly with convoy to Spithead, I (ball defer to that opportu nity the forwarding a copy of Captain ADAM let ter on the occafion, with other particulars ; but it may be proper to acquaint you that, on the tech of May, near the coat of Brazil, the Chiffonne took a Pottuguefe fchooner • and throe days a ft er a frigate of that nation, named l'Hirondelle, armee en flute, with twenty-four carronades, twenty-four pounders, after a short atlion, but after throwing her guns overboard, and taking out her fibres, fuf &red her to go about her bufinefs, the Captain and officersgiving their parole for themfelves and crew. On the 16th of June, off the Cape, (he captured the Englifh fhip &Ilona, laden with a very valua ble cargo, from Calcutta bound to England, who got Cafe into the Mauritius. I h ave only to add that I have given orders for the pnrchafe of the Chiffonne for his Majefty's fervice, and (hall place her on the ellabliffiment of a thirty-fix gun frigate, agreebly to her dimen fi ons, and that of her malls and yards. (Signed) PETAL RAINIER.. Killed and wounded so beard la Sybille. Seam n, Wird , i Midiltipinan, wounded. !Wed and Wounded ad Mardi' Cidironne. • SeamcnAilleds 3o Samna wounded. • Maio dale.-aS twelve-pounders. oler deek.-6 eightieunders; thirty4x.peund W ounds& 11Pereteitk.—.4 eisitips.mdess; with no new. LW IAttitLiGENCE. ADMiItALTi COURT,DOCIVAS COMMONS. Irg This day the Right Hon. Sir Wk. SCOTT pro ceeded to the adjudication of the following eaufes : Carl Wallte, Smith mater.—This was A Dinah !hip, laden with a cargo of hides, going from Lif bon to St. Andero, a port in Spam, which cargo was claimed as Portuguefe property. It was contended on the part of the captors, that there had been no transfer of the property, and, therefore, this was Span& colonial produce going to the mother country ; and, as fucb, was fubjeft to confifcation. On the part of the clii manta, it was fubmitted that the goods had been duly imported. The Court faid,there was the Ittongeft proof that this was an enemy's tranfa&ion, and a fraudulent bufinefs, and, therefore, had no hefitation in con- :ming the property. The Doris, malter.—This was a chip like wife laden with a cargo of hides, which the Court condemned on the fame grounds. Potrimpos, Babek mafter.—This chip was alto laden with a cargo of the fame defcription, but being dillinguilhable from the above two cafes, the Court ordered further proof Vrow Elizabeth, Ackerman maßer.—lt appeared in this cafe that the (Lip had been re flored, and an offer of reftitntion of the cargo, on the payment of the captors memo, which cargo had fuffered very much (being of a perifhable na ture) from its detention. The Court Paid it mull allow come demurrage and damages in this cafe, and therefore referred it to the Regifier and Merchants. 'REROGATIVE COURT, WEDNESDAY, FEB. s 7. Before the Right Hon. Sir W. Wr nli E. BISHOP o. eoecn. This was the cafe of a codicil which was written at the bottom of the will of Lieut. Col. Hodges, de. eeafed. This codicil was propounded by Mary Roach, and oppofed by the Executor of the de ceafed's will, bearing date the 31 II of March,l79s. The codicil, bearing date the 19th of Aug. 1797, was in there words, "I leave to Mary Rdach the annual Turn of 301." It appeared that the teftator, at the time of his death, and for Tome time before, lodged in the houfe of Mr. Roach, whore daughter w it& the party benefited by this codicil, and for Whom, it appeared, the deceafed flood godfather, notwith (landing it was in evidence that the young lady was feventeen years of age when the deceafed firfl went to lodge at Mr. Roach's houfe. It alto appeared that this paper was written in a very fcrawlinghand, except the fignature, " John Hodges," which was l written in a very fair hand. It was fubmitted by the Counfel on behalf of the Executor, that the Court could not entertain any doubt whatever, from the evidence and exhibits produced in the caufe, but that this codicil was a mere fabrication. The Court, after reciting the evidence,and com paring the hand-writing ofthe deceafed with other papers proved to have been written by him, was clearly of opinion that this codicil was a fabrica tion, and therefore condemned the party in coils. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. COURT OF KING'. BENCH, FEB. la The Gazette contains a notice of payment of CONNOR W. SNAILS AND OTHERS. proceeds of certain velfels, Bores, and other booty, This was an anion of affault, brought by the =pored in the conjunct expedition of his Majefly's plaintiff, late Serjeant of artillery in the Hon. Eaft army and navy againft Holland, in the year 1799, India Company's fervice, againß the defendant under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Smails, Captain of the Walfiugham Eat Indiaman, RALPH ARERCIICHRY, and Vice-Admiral Sir An- and againit Campbell and Philipps, two of his Dam MITCHELL. mates, for unlawfully kiting, tying up in the The diftribution is to be made at the White thrones, and inflicting a certain number of lathes Horfe Inn, FridayAreet, London, to all perfons oa the plaintiff, on the isth of April tali, in con. of his Majefty's land forces, who are entitled to fequence of his rehiring to conform to the difci. (hare in the diftribution of the rum of 31,8301. 15s. plane of the !hip and All in the exercife of the 9d. received by the agents for the arnly, on ac- guns. count of the (hare which the army is entitled to in Mr. EIMER i, for the plaintiff, Rated the caufe refpeft of the capture of four frigates and twohulks, at confiderable length, and with an extraordinary whi c h were t a k en p o t e s on o f on t h e 2 8 t h o f A n _ difplay of the aloft impreffive eloquence. He re gull, :799, in the Men Diep, and condemned in relented the plaintiff as a molt Meritorious cha- the High Court of Admiralty. , rafter; a man who, fora number of years, had , The Paid ,dillribution is to commence on 'Thurf. (erred under the Hon. Ealt India Company ; who day the nth day of February intlant, and to con- had fought anal bled for his country under Marquis tinue (Sundays excepted) until the 9th of March Cornwallis i who had once had the good fortune I following, and to be recalled at the fame Isonfe, to rave the life of the gallant and ever to be la every ot h er M on d ay f or fix months, and a f ter that mented General Abercrombie. Would to GOD i time the firft Monday in every month, until the exclaimed Mr. Ertkine, he had been fortunate enough to have laved that hero's life a fecond time! end of three years frorn the Silt payment. 11AT/1111111T Or DISTIIIIOIIIOII. He then Rated that, as a mark of the Compaq's' 1 Comstaniki in aid - . • L. me 13 d approbation of his fervices, he had been advanced 6 Gataal Olken. each - - 231 43 to the rack of ferjeant of artillery; and that vim ilO Field Ogkers, each - 63 8 3 he received his dskharge, he was tent home with 219 CAptakts, sod abase( that ckfa,etak zo S s hi s wife at the Company's triLeam, as a chartered 437 Lieutenants and !,nips and airs °lda dab, nub - - 4e4 3 pairenger. He next, agrimbly to his inernaions. I*i %c ea gee. ditto, etch • - - a o pmartrayed, in an in (train, the (uterine 16,6 37 CorimmietDminalerstarld Privates, emit 0 6 sof the unfortunate plaintiff; and, among the atm. ttttt 61 PATIIIIIIIT. cities of the defendants, Paid, that when Campbell • 9 " "' ma i' F e b ' 33' the °meal O "cal , Quitter Md" was dragging him on deck to be Bogged, for re ten, Alment tkaterale,Casuallbre mni, tag Parader O mn i i , D startamok atom , ot 3 44 04 chortidood a sh (yang to to what he bad no right to do, the plain 1-Igtit Dragoorm tire wife interpofing, he called her a d—d b- b, On Friday, Feb. 26, the Royal Artillery, topineere, arn and Bruck her a v iol ent blow on the break which Brandt of Ordnance, and Grenadier Benalan at Guards. laid her at the feet of her hatband. The defier On Satarday, Feb. ay, the 3d Battalion at zit Guards. dants contended, that the exercife was, in cantor. On Monday, Maeda z, the ER lattallos Oaidltreata• Regl- mity to orders, received by the Captain when be awn Dr Gear& .. left the Bay of Bengal on the tath of April, to f) ' Tuddaft March tt the IR Dandirm 3d Regiment of ezercife the men twice a week at lealt, as dielk Guard% leas were then inland by a manatee of privateers On %Vandal', March 3. the ad Battalion of Royals, two f rom t h e m am i t i ne t an d t h at t h e nt h of April additional Canignia of ditto, a, or t r ee Rei s gmen at Foot. d ( was the fir& Lae day - which bad occurred after re ()" Tharfdar. Mash 4, the 23d, astb, mat, and 3 9 th at ca vin g tilde orders . k 'Crated , however, that ditto. the exercife was sever repeated after that day.— Oa Friday, March 3, the apth, li th,and *s a g & a& On the part of the plaintiff it was (worn, that he On gatard a y, 34. 1 . d, 6 t h, the nt h, i st h ois d Th d o f a na was fitting on a gun between decks when the de. On Monday, March 3, t h e mat winos e o n We nn, , ft fendant, Campbell, came and ordered him to and ad Bamboo of z 7th, and eft stew at aoth ditto crafters. He replied, he was a pairenger, had no per,o m o o s 9 , e b e sd Damson s s sot% a ditto o f right to go to quarters, that he knew th e exercife nab, 24 dkto (Jacek, and 63d Regimes. already, but that, if the !hip were in any danLer, A dindhatioa wine make He. 34, Arandel-ftreet,Strand, he would exert himfelf to the haft extremity. The t°,tse cullotra, Zama. la Dog, and Few% for the fight defendant, Campbell, then went oa deck to the - "'"" 4 a invvin' lll334l3 Cinicelallic 3an A* 61116 ' 143 Captain , nd Paid, if the man was not pun' ,V 4a rr ta Slates•k Paret,b Ylpre a bombard, k Marla a ditto. -• or • B o w s * a ss% an d i s Mae fts , A ,, r , ditto; is as s be would do no more fervice in the (hip. °wads to the crew at the Sea Hada (yid& Sara In the above cap- Smails raid, he (lipoid be dogged i Canspb4 re w") as l' 4ll ace bean Paid at Mims an bond that lip. turned below, feized the plaintiff by tbcceintb' . To la ltalfon,a MOWN& wlllbe made at the White Lion, an d (were he ihouid be well Logged. With *a al wych.ftreet, as Saturday die sylb MA. tor the Somers. a ffih ooo o f phili p anot h er o y - th e • a Tti tt e . . Ids'etl__annsd cutter Martha de Cabala,. fortbe captors C amp b e ll d regge l t s i e p ro c een t or on d e ck p ri A D t zg e Leiner, at Salta? Ibionart, Causemoreet, as l awn , the captain what be was to be 'rug &wi sp tusks prise &um mowed to wad. win be called him a mutinous rakal, mimed be PA ea bad the iiih a Stand s as leitoi she saes tai. hugs to be brought oor. 'ad the boorcluat at his duty, in giving hie( four Joien lalkti. is were then torn off, and he *as feited up fi l i c trt s is throuds and flogged, with an untifually large fit, With overhanded knots, the Captain [landing by with (word drawn, and the other de fendants (landing by alto : When he had received a dozen lathes, the firft officer, Mr. Barker, held up his hand as a fignal for the boatfwain to flop ; but the Captain ordered him to go on; and, when he had received two dozen or more, he begged, for GOD'S fake, for a draught of water; this was not granted, and he received the remainder of the puntliment : after which, when taken down, he was ordered to fall into the ranks, where he re mained for half of three quarters of an hour, with his bare back expofed to the fun. His back was feverely cut and very bloody. One witnefs how ever, (wore that a piece of a thin, or fume other covering, was thrown over his back. Mr. Class, for the defendants, Paid, that though, from peculiar circumstances, his clients had found it impoffible to put a legal jullification on the face of the record; though he was aware that the Jury mull return a verdia for the plaintiff; yet, from the witnedes whom he thould call, he would prove, that, though not legally jullifiable, the con= duet of the defendants had been ftrongly marked with humanity, was highlypraifeworthy, and would induce the Jury to return a verdia with damages as (mall as poffible. On the part of the defendants, it was reprefent ed, that the plaintiff, with upwards of twenty other difcharged foldiers, were received on board the Walfingbam only three days previoufly to that on which the men were ordered to quarters; that the officer who delivered them charged Mr. Bar ker, the chief mate, the captain not being on board, to watch them attentively, as feveral of them were of a mutinous difpofition, and would excite a dif turbance if pofftble. The plaintiff, Connor, was pointed out as particularly of this defcription; and his certificate of difcharge, figned by the Marquis Wellefley, reprefented him as a dangerous and (e -ditions charader, and unfit to remain longer in the fervice. It appeared too, that the plaintiff had been degraded from his rank as a ferjeant to that of a commit man. It was (worn, that when the defendant, Campbell, delivered his orders to the plaintiff, the plaintiff d—d the quarters, (aid he knew the exercife as well, or better, than any man on board ; that the officers were none of them gentlemen; that the Captain was only an old wo man on board, and that if the (hip were in action, he would not fight unlefs he pleated: That when on deck, he d—d the Captain, dared him to pu- Mill him, (wore if he flogged him he would make him pay for it, and, if the !hip were in action, he would not fight, but the Captain might defend her himfelf. His language and manner were fuch as excited a fpirit of mutiny among the other foldiers; and the officers, excepting Mr. Barker, who thought it imprudent to leave them alone, all thought it necetfary to quit the deck for the por pofe of arming themfelves. When they returned, the Captain held a confultation with his officers, to determine whether he ought to be punithed, which being decided in the affirmative, he addretfed the men, and Mixed, if any one would (peak in favour 4 the plaintiff ? No one (poke, and the punith- Malt was infli&ed, but was by no means of a fe -1 were nature, as it was infliited by an old man, hardly able to crawl, who is lance dead. He bore the punilhmcnt well, and his back was injur ed but very little. Mr. Juftice LAWS xc a rummed up the evidence very briefly, obferving, he had no doubt but the verdia mull be returned for die plaintiff, and the only queftion to determine was, the amount of the damages. He Paid, it was evident that the plain tiff, being a patlenger, was not amenable to the difcipline of the flip, and therefore was not &b -its to punifhment for difobedience. His conduit had been highly reprehenfible, as he had held im proper language to the officers, in d—ing them, after having refuted what no honourable and well difpofed perfon ought to have refuted; for, if he were hitnfelf a proficient in the exercife, it would have been more proper for him to have attended to it, that his behaviour might not excite difobedience and mutiny in others. He Paid, in all cafes where wanton infults . had been committed, it was necef fary to award heavy damages; but where the' conduit of the plaintiff had been fuch as to pro- voke Wilk, it had always been admitted in miti gation of damages. The Jury immediately returned a verdia of tool. damages for the plaintiff. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FE3.so. MACAULY V. ammuhtur. The plaintiff was a labourer employed at the Rores of the Tower, the defendant was proprietor of a waggon, which, on its entrance into the fore bonfe yard, paled over the plaintiff's foot, broiled it fevoulT, breaking Tome of the (mailer bones, and injuring the tendons • in confequeiice of which injury the plaintiff bad been two months confined to his bed at the bofpital, and was dill much difa bled. This aftion was for damages for that injury attained through the negligence or unikilfulnels of defendant's waggoner. -Ist the courfe of trial it appeared a very doubtful queffion, whether this accident was or was not owing to the negligence of the waggoner ? e.- The defendant was fi tting on a bench, which i appears was an ufual feat fur the labourers in t e Imes of the Tower, at the right-hand fi de of t e Rose-houfe yard, and at the time the waggon en tered was weep. The fiorehoufe yard into which the lemon entered was very (mall, being only fixtrfoileet in length and twenty-two in breadth; its des yard it was ufual for waggons to turn be fon they anlealledat the aore-houfe ; in order to ate k& wagoner had gone fonear the right hand illik dm dus accident happened. It was proved **dm defeadeat's waggoner was in the place • tbabdriestn; of waggons ufually keep, dote to the UMW beeft, and on the near fide, and that there IMO/ semarkable negligence or inattention on I bio fiat; boir o vs behalf of ,the plaintiff, it was Om* costeaded, that even a :411 negligence pradamng is great an injury, intitled plaintiff to ,seaseer tam defendant; that it was the wag . - "70 before 114 eiPrid the yard, to look be' tor e hint, and tee that there were no (Mules in the way of his waggon, and that he had no oc calion to keep fo muck to the right as he had done, but that he lhould have gone nearer the centre. The Jury, after long- confideration, gave a vet.- din for plaintiff—Damages 3•1. sitcuross OF VERNER AND WOOD O. LANGLEY. Defendant was the drawet of a bill of exchange, which plaintiffs retained in their handl, for feveral days after it was due, without giving notice to the defendant that the acceptor had refuted paymtnt of it—when at length they did give notice to the defendant: defendant, not knowing the day that the bill became due, and fuppofing the demand regular, proniifed to pay it. The queflion fub nutted to the Jury was, whether or not this pro mile was given under a millaken idea, that the de fendant was bound in law to pay the bill ? Verdi for defendant. The following recipe for the cure of that dread ful difeafe, a Cancer, is given in a periodical Pa per :—Take one part of red lead, in tine powder, and two parts of hog's lard ; mix them well to gether, and with the Calve thuseprepared, fpread Oa lint, drefs the cancerous fore twice a day. At New York a fine child, a year and a half old, was [mo th ered in a cradle by a lap dog, which jumped into the cradle for the purpofe, it is lap pored, of Beeping there. A well-digger, at Brooklyn, Long Ifland, while at work, on the zd tilt. being eighty feet below the furface of the earth, part of the curve gave way, and upwards of thirty loads of (tone tell in and buried him. In the courfe of thirteen hours, by the alive exertions of the neighbourhood, he was I dug . out, and, to their altonifinnent, alive, a plank I having providentially (luck acrofs the lower part of the well above his head, which prevented his being cruthed to death. Some years ago he was in a fimilar fituation, and 'alike providentially efcaped after being buried twenty-four hours. A waggoner at Barton. mills, in Norfolk, invited a thepherd, from whom it is Paid he ufed to pur chafe game, into his waggon to treat him with drink, when he bored a cant of brandy, out of which the thepherd drank with a reed, to fuch ex cefs, as to occafion his death immediately on alight ing from the waggon on Sunday laft. The wife of Mr. Abrahams, of Chatham Dock yard, died bit week ; he was greatly affefted by the circumliance, entering and on the chamber where the corpfe lay, he fat on the fide of the bed, and obfervingg, that he felt he fhould not long fur vive her, he fe ll on her neck and expired. The houfe of Mr. Webb, at Milton, near Marl• borough,Was a few days ago burned to the ground, and the proprietor with much difficulty extricated from the flames. One houfe was deroyed, and two others much damaged, by fire at Philadelphia, on the 15th ult. fuppofed to have been communicated into the cel lars of one of them by Come incendiaries. The fa mily were in bed, and with difficulty efcaped over the roofs of Come adjoining dwellings. On Saturday the 6th inn. in the afternoon, a boat belonging to Newburgh, having on board fix pilots, another man and boy, in the return from piloting out a veffel, was overfet, and all perillied. Six widows and 23 children are left to lament this affiiaing cataftrophe. On Saturday evening, the 7th inn. between fix and feven o'clock, the Hope barge, belonging to Mr. A. Mafon, of Maidflone, laden with a valuable cargo, principally of wines and fugars, was run down in Sea Reach (river Thames), by the Retreat outward-bound Weft. Indianian, and intlantly funk. The crew confifting of the matter and two boys fortunately efcaped : the mailer faced himfelf by jumping on board a brig alongfide of which the barge was laying, and the boys laid hold of a fpar that had luckily been picked up on the voyage. upon which they feated themfelves, and after drift ing about nearly an hour, they were picked up by a [loop and refcued from a watery grave. The . brig had her bowfprit and foremaft carried away, and was otherwife materially damaged. State Lottery Office, No. 16, Comhill.—Mr. Nictsocsois refpcelfully acquaints his Friends and 'the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY begins draw ing on Monday next, the tR of March. The Tickets, in the greateft variety of Numbers, are fold and divided into Halves, (trarters, Eighths, and Sixteenth Shares, which are duly Stampt, purfpant to A4l of Parliament. Schemes at large Gratis, and Money for the Prizes as loon as _ drawn. RICHARDSON, Gooniucc, and Co. refpeafullr remind the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY be ns drawing on Monday next, the Ili of March. The Tickets and Shares, from a Half to a Six- teenth, are on fate in the greaten variety of Num bers, and will continue fo till the end of the draw ing, at their Offices, Cornhill and Charing-Crofs ; alto in the City of Norwich, and at Liverpool, where the Prizes in the prefent and all former Lotteries will be paid on demand, and all banner's in Lottery and Public Funds tranfaded with fide lity and pun duality. TO DR. GARDNER, LONG-ACRE. Sir—l have been a martyr to the Rheumatic Gout for twenty years, to fuch a degree, that my joints and limbs fwelled to double their natural fife. For two months together I was quite help. lefs, and fuffered the moil excruciating pains.— Though I had advice of the moil eminent phyfi• cians, I found no relief till Mr. Lowter recom mended your Pills, two ?uinea boxes of which worked a complete cure. l'hefe Pins give a good appetite, and will, in my opinion, cure the moll in veterate gout or rheumatifm. It is my with that my cafe may be publithed for the benefit of fuf- ferers, who know not where to leek relief. Talbot Inn Keeper, Yours, Etc. Whitechapel, 1797. t a r Fussiest. Dr. GaeoNsa's Pills, packed in gnefia, ss. tat. and xis. a box, and boxes in Sulphur, as. 3d. —6s. fared in the guinea box. Of the thoufands of families, reduced to the nt. molt diflrefs, and fome even to beggary, by rack. ing pains, how many might have fated themielvse by wain like M. 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