Star. — London, England, 1801-05-09 00:00:00

• . • irilhed for a little time to confider it, he would znove for a Committee on Wednefday next. COUNTRY BANK NOTE BILL. Sir Wu. ELFORD prefented a Bill to prevent the Forgery of Country Bank Notes. Mr. Dewy oppofed the Bill as calculated to put Country Bank Notes, the extenfive circulation of which was much to be regretted, on a footing with thofe of the Bank of England. Sir WM. ELFORD raid, the Bill was intended to prevent the crime of forgery, and to protect pri vate property. It had no tendency whatever to give crcdit to the notes of any bank : that was left to the public opinion. Mr. ELLISTON fupported the Bill. Mr. Colin' faid, he would not fupport any mea cure which might have a tendency to increafe the circulation of Country Bank Notes, which he much deplored, as he had it in contemplation to introduce a Bill before the expiration of the pre fent Sefton, to refirid the Mlle of private Bank Notes. The Bill before the Houfe, however, he confidered as a laudable meafure, defigned and calculated to proteet the public from frauds. Mr. jowls applauded the purpofc of the Right Hon. Gentleman to limit the quantity of private Bank Notes. . _ Mr. DENT explained.—His intcntion refpetling the Bill was, to propofe a Claufe obliging Coun try Bankers to lodge a certain fum in the National Bank, as a fecurity to the Public for the notes they 'trued. The Bill was read a firft time, ordered -to be read a fecond time on Wednefday, and printed.— Adjourned to Monday. LONDON. SATURDAY, MAY 9. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confols 6oti—Confols for Ma 6t i.--Omnium 9 Red. SO f—New 5 per Cent. 94+-01415 per Cast. 961-f. PRICE Or STOCKS Y 1 STEP.DAY. 3 per Cent. Red. 391 3 per C. Conf. 4 per cent 780 5 per C. Navy If 5 per C. Loy. 54 i t t i t Long Ann. 18/ 3-1 Omnium pi Con(. (or May 6of 6zf bz Yefterday Captain HEARNE, of the Dot.rlitm packet, from Cuxhaven, arrived in town with dif. patches for Government. Their contents have not tranfpired. Yellerday alto Government received difpatches from Minorca, brought over in the Jossvm cutter, of 14 guns, Lieut. LAPENOTIERE, which arrived at Plymouth on Thurfday. She failed from Minorca on the 16th ult. on the morning of which day the MCITINE, of 14 guns, Capt. HOPTE, arrived there from a cruize, and took on board difpatch•s for Egypt, which otherwife would have been conveyed by the Jos EPH cutter ; the latter was then charged with difpatches for England, and failed imme diately. On the 4th of April, the Myrna, cruising be tween Sardinia and Malta, fell in with a French fquadron, confiding of feven fail of the line, then Reering for Toulon, two of the (hips having loft their foremafts, had their topmafts rigged as lower males : the fquadron under the command of Ad miral Sir J. B. WARREN, confiding of feven fail of the line, it is Paid, were then in fight, and in Chace of the French fquadron, and from their dif -1;:led date gained on them very fad; and as they Mere at fome diftance from Toulon, it may be es z2cd that the two difabled (hips mud have been ;,13andoned to their fate, or that a general anion was the confequence, in which cafe we may hope tor a glorious iffue. The JOSEPH arrived at Gibraltar on the 16th of April, and found there the Sr. FloaaNzo, of 38 guns, Captain PATERSON ; and the Louis*, 0114 guns, Lieutenant Tao scopr ; the former from Eng- land with a fleet of tranfports and viauallers, and the latter from Egypt, charged with difpatches for England, the fuhltance of which were laid to be favourable. The LOUISA captured, on the 15th of April, a French privateer, of eight 24-pounders, and 6o men, which the carried into Gibraltar with her. Four fail of the Rore (hips that were under convoy of the Sr. FloasMZo, were captured as they paired the Gut, by the Spanith gun-boats, which carried them clear off. On the 22d of April the Jossrm was chaced by four fail of Spanith line of battle (hips, from Breit, and the next day the fell in with five more, from tg i ttme port: the Jour,' was obliged to crowd all fail to efcape being captured, but was fufficient ly near them to difcover their fiat, and of what nation : two days after fist dercried two Englitb men of war, and made fignal to them of what (he Peen, but they teemed to take no notice of bet. The LOUISA, left by the Jossrm at Gibraltar, h t alto reached England, and brings DISPATCHES FROM EGYPT. The Commander. Lieutenant Ts IJSCOTT, ar• rued with then) at the Admiralty this morning. r.ey are from Lord KEITH and Sir RAL►H Atilt:101411i, and bring the returns of thz tilled and wounded in the aatous which took place un the Sth and t 3th March, and of which tome account has already been laid before the public in the London Gazette. There returns will appear in the Gazeue'of this evening. The difpatches are dated the 18th of March. Eetween the 13th and tiltb nothing new had oc. carrel.—The LoviS• was km wccks on her paL 4.:ge from AlcundriA. NAUTIO4L INTELLIGENCE. liar the Nautical Advertifements, fee the firil. Page. , MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind W. S. W. ARRIVID DUI o Hambursh, eo I Dublin, May s, I a Waterford, May 3,4, 2 I Donnaabadec, May s, 0 I Lilbon, April 22, 0 FALMOUTH, MAY 7. Arrived the PRINCE ADOLPHUS Packet, Capt. JONES, in 13 days, with a Mail, from Li(bon : the failed from hence on the 4th of laft month, and arrived on the tith, where the found his Majetty's (hip DIANA. While the remained at Litton, his Majefty's (hips AURORA, ENDYMION, PHAETON, and PRINCE of WALES Packet, with Mails, arrived there. Left in the Tagus, the ENDYMION, Au- RORA, DIANA, and PHAETON ; and failed, on the 22d, under convoy of the EARL ST. VINCENT, armed brig, which parted company on the 24th, with a Dznifh !hip the had boarded, and flood away to the Eaftward with her. Spoke his Ma jetty's (hip DIAMOND, on the 3oth ult. on a cruize, and arrived here this day. Colonel WILDER, Dr. PYMM, Mr. PURDER, and Mr. SCHINDLER, came Paffengers from Lifbon. PLYMOUTH, MAY 7. This morning arrived the Jos Ern cutter, of 54 guns, Lieutenant LAPA.NOTIERE, from Minorca. Came in, from the 'Channel fleet, the ATLAS, of 98 guns, Capt. Jonas, and the Narrusa, of 98, Vice Admiral GAMBEIR. Came in the American fliip Iris, of New York, Capt. JOHM KEAGWICK, from Charleflown, laden with flour and rice, for London : three other (hips failed at the fame time with her, laden with flour and rice, for London and Liverpool ; no very pleafant news for monopolizers!—Came in the Live Oak, Captain Isa.te Settiet, from Lifbon, bound to London, laden with fruit : fhe was taken by the Africaine, French privateer, and retaken by the Marquis of Townfend privateer, of Jerfey. —Came in the Jupiter, French brig privateer, of 16 guns, brafi fix-pounders, and 8o men, cap tureJ on the ill inftant, off Bourdeaux, by his Majefty's fhip LEDA, of 38 guns, Capt. HOPE fhe belongs to Cherbargh, and has made feveral captures : by this veffel we have advice, that the French hare called in all their privateers, for the purpofe of facilitating the objeft of Invafion. SHEERNESS. MAY 7. Sailed on a cruize off Jerfey. his Majefty's (loops DILIGENCR, of 18 guns, Capt. Jos Es ; AUTUMN, of :8 guns, Capt. RICHARDSON; and the ALow zo, of i 8 guns, Capt. —. Arrived the following gun-brigs from the River Thames, Basistsit Fsaa LOCUbT MARINFR, and ARCHER, all ready f r fervice : and the ARROW, from fea.— Came into harbour to be repaired, the Holftein, Dana (hip. DEAL, MAY 8. Came down the Loh, man of war; ALowzo, Du.ioisca, FALCON, and AUTUMN, cutters, and remains.—Wind South. YARMOUTH, MAY E. Wednefday evening the Panics of WetAs Packet, Captain HEARN, landed a Mellinger with Difpatches from Colonel Cas v FORD, at Loweitoft. This Packet has brought no Mails.—Arrived the HAZARD cutter from a Eilli Ze.—SAiled the DIANA Packet, Capt. OSBORN, with Mails, and Mars. BARDY, JOSEPH, Buzrow, and feveral other Pal: fengers. We are happy to announce the arrival of the Jamaica convoy. Several velrels have reached the River, but the greater part have made the Cove of Cork. _ . The EMIRALD frigate, with 112 fail of veffels, from Cork to the Weft Indies, were left all well the gth of April, off Cape Finifterre (with a fair wind), by the Hussaa frigate, which is arrived at Cork. The Induftry, WOOLASTON, from Yarmouth to Poole. is taken and carried into Dieppe. The Mary, MILLIR, of Jamaica, was captured in March, o ff Savannah La Mar, by a Spanifh fchooner. The Cherie French fchooner, from Cayenne to Bonrdeaux, is taken by the EARL Sr. VINCRNT brig, and carried into Lifbon. The Marina, —, from Glafgow to New York ; and the Nancy. from Jamaica, are taken by the Braave privateer. The Charlotte, --, from St. Michael's to Lon don ; and the Speculation. —, from Ipfwich to Chefter, have been taken by the Braave French privateer, and burnt. The James, LIATY, from Jamaica to Liverpool, was taken by the Braave privateer, on the 7th of April, retaken by the Hussaa frigate on the z ith ditto, and is arrived at Cork. The Spanifb fchooner la Hinds, from Cam. peachy to the Havannah, and the American fchooner Seahorfe, fmm Porto Cavell° to New York, arc fent into Jamaica, by his Majefly's fhip Rrvaratriov. The Meriurioirs, St ric K F, from Bremen to Lon don, is ft randed near Middleberg. The Wentworth, --, for Ln.idon, is put back to Jamaica, being leaky. Car,: i damaged . The American brig Neptune, fro;:i Porto Rico to Charleftown, is fent into Jamaica by the Swal• low brig. The Kenyon, Roarwsow, from Jamaica to Li verpool, has been taken, reriken by the GALATI• . frigates and arrived at Cork. The Ann, SOUTHGATE, from London, is ar rived at Minorca, after being on fire, and throw ing great part o f cargo overboard. The Pomona, A.:limns, from St. Kitt's to Laneafler, has been taken by a French privateer, retaken by the AGNES privateer, of Jerfey, and ar rived at Kinfale. The Hercules, MOLLER, from Bergen to Na ples, is detained by the HECTOR man of war, and carried into Gibraltar. The AUDACIOUS, of 74 guns, now fitting in Ha moaze, is to be Rear Admiral DECREE' Ihip. Yederday fe'nnight a little (loop that had fail ed out of Newhaven harbour the preceding even ing, with a cargo for London, foundered off Bex hill, but the circumfiance being witnetred by the crew of a veffel (leering the fame courfe, they dif patched a boat to the aflillance of tilde on board the (loop, which fortunately reached them before (he had quite dilappearcd, and thereby faved their lives. SONNET.-BY FL B. SHERIDAN, Eig4 Dry be that tear, my gentlell love, Be hulh'd, that ftruygling figh, Not feafon's day, nor fate shall prove More fixed—more true than I! Hulled be that figh—be dry that tear, Crate boding Doubt—cede anxious Fear ! Afk'it thou how long my vows mail day When all that's new Is pat? How long—ab, DELIA, Can I fay How long my life will laft ! Dry be that tear, be hulh'd that figh, At (cad I'll love thee till I die! And does that thought affedt thee too, The thought of Sr xvio's death, That he, who only breathes for you, Molt yield that faithful breath? Hulh'd be that figh, be dry that tear, Nor let us lore our heaven here ! OPERA-HOUSE MAIKWERADE.—On Thurfday this place was open for the reception of maflcs. We feldom witneffed fo great an affemblage, but the charaFters were devoid both of intereft and novelty. Harlequin, Fruit and Flower Girt, Chim nty-fweeterr, Horfetne;idr, fec. &c. compofed the principal groupe. A City Blood annoyed the company with a fpirited reprefentation of a Drunkard. His pra6tice might well befit him for the charaeler, but being turned out was not quite fo natural, as it was always his cuflom at home to fee out his friends. A Highlander from his bright could not efcape notice, but he de fied any one to know him by his brogue, as he was never heard to fpeak a word dorieg the evening. A variety of milks reprefented Sailors from the Baltic, who were all glib at giving the (hips names they arrived in, but on being overhauled as to the names of the Captains, they were taken aback. The company did not feparate till a late hour. Mr. T. HOPE'S Rout, in Cavendifh-fquare, on Thurfday evening, was the molt numerous of the feafon. The fpacious and magnificent fuite of rooms, decorated with the finelt paintings, were brilliantly illnminated. About 1200 perfonagcs of the firft rank were prefent. The Countefs of LONGFORD'S Ball and Supper laft week was one of the handfomeft entertainments of the feafon. The chief Ladies, among about 300 p!rfons prefent, were the Ducheffes of GORDON, MANCHESTER, MONTROSE, BOLTON, and BEAU FORT ; the Marchioneffes of HERTFORD, BATH, TOWNSH IND, and A sERCORN Counteffes of Es six, GOSFORD, CARHAMPTON, LEITRIM, LIVER POOL, CARLISLE, NEWARK, MOUNT EDGECUISSE, CLARE, DALRIITH, BUXTON, HARRINGTON, CO. NYNGH•M, WESTMORLAND, and CHOLISONDALET. The moll diainguithed dancers were : Lady Ma Taylor, Marquis of Lorne. Lady E. Montague, Lord 'Maedonaki. Lady C. Bligh, Captain Paget. Lady C. Stuart, Mr. Wen. Fitzroy. Lady H. O'Brien, Lord Louvain. Lady C. Lennox, Lord Forbes. Lady C. Clements, Lord C. Howard. Baronefs NoLcalr's Ball on Wednefday, in confequence of the young Baron coming of age, was attended by upwards of 400 of the Gay and Falltionable Circles. Although merely a compli mentary evening, yet the vifitorsexerted themfelves with great emulation in reciprocal attentions, and in the merry dance. The Ball was opened at half pall ten o'clock, with the Country Dance of " German Wake," by Lady E. Percy, Baron Gee Ramis Nolcken. Lady C. Howard, Lord Tamworth. Lady M. Carpenter, Captain Redhead. Conn refs of Aldborosgb, Mr. Skenngton. Lady J. Percy, Mr Noklm. Mils Brooke, Mr.Lesnahre. Mif. Cult, Mr. Mailers. Mifs Loftus, Mr. Campbell. At two o'clock the Company partook of a vet 7 excellent Supper, at which wines and viands of all kinds were ferved in the moil profufe manner. The Dances recommenced at three o'clock; and the Company feparated at five, charmed with the hofpitable reception which they had experienced. The Ball-Room was fitted up in a flyle of fu perior magnificence. In the interior of the Room was a Grove, adorned with a number of variegated lamps, which had a moll admirable eired. Round each c handelier, were fufpended wreaths of arti ficial flowers, conlifting of rofes, lilies, wheat-ears, pea-blooms, &c. &c. To add to this fuccefsfol imitation of Nature, the whole Room was hung round in a fimilar manner, fo as to give the towt d'ail every vifual fafcination. SINGULAR ACTIVITY.-.—On Saturday lan, for tt,e trifling wager of ss. an affive tradefinan aF Chelmsford, aged near 6o years, beat down a fines pia, at the diliance of to yards, goo times, and fetched the ball himfelf, milling only once, and which he performed in one hour ar l 43 minutes; the ground he walked over is cak ..'.sted at 5 m. 100 yards.—After which, and on fame day, he beat down the pin 700 times, miffing -rtly bowls, at the Of7M. af. 387. I2M. 3 f. 18 yards, which time he b ► ' =aid tu. LAY INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF. RING'S BENCH, MAY B. • HANTS V. THOMPSON. Mr. GILEs hated that this was an anion on Policy of Infurance. The declaration confined of three Counts, to which there was a Demurrer, The Counfel obferved, that the ground of the De fendant's objeklion to the Declaration was, that it hat:cl a lofs without hating who had futtained that lots—without hating who was iitterelled in the Policy. The objeft therefore of the Demur. rer way to take the opinion of the Court upon this Declaration. In the cafe of Crawford v. this point was fomewhat confidered. The fourth count in the Declaration in that cafe was fimilar to this, though the decition in that cafe turn;d chiefly on the fief count. Certainly at that the confequcnces refitting from the determinatim were not Rated fully to their Lordlhips. This was a cafe of great importance. A great num ber of infurances, as in this cafe, and perhaps one half of them, were made on goods Chipped on board foreign !hips. And the Underwriters were extremely anxious to know whether thele infuran ces were to be confidered as infurances on intact}, or whether they were to be confidered infuraa , ces wholly unconnected with inte.eft, becaufe very different confequences would arife. Thu had al-. wars been confidered as infurances oir inter e ft, and the parties had acted upon that notion. Pie. miums had been returned where the party had not had an intereft. So average loffes had been paid on fuch infurances: on this ground he ft:b rained that the party had an interell, and was damnified only to a certain extent. Total Idles had alto been paid with deduCtions, where the party had not the whole of his property on board, and therefore, if it had arrived fafe, he would have called on the Underwriters for a return of premium, making a dedrietion for the property he had not on board. So there were cafes of abar donnient which had taken place on fuch infurances. All there confequences refulted from their being confidered as infurances on interell. But, if they were not fo confidered, they would abfolutely ex clude them all. He did not Mean to fay this cafe was within the 19th Geo. 11. c. 37, but he only withed to imprefs on the Court, that it was im portant to the parties to know what conflruftion the Court would put on fuch infurances ? If filch a policy were to be confidered not as a contrad en intereft, then the parties muit vary the for m of their contraft, and introduce new terms. lie contended that the Declaration ought to have Rated whowas interefled,becaufelt might turn oct that it was a wagering policy, cr it might happen that the party interefted wasindebted to die Under writers, and they would have a right to a fet-off ; or the perfon intereftcd might be an alien enemy, as in the cafe of Brand,: v. tvybet, and that would be a geoi defence.—ln the courfe of the argumcnt on the part of the Plaintiff, Lord KENYON afked where the hardfhip was on the Underwriters in this cafe ? He read the initru ment, and took the premium from the ;alum! ; and his Lordthip faid, he was very foiry to obferve here, as in too many other cafes, after the Under writer had got all the money he could out of the Infured,when the day of payment came, he got up and put on his fpetlacles to fee whether he could not find out tome flaw in the inftrument he had figned ? He knew whether it was legal or not.— If it was not legal, honefty required that he thould not have taken 70 per cent. to fign that which was not a legal inftrument. Mr. PULLER argued very ably on the other fide, and contended, that in the cafe of a Policy of In furance of Goods in a foreign (hip, it was not only not neceffary to prove the intereft of the Affured at the trial, but unnecetrary even to hate it in the Declaration; and in fupport of this, he quoted the cafe of Crawford and Hunter, as a cafe in point.— It is in the Eight Term Reports, page 23•—He quoted feveral other authorities to the fame effeet, and maintained, that before the Ad of the 19th of Geo. 11. Policies of Infurance on Property even in English (hips of all kinds, might be entered in to ; but that Statute had prohibited filch Policies of Infurance as might be deemed Wager or Gam ing Policies; the operation, however, of that Ad was confined folely to Property in Englilh (hips, confequently the Law, as it regarded Infurance of Property in Foreign Ships, remained the fame as if that Statute had never pall. By the Law, before the palling of that Ad, their was no necdlity that intereft (hould be proved, or hated as the Defendant infilted in this action ; and therefore the Plaintiff, in this cafe, was in. titled to judgment. This we give only as a Sketch of the queftion, not pro/thing to enter on the ar. guments by which either of there two Learned Gentlemen fupported his Client's cafe, but of which we may hereaftir give a lets def ective count. After a reply from Mr. Cit.'s, Lord Ksevom (aid, it mull hand over for a fe. cond argument. At pretent, he laid, he certainly did not underhand it. He could not pollibly com prehend any doubt there was in it. It pad been extremely well argued. The inflance of a wife complaining of her hull band having beenfiolns, is rather an extraordinary cafe. Many of them might complain of their hufbands' having ftroyd. A little after nine o'clock on Saturday night, the Commitfary's itore.honfe in South Lime.itreet, near Rogerfon's-quay, Dublin, was difiorercd to be on fire. In a few hours, notwithflanding tie exer tions of the people and the aid of the engines, the whole of the infide of the building.w ith its c. n tents, were reduced to tithes. Yellerday morning warty. a man anfwering the defcription givcn by Jonsson. the milk carrier, in the employ of Mr. Eau ► of Narrow•llmi, Lime. bottle, of the perfon charged with murdering hi• wife early on Monday morning ialt, at a hut or a farm on the lkirt of Bow Common. near St e p ne y, and robbing her of t zs. wa• noppedby two coon- 11 ► 41M 1; sac. N a as. 1.4% nwrpCti ID) two Conn- he fame diilance ; going the foace trymen, near Billericky, in ElTex, when he made yards—and making in the whole. a derperate ref:Ranee, and had nearly cfrede4 hi s , ards. in 4 hours 2: minutes, and in e f cape , but a third perfon coming up to their affill- beat doVIII the pin 1188 times, and awe, he was eonduaed to a magttlute at Barking, in order for eaginination.