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JA, ~~, . )11)0140 1 t xi. . lona adder frau rorlooard-ebe shipOkitutius. er i n my laft I OnlY'nlentidited that an embargo was laid on the Britifh (hips at . Riga, but the (hips ere now taken pofficffion of; and all the Britifh pro perty in every flip, of whatfoever nation, is fequef. rated. The fmall Bfips, among which is Mr. Swi i+. ee s's Ann, have been taken into the canal, or mea t, which futiotlnds the city ; the larger ones lie at the Dam and at Bulderaa, and thole whichwerc large as to be neceffarily bolded in the Bay, l av e &en ,lightened and carried into Bulderaa, by Ituffian•Soldiers and Sailors. Two days before we left Riga, the Mailers and Crews of 14 (hips were marched into the. country : only three 'men were left on board of each chip to take care of the chips. Among this brit divifioff were Captains MARTIN and Haltom The *Nile are to be - lodged ih feven T illages, within the Government of Riga (fay the province of LivOnia), udder the infpeetion of their c a ptains, and the contront df the Police. I have a lift of all the (hips detained at Riga and at Petal' burgh—at Riga there are 23 flips ; and at Peterf burgh Cos. The Crews of the fhips,tvith juf rea fon, dread a Ruffian prifon. When the Swedes went to war with Ruflia, the Swedifh Sailors were marched into the country; fo far in a day, that four-fifths of them died on the road. At Peterf burgh they made a confiderable refiftance ; and f r om Riga two fhips'crews made their efcape in t h e n i g ht, bir going to fea in large open boats; it is hoped that they have reached Memel. I know of no other Engliffimen that have efcaped from Ruffia except Captain Jswsos, my fellow-tinvel ler, and myfelf." ~~i~ Advices were yelterday received it the Admi ralty from the Channel Fleet, off Breit : they had Rood the late heavy gales without any damage. Captain HARDY, who commanded the Morit; gutter in the memorable Battle of the Nile, goes with Lord Nzt.son as Captain of the Sr. joss'. bf 11: guns. The Sophia Magdalena, --, from Peterlburg, is arrived at Yarmouth, With lots of anchors And cables. • Wednefday fe'nnight the Kirkham, Botts, of Maryport, from Memel, with timber, was put on flore on the north-fide of Workington harboui ; %there fhe will be obliged to difcharge. The Commillbners for building a new Bridge over the Thames at Staines, have agreed for an iron bridge, tho feet in length, from abutment to abutment, to be in the fame diredtion as the hone bridge which has heeti taken down, on account of the centre arch finking. The new bridge is to be compleated by Michaelmas neat. • The'Eaft India Company have engaged 24 large chips to bring home Rice from India. The nntt thyy to be imported will be 18,000 tons, wnich will afford, allowing an individual tlb. of rice per day, five days fultenance to the population of Great Britain and Scotland. A letter, dated Gothenburgh, December to, to a Gentleman in Leith, fays, " our fitting began about eight days ago, and promifes well, although prices are very high. What has hitherto been fatted could not be (hipped under twenty-five ()linings per bar rel on board, containing from is to taoo herrings. We have few fhips, and tbefe will not go to fea be fore we learn the end of the Brisifh and Ruffian inifunderftanding. Unlefs your liberty of importing our herrings is prolonged, there will not be time to fend any to Britain.' We are informed by a Gentleman itift arrived from Jamaica, that there is now living in the pariah of St. Elizabeth in that iaand, • a woman named Rebecca Mills, whole children, grand children, great grand children, and great great grand children now living, amount to 229. She has alt her faculties, and. walked from her habi dttion to Black River, at the meeting of a Veftry the hitter end of the year onto, (and back again —so miles. Her age is not afcertained, but fup.. )toted to be upwards of one hundred years. This is the family mentioned by Mr. EDWARDS, in his }Ettore of the Welt Wits, but it then amounted only to 60. On a tablet han g ing up in the church of All , hallows Barking, Tor/eat:vet, it is thus written W"' This church was much defaced and ruined by a lamentable blow of 17 barrels of gun-powder, that took fire on the 4th of January, 1649, in a Chip-chandler's houfe, over againft the fouth fi de of the church, and fterwards was repaired and beautified again by a voluntary contribution of the Parilhioners." The account of this difa (ter is as follows—" One of the houfes in this place was a fhip-chandler's, who, on the 4th of January aforefaid, being bufy in his amp, barrelling up gunpowder, it took fire, and in the twinkling of an eye blew up not only that, but all the houfes thereabouts, to the number (towards the ftreet and in back alleys) of fifty or fifty. The number of perfons deftroyed by this blow, could not be known, fOr the next houfe but one was the Rote Tavera, a houfe always full of company at that time of night, and that tiny the paint dinner was at the houfe ; and in three or four days after, digging, they continu ally found heads, legs, &c. miferably torn, and scorched, h;ficirs many whole bodies, with not fit much as their cloaths tinged. In this accident there were t wo thin g s very rem arkable; the mif t'_ii of the bottle of the Role Tavern was round titttag in her bar, and bne of the drawers tlandi by the bar-fide, with a pot in his band, my ftiflcd with dull and fmo.tk ; their bodies being preferred whole by means of great timbers Calling acrofs, one upon another. Alfo, the next morning there was found upon the upper leads of Barking church, a young child lying in a cradle, - neither child nor cradle having . the leaf} fign of any fire or hurt. It was never known who the ehactwas, to that one of the parifhes kept it for a memoria/. And in the year 5666 (lays Mr. &rove) I raw the child then grown up to be a proper mai den, and came to the man that had kept her all that time, when be was drinking at a tavern, and 4 affected the above circumftantc to be true." LAW iNTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. is. WILSON, qui tans, v. VAMISLDIRT. This was an anion for non-refidence from . the 4th of April, 1799, to the fame period in April, ISoo, and the fum fued for was &tot. under the ftatute of Henry the Eighth, enforcing the refi dence of clergymen on their benefices. It was [fated on the part of the Plaintiff that the Defendant, who is Reftor of the united pa - Mlles of St. ary le Bow, St. Pancras, Soaper lane, and All Souls, Honey-lane, in London, had three feveral parfonage boufes in thefe parifhes ; that he had neverthelefa lived in none of them du ring the period fpecified ; that he had not taken any other houfe within the bounds of thefe pa rifhes, but had gone to refide in a houfe in Ely- Place, in Holborn. To fnbflantiate thefe allegations two witneffes were called, whore evidence went to prove that the houfes ftited in the declaration ufually went by the name of the parfonage houfes, and that they belonged to the parfon, and the fad of the Defen dant not living in them being admitted, no evi dence was fleet - Eery to eflablifh this part of the cafe. It was fully allowed by Mr. Serjeant COCKELL, Counfel for the Plaintiff, that the Defendant was a molt eonfeientions and refpeetable clergyman, and that during this period he had faithfully die charged the various fundiosu of his important office. His Grace the Archbilhop of Canterbury, who at tended to give evidence, corroborated this tefti mony to the excellence of the Defendant's charac ter, and from every thing that was produced in the courfe of the trial he appears to be an ornament to his profeffion. On the part of the Defendant it was contended that one of the houfes fpecified in the declaration, though it had been formerly the Fite of a parfonage bottle, was burnt down at the great fire of Lon don, and in confequence of the Aft of Charles H. which exempted patrons from the neceffity of re building fuch parfonages as had been burnt down, and granted them the liberty of giving leafes of houfes to be rebuilt on the fame Fite, it had been pc:offered under leafes confirmed by the fucceflive Archbilhops of Canterbury, the laft of which leafes did not expire till Chriftmas, 1799. Under thefe circumfiances it could not with any degree of rea fon be argued that this houfe was a parfonage houfe, which had been polkaed for fo long a pe riod on a leafe which could not be difrolvedby any aft of the Defendant, as in the cafe of one of his predeceffors the 'cafe had been held to be good againft the poiliffion of any incumbent. It was thence argued that it was impoffible for the De fendant to live in this houfe during more than the half of the time Rated in the declaration, and it was farther attempted to be proved by the evidence of feveral witneffes, that the houfe was fo fmall and inconvenient that the Defendant could not have lived in it during the remainder of the time, in a manner fo as to have fulfilled the purpofes meant to be promoted by the ftatute on which the prefent anion was founded. It was held that there was no dire& evidence of the other two houfes being parfonages, fence the only proof offered was, that they were fo called; and it appeared as to the houfe held by leafe, that it was alio commonly denominated a parfonage, though it turned out in evidence that it was not a parfonage, but a houfe belonging to the parfon. A furveyor who was called as a wknefs on the part of the Defendant, deferibed them as very mean, (mall, and inconvenient houfes, and it was inferred that they were quite unfuitable for the refidence of a clergyman, by lowering him in the ellimation of his parifttioners, and thus deftroying his ufeful nefs as a public teacher. It alto appeared in evi dence, that betides thefe three houfes there were no other houfes in the parifhes which the Defen dant could have got to live in within the time fpe cified in the declaration. Such was briefly the na ture of the defence; but Mr. Serjeant Saar HIRD I took an obje&ion to the form of the declaration, the Defendant being there ftyled reltor of the rec tory of the united parifhes already mentioned, wareas he was reElor of three reCtories of thefe Uied parifhes, the reCtories being left diain& after the union of the parifhes took place. Lord ELDON gave it as his prefent opinion that this °Nation was fatal to the aftion, but refereed it as the fubje& of a motion to the Court next term if a verdiCt fhould be found for the Plaintiff. In cafe a Verdi& for the Plaintiff fhould take place, another point was refereed for the opinion of the Court, namely, whether the honks fpecified in the declaration were really fuitable for the refidence of the Defendant ? Lord ELDON, in addreffing the Jury, took occ*. lion to obferve that a number of aaions of this kind had taken place which he thought had no ten• dency to promote the interefts of religion. He was convinced that in many cafes it would be inexpe dient to enforce refidence when it could not be at tended with ufeful effelts ' and hi reckoned this a very important fubjeft for the attention of the Le iflature. Sitting, however, in his capacity of a ludge, whatever he might think as a Legiflator, e was bound to Rate the law on this fubjea as it really is at this moment, and as it had been con. (trued by late decifions. His Lordfluip accordingly read the words of the Statute, explained the con ftruftion which had been put upon it, and con cluded by Rating clearly to the Jury, that how ever refpeCtable the Defendant was in every refpell,• however it might appear that he had fulfilled all the duties of his facred office during the twelve months mentioned in the declaration, if they were of opinion that the honks therein fpecified WC it parfimages, or if they were convinced that the Defendant could have got a iuitable honk in the bounds of the united parifhes , of which he was Ream, it became them, hOwever hard the cafe was, to find for the Plaintiff, leaving their verdiet fubjeet to the points of law, Rated by the defen dant's Counfel. The Jury, without retirittgi found a verdiCt for , the Plaintiff wtrirMitisTElt SgssioNc. Yefterday the adjourned &Mons were held at the Guildhall, Wetiminfter. • game: 'Nish Porter to Lord Gwtdir, was•in diaed for violently affaulting John Itcats, on the Lith Jitne laD. The profecutor Elated, that an the ci-ening of the r4th June la% as he was returning from the Theatre, •between the hours of eleven and twelve, juft oppofite Lord Gwydir's houfe at Whitehall, i he was ftruck a violent blow on the head ; he did 1 not know who (truck him, but on tutning roUnd he perceived three or four of Lord Gwydir's fer vants, and conceiving it came from them, he rap ped at the door, and defired to fpeak with his Lordfliip, meaning to inform him of the ill con duet of his fervants but was anfwered by the De fendant that his Lordfhip was not in town; the Profecutor replied that's enough," and imme diately was going away, when he received a vio lent blow, and was knocked down ; upon his get ting up, the blow was repeated, when the other fervants interfered. _ _ On his crofs-examination, he acknowledged that he was very much in liquor, and did not know exaaly the time when it happened, but was certain it was between r t and t 2 o'clock. He owned alfo, that he had been fighting with a man previous to this ;. and that all he knew of the De fendant's being the perfon that ftruck him, was from his own eonfeffiotU• Another witnefs was called, who Rated, that tle was paffing at the dine, and faw. the Dcfon dant flrike the Profecutor a violent blow on the head, but he was totally ignorant of his reafon for fo doing, not having been prefent at the begin ning ; he was certain the Profecutor was very much in liquor. On the part of-the Defendant feveral Witneffes were called; they Rated, that the profecutor had been fighting with fome other perfon, and had his coat and hat off; that his adverts!) , called out fcr affißance, faying, he Mould be murdered ; that they were (landing on the area Reps, and clofe to the combatants; they immediately feparated them, and it was on this account the Profecutor knocked violently at the door for fome time ; at length the Porter was induced from his riotous conclua to open the door, and demand his bufinefs • he an fwered, that he wanted to fpeak with Lord Gwy dir, who was his particular friend ; he was told, that neither his Lordfhip, nor any of the family were in town; he Rill infifted upon teeing his Lordfbip, and Paid he would pull all the bells in the haute to pieces, and behaved in fo diforderly a manner in the hall, that the Defendant was oblig ed to take him by the collar, and turn him out : they denied that he ever (truck him ; they Paid that he was to very drunk that he fell down feveral times. ..... The Chairman Paid, that, from the Profecutor's own cOnfefllon, he was mochintoxicated, and he had been proved likewife to be fighting with fome other perfon ; his whole condua was that of a very diforderly perfon, therefore he could not be fuppofed in a &nation to give a very clear ac• count of what had happened. The Jury, how ever, would judge of the degree of credit to be .given to his evidence, and give their verdiCt ac cordingly. The Jury immediately found the Defendant— Not Guilty. The Chairman Paid, that Lord Gwydir ' who fat near him on the Bench, wilhed it to be known, that the Defendant had lived with him for four teen years, and that he was an honeit, peaceable, and well demeaned fervant. L. DaMmore was indided for aittulting, with , intent to commit a rape, Margaret Bryan, an in fant of the age of eleven years, on the 4th and sth Ocaober latl. It appeared, from the evidence of the Profecutor, that he took his opportunity to ac complith his purpofe, while the mother, who was fervant to the Defendant, was abfent. It alfo appeared that the flcpt with her father and mother, in the fame bed, and that the had not mentirmed it to her mother until the t 7th of the fame month ; and feveral contradidions occurring in her telli mony, the Jury found the Defendant—Not POLICE. COMIIINATION Or JOURNEYMEN TATLOR.I.A great number of journeymen taylors were yeller , day brought before Melia. Omura- and SCOTT, at Marlborough-greet Office, by warrants, charged by their different mailers with entering into a com bination, and quitting their work, unlit: they had an advance of wages. Mr. SYLVESTIR, the Common Serjcant, attend ed as Counfel for the mailers, and Mr. GURNEY, as Contsfyitor the journeymen. Mr. CoNANT ROW MT. GURNIT, that many of ' the fame men were brought before him the pre ceding-day ; but finding the Mailers were to ap pear this day ( yefterday) with Counfel, he thougl.t It but fair to give them an opportunity of &fenc ing themfilves ; and as Each he had admitted theta all to bail. • James Lieffiman was firft put to the bar, when the COMMON SLAJEANT opened the cafe to the Magiflrates in a concife fpeech, telling them that he bad the honon; of appearing before them in behalf of many refpeaable mailer taylors, againft their journeymen, who had thought fit to com• bloc in different bodies, and leave their employ ment, unlefs they had filch rife of wages as they chofe to demand, exprefsly contrary to an AR of Parliament, which he now had before him.—He intimated that he underilood this ufeful body of journeymen taylors confined of from twenty-five to thirty thoufand men, moll of whom were now out of employment. Mr. Gordon Paid, he was a mailer taylor in Church-greet, Soho, and that the defendant, J. Lieffiman, had worked journeyman with him.— He alfo (poke highly in his Etvour,as a fober Ready man, and a good taylor ; but that he and rise tarn more, Who worked for him, ftruck on Mon day the Isth of December. When they ftruck, they had told his fon to tell him, that unlefs he advanced their wages from ass. to soc. a week.; they did not mean to work anrynore ; and he re% toting to_give it, they all fudclenl . ,y went away. Mr. Gordon's fon confirmed this evidence. . Richard Jones faid, that he kept the Robin Hood in Windmill-fireet, which was a houfe of call. f . o. taylors. He was very backward in giving his evidence ; but confetted that Liethman belonged to the Society ; that they met at his bottle to the numt+er of about two hundred ; andthat he heard they had refuted to work, unlefrthey got the a& vanced wages. " Mr. GURNEY called no witneftes ; but laid that he would prove the mailers to have entered into a combination, to the number of three hundred, to piofecute there MCP, becaufe they would not work for the wages they gave, which was not enough to fupport them. The combination, how. ever, being proved, Lieiliman was convidled, and fLntenced to twornonths imptifonment iu fields Erriciewell. • Jofeph Blind' and Jofeph Eetfon were neit put to the bar, when Mr. Peter Thornton, of Frith ftreet, told the Magillrates; that thefe two men had wrought for him a confiderable time; that on the 17th of December, Bland prefented him with a printed lift of prices, at a confiderable advance to what he had ufually given all his men, he hav ing employed their by the piece ; and that he having refuted to give this advance, they and all the others immediately left him. James til , Q . narey, mailer of the Coach and Hodes, Soho, laid, that he kept a houfe of call,and knew that Bland belonged to his houfe, but was I not fun of the other ; that he did not think there was above feventy of the fociety at his houfe out of employ. Mr. Smith, a mailer tayliw, proved the combi ation to be general in the trade. Mr. Smith, on Theing crofs-exarnined• by Mr. Guntur, collared that he was the Chairman of the mailer taylors, but refuted to give the names of all the Committee. The prifoners were conviaed the-fame as the pre. ceding. William Hunter was next charged by Mn M'Calam, with whom he had worked; but his application for the advance of wages was to Mrs. M'Calam, and 'the not being preient to prove it, he was difcharged. Thomas Wood and John Donavan were next charged by Mr. (bin, of Soho, who fpoke highly in praife of thefe men for honelly and fobriety ; but Paid that they had all firtick, and refuted to work, unlefs they got the advanced wages. George Clow Paid, he kept the houfe ,of call at the White Bear, in Newport-ilreet. He confefred that the two defendants belonged to their foeiety; but declined anfwering many qucilions. The prifoners were, however, convieted as the others, and fentenced to two months imprifonment in To:hill-fields ; but were told by the Magifirates, that, from the general good charader given by their mailers, every thing Should be done to ac commodate the bulinefs, _ _ _ Mr. Sytv Erna, ;he Common Serjeant, declin ed to bring forward any more charges, at the fame time hoping that the convielions which had taken place would have the defired effeet. Gutermatt..--Yettcrday Matfhfeu Swift and Mary Voltaire wcrc brought up for re-examina tion, before Sir JOHN EAMIR, Knt. charged on the oath of Mr. Winder, of the King's Arms pub lic-houfe, in Philip lane, for palling counterfeit flyer, knowing it to be fuch. They were fully committed for trial. A lad was committed for re examination, on a charge of robbing a boy, of ten years of age, in Moor-lane, of 3 pair of boot-legs, which he was taking home to his father. Mama: Lewis, who flood charged by Charles Buller, and others, with cruelly beating his wife, at his lodgings in Blewett's-buildings, Fetter-lane, was again brought up ; Mr. Kienan, the Surgeon, attended, who pronounced the woman out of danger. The Prifoner appeared to be in a (late of men tal derangement, and dangerou, to be at large, therefore the Alderman ordered him to be taken proper care of. Wilbmß Petvil, formerly a foldier, was ezamin. ed a fecond time, charged with breaking into the iioreoroom belonging to Mr. For, maft•maker, at Crane Wharf; and Healing a coil of rope ufed in heavy purchafes, which he afterwards fold to a dealer in old iron, of the name of Mills, who war admitted an evidence againil the Prifoner. The property being (worn to, he w•as fully committed for trial. The Rev. and learned Dr. hfaciarvar, of Glenurchay, Argyllthire, has communicated to Mr. PARKINS, in a letter of December t 3, 1800, the refult of his trials of the Patent Metallic Trac tors, which he acknowledges " has exceeded his warmeß expeftution." Among the cures are a pain in the head of many years . Banding; two cafes of violent Rhettmatifm; and, a Scald, which is deferibed as follows : " One of my (errant men had a eel-kettle of holing water &filed sin one of his thighs and Laces. The alarmed reached the family room in which there was a younedergyman who had attended the medical claire+ at Edinburgh, and who , a lit tle before the zeaident, had crpreffed his difbellef of the effi cacy of the Traitors. I irfilled that lac mould witnef, their application. 'Phe inflammation was high, the pain extreme, and there was a diftind appearance of velicatioia in the franc et ty minutes the pain foblidal, the inflammation and blithe difi. appeared, and without any other application wintevcr, the iota went to his work, and cever :non: complained of pain.—My gnelt returned to the room a convert." The Cures of Goat, Rheumatifm, Tooth-Ac),, Sprains, Bridles, and all analogous /Aida of I lorfea which are publidted, arc innomerable. The 'radon b neeeffary in every Family, and among Hales, may be bad, gala oc,with new and Improved dins for elm thew, for Fire Goan, the Set, of P. b. Perkins, A.M. the Patentee, in Lcicater.fgeare; and of Fredawk Smith. Otani* and Druggilt, In :he Haymarket, London. Their portable nature renders their conveyance by Coaeh, er even by Poft, pertcetly convanent.--Lettors, lodating char amount (pot: paid) duty attended to. N. B. In the Pals, and fpnichly win be Inablinied, price u. • an entire New Work, confining of many bundred Cafes, can nninicated in the yen taco. never before publinied faid, by joimilio, St. Pura Churcb-yard ; and J. Wright, pima_ dilly. It may be had (grads) of the Patentee, In Litinelber. &pare; et of F. Smith, in the Haymarket, by all who Uwe paraded the Trader,. •