Star. — London, England, 1802-11-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Covasiwc.—The Swaffham Society, of which the Marchionefs of Towssusim is Lady. Patro llers, commenced their November Meeting on Monday lad, which moft of the Sporting Gentle. men of the County, and others, attended. The % c epers had driven the plantations upon the ma nors heft adapted for courfing, by order of their fe lpeetive Lords, to favour the week's diverfion. Atter fereral bye.courfes, as ufual, the regular matches of Monday and Tuefday were run over Iceborough and Weft Acre, on the domains of Lord PITSS and Mr. HAMMOND / and were thus decided by the Judges : I . Mr. B. Dudley's Frilkey beat Mr. P. Oalway's Helen. Sir J . gebright's Prude Mr. Dudley's Angelina 3 . Mr. Lovelace 's Puts Mr. Denton's Nettle. 4. Mr. Britton's Snake Mr. Tyree' Trimmer. 5. Mr. Drtenpon's Whiteboy Mr. Tyffen's Triumph. 6. Mr. buf o s t r y m t Mr. Ottley's Whifper. 7. Mr. 's Alp Mr. Tyffen's Talky. g, Mr. Demon's Nellytundecided] Mr. Lovelace's Needle. 9 , Mr. Dudley's Friday (rec. ft. on Mr. Jufs's Crocus. The Hares running flout, the fport proved ex. cant. The fuceeeding days diverfion were thus ar ranged : —Wednefday, at Cley, Mr. DASHWOOD'S; Thurfday, the Smee : Friday, Weft Acre ; and Sa turday, IceborouFh arin.--The running for the Sabfcription Cup is po poned till the next Meeting. Mr. BORRADAILei new flip of 1200 Tons, clef tined to Coaft and China, was launched yefterday from Dubwlw's Yard, Deptford, and cbriftened t he Copula-LAND. The fpeltacle was extremely s t and ; and the numerous affemblage of Ladies, for whom a 74 gun fhip was provided with a com fortable awning, added greatly to the brilliancy of a lane, which, though momentary, is yet awfully interefting. A cold collation was provided, and the ceremony concluded with a ball and fupper at the London Tavern. Wednefday laft, at twelve o'clock, the ANTS tom a remarkable fine chip, which has been near iliac years on the flocks, was launched from Sheer aefs every decoration which could aid the interell, beauty, and fplendour of this moll grand fpeitacle. Sheawas decorated with the jack, enfign, imperial flandard, and admiralty flag. A large concourfe of perfons alfembled, and were hiOly delighted, by the mamificence of the flip, 4 the very beautiful manner in which the entered ,e *gory clement. But what afforded very great fatidad:on was, that in her paffage from the flocks, a fink accident happened. Her comple ment of guns is to be . so b on two decks ; aad the , the following fignaficant emblem at her head, loris. a bull of Diana, on a feral, holding in one hand the head of an Antelope, and in the other a fpeit. It is univerfally allowed by all who have igen the Aarnote, that the is the fineft Chip of her that ever was built. She was immediately teistp into Dock to be coppered. The following may be depended upoii as a faa : — io A d n a ho l n v e l E n t Tar , who had been about (e ven weeks in a houfe near the bßnories, fi nal his return Rea, duiing which he had formed a _ intimacy with a married man in the neigh kerhood, was invited by him on Sunday laft, to • with him a few mileefrom town to dinner, and home the fuppoted wife of his new friend,. r had been with a relative Rome months, when, the inexprefflble furprize of each of the parties, (ack, In Read of his friod's tuffs, difcovered his ! • But as foon as an explanation took place, AS the Lady was inclined to flay with her late friend, Jack declaredahat having fasfed with him feveral times, he fhould not cut with about a trifle, 'and havins dined with him, returned home, flirted his birth, to avoid giving any furthei Interruption:. ARISIAN FASHIONL—The Tetw head dreffes, aich of late were fo much on the decline, begin *gain to refume their Tway. They are worn of a fella. file than heretofore, and are even fwollen towers 'Abair. Attempts, however, are made Cotten the deformity of this drea, by adapting . foniatimes a gathad of flowers, at ether time firing of diamonds. Not unfrequently a part is concealed by a Veil, which floats dcnin the .bulriers, mid lofes under the Shawl. Some veils are eroidered in real, others in imitation tare !liver. Indeed the rage for tinfel is now fo gregt, that it is worn *Mob alp: of Yu& gauze. Turbans fo ornamented are alto made of the fathe kind of gauze. In blflf drefsi two kinds of bats more particularly *ileac& by our skink, : of rofc colouted Florence, profufely trimmed ornamented with rote crloored ribbons; the other nitewiA of Flonnke, either rare or amaranth zolour, with half of its larger border turned op before. Hato of velvet only are but vety rare.— itet and fatin are fancifully tinittd together, bands of Patin are tifed instead of ribbons.— Ali velvet is generally united with rote, coloured ,Atio, and white fatin with black amaranth, or deep Moe velvet. Joni:Nine &tin is alfo made tire of, more efpecially with black velvet. The number of ..avet hats begins to decreak. Mob caps of em broidered Talk, in imitation of lace, is very much ►ague ; und caftan are pretty general, not only P‘riale, bat aWo of deep green, or deep bmwn Robes of black crape are worn with long pretty large fleeves. The gold edging nfually worn on fhawls now tuns in a fetpentine font. The veils have fill in front a knot of poppy flowers. Feathers find great difficulty in getting into notice. Some fhops,however,hang out union of two feathers with a tuft of flowers; colour black and white. The rim of the hair :omhs continues to be profisfely enriched with :rims tones, more efpccially with emeralds and (elates. The topaze is more generally ufed in ling:. Cameos are Ilia in ufe for necklaces, they are commonly ornamented with teal pearls. Bracelets are made of 'relies of gold, about . ordinary width of a ribbon. Indeed bracelets were never worn to loch an excels—three or four them are often MOM by e the fame perfon—twe the upper part of the atm, and the other two the %vial, to tighten in the large fleeves, which as yet pretty generally in u 4. Some bracelets - - . 3 . M 4. Mr . 5 , Mr.l 6. Mr., .7. Mr. The anent. The ranged Thuril torday Sobfcri Mr. l i n ed o from ] t he Cu grand f or whi fortabh a Cane, intereft the cert the Lin Wed toys, nine ye nets DI aid the grand early, larx hi r and tb the irR fatisFa4 not Mato has th !eit• a band d (Pair. fan the clefs th tea u Aah a tet7nl bill is bcarhoi go with fetch hi who ha to the i ack, li ! as the kited, femel and thil intemm Paai which apin t Pallet f into to , to tofu to it Co a (trim of it is !hold& veils a of tare great s urbz kind o are in one of and or other I colour, before. Velvet and bi Black fat", a blue more I .o eaVti braid! in vng of P. eilk. and ufualll form. poppy genia l an on the co combs precis tOpa 2, f i ta r-r in And ti pearls the or Were of the on tht on the Art as NdUTICAL Ninz.. cEkai. POOLE, NOVEMBER 9. Arrived the Neptunus, Ludden. from faeoisftadt Oden, jefsbe'g, from Gamble Carlby ; Good Intent , Ballard, from owes ; Dove, Thompfon, from London; Adtive, Williams, from Portfosodth.,Sallad the Eagle, Hewlett, for asarleitown; Hope, Marsolaws, for Rouen. FROM LLOYD's LIST. Dial, Nov. z I.—Sailed the la Sophia Hoop of war, for Leith ; and the Generous Planter, Hamilton, for Jamaica. — Wind E. S. E. GRAY/ sit D, Nov. rtd.—Paffed by, the Betfey, Porter, from Memel; Darlington, —.; and William, Hamel], from Archangel; Betfe. , Whitfield ; Lclth, Mier; Diamond, Todd; and Hazard, Cummings, from Peterlburgh.• ARRIVED. At Liverpool, the Endeavour, Webb, from Lifbon ; Ardent, Barrow, from Dantzie ; and Thetis, &island, from Riga.—At Clyde, Mcnie,M'Kellar, from Pie:am—At ipfwkh, Favourite, Shear, from Memel—At Cromarty, Favourite, Main, from Peterfborgh.—At Baltimore, Rebecca, Mlleil,from Liverpool. At Virginia, Re-Union, Bond, from Liverpool, Arrived at Plymouth, the Nimes! s frigate, from Milford. Yefierday arrived at Portfmonth, the Union, Ha usu., and feveral other colliersfrom Sunderland. A Swedifh velrel of 200 tons burthen, Captain Sr RILING, from Carlfcrona, was deffroyed by fire at the entrance of the Port of Malaga, on the night of the 11th of September. The Captain and crew were raved. On the evening of the ift intl. Mr: Itt ID; Super vifor of Excite at Dalkeith, with fome of his offi cers, met on the mad with two honfe load of fpirits, etcorted by two (muggier:, when a defperate affray enfued. The officers fhot one of the houfes, and wounded another, after being repeatedly truck with-bludgeons, and by this means alone were en abled to fecure the feizure, with the exception of one tub which the fmngglers aimed. We underftand from Bombay, that feveral thou land houfes in the town of Cacboo have been de ftroyed by fire, together with large times of ink. The filk was depofi - ted in (mall arched brick build ings, like ovens, with the mouth to the ground, to fecure them from fire ; but the conflagration found its way to the filk. Yeflerday morning, about half pall feven o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at a carpenter's yard, in Leather-lane, Holborn, which communicated to feveral houfes adjoining. The flames for fome time raged with unabated fury, as no water could be procured to extinguifh them. At length, after confiderable exertions, they were fuppreffed. The extent of the damage is not yet afcertained. DISADIUL Acciosai.—On Wednefday night a dreadful accident happened at the White Bear public houfe, in Hounflow ; Mrs. Fifh, the land lady of the honfe, having fat up after the family retired to fleep, at a large fire in the tap room, for the purpofe of entertaining fome waggoners that ofed to flop there, a (Wier who was quartered' in the honfe, being in the ad of mending his cloaths, (melt fornething burning, and called out to the oilier, who was in bed, that foinethkg was on fire, on which he ran down into the tap room, where he found Mrs. Fdh ftretched on the hearth, burnt to death, and the few remaining cloathi the had on all on fire ; the foldier ran out and alarmed her fon, living in the oppofite bode, who immediately came with him to behold a molt dreadful fight. All Mrs. Mies cloaths were burnt to a cinder, even her flays and thick quilted petticoat, and her poc ket book was on fire, containing feveral notes ; hot though they were fcorched, there was not one burnt. It is fuppofed the unfortunate woman had been (Landing too near the grate, when her cloaths caught fire, the blaze from which inftantfy over powered her. The Coroiiiir's Inquett was held on her body this day, and alto on the body of a young man who was found dead in his bed. Tali Moans& or Ma. STEILI.—In addition to the account of this horrible tranfaaion, given in the STAR of yefterday, we have received - the fol lowing few particulars :—The Murderers took from the deceafed a tack flick, and left near the where the body was found a large bludgeon. Betides his boots, they varried off his flocking:, and replaced thife ankles with an old pair of thou, and a coarfe pair of old (Lockings, which were found upon his legs. The hat which the murderous villains left behind them was cut in feveral pieces ; it had on firft view, all the appear. ance of having belonged to a foldier, but on cider infpeetion a difference of opinion feemed to pre. Sail. The place where the body was found is not above a mile and a half from the houfe of the de ceafed at Belfont ;---ti great quantity of blood was yeacrday found buried near the fatal, fpot. When Mr. STEEL! let out from town on Friday he took with him a Rum of money to pay fome bills at Hammerfmith, which it has been afcertained he did ; the murderers therefore, in all probabilitT, got but a very (mall boow ; and hence may, in lonic degree, be aicounted for their thipping the body of fo many articles ; the great coat was, in all likelihor,d, buried in the turf, for the purpofe of being fetched away at fome future time. A l3riaol coachman brought word yefterday to Hotmflow, that two Irithrom being overheard in Britiol quarrelling, in kith, about a pair of boots, and dropping accufitions againft each other, they were taken into cuftody. Hopes are entertained that they are the murderers. Mrs. STIFLE had the news of her hatband's death communicatie to her yefterday by her mo ther ; but with much propriety the manner in which it took place was not mentioned to her ; on putting a queftion to this effea, the was prudently anfwered that he died of a fit. She is only as years of age, and u hourly expeaed to he in of her fecond child. The Coroner's Inqueft were to have fat upon the body of the deceafed yellerday at Howl'low, but the Coroner not being able to attend, this form of enquiry was pollponed to this day. CARP rut., and fereral other Police Officets belonging to Bow.ftreet, have been fent in quell of the mur derers, and great hopes are e erj..2111. jjarAf. £4IY !N4sLLlGith E. COURT OF aura•, BENCH, NOV. n. Du cat V. AMA!. Tins was the anion in trover for tool. in which the Court had recommended a motion to difcharge 'the Defendant out of cuftody on his bringing into Court the key of the room containing the goods fuppofed to be detained by him. Mr. GARROW, Counfel for the Defendant, faid he was under particular obligations to the Court for fuggelling that the proceedings might be Raid on the production of the key in Court, but he fhould have confiderable difficulty in availing him felf of the fuggettion, for in point of fa& the De fendant never had the key, or any thing elfe be longing to the Plaintiff in his poffeffion. The in terference of the Court had, however, occafioned an inquiry into the circuinftances of the cafe, and if the refult fhould prove true, fome of the parties. concerned would be called upon ftriCtly to account for their condu& He had mentioned that this action arofe out of a complaint the Plaintiff had made againfl the Defendant, of his having robbed him—the Plaintiff had charged him with picking his pocket of his pocket book, but was afterwards fenfible of his millake ; in fati, he found the book in one corner of his pocket. The prefent Defen dant, Mr. Reeves, then brought an action for de- famation, and a writ was ferved on the Plaintiff, who immediately expreffed a with to compromife the affair. On the part of Mr. Reeves it was Rated, that the only objea of the action was to vindicate his charaiter ; that until it was cleared pp he could not continue in his office at the Theatre ; and as he had been dragged to Bow-Itreet like a criminal, the leaft he could require wai that Mr. Duncan fhould pay the colts, which were trifling, and make an apology. This might have been complied with, but unfortunately for Mr. Duncan, he called 1 to his council Mr. Devallon, the Sheriff's Officer, and afked his advice. Devallon had no objection to paying the colts, but exclaimed, " he would be d—d if any apology fhould be made." Mr. Reeves then palifted in carrying on his action, upon which DeVallon faid, " 0, never mind, we'll have him fome other way ;" and he accordingly had him arrefted in this choke-bail action for tool. for a parcel of old furniture in the room he occupied in the houfe of Mr. Duncan, who carried on the bu finds of a mop feller, in Little Wild-ftreet. It was fuggefted on behalf of the Defendant, that it would be neceffary to apply for a particular of the Plaintiff's demand, and an enquiry was previoufly made of Devallon wbo the Attorney was who had feed out the anion. Devallon faid it was a Mr. joftsua Lacock Wilkinfon, of Gray's Inn. The Defendant's Attorney applied at Mr. Wilkinfon's office with a fummons for a particular of the de mand, and a notice of bail; but Mr. Wilkinfon's Clerks difclaimed all knowledge of the tranfattion ; and the Learned Comfit added, that be had an affidavit, Rating that Mr. Wilkinfon had been for fome time on the Continent, had very recently returned to this country, and was wholly ignorant of the affair. His motion therefore was, that the proceedings might be laid, the Defendant dif le...lzett the . colls paid by the Plaintiff, and that and the Plaintiff might anfwer the mat ters of the affidavit. The Court Aced whether any inquiry had been made of the Plaintiff himfelf, as to the perfon who aid as his Attorney ?—there were many perfons of the name of Wilkinfon who abed as Attornies, and it might be Tome other. It appeared that no enquiry had been made of the Plaintiff, and the Court accordingly ordered the bufinefs to Rand over till a direa communica tion was obtained from hini. The Court f.dd it could not aa upon the bare information of a She riff's Officer. ROPIMAKINS COMPANY. Mr. Gtsas moved fora writ to the Ropemakers Company, of the City of London, calling upon them to proceed to the choice of a Matter and Wardens. A Meeting had been held for this pur pofe on the day fixed by the Charter, but the Mat ter had not been prefent, fo that its ads were void. He was not Cure whether this cafe came within the Statue of George L which empowered the Court of King's Bench, when for any reafon an Election had not taken place on the proper day, to award a Mandamus to any " City, Borough, or Town corporate." Mr. Juftice Gaoss (in the abfence of Lord Et.- minsoaotion ) Paid that the Court was very much againft the motion ; but if Mr. Glass had a thong opinion they would grant him a rule to thew caufe. Mr. Gls as replied, that he had before intimated his having confiderable doubts. Mr. Jake Law& aims obferved, that it would be a very defirable thing, if Legiflature would extend the provi fi ons of this ftatute to all corpora tions ; but at prefent, it was cleat that a Corpo- ration rich as the Ropemakers Company was not included in it.—Writ refufid. THE RING V. PROWS!. Serjeant Bssr faid, that the Defendant at tended to receive the jddgment of the Court.— However, there were long affidavits on his be half, which the other party would probably with t. have an opportunity of anfwering. It would therefore be defirable that the confederation of the cafe fhould be deferred till a future day. Mr. GARROW faid he law no objection to this mode of proceeding, provided that the affidavits were filed. In anfwer to a queftion from the Court, Mr. Serjeant Basr replied that his Client had been con. viaed of an affault. THR 81110 V. THR MAYOR OF HARWICH. Mr. Guam, moved in this cafe for a mandamus to ho direaed to Thomas Bolton, Efq. Mayor of Harwich, to proceed to the elation of a Capital Borso The then Itated from affidavits which be held m his hand, that by the conflitution of Har wich, the Corporation confifted of a Mayor, feven Aldermen, and 24 Capital Burais ; that thofe Capital Burgeffes elated the Mayor, and that thei has been for a confiderable time a vacancy for the littration of a Capital Burgefs. The Mayor was .• 4 • rolls Who wailed upon hins thAt he would have ho communication with them except at the Towa i liall. The eleCtion, however, was.not proceeded upon, and as a capital Burg!: is a material com ponent part of the Corporation, it was abfolutely neceifiry, that the vacancy should be Mled Mandamus granted. ANONYMOUS. This anion was brought againft the Defendant, for that his fervants had fo negligently navigated . a !hip of his that fhe had been run againii a flip o f the Plaintiff, fo that the latter was wholly li'i a nd deftroyed. The caufe did not go to the Jury, bu t was referred to a Mr. Atkinfon. 'This gentleman awarded that the damage done ky the flips run ning foul of each other (hould be equally divided between the two parties. He therefore valued the (hip that was funk and the expence of repairing the "biking (hip, and decreed that one halt of this fhould be borne by the Plaintiff and the other by the Defendant. He accompanied his award i I a long differtation; letting forth his reafons. A Rule was granted lalt term to thew caufe why this award fhould not be fet afide. Mr. PARKE, for the Plaintiff, now (hewed cP.ufe. He allowed chat a great many of Mr. A ,ki9fon's pofitions could noc be maintained, and iFat his numerous quotations from foreign writers upon maritime law, were of no authority in this colintry. But though he had been miftaken in point of law, (fill as the matter had been referred to him, his award was conclufive. For this he cited a cafe decided by Lord Chancellor Eldon. Mr. RAINS, on the other fide, contended, that that cafe, as it appeared in the report, could not Fe fupported as the conflant praaice to fct an award afide, where the arbitrator had been mifiaken in point of law. He imputed no negligence to the Defendant, therefore the Defendant *as not in any degree liable. Thefe notions of equity were quite erroneous, as the Defendant muft either pay the whole, or none. He confidered it an accident ; therefore he fhould have declared that the Plaintiff mutt bear the whole lofs. Befides, he had taken into confideration the damage done to the Defen: dant's veffel, a matter not referred tb him. Mr. Raine read feveral paffages from the award, that occafioned much merriment, particularly the fol- lowing : " Lord Kenyon to be fure laid it down, that where no negligence is to be imputed to the Defendant, he is not liable ; yet when both parties are equally culpable, or what is the fame thing, are equally blanulefi, it ismy opinion,as well as that °father eminent writers, that the lois fhould be divided." The three Judgeswere unanimous that the award could not be fullained. They faid he had erred once upon his own principles, for he wilhed to decide according to law, and he had decided againft it. It wis not necelfary for an arbitrator to date his reafons ; but if he did, and they wets infufficient, his award could not Rand. Lord ELLEtisoaouort was not in Court, as he prefided at the Admiralty Seffidns. Mr. ERSKINE was alfo abfent front COurt, on account of the Admiralty Seffions. At about one o'clock Mr. Juftice Ls &sac fat to hear NO Prier mules ; but as it was the first day of the hearings in Term, and Mr. ERSKINE (who was unavoidably abfent) was employed in every cafe of any importance, none but undefended caufes were tried. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS. Yefterday the Adjourned Se(Sons were openett for the purpofe of Sniffing thofe trials which, on account of the commencement of the Seflions at the Old Bailey, were formerly poftponej. Therewereprefent,befides Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, Lord ELLeri BOROUGH, and Mr. Baron Tfrio P SON. CHARGE OF SIUMDRR. Edward Kelly and .70'0 Davie were indkted for the murder of a female Negro Slave, name un known, by throwing her over the fide of the fhip Sarah, upon the high feas, on the 6th of January, slot, about 83 leagues off the illand of Jamaica. His Majelty'sAdvocate General (Dr. Ntc HOL L addreffed the Jury on behalf of the profecution, ob ferving, that the crime of mucder, with which the two prifoners Rood charged, was of fo deep and heinous a nature, as to demand the volt ferinus, difpaffionate, and deliberate inveftigation. The (hip Sarah, he laid, had been engaged in the Afri can Slave Trade, 2nd the offence was for the mur der of a female Have. The prifoners being them (elves officers on board the chip, would, in cafe the fait should be proved, be an addition to the atro city of the deed, in deftroying the property of thofe who employed them to prote& it. The hu mane and falutary Aft of Parliament, by which the Trade was regulated, enjoined each Ihip thould be limited in the number of (laves to be canted, in proportion to the tonnage. From this it was manifeft that a confiderable number of (laves ufuallyl died upon the paffage, and it was the in terelt of thofe concerned in the trade to take on board a greater number than the law allowed, on the Coal of Africa, where no inquiries took place, fo that when they arrived at the place of exami nation in the Welt Indies, they thould be able to replace fuch as might perifh in the paffage. But as the Ad alto impofed confidenkble penalties on their exceeding the allowed number, the conic quence, fometimes, might be the evafion of this provifion, either by fecrcting the furplus, or de ltroying fuch as could not be concealed, or fuch as were molt fickly, and leaft profitable for the market. It was not neceffary to urge much that a cafe of this kind ought to be lifted to the bot tom, in order that juilice might be fairly and truly adminiltered. He was ready to confefs, that the two witneffes in fupport of the profecution, were of a low de fcription of mariners, and that perfons of that de. fcription might, at times, be tempted from pique, or malice, to aggravate circumilances. Therefore it became Juries to receive their teflimonies with caution, but not to be fo far prejudiced by fuggef. tions, or ingenious crofs-examination, as not to give them fuch weight as they deferved. He then briefly Rated the outline of the evidence, which, if true,wouldaggravate the foul and atrocious cri• le; but which. if they diffielifirca- it wriutA $ i I . i • i . t i i 1 I i ( I i II . . • 1 . • I . i 1