Star. — London, England, 1801-01-27 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS nos DAY.—WIND S. W. ARtIVED. O Hamburgb. • Dublin, Jan- 22 , • Waterford, Jan. 22, O Dounagbadee, '• Gormley, t • Jerky, YARMOUTH, JANUARY 16. DUI. I I O O Sailed the PRINCE OF WALES packet, Captain DEANr, for Cuxhaven, with the mails for Ham burgh, of the sad inftant : alfo failed the EARL OF LFICESTE R, THONrsom, without mails, having on board Mr. EAST, a King's Mellinger; General BENTINCE and faire. One snail (kill remains due. Arrived the PHOENIX lugger, from a cruise. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 14. Sailed the Kano GEORGE packet, Captain YES comak, with the Mail for Lilbon of the soth inft. and a King's Mellinger, (Mr. CONI,) for whore ar rival the has been detained. The NONCE ERNEST Packet, Captain Prras, with the Leeward Eland Mail of the sift inft. is to fail in the morning if the wind will permit. Sailed this morning with a fine breeze at N. N. E. the outward bOund Liflion, Oporto, and Mediter -.mein fleets, under convoy of his Majelly's chips :•LAHORSB, MAIDSTONE, ALLIANCE, and CHICHES 7rtt ; alto the fleet for Africa and India, about 15 fail, under convoy of the Fir (loop of war. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY ay. The Tome frigate, Capt. CHURCH, has made a fi gnal to fail with a convoy for the Wen Indies. Arrived at St. Helen's, the Jams and Ban.- LIAVT frigates; and at Spithead; the BEAVER and SNA Hoops.- . ralml.l • SHEERNESS. JANUARY Sailed yefterday his bfajefly's brig Naatisses, Lieutenant Tomlinson, for Chatham ; and the Kira ;vent out of harbour. Sailed this day, the LEYDEN, of 64 guns, Cap. min BEDFORD, for Yarmouth. HARWICH, JANUARY 25. Yefterday were brought into this port, by the AROUS and RsruLsa revenue cruizers, the hoop ricks; of Leith, laden with 372; quarters of wheat ; and the brig Thomas and Dorothy, of Sunderland, laden ivitla coals, having been captured on the loth inftant, off the Humber, by the French privateer brig le Chaffenr,. Citizen BLACKMAN Commander, and reca ptured by the ARGUS and Rirussa on i the 23d nflant, about tz leagues E. by S. from Orfordnefs. The privateer left Dunkirk on the loth inflant, and on the evening of the-zoth cap tured off the Humber fefen velfels, laden with grain and coals for London. Arrived the SracuLirot lugger to refit. Alfa the Bi rat gun-tract, Lieutenant NORMAN com mander, from Siieernefs to Yarmouth Roads. Ar rived alto the Danifh veffel, Jacob Harms Jourt son Liman matter, from Hamburgh, laden with wheat and hops, arid detained by. the —, Lieu tenant GOBLET commander. Put in by contrary winds the Vrow Getena, 'Cutlet BARRON Stars mailer,. froin Dormefeil to Lonnon, with 'oats; and the VrOw Renar, East Vivi. Ozattat matter, from Dormefeil to Loudon, with oats: MGM LLOYD'S LIST. DRAT, japnaly id, Arrived, the liti.tizit frigate; Et:mania Gtaab and ANACRRON &opt, from a entire.. Wind W. GRATESINN JANUARY 26. Paid by, the Atalanta, Commiscs, from Ja malca.*Sailed, the Carkbury, Dossiso ; Weft- Indian, Doss; Voluatoef, WASS; and• Generous Planter, - Bsatrr, for Jamaica; Wow Antonetta, ---, from Hamburg!'; Uniana, Bram+, for Surinam; and Dedalus, Powsss, for Antigua. DISTRIBUTIOFF OF PRIZE-MONZY.. The crew of the 'Nip Jatousz, for the capture of the Inuttendu French privateer, will be paid their refpeilive fhares for the hull, ftorei, and head money, on her arrival at Yansionth. The crew of the 1.01211 will be paid their re !Relive proportions of the net proceeds of the Fran code, on board at Portfmouth, on tlfe i_oth inft. The ciews'of the Livst,v, Moss, Mattaoses Rana, ForriJa and BONIft CITOYIN WI, for the capture. of the Sa nta! Natalia and Caridad, alias Cubana,'Spanifh prizes, will be paid their propor tions of the net proceeds of the (aid prizes; as alfo of the hull of the Ihip Caridad, alias Cabana, (lately condemned to the captors), on Friday the loth'of January intkant, at Dowrung-Meet, Weft rninfter. We have great fatisfattion in eontradiaing the r:port of tbelofs of the CAMILLA ; and to 'late, that the is fatily arrived at Cork. The Channel Fleet failed from Torbay on Fri thy, and paffed Plymouth the fame afternoon with a fine breeze at North, In that it would by Niturday morning, in all probability, regain its Ration off Bra. Monday fe'nnight a Danifh vefel embargoed at Dublin, having an officer on board, cut her cables, and without any alarm being given, proceeded to Ica, taking with her the officer. Next night ar.other of the embargoed (hips made her efcape from between the walls ; as flae paired the wate. houre, being hailtd from finite, it was anAl-ered float on board, that the was the Hibernia, CaP tA,n I.kwts, bound to Liverpool; the vend Lin g like the Dane, bark rigged, much facili tated the deception. The Dane has, however, been fircz brought to her former moorings by one of his Majelly's cutters that had been fent purfuit of her—and the broad Way has been affised to the vcircl PETITION FOR MACS. On TuefdaY the t 3th inßant, a very numerous and refpedable body of Merchants and Broad- Cloth ManufaCturers, met purfuant to public ad vertifement at the Mixed Cloth Hall, in Leeds. Mr. BLACKBURN, one of the Truftees of the Hall, opened the meeting with a very manly and :mpreffive fpeech, in which he Rated the extreme dithers of dib Country occafioned by the War. He obferved that mot} of the Foreign Ports and Markets were chafed againil us from the northern extremity of Europe to the Adriatic; in confe quence of which the demand for our goods had alarmingly decrcafed, and we were threatened with a total extindion of our trade; at the fame time the increafc of poor-rates and taxes became an intolerable burden ; and the leffer Manufadurers, unable to bear up againft the preffure of the times, were daily finking into a Rate of infolvency and wretchednefs. The exorbitant price of corn, occa fioned partly by the unavoidable wafte attendant on the war, increafed the other evils, and aided, with them, an accumulation of diftrefswhich greatly exceeded hat of any former period in the memory of the oldeit man amongß them. For the truth of what he laid, he appealed to the knowledge and feelings of all prefent. 14e concluded by obfirving, the rruftees of the Hall had been defired by their conftituents to call that meeting, and the refolu tioos to be propofed by the Chairman would ex plain its object. - The Refolutions were read feparately and unani moutly agreed to Ivide STAR of the 19th and xoth inff.) excepting that which related to the Petition being prefented by Mai:. Wt LISBRFORCE and LAS CELLR s. They were read a fecond time, and.it WaS earneftly defired , that if any Gentleman could objet to them they would declare their reafons, or teftify their objedions by a thew of hands. Nctthe leaft appearance of oppofition was (hewn, although it was believed an attempt to oppofe the Refoluuons had been meditated by romp who are Rill fuppofed to have an expiring attachment to the continuance of the war. The whole meeting feemed animated by one foul, and the friend of humanity felt a confolation in Obferving an Aim bly of feveral hundred perfons forgetting their former difference of opinion, now united in one general and anxious with for Peace. Mr. S. H. °errs addrefred the meeting in a fpeech of confidcrable length, in which he very ably traced the fimilarity of the American Wa with the prefent one. " They had b ot h, unfortu nately for the nation, been popular in their com mencement and the earlier parts of their progrefs ; but he had lived to fee the publi c opinion change with rerped to the American War, and its advi fers and fupporters held in detefiation ; fuch he bad no doubt would be the cafe with rerped to the prefent war. He was glad to fee the time was come when the friends of peace (whom he confider ed as the beg friends of their country) dare earn. ble to petition their Sovereign without dreading the appellation of Jacobins. The real Jacobins, if the word meant any thing, were the friends of vio lence and war. The defire for Peace, expreffed at the County meeting at York, during the American War, had, been feconded by other parts of the Kingdom, and the Minifter was unable to con tinue it againft the general with of the people. He hoped that day a foundation Cone was laid for Peace, and that every County in the Kingdom, alarmed 'at the awful &nation in which we flood, would unite in a Petition to obtain it; for Peace alone could rave this Country from abfolute ruin. Rosear Hovosos Car, Efq. advocate, is ap- Eintd Judge Admiral, in the room of BucHAN tievairatt, Efq. and ANCHTIALD CANFPNE LI., jun. Efq. advocate, fueceeds Mr. Car as one of the Conitnilraries of Edinburgh. POPISH BULL AGAINST PROFANE DRESSING Slue' new Port has dire fed his attention to the loofenefs of female drefs, and has adlually itfued a Bull againft it. To this diforder he afcribes all the evils which have afilieted Europe and deprelfed the Church of Rome. The short petticoats and the fcanty handkerchiefs of the Ladies are the to- terrines he& eaufa, with all its mifchiefs. He fays (we tranflate literally) "The' eye of a Chriftian can no where turn ttfelf without encoontering, abafhed, the difplay of feduaive charms, in pubhc and private : nay, the very temples are profaned by thefe indecencies, &c. " The importance of this objeft was deeply felt by Clement of Alexandria, who declares, that women Mould on no account be permitted to ap pear before men in indecent apparel, left the latter be led into temptation, and the former themfelves be drawn into unrighteoufnefs, when they attraft. the eyes of the other fex.' His Holinefs accord ingly has Itrialy enjoined us to reprefs free, or caporal twfifintinct, according to the circumftances of the cafe, thefe crying enormities : he direas too, that their punifhment thould be extended to fucb damfels as, though at firft fi ght they appear pro perly attired, are neverthelefs deckedintratif)arang robes, and with a voluptuous and magnificent at-• tire difplay themfelves in very fcduaive and temp ting attitudes. Moreover,fathers, hutbands, heads of families who weakly or negligently permit their wives, daughters, fervants, &c. to trefpafs againft thefe rules, !hall not cfcape with impunity. Alto, all taylors, haberdathers, milliners and men milli ners, bair-dreffers, and others who contribute to thefe enormities of drefs, (ball in no wife pats nn• punithed." The Bull goes onto Rate, that " all priells, con felTors, orerleers, church-wardens and others, (hall in no wife admit fuels delinquents to the holy fup per ; that they (hall not allow women improperly dreffed to enter the church, and if they come they (hall he driven out, and if they refill, the higher powers (hall be required to lend their aid." This Bull is dated at Rome, the i6th of Ofto bet, sBOO. In reading it, the Ladies of this coun try, feeing the oppreffion to which Catholics are fillsjed, mull congratulate themfelves in belonging to the Bcformerl Church, which fecures not only frecdoas of opinion, but freedom of drcfs I LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. a 6. PEREMPTORY PAPIR. Lord KEN vox Paid, in looking into the Peremp tory Paper, initead of going firil into the S'pecisl Paper to-morrow and Wednefday, the Court thought it would be better to give the preference for a few days to the Peremptones. As this was an iffuable Term, it would be extremely conve• merit the Peremptories ihould be all difpofed of before the Circuit came on. To-morrow, there fore, the Court would firft hear the motions, after wards the cafes in the Peremptory Papers, and then, if there was time, they would hear cafes in the Special Paper. EYRE AHD ANOTHER V. DIMMED. Mr. ERSKINE moved the Court for a Rule to thew caufe why there fhould not be a new trial in , this cafe t It was tried before Mr. Juilice LB.! BLANc and a Special Jury of Merchant., on the! 22d of December laft, at Guildhall. It was an at. 'ion brought by . the Plaintiffs againß Mr. Duns ford, a partner in a refpeClable houfe of trade in the city (Litchigary and Nephew), for the pur pale of recovering a compenfation for ?Jots which they had fuffered in confequence (as they raid) of a falfe reprefentation made to them by him of the credit and circumftances of one William Thomp fon, a Merchant at Hamburgh. The Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiffs for 7101. Mr. Erfkine, in his application for a new trial, contended with great earneftnefs and eloquence, that this cafe did not come up to the principle of any of the cafes. (about twelve in number) of a fimilar nature, which had come before the Court. He adverted to the firft cafe that had been decided (that of Pafely v. Freeman, in 3 Term Rep.) and obferv ed, that the Court had there Rated fraud and itn.; pofition as the ground of the action. But here it was fairly and honourably admitted by his learned Friends on the other fide, that there was no fraud. Mr. PARK, of Counfel for the Plaintiffs, Paid, they admitted there was no moral fraud. Mr. ERSKINE contended, that the Defendant, who had been admitted to be a man of truly re fpeCtable chara&er, had, in the opinion of the Jury, been guilty only of inadvertence, in omitting to Rate to the Plaintiffs part of the qualifications under which the houfe of Litchigary and Nephew had given Thompfon credit for 12,c001. It was not fo much for_the money that this Gentleman made that application as for his charaCter, which he was afraid might be implicated in it. Lord KFNYON—" Take a Rule to Phew caufe." Rule granted, THE KING V. BAKER. The Defendant was the Pilot of a VefTel that came from Barcelona in the autumn of z 799, and arrived at Plymouth, while there was a Procla mation of his Maje.ty in Council, direding that all Perfons on board fuch refiels Ihould perform qua rantine, under an apprehenfion that they might be infelled. The Defendant went on hoard this veffel to conduet her in, and tho' he was informed how the matter flood, yet he came on (hors contrary to the commands of the Royal Proclamation, upon which he was profecuted, and pleaded guilty. — This day he came into Court to receive judgment. Mr. Jullice Gamic told the Defendant be had been convicted of a crime of a very ferious nature. It was for going on board a (hip called the Iris, from Barcelona, in Spain, and coming on Shore without performing quarantine, conformably to ' his Majefty's Proclamation founded on an Ad of Parliament. That very wife and provident AEI of Parliament And the King's Proclamation that had been iffued on it in Oftober 5759, provided that every Pilot, or other perlon, going on board a (hip performing quarantine, (ball not at any rate return till he likewife has performed quarantine. Said his Lordfhip--" at the moment this Procla mation ailed, there was great danger in breaking that rule, and, in truth, no man can forefee the pernicious confequences that may happen if that rule Should be violated. It is not impoffible that you might have gone on board ignorant of the Rate of the (hip : and, looking at your affidavit, which I have done with great attention, I hope that was fo. Burl( it was, it is clear you were in formed before you left the (hip of a diforder being on board, and a caution was given to yon not to leave the (hip, which was totally difregarded. It' is impoffible for us, by your example, not to let the world know, that this Ad of Parliament, fo wife and fo provident, mull be obeyed and enforc ed. For the offence you have committed, this Court doth order and adjudge—that you be im prifoned in his Majeay's Gaol of Newgate for fi x Calendar Months." WHALIY O. 1100THCOTIt, BART. This was a Rule which hood in the Pelemptory Paper for this days •it was to (flew caufe why a Warrant of Attorney given by the Defendant, who is a young man of Falhion, to confefs a Judgment, fhould not be delivered up to be can celled, upon the allegation that the confideration of it was for money won in a defperate manner in gaming, and other illegal pratices, at Brighton, Tait limner ; part of which cafe is already before the Public, the whole of which 'hall be detailed in due feafon. The Court, the fall Term, having heard thesaffidavits on both fides, made an order that the Warrant of Attorney ihould remain as a fecurity for whatever might appear, if any, to be due upon the tranfitetions between the parties, but that the perfon to whom the Warrant of Attor ney was given, fhould proceed• without delay, in an Action at Law upon the vouchers which he alledged he had in ftipport of his demand, and for which the Warrant-of Attorney was given, in or der that a Jury might fee how the cafe Rood be tween the parties, and that the caufe fhould be tried in London, at the Sittings after the laR Term. Some time afterwards an application was made to the Court, on the part of the Plaintiff, to poßpone the trial of this caufe, on the abfence of a material wimefs, who was alledgcd to be then in Ireland; to which the Court aircnted, but ob ferved that, as this was a delay which came from the Plaintiff, it would be unreafonable that the Defendant &odd be kept in cuitody on that ae-1 I enttnt, and therefore ordered that he thould be dif. charged upon tiling common bal, which he 'WAS accordingly. This day,.Mr. GAILROW laid, that the parties who are the Plaintiffs in this' caul:, did all they could to. delay the trial,Thef had now made it a Special Jury, which etaried the matter over .the Term, becauf: fuel) trials were never brouzh: on at the Sittings in Term ; th e y mu t he quick -ened as much as poiEble ; but in the mean time, nothing could be done with the prefent Rule but to enlarge it.—Rule enlarged. GUILDHALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 26. This day the cafe of the Journeymen Tailors, who have Rood out fo long fur an increafe of their wages, from 255. to 301. a week, came on to be heard before Alderman BROOK Wersom (as lams totem for the LORD MAYOR), the BRCORDRR, Sir WILLIAM ANDERSON, and three other Aldermen. Mr. Guartsv, on behalf of the Journeymen, called feveral Matter Tailors who Dated, that, in ccm&quence of a,generalfiride in 1795, the wages were railed to 355. a week, which has been the general rate tinee, but that owing to the prefent prefidre that fum was not enough now. They Paid that the fairefl workmen were on an average unemployed three mounts in the year, and :hat the trade was rather declining, and the number of Journeymen diminithed fine 1795. .The COMMON SERJEANT, on behalf of the Mat ters, replied to the evidence without calling wit nefies ; but the Court, conceiving the evidence in complete, proceeded to examine three of the prin cipal Tailor; on behalf of the Matters, and three of the principal Workmen on behalf of the Jour neymen. The Mailers all (wore that they con fidered 255. a week a fair, kill, and reafonable al lowance, confidering all the citeundlances of the times. They were alto of opinion that the trade had increafed fence 1795, as alfo the number of workmen. The three workmen, on the contrary, depofed, that they could not live in comfort, and fupport their families decently, under 305. a week. They alfo gave a very fatisfaetory account oflheir houfes of call, and their general fyllem of pro ceeding. Every houfe of call had three books, on which the workmen were rated according to the length of their refidence in London; and thofe who were on the taft, or third book, could not procure employment until all thole on the preceding books were ferved. Each member paid 2d.a week at his p .. rticular houfe of call for this privilege, which tun went to create a fund for the fupport of the tick and infirm, and no others. Thoth who flruck, and would not work under 3os. were called Mar. They were alto called the hosourabie wen, and would not work on the fame board with thofe who would take lets than 305. and were called Dung:. Mr. Guam proceeded to Rate the cafe of the journeymen. He gave a detailed view of thofe cir- I cumfbnces which now rendered a rife of their wages neceffary for the fupport of their families.— He prefented a comparative tlatement of the prices of provilions at this moment and in 5795, -when the matters had, without a formal application to the Court, and perhaps illegally, railed their wages to twenty-five &filings per week, and ar gued that the proportion betwixt the price of la bour and that of every article of human fubilflence was not now fairly regulated in the cafe of his cli ents'. He went on then to thew that their em ployment was on an average not much more than eight months in the year, and that this deficiency was of great confequence to be attended to in re gulating their wages. From a confederation of the unwholefome nature of their employment, he inferred that they were not able to procure extra wages after the dole of their ufual work, and from this he concluded that 3os. per week was the (mallet furn that could be fixed upon for the regu. lar price of their labour. He then proceeded to call feveral witneas, now mailer taylors, but who had been, within a few years, journeymen, who proved that 255. a wedr had been generally paid from Mardi, 1795, up to Midfummer left, and gave it as their opinion, that this turn was not adequate in the prefent Rate of the country to the fullenance of journeymen who have.large families. Their evidence alto was explicit as to the fall of the journeymen being be twixt three and four months in the year out of employment, though they made applications regu larly for work at the houfe of call ; they teemed alto to think that the trade had decreafed much within thefe few lel years. The COMMON SZIJEANT replied at tome length and with confiderable ingenuity, to the arguments of the Counfel for the journeymen. After a Ilion confultation, Mr. Alderman Wat fon, in the name of the Court, faid, that as this caufe was of great importance, not merely to the parties more particularly interefted s but to the public in general, they wifhed to have Tome far ther information before they pronounced their final decifion. Three mailer taylors, from different were accordingly examined, who, though they differed in fame relped from the former witnelics refpeding the general increafe, both of trade and of journeymen within thefe WI years, admit ted that thofe employed as journeymen in this trade were liable to be out of cmploiment, but not for. fo long a period as that stated by the Omer witnelfes. - They allowed alloy with great candour, that fomething near ass. was due in the prefent Rate of the country. After their examination, feveral journeymen were called, whole evidence was in (sibilance frmi. lar to that given by the first witneffrs called in the caufe. They all coincided in the ftatement that the prcfent wages were infufficient, and thought that 3o shillings per week would be a fair regu lation. The evidence being doted, the Court eonfulted for Tome time, and then Mr. RICOIDER, in a (bort but very pointed fpeech, after approving of the fpirit of moderation dift.layed by the different pal. ties in the prefent difputc, at the time time inti mating that both had been guilty of illegal con. duet in not applying to the Court fooner ; and [Lacing that the Court was detcrtaiocd to profe•