Star. — London, England, 1801-12-16 00:00:00

FRI4VC NA yr. SIR, PLYMOUTH, DIC. 7. As you exprefs a with in your STAR of the tft ;off, to have your Lift of the French Navy cor rect!, I have taken upOn me to fend you what role information I have of the fubjed, in hopes kna y prevail on fome one better informed to lo be your Lift perfed, which will be a great ac tion to your Naval Readers. .You have not sot in your Lift the FOUDROYANT, 84; ARGO. NW, Scirtow, and UNION, of 74 each ; and Esessistssr of 5o guns, with the frigatcs 0v0 ,,, 0 , 44 ; ARTEMISE, 36 ; AMBUSCADE, CEDE! BAYON•ISE, 24. The CENSEUR was "'en to the Spaniards in lieu of ST. SEBASTIAN. lch e CONVENTION, GEMATFE, and TOURVILLE Ire 84, not 74 gun (hips : of thefe flips I am ft) well informed, that you may rely on my !late met. having feen feveral of them myfelf. I bave frequently obi'erved it' the lifts of French fats and fquadrons the names of the following A l ips, which I believe fill to be in their navy, ethough fome of them may have changed their 07110 : PELLETIER, 84, EMI, 74, Gesrato, 74, .10011111,714 MONTAGN•REP, 74, NESTOR, 74, Pa_ Gass, 74, PLUTON, 74,-TkAJAN, 74, T. ENT4 ,,,,, soh 7 4, Buys, 44, BRUTUS, 50, DRYADE, 40, FELICITII, 40, and NATADE, 40. The following ti t an mentioned in yonr Lift have been taken or deftroyed, and I do not think they have yet boat new ones of the fame names t CARMAGNOLE, CONCORDE, 40, CONFIANTE, 36, DIANE, 44, r iw it, 40, SURYEILLANTB, 36, and VEN fIASCg, 44. A NAVAL OFFICER. NAUTICAL .INTELLIGEIVCA. brAitsTiits DAY..—WIND Wclt 11111 1 VCD. Hamburgh, Dec. t, z Dublin, Dec. O Waterford, a • Donnaghadee. This evening the ufnal mails will be made up at the CenciA babilice for the Leeward Wands, which *lll be conveyed to the Welt Indies, lo the LADY HOBART pocket, Captain FBI: towas, now lying at Falmouth ready for fea. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 15.--The AURORA, CLEO. 'ATEA, CAROLINE, and PEARL frigates, have come into this harbour to be paid off. HARWICH, DEC. Is.—Laft night arrived the &so GEORGE packet, Captain Deane ; and this morning the EAR:. OF Lk:CESTER packet, Captain THostrsos, from Cuxhaven, with the Haniburgh and Bremen mails of the 37th ult. and ill loft.— Wind W. N. W. , YARMOUTH: DEC. 3.—Yefterday arrived his Majefty's armed brig DILIGENCE. The Good Agreement, Capt. RANDLE, from Ipf with to Hull, and the Alert, Captain WISHARD, from London to Bridrord, have put in here with goads and corn. Arrived from London the Fa vourite, KIRKEUM ; Margaretta, HOLLAND; and Nancy, Runt, : from Rochefler, the Ann, COUSINS; Catherine and Mary, ROBERTS. For titude, BUTCHER; Olive Branch, PIGEON ; On- SOW, ENGLISH; Margaret, NICHOLLS ; Amy, 4/INTON ; Lively, Bully, Friends, Indußry, Young Richard, SAT ; and Ann, GRIMBLE, with corn and goods the Bee, Bully, William, Bair 'MD New Danby, HOLLAND ; and Mary Ann, Busrow, with goods for Liverpool. Dov ea, DEC. I4.—His Eminence the Pore's Nuncio, and Cardinal ER se tit E, arrived atWright . s Hotel and Ship Inn yefterd ay , _ and alfo the Rev. Mr. O'LEARY and DoElor WGRATH : they failed for Calaii in the MINERVA, Capt. Roster HAM mown, who had eight other pattengers :—Mrs. HAGER, Mr. DE ROGER, M. A. C. Da NtsAs, and Mr. R. J. Wool) ; the names of four others I could • not learn. Yeftcrday arrived the Elizabeth, Capt. Vitiate, having been blav-n into the Downs ; he landed fume Englifh yaffengers in the Downs, and ten foreigners here.—Wind N. N. E. blows bard.—P. S. DRESSING, the King's Mellinger, is jail arrived to embark fur Calais. DISTRIBUTION OF MIZE-MONEY. The BOADICEA, for the El Rcyno Duno Spanilh packet, will be paid on board the Boadicea, at Pottfmouth, on Friday the t Bth inflant. The Cools Fr/tart, for the neutral fhip Con- Rantia, will be paid at the Qtyen's Head, Theo bald's-road, on Saturday the igth infiant. To the CAMILLA, for the capture of the Jcune Arnie, the Speculation, and le Vigoreuz, a dif tribution of the fold prizes will be made on board the Camilla, on her arrival in port. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Nonpareil, ROSCITER, front Biiftol, for New York, has been &fated at lea, being in a finking Rate. The Dolphin, FRANKS, fiom St. I.The's for Stockholm, was lot/ near Fladfirand, on the 3d of November.' DEAL, DEC. t3.—Sailed the Elizabeth, Valiant, Agenoria, and the Robert, tranfports, for Dept ford. Wind W. GRAVESEND, DEC. s:=Sailed tbe Arniarin, MAJORIBANRS for India Caroline, HAT LS, for St. Kitt's; Stint) lkil, THOMPSON, for the Cape de Verde; Jane Peters, ---, for Ana:l-dam ; Lord Delavall, RICHARDSON ; and Ann, WAN. DEW, for Jamaica. ARRIVED At Dartmouth—The New Providoste, Williams, from New- ((woodland. At Milford--Prlncefs Royal, Heatlcy, from Newfoundland. At Brißol—Mary, Prattle, from Newfoundland; Agate'', Hoop, and jam —, from Lifbom At I.lterpool.—An'ent. RH:v. fmrn terftwurgh ; Si: cif. Parker, from Nova; and Either, James, from the Baltic. At Cowcs.—.The America, Stone, from Virginia. lb the I.Nnana—Birmingham, frrni 13altimnre. At lloylake.—Maria, (win Barc.:Jon.i; And Apollo, from Malaga. At Lowritoff—Nelly, Reid, from Pcterthurgh. At Cadiz—Minerva, Winter, tram at foundl •nd. At Ntartinique—Prnrin Galley, johr.fon, (lulu London. At Sevitle—Mary, Nkracinald. from I,midon. At Snordcaux—Adremura, Fitch, from I ounder.. At Itarantc—Fanny, Tate, from Landon. At Madeira .George and Br:dem, Stoddart, from Q2.1-ce ; nuifa, Morgan ; Amelia,Palmer ; Nautilus, Findlay ; ask: Wotionettiy, Love, from London. I..Olicat—Nancy, Kibbe, from Leedom EAST lIMIA SMPEING. Yellerday a Court of Diretlors of the Eacl- India Company was held at the India-Houfe, which Ad journed to this day at twelve o'clock. The Honourable the Court of Directors have or dered the follow N.,g (hips to he in the Dawns on the Loth of next month, viz i—The ALNWICK CASTLE, Capt. CHARLES ELTON PRESCOTT ; the CIRENCES TER, Capt. THOMAS ROBERTSON, and a new (hip of Izoo,tons, Capt. JAMES Twsloat.r, for MA• dras and China. Aim a new (hip of 1200 tons, Capt. ANDREW HANNAV,for St. Helena and China. ThECOROMANDLL, PERSE S,ATLAS, and ROLLA, which are engaged by Government to go to Botany Bay, are to take in a cargo at China, after per forming the above fervice, on account of the Ho nourable Company. The neW (hips lately launched for the Honour. able EaR-India Company's fervice this feafon are, the DAVID SCOTT, MARCHIONES3 Of EXETER, BAKING, MARQUIS Of ELY, and ALNWICK CASTLE. Only two more Mips remain to be named. Letters received yefterday from the ADMIRAL PASLEY, of 14 guns, and so men, commanded by Lieut. W. WOOLRIDGE, dated the totkult. at Gibraltar, (late her faie arrival there with her ivell-earned prize, a Spanifh xebec, of 22 guns, and irro men. Lieut. WOOLRIDGC was wounded in the breafl, but is recovering fait, on board the hofpital (hip, at Gibraltar. Mr. LYON, the mailer, died of hi. wounds in carrying to the hofpital ; the carpenter, gunner, and two feamen died of their wounds; feven men were alfo badly wound- ed, but likely to recover. The following is an extraft of a letter from Commodore DALE, who commands the (mall American fquadron lately tent by the United States into the Mediterranean I am happy to inform you, that Mr. STFERET, in the fchooner ENTIMPRISE, of is guns and 9c• men, fell in with OM of the Tripoline cruifers off this ifland (Mal ta.) She mounted 1¢ guns and 8o men. He took her after an aftion of duet hours, killed 20 of her men, and wounded 30. Not a man hurt on board the fchooner. The BEY'S cruifers have not taken any of our merchant veffels as yet." It is aid that molt coma and prefling applica tions have been made to Miniiters by the French Government to permit the immediate failing of the expeditions now ready for fea at Breft and other ports of the Republic, for St. Domingo and the Eaft-Indies. The permillion will not, however, it is believed, be granted previoufly to the fi gning of . . the definitive treaty. A letter from St. Peterffiurgh, dated roth No vember, fays—" The tall week has been the moll tremendous weather in our recolleftion, and has completely flopped all bufinefs ; one hundred fail of Britith (ups are ready for fea—the !trees are covered with (now, but we troll they will yet get away. A new tariff is expected by the 111 of Ja nuary—the alterations are not vet known. Goods continue high (hemp excepted, which, in confe quence of the peace, has fallen about 255. per cwt.) Several flips loading for France." DISTRESS AT SE 1.-111 C following is an Extra& of a Letter from Wit. Haswoon, Carpenter of the Albion of Scarborough, Capt. GRAY, bound from Memel to Hull : " \Ve failed from Memel on the 24th 061),bcr, and made Bornholm on the 28th, brought up, and lay at anchor until the 3oth. Got under weigh, and plied to windward all that night, and part of the next day. In the following evening the wind became moderate and in our favour, left the north end of die Bland between fix and feven o'clock. Shortly after the wind blew very ftrongly from the weßward; we double-reefed our topfails, wore ship, and flood to the eaftward all that night, with thong gales. 'At eight in the morning, Atholm bore S. W. 3 leagues. The gale increaling, took the forefail and fore-topfail in, laid by under main• topfails ; but the thy would not bear it—and in clewing up the fails they blew in pieces. " The wind WAS now fo (rung, that the (hip laid half main deck in the water, which cleared the deck of every thing moveable ; making a deal of water, all bands were employed at the pumps, but to little purpofe. We need every exertion to wear lip, but our fails were blown to shivers as loon as !milled. Our mailer and the crew then thought proper to threw the mainmalt overboard, but this had no effect on our fituation. The mat= ter and myfelf went aloft to cut the lee rigging, but were forced to return, the wind blowing to ffrong that the flip lay with her malls in the water. We were then obliged to get upon her broadfide, in doing which tinee of our boys were (wept off; one of them was drowned ; the other two,' by great exertions, recovered the Blip. " All hopes of life were given up, but, Hefted he GOD, he did not forfake us, for after we had been about an hour upon her broadfide, with the I heavy fea, and the (hip working ft) much, our fore-malt, howfprit, and maintop-mall went away, and the (Lip righted to much that we could with difficulty (land upon deck. The (hip being full of water, and the gale Rill continuing, we were every moment in expedation of being walled overboard, the fea making a clear pall - age over her. In this fituation we remained from the 3d of November to the 9th, almoll drowned and per ail ed with cold, without a morfel of food, eacept Come few tallow candles, which were eaten by the crew and nryfelf. Several veffcls pafied us in the interval, but the fea running fo high, they could render us no alli (l ance. " About noon on Sundny, the 9th of Novem ber, Providence fo ordered it, that the brig Cadiz Packet, Capt. 'Fermi-novo), hound to London, hove in fight, and chi - covering our fignals, bore down upon us in a heavy lea. They immediately I floated out the long boat, Cause under our lee, and flung a rope made fall to the b o at , b y which we hauled it clofc alongtide, until we were enabled to get in ; but the fea running In high, it was with great diffieulty we kept the boat fi tan filling. We all got fate on b:)artl the Cadiz Packet, to the number of twelve perfons, and were landed at Elfineur ; but from the great hardthips we had n idergone, eight of our crew were obliged left in the hofpitals a t that p lace. I fhall not dwell any longer on our fufferings, but you may .judge they were extreme.". tallC4V 11 , 1.44 CA Gi At Mark-Lane; this morning, a confiderable -quantity cf Grain has arrived—Wheat unaltered, Barley and Oats rather lower—Other articles as on Monday. Assize op Bann.—Yellerday, at noon, the Kilter mid Wardens of the Company of Bakers attended the Lou-. MAYOR, at Guildhall, to fet the Mize of Bread, when 11:s Lordfhip ordered the Mize of Bread to be lowered half an aflize, or td. in the peck loaf. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. I S . CRICHTON V. STEVENS. This affion was to recover a compenfation in da mages for the lofs fuftained by the Plaintiff, occa fioned by a flii? of the Defendant's running foul of his (hip in Tortola Bay. The accident happened on the night of the 3d of July. At that time the homeward-bound Weil India Pleet lay in the Bay, waiting for convoy, among which was the Defendant's brig, the Speed. well. The manner of the accident it is rather dif. fieult to Rate by there recital, infomuch that the Connfel produced a large plane of palleboard, with feveral little models of (hips, to Phew the PE T the track, and mode of cotillion between the two. (hips. Mr. Guess, who led on the part of the Plaintiff, (latest, that the brig Speedwell was flatinnary at anchor, and that the Defendant's fhip, the Ca lypfo, was coming into the Bay, having the full command of her fails with an eafy gale and (month fea,. and by mere negligence run f ul of the brig. To prove this cafe, he caned fome of the Seamen of a (hip lying not far dittant, who corroborated this • Ilatement. • Mr. Atlanta EY OENERAL, on the part of the De fendant, Rated, that the negligence was on the part of the brig ; that (he was drifting, and her crew took no means to prevent it. Captain Reed, of the Ark, the flip neareß to the fcene of the accident, gave the following ac count of it :—On the night of the 3d of July, being moonlight, lie faw the Speedwell lying 40 or so fathom a-head of him ; thr wind was eafterly, and (he was lying with her head to the wind; her fails were all clewed up, but not furled ; (he was at an chor, but drifted. He did not fee the Calypfo till the brig had drifted allern of him ' • (he came fo near him as the drove, that he could have touched her with his hands from his own (hip ; the drove pall his ftarboard fide ; the Calypfo was in the di ration to his larboard quarter, fo as to pafs under his ftern ; his Ili he believed, hid the brig from the Calypfo. lie heard a voice from the brig, calling to the Calypfo to put her helm a-port, to which an anfwer was returned by the Calvpfo, that their helm was hard a-port. The Speedwel had been drifting eight or nine minutes, and he gave it as his opinion, that when they found them felves driving, they ought to have let go a ferond anchor, but he thought that their tingle anchor would have brought them up, if they had paid away fufficient cable. The Calypfo did all that could be done to avoid the accident; fhe could not with propriety have gone ahead. ' Vim. Portman, Mate .of the Ark, gave the fanie account, with the addition that they got up handfpikes to prevent her driving foul of the' Ark. Captain Eddingtnn, of the Calvpfo, laid be was I going to take his birth within fi de the Ark ;he ' was under fore top-fail, mizen top.fail, and gib ; his fore-fail, main-fail, and main top-fail were dewed up. He faw the brig on the Ark's bow, and feting all her fails dewed up, lie fuppofed Rae was fafe at anchor, but (he was drifting ; he pal: fed under the Ark's ftern, and then he faw the brig opening ; he immediately put his helm hard a-port, (hivered his mizen top-fail, and filled the gib, in order to wear (hip, but the brig drove faller than they wore, and fo the accident happened. Capt. Robinfon and another witnefs gave the fame account. Lord Ks KYON obferved, that the Plaintiff mutt (hew blame on the part of the Defendant to en title him to recover damages for the accident. If there was none, it was an accident, like many others in life, which malt he borne with patience. H e had, from long attendance in that place, learn ed a few priuciples, which ought to govern in fetch caufes. Thus it was an admitted principle, that when one (hip was itationary, and another in mo tion, with the full. command of her fails, it was the duty of the latter to avoid the former. He confeffed, that upon the opening and evidence of the Plaintiff's cafe, he thought it very profperous for his demand. It was a light night, calm wea ther, and the (hip reprefented fafe at anchor; but he confeffed, that thc evidence on the !other fide had materially altered his opinion. The whole point of the cafe was, he thought, that Raternent of the Plaintiff which was negatived by the De fendant, that the Speedwell had not moved till the Calypfo run foul of her. It was now clear, from the moll imbiatred teflimony, that (he had been di ifting.—Verdia for the Defendant. Las rots V. RE FYI. This was alfo a Special Jury Cattle. It was upon a Policy of Infurance upon the (hip Friend- fhip, at and from Lifbon to London, warranted to fail with convoy. 'I he only quaion in tile caufe was, whether the did actually fail with convoy ? Capt. Foi relief., of the Friendfhip, laid, he came from Mogadore, in Barbary, to Li(bon, with tkins, (hipped by Wills. ben Jacobs, merchants there. His veffel wss then in good condition; he failed I from Litbon on the z3d of Novcmbcr, the Friday before he had received failing inttrations from Capt. Gould, of the Audacii.t.s • it was on the Sunday morning, about feven o'clock, he law the fignal to get under weigh ; about nine o'clock he got under. weigh ; two of his (new had deferted, and he was obliged to cut one cable, and leave an anchor, hecaufe he could not purchafe it; the Commodore was lying off Cafcar Bay ; he got up to him about noon ; ne continued near till twelve o'clock at night, which was the tall time he faw his light; lie was near enough to give and receive fign..ls; a thick fog and a heavy gate cam: on mar nips, AIM lit SIC • •I% to The lois of convoy was not wiltul on his part. He then Reered N W. for England, and no the 30th, he was captured by a Spani(h privates; he and fame of his crew were lent to Lifb , -n. He uncle/Rood his fhip wffi re-captured. The neat time he law her was at Viana, in Porn/ pi ; her Iheathing was knocked off, and her plarks much damaged ; the was fold by the Conful fur the be nefit of the Owners.—Upon crofs-examination, he laid, he never had told Capt. Taylerfon, that he did nut intend to fail with that convnt, but he had laid to him, that he did not think he fhould be able to get under weigh. A Capt. Kennel, or the Sea Nymph, and Capt. Godfrey, a paffenger in the - Mentor, both Rated that they law the Ftiendfltip in the convoy. Mr. ERSNINE, on the part ,of the Deendant, Rated a converfation between Captains ForrePer and Taylerfon, in which the former declared that he Ihould not fail with that convoy, and derived him to deliver rt. pair of terms he had lent him to his owners. Ca r tain Taylerfon was called, who fpoke to the above converfatian, and alio :Laded, that he , never law the Friendfhip in the convoy—they were in all about 40 or so th:p.. Lord KF row laid there tEclarationt am-ninted to nothing; the only cpteßion was, whether the fhip failed with convoy ? three witneffes had fwora that the did.,—Verdia for the Plaintiff. 14ARBILT O. ,111.1.1NDELL. This was as aetion upon the warranty of a horfe. The fans of the tiafe as Rated by Mr. Glass, and as afterwards appeared in evidence, Were as follow :—On the t 7th of July the Plai tiff purchafed the mare of the Defendant for thirty guineas, w u ran el found, and free rum vice or blemifh. She was taken to Fox's Livery Stables on the 27th, and remained there till the 29th, doing no work thofe days, but being only exere:i fed. On the latter day the was fent to the Plain tiff's own (table at Pentonville, where the contintaid till the t ath of Anglia, and then for the tird time the was put in a light chair, in order to go a journey to Gravefend. It was found that the mare was then very ill, and performed the journe. wish difficulty inaday—fhe remained two days a: Gi.a fad, where, all polible care was taken of her, and on the third the came back to town. F.:9ly in S.Ptember the died, and upon being opened, it was found that the had the dropfy in the cheil. Cutler there circumliances he contended, that the mare could not be confidered as found when. the was bought. Chriftopher Dawes was prethnt when Mr. Har belt bought the mare, and gave an account of the manner of performing the journey to Grave cud. He drove all the way. It was with great difficulty and diftrefs that the mare performed the journey. When he returned, be told the Defendant the Rate of the mare, who promifed that he would come to look at it, but he never did. Mr. Fox, the livery-(table keeper, gave the fame account as opened by Mr. Gibbs. George Merredew raid, the mare was under his care from the 29th of July to the t nth of Auguft ; when the went the journey to Gravefend. She had never been worked at that time, but only ex ercifed. He was preient at her opening. She died of the dropfy ; the heart was not bigger than his Mi. IL thought it muft be an old complaint, of reven or eight months (landing. He had Come knoWledge of horfes, as he drove the Iflington Rage, and 44 of his own died in four years. Bate, a farrier, and Moore, a horfe-flarighterer, gave the fame account. On the pirt of the defendant witneffes were called, who traced the mai c back for two years, and by their tettimony it appeared that the mare had been found all that time. Mr. Colman, Profdlhr of the Veterinary Col lege, laid, the fame effels which the witneas had defcribed, might take place in a fhort (pace. The difnrdcr was rarely of long (landing. The fmall nefs of the heart might attic from the preftirre of the water in the elicit upon the pericordium. A mare under fuch circurnitances would perform a journey to Gravefend with great labour and dif trefs. Mr. Bond, Veterinary Surgeon to the Duke of Clarence, coincided in opinion with Mr. Colman. Lord Kstrvorr thought Mr. Colman', evidence put an end to the cattle ; he Paid a horfe with water in the alert would perform a journey to Grav-e -lend with difficulty anddillrefs. The witnefs had Rated, that the mare did go through that journey with very great difficulty. One of the Jury raid the fame nhfervation had (truck them.—Verdia for the Plaintiff. Lail week, Ann Norman, a woman fiippofed in. great povei ty, died fuddcnly at Ipfm ieh • on th ip ping her, there were too guineas lea nd loved up in her cloaths, and property to the amount of be tween five and 6ocl. found conceded in diff.:reat parts of her apartment. There is now living at Hillhead, in the Parifh of Acivcafile, in Cumbe-land, a widow in her hun dredth year, in perfat health and fpitits ; her hair which had fallen off fcvcral years ago, is grow- I in& again, and referable% the flaxen locks of a child, and what is equally fingular, the has lately cut feveral new teeth. Latt Saturday a parcel of failov, arter receiving their wages, hired a coach, in which they put a fidler and a grinder of mufic, to play to them : while they rode on the ontlide, in their wild frolic, one of them fell on the pavement in Ratcliffe High way, when be was much bruited. They pnt hint into the conch, :old drove away with as much glee as if nothing had happened. Lau week a: a couple was going to be married at Sheffield parith church, the bridegroom was un expeeedly areefled by a wife, from whom he had not yet been divorced by Death or Dators Com mons. The poor fellow, terrified at this unwel come apfsarition, infiflcd on being married to his new b r id e , as he was determined never to acknow ledge the old one. The Clergyman, however, de dined to qualify him for tranfportatioa, though the unhappy man fwore that he would Conner en- Pt+. for a foldire than return to his former wife.. IMMO