Star. — London, England, 1801-03-10 00:00:00

lINITIC4fL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wiad E. • AILRIVItO • o Hamburgh 2 Dublir, March s, 6, • Wactrford,March 5, • Dounaghadec, March 6, • Guerofey o Jerky FALMOUTH, MARCH 7. DUE. Irefterday appeared off this port, his Majefty's fhip Imerrusux, Capt. Sir E. Psi -taw, Bart. and failed again this morning on a Cruize.:—Put back this evening, by contrary wind, the !Urn,' floop of war, with a fleet of coafters for the Downs : they failed laft evening—Arrived this day the London Packet, armed (hip, from a cruize.— Sailed the Pelmet of Wet. es Packet, Capt. TODD, with the Mails of the 17th and 24th ult. Wm.- sincHem Packet, Capt. ROBANTS, with the Mail of the 3d inftant, for Lifbon, air() the TOWNSEND Packet, Capt. DODD, with the fecond Weft India Mail of Lit month, for the Leeward Wands ; the Stan, (loop of war, with the (hips Ander fon, Capt. Mos.st, and the Rattler, Capt. Wit son, under convoy for Africa.—Yefterday failed the'Amiiican (hip Catharine, Capt. Moose, for Flufhing; and, on Wednefday laft, the American (hips, Charles, Capt. THOMAS, for Amfterdam, Fox, Capt. , Kisumu., for Haunburgh, and the Truxton, Capt. Cu tdBEILLND, for Rotterdam: the American (hip, America, Capt. CONOSSY s from Philadelphia, for orders, with hides, coffee, fugar, &c. arrived here on Thurfday tall. Wind Eaft. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9. Arrived the LIBERTY armed-brig, with a con voy from jerfey.—Sailed the Sr. GEORGE cutter, with a convoy for the Downs. SHEERNESS, MARCH 9. Sailed yefterday, his Majefty's armed fhip AL slow, Captain HILL, and this morning the Sul.- !NUR bomb vac], Captain WHITTLE, for Yar mouth. Cattle into harbour the PLUMPER gun brig. Arrived this day from the river Thames, the HINDUSTAN of S 4 guns, Captain Mu Locit. The Inimical.' of 74 guns, Rear Admiral Torn and the LATOMA t and TERPSICHORE frigates, and rt a, fire !hip, are equipping for fea with all pa& ble difpatch, and will be ready to failin a few days. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DIAL, Matitu 9.—Arrived the Gull floop from a eruize and remains.—Wind W. S. W. GRAVRIEND, MARCH o.—PatrCd by the Alert, Txomrsos, from Dunkirk.—Sailed the SIR STE PHEN LUSHINOTON, Gooch, for India; Cleopa tra, Btawaorac ; Geode Vrow, —, Anna Ma- rigs &AKAR, and Atalanta, Hamburgh; Leander, —, for Madeira, Sampfon, for New York, and Planter, CONNOR, for Virginia. LIVERPOOL. NLitteft 5. The Lydia, Capt. Maas, was well at Norfolk the loth Jan. and waiting for men. The Betfey, Capt. MAltv is, front hence for Virginia, foundered off the Capes; crew raved. The Thomas, Capt. WINDER, from Martinique, arrived here yellerday, in 31 days. Sailed in company with the Clio, Capt. COl/ PL AND: the Pe nelope, Capt. TATHAM, and Young Ralph, Capt. Roy Le, failed In company with the above veffels, and parted two days ago. The Friends, —, from Liibon for this port, is captured, and carried into Vigo. The Sally, HAMILTON, from hence for Africa, was captured the sgth Auguft, in lat. Is. N. long. 21. W. by three privateers, and tent for the river Plate. Capt. HAMILTON is arrived at Lilbon. The Alfred, Fovr va, from hence At Martinique, 3cth Dec. me lame, Moo N, from hence at Barbatloes. The C.l.LitcOt CaftiC, SMIT ; ctlectl, /CU.:NAN; Neptune, ; Mary Ann, KiNSAN, from hence, at Dona- C AAAAAA LL, from Africa, at do. to; Christopher, RoAtH, front ditto, at Surinam, and going Young Ralph. Rov t a, from do. at Martinique, and i Ser raft, from do. at Surinam.—The Either Linde, —, from do. At do. and fills tlicre.—Thc Nancy, ...•.14 , .‘ it LL, from Jo. for J int:ilea, railld St. Vincent's, 9th lan.--a*lo. Nanny, 011t‘A .4, from ditto, at do.--The ~)Li N. tram do.--The Akvami, r, Pt c row, was weU t• .ITir di,Bth November.—Thc Kitty, Muauuru, front hence • do.—lhe Fr iensifhip, Gal rrt s, from hervc for St. Vincent's, • Cork.lhe Hilton, —, frusta Latin for this port, at Loylake. NEWCASTLE, MARCH 7. The-French privateers and fasugglers are as nu .:serous on the Esti coati r.,s ever. One of them, a lugger, had the audacity to continue for two or three hours fall Satnrday forenoon jull without tie reach of the guns of Tcncmouth Cafllc, where c sistured and carried cast .erwi. k Oans as the tide would allesV her, the VALETTA titrt•l bri;; cutter failed from Shields in purfuit of the privx.cer and prize, but we have not heard of si.ll2r being taken. Taefday afternoon, his Majefly's Suss/ton, Captain Pa r:.11, failed from Leith Roads for Nor. vrzy, for the avowed piirpofc of bringing the Ed. icar, HYI.II froin Stavanger ; the Robert and Margaret. GilEy. from Christianthund ; and what other En!difh prizes he may find in the Norwegian ars.—A few mote Inch aai-..e (hips as the ssvos an.l die Jsr.noss, would foun fweep the North Seas of French privateers. On Saturday morning' laft, the Add:ion, Capt. COOP, It, a Berwick Smack, laden with floor, cheefe. which had been taken the day before by French privateer, was obferved in Sunderland Roads, becalmed, when a foy.lsoat went off to her, not knowing (he was in polliffion of the enemy; when, on coming alongfide the vettel, the French-1 men threatened to fire upon them : Upon which ti cy returned, but, meeting two otherboats, agreed in coajuattion to attempt the recapture of the fmaek ; when the Frenchmen obferved the three boats rowing towards them, they tool to their boat and abandoned their prize, which is now lying talc in Sunderland harbour.—The owners of the fmack have generoully rewarded the boatmen with zoo!. LEITH, MARCH,. By a letter from Berwick, we learn, that the: Ceres Berwick'fmack, has been retaken, and car ried into Shields. The RATTLE gun-veffel failed from Leith Roads on Monday fe'nnight, as convoy to a certain dif tance for veffels bound for the whale fithing• On Wednefday a valet belonging to Berwick, during a hard gale at S. E. was put on Blom on the lands at Montrofe ; the hands were with diffi cult?' landed ; anci in an hour after the veffel went to pieces A few days fince we Rated, that two frigates, the one mounting 4o guns, had under favour of hazy weather eluded the obfervation of nur fqua dron off nothing, and put to lea, fuppOfed to be defined fcr Dunkirk. On their paffage, however, they fell in with the SOLLBAY frigate, of 32 guns, which obliged them to return, and • chaced them into Fluthing. One of the enemy's Ihips loft her rudder, and was otherwile fo much damaged as to be obliged to go into dock. • On Wedneiday laft one of our cruizers looted into Flufhing, and faw one of there Ihips, and the Pluto of 64 guns, ready for lea. There were, like wife, a (loop, flip-rigged, mounting 18 guns ; two large fchooner gun-boats, each carrying two 18- pounders forward, and two 12-pounders aft ; aid a lugger, formerly the Growler English gun-veffel ; each of the latter having so men. About two miles above the town there was a large gun-brig and fome (mailer craft, but not in apparent for wardnefs. Another of our cruizers on Thurfday laf looked into Goree, and counted nine fhifis of war, four of which were of the line. Excepting the guard-!hip, they were all ready for fea. Arrived at Gibraltar, on the 26th ult. four Englifh !hips and a brig, under the efcort of a frigate, the former of which had troops on board. On the 28th, there failed twelvq !hips of the fame nation, under convoy of a frigate, with troops to the F..;flward. On the 3oth, there paired by to the Weftward an Englifh frigate, with four iratifports under her proteeion. The naval force at prefent there, confifts of two frigates of 4o guns each, two gun-boats, and a Portuguefe frigate of 44 guns. Letters from America (tate, on the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, that the INlVl curr frigate, of 36 guns, and PICICSLING, of 14 guns, have been toil. The Harmony, Capt. FLoun, from Falmouth to Newfoundland, with provifions, is taken, and carried into St. Maloes. _ _ _ The Forbes, —, from Dublin to Jamaica, is on (bore at Cork. . Captain ROWLEY is appointed to command the BOADICEA, vice Captain KEATS. The Taptter, —, (an Anierican) from Hon duras to Charlefton, is taken by the RATTLER (loop, and carried to Jamaica. The Mary, Capt. NICHOLAS, from New York to Ireland, is abandoned at fea ; crew taken on board the Hope, from Charlefton, and arrived at Clyde. The Albion, CaptCluistssas, from London to Madeira, is taken, and carried into Nantes. A Dann veffel taken into Calais by the Don QLiizote privateer, hasbeen ordered by the French Council of Prizes to be rettored, and her Captain paid for the damage. Fourteen men, lately preffed by the AINEOS. CADE frigate, out of the Loan NELSON privateer at Plymouth, have been returned to her by order of Sir T. Past.sy, the Port Admiral. Le Diable a Q!atreprivateer, of t 8 guns, prize to the THAMES frigate, has been purchafed by Go vernment for 25501. ezclufive of her guns and (lore& A very formidable Fleet h now collated in Yarmouth Roads. Lord Nstsoi, with his divi lion, arrived there on Sunday, and the whole are expelled to fail in a few days for the Baltic, under the command of Admiral Sir Hroa PARKER. Lord NaLsores (hips took on board, while in the Downs, a great number of flat.bottomed boats, and feveral pieces of heavy battering artillery. On board this Fleet are diftributed two Companies of the Rifle Corps, under the orders of Colonel STEW. ART, the 49th regiment commanded by Colonel BROCK, and a detachment of artillery. There troops are intended to augment the Marine force ; and to be employed in making dcfcents, as circum fiances may require. While ailing on land, the whole are to be under the orders of Colonel STEWART. An article in one of the loft Paris Papers Rates, that the Estrtana of GERMANY has ratified the Treaty of Luneville, and fcnt it to the Diet of Ratifbon, for its approbation. Peace was publicly proclaimed in the city of Vienna, on the 16th ult. The Civil Code, in the formation of which the able.l Lawyers in France, TaoNcH sr, PORTA LIS, Sec. have for feveral months been employed, has been prefented to the FIRST CONSUL, who has fignified his approbation of it. He has referred the Code to the examination of the Vrihmaal de Col lation, whence it will be fent to the Legislative Body. A letter from Calcutta, dated ()Etcher 18, lays, " Major GERRARD has been appointed Adjutant. General, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, via Colonel Dust dcceafcd. The famous General Maavutr, who brought over a regiment of the enemy to our army in India, died at Lucknow or the 18th September, and has left 3o Licks of ru. pees (upwards of 4.00,000 l.) the greatcil part of which he has bequeathed for the foundation and fupport of charitable and literary eilablithments in India. His own houfe, which was one of the greaten curiofities in India, being built more in the form of a fortification than a dwelling-houfe, he has ordered to be converted into a mafffoleum, in the middle of which he is to be buried.—A fum of 12,0001. is appropriated for its fupport and re- KELSO. MARCH S. It with a mixture of indignation and Mame. that ted relate the fiiccefs of another attempt a• wilful fire railing in this town. It tonk place op the evening of Monday, betwixt eif•ht and nine o'clock, in a barn-yard at the Townhead, belong ing to Gl:Attar KILPATRIC R, carrier betwixt Kelly and Edinburgh. Two flacks were fet on fire, one of which, notwithftanding the prompt affillance of the fire-engines. was almolt entirely confilmcd. The other was Paved from the flames, but fie mush injured in the removal as to be suite (toiled- It providentially happened that the wind blew in fid a direction as to carry off the flunes from the honfi! , lying at the back of the flack-yard : had vine: changed, the confequences mull have been id: e.g.! ful, almoft the whole of the adjoining proper!) be ing covered with thatch. The wind bei::g then favourable, the conflagration was got untie: with out any further damage than the lo 's of the flacks, which had been tnfurcd a few days befor e We lament to Plate that nothing has yet tranf pired to lead to the difeovery of the execrable in cendiary, although he Was f:en by a maid-fcrvaia running off from the fpnt, immediately after the perpetration of the nefarious aft. This young woman defcribcs him as a tall man, (hefted in a light•coloured long coat. What meafures remain to be adopted, which may afford to this difmayed town the chance of fafety,we really are unable to difcover. High rewards have already been offered, accompanied by an offer of pardon from the Throne ; a nightly guard is abroad, who enter upon their ditty at feven o'clock each evening, and continue in the vigilant execution of it till fix the next morning. In fbort, every precaution is taken which the liveliefl feeling of the mifery of our fituation can fuggcfl, and yet the infernal mifchief furrounds us, and each night continues to be (pent in watching, anxiety, and alarm. , Friday two young men, who had enlilled with a recruiting party of the 4th regiment of foot, in Reading, came to the (hocking refolutian of cut ting off their fingers,• to render themfelves unfit for the fervice ; to effea it, they repaired to a tomb-flone in St. Mary's Church-yard, on which, with a knife, they deliberately cut off the fore and next finger of each other's right hand. As loon as their wounds are healed, they will be marched to the regiment and punifhed. A chaffeur was lately tried before the Tribunal dr Saintes. When brought before the Judges he appeared with a crape on his arm, and being asked by the Prefident the reafon, he alledged that, " he was fearful no one would mourn for him atter he was dead, and he had therefore thought proper to pay himfelfthat rcfpat while he was Rill alive." He then Tung a funeral ditty on his own deccafe, to the great difcompofure of Monfieur le Preli. dent and the Tribunal. A Spanifh deferter was lately hung at Barce lona, having been taken on board an Engliih pri• vatcer. As the corpfe was carried to the grave, it was obferved to move, and the people who took an interea in his cafe, cried, " a Miracle, a Mira ek," which was compleated by the affiliance of a Surgeon; and the man, who was cook on board !hip, went to his work the next day. A ferious conteft has arifen in France, which has fince been made the fubjeet of Judicial Inter ference, between the Poulterers of Mans, and thole of la Fleche. The latter have appealed to a Court of Juitice, to decide Juridically, how far the fowls which have been called, as they contend, impro perly, Mans Pullets, are indebted by the fi de of the Cock, to thofe of la Fleche for their excellence? A Memorial has been drawn up on the fubje9, and a eonfultation has been held by the molt cele brated French Lawyers, among whom are Gar a s z, BLAQ3II, Lx BON, and CHA. LAG•RDII. A letter from Ennis, in Ireland, dated Februaty 26, lays, " in confequence of the rapid rife in the price of all kinds of provifions in this town, parti cularly meal, the principal fuftenance of the poor at prefent, and which they chiefly attribute to the great quantities fent out of the country, a large mob on Tuefday night broke open two flores to the fuburbs of this town, in which were contained a large quantity of barley and oatmeal int..nded to be fent away, and in a fliort time entirely emp tied them of what they contained. Yeftcrd.iy they went to the mills of Ennis: as loon as their in. tentions were known, the Longford Militia drums immediately beat to arms; but, by the timely in terference of Tome Gentlemen with the leaders of the mob, they quietly difperfed without there being any neceflity for calling out the military." CONCRETE LENON Jutcs.—Mr. Cferwrt.t., of Temple-Bar, having been given to underhand that form other Acid has been fold for Concrete Lcmon Juice, feels it nceeffary to obferve, that he is per. mined to refer to the higheft Authorities in this kingdom for the purity of that prepared by him. fell; and he trufts that the pre•aution of eigning every package with h:s name and in his own hand writing, will afford fufficient fecurity againft im pofition, to thcfc who than be &limn to make ufc of this convenient and elegant preraration. ENGLISH STATE LOTTERY. Seventh day. No. 58,545, a Prize of ioool.—No. 52,179, a Prize of cool.---Nes. 9,783, 8 ,935, 1 4, 8 07, Prizes of pl. EIGHTH-DAY.—No. 55,437, drawn a Prize of tool. WAS fold, (hared, stnd regiflered, at Ds cat- MOND'S Lucky-Office, No. 65, Flcet-Jrcet, where No. 57,436, drawn the fecond day a Prize of toool. was alio fold ard fhared ; and alto No. 41,709, a Prise cf sool.—Tickets ani Shares zontinue on felt in the greatefl variety of Numbers. Undrawn Tickets and Shares are felling every day front 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, and from 2 to $ o'clock in the evening, At the old ellabliffied Offices of T. BaSH, No. 4, Cornhill, London, Man che(cr, and Edinburgh. STATE OF THE WHEEL. 6 Prizes ri 4.2rocr II Pr:ICI of 4. 3.4..,:c0 I Ditto acpco 9 Ditto 2 poo 3 Ditto motto I t;* Ditto Sto 3 I)itto 5. 000 &t. itc. LAW IrTELLICENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAD, MARCH S. ( - Ft rM V. L? I,H A• 411 Asi. , THER. Mr. Se: an: r. n;•e::: I tlle Plaintiff's cal:, nine! v; Y.-as .1 Ca , of very c t•; rlle tt 4,1 c :e of this country, ate! o ti;c have a verdiCt (et eti_ait eat nati , ll- ' 11 ;.illar; . v:; Th e :.I,.prusto, a 7..lerchan;, rellui;•,7, dC l'aoi ;.••, 1 ,, (4 . the Dekil. ..1 VV.C, ~ cite: : :, h l M.•rchants at Liverpoot, the Brea of 241:i. :a.d:r •:i:cuoutances:—A. I , .;•?ea ;:1 a :argo of which the 'A:fen:dints c. arrived off th e Suf~ coati ia geea. th.irei;•. '1 he Plan:tiff, anunj; other', went cat is a and got on hoard this !hip, when be rfaa..!...: : Carain to 11:;:: a Power of Attor:::. ; . on him Olc whole comm.:lid of I:_r. terms he undertook to her fife into port ; and aOttally brought her in r..tcty into the i;:a•t rat kve. A number of witneil's were produced to fob ihntiate tilde faits, and proved different fortis of money the Plaintiff had paid to fome of thole who were employed tinder him. One uitnefs he thought that t,31. was not a farthing too much by way of cornpenfation for what the Plaintiff himfelf did by endangering his life in taking care of the veffel, and taking upon himfelf all refpon fibility. Mr. Serjeant SHEPHFRD and Mr. YA'rES con duffed the defence. They admitted that this foe reign fhip had come in there in difirefs, and com pared the Plaintiff, and a number of others retid ing on the Sulfex coati, when they law a (hip is dards, to a fportfman, when a hare was flailed or a fox unkennelled. They were fully perfuaded, that were it not for the fafety of the lives of men, it would in molt cafes be much better for all con cerned that (hips in diftrefs, as far as regarded the property on board, were permitted to go to tl:e bottom, becaufe the demands that were made by thofe who furnifhed Alliance were enormous and fcandalous. Englifh humanity was forgotten, and pillage and plunder fithftituted h 1 its place. They produced an award made by the Jttftices on the fpot, giving . to the falvors 2701. But what had the Plairaut done He hid hired the Lion cutter to aftift in the laving of this fhip. The mut on board that cutter had received only 15 guineas for aClually doing the ()Miners, and the Plaintiff demanded rgcl. commilion for hiring them to do that befinefs. They admitted that men who lived on ciiEcre:A parts cf the fea coafts in this country, and who volunteered loch fervic.es; which wore very periloue, ought to be liberallyand handilimely paid. But an Engin Jury would not permit any of their countrymen to praftiee the groat} itiyo fttion on foreigners, who had been reduced to fuch a fituation of dittrels. They admitted that the Plaintiff was entitled to recover force trifling items in his bill, but contended the Jury om j ht to eat down the isol. for which he had abfoluteiy done nothing. The Noble and Learned Judge, in the courfe of an excellent humming up to the Jury, °Nerved, that this aftion was brour;la by the Plaintiff, who defcribcd himfelf in the Power of Attorney to be George Chapman, of Ealt Bourne, in Suffex, Merchant and Ship Agent, again(! William and Jofeph Leigh, Partners in a Houle of reputation at Liverpool ; one of them being dead lince t: queltion arofe ; and in this cat.fe the Plain.;ff :e -el:wed, that in confiJeration that he h..: h that time laved from the petits of the leas Pruflian veffel (naming her) and th; board belonging to certain perfons ref • the Seas, and which was eonfigned to .1; I••' . :- dants ; and alto that the Plaintiff, after • and cargo had been In fitved, had taken c : • her and expended certain turns of money, the :- fendants promifed to pay the Plaintiff what lie reafone.bly deferved to have ; and then it averred that he ought to have 2401. His Lordfhip, after hating to the Jury the other counts in the decla ration, fummed up all the evidence that was given, oblerving upon it as he proceeded. He in particular direCted the attention of the Jury to the Power of Attorney by which the Plaintiff got the command of this !hip. Many crarures were found in it. The names of fuhletibing witneffes were aruck out, and among thefe was the name of a dead Attorney. It had trifled in another form, and been atteited by other witneffes before he went on board; and it was afterwards nianufacctured anew, in order to anrwer the exigencies of thz cafe. His Lordlhip fail, lie was difpr.fed to believe, that what had been obfervcd by the Cola:fel fur the Defendant was not totally without foundation, that when the Plaintiff travelled along the coati, hehad Powers of Attorney cut and dry ii: his pocket, ready to be executed at a moment's notiez, fhould any 'hips in diltrefs prefent themfelves to hi; view. His Lordlhip fuggefied to the Jury the obl.lrya tions which occurred to him en the different i:enis that conflituted the Plaintiff's &mend. Its to the 15.)1. laid his Lordfhip, the queflion is, whether it is too much ? That it is enough, to body die= pates. In deciding that, you will take two things into your confideration. It is of great importance to perfons who are in a fituation of diftrefs, that the remuneration of men who aid and OM them in getting out of that diarefsfhould not be .4 eighed in very nice teaks. It is more for their interest the reward fliould be rather too much than too lit tle. But on the other hand, I hope and truth you will hare a (efficient regard fcr the charaftcr of Britons, to take care by your verdie% that the hu manity of men (hon!d be extended by thole who are your felow-citizens to perfons in 'dill els, with out imporieg upon them. You will f.ty how much or how little of this isol. you will give die Plain tiff by your verdiel. The jury allowed the Plaintiff 301. for going on board, and Living direaions for bringing this (hip into pert. They gave other 301. !or money he had laid out and expended; G. that their •ver. did was in favour of the PLlintifi WL i '.l