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N.-.IrAL INULLIGENCE FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 7. , g u l S.W. The fo llowin g packets Vt . id the As: —Ladi ArAbelia, or Lisbon ; Lord Hebert , rie Mediterranean; Speeo), :or America; and ov er for the Leeward Islands. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 9. fad ivesi tht Sovereign, DAweon, ictiehoc—saile,l sth November ; and on the 19th, / l e ak, and was obliged to throw part of her wurboatd. She is now in a leaky state, but 1 with a few additional hands as soon as i d is fair. Sailed his Majesty's Wes t ward;; ost, mou th; Darts*, to the and a 4 on a cruise Vu and several of the outward- Put back the yager, JACKS. DEAL,-DECEMBER 9.• E. N. E.—Arrived and •sailed for the River iant, YOUNG, from the Cape of Good Hope; Akeley, GULAGER, from Richmond, Virgin ia, tys Caine down from the River the len won', for Madras ; Zephyr, LUMSDEN, for E ur ope, --, for ditto ; Mercator, BnowN, s t . Thomas's ; Parthian, CA RT ER, for Cork ; s urf s, for Grenada ; Mersey, FLINT, for Yuca . *ntor, BuLt.ocK, for Oporto, and several more, inknown, and sailed with the whole of the out- RAMSGATE, DECEMBER v. ,„a Eastern .—Sailed th!.; principal part of the bound Westwatd. LIVERPOOL, DECEMBER S. Jke of Richmond, —,from Quebec to Gree irai stranded at Quebec and must unload. The -it, from Plymouth to Quebec was lost on Sovetr,ber, about twelve miles to the Westward ' a re (titan-creme' saved. and arrived at Quebec. Hercules, HORSBOROUGII, from Liverpool to • and the Orion, from Dublin to ditto, were lost early in November, in the ltiver St Law- The Amander, COLEMAN front loughall to foundered on Wednesday night last, -ten of Barilsey—crew saved. PENZANCE, DECEMBER 7. Mary, CLIWOII. from Shields to Nantz, is ,be so much strained that she has been obliged to repair. CONVES, DECE DER 9. the Clara, ..--, from Rotterdam for Ba. • Sp:l,lg, ---, for Leghorn ; • harente, --, 1 ; Apollo, DENHAM, for Waterford. CORK, DECEMBER *. S,llled the Eglrid, KIRBY, for Calcutta. HULL, DECEMBER a. !: -, 13 , 1y evening last, about half-past six o'clock, 61: e. Stawans, from Pinata, with grain, coming il...nber under charge of a pilot, when oppo. kla-rison, ran on board the brig London, of -ough,l)ing at anchor in our Roads. Melats. to relate, the London instantly went down , o f the crew of rive men and two bo y s, then on 11 'her. oniy two were save d. Mr. PoPPLEwELL,I of the London' happened to be coming down i ns h or ough i nthe steam-packet to join the yes. we, etlierwhe he might probably have suffered.' individuals who perished are:— John Pycock, late, who has left a widow and five children ; a Minus, who has left a wife with two. chil t,d pregnant with a third ; William Searson, it mat, about 9.3 or 24 years of aKe ; and two s,tatnerrioseph Farrar aivi Samuel Vard."'The rda was laden with iron castings, flag stones, lA)NroN, DECEMBER 9. San EN: , ::tu 1:,-m.arari—The Drie GeLrotders, Paspa, from Bas.—The Stockton, Langley, for Calcutta ; for Grand Canary ; Isabella, Nichols, for Maraia. liga, Forster, for Havannah; the Totnes, Dalby; for tirissanb, Skov ; and Melrose, Dempster, for Governor Halkett, Justus, for Tobago; and Wal _ ficisalwood, for Barcelona. ra:..tra oc OWARD3.—Fuligheden, Madsen, for Copenhagen tvazod Henry, Cole, for St. Kitt's; Ann, Goodwin, for -s; England, Reay, for Bombay; Alliance, Ramstoni for Williams, Williams, for Dublin; Telemchus, A ntwe rp; Transfer, Goodwin; and Jamas for Oporto. Oporto. kerday a Court of Directors was held at the House, when the undermentioned ships up for one voyage in the Company's scr- i. 673 tons. Cornwall - 798 tons. - • 69 0 Matilda - 774 cusday sennight, the YPSRION frigate, Captain Portsmouth. ..might, the knew.— , arrived in Leith Roads from . VINGEIIR, Captain MAITLAND, destined for the of Rear-Admital OTwAy, is expected soon to in the Roads, along with the Dal VER sloop .r, which is also ordered to that station. The new Pier of Dunleary is advancing rapidly. :oe are upwards of 600 men at work at rt. Tuesday se'nnight, the Union, of Sund e r land, was down off Fl a mborough Head by a Yarmouth • two of the men were lost. Leith and Hambtirgh Shipping Gompany's Albion,arrived at Leith on Samdday morning, river Elbe on the 28th ult. at which time the as free from ice. There had been no appear , ice this season, except on two days, and when Albion sailed it had entirely cleared away, and at neither was extremely mild. Twelve packets have been established by Govern rent within the last year, which are dispatched re- Plarly every month, from Chatham, Portsmouth, or Plymouth, seven of them being employed between gland, the Cape, and St. Helena, and the remain rg five between that island and the various Presi dracics its India, independent of arrangements made fa . tiansinitting Letters and Newspapers by private almost daily, under certain legislative re- r2..attons. The bargain made between Lord RIVERS and the t.lie of NV ELLINUTOI4 for the Strathfieldsay Estate, wcts for final ratification, and it is supposed the prchate-roolicv will be paid down on the arrival of t.te illustrious ficro in England. At Quem.squAre Folice-0 4 .lice, yesterday, 'An Eiutrank, a inv.= to Mr. ii.amah, the en b ineer, at Pimlico, was charged vriez y setting Ere a desk, in which many books of enter.....nce were depolited, by carelessly pincing a tear.= it. Portuuate:y the fire was zot under, and no essential iant;T: done.—The Magistrate infotmed tat;: prisoner that he uat bible to a heavy fihe to the I aria, and to be imprisoned tighten' months if not yeild. Mr. Bramab said his only object TC.lltogit2 publicity to the circumstance, in order to make other servants more e .udens they had forraerly had a large propertd diorwed by similar negligence : —Or the prisoner, who seemed 71.7 poor mat, agreeing to ask parties for his aad t7':*.v %berthing his :ontritien, further grozeedirgs ;oast ° mutt— -- - pfn eeed with . a is fair. Sai fvoya h ; Di s, on a crui Put back t DEA E. N. E.— gealiant, You* Oulkeley, Gum days. Caine ss i kLE y, for ice: Europe, - hr. Thomas's Butts, for G • *ntor, Buse unknown, ar a. RAMS Wind Easterly.- bou nd West LivEf The Duke of Ric strandet Leo(' from Swereber, ab care chat —of Hercules , 11 ; and the y lost early ii The Ama *poo l, found( is S.W. of 11 PEN T:.,e Mary, CI cob: . so mum ;;livad, to reps CO h;1., 1 the Clar ,;..; Sri - ay,, cf the Egl %enity evenii Alve. Stews de I.lA.nber ;he k id-ribOn, .tboroughtl) Is relate, ' of the crew ••,i, her, only ,ter of the Lt, Goinsborou here, orlverw tudivideals Mate, who I 3.1 Jallous, .%1 pregr ge Mal, A ~terediot Lirb nay I; n, ic. C1.7a1) %%11 SIN r.v.lito I: OriCtr.q. — Th ort., e,r Gri 7; it (1, grit ti GOVCIIM • ry. H auto ori ein" :nd Hen: bniti; • Lrgh ; Wi vs, for Ant, 4, Odes, for I fetterday a India Ha taken up e, viz. roberland Tuesday ser Wee, orris IrtNGEtlll b t of Hear- ten in the • war, which Ile new I' e are up Tuesday se ea down of ; two of The Leith tuck Albior let the river ma was fre see of iced', tie Albion si fat we rther Twelve pi ser.z within plarly ever Plymouth, &gland, th hg five be turns in Ii • fir transmit 6- thi?‘ almo ▪ i'Lationf. )ft The barg in t.lie of W ▪ waits for f a- 'lt . ..chore-rt. rd t:re rr At QUtal. y svrirne to M it vriez rater:_ nee a ird...l it. • dorm nu liable to tighten' 'no nstogitz p PLITaRtt mul tkuriltd by etre !NOW ON Tilt ADMINISTRATION Or JUSTICE IN FRANCE. _~ His Majesty Louth YIIL in March, .1815, boasted that " he had given a_i;harter to his people which was the brightest gem in his crown ; his glory, and his, claim to the gratitude of all his subjects.' These assertions none will doubt ;—the Charter is the pride of every patriotic Frenchman ; yet, alas, this Charter, so excellent ir. itself, is nearly a dead letter, a mere umbrella, as TALLETRAND called it, hoisted in bad weather, and folded up and made a walking-stick of when the political horizon is clear. His MAJESTY to punish the treasons of 1815, felt the necessity of vio lating it ler " that once" by the Ordounance of the '24th of July, and the example has been so conta gious, that every rank of Officers under Government, from the Ministers, Judges. Prefects, Military Com manders of Departments, their Subalterns, Sub-Pre fects, Majors, itc. &c. down to the humble Commis sary of Police, have ever since violated it, and for the most part with impunity. Torrents of innocent blood flow at Nismes, Marseilles, Avignon, Grenoble, Lyons, &c. The assassins are arrested—the evidence of cyc.witnesses is positive, and yet a Jury ac. quits the criminals, under the direction of a Judge, who has the audacity to assert, that " if the facts were even proved, the assassins had only anticipated the Tribunals:" and who are these, whom Justice, like a roaring lion, seeks to devour ?—Peaceable citizens—persons.. who would never cry either Five le. lloi ! or Vire l'Enufereur ! Protestants, whose only ' crime is the following the Religion of their font.: fathers ;---persons who have purchased or inherited National or Church property ;—citizens, who prefer the Charter to the feudal system i—these are the Ordi nary victims of the hatred, the cupidity, and the treason of a faction, which would only be despised, if their influence in almost every department of Governw ment did not make us tremble at their sight. The Tribunals throughout the kingdom are filled with them, and justice is thus perverted in its source; and, if any man be bold enough to bring.an action against 'them for the wilful perversion of justice, the Council of State is there ' to grant them impunity in the na me of the KING. Of this we have a recent instance in the case of M. Jules Pasquier, late Prefect of the Sarthe. His conduct in the .false imprisonment of one M. Goyet, was most flagrant. M. GOTET brings his action against him, and it is stopped in limbic by a decision of the Council of State, of, which, we be lieve the said Junes PASQUIER is a member, as well as his brother, the ‘‘ Minister of Justice." To the latter, we believe, is owing the dismissal of the former from a post he so much abused ; but as Minister of Js.:; .ice, we wish he had gone farther, and suffered his yarth y broiler to receive the just punishment of the offended laws. It is not certain, indeed, that the Tribunal would have condemned him. No, their tenderness to the Ultras, makes it vain t 6 treat for an upright decision ; or, if in certain cases, a supe• rior aullsorit. , / orders a Court to be just, and condemn a guilty tetra, it is merely for form's sake—he escapes punishment, and laughs, with the Abbe Vinson, at the sentence of a Tribunal. No, the only benefit, (and it a great one,) that can arise when a Constitu tional citizen seeks redress against an Ultra, is the publication of the facts throughout all France, which carries conviction to the bosom of every citizen of tl.c necessity of an immediate and a radical change in the Administration of Justice, and'which, see-mg the Chambers will take into consideration' at the commenc ement of the Session. w. Iv. The Editor agrees with the writer of the preceding article in his views of the Importance of the subject, and invites him to continue it • at the same time he must request the favour e his name and address; this done, his future articles will be accepted with pleasure and thanks. THOMAS LETROY, Esq. is the nes King's Serjeant, in Ireland. Monday a woman died at Coppingford, near Hun. tingdon, who had for the preceding week lain in a dormant state. In the course of that time she had been let blood, whets it is said she opened her eyes, but immediately afterwards fell into her former state of somnolency, and continued so till she died. • BOXERS. Both Martin and Scroggios were too much injured to be re moved yesterday. The latter was pu t to bed at Hampton after the fight, and he was bled in both arms. This was the worst beating he ever experienced. Burn went to East Sheen for ..Star tin yesterday morning. but although flushed with extra spirits by victory, he too could not be safely removal. His left eye is closed,and he has buffered materially about the left ear, and that side if the head. CORONER'S INQUEST.—An Inquisition was taken at Wimbledon yesterday on the body of Ann Andrews, aged six years. It appeared from the evidence, that, Mrs.:lodgkirlon, of Wimbledon, keeps an establish ment for nursing parish children. The deceased was sent to her by one of the parishes in London with several other children, to nurse. Mrs. Ilodgkinson'ss son, a boy about 13 years of age, was in the habit of going to Wimbledon Common to shoot sparrows.— On Friday last he went there with his gun ; he was, as usual, heating about for sparrows, and at last came into the part where the childr:r. had been at play ; amongst them was the deceased ; he begun to spew them his gun, when it went off accidentally, and the deceased received nearly all the content in her head. Mrs. Ilodgkinson had gone a few 71-.-d s di.tance from $e house when the accident liapi:ened, and heard the report. She repaired to the spot, and found the de ceased weltering in blood. She immediately sent for a surgeon, who endeavoured to extract the shot ; but some had penetrated into the brain, which caused the deceased's death shortly afterwards, although every thing that surgical skill could devise was resorted to. —Verdict, That the deceased was killed by a gun, carried by Thomas J-Todgkiuson accidentally going off, the contents of which had lOdged in her head. A BRUTE. —Saturday night, a man at the Wheat Sheaf, Farnham, after eating a good supper, under took for a wager, to eat two dozen of hot mutton pies, and drink a-quart of beer, which he performed in 18 minutes, to the astonishment of all present. Mtiansa.—A most shocking murder was conunitted in the ne i g hbourhood of Liverpool, on Wednesday last. A woman of the name of Nixes was found about dusk in the evening, in the road from Derby Chapel to faukerly, with her throat cut, and expired a short time afterwards. The knife with which the fatal decd had been committed, was found near the place where the woman was lying; which havinq been traced to belong to the family by whom the woman'a husband was employed, ht was immediately taken into custody, to await the verdict of the Coroner's Jury. It is said that the women and her husband had not lived together for somtime. On Saturday, an Inquest wan held on the body, befora BAIINZT \Valour, Esq. CeroaPr, when a y Lv e..i:t Mfr.! Murder was returned ar.inu tb ,- hat the ba same nd, wh , .) W 29 i*rmvitateiy-tornmittesi for trial, and sent afictocon to Laos:tr. LAW iNTELL/GENeE. . . . -.... COURT DE KING'S BENCH; DECEMBER 4. • fete lent° V. AUGUSTINS BOOLE FRINCII, AND OTHERIL . ._. This was an aesion against Augustine 1300 French, Nathaniel Bogle French, deceased, John Bar ton, Matthew Welch, and Antonio de Lou, for a conspiracy . . The defendants Barton and Loza 'did ant appear ; Ail A. B. French and M. Welch pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. GURNEY, Mi; BOLLAND, and Mr. PARE, Con ducted the prosecution. The letter Gentleman hav ing opened the indictment; Mr. GURNEY proceeded 56 state the case to the Jury. It was his duty to lay before them the facts which would be proved in evidence iii support of this indictment, against the several defendants named by his Learned Friend. They had been apprised that I this was a case of conspiracy—a case peculiar in its character in the history of a Court of Justice, • ex tremely atrocious in its object and character, and carried into execution by means not less atrocious than the object. The case had arisen out of a Very extraordinary state of things which had existed In the course of the late war. Napoleon Bonaparte had made war upon the commerce of this country by hls Berlin and Milan Decrees, and it becaftie necessary for the Government of this country to repel that mode of warfare by Orders in Council. At the same time that Bonaparte thought proper to proscribe all vessels which should have touched at an English port, it became necessary for this c ountr y to p revent 'French vessels from touching at English ports. In the result, however, the interests of Europe com pelled both Governments to carry on commerce by the licensing system. It was rightly considered that t)iis system would be most advantageous to this country. By these licenses a direct trade was car ried on with France, and by means of them the pro perty imported and exported was protected from seizure and capture, though it should be the property *the enemy. The defendants upon this gronn& con spired to make an undue, unlawful, and most wicked advantage of this licensing system. The persons who were originally parties to the conspiracy were Mr. Nathaniel Bogle French (who died at the very time this indictment was preparing), his son, the defen dant Augustine Bogle French, Mr. Barton, the other partner in the house of French and Co. Simon Cock (nor included in the indictment), and John French Burke. The house of Bogle French and Co. had been originally a house of wealth and respectability. In 1806 it failed ; it then resumed business under another firm, and at the time when this conspiracy commenced, namely, at the close of 1816, their cre dit (although not generally known) was not only totally impaired, but was really in the most despe rate circumstances. The contrivance now charged against them was, to retrieve themselves by the means which would be laid before the Jury in evidence, namely, by fitting out an English vessel, sending her to Spain—making a pretended sale of her to Spanish subjects—getting a Spanish letter of marque, and 'bringing her to cruize in the British Channel, for the purpose of capturing ships and their cargoes navi • gating the seas under the protection of British licen ses. h was impossible for the Jury to conceive any thing more base and wicked than this contrivance, which, it would be found, was pursued with the ut ism Ingenuity and art, the most del'berate wicked ness, and containing within itself a complication of crime, which the Learned Counsel had scarcely met with in a Court of Justice. For the purpose of ef fecting this plan, the brig Pitt (the registered pro perty of she defendant, Augustine Bogle French) was, at the close of 1812, sent out to Portugal with a cargo of goods, which being sold to advantage, the ship would be near the scene of action. The execu tion of the plan was confided to Mr. John French Burke, with the assistance of a Mr. Simon Cock, a r person of no common ingenuity and cleverness, who was to assist Mr. Burke as clerk. The ship having -gone to Porttlgal, Mr. Burke followed ; and the first L step towards the completion of the conspiracy was to make a pretended disposal of the ship, for the pur pose of obtaining letters of marque, which could only 'be procured upon the oath of the party applying, that the ship was the sole property of a subject of the power from which the letters of marque issued. It ilia& necessary, therefore, to make a pretended sale to ime Spanish subject, in order that he might make I oath that this ship was his property, in order that the letter of marque might be granted to him. The eiecution of the plan, therefore, commenced in foul perjury, and whether it was committed by 'the man who kissed the book, or the person who suborned him for that purpose, the moral guilt was the same in both. The execution of the plan would necessarily involve this crime, in the very Outset of the transaction. It would appear that Mr.. Burke made a pretended sale of this vessel to a Spaniard of the name of Mendez ; but as one *sale was not quite sufficient to cover the transaction, ',Mendez again fold her to a gentleman at Corunna, calling himself Don Juan Baptiste de Larragoiti. It appeared' that Mendez had changed the name of the vessel from the Pitt, to the General Porlier, and Larra goiti 'again changed it to the San Juan Baptiste. The next fact to be proved was, that Larragoiti made ap pli,;ation to the Spanish Government for a letter of marque, swearing that the ship was his property, and it was not unworthy of o b s e r vation,_ that though the affidavit was, in fact, sworn in May 1813, it was ante-dated to September 1812, at which time the ship was the undoubted property If Augustine Bogle French, and was then lying in the River Thames. The ship was then fitted out at Corunna as a Spanish pri 7vateer, with 12 carriage guns, blunderbusses, guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments and ammunition, the crew and commander being Spanish; and, strange as it might appear, die commander was engaged by Mr. Burke, notwithstanding the supposed change of owner from Mendez to Larragoiti. This engage ment was made by Mr. Burke, with a Mr. Lora, but v. ith an express stipulation, that when on board the latter was only to act as first mate. 'f he ship had been originally navigated to Portugal by a Captain Anderson, who was dismissed upon her arrival. In the month of February,Messrs. B. gle French and Co. had engaged Mr. Matthew We:cli to go out and I command the newly named ship, and accordingly he assumed the command at Col mina, from whence the ship sailed about the latter cad of May, 1813, with Mr. Burke on board, De Loza, nominally as Captain, with LO 6 L saui t; .l: on Loa: d, and the vessel came into the British Channel about the 9th of liine; the i•essist went into the hal-both of Guernsey, under the ;Ire tente of careening hef bottdrn: She hoisted shit • Spanliitll Rdyal ensign, and came to anchor in the rdadsi The ship was thins not under the dire.ction of • De briia, nor of Mr. Welch, but of Mn Burke, who assumed the supreme command. The warlike ap pearante of this vessel attracted the notice Of the Go vernment of the I-land, and the Spanish Consul went on board to make enquiries and offer his sconces. • He was informed by Mr. Burke that he had come last frdm Coruna—that the vessel Only entered Guernsey for the purpose of being careened, although sheshad been but ten days at sea—and that he him. iielf was only a passenger. But notwithstanding he applied to a merchant on the Island for money to 'supply the ship with stores, which WaS advanced to " him upon the credit of drafts upon Messrs. Bogle, French . and Co. of London which were afterwards duly paid. Though: Mr. Burke was only a passenger for England, and had inquired when th e packet sailed, he never availed himself of any such means to go so.. •his destination . On the contrary, to the surprise of- eve ry body, he remained on board—provided stor e s ., and, paid for them by drafts on the house of Bogle, French and Co: in London. The suspicious appeai since of the San Juan was at length confirmed by ad . experiment which was tried for that purpose.--kship, in the harbour called the Palmira wits sent to sea , . pretending to pursue her voyage . She was immes tiatcly followed by the San Alan, under the orders et. Mr. Burke, who - was in such a hurry that he ordered the.cabkes to be slipped. Seeing that the trap took, the Pahnirai after going to sea about three miles from the shore, returned to the port, and was afterwards followed by the San Juan: The suspicions at fiest entertained being thus confirmed, the Governor, Sir John Doyle, thought it neaskary to enquire into the views of Mr. Burke and Mr. Welch ' and he had these gen tlemen brought before him. On that occasion Mr. Burke did not deny that his object was to capture the Palmira; on the contrary, he said that if he had chosen to take her no power on earth could take her Sivas him—having a commission from the SpariLls Government and he would bring an action a g ainst any man who interfered with him The Sai.hien ,'then sailed for England and arrived at Dartmouth about the 24th of June when Mr. Burke came straight 'to London, the affair at Guernsey having excited very general suspicion. It would appear that Mr. Welch himself came to London, and in furtherance of his project examined and marked out the shi p s in the London Docks, particularly those which had licensee. —He also took an account of their cargoes, and fur nished with this information, and with instructio:`s from his principals, he returned to Dartmouth, and put to sea, taking his station near Havre de Grac.:, 1 where he expected a Danish ship called the Charlotta, with a cargo value.' at £30,000 on board, which he I ha?. heard, when in London, was destined for Havre. The appearance of the San Juan attracted the no tice of Captain Gordon, of the Dwarf cutter, then cruizing in the Channel., What passed on that oc casion would appear in the subsequent evidence. — In the result the Charlotte was captured,, and taken to Portsmouth, under the guidance Of the San Proceedings were then instituted in the Admiralti, by the owners, for the restitution of the ship ; and on that occasion the defence was, that the San Jain was solely a Spanish ship ;on the s ame -occasion , davits were adducei by Burke, Welch, De Loza and others, which would appear by the subsequent evi deuce, to be founded - on the wickedest and foul tat perjury. Another part of the machinery of this case was the procuration of a sentence of condemnation, obtained by the like means in the Spanish Corti, by which the conspirators attempted to supersede the [jurisdiction of the English Courts of Admiralty; but Ihir William Scel pronounced sentence of re-AittitilA. The Spanish sentence had arr ived the day at.ler. ' Messrs. French and Cc. became bankrupts, and the subsequent dis:::osurc ef their affairs, the whole of this foul conspiracy was completely d'iscov'ered, and shewed that the defence in the Court or Admi 'salty was supported by the grossest perjury, After a full detail of the circumstances of the case, and a variety of ingenious, eloi;•• , ..at, and impressive obser vations, the Learned Coans:.l concluded by offering the following evidence: Voluminous documents, consisting of letters of the defendants, their affidavits in the Court of Admiralty, :reef - milts, drafts, &c. &c. were put in and read, to st,p port Mr. G'urney's statement, and found-the follow ing oral testimony : Robert Moore, Er , t. Spanish Vicz-Consul, residel.t. at Guernsey in June :SI", Mated that on the 9th of that month the ship .S:n ,Iraan Baptiste ente;ed ti! port, with the Spanish Ili•yrd standard flying. Le went on board mid searched her papers, and De Loan, the apparent Captain, produced a letter of mugs% granted to him by Ferdinand VII. and dated Wart:, lthlr Sept. all% and apparently issued the ‘22.1 cf Nay, 161.3, signed by the Duke d'infantada. Loza stated that the snip came from Cornfina some days;'that his' first object was to crane in the Chan nel afew days, and then to go to Darer for a cargo. Witness said, Why cruize in the Channel? there • are no enemy's vessels at tear He 'replied that he would take his char ce. He said his object in cornirg to Glierriicy wak to careen the eerie'.. On going down into the cabin, Berke asked him when the packets sailed fot England? and witness informed him. he said tQ witness that he was only a passenger en booed the ship. *Had no conversation with Welch. The vessel came into harbour and her bottom was cleaned, she remained . there about a fortnight. in the course of that time.duee or four packets sailed !or England. About the Odd' June a vessel calked she' lalmira, sailed out of the' Roads--shewas followd by the San Juan. The Palmira hid only gone about three miles and returned to the Roads again, and the Sall Juan returned also. This transaction excited a good deal of alarm in the island, and the consequence was that Burke, Welch, and Loza, were summoned me same day before the Governor. On that occasioa, Burke said, that according to the maritime law, which he well understood, he Was authorised to cap ture any of these licensed vessels, alluding to the Pal mira, which had a British license, bound to France, and he said he would p•osecute any ihitish officer, however high his rank, who attempted to inten ape him. The defendant De Loza being told by wine ss that he had placed himself in a perilous situation, he took a letter out of his pe..kci, written in Spanish, which was handed to the Go. et nor. Mr. Joseph Collings, a resident merchant of Gnern- .‘ ..; . ' \ . 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