Star. — London, England, 1802-03-20 00:00:00

DUTCH V.ATI.. morning arrived a Dutch Mail, from which we have made the following extrads : Letters from Conflantinople late, that'Osmsn, the Pacha of Bofnia, has openly declared himfelf for Pssswan Oosou, and is marching to Adrian ople. HAMMON, Match 9.—Two Great German Courts are now endeavouring. by State Papers, to demonarate, in the beg manner poffinie, the prin ciple! of their demands.—The KING of ENGLAND has received the half of the expences occafioned by the refidence of the Pruffian troops in Hanover• which amount in the whole to a million of dollars. PITIRSIIHRGH t MARCH 2.—The following or: der of the EMPEROR to Count RUMANZOFT is of the laft year, but as it fo much evinces the cha nger of that Prince, the publication of it will perhaps not come too late : Count NIcoLAY PETROYITSCM.—At firft I had only learned by report, but by inquiries afterwards made, and information received upon the fpot, I am myfelf convinced, that the road to Mofeow, which was mended a Mort time before my Journey, was not free for all travellers to pats, as one half of it was referred for me alone, but the other half, which is in a very wretched con dition, was allotted for the ufe of all travellers, who, from the badnefs of the road, were expofed to every kind of inconvenience—Now I well know, that this proceeding, fo direlly contrary to my will, did not take place under your ad miniftration. I therefore write to you with a view, that you may make it known to the Of ficers appointed for the keeping of this road in order, how improvidently they have aged, in this cafe, and that they have altogether loft fight of the principle, that as, on the one hand, it is life ful and necefrary to keep the roads in order and good condition, it is on the other juft, that every one, without diftinaion of rank, fhould be able to ufe them. I affure mvfelf that under your adminiftration of this department, nothing of the fame kind will happen in future, which mull operate to the difadvantage of travellers, or to the diminution of a right, which ought to be general and equal to all without exception. ALE X•NDill. Yellerday morning their Wits-rite and the P►ctactssss left town for Windfor. His MAJINTY will hold a Levee on Wednefday next for the Foreign AmbafTadors and Noblemen at St. James's Palace. Wednefday lag an embarkation of Soo Ger man Recruits tools place at Cowes for Jamaica, to join the different battalions of the both regiment. At the fame time, Major General Haltom- direded a fine company of Dutch Artillerymen to proceed in the Ceres frigate for the fame gland. In confequence of the vigorous preparations tarrying on at the different dock-yards in this kingdom, a (mall veffel was fent lag week by a company of Oyfter Merchants to Cancalle and St. Cas, to recall a number of veffels now en• gaged in purchafing (liters to lay on the banks of - Eifel and the Medway. Many are fince re turned, fnmc half loaded, and fome in ballet I A letter from Paris of the 23d of February, in the Hamborgil Carrefpondent of the 6th of March, rays with little probability, that—" after the De finitive Treaty the Scheldt is to remain Ibut, and that the ill Inds of St. Lucia and Tobago are to be ceded to England, in payment of the expences of maintaining the French prifoners." Sir RICHARD WORSLIY is making fome magni ficent improvements at his feat at Appulder combe, in the Ifle of Wight ; he has latcly received from Italy, via Spain, four large paintings, Paid to be worth from 15 to 20,0001. which efcaped the touch of LOHAPARTII. Mr. CoTrERELL has nearly completed his addi tions and improvements at his beautiful villa, /Newtown Mount Cotterell, near Bewdley. Mrs. BL AND is engaged to fing at Vauxhall the enfuing ft a:on. Pic Xi( i. fuppofed to be derived from Picassisnr, a term which the Negroes in the Weft indica apply to their injantr. Nothing can be a ftrong,er proof of the impro per pradices in the Flour 1 rade, than that the moment the orders were ;trued for vidualling our &sits, there was a fcarcity of Corn at market; and i.r.ce then the prices have regularly rifen. On Monday night lafl the Fighting-Cocks pub lic-houfe, at Clay-Hall, near Haflar Hofpital, Portfmouth, caught fire lay fome accident, and was entirely deflroyed. The Keeper of Rochefler Gaol, and one of his affiftants, returning from Chelmsford, where he :.ad bctr. for the purpofe of conveying back to that ycvws Aylmer, who recently efcaped from his ody, and was apprehended at Clare, on Sunday nicrning, lit off in a port-chaife, and had only ;;ore about live miles on the Sudbury road, when the Goaler (uttered the Poll-boy to flop, and jump ing inflantly out of the chaife, apprehended another ; runner, who efcaped at the fame time, whom be ^bferved walking on the turnpike-road, and at to.mptt:ig to get up behind the chaife. ENGLII;I S reTE-LoTrtar.---Seventcenth Day. - -No. 34-145, a Prize of 2oocl.—Nos. 560 04, and To!, Pr' tes of Sol. each. The Tit,:et No. 34,445, drawn a Prize of zoocil. yefterd.q. was fold and regifttred at Port's Office, Royal-E v ,h ange , b e i ng the Fourth frnall Capital input d (f at that Office pending the preti:nt Lot tery. X.l the four so,ocol. are Rill in the %. 4 ‘ heel ; ' , 'lc o f th ua , however, is determinable by next , :dnTfdar's firft-drawn Ticket, and the oslt!s arc three to on,: that it will be amongft the number 1 regiftcred, or tharcd at Pors's 66 Fortunate C SPORTLVaINTZLLIGENCE. FARNDON, CHESHIRE, MONDAY, MARCH is. The Annual Plate.—Three Miles. Sir W. W. Wynn's ch. g. Alexander the Great - Mr. Smith'i gr. h. Nautilus - - Mr. Grey's b. h. On Tucfday the Annual Plate wat walked over for by Alex ander the Grtat. BETTING-ROOM, MARCH lg. Very little alteration fince our IA report. The favourites for the principal betting Sweepflakes are as follow : Fit(' clafs of oatiands, Penelope; fceond ditto, Soreeror. Handicap of 1 oogs. each, acrofs the Flat. Marianne; Derby, Young Eclipfe e.; Oaks, Julia. On the match between Allegranti and Sophia, nearly even betting. Seven to four on Eagle againit Rolla Tn a week or two Gentlemen will have begun to run private triab ; after whiah we may exped to fee coaderable alterations in the odds. STEEPLE-MATCH.—On Wednefday the Steeple Match for one thoufand guineas, and five hundred guineas forfeit, was to have been run by two Irilh hunters againft the fame number from all Eng land. The proprietor was on the ground at Afton Common at the hour appointed, with his groom, ready to flart. After fome time the oppofite parties appeared, and walled the race to be pollponed to a future day: fome converfation took place, and ended by the forfeit being paid amida thaufands of fpeaators. The It Rh Gentleman offered to match the horfes on the ground, for two thoufand guineas, againll any pair of hunters in England. NAUTICAL. INTEL LIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND S. W. ARRIVILD. 01 , P. I Dublin, 1 i Waterford, o Hamburgh, 0 o French, 0 I Dutch, PLYMOUTH, MARCH 13. Came in the Scowl- gun brig, of 14 guns, from a crnize.—Sailed the GLORY, 0198 guns, Captain Watts, for Torbay ; alio, on a cruize, the DIA MOND, of 38 guns, Cart. GRIFFITHS; SIRIUS, of 36 guns, Capt. KING ; SYLPH, of 18 guns, Capt• GOA TB ; and the ATALANTE, of 18 guns, Capt.• GE r 7ITHS; alto the EEperiment, of London, Capt. PARKER, from Bengal for London, laden with rice. Came in the URANIF, of 44 guns, Capt. GAGE, from a cruize. PORTSVOUTILMARCH 19. This day arrived his Majefly's (hip Pm:Alm of 36 guns, Cipt. BLACKWOOD, from the Mediter ranean : The is ordered to perform quarantine ; alfo the Al. co, of 36 guns, Capt. Bowsx, from the CGaft of Africa.—Sailed the brig Mary, lately arrived frrt.i the Coait of Guinea. Late laft night the A:::::.caos frigate, Hon. Capt. COLVILLE, arrived a: St. Helen's, but failed again in the to cruize after fmugglers. FROM LLOYD'. LIST. DIAL, MARCU 19.—Came down the William Fenning, Skt. ae s, for the South Seas, and remains. GRAIrt3ZND, MARCU rp.—Paffed by the Nanny and Mary, —, from Limon; Lord Douglas, DILLON, from Bclfalt ; Silver Ed, WILLIAMS, from Frielland; Three Friends,Oß eN s, from Arniterdam ; Angel, StYMOUR, from Guernfey ; Vrow Chriftlana, --, from Charante ; Four Friends, Brea 'ALTON, and Day, RIDLEY, from Cork.—Sailed the Hero. Douotas, ntor, CHRISTIE, Millballk, RZID, and Emerald, STORK, for Hamburgh ; Hoop, —, and Mena Margarctta, for Rotterdam ; Pelican, GEMII. for Bourdcaux; Jonge Jan, Scoo N, Mammon, —, and Jonge Jan, DVVAL, fur Havre. ARRIVED At I iverpool—rnterprize, Lawton, from Jamaica; and Eliza, Ripley, from Georgia. At famaicaNancy, Wright; John Bull, Kelly ; and Ben fon, Phillips, from Africa. At Martinique—Man, Noble, from Liverpool ; and Branch, Towers, from Africa. At Dernarara—Partridge, Leyfon, from Briltol; Grenada, Richardfon; and Montreal, Davis, from London. At St. Vincent's—Sinclair, Cook, from Briitol.i At Tobago—Phalli:, Baird, from London. At Leghorn—lnvention, —, from Falmouth. At Giscrufey—Rolla, —, from Tobago. LIVERPOOL, MARCH .IE. Arrived—The Weft-Indian, Ryan, from hence at Antigua Bicnenftock, Pauken, from hence at Rouen; Arg , ), Scott, from hence at Hull; Diligent, M'Phcrfon, from hence at London derry ; Molly, Tobin ; Sarah, Brailaford ; and Thomas Brown, from Africa at Jamaica; Vlitory, Brine, and May, Callan, from Africa at St. Croix. The James, Flint, from Africa at St. Croix, and gone to Trinidad; Perfeverance, White, from Africa to Demerara, and gone to ditto ; Dick, M'Ginnis, from Africa at St. Vincent's, and gone to ditto ; Brook, Ivlolyneus, from Africa pallid ditto for Jamaici ; Backhoufe, Roberts, failed from Jamaica about the 29th of January ; Mills, was well at Cape Benda, 28th November. The Governor Dowdefv:ell, —, failed from Demerara the 19th Jan. for this port, in company with the Qaeen, who arrived here on Tuefday. The Sufmnah, liodgfon, from Ccrlc, is on tore at Brii Dal The l'arrds. Sleigh, from Briftol, is reported to be on tore on Gu.u.a !Mind, near Antigua The !:.inny, Tkompfon, from Madras to the Cape of Good Hope, as reported tg li.wc laundered. The M,,ey, Rider, from Neweatl le, is bronght into the Downs by the Dcal boats, having been on there on the Goodwin Sands. The Maria, Mountain, from Smyrna to Philadelphia, was found off Faro !aft month, with only twu dead feamen on board. Site :tad landed:unie of her e.:rgo. The Fortuna, Leitch; Union, Bradfhaw ; and Garthland, P.e..d, from Clyde to Jaina:ea, were fpoki: with on ; , tit Jan. off the :Be of Agt, and caveted to reach Port Antonio in two The Ruffen, Mitchel:, from Sunderland, to Amfterdam, coat•lAcit, is futil t.n the tickler, by getting on h.•r Aichori erw laved. Tile veal js covered with water, and it is feared w:11 to: loft. Yeilerday a Court of Direflors was held at the Ball India Ilotife, when Mr. ARCHIBALD ANDER SON was fworn in as Mader of the extra fhip Cul. land's Grove, deilined to Bengal and Bencoolen. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Docrot's COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 19. This day the Right Hon. Sir WM. SCOTT pro. ceededed to the adjudication of the following caufes:— Trelawny, Lake mailer. This was a quellion of falvage. It appeared this fhip was laden with a cargo of Slaves, who role upon the Captain and crew, forced them out of the veifel, and took poilitlion thereof, in confequence of which the Lord Nelfon, another Ihip in the Slave trade, fired into the Trelawny, and after an engagement for the (pace of an hour and an half, fucceeded in quelling the infurrettion, by which means the Captain and crew got poicellion of the (hip again. The Court, in this cafe, faid, the refcuing this fhip in the manner Rated, was a fervice of confi derable merit, and it being the firil application of the kind it ever recolletted, it fhould allow one tenth of the value of the fhip, cargo, and freight, to the falvors, and accordingly referred it to the Regifler and Merchants to afcertain the fame. KENT ASSIZES.-MAIDSTONE, MARCH 17. MORE SIR BEALUMONT HOTHAM, ENT. AND A SPE CIAL JURY. THE ICING AGAINST JOSEPH CATOR, SSO LIBEL—This was an indidment againit the De fendant for having written and publithtd certain letters of n libellous nature, concerning Henry Jackfon, Efq. tending to injure his credit as a merchant, and to ditturb the domeaic peace of himfelf and Sarah, his wife. The Leading Counfel for the Profccution (aid, that Henry Jackfon, Efq. was a merchant of the higkeft refpeaability and charaaer, who foond himfelf under the painful neceffity of indiCting the Defendant, Jofeph Cator, Efq. a Gentleman of confiderable fortune, and brother to the Mr. John Cator, fo well known throughout the county.— From the quality of the offence it would be unne ceffary for him to fay much, becaufe he was ad dretling men of honour, whole indignation would be excited more by their own feelings than any thing he could offer. He might be excufed too from expatiating upon the enormity of the offence, aecaufe as the charge was preferred in the thape of an indiament, the province of the Jury would only be to decide whether he was guilty or no..— What was to be the confequence of their verdia -would be the fubjea of future confederation. He thould abllain from Rating the contents of the dif graceful libels imputed to the Defendant; it was fuf ficient to obferve that libels more dangerous, more calculated to do mifchief, to injure and diftrefs a worthy man, and to break down and deßroy his domellic peace, never were penned. The objet of Come of them was to reprefent a relpeetable mer chant, the defendant's near neighbour and acquain tance, as a man infolvent in his circumfiances, and compelled to refort, from day to day, for pecuniary affinance to the father of the Lady to whom he had been married above ten years. He fhould fearce be believed when he Rated the objea of others of them—they were addreffed to the Wife of the Profecutor, with the diabolical intention of inftilling into her mind a jealoufy of her H Anted, with whom the had long lived upon the moll affec tionate terms, and with that view, pointing at a particular perfon as her rival in his love. The quef tion to be tried was, Whether thefe letters, than which rnan or demon never penned worfe, were the work of the defendant ? That he fhould in the out fit make fuel: a cafe as would call for the verdia of the Jury againft the defendant, was what he did not Rate as matter of (peculation, but of abfo late certainty; but it might be anfwered—He fhould give fuch evidence as would be fufficient, on an indiament for forgery, to convia the offen der, and (With him to the penalty of death. The manner of h i s proof lhould be this : He would firft call Mr. Jackfon, whole evidence alone would en title him to a ve;dia. It was neceffary to obferve, that Mr. Jackfon, previous to his receiving the let• tens, was not acquainted with the charaaer of the defendant's hand-writing, and he at firfl (tit - paled they were the work of his brother, John Cator. It happened that on the outfide of one of the letters the words " noify braggadocio fellow" were written, and Mr. Jackfon went to the Poftmafter, in order to thew it him, and endeavour to difcovcr the au thor. The Poftmaller laid, he had obferved feveral letters written upon in the fame manner, not only direaed to him, but to Mr. Role, the Clergyman. Mr. Jackfon then called upon Mr. Role, who pro duced a letter he had received, which was feurri lous in the extreme. Mr. Jackfon fuggelled the probability of Mr. John Cator having written them; when Mr. Role replied, he was mtftaken, that it was not John, but Jofeph. In confequence of this information, the Profecutor was advifed to poffels himfelf of fome of the Defendant's hand-writing, by fending him letters on different fubjeas, to whith the Defendant returned an(wers.. Before the Pro. fecutor had received many, .he was perfealy con. vinced the libels were the handy-work of the De fendant. When men fat down to aft deeds of vil lainy, it was fufficient for them, if no human wit nefs obferved them; but it generally happened that in the commiffion of all crimes, there was a fatality which brought the delinquent to the bar of juftice. This Defendant, vilf.de i i nfamy no expretlion could be too ftrong to defcribe,lhould the Jury pronounce him guilty, had, in writing thefe extraordinary compofed libels, fpared no pains to difguife his band; but it was difficult for any man to difguife the charaaer of his writing—it was therefore not to be wondered at that the Defendant had at times forgot what he was about, and relapfed into his or dinary charaaer. Vie proof of his hand-writing would, however, be confirmed by other circism. (Lances, and pat ticitlaily by one ftmilar to that which occurred in the cafe of Ryland, who was fome years ago ex...clued for a forgery on the EaR India Company :—the perivn whole name Ryland had forged was unable to fay whether he bad writ ten it or not, th.alo he knew he had not figned it to two bills on the day ibis was dated; hut it hap• penced that ilie manoltaurer who had made the paper was able to that the mould in which the identical paper was made was not in exilic:nee at I the time the bill purported to havebeen drawn by the Compinv's A4eat in In.li,t. In the or , :fent cafe he thould prove that paper on there libels were written, was in the tin; 11 , 'L wh,:t was ufually employed in correfponinct ; he prove that the Deffra!ant was in di: habit f oli :s• fuch paper,that it was manufa.ftured in the yea r t and confequently not likely to be found in the flay of any ftationcr ; and that the pert; 411 wln ha piwaed to have a flock of it, never had f , ld to any of his euflomers, except the Deflititia , , and the Bilhop of Rochetter. He would n‘a !:! that Reverend and Learned :relate, whom lie i;..•1 the honour of teeing on the Bench, by lilpi. , ::';l; 4 he was the author of the libels. He thould feveral perf o ns betides Mr. Jackfon, who w e re a e !1 acquainted with the hand-writing of Mr. Jul. Cal or, who would prove that the letters in queltion,thotil 4 it not like his ordinary Ityle of writing,were preeitely fuel' as he would adopt, in order to conceal lonic guilty purpofe. It might be alked what motive could induce the Defendant to write libels of a Gentleman in his neighbourhood, and with whom he was in the habits of intimacy ! He could not account for every man's falling into a fnare, but the abfence of every motive for a bad anion was no reafon why pregnant proof of it (hould not be admitted. If he was to he told his learned Friend, the Attorney General, was capable of writing libels to wound the feelings of a Lady, he (tmid fay, " No, No; it was inepoifibie : his Friend was too honourable to he gitiky of g; vinq la moment's uneafincfs to a beautiful woman ;" but if he was to fee the libels written in his lea: n• ed Friend's remarkable hand—if he was to Gb ferve thole tall charaaeis to which no other man thee the flood had ever formed any thi•.g he thould fay, the Devil had been at woi k with his friend, and had perverted his mind. He believed there was no temptation to induce the Def. adant to at as he bad dnne—he could atlign no motive, but that the D—vil had let him on, and that he had turned his back upon all glace. It had hap pened that in Beckenham, where the Defendant and the Profecutor relided, the parodtial rates for a.m.: years petit had been made with the afEit ance of Mr. John Cator, the Defendant's Brother. He might have been actuated by the purell mo tives, but fomehow or other, till Mr. Jacklon came to refide there, his own property never ufed to be rated at its full value. Mr. Jackfun found that the Parifh Officers were tradefmen follfervient to Mr. John Cator, he therefore let himfelf to•work to remedy the alaufe; with this view he propoftd a Committee to revile the rates. Mr. John Cator was the party who refitted this reform, and the re- Ihit was, profecutions were inttituted againll the Churchwardens, who at his instance had refilled to make jolt rates, and thofe mifguided men were committed to goal by the Court of King's Bench. Perhaps it was this circumstance which urged the Defendant from brotherly attachment, to dip his pen in thegall of bitternefs. He lhould call witnefres who were well fkilled in the fubje& of hand-writ ing, and who would prove that the writing in queftion was not a natural but a difguifed hand. He concluded by obferving, that the fingularity and importance cf the cafe merited the moil feti. oils attention. Henry Jackfon, Efq. Paid, he refided at Beck enham, and was perfe&le acquainted with the De fendant ; the letters produced he received by the Poll ; they were dirtied to him—he had trice correfponded with the Defendant, and was able to form an opinion as to his hand-writing. Be believed the libellous letters were his hand-writing. On his ends-examination, he laid he had no parti cular difference with the Defendant, except once when he was in his carriage the Defendant told him Reformers never did any good. Mrs. Jackfon proved the letter file received. She laid fhe had never received any incivility from the Defendant. Their families ceafed viliting each other after what palled in the coach. James Englith Keely knew the Defendant in India; was well acquainted with his hand-wi iting. He firmly believed the libels to have been written by him. The libellous parts of the letters were now read. Thefirll was addreffed to the Profecutor,and dated January 22, 1801. It fuppotes Mr. Jacktbn to be talking to himfelf, and is to this die& I myfelf am the moll independent and the wifell man in Beckenham, for I glory in the fhame of having • law-faits with every body I have to do with ; and epecially for having endeavoured to flarve the Churchwardens and their families, by getting them fent to gaol. Every body in the parilh refpeets me •, but my wife and fervants know me to be one of the greateft rafcals in it." The next letter was neatly in thefe terms—" I am the moll grateful man in all Kent, for I pride myfelf on having the moll grateful remembrance of pall Et-ours—l am the moll prudent man in the county-1 am foniild that I am never put in a paffion-1 asp renia:kable for keeping my fervants, for 1 have not changed one thefe four years. I pay every body both in town and country, for I hate to be in debt. lam fo careful of doing wrony„ that I always keep a Lawyer at my elbow.— lo be fort I was rather hall) , in injuring Mils M—'s charieer—l am certainly the molt independent man in Beckenham, except my friend, Lord Gwydir. Mr. Green and Mr. Clarke, and every body in the pal ilh love me, from the Parfon to the Chintney-veep, hecaute I am fo charitable and fuck a lover of peace. Sing O be joyful, for I have gained my point again ft the Beckenham Churchwardens. Now I will thew them the difference, tOr they fhall go to Newgate, and I will tell every-body of it, and they will con gratulate me for loving law co well, and every body will dine with me who (hall know it." The next letter is addreffed to Mrs. lar.l:frin, and is to this etfe6l—" My hufband is the wild} and molt independent man in London, and as f . ;!Cil every body is governed by him, for he is the moil be nign man in all England, and then a:1 the neig.h bours love him and adore him, becatifc he has made all the pat ilk one family, and they are never lo happy as when he is among them. The Parfon loves hijn, notwithllanding he told the Bifitop had taken thirteen inches from the church-yard into one garden :—Every-body loves him except my father, who hates the tight of him for gnin.; every day to barrow money of him. The Banker s ) 1 1 'i i 'I, 1 • •, . 1 i i , i I • i i 1 1 '1 :ii , , I , i., .1 ..