Star. — London, England, 1802-06-11 00:00:00

INTILLIGINCL COURT 019CINC'S BENCH, ItiNE to. sisss.••••IeCLELLAN V lIILD. Mt. Osseo* !fated the cafe for the Plaintiff: be oblerved, that a libel more mi.lignant in its mo. fives, or aggravated iu itscircumilances, perhaps :lever cant littire a Jury for their reptchenfion : the Plaintif hatl long been employed as furgeon in tht tt •yal 'Sas y ; lie was, at the time the libel pnblithed, infpeetor of feamen, to report alto were :old who were tint in a fit fiate of health to he .eceived into his Majelly's Navy, and has been.tcr mans. )(tars, ilationed at Plymouth Dock. The '....cienkinnt was a man of huge fortune there, :old a on.mitli.iner tor the Management of the Ore. in Work•houtes, and, from malicious rio.t:s, thought proper tOpublint the l bcl. which -..(• ;he cubing of the prelim aaion, fendit.g it Ihppe r fan anonymous letter to Mr. Pitt, t time :,fter his retignatinn. This letter, a:med at the ruin, perhaps at the life, of the PI tint iff, by im pu ing to him the crime of High rte:/s, was to thin effect " TO THS RIONT MOM. WILLIAM PITT. " Plymouth-MA. v H o tmoralsle air The purport of eds letter is to warn the (4,rerentmut againll Mr. M•Clellin, a &in:lerouset.nny to his K!r: end country, a great men in fuwicg the I; ids of Mien tiim aril Sed , tion in his Makfty's Navy. As Surgeon, he makes it his:ill:iris to ak gni:Riots of all the (cameo he .whit.. about their 4.9.:nr., and Oster-vv. to t!,cm, that Coq arc a great body of nun mid, re pclfsilid of the means a making thenifelves r.rriii &Ate whenever thy ebeo:e, and a.: having the fame Nita li:v as in Frarer ; that for his pan h- wither' Bonaparte would lend in ibis co..otry. Sir, he is a very artful and cunning, as !if..friet.e. Iron, mut many folkwers. Many C ~.ticanen in Plyntuath hooky tMt, but are afraid a Mtn. As rr4n. royfelf bound by my duty to make t:46 I. now it ; : , t.t . 4 .4! no: brow who to difdr.fc it to, till I thought' , o: son, a tin .1 riirna to your King and cannery; the difcloting o: it relieves try mimi from a rcry heavy burden." " N. B. in writer har no rcrfonal aeslu Moaner with Mr. M. and sets oak from a fence of rtiblic (h.q. The man, who, receiving h:s daily hreail from taint-manta, alts in this manner, is the m it of Trartors." p Rr wl4 h e him, :1 f. y t fh h I t ' i t j h e bu r roass* his is laft . h ocould make fa lira-.•y a^ acritittion without foundation, was the , Nlr. Pitt, immediately on the rec. Ipt of t;:i. I:t ter (midi great propriety), feet it to tic Adroit alt y ; the Admiralty, as was their ditty, in iiitut ed an inquiry. the reit& of which was highly honourable to his client. lithe Defen eantcould pretend to fupport the truth of his alfer ti.ms, he might have pleaded ajrAfearioa ; but, coa -1 ions of the falftliood, as well as the atrocity of his charge, he pleads that he is not guilty; and refs hit defence folely, on his endeavour to prove that he was not the writer of that letter : whether he was, or nut, was the quellion the Jury had to de cide. The evidence which the Plaintiff hae to iiro. dime, was colleaed in the following manner : The Admiralty, when fatisfied of the Plaintiff's inno cence, and the atrocity of this charge, handed him over the letter, in or ;, , :r that he-might endeavour tl find out this atrocious libeller, and bring him to juitice ; the Plaintiff, partly furpeaing the quar ter it came from, ffiewed the letter to feveral per fons well acquainted with Mr. Field's hand writ- . - ing ; they declared, without liefitation, that it was his writing; force of them who were tenants to Mr. Field, produced receipts in his writing, agree ing perfealy in charaaers with this letter. - The Learned Counfel here obferved, that he hardly ever knew a wicked cafe that was not accom panied with aid& and lordlier which defrayed it, or with a einuriag which over-reached itfelf ; among the number of witneffes he was to produce was one, whom Mr. Field vifited very lately, and requited to keep her hulband from attending as an evidence agsinft him, but above all things, not to let any of his receipts be Rims. Whether a folicitude of this kind belonged to innocence, the Jury would judge; from all the eircumftances which Thould appear in evidence, they would give their verdia ; the only point that remained to fpeak on, was the quadmis of damages, in cafe they lhould beFeee that thelibellousletterwaswritten by the Defendant. On this point he mutt obferve that the D:fendant was an opulent man, and that the charaaer of the libel was filch, that had it pro dam, on the mindof Mr. Pitt, and the Admiralty, the impreffion which the writer, in his malignity, intended, the prefent Plaintiff would have been ignominionfly turned from his fitnation and his livelihood, and left tolarve in infamy and difgrace, if even the evidence againft him Ihould not be fuf ficient to bring him to that filament death the crimes imputed deferred. Mr. Maul proved that the Plaintiff had been a fu eon in the navy for thirty years. Mr. Reynolds, of the Admiralty, proved the letter, as the letter received from Mr. Pitt, and de livered by the Admiralty to the Plaintiff. A letter from Mr. Pitt (who is .now indifpofed at Lis feat cf Walmer Caftle), dated June 4, 31104, was then received (by admiffion of Counfel on both fides) as evidence : it Rated, that he perfealy re eoliated receiving an anonymous letter foon after he quitted office, which in ftibilance was the fame as above; that he got it among his poit letters; he trarlinitted the letter, as he confidered he was in duty bound to do, to Mr. Nepean, of the Ad -11;v, !.1:17llaff, now gunner of the Spartiate, ill I r 17., he was clerk of the work-houfe ; that the Defeneant was, at that ,!•atk , ..:e.r, and afterwards a commiffioner; i.e i J, item t 767 to 1790, alnaolt daily op f:cititr the Detendant write ; was I cq . ;;; i iite d with his hand-writing ; that ittn remarked a peculiarity in his ; ulld an o in:lead of an a. This , iiiarity v:.,s to be. lecn in this letter, in which th t Upon the whole, tn. tit,: ing,lndt doplit of the letter having to:r valt:cit by the Defendant. Oa his crofs,tsanitnivion he declared, that the Plu:n; 41 was ten utter to him, at the time c fretted him this le:t.:r ; but that being Aced iting he t.t.l it to bc, he anfwered im rnctl;atchi, Mr. Field',: he denied that he had Ev: difiniffed from- his fituation as Governor of Plymouth Woik-houle; he had reigned it. He Lad bad dillfgreements with Capt. Field, who was CommilTioner ; it was becaufe be had charged v die accouut of Capt. Livid fume &hilts which the lattei Contended ought net to be fo &Arch but that at the fame time, in fuch a cafe as the prefent, he thouNl come fnrwatd as readily in fup port of Mr. Reid (had he been fo attacked) as he did now for the prefent J. Ellis ' a Taylor , formerly of Brian!, now of Plymouth, was next called. He faid the letter was of the hand-writing of the Defendant; he often raw him write,and was in the habit of frequently feting his writing down to the prefent period. William Keno was by trade a waterman ; had feen the defendant write feveral times, and had received feveral notes from him about paying workmen ; has no doubt but that the letter is the defendant's hand writing; had not the flightell maion, when the plaintiff RA Chewed him the letter, that his evidence would have been called for to-day: he told the plaintiff at once it was defendant's hand writing. Mrs. Kttto, wife to the lall winters, alfo (wore that the believed the letter to be the hand writing of the defendant the was obliged to examine the defendant's land wriiing, as the frequently paid money to workmen on his order. Her hufband was a tenant to the defendant ; they had been always on the belt terms; the defendant paid her a vifit very lately, and laid he undt:rtlood her huthand was going up from Plymouth to London, as a witncfs againtt him, and requefted her to dilfuade him ; adding, many of tie P.:;lP !.. ri nr;!ncp not come tad; I will mai& t.rear for pajrhy. He then alked, had they thews: the plaintiff any of his receipts ? the anfwercd, that her hufband had done fo rbouski:fif; ; then, lays the defendant, be lure you do hot produce arly of t:sofe receipts.— This was :he cafe on the part of the plaintiff. Mr. /Antal, on the part of the defendant, would not pectend to jnility, in any manner, the libel which was the ruble& of confideration at pre- . fent ; he mull allow, that nothing could be more atrocious, or more malignant ; is was calculated to deflroy the plaintiffs charaact and reputation, to deprive him of his means of livelihood, and even to endanger his life, it the libeller could pre vail on the proper tribunals to believe his foul and abominable calumnies; but the more fcaudalous and abominable the anion was, the more fhould the Jury bellow their attention to the evidence, befqre they could pronounces man,in a rapectable tituation of life, and of refpeaable charader,l guilty of fo bare and infamous a crime. The witnefies who had been produced on the part of the plain , iff (although they had all of them fern the defendant write), yet Rated that their knowledge of his handwriting had been ac quired a great number of years ago ; it was then poffible they might be miftaken; and yet. on their frail judgment and opinion, no lets a Rake depen ded, than the honour and fortune of the defen dant, his three tons, who had ferved with honour as Lieutenants sn the Royal Navy, and his daugh ter, the wife of Captain Somerville, who had to gallantly dißinguithed himfelf this war : he nutted that the improbability of the defendant's having committed this anion would be more than con firmed, when .the Jury thould hear the witneffes for the defendant. James Wall, who had been a Lieutenant in the Navy, and intimately acquainted with the defen dant about twenty years agn, (wore that he was acquainted with the defendant's hand writing, and did not bdlieve the letter in quellion to be his hand writing. In his croft;-examination, he Paid, be had not ken the defendant's writing fusee the year e 781. He taw him making up the accounts of a chip that was 1011. He admitted that the de fendant was in the habit of making his a's very much like o's. He came forward as evidence, from having accidentally met the defendant in the fireetlaft Friday. He raid WClellan was Itnown pretty well in Plymouth, by In the courfe of his evidence, he (wore fo many profane oaths, that Lord Ellenborough, after different warnings, was obliged to tell him he fhould commit him to Newgate, if he dared again to infult that Court by . fuch indecent conduß. He pertiiled in laying that the letter was no more like the defendant's hand than it was like his own. Mrs. Sharpe, perfumer, Ludgate-hill, fwore that the letter in quellion was not the defendant's hand writing, or at all refiltiblistx is. She had re ceived orders from him, and would not have ailed upon this. Mr. Gotrip, a German, a mathematical infiru ment-maker, (wore the fame thing; but allowed that the little g's were fomewhat like the defen dant's. William Field, the defendant's fon, faid he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and in the con- Rant habit of correfponding with his father. He allowed that the letter was like his father's hand. Still it did not follow that it was his, as one day lately, at his agent's, he had Peen a letter with the fuperfcriptiou fo like his, that he was going to open it as coming from his father, though it had a different fignature. From what he knew ahis father, and had beard him fay, he did not believe the letter had been wrote by him. The inGde was very like his, and, if he had teen it lying on the table, he fhould have taken it for his. He would have alted upon it. His father gad not received fo good an education as he had been able to give his ions, and did not fpell very correelly. There had been lonic differences between M'Clellan and his father about the management of the poor horde. John Morris was then called to prove, that the firte wieners, Langft4lF, had been dirmiffcd from his office, of Governor of Plymouth Workhoufe, for enifcondudt; but all his knowledge arofe from hearfay. The defendant's Coned having replied at fome length— Lot d ELLENSOROUGH obferved, that if the plain tiff had been guilty of the prodlices imputed to him no man could be more heinoufly criminal.— He was charged with having abufed the truft con fided in him to poifon the minds of the feamen, and, at a time of great anxiety and danger, of having leagued with the enemies of his country. The letter was a libel of enormous malignity, and the grand queftion for the Jury to try was, whe ther the defendant was the writer of it? The Jury certainly ought to be more than ufuaUy fcruptdous eanklering evidesee or kind &there evitnefres were produced who fwore that they had feen the aft committed, and the proof here relied folely on limilarity of hand writing. Howeveri, there was no doubt that this might be fofficici t both in law and in reafon. The Jury would thzi.- fore fay, whether, upon the whole evidence, tl e charge had been eitablilhed? If tae Jury were of tl , a opinion, the only remaining queflion was thc am , e;t:t of the damages. The property of the plairailf had been proved to be great,and, whether it was or nbz, they were chiefly to confider the magnitude of the injury the plaintiff had fuflained. He was at any rate entitled to an adequate compenfation. He enjoyed a refpelahle fituation as furgeon to the hofpital, from which he would have been ignomi nioudy difrniffed, had the libel produced t1..1 de s hred effea. The objea of the writer evidently was to confign him to poverty and infamy. If a man had aftually betrayed hir coun•ry at its uttnolt peril, what fate could have been too fevere for him? Had this communication been well founded, though anonymous, it would have been laudable. But the writer fhould have been fo fur.+•.of the truth of what he alerted as to be able, when called upon, to eflablith it to the fatisfadion of a Jury. He might have reafons to jullify him for with drawing from public notice for a time ; but fliould at all times have been ready to thew that he had proceeded with caution ; that his motives were pure; and that his only objea was the public good. The Jury, after retiring for a fcw minutes. brought in a verdia for the plaintiff—Damages 5 Dol. CORN M4RKATS. COIMISTICTOeII RETURN 711.011 11X11111DOE, WWI 10. Wheat per Load, from :71. to to). tos. Barley per Quarter, from tl. los. to il. 14s. Oats per Ql4iter, from IL as. to 11. Bs. Beans per Quuirter, from :I. igs. to :I. Peale per Quarter, from 11. 18s. to 21. 2F• MARK LANE. jt.7:ifi 11. The few fine Wheats we have had lucre fincc Monday have been eagerly bougla at from ss. to 35. alvance.-The Foreign Wheat, lately arrived, has been exported for France at high Prices, which we .attribute the rifei on our growth to. Barley and Malt have no alteration ; but v..: think Oats full W. or near Is. Inwer.- T Rye and Beans, as well as Peas of both forts, maintain Monday's currency. Engli(h Wheat, per quarter. 465. 6os. Ditto, prima, 7os. 741. Foreign Ditto, 6os. 68s. Fine Dantzic Wheat, 7os. 721. Rye, 3as. 345. Barley, aos. s6s.--(Malting) 3os. 345. 6d. Malt, sos. to sss. fiats, 16s. 221. sss. Horfe. Beans, (New) los. 345. sss. Tick Beans, (New) 38s. sts. Hug Peale, 28s. 345. • Boilers, 345. 38s. 395. Carraway Seed, 365. to 4os. per cwt. • Coriander, a6s. to 295. per cwt. 1. Canary, 78s. to Bos. per cwt. Rape Seed, 341. to 361. per 1,11. Flour sos. and sss. per lack. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JUNE 8. Sailed this day the PRINCE ADOLPHUS packet, with the mails of the lit inft. for Liibon; the Patsterss AMELIA packet, STE. YENS, with mails of the ad init. fur New York and Halifax ; and the PRINCESS ELIZABETH packet, KIDD, with mails of the fame date for Jamaica and Barbadoes : failed the Emeline , Hostsawaxi, with currants for Hull; the American (hip Ca roline, OuLD, with flour for London; and the American bit Three brothers, KEAN, for London. Arrived the Pelican, Captain WILLIAM BROAD, with bale goods, &c. front London, to take in tin fcr Smy ma ; and the American fchooner Dolphin, Captain TYLER. ili 30 days tram Charleltown, with rice, for orders. The Du K or Yoat packet will fail on Saturday neat, with the Lilbou mail of this date. PLYMOUTH, JUNE ;I. Came in from Cork the Gt. t u asosta, 0136 pins, Capt. TA L. 1101.; and the ENGAGER NT!, of 38 guns, Lieut. DON ItCLIFT : till: (hip has been lying at Cork as an Hofrital fhip, and is gone u 2 I lotooare to be paid uff.—Sailed the RA NOZII cutter, of 16 guns, Capt. ERA E ta, for London; and the DIDAION gust, of 36 guns, Capt. S tio a r LAND, fnr the Cape of Good Hope, and under fealed orders. The Ituffard tranfport, Capt. CROSLET, lately arrived here from Egypt, failed yefterday for Portfinouth, but having miffed Rays, the was near being albore in Bovcyfand lay; immediate aiLtanee being given by the boats of the (hips of war in the Sound, the was warped off, and is now fakly at anchor in the Sound ; but has loft her voyage for the prefent, the wind having Milted to the Southward, and blowing a , throng gale. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE to. In the STAR of the Eth inft. inftead of "Arrial the Beauty, Wigs, from Norway; Mar y, PARR, froMSunderland ; acd Neptune, Cowl, from Wochrich,' rea 1, " Seikdj ."&c. Lift night arrive,: the Pitt tranfport, Capt. °limos°, lady from the Straits, lalt from Plymouth--wwild have come into harbour this day, but the wind has blown quite bar.l thl eve-n -ick—This day arrived the Elizabeth, FRB NUR, Iron' s o ub. hampton. The 311 t retiment tithulbarked from the thr4 loi lowing tranfports this d.,y, and marched tiro barrack, het, ; the Sovereign, BALKAN°, t. an. BAILICILB, and Aid, LAMB, from the Strata. COWES, JUNE to. Arrived the John, Bulkley, laden with coffee and [agar, from Philadelphia ; and the Nancy, Pinnegar, from Queering), with rice and cotton, for Orders.--Sailed t! e John, Warren. fur Havre de Gnu; and the FAT!, Goodrich, for London; both thefe are American (hips —Came into Harbour, after perfum ing quarantine on the Sands, near Cowes thrbour. the Filea . Swedills brig, from Malaga, having born run foul of by an Engligh Osip, off the Ifie of Wight, and revived fo much boor that the new war compelcst to put her amore for 11617. I.Lotbt tttr. rleAt., st rtt.—Art ivoltmt.l foi the RiiPY:te.tioill Dtovne, th'' . .111.4.; and Bottitni, fptr't tia um! iek-cr. I Dd. • :tont the Writ S. W. . • AVLSIE N c the. frnak th! Cape of (.001 li.yn kch I r ltteLrft of Port! f ran the South Seas; Malts:Qua, Cart, *out Af ica. ( - xton 1 4 1.ditcr. Alilla, frrm Sarahr.olt; Briittohlay 1 1 -alc Progrefr, Bumor; amid Weintvorth, 1.on;; , , final St: Kitts; Mm, lhaismui.; from ToLago; /taiga!, (rout t ;,, sou t h &TA; Cart, Scott, from Petcrft.hrgh ; li!mt4rallf L c, from 43.0 - b3doct; kandorr, g rhiftactt, front l'urle;!+; flatiron. and M-tria, Califon: from Charlagoll; Ritfil mend. Niclolla. 'rem Lcrhorn; 0e..2n, Murray, front kelt. dune; fog, Rced, from ; Advt:iture. Jbbnftonr, horti the hleditrrr.m.ran; Devon, Spark; Undatinted, htafon; aft' 0 ,„,,„ 1 from Jam.dca.—!'dled the St 1'...tr3..k4 —, for Leir.ot ; Agrunora, Friend, for I.cghorn; Fly, Ore. gory, for St. Vallcry ..aud Lord Lenox, Lloyd, for Dookitz. .13AssETERR.K, (S C. KIT : 1"S) APRIL d 3. Capt. Sascroa, of the Suflinnah, arr;v:d•hcrer has taken up' the crew of a Portugnefe !Lip that had been unfottunately burnt. She proved to be the 'hip Noftra Segrtara Conceicad Falolo7o, Joas DAF S. Fit UilltlDO •Mafter; failed from Lifbort the aoth ult. baund for Marano, a port in the Bra zils :—between three and futtr P. Me . of the nth, b:ing in lat. 25. 36. N. long. 25. 3. Well, they felt a fudden (hock, accompanied with a violent eeplra lion; and on enquiry the Captain was.irJormed the fhip was on fire, a quantity of fmnke it t hing at the fame time from every part of the hold ; the (melt of which making them cotijeattte the acc4 dent was caufcd by the but fting of tome acrid; w. tis. in a cafe of medicines they had taken on board. Every meth= that could be adopted to lave the Ihip (and a s•alnaLle cargo of wines, prhvifi , :als i and dry goods) was tiled, but without effeet, as to revent their being fuffucated by the encreafin fatote, they were obliged to defect her ab ou t haif pafl five. She blew up within a ,quatter that night, which all the penule (being in the laarch together) palled in a manner more earl:y . to be conceived than defcribed, not ha .;rg • been able to take in a drop of water (the calks opt deck having been all flatted into the hold on th e a p. pearance of the-lmoke) with but a very (mai: pm. portion of bread, and only the clothes they had on at the time the fatal accident compelled them to quit.the fhip, the locate not permitting th . em to lave any at-title of value on board. in this awful fituation were they placed until the morning following, when, thanks to Divitin PROVIDFNCE, t:l2 Suninn7.h made her appearance, and about nine o'clock Captain St etrott was made the in ftrument of humanely refcuing from an rntimely death fixty.two perfons (including twelve palling gers), whole joy and gratitude at their deliver• arce can only be e9nalled by the extremity of their diftrefs. A rubfcription has been laudably let . cal foot for the relief of the unfortunate (offerers. . • Lane Seipp:ed.—We have the fatisfaeon to announce the fife arrival in the Downs of the Hon. Eaf India Company's (hips the, Lord Duncan, Captain Gsosce SevrwEt.t ; and the Boddam, Captain JOHN JONES: Licotenant Colonel Rome, the late Lieutenant• Governor of the Itland of St. Helena, is a pailinger on ho ird tilt- Lord Duncara The above fhips failed from St. Helena on the tglh of Aptil. The Hindoftan and Hope fiiled ft m ' St. Helena the 18th ditto. The Henry Addingt• ri and Ocean failed, from ditto the Igth. The Cart a. tic, Windham Nottingham, and Admiral Gird. ner, were to f ail from St. Helena on the 20:1) or 1i ft ditto. RICHARD HALL, Efq Prefident of the S tpra Cargoes at Gaston, is a palfenger on board the Hindoftan. The above !hips form the firft China fleet of this feafon. The extra-ship Elizabeth was all well, off the Bocca, on the 2calt January. The dire& (hips had not arrived at China on tl•4 23d of January. We have the pleafure to (late that the Hon. Eat India Company's fhip the Arnillan, Capt. CAMP. SELL MARJORIBANRS, arrived at the Rand of Sr. Helena, from England with fibres, on the gth day of March, after the delivery of which the proceeds •to China. The Harmony, Peels, from Cork, bound to Newfoundlan,d was fpoke with the 24th of May, in lat. 5 z N. long. 13 W. The London, bound to Martinique, was (poke with on the 24th of April, in lat. 38 N. lorg. 15 34 W. The Mary, V.'ardell, arrived at Milford, (poke on the 22d of Arrilin lat. 33 z, long. 53 49, the Mexico, —, from Matt:. pique for Cork ; on the 6th of May, the Beaver, Saunders, from Limerick for Canada; and on the 25tb, the induttry, Stanley, front Havre for Virginia. The Undaunted, Mafah, arrived in the Downs from Jamaica, of the 24th of April raw the Charming Eliza, f rom N ew Prov,dence, with a fignal of diftrcfs, having eight feet ware in her hold, took, out the people, and lift her; on the 3d of AprU, the (puke the Nancy, —, from Surinam for London, out ♦* day*. aid fupplied her with bread. The Merlin, Rof,, from Dcmarara for London, has put Int• Maitinique in diftrefs: Captain Brind, of the Mari Ann, fpnke the Duke of Rene, from Dentarara to Liverpool, the tit of May, clear of the Leo. ward Iflands. Mr. BRANDON'S Benefit, at Covent-Garden The atre, was on Monday evening Taft molt numeroufly attended by the World of Fafidon, with whom, as well as the Public, his unremitting attention to their accommodAtion has defervedly rendered him an esteemed favourite. His receipts amounted to skl. GUILDFORD Racts.--Wednefday his. Majefty's Plate of lc° guinea% wac to be run for, but Mr. • DIJR A Na's horle Teddy the Grinder, walked over • the c - urfe. • The .111etaZie PraQ.ce bas at length become fis firmly eltahlithcd, that Government has conceived the proprL!y of rendering it productive to the revenue. An amendment was in conference made to the new Medicine At, after its fccond reaJr:g,, to imro..luce the Tractors, and twenty' ihillm . ts was dire4ted to be railed on the Pale of each fet.—This is to take place on the t.l of Sep. t,mber, when their pike will be railed to fix gui neas the let. A law which paired the Batavian Leg:tlative Body on the t it ina. enaas, giat all the inhaSitants of the countries ceded by the Batavian Republic to Fr ince and Great Britain by the treaty of Amiens, th ill be confidered as Batavian Citizens and enjoy their privileges, provided they (hall eflabl fh them. felvet before the IR January, 1803, upon the ter. ritory of the Republic. The inhabitant% of the Lao of Ceylon are excepted in this regulation. 7