Star. — London, England, 1802-10-27 00:00:00

* , 1.. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27. PR:CE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 01111.0 CK 3 per Ccat. Codas 651ig1 .43 ) m kt*, for Nov. ace. 6111-- 3 per Cent. Reduced 67 s di per COL Omah= Sti 9 t. Yefterday. after our Paper was at Prefs, we re ceived tome additional Paris Journals. One lays the FIR rr Consul. fet out on Thurfday laft to visit the ports of Havre and Cherburght another Rates the information to be premature ; and a third Rates that his departure was fixed for Teilordar- We are forty to obferve that, however unfound ed may be the aflertions in the article refpeEhng the difpofitions of the Swifs, which we yefterday copied from the iforiteir, it Teems no longer doubtful that the Cantons of Switzerland have fOund it moll prudent to fubmit to the CHIRP Cosine. By Letters from Park of the 23d, which are confirmed by Advices from Laufanne of the 15th, it appears that the Diet of &harks has ac ceded to the Articles contained in General Bona : awe's Proclamation ; and on the 13th inft. the bodies of Coofederate Troops were ordered to be difbanded, and the newly conftituted Authorities diftblved. The Helvetic Diet was to return to Berne on the 18th inftant. Deputies are to be feat to Paris from Switzerland, to fettle the dit &rent points at atm. The ifoniterr avows that in the nest war the Swifs mit fight on the fide of the Mach. That they can remain neutral while their country is a military poll of such importance is next to impof fible. The Swift, then, mull be forced to efpoufe the caufe of France.—Switzerland thus is render. cd as much a part of France as if it were incor porated ! Mizaz-Laws.---There is no alteration in prices of any fort of grain, this day, fume Monday,. Wheat has a heavy talc at that day's Currency. Baean.----Yefterday the LORD Marmi ordered the Price of Bread to, be continued the fame as laft week. .dnmadLrr SESSIONS. • • OLD BAILEY. OC T j. • Our Readers will readily recollect the various ex. aminetions which have taken place at the Manfion Houfe refpeaing a charge, involving a number of perfous charged with beingconcerned in finking tha t, brig Adventure off Brighton on the Bth of Mpg Lift, for the purpofe of ddrauding the under's*: en... This cafe came on for full trial et dtefe felfioni, and the whole cireum (lances of a bufinefs which has for fome time occupied a coafiderabk there of the public attention were circumftandally difclofed. Four perfons were included in the ildiament : Thefe were Eafterby and Macfarlane, the Owners; Codlin, the Mailer of the vdel ; and Read, the Supercargo. Codling and Read were indiaed as principals, and the two owners asecceforiee to the crime.--. The following Jury were then fir= : Thetas Lovely. f l o: sd cuais, aleph rdo" . "age = ge, Go Condon, kt P at h Dawns imbue Seat* s= s • Itishani Hataholoasew, , Fran Clades J. Hayes. The proftcution was opened by Mr. MA It RN TT. Mr. Gaaaow, leading Council for the profecu. tion, began by Obferving, that the charge againft the prifOners, on whole fate the Jury wee to de termine, was that the two prifoners, Codlin and Read, had deft Toyed the vefel in queftion, with intent to prejudice the Underwriters, who had fah. feribed the Policy of Inforance upon her, and ' that the two other prifoners, who were the owners, • bad procured them to commit the offence. This it was hardly neceffary to Elate, was by thewifdom • of the law made a capital offence in each of the perfons who had been guilty of it. The cafe was • of the WI Fable importance, and called for thel moil deliberate, anzions, and patient attention mi l . the part of the Jury. It was important, as *rinse imputed to the prifoneeaffeand the vital ,1 tele& of the country. It was the policy of °owl 17Itein of commerce, by means of bkrittmelnfit. sauces, to divide the silk of lea voyages among many rfons, by which' . swains, when lofes bappeod, they were bat. lightly felt, compara tive yto what they would be if bo rne by indi viduals. If akin: fads a* dick with, which the prifoners were charged 'could be committed with impunity, oar commerce mug confequently be at en end.—He should not •Imploy any time. in Laing the sw upon the fubjeith for that wai more •. peculiarly the province of the Judge. As far as depended upon the faits, the cafe againll all the prifolters would be midi clearly made out. In or der that 'the Jury might the better underhand them, he should give a ikon hiftory or narrative of die vetel itfelf, in the courfe of which he should Diew that Codlin and Read had Ileftroyed it, and that Eallerby aud *Farkas had inftigated than to do Co. Tbs . brig Adventure had been per chafed by Eafierbe 'an& McFarlane in May lag; Ale kW hi* mouth' of July, when Policies were e(eaed *pop her, and Codlin was appoint. ed -so iten command. She failed from London ter Yantiooth certainly without having taken in say thing like her cargo. At Yarmouth Ilse took in goods to a very incon6derable amount, and about ten tons of ballaft. At this time a Mi. *arrow was fopercargo, bat iv would appear he Clever intended to purfue the voyage. The lbip proceeded to the Downs, where Storrow left it. sad *as fucceecled by the prifoner Read.- While lie lay at the Downs, a perfon Of the name Douglas, who was Mate, was taken . ill and left IPd Gans lbasad esp lar t igm be pafen isad, :dm was 04, ,i and who avowed his incapability. ,The Prifoner , -Codlin eonfciOus net the obje& of the*Oyage, WO* not Gibraltar or Leghorn, but that die Advtotere &could find her grave before the left the &kith coat, told him his duty would not be very 40- duous. ThereVsere frequent opportunities for die (hip failing, but,Codlin pretended that the wind did cot fug, and that he waited for letters. He. (poke of her as a (hip that was unfit to croft the Bay of Bifeay, and that the thould loon be de &toyed. Wheathe got to Brighton, Codlin went on deck, and obferved to Cooper, that he was a dimity fellow, and could not get into the locker of the cabin to bore the holes to deftroy her; and , he ordered Cooper to - go, telling higi he would irk the inftrumags in the cabin ; and In order to avoid creating an alarm, be took care to employ all bands in taking in the fails, and onfuch duties es precluded the polfibility of their hearing what was going forward. Cooper followed the &reams of the Captain, rnd bored three holes with an auger; the Captain aficed him if the *Tater was ruching in. He -replied be had left the angels in the holes.lle Captain Paid it was very well, and Tome further ccnverfation took place rerpedfing a Brow-bar. The Learned Counfel be did not inimne to Read that he lent an hapd, or gave any aft tance in boring the boles, but that he was lying in bed elofeito the locker, and that there be rob mained a witnefs of what was going forward... Things continued in this fituation till day light; when, in confequence of the water not flowing in fat enough, the Captain thought it neceffarytodo fomething more; he therefore ordered COoper, the mate, to • make the holes larger :— accordin gly Cooper went down, and with a crow bar made al aperture fufficient to have deflroyed a veal 'with ten pumps at work. The lilies bmorsis got out, width. Captain and crew lay by in the boat, which tad been ordered to be ready, with nothing in her but her four oars, and a fufficient quantity . of tholes (pieces of wood- for the oars to Tea againft in the a& of rowing.) It might be alked, bow was all this tube proved, becaufe people engaged in guilty alas did not nfugly divulge their fecrets ? He thould prove, the fats b y Cooper, the mate ; he &mid preterit hint to the Jury as the accom plice, nay, as the perpetrator of the deed. If the proof depended on Cooper alone, it would be too much, on his evidence, to put men in the hazard of their lives ; but if be was confirmed in the Remy he told, the jury would a& upon his teftimony. the fame as if it came from a perfon of entire credit. He thould furround him with a tower of coufirma doe, of which nothing bet the guilt of die parties could have laid the foundation. Having thus pur- Cued the narrativetill the period when the crew left the vette), he &mid (late, that a thert time be fore they quitted it, a tignal of diftrefs was made, which had the die& of Twinging 'boats from the (bore to render affiftence. Some-of them appear ed too loon for the prifoner Codliu, for if they bad been permitted to have gone on board, the (kill and intrepidity of the perfon belonging to them would have Paved the vefel, and brought her in,. when the - would have exhibited that . damning. proof, which to-do would exhibit by her, "wounded fide , the of which would be pro duced to the Jury. hen the Brighton boats came off, it would - be found that Codlin ordered them to keep off, raying, that he was the Mailer, and they amid not mita her till he bad left her, He had before declared that to the bottom the (hould go. Was it ' poffible that aman meaning to aft fairly would, when he was within the reach of affiftance, interdia the proffered relief ? Was fuck calcine reconcileable with any thing but guilt ? At this_. moment the Swallow revenue cutter came up, and acing upon her own authority, put out a rope to tow her to there, but the was water-logged, and immediately went to the bottom. He had heard it had been Rated, that becaufe the Chip had not been deßroyed, the offence was incomplete. If fuel' wsa the law, there ;pas an end of the cafe; but heves pacuaded it would sot be fo Rated by the Noble judgee.. no . crew got on board the ' Swallow andamved at Brighton, and put up at the Old Ship Tavern. The news f the ditafter of courfe loon reached London, and not wkisik threwd fufpicions of foul play; in confequesoa of which an experienced aid difereet iperfon, of the name of Douglas, was difpatched 4y the Under writers to enquire into the affair. He found that Earlerkg end *Fading hid arrived before him, and that Codlin and the ref Of the crew were Rill there. He defired that Codlin might, on nn ac itunre t, a leacvirceßurmitanco which ton tillte w dailas btought as had been reified. Eafterby undertook be &odd not, yet it would be found that a place was taken for him by Read in thellar;—in vio lation of that engagement. It was taw in the name of Idr. Poftgate, and Eafterby took leave of him at the office. He arrival at London under the *fumed name of Poftgate r the next thing_ he click, was to writ* to Eafterby, informing him iglis rival, and that in purfuancc of his orders be was going to Colcheller, and fhoukl take the advan tage, of a bye-boat, or packet, to get out of the Hamomas faft es poffible, and , proceed, to burgh. Very fonunately the ailtiegy of Mr. Lavie, the Solicitor of the Underveriters, .eepied this letter, and furnithed a, clue to 1141:- Douglas to trace the Reps of Codlin to Hatifieh. He found no perfon of the name of Codlik . bus be difcovered that a man of the name of Poftwee was on board of one of the packets then under way fearched the veal, found hint, and brought him away. If there faits lipoid be proved, it •would be impoffibld for the Jury to betitate a fisida moment as to the guilt of Coffin and Read. Ifit &mild now take a view tithe circundlances that counted Eafterby and 114Farlaieels4hat gnik ' In the firft place, it would be fostod diai their ob lie& was to procure tech cargo as would enable them to make large hi& infurancet felted amounted mooed. aped the further War. anew attempted to be made *odd hove extended to is,opol. In order to littiety'tbe Underwriters; rwhen .a claim Was made up diem, it' wits **olll4r, tO Otodise Mite boons; Ar thig " tddi , .a MeFarling bad procired fabricated Invoices, laia!aitlg 'the goods twenty and thirty!pir toot. °Melee than whit was paid for`thein. Bills of Lading were idle procure& from Codlin for goods which never were_ put On board, and a inanifeit Made out for goods, Tome of which had never been on board, cabers were received on hoard and after wards taken away. Having eiumerated a variety of &her faits, which would be Rated by the witneffes, he concluded by urging the Jury, Wafter they had heard the whole of the cafe, they entertained any doubt, to do that which would be recommended to them by higher authority than his, give the Prifoners the full benefit of it s and- if paible ex tenuate their offence. Thomas Cooper, examined by Mr. Glass, de-- poled, that he entered as a private failor before the malt on board the brig Adventure, Capt. Codlin, when the veld was lying below Limehoufe. John Douglas was at that time mate , and the crew con. fifled - of hinafelf, the Captain, the Mate, and two boys. Mr. &mow ufed to come backward and forward, and railed with them to Yarmouth. They took in 32 hogfheads of tobacco, Tome linen, and ta or 13 tons °naafi; preeionily to their fiat fail ing to Deal, they arrived is fafety. Douglas quitted the fhip there, in confequence of being af- Wed, as he fidd,with the rhenmatifm. Storrow alto left• it, aratieits fucceeded by Mr. Read, as fu- At deal they took in force cafes. Codlin offered the witnefs the place of mate, vacant by the abfence of Douglas. The witnefi hid he was not qualified for it, as he did not, undertland navi gation; but-the Captain replied, that as long as he .pleafed him that would be enough. • They did not ha again as loon of they might .have done, and as form as other vet de did, but remained for Tome days ; tba Captain at tome times 'hying be did not like the wind, and at others, that he was obliged to wait for the arrival of letters. They, however, ' failed in flee or fix days, and had a boat, into which the Captain give aria ordersthat no thing_ &mild be-admitted but four oars and plenty of tholes. On the Friday befbre the veffel was funk, the Captain hid, they !head not be in the hip ,48 hours. On the 'next day, Saturday, he further raid, that was the laft night they mould be in her; . that he did not think her.fit to carry through the. Ally, adding, « I do not think her lifotrully of myolife or yours, and why th the ould be fo of any. • other man's I* The witneth was - then on the quar-• ter-deck, ;writhe Mailer 4 the helm, whom he relieved, and the latter went below. On his return; about a quarter of aw !sour, he Paid to the wit 'Refs, " Go down, you'll find an anger lying on the' eakin floor; which you will carry with you , and afar taking up the hatches and !tulle, to get at • ; it more conveniently, you will bore a hole as Oae jar poffible to the run." He went accordingly, and 'found a new auger, to which the Captain h ad put a handle, which it wanted before. With he thinks, he bored three holes, and left it behind him, Ricking in one of them. The Captain in his opinion, *light balm got into the place himfelf, but not 1p eimivenienay as be, could. When Act came on 4* be told what be had done to the' •Caytainephed, do Very well, let them hulk div-Ififit." On Sunday morning, by order of: the Captain, the cabin-boy was not allowed to come down and breakfaft in the cabin as ufual, and he pulled the auger out of the hole . in which 'he left it. The Captain then wanted to find a =saw', to make the hole' larger, as they (Ed not Teem to let in the water fag enou h ; when the Witnefs re minding him of the , he Paid, " Aye, that is the very thing." They then went down toge ther, and the captain lent a hand to fallen down the lockers, that the bole might be enlarged. The Witnefs ftruck the bar through the bottom, and the water raked in rapidly. Read was in Mel/lid very near the place where the holes were made and ' 9 the Witnefs heardlim ttirnhirpfelf feveral tam' es. He might not, however, have heard the boring, as it made little or no noife. The Witnefs caned him, and he got up, but returned to bed again-before the hole. was enlarged with the crow-bar, and though be might not lee the hole, bemight eafily hear the water running in. The finallel hole was kept ,open, that the fhi . p wiight.feem leaky, and the pumps be kept Read was on deck at the precife time the hole was enlarged by means of the crow-bar, and the bofs were not permitted to go to bed. The fignal of:diftrefs was made, and* boat put out behre the t Watee came apto the diet. He had packed up hiathings, and put thainiata a bread bag, on Friday, when the Catitala hid they fhotzleinot remain on board 48 host:band at the fame time bid hiaz not to fay ;ay thing•about the matter. While the hole was making with the crowbar the crew were kept dole taking in fail, fo that •they could neither fee nor bear what was going forward. Read was up at eight o'clock in the morning,...and leveret boats furrOunded the Drip eel the appearance of thediftrefs fignal. They alkedifire wanted any Alliance, hying they ware to tow us into harbour. The Captain hid thahip•belonged to him as long as the could twits, and they bad rio bufurefs with her. He had no' ,sienlselaut,the ieffel went down in confiqUence of, Ala boles that' were made in her: bottom. Read's soak was taken on board . at.Deala and taken ayay the next day, together with' his beil, the With , helping to remove them into the b oat, .and they were not broug beht on board anmore. 'While it was on boar 4 it appeared to full of linen.— When the crew went on - hove at . Brighton, they repaired to the Old Ship . Tavern. • •Read then told a Welch woman that in the- wreck he had led eve,ry thing belonging to • him. Eafterby; and bi'lfarlane came down theieb as he thinks, on Tuefclay, and the former afltecrhim where he had bored the hole, and what-was the faze of it ? The Prifoner replied he could not grainy tell. He then afked again, whether it was as large as the handle of a carpenter's chifel which lay in the ,nom I And the Prifoner antwering in the nier niative, or thereabout, he bid him take out the Sandie and tharpea it, to plug the hole in cafe the Aiplhoidd come onharo,aWch it was then likely todo,-as le was driving herd that wdy.' Eaßerby 'lllo4,litid, r °Atingle a stri-si foul, and has made ' -** * o 4l 6ll :.' of if; be &Add have funk the (hip !i• &RA AR she •weadse is fine, j words were did and nn i Dead and Codling were by whetith f ftpaok pre f ect. le e ea, loud al. ehee lodgings , nt w ou o g o h w t to be l Owners n h gt e h a me r n d e o b trh y d e aet e e r v ei f e d r I y tb p e r f o: a t n v e e f s the t w g o i t n to e London fia note with togeth er, London, r e ede i C eto a tii. lucaadfal e e r d r *P b ni n b i e ni i a i the n e e e n f a keep clofe 1 fhould be under fentence of ta ß i ea na d n th d en Wi- g which he received nine (billings wages, and but to w the l' s ° where to find M'Farlane's houfe in placestcalo ' be c a d r fbo ll ar i c s hki e mw apen haennd e e ft s. ehteticn H agp e °t e a ; coach with one of the boys. Read had and g u after by a Gentleman, and the boy fent in his l The name of the boy, his companion , waspee; Kennedy. The pump, he faid, had been w en k r- ea e when the water was let in. One of th e boys made obfervation, on which the Captain bid him --- ; o e along--that it was only beating againft th e ', he, however, at the fame time told the vi run ; he, go down and fee what was the m 'the( - matter, but &It jogged and whifpered him to fay nothi ng . r ift ," being tome time in London at a lodgin g --; I Dark-houfe lane, he determined to gO -In- i - I mother's at 'Satinundham, in Suffolk, as itio be. I gan to want money, and failed in his endeavours . to get a fliip. The next day after his goin g 1d our s having heard that he was inquired for about fink. ing a Ihip, he fent for Mr. Archkettle, the H i t borough, furrendered to him, and told ea the whole truth of the Rory. Crofs-examined by Mr. Fisunwo—lie laid, h was 24 years of age, and that he mad e no doubt of the veffel having funk in confequence of th e holes made in her bottom. Hewas not aware of his being himfelf the perpetrator of the whole ; he only-did as the Captain bid him. He h ar d in the country that there was a hundred guineas offered for his apprehenfion, but he did not know it while in London, or he would have furrenderedhinifelf ; and fo far from having any notion that the reward would come to him, he gave himfelf up, fooner than any one fhould have it ; but he thought at firft that the fhip was the Captain's own, and he might do as he pleated With her. He knew that he had done wrong, and repented of his crime. When he was brought to London in a poft-chaife, he was exa mined before the Lord Mayor, and told the f a m e Rory he did now: He has been in the Comptes ever final, and,favr Mr. Levie there. He profeffed himfelf very willing to fuller for his. offence, ifthe Court thought he deferved it; but, at all events, he, was determined to fpeak nothing but the truth. The fhip, he faid, was fix or (even miles from Brighton at the time the Cigna' of diftrefs' was made. He never got any thing by way of reward f tan Captain Codling, except a new coat; but received no money, nor any promile of any. No converfation of the kind ever occurred between them. He perfitted to fay, that he and the Captain str:nt at firfl on board of the Government cutter, Al returned to the veffel again after the hawfer was lathed 'acrofs, and turned the head of it, to make believe they wanted to get on 'bore. The Captain, on that occaflon, teemed to give all the atflflance he could, and appeared far from being in a hurry to quit the veffel. Qn his Tc-ePtiniaation by Mr. Goes, faid, that when be agreed to the Captain's propofal, of-boring thilliip, the latter told him that he would get as good. or even a better birth for him. - John Morris, examined by Mr. KNOWLYS, (WOUN " I was an apprentice to Mr. Storrow, who went as fnpercargo on board the Adventure to Yar mouth. I went on board her when the was in the river. She took in'her lading while The was in the river. I have teen Mr. Eafterby come to the fhip, fometimes in the morning before, and after breakfaft, and fometimes in the evening.— When he came In the daytime, nothing was taken away, but there was Tome fugar taken away in the evening, and got into the boat : when the Packages came, I faw tome of them opened, for there welt Rom for the thip's ufe, packed up in blue and brown paper. Ido not know what each of the packages weighed, they might be about 14 or tslbs. weight. I faw Mr. Eafterby again, but- I did not fee him take any thing away after that time. Then we went to Yarmouth, where tome bread, flour, and peafe, were taken from our Kip the Adventure, to the fliip William, which belongs to Mr. Eafterby and Mr. M4Farlane, but ihis was while the was in the river ; a fwivel and a cable, and fome other things were taken to the William. . I know Mr. Blagden, the Lighterman, he came to the (hip ; we went to Yarmouth, and returned to the Downs ; Mr. Storrow went as Su percargo in the Adventure, but he went out el her in the Downs. George Kennedy was another ap prentice to Mr. Storrow, as well as me : Mr. Read came in the place of Mr. Storrow in the Dawns: Mr. Read brought with him a bag, a trunk, and a (mall bale of goods, but I cannot tell what they were. — The trunk was taken afterwards athore by Kennedy and Lacey while we were in the Downs, and it never was returned : when we failed from the Downs, it was three or four days afterwards before vt.: came to Brighton : I recoiled the night before the Ship funk, I cabin•boy, and generally pr?- pared breakfaft: The chief part of my duty was in the cabin. On the Sunday morning when the Ship funk, Mr. Codlin, my matter, fent me for his great coat : it was about ten or eleven o'clock, to the belt of my knowledge ; the coat was in one of the Cabin-lockers, which were then all fie and entire, and no bread at all in them. The 'ceiling was alto, to the heft of my knowledge, en' tire. I did not obferve any thing broken at all : 'I got the great coat, I took it up the hatches of t he fcuttle, and I heard the water r uching in ; then 1 told my matter, Mr. Codlin, that the water wa s ruffling in, and that I thought there w as a lea k there : Mr. Codlin faid there was no inch thing, and fent me forwar4/ to the fore-part of the chip : we were pumping very often : we had one of the pumps going then : there were two punip s on board the Slip : we did not then wor k the ot her pump: but about four or five o'clock I went'" ,the other pump, for I knew where the geers o rei n ,pumps were. George Kennedy, my felh,v-aPPer rice, was told by one of the crew to fetch the ace" of the .pompoinct he was going for it, but . N u l _ Codlin hauled him up as he had got a iirP dc)."' eaak.