Star. — London, England, 1801-07-14 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGINCE. MAILS THIS DAY...Wklit L. illllo/LD o Hamburg', Dublin, July to. • • Waterford, jai/ 9, I Doeusaghadts, July so, • 4111••• YARMOUTH, JULY t3.---Sailod the HAZAILD tat ttr W join Admiral Dicssom's fleet ; l'Espizozz brig on a cruize ; and the Naraitrua brig for, Cux haven: TwoHamburgh Mails remain doe..: FALMOUTH, JULY IL—Arrived the DOLLY Cot ter, WiTION, from the Channel Fleet, off Brea, whic)l the left all wellyeftirday : they confifted of 17 three-deckers and (even feventy-four's. The French fleet Gill remained in the outer harbour.— Arrived and failed again for Braid, the Ameri can fchooner Bee, Capt. Attss, in 35 days from Ediugton, laden with tar. Sailed alto the Ame rican (lip Hope, GRINFIILD, with wine and bran. dy for Guernfey ;American brig Reward, Hoor with Attics, &c. for Dieppe; and fourteen fail of coaltlng refits for Wales.—Arrived the,Difs:atch, Gasxvit.r.s, from Neath ; and thrikt.tosmez re irenue lugger, from Scilly. Orders were' received laft night at the Agent's Office for the Lifbon Packets to go as Flags Of Truce, in confequence of which the guns, Gores, kc. were this day landed from the Prises ADOI, Amos, which Packet will fail the fill favourable wind, with the Mail of the 7th inftant. The or ders for the failing of the Tow:est:to Packet, with the Jamaica Mail, arrived laft evening: this Packet alto waits a favourable wind. The Wind being new wrong to the Wefiward, the arrival of the WALIINGH/1111 Packet from Lifbon. may be ex peeled id a clay or two. Pocrsuoorir„ jv tv t3.—Arrived, and is put finder quarantine, the Sr. Ficsatazo, of 40 guns, Capt. Pars aso a, from the Mediterranean, lalt from the Downs; and the Socsaay, of 32 guns, Capt. Dumas, from the North Sea. • Smstaasss, Juts , t3.—Arrived theMatrusa fri gate, Captain Goes, and the Diligence Rory (lip from the River. -Came into harbour this morn ing, his Majeftyls fhip GL•TTON of 54 "runs, Capt. Buccal:A, to be repaired. Sailed the Cusacsa, Lieut. Riwo ; BOLD, Lieut. SNORT; Misr, Lieut. ROCNTII I CONST•IIT, Lieut. BIIIMIL and M•L. LAI/D gouti-lstigs, for the Downs..—The DOLPION buttetias come into dock to be coppered.—Wind S. W. blows hard with rain. ORAYISYND, JOLT 13.—Paffed by the Mary, jamas; Reim Charante ; Hoffliong, —, from Ca lais; Nile, Fismia, and Race Florfe, Lsactity, from Demarara.--Sailed the Turin Galley, --, for Martinique; Martha Walitington, Causeas, , for Boron; Juno, Caorrs, for Ifamburgh, Prin. caffa, Lse, for Smyrna; Triton, Awaris, for In dia ; Vriendfchap, —, for Antwerp; Vrow Jappe, and Frederic, Amfterdam. ARRIVED. jo final Andlis and Steady *Me Miller, from MMarbla. At =Mt". InGartil. from Wien. At , Razor, from Philadelphia; Mawr% Rediter, from Now Wei ; Margiretta, —, front Matta; from Virginia. a t i ntrpeoP—lhisa, Nandyfide ; aM Mary nen, Sher rem. Ran CbarleGan • Haffiet, ri tu ag e nras Comm. 1W,....—, from Sat an; Venerable, ; and Agreeable. ..—..., Iran lharbieloa ; and Thorn, —, from Bottom At Lanafter—Ceres ASS , " been St. Bartholomew's. to the Iblarns—DifpUck-NalGemood, from Gibraltar. At Martfaiquea , aw. limrtborotharatte, from lancaßer. At Chulfton— Packet, from London. pordineatb--Awors, itvf, from 011initar. tiyasesta—Alert, ; and Neptune, Jacobi, from °bilker. At Falmouth—Ls Uwe, Harland; and amok, ken Gibraltar. At Clydn—JuftateN Ralik, from Tortola; Phanix, Lad, Atgrind Mallimenomm, Wood, from overt°. At eefs Mary. lime; and Santa Marcus, from Oporto. At boblin—Goone Wise* jardifier Sr- Anna Dilirette, .)e Carta; Pagans de Pima, Da Mira; and Ceres, Beatify, from Oporto; Fair AMA:Arra, Tamer; sad MEDIA M'Con- , WS. from Baltimore. At Nmery.-.lllmonis. Marlow, from New York. At Waterfeed—ollbloai fro= London. • Captain wain HANDS* SOW, of the Gosforth, arrived at Neercafthe from Hemburgh, Rates, that Sir James Cawstrole, the Englifh Ambaffador at Hamburgh, had given arid orders to the mailers of all the Englifit veflels lying in the Elbe to keep conftant look out, to be ready tocut or flip the cables at a moment's notice, as he had received information that the French were• determined, by means of gun.boats which had failed from France, to fet ire to all the Englint veffels•in that river. Mr. Himetasou faw Sir JAYA R S CIAO. CAD% letter to Captain FoLvILI., - of the armed Blip SALLY, at Cuxhaven, dire Bing him to cons. eumicate this information to the =lien of Eng. veffels in that part of the river. Yellerday intelligence was received at the India Houfe of the Safe arrival of his Metefly's Ship the Vass, a ate, C.aptair S. HOOD, which failed from Bortlinouth oet the 3 tit of March lag, as convoy to the following Indiamen, configned to China, Bombe]], and Coat and Bay, viz. The Iflsioltaa, Captain George Mina; the HoPe,CuPtii 6 17:1:Hematite ; the Boddatn, Captain John Jones; the Britills °VIA° Wia is Manley Clarice; the Admire! G 2 idnet. Caps& Ldttnad C. Bradford; the Noe Caftk, Captain Pew Myles ; ibe Date of Montrok, Captain Pa trick am ; the chow% John Masan Ciiinbeckge ; the Aft= Same ; the Walpole, Captainlanes ofeph Bout inf.. Amy Aleilt Na; Lord zuvatiliery, Coma, Dondagno t the Woreifter. Captain halite Visit Lord Duncan, Captain eremite S'ltwth, for ftt. Hraaa 1 enel the Whirlaani, Captain llama Graham, ago foe the above The Varia•st.a lift the above Ships on the s3d of April, all well, in latitude te. North, and lon gitude 37. Weil, proceeding on their voyage un der the convoy of his Majelly's Ship CAMARIAII, Captain the Honourable A. IL Lieu'. The [mall Mops which accompanied the above from Pont*. swath, had parted com pa ny, in hopes of getting Into the trade winds. We have the ettisfaftiente announce, that the fleet was very healthy, anctno caftialtie. 'whatever had taken place. On the t 3th of Apra, they caursci a flip mounting 14 guns. belongi ng to t h e alsauiarda, from' Rio de Janeiro, sod on the following day fall in with a rogealib brig. which they alto mask prize of. • ' ' By Illifiake Captain Batman rtt.rnentioned in our paper of Friday, as the Captain of his Ma- jetty's Hoop the Paws tra w, inftead of CAptain MA N. 'EL, who commands her at prefent ; • Captain MAgssi. having been raifed to the rank of. Poll Captain fince he failed, and fuperfeded by Captain Boum,' at home, was the canfe of that milake. We have fince been favoured with an eztraa of a letter from an officer on board the Pew cu ts, giv ing an account of a very gallant anion. " On board his Majelty T t Brig Ponouttt, of it guns, commanded by Captain MANSZL, April 7.-- 1.40.. 1. gg. Long. 11. 15. "Onthe 18th of February we obferved three Chips in chace of us, one of which came up very faft.— We fhortened fail to receive him, when he made reys to his cordons, and lay to to wait for them. foon came up with him ; when they formed a line of battle and boifted French colours. We made no fcruple to attack them all ; and as we neared each other we found they were a corvette of 24 guns, and two large armed-lhips of 16 guns each—a hard march for our 18 guns 1 However when we got within mufket fhot we exchanged broadfides with the three : the broldlide of one of the armed (hips told as heavy as that of the cor vette. The adion continued very brifk for two hours, when we got the weather-gage of the ftern moll (hip, and bore up to cut her off. We fuc ceeded in breaking the line and throwing them into confufion ; and having got clofe under the lee of the large (hip, Use bore up with an intention to run us down ; but a well-direeted fire obliged' him, when about half-piftol fhot from us, to ftrike his colours, let fly every thing, and hail for quar ter. The other two bore down to his affillance ; and after a fight of about an hour in the duftc, we had the misfortune to loft our foretopmaft, which fell in fuch a dire4tion that the whole foreyard be came ufelefs, which, together with the difabled bate of our rigging, and our fails all cut to pieces and on fire, made the brig quite ungovernable.— Our enemy, however, had got enough of it, for taking advantage of a dark night and our !bat tered condition, they made off. We repaired our rigging in the night, and next morning we purfued them into Tenenffe. As they fired much at our rigging with round and grape Ihot, and iron bars from a foot to eight inches long, we luckily had no one killed, and only a few wounded. Yeller. day we fell in with a Swedifh Eaftlndiaman, which we have detained, and by whom you will receive this letter." . ai On Thurfday as the Orprey'a boat was coming from the flip to Portfmouth Point, a feaman fell overboard, and was drowned. In a cartel veffel which arrived this week From France, came over one Stet n eit Buceca, a water. man of Southampton! the relation of the manner of whofe captivity may not prove unituerefting to the public, whilft it may ail as a caution to tinibf petting watermen to be more on their guard whom they take out in their boats for pleafurable mar fions. Three gentlemen had hired the above per fon to take them to the Ifle of Wight, and they bad not proceeded farther than Calthot-calve, when tgey role upon the poor boatman, gagged hitn, tied him hand and foot, and thrcatened him with immediate death, if he made the Left noire, or refiftanca. He implored for /inky, and offer ed them his affiflance in any undertaking, if they would fpare his life; on which he was ;cleated, and was told they were French•prirnners, and de- fired him to make to the nearefl port in France at his peril. The darknefs of the night, and calumets of the wind, favoured their intentions; for after row ing two days and'nights in a (mall open !tiff, with out having the 'call tuftenance, they arrived fate at Cherbourgh. The vraterman was interrogated at the Cullom-honk as to the prifoners' efcape ; when, after giving the particulars, and identifying the perfons, faying that they threatened to murder him, &c. the officers took the three Frenchmen in to cuftody, to take their refpc4tive trials—a proof that Justice there rears her head. The poor man's cafe being made known to the Government, he was ordered to be liberated, and his boat restored. He would have been ranked as a prifoner of war, but for the activity of a once inhabitant of South- hampton, whole kindocts and hofpitality roan,. Gen tlemen captives of this place have before molt am ply experienced. The waterman reports, that he obferved great aftivity in the dock-yard, and the preparations making for invading this country were conilantly dinning his ear. On Sunday fe'nnight MtDowall, accitfed of houfebreaking at Dumfermline, made his ef vipe out of Edinburgh prifon in woman's clothes. His stratagem was very dextrous. He had pro cured a woman to come into the jail with a fuck ing child, *bile feveral other women were alto these, each of whom took thechild and dandled it in their arms in various parts of the prifon, parti cularly in pretence of the inner-keeper. While this etas going on, M'Dowall retired to a private part of the jail, where one of the prifoners, who is a painter, fo coloured his face as to give him the refemblance of a female. He then puton a wo man's drefs, a cloak and bonnet, with a deep veil, after which, like the others, he took the child to dandle, which he continued to do for tome due, and then feveral of the women went out with him, while be carried the child, under the appearance of a nurfe, and to deceived the keeper, and elk& ed his efcape. The two Keoghs, who were tried at Limerick for flogging theVidow FITZORIALD, have' been convitted, and fentenced to receive, Soo taffies each, near Newport.—John Brown, who gave evidence in behalf of`the four men tried for con fpiracy.at Kerry, for prevarication and perjury, is to receive 300 lathes. A number of perfons from the neighbourhood of Centel, who had been taken up on the infor mation of one Keily, an approver, were lately tried at a peuy feffions ; and from Keily's grofs prevarication, instantly acquitted. Keily was afterwards brought to trial before the fame tribu nal, when, being clearly convidlcd upon his own teltirpony againii thole innocent men, of being a ditawderly peeks, he Irjs fcqproced to traufpor cation for life. Liar INTELLIDENCZ. tOURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY xx. • • Zoe V. WALKER. This...caulk, which is an extraordinary one, and of the fire importance to the public, lafted the whole day, and was conduled by Mr. ERSKINE, for the Leffee of the Plaintiff, and by Mr. Ar roe- Nal' GRPURAI,, for the Defendant. Mr. ERBIUM", in his opening to the Jury, ob ferved, this was a cafe deferving their very parti cular attention, becaufe, if the Plaintiff fhould be defeated in this aaion, it would not only be an aft of great injuitice to him, but of very great in junice to the public, inafmuch as it would go very I far, in his opinion, to fhake many of the common affurantes of the realm. It would require their uttnolt attention and the greaten. confederation. He almoft trembled to think of the confequences attending a decifion in favour of the Defendant, land which he had the good luck to acquire in another Court. The property claimed by she Plaintiff was left him under the Will of Mrs. Mary Robinfon, who lived at Romford, in the County of Ellis, and was 76 years of age when the died. The general fanity of the Tenatrix, and her capa city to execute this Will, conflituted this caufe.— Only one of the three fubfcribing Witneffes was now living, and after the Plaintiff had been in the undifturbed poffeflion of this property for fourteen years—after the other two fubfcribing witneres had gone into their graves, and could not be railed up again to qopofe the evidence on the other fide ; it was now fo - ught tb let afide this Will, on the cal ' dence of a witnefs, mean, low, and profligate, on the evidence of the fubfcribing witnefs now living. If that could be done, it would (hake all the com mon affurances of the kingdom and there could be no fecurity to thofe who held their property under deed or mortgage, or any other affurance. He was Counfel for a Fruit Merchant living in Philpot-lane, Mr. John Stevenfbn; a man Of unimpeached, and unimpeachable • reputation, who had carried on trade for a great number of years, who was known to his neighbours in the City, and whore father carried on a fimilar trade with an equal reputation on the fame fpot. One of the fubfcribing witneffes to the Will was an At torney (Mr. Gare), whofe reputation was never impeached during his life, and no man's reputation was more eaflly impeached than that of an Attor ney. Mr. Gale was univerfally refpeded and efleemed. Another fubfcribing witnefs to the Will, who is silo dead, was a Mr. Reynolds, the Clerk of Mr. Gale, alto a man of charafter ' and after wards an Attorney. The Tenatrix, Mrs. Robin fon, had brought up a young woman of the name of Elizabeth Bodkin, who was the objea of her care and bounty, and the old Lady bad a great affeetion for her, founded on the belt eaten. The Plaintiff married that young woman. He, had a fmall property by this Will, but it was not fo much the property as to maintain his charafter and repu tation that this salon was brought. He readily admitted, if the verdia which had been found againfk this• Gentleman was founded in truth and junice, he. as one of the worn and wickedeft of mankind. Unlefs a man's name was untainted in the world, property was of (mall value. Mr. Ste venfon was entrufted by the Tenatrix to tranfaft a little bufinefs the had in the Bank. She gave him a power of Attorney, under which he afted during the remainder of her life. She made two wills pri or to the will in queltion. The will under which the Plaintiff claimed, was dated February 10,1785 s (he by tharwill gave him the premifes in queftion, for which this erament wits brought, which were worth about tool. a year ; and there was a turn of sol. a year to the young woman, who became the Plaintiff's wife. The will being made, it was neceffary of courfe that it fhould be executed.— And the having repofed the utmoft confidence in Mr. Stevenfon, who had tranfaaed her blifinefs for her at the Bank, cottoned him with the execution of this Will. He employed Mr. Gale, who was fince dead, who, together with Mr. Reynolds his Clerk, alto now dead, went down to Romford for the purpofe of the execution of this will. There was alfo a very young man of the name of Cooperfon, and living with Mr. Stevenfon, who alto went(-down to be a fubfcrib ing witne fs to this Will. The Will was execut ed-on the loth of February, 1785, and the lived till the sd of Dtcemiter. 1786 f and it was not till the prefent year, tflot, when the perfons living at Romford, and who were acquainted with this La dy, were dead—it was not till after the death of the Attorney and his Clerk who were acquainted with all the eirctunnances, and were two of the fubfcribing witnefres—That Timothy Cooperfon, the only fubfcribing witnefs, now living, a man married to a common proftitute, and who left Mr. Stevenfon's fervice in confequence of a quarrel between them, becaufe he wifhed to prevent fo improper a conneftion—this ragamuffin and vaga bond, who in confequence of his milcondua went about with a fhowbox, and alto fold matches, and in fhort,lived in a mannerthat totally difrobed him of every pretence to any thing like fair and honelt reputation—this man, in the year 18ot, after Mr. Stevenfon had been in the undifturbed and andif turbable poleffson of this property upwards of four teen years, in going along the high road to Hemp (lead one day with this Show - b ox--this Caws Olfesiroupon his back, was accofted by a per. fon who a&ed his name? This turned out to be the defendant, the Heir at Law to Mrs. Robinfon, and now this man,Cooperfon, came forwaid, con trary to his own folemn aft, to cut down this Will, and to give this eflate to the Heir at Law. He underitood this man, whom he mull call as a wit nefs, would declare upon his oath that the was inca pable of executing that Will, not from general in capacity—not from her general habits—but from her being incapable, at that particular moment — from intoxication---to make that particular mem; and this witnefivras to give this mon detefta ble and profligate evidence after he had not only flibfcribed to the fad, but, on every principle of reafon and of law, bad fubfcribed to hercapacity to execute that Will. He would Rate, that the was to tally incapable of executing the Will, and that her hand was guided by Mr. Gale. The Counfel here eked die ale lig T. dallini as ass =abatis,' ig • his favour. He reminded t e Jury that what wits the fituation of the Plaintiff to day might be their own fituation to morrow, or the fituation of any man living under the fliaatow of the Govern ment of this country, and who was poffelfed of pro. petty. It would be their duty to attend to the evi dence of this infamous witnefs, but it was itnpa fible they could believe one word of it. • Timothy Cooperfon, the &ft v. itnefs, Paid, he came from Mr. Shaw's, Red Lion fircet, where he had lived about feven months. Mr. Walker, the Defendant, recommended him to that place. He did every thing hewn fet about, he cleaned fkoes, and knives, and fcoured copper fauce-pans, and did all manner of dirty work he was fet about.— He became acquainted with the Defendant on the tyli of September htft. He met him accidentally as he was going to Hampllead with a thew-box up on his back ; he met him on the road, and had ne ver before feen him in his life. His wile was withhien. Jolt as the Lady afked him to take a peep at his thew-box, Mr. Walker came u p, and afked him his name ? and finding it was Cooperfon, he took him immediately to his Attorney, Mr. Bromeley, of Clifford's Inn. On the t zth of May, when the Plaintiff's Attorney willed to fee him, he and his wife travelled on foot to Yorkfhire, to fee an old aunt of his, whom he had not feen for many years. He took his thew-box with him, and exhibited up on the road, jull to pars the time; he alto took a few books and fold them. His wife had been married to him twelve years, and he had always worked for a living. Mr. Walker had been a kind friend to him, and he had always been very thank ful for it. He did what he could to oblige him. Be. fore he became acquainted with him he had been' obliged to go about and fell matches, and carry a fhew-bor. He had no other means of fupport ing himfelf. His wife now lived with him at Mr. g Shaw's and got a little needle work In 1786 he lived with Mr. Stevenfon, the father of the ai ntiff, Mr. John Stevenfon; he lived at the corner of Phil pot-lane, and was a Fruit-merchant. On the Will being (hewn to him, and his fignature, he Paid it was his handwriting. He did not fee either Mr. Gale or Mr. Reynolds write their names. They were ready written before he went into the room. He Paid he yaw Mrs. Robinfon fitting in an arm-chair, and a paper before her on a table. She began to write her name—the made anattempt to write her name—and then the could not go on. The pen was taken out of her hand, to the heft of his recolleftion, by Mr. Gale, who gave a fctatch on die paper (obliterating what (he had written) and then put the pen into her hand again, and guided it. She did not appear to him to be capa ble of doing it all. He never yaw her before. She Teemed to be Rupid, or intoxicated, by the way of her. She did not appear to him to be capable of knowing what the was doing—the was either florid or intoxicated—the appeared to him fhtpid drsni. He himfelf was not drunk. John Stevenfon put the paper round to him, and defired him to fign his name. He wrote his name as it then appeared to the Will.—She did not fign any of the other (beets of the Will in his pretence. He then came down (lairs into the Parlour, and the reit Conn fol lowed. Elizabeth Bodkin, the young woman living with Mrs. Robinfon, alked what was to be done with the poor relations, for they were always coming, and were troublefome ? Mr. Gale laid. take them and bind them over to the Quarter Scf. lions. They then came to Town together in a poftchaife. He did not know till Tome time after wards that it was a will he had been altelling. He left Mr. Stevenfon becaufe they could not agree very well together. His matter was unkind enough to with him not to marry Mrs. Cooperfon; he told him if he did he would be a vagabond and a blackguard, and would die a beggar in a ditch. His mailer fpoke of Mrs. Cooperfon alfo as a common woman of the town. As Mr. Steven fon did every thing in his power to prevent him from marrying her, and as he was reply ed to marry her, he thought it was better to part. After he was in (Wires, he called on Mr. Steven. fon for charity, and fometimes he gave him money and fometimes not. He had the misfortune to break a blood-veffel, and it was owing to that, and not to his marriage, that he had been reduced to indigence. He married his wife in 1789. He car ried-his (hew-box about in fine weather, and fold matches in bad weather. He had mentioned to every matter he had lived with that this Will was not properly executed. He had mentioned it to Mr Shepherd, Mr. Kest, Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs, to Mrs. Howard, &c. he never made any fecret of it. The hour when the Will was executed was between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, and it was two in the morning before they arrived in town in the poR-chaife.—On crofs-examination, he Aid his aunt Stevenfon told him, on the afternoon of the day when the Will was executed, to go up Rains. and clean himfelf; , but the did not tell him on what blames he was going. They yet off from town about four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Gale, his clerk, and he, in a poft.chaife ; and Mr. Stevenfon went down on borfeback. They arrived at the White Hart at Romford about fix o'clock t they fat there a long while, and (upped ; and he was afterwards called over to Mrs. Robinfon's honk : and as all the flops were (hut, and every thing Rill, he thought it mutt have been beta een eleven and twelve at night. There was not a word of the will read over to him, and he did not know it was a will till after he came heme. He had four thirts given him for going down there. They were given him fix months afterwards, by Eliza. beth Bodkin, as his aunt Stevenfon told him.-- Mr. Walker's father died in 1799. He laid he married his wife from a very creditable Gentle man's houfe, Mr. Laurie, a holier, No. 76, Cheap. fide. He had done every thing he could to gain an horieft livelihood ; he had worked at the cran ing of fugars for ten hours at a time before he broke the blood-veffel, and he would defy layman to fay he was a rogue. Mr. Lovrten Paid he remembered Mr. Gale. He could not (peak to his hand-writing, bat he was a man of bufinefs and of charafter. Mr. Battle faid he was an attorney, and remem. bered Mr. Reynolds being the clerk of Mr. Gala, and afterwards an attorney on his own ac count. He had no doubt in his own mind but his