Star. — London, England, 1802-05-27 00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY :7. cd hit nd rd nts oft en cet efi: :il 11l i I Un Ott uholy ntend- frnt of the Aim of fe cafe I. from at the ily fet- was to eplied, ,it was ;zed. Atertesuatt DAT.—.Holiday at the Public Mem OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONT. O'CLOCK; Confab 72f—for July on. 741 3 / 4 . Onuilum f dif. a par, a 4- prem. PIMA OT STOCKS SasTERDAY. reat Stock Long Ann. 20 it-TS a rer Ct. Red. 72. 3 / 4 Short Ann. 4i r ernt. Conf. 73} 73 Imp. Ann. n is-i 6 r I 4 r,r Cent. 821 88 Elc.be. Bilk 7s. a 4s. ME po C. A. IC2 103 011011010 1 prem. Li!' to, 9:— ict 3 / 4 -4 to3l toil Conf. for the op. 7t 3 / 4 3 / 4 l'eftc:day WAS the fettling-day for the Account, when fuch the fearelty of Money, no lets than Two and a Quarter p.r Cent. were given for the Continuation. There is no doubt that fame Negociation for a r, rne rcial intercourfe with France is about to be epened ; and we underftand that M. OTTo has al. ready received full powers to carry on this affair on the part of the French Government. A Gen. tleman of confiderable Commercial knowledge, a merchant in Holland, (a Mr. COLBERT, a defcen dant, as is Paid, of the great Commas.), is to be appointed to affift M. OTTO in this affair. Of the ceffion of territory lately made by his 'fishnets the Vizier of Oude to the Eaft India Company, very little has been raid; and the pub. lie mind remains uninformed of any particulars embraced by an event of fo much importance to its intereas. A letter from Calcutta affords the following fads : 64 We are not yet fully apprifed of the means by which the Nabob was compelled to make this ceffion ; all we know is, that for fe veral months the agents of Marquis Wtt.t.zst.ty have been employed in negotiations for this pur pofc ; that the Nabob abfolutely refufed to liften to them ; that he even refilled the importunities of Mr. HENRY WILLISLIY, difpatched from Calcutta to give effell to the reprefentations of Colonel Score ; and, finally, that he did not yield until General Lass threw a bridge over the Ganges at Cawnpore, diftant only fifty miles from the capital, and iliued orders for the Brit& troops to be in readinefs to march. Mr. Ws t.t.ss. tie is appointed the Lieutenant•Govetnor of the ceded diftriels, and has thus an opportunity of ac quiring a larger fortune than ever was brought from India." Our ultimate fuecefs was announced in the following General Orders by his Excellency the Mole Noble the Governor-General : GIiMISAL ORDERS, SY MIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOELS THI COVIRSOR-GENERAL. On the Ganges, near &mares, Nov. 14. igos. His Excellency the Molt Noble the Governor General having this day rattled a Treaty concluded at Lucknow, on the loth inftant, by the Honourable Henry Wadley and Lieutenant Coload Scott, on behalf and in the name of the Governor Ge neral, between the Honourable the Eaft India Company and his Excellency the Nawaub Vizier, by which treaty the Nawaub Vizier has ceded to the Honourable Company in perpetual So vereignty, certain portions of his Excellency the Vizier's terri torial podUSons, yielding an annual revenue of one Crate ani thirty-five Lacs of Rupees (one million three hundred and fifty thoufand pounds) ; in commutation of the fubfidy hitherto payable to the Company by the Vizier. Ordered, that a Royal Salute be fired and extra batta fared ttilhmpops at Fort William, and at all the pardons and ila dots of the army in honour of this event. His MAJZSTT took an excurfion yefterday morn ing to Kew Palace. Her MAJeSTY and the PRINCISIES yeflerday paid a morning vifit to the Princefi CHAILOTTI of Watts, at Blackheath. As there will be no Ball at St. James's on the 4th of June, feveral Ladies of Failtion are pre paring other entertainments for that day, fo that - the young Ladies may not go without their dance. Mr. Alderman Puce has aCtually begun his Canvas in the City. The reafon that no Writ has yet been moved for for Winchcfler is—that as Parliament is fo loon to he diffolved, it was not thought worth while to be at the espence of the return. _ By the refipation of R. S. Mstwis,Efq. one of the Members for the City of York, the eonteft for that place will be again violently urged, as no leis than fix Candidates have already ftarted. In confequence of the Peace nablifhment each of the five Companies of Invalids, garrifoned at Sheernefs, confifting of one hundred men, have been reduced to fifty. Sir regiments are immediately to be fent to Ire land to replace the Fencible and Militia Corps about to be reduced. The two battalions of the VII, 17th, and 36th, from the Mediterranean, are appointed to this fervice. The Cabinet of Vienna has now received very important information refpeeling PASWAN ()GLIM by an Auftrian, who ferved as fnbaltern officer in the PACHA'S army, but defertcd from Widdin on the 4th of April to return home. He Rates in an acEiavit made before the Auftrian Commandant Mehadia, that the flower of PASW•N OGLOU'S army coons of Chrillians of almoft every country ih Europe, and amounts to 6000 men at fartheft, whom he pays and treats in the molt liberal man- Of Natives and JanifTaries he can always c:mmand from so to 12,C00 men, who are better i plined than the troops of the GRAND SRIGNOR. Y . ..ay Frenchmen who efcaped from Hungary, wire they were retained prifoners of war, and tcoo ih Emigrants. ( who can there be ?) tzparate corps. ('n the 28th of April, two Spanifh men of war, t 7,: San Pedro Alcantara, and the Savannah, with `.700,c500 dollars, betides merchandize of great arrived in the Bay of Cadiz. This circum :,aote canted • great fall in the dirCOUIIL on the v:tament utpc:s. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sta—ln the Sun, dated May 24, there is a Paragraph timing a Mutiny having taken place in Admiral CAMPBELL'S fquadron; the account Paid to be brought home by the MORGIANA flnop of war.—Having the honor to command that veirel, I authorife you to contradia the report in the ftrongeft terms, there not being the lag foundation for the report. I am, Sir, • . Your humble Servant. c. OTTER. • • Our Readers will fee by the above Letter that we were perfedtly eorrea in alferting, tome days ago, that there was no troth whatever in the reports of the other Papers of a Mutiny hating taken place in Admiral CASlMlLLL'lllquadron. Yefterday Mr. Guy, Mr. SHERIDAN, and a large party of the Oppofition, dined at Alderman Corns's, at Southgate. The Countefs of Mot:my-Nom s had a narrow efeape for her life a few mornings fence, by the eurricle overturning in Park•lane. Her Ladyfhip received a contufion on the forehead, and was much hurt in the face. The carriage belonging to Lord HOBART broke down yellerday evening in Whitehall, oppofite to Lord GWYDI A'S. Her Ladyfhip was going to dine at Lord AUCKLAND'S in Palace-Yard, and provi dentially received no hurt. The carriage of Lady Mott broke down alto in Pall-Mall, oppofite the Union Hotel, by the horfes taking fright. The Fifhmongers have been anxious to have' Mr. Exsxtra a among(} them ever fince his admira ble definition of a loofe. Alb The turning Mr. Prres flatue into a pojl obit is very wife. In the prefent flufluating (late of opi nions, even marble might not be proof again(t a revolution, and how mortified would our PHI LISTINES be, to go Come morning into the Temple and find their Deco!' fiat upon his face ! Mrs. THOM rson's Bat.i..—On Friday evening this Lady gave a grand Ball and Supper to a large party of Faihionables at her houfe in Hereford ftreet. The Ball was opened at ten o'clock, with Sit David Hunter Blair, by Lord Binning Mifs Tbompfon Lord E. Soencrfet Lady Thynne L. E. Stuart Lady C. Somerfet Colonel Montgomery Mils Milner Captain Woodford Lady E. Fitzroy Captain Paget Mir" Cramer Mr. Herbert Mils Upton Lord Templetown Lady Clements The fecond dancp was Mrs. Gardner of Troop. At half after twelve o'clock above two hundred par took of an elegant (upper laid out with great tale on different tables in the eating-room, parlour and veftibule. The delrert confined of pines, cherries, and ftrawberries. Soon after one the dances re commenced, andbroke up at four in the morning. CovErir-GaitnEw.—Mr.SaEvrisicrom'sComedy of the Word of Honour, was performed laft night for the Benefit of Mrs. Marrocrs.—The follow. ing are the Charaders-- Don Eftivan - - Mr. Coons. Don Valzario - Mr. H. JOUNSTON. Don Fabricio - Mr. MURRAY. Don Montiano - Mr. FAMLIY. Don Alfonfo . - Mr. Ban NTON. Rosins) - - Mr. SIM !lON 3. Donna Rofaviva - Mrs. H. JO/IN/TON. Donna Zoraniinta - Mrs. ST. Lzoes. Florina - Mrs. MATTOCK/. Dori to - Mira Sugs. scr N r—Valladoild. The Plot is Pimple in its ftruaure but compli cated in its effeEt. Two Young Ladies, Donna Rofaviva and Donna Zoraminta, agree, for the fake of a frolick, to go veiled to the public parade.— They there meet with their refpeaive admirers, who, fuppofing the Ladies women of an eafy defcription, retolve on an intrigue. In the ar dency of their purfuits they give offence, and Donna Rofaviva calling out for help, is relieved by Don ralicario, who, in the renronirr, wounds Don Affonfo the profe ff ed lover of Donna Rofa viva, but Who is &flared by the Lady. A ru mour is fpread that Alfonfo is mortally wound ed, and his affailant is confequently treated as an afraffin and murderer. He is clofely purfued, and runs for (better, accidentally, into the Go. vernor's houfe, the firlt which prefents itfelf to him. Donna Rofaviva, difcovering in him her deliverer, endeavours, as an ad of gratitude, to fave him from the fury of his purfuers ; and what was originally mere gratitude, advances into love. He, however, is unacquainted with her real attachment; and thus commences the (cries of hopes and fears on the part of the various charac ters. News is at laft brought that Ationfo is de. dared out of danger, and Don Vakario is not only releafed from prifon, but married to Donna Refs viva, the Daughter of the Governor, who is a very old and dear friend of his father, the Gover nor of Seville. Such is a very }ldly (ketch of the Piece, which was received throughout with very diftinguifhed approbation. It is a Play of Contrivances, per fatly in the Spanifh ftyle. The Dialogue has many recommendations of clacality. If it be not fo brilliant as our firft-rate Dramas, it is correa, near, and animated, never debating itfelf by dullnefs, but frequently gaining upon us by its in tereft and pathos. We fincerely congratulate Mr. Se stria oroa upon this firft effort of his Mufe.— Somehandfome new fcenery added to the attraftion of the Play, and it had alto the advantage of the zealous exertions of the feveral Performers. Mrs. MATTOCKS (poke a prologue, or rather appeal to the audience, in her own favour, in which fhe con felled a fifty years acquaintance with the ftage ! She delivered alto an epilogue in the charafter of a country-woman, defcribing the illuminations, mafquerados, &c. in honour of the peace. She was loudly applauded through the whole courfe of the night's entertainment,and had the pleafure and profit of a numerous and elegant audience. Among the auditors we noticed— The Duke of Rutland, Lord Landalf, sir James Bland Borges, the Hon. Mr. Keppel Craven; the Margravine of Anfpach ; Ducheffes of Bueckugh and Athol; Counteffes of Kenmare, Mezborough and Clonmel; Ladies Aylmer, Ridley, Loulfa Macdonald, Skeffington, Ann Millwood, Loulfa Forbes, Eli. gab -th Forbes, Elizabeth Matthew, Howe, and Honeywood ; Mzltrelres Crelpigny,Orby Hunter, and O'Brien. NJUTICIL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26. This day arrived the fhip Mercator, BOWDEN, from Alicant (in Spain), bound up the Baltic, and is under quarantine ; alfo the Endeavour, SOATER, and the Nancy, JAitstAN, from Swanace. The !hip Majeftic, NODDINGS, will fail from hence in a day or two for Lifbon. The Raphael, Nixow, was rdeafed from quarantine this day. SHEERNESS, MAY 25. Arrived the ARCHER gun-veffel from a cruize; fhe has takena fmuggling yeffel laden with genev.., and fent her up to Rochefter : arrived alio the MALLARD gun-veffel from Chatham, with dif charged feamen for Leith.—Rear-Admiral Row- Ley ' of the White, has (truck his flag on board the ARGONAUT, at Chatham.—The PHOEBE has been paid fix months wages; and the RAMILIES has been paid off at Chatham.—Captain Pi rot: is appointed to the command of the KITE ; Captain VINCENT to the ARROW' and Captain SHEPHERD, to the Non:E.—Wind E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, MAT 26.—Arrived the UNICORN frigate from Leith, and remains with the Dips as per laft.—Wind E. N. E. GRATES/END MAT sop—Paired by the Hannah, RAT, from Memel ; Moltdon, BOWS) a N ; Ebenezer, No RIA N ; Elizabeth and Ann, WNW IST ; Andrea; CarOliail, • and Spes ' LAWSON from Norway ; Young Henry, HAIRS, from Rot terdam; Young Cornelius, BaowN, from Dieppe; Vrow If batts, -•-•-•-• ' from Hamburgh ; Vrow Agena, Boaz ; and Young Wagtlne, A , from Embdca.—Salled the Sir Wm. Bentley, R not, Ls, for the EaR Indies; and the Jane Eliza beth, for Catwyk. ARRIVED. At Harnburgh--Chariotte, Bennett ; Marta Regina, Major . and Embden Packet, Wickham, from London ; and Orlando from Charleßown ' --, . _ . AtLeghorn—Robert, Thorn, from London. At Cadiz—Zart, Evans, from Exeter; Wakefield, -...., from Hull; and Gultavus, ---. from Poole. . . At Barcelona--Dart, Pack, from Virginia; Straiburg,Toby, from Falmouth; Britannia, --; and Union, Frazer, (rum London. Off Wcymouth—Mariner, Goodwin, from Jamaica; and Mercury, Palmer, from Savannah. At Plymouth—Andalufia, Cox, from Cadiz. At Hoylake---Robert and Elizabeth, from Oporto. At Briltol—Kineton, —, from Oporto. At Jamaica—Flora , M•Kral, from Clyde. At Baigal—Charlotte, from Bombay. At China—Afia, Mmes. from Bombay ; Fair American, —; and Myfore, Seto° from Madras. At Liverpool — lda, Bri *ow, from Lillian ; Re-Union, Bond, from Maffachufett's • Thomas Chaney, Atkins, from Phila delphia; and Colum bia, Ranger, from New Orleans. At Whitby—Hope, Markham, from Dantzic. At Dublin—Sally, Neale, from London; and Batcheilor, Girrelt, from Montferrat. At dharante—Ayes, Salter, from St. SebaMan's. At Vera Cruz—Palamo, —, from Malaga. At Sligo—Swallows, Reed, from Newfoundland. At Llama—George, Gibfon, from Dublin; Hope, Reeds; Maria Anna, Abba ; and Antwerp. Duckman, from London. All apprehenfions, with refpea to our Weft In dia Colonies, having fubfided, eight fail of the line are now on their return to England from the Jamaica Ration, and eight more are expeaed to arrive by the latter end of June ; the whole of which are to be paid off as loon as they reach port. We have the pleafure to !late the fafe arrival at the ifland of Madeira of the Hon. Eaft India Com pany's outward bound chips, the LADY Bo so sss, Captain ARCHIBALD SWINTON, and the BARING, Capt. Dr sou MEADOWS, on the r 3th day of March. They were to fail from Madeira, for Madras and Bengal, on the 22d following. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COCKPIT, WHI TEHALL, MAY a 6. Before the molt Noble the Right Hon. the Lords Commiffioners of Appeals in Prize Caufes. The Julius Car4r, Hill Mailer. An appeal from the ifland of Jamaica- This (hip, laden with a cargoe of coffee, on her return from Aux Cayes, in the Wand of Hifpaniola, to which port the had been taken by a French privateer, and bound to Norfolk in Virginia, on the Bth of November, 1.798, was captured by his Majefty's (hip of war the Surprife, Edward Hamilton, Efq. Commander, and carried to the itland of Jamaica, where the ufual proceedings were inaituted. The only queftion before the Court was with refped to the bulk of the cargo, which was claimed by a fub jed of America. Their Lord(hips, after hearing the Counfel on both fides, rellored the property as claimed, but allowed the captors the expences of the appeal. The Alexander, M'Carthy Mailer. This (hip, furnifhed with letters of marque, being on a cruife on the i7th of April, 1799, was captured by a French armed fchooner, called the Lucy, after an anion of four hours and a half, in which many of the crew of the Alexander were killed and wound ed, was on the zoth of the fame month recaptured by his Majefty's (hip of war the Trent, and his Majefty's armed cutter the Sparrow, together with the laid French armed fchooner la Revenge, and carried into the ifland of Jamaica. Their Lordlliips in this cafe pronounced for the appeal, and decreed 1-Bth part of the property to be due to the recaptors as falvors. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 26. Thomas Walters, an Emife officer, was brought up to receive the !entente of the Court, having been convided of inciting the foldiers of a fencible corps of cavalry to Real the oats allowed for their horfes, and afterwards buying the grain lo Men by them, at a reduced price. Mr. Juflice GROS E in paling the fentence of the I Court, told the prifoner that he had been dealt with moll mercifully by the profecutor ; for his offence was of fuch a nature, that it might, in a different mode of profecution, have fubjeeted him to a fcntence of tranfportation. The Court had confidered, that he mutt, after this conviction, be driven from the place he formerly held, and this confederation induced them to mitigate his puni(h. ment, which otherwife would have been much fe verer. The judgment which the Court directed him to pronounce, was, that he fhould he impri foned in Newgate for the (pace of fix months, and then difcharged. Ellis Blake, John Mahoney, James O'Brien, and John O'Connor, convided of a confpiracy to keep a witnefs out of the way from giving his ultimo. ny againft a man indided for uttering bad money, were now brought up for judgment. p This cafe our Readers may recoiled, arofe out of a trial at the Cid Bailey, where a foldier uas indided for uttering bade money ; three of the de fendants, Blake, O'Brien, and O'Copnor, got the witnefs at a public !wide, near Smithfield, kept by the other defendant Mahoney, and there pc:Matted him to keep out ofthe way, and not toappear againli their friend then in Newgate,on the a'aove charge. The Learned Judge, in pronouncing the jut. ment of the Court, animadverted upon the enor mity of their offence, as tending to pervert the centric of plaice, and concluded by fentencing Blake to fix months imprifonment in Ncwgate— and the others to timilar imprifouments in New. gate and Cold-Bath-Fields. Three Smugglers were fentenced to fix months imprifonment. Mr. ERSKINE obtained a Rule, .IV/g, to file a Criminal Information againfl the Rev. Mr. Tur ner, upon the affidavit of one of his parilhionp:a s, who fwore, that he had been many years guardian of the poor; that at a vary held on the 25th of April, he was unanimoufly re-elected to that of fice, that the Clergyman meeting him in the ch3n eel, where he was to have received the formal no tification of his appointment, without the flight elt provocation firuck him a violent blow on the back fide of the head, which almoil brought him to the ground; that when he exprefied his afionifinnent at this outrage, Mr. Turner offered to fight hint inflantly in the church, the church yard, or any lother place he fhould think fit to appoint; and that, when (hocked at there indecencies he remain ed filent, Mr. Turner went away, faying—" Sir, you know where I live. Remember that I (hall exped fatisfae.ion." THE KING V. THE BISHOP OF EXETF.R. This was an application fur a Mandamus com manding the Bilhop of Exeter to appoint a Lec turer, &c. Mr. GARROW faid, that there had not yet been time to prepare an anfwer to this application, and therefore he moved that the Rale fliould be enlarg ed, to which Mr. Glass coi&nted, and the Rule was accordingly enlarged. THE KING V. SIR E. O'BRIEN PItYCE. Sir Edward O'Brien Pryce was brought op to receive judgment for having afraulted Mr. King, a merchant, of Brifiol, and having prefented loaded pillol to his breafl. When he was brought up on Wednefday laft, he produced an affidavit of a man calling himfelf Rd. John Smith, who gave fuch an account of the airault, for which the defendant flood indieted, that, if true, completely exculpated him. Mr. GIBBS then required time to anfwer this affidavit, and he now (late(' to the Court that every enquiry had been made after the above named Rd. John Smith, defcribi himfelf as living at,No. 16, Kingfgate-flreet, Holborn; and they could get no account of him. A black man, named Robert Myers, who had alfo made an affi davit in the caul . ; and defcribed himfelf as fervant to Sir E Pryce, was, by the direCticn of the Judges, brought into Court and examined, as to the refi dence of the above-named R. J. Smith, who de fcribed himfelf in his affidavit as being at the time of the affault a gardener to the profecutor. The Black ftid, he had feen Smith at his lodgings, as defcribcd, being the houfe of one Bifhop. The Court then diredled the tipflaff to go to the houie with the Black, and if they found Smith, to bring him before them, if not to require the attendance of the landlord, Bifhop. Before the Court role, they returned. Mr. Williams (the tip(laff) told the Court that they had found the houfe, but the landlord was not at home. Lord ELLENBOROUGH laid, the Court had al- ready fpent confiderable time in this bufinefs, and they could afford no more this term ; the matter mull therefore nand over until the next ; in the mean time that all =citify enquir ies should be made to afcertain the truth or falfehood of the affidavits. In the mean time, the defendant was remanded until next term. THE RING V. PeILEOD. The defendant was brought up in cußody of the Keeper of Newgate, to receive judgment for his libel upon the late Lord Clare. Mr. M'Leod faid, he wifhed to addrefs a very few words to the Court, to explain the fpcech he had delivered on a former day, which had been very much mifreprefented by the Attorney-Ge neral. What he faid had been fuppofed to aggi a. vate his offence. Mr. Jullice Gitoss faid, he had been heard at very great length on a former day, and that the rules of the Court did not permit a perfon in his fituation to reply to the Connie' for the Crown. Mr.Gessow likewife objefled to any comments being made upon what took place on the former occasion, in the abfence of his learned the Attorney-General. Mr. M'Leod Rill preffed very carnealy for a hearing. He laid it ivas of the utmost conic quencc, not only to himfelf, but to the interefis o f juftice, that he fhould be permitted to proceed.— He fhould detain their Lordfhips but for a very few minutes. He was interrupted by Mr. J uftice LAWRENCE, who aid it was of no confequence whether he had to fay much or little, fince the rules of the Court, whidi it was of the utmoft importance to preferve inviolate, did not allow him to fay any thing at all. If any circum fiance had occurred lince he was IA brought up, which could influence the judgment of the Court. they were willing to hear it; but nothing could be received now, which might have been urged then. Since his Lordfhip had had the honour to fit upon the Bench, the conftant pritaice had been fur the defendant to be heard by hirnleif, or his Counfel,in mitigation of punifhment—then for the Counfel for the profecution to be heard in reply, and then for judgment to be pronounced as foon as the Court had had time maturely to confider all the circumstances of the cafe. He certainly fhould not confent to this practice being broke through in the preknt initance. Mr. M'Leod was Rill going on, appealing to the generofity, to the good fenfe, to the juftice of their Lordfhips, when— , IMr. JIIRICE LAWRENCE ordered him to b e re * manded to Newgate till neat Term. •