Star. — London, England, 1819-09-08 00:00:00

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Ca-tie; and Commerce, Swan, for iot back again to the S.W. and It :11sevir.t1 of the outward , put La. k, among them are the • l,nc.lc :•!..ria, LAII:l3 Czar, apd W e s 6. .lrrir td the I)oris,Cionnot i f i r t li . l CR% 1.0.11 sUerra Leone ; Enterprise, lti; I.li.iubi front Trinidad • if in N. , %v Oilcan,: the latter sailed 1..!1 of %OVA. Duke of Wtllington packet pro :t from Liverpool to thi; port, on Saturday fall of passengers, and between three and Ve.:7, labour.. rs nu the deck and in the hold. Aleut oft the Kik; Light, a sudden squall her on ter beam-ends, when a scene of \de, t, l•ar.k s all description ; the sky-lights ..ff, the water rush..d in torrents to the ca of whi•-ft were two horses, which • of tlo• p...uple in the hold were :heir taw:: d is lice, and the other is so r:••••• , . r_c is ;.ry. Many people were re :11:fortunately druwn d it: t!.• It ; the boat, which hung ter.. unfot tt:thitt people, was c tnt iiy the greater part c hildt,e s•tek to tic no more, whose is her aro, tlt. - ty,li along with them In d aw. ~,ved by thr presence of t; 7' I.i, atl.l survives to mount her 1.• ••.! 11,..1.1sItips. the vessel (not , l!t: WITI.I being so adverse) !sore r:1..1 on Tuesday. Several of re ye let,l.ty evening, from Holyhead, the above particulars. It is •r n lives altogether lost, but • 7.—Ships Ertered Inward.: The ; Aberdeen, Donaldson, from Lis- S:. Mary's; Economy, Ritton,from h,n•, from Stangate Creek ; llardys, t. , ent, :v.dson, from St. Petersburgh ; ali,a; 1: hint Galley, from Antigua; Ih• t ; Fri-nds, Barclay, from Ja i, from ..utto; Contest, Campbell, from li.id, from Greenland; and the Anne, The Minerva, Moore, for Oporto; the ; Prince of Orange, Lamb for ',tenth; Unity, Wdlians ,r, I I nwlt t, for Jamaica; Friendsehaft, I.; ('rot[ n, Dowsing, Inc Trieste and Ye do,. ill ; New Union, Itose, for Calais. Tit,. '1 Iwtl-, Reid, for Ilamburgh ; Em -, for J.11.1i1e.1 11..n1y Ford, Strange, for 1:..., •, for Amsterdam. OW: OF PRIZE-MONEY. I: tter of marque Ulysses, I, Nv hi!, and recalled t here.— • ao,l Thi tie, in company with the 7, Wilihronk, And recalled there for three months. LLESION. JULY 50. AND I‘l'LanEn.—Seven men were i. city oil NVednesday night last, f• rom the honourable Judge, ta gaol. charged with piracy of the gang are now and the Police are making tilt:M. One of the prisoners, named csideuce, and yesterday gave a "t their mfatious and bloody trans- L. Puler, District Attorney.—it men, cr most of them, belonged k‘rence, Captain Attwick, the pro- Daniell, of this city, which vessel lt;th instant, ostensibly from a :I the Florida coast, with a cargo of r)11 his arrival, Captain Auwick re- I Ith instant, near Musquito, he not hawing a single person on c!, out a load of coffee in bulk, and place." From the declarations of .!opears, that the sloop was sent by I..vannah (where he now is), to the rut Is ood. She there met with a , :t"). the Captain and crew of which that Captain Attwick had brought a cargo, which the litter denied, Ad but seven dollars. This was taken h"iilg up some time in the shrouds, After being convinced that he rat i c:11 Captain proposed to Au j. in him in a piratical cruize. l they agreed, with the ex -re-:mind Reed. He being indi of non-compliance, atlength ;are._ 1 ,, save his life. Both sloops iv. And soon after; on the Flo -1,11 the IL itish brig Ann, Ma:.r./..ts, hound to Falmouth s'",les , , ;.:11 they bearded and ran' "ntsisted of ten, including" her .71e11 j .ined the pirates, and then Main !IA" , gang, that the Captain, t c(add not be trusted. Imam the Cook, and one man who is the pirates, were inhumanly mut+ overboard. Both sloops were then "0.. a: ai)ove described, and the story .1.1 het t• previous to their leaving Letter ft e,m Buenos Ares, June • • represented as hostile to the Arne. • .Icouraging desertion of their sea , :,dukt in that respect to the British • The Macedonian, Captain t aiparni-o on the 25th May, for News has been received at I!tivric:m brig Cossack having been • 4 . .ai,tain and crew kept in • Capt. DowNss would re i:e:property thus plundered, 1k fore sailing, the Go .l. of - Captain DOWSES that if he could for the pre ;!y wit!, oiders from his Cie:- Tr. ~,t he would comply with . s!iili have been by law put at por cent. prem. .1‘ tod at Buenos Ayres. • eralic.rls will be directed • 1 61 lama. should he • .1: nt ty over to the Patriot . ,ng in.lde, there is no I,t• op, oed to the trade ,r..wre:s who have sue• t,, market there, in 1.1%1: cicala from i't PROM TRW CALCUTTA JOURNAL. Some Account of the Seizure of the Sitascrtmo, a ship under Dutch Colours, by Captain Penvis, of his Majesty's Frigate MAC ICI ',Mr, at the Isle of France. The ship Shawfield, belonging to Messrs. Deans, Scott, and Co. of Batavia, began to load rice in the early part of December, on the north coast of Java. Unfavourable circumstances kept her on the coast as late as the beginning of March, when having taken in her rice, she also.took in a quantity of teas, pep per, China-ware, Bcc. and sailed for the Isle of France, under Dutch colours. Previous to the restoration of the Island of Java to the Government of Holland, the British Authorities had granted British papers for the Shawfield, then building ; but as the law of Great Britain prohibits British subjects, residing as merchants in foreign countries, from owning and navigating ships under British colours, as considering them for the time to be foreign, and not British merchants, a Dutch flag was chosen for the vessel. Under these circumstances the Shawfield proceeded on her voyage, and anchored in the outer roads of Port Louis, on the 29th day of April last. Previous to her arrival the port was shut to foreign Hags, by the expiration of the period fixed for in remaining open by the Order of Council of Mardis, 1817. Ap plication was, however, made to the Government of the Isle of France, for permission to enter and dig, pose of the cargo, grounding the petition on the tore of the cargo, which consisted principally of rice, and on the nationality of the property. Major-General Hall, Governor of the Colony, was furnished with a copy of the manifest of the ship, and having considered the application certainly with attention, determined, after a few days, to grant it. On sending his Deputy Secretary, S. Blain, - Esq. to Captain Purvis, the senior Naval Officer there, to have his consent and approbation of the measure, previous to giving a final reply to the application, Captain Purvis not only acquiesced in it, but went so far as to say, that he was happy to have it in hil power to oblige Captain Scott, with whom he had been formerly acquainted at Malacca. The cargo was accordingly entered, and foreign duties were paid on every article of it which bore a duty. The cargo was sold, the ship refitted, a re turn cargo put on board, outward duties paid at the Custom-house, and the ship cleared out according to the rules and regulations existing in the Public Offices of the Colony ; the papers of the ship being regularly signed by the Clerk of the Court of First ' Instance, by the Commissaries of Police, by the Collector of Customs, by the Chief Secretary to Go vernment, and by the Harbour-master of the Port. The ship got under weigh from Port Louis on the afternoon of the 30th of June, and was proceeding to sea. When she reached the outer-roads, she was boarded by a boat belonging to the Magicienne, and brought to a. anchor; by order of Captain Purvis, who alleged That the vessel was liable to confiscation for having committed a breach of the Navigation Laws of Great Britain, and more particularly for having contravened an Act of Parliament passed in July,lBl7, for relaxing the Navigation Laws within the Company's limits, so far as applicable to the shipping of Native Powers within those limits. Captain Purvis, having seized the ship, proceeded to libel her in the Vice -Admiralty Court established at Port Louis.—Mr. May, the Proctor, instigated Captain Purvis to go further in the business than at first appeared to have been his intention. From that time to the present day, a term of more than six months has elapsed and the affair is still lying in the Admiralty Court, and when it will be decided is very uncertain. ~i4 1 4 I 4 Pt 11 Ii ~ 1 $ ''‘ 7 : ' '. l t 4 ,•! 1 1 • Il '.: .) ', :I .I. ,V ', 41, . • I 1 . 1 I 1. ll I . ' ' i t . \ , : 1 • ' I'll . 11 1 , , .., . ' 1 . " ... I . ! tI I" 1 ' . i i. .: ii : , 1 , !,.. ' i 11 ' I 1 1 ! . 1 1- • ' 1 J.l ''• •: / • .. ', 1 . , ..• : t ' 1 , \l l • i l . t „,,, \ t P 1 ' , ~ 11\1 ,• 1 ~ 1 . . 1 ',k , i • ; i i, ' I 11 1 • , x i . ( A • • 1 1 ' 1 1 ' ' ' .1 . , 1. • .. i • 1 , 'i , , H i 1 '. - • .: • Li i ~ - • ''.:'' i t • ''' • • 1 f . '''. i I. ~.. .. 1 ~...., ' i it 'i i l' . 1 14 • 1 PI?OCEEDINGSPEPONIC 17111CRAND JURY AT LANCASTER. NORTHERN EXPEDITION. —We believe the follow ing paragraph, from The Caledonian Mercury of the 4th instant, to be the first intelligence that has yet been received respecting the second Expedition to the North Pole, by the liecla and Griper The Keiro, arrived at Hull horn Davis Straits, pasted the Hecla and Griper, discovery ships, on the 19th July, in lat. 7'2. 36." Miss O'NEILL concluded her engagement at the Edinburgh Theatre last night, for her own Benefit. The play was Evadne. Mr. H. JOHNSTON performed Sir Archy Macsarcasm, in Lore-a-la-Mode. Mr. KEAN is engaged to perform twelve nights at the Edinburgh Theatre. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The several Entertain- i went off last night with great eclat. They were all popular Pieces, and admirably supported. The house was crowded to excess. ENGLISH Ormta.--This Theatre presented a bril liant audience last nights to witness the interesting Melo-drame of the Mimi Boy. Miss KELLY'S judi cious and pathetic performance of the amiable Ed mund, received the tribute of admiration which is never withheld from it. Belles withoutc oncluded Beaux fol- lowed ; and the Death of Captain the entertainments. Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, an alarm ing fire broke out at Mr. GOODHARLL'S, sugar-baker, 141Mehdase, near the water-side, which entirely con sumed the premies, with the stock in trade thereon. About three o'clock this morning a Carpenter's shop, in Walls-place, back of St. Pancras Church, was ob served to be on fire. Although the most prompt ex ertions were made to extinguish the flames, the w premises, together with all the tradesmens' tools, & c. were consumed. It perhaps is not generally known that the box tree is a strong poison. The box borders of several beds in a garden near Stamford, were lately thrown upon some manure, and four strong pigs, which partook of the noxious leaves, died soon after. Among other outrages committed by the Reformers in the neighbourhood of Manchester, was a most un provoked one upon a private of the 15th Light Dra goons, who, when stationed as a sentinel at Captain GoLvin's qparters, at Oldham, a few nights ago, was knocked down by so violent a blow, that the blood gushed from his nose and mouth. It is but justice to the Regiment to say , that the conduct of Captain GOLDIE, and the whole of his squadron, without a single exception, has been such as to have secured them the esteem of every well disposed person in the town. The principal inhabitants, uon hearing of outrage, with the most laudable promptitude, came to an unamitus resolution to offer a reward of £5O to any person who would give such information as should lead to the conviction of the offender, and we understand there a re strong hops of his being detected.—( Courier.) TO THE EDIT" OF THE STAR. Si e..e.Having long witriessed_riur honest endea vours to alleviate the sufferings of the distressed, and well knowing that your motives are purely disinte rested, and only actuated by a zealots's desire to re ward merit, and promote the general welfare of So ciety, I airs, therefore, induced to hope, that as a vir tuous philanthropist, you will take into your early, consideration the deplorable gate in which the mi . .1 jo rity of a deserving class of Officers, the Pursers of his Majesty's Royal Navy, are placed, in consequence of the insufficiency of their Half-pay. Of all the Officers holding rank in his Majesty's Naval Service, this is the only class that has been treated with cool neglect, whose past services still remain unrewarded, and whose pitiable case did not excite the kindred sympathy of commiseration in the higher department of the Navy. More than one-third of the junior Pursers (called the third clasil, who have not been employed since the great naval reduction of 1815, (nor is it likely they ever will, for want of sufficient interest,) are now reduced to the very verge of abject misery, and absolutely drudging out a life of penury and wretch edness on 2s. 11?,-,d. per day, which is the actual amount of their Half-pay, after abating 3d. in the pound for the Widows Fund. A Lieutenant, or Master, of one day's standing, has nearly double as much Half-pay as a Purser, of equal rank, and 15 years standing !!! and full as much Half-pay as the Purser who has wasted his youth, and exhausted his stragfh in the service; and who now stands with one foot in the grave and the other in un certainty, though possessed of strong claims on his country for 52 years' meritorious services!!! Thus will it be seen, that the scanty allowance of declining age, which requires the foster care of inde pendent ease, is placed in the same scale with the vigour of youth, whose health and future. prospects render him superior to the paltry consideration of pecuniary matters. In making the above allusion to the Lieutenant and Master, I am far from regretting that these Officers have been so liberally provided for; because I am aware that they have deserved, most highly, every mark of their country's favour: 1 only regret that Officers holding equal rank, have not an equal, allow ance fzeotn the country, to enable them to Support the dignity of that rank. The Lieutenant, nurtured in the school of glory, has the enviable consolation of being always che. 4 rished by Hope, generally flattered by the smiles of Fortune, and ever stimulated by the pleasing dawn of promotions which is always beaming upon him. The 'Master is never Without hopes, and sees future promotion• in 'a Doc-yard, a Har bour, a Surveying Vessel, or a good Store Ship : but the Purser is for ever art off from all the chearful rays of hope ; the doors of promotion can never open to him ; and, as to the prospect of future promotion, it is more distant from him than thrice the utmost Pole ; whilst the bitterness of his Half-pay hangs as a heavy burthen on his soul, and throws the dark gloom of melancholy over his ill-fated hours, by the certain assurance that he is now doomed to waste the re , mainder of his life in hopeless misery. • -Indeed, I am so sensibly aware of the generous spirit of liberality w)iich freely expatiates through the country, and the teady willingness the latter has evinced, on every occasion, to reward long and meri torious services, that I feel confident, it it was fully aware of the degraded situation to which its servants, the Pursers, arc reduced, there would not be one dis sentient voice to an augmentation to their Half-pay, so as to enable them to appear in the respectability attached to their rank in society. There was a time, prior to 1814, when Pursers of ships not less than frigates might lay by something towards rendering their reduction to Half-pay com fortable ; but since that period, the Purser has been, invariably, prevented from rendering himself any assistance, by not being allowed to enjoy the full be nefit of his Balance Bill ; because the Commissioners for Victuallieg his Majesty's Navy, will only pay him such portion of his balance-bill as may appear to ther4o be a reasonable allowance. As to the junior Pursers, who have only served in small vessels, it isca well known fact, that so fat from saving any thing out of their balance-bills, they could seldom do more than keep clear of debt to the Crown and appear as Of ficers and Gentlemen on the quarter-deck. Hence it is evident that the Purser is doubly oppressed ; he is first precluded the possibility of hoarding up a penny towards rendering his Half-pay eligible to his rank, by being deprived of the benefit of a well earned balance-bill when afloat, and afterwards cast adrift on a scanty subsistence, scarcely sufficient to sustain nature. From the high established character of the Naval Chief, Sir Geonoe COCKBURS', as a judicious, impar tial, discerning, and considerate Officer, it was ex pected that he would give the Pursers' case his early attention ; and, from a passage in the STAR Paper of the 3d June last, (iewhich it appears that, Mr. CROKER stated to th e House of Commons, that part of the money-grant for the service of the present year was to be in favour of Pursers), the hopes and expectations of these distressed Officers began to be sensibly enlivened, and their best wishes to be most fervently uttered in terms of acknowledged gratitude, for the commiserate and praise-worthy individuals who had exerted their joint influence in so just and meritorious a cause. In the gallant Admiral they pictured to themselves an indulgent patron and a kind benefactor; and in the learned Secretary of the Admiralty they saw a staunchtfriend and an eloquent advocate pleading their cause, from an innate prin ciple of benevolence. But new, seeing that nothing has been done, and that the deplorable situation to which the Pursers are reduced, and the numerous pri vations under which they labour, are still tinnotk by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and that many of the Officers are driven to the sad, ne cessity of accepting the most menial and degraded situations, in endeavouring to add a little to their'' wretched Half-pay. I therefore deemed it advisable thus to address you, as a fliend to suffering huma nity, in the humble hope that, through the medium of your widely circulated Paper, the eyes of the Coun try may be opened to the distresses of the reduced Purser, and that some generous spirit may bring his case under the consideration of an impartial British Parliament, whose heart was never yet steeled against extending the necessary relief to the truly deserving ser vants of the country. PH ILOM AXIL Mr. Peansow, the Soltestdr, hai addressed a letter to Major CARTWRIGHT and Mr. NOOKS, the Trea. surers of the Committee for the Manchester Feb. acription, ie which he describes, at considerable length, some of the legal proceedings which have lately mien place at Lancaster. The testimony on the Bills against Platt and Derhyskire, he says, was precisely the same as un that against Owen, though the last only was found a true Bill. It was deposed that Moonnousa never was on the hustings ; that he left Mr. Htneft carriage, into which he had been invited, before it reached the hustings, and went to a neighbouring ,public-house, where he remained until after the Meet ing had broken up. We extract part of what Mr. PEARSON says respecting the Bills preferred against the Yeomanry : 'I Although five Bills for maliliously cutting had been sent in to the Grand Jury on Friday morning, as early as one o'clock, and the bill against Mr. Hunt and his friends did not go in till the Saturday morn ing, yet the Grand Jury thought fit, in defiance of ordinary usage, and a very s . irited remonstrance in writing sent in by Mr. Hunt, to let the last be first, and the first last. The first indictment for malici ously cutting was preferred by Mr. Gilmore, of Man ' chester, a rerpectable tradesman, who proved, that while he was at his dinner with his family, on the 16th, he heard a noise, and being informed that the Yeomanry were ordered out to disperse the multi. trade, went towards the ground, and having arrived at the top of the street where his house was situated, and found the people running towards him, chased by the Yeomanry, turned round, and was retiring to his house, walking - on the flag stones, when, within 2.5 paces of his own door, one of them struck at his head with his sabre ; his hat, however, protected.him ftom the blow, but having been knocked from his bead, he was in the act of stooping to pick it up, when one of the gallant Yeomanry cut him with his sword, and inflicted a wound on the head. The pro secutor's son was a witness of the transaction, and joined with his father in giving evidence on the bill. When, however, it was brought in by the Grand Jury, the Public was astonished with the sound of I Nut found.' " The next Bill was against the same person, pre. (erred by Elizabeth Farren, a 'poor interesting looking oman, who was standing in the neighbourhood of e Meeting, with her infant child at her breast ; this, however, was no protection from the rude attack of the Yeomanry. Seeing Yeomanry) coming, the held her child down, and prayed of him to spare her infant; while, however, in the act of saving her child, she received a deep sabre wound, three inches long, from the crown of her head to the top of her forehead; her child fell from her arms, and received a severe contusion on the head, of which it is at this day suffering. The woman instantly fell from the shock of the blow ; she was soon afterwards taken home in a fainting state ; but the bill was rejected : it should be observ ed, that, the woman deposed, that at the time she was attacked, she did not, nor does she now believe, that the lliot Act had been read; and further, that there had not been any tumult , an y stones irown, Or any resistance or insult offered to the Yeomanry, or any other persons. " The following case shared the same fate: it was an indictment against another, for maliciOusly cut ting, under Lord Ellenborough's Act. Cheetham, the prosecutor, proved, that after the Meeting had been dispersed, he was going down one of the streets in Manchester, the opposite direction to the Meeting, about a qiiarter of a mile from the sebt, where he was Met by a small party of the Yeomanry ; there were two or dime strangers walking the same way with the proses 'tor, when the Yeomanry cried oat, ' D—n you, disperse ;'• to which Cheetham replied, 4 You stop the way, give us room, and we will be gone.' He then appeared to make room for passing, by riding out a yard or two from the wall, when Cheetham attempted to pass, and he cried out ' D—n you, I will cut your head off,' and immediately made a desperate Stroke at him, which, after cutting clean off about seven inches of the rim of his hat, took effect in the neck just under the ear, and inflicted a dreadful gash three inches long and one inch deep. " The nest indictment was against another Yeo man, by a poor woman, upwards of 60 years old, who went out to the purlieus of the Meeting to seek for a lad, her son ; seeing.the Yeomanry coming, she strove to make her escape, when the man rode up to her in a furious manner ; having known him from a child, she cried out, ' Thomas —, thee wilt not hurt me, I know : deaf, however, to her supplica tions, he rode her clown, and cut her on the head with his sabre, froM the effects of which she thinks it probable she will never recover. " The last indictment which was preferred was against a Yeoman, by a little boy, who received a most dreadful wound on the bead from the sabre of this person. 'me lad, William Leigh, had, boy-like, attended the Meeting front cariosity, and was one of those composing a thick compact body, created by the attempts of the crowd to escape—upon the heads, shoulders, necks, and arms of these poor wretebes the Yeomanry were dealing out their cuts with a liberal hand, when the poor lad having caught the 1 eye of defendant, whom he knew, he ran towards I l him to get out of the crowd; but his acquaintance replied to his application for safety by a blow at, his head, which gave him a deep wound, full three or four inches long : the Grand Jury, however, threw out the bill. Numbers of other' cases could have been preferred, but it would have•been unavailing: it be came evident that the Jury acted upon some fixed principle, which would have rendered all efforts to obtain redress unsuccessful." iced I A notice has been sent by the Brewers to the Pub lit ans that the price of Porter would be immediately reduced one bllf-penny per quart, and that in a short time a still further reduction might be ex pec ted.—illortting CORN-RXCIIANCk.. We have had several Monday, and there. - ntoming, the sales of quarter lower, the runs sanguine expectation. I day's prices. Our arrINN the Trade may be considered are much' sought after, In other artkks there llerafd. M A R I K• s f li. , A.NF nt h., S S EP fIIk"BEti eral 's. e apptaring but few buyers at Market this - t Wheat Were exceedingly heavy at.l*: per uts of New Wheat far exceeding tae most • Barley was scarce, aid supported M oo- rivals of Oats were large from Ireland, and isidered Is. per quarter lower. White I'eas ter, and fully maintain our last quotation. ate is no alteration. • YALAPAY PURSERS op Tin ROYAL NAVY ?~