Star. — London, England, 1802-02-15 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.••WIND N. W. At ILITLO• DIM o French, o s Dutch, I I 11.unhurgh, o 2 Dublin, o Waterford, 2 FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 12. Arrived the Robert and George, Bataan, from Southampton ; Martha, —, from Newport for Waterford ; and the Sarah, ---, from Brokenfha for Cowes.—Sailed the Eliza, Btooz!mcs, for Leghorn; Taunton, Ows iv, for Liverpool; Venus , Rees, fur Briaol ; Refolution, Davits, for New port ; and the Good Intent, Gilt Nviti.t, for Brif tol ; alfo the IMIHORTA LITE and BLANCHE frigates on a cruizt ; the SPITFIRE !loop of war, Captain KLEN, with difpatches for the Weft Indies ; and the Ame*ican Chip Capt. Fist.u; for Ca diz. ednefday laft arrived the Flora and Chat ham tranfports with troops from Egypt from Cork: on board the former is Lord CRAVEN and Lieut. Colonel Hors of the 26th regiment. Sailed on Wednefday IA the Friendfnip„ RICHARDS, from Seville, with fruit' for London. The WA L SIN /3- H Abt Packet fails to-morrow with the mail for Lif bon. Arrived late this evening the illy SUFFOLK, Capt. ROBINSON, from Bengal, with rice and pep per, for London, laft from St. Helena, which the left on the 28th Dec. at which time failed alfo from thence for England, the fhip Sir J. B. War ren, and the PRINC RES Maar La India (hip for Bengal.—Wind N. E. PLYMOUTH, FEE. 13. Came in from a cruife the SEAGULL, of 18 guns, Capt. WAINWRIGHT, and the SUES 13Ald TE, of 54., :pins, Capt. WITM AN. Sailed for Torbay the V: !As DE PARIS, of 1 to guns, Capt. DomeTT. Sailed on a cruife the AM RLI A, of 44 goes, Capt. HFRIIERT OISEAU, of 38 Bans, Cipt. PHILLIPS; NYMPH, Of 38 guns, Capt. DOUGLASS ; AMETHYST, of 38 guns, Capt. GLYN ; DEDAIGN LUSE, of 36 guns, Capt. SHORTL•ND ; and the INSOLEhT, of 14 guns. Sailed ado the Grnisca cutter, Capt. BUL CLEY ) for Ireland ; and many outwaratound veltds for different parts abroad. Sailed on a cruize the Rasosa, EAGLE, and Busy Revenue cutters. Came in the Either, of London, Capt. RICHAItr) Assorr, from Jamaica, for London, laden with Lugar, rum, &c. after a parage of 9 weeks: fhc has on board 3 paffengers, and is invalids. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 13. This day arrived from Cork the brig Amiable ClariTa, S. Srous, bound to London ; Cork, at the fame time, fix Welch velTels, all bound to London; 'part of them are come in here. Ar rived aifo the brig Ravenfworth, 'Cairn, from Waterford, after a paiTage of only 45 hours.— Arrived from Great Yarmouth the Shallop Her ring, SLUM( ' with malt, and the Sincerity, Cat cons, from Woolwich. &Med his MAjedy's !hip TILINT for the Welk !ndies. Ycßerday arrived liere the Sally, South Sea whaler, Rowe, a full Ihip, bound to London : on the toth January fpoke the fehooner Flying FM, easy., from Cork, bound to Trinidad, in lat. 20. N. long. 32. W. all well ; left the two following South Sea whalers (full (hips) a few days ago, all well: Lively, SMITH, and Indifpenfable, GAP.DNER, hnuad to London. This day arrived from the Downs the Eaft Tn. ilia (hip BAR:NC. The fhip Earl Spencer, Capt. BACON, South Sea irhaltr, is 101 l at South Georgia ; fhe drifted from her anchors after lying there nine days. Captain B. is coming home in the fhip Young William, BACON : this fop was fpokc, all well, by Captain , of the Sally. SHEERNESS, FEB. 14." . . Anived the AVTtMN, ALonzo, DILIGENCE, and HOUND sloops, from the Downs ; and remain at thz Note, the ZEALAND guard Blip; ARDENT, of 64 guns; GLATTON, IBIS, BERCNERIdEIt, and BATANIEP., of 54 guns each; with the WAazAM• HIED, DAPHNE, BRIAR, Astritiox, Macictimuit, PU N In, and Isis frigates; and the VLIETEIt and R s nou sr floating batteries, with the BITTERN and t'.Ldlo u Hoops.—Wind N. E. Blows hard, with T. Harpy brig, in coming down from Black •'::i l 4es got foul of the Gaawma frigate, lying in , • • • and did her confiderable damage. FROM LLOYD': MT. FER. El.—Arrived the Imrtaxists man Ctsottsui frigate, from Portfrnouth, ars, and remain. Wind E. N. E. blows F€,. t4.—PafTed by, the EGYT. Igate, from Gibraltar; Thais, PEARSON, thurgh ; Both and Dragon, —, from .Sailed the Harriott, KING, for India; —, for Jamaica ; Planter, DEW FLL ; DRYDSDALE ; Earl St. Vincent, HUT. kaikes, Ntrrrox, for Jamaica; for Lilbon ; George, actintssott, Brunfwick, CARL, for Maatinique; and Brit;fh Tar, TODD, for Dublin. ARRIVED. At Liverpool.-.Barbadoes, Kerflake; and Satisfaalon,Wood houfr, from Barindoeg ; and Nancy. Fleming, from Virginia. At Ilarbadoes—Elizabeth,Needliam, from Liverpool ; Mer fey, Bolfar, from Africa ; and Dalrymple, Marti, from Quebec. At Surinam—Efther Lindo, Smith, from Liverpool. At Cadiz—Rebecca, Barr, from Liverpool; and Mary, Hurdell, from London. At Bourdeaus—Eleanor, —, from Chariciton. At Nantz—Eagle, —, from Charlefton. At Naples—Commerce, Findlay ; and Friends, Grave, from London. In the Downs—Hibernia, Caughey, from Belfaft. In the Creek Ebenezer, Twege, from Altona. The Chance k condemned at Barhadoes. The Delia, SPRAGG, from New York for the Mediterranean, is loft off Naples, part of the cargo faved. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE. MONEY.—The AME- Lie, for the recapture and capture of the Jenny, la Carolina, and la Santa Carolina, will be paid on board'the Ara ELIA at Plymouth, on Wednef day, the it 7th inaant. Difpatehes have been received from the Gover nor and Council of Sierra Leone, dated 16th De cember latl, which Rate a fudden and unprovoked attack on the Settlement, to have been made by Come neighbouring natives, on the 18th of No vember. The following is the fubflance of the Governor and Council's communication : " On the morning of the 18th of November, a body of Timmaneys (the fubjcas of King Firama and King Tom) made a furious and unexpected aftault on the fort. A fmall but f let party of them, faid to be headed by two Rebel Settlers*, forced their way into the f-,rt, fupported by a number of markfmen, who kept up a very de ftrudive fire on thofe who advanced to repel them. In about 15 minutes Lieutenant Laidlow and ,er jeant Blackwood, and one private of the African Corps, Mr. Cox, Mr. Crankapone, and feveral others were killed ; and Governor Dawes, s. Gray, Carr, and Tome others were wounded.— At length a fmall body of foldiers and fettlers, colleted from different quarters, and headed by the Governor in perfon, gallantly pufhed for ward, and with the bayonet drove the enemy from the fort. The retreat of the alfailants foon be came general. Their lofs appears to have been confiderable, and at lealt equal to that fultailied by the defenders of the fort. The enemy, though baffled in their enterprize, Rill maintained a threat. ening pofition to the weftward of the Colony, ap parently with the hope of recruiting their numbers. It became therefore an objet of the firft import ance to diflodge them ; and feveral fucceflive expe ditions, undertaken with this view, in which the Maroons aflifted, were attended with fuch fuccefs, that by the 4th of December they had been corn. plctely driven from the diftrit which lies between the Settlement and Cape Sierra Leone, with fcarce ly any lots on the part of the Colony. This trea cherous and unprovoked aggrefflon is exclufively attributed to the Timmaneys, and it appears to have ftrongly excited the indignation of many of the neighbouring African Chiefs, feveral of whom had repaired, with a confiderable number of men, to the affiftance of the Settlement, and had joined in the excurfious which were undertaken againft the enemy." When the difpatches came away, Tome pacific overtures had been made; the conditions of Peace propofed by the Company, being thofe of having the Rebel Settlers delivered up, and the diftri& to the weftward of Fteetown, which had been pof fefred by King Tom, the principal in the war, ceded to the Company. A few days after the attack, his Malay's (loop of war, the WASP, arrived in the river Sierra Leone, and the prefence and co operation of Capt. But.e6lf, had been of effential fervicc in the Colony. He propofed to continue in the river until Peace fhould be reftored ; a reinforcement of Britifh troops from Goree was alfo expeCted. The Governor and Council alto acknowledge the Cervices rendered to the Colony on this occa fion, by Capt. HA Is, of the Hope, and Captain STOTT, of the Fraternite, two Liverpool letters of marque then lying in the river. LIST OT KILLED •ND WOUNDED ON Tile MORNING OT NoYrMaIR 18. Killed—Liast.Laidlow,of the African Corps; Berjeant Black wood, of ditto; W. Hooper, a private of ditto; Mr. Cox, Bore keeper ; 9 Settlers, viz. 6 Men, and 3 Women. Mortally wounded.—Wm. Baker, a private of the African Corps. {ince dad; J. Steel, ditto ; 3 Settlers, of whom 4 are lince dead. Wounded, but already recovered, or likely to recover—Go vernor lie,w4m, in the fhouldtr and broil; Mr. Gray. Mr. Carr, and Mr. Wilton, in the kg ; Mr. Gordon, in the head and shoulder: 7 Privates of the African Corps; s. Settlers, viz. ill Men and 6 Women. Total KUled, or fuice dcad i$ Wounded - E-56 Subfequent to the 18th , the following lots was fuftained in an attack on one of the enemy's towns, by the explofion of tome powder kegs, Mr. Wil son, and five natives, allies of the Colony, were burnt. Mr. WILSON has recovered, but three of the natives died. In another attack one feaman of the WASP was killed, and four wounded. By the Hope, Hess, arrived at Liverpool, the following letter was received : " Sierra Leone, Dee. is, dor. "Wounded and exhaufted by fatigue and pain, have but an infant to fay, we have been attack ed by the natives, who poured in vati numbers On us from the interior. The Governor, and every white perfon in the fettlement, 20 in number, are wounded. The black troops Rood firm, or we mull have fallen viaims. The alfailants are repulfed, but we dread a renewed attack, and I !budder at the illue. The Peggies is this inllant arrived with arms and ammunition from London; this rcin forcement is moft opportune, and may Pave us.— The natives fought with great confidence and del peration, and have had numbers killed ; there is a confiderable lots too amongft our Canadians." • At the period immediately anteeeda.t to the arrival of a Charter of Government lately granted b. hi. Majcfty, and of a (mall detachment of troops from Goree. .•tempt to feize the Government was made by tome Nova Sci)ti.. c tors, Coin of whom were puniihed. The two fettler% LAW INTILLICENCS. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 13. AERIES ANTI ANOTHER O. STUBBS AND INOTIIFE. This araioti was brought by Sarah Sevres, and Auguria Charlotte Serves, the daughters of th e late Mr. Sevres, Marine Painter to his Majefty, againft Mr. Stubbs, Venetian Blind-maker to his Majefly, and a perfon of the name of Jellicho, a Broker, to recover damages for having difirained for rent be fore the fame was due, and for having fold their goods and property at a fum conliderably lefs that their value, or what they would have produced had they been fairly fold. The Mifs Sevres, upon the death of their father, were &firms of letting up in bufinefs for the fupport of thcmfelves and their younger fillers ; with this view they took a houfc of the defendant, Mr. Stubbs, in Oxford road, at the rent of U. per annum, which they furniflied in a very elegant manner for the purpafe of letting lodgings in re/311E1'0n of the rent. Thefe Ladies' objet was to carry on the bufinefs of Sta tioners and Printfellers, with the addition of felling ' thofe articles of fancy, of no intrinfic worth in . 1 themfelves, but the value of which depends upon the tafle of the pnrchafer, and the merit of the artifi. Their 'hop was provided with every necef fary article of ftationary ; a confiderable quantity of fine prints, framed and glazed, portfolios of im preflions by Bartolozzi and other eminent Mar- ' ters, the whole of which was worth upwards of , fix hundred pounds. The Ladies took poffeilion of the bottle in OClober 1799, and gave their note for 501. in advance of the rent, and by agreement they were not to be called upon to pay any for titer rent till September following. When the 501. bill became due, they were not ready to dikharge ' the whole of it, but they paid it all but 13 1. for which their brother gave a frefh note. The de-; fendant, Stubbs, continued upon terms of friend-I 114 with the. Ladies till the month of July, and frequently viiited them ; but on the sth of that month, without affigning any real.i, ;he put diftrcfs in their houie for :t wh:le rnr's rent, yre..; tending that the money Ivhich had been paid of. the 501. was for repairs. Und,:r this c'iarels, which was three weeks kept in die holife, the defendant Stubbs, and Jellicho, his Broker, took poirce.ion I of every article of property belle Ladies had in the world; and when at Lill they procored a ft lend, who would have :tdvanced tile money, they pre vented the mterfereace of his good offices, by in- i finuating, that the Mifs Serres' were on the cove of bankruptcy, and they then called in the ordinary Statute Appraifers, who valued the whole of ti. furniture, Bock, prints, and drawings, at about tool. leaving, after deducling the rent and ex• peaces, a balance of a few pounds coming t , ) the tenant, which, however, was not paid them.— Having committed this a.t of oppreflisui. the ' greatetl part of the goods were taken to Mr. Jel licho's Shop, and fold by him. 'the cafe having been fufficiently made out, the defendants at tempted to Shelter themfelves under the pretence that their proceedings had been conformable to the direaions of the Ad of Parliament ; but it was fo manifeft the diftrefs had been made before the rent was due, that the Jury gave a verdi& for die plaintiffs, with Inch damages as, upon a fair efti mation of the value of the property fo improperly taken from them, it Should appear they had fa tained. COURT Or KING'S BENCH, FEB. 53. HUGUENIN V. THORNTON, !SQ L Mr. Mnicav laid that the Plaintiff w is a per fumer in the Haymarket. The Defendant, Co lonel Thornton, was not perfonally known to him, but he underilood him to be a perfou of very am ple fortune, io,oool. per annum, as well as high rank, and had in Yorkfhirc a very beautiful man lion, which he called Ville Royalle. He had oc cation for fome articles of Perfumery, and fent to the houfe, of which the Plaintiff wasa partner, a letter—" I with you would fend rile a doz.n pounds of the belt hair powder—and two pots of icented pomatum." He did not himfelf, Mr. Mingay raid, know the ufe of fending there fcents down to Yorkfhire, the air they breathed there_wanting no filch per fumes, nor did he believe the people time would be improved by acquiring a delire for fuel, things. The letter alfo ordered "fome Lavender Water, together with fome chcefe," of a fort, the name of which Mr. Mingay laid, he could not very well pronounce, but, he fuppofed, it was to accompany the perfumes to relieve each other—" If he could not get a whole one, to fend half a one."—He had heard,thathalf a loaf was better than no bread, and he did not fee why the proverb might not be ap plied to cheefe as well as bread. The Plaintiff un dertook this dangerous fervicc of .applying, and endavouring to fatisfy this Noble Colonel ; and, what was (till more dangerous, to call for payment for it. He went to Tatterfall's,,a place well known by fome people of falhion, but the Colonel was not there; he learnt that the Colonel was to he found at .No. 35, Leicclfer-fquare. The Plaintiff wen.. there for the purpofe of obtaining payment of his bill, which was 81. and a fraaion. He went in a decent and refpc 310 manner, for the paymentethis bill; but, would the Jury believe it ? he was treat ed with blows, intlead of payment. His object was to have his bill paid. and he had no other. He few the Colonel. He begged the Colonel would be fo good as to pay it. The Colonel faid, " I will pay according to the letter, as I have ordered ; but d—n me, if I will pay any more." There was no accounting for ta!te, Mr. Mingay laid ; but that Was not the way in which, he thought, he should have fpoken, if a tradefman had called upon him for the payment of a bill. He laid, he thought he fhould not do fo, but GOD only knew whathe might do, if he was a man of fathion, and poffeffed a pa lace for his dwelling. The Plaintiff laid, " indeed I mutt be paid the whole of the bill, which is Bi. 145." Upon which the Defendant Faid him—that is, he collared him. This I call cowardly, laid the Learned Counfel, and what you will call cowardly, if, what I am flaring be proved. The Plaintiff confidered, that if his bill was not paid, he oueht to take rr*re thnt • the Defendant follo*cci Mm, and truck Mm over the eye, and half blinded him. The Plaintiff, whatever his indignation might bc, made no return to this treatment, becattfe he knew the Colonel% houfe was full of fcrvants, who would, of courfe, -come to their mailer, if he had the worit of it.— He was glad hi: Client did not endeavour to ref u: the Colonel, but had brt:ught his cafe before a Jury of his equals, wh-, would tell men of fortune what they are to pay, if they beat a tradefinan, in.lea.i of paying his bill, when he calls for it. The Jar:- were not to charge the Colonel more On account of his Loge fortune, in this Lail:, cert.,inly—he n:ked only moderate damages, Melt as would fuit the cafe, after a full confideration of it ; and, indeed, the Colonel would thank the Jury for giving frnart damages againll him, by way cf a ch e ck for the rc ft of his life. Mr. Major laid, " I keep a houfe in Leicefter fields : Colonel Thornton lod . ged there in the month of Augull L i ft : I remember the Plaintiff coming there with his bill : he faw the Colonel : I was not in the room with them at fit!t. I law the Plaintiff when he came down (lairs : the blood was all over. his eyes and face as he came out if the room from the Colonel. He came into my parlour to me and my wife, and fervant. I did all I could to help him down (lairs : he could not then fpeak at all. My wife and I, and my lino did what we could to help him, and we alfo fent for a fntgeon. The furgeon came and dreffed him : when he got a little better, the Colonel fent for him up ftairs, which was full half an hour after he came down !tans. IVhen he came up hairs to the Colonel, the Colonel laid he was very lorry he (truck him. I went with the Plaintiirup hairs, for he could not go up without me : he wits not able to go by himfelf. The Colonel laid, he was very furry he had !truck him, and litid it was a trifling Itroke he gave him, for it was only a black eye. The Surgeon went up (lairs We all went up Hairs together. The Surgeon faid the blow wac a very bid one, for it hurt his light. The Colonel said he wool tl not pay the bill : the Colo nel was in a very great paffion. fail he hal no right to pay this hill. He t;ave it to Mr. Sin cleir, who was with him in the room, and faid, " it you think I have a i2:ltt to pay the bill, I will pay it." Mr. Sinclair advired him to pay tile bill : Mr. Sinclair was a relation of his. The Surgeon was at this time waiting below to be fa tistied for his trouble. I went up :hies to the Co lonel, after the Plaintiff's bill was paid, to fay the Surgeon was waiting to he faticfied ; hut the Colonel laid, he had raid the hill of the Plain tiff, but that he woaid net pay the bill of the Sur geon. On crcfs-examination, the Winters laid—The Colonel laid the Plaintiff's bill was of old dand log ; that he had forgot it,er he would have paid it fooner. After Mr. Sinclair had looked at the blll, the Plaintiff fain, " If you are a Gtotleman, and mean to ail as fiuh, and will pay. me tile bill, and pay the Sur on, I will be fttisfied ; but the Colonel !kid, " le e.'eoid pay he Lill and no more." The Colonel went to the Plairail, and t-ok him by the hard. Mr. Hollings, an A potheeary in the neighbour hood, who came with Mr. Coriew the Surgeon to the PlaintifPs at fiance, proved that the Plaintiff could no: attend his ih,,p for a forthi 6 la, his face being unfit to be feen, Mr. PARK made an able fpeech to the Jury, by which he fubmitted, th tt as thi: was a mifunder danding which the Plaintiff offered to make up upon payment of the Surge'on's bill, as well as his own, as there was no proof of the coarse ex prefrions imputed to the Defendant, and as the parties had aanally fliaken hands, the damages, in this cafe, flmuld be moderate. Mr. Juaice Geost--" Gentlemen of the Jury, you have heard the cafe proved before you, and it is for you to fay what damages the Plaintiff ought to have. It does teem to me, that what has hap riled was totally unprvoked. A tradefinan goinr , to demand paymznt of his bill ought not to be thus treated. He ought to receive neither more nor lefs than payment of what is due to him. If nothing was due, or the Defendant had, by miftake, thought lb, his language to the Plain tiff ought to have been, " Sir, 1 ewe you nothing, go about your bufinefs;" inflead orwlacli he 'truck the Plaintiff. This was an affault, and a grofs alfault. It is, however, a pity the Defendant was not advifed to pay the Surgeon's bill as well as that of the Plaintiff, for it appears that, at one time, the Plaintiff wot.id have been fatisfied wiaa that, which he does not chide now. You are, therefore, to fay what the Defendant might to pay to the Plaintiff en this occation. You are iu the fame lint of life as the Plaintiff, and will efli mate the damages lot him. The mealLtre of them is for you to fay. My opinion is, that they Ihould be fuch reafonable damages as any ore of you would expeCt in the fame tituation." Verdid for the Plaintiff—Damages 301. JONES V. JENKINF. The Plaintiff is a tailor, and the Defendant is clerk to a diftiller. This was an aOion brought to recover about 701. for board and lodging, to a wornln of the name of Price, the Plaintiff alledg ing that the paffed . for the Defendant's wife, and that he trailed her with the lodging as fuch, at the rate of three guineas per week; and alfo for the fum ()I - nineteen guineas, which the Plaintiff lent to this woman, as the wife, and by the defire of the Defendant; and alto for clothes, made by the Plaintiff for the Defendant, amounting to 61. and upwards. It appeared in evidence that the Defendant oc canonally vilited the Plaintiff, who did not keep the lionfe he lived in, having only the firti floor of it, for him and his wife, and that Mrs. Price lived with them. o.le wand's only, fwore that in a converfation between the Plaintiff and the Defen dant, he heard the Defendant acknowledge that the Plaintiff had advanced to his, the Defendr.nt's wife, nineteen guineas, by his &lire, and that he would pa) him. It was then proved that clothes to he amount of about 61. were delivered to the Defendant from the Plaintiff ; and it was proved • that Mrs. Price lived with the Plaintiff and his (r l , ) ;,: r , i F : , 11ccnk cArd. CR 'Ar s , • 4 .• • i r rr , r°lll Ham) k l!ar np i on, °N ; ar.d ou,o ‘• r