Star. — London, England, 1802-11-23 00:00:00

L'AUTIC:II, INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND North. attatvao. DUI. / French 0 Th:s 'corning arrived a Mail from New York and Halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Leicetter Packs. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER it. This afternoon arrived PENT aItPaCNANTE cutter, from the wei!crranean with Difpatches, conjedured to be of the utmoft .unLquence. She is put under quarantine. LA evening came lip to St. Helen's the Isis, of so guns, CV. BRAG e, with Vice Admiral °Assuan from Newfound lad. He landed this afternoon. This ocning arrived the CAMILLA, of a guns, Capt. HILL, from Newfoundland. Lill? IN? BLLIGENCE. COWES, NOV. 11. Arrived le Suceefs, Lanterno mate:, from Marente to Bou logne, with fait; la Marie et Elizabeth, from Nan= to Rouen, with talc, both forced in by contrary 'winds t alto rEfperance, French fehooner, from Senegal. C:.me into the Roads to take on boatel recruits for the both Rezitnent, the Simon Tayler, Watt, for Jamaica : feveral Of• ficcrs belonging to the nth and ether regiments in the Welt ladies, will alto embark on board this reffel. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER so. Arrived the American Clip BMW Packet, Capt. Pfluttrs, With tobacco, from Norfolk, for orders. Yefterday off Scilly The (poke the Chip Hind. of Hull, from Jamaica for London, all wdl. Arrived alfo the Miners, CASIBIS, from Liverpool; k mercy, Maltree, from Chepftovt ; Union, MILTCAL7 E, from Madeira; Nancy, Calm, from London for Grenada; Dutch brig Method Unle, ScIIMIDT, from Middleburgh for Cette brig Elisabeth, Sa welt, from' St. Vincent's for London ; \Lry, Rowse, and Betfey, LIT, from Newfoundland, with cod•sfb, &c.; Aaive and Hind cutters from a cntife ; and I.4cefter Packet, Sw►ars, with Malls from New York and Halifax, after a pairage of as days from the latter.—The pal leasers by her are . Colonel Bain', Lady, and 4 children, Mr . and Mrs. Hardhom, Mr. Werd, and Mr. Caton. Sailed the Pansy, ACKLAII, for lent% Ceres, SMITS, for }tali Litt, Sins, for Southanipton ; Surat:nab, Tin.- alma, for London; Commerce, ATNOIS , for London; Ben fon, Bell, for Lynifstran ; Jervis, Woolby, for Venice ; and the William, A Amick, for SeVille. The King Gmie, with Mails from i ithen, Is hourly ei - rani—Orden for the felling of the Duke of Marlborough Packs, with the Leah& Illanls Mill, is cipalted this raft. COURT OF KING's BENCH, NOV. ss. PLYMPUTH, rOiriMgEß Came in from the Southern Whale Fishery, the hip Sally, of Leedom, Cabotain, Henry ,Betre : the has made one of the molt aPcditious voyagan ever remembered: ilaelailed the end of MUM 4n her onward-bound paffsge for the illbery t arrived at her ftado,.consnoseed completed, hes air, the produce Aso whales, and returned to this port in the Wort flea of (even months, by the Captain's log: the crew were vary healthy the whole Tay*: but co her homeward bound psffsge the elpeziesteeffthe they of, feveral dreadful gales of wind, in one of which the thipp4 luck *Jo Raved all the buts to ,pigeon, and tore up the ring bolts from the decks, though ibrutuatth no Hie, Were IoR Arrived late 01 Tburfday main& froy=les, atter a Wage of Ass slays, Cho Tifolsone jo name t be left the Soo ustiarthe °colossi of Sir . Docowths* But. all well and healthy, as well as the Wand of jusalist. Su has been out !!we years on.the Weft India Ration. DOVER, NOVEMBER u. Lait night the Rambler, Fiends Pottage veSel, &an Calais, with about palrengers, and one Foreign hiefeager. with firpotebis from, ran on &Ore be fea tvit y s i khe South Pier bad and the Stone-head,, on the Main : solves were loft; but th e wind Seim Sooth.„li is .tipst the veifel, if not loft, Will receive great dothage. Tie Two Friends, Cap • tali Gillet; from Calais, is Jolt arrivet in the Roads, with pet. fengen ; the alfd bit a very narrow efelpe from being on chore, fining toed in piettypear tts . the Main and mi&d flays twice, btu luckily for chore on bout mate about th e third time. A pont if be} Emil& boatmen Ration ,thengelies ready on the Itet every . nigat to rave tie lives of .any paffengers wl may Viet &etr adfafige, ai from thf frarcitey oft the accidents lately, they look foe a &tided Vcilki every night. . . MOM LLOYD', L. • _ • . Dias, Nov. St.—Arrived the Ann, -,......, from Bengskinf remaino—Arrived sod failed the Rini the Prinfds Mary, ---,freat Bent* gneited, from Botaiy S. W. Goovemah, Nov i3;4%11.1 bttl a Mine is, WellerbY, /tom &hobbit's; Assort, y o frow Ramadan; Men, lit sw , fron Hann , how Peterlintlik and Ikmttitonikt. Burton,. Diepfit—Sitilett the Patriot, Stronad, for Antigua; Clio. C. 4.1104 far Julius Caw: &Went, for Modena! t led Mks, BMW, for Ibbet an, Tetle, for Bitiablita t cord etc Ptireldraile• Arm, for Dublin. • t . ARRIVED the limns, the Oneida ChieL Kamp, horn York. At bigmouth,. Sulks, Reynolds, from St. Kitts. At Fal **Mk Unite, Metcalfe, from Medd:a. At Rrifilol, Meaner, vYall. heat Petaliorgh, At Ufa, Ptektat, Moot, from %allergia. In the khisiber, Edsbard, Mettalhitai Irfarth4, !_irikr, kora Pcietiboesh Liberty, Debtors, Mod Gotten wrgii; Fonetaid, Seem and Medway, Parket, kom Stock, heirs , At Othrear, Java, Bullock, from Mocha: At Cadiz. La i r, Coddler, from Landon. At Bareckma. Ann, -"--• At Geifia, Sefonnah, Allen, tram Hun . At rAghoto, Neptune, boo, J , Corneal. At Madeftt, bow, Newbold, and Courier, Digget, from Newfoubesuslt lioritit, held; and 4 Edwards, from New•Norli. At Near York, Refoiationi froskt/MortioliPie, baud I° 1 ' 6 "; .from ; Here, Petiltaiti l and A uhrlta, dam are& ♦TTIMPT TO BUBB THE RIGHT NON. M. AD- DINGTON. 1 THE KINO V. HAbtLIN.—MY.ATTORNIY GENE RAL moved for the fentence of the Court upon Philip Hamlin, a Tinman, of Plymouth.—The Defendant had fuffered judgment by default, on an information filed by the Attorney General, Rat ing, that on the aoth of October, a Soz, one An : drew Hill was an Officer of Excife, in the depart ment of Landing Surveyor at Plymouth, a &na tion of great confidence and refponfibility ; that the office became Vacant by the death of the Paid Andrew Hill ; that at this time the Right Hon. Henry Addington was Chancellor of his Majefty's Exchequer, and one of the Commiffioners for executing the office of Lord High Treafurer, and alfo one of his Majelty's molt Hon. Privy Coun cil, and an officer of high truft, Rate, and im• portance under his Majetly ; thar.Philip Hamlin, knowing the premifes, and wickedly attempting to reduce aid corrupt the Paid Henry Addington fo filling filch office of trutt as aforefaid, and to in duce him to prollitute and debate his authority %indef. his Majefty, and for the fake of lucre, to caufe and procure himfelf to be appointed to the office of Landing Surveyor, at /Plymouth afore faid, on the ittl of Odober, now laft paft, a cer tain letter, fubfcribed with his name, did caufe and procure to be delivered to the Paid Henry Addington, fo being Chancellor of the Exchequer, Commtffioner of the Treafury, and Privy Coun. fellor as aforefaid, and having the difpofal of fuch ' vacant office, which Paid letter was to the tenor and effect following : 1 " Sir, This day a place in your gift became vacant by the death of Andrew Hill, Landing Surveyor at Plymouth. If you can procu;e the place . for my own ufe and benefit, I will giye you the fum of z,oool. and will alto givegou my bond in any fum to keep the tradadion a fecret. Your anfwer will oblige, Sir, yodr molt obedient humble fervent, PHILIP HANILiN." Stich was the fiiblieriee of the information. The affidavit of Philip Hamlin Was offered to the Coin. It -eaprifed his with to make eiery atonemeit for his offence—that he fincerely re pented his 191ation of the lair by the attempt he bad made to corrupt. bis.Majefty's Minider; and that he threw himfelf on the mercy of the Cohn. It added, that he had a wife and family; whom he fupported by` carrying on the Ikatinefs of a Tin- Mari, to, which he devoted his whole time, and that - imprtfotunent would be materially injurious to him—that , except ift the • inftance a commit ting this offence, he had always inaititained and enjoyed alt unblesnifited charaiter i and that, had he heen appointed to the office he .had folicited, be would have difcharged its duties faithfully I I . SCreill perfbns of refpeftibUity, at Plymouth, among whom were the two Clergymen of .the place, Rated by their that the Defendant was an hoirft tradefman, of good faine and re putation, and fave in this one inß4nce, had uni formly concluded hip:dell with propriety: i.i . ;.. Mr. ATTORNEY GiiiEiAL.7- 064 Your I..ordtbips are fully etifteffed of the native of this cafe from the informa'!ion you have heard, read; and I. WI but little to trouble the Cont:t with upon the fab jeti. The Defendant has, by fairing judginent by defaiikconfelted his guilt. Has offence con fifts in his having attempted • to tribe a perfon high ' in his Majefty's Conceits. It appears to hive Bien eomMitte4 ,hy ,a letter, offering the !tight Hop. Henri AcTakagtoti the tiro Of too& provided he Would procure him the place of Lindftig Stirrer): at Plymouth: That the aceeding s to fuch a pro: pofition woul not only have bee n *oft fcandi. l ac land arid di . eful ad,,,,oit the part,of the emi nent and ei d elittaaer to *how it *as 0-, dreffed, but a great Wrath of his public duty, and an high and aggravated nlifdenteanon4 cannot he dotibtect It tan as little k doubted that the foli. citation, on the part of the defendant, is a =oft ferious offence. I think, my Lords, it is due to the age and country in which White, to Ally, that there never was a period in the hillory of this or any otherrcoiintry hi the World, In which the eh:- rafters of thole perfons who art diainguillted in public life; were freer &Om the faficialon of the ng p Awhillit_irs. • e 1). •atlika. .4.-o/...----4,--•.-4---••4-. REcuLATtoSif TN ME NAVY. The Admiralty Beaid hating dircovered staring the late vifir a ‘i on of thi Dock-yards,. that perfoni had contrived to get appointed as Warrant Offi cers on board foine of his trlitisitty'S Ships; ivho had not kten brought up in die filsiot,,AO sita nifca inju r y of the defeyving . Poky Otheiri, Whir have bravely toiled through a long , ivar, their Lorsilhips have eilablifled the following iegnla lions to be otiferved in future as part of the !land ing orders of the navy perfon to be appointed a Ptirret who hal sot (died two Year; as Secretary or Clerk to a Flag Claret, or Captain's Peri e'lltis Malay s imp s . No perfoo to be appointed Canoes who bunt been rated al Peel °Swat time dekription. for the (pate of two years sac of the far years alreadyekablighedas aeccirtryin he tared, Ware be can be examined. lei _ No 'trim tot* walked Boadwain who has not tor years,two al which mod ba 111 the equity onkatfaran's alefe.or Yeoman of rte Meat N. Perron eo be appointed Curate; who has fiat feria a "Pi, apprentiaelhip to • right, sad toe' die !pace at 11,6 Ism atis r arCarPromaly Matz, or • 4 "-- - I * „ .. ~ perfealy perfuaded there is no public character ih • . I this country, of whom his worn and molt rnalici- ARCHES COURT OF . CANTERBURY, DOCTORS" ous enemy would infinuate thepoffibility of Inch a • COMMONS—NOV. 22. departure from his duty. • That incorruptible in . MIDDLIITOM a JANVERAM. '.• " was a fuit of nullity o f marr i a g e , brought tegrity,. incapable of being bribed by any.confide- Thisby Mr. Middleton spi n a Mif s J anverau , falfel ration, which feems to belong to the! prefent age, calling herfelf Middl e t on , by rea f on . o f minority. Y and to the chara&ers of all who (land high in pub- It appeared that Mr. Middl e t on was t ent to St. tic life, is moll peculiarly. diainguilhable in the Omens, by his relations (he being then only. of the perfon who was addreffed by the Defendant. For age of fifteen or fixteen) for the purpofe of educa- this quality he is no lets eminent than for every other which his important and elevated, tion ; that he th e r e b ecame acqua i nte d w i t h a flation re n afterwards.* parties quirts. 11)e fair fame and exalted reputation . Mils Janverau ; that 1 00 throughour fee out for French Fl an d ers , accom p an i e d by two the. world in general, fill too ample a fpace for fiich an offer as this was to have refleded friends, in order to procure a marriage ; that they the fligliteft reproach on him. .He might, there were married at a barrier town, by a Dutch mi. fore, withperfed fecurity, as to his .charaaer, have Hitter, who was attached to th e g a r r if o n o f th a t treated this letter with the contempt it merited, place, in the Dutch language, without the con- hy flinging it into the fire. He might, with fafe fent of „parents or the publication of banns; that ty, have acted from the impulfe of thofe feelings they returned on the fame day to St. Omens, to which fuch an infult excited individually,and have their refpeElive lodging and boarding houfes, and taken no farther notice of it, but a few moments never cohabited together, it being agreed between confideration convinced him he was bound toprefs the parties that the marriage fhould be kept fe- this matter farther than his own private feelinga cret ; that in 1798, it farther appeared that Mr. would have urged him ;.and that for the purports Middleton was fent to India, where he has remain- of public juftice, and public example, it was his ed ever fince ; and that the prefent fuit was not duty to fubmit the cafe to your .Lordfhips. It inftituted until a claim was let up on the part of was with this.view the prefent profecution was in the Lady. flituted, and finally brought before the Court.— It was contended on behalf of Mr. Middleton, I have had the affidavits which have been read to that according to the law of Flanders aid Hol- the Court on the part of the Defendant communi land,rhis was not a valid marriage, and in fup- cated to me, and certainly the ,manner in which port of that dodrine there were produced before they [late the charaaer of the Defendant, and. the the Court the opinions of four eminent Profelors cirtumftances they difclofe refpeaing his fituation, of the law of Flanders, and alfo the opinions of and that of his family, are well calculated to ex four eminent Advocates at the Hague. cite an individual feeling and private with to ay- The Court, after hearing the Counfel on the part reft, as far as may be ,proper and confiftent, the of the lady (who fubmitted that there was no au- further profecution of his offence, but the fame thentic exemplification of the edicts of that coun- grounds of a public nature, on which this profe try) pronounced the marriage to be null and void. cution originated, (till remain ; it is therefore to . be fubmitted to your Lordfhips how far the conk. derations which thofe affidavits fuggeft, are fuch as fhould authorife you to intercept entirely, or to leffen the punifhment due to the offence? It is for your Lordfhips, in your temperate and impartial view of the fubje&, to fay what puni(hment fuch an.offence demands; and public juftice renders in difpenfible." Mr. EILSKINE-.—lg I fubfcribe to ever'' , thing that has fallen from the Attorney ,General, and I am perfuaded the defendant now before you muff feel grateful for the mildnefs with which he has addref led the Court. I do believe there never was a country or an age in which public men in high flotations were fo far from the touch of corruption, as at the prefent period ; and I molt readily fub fcribe to all my Learned Friend has (aid, as to the impoffibility of fuch an offer having the leaft effea upon the individual feelings of the perfon to whom it was addreffed, except urging him to do that which I fhould have blamed him, if he had not done. With regard to confiderations of a public nature, it was impoffible for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have mit this Letter in the fire.—My Lords, the unfortunate perfon on the floor, after having in a rafh and unguarded mo ment, written this letter, did every thing in his power to atone for it. Upon the authority of what I have read in the cafe of the King v. Vaughan, I might fuggeft a doubt whether it was a crime to fend fuch a letter as this: In that cafe Lord Manf field Paid, there was fufficient ground for a motion in arreft of judgment, but to me it appears, that to fend fuch a letter as this, the one addreffed by the defendant, is a flagrant mifdemeanor ; yet, I omit, it will not be viewed in fo ferious a light, when fome of the circumftances attending it are confidered.—Your Lordfhips will obfarve, that the moment this perfon was aware of what he had done, he wrote a letter full of refpea to Mr. Ad dington, and apologifed for his conduit, but his apology was too late, and this profecution had commenced. This poor Tinman, accuftomed only to the noife of his own hammer, might think that every thing paffed under the hammer, and that it was only riecefrary, to give a perfon who had the difpofal of an office, his price for it. It would have been attended with much worfe con fequences, if the attempt to bribe had been made on inferior perfons, who might not have had vir tue enough to have refitted the touch of gold.-- The defendant's charader does; not fland before ymir Lordfhips in , the faMe point of view as in or dinary cafes. When perfons are mcufed of offences sigma the revenue, your Lordfhips have affida vits to charadter tendered to you, which you are bound to pats over. Here you have it proved,that the defendant is a peaceful, hOneft, and virtuous tiadefman in the town of Plymouth ; his charac• ter is bronght befOre you by the two Clergymen of the plaCe where he refides, perfons of the utmott refpedability, who have come forward to (late what they knew of him. If the Rev. Gentlemen who have borne tettimony in his favour, had not beet) perfuaded he was deferving of it, they would not have thorn this occarion to have given him their Kotddion. Their doing fo convinces me, that it is not only in kr of good nature on their parts; btit that in dll refpeds, except in the pre , fent inflame, the defendant is a deferving perfon. His chiratter is confirmed by feveral perfons of tank,who an have no with to impofe on the Court. I fhould hope, therefore, that your Lordfhips will thinE this profecution is brought forward only as an additional mark and proof of that public confidence to which perfons entrufted with the ttereifie of the High Offices of State, are entitled, ind that the Court will not deem this unfortunate *fon unworthy its humane con fi deration." Lord Ettaisoacieicia-4 Let him be 'commit , ted, And brought no the haft day of the Term." Mr. Easaima----My Lord, I believe 1 ought to have told you, as a mark of the limplicity of this poor man, that, when the information was Sled agamit him, and a copy of it came down to Plymouth, accompanied by a fubpaena with a red feat, he thought that pelt application bad fueceed ed, and that theft viere Ms Majefty's Letters Pa tent appointing him to the office of Landing Surveyor for the Port of Plymouth 1 7 --Lit pods -- , what right he takes t Al'on himfelf the office of - derman •of • Taunton, in Sornerfetfhire, and, in confequence; of returning 6flicerfor that Town ? He Rated, that fince 1792 there has been no Cor poration there-'.t difrolution having 'liken place for want of Corporators, and that at, the late ge neral eleaion Saunders,: who had been chofen an Alderman in t7BB, came and pretended that he had a right to return thelviembers to Parliament. • Lord E..LLIINISCROUGH.The civil rights of in dividuals did not feem to be in queftion. This was a foolifh claim ; but. it lay with the Attorney Ge neral to profecute Saunders for an impertinent en-, croachment: upon the franchifes of the Crown.--- , Rule refufed. • • • THE KING V RICE.' On the motion of Mr. JAavis * the rule for a Criminal Inforthation againft Lieutenant -Rice o for. fending a challenge to Capt. Fteemautle, was made abfolute. 'PRIVAT V. ULMES. This anion was brought for the recovery of an annuity of tool. granted by the defendant, a Sur geon, to the plaintiff, a young woman, who had lived *ith him. At the trial two grounds of de fence were fct up : 1. That the conlideration was illegal, as being•againft good manners; and 2. That the annuity was void, not having he►n re giftered under Lord Loughbol•ough's An. The firft objedion was removed by the Jury declaring the confideration to be pafi fervices ; and the fe cond being referred,to the Court, was now argped. The only queftion was, Whether the annuity was voluntgry, as it is only annuities that are fold that the at requires to be regiftered ? After much in genious reafoning by Mr. GAR.ROW and Mr. PELL, on the one fide, and Mr. ERSKINE and Mr. Gums on the other, the Court raid, There were Words which,cleatly indicated the grant to be ex mere mote, acid though there was fomething faid about furniture, yet as every deed is to be conftrued ftrialy Contra proferentem, they would not allow the whole to be defeated by. expreffions which were doubtful. The Pylea was tbettfore otdered to be •delivered to the plaintiff COURT OF COMMON NAAS, NOV. 20. SIMEIN V. REID AND IRVIN. This action was brought to recover the firm of 1241. being the value of four pipes of Madeira loft on their ;mirage homewards in December, 18or, which Madeira the defendant had engaged to in fure, but neglected to do fo. Mr. Simkin, the plaintiff in this cafe, a man of the moll refpeetabler. character, and who is keeper or proprietor of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Ssrand, in the month of April, iBoi, fens an order to the houfe of Scott . and Co. in Madeira, for four pipes of wine, which were accordingly !hipped for hini, and OH's** ex change to that value drawn on the plaintiff, pay able to Meffrs. Reid and Irvin, merchants, in London. As Mr. Simkin was a than of the ftrieeft integrity, there was no hefitation In the franc aCtion. On the gth of June following tf4 bills were prefented and accepted by the plaintiff. On the part of the plaintiff, Henry Simkin, his fon, Hated; that on the sth of June, 113'or, a perfon called. at his father's houfe with the bills of exchange, who faid, that he was clerk to the defendants; that he (the witnefs) was prefent during.the converfation that paired between them, in the courfe of which his father afked the clerk whether Mr. Scott had raid any thing about infurance ? The clerk anfwered that he had not ; but faid at the fame tithe, that if the plaintiff wifhed to have the wines infured, the defendants would do it for him ; his father replied, "by all means, as he did riot chufe to run any rillt." The witnefs in Deeeinber following called at the de fendants' houfe, when Mr. Reid told him that the yeffel on board of which the wines had been (hip ped was loft, and added, that he was forry for his father.. The witnefs replied that his father always underflood that the wines had been infured by ' him. This Was denied by Reid, wbo laid, that their houfe was not in the praetice of infuring for any perfon iinconneCted with them in bufinefs, cept a written order was fent them for that pur , pole. The witnefs then mentioned the converfa tion which had taken place between hisfather and the defendants' clerk, upon which the clerk was called; but no fatisfaCtory anfiver could be got from him. Maule, the afore-mentioned clerk, appeared on the part of the defendants, and Rated that on the sth of June, 113ot, he called at the Crown and Anchor Tavern with bills of exchange from Metill. Reid and Irvin; that the plaintiff, in the ccitirfe of their converfation, Aced him whether Mr. Scott had faid any thing about infurance ? to which the witnefs replied that he believed he had not, but that he would immediately learn when he went home : he at the fame time obferved, that if the plaintiff withed to have the wines infured, the defendants would do it for him, upon his fending them an order in writing. The witnefs farther hated, that it was not the pradice of the defendants to infure for Rrangers without a written order. William Freeland, principal clerk to the deren dants, Rated, that ira confequence of what Maule had laid, on his return home, concerning the plain tiff's defire to have his wines inftned, he called at his houfe, but was informed that he was not at home ; he then requefted to be (hewn to fome con fidential perfon to whom he could deliver a mei - - fage that filch a perfon being pointed out to him, he de fired him to inform the plaintiff, that if he willed to have his Madeira infured, he would fend a written order to that put pole ; that the impref lion upon his mind certainly was, that the melfage would be delivered ; that no order was however fent, and there the affair dropped. The witnefs i moreover, Rated, that it was the rule of their houfe not to infure for (bangers without a written order ; that the defendants were not infurance brokers, but merchants, though they occaftonally infured for their cußomers, as the generality of merchants did. The Judge flutuned up the evidence with treat