Star. — London, England, 1805-11-22 00:00:00

ADMIRAL LORD NELSON. When Lord NELSON joined the fleet the 28th Sep. tember, it was at fo late an hour in the evening that he did not make the communication till the next morning. He wrote a letter to one of his moil inti mate friends on the to oa , )ber, in which there is the following paiLtge 4g I believe my arrival was moft welcome, not " only to the Commander of the fleet, but alfo to •+ every individual in it ; and when I came to explain g , to them my plan of attack, it was like' an elearic ihock—fome filed tears—All approved.—/t wtu " new ; it was fingular ; it war fimple ; and from Ad- •6 mirals downwards it was repeated—it mutt fuc •6 teed if ever they will allow us to get at them— rou are, my Lord, furrounded by friends whom you in `• coire ;t . ; confidence." Such was the reception that the gallant Admiral met with from his companions in arms !—The Noble Lord was finn convinced that the enemy would come out, and though by detaching Admiral Louis to Gib- :altar and Tetuan for fuppliec, a circumllance which was indifpenfthle, he reduced his force to 23 [hips of the line, and the enemy he knew had at hall 33 or 34. in Cadiz, he determined to give them battle. On the 6th Odober he wrote a Letter, in which ltie Paid—" I have not the finalleft doubt that the di enemy are determined to put to lea, and our battle de mull loon be fought, although they will be fo very dd fuperior in numbers to my:prefent force, yet I mutt 66 do my belt, and have no fears but that I fie flail 44 their voyage; but my with is to do much more; di and, therefore, hope that the Admiralty have been adive in fending me (hips, for it is ettqy number: •' which can annibilaie. A decilive firoke on their fleet 66 would make half a peace. If I can do that, I (hall 4 i as loon as pollible alk to come home and get my di tell, at lealt for the winter*. If no other in " ducement was wanting for my exertion this would 64 be fufficient, for what greater reward could the di Country bellow than to let me come to you, my di friends, and to dear, dear Merton—and to; come 66 to you a Vigor would be vi Cory thrice gained—." OCT. 7th —" Since writing yelterday I am more " and more allured that the Combined Fleets will 66 put to fea.—Happy will they be who are prifent—and difatfrointed will thge be who are Went P' The Noble Lord in a fubfequent letter of the igth, !poke with increafcd confidence of viElory, in confe. qu►nce of the addition that had been made to his force. And the enemy feem to have been aware that day by day the aitivity of Lord &alum was ferving to augment his fleet. It was nor, as has been futpofed, on account of any fcarcity of provifions in Cadiz that the Combined Fleets came out. It is afeertained that they were plentifully fupplied, but they had politive orders to put to tea, and, no doubt, their deftination was important. We mentioned Come particulars of the Noble Lord's Vim, and feveral paragraphs have appeared in differ ent papers which tcnd to millead the public. The Noble Lord's obligations to Sir WILE SAM and Lady HAMILTON were of a nature that drew from him at all times the mat lively acknowledgments. They made an indelible imprefGon on his heart. He has often, to the writer of this article, declared, that he ' could not have fought the battle of the Nile but for their uncommon influence and exertions in a way which cannot now be mentioncd—but which he Paid ought never to be forgotten either by him or by the country. The remembrance of this Lady, therefore, in his will, is a debt of gratitude. It is a millake that be was the proprietor of Merton Abbey. His place lies without the walls, but it was his frrourite with to have purchafed, and rcaored it to its natural beauty. —We have in a former paper Rated, that he never bad been covetous of richco.—His diamonds hive been Rated to be of great value. There things ge nerally fall [port of the etiolate, and we are flue that all thofe who admire the valour of Lord NELSON, will lament to hear, that before he went out to take the comthand of the Mediterranean fleet, he was ob liged to difpofe °flitch of his jewels as were not of a nature to be left to his family, as trophies to illn ltrate the titles conferred on him by his King, and the Sovereigns in alliance with his country. He dif pofed of fnut-boxesi and other articles, to Meas. RUtinaLL and Batt:pays ; but the chief prefents (in• eluding the rich chclenk and fviord of the Grand Seignior) he has left to the Noble Earl his brother, to defcend with the title, • The Noble Admiral's clamor at little reit, Was the natural aonfegnence of his impaired heakli. He had remained at Mer lon hut about three weeks after the uoprecedented amnion which 1 , •• made for the precci vation of the Welt Indies, when, by the ACT of Sir Robert Calder, he was agfin called upon to take the t.nvortaat cotnniand off Cadiz. He had raid that there had bte:i the happieft days of his liie, :.nd lie had in that flaurt time greatly re'cvered from his fatir...e. He did not, 'however, beGtate a mot • te. His health was not fully re-( Ral.lifbed when be joined the Ocn, fog the my iLy after be affumed the command, he was (siz ed wits. a violent fiAna, wh:eb laft:d fur feveral hours. His own account of it, in a leaer to au intimate friend, is as follows: " I have had, about tone o'olock this morning (041. a), one of my dreadful (paints, which has almoft enervated me. It i 3 very " odd. I Will hardly ever better than yefterday. I Rep' • monly well, but was awoke with this diforder. My opinion of " it:. enet fume day, has never altered—however, it is entirely • gone off. The good people of England will not believe that ref 3 ' of body and mind, is nec•_lfary for me; but perhaps this fpafm " way not come sgai❑ Oat lit months. I had been writim, , fovea 4 ‘ hours ycf:rdaj—t'aibahs that bad fume band in bringing d It on." NAUTICAL DITELLICEKCE. MAILS THIS D 4 ♦M DUE. X.—Wind Weft. Dublin 1 I Gottenburgh Waterford 3 t Hamburgh Lifbon o i •22. DUI. o 2 0 IL PENZANCE. NOV. 19. —Arrived the brig Froga, Captain SANDBERG, (a Swart?), from Leghorn fur Embden, in diftrefs, having loft her foremad and naaintopmad ; the brig Siders, —, of and for Pool from Newfoundland; the Sifters failed again this morning for Pool, but is dill in the Bay, it being calm and fine weather. PLY MOU7 Et, Nov. 20.—Came in the William, Cap tain HENBY, from St. John's ; Princefs Royal, from Newfoundland, both laden with fifh, for a market London, Captain KERR, from St. Vincent's for Lon don : and HAUGHTY gun brig, from a cruize. Sailed the REVOLUTIONAIRE, of 38 guns, on a cruize. PORTSM•IUTH, Nov. 21.—Arrived the CAMILLA (loop, Captain TAYLOR, from Newfoundland. It was the ALsros {loop (which arrived yekerday) from Jer fey. The PREVOYANTIE and CAMEL Bore (hips are arrived at St. Helen's, from the Downs. DOVER, Nov. 2 t.—Arrived off here the brig Hoge, Captain FAGEL, from Oporto, bound to London, I with fruit ; and the brig Magdalena and Elizabeth, I Captain PFTTERSEN, of and for North Bergen, from Oporto, with lemons. Came into harbour this day, the following veffels : flip Geelufl, Capt. LAMBERT VON SITEA!, of and for Hamburgh, with w:ne, bran dy, prunes, &c. from Bourdeauz, with the lofs of an anchor and cable: hoy Thetis, Captain LARSEN, of and for Gottenburg, with {alt and hides, from St. Übe's : (hip Johannes, Captain APPELBORN, of and fur Helfinbourg, with a cargo of fah, coffee, &c. from Liverpool : brig Uliana Carolina, Captain Was srtsw, of and for St. Peteriburgh, with a cargo of vinegar, wine, &c. from Bourdeaux. The flip Char- lottaFredericka, of and for Copenhagen, with fugar and coffee, from St. Croix, arrived off here to-day. Wind N. W. and moderate. Dem., Nov. 21.—Arrived the RESOLUTE gun. brig with feveral fail of Well Indiamen under con voy from Portfmouth : the RESOLUTE failed again for Portfmouth ; the Well India 'hips for the River. Sailed the FURY bomb with convoy for Spithead ; the FURIOUS gun brig on a cruize. Arrived the FLAMER gun brig from a cruize. A report is juil received, that the BITER gun brig is loft on the coaft of France, near Ellaples, aad entirely wrecked, as feveral things have been taken up marked " Biter ;" the fate of the crew is uncertain, but hopes are en tertained they are prifoners. The TRUSTY took up a gun brig's lower mail and top gallant malt, marked " Biter ;" alto the Lieutenant's trunk with papers I and plate in it, which is all the information there is at prefent refpating her.—Remain in the Downs the Edgar, Utrecht, Adamant, Regulus, Romulus, Pe gafus, Dauntlefs, Utile, Devailation, Lucifer, Fla mer, Earnell, Mariner, Tigrefs, Efcorte, Hecate, Aimwell, Ferriter,Thra(ber, Phofphorus, Boxer, Ig nitiun (fire ve(tel). Harmony tranfport. YARMOUTH, Nov. at—Arrived the IstocsiNE Hoop of war, with a hoop laden with cotton, and bound for Leland, which the picked up at fea, witkont any one on board : the hoop is called " tha Frientilhip," l and belongs to Scotland. She had three holes in her bottom, and made a deal of water, which was fup. poled the reafon the crew had deferted her. A boat has been picked up at fea by the Winterton boat, with one man in her, who was dead : his watch was going when found, therefore it is fuppofed he could not have been long dead. Arrived the FLORA frigate, who is to take on board Count Muarratt and Suite, for Hamburgh ; alfo the Vsz►r and CENSOR gun k:gigs, and rcmain in there Roads with the ROEBUCK, Admiral DOUGLAS, and two {loops of war.—Wind W. S. W. FROM I.LOYD'S LIST. Gr.:terse:qv, Nov. at—Paired by the King George, Turner, I from Hudfon's Bay; Sally, Jackfon, from Dantzie; Mentor, Her rin, and the Harriet, Moberly, from Peterfburgh. Sailed the Forty Second, Tyer; Lime, Brown, and the Britt& Qicen, Wordlow, for Jamaica ; Robert, Black, for Yucaton ; Spy, Fowler, for New- York ; den, Laws, for Lifbon ; Venus, Bergfon, for Carlfe c: one ; I Icorietta, Auleildang, for Konningthurg; Johanna Mar garetta, Dohlman, for Gortenhurg; Argo, Sager; Vrow Altje, Reifduck, and the Geode lioffnung, f repkins, for Bremen; Hen rietta, I hlert, for Stralfund ; Bell, Short ; Fame, Anderfoa ; Pa• lenbauen. Bryfou,aud the Maria Elizabeth, Vleilabd, for Hambro'; An illinnination took place in Minot, nn Tuefday evening WI, in honour of the late glorious vitory. Vii . count MERTON (fon of the prefcnt Earl NELsoN) is admitted of Chrill College, Cambridge. A meeting was held OR Tuefday, at Freemafon's Tavern, Cleat Queen fireet, of the Commanders of the Volunteers Corps In the London DittriEt, to con fider of an Addrefs of Thanks to General .the Earl of Haaattarom, prior to his departure for Ireland. The Chair was to have been taken by the Duke of SUSSEX, but the attendance of his Royal Elighnefs lira. prevented by left, e indifpofition. There were prefcnt, Colony Herrin, Colonel Kenfington, Colonel Wygratn, Colo nel Molina Manley, CO/Oild John Hawkey, Colonel Miks Peter Andn.w.., Colonel Ganfltill. Colonel Robinfon, Colonel Co:unel Anderton, M..jot Blake, 'MI a great number of Con, mauling ()dicers. The Honourable Lientcnant Colonel ERskrefe, of the Temple Corps of Volunteers, was called to the Chair. Lieutenant Colonel GAITSKILL, of the &ft Surrey Regiment, in an appropriate fpeech, opened the bu. finds of the Meeting. Lieutenant Colonel jorass.,Hasasr, after paying a jua tribute to the Noble Earl for his uniform alien. Lion to Lhe Volunteers in the London Diariet, fe conded the feveral Refointions. The Mr.etiag immediately ditiolvel i'AgEATRES‘. DRURY LANs—Laft night the Opera of the ?taunted Tower was revived at this Theatre, chicly 1 for the purpofe of introducing Mr. BRAHMA in the part of Lord William, in which he difplayed his powers to very great advantage, particularly in the long— " Spirit of my Sainted Sire." It was loudly encored. He alfo intri.duced the favourite ballad of " From Shades of Night," with wonderful aft& Mrs. Nlounrata, as Lady Elin6r, was greatly attraetive ; the alfo fung a new bravura, which was rapturoufly applauded. Signora Svotteca refumed the part of Adda, and Bean usrca Edward. The reR of the co. mic characters were very refpeelably fuftained. COVENT CARDEN..-- , -The novelty at this Theatre lafl night was a new ballet, by Mr. BYRNE, called The wild landed ; or, The Court of Pekin, in which a fplendid difplay of Oriental enflame, and fume fine dancing by the elder !limas, his fon, and other principals, Allied by the whole Corps de Beet, form ed altogether a very gratifying fpeetacle. The fcenes, dreffes, and decorations were extremely beautiful. LAW I;'s'TELLIGENCE. In our Report, yeaerday, of the proceedings in the Common Pleas, in the Caufe " The King v. Reade," it was Rated. that the Court had declined ant- inter krence in the application made by the Defendant. This was incorreCt : the Court adoptcd a decifinn, in confequence of which the bulinefa will again come before it in a few days. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. St. JUDGMENTS. THE KING V. FRANCIS WILSFORD, GENT. The Defendant was brought up this day to receive the judgment of the Court, for an affault upon Mr. William Croker, as Qated in our paper of F.iday ►all. Mr. Jultice GROSS, in palling fentence, obferved, You have been brought before us to receive the fentence of the Court for committing a molt violent affaolt, which has been laid before us, upon affida vits. Unfortunately for bo►h, the profecutor and yourfelf are attornies. A letter was received by you, the terms of which you con fidered difrefpettful, and the profecutor, in defence of his charafter, polled it on the church door. You have behaved iu a way difgraceful to youifelf, and injurious to the profecu tor. If the perfon you atFaulted had given way to fuch violent paffions as thofe by which you were go verned, what might have been the confequences ? If a perfon in fuch a country as this feels himfelf in jured, he may refort to the law. You are a minifter of the law, in being an attorney of this Court. Un der all thefe circumfiances, it is the duty of the Court to make yco fenfible of your errors, and to proteit the public from violation and outrage. — Therefore, the Court do order and adjudge, that you pay a fine of 501. and give fecurity for your future good behaviour, yourfelf in 2001. and two fureties in tool. each, fur the fpace of three years." THE LING V. JOHN WAEE. This was an information filed by the ArrottNEy GENERAL againft the Defendant and four others, for an afrault upon James Mackrell, an excife officer, and tried before the Chief Baron, during the laft af fizes for Norfolk, when the former was found guilty, and the other four acquitted. On the day fisted in the indielment, being market day in the town, the profecutor, and another officer, had feized Come fmuggled fpirits, when the Defen dant, with four others, came up, and haled him, trod on his ankles, and affaulted him ; when the profecutor, pulling out api flot, obferved, if that is the way with you, I can defend myfelf." He was then furrounded by upwards of 300 people, who forced him into an apothecary's (hop. The Defendant's affidavit Rated, that he was em ployed as an affeffor of taxes, and happened acciden tally to go to market on that day, to tell Tome wheat, and was, unknowingly, drawn into the crowd. Se veral affidavits were produced in his behalf, giving him a molt excellent charatler. Among which were thole of Lord Walpole, George Windham, Efq. John Gay, Efq. Sir Roger Kerrifnn, Bart. Dr. Phi lip Gardiner, and many other Gentlemen,all Jullices of the Peace for the county of Norfolk. Mr. ERSKINE and Mr. Serjeant BEST made a few obfervations on the part of the Defendant, in miti gation of punilhment. The SOLICITOR GENERAL, for the Crown, obferv ed, that if the Defendant came to the market by ac cident, he mull have ;teed in the manner he had done, from his love of riot. The Court ordered him to be committed, and brought up again on Monday. THE KING V. a'. DORMER, ESQ., This cattle was cackled to come un in the cotirfe of next week. THS KING V. TWIRLING AND OTHERI. The Soxictroa GENERAL prayed the judgment of the Court on Edmund Durling and Thomas Mar tin, for affaulting an Excite Officer, and obllruaing him in the execution of his office—convgted at the htft Affixes for the county of Kent. The Defendants, upon a nominal fine, were order ed conditionally to be enlarged. THE RING V. BISHOP AND ANOTHER. On the motton of the Souctroß Gtuittec, Tho. mas Bilhop and Walter Guy came to receive the judgment of the Court, convieted at the tan affixes for Suffer, for obltrueling art officer of the revenue in the execution of his oflic c . The report of Mr. Juana }frail', before whom the prifoners were tried, being read, and Mr. Serjeant BEST being heaid fur the Defendants, and the Sou. crroa Grail/li. for the Crown, the Court ordered them to be committed to Nevegate, and brought up on Monday next for judgment. THE KING Z. T. W. SORTS. ..... Cumoon moved that the Defendant Might be brought into Court to receive judgment. The SOLICiTOR GENERAL obfcrved, that the De fendant had pleaded guilty the other day to an in diftment, by which he confrffed he had, as a purer of a Inip of war, forged the Captain's certificate to documents fpecifying his having fbpplied the Ihip with various things, and obtained money on thefe falfe documents at the Viaualling Office—he was furpec• ted of ir. The Commiffioners wrote to the Captain to Make iuquiry if that *as true ? The Defendant contrived to intercept that letter, and to anfwer ;i himfelf, in the Captain's name, Bating that he had made inquiry, and found that the Purfer was inno. cent of the charges—that he had been guilty °C rme irregularities, but that he was not dith 'nett ; upon which the Commiglioners, thinking this, letter came from the Captain, ordered the Poi ler to be conti nued in his employment ; the tile he made of which was,. to continue his pra&ice of forging vouchers. dre. There was no affidavit of there tails now, becaufe the Captain was off Boulogne—but the Court would not •difpote of fuch a cafe as this without fuch an al. 1 &davit. The Defendant was ordered to remain in catiodk uctil the next term. THE KING V. GORGES LOWTHER, ESQ... This perfon, who was now brought up to receive the judgment of the Court, had been tried before Mr. Baron Graham, at the laft affizes for Wiltfhire. for fending a defaMatory letter to J. Batt, Efq. a Magi (irate of the fame county. It appeared from the notes taken by the Learned Judge at the trial (tl.is day re. , d by Mr. Juttice Ls BLANC) that Mr. Low. ther had employed a perfon of the name of Sap to dig a well, and in contequenee r,t vatinus frauds which were prailifed upon him by that per fm, he re futed to fatisfy him by paying him his whole Jernand. The labourer applied to the Magi Itrate , , t:nong whom Mr. Batt prefided, to compel the dcleiZint t,r fulfil his engagement. Three feveral Comm wiles were if. fued by the Bench, and three times was tiop's com plaint LW - miffed, and the whole affair teemed to have arrived at its condemn. Mr. Lowther was, however. altonifhed on receiving a fourth notice his attend ance : being irritated at this cppoiltion, ha fent the following letter to Mr. Batt, the Magillrate who had granted the warrant, purpofcly mifdirated to "Do for Bat—.l flattered myfelf that the esplanation I before gave, regarding Sop, would have been fati-tattory. Whether you think it right or not to grant a Commons to a felon. I will not de. termitic, bet this I know, that from you, as Jolliest* and Gentle• men, I ibotill not have been troubled with au ter w.trr ant. I am doubtful whether to attribute the sneafure to your w..,14 of ability as a Justice, ur to your with. under the cloak of inacitterial digni ty, to offer etc a perfonal infult, and l than he gl.•1 to know which of them I am to confide:it : as to the funioioni, it i, u ,uecctrary for me to fay that I than pay no aztcutia:. to it. (Signed) " ooanas LOWTHICII." Upon this letter the Defendant was found Guilty. _ _ Tfie affidavit of the Defendant !fated, that the let ter was dilated under the influence of the moment; without any intention of derogating from the cha rafter of Mr. Batt t and that with oefpeet to the mit direaion, it was merely from the ignorance of the name and profeffion of the Gentleman to whom it was fent. An affidavit from the Right Rev. Lord BISHOP of GLoucsma Rated, that he had known M r. Low- ther a Commoner at Wincheßer School, and having finithedhis (Indies there,hc left it with an unexception able character. In after life he ihewed more thad ordinary zeal to protect the contlitution of the coun try in the moment of the moft imminent danger, as Captain and Commander of a Volanteer Corps, in Hamplhire, during the long space of nine years. He was patticularly &dive in quailing the rebellion in Ireland; was a man of family, education, and mo rals, and the Taft perfon who would at in contradic tion to thofe laws,lor which he had undergone dan gers, deprivations, and difficulties. By the affidavits of Lord RADNOR and Mr. Aye,' Magiftrates of the county of Wilts, it appeared, that a fun had been commenced, and was then proceed ing under the direction of the Defendant, to try their jurifdiEtion to decide the queition . between him and Sop, which had been dilptited by Mr. Lowther. Mr. 'INTL, Mr. ERSKINE, and Mr. Serjeant Laws. addreffed the Court on the part of the Defendant.— They faid they laboured, in the prefent cafe, under no filch embarraffment as was ufirally felt by Coun fel in fubmitting to their Lordthips the common to pics in mitigation of puniffiment—but here they hutt ed they fhould not be confidered to waste the time of the Court. They did not Rand here fora malignant libeller ; for, even in that cafe, they fhonld think it their duty to addrefs the Court, however they might rejoice at the fentence which was pronounced, but they Rood up for a man " injured and hurt, and perplexed in the extreme." Twice did this gentle man receive the thanks of the county of Hants, and twice did he deferve them—but he ftxned, as a man, to be the founder of his own praife in his affidavit. —The ableft rhetorician or logician that the world ever prbduced, could not hare couched a libel in lets offenfive terms. It was faid, that the Sun bad its flaws, and they might compare this gentleman to the bright otb of day ; but where •were h is blemifhes ? The moll that could be alledged againft him was, that he was irritated (and jutily irritated) againit Mr. Batt; for the vexatious proceedings which were had againh him. Frotu the high encomium. which bad been beßowed upon his charafter by a Right Re verend Prelate, could their Lordfh;ps believe him guilty of intentionally writing this libel i They efieem ed it to be an honour to be his Counfel ; and for the dignity of that gentleman, ;hey trual.d the Court would not confider the letter, upon wiii;:h the prole.. cution was inftituted, a libel againit ti.az Conflitutiou which he had fhevin fo much zeal to fupport. The SOLICITOR GENERAL and Mr. CA,teow, for the profecution, laid, that the Profecutor and the Defendant teemed to have chargzd places, and that the Connie! for Mr. Lowther contidered it a mere matter of form that he was brought up to receive die fentence of the Court ; that the Defendant was to be compared to a conftellation of virtues, or the fun at noon-day, whofe blots could fcarcely be perceived, and that the crime for which he was brought on the floor, before their Lordlhips, hardly deterved the name of an offence. He had received a crown of glory for his military atchievernents, and an unble malted character from the Bishop of GLOUCRSTER s but that was no reafon why he thould libel the Jut . - tires of the Peace, to whole jurifdiEtion. the Learned Couplet would venture to fay, he was labial. They. were far from preffing a cafe, but they hoped their Lurdfhips would view it in a very different light from the Counfel for the Defendant, and would vifit the offence by a very feriouspuniffinient. Lorll Et.t. ansoaouom— ,, lithe Court thould take flirther time to confider, is there any with, on the part of the Crown, that Mr. Lowther thouid be com mitted ?" .. . The SoLicirot GENERAL-..." Certainly not, my Lord." Lord ELLENBOROUGH-•••" Then Mr. Llwther melt attend the Court on Tuefday next." 11 111