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r ty the arriird at Liverpool, the following i e tter has heed recgiVed, dated Barbadoes, July 24 : His Majesty's ship Rwittia.m intends to leave Tortola `on or before the 60th inst. with the trade for Qreat Britain, &c: The trade froin hence sailed on the 16th inst.: the trade from St. Lucie pissed Do minica on the 19th: the trade from the latter island intended to leave on the 21st, and the trade from An tigua on the 2(251 inst. for the place of rendezvous." CORX, AUGUST 29. Yesterday the sloop Helena, and this morning hc s loop Brisk, arrived at Cove from a cruise. The He ram, f r om Quebec, arrived at CoVe yesterday ; she sailed on the 21st of July, in company with sixteen sail of vessels, laden with timber for the use of Govern silent, under convoy of the NEmrsts frigate t she parted convoy on the 10th instant, in the Gulph of 6 4 . Lawrence. TORBAY, SEPTEMBER 4. Last evening sailed his Majesty's ships NEPTUNE sn a pcopEE, for Plymouth, supposed to be destined for foreign service. This morning the wind getting found to the North, the following ships, under the command of Admiral Sir 3. T. Duczwornr, got wi der weigh, and proceeded to resume their station off Brest, consisting of the ROYAL GEORGE, DREAD 10‘JOET, TEIVERAIRE, ACHILLE, VALIANT, and Thr..—P. S. 5 o'clock.—The wind is got round to the westward, and the above ships are again re turned. FALMOUTH, SEPT. s. Arrived this morning the Puzzle lugger, from Gib }altar, bound to Guernsey, with barrilla, 28 days p a ssage, no news ; on the 24th ultimo, spokb his Ma jettirs ship EURYDICE, With convoy, for OPtito, all ; yesterday spoke his Majesty's brig SwAtlanw, is guns, Captain MILNER, on a cruize. Sailed this ;Doming his Majesty's ship SUCCESS, 38 guns, and the natal, aimed en :flute, with the outward-boUnd feet, 47 sail v for Corunna, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar; and Sicily. 'They were joined from henCe by the Flora, ISHOAD ;' Good intent, CROSBY ; Charles Ha thilton, Cocitneas ; Metis, Currstxonast ; and Au . - ttunn, Tur*isni for Malta : also sailed the Lady Pel le*, Hzeviy, with a Mail for Cot-unna. P. S. A frigate, under i very heavy press of sail, pissed this port this morning for the Eastward. The thatch packet, from Malta, may be expected every Ilottrs.6Atind W. 14. W. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. S. Arrived his Majesty's ship SOLEBAT, from a unite ; tgAaserrz and QUEBEC from the Downs ; Robert, FARB, aid Robert and Ann, SMITH, from Quebec, tart of a fleet -tinder convoy of his Majesty's ship lintria....Wind W. ,• . DEAL, SEP I TEMBER 5. Arrived the INDIGNANT gon-bfig from i•eidiaii of Calais. Sailed the FLAMER guts-brig oti a trtiiii - off Boulogne ; also MB of the hired armed cutters, which I take to be the Acrivz, with a fleet of light trans ports under convoy for Harwich ; Funions gun-brig' With a convoy for Portsmouth, Sailed for the River the Union, from Malta; ind the Ceres, RICHARDSON, from Liverpool.- , —Wind w; r2N - 7taFT - & - B;p: Yesterday evening, shout six ,o'clock, we were alarmed by signals from teachy Read, for an enemy being on the coast : the shore was in a moment crowd ed, from whence, with the naked eye,. we disetimed three large Frenth lugger prirateeri, which were in the act of taking a large brig and a slov, and two vessels more were in sight, and, it is feared, would not escape: a brig laden with wood, for Chatham, ran ashore about a mile below this place, and so escaped ; but her bottom is so much damaged, that it is doubted whether she will ever get off again. A light collier run in to the shore for protection, and although it blew a strong south westerly wind, and the sea run ning mountains high, a boat at the risk of the men's lives, went to her assistance, with the 'view of running her ashore on the sail& clear of the rocks, where she might hive floated on the return of the tide. The privateers made so close after her, thatsthe guns from the batteries fired at them, on which they made off, shaping their course for the coast of France : the col. tier was directed to keep close in by the shore, and make for Dungeness Light-house, by which means she escaped. The Dragoons have been patrolling the coast all night with a view to prevent any attempt at chipredation. There has not been a privateer upon this part of the coast since April last. Two soldiers, employed in loading corn from a farm in the neigh beurhood, have met with a dreadful accident : the horses having taken fright, in the endeavour to stop them, they were both run over, and are how i n th e hospital in a dangg:sus s ate. „- • 4 • "4 . 77 - - '"'""T” - it would net be proper make public. The *hole *406 . 414 4S it eunfined, aid no pets on atten decker of them, therefore, pleaded guilty to the charges of constantly-but the prisoner ; the circumstances of her merely having the forged notes in their posiession, death were cf such an eitraordinry nature, that the and be hoped, under these circumstances, the learned Coroner hearing of them, called a Jury to investigate Judge would inflict but a slight punishment. - theM, and the result was a verdict of wilful Murder Benjamth White was arraigned at the same time against the priscrier. • upon a similar charge, and hearing the other pri- Elizabeth Nixon deposed, that she lived as house. soners plead guilty, he did the same ; but Mr..Partis maid Lo -the prifoner, at the time of the death of Miss cautioned him against such conduct, as no circuni- Bumf, who she said appeared in good health on the stances had transpired in his case to authorise hineon morning of the 23d of March last, at seven o'clock in behalf of the Bank in interfering to prevent the law the morning. • At a quarter before nine o'clock she taking its due course. The prisoner, therefore, by saw her in the parlour, when she appeared very un_ the advice of Judge Chambre, revoked his 'ilea, and well, and was leaning upon a chair. The, whole of pleaded not guilty.—After hearing the evidence the the day she vomited black matter, which turned to Jury found him guilty. green; she drank about three quarts of water-gruel Richard Jones, a• respectable . warehouseman, of in the Course cf the day ; the prisoner was generally Manchester, was indicted for feloniously stealing a with her, and he rettfained with the deceased all large _quantity of goods, the property of Messrs. night ; she and her fellow-servant offered to sit up, Worthington and Co. warehousemen, of Manchester. but they were refused. Previous to her going to bed, It appeared in evidence that the Prosecutor's and ' she took two pillows,a counterpane,and an easy chair, the Prisoner's premises join each other; the Prosecu- t) the parlour. The next morning th e first thi n g tor being in a more extensive line of business than she did she went into the parlour; and found the pn the Piisoner, required more warehouse room than the soner and the deceased, who appeared much worse, Prisonersiend they agreed to hire his second and third having vomited all night. She continued very bad stories ; and, for the convenience of access tet them all day ; the prisoner continued with her. At night had a door broke through the wall which separates she offered to sit up, but was again refused. The the two premises. O t t Sunday morning, the 7th ult: next morning (Friday) she found the prisoner and the the traveller belonging to the Prosecutors, very un- deceased in the parlour as usual; the deceased ap expectedly went into their warehouse, where he found pealed much worse, her vomiting continuing upon the Prisoner, and it was discovered that he had made her, together with her being disordered in her bow= an aperture through some hoards which had been put els. She had changed her dress, and had no stays up• to separate t)ie premises, through which he had on ; was lying on the sofa in a fixed posture • (this crept, and copveyed away property belonging to the was to insinuate that she had been delivered of a Prosecutors, .to a very considerable amount. The child.) She gave the deceased some warm - beer, Prisoner made no defence, but appeared extremely agreeably to her desire, and in a short time after she penitent. howevei, strange to tell, called Mr. was sent out by the prisoner for some Madeira wine; Worthington, the Prosecutor, to gite him a elm- on her return she went into the parlour, and ohserv racter, who spoke very highly of him in every point ed an object in a corner which frightened her so much, of view except the present case:—Guilty. that she ran back and went into the kitchen to the T. Fearon was indicted for killing T. Johnson, in cook. They both went into the parlour, and the ob a boxing match, but several circumstances tending to ject proved to be the deceased, with her face and prove the deceased to be the aggressor, he was found knees to the wall, ene of her legs bent under her, guilty of manslaughter, and having been already con- and she a corpse, which alarmed them very much; fined three months, he was only sentenced to be im. they did not observe the prisoner at first in the room, prisoned one week, and pay a fine of sixpence. but discovered him sitting in an arm chair in the con: J Smith was indicted for a similar offence in killing nor of the room, (where they found the deceased) B. Sagan, but the circumstances s'. - ere of a more ag- asleep, With a cap over his face,.and wrapped up in gravated mittuf on the part of the prisoner, he having a counterpane ; they had considerable difficulty in kicked the deceased several times. in different parts,of awaking him, and when they told him the deceased the body, while down, with thick clouted shoes.— was no more, he jumped up and exclaimed " Good Guilty of Manslaughter. Sentence deferred. Goo . !" During the illness of the deceased, no medi- Sum I.—Richard Calderbani was indicted for - hav- cal man iris sent for, but she recollected hearing the ing, with divers other persons then unknown, stolen prisoner ask her if he should send fur a doctor? to two shuttles, the property of John Molyneux, of Wi- which she replied, he can do me no good." When gan, on the 28th day of May last. the deceased was vomiting, she exclaimed to the wit- Mr. SCARLET attended to conduct the proseCution. ness, u 0 Betty, what have I got on My stomach He began by observing, that the disgraceful scenes I wish I had taken an emetic long since." of riot and confusion committed in this county lately She was questioned as to her suspicions of the &- must be fresh in the memory of every person, by ceased and the prisoner sleeping together. She stated numbers of misguided men, who, on account of some one circumstance, that the children slept with the de. temporary hardships, which it was impossible for hu- ceased, it was her business to make the beds, and one mra beings to guard against, had recourse to the mis- morning she observed that only the children had slept tarsi notion of rioting to redress their grievances, and in' the deceased's bed. had attacked the machinery and men frofn whom they On her cross-examination by Mr. TOPING, she gained the means of their very existence, in the most Said, she saw no appearance of a child. The deceased wanton and daring manner, and itliees out of these' was of a penurious dispbsition, and had a great aver. riots that the present prosecution arose. He conies- Sion to doctors or medical men. sed that he had some legal doubts as to the conduct ' Ann Hopkins, the cook, confirmed the above ; and of the prisoner and his companions amounting to fe- said she laid out the, body of the deceased ; she had lony : if it did § he believed it was the first of the kind' no stays on ;• she had changed her dress on Thursday that had been tried before any of the Judges. The or Friday Morning ; *she found two bandages on the Maistrates before whom the prisoner was taken, had body. Saw no appearance of a child. considered the case a felony, and had bound the Several females, who knew the deceased, stated, parties over to prosecute accineFingly, and the Grand that they had suspected her to be pregnant for se. Jury had found a true bill • and it was his duty to veral months previous to her death. state the case for his LordshiP's decision, Which is as - The Rev. Mr. Voss, the minister of the parish, follows :—The prosecutor is a weaver, and disapprbir- said, he had known the prisoner nine years. On the ing of; the conduct of the rioters,. and fearing his per- death of the deceased some very shocking reports were ion and Property.wriuld be attacked by them, he shut circulated fit Liverpool against the prisoner, in conse. up his house and left It ; when- the prisOner, in corn- quence of which he thought it his duty to call upon ',any with a number , of others, forcibly broke open the hint Co Inform him of them, that be might refute Lott them, or bring tilt business to an investigation. The ' prisoner denied that the deceased had been delivered oft child ; he said it was impossible, for if she had he must have known it ; and as to its not being by him, he assigned rather an extraordinary reason, viz. that he had the most tender and affectionate regard for her e ; and as' to her being poisoned, that was im possible, for she had taken nothing but what he had given her, and he was, or ought to i le a judge of the composition and decomposition of medicine., The sttongest thing he had given4.er was castor oil ;-I.e had given her black emetic also. The term black emetic he explained by saying the discharge was black. The witness had considerable more conversa tion with the prisoner, during which he gave some in consistent and contradictor y account of the transac tion ; particularly his denying being out of his house on the morning of the death•of the deceased, when the witness saw him at thnAthensum, and conversed with him. This-was invehigated, in consequence of its being insinuated that he had conveyed the child away at that time. The prisoner told him the de ceased died the day previous (Saturday), and she died on the Friday. The Coroner sent several me dical gentlemen to examine and open the body, on Sunday ; and, in consequence of the verdict of the J ur y, the prisoner was apprehended and confined in' Liverpool prison. Dr. Coltman Was called to prove some conversaa tion he had had with the prisoner, respecting the trans action, some parts of which were not consistent. It was, however, proved, that the prisoner was much 4istressed in his mind at this time, on account of his koCher having lost tha use of his faculties. Jeremiah Steed deposed, that about last Christmas he was in company with the prisoner, at the of Dr. Trail, to supper, when the s ibject of anatomy was brought up ; some drawings of females, &c. were introduced, when the prisoner said he was skilled in anatomy and physic, and instructed some young men in it, particularly in the dissection of the womb, and by touching a certain parfait, would cause abortion; he had told a young man of it, and he had made an improper use of it. The trial lasted till past three-in the morning, and Unitary acquitted the prisoner• The greatest quantity of fish ever known, parecw larly pilchards, were caught List week in Mount's Bay. Upwards of 19,000 hogsheadi of the Lt avere landed at St. Ive's, and sold at '0 I. the cart load, for manure• Turbot only fetched iron. Id. to 2d. per pound, and the inferior fi.h were not worth catching- SEPTEMBER 2. A curious circumstance occurred at the Citadel at this place last night, which has excited a great degree of attention. Between twelve and one o'clock, a man was observed by one of the centinels making towards the Store-keeper's Magazine. On being challenged four times by the centinel, and declining to answer, the latter snapped his piece at him, upon which he immediately retreated. In a short time, however, he again returned, and being again chal• longed, and declining to answer, the centinel fired at ' him, but missed him.—A short time after he had the audacity to return a third time : the centinel on his still declining to answer the challenge, levelled at him a third time, bat again missed him. He then pursued him with his bayonet, and was within a fees feet of him, v hen he stumbled and fell, in conse quence of which the man escaped. It appears from the centinel's account, that he had actually got upon the roof of the back part of the Magazine; which was nearly level with the parapet. The other cen. Units heard the proceedings, but saw no person. One of them, however, thought he heard a noise, as if some person was , getting upon the roof of the Maga zine. The firing was heard by the Guard, but the Officer on duty was not informed of the circum. stances, until too late to interfere. One man said, that a little before this affair, he saw an appearance in an adjoining field, as if so±ne person was snapping a pistol tinder-box. On the above affair being reported to Major-Ge neral Hewgill, he ordered a Court of Inquiry to be Olds to investigate the circumstances. The Mem &.ti of it, viz. Col. Farley, of the 68th; and Lieut-- Colonels Wilion, of the 2d Royal Lancashire ; and Lacy, of the Royal Cumberland militias, met this afternooh at the Citadel, along Mr. Alderman Osbourne, and the centinels underwent a strict ex amination • but nothing' transpiring to throw any further lig ht upon this mysterious subject, the Court broke up, after sitting upwards of two hotits. LANCASTER ASSIZES. Tuesda' D. A. L;ndi, was indicted for uttering s.. . _ ~_ ‘3, - . icy .._ . I pany _-.ctbly brt...... :.. I leditious words against his Majesty, &c. Richard I house, and took away two •sh,dttles. The feari.ed . R . emain hi tile bowns--PrinceaefOrange,lieTlerophon; nerd, 1 Monk deposed, that on the evening of last Whit- Colinsel entered into a very learned disquisition of what frvincll , le, Blustioue, Leviathan, Bombay, Venerable, Trusty, • sunday, the prisoner, in company with another man,.' constituted a felony, and very clearly pointed out the Clyde, Alzrt, Pandora, &Rik, Kangaroo, phantasm, and hi. ; came into a public-hous, at Atighton, where he and distinction between takirg property to convert to their 4 Pant 4 several other persons were After a little time,' the own Use, and taking property metely to deprive the GRIMSBY , SEPTEM - BrAc--' , :- - , priioner began talking of aim hardness of the times, owner of the use of it. He instanced, if a man was t haft he Pailtassev Waxes cutter, Lin Bour ses and (14 , — . --d the King; thanked GOD that he wag forcibly to take hi, watch from him, and throw it tots., sailed this forenoon With a fleet of 20 sail for. blind, and .hoped he would soon be rio more , and t down to injure it, to deprive him of t he use of it, that t ottenburgh.—Wind'S.W. j wiked d---ri . to seize all royalists. He likewise would not be a- felony. In the present case he was laid the Prince of Walei was the biggest vagabond afraid, tho patties could only be said to have taken HARWICH, SEpTriIBER S. • England everproduted. This was c'rroborated b 7 the two shuttles to prevat the prosecutor *from work- Arrived lasfnight a gun-brig • from the Baltic, with anothei witness: Tliey , both acknowledged the per- ing with them, *at he might not thwart their views; &Patches, which were forwarded iinitsediately for toner was very binds intoxicated at the time, so much andit appeared that in the violenr acts they had act- London ; also arrived the Lord Duncan, Captain so; that be sat down, and went to sleep for upwarls ed in this die with some degree of caution and pru. HAMILTON, from Gottenburgh, with thailip•lfie.=- - of five hours. A considerable time was occupied by ; denct, fbr hid they injured the machinery, or had A fleet of trairsports are •Sioar coining into the hay -The Counsel for the prisoner and prosecution, respect- • there been work in them, and they had injured that, ing the exact wads being proved as stated in the there was a particular Act of Parliament to punish lour ; re hear 4000 men are to embark bete On indictment. The Judge acknowledged that the in- i such conduct. Wednesday. dictment was very badly drawn, but held, as there i Jtidge Ciraminie observed, that for the sake of VAR.MOUTH, SEPTEMBER S. was one Sentence correctly proved, the trial might ' puni.o.hing an individual, crimes and punishments must Sailed the NAssAu, 64 guns, for the Baltic, and the ,gopn : and the Jury found the prisoner Gtiilty. ! not be c onfu sed, and that actions for damages,trespaises, ttoorniouxn and EVSTLER on a cruise.—Arrived this I John Bramwell was indicted for killing John Ball, ! and misdemeanours, must not be confused with fe- I a boy about 14, in Liverpool. It appeared that on I long: He confessed, he thought it the most like a morning, from the Baltic, the CHARLES armed ship, . Stindav4 the 10th of July, the prisoner was much ! misdemeanour and trespass of any thing, but consi -1 with a convoy.-. Remain, Roebuck, Admiral DoY7Lintosiiated, in which stale he endeavoured to gain dered it a vei7 hotel case, and for which the law was te.a:, Phosphorus, suid Acute. Wind S. W. adinittoce into a public-house, but Was refused, on hardly prepared to meet it. . LEITH, SEPT. 3. account of the state he was in, and he staggered se I Mr. SCARLET, in consequence, declined taking up tine . Much that he could scarcely keep upon his legs, . the time of the Court in calling witnesses * and - the Thursday evening, arrived in Leith Roads, I which caused a number of boys to assemble and ridi- : prisoner was of course acquitted. Lady Forbes, R ing, and Expedition, PI DE R I i enle bins, calling him, by way of deristbn, " Cbutttry 1 Mr. SCARLET observed, that he hoped the Legisla from Jamaica. Thursday arrived the CHILDERs sloop • Thai= ;" this enraged him, and he ran at the de- ture would notice this case. of war, with a con, y from Gottenburgh : the Cntz.-1 ceased, and gave him a violent kick in the lower' m The Learned Judge replied, certainly . they would, bras gave chace to three Danish privateers, o ff the • pant of his belly with a very thick shoe, which he •as the manufacturers'ust be protected. • h fi ad aintna .on ; this caused - an iinmediate steppage and in- I Serr..S.-1-Yesterday the, trial of Charles Angui,Esq. island of Lessee, but having got into less thin three tion in the bowels and he died in conse- 1 of Liverpool, which has been the subject of much fathoms water, and the convoy at a considerable dis- quence in a few hours. Tie learned Judge, in sum- ; public interest and general conversation, came on, tance, she was obliged to give up the chace, though monieg up the evidence, observed with respect to the , for the murder of Miss Margaret Burns, of Liverpool. not before the batteries from the shore had opened a defence set up of drunkenness, that it was no pzcuse ; It,attracted an immense concourse of people from all fire upon her, from which, however, she received no j slaw, but was held to be an aggravation of the ; parts of the county, and the Court, although capable damage. Arrived also the Harmony fishing boy 04 , trirne.—Guilty. !of accommodating-one thousand persons, was crowd- AVOCar 18.—William Johnson, Sarah Jahnson, and:at an eafly hour. At eight o'clock the prisoner was Kniphausen, FARDEN master, out ten Weeks, having ;fame: Cllarlsoa were indicted for uttering and having placed at the bar. He is a tall stout man, and was a cargo of 50 barrels herrings and 4 barrels cod, and a number of forged Bank of England Notes in their dressed in a suit of black. The indicunent charged 15 men on board ; captured 60 miles S. E. of Ste' possession. i I him with hating poisoned the deceased ; and another Abb's Head, by the Royal George and Ro , Mr. PARKE briefly stated the case ten the part of the ipant charged him with having given her poison to cause abortion, )yal Char- lotto Excise cutters. Ay st— prosecution. The Prisoners all pleaded guilty, and , an she being pregnant. Mr. Parke observed, that the gentlemen with whom Serjeant Cocasu., for the prosecution, stated the he acted on the behalf of the Bank, had been induced, substance of the case as follows— after mature deliberation, to abandon the capital part The Prisoner married the deceased's sister, who of the charges against the Prisoners, they having no died about three years since, and left two children, dotrbi but two former Prisoners had been the since which the deceased had lived with the prisoner, dupes and tools_ of others, and therefore deserved as his housekeeper and governess to the children.— commiseration ; and circumstatices had come to his For some time previous to her death, she was sus knowledge respecting the latter Prisoner last night, pected by the neighbours and others to be pregnant. that in some degtee etched for WS crimes, which She died on the 25th of March ; for two days pre- FROlsi LLOYD'S Lisr Saavzst:tn, Saar. b.—Sailed thd Dolphin . , !Ter, for Cork; t, Bennet, for Caracas; Nati& fen, Monti`, for Oporto; , Carr; and Nancy, BaU, for Goitenburgir. The French.pinque Conception;, CApot,A, from Bar celona for Marseilles ; and the French bombard la Gabrielle, Limo, from Aide, are taken and sent into Gibraltar by the Bravo privates►. 1 • 1 Aitt Tl,2rei