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ranklin's sailing, the Government a li t n, there, that they must depart from the river of Plate i n f or ty days from the date of the order, loaded or tot. It was the general opinion there, that the Ame woo and Portuguese were all spies for the Engl . .h ; an d , f or the term of two years, no neutral whatever wou ld be admitted into any of the ports in the river d tate , u nder any pretence whatever, even if they s h a m have a Royal licence. e , G en eral Liniers had entered into a new treaty w i t h the Commander of the British squadron left o i l i n g in the River (which consisted of a frigate, a s loop o f war, and a cutter), that the British were not to molest the River trade, that is, from Monte Video to Buenos Ares, or any of the ports above Monte Video; and that the Spanish Government are to ripply the British squadron, or any ships of their na gon that may put in there, with what supplies they n ay want. Maldonado was appointed the port for neir rendezvous ; and this was to continue in force for six months. On the 17th October, was boarded off Maldonado by the British frigate Nereide, Captain Corbett, who took the Chief Mate out of the ship, he being an Englishman, but otherwise treated us politely. The war and cutter were also in sight. They in that it was their determination not to mo- River-trade, as the Spaniards supplied them thing they wanted. Captain Corbett also he expected a war between England and and that we should be taken before we got " On the 2d December, fell in and was boarded French privateer schooner from Guadaloape ; with water, and was treated politely ; 12.58. N. and long. 50 W. u On the 6th, was boarded by a French Govern teem brig,called the Victor Hughes, and the schooner Galliter, from Cayenne, with a schooner in com pare! vas informed that they had captured an English brig from Africa, with slaves, bound to Charleston. u On the sth, spoke the schooner Polly, Bond, • Tures Island, 68 hours out, bound to North Carolina." lamer OF A LETTER t RDNI CARLSTTAM, DATED 7TH JANUARY, 1808. " I have received intelligence from Stralsund, French are fitting out in their harbour there, privateers to cruize against England and Swe t wrote immediately to a high quarter, to a defence in our harbours this winter; espe the season is so mild, it is to be feared the Ay attempt to burn all English vessels lying harbour. had such an effcct, that orders were immedi ' to the Governors in the fortifications, to BUENOS AYRES: I p apers 114 letters were received yesterday from i sout h c a rolina to the 25th ult. They contain no- Z 64 new with respect to the politics of the United Ste; but the following extract affords some inte. robs information from the River Plate : CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 24. t The F ran klin, Ehronstrom, arrived this day from d , n DSOs Aye RE PORT OF CAPTAIN EIIRONSTROM. l g c a ptain Ehronstrom sailed from Buenos Ayres re t ke 14th of October ; left at that place ship Diana, ci los, of Wiscasset, expected to take in a cargo in a to kA days for England ; brig Betsey, Forest, of char i est on, taking in a cargo for the Cape of Good /jape t a lso the Danish ship Fortune, Petenor, tak- :, to o a cargo for London ; and five Portuguese yes- , i ds, brigs and schooners. " About a week previous to the Franklin's sailing, 4 11 the neutrals received orders from the Government Th s i o :p of war ad , brined us, tl the• la the Rive s every t h us, that America, an , ists kat zen On the by a French e supplied her •at lat. 12. SS.' . to " On the tent brig, ca Calker, fo tam;vasit k. brig from -ou • " On th rh from Turk', L, Carolina." e 14 into[ EXTRACT OP tba " I have :e 1 , • that the Fre It • tine privat latd dee. I vtr( Prepare a d :onjee 60 7 as the rea• enemy may w i la our harbo n It had td ately issu e d • sail take serious ye Da Yesterday ' rem Helvoi tkbarked as )trE l ee retur ate tie)einn- of mJ 'lnTs,hebw shipsthe cute 11'1 nnberi r ; itis ed tehe le The this forenooi BY the le measures against such an attempt." !le p. esterday the Industry cutter arrived at Yarmouth, 7oetsluys, having on board Mr. CLIVE, who it Harwich some time since, and who was return as a prisoner of war to France, his pa !lug out. On his preparing to land at Helvoet was refused permission. Dispatches which cuter had on board from Batavia, were even re -The received. Mr. CLIVE arrived in London foremen. the letters from Holland, we also learn that the Sic tide which was experienced along our East it of the 14th, occasioned many dis particnlarly at Flushing, where the feet higher than in the memorable The water rose above the quays, and '.uotts fury through the streets of the very thing before it. The extent of the - town, but it was immense, and it is have been lost. :abinet Council was held at the Fo sat from two till four o'clock. The .ann and all the other Cabinet Mini were present. .EESTON Loxes, Esq. had a conference 'ELLOR of the Excautuat and Mr. the Chancellor of the Exchequer's in g -street. the 28th instant died, of an apoplectic in Mort i - ,treet, Caven di sh-squ, r 2 ,RLF_S COLLINS, Esq. of Salisbury—a -ose universal benevolence and philan long endeared him to a numerous and circle of friends, by whom his death !$47:17764L INTELLidENtE. TORBAY, JAN. 28. Arrived in Torbay, his Majesty's ships Spencer, Rose, and Daring, from a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29. --- Arrived his Majesty's ships Helena, froth Ireland, and Racehorse, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ships Goshawk, Dapper, and Hearty, on a cruize. Wind S. W. L ied by - 6 u me which riabied Ccast on the night tots in Holland, 5 ' r.111 , 4, , , Vet rose two fe in d c . kod of 1682. TI al Lk!. t 4 d with impeti al rug bearing every rce in is not yet kno had some lives I fro" end of • "et* a Ca re co' lt.t . Office. It s aid! 46e of PORTLAI wails *Ain town were petica 4 YeSter .t day BEE! especb LIX CHANCE 1711.105, at tl :o coo' in Downin 'ed tb 4s 'llursday d on do Vt his house i ..coAttnt-C r non a - KARI _I ,i7 C111 . 1 11, Rhos .074 ,IPhy had lon Pectable Pluv" lame' DOVER, JAN. 29. Came in this morning, the brig Catharine, of Limekilns, in Scotland, from Guernsey, with wine, stone, and rags, bound to London ; was captured at six o'clock last night off the Owers by the French lugger privateer l'Oiseau, of 18 guns and GO men, belonging to Etaples ; the Master, ROBERT Woon, and the crew (except Wm. DRAKE, Mate, and JOHN THONIPSON, Mariner, who secreted themselves), were taken on board the privateer, and two Frenchmen and -two Danes were put on board the brig, to conduct her to France. About nine o'clock, the Prize-master having gone down in the cabin, to look at the chart, the two Englishmen took advantage of his absence, rushed on the other three, and, after a severe conflict, succeeded in getting possession of the brig and secur ing the enemy : one of the Danes was desperately wounded, and thrown overboard twice, but getting hold of a rope, saved himself : the Prize-master at tempted several times to get on deck during the con flict, but was prevented, the hatchway being fastened down, and the sky-light was not large enough for him to get up that way. L'Oiseau had been out three days from Etaples, and had taken and sent fur Dieppe a Kniphau,en hoy from Bourdeaux, with brandy and wine, in consequence of her having been boarded by a British cruizer. Passed by the ship Bellona, Captain TuomPsoN, from Jamaica, bound toLondon.—Wind W.N.W. and blows strong. DEAL, JANUARY 29. Came down from the River yesterday evening the Alnwick Castle, David Scott, Canton, and the Ocean East Indiamen. Sailed this morning'the Sir Stephen Lushington East Indiaman, for the River. Arrived his Majesty's ships Oberon, Pandora, and the Mini, from a cruize, and remain in the Downs with the ships as per last. Wind W. S. W. YARMOUTH, JAN. 29. Arrived his Majesty's ship Ro- amond, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ships Goliah, Musquito, Cruizer, and Calypso, on a cruize.—Wind S. W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVCSIND, JAN. 29.—Passed by the Rollar, Thompson, from St. Domingo ; Travers, —, from Bombay ; Clarkson, Stevenson; Friendship, Denning; and the John, Munday, horn Monte Video. 6614NEY, WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF A CERTAIN ATHEISTICAL PUBLICATION. Who is this Champion with erected crest. Who thus to mortal combat has defied All those who with RELIGION dare to side, And boasts the panoply hi which he'stirest ? Now mark the boast—his spe.ir's a pointless jest; His helmet Folly, deck'd with plumes of pride. And countless folds of sophistry supplied The cob-web coat of mail that guards his breast Groping his way by metaphysic light, (Bewildering moon-shine of the mental night !) In each dark path he views some phantom rise, That Fancy tel!s him from his prowess flies ; Till with wild confidence, as phrenzy warms, „He dares defy th' Omnipotent to arms!" COVENT-GARDEN tragedy of Othello was performed last night for the second time this season. Mr. ItemnLE again appeared in lago. It is some weeks since he made his first appearance in that character ; and if in the interval, he has devoted much of his time and attention to it, they have both been very unprofitably employed. It would be too much to say, however, that his performance did not Mani fest some signs of improvement.. But either from his totally mistaking the character, or being physically disqualified to represent it, he will add nothing to his reputation by persevering in the performance. He may be endured, but he will hardly be applauded. Of this he had more than one specimen last night, when the ill-timed zeal of some of his injudicious admirers was checked by the general disapprobation of the house. Mr. POPE'S Othello is one of the . b?st, perhaps the very best of his efforts. The audience was but thin at the rising of the curtain, bat it after wards improved in appearance. The Cummit tee of fifteen persons, aprointed by the renters of Drury Lane theatre, was for the purpose of devising best means of recovering the annuities due to them. The late Lord PENURYN has left h's whole estate to GEORGE DAW‘lxs, Esq. This magnificent bequest was totally unionized for, as from the circumstance of cutting off the entail, by which it had been before left in remainder to Mr. DAWKINS, they had not been 'in habits of friendly intercourse. It now appears however, that he asserud his right only to make the will of his noble relative his own. Wednesday last, '250 .of the new-raised militia-men for the County of Oxford, marched from Oxford to Wantage, on their route to Pendennis Castle, in Cornwall, to join the regiment. All the rooms of state in Windsor Castle are under going many improvements. • The interior decorations, as far as respects the lighting of the apartments, are of the most costly description—Grecian lamps, of un rivalled beauty and perfection, have been hung up in all the principal rooms. The health of the Royal Family continues as uniformly good as our most san guine expectat.ons could wish. His MAJESTY pur sues the same temperate course of living to which he has been so long accustomed, and dines at two o'clock as usual. The QUEEN and the PRINCESSES, in all their domestic arrangements, have adopted the most rigid economy, particularly in the article of dress. On Wednesday a wager took place between two tradesmen in the City, for 20 guineas a side, which should be first at the four-mile stone on the Clapham road, when the one was to make the best of his way on foot, the other to be rowed in a boat to Vauxhall, from whence he was to proceed on foot to the destined spot ; they both started at one o'clock from the Old Swan, near London-bridge, when the former won the wager by only half a minute. Large sums of mone; were depending on the issue. PutilLtsm.—A very obstinate boxing match took place on Thursday at Harlow-common ' Wilts, be tween two professors, named Jonas and Hartry ; the former entered the list of country boxers, by a suc cessful combat with Flower, a coachman, at Heaze- ARRIVALS. Off Dover, the Malta, —; Trident, M'Donald i and the Bel lona, Thompson, from Jamaica—At Liverpool, the Brook, Court ney ; Aurora, May ; and the Hannah, Lightly, from Jamaica ; Mississippi, Anderson ; from Charleston • More, Brown ; and the Margaret, Laughton, from Newfoundlan d—At Dublin, the Caro line, Strachan, from Picton ; Tyne packet, —; and New Venus, —, from London—At Cork, the Diana, May, from New York —At Waterford, the Dolphin, —, from Stockholm—At Belfast, the Draper, M'Donald, from London—At Jamaica, the Phoenix, Doujeaa ; and Apollo, Henry, from London—At Charleston, the Arabella, ; and the Horizon, —, from London ; Crowd, from the Clyde; Perseverance, RO3B, from Liverpool; and the Caroline, Resolution, and William and Henry, from Africa. His Majesty's ship Ulysses, with her convoy from Portsmouth, is arrived at Jamaica. The Lady Warren, —, from Cape Fmncoise for London, was totally lost on the Carcoise, on the 28th of November.— Crew saved. The Cert. s, Godfrey, arrived at Dublin on the 24th inst. saw five vessels captured in the Channel, and was nearly captured herself. The Maria, Zempthall, from Dantzic for Belfast, is lost on the coast of Sweden. The Rising Star, Gidney, from Clay for London, is lost at Aldborough, ley-heath, about three months since, the latter having Monday a Court Martial was to hav e assembled won nine successive battles. The contest continued on board the 44slagnanime, in Sheerness Harbour, twenty-five minutes, alternately to the advantage of but the Members not being sufficient in number, each. In the 18th round, however, Jonas gave his it was adjourned till Tuesday, when the Court i adversary such a violent fall, that he was not able to proceeded to try My. John Brenholm, Master of continue the contest. There were about 200 amateurs his Majesty's ship Centurion, on charges exhibited present. against him by the Captain of the said ship, for drun- Government have received advices from Botany kenness, &c. &c. ; when, the charges being fully proved, he was dismissed Majesty's service. The Bay, dated the 18tli of March, which state, that a plot to overturn the Gcvernment had been discovered Court then proceeded to try a seaman, belonging to to have been entered into by Dwyer, Borne, and the Piercer gun-brig, for desertion, when, the charge others, who had been transported film Ireland, for being proved, he was sentenced to receive 50 lashes. I political offences. One of the instructions given by Tuesday a Court-martial assembled at Sheerness on j them to the slaves or servants, who were concerned in board the Magnanime, in the harbour, to try Mr. John the conspiracy was, that each, upon the breaking out Brenholm, master of the Centurion, on charges ex- of the insurrection, should murder his master. hibited against him by the Captain of the said ship, i At the Sessions held at Sandwich, on Friday the for drunkenness ; when, the charges being fully Bth of January, before WILLIAM BOKLER ' Esq. the proved, he was dismissed his Majesty's service. I Recorder, and the Mayor and Jurats of that town The damage sustained at Reculver, in Kent, inde- and port, Mary hatella Camfibell, widow, was con pendent of the angle of the public house, which was, victed on the statute of the 6th of Geo. the 3d. chap. on Monday, begun to be taken down, is confined to 36. for having between the hours of twelve at night the north-west corner of the wall of the church yard,C of the 21st, and one in the morning of the 22d of leaving the wall in every other part in its former state. December last, feloniously and maliciously broken It does not therefore appear that the Church of the and destroyed several trees, shrubs and plants grow- Two Sisters is in immediate danger, but from the in- ing, and being in the garden of Mr. STEPHEN road made by the force of the waves to the northward I SAUNDERS, of the ville of Ramsgate, and for the said of the cliff, it would seem that the elevated point of offence was sentenced to one month': imprisonment. land .on which the church stands must eventually be I Antonin Defino, otherwise De j zardo, the man who insulated. In consequence of this danger, a vestry was convicted of manslaughter in killing William was held in the said church, on Tuesday last, consist- Burn, an Englishman, at Canton in China—(and ing of the Minister, Churchwardens, and principal in- 1 upon whose case the' ATTORNEY-GENERAL, at the habitants of the parish of Reculver, and borough of Trial, stated an opinion would be taken of the Judges }loath; at which, after due consideration, it was re- upon the construction of the Act of Parliament upon solved unanimously, "to send up a petition to his which he was indicted) —has received a free pardon, Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying for his and has been conducted to the ship for receiving Grace's Fiat to empower them to take down the said Spanish Prisoners of War. church, in order to erect another in a more eligible Grohs ; the young man who was charged with dif cof the parish." Prior to the late high tide, it f eren t b urg l ar ies at Oxford, but effected hi s esca pe b y. been in agitation to attempt to preserve the leaping out of a two-pair of stairs window, has been' church by embankments, &c. and a survey had been apprehended at Portsmouth, and brought to Oxford made by Mr. Rennie, for that purpose; whose report on Sunday night last. A key belonging to a box and estimate of the sum necessary, amounts, we un- which contained several articles of stolen plate, Was derstand, to 82771. It was noted, by those whose found in his pocket. He was examined before the observations are made from experience, that as the tide Magistrates of Oxford, and was committed to prison on this part of the coast, previous to the late high one, for a further hearing. He has not as yet disclosed was uncommonly low, the subsequent consequences any cf his connections in the different robberies. His might be expected. It is also to be recorded, that fa her and mother were apprehended at first, but it only two tides equally high, have been remembered appeared that they were totally unconnected with the within these fifty years. . villainy of the son, and they were discharged. LAW NTELLIaNciii COURT OF C'HANCERY, JAN. I% RURR e. SMITH. The e plain tiff Suit had supplied one Iteeires, *ll6 was in doul tful circumstances, with grocer? goads; on the guar. nty of the defendant, who accepted foi this purpose a bill of exchange, drawn by Keeves, in favour of the plaintiff. Keeves failed and Smith /vas sued for the amount of the bill: After several de= lays, however, and a renewal of the bill, Smith at last gave a bond f,r 4001. to secure 2001. The plain.; tiff was pro; eeding to execution on this bond. Sir S. R( MILLY applied for an injunction' to stay the proceekUngs, on the ground that the plaintiff had proved under Keeves' bankruptcy, and that the de fendant was in equity entitled to set off all that could be recovered in that way. On the other side, it was alledged, that there were other transactions between Keeves and Surr, and that the dividends applied to these. The LORD CHANCELLOR had no doubt that the defendant was entitled to set off whatever remedy could be had by Surr under Keeves' Commission, as far as - related to the transaction in which the bond originated. but as nothing of this was stated in the record, he must refuse the injunction: ( COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 29. The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved the Court for a Rule against Colonel Fullerton, complaining of ex parte proceedings in the cause Fullarton v. Draper, for libellous matter in Colonel Draper's publication. The Court granted the Rule—and Colonel Fullarton stated, that the charges could be fully refuted when ever the matter should come before the Court. SIR WATKIN LEWES V. WILLIAMS. Mr. MARTIN having obtained a Rule to shew cause why Mr. Williams, the receiver on Sir Watkins' estates, should not expedite his accounts up to the last half yearly payment, Mr. DAUNCEY shewed cause against the rule, and put in an affidavit to pros e that Mr. Williams had used all dne diligence in the collection of the rents, and laying his accounts before the Deputy Remem brancer, to pass them. Those in question had been before him ever since the 7th of November, and partly from the intricacy of a coal account, and the indispo sition of Mr. Morgan his solicitor, this unavoidable delay had arisen, he therefore prayed the Court to re fuse the rule, with costs, which was ordered. Sir Watkin Lewes addressed the Court, expressing a wish that all the secrets of the case might come out. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 29. This being a Special Paper Day, the time of the Court was entirely occupied by an argument in the case of HORNE V. BAKER AND OTHERS. The plainti Xwas administratrix of the deceased hns. band, who was partner with William Herne and . Jackson, as distillers. Being desirous f quitting the bus;ness, he let the still and vats with the house, and agreed to receive 6001. a-year for himself and wife for life. The parties became bankrupts, and the defen dants, as assignees, sold the stills and vats as the pro perty of the bankrupts ' • and the action was brought to recover the value of them. After a very long discussion of the various points in the case, it having been argued before during last Term, the Court now gave judgment, that the de ceased Horne having permitted the bankrupts to use them as their own, and have the reputed ownership of them, the vats, which were not fixed to the free hold, passed to the bankrupt's assignees under the Commission. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 276 JENNINGS AND OTHERS v. LORD GRENVILLE. This was an action of trover to recover the va'ue of the half of a whale, possessed by the defendant, belonging to the plaintiffs, a full report of which ap peared in our Paper of the 19th December last - in which a verdict was given for the pl a i nt iff s , subject to the award of Charles Price, Esq, as to the quantum of value, which he determined, after being attended by both parties ; and he also awarded to the plaintiffs the costs of the reference. Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD now applied to set aside the verdict, upon two grounds; first, upon the me rits, contending, that no such custom as that proved by the plaintiffs witnesses, could be supported 'in law; and that although a whale be struck by the boats at one ship (even in the Southern Whale Fishery, yet that such whale is the property of the boat which af terwards kills it, unless it is fast to the boat of the first striker, by the harpoon and tow-iron ; and that it was open to the defendant's Captain, not to sub scribe to the old rules, and to consider a fish with a droug in it, belonging to ano her ship, still as fora natura, and a loose fish. He also took another ob jection ; that the parties were tenants in common of this whale, and that the plaintiffs ought to have sought the produce in another form. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, he had upon the trial thought there was some ground for the lat ter objection ; but that it appeared to have been prov. ed that, according to the prevailing custom, the whale struck was, prima facie, the property of the' first striker. However, the Court granted a Rule to shew cause, in case the business should not be in the meal& time settled. HATHAWAY, A BANKRUPT, V. BARROW, WINTLE, DAVIS AND MARRIOT. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN moved for a new trial in this cause, on the ground, that the principal witness, M'Clatchie, had acted in the character of Solicitor, and all the circumstances that came to his knowledge, were learned in consequence of his having acted in that character, or as attorney's clerk ; and that therefore the evidence was not sufficient, as as attor• ney ought not to divulge the communications and se crets of his clients. The Court were of opinion that M‘Clatchie did not act in either character, but that of the principal con spirator. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN observed, he was instructed to move also, on account of excessive damages, but had no intention to press that objection. Lord Chief Justice MANSFIELD said he thought th I Jury had acted with great discretion and moderation. Rule refused.