Star. — London, England, 1810-07-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY. Friday, a detachment of the 21st or Royal North British Fttrileers embarked at Portsmouth for Cadiz. They are a fine body of men, and appeared in high spirits. Yesterday afternoon sir subaltern Officers belong ing to the 42d Regiment of Foot,arrived in town from Musselburgh, and immediately set off to the Isle of Wight,•inorder to proceed to join the 2d battalion ,of that Regiment in Portugal. The Peebles-shire Local Militia, commanded by the Right Hon. Lord Emarra, were reviewed by Major-Cseneral DURHAM, on the I.3th inst. Thursday the 3d Regiment of Edinburgh Local Militia, commanded by LieutPnant-COlonel JAMES Non, which• have been,on permanent duty for three wee ks, was reviewed.on Burntsfield Links, by Briga dier-General The St.' Junes a and Mary-la-bonile regiments, with field-piece% Ihe Duke of Gloucester's, Prince of Wales's, St. George's (Bloomsbury), St. Pancras, Queen's, North Britons, St- Clement Danes', Duke of Cumberland's sharp-,shooters, and Gray's-inn rifle corps, will all assertible at their respective parades on Thursday next, and proceed to Hampstead Heath, there to have a grand sham fight—Thursday being the Anniversary of St. James's regiment of volunteers. The Hampstead Volunteers fired at a target yes terday on the Heath. Many excellent shots were ,fired, and. some nearly enter.ed the eye." Yesterday a General Court-Martial assembled at Chelmsford, for the trial of a subaltern officer of the Derby Militia, upon some charges brought against him by his Commanding Officer! It gives us great , pleasure to be enabled to contra• tlict the report that a party of Blacks, under the in fluence of the French Government, had entered the mess•room of the British Officers at Dominica, and barbarously murdered the greater part of them.d. The report is entirely without foundation. The latest accounts from the island of Dominica are of the 7th June, brought by the MAns, arrived off Brighton yes terday. The Captain of which positively contrad►cts the statement. The apprehensions of another rupture on the fron tiers of Travancore, is confirmed by a letter received by the last fleet, dated Indigul, Jan. 28, stating that Meer Khan had succeeded in gaining partizans in the South, uho were to create a diversion in his favour. In pursuance of this plan, while the British army. was approaching Bundlecund, Molave Ambojee, the enemy's new ally, made his appearance at the foot of the Southern Ghauts, where he had collected all the adherents of the late disaffected Poligars, together with a number of desperadoes who had been driven into the hills during the preceding war in the Cochin and Travancore countries. The insurgents have pos sessed themselves of some mud forts, and were at the above date busily employed in strengthening their positions. Their force was increasing daily. Molave Ambojee, their leader, is a turbulent enthusiast, who had acquired popularity by predicting future events, but he lays no claim to military talents. Letters have recently been received from Sir G. MACKENZIE, who sailed'a few months ;Igo to Iceland, with the view of exploring its natural productions, and the state of the inhabitants. We understand they are dated Rickeswick, the capital of Iceland, 11th of June, and express ardent hopes of being able satisfac torily to accomplish the object of hisjo:Orney- . A recent letter from Malta • contains the following melancholy article of intelligence s 'which, we trust, may prove, if not unfounded, at least considerably exaggersitedvo—arA . few dayi since, just after the hands of his Majesty's skip - RaPtruit; of 74 guns, Captain' 1-1410.15 t -At, had been piped on deck, a viiidsheei Of lightning - passed. along it, and struck near (Nip hundred oftke men; instantaneously dead! We liive not heard of the leastaceiclent bthß,Uwisay other ship on this station . ." - -' •• 7 :** We learn by a letter received at Hull from tar. (Immix; of the _Ansins, (it'Yarmoiith, .perfortning quarantine at Stingate, that on the sth cdliotirch4be brig. Louisa Henrietta, HOvZARD, of gull, ups't in a squall off-the Island of. Sardinia,. and all bands. perished, except a boy and two Spaniards, who, being on deek•at the time, cut the stern boat taekles. The ship went down instantly. 'Me - Lciiiisa Was going is ballast froth, lona, 10, Barbary - to load grain at Sardinia for Lisboa. Captain GOOnwps met with the boy ow the Ist of -April,of •April, in quatantine at Trapona, in the island of Sicily, and brought him to England with him. Letters have reached London lions Ostend, to the date of Thursday last. They inform us that licences are now granted at Paris for the importation of log wood, hides, tallow, train oil; and some other articles, in neutral ips, and hold ont an expectation, that such ships will be permitted to return to this country with grain. Four of the principal instigators of the late outrages at Stockholm• have been apprehended. They arc Mr. LExoN, merchant ; Mr. Bono, a civil officer belonging to the King's Museum ; Dr. RoSrai Chief Physician to the deceased Crown Prince, and a young man of the name of BRANDT. Their examinations have not lzeen made public ; consequently their motives remain un known'. . • The lightning on Friday se'nnight, killed siz sheep in the grotmds of Mr. Waxiotl, of Wandford, near Melton, and stnick two others.quite blind. On the same day two horses were killed by the electric fluid, nt Kilnholm. • Two thatched cottages were, last week, set on fire by the lightning at Blenham, near Biggleswade, and were with difficulty saved. from destruction. • During the storm on Saturday, the 14th instant, a fire-ball was distinctly seen; near Christchurch, Hants. A house was set on fire, either by that or the lightning, but the fire was soon extinguised. Friday se'nnight, as Mr. Yuman, farmer, of Kul lingholme, in Lincolnshire, was ploughing some land adjoining his betise,;.4l company with his little boy, a beau storm of ihundei "and rifilti4itig induced Mr." Young to take off his .horses, and. tarry the child home while fixing the bridles to his-arm, the electric fluid struck ;one of the, hones on the-head and the other on .the necits'end killed, there instantly I while, Mr. Young and his son retained home; in : pezieet safety. amatarz, ital.l9. • • AtUNGO PARKA. This place is filling very fast ; upwatds of 600 pe!.. sons were brought in the space of four days by the packets. The Band of the Stirling Militia perform every morning cin the Fort, which makes the prome nade very lively and pleasant, and in the evening in Cecil-square. Last night WRIPPRRT gave his first musical promenade, at KnistAN's Great Rooms, which was attended by the first fashion of Margate, Broad stairs, and Ramsgate. Upwards of 400 persons were at this delightful amusement. Our Libraries are the evening lounge. Our ball commences this evening. Yesterday a man oPthe name of HAYWARD, upwards of 60 years of age, fell from the shaft of a coal cart, and was killed on the spot. A few days since a servant girl, in Cecil-square, fell into a well with the bucket ; she was got out, and fortunately not hurt. The New Pier is in great forwardness--upwards of 100 workmen are daily emplcyed. BREAD.—At a Court of Aldermen to-day, it was ordered to remain at present prices. A letter has been received at Plymouth, by the wife of Gill (the man who was, taken away in the powder hoy), dated at Morlaix, in which he states, that there were only eight Frenchmen that made their escape in the hoy ; that they were armed with long knives, and on his calling out to give an alarm, they threw him down the hatchway, with such force as to stun him for some time. On his recovery, they promised to let him have the boat to return when they got half seas over ; but a heavy squall soon afterwards came on, and carried away their mast • the weather was so tempestuous, that they were t hree days getting over, and many times in danger of foundering. On Thursday last, a young woman, employed in feeding the rollers used in the le id mill of J. K. Pi card, Esq. in Hull, for the purpose of crus:ling the lead, unfortunately suffered her hand to be caught by the rollers, which immediately drew in her arm nearly up to the shoulder, and lacerated it so dreadfully, that she was obliged to suffer amputation. The question which has long agitated those concern ed in working as vratermen on the river Thames, and in that character assisting ships up or down the river, viz.—" Whether there are in every 24 hours two or four tide: : each tide payable by A:t of Parliament, half a guinea to each man so employed ?" has been determined at the Trinity House, against those who contended-that each flood and each ebb was a 'sepa. rate and distinct tide; so making a waterman's pay tv guineas in 24 hours; and that it is thus established that the Act of Parliament directing the payment of 10s. 6d. each tide, means that sum for both the eb bing and flowing of a tide ? this tieing no more than the flux and reflux of one and the same tide. A few days since as Mr. and Mrs. BARRER, wi.h two other ladies, were return lig to Cambridge from Heasingfield, in a •ehicle called a Pic Nic, which carries two persons before and two behind, the horse being irritated by flies, turned his head in such a manner as to get entangled with the harness, and tore the bridle from his head—he then run away, when the parties were thrown nut, and at Lord's bridge Mrs. B. was thing with such violence over the bridge, that, striking against a projecting part, she was killed on the spot. Saturday afternoon, as Mr. Bum, of Tottenham street, was riding along Highgate Hill, the horse stumbled forward, when Mr. B. was thrown over his .head, by which he bad an arm broken and was much :bruised. -On Sunday evening, a lad bathing in the River, at Fulham, was seized with the cramp and drowned. His body was picked up; and . proved to be one Solo mons, residing at Putney. The mail coach going from Edinburgh on Mon - day fotenonn, broke down about four miles from Glas sow,nnd a Gentleman had his shoulder dislocated. - . An alarming fire broke out in the Canongate Foun dery on Friday night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, which was, however, happily soon extinguished. - Saturday morning a fire broke out in the house of Mr. STOKES, printer, Chelmsford, which, together with two adjoining houses, were entirely destroyed. Friday afternoon as two lads, named Wheely and Leeson, were sailing in a boat in Barking Reach, the boat was run down by a coasting vessel and sunk ; the former lad was drowned, the other was saved by a ship's boat. Yes,..-day a shocking accident happened at the 'corner of Queel•—street, next to Drury-lane. A cart was turning the corner loaded with an immense quan tity of flag pavement stones, the sides of the cart con sisting only of strong upright stakes, without any 'boards. By a sudden jolt the stones were shaken against these uprights, 'hick broke, and down came the stones with a terrible crash, overturning the cart at the same time. Unfortunately, a man was passing at the time with a truck, and part of the stones falling upon him, he was terribly bruised, and some of his ribs broken. He was immediately taken to an Hos pital, with but faint hopes of recovery. The truck was broken to pieces. CONSPIRACY. Yesterday, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, Hilt, Ramsey, Gose, and Clarie, who were convicted of a conspiracy in extorting money from a person of the name of Thomas Fitzhugh, un der a threat of charging him with an attempt to com mit an abominable crime, wer&brought up to receive the judgment of the Court. Mr. MAINWARING ad dressed them in pointed language, and told them that -they were brought up to receive judgment for one of the realest offences that could be committed against an individual, or against society, namely, that of com bining together to extort money from another, under the pretence of their not prose cuting him for a hateful and disgusting crime. ilesired that they would understand, that if the person whom they imposed upon had even been guilty of the crime imputed to him, yet they nevertheless were equally guilty of the offence imputed to them, because it was the height of wickedness Vs screen from justice so foul an offence. He then sentenced each of them to twelve months imprisonment in Cold-bath-fields. A Calm -I--The Friends of the late Maas Honosou Brewer, and the Public,• are respectfully informed , ' • that :the Brewery will be carried on by the Executors, ..:.f or g l obose& ef the &ma', in every respect as before. —Their future order& te treated with the greatest attention. pasmare clearly determined the point whetildr Ur. Mango Parke was living or not ; it however, appears proba ble the former, and it will give me greAt pleasure if; at a future period, I am CnAhleJ to put it beyond a doubt. I have the h.mnur to be very respectlully. The. 60. latlty of the public, to be made acquainted . with the fate of this industrious and dauntless travel ler. we are happy to relieve, in some measure, by a publication of the followhtg letter, which may berelied upon as genuine ; and we sincerely hope that the in telligence which it contains, may be ultimately con firmed by Mr. Parke's return, into a certainty of his existence, of which doubts have been so long and so COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 23. reasonably entertained: THE WICAVERs CoNte %NV IL CASE. Mt. Serje int SliEviltotEl aid, the pla'ntiff• in this Extract of a Letter from Mogadore, May 25, 1810, ease formed one of them .st ancient Como cores of SIR—I had the honour of addressing you last the the Cit; of Lond.m, having a Clam ter of In: ap. 7th of of November last year, and having lately heard tion now in their p r, d on] as far h%cit as the the vessel had been captured, I shall, previous to en reign of Henry 11. Si) that it mien msly he sial of .tering on the immediate subject. of this, recapitulate em, the id as Company from .ime the contents of my former . .,. i th , whereof th e h memory existed of m in a w.,s not to the coat! ary. In the spring of 1803, a number of persons were here from Tombuctoo, who almost all confirmed the It was also the ancient and Laudable practice of the . Company to have an annual dinner on St. James's intelligence you had got from Mr. Jackson, of a boat ' Day. Lord Ma:or's Day, and the other usual City with Christians having appeared, and lay to off the Feasts ; and by a bye-law this d niter was to he pro. port of Catra—of their having hoisted a white flag, and of their having passed Tombuctoo without having vided by Stewards chosen by the Comp iny, any it whom declining the hoaour, was to ply the ens ()- entered it, or having had any communication with it. miry fine of £2O. The defendant, Mr. Case, was They also confirmed what I wrote in my former let- . ! chosen a Steward for last St. James's day, but de ter, of their having been attacked by the Tuercks, dined to serve, and hai a'so nfteed to pay the cus and that at the time of their being off Catra, there , i tomary fine of £2O , to recover winch the acts . n was were remaining six white persons and two blacks.— now brought. 64 It (added Serjeaut Shepherd) the The slaves they had purchased of the King of Barn barra, *hom all persons report as having acted merits of this case depend solely on the custem, I trust I shall have little difficulty of establiAting it in towards them in a very friendly manaer. He is since • the City of London, where the comforts of a good dead, and I do not hear so favourable an account of dinner are so well understood." his successor. Chief Justice MANSFIELD enquired, if by providing In the summer of 1803, several other persons came a good dinner, the Stewards were also undersaxal to here from the interior, who informed me, they had met with the Christians at the second Grand Cataract pay for it ? rj on the Niger, or as they call it, the Nile, which they M. Seeant Leas, for the defendant—" Yes. my were preparing to pass. They said the Christians Lord, and the Company claim a fine of de2o, from were then out of danger, as to being killed, but ac- I the man who declines serving." knowled ed they might probably be stopped, made ! The charter by which the Company was incorpo- slaves of; and that no further intelligence might ever i rated in the reign of Henry 11. was then produced carefully preserved from the injuries of die weather reach us respecting them. They told me there were g three great cataracts on the Niger cr Nile, and as my Ina less case. The plaintiffs, however, failed in rovin that the die was provided the exace information has been derived from a variety of per op g f the stewards, for nn it r appeared ovide from at books o f the sons, I have no reason to suspect its , ve'acity, either with respect to their having fallen in with Mr. Parke's Company, as old as 1690, that the Stewards had then ch aged the dinner to the Company.—A nonsuit was party, or the actual existence of the cat:tracts. therefore entered. A person who was here lately from Tombuctoo,:. i and who is particularly connected with our house, in- I KFYLEGER v. SHORT. The plaintiff, a crimp, brought this action to re formed me, he also saw the boat off Catra, that he i ; tearer £2l, fur three men sent on board the ship corn. was only a short distance from them, and that two ' mended by the defendant. The questi In w.t, whe or three months after, a friend of his procured from t char the men had been properly procured? The Jury same Tuercks a number of books, drawings, and ma- nuscripts, which, he said, belonged to the Christians ! found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to an award. Several causes were tried, but none afforded any ia who passed in the boat. His description of these papers I terest of a public nature. was so particular, that I think there is every reason i TOLSBN 17. CRANSTON& to suppose them to be the drawings, journals, &c. of This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who Mr. Parke. The Moor has gone into the interior, and is commander of a West-India tradec, to recover the has promised to do his endeavours to procure them • sum of 75 guineas for the passage of the defendant, for me. I also furnished him with memoranda, to who is the mother of Lord Cranstone, and her ser which he said he would attend, and at parting assured vans, from the West-Indies. me, that if any of Mr. Parke's party were livine in / On the part of the defendant, Mr. Scarlett put in those regions, he would ascertain the fact, or if afil:ad, ' i the deposition of Lord Cranstone, taken (by consent) endeavour to learn where they met their end. I in the West-Indies, which stated, that his Lordship As it is the interest of the person I alluded to to ; had agreed with the defendant to pay 44) guineas ter oblige me, I have no doubt of his exertions to obtain his mother's passage; but afterwards mentioned that as much knowledge respecti..lg the actual situation of she had a wish to take a servant to England with her, Mr. Parke and his company, or of their deaths, as is The plaintiff asked what sort of a servant ? and his practicable. *at persons may remain a long time in Lordship told him it was merely a boy; to which the the interior without any accounts of them reaching' Mr. piAseiu.m plaintiff replied,—" Oh, then we will say nothing any parts of the coast, is certain, and I have had a b out hi m. " -40 gu i neas h a d b een pa id i nto Court within these few days a proof of it, in a g entleman to cover the plainti ff 's demand. who was wrecked on the Arab coast, in the beginning • of 1806. The Captain of the vessel was ransomed • Lord ELLENBoanvott observed, if the Jury gave credit to his Lordship's deposition, they must find a by us for £l4OO, dollars in the first instance, and ver di ct f or t h e d e f en d ant . The J ur y, a fter a short many heavy charges were added to it. He was brought deliberation to our house in June 1807, and shortly after all his , found a verdict for the defendant. ' BUTTER V. DROWN. surviving crew were brought up. His passenger re. ! Thi s was an act i on o f T r oye r , to recover the value mained in captivity in the interior, and from the date ' of a c haise. of his last letter of the 25th August 1807, till within i these few days, I have never been and a friend able to get any in- for the plaintiff, stated that his client having an inclination to indulge them. telligence of him, so that he was concluded dead. Two solved with a country excursion, hired a gig to go to days ago, I learned from a person who came from • Barnet fair ; but soon after they se out h,und the Tessared, that he was still there, and kept to hard vessel they had embarked in was not sea-worthy ; labour. If, then, a Christian could remain unheard they arrived, however, in safety at the port to which of in the neighbourhood of Widnow, it is not unlikely they were bound ; but whether it was, that die lading Mr. Parke, or some of his party, may yet make their • /on the return-voyage was heavier than that which they appearance. took out, whilst yet at some distance from town, the When our friend returns from Souden, I shall in- carriage capsized, and became a mere wreck ; in this form you what success he has met with ; such was situation they akandoned it, or rather gave it in charge the substance of the letter I had the honour of writing • to a person now on the spot (the defendant) with a you the 7th November last. I request, that he might keep it till they sent for it ; he Our friend returned from Souden this morning ; his : accordingly took it into his case, but soon became journey has been rapid, as he did not go with the ca- i tired of his charge; and to get rid of the burden sold ravan, bet on a dromedary, and accompanied by only I i t to the first bidder he could find. one person. These circumstances were proved in evidence, and A vessel being on departure, I profit of it to give that it was sold for £3 10s. you such information as I have from him. He has Mr. Gaautow, for the defendant, contended, that his brought a letter from Tombuctoo, dated two months client was justified in what he had done ; the gig was and twenty-five days since.- The person who I em- left by Some person whom he did not know ; and con ployed desired his friend to give the particulars in , tinued in his premises so long that he was much in the form of a letter, and the following is a l itera l i convenienced by it, and, there e, gave public notice translation of it :— ' f bed in the p a p ers , that if it was not etc away by a 46 Concerning the Christians, I have made great in- certain day it would be sold ; and no one coming to (pities after them ; they came from Sego to Sinsinde, claim it by the time mentioned, it was sold by public and they passed by Jennie to Kabar—some of them I auction. died; there remained of them only four alive, and Lord ELLENDOROCGII said, that the defendant ctr they went and killecra Sheriff or Prince, on the way tainly had no right to sell the carriage ; the implied by the side of the Nile, and 014 fell in with the contract was, that he should keep it till called for ; if Touarks at I3ounba, and they fought and slew some it was not called for in a reasonable time, he had a of the Touarks, and they went on till they passed to right to disconvenience his premises of it ; but had no Henbara, which is ten long days journey from Tom- riht whatever to sell it ; and the plaintiff was en buctoo, and I have heard no more of them but this. t ied to receive the sum which it produced. I don't know if they are dead or alive, GOD only The Jury found a verdict fur the plain.iff for £4 knows, and on the road from Shugo, and along the 12s. being the net proceeds after the expenses of the side of the Nile, no one has spoken with them, and sale were deducted. they were in the practice, whatever land they arrived I at, to write it down, and to buy and sell with the people in their boat. They made presents to the Kitig of Bambara, and he protected them and treated them well, and this is the news I have of them, and peace be with you." Written at Tombuctoo, on, the 1541 i day of Moharrim el Harram, in the year 1225. Our friend will return to Tombuctoo very shortly, and he will •then make inquiries after Mr. Parke and his companions at Henbara, through the medium of some friends he has there, and he will endeavour to trace them from Henbara, where they were last heard of; and if any of them are living, will, if possible, get them to write their names on paper, and forward' it to me. The Moor gives me hopes he will procure me the journal, drawings, &c. Ihe Talk or Cadi. at Tombuctoo,. who used to write Mr. JaCkson, is lately dead. I should have been happy if the information had been such as to have LillV INI EI.I.IGIIA.Z. DIVIDENDS. A . ::tust Is. William Dixon and Henry Dixon, of Rotherhiths, Surrey, timber-merchatlts, at twelve, at Guildhall.. — lacy 27. Wm. Brown, of Wormwood-street, Loudon-wall, London, vie. tualler, at ton, at GuildholL — A unlit le. Charles Davis, of Ssint John-street, hliddlemx, carpenter, at ten, at Guildhall.—Angust IS. Joseph Swan, of Qatar, Lincolnshire, menet . . draper, sad grocer, at eleven, at the Spittle Inn, lAncoinshire.--bept. e. Jamas Ball, of New Sarum, Wilts, vietualler, at ewesy at the White Hart Inn, New Sarum —August 18. Ann Devernsh and Henry Newport, of V il liers-street, Strand, Middlesex, upholsterers, at twelve, at Guildhall —August lg. George Snuth, of Newcastle. - upon-Tyne, woollen-draper, at eleven, at •• e Shakespear Tavern, Newcastle-upon-'l'yne.--August 16. James Collins, tate of Gos port, Hants, huildtr and stone-mason, at one, at the Military Arms, Horton, near Gosport.--August 14. Junes Bull, of the parish of Kingston, Isle of Wight, Hants, corn-dealer and factor, at three, at the Bugle Inn, Newport.--Sept. 3. Edward Carr, of Whitstable, 'Kent, carpenter, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canter. bury.--August IS. David Rees, of Swansea, Glsmorganshire, shopkeeper, at twelvo,nt, the Rummer Tavern, BristOL--Augoat is. Henry Hcrve, of Chearide, Loudon, jeweller, at twelve, et Guildhall. !1 ! 1 4 b. M to NS ear edit lon ►d lea rk, I* vas •—•• lia Ito ye