Star. — London, England, 1803-09-28 00:00:00

ZAS2 INDIES. FROM THE CEYLON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE OF MARCH 23, 18c3. MONDAY, MARCH 21.—A Dirpatch, of which the folios% i:10; is an Extradt, has been received this day by the Cnicf Sccretary of Government, from Capt. HERBERT BEAVER, of his Majeay's 39th Regiment, Ccimmandant of Negnmbn. TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT, !SQ L CHIRP ITCRITAILY TO GOVSKIINSIIT, COLUMBO. Sir—Having been informed that a large body of Candians had built a redoubt, and taken poi} at Moohnorrogampelle, I determined to march with the little force I could coiled to drive them away. I had only with me one ferjeant and twelve men of the 65th regiment, one HariWar, and twelve Sepoys, and a few Laftoryns. We arrived within a mile and a half of the fort about one in the morning, and thought it belt not to wait for daylight, but to ad v.,i,ce without delay. .We paned a picquet of the enemy, which fled at our approach, and then pro ceeded to attack. Not a (hot was fired at us. We were merely challenged by a (entry, who immedi ately afterwards alarmed the Candians, and they ef caped into the jungle. From the bell information we could get from the natives, their number was about too. The Tom Toms beat twice before we reached the fort, which made us espy& a more fe• rious refinance, but, I lufpeCt, the information they bad from their piquet: had predetermined their con duet. This poll, which the Candians chofe to aban dc,n, is a remarkably !hong one by art and nature. On the fouth of this fort there is a complete fquare redoubt, which might have been defended againft almon any force of mere mufquetry : it is a parapet not meanly confirated, of &Rifles and earth, with embrafures, or rather loop holes. I cannot conclude without Paying how much I feel obliged to the Ser. jeant and men of the 65th grenadiers, who only re gret there was no fi g h t i ng . The Sepoys behaved very well. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your molt obedient and molt humble Servant, HERMIT Bsuu, Commandant of Negosobo. Moehooroogampeik Fort, Mardi so, 1803." Bor.dNr BIT. FROM THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER. Pub!Med by Authority.] [No. I. SATURDAY, MARCH 5. Anna, es.-.lnentmerable as the obftacles were which threaten s& to oppofe our londertikking, yet we are happy to affirm, that the r were not informountable, however difficult the talk before us. I".ie utility of a Pima in the Colony, as it m uft open a fierce of Solid information, will, we hope, be univerfally felt and ac krowlcdped. We have courted the Milts= of the ingadoos and intelligent We open no channel to political dikallon, or primal anlmaiverfizn Information is our cal, taupe& ; that ocean,- Si flied, we kafi confider that we have done our duty, In an cur don to merit the approtadoa of the Public, and to Secure a liberal potroame to the ST LINTY GAZITTTA To COMM ITOND TNT 6..TW0 flip boxes will be pat up lo the coerce of the =ruing week (inse in front of the I Mainz Store at Sydney, the other in a window of the Court-houfe, Parramatta), for the re ception of loch article' of Information as peifone who are poffieffed of the means may think proper to contribute. • It is hereby ordered, that all ode/ailments, ardeesakc. which runder the official feature of the Secretary of this colo l:of any other officer a Government, properly eatharifed to pil& them in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Ad. vertikr, are meant, and mat be deemed to convey official and fuident Notifications, In the Sonic manner as if they were pref. eisitly teethed to any one individualor °then, to whom &eh may have a referents. _ _ . - . By Command of HL Excellency the Governor and Ccananandcr Cittd. Wilaam Neste Chapman, Secretary." Sydney. Much 3, an. Fnoirevas.—On Tuefday, the tsth ult. fifteen la bouring men fled from the Agricukural Settlement at Celle Alin, after hiving committed many aas of violence and atrocity. They at firft forcibly entered the dwelling-houfe of Mr. DECLAIM which they ranfacked, and ftripped of many articles of plate, wearing apparel, tome fire and fide arms, provifions, fpirituous and vinous liquors, a quantity of which they drank or wafted in the houfe. They next pro ceeded to the farm-houfes of BRADLEY and Bear ! at Balkham Hills. Mrs. BILIDLIT'S fervant-roan they wantonly and inhumanly difeharged a piflol at, the contents of which have fo °tattered his face, as to render him a ghallly fpeaaele, in all probability, during the remainder of his life. In Mrs. Bias's boat the gave a look to fenfuality, equally brutal and unmanly. Refillance was of no avail, for their rapacity was unbridled. Numerous other delinquen cies were perpetrated by this licentious banditti, whofe ravages, however, could not long efcapc the certain tread of jullice. Two of the depredators were taken into euflody upon the fecond day after their flight near the Hawkef buty.road, by Mr. Jarmo'', tun: Allied by A. THorson, chief con fl able at Hawkelbury, and a party of the military, who had been difpatched in purruit of them. Upon there men were found leve ret articles of property that had been taken from the dwelling-houfe of Mr. Dictates ; as vele alto two snufkets. On the day following they underwent an examination before a rnagiarate, by whom they were fully committed, and fent to Sydney under an efcort. On the 23d ult. eleven more of the defperadoes were fecured by a party of the military and confla bles, between Hawkclbury and the mountains. In. formation had been given of their haunt by a body pf natives, fhortly after they had broke into the houfe of a fettler, where they bad flopped to grind a quan. City of wheat at a fleet mill, haying prgvioufly le cured the 'family, and afterwards ftripped the houfe f all fuch provifion as they could conveniently earl y • ff, together with two (lands of arms. They were alto taken before a magiflrete, fully committed, and Lrnught to Sydney under a fuXcient guard. jut.ice to the prifoners at large in the colony re quites that w; Mould obferve, that this banditti is entirely compored of Ira prifoners, brought by the Het-Cities and Atlas. rummy, MUCH IS. A Criminal Court this day affembled, and pro ceeded to the trial of the delinquents, who had ab fronded from the Public Agricultural Settlement of caftla Hill on the 15th day of February left, for fel°. l ',/mtfly entering the dwelling houfe of M. Deducts, near that place, and taking therefrom divers filver (poops, a fake, piflol, lci-glxfsv it quantity of wear. int; apparel, and divers other articles, his property. Pariricl Gastsee2 and Frosteii S;typfso *ere firil indiet ed. on a ch4rge of having been prefent at and adively coeFgat : 4 in tic raid felenv i and with bluing a put of the above property, viz. (even Inver (post, found upon or near them when they were taken into coat). dy on the 17th of the fame month. The evidence for the Crown being ealled,• . - . ' Mary Tirley, fervant to Mr. Dielamb,4le6ofed, that on the evening of the isth of February, the law two men approach a hut in which one of Mt. De. clamb's men-fervants then was, and that at a little dillance further the perceived another man, whole appearance alarmed her—in eonfequence of which the made fall the windows, and the inner door of the haute. Shortly after come perfon knocked at the door—the deponent Aced who it was ? and Macder mot anfwered from without, " It is I ; open the door, for here is a conftable with a letter from my mailer." The deponent opened the door accordingly, and le veral men entered the houfe—fhe anted for the letter, and one of the party anfwered, " You'll have enough of the letter bye-and bye." By this time (even or eight of them were in the houfe. They demanded fire arms and ammunition, which fhe was compelled to (hew them. They loaded a piliol which they found in the houfe, and one of them exclaimed, " fire it down her throat if fhe lays a word." Several of the offenders then opened a trunk, out of which they took a quantity of wearing apparel, which the deponent pofitively affirmed had been tied up in a bundle by Francis Simpfon, one of the prifoners then at the bar. They had alto demanded a telefcope and compafs, neither of which was in the bode. The fpoons found on or near to Gannan the deponent iden tified, as being the property of her mafter. The witnefs was crofs-examined by the Court, but did not deviate in her teftimony. Upon her being aced what were her reafons for fo pofitively identifying the perfon of Simplon, the anfwered, that he had compelled her to fill two !tides of wine for him, during which interval the had taken much notice of his countenance. Mr. Declamb identified the fpoons, as being a part of the property taken out of his honk during his ab fence on the 15th of February. Mr. John Jamiefon depofed, that he went with a party in purfuit of the above delinquents, and that he affifted in apprehending the two prifoners then at the bar, on the 17th of February—that when he ap proached them they were afleep, near a party of natives, but that when they awoke, they offered a relittance. Mr. A. Thompfon depofed, that he had of filed in apprehending the prifoners, and that about the fpot where Gannan had lain, the filver fpoons were found, that were then produced in evidence. Henry Lamb's teitimony correfponded with the others. The evidence being doled, the prifoners were elk ed if they had any thin g to fay in their defence ? They acknowledged having had the property. but denied the aft of taking it out of the houfe them felves. The Judge Advocate fummed up the evidence, and upon a deliberation of about 15 minutes, the Court returned a verdia Guilty—Death. Laaretice Dempfey, Patriei Moderatos, Miebael if= boa, jobs Lynch, Maw Shank, jade Morzes, /ma Ifeik, Timothy Malabo', 7.6. Ancor, jams Ceara', and Peter Role, were indiaed for having alto been prefent, on the aforefaid ;sth of February, at the houfe of Mr. Deciamt), for having affilled in commit ting the aforefaid felony, and for having divers Cr. ticks found upon them when they were apprehend ed, his property, among which were a fufee, a pittol, and a fpy-glafs. Mary Tuley again depofed, that on the 15th of Fe -bruary, the prifoners at the bar, feveral of whore the pofitively (wore to, had entered the houfe as before Rated. That Michael Woollaghan was one of the men who had entered the houfe with Macdermot, and that Laurence Dempfey was the perfon who had taken away a pair of razors belonging to her mailer. Being ordered to examine the property produced in Court, the identified the greatett part of it. Here one the prifoners (Dempfey) begged to in terrogate the witnefs, to whom he put the following quelhons . . _ Q. Had you ever.feen me prior to the Isth of February ?—A. No. Q. At what hour did you fee me on that day ? A. Fcannot tell mealy, but it was in the evening. How can you fwear pofitively to my perfon ? —A. You came into the bed-room, where I was, with a lighted candle in your hand t you (aid, " we may as well take all as not," and I few you take my matter's razors. Mr. Declamb here identified his fufee, pillol, and molt of the property before the Court, and declared, that when he had gone from home on the 15th of February, he had left thole articles in his houfe, but when he returned, none of the articles were there. Matthew Locke depofed, that he had affilled in apprehending all the prifoners at the bar, between Richmond Hill and the Mountains—and that they, in endeavouring to efcape, had dropped fome of the property produced in Court. He farther depofed, that two of the prifoners had mules, but that none of them offered any refinance. Brown, Malahoy, and Dernpfey wore fome of Mr. Declamb's wearing apparel, when they were apprehended. A. Thompfon and D. Brown gave evidence to the fame sffeet. Being called upon for their defence, one of the unhappy men declared. that he had embarked in this fatal expedition with no other view, than that of croffing the Mountains, which the judicious and well equipped. have found irnpafrable, and thereby re turning to his family. The evidence WAS then Rimmed up, and the Court after a courultation of codiderable length returned the following verdia : Lawrence Dempfey, Michael Woollaghan, and Patrick Macdermot. Guilty—Death. AU the others were acquitted upon this charge. but detained upon another indiarnent 1 and the Court adjourned till ter to morrow. MISCIILLANIT. Boa MOT.—An edition of Bailg's Diaistery having been Come time fines put up at an auaion, the Ven• due Mager obferved, that it was a A'ens u 1 nom glad of that with all my heart (replied a bid der) for moll of us have had eno ug h o f t h e Wats." The Rod, would certainly be a choke (pot for a non Via: icademy. 7 -as the pupil might indulge hirnfelf with a joastrfer without Any violent exertiou. On Toelday evening lull. a centrovct fr. took place between two pirgi/gli, oppolite the Red Lion; the Pppoisents apiseared to be engaged hcatt fad bed s ' • the timely appearance of the Guard, however, was immediately prodoalve of a ceffation of hoailities, and a ftschten convietion that legs have their We as well is arms. The abundance of animal food throughout•the co lony, is an undoubted teaimony of the folid advan tages that have accrued from a correfpondence with the native inhabitants of Otaheite. The maize in all parts of the Colony bids equally fair. The late rains have been very ferviceable to the backward cobs, as alto to thole now ready for gathering. On Saturday laf a quantity of wheat and barley was taken out of a fmall ❑oop, called the Sophia Maria, by a fet of villains who lurk about the Wharf to take advantage of the abfence, or criminal negli- gence, of perfons who arc left in charge of boats and other (mall craft. The Civil Court. which opened on Monday IA for difpatch of bufinefs, drew a concourfe of inhabitants from all the fettlements of the Colony, molt of whom were directly or indireEtly interefted. Parramatta contributed largely to the bufy fcene, nor were we much lets beholden to Hawkeibury for the influx. Among the numerous pettycaufes that came before the Civil Court during the laft fitting, the following diverting one made its appearance, and was decided very little to the entertainment of the Plaintiff He had fummoned a poor woman, whofe refidence was upwards of forty miles from Sydney, for a debt of 12s. payment whereof had been tendered , to him in wheat, but which he had thought proper to rejest. A (ample was produced in Court, the tender con fidered legal, and the Plaintiff ordered to pay to the Defendant thirty Shillings for travelling aptness. Errasoaniamtv Israitrostvioas Of PROVIDIINCt. —On Saturday night laft, as feveral carts were flop ping to bait near the Firft Pond, on the Hawkefbury road, a tree of prodigious Size and immenfe height, that had t•ten loofened by fuccefave tempefts, fell among the travellers, and broke the cart to pieces, without injury either to the drivers or horfes.—A child was in one of the vehicles, upon which a forked branch happened to Strike; by the violence of the conculnon the infant was thrown to the diftance of more than zo yards, but alfo miraculoufly efcaped unhurt. SHIP IftVf3. On Saturday the ;A ult. - arrived the CASTLE or Goon Hors, Mr. ALLAN WAstss.t. mailer, from whence the failed the tit of December ha; the made Ceylon the tsth of the fame month, and in her way hither, paled through Bafs's Straits. She brought 307 Bengal cows in excellent condition (a few only excepted, which were reje(ted by Government), none of which have died fence their landing. She alto brought four India mares and two hones (one of which is an Arabian flallion), a quantity of (piths, fugar, rice, piece goods, and various other articles. Of the cows, sso were received by Government at the contrail price, i. e. 281. per head; and there can be no doubt of this great increafe of breeding cattle loon lowering the price of anirnil food. The Caine of Good Hope is the largeß Ihip that has eyes entered this port, and meafures about sOOO tom—. During her paffage (he 101 l twelve cows and one' horfe ; fell in with nn o:Ler vete), and met with no accident. Her paging through &ifs' , Straits intlead of going round Van-Dieman's land, confiderably fhortened her parage, and raved many cows. By the above arrival we have been informed of the more than probable loft of the Fly, a vette) of about too tons burthen, laden with piece and other valuable goods, alto bound for this place, and be longing to the houfe of CamrnaLts, at Ca/cntta.— She left Calcutta in the mouth of April lall, and has not fince been heard of ; was commanded by Mr. JOHN BLACK, a young man much efteemed here by all who knew him. On the 14th Wt. arrived the Greenwich whaler. Mr. A AAAAA out Lair mailer, with iyoo barrels of fpertnaceti oil, procured moilly off the N. E. coalt of New Zealand. The whalers the left cruising off that coati, and which may be expeEted here to refit about the beginning of June, are the Venus, GARDNER; Albion, BIINCEIR ; and Alexander, RHODES. The Harriot, Cmaca. had failed for England on the 4th of February, a full (hip. On Sunday morning IA arrived the Venus Whaler. Mr. B. Gassman matter. with 1400 barrels of (per. maceti oil. The vetch the left cruising off the coact of NA, Zealand were the Albion, Biwa's, and the Alexander, Anon's. She fpriinf her boltfprit tome days before her arrival, but futlained no other acci dent. While on the Fifhcry, Capt. GARDENZI had very nearly loft his life from the following circum• fiance. Ading as harpooneer, he (truck a whale, which immediately divtd and ran out; a part of the coil entangled his kg, whereby he was inflantaneouf ly dragged out of the boat, and remained a confider. able (pace of time under water before he could poi fibly extricate himfelf from In perilous a fituation.— Fortunately, however, the line had been ezneditiouf ly cut away, and he, by a furprifing effort, and ftrong pretence of mind, happily effected his own deliverance. On Monday night arrived his Majelly's Colonial Schnoner, CUMILILAND, J. Ilvs mwoa re wafter, with Mefirs. Rostesou and Gam's, and the party tinder their direetion, from the Survey of Xing's llland The Cure found the Geographe and Natu. ralifle, French Ibips on a difcovery, lying at King's Mind, where he arrived the 9th of December, on which dal the Naturalille failed for France with a fair wind. The Geographe bad loft an anchor and her long boat in the Straits. On Sunday LIR anchored in the Cove his Majeßy's (hip Gtarram, Janis CoLorry, Efq. commander, with prifoners from England, whence the failed the z3d of September lA. In her way the put into Rio de Janeiro to ?diens. She left England with 270 male and 135 female prifoners--feven of the former and five of the latter died t brought upwards of 3o free fettlers, eight pieces of heavy ordnance, and a quantity of ordnance sores. The day before the got into the Cove zoo weak people were taken out, and put on board the SUPPLT, so of the rung aili ng w ere loon after fent on Chore to the General Hofpitol, where every attention was paid them. Their corn. plaints were (lightly feotbutic, of which they are re covering very fan. On Sunday mornir.g arrived the Bridgevratss, Captain E. H. Palatal', wish flour ard floret Input England• and a_great quantity of fah moat from the Cep! pf Goad Hope, kat by Vice Admiral Si 4 R. CvaTte. The day before the B. il._:civatcr it•ft Cape, hit Majefly's fluop Imoc ss arrivei from Dig. land, with orders to General DIJNDAi and Sir k. CoeTrs, not to evacuate the Cape ; hem which if is to be - apprehended a mifunderflanding had taken place between England and Holland—perhaps with. the French Republic. The Bridgewater has on board a ptivate inveil ment, in which the following articles ate comptifed. viz. acio hds. of ale and brown now, foal), cordage, flutes, men's clothing, tobacco, Irish linen, watches, leather, harnefs, and fadlery, twenty Ivigfheads os crockery. flops, 14 calks of Conflantia, &c. MARKETS. SYDNEY Wll•l7.sollSatUrdly morning lag, fire boats Cant in from Kiang Point with ?Nit, vegetables. potatoes, poultry, fie. Peaches fold from 3d. to 6d. per dozen, melons from es. to ys. per dos. plants 6d. per hundred, potatoes from zcs. to s as. Ga. per loam: Full grown fowls 3s. each, halfgrown do. Is. &Leach.. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, PR MP. Or STOCKS THIS 3 Per Cent. Confols. money, 53 , OW 5 p. r Cent. PR ten ...A.ocx I per C. Conf. 5311 per Cont. 87i i t India Stock 162 SEPTEMBER 2L DAY AT ONE o'ci.orK• tiff—Ditto, for account 33/:. —Ornnitan2 si 4 dig {S YES CERDAY • I Im On a lon Ana 8/ diC 9f 7-26 a Engllk Tickeu srL toe. Lonf. for Otft.nce.s3/11 EXCHANGE. • Cadiz pap . Neplee .... Ditto 36 d Gown 46 M a d r id pep Venice 36 Ditto 31df. Llibon 63 When 3 cf. Oporto 63 Leghorn s Dub 26 Imp. 3 per Cent.s2l COURSE OF Mallards= 36 o s Ur. Do. at fight 35 6 RotterAant 36 1 s DE, liamMtrgh 33 Sst UE Altana 33 9 s Ur Paha s day'. date is s The Gazette of laft night gives the particulars of the gallantadionfuflained by the PaiNcsss A uousrs, of Dover, againft two Dutch fchooners of fuperior force. The furvivors are entitled to praife and re ward, and the brave wen who fell to the fincere re gret of their country. We learn from Plymouth, that a privateer, which has fent a prize into that port, captured on Wednef day laft near Guernfey, had on the day preceding. fallen in with 54 fail of French luggers, under con. voy of two gun-brigs, bound from Bourdeaux to one of the ports to the Eaftward. Each of the luggers carried a large gun forward, and another abaft. They are fuppofed to be a part of the flotilla intended to be ufed againft this country.—What are our. Cruisers about ? The iffue of the attack made upon Calais is not yet known. But our Dover letters this morning inform us, that on Monday night after dark they could plainly perceive from the cliffs the fishes of the guns ; and that yetterday they heard diftindly the can facade and bombardment of that piaci, from to o'clock A. M. till half part tP. M. No particulars however bad reached Dover from our flotilla, when the polk came away. Accounts have reached Dover, that BONA/MIT, is to be at °Rend in the conrfe of a few days, to wintefs the embarkation of a diviflon of the army defined to conquer Britain; -and the necetrary matt fares of precaution have accordingly been adopted in every diredion by us. Mr. PITT, as Colonel-Com mandant of the Cinque Port Volunteers, was to meet the Mayor of Dover this day upon the fubjee, and the troops have every where received orders to be ready to &arch at an hour's notice. The Weft Lon don, and the two• regiments of Tower Hamlets Mi litia, received notice to this effed yefterday ; and it is underflood to be the intention of Government to call into immediate fervice all the Volunteer Corps which have offered to march to any part of the kingdom. This refolution has been adopted by Government, in confequence of official advices received yellerday, which place beyond all doubt the intention of our inve terate foe to attempt, without delay. the invafion of this country. The bombardment of the French ports,though fo decidedly provoked on the part of the enemy. is termed in France a molt infolent aggreffion, and the military being the only dais of men allowed to (peak in that wretched country, are loud and vehement in their denunciations of vengeance. This o wordy war" is of itfelf entitled only to our &prelim contempt ; by; we are forry to add. that our countrymen, invited to remain in France under an infidious promife of pre. tedion made by the Flair Corona. feel the effeds of this refentment. They are menaced in their habita tions, and have their ears jailed with exclamations; which favour more of the war-whoop of the Iroquois, than of the fentiments and language of a nation, which once laid claim to a fuperior degree of civilita. Lion and hofpitality. The fum of the intelligence received yefterday by Government refpeding the movements of the enemy was briefly this: That on the nth inflant one thoufand men were embarked on board is gun boats at Dunkirk, and that they were in hourly expectation of being joined by a fimilar force in an equal number of gen boats : that the great church there has been converted into a carpen►er's mop for preparing frames for gun and flat-bottomed boats, a work in which an immenfe number of people are employed. The num ber built there is already fo great, that the three prin cipal ftreete, and alfo the great area leading fromthe church are completely filled with then►. From all the prefent eircumflances, it looks as if the enemy meant fpeedily to attempt an invafioth or to try what cleft can be produced brfome kind of alarm. Britons, however. have made up their mind on the &Ned—Let the enemy do what they may. they will find them prepared to vindicate the cads of their country, and to hurl &Mallon on the foe illas 01,4 dare to ineadc their (hove % ~+, ;, ,f