Star. — London, England, 1814-09-08 00:00:00

N.frill, INTELLIGENCL FALMOUTH, SEL' ['EMBER S. Sailed his Majr.ty's brig BRAMBLE* on a truize ; the Manchester Packet, with a mail for the Brazils ; the Walsingham Packet, wilt a mail for Gibraltar and Malta; and the Isabella, GRAHAM * for Ostend. PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 6. Arrived his Majesty's ships PORCUNNE, from Boor. tirritt7C ; and OPOSSUM, OltEsTeS, and litoounouNri, from the westward. The following Privateers are cruizing in the chops of the Channel, and making great depredations on our commerce, viz.—The David Porter schooner, 7 guns, 40 men ; Whig schooner, 8 r:uns ; Spark schooner, 16 guns, 2.pounders'; Chas: seta, 16 guns, 130 men, but only 60 left on board, having manned and sent to America four prizes. POR I smouTH, SEP rEMBER 7. Yesterday arrived the Apollo, AIKEN, from the River, to join the convoy for New Providence ; to day,. his Majesty's ship HOPE, from Guernsey.— Sailed yesterday evening from the Motherbank, the Indian, H.IZLEWOOD,• and the Mercator, WARD, to perform quarantine in Standgate Creek—they are both from the West Indies. Arrived to-day his Ma jesty's ship BERWICK, from the Mediterranean, and is under quarantine. Nothing sailed to-day, nor is there any further convoys appointed.—Wind W. DEAL, SEP rEMDER 7. Arrived an I sailed for the River, the Mary Ann, CURRY, from Havannah•; Maria, M•La:tnv, from ilunduras ; the Midas, NICHOLSON, from St. Domin ga, and about twenty sail of other ships, names not known. Sailed the FREYA to the Westward. Came down from the River, the Nestor, Pilot, Blessing, and Marshal Wellin4ton Transports, and sailed agaiu for Quebec. —Wind N. . RAMSGATE, SEPTEMBER 7. Came in this morning the following transports— }lope EO, Union DS, Success 80, Mary BD, Phea sant AE, Abeon.t 518, Symmetry 148, XAnthus 160, Pomona 565, Ceres 396, And the Nairgate 97. HARWICH, SEPTEMBER 7. Arrived the Prince of Orange Packet, with a mail aid passengers, from Cuxhaven.—Wind N. CORK, SEPTEMBEA 3. His Majesty's ship BAccwJs is.on shore at the back or Spike Island. Arrived the BOMBAY" with eight taausports. The Volunteer Shipwrights at Plymouth, have been informed by the Admiralty. that they will not be wanted, as the whole number for Cana& less been supplied by the Eastern Yards. A ludicrous circumstance we hear lately occurred at Brighton, in consequence of an absolute requisition being made to salute the Secretary of the Admiralty, in ftroftria ftertoffa, by a discharge of thirteen guns from one of his Majesty's ships of war. A precedent being searched for in vain, by the Officers of the Navy, the fact is to be recorded on the log-book. The following is the Copy of a Letter recehred from Capt. J. WILLIAMSON, of the brig MAns, dated Cove of Cork, August 27th, 181+ : 48 GENTLENIHN—This day, at two p. m. I arrived here in the Orbit, of Liverpool, Captain Peers, he having picked me and my ship's company up at sea. It is with heartfelt grief I have to announce the loss of the Mars (by fire) on Thursday night, the 25th instant, Waterford bearing N.N:E. about six leagues distance. The case is as extraordinary as it is true, that while sitting In the cabin with Mr. Kelsey (pas-, senger), the Mate came down at nine o'clock, and said there was a strong smell of fire. I instantly went on deck, and found the watch that was below in the forecastle had come upon deck almost suffo cated ; and at that time there was no smoke from any other part of the vessel. We immediately began throwing water down the forecastle, and cutting a hole in the deck, to try it we could find where the fire was, when the smoke issued from the steerage in such volumes that we were all likely to be suffo cated, and vivid' scarcely see one another on deck. —I instantly conchided the fire must be in the main held, arid immediately ordered the boats to be got out, and to break the main hatches open, to see if we could find the fire there, as it was impossible for any person to go below in the steerage or forecastle ; and such was the rapidity of the flames, that before we could geethe long-boat out, they Were issuing six feet high through the main hatchivay, and it was with the gieatest difficulty we succeeded in getting the boat out over the side, as the vessel was in a few minutes after in flames from the fore hatch-way to the cabin doors: It is impossible for me to describe the horrors of the sight of the vessel, and the frantic state of the female passengers, who got out of bed on the first alarm, and came on deck. There was, no time to get either water, provisions, or any thing in the boat ; and had it not been that Pnovteeece threw a vessel in our way, we must have been turned on the sea with. out any kind of sustenance, smite without covering,' in an open boat. The Orbit, Captain Peers, of Li. verpool, hove in sight, and seeing our distressed si tuation, immediately hove to, and took us on board, it then being about ten o'clock. "The attention of Capt. Peers, and the passengers en board the Orbit, to every individual, merit my most sincere thanks. In calling the people over by their names before quitting the vessel, I found there was ene missing, and judged he might be down in the fore castle trying to get some of his clothes, and not being able to get np again on account of the smoke, one of the men, at the risk of his own life, went down and found him, made a rope fast round him, and he was hauled up without any sensation, but we succeeded in bringing him to life on board the Orbit. By what, means the vessel took fire, Goa only knows, as there had been no light whatever either in the forecastle or steerage that night, and there was no fire in either of those places until after it broke through the main hatchway ; and for any person to have communica tion with the hold was impossible, without being known, as the vessel was bulk-headed up fore and aft. I have saved scarcely any cloathing—not a hat to wear. Shall return to Liverpool as soon as possible. I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. (Signed), 44 MIMI WILLIAMSON." " Maui. Elite and WWII.* THE AR _ vr. Orders have been sent by Government for braking up the establishment of the Ipswich New Barracks, and all the °Ricers attached to them are most actively employed in giving effect to these orders. The depots of the German Legion, at Ipswich, have received orders to march for Harwich for embarka tion for Brabant, the instant the Arrival of the trans ports for their conveyance is announced. The Infantry Barracks at Playdon, Winchelsea, fillverhill, Eastbourne, Hailsham, Cuckmere, Lewes, Shorehm, Steyning, and Little Hampton, are to be taken down and the materials sold, by order of Go vt. rnmen t. The Barracks at Woodbridge, Weeley, and Yar mouth, part of those at Colchester, and the new Bar racks at C.helmsford, are also to be abandoned. All these erecti3ns and their furniture will be forthwith publicly sold to the highest bidder. CIRCULAR, IttLATIVt TO REGIMENTS OF MILITIA DE lAINED IN IRELAND . War Office. Sta—lt having been deemed expedient to disembody the de tachment of the Militia under your command, without waiting for the return of that corps from Ireland, I have the ho nour to inclose herewith a copy of my Circular, No. '23.i, e!att.! lath ultimo, upon the subject of disembodying the British IWi litia, and to s i gnify t' you his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent's pleasure, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that you do fo rthwith, disembody the Non-commissioned Officers and Diummers of the said detachment who are not At for active service, and all the Privates, in exact conformity to the rules laid down in the said Circular. _ The Non-conituissioned Officers and Drummers who are fit fin duty, are to remain in the county, upon their present pay, until the arrival of the regiment from Ireland, when of course a selection will be made of such as may be retained ou the disem bodied evabltshment of the corps. They are to be uuder the charge of the Adjutant, Paymaster, Surgeon, or Quarter-nia,ter, if either of the said officers be with the detachment; if not, the) are to rennin under the charge of one of the Regimental Officers who may be present. Any tither Officers serving with the detachment, should, of course, be disembodied under the rules above referred•tu. The'neeessary stints required for this service are to be drawn for upon the Regimental Agent in the usual manner, by the Of ficer who is to remain in charge of the men, proper estimates being previously sent to the Superintendents fur Military Ac• counts, and to the Agent. You will ackttowledge the receipt of this letter, and also com municate to the Cummatuling Officer, and to the Agent of the Regantent, the steps which you shall have taken iu pursuance hereof. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, Officer commanding the• Detachment of Ws L 41Y INTE 1...1, IGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, SEPT. 7. BISHOP 0. SELLS. Mr. PRINCE SMITH, for the Plaintiff, opposed the discharge of the Defendant under the following cir. cumstances : The Defendant kept a public-house at Richmond, and was indebted amongst others to Messrs. Collins, the Brewers. In December, 1813, their Attorney; Mr. Smith, of Richmond, learning that the Defen dant had lost three actions at law, and was insol vent, applied to him for payment of their debt, and obtained from him a warrant of Attorney, without a defeasance, under which he immediately entered up judgment, and took the goods in execution, and pos session was continued under it till April, 1814, when the goods were appraised, and sold to them for £135 in part of their debt, the judgment being for selsl. The Defendant paid rent up to Lady-day, and hie s wile still continues in possession of the house, carry. ing on the business, paying a girl to carry out beer, and receiving an allowance of 80s. on each b meld beer drawn, and it appeared by an account now pro duced, that she had also purchased gin and other spi rits for the usual purposes of sale. The Defendant was taken in execution at the suit of the Plaintiff lor' 023 and cogs, in Hilary Term, 1814. It was now contended that the Defendant could not be discharged, unless the property taken in execution by the Brewers was given up by them for the general use of the creditors ; it being enacted in the 41st sec tion of Lord Redesdale's Act, that a prisoner who, within five years, shall have made any conveyance or assignment of any of his effects, in trust or otherwise, for the benefit of.any particular creditors, with intent to give an undue preference, and then take the be nefit of the Act, he shall not be discharged unless the property is given up, or all the creditors consent to the release. Mr. &tern now argued, that this warrant of At torney amounted to a conveyance or assignment, and said that such an instrument was as much a convey. ance as a fine or recovery, both of which, though now merely common law conveyances, were originally adverse judgments, the one founded on the writ of covenant, and the other on the pracips in a, writ of entry—and he citedawo cases of Michenson v. Carter, 8 Term Reports, 87 and SUU, to chew that a warrant of attorney, thus fraudulently given, might amount to an assiginent, so as to create a forfeiture under a covenant not to assign a lease ; and he said it was immaterial what was the form of a conveyance, if its effect was to operate as as assignment, for in all pleading, deeds were to be stated according, not to their names, but their legal effect. S;. that a war rant of attorney may, according to circumstances, either be hostile judgment, or a mere deed of as signment. Mr. PoeLoce for the defendant, argued, that the Court was bound by the letter of the clause of exception in the Act, which would express by conveyance or assignment. He distinguished the cases cited from the present, because the words in the covenant then were let, set, assign, transfer, barter, exchange, or otheru:se part with, which would comprehend any mode of transfer. He then instanced the bankrupt laws, in which a fraudulent conveyance must be by deed, and referred to the Statutes of Islortmaiu, to shew how careful the Judges were at all times of going beyond the letter of Acts of Parliament. Mr. SAIITH in reply, deprecated the idea of con struing such a clause by the mere letter, and said, there wets a great difference between the construc tion of the Statutes of Bankruptcy, which were acts operating against the bankrupt most adversely, and in a manuer as a criminal, and this Act in which the defendant came to claim ais indulgence, and must clearly shew himself innocent of all fraud. This dif ference of construction was always to be attended to in every Court of Law, according to the object of a Statute, and if this were not so, the exception would be useless—for all conveyances to particular creditors would be node by warrant of Attorney, and as frauds notild he porpetuAly committeJ, this Act. of Lord-Re.lesiale, incte.td of a blessing to the di.- tressed prisoner, wou:d becoare a vet y curse upon the land, and must be repealed. Mr. Serjeant PALMER said, he must trier himself to the cases cited, wiiich he tigitiglit bore strongly upon the question, because it V 4 ai clear that the words in the first case were very extensive, and might have included a warrant of attorney, if that without fraud were an assignment. And by the second caw it ap peared that, notwiriivanding the Court were of that opinion, yet when it was once Made out that the judg ment was in fraud of the coven int, it was brought within the words, though it was not Io at first. • It must be the same here, for otherwise there would be no check upon fraud, and in all cases of bankruptcy the assignments were held void because ef the fraud, but there was a great difference between an act of bankruptcy to be construed strictly, and this clat.se in the present statute.—Adjourned for the Court to give judgment. C111:51Ta ASSIZES. I'he criminal business concluded at ore o'clock or. Thursday. Sir WILLIANI (Caret Justice) in passing the awful sentence of the law on Sara/ Rodhy, FL - die Price, J. Poh'itt, J. Smith, G. GerrJrd, J. Lo.:ve, P. frutik, (a Black) :tnti G. Port, the two former for shop-lifting, the ctherb for cutting and maiming a horse, for house breaking, fur burglary, for felony in a dwelling house, for highway robbery, •gave hopes of It clemency to ail except G. Post, whom he imitrevively addressed t the follo+A ing effect :—To you, George Post, I feel it indivemibly necessary, in pressing upon you the judgment of the' law, to caution you against cherishing due slightest hope that your sentence will be. remitted. Your guilt is of a magnitude, next to muider • precluding even the shadow of mercy ; and the evidence on which you were convicted such as to Irma not a shadow of doubt of the fact. Waylaying an innocent, artless, unsuspecting young female, returninr , to her employ_ ment after a Sabbath day's visit t o aged grand mother—robbing her of her bundle, which contained the little property which she required —brutally as saulting her person, and indecently exposing that per son for a considerable time— you wind up the horrible catalogue of your turpitude, by throwing •our inno cent victim into the canal, and when with teat s and cries she prays you to rescue her born the impending danger, with brutal ferocity, exclaimed_ci Drown, then, and be d—d!" This case, with all its shocking circumstances, was proved aiainst you by evidecce which admitted not of a doubt. Employ, I conjure you, the residue of your time seriously and pionsly.— Attend to the religious directions of those who will visit you in your confinement, and sooth you will holy consolation. Invoke, with sincerity, the at,si tance of that GOD, who, while he is all pots et ful, is .11 merciful ; and prepare to present yonrself brfure that heavenly tribunal, at which, in a short time, you mil have to appear. BOW-STIREET.—A foreiln Officer, lodeing at an hotel in the neighbourhoOd of Leicesite . -square, was charged with making an assault of en indecent na ture, is St. Martin's-lane, upon a respectable young man, and ordered to find bail. MmtLecntouuti-erace i..—Surannah I owe.'!, 12 years l old, was charg,dw with obtaining, ot divers persons, linen and el:parel unlawfully. 'fire prisoner v.-as an inmate of St. Geerge's w khouse, and li tying ascer tained where Leen was at mangle, she };ot it away , und:r pretence of bxincr sent by the onners.—She was fully comrnittc:l. —Thula, who keeps a public-house in the Vale of Berkshire, sought advice atter a faithless wife, wao had eloped from her family at the cap ivating age of fifty, with a soldier, who had received his discharge at the husband's house. He bad traced them into London by the Bristol waggon, which they sheltered hi at Reading, and after that to a lodging near the bottom of Sloane-street. The lady, however, had re fus 'd to mite from the company of her gallant, al though the husband had promised forgiveness on her return. Thus the matter stood, and the husband could obtain redress only by a civil action. HATTON•GARDEN,.—.B. HOOkkarn and J. Ifalfey were re-examined, charged with stealing a quantity ot wear ing apparel out of the house of Isaac Clark, a tailor, in Leather-lane. Mr. C. stated, that on. the evening of the Slst ult. he was at work, but being alarmed at the noiseot a bason falling in the back garret, he went to see what occasioned it, and on his opening the door he saw Hookham going out of the window, and Walley getting over the roof of the house ; on looking round the garret he saw a box belonging to a lodger, nearly emptied. He ran down stairs and gave the alarm, and the prisoners were secured at 39, Charles.street, a house which they were employed in painting, from the roof of which they gained admit tance into witness's house. Witness hearing they. were secured, went there and saw the two prisoners, and was sure they.were the two he had seen at the top of the house. In this house there WAS a bag found, which contained the property stolen. E. Ainsenter, the ledger, identified the contents of the bag as his property, viz. 4 shirts, 6 handkerchiefs, I`d p.iirs of stockings, pantaloons, waistcoat, breeches, &c. They were fully committed. J. Lewis, IV. Ann and /1 7 . Co/witi, were committed for re-examination, charged with .t burglary in the house of the Abbe De Roufigny, 17, Castle-street, Holborn, and stealing a quantity of linen and wearing apparel, &c. T. Walsh, and Mary .4an his wife, were remanded, charged on suspicion of attempting to pass some forg ed notes at the Barley-mow, in Gray's.inn-lane. QUEEN-WARS, —..... *id, and another youth, neither exceeding the age of fourteen, were charged with robbing the gardens of Lord Calthorpe, in Pa radise-row, Chelsea, of immense quantities of fruit, on the night ot the 4th instant. Lord Calthorpec gardener stated, that the gardens had recently been trcquently beset by :t gang of robbers, who took away the fruit by bushels, such as peaches, nectarines, &c. —that they had nearly stripped many trees ; a luxu riant peach-tree in particular, had now only two peaches left on it ; and the fruit was gathered with so much wantonness, as to have nearly destroyed many of the most valuable trees. On the night above stated, he succeeded in tracing the two prisoners, who had been put over the wall to collect and hand over the fruit to others of the gang. The youths conies secithat they bad been employed by eight persons, who resided in the neighbourhood of the gardens. to get ow the walls and procure the fruit fur them, for which they reteired a few shillbsps. They thenyme. In the na tries nt he persons furanng tire g•ing.rte.L.st whoni warrants were issued ; end the boys svi:yegives into the cubtody of thtir parents. An information was exiibited against 'J. Sadder, proprietor of the . Eghon stage, for c ,trying, on the 12:1s of Angust, 15 outside passengers. being three more dims is allowed by law. Mr. Kaare'contended„ that k ought to have been laid against the driver, •whom the lvg;slanare had doer:red rk: primary object of punishment, and not against -the proprietor, except the dsiv..r could not be found. Mr. ALLKI* said, the informer might proceed against which he pleased. 'Mr. Friaansio over-ruled Mr. Knapp's objection, and convicted the defaulter in a moiety of the penalties, 415 and costs. The next information, which was also ageing' 324.. ler, for carrying fifteen outsides, on the 14th of Au. gust, was chiefly remarkable for the establishment of a new point of practice. Mr. ALLEY, on proving the offence, and chewing that Sadler had painted on the foo.board of his coach, "licensed to carry twelve out sides," declined proving the license, as had been here. tifore dune, by calling a person from the Stamp Of. Tice. M. Knapp submitted, that as the Act required th?se coaches to be ii:ensed, it was incumbent on the informer to chew that Sadler was licensed; but Mr. EIELDING WAS of a contrary opini,m, holding that the defendant Ininished sufficient proof against himself by the painting on the footboard ; and if he had no license, let him prove the fact. He was then convict ed in a similar penalty, the fees to Counsel not being allowed ; and also on a third information, for carry. ing fifteen passengers on the 15th, in £1.5, making to gether £45 and costs. Ustox-itiw..—ln consequence of information May and CoUingbourn had received, they went to a baker's shop..in the Bovine, and desired to weigh his bread. when there were. several guartern and half quarter% loaves found deficient itf-weight 52 ounces. The bread was taken by the officers to the office, and there weighed again in the presence of the Magistrate, and Cie deficiency found to be that stated by the .fficers. Ti:is being the secoad time the defendant had been convicted, the Magistrate imposed the full penalty of Ss. an ounce, and costs, amounting in all to. £l3 10s. 'kite bread was sent to a charitable institution. A drayman in the employ of Messrs. Calvert and Co. was fined 40s. and 6s. 6d. costs, for starting a butt of porter later than seven o'clock in the evening, contrary to the provisions of the Act of Parliament. Marlin was brought up by CAlingbourn, who stopped him in Little L .nt-streer with a bladder, con taining upwards of a gallon of spirits, under his arm. The cancer engulfed where he got it, the pris o ner, in reply, said he found it, but could not tell where. Un der these circumstances Col:ifighourn, sitsp-ct•og he had stolen it from MI board some ship, took him to the &lice l -lefe he p- 4 ave the same unsatisfactory count he had before g.ven to the tacer, :tnd was tinel 4th. and ants, under the Act, an f in -uh of payment he v.•:! , .; comiLittcd to the Huuse of Con . ection for one month. . Yesterday nn Inquest was held at the White LiAt. in 1.!:::her-1:ine, on the body of Mn. C. , ll;ns, a widow I. icly, whose death was ouacioned c'ot:A3 cate.:ing, fire. Mrs. Bam-t, of No. 21, Le izilerlyrz, knew the dee-aced ; wis the widow of a chrgy. man, nod live ..1 oil a small annuity ; she was :Omni S)ye..rs rsl.l, r 1 i nit 11.141)25t eight 0118anday even. hoary the heardll:e cry of Oh Dear, Mrs. Barnet, nitness ran to her, and on oren:ir± the door she saw her all in tl tmes. Witness tack a atllke: and coon. terpane and threw them ev..r her h?,t and then rolled her in (he carpet, and thus succe...d,:al in exti;.- g , ;ishiog tin! 9 ,mes. Witnttis sent for a surgt... ho dressed the cl,..ceas...d, when she was put LI bed, and coot;nued in her senses till her :leach, which trek xlace on the lollowing evening. She supposed the accldent must have liappencd by the snuff of the milk falling on her gown. Verdict—Arc dental Death. An Inquest was held, nn Wednesday st...• im i g ht, by E. Bartrz and B. SIIELIfY, M,gistrates the county of Limerick, on the body of .1. Switzer, f Clartmatem, a farmer, who was tired at by a woman nimed Bowen. It appeared that the deceased was supposed to have propagated reports ini 'rictus to the character of the woman, and she, in a ht of rage, dis• charged a loaded musket at him, the contents of which lodged in his right eye. The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder. The sentence of transportation pronounced against ilrchihald Chish.lnt, from Strathglass, at the last In verness Circuit Court, for theft, has been commuted for twelve months' imprisonment. EXIIICUTION OF THE SHAM PA nsox.—On Saturday Robert Peacock. alias Thomas Mile, alias Richard Wit liarason, alias Richard Thomas, ali is If Whii.fild, alias William Whitmore, on whom sentence of death was passed at the late Assizes at GI iucester, for forgery, (he was fount guilty at the last Lint Assizes, but judgment respited), and George Syne'', convicted on Live sepatate indictments—four for harse-stealing, and one for stealing an heifer—were executed on the tem porary ap,p.natus over the lodge ot tle cunnty ga/.1 Peacock exhibited an uniform repentance and re,ig. nati-m, from the time of his conviction to the awful moment of his suffaing. Powerful interest had been exerted to procure a remission of his sentence ; and there is reason to believe, that he had cherished hopes of mercy till within the last four hours. He had, dur ing an imprisonment of ten months, daily amuse himself with writing a journal of his proceedings and devotional engagements ; and this task he continued with unabated composure till within 1;1E1.2 more than half an hour of his execution 1 At intercils, he gad likewise employed himself in instructing his prisoners in their religious duties, and tn?..le comidt r able progress in entiglitening the mines of some of • them. To his fellow-sufietcr, be was en,i;:ently useful ; and, ft om great obduracy of heart, he brong lt hint to a sense of tile awful chan;;e I e WAS about to undergo. After coating from Chard, they were ea gaged for some time in priv ite prayer ; about one o'clock they ascended the piitlorat, woere they remained but x few minutes, widicut the smillest in elm:aloe to address the pt.pulice. l'eac•ck, whose presence of mind and thinness never Inside': ltun throughnin the whole of this dreadful scene, shook hands with Symes, and with the exectr;vitier, to within he bequeathed a few shillings, which he said would be , found in his pocket ; and they were laent.hed in o eternity in the presence of an mne:lse :tundra of spectators.