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;.._ ~... t.:' ; - .7-41. ti, ,~~; ArAL INTEL LJGENCE. TORBAY; NOVEMBEIt ,tomplete hurricane the whole of yestor, dajesty's ship Ints, helloErt brig, and ivr, rode out the gale without sustaining .v. No damage whatever has teen sus,. • numerous fishing craft, being well se :he pier. One schooner is missing, but she has put to sea. No doubt .great a ll done in the low lands. The bus is sea. )LTMOUTH, NOVEVIBIER 11. • • ‘s mast-ship arrived here this evening, with timber and masts for the Dock port, after having, in a most gallant stile, 'nch privateer, which had the temerity to is forenoon, a little to the westward of i 1, which is within a few miles of this temerity of the French cruizers is truly , --they attack and capture our' merchant% 1-shore all along the coast ; and this in ; vast naval superiority. Ram-head, off daring attack was made, forms the west- 1 of Cawsand Bay, in which the HERO , two 74's, were then lying ; and within the Sound, in which two frigates and war were then lying. Also, arrived the war, from a cruize. HERO, 74 guns, Captain NEwritax, for • station ; the PEACOCK sloop ofwar, Cap. al a cruize ; and the MARINER gun-brig, .arns, for Falmouth, to bring up the re. the packet,. The MARINER was ordered ' , oy yesterday, but afterwards counter ! TOSNANT, 80 guns, arrived safely at, this port, on the 30th ultimo. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 12. ' , is Majesty's ships GALATEA, STATELY, ,a; from the Eastward ; the HOl'E and from a cruize. Also arrived the GOOd• !ARMOR, from Ruchibercto in 43 days. instant spoke his Majesty's ship STBILLE, long. 11. 20. W. in Chace of a French It had captured two American vessels, for L'Orient. Also arrived the Swallow, from the Downs for Lisbon, with the ichor and cable, but too late to proceed .ivoy under I'AtoLE frigate, which had morning previous to the arrival of the Sailed the TTRIAN with dispatches for the MUTINE sloop of war with convoy Braiils.—Wind E. DEAL, NOVEMBER 12. whole of the outward-bound under con • !UMBER armed ship. Arrived his Ml - from the Baltic, and sailed imme 'ortsmouth. Sailed the Indiamen for the ship Boston, BAIN ; the brig Thalia, and the brig Tay, THOMPSON, were all it from their anchors during the gale on last, the former ran foul of a ship and lost Wind N.E. MARGATE, NOVEMBER H. Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, the wind having blown during the day violently from the North East, suddenly vezred round to the Sot■.th West, and a tremendous hurricane from that quarter carried be fore it the whole of the remaining houses in Hazard ous-row, which having been long in a ruinous and dilapidated state, fell with a most alarming and ter rible crash into the foaming ocean. The back of the basket-maker's work-shop, and of Mr. Simmons, the coal meter's house were both uncovered, but provi dentially no lives were lost, or personal injury sus tained by this accident. The rains which have fell incessantly for several days past have caused the river Stour to overflow its banks, and the levels of Sarre Minster and Menkton are completely flooded, so that the road over Sarre Wall is in many places several feet under water, and renders all the care and dili gence of the• coachmen and post-boys necessary to pass it in safety. SHEERNESS, NOVEMBER 12. GLEANER CO the River Thames ; and rt. to Jamaica. Arrived the ARCIIER, and Mcacuntus from the Northward. into harbour the EDGAR, of 74 guns.—Wind E. RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 10. % morning a large ship was seen on shore on '• Sands, near the North Sands Head ; is much to be feared that all hands must have there being so much sea and swell, no boats .get near to render any assistance. YARMOUTH, NOV. it. hived the TARTAIWS sloop from the Baltic. Se- vessels were seen in the offing, this morning, this port, supposed the homeward-bound Bal. j .oy.—Sailed for the Nore the PORT I A and AR.. 1 Remain in the Roads, ROEBUCK, PARTRIDGE, Saturday morning, in consequence of the boiste -1 , BRISEIS, VIXEN, KITE, and Bot.o.—The fol- sous weather, several vessels and craft below Bridge vessels have parted in the gale, and are on broke from their moorings and sustained consider:s lur Beach, viz. the Sylph, of and from Sunder- ble damage, and a number of wherries and other d,Thomas Nixon master, bound to London, with i boats were stink about Deptford, &c. les and clown glass. ; and the bri , Maria, of I Much mischief was effected on Saturday, by the from Newcastle, John Scott master:for, London,' extraordinary height of the tide. Palace-yard was coals, are both wrecked—the, crews are saved ; inundated to a considerable extent ; an . d on Bank he Echo, William Hoggart, from London, in side, Lambeth, and other places, the basements of st, of and to North Shields—crew saved, and the houses were completely deluged. will be got off. The Yathen schooner, of I Saturday night the coach from Newton to Exeter, nurg, last from Peterhead, Alexander Hutcheson in going through Alphington,the water being so very , with upwards of 600 barrels of pickled her- I high, the horses, four in number, 'got out of their is on Gorlestone Beach, crew saved, cargo will depth, and all perished, as did also six passengers. , ed, and the ship got off with little damage. 1 Part of the new pier and light-house of Peeltown, Fishing.boats belonging to Lowestoft, are en . Isle of Mann, was washed down in the gale of the Beach, one bottom upwards, the crews of 21st ultimo. are all lost. S evera l o f t h e b oats b e l ong i ng to i have also suffered in the late gales, by part During the storm on Saturday, four unfinished houses in Sidmouth.street, Red Lion-square, were crews being washed off the decks and the boats much damaged.. Th e Jori s .,..e Fidelle, of Meck- blown down. No lives lost. , Peter Siede n i c h nor , w i t h a genera l cargo ,i s ' , A violent storm prevailed in the neighbourhood of by the PLANTAGENET. . Swansea on Thursday night, during which a cow was GREENOCK NOVEMBER 9. i killed at Oxwich by the lightning. , We are so rr y to announce the death of Mr. DAVID' The city . of Coventry was, on Saturday last, visited mull, shipbuilder here. Mr. Porter was returning by a most tremendous hurricane, which unroofed se re from D u bli n , i n a small sloop, of whic h he was veral houses. The road between that city and Dun our. During the gale of the night of the 23d ult. church was strewed with large trees, which were torn hen off Ramsay Bay, Isle of Man, a heavy sa IT by the roots, and impeded the passage of Carriages. ruck the vessel, which soon after filled. Mr. Porter A number of men were employed during Sunday in ed all hands immediately took to the boat to make removing them. ' shore of the Isle of Man, which having nearly . Sunday, about two o'clock in the morning, a fire , the boat was overset, owing to the surf on happened at the house of Mr. Bose, a plater, in shore. Four of the crew were saved, but Mr. Brownlow.street, Drury.lane. It commenced in the and one of the crew sunk to rise to more ; back parlour, and -the family escaped by rushing bodies . were washed ashore in about half an through the flames. The house of Mr. Boss is de , but, alas ! too late (notwithstanding every exer- stroycd, and considerable damage done backwards. I, to restore animation, Mr. Porter's death is Sarah and Susannah Boyd, both of Lisburn, and regretted by all classes of society, and, we be- Margaret Jordan, of Belfast, have all been committed t, very justly. He has left a widow and one child. to Carrickfergus Jail, by William Hawkshaw; Esq. At ten o'clock on Saturday night, wind S. E, the for having exposed a child of six or seven months Drontheim, of Drontheim, from thence to 'old, of which the two former were mother and grand- HAnse block master, laden with deal-boards, mother, about three weeks since, on the steps of Mrs. trek on a rock of Ballyhasker, four miles south- Parkinson's hall-door, in Waring -street, Belfast, at of Doorighadee. Early en Sunday morning s nit.. 1 Hull, E sq . P ort S urveyor, Alexander Makk- %hursday, a young woman, servant in a public- Esq. Ridin g S urveyor , an d Mr. M'ulhollan, house in North Audley-street, Grosvenor-square , was Log Officer ; with the Revenue boatmen, and observed.by her mktress to be in liquor, who, after • assisrants, attended on the spot, and hive admonishing het, locked her into - a bed-room on the every possible exertion to get the cargo ashore, second floor. The girl soon after put up the wins I will he accotnplisheds should the weather cons dow and jumped into the street, without sustaining rncderate, Th e D ron th e i m i s .a fi ne new brig, ' any material injury, fdl• the wind blowing hard at about 360 tons burthen and sailed from that port ' the time, got under her petticoats, which acted as the 22d October. The master and the ere* are 1 a parachute, and prevented her from being dashed safe, 'to pieces. She received only 'a few slight bruins. , . . 117t1.4DPOL OCthIt.RENCE: • Ahriat ten o'clock on Satuixlay eight the 3d inst. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.--blov. an explosion was heard in the ituarter of St. Barry's; .• On an application to the Court, in the Caie of a Cork, so loud and 'unexpected as to produce the Bankrupt, indebted in £13,000 td the Bank of Eng greatest alarM. It was soon dil.covered that three land for leave to justify for h 14,000. Lord &Lex houses in Brandy-lane had been blown up, apparently noitouott observed, that it was now in contemplation by gunpowder ; that the adjacent houses were in of the Judges to make a rule, which would takeaway flames ; and from the sad testimony of facts, it wiis the necessity of similar motions in future. The rule clear that many unfortunate creatures had been the would probably be declared in a few days and its victims of instantaneous destruction. The two houses object was, that when a debt amounted to more than immediately adjoining the conflagration were almost .01000, the bail should not be held to justify for mere instantly pulled down, and the reit were saved from than £lOOO above the debt. destruction. I THE KING V. JOfl OALE JONES. The causes of this dreadful 'circumstance are not i The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved that the sentence perfectly known; but so far as could be collected of the Court should be passed on the defendant, he from the melancholy survivors, it appeared that a having been found ktlilty, at the Sit:ings after last person of the name of Ellard, who lived lit one of the Term, of a libel on Lord Viscount Castlereagh. ruined houses, had been employed in the powder. ! Mr. Jones, on being called, appeared in Court.— works at Ballincollig. It is suspected this man con- : The proper officer then read the indictment, which trived to evade detection in bringing out, from time V.."'" to time, quantities ofgunpowder, for which he in ge- ! .6 That the defendant caused a Placard to be poited up to the neral found customers among the quarry-men cit. j following effeCt 111. lIINNCIRTY AND LORD CASTLIRtRCII. ployed in the neighbouring quarries about Cork. It ' M British Forum, Bedford -street, Covent Garden. is supposed that his wife and others of his family were QUESTION. employed in drying this powder, and had while so en. 44 Whether Lord Castiereugh's conduct to Mr. Finnerty, re gaged brought a candle too close to it, which caused lathe to the Watcheren Expedition, was a salutary xteasure for That Mr. the n to utl a v ri n i t a.. o h pi, , r u e b s i li c on a ? n — d the terrible explosion that took place ; and, as a great or the country, or adeaannaact of many poor families lodged in that and the neighbour- would meet with Finnerty commiseration P from them that the oppres ing houses, occasioned the loss of so many lives. , lied had always done." Of those who have already perished, the names are Lord Eusswolooon read the minutes of the evi. as fallow:—Mary Mahony,a widow ; John Corkeran, deuce which his Lordship had taken at the Trial.— a child; Thomas Ellard, the supposed cause of the (See the STAR of Tilly 20.) calamity, had one of his thighs torn off in a dreadful The Clerk of the Court then asked the defendant manner, and died as he reached the South Infirmary;' if he had Counsel, or any affidavits to put in in miti- Mary, his wife ; Florence Sullivan, a mason, Cat h a- tgation of his offence ? rine his wife, and Edward his son, aged 20 ; Mary Mr. Jones answered in the negative. Egan, sen. and Mary Egan, jun. ; Daniel Daly, a I Lord ELLENBOROVGII observed, that if it was his cooper, Mary, his wife;. Mary Connor, a child ; I wish to say any thing in mitigation of his judgment, John Twomey, a labourer, Ellinor, his wife, Honors, I that was his time. his child ; Denis Twomey, his brother ; Ellinor Mr. GALE JON Es.—" I will not avail myself of the Daly, a servant ; and John M'Carty, a labourer.— privilege offered me for the purpose of saying any There are three others in the infirmary, of whose re. thing which will have a tendency to impress an idea covery scarcely any hopes are entertained. that the verdict which convicted me was false, or of The body of these unfortunate people exhibited a stating any thing which will give offence. I stand dreadful sight. The five which were in the house unprotected, not having the advantage of Counsel to with Twomey, the labauter, were mangled and mu - assist line , and I trust any expression that I may use tilated in a woeful manner;their, limbs being strewed will not be interpreted to my prejudice or imputed to about the place ; and several of the women who suf. a design to give offence ; but I trust the privilege fered, to add still to the misfortune, were with child. granted to me is something , more than vague and There was nothing wanting to enhance the misery of complimentary, and that it gives me the opportunity this most shocking event, which, as far as it extended, of speaking the free sentiments of an honest-hearted was complete in destruction ; eighteen persons having Englishman. I trust the Attorney-General, when lie been literally almost torn to pieces, and the remain- comes to reply, will not use the privilege of his high ing three hourly expected to be released from torture. office to bear down an unprotected individual, but will Three houses were blown to ruins, and several others rather kindly step forward to introduce a shield be. extremely injured. tween the individual and the Prosecutor, if it can be done consistently with the claims of justice. No man but myself can possibly put the Court in possession of the springs of action which led to the publication in question, and there are some circumstances in my case which might have claimed attention on my trial, and might have led to a different verdict (though I do not say they would have done so), if I had had the good fortune to be defended by a Counsel who had submitted to follow his instructions, and had call- , • ed his witnesses, who were attending, to prove the na- I ture of the institution, with which, it appears, I was; unhappily connected, and for the discussions of which I have the responsibility of answering ; this evidence would at all-events have operated as some palliation. Thereisa wide difference between an individual stand ing as a delinquent in any case, where the offence originated per sr, where he is the first calumniator, or the author of the scandal, and the case of a person who has received it from another on whom he relies,l and I certainly would not have introduced this dis cussion, had I not believed, which I solemnly declar ed I did, that Mr. Finnerty's statement was well founded, but finding it in a public newspaper,(4great respectability, the Editor of which I know to be con versant with the Laws and Constitution of his coun try, and who was known to be extremely cautious in admitting any thing which he did not conceive to be agreeable to the laws, I could not suppose it to be li bellous or malignant. I found a public document, in a public newspaper, not referring to any act of private scandal, but to a public act, of a public Mi nister, the statements of which were broad and une quivocal. They stated, that Mr. Finnerty had been sent home from Walcheren ; that he had undergone a sort of transportation in a King's vessel, it not being specified that he had done any thing to occasion such an act. Upon the trial it was taken, upon the At torney-General's authority, that Lord Castlereagh did not issue the first orders stated by. Mr. Finnerty ; but the Attorney-General allowed, that when he found Mr. Finnerty had reached Walcheren, Lord Castle reagh did issue an order to bring him back. I do not mean to justify the letter of Mr. Fiunerty, which would be useless, after Mr. Finnerty has withdrawn his plea of not guilty : that letter bangs about myneck as a millstone, and Mr.Finnerty having confessed him self guilty, I am not allowed to suppose that letter was not libellous, but must receive the punishment of it as though it were deemed a libel. The question was not brought forward in concert, or co-operation, or in con sequence of any previous consultation with Mr. Fin nerty. I knew nothing of him more than of any other individual moving about me, but that he was the in former, and complained of a grievance. The British Forum appears in no very favourable light, because, connected with that institution, I was brought for ward and convicted of a libel, in consequence of a dis cussion in that place : but if it had been possible for me to have brought forward evidence. I could have proved that the question, so far from being prejudiced against the noble prosecutor, was worded so as to ad mit of every possible defence ; that the question was put fairly ; and that the audience were fairly admit ted ; that any who pleased might speak - and that there were many Gentlemen who did spea k,l and de liver their sentiments against Mr. Finnerty, and in favour of Lord Castlereagh; but this evidence, the Counsel who was entrusted with my defence, did not produce : whereas I conceived it would have been advantageous to me, that the Jury should have seen that individuals were fairly heard on each side— that it was not managed by preconcerted CO•01Y" . —that all were fairly permitted to deliver • iments=and that there was a free and tin discussion. It certaiteL r f i ll to my lot ' statements from the ing Chronicle, not, by any means, take upon myself to their truth or falsehood, but left to Mr. Finnerty the responsibility of the statement. Haviro. ix,. t• own • , • . , I left the case to the discuss i o n oft a udi en ce: In the course of that eveniag I did not avail myself of the privilege of reply : it being itsital,•in those 41116- , tutions, for every Gentleman, whd opens a question, • to have the privilege of reply knit that if I had wished by any means whatever, to influence the audi ence, who came to hear the •dicession. I should have availed niyielf of the last word, and that. I did not raise my hand in the vote which was given by the audience. lam ndw called upon to answer for the decisions of that audience, thus fairly assembled, who had delivered such sentiments as they pleased, and who had voted as they pleaSed, I having done only that which the customs of the SoCiety required, namely, that of recording the decisions, and I ant stated to have been guilty of libel. If it were per mitted to me, I Ill; gilt say there is in this Horirilrable Court in which I stand, and around me, Gentlemen whom I have known to have frequented that Society, and delivered their sentiments with credit to them selves and satisfaction to the Society ; and that there are Gentletnen, at the very top of the pro fession, who have derive -I their celebrity from having practised in those assemblies. I haVe a strong and ardent wish that I could possess their Lordships with the feelings that actuated my mind ; it was not for the want of a sincere And honest •wiSh that I havb erred against the letter of the law ; but I suffer ' because I have been misled and drawn aside by the excess of my feelings, in bringing forward a subject of discussion on behalf of one wham I conceived to ;e an oppressed and persecuted individual.. As far as respects the Noble Prosecutor arid Mr. Finnerty, they are equally strangers to sue, and equally indif ferent. I neither know hor care for aught respecting Lord Castlereagh. I can have nO personal motive against him I ovk hint neither favour nor enmity, and should - not know him if present in Court. The sentiments I expressed were delivered publicly, there was no dark and malignant effort made, but I stated what I thought at the time to be true. It must have occurred to the mind of the Court that I have very recently returned from imprisonment for another cause ; that scarcely was I dragged to prison hardly alive, but at that very moment' the Noble Prosecutor fastened upon my back the indict ment in question. Ido not wish to make any ob: servation personally, but it appears to me that I • have been treated rather harshly, for I think that if it depended upon the Honotirable Counsel who it instrumental in managing this cause for the prosecu tion, he would have said that I had already suffered enough, having endured four months imprisonment but that I have scarcely had time to return to the bo som of my wife and family, to recover the derange ment necessarily incident to a situation of that sort, and to taste the sweets of liberty, before another in- i alictment is fixed upon me, he would have said that it was vindictive, and would not have encouraged '? it ; but the Attorney-General had no choice, and must do what belonged to his office ; and I must en- • dure it with patience and resignation. It would have become the prosecutor, and would have shone • as a feather in his cap, if, with a noble magnanimity, 7 he had passed over this, and had said, that after such sufferings he would not press against such an humble individual, that his character stood taieenough in the world, and needed not a vindictive prosecution to place it higher. Under these circumstance, it would be indecorous in me to offer any thing which does not belong to my mini case ; it would be improper to utter any thing disrespectful of the character and mo tives of the Noble prosecutor ; but still I cannot help feeling a something that convinces me that I shall sleep more soundly in the cell to which possibly I may be sentenced, than Lord Castlereagh will sleep either upon his pillow of roses or his bed of down. The •-• times are such, that even if it had been only from .' tives of policy, I think the Noble Lord ought rather to have let me escape, because I think at this moment every hand and every heart ought to be engaged, and meanly as I think of my own. abilities, I think they could have been of some service in my country's be• half, and it would have better becoine his Lordship to • have sacrificed his own private feelings upon the altar of justice. I know not what impression the mai ments I have uttered may have made upon tiwie ' Lordships, but all I have had in view was to put them in possession as far as could be of the h 'nese sentiments of my mind, however mistaken they m iy . have been. As to the character of the institution, it was not for the purpose of introdocing'a mockoribto. nal, or assembling together low and illiterate persons, but the audience was really respectable, the discus sions were fair, every Gentleman night speak on either side, and though I will not defend the sort of meeting, taking for granted that there has been no mistake in laying down the law in this case, and that they have not the advantage of legal authority, yet I • have acted with an honest intention, and the Court • may be carried too far, if, under these circumstances it is induced to pass a severe sentence on the indivi dual who stands before it. I trust their Lordships • will suffer no idea to come across their Minds that shall induce them to suppose that the man who stands for judgment would, to save his life, be guilty of meanness or prevarication, but that while he stands before them for justice, he asks of their Lordships that mercy which it is becoming in thefts to rant." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.--" My Lords, RS I am wholly unacquainted with the nature of those services, which the defendant, if he were suffered to remain at large, would be able to render to the,public in these popular discussions, I cannot well judge whether it were or were not prudent in my Lord Castlereagh to institute this prosecution against him, at the expense of that public loss. The defendant bas stated to your Lordships, that he is a man who, in times like these, must be of great use to the public, and that therefore it wouldhave become my Lord Castlereagh more, in his magnanimity, to have overlooked ;his offence, than to have prosecuted him for it, lest the public should suffer by the loss of 'his services, occasioned bj his confinement. Indeed; my Lords, I am unacquainted with any ground that the defendant can have At ar. ging such an argument. laM nut aware of any loss that the public will sustain, _even if your Lordships the NA; 1"( It bleu, a c on a y His Maj . A . l O scliotmor h e lot illjtv:Y. A i l ed by our n w ed within the t hoped she h as been going to se PLY. The PALLAS 1 /I Quebec, 'ts 25 1 at this pore t off a Frencl , ck her this f e Ram-head, et. The tern , :onishing—du en close in -sly pte of our vas lich this darin n most.point ol VALIANT, t 5 t r miles of th sr brigs of wa O'ER brig of N :Ailed the Hi e Rochefort st; . in PrAtici, on GRIFFITI aindet of the o take convoy ded.—The •bon, from tl Paß* Arrived his GEORGIA! ,iIGIITLV 11-01 lent, RICHAII • the 4th inst ht. 48. 40. 11 rateer that sent them fc WATLEY, fn of an anch , the convo sled this mor Mow. Sail Ikon r and tl a the Braila.- &led tire wi of the Hu: ' 's ship Om 44 for Port In. The sl THESON, an( i•ged to cut f ~, rday last, t jib.boom. failed the C th BerrtniA,RT CzcKsTADI O , into har N. E. RA] 'this morning eGoodwin S edit is much abed, there mild get near Arrived the ' eril vessels wi I.•s:ing this poi ie convoy.—S: Remni, itix,E, BRIM meng vessels Itton Beach, 4 Thomas les and ci from New coals, are he Echo, 6 1t ,st, of ant hip will k .)ourg, last ,eater, with n nap, is on G be ined, and 'No Fishing- rate field Beac With are all I this port have if their crews I eing much d; t butel, Pete int in hem by We ate son. mutt, sinpb .re from Dui Inter. Duri hen off L a tuck the yes rid all hand! fir the shore c eached, the lat shore. l • orter and o eir bodies . 1, bout, but, alas ton j, to rest tench regrett4 Mere, very ju At ten o'el Dronth ewrY, Han: C. striltk Oil • dof D m dward Hui inn, Esq, iding oaf; er assists de every- hich will he roue Modern 1 about 3& .n the 22d c sale. , i 1 I i - snouia nave l I each side— r- . should infl ict the sentence of iinprisonrben - co.operation defendant, and that. consi&leration, therefore, I am r their semi• , sure, will be so obstruction to the dispensation of that r their send. mprejudiced justice which your Lordships will think ought an this to read then oceas'on to be dispensed in regard to hibt. Lozd , but I did) Castlereagh hiss instituted this prosecution avinst D answer for the defendant, complaining of a wrong ; the &feu. innerty alone dant presents himself before your Lordships enema*• ring read the ling that which Lord Castlereagh feels as a wrong, [Tern owe:*