Star. — London, England, 1803-12-26 00:00:00

- (I fr.9urlc4L h'vvrE L L I(i . E NC E. ?JAMS OTHiS . Alt. Du/. I DuMa Waterford 8 9 , y—Wind South. Ha abtugh • ..,1 .5. I 't ARR. DOR. 0 2 PENZANCE, DEC. 23. —This morning at t t o'clock a.. !hip of the line appearing off this Bay, caufed fome little alarm among the females, (efpecially when it was reported the could not anfwer the fignals made by the NIMROD Hoop of war, and that the lat- ter had weighed anchor in confequence,) but we very Peon found her to be his Majefty's fhip the Peaterecten ET, of 74 guns, Capt. DE COURCY, which left Admiral CORNWALLIS'S fquadron off Breit Lift evening, about feven o'clock, with difpatches for Government. lam happy in being able to acquaint you, that notwithflanding the very fevere gales, the sehole fqnadron have been able to keep theirftations, and have fuffered very trifling to what might have been erpaled—The PLANTAGENET left fix fail of the line within, and two without Manz, and the DORIS frigate ; the latter, it is expeEted, will be obliged to come in to replace her fore top-fail yard, and her fore aqd mizen top-mails, which were carried away in a late gale off the Penmarks.—The Republican fleet in Bred harbour do not now manifeft the leaft difpofi tion to come out. The PLANTAGENET is COIDe to anchor. as it blows ftrong at S. S. W. TORBAY, Die. 24.—Since mylail failed the Msa. • MAID, and gastasts frigates; but the wind blowing very heavy at S. W. the MERMAID is returned again, and remains. Arrived alfo the Sufannah, Captain Sums, and Bideford, Do GOALS, both from Wales, with coals the latter in working in (blowing (bong in a heavy (quail), fplit her fails to pieces. Another Hoop drove from her moorings. It blowing a (hock ing gale of wind, I fear we (ball bear of more (hip- Wrecks. PLY mown!, Die. 24.—Came in the Fanny, of and flom Cork, Captain B. RICHARDS, bound to Guern fey. Came in from the Channel fleet the MINOTAUe, of 74 guns, Captain MA Sil FLD ; Mats, of 74 guns, Captain SlurTo6; and the CONCWEIOR, of 74 guns,' Louts. They left the fleet all well the aoth inn. on their (beton ur,der the indefatigable COINWA LLIS. One of our in !bore fquadron ventured a few evenings fince into the outer road, and diltinetly counted, by help of night glafres, eight fail of the line, viz. one of three decks, with a Vice Admiral's Aag, one of 84 guns, with a Rear Admiral's flag, fix of 74 guns, four large frigates, with a number of (mailer vela' apparently, as well as could be diflinguifhcd, tranf parts and gun Tails. The men of war which exe cuted this bold mansauvre with fume dlificulies, by good feamanihip worked out of the outer roads, and joined again in the fuccee,Bng morning the in (bore fqoadron in perfect fafery-Canle from Hamoaze to • Caerfand Bay, the Tettatata t of 7 pus, and the CaaWILL, of rB. POILTSIIIOUTe. DSc. Ito...the who's of IA slight and this day it has blown a tremendous gale, of wind at about W. N. W. Several of the outward bound Weft Indiamen drifted from their anchors among them is the Diatrnsw, Captain jollity, bound to Jamaica, who drove on board the Argo ftigats, sad carried away her topmafts and yards, and received other damage. Another drove behind South Sea Cattle, and a third is now on Hamilton Bank of the Hofpital. Wind W. N. W. continues blowing very hard. Among the orders received yeftarday by the Telegraph, Admiral Hottowaw was to &at his flag to the Pancras, Aortic, Captain Vasmon, and take the command of the !Nips lying at this port, ready for fea. The gallant Admiral had made every pre paration for embarking, with his wonted adivity.— Sailed the RAN Ate, of 18 guns, Hon. Captain Car w cur = CURLFR. of 16 guns, Capt. Hoarser ; and Spam , brig, Capt. Ptoorr, for Lae coal of France. DIAL. Dsc. a 5 the Isis man of war from the weilward, and remains with his • Majetty's hips as per laft, and a large fleet of outward bound weffels and tranfpnrts ; feveral veffels are gone to Ramfgate, with the loft off anchors and cables, it blowing a very hard gate.—Wind S. W. &MOTHS , ' LITTBR. DIAL, Dec. sp—The Tats has jolt arrived to re inforce the fquadron. The Jaceat. has come in from the Boulogne fquadron. with intelligence of her hay. ng chared.ncompany with the Basscisa, feveral of the enemy's boats, between Calais and Boulogne; hut, unfortunately, by the time they got within gun- Giot of them, they had got fo far in under cover of their batteries, that it was impollible to do any thing with thkm. Orders were Wised here to-day by the Commanding Officer of the Sea Fencibles, to have the boats ready at a moment's warning. It would, therefore, appear, that Government are in poffeffion of tome important intelligence refpating the move- ments of the enemy : as the wind, at prefent, is blow ing hard from the fouth-weft, it is impoiEble for them to attempt a pilage. Them eCUL-1t now blows a pedal hurricane, but I hope, before the lee tide makes, the wind may abate, or Stift more to the seaward, which will be off the land. AU the Teel, at prefent are lying fife. Steaminess. Dsc. as.—Pour P. M. Wind W. S.W. blows a parte hurricane. and has done ever finee i t A. M.—Arrived the Haan. of 74 guns, Captain GAIDIIIR, at the Nore from the Thames: the got on there in Fidler. Reach yeiterday, below Gravefend, but was fortunately got off without damage ; we un- Juliana the had not above Caren feet water round ..#l.Bb her at low water. The Awaaattiee frigate, Captain Bovs, is found fo bad on forvey, that it is foppofed the will be put out of commit on the is one of the frigates which was captured in the Helder, by Sir ANDREW MITCHELL, and was then called the Venus. This morning early orders were received from the Admiralty to pay all the Mips in courfe of pay, and ready for lea immediately ; and although it is Chrift mas Day, and blows a Ilorm of wind, yet that inde fatigable Officer, Commillioner COFFIN, with the Gentlemen of the Pay Office, are gone off to pay the GLATTON, CLYDE, and ARIADNE ; the former fhip is ordered to Leith to take Admiral BLYTH'S flag, and the two latter to the North Sea. Yefierday an exprefs arrived to Admiral ROWLEY from Lord KEITH, to haften out the fhips. Indeed the exertions making by our worthy Admital, Commillioner COFFIN, and ' every Officer in the rerpeflive departments here, are fuels as merit the warmeli thanks of their country. They feem to lofe all idea of perfonal comfort, and have only the objet of perfevering for the good of his Majelly's fervice day and night, if neceffary. The ALONZO and FAVOURITE are in Dock; the former will be out next week ; the latter is undergoing a a large repair. —Five P. M. The (hips at the Nore are all riding with their top-malls firuck, as the wind blows a tremendous gale from W. S. W. accompa pani with rain and fleet. YARMOUTH, Dac. 25. —Friday failed the ORESTES Hoop, and VIXEN gun brig, with tranfports.—Ar rived the PRINCE of WALES cutter, which in a gale of wind in the North lea was obliged to throw her guns overboard.—Yellerday arrived from Harwich, the AUCKLAND, and EARL of LEICESTER packets, with mails and • paffengers, bound to Hufum and Gotteoburgh.—This day failed the packets above •mentioned, with the wind at S. W.—The ORESTES is returned with her convoy, and remains in thefe roads with the PRlNcsas of ORANGE, Admiral Roa sts ; REPULSE of 74 guns; and two cutters. LEITH, DEC. 22.—A letter received at Leith from the mailer of the (hip Margaret, which arrived at Stromnefs on the 3oth ult. rays, that he was chaced two hours by a Dutch veffcl off the Naze of Norway, after which the privateer left off chace, and bore down on fume (hips to leeward, part of the Clyde convoy. CREENOCK, Die. z3.—The following yeti's ark rived la( night : viv. Fame, liatencH ;Qlickfilver, RALSTON, two of the fleet, from Lifbon; Commerce, &tow ; Active, Wont; and Aftive, Mqvsa, from Liverpool.—The Jean, Git etas, (a running (hip) arrived here laft night from Lifbon, after a palTage of twelve days ; fpoke no vefrels, but faw a good many (hips outward bound.—An order has been re• ceived here, from the Board of Cuftoms, that all poflible care be taken to prevent the Danith brig called the Bonaparte, and the Swede, which were fome time ago fent out of the port of Cadiz, as being in- Ceded, from entering this port ; and directions have been given accordingly. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONET. To dm Hazard, for the 'wastage of the Mary of Liverpool, a dißrlbodon will be made co hoard the Hazard, on Tharfday, the agalt bit= i and to the remainder of the dakp's eonwany on board iia Malalty's alp San Jae upon her arrival at Plymouth. The po-brigs CosAA sad Monkey, far the Mom of fundry fraugglad (Oita, will be paid on the 3rft hiftast, at No. 6. Stan- Strand. li Totre gt. o6llorra and Company of the Ambufrade, for the cargo of the Softmoaht for dollars out of the El Carmen; and of a lei sure it Paufwmath, at No. as, Arundel. Brett, Strand. au Tharklay.the gilt of January neat. PROM LLOYD'. LIST. Gear estrs.Dae. sp.—Paired by the Sally, Duley, from Nova Scotia. Galen, Hinckley, froth Sefton, and Darya, P o ors. from St.Ubek.—Stied tbs,Grenada, Riebardfoo, and Sir John &AA Warren, Vandyke. for Penararal Jour OUvera.draft,for Too tling.; Nagai, Reid, for liarbadoes ; Lady Penryn,Baricfs, and the Iwasaki Planter, Feud, far Grenada. ARRIVED. In the Downs. the SL Johannes, Wallis, from Malaga...At Drthol, N. & de los Angelo., --, from Dilboa—At Liverpool, Nancy, 8010, from Lifbon, and the New York, Saved, from New Orleans—At Grangernotith, Jane, Lorn, from Peterfburg—At Stromncfs, Redo Won, Prefer, from Labradocc—M Dublin, Hope, Morris, from Lordon--At WM, Barbados:lh Kenlake, fron Barbacloes, bound to Liverpool—At Copenhagen, Minerva, —, from Chianfey.—At Bachadoes, Columbus, Kenner, from Africa —At Africa, Weihnoveland, —, from Liverpool; John and Jones. Bak; and Minerva, Cooley, from London. The New Greenwich, of London, was totally toe on the z9tli of November at New Monrovia. - The BMA Newcombe. from LUboa far Liverpool, Is loft near &Vat. Th e from Liverpool for Goblin, It loft new Dah The Langiton, Kellett, from Memd foe Exeter, is loft on the NiJirsp; cargo espcdtod to be fared. The Hombre packer, Goads, from Dantelck fur !maims, is loft oear Arbroath. The New Draper. Hushes, from Newry for London, is on Acre near Chkehsfier. - - - - - - - - • • A letter tram Hull. dated the tab of December. fates, it is reported that to tall ot witch are ow More to the North nt Dam boraush Head. We have received accounts from Lord Recson's fleet, dated the end of Oftober ;—at that time the fleet was off Toulon, andt he crews in high health and (pinks. We are happy to Rate that the report of the lofs of the El-Limon frigate is untrue. She has been fair in Leith Roads, ever Since Tuefday left. The veal Rated, in accounts from Harnburgh, to have foundered off the Wefer, proves to be the Ay lIIG ea Stoop. The pleafure to learn that the whole crew. confilling of eighty men, have been fared Many fears have been entertained fur the rarity of that fpirited and enterprising navigator, Mr. BLACK. After failing in a (mall fehooner, named the Harbin• ger, of about go tons, from the Cape of Good Hope to Port Jackfon, through the Strait. that fcparate Van Diemen's Land from New Holland, in which he made many ufeful difeoveries, he left Port Jack fon in the Cornwallis, for Bengal. From Bengal he failed as Mailer of a (mall trading Intel for &neon len and Pmt Jackfon in April, ttloa. As no intel ligence of his arrival at Port *Von bad reached his friends, they were fearful that he was 1011. We are happy, however, to hear by a Gentleman who left Botany Bay about twelve months ago, that be was then on a voyage from Port Jackfon to the milk of Peru, in a velrel named the Chance ; but his friends have not as yet received any letter s from himfelf. A CHRISTMAS DITI4r. an Osphan, who not long before Had lolt her parents kind and tender, Stood near a Lord and Lady's door, Who bad no child, and !bed lr fpkildour She warbled itrains of genuine tt . w, In hope to catch the ear of pity, Her little heart's pliffe beating low, She (weedy fung her Pimple ditty.— " Oh, Fortune's fav'rites, great and good, " Afford a helplef. Orphan food; " Fur Chrittmas comes but once a year, " And when it comes It brings good cheer." In vain thus dow'ti her tuneful breath-- Great fobs fornetimes have little feelings Poor child ! the clay-cold hard of death Benumb'd her frame. and hulled her thrilling. The neighbouring maids with many a Bower Bedeck the Orpbtn's grave with pity; And Fancy hears each midnight hour (When winter chills) her um; le ditty.— " Oh, Fortune's favourites, great and good, " Afford a helplefs Orphan food; " For Clarattnas comes but once a year, " And when it comes it brings good cheer." L4l, MTELLIG RNCE. COURT OF WINO'. BENCH, DEC. 23. WOODCOCK V. DAVIS. This was an Aaiun upon the file of Stock, fold upon the bubble of the sth of May hit, on the occa• lion of the Letter to the Lord Mayor. The amount of the Stock was 20001. ; it was fold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff, and transferred into the Defendant's name, but which be afterwards retufed to accept, faying, he Ihould abide by the decifion of the Stock Exchange. It appeared that the Defendant had afterwards transferred Stock to the fame amount to the Plaintiff, but the Witnefs who proved that, exprefsly Rated, that the Plaintiff did nut take that as fatisfa&ion, but only by way of fecurity, and that the Broker told the De fendant that the Plaintiff would only accept it by way of fecurity, and as filch it was accepted. Mr. GAIROW contended, for the Defendant, that this was not like any of the Cafes on which Plaintiffs had obtained Verdids on Bargains made on the sth of May lall. They were all Cafes in which one in. filled on the Contraß, and the other refuted to carry it into effed ; but bere an application was made to the Defendant to accept the Stock ; he had (aid, be would abide by the decifion of the Monte ; that de cifion was well known, it was, that all Contra's made on that day were void. The Plaintiff then did not infift on it. Stock was afterwards transferred by the Defendant to the Plaintiff, which he accepted.— This ended the whole Cafe, and the Broker mull have made Tome miftake about the Plaintiff having only taken it as a fecurity, and therefore he tubmit ted there ought to be a Verdi& for the Defendant. Lord E LLLLL cutooon told the jury, that the only queftion was, whether the Plaintiff in this cafe really did accept this transfer as a fatisfa&ion or only as a fecurity? If he accepted it as a fatisfattion, the ver di& ought to be for the Defendant ; if be accepted it only as a fecurity, the Plaintiff was entitled to a verditt. - - . Vetch& for the Plaintiff.—.. Damages 540. Upon application to Lord E LLLLL OROVON to cer tify that this was a fit caufe to be tried by a Special jury, his Lordthip laid he (bould certify, becaufe the queilion was of fume difficulty. He (kW have had fome difficulty in making up his mind upon it it he had had to decide it; but if he had that difficulty impofed on him, he rather thought he fhould have come to the fame conclufion. HOLMIS O. srICIR. This was a fimilar atiion brought by the Plaintiff againft the Defendant, for not accepting 30001. 3 per Cent. Confols, which he had purchafed on the sth of May. This was au adion at the common law. The Defendant had no other defence but this an tient maxim of the law, that no man could give up his own allegiance. While be had the greateß dif pofition to perform this contrail, he felt himfelf bound in honour and in confcience to obferve the refolutiops that had been entered into by the Stock Exchange. This was a fort of Writ of Error from the Court of Stock Exchange, to the Court of King's Bench. He thought himfelf pledged to defend it as a Member of the Stock Exchange, though his own difpofitions and honourable feelings would have prompted him to have accepted it, and pay the money. He did not fay this farcallically, but the Defendant thought he was bound to obferve the rules of the Society of which he was a Member ; and the only quellion was, Whether there was any appeal from that department of the State, to the jutifdiaion of the Court of King's Bench ? The Pimple queßioa was, the amount of the damages for the non per formance of this contra& Mr. Glass, on the part of the Defendant, raid, in order to vindicate the chArafter of his client, he sighed to nate that Fe had fold 111,0001. flock more then he had purchied, and that he had never called on the parties to fulfil their contraas, becanfe be thought in his confcience the contra& entered into, in confequence of the impofitien praaifed on the Lord Mayor, ought not to be enforeed.—Verdie for Plaintiff—Damages MVDDAAT, lila, V. ORINISMAMI AND OTHSIS, This long and important can& was cooduilked by Mr. EISAINA, Mr. PLUlliall, Mr. Gameow, Mr. ADAM, Mr. GAULT, and MT. Para. , for the Plain. tiffs and ,by Mr. Cebu, Mr. Pates, Mr. &leant BI3T, Mr. Hominess, and Mr. Jars's., foe the De. fendiusts. Mr. Emma, in a my eloquent and philko phical (peach, obferved, that this was a auk that would require a good deal of attention. It was im. portant. as it relatest to the public 1--it was moll important, as it repeded the molt ingenious indi ric's!. who was the Plaintiff in this auk. Captain Huddart had been for many years in the &A India Company's Service, as a Captain of on of their Slips, and acquainted, of court's, with that dillant and perilous navigation, and with what re lated to the fafety of Slipping, and having betides, one of the moll ingenious , and philofophical minds that belonged to any perf m on this fulsjed. And this was nit a rude untat oed philorophy s—it was not that ingenuity which you funntimes found smog -men, without knowing the fonrees or tattles from which it was derived. But his ingenuity was the of fern fcience and of lung experience. He was a Member of the Royal Society, and had devoted the whole of his life to mechanical Aid nautical pm-faits. This Aelion WAS bronght for the infringement of a Pa. tent for one of the mon important difeoveries, and tot one of the molt important improvement , in the arts. An improvement in the feeurity of navigation to a maritime country was at all times molt important, and he thought there never was a moment at which the importance of !itch a dikovery mutt nrike the minds of Engliftmen more than at the time he was addreffing them : when the fafety of this country did not ahme depend on the bravery of its inhabitants,, and on the !kill, difciplii,e, and heolfm of 113 e r.aval part of the community, but on the loperior fecurity and fuperior art, by which we were able to blockade the audacious flotillas and fleets of the enemy, no their Own Shores. Without that, what could the bra. very of Admiral Cornwallis and the int repidit y of the tailors have done, who, by an unexampled patience during the !tones, had kept the enemy within their own ports ? though, even without their great and glorious exertions we were fide, from the firength and couragerof the inhabitants on land. The learn- . ed Connie' faid, the thing which his Client claimed to be the inventor of was this—" A new mode or art of making great cables and other cordag e, fo as to attain a greater degree of Iliength threin, by a more equal diftribmion of the 11-ain on the yarns."— Mr. Eass:ini explained, with the greaten cleainefs and perfptcuity, the defects in the common mode of making ropes and cables ; and pointed out the 'raft fuperi”nty of the cables made on Captain Huddart's principle. By the common mode of making cables, there was an unequal degree of tenfion in the yarns, of which the nrands were s compofed ; that the great • eft ltrain was on the yarns on the fuperficies ; that the yarns next thefe had a lets teniion ; and fo it con tinually diminilhed. till you came to the centre of the Strand, which had no tenfion at all, and which was pucked up. The confequence was, when a number of thefe ftranJs were fo put together. of yarns of an equal length, which compared a cable, and when a weight was applied to it, the yarns on the nuclide at the circumference which had the greaten tenfion firit gave way, then the fecond, then the third, &e. till you came to the centre. The great excellence of Captain Huddai es invention WAS, that by means of a plate made of metal full of holes, forming concentric circles and a cylindrical tube, all the various yarns were fn arranged and fo placed before they came to be twined into rope. that each individual yarn compofing the cable had pre cifely the fame degree of tenfion, and the effect was, that a cable made on this new principle never broke, till it broke all at once with a loud explofion. This new invention, as well as the common mode of mak ing ropes, and its deices; were admirably well ex plained by Mr. Rennie, the Engineer. From forms experiments which he bad very lately made, in order to afcertain the fuperiority of this new invention over the common mode, this appeared. He faid he took two equal quantities of yarns made of the fame hemp, and one of thefe quantities of yarns was made into cable. an Captain Hoddao's principle, and the other quantity in the common way. The firft fallained a weight of 17 tons, 5 cwt. and ; qr. when the cable made in the old way. was broken by a weight of tons. 13 cwt. I qr. 41bs. A piece of cable that was proved co have been porchared of the Defendants, was (hewn to Mr. Rennie, and on examination, he was clearly fatisfied that it had been manufaitured by nfing the apparatus of the Plaintiff. The witness Paid, be did not know how it could be mannfaanted in the way in which it appeared, in any other way than by following the new mode invented by Capt. Huddart, which, in his Itulgtoent, furniflied a per. fee remedy to all the deices in the old method, by giving to every yarn comportnyt the cable, an equal degree of tenfion. The Plaintiff's patent was obtain ed in 5735 ; and the Defendants' Connie' endea voured. in crofrexaminasion, to thew that Mr. Bal four's patent, which was obtained previous to that period, pas on the fame principle with Captain Hoddart s ; but Mr. Rennie (aid, according us the experiments he had made on Mr. Balfour's method, it was inferior to the common way of making cables. Captain Bond was next examined; and as far as he went, confirmed what had been before Rated. Several letters that had paired between the Plaintiff' and Defendants were read, and great firers was laid upon one of them, which was written in :799, by the Defendants to Captain Huddart, requeding him to permit them to adopt his method of making cables. He good naturedly told them, if thofe Gentlemen with whom he was conneeed would content, he had no objeeioas to it. However this confent was not given. Some time after that the Defendants, who are rope makers at Sunderland, carried on their bat finefs in a concealed way. They would not permit the Plaintiff to look at the manner in which they car ried on their bnfinefs ; and from the cordage they produced, he ftrongl fuftwaed they had invaded his patent by following his method. He afterwards de thud M. Rennie, the Engineer, to call upon them • for the fame porpofe in order to afcertain how t hey ntannfaitured their ;able.. He met with the fame reception. They would not permit him to fee how they carried on their borusers. A great deal of confirmatory evidence was given on the part of the Plaintiff. Mr. Gael, in a moR able fpeecb for the Defen. dents, among other things, contended that the De. fendants' patent could not Rand for a moment s fince it was on the fame principles with' hat of Mr. Bal. font's, which was previous to it in point of date.— By Cupped - mg this method of making cables, that was ured by Capt. Huddart, to be a new invention. he fobmitted they had not proved any invafion of it, After a very eloquent reply from Mr. Easing', Lord Ettessoirovoa, in an excellent addrefs to the Jury, rammed up the whole of the cafe with great accuracy and precifion ; after which the Gen tlemen of the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff, for One Shilling. On Toefday laft the French General Noon's. the Commandant Nooues. his brother. and General MARCUM. with their refpedive Aides de Camp. and feveral Officers. who had been taken at St. I.ucia, and were exchanged for Englifh Officers, embarked at Southampton. and failed the fame day for Moe. Ur. Dr. Scars.. ►ad permillion to go by the alms conveyance to maid Lord Etas&