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mt a, a: DREADFUL NURIUCAXE. LOSSES AT SEA. Th e Motet's, Owens; Lady Florence, Bishop; -Jane, mconehy, from Drogheda; and Argus. Carr, Irons Dublin; here driven on shore near Liverpool on Friday morning, but it Ras expected would be got off. The General Blucher, Otter, from Havre to Gibraltar; anti the Patriotic, Nicksen, from London to Corunna ; put into Fal mouth ou Friday—lhe former With loss of sail., and the latter With tiamsge to her huU, sails, Fcc. and cargo shifted. The Werterbotten, Knape, from London to Marseilles, is put into Dartmouth, with damage. The Mourich, Dunn. from Newcastle to Plymouth, struck on the Newcombe Sand on Friday, and sunk. The Nelms, French, from Liverpool to Bourdeaui, is on sbore pear Doncsumon. The Auspicious, Clark, from Liverpool to Newry, was strand ed 11th inst. in Dundrum Bay. GREENOCK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16. Half past Three &Clock, P.M. Since Tuesday the wind continued blowing strong from tl•e S. to S.W. Last night it greatly increased, and until now has continued to blow with unremitting violence. In the morning there was a considerable deal of thunder and lightning, accompanied by exces sive f a lls of rain—shortly atter mid-day the quays overfl )wed, and the tide continuing to rise, the cellars adjacent to the breast of the different harbours have been inundated, and we are truly concerned to add,. immense quantities of West-India and other produce destroyed : much property has likewise been swept a way, or materially injured on the quays. To what extent the damage may amount it is impossible to say, bet it cannot be otherwise than very large. The tide is now abating. These of the outward-bound West India fleet riding at anchor at the tail of the Bank, have drifted con siderably; some have parted their cables. The Her cules, Miller, which along with several merchantmen bad anchored in Gourock Bay, slipped or parted her cables this forenoon, and fortunately arrived safe in the east harbour, about three o'clock, with no other apparent injury than the loss of her bowsprit. Not withstanding the hazardous attempt of taking the harbour in such a hurricane, by the able manner in which it was performed, the only damage which she occasioned going in was that of running down a her ring sl op at the entrance. HALF-PAST FOUR P.M.--At this moment the gale appears to increase, but to shift a little more to the Westward. We have just learned that the following vessels have parted from their moorings in Gourock Bay, and are on shore, viz.—the Mary, Maw., on this side of the Powder House; and the Jane, Wu, sox, and Elizabeth, *Blum, at the New Battery. Only his Majesty's ship TAIITARtJS, and the Amazon, REID, remain at anchor in Gourock Bay. The ut most confusion prevails, and great fears are enter tained for the safety of the ships riding at Tail of the Bank. One is apparently aground at the Hill of Ardmore. Several have drifted up the river past Cardross. The Jane, ANDERSON, from Palermo, has just ar rived from quarantine station, Holy Loch, having been blown trom thence with the loss of three anchors and cables ' • passed a ship dismasted in Gourock Bay. At Port Glasgow, the damage has liktwise beets hnmense, lrom the overflowing of the tide. We have not yet learned of any lives being inst. chip ripg bar, see, and rom ben ham a g e It 10 Totud Fees. se ii have mops ; k to Mr. Lord a so. ; AMA • l'agis , AP sato WW I Mr. he is ever• m aids imtM• 14 kit* Friday last the bodies of nine men were picked up near Dunkirk, together with several pieces of silk and Bandannas' Tbe iuee are- seppesed to have be- • • longed to Folkstone.—On the same day a brig and sailor, grain loaded, were wrecked off Dunkirk. The brig, it is reported, belonged to Bruges. The. CIeWS were saved. Pilled Itood Ithinin e y, '~ . LIVERPOOL.—A terrible storm took place here on Friday, in which the following were driven on shore, viz.. —Elizabeth, OWENS, from Drogheda, near the Nile Rocks, not expected to receive much injury ; Lady Florence, BISHOP, from Drogheds, in Bootle Bay, with sails and both topmasts gone ; the Jane, *Concur, from Drogheda, near Crosby ; and the Argus, Cana, from Dublin, near Formby, SO cattle lost, vessel expected to be got off next springs without damage. The John, Jonas, from Penzance, foun ' dyed off the Banks —crew saved. Dtaus.—Last week, there was a most tremen dous gale, and the wind about S.S.W. which conti. need with unabated fury until 12 o'clock, when it became less violent. Much damage has been done in various parts of the city ; in York -street, a stack of Chimneys were blown down. A young lady, and the female servants who were in the kitchen, were buried in the ruins; two of them were found in el, very mangled state. In Sackville-street much injury see sustained. A great part of Kuarn's Hotel, at the corner (A Great Britatn-street, was thrown down. A public-house in Fleet-street was totally unroofed and vanous other houses have sustained damage. litna..--Thuisday forenoon, a tier (If vessels were in imminent danger of suffering damage from a large skip which was moored on the off-bide of the harbour, bedng upon them, by which a brig near the quay WSa for a considerable time, as the tide ebbed, sus pended between a Scotch imack and a mooring-post. last broke, and the brig instantly fell into the water, forcing overboard a sloop-master that was ascending a ladder to get from the brig to the quay; fortunately be had the presence of mind to throw himself betweest two of the piles of the quay, and thus was saved from instant death, which must have ensued had he been 'aught between the vessel and the.piles. LEEDS.--Friday, during a violent storm of wind with rain, at Leeds, the steam engine chimney, attached to the manufactory of Messrs. Whitehead, and Pearson, on Bradford-moor, was blown down ( luring the storm, and falling upon the building, the Tod was forced in with a terrible crash, and a number of the work people very seriously injured. At the 'house of John Blayds, Esq. in Park-lane, on Friday, a stack of chimnies at the left wing of the bUilding Sots blown down, and the rubbish precipitated through the roof into an apartment that had just been quitted by one of the family. The hurricane has also done considerable damage to the newly erected mansion of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, and to several other unfinished buildings. STAPPORD.—TDC oldest personliving cannot remem her mire tempestuous and longer continued gales than we experienced on Friday. The damage sus ' by many persons in this town and neighbour at present, cannot be estimated. Innumerable --7 s have been blown down, roofs of houses and cks of hay removed; and on the nortkroad trees have atien forced down, which have interrupted the pro •/ets Of coaches, itc. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING ON TIM DERBY AND OAKS STAKES, ISIS. DEREY. Taken—io to 1 art D. of Gralton's brother toWhalebone. 11 to 1 art 14 Darlington's Sir Thomas. Taken--12 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhilt's Anticipation. I I to 1 agst Mr. Watson'i c. by Walton. Takeu—.l 4 to i ags4 Mr. Wilson's c. by Sorcerer. * OAKS. 10 to I apt D. of Grafton's sister to Minuet. 10 to 1 agst lad G. H. Cavendish's f. by Sir Datrid. 11 to I agst Ld Stawell's sister to Blucher. 11 to t agst Mr. Payne's f. by Selina. WINCHESTER, DECEMBER 17. Yesterday there was some excellent racing in Cams Park, Fareham, by horses the property of Gentlemen belonging to Mr. Delme's hunt. The "vet rtal es for five guineac each, two miles, was won by Air. Knotoo's brown g. Grog, beating Mr. Dehue's chesnut g Derby. The Math for fifty guineas, four miles, between Mr. King ston's ch. g. l'lot , ghboy, and Mr. Deirne's grey g. Farmer, was won by Plou g hboy. Three other Matches were decided, viz.— Mr. Jetining's brown m. against Mr. Theed's bay g. Prime of Life, 12 stone each—two miles—ten guineas—won by Mr. Jeniings. • Mr. need's b. g. Miser, against Mr. Delme's b. g. Felix, list each—one mile-2S guineas—won by Miser. Mr. Jurd's gr. g. against Mr. Edmund's ch. m. 12et each—one mile--80 guineas—won by Mr. lurd. The match between Ploughboy and Farmer, on which considerable bets were pending, afforded a particularly well-contested heat, as did that between Mr. Jurd's gelding and Mr. Edmund's mare. ROYAL IiUNT.A numerous field of • Sportsmen of all descriptions, assembled at the Crooked Billet, near Staines, on Friday morning, at the usual time, to join in the sports of the Royal Hunt. The Deer went off in very fine style and in full speed across the enclosuies, making towards Ashford Common, taking towards Hampton Court, where he made a grand leap into Bushey Park, and ran fur a conside rable time with great swiftness; he attempted to get out of the Park by a leap on the opposite side to that which be entered, but failed; he had then the saga city to make back to that part of the wall where he entered the Park, where the wall was lower than on the opposite side, and he there escaped out of the Park; he then made a double to the left, and made for the Thames, and crossed the river in a very fine style : a number of Sportsmen had given up the chace ; those who remained went along Hampton Court Bridge, and then renewed their pursuit, but the 'Jeer soon took to the water again, and got on one of the Heights or Eights, when. he remained some time, putting his pursuers at defiance: the hounds ap proaching him, he took to the water again, and got safe on shore on the Surrey side, but , was soon after taken in a Gentleman's Park near Waltham. It rained nearly the whole of the hunt. HUNTING.—The Surrey Fox-hounds meet Thurs day, at Shirley House ; Saturday, at Fox Keston.— H. JOLLIFFE, Esq.'s Fox-hounds meet Thursday,. at Redston House ; Saturday, at Platt's Green. The Essex Hunt meet Wednesday, at Roydon Park ; Sa turday, at High Routhing-street. The East Essex Fox-hounds meet Saturday, at Boated Hall. The Hatfieid Hounds meet Thursday, at Bower Heath; Saturday, at Dowdells, at half-past ten o'clock. The Fox-hounds of R.. S. LLOYD, Esq. meet to-morrow, at Bolted Park; Wednesday, at Glemsford Bridge (Meltord country), at ten o'clock. The Quorn Hounds meet Wednesday. at Normanton-on Wolds ; Thursday, at the Widmerpool Inn ; Satur day, at Prestwold, each day at half.past ten. The Pytchley Hounds meet to-morrow, at Badby Toll Bar ; Thursday, at Stow-nine-Churches,; Friday, at Naseby, at half-past ten each day. 'The Oakley Hounds meet Wednesday, at Kempston Wood ; Thursday, at Bushmead ; Saturday, at Melchbourn Wood, at half-past ten each day. The Caledonian Hunt have fixed their next October Meeting to be held at Dumfries ; and elected for the ' year ensuing, the Duke of BUCCLEUGH, Prttses ; Sir JOHN HiNON MAXWELL, Bart. Treasurer; the Hon. Captain MAITLAND, JonN DOUGLAS, Esq. and 'Sir JAMES FERGUSON, Bart. Councillors. Saturday E. Kelly, a bricklayer's labourer, under took for a wager of two pots of. ale and a pint of gin in purl, to carry his own daughter, a child of seven years old, seated on a hod of mortar, up a ladder four stories high, to the top of a house belonging to Mr. Langford, linen-draper, in O:ford•street, where he was at work, which he performed to the great astonishment of an immense concourse of spectators; and before•the crowd dispersed, for a wager of a glass of gin, which he got from the bricklayer whom he attended, jumped out of a two pair window on a heap of mortar, on the pavement, without sustaining the least injury. HATTON.GARIMM—A respectable looking young woman came yesterday to the Office and stated, that about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, in her Way home to her father's in Camden Town, she was over taken by . three men, who tell into conversation with her, and walked along with her as far as Britannia. row, and when passing by a stable-yard they forcibly dragged her ia, when two of them violated her per son, while the third held her, they then robbed her of 4s. 6d. in silver, a pair Cif new shoes, and a piece of patchwork; after which they ran away ; she made her complaint to the watchman, who accompanied her to the stable, where her pocket was found empty. The description of the villains were given, and we hope the officers will be able to apprehend them. MARLSOROUGH4TREET.—.A woman of the name of Ripgrose, and a man of the name of Taylor, were yesterday charged with stealing a bank-note of fifty pounds and other articles, the property of Mr. Marten, of .Market-lane, S'. James's. Taylor was a servant in the employ of the prosecutor, and the woman prisoner had lately left his service. Mon day se'nnight Mr. Marten went early to bed, leaving his street door safely secured. Taylor was in the ha bit of getting up to work between twelve and one o'clock. In the morning he discovered to his master that the street door was open, and the property was missed. The note stolen was attempted to be nego. dated by the woman prisoner ; but simething unfair was suspected, and she was detained. She confessed having waited at the prosecutor's door until Taylor got up, when he opened the door and gave her the property.—Her lodgings were searched, and other things stolen from the house were there found.— There was no mark of violence about the door, and from the circumstance of its having been secured within, it must have been opened by some one in the house.—The prisoners were remanded. COURT OF CHANCERY ; DECEMBER 17. WAINMAN AND HIS WIPE, LADY ABICOYIE AND O+HERE, W. HANDY AND CAMPBELL, ILSQR& The plaintiffs in this cause obtained an injunction without the previous knowledge of the defendants, to restrain them from receiving the rents and profits of the estates belonging, to Lady Amotss. It was not obtained upon Any ground of miscon duct in the Trustees (the defendants) but under an idea that her Ladyship had power, by her marriage settlement;to appoint new Trustees. The whole of her Ladyship's property is settled upon herself for her separate use, and is not subject to the debts, controul, or engagements, of her hus band, the plaintiff, Mr. Richard Bradley Wainman. Upon the motion of Mr. LEACH, the Counsel for the Defendants, before the Lord Chancellor, the plaintiff's injunction was dissolved, it having been clearly ascertained that Lady Amcotts had no power to authorise any person to receive the rents of the te nants, or interfere with the defendants, B. Hardy and W. D. Campbell, in the management of her Estates.—These rents in future must be paid to the said B. Hardy and W. D. Campbell. *DEC. 19.—This morning the Lord Chancellor was occupied several hours in his private room, hearing arguments'in the lunatic case of Sir G. Page Turner, respecting the propriety of appointing Lady Page Turner to be the Committee of her son's person. Na one, of course, w is admitted to this hearing, except the Counsel and SAicitors employed on the parts of Lady Page Turner and of Lady Say and Sele, the petitioner. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 19. 1M V. WOODTHORPE. This was an action brought by.the bankers against Mr. Francis Woodthorpe, as the acceptor of one bill of exchange for 8290, and the drawer and indorser of another for 5e2,175, under nearly the same cir. cumstances as the case of Ramsbottom v. Joyes, which we reported on Monday week. It appeared that the first of these bills was remitted by Messrs. Harvey, of the Billericay and Rochford Bank, to the plaintiffs, on the 4th of April, 1814, and the second on the I2th of May, and that they Were entered short by the plaintiffs, in their bill account with Messrs. H. It will be recollected that Mr. J. W. Harvey ab sconded with the balance of his own private account with the plaintiffs, and all the money he could col lect from his own bank, on the 16th of May ; that one of the plaintiffs went down to Essex soon after wards, and being satisfied, notwithstanding Mr. J. W. H.'s going to France, of the solvency of the house, afterwards advanced about 88000 to Messrs. H. ; that a separate commission was sued out against him the 24th, on which day the plaintiffs discounted the bills in question ; that the plaintiffs went on pay ing for Messrs. Harveys till the 23d or 24th of June, awl that the joint commission against Messrs. H. is dated the Bth of July. The plaintiff's clerk proved that their house would have kept the bills in question, though they had been dishonoured, if they should not have been satisfied with Messrs. H.'s other securities ; and Lord ELMS. BOROUGH ruled that the plaintiff had the entire do minion over these bills. As a general principle it was 'true that if a customer's account was good with his banker, be might withdraw any bills placed in the , latter's hands as an agent to get accepted and paid before they were due ; but it the banker gave the customer immediate credit upon the strength of de positing the bills, they could not be withdrawn till the banker was satisfied for his lien upon them. In the case of Ramsbottom v. Joyes, the only doubtful point was whether the Harveys and the plaintiffs had received the bills on the same terms—in that case the former had received them in some qualified manner, and the latter had notice of those quali fied circumstances, which induced hil Lordship to give more weight to the opinion than perhaps be longed to it, that they were bound by the same evity. For the let, the bankruptcy of Messrs H. did not signify a fa.i:iing—the plaintiffs entire porter over the bills was nev r changed, let the Harveys be bankrupt or solvent. As their right to the bills was thetelore entire, they had full power to discount them, or purchase what they pieased with them, unless that right was qualified by the communication of the circumstances under which the Harveys acquired them. The balance of his opinion was, that ever that communication could not alter their rights : for if they had once by a transmission of the bills, acquired a dominion over them, nothing but a re nunciation of their rights could take them away. If his Lordship were, therefvre, now called upon to de cide this case, lie should say the plaintiffs right could not be affected by the after communication of these equitable circumstances. It was agreed, however, that the plaintiffs should take their verdict, subject to the entry of a nonsuit, 'it the Court should think they ought not to recover upon the case reserved of Ramsbottom v. Joyes. MITCHILL O. COUCH. This was an action on a Charter-party, to recover an average loss on the cargo of the Vestal, from Li verpool to London, laden with sugars, the damage to the cargo being alleged to have arisen from the negligence of the master of the vessel. It appeared, that in consequence of damage sustained by the Ves tal at the commencement of the voyage, she put into the Cove of Cork to refit, and again sailed from thence. She afterwards, however, stopt at St. Maw's, where she continued for six or seven days, during all which time only one anchor was let go. Owing to the. insecure state of her mooring, she swung round, and got foul of the cable of another vessel, and received so much damage that she sprung a leak ; the sugars which were in the hold were some of them staved and damaged, and it was to recover an average loss un der these circumstances, which, it was contended, were the. consequence of the negligent conduct of the mat. ten—The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, the sum to be settled by reference. COWHEN V. PAOETT. This was an action to try whether the plaintiff, a ship broker and agent, was entitled to five per cent. or 2% per cent. for commission, for his trouble in prof curing a charter-party for a vessel going to the Baltic. The defendant had paid to the am,,unt of 2; per cent. into Court. Several witnesses were called on the par of the plaintiff, to prove that Ove per cent. was the usual allowance as commission for transacting busi ness of this description. On the part of the defend. ant it was stated, that 2% per cent. was a lull and I cotripettint illontnce Ex the trouble to which the plaintiff had been pnt. The Jury, hi,Aeocr, frond 4 verdict for the p aintiff, fur the lull anton.,t ‘.l . this demand, declaring that his charge . wa uct tn.xe than he was eitikle4 to. PREROGATIVE COURT. D')CTORs' COMMONS. KNIGIIT V. N.. MW. This was a suit as to the val..li y of the will of John Ready, Esq. late of Oalchangei -11311, in Chi-shire, deceased, dated the 16th of April, 1813 It was pro pounded on the part of Mrs. Sara:, Albina Ready, the deceased's widow, and the sole executrix ironed in it, and opposed by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. the executor of a former will, dated June 14. 1810. From the evidence in support of the will, it appear. ed that the deceased died on the 20th of April, 1813, four days after it had been executed. He had been ill for some time previously, but not so as to be con fined to the house. On the day the will was made, Miss Eliza Mary Lawrance, a niece of Mrs Ready's, resident with her at Oakhanger.hall, had been srend ing the evening with a friend in the neighbourhood, and upon•her return home was informed by her aunt, that in the course of some conversation which she had that afternoon with the deceased, he had inform. ed her of his having made and deposited with his agent, Mr.. Brace, of the Temple, a will of a subse quent date to that which he had made in the year • 1806, appointing her sole executrix and universal le gatee, and which was then in her possession. Miss Lawrance at first doubted the intelligence, but her aunt expressed her conviction.of its truth, saying her husband had told her so, and had given his consent to another will being made, for which purpose she was going to tend her brother, Mr. Geo. King (who was then on a visit at Oakhanger.ball), to Mr. Wilson of Newcastle, an attorney employed by the deceased with the will of 1806, for him to make a copy of it for execution anew by the deceased; upon which Miss Lawrance suggested, that Mr. Wilson might not be at home ; and proposed that she should take a copy of it first, being in the habit of writing for the de ceased. This was resolved upon, and a rough copy accordingly made, and delivered to Mrs. Ready, who went with it into the drawing-room where the deceased then was, desiring Miss Lawrence to come in shortly afterwards, and she would ask him to let her copy the will afresh for execution. Miss Lawrence did so, and found the deceased and Mrs. Ready together. After the usual enquiries, Mrs. Ready said, " Eliza, you re member the sweet confidence I reposed in your uncle concerning his will. He has acquainted me since you have been out, that he has made an-ther will, winch is in the hands of Mr. Brace, and l hove you here to know if it is your uncle's wish that you shoul.i copy this will," (meaning the will of 1806), the rough copy of which the had then in her hand) ; and then address ing the deceased, she said, " my love shall she copy it f" to which he replied, " yes, she may." The copy was then made, and read over to, and approved by the deceased ; and it was proposed to him that Mtss Lawrance and Mr. Eardly, (at whose house she had been spending the evening, and who was then them), should be witnesseo, to which he assented, and hint self proposed Mr. King (Mrs. Ready's br..ther) as a third; but finding he was absent, he consented to his servant John Slater being a witness instead. Mrs. Ready then left the room, desiring Miss Lawrance to ask the deceased " if the new will was his own free :sex," .44' Am. which- she did, and he replied, 64 Yes, it was his, wish that her aunt should be left perfectly inde pendent of every one." Upon Mrs. Ready's return, the other witnesses were introduced, and the will spon. taneously executed by the deceased, and attested by them as usual. He delivered it to his wife, desiring her to keep it; upon which she said to him, " Now, my love, is this all as you wish; do you give me what you have with all your heart, or with pleasure r' to which ,he replied, Yes, I do," put his arm round her waist, and kissed her. From tire evidence in opposition to the will, it ap peared, that the deceased was 67 years of age; he had been formerly in the profession of tae law, bat had lat terly retired to reside on his estate in Cheshire. He had a daughter by his first wife, for whom he had a ' stroag paternal regard. She married Dr. Lan don, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, a gentleman of great respectability, and upon terms of friendship wi‘h the deceased. On losing the society of his daughter, he was induced, in 1802, to form a fresh matrimonial alliance with his present widow (then Miss King), a lady holding a situation under the Princesses. A misunderstanding soon after wards arose between the deceased and his wife, and Dr. and Mrs. Landon; and though a reconciliation subse quently took place, their former cordiality no longer prevailed. In 1806, the deceased made a will in his own hand-writing, bequeathing the whole rf Us pro. petty to his wife, and appointing her sole ix ycntrix, and left it in her possession. A few days af.erwards, however, he applied to Mr. Brace, and made a fresh will, bequeathing the whole of his property to his daughter and her family, and desired that it might he kept secret. Here the matter rested until 1810, when some alterations took place in the deceased's property, and he then made and deposited with Mr. Brace, a fresh will, dated June 14, 1810, first causing the for mer one in Mr. B's hands to be destroyed. By this wig, Mrs. Ready had a legacy of 1,5001. and the in terest of all the property for life ; but at her death it was given to Mrs.' Landon and her family; and Mr. Knight was appointed executor. This step, however, remained a secret until disclosed by the deceased to his wife, when it led to the making of the will in question, as before stated. In opposition to this will, it was attempted L.) shown, that Mrs. Ready was of a very domineering disposition, and in the habit of wheedling the de ceased into what she wished to have done, by which means she obtained an undue influence and control in his affairs, which she exerted in obtaining the execu tion of the will at a time when, in consequence of re cent paralytic attacks and a habit of intoxication in which he indulged, he had become so much debili tated as to be unable to resist her importunity. Un der these circumstances, it was contended, that the I ldeceased could not know the nature of the act he did, and therefore that it could not be pronounced for as containing his last will. Mr. JOHN NaCHOU. recapitulated the evidence in support of the last will, and observed, that though the wife appeared to set the matter in motion, her conver sation with the deceased appeared more directed to draw his attention to the act he was about to do, than to controul him in it ; the Court therefore pronounced in favour of the will, but without costs. 4 S . .