Star. — London, England, 1810-03-19 00:00:00

ItiPAL pezurenta FALMOUTH, MARCH te. Sailed l'Esraroce gun-brig for the west Indies. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17. The launch of the Islisue and MENELAUS has been postptitied, on account of the unfavourable state of the weather : that of the grst will take place the 3d of April, the latter the 17th. Four cartels sailed yesterday front this port for Morlaix, with French prisoners. In one of - themi a Colonel, taken prisoner at Guadaloupe, went passen ger ; he came here in the HAZARD, and is the bearer of a copy of the Articles of Capitulation, for his Go vernment. The ETNA, TRUNDER, and DEVASTATION bombs, (whose arrival here I noticed in my last) are come to take in stores, and will accompany the secret Expe d;tion under Sir SIDNEY 6141T11. Rumour has assigned to it two destinations —the Meditertunean and South America. It has blown a strong easterly gale the lasts four days, and still continues, which precludes the receipt of any news at this place from Cadiz or Lisbon. ; it is, however, as fair as it can blow for the ships • and transports now on their way to those places. The following are ordered to be fitted for the Baltic service \rith all possible dispatch ; .1 be forn!d,ble, 98; Vanguard, 74; Dictator and Africa, 64; Tartar and l'Aimable frigates; Prometheus, Leveret, Lynx, and artarus 'loops, and Swan cutter. The FAVOURITE sloop has come into harbour to be repaired. Put bark the Porcher East In iam an, being unable to get up Channel. Arrived the Aid transport from Deptford ; and the HOUND bomb vessel from the eastward, to accompany the three already men tioaed, on the expedition. Came up harbour the RATTLESNAKE Sloop Of war. POR ESMOUTH, MARCH 17. Sailed the DAPPER and ROYALIST on a cruize ; FORT MAHON, with a convoy for Guernsey ; and the &Pau with a convoy for Cork. Arrived the Gums- HOPPER and HORATIA with a French prize. Went out of harbour the VICTORY and BELLONA men of war. MARCH 18.—Sailed the NIOBE frigate on a cruize ; and the ALERT sloop cf war with a fleet for New foundland, among them are the Hope, Friends, Hero, and Turk. DEAL, MARCH 18. Came down from the River the Grand 'Durk, for New York ; and the Lusitanil ) for Rio Janeiro.— Wind tri.E. YARMOUTH, MARCH Is. Arrived the CHANTICLEER, Captain SPEARS, and bas captured the t melia (formerly the Favourite, of this port) from Rotterdam, bound to Dieppe, in bal last. Sailed on a cruize the Acura gun-brig, and PA NMI A sloop. . On the 12th inst. the Dennenberg, 800 tons, from Norway, Captain HERPLOO, with a car'o of deal taught fire at sea, off Comer, the crevr about thirty in number took to their boats, and were saved, except two, who were supposed suffocated below—the vessel Boated on to Happisburgh Sand, where she burst to the waters' edge. The following have been sent in by the cruizevein the North Sea, viz.—Anne Mette Catherina, Atilt Jtilonsos: master, from Norway, with rye; Iris ? W. Ttassn, with general cargo; and thf s ccitordist, c. BASICS, from North Bergen, with iron and ash. FROM LLOYD'S LWT. Gkaersemn, Malice 18 -s-Arrived the Diana, Polly, from Malaga; and the Eliza, Williams, from New Providence.—Sailed the Sir Williant Bensley, Hooper, for India ; Pelham, Hunter, tar Lisl)on; and Ann ) Thompson, for Bermuda. NAVAL APP mammas. Captain Wirt, to the San. Captain H. E. lit. BA ILI, to the Ulysses*. Captain Stant DOtfaLAS, to the Afrkts. Captain Gnats, to the Orpheus, 'lee Tketyn, deceased. Captain G. DAtIS, to the Phliouiel, vice Crawley, deceased. Captain Parr:l42o*, at the Star, to the liompes. Captain V.V. BALLA**, to the Statira, vice Boys, deceased. Captain Pstrros, of the Asp, to the Blonde. Lieutenant 111‘CoLLouttn, to command the ,Asp. lieutenant Hon. I. Gone, to command the Scorpion. Captain ANzLLIALD , tb the Wanderer. Captain Faun, to the Savage. - - Lieutenant FLTXX, to command the Pultusk. Captain LAIVION, to the Thracian. Chin Harrow, to the Pert Mahon. rice-Adniral Sir JOHN THOMAS Ducasvonm, K.B. is appointed Commander•in-Chief at Newfoundland. The EXCELLENT, of 74 guns, Captain GRIFYITIT, which arrived at Portsmouth, on Wednesday, in '26 days from Minorca, was released from quarantine on Friday. Lord CoLuNowoon was cruising off Barce lona. His Lordship, as formely stated, had been clang:Tousl t ill, 'but he was getting better. SIT CHARLES COTTON is going out imme tli.nely to the Mediterranean., as Commander in Chief cn that station, in the room of Lord' COLLINGWOOD, whose ill state of health alone compells his return to Engtand. JOHN Dix, Esq. will go our with Sit CHARLES COTTON as iris Secretary ; and will be sue ceecl2d in his situation of Secretary to the Port-Admi. rill at Plymouth, by T. COLE, Esq. of Plymouth.. • The STANDARD, 64, Capt. HOLLES ; and the RosE, car : MANSELL, are among the ships fitting for the hut. Sir JA?4ES SAuMAREZ is expected to re-hoist h is ~flag shortly. T he BONNECITOYENNE, Captain O'CONNOR, is ap- P6/te d convoy at Portsmouth, for Bermuda and Halifax. T he ^ AtalATEl, of 14 guns, has been wrecked in the west Indies; the officers and crew were savei. c Vi e ere concerned to state that Major-General Lord "'um; Captain PA T RICK ToNYN, of his Majesty's 1 .. ° Oenum; and Captain JOus SiAottrLAND, who late 7 so bravely dafcnded his Majesty's frigate Juno, Teertoss to leer capture and sinking, died at Barbadoes. . ativA r inhiAiir OP it PIIHILVE. Saturday, being the anniversary of Stc Patrick, ii great number of the Nobility and Gedtry ditied at the New London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, the Earl of MO RA in the Chair. There were upwards of 300 persons present.--When the Earl of Moira, President, attended by the Stewards, entered the room, the Duke of Kent's Band played the national air of, Pa trick': Day. He was followed by the Marquis of DoWnshire, Lord George Grenville' Lord 'Henry Moore, Mr. Sheridan, lVir. Parnell, dr. Henry Grat tan, jun. and several other persons of distinction.— When the cloth was removed, Non Noinr, Doting, was • • MI Spra• T- Webbe, sung by ..dessrs. Dignum, _ arlor, and Master Buggins. The following toasts were given trenn the Chair, with three times'three-- The Xing—The Queen and Royal Family—The Navy and Army. The health of the Prince of Wales was drank amidst the loudest acclamations. The children supported by the Society then entered the room, to the heartfelt satisfaction of all present: They j appeared in perfect health, and their eyes glowed with gratitude to their benefactors. When they with , drew, and the collection was over, his Royal High.; ness the Duke of Kent's health was drunk, as the Patron of the Society. The Treasurer, Mr. BAINBRIDGIti then read the subscriptions, amongst others were his Royal High ' ness the Prince of Wales a€loo, the Marquis of Down shire £lOO, the Right Honourable Richard B. She ridan £2l, &c. The. Marquis of Dowrantaz then proposed the health of Lod Moira, which vras . drankwith enthu- siasm. Lord Moms, after expressing his sense of the ho nour conferred upon him, by so numerous and so respectable an assembly of his countrymen,_ said that he did not then address them in a state of ordi ' nary feeling, nor merely with those sentiments of gratitude such a distinguished favour was calculated to excite. They had drank his health, but in such a way as made the honou- itself almost less valuable than the manner in which it had been conferred.— (Applaures.) It was not the cold observance of a formal courtesy ; it was not the mere ceremonial of any studied complaisance, but a spontaneous effusion i of their good will, in which he recognised all the cha racteristic cordiality and generosity of his country ! men. Such a tribute no man could feel more sensi bly than he did, for no man could appreciate it more highly. (Applause:.) But high as such an honour was, and grateful as he felt for it, it was not to that merely that he attributed the emotions with which he was then affected. They sprung from a more en larged source than any thing referring merely to hirn self, or any other individual. He did not allude to the institution itself, or its invaluable benefits. He did not allude to the interesting spectacle they had just witnessed. He dial not want to expatiate upon the permanent good they had just been doing, of the children educated by their country's bounty in the love and veneration of their native soil. He would 'not attempt to add stimulus to their benevolence for he should be sorry to be capable of thinking that it ever wanted any. (ifm/auser) He knew them too well to resort to any such misplaced artifice. He un derstood the nature of Irish sensibility too well, to handle it so rudely. (Applause:.) But it was im possible for them to witness the procession of national charity that had just passed by them, and blessed them as they passed. It was impossible to look upon those children of their benevolence—lt was im possible for them to look upon that noble specta cle without bringing home to themselves such -a portion of self-applause, as must make them exult in the consciousness of existence, by realising the noblest purposes of their being ! (Applause:.) Each Of these children had been taken out of a state of friendless wretchedness, and put in the fair progress of honest industry to honourable competence; and what must be the sensations of those who had contri buted to that great and good work, when those very children, becoming the future men and women of Ire land, shall, in their subsequent conduct, reflect back upon their benefactors all that light and warmth of national virtue in which they had been cherished from their infancy ? (Applause:.) But the leading and pre eminent character of that institution was the irresist ible tendency it had to promote and extend the growth of the love of country in the heart—the benefactors, and those benefited, coming together, and in the mutual interchange of benevolence and gratitude, forming . a noble communion of patriotism, by a ge nerous rivalry in the love of our one common parent —our native soil. (Loud applauses.) The love of country was a passion the noblest, perhaps, of which our nature was capable. It was not to be traced to secondary principles, by the cold and measured ad vances of reasoning ; it was an instinct of au higher order, and of so much a grander range of operation, as the country itself is more than the individual; it was not so much a separable quality as an inherent essence that distinguished the species, and exalted it by such distinction. (Applause:.) It was, perhaps, the only thing that could not be carried to an extreme. It worked it self purer by its own violence—(AMlasues)—its virtu ous vehemence was productive of only firer transports (Am/auses) ; it was planted in our nature by the hand of the Divinity, and asserted its origin in its uniform and lofty negligence of every selfish consideration — (Applause:). Trace the history of any people, an cient or modern. and they would find that their brightest annals were then when the love of country was most predominant. It was a passion that gene rously seduced the human heart from every petty in terest, every narrow notion, every paltry consideration which would otherwise close and chill it ; it was a passion that redeemed-man from the miserable poverty of selfishness, and made him rich in the cultivation of all the greater virtues. Amongst all the dispensations of PROVIDENCI4 none was more uniform than that which visited upon man the consequences of his own vicious selfishness ; in proportion as a people stooped to grovel in the mire of sordid objects, in the same proportion did they detract from their strength as a nation. The ALMIGHTY seemed to have decreed that there could be no other correction for such a vice than the iron rod of the conqueror ; for invariably whenever that great passion had become extinguished, in whatever nation that holy fire of patriotism had gone out, the darkness of foreign subjugation inevi tably succeeded. (Applause:.? When self was every thing, and country „nothing, then did they invite the yoke, then did they Low the neck tobe trampled to • the ai l it beileath tttx fa& of the itniiiisted (41/1/auses.) And how was that servile spit to be defeatadl By never suffering the love of kOtlntry tto droop therefore did he always hail the ratittikof that day, and of all such days. He rejoiced - al.oll'aucje distinctidhl beiweed them and England; as race for the common benefit of both. (Applautii.) He onto more thanked theta for the honour they had done him, and in dritiking their health in return, hit pride in doing so, was not Merely that they were his coun trymen, not merely that they were Irishmen, but that they were nit% aniimis to stand in the front of the battles of -the empire, and songht • for no distinction so earnestly as that of (when the day shall Come) bearing the brunt of the fight.. Lord MdIRA then ave the health of Mr.SHERIDAN, which was drank wi th universal applause. Mr. SHERIDAN returned thanks in his usual elegant manner. Alluding to Lord Moira, he described his Lordship as theorgan of the PRINCE'S sentiments, et= pressed for the Society that day—he who was selected by him as his faithful counsellor, and who was the prototype of his nature and of his heart, an ottien• that enables us to say, that as well Ireland so• the empire in him'has happiness in store.—( Univernit ond reiterated aftAlaust.)—Well and truly, said that 'dis tinguished Nobleman, that the purposes fof which they met were far beyond the considerations at-- tached to party, or to party matters. Thanks to the DIVINITY, charity knows no distinction of coun try, and its purposes were the great object of their pursuit, in which his Royal Highness joined with heart and hand, as the Noble Chairman, whose ser vant he w is, so eloquently signified:--servant he would say, but whose service is perfect freedom. To concord, then, he considered the day devoted, and to that he was resolved it should be dedicated; but he could not sit down without exhorting his musical friend (Mr. Dignum) to leave out of his song for thefuture, the melancholy stanza, " that the Irish shamrock was sheltered by the British oak." Where was no stlth prefer ence to the relations of the country. They were, and, as an Irishman, he would ever contend it, united by,in terests reciprocally advantageous. Ireland ought to be as dear to England as England was to that Coun try. With respect to the figure, he begged leave to say, that the natural pallisado of the Irish shamrock was the Irisb shellelah. (Shouts of applause.) After thanking the company for the honour done him, this sincere Representative of the Irish Nation sat down amidst the long continued applauses of his admiring and grateful countrymen. The Marquis of Dowssninz was proposed as Chair man for the ensuing year, for which he returned thanks. Lord MOIRA having taken llis departure with se- veral of his friends, Lord GEORGE GRENVILLE took the chair, and the utmost conviviality prevailed to a late hour. ORATORIO.—The Oratorio at Covent-Oirden Thea tre was on Friday night numerously attended. It consisted of the same Selection from the Messiah which we have often noticed, and which was repeated with as much effect as on the former occasion. A tumult, which was followed by some unpleasant consequences, took place at Chelmsford on Saturday evening. Several soldiers, principally Irishmen, who had celebrated the festival of St. Patrick, sallied into the town from the Barracks, and insulted every per son they met. They made their way to the front of the Shire House, where there was, as usual, a great crowd, it being Assizes time. Considerable alarm prevailed for some time within the Court ; but it was calmed by the coolness and presence of mind of the Judge (Heam) who commanded silence, and or dered the business to proceed. The rioters were at length subdued, by the exertions of their Officers and the police, but not without considerable difficulty.— Some persons, we understand, were severely wounded. Thursday a seaman fell from the foretop of the Dictator, at Plymouth, and was killed on the spot. ALARMING FlRE.—Between one and two o'clock, this morning, an alarming fire broke out in the house of Mr. Cookesley, the distributor of Irish stamps, in New Boswell-court, Carey-street, Strand; which, with the house adjoining, was in a short time burned to the ground. The fire continued to rase with great violence, and threatened destruction to the whole neighbourhood, until the arrival of the Lincoln's Inn engine, which threw an immense body of water, and contributed materially to abate the fury of the flames. The immediate neighbourhood presented a frightful spectacle: men, women, and children, half naked, were seen flying in every direction. The fire, we understand, broke out in the lower part of Mr. Cookesley's house, 1 but we do not hear that any lives were lost. Mr. HARTSHORN'S cow-house adjoins the court ; and this fine dairy of cows were, for safety, driven into the open space at St. Clement's Church, where they added to the melancholy of the scene, by their lowing and other demonstrations of terror and alarm. One cow remained in the house, an uncommonly fine animal, which remained motionless and panic-struck,; as no force could drive her out of the house. j. Mr. THOMAS BRACE takes the earliest opportu nity of returning his warmest acknowledgements to his friends and those persons who so readily came to his assistance OR the breaking out of, and during the dreadful fire this morning, in New Boswell-court. — He is happy to inform them, that he and his family escaped without any personal injury ; and though the flames were so rapid as to destroy the inside of the house and the principal part of the furniture in a shors . time, yet he has been fortunate enough to save the greatest part of his books and .papers, which . have been removed to Mr. Pnostanres, New Boswell-court, where any letters, messages, or papers will be taken in until he can procure another residence. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MARCH l9.—The fresh supplies of Wheat coastwise to-day, are short, but large arrivals of foreign, and sales in general at . rather less price—Barley and Malt at little fluctua tion—White Peas likewise—Beans of the two kinds vary but little—There are considerable remaining supplies of Oats, second and ordinary samples are named rather eheaper—Flour at late prices. GENZRAL CURRISICT AS UNDER. Wheat, 82s. 965. 1061. Beans, (old) 568.625. Fine ditto, 1105. 114 s. Tick ditto (old) 465. 524. Rye, 48s. 543. Oats 22 5. 26 5. 30s , Barley, 355. 495. od. Poland ditto, 921. 333.0 d. Malt 723.80•. Potatoe ditto, 39.40 d. White Peas (boilers) 665. 745. Rape Seed, 461. 531.. Grey ditto 48s. 545. Flue Fleur Brs. te7i—SeUsitdl 50i, 85$. - -- - • klward Chimley, of Winterton, conainitteci on the charge of rape on the body of E; Gollands, on the 24th of December last, Was not tried on the capital part of the indictMent (the evidence, as to the consummation of the crime being thought defective,' but was arraigned for a violent assault on the prose cutrix, with intent to violate her person; The pro. secutrix, seventeen years of age, went with some other females, to the Statute at Wintertoni to be hired for service, and was engaged by the prisoner. Not withstanding he is a married man, and has a child, he soon began to take libertiei which the young woman resented, and of which she cquainted her mistress. But otiChrismat eve, his family, except the prosecntrix, and man-servant, being gone to Winterton, he, after a long struggle, so far -exhausted her strength, that she fainted, and became a victim to his lust: On her recovery, she went to aerie. iinther mistress of what bad happened; and then returned to the protection of her mother. The testimony, charactei,. and previous chastity of the prosecutrix, attempted to be impeached by the Counsel and evidence of the prisoner ; and Mrs Chimley, on being asked whether he bad himself any thing to say, made an impassioned appeal to GOD that he was innocent. The Jury found him Guilty • Mr. Justice BATLEY immediately, passed sentence; in a most impressive way. Theprisoner, he observed, so far from being the seducer even of the female, whom, 36 a master, and the head of a family, he was bound to protect, ought to have corrected in her any propensity which she might have betrayed to an im proper intercourse. But when, in gross violation of morality and the duties of society, he, by brutal vio lence, robbed her of her chastity, he became an offen der of so dark a rank, that good men, in their resent ment, would hardly think any punishment 'too severe to be inflicted on him. He (the Learned Judge) in verity, declared, that, considering the relation ef the prisoner and the prosecutrix, had theformer been tried and found guilty of the capital offence for which he had been first indicted, he should have felt it his duty, as a warning to society in these parts, to have left him for execution. As it was, he sentenced him to pay a fine of £4OO to the King, and to be imprisoned twp years in the House of Correction, at Kirton ; and fur ther, be imprisoned until the fine be paid. Nary Aistrope, single woman, lately of Hagwor. thingham, charged by the Coroner's Inquest with the wilful murder of a male child, of which she - delivered herself—was acquitted. The prisoner lived' in the service of Mrs. Holden; of Hagworthingliam, and had so lived for five months previously to het 'delivery. She complained of being very ill, but did not state the cause of her illness, and was delivered without the privity of any person. The child was sand after found in the chimney-place of a room contigunuf to the prisoner's bed-room,-dead. NoinetkStif violence were discoverable upon it ; but ft professional witness fieclered his opinion that the infant born alive, from the circumstance of-the lungs appearing inflated, on an anatomical investigation by him, and of their floating in wcer. Mr. Justice BATLEY hnmanely controverted this conclusion, and declared that, called as his atten tion frequently was by his professional duties to the subject, he had no hesitation in saying, that the opi nion of the most eminent meta in the faculty now was, - that the inflation and floating of the lungs were by no means a proof that a child was brought into the world alive, particularly where the mother had not had the aid of a midwife. There was a question for the Jury, whether the prisoner had criminally con cealed the birth of the child ? but he thought no evi dence was adduced of its having been born alive. The Jury acquitted the prisoner ; and at the in. stance of the Judge, her late mistress agreed to re ceive her into her service again. CIVIL SIDE. ARNOLD V. NoTZLPLL: The plaintiff is a young woman, who had lived in the capacity of servant to the defendant, by whom, although he is a married man, and 70 years of age, she became pregnant. The action was for an assault, under the following curious circum. stances : The young woman was delivered Of a child on the 22d of June, at the house of Catherine Lamb of Woolsthorpe ; a fortnight and two days after her delivery, the defendant called, and begged that she would part with the child ; to this the girl would not consent, for fear it should be seat to the Foundling Hospital. Mrs. Notzell accompanied her husband to the plaintiff's, and, after quieting her apprehensions, by fondling and feeding the infant for a short time, she suddenly whipped it up, and ran off with it.— The distressed mother attempted to follow and rescue her child, bat the old man prevented this, by violently holding her down fOr leirminutes ; and Afterwards, on her getting up, he push& her down with force, on the other side of the room. This was the await complained of ; and Serjeant Vaughan ob served, that, as the old gentleman -had gratified his passions in more ways than one, the Jury would make him pay the piper. Catharine Lamb, the witness who proved the facts, on cross-examination (with a view on the part of the defendant to prove improper treatment. of the infant by the mother); admitted that it was not usual to let • a child gteit fortnight and two days before it sucked ; the child' clothes were sent after it, and the plaintiff `Wad got the infant again. On re-examination, she said 'the girl was a tender mother, and there was no reason r - to take the child away on that. account. Mr. BALM(' for the defendant, said, that his client was not an Englishman, and that such of the jury as had happeDed to have seen the picture, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, of the old Mercinis of Granby, would find the very portrait of him (Mr. Notzell) in the droll Swiss servant holding the horse at the back of the Marquis. This silly old man of 70, who had been 30 years married, without having a child, was sfetonderftilly delighted with the reputation of having got a son and heir; and, strange to tell, he had in fused the same kind of pleasure at the circumstance into his wife. They had taken the child aw yto get an apothecary for it at Grantham ; and di that he did to the girl was merely to take her by tl e waist and hold her down, whilst this kind theft W.:6 piac tised ; and, as she has got the child again, no harm was done. Justice BAYLKY said, in point of law, an acsiuls had been proved, and the plaintiff was; clearly t ti led to a verdict.".-Damages.43o, F~