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~..,~ INTULICENCE. PodirsSIOCTH, WT. 13. Sailed His Majesty's ships drab and Facenrite, with a fleet under convoy for the coast of Africa Plecer,Cheerty, St.gdy, and Cockatrice, on a cruise.— Wind 3 W. 11111114111M•QVVI, SIPT. 14. Last *tilt affivr post. the Visor man of war, Admiral Lord Nelson, with the 7'riittne frigate and Plato sloop of war, stood dose into the Hay. His Lordship aid not come to an anchor, but proceedL•l to the westward with the frigate; the Plate remains in Torbay, with the Saracen brig of war. ttystoeru, SEPT 17. Came in the Preynde, and the French sloop Frdr ration, from France, laden with naval stores, both captured by the Cairotee schooner ; and sent in the Pereira am/ Rebreea, and the Anne, from both detained by the Hero privateer, which vessel. with the Colpon., are arrived ; also the Leijle, of Greenock, from Jamaica, bound to London, retaken by the Orpheur frigate, after being captured by a Spanish privateer. Sailed the Ain: and Thtsal rel. men of war, to join the Channel Fleet..—Wind S. W. TALNOVTII, SEPT. 16. Arrived the Prince Adolphus packet, Capt. Hill, with a Mail from New York and Halifax ; Farmer, Goodwin, from London ; and the Ceurolnie armed brig, with a fleet at vittuallers under convoy from Plymouth, for the Channel fleet. Sailed the Auckland packet, Capt. Schuyler, with a Mail for Likbon; and the Emeleatoor armed brig, with a fleet of coasters, under convoy, to the west ward.—Wind S.W. SISAL, SEPT. 18. Sailed through the Downs, His Majesty's ship Porp•ise and Pireertry. Sailed the Prsepgre bomb, with the Albion East Indiaman, and a fleet of other outward-bound ves sels under convoy, for Portsmouth. Arrived, the Otter sloop of war from a cruise, and remains in the Dawns, with the rest of the ships as per last.—Wind S.S.E. DOVER, stir P. 18. Tea a'elock, a.m.—Since S o'clock, till now, we have heard very heavy cannonading towards Boulogne, and that part of the French coast ; it appears like the firing of broadsides, or a number of the cannon on the batteries along shore, going off together ; al though not regular, being only heard at intervals, it is generally cor.jeaured that some remeentr( mast have taken place with our squadron on that station, The Arthafilf. Champies, and s' immorteliie frigates, with some sloops of war and gun-brigs, passed at a dist.mce yesterdas-, for the French coast, from whence it is concluded, snn:etlsing must have taken place. On the other hand, it is contended, that the firing is nothing more than bombast ; and they are endeavouring to persuade us, that the troops have not left Boulogne, for the interior. Some lime ago, a similar cannonading was heard in the same quarter, from this place, which was kept tip for three successive days ; the whole town were alarmed, and the troops were under arms all . sight; but. upon the arrival of a boat from thence, it was found, that very few of our cruisers were on the French coast at the time, and those had not ex "hanged a shot with their adversaries, being quite out of gun-shot of the batteries, during the whole time, although the French fired a quantity of shot anti shins : this may also be the case at present. A *de after six e'cloa, yesterday evening, we also heard some heavy irregular cannonading to the Southward. which continued till dark. By a boat, which came on shore early . this morning, with a Navy Officer, I learn, that, in consequence of the fineneu of the weather, some Military Gentlemen were induced to go on a cruise off the French coast, with Capt. King, of the A.- eadae, for a little plea sure ; and, in order that they might have enough of it, the gallant Commodore ran in close to the ,:„lsatteries,near Boulogne, which, it is imagined, open . ,ifid a warm firing upon him, which he as warmly re- Wned. This, however, Is all conje&ure, as the • boat did not tame dire& from thence; and, as the cannonading has been renewed this morning with in red violence, we may hope something more de nein will or has taken place. Twelve icier'. . • The cainionalmg is again renewed with more fug than before, so that the very windows and doors Of Me haws. in this town, are shaken with ,knee ; the nnise is still more like the firing of broad ,=4:llLtallintsts regularly, about every three Wlt.ll2* all certain, that something has °c owed between our ships of war and the enemy ; ei • Aber that the tomer have run too close to the baste sks. or, the weather being set serene, they have been hecals44 near the ;Sore, and the Frenchmen have made an attack upon them. Ifeif-poil Three p. ?v. The Csring has just ceased on the oppositt coast ; from one. till near three o'clock it continued without intermission, is very trernendors peals ; but, for tLis last hour, has been only at intervals, and in the end died away by degrees ; we are all apprehension and conjeOure, in expeeation of the result ; the weather continues so hazy in that quarter, we cannot descry any obj et but the Cli ff s, and a few ships some miles from that coast, most of them er own cruisers. A light breeze from the Eastward has now sprung up, and we may hope for some account of the cannon ading in the morning. A fleet of near hu sail, consisting of outward bound merchantmen, colliers, and coasters, are pass ing by from the Downs to the Westward, with a light wind, under convoy of a sloop of war. A frigate and two gun-brigs have also passed at a distance, from the Downs ; the former to Ports mouth, the latter on a cruise.off the French eu4st. Fire o'cieek, pme. A large frigate, supposed to he the Barhadoes, and two smaller ships of war, have just hove in tight from the westward, steering up Channel. FROM I.I.OYO'S LIST. M1111,•111. At Stulrate Co,k—The Alexander, from the C.... 1.0 el Spin. At Liverpool—VA mitie from Are',angel. At Bristol—La Piten, West, from St Ane'..r... In the Clyde, Jean, Wilson train Quehes.; Thomas, IM , Rthle, (mot New Brunswick; and the Recoveiy, Myhre, k. nk New 'York. At flordeaux—Minem, from &ten. At Rntterda.n—Pereeverance, Swain, front darn; W"l'am, Jautaer, from St. Th..insi,3 Hantreu, and the Luter prue. Pratt, from Dutton. . 1 ; - 'teak ~a __ the Pristhier had it td his I when the accident happened, the Prisoner ,;hat it Was afore the sailor's fault that his, 'ibe tun cocked. hose circumstances, the JUDGE summed up :ace, and the Jury, after a ftw minutes on, returned a Verdict of—Not DURHAM ASSIZES. _...~- THE IEIIIO T 6 MARY YOUNG, ELIZ. YOUNG, ANN wooer., and mount YOUNG, en the pratecsisan of BRIDGET MASON, Wife DENNIS MASON, .for ell •qsault. Mr. R•ittz, on the part of the prosecution, stated, that the quarrel which produced the assault, arose from the Prosecutrix's husband having been ejected off a farm by the Defendant, Robert Young, who was trustee to the farm the Prosecutrix's husband heed upon, and that the prosecution had been brought before the Quarter Sessions, but had been rernoied from thence, to this Court, by the Defend ants. Bridget Mason, the Prosecutrie, deposed, that she was the wife of Dennis Mason, who held a farm adjoining to Fowler-house, which he quitted last year ; and that the Defendant, Young, succeeded in putting another person on the farm ; and that the Prosecutrix and her husband had since gone to live at Beldershaw: She said, that since they left Eow • lee-house, she had not spoken to any of the family of the Youngs for a year and a half, except Robert Young. On Wednesday morning, the 6th of Aug. last, she wasgoing to Darlington Market, and had, on her road, to pass Fowler-house, where the Defendants live. si As I passed the horse," said she, I saw the females at the door, but did not speak to them. I had got about a hundred yards past the door, and I heard somebody behind me; upon turning round. I saw the two Youngs and Ann Moore. The twu youngest came and thrust me on the breast, and put me backwards ; before this I had done or said au thing to them. I told them, it they would not let me alone, I would fetch a peace warrant. The father, Robert Young, was there, looking over the workmen on the road, he being surveyor of the high roads, and one Robert Lamb was then working near him. The father said, I could have no peac warrant, for I had no witnesses. Mary and Eliza beth Young then closed me on each side, and dragged me back towards their house for near nine or ten yards. When they got me over against their father, they threw me down upon the mad, and Elizabeth held me by the throat, and tried to chock me, for I could not speak. Mary Young pressed me by the head down in the mud. Robert Lamb CAMe and took Mary Young off, saying, • Two against one isnot fair.' I then strove with Elizabeth Young, until I could get off. I bit Elizabeth's arm, and my hand came loose, and I got up. Mary Young took up my coat, and trampled it in the mud. I then went, and struck Elizabeth with my stick ; Mary came up, and I kept her off with my stick. She then called out, r Daddy ! Daddy! this old devil will beat us both, she beats with a stick !' Robert Lamb came a-back of me, and' twisted the stick out of my hand, over my shoulder ; it plumy thumb out of joint, and I was lame in both my hanZs." Upon cross-examination by Mr. Sc* a tat, he asked her, " hid you ever forgive old Young for turning you out of the farm ?" Her answer was, " That is another question." She further said, she first saw the father upon the road before the daugh ters came up. " I first said to Who can I trust to, if I cannot trust to Robert Young ?' I never stopped upon the road to abuse him, till I was it° by the daughters." 87 1 a being asked, what Magistrate she first ap plied to for redress? she replied, " I never applied to any Magistrate, but first went to Mr. Kirton, of Dm ham, attorney, for advice." The next wicness was Robert Brown, of Denton Lane End. He stated, that he was leading cones upon the road. " The first that I saw of the par ties were the two Youngs dragging Mrs. Mason, whom they threw down. I saw one of them tread the cloak in the mud. I afterwards saw Margaret (the soother). and I heard her say, If I had been there, I would have given her twice as much." upon cross-examination, he said, 66 I was abiait one hundred yards distant when I first saw them." Elizabeth Newton deposed, that she lives near the Defendants, Youngs', and that on the day tht rencontre happened, Bridget Mason came into her house, when she washed her cloak, and she seemed much toyed. Here the evidence on the part of the prosecution closed, and Mr. SCA R LET, on the part of the De fendants, addressed the Jury. He said, that this case had, and he thought wisely, been removed by corlisreri from the Quarter Ses sions to that Court. The case itself was a singular one, and reminded him of the story of two knights, who fought till the one run the other through the body with his sword; notwithstanding. he again rose and fonght, and conquered ; so it was amongst these female heroines—the amicable Bridget was brought to the ground, but she rose again, and, with her staff, she overcame her opponents. As there was no evidence against Ann Moore, who was also included in the indiCtment, the Jews' direEted the Jury to acquit her, in order that she might be admitted as evidence. The Defendants then called Mary Sewell, who I &Toyed, that she knows Robert Young's teinw, and saw Bi fidget Mason upon the road, near the house, on the day the assault was said to have been com mitted. She saw Robert Young upon the road. and the Proseeutrix abusing finis. When she first came up to him, she said, "Good morrow, honest man—you are a d—d great rogue!" and she con tinued abusing liim. Elizabeth Young then came up to her, and desired her to go away quietly, and not abuse her father: she then abused them all, and bit Elizabeth's thumbs. The Prosecutrix first went up to her, and seized hold of her : she then wen: up to Mary Young, and scratched her face, and cut Mary's head with her stick. till the blood came, and she fell down: she then went to Eliza beth, and hit one of her thumbs again. Thomas Young was then called. He said, that the first address he received from the Prosecutrix was, " I will have a paper written upon a tu►npike gate with roar chatatter." He then described the assault, the same as the recediarsimesa He said. NCRIIIMBEALdIott) AlsIzES. TR/ KING V. Till 11/HABITANTS dr CROCUS'S This was an indielment against the inhabkaste of Crookam, for suffering the body of William Darin Who died a violent death, to he buried without a Coronet's Inquest. The law throws the bUrthen upon the hundred where a man diesby violence, and is buried without the Coroner's Inquest. It appear ed, from the statement of Counsel tor the Prosecution, that, ih November, 1801, the deceased, together with some others, went into the country to get some smuggled gin ; and, Alter having obtained their ob jeet, their return they met some Excise Officers and soldiers, and the deceased met with his death in the struggle that ensued. The first witness, John Hewnrth, of Coldstream, in Scotland, stated, that in the latter end of 181a1, he and seven others, with Wm. Dover, the deemed, went to North Sunderland to get gin. He said, " we returned on the same night ; and on our return were met by Excise Officers and soldiers, who fired at us. I did not see William Dover fall, but we reckoned W. Dover was shot. He appeared to be shot in the leg. I saw the wound, when I was at Bemborongh. After the first fire, we surrendered the horses and cargo. The deceased, on the follow ing day, went home to Crookam, and died. After he received his wound, I told his wife, and the people of Crookam, what had happened. This happened be&we his death, and I have heard the people of O'ookam talking about it." Upon his cress-examination, by Mr. RSilit, he said, they had not any smuggled salt at that time. He beard the deceased say he was hurt, befote he got to Bamborough. George Thompson stated, that be did, in the lat ter end of 1801, see a party of custom-house officers and soldiers, who had William Dover in custody at Bamborough, and they wanted to send him home. " I then proposed, if they would give me money, I would go with him, as I had a horse of my own. I could not get him on to the horse, without the assist ance of two men. When we got to Belford, he said, he could go no fun her for pain; I, therefore, stopped with him about an hour. We then proceeded, but not before I had seen the wound, and a poultice ap plied t it. Eleanor Dover, the widow of the deceased, prov ed his death, and that it was known to every body in Crookam, that he had died of the wound he had received. Mr. Andrew Scot, surgeon, attended the deceas ed, asd descnbed the wound to be between the bone and the teed° not quite through, which appeared to be done by a sharp instrument. He said, he slapped the hemorrhage, and was quite sure the wound was the cause of his death, on tile 2.1 of December, 1801. Mr. Lindsay stated, that he and Mr. Scott were Coroners at that time for the county. and that he had never been applied to by the township of Crookam, as to the deceased's death, and, he believed, Mr. Scott had never been applied to. Mr. RAMS stated this case to be a new experiment in law, that the Coroners might get something more into their pockets. Here the case ended. The Juoo it said to the Jury, that this was an indiet merit for a nigleet of public duty, and, AI he under stood, brought forward At the insulation of some of the Magistrates for the county, to decide an obso lete question of the law; but his Lordship wished they had waited for a stronger case, for it was evi dent that the soldiers were justified in what they had done, and, therefore, there was scarce any question necessary to ask how the deceased had come by his death. Verdict—Net Gritty. Jabs CherUom was charged with manslaughter, in killing Thomas lludson, jun. The circumstances of the case were as follow : The Prisoner was a boy about 14 years of age, the son of Forster Charleton, Esq. of Alndike, near Alnvrick, and Payments of the Northumber land Militia. The .weased, a youth about 10 years of age, and son of Thomas Hudson, of the same place, labourer. The Prisoner had gone with a fowling-piece in his hand, on the forenoon of the 15th ..f September last, to the house of one Jobson, in Alemouth, about four miles distant from Ala dike, and asked his son, John Jobson, about 12 years of age, to go asshooting ; they both went, accom panied by James Smith, and another boy, to Ale mouth sands, and, during the time they were there, fired several times at see-galls. Between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the Prisoner went again to Jobvin's house,with the same boys, and then went a shooting to the same place. On their road to the sea-side, they were joined by a sailor, and when they had got there, the Prisoner bathed; and it raining at the same time, Jobsou took the guu, and covered the lock from the rain, and carried it to the bathing-house. When the Pr isoner bathed, he took the gun, and all four went up the links, and Prisoner iies4 at some see-gulls. After they,pame down from Oscine, Smith fired a Jobson's he l, which an other boy, of the name of Smart, put upon the mind. The sailor got the gun to shoot rabbits. The Pri soner, Smith, and Johann, remained on the sand for some time, when the Prisoner Went and got the gun Ire n the sailor, and e ime to the place where Jobson. Smith, and deceased were sitting. Prisoner asked the deceased (who was tending his father's cattle 1 on the links), whether there were any stints (a small sea-bird) in the Howkiln ? to which the deceased answered "Yes." They then went to the How kiln, and the deceased called after them, that he would go there, and raise up the stints, which they forbid him to do. However, he went along the links, till he reached a place where a small bank in- tervened, by which only the upper part of his body was seen, being at the distance of thirty yards from the Prisoner. In this position, the deceased held up his bat, and cried,--" Can you hit that?" on which the Prisoner immediately put the gun to his shoul der, and it went off; the deceased fell at the same time, an I he immediately got en again, and ran about 100 yards, when he again fell; by this time s the boys had reached him, the Prisoner raised him up, and appeared much concerned ; the other boys went to Alemouth, to tell what had happened. The bey was carried home, and attended by a physician and surgeon ; but, notwithst .riding thi. medical as sistance, he expired four days after the accident happened. The evidence on the part of the Prosecution nor . I roborated th.se fads, and further stated, that the that Robert lamb did not twist the stick ont Bridget's hand. Ann Moore, the ntzt witness, spoke to the same effea. She said, that Elisabeth's thamirs weere bitten as if a dog had-chewed them, there Were so many holes in them. Robert Wild deposed, that on that day he saw the Prosecutrix at Darlington, and sbe had with .....ICI stick about a y ard long, with a crass head upon it. I heard her say, she had given them, the. Defendants, both a mark. She took the s:ick in her hand, and said, ' Look ye, 1 struck as full as I could." Here th r Junae said, a more shameful prosecu. tion be never recollened coming into a Court of: . Justice. He would not trouble the Jury with the recapitulation of evidence : they, he was sure, bore sufficiently in recollertion the whole of the case. His Lordship said, that, for his own part, he thought that the Defendants might have supported a good case against the Prosecutrir. 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Thomas Lynam, corals of Boyton, ter Lambert, widow et Edmund Lambert, Esq. of Boytora-Itesem, At Lerntabagsw, Scotland, on the tsth current, Mr. Job* I' Allan, merchant, to Miss Isabella hirable, eldest daughter of Mr. Jame* Meikle, of Aughreiu. At 'Edinburgh. the 9th instant, Walton Henry Lynch, El. of the s.ln,d of Jamaica. to Miss Sarah Skene, third 'laughter of the late Captain James Skene, of Ab:odoen. DEATHS. /1 On the 10th September, at ku house, South Cun;otte stt,vt,Capt Robert Maitla nd, Stitlinesbiru On the DM of March, at Port St. George, on the Mar'r. estab , isliment, in his 40th year, Robert Narcotise, second son to the late Primate of Ireland. He is sincerely aid. most deservedly lamented by all who had an opportunity of koowirig his worth. Uo Monday leat,.at Derby, after a isw days illness, Mn.l Archtlall, settee/ Richard Archdall, Esq. M.P. On Saturday last, after a short illness, Sir James Tylne. '" Long, Bart. This young gentleman WAS a minor, and son to tee late Sir James T)hiiey, by Ito second wife, Catlie•tne Windsor, eidet daughter to the late Earl of Plymouth lIIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON SKI I)i ;E. Morn —.20 min. after 0 I Evm....56 anor - SALE BY AUCTION. By D. SADLER, An his Repository, Goswell.street, THIS DAY, at v.se!.. o'clock precisely, THE following HORSES. CARRIAGES, & A Pair of Chariot Geldings, fifteen hands earl a half In. quiet in hernias. A Bay GMdms , fifteen hands and a high, six years old, a good match hone. A Bay Mare Site hands high, six years old, quiet in heroes,. Pr es , . A Buy Mare, fif teen hands high, six years old, excellent mad inaie, quiet iq harness. Six Capital Maelimers, taken off the nerth road Boni cerement work. A Hackney Coach and Three Horses, the pro petty rata person giving io his plates. A Horse and Chaise, in good condition, the property of a ge , itl.mian. 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