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~~,: ten!, h ..i; d Rev id Ii ce, rtke v SPA, Itcra, 1: DIM in IDer 10 dinr. r * such 1 I died r . He iiss G. Her, ts Rise d In diAt night. :mem d, last teAlirg 2Pf I.e helm. he slit lif ja! 1„;CIS JAVA ICA. 1110 M THE KIVOSTON DAILY aDVERT!SER, OCT. 8. ST. JAOO DE LA VEGA, OCT. 6. A correspondent near Black River has transmitted to us the following account of a most awful and alarming phenomenon, which made its appearance in Middle Quarters, in the parish of St. Elizabeth, ..n Monday the '2lth of September. about four . 'dock in the afternoon. began with very heavy black clouds, as if there was a deluge of rain ready to fall. It was presently afterwards ac companied with a dreadful roaring nt , ise, as if a violent squall of re;,. with sy;iirl was coining on, but much more loud and horrible. There was soon the appearance of a large gluhe rising from the earth, and ascending into the atmosphere, oc casioning very violent commotion and convulsions in the earth. The fall of trees was distinctly heard, and large limbs thereof, together with i::rrumerable birds, were seen carried to an immense ire,ght in the air, the clouds at the same time convulsed in the most awful and terrific manner. There was then seen what resembled a water-spout, but no water fell from it. This continued its course from the North East to the Southward, carrying all before it, tearing up log-wcod, cotton-trees, &c. by the roots, andwhirling upin the air the limbs of the larg est trees, having at the same time the appearance of fire, attended with a thick black smoke, which as cended from it in its course, and a report like guns going off. This continued nearly an hour, and its course was upwards of a mite. The appearance V. AS so awful, and of so extraordinary a ',Ante, that !ne while neighbourhood, and elf that saw it, were alarmed beyond measure, not knowing when it would rad. Fortunately, it Ic-pt its course where do dwellings or buildings were, otherwise they must inevitably have been destroyed; as the stmngest buildings could not have withstood the violent force G I this awful convulsion of nature. FALCUAERS HALL. ROYAL HART CHACE. On Tuesday last, at eleven o'clock, according to the r.otice in our I..st Herold, each sportsman on the %Colds. 'lnd around, win, thought his horse supe ri sr in blood and speed, made his appearance at Fuels( :ve : it was soon known that the Royal Hart Thoinvi:lo, was at Colonel Thornton's farm, at roythorp, whither the company drew. At ten mi rutes before twelve, Sir Mark Sykes, the Driffield Haat, and horsemen in number about 100 (a very nianageahle field), being all ready, Colonel Thornton ordered the door of tha pen to be thrown open, and the Ilart made his appearance, but took quite a contrary direction from what was wished he merrier: far, sleek, and modest ; he soon, however, bounded over a pretty high fence, and took Boy- INA p Great Sheep Walk, and seeing the hounds at a distance (who luckily did not see him) he went away gallantly op to Falciincr's Hall Great Whin raid, and as he now was seen about two or thtee rules forward, the steady hound Co:/sel was laid on the scent to drive him. so thai he might not loiter ; the Pack in twenty minutes were then brought to the line, and a finer or more sharp burst was never seen than what took place through Sir Mark Sykcs's• High Wood, Butters( ick Wold, and across that extensive fine turf Sherburn CVO*/ bad got up to him, butlhe soon disengaged him.elf, by kriewkihg him over, and bounding the fence. Here the park ss are stopped, and the horses allowed twenty minutes to breathe ; they then were permitted to go on. and another sharp burst took place in Sir Mark Sykcs's plantations. A greyhound and a niongi el mastiff coming out of the cove. , mach it clear they had run the hart, and possibly killed him, the le aunds did not acknowledge any scent further. After much search in the upper and lower corers, the hound At.dirh, one of Ord c onqueror's t.i.s'w. at last gave tongue, all immediately from a thicket out bounded the hark; hlutlish attempted to seize him, but was knocked down by the deer ; she attacked him ag.iin, wirin he bounded over the fence. Ihe trust WAS most tremendous. He took the wide Wold over tlesler on; descended the iciting ter d moves wss hi 1.4 r ~ Imre p•s IC• nrahtv .1 M n Mitre keeper ne ar es. a in be . MAIL, week wils walla he se' IL wiA. SPORTING ISTELLIOLNCE We ;arida:a-stand a Match will be run on the last day of tho Mahon Craven Meeting, !SO% by Mr. Masterrnan's dun hone, John Doe. by Ormond. and Mr. kkaulton'a bay mire, Mra. Line, by Aston khrnent, for SOga. h. ft. To carry Se. 71b. each. k our miles. Cbc match betwixt Eagle and Hippocarnpus is off b) cunsent. .1. great part of Sir F. PooLs's stud was lately re-% at Newmarket, at pries considerably Ad vaac cl. Wary was finally disposed of to Mr. 1V iL -10% tor 700 guimia,. It had not been before sold, but w as d eta i ne d un d er c l a i m as a heriot by the /Jake of DORSET, which CLAiRI WAS compromised or .;oui. lig tb• even te-ili• brow, the whole pack at his haunches, and :n the •-t f snapping at him ; dashed thro* Last an.l West Ileslerton townships, acrou Knapton Warren, seemingly for to take soil at Srainpsln•, ; brat eastward across the ticarb:),:righ-r far the rivet at Vedingliam, where he got into a pool, and there defended himself bravely against tf e hounds till secured. Thus ended a long ex petted chat', which, tor spe:ti and run over the finest turf, liaS no parallel. 'The hotrods all the way were in a compaet body, and might have been covered with a sheet. It is expelled that the extre mity of the run could not be less than fifteen miles, acrd the whole run aLout twenty • five milts. The Hirt returned on Thursday to his pen, apparently no worse fin- the sport he had afforded. In the aolaur of the chace, and with a view to save the He t from the. fury of the hounds, Mr. H. &piton, Mr, Simon, and a farmer, got some severe falls, bin luckily no contusions or broken bones took place. (York Her:lf.) The followintr is an extranadinary run of the Lap. dog Beagles.—They found a hare on Saturday last : car Major Topham's.wf:o took the finest part of the whale Wnld over %Vold Newton, Carsdale Race Ccause, Fordon Banks, Flixton, Brompton, Saxton, Flontmanby, came across part of Hunmanby, Dit to% Torsion, and was killed without a check fur nearly twenty miles, near to North-Hutton. All ke field were thrown out except the huntsman, who &me in by accident.—( York Herald). LA Jr. COURT OF KING'i BENCH, WESTAIINSIa Nov. 46 At nine o'clock this morning Lord Et tattoo- R OUGII sat at Nei Priter. Five undefended causes, of no moment to the Public, were disposed ot. GEoace Lord KLNVON, and Joon RICHAILD SON, I.sq. Barrister at Law, after the Patent buinj read, appointing them to the office of Keepers id the Writs of the Court of King's Bench, took the usual oaths. THE KING V. JOHN SYDNEY. The Defendant is this case was brought np to re ceive the judgment of the Court, far an a , simit upon Jessy Hilton, of which he had been convicted the last Assizes for Warwick. Ile had been brought up the 15th iust. when the Judge's report and the affidavits were read, which we laid before our readers, in our paper of the 111th instant. Mr. Justice GROSF, in pronouncing the judgment of the Court, observed, that the Defendant had been most properly convicted of a most atrocious and violent assault, and that it was by no means owing to his own prudence that he was not tried for a capital offence. He had committed this era within the borough of Warwick, for the purpose of o!)- striating the Prosecutor in the execution of a duty which he owed to the public, in deteEling the illegal removal of some malt ; his waylaying the unfortu nate man, and his subsequent condul, disclosed a scene of the most diabolical nature. The conduit of the Grand Jury of that borough was highly re prehensible : they had not only thrown out the in diament, but treated the Prosecutor with the utmost indignity, disgraceful to the judicature of the coun try to a great degree, some of them also appeared to be maltsters. By the assault, the Prosecutor was de prived of the sight of one of his eyes, and otherwise injured, so as to r ender him totally unable to earn his bre scl ; some restitution was due to the public, and, at least, contrition on the part of the Defendant; but no such had ever appeared, and he had the-audacity, upon the trial, to sub.'rn two miserable witnesses, who swore they saw the Prosecutor (by moonlight) give the first assault. whoa there was no moon until two nights after. Upon the whole, the Learned Judge nbs'•rved, the case admitted no fad of atone ment contrition whatsoever ; and, taking all cir tun:manor. s into cons'cleration, the Court adjudged that t'•e Defendan, should be imprisoned in the gaol of Warwick t h e the rm of two yens, and at the ex piration of that that he should enter into securi ties to keep the peace for seven years, himself in IUOI. and two sureties in 501. each. AINO O. JOHN MILES. This Deferdant was hi•.ught up, on Thursday last, and reman ied until this day. He had been convicted, at the last Mai.inone Assizes, for having in his josses ion various articles of tumid stores, marked with the King's mark, and belonging to His Majesty's Dock-Yards at Chatham, where he had been some trme employed as 4 dab) , labourer. The Defendant was between 70 and t.,'o years of age. Mr. Justice Geose, in pronouncine the •ertence of thlsCourt, observed, that the starete in this case had been too frequently violated by praaices of this nature—aed the legislature had wisely provided for a prosecution of persons committing this offence, as receivers of stolen goods; he therefore trusted, that the convieron and punishmec't of this Detendaet would be a warning to all persons residing in the neighbourhood of Dock-Yards throughout the kingdom, but more especially to persons near the Dock-Yard of Chatham, where such offences were so frequently committed. He concluded by saying, that the Legislature had provided an ade , . c t nnishment for such, which was transports .inn for years ; but, taking all the circumstances into consWeration, particularly the advanced age of the Defundant, the Court adjudged, that he .hould lie imprisoned in Maid,tone Gaol for three months, and to stand once in the pillory, near His Majesty's Doek•Yard, at Chatham, within that time. CII \I.LF.NGE. Mr. Easkitit moved for leave to file a Criminal Information against Mr. James Bloxham, of A bury, Surgeon, fur sending a letter to a Mt. In gram, a Volunteer of the same place, with intent to provoke him to tight a duel. The leained aad eloquent Counsel prefaced his statement, by seem!l observations upon the great evalence of this offence in latter days, which called f car some power to break down this fatal prac tice of duelling, which might, in a great measure, he avoided, it gentle.nen, who had a nice sense of honour, would only first make a gentlemanly ap plication for explanation or apology, and even when they should go into the field (though God forbid,lie should countenance suchTpranices), the interfelente of reasonable person.: would preserve the rules of honour, and prevent much mischief. In this case, the condua of Mr. Bloximni was highly reprehensible, and the letter was of a most aggra vating and provoking nature. Mr. Ingram's father had an empkyment in the parish et Aylesbury, and went, accompanied by his sun, who made the present application, to the vestry room, to settle some accounts, and pay some claims upon the parish, when the Defendant, Mr. Bloxham, interfered. Sonic words arose between the parties ; and Mr. Ingram observed, that it would be necessary to re move Mr. B. if he became.trouhlesome, when his father interfered, and advised him to take no n oti ce of it. Soon after, he received a letter from Mr. Bloxham, nearly as follows ts Mr. Bloxham is willing to let Mr. Ingram put his threats into execution, at any hour, time, or place, he pleases He will find the necessity of doing so, to retrieve his charaeler from the imputation of cowardice," &c. And Et. tztinoTtot on observed, that, considering all the circtunstances, he thought it would he the best way to let the matter go before the Grand Jury. The application therefore was refused. IN sOLV ENTS Mr. Ctossshewed cause against a Rule obtained by Mr. Andrews, for .t manJamus to the keeper of Nesvgate, direaing him to make a supplemehtary list of persons in his custody, who were entitled to the benefit of the late Insolvent Aa, but who had been removed from one gaol to another, subsequent to the Ist of January last. The affidavit on which the motion was grounded, was swot a by one Abra ham Ergas, who had been conviaed of a libel. M . Gram and DANNER. on the part of the keeper of Nea - gate, although willing to give every assist..nce to relieve ete persons filaki:ig the applicai tion, yct felt some appreher,ions for the j.iil. t, i making the necessary affidavit ;. but submitted the question entirely to the considerat;on of die Court. Mr. Aso , t iws supported the Rule, npoo mmy clauses, in the Ad of Pat liarnent. MT. Gin fIS afterwards staved, that A further diffi culty arose in the present ca e, as Ergs had been committed in execution for a ltbrl ; and the An pro vided, that all p-rsons, convL'l upon :onions for Crim. Con. Assault, Libel, or any other madcious prosecution, should not be entitled to benefit. Lord ELI. E NaOROIJO 3 observed, that this Ad WAS meant for the benefit of distressed debtors, and not for malicious offenders The Rule was there fore refused. Mr M., rt tore applied in somethin'► of a similar case for the like Rule, hut the Defend int had not been charged in any criminal prosecution. He stated that the Magistrates of Surrey had adjonrned their Sessions until the 5:11 of next month, for the purpose of having the opinion of the Court on this point. As some decisions had taken place upon this ques tion in the Court of Common Pleas, and as the Court considered it a very important one, they post poned their opinion until they should have a con ference with the other Judges. HOWELL ♦ND ANOTHER S.P. STRATTON AND ANOr}I Ct. This was a Rule obtained by Mr. Amnia livs to spew cause why the Pliintiffs' judgment and exe cution should not be stayed. In this case a Mr. Wigram had purchased an an nuity from the Defendants of 2501. per annum, tion a sum of 20501. and the Plaintiffs had joined them as guarantees in the annuity bond, to secure the pay ment of that sum half yearly. The DA mdants con fessed a judgment to the Plaintiffs, which, by the deed, was conditioned, that in default of the regular payment of the annuity, the Plaintiffs should be en titled to issue execution for the furl sum of 20501 The Defendants afterwards became bankrupts, the annuity was oot paid, and the Plaintiffs issued their executions for the whole sum. Messrs. ERIK ISE, LAY'S, and ANDlliWS.co.itcn.!ed, in support of the rule, that the Plaintiffs ha'd a right only to a portion of the 20501. and that the creditors were entitled to the residue of the Defendants' property. Messrs. GAILROW, GIH 3S. and MARBIOT, on the other hand, contended, that in default of the pay ment of any part of the annuity, the Plaintiffs had a right to sue out execution for the whole sum, and to hold the whole sum to indemnify them. the Court was of opinion, that the whole sum should be invested in the funds, for the payment of either the principal or interest, and should lee held as a pledge in the hand of the Plaintiffs.—Rule dis charged. —sseeseese— COMMON PLLAS. BARS V. DICEY. TI .Is was an action on the case tried at Warwick Assizes. The Plaintiff's horsewas taken in distress fur the assessed taxes. 'rite l'iain.rff, conceiving he had no right to pay them, replevied his hone, and pro. ceeded to trial ; bin it being a case of considerable impor.ance to the whole constahlewick, it was agreed that a special case should be sent to the Court of Exchequer ; but, not being in regular form, that Court declined to give their opinion upon it, and it was sent into the Common Pleas. Sixteen persor., were appointed by the Commissioners under an A, of Pasallinebt, to collen the assessed taxes in the constablewick of Bordsley, Witton, and six °ther hamlets, specified by name. Two persons were chosen out of each hamlet. and, it had always been the custom for these two to colle.f the taxes in the hamlet in which they resided. and never had ally claim upon the inhabitants of the neighbouring hamlets, but allowed each of them to be collefted by the colleitor, chose,: from, and more immediately belonging to, their respective hamlets. Gibbet, the colleftor of %% mon, having made default in his last payment, an order issued from the commissioners that the constablescick was liable, and that all the hamlets should contribute to make up the deficiency ercasioned by the default of the hamlet of Witton. The Plaintiff Bars,residing iu die hamlet of Bordsley, was distrained, and by this means the whole ques tion came before the Court. Serjeant VAUGMAN, for the Plaintiff, argued, that there was no constablewick in England named in the manner this was named in the apviiitment by the Commissioners ; t!.at it was called the consta blewick of Bordsky alone, and not the constablewit k of Witton, Bordsley, &c. &c. ; so that it must have been evidently their intention to subdivide the con stablewick into eight parts, or distrisas ; and to ap point two persons to coiled in each clistrtil inde pendent of each other, and, of course, lint respon sible for the taxes due by any other district. Serjeant BAILEY, on the other side, inaintaiaed that the ast and appointment by the Commissioners under it, meant nothing else but the entire constable wick of Bordsley, though the different hamlets con stituting it were specifically named; and undoubted ly every hamlet must he liable, as each person was appointed to coiled in the constablewick of Botdsley only; that the Commissioners, in appointing them, had made use of a more particular name than the constablewick of Bordsley. Sir JAMES MASSFIELD said, he did not believe the aft empowered the Commissioners to appoint more than two colleelors in each disc ;so if they meant, as his brother BAILEY said, to appoint th - sixteen eolleetors of the constablewick of Bordsky, it was contrary to the At . t of Parliament: he was sorry it was not brought forward in the Court of Ex chequer, which, to him, appeared to be the proper place for it. Serjeant VAUGHAN, in support of this argument, cited a case from first Burrow, where five overseers of the poor were appointed instead of four, men tioned in the :Let. It was decided by Lord MANS. t n, that the number mentioned in the ad should be adhered to. From which, he argued, that the Commissioners had no power to appoint more than two to ar.y one distriet, and of course could not in tend that these sixteen were, in common, eolleeturs of the constabkwick of Bordsley, but that they meant to divide it into eight districts, appointing two to each, totally independent of each other. Sir JAM ES M•NSFIrII) thought sixteei, too many to coiled in any one place, and it seemed to be the intent that two should coiled in each hamlet ordered to stand over. .."--'- ~` ~, 11 •1!t, • Intl .~ Li Tue.dAy, the Lord Lien(etisAt •:1 • 7 • issued two Proclamations for of vessels arriving from places inlet'lcd wtd• ary milienant dis-nders •• The Catholics of this C:tv an , :her ?fleeting . on Saturday, when thi aatjourned nr.• r lannirf next, at whic:t time they expeA the t.t ~ ,-s.,t•;re erdi interfere in their I , elielf. A meeting took place on l'ite•day, in the neigh hourluxid of S4ndsmotin:-, between tsto gentlemen from the Scuth, Mr. P—gst, and Mr 0 After exchanging two short each, by the in erter. ence of friends, the affair to-in:slated. The former gentleman had a rat-raw eseape, a bull having pas sed thiongh the coliar of his coat. The rant riptions for Carlin Skinner, carnal:in& er of the 15mm packet, amounted yestetday to WA than 7001. ' • • • Yesterday morning, five waggons, eontainitig the treasure taker. out of the Spanish frigates, de. tained by the squadrivt tinder the command of Capt. Moore, passed through the Strand. They were f escorted by a party of Light Dragoons. Government. it is said, are about to purchase 2 piece of ground at South Town, near lertwich, for the purpose of erefting an armoury for 10,000 stand of arms, and extensive storehouses for the Eastern District. Other buildings of a similar kind, and an armoury for 20,000 stand of arms, are also to be ereslled at Bury. Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. FINCH. of the Ist Regiment of Warwickshire Volunteers, is & company of Volunteers in Coreatry, to au his regiment. On Wednesday last, as the R.cr. Ir. BALDWIWg of Darwen Chapel, near Blackburn, was riding across the River Darwen, in com,rany with his Lady, who seas also on horseback, the latter was washed off and drowned. A very elegant anu sumptoons dinner was given last week at Havant, by the officers of the Ist Fare. barn, Havant, Emsw firth, Wickham. Cotham, and Farehart. and Titchfield Volunteers, so Lrigadietsif. • General PORTLR. Major G %um c rr, being the sp. aior officer, was in the chair. Major CARTER *a4 Captain and Adjutant Mo.:vivre, of the Synth-V.ast Hants Yeomanry Cavalry, were the oaly invited. It is almost superfluous to say, that evening was spent with the mos: maned convirricr enjoyment; and that the bosoms of the consp2ay; ware warmed by. a flow of the most loyal and c4u .911t11601141 toasts. On Thursday evening the remains of the Counteas Dowager of SHAFTAIEURY were earri-d ro Salis. bury, in grand funeral sta-e, from London ; and en Friday they were conveyed from thence, to be deposited in the family vault in Dorsetshirts. 'lle child, whose hands were eaten off at Cstting► ham last week, by a pig, as detailed in a format paper, we understand, is likely to recover. Thra ha; been killed, cut into pieces and buried. Wei s% • derstand use parents of the child are in indigent cit. cumstances, which renders their situation, in congas; quence of this shocking accident, still more cadet* cats. No less a sum than 36451. 12s. 7d. has been mi• lefted and distributed among the sufferers by the • late fire at Chumleigh in Ds . anshire. A noble is stance of the generosity of the British public. In the article respeeling Cu.rates' atipseda- Wag • augmented to 401. per :mourn in the direrse of Not. with (inserted last week) ; for want of due punChr ation, there was a material mastake ; as it was not intended to say that the curate was to have the parsonage-house and offices, at a fair rental (bat rent free, as the law allows), together wit!; the oc cupation of such a portion of the glebe as the Bishop may deem necessary for the accommodation of the I resident Curate. at a far, rent. On Wednesday, a hare was caught. sveimmitne in the Hitmtver, near the south-end, which. it is sup posed, she had taken in conseqaence of having tonna pressed by some of her enemies on Lana:. Saturday. James Coati. a supernurnvary seaman of the Rai Wiliam, at Portsmi oh, was tried for having procured spirituous liquors from the shore, without the permission of his officer, and wine (supposed to be part .4' the allow ince cif several seamen). and sold the said liqu,r an J wine to some of the ship's company, contrary to the order of Capt. WA SW RIGHT. He was sentenced to receive 50 la she". Sir ISAAC Corns, Bart. President. The same day a Court Martial was held upon WILLIAM Rix., and WILLIAM LAING, two seamen btlonging to the , his, for deserting from her in the harbour of St. John's, Newfoundland. They were sentenced to receive 200 lashes each. A private letter from Paris mentions a very ludi crous matter to have lately transpired from the Ca binet of St. Cloud. On Sir Gc arGa Ruraeuctis • arrival in that City, TALLETA AND. REGNIE4 Faucet, and other state worthies, were instantly summoned to attend BON •P It TE carter, fur fhb inspedion cf our Ambassador's patters. Flom counter-plots, assassinsuitms, &c. were :peeled from each envelope. Every paper, even to the smalleft strap, was examined with the eve of a lynx; almost despaiting of finding any thing exception. able, the Ea 'neon darted his eyes on a turn hit de paper, having figures on it, thus arraneed-10,000, 1.t0.), 500. and exclaimed, " involves a plot! he was raising ic,ooo conspirators to be sent into France, 5,000 to Holland. 1,000 to Italy, and 500 to Switzerland. How unfortunate that the remainder of the paper is wanting I" .• I'll supply the defirtrary,"criedTa EVRAND. •• There it, no ne cessity," replied the criminal Judge. k sc-ro as ; " the case is quite clear, there', full sufficient to condemn him." When In I on a farther search, the remaiiiing portion cf the important paper was discovered. Bu. N P•ETE hastily joined the parts, and, to the asto nishment. disappointment, and mortifitatioa of the whole junto, found it to be only a Bi 1 of the Eng lish STATE LOTTERY. Hal ha! ha I Yet, great m meat have barn the Lasesitort's chagrin. the occur rence may produce him Beattec", d'allikerd. He has many great and preying occasions for money ; any one of the numerous magnitustinetts Prizes la the approaching most capital Lottery would much assist his shattered finances. H. calls himself Oa Ct.. 1,1 of Fortune; and the Goddess, perhaps, may really be so tilind,a; to present him, on ad/nautilus, with one of the largest Pliers.