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SIR JOHN C4RTER.

Sir John Carter. Knight, blayot of Portsmouth.
where he lately died, in his 67th year, Was nu-
-4100,1e41.• a man generally and most edetierredly
teepee both it his private and public capacity.
His parents were both Dissenter, and liciunged to
that detmerination designated by the term 11 ra-
tional llimeaters." Ilia father was a merchant of
cOmaderunle einineucsio Portsmouth ; and though.
Trout the offices Sir John afterwards held, he was
under the iseccaaitv of occasinu4 coulorming, he
remained firm to die. principles of dissent from the
doctrines and worship of the Established Church.
In September, 1763, Mr. Carter was elected au
Alderman of the borough of Portsmouth ; and
about 1768 he began to uct as a Magistrate. At
Michaelmas, 17tiJ, he was chosen Chief Magistrate
for the year.
• IR the summer of 1773, during his mowed May-
oralty, the King made his tint visit to Portsmouth,
and at that tithe wished to confer the honour of
'knightlipod on the Ma) or ; a tide of the time held
in much higher estimation thou at present; hut this
Mr. Carter declinino., was informed that HissMee
jesty conceived his refusal proceeded from a disre-
gard for Royal 'favour. This consideration, and the
peniumio• of his friend,. however, induced him to
comply. and he was eiceordiugly knighted on the
43d of June, 1773. In 1784 he was appointed c
rift of the seamy. In fact, he was five times elect-
ed Mayor of Portsmouth, and it was during his
sixth Maymalty that the King Made his third end'
last visit to Portsmouth. During the mutiny at
Spithead, in the spring of 1797, by his mild..
conciliatory, and patient conduct,' he rendered
the country a very essential service. The
sailors having lost three of their body, in con-
sequence of the resiatance made to their going on
board the Loadoe, then bearing the flag of Ad-
miral Colpoys, they wished to bury them in King-
ston cisme:lt-yard, and to carry them in procession
throggh the town of Portsmouth. This seauest
was nitait positively refused them by the Governor,
and they applied to Sir John, who endeavoured to
niovetheGosernor in their fat our, who still remain-
ing inflexible, Sir John at length compromised the
affair by getting leave for the bailor. to pass through
the garrison of Portsmouth in procession, and the
deed bodies of their companions to be landed at the
Common Hard at Pertsea, where the procession
was to join them. For this solicitation Sir Jobe
wa► stigmatised as a Jacobin, and this by so many
persons in high stations, that he was obliged to de-
cline any intercoure with them : still so great was
his influence over the bailer*, that they most scru-
pulously adhered to the terms he prescribed to
them in their procession to the grave, so far,
that two who came. ashore " a little groggy."
were by the rest carefully locked up in a room In•
. themselves, hest they should become quarrelsome.
The procession was thought au iiiteres:.eig spec-
tacle. Sir John accenn pained theta himself through
the garrison, to prevent any insult being offered
them. At the Common Hard he was meth his
friend Mr. Godwin, a worthy Magistrate of the
borough.. They attended _the procession, till it
had passed the fortifications at Portsea, and
the whole passed off with d .tency and quiet-
ness. When the leaden returned, and were
sent off to their respective ships, some of the
delegates from the I,9ados came to Sir John to
thank him fur his kinthices. Sir John seized the
opportunity of inquiring after their Admiral. " 1)3
you know hien, your honour Ve,,, 1 (save a
great respee:t for him, and hope you will net do
him any harm." •0 No, by ILS—af, sour honour,
he shall not be hurt." It was then thought the
tdniiral would have been hung at the yard-arm ;
he had, from precaiition, even made his will, in
which he left to the widows of the three, met* unfor-
tunately killed, an annuity of 201. each. The twat
morning the Admiral was safely brought on shore,
though pursued by a boat from the Mars. The
delegates alto accompanied him brought him to
Sir John Carter ; they then desired to have a re-
ceipt for him, as a proef to their comrades tbat he
wee safe in the hands of the civil power. The Ad-
miral himself, on his first appearance at Court, af-
torwards ac know !edged to I Its Majesty, that he owed
bis life to Sie John Carter, and assured him that
Sir John's principle* and conduct bad been
inisreprelented, and that he had net a more '
Unfired and worthy subject iu his dominions.
In the riots, occasioned by the scarcity in 1797, Sir
John's suavity of manners and unostentatious de-,
portuient were not less useklilsan before. In a mu-
' tinv also bY the Buckinhamsbire militia. among
whom he fearlessly mixed. lie was not less success-
ful. He was, after all. denounced, at the head of a
list of sishahitants, to Mr. Reeves, as a jacobin, and
a strong letter against him was likewise sent to the
Duke of Portland, which his Grace, amseired of his
patriotisnheent to Sir John, proposing to offer a re-
ward for the discovery of the writer, which, with a
'dignified consciousness of his purity. Sir John de-
clined. Indeed, so disinterested and lioaourable
' were hie political principles, that when, in lend, he
was offered a Ilaronetige by Mr. Fox, he declined
4 on the ground that he believed that to accept it
as a reward, would be a martifest.departnte from
his principles. These principles it was that in-
duced him to offer a seat in Parliament for the
Borough. to that distingnished friend of
berty, 'nomad. new Lonr Erskium The same
offer being afterwards made to Sir Thomas
Miller, Baronet, he declared that nothing but
the truly honeorable way in which the seat was of-
f-red tun, could base itedneed him to return again
to the fatigue of parliamentary duties. The same
conciliating temper induced him also, during the
late violence of party. to propose, as the other re-
pre.rntative,-aotac moderate member of the admi-
nistration; first, the late Lord i Seymour,
and afterwards Captain. now Achnirtitarkhams in
enmpliment to their common friend. the Earl of St.
Vincent. la ma, he tilled the chair of Chief
Magistrate or Mayor of Portsmouth for the Muth
and last time. Ile was uniformly upright and im-
partial. He wns as willing to afford relief by his
puree as by his advice. To the poor he was a
and many pereons had prevailed upon
him to undertake the direction of their COll.
cerna. by, which be set their minds nt csue. Never
was there a character in which there was leas of
self than his ; iii fact, his incessant attention to the
duties of hi. office, and the interest he took in the
concerns of friends sad deinudtato, contributed to

wear out a cat.stitution of naturally strung. His
health had been gradually declining lot the last
three ) ears. He tinittett life with the sume com-
posure with which IA had passed throukh it. His
lamp went gently out, lie drew his last breath
during sleep, Dud died ut .20 minutes past tbree iu
the afteinooa of the lath of May. kits servants
and nihnereus teriaa'ry spontaneously paid the
same external tribute of atiectioa and retard that
they pay to a near relative, by shutting up their
houses.

A family vault was built for him in the burying
ground of the Unitariiin Diisenters at Per:smooth,
of which *octet v he was nearly the oldest tnenther,
the whole of whom went into mourning. He was
carried to the burvin; place at seven in the morn-
ing of the emil of May, by eight of his servuots.
and followed by his son, his youngest and only sur-
viving brother, and his oldest nephew. bneh was
the public feeling on this melancholy oceas.mai that
roany huudreda of penplc more thou could be ad-
mitted into the Unitarian Chapel, were assembled
by six in the morning.
The Southern Unitarian Society have, in him,
lost a valuable member, and inanOnd a friend, if
the prayers and tears that followed hies can be
taken as enrprof, of the public esteem.
He has lett a widow and six children. The eldest
daughter is married to Captain Eveleigh, of the
Royal Engisieers. The teeond to Captain Gifford,
of the Royal Navy, Lientenam-Governor of the
Royid Naval College. The other daughters are
unmanied. Ili, son is a minor, an amiable and,
promising young man. Ile was educated with.r
Mr. Cogan, of Highaiu HillolValtliainstow, and is
now a student for the common law, at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge.

NAVAL LVTELLIGENC E.

PORTGMOUTII, *Wet= 2.

Arrived the Aliritore, from a craive ; also reveral
transports amt.-outward-bound veuela from the
Dow us.—Wind S.W.

PIXMOCTII, A 1,70. 1.

Sailed the Clittoopion sloop of oar, on a cruise.
Amired the I)e.rirrusts ;dun-brig, with dispatches
froi the. Mediterranean ; we cannot diszover what
is the nature of her dispatches; also the Scorpion
sloop of war, Capt. Stanfell, only do hours from
Billion, with Sir Thomas Dyer, who, we under-
stand, brings a continuation or the various victories
obtained over the French in Spain ; aho, the Mat-
vista, Bear, from Jamaica, and' the SapG;s, Gin-
nick, from Gibraltar, for Lisbon, with barley and
staves, the latter detained by His Maiesty's ship
La Npurpsle.
Arrived the Woolwich store-ship from the east-
ward. •

Returned the Channel fleet to Torbay ; and we
are rearful that the expedition that went down
Channel yesterday will return. or put into Fal-
mouth, the wind having shifted hut evening to the
wcbt, where it now stands.

TORBAY, ♦UGUST 1.

The wind changing to the smuth;prd and wert-
ward, rice-Admintit Sir J. T. Duckworth, with the
chips under hia command, returned to Torbay, vit.
Royal George, Dreabsowght, St. George, Neptiase,
Teaseraire, AcAille, and Pallas'.

sat yorTlI, JCUT 31.
Arrived the Poneenn, from Portsmouth, with the
fleet fur the Mediterranean.
Sailed the Growler, with several transports, with
stores, for the fleet otT L'Orient. The fleet for the
Brazils, Africa, ■nd Madeira, also sailed, but the
wind proving contrary, the latter fleet has returned ;
it is suppostd the others will also. Tlie Princess
.4nvelin packet sailed for C'runna, but is also re-
turued.—Wind S.W. .

DEAL. AtraST 2.
Arrived the Royalist, Indignant, Furions, and
Rirismassi. from a cruise ; and the Gloran. from
Pattsmomti►, with a convo►•, which are 'Ailed for the
River; also the Tyne Packet, Barer, from Dubliu.
Sailed the haunter armed ship, with the outward.
bound. &c. under con►•ap for the Westward. --
Wind S.W;

sitr.rgewass, •UGUST 2.

Sailed from the Nore, yesterday idler post, the
Majesty's ship Serpr•ht, with the trade for Gotten-
burgh and the Balite ; also the Oberon, with the
trade for Heligolind.-7Wind S.W.

past rd& p. m. Upwa of so ad of vesaels
are Dow pestiag the Nore for the Ltiver.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

CRAYMWO. Avarn :!.--Pirsed by the Lively. Renck-
sun, from Atrira Anderson, Wilkins; ('aribtir), J)rtrtui
and Echni.e. F.-seaman, from JILIV•I4 a St. Rah-adore,
(runs Malta ; Fanny, Mortis., fr..in Limerick ; Elizalst
tmanerman ; and Thomas,m ..ite.n, (rum Gotha/so.. gb
sailed the Sithect Uali, Vaughan, fur Loressar ; anal 'IV. -
ridge; for Alderney.

•RR7{"IY,

Off Dever—dte laeian, How Isad, from kmaira ; and the
allargaratta Cornell*, Inns llport.,
At Yarleuoti.--.Niptaa?, South ; and the Ltrely, Holmes,
Orem Heligoland.
At Hatt—(Aran, liowr ; 'min d.tto.
At Il4ese—Ahroam, front Prince Lbrard Island.
Itsprriariret, SeAkc and the Fountlaia, Baxter,, Gam
Greenland.

la thr Clyde—.ingieu, 80, front Quebec.
♦t Iliefatt7Adventunti, ritnettead, from iferansaelkie

At St. Miribart's...ladt;stry, Thompoo. a, from LiTerW*l.
At Priam F.diani istoad—.4.ro lirattsms, Chmedlks, CAR
Plymutit

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bate—ilttory, Jaanittou. on 11.routoo ; Mary Am,
Waterman, from Taigaatautti ; aad Cambria% Gem
Yarmouth.

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