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settle with him npotstbelMtlation of 45,0001. a+
the produce
ruf the:l)4k Ste did uot tuk.:
that, lw might leant if.• Ile-aso said, that when he
was 'hying the incu, he stopped ten pilules a-
piece from them, for carrying the ship round from
Falmouth to London ; although in the dishursc-
meats charged. out of the prize-money, the sum of
5001. was charged for that service. This Moses de-
nied, as wholly without foundation ; on the con-
trary, hr suit, this witness had come to him to so-
licit a settlement, in the same tawnier us the
Plaiutiff had date.
To a question by the COURT, whether the De-
fetiduut's answer stilted the time of the rale of the
cargo ? it arpeared hr admitted it was in Muy or
June, 1504. Here the evidence clostal on both
sides.

Mr. Serjeaot Cocaw. proceeded to animadvert
on the whole of the mile, and after the Learned
Judge hail summed op, the Jury fouud a verdict
for the d.skaAl4.-.4 3371. 9.. bein the re-
mainder of hi, *hare ou the actual produce of the
prime.

NAVAL /.‘ iELDGENE.A.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. A.
Arrived the Coquette sloop of war, Capt. Forbes.
Mrrope, Capt. Dodd; and die Pluto, Capt. Jamie-
from cruising on this coast. The two hitter ships
bare sailed amain for their stations.
Arrivtl the Camillo, Capt. John Bowen, with a
few vessels bound to the Mediterranean, trout t sr-
month ; and the AO, from a cruise.
A great nurnher'of paq ..ii-Lrs,many of whom are
Officers of the array, are arrived, togo out to the
West Indies in the convoy which is prevented from
sailing be foul winds.
tisrlcd La BUlllte Cituyenne on a cruise. and the
Escort, with a convoy for Guernsey.—Wind S.W.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.
Came in the Primrose, from the eastward ; and
the Danish sloop Emanuel, ' from Drotitheitn,
humid to Bordeaux, prise to the ketch Gleaner.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 6.
Arrived La Loire frigate, set gun', Captain
Stionfdicrg,, floes Portsmouth, with cash and
dispatches, fur Spain ; i laic frigate, from a
erniset; Prima. Ernest packet, Petre, Irons Ja-
maica, in 30 der' passage; the ketch Clearer,
from Lisbon. in 12 days; and the Aforitioroirgli
packet, Bun, from otf Madeira.
Arrived the Caratcallis packet, Capt. Anthony.
with 51. a., from the Leeward Wands, in thirty-two
days. She had a smart brush with a French priva-
teer, on her passage, rind-beat her off. She .after-
wards arrived at 31artinique, with the Ines of 3t
men. .
The Eliza packet is arrived .t St. Ives. from Co-*
awns, in four days. It is reported, that the French.
have get 136,00 a men about 15 leagues from Ma-
drid. it is further raid, that two Spanioli regiments
have jitined the French. Make. after being de-
feated, has been superseded by the Merquis de la
Roman... Sir Thomas Dyer came passenger in the
Eliza.
• Likewise arrived here about thirty sail of trau-
• sports Irons Plymouth, to take on board cavalry
fur Spain ; and the Afaribormigh packet, Captain
Ball, Weed to the Breads, which sailed front
Madeirmoa the 13th of member, and on the *nth
was captured, after as action ref Jit hour. by the
French privateer La Josepki,te, i t gait., from
Board/mita, who, after plawdarieg the pocket of
vat inns articles, throwing her guns overboard. caned
taking out eight men, gave her up to the remainder
of the crew.—V. seed S.W.

pal. 4 Du:. $.
Arrived and sailed for the River the Here, Ste-
plsewaa. feria Quebec ; and the lielkn, Waniaa,
from the Braci,.—Wind W.

• DOVER. DEC. D.
Yesterday came in the Milford, of Pembroke,
Whitt, with inerelsiutiliwe from Loudon for Malta,
Lost an anchor and eahle; also the Cora, of Ureat
Yet Mouth, Carr, with wine and fruit from Oporto,
for Colchester and Yarmouth; lost ditto; the.
Lopedox Packet, of and ter Loudon, Slightholin.
with fruit front St. Übe*, damaged her main-chain.;
and Fre-oh-rick, of Bremen, with fruit, from Lisbon
for Loudon, lost anchor and cable; awl to-day the
following—sloop LiperiNtent, of Dover, Moliand,
with bran; from London for Portsmouth, to hare
been forwarded far the use of the cavalry in Spain,
sunk a little within the harbour's mouth ; John mid
Sifters, of isod from Sunderland, Miller, with coals,
having last night been run foul of by a vessel otf
Dungeness; ,lie was with much din cuity ktpt
from sinking in the Roads. Several hands Weft'
gait on board, who kept the pumps going the
whole of the time.
The P , of and from Sunderland,
Clark, came in with a remnant of coals, from off
Deal beach ; a transport brig marked J. L. t ante
in this afterution.

Came into the roads the Edward, of Dover.
Court, with a cargo of coals from the westward.
Several vessels are now detained in the roads
wind bound. the wind blowing strong from the
N.E. •

PROM LLOYD'S LIST.
Altai wen,
OE Drieer--the 1417Y1011 Parket, Ateighibolm, from Si.
11.The's ; Cma. sad the ftc,terick, front Lisbon.
la Sausigate Creek-4c Neptene, Datinell,Bata Malta.
At Falmouth—the Eialrainier, Jaws, from ditto
At Liverpool—the I.)dia,Ranwein, Brom the Lames.
At Suathampteisi—tbe lirinhers, Holland, and the Eliza-
heth,Headersoa, lima Oporto.
At Milford—elm Clio, Marshall, from ditto.
At Hoylale—.the A&&&&, Holcombe, front Malta.
At Hall—the liarinuay, —; keriston, —; and the
liastelsester, --,froarGottenbang
At Leith—the Elbeiar, Gerrard, from data.
At Belfast—We Joachim, Rickets, frma ditto; Trims,
Park, from Malta; and the Brilliant, Gamin, from Ma-
laga-
At Lisboa—the Amity, Reliant, from London
At Mlalta—the Fancy, Routing, aid Remy, Pyke, from
ditto.
At New Brunswick—the Phalle, Smith, from ditto.

The Erperiment, HOLLAND, from London for
Portsmouth, has sunk off Dover Harbour.
The Jake and Sisters, hitt-LEK, aml the Perse-
verance, from tionderiand, have put lute Duber with
damage.
The 13r)thers coaster) is lost on the north side
of Newfouudiand.

The FriendA. Dvssar, from St. Islas for Bristol.
has sunk in Minsticati Buy.