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MFADS, V. WRIGHT.

Mr. Serjeant Best moved for a rule to sheer cause
why the nonsuit in this action should not be set aside,
and a verdict given for the Plaintiff.
The Plaintiff had received an order to furnish a
person of the r.ame of Masreati with certain
goods, as the agent of Le' Grand, a merchant in
Paris. The goods were sent to the house of the
Defendant, in LcAon, who is a packer, and soon
after they came into his possession it was discovered
that Le Grand had become insolvent. '1 he Plaintiff
immediately commenced the present action, to re-
cover the property. It was contended, that the de-
fendant was accountable for the goods delivered in-
to his possepion. The learned counsel cited several
cases, in which persons employed to pack and for.
ward goods to different parts of the country
were considered answerable for the property that
might pass through their. hands.
Lord ALVANLY observed, that the Defendant in
this cause had only acted as the agent of Massere4u,
for the purpose of forwarding the goods to the con-
tinent, without further concern in the business than
what was attached to his own trade; the Plaintiff
had, therefore, no claim upon the Defendant for the
property.—Rule refused.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, J AN. 26._

This morning sailed, with a fine breeze, his Ma-
jesty's ship Donnq.:/, of 80 guns.
Remain wind-hound, at lipithead, with the squa-
dron, the Leda, leth, Censor, and Bloodhound.

The Kitt brig, Captain PAPor, which brought
new-raised men horn the eastward, to man the
Dosnegal, has sent twenty-two of liar crew to Haslar
Hospital, ill of a fever, which they caught from
them.

A number of troops will embark on board the
five following vessels, with near 400 of the Garri-
son Battalion, for Guernsey, viz. Lord Howe, ;wife,
Nile, Rover, and Thomas and Elite:Leib.

Le Hermle, of 74 guns, is ordered on foreign ser-
vicc, and will sail shurtli.
Remains Majesty's ship Ama-
zon. Wind N. N. E. and moderatv.
Orders are received for fitting the of
74 guns, now in ordinary, as fast isposs'ae, ready
for commissioning.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25.
Arrived the Susannah, Atkins, from Newfound-
land ; and the Bellona, from Virginia.

DtAI., JAN. 26.

Sailed the Jamaica frigate, to the, Westward ;
and the Unita, Frazer, fur Leghorn.—Wiud E.
blows hard, with snow.

DOVER, JAN. 26.

The Primer:: of Wale: packet, Capt. Sutton, is
expected to sail this evening for Boulogne, with the
Hon. Colonel Forster, and several other passengers.
—No passage vessels are arrived from Calais.
The Frederick, a French sloop, Capt. Newell, is
put into this port, by stress of weather, laden
oil-cake, and bound to London.
The wind blew very hard yesterday from the
eastward, but see are happy to find that no acci-
dents have happened to the shipping near this coast.
GRAVISENDi DEC, 26:

Past by the Enterpriser, Hill, from Rotterdam.
Sailed the Persoterance Williams, for Barcelima ;
111,Crea, for Belfast, and the Jojge Fran-
cisco, Sliandenman, for Ostend.

SHEERNESS, ,lAN. 26.
The gale of wind on Monday and Tuesday has
done much damage.
The ships in ordinary in this harbour; which Ile
two abreast, in consequence of the heavy sea, rub
against each other very much.
The main-mast of the Hindostan has been washed
on shore here, and has been secured by the. Hon.
East-India Company's Agent; a bale of tine flannel,
supposed to come lion' the same ship, has also been
washed ashore here. Many articles are floating on
the shore. The snow has been very considerable all
last night and this day.
The Mallard gun-brig went out of dock this day.
Last night, the persons who were watching the
shore, to see if any part of the II ndostan's wreck
floated there, heard the cries of persons in distress,
and discovered a small sloop (supposed a smuggler)
near the shore. They rendered the poor perishing
cier• all the assistance in the power; and above WO
kegs of gin were soon after picked up on the coast,
supposed to have come from the said sloop.
totrriOßD DOOR-yARb, JAN. '35.
His Majesty's frigates Africaine, of 44 guns, Cap-
tain T. Manav, and the Minerve, of 40Kuns, Cap-
tain J. )3/IV( rots, were to have sailed this day for
Longreach, had the wind and weather admitted of
it:--from the appearance of the weather it is now
supposed they will not be able to quit this till the
return of the next spring-tides, on the 6th of Febru-
ary. The indefatigable exertions of the two Cap-
tains are highly praise-worthy, and well correspond
with the jealous gallantry of the former dining the
whole of the late war in the West-Indies; and of the.

meritorious ewe:lions of the latter in the Mediterra-
nean.
The Ranger stoop of war, Capt. C. COoTE, and
the yeknue, of 14 guns, Capt. STRA.OO.Y, are lice.
wise rea y tor sailing, but delay,•.i by want of men.
The Diznice armed ship, Capt. Clam, still lies
here to receive volunteers from the rendezvous.

1 he Pbadog, of 36 gust, is in dock to repair, and
will be fit for commission in April next.
The Alinlie, of 18 guns, came into dock to r !pair,
but was found so rotten, that she is ordered to bt
broke up.
The Fary, of 16 guns, has been repaired, and
will be commissioned next week.

ST. PETEESSUIIGII, DEC. 10.
Three Lubeck and two Swedish ships were yeszerday
happily brought thro' the ice, in which they were ft
zen at seven wersts, or about five miles from Cron-

quilt, in Cronstadt harbour. Four of them rime

from French and German ports, and one had just
sailed from this place. They w'ere all deeply laden,
and in the greatest danger of being cut in piec.:s by
the ice. Captain Priehn of Lubeck, who had al-

ready lost an anchor, ar.d saw destruction below his

eyes, ventured, at the hazard of his life, to go ufl
shore over the loose pieces of ice, to seek assistants ;
he found in Mr. Nienruat courage and readiness to
assist him. An officer, and forty-two volunteers,
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under Prielin's and Niemann's direction, offered to re-
move off the dangerous floats of the drift ice, torelieve
the ships from their extreme danger. Provided with
boards and tools for breaking up the ice, they pro-
ceeded, on the 24th of November, towards l'riehn's
ship, the Anna Christiana, which lay still in open wa-
ter, three wersts from the flat strand of the shore,
and eight wersts from Cronstadt, close before the
drift ice. Being prevented by the fog and driving
snow from discovering their way, they wandered
about for five hours on the ice, till, by continually
calling out, they succeeded in making themselves
perceived by the crew of the ship, whoanswered them
with a speaking trumpet ; but when they reached
the ship it was too late to undertake any thing that
day, and they therefore returned to Cronstadt. The
next day Niemann took a compass with him to find
the way. They began to break up the ice, and thus
made a channel, tiirough which they brought the
ship sixty fathoms nearer the more fixed ice. Or. the
26th, in the morning, they perceived, to their great
astonishment, that a large mass of ice, before which
Captain Prichn's ship had lain the day before, had
drifted away in the night, and that if it had not been
brought the preceding day further into the fixed ice,
it would pi obably have been driven ashore and cut to
pieces. Half a worst from Priehn's ship lay the
Swedish ship Fryketest, Captain Ehwars, in the fixed
ice. Help a-as also afforded to this vessel. The
three following days they worked these two ships
through two channels to the nearest Lubecker, the
North Star, Capt. Lange, which lay six wersts from
Cronstadt. Vs hen these three were united, they
made a channel through the ice to the Swedish ship
Venus, Capt.Lonberg, and to the Lubecker ship Egon-
Veit, Captain Stricker, which were at a small dis-
tance. Continued frost and calm weather now fa-
voured the work, which 'in the first four days had
been excessively impeded by the fog and drifting
snow, the workmen having to s from eight in
Cie Morning till four in the afternoon constantly in
the water, which gushed up as they broke the ice
away. Many fell into the water, but were always
happily extricated. After twelve days most fa-
tiguing and dangerous labour, all the five ships
were brought eight wersts through the ice safely into
the harbour ; and by Niernann's indefatigable activi-
ty, this brave man succeeded in saving the crews,
the ships, and cargoes. The violent gale froth the
south, which rages to-day, and has set the ice again
adrift, would certainly have driven these ships
ashore, where they mast have shared the fate of the
English ship the Pcincers of Wales, Capt. Young.

WHITERAVIN, JAN. 25.

The Elwood, Wttsois' of this port, which sailei
fmmlience, on Saturday the 15th inst. was wrecked
the following day, near Ramsay, in the Isle of Mann.
It appeared to numbers of r.e,ple on shore, (who
were viewing her, with the laudable desire of ren•
dering such assistance as might be in their power)
that, by the violence of the gale) the vessel had got
embayed, contrary to the intention cf the Captain ;
or, that having purposed to run for shelter into the
Bay, it was now found dangerous to attempt it, on •
acciaint of the Strong probability of being forced
upon the shore—and sit a moment when the surge
was so great, and the sea in such agitation, that it
must have been impossible fur the ablest coaster
to determine how the rocky shore might be
avoided.
The spectators were confirmed in this opinion,
when they saw the vessel make repeated efforts to
clear the northern point of Ramsey Bay ; and
were anxiously looking for h'r effecting it, when, on
a sudden, she altered her position, and was seen ap-
proaching the shore, drifting befcre the gale, with
her sails louse !—and evid.!iEly unil,s no manag,
Men t !
Their astonishment at this was scarcely less than
their apprehensions had been on her first appear-
ance. This was about one o'clock on Sunday after-
noon, the 16th ; and the sud Jen and extraordinary
circumstance alluded to, was soon after explained by
the following melancholy event
In the endeavour to snake another tack, in expec=
tation of weathering the Point, the rigging of the
majnmast gave way, and Capt. WIL*ON was in-
stantly killed by the falling of the jib brican,!—The
mate and two apprentices were in the act of taking
up the body from the deck in order to lay it in the
cabin, when a heavy sea struck the ship, and swept
into the foaming ocean the living and the dead !
The small remainder of the crew (four in number),
nearly exhausted with fatigue, benumbed, and al-
most perishing with cold, sr.:tearable eV en to atternit
their own preservation—and in this situation the voip •
sel was seen tossed at rand3m, by the impetuosity ‘f
the waves, and the raging tempest, till she reached
the shore. The survivors of the awful catastropir
already mentioned, were with diffitulty got out iI
her, and every attention bestowed as their deplora•
ble condition required.

By a letter yesterday received in town from Mr.
BA actA v, Master of His Majtety's ship Cerkru:,
tve h.ive the pleasure of being able to announce the
safe arrival of that ship in Bantry-Bay, with 90,000
dollars in specie on board, and after a dangerous
passage from Jarnaica. Mr. BA RC LAY 's letter was
dated from Bantry-Bay on the i 6th inst. The teak
f. )r the safest' of the Cerkres are thus happily at an
end.

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