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A.ty evening, between - tisk I
Givwrer retetsed information, Mit

aul~tf,
and Mr. Elliott, a perteMegpfir
lice), were going to fight a dud the following maga-
ing; Wit yde.park; in consequence of which, the Ma-
Istrate Weed warrants against thenL“d dispatch-
' Pearkes.atrd Adkins to apprehend MM. Pearkes
Ind Mr. Elliott at home ,1 arid, on iris telling him
business, he denied the charge, and declined
with the officer; who ;plied, he could not
aim. Mr. Elliott said, si was a hlagistrate ;
officer very properly told him, that would
. him any thing in this business. The
at length, allowed him to go to another
his house for some papers, on his pledging
dof honour to return. They arrived at the
about ten o'clock, in a coach ; Mr. Ga ANSI'
waiting, and admitted Mr. Elliott to bail, with
sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. Paull.
Akins went with the warrant against Mr. Paull,
house, in Charles-street, tit. James's-square.
officer was informed by a servant, that Mr.
was from home, but was e►pedted to return
an hour. Adkins, in consequeoee, waited
street till eleven o'clock, when a coach drove
Paull's door; the officer, knowing the person
Paull, discovered him getting out of the
and took hits into custody, as he was en-
door. After Mr. Paull bad procured
friends, they went to the Office, where they
ed about twelve o'clock; Mr. Ga n re was
home; on his being sent for, he attended at
Office, and admitted Mr. Paull to bail, with
sureties to keep the peace towards Mr.
ridgy morning, Mr. Paull came to the Office,
accompanied by Mr. CLrr►oao, the barrister, and
several other gentlemen.
Mr. CLirroao addressed Mr. ROAD, the Sitting
fagistrate, and said, that Mr. Paull hid been
-`-• to the Office, on Thursday night, and bad
to hail, before he could be liberated, in
of 20001. and Mr Paull wished to be in-
the nature of the charge against him, as
the nature of the security Mr. Paull and his
had entered into ; and whether any bail-bend
taken.
Rain replied, that the business being before
• ill•M, he could only say, he understood that
information was given to Mr. GRAHAM. at his
lee in Queen-street, and be was in possession of
t document relati'e to the business ; and, no
if he WAS applied to, at his house, or at the
he would give every necessary information.
NA /AL IN7ELLIGENCII.

r•treOUlle. DSC. 17.
Arrived this slay, the Tereroahend picket, Dodd, with Mail%
w Lulam, eight days prisgi; left them the Jaseatco lOW
, Cape Dick, which •aii impeded to sail ww he
0r England, with a Rost-sander her euntny.
ttleel on Mondoy, His MaletWs sisiiiiiTlo4ol64losifiet
, 40; and Fortune*, 561 twos off Weal; Brad
guns, from a MAIO off toe Lisard.
FORESAICUTIE. DEC. 19.
the Avenger sloop, (rein Newtuinidland ; Cattail*
d the Sereoesos sue vessel, from Jena') ; anti the
eerier.
t e Isis, for the Deans; Possene„ to jots else Oman( I
milks' Psow, on a Callit.
B.IfURDIT IVIGFrI"S
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Admiralty-0"w, De,conter tO, 1806. _ •1
Copy a Latter (roc litsai•Adnitral the Hnnourahle Sir Moe.
and Cvciarane, e Cowituanii.r a chic, of Ho Ilia-
j•wr. and Wesel, et 11i. Leeward I4.nds, to William
Masedow, Oa iteeid His Majesty's 614 the Nur-
iltoreisswitstadi, et berballess, Use 4tit November, ISA.
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I elsekinesanr to inclose, for the information
Lee* Commissioners of the rketinitirlty,
t of Letters from Captains Sayer and Briggs
Golating and Orpheus ; ale from Lieuteneot
commanding His Majerty'a armed brig Do-
__ giving as account tof the capture end de-
rigtion.of easeeis therein manicure I.
I ern, Bte. At ex. Coe ***** .

Nis Minesty4 Ship (Holes, it Sea,
Stft, fUeti 9.ptirroiorr.lBl4.
On the 1 Pith alt. Lieutenant M.Culloch, in this
barge, panned a schooner some miles np •
me the Spanish Main. near Porto Cavallo,
, after an able resistance (her Commander,
Me man, falling), she struck, and proved to be
y doe Spanish privatoer, of throe long guns,%l
sad four-pounders,) swivels, and sousktielmilb
on stocks, small arms, Ike. He brought awl? At
prisoners, and blew her up, as it was impossible to
her out of the River without danger of his leo
being cot off. One seaman (Cornelius O'G•I.
in our boat, was slightly woisndett.
on the 21st, Lieutenant Walker, in the
drove on shore, and coatploseirdestroppiia
slight opposition, a fine schooner, armed with
small arms, ire. 'Pie crew made their
I have the honour to be, ter.
(Signed) GEO. SAYRE.
Itaar•Adatiral Use Hon. Sir A. Cochrane, C. B.
&c. &c. &C.
H,. Majeity's Ship Galabia, off Modishly..
SIR, Wiener S 4, 1806.
On the night of the 9th inst. three boats from tkia.•
ship, under the direltion of Mr. Richard Gittiss
(First Lieutenant), rowed up in face of the batteries,
of Barcelona, on the Spanish Maim tut adrift and..
cut out four Spanish schooners. in spite of awry
obstacle.
The enemy opened their fire of round and grape,
shot from three batteries nearly at the same times,
accompanied with musketry from them and the
beach, the schooners being moored brad and stern
close to it. It was calm, and. from the natureoft
the bay, our boats were exposed an ham aid a hsl4,
to this fire, providentially without the loft Qr.a mimp.
although they bore, m well as ax.PgiSeillorlimadoelb
prr,ot of its being well diretted. . ••• rt • .-!1
They are large excellent vesatermo of tbarow
coppered, and will calculated,tely
acrvice. • • •vssee-
Lieutenat Chtiois's.condolk.arsh latiort
mentioli! 'Not Of. tirsits,M4.stalsAlltos-
c4P/4/lit 4°10110% tik-i/ME T,lsloo.llgOalt.
hot
. •AL.Z.
It is apettuous to ay; as wave truoits Waive

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Lint, 11177 I. LEW; NC& •
COURT of CIIANCIRRY, Dac. !O.
A complaint was preferred againt a person and „
hie oil-, for aecontempt of Court, in having pub- '
belied, in the shape of a pamphlet, a libel on the On Tin
proceedings in the Master's Office, in the ease of a n'el'ocici
Itmstic. I' he lady several times addressed the Mr. Paull
Court. and by her remarks aggravated her offence. lico, were
The Loao Cu AMCL sine, in prolSounlog judg- jug, In Hy
mem. adverted to the recent case of Purcell against &irate ire
kil.Namara and Farquharson. He had refused to ed Penckel
interpose his authority in that ease, because, though found Mr
the publication was in itself a contempt, it did not his basin/
appear to him ro have proceeded Iran a criminal going with
design to libel the Court In the present instance, leave him
the parties had avowedly attempted to defame the but the oft
Court and its proceedings. He, therefore, felt hlm- not avail
self bound to order, that the persons complained of officer, at
should stand committed to the Fleet Prison. part of hi
his word c
RING'. BENCH, Dictum 20. Office abo
was waitir
1111:CII IIeCILFVII.
This was an anion brought by the Plaintiff, to twosurety
recover 4001. paid to the I.3efendant by Plaintiff. Adkins
Underwriter to a policy of insurance on the Dart, to his boil
cepturod on the north-wen coast of America. The offsce
' Mr. SCAIII.BT. Counsel few the Plaintiff. stated, Paull was
thin the Plaintiff had, on the 3th of September, in half an
CSO4, usidawsitten a policy of insurance on the in the sire
Dert, bound to the South Seas, the property of to Air. Pat
theittotiont. at she premium of fifteen guineas per of Mr. Pt
chin ; this being the usual premium on fishing carriage,
voyages I and the Underwriters. conceiving this to taring
tlt
be a mere fishing voyage, had consented to insure n some fries
OP the customary premium. In this opinion they arrived ab
were confirmed by the express terms of the policy, gone home
which specified the voyage to be a fishing voyage the Office
to the South Sens, and rot a fishing and trad-
two suretir
irg voyage. ehich the Underwriters would never Friday
have undertaken at so low a premium. The accompani
&nob Sea fishery had, by Aft of Parliament, several oil
certainassignedatsigne it, arid only extended to the Mr. Cs
toasts of New 1-1011 and aid South America I these Magistrate
limits the vessel insured had paned, and penetrated brought it
into the Pacific Crown, where she had been captujed been held
14 the 5.44'41,414 I from these circumstances he con. the sum of
chided, it was choose impossible his Client should formed thi
oct obtain a wage, *she had been induced to sign „w"Iell as ,the
the policy by the misreprettntatron of the Defend. "'rls "a'
sionaelie bad informed the undertatters the policy was taken,
was a /drag voyage, without mentioning his in. Mr Ra
modem to trade on the Spanish [eon. Hence it Mr. Gass
vote 'videos the Diiifeardant ratio tisk sot ruseerod by rhel infer"'
the terms of poky ahe couldzot kelp, he eMd, hams
serediag this treed was premeditated, from the evert duct
iirßnher of Fermin the Defeedem had procured to doubt, if
underwrite the policy, whereby the Defendant .up. Office, he
timed they would be lees able to deved the deceit
ith'ch had been pradised on them, and more readi.
Iv tudireed to pay. should the vessel be captured or
wrecked, elate the loss of each would be proper. Arriewltt
thsably dlshirisbed, as she number of underwriters from totlon
was localised. of ear, Car,
The 'imolai of the policy being proved, Mr. ion fir
11.4 thy was wet examined ; he said, he had been a 01
South Sea merchant 50 years, and had seen several b,it, tt
sue
por,res of immense for fishrog voyages emecuted,
w ,ith policy is always drains up according to • Ardrea it
certain torso (which form he prckiticed) lin it there shoo i and
is no mention of goods or cargo; all the property in sprightts et
gtinrral shipped on board, in %bete cases, is a venture 'died ifs.Res;i and
of toe Carosin's, and seldom ds 3001.
The polls" was next produced and lead I in which
ii aepeared, the vessel had been insured for up- FR CP Af
• wards of 11,0001. on a fishing voyage to the South
hens, -wish lessor to exelmage or barter for gold Sr A
b24on; and stipulating t tenni of 21. per cent.
Cal *fa
pypositsas.•for gold or holl'one landed or re-shippid Cu
In miler vessels, at St. Helena, in the Spanish set- issity", Si.
dements. Mauls*,
,Os this-pdessisloo, Mr. Gcslow. the Counsel for u'"e"
this Dettadent said. he grounded his claim to their MR;
veeta; Iss the molereenteetwere. oodoubtedly, ac- •t have I
gummed nfth the Liefeadant's lineation to trade to of ebb b
a coosirlwable amoarst.. from theinem insignia, Catnips 01
5,0001. (the cargo, lilt hell weals baying lee a the GI
proved sees cehy give 91281•11 lis well at 'Data* elm
from she very terse of .dio poSiey, which widely raaniaa
differed from the instil foes! of policy, produced In vitalism
• Court by Mr. Fridethy. Mote it was evident, the
Plaintiff Lad been well apprised of the Defendant's
intention to trade um the Stoutish coast. He said, SIR,
he was iorprised at the suspicion of the Counsel, on On the
tbacipposite side, since he should have known, that ship's bat
nothiute is more common, than for twenty different river on
merchants to underwrite the same policy of insier- when. a
UMr and one
lllae Learned icons agreeiog there was no reason a very ft.
\tp cusped the Plaintiff had tided under the influence On and
\of a naisrepreeentation, by the Defradant. the Jury, on stocks
Sithout retiring, returned a verdid for the De. Prisoner'
MONK. get her o
..i.)hilets Dorsals v. DOVOIBTT, treat belt
s wavier, issue en
from the Court of Chancery, to live in
try gom‘rest, -whether Phillips, a Bankrupt. late And*,
os
.list haw, mil Jar, had committed an ad of bete, n
bdtilnult PfeniOns to the Ist June, 1604, about after a all
ictrch Um he bad deposited certain deeas in the swivels,
Ihams of. a Defendant. who was one of his cre. escape.
dr Cr,. After long investigation, which occupied
the ort upw sof five house. it appeared. that tau'Aia
P
the Bankrupt b committed no less than five alts
of bankruptcy be e that period. The Jury. ac- RIR,
eordingly. found a v id for the Plaintiff. On thi
COURT OF CuteIZ:77O.EAS, Die. 20. ship, on
(First Li
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• SUREST 111.,5M1TH. of Barer
The PlaMtiff, in this case,\ sought to recover the cut out
' value of a large quantity of turn. consumed when obstacle.
the mills belonging to Messrs. Smith arid Co. at The c
Bromley. Essex, were burned last summer. The shot fret
jet of the afhon Ca., that the Defendant had not accompa
mites proper care of the property ; but. it did not beach, t
appear that there was shy grntmd for stoibitring close to i
GegbgrOce to the Defendant. and the Plaintiff was the bay.
neohsuited. to this Si
although
A Saascrisisesia lissir•—Chrisonms Gifts, of in- mot of
romesahle descriptions, will now pervade the whole
P They
kin:doin. It is submiued, whether any present is coppere.
e-p of beteg attended with so mach gond to a Kryice.
dutiful son, an arniahle slaughter. an-iuustrioes
auprentice, or to a faithful Servisia, as that sat a. enectioli,
si"oire of a Lottery Ticket, in a Scheme in which S„
the .1/1 /lied stay g..:ist near Two Thousand a..km V)
Kmasi, f It is