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and the rest of the Witnesses st a tavern. in Mont-
serrat; heard the Doctor say, if you will ray as
1 well, wn will•do bim," ineatinag the Prisoner.
William Hoskins, Purser of the Chaiieridcr,
heard Dr. Scott ray, if the Prisoner had not pu-
nished him, he would not have informed of him.
Captain Jonathan Dorsey knew the Prisoner
twenty years. lie sailed one voyage with him ;
always considered him a very humane 1111 M.
• Mr. Justice Ls lit.sec Stormed up the evidence
with his usual precision, and gave the Jury a short
but explicit charge, and told them if they believed
the evidence for the prosecution, they must find
the Rrisoner guilty, but if they doubted the credi-
bility of. it, and supposed they came there for re-
venge, they would acquit. the prisoner. Ile had
gone over the evidence yrdh all the minuteness he
possibly could, and frOm the greiit attention they
had shown, he was cunfideat they a ere fully in
possession of it.
This trial occupied from in o'clock in the morn-
ing until half past nine at night, and the Court re-
itiabied crowded until THREE o'cLoca this morn-
ing, when the Jury brought in a verdict of
Acquittal.

MIDDLESEX szssion.

HICKS'. HALL-C RILL, JAN. 11.

This day the Sessions commented before W.
MAIN WAGING, Esq. end the Bench of Justicek
After swearing in the Griind and Petty
the Court were occupied in the tkitl of
,yanous per-
sonli for committing assaultst none of 'which, how-
ever, were by any means inturriting. Amongst
others, Mr. .Esinsinite,• s teigiectableirlock and
watchmaker is Holharnotas indicted for assault-
ing a couutryrnan, while occupiedindririoga herd
of siViiie..past the 'Defendant's hinuei;:bn the EdiLL
ware loarl, apasi-the eget of July kit::lt 3p=
peared, that in aPproitehiug the Defendant's pre- •
mews, tibia swinish multitude had intermingled
with some of a similartribe belonging toMr. Ear:—
shaw, one of Khicli ,the Prosecutor Struck 'With a:
stick, so as t.o.itiNasion a most dreadful screnniing,
which alarmed its owner and the whole neitThbour-
hood. Upon this Mr. Earnshaw. came out of.bis .
house, and saan-tanght.the simple proamatailhe
consequences of taking the wrong sow bi the ear,
by gi ug. him a sound drtibbing.aitfizhiasts: The
Ditendantwas foiind guilty, old fined in the sum
of thirteen shillings and foul/pence.' , •
In another case, where two persons weVe .in-
dieted for assaulting a publican at i'Vhitediapel.of
(lemian extraction, and named Peter Senermilch,
the indictment was abandoned on account of the
misnomer of the Prosecutor. . .
Mr. ALLEY obserreld, that is the daclaritliiii,
this German's mute, •i stead of being spelt as lie
(the Prosecutor) stated to .the• Jury in Court, was
spelt as if it was hoarmilk. After some argument
tepon this point, the objection was substantiated,
' and the Defeadint aegititterf: - •
N. 117,1 L INTELLICE:NC:E.
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• . v0,t61 JAN. 4.
Fainict of a letter freniatiOilicer in fie 11419 returned
(row Munte

" Flew the number of orders and countersordens,
which' wears in the habit of receiving, it is Ma tot
Mile to say what will be our actual destination.
When I wrote Inset° y on, we had order* to diesih•
bark the next morning, and march to Kinsale/4
The whole of the Infantry obeyed, and the Cavalry
were in the act of dielembarking, when a' secoun
order came down for the whole of the Cavalry, in-
cluding the 17th Light Dragoons and the Cara.:.
itineers, to pisiceed to England, and they were. or.
dared to the mouth of the harboui to join Admiral
Murray and the' empty transports. We sailed
about three o'clock, yesterday evening, in com-
pany with the fallowing ships, Puiyphessies„ gear-
Admiral Murray, and Africa, Captain -Pap/4 ;
the Protector, DapAiie, 14, Alp/Rig, auif
Fisk gun-brigs; with the other vessels and
transports from Monte Video, and had a_ good
wind until day-light this morning, when a got
right ei-head, winch obliged us to put about,
and we mine to anchor in this harbour about three
o'eltick this evening, where, I suppose,-we uiust re-
main until the next fair wind ; but the general opi-
nion is, we will remain here for a fortnight. We
have got our of the Spanish .hostages on hoard our
head-quarter ship, General Don Cesar llalbicine,
and, his Aid-de-Canip, • Signor Caldron. The
General was second in Leinwand at Buennos
Ayres, and commanded at the fort which

the Curabineeri stormed ; and poor Colonel
Kingtori died iu his arras afterwards. He is
by birth au Indian, but has been at Limn.—
(ieneral lialbicine reoeived the surrender of the
English prisoners in St. Domingo Church, and was
extremely kind to. them, particularly to General
Crawford."

I, , J AN. 10.

Arrived from the Downs the Cumber/and, 01 74
guns, lion. Capt. Wodehouse ; Liar, 64, Capt.
Roller ; lia/VOz, Is, Capt. Lord J. Townsend ;
Parsiina, ls, Capt. Lumley ; and Crone, 32,
Capt. Staines.
Arrived the Thomas transport (one of Sir Charles
Cotton's expedition) with the loss of her bowsprit.
Sailed to join the Channel fleet the Diens, of
36 guns, Capt. Grunt ; the Spencer,. for the same
service, is still at anchor at St. Helen's ; also sailed
the Brilliant frigate, Capt. Smith, for Guernsey.
The Utodownted, Geterrirr, Leonides, and Sybelk,
are hourly expected from the Domes.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 8.

Sailed the Attack gun-brig, Lieut. Swain, and
Cheerful cutter, Lieut. Carpenter, to the West-
ward; titan the Talbot Illoop of war, is guns, Capt.
Jones, with dispatches for Sir Sidney Smith.
The Channel Fleet are aguin returned to Tor-
bay.—Wind N.

JAM. 9.

Came in Majf.rty's ship Meer from n
cruise; also the Europa, from the Brazils,
detained by Sir Sidney Smith's squadron.

DEAL. JAN. 10.

Sailed for Ramsgate Pier. the Brilliant, Gill-
christ, for St. Domingo, having been on shore.
Arrived His Maitwty's ship Oberon, f;ola the
'Northward, mid remains in the Downs, with the
rc,t of the ships as per lash—Wind W.S.W.