The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-06-20 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

PLYMOUTH. Juxz 16.—Arrived Off the Port the Astel, Llvy,
from Madras, in Nit, months and three days; and the Allies, Cun-
ningham. from Havannsh. Arrived the Canning, Hutchinson,
from Hamburgh for Valparaiso. Sailed the Amelia, Storey, for
Quebec.
PLYMOUTM, JUNE 16.—The Perceval went into the dry dock
this day.
PORTSMOUTH. JullE 17.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Carus_
lion, from the W'cn Indies; and the Borodina and the Ocean
transports from Deptford. Sailed the Princess Royal and the
Diadem transports for Corfu.
DEAL, Jt: E 17.—Arrived and remain the Matilda, Wallace,
from St. Domingo. Passed through, the Hope, Burly, for Lisbon ;
the Scorpion. Rixon, for Lima ; the Ocean, Dean, for Halifax ;
the Indian Trader, Johnson, for Quebec ; the Lowestoffe, Bream,
for Teneriffe; the Meanwell, Phillips, for Jamaica; and the
Naide, Hale, for Almcira.
GRAVESEND JUNE 17.—Arrived the Regulus, Forster, from
Jamaica; Turner, Leader, from St. Lucia; Lady Mack worth,
—, from Honduras; Wilberforce, Dench. from Oporto; Stapler,
Cambers, from Hamburgh ; Industry. Rae, from Riga and
William Wolf, from Pillau. Sailed the Ellen, Campen, for the
Isle of France; Union, Head, for Jersey ; George and Thomas,
Pratt. for Genoa ; Egerla, Train, for Nevis ; Albion, Robinson,
for Quebec ; Renewal, Cromartic, for Barbadoes; and Medium.,
Dawson, for Antwerp.
LIVERVOOL. JUNE 16.—Arrived the Meteor, Morland, from
New York—sailed 24th Ma;.
SAVANNAH, MAY 10.-I'he Oglethorpe which waa driten on
shore on Tyhee Island, no Sunday, got off on Tuesday without
damage, and will sail this day for Liverpool.
JAMAICA, (KINGSTON) Aram 23.—The dragging sloop
Eliza, Gerrard, was totally lost on Monday in Rriney Hall Bay.
She had 14 hogsheads of sugar on board at the time, which could
not be saved.

A eat r. 60.—0 n the 24th ult. the boats of his Majesty's ship Dart-
mouth, assisted by the barge and two small boats of the United
States galliott Seagull, fell in with and captured, off Key Iloate
Guide, the piratical schooner El Socoro, Don Antonio Repel,
commander. and a crew, consisting of 35 or 40 men, armed with
two long 6's, on pivots, four swivels, and small arms.—The
schooner was moored in a narrow creek, close to the shore, but,
being resolutely attacked, she surrendered, after a loss of nine
killed and tine wounded, ID of the crew being made prisoners.—
She had a considerable quantity of plunder on board, consisting
of furniture and provisions, which. with other goods found on
shore concealed under the bushes, bore the appearance of Amefi.
can property.--On the 26th ult. the boats of his Majesty's ship
Dartmouth. alone, captured a large piratical launch, mounting one
4-pounder swivel, a musquetuon, and !mall arms. The crew (con.
aiming of 12 or 14 men) made their escape. In the attack upon
the schooner one marine was killed. The ship Piggot, Roberton,
from London for *leeward part, passed by Port Royal on Tuesday
event-fig.—The Sophia put into Port Royal in distress. in conse-
quence of having injured her rudder. She is one of the vessels
freighted by the Tlalpuxahua Mining Company.—The Dr.
sloop Tom Paine, Smith, which sailed from hence for hlanitinella
de Cuba the end of last mouth, was captured of the latter port by
the Colombian prissier Isabella, on pretence of her cargo being
Spanish property, and ordered for Maracaibo, leaving Captain
Smith and one of his crew on board. The prize master being an
Indifferent navigator, and the vessel falling short of water, they put
into Buff Bay. when the Tom Paine shortly after drifted on spore
and was lost. The greater part of the ergo was saved.—The
Spanish leigate Arethinta, Captain Car!os Domingo, touched at St.
Jago de Cuba a few days ago with a Colombian brig of war El
Tonante, which she captured off St. Domingo. The frigate left'
her prize at St. Jago, and proceeded for the 11 avannah. When off
Cape Cruz, she also captured another Colombian brig of war, and
took her with her. The Arett.usa was from Ferrol, Lit Port
Rico.

The Redpole packet. was to sail frotr Jamaica on the 17th Mal.
The Samoset, from Wilmington tor Liverpool, was spoken with
IGth May, in la tr.! 47, long. 78, in distress, leaky, and making for
the first port.
The Henry, Ingersold, from New Orleans for Liverpool. wu
lost on the Dry Tortugas—a part of the cargo saved, and arrived at
lien-West.
The Tom Paine. from Jamaica to Cubs. has been taken by a
Colombian Privateer, and since wrecked in Buff Bay.
The Mary and Elizabeth. Cavan, from Jamaica to Quebec, was
lost on May!,guna in April—crew and part of the cargo saved, sad
arrived at Nassau.
The Minerva, of Aberdeen, from Valparaiso to Bombay, was
at Otalteite 9:h Jaaanuary, repairing, in consequence of being
leaky, and would Bailin about ten days. The Foxhound, Emmett,
of London, was also there at the same time, and to sell the next
day cn the Fishery.
The Royal George, Ellerby, from London us Bengal, 9d April;
Cornwallis of Shields ; Shiskespear, of Aberdeen, and the Sr.
Lawrence, Anderson, rum London to St. Jolts's, New Brunsericic.
VtilllTl.6 SPOKEN OPlTll.—Mariner, from the Ririe (lambi',
30th uk. off the Island of Flys', M'estern Islands, by the Charles.
arrived at Veal

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
counT OF KING'S BEN{JI, Svrtiguag, Jot: 18.
Mr. Scan tgr? chewed cause against a rule obtained bf the At.
torney-tleneral, why Mr. ll'ilson, an Attorney. should not pay the
costs incurred in certain legal proevedings, which were alleged to
have been yegatioualy undertaken by him, in a CYUM between
Hamm and Lomea ; and against the rule it was t•intended that
those proceedings for the recovery of a debt of 61. were not tinder.
taken but by direction in the fair course of business ; abusive
letters had passed between the part**. At the suggestion of Mr.
Justice Bayley, the *hole qurs ion was referred to the !Slaver.
Tug Klitt; v. tustiga..—This wal a rule against the defen.
dant, to chew cause why he exercise( the office of Mayor of the
Borough of Monmouth, and he put in four pleas in justification of
his right ; Ist. by virtue of the charter of the 3d year of Edward the
6th ; 2.1. by right of the resident burgesses, according to the said
charter ; 3d. that the said burgesses did so select by a majority of
votes, the defendant et Michaelmas, 1824; and 4th, by virtue of a
by.law, which confined the right of election to such resident ofii.
cers. These pleas were met by special replications, denying the
right to be confined to the resident burgesses, and denying also the
fact, that Hughes was duly elected by a majority of the proper
officers legally entitled to vote. These proceedings were instituted
by a rival candidate, Robert Bevan. against the defendant, and he
claimed bring the legal Mayor. The pleading* and replications
were very voluminous, setting forth at large the provisions of the
charter, the ruler of election, and the details of a eonternion
tween the parties in the borough, set out with all the verbosity of
legal supererogation.
Mr. CAMPH 'mi. contended that all these replications were bad,
and such as issue could not be joined upon, and he quoted, in
support of his opinion, the case of' Cooper v. Lever, in 2.1 Cooper's
Reports, 4139, upon a quo urorrauto, on a writ of ern* from the
Irish urts, respecting the rights of certain burgesses in Galway ;
and also the case of the King a. Smith. in 271 of the same book,
relative to the right of electing the Mayor of Colchester.
Mr. Chose supported the validity of the replications, and Insisted
that such a case as that had not yet been decided. There were
many eases in which such replications had been held. The King
v. Latham. 3d Burroughs. 1495, was one of these. and Lord Mans.
field had there admitted the principle of the mode of proceeding
at present followed. It was quite competent, he maintained, to
question the title of the parties electing under these peculiar dr.
cumstancts; and it could not be better done than by opening re.
plications in this manner, which did, in point of fact, open the
whole question on which issue ought to be joined.
The Court were of opinion that the form of replication was bad,
as It was calculated to confound the distinction heretofore preserved
between ('orporations do Preto and &jure, which ought to be sepsis
rattily ascertained in a different manner.
Mr. Adolphus moved the Court for a criminal Information against
a person of the name of John Jones, for a libel upon Sir Francis
Deisangea. late Sheriff of London, and now High Sheriff of the
county of Oxford. It appeared that Mr. Jones had married the
mother of Sir Francis Desanges, a very old lady, and that anima
Pity existed between Mr. Jones and his son-in-law. The defendant
Jones bad sent a letter of the most abusive description to Sir
Francis, who had contrived to trace the author, by means of a work-
man, by whom the lithographic copy had been worked. The letter
was extremely long, and stated that the writer had for a long time
silently suffered from the injustice of Sir Francis Desanges ; that
Sir Francis had answered the writer's bill in Chancery by falsehood ;
that his villanies to his mother were greater than centuries could
equal ; and that he had robbed his mother of 3,0001. and a bond for
18.0901. To all these charges. the affidavit of Sir Francis Deserves
contained a direct negative.—Rule granted.