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recommendation of the Defendant to the mercy of
the Court.
After a suitable and pathetic address, and ad•
verong to the Jury's urgent recommendation, the
Honorable the Recorder pronounced the sentence of
the Court, that the Defendant do pay a fine to the
King of 17,850 rupees, and that lie be imprisoned
until pa) meat thereof.

N4YAL 11VTICLLIGLNCE.

PORTCMOrTH, MAY 21.
Sailed the Indignant, Meteor, and the Vesuvius
bombs, on a cruise ; the Jamaica frigate, with a
convoy for the Mediterranean, is expeeted to sail to-
morrow.—Wind
PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.
Came in the 0, rezeerha, Gardner, from Baltimore,
detained by the Young Ilossnut privateer of London
Friendship, Pascal!, from Baltimore, detained by the
repose frigate; Bergens !landed, Mellbank, from
Leghorn, detained by the Nemesis frigate ; firr?kr,
Dodsworth, from London ; and the Bellona cartel,
from the Cape of Good Hope.
Sailed the Hearty gun-brig, with twenty-four sail
of vessels, under convoy for the Mediterranean.
FALMOUTH, MAY 19.
Arrived the American brig Calopsnt Capt. Vic-
kery, from Teneriffe, for London, with wine, cot-
ton, &c. ; Bremen ship Pand.rd, Capt. Homburg!),
from the Havannah, for Bremen, with sugar, cof-
fee, !cc. detained by the Specnlatien privateer, of
Guernsey; and the Danish brig Heisting; Captain
Carfent, from Malaga, for Hamburgh, with wine
and fruit, detained by the Minerva privateer, of
London.
Sailed the llu,&ler armed ship, Capt. Hill, with a
convoy, for the Downs.---!Wind E.
DEAL, MAY 21.
Sailed the Vestal frigate, on a cruise ; and the
Gannet sloop of war, for Sheerness. Sailed through
the Downs, the Elms, Fitzgerald, for New Pro-
vidence ; Cabinet, Woodward, fur America ; and
the Griffin, Bell, for Newfoundland. Last night,
about nine o'clock, the American sloop Lilly, of
and for Baltimore, Cox, master, from Hamburgh,
in ballast, tar on shore on the Kentish Knock ;
a small boat, with four men, broke adrift from the
vessel, and came on those at this place; they left
the Captain, mate, two passengers, and three sea-
men on the wreck, and it is feared one is bet.

FR OM I.I.oYD'S LIST.
Go onsao so. V.—Paiacd by' the Camel store ship,
Porn GdsrAltar; Argo, Jager, (rota Charanfr.;
; Esdaile, Cobham; TI anus, Tndd ; Rhine, Fes ; and
tie Commetea, lirmadford. from Oportu...Satied the Are-
thusa, Doeidsoo, foe Tootaag -n.

The Presidad, FORD ; and the Patspire,
from Batavia, are captured and carried into Co•
lumbo ; the latter is condemned.
The JaeoiS •nd 1: abtrt, Fazola ice , from Bre-
men, is detained, and sent into the Humber.
Extraft of a letter from Goree, dated 3d March,
;—" We have just received information from
the Interim, that Mune° PARK has been some time
on the Banks of the Niger, but could not build the
boats as he intended, his carpenters being ail dead,
together with all the soldiers of our corps (3:3 in
number) who went with him, except seven ; who,
with Mr. PARK, Lieut. M ART N, of our corps, and
a Mr. SCOTT, an artist, have proceeded in canoes
down the Niger; a brother-in-law of Mr. PARK,
(named A tiDiRSON) went with him, as surgeon, but
died on the Banks. They all left Gmee in April
lair. I Sitar the Negro who brought the informa-
tion, and have every reason to believe he is corral.
Should you meet with any of Mr. PARK'S friends,
this news may be acceptable to them. About seven
weeks since he was seen is good health."
A Letter from Gibraltar, dated April 23, says,
"' This day an English btig, the Mediterranean
packet, was carried into Algesiras by a single gun-
boat, though we have at this time four line-of-hattle
ships and several other men of war lying in the Bay.
This morning a large naval transport, of 400 tons,
with six weeks provisions on board, for Admiral
Collingwood's Ace, was taken into Algesiras by
the Spaniards ! Her loss will be most severely felt
bsthe fleet.

APRIL 26.—" Yesterday a vessel arrived from
Messina, in six days ; she left two sail of the line,
and five frigates these, besides a number of Neapo-
litan gun-boats. They expected the enemy shortly
to make some attempt upon Sicily, but had no dread
of the event. This ship met Sir SIDSZY SMITH,
with four vessels under his convoy, within two days
sail of Sicily.
" The Malta convoy, for England, has just come
to anchor in the Bay."
The following is an extra& of a letter from a
Naval Officer to his Friend in Edinburgh :
" Hu Majesty's ship Superb, Port Kestrel,
Jillnaki, 17th Feb IPU6.
After leaving Lord Cullingwood, we fell in with a Franck
squadron 013 the December, off the CaMarielP, sshi,:h we
sew know was commanded by Jerome Bonaparte. You ern
net cowereive the joy expressed by every one on board; every,
Individual thought himself a King, and expegted that day to
have bete ens of the happiest Christmases they ever spent;
but from the very bed lading of memo' ships of the Beet. Je
roue hod the wed lust to escape, and the joy of the squadron
was booed ,non melancholy,' irltleti hod Out altogether worn
off, until we found the squadron at St Domingo. f ern
Oe you sery littleidea of the exultation expressed by every
countenance when they were certain of bringing ;hens to alien.
The scene was truly grand, particularly when you consider the
fere;n2s on board ,he two squadrons; the sue tusking every
exertiou to gut away, and determined to run the garrittiet in
order to escape ; the other straining every nerve to prevent their
flight The' were at this time grime before the wind, and we
were endosenering to crew them to order to prevent the pos-
sibility of there escape, which turtunately, from the superior
sailing of the Superb, we were enabled to effect. The mime
brought their two largest ships together (Ise Alexandre the
headmen, and to Ire;wriele), seemingly with a view to quiet
the fire of tberfaiglish Admiral in the Superb, before any of the
other al,ips could come up ; but in this they were dniappointed,
fir the .ectnd bviadt,de from the Superb fortunately did inch
execut.on on board tlic enemy's Ife.alroost ship, Le Altman& e,
that she beet ne q tire immadigeeble and lost her statioo The
thrTe der4er was by this rime within pistol shot of the Superb,
aid apparently teetering her fire for us ; but at this critical ILO-
merit, A4:11,C31 Coltrane, in th•hforthumbeilaiirt,CalLie up, and
mstwithstandinc the onaildistanee betwiet theSuperls mut l'lm-
p ,oa:e, he gallantly pleiedher leetween us,aird received the whole
to•nds.de of the digest, arid esteemed the Arest 11.,p in the
French Miry; several of the shot passed quite through the
Northumberland trite the Superb- The actrin then beanie
general, mad, as you must be already inftouted, terminated most
honourably for eta British Navy. for although the enemy were
only a little infe•ior, yet, according to tire most accurate cal-
cuiaritio, they were entirely anaiiiilated in the short spate of
woe hour."