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London, England, 1809-08-03 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

Robert Girdler was capitally indicted, under the
Statute of the Stith of Geo. 11. for plundering a
wreck un the Isle of Sheppey.
Mr. Curtwoun haviiil opened the indictment,
Mr. COMSWON SCR3aANT stated the facts of the
case. He observed, that the prisoner was indicted
under a very wholesome statute, which made it a
capital felony to steal from any vessel wrecked.
The circumstances of the present case were, that
on the iii4ht of the 18th of January last, it being •
very rough wind, a boat was driven ashore on the
Manor of Nlinster. in the Wand of Sheppey. The
Bailiff, or his Agelit of that manor, put his mark
upon it as a wreck, which of right belonged to the
Lord, until the owner appeared ; but in the course
of thut night the boot was totally broken to pieces,.
and several parts of her were shortly sifter founilan
the possession of the prisoner at the bar. This
prosecution, he observed, was instituted by the
Lord of the Manor, to put an rod to such political
depredations in future, and not with ally desire of
wishing a severe judgment uo the prisoner at the
bar.
Several witnesses were then called, of whom Ste-
phen Hon* deposed, that re was employed by Jack-
son, the Bailiff of the Manor, to go roupd the shore
and secure the wreckage ; on the morning of Sun-
day, the 18th of January, lie found a large bout
driven on shore, upon which he put M. M. the
Minster Manor mark. The next day the boat was
gone, and he only knew by report that part of it
was in possession of the prisoner.
Thomas Newly, the owner of the boat, stated,
that having been out on the Friday preceding the
Sanday, to a ship in distress, he rationed to Lee,
it► Essex, on Friday night ; on Saturday, it being
a vary blowing day, the boat drifted away, and he
afterwards heard that it ran aground in Sheppy.
—He went there, and found several parts of the
tackle of the boat in possession of the Prisoner,
who demanded three guineas for salvage, but he
afterwards aceented of a gt . ttttt and a half.
Jackson, r!. Bailiff of the Manor, said, he was
ill in bed at the time of the wreck, but when he
heart' of whut the Prisoner. had done, he told him
lid would gu to Canterbury fur it. The Prisouer

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h•gged hint not 61 tell the Lard of the rbf,
and offered to return the 111.1117, mid give
401. ahr would try nothing abo;it it.
NOW' of then itnesses could say that the p, i,0,„
lwoke the boat up. or indeed that it iniKht nor ha,.
I.reo beaten to pieeta by the waves 4.641:,!„ ,t
the beach.
the I.onct CntrP BARON ARIA, A1111114:1% a 9a, .
tiny of the right of salvage, which 011,41 N to It o•
111 a civil aetiuu, Mitt reproi)aued
Mode of indictment fora capital offettee.—*l
Jury found the Prisoner—Not Guilty.

NW!: INTELLIG ESC. f.

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coalt, JULY ',?11.
A fl...rt or transports arrived on Wecluesclur
ing ; it conai.ta it 60 sail, anti left LiAwn ahnui
mouth beck. Those tramports are ordered to
verve troops iminediitely. Several of them
{meted up close to the btai.l4 and quay at Cure, •rr
receive horsey with more convenience and faci!.:
A division ..f the Drivers Corps ',lurched out frl%
this gairibmi to-.lay for embarkation. Vi'e are
ignorant of the precise regiments orclerril I;.r
vice and to embark at this port ; but we itudei,t.u.,i
that at least a regiinerit of cavalry will form part
of the force now in preparation here.

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TORBAY, JHLT 31.
Put in here, in consequence of adverse winds, the
Woo/seich and Prevoyante, store ships, from Port..
mouth to Plymouth : they sail again the tirst
wind fur Plymouth.
suoust I.
Yesterday the Defender guii.brig sailed with
fleet to the ‘Vestwaril; also a great minty collier.,
which had been detained here in consequence al ti
embargo; but it blowing strong front the W. 5.11 ,
they pin back last Night.
This morning arrived the Hope, of Berwick, Hen.
demist, and the long Hope, of London, Gthoos,
laden with tioniser, from Nova Scotia, and the
Transport, No. 176, with troops.
Caine down the Mentor, Brine, for Malts, awl
remains with the Shark, Onyx, Pkomit, sad
nom ship Wed.:atom, and many other outivaNh
bound merchant situps ; also His Majesty's shit
Walton, Unicorn, and Diamond ; Plensanthill owl
Harmony naval transports.
Arrived from the Lilco., Britannia, Mason, nail
the 7inoeller, Colliann, for Gibraltar, and lithe.
hunt, Yowl, for Barbadoes.
Thelief(*der hut sailed strain, this moniiiz,
with convoy ; but, train the state of the is sail atilt
weather, it is probable the will return this load.
tide.
Foam o'clock, p. us.—Strong winds and squally
weather ; wind W. S. W.—Several ships are ii,,.,
cawing round the foreland, but cannot learn *Lit
they ure.
HARWICH, ania;sr 1.
Yesterday sailed the. Ned Elcen, with the halts.!
comoy ; and this day s.itell the Lord Domani
packet, having on board a Hanoverian ineszei;gri.
—Wind N.W.

scA nuke JULY SI.

Arrived an English cutter from Gottei.burgh.
which landed a mail about six o'clock this worming.
—Wind S.W.

By lettere from St. Helena, dined 36th May ja.t,
we learn that the Csithurits, ‘VELBANIK, and Lady
Castkreagh, H•stit...rusi, had nearly got nut thin
rtol es unci provisions for that mid were ex.
pccted to sail from thence, for India, an the course
of a week.
The Hero, GASONER, of London, was takerrin
January last, alter an action of .an hour and a half.
Ihe Joseph, of Philadelphia, from Madeira for
Liverpool. Ir is been take., by a French privateer,
retaken by Ills Ms.resTv's ship Virginia, and ar-
rived at Cork.
The Orpheus frigate, of 3 guns, is to be launched
on the 12th instant, at Ucptfurd ; the Qeceit Char-
lotte, of lio, is in a great state of forwardness, end
is expected tube launched the that spring tide la
October.
Three companies of the waggon-train will he
etnharked from Deptford, is the course of the week,
to join the expedition.
Orders have been issued by the Treasury, to Cie
Mint, to receive alf the old halfpence at 'present in
circulation. and to issue, for the future, none but
those made by Mr. Bouroe. of Soho ; such for;; -
ries us are so well done that a common observer
could not distinguish them iron% good halfpence.
are to la taken.
Friday lost the business of the Maize, of Wateil-
ford was interrupted by an alarm of tire. The Are
commenced at the west rids of the Court (Jaot.
and at the distance of ten or eleven lions.;
from it. Its origin was accidental. The houss
in that neighbourhood being covered with thine?),
(in of them were consumed in the space of an flour.
One life was lost; a boy about four years old.

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