The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-01 00:00:00

JAN. 1.

NAUTICAL INTE

.GENCE.

The Loire frigate sailed some time ago from this country for
Spain, with two millions of dollars, arms, Sec. for the use of the
Patriots. On her passage, when off L'Orient, she was approach-
ed during the night by a large ship, which she soon found to he
a 74 of the enemy, who poured a broadside into h.T. The Loite
returned the charge, undismayed by the enemy's superiority, and
continued a sharp action of half an hour with the 74. The
Captain of the Loire, mindful however of the nature of the
service upon which he had been sent, and of the risk to which
it might be exposed in so unequal a contest, thought it prudent
to sheer off, returning the enemy's compliment with a salute of
a broadside. We are happy to hear, that the lass of the Loire
in this gallant action is very inconsiderable, and that she pur-
sued her destination without having received any material
damage. It is singularly fortunate for several of the most dis-
tinguished advocates of Spanish Independence, that the Loire
frigate escaped the attempt of her powerful adversary. Viscount
Materosa and M. de la Vega, Deputies from Asturias, and their
Secretary M. Aug. de Arguelles, were on board the frigate, and
had they been conveyed to France, might have shared the fate,
of the Duke D'Enghien and others, who have been sacrificed to
the ungovernable passions and fearless atrocity of the Ruler of
France.

The following is an extract of a Letter from Capt. Crabtree,
of the John, bound to the Brazils, dated Madeira, N ov. 24 :
" The Mutine brig of war, with part of her convoy for
the Brazils, arrived here yesterday. The Fleet was dis-
persed in different gales. The stragglers are dropping
in. The Mutine intends to sail to-morrow, with such ships as
are collected. The Ben Letnond (a pendant ship) is here.
None of the Portuguese vessels came out of Falmouth with the
fleet. The fleet sailed from Portsmouth 2d November, put into
Falmouth the 4th, and sailed the next day. The Afrii-an and
Cork Convoys are gone past."
The Orion man of wat lately ran down, in the Baltic, a large
Russian ship during a gale of wind, and nearly the whole of the
drew perished.

POT.' C E.
M ILLISO !LOU Gli-STREET.—A charge of an assault was pre-
ferred by Miss Louisa Manningham, a Cyprian of the first order,
belonging to the Mary-le-hone corps, against a Mr. P—n,
Gentleman of fortune. The circumstances N.:vie of a curious
nature. It appeared that Mr. P. the defendant, was a very old
acquaintance of Miss Manningham, and he called at ten o'clock
on Monday night to pay her a visit. He was ushered into the
Lady's drawing-room, in Mary-le-bone New Road, to await the
arrival of his beloved ; when, to his mortification, at twelve
o'clock, the arrival of Miss M. was announced 14 a thundering
knock at the door: She alighted from a Gentleman's chariot,
accompanied by the GentLman himself a gallant Major; and Mr.
P. having refused to depart from the drawing-room, waited and
received the fair Lady and her new gallant. The Gentleman ex-
changed angry compliments, and the Lady was upbraided for
her infidelity, which she denied, and represented her origital
paramour us an impostor, and no Gentleman. A general row
ensued, and the object of battle was in the very midst of it, and
somehow the fair one became injured in cue of her eyes by the
reucontre, but it appeared altogether an accident, occasioned by
her violent temper. Mr. P. was taken to the watch-house, and
the Major was left in possession of his prize.
PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON • GARDEN.—Thursday, Henry
Lambert, late a pawnbroker, who had been burnt out in Port-
pool-lane, attended at this office, and stated that at nine o'clock
on Wednesday night, three men addressed him under pretence of
carrying a letter for them, when they inunediately thrust him into
the kitchen of his late burnt house, bound him hands and feet
with cords, gagged his mouth with twisted brass wire and cork
ing pins transversely fixed; the cords which bound him were
suspended from the ceiling. The villains afterwards robbed him
of ten guineas and a metal watch, and went away, leaving the
poor man in the utmost torture, in which he remained until
Thursday morning, at eight o'clock ,when he was released, greatly
exhausted. He had hardly any recollection of their persons, the
tranasaction having taken place in the dark. Diligent search
is, however, making to find them out, if possible.
MA R LBO ROILTGH-STRE E l'.—Thursday Jack Baker, alias
Turnbull, was brought up for his second examination on a charge
of being one of the parties concerned in the late burglary in the
house of the Countess of Morton, in Park-lane, three of whom
were capitally convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions. The
Prisoner admitted he was of the party, but alleged that he was

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first seduced to that profligate way of life by M'Coy, who turned
King's e videuer, and was one of the witnesses against his accom-
plices at the last Sessions at the Old Bailey.
Ile was fully committed for trial.