The National Register.
London, England, 1815-11-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

On Nre•lncEday a6trt ()t I)tr,cto-rsisheiri at the East India
House, whcri tip. tinAernwntioned ships were taken up for the present
season and thus stationed, viz :

FOR MADRAS AND CHlNA.—Elphinstone, Wexford, Fort William,
Regeilt.

Citrx.i. rer.—Scalehy Castle, Surat Castle, Windham, Earl of
Balcarras, Marchioness of Exeter, Hugh Ingiis.
ST. HELENA AND CHINA.-I.ldy Castlereagh, Cambridge, Cold-
stream, Pros td:nce, Sovereign, Lord Lyndock, Barwor:11.
COAST AND BA r.—Asia, Prince Regent, Phoenix, Marchioness of
Ely, Warren Haqing,, Larkins, Lord Keith.
CEYLON. ASD BENGAL.—AsteII.
Br.NG A L DI R ECT.—M3IIgIeS. Batavia, Asia.
BONIIIAY DIRECT.-I.loy Campbell, lienitan.

O:: Friday a Court of Directors was held at the East
House, when the undermentioned Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz :

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Rezvnt, Captain Ripley ; Elphinstone, Captain T. ilaviAlle,
fro- ;%ladrai and China ; I.9rd Lyndoc, Taptaiii J. Clicliton, tor
Helena acid China; 51arehionewi of .Lieter, Captain 'l'. Gilpin,
fur C:iina dii eet.

7:a Magdeen has arrived from Glaudaloupe, after a
voyage of 25 (Lys. On the establishment of the head.
quarters of Sir .ttmes Leith in that island, a number of
the adherents of Buonaparte had fled to the woods in the
interior. A body of natives, acquainted with the character
of :he country, and supported by a competent force, had
by the direction of the British Commander, pursued these
fugitives, and about 350 of them had been taken, and im;
mediately shipped oft' for America.•
It is now ascertained beyond a doubt, that most of the dis-
orders incident to the Hunan frame manifest and sheer them-
Eelves in the urine, and we have daily proofs that the study
and investigation of that fluid has been brought to the
greatest perfection by the intense application of Dr. Cameron,
84, noruets•stteet, Oxf:)td-treet, who is thereby enabled to
perform the most astonishing cures, more particularly in'
cases of general debility, diseases of the liver, and lingering
complaints: and we arc glad to find he extcnth his assistance
and advice 'to the poor vatuitously,

LA IV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY.

THE KING r. MENCE.

76

The defendant, who i 4 a Barrister, W 45 bron2ht up to receive
the judgment of the Court, convicted of having published a libel on
the character of the Rev. Mr. Shepland. The parties both resided
at Worcester, where the trial and conviction of the defendant took
place. The lihrd was contained in a pamptlet published by the
defendant, profes,ing to contain a history of tic domestic disputes
existing between Mr. Shepland and Iris wife, and accusing him of
cruelty towards her. It appeared that in consegience of some ag.
gravatiog language which was addressed by the defendant to Mr.
Shepland, on their meeting by chance in the street, at Worcester,
Shepland had been betrayed into striking Mr. Menge, and for this
assault Mr. Shephud was indicted, room' gniity, and iseateneed to
six months impri,onment. Between the time of the assault and the
trial, the present defendant published the 1 inillestion, and on
be ing now brought up for judgment, Le addressed the Court hint.
pelf. and, in a long ad‘tre,s, he repeated almost all the assertions
contained in hi, original pamphlet, and proceeded to justify what
he had therein stated. The Court repeatedly interfered and
monished him. Lord Elenborough observed, can you conceive
the statement yon are reading can be of service to von ? It is toe
your interest to wove you have not a inialioniut ill what
you have been reading prose that Where there is a series of ma.
livi:ant comments, the Court must see, in its justice, that the mind
which dietate them is restrained.

The Court (loess not intend, by thee(' remarlig, at all to restraint
you; they only throw them out its mercy to you, it you will 4tltil4
to them.

After some further observations from the defendant, in which he
suhniitted that the observatirms he hail made were neees•ary to his
delenet., ke concluded by thrown)g hini•elf on the justice of the
Court, and extressin!! his hope, that whatever his sentence might
he, he should submit to it patiently.
The Attorney General addies!•ed the Court, on the part of the'
prosecution, and commented, in srccre tel ins, on the conduct of the
defendant, who, he said, le-id this day, under welenee of making hi.
defence, taken the opportunity of title' i,,tf libels on the prosecute re
ten times more attoeions than any contained ,in the origit.al pamph.
These Niels he ball been under the necessity of titte, int; him,
setf, breau,c he could find no nelson at the bar who would disgrace
themselves by detailinp; theta for him. The learned C dinsel then ad-
verted to the conduct • f the defendant, who, he said, having been
called in as the mutnal friend of Mr. and Mrs. Sisepland, hint acted
so as not only to fneparate them, but to resider that separatiug
eternal.

Air.l34uncey and Puller spoke on the came side.
11fr..111,tice Le Blanc pronounced the jilti.:metit of the Court, and
after animadverting in severe terms on tit., conituct of the defendant,
a.til characterizing the libel a; a mo,t one. oboe recd, tiro
Court were sorry to sce that the mdlignity which actuate.l the de,
frndatit's mind at the time of writing the label, still prctioniitiatel
there; to correct that feeling, if pea:dile, by its jodgment, ll.e
('gnu t directed hitti to pronounce as its senti-iee—that the di feudal I
should lie imprisoned for ix months in Wercester G-al, and at tl e
expirition of that time find security for five years, himself in 10U01,
and two sureties in 5001.

At half past one o'clock on Friday morning a lire hr, ite out at Graves
house, Kentish Town, the residence of John Shack, Esq. which, b fore
the arrival of any engines, was almost Wittily destroyed, with its ya!tte
able furniture; and lamentable to relate, the worthy tind re pecti:hl3
owner, Mr. Slack himself, in an effort of paternal soi'cirune to preserve
one of his children, fell a vain. to the destructi,e elemei t. The par •
ticulars of this mclanclioly catastrophe are as fi P.ow:— Mr. Slack, with
his family, had retired to rest at their usual hotir; but nu.st utibuttiv
ly, a quantity of clothes retuned from the laundry acre left before
the fire in the kitchen, which, it is naturally resumed, caught flame,
The kitchen And parlour stories must have been instantly on fire ; anal
thi! whole village being wrapt in sleep, the iii!ia)itaets ivith of that anti
the next, Mr. Tate's house, mast have been. consumed in the Cionimoi
ruin, but lor the accidental passing of a coachman at that late hour, whit
perceived the flames breaking out of the wilidows, and instantly
alarmed the watchmen, but they contented themselves with p
irging
their rattles, and screaming Watch !" to each other ; sti that ,Is .44
was inittaken by the wakeful few %s ho heard thew. tor r. drunk
conseittentiy no assistance appeared until the 0..1111'S !I Id .11.114. • (9,
v;igt's .19 to rem'er it impossible to stem their fory„—The paristrengt
arrived bijou; three, but waster could not be pr....cured is stiffici.di