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London, England, 1808-06-11 00:00:00

NAUTICAL INTELLIGitiC
The Kjokker Danish privateer, with *lit ea' ittYkfd; is cap;
tured by his Majesty', ship A/trine:re and sere Into Leith ; 14 rt
the privateer's men were absent in Oats : the Axientit has re-
captured a Swedish brig, and sent her into Leith also.
TORBAY, HINE 9. • t
Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ship INIPITerAUZ' seer lay
arrived his Majesty's ship Rov et Grupe', both from P the
Now remaining in Torbay, les Majesty's ships Mlle, fads,
Dreadnought, Saint George, Nein:sae, Achille, Valiant, i -Anent,
Impetueaux, and Royal George; also the Lord Cochrene and Ar-
row schooners, and :be Betsey- and Nimrod cutters.—Wind N.W,
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Cute rower, with the following
vessels ender convoy, viz. the Wilding, MARKAN, for the Cape
of Good Hope ; Lord Eldon Travers, Cain-la:then, Monarch,
and the Earl Spencer, for the kast ladies; and his Majesty's ship
Crocootioe, with a convoy for Guernsey and Jersey; also the
Vestal, for Newfoundland.—Wind N. E.
DEAL, JUNE 10.
Arrived the FURIOCS gun brig from Yarmouth. Sailed the
ALERT sloop, witl. .1 Eete of outward-bound vessels, transports,
&c. und. r convoy, fur Portsmouth; PILLTER and VIRAGO gun
brigs, for ; BOLD gun brig, for Yarmouth ; Beware gun
brig, on a cruise.
HARWICH, JUNE 10.
Arrived this day four sail of transports from Guernsey and
Jersey, with troops, consisting of.the 87th Regiment, part of .:I.e
2d, or Queen's own, and some of the German Legion ; they are
an ling at Shutting, on the Suffolk side, in order to proceed to
Ipswich. Wild N. blows hard.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
GRAVESEND, JUNE 10.—Passed by the St. Patrick, Gibbon,
j from Belfast; Active, Williams, from Westport; Rolla, Srringtl,
I from Waterford; and Four Brothers, Briggs, from Dublin.—
Sailed the Mentor, c uelst, for Antigua ; Speculator, I uisl man,
for St. Vincent's; Diamond, Stevens, for Rio Janeiro; and the
Pilgrim, Watson, for Surinam.
LAW IN7ELLIGENCE.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 10.
THE KING V. HOLT.
This was an indictment for a lib.l upon a Mr. Fowler, a die-
senting Minister at Tottenham, where the Defendant, Who is a
surgeon, resided. The Defendant, it was averted, had spread a
report, that the Prosecutor had on some occasions, been afflicted
with a disorder which arose from an intercourse not creditable to
a Reverend Divine. On this report a me. ring of the congrega
was held, and the charge discussed, when Mr. F. was acquitted by
a thew of hands. The Defendant afterwards wrote a letter, in
which he said, that what he had said of the Prosecutor was eller ;
but the letter not stating what those words were, the D. f.ee'ant
was acquitted.—The Defendant's Counsel denied that the D. ten-
dant intended to cast the reflection upon Mr. F. which the ind.c
ment suggested.
THE KING v. JAMES BULL, JOHN SMITH, JOHN SYMONDS,
AND HENRY BOYLE MACCULLOCII.
Three of the Defendants are persons in obscut situations :
Macculloch was a merchant in the island of Jamaica. 7he in-
dictment stated, that the latter being arrested and imprisoned for
a debt of 17941. at the suit of Messrs. Ralph and Ralph Montagee,
, two of the Defendants, Bull and Smith, tendered themselves as
bail; under the names of BrUmmel and Durant, giving false resi-
dences, and swearing contrary to the truth, that they were worth
, double the sum for which Mecculloch was arrested. Smith also '
swore, that he served notice of bail upon the Attorney of the
Plaintiff, Mr. James, contrary teethe fact. Bull and Smith were
•he only Defendants who appeared, and they had pleaded not
guilty. Macculloch had escaped to Jamaica, and Symonds had
not been discovered. The. chargewas laid as for a conspiracy. Cur
Readers may perhaps recollect that the cause of Montigue v. Mac.
cuUoch was need, on tee Ist of December last, before Lord El-
r lenberOugh, when a verdist was found for the Plaintiffs in the
✓ sum of 2,0101. 17s. including the interest and the debt.
Mr. GARROW said, that this was a most malignant case, being
a complication of perjury and conspiracy of the most atrocious
kind. His witnesses would expose the whole transaction, and
- would state the sum of money that was to be paid for the perpe-
f -tration of the crime.
The clerks from the different offices produced the proceedings in
Court ar.d out of Court, under which the• bail was completed,
and by which MaeculJoch procured his liberation.
I• Mr. Charles James deposed, That he had received no notice for
- bail in the action which was sworn by Smith to heve been perso-
nally served upon him.
Mr. George Ross, a Merchant, deposed, That he knew Bull,
I- who. passed under the name of Brummel, on the occasion of
R giving bail; but he did not identify the other prisoner, who passed
o under the name of Dorant. He said, he was in Court when the
men justified bail; that, 'acting for Macculloch, he was to have
even them tool. and upwards for becoming bail, and that Ise did
tr- give to each of them two or three pounds in tnere-y.
2. Q. (by the Jury).. Do you continue to be a merchant now?—
A. Yes, Sir.
L- Q. As a Merchant of the City of London; do you believe it was
customary for heaourable hail to be paid for becoming bail?
to A. I had nothing to do with that. ' • •
To some questions which were put to the witness by the peso-
-6 nee Bull, the witness contradicted himself as to his-employmer tof
12 a mats of the fame of Stack to prosture bail.
Lord ELetesoitodou.--" I see you have not averred that the
notice for bail was in this paetieular action, and such an averm. ne
r must be made. A difficulty occurred to the person who drew the.
31 indictment, and be thought he should get rid of it by baring out
r- the averment. lam quite clear, /hat without that the indictment
at cannot be sustained."
S_ Nicholas Hughes, on the paper containing the notice to Mr.
James being handed to him, said, that he believed the signature to
be the hand-writing of the prisoner, who passed under rife name
of Smith, but the name of the man was not Smith • he was called
e_ Thomas Dale, and he kept a hair-dresser's shop in Drury-lane.
The prisoners bring called upon by his Lordship for their de-
fence, said a few words to invalidate the testimony of Ross and
Hughes, and a few additional words tending to their own crizni-
t' nation.
319 Lord ELLLNISOROUGH, in summing up the evidence to the Jury,
observed on the law of the case as to conspiracy. He said, that
to convict either of the parties, it was necessary that two persons
charged should be found guilty ; because it was impossible that
there could be any conspiracy where one only was criminal. It
'e' was not necessary that the two persons so conspiring shut: Li be the
ed prisoners before the Court ;so that if the Jury were convinced
°- that Symonds and Macculloch were guilty of a conspiracy, eithe:
adof the prisoner might be convicted. The witness, Ross, might
be considered in the nature of an accomplice, and etarefore his
testimony should be received with great caution. Both the pri-
n..
try I
sieves were found guilty, and were remanded to NI wgate.
ECCLESIASTICAL AND ACADEMICAL PROMOTIONS.
tat The Itev. C. Wordsworth, A. M. of Trinity College, Cant-
• Ibridge, has been presented by the Archbishop of Canterbtry to
the Deanery of Bocking, in Essex, vacated by the death of the
en Hon. and Rev. Charles Aynsley, brother to the Duke of Athol.
Or Yesterday the Rev. Jno. Lukin, son to the Dean of Wells, was
collated to the Prebend of Coombe the eeb, void by the de_th of
:ly • the Rev. Mr. Fownes.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 6.—The Rev. Wm. Young, B. A. of Em-
he Manuel College, was on Wednesday elected a foundation Fellow
to of that society.
The Rev. Mr. Owen, curate of Fulham, and formerly cf Bene'r-
Ul college, has been presented, by the Lord Bishop of London, to tip
rO valuable rectory of Pvglesham, in Essex. '
Denney, June 11.—The two prizes given by his Grace the
be Duke of Portland, Chancellor of the University, were last Mon-
En day adjudged to the following gentlemen :—The Bachelor s on
"e Hereditary Rank, an English Essay, to Mr. Cherie. Edward Grey,
B. A. of University College, and now Fellow of Oriel Cuilege
of The Undergraduate's, to Mr. Wm. Cleaver, Student of Christ
a_ Church, and son of the Bishop of Ferns, in Ireland, for Latin verse,
0 • Delphi.
2 The Undergraduate's Prize, given by an unknown benefactor,
Us for English verse and the Subject Mahornet, was aju tc Mr.
Ilf Matthew Rolleston, Scholar of University College.
of On Monday last the Rev. Is, Stewart Freemar, 73. D. of St.
John's College, was presented by the President . cad laows of
that Society, to the Prebend of Leckford, Hants.
DIED
A Thursday last, at the house of Thomas Brown, Esq. Upper
lu Tooting, the infant daughter of Edward Kensington, Esq, aged
eighteen suotuus.