Star.
London, England, 1808-05-25 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ADMIRALTY CODAT, DOCTORS' COMMONS.
TOMMY, MAT 21. ^.•
This day the Right Hon. Sir W. Scot? proceeded
to the adjudiektion of the following CASCS:
Sally, Bray toaster.—This American vessel, laden
with various merchandize„ on hers., 'wage film New
Orleans to Philadelphia, was capteired by the Fortuna,
and brought,to Cork.. Ship and cargo restored, sub-
ject to the captor's expences.
Scipio, Vascancelos master.—This %vas a Portu-
guese vessel and cargo, which were restored, subject
to the regulations contained in one of his Majesty's
Orders in Council.

Missouri, Read master.--,This American vesse',
ladeirtwith East-India produce, was coming from Ba-
tavia to Eugope, at the time of capture, and the ques-
tion was reecting the trade of Batavia in time of
peace ; whether it was an open and permitted trade
to foreigners. This being a very important question,
the Court directed further proof to be produced.
John Buckely, Moore master.—This was a further

proof case, respecting certain parts of the cargo,
which were restored, subject to the captor's expences.
Catherine, Sohn master.—This vessel, under Bre-
men colours, without any cargo on board, was cap-
tured by the brig Safeguard, and brought to Yar-
mouth. Ship condemned.
Heroine, Harwood master.—This was a question
of salvage, on the ground of a recapture. The Court
dec,reed 1-6th salvage to be distributed to the salvors.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 24.
JENNINGS AND OTHERS V. LORD GRENVILLIL

This was an application to set aside the verdict,
and enter a nonsuit. It was an action of Troyer,
brought by the owners of .a South Sea whaler against
Lord Grenville, as the executor of the late Lord Ca-
melford, to recover half the value a a whale, cut up
and taken on board a ship belonging to Lord Camel-
ford, after the Plaintiff's crew had struck a drongh
harpoon in the fish. At the trial it was contended,
that the Plaintiffs were entitled by the custom of the
South Sea Trade to half the fish for having first
struck it, and the Jury found a verdict for the Plain-
tiff. The ground for setting aside the verdict was,
that an action of Truver in this case could not be
sustained. •

Mr. Serjeant WILLIAMS argued at considerable
length to prove that the Defendant was liable ; but
the Court were unanimously of opinion, that the De-
fendant, by cutting up the whale after the Plaintiff
had left it, did not commit an act which made him
liable to an action of Trover. The Rule for entering
a nonsuit was consequently granted.

COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, MAY 24.
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.
The AT-roar:ay GENERAL moved for a Rule to
shew cause why a Criminal Information should not
be filed against Thigh Doherty, Esq. for a libel on
Hunter.
He proceeded to state, in a feeling and impressive
manner, a tale of deep misery and distress, which
must affect the feelings of every parent :—Mr. Do-
'herty was a man of the age of about 36, without
business or fortune, and considerably involved in debt.
He was introduced to the house of Mr. Hunter, whose •
then name was Holmes, and there he saw his daugh-
ter, a beautiful and artless girl, of 15. By various
arts he contrived to gain her affections, and pressed
her with his addresses, much against the will of her
father, who forbade him the house. He so wrought
upon this young creature's feelings, that she fell ill;
and he yet contrived to send her fetters, and serenade
her at her window nightly. She became so ill, that
the physician, Sir W. Farquhar, recommended Dr.
Symonds as the only proper person to attend her ;
and after visiting her some time, at her father's house,
he thought it necessary to remove her to a private
receptacle for insane personr, under his own inspec-
tion. Mr. Doherty contrived, after some intervals,
to steal her away from this place, and in a state of
imbecility which made the marriage ceremony a
mockery, some sort of connubial rites were celebrated,
and, after a month, the father, finding what had
passed, agreed to their being married, and settled
5001. a year on Mrs. D. but forbade the husband from
visiting his house. At the intercession of a Mr. Can-
non, an Attorney, who acted with great honour in
the affair, he agreed. however, to advance 80001. to-
wards rescuing Doherty from his embarra.ssments,and
the married couple lived together at Rainham, in
Essex. Mrs. D. now began to make complaints of
her husband's misconduct, to which the father only
replied by telling her that he could not interfere, as
it was the husband of her choice. At length, during
a time when he was afflicted with illness, a friend
waited on him from Mrs. D. who discovered her dis-
tressful situation to him in such terms of agonizing sor-
row, that he referred the case to the investigation off
some friends, and amongst the rest, a Mr. Wyatt,
who was to act as for himself, and he found upon his:
report that it was impossible, as a father, to withhold.
his interference. Mrs. Doherty then left her husband,
and a suit was instituted in • the Conampns for a
vorce a mettra tt thoro, for ill usage. . •
Mr. Doherty now being separated from his. Ifr3fe.'
regretted rather the loss of her income,. than of "herf!
self, and threatened to d;ink the heart's blood of Mr::
Hunter with a dagger, though thegallows threatened
him on one side, and the. grave yawned o cn for:
him on the other,
It was now that Mr. Hunter put in force tbe„secut
rities which 1 p ha.l token for the 30001 which be had
advanced, andlodged detainers against Mr. frolerty.
for that sum. •
Exasp,rated at this, Mr.,Doherty published in No:
vember last, a book called " the Discovery," in
which he grossly misrepresented Mr, Hunter's con-
duct ; and in April last published a sort of novel, en-
titled " Ronaldsha," in which he described the fa-
ther as an inhuman monster, who lu el first encouraged
the addr:ssts of Mr.• Doherty to daughter, and
then barldarously coafinA her in a madhous2 ; and
lastly, by the bas I: treachery, a-enated the affec?
tioris of Mrs. Doherty, and robbed Mr. Doherty of
his wife, and hey infant son of Ifs h r.
Lord ELLENBOROVGIIIS the publication clearly
referable to Mr. Hunter, and have you affidavits in
support of the personal application of the scandal ?
The ATIORNEY,GENIERAL,-4t is clearly referable,
and I have several affidavits as to the persogal
appli-
cation of the scandal. • - • •
Lord ELLEsoottougairake s Ink to 14tgir mpg,

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FROM LAST .NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

CROWN OFFICE, MAY 24.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO cERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT..

ADMIRALTY OFFICE, MAY 24.
A letter has uo•ti received by the Honourable William Wel-
lesley Pole,from Mr. John Kinsman, Commander of the Active
Etcise cutter, dated at Fahnouth the 19th instant, stating that,
on the 17th, he had captured in the said cutter, after a cbace of
some hours, the JAux • Freres French privateer of St. Makes,
armed Stith two carriage guns, and manned with twenty-nine
men. She had been out four days, and bad taken two vessels,
one of which was retaken by the Active, and the other by the
Betsey privateer of Plymouth.

Britt:llS or KIP 'MALL, DINGWALL. DOINOCR, AND
WlCK.—William Henry Freemantle, of Stanhope-street, May-
Fair, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. in the room of /oho Ran-
doll Mackenzie, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Mildred'.
WAR-OFFICF., MAY 24, 1908.
2d Regiment of Dragoons--Lieutenant Richard Batten to be Cap-
tain of a Company, without purchase, vice Hankin, promoted.
Dittn--lieutenant W. H. Wright to be Captain of a Troop,
by purcha,e, vice Hutchinson, who retires; Cornet A. F.Gre-
gory to be Lieutenant, A ice Wright.
9th Region nt of Light Dragoons—Captain James Delancey, from
the Guth Foot, to be Captain of a Troop, vice Pigot, who ex-
changes.
11th Ditto—Lieutenant Benjamin Astley tube Captain of a troop
by purchase, vice Hawkins, whO retires ; Henry Smith, Gent.
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice W. Smith, promoted.
12th Ditto—Lieutenant George F. Erskine to be Captain of a
troop, by purchase, vice Pringle, who retires.
14th Ditto—Cornet Lovell B. Badcock to be Lieutenant, by pm-
' chase, vice Nourie, who retires.
19th Ditto—Captain Edward Parker, from the 2t st Light Dra-
goons, to be Major, without purchase, vice O'Neill, promoted
in the Chussours Dritanriques.
10th Ditto—Captain George Foljambe, from the Thi Light Dra•
goons, to be Captain of a Troop, vice Frankland, who ex-
changes.
t:3d Ditto—r.aptain Lord George William Russell, from the BNI
Foot, to he Captain of a Troop, vice I.yster, who exchanges;
Captain Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset, from the 4th
Oarri.on Ilattallon, to he ditto, vice Hart, who exchanges ;
Captain James limey Frankland, from the '2oth I.ight Dra•
goons, to lw ditto, vice Foljamhe, who exchanges; Cornet Wil-
liam Power to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir Thomas
Lighton, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Font—Ersign Thomas Mundell, from the Ist
Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Ensign.
sth Ditto--Fnsign Samuel Belton to be Lies tenant, without pur-
thaw, vice Spearman, promoted ; Frederick George Drewry,
(rent to be Ensign, vice Belton.
hth Ditto—Major Alexander M`Gregor Murray, from the 67th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Mac Lean,

who retires.
9th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Godwin to he Captain of a Com-
payq, rice Cornwall, deceased ; Ensign Thomas Shepherd to
be Lieutenant, vice Godwin.
11th Ditto--Lieutenant Marshall Lugar, horn the Warwick Mi-

Deighton, from the Last Norfolk Mi.

litia, to be Ensign.
14th Ditto—Ensign
litia, to be Ensign.
18th Regiment of Foot.
To hr Lieutenants—Ensign lames Grueher, vice Weld, promot-
ed ; Ensign George William Bell, vice Gregory, promoted in
the .sth Garrison Battalion; Ensign Donald Jinclair,vice

Munro, deceased.
To be Fr.signs--Abraham Reed, Cent. vice Crueller ; Lucius
Talbott, Gent. vice Bell ; William Bell, Gent. vice Sinclair.
20th Ditto--Ensign Forbes Champagne to he Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Peacricke, appointed to the 44th Foot.
!Ist Tito—Assistant Surgeon Maurice Quill, from the 9th
Ciarrison Battalion, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Graham, who

religns.
35th Ditto—Lieutenant James Semphill, from the 4th Garrison
ibitealion, to be Lieutenant, vice Clough, who exchanges.
41st Ditto--Fnsign Richard Bullock to be Lietateuaut, without
purehase,vice Lundie, who resigns.
41141 Ditto--Christopher Hobson, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Buchanan, promoted.
45,11 Ditto—Marcus Dalhunty, P.sq. late Lieutenant in the Regi-
ment, to be Paymaster of the Ist Battalion, vice Brinl^y.
48th Ditto—Lieutenant W. P. Jonas Parry to be Captain of a
Company, by purchase, vice Bland, who retires.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign John O'Farrell,
vice Parry ; Ensigns ----- Ellwood, John Mar hall.
To be Ensigns--George Tardy, Gent, vice O'Farrell ; David
Persse, Gent. vice Ellwood ; John Benny, Gent, vice Mar-
shall; 'Richard Maunsell, Gent. vice Bowsar, promoted in the
84th Foot , John Sharp, Gent. vice Carey, whose appointment

bas not taken plane.
53d Ditto—Lieutenant Joseph Hubert Kigkley, from the 3dWcst
York Militia, to be Ensign.
54th Ditto—Captain Daniel Roberts, from the 55th Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, vice Campbell, who exchanges.
55th Ditto—Captain John Campbell, from the 54th Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, vi a Roberts, who exchanges.
58th Ditto—Quarter Master Serjeant William Phillips to be
Quarter Master,vice Drew, promoted in the 10th Royal Veto-
ran Battalion.
59th Ditto--Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Laing Weir to be
•Major, by purchase, vice PleydeU, who retires ; Lieutenant
T. C. Wookr to be Captain of a Company, without purchase.
vice Dalnter, who resigns; Lieutenant Charles Douglas to be
Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Weir.
60th Ditto--Brevet Major George Pigot, from the 9th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain of a Company, vice Delancey, who
exchanges ' • Ensign William Proctor to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, viceDuchesnay, who retires ; Ensign J. T. Allinson, front
the sth West-India Regiment, to be Ensign. without purchase,
vice Tresson, promoted ; J. Plat, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice 11'roctor.
62.1 Ditto--Captain Thomas Dickinson, from the 65th Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, vice Hutchings, who eXcl 11$3 ;,5;
Andrew Reid, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice aS ythe,
promoted.
6.Cth Ditto--Captain Thomas Hutchings, from the 62.1 Foot, to
be Captain of a Companyorice Dickinson, who exchanges.
tifith Ditto--Lieutenant Adam Todd, from the Dunuiies-shire
Militia, to be Ensign.
09th Ditto--Ensign James Carroll to be Lieutenant, vice W. A.
Alexander, deceased.
75th Ititto--Lieutenant William Moncrief Taylor, from the Edin-
burgh Militia, to be be Ensign.
81st Ditto—" Thomas Clifton Wheat, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Derenzy, promoted.
Ditto--Captain Anthony I.yster, from the 2341 Light Dra-
goons, to be Captain ot a 'I roop, vice Lord G. W. Russell, who
exchanges; Lieutenant Archibald Hook, from the 3:n.1 loot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Souter,promoted to the
Canadian Fencibles ; Lieutenant Hugh Stafford Donnellan,
from the 3d West York Militia, to be Ensign.
s3d Ditto--Lieutenant -- Taylor, from the Aberdeen Militia,
to be Ensign.
8 tilt Ditto—Brevet Major Robert Vincent to be Major, without
purchase ; Lieutenant W. P. Pattickson to be Captain at a
Company, vice Vincent ; Lieutenant W. B. lerrebve to be
ditto.
'to be Lieutenanto--Ensign William Biadon, from the Otis Gar-
rison Battalion, vice Patrickaon ; Ensign Robert M`Carthy,
from the soth Foot, %lee terrebee ; Ensign Charles 13owasc,
from the 48th Foot.
To be Ensigns—Ensign John Garbut, front the 3d West York
Militia; Charles Campbell, Richard Bourke Warren, George
Andrew Bewdler, and Valentine Grinstead, Gents.
59th Ditto--Lieutenant Hugh Bowen, from half-pay of the 17th
Light Dragaons, to be Lieutenant (repaying the eitlerence), vice
Lynch, appointed to the 4th Garrison Battalion.
91st Regiment of Foot.
To be Lieutenants—Second Lieutenant John Russell, from the
sit st loot ; Ensigns Alexander Campbell, Robert Stewart, An-
drew M`Lachlan, Allen M'Le.ut, Robert Campbell, William
Hanson, George D. Crawford, and Carberry Egan, from the
9:h Garrison Battalion.
To be Ensigns—Lieutenant Matthew Anderson, from the Ren-
frew Militia ; Samuel Nicholls Omerod, Gent. vice Campbell ;
harles Anderson, Gent. vice Stewart ; John Marshall, Gent
vice Mtbsehlan ; Thomas Murray, Gent. vice MiLean ; Ro-
bert Spence Knox. Gent. vice Campbell ; Alexander Macneill,
'Gent. vice Hanson ; and Charles Stewart, Gent. vice Crawford.
94th Ditto--Ensign Archibald hPArthur to be Lieutenant, vice
Aphelion, deceased; Ensign David Munro, from the 59th

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Foot, to be Lieutenant, vire Wilson, whose appointment Is to I
be cancelled; Oeborne Barnwell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
M'Arthur ; George William Crooke, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Wilson, *hose appointment is not to take place ; Lieutenant
James Tweedie, from the Renfrew Militia, to be Ensign; En-
sign John Bogue, frein the Edinburgh Militia, to be Ensign.
95th Ditto—Lieutenant -Francis Edmonstone, from half-pay of
the 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thompson, who ex-

changes.
4th West-ladia Regiment—Major Nathaniel Blackwell, from the
Ist West-India Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Smith, deceased.
sth Ditto—Pervical Hart, Gent. to be resign, without purchase,
vice Allinson, appointed to the 60th Foot.
6th Ditto—Major David R. l'arker, from half-pay of Nugent's
late Recruiting Corps, to be Major, vice Dales, who exchanges.
Ist Garrison Battalion—Ensign and Adjutant John Barrett to have

the rank of Lieutenant.
4th Ditto—Major John P. Hamilton, from half-pay of Horn-
pesch's late mounted Riflemen, to be Major, vice Sorel!, who
exchanges ; Captain Richard Hart, from the 2.9c1 Light Dra-
goons, to be Captain of a Company, vice Lord George Thomas
Henry Somerset, who exchanges ; Lieutenant J. H. Clough,
from the 85th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Semphill, who ex-
changes.
9th Ditto—Captain James Hook, from the 3d West York Mili-
tia, to be Ensign, vice Egan, promoted in the 91st Foot, and
Fenton Finlay, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Bindon, yromoted in
the 84th Foot.

Major Bradshaw's NI Levy—Captain Thomas S. Sorell, from the
81;t11 Foot, to he Major.
Major Bradshaw's :id Levy—Captain Robert Henry Dick, from
the 78th Foot, to be Major ; Lieutenant Adam Meths, from
the 59th Foot, to be Captain of a Company ; John Maxwell,
Gent. to be. Adjutant ; and William H. Maxwell, Gent, to be
Quarter-Mast..r.
6th Royal Veteran Battalion—Captain J. Hamilton, from the
9th Veteran Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice the

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Hon. James Stuart, deceased.
9th Ditto—Captain James Miller, from the lst Royal Veteran
Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice Hamikou, ap-
pointed to the tith Royal Veteran Battalion.