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ilk" near Mal*lbs ht wit fear she *eat to pie! es
IlOst night's gale.
'YARMOUTH, DEC. is. - •
The ships which sailed on Friday petback:bP
1144taticli.,; Am:nor, Vice-AdreirallAcoufie,4Th...'
Lameogow, Honourable Admiral GA Rbltflik Aao#Pl
PRINCESS CAROLINE, SZRTELT, and MAJESTIC ; CRAN•
TICLEER j LEFREETIeAIThO; MOSQUITO, ONYX, and
HAvoc. We had a se. edit ige on situk4ay evening.;
four vessels parted from their aviehovs,- and are on
shore on this beach ; one, the Albion, of Shields,
(crew all saved), one on shore on Lowestoff Wath,
in ballast, (crew saved), and one in the Roads, dis-
masted. A large bark went through the Roads dis.
masted, and several ships with loss of anchors and
cable, supposed gone for Harwich. The SNIPE, during
the gale, parted from her anchors, and ran for. tli
Nore.—Wind N.W. with great fall of snow. •
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CARLSCRONA, DEC 1.

The ALAART sloop of war, is hourly =lama nag
from Stockholm : she will immediately proceed to
England with about 90 sail of merchantmen. The'
nest -arid last convoy this year from hence' or Eng.,
land, will sail about the 15th inst. under protection
of the Nap ELvim and VESUVIUS, to be escorted as far
as Gottenburgh by the ,RANGER and MAGNET sloops
of war. The Ned Elvin has been ashore near this
place, and was obliged to throw her guns, anchors,
'water, and iron ballast overboard. All the Swedish
line of battle ships are laid up : the crews still re-
main dreadfully sickly: there are 7000 sick in the hos:-
pitals : between S 5 and 40 die every day. All the
Captains of the Swedish line-of-battle ships, which
were at, sea, are dead, escept three.
Liu IDISTRIBUIIObj OF PRIZE MONEY.
The Seagull, for the Fly. captured October 31, 1607; and the
Urgent, for the Siadt Norden, March 18, 1806, will be paid on
Wednesday. at No. 9, New Broad .street, and there recalled on
Wednesdays and Thursdays fta three months.
The Mosquito, Monkey and Urgent, for the Bradford,. cap-
tared April 7, 1606; and the Piercer, for the Frederick Wilhelm,
August. 3, 1805 ; will be paid on board their respective vessels,
the former on Wednesday, the latter on her arrival; and recalled,
the former at the same time and place as the above; the latter at
No. IS, Clement's Inn.

The Virginie, for the Cuelderland, captured May 19. 1808,
will he paid on hoard, an We.dnesday.. and recalled at Mr. Hunt's
Stonthouso, on Mondays and Thutidays, for three months.
The Arethusa, Anson, and Flsgard, for the Island of Curara,
captured lanuati 1, 1807, will be paid to-morrow, at .7.40. 3, Phil-
pot-lane, and there recalled.

The Vestal, for the Augustira, Carolina, and Diopea, captured
April 6th and 9th, 1606, will be pail on board to-morrow, and
recalled at No. 3, Clifford's lnn, for three months.

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,IIV A I.SII AND lahmerr.i-a-Saturday there was a meet,
ing at Guildhall of the COmmlasioners under the aloe
•Bankruptcy. Mr. Walsh made his appearance for the
first time, but as he had not delivered to the Assignees
any accohnt of the Lottery transactions, ;he Connsel
were ,of opinion the account delivered in was imper-
fect. His Solicitor acknowledged that it was under
his instructions he had not mentioned the Lottery bu-
siness ; but if it Was the opinion of the Commissioners
it should he 'done, his cli:±nts were ready to do it. The
Counsel for the 'Lottery Creditors insisted that the
disclosure should be of all the effects of every kind,'
and as the Lottery constituted nine,tentlis of the debts,.
without them the statemenewas not complete. The
Bankrupt said it 'would take- them some lime, as the
accounts were voluminous. The Cominissioneregare
them till Saturday the 31st instant,by uliich time they
said they should be ready.
On looking over the account produced by the
Bankrupts, it appeared that no account had been
dered of Mr. tralsh's landed proptrry.. which he:Was,
epprised was absolutely necessary, although he rasa'
Member of Parliament, to be laid before the Creditors.:
Mr. Nisbett underwent very little'examinatien. •
• A bond debt of 40001. lately due to the firm by
Lord Moira occasioned considerable discussion : Mr.
Walsh stating that the name of the Noble Debter had
been cautionilf withheld, from -considerations of deli-
cacytowards him ; while Mr. Bish declared, that no
such delicacy had been observed. Although the
Earl's name appeared in the list of debtors, Mr.Waish
observed that the money had been paid to Messrs.
Dan: and Co. who were his Solicitors, and who, he
understood, claimed a lien upon it.
Mr. MONTAGUE, one of the Commissioners, expres-
sed his astonishment at such a circumstance, and de-
sired to know when this payment had been made.
Mr. WALrs said, about a fortnight before the bank-
ruptcy.
Mr. MONTAGUE recommended to the bankrupt to
be prepared on this subject against the next meeting ;
for; if deemed necessary, the Commissioners must be
under the necessity of calling the Noble Lord before
them ; an inconvenience to which he was satisfied his
Lordsip would chearfully submit rather than the
ends of justice should in any respect be defeated:•
Bow-sraerr.—Thursday a paper parcel containing
Ihalf...notes and bills, to the amount of about £BOO,
tralable in London, was sent from the Chichester
Bank by the new mail, directed to Messrs. Fay and
Co. in St. Mildred'e-court, Poultry. A parcel ar-
rived on Friday morningi resembling the origin ,1 one
'in outward appearanie,' bet hchntained only an old
ragged towel. Messra..r!ex sent inimegiatel'y to 'the
White-horse inn, Fetterrlatte, where'the,mail lied ar-
rived, and gave information of tht fraltd, but no other
explanation could be obtalned•theret than that the
parcel delivered was the, same as that treitglit t; the
mail. Informatioa being gieeti at the aboVe Bice,
an officer was dispatched to make enquiries on thk:
mad and at Chichester, and on. Saturday several dfl
;the porters, &c. employed •at the' White-horse
,nth;.
-were examined, but none kept in custody. However,
on Saturday Messrs. Far received the half-mites ed.,
dosed in three two-penny post letters, evidently * '
-rested in a feigned' hand. The-other:Nikes arrived'
safe on Saturday. .
A CLEAR CAEF..--As 5000 totteryNumbers were
drawn, Illesday last, without either of the Capital:
Prizes lathing up, and as a full half of the drawing
will be completed to-morrow (since the'Whiel turns
again so early as nine o'clock) it is as plain as that
2 and 2 make 4, that halt the Capitals, at least, will
tumble out so-morrow, exclusive of the immense
EXTRA Bjtrurr of 500 Lottery 'Filets; -a conjunct
jateiesteegmat aswill inevitably e • ust the Lottery
market tbis day of ,every Ticket. and Share.

The folldwing maritime paragraphs appear in a
Paris Paper of the Bth instant :

" The privateer, the San Joseph, of St. Maio, arrived in
hforlaix roads, on the 25th, bringing in with her an English
three-masted vessed, carrying ten guns. She sailed front Liver-
pool, and was bound with a cargo of dry goods and four chestzef
dollars, for the Cape de Verde Islands. The privateer has also
on board a ransom of 00,000 franks for an English transport,
which she stopped on her passage from Comma to England, and
which had on board 42 women and children. The San Joseph,
being joined by those of her crew who were in charge of her
prizes, is preparing to proceed again to sea.

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" On the 3d instant the privateer le Rodeur, of Boulogne, en-
tered Dieppe, with an American prize, calic,! the Hopewell, of
157 tons, which she captured on the coast of England. ' This
vess6l was goirg from London to New York, with a cargo of
sheet copper for sheathing ships of war, gun-powder, salt-petre,
•itriol, paint, and other articles of naval stores.
" On the same day the Alexandrine privateer of Boulogne,
arrived also at Dieppe, where she landed six prisoners, taken
from on board the English vessel, driven ashore at Boulogne.—
She was bound from Gibraltar with a cargo of wines for London."

•
Tns Pr.aus.—Yesterday Hyde Park afforded a very brilliant
display of fashionable costume. The sombre sadness of the winter
scene was r.4ieved by the appearance of dashing Belles, clad in
pelisses of elegant make and beautiful colours. The trge is now
predominant for ermine, crimson, gold lace, with—imperial purple,
and our fair countrywomen promenade with magnificence suitable
to Queens and Princesses. Scarlet cloaks, which have been much
worn of 1,,e, begin to disappear; dark green velvet mantles, with
vandykes and narrow gold lace, of graceful and elegant appeas-
ante,are the novelty of the day. The furs worn as trimming to
caps arid robes are so various, that a Naturalist may discover the
coveting of every quadruped; the Tiger of the Torrid Zone, the
Polar Bear, the Alpine Fox, and the subterraueous rabbit, are
qually pillaged of their skins, to adorn the beauties of fashion.—
By the aid of these friendly auxiliaries, they are enabled to defy
the blast of stern winter; and ,while they exhibit themselves in
pedestrian groups, the scene is cheerful and picturesque. Many
delicate females did not venture to encounter the severity of the
weather, b• he path from Piccadilly to Kensington was crawled
by hardy Lures, wearing in their faces the th:ge of health, and the
smile of hap; Iness.—The skaiting Arnatears were disappointed in
their favo _ate amusement. It was expected, from the severity
of the fros , bat the Serpentine would have been frozen, but the
ice was nr. sufficiently hard to bear the weittit of a man. The
trees in I Iyie Park have suffered much by the storm of Saturday
night. A wry large limb of one tree in the Mall, St. James's
Park, was torn from the parent trunk, and laid prostrate across
the path. The parks have in other instances felt the approach
sad friolence of the season.
Saturday morning, at six o'clock, died, at his house
in Hertford-street, the Earl of'LavEamot. His Lord- I
ship was in the 80th year of his atge.• The immediate
cause of his death was a disorder in the bowels, which
in a very few days quite exhausted him. The Noble
Earl never recovered the shock he received on the ac-
cident which happened to the Countess. When her'
head-dress caught fire, recollecting that there were
always two servants in the apartment of the Noble
Lord, she burst into the room, and by the timely as-
sistance she received from the men the flames were
extinguished, but the Noble Earl survived the alarm
but a few days. By his death, the offices of Collec-
tor of the Customs Inwards for the Port of Letrdorr,
and Clerk of the Pells in Ireland, have become vacant.
His Lordship was twice married, and has left two
sons, Lord HAWKESBURY, now Earl of Ltvauroos,,
and the lion. CHARLES JENKIKSON. •
MunmEn.—dn Tuesday night threeruffiansliiilce.
into the house of Mr. Hamastam,tw, a farmer; at
Stoke-church, Wilts, and, after locking up'ike ser-
vants, they repaired to Mr. H.'s chamber, and•<from-
pelled him to point out to them kis property, to
,the
amount of 1301. which they secured, and afterwards+
beat him to death with bludgeons in the presence of
his wife, whom they tied to the bed-pest. The house
was attempted about three weeks since, when Mr. H.
wounded one of the ruffians severely.--One man pas
on Friday taken on suspicion. •

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: I.ll4424tfretrittifitiftilltelk.: 4'44-- LAO INTIIiiIGBNCE.
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'B,On-is-et :day. awry letr.coneourseof distinguishedl COUaT OF liaNq's BENCH, DEC 17.
A ' - Ws, Farmeti, Weeders, Graziers, Sales- HAMM V ALLEN.
Iltetit But Nis MA otheiedisslinbledat Mr. Sadler'sl
- • This • action was brought by a respect•ilile clergy:.
0. a horse
against a horsebreaker, for the -value r I,
ItePPsiticn.Yard,.,aud exatnitiell.the 'animals exhibited.
Besides those wiiich gained,the prizes, or wcrebe...
_. Fasted to his care, to break intdfiamess. • •
fore Mentioned, it would be injustice not to notice, 1,1 ' 'lt appeared that the plaintiff had paid forty-five
guineas for the horse in question, and sent him •to •
• 'le Class s'.--Mr. Win. Flower's SI rs-o.d' ehort-hotned oz.
'Clan 3. Mr. Samuel Chandler,
twosir...ol,l Devomexen . : the defendant's stables in Lamb's Conduipstreet. tor
Mr. Edmund T. Waters. 5-yr-old Devon or, fed on molasses. ' '!1 the purpose before mentioned ; but instead of putting
Clan 7.—Mr..Wm. Flower's gs.yreield -Hereford ox i Mr. W • .the horse into a break, in the usual manner; he use.
I'm" 61ft-A long-IwKned ox ' Mr.filwil' King' Jun's. S'Yrs- I him in his posting business, drove one time from Lon-
citclbevon ox ; Mr. Joseph Kiriby's 5-yrs•o11 rife, ire or.; the I
Earl of Macclesfield's 5- hi Devon ox; Mr. Robert Miner's don to Low Layton ;at another from London AO
5-yrs-old Scotch ex; and Mr. Joshna Trimmer's 5-yrs-old sus- Ashstead, a stage of eighteen miles. In consequence,
sex ox. • '•', •• of which he 'became ins very bad condition, his hair
Class R.--.l.6.•Joeeph loyner's two Aberdeenshire fun; Mr. rubbed off his shoul2eri and neck, and his general
Joseph Kirby's two 5-yrs-old Fifeshire oxen ; the Eari of Mac-
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changed.
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clesfiappearance mucn cnanuld's 4-yrs-old Devon ox ; Mr. Robert Master's 4-yrs-old
Scotch ox ; Mr. Samuel Stone's 3-yrs-ma half-bred Scotclaox. ,- The defendant pleads d leave and lifeneeto put the
. .•
Class 9,—Mr. Thomas Crook's fat Scotch cow, after her lourth horse into dotiblelharness, and thought'"hreoula not
calf; Mr. Win. Flower's 11-yrs-old fat long•llarl,,4 cal'', d•• break hint in bait Onus by serivQ(li t
. him an-easy
calves; Mr. Samuel store's ti-yes-old fat lure 11••rred Dishley stage, under the direction of a careful rivet. ,
cow, fevr•cnves; Mr. Joho. wmacies .;_vrs,otil fat Herefordo
cow. four eget'. , One of .the witnesset4" however, lewafdisesigAhat •
.
Ctass.lo..-Mr. John Westcar's three one year-old new Lei cos when the posting business-nos brisk, so de
ter wittier sheep. . ' • ventured to 'send ouatwyer'sborses, binding, shat
Class 11.--Mr.'llotnes Bowe's three two-year-old ditto a•Mt. those p entry were engaged 3in Court, during Tenni
Within Payne's three two-yearoskl ditto; Mr. Edward itatt's c•""- • .1 •
rom line in lite mowing until four o'clock in .the
Marge twodyear-oid ditto ; Ms. kb* Watcar's three ivio-yeai.. `
obi dews 'e • i • • . „
~ evening.
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:5 -13.--Doke of Bedlatealliatee.twswycar-old Southdowst Lord ELLENEORGUDII observed, that if the horse
Widen. - • ' '
was changed in his condition in the smallest degree,
Ch;l4 —Mr. John Clayson's 17tamanths•old half-bred Suf-
by the defendant's driving him post, the plaintiff had
lb*, ; Mr. Thomas Hughes 14,-months-old pis. ; , •
a r ight to refuse taking him back ; but in the present
. C ass 15.—Air..tieorge Inxkl's 1 li-months-old Eames and Sus-
sex pig. - 4 'case the defendant having conducted himself most
As extra stock, or those seat without certificates, disgracefully, his Lordship recommended to the Jury
or not otherwise entitled to a place in any 'of the eeryt damages the plaintiff was entitled
above Classes, we noticed— .
accordingly found a verdict of 45 guineas
`l4klliotnas Pieldord's five-year-old black and white !reign for the plaintiff. .
bill, pd hiyane-year-014 , ck and white pu11...4,1.4a a son of
Islet
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t& aWet, out 4 sistkr to steer lehich lee ealtialted U.' year. . COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBLR lg.
Sir William Cattit's three, b ffalos, or, sr/hick's% have before . -
spoken, have very copious libels stua iii ckicr 'them ' explaining • llooKseLults AND PRINTERS.
their ages, pedierees, weights; &c. MAWMAN G. GILLETT.
Mr. Daniel Sharp's five Indian cattle. .
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This was an action arising out of a fire which ap.
Edward 'flown Waters'shewed six small pigs of his breed. pened in the Premises of the Defendant, a Printer, us
•114r.*Iltomas Pickford, of Market-street, Herts, some of the
large'9wedish turnips; in which he so much excells; and ' Salisbury-square, whereby the -Plitintiff's property, in
Mr. Goldhawk,',of Short, Surrey, some fine transplanted sam- books and paper, to a great amount, teas destroyed.
pies of his white round turnips; globules, with small fibres and -..-The names of the Plaintiff and. Defendant are ar. '
crowns, and thin skins. ready familiar to most of our Readers, as well as the
. Mr. Garrard exhibited his large folio work, a description of
the different varieties of Oxen common in the British Isles, both stature of the dispute between them this having been
plain and coloured, after nature. the' third time of the same question being tried before
• Mr. John Lawrence issued proposals far a history of the Horse.* his Lordship and a Special Jury. Upon the first of
' Mr. Edward Jennings sisewed a model of an ingenious land- these occasions, there Was -a deficiency of evidence
roller, in three parts, for more equally pre,:sing the land, and
fuming it about, 'with a scat for the driver ; and • • upon both sides ; and upon the second, the declara-
Mr. James Braley an ingenlaos,tarn-sise plough, wit]; lice ton proceeded upnn the ground of a general custom
tacks, on the Nocisilk priaciple, !.. ;
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,; - • prevailing in the trade, Which the Jury could not find
In the course of the dayeastneat mullser of gentle-• substantiated by the evidence; but in this third one,
men signed the Memorial relatitil •to.Srhitlitield it proceeded upon the ground of a specific agreement
Market. or understanding between the parties, that Mr. ,
.2, '4 .nt ";,--• ***l —.- ltiff' ''ood:

Gillett was to jus) re- the Plaini _'s ; but this
fact not being satisfactorily made Out, the Jury, after
a minutes, considerati3n, gave a Verdict for thePlain-
tia. 491085.

, The trial lasted. from ten o'clock in the morning
until five in the evening. -
1 EC. 17.--BUTLER H. WiRTNABY.
In this case an action was brought to recover un-
der policies of insurance, on. the ship Vigilante, and
another, which were to sail with cargoes of beans and
oats, from a port in the River Ems, to this country.
The Vigilante did sail from her port, and had pro,
ceeded a certain way down the river, when she was
detained by a Dutch gan-brig, carried back, and, cn
an application to the Hague, her cargo was after-
wards iv:stored to Mr. Wilson, who was the Plaintiff's
Agent, and had shipped it on his account. The
other vessel had never proceeded from the port where
she had taken in ber cargo, but being deterred by the
'fate of the Vigilante, and by a decree which, in the
mean time, Ilid been issued, retanded her cargo, and
gave up the voyage.. -The policies having been ef-
fected, tn.seittre;the two cargoes against alI captures
or detentions by hostile po.%crs, it was now sought to
recover undue &ern, ,as for a total loss on both car-
goes, an ,abando:uncut ii.:v in g been previously made.
Mr. Serjcant Sitrmittto a.nll Mr. Serjcant Ben., on
the part of the"l3),,ithilf, c!early proved the detention
of the Vigilante, and the subsequent abandonment.
By a letter from Mr. Wilson too, it appeared that in
reclaiming the cargo detained an ex?ence was incur-
red to the amount of 2081.
Mr. Serjeant i.ms, for the Defendant, argued,
that here no loss,.proVided for under the policy, had
been incurred. The Vigilante, no doubt, had sailed
from her port, but her detention had not been occa-
sioned by an hostile power, but by the Government of
the country to which the port whence the Vigilante
railed belonged, or some other friendly power, who,
in detaining the ship and cargo, only wished to pre-
vent a forbidden intercourse between the subjects of
that country and their enemies. As to the other ves-
sel, it was obvious that no claim whatever could lie,
she never having even attempted to sail on her
voyage. It was difficult, however, to conceive what
loss had been at All sustained by the plaintiff. The
cargoes were still at his own disposal, remaining in
the hand of- his Agent; and might, for any thing
known to the defendant, be even now in this-country.
The fact, however, was, that the voyage was alto-
gether illegal, the port to which both vessels were to
have sailed, though originally belonging to the King
of Prussia, having before the date of the policiesrand
before the sailing of the vessels, become part of the
.
newly-erected kingdom of Westphalia, and as such
fallen under the dominion of an alien enemy.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, in addressing the Jury, con-
fessed the case to bean uncommon one. He was In-
-11/4dneed, however, to regard it as one in which an 'ace-
rage, and not a total toss should be allowed. Though
• the Plaintiff had argued it as a total loss, there was •
evidence of an average loss on the Vigilante,- by.
which alone any voyage had been undertaken.• He
could not, seeing that loss, recommend to the Jttry
to find for the Defendant ; but still he should reserve
to him to move the Court for a non-suit. The Viti.
lante was insured for 5001., the loss sworn to by
Wilson, in recovering the cargo, was, 2081. and the
,proportion of the 5001. now sought to be recovered
was 1201.
The Jury found for the Plaintiff an idetage loss—
Damages, AliO. 13s. 4d. being exactly in the propor-
-4 Non which 1201. of 5001. bents to 2081. i
1 • On Monday, the 12th inst. in obedience to an
unanimous judgment.of the Second Chamber df the
Court of Session, I..OOKHE. It T MIUIRHEAD, A. N. yeas
admitted li egi ns. Professor of . Natural Histoiy, inthe
University of Glasgow. -