Star.
London, England, 1808-01-30 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Off Dover, the Malta, —; Trident, M'Donald i and the Bel-
lona, Thompson, from Jamaica—At Liverpool, the Brook, Court-
ney ; Aurora, May ; and the Hannah, Lightly, from Jamaica ;
Mississippi, Anderson ; from Charleston • More, Brown ; and the
Margaret, Laughton, from Newfoundland—At Dublin, the Caro-
line, Strachan, from Picton ; Tyne packet, —; and New Venus,
—, from London—At Cork, the Diana, May, from New York
—At Waterford, the Dolphin, —, from Stockholm—At Belfast,
the Draper, M'Donald, from London—At Jamaica, the Phoenix,
Doujeaa ; and Apollo, Henry, from London—At Charleston, the
Arabella, ; and the Horizon, —, from London ;
Crowd, from the Clyde; Perseverance, RO3B, from Liverpool;
and the Caroline, Resolution, and William and Henry,
from Africa.

His Majesty's ship Ulysses, with her convoy from Portsmouth,
is arrived at Jamaica.

The Lady Warren, —, from Cape Fmncoise for London,
was totally lost on the Carcoise, on the 28th of November.—
Crew saved.

The Cert. s, Godfrey, arrived at Dublin on the 24th inst. saw five
vessels captured in the Channel, and was nearly captured herself.
The Maria, Zempthall, from Dantzic for Belfast, is lost on
the coast of Sweden.

The Rising Star, Gidney, from Clay for London, is lost at
Aldborough,

ley-heath, about three months since, the latter having
Monday a Court Martial was to have assembled won nine successive battles. The contest continued
on board the 44slagnanime, in Sheerness Harbour, twenty-five minutes, alternately to the advantage of
but the Members not being sufficient in number, each. In the 18th round, however, Jonas gave his
it was adjourned till Tuesday, when the Court i adversary such a violent fall, that he was not able to
proceeded to try My. John Brenholm, Master of continue the contest. There were about 200 amateurs
his Majesty's ship Centurion, on charges exhibited present.
against him by the Captain of the said ship, for drun- Government have received advices from Botany
kenness, &c. &c. ; when, the charges being fully
proved, he was dismissed Majesty's service. The Bay, dated the 18tli of March, which state, that a
plot to overturn the Gcvernment had been discovered
Court then proceeded to try a seaman, belonging to
to have been entered into by Dwyer, Borne, and
the Piercer gun-brig, for desertion, when, the charge
others, who had been transported film Ireland, for
being proved, he was sentenced to receive 50 lashes. I political offences. One of the instructions given by
Tuesday a Court-martial assembled at Sheerness on j them to the slaves or servants, who were concerned in
board the Magnanime, in the harbour, to try Mr. John the conspiracy was, that each, upon the breaking out
Brenholm, master of the Centurion, on charges ex-
of the insurrection, should murder his master.
hibited against him by the Captain of the said ship, i At the Sessions held at Sandwich, on Friday the
for drunkenness ; when, the charges being fully Bth of January, before WILLIAM BOKLER' Esq. the
proved, he was dismissed his Majesty's service. I Recorder, and the Mayor and Jurats of that town
The damage sustained at Reculver, in Kent, inde- and port, Mary hatella Camfibell, widow, was con-
pendent of the angle of the public house, which was, victed on the statute of the 6th of Geo. the 3d. chap.
on Monday, begun to be taken down, is confined to 36. for having between the hours of twelve at night
the north-west corner of the wall of the church yard,C of the 21st, and one in the morning of the 22d of
leaving the wall in every other part in its former state. December last, feloniously and maliciously broken
It does not therefore appear that the Church of the and destroyed several trees, shrubs and plants grow-
Two Sisters is in immediate danger, but from the in- ing, and being in the garden of Mr. STEPHEN
road made by the force of the waves to the northward I SAUNDERS, of the ville of Ramsgate, and for the said
of the cliff, it would seem that the elevated point of offence was sentenced to one month': imprisonment.
land .on which the church stands must eventually be I Antonin Defino, otherwise Dejzardo, the man who
insulated. In consequence of this danger, a vestry was convicted of manslaughter in killing William
was held in the said church, on Tuesday last, consist- Burn, an Englishman, at Canton in China—(and
ing of the Minister, Churchwardens, and principal in- 1 upon whose case the' ATTORNEY-GENERAL, at the
habitants of the parish of Reculver, and borough of Trial, stated an opinion would be taken of the Judges
}loath; at which, after due consideration, it was re- upon the construction of the Act of Parliament upon
solved unanimously, "to send up a petition to his which he was indicted)—has received a free pardon,
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, praying for his and has been conducted to the ship for receiving
Grace's Fiat to empower them to take down the said Spanish Prisoners of War.
church, in order to erect another in a more eligible Grohs; the young man who was charged with dif-
cof the parish." Prior to the late high tide, it ferent burglaries at Oxford, but effected his escape by.
been in agitation to attempt to preserve the leaping out of a two-pair of stairs window, has been'
church by embankments, &c. and a survey had been apprehended at Portsmouth, and brought to Oxford
made by Mr. Rennie, for that purpose; whose report on Sunday night last. A key belonging to a box
and estimate of the sum necessary, amounts, we un- which contained several articles of stolen plate, Was
derstand, to 82771. It was noted, by those whose found in his pocket. He was examined before the
observations are made from experience, that as the tide Magistrates of Oxford, and was committed to prison
on this part of the coast, previous to the late high one, for a further hearing. He has not as yet disclosed
was uncommonly low, the subsequent consequences any cf his connections in the different robberies. His
might be expected. It is also to be recorded, that fa her and mother were apprehended at first, but it
only two tides equally high, have been remembered appeared that they were totally unconnected with the
within these fifty years. . villainy of the son, and they were discharged.

LAW NTELLIaNciii

COURT OF C'HANCERY, JAN. I%

RURR e. SMITH.
The e plain tiff Suit had supplied one Iteeires, *ll6
was in doul tful circumstances, with grocer? goads;
on the guar. nty of the defendant, who accepted foi
this purpose a bill of exchange, drawn by Keeves, in
favour of the plaintiff. Keeves failed and Smith /vas
sued for the amount of the bill: After several de=
lays, however, and a renewal of the bill, Smith at
last gave a bond f,r 4001. to secure 2001. The plain.;
tiff was pro; eeding to execution on this bond.
Sir S. R( MILLY applied for an injunction' to stay
the proceekUngs, on the ground that the plaintiff had
proved under Keeves' bankruptcy, and that the de-
fendant was in equity entitled to set off all that could
be recovered in that way.
On the other side, it was alledged, that there were
other transactions between Keeves and Surr, and that
the dividends applied to these.
The LORD CHANCELLOR had no doubt that the
defendant was entitled to set off whatever remedy
could be had by Surr under Keeves' Commission, as
far as-related to the transaction in which the bond
originated. but as nothing of this was stated in the
record, he must refuse the injunction: