Star.
London, England, 1806-09-22 00:00:00

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Reat a I-emw waidadmal by Sk Jams Saareares. IG 11.
m Miming el the led, MWham MarGke, 5 dared at
Geassity, September ii, slot.
His Majety's Ship Camshaft, 'edgy, Sept. is, 'lot
Sir--I have the honour to fate, that oa Tuelday,
the 9th infant. this flip, the gun bugs Svatauous
and SmaarsmooTaa, in company. fell is with. and
drove. on !hors to the Weaward of Cape Frehetl,' a
French frigate. toppered, and about 30 guips'; it
coming to blow hard that morning, with thigh wea-
ther. we were obliged to weigh from of M. Haloes,
with a Rrong Rood tide. and to beat to the Wellward.,
About noon we perceived the enemy endeavouring
to pas between us and the Cape, to the Eallvrard.—
Seeing is tlofe. and likely to cut him of, he prefer.
red running on chore to Eghtiag his way, and went
right in before the wind. The furl beating againß
him, and the weather getting worfe, I could not
Rand nearer the rocks, and called of the STRIM VOl7 s
who was neared, and I feared would not be able to
get taft The wind moderating in the evening, I
worked up with the ebb, and perceived him high and
%It y within a ledge of rocks, clofe to the Sand Hills,
but far out of reach of !hot. I anchored for the
right. but found no means of further annoyance in
the morning; (or the profpoet of horning him I
thought too hazardous by the boats, having the
army (who appealed in numbers), his own crew,
guns, and a battery os the hill to defend him. As
the tide Sowed, the wind inertrafed to fuch a degree,
as obliged me to confok our own fafety, and leave
the toad ; and from the afitirznce of the pilor, and
Tay own obfervation, there can be little doubt that
the gale which followed has made him a complete
wreck. As foun as it is.moderate I (ball go down
ain, and report accordingly. It gives me great
arifeafure to 'reetzark to you, Sir, the zeal and gal-
antry of Lieutenants Houser and Cotote. of the
gun brigs; had there been °teal-ton, I had every
reafon to czped the utnsoa from them. as well as
Mr. Doses (the Full of this fh4s), and all the offi-.
cers and men of the fquadron. I enclofe weekly ac-
counts of the vetch under my orders, and have the
*pow to be; frt. (Signed) w. s. u aaotit s.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. se.
Yes siva v. ruenta—avaanaureaay stave.
Fs t roma, in every inimelSve eddreb. open-
ed this extraordinary cafe to the Jury. It was, be
(aid, a pro:fee:scion which the Hotiostabk Peelers
who bad the coadu of the Polk Once had deea d
it their peculiar duty to &dialog on behalf of the pub.
lie. The Kilmer was sot in their inweedieft eut-
PloY, and confemmady AM lot fall within the (cops
of that excellent fyllent of lam framed for the raga
lation of the Lob Once, and the perfons attaches' to
it. His father wai is their fervice, and was jualy
confidered a valuable and meritorious fervent. The
prifoner, his forst-on the contrary, was a probigate
youth,
and abandoned a difgrace to bias and his
refpeaable parent. This was a cafe, which, he was
perfoaded, would deeply inters* the jury, and all
who bead It, not only as it related to a correfpon.
dew between fevers' amiable young ladies, but as
it would thew how moth the mod worthy clans of
the comlessity were. notwithtLanding all their cau-
tion anttgood toads& espiskd to the evil cowrie-
ante* of the wicked part of mankind. It happened
that Ws-Henrietta Burford was fituated as a teacher
at a barren Cahoot called Turret Hook, at Clap-
, ham Camains. On the 6th of A ugliA lad the wrote
a letter toe young lady, Mile Ann Stratford. of No.
oS, Hamm Garin, her intimate friend. The objet
el this letter was merely to expbtin to Ita)sove co.
fortably the thong her iltaatioa, and hob, Nod the
Lady who kept the febool behaved to her. When the
bad &Asa this letter, be left it to be delivered.—
The priftlner's father. who was the poaman. called
for the letter th be lent by the pull. The
letter in qualioa was takes, with many others, tp his
honk aid placed um* his table, for the roma of
beetle ismed. It would :split* that id pafost amid
bare hi heels o themjidtAkfan. the parewee- The
'letternwitlen by Mil. lurked was taken away .by
li=gro who Peellebly, from its Sae, it having the
of s double letter, fuppofed it contained
feelenihr.
_mete taldahle than it really did. He
it, 'lt was onneteffary to Aate
shainnamittatifteithat foaled its contents. It was
highly creditable 4. the writer, and atenifeded her
granted* for favoenlie had received. The prifoatr
haviog the letter in' la pareffios, turned it to this
payoff—he tramieribed it ; and in one part of the
copy. he took acidulate introduce a paragraph. eat-
ing that the bearer was the fon of the gardener.—
He then Spa the sum of Mils Burford, and added
a pollfcript. revealing the loan of al. son. When
the letter came to the heads of Miff Stratford, it
was delivered by a Young man intended to pals for
the garde:ea% row. 106 Stratford was aware that
it was ant the head writing of her friend ; bet as
it contained fosse ilea:cant particalars, which were
Mly known to thenefehres, the concluded dm Schad
sited Come other pans to write it. She had not the
etteute7 about her, and the therefore mutton solver,
me would fend it the peat day try the errand
cart from Hatton Garden. , Her enterer was given
to the young man. Tbe.next day the Fatter fent
loather boy with a letter, is If& lkoferd's lame,
defiling His Stratford mot to tratablodisefelf by wait-
ing foe the errand cart, bittflatiejOve the money to the
barer. BM &radioed " to her father, who
inflandy melded berth oblige her friend. atao mane
up a parcel. inelofing the mosey, with a Chambray
maths theft, and gave it to the boy. Seth was the '
outline of this fraud : with regard to the Jame, it
was Mceffary to obferre, that an wholefoime A& of '
Parliament had paled in the late King's reigo,called
the AR of fade pretences, for the sewers pumas of
Puglia's% thole who, by loch WICAD/9 &mid obtain
money or goods. It was clear that this was a fade
pretence. True it was, that the prifoner was act the
perfon who received the mosey direaly from Mitt
Stratford; but it was a maim in the law of this
country, that he who did as illegal ail by another,
was halals'( the author of it. But as this was a pro-
fecotion for an offence which was novel in itt nature
it had been thougbt neceeary, and for the benefit of '
the public. that it thoold be viewed in all its basins'.
Therefore, if the of George 11. bad not met it.
there was another A& of Heavy the Eighth, by
which it was declared that iii penalties fhould lie in-
curred by thole who obtained money by falfe to-
kens. That A& particularly fpecified counterfeit
letters. The precast profecution having becnfounded
upon both thafe Aas, accounted for the extraordi-
nary length of the indictment. It was in faa the
longed we gar beheld—the parchment on which it
was written extended at lean ten yards. To return
to the .fat. the Learped C,ounfel dated, that in the
courre of a few days; the two young ladies met, acid
an explanation took plate. Mill Burford's feelings
were ionl7 alarmed at the idea of her having been
fuppofed to be to neceStated as to require pecuniary
altdaoce front her friend, and the immediately ma-
laded, that much about the fame time the had written
Co another young acquaintance, Mira Cooper, of
• Sitirewlliury. It occurred to her, that a finiilar &cep-
tion might have been prallifed--luid the parolee of
mind to fend her an account of the tranfaetion; and.
whatlhe had fuppoled actually turned out to have
been the cafe. Mils Cooper returned her a litter,
which came to head, Rating, that the had before re-
ceived one from her, defiring her to fend as anfwer,
dirtied at Mifs White's, No. 4, Prioce's-areet, Leo-
doe Road, near Blackfriar's Road. This fentitheda
clue by which the whole was difcovered. It was
thought necefary that tome perfon Should go to Mitt
White. A Bow-Brett OSeer was employed. He
called at her lodgings, and (aid he had a letter for
Mils Burford. The young man. the prifoner at the
bar, immediately Upped forth. and &fired to have
it. He was taken into cubody, and his &melon ltd.
lowed. The Chambray muffin drefs, which had been
feat by Mit. Stratford, was dila:vend on the back
of Mils White, an unfortunate girl, who was rather
an object of lamentation than of indignation. She
had freely contact:l all the knew. It turned out that
the prifoner was the fon of the ?oilman at Clapham
—Mils White would prose that the had free him copy
the lettere, betides which he had birofelf acknow-
ledged his guilt to the Solicitor of the Poll Office.—.
Providentially for the prifoner. be had been dila).
vered in this Rage of his iniquity. Had he gone on
in the courfe he had commeoced, he mutt loon lime
finillsed his life ignominioully. His parlament was
In the diferetion of the Court, and that dikretioa
could tat be more lately lodged than io the botoint
of filch jr!it and upright Magairates.
Miis Henrietta Burford. a breadth! young lady,'

repeated all the foils her Connfel bad !fated. Sim"
admitted the general test of the letters produced ;
but dire/rowed thole prafages dt which the was frip•,
pofed to have fi-licited loans of Mimey.
Mifs Ann Stratford, who was as handfonie as her
friend, detailed all the fags which related to her—
the &Meetly confirmed the Ilatement of Mr. rieldipg-
Mr- Stratford proved, that he had given his daugh-
ter 31. 101. to fend to Mifs Burford.
Mifs Burford's mother raid, the had received a let-
ter from her daughter, requafiing 31. The young
lady was called up, and pofitively denied having
written to that tied.

William Anthony, the Pallet Officer, laid, he ap-
=Lded the prifoner at Mifs White's lodgings in
et, near Alley's Amphitheatre. He had a
blank letter with Mifs Burford's name on it ; the
prifoner received it, and took charge of it—be con-
fided that be had written the lettersv and that, if
them was any harm in them, he was alonetaiifwer.
able ; and that Mifs White had no Gam in the ;rani-

Mifa White Rated, that fhe had fern the prifoner
copy the letter, and fhe added. that ese had put Mt)
fhe poll the owe directed to Mali Cooper, at Shrewf-
bury.
Mr. Parkins, the Solicitor to the Pot t Office. coil-
firmed the fag of the priforrer's ample conteffica.
Mr. Turner, the prifonees father, declared midi
great agitation, that no one but his fon could liss*
cspened,,tbe letters. • - "
Joh* .Dasifon, an acquaintance of the prifnativ:
primed the dreams/lance of his fending the Chambray
drefs, and fume ether articles, to Mils White.
. The letters were rhea teed. It is quilt gneiss/hey]
try Mate their contents. It is fufgaeat to fay, droyi
wage highly creditable to the and:reaticling and rood j
fence al blifs Burford. The furreptitions pages-al
related folely to the loam of money.

Tae prifinser, upon being afked what he hod tooter
is his defence, raid be threw bienfclf entirely, oe dm'
mercy of the Court.
The obferred, that the cafe woo too,
clear to render it sweats:, for hint to recapitulate tbs.
e ideoce. •
The lacy proootnieed the prifoner Ruilty, and the
Court tentenced him to be tranfpurted for the um
of fe•eo years. •