Star.
London, England, 1809-10-13 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER 12.

Mr. Alderman Wool) presented a Petition from a
Society, describing itself as the Philanthropic Society
of Mile-end, stating, that a number of persons had
some years ago formed themselves into a Society for
the Relief of Poor prisoners, more particularly be-
longing to their own district, or known to the indi-
viduals composing their Society. That in the course
of a few years, thongh their funds were limited, they
had the satisfaction of knowing that their exertions
had not been unavailing, they having relieved from
prison upw.irds of live hundred, and afforded occa-
sional relief to upwards of 2,800, from the period of
their establishment, in the year 1793. The Worthy
Sheriff did not wish to propose any thing extravagant
from the funds of the Corporation, and concluded
with moving, " That there be granted for the pur-
poses of this benevolent institution a sum of 1001."
After some observations from Messrs. Box, JACKS,
and Dtxox, all in favour of the institution, the vote
was unanimously agreed to, the Standing Order : GREENOCK, OCTOBER 9.
being, in this instance, dispensed with. 1 The Jean, SMITH, arrived at Port-Glasgow from
Mr. Deputy Box presented a Report from the Corn- . Prince Edward's Island, sailed thence Ist ult. On
mittce of Finance, to whom it had been referred, to the 15th, spoke the Nancy, WADGEWOOD, front Mary-
consider of retrenchments in the City Revenue, stating port for Kramichi, in lat. .50 long. 40. 59. had lost
it to be their opinion, that it would be proper, and the head of her mainmast. On the 17th, spoke the
for the interests of the Corporation, that the Office of Hero, CAMPBELL, of.. this port, for Quebec, lat. 49.
Clerk of the Works should be paid by a salary rather 56. long. 38. 34. all well. The Fortitude, DouGALL,
than by a commission. He moved, " That this Re- : and The Margaret, M-Douom.r., both of this port, for
! Honduras, were spoke 18th ult. lat. 41. 44.10ng. 15.
port be approved of by the Court."
Mr. SLADE entered into the merits of the Gentle- : all well.
FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
man who at present held this office, and quoted the GRAVESEND, OCTUJIEIt 12.—Arrived the Mary, Kitchen,
opinion of a Committee in the year 1793, to whom from Mugadore. Sailed the Retribution, , for Cadiz ;.. 1
it appeared that as a commission bore a proportion to Margaret, Simpson, for Gibraltar ; Hector, Griffiths, for Dub-1
the business performed, that was a better mode of . lin ; and the Enigkeit, —, for Gottenburga.
paying tilt,. labours of such an office than by a salary,l ARRIVALS.
which might be too much or too little, according to I At Liverpool, the Flays, Guskin, from New Brunswick, and
circumstances. He moved, That the Report do lie ' Shaw, Jackson, from Antigua. At Dublin, the Providence, Ro-
on, berts, and Resolution, Roberts, from London. Off Sicily, the
the table. i Venus, Clisp, from the River Plate. At I.eith, the Concord,
Mr. KEMBLE, Mr. JACKS, Mr. WAITIIMAN, ?cc. Fowler, from Quebec, and John, Hall, from Cadiz. At Maran-
supported the Report. I ham, the Clarence, Jackson, from Liverpool. • .3'
On a shew of hands, the motion of Mr. DepDty FROM THE MONITEVR or THE 27TH uvr.—St.Maloes, Sopt.
Box was carried by a large majority, and the Report 21.—The following ships are captured: l'Homme, of itoo tons,
laden with sugar and rum ; and two ships, with timber, front
as agreed to, ordered to be referred to the Court of Quebec.
Aldermen. 1 The Hope, Cole, of Charleston, has been on shore near Varel,
COMPLAINT AGAINST A NEWSPAPER. condemned, and sold.
Mr. Alderman Goonszas.acsaid it was not his in-
The Eden, Peptic, from Grenada to Loudon, is takes and car-
ried into Liam.

Sailed the GANNETT sloop of war, for Guernsey,
without taking convoy.—Wind Easterly.

DEAL, OCTOBER 12.

Arrived this morning the Betsey cutter, from Flu-
shing.—The CHEROKEE, sloop of war is just appointed
convoy to take the Dunmore, Mucus:Lt., to the West-
ward ; it is ,expected they will sail this evening.—
Wind East ; more moderate weather.

YARMOUTH, OCTOBER 18. I
Put into this port with loss of anchors and cables,'
the Anna Maria, J. M. 'Vox WESTINGEN master, (of
Hamburgh) from Noorden, bound to London, with 1
beans and oats ; also a Dutch vessel, laden with tim-
ber, but could not learn her name. Arrived the VIXEN
On-brig, from the Baltie, with letters from the fleet.
ne P.M. a large fleet has now appeared in the offing,
supposed from the Baltic, under convoy, . among
whom are several sail of foreigners, with signals for
pilots.


LAW bitALiitiiiii6l; •

SURREY sES:I3NS, tiCfOISER. ii
t\SOL't'ENI DrISTORS.
A number of prisoners from the King's Bench anti .
Horsemonger.lane, remanded lest Sesstiens Ac-
count of some informalities in the Notices in er sd in
the Gazette, and defective Schedules, were br eelit
-
up and dischareed ; among them was
John Deere Riby, remanded list Sessions under the
34th clause of the Act, for obtaining ironmongery
rods to, the eminent of £314., and n take pretences,'
of Mr. Felth-int. of St. Martin's-lane. It appearedat
Ws last exam n ttion, that when he orders I the goods in
question, he stetedtto Mr. Feltharn that they sere to
be s lit to t tenes Ayres, whereas, in fact, they were
feed by a broker 'it London fur onethitd of their s a' tae.
Mr. LAWS, on the pent occasion, conteaded, on
the part of the prisoner, that the oods n id, as stated
by Mr. Riley, been intended for Buenos Ayres; but
that int7rvening circumstances had prevented it. To
proie this, he called
Mr. Malden, who stated, that he was an Under-
writer at Lloyd's, in October, 1806. Mr. Riley,
who is his father-in-law, consulted him on the subject
of sending the goods in question to 1310 nos Ayres ;
the witness NI-waded him not to send t:iem, giving
as a reason, that the place would be overstocked, as
I our niitchants, owing to the letters written by Sir
Home ikS Eftetn, were Buenos-A yre, -mad ' • it was,
however, witlagreat difficulty he persuaded him not
to send them, as they were already lodged on the cus-
tom-house Keys, for the purpose of being shipped.—
The witness, at the desire of Mr. Riley, had after.
wards consulted a gentleman, where would be the
best fcreign market to send the goods to, and it was
settled to consign them to a mercantile house at Ton-
ningcn ; the next Hamburgh mail, however, which
at-lived brought infbrmation that the place was in
ossi.ssion of the French. 'The goods remained after-
wards upwards of four months in the warehotise, and
were then sold by auction for £l4O.
The Court were of opinion that the prisoner's case
did not come within the meaning of the 34th clause,
and he was ordered to be discharged.

SHERIFF'S COURT, OCTOBER 12.
RIDGE V. ot.D.ActiE.
Mr. HARIUSHN stated, that the Jury were called
upon in this case to assess damages between Samuel
Ridge, a farmer renting a considerable quantity of
land in the neighbourhood of London, in an action •
against the defendant, who was huntsman to the
Berkeley Hunt. He had, he said, the honour of ad-
dressing a considerable number of the Jury upon a for-
mer occasion, in an action against Mr. Salter, one of
the Proprietors of the Hunt, and he had hoped that the
result of that proceeding, and the verdict which was
afterwards given at the list Hertford Assizes against
the Hon. Mr. Cape', would have prevented the ne-
cessity of any other Jury being applied to far the pur-
pose cf awarding darnaees on the same subject. It
was necessary he should properly explain the. reason,
the Plaintiff, in defence of his own property, had
deemed it necessary to institute this i.upiiry. Soon
after the late verdict, the Berkeley hounds were car-
ried to Tattersall's, apparently for the purpose of
being sold. It, however, turned out, that they were
`ought in by one of the farmer proprietors, and then
before the leaves were off the trees, and before the
linntinoi* season generally- commenced, the same per-
sons who before composed the Hunt returned to their
favourite diversion ;f pursuing fOxes, and seemed de-
termined to enjoy it, whatever damages might be
the consequences of it. The Jury would be astonish-
ed to hear, that the Plaintiff, in the course of a few
years, sustained a loss of upwards of I.'fioo in cdr,se-
(pence of the persons composing the Berkeley hunt
continually riding over his Lind. The Learned Coun-
sel proceeded to state, that the system of under-drai-
nage, and the getieral nature of cultivation, in the
neighbourhood of Edgwarebury, where the Plaintiff
resided, rendered hunting mach more injurious to the
farmer than probably it might be in other pans or
the country. He observed, that the Hunt was not
now conducted as when it was under the manage.
ment of Lord Berkeley or Lord Sefton ; at those pe-
riods, it was composed of persons who were them-
selves large proprietors—who studiously avoided do.
ing any thing that was unsportsman-like, or commit-
ting any trespass that was calculated to injury or an-
noy the farmers. The Hunt was now conducted in
a manner widely different. The day of turning-out
was advertised, a splendid dinner was providtd to
regale the hunters with afterwards, and the spot -e-
-lected was hi the immediate vicinity of London,
The consequence was, that- the Hunt, instead of
being altogether composed of gentlemen of rank and
fortune, who were known, and were competent :co
pay damages it they committed trespasses, was made
I up of a mixture of persons from London—horse-dea-
lers, clerks, and people who, having no substance
of their own out of which they could indemnify the
farmer, laughed at the destruction they made, well
knowing that the farmer would never consider it
worth his while to seek indemnity from them. He
should have no difficulty in proving in aggravation of
the case, that the defendant, who was huntsman to
the former owners, was likewise huntsman to the pre-
sent ones ; and that his employers were determined
to hunt, let the consequences be what they would.
He trusted that the verdict would be such as would
shew them, that the law laid down by a Learned
Judge was not to be treated with contempt, or vio-
lated with impunity.
These facts were clearly proved by the evidence
produced on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. AUBERT, the defendant's Solicitor, in the ab-
sence of Mr. Marryatt, his Counsel, addressed the
Jury with much ability and ingenuity, in mitigation
of damages. The argument upon which he, princi-
pally relied was, that the damages already recovered
by the Plaintiff amply compensated him for any in-
jury he might have sustained ; and he therefore trus-
ted the damages, in the present instance, would be
merely nominal.
There was another action against Cowley, the
whipper-in ; but as the circumstances and evidence
were exactly the same as in the former case, it was
agreed the two actions should be consolidated, that
the verdict of the Jury should refer to both, and that
the damages should be afterwards apportioned.
The UNDER SHERIFF repeated the evidence, and
accompanied it with a few observations.
The Jury consulted a short time, and assessed the
damages at se6o--N3O to be paid by each defendant.